Evening star. [volume], September 29, 1930, Page A-6, Image 6

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SALES TAX DEFEAT
BY BUSINESS URGED
Chain Stores’ Convention
Speaker Says Proposal Is
Bad for Rivals and All.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 29.—Concerted
action by business to prevent adoption
of the sales ta* was ufgeti in an ad- j
dress prepared for delivery before the ;
National Chain Store Association con- I
vention today by William Nelson Taft.;
editor of the Retail Ledger, Philadel
phia.
Taft said the sales tax. proposed as l
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a tether against development of chain
systems, eventually would enmesh even
the independents whom tl was designed
to aid.
Department stores 35 years ago
aroused the same sort of opposition
I which chain stores now encounter. Taft
added, and some States then sought to
tax the department stores out of ex
istence.
‘ Even the operators of smaller stores
are beginning to realize that such a
(sales), tax may result in verv serious
consequences.” he said. He cited
Georgia, where State authorities have
recommended that the $30,000 exemp
tion for the gross sales tax be de
creased to $3,000. With the adoption of
this, he said, the small stores would
"find themselves in the same boat with
their competitors.” Ho called upon
the chains, independents, manufactur
ers and wholesalers to unite in steps
to "forestall the almost universal adop
| tion of this heavy burden.”
Chain stores were credited with im
j provlxg standards of retailing by Clar
ence Francis, vice president of the Gen
i era’ Foods Corporation, another speak
-1 er on the opening program.
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1930.
OIL FAVORITISM!!
DENIED BY WILBUR
Resigning Chief Charges
Special Consideration Given
Large Firms.
A charge of favoritism toward large
oil companies leveled at Secretary, Wil
bur by Ralph S. Kelley, chief of the
field division of the General Land Office
at Denver, was characterized today by
the Interior Secretary as "nonsense."
The Kelley accusation was contained
In a letter announcing his resignation I
which the field man made public yes
terday.
Kelley asserted that in the past five
years the large oil companies, "be
cause of great political and other pres
sure brought to bear upon the Secre
tary” had received favorable considera
tion in spite of his urgings to the con
trary. No change in this state of af
fairs. he said, had occurred since Mr.
Wilbur took office with the Hoover
cabinet.
Reserve Value High.
The Denver man said public lands
in Colorado held an oil reserve con
taining petroleum, valued now at more
than forty billions.
"This is the huge prize,” he said, “to
which the large oil interests are en
deavoring to secure titles by fraud and
failure to comply with the United
States mining law requirements. These
oil interests are thoroughly organized
and work and act concertedly in bring
ing pressure to bear upon the depart
ment to induce it, to give them these
valuable oil lands to which they are
not rightfully entitled. Among those j
in this combination are several of the !
very concerns whose fraudulent prac
tices have so recently been exposed in
the investigations and trials of former
Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall,
Harry Sinclair and others.”
Kelley Letter Not Received.
"In my opinion,” he added, "the ad
justment of the titles to these oil lands
in such manner that the rights of the
public therein shall receive adequate
protection, transcends in importance
any other matters pending before the
Interior Department in many years.”
Interior officials said every effort was
being made to recover oil lands in Colo
rado in instances where local require
ments had not been met. They said
notices claiming forfeiture of more than
1,000.000 acres, some held by large oil
concerns, had recently been posted on
these lands. The Kelley letter. Secre
tary Wilbur added, had not been re
ceived at the department.
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