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TOD.C.FORPARLEY
Philippines President, In
U. Si With MacArthur, Seeks
Data on Trade Meet.
BY JAMES G. WINGO.
President Manuel Luis Quezon of
the Philippines, accompanied by his
military adviser, MaJ. Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, and a large retinue,
after stopping three days in Sen
Pedro and Los Angeles, will resume
him trip to Washington tomorrow to
have preliminary and informal talks
With President Roosevelt and officials
of the State, War and other depart
ments on the forthcoming United
Btates-Fhilippine trade and economic
conference.
President Quezon, a Roman Cath
blie, left the Important Thirty-third
International Eucharistic Congress,
meeting in Manila, in order that he
might get to Washington as early as
possible to talk on the date and
agenda of the conference. The inde
pendence act, which enabled the
establishment of the commonwealth
of the Philippines in 1935, provides
lor the calling of this conference by
the President of the United States
•for the purpose of formulating rec
ommendations as to future trade
relations" at least one year before
July 4, 1946, the date set for the
Independence of the Philippines.
Tax Increases Each Year.
The Philippine President wants the
conference held as soon as practi
cable in order that his people may
know what to expect from the United
States in the matter of trade rela
tions. On November 15, 1940, the
Philippine commonwealth will be
required to levy an export tax on
all Philippine products shipped to the
United States. The tax would begin
at 5 per cent, with an increase every
year until, in 1946, the Philippine
products will be subjected to full
United States tariff rates. President
Quezon will work for an amendment
to the independence act eliminating
the export tax provision.
With the help of Gen. MacArthur,
who is the field marshal of the newly
organized Philippine Army, President
Quezon, it is believed, will present
to the War and Navy Departments
the role which the Philippine defense
organization might play in the Pa
cific and its possible effects upon
the United States. Many observers
believe that the Philippine defense
organization, which on July 4, 1946,
will consist of a standing army of
10,000 men, 400,000 well-trained re
serves, an off-shore patrol of 50-man
ships to small, 8-man defense vessels,
capable of whipping through the water
at 50 to 60 miles an hour and spray
ing torpedoes right and left, and a
250-plane air force is actually a part
of the United States defense program
In the Pacific.
Two Daughters in Retinue.
President Quezon landed yesterday
in Los Angeles with 22 persons be
sides Gen. MacArthur. His retinue in
cludes his two daughters, Maria Au
rora and Marie Zeneida; Jose Yulo,
secretary of justice; Benito Razon,
the President’s technical adviser on
economic matters; Maj. Howard Hut
ter, Capt. A. J. Davis, Capt. Bonner
F. Fellers of the United States Army,
assistants to Gen. MacArthur; Maj.
Arsenio Nativldad, Maj. Manuel
Nieto, Lieut. Dominador Mascardo
of the Philippine Army, aides to
President Quezon; Dr. Miguel Oanl
Eares, personal physician to the
President; Carloe P. Homulo, a news
paper editor, and a number of stenog
raphers, nurses, cooks and valets.
Preparation for the United States
Philippine Trade and Economic Con
ference has been active. In the Sum
mer of 1935 the State Department
sent two Tariff Commission experts,
Ben D. Dorfman and Frank A. War
ing. to the Philippines to gather basic
data on trade relations between the
two countries and to analyze the
probable economic effects of the
Philippine independence act upon
not only the islands, but also the
United States. Last week their re
port. in two thick volumes, was
made public.
The report pointed out that the
forthcoming trade and economlo con
ference is authorized to formulate
recommendations but mot empowered
to modify any existing United States
legislation governing trade with the
Philippines. Any change of the
Philippine independence act and
other congressional acts will require
the action of Congress to be
effective.
Boards Study Economy.
On the part of the Philippines,
commissions were appointed by Oov.
Gen. Frank Murphy and later by
President Quezon to study thoroughly
the existing United States-Philippine
complementary economy. Various de
partments of the Philippine govern
ment aided Dorfman and Waring.
In the United States the resident
commissioner from the Philippines.
Quintin Paredes, has been active In
preparing the ground for the confer
ence. He has visited many different
cities and States preaching the im
portance of Philippine trade with the
United States.
The basis of Philippine economy is
the free trade with the United States.
Last year Philippine products exported
to the United States, excluding $21,
000,000 worth of gold bullion, were
valued at $98,823,000, while the Phil
ippines bought $60,351,000 worth of
United States merchandise. Both
figures, especially on the Philippine
imports of American goods, are con
siderably greater than those of 1935.
Views Given by Paredes.
Realizing the vital importance of
the United States free market to the
Philippines, Commissioner Paredes
has been telling various audiences in
the country:
"Philippine independence would be
In a precarious situation without the
necessary eoonomic foundation that
supports national existence against
chaotic conditions, disorder and an
archy. The economic provisions of
the Independence act will hamper the
full enjoyment of the freedom in
tended for us in that act for two
reasons: (1) The imposition of the
graduated export taxes will ruin our
ba: ic industries dependent upon
United States protection; (2) there
is 10 provision for the continuation
of the industries built upon the free
trade which was Imposed upon us.
'(With the imposition of the grad
uated export taxes, the Philippines
would be at the mercy of Cuba be
ginning with the seventh year, when
10 per cent of the United 8tates
duty shall have been imposed on the
sugar exported from the Philippines.
The case of cocoanut oil is even
weaker, as it thrives on a very
meager margin of profit and the Im
position of 6 per cent export duty
Steve Brodie Archery
Doing a combination Robin Hood and Steve Brodie, Frank
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would be sufficient to make Its pro
duction unprofitable.
“It is inconceivable that the United
States would abandon the splendid
and benevolent work it has under
taken in the Philippines without
providing reasonable means to save
it from destruction. Furthermore,
free trade relationship between the
two countries has been mutually ad
vantageous. By virtue of this rela
tionship, the United States dominates
the Philippine market to such an ex
tent that the Philippines has become
an almost exclusive field for Amer
ican agricultural and industrial prod
ucts. shipping, banking, insurance,
mining and other enterprises.”
ARRIVES AT SAN PEDRO.
Quezon Sees Need for Reciprocal
Agreement for Islands.
Bt the Associated Press.
SAN PEDRO. Calif., February 13.—
The United States may, If It wishes,
have preference In Filipino trade,
President Manuel Quezon of the Phil
ippine Islands said on arrival here
today.
“Our people would prefer to trade
with the United States,” he asserted.
“All we need Is a reciprocal agree
ment that will place certain of our
products inside the United States
tariff wall.”
Quezon described the Philippine
sugar quota imported in this country
as satisfactory, but declined to dis
cuss other products In relation to a
trade agreement.
The Philippines, President Quezon
said, “do not fear aggression from
any nation.” A 19-gun salute from
Fort Mac Arthur greeted President
Quezon as he and his party of 39
arrived aboard the liner Lurline.
Welcoming delegations included a
party of 15 from the Filipino Federa
tion of America headed by Dr. Hilarto
Camino Moncado, president, and rep
resentatives of the Army, Navy and
city of Loe Angeles.
Edward
(Continued From Firit Page.)
Is totally unfounded—that the course
of love for the Duke and his Amer
ican friend still runs smooth.
The authoritative person who dis
closed the Duke of Windsor's plans
also revealed that he will decline
the invitation to attend the meeting
of the Knights of the Garter—of
which order he still is a member—at
Windsor castle in June. Likewise,
the former King has no intention
of taking the seat in the House of
Lords to which he is entitled.
The privy council today approved
Anal plans for the coronation of King
Georve VI—the coronation which was
to have been that of Edward VTLL
Oot of Coronation Program.
The Duke is not mentioned in a
32-page coronation day program
which already has been printed and
issued to a few privileged persons, Is
became known today.
The handsome volume contains
large pictures of every other member
of the royal family, with biographical
material for each, but there is no
picture and no word about Edward.
MEETS PRINCESS JULIANA.
Edward Also Bids Farewell to His
Sliter in Vienna.
VIENNA, February 13 (JP).—Ed
ward, Duke of Windsor, who gave
up the British throne for love, today
met the honeymooning heiress to
another throne, Crown Princess
Juliana of the Netherlands, and her
new husband. Prince Bernhard.
Shortly before he bade a tearful
farewell to his sister Mary, the Prin
cess Royal, Edward unexpectedly met
Juliana In the dining room of the
Bristol Hotel.
The Duke gave Juliana an impulsive
embrace and chatted with her for
10 minutes, mostly about skiing, of
which both are devotees.
Both Princess Mary and her brother
were deeply moved when they parted
at the Vienna station, ending a week’s
visit. The Princess hid her grief in
a bouquet of roses and violets the
former British monarch had given
her, while many of the women on
lookers wept.
Edward showed anger when motion
picture cameramen attempted to
record the scene. Police confiscated
the cameras.
Prinoess Mary and her husband,
the Earl of Hare wood, journeyed back
toward London bearing gifts from the
voluntarily-exiled Duke to his mother.
his brothers, the Duke of Kent’s new '
baby daughter and Queen Elizabeth.
Several large envelopes addressed to
members of the royal family also were
carried by the Earl of Hare wood.
Farnsworth
(Continued From First Page)
of Farnsworth's arrest. It set out the
following overt acts:
That on January 1, 1933, Farns
worth went to 3729 Morrison street.
That Farnsworth went to the Navy
Department on August 1, 1934, and
on January 1, 1935.
That Farnsworth went to Annapo
lis, Md., on April 1. 1935.
That Farnsworth went to Alban
Towers on January 1 and February 1,
1935.
The Morrison street address was
the home of Kiyoshl K. Kawakami,
Washington correspondent for the
Osaka Dally, where Farnsworth Is
said to have met Comdr. Itlmiya Jan
uary 1, 1933.
'Hie office of the Japanese naval at
tache was located In Alban Towers.
Farnsworth was arrested here by
Department of Justice agents and
members of the Naval Intelligence
July 13 last. Since then he has been
In the District JalL
Sams on Nile Under Way.
Work has begun in the Rosetta and
Damletta branches of the Nile, 20 miles
south of Cairo, Egypt, on two dams
that will raise the river level, making
it necessary for ships to pass through
sluice-gatee and locks.
TAX ASKED TO CUT
LAND SPECULATION
Farm Tenancy Body Pro
poses Levy on Land Sold
Within 5 Years.
BT the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt’s Farm Tenancy
Committee has decided to recommend
a Federal tax on profits made from
selling land within live years after
acquiring It.
The tax will be advocated, informed
persons said yesterday, as a means
to prevent periodic land booms and
to discourage the rapid turnover of
farm property.
The committee’s recommendations
for a broad Federal and State attack
on tenancy problems are scheduled
to reach the President early this
week.
In addition to the so-called wind
fall tax on land profits, it was said
the committee would propose these
Federal measures:
1. Creation of a farm security corp
oration to buy farms and sell them
to selected tenants, at low interest
and on a 40-year payment plan. Ten
ants would have to pass a five-year
trial before they could contract to
purchase.
2. Federal purchase of 100,000,000
acres of poor crop land to be retired
from cultivation. This would be
bought at the rate of S,000,000 to
5,000,000 acres annually.
3. Creation of a farm security ad
ministration to direct tenancy re
forms.
4. Expansion of credit facilities on
a more liberal basis than offered by
the Parm Credit Administration and
other agencies.
The committee majority also was
reported on good authority to favor
State legislation which would:
1. Improve landlord-tenant rela
tions.
2. Set up arbitration councils to
settle lease disputes.
3. Provide compensation for tenants
who improve rented property.
4. Amend tax laws to aid small
farmers.
Secretary Wallace, chairman of the
committee, would, under its recom
mendations, be responsible generally
for administration of the program.
The committee was said to have
estimated that 2,865,000 farmers were
tenants, and that this landless group
was increasing at the rate of 40,000
a year.
The committee will report, it was
predicted, that tenancy is leading to
‘ imprisonment in a fixed social
status.”
Persona in a position to know said
also that the committee found seven
groups in need of Government finan
cial aid or direction: Tenants with
relations unfavorable to both land
lord and tenant: croppers, chiefly on
tobacco and cotton farms of the South
and operating 716,000 farms; farm
laborers, comprising one-fourth of all
persons employed by agriculture:
farmers on submarginal land; farmers
on land too small in siae to support
them; fanners helplessly burdened by
debts, and young farm people unable
to get land.
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Renews Efforts to Regulate
Relations With Protestants.
Plans Mystery.
B7 the Associated Press.
BERLIN, February IS.—Nazi Ger
many decided today upon new ef
fort! to regulate ber relations with
the Protestant Church. New decrees
to that effect were prepared for pub
lication Monday.
(Resignation of the Reich's Evan
gelical Church Council, designated by
Nazi officials to oo-ordinate the
church, brought to a head anew Ger
many's conflict between church and
state. It has been going on since
1933, when Chancellor Hitler appoint
ed an army chaplain, Rev. Ludwig
Mueller, to bring the church Into line
with the authoritarian Idea of gov
ernment.
Both Nazi and oppositional Protest
ants were tense with waiting today,
for contents of the new decrees were
guarded carefully.
Guesses on New Ian,
Guesses on the new laws railed be
tween two extreme*:
On the one hand there was an ex
pectation that complete separation
of church and state will be declared,
with resulting curtailment of all gov
ernment subsidies hitherto given to
the church.
Representatives of the confessional
synods said they were prepared for
such a measure and would welcome It.
(These groups have opposed the Nazi
church co-ordination plan.)
On the other hand, Nazi Christians
ezpressed hope the government might
restate policies of 1933-4 to force the
Evangelical Church to submit to Nazi
domination.
The Evangelical Council, headed by
Rev. Wilhelm Zoellner, handed Its res
ignation to Reichminister Hans Kerri.
Automatically the authority for estab
lishing order In church affairs reverted
to Kerri under a decree of 1935 which
permits him to take any action consid
ered necessary to achieve church
“stability.”
Basalt of Conflict.
The four years of conflict, church
observers say, have brought the opposi
tional Confessional Synods closer to
gether than ever. In Bavaria, Wur
temburg and Hanover the Lutheran
churches of these states remained
linked with the Confessionals of Prus
sia, which profess to have an over
whelming majority of church folk be
hind them.
The Confessionals In these states
hold crowded services every Sunday.
Some admit their pastors have con
tinued to examine theological candi
dates for the ministry In defiance of
the law. ,
To pleas for unity under Nazidom,
church spokesmen have replied that
agreement upon definite articles of
faith was the only basis for co-opera
tion. These articles would Include one
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