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U. S. Chamber Assails
Roosevelt's Idea of
Special Defense Tax
Tightening of Government
Control Over Purse
Strings Suggested
By the Associated Press. (
Organized business, as represented
by the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, threw cold water to
day on the idea broached by Presi
dent Roosevelt of levying special
taxes to finance emergency defense
outlays.
Asserting that new and additional
taxes, whether for defense or other
purposes, were not the answer to
the country's fiscal problems, the
chamber suggested that Congress
“drastically overhaul its taxing and
spending procedure so as to tighten
up its control of the Government's
purse strings.”
Specifically, the organization sug
gested creation of a central budget
committee which, supplementing the
existing appropriations and revenue
raising committees, would survey the
budget situation as a whole soon
after the President sent his esti
mates to Congress.
The Chamber contended “liberal
use of the pruning knife" offered
the only practical solution for the
government's financial problems.
Cut Difficult, Says JV'oodrum.
At the same time, Representative
Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia, one
of the leading economy advocates in
the House and an influential mem
ber of its Appropriations Commit
tee, conceded to newsmen that the
considerations of “practical politics"
implicit in the coming presidential
campaign would make it very diffi
cult to cut down Federal spending.
Other committee members said
privately that any attempt to effect
substantial reductions in relief or
agricultural appropriations would be
potentially dangerous poltlcally be
cause these funds affect so many
voters. Both appropriations are
likely targets of economy efforts,
however, because they have included
such large emergency outlays.
Six of the major departmental
supply bills—which accounted for
$4,685,184,247 of the current fiscal
year's appropriation total—will be
under consideration of appropria
tions subcommittees this week.
Tax Enactment Doubted.
Committee members said they
were heartened by recent indications
that the administration hoped to re
duce the deficit $1,000,000,000 dur
ing the year starting July 1, but
they were not optimistic that the
suggested special tax could be en
acted to meet the $500,000,000 in
crease which has been predicted In
national defense expenditures. Here,
too, some committeemen said, "prac
tical politics” would make Congress
cool toward such a levy.
Two Weeks of Court Mourning
Ordered for Princess Louise
Duchess of Argyll
Was Great-Aunt of
King George VI
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 4.—King George
VI today ordered two weeks of court
mourning for Princess Louise,
Duchess of Argyll, 91-year-old
“rebel princess” of the British royal
family, who died yesterday.
The eldest of three surviving chil
dren of Queen Victoria and a great
aunt of King George VI, she was
called the "rebel princess" because
she defied strict royal conventions of
her time.
She was the first English princess
whose marrage to a commoner was
sanctioned since the rule of Henry
VII. which ended in I5fi9. She mar
ried the Marquess of Lome, later
the ninth Duke of Argyll, in 1871.
He died in 1914.
At a public meeting several years
ago she Indicated again her resent
ment against Victorian stiffness,
saying: “Luckily, the habit of mold
ing all children to a single pattern
has passed; it was deplorable. I
know, I suffered from it.”
Princess Louise, born in Bucking
ham Palace March 18. 1848, was
reared under the strict discipline of
her father. Prince Albert, who died
when she was 13. She,was the sixth
of the nine children of Queen Vic
toria and the Prince Consort.
Two survive her, the 89-year-old
Duke of Connaught and the 82
year-old Princess Beatrice, widow
of Prince Henry of Bittenberg and
mother of former Queen Victoria
Eugenia of Spain. Princess Louise
had no children.
Helper Needs Help
DALLAS, Dec. 4 OP).—E. J. Mc
Fadden drove up to the scene of an
accident,, stopped to see if he could
help. When he turned to leave, his
car was gone.
PRINCESS LOUISE.
Mrs. Roosevelt
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to indicate any outside control or
anything I could criticize.”
She admitted she didn’t always
agree with the program, but added
that she had found no action that
any American could not take with
propriety.
She said she had also gone over
all their audited financial state
ments and knew the sources of their
funds u well u where thsfr money
was spent. t
"I would like to know What else
anyone can do to safeguard one’s
self from being duped,” ahe de
clared.
Tolg'that she had been criticised
for inviting members of the con
gress to lunch at the White House
while 'the Dies Committee was in
vestigating them she said the as
sumption, as pointed out in tb* criti
cism that because the student group
had voiced opposition to the Dies
Committee she also was opposed,
was merely an assumption. She also
declined to comment on whether
she thought the Dies Committee
should be continued instead of ex
piring January 3.
Asked if she thought students a
Vasa#;*College were Communists,
she sip that the students she knew
at thfccollege ran the gamut from
extreme conservatism to radicalism
and added that she was yet to find
a college where the same situation
did not exist.
When the same reporter asked her
if she thought that Sr. Henry No
ble MoCracken, president of.Vassar
College,- was a Communist, she re
plied f^th a vigorous denial.
At the conference, which lasted
only a* half hour, the price of sugar
and the bombing of civilians in
Finland were also touched upon.
Of the latter, Mrs. Roosevelt said
merely that she wished the world
could become more civilized.
Army Recruits
Like Books
And Sports
By the Associated Frees.
From records of thousands of
men who have Joined the Army In
recent weeks, War Department offi
cials outlined yesterday this com
posite picture of Private Joe Re
cruit, 1939-40 model:
He is 31, native born and has a
small-town background. He. has a
high school education, some me
chanical or clerical training and is
inclined to take part in sports.
Private J. Recruit is not a heavy
weight, as he tips the scale at 145
pounds, but Army food and outdoor
drill will add to his bulk.
He has blue eyes and light brown
hair.
Officials commented that gener
ally he is a decidedly superior fellow
for the ranks, notably in education.
George W. Seaver Dies
DANBURY, Conn., Dec. 4 (JP).—
George W. Seaver, 90, former Nea
York theatrical producer, died yes
terday at the home of a daughter,
Mrs. F. A. Pickett. He was % for
mer partner of Tomlinson Watson In
staging productions starring Weber
and Fields and Dunn and Tompson
in New York about 30 yean ago.
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