Joplin News Herald (Newspaper) - July 14, 1938, Joplin, Missouri Since Senator Barkleys Friends Distributed Those Paper Sacks to Kentucky They Probably Feel That Ifs in the Bag THE fair tonight and Friday slight ly cooler tonight except in extreme fair tonight and Friday slightly cooler tonight somewhat warmer Friday In west and northcentral cloudy tonight and Friday slight ly cooler in north and central portions cloudy tonight and ly cooler JOPLIN NEWS HERAL Exclusive Day Dispatches of the Associated Press JULY PRICE THREE CENTS HUGHES ENDS WORLD A FEDERAL SALES TAX PREDICTED Expert Close to Social Se curity Board Declares New Way Must Be Found ito Finance Na tional July An expert close to the social security board predicted today a general sales tax eventually would replace pay roll levies to finance He said this might happen in five or 10 depending on how the scope of the social security act is The who declined use of his asserted the projected in of farmers and other self employed persons in the security system would make the pay tax too clumsy and Would Extend At both the employe and his employer pay an tax of 1 per cent on the employes These rates will rise to 3 per cent each in A being his own could not be asked to pay a 6 per cent tax on his cash the expert In addition to the social security wants to include domestic marine workers and employes of educational and charitable Because thousands of persons di vide their working years between working for others and for them the informant the sys tern eventually may include all in The pension scale probably would not be very different from the to per month now provided for payment beginning in The expert suggested the govern ment might adopt an earnings tax of 2 or 3 per cent on incomes be tween and a but it would be intended primarily as a means of registering the persons eligible for The bulk of the he would have to be financed by some other general and productive tax such as a sales He contended that a general tax would be fair in such a system because virtually everyone would be eligible for pen ARMY AND NAVY PLAN TO IMPROVE PACIFIC ISLANDS July and navy engineers are ready to start improvements on two small whose location makes them extremely useful in peacetime and of vital importance in At Midway miles west of Hawaii on the route to the about 200 men soon will be dredging a channel for surface craft and a harbor for transpacific flying A thousand miles south of Hono at Palmyra the navy is preparing to blast out coral from a lagoon and put up fuel tanks for its patrol Midway island is a way point on the transpacific commercial air and officials emphasized to day that the improvements there were not of a military Both Midway and fit neatly into the aerial line of observation which congress heard was projected for any Pacific HOURLY TEMPERATURES Crowd Jeers Labor Board Cheering steel workers and sympathizers parade in Steuben dummy of na tional labor relations board is hanged in effigy from a hotel PRESIDENT NEARS BOMBINGS LEAVE PACIFIC COAST GRUESOME SCENE FASCIST RACE DOCTRINE IS PROCLAIMED Right of Italians to Call Selves Aryan Affirmed in Plan Similar in Many Respects to That of Tracing Flight Will Review Fleet After Speaking at San Fran cisco The temperature reached 92 de grees at 2 today after a low of i 77 degrees recorded at 7 A year ago the maximum was 91 and the minimum A trace of rain fell here early this morn ing and the night was generally cool all over the Hourly temperatures Aboard President Train En Route to San July Roosevelt pushed through to the Pacific coast today on a program much to his His days plans included a sight seeing and inspection tour in the San Francisco a speech at the exposition and a re view of the United States fleet off the Seven Hours on The to be delivered at a luncheon in the Golden Gate national exposition grounds admin was expected to be one of the most important of his crosscountry The fleet review takes the presi dent back to one of his first the which he served many years as assistant His plans called for him to board the cruiser Houston at Oakland in mid afternoon and to stay on her fresh ly scrubbed decks at least seven Roosevelt crossed into Cali fornia from Nevada last night with only one set speech on nis program at the exposition It was that sometime during his stay in the will board the Houston at San Diego Saturday afternoon for the Galapagos is will have some kind words to say for Senator William who is seeking The president wrote some weeks his letter with the familiar and indicating an interest in the veteran Californians return to the During a day in Nevada the chief executive made no reference to the democratic senatorial primary figM and the barest allusions to the Mangled Bodies Scattered Throughout Canton After Japanese 1 3 H H 7 S 9 82110 m SOill m 79 Noon 781 1 m 78 2 m 77 3 m 701 LEAD AND ZINC July spot 12s 6d future Zinc spot Is 3d future fit 6s Exchange New July per steady electrolytic spot export Lead steady New York East Louis Zinc steady East Louis spot and forward InterState July Japanese aerial bombs killed prob ably 150 persons and injured 500 others in this south China city to the third successive day in which Japanese warplanes have at Eightythree dead were counted between the east bund Honam island alone as rescue squads pulled mangled bodies of women and children from wrecked The dead and wounded the past three days in the Canton area were expected to total more than Thero were 326 casualties by official count including 240 killed when bomb hit a con centration camp at in south Kwangtung Planes in Gruesome scenes resembled those of last months bombings in which hundreds were Thirtyseven Japanese air raiders appeared shortly after directing their attacks toward the Pearl river bridge and the old pow er Near the on the east one bomb struck the cented of a crowded vegetable mar and 34 shattered corpses were counted The only living thing appeared to be a pet chained to a Crossing the bridge to one saw 49 bodies laid out on the In Canton where Sun Yatsen studied medicine in his surgeons were covered to the elbows with Some victims were lifted to the operating only to be pronounced dead before a surgeon could pick up his Dismembered Bodies in Similar scenes were plentiful in the citys five other Stretchers were carried up several flights of stairs at one j where failing power stalled eleva The Associated Press correspond ient had to a handkerchief his face to keep out sicken smells in bombed From ruins of one house theve was then sudden indicat ing one more Along the east bund bered bodies were scattered among the fruits and vegetables of the wrecked A hand lay in the middle of the There also were arms and July 10point fascist doctrine of race similar in many respects to nazi Aryanism was published today un der the auspices of the ministry of popular The doctrine proclaimed supremacy and affirmed the Italian races right to call itself It declared Jews do not belong to the Italian Jews represent only a popula tion which never has been lated in Italy because they are com posed of racial ele ments absolutely different from the elements from which Italians origi the declaration Written by A group of fascist university pro were authors of the doc population of presentday is of Aryan origin and its civ is It is time that Italians pro claimed themselves frankly racial ly This does not the Introduction into Italy of German racial theories as they now exist or the assertion that Italians and Scandinavians are the same It means only to point out to Italians the and above all model of the human race because of its purely European is separated completely from all Informed observers regarded the declaration as further evidence of the fascist regimes desire to rein force the political bonds of the axis with cultural Alarms Coming soon after the recent antiSemitic outbreaks in the statement provoked fresh dis quiet among Italian who fear the growth of fascist antiSemitism of the nazi Italy has only about Jews in a population of an Italian official recently has no Jewish Government officials early this year acknowledged an movement existed but declare it was directed only against interna tional Hebrewism and not against Jews in Premier Mussolini publicly dis avowed antiSemitism in the early days of fascism and the fascist regime has undertaken no moves against Jews except to warn them not to associate with international Jewish including Zion Following almost the same route as did the late Wiley Post in Howard Hughes and four companions reached New York early this afternoon after circling the globe in less than four days and more than halving the time required by The broken line in the above map shows the approximate route followed by the ZINC TARIFF CUT DANGER OUTLINED Lowering of Bate Would Close Many Rotary Club Is Any concession in the present zinc which is vital to the TriState mining will se affect the welfare of Joplin and the Evan Just of Mi secretary of the TriState Zinc and Lead Ore Producers Associa declared in an address today before the Rotary If the tariff should be reduced 50 per as is threatened at the present approximately half the ore production of the district would be curtailed as being and this would result in at least a 20 per cent shrinkage in Joplin he Many Depend on The speaker pointed out that a large number of persons in this district are dependent on the zinc mining industry for a We have a meritorious case from other which have been presented to the proper officials in but there Is no definite assurance as to what the outcome of the tariff issue will It prob ably will be September or later be fore the final agreements are because of that it behooves every citizen of Joplin and the district in the meanwhile to do whatever possible to protest any reduction in the he In tracing the history of tariff Continued MO 2 City Council Tentatively Approves Police Radio Plan Mayor Orville Mahoney and members of the city council tenta approved at a conference thia morning a new proposal for instal lation of a twoway police radio communications system Long advocated as a needed po lice department but several times rejected by the coun the radio proposal won approv al today when it was proposed to pay for it out of a savings to bej effected within the The plan was submitted by Wil liam president of the R S Motor Sales who said he is acting as an interested citizen who believes the radio is He proposed to bring a radio en gineer here from a Chicago manu concern to install a 50 watt twoway communication sys tem with transmitters for four po lice cars at a cost of As a down the city would pay now in the po lice departments radio It was subscribed during a radio fund campaign sponsored by the I Maher administration about three vears ago and has been in the rev enue department since Maher left The remaining of the cost would be paid in installments out of funds to be saved by proj posed elimination of the old police call box or signal light Mayor Mahoney said the city pays the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company a month for the call box system and that it is obsolete and does not operate He proposes to completely abandon it and to install the radio equip ment in the desk sergeants A 90foot tower would be built at or near the city who proposes to advance the mon ey to pay for the said the company would guarantee efficient operation of the system for a dis tance of five miles from the city hall in all Robertson agreed to put his prop in writing in order that it may be officially acted upon by the probably next All membes of the council indicated they would favor Mayor Mahoney said he plans to file an application with the federal communication commission for a new permit to install the A similar permit obtained more than a year ago has RATES FOR LOANS ON WHEAT FIXED Owners to Average 59 Cents a on Terminal Mar ket Base July tary Wallace announced today the government will make loans on 1938 grown wheat at rates aver aging between 59 and 60 cents a bushel to producers who want to hold their grain for better The rates varied from as low as 50 cents a bushel for some wheat farmers holding grain on the to as high as 82 cents at the grain terminal for the highest pro tein spring May Pay With Wallaces scale set up a system of base loan rates for the major terminal They range from 67 to 81 cents a The scale then fixed certain deductions to be made from these base rates in fig uring loans for wheat stored at varying distances from the ter Wheat stored on the or in local or will bring the cooperating farmer the base rato for the terminal serving his territory less freight charges and a 4ccntsabushel handling For department officials said loans on 2 hard winter wheat stored on Kansas farms probably would bring tho farmer from 53 to 67 cents a This compares with the Kansas City ter minal rate of 72 Officials said they expected very little of the wheat to be stored in the terminal They said most of it would be stored on farms or in local warehouses where would draw rates lower than the basic ones set up for the various Farmers obtaining loans nay surrender their wheat to the gov when the loans mature an full payment of their The government would assume the storage which will be 7 cents a bushel in commercial stor Producers of wheat would receive a payment of 7 cents a bushel for storage if they deliv ered the wheat to the government as payment for May 130 Million Officials said that the amount of wheat that may be put under loan was extremely Secretary Wallace that it might be bushels or Grade and quality require officials will elim inate a considerable Loan terminals and areas they serve follow wheat loans will be figured on the ter minal base Kansas City All counties in Kansas and the following Missouri counties Atchi Ver Mc De LESS THAN 4 DAYS REQUIRED BY FLIER TO CIRCLE GLOBE Multimillionaire Sportsman and Four Com panions More Than Halve the Time of the Late Wiley Post in of Shouts Greetings as They Land at Airport From Which They Started Last Hughes Flight Log Floyd Bennett New July The Howard Hughes roundtheworld plane landed at Floyd Bennett field airport at Joplin He set a smashing new roundtheworld record of than four The big silver monoplane circled the field before coming down to an easy landing before a wildly cheering Total elapsed time for the dash around the globe was set unofficially at 91 17 or three 19 hours and 17 The multimillionaire speedster whipped in from the west under a threatening overcast sky with a record that more than halved the 49minute world time established in 1933 by the late Wiley a mark then regarded as Hughes drove the ship at full speed on the last lap of the flight from Minneapolis to Floyd Bennett whence he took off at Sunday Joplin A spanking tail wind helped him His speed for the elapsed time was approximately 161 miles an A fire whistle let go with a screeching blast as the aerial argonauts set their plane down on the concrete runway and taxied toward the ad ministration Hundreds of automobile horns joined in a tumultuous Despite elaborate tions to protect the a surging crowd drove through to get a closeup glimpse of the disheveled Hughes apparently did not a path which had been cleared for him and he taxied toward a com transport which was immediately Hughes and his companions stop before New York was at at after a flight from over the Canadian down the great wastes of the Yukon and the barrens of northwest After a 33minute halt at the airport there they roared off at top speed for New A strong tail wind shoved the ship along at high over this last They were reported at various points along the their prog ress cheered by the crowd which had gathered at Floyd Bennett It estimated by of at about Grover president of the worlds for which the flight was designed as a was the first to greet the In striking contrast to the tiled he entered the plane immedi ately after it came to a Fol lowing him came Mayor himself a flier of work war The impeccably dressed Whalen presented two large baskets of Hughes Takes His Hughes took his time about emerging from the stepping partly out once and then return Ten minutes after the ship Hughes stepped followed by his four Those who accompanied him the flight were Lieutenant Harry navigator Lieu tenant Thomas navi gator Edward flight en By tho Associated AH Times Are Central July 10 Took off from Floyd Bennot Now July 11 Arrived covering miles in 16 35 off for Mis cow after refueling and July 12 Arrived covering miles in 7 49 min off for after refuel cov ering miles in 7 35 off for July 13 cover ing miles in 10 31 off from for Fair rived covering haz hop in 12 17 Took off from July 14 landed at after a flight from Fair banks in 12 hours and 1 off on final lap to Floyd Bennett New Landed at Floyd Bennett Hughes Could Build Palatial Yacht With Money Flight Cost His Headquarters Estimates Multimillionaire Spent 000 on New July ard Hughes could build a palatial yacht and cruise leisurely around the earth with the money he burned up in his world i The approximate cost of the his headquarters j and the sportsman pilot i is paying all of A keen business Hughes 1 wont miss the Ho in i at the age of and since has increased his i fortune steadily with oil air i plane and movie Continued on page 2 Son to Tennis j July Douglas formerly Dorothy Wimbledon womens sin I gles tennis champion from 1934 to gave birth today to a She was married in Continued on pago 2
