WEDNESDAY , 193Q. GOOD EVENING KVEKYBODY: The Genators coasidering bocial Security heard some sharp criticism today, from Senator Vandenberg of Michigan. Said he:- "The present Social Security tax has completely absorbed the margin of profit for thousands of small business men." Then he went on to warn trie Committee:- "If you increase that Social Security tax a hundred per cent in Nineten Forty-Three, as has been suggested, it will fall with such a smash on small business all over the country, that there may be a revolt against the whole Social Security system." A still more ominous warning came from Brofessor Douglas Brown of Brinceton, who served, formerly, as Chairman of the Advisory Council on Sochi Security. He stated as his opinion that eventually one-third the cost of old-age insurance will have to come out of the national treasury. At present itTs financed by the taxes on employers and employees. But says Bpofessor Brown, that wonft last long. RELIEF The House of Representatives has finally tackled perhaps its toughest job. The relief supply bill today was dukped onto the shoulders of the House, the bill appropriating one billion, seven hundred and sixteen million, six hundred thousand dollars. And this precipitates another fight with the White House. For etfen that whopping sum is forty-five million, eight hundred and ninety thousand dollars less than the amount asked for by the President. However, it isn't only in the matter of money that Congress is getting ready to bare its teeth to the President. That bill also includes several dps?* departures from the practies and customs that have hiterto prevailed in relie. anu W.P.A. It limits presidential discretion in tne use cf that money. It flies in the face of the President by setting aside a hundred and twenty-five millions of W.P.A. funds for P.W.A. hiiTCH. BILL FOLLOV; KELISF There was one »imttsfeent±p^. unexpected addition to that relief bill^ ^ includes a clause providing drastic penalties for the use of relief funds for partisan political purposes, Now^that was supposed to be the object of the Hatch Bill aoout which there had been so much talk in the last few weeks. gQ'iQall trhat-gomo Vice-President Garner reporters, "You may be sure that the Hatch Bill will be passed. ?re recently, there head of the IJenioc ic Party, has been communicating with Cor essmen, working a, ^st the Hatch Bill. AndNnow up comes this slause in the reflief because Charlie Michaelson, on the floor of th\H0use:- "Those new of V/.P.A. will which ?;ould make thX Hatch 11 unnecessary. In fact, the Chairman of the sub-committee said for the administration strike a apdy blow at the relief racketeer," 99 >>~jbhere was quite a to—do in the ^ouse today when the relief bill with the surprise clause made its appearance. The usual * procedure would have been to have that particular clause Committee of the House. But the submitted to the Judiciary UATCH blLh FOLLOW BELIEF - 2 Appropriations Connnittee gave the Judiciary Committee the go-by. ^nd here are some of the provisions of the clause which caused such a to-do. Anyone who knowingly makes a false statement in connection with an application for W.P.A. work or relief is liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and a year!s imprisonment. The same penalties for anybody who diverts or attempts to divert relief funds to unlawful purposes. Then there!s a fine of a thousand dollars and one year’s imprisonment for anybody who solicits a subscription or contribution for a campaign fund from anybody on the W.P.A. or relief rolls. Also a thousand dollars fine and a year’s imprisonment for anybody who promises directly or indirectly any kind of a ^ob as a reward for political sgtixitijss activity or political support. Those are just a few sample® of the drastic penalties for relief racketeering. DIETRICH The crack liner NORMANDIE was about to sail frcsn iJew Y ota for Europe today. Ono of the passengers|was to be the beauteous idarlene Dietrich, plus thirty-four trunks and two bags. When she arrived at the dock she found to her astonishment that her thirty—four trunks and two bags were held by a cordon of Uncle Sam's revenue agents. They were holding the Dietrich duffel for two hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars in income tax. Well* if you thought you were all paid up to Uncle and ready for a vacation in Europe, wouldn’t you be sore? That’s what Madame Dietrich said. ’’I’m an American citizen,” she declared. ”1 don’t owe any income tax. I paid a hundred and five thousand dollars in Njneteen Thirty-Six and agiin in Nineteen Thirty-Seven. I didn't do any work in N ineteenThirty-Eight. ” Then up spoke one of those unpopular officials known as a revenue collector. Said he:- "In Nineteen Thir uy-Six and Thirty-Seven La Dietrich was a resident-alien, so all her earnings were taxable, no matter where she earned them. Sne made a picture in England, that’s why we claim she owes two hundred PIEThlCH - and ei^dty four tnousand dollars.” A];id he added that the Los Angeles office had telegraphed, asking that Marlene Dietrich be held, not allowed to sail. So the lady of the beautiful legs exclaimed 11 Let nLet them hold my tnings, I’ll sail to nurope without them, and see what good that will do them.” But Uncle Sam’s men said: ?,0h no you won't-" Whereat she burst into tears. Then came a gallant rescuer in the person of John Cahill, United States Attorney in New York. The upshot was that the beauteous Marlene put up everything she owned in America, unpacked one of her suitcases, oroduced a hundred thousand dollars' worth of jewels — and then sailed. GALLftTO There was comedy in Asbury Park today, comedy at the training camp of txnxtxm Two-Ton Tony Galento. The^am^has ;nore than a faint odor of publicity about it, but it’s worth repeating for comedy?s sake. It began with Joe Jacobs, Tonyr s manager. He announced that when Tony fights Joe Louis , he will insist on being allowed to examine those socking hands of Louis1 s. Then he explained: ’’The moving pictures of the fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling showed that Louis had something clutched in his glove.” Jacobs went on to charge that v/hat Joe h i in his glove was a gimmick, a small metal (^.umbell. It was the clutching of that gimmick, said. Jacobs, that enabled Joe to knock Max Schmeling out in one round. Tony GalentoTs manager had hardly made the accusation . jVP IStsai^here anpeared on the scene Chairman Phelan of the New York A Boxing Commission. He came for the purpose of ordering Galento to move away from Asbury Park, take his training camp to a place in Summit, New Jersey. The Chairman of the Boxing Commission said that there was too much carnival business around that training camp at Asbury Park. The Boxing Commission Chairman then GALENTO - 2 pounced upon Jacobs, and said:- ’'You’re making charges you can’t substantiate. Unless you withdraw them we’ll start an investigation. and call you as a witness.” Wily Joe Jacobs thought that over, and after a few minutes, he said: "I withdraw the charges. I don't want to lose my license as a second in New York State.” Incidentally, Joe Louis’s manager said:- ’’The only thing Joe had in his gloves when he fought Schmeling was his fists.” And that recalls what Joe Louis himself said to Rudy Vallee on the radio one night after his first fight with §chmeling, the fight in which Schmeling knocked him out. Rudy, you may remember, asked him whether it was true that he lost the fight because he had been doped. And Joe replied:- ’’The only dope I got was in SchmelingTs right hand.” ANTI-SLMITIBM The branding of a Jewish school boy in Maryland has become a national affair. That high school scandal was taken up today by Representative Martin Dies, Chairman of the Committee Investigating Un-American Activities. Dies was at Houston, Texas, but he telegraphed to Baltimore that he was ordering an immediate special Inquiry into anti-Bemitic agitation in Baltimore schools. Dies declared:- "From the information I have received, I believe there is a widespread secret anti-Semitic organization working in Baltimore." And he added:- "This feeling of anti-Semitism is apparently sweeping the country. Since I've been down here in Texas there has been a campaign conducted even in my own district." Meanwhile, the Mayor of Baltimore and the State's Attorney, each have started a separate investigation. Mayor Jackson stated:- "I have heard of this reported bund organization in the schools. And I've ordered the President of the school board to make a complete report. If that doesn't satisfy me, I'll take the matter in my own hands." TOiiNADO This morning an electrical storm swept over all of eastern Pennsylvania. But in parts of Philadelphia it was accompanied by a freakish wind that behaved like a Kansas Tornado. While people were still in their beds it came roaring down* apparently from nowhere, tore the roofs off eleven houses and turned the staircases into miniature falls. The strange part of it was that this unfriendly wind only visited two parts of th^ city of Brotherly L^ve. . TIEIMTSIN The picturesque old Chinese seaport of Tientsin, is a tight spot for Europeans and American civilians. It looks as though they might be starved out by that Japanese blockade. The soldiers of the Mikado today stopped the movement of all vegetables into the British and French concessions. Immediately the price of foodstuffs went up to three times what it had been before. So that blockade begins to bring hunger to a hundred thousand people. And the Japanese have arrested Eric Mayell, one of the crack cameramen of Fox Movietone„StewsrBei-. Mayell was born a British subject buttes has his first naturalization papers as an American. Eric was at the border line of the concessions, photographing Japanese soldiers as they were searching civilians coming in or out. This wasn't his first experience with the methods of the Nipponese military. He was aboard the PANAY when she was deliberately bombed, machine-gunned and sunk in the fcSKgixfc* yangste.fS****. He came near being machine-gunned himself, but that didn’t stop him from getting oom* marvelous shots, and hi* A escap to l shore^was a-^raung aftic in itse-lf. The British ' TIENTSIN - 2 Consulate has hopes of getting him released. Evidently the arrest of Eric ilayell took place in the British concession. ■i mm® i/0 A DO A FObuOW TIEI m TSTN It had been suggested that the American Consul General to Tientsin should be the third member of the arbitration board to settle that Tientsin dispute. There!s a report in London this afternoon that Japan says T1No!" At the same time, the British Foreign Under-Secretary told the House of Commons that His Mai sty1 government is consulting with France and Uncle Sam about that Tientsin business. POLAND Here’s the latest /) £^S2. central iiurope. The A- ft Polish government sent a communication to France, saying there were reports of heavy concentrations or German troops on the border between Poland and Slovakia. * VwryO Poland announces that /\ site is prepared to meet force with force if there’s any — concentration of Germans either on southern frontier or in ^ A Danzig. ihe purpose of tnis note to Paris was to notify the western powers that the Poles expect help if they’re attacked. There was a formal denial from Berlin that any concentration of German troops was taking piiKKxxxiliiy fckxl place on that or any other part of the Polish frontier. And the French government say was without any official knowledge of heavy movements of German soldiers in Slovakia. ^ of fqu 17* rf the e-jove-k" g- 4 »vprnaont ^were t a arhr help fro m Imi liifr^gT-^auid have ft" per feat 3^1*1 oond-tjroopg-t The French nev.spapers are full of alarmist reports. They publish dispatches that the roads leading northward in Slovakia are clogged with long columns of troops, and heavy masses of soldiers are said to be mobilized in the passes of the Vi hit e Carpathian Mountains. HUNGARY An appeal was made today to Pope Pius the Twelfth, a suggestion that he make another attempt to get the statesmen of Europe together and settle all those quarrels. The appeal came from Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary, and he made it while opening the new session of the Hungarian Parliament, Hungary of course has always been one of the most Catholic of ail the Catholic states. The Regent said to the Parliament:- T,The time will certainly come when the powers will meet finally to find a solution." And he added:- "Probably it would be best if the call came from the high post of the Pope." 3 KING MD QUEEN There was an interesting moment at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, today. That's where King George and t^ueen Elizabeth were. The Queen was asked to sign the provincial guest book as a oum memento of her visit. Just as she was signing, "Elizabeth R.", she paused and turned to the King and said: "Do you remember the date?" The King replied: "Wo, I don't." ---- Co-eiA <*2^- In that town the British Majesties met up with the worst weather they've had in all their trip. It is related that the Queen said to a reporter who was at her side:- "My, what a beastly day!" Then she said: "Well, come on, we might as well get along with it." The British King and Queen ha^Jbroken several i precedents on this continent. Tomorrow they will break another.© An or er was posted on the pilot train carrying newspaper correspondents, photographers and radio commentators. The order read:- "You are requested to be on dock at five thirty P.M. tomorrow so that Their Majesties may personally bid you farewell and thank you for the work you have done on the tour." BUFFALO The visit of hmg George and ^ueen Elizabeth to the United States has been ignored by most Italian newspapers until just now. But today Mussolini's journalists came through with a real scoop. They report that there was a violent quarrel on the subject of that visit between Mrs, Franklin D, Roosevelt and her mother-in-law, Mrs. James Roosevelt. It vas over the subject of the sausages to be served at last Sunday afternoon's picnic. Tne Italian newspapers report further that the First Lady won the battle and served their oritish Majesties with sausages made of Buffalo meat, stuffed with cabbage, and washed down with beer. On which the NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM comments "So that's where all our Buffalo wentl" And, SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW