St. Nazaire, June 19, Ninety-six man and Czechoslovak Jewish refugees arrived here this evening on board the vessel Flandre, returning from Cuba where they, like the 944 refugees on the St Louis. were not permitted to land.
The refugees will be afforded Tao Hsueh-li who last Sunday threw some sulphuric acid on the faces of a friend and his wife while they were in bed and surrendered himself to the Central Police Station on Monday was brought before the First Special District Court yesterday and charged with causing Serious bodily harm. He confessed to the crime, asserting that the victimized friend had refused to divide profits with him while they were jointly doing a scrap iron transportation business. Judgment was reserved for a week He alleged in court that since the start of the present Sino-Japanese hostilities the v Yang Hung-ching had been engaged in transporting scrap iron in Hongkew and that he had been assisting him in the business. His work was not paid for. and so he was angry with Yang, he said. Both victims, who live at House No. 82 Lane 460 Tatung Road, ing in the Paulun Hospital suffering burns about face and other parts of the body board and lodging at various camps in the Lower Loire Department. There they are to await their turn on the immigration liste of the United States.—Havas, New Tax Bill in U.S, Washington, June 20.
The House of Representatives yesterday passed and sent to the Senate the $1,644,000,000 tax bill eliminating the present levy on undistributed corporation profits and softening other corporate taxes in an effort to encourage business revival.
The bill passed in the House in less than five hours of debate after defeat-ug a Republican amendment. The Republicans attempted to repeal nce" taxes and the three cent on frst class posi The rity group also sought to make the repeal of the undistributed profits tax effective from January 1, 1939 instead of from January 1, 1940.—
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