Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1925, Page 27

FUNDS FOR ROADS | BAFFLING PROBLEN More'Highways for Autos Make Enormous Demands for Extra Building. BY J. C. ROYLE. Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 12.—Amerlcan cities and States are being forced to utilize every possible means to ac- commodate the increase in trafic. In the effort to relieve congestion, more streets, alleys and highways are be- ing paved than ever before in his- tory. Street’ systems which were adequate a few years ago cannot accommodate efficiently the travel de- mands now made on them Citles and_counties have found that much of this congestion can be relieved by construction of through streets and highways which will distribute motor vehicle movement and stimulate de- velopment of outlying sections and suburbs. Getting Funds Is Problem. The question in many localities is the method of getting the money to pay for such improvements. Inves- tors are perfectly willing to subscribe to bond issues authorized to raise funds for s but many municipalities E cially the more progressive one: have already borrowed by s ns up to the 1 allowed by The new prop- valuations many sections, would additional power to incur indebtedness, have not as vet been made in many sections The programs are prepared and traffic dem are such that to avoid serious congestion, they must be car- ried out. Money is available, but legal restrictions are holding up the actual work An example of what Is facing scores of communities Is to be found teday in the situation of Rochester, N. Y Municipal Tax Levied. ster citizens in the midst of nnual struggles with income tax returns have just been jolted with sing information that in or- Roch levied. At least that is one suggestion made by the commit- tee of the New York Legislature, which has studving Rochester's finances. The .city already has an bnded debt and still is ng both ends meet. on is due largely to the ive improvements which have made by the municipality. There is immediate need of $1,000,000 new revenue, which the constitu- tiona on the -tax rate make Therefore, the possibility of a municipal income tax in addition to the State and Federal burden on income. New Taxes Suggested. Alternatives are the raising of the constitutional tax limit; raising as- sessments of property already ap- proaching full value; levying a busi- ness rentals tax and revenue derived from payment for special services the city offers its residents. The citizens of Rochester have not yet had time to a preference, but there is an akable trend toward a change in the form of city government, to- ward the city manager plan. Scores other cities they streets and roads. Gasoline Helps Virginia. A gasoline tax yielded Virginia over $3,000,000 in 1924 which is the sole revenue of the State for road building purposes. That State is ap- parently satisfied with its “pay as you go" road program and now has 372 miles of concrete highway, 1,133 miles of bituminous macadam and 706 miles of gravel roads. Kansas is putting ‘into effect a similar tax and other States have already dene so. Last year Los Angeles led the cit- fes in the construction of concrete street paving with 91 miles. Atlanta nd and Seattle third. II- led the States with Pennsyl- second and New York third. cities already have placed huge street paving comtracts for 1925, Chicago leads in this respect with 104 miles of concrete “street and 1 lley paving. Los Angeles has placed contracts for almost an equal amoun. Hibbing, Minnesota, has placed a single contract for the paving of over five miles of streets. have money for BUTT-E]I—OUTPUT G;OWS. Butter production in the United increased nearly 35,000,000 during the first nine months when production reached 00 pounds, as compared with 00 pounds during the rnrerl sponding period in 1923, according to reports compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture. Keep a tube of the original BaumeBenguéalwaysready for emergencies. Rub it on the place that hurts and COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY DENVER, March 12.—Approximate- ly 75 per cent of the coal mines in Colorado are closed owing to the un- seasonably mild weather, which has reduced demand. Five companies have served notice of their intention of returning to the 1517 wage scale for miners. DETROIT, March 12.— duction figures of the dome: ot Ford Motor Co. for 1,790,278 cars and trucks and 83 tractors. This compares with 1 485 cars and trucks and 101,898 trac tors prod in 1923. Retail sales in- creased 36 to 551, absorb- ing most of the 1923 surplus. HAMMOND, La, March 12.—Ship- ment of strawberries from this s tion has begun and the fruit is bri ing fancy prices. The crop is esti- mated at 1,200 carloads, or 70 per cent of normal, and the movement will be in full swing in another two weeks. SE, Calif., March 1 California Prune and Apricot Growers Assoclation is distributing to prune- growers $1,500,000 as a se ment from the marketing crop. Total payment for the crop is | expected to pass the $15,000,000 mark CHICAGO, March 12—The price of | pork loins has advanced 10 cents here | in the last week. They now are cents and even higher figures arc pr dicted. Those in touch with the ma ket say that the marketing of hogs this year will be nearly 40 per cent | under last year. | by | BOSTON, March 12.—Rising prices | for hides and leather are perplexing | shoe manufacturers in figurfng prices | for their Fall lines. Most New Eng land manufacturers are asking 4 to 5 per cent or 15 to 20 cents more per pair. STEADY GAINS MADE | IN FIGHTING WEEVIL| Fears That Country Will Be Un-| able to Supply Cotton Needs Held Unwarranted. alarmists” that this | Fears of some country ultimately will be unable to | supply its own cotton requirements because of the boll weevil are “un- warranted,” the Department of Agri- culture declares. | Observing that the weevil invaded the country nearly 30 years ago and as a result has placed cotton produc- tion permanently on a m basts, the department said able | control methods afford hope | t in check.” ded, “ju their performances up to the pre other countries that have prompted by our difficulties pand thelr cotton acreage « likely to make any large add to the world's cotton sup | many years. | “In 1921 the estimated damage | the weevll to the American ecrop | amounted to 30.98 per cent. In the following year the damage dropped to 24.17 per cent and in 1923 to 19.05 | per cent. Figures for 1924 are not | vet available, but it is expected they | will prove to be even smaller than | those for preceding years.” | MARYLAND BARNS STILL | CROWDED WITH HAY Thirty-Eight Per Cent of 1924 Crop Remains Unsold—DNMost Ever Known. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March 12.—Hay on Maryland farms March 1 amounted to 283,600 tons, or 38 per cent of the 1924 crop, more th in any year since the establishm t of the estimates bureau, according to urges issued by John S. Dennece, eral statistician here. Wheat corn showed marked decreases, t ing 1,109,000 respectively. Only about 51 per cent of year's corn crop was marketable, | to excessive rainfall in early Spriag which also hindered planting and re- sulted in a smaller acreage | Prices of all crops are much higher | than in 1923 and 1922, it was pointed | out, and a considerably higher per- | centage of hay and wheat will be| shipped out of the counties where grown i Farm prices for corn are about $1.33, against 90 cents, and $1.91 for wheat, against $1.09 last year. The New Jersey Mosquito Extermi- nation Association is headed by a woman, Mrs. Bertha Boynton, the | tee to postpone discussion until Pre- || "l of the diplomatic appropriation came | bea get it THE EVENT FRENCH SENATE GROUP BACKS VATICAN EMBASSY Budget Committee Action Comes on Vote on Bill for Diplomatic Corps’ Salaries. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 12.—The senate com- mittee yesterday - in round-about fashion pronounced itself in favor of the maintenance of a French embassy at the Vatican. This was the only way open to it tp give its views, since the senate has no initiative in finan- cial questions. When the appropriation for diplo- matic corps’ salaries came before the committes Senator Cheron declared DAUGHERTY IS WITNESS. ‘With W. J. Burns at Rickard Trial in Film Case. TRENTON, N. J., March 12.—Harry M. Daugherty, former Attorney Gen- eral of the United States, and Wil- llam J. Burns, chief of the Bureau of Investigation durihg the Daugherty regime, were here today to testify for the Government at the trial of Tex Rickard and five others for con- spiracy In transporting Dempsey- Carpentier fight films. -— x Every doctor in a small town is entitled to think that hé would have become world famous had he located in a large city. FLORIDA WHIPPING CASE AGAIN COMES TO LIGHT Special Grand Jury Is Called to Investigate New Charges Against Thomas W. Higginbotham. By the Assoclated Press. CROSS CITY, Fla, March 12.—An echo was heard here yesterday of legis- lative investigations in 1923, and of the indictment against Thomas W. Higginbotham on a charge of mur- der in connection with the death of Martin Tabert in February, 1922, in a lumbér camp of this county, when Higginbotham and four other men were placed in jall In connection with VG STAR, WASHINGTON, 'D. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1925. the death of Louls Barker, a negro. A special grand jury venire will be summoned to report Friday morning to begin =n Investigation of the new charge against Higginbotham and John H. Windorn, E. G. Priest, W. G. McRain and Charley Hart, others a rested with him. The authorities b lleve, it is stated, that these men know something about the disap- pearance of Barker, who had been missing dince October 19, 1924, until his body was found at Shamrock, in this county. Higginbotham, “whipping boss,” was convicted in Columbla County Circult Court on July 8, 1923, of second degree murder and sentenced to 20 years in Stat. prison In connection with Tabert's death, but appealed the case and sub- known as the sequently was granted a new trial. CONVICTED OF KILLING. NEW YORK, March 12.—Charles T. Davis, Brooklyn manufacturer of sur- glcal Instruments, was convicted by a jury last night of manslaughter for the killing of Joseph Bridgetts, a de- tective. Bridgetts was killed in the offics of Davis, where he had gone to inquire about an automoblle which he had reported to have been stolen. After the slaying Davis was held o be insane, suffering under a de- lusion of police persecution. He was sont to an institution and was d charged as cured. The defense in the present trial was that Davis was insane at the time of the killing. 1 d Pay What You Will STUDEBAKER You Can Buy No Finer Car PISO’S Jjorcoughs he would vote for suppression of the article so as to draw attentlon of the chamber of deputies to the fact that there was no provision ‘in it for a Vatican embassy staff. Senator de Monzle, partisan of the Vatican embassy, asked the commit- mier Herriot could be heard, saying a compromise was under considera- tion. His jroposal received only four votes. When the motion for suppression to a vote a tie resulted. 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The Baltimore-Washington Speedway The opportunity has come jointly to Washington and Baltimore to provide an adequate AUTOMOBILE RACING SPEEDW AY, for official events staged by, and with the authority of, the American Automobile Association. Backed by the assurance of Mr. R. Kennerdell, chairman of the A. A. A. Contest Board, that his board would decline to license dny other speedway between Washington and Charlotte, N. C., and Washing- ton and New York and its environs, I became greatly interested in looking into the potential possibilities of building such a Speedway. Of course, there is the great publicity value that must accrue to Washington and its suburbs, as well as to Baltimore. Automobile racing is recognized as one of the leading legitimate sports, which under the rigid rules and ment of the A. A. A. has always been a glu!': sport—and always must be—thrill- ing in its climaxes. President— WILLIAM E. SCHLOEGEL Baltimore, Md. Vice President and General Manager R. M. WILLIAMS Columbian Building Washington, D. C. Secretary— J. R. WARD 416 5th Street Washington, D. C. each Treasurer— THEODORE MICHAEL N. Capitol and H Streets Washington, D. C. Contest Secretary— HORACE P. MURPHY Representing A. A. A, N. Y. ol Savings Bank, WASHINGTON, D. C. Falr and Park WASHINGTON, D. C. 60,000, as the basis. official manage- we ought to foster For example— 1923 Meets in Indianapolis, Altoona, Kansas City, Fresno, Los Angeles, Admisgions, 156,000—Gross Admissions, Admissions, Admissibns, Admissions, Receipts, Receipts, Receipts, Receipts, Receipts, - 51,109—Gross 46,000—Gross 39,908—Gross 81,000—Gross 1 1 1 1924 Meets in Indianapolis, Altoona Kansas City, Altoona, Fresno, Charlotte, Admissio returns. 3 Within a radius of 200 miles of Washington there Estim 3,000 Box Seats at $7.00 15,000 Reserved Seats at $: Admissions, Admissions, Admissions, Admissions, Admissions, In most of the above cities two meets were held r—with corresponding big attendances and 138,000—Gross Receipts, 58,000—Gross Receipts, 35,000—Gross Receipts, 62,000—Gross Receipts, 30,000—Gross Receipts, 42,000—Gross Receipts, are 9,000,000 people. 1 1 ns, 1 1 ated Receipts In making this estimate we have proceeded very con servatively, taking a smaller number of admissions, These figures are compiled from those of other cities— .00. 12,000 Unreserved Seats at $3.00. 30,000 Gate Admissions at $2.00. 10,000 Auto Parking at $2 40,000 Programs at 25c. .. Concessions . . LODC,. - Miscellaneous (Billbué:"é Ka;ia;'txsmg, Et-c.) Total Receip Computed Expenses Cash Prize ... A. A. A. (Starter, '.I‘1me4r, Cr;x;tes't‘Boa}d) o Scorers, Ticket Employes, Here we have figured with the utmost liberality. Police, Etc Publicity (Motor Events).. < Rain Insurance ... Revenue Tax (Est.)... Music and Miscellaneous Total BXPENSe: . ... ..ol s ivivounydiis: SOTRN010D cenee....$146,150.00 Net Profits . These receipts are independent of the other sources of revenue, such as inter-state motorcycle races, bicycle races, football and baseball games, national and international airplane and balloon meets, polo games, fairs, expositions, tournaments, a stadium for general athletic events, etc—all pro- ductive of additional profits. ‘With these facts before me, I, together with some other Washington and Baltimore gentlemen, have entered into the organization of the Balti- more-Washington Speedway, Inc., buying a tract of approximately 300 acres at Laurel, Md. Wagner, oficial starter in every championship au- tomobile race since the sport began, says it is the Mr. Fred FINEST LOCATION IN mile oval and all the COUNTRY. It appeals to me as the type of sport of the National Capital. That induced me to make a careful— really skeptical—analys side of the proposition, and I found that universally and invariably it is a big divi- dend payer wherever these official races are conducted, as they will be here. $600,000 257,000 $429,000 145,000 Taking the above cities as a basis we certainly ought to have an attendance of from 65,000 to 100,000 at each race; and the A. A. A. will allot us two racing events each year. $21,000.00 -$214,000.00 $25,000.00 “EVERY POINT OF VIEW. We have arranged with the Prince Automobile Speedway Construction Company of Oakland, Calif., designers and builders of the most famous speed. waye, including those at Los Angeles, Kansas City, Fresno, Altoona, Charlotte, to construct a 114. bleachers, parking areas, runways, etc. The work 18 under the personal supervision of Mr. Jack Prince, president of his company—and every effort will be made to produce the SPEEDIEST, SAFEST AND BEST APPOINTED SPEEDWAY IN THE ENTIRE here in the shadow of the financial 08,000 47,000 20,000 28,000 06,000 05,000 26,000 60,000.00 36,000.00 60,000.00 20,000.00 10,000.00 5,000.00 2,000.00 THE COUNTRY FROM attendant grandstands, Wm. E. Schloegel Retired Lawyer and large real estate Liberty ' Helghts Independent Real enjoy its blessed relief. ‘GET THE ORIGINAL FRENCH BAUME BENGUE (ANALGESIQUE ) Baclkache For: B = ‘muscl Tired feet earalsia Rbeumatism Colds (Chest and bead) Thos. Leetning & Co. Amer. Agents. N. 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Divi- dends on the Preferred stock are payable semi-annually. Preferred stock is re- deemable in whole or in part on and after January lst, 1927, at 110% and accrued dlvidends, or convertible into Common stock, share for share. The Preferred stock obligation takes priority over Common stock—both in the distribution of dividends and assets. If we realize our conservative estimated profits we are going beyond the 8%—even to 11%4% and 12%3%—or MORE. Not only a money-maker 4 for its stockholders, but a wonderful enterprise for both metropolises—Washing- ton and Baltimore. The officers and directors, I feel sure, will inspire confidence in the conduct of the corporation’s affairs, and we are fortunate in having in Mr. Williams, the vice president and general manager, a man with long years of practical experience in the details of speedway management. THE SPEEDWAY IS GOING TO BE BUILT, and I would like to have you join us in the proposition. 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