Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1925, Page 2

2 * TAX PUBLICITY-LA 1S SEEN AS FIXTURE Co_ngress Not Likely to Order Repeal at Behest of Objectors. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. However much the taxpaving publie may dislike the publicity of income tax returns, he would he a venturesome prophet whe predicted that the pro vision of the law On the contrary. there is avery reason to helieve that the publicity of income fax returns has come to stay. While President Coolidge and administration generally want the pro vision repealed, the sentiment of (¢ gress is still the other way. The rea son for this is that the proponents of repeal have not heen able to show what real harm has been done by pub. licity. Many persons who would pre fer secrecy are the minority of the taxpayers, because from reports re ceived here it is evident that the small taxpayer is rather indifferent about the publictty given Benefit of Law Questioned. There is nothing ta show. on the other hand, that income-tax publicity 1s of direct_benefit to the Government Even =0, Congress wonld not be dis posed to repeal a law which fails to achieve a benefit that can he proved Congress. on the whale, regards the Aata furnished the newspapers as an interesting reflex of what people wealth are really acquiring from year to vear. The best analozy is the in formation made available by the Gov ernmeni and various § with spect corporations data is of no direct value. but it is obtained and recorded year in and year out for some possibie use as vet undetermined. Most of the who faver the réiention of the law sav that it s a good thing to know what various individuals and particu Jarly corporations are earning. Labor nnions are naturally interested and while husiness concerns can prove that income tax fizures have heen used against them it means Congress has refused to hecome stir ed up about it members of Congress Furore Soon Dies Do Probably the greatest fu putllicity was that of a vear when Congress came back cess a canvass showed. only fil of members who cared ahout it 10 make a fight. As for the administration it will have its hands full keeping the radical elements in Congress from successfully opposing the reduction of surtaxes In the future. in the past. the publicity provision will hecome a trading point. So long as the harm done is relatively su little that Con zress regards it indifferently. the in. rence will be that there is henefit in retaining the publicity Mause and Congress will he guided by that prin. ciple. Another reason why the law will stay is that as rates are reduced from vear to year the number of taxpayers paying diminishing amounts will in- crease. Small taxpavers are not clam. oring for the repeal. If. as assumed, the large taxpayers will make maore money under lower rates. then it is be lieved that the publicity of returns will never show the total amounts sarned. Tendency Toward Concealment, Human nature tends toward. con cealment of what might he regarded excessive earnings. Even taday the publicity provisions are being evaded. in that incomes are heing distributed through corporations whose legal names are little used and not immedi ately recognizable by the public. The total tax amounts to the same thing but In the printed lists it may he di vided Into five or six paris. Measures of this kind wil protect the 1a porations and make the pubii vision less effective. As the opposition from large corpo rations diminishes there will he rela tively little pressure 10 repeal the law The number of individuals who pay large taxes is net large enough to force a change in publie sentiment FIVE HAWAIl FLYERS STILL MISSING; PLANE SEARCH IS STARTED (Continued from First over ago. but from re a hand Page.) The seas are moderate and the skies ova~ ot Wi the destrover ragut Aroostook spent the night movinz in the area 300 miles off Honolulu, stab. hing the easin the vieinity where the missing plane mizht have dropped dis. ahled A message received from the miss ing plane after the craft radioed that it Wag trying to remain in the air nntil the dwindling asoline supply was ex havsted ~aid What is wrong. please Meaning ' that the Arnostank proceed furnishinz comp: to the PN-9 No. 1. To thi Argostook answered What is your conrse and are treing to find ns? there was no answer the ahead!” <hould earings auery the vou would he repealed. | the ! of | Much of the | again, | enough | To this message | C ———— 'Wine Cart Horses | Learn Traffic Code And Keep to Right| By the Associated Pres ROME, September 2.—Kven the horses in Italy have been ame- nable to Fascist discipline. Ardent Fascista point out that since /Premier Mussolinl's government inaugurated right-trafic some months ago horses pulling wine cArts into the city, with their Arivers asleep on their seats, have been magically trained to veer lazily to tha right whenever an automobile horn is heard in the rear or when a vehicle approaches. Some vears ago Mavor Nathan, the only English-born mayer Rome ever had. abandoned an attempt to change trafie rulas hecause. it was compalined, the nags drawing the wine carts, had been trained to keep 10 the left and they could not be taught otherwlise. I TAX PUBLICITY HELD TRACTION CO. ROW HEARING IS FIXED Utilities Body to Rule on Ob- jection te~Stopping at Boulevard Signs. The Public Utllitles Commission will hald a hearing at the District Building At 10 o'clock Septemher 16 to de termine what should he done at the iseven boulevard straet intersections AL which there is still a difference of opinicn as to whether street cars should stop before crossing. When the houlevard highways were firsi established the railway com panies ohjected to stopping thel cars and theirby losing the right of way There were several score of such in | tersections, but at an Informal confer | ence representatives of the companies. ! OF NO PUBLIC VALUE the trafc office and the utilitias board { azresd on what should be done at all { Y but_saven points (Continued from First Page) | The locations still unsettled are: Rhode TIsland avenue at FEleventh than last, though his income remained Seventh. New Jersey and | virtually ‘stationary. orida_avenuss: Massachusetis ave. Among the other larger taxpavers!nue and Ninth street and New York {uere: Jacoh Ruppert, owner of the|avenue and Seventh street. {New York Yankees, $37,111: Walter | | Damrosch, composer, $5.492: Arthur ! | Brishane, ‘journalist. and wite. $7,170: | [Frank L."Polk, formerly & membe; esident Wilson's official family, David Belasco, $8.056: the At nd Charlotte Air Line Railway American York midslon will_conglder-at the hearin whether ‘these points should be mad, safety Slops for street cars. At the same he®iing (he.cammission will consider ihe ahjections that have heen ralsed by the Capital Tracti L Ve agains: safagy zoges for street League Base Ball passengers on . Feurieenth str »: American|tween K and ¥ strests, mar by white Hnes John 1. Hanna the eompany. has take the pasitic that a safety zome marked “only hy white paint does not give passengers ~||l:n ent proteetion from passing SYMPHONY URGED & e e Cice prosident of Co. $846.736. Fox ¥ tion and subsidiary ilway Film comps > Wealthy Men Kxewmpt, CHICAG prember ) Numerous persons of wealth paid no | income 1ax for 1924 as a result of the | deductions allowable under the amend- ed revenue act. Writing off of old {1osses generally was atrributed a¥ the principal deduction in most cases. Among those whose nel income was iclassed as non-taxable were Herbert | {P. Crane of 8t Charies. T son of the late Chicago Ironmasier: Law- rence . Crowley, Joliet. heer baron, | of the fabled gold doorknol house: the | Swift family of packers. Louis F. Ed e Rttt g e A e oz; . Former Munich Conductor for Orchestra to Take Part the Philippines. , Harold Rell Wright. authar, in Festival. paid a His paid [ tax of $5.756.59. at Phoenix. A | wif Winifred P, Wright | $4.030.52 At Kansas City ! Nelson Kirkwood |liam R. Nelson estate, publisher {the Kansas City Star. paid $268 | Senator Charles Cirtis of Kansas paid | $393.31 and Senatgr Arthur Capper. ! | also of Kansas. pald $2.083.08 Mo. trustes for Mra. Laura = the Wil | 25 Formation of a symphony orches in Wasgl RLOn in connection with the elaborate music festival to he staged here nexi May was urged today hy Kurt_Heizel. a former conductor of the Roval Opers in Munich. who called on Commissioner udolph 1o discuss the plans for the fesrival Mr. Hetzel, who has heen in United States for several vears enthusiastic in his indorsement the action of the Commissioners officially launching the proposal what is expecied to be musical event Washington | enjoved, | “I'am not only plansed that ingien is to have grand festi of music next Npring.” said Mr. He zel. “but I am equally strong in the | belief that the National ¢apital should have a symphony orchestra In time- (o take past in-shat Teatival n_angouncimg about, 1% days ago a1 the Commlksianars wonld lpon»:r Ex-Gov. Ferguson Pays No Tax. | _AUSTIN, September 2 (#) E. Ferguson. former Texas and husband Miriam A. Ferguson. .pald no income taxes for 1924, the records of the Internal Revenue Bureau at the Federal Bullding showed here today. It was! {indicated that the former governor's | income tax return for the past yea showed losses. Gov. Miriam A. Ferzusonis salary as executive is exempt from all taxes. James ot the was of in tor has ever Store Manager Leads Taxpayers. PORTLAND. Ore.. September Julins Meijer, department store man. {ager. paid $18.966 in income taxes | Bere. Simon. Bepson, reputed to hep, { the ‘wealthieat résident in Oregonyithe mavement for an anmmal Sorios | paid a tax of $3 The Henry LY \miic featival, Gomuisaloner Buacton | Pittock _ estate. formerly majorityy vojead the hope> VREITHIE ‘Drogeam St of Oregon Publishing Co.. pald® would hecome the initial step toward $85,385 ! making Washington the musiec center of the United Siates, , (.| Mr. Hetzel said today he regarded of |1he exisience of & svmphony orchestra as essential 10 the development of. the art of music in the Nation's Capital. The Commissioners ‘have not vet named the committée of 260 which is 6 plan the festival. Mr. Rudolph sug Igested 10 Mr. Heizel that he give that commitiee his views on a svmphony orchestr fier the commiitee has heen raanized Commissioner Rudolph said agreed with Mr. Hetzel that a sym I phony orchestra would he a dasirable addition t.. the musical opportunities of the city. Kallogg Remits $9,360. PAUL. Minn.. September B. Kellogg. Sacretary State. whose home is in St. Paul. paid fan income tax of $8.780.55, returns fAiled here show. Largest in Florida. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Septemb: 2 (®).— James Deering of Miami paid £179.886.04 income tax in 1924, the largest individual payment in the | State. records made public here re. vealed e Frank Fall's Income. ALRUQUERQUE N. M Sep tember 2 (#).—Former Secretary of the Interior’ A, ‘B. Fall paid a Federal indome tax of $39.75. Reynolds’ Largest. | RALEIGH. N.C.. September W. N. Reynolds. president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacca of Winston Salem. N. (.. filed the largest income | {tax return in North Carolina. The veturn totaled $243.385. Charles A.| Cannon. manufacturer, of Concord. ! had the =acond largest with $112,349.3% BY BRITAIN AND MEXICO Reference > (@) to Mixed Commission Announced as Basis for Restora- tion of Diplomatie Relations. Ry the Associated Press LOONDON. Sepiember Tt nnder the ar- learned officially that the British and Senator Phipps Leads Colorado. DENVER. September P, Law rerce C. Phipps. United States Sen. 'angements hetween ator from Colorado. paid the largest Mexican zovernments whereby diplo Federal income tax in the Stite. pe. MATic relations are restored the claims of the Internal revenue epllec. '0f British subjects arising from reve- records show. His tas aggre. | lutfonary disturbances “will be su T 141.65. Willlam V. Hodges, Mitted to a mixed claims commission. of the Republiean national While other claims will he tled paid $19.032.31: M. Dv, throuzh the usual diflematic channels. Puebio hanker. paid $74.92¢ - The agreement provides that if such 1. Petriken. president of ¢lalms are not settled hy diplematic Weatarn BOGRY $14.. discussion within 18 months they shall be submitted to the mixed claims com- mission. or, if the twa governments have not agreed to the constitution of such a commission. 10 the Permanent 1usal tor's zated $15 Treasurer committes. Thateher. and W, reat ¢ udebaker Tax $1.938,499.51. | INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., September THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, BALMY BREEZES REFUTE TALES OF TORRID SUMMERS IN CAPITAL| he com- | FOR WASHINGTON the biggest | he | |CLAIMS AGREEMENT FIXED i | |Figun‘s for August Show Those trusting cftizens who had | { “faith in Washingion” and refused to | heed the alluring promises of ideal| weather fn the highly advertised Sum- mer colonies farther North have reaped rich reward hoth In comfort And money. Weather Bureau siatistics today disclosed that the National Capital was hare 1wo degrees | warmer than Massachusetts last | manth. | In fact. comparison of the August | | Just passed with those of the last 50 vears have disclosed that Washington. instead of heing the enervating city of steamy discomfort, is rather an| ideal place 1o spend either a life or | | @ vacation from the standpoint of at-| { mospheric conditions. July alone {has an unfortunate reputation with | j the weuther forecaster. and there ar: literally thousands of worse places in the country even during that month. The average temperature here lasi month was 73 degrees. just one degree below normal. In Boston, which is officlally aceented by the Weather Bu {Teau as representing the average tem. | perature of Massachusetts, it was 71 Tortland, Me., fanned day and night { by the breezes from the cold North {Atlantle, reported an average last month of 68, or only 5 degrees cooler | than Washingzion 92 Was Maximum, Only on three oceasions last month [ did the thermometer soar to anywhere near uncomforiable proportions dur [ing the hattesi part of the day. and there was not a single night that it {did not drop A point that _made light bed covering welcome. Ninety- [1wo was the masimum temperature of the month—on the 10th—and 71 was the hizhest temperature regis | terea on any nighi. More often than [ not, the evening temperatures were in | the low #os | Here is the offici ord day by day Maximum a of a | temperature rec Average 70 ki 3 Minimum Month of Sunshine. In addition to these attractivel | moderate fizures. the rainfall here {last month measured less than one | inch. This is somewhit low from the | { standpoint of the farmer, but 1o the vacationist-dt meant almost a “whole }mnu;ol sunshines:-Phis M musc he BRITSHSHPS SAL SHIPS SAIL N SPITE OF STRKE Maijestic Leaves on Time and: Other Steamers Get , Complete Crews. » { Ry the Associaied Pre SOUTHAMPTON, {The White Star liner Majestic salled for New York at i1 am.. scheduled | time. today with a full crew, despite | | the fact that a number of new men| who had signed on last night w»qlk'\d{‘ | ont this morning ‘The Majestic carried the larges |westbound list of the vear. with $50 first class, 700 second class and 300 third class passengers. most of them | | American. homeward hound aftar touring Europe. E | Large erowds lined the quay whan the Majestic =ailed. hut there was no demeonstration. The )iner picked wp 130 of her ecrew from . Uigs waiting off Cowes. the men being brouzhi] from Portsmonth. September | Kased. Sitnatio DON. September ). on in British home ports re ing from the unofcial strike of ses- men against a wage duction was somewhat eased today by the salling LON -The situat D, With That of Resorts in the North—92 Was Highest Temperature Recorded. | ary | zust of record her | the lowest lot sarthquake at a few & o'clock second quake felt meonths. cial information At Mount Vernon, Ind. . on the seismograph of the St Igna-| .4 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1925, STREETEXTENSION PROGRAM IS URGED | +Bell and Rudolph for Taking Up Problem of Costs as Soon as Possible. Capital Climate Ranked admitted, is about three inches be- low normal. but even the normal is compared to Florida and many other States. In this connection it might ba in- teresting to review some of the maxi- | mum and minimum temperatures of | previous Augusts. The hottest Au was in 1872, On | The opening and extension of main highways in the undeveloped outskirts of Washington ix regarded by Engi- that oceaston. however. the highest [eer Commissioner Rell and Commis- Average maximium temperature of tha | Sioner Rudolph as an important mu- month was only §3.3 degrees. The |Picipal problem werthy of considera- ' Average minimum temperature for the | 1o0 A% %00n 4% other ensential projects same month was 71 degrees. |l permit.. . . o other vear anywhere near ap | They voiced this helief today in com. roached that aver AP | menting upon the annual report o roached et rerage Ieaximum | pitriet Burveyor Melvip C. Ham u 381, w . » g e e o um av®T: |in which he declared many of thess Bean equaled. In 1900, when enee |Principal thoroughfares can never be e he mereury soared 1o an amce |extended beyond their present limits Aze maximum of §8. On the atner under the existing law, which provides hand. the oniy time the averame mini. | 'hat condemnation juries must find mum’ femperature for a Washington |P¥ReAits o cover the entire cost. August_passed out of the 608 was in | The surveyor suggested thal the el s | Commissior.ers d:vise some new met | 0d of handling assessments for these Down in Low 6. |important street openings that would On most other occasions the av.|make it possible to proceed with the erage minimum temperature hovered | CATTYINg out of the highway plan. in the very low 60s. while (he average ¢ Much Money Needes maximum clung helow 83 far more | . 14,k upon that question ax one often than It ’ ssed that fgure even |, (e city's important development by fractions of degrees. Sixty-two is | Col: Bl said, =wut it 18 average minimum for an | Paomitm: - num for an | zoing to require considerable sums of August here. That was in 1983, but | money and will has money and will have o ba considersd ortiinarily _the minimum aticka very | {n raiacion to all of the city's ummet Close to 83 or G4 riekas.” Al e gl S ee The Commissionars indicated there Weather Rureau was no chance of acting on the sug- Washingion only needs some |gation of My, Hazen that part of the intensive advertising t class 1 v's aceumulated surplus be devoted almost an ideal Summer resort.|i; imporiant sireet éxtension projects. At least, those who choose the month | ongrasx alieady has decreed the sur- | of August to seek comfort élsewhere |plya shall he used for school bulldings are missing one of tBe most delight- (and zrounds and for park &nd plas- ful months of +he whole vear, accord- [ground purchases . ing to these figures. Mr. Hazen explainad that there are |only "two wave of acquiring & new |streat: firat, when the owners dedicate OHIO VALLEY CITIES oceedings the law requires the jury o find henefits to offset the entire Evansville, Kokomo Louisville Feel Shocks That Cover Wide Area. study | show minutes statisties that There are, of course, very substan- tial reasons Why these streets cannot Ibe acquired under the existing law."” !Mr. Hazen continued. “In many cases |small holdings would be entirely wiped | out. and substantial $mprovements destroyed. creating & cost that eannot | and it eauity be assessed against the prop- | |erty henefited. No jury undér exist | ling Jaw could find benefits to offset | |the entire cost, as required | Needed Street List Made. 1 ““Fhis office has preparéd a tentative liat of streets that should be opened many of which will never be acquired under existing law on account of the impossibllity of finding benefits equal | 1o the damage and court costs. Tihs Jist comprises more than 40 streets and avenues, with approximately a total of 20,000,000 square feet of land at an estimated cost of $7,000.000. Much | of this, however, could be assessed | hack on the land benefiied. thereby dueing this cost very materially. | Nome of the pul streets which should be acquired are: Nebraska ave nue. Reno road, Foxall road. Potomac enue, Reservoir road. Eutaw, Colo- rado and Concord avenués, Thirteenth | and Foufteenth streets. South Daketa, | Kansas. Maryland and New York ave. | nues, East Capitpl street, Minnesota, Alabama, Southern, Eastern and | Western avenues and many others of’ lgss importance.” The surveyor told the Commissioners | some method should be devised to provifle a very substantial fund to innugurate a policy for the acquisfiion | of all important streegs. This might be | done, he suggesied. by direct appro- | tion or by authority to utilize a Ry the Associated Press EVANSVILLE. Ind.. September 2. Evansville was shaken by an minutes Nlnrnl morning. It was the| here within o few | RRS oL Tams ki et No official record of the quake had | heen made at the local Weather Bu- reau at % o'clock this merning Oh- server Al Brand said he had unoffi- that the quake was general in southern Indiana and Dii- nois and in western Kentucky. and that from reports he had recelved it| probably centered in that territory the quake was | felt. but there was no damage. { The action lasted from 10 1o 15 seconds here. rattling window panes. dishes and other objects and rogking | furnitire. Many persons were ter- rorized Many residents of Kokome .rapori- ed feeling a slight earthquate short- 1y before & a.m. The shocks were reported froai'several places in Ken- tucky. At-Loutsville the tremor was| 5t 0t the surplus now in the Treas: slight. Owensboro reported that alury (e the cradit of the Distriet Gav loud rumbling preceded a distinet | ayyma | i shock. Houses were shaken in Mad- | \r. Hazen reported that the auther- tsonville. while Paducah =~ sald 2ty given the Comissioners by the last | rumbling sound was followed by | Congress io close straats rendered mse tremors lastinz several seconds. | lesx by the epening of new thorous- e " fares has heen exercised te advan. (':] Lb\‘ ."._;M‘)_ -)’y‘.m, tage in several cases. { S Sty trom: The :.m»m also voices the beliaf e ] the proper loeation of highways | tins College here early todax. Father |jor' pe gt i B M'"':_l b | iab Odenbach stid it might have|property and so as to meke adequate heen caused hy common waves or A|provision for future traMc is an im- slipping cave-in. Such shocks aceur|jartant question. | almost daily, he said 1 i | ). ! < SEES ALASKAN RAILWAY No | | this Seprember 2 was registered | OWENSBORO. Kyv.. September A distinel earth shock felt ber. this morning at 535 o'clock. N damage has heen reported. CONTROL IN NEW YORK | . September | e | |John E. Ballaine. Builder. De- clares “Interests Are Determined | to_Prevent Development. MADISONVILLE, K (#).—A distinet earthquake tremor was fell here at 5358 a.m. Houses were shaken nad dishes rattled. No damage was reported. MEXICANS ASK RETURN OF GUARD FOR FARMS | By the Assoriated Press. SEATTLE, Wash.. September Charging that the Government-owned | Alaska Railroad is “secratiy eontrolled | by New York interests hostile to it | and determined 1o prevent it develop- | ment,” John E. Ballaine. builder of | the Alaska Central Railroad, which preceded the Government line. vester day opposed abandonment of the project. proposed by Representativa A. M. Free of California. Free advocated “pulling up t and turning it inte a highw: several months’ investigation { northiand. | “The line can he expected to lose menev as long as it is under its | prasent management.” Ballaine said. 1““');!4( is needed iz not to pull up the | ralis but to place it under eompetent | and honest management.” 2. State Troops Held Not Sufficient Protection Against Attacks * by Agrarians. By the Associated Press VERA CRUZ, Mexico, September —The permanent commissioner of the Vera Cruz state legislature has re- quested President Calles to revoke his arder withdrawing federal troops from guarding farms against attacks by agrarians. 1t savs the state govern- ment has not sufficient forces to cope with the agrarians, who will commit rails after in the | Railway | tormation | and | the making, | Widmayer, | Fedes BELT LINE DEALT: TWO HARD BLOWS; NECESSITY DENIED (Continued from First Page.) had never brought it plans attention of tk ithern. There also was read a letter -from B. M. Knobel, who represents about 35 per cent the shippers and re- ceivers of perishable freight.through Potomac and Cameron yards, He said that this freight i« moving freely, and to establish & new yard such as proposed at Loughborough would complicate the situation and cause delay. He said he was of the opinion that the movement to build the project was prompied without re- gard for the requiremenis of the shipping public Present Facilities Ample. Warren C. Kendall, manager of the service division of the American Aswocigtion, said that the only excuse offered for the project was ‘the expeditious movement of perishable freight from Florida and the South. He scouted this claim by pointing out that there were 3 more cars available for Fiorida ship- ments last vear than could he used by the producers. He scouted the idea that the Southeast Washington tunnel was too small to handle the large cars of today, pointing out that standard car had been adopted, it would go through thix tunnel and there was no intention of increasing the size of the cars. Characterizing the project as a pro motion scheme, Harry King sald there is more behind this project than has gotten out o the public. He moved that a protest be sent (o the Mary land commission against the permis slon to exercise the charter rights of thé company. \When A. Sinelair x0ught 1o have the resolution sent to the manufacturers’ commit tee for investigation and report, Mi King again rose to hix feet and pointed out that delav might be dis astrous. No jnvestigailon was needed He sald that if any one read the newspapers, they would find that The Star had investigated every angle of the proposition thoroughly, and committee could not get any more in- than hud been presented by The Star. Bebind this, he said were the meetings held in Maryland Virginia_at which the company representatives appeared and could not give satisfactory answer of the questions asked thep. “This project,” continued Mr. “in absolutely undesirable in way. There should he no delay for w big organziation we ought voice our sentiments in time. “We should not allow a thing this to go witheut our ebjection. are here o protect the beauty Washington,” said Mr. King, “and this project would seriously burt it Delay Voted 1 to the ca King, every to like We wa. to send_it T-to which Mr. Sinclair's motion a committes was rejected by a vote, and Mr. King's motion had been seconded by Isaac was carried unanimously M. F. Leopold of the Bureau of Mine d before the directors a proposition to make a film on Wash- ington. with the Chamber of Com- merce as its sponsor. ch a would no: cost and that would be the only cost. The Department of Com- merce would he said. M the hoard plans for the project The following were elacted 10 mem- bership, on motion of Ivan Weld chairman of the membership commit- tee: M. Sworzyn & Son. Inc.; C. E Nichpls. G. Perry Leishear, Edward L. A. Mossburg. A. Bar- and Leo- A. Gertman. ARLINGTON CITIZENS ACT. A. Leese. was authorized furnishing the chairman of to make funds for gar Smith tion Voices Its Opposition to Belt Line. Special Dispateh 1o The Star CLARENDON. Va.. September | Oppesition te the development of the Washington and Lough Line and Terminal Co Falls to Cameron vards in Virginia was volced last night at a largely attended meeting of the Arlington County Civie Federa- tion. The action was taken following a recommendation of a special com- mittee of the federation, and directly on a resolution presented by C. F. Kincheloe of the Leeway Citizens” As soefation. Mr. Kincheloe pointed out that the proposed line is in every way opposed to the things which the federation and ‘he county commission have been working for, that of making Arlington County a purely residential commun ity rather than an ment. Among other “It is suggested by the promoters and friends of this project that it would result in and furnish employ ment for a greatly increased popu Jation in our county. “I vield to no one in respect far honest labor. from the ranks of which I_come: and all honest laborers. whether at the forge, the workman's bench, the plow handies. the banker's desk or in the President's chair, are equally honerable if they. equally do their duty In thelr work and to their fellowmen. “But this Ts not the question: the question is whether we want to turn this, count. inte an industrial com- munity by the development within fts narrew limits of industrial roads and manufacinuring and. other induatriaj enterprises. or to continue its development as a residential com- munity in keeping with the develop ment of our -National Capital City. of line of the horough Belt from near Littie things, he said al that | Leftwich | the | to many | and | 1ol Gans, | film | more than $10,000 fer| handle its distribution, | industrial settle- | call- ¢ COUNCIL OF LEAGUE -~ MEETS INGENEVA | Discussion of Turco-British 0il Land Dispute Is Postponed. | 1 By the Associated Press GENEVA, Switzerland, September The couneil of the League of Na- tions wax convened here todav under the presidency of Aristide Briand, French foreign minister Neitheg the Britisa the Turks were ready’to discuss their dispuie over the Masul oil region question-expected to come hefore the | present council, and the matter postponed yintjl tomorrow. The territory in- di was part | of the former Turkish empire, hut the Brilish contend it comes within the the higzest pute repre and the | borders of Irak (Mesopotamia),. for which they-holda mandate under ‘the | league e e s Tdilay s HEetIR of the couneil was | limited to- .Zz'll‘..u?.s.'m,.‘ of repurts | and. 1aEolitTonk reteritng fo the com Ing-weskion of the leagire assermbly | . The “cedoris _ inelyded™ those - on slavery, on the internationsl plan 1o disusier refef, on_iwhich JAewt | Robert K. Olds, e American ! sentative, Lad been working | question "of sending spec com-, | mission to Persia investigate the sibilities of substituting other crops { tor the oplum poppy to elimi nate the present overproduction ¢ the dru People from ope many ing of the council, hut from outside. Every available. seat heen assigned to delegatex and news paper men, and the many of whom came from afar, were foreed to be satisfied with loking through the windows. lands saw the | the ( |DR. ECKENER REVIVES | GERMAN HYMN OF HATE | Amundsen, Former He Says, Declining to Aid in New Polar Flight. d P Enemy. By the Asso BERLIN, September 2.—It is re orted that Dr. Hugo Eckener of the ppelin Co., Who piloted the dirigible airship ZR-3. now the Los Angeler acioss the ATtantic. wifl not co-operate with Reald Amundsen in*any future polar expedition. Dr. Eckener, in a speech at Leipzi is credited with having said that |had just learned Amundsen was | against Germany during the World War and - that. therefore. he would | not aid bim jn_any Arctic exploration trip. Crowder in Service 50. Years. HAVANA. Septeniber . —1n celebcation of 50 vears' service in the Army and diplomatic service of his country, the Ameriean Ambassador Enoch’ H. Crowder. was guest of honor at a luncheon given by former President Mario G. Menocal at his country estate near Havana today county into a first-class and beautiful residential section and community, which end, and to the adyancement of the_interests of the. county and .of configuons tefritory and communittes, thers has recently, through tha efforis of this federation. beén appofnted b\ the Governor of our State a commit tee. composed of thres members from this county. one member from Fairfax County and one member from the ity | of Alexandria, te. co-operate with the proper authoritiea of the District of j Columbia, and with a like committea from the State of Maryland. in plan ninz the rezional development of metropolitan National Capital eity {and_especially the extension of the public park system of Washington {and the-District into its Virginia and Maryland suburhs: and Whereas it is believed that the ea- tablishment and operation of sueh railroad and industrial enterprises through and in Arlington County and said counties of Marviand would he {at va nce with and opposed to the above noted policy and residential de. velopment of our county and vitally detrimental to the best inter s of the county generally: and also that it would detract from the heatty and attractiveness and artistic develop- ment of the National Capital by build- ing up around , in Virginia and Maryland, just ouytside of the boun- dary lines of the District of Columhia, industrial railroads and the manufac. turing and other Industrial enterprises the exclusion of which from the Dis- trict has made our National Capital one of the most heautiful and attrac- tive cities of the world; now, thers- fore. Be it resolved, That this Federation of the Civie Orzanizations of Arling ton County. Va.. the Arlington Coun- ty Civie Federation, is opposed 1o the construction and operation of the sald | proposed railread. or of any similar i railroad. in or through this county {other than in or through such por tions of the county as Potomac vards | or othar territory adjacent theratn giv fen over ta use for railroad purpose tnnd further, that the appropriate } committee of this federation be in !structed to take such action a= may The Arocostook, after sn all-night vigll, wa ordered to lannech a plane at Viight to 2id in the search. The nork last night was hampered off the east of the Island of Maui hy treacherovs seas and heavy skies. On » (). —The Studebaker Corp America, South Bend. Ind. largest corporation income ta dian: for 1924, and Frederick S. Fish, | South Bend manufacturer and ‘busi. {ness man, paid the largest individual paid the in In ration of | Caurt of Arbitration at The Hague 'OUSTS AGITATORS. | CUBA of the White Star Hner Majestic from !Southampion and the news that three steame at Hull had finally obtained crews and would leave on time. Indications are that the strike in the ! British lsles may not become wide- spread owing to the threat of the ship excesses against ranches and isolated villages in ahsence of federal protec- ytion. The commission adds that srihed sroups already are menacing villages and ranches from which the federal |AGED 71, BIKES LONG WAY ’Nev Jersey Cyclist Pedals 1.355 which L constitutes -oné of the be available to prevent the construc hoicest suburbs.’” tion. of said railroad. Some opposition to the resolution And be it _further resolved That a deveioped. led by Coi. J. G. Pepper,copy of these resolutions he forward of Barcroft. He said thai the county |ed by the secretary of this federation cannot be built up entirely at the ex-[to the Public ice Commission of pense of the underpaid Government |the State of -Maryland, for the infor agsunt of this condition three planes |ineome. Ships 15 Spaniards to Moroceo to | Sheal “("E L 0N ‘new crews from | F2rrisons have been withdrawn. emplove, and that in order to offer imation of xaid commission as to the which took off from Lahaina the search were ordered to return and wait until dawn hefors going into the ragain SEARCHING FOR PN.9 NO. 1. Navy Department Reports Other 0 aid in | | The Studebaker paid | 1$1.938.499.54. Mr. Fish paid $124.. | 601 President A. R. Erskine af {the Studebaker corporation paid $99 | 71038 and his wife. Anna Erskin ipald $85.762.67 | Will H. Hays of Sullivan, corporation Swell Anti-Riff -Army. HAVANA, September 2 (@) _Fif. [tean Spaniards and 13 Chinese have been deported by the immigration former | avthorities after having heen convlei- dlvector |0 0f labor agitation and narcotie ad- diction and peddling Postmaster General and now of the motion picture industry. paid among the hundreds of unemployed ! men who have flockad to various ports haping to get jobs. The strike in the por | | declared to be a failure, it being as- Serted that any numbeér of extra men can bhe obtained on a few hours’ no- [ tice and that there is little desire of London is | Miles in 18 Days. T. LOUIS, Mo., September 2 (£)— At a time when many men are worry- ing about cirrhosiz of the liver and fatty degeneration of the heart. Emil Leuly. 71 years old. of Union City,' [N, 1., rides 75 miles a day on his/ | bicyele. i President Calles last week ordered Gen. Almazan, chief of military opera tions, to withdraw all federal troops engaged in protecting the country against the agrarians and to concen- trate them at Perote. The President said he considered that the protection of a stale was essentially a state func- tion, and that he had heen fAcoded a career and keep the young men in" the country industrial enterprises must be encouraged. While agreeing with Mr. Pepper in some respects, Frank G. Campbell of Virginia High: land€ said that the belt line was neither desired nor required. kfforts of Charles R. Taylor to. have the matier postponed were lost * when sentiment of this federation and of the people of Arlington County on tha { question of the ‘canstruction and op jeration of said proposed raflroad ‘ Gov. Trinkle Acts. A ietter from Gov. Trinkle was read by €. A. 8. Sinclair naming Messis !Sineclair, M. E. Church, J. W. King, Wrecked P! The Navy In A message continuin= fo ne Nehe Bt £10.234.90: Evangelist William R. Sun. |day, Winona Lake, $10.111: Thomas [ Taggart, Democratic leader. $10.361 | Booth Tarkington, suthor. $R4T87 | George Ade, humorisi. $2.458, and Iudolph Leecs. <on of the iate “Tim [ plate King.” §9.808 Pulitzer Leads St. Louis List. ST. LOUIS, ). o seph Pulitzer. the St Louie Post Dispateh. in- come taxes of $64 individua! taxpayer in this district |1ast vear. The next highest paver was [Emma H. Whitmare, whose rerura Lwas tor $41.218. Other taxpayers ineluded 1. M, Kurn, president of the Frisco rail- road. who paid $8,185; Sam W. For: | dyece, attorney. $2.,954. and Rolla Wells, former mayor of St. Louis, $17,136. Sinclair Counsel Pays $19,119.8¢. Py CHEYENNE, Wyo., September 2 (#).—John W. Lacey, Cheyenne ai: torney and a.member of Harry F. Sinclair's legal staff in the Teapof Dome trial, paid & Federal income tax of $19,119.84—the second largest per- sonal tax pald in Wyoming. Charles V. Burdick, also a Chey- enne attorney, topped the field with 348,527.18. William J. Bryan Tax, $2,583.69. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 2 (#).—The late William Jenninge Bryan of Ceeoanut Greve. Fla.. paid an income tax of $2,583.69 for 1924, Department was informed today that h was the PN-9 No. 1. the hig Feaplane lost en route from Sin Fran jsto to Hawaii. and that the PN.9 Noi which was forced down 300 miles out from the starting point. was expected 1o arrive at San Franciseo #t:§ o'clock this morning. Pacific time. "No sight so far of PN-% No. 1, bnt se@rch I8 progressing expeditiously and thoroughly.” the message said. Moses Optimistic. SAN FRANCISCO, September 2 (8), ~~Fifteen hours after the last word had heen received from the missing sezplane, the PN-9 No. 1. which failed of - its San Francisco-Honelulu non sop fizht beause of a shortage of fuel, Capt. Moses. commander of the Pight project, was without 'word as to the fate of the plane and its crew. Maintaining the optimism he has felt kinte the giant seaplane bearing Comdr. Rodgers and his four valiant fiyers was reported missing, Capt. Moses expressed the belief that the sircraft and its personnel would be foimd soon after davbreak today Last word from the plane was at 4:12 vesterday afternoon. when it was glven compass bearings. It was then believed to be about 150 milea from ; the lsje of Maui. The PN-3 No. 3. in tow of the de. stroyer William Jones. arrived off Crissy Field at § a.m. today after being forced down late Monday some 300 miles out frem San Francises on her attempted flight to Henelulu. ive Septemher publisher of whe pald was the largast | ‘Thé Chinese were sent to Hong Kong and the Spaniards to Morocco, where the Spanish zovernment is expacted 1o draft them Into the army fAghting the RiMans. — i emploved figures made puhlic here shaw. The return was made in Mirch, 1924, Seventy thousand persons made [returns in 1323 in Florida. Of thase seven pald more than $100,000, 84 more thap $10.000 {mova than $500, Grain Tiealer Tops Chicago List.: CHICAGQ. . Sentoaber 20 (@) Av- thur W, Cntten, 'S se operations . in | the grain market lust year atiracted | wide atteiition; was Chicago’s-largest contributor 10~ the Government | through, the 1924;income tax. He paid $540,008. |7 James A. Patten ‘of Evanston, long known as “thé wheat king,” was third in. the Hst, with- $425,348. Betweean them Wwas Richard-T. Crane; jron ngas- | ter, who- patd $434.457.. . . - Julius Rosenwall;-president of Sears, Roebuck & Co.” pald’ 3208,812, and Samuel Insull, public utility magnate, $160.770: Mrs. Anita MeoCormick Blaine, $191,897: George E. Keiser, $273.133; Mra. Edith Rockefeller Mc- Cormick, $234,816: John G. Shedd. chairman Marshail Field & Co.. $307,- 153; Martin A, Ryerson. steel prod- lucts, §108,183; John J. Mitchell | banker, $153.192; Frederick H. Raw. 338 Tonem Laiier, Fa0% Vietar 5 429; Joseph Laiter, $73.765; Z Lawson, $72,073. and 1,887 persens among the ws here to desert their | ships. i { Unempleyed Increase. i An ditional 43,000 men joined | | Great Rritain’s growing st :;a;:‘g the week e i | August :t.d"'l'rvl'::mx::pr then mfl‘rkdj ‘Work Starts Complaint Branch. | o 200, This was an in- : :rx::‘ 9 "';?l‘r"‘ :,:’,k_Tm 116527 and | Secretary Work today invited the 194672 more {han were registered a : public to submit suggestions. criticisms a6z m fand complaints of Interior Department A lthoitsh optimism prevalls over the | Activities through a complaint division P a4 "m"'_h‘_‘,le,v Ihere junder the direction of the depart- | has been no diminution tn the strike ment's chief inapector. Mr. Work said i watralla. where madiffonal crews |he was convinced that through lack I Aalke off their yeasels Alao i Ran. 0f personal contact the department e S T= employed by the loses the henefit of many criticisms ity Badiia G oxtrick for |from “those citizens whom the depart- | nigher. wages. .- ° jaage se with complaints against persecutions committed by federal ‘roops in deal- ing with the agrarians. YTeuly pedaled 1355 miles fo St.| Louis to see-the national champjonshio bicyele races Saturday and Sunday. | He made the trip in 18 davs. He at. tributes his activity chiefly to freedom from worry. which he savs s a result Lof hix “single bleasedness.” Ordered to China. | TMear Admiral H. H. Hough. chief, | of the office of naval intelligence. has heen relieved and ordered to command the Tangtze River patroi in China. He | will relieve Rear Admiral Charles R.| MeVey. jr.. whose new assignment has not heen announced. Admiral Hough's fuccessor has not yet heen pamed. At Cape Town (he araws of ihe steamers Arundel Castle-and the Ken- ilworth: Castle quit their ships. i FIGHT ON EVOLUTION. | rrei-;‘ Tssue ;9*’3% m:min’m.-[ "By the Associated Press. ‘Yo " Rohsol oottt /RE DE GRACE. Md., Sep- toni State’ 1 Blections. AR Norderi st s tember 2.—Word of the plight of . N G AN, rash. Saptemiéc | her son, . Flight. Comdr. John tist minister and secretary of the| Rodgers, on the Navy seaplane State Bible and Sclence League, an-| PN, No. 1, reported down in the nounced today that a fight against | sea between San Francisco and the téaching of évelution in public | Honolulu, is being kept from his schools of the State Is to be made in | mother at the Rodgers' home in Sion Hill, 2 half mile from here. the school elactions this Fall. Candidates for the local school Admiral John A. Rodgers. U. 8. Moards are_ to he questioned am- to ! N. retired, has kept in touch wi&_ the search for his son through thi their stand on evolution, he sald. News of Comdr. Rodgers ; Kept From Mother, Worried Over Trip Plight Assoclated Press. Comdr, Redg- - ers’ mother, who is advanced in years, was wérried over her son’s attempted San Francisco-Honolulu venture, and it has- been f¢ g;‘.t kfi; ‘weuI(II not withstand the ocl earning that he had w With mishap, heshnc-mtt Fourteen vears ago John Rods- ers flew from College Park, Md.. ;‘:‘!‘II\‘; h:‘neb:f Ivi|: parents, after Vi st aviation under the Wright brothers. His flight at that time attracted natfomal attentlen. his motion was put to a vote. . C. Byars and Maj. E, W. Cushing < the Virginia representatives on the Text of Resolution. National Capital Park Commission, _ |and regiesting that the governor he Mr. Kincheloe's resolution. was €ar- | kept fully informed of the progress of ried. 1t follows: {the work of the commission Whereas there has been organized| A resolution was presented to the 2 _rallroad company, known as the|federation hy J. W. McShea of the Washington and Loughborough RBelt ! gory Myer Heights Association and Line Co.. for the construction and|signed by 125 property helders of the operation of ‘a belt line freight ral-lcommunity, protesting agajnst “the road, beginning at or near the Po-[jgeation of the county property vards ‘tomac vards. in the vicinity of Alex-!in block 31. This resoiution was adopt andria,' Va., and extending across A ed, and the president named Arthur part of the southeastern portion of|Orr. €. E.Kinchelos and T. E. Gilhert Fairtax County and the westérn part as a commities to confer with the of Arlington County. to and across|Roard of Supervisors in this matter. the ‘Potomac River in the vicinity of | Frank G. Camphell presented a: re Chain Bridge, and. thence, skirting the | port on hehalf of the special commit boundary lines of the District of Co-|tes recommending that a record room lumbia, _ through Montgomery and| he constructed as a wing to the court Prince Georgés counties, Md., to tha|house, and-as a separate project from Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis| the enlarged jail. This report stated Electric Rallway: and also 3 company. | that such a record room was abso or companies, for the development of | jutely essential and could be built for manufacturing and other industrial{$25.000, to be paid for in three .years enterprises along the line of said rail-| by a 5-cent levy. This report met with e T Mnoned tsis ot meifl] s Secirial the, facration. . ane, Pt | b wa r 131 to tl s rilrond extends. both in Virginia and | of Supervisors of th o8 o Whisky Found in Pineapples. HAVANA, September ). Whisky and cognac valued at $100.000 of Supervisors of the county. 1o Maryiand,. tbxough territory espe.| . o 0" s glally_adapted for. and now devoted to, “rexldential purposes, and which g—m;’ fly be injuriousiy af- ected by such -Failroad and indus- trial enterprises: and and intended for shipment into the WOEonat Thovilpeisbut. | United States via Key West were Whereas it has been, and is now, |seized in a carload of pineapples yes. the declared policy of this federation{terday at Rianca, Province of Havana. and of the a civic organiza-| Three farmers were arrested. They tions of this eounty to develop the'said an American owned the liquor.