Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1925, Page 4

PLANS COMPLETED | FOR BOYS' CLUB, New Building to Be Two- Story Brick Structure. Work Soon to Begin. i Announcement was made today by Toward Moran reral chairm of the executive ¢ ugn committee for | he Boys' Club drive for $250,000 for | « new building and equipment and a | two-vear budget of the completion of plans fc building by Clarence L. ifarding, architect. one of the di rectors. The building is to be a two-story hrick structure that will serve the | of thousands of Washington hoys for vears to come. It will occupy the site of the present club, at Third and C streets. k will be begun as soon contracts can be let after the completion of the campaign drive from November 2 to 10, In designing the building Mr. Harding’s aim o give the Capital a model boys' club which even may be copied in many cities of the country. To that end he visited a number_of bo: s in various °d with officis j0vs’ Club Feder He also cons International g Pool Feature. One of the prime features of the | proposed club is the swimming pool in the basement, which is to be 75 feet lurge enough to take care of sands of boys a day, and of suffi cient length to hold champio swimming events during the It will be in use Winter and In the baser 0 will the shops vocatio where the boys will he 1 thing motor mechanics, printing, woodworking and the like. A sepa- yate room in the basement will be re- served for the Boy Scout hiking cham- pionship troop, which has its head quarters at the Boys' Club. The library will be on the first floor and will be arranged to provide shelving facilities for hundreds of hooks. The games and billard room will be on the first floor. It will be equipped with pool tables and other indoor games. Another feature of the first floor will be the anditorium, capa- ble of seating several hundred at a time, where the various shows of the club will be put on und where motion pictures will be shown from time to time. Arrangements will be made so that the auditorium may be parti- tioned o for classrooms when the whole of it i not being used. Group and class rooms and the offices of the club complete the first floor Gyms on Second Floor. The second floor is given over toj mnasiums. The large sym will be by 85 feet, while the smaller is 42 feet, the larger one being of sufficient size for npionship con- while the smaller will be used for the ordinary run of athletic con- tests. The only other rooms on this floor are one for boxing and wrestling contests and the physical director’s offic Full gymnasium equipment wil he provided. i{arding has d ound for the roof. This will be screened in ard will be used in clement weather for such sports as basket ball, indoor base ball, hand ball, tennis and the like. In the Spring nd Summer months it is expected the roof playground will be as much of an attraction as the inclosed gym- nasium. Throughout the building nothing has been wasted in ornamentary ef- fects nor in provision for facilitles that will not be almost constantly in use. Even the entrances to the struc- ture, one on Third street and another Lests, igned a play- on C street; are of the most simple yet effective character. More than 600 boys now take advantage of the facilities of the old club, a ramshackle affair that was formerly a private dwel and the impovised gymnas- in the rear. The new build- g has been designed to take care of up to 3,000 boys from all over the city. It is anticipated that later on small neighborhood clubs may be ated, with the large new club as nucleus for direction of activities that will go far to keep the boys of the city off the streets and realize the of boys' clubs: “Give the 4 chance.” CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The Board of Education will meet | Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., at the Frank- lin School Buliding The St. Gabriel's Club will meet fomorow, 8 p.m., in the basement of St. Gabriel's Church. A smoker will Justice Wendell Stafford will be principal speaker. > O'Connor and Matt Horn are | the committee on arrangements, { follow the meeting Halloween dance Saturday night at the City Club. | treet, class Wednesday, 8 vited. conduct pam. its study Public in- | Vincent B. Costello Post, American | Legion, will meet tomorrow, 8 pan., 1 “boardroom of District Building. “Billy” Mitchell of the post will speak. Mount Pleasant W T. U. will meet Tuesday, 2 pam., at the Friends Church. Miss Laura Lindley will speak Phil Sheridan Woman'’s Relief Corps will have a hox-luncheon party to- morrow night A. R. Hall. After 2 short business ssion, members of the Grand Army, Woman's ‘Relief Corps and friends are invited. : S ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. The Writerseraft Club will meet, 8 oclock, at the Mount Pleasant Library. The 1 York State Society will meet, 8 o'clock, with M . Cleves, 1747 street Reports of committees 1 proposed revision of the constitution and by-laws. A The Y. M. C. hool of Religious Bducation will meet at Calvary Ba tist Church. Classes at 7:30, and 9 o'clock. Page McK. Etchison, director of religious work, will be in charge. of Christ Church, Georgetown, will meet, 8 o'clock, in the parish hall. Annual election of officers and a travel talk by Rev. Alan Hawksworth on “Pre-revolutionary Canton in 1901.” Cigars and refresh- ments. The Men's Cluly ening Club will in the garden house Hotel. The Monday meet, 8 o'clock, of Grace Dodg. ‘The poetry group of the League of American Ben Women will meet, 7:30 uv'clock, at 1709 H street. The class m verse construction conducted by Prof.N. B. Fagin, will meet at 8:45. Mrs. Aaron Newman will be hostess of the evening. Only Thing for Him. From London Tid Bits l Tt was the first quarrel since their marriage, and he was getting the worst of it. “Well, men are fools to marry!” he said at last. “Of course they are,” she answered. _“But what are women to do? There’s oothing else they can marry SENATOR CAPPER FOR $5,000 INCOME EXEMPTION TO ALL (Continued fre sented middle ground between them and the administration Republicans— and was calculated to do so—the re- sult was a compromise built around the Democratic proposition. Further Cuts Permissable. For some time it has been apparent that the condition of the Treasury will permit further substantial tax reduc- tion during the next session of Con gress, and it has been known that President Coolidge and Secretary Mel- lon have been busy calculating how much could be taken off the Iede income tax and how the reduction could be equitably apportioned. Ad- ministration spokesmen have made THE EV MU SOUCHT WA TOOILLTOAPPEAR Weidemeir, Arrested With Woman, Wanted on Many Charges. ted Press. October 19.—John V. rested here a week ago when found in company with Mrs. Leonard Hoffman, pretty wife of a Chicago fur dealer, was lying ill of nervous prostration ‘“somewhere in St. By the Assoch ST. LOU Weidemeir, estimates of the total reduction p L " today Mrs. Hoffman's father, sible and these have averaged $350,- |11 Towns . Loulsan, verified 000,000 this rumor, s: Democratic leaders heartily endorsed It's only il that a man the idea of more tax reduction and |charged with violating the Mann Act some of the administration leaders|aind later informed he i wanted in began 1o believe that a tax-reduction |<everal cities of the United States, program could be pyt through the|Canada ana Europe on charges of next Congress without a political row. [ robbery, conducting confidence games, But some time back. Senator Couzens 1 Republican, who declared in the last ax-reduction fight that Secretary Mel- lon was trying to give too much re lief to the large taxpayers, made a speech agreeing that they ought to have furtherweductions the next time, but declared that no tax should be imposed on those with an income of less than $5,000 ar. This was the first shock to administration leaders. Now Mr. Garner has picked up the ns idea, with some differences. He has worked out a plan to exempt about 3,000,000 taxpavers of moderate from the Federal income tax. 5 it can be done if the national ired in 62 3 instead of as planned by Secretary Mel Garner would increase the exemption to $5.000 for married per sons and to $3.500 for single persons “Politics.” cry some Republicans. “Justice to the great mass of the people,” insist the Democra Mellon Hits Plan. So now Secretury Mellon has deemed it nec to holst storm signals in a letter to Senator Edge of New Jer- sey. Mr. Mellon, in effect, says that the Treasury could not afford a straight )00 exemption for all tax- pavers. This would cost $167,000,000, he estimates. Mr. Garner does not ask a straight $5,000 exemption, it must be noted, but his after Secretary Mellon's letter was written, appears equally unsatisfac- tory to the Treasury Department. The Garner proposition has caused uneasine: 1 administration circles, because it is realized that some mem- bers might be afraid to vote against it. Representative Bacharach of New Jersey, one of the most active Repub- lican members of the ways and means committee, has also declared against the proposition to exempt all incomes up to $5.000, and warns of the danger plan, announced | of reducing taxes o low as to cause a Treasury deficit. He recommended an increase of $1,000 in the exemptions allowed single and married persons, making the exemption for a_single person $2,000 and the exemption for ied person $3.500. He declared a maximum surtax rate on large incomes of 20 per cent, which agrees with_the position of the Secretary of the Treasury, while Garner wishes to make it 25 per cent. Now Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas, chief of the farm block, beliegies that the minimum upon whi® the normal tax is collected should be $5,000. He sa: “I am in favor of adequate surtaxes on great incomes, but not to the ex. tent of crippling business and indus- try. Unnecessary and unreasonable tax burdens upon business nndoubt- edly clog business and drive capital out of productive employment. ‘WouldAid All Classes. “I am in favor of reducing income taxes all along the line. All classes of taxpayers, big and little should participate, share and share alike, in the benefits that will come from the reduced schedule enacted by the com- ing Congress. We can and will cnt taxes at least $350,000,000. I think the highest bracket of the surtax un- questionably can be reduced from 40 per cent to 25 per cent. The normal tax can be reduced from 6 to 4 per cent. I believe that the minimum upon which normal tax is collected should be increased to $5,000. “So long as the war debt lasts, T am in favor of continuing Federal taxation of estates and inheritances, but I think taxes of that class can be automobiles and auto- and all the so- called nuisance should be re. pealed. The corporation tax should be reduced, especially on smaller con- rl] think it highly important Con & < should act favorably and promptly upon the proposed consti tutional amendment intended to stop further issuance of tax-free bonds— Federal, State and municipal. This mobile |is one of the great evils of the pres- RBillions of wealth is escap- ing the payment of its just proportion of the country’s tax burden, and there- ing taxation on lands, live mercantile stocks, manufac- and all other tangible prop- ent time. stock, turers [ erty.” Shows Liberal View. This statement by Senator Capper shows that the liheral wing of the Republicans in Congress is liable to look very favorably upon the $5,000 exemption opposed by Secretary Mellon. Senator Frank B. Willis, Republi- can, of Ohio, also commented today on the taxrevision plans, saying: “In my judgment Congress will be able to reduce taxes in the forthcom- ing Congress about $375,000,000 per num,” and he suggests as a slogan A million dollars a day of taxes cut away.” He believes that “this re- duction should come by general re- duction of taxes and by cutting the surtaxes in half. Experience has shown that the surtaxes defeat their own object. They injure business by driving capital into hiding, and the Government does not get the tax it Indeed, the re- he com- if a lower is supposed to_get. turns to the Governmen ments, “would be larger rate were charged than at the present time.” Here are some terse opinions of ivé John N. Tillman, Democrat, Arkansas, ‘‘Congress should reduce taxes half billion dollars.” Senator Kenneth McKellar, Demo- crat, Tennessee—"Congtess should go the limit in reducing taxes at the next session.” : Senator Cole L. Blease, Democrat, outh Carolina—*"Congress should go the limit." Senator Morris Sheppard, Democrat, Texas—'‘Congress should go as far as the Government’s legitimate needs per- mit.” Representative Anning S. Prall, Democrat, New York—"The people are weary paying taxes and Congress should reduce, and reduce, and reduce until it hurts.” | No one has yet come forward to say that taxes should not be reduced. Prices realized on Swift & Company sales of carcaes beef in Washington, D. for week ending Saturday. October 17, 1 "B 0 Wita Bt Houed and sveresd n X 8755 ‘Cents ber pound.—Advertisement. More sugar is consumed in this country than in the rest of the world, using one-fourth of that raised on the globe each year. L} and breaking parole, should be ners ous his police said, explained his fail- to appear last Friday at the hear- ur ing on his $5,000 fugitive from justice bond before Circuit Judge Mil Declaring Weidemeir till in town but I don't know his exact whereabouts,” Towns refused to com- ment on a report that efforts were afoot to q h the Mann Act charges If the_charge is dropped here, how ever, Weidemeir will be removed to go to answer to a swindling received from ker authorize the return of one rthur Fred Brooks™ to Chicago, but St. Louis police stated *“Brooks" is one of several aliases used by Weid- emeir. He is wanted for questioning at New York in regard to a $80,000 jewelry theft from Mrs. Rose Burken of that city, who said she knew him as “Robert Whiteman.” Weidemeir was also said to be wanted in Toronto, Canada, Washing- London, Paris and Belgium charges. papers Jumper Wounded by Hunter Fol- lowing Trail. . H., October 19 (P .— n, nationally known ski jumper, was shot yesterday by & hunter who mistook him for a deer. The bullet entered Anderson's jaw, and physicians last night said the wound might prove fatal. Horace Richards of Berlin, hunt- ing in the woods near here, had wounded a deer earlier in the day and was following its rtail when he heard a rustling of leaves in a thicket and fired. Instead of the deer, he found Anderson, seriously wounded. BERLIN, Erling Ander HONOR STRAUS§’ MEMORY Vienna's Tribute to Author “Beautiful Blue Danube.” VIENNA, October 19 (#).—Vienna yesterday paid tribute to the man who wrote the “Beautiful Blue Danube" waltz. With solemn ceremonies a tablet was unveiled on the house in which Johann Strauss, the ‘“‘waltz king,” was born October 25, 1825. The unveiling started a week of elaborate ceremonies to culminate in a gala observance of the centenary of the composer's birth next Sunday. of AUTO UPSET KILLS ONE.- Six Others Injured on Road From Norfolk to Petersburg, Va. NORFOLK, Va., October 19 (#).— Morris Fine, Berkley hardware mer- chant, was Killed, and his wife, daughter and four other Norfolk per- sons were injured when the automo- bile driven by the first named turned turtle on the road between Norfolk and Petersburg vesterday. Morrls Golberg suffered a_broken arm, and his wife and Mr. and Mrs. L. Kanter were cut and bruised, but all are expected to recover. 7 PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H S8T. N. W. Day Pharmacy 14th & P Sts. N.W. 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A price of $5,000 was set upon the heads of the Amer- icans and a warning issued that they would be executed summarily if cap- no tured. A few days later the camp of the American aviators at Ouez- zan was reported to have been fired upon by Riffians slipping through the lines disguised. Ladies and gentle- men of the family of Capt. Lansing C. Holden of New York, members of a party from France to Morocco, were shot at from the bush, escap- ing when Americans with revolvers drove the Riffians off. The American unit has now bombed the Riffians almost daily since late in August. Upon one occasion, the aviators bombed 85 villages within 24 hours, according to Paris dispatches from Morocco. During five days some- what earlier than this they dropped, according to the Associated Press, 9 tons of explosives, wiping out villages on the Aburdour River and “reducing scores of farms to blackened heaps of ashes.” Paris dispatches to the United States only a few days ago reported that an American cap- tain, Reginald H. Weller, son of a Methodist bishop of Fond du Lac, Wis., had bombed, on September 28, the native market of Souk-el-Thine, “killing 93 Riffan allled soldiers and Jews (including a caid (chieftain) well known for his hatred of the French.” Protests Increase. It was not long after the Ameri- cans started thelr bombing actiVities that signs of disapproval from other American citizens began to manifest themselves. Numerous letters ap- peared in American newspapers pro- testing unofficially against the avi- ators’ emphasis of their nationality. United States Senators received tele. grams asking what the State Depart- ment thought of the expedition. | Americans returning from travel in Morocco pointed out the unprece- dented irregularity of the status of the unit. The State Department could not restrain the men legally, for they had violated no statute. The department did, however, warn the men against possible violation by re- | questing its agent in Tangier to note NDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1925, two United States statutes referring to citizens who enlist in foreign wars and permitting a public statement to that, effect. Following this, public protests grew in. number, and eventually the news reached Paris of what was resulting from the activities of the Americans, who had been acquired “in order that they might inform their compatriots of the exact conditions in Morocco, with which they will have the oppor- tunity to familiarize themselves thor- oughly.” (M. Franklin Bouillon’s pub. lic statement July 15, when the esca- drille was organized.) Activities to End Suddenly, on October 12, an official French mflitary communique was {s- sued at Fez, Morocco: “The American escadrille is now reaching the end of its activities. Its members have shown themselves worthy of their great repu- | tations.” No further official statements a forthcoming. Lieut. Col. Charles W. Kerwood, who has recently appeared in Paris as a liaison officer between the unit and the French war office, has announced that he has arranged for a leave of absence for the entire unit on November 15 until the resump- tion of its campaign against the Riffs { n January. In the opin matic observer. will not return an squadron (Conyright. 1 m of experienced diplo however, the bombers o the RIff as an Amer- 5. by North A paver Alliance.) an Newe- ol———lole——|o|c—————=[o]c—=[0] FOR SALE This Charming Home 1869 California Street N.W. 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