Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1926, Page 4

HOW MUCH TAXES SHOULD WE PAY FOR 1927 BUDGET? Are Not Our Property Tax| Twenty Millions and Per Capita $43.21 High Enough? MUST WE INCREASE OUR $1.70 TAX RATE? Fditorial Co measured by tax rate. 1s lower than the nominal tax rates of nearly all of the cities with which it is compared, {ts readjusted tax rate, which results when the confessions or reports of the relation of assessed to true value are figured in the calcula- tion stands well when compared with similar readjusted rates of other cities. It is further demonstrated that when the Statd tax rate is deducted from | the total tax rate, as it should be, in {comparisons of those of other cities |with Washington, that city mounts in the list, and that when the centage of the tax rate applied to {the payment of interest on indebted. s it should be) from Washington rises ness is deducted L figures, ment cities in tax burden as [Do not be appalled or repelled by the many smalltype fizures in the stical table. Read first the analy- of and the comment upon the table n the text, and then, armed with pa- tience, perseverance, and, if neces- sary, a magnifying glass, refer to the figures of the table for verification and strengthening of the conclusions reached in the text.] Cities “of high tax rate and low rato BY THEODOR ARTICLE 1L The District is now bearing in com- parison with other cities an adequate | n and in view of its high t and of fullness of on and the peculiar disabilif wvnder which it labors. pertinent estion of the extravagant | taxation in to 1922 have Washi e on's in- in percentage of the other point has now tho A cities w ge econom; ed. Between 192 n's 1y tax Lonis, . per Baltimort per cont; Provi- ouisville, 15.8 Peoria de- prope in creased nt nt Newark, i Paul, per cent per cent e 0.2 per o from owing to extraor decreased Lotween | s 52.2 per cent the fiscal yea inston’s tax per 1 an increase « ins the two yes Detween 1826 Wash s This extr local ta 1 during X rates of other cities, | ne at a ation to a the most | den, impos: hen t 1y, a period collecti standstill, have vy s on's al- | ind should i 1 of us, Con- vital tax burden in-| conditions ean | necess balting further creases until the new be thoughtfully studied. ng 192 local Tax-rate Figures. es available for ta: are those of enmpiled Detroit Bure Governmental Research and printed in | the December, 1925, number of the | National M Iteview. To make luble atement of the tax rates and burdens in cities having over population this Bureau has compiled a tabulation | s the actual tax rates for the adj rates upon @ basis of a uniform as- 100 per a appro. urdens, when con- the reported re- sed to true value these tables we will com < tax rate with those small tax_rate ents, like Ohio, North 1l of cities in States nd low assessments, outh Carolina, we will compare rates of these cities when all gon the full 100 per cent valua- then we will compare them ents or admissions of to the relation of true to e taken into account. totul readjusted 1ct in all cases te purposes and x rate applied t on indebt- rate comparisons ipa a current s al act 1 | when ity offici from th e will dec ate for Nt (1) the tax the pe of t. edness These comparisons will show that while W ton’s nominal tax rate | legal ratio is ILLINOTS 2. Chicago . Peoriy . Rockford . East St . Cicero. [ Oak Park . De | Eva: Joli Aurora Rock . Mo 2 TEMAS San Antonio .. Louis Rapids quie it catit” ) Colo edar Cities of low tax rate and h Total tox rate f; assessment, vit county. school GHIO. dist Younestown Cantan Norfolk . Portsmouth {legal ratio, .60) legal ratit srleston. -Salem gton, D. 7.00 two tax of different ities begin to compare tax burdens the impulse is almost irresistible to match these nominal tax rates as set forth in the first column of the table, as if the tax rate were the equivalent of the tax burden. On the assumption and tax burden are that tax rate nonymous & Of | startlimg proclamation is made by the ! figures of our table, which declure tk whereas Oak Park, Ill., pays $116. nd of tax rate; Charleston, | . and Chicago, . Tex., pays only ., $43.50, and 111, $84: $45.15; E1 Beaumont, celand pays only $21.90; Cincin- $18.92; Toledo, Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio, $2 Winston-Salem, Washington, $17. Reduced to Absurdity. Who believes that the Illinois tax: payers the Tex taxp: Texas taxpayers are t avily as the Ohio ers; and that the Chicago taxpayer is taxed five times as heavily as the North Carolina and District of Columbia tax payers? The accuracy of the comparisons is not any mg convincing when the taken into account and all of the rates are puton the 100 per cent basis. Who believes that the Illinois citles of Chicago (84 nominal rate; 42 on 100 basis), East St. Louls (90.30; 47.50), Oak Park & Decatur (94.40; 700, (108.20; 54.10) and Joliet 80; 51.40) are taxed twice as heav- s the Texas cities, San Antonio 5), Dallas (40 20), Houston 2! . Fort Worth (42.10; 21.05) Sl Paso (43.50; )? Less Accuracy Not More Taxes. Every one understands that the dif- ference is not between the actual weight of the respective tax burdens of the Illinoisan and the Texan, but between the degree of accuracv with which the Texan and the Illinoisan officials have approximated in their $16.50, and and that the ed twice as to the top of the list of high | Total tax for e taxed twice as heavily as| | statements the actual percentage re- lation of assessed to true value of taxables, the Texan being about twice as accurate in his estimate or admis- slon in this respect as the Illinoisan. But since the nominal tax rates, though twice ax high for the Illinoisan as for the Texan, do not prove that the tax burden of the Illinoisan is twice as heavy as that of the Texan, or hea in any percentage what- er, so the fact that the nominal tax rate of the Texan is about twice as high as that of the Ohloan and the Washingtonian does not prove that the Texan is bearing a heavier tax burden by any percentage whatever. The same lesson is taught when we compare the nominal tax rates of the 1ilinois and Ohio cities Who believes that such 1Hlinois cities as Chicago (84 nominalorate; 42 on 100 per cent basis), Jast St. Louis (90.30; 45.15), Joliet (102, (108.20; Oak Park (116.70; 58.45) are taxed either twice as heavily or four or five times as heavily such Ohio cities as Cleveland Cincinnati (18.92), Toledo (21) and Co- lumbus (20.30 [Table 1.] Adjusted assessment: tax Estimated rate to uni- ~ratio of form 100% assessed Final re- hasis 0 value to adjusted assessment. legul basis. tax rate. 42.00 76 81.50 100 3 50 100 0 100 100 100 100 Estimated ratio of asspssed valie to legal basls. 85 Adiusted tax Fate to uniform 10077 ba Jf assosam Final re- adiusted ‘21100 per cent of true val V1701 160 | Preposterous Results, If payment of a nominal cent tax rate in the home town me: as sometimes alleged, that the Con- gressman is paying twice asimuch tax as the Washingtonian, then the § to 11 per cent nominal tax rate cities ir | our table, applying the same standar of measurement, are paying two to | three times as much taxes as the 3!y | per cent tax rate cities, which nobody for a moment believes. Even after notic { 31 s been taken of the fact that a s s, commanded by the law to a s at a 100 per cent valuation, admit that they assess only from 20 to 90 per cent of full value, and after these admissions have been practically applied to readjust the com- parative tax rates, as is done in our table, discrepancies still remain, which indicate that the Jow assessment cities, in admttting some percentage of under- assossments, have not admitted the full extent of these divergencles from the full valuation commanded by the law. Readjusted Tax Rates. Inspection of the column of read- justed tax rates in our table shows that while the cities of low tax rates and high assessments are reasonably close tozether in revised rates, with high tax rates and low still retain, though in re- duced degree, their claim to be more heavily tax-burdened. But who believes that the Chicago- ite, with final adjusted tax rate of 31.50, is taxed nearly three times as heavily as the Houstonite (11.20) and the taxpaver of East St. Louls, Il (45.15) over four times as much as the Houstonite? Who believes that Winston-Salem, N. C. (12.38), is really taxed much less than one-half as much as Jackson- | | ville, Fla. (20.76), and Charleston, S. (31.10)? Florida and North Carolina are rival Winter resorts. Who would yleld to the Florida real estate boom and buy city lots in that State if he believed that he would be twice as heavily tax- burdened as if he bought at Asheville or in any North Carolina city? Who in Cincinnati or Cleveland or Washington or Providence or Rich- mond would buy Florida city lots if he believed that his Florida tax bur- LOUISVILLE IS MARRED BY BELT LINE RAILWAYS; COSTING CITY MILLIONS (Continued from First Page.) ed for extension of streets, water mains, sewer connections, new trunk sewers, police and fire protection, elec- tric power line extensions, new alleys, | sidewalk and street lighting systems, which is proving a hardship on all s departments and the private utili- 1t has been found difficult to pro- e money for some of the improve- nts. Some residential sections near rallroads were practically abandoned. Travél Is Hindered. The idea of the homeseeker now is to get far enough beyond the grime and dirt of the belt ling railroad area to be free of it entirely. In the older sec- tion of the city, the railroad belt lines have been so constructed that they lave cut off main arteries of travel ind this results in detours being made {0 the newer residential sections. This throws an unusual traffic on the few through streets and has reached the point now where widening of streets must ha e to be resorted to in order to furnish relief. Louisville's belt lines are roughly in the form of & figure 8. Inside these two circles are few sections fit for good residential areas, and these are being threatened by the expansion of tries. The railroads are practi- | at grade, and the economical of time and the danger of con- flagration due to the stoppage of traf- fic at these crossings became such a worry that the electorate voted $5,000,- 000 worth of bonds to eliminate this added nuisance. Fight Over Grade Crossings. To this sum the railroads have con- sented to add about $9,500,000 to elimi- mate grade crossings at main arteries alone. Officials of the city thought that the greater part of the job had been accomplished. This, they have learned after 14 months of wrangling, was far from the case. Owners of pri- vate property have intervened to de- mand damages, because of the lower- ing of streets or for raised structures alongside their plants or property, and the whole matter still Is in a state of chaos with conditions at grade crossings becoming daily more of a menace and & problem, Hecent checks of delays at one principal crossing by the local rail- way company show that cars have been halted by trains at one crossing alone for more than six hours a week and no delay under five minutes was recorded in the check. Railroad traf- fic, as well as all other traffic, has been growing by leaps and bounds. Huge Economic Loss. In a survey for the grade-crossing abolition scheme of 1924 the en- gineers found a huge economic loss resulting from delays at grade cross- ings. For 14 principal _crossings alone out of 100 or more the annual loss was capitalized by the engineers and estimated at $2,857,000, of which only $708,000 was the capitalized wages of gatemen. A crossing that a few ars ago was a lonely boulevard over which traveled a few persons on sightsce- ing trips developed into the worst in Louisville from a hazard standpoint. A check by the engincers,showed that 128 tralns and 12,178 vehicles now pass it daily. The total delay per day due to passing trains is 2,440 minutes. Merchants Damaged. Recent tests of air in the down- town section of Louisville show that its air is fourth in volume of dust. The test was made by a company in- stalling air-cleansing apparatus, and was part of & national test. One of the reasons for this high dust con- tent—and it means soot, outpourings of blast furnaces, exhaust fans, street dirt, ete.—was ascribed to the circle of industries around the main part of the city, due primarily to the belt lines without which there would be no Industries. Industrial plants have invested mil- lions of dollars in the last few years to remedy this condition. One firm alone has appropriated $60,000 to ex- periment in a cinder catcher to pre- vent sults for damages threatened by merchants whose stocks of goods suf fered from the flying cinders. Esti- mates made by the Louisville Retail Merchants' Association placed the an- nual damage from soot at $1,500,000. Mr. Jenkins said that the industrial value gained in Bome sections of the city by belt lines or extensions of the lines have beeen offset by the losses due to the consequent lowering of the value of residential property. Mr. Jenkins' views of the situation are supported by other Louisville folk. While the belt line made Louisville a business center, Mr. Jenkins sald, and | promises to make it oue, of the best| [} industrial cities of the South, it has brought tremendous problems which will take many years and millions of dollars to correct. He said a belt line &t Washington would be nothing short of a sacrilege. If there is any reason for construct- ing new lines in Louisville all effort will be made to place them so far beyond residential sections that they never will cause nulsances. COURTNEY ACTON BURIED. Funeral Services Conducted for Alexandria Jeweler. Funeral services for Courtney Ac- ton, 53 years old, of 1639 Hobart street, who died in Emergency Hos- pital Saturday, were conducted at the residence yesterday afternoon. Inter- ment was in St. Paul's Cemetery, Alexandria, Va., with Masonic rites at the grave. Mr. Acton had been in the jewelry business _in Alexandria for many years. He leaves his widow and a brother. The latter was with him in the jewelry business. ety Greece has purchased from French interests the Greek section of the Sa- loniki-Monaster Railway. | othe the | NGTON, D. den would be approximately twice as much as it was at home? Of course, the discrepancy is not in the weight of actual tax burdens, but in the failure of the high taux rate citics to admit the full degree of their underassessment of taxables. .But the degree of readjustment of tax rates attained in our statistical table to cause them to approximate accuri as standards of measuring compara- tive tax burdens suffices to enable us to compare the actual tax burdens of fes of low tax rates and high uents Washington's Comparative Tax Burde fes in the table of vities asse Of all the « with low tax except Winston-S 3 r allest tux te and in the tax rate after it en adjusted on the 100 per cent b ut when the reported relation of assessed to true value comes to be applied, only 7 cities have a larger tax rate than Washington's 17; Cleveland, 18.62; Cin- cinnati, 17.03; Lakewood. Ohio, Lima, Ohio, 19.6 1., 20.10; St. Louis, Mo., Ga, 17.05, apd cities have | smaller tax ranging from Little | Rock, Ark., to Akron, Ohio, | 16.80. Comparing adjusted tax rates, Washington's rate (17) is lower than | four of the Ohle cities and higher than | eight. Comparing ted rates, Washington's rate s more than those | of six of the seven Virginia cities, and | is more than that of Providence, R. L: Atlanta, Ga.; Birmingham, Ala.: Little Rock, Ark., and Whecling and Charleston, Vi, and Winston lem, N. € Is not Washington's readjusted tax rate (17) high enough when it is higher than the averaze of all Ohio all but one of (he hier than one-half of | llu; West ' N W st o Rhode d North Ca e less than In the Municipal | Washington is credited with dred per cent relation of asses true value. Many other cities thus credited. This one hundred peér cent, or full valuation ratingz, is rela- tive, not absolute. It implies that Washington' sessment appros | mates as closely to one hundred per {cent of true value as the lower per- centage relations reported in respect to some other cities approximate the lirue percentage relation. that | relatively to other cities Washington | {is accurately credited with full assess ment valuation, But, in fact, there anywhere an assessment that is ue. So in ex- ress of precaution to avoid the slight-| t suspicion of unfairness® to any | city let us for the moment be | r to Washington by applying for | of this comparison a | stment to its e no such thing un the | doubie figures. In 1924 the Census Bur decennial report of wealth, deht ation in the United tax 1 made its and | the Census 2 reentage of sessments | report is based, studied thoroughly the y true value represented in the S ing the District of | Columbia. In this com on the Dis trict is placed at the head of the list with a relation of assessed to true value (of realty) of 90.8. | If we apply this official Washington's 17 tax rate, readjusted tax rate of Let us compare this reduced, with the re of the other low taxrate cities suming as a certainty in these ¢ lations that while the true percentage | relation of assessed to full value may | be less than that reported in respect to | it will never he more. With | Washington at the i1 rate, seven-| teen of the twenty-eight low tax-rate and high-assessment cities have higher | tax rates a~d eleven lower. Four of the higher rate cities are less than 16 and are only a few cents higher than Washington. To show how closely these low tax- rate cities are grouped, analysis of the figures shows that the tax rates in five cities are less than 14, four are be- tween 14 and 15, seven are between | 15 and 16 (including, at 15.44, Wash- ington’'s doubly readjusted rate), six between 16 and 17 (including, at 17, Washington's Municipal Review rat ing), two between 17 and 18 and five ubove 18. Tax rates amre not high in propor- tion to population. The small cities furnish the highest as well as the lowest tax rates. The city of highest rate in our table is Lakewood, Ohio (148th among the 215 cities compared), 20.60. The smallest tax rate, 10.32, is that of Little Rock, Ark. (104th city), which is larger than Lakewood, Thus even with its specially re- duced tax rate Washington stands fairly well among the low tax-rate citles, and when the State percentage of tax rate or the percentage applied to payment of interest has been de- ducted (as they both should be) the excess in rates of most of the low tax- rate cities over Washington disap- pears. PHONE FIRM OBJECTS TO ELECTRIC RAILWAY Declares Virginian’s Plan Will In- terfers With Toll Lines Paralleling Tracks. By the Associated Pres CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 23. —The United States District Court here i{s asked in a bill of complaint filed yesterday by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of West Vir- ginia _and the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. to restrain the Virginian Raflway Co. from follow- ing its proposed method of electrifica- tion of its line from Mullens, W, Va., to Roanoke, Va. The telephone com- panies charge the proposed electrifica- tion will destroy for telephone pur- poses certain toll lines paralleling the right of way of the rallway company. W. T. Williamson, vice president of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Co., declared the electrification can be carried out in such a manner as not to interfere with the telephone service. to Ny | ate L dot 4 resul rate, specially | 1djusted tax —_— Two forelgn automobile plants have been opened in Great Britain recently. €., TUESDAY. COMMUNITY CHEST PLAN DISFAVORED “Open Secret” Announced as | Fact at Charities Meeting. Officers Re-Elected. Au adwmitted “open secret” the al agencies of was brought out last nigh nual meeting of the Associated Ch; ities, when Dorsey W. Hyde, jr., pre dent of the Monday Lvening Club, nounced that the committee of repr sentative cttizens Aippointed by Com missioner Rudolph to study the f bility of a community ck ington had decided ag; posal for the present. Discussing the subject matter of the committee report, which has not been made public by Commissioner Rudolph, Mr. Hyde called upon the social agencies not to close their minds to the community chest even though the committee cided the chest would not he fe for the present. Washington t at the 15t th id ad de. sible Allen T. Burns Speaks. Discussion of the community chest idea pervaded the evening's progi with Allen T. Burns of New executive director of the Am Association of Community ¢ tions, delivering the princiy dress. He outlined the dar of the chest, but no advocate it for explaini that for this wWas ded by the city itself subject wi lssentials of u munity - Sociml Work Officers and members of the nianagers for the ens lected as follows: dent. Cunc Rudoiph: vice w dent, Col Thom: treasu John Joy Edson. and as urer, Fred M. Berth Members of the he for threeyear terms: Mrs. Anne Arch- hold, Col. Archibald lopkins, Cole man Jennings, Dr. George M. Kober, eland Perkins, Duncan Phillly ers and i he Wash adoption 11 henefits wonld inzton chest o be de ter Hi Com yeur Ord Preston, Cuno H. Rudolph, Miss | Florence 1. Spofford, Dr. Anson Pheips Stokes, Winslow vanter and Henry White. Nominations Group Named. The committee on nominations, pointed by Coleman Jennings, man of the board, who presided, con- sisted of Ernest L. Chanev, Le Grand Powers and Mrs. A. J. Iway Mr. Jennings, discussing the fun tlon of the Associated C working for “family wellbeing, that the name had become nomer and that considerution had been given to a change. No definite action had been taken d, bt lled attention to the chi @ Philadelphia organiz mily Society."” Mr. Burns to lined the esse a community program us chie quate methods, adequate resourc more unified objective, to obviate u necessary wastes and overlapping of effort, and adequate understanding on the part of the whole community of the ohjectives. Competition Held Deadly. npetition in citie: Burns d i as structive and deadly,” and expressed concern for the ultimate results of a campaign in New York City to elim- ite the “worthless giving.” which, id, had reported as costing $10,000,000 and the ntry '$100,000,6 Community chests generally, Mr. rns reported, had increased the contribution to social work from 30 to 200 per cent Although emphasizing his attitude of not attempting to force a chest on Washington, Mr. Burns characterized the methods in use here as similar to Jther cities, where they were “‘hetero- neous and chaotic,” instead of being meerted.”” One of the principal things to con- sider in developing any concerted move, however, Mr. Burns sald, was to keep alive the Interest of the con- tituency in each organization. This was being done in Cincinnati, where under a chest system, he explains, per cent of the giving was desig- nated to special agencies, and all general givers were allotted to some Specific part of the city’s social pro- gram. Fallure to designate, he sald, might lose interest of the constitu- ency and eventually spell failure for the chest. Many Plans Used. Surveys of several citles through- out the country, Mr. Burns said, had disclosed the t that there was a great varlety of systems in vogue, and that some cities were “not on a balanced ration for soclal work." early every city, he said, had its funds, b awmong | for Wash- | the pro- | yet |° board | Presi- | made | MARCH 23, 1926 By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March to pay their alimony would L at some occupation which wou not interfere with union labor and th wages they earn their wive being drafted by Superior Judge J -ph Sabbath is enacted into law. Announcement of the judge’s vesterday disrupted the Alimony Clv 1 of the count who than to support their e and families ceptibly reduce its membeiship. of 3 1d e would be given tol and children, if a bill now o- bill 1 Jail, composed of men ve chosen imprisonment rather anged wives d threatened ty per- 0. i fen who fail | is formul put to Judge Is Preparing Law Which Dooms Formation of “Alimony Clubs” in Jails| Sabbath said, « for the sake of children not supported their fathers than for the wives. He pointed to numerous examples of chil dren being tn want while tneir fathers are being fed at public ex- pense, Announcement Judge Sabbath sured would port, dod, The new the bl iid he had been ve legislative sup. ay when an alimony him decla don’t want a job if 1 have to pay my wife part of my salary. 1'd rather stick right where 1 am, in juil” He got his wish, of its neglected be family care, building or othel 1 program, he city with' such m than leavir neglected ald, vorites and whether they pitals, character A proper all-round would present a | better s Prog unde and he ¥ of its part In considering for Washington, the speaker warne a one of the principal questions to be | fields,” hos- s, 14 N fields. | s Ligger than a community chest | d, considered would be whether the va- rious agencies would be “self-effacing’ |and unselfish enough to only in their collections campaig pooling their lists of but, more vital would be willing to submit to the a thority of a central body, which wou merge not n, contributors, still, Swhether they u- 1d te from the chest and per- hiny back the strong for ti suke o®the weak. 5. Ufford seiated Charities, pr t if Washington had a “social e gineer” to go into the problem alor lines lald down by Mr. Burns th ms no doubt would lead to hat in Washington steful und Must Consider Health. ay {not sy to neglected families they shall remain neglec |is an uneven strain fn Washingto ve to admit the charge of ul businesslike methods. is aroused to the need of a mo | we pared to surrender what we have.” Mr | e budget, exclusive of Summer nd_Christmas opportunity funds e general secretary cted n e a of- unbusiness- u cannot turn down the health i - hn’uhlnm.‘ he said, however: “you can- that | There | n. n- tut until this | re | Ufford annbunced that his or- | ganization was in the midst of a cam- B. Van De-| paign for $59.000 to complete its camp “We must have more money for so: we must cut out waste, and 1 ho that some day tem whereb; can cut down id tear on executives.” orts were made by M ctor of family as to families rehabilitated, some them without loan or presentation funds, y Mrs. Laura activiti the mmer Camp Pleasant. COL. D. L. STONE HERE t mp Will Succeed Gen. B. Cheatham as Assistant to Mac- Nider in War Department. Col. comn ferson Barr: David L. Stone, recently duty as executive ant S v MacNider. vacancy tion of Gen. Col. B. Frank Cheatham. graduated from the lemy fn 1898, 1s0 has served detaf Staff Corps, the a jutant general’ Quartermaster Corps. later in the 2d Army. awarded the Distinguished Servi in the advance to the Ourcq River 1818. in the regular July, 1920. establishment Who Steal Mine Fund. lars stolen in Placeritas Mine, 30 mil west of Hermosillo, Mexico, says tendent of the mine. 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F., part of the time in the 3d Division and He was ice Medal for exceptionally meritorious services, particularly during the en- gagements near Chateau-Thierry and in He has held the rank of colonel since NOGALES, Ariz, March 23 (P).— Two Mexicans were killed and a pay roll amounting to several thousand dn?- es a message received by the United States Herald from W. J. Mitchell, superin- Blue Shine- Not SUITS Our stock is so complete at this time that we can satis- factorily fit every type of man—tall, short, stout, long stout and short stout. Hand- tailored throughout and lined with silk guaranteed for sat- isfactory service. 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Du near Gazelle, Calif., declined to com- ment. His son is with him. DEPOSED BISHOP'S PLEA co ne erati of Carmel, verification f 4 come to . PROTESTED IN COURT| Episcopal Church Treasurer. Sum- moned in Case, Asserts Dr. Brown “Named Wrong Defendant.™ By th ociated Preds, NEW YORK. March 23 —An effort was made in Supreme Court yest day to show that former Bishop Wil liam Montgomery Brown named the wrong defendant in asking the courts to restrain the Protestant Llpiscop Church in the United State from posing him. William W, Skiddy who. “treasurer for the Protestant copal Church in the United was served with # summor I | Bishop Brown's appiication junction, filed a reque service of summons set ing that he Is not treasurer of the | | ehurch. He sald the church such officer, and, moreover, owns no property, makes no contracts, nd incurs no labilitles. It is solely a religlous _association, he contended, and the power of ite presiding Lishop is spiritual, but dees not include the posvers of business executive. The church, he sald, has no power to depose any bishop. that authority being vested solely in the bishops themselves. Mr. Skiddy also asked that a tem. | porary stay granted Bishop Brown by Justice Nathan Bijur be withdrawn. Bishop Brown's application {s on the Supreme Court calendar for 2 hearing Thursday. Government printing presses at Tananarive, capital of Madagascar, have been placed in charge of an Irishman. % by | which | as-| ed: | home to Mrs, | 1 | MACREADY FLIGHT * SHORT OF RECORD Barograph, Calibrated Here. Shows He Missed French- man’s Altitude Mark. : The lautest of the determined st Lieut. John A. Macre {eran Army Air Service altitude pilot to wrest the world record for altitude | from Lieut. Jean Callizo, French re serve aviator, has ended in failure. i | fact, Lieut. Macready did not surpass the official American record he mis Januar The Bureau of Standards calibration of the burograph carr Lieut. Macready on his tight I ton, Ohlo, March 13, and made publi | today by the War artment, show- that the American 1 reached altitude of 37,579 feet. The Frenci ‘s mark is 3955 feet and Ma ‘s record of Jan hict still stands for America, is 35.704. In order to be recognized as the holder of the official altitude recor: Lieut. Macre; would have had t. reach 100 meters, or 300 feet, in ous t. Callizo’s peak, under the the Federation Aeronautique | Internationale, 4 governins rift was seen in | *1to the saus hurean aiso he | the une | graph, | would e Lieut. Cal toher 10, 1624, » with a Gourdou-L Suiza 3, of Ui March Atior wrd Wik e motor of 300 ady fle power Liberty charger. Lieut. dy scheduled duty in ma_beginning July and as far as could be learned toda he will make another atterapt bef | leaving McCook Field, if the weat conditions permit. If he still i able to beat Lieut. Callizo's mark task will be turned over to some o Army pilot after the former world record holder tukes up his new dutie engine WAR ON FRAUD CHECKS. roused by the NUMErous arrests « se engaged in flaunting worthlese throughout the city, officials the Police Court have planned « stringent campaign to break up t! prevailing epidemic of law violators of this nature. Butterfield, charged with five counts of passing bad checks one of the transactions, pleaded guilt: | before J John P. McMahon, and was given a straight jail sentence of 180 days each on two of the counts 150 days in default on On the | grand jury charge he was held on a bond of §2,000. According to the evidence of Head quarters Detectives Pat O'Brien, ( Trammell, J. H. Fowler and R Livingstone, Butterfield passed worth.- less checks ranging from $16 to §90 {on various coal dealers, stores and | real estate firms. Recently James . Smith, charged with 11 s of violating the check law, was sentenced to three years and a half by Judge MecMaho placket neck KRR R R R IR X R R IR IR R X R F R IR IR IR FXER IR LRI AERER S N Eiiiiiiiiiiiiifi 1 'For Mademoiselle $35 The two-piece frock sketched is of a lustrous new silk crepe—a rich, rose ground with large flower prints. High and tie, and skirt with kick pleat front. (Third Fleor.) The Hecht Co. . F Street