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18 §920, 000,000 N TAX CLAIMS PENDING Deficiencies Charged Against Payers Cited in Survey by Treasury. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Probably the most disinterested and non-partisan survey of the subject of fncome tax administration has just been submitted to the joint committee of Congress on internal revenue by the Treasury Department. From the survey it is learned that approximately $550,000,000 is cl against taxpayers as deficien their pavments—more than enot it all of it was recovered, to take c of a year's cut in taxation for e bodv. But the Government will not re cover it all_in fact only about 50 per +eent of the deficiency claims have been gustaingd in cases involving amounts of $10,000 or more. The Treasury Department discloses time since the the auditing work is up to date with current returns and that a negligible number of old cases await action, most of them being reopened by taxpayers claiming refunds. 19,000 Cases Pending. More than 19,000 cases are pending beiore the board of tax appeals and are being disposed of at the rate ot 200 ® month. Perhaps the biggest problem ©f all which the Internal Revenue faces is the turnover in personnel. The report says there are only 11 attorneys in the office of the general counsel who have served more than six years and that since July, 1924, 52 rneye have resigned from the | I counsel's office while 4.72 igna fessional and tech- | nical officials have occurred during the Jast seven years. Many individuals regard thel Internal Revenue Bures Bs a training school for private work in_their_profession. The Treasury survey enumerates some of the difficulties as follows: “The Government is handicapped in Jitigation. It can well afford to settle many more cases without resort to litigation. Cases must be closed fairly and finally by the Bureau. The shifting of responsibility to the gen- eral counsel's office and to the board | &nd the constant reopening of cas: i ® result of decisions of the court or the board of tax appeals or a change §n regulation should be brought to an end.” Personnel Biggest Problem. The major problem is declared to! be personnel. The principal difficulty | 3s that the salary limitations and other restrictions surrounding the engaging of experts as well as their retention makes it hard to train or keep per- sonnel thus resulting ultimately in a greater loss to the Government than would be the case if flexibility in sal- aries were allowed. Finally the sur- wey concludes with the observation that there must be some method by which the practice of constantly re- working cases, after a fair and satis- factory decision of one or more of the issues involved have been reached, may be stopped. The purpose of the report is to guide Congress in making constructive changes in the adminis- trative provisions of the income tax laws which are expected to be re- vised at the session beginning in De- cember. On the occasion of the fram- ing of the last revenue act both the Democrats and Republicans were able to agree on the administrative sec- tions making it really a non-partisan affair. An effort is being made to get & unanimous report from the joint committee so as to be able to bring ebout non-partison consideration and approval again of the administrative sections. (Copyright. 1927.) CHICAGOANS TO SPEAK BEFORE CITIZENS’ LEAGUE Assistant Attorney General and Col. Robbins to Address Serv- ice Group November 13. Assistant Attorney General M. B Parmenter and Col. Raymond Rob. bins of Chicago will be the speakers at a mass meeting in the interest of law enforcement to be held under the auspices of the Citizens' Service As sociation at the Arcadia Hall on the afternoon of November 13, it was nounced by Dr. Willlam S. Aber | pethy, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, who is president of the as Soctation. In announcing completion of plans for the meeting, Dr. Abernethy de- elared that in the five months of its existence the Citizens’ Service Asso eclation has fulfilled all expectations of its founders. “We have been called the snoopers’ league by enemies of law enforcement @nd sobriety,” Dr. Abernethy declared #and by people who know nothin; our activities, The Citizens’ Service Association is not engaged in police | Work or in spying on their neighbors “We have found that, all things con Bidered, the Washington Police I partment is m enforce the national prohibition a It is true that there are individuals on the force who are aiding bootleg rs and who are accept bribes t 1= so with every large @rzag tion."” PERSH!™!G TO BE SPEAKER AT MEETING OF FARMERS Importance of Prospertiy in Their Branch of National Life to Be His Subject. By the Associated Press. Perhaps Gen. Pershing has a farm feliet plan. It he has, he will get the oppor- funity to put it before the farmers early in December, for he has accepted an invitation to address the national convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which will be held in Chicago, December 5, 6 and 7. The general was invited to speak ®n the importance of a prosperous sriculture s a tlon said yesterday a cabled accept- ence had been received from P where the leader of the Americ World War army 18 visiting. FOREIGN SERVICE SHIFTS. Hinckley Assigned to Others Moved. Recent changes in the United States Noreign Service, announced at the Mtate Department, include the trans- ifer ot Robert O'D. Hinckley, District Panama. Columbta, third secretary at the | NA sH ity of Mexico, to the legation at nama; the assignment of Willard Beaulac, Rhode Island, as third cretary of legation at FPort au Prince, Haitl; the transfer of Allan "Dawson, Iowa, third secretary, from | nama to the Cit m W. Andrews, O grom Vienna to L Thurston, Arizona from Lisbon to Gilson G. Blake, J tomn, Md., consul, of Mexico; Wil hing from Georgetown t1sh Gulana, to Geneva, and George | g a brave effort tc! actor in malintaining | American institutions, and the federa- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, OCTOBER 30, 1927—PART 1. A world record is believed to have heen achieved by the four children of ford, England, who have already won over 1.000 ered one of the best elocutionists in England. ams, a miner, who revels in literature, poefry and drama, and who tutored Photo shows Mr. Williams and his pupils. Seated, left to right: ¢ ing, left to right: David Bevan and Tom Williams. prizes for elocution in competition. T he children give most of the credit of their suct yneth Bevan, M, wnd Mrs. Owen Bevan of Amman- The eldest girl, May Bevan,, is s to Tom Wil Mr. 1 them. f 2y Bevan, Vera Bevan. Stand- | ONE WOMAN ALL POWERFUL IN MOSCOW, EX-PRISONER SAY Former Fren;h épy Who Served as Chauf- feur to "Red Virgin,” Says She Plans Conquest of West. | capable of exchanging a word v | the prisoners under their cha the reason that they are ex-cor who have had their tongues cut out Only during four hours each day of the 18 months of his imprisonment Chieto was unchained from the wa of his cell and allowed to stretch him- self and walk about. For the rest of the time he languished in a cement | cavern in which no light penetrated. | As he was housed in the death house, | being _himself _“provisionally” con- | demned to death, he could hear the | executioners at work night and day in a neighboring cellar. om mor | ing till night he heard the screams of ‘men und women about to be put out of M.]of the way and the crack of revolvers | and the fall of bodies. | He was finally released from prison | when the secret police was in need of | an expert mechanic and it was known he had some knowledge of automobiles of foreign make. He became a chaffeur to the “Red By Cable to The Star and the New Y World 20.—The govern- ment of Russia exists, but does not govern. All power is in the hands of | a woman, who occupies the post of | seccetary ‘general of the secret police | and who is known in Russia as the “Red Virgin of the Kremlin." This woman's word is law, not only in all cases of espionage and counter revolution, but she is also the center of a group which devotes tself to the creation of a gigantic allance between Russia, China and Eastern nations to be guided by the German general staff in a new attack upon France and the Western world. These are the revelations Charles Chieto, a French writer, who has returned to Paris after an absence of three years, most of which time was spent in the Loubianka Prison and in the Fortress of Peter and Paul in Leningrad. Chieto, who set up orizinally to describe conditions in Russia for a Paris daily, was arrested because of his connections during the | war with the French intelligence serv- ice. PARIS, October Minister Left Country. In the orgy of espionage that| brought France close to the brink of downfall in 1917, Chieto was admitted- ly one of the ablest unravelers of spy plots. His Russian experiences are | sembled in a book that w published at the moment when Christian Rakow- sk Soviet Ambassador to France, was accused by several newspapers in Paris of having been a spy during the war. M. Rakowsky did not await the storm that broke loose following Chieto’s revelations, but departed in automobile for the German frontier without presenting his recall papers to President Doumergue, as diplomatic procedure demands. Chieto says in his book that he was present at a_meeting at which | the “Red Virgin of the Kremlin” out- lined a campaign for the subjugzation of Europe. He reports her as saying to the graduating class of the Mos- cow War Colleg: “We are working night and day for a powerful alliancs. We are try ing to group the forces of Ruesia and thos= of China and stir up =0 mueh trouble in India that England will | be busy for decades fighting cuerrilla | wars and subduingz uprisings. “The military forzes of Rus: China, incxhaustible and which th® Western World hope to be victorious, are to be placed wnder command of the old German general staff. We will until- ize the Germans, who ara imbued with desires of revenge on smash down Polan and France follow, trocps from the European ha and watch the spectacle ot crashing down in ruins” Paris Opinion Divided. { Opinion in Paris is heatedly | as to the value Chieto’s book. The extreme radicals treat 1t as an im- and against cannot | | wrope | videad | i " herself, on the promise that | he would never attempt to escape and { leave Ru: He describes her as | a woman of extraor: v beauty. She | | seemed more Qriental to him_than Nussian. Her sway over the officials of the police and men in the gov ernment wips undisputed. She ordered and they obeyed. | Later Chieto was attached to the Soviet air service as pllot, (Copyright. 1 ) WOMAN, TIRED OF LIFE, SEEKS RELIEF IN DEATH | New Jersey Resident Commits Sui- cide, as Metropolis “Drives Her Mad.” By the Associated Prees, i NEW YORK, Octobgr 29.—A woman | who tired of New York life, which she | sad was “driving her mad,” leaped to | her death today from an eighth-foor | window of the Knickerbocker Hotel. | She was identified as Mrs. Willlam Martin, formerly of Milford, Mass. She had registered as M. E. Greene wote to her mother read: “You I don’t love Buddy, and this New York life is driving me mad.” She telephoned to the switchboard operator early today that she was go- | ing to commit suicide. While bellboys and the night clerk hurried for her room she leaped. v mense piece of nonsense, calculated to aid in the campaign to force to break with L ine and cri inal a scheme is not beyond the plot- ting of the red rulers of Russ Chieto’s 18 months' incarc the Cheka prisons has made him fa- miliar, he writes, with all the methods of torture and repression that are practiced there. To read his tale of unbelfevable horrors one would think that the worst days of the Inquisition had been surpassed. 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