Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1928, Page 29

D. C. FACES 850,000 1 LOSSONAUTO TAX 45,000 Property Owners Fail to Make Returns on Personalty. ‘The District Government faces a loss of approximately $50,000 this year through the failure.of automobile own- ers to file a personal property tax re- turn, it was estimated today at the office of the tax assessor, Willlam P. | . Richards. Nearly 45,000 property owners, it was said, did not make personal property return for the current fiscal year. A majority of them are car owners. The tax assessor, it was pointed out, has a complete record of all motor vehicle owners who did not make re- turn, this information having been fur- nished by coupons attached to the ap- plication for license tags. Assessments are now being made against such own- ers and bills will be mailed. A penalty of 20 per cent of the assessed value will be added for failure to make re- turns. Many of these bills are not expected to be paid, however, as the District loses a large sum every year in per- sonal tax revenue due from automo- bile owners. Cars on which the tax has not been paid are liable to seizure, it was explained, but the tax collector has an inadequate force of deputies to round up all owners who fail to pay the bills. A bill requiring motor vehicle owners to pay the personal ‘tax on their cars before license tags are issued is now pending in Congress, having passed the Senate at the late session. This legis- lation has long been advocated by Tax Assessor Richards to remedy the pres- ent situation. The Federal Bureau of Efficiency also has indorsed the meas- ure. DRUG CHARGES DELAY TRIAL OF YOUTHS Two Held for Hold-Up and Kidnap- . ing to Be Investigated by | Narcotic Squad. Court action in the cases of James Henry Walton and Willlam Jackson Carter, who were returned here yester- day from Danville, Va., to answer Hold- up, kidnaping ‘and joy-riding charges, wil be delayed until the detective bu- reau narcotic squad has had an oppor- tunity to investigate their story as to how they acquired narcotics found in '.hegd possession when they were ar- * ‘The two Tennessee youths were cap- tured in Danville after they are alleged to have held up James A. Chambers in his haberdashery shop on Connecticut avenue Monday night, and then to have forced Walter Dunn, coloréli, 18 years old, into the automohile that he was washing in the Stoneleigh Garage, tak- ing him to Richmond before he was Teleased from the rumble seat, under which he had been fastened. Detective Hubert Brodie was told by the youths they had committed the alleged crimes while under the influence of narcotics that they purchased from & stranger they met in Lafayette Park last Friday night. ‘They never before had been in trouble and never had used dope in any way until last week, they said. They came here originally on a sightseeing tour, they say. BIDS FOR NEW SCHOOL EXCEED APPROPRIATION Lowest Offer for 16-Room Build- ing on Langdon Site Is $15,- 000 Above Limit. Plans for the construction of a new pvubllc school to replsee the Langdon School ‘Twentieth and Franklin ltreet.s northeast were halted tem) today following the opening of bids which revealed that the lowest is $15,000 in excess of the available ap- pmvrhtinn The Commissioners now will decide whether to curtail the work, ask for new bids or seek an additional appro- riation. The plans call for a 16-room uilding. The low bid was submitted James L. 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