Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1928, Page 3

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Night and Sunday » KEW GARDENS 2700 QUE ST. N.W.' Several very desirable apartments in this modern, refined apartment house. Switchboard service, cafe, playground for children, beautifully landscaped gar- dens, large, richly furnished lobby and reception rooms. 1 Rm. Kit. & Bath o 6 Rms., Bath, Kitchen and Porch 37.50 to 150.00 Lighted Until 9 P.M. Resident Mgr. on Premises B. F. SAUL CO. Main 2100 925 15th St. Putting “Pep” in Sales “You'll like ’em too” 1900-1920 M St. N.E. No printed word can express even in a meager way the home we offer for $7,950. Complete with concrete streets and alleys, as well as Kelvinator electriz re- frigeration, they represent the utmost in moderate priced homes. See them now—only & few left Sunday uatil 9 P.M. 2001 16th St. N.W Exceptionally attractive apartments of three out- side rooms, reception hall, bath and large kitchen. Reasor.able Rentals SPECIAL NOTICES. FOR SOUTHERN PECAN CAKE. MORE DE- than frult cake. for Thanksgiving and Christmas. phone College Inn. Pot. 17. I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted in my name except by Writ- ten order over my signature. TON . GORDON. _Continental Trust Bldg. Main_5231. CARPENTER—JOBBING, REMODELING, RE- pairs, 3 cottages, bungslows, h furnished; painting: . 3821-J. 21 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted by anv one other than my- seif. JOSEPH M. PETTIT. 4308 7th st nv. ¢ ARE _YOU MOVING ELSEWHERE? OUR {ransportation system will serve you beiter. Large fleet of vans constantly operating be- tween all Eastern cities. 1 in DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE CO. OF CHOICE BPECL NOVEMBER SALE apples, Autumn Gold—Best Cider on Earth. en dally and Sundsy until January 1st. CELEBRATED CIDER BARREL. Fred- erick_Pike—Hour Out. ROOP REPAIRING, PAINTING, GUTTER- ing, spouting: furnaces repaired and clesned; Teasonable prices. North 5314, day or night. AJA% ROOFING CO., 2038 ISth st. n.V. UNLIMITED RADIC i | Campaign for Carrying Mes- sage to Workers Is Studied by Committee. B the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, November 24.—A campaign to insure the carrying of the messagz of organized labor by radio into every American home was discussed to- day by a committe> of the Amv:flc:ml Federation of Labor. | Recommendation was made by the executive council of the federation, in | annual session here, that cfforts be madz to secure from the Federal Radio Com- mission “an exclusive national channel | with uplimited time and power” (orf Station WCFL, Chicago, operated by the | Chicago Federation of Labor. Describ- ing the station as the only one in the United States owned and operated in the intersst of organized labor, the | executive council reported that the Fed- eral Radio Commission, in its recent re- allocation of wave lengths, time and power, had assigned WCFL a wave length which does not permit broad- casting from Chicago after 8 o'clock in the evening at this time of year and also reduced its power to 1,000 watts. The effect of the action, the exec- { utive counssl said, is not only to re- strict the area over which WCFL can be heard, thus treating the station as thoush 1t were purely local in intersst and usefulness, but also to keep it ofl the air entirely during most of the evening, which is the only time that persons employed during the day have the leisure to use thair receiving sets.” In the event the Radio Commission does not grant the changes desired, the executive council recommended that “steps be taken to bring the entire mat- ter to the attention of Congress.” The recommendation was referrad to the resolutions committee, which report to the convention Monday. No regular session of ths convention was held today, but committecs met and discussed the matters referred to them. The only activity scheduled for| tomorrow are addresses in local churches by President Willlam Green, Secretary Frank Morrison and other labor leaders. UNION LABOR WINS: C0-OPERATION OF D. C. BUILDING LEADERS .(Continued From First Page.) arate agreement with Wardman and thus are not concerned with the recent negotiations. The carpenters’ organiza- tion, one of the largest of the building trades, is not affiliated with the council and is not included in the agreement. The change in the relations followed protests by both representatives of the American Federation of Labor, in which the local Central Labor Union joined, and British labor interests, concerning the employment of non-union labor on the British embassy project here. ‘Woman Played Important Role. It was disclosed last night that an Important role in these negotiations, which were designed to persuade Wardman to abandon the open shop policy on this projsct, was played by a Washington woman, Miss Seima Borchardt, teacher of English at the Business High Schcol, who is a dele- gate to the Central Labor Union from the local unit of the American Federa- tion of Teachers, as well as vice presi- dent of the National Teachers’ body. Miss Borchardt, acting in conjunction with other local labor leaders, corre- sponded with British union officials seeking co-operation in the movement to persuade Wardman to employ union men on the embassy job. Protests also went to England from Willlam Green, : president of the American Federation of Labor, and local labor leaders, which resulted in the British govern- for information on the situation. The question also was raised on the floor of the House of Commons. ‘While it was admitted that Wardman was complying with the British law, which requires that on government projects workmen must be paid the prevailing wage scale, labor interests contended that tne British government should not be a party to a policy which, 1t was felt, would tend to lower stand- ards of living through ation .gfll:g\st union workmen. agreement of the Wardman Co. to abandon the open shop, however, was in compliance to requests of the l.?cal llbo{ union to give ths union shop a trial. Union leaders contended that the union shop would result in greater economy and satisfaction to the contractor. They argued that union skilled laborers do more work per hour than non-union, and therefore their emxslos;:nem is mz{: “:commluh ese negot ns the Build! ‘Trades Council was represented by Johh‘g M. Botts and Charles E. Young, its chairman and secretary. Mr. Botts disclosed last night that through voluntary a ment between contractors and workers, members of five building trades on several big jobs here are on the five-day schedule pro- moted by the A. F. of L. The trades effected are steamfitters, electriclans, lathers, ironworkers and plasterers now employed on the large office building being erected on the northwest corner of Fourteenth and K streets; ‘on the new Washington headquarters building lut the Soul Railway, southwest corner of Fifteenth and K streets, and the aj ment house being erected in Mount Pleasant by the Miller Engi- neering Co, MOVANG TO SOME OTHER CITY? Get our return load rates. Full and part load shipments to Philadelphia, New York. Boston, Pittsburgh, Richmond and way ints Special rates Phone Main 1460 NATIONAL -DELIVERY ASSOCL _Ine. BUILDING MATERIALS. bathtubs and brick frame Govt. build- Good floo /2 ng, 2¢; plenty 2x6, oors. windows complete: radiators. Ppipe: many pricest Large sejection! . 5021 Ga. ave. n.w. plumbing xtures, other items: lowest HECHINGER CO., HECHINGER CO., 6th HECHINGER CO.. 5th and ¥ NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE—LARGE. SE floor {front, rear, near family rd; excellent; am.i: suitable for three. $40 for two. $35 for_ihree. North 7696. 25° APPLES, SWEET CIDER. Staymen Winesap. York Imperial and Black Twig apples at low prices. The cider is made from sound, clean, hand-picked Stsyman Winesap apples. Rockville Fruit Farm, Rockville, Md. Drive to Rockville, then one mile out Potomac_rd. _Telephone Rockville 31-M. APPLES—CIDER. Apples. 50c & bu. and up; cider. 35c gal., eontainer extra. Located on Fairfax-Cam- Pridge pike between Vienna and Fairfax. CHILCOTT BROTHERS, Vienna, Va. _26% 251 furniture to or trom o v Yore, Boston. Richmond and points soutt: Smith's Transfer & Storage Co., 1313 You 8t. North 3343. 45th Annual Ball & Card r.::,; Benefit of St. Joseph’s Home and School | EVE OF THANKSGIVING, | NOVEMBER 28. 1928 MAYFLOWER HOTEL A ki PLANS GIFT TO 100 BOYS. Saks to Give Overcoats to Poor Youths Christmas. One hundred poor. boys of Wi = ton will be presented with nev:smi coats on Christmas morning at 10 o'clock, as a gift from Saks & Co. The selection of those most deserving will be made by the Assoclated Chari- ties in co-tmenflon with the company. Part of the sales staff of the firm will be on hand to fit the boys, who will recelve the same consideration given to regular customers, The event ‘t:llx"umyur dwmthmt-{: the forty-flgt tmas day that the custom - vailed at the stol Ry | Within Walking Distance of Downtown Newly redecorated four- rm., k. and bath apart- ments in modern fire- proof building. | 24-hour elevator and switchboard service. Moderate rental. THE MONTANA 1726 M St. N.W. ment asking the British Embassy here b THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C ., NOVEMBER 25. 1928—PART 1. RAPIDLY NEARS COMPLETION More Equitable Assessment of District’s .Businesses Hoped For by Committee. Navy Sections of Present Legiclation Apply to Trades Leng Obsolete. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Revision of the District’s antiquated license tax law, said to have long im- posed an injustice on many classes of business and allowed others a freedom from taxation, was virtually completed yesterday by a committee of municipal and Federal Government officials, who several months ago undertook to re- vamp the entire code at the request of Representative Gibson of Vermont, will | chairman of the District subcommittec of the House. Finishing touches will be added this week and the reconstruct- ed law put in final shape for congres- sional consideration and action. Changes made by the committee are said to be the most exhaustive and far- reaching any District legislation has ever undergone. Few, if any, sections or paragraphs of the existing law es- caped modification. Out of the committee’s work, how- ever, will come what is expected to bea fair and equitable license law; one that will make a concern pay in accordance with its volume of business and its cost to the District for inspection and pro- tection. It also will bring under the broad scope of its provisions & number of new business which have come into existence in recent years and not now required to pay a license fee. Many Provisions Out of Date. Ringgold Hart, principal assistant corporation counsel of the District, is chairman of the committee. Those who have assisted him with the tedious de- | tails of the work are Wade H. Coombs, | superintendent of licenses of the Dis- trict, and D. P. Evans of the Bureau of Efficlency. The committee has met al- most daily in order to complete its task by December 1. Congress gave Washington the pres- ent license law nearly 27 years ago, when barrooms, carriage and wagon bullding and hatness making were thrivicg _and flourishing businesses. Progress has since relegated = wagon bullding and harness making into a state of obsolescence, -and prohibition came along to convert barrooms into soft drink establishments. But the license act did not change to meet these new conditions. It still contains | ago the original sections relating to these obsolete businesses. In fact, aside from a few minor changes in phraseology and insignificant amendments the law stands today almost exactly as it was when placed in the statute books, July 1902. What the committee has really done is to modernize the old law, eliminating the provisions relating to barrooms, herdic operations, cattle selling and carriage and wagon building and re- placing them with provisions that take cognizance of present-day businesses that have developed since the advent of the radio. the automobile, prohibi- tion and whatnot. At the same time, however, it rearranged the schedule of license fees. Hardware Business Overlooked. By some strange fate, or perhaps an utter oversight, the hardware business was overlooked when the original license law was framed. No restrictions were placed on door-to-door peddlers except the license requirement and the pay- ment of the prescribed fee. ~Motor busses, like the radio, were yet to b2 born, and no revenue tax is derived from their operations, save from those owned and operated by the street rail- ‘way companies. ‘These conditions and scores of others with equal or more glaring inequities exist under the present law. For in- stance, the proprietor of a small arm- chair lunchroom who barely manages to eke out an existence, pays the same amount in tax as a hotel restaurant or any other large eating establishment with an envious income. By the same token, the tax on the cigar distributor whose annual turnover runs into ‘he millions, is the same as paid by the corner cigar merchani who seldom sells a full box at one time, except, perhaps, around. the Christmas holidays. % other words, the dealer is taxed on his type of business and not on his volume of business. ‘There also are inequities of another nature. Concerns which do not handle foodstuffs, flowers, explosives and in- flammable materials and do not require frequent Inspection by various munic- ipal agencies, are forced to pay license | fees as large, and in some instances, in excess of other classes of business which cost the District government large sums. every year for the maintenance of trained inspection forces. ‘The Washington Base Ball Club is one impressive illustration. The fees Vita Exerciser and Reducer as a A splendid machine for home cX- ercise_and scientific weight reduc- tion. Come in for free demonstration. Rezsoncble in Price 10 Months to Pay Get It at GIBSON'’S 917-19 G St. N.W. A F.OFLWILL SEEKiLICENSE TAX LAW REVISION Left to right: Ringgold Hart and Wade H. Coombs. Lower: D. P. Evans. it pays amount to $20 a week while the team is playing in the Griffith Stadium. A score or more police officers have to be detalled there to protect the crowds, and extra officers are necessary for traffic duty in the area contiguous to the ball grounds. Yet the total tax pald by the ball club each season would not offset the salaries of the extra police detail for one week. Another comparable —_situation in- volves the theaters, which pay a license fee of $100 a year each. The Fire De- partment must keep a large staff of in- spectors at these places morning, after- noon and night to maintain a close surveillance for infractions of the rigid fire prevention code. It has been esti- mated that the total revenus derived from all. such places of amusement does not equal the sum paid in sal- arles to these firemen. Then there is the case of clairvoy- ants, soothsayers, fortune tellers and all their kindred relations, who pay the District an annual license fee of $25 each and require more police inspection and check up than the real estate brokers, who are taxed $50 for a license to do business. Once a {enl‘, under normal circumstances, a policeman will go into the office of the real estate broket to ascertain if their license cer- tificates have been procured and posted conspicuously. But before a license is issued to members of the profession that claim supernatural powers, the &wllce make considerable research as their character, past history, etc., which cuts more money sometimes than the amount of the license fee. Some Sections Facetious. Other sections of the act are ludicru- ously facetious in view of the changed conditions since the law was first writ- ten. Besides still prescribing a tax on the forgotten Herdics, Jenny Lind and shuffie board parlors, the existing code calls for a tax on railroad ticket brokers, horse race promoters and the like, who were “legislated” out of business long . Still another section forblds the sale of liquor in pool rooms and bowling alleys and restricts their hours of opera- tion to the same period that barrooms were itted to do business. These archaic provisions have either been re- written or removed entirely from the code as the occasion warrants. Mr. Coombs made his initial move to have the old license law revised about five years ago, but his recommendations were not taken seriously. Again this year he called the attention of the Com- missioners to the situation resulting from the continued operation of the obsolete sections of the law in his an- nual report, and shnmzotherenner defl- nite steps were taken to bring it up to date. It was the following paragraph in the, report of the superintendent of licenses that stirred the Commissioners and Mr. Gibson to action: “The collection of revenue from mis- cellaneous business license taxes has not grown in recent years as it should Schuyler Arms 1954 Columbia Road One room and bath; Jarge reception 539.50 hall. .. caiiii Two bedrooms, cach with: bath, large living room, dining room, kitchen; $ l 25 corner exposure. . All apartm are equip- ped with Frigidaire running on house current. . Manager on Premises Phone Potomac 133 Wardman’s Management FLAT TIRE? FRANKLIN 764 Formerly Main 500 LEETH BROS. PYa illes ) INSPECT TODAY Attractive apartments of Four Rooms, Kitchen and Bath, with outside Southern exposure. Moderate Rentals. The Argonne 16th & Columbia Rd. Northwest JELLEFF ELECTED BOYS CLUB HEAD Dolph and Radcliffe Made Vice Presidents and Herr- mann Treasurer. Frank R. Jelleff, Washington m chant, was elected president of the Boys Club of Washinzion at the eighth annual meeting yesterday. He will serve a term of three years. Other officers clected for similar terms were John Dollfh. first vice president; Willlam L. Radcliffe, second vice president; J. Thillp Herrmann, treasurer; Simon Lyon, councilor, and Francis V. Thom- son, secretary. ‘The following were elected new mem- bars of the board of trustees: William L. Radcliffe, William E. Russel, C. L. Harding, W. W. Griffith, Harold A. Brooks, Sidney W. Straus, Albert F. E. Hori:, Dr. Ciister D. Swope, Roland Whitehurst and Charles H. Pardoe. A veport uu activities of the Boys Club during the past year showed a membership of 1,147, a majority of them being between the ages of 12 and 15 in proportion to the growth of ihe city, du2 to the fact that many changes have Saken selnoe since the passage of the act under which the majority of these fees are collected. “This act was approved July 1, 1902, and since that date many classes of business which were taxed have gone out of existence. Provisions of that act taxing certain other classes of busi: ness have been declared invalid by the courts, thus further eliminaiing sources of Tevenue. Many other businesses have come into existence, and most of these should pay a license tax, but are not required to do so under the pres- ent law. It is apparent, therefore, that there is need for the revision of the present law or enactment of a new law to take its place.” 14,000 Firms are Licensed. Approximately 14,000 - business firms are now paying a license tax under the existing law. It is estimated that at least 1,000 more now escaping & tax because the code does not apply to them will be brought under provisions of the revised law. The committee’s new code, together with & report outlining in: detail the reasons for the various changes, will be turned over to the Commissioners the latter part of this week. A copy also will.be sent to Representative Gib- son, who primarily was instrumental in bringing about the gigantic task of modernizing and making more equitable the present license tax law. The Brighton 2123 California St. N.W. Several very desirable apart- ments, in perfect condition, ayailable furnished or. unfur- nished, in this e.iclusive apart® ment hotel. Rentals with complete hotel service 1 room and bath, $60.00 2 rooms and bath, 85.00 3 rooms and bath, 149.00 Wardman Management North 3494 A. Eberly’s Sons, Inc. most experienced men. at the same address! ot Qour Home . ] EBERLY /& b PLAN years. The year's attendance at the club was 70,663. The membership was slightly less than the previous year, due to the fact that it was necessary to exclude boys who had reached their seventeenth birthday owing to the limited space of the club- rooms. ‘The club has been acc as a member of the Community Chest move- ment. Full attendance was reported at all the classes conducted by the club. As an evidence of the success of the Boys Club movement in the country, it was reported, the Children’s Aid So- clety of New York has decided to spend $3,000,000 in founding 10 new boys clubs in the metropolis. PR P POWERS INTERVENE TO HALT UPRISING OF MACEDONIANS. (Continued From First Page.) object of compromising the success of | the Bulgarian loan abroad. The news agency statement read, “We are in a ition_to declare that not only in Sofia and Bulgarian Macedonia, | but throughout the entire country, per- fect order prevails, “Alarming news having ap:--<ed in the f"mf“ press, we are obliged once more to issie a formal and categorical denial in the interest of truth. * * ¢ All of these reports were at first gos- siped of in the Belgrade press which persists in its habit of spreading infor- mation of the most unbzalievable nature for the purpose of compromising th~ prestige of Bulgaria, and these we have many times denied. It is clear tha the campaign is to compromise the Bui- garian stabilization loan.” LEGATION ISSUES STATEMENT. Declares Reports Indicate No Cause for Alarm Over _Situation. The Bulgarian legation in a state- ment issued here last night said that the Bulgarian foreign minister, A. Buroff, in a: cablegram received yesterday had denied that there was any cause for alarm over conditions in that country. Sofia_dispatches yesterday said that the government had troops to attack the stronghold of Ivan Michailoff, Macedonian revolutionary leader, whose forces have been reported as terrorizing | a section of the country and threaten- ing to march on Sofia. BATTLE BELIEVED NEAR. Report in Jugoslavia Says Army Corps Is Sent-to Petritch. | SKOPLJE, Jugoslavia, November- 24 (&).—Private advices received tonighi from Sofia said that it was believed that the government army- corps dispatch>d to the Petritch district soon would en- gage the forces of Ivan Michailoff in battle. 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