Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1929, Page 17

Washington News The Foening Star Society and WAS HINGTON, D. (., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1929. E General PAGE 1T e INCONE TAXGAN OVER ESTIATES TOTAS S500 Eleventh-Hour Returns, How- ever, May Leave Ex- cess Small. THREATENED DEFICIT MAY BE WIPED OUT ashingtonians File Into Office of Deputy Collector in Pushing | Crowd as Dead Line Nears. | | While Secretary of the Treasury Mel- fon predicted this morning that the flood of income taxes pouring into Uncle | Sam’s coffers throughout the Nation was | in excess of estimates, and would prob- ably wipe out a thréatened Federal deficit, Washington: filed into the office of the deputy collector of internal revenue, 1422 Pennsylvania avenue, in a pushing crowd, to get their returns in before the de: Up to today, Secretary Mellon pointed out, reports from returns over the coun- try were running about $45.000.000 more than the estima warned that this surpius the estimates might at any time for an unexplained reason suddenly turn on the last day or two, and leave the actual results equal to or even below the estimates. The income tax returns now being | made as of March 15 are for the entire | calendar year 1928, and are usually accompanied in the case of large tax- payers by one-quarter of the tax, or in the case of small taxpayers by the entire tax. Washingtonians pay their taxes, by | & curious twist of Government adminis- tration, through Baltimore, where is located the office of the collector of in- ternal revenue for this city. Local tax- payers may make their returns at 1422 Pennsylvania avenue, at several banks trust companies and department store where internal revenue experts are sta- tioned, or may mail them to Baltimore, care of the colector of internal reve- | nue. ‘The local office at 1422 Pennsylvania | avenue will close shortly after 5 o'clock | this afternoon, but tomorrow. evening | will be open up to midnight. | | | Penalties Attached. Severe penalties attach to failure to make a return and pay ai least one- | fourth of the tax. | The threatened deficit for the Fed- | eral Government by the end of the | fiscal year, June 30, has been hanging | over the financial officers for months. The budget las taken leaps over and | under the surplus-deficit line more than | vnc: during the year and the last time, becording to announcement of Director | Lord of the Bureau of the Budget, | changed a prospective surplus of $37, 000,000 into a deficit of the same sm‘ While Secretary of the Treasury Me! lon could not safely predict that this | deficit. would be wiped out, he thought | that if the rate of increase in returns continued it would be likely to do away | with the deficit. There was no pros | yects, however, he pointed out, for any? sizeable surplus if the deficit should | be wiped out. An income tax return must be filed, according to law, “by every citizen of the United States, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person re- | siding in the United States, though not a citizen thereof, having a gross income for the calendar year 1928 of $5.000, or | over, or a net income for the same pe- riod of $1,500 or over, if single, or if married &and not living with husband or wife, or $3500 or over if married | and living with husband or wife, or re-| gardless of amount if the net income exceeds the personal exemption.” | To offer additional facilities to the | public, 8 nuntber of income tax experts of the Bureau of Internal Revenue arey stationed at a number of banks and stores, where they will be available | during the office hours of the place | they are stationed, both today and to- | morrow, These places are: Riges | National Bank, Farmers & Mechanics | National Bank, National Metropolitan | Bank, Lincoln National Bsnk an branch office, 1701 H street; Federal American National Bank, Munsey | Trust Co. Merchants Bank & Trust| Co., Union Trust Co. Continental| Trust Co., District National Bank. Co Jumbia National Bank, Commercial Na. tional Bank, Potomac Savings Bank. Woodward & Lothrop, Lansburgh & PEro. and the Hecht Co. | ns | CHURCH TO GIVE SHOW TO HELP REDUCE DEB Circus and ;arr}i;l 7V‘Vill Be Pre- sented in St. Stephen’s Parish- | Hall in April. ) A country circus and carnival, featur ing all the acts, ballyhoo and barkers of | » typical country carnival, will be pre- | sented April 9, 10, 11 and 12 In St.! Stephen's parish hall by the Men's Club of the Church of St. Stephen and | Incarnation. Sixteenth and Newton | reets. A dance will be held after the performance. Funds raised by the show will be ap- plied to reduction of the church indebt- edness, All of the church organizations will take an active p: The committec chairmen are J. El Mayfield, prir W. S. Stutz, music: W. J. Grant, program: Chariton M. Clark, publicity: F. A. Latimer, seati E. A. Heilig, finance: Otho Beall, cc G. G. Stonebraker, animals; e Harry P. White, decoration: A similar Cub 14 % fr [t Perey Oliv presented t by it the NEW DUTIES SLATED. Mexico Proposes to Abolish 10 Per Cent Consular Fee. 10 per cent ared purposeof bolish the consular fe shippers to Mexico on of the werchand 10 per Ceni Surchar 1 from the concighee for ihose Charges duties by di-patch enttod George izion ted froin Value rimy | advertised. | | tailor needs a lot of cloth for a suit|honor of Mr. Taft's personal acquaint- | tive James H. Sinclai | unpopular,” as they put it. by boosting | | publican by 25,000 | place on your way to Crosby, where | TAFT CONDUCTS FARM RELIEF MOVES ALONG GENEROUS LINES “Big Bill” of North Dakota, Heavily Put for Clothes, Given Suit. Chief Justice Aids Wardrobe That Requires Yards of Cloth to Fill. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. f Justice Taft hasn't waited for President Hoover's forthcoming special sion of Congress to vote farm reliel. He has extended it on his own account | under circumstances which throw a erephic lignt on the individual plight of distressed farmers in the Northwest Thereby hangs a touching tale of woe- and old clothes Out in Williston, N. Dak.. in one of | the Western counties of the State, lives a farmer named “Bill” Hollar. Mr. Hol- | is built on Taft lines. or on the lines ) the Chiof Justice in pre-Supreme Court days and" before he had walked | and dieted himself into his present, sylphlike dimensions. North Dakotan Not So Slender. he North Dakota “Big Bill” has not been so successful in girth control, with the result that his 6 feet and inch or two of height continue to tip the beam at 300 pounds plus “Bill” Hollar can turesque readv-made clothes so He needs a tailor and the | abouts. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT, As he appeared when he could fill the suit which he has contributed to the | farm relief in North Dakota. 't wear the pic-| ¢ Fe widely | cast-off suit of clothes, size 54, or there- Sinclair said he didn't have the “Bill's” bulk. | ance, but knowing the former Presldr}nl the his for expansive enough to enc: Anyhow, things haven't been going 50 | of the United States to be one of ood in the Dakota wheat and corn belts | kindliest men alive. promised in recent vears, and Hollar’s wardrobe | corpulent constituent to go to bat has fallen into a rather depleted siate. i him. i o ot L % When Representative Sinclair re- CBiE L CRRSL turned to Washington in December for One day last Fall, in the midst of the | the late session of Congress he estab- 1928 presiden camp: 1 Mr. Taft was much iouched by the North Dakota district, was campalgning | story told him. He agreed unhesitating- in constituency with Senator Gerald | Iy to help out his broad brother in the P. Nye. They were making “themselves | Northwest. of the lhlrd‘ the Hoover and Curtis ticket—so un- | Mrs. Taft Enters. popular that North Dakota went Re-| Mrs. Taft was called into consultation. -odd. While spending | She is the custodian of her disiinguished husband's wardrobe, past and present. It was found that’ a suit capable of Big Bill" Hollar on the line. | housing the Dakotan “Big Bill" still was “Jim,” said Hollar, “I want to see you extant. Thereupon it was sent to the about a little matter while you're in the | tailor for cleaning, pressing and minor neighborhood. Can't you stop by my | repairs. Scon afterward Representative Sin- you're going to talk tomorrow?” Repre- | clair’s office was notified that the suit entative Sinclair arranged to call on ' was packed and ready. Next day Mr. Big Bill." | Sinclair drove up to the Chief Justice's To his astonishment, it turned out | mansion’ on Wyoming avenue, fetched that the little matger Hollar wanted to | the parcel and expressed it to Wil- talk about was the possibility of getting | liamsion, N. Dak. Chief Justice Taft to let him have a . (Copyright. 1929.) the afternoon in a farming town. Sil clair was called to the telephone. It was m, Representa- | lished contact with the Chief Justice. | HESSE SUCCESSOR QUESTION BEFORE BOARD TOMORROW REQUE Appointment Unlikely Before Temporary Injunction Given Retirement Application Is U. S. Attorney by Jus- Acted On, However, tice Bailey. FIVED. . BULDINGS ARE PADLOCKED AT ST OF ROVER | ‘ | | | \ | | | 1 SECRET SERVICE AGENT, McCAHILL, IS URGED WALTER REE CLAIM LIQUOR IS SOLD D PATIENTS | Third Application Given Commis- Tenmants and Owners of Places, Involved Jointly in sioner Dougherty Bears Strong | Court Action. | | | | Indorsement. The Board of District Commissioncrs | Temporary padlock injunctions were | for the first time since Maj. Edwin B, | obtained today in the District Supreme | | Hesse filed his application for retire- | Court by United States Attorney Leo { ment as superintendent of police will|A. Rover and Assistant United States Attorney Harold W. Orcutt from Jus-| | tice Jennings Bailey of the District Su- | lection of his successor. | There is little likelihood, however, | Preme Court against the tenants and| that an appointment will be made|owners of five buildings which it is before the latter part of the month, | contended have become “common | and most certainly not before the re- | nuisances” by reason of repeated vio- | tirement board passes on Maj. Hesse's | lations of the national prohibition act. | application. It was pointed out that| The applications for injunctions are | there is a possibility that the board |against Albert S. Freleigh and his wife, may fail to approve the application, and, | Bertha J. Freleigh, as tenant and own- | in such an event, it would be embarrass- | er, respectively, of a %\m‘zi‘O:"v?lt 901 i Sionets <« | Butternut, street; Frederick Williams, | ing to the Commissioners to appoint |yopgce Abney and Ruth London, ten- | a man who would not be able to fill | znis and Rose A. Clarke, owner, prem- | the position. |ises 2105 L street; Harry Hartman,| To Be Considered March 21, Robert Bonner and Henry 'P. Johnson, | Assistant. Corporation Counsel Francis | {eRants. afl‘}-y Jlud:'.l,-l, v Estte';lv[. Butler, | H. Stephens, chairman of the retire- | DIOTUSSY L1H8 u S0es 00t gall, ment board, said that Maj. Hesse's | James E. Slaighi and Rownd 3. Stega | application ‘would not be considered | '© and Emily V. Kaufiman, 3 5 fioor of premises 721 Ball's until the regular meeting March 2 o While District officials feel certain that | cOUIt; Isaac Jacobs, Louis Jacobs and o g icholas the application will be approved, the | LOUiS Jacobson. tenants and Nicholas new superintendent will not be chosen | Bobys and Sophie B. Bobys, owners. until the board’s action is known. | first floor of premises 1139 Seventh “The third formal application for Maj. | street. g y Hesse’s job was received today by Com- | In the Freleigh injunction petition omer Proctor L. Dougherty, who|the court was advised that sales of | has administrative. supervision over the | liquor have been made to patients of police _department, from friends of |the Walter Reed General Hospital, Miles McCahill, veteran secret service | Which is near the property. agent of the Treasury Department. The | The names of several patients are set other two applicants are Maj. Gen, forth and there also is a general allega- Mark Hersey, U. S. A., retired, and | tion of sales to patients whose names ‘ give consideration tomorrow to the se- |the premises mentioned. when sales ) now in the United are unknown. | policeman, 'has a good record of service in the of sales and possession, are set forth yaeronautics, will have a new “skipper | nounced. In the other cases, various occasions | | when it is alleged whisky was kept at | | were made and when some of the ten- | EX-WAR FLYER MADE HEAD | OF NAVAL AIR STATION Comdr. E;élgé. Coming? Here to Succeed ‘ Watson. i | | i | | Native of South Carolina Now Stationed at New- port, R. I | i ‘ | The Naval Air Station at Anacostia. | D. C., proving ground of the latest naval | soon in the person of Comdr. Archibald | COMDR. DEWITT C. WATSON. | H. Douglas, who will come here about | June 1 from the Naval War College at | ] Newport, R. I. Lieut. Comdr. Dewitt C. | i ‘Watson, the station’s present command- | i ing officer, is slated for sea duty soon. | Announcement of the change was | made today at the Navy Department, | & orders for Comdr. Douglas being pub- | lished, but information as to Comdr. | | Watson’s next post has not been an- | aviation at the headquarters of the com- | | mander United States naval forces in | | France. He took advanced flying train- {ing at Pensacola, May 20, 1919, to July 919. Veteran of French Front. The new commanding officer of the Naval Air Station here is a veteran aviator of the French front, having seen duty during the period before the armistice as a member of an American rl\lmg unit co-operating with the Brit- ish. | Born in Bennettsville, S. C., February | 8. 1885, Comdr. Douglas graduated from | the Naval Academy and later began his | flight training at the Naval Air Station | at Hampton Roads, Va.. June 10, 1918. | He completed his training and was | designated to naval aviation July 25, 1918. His next service was hazardous | duty with the northern bombing group in France from August 20, 1918, during | which he witnessed many spectacular | air battles. Duty on Aviation Staff. Comdr. Douglas remained with the bombing group until the close of the ‘World War, and later assumed tempo- rary duty on the staff for the aide of He served as alde for aviation on the staff of the commandant of the third naval district, and commanded the Naval Air Station at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, N. Y. November 5, 1919, to November 23, 1920. commanding officer of the s. Aroostock, flagship of the aircraft squadrons of. the battle fleet, | next claimed Comdr. Douglas’ attention. He was captain of the yard at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, in 1922, and later was commander of the aireraft squadrons aboard the U. S. S. Wright. Officers of the department attached no importance to the fact that a com- mander will relieve a lieutenant com- | mander as commanding officer at Ana- costia, asserting that this did not neces- sarily mean that the local naval air station is assuming a more important status in naval flying affai 1 0 CHEST RELIF AUTO INSURANCE | | Total Outgo of $7,000, High- Trade Board Committee est in Society’s History, | Backs Move to Bar Finan- Reported. cially Irresponsible Driver. | By the weight of the agency that' Enactment of legislation for the Dis- ‘The post of executive officer and later | 3 S. scouts. and his order book has just come CASESINFEGRUARY PLANISFAVORED KIT CARSON BARED S STATESMAN IN INDIAN VAR REPORT Library of Congress Gets Order Book and Record of Campaign. FAMOUS SCOUT URGED NAVAJOS BE HELPED Fierce Tribesmen Should Be Taught Civilization's Methods Slowly, He Said. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. When the United States defeated Mexico in 1848 and took over a large slice of former Mexican territory, the rnment unsuspectedly inherited a ly and picturesque war which lasted for 16 years. | The closing campaign was under the command of Lieut. Col. Christopher Carson of the New Mexico Volunteers, the celebrated Kit Carson of the Indian into the possession of the division of manuseripis of the Library of Congress. | Besides throwing new light on an obscure bit of American history, Car- son’s record of the Navajo War, con- tained in his orders and reports, shows the plainsman to have been an able sialesman. The book is written in a fine, clear handwriting, and gives & | clear, grammatical picture of all the lactions in which the author par- ticipated. Campaigned Gver Desert. The campaign was conducted in the desert country of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, which at that | time was practically unknown to white men. Carson and his men finally suc- | ceeded in rounding up about 3,000 | Navajos and placing them on a rese! ticn. In his concluding report to Gen. H. Carleton, commanding general of ihe territory of New Mexico, the famous scout summed up the whole 16 years of | fighting, wiich ended in the last year ot the Civil War. He wrote: “Since the first Spanish | settlements were made in this country— a little less than two centuries—the Navajo Indians have subjected the people to a forced tax which swallowed | the fruits of industry. But it was not | alone their property which would satisty | the savages. The lives and honor of | their daughters were being continually | sacrificed to these remorseless savages {and the carrying into captivity of their {innocent children was a common Gecurrence. | Henry E. Solomon, McCahill Strongly Indorsed. | Treasury Department, according to the | in detail. “Owing to the strength of this tribe, PROMOTION PLAN PHYSICIAN HEARD States Coast Guard, but formerly a i McCahill is strongly indorsed and |ants have been arrested and convicted | Commissioner. He is said to have | guarded Presidents Wilson and Hard- | played the biggest part in putting over he campaign of the Community Chest trict designed to - g bar the financially ir- | yi0n “then numbered 60,000 or 70,000, FOR CHIEF SOUGHT Citizens’ Council Resolution Expresses View Affecting | Successor to Hesse. " INNARCDTE CASE Dr. Dollman Tells Horner: Jury Prescriptions Were | Altered. | Dr. Mazarin C. Dollman, local physi- | cian, testified late yesterday at the trial of Mrs. Lorraine Horner, wife of Stanley With the appointment of a new! suplrintendent of police & matter of first importance to the community, the Citizens' Advisory Council, at a final. Horner, which is in progress before | meeting last night before its elections| Chief Justice McCoy and a jury com- | on April 6, adopted a general remlutionj lr:b;»sed orxsll men tmflr onle woman. Mrs. W H i .| Horner accused of altering five pr expressing its opinion that District of-| scriptions which had beenigiven her:by ficials, other than presidential &p-| the physician and submitting them as pointees, be made by promotion. | genuine to a local pharmacy, where they Although the name of Maj. Edwin B.| Were filled, in September, 1927. | erty said they have been canvassing the | g drama written by Arthur Goodrich | partment. 5 Gives Dramatic Reading. | Klthough the Commissioners have not | Edward Abner Thompson of Boston | yet considered formally the selection of | gave a dramatic reading at the Roose- a successor to Maj. Hesse, Mr. Dough- | velt Hotel last night of “‘Caponsacchi, | in; field of possible candidates within the | of New York and Miss Rose A. Palmer department as well as outside. | of Washington, and based on Brown- | No applications, however, have come | ing’s epic poem, “The Ring and the from the ranking officers in the depart- | Book.” Mr. Thompson appeared here ment who are eligible, but it is known | under auspices of the Theater Arts that at least two of them have been | School. discussed_Inspectors Henry G. Pratt 20 g o and William S. Shelby, both assistaut | : superintendents, Pratt is the” Tanking | Dr. Mann to Give Talk. officer and the chief of the Detective' Dr. William M. Mann, director of the ! Bureau. Shelby is the personnel officer | National Zoological Park, will give an of the départment. | llustrated tatk on his expedition to the Considerable pressure is being brought | Solomon Islands before the Men's Club to pear on the Commissioners, it was of St. Stephen and the Incarnation learned, to have the appointment made | Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and New- from the department. It is known, oo, | ton streets, tonight at 8:30 o'clock. Mal. that Commissioner Dougherty favors ' Charles J. Ferris, U. 8. A, will give the promotion of a man within the de- r-ta%ings All men of the parish are in- vited. Jones Law Scare Held Price Hike Ruse ' t —publicity—is the work of the com- | ponent organizations growing to unpre- | cedented proportions. it was disclosed managers of the Associated Charities. From the intense public interest aroused during the whirlwind drive | committee of the Washington Board of | which netted the chest a million and a | Trade vesterday and 2t a later date will half dollars for charity work in the | come before the membership of the Capital for 1929 has grown a solicitude | among the 75,000 contributors toward | the family in need that is taxing the capacity of at least one social agency, | it was revealed. | An increase of one-third over the same month last year in the number of families calling for reiief and care the Associated Charities was re- The report showed that this year during February 740 cases were under care against 551 last year. The month's financial statement also showed the highest total of direct relicf in the history of the society with a total outgo of about $7.000. Increase Explained. | responsible driver from the use of the |and to the fact that they inhabited a highways and the adoption of the plan for making left-hand turns at the cen- ter of intersections, in conformity with | at the meeting yesterday of the board of | a provision cf the national Hoover ode” for traffic safety most cities, were indorsed by the traffic board for final action. Both proposals were adopted with a view to improving traffic safety, one by | means of forcing the motorist found guilty of serfous traffic offenses to show financial responsibility before he again is permitted use of the highways, and the other by eliminating which is declared to result from the present system here of making left-band turns at controlled intersections from the right side of the street. Hold Menace Would Be Reduced. Members of the committee, of which , George W. Offutt is chairman, declared that the menace to pedestrians and-mo- torists alike would be reduced greatly in effect in| confusion | country amounting to one-third of the | whole ~ territory, this country was a | terra incognito, and there is no part of | the American continent so well ad- | vantaged by nature for the peculiar style of warfare waged by these Indians. | 1t is not surprising that many power~ | ful campaigns waged against them by {the Spanish governments were barren of results as to subjugating them. U. S. Seeks to Curb Attacks. “By the treaty of Guadalupe Hildago in 1848 this territory became annexed | to the United States. The Government | immediately turned its attention to the protection of " its new citizens. Be- | lieving that the policy pursued with {other Indian tribes would be effectusl |in keeping the Navajos at peace, pres- | ents and annuities were distributed and |thus a truce was established, to be broken as soon as want of food again compelled them to visit the settlements in their predatory manner. They had to depefid for their subsisterice on the ‘Increase’ of flocks and herds previous- It is not to Hesse was not mentioned in the res he MBI e e lution, the council had in mind the ap- pointment of his successor from the| ranks of ce officers, rather than| through the importation of & new super- intendent. The resolution was intro-| duced by Councilman William A. Rob- erts and seconded, after a brief discus- sion, by Charles 1. Stengle. | Just before acting upon it the coun-| cil, on motion of Mr. Stengle, expressed its regret over the intended retirement | of Maj. Hesse and extended to him the hope that “he will soon regain his health.” i Stengle’s resolution at first proposed hat “where possible” all District of-| ficials be selected by promotion, but this | was later modified 50 as to except pres-| | is prosecuting. the court would not per- number of | tablets ordered in three of the prescrip- | tions had been raised from 20 to 25 and | in the other two from 30 to 35. On cross-examination by Attorney John H Burnett, who, with Attorney Milton W King, is defending Mrs. Horner, the | witness was asked if he had not been | promised freedom from an indictment against him for alleged violation of the anti-narcotic law, growing out’ of the issuance of these prescriptions, for his testimony on behalf of the Government, but on objection by Assistant United States Attorney Willlam H. Collins, wito | Officials Smile at Reports Liqu Added Risks—Say It’s Onl: By the Associated Press, Many reports have reached the ears | of prohibition enforcement officials that | bootleggers were scurrying to cover since the enactment of the Jones bill to in-| crease penalties for dry law violators, | but there is no official confirmation of | such stories at the Treasury Dcpul’bi ! ment. Seymour Lowman, Assistant Secretary | Treasury, in charge of prohibi: | tion, and Dr. James M. Doran, commi mit an answer. Burnett then elicited from the witness the statement that he had conferred | with Col. L. G. Nutt of the narcotic of the Nicking Customers, 10f reports caused officials to smile. and | Mrs. Walter S. Ufford, speaking in behalf of the Associated Charities, ex- | plained today the great increase in the | work of the social agencies of the city. | "It is almost entirely due to the great | amount ot publicity reccived by the Community Chest during the funds campaign, not only through the news- papers, but by word of mouth through the large number of workers who par- ticipated in the campaign. “Then, too,” Mrs. Ufford explained, each one of the large number of con- | 1or Cost Increased Because of v Bootlegger's Pretext for they expressed the belief that the boot- leggers were using a pretext to obtain from their customers a great deal more than the poor quality of liquor sold in {his country was worth. | By | tributors to the chest feels that he is Source of Supply Sought. | a stockholder in the charity administra- Especially did this apply to the boot- | tlon of the city and when a case worthy Jegger who sold liquor by the drink, or | Of care o investigation comes to his pint or quart, for it long has been the | At o1 e\ otia hase done. h | ly stolen from the people. by the enaciment of a safety responsi- " el q bility Iaw along lines of & proposed bll | caon wac alsregardod. and the work of drafted by a special committee of the | myrder and robbery recommenced. American Automobile Association which | ~In 1861 the rebellion broke out would provide, in 'part, that a driver|ang all minor affairs were swallowed in convicted of serious traffic offense be|the major cne of preserving the Union. deprived of a license unless and | The troops were recalled from Navajo until he proves his financial respon-|country to take part in the struggle, sibility. Such responsibility could be | and hardiy they left the stagon shown by various methods, including in- | when the war whoop of the relentless ;zlr‘all(l;rohbundu’-g or the posting of cash | foe smote the hearing of our peaceful 3 = e : sa Hervert L. Dayis, former auditor of | hienethe Iore aDDa g e the District Supreme Court and a Pi-| carrying boldness so far as to attac oneer advocate of compulsory automobile | settlements and towns, carrying liability insurance as a means of strik- | stock from before people’s eyes and ing at the irresponsible driver, placed | murdering citizenis even in sight of his stamp of approval on the new pro-|their camps. Every town and hamlet posal. became a fort. | cussion, the task of working out a new to| bureau, and had offered his check for $500 in settlement of charges against him. The check was cashed, the witness said, but the Indictment still stands. idential appolntees, the council not car- | ing to include the members of the Board | * Commissioners and the Public Util- | e e mosd ormea of the | The witness could not remember the (o< motion. Thit suggestion was made by | ta number of prescriptions given Mrs. Dr. George C. Havenner, president of | Funer . ’ Morris Rodman, pharmacist, told of the Federation of Citizens’ Assoclations, | o ¥ s rmacist, who is chairman of the council. [AliDe feowe ot he dprescy fotions nd “ .y narrated that on one occasion Mrs. + Vivian Tillman, her sister, who w: g‘l’,gfil:x:‘yn}"";afi‘;fl;g;‘f":“‘;, "golfg’:_- jointly indioted with her, but who ob- 50 consequently no mention of a likely :g:};fi:h‘xug;gf_{] 100 28, BcpaTate sl Successor to Maj, Hesse was made, Mr. | UDIough AUOess RS Bnt Cob. riny Roberts, however, did voice protest| o oec examination today by Attorney against the “outrageously” low Salary | Bosecct 'who sqhght to bring out a which the office pays. ! statement that the changes in the fig- Affairs Given Attention. | ures on the prescriptions might have 5 . . | been made in the drug store to cover up | In view of the incoming COnBIeSS | horigges of prescriptions to meet the numerous District aflairs were given Soor 2888 O BrC O o itness de the attention of the council last night,| nieq that alterations had been made in rticularly the method of presenting ' {pat manner. = recommendations for major improve = | ments 1o the Budget Bureau, On mo tion of Mr. Stengle, after a warm dis- — New York State department of edu- cation will ask the Legislature for $101,- 962,000 for school purposes. arrangement for the handling of Dis- trict estimates was committed to the | council as a whole. It was the general opinion that the neighborhood eitizens® associations should submit their rec- ommendations - for improvements in fample time fo the council. A need for a change in the present system was felt, as it was declared the present arrangement permits the District Com- | missioners to lay all the blame for re- duced estimates on the Budget Bureau ‘a policy which admittedly was not i garded as popular with certain mem- {bers of Congress. i | During the discussion of budget mat- i ter Mr, Stengle declared that the { bureau should be removed from control of District finances. “We should ury !to bring the Government of the Dis- trict closer to the people who are gov- jerned” he deciared. “Who has more {intercst in protecting the people against {reckless expenditure of moneys than the taxpavers who contribute those Onevs? On motion of Mr. Roberts the coun- il adopted a resolution calling upon | the Sccretary of Commerce to have the { 1930 census show the number of per- | sons living in the District who retain residences i the several States. | lared e intormation, now lack- | ine would be mportant in connectivn | with the study of national representa- | tion for the D ict of Columnbia | The council tdok the occasion last | ighit to express by resolution iis thanks ! to President Hoover for retaining Lieut. | Col. U. §. Grant. 3d. in the office of | Director «f Public Buildings and Public | Parks n ke had heen (ransferre 1ty at the War College. i to | leggers were becoming frightened, it tales of risk detailed by liquor vendors, | ‘the added risks involved. Left to right: Marion Jardine, Adelaide Henry, Francisca McKenny, Adair Childress, Mary Henry, Louvie Moore, | stoner of prohibition, said that no cases | policy of the Prohibition Bureau to de- | brought under the Jones law had |vote its attention to the large opera- | reached a determination, and it was | tors among the violators aud to strike | fmpossibie to judge the effects of the |at the source of supply rather than to | legislation at this early date. Lowman | pile up innumerable cases against small | belteved that most of the reports reach- | eddlers who are only distributing ing the department concerning bootleg- | 2gents for the big law violators. gers quitting business were untrue. Lowman said that while there had Y 5 been a few arrests under the Jones law | Big Operators Always Named. throughout the country. no gauge a5 o Since the day the Jones law was | its effectiveness could be set until some | signed by President Coolidge reports | of the cases had been tried. He pointed have come from various sections of the | out that under the law it was necessary | for a Federal grand jury to return in- | country that bootleggers were aban- doning their illicit trade. Invariably | dictments against persons charged with these stories have said that the big prohibition law violations and to give | operalors among the violators were tak- | ing this action rather than face a ready 21,000 cases behind on prohibi- penalty of five years in prison and a | tion. % maximum fine of $10,000. The penalty,! Commissioner Doran agreed with | however, may be set by the judge hear- | Lowman, saying it was too early to pre- | mg a case and may be no more than ict” what effect the Jones law would under the present law if the court so | have on the situation. But in the mean- | rules. time, it was pointed out, if the patrons | Coinci of the bootlegger believed the harrowing | 1 | dent with the report that boot- ) was related that the price of liquor was | they would contribute thousands of un- being doubled or tripled because of | carned dollars to the income of the law These types | violators. SOCIETY GIRLS WHO WILL TAKE PART IN FORT other vears, he naturally refers it to | M. O. Eldridge, assistant director of | People Strike Back. k- | them a trial in the Federal courts. al- | such cases.” | the Community Chest, where the case | traflic, declared himself “very much In is sent to the proper agency for care. | favor” of the principles involved in the “I know of one illustrative case that | safety-responsibility measure. W. H. was presented the members of & church, | Harland, director of traffic, a guest of | The family was in need and the church | the commitice. said that, while he had members were for helping them out. But | not studied the measure, the proposal | Community Chest contributors naturally | “looked good” from the point of view | saw that rcgunsxbilily Iny with the of traffic safety. Community Chest and the case was V ¢ { turned qver to the proper agency within | 1+ ¥- Noves Explains Principles. the chest. Before the time of the Com- | ‘Theodore P. Noyes, vice chairman of munity Chest that case would have | the committee, a national director of | been iaken care of in the church and | the A. A. A.. explained principles of th | the social agencies, most likely, would | measure. Others speaking in favor of never have heard of it. There are many ' the legislation included Chairman Of- nm] and Charles Clark, assistant gen- 9 v eral manager of the A.'A. A. Says Most Are Worthy. | The committee approved the tenta- Mrs. Ufford says that most of these | tive draft of the measure, which would cases representing the great increase | provide for mandatory suspension of the in the work of the social agencies are | driving permits of all persons found worthy ones. | guilty of serious violation of motor ve- She believes that the answer to the | hicle laws, definitely barring them from incrensed work of charity agencies un-| the road until tney have established der the Community Chest lies with the | satisfactory proof of their financial re- simplicity of pretending the request for | sponsibility against future injuries to relief or care to the central office and | persons or property: for the suspension having it referred to the proper agency. | of the driving rights of all persons against whom a final judgment estab- lishing the driver’s negligence has been | rendered legally. and who have failed | to meet such judgment. this suspensio ! to remain in effect until the judgment | has been satisfied and until a future | guarantee of financial responsibility has | been established, and for interchange! | of suspension rulings on negligent driv- | ers as between various States and the { District. | Owners Liable for Agents. | Under the proposed law owners of | cars would be held responsible for the | acts of agents with either expressed or imolied consent to operate their cars. ! “The people were not inert. Several parties were organized to pursue and punish the despoilers. In many cases, I am sorry to say, failure and disaster ttended them.” It was at this point that the genius of Carson as an Indian fighter was enlisted and a volunteer reigment placed at his disposal. The war with the Navajos already, according to his statement, had cost $30,000.000 in money and property and hundreds of ives. A typical skirmish of the Navajo War Is reporied as follows: “About four miles farther on Sergt. Naba sent me information that he ob- served several smokes about two miles ahead. Taking 65 men, I proceeded | cautiously toward the smokes until I approached within 200 yards, when I | halted & few minutes and deployed my ! men at open order. Then I ordered a ! charge. At this each man went for- ward with a cheer, charging the In- dians, who fled in confusion. leaving | their camp behind them and 13 women yand children, whom I instantly cap- | tured. A rapid and accurate fire was kept up by my men for about five | minutes on the Indians, who numbered bout 30 warriors. They lingered some ime in the thick underbrush, perhaps with the view of saving some of their ! women. I saw one of the Indians killed dead and another shot through the right side, but he succeeded in escaping through thick underwood. His son. a ittle boy of 10 vears oid, very intelli- ! was captured a few minutes |2 Navajos Were Destitute. A few days later he wrote: “Judging by their captives, the Navajos are des- ! titute. They are almost entirely naked Mr. Clark, Mr. Noyes and other mem- | and had it not been for a good growth bers of the committee emphatically ;of berries this Summer they must have urged a change from the present sys- | been without food of any’ description. tem of making left-hand turns from | The dread of being discovered by mv the far outside of “controlled” inter- scouting parties prevents them build- sections. charging that It caused con-|ing fires for warmth and adds to the | fusion, since it is contrary to the regu- | horror of their situation when all the | lation in force in most large cities | severities of the Winter in the moun- Rebecca Davidson and Mary Selton. where the “Hoover code” plan Is effe I'tive. It is confusing also, it was de-; | lared, because the inside, or “Hoover | code” plan, is required here on those in- | tersections not controlled by traffic lights or officers as well as on olher| | intersections at times when lights or | officers are not in use for traffic control. | Traffic Director Harland and Mr. 7ld- | 1 ridge, however, opposed a change in f" | | this regulation, upholding the present B in!an as safer and volcing objection to | the uniform system for left-hand turns, thev contended. in such cases | | because, drivers would have to pass the red sig- nal lizht of the street into which the —Star Staff Photo. | turn was being made, . - tains must be borne by them.” Successful in fighting them, Carson understood his Indians and conside: them from the standpoint of a states- man. After he had rounded up about 3.000 of them and herded them in a reservation he urged that they be treated falrly and said: “I am confident that in a few years they can be made & source of wealth to the territory instead of its tmpoverishers.” In the unexplored territory in which the campaign was fought, Carson dis- covered relics of an old ecivilization which he attributed to the teaching of the Indians oy the Spanish mus:.on- arics %