Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1929, Page 13

—, . WASHINGTON GAR FARE HEARINGS WILL BE RESUMED ~ WITHW.R.E. CASE Affirmative Arguments Before Commission Expected to " Cover Three-Week Period. HOLD RATE RETURNS TOTALLY INADEQUATE CommisSioner Hartman Will Have Freer Hand Than in Traction Company Case. Public hearings on the petition of the Capital Traction Co. will enter their fourth week tomorrow. - When the hearing is called to order by Chairman Mason M. Patrick of the Public Util- ities Commission the Washington Rail- + Wway & Electric Co. is expected to begin to put on its affirmative case. It took the Capital Traction Co. three weeks to do this and there is no reason to suppose that it will take the railway any less. Both companies are asking for an increase in car fare to 10 cents cash, four tokens for 30 cents. The present rates are 8 cents cash, six tokens for .40 cents. ‘The Capital Traction Co. filed its petition for an increase June 13, ask- ing that the Washington Railway & | Electric Co. be made a party to the case, but on July 1 the latter company, in answer to an order by the commis- sion making it a party to the case, filed an independent petition for an increase of fare. This is the petition on which evidence will be introduced tomorrow. Returns Claimed Not “Fair.” ‘The petition sets out that the fair value of the company and its railroad subsidiaries as of December 31, 1928, ‘was $19,210,899.39, and that the com- pany earned a rate of return on its value of 3.94 per cent in 1927 and 4.0 per cent in 1928. For the 12 month: ended April 30, 1929, the company claims to have earned a rate of 3 per cent on its true value. These rates, the company contends, are not “fair” returns. On the contrary, thev are “totally inadequate, unreasonable and confiscatory of its property and rights, by reason of which this respond- ent has been deprived, and is being deprived, of its rights and of due proc- ess of law guaranteed to it by the Con- stitution of the United States.” The company says further that since ‘its present rates of fare were established (1922) it has never earned a fair re- turn upon its value, and that the re- turns earned have varied between 4.34 and 3.86 per cent. If this rate of fare is continued, the petition holds, “its property will continue to be confis- cated and used by the public without just compensation and contrary to the Constitution of the United States and without due process of law.” Even after the higher fares sought are granted, “should they be _gfanted, the petition holds that the ipany would still re- ceive less than a fair 'return on its value. Nothing is stated in the peti- tion as to what the respondent would consider a fair return. Freer Hand for Hartman. Commissioner Harleigh H. Hartman, who asked countless searching questions during the introduction of evidence by the Capital Traction Co.’s case, will have a_ freer” hand with the railway case. In the former case, objections by the company’s lawyers restricted him pretty generally to entries on the -com- pany’s books subsequent to January 1, 1925, the date on which the $25,000,000 valuation fixed by the District Court of | Appeals became effective. No such court determination has ever been made of the Washington Railway & Electric Co.s value, and there seems to be nothing that would prevent questions by Mr. Hartman on entries in the com- pany’s books since the beginning of its history in the horse-car days. R. Bowen, vice president and counsel, and John S. Barbour, associate counsel, will present the case for the company. ‘The most outstanding development of the past week was the flling by the com- mission of an outline merger plan which it would approve, with any modification of detail which might be agreed upon by the companies and the commission. This plan, a 24-page document, was “sprung” on President John H. Hanna of the Capital Traction Co. without warning last Tuesday. But Mr. Hanna has not yet replied ‘whether his company would approve such a scheme or not. It follows close- | ly the model of the original Wilson | merger plan, with the modifications adopted by the Senate District commit- tee, and important changes written in by _the commission itself. One of the changes that has escaped notice thus far is that the commission plan, in setting a two-year period during which fares shall remain stationary, se- lects the fares as they were on August 1, 1929. The plan was submitted Au- gust 13 and, of course, on August 1 the fares in effect were the 8-cent-cash, six-tokens - for - 40 - cents rate against which the companies are appealing. As- suming, therefore, that the companies as & result of the present rate case ob- tain some increase of fare, and that the merger legislation is passed at the next session of Congress, the fares would automatically revert to the present level, A few of the “beggars” at the Zoo who have been victimized by mischievous boys and some well thinking grown-ups with little knowledge of the gastronomic abilities of bear and monkeys. At top: The grizzled old elephant asking for peanuts. ywer left (inset): The hippo opens his “trapdoor” for a handout. Below: Bruin sits up hopefully. —Star Staff Photos. ANIMALS ABUSED BY 200 VISTORS Pranks Cause Injuries and| Deaths, in Spite of Keepers. ‘The animals at the National Zoologi- cal Park. have due cause to wonder, now and then, why their visitors behave like human beings. Curiosity, malice, carelessness and ignorance on the part of people circulat- ing among the cages result in a great | deal of unnecessary punishment to the captive creatures. Perhaps the single factor of ignorance | works the greatest mischief, although there are occasional acts of deliberate brutality. W. H. Blackburn has had many such acts brought to his attention. Speaking generally, however, Mr. Blackburn has much to say in praise of the behavior of the some 2,500,000 persons who file through the park gates each year. It is to be expected, the headkeeper said, that such crawds must contain a few miscreants and vandals—individuals whose acts seem to establish their right to a place behind the bars themselves. In particular, there was the case of two black bears living amiably in a cage. They got along very well until oné day a visitor came to the edge of the den eating peanuts. He extracted one from the bag and threw it to the bears, aim- ing it at a point directly between them. The beasts jostled each other when they. scrambled for it. Plainly a Mischief Maker. After that the man is known to have thrown peanut on peanut into the cage, dropping them where they would work the most mischief. The good nature of the bears broke under this treatment, and presently they set upon each other with great ferocity. The next day deep flesh wounds, ripped by fang and claw, bore evidence of the price of one man’s idle curiosity. It took months’ for the wounds to heal. Not long ago the Zoological Park became the happy hunting ground of a group of boys who had armed them- selves with rubber bands and. large and remain there for two years. In this connection it should be noted that the old plan provided for only one year of stationary fares. W. R. T. Out of Merger. Under the commission plan, the ‘Washington Rapid Transit Co., which operates the line of busses on Sixteenth street, is left out of the merger. After the two rail companies are merged into the new Capital Transit Co., the bus company would be bought up at an ap- praisal approved by the commission, ©One of the features of the old plan that caused much criticism was that Harley. P. Wilson, majority owner of the stock in the company, would have been naid $1,146,000 for the bus company, which has been losing money steadily for some time. The capitalization of the new com- pany under the commission plan follows closely that under the Wilson plan; au- thorizing an_initial- capitalization of $49,991,000, of which $12,000,000 is in 7 per cent preferred stock, $19,883,000 in common stock and $18,108,000 in fund- ed debt. No valuation is established for the new company. There is a provision that rights accruing to the respective merg- ing parties shall be preserved to the new company. The valuations will have no bearing for two years, however, while the rates remain fixed. * The two years ‘would probably afford enough time for a valuation of the new company. Deny -Rebel Victories. WILLEMSTAD, Curacoa, August 17 (#) —Rumors that the Island of Ma . garita and the Port of Carupano were in the hands of Venezuelan revolution: ists were denled today in official Vene- zuelan government reports. y wire staples. Morning after morning the keepers found staples littered over the floors of the monkey, seal, bear and cat cages. Too, the occupants exhibited welts upon their bodies. The guards became alert for a sign of the offenders, but they were too wary. Meanwhile monkeys, seals and cats nursed their wounds. One seal had been hit and lost the sight of an eye. A polar bear received a bit of steel in his paw, a circum- stance which was not discovered for several months. The Zoo some years ago came into possession ‘of several great tortoises. Soon a guard found that one.had a fractured shell. It dled, and a second died from the same cause. Visitors, in- vestigation developed, had been shieing small - stones at the tortoises, to see them hurry as they crawled about the pen. Others Are Plagued. ‘The seals and sea lions were plagued in a similar manner. If they lolled in the water, people wanted to see them climb to the edge of the pond, or. if out of the water, people wanted to see them dive in. To accomplish this pur- pose they threw light stones at them and several received broken result, since the heads of seal and sea lion are covered by a fragile shell of bone. nl:nat casualties due to visitors are the result of ungroper feeding. Few laymen realize what delicate digestive In his 38 years at the Zoo, Headkeeper | rm. skulls as a | his he Sunday St WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1929—PART 1—-SECTION 2 YOUTH BUILDS PLANE WISELY. BUT TOO WELL, TEST REVEALS one Monday morning, the day after Easter. Approaching the hippopota- mus cage, he found a little girl feeding | the great animal something from a gayly decorated basket she had on her The headkeeper drew near; much to his astonishment he saw -that the ca- pacious,. yawning mouth: of the hip) was almost full of Easter eggs of t) brightest design and color. " The little irl was ‘just in the act of putting the Lst of a dozen eggs into the mouth when Mr. Blackburn halted her. The Zoo official hastily entered the cage and sought to restrain the hippo from taking that nourishment, but just as he reached his side, the animal tilted his head and swallowed the eggs. He recovered, however, although there was great concern for his welfare for some days after. There was the case of Diana monkey, a particularly valuable specimen, beau- tifully furred, bearded and widely Xo - lar with the people who visited the park. Many of them the monkey knew on sight, and she would greet them with every, show of happiness at the meeting. Laurel Leaves Fatal. ‘The monkey lived in high esteem at the Zoo for 14 years, an unusually long period of captivity. Then her career was terminated one day, cruelly and much to the sorrow of her many friends. .Someone, a well-dressed and apparently intelligent. man, fed. her a quantity of laurel leaves. She died shortly later in convulsions. ‘The same-fate befell a group of un- usually fine Angora goats. . An unwary visitor had thrown laurel leaves into their zen, and all died with the excep- tion. of one tough -old Billy goat. His digestion stood the test, as it probably would a more trying one, but not all snimals have such strong digestive equipment.: Some time ago a visitor gave an old world monkey a Brazil nut, which the little ereature deposited -in his pouch and then was unable either to swallow or spit it out. » An operation ‘was necessary to re- move the nt, and the patient had to be put on a liquid diet for ;eev:)nl months ' “while the wound led. Carelessness claims an extraordinary heavy toll in the antelope house. These dainty, nervous creatures are li- able. to stampede in great terror at the slightest unusual sight or sound. Their frall limbs are often broken when they dash in a panic into the confines of their cages. ‘Once ‘a group of boisterous school- boys were circling the concrete floor of the cage on roller skates.. The result- ing panic among the antelope cost several lives and-a number of broken bones. | At another time an artist had set up his easel before an antelope cage when the flash of his sketching paper, as he fixed it to. the board, sent intended .subject against the wall in a mad flight. ‘The artist, like the schoolbays, had to be asked to desist. Another time ther. setting. up his tripod camera: before the cage of a Rocky Mountain sheep, so systems and bodies the birds and ani- mals have, even the larger ones. Tragedy usually results” from this lack of knowledge, but there are comic in- , too, mon‘;‘m of them Mr. Blackburn recalls with a chuckle. He was down early the fence and broke his ‘neck. Dogs, although forbidden the grounds unless kept in automobiles, sometimes stray into the confines of the park and in° the vieinity the ‘nete have been instances where dogs bur- rowed under the wire and attacked the deer. Vigilance Against Feeding. A particular vigilance is maintained to prevent outsiders from: feeding the animals. The bears and monkeys, how- ever, rarely suffer from what they may eat in this way, but, unless restricted, the visitors show a persistent tendency to throw their offerings into the with great force, apparently with the hope of exciting the occupants into some amusing action. For the most part, however, the birds and beasts have delicate digestive or- gans, and require & highly specialized diet, particularly adapted for individual requirements. Many animals are fed as scientifically and carefully as a pampered baby. Notable among these is N'gi, whose ra- tions are given with great exactness and care. They have been planned by a baby specialist,- and any variation from them probably would result fa- tally for the infant gorilla. Although Mr. Blackburn attributes no few of his gray hairs to the devious ways of some of the visitors, on the whole he is enthusiastic about their consideration, evident kind-heartedness and understanding. A In this opinion he is heartily sec- | tice, onded by Dr. W. M. Mann, for the past five years director of the National|lic Zoological Park. 45 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR IMPROPER LIGHTS Forty-five motorists were arrested last night by Policemen K. P. Greenlow and Raymond Sinclair of the Traffic Bureau for having improper headlights and posted collateral at the second and ninth precinets. Al of these persons forfeited. Cator P. Pyles, 1244 R street, and William -A. Williamson, 905 Third street southeast, both colored, appeared in Trafic Court . -yesterday and were charged with driving on expired"permits and with r rear lights. Judge John D. McMahan gave sentences of $10 or five days on the first charges and a $2 fine on the second in both in- stances. Sinclair and Greenlow said that they specialized on cases of lights last night and rounded up the 45 people in a few hours. Work of Cleaning Statues in Capital To Begin Tomorrow Cleaning of lfiml'.lhles of fa- the National the con 3 Bros. ‘The statue of John Paul Jones, mear the Tidal Basin, at the foot of Seventeenth street, will be the first one cleaned, the contrac- tor | HEAT WITH RECORD At prese: cages | buildings RESIDENTS COMBA AMOUNT OF WATER Daily Average Here Since July 22 Has Ranged Above 90,000,000 Gallons. 102,775,000 GALLONS SET RECORD JULY 31 Officials Believe Increase Due to Effort to Keep Cool by Fre- quent Bathing. Washington has been combatting the | !5 combination of heat and drought of the last three weeks with an unprecedented use of water, according to figures com- plled yesterday at the water depart- ment. Although 170,000,000 lons is con- sidered the average daily consumption and any quantitv in excess of 80,000,000 as an abnormal amount, water depart- ment records show that since July 22 consumption has been less than 80,- 000,000 gallons a day in only two stances, and has ranged consistently lbetween 90,000,000 and 96,000,000 gal- ons. Record Reached in July. ‘The greatest amount consumed in any 24-hour period was recorded July 31. The consumption then totaled 102,- 775,000 gallons, and on the following dnivl it dr_;gped llllchuy ':k 101,797,000 gallons. e previous peak consump. tion, recorded in July, 1928, was 000,000 gallons. The record-breaking consumption of more than 102,000,000 gallons came at the end of a protracted heat spell when the thermometer had registered 90 grees and higher for nine consecutive days. The closest approach to that figure since was last Monday when 96,425,000 gallons were used. There was but slight variation in that figure through the remainder of the week, Increase Laid to Bathing. ‘The abnormal consumj ol ption water department officials belleve is due pri- | marily to the efforts of the people of Was! to cool through fre- quent, Baths, although the long period | of drought which increased lawn sprink- ling has been a dominant contribut- ing factor to the never-before-equaled record of more than 102,000,000 gallons., In past years such a consumption probably would have caused a serious water shortage. In fact, lawn sprink- ling was curtailed and consumers were warned to economize when the daily use exceeded 65,000,000 gallons. The new Dalecarlia reservoir with its unlimited supnly, however, has removed’ all fears of a shortage and economizing restric- tions on the use of water. PLAZA FUND PLANS WILL BE TAKEN UP Buildings Group to Meet Soon to Consider Proposal for Increase. ‘The Public Buildings Commission will be called together at an early date, probably this week, to c ler the pro- posal to have Congress increase the amount authorized for the Federal building program -in the Pennsylvania avenue-Mall triangle. ‘The purpose of increasing the au- thorization would be to speed up the carrying out of the entire program to meet the urgent housing needs of the Government departments. The forth- coming meeting of the commission will be the first devoted primarily to dis- cussion of this question since President Hoover made it known, early last month,-that he expected to recommen: an additional authorization for the con- struction program. : nt the total authorization for in the triangle is $50,000,000, and for purchase of land in the tri- angle, $50,000,000. Existing law limits to $10,000,000 the amount that can be spent annually for construction work here. It was made known last month that what the President had in mind ‘was an annual app tion of $2,500,- 000 for 10 years, in addition to the $10,000,000 annual limit now placed on the Federal construction program in the District. This step would make possible a steady rate of progress during the next 10 years on the entire layout of structures contemplated when the triangle pro- gram was drafted. In addition to the construction work already under way on the Department of Commerce Building, Internal Revenue and the enlargement of the Department of Agriculture, the - Gesendent: Ofces “Buiiding e Pub: dent ui 3 Bul Commission mee! will be called Sénator Smoot of Utah, chairman. COMMISSION BUYS ‘FOURTH PROPERTY Garage and Storage Building Ac- quired in Municipal Center Project. aj ved the purchase of pmoot property on the site of what 'mu"mwy pe‘r?‘ o municipal center. property garage and storage building by the Joseph Phlilips Co., situated in an alley between John Marshall place, Pennsylvania avenue, Third and C streets. The price to be paid is $32,000, resenting 128 per cent of the assessed ue of $24,925. The sale was arranged through R. Marbury Stamp Co., real estate dealers. Under the terms of the sale, the Phil- ips Co. is allowed to rent the from the District at 6 cen! the purchase price until property is needed by CAPITAL VIOLINIST DIES. Robert” Cary Stearns Expires at !mk!lno, Mass. d | Camp Pleasant, in Blue Plains, D. C., it | arrested Luther Schmidt’s Model Cir- cles Over Field, Then Dis- appears in Distance. Has No Hopes of Seeing Ship Again and Starts to Build Another. Luther Schmidt, 14 years old, set out to win himself a reputation as an avia- tor. yesterday and met with a success which was surprising, and not a little disconcerting. ' Luther was one of & host of - sters who turned up bright ear] at Bolling Field yesterday for the quali- | fication and classification tests of the g:mfl of Columbia Model Aircraft | e. If a full appreciation of his success- ful failure is to be had, something of nd must be told. Luther has been struggling with the intricacies of model planes for about a year, anticipating the day when he would build one capable of staying in the air long enough to win him the much-sought designation of “ace.” He built several planes, hut none of them ‘would stay up for the prescribed period. Profited by Mistakes. The boy profited by his mistakes, however, and nmllzl he built a plane which he felt would surely meet the test. Luther worked until late Friday evening putting finishing touches on the little craft and at last had everything in working order. When his name was called at the fleld yesterday, he walked confidently to the starting line and placed his plane, an ROG scientific model, which must take off from the ground on its own power. At the proper signal he released the peller and the rubber-band motor an to turn. Faster and faster the a:t}: m{i’d rofkagc down the runway un- suddenly took to the air. Luther nu!r;i'nd l;u:k nnln'lm Wi a) climbed gracefully to a height of about 50 feet and then started circling overhead. Five minutes passed and Luther became an ‘“ace.” Eleven seconds more passed and it looked as though a record would be broken. ‘Then, for no apparent reason, an un- w;"'u“tnl:e‘:’ trend of events set in. 's plane quit its graceful cir- cling and gen.n nosing away in the general direction of Bladensburg. Heart- broken, the young mechanic started after it on foot, but he had builded tco well. The very” perfection of his work proved his undoing. Plane Heads for Washington. ‘When last seen, the plane was a mere speck in the sky over Northeast Wash- ington. Fer all Luther knows it may now be heading out to sea on a trans- atlantic venture of its own. At any rate he has no hope of seeing it again and last night he commenced work on Ay He lives at 308 Buchanan stree As a result of the preliminary con- tests, 3 girls and 163 boys of the District, the metropolitan area of Mary- land and Arlington County, Va., were notified yesterday of their qualification and classification for the tournament | to be held September 3 to 6, inclusive. GENERAL NEWS I LUTHER SCHMIDT. Another record-breaking flight was made by John Sullivan, ace, when he sent up his R O G Fuselage plane for a flight of 3 minutes 36 seconds, to beat Frank Salisbury’s record of 3 min- utes and 10 seconds. Point winners in yesterday's coniests were as follows: Ace—First place, John Sullivan, 14| years, 10 points; five for first place R. O. G. scientific, five for first place O. G. fuselage. Second place, rerett Meeks, 14 years, nine poini five for first place seaplane, five for second place R. O. G. scientific. Class A—First place, Luther Schmidt, 13 years, 10 points, five for first place R. O. G. scientific, five for first place/ R. O. G. fuselage. Second place, Billy Street, 11 years, eight points, four for second place R. O. G. scientific, four for second place R. O. G. fuselage: Class B—Thomas Robins, 15 years, 10 points, five for R. O. G. scientifit five for seaplane. Class D—First place, Monroe Brand-! enburg, 13 years, five points for R. O. G. | scientific. Second place, Edward Nightingale, 11 years, four points for R. O. G. scientific. Class E—Richard Widmayer, 12 years, five points for R. O. G. scientific. Camp Letts Qualifiers. ‘The following final qualifications have come in from Camp Letts, where the Bruce twins have been acting as model afrcraft instructors, and these boys will join the other Camp Letts entrants in the tournament: Billy Alber, 1318 L street; Herbert Burkhart, | 6311 Connecticut avenue; Theodore Pleld. 3607 Lowell streef ‘THurlow Harvey, 2310 Ashmead place; Harry Willey, 3141 Mount Pleasant street.| Final qualifications in the District, in- clude Billy mpbell, 2301 Cathedral avenue; Edward Fawsett, 1693 Thirtieth William C. Johnson, 549 Ran- treet; Jack H. Nadert, 1806 y-seventh street; Billy Pettingill. 107 Washington avenue, Waverly Hills. Va.; John A. Ruppert, 3818 Twelfth street northeast. The three girls who have qualified for the tournament are Betty Jeffers, 6620 Sixth street north- west: Doris Griffin, 421 Whittier place northwest, and Frances Sullivan, sister of one of the aces, 1412 Twenty-ninth street northwest. The seven classifica- tions with the number of entrants in each for the coming tournament are: Aces, 9; class A, 9; class B, 9; class C, 14; class D, 38; class E, 30; class F, 61. streef VAGATION CAMPS PREPARE 10 CLOSE Mothers and Childrep Set New Attendance Record | ' This Season. ‘ | ST | More than 300 mothers and chil-! dren, who have been guests at Camp ' Goodwill, in Rock Creek Park, and at| for a two weeks' vacation, will return to their homes tomorrow and Tuesday upon the closing of both these camps for the season. ‘The camps have been in continuous operation for eight weeks, during which they have provided free of charge two-week vacations for nearly 1,300 mothers and children in four successive groups. ‘They have been conducted umder the auspices of the Summer outings com. mittee, which is financed through the Community Chest. Members of the Kiwanis Club, the Rotary Club and various firms in the city have given valuable assistance in ' furnishing transportation for the campers, while a large number of physicians, nurses ,and helpers in ted in camps have given their services free to the movement. All records of previous attendance in the two camps have been broken this season. There also have been fewer cases of illness, or homesick- ness among the children than before, while marked gains in weight and physical condition have been noted at completion of each group's stay in the camps. A concert by the United States Navy Band, followed by singing in the pa- vilion, under the leadership of the camp band; marked the conclusion of the season’s entertainment at Camp Goodwill Thursday evening. At Camp Pleasant, the children and mothers participated in a program of songs, dramatic scenes and old home dances before a group of staff of Camp Good Druggist Is Arrested. David B, Citrenbaum, A. Sanders and Charles tive feigned iliness and that he label it. 'vglm from the | divorce from his wife, Elizabeth Prince, to l';orney Dora Palkin appears for the us| ALLEGED SLAYER IS HELD FOR JURY Colored Man Is Charged With' Killing Sweetheart Follow- ing Earlier Threats. Cardozo Bell, colored, 28, was held for ; the action of the grand jury yesterday | by & coroner’s jury in connection with | the shotgun slaying Friday of his sweet- heart a week after she had sought pro- tection of the law against him, only to be told that her fears of the man's threats to kill her were groundless. Alice Metz, 25, of 14 I street north- east, the slain woman, had Bell arrested last week after he is alleged to have threatened to kill her. Following the usual preliminaries, an assistant United States attorney nolle prossed the case | when he became convinced that Bell in- tended no harm. According to police, Bell, who lives in the 400 block of Orleans place north- east, telephoned the woman Thursday, following his release, that he was going to kill her the next day. He kept his word, and at 851 N street, where the pair met Friday, Bell is alleged to have fired a shotgun pointblank at her. The woman died half an hour later at Freedmen's Hospital. Bell was fleeing the scene of the shooting with an angry mob of his sweetheart’s friends at his heels when Policeman Lester Parks of the second precinct placed him under arrest. At the station house Bell is said to have adrhitted the shooting. DIVORCE ACTION FILED. Dick Prince’s Petition Follows Raid at Former Home. i Dick Prince, 2012 Eleventh street, has filed a petition for an absolute as the result of a police raid at his former home, 344 K street southwest, | April 13. The husband tells the court he was married April 26, 1917, and has four” children, all in his custody. Last December, the plaintiff states, his wife began to “run around with other men” and when he would leave home for work at 2 o'clock in the mornln.l soldiers' would visit his home. A sol- dier stationed at the Army War Col lege is named as corespondent. At- “Bum Golfer” Blamed for Death of 74,100 Baby Trout in Glacier Park Hatcheries PAGE 13 DISTRICT T0 MAKE PLEA FOR CHANGE INFISCAL POLICY More Equitable Arrangement With U. S. to Be Asked at 2 Taxation Parley. GROUP IS DESIGNATED TO REPRESENT CAPITAL Experts, Bankers and Economists to Meet at Saranac Lake Next Month. Another effort to enlist the support of the nation’s tax experts, bankers and economists in the movement for the es- tablishment of a more equitable fiscal relations policy between the District and Federal Governments will be made by the group of prominent Washington men delegated by the Commissioners to represent the Capital at the annual conference on taxation of the National Tax Association at Saranac Lake Sep- tember 9 to 15. The Washington delegation is com- posed of Thomas Walker Page, na- i tionally known tax expert and econo- mist; William P. Richards District tax assessor; Joshua W. Evans, jr., execu- tive vice president of the District National Bank; William L. Beale, head of the real estate department of the American Security and Trust Co.; Robert V. Fleming, president of Riggs " | National Bank; Robert J. Cottrell, ex- ecutive secretary of the Washington Board of Trade; Edward F. Colladay and Frank J. Coleman, who was chosen to represent organized labor. One Meeting Already Held. ‘The committee has held one meeting since its appointment by the Com- missioners at which it discussed pre- liminary plans for its part in the con- ference proceedings and elected Mr. Page chairman, Mr. Richards vice chairman and Mr. Cottrell, secretary. These plans will be completed at an- other meeting to be held at Saranac Lake the day preceding the opening of the conference. The delegation which represented ‘Washington at the conference last year in Toronto, made a comprehensive study of the fiscal relations policy with the assistance of the tax experts and economists who gathered there, antl upon its return submitted to the Com- missioners a comprehensive report recommending a return to the former 60-40 division of expenses between the District and Federal Governments as the proper proportion. Convention to Be Sought. Although the committee has not mapped out its complete program for the conference it is expected to take & prominent part in the preceedings and impress on the tax experts who at- tend the need of a revision in the ex- isting fiscal relations between the Dis- trict and Federal Governments. The committee also wjll make an_effort to have the associatlon choose Washing- ton as its 1930 convention city, feeling that if the delegates come here they can become better acquainted with Washington’s tax and fiscal relations ISSUING PLANS FOR AUTO TAGS FORMED Buyers May Complete Transaction by Going to One Place Under New Law. _Final details of plans for issuing license tags for automobiles under the new law requiring that personal prop- erty taxes must be paid on the auto- mobiles before licenses are taken out were worked out yesterday at a confer- ence of interested officials in the office of Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro. According to the plans the would-be purchaser of a tag can get through the entire transaction of learning his assessment, paying his tax, and buying his license plate by going only to one place. Clerks will be stationed along a line outside the collector of taxes’ office. The first will notify .the applicant of the assessment on his car, the second will take his personal property tax and give him a receipt, and the third will issue the tags and give him his regis- tration card. These clerks will all be stationed in a line and the crowd will be kept moving swiftly through it. Owing to the wording of the new law which was passed et the instance of the Bureau of Efficiency, no tags may be sold until after January 1 in the year in which they are to be used. Hitherto the practice has been to start selling the tags in December so that by the time January 1 came around the car owners would be able to put on the new tags. Under the new law the tax must be paid before the license is issued. The tax is based on an assessment as of January 1, consequently no tag can be sold unptil after January 1. Among the officials who attended the conference were Tax Assessor William P. Richards, Traffic_Director William H. Harland, and_Superintendent of Licenses Wade H. Coombs. PRISONER IS WOUNDED IN ATTEMPTING ESCAPE Baltimore Youth, Trying Getaway From Occoquan, Is Brought Down by Guard. Shot through the left shoulder by a guard while trying to escape from the workhouse at_Occoquan, Va., Walter Davis, 24, of Baltimore, is in a serious condition at Gallinger Hospital. He is suffering from a fractured clavicle and is so weak that physicians at the hos- pital have not been able probe for the bullet. It is expected that he will be strong enough to stand the operation early this week. Davis was arrested by Washington “Some bum golf player,” who hooked 3 74,100 eres in fish culture, but the longer we live the more we learn,” and that it “has been brought forcibly to my attention that there is a vflt:g close connection, detri- culture.” mental to . line was discovered by The W. C. Bu ter, foreman of the park he had to dis- “The fry in one line of troughs were badly .smof " the bureau here was advised. “So much for ;:“u I knew lfers were hard on fish, but I thought t was usually when they got larger 2y 9.9 attached report shows: the loss of 74,100 directly traceable to some bum golf player.” police last Spring for joyriding. His six-month sentence will expire in January. Just before it was time for the pris- oners to retire to their dormitories last Monday night Davis made a break for freedom. He did not get outside the confines of the workhouse when he was brought down by a bullet from a .38 automatic pistol in the hands of one of the prison guards. Draws 90-Day Assault Term. Albert McGee, 400 block of K street, was sentenced to 90 days in jail by Judge Ralph Given in Police Court yes- terday when arraigned for the third time on assault charges by his wife. Mrs, McGee said that he came to the house on August 5, maltreated her and took away a number of her belongings,