Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1929, Page 18

ATENRY BOND TELLS OF TAY ADVANCES .Solving o( Problems Before; : Internal Revenue Bureau : Is Described. The administrative business of han- . dling Federal taxes, before the recent | ,revision of the Internal Revenue Bu-| ‘reau, was “threatened with a complete breakdown,” according to Henry Her-' rick Bond, who has resigned as As-| sistant Secretary of the Treasury, and ‘whose post still is vacant. ‘Why this breakdown was threatened, | why the whole machinery was ‘“clog- how the problem was attacked. | and virtually solved, is revealed by Mr.| ‘Bond in a farewell letter to employes of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. | Explaining that peals have de-| creased, and disposals of cases be- fore the Board of Tax Appeals greatly increased, Mr. Bond in his letter made public by the Internal Revenue News declares, “the results have been ex- tremely gratifying.” More Back Taxes Collected. ! “More money is being collected in| back taxes and a greater feeling of =atisfaction is evidenced by taxpayers| and their representatives as a result of | this work,” wrote Mr. Bond. Discussing_the revision accomplished during his 22 months’ of service, for which he has received the highest com- mendation from Secretary Mellon and other officials of the Government, Mr. Bond explained: | ““This has been & period during which the point of view of the whole organ- ization has been rather completely altered. “The accumulation of work before the Board of Tax Appeals and the | courts showed us that the course which | we were ?Ill'!lllfll was not one that could be followed indéfinitely. Some- thing was wrong. The machinery wase clogging. and the administrative end of the tax unit was threatened with a complete breakdown. Work Has Been Pushed. “I do not mean a congestion of the income tax unit or in the fleld, be- cause in these two divisions, the work was being pushed through even two years ago at a speed which was bring- ing it rapidly toward a current basis, but the speed with which this was done and the methods employed were pro- ducing litigation instead of agreements and payments of back taxes. tion and developed what we have | termed our ‘settlement policy.’ By it we mean the earnest endeavor to settle cer‘ain kinds of tax disputes by mutual concessions, because we must recogniz> that they are not the kind of problems that can always be solved by mathe- matical formuiae. The application of this first was made through the spe- clal advisory committee. Later, the review division in the general counsel's office was created for the same purpose, and almost simultaneously authority was given the unit to carry on their work in the same spirit and along the same lines. “The results,” declared Mr. Bond. “have beerdl extremely gratifying. the past fiscal year, we have had lhm 1,000 fewer appeals, and 4,700 more disposals of board cases than in the | previous fiscal year—a gain of 6,600. | The accumulation in the board is di appearing. More money is being col- lected in back taxes, and a greater feeling of satisfaction is evidenced by taxpayers and their representatives as a result ot this work.” FIRST-AID CHAMPIONS GO TO KANSAS CITY| | Maryland Team Awarded Cup will | Compete With 800 Teams From All Over World. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. FROSTBURG, Md., September 14.— Maryland's champion first - ald team, awarded the silver loving cup at the first-aid meet held recently at Frost- City, Mo, to compete with 800 teams from every sec: tion of the globe in the International | First-Ald Meet. This team competed with 26 at the State-wide meet and averaged cent. At the meeting in Pittaburg] !'0 years ago, it won fourth prize and be- came the Maryland champlon. 'l'he members of this team—Edward . Baker, captain; George Pinzel, James | po! “Warner, Charles Baker, Roy E. Crowe and Prank M. Kenzie, patient—are fire | clay miners, employed by the Union | Mining Co. of Mount Sav nd resi. | dents of Pinzel, Garrett inty, sev- eral miles from Frostburg. SCHOOL MEETING. Virginia Highlands Parent-Teacher| Seesion Monday. Special Dispatch to The Star. VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS, Va., Septem- ber 14—The Parent-Teacher Associa- tion of Nelly Custis School will Mld its first meeting of the new school U Monday night at 8 o'clock in the lenool Following the business meeting & reeeption will be held in honor of the two new members of the faculty, Miss Meta Glasseock, who will serve as prin- cipal this term, and Miss Virgle Warner, both of whom taught last year at the | Mount Vernon Elementary School in Potomae. Nelly Custis School will open on Mon- day morning for the new session. . Marriage Licenses. o) A, Hart, 36 ary L. Herning, Jopn A, Mart, 36 and Mary " Albert_Jenkin: d Loura B, New, Poth of Richmo Jahn. B lnd Oll't C utus E. Ro ger, n‘ both of ore, Md ; Rev Mhnl m.u Proctor. 37. Newburs, %‘ . Queen, 21, Mt, Victoris, » e M flfl lh. 23, A, votn o li'-l‘mm. 2:,'3;. e l;'hb.l- ; nn 4, and Ruth fer. 31 4 Nelen O. Stout- och M) ll u bnnm ra e M th-n buu. 3); and Thelma R. Horner, 35 d Mary L. Gaines, and Afhie Renslev. Y".T bot‘)'?'m“:hl’n‘én;n‘ Margaret E. Deaths Ree;rtecl The, ‘gleninesdsste Mo SteE TN | us E’r"“:; ARy ..?'...‘,f::‘:%l:...n. “'afu e Cucchlars, 44, Georse Washing« 'lln f) tunn ollmn. 20, United g, 8, @i&fi 2 i v . 36 ol on's “Hopital. tember 18, Rev. | —Working with enumo d&c\my be- . | tetheim said: Presentation ceremony at Franklin F. C. Daniel, prinel of the Advertising trophy came, and Dr. Frank W. Ball DATA ON RUSSIA 1 “Traveling Foreign Mmlster" to Return From China by Way of Siberia. ‘There- | Achievements of Former Asi- fore, we deliberately faced the situa- | atic Fleet Commander Rec- | ognized as Important. i BY WILLIAM RUFUS SCOTT. Admiral™ Mark Bristol, “traveling foreign minister” of the United States, | is to return home from China, where he has just given up command of the | American Asiatic Fleet, by ‘way of | Vladivostok, Siberia, and Soviet Russia, according to advices received here. ‘The diplomatic achievements of Ad- miral Bristol have given him an un- usual place among naval officers. In ‘Turkey he played a vital role in diplo- macy during the earlier days of Kemal Pasha’s revolution and for the last year or more he has been playing such L\uln“lh in China during troubled condi- Hence, his return to Washington by | way of Siberia and Russia, including | passage along the border of Manchuria, now marked by a near state of war, will {l" him an opportunity to- bring first-hand information about the situ- ation in those areas, provided no later change in itinerary is made. Route Open Despite Trouble. crossing Siberia to Viadivostok after a | visit in Moscow. the' pasage, to and | from the Far Bast on that route mani- | festly is perfectly feasible. Even' in | the event of violent hostilities on the | Manchurian ' border this route likely | would remain open, as the line over which young Rockefeller is passing, or Admiral Bristol may use, is entirely on Russian territory in Siberia. The line in dispute between Russia and China is {: H.lnchllfll mmcun‘ with the Si- Bomr. nuthorluu E‘lunuy will welcome a visit by Admiral Bristol, be- cause Moscow understands fully his competency, not only in naval ques- Slonie, but i diplomacy, and that even it he m-ku virtually a_continuous sage to Europe he will acquire vew- u of much significance to Russia as well as to the United States. If Admiral Bristol should make a leisurely Yn-ue through Russia _he will be able to give the Department of State the best and latest information on actual conditions in Russia lhn has | been received to date, Without consular _or other omclul representation in Russia, the United States must depend upon more o: less roundabout sources of information, but | despite this handicap Washington has { & much mare accurate knowledge of t! literal position of the Soviét regime than mllht be supposed by the average citi- The intimate study Admiral Bristol has made in the last year or more of the Nation-wide contest to select a protege for Thomas A. Edison, the aspirants. At the left of the picture is Max Felstein, father of of McKinley High Scheol. f Washington; Morton: H. Goldenb erg, kn‘"“ of sc hools, who made l.( presentation. As_John D, Réckefeller, 3d, now is | 5 THE School yesterday SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTO when Milton Felstefn, whe wa sthe entrant of the Distriet in received (he Edison radio trophy that went to each of Milton, with his son; standing at Milten's left s from which he was entered: Charles J. Columbus, managing director | representing the establishment through which the Mh —S8tar. Staft Photo. | B the state of | Parahyba, } The [ Mareh 1, 1930, p. ¢.. SEPTEMBER BRAZIL MAIORITY { Presidential’ Candidate Named, With Soares Choice for Secondary Position. ——a By Cable to The Star. RIO DE JANBIRO, Septemiber. 18.— Delegates hvm 17 mtu and t-l‘m fed. " eral a jor i grou, o.n.nu nunl :ulln Prestes de AE e and Vital Soares, Con- servative-Repul bllcl-n candidates for ncy and vice presides mne’- mass meeting last n&?mec P e position ela post of chief executive. resent governor of the state of Bahia. g‘hey wm”b: candidates for the period le-dem o{ the ubenl plrty are schegiuled meet 20 to select mek cardidates, who are ex- pected to be Getulio Vargas, governor Rio Grande do Sul, for president, and Joao Pessoa, governor of for pl‘.flell ential election will be held LANS IS I, CHILDREN’S HOME DRIVE. Campaign to Be Waged in Danville for $5,000. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., September 14.—The | Children’s Home Soclety of Virginia has | organized a drive in Danville next mllmzn’lul;el:! of the urns’hllon. x Judge Kerr | Harris of tne ]uvenlla and domes- uc rem:onl mu here. not received the en- | ol the Danville Communit) preparing for its annual ef- t.ree wants of local charl- ort. ties In one ef Tuesday to secure $5,000 towards the | but 15,1929 P, CHEST WORKER CONTINUES TASK FAVORS PRESTES| EIGHT MONTHS AFTER CAMPAIGN 1. W. Barse,.76, Makes Com- plete Canvass, Although Drive Ended in February. Collects Instaiiments and _ Gets New Subsoribers in Attempt to “Finish Job.” His colieagues closed vass but J. W. Barse, whose 75 years had uucm Mm to vere, continued. ‘the chest were wrwuefl 1o learn that & :ofiun can- vuur 'l‘l‘::ll':‘m It " " .“ M. Barse, they mn. amnm & 800d fob he did of 1, too. Al , Mr. Barse was not the least hnr ut the report he rendered. ‘Worked for Eight Months, ‘The canvasser, who lives at 1363 B wunr. mnnn. him for his services him to clean up the odds uld of his territory. Mr. Barse received one of the letters, was unable at the time to “clean territory. Several months later . Batse set out to finish the \ulninl uj mureeu In gh pemnl receipt, personally, in collecting mnnllmenu on the puan- up to & few any iyllu work came to the attention of officials when two women who had con- ADMIRAL BRISTOL WILL GAIN EN ROU',I'E HOME| ADMIRAL BRISTOL. Chinese politics will be lupphmenked' by the Russian trip in an important | way, in view of the friction now over Chinese and Russian problems in ti Far East with American interests a. fected directly in a commercial sense. China Shows Aggressiveness. China is showing an aggressiveness in sceking to abolish the treaty privi- | leges of the United States, commonly | known as extraterritorial rights, as in- dicated in the note reeeived last week the Department of State, that al wm make a personal reYun h%hAdmlr Bristol especially timel en the United States will reply to this Iatest | Chinese note has not been announced. «The Russian visit of “John D grandson was made as one of the sec- | retaries of the conference on Pacific re- lations to be held next month in Kyoto, | Japan. With executives of that con-| fercnce Mr. Rockefeller, who is about every phase of Far Encern problems, although governments are not nfl!clllly sponsoring the conference. Moscow in- | icated that it would have only an bserver” at the conference, but this can be made practically the representa- tion by Russia that was sought. | Since the present issue between Ru! a and China is certain to be debated. interest in presentiny Durh) his visit to Russia Mr. Rockefeller has.| had noteworthy attentions. Whether | he talked “oll” is not reported authori- | tatively. In general, the Soviet is| mainly concerned that he, and other | Americans, shall what is a fact, that the Soviet is holding a firmer grip | upon Russia than most outsiders be- | lieve is true, and that Soviet Russia, after 11 years, is fomg concern which more and more will have to be taken into account in world trade nnd inter- national politics. Admiral Charles B. ).chy is the successor to Admiral Bristol in com- | mand of the Asiatic fleet, enced by Forelgn Wa By the Associnted Press. KANSAS OITY, Kas, cause of the cold and lack of definite Iu{:rm!:n eommmu lunmnn 138 bodies of Anmun w«n&" w-r dug. buried in northern Russia, late ber. graphic word picture of difficulties uud«r which the bodies are htlnl Te- covered was received here today by Capt. R. B. Huny ‘Adjutant General of the Veterans of United States. The story of recovery of part of the bodies was written by Capt. Edwin 8. Bettelheim, jr, Wash- m.wn, vice-ehairman of the commis- wnun' from Archangel, Capt. Bef- Water in Graves. “The work proceeded during a cold rain storm with two feet of water in the grave holes. Only ten bodies could be recovered the first day, The bodies were placed in zine ets and her- metically sealed. “In order o combat the chilly north Russia atmosphere, we all are dressed in hcavy Russian shirts and breeches tucked in h Russian black boots. With a two- growth of beard, our pny looks like an ordinary group of “'.l‘h: Soviet l\mwrm- have given M"u"“‘“um' VB out”sdouting ;'.’r“ e various fron ts. One is worklu on the railroad front, whera much of the fighting of Bolshevik Iroopl nspired back in 1918. An- has been sent to the Koahh mm while still another is through the Dvina River distriet, 28 Rodies Recovered. HEADWAY MADE IN RECOVERING 128 AMERICAN BODIES IN RUSSIA | Washington Man Relates Hardship Experi- Graves of Dead Veterans. - .was placed in the hands of omclah Mf Foreign Wars of the | i < Group n Locatmg | | | the recovery of 28 bodies. Tt is ex- pected that virtually sll of th: 128 bodies will bé found. Most of the soldiers who died in the Russian campaign were from Mlehi Return of the bodies of the war the 'Veterans of Foreign Wars, because of inability of the United States War Department to entér negotiations with the Soviet government. rule never hu bsen recogn! l!nludm , making formal excl sible. t is planned to have an American Navy vesssl take the bodies aboard at Le House, Prance, and return them to the United States. Burial fll’oblbl{ | will be in the Nat'onal Cemetery al Arlington or some place in Michigan. Births Reported. The following_birth hnve been reported 1 the Realth “Depariment during the last Lyl Stk oy | nge Cl A and 1 l twi ‘or A lnd Qnfll M. Willett, Boy. Johndl )’ x Hc !hon. girl. . and Jane s, gir] Allen H. and Thubelh Gas & Nt O and Helolgs P lbert ‘p.' ane G Smier W a vde. 3. and "fn- In. h&:fl@m 5. er and, fif { 'f-'i' ioiets, two MM nmm re] have notified national Mln veterans here ol 26-Piece Silver Set 10-Piece Kitchen Set _ 50c a Week Electric Toaster 89c Very Special ‘Think of buying an elec- tric toaster, similar to the filustration 'above, for only 89c. One of our many “gifts” at give-away prices. One to a Customer Sterling ! THIMBLES thou.h a trifie hasy as to the duration | street southeast, returned a meticulous | o l. W. BARSE, —8tar Stafl Photo. tributed through him, telephoned the chest that two men were still soliciting. Investigation developed that the twq were Mr. Barse and E. J. Payne, s friend who was assisting him. The record ot Mr. Barse, according to Blwood Street, chest director, should be an example for other workers. Mr. Street said he regretted that Mr. Barse would be unable to have an active part in the forthcoming campaign, but that he hoped to have him attend several meetings and tell his 48 An in- DELEQGATE ELECTED BY FIRE AUXILIARY Mrs. J. L. Beales Susseeds Mrs. C. ‘W. Lee:in Jefferson District ‘Women's Organization. Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS, Va, Sep- tember 14.—Mrs. J. L. Beales was elected delegate of the Jefferson Dis- trict Pire Department Auxiliary Tues- day night at the suxiliary’s meeting in the engine house, succeeding Mrs. C. W. Lee, whose resignation from that office was made necessary by her recent election to the vice presidency of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of thz Virginia State Piremen’s Association. A resolution was adopted requiring members of the auxiliary to attend at least 8 of the 12 monthly meetings, except in cases of 1illness or other reasonable causeés for absence, before sharing in the fund raised each year to send the suxiliary to the annual conventions of the Virginia State Pire- men's Association and its suxfliary. | _ It was announced at the meeting by Mrs. Lucille Kidwell, chairman of the entertainment committee, that ré- hearsals for the auxiliary play have | been started and that it probably will | be ready for presentation im early De- mber. A committee 'u inted to solicit cakes and ples in Virginia Highlands and Aurora Hills for tne lulfllll’yl booth at the Jefferson District Department’s carnival, which will m here Monday and continue all next week. Plans for a Halloween dance October 31 were started also. Hotel Association Meets. " LYNCHBURG, Va. September 14 (Special) —Forty Members of group ene of the Southern Hotel Association gath- ered at the Virginia hotel Thursdsy night for their monthly meeun The group includes hotel men in and the Carolinas. The visitors were guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Young of the Vir- ginian at dinner and local ulelll save story spiration to others 3o “finish the job.” 4 musical program. Annual Sales Event Offering “Extra” Values—Starts Monday MORROW is the opening day of our Forty-first Birthday “Party” and we have searched the markets for months for extra values to give our friends. & g We invite you to join us in celebrating this event. 36 Pieces Complete Wallingford silverplate made by R. Wallace & Son, fully guaranteed. 26-piece includes 6 stainless knives, 6 forks, 6 teaspoons, 6 tablespoons; butter knife and sugar shell. ft.” NONE Very Special . . . Heavy Silver Plate Well and Tree large steak tray 3535, "500 & week. SILVER POLISH 19¢ Large jar of the silver 9¢ cream that we have used Qun\er in our stere for only 10c. surely ou will want a o{ this for your own "~ $5.95 latters, double vegetable dish, heavy silver plate for only Many other specials in silver pieces. NONE SOLD FOR CASH BUFFET POLISH 1 D pucpis. et what m to mm' you you on the aj Sen e 19¢ it lln hlzh quality hxm iture polish had left from our Radio Department. hm value. ALSO you receive the ten-piece stainless kitchen as illustrated above, all for $11.95. SOLD FOR CASH by thinking ahead. 69¢ 29¢ pint. half pint that we | yours now. A Birthday SANTA'’S On His Way YES—Santa Claus is already “selecting” for his pack, This is your oppor- tunity to save rcal money SAVE NOW ALARM CLOCK —Choice 52975 Mr. Schwartz says: It is most gratifying in- deed to know that we have been of service to jewelry buyers for Forty-one years. Away back in 1888, vlwn a young man. 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