Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1930, Page 20

GABLER CHARGED WITH SLAYING TWO Arrest Follows Shooting in " Motor Car After Attack and ! Wounding of Another. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, October 6—Erie Varble, 36, fl,lmhler and confidence man, was held jail today in eonnection with the sllytntt of two ’::l;’l lsh“(:“u'v death in a motor car e and the wounding u(‘ lg%{:nr. ‘Thomp- son, 28, insurance si . Oldom 1. Jeffries, 28, mechanic, and Jess Trowbridge, 36, were the men killed. Police expressed the belief they were shot by Varble as the result of a chance encounter after Varble had become intoxicated, following the ‘wounding of Thompson. Attack in Apartment. Returning to the city late Saturday night, Vnrfale went to the apartment of Lillian Rice, 21, and finding Thomp- son there attacked him. pson was struck on the head with the butt of a revolver. The weapon was dis- charged and a bullet entered Thomp- n's chest. anrh]: and Miss Rice then left and went on a drinking party. BUDGET’S CONTROL OF DISTRICT MONEY CITED BY DONOVAN (Continued From Page B—1) moneys deducted from salaries of police- men and firemen for their retirement fund, moneys paid in to redeem real tax sales, which belong to the holders of the tax sale certificates, the District acting as the agent in the | n, and numerous other moneys | transactio of essentially trust fund nature. Yet all the receipts of the three classes men- tioned are set up as receipts of the Fed- eral Government. “The District of Columbia appropria- tion act for the fiscal year 1823 very clearly establishes the individuality not only of the District receipts, but of the District obligations as well. provides, for instance: A * * After June 30, 1927, it shall be unlawful for any money to be advanced or for any money whatever to be pald out of the Treasury for District purposes, unless the District, at the time of such payment, had to its credit in the Treasury money enough to pay the 1ul _rg: centum required of it. * * ¢’ " act further provides * * And that the Commission- ers of the District of Columbia hereby are empowered and directed to ascer- tain, determine fix annually such rate of taxation as will, when applied as afercsald, produce the money needed to defray the share of the expenses of the District during the year for which the rate is fixed: and that the Commission- ers of the District shall, in accordance witn existing law, cawse all such taxes That act | THE EVENING STAR, and revenues to be mngéy collected, and when collected to be in the Treasury to the credit of the District for the purposes herein set forth, o ¢ &° “Might T suggest if you find the op- portunity that you read all of the first three paragraphs of the appropriation azt referred to, and I am sure you will eppreciate the fact that Congress does not intend that the Distriet's receipts or obligations shall i nany way be consid- ered as receipts and obligations of the Federal Government. Which brings us %o the consideration of the relationship to the District of essentlally Federal Tevenue. “Under existing law the United States pays from the Treasury 40 per centum of certain appropriations for the Dis- trict. ‘This per centum is a liability to be taken care of in the allocation of Federal revenues for appropriation pur- poscs. So that the estimates which the Commissioners may submit for any one year should not be regulated on the basis of total Federal revenues, but on the basis of what part of such revenu should be sct aside to meet the contrib tion of the United States for municipal 2Xpenses. This amount being deter- mined, the Commissioners could then prml:red to build the local budget accord- ingly. Not a U, S. Expense, “The error having been made in treat- ing District receipts as Federal moneys, the further error is made in considering the appropriation estimates of the Dis- trict as part of the expenses of the General Government. It musi be patent to one who takes the time to study the matter that the present practice in treating the District as a Federal de- partment, is absolutely wrong. “In 1909 Congress, by legislation, pro- hibited the Commissioners from sub- ly depumd" mitting appropriation estimates in ex- cess of double the amount of anticipated local revenues. Because this restriction prevented the Commirsioners from pre- senting for the information of Congress »1l the necessary apjropriation needs of ‘he District, Congress, after repeated recommendations of the Comm.issioners, repealea the law, and by the terms of ihe 192& District appropriation act gave the Commissioners the :ght to frame ine local budget without restriction . its total, The limitation which the Com- missioners were compelled to observe in preparing their principal estimates for 1624 was far more drastic in its effect tnan the act of 1909. In illustration of *his statement it might be sald that under the act of 1909 the Commission- | ers' budget for 1924 could have totaled approximately $30,000,000, as against tg: amount of $24,500,000 allowed by the Budget Bureau.” In replying a short time afterward, Gen. Lord, the former budget director, wrote that when these who e up the budget keep in mind the status of the District as a municipal corporation the questions raised “relate to a difference in point of view rather than to a differ- ence in principles involved.” Gen. Lord's answer read, in part, as follows Must Be in Budget. “T read your letter at the time it was received, but the pressure of work in connection with.all the estimates of the Government has prevented my sending you a reply. I was much interested in your view of the status of the District of Columbia in its relation to the budget law. It is recognized that the District of Columbia is a municipal corporation, and also that Congress, by the budget and accounting act, specifically included ‘the municipal government of the Dis- trict of Columbia’ in the terms ‘depart- ‘mzmdalh blishment’ and ‘depart, ment or establishment’ for the purpose of that Jaw. This clearly requires the estimates of the District of Columbia to be included in the budget which the President is to transmit to the first dn{ of each regular session. “When all those charged with the preparation of estimates and the making up of the budget for the President keep n mind the status of the District of Co- lumbia as a municipal corporation and the matters to which you refer in your letter, it seems to me the questions which you raise would relate to a differ- ence in point of view rather than to a aifference in principles involved. If one kaeps these matters in mind it does not in any way mislead him if he is consid- ering a District of Columbia estimate of $30,000,000 rather than considering an estimate of $12,000,000 as the con- trioution of the Federal Government to n estimate of the larger amount. The me thing is true with reference to the estimate of revenues of the Federal Government. If in compilin, 3y GARAGE PAINT EFORE “Jack Frost” comes 1o stay put a coat of paint on your metal garage and revent rust and corresion uring the winter. 607-609 C St. Telephone Metropolitan 0151 Congress on | he ‘WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, OCTOBE. estimate all the revenues of the District of Columbia be included in the total, it 18 not therefore an injury in any ma to the Distriet or an infringement hts or sovereignty. It might to an outsider 'ho":lnkes a hasty glance at the Governmen! res without any particular underetanding of the method of calculation or the purpose of the compilation, but to those of us somewhat familiar with the subject the use of the larger figure rather than the ! ner upon its in any sense misleading. System Never Changed. “I shall be glad to give the matter further consideration, but would hesitate at this time to give any expression of opinion as to what changes in methods | or in the publication of estimates of receipts and expenditures may be prac- ticable. However, I shall be glad to talk with you about the matter at the first | convenient opportunity, as I urulnly} desire to give consideration to any changes in any substantial degree the District of | rice and old shoes, wommn ne! Columbia or tend to a better under- of the subject by the taxpayers | Following this discussion the pro-| fore his marriage. cedure regarding the District budget | continued without material change un- | = subaitied o Cond h h erroneous as sul ngress each year has Swaller’ Pat Tiiten te ned o always contained a summary of the! estimated receipts and expenditures of the District government, but heretofore these District figures have been incor- porated in with the totals for the Gov- per ernment as a whole. | are considering this year, however, try- ing. ing to work out budget tables in a way will show a segregation of funds which are handled by the Federal Gov- ernment, but which do not belong to the Government, such as District revenues standin, of the that CAMELON, Englend, dure which will benefit | (N.AN.A).—Instend of the (Copyright, 1930, ewspaper Alliance.) The budget book delivered to you Budget officials Telephone the delivery ately. New Low Prices on Fine Quality Lexington Bed Sheets 54x90- Inch Sheets $1.05 $L15 Lexington sheets are sold exclusively in Washington at Lansburgh’s! They're of a heavy, closely woven quality—free from dressing and hand torn. Send them to any | Bridal Pair Get Mud Shower, | plastered John Ames and his h‘l& of Camelon, England, with mud because | Ames® wife had died only. a week be- by the North' American Subscribe Today It costs only about 11 cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- regularly cvery evening and Sunday morn- The Route Agent_ will col- lect at the and of each month, Several hours later Jeffries and Trowbridge were driving‘near Twelfth street and the Paseo. Passing a parked ecar in which a man and a woman sat, they stopped to answer to a hail, The man opened fire, fatally wounding both Jeffries and Trowbridge. Arrested _later, Varble denied the shooting. But Miss Rice told the police she and Varble were in the vicinity of Twelfth and the Paseo at the time and that he fired at two men. “They drove up beside us, and hc started shooting at them,” she said. “I don’t know why he did it.” Car Hits Light Pole. Varble and Miss Rice were arrasted after their car crashed into a light pole. Both were under the influence of } A Police said Varble had a revolver from which several bullets had been fired. Meanwhile, police had been called to Miss Rice's apartment, and Thompson was taken to a hospital. It was not discovered until after Varble and Miss Rice had left the apartment that ‘Thompson had been shot. He slumped &nbed'hmhemwtmthl’ d. Miss Robbie Bryant, 23, s stenog- rapher, and & business man who gave his name as Jack Durham were in the apartment and summoned the police on finding that the bullet discharged when mpson was clubbed with the re- volver had ranged downward over his heart. 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