Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1930, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Light not much change tonight; tomorrow cloudy; ture; mini- in temperat temperature tonight about 40 de- ==. tures—Highest, 55, 12:15 .m. y:E;:‘m& 41, at 4:30 am. Teport on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 I “Neo. 31,635, " Dot thoa + Entered as second class matter Washington, D. < DRY GROUP MEETS - 10 ADOPT UNIFIED " CAMPAIGN FOR ‘2 Special Committee Holds Executive Session to Outline Prohibition Defense. CONFERENCE MINIMIZES TALK OF THIRD PARTY Friends of 18th Amendment Ex- pected to Be Demanded as Presi- dential Candidates. - Prohibition supporters throughout the United States will be asked to sub- scribe to a definite program by a board of strategy which met today to formu- late the temperance movement’s plan of action in the 1932 presidential cam- paign. Twelve dry leaders headed by Mrs. . Ella A. Boole, president of the W. C. T. U, canvassel the prohibition sit- uation at an executive meeting in the Dodge Hotel this morning and agreed that their problems are “soluble.” Convinced that it will take time to ‘work out their program, the committee of 12 will confer within the next sev- eral weeks and report to the National Association of Organizations Supporting tl;u !lulgluen!-h :’xn;ndment a statement of y on which temperance grouj thrwxp:- hout the country will be asked % Plan for Larger Group. It was explained that the strategy a plan looking to esta ent of & still broader group, which may take the prohibition movement directly to the eletcorate in 1932, Another meeting of the dry leaders ;fll be heldd W'h!n the somlml ittee of 12 prepared to report its program. ‘Thirty-five temperance organizations represented in the association, and other g:unm not represented, will be asked to adopt the m as a guar- antee that prohibition forces may pre- sent a united front in what dry leaders describe as a “battle royal” in the next presidential cam Other members of the board cluded Ernest CI n, of the World League Against Al- coholism; F. Scot M in- f the United National Committee for Law Enforcement; Dr. D. L. Coldin of the same tion. A H. Briggs of Califc Daniel Poling, president of the World Christian Endeavor Movement; Mrs. C. W. Evanston, 111, officer of the Robert Watson, Boston; Mrs. William Tilton, Boston, of Teacher Associa- tion, and James A. Crain, of the Board of Temperanee of e Ol SR Conference Adjourns. The annual conference of the Na- tional Association of Organizations Sup- porting the Eighteenth Amzndmen!,m:o which bers of Commif Citizens Burn Wheat, Cutting Winter Fuel Expenses Materially By the Associated Press. NEZ PERCE, Idaho, Decem- ber 11.—Residents of this town, 10 miles from big timber and in the midst of a wheat region, are burning wheat for fuel, Coal costs $16.50 per ton and wood $10 a cord, a business man said today, while wheat costs $9 @ ton delivered to bins and base- ments. Wheat produces an even heat and holds fire about as long as coal, one business man said. A garage man, who found his grates too coarse for the new fuel, said he ordered new grates and e':pected to burn wheat all Win- T. « AUDITOR DECLARES IBOOKS WERE FOUND IN'SMITH C0. OFFICE Witness Testifies Check Was Made After Time Records Are Said to Have Been Burned. Testimony by an independent ac- countant that all of the current books and records of the F. H. Smith Co, were in their offices on Fifteenth street sub- sequent to the time they were alleged to have been burned or hidden away was introducd today at the trial of three former officers of the concern on conspiracy charges. This was regarded as the most im- portant evidence so far introduced in the defense being made by G. Bryan Pitts, C. Albert Anadale and John H. Edwards, jr., the defendants, to indict- ments charging them with a conspiracy to embezzle company funds and destroy its records. The witness, Robert Klinger, an ac- countant associated with the auditing firm of Murphy, Lanier & Quinn, said he made a semi-annual, audit of the Smith Co.’s books ending Juze 30, 929, and that all of the records of the cor- poration were made tvallable to him at that time. He testified specifically that the . |company’s general journal, cash dis- bursements journal, transfer binders and subsidiary journals were in the Smith offices while the audit was being made. Made Regular Audit. in 1928, and in_May, 1929, approximately 40 trunks filled with were taken away and concealed. In defense of these two charges, tes- timony has been introduced admitting that these incidents took place, but the contention has been made that the rec- ords involved were old and worthless. said that his concern regu- larly has audited the Smith Co.’s books for the past several years, and that they this | have always been found in good condi- Dry leaders said the committee would g‘y the interests of Lhu:.o ized iperance movement so it ti ro- hibition cause might be negted forcefully and comprehensively before both national conventions of the major political parties in 1932, It was ex- pected that the committee would re- iterate its demands that both ‘major parties adopt dry platforms and nomi- nate dry candidates. Talk of a third party among the drys as a possibility in the event the Demo- cratic and Republican parties adopt platforms and nominate candidates in 1932 not acceptable to prohibition lead- meeting. Dr. A. G. Barton, Wilmington, N. C. ‘Who is chairman of the Board of Soctal Service of the Southern Baptist Con- Yention, expressed the opinion in an interview that prohibition forces ‘would “take care of their own interests in the Dext presidential election.” Roosevelt Unacceptable, Gov. Roosevelt of New York “would be as unacceptable to Southern drys as Gov. Smith was, regardiess of what sort of platform he ran on,” Dr. Barton said. As co-planner with Bishop James Can- non, jr, of the Asheville Conference i 1928, Dr. Barton was active throughout the South in organizing opposition to the Democratic presidential candidate, He said to’ay he thought dry forces would have no riore difficulty opposing Gov. Roosevelt than they had in Oppos= the former New York executive. . Barton joined with other dry leaders in commending-the manner of and the impression created by Prohibi- tion Director Amos W. W. ‘Woodcock, Who addressed them late yesterday. Col. Woodcock, who was invited to the conference by Mrs. Boole, gave the leaders a picture of enforcement and answered numerous questions relating 1o policy and recent developments. His address was made in executive session. “I told them,” Col. Woodcock said after the meeting, “that our efforts will be successful against the commer- elal violations of the national prohibi- tlon act. I asked them to co-operate in meeting the non-commercial viola- tions through education. “We propose to use the courts and the law against commercial violators and education to combat the non- commercial violations.” Depends Upon Intent. Questions about the Prohibition Bureau's attitude toward the sale of grape concentyates were asked the di- rector, and in reply Woodcock said the hinged upon “intent” to violate law. Where intent is proved against grape concentrate manufacturers prose- will be instituted, he said, Members of the conference of dry leaders, many of whom were meeting Col. Woodcock for the first time, said later they were impressed by his *frank, orward manner and his evident #rasp of the problems involved.” “They are a fine group of people,” ‘Woodcock said. “They gave me a cor- Hip address was the first Woodcock has made before a group of prohibi- tion Jeaders since he took over direc- tion of prohibition last September, tion. Letters from the auditing firm commending the Smith Co. for the manner in which its books were kept were read to the jury. Earlier in the case it had been testi- fied that certain entries were made in the Smith Co. books prior to an audit, and that they had been reversed after the formal examination of the books was _compl Answering a question put by associate defense counsel, Frank G. Raichle, the witness said that in many cases this was an approved ac- counting practice. On cross-examination by Nugent Dodds, special assistant to the Attor- ney General, the witness said that he did not run down items in the Smith Co. suspense account which had been broken down and charged to various loan accounts. He also said that his work sheets had been turned over to the Smith Co. after he had completed his report. Tells of Cashing Checks. William Shumate, another defense witness, told the jury that he, while employed by the Merchants’ Bank & Trust Co., had frequently indorsed and cashed checks for large amounts made payable to him, although he was not entitled to any money from the bank. He explained this was done so that the checks might be cashed ‘with bills of large denomination on hand, and that these would later be taken by him to the Treasury Department and re- duced to bills of smaller denomina- tions. He testified that this was done in order to secure a variety of cur- rency to facilitate the conduct of the bank's affairs. Several witnesses had already testified that employes of the Smith Co. were frequently asked to inderse and cash company checks calling for money to which they were not entitled. When Mr. Dodds objected that the practice of banks was not comparable to that of the Smith Co. this line of questioning was discontinued. Charles M. Wentz, an employe of the Smith Co., testified that he helped pack the records into the trunks which were removed from the company’s offices in May, 1929. He said that these records were old books of the W. H. West Co. which were no longer needed in the conduct of the affairs of the Smith Co. He said that to the best of his knowl- edge records were removed from the Smith Co. offices on only one occasion. T enit ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 1228 IN CAPITAL LISTED AFFECTED BY UNEMPLOYMENT Members of 150 Trades and Professions, Including Col- lege Graduates, Out of Work. COMMITTEE FINDS JOBS FOR 758 WITHIN WEEK Business Houses Co-operate, One Store Placing Extra Helper on Each Delivery Truck. BY REX COLLIER. Uemployment in the Capital affects 12,286 persons and reaches into more than 150 trades and professions, from butchering to bollermaking and from tile setting to translating. Among the army of job seekers regis- tered with the District of Columbia Committee on Employment are a miner, three undertakers, a lawyer, 15 musi- cians one afrplane pilot, three radio operators and a steeplejack. More than 3,600 of the unfortunate ones are more than 40 years old, and nearly half of all those looking for work are women. Of the unemployed men, 3,235 are white and 3,121 colored, and among the women 2,625 are white and 3,305 colored. 758 Get Jobs in Week. Despite the stupenduous task in- volved in finding work for so large and 80 heterogeneous a group of persons, the committee succeeded last week in placing 758 men and women in a score of occupations. ‘These are some of the facts disclosed in a tabulation by tradec of data col- lected by the committee in connection with its drive on unemployment in the District of Columbia. The findings are based on “the best information ob- tainable” and, for the most part, are licated on a recent census conducted in the public schools. The tabulation shows that unemploy- ment in Washington strikes hardest at the city’s band of cooks and domestic employes. There are 2,514 of these 1 for work. The next largest group in need of jobs is composed of laborers of the unskilled class. The number 1,880. Many College Graduates. Officials in charge of interviewing ap- plicants h{;wr jotl: decl:reu that many uo“l Who apply are college graduates, 'u;ge 8 variety of degrees, ‘The group embraces a wide range of professions. There are ac- G engineers. ad” pharmaciet eers E Others in the “white collar” class in- clude salesmen, social workers, secre- taries, ists, draftsmen and . A special group of “placement repre- sentatives” is can iness houses and other institutions in an effort to find openings for as many of the un- employed as possible. Typical of the spirit of co-operation being displayed by the employers, it is stated, was the ac- tion of a large department store in agreeing to place an extra helper on every delivery truck until Christmas. List Is Compiled. Wi 's list of unemployed, by occupations, follows: Accountants and auditors, 42; adding machine operators, 8; 'addressograph operators, 18; apprentices, bile mechanics, 85; bakers, 2. parlor employes, 27; bellboys, 2; smiths, 11; boilermakers, 9; binders, 2; bookkeepers, 53; bookkeeping machine operators, 19; bricklayers, 93; butchers, 4; bus boys, 4; calculating, 3; candy makers, 1; carpenters, 192; penters’ helpers, 51; car washers, 2; cashiers, 23; cashier checkers, 30; ce- ment workers, 67; charabermaids and second maids, 67; charwomen, 65; chauffeurs and truck drivers, 244; clean- ing and dyeing workers, 2; clerks, file clerks and general office workers, 729; children’s nurses, 32; chemists, 3; col- lectors, 21; companions, 18; comptome- ter operators, 17; cooks and domestics, 2,514; restaurant cooks and chefs, 220; counter girls, 55; counter men, 5; day workers, 1565; dairymen, 6; deckhands, 1; sales demonstrators, 15; dietitians, 2; dining .managers, 45; dish washers, 5; draftsmen, 20; electricians, 27; elec- tricians’ helpers, 8; elevator operators, 59; stationary engineers, 24; civil engi- neers, 6; mechanical engineers, 9; farm workers, 7; firemen, 104; filling station workers, 5; florists, 3; furniture repair- ers, 1; furriers, 1; garage workers, 6. General houseworkers, 78; governess- teachers, 19; gra) hm.{pe operators, 7; handy men, 2; hospital workers, 26 hostesses, 2; hotel workers, 29; hou (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.,) IOWA CIRCLE PASSES President S8igns Bill Changing Name to Honor Gen. Logan, From now on, Towa Circle, at the intersection of Thirteenth and P streets and Vermont avenue, will be officially known as Logan Circle. An act of Congress providing for the change of the name of this cricle as a recognition of the services during the Civil War of Maj. Gen. John A. Logan was signed today by President Hoover, This change of name is in line with the policy to honor American heroes, LEGIONNAIRES TO REBUILD HOME OF BUDDY DESTROYED BY FIRE Alexandria Post Will Be Aided by Volunteer Carpenters and Others Donating to Cause. Special Dispatch to The Star. TYSONS CORNERS, Va, December 11.—Members of Alexandria Post, No, 24, American Legion, will come to Ty- sons Corners Saturday to erect a house for Olaf Larson, ex-service man, whose home was destroyed by fire in October. Practically all of the lumber and mate- rials for the house have been donated by business men of this district. A number of carpenters who are not mem- bers of the farm. By industry, he managed to for the place. Then came the Qlsas, trous fire of last October, which wiped out home and furnishings and left him without capital to make a new start. DEMOCRATS ASKING FOR RELIEF ACTION Appeal Made for Common Cause After Leaders An- swer Hoover Criticism. By the Associated Press. Remnants of the interparty co- operative movement in Congress dragged on today toward enactment of relief legislation in the wake of a Democratic appeal for common action without re- gard to leadership, ‘The Senate sought to pass the $110,- 000,000 public works bill after having spent virtually all of yesterday listening | to condemnation of President Hoover | for accusing some of their number of | playing politics in the present emer- gency. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, chief of the Democratic forces, joined in the condemnation, but called for work by all groups in passing legislation for the welfare of the country. Attempts to- “duy were in prospect to limit, througl,| amendments, the Chief Executive's dis- cretionary power under the public works legislation. Robinson Defends Self. The House expected an amended and reduced bill for drought relief to be presented during the day, and mean- while worked again on the interior ap- propriations bill. In speaking on the President’s re- marks, which he ascribed to lost tem- T, Robinson took occasion to defend El own party leadership. He told what was contained in correspondence be- tween himself and the President follow- ing his pledge of co-operation. “I thought the correspondence should have been published in view of the fact that it was taken as an indication I had made myself a tool of the White House,” he observed. This he followed with an appeal for action in behalf of the country, involving & wider program of relief, financed if necessary by an issue of bonds or by an increase of taxes. World Court Is Worry. Meantime the Senate had still another cause of sore feelings thrust upon it in the transmission by the President of the protocols of adherence to the World Court. The impending holidays, incidentally, are beginning to worry the administra- tion leaders with those from the House seeking an agreement with the Senate on a recess from Christmas eve to Janu- ary 2. They fear, however, a 15-day vacation is to be expected. SNELL FAVORS PAY STAND MODIFICATION |Chairman of Rules Committee Hopes for Change by Appro- priations Group. By the Associated Press. Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee expressed the hope today that the Appropriations Committee will modify its opposition to Federal em- ploye salary increases. % “I shall support the committee,” Snell said, “but I hope the committee will yield to a certain extent and I think it will.” “When we are appropriating money as lavishly as we are at present, we should not prohibit Federal employes from ting increases.” Rep‘x:?éenutlve La Guardia, Repub- lican of New York, who has been lead- ing the fight in opposition to the Wood amendment, which bars the increases within grades, laid a considerable volume of.figures before the House to- day in support of the fight to b under-average salaries up to a normal level. SR ) SHOALS PLAN PREPARED House Conferees to Offer Compro- mise in Deadlock. Representative Tilson of Connecticut, the :u}o:;t.y floor leader, said yester- i | day the House conferees had pre) ';: to secure ‘War Danhrgm in order poultry | be abie to receive Government & new compromise offer to e e Bty e i, witld e sub ‘The new offer, e 10| Glen Dague and Irene A \\\ \\ S AN N i \\\\ \‘\\\§§\ 3 New Jobless Count For January Plan Of Census Bureau By the Associated Press. Director Steuart of the Census Bureau said today that Federal agency planned to conduct a new unemployment survey early next month. Steuart would give no details of the bureau’s plans, however, saying this information would come later from the Department of Commerce, Secretary Lamont announced before the taking of the April census that he expected to make it a basis for keeping abreast of unemployment in the future by a sampling process at intervals in representative industries and cities. Representative La Guardia, Re- publican, of New York said to- day he understood existing cen- sus organizations in 20 cities would participate in the new count. The last figures from the Com- merce Department estimated that in September there were 3,400,- 000 persons in the Nation able to work and seeking employment. Since then both President Hoover and President Green of the American Federation of Labor have estimated that the total has increased. RAIL UNIONS PLAN SHORT-DAY DRIVE Concerted Campaign to Re- lieve Unemployment in Own Trades Decided at Parley. America’s railroad workers, faced | with a grave unemployment problem arising from competitive transportation, | have decided to launch a concerted campaign for relief, the goal of which | includes not only shorter work periods, | but control of competition. David B. Robertson, chafrman of the Railway Labor Executives’ Assoclation, announced today that these objectives have been established definitely as a part of a joint program formulated at & three-day conference here of rail labor chiefs. The conference was ad- Journed last night, subject to call of the chairman. . ‘Would Limit Competition, The workers’ program, according to | Chairman Robertson, includes “a short- er work day, shorter work week, relief of unemployment and other matters of interest to the railway employes and the industry as a whole, such as proper regulation of highway transportation by busses and trucks, and transportation by pipe lines and waterways, so as to eliminate unfair competition in the rail- road industry.” Robertson said the conferences were marked “by unanimity of opinion as to necessity for prompt action in the matter of shortening the work day and work week as a means of affording im- mediate employment relief.” This unemployment situation, he de- clared, “has largely arisen out of the technological changes and through sub- sidized and unfair competition by busses, trucks, pipe lines and waterways.” Shorter Week fdr Shops. Robertson, who also is president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, explained that a six- hour day wi'l be sought for workers who man the ains, and that a five-day week wili e urged for shopmen, The distinction is necessary because of tech- nical difficulties confronting application of one formula to both classes of em- ployes. Trains must run every day in the week, it is pointed out, so that a short week for engineers, firemen and other train workers is out of the ques- tion. The six-hour day would increase the number of shifts from three to four a day, thus providing employment for thousands of idle workers, Secretary of Labor Doak, who was national legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen be- fore he entered the cabinet this week, announced on taking office at the Department that he favors the five-day week for Federal employes and that he had short week in his own office before entering the cabinet. It is presumed from this he will be sympathetic to the proposal for & five-day_week among_railroad shop- (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) Woman to Die January 12, Pisher for the "exscution_ ot W, S S e e e State motor patrol near Newcastle Deccmber. 27, 1929, ——— PUBLIC AID ASKED INBILLBOARD WAR Information on Roadside Con- ditions Within 20 Miles of Capital Sought. Sponsors of the campaign to clean up the “front-door” entrances to the | National Capital in preparation for the | George Washfngton Bicentennial cele- bration appealed today for public co- operation in obtaining information that would lead to the removal of illegal billboards and other unauthorized signs cluttering up the roadsides within a 20-mile radius of the District line. With the understanding, that hun- dreds of such signs have been erected on private property despite enactment of restrictive 2ol regulations in Maryland and Virginia, Miss Harlean James, executive secretary of the Amer- ican Civic Association is urging resi- dents to do everything possible to as- sist highway officials in tearing them down. A circular containing suggestions for methods of individual and cone certed co-operation has been for submission to citizens’ xflnl% in the Greater Washington area. ese suggestions were ' enthusiastically re- | ceived last night, when Miss James ad- dressed the business - and -professional women's seclion of the Women's City Club at a dinner given in sponsorship of the movement to banish commer- cialized ugliness from the roadway en- trances to Washington. Signs in Illegal Class, The situation with respect to illegal signs erected on frlvltz property with- out permission of owners and in viola- tion of existing restrictive laws, Miss James pointed out, is particularly acute. She stressed, however, that the illegai signs are not wholly in a majority in marring the highways around the Na- tional Capital, as the survey made by Mrs. Elizabeth Lawton indicates that the “organized” signboards are just as plentifully and strategically placed. Since the District Commissioners for- bade erection of new signboards in Wash. ington, Miss James pointed out, un. sightly signs by the hundreds have been placed ras close to the District line as possible on most of the:principal high- ways. The recent restrictions made by the Virginia and Ifaryland authorities, she explained, also were responsible for the erection of others, as advertising agencies rushed in before the restric- tions became effective. Mrs. Lawton, who also appeared be- fore the section of the Women's City Club, made the unsightliness of the highway approaches to the Capital a reality by showing scenes of desecration (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) . BRUENING OPPONENTS ROW AMONG SELVES Opposition Parties in Reichstag Squabble With Socialists, Threatening to Walk Out. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, December 11.—The oppo- sition partles in the Reichstag, still smarting from the conclusive defeat in assaults upon the Bruening govern- ment, today turned to squabbling among themselves, and the National Socialists said they would walk out hereafter every time a Soclal Democrat or a Com- munist began to speak. ‘This tilt followed a conflict in the Legal Committee when the Centrists refused to meet under the chairman- ship of the National Socialist, Hans Frank. The government yesterday defeated attempts to bring up questions which ‘would delay adjournment. () Means Associated SMITH 1S GRILLED ON POWER LAWS BY SENATE GROUP Members of Committee Indi- cate They Plan Probe of New Commissioners. McNINCH MAY APPEAR FOR INQUIRY TOMORROW Couzens and Howell Question For- mer Head of Geological Survey Closely, BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Dr. George Otis Smith, for years director of the Geological Survev and now appointed chairman of the Federal Power Commission by President Hoover, was grilled by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee today, which is considering his nomination. By their questioning of Dr. Smith, the members of the committee indi- cated they intend to make a search- ing investigation of all the members of the new Power Commission. After two hours on the stand the committee had not finished with Dr. Smith and will resume its questioning of him at 2:30 p.m. 2 MecNinch in Capital. Frank R. McNinch of North Caro- lina, leader of the anti-Smith Demo- cratic forces in his State during the 1928 campaign, whose appointment to the Power Commission is expected to be attacked by some of the Democrats, is in the city, but may not be heard until tomorrow. Dr. Smith told the Senate commit- tee that he was in full sympathy with the law of 1920, which looks to the reg- ulation by the Federal Government of power transmitted in interstate com- merce. Dr. Smith was replying to a question by Chairman co\u::s of the committee. Senator Couzens called attention to the fact that the existing law does not cover the question of the regulation of power derived from steam, but relates only to hydro-electric power. Two Are Intertwined. 8 Dr. B:nllth replied :hlt the two, hy- ro-electric power and power by steam, l':: so0 intertwined that he did not see how one could be regulated by the Federal Government without the other. Senator Couzens before his committee a bill which provides for the regulation by the Federal Government of all power which goes into interstate and foreign commerce. Dr. Smith was questioned at length by Senator Howell of Nebraska regard- ing the effect up to the present time of regulation by the States of electrical power and iight companies. Senator Howell took as his text the fact that in Toronto electric light was to consumers for about 2 cents per watt hour and that the charge in many cities of the United States ran 7%, 8 or 9 cents. He asked Dr. Smith whe er, in these he believed that regu lation in the country by the States been effective. Wants Time to Study. Dr. Smith said in that he would want to give several days' study to the question as it is related to individual cities, Birmingham, Ala., for example, before he gave his opinion as to whet the rates charged were fair. He said there were a number of facts he would like to study and mentioned the ques- tion of taxation as one of them. Dr. Smith insisted however, that he be- lieved the regulation of electrical power companies in this country had made considerable advance and had been for the benefit of the people. ‘You approve generally, then, the rates which are charged in the United States for electrical power,” demanded Senator Howell. “I would be far from making such a statement,” replied Dr. Smith. “I know that the regulatory commissions in the States have met the opposition of the power companies and in many instances of the State legislators.” Asked About Public Plants, Senator Dill of Washington asked whether municipal plants for the pro- duction and distribution of electrical power were not effective in down rates charged for such power in this country. Dr. Smith replied that municipal plants produce only about 4 per cent of the total energy produced in this country and that therefore they could | lec not affect the total charges to a great extent. He said, however, that in cer- tain localities competition of the mu- nicipal plants had been responsible for reducing rates. “What would be your attitude,” asked Senator Dill, “if you become chairman of the Water Power , 88 between munici “l plants and privately operated plants? municipal plants,” “The law favors said Dr. Smith. “That would be would have the same attitude, although he would wish to see what would be the effect of taxation upon the citizens (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) F AR Slain at Door of Home. CHICAGO, December 11 (#).—Marco Magnabosco, 38, was shot to death by a caller when he answered the door bell at his home while his family was at breakfast today. Four shots entered his body, killing him instantly. He was dead when his wife rushed to the door. His widow told the police he owned three buildings and had not been em- ooken by the ‘advelit, who" vacisnes spoken by ‘who vanished immediately, she said. FOR AUTOISTS By the Associated Press. ORIGINATOR OF MENTAL TESTS PAYS SPEED FINE Passes 15 Cars on Lake Shore Drive at 50 Miles Per Hour to Keep Engagement. Press. TAX OVERHAULING FOR CAPITAL URGED BY NOTED EXPERT Dr.. Thomas Walker Page Suggests Income Levy at House Hearing. WARNS AGAINST ANY ADDED BURDEN, HOWEVER Dr. Havenner Recommends Definite Policy on Fiscal Relations in Testimony, Complete overhauling of the District: tax system was advocated today b;“gr‘ k’ln'homu Walker Page, interna OWn economist and & member of Federal Tarift Commission, at & helrl‘:: before the special committee of the House appointed to study the fiscal relationship between the Federal and District governments, Dr. Page suggested the substitution. Mmlnmneuxlorflwmtbl on intangible personal Pproperty, an inheritance tax to bring the Distrie( into conformity with States having such & tax, and a fixed real estate tax. He also urged abolition of the present tax on tangible personal property as well 8s the modernization of the tax on business. Dr. Page told the committee that in Tevising the tax system it should mot impose any additional taxes, since he felt that the tax burden in the Distriet is already high. He declared that it is his belief that the solution of the fiscal relations problem rested in a revision of Washington's tax system, which would give Congress and the people of the United States the assurance that the residents of the District are paying reasonable taxes. After that is done, he said, the Federal Government should meet the addif of the National Government property and w‘mtntfl"m exem p::u-w ive 3 “We wm " sald g ".dbe At_the very outset of his testimony, Dr. Page said it was his opinion that the tax system of the District “needs pretty complete overhauling.” He de- clared that the real estate tax, for in- stance, is too elastic, and is relied on too greatly as a means of produt ad- ditional revenue when it is There should be a fixed real estate tax, he said, which would be comparable with the real estate taxes in other com- munities to some extent comparable to ‘Washington. In suggesting an income tax as a sub- stitute for the tax on intangibles, Dr. Page sald it had been found in most cities that it had been too easy to con- ceal intangible property, and the inf - ble tax, therefore, was not yielding revenue that it should. In W however, he declared, the city is more intangible property on its rollt than anywhere else in the country, be- cause of the ability and astuteness of the tax assessor’s office. Dr. Page said the method of col- ting the tax on intangibles usually constituted an injustice because thos: who escaped paying the tax were tne ones best able to pay it. He said he doubted, however, whether an income tax would produce any more in revenue for the District than the present tax on intangibles. In response to questions by Chairman Mapes, Dr. Page the belief that all lucrative businesses should pay a tax and that the method of taxation should be based on the character of the business. Mr. Mapes called his attention to the present method of imposing a 4 per cent gross revenue tax on public utility corporations, banks and trust com- panies, and he expressed the that an income tax should be confined to & personal income rather than s business income. ‘The business taxes, Dr. Page de- clared, should be brought up to date because the present system is very old. (Continued on Page 2, Column 6., GANGSTER INDICTED IN BUCKLEY MURDER Reputed Rum Runner First to Be Accused by Special Detroit ' Grand Jury. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT,