Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1931, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., ¥RIDAY, NARCH 20. 1931 e e e e e MAJ. ALFRED ERCK DIES AT HOSPITAL, | Officer With Long Record of Service Will Be Buried at Arlington. Maj. Alfred Henry Erck, possessor of | a long record in the military service and assigned to duty with the War De- partment here, died’ in Walter Reed Hospital last night after a year's iliness. | Maj. Erck was born in Wyoming, | October 13, 1886. He was appointed from Massachusetts as a second lieu- tenant of Infantry, January 5, 190€ and reached the grade of major (temi- porary rank) in January, 1918, and was transferred to the Quartermaster Corps, May 22, 1918. He became a major in the Regular | Army in July, 1920. Maj. Erck was a graduate of General Staff School, class | of 1926, and of the Infantry School, | advanced course, in 1925. Subsequently he was placed cn the eligible list of the general staff. ¢ i Maj. Erck married Miss Emily Wun- | der of this city. He l---3 his widow, | a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Fage, Wife| of Maj. Lawrence Wilburn Fagg, sta- | tioned at Fort Benning, Ga. and two | grandchildren. | The Erck home is Woodlawn Manor, | near Norwood, Md. Burial services will be in Arlington Cemetery at 3 pm. Monday. Details are to be announced later. In the past 115 years there have been but six librarians of the Library ef DOWN All You Need Choose Any Piano In the Store . ., Drastic PRICE Reductions Remember! After this GREATEST STIEFF SALE, these prices and terms are positively withdrawn. We deliver free within a radius of sixty miles. Think of purchasing your favorite make in a brand new Baby Grand or Upright Piano at only $3.00 cown and $100 per week to those of ap- proved credit. Your old piano or phonograph will be ac- cepted in trade at a liberal sllowance if you have one. Open every evening—better come in tonight. Chas. M. Stieff, Inc. STIEFF HALL OTICES. 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ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 20.—Hav-| ing spent nearly a month ironing out | the bill to regulate outdoor advertising | the | bills before it, but its members are said to recsgniez the value of the billboard measure and the importance of prompt action with the end of the session fast approaching. Two of the 18 commit- tee members are joint sponsors of the Fate in Committee’s Hands. ‘The entire personnel of the commit- tee was selected because of demon- strated responsibility. ~As the authors of the bill point out, it is believed they all recognize their responsibility, par- ticularly in regard to this bill. In a large measure the fate of Maryland's roadsides rests in their hands. A fa- vorable report from them will be a dis- tinct asset in securing the passage of the long needed bill. The committee has already been asked at a public hearing to return a favorsble report as its contribution to | the cause of highway safety and beau- | tificalion in Maryland. The niembers displayed keen interest when it was pointed out that before the next sessicn have the greatest opportunity in its his- tory to create a favorable impression on millions of patriotic Americans who, in of the Legislature meets Maryland will | a spirit of pilgrimage, will pass over its roads to the George Washington Bicen- tennial next year, ‘The need for roadside improvement, through elimination of “wildcat” signs, as made possible in the pending bill, is essential if Maryland is to take full advantage of .that opportunity and to properly safeguard its own countless his- toric and scenic spots, the committee wag told. Forceful Bill Sought. The committee will now be asked to report the bill with a group of amend- ments which take all the wind out of the salls of those who argued against it as a measure which would overtax and cripple the billboard industry. | " The tax feature, which was the chief and practically the only provision called | companies and | objectionable by * the their employes when they appeared be- fore the committee against the bill, has | been reduced from 3 cents to one-half | cent a square foot a year. This, the sponsors of the bill say. will establish the area-taxing principle with- | out working financial hardship on any !one. It will overcome the objections of some delegates who believed the cum-‘ panies sincere in declaring the 3-cent tax too high. Itis hoped to make possible the ‘ passage of the bill, thus establishing | the policy of regulation, the chief ob- ject sought. Change Line of Attack. The sincerity of the billboard com- panies, which have repeatedly asserted they favored some type of regulation, | appeared open to question yesterday, when, having had the tax issue elim- inated, they attempted to contend other features of the bill were debatable. | Although they virtually agreed to support the measure if the tax feature | were made “reasonable,” in private dis- | cussions 'yesterday they claimed they “couldn't be taxed” because the “prin- | ciple” is wrong. I billboards are taxed | it immediately becomes necessary to tax newspapers, magazines and radio ad- vertisements, they contended. Their speakers before the committee never once questioned the principle of bill- board taxation, only the amount. Replying to the taxation principle charge, Miss Lavinia Engle, Montgomery County delegate, characteriz’a it as “absurd,” pointing out that newspapers, magazines and radio stations pay heavy taxes on their plants or buildings which represent a reasonabie basis of deter- mining those concern’s earning capacity. The nillboard industry is unique, she said, in that the earning capacity of signs along a highway built at public | expense is far beyond that represented | by the trivial cost of the lumber, paint and other materials used in their con- struction. ‘The committee, one of the busiest in the General Assembly, has many other | i DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE YEA! MAJ. ALFRED H. ERCK. MRS. BULKLEY BETTER ‘Wife of Ohio Senator Stricken Yes- | terday at Friend's Home. The condition of Mrs. Robert J. Buikley, wife of the Senator from Ohio | today was improved somevhat. Mrs. | Bulkley was stricken ill vesterday at | the home of friends, Judge and Mrs. | Timothy T. 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