Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1931, Page 16

INDIANA SETS PACE INTAXING CHAINS = Attorney for Store Company Believes Other States Will Follow. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 20.—Thirty-seven States and the Federal Government have anti-chain store legislation now M. M. Zimmerman, chain store merchandising counsel, said today in commenting on the upholdl.nl by the Federal Supreme Court of the Indiana “chain store” tax la Mr. Zimmerman has recently com- pleted & yeat’s study in the fleld. The Indiana law calls for a gradu-| nted scale of license fees measured by the number of stores operated Wlthin the State. The Supreme Court held the law was not discriminatory inasmuch as it taxes stores. Similiar legisiation had been held unconstitutional in other States on discriminatory grounds. “There are some 85 iaws pending in these 37 States,” Mr. Zimmerman uld Believeitor Not “many of which are undoubtedly dis- criminatory. But the Indiana law may w provides that one store shall pay $3 a year; the next five stores, $10 nch the next five, $15; the next five, $20, and stores thereafter $25 "Theu are in the United States about 8,000 chain systems. Sixteen hundred of these are called national chains, since they operate on a wide scale with many units. These 1,600 probably at count for more than half the store volume, and it is at these that the Indiana and other State legislation ap- is directed. parently “Ths State of Ohio had a law re- quiring taxes of from $100 to $750 on chain systems of more than five stores, depending on the volume of business. A store doing a $100,000 gross was to be taxed $750. The attorney general declared the proposed law discrimina- tory and unconstitutional and it was never passed. “A North Carolina law calling for | license fees of $50 on chains exceeding | two stores was passed and held consti- | tutional by the State courts. It was appealed to the United States Supreme Court and now seems likely to gain control. “Similarly, in Mississippi & law pro- viding & one-quarter per tent tax on the sales of stores up to five, and an additional quarter per cent on systems numbering more than five stores, was i e | INDRERGH SHIPS THE _EVENING STAR. HERNDON HIGH PRINCIPAL NAMED BY SCHOOL BOARD PflNmnNs []RDERH] A. 8. Jenkins of Leesburg Is Se- lected—Faculty Members Also Are Appointed. Special Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, ‘Va, May 20.—At the meeting of the county School Board A. 8. Jenkins of Leesburg was appoint- ed principal of the Herndon High | By the Associated Press. School, to succeed O. F. Northington,| LOS ANGELES, May 20.—Col. Charles | jr., who resigned to go to Duke Univer- | A. Lindbergh, who has been keeping in | sity, North Carolina. The high school | the background since a year ago Easter teachers for the coming year are Mrs, | Sunday, when he spanned the continent Ada Evans, Herndon; Miss Mary Jane | in 14 hours and 45 minutes, is toying Cline, Staunton: Mrs, Granville White, | With another idea for his fast mono- Herndon, and Mrs. Harry Middleton, | Plane. Floris. 'E. J. Heglar was appointed | An order has been received by the head of the commercial department of | builders of his Lockheed-Sirius plane | the school. | here to construct a set of pontocns to be W. B. Crabill was appointed to take mwrchlnwnble with the present land- charge -of the agricultural department. | Ing gear. The grade teachers are Miss Elizabeth | What use the filer will make of this Ellmore, Floris, seventh; Miss Louise | new equipment was not revealed here. | Meador, Florls, sixth: Mrs. Ernest Gib- | Gasoline tanks will be fitted in the pon- | son, Herndon, fifth; fourth grade | toons, enabling Col. Lindbergh to carry teacher. has not been’ -g pointed; Miss | a ldrger load of fuel. The present gaso- Alice_Blackwell, Navy, ti ard Mrs. R line capacity of the ship is about 450 nest Martz, Herndg gallons. The order for pontoons is the second New Unrevealed Plans Indi- cated by Construction of Water Landing Gear. special design Col. Limberth has plan- et T Rio G, Bowgs Haoe S he - structed engineers to build a retractable landing gear folding into a wing. The - idea was his own and since he suggested it to the Lockheed engincers a year ago they have used it successfully in a num- ber of other fast monoplanes. Col. Lindbergh has not taken delivery | of the wing. It would be interchange- able with the present wing, which has a sv.ationlry lmdini\mr, Pontoons could be_used only on the present wing. ‘With the retractable gear, Col. Lind- bergh's ship, which has a 600-horse- power motor, probably could attain a speed of about 250 miles an hour. En- gineers estimated it should attain a speed of about 180 miles an hour with | Eymn! pontoons. ALIEN BILL PASSED LANSING, Mich., | which would require the registration of | WASHINGTON, D. C. NESDAY. MAY 20, 1931, SWEET BRIAR TO LAY ! CORNER STONE JUNE 1 Ceremonies to Be Held at New Gymnasium Being Built With Student Subscriptions. | By the Associated Press. SWEET BRIAR, Va., May 20.—The corner stone for the Dalsy Willlams ymnasium, the newest bullding at Sweet Briar College, will be laid June 1| The stone will bear the inscription “The Daisy Willlams Gymnasium, gift of the students of Bweet Briar College, 1922-31." The name was chosen by student vote as appropriate to honor May 20 ().—A bill | the young girl in whcse memory the college was founded. The monsy was raised by student subscriptions from $5 every, alien in Michigan with the sutr]m $1,000. police, together with submission of proof of legal entry, yesterday awaited th signature of Gov. Wilber M. Brucker. 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