Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1931, Page 12

SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., DECEMBER 13, 1931—PART ONE. SCHOOL BOARD'S Diplomat Buys Christmas Seals | | CHILDREN SELL STAMPS ELECTION FAVORED Brightwood Citizens Reaffirm Previous Stand—56 Mem- | bers Taken In. | Reaffirming its previous action, the Brightwood Citizens' Association Pri- day night, at a meeting held in the Paul Junior High School, Eighth and Nicholson streets, unanimously adopted a resolution favoring election of mem- bers of the Board of Education The association also voted to inform the District Commissioners that it was qpposed to the erection of a gas pres- sure tower in the vi Riges road, as proposed by hington Gae Light Co. 56 New Members. Through the efforts of Secretary C E. Bogardus, 56 new members were enrolled, as follows: Mr. and Mrs Manuel Kline, J. St. Claire Hambly, Ernest Boyd, George G- W. Wilson, Joseph F. Nebe Beach, Paul W. Edwards, Andrew W. Manger, Prank P. Mulgannon, Willitm M. Savage, Norman Bobbitt, F. A. Bob- | W, 2 by Upsher Park er Bros Patterson. bitt, Ira D. M. L Theodore R G. V Gellc Pershing John P. John F. Sul- at. Milton A. Fennel D. Smi Walter A Brooks, Bert Gardn John L. Spears, Dr. Lawson Kenzie, Harry 1. Swope, Oscar We tock, Charles I. Haycraft A. Peace, Fred L. Hawley, Mrs. Frank L. White Maj. John Deavy, J. A. Lewis, P. J Plant, P. J. Moynihan, Henry M. Ste ert, John J. Barnes, jr.; A. S. Best, L. E. Pate, 1. Baker Efforts will be made to secure an suditorium and an additional wing for INISTER OTTO WADSTED and where M seals. Cora Ann Berliner is handing the ions, Joie-Lou Berliner, Bobble Kaemme | and Jack Bennett, look on. the George Truesdell Public School in | Brightwood Park, following = report on | SLAYER OF FOUR HANGS present school facilities by the School i 4 Buniiiies .| CANON cITY, Colo, December 12 Police Are Complimented. () —James V. Foster, Greeley, Colo. The association adopted a resolution | Salesman, was hanged at the State eomplimenting the police department | Penitentiary lasi night for the torch on the manner in which the “hunger | marchers” were handled last Monday, and the District Commissioners will be requested to give the extra time when convenient to the members of the force who were recalled for ‘“extra” duty during this occasion A letter is to be sent to the Distri Commissioners by the association ex- last May in the Hi pressing regret at the retirement of Inspector Louis J. Stoll, which took effect December 1 The meeting concluding with the presentation to Capt. Walter Emerson, who retired December 1 as commander of the thirteenth precinct at Bright- wood, of & banjo clock, William McK. Clayton acting as spokesman for the association. Capt. Emerson in accept- | ipg the gift expressed his appreciation | not only for the gift but for the tribute | paid him by the speaker. | Charles W. Ray presided. | AMERICAN BANKERS WELCOME QuUIZ | BY SENATE COMMITTEE | 8ay Advances to Foreign Govern- ments Have Been Necessary to \ Growth of U. 8. Finances. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 12.—Leading | New York bankers, who in the last | decade have extended their activities in | world finance to a point where this country has largely supplanted England | and Prance as the primary interna- tional money centers, said yesterday that Wall Street banks had nothing to fear from a proposed senatorial study | of banking advances made to foreign governments, banks and corporations Such transactions, it was said, have | been a necessary incident to the growth | of American finance from national to international proportions A thorough presentation of statistics on American loans abroad would ac- complish several important benefits, these spokesmen said. 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Seek to Arouse Public. “The American Taxpayers' League, non-partisan in the truest sense, hopes to do something to organize, as it were, this ‘tax-consciousness’ and to help lay before the American people certain con- siderations of sound governmental policy and sound taxation. Its mem- bers do not pretend to know all there is to know about this perplexing prob- lem, but if they, through this organiza- tion, can throw some light upon it and can contribute something toward results which will prove fundamentally sound, they will be very happy.” Carrying forward a weekly .radio broadcasting program to interest the Americand people in the gquestion of taxes, the American Taxpayers League ponsor an address by Representa- tive James M. Beck of Pennsylvania, over the National Broadcasting Co. net- tomorrow evening at 6:15 o'clock The address will be heard here over Sta- tion WRC. Representative Beck will speak on “The Diminishing Rights of es.” The series of radio addresses is a | M. Wadsworth explained that the new Gepartire {or ‘an’ organization ex- | SUblect includes soveral _ ympartant tablished in 1924 in this city, at a con- | Phases, which he listed, as follows “What shall be the proper functions of the Federal Government? What rights and obligatiens shall be retained by the States? And how shall the State governments, in turn, delegate portions of their sovereign power to their | municipal subdivisions? Shall this Nation remain as a Federal Union of Soverelgn States or shall it, step by step, be converted into an empire governed by a single central authority?” In his opening address, Mr. Wadsworth discussed the last question. Strongly opposing further centraliza- tion of Government in Mr. Wadsworth cited a long list of new activities which have been added to the Fed®ral Government in the 1 few years. He did not contend that all should be abandoned, as “undoubtedly many of them are wisely conceived and do not conflict with theories of a Federal Union of States.” Fears Federal Extension. “At the same time,” he protested “there are several which approach and indeed pass beyond the border line and launch the Washington Government | into activities which are not Federal in prosperity seldom experlenced. At least | their character and bring it o the we thought we were and in our en- |point where it theatens to take away thusiasm we paid little attention to |from the people of the States those such a dull matter as taxation. We |rights and obligations which belong to were all extravagant in our own spheres | them.” of activity and we made no protest The Federal Government’s group of Hughes Gift Shop Open Evenings vention attended by delegates from 34 Sta The league, in addition, w approved by wire and by letter from or more substantial citizens from eves State acting as an Organization Com- mittee, League's Aims Stated. The purposes. of the league are stated as_follows | “We favor tax levies being made upon sound economic basis which will en- courage production, promote thrift, timulate business activity and promote the progress and prosperity of the country.” As the first speaker on the extensive program, last Monday night, W. Wadsworth former Tames ) organization had d the conclusion “that the time has come for the, American people to ake into very serious consideration the problem of taxation, buy that I mean,” | he explained, “all sorts of taxes, Feder- al, ate and municipal. 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We ask the American people, now become ‘tax- conscious’ to think about it, and we POLICE SHOOT TIRES | TO HALT LIQUOR CAR| Arrest in Mount Rainier Follows 15-Mile Chase at 60 to 77 4 DE LUXE TRAINS DAILY The Doubl are copfident that when they think | Miles an Hour. { MR T R about It earnestly and dispassionatel & 2 { o Lv. WASHINGTON they will call a halt upon further cep- The Miami orida i tralization and demand that the ex. Miamian Fi | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 12— Shooting the tires off his car in a five- mile chase at speeds said to range from 60 to 77 miles an hour, Prince Georges County police last night arrested Pey- ton A. Norris, first block of Seaton place, on charges of violating liquor and traffic laws. Sergt. H. G. Machen and County Po- penditures of Government — Federal. 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One small reproduction of the Statue of Liberty. 31 |ing to stop at a traffic signal. He was released on bond of $1,000. | Copies of the Workers’ Voice, a week- |1y journal printed in Dublin, Trish Free | State, were seized recently by detectives, . 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