Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1932, Page 17

UNTAXED REALTY . STATISTICS URGED Columbia Heights Would Call Attention of Congress. to District Situation. [ Paced with the possibility of increased taxes here, the Columbia Heights Cit- | fzens’ Association last night recom- mended that there be compiled a state- ment of all real estate in the District which -is exempt from taxation, and that this be taken into consideration by Congress in relation to fiscal rela- tions and taxation questions afecting the District. Presented by Max Kohner of the Committee on Taxation, the adopted resolution asked that the District au- thorities in compiling the list note the “general or special laws or acts” under which the various parcels of property | are exempt. It was recommended that | there be included in the list complete data concerning the tax-exempt land of the United States, District foreign embassies, religious, charitable and edu- cational institutions, cemeteries and other property. It was also recom- mended that the data be printed. The association adopted a resoiution asking that a letter be sent the super- intendent of schools of the District to ascertain whether or not the Wilson Teachers' College curriculum could be changed to cover general col with the program of teacher Congress was requested in another Son to provide an apprpriation :;?o}‘rlee Bext books for the 11,000 night sohool students here in the 1933 fiscal| budget. 3 T Iinations for officers in the forth- | coming election were made as [ollows: | Slbert E. Westrater and Margaret Wor- rell Hopkins for the presidency; mr. first vice president, Dr. Seneca B, Bain; | Second vice president, W. H. Coneby; fhird vice president, Mary MaddoX: re | tording _secretary, Charles A. Stott:| Sofresponding secretary, W. 1 Swanton; | Sreasurer, W. C. Strauss, and as dele- tes to the Federation of Citizens Sociations, J. Clinton Hiatt, Albert| E. Stephan and Mr. Westrater. / Plea for Pedestrians. att, chairman of the Public| safety Commiitee, offered & resalution | which was adopted _asking thx:l :\ Trafic Bureau and Police Department make a special effort to prohibit trucks, | Yaxicabs and busses in the Columbia | elghts section and particularly on | Fourteenth street from stopping 3 | safety zones while waiting for favor- able traffic signal lights. This is ut- fair to the pedestrian, he pointed out. and should be stopped The extension progral Library, whereby in a f separate section of the ci sts own branch library, was sociation e e ‘indorsement was made following | the reading of a letter from Theodurg . Noyes, president of the Board of "Trustees of the Public Library, asking| for the support of the association on roject | B e Representative _Charles X Stengle was guest speaker for the| evening. He outlined events which re- main on the Bicentennial calendar. ‘Mr. Westrater, president, presided at the meeting, which was held in the| New Amsterdam Hotel, Fourteenth and | Fairmont streets. 1 m of the Public| ew years each | ty would have indorsed by | BING HERE at HELD IN STAB Colored Man’s Bond Fixed $10,000—O0ne Victim Near Death. Nathan Keys, colored, 28, who is said to have stabbed a man near the heart during 2n altercation Monday, was held under $10,000 bond and the hearing postponed until April 19 in Police Court yesterday | Police say Keys stabbed Harry Ward, | colored, and then cut Arthur Harvey, | also colored. Ward, confined to Preed- | men’s Hospital, is not expected to live. | Chevrolet B E R BRI N R RN RNt I AN e Scientist Mistakes Acid forWater and Dies in Class Room By the Associated Press. LIVERPOOL, England, April 6. —Prof. James Foote, mastet of science at a local techincal school, died in his class room today when he picked up a glass of acid from his desk, mistaking it for water, and drank it He fell to the floor, writhing | in agony, and died in a few mo- | ments. | He was in the midst of a lec- | | ture and reached for a drink of water to ease his throat. ‘ | BACKS CHILD ACTORS | IN LOCAL THEATERS Cathedral Heights-Cleveland Park | Group Wants “Proper Restric- | tions,” However. p The Cathedral Heights-Cleveland Park Citizens' Association went on rec- ord Monday night in favor of permit- ting children to act in Washington theaters “under proper restrictions.” | The association did not, however, specifically indorse legislation now pending in Congress which would per- mit children to act four hours a day and 28 hours a week. Neither did it state what it considered ‘“proper re- strictions.” Inctallatich of meters in taxicabs was opposed in a resolution favoring continuation of present zones and rates. | A third resolution recommended in- stallation of a traffic light at the in- tersection of Macomb street and Con- necticut avenue. The association would like to have set up there a light simi- lar to that now in -operation at Wis- consin avenue and Macomb street, which shows green on Wisconsin ave- | nue, except when traffic approaches the | avenue from Macomb street. G. H. Ankeney, manager of the Cleve- land exchange of the Chesapeake & | Potomac Telephone - Co., addreessed | members of the association, which met in the John Eaton School, Thirty- fourth and Lowell streets. Would Seize Skyscraper. CHICAGO, April 6 (#)—The Cook | County Board started suit Monday to | foreclose on the Pure Oil Building, | Wacker Drive skyscraper, for back | taxes. The bill, filed in Superior Court, | sets out that the taxes due and unpaid | for years 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930 amount to $679,575. ! There Is a Market for THE EVENING S CONGRESS HEIGHTS REQUESTS LIBRARY Citizens’ Association Appoints Com- mittee to Consider Opening of Branch in Community. The Congress Heights Citizens' As- sociation stressed the need for a branch | of the Public Library for that section at a meeting of the association held last night in the Congress Heights Bap- tist Church. Members instructed Dr. Edward E. Richardson, president, to appoint a| committee to confer with the trustees | of the Public Library and urge their co-operation in gaining this improve- ment. The committee will report fully at the next meeting. Two other com- mittees were appointed, one to study the possibility of a branch bank for that section and the other to secure a neighborhood moving picture theater. The meeting was presided over by Dr. Richardson, who announced that the next meeting would be held on the first Tuesday in May, at which time the membefs would vote to change the | place of meeting from the Congress Heights Baptist_Church to the Con- gress Heights School and the time from the first Tuesday to the second Monday of every month. Charles Bromburg was elected to membership. CAPT. MORGAN NAMED BY CITIZENS' GROUP Sixth Precinct Officer Elected Hon- orary Member of Sixteenth Street Highlands Body. Capt. Joseph Morgan of sixth police precinct was elected an honorary mem- ber of the Sixteenth Street Highlands | Citizens' Association at a meeting of that organization Monday night in the Sixth Presbyterian Church. Capt. Morgan made a_brief- address before the meeting, ewplaining to the Eves Examined Glasses Fitted DR. CLAUDE S. 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G TAR, WASHINGTON, ‘members proper methods of summonin pojce and outlining the local patrol m. em. ‘The association went on record as approving the improvement of Colorado avenue between Thirteenth street and Georgia avenue, and suggested the name of that block be left the same as it is now. AT S T el bk U. S. WARNS DAIRY UNION OF ATTACKS ON RIVALS State- ments Disparaging Oleomar- garine Production Stopped. Trade Commission Orders The National Dairy Union, 630 In- diana avenue, an association of cream- ery producers, was ordered yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission to stop publishing and distributing to retail dealers statements disparaging and maligning the production and sale of oleomargarine, a substitute for butter. The “cease and desist” order of the commission was issued after the Dairy Union had postponed several times a hearing on the original complaint and finally had agreed, without argument, to_issuance of the order. In its complaint, served Dairy Union last December 24, the Trade Commission charged that the union, comprised of producers of cream- ery products of between 250 and 300 dairies throughout the United States, distributed to produce dealers and the consuming public “misleading. false and defamatory statements purporting to be descriptive of the ordinary and usual process of manufacture and sale of oleomargarine.” upon the ¢ gives relief by soothing :m:res — not deadening them. Contains no opiates. Won't upset stomach. lo Being liquid, it acts quicker than pills or powdevl‘, o Sold at drug stores in single s d:se, or 10c, 30c, 60c sizes. D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932. - B—5 } CHANGES FAVORED IN AUTO TAX BILL Forest Hills Citizens Disapprove Weight Levy Provided by Mapes Measuree. In a unanimously indorsed resolu- | tion the Forest Hills Citizens’ Associa- tion Monday night disapproved the weight tax on automobiles provided by the Mapes bills, but approved the amended or substitute bill as suggested by the Bureau of Efficiency. The resolution stated that, “if the | weight tax bill as submitted by the Bureau of Efficiency is accepted and becomes a law, this association would not look upon an increase in the motor vehicle fuel tax of 1 cent as being exorbitant or unreasonable. The association was addressed by Herbert Willett, jr., assistant director of the Community Club, who briefly outlined this work of the District Com- mittee on Employment. | —_— It is believed possible that a Thomas de Lingcole, mentioned in England in the year 1208, is an early ancestor of Abrahdm Lincoln. Sevetal delightful scents — Jasmine, Rose, Orieatal, Heliotrope. Box of 3 refils (enough to last for 4 months), Se. Dit cube. 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A lecture by Johin Erskine on “Music ment in the press * ¢ in Our Daily Lives” will be given next|you say you are ‘willing to have a Tuesday night at Central High School | referendum on prohibition every 10 as the final event of the Community |y E_rsklne, distingl:l.sh:d as the author | eighteenth amendment was ratified, I of “Helen of Troy" and “Galahad,” fe- | hope this means you are now willing ntly w as president of the | to support a resolution for re be Siflllara” Foundation ‘and Sthool o | satiALa by convetions in the. varous | || Yerisement v His opera, | States, as provided by article V of the | “Jack and the Beanstalk,” presented | Constitution.” Temperance, Prohibition and Public| Morals” to work for a prohibition refer- endum was expressed in a letter to Dr. | Wilson Monday from Mrs. Charles H. | Sabin, national chairman of the Wom- | en’s Organization for National Prohibi- | tion Reform. “I have read with and in- terest,” wrote Mrs. Sabin, “your state- *in which | Torture Ends hing else I Windsa; “I am glad to say that | helped me quicker than anyt “savs W. 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