Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1932, Page 4

CLOGING IS URGED Prince Georges Grand Jury ' Also Asks Dismissal of Unfit Policemen. By & Staf Correspondent of The Star. TUPPER MARLBORO, Md., April 27. ~—The permanent closing of Jimmie La Fontaine's alleged gambling establish- ment on Bladensburg road, removal of law enforcement officlals who are not physically, mentally and morally quali- fled for their position, and elimination of the causes of friction between the sheriff’s office and county police force, ‘were the high spots in a list of recom- mendations submitted by the April grand jury in its report yesterday. Declaring the jury has been advised that “a certain gambling establishment on Bladensburg road, ‘commonly known as Jimmie La Fontaine's’ has been closed, the report demands “that all rsons obligated to uphold the law of filncn Georges County keep sald gam- bling place closed for all time.” ‘The jury’s demand is regarded as particularly timely in view of persist- ent rumors that the establishment will Teopen next month. Urge Closing of Other Places. Referring to other gambling places and road houses, which “we have rea- son to believe exist in our county at this time,” the jurors “strongly urged” the officers to bring about the closing of such places and the conviction of their proprietors, pointing out that this vork is in line with “their sworn obli- gations.” Its investigation -of certain cases in- dicated there was “a laxity of duty on the part of constables, members of the sherif’s office and members of the Po- lice Department” when law wviolations, the report stated. This negligence, the jurors declared, ‘was, in their opinion, “due principally to lack of proper training and often because of mental and physical in- ability.” The re| officers w! the court or the States attorney, con- ducting their investigations properly or making the necessary arrests to war- rant a conviction, be replaced by per- sons properly qualified. It also recom- mends that only those who are honest, mentally active, and physically fit be selected to enforce the law. Should Seek Legal Advice. “No other influence should have any part in the appointment of officers, for, ‘without a strong Police Department, the work of the grand juries, courts or other agencies is lost,” the report said. With a view to more efficlent law en- forcement the jury recommended that all county officers, including magistrates, call upon the State’s attorney for legal advice. It also called attention to the fact that county police might have access; to & training school conducted by the| 2”& commissioner of motor vehicles, if such a request is made by the county eommissioners,” but the jury made no recommendation on this score. In deploring the fact that there is “considerable friction” between the police force and sheriff’s office, the jury recommended that the sheriff and chief of police “take steps to remove the cause or causes of that friction, if, 8s we are led to believe, .they have knowledge of the disturbing element.” + An unusual feature of the report was an “appeal to our citizens,” which called upon' the residents of the county to show & proper respect for all laws and expressed #he belief that better re- gults could be secured if the citizens of the county would help the law enforce- ment officers. Police Department Praised. The jury commended the police de- partment for its efforts as evidenced by a report from Chief J. J. Crowley that 829 cases had been handled between October 1, 1931, and April 1, 1932. Action by the deputy game warden of the county to prevent dogs running at large and destroying young game out of season was requested in the Teport. An addition to the county jail, to care for inmates suffering from con- tagious diseases, was recommended. Sanil conditions, heating and food at the jail were described as good. Rec- ommendations regarding the county alms house were contained in a supple- mental report submitted by a committee of the jury, cons of Bernard F. Brown, Raymond B. Walker, R. Plum- mer Phibbons, Vernon O. Arnold and Arthur B. Campbell. The jury was in session 15 days, heard 123 cases, examined 240 wit- Tesses, returned 95 indictments, ignored 26 cases and continued one. Pay Tribute to Hall. ‘The report pays tribute to the memory of Summerfield D. Hall, late clerk of the Circuit Court, who died on the first day of the current court term, and expresses the jury’s appre- ciation of the assistance given it by State’s ‘Attorney Alan Bowle, his sec- retary, and other court officials. It was signed by A. H. Seidenspinner, foreman, and Earl W. Phelps, secre- tary, of the jury. In discharging the ors, Judge Joseph C. Mattingly lauded their work and reminded them that they may be recalled should an emergency arise. BUS CRASH VICTIM'S WILL IS PROBATED Benjamin B. Pettus Leaves Entire Estate to Widow, Who Is Named Executrix. recommended that those are not, in the opinion of Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 27 Orphans’ Court here yesterday of Benjamin B. Pettus of Chevy Chase, who was fatally injured in a recent bus collision in Washington, was admitted ate. It bequeaths to Mrs. Mary . s, widow of the testator, the en- tirz estate absolutely, and names her | executrix. The instrument was executed February 14, 1929, The will of Luther G. Burdette, well known farmer of near Hyattstown, was also admitted to probate here yesterday. It was executed January 14, 1928, and | names Luther G. Burdette, jr., executor. ‘The will bequeaths the entire estate to the testator's widow, Mrs. Ella R Burdette, for life, and directs that upon her death Melvin R. and Luther G. Bur- , Jr., sons of the testator, get all| the household effects in equal shares, and that the remainder of the estate, including both real and personal prop- erty, be converted into cash, and that Melvin R. and Luther G. Burdette, jr., receive $500 each of the proceeds and the residue be equally divided among them and the following other children of the testator: Edgar L. Harry E. and Carrie M. Burdette, Lillie E. Lawson, Maude E. Price, Bessie B. Duvall and Pearl B. Anderson. PLAN “SOLONA” OPENING @pecial Dispatch to The Star. MCLEAN, Va., April 27—Plans for holding open house May 21 in Solona, Colonial home now owned by the Smoot family, where Dolly Madison was given refuge when she fled from Speaker CORPORATION COUNSEL WILL ESCRIBE UTILITIE! WILLIAM A. ROBERTS, Special assistant corporation counsel be- fore the Public Utilities Commission, who will speak on “Public Utilities Regulation in the District of Columbia™ in an address at National University at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. Mr. Roberts will address the class in District of Columbia government, cut- lining the status of the utilities com- mission in the municipal machinery. Special interest is attached to the lec- ture by virtue of the treatment accord- ed Mr. Roberts by the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee in framing the 1933 appropriation bill. ARLINGTON GROUP HITS .S, PAY CUT Democratic Club Also In- dorses Gov. Roosevelt at Meeting at Clarendon. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. Cl N, Va., April 27.—Reso- lutions opposing the proposed Federal salary cuts and reductions in personnel, in one instance and indorstng the presi- dential candidacy of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the other, were unani- mously adopted last night by the Demo- cratic Club of Arlington County. ‘The resolution with respect to the proposed salary cuts pomnts to the fact that Arlington County, owing to its lo- cation adjacent te the District of Co- lumbia, “is the choice of many hundreds of Government employes, who are tax- payers in the county and any reduction in the pay or personnel of the Federal workers will cause much confusion and retard the progress of Arlington County.” Coples of the resolution are to be sent to the Benators and Representa- tives from Virginia, asking them to op- pose any legisiation effecting salaries and personnel. The resolution follows a similar one passed last week by the Arlington County Democratic Commit- tee. The indorsement of Gov. Roosevelt was in the form of a telegram signed by Robert N. Anderson, president, and Wesley McDonald, secretary of the club, and addressed to Gov. Roosevelt at Richmond, Where he is attending the Governors' Convention. It is as fol- lows : “The Executive Committee of the Democratic Club’of Arlington County tonight went on record unanimously in- dorsing your c#ndidacy as Democratic m&e for President of the United ORDERS SHORTAGE OF $70,708 BE PAID Court Rules Bondsmen of Late ‘Warren County Treasurer Must Make Good Losses. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER,Va., April 27.—Three sureties on the bond of the late Arthur L. Warthen, treasurer of Warren County at the time of his tragic death, November 28, 1928, wnen he is sald to have committed suicide by shooting himself at his home in Front Royal, are required to make good a skortage in accounts to the extent of $70,708.40, ac- cording to an opinion given in the case today by Judge Phillp Williams of the Circuit Court. The opinion was on the answer of the sureties of Warthen to the report of John M. Steck, master commissioner of chancery. In his opinion in the case, Judge Wil- liams noted that “it would seem high time that some adequate system of ac- counting and control should be devised, if not to prevent dishonesty in men, at least to protect public funds from such dishonesty.” He also dectared that the opinion of the court was based “upon a case which involves a situation that seems almost fantastic.” CHILDREN SAIL T0 FIND NEW HOME IN NORWAY Bhree Under Nine Years of Age to Join Grandmother, Whose Language They Can’t Speak. By the Associated Press. SIOUX FALLS, 8. Dak., April 27.— Because their mother was unable to support them unalded, three children, all under nine years of age, yesterday were on the first leg of a 4,000-mile journey to a land of strange faces and unknown language. Their passages paid by the county, the children left en route to Stavanger, Norway, to live with grandparents they have never seen. The grandparents had asked the youngsters be sent them. The (dhlldnn will embark at New York to- ay. The mother, whose name officials de- clined to reveal, will remain here with a fourth child untll she accumulates funds for the passage. The parents of the children were di- vorced after the father had failed to support the family, and the county provided homes for the youngsters the past five years. S e GEN. PERSHING SAILS ABOARD LEVIATHAN By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 27.—Carrying Gen. John J. Pershing as passenger, the Leviathan steamed out of New York Harbor last night to return to Germany for the first time since the outbreak of the World War. pride of the Hamburg American Line, she made her last trip to Germany when that country ordered shipping stopped in 1914. Renamed by the United States Government in_ 1917, she transported thousands of dough- ‘Washington before the approach of the ., ected yester- at the meeting of the Guild of 's 1 Church at the Ty 7 X been ned _ Gen. Paris. boys overseas to fight the Germans. Since the war her route has been and Ch Southampton 3 The little seaport of Bremerhaven is her destination this . tri on way to Originally christened the vmmnc.l to | ers were C. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, GOVERNORS URGED 10 CUT EXPENSES Hoover Tells State Executives Too Much Money Used by Governments. (Continued From First Page.) dent’s visit tomorrow when they visit the White House after a visit to Fred- ericksburg, Alexandria and Mount Vernon. Hoover Meets Opponents. His visit here brought the Presi- dent face to face with several of the outstanding Democratic candidates for Mr. Hoover's job, among them Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Gov. Albert Ritchie of Maryland. While awaiting the President’s ar- rival, the States’ executives gathered around the conference table to discuss State problems. Gov. Louis L. Emmerson of Illinois told the States’ executives that al- though he advocated the employment of J‘::%len men on construction projects, he belleved no State should “increase the public debt for non-essentlals. His speech was made after Gov. Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota had voiced a Tinging “no” to the question of abolish- ing State banks. He sald he saw in in- dividual banking units a protection against “economic imperialism, con- trolled at the top by our big banking interests.” State Banks Sound. State banks, he asserted, “are as sound as Federal banks if permitted to compete on an equal basis.” He added that “the weakness of the State bank- ing system may be removed by State regulatory legislation.” He said that “the action of the Fed- eral Reserve Board in demanding ex- cess collateral for loans upon farm property, and in refusing to renew farm paper forced down the price of farm groducu by preventing the farmer from olding his products because of & want of credit, and thereby causing & tre- mendous surplus of farm products to be thrown upon the market.” Later Gov. Emmerson in his plea for economy said he could “see no good reason why the Government should be immune to the necessity or the desir- ability to economize. It should at least restrain from extravagancies which no business could tolerate and still keep ahead of the sheriff.” Pageant Planned Tonight. Gov. Wilbur L. Cross of Connecticut will be heard at the afternoon session on “Reduction of Public Expenditures in Connection With the Reduction of Taxes.” Tonight the Governors, whose pro- gram has included journeys to historic shrines in connection with the Bicen- tennial of Washington’s birth, will gather in the mosque to laud the mem- ory of the Nation's first President. Gov. Roosevelt, who will be introduced by Gov. Norman S. Case of Rhode Island, will make the principal address. Each of the Governors will be intro- duced by Gov. John Garland Pollard of Virginia, host to the conference. After introductory remarks by Lieut. Gov. James H. Price of Virginia, the Governors will witness & pageant of the convention of 1775. Dinner Last Night. National prohibition and the farm situation were cited by Gov. Ritchie of Maryland last night as “illustrations of the impotence of excessive federalism and a revelation of the limitations in- herent in overcentralization.” He was the final speaker on the pro- gram at a State dinner given executives attending the conference. “By shifting too much power to Washington,” he said, “we have weak- ened those primal forces of self-help and of individual, community and State initiative which builded this Nation and carried it safely through every crisis. These qualities and these alone can carry us safely through this one.” LEAVES FOR RICHMOND. Hoover to Discuss Federai Expenses and Question of Taxation. President Hoover left Washington shortly before noon today to address the Governors' Conference in Rich- mond, Va., during which he will discuss State and Federal expenses and the question of taxation. When he faces these 27 State execu- tives assembled in the auditorfum of the John Marshall Hotel, Mr. Hoover will have in his audience three Gov- ernors who are candidates for the Democratic nomination for President, and he will have a number of Demo- cratic Governors who have been criti- cal of the Federal Government’s mounting expenses and taxes. It is understood that the President in the course of his remarks about State and Federal Government operating costs and about taxation will take this op- portunity to criticize the States and the local governments for their extrava- g';nce in government and their high xes. Given Significance. The President’s sudden decision to visit the Virginia capital to address the Governors on this important subject gave no thought to political expediency, but some political observers of the op- position party have calculated that ihe President’s speech at this particular time and before such a gathering can- not help but be of political significance. The President did not board the train to Richmond at Union Station here, but instead motored to Alexandria, where he got aboard. Mrs. Hoover did not accompany him. The only persons in his individual party are Lawrence Richey and Theodore Joslin, two of his secretaries; Capt. C. R. Train, chief naval aide; Capt. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, and Lieut. Col. James A. Ulio, assistant chief military aide at the White House. More than a dozen Dewspaper correspondents and news | photographers and talking picture men were in the party. The President's party occupled three special cars at- tached to the rear of tne regular train of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. Will Return Today. The President is scheduled to arrive ir Richmond at 2 o'clock and will be motored directly to the John Marshall Hotel, where he will almost immediately enter’ upon his address. The latter should not consume more than 20 min- utes in its delivery, and the President will leave immediately for the station to return to Washington. He will be back at the White House in time for his_customary _dinner hour. This is the first time President Hoo- ver has made a speech outside of Wash- ington since last October, when he went to Detroit to urge the American Legion Cenvention not to push bonus legisla- tion at this session of Congress. The President will be host at a banquet at the White House tomorrow night to the governors attending the Richmend con- ference. HEAR_CLEAN-UP PLANS Ballston Citizens Addressed by Ar- lington County Chairman. | Special Dispatch to The Star. BALLSTON, Va. April 27.—Stanley H. Willlamson, general chairman of the Count,” mem-&omme, spoke at the meeting of the Ballston Citiens’ As- sociation last night on the plans of the campaign to start May 2. Other speak- L. Kinnier, county engineer, and Morten Q. w presiden the Lee Heights Citizens’ Association. Herbert W. Smith, Thomas J. Crack and Harry Cuppett were appointed as th~ 17sa) Slaan up Comy t of | WEDNESDAY, Text of Hoover Speech President Urges Governors o Balance State Budgets gnd Equalize Local Taxes—W ould Take Burden Off Home Owners. OLLOWING 1is the text of the address given by President Hoover at the twenty-fourth Conference of Governors’ at Richmond, this afternoon: I am glad to accept your invitation to meet with the chief executives of the States. vfi‘ are ;Lflm facing t’"\?fi emergen oblems of government. are gngm?{ed with nmintaining the financial integrity of the Government, State, Federal, county and municipal. We, all of us, are struggling to reduce the cost of government. We are strug- gling to avoid national, State and mu- nicipal borrowings. Our tax revenues have all greatly diminished. We must find new tax revenues to supplement those sources which have been dried up by the depression, so far as our deficits can not be made up by drastic reductions in expenditures. We must resolutely balance our budgets. The economic safety of the Republic depends upon the joint financial sta~ bility of all our governments. That stability of the Nation is to be attained not alone by the financial stability of the Federal Government. It lies :Sull in the financial integrity of every State, county, and municipal government. As executives, we are charged under our constitutions with the duty to recom- mend methods and measures to our Legislatures to these ends. I know of no more difficult task. Yet the foun- dations of recovery of business, of em- ployment, and of agriculture depend upon the success of our efforts and the efforts of our legislators. You are meeting here to consider many phases of these questions. It is to urge the national aspect of our con- tinued State and local financial prob- lems as well as our Federal issues and to discuss some measures of Co-opera- tion that I have accepted your invita- tion to address you today. Gives Figures on Cost. A few figures will assist us in con- sidering the cost of government and the extent to which it increased in the last 20 years, although all such fig- ures are but approximations and have many different bases of calculation. For pu of illustration I have taken the year 1913 as the last year to reflect pre-war conditions, the year 1924 as far enough removed from the actual war years to falrly indicate the trend, and 1930 as the last year for which figures are available. Expenditures, including debt retire- ment from surplus, were approximately as follows: 1 Federal « $700 State Local « 1,800, tection of life, , defense and other vital functf rather than to re- duce those items which excite the po- litical interest of special groups. Another of our difficuities is to ar- range our reductions of expenditure so as not to work undue hardship upon a vast group of public employes and to be careful that, while we strive on one hand to asist the unemployed by public works, we do not add to the of un- employed through dis large numbers of equally deserving public servants. T am in hopes that in the Federal Government we Can compass the need of reduced expenditure and at the same time, by introduction of short- er we time for each employe, can give all of them a living, can maintain to them the assurance of recovery of the standards of American life “and can avoid the inhumanity of thrusting them upon the local communities for support against destitution. The other side of our problem is taxation. It confronts all of us in four . First, the neea for ultimate reduction in the tax burden. Second, of y | the need, in the existing emermcy. for new forms of taxation to rep sources of revenue which have failed us under present conditions in so far as we cannot offset the whole loss of public income by reduced ex- penditures. the great problem of duplication in the tax fleld between Federal, State and local governments. Fourth, reorganization of the tax basis s0 a8 to secure a more just distribution of the tax burden as between the va- rious groups of taxpayers. Cites Decline in Receipts. Our .K;oblem in tax reduction would be a le equivalent or our savings in expenditures if it were not for the drastic decline in tax recetpts—Federal, State and mun! ‘This decrease has been of serious because tax sources, particularly for the Federal QGovernment, and to a lesser extent State and municipal governments, are dependent upon business aotivity, upon profits and income. The revenues of the Federal Government have diminished over 50 per cent, and ths mun? in one group—the Income taxes. And in re- sult the contract obligations alone of the Federal Government exceed our tax income. As a result of the decreased income all of our governments, Na- tlonal, State and munieipal, are frantt- cally searching for new sources of taxa- tion. In this process we are too often i duplicating taxes upon the same sources. 913, 000,000 400,000,000 ,000,000 1024, $4,100,000,000 1,400.000,000 5,400,000,000 1930. $4,200,000,000 2,300,000.000 7,500,000,000 Total .eececernerenscoconances $2,900 300, . 3,500, ,000,000 Our outstanding debt was lpproxk'fi’a‘t;ly: .$1,000, ,000,000 ,000,000 $10,900,000,000 $13,200,000,000 1930. $16,200,000,000 1.800,000,000 8,000,000,000 12,600,000,000 1924. $21,300,000,000 1,100,000,000 000,000 .$4,800, ‘The causes which have led to this extraordinary increase in expenditures and debts are familiar. They include the burden on the Federal Government imposed by the war. This accounts for nearly $2,000,000,000 of annual expen- ditures and for most of the increase in the debt. You will observe that outside of the war influence our greatest in- crease in costs of Government lie in local and municipal agencies. Hits Sectional Demands. In all our governments, however, Fed- eral, State and local, enlargement of expenditure and of debts has been caused in part by the increase in popu- lation, the rise in commodity prices and wages; by the improvement and new building of roads, streets, waterways and airways, imposed on us through the development of the internal combustion engine, and by the growing sense of social obligation to improve education and to enlarge activities in behalf of welfare and relief. In addition, I re- gret to say, increase of Government ex- penditure and of debt has been caused by sectional and grour demands and by a large expansion of national, State and local ventures into business—most of which we perform in a most costly manner. Just as the methods and practices in private business and living have had to be overhauled in this emer- gency, so must we also overhaul the methods and practices of Government. Today we are clearly absorbing too great a portion of the national income for the conduct of our various branches of Government. Using the most reli- able figures available, it appears that before the war the total cost of our Na- tional, State and local governments represented only about 8 per cent of our national income. In boom times, when we might hope that the national income would increase more rapidly than the cost of Government, never- | theless the cost of Government actually increased to such an extent that it rep- resented approximately 15 per cent of the national income, of which less than 3 per cent was directly due to the war. | Today, with the falling off of business, the aggregate expenditures of National, | State and local governments probably | represent more than 20 per cent of the national income. __ Before the war, theoretically every man worked 25 days & year for the Na- | tional, State and local vernmen combined. In 1924 he worked 46 days| a year. Today he works for the support of all forms of government 61 days out of & year. Continued progress on this road is the way to national impoverish- ment. Would Curtail Activities. Some of the expenditures in Govern- ment can be reduced by postponement of less urgent matters, some by perma- nent elimination or curtailment of func- tons and activities which have been created over the last 50 years in re- sponse to the desire for expanded serv- ice by the community. These ex- panded services are some obsolete, but many of them meritorious. But every | executive is confronted by the fact that they are established by law and can only be reduced by authority of new legislation. ‘There has been also the growth of useless duplication and waste. Many of you have already pointed out and are today struggling to reduce the multi- plicity of local governments. Many of these administrative units have been rendered obsolete by improved com- munications and transportation. In the Federal Government we have likewise a large number of functions which should be grouped and consolidated. In an emergency these weaknesses be- come more aparent, and public attention to government and taxes offers oppor- tunity for their revision. We cannot restore economic stability in the Nation by continuing to siphon so large a part of private effort into the coffers of the Government; its abstraction from the people stifles the productivity, the con- sumption and the recovery of employ- ment. Nor can we hide our heads in the sand by borrowing to cover current Government expenses, for thus we drain the capital of the country into public securities and draft it away from in- dustry and commerce. Thus a dominant national necessity is to reduce the ex- penditures of all our governments. This is not only the need—it is the uni- versal demand. ‘Warns Against Dangers. T know that every dolar of decrease in expense, every pl of consolidation in governmental activities, touches some sensitive spot where it causes pain and Tesentment. While the people as a whole demand and applaud these endeavors toward in the large the com- plaints I.hdu, lme;:'fi oz‘mm and Toups great e concrete ef- fum of all executives and hwn,fis a result, one of the diffi that all ,000,000 executives face is the tendency to se- cure reduction of expenditures at the cost of those services neecessary to pro- $30,400,000,000 $30,600,000,000 No matter how we disguise it with names, such as “excise,” “luxury,” or “sales,” the result is the same—the Na- | tional, State and municipal govern- ments are competing with each' other for revenue from business activities. We are all seeking further revenue from income and estate taxes. While the National Government imposes no direct | taxes on real property, the State and loval governments are all pressing upon each other in taxing it. This same real estate indirectly bears in part the taxa- tion which the Federal Government lays on profit and income. It all re- flects in the rent. All these cross-pur- poses contribute to economic duress. The many provisions of muitiple taxa- tion may vary so much that a taxpayer coming under several jurisdictions may find himself paying an wholly unrea- sonable amount for the support of gov- ernment. The tax levies of the various taxing authorities all constitute a bur- den on the national income, and, in times of depression, when the relative weight of that burden is increased, lack of co-ordination in the system be- comes a matter of prime tmportance. One of the taxes which is responsible for a disproportionate part of the hard- ship of our present tax system is the general property tax. ile the na- tional Government imposes no such tax, the State and local governments rely heavily on it for revenue. The taxes upon real property are the easiest to enforce and are the least flexible of all taxes. The tendency underspressure of need to continue these taxes un- changed in times of depression, despite the decrease in the owner’s income, places undue drag upon that segment of the community in which real estate is the chief property item. Decreasing prices and decreasing income result in an increasing burden upon property owners both in rural and urban com munities, which is now becoming almost | unbearable. The tax burden upon real estate is wholly out of proportion to that upon other forms of property and income. There is no farm relief more needed today than tax relief, for I be- lleve it can be dembnstrated that the tax burden upon the farmer today ex- ceeds the burden upon other groups. Urges Wide Revision. With a view to making a suggestion that may be timely to this subject— that is, the conflict between methods of taxation in different segments of Government and consideration of the whole question of distribution of the | burden of taxation—it seems to me urgent that we should, all of us, through our financial officers, give re- newed examination to this subject in the light of conditions today and by ex- changes between them reconsider the ossibilities of the whole problem of tter co-ordination, greater simplicity and, above all, better adjustment of the burdens among our people. Gentlemen, the purpose of my address is to express a desire for greater co- operation and co-ordination in our mu- tual problems. Just as you are meeting here today to develop helpful action out of common experience, I take the liberty of suggesting to you that similar conferences and examination of prob- lems by the executives of your local governments in each State would be productive of useful results. It would help toward a realization that local ex- penditures and taxes are a part of a great national problem in stability as well as one of local concern. It would 3-Day Sale of Evergreens And Other Seasonable Plants Plume Cypress, 15-18 o R Golden Cypress, 15-18 inches $1.10 " AR IO Norway Spruce, 18-24 12-15 inches Phitz Juniper, 2 ft. to 21, fe.. Irish Juniper, 18-24 inches .... Oriental Arborv 2 ft. to 2Y; ft Dwarf Arborvitae, 12-15 inches - . Pink and Red Radiance Bush Also Annuals APRIL 27, 1932. GIRL HELPS BANDIT INTAXICAB HOLD-UP Robber Blocks Driver’s Path When Woman Passenger: Halts Car. ‘With a pretty girl as his confederate, a well dressed bandit early today held | up .Melecio G. Acautilado, a Filipino hacker, at 1412 Hopkins street and took $8. The taxi driver was sitting in his cab at Twentleth and Calvert streets about 12:30 a.m. when the woman walked up and asked to be driven to a house near Twentieth street and Park road. Shortly before reaching her destina- tion, the woman told Acautilado he had “driven far enough” and walked hur- riedly away umnm her fare. Before Acauf o could start his taxi again a car pulled up and blocked his car. The driver leaped out, covered the hacker with a revolver and took Acau- tilado’s receipts for the night and drove Japanese Emperor Honors Soldiers Who Died in Battle Ceremony Held in Shinto Temple Is First of Its Kind Since 1906. By the Associated Press. TOKIG, April 27.—Emperor Hirohito and the Empress, accompanied by the highest dignitaries of the Japanese court, officiated at a special worship today, the first of its kind since 1906, in honor of Japanese soldiers who died in battle for their country, ‘The ceremony took place at the Yasu- kuni Shrine of the National Shinto Temple which crowns the highest hill in Tokio and where the Japanese be- lleve the souls of soldiers and sailors killed in action are enshrined. ‘The last previous ceremony was per- formed Hirohito’s grand- father, who in 1906 honored and en- shrined the souls of those who died in the Russo-Japanese War. ‘The solemn Shinto ceremony was the climax of a four-day national patriotic | off. Detectives were told by a number of taxi drivers at the Twentieth and Cal- roadster with the man a short time be- fore the hold-up occurred. Another taxi driver, J. C. Pollard of the 1400 block of T street, was held up by two men at Livin road and the District line and of $8.75 and his taxi. The abandoned cab was re- covered soon after the hold-up. 'WALSH TO ADDRESS BOARD OF TRADE Massachusetts Senator to Speak at Annual Meeting Tomor- row Night. Senator David 1. Walsh of Massa- chusetts will be the principal er at the annual meeting of the Wash- ington Board of Trade at the Willard Hotel tomorrow night, it was an- nounced today. The meeting also will result in the choice of 10 members of the Board of Directors of the trade body to fill vacancies made by the annual retire- ment of that number from among the 30 constituting the board. Sixteen candidates have been placed in nom- ination. They are: George C. Shinn, George Plitt, John T. Bardroff, Ben T. Webster, Milton F. Schwab, George V. Graham, Edward F. Colladay, Dil- ler B. Groff, Maurice Oftterback, Claude W. Owen, Frank P. Leetch, Frank S. Hight, John W. Hardell, | Charles W. Pimper, James E. Edmunds |and Harry Blake. | Joseph A. Burkart is judge of elec- tions, and will be assisted by 16 mem- ‘bers of the organization in mhuhm}fi | the returns. Raymond Florance Wi | be_auditor of elections, and results will be announced at the meeting. The new board will choose a pres- ident and other elective officers at its next meeting. George W. Offutt is president of the Board of Trade, and will occupy the chair at the meet- ing tomorrow night. PHYSICAL ANb DENTAL EXAMINATION PLANNED Special Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md, April 27— All children entering the Takoma Park Public School next Monday will be given a physical and dental examina- tion between 10 o'clock and noon, be- ing part of a May day program for those entering the kindergarten or first grade. The campaign, which is being held throughout the United States, is receiv- ing the support of the Parent-Teacher | Association, the following members as- | sisting in the campaign: Mrs. Walter | P. Harman, chairman; Mrs. 1. Krumke, | Mrs. George E. Davis, Mrs. B. H. Hen- shall, Mrs. G. W. Garland, Mrs. Frank Bourk, Mrs. Ralph Raymond, Mrs. David Lorenz and Mrs. Stewart Patter- son. | Dr. A. B. Little and Dr. Lynwood | | tions an 1 i ribute to their resolution to bring | about constructive economy and co- | operation. Assails Selfish Interest. We, as executives, all agree upon the | | absolute necessity in the interest of the Nation as a whole of reduced .expendi- | tures, of better distributed taxation, of | balanced budgets. Our town councils, | | our county commissions, our State Leg- islatures and the Congress agree upon | these fundamentals. That is the sure | highway toward national recovery. But to accomplish these things we must have the intelligent support of the people themselves, that selfish vested interest and vested habit do not, by their organized sectional and group | oppositions or individual action to de- | feat these high purposes. | Espectally do I take this occasion to | pay tribute to the courage shown by our public officials, both executive and legislative, in these problems. | task is no light responsibility. This | duty offers no rosy path to popularity. Rather, it is one to invite the anger of | established interests. With the utmost care that can be exercised by the execu- tive officers and the legislators through- out the Nation, and with the utmost good will, it is bound to cause individ- ual hardship and to grieve the friends of many worthy causes. Nevertheless, the duty is inexorable, and its dis-| charge rests inescapably upon all public officers. Its final results will redound | to the general public benefit. There-| fore, I say to the public: Be patient, be helpful, recognize the complexity and the difficulty of the problem before these servants of your combined pub- lic interest. Support them in their task, for upon its successful conclu- sion depends a most momentous con- tribution to our united security, our hope of an early return to stability, and the common welfare of every man, | woman and child in our Nation. d Dr. E. Clyde Shade the dental 1t AZALEAS Heavily budded; bu bloom. A. Kaempferi, 12-15 inch A. Hinob ches Amoena, R vz i Abelia Grandi Flor A. ‘Heiges will give the physical examina- | p, religious observance in which the spirits of 531 soldlers who died at Shanghai, as well as of those who died in the Tsinan campaignr in 1928 and in the suppression of the rebellion of abo- rigines in Formosa in 1930, were added to_the empire’s 3 ‘Those spirits added to the shrine to- day incl only the soldiers who fell up to February 10. Several hundred more must be added at a later cere- mony. THREE-POINT PLAN FOR FARMS ASKED Chairman Stone Favors Open Market Operations and More Co-operatives. By the Assoctated Press. To deal effectively with the present emergency in agriculture, Chairman Stone of the Farm Board today recom- mended before the Senate Agriculture Committee a three-point program. Continuation of the recently initiated Federal Reserve Board’s open market operations to expand credit and in- crease consumer buying power was his first recommendation, coupled with pro- vision by Congress for sufficient funds to finance sale of surplus wheat and cotton in foreign ‘markets, and intensi~ gefl‘ development of co-operative mar- eting. The new credit expansion policy of the Reserve Board, the chairman said, “should tend to check credit contrac- tion, restore business confidence, im- prove ‘business activity, increase em- ployment and so lead to a gradual increase in commodity prices. The results of this credit policy would be accelerated if accompanied by such action as would induce those member banks which have been reluctant to extend credit to lberalize their credit policies.” Recommending appropriations to finance export sales of surpluses, Stone sald, “wheat and cotton prices have led the way out of previous depressions. It is rticularly important that our domestic carry-over of wheat and cotton into the next crop season be reduced.” “Parmers are not yet sufficiently umlud h!nou roflucer-oaned and roducer-controlled co-of v n- ey gy strongly collective bargaining power in the sale of their products. Continued progress in the organization of farmers is necessary to meet these emergency conditions as well as their long-time problems.” —_— Heads Paper Company. MONTREAL, Quebec, April 27 (P).— Gen. J. B. White of the Canadian In- ternational Paper Co., yesterday was elected president of the Bathurst Pow- er & Paper Co. A. J. Nesbit, former president, resigned from the board of directors and was replaced by L. P. managing director of Abitibi ice president. wer & Paper Co. He also was elected | DUNCAN'S COUNSEL HITS GRAND JURY Plea in Abatement Cites 14 Reasons for Believing In- dictment lliegal. By a 8taff Correspondent of The Star, ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOUSE, April 27.—Former County Clerk William H. Duncan was arraigned before Judge Walter T. McCarthy in Circuit Court this moming on a charge of failing to account for public funds, and his attorneys, Leo P. Harlow and Amos C. Crounse, entered a plea in abatement in which they named 14 reasons why they believed the indict- ment to be illegal. Five of these were | aimed at the servie on the grand jury of Lyman M. Kelly, a member of the county governing board, By agreemen between _Common- wealth's Attorney Lawrence W. Douglas and counsel for the defense, Judge Mc- Carthy set May 6 as the date for the ugmurrignn ?n the plea. e plea, it was stated that Kell was disqualified for service on the grsm); jury because he was a newly elected member of the county board and there- fore could not legally be appointed to any other public office for which he h:fd {,ecetl;;edsm'gmoml compensation p y the State or one of i - ical subdivisions, e Prejudice Is Charged. | Further attacks on the service of | Kelly were that as a member of the | county board he was one of the ine vestigators of the proeeedings resulting in the indictment and one of the prose- cutors of the defendant; that he was. disqualified because he was prejudiced and had both formed and expressed an opinion; that he was lified because e was an active candlaste 1 succeed the defendant in the office of county clerk, and that he was furthem fi"mufufig because he um'.hg agent of company w] surety. on Duncan’s o(flclp:l %fl’lflcu o At the time of the convening of the grand gury Kelly asked that he be ex- cused service because of his offi- cial position in the county, but the court held at that time that this cone ;lectlon did not disquaiify him for serve ce. Hold Jury Was Misdirected. Another reason why they believe the indictment to be illegal is that Thomas J. Crack, one of the grand jurors, is & member of the Board of Zoning Ap= T k&:’:cecgutr;:y h t is cl at the grand ju misdirected by the judge i ujm{ytg:; were instructed that nine of their num= ber must concur in finding an indicte ment and that they were further misdi- rected by the court stating that a true bill could be returned upon concurrence of nine of the members. It was further charged that members of the grand jury which returned the indictment were not residents of the State of Virginia and that the grand Jury was not selected from the several magisterial districts as required by law. The other reasons set forth were of tec! nature, Douglas Attacks Plea. When shown a copy of the pl& Commonwealth Attorney Douglas that some of the claims made in it be made more specific and it was finally | agreed that he was to furnish a list of these to the defense in order that they might explain them more fully. The task of reading the indictment to Duncan fell to Mrs. Lorena Ellis, who was deputy clerk under Duncan and served as h'; secretary during the entire 12 years which he held office. The audit of Duncan’s books is to be speeded up by the addition of two more State auditors to the staff al- ready engaged in that work. The new auditors, who arrived here late yesterday, are John M. Purcell, jr., son of the State treasurer, and Thomas Dunaway. There are now a total of nine audi- tors examining the county’s books. Five of these are working on the books‘of former Treasurer E. Wade Ball and the other four are on Duncan's books, The audit of Ball's books began on February 20 and that of Duncan’s on March 23. Efforts of postal workers in Britain for a 10 per cent salary raise are meet~ ing with little success. The terms of Morris Plan Loans are simple and practical—it is not necessary to have had an account at this Bank For each $120 bor- rowed you agree to deposit $10 a month in an account, the pro- ceeds of which may be used to cancel the note when due. Deposits may bemadeon s weekly, semi-monthly or monthly basis as you prefer. to borrow. Loans are pessed on within & day or two after filing application =with few exceptions. MORRIS PLAN notes are usually mede for 1 year, though they mey be for any period of from 3 to 12 months. Morris Plan Bank Under Supervision U. S, Treesury 1408 H Street Northwest Capital & Surplus, $250,000 inches . & Euonymous Japonica, inches ........ . Jap Red Leaf Barberry, 15-18 inches Pink Dogwood, 2R WBINinna Pansies, per dozen ..... 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