Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1932, Page 3

BINGHAM OFFERS REPEAL MOTIN Moves for Early Ballot on Resubmission of Dry Law Question. By the Associated Press. In a move to get an early vote on re- submission of the prohibition issue, Senator Bingham, Republican, of Con- | necticut, today introduced a resolution sor repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment and will seek to bring it up at the first opportunity Bingham. in a statement off the floor, said he took this action because of the “delay of the Judiciary Comm.ttee in reporting out any olution of the many before it proposing repeal and modification.” I will ask to have this repeal resolu- tion taken from the table at the first opportunity,” he added, ‘and on that vote we will get a test on resubmission of prohibition to the States.” The Bingham resolution would return to the States the power to regulate liquor, giving Congress power to regu- late the sale or transportation in inter- state and foreign commerce. Johnson Asks Showdown. THE EVENING Weighing the Local Tax Burden Various Modifying Factors in Consideration of Wash- ington’s Tax Burden, in Relation to These of Other Cities, Are Discussed. This is the third of a series of articles discussing the tables submitted to the Senate Subcommittee on District Ap- propriations by the Citizens Joint Com- mittee on Fiscal Relations Between the United States and the District. Thesc tables showed Washington’s relatively high taxr burden among cities of the United States. HROUGH various (1) with the 63 citizs of the United Siates of more than 125,000 in population; (2) with 6 cities—Baltimore, Richmon New Orleans, Minneapclis, St. Louls Indianapolis—chosen for special rea sons already enumerated. and (3) with | the two citics nearest Washington in populan:nfminncapchs andi New Or- Jeans—the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations between the United States and the District of Columbia has demonstrated that Washington is t undertaxed. now:shingwn. on the other hand, is shown to be bearing a tax burden that is relatively high In re'ation to the tax burdens of the largest cities of ! the country, a tax burden that is higher | still in relation to comparable, repre- centative cities, and a tax burden that Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali- fornia, called upon the Senate to meet the issue of resubmission at this ses- sion in a statement last asserting | “the prohibition law should be put up to the States.” | Some move by Scnator Borah. Re-| publicn, of Idaho, the ~prohibition champion and a member of the Judici- ary Subcommittee about to report on| the resubmission proposition, 1s being awaited. 3 It was he who wrote the rigid dry enforcement plank of the 1928 Republi- can convention and there is reason to belleve he has again been approached 10 help draft the prohibition plank this | vear. He has declined for reasons un- stated. Leaders Await Borah Statement. Borah has turned a cold shoulder to tentative propositions advanced in high | administrative circles for a referendum on prohibition, but there is no cer- tainty that he is unwilling to have a test on a referendum offering protec- tion against return of the saloon should | the eighteenth amendment be repealed That is what leaders are waiting to learn. is above the burden of taxation in the | ities nearest in population. “More favorabls stil Is the compari- son when equitable consideration is giten to certain mogifiing factors in relation to Washington’s t2x burcen— considerations that apply to this city be:ause of its unique status among the cities of the Nation For convenience these modifying fac- tors may be enumerated as follows: 1. The high standard and greater thoroughness of assessment in the District. 2. The vastly greater amount of tax- exempt property in Washington must be taken into consideration when its tax burden is compared with that of other cities. 3. The proportion of tax burdens of other cities representing interest and sinking fund payments should be elim- inated from all comparisons of city tax burdens. 4. State taxes should be eliminated from city tax comparisons, especially when the taxes of other cities are com- pared with those of Washington. High Standard of Assessment. Every comparison of city tax burdens With Borah on the Judiciary Subcom- i4hat shows as one of the comparable mittee are Senators Walsh of Montana and Dill of Washington, two Demo-| cratic_prohibitionists Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wis- consin, is chairman of the subcommit- tee. He and Senator Hebert, Repub- lican, of Rhode Island. the other mem- | ber, are both opponents of national | prohibition. Work for Moist Plank. Some prominent Republicans are en- | deavoring to draft a moist plank which would hold the party's dry support, but they have been unable to draw support from dry organization leaders consulted. | Representative Snell of New York, the House leader, who is in line for the permanent chairmanship of the na- tional convention, predicted the plat- form would contain a liberal plank on the liquor question, but details are still | in the making. | The Senate, meanwhile. faces an- other test presented by Senator Bing- ham. Republican, of Connecticut, on | 2.75 per cent beer as a substitute for the excise taxes in the re: The House again. day refused to consider legaliz 2.75 per cent beer by a vote of 228 to 169, but anti-prohibitionists who forced the ballot got largely what they ex- pected—a record vote for use in the No- vember elections. VICTIM OF DROWNING IS ADJUDGED SUICIDE Death of Thomas L. Reading, 19, in Potomac Investigated by Deputy Coroner. A certificate_of suicide was issued yesterday by Dr. A. Magruder Mac-| donald, deputy coroner, in the death by drowning of Thomas Lyon Reading, | 19, whose body was found floating in! the Potomac River near the old Acque- duct Bridge yesterday. The body was identified at the Dis- trict Morgue by Detective M. K. Read- ing, the boy's brother. The body was| found by two 16-year-old boys, Jack Reamley of the 1300 block of Vermont avenue and Dan Ayers of the 3000 block of R street. Young Reading had been missing from his home in the 600 block of Irving | street since Sunday. Mdy 15, and a po- lice search was started when the auto- | mobile he had been driving was found | abandoned near Chain Bridge. = 2 Ortiz Rubio’s Sons in Paris. PARIS, May 24 (#)—Fernando and Guillermo Ortiz Rubio, sons of the President of Mexico, arrived here today on their way to Lausanne, Switzerland, ‘where they are to attend school. 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When comparisons of tax bur- dens are made 'in terms of total figures and in per capitas, Washington's high standard of assessment speaks for itself through those figures. When nuemms‘ are made to compare tax burdens by comparing nominal tax rates, or by comparing “adjusted tax rates.” such “adjustments” being made on the basis of estimates of ratios of assessed to full valuation, Washington sometimes suffers by a failure to give due consideration to the extraordinarily high cegree of thor- oughness with which property here is assessed for taxation. An actual 100 per cent assessment applied to all property is a physical impossibility. himself a leeway of 10 per cent and honestly proclaims an assessment ap- proximating 90 per cent of full value is probably coming as near to making a full 100 per cent valuation as it is possible Difference Between Assessors. But it is one thing when an assessor, responsible, as in Washington, only to the Congress of the United States, which has made the law requiring 100 per cent assessment, Teports that he is probably assessing for the city as a whole at about 90 per cent. It is an entirely different thing when an asses- sor, elected to a political office and responsive to the taxpayers who elect him, makes an estimate of assessing at 90 per cent. It is traditional that the reports of assessment officers themselves and esti- mates of those familiar with property values as to the ratio of assessed to full values in cities other than Washing- ton are, at best, mere estimates. The human tendency is for the assessor to make his guessed-at ratio high for esti- mating purposes, but, for very practical | purposes of expediency, to let nature take its course in fixing the value of the | tions by the Citizens’ Joint Committee voting taxpayers’ prcperty for taxation. Thus, when Washington's reported ratio of assessed to full value is placed at 90 per cent by an appointed | official responsible only to Congress for carrying out a law requiring property be assessed at full value—and when this ratio of 90 per cent is com- pared with a reported ratio of 90 per cent in some city where assessments may be made in a half a dozen or more separate assessment districts under the direction of as many politically chosen assessors who follow their own indi- vidual theories and their own individual consciences, Washington suffers in com- parison. The figure of 90 pet cent for Wash- ington may be correct, in the absolute sense. But when used to express the relative thoroughness of local assess- ment, it is nearer 100 per cent. With the possible exception of New York City, Washington is the most thor- oughly assessed city in the country. The ratio of assessed to full value is chiefly important when attempts are made to compare tax burdens by ad- justing the tax rate on the basis of such ratios, as in the method chosen by the House Committee. Tax-Exempt Property in D. C. Washington's high standard of as- sessment, shown by actual total assess- ment figures, and Washington's rela- tively large real estate levy, shown by actual figures, indicate the weight of the local tax burden when compared with that of other cities, many of them large, wealthy, industrial centers. As a matter of fact, Washington should be shown to be poorer in tax. able resources than the average Ameri- can city of its size. Non-industrial, non-commercial Washington, with the small taxpayer constituting the city's financial backbone, and with real estate constituting its most important private industry, is poorer in taxable resources than the average American city of its size, and is less able to bear the same tax burden. Of the 75,000 (approxi- mate) realty taxpayers in Washington, 40.000, or about 53 per cent, are small taxpayers who pay on property valued at less than $10,000. No other city has so large an area of tax-exempt realty. And this tax-exempt realty houses the city's only large industry— the Federal Government. ‘The area of tax-exempt property in Washington is not only large, but is constantly increasing with every new purchase of a square of land for some governmental or municipal building project. The House Select Committee on Fiscal Relations went to considerable labor to gather together and tabulate an imposing list of governmental prop- erties in every city outside of Wash- ington that it could lay its hands on. The value of these out-of-town Federal holdings listed by the House Committee amounts to about $168,500,000. That figure may be contrasted with the esti- mate by the assessor (used by the House Committee), which placed the value of Federal property in the Dis- trict at about $499,960,000—a figure which has been increased by subsequent ngrnmenhl purchases land. ureau of Efficiency estimated the value comparisons | property | An assessor who allows | that | |of tax-exempt property in the District | (as of 1928) at $604,742,615—more than half the assessed valuation of taxable real property. “Washington has a higher ratio of exempt to real property than any other city in the list” it said, re- ferring to the cities with which Wash- ington was compared. A part of its determination of the Federal obligaticn to Washington was based cn this higher ratio of exempt to real property. District’s Non-Extensible Area. ‘The conditicn here is complicated by | the fact that every time a piece of property is transferred to the tax- exempi list the District’s taxable re- sources are by that amount decreased. The District cannot expand its bound- aries into Maryland and Virginia. The Federal Government may continue to decrease the area of taxable property here, and the immediate effect of some of the purchases may be to increase the value of some remaining property. But until it can be shown that the part is greater than the whole, it is idle to contend that the people of the District gain any advantage from cutting down what remains of their limited tax re- sources. The private property owner, the home owner on a smell salary, who forms the backbone of the city's realty rev- enue, will te inclined to move beyond the limits of the District, where there is more iand and cheaper land. Be- tween 1920 and 1920 the last census showed that the District’s populaticn increased only 11 per cent, woereas the populaticn of adjacent Arlington County d 62.5 per cent: of Montgomery 40 per cent. of Prince Georges y, 38.6 per cent; of Alexandria City, 339 per cent; of Fairfax County, 165 per cent, and the metropolitan area as a whole, 17 per cent. This growth represented the movement of the city population toward the sub- urbs, a trend that is National rather than local. The difference between the situation in Washington and in other cities is that the District cannot extend its boundaries to take in those growing suburbs, thus benefiting in revenues from new development of property. Eliminating Interest Payments From Compzrisens. The fact that the citizens of one city decide to burden themselves with debt in order to undertake public serv- ice enterprises expected to yield them & return in the future, or to launch & program of public improvements, or because their city officials and poli- ticlans have persuaded them that it is right to borrow money. while another city decides to live on its income from vear to year, eliminates the debt ele- ment s a comparable factor in com- | parisons of city tax burdens when the object of such comparison is to attempt | to decide what constitutes an equi- table tax burden. The comparisons should be limited to the money that the citizens must raise and spend for annual maintenance and normal im- provement, and the matter of indebted- ness should be left out of such com- parisons. Particularly in the case of compari- sons between Washington and other cities is it illogical and unfair to in- clude debt payments in comparisons of tax burdens. For during the World War and immediately thereafter very many American cities indulged in a financial jag, borrowing easily and heavily from our overrich investors in tax-exempt municipal securities in avoidance of income taxes and surtaxes. Part of this borrowed money went into useful, permanent improvements by which the cities benefited; anather part was wasted in extravagance or graft. Congressmen, whose home cities thus heavily, and in many instances unwisely, borrowed, refused as Washington's Leg- islature to let it borrow at all. It results that the taxpayers of these cities, having enjoyed the benefit of these loans, are now compelled to tax themselves to pay interest and sinking fund on the loans, and tfese items in- crease the amount of their property tay levy and of their tax rates. which in a way set the pace for Washington. But why should Washington taxpayers, who have enjoyed the benefit of no loans, be required to pay on a basis which co- ordinates them in per capita and total payments and in tax rate with cities which are compelled to raise millions in taxes to pay interest? Washington, which has enjoyed the benefit of no loans, should not be re- quired in order to put itself in a su- ficial taxpaying equality with other ies to tax itsell in the amounts rep- resented by these interest payments, ! and they should be deducted from the property tax levies of these other cities and from the corresponding tax rates in a comparison with Washington. The tables presented to the Senate Subcommittee on District Appropria- on Fiscal Relations contained numer- ous ccmparisons between the annual interest payments by the cities—and this showing of the variation in amount of interest is sufficient in itself to indi- | cate the confusion resulting when such intere:t pavments are counted in com- | parisons of the tax burden: comparisons | that have for their chief aim the show- | Ing of what different cities pay for | current city maintenance and normal the following example: St. Louis, com- pays $2.293.000 a vear in interest on indebtedness, while Cleveland pays $8,916,000 a year. Is St. Louis under- taxed because its debt is small, or is | Cleveland overtaxed because its debt is large? Atlanta, Ga.. and Akron, Ohio, annual interest payment is $846,000, while Akron’s is $2,569,000. Is At'anta undertaxed or is Akron overtaxed? in public service enterprises, expected to yield a return, or to expedite con- | struction immediately of public works | of one sort or another, that the benefits | may be enjoyed while the debt is being | paid off. ‘Or, the city may have bor- rowed money because everybody else was doing it. The interest paid an- nually has no proper place in a com- parison of tax burdens for annual city maintenance, and that is the factor to be consicered when Washington's tax burden is concerned. (The discussion of State taxes will be made in a later articles of this series.) DAVISON WILL GET HONOR CERTIFICATE | Southeast Association Plans Recognition for Assistant Engineer Commissioner. ‘The Southeast Washington Citizens’ Association will present Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant Engineer Commj sioner of the District, with a “certificate of civic distinction” at a meeting in his honor tonight in the Buchanan Auditorium, Thirteenth and D streets southeast. Maj. Davison soon will be trans- ferred from Washington. In calling the meeting, officers of the association de- scribed the Army officer as a constant and proven friend of Southeast Wash- ington. Speakers tonight are to be Prof. Allan Davis, principal .of Business High School; J. C. L. Ritter and John V. McGinley. After the program in honor of Maj. Davison, there will be enter- tainment. Citizens’ Converse College Founder Dies. HARRISONBURG. Va., May 24 (). —Dr. Ben Frank Wilson, 69, founder of Converse College at Spartanburg, S. C,, The | died early this morning at his home here, improvement. This is illustrated by | parable in population with Cleveland, | are comparable in population. Atlanta’s | A city borrows money for investment ! SUSPECTS HAWAI | | SABOTAGE PLANS iBritten Thinks Searches of Homes of Japanese Would Yield Evidence. By the Associated Press. The opinion that if the homes of Japanese in Hawail wers searched “you | would find numerous plans for the de- struction of our docks” was expressed today before the House Territories i Commiitce by Representative Britten, | Republican, of Illinois. Explaining his bill to put the Ha- waiian Islands under military contrel,! Britten asserted he wes “not shakiug a | red flag at Japan” twcause “our vela- | tions with her are just as cordiat &4 wiia any country in the world.” “But,” he added, “that condtium mey ( not prevail 10 years from now.” Responding to a question by Delegate Houston of Hawali, Britten sid he had been in the islands “twice for a couple or days 15 years ago,” but that he had heard “many of the best minds in the | Government discuss the situation hour | after hour and day after day” in House hearings. Maj. Fortesque Tl At the outset of the session Chairman . Williams announced that no witnesses f lother than Government officials would | be heard. “This is a judiciary committee.” he said. “and this is no time for legisla- tion to be influenced by publicity.” Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent, who had come to Washington at Brit- ten’s suggestion to testify, was in the room when Williams made his state- ment. Maj. Granville Fortescue and Mrs. | Fortescue, parents of Mrs. Thalia | Massie, whose assault in Hawaii pre- | cipitated a celebrated trial recently. had been expected to appear, but were prevented by illness of the major. Britten sald he could not “regard a couple of hundred thousand Jap- anese in the Hawaiian Islands as loyal American citizens.” | Johnson Challenges Statement. Representative Johnson. Republican, Washington, interposed that was “an incorrect statement of facts.” When Britten made his statement | about searching the Japanese homes, Williams said: “That's rather far-fetched.” , “But I'm considering this from a | military standpoint,” Britten replied {“The Panima Canal once was con- | | sidered our most important military outpost. I now think the Hawaiian { Islands are more important in that re- | spect than Gibraltar to England or Heligoland was to Germany. “No prospective enemy of ours would ; come East wnless it first had destroyed | our fortifications and facilities on the | Hawailan Islands and captured them.” Britten emphasized he was not link- iing his proposal with the M:ssie case. Errors Are Made In Two Important Public Statements {Hoover Letter Addressed to Wrong Man—Dr. Butler in Mix-up. | Official Washington found amusement vesterday in the errors, clerical or other- wise, which crept into the two important { public statements on Government issues | which were given out Sunday and printed on the front page of all morn- |ing newspapers. | President Hoover, who utilized a let- ter to the American Society of Civil | | Engineers to state his_thorough disa- | igreement with proposals to finance a | public works program by Federal bonds. | | addressed his letter to Richard S. Par- | ker as president of the society. He should | have written to Herbert S. Crocker, who | really is the president. Besieged by com- | plaints that Mr. “Parker” could not be | |located. the White House admitted the | {error and attributed it to a stenographic | | mistake. The letter was presumably | |mailed to Mr. “Parker” and possibly it is still unopened. Dr. Butler Makes Error. 1In writing to the leaders of Congress {in an appeal for a balanced budget and jan end of partisanship. a committee {which Included Dr. Nicholas Murray | Butler, head of one of the greatest | universities and an autherity on pub- lic affairs. made the error of addressing Representative Charles R. Crisp as the i “Majority Leader, House of Representa- tives.” | Although the signers of the appeal | included Alfred E. Smith, titular leader | of the Democratic party. and several | Democratic Governors, they did not correct the letter by sending it to Rep- resentative Henry T. Rainey, who actu- ally is the Democratic floor leader of the House. Mr. Crisp is acting chair- man of the Ways and Means Com- mittee. Considerable Chaffing in Senate. President Hoover's erroneously ad- dressed letter was the subject of con- siderable chaffing in the Senate. Point- ing out that the President had more secretaries than former occupants of the White House, Senator Pat Harri- son, Democrat, of Mississippi, observed that “it is strange there is not more efficiency there.” “It would seem that the President, Being a great engineer. ought to keep better tab on who is the president of an_organization like the American So- clety of Civil Engineers,” he added. Dr. Butler said last night in New York that the addressing of the letter to Representative Charles R. Crisp in- stead of to Henry T. Rainey was & “mistake that wasn't noticed until the letter was gone” and that then nothing could be done about it. “It didn't make much difference anyway.” Dr. Butler said, “because Mr. Crisp is chairman of the Appropria- tions Committee.” [Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, of which Charles R. Crisp is not a member.] Will Rogers BEVERLY HILLS, Calif —I d?n't suppose there is country, unless pbe India, whe::lythe wife is any more downtrod- den than they are in the U. S. Amelia Putnam flew across the Atlantic Ocean and then had to call up her hus- band to see if he thought it would be safe for a married woman to ven- ture into Lon- con alone. But, by golly, us old scared males have our hats off to Amelia. Her bravery is only sur- passed by her skill. But there is no use kidding ourselves. It does make & “sucker” out of us men. While the men are playing bridge and arguing over their golf scares, the women are fiying the ocean. STAR, WASHINGTON, | of clothes was her fiying suit, D. (., TUESDAY, N District’s Heroes in the World War Compiled ;Serll. L. E. Jaeckel. 8 recorded in the official citation, Themas J. Jackson, second lieutenant, Company K, 126th Infantry, 32d Division, Ameri- can Expeditionary Force, was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action with the enemy during the attack on the south bank of the Vesle River in Les = % Grande Marias /7S X/ Woods, north of P ~7 Ville Savoye, France, August 5, 1918. During the attack on the en- emy’s position the cnemy heavily shelled the position of our troops and swept the area with machine gun fire. Company K zshdordetrec:hl«o thdraw to the = edge of the woods ,«’i until the shelling — = had ceased. Lieut. Jackson, with four of his men, volun- tarily stayed on the river bank through- out the heavy chelling and, under ma- chine gun fire, kept the enemy under observation and informed his command- ing officer when the shelling had ceased sufficiently to permit the company to return to the river bank. By his gal- lant conduct our men were at all times enatled to keep their ¥acition of ad- vantage. Recidence at appointment, Washington, D. C. With the rank of captain. he is now on duty in the office of the judge advo- | cate general of the Army in Wash- | ington. (Copyriaht, 1932.) WALES RECEIVES AMELIA EARHART American Woman Flyer Is| Summoned to St. James by Prince. iated Press, LONDON, May 24 —Mrs. Amelia Ear- hart Putnam paid a visit to the Prince of Wales at historic St. James Palace this afternoon at the Prince's invita- tion. This was a signal honor for the slim and serene young flyer, who landed near Londonderry. Ireland. last Sat- urday and t. became the first wom- an ever to conquer the Atlantic by air- plane without the help of @ man in the pilot seat. She grrived at the royal residence at| 3:15 and was ushered immediately into the presence of the heir to the throne After the audience went back to| the American embassy, where she is staying, an chad tea with a number of British women who know how to run an airplane. Mrs. Bruce Is Hostess. Previously Mrs. Putnam had had | luncheon at the embassy with numer-, ous mnotables assembled by Mrs. David ! K. E. Bruce daughter of Ambassador | Andrew W. Mellon, who serves as his| hostess. For her visit to the Prince the flyer wore a brown tweed suit with a cross fox fur collar. It was a new outfit, naturally, as when she crossed the ocean all she had with her in the way She | picked it up yesterday on a whirlwind shopping tour in the west end. An embassy motor car took Mrs. Put- nam to St. James. She was unaccom- | panied when she talked with the Prince. Mrs. Putnam's bellef that a t is woman “really is capable of standing strain beiter and longer than a man.* “Give her time to Work up to & proo- lem before her and she will stand the gafl as well as and better than any man.” she said “Wkhat I did was not a great draft on my strength. I have danced all night lots of times. and fiving all night | isn't very much. In fact I wasn't very tired when I reached Londonderry and | only went to bed bzcause I knew I ought | to be tired.” Mrs. Putnam talked about her flight over the radio last night for the benefit of British listeners. PLAN TOUR OF MEXICO. i Putnam and His Wife Arrange Summer Flight. NEW YORK, Msy 24 (#)—Georgs Palmer Putnam. publisher, says he and his wife, the former. Amelia Earhart, hope to make an acrial tour of Mexico, Central America and South America this Summer. He said the trip would be made in commercial planes and would demonstrate the safety of flying | to women in countries visite PHONE COMPANY ORDERS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS Construction work approved by the board of directors of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Baltimore | City at its regylar monthly meeting held in Baltimore yesterday will re-! quire approximately 1,700 man hours ' of labor, according to telephone com-, pany officials. This work is necessary in order to keep the telephone plant in good con- | dition and to meet the requirements | of the telephone service. The principal projects approved by the board are as_follows: ‘Two additional sections of telephone switchboard equipped for 145 tele- phones at Hampstead central office to provide facilities for telephone growth, construction of underground cable in the Cockeysville central office area: ex- tension of underground cable at Silver Spring and Takoma Park, Md. Woman “Greeters” To Meet Guests at Chicago Functions Commiittee of Civic Host- esses to Welcome Femi- nine Visitors to City. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 24—Women have taken up the “greeter” business. Henceforth when women guests come to Chicago for such important occasions as the national political conventions next month and the century of progress exposition in 1933, they will receive a special welcome from a committee of civic hostesses. This was decided yesterday by mem- bers of the Chicago Daughters Club. Mrs. Donald I. Graham, president of the organization, said the members would have a permanent headquarters and would co-operate with hotels for tours and shopping trips and provide chaperones for young girls visiting Chi- cago alone. Chicago long has had ax erficial greeter, Col. George Gaw, appuinted by Mayor Anton J. Cermak. TAY 24, 1932. EXPEDITION GIVEN PERMISSION FOR ASCENT OF Wild Tribesmen in Kashmir Make COverh7 ment Reluctant to Allow party to Leave on 26,630-Foot Climb. BY ELIZABETH KNOWLTON. Member of German-American Himalayan Expedition. Special Dispatch to The Star. SRINAGAR, Kashmir, May 24 (N.AAN.A). — The German-American Himalayan Expedition, which aspires to climb to the summit of the 26,630-foot Nanga Parbat, an achievement which would break all records, has just come thrcugh a week of great suspense. For a time all our hopes seemed doomed. ‘When we arrived here in the capital of the state of Kashmir, in Northern India, we learned that the wild Chilas tribes were in a restless, threatening| mood. And the north side of the Nanga ; Parbat peak, the side from which we/ want to attempt our climb, lies in the region these savage tribesmen rcam. £9 the governments of India and nf Kash- mir were reluctant to give us permission to venture into that ares. This would leave us only ¥he &lterna- tive of making the ascent from the | south, and that i5 generally cousidered an undertaking impossible of exetution. | The north side is going to be tremend- | ously difficult, but there, at least, we| have a chance, and, we believe a good one. Official Permission Given. However, we went ahead with our preparations, having resolved to ¢o the best we could with the south side of the NANGA PARBAT shall not rest until ponies ha topped Bumla.;zsn. o s Two Americans in Party, ‘Two Americans are members of this expedition. They are Miss Knowlton of Boston _and Springfield, Mass., Rand Herron of New York. Willy Merkl of Munich is the leader. The ex- pedition will begin its ascent of Nanga Parbat next month. The climbers will have about three months before the | Winters snows. | Only once before was the ascent of | this tremendous peak seriously attempt- ed, and that attempt resulted in the deaths of A. F. Mummery, cne of the greatest men in the history of climbing, | and of two porters. | (Copyright. 1932. by the North Newspaber ‘Alliance, ‘Inc.) \T D ANNAPOLIS CLASS OF '92 | PLANS 3-DAY REUNION | | Naval Academy Graduates to Re- | turn There Thursday for Graduating Exercises. ‘The Naval Academy Class of 1892 will celebrate its fortieth anniversary in a three-day gathering here, starting on | DRIVE T0 EXTEND BUS LINE PUSHED Hyattsville C. of C. Will Con- tinue Seeking Route fo Center of Capital. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., May 24.—Tak- ing the position that the people of Bladensburg, Decatur Heights, Chever- ly and East Riverdale should be fur- nished bus transportation direct to the business center of Washington, the Chamber of Commerce of Hyattsville last night asked its Public Utilities Committee, M. T. May, chairman, to continué its campaign to have the Washington Raflway & Electric Co. bus service, operating on Bladensburg road to Pifteenth and H streets northeast, carry its passéngers to Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue, iwth free trans- fer privilege at Fifteenth and H streets. The plan is to have the Utilities Commiittee ask representatives of the various other organizations interested to meet soon to plan a campaign to ob- tain the service. Daniel Cox Fahey, jr., vice president of the chamber, reported he had been informed it would be some time before it could be hoped to obtain widening of Rhode Island avenue from Brent- wood to Melrose avenue, Hyattsville, by construction of roadway on the east side of the trolley tracks, but he plan- ned to continue interviewing officials in the hope that the work could be done with minimum delay. Judge J. H. Shepherd, Arthur P. peak. But meanwhile we did not relax Thursday, going then to Annapolis, Md., | O%eDS and Mr. Fahey were named to in our persuasions with the government officials, assuring them that if we were permitted to carry out our original plans we would keep far above the inhabited valleys. And Sunday officlal permission was ' given. It was greeted with cheers and general jubilation. We have found the English here kind and helpful, both officially and unoffi- clally. For example, the superintendent | of posts in Kashmir has ordered the post office nearest our base camp kept open two hours longer daily, so there may be no delay in getting off these dispatches of mine whenever they are available. The post office is also the cable office. The vale of Kashmir is known as a paradice for the sightseer, but all of our time here has been taken up with our preparations, getting provisions and equipment and arranging for transport, the scene of our activities being two house boats, in which, following the European custom, we have been living | during our stop in Srinagar. Crowds Want to Go. Every table is covered with long lists of figures and with samples of pro- visions and equipment and coolies’ foot- gear. Besides making purchases we also ere engaged in hiring men. Our fame has spread abroad. There is un- | employment 1 Kashmir, too. All day and every day literally crowds | of turbaned and white-robed figures surround any of us who walk in the city, or sit waiting to waylay us en the bank of the river. The boldest ‘stick their heads in at our doors or appear in boats outside cur dining room win- dows | “Take me. Nanga Parbat: tak | Nanga Parbit” 15 the crv. — Mem: Sahib, don't you want good hirdar or shikkari or sweeper for Nanga Parbat?" . Today we leave Srinagar and civiliza- tion for the trek to Astor, our final | jumping-off place. Already four full boatloads of provisions and equipment.- weighing more than 6,000 pounds, have started down the the Jhelum River for | Bandipur 18 miles away, where ponies are waiting to carry the supplies along | the Central Asia caravan route to Astor, | Two horse loads will consist only of leather bags filled with silver coins with | which to pay the coolies. | Traveling Unusually Light. | Nevertheless, we are traveling unu- sually light for such a great expadition The Dyrenfurth expedition carried more | than twice as much as we are taking, and the Citroen expedition, which pass- ed through here last year, had six times | our load. We have dispensed with all luxuries, if you can call them that. such as beds, tables, chairs, bathtubs and talking ma- chines, and have only those things ab- solutely essential to our health and to the climbing of Nanga Parbat. To reach Astor we must cross the main range of the Himalayas over Burzil Pass, at a height of 13775 feet which is about the altitude of the sum mit of the Jungfrau. | If we find snow so deep and soft that | the ponies will flounder up to ther stomachs and cannot get on, a serious | problem will confront out expedition. Scores of coolies would have to be sum- moned from Srinagar or Astor, and that would mean great expense and the de- lay of many precious days. | At present, however, the pass is open, and a hot. bright sun is stripping the fnow from the higher slopes. But weather is always an uncertain factor in this part of the world. A really heavy snowfall would make great trouble. 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R. | Y. Blakely, U. S. N, a member of the Navy General Board; Capt. L. C. Baird, U. 8. A, of Fort Monroe, Va.; Capt. C. F. Macklin, U. 8. N. Reserve, of Iiches- ter, Md.: Rear Admiral C. L. Hussey, U. S. N, retired, of Litchfield, Conn.; Rear Admiral G. C. Day, president of the Board of Inspection and Survey, Navy Department; Capt. John F. Hines, U. §. N., retired: Comdr. George Mal- lison. U. S. N, retired, and J. C. Hooker of this city. | Appointment Is Denied. LONDON, May 24 (7).—It was offi- | cially denied today that Prince George, fourth son of the King, would be cre- ated Duke of Edinburgh on his thirti- | eth birthcay, December 20, as pub- | lished in the Daily Express yesterday. Former California Jurist Dies. SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 (P — Frank M. Angellotti, 70. former chief justice of the State Supreme Court, died here yesterday of apoplexy. In 1921 he resigned that position to become chief counsel for the Western Pacific Rail- road. 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