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PLAN FOR BEER TAX S DEFEATED AGAIN Bingham Proposal Rejected by Senate, 55 to 26—Bo- rah Enters Debate. By the Associated Press The beer-for-revenue idea has taken Bte death blow, for this session of Con- gress at least. This insistently advocated project— to legalize beer containing 2.75 per cent alcohol so as to swell the Nation's cof: fers without imposing severe taxes— came once again before the Senate yes- terday and it was voted down, 55 t0 26. The proposal came up this time as an amendment by Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, to substitute a two-cents-a-pint tax on beer for all the excise levies in the billion-dollar revenue bill. A few votes were gained by beer advocates above last week’s Senate vote on an attempt to use beer for financing a public construction bond issue. Separated from the latter con- troverted question, the new vote was regarded by Senators on both sides as the last word. Borah Enters Debate. Stepping into the beer debate for the first time, Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, prohibition leader, challenged contentions that a revival of this bev- erage would help the farmer, the Gov- ernment or the unemployed. Bingham stirred a demonstration in the galleries as he clashed with Borah and argued his contention that beer did not result in drunkenness. The Connecticut Senator was com- plaining that arrests in the Capital for drunkenness had doubled since prohi- bition. Borah commented that they probably were not the result of beer| drinking. “That is just the point I am making.” quickly replied Bingham. “I say beer drinking does not result in drunken- ness.” Vice President Curtis, after quieting the demonstration from the spectators. warned that a repetition would result in clearing the galleries. Would Come From Labor. Senator Robinson, Republican, of In- diana, joined in attacking the beer levy, contending the money would be better spent for bread Borah argued that any revenue from beer would not come from the man with a competency, but rather from the homes of labor and from those who should not be called upon to contribute more to the Government. . Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cali- fornia, who did ot support the beer | proposal to finance a bond issue, voted for the Bingham amendment, as did Senator Schall, Republican, Minnesota, who did not vote last week on the beer | proposal. TRADE COMMITTEE JOINS CONVENTION BUREAUS Greater National Capital Group Becomes Member of World Association. Tre Greater National Capital Com- | mittee of the Washington Board of | Trade, engaged in tourist and con- vention promotion work and advertis- | ing Washingten, has just been made a | member of the International Associa- ! of Convention Bureaus, it was unced today e membership in Washington was 1y held by the Washington Con- n Bureau, but with merging of thi= crganization with the Greater Na- tional Capital Committee the mem- bership has changed Curtis Hodges, executive director of the committee, is official representative of the committee in the association. LAMONT UNDER KNIFE Secretary of Commerce Lamont un-I derwent a tonsilitis operation at Gar- fleld Hospital early today. | Mr. Lamont entered the hospital last night and it was reported several hours after the operation had been performed the cabinet officer was in splendid con- dition. He is expected to be absent from his effice for at least one week. Will Rogers i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932. eighing the Local Tax Burde In Comparison of Municipal Tax Burdens Between W ashington and Other Cities, State Taxes Should Be Eliminated as a Non-Comparable Factor, as D. C. Enjoys No State Benefits. This is the fourth of a series of articles discussing the tables sub- mitted to the Senate Subcommittee on District Appropriations by the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations Betweén the United States and the District. These tables showed Washington's relatively high tax burdem among cities of the United States. T is contended for Washington that all State taxes should be excluded equitably from the comparisons city tax burdens; that (1) taxes to be equitably compared should paid by contributors substantially in the same area, to be distributed to benefi- ciaries in the same area and for the benefit of that area alone; that in g.le light of this principle the municipal fax and State tax are as wide apart as the poles, being separate and distinct in personnel of contributors, in purpose of creation, in scope and area of distribu- ceive the same benefits” that accompany State citizenship, and should not there- fore bear the burdens which compensate for these benefits. Large citles dominate or include the counties containing them; and in the case of these large cities it is fair to consider county taxes as well as city taxes. Indeed, in substance they are a part of the city taxes. The tax- payers, the beneficlaries and the area for the collection and distribution of taxes are practically the same. The cities having over 200,000 popu- | lation constitute so large a part of the | containing county that the nominal county contributions and payments are mainly city receipts and payments: and county taxes may In such cuses e included in the comparison without violating seriously the principle that in’ comparing the Washingtonian’s tax burden with that of the taxpayer of another city it is fair only to compare | local taxes constituting a fund to which only municipal taxpayers contribute. and which is spent exclusively in the city and for municipal purposes. But the municipal tax (sometimes including the county tax) and the State tax are as wide apart as the poles, con- | sidered in the light of this principle. They are separate and distinct in per- sonnel of contributors, in purposes of creation, in scope and area of distribu- tion. If the comparison, for instance, is between Washington and Baltimore there should equitably be compared what Washingtonians pay for expendi- ture in Washington and what Balti- moreans_pay for expenditure in Balti- more. What Washingtonians pay for expenditure in Washington cannot equitably be compared with what Bal- timoreans pay for expenditures in Bal- timore plus what they pay as Mary- landers for the maintenance of a sov- ereign State and for expenditure in that State. One might as well inject into the comparison of city burdens a consid- eration of what the Baltimorean pays in National taxes as an American for expenditure on account of the United States, including Baltimore. In other words, the taxes that the Baltimorean pays as a Marylander or as an American have nothing to do | with the city calculations and compari- In the different cases there are not the same persons contributing, not the same area within which expendi- tures are made, and not the same beneficiaries of these expenditures. Baltimore taxes are paid by Balti- moreans only, and are spent in Balti- more only. The Marylanders who are in Baltimore contribute State taxes in common with thousands outside of Baltimore, to be spent not in Balti- more, but in all Maryland. Washing- ton has not the benefit of outside con- tributions to a State tax in the enjoy- ment of which it participates. It has no State relations or privileges or benefits. No State Tax Since No State Benefits. It has been contended that the ‘Washingtonian receives the same ben- efits through his city government alone that are enjoyed by the residents of | other cities through their city, county and State governments, and that the | Washingtonian's city tax should equal | the combined city, county 2nd State | taxes of residents of other cities. | ‘What are the benefits enjoyed by the | citizen of & State which constitute the | real consideration for the State taxes | which he pays? If he lives in a large | city of the State, is it the driblet of State expenditures which the counties permit to get through to the city? No. The State tax which he pays is essen- BEVERLY HILLS, Calif—Con- ess and the Senate are wondering f they will be through in time for their various con ven tions. Now the ques- tion arises in our time the same as in S hakespeare’s (or some other old timer), “To be in session or not to be in ses- sion, that is the question, wheth- er it is better to suffer with or without Congress and the Senate.” Most folks say, “Let them suffer like they have made us suffer, but to keep a politician away from his con- vention is just like taking ice cream away from a kid. It's liable to make ’em s0 mad. there is no telling what they will pass. SPECIAL NOTICE! 1 NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted by any one other than my- self. THOMAS J. DELANEY. 413 4th “26!' e. § WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR_ANY bills _unless contracted by myself. 8. H. CARROLL. 1314 1dthnw. _________° ‘What 1 overheard a drummer tell. Sun., p.m. E. Hez Swem. Centennial Bapt. Ch.. Tth & Eve n.e. Coolness, Comfort HAVE YOU HOUSES TO MOVE OR REPAIR? If so, address Box 436-B. Star nfll:evzcl d save money. 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These land grants amount to 186.- 524,723 acres of the public domain. These money donations include hun- dreds of millions. The payment of taxes as the citizen of a State gives the taxpayer his pro- portionate share in these financial benefits. The Washingtonian enjoys no part in these grants, bounties and benefits as citizen of a State. Why should he pay or have charged against him as part of his equitable tax bur- den the taxes which are incidental to the status of State citizens and which are one condition of the enjoyment of these financial benefits? J The Washingtonian has none of these political or judicial rights or privileges. Why should his fair tax burden be held to include what the State citizen pays in c!;n;\;ctlol.: ":Ih the actual enjoyment of jese inesti- mable rights, privileges and benefits? Bears State Burdens, but Enjoys No State Benefits. The tion carries out the old idea that Washington is to be viewed as a State when burdens are imposed and not viewed as a State when bene- fits or privileges or rights are to be con- ferred. The District has been pro- nounced a State under a treaty with France, & construction conferring priv- on aliens, but not a State under ‘onstitution, whose e can sue, either as State citizens or as aliens, in the Federal courts. The District is a State when direct taxes are to be collected, but not a State when Repre- sentatives are apportioned, though the Constitution couples the two things. The District is not a State to make and carry out through a State Legislature laws for its own benefit, but it is now reproached as a State because it es- capes the tax burden incident to the exercise of this privilege of a State. The District is not to be a_ State to enjoy any of the political, judicial and financial benefits, privileges and rights of a State, but is to be a State to the extent that the equitable tax burden of its people in comparison with the tax burden of other Americans must be TO NEW YORK TO ON. FROM CH. Ang oints Nor VAN, LINES A AR W el e Ti'a TRANSPER & BTORAGE CO. 1313 You 8t N.W __Phone North 3342-3343 SAVING OLD ROOFS —has been our specialty for 30 years. thorough knowledge of repairs the great cost of new roofing Let_us save your leaky root! KOONS &2, . Company Our tor veats: 'c-g us up: t. NW. th 4433 7 figured to include consideration of State taxes. ‘When Washington is part of a State and enjoys the expenditure within it of its due share of the State fund to which thousands of State citizens out- side of its limits contribute it will be time to permit State taxation to enter i its comparative per capita tax figures. When Washingtonians are like be |the National tion; that (2) Washington does not “re- | reme Court, and the financial bene- | fleges as citizens of a State, it will be time to charge against the Washing- tonian in comparison with the Balti- morean the State tax which the latter Legislature it will be time for it to pay for such Iu: in the shape of a State tax. Of course, the main consideration for the payment of State taxes is the en- of | Joyment of the political power and prestige involved in participation in Government on equal terms with other Americans. To be transformed through statehood from the status of political aliens to that of full-fledged Americans, with all the powers, rights and privileges apper- taining to that status, confers a bene- fit upon the individual of a value not to be calculated in dollars and cents; and deprivation of this benefit involves a loss which is also incalculable. | Every one, therefore, will recognize |the justice of Washington's protest | against being taxed to correspond to what other cities pay to maintain a State government, since the District | under the Constitution and the laws ienacted by Congress is not permitted the right, privilege and benefit of en- | joying and maintaining a State govern- | ment. But very few persons in the | whole United States appreciate the | scope of the material benefits in boun- ties and subsidies which attach to statehood of which Washingtonians are wholly deprived. The Citizens' Joint Committee brief in 1915 recited the mil- lions which in the past had been dis- tributed by the Nation among the States, omitting the District of Colum- bia. But these subsidies by the Nation to the States are not confined to the past, but continue in vastly enlarged proportions in the present. Federal Ald to States. A statement of expenditures made by the Government as direct payments to States under co-operative arrangements | during the fiscal year ended June 30, | 1931 (compiled by Treasury Depart- ment), follows: 1. Payments for State agricultural experiment stations, $4.340,000. 2. Co-operative agricultural exten- sion work, $8,650,290. 3. Payments to States and Territories from national forest fund. $1,677,559. 4. Payments to school funds, Ari- zona and New Mexico, national forest fund, $41,316. 5. Forest fire co-operative, $1,536,904. 6. Co-operative distribution of for- est-planting stock, $88,514. 7. Co-operative construction of rural post roads, $133,340,910. 8. Federal ald highway system, ad- vances to States’ emergency construc- tion, $20,296,266. 9. Colleges for agriculture and me- chanic arts, $2,550,000. 10. Payments to States from receipts uncer mineral leasing act, $1,776,583. 11. Five, three and two per cent funds to States (lands), $25.448. 12. Payments to States under special funds, $630,032. 13. State marine schools, $100,000. 14. To promote the education of the blind—American Printing House for Blind, $75,000. 15. National Guerd, $34.570,282. 16. Co-operative vocational educa- tion and rehabilitation, $8.714.331 17 Payments to States under Fed eral water power act, $159,133. 18. State and territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors, $589,999. Total payments, $219,162,574. This payment does not include ap- propriations made by Congress for di- rect relief or loans to States on account of floods, hurricanes, fires, drought, étc. Paid to and by U. S. It will be interesting to compare what ‘Washington ?ayl into and receives from the National Treasury with what is similarly paid into and received from the National Treasury by some of the States. The figures of yments by the States into the Federal Treasury are obtalned from the annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue for a summary of internal revenue receipts trict of Columbia. This table gives the total internal revenue receipts from the District in 1931 at $14,684,853.43. More Than Every One of 27 States. If comparison is made with the Fed- eral tax payment of the District, $14,- 684,853.43, the District’s contribution will be found to exceed those of any one of 27 States and two Territories: ie., Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South_Carolina, South Dakota, Tennes- see, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West | Virginia and Wyoming, 27 States, and Alaska and Hawaii, two Territories. More Than 11 States Combined. ‘The District's payment of fourteen millions plus exceeds the combined pay- ment of 11 States, whose contributions total $13,752,567.39. These States are Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. ‘The table which follows below shows the percentage relation of the money paid to certain States by the Nation to the amount paid by the States to the Nation in Federal taxes. There is in- cluded in this table the District of Co- lumbia, and it is interesting to note the comparison between the percentage for the District and the percentages of the 11 States which contributed in the You Are Invited to A. Gude Sons Co. You are cordially invited to How to Reach It Drive out Rockville Pike, through Rockville, turm right just beyond Court House om Gaithersburg and Frederick Pike. Nursery is located 2 miles above Rockoville. If's a beawsiful drive out. into Baltimoreans, again, with mmm-um- | from which all National expenses are 1931, wherein is printed a table giving | for 1931 by States, including the Dis- | Gorgeous Iris Garden in Full Color aggregate nearly a million dollars less than the District: H Pet. oll Bub- Paid in Fed. Taxes, Fiscal Year- 1931. Dist. Col...$14,684,853.43 716,388 92 1,568.796.56 1,792,532.17 247 § 6. 134 e | 625 389 | 0 51 Tl Sta. $13,752,567.39 Average percentage of subsidies to tax payments of 11 States. 254 Note—Federal statement does not in- clude appropriations made by Congress for direct relief or loans to States on account of floods, hurricanes, fires, drought, etc. According to the official figures re- ported by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the District of Columbia paid in Federal taxes in 1931 nearly $1,000,- 000 more than these 11 States combined and its percentage of aid received for taxes paid (65 per cent) is less than that of any of these 11 States and 1s about one-fourth of the average per- centage of the 11 States combined. The District in 1931 paid in Federal taxes 35 per cent more than the Nation appropriated in that year for National Capital upbuilding and for the District National Guard. Relatively Small Payment to D. C. In percentage relation of National aid to National tax payments, the District’s | percentage (65 per cent), according to | official figures, compares with those of | 17 States, more favored than the Dis- trict, as follows: Alabama, 98; Arizona, 179: Arkansas, 1270; Georgia, 101; Idaho, 374; Missis- sippl, 123; Montana, 247; Nebraska, 75; | Nevada, 134; New Mexico, 662; North Dakota, 625; Oregon, 110; South Caro- | lina, 213; South Dakota, 389: Utah, | 100 'plus; Vermont, 70, and Wyoming, 651. Most of these payments to the States | are made on the 50-50 basis—that is. | the Federal dollars are to be matched | | by State dollars—in precise accordance | | with_the wise half-and-half policy, in | | relation to the Capital, of the law of | | 1878. This policy is so sound and bene- | ficial that it is wisely employed today in the Nation's relations to the States; surely in the light of this vindication and reaffirmation it will be retained in spirit and principle at least in the re- Iations of Nation and Capital, where for | nearly half a century it has demon- strated its wisdom and beneficence. Surely the Nation will not today adopt the policy anew in relation to the States | and discard it and the principle of defi- | | nite proportionate contribution upon | | which it is based, in the Nation's rela- tion to the National Capital. What These Figures Emphasize. These figures are shown to empha- | size the numerous and large Federal subeidies to the States, which are not | | extended to the District of Columbia, | | creating benefits to the States which are not enjoyed or participated in by the District of Columbia. The show- | ing justifies merely one of several sup- | porting parts of Washington's argu- ment that State taxes should be de- ducted when tax burdens in the cities | are compared with the tax burden in | the District of Columbia These figures, in addition, destroy the accusation of mendicancy frequent- | ly leveled at Washingtonians by un- | sympathetic members of Congress, who | point to the lump-sum contribution | as a gratuity or dole, unparalleled in | the appropriations of Federal money. The figures are not published as criticism of the States or of the policy | of State aid, but to Yoint out that there is nothing to support the charge of mendicancy against the District, whose people contribute more in Fed- eral taxes than it collects in Federal | appropriations, as compared with the | condition in those States which re- ceive more in Federal gratuities than | they paid in Federal taxes; and that it pays more into the National revenue | paid, including the salaries of Repre- | sentatives, Senators and President, than |any one of 27 (more than half) of the States. Small Contribution to D. C. ‘The point is sometimes made, in ad- | verse criticism of the District, that the people of the States and of the cities of the States contribute in great amount | to the support of Washington, whereas the people of Washington contribute nothing to the support of the cities of the States. Of course, as the above figures show, the contribution through their Federal taxes of Washingtonians | to the support of Washington and to the millions of subsidies given to the is very large in relation to what many of the States contribute to the support of the Federal Capital through their | Federal taxes. Cities, as such, do not contribute to the support of the Dis- trict. The Citizens’ Joint Committee estimates the average per capita con- tribution by the Nation at large to the $9.500.000 lump sum at 7 cents and 7 mills, the average including the Dis- trict, the per capita contribution of which to the lump sum is 11 cents and 9 mills. ‘The District, deprived of great in- dustries and taxed only upon a steadily decreasing fraction of its land area, has been shown to be comparatively poor in taxable resources of the kind upon which municipal taxation is imposed. How does it happen, one may inquire, that the District, which is so poor for municipal taxation, is apparently so rich for national taxation? Analysis of the figures discloses that in comparisons between the District and the 27 States paying less national taxes than Washington, the demonstration is not so much that Washington is a heavy taxpayer upon vast wealth as that the 27 States are small, in some respects almost infinitesimal, taxpayers upon the particular taxable objects se- lected for national taxation. For example, the citizens of 10 States pay less than a cent apiece to- ward the $9,500,000 lump sum: North Dakota, 3 mills; Mississippi, 3 mills; Arkansas, 4 mills; South Carolina, 4 mills; South Dakota, 4 mills; Idaho, 6 mills; Alabama, 7 mills; New Mexico, Inspect A. Gude Sons Co. Fourth Annual Iris and- Perennial Garden Display, now in full bloom and at its best. More than 100 selected varieties planted in a formal garden. ‘This display will be held beginning June 5, at our Nursery, Frederick will enjoy seeing so many in bloom at one time. May 26. to and including Pike, above Rockville, Md. You A. Gude Sons Co. LANDSCAPE—NURSERYMEN Complete Landscape Sery States is not only large absolutely but |- RTCHE ADVIES NEW PERSPECTIE Says Budget Must Be Bal- anced in Honest Fashion to Revive Business. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 26.—Congress must wipe out the Treasury deficit and bal- ance the national budget in “forthright and honest fashion,” Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland said last night, if business is to revive. Gov. Ritchie, a contender for the Democratic n jon for President, said over the radio, “There can be no real start toward recovery until the financial and industrial leaders of the Nation get a new perspective and take hold of things again with the deter: mined will to move forward and up- ward.” ‘To this end, he pro 'd that the “knife of economy be ‘inserted to the limit;” that income taxes—“not con- fiscatory or excessive”—be increased; that a general sales tax be im that tariff items be eliminated from the revenue measure; that a public works program, financed through a bond issue, be initiated. As inimical to this end he opposed “pumping some hundreds of millions of dollars through Government chan- nels into private industry,” a program which he described as “a long step to- ward Communism.” “When the Federil Government passes the new tax bills,” he continued, “bal- ances the budget in forthright and honest fashion and provides the emer- gency relief measures I have tried to indicate, the revival of business and prosperity will then be up to the co- operative and competitive impulses and forces of the American people.” The launchirg of a public works pro- gram throughout the country, he said, | would “absorb much of the existing un- employment, and in the meanwhile I see no objection to the Federal Govern- ment lending reasonable sums for the relief of distress in those States which are shown to be without resources to care for their own.” ‘When business is again on the up- grade, he reiterated, the tariff must be readjusted downward, national prohibi- tion should be returned to the States and the war debts problem can be con- sidered. DISTRICT MEASURES GIVEN INDORSEMENT Citizens’ Association Urges Pas- sage by Congress of Bills Af- fecting Washington. ‘Three measures now pending before Congress were indorsed by the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association at its meeting in Sherwood Hall last night. They were: The anti-weapon bill, regulating sale of firearms in the Dis- trict; the bill requiring owners and operators of motor vehicles to give proof of financial responsibility. and the resolution calling for a study of the laws of the District by a joint com- mittee of the House and Senate. ‘The association acted on recommen- dation of William J. Byrne, chairman of the Legislative Committee. A proposal that the association in- dorse a bill intended as a substitute for the national prohibition act in the District of Columbia was tabled. Following a talk by John L. Fowler of the Woodridge-Brookland Business Men’s Association, the citizens voted to enter several decorated automobiles in a parade, to be staged June 8 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. 7 mills; Wyoming, 8 mills; Georgia, 9 mills. The citizens of seven States pay less | than 2 cents apiece: Montana, 1 eent | and 2 mills; Nebraska, 1 cent and 4 | mills: Towa, 1 cent and 6 mills: Louisi- ana, 1 cent and 7 mills; Oregon, 1 cent and 8 mills; Vermont, 1 cent and 8 mills; Utah, 1 cent and 9 mills. ‘The citizens of seven States pay less than 3 cents: Tennessee, 2 cents; Texas. 2 cents and 2 mills; Oklahoma, 2 cents and 4 mills; West Virginia, 2| cents and 5 mills; Indiana, 2 cents and 6 mills; Kansas, 2 cents and 8 mills; S!llll)t: of Washington, 2 cents and 8 mills. The citizens of the District of Co- lumbia pay 11 cents and 9 mills. At the other end of the line, the cit- izens of Virginia pay 18 cents and 4 mills; New York, 20 cents and 9 mills; North Carolina, 32 cents and 4 mills; Delaware, 56 cents. ‘The demonstration is not that the District of Columbia pays so extraordi- narily much, but that many of the States pay so extremely little. ILEDEFRANCE owtow e wom e oot JUNE 4th and France. First, Tourist and Third Class. JAMES F. NOLAN, 1420 I Street N.W., Washingion. D. C. FLOWER for Memorial Day Sweet Peas—Stock Corn Flowers—Snap Dragons and Other Garden Flowers 35¢ & 50¢ Carnations ... .75c don Roses . ....$1.00 ao Peonies .. ..$1.50 40 per bunch Cemetery Sprays Assorted Flowers Delivered any time u, General Passenser Arent District’s Heroes in the World War Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel. 8 recorded in the official cita- tion, Frank C. Baker, colonel, Medical Corps, United States Army, American Expeditionary Force, was awarded the tinguished Service Medal for* excep- tionally meritorious and distinguished services in a position of great respon- sibility. As commanding officer of Evacuation Hos- pital, No. 6, at Chateau - Thierry, France, from June 1918, promptly arranged his hospital under most diffcult con- ditions and with great resourceful- ness and good judgment made such use of the in- adequate means at his disposal that he was able to re- ceive and evacuate after splendid treatment and in perfect order a large npumber from the Marne offensive at a time when that section of France was greatly demoralized. Although sub- Jected to the danger of high explosive shells and air raids, this officer main- tained a calm courage at all times. gmg:nce at appointment, Washington, Col. Baker died April 12, 1929, at Fort Benning, Ga. HISTORY OF Y. M. C. A, Local Historian Recalls Early Events in Founding of As- sociation in 1852. Forgotten history of the Washington Young Men's Christian _Association, records concerning the founding of | which were lost long ago in fires, was | Tecounted last night by John Clagett Proctor, local historian, before the Old Timers’ Club of the Y. M. C. A. at the club’s annual banquet at the Central “Y" building. Proctor told of the birth of the or- ganization at a meeting June 9, 1852, of laymen and clergymen in the old Masonic Hall that stood at Tenth and | E streets. The meeting | | enrollment of 35 or 40 members, he said, and the first officers, elected at a subsequent meeting, included Alexander | H. Lawrence, president, and Willlam | Jones Reese, secretary. Before the Civil War the association occupied many buildings. Half a century | | ago the “Y" moved to 1409-11 New York avenue, where fire wiped out all| equipment. The last move was to the | old Columbia Athletic Club property at | Eighteenth and G streets, where the association now is located Charles W. Pimper, toastmaster, an- nounced that detailed historical data on the local Y. M. C. A. will be given | in an article by Mr. Proctor in the magazine section of The Sunday Star. Leonard W. De Gast, general secre- tary of the “Y,” contrasted the original membership of 40 with the present membership of more than 5000 men. He told of present and future plans of the association. Capt. C. O. Howard, who joined 62 years ago, was adjudged | the oldest member in point of service. S e WILI. ADDRESS CLUB Dr. Boyd Gardner of Mayo Clinic to Talk Tonight. Dr. Boyd Gardner, director of the dental division of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., will be the principal speaker tonight at 7 o'clock at a din- ner at the Capitol Clinic Club in the Arlington Hotel. He will talk on “Dental Responsibility in Preventive | Medicine.” Dr. Gardner is a member of the Dental Advisory Committee of the| Washington Nutritional Research Foun- | dation. ~ Dr. Martin Dewey, president- | elect of the American Dental Associa- tion. heads the Dental Advisory Com- mittee, while Senator Royal S. Cope- land of New York is chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee Circus Horse Hurts 14. PHILADELPHIA, May 26 (#)—Four- teen persons were injured at a circus! last night when a frightened horse ran into the bleachers and knocked down two levels of seats. The victims, suffer- ing from shock, cuts and bruises, were treated at the emergency hospital on the grounds and three later were re- moved to a regular hospital. «+. Ask any autherized travel agent, or French Line Tel. Met. 1440 SPECIALS Large Clusters 6 Gladioli and 12 Peonies arranged with foliage 32.50 Special Sale Friday Only Cemetery Vase with 18 Carnations or Roses And Plenty of Fresh Fern Leaves 98¢ Monthly Blooming Rose Bushes $190 Each Fine Assortment—Ready to loom p to Monday, May 30 1407 H St. N.W. Nat’ 4813 TRACE OF FAKESOS SOUGHT OFF GOAST Europa’s Mail Plane Reaches Boston Unaware of Call for Help. + By the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 26— Wireless sta- tions the New England Coast were today for a repetition of 8 O 8 calls which sent Coast Guard craft to the aid of the steam- £hip !\II‘?'I mail plane while the lyers know] German sped toward Boston withogg ledge of the search. The plane arrived at the Boston Air- ignorance of the 8 O 8 calls. A short- age of fuel brought her to Boston. She was expected to proceed to New York y. The Coast Guard destroyers Mc- Dougall, Shaw and Upshur, ordered to | search for the plane when the calls were received yesterday, remained at sea today in the belief that some ship may have sent the call for aid. Radio officials of the Department of Com- | merce meanwhile conducted an in- | vestigation to determine whether a hoax had been perpetrated. — CHARLES FRANK REAVIS DIES IN LINCOLN AT 62| Former Representative From Ne- braska Resigned at Start | of Fourth Term. By the Associated Press. & A3 ITHITHIM AT 2A.M of di ACUTE TOR sl S e SR o stores are -‘(b-l), Be safo—be Kelief. 25¢ and 75¢ at all BELL-ANS' FOR INDIGESTION e -] MARSHALL HOUSE The Emerson and Cottages York Harbor, Maine On the ocean. GOLF. York Country Club. 27 holes; Sea Bathing, Canoelng, Orchesira. Elevators. Pire Sprinklers. rich flavor A | GULDENS .Musfard‘ LINCOLN, Nebr, May 26.—Charles Prank Reavis, 62, former Representa- | tive from Nebraska, died early today at a hoepital after a short illness. | Reavis, a Republican, served three terms in’ the House of Representatives, | He resigned in 1922, the first vear of | his fourth term, to practice law | In 1924 he was elected a delegate | at large from Nebraska to the Repub- lican National Convention and last :r;)omgx tw;.lm e&elcud ; delegate from | e first T to - the oo the Chicago con. | He is survived by his widow and| Sl iE sReavis, yr. of New y an o] | Cleveland, Ohio. e Constance Bennett Sued. LOS ANGELES, May 26 (2).—Two salary of 'Constance Bennett, amounting to just $16,549.57, was at- tached yesterday under a suit filed by Frank Jjoyce and Myron Selznick, the- atrical agents. 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