Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1933, Page 2

FOOD PRIGES JUMP NEARLY 1 PER GENT Two-Week Period From Sep- tember 12 Sees Retail Figures Increase. ik Retail food prices in Washington moved upward nearly 1 per cent during the two weeks from September 12 to September 26, according to index figures on retail food prices in 51 cities, made public today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Lahor. As compared with the prices a year ago, as of September 15, the price in- crease was 6 per cent according to statistics. The general average increases re- flected advances of 21 of 42 food items covered by the bureau. Duripg the two-week period from September 12, the general level of retail food prices rose by four-tenths of 1 per cent for the country as a whole, after a slight drop recorded 1n the preceding two weeks. The weighted index of retail food prices, which uses the 1913 level as 100, showed a general upward trend, with the level for September 26 at 107.4, for September 12 at 107.0, for August 29 at 107.1 and for August 15 at 106.7, as compared with 90.4 recorded April 15, which was the low point for this year. As compared with September 15, 1932, retail food prices for the entire country showcd a gain of more than 7 per cent for the six months, the index for that date being 160.3. From tke low point of the year, April, the increase was alightly less than 19 per cens. Of the foods, potatoes showed the greatest price advance during the past year, recarding an 86 per cent jump. Flour was up 58 per cent. SHACKLING OF SANE INDIANS IN ASYLUM OUT WEST EXPOSED (Continued Prom First Page) _ one has heard, against these canditions. Yet when the commissioner of Indian affairs, in the discharge of his duty, seeks to protect these helpless wards of the Nation, his hands are tied by court proceedings.” Beport Made 4 Years Ago. Seeretary Ickes said the conditions in the asylum were revealed to the Governnmient as long as four years 8go, in & report by Dr. Silk, which con- demned the entire plant and its ad- ministration, but no action was taken at that time, although officials of the Indian Service and the Public Health Service confirmed the conditions after Dr. Silk made his report. A short while ago, when Dr. Silk went out to Canton to get some of the patients who needed hospitalization and bring them here for treatment, he was barred from doing so by court order, and he then submitted & second re- port, which brought, about Ickes' ex- of the conditions. All the reports, according to the In- dian commissioner, are “reminiscent of the terrible indictments leveled ggainst English poor houses and schools by Charles Dickens.” In addition to the alleged mistregt- ment of patients, the reports showed that practically none of the lents required restraint, and that onl apparent reason for the padlocking an strait jacke practices was to pre- vent patients from escaping When the wards were left unattended. y The ventilation in the asylum was described as “unbelievebly bad.” San- itary conditions were Teported equally as bad. Eeport Records in Poor Shape. Dr. Silk and other investigators re- ported the records of the asylum were in such poor shape as to keep & psy- chiatrist from getting sny idea of & patient’s mental condition from them. The asylum, he reported, has no labo- ratory and no equipment except @ mic- roscope and a few chemical reagents. The hydrotherapy Toom, he added, is used as a coal bin. Dr. Silk charges that s substantial number of the inmates are now and always have been sane, and were placed in the asylum after some slight dif- ficulty at a school or reservation. He found another group actuglly mentaily defective, but who, ‘nevertheless, need no treatment for actual insanity. Said Dr. Bilk in his report: “No more than 25 or 30 patients are suffering from mental diseases requir. ing institutional care because of their mental condition.” Dr. Silk also recommended strongly against any effort to rebuild the asylum, or to bring it up to a reason- able standard, since it would raise the per capita cost for the number of Indians involved to an unreasonable level, and for this reason Commissioner Collier sought to have those patients needing special treatment removed to St. Elizabeth’s, ‘The vigorous opposition of the local interests against this move will be fought by the Federal Government, it is promised. “It is not only that the medical di- rector of St. Elizabeth’s finds these patients tp be sane,” Commissioner Collier declared, “the records of the asylum itself, as transcribed by Dr. Silk, ‘show ‘them to be sane. They necessafily’ are known to be sane to the director of the asylum, Dr. Harry R. Hummer, yet they have been kept year after year.” Charges have been preferred against Dr. Hummer, and his removal from office is asked. POTATO MASHER ROUTS MAN WHO ROBBED STORE Thief Soon Captured After Woman Belabors Him With Piece of Kitchenware. By the Assoclated Press. FORT WAYNE, Ind., October 14— Mrs. Catherine Barhite today used a potato masher to route a man who robbed her grocery store. The man, who was arrested soon after, gave his name as Ray Lepper, 28, of Hayworth, Ill. Mrs. Barhite said he came into the store and ate two sandwiches and then: Tobbed the cash register of $1.50. She belabored him with the potato masher and he fled, only to be captured by & motor cycle policeman. - BAND CONCERT. By the United States Navy Band this evening at the Navy Yard-Sail Loft at 8 o'clock. Charles Benter, leader; Alex- ander Morris, assistant leader. ‘Tone poem, “Metropolis,” Ferde Grofe Excerpts from the musical comedy “Music in the Air”.....Jerome Kern| Violin solo— “Gypsy Valse”...William H. Woodin Bernard Rosenthal, soloist. No. 1 of the “Grand Canyon Suite”...Ferde Grofe “On the Trail.” Buite— “Souvenir de Montmartre,” William H. Woodin “Chinese Magic”..William H. Woodin “In Seville”......Willlam H. Woodin ‘Two numbers from “The Southern Mountains”. “Hal “Spirit_of the Three Virgini SENATOR ROBE| F. WAGNER, SENATOR WAGNER FORUM SPEAKER Adjustment of Disputes Be- tween Lahor and Capital Under N. R. A, Topic. Adjustment of disputes between labor and capital under operation of the N. R. A. will be the subject of an address o by Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, chairman of the newly created | pe National Labor Board, in the National Radio Forum, Wednesday, Qctober 18, at 10:30 ph., Eastern standard time. ‘The National Radio Forum is arrang by The Washington Stgr and broad- cast over the network of the Natlanal Broadcasting_Co. Senator Wagner, author of the National recovery act, was selected to head the National Labor Board because of his wide experience, both as a judge before he came to Congress and as & legislator. The peed of co-operation between labor and capjtal to make the TeCOVery Drogram & success is gpparent and the Labor Board was set up to fur- ther such co-operation. Under direction of Senator Wagner organizations are being set up in every State to aid in adjustment of labor troubles. s U.'S. STABILIZATION "AWAITS INCREASED PRICE STRUCTURE t_Page.) “when, as and if” necesssry not forecast that any decisten on the ques- tion as a whole will be promulgated at # given time. The administration feels it is making decisions every day, that neither its banking policies, . its_home and farm loan activities, #ts gold price determina- tion, nor any of its olher major sctivi- ties in the field of finance are without their relation to the eurrency problem. Based on Definite Ideas. The present monetary policy is sald, on this same high authority, to be pred- icated on these definite idess: The President announced many weeks ago that he hoped to perfect monetary plans which would provide & dollar of constant purchasing power. He still has such plans, but the completion of :he ‘pmtrlm must await & higher price evel. ‘The President has been pressing credit expansion almost from the day of his inauguration, and this is at this time definitely part of his policy. This inyolves: First, the use of the Government's credit for public works, farm relief loans, home loans, leans by the Recon- struction Finance Corporation, and 0 on. Second, he has sought to increase the power of the banks to lend privately, to stimuwate business so that private use of this credit will follow. Third, and of similar intent, his plans are directed at strengthening all banks and opening closed banks. Tdeas Are Not Secret. None of these ideas is secret. They are being worked and reworked con- stantly on the thesis that once these powerful agencies have stimulated busi- ness sufficiently, private credit will be open. Credit e:gmmon is regarded here as in part inflationary, since it decreases the supply of money and the rate at which it is spent. Discussion of dollar devaluation of plans otherwise to provide a dollar of constant purchasing power is pro- ceeding Until more time has elapsed, it is felt it would be extremely diffi- cult to judge what a proper stabiliza- tion point would be for foreign ex- change. It must be remembered that sterling is constantly fluctuating in re- lation to the franc, and that this fluc- tuation would be far wider except for the use of un artificial pound. Prices, that is, American values, have 8ot to go up. The relationship of the dollar to the pound, franc and all foreign currencies, from the point of yiew of mathematics, is looked upon as affecting 4 per cent of the total production of the Nation, and 4 per cent of the consumption of the Nation. It is felt to be absurd to suggest that the 4 per cent tail should wag the 96 per cent dog. Raise American Values. The objective is to raise American values and put people back to work, and in putting them back to work give them purchasing power. There is a definite question n: in the administration as to the co. - tinued use by certain banking elemen of the phrase “currency inflation” as if it meant “greenbacks.” The issuing of $5, $10 or $100 bonds, definitely re- tirable out of the budget year by year over & period of years for the purpose of retiring interest-beari bonds, is felt by high authorities re to be merely the substitution of one Gov- fin;r!nent debt for another Government ebt. “Greenbacks,” or “starting the print- presses,” s described as an entirely different thing that means issuing ontinued 1 ged | called Pay at Relief Agencies ls Ex- pected to Be Adjusted at Once, —— The study ipstituted several weeks 8go to bring salaries in the new emer- gency agencies into line with those paid in the regular Government establish- ments is ::zechd to be completed in about a week, it was said yesterday. ‘The praposed scale then is to be pre- sented to President Roosevelt for ap- proval and adoption. Surve Wi instit c;gi‘:et Adev{uryuCounum >, charge of represen gncy group, assiste i8si was prompted by the fact salaries are not suhject to the classifi- cation law nor to the 15 per cent econ- omy cut. ‘This latter fact will make necessary some arrangement under which any emergency workers whose salaries may he reduced to make them comparable tomflmu in thl“re ular ?tlbuah‘g;enu will, carrespondingly, an adjust- ment unward if and when the 15 per cent pay cut or any part of it is re- stored. Under barred. It is intended, this up equitably so tha will he avoided. however, to fix t discrimipation MISS PERKINS SEES NOTHING ALARMING £ INLABOR TROUBLES [{¢] ed st_Page.) i M 1 bile h..n.?;‘."h"?‘u"w:.;? e K] it Feders! ¢ reliet “could from strikers wi csuse the Lgbor Department found W be_“upreasonsble and upjustified.” ‘The strikes for which hearings were those of the Weirton, Pa., steel workers snd the toolmakers of Detroit, Flint and Pontiac. The Na- tional Labor Board notified E. T. Weir, chairman of the Weirton and the Na- tional Steel Co, Boards, that it would “try” the strike Monday. Weir replied he would appesr, but made it plain the companies willmat voluntarily agree to let the strike be arbitrated. ‘The hosrd’s investigation of the De- trolt strike was set for Wednesday. Weirton Pickets Quiet. The Weirton picket ling was quiet, and in Sullivan, Ind., National Guards enforced peace in the coal strike area. Southern Illinois’ trouble zone—at Har- risburg—was also peaceful, although Lieut. Col. Robert Davis, commanding militiaman in charge, announced le believed ‘“certain persons” were at- tempting to provoke complete govern- ment by troops. ‘The National Labor Board contmued its effarts to settle the East Coast's milk strike, affecting 65,000 workers. It was believed adjusting two codes—raising the wages of rayon workers to parity with those of silk factory employes— would settle the dispute. DISPUTE TO BE MEDIATED. San Joaquin Valley Cotton Pickers Nearer Peace. SAN FRANCISCO, October 14 (P.— The strike of thousands of cotton pick- ers in the San Joaquin Valley of Cali- fornia was tentatively settled today when it was announced that both grow- ers and pickers had agreed to submit their troubles to s mediation bosrd named by Gov. Jam George Creel, representative of the National Labor Board. E. H. Pitzgersld, Labor Defistment representative at Visalia, reported the pickers had agreed to resume work Monday on the .$50,000,000 cotton crop waiting to be harvested in Californis. | 4 and would work at the old rate of 60 cents & hundred pounds pending set- tlement of the ge controversy. In striking they had asked $1 a hundred pounds. WEIR OPPOSES ARBITRATION. Steel Oficial to Appear Before Laber . Board. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, October 14 (#).—Accepting an invitation to appear before the National Labor Board in Washington Monday, E. T. Weir of Pittsburgh, president of the ‘boards of the Weirton and National Steel Com- panies today made it plain that the companies would not submit their labor dispute to arbitration. Replying to an invitation from Sen- ator Robert F. Wagner, chairman of the National Labor Board, Weir said he would appear Monday to “make 8 statement in the matter without sub- mitting it to arbitraion.” The position of the companies, Welr informed Wagner, is “that there is nothing now_properly before the Na- OF | tional Labor Board for decision relating to our strike.” He accepted the invitation “in & desire to co-operate in the Presiden recovery program,” the message said. Recognition of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin orkers of America in the company's plants became the central issue in the | AR strike, but the company claimed that no demands were made by the work- men before they walked out. Many of the employes have returned to work resulting in picketing of the plants and the flaring of hostilities several times. Tear gas was used by West Virginia State police a number of times in dispursing unruly crowds near the Weirten mills. Officials of the union said they asked the National Labor Board to arbitrate the dispute, but the company had de- clined to join in the procedure. -—————— COL. BATISTA ORDERS CIVILIANS OF CUBA TO LAY DOWN ARMS ___(Continued Prom Pirst Page) all unemployed foreij An official source said it was estimated 5,000 for- eigners would be shipped out in spe- cially chartered boats. Most of those to be deported, it was said at the inter- jor department, are Jamaicans and Haitians employed down country as cane cutters. The administration’s financial posl- tion, it appeared, was little, if any, tter. paper with no retirement provisions for | bettes the payment of ordinary Government running expenses. tnorities "thet the poiey 00 pariee les tha! icy an of the Government is. just wlutp;lc was in April—to raise American values so tiat & top-heavy debt structure can be paid off in the same kind of dollars in which the debt was incurred. . GENEVA HONOR REPEATED GENEVA, October 14 (#).—With | morning. United States Ambassador Hugh Wil- son sitting in on & conference on the League of Nations Council today, Her- bert L. May of New York was unani- mously re-elected to. membership on the permanent central opium board. Mem| n{ruequu ofher countrfes were appointed. 4 Ambassador Wilson withdrew im- mediately after ihe eicciioa, Secretary of the Treasury Manuel Despaigne, in his daily talk to reporters, said “collections are very poor.” Despaigne had previously announc the treasury would be able to meet ‘its October pay roll without difficulty. He said today that the $1,000,000 re- mainder of $6,000,000 in silver minted at Philadelphia was being brought to Cuba-as quickly as possible, to be used for general budget purposes. The treas- ury received $200,000 in silver aboard the Ward liner Morro Castle during the to loaquin Martines Saenz, A. B. C. chieftain and secretary of the treasurv in the cabinet of former Pr-sigant Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, i 3 Unlted States. resent law, raises are | DU e B emerge! Rolph, jr., and | Budget Bureau is as follows: N. R. A. director and | 1934 appropriations . G Estimates Based on $1.50 Realty Rate, Assessment Cut of 50. Million. g ended last June 30, closed with a deficit of $62,742.57, Maj. Donovan estimated that the current flscal year will end with a showing of a surplus of $2,930,~ 063.43, ely created by salary reduc- tions. surplus becomes available for use during 1935 fiscal year. Reguests Trimmed. The budget of $39,484,858.15 tepruem«em of approximately %] $4:384,000 over the 1934 appropriation total, but shows that the Commission- ers, in keeping with their decision to Lomuuh an economical and balanced udget without resorting to an increase in taxes, were forced to shave some $5,400.000 off the total requested by the District department heads. This total was $44,897.803. ld Maj. Donovan's statement, made to issioners but not sent to the ed that the new #n estimated general 1 the fiscal year 1935 of $34.825,063.43. e proposed budget carries items paysble from the general fund amounting to $3¢,376,888.15. This would leave as an expected surplus at the end of the next fiscal year of $448,- 175.28. The amount of the surplus at the end of the ;aruam year and 1935, as well as the 1935 budget total itself, Maj. Donoven pointed out, would depend upon how additional funds for the care of Washington's destitute persons #ro provided. = wu»w! & Relief Fund In this connection he 'mficd! “Th ency Tellef! aj igie i 00000 1t 1 et that e 1 ““‘A‘)W, ,000 will have to be ex- based revenue d tar, ween for ul by the close of m‘ml year !Ku%e consideration of revenue surplus available in 1935 4, assumes no further gppropri- District funds in 193¢ for y relief, but that the approxi- mate $1,700,000 required to supplement the District appropriation of $§1,300.000 will be supplied from the Federal relief appropriation of $500,000,000. “If this should not be done and the District required to furnish the addi- tional money, the result would be to diminish correspondingly the revenue surplus of 1934, and this in turn would affect the revenue avaiiability for 1935, and the total of the District budget for that year.” The suditor showed in detail how the 1936 budget estimates were prepared upan receipt of instructions from the Bureau of the Budget. This section of the statement follows: Recommendations Submitied. “For the fiscal year 1935, the sev- eral departments submitted budget rec- ommendations totaling $44,897,803, made up as follows: S!ntrll fund items asaline tax tund Water fund items ... Trust and special funds “The Bureau of the Budget indicated as the total of the District budget for 1935, the sum of $36,710,000. This in- cluded salaries computed on & 100 per cent basis, but does not include any pro- vision for paying longevity increases to school ers, policemen and firemen. The Budget Buresu in advising the Commissioners of the District’s budget total for 1935 stated that: * ‘Estimates are to be limited to ap- propriations as made for 1934, adjusted by amitting nen-recurring items, snd sdding only such new items as are im- rative, A tentative basis of such ad- justment is shown in the attached statement.’ = “The statement referred to by the 1p3s & $15.200.000 aaes, b $10.000 700.000 60,000 50.000 630,000 2.450.000 ¥ $3,750,000 5.000 0,000 730,000 sinatorty 50.000 75.000 1935 sppropristions . “It will be noted from this statement of the Budget Bureau that not only is the special gasoline tax fund appropris ation of $1,600,000 for 1934 (expend= able with the approval of the director of the Budget Bureau) deducted in deter- micing the allowable budget total for 1935, but an additional $200,000 is also deducted; and this js also the case with reference to the special appropriation of $630,0000 ($635,000) for the Water Department. Only bne Tncrease. “As & matter of fact, the only real in- crease allowed the District for 1935 is $3,750,000 to cover the restoration of salaries to a 100 per cent basis, and against this is the ;lecmx;rriq‘;_\rwnt;d by the two special appropristions re- ferred to of $1,500,000 and $635,000. “Adopting the method used by the Budget Bureau in determining the 1935 total of $36,710,000, it is submitted that the District should be entitled to s budget total for 1935 of $39,508,000, as follows: 6.710.000 1,500,000 An_amount equal Water Department appropris- tion_for 1934 i An smount equai appropriation for s ing_construction (p unexpended balances of ap- propriations for the Municl- pal Center. and therefore pot included in the 1914 totals), including the Woodrow ‘Wil- san_Senior Higl for which the completing appro- Pristion “should be provided n 1935 ... An_amount neces: or salaries of street-ci policeme: ing under the provi- sions of ‘the street raill merger act. 435,000 ways Total ... .$39,508.000 Ecenamy Committee Acts. “The budget recommendations for 1935, as submitted by department heads, amounted to $44,897,803. The Commis- sioners delegated to the Economy Com- mittee the duty of carefully investigat- ing these recommendations and report- ing thereon to the Commissioners. ‘That committee spent more than weeks in its studies of budget needs for the next fiscal year, had all the de- partment heads appear before it to sup- gl.y such information and data as might required, and the committee has recommended to the Commissioners a well balanced budget for that year within the total, worked out as above, of $39,508,000. “The total District budget for 1935, as submitted to the Commissioners by the Economy ttee, amounts to $39,484,858.15, made up as féllows: General fund ftems........$32.900.888.15 Gasoline tax fund Siems. .. 2.374.500. Water fund items. .. 1,673.470. Permanent and indef trust-fund tems . 2.530,000.00 Total .... .$39,484.858.15 (A table showing how the budget total of $39,484,858.15 is allooated as to major activities appears in another column.) ‘Valuation Figures. “The es! timated assessed valuation of real estate for 1935 is $1,100,000,000. This re] ts & reduction of - the assessment for 1934. The e personl o 3435 (excla- ble personal prope: for exclu- sive of motor vehicles) is $73,000,000; tax rate cl ‘three | 1933, D, C. OCIOBER 15, 1 933—PART ONE. Scene of Air Cirtus Plane Crash TWO HOMES SET AFIRE BY FALLING BHIP. Wlmtwhmhwflmwwqu‘umhy'm'hentnllrctrnumonaphnemmadhw them after a collision with another plang vesterday. The pllot, Roy Hunt, took to his parachute and landed safely. ‘The other plang was not damaged. 5 —Associated Press Photo. As Forwarded to Bureau Bureau of the Budget by the District Cammissioners, earries the THI proposed 1938 District budget, forwarded yesterday to the following allocations for various major purposes: Salarles, etc., general administrative offices. Lifrety line tax fund) Sewers Collection an: Playgrounds Electrical Depa: Public schools Metropolitan P Fire Department Health Departmen! Courts, including Appeals .... Public Welfare . Militia Reclamation of Anacostia Fla Parks, National Capital Park payment on park debi.. National Zoological Paxk.. ‘Total, general fund items Gasoline tax fund items Water fund items ...... Permanent and indefinite items and Total for 1935 Budget......... for 1935 on real estate and tangible District of Columbia revenues, $29.003,- | persanal property is $1.50 per $]00 of assessed valuation, and on intangible persanal property $5 per $1,000 of as- sessed valuation. “The estimated revenues of the Dis- trict for 1935, using the foregoing as- sessments and tax rates, ave as follows iumlus from 1934... 0,061 4 550000000 1.095.000.00 2,000,000.00 2.200.000.00 425.000.00 0000 00.000.00 X on Teal estat tanyible persoual building sssoci: Personal tax on mo icles M 3.0 gf:rll Pyymel 5.5 ase of Tevenus ieserve for unexpended ~ balances of l’nxnl?ll&?nnl e . 525.000.00 Charges Ags! “Charges against general fund rev- enues, 1935, on basis of recommended budget for that year: General fund_item: Freeqmen's Hospil Pefunding " erroneousiy * paid $32.906.888.15 150.000.00 50.000.00 e 80.000.00 i cemen s relief 1 to ief fcit in that fund, 790.000.00 settlement ~of encies, etc... 500.000.00 Totsl t..eereranesne. . $34.376.888.16 “The estimated generel fund revenues availability for 1935, as shown above, is $34,825,063.43. The budget items for 1935 payable from the general fund amount to $34,376,888.15. The difference of $448,175.28 represents the estimated revenue surplus at the close of the fiscal year 1935.” Gas Tax Surpius Seen. Ma{. Donovan estimated that at the end of the next fiscal year, or on June 30, 1935, there would be a surplus of gasoline tax!\ revenues amounting to $475,683.30, on the basis of the pro- posed 1935 budget. He arrived at this figure by tracing the gasoline tax his- tory from the beginning of the 1933 fiscal year. He estimated there would be & sur- lus of $1,371,664.03 in the water de- Kcmmm revenues at the end of the van reported. “At the end of the fiscal year 1929, this surplus (general fund ) amounted to $8,689,664.75. of the fiscal year 1930, the fund surplus amounted to $9,469,143. at the end of the fisgal year 1931, surptus had fallen to $4,271,622.11, and at the end of the fiscal year 1932, the surplus was only $542,823.42. of the last fiscal year, June 30, not only was the surplus entirely wiped out, but :d. nlvznun &efl:ele of $62,742.57 appear t shoul un- derstood that the several figures above presented are based upon total general fund revenues of the District, includ- ing the ;nn::lumer;l. my;:lun't‘.) .'uhg total appropriations chargeable general fund. On an actual cash basis, revenue as compared with expenditures, uite & sizable bal- the Treasury on June 30, 1933. Table of Revenues. “The following statement shows total general fund and reve- nues’ for the fiscal years 1929 to 1934 (the revenues representing the current during each year, excluding sul \:fl:‘enn\u )brw;ht over from jous year) : “1929—A] $35,879.453.25; District of Columbia revenues, $29,442,- Muduee-uz and of intangible personal property, T ‘The proposed ,000. =l District Supreme Court and Court of and Planning Commission, and $1,838,258.00 409,065.00 225,920.00 291,600.00 883.220.00 1,523,030.00 185,525.00 1,039,840.60 11,027.330.00 3,438.776.00 2,304,320.00 430,500.00 803,154.00 6,775,824.00 36.000.00 100,000.00 1,379.526.15 215,000.00 +ee0..$32,906,888.15 2,374,500.00 1.673,470.00 trust funds. 2,530,000.00 tetteescesssssseeansss.$39,484,858.15 1184.91; Federal payment, $7,775,000. | _“1934—Appropriation, = $29,587,241.57; | District of Columbia revenues. $26,817,- 305.00; Federal payment, $5,700,000. “It should be noted that the total | general fund appropriaticns for 1833 amounted to $39,627,211.66. The salary ents required under the pro- visions Of the economy acts, $2.243, 460.08, reduced the total to that shown |in the above table, $37,383,751.60. “The appropriations for 1934 for | salgries were made on an 85 per cent | basis, and no longevity increments were | allowed teachers, policemen and fire- men. %fls represented a reduction of $4,000, in appropriations for that year, Revenues Fall. “Comparing the two fiscal years 1932 and 1934, we find, as to the revenues, & falling off between thase two years of $7,582,401.09, of which amount $3,800,- 000 appears in the Federal payment (49,500,000 in 1932 and $5,700,000 in 1934) and $3,792491.09 in the general revenues of the District. This latter amount is accounted for nearly entire- ly by the reduction in the tax rate from $1.70 to $1.50 and s reduction of $80,- 000,000 in the assessed valuation of real la"s:t’e', both occurring in the fiscal year Maj. Donovan reported that: “At the close of the fiscal year 1933, the unpaid taxes due the District of Columbia amounted to $9,329,241.78, made up of taxes on real estate, $5,267,675.08; taxes on tangible personal property, $2,931,- 143.72; taxes on intangible personal rty, $1,054,234.60; taxes on public ities, banks, etc., $63,012.41, and spe- uf clal reimbursable taxes, $13,175.97. lance A large part of this balance m-bly ‘would have been paid had the rict been able to-s€ll the property involved at tax sales. Tax sale pur- chases until the past two years have amounted to about $800,000 a year. But in the last two annual tax sales the District has received about one-third of that amount. Much of the unpaid tangible and in- personal taxes now standing on the books of the assessor, it is leucd-u , are not collectable, Maj. Donovan 1934 is $1,150,820,306, or about $80,- 000,000 under the assessed value of 1933. The le personal ,000 and of $400,000,000. e availability estimated revenu for 1934 is $32,517,305, and the total assessment of tan- flmor 1934 is $72,- W‘l Prop- leaves a revenue surplus for 1934 of $2.930,063.43, which becomes available for appropriation purposes for 1935, Savings Save Rate. “Savings of approximately $4.000,000 are made in 1934 appropriations through the 15 per cent reduction in sslaries and the denlal of longevity increase to school teachers, policemen and firemen, due to the operation of econamy legis- Iftion. Without these savings it would not have been practicable td reduce the tax rate in 1934. . such ccount for & revenue surplus t amount of money in ear unless additional revenue should provided, either by increasing the Federal contribution, or through en- actments by Congress creating other sources of revenue. Some such action as this would appear to be necessa before the fiscal year 1936, if the Dis- trict is to be able to keep from in- taxes in that year and at the build & budget providing for mmmmmfi improvements. made by studies and investigations of their Econqmy Committee, to effect ecangmies in mun:- cipal operating cests, and much good work has been . accomplished: in | titis direction.” Value of real estate for pastorate Kayre . | minister when he went to BEING CONSIDERED Plan Would Have R. F. C. Ad- vance Debentures to % Hasten Openings. By the Associated Press. An obscure law intended to help Dis- trict banks through last Spring’s bank- ing emergency may be made the basis of the new Government bank which officials are discussing as & means of placing weak and closed banks in a sound position. This approach to the problem is one of several under consideration. Attor- ney General Cummings said yesterday he had talked over possibilities with administration financial advisers but hed mnot been asked for a formal opinion. The idea was advanced as a means of meeting legal restrictions on the marketing of the debentures, or un- secured ds, of the Reconstruction Fimance Corporation. The Recon struction Finance Corporation act stipulates that these are not to be dis- counted by the Federal Reserve Sys- tem, but some officials argue that the provision was nullified by later emer- gency legislation. Plan Still Tentative. ‘The plan, still tentative, is to have the Reconstruction Finance Corporation advance debentures in making loans to banks and in buying their capital stock, The banks in turn would obtain cash by discounting the debentures at the new institution. ‘The latter might be autharized later to market Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration debentures among banks in & position to take them and thus augment its working capital, the debentures com- ing to it directly from the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation. How the bulk of the new bank’s capital is to be provided has yet to be decided. Heretofore, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has sold its debentures to the Treasury, obtaining in return for its lending activities. ‘Will Be Clearing House. In addition to handling the deben- tures, the new bank also is expected serve as a clearing house for frozen assets, mostly real estate mortgages, which are impeding the reopening of many . President Roosevelt discussed the plan for helping closed banks yesterday with three New York bankers and Jones of the Reconstruction Finance LA GUARDIA RAPPED FOR SEABURY TALK 0’Brien and McKee Seize Charge Against Lehman as Campaign Material. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 14¢.—Tammany Hall joined Joseph V. McKee, inde- pendent mayoral candidate, today in scurrying to the defense of quiet, re- tiring Gov. Herbert H. Lenman, repeat- edly attacked by Bamuel Seabury, Fusion strategist. Halling Beabury's criticisms of the record of Lehman, friend of President Raosevelt, a8 & political blunder, forces behind Mayor John P. O'Brien, Tam- many nominee, and McKee raced each other in attempts to capitalize on them. Gov. Lehman found himself the cen- tral figure in the city’s bitterest mayoral campeign in years—with Tammany Hall, which fought unsuccessfully last year against the President and former Gov. Alfred E. Smith to block his nomi- nation, joining in his defense. Seabury Repeats Charge. His voice shaking, Seabury had re- ted his charge that Gov. Lehman failed to act on disclosures of the legislative investigation which ended in uslcn;:‘m‘: olf” n::ryor James J. Walker. ge n was counsel to &M\gecummtwe. % b mocratic party resents ex- ceedingly the attacks being made on Gov. Lehman, the regularly elected candidate of the Democratic party,” said 1‘{0:"‘"‘ State Senator Abra- o?xl:mt.';g campaign. campaign last year Ma; O'Brien worked mdehungxy for {n°: election of Gov. . Mayor O'Brien and the local Democratic party know that the Governor has made an excel- lent record and see no basis for this unwarranted attack on him.” ‘Penh‘\’len‘l ."llfd?x ot Gov. ‘slanderous,” ee chal- lenged Fiorello H. La Guardia, Fusion candl;tfia ‘;l mow uneql:!l:lguny “the man Lcf your nomination an speaks for you nightly.” a4 Calls Charge Slander; “When Mr. Seabury made the charge that Gov. Lehman was res ible (gx to go free ‘criminals who stole & good part of $10,000,000 (relief :und.s) iglrllr polkllum fld‘lgfilm uttered reckless der,” M tela!'xn:phe%‘h Guardia. i Tue it would be sufficient to - rant serious charges being lo:z‘:d against any Governor who failed to rosecute men who stole millions of lollars appropriated for the relief “gf— the poor. I know the charge to be utterly and contemptibly false and I denounce here and now Samuel Sea- bury for making it,” continued McKee, ‘What do you say? Do you believe the charge to be true? If you do not, and no fair-minded man can believe it :onl‘;: ‘:rue, then I call on you to dis- unequivocall et eqt ly and without res- Responding, La Guardia character- ized McKee's demand as “a :uly effort to create & false issue” instead of your constct iy i g 1 Tecord at the city hall.” s onle “Whfillw Lehman in 1938, en Gov. Lehman Lieutenant-Governor in 1?;:?" :lnd ’g quul'dh, “I publicly supported him and Yoted for him. I openly supported him in 1930 and in 1932, when he wam for Governor. That's eme of the irregular- ities constantly against me.” Meanwhile, Kaplan asserted that some gs[&;l;l h.:e“i:"hm Brooklyn and other Wwho have switche legiant from O‘Hr'l:’n to McKee ::,:B o overtures to come back to reguls Do . ety T o Ildded: ed like prodigal sons, “I would not say the light hold out very long. The enmlgflgn"g pro- gressing to the point where I think the r:t-';hcflun of Mayor O'Brien is assured - n::‘t"zhe Teturn of any of these gen- Kaplan saw a swing toward Maye O’Brien and the organization Dem:—r cratic ticket which “will grow stronger ;-lo the cam, progresses and cannot otherwise result in the re-elec- tion of Mayor O'Brien.” Pecora Is Confident. Ferdinand Pecors, McKee ca for district attorney in Mnnhm.t:gl d:r:fi counsel to the Senate Committee on ganklnz and Currency, came from ‘ashington toda; election without -’fim‘ eI Corporation. An annouiicement is ex- | didacy pected this = week. ‘Those attending the conference in- cluded James H. Perkins, t of the National City Bank; Wi C. Pot~ ter, president of the Guaranty Trust Co., and Percy H. Johnston, president of the Chemical Bank & Trust Co. MINISTER AND AIDES HELD AFTER MURDER Jonesboro Tabernacle Turbulence Continues With Death of Janitor in Fight. By the Associated Press. JONESBORO, Ark, October 14— Two followers of Rev. Dale S. Crowley in his turbulent campaign to retain the of the Janesboro Baptist to mur‘gle:' h: ‘t:g‘onm ';y charges v T the minister had been ordered held for the murder of J. W. Mac- janitor of the church, appropriation _ cha for that year amount to m.mm'fi ‘This | nacle at the church when Crowley was -in control, were taken into custody on warrants issued by A. U. Tadlock, dep- ut.m attorney. k id the warrants were based on evidence that Carter struck MacMurdo over the head with a “blackjack” and Kayre hit him with s walking cane both before and after he was shot by Crawley. Municipal Ju ‘William Carroll or- dered Crowley held after a preliminary hearing at which no testimony was offered in the pastor's defense. His attorneys announced they would seek next week to have him released under and Carter were with the Haale (ol ke sk g ahiee the Chancery Court had wml";md his legal t for the pastorate by recog- nflnfi l‘l Eflm‘ llull-u“r’lo had Janitor work while the faction heads by the Rev. Joe Jeffers, founder of chureh, ‘The ollowed 000,000 in 1934, and permit | bond. list and : was in_control. or- der to MacMurdo to leave. Secret Comsistory Called. VATICAN CITY, October 14 (P).— “Those who may of the investing been offended by Bl i B, expl public have probal my activities.” 2, Micks Ordered Barry M. Durning, McKee's campaign Mansger, announced that James W. Hicks, vice chairman of the Queens Committee, had been dropped. made the announcement after #t was reported Hicks had been sus- pended from practice of law for one year in 1932 in connection with an “ambulance chasing” inquiry, McAdoo Arrives in Rome. ROME, = Gibbs mmm»‘d. e "‘““.’: ere today spend a week with Unif = 5 United States Am. September Circulation Sunday, 119,069 District of . et of Columbis. : Aver: n Ao ats, et 2 euaton sencon for service, ete. . 1,118