Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1934, Page 3

NEW RACE RACKET IS FOUND IN CITY; Numbers Crusaders Dis- cover Gullible Playing Game With 25-Cent Stake. Imported from New Jersey, a new racket has come to Washington. It is called the Mutual Racing Special, 8 miniature Irish Sweepstakes effect with daily prizes of $500 offered the gullible at 25 cents a play. A spe- cial Saturday offering gives the player & chance to take in $2,500. Members of the vice squad in chas- ing down numbers runners inadvey- tently came across the New Jersey scheme, said to be backed by a New- ark syndicate. In a series of three Taids the police netted a bushel basket full of Mutual Racing Special tickets. Tickets Like Sweepstakes Boards. ‘The tickets are printed after the fashion of the sweepstakes tickets and in the same general style—even to the little coupon on the end, to be held by the customer. Five numbers are placed on each ticket by the holder. The winning numbers are determined by results of races at various tracks. If a ticket holder cashes in on all five numbers for the day he gets 8500. If he hits the last four num- bers he gets half that amount. If he hits the last three numbers he gets $50. If he has the last number he gets a dollar. Saturday Prizes Higher. For the Saturday special the five numbers bring a total of $2,500 to the winner. The last four numbers bring $750. the last three $500 and the last number has a prize award of $50. Since the numbers runners have been harassed by the police, members of the vice squad believe that the New Jersey syndicate sees an oppor- tunity to introduce a rival game in ‘Washington—the Mutual Racing Spe- cial. Men arrested are believed to be pawns of the syndicate. WISV SALE DEAL NEARS COMPLETION Transaction Involving More Than $100,000 Expected to Be Concluded Tomorrow. Negotiations for the sale of WISV to the Columbia Broadcasting System were virtually completed yesterday by the Independent Publishing Co., own- ers of the station. The transaction is expected to be completed tomorrow. While the exact purchase price was not disclosed, it was reported to be in excess of $100.000. The Old Dominion Broadcasting Co., a 100 per cent Columbia sub- sidiary, has been operating the sta- tion under a lease since June, 1932. ‘This lease was contracted to run for three five-year periods at $20,000 a year. The sale will give Columbia undis- puted possession of one of the most powerful stations in the country. WJSV is authorized to use 10,000 watts. Since leasing the station Columbia has spent more than $100,000 in im- provements. It moved the old trans- mitter from Mount Vernon Hills, Va., to a site on the George Washington Memorial Boulevard near Alexandria and installed new and modern equip- ment. SUGAR IS SEIZED 179,624,552 Pounds Held in Ex- cess of Jones-Costigan Quotas. SAN FRANCISCO, December 29 (#). —Seizure of 179.624,552 pounds of sugar shipped from the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands in excess of Jones- Costigan quotas was announced today by Collector of Customs Charles O. Dunbar. Dunbar said the sugar had been labeled “unclaimed merchandise” and would be held pending determination of the legality of the Jones-Costigan act, now being questioned in suits brought by Hawaiian and Philippine planters. He explained the seizures began last May after Philippine planters had openly disregarded the quota law. SPECIAL NOTICES. OFFICE OF THE FIREMEN'S INSURANCE Company of Washington and Georgetown. 503 Seventh street northwest, Washington, D. C. The stockholders of the Firemen's Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown will meet at MONDAY, January 7. 1935 of electing thirteen sulng year. Polls open from 11 am. to 12 noon. ~ ALBERT W. HOWARD, Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of A, 8. Pratt & Sons. Inc.. will be held at the offices of the company. & 15th st. nw Washingts D. C.. at o'clock a.m., on Tuesday s G. C. TRUE, Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE- olders of the Home Building Associ for the election of officers and dires S and such other business as m: roperly Come. before the mel e held Tuesday, January 8. 1935, &t 7:i0 pm. at the office of the association, 2006 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Books Tow open for subscription to shares of "the BAth Series. Payments $1 per month per 3 M. WOODWARD. Secretary. _ NOTICE IS_HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE American Security & Trust Co. has de- clared & regular dividend of 2’ per cent on its capital stock of $:3.400.000. payable January 10. 1 to the stockholders of tecord at the close of business on Decem- ber 311934, The annual meeting of the stockholders of said company. for the elec- tion of directors for the ensuing year. the presentation of the annual report of the resident and the transaction of such other Blisiness as may properis come before them. the office on for the purpose ors for the en- will be held at the office of the company in the city of Washington. D. C.. on Tues- day, January 15. 1935, at 12 o'clock noon. and ‘the polls_will be open until 12:30 o'clock pm. ~ The transfer books of the company will be close from January 6th %o the 15th. both davs included. CORCORAN THOM. President. FREDERICK P. H. SIDDONS. 5 Secretary. WANTED __PRICE ON LOAD OF FURNI- ture, to Columbia, S. C. Phone Decatur FURNISHED APT_TWO ROOMS, ELEC. as. phone. refrigeration. dishes. linens. $50. _Additional room. $i5. GILLIL, Abt. 31. 75 North Capitol. District 50 INVALID ROLLING CHAIRS—For rent or sale: new and used: all styles. all sizes: re- duced prices. UNITED STATES STORAGE CO.. 418 _10th st. n.w. ME. 1844 SPECIAL RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL and part loads to all points within 1.00¢ miles; padded guaranteed - service. Local moving tional 1460. NATL DEL._A! A % .. INC., 1317 _N. Y. DALY A w Yo TRIPS MOVING LOADS AND ot loads to and from Balto. Ehila_and a ork. Frequent trips to other Bast- “Dependable Service Since DAVIDSON TRANSFER & '0.,_Decatur_2500. WEEKLY TRIPS TO AND FROM BALTI- more; also trips within 24 hours’ notice to any ‘point in _United ~tates. g TRANSFER & STORAGE CO.._North 3343 I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts other than those contracted by myself. HENRY HOLMES. 725 Fairmont st, nw. ELECTRICAL 3 Rettic wiring. Electric 8hop on Wheels, Inc.. have shops all over town to serve you. See your Telephone Di- rectory for hranch nearest you or call Wis- consin 4821. No job too small or too large. CHAMBERS 50859t the lareest undertakers in the world_ Complete funerals as low as $75 up. Six chapels. twelve parlors. seventeen cars. hearses and ambulances, twenty-five 5. undertakers and_assista NO DELIVERIES MADE TUESDAY, JAN. 1s 1935 SAMUEL C. LMER CO,, 1066 WISCONSIN AVE. ‘ * This Changing World - Propaganda Drive in Saar Causes Fear of Trouble. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ‘The possibility of trouble in the Saar district continues to worry Eu- ropean statesmen despite the fact the French and the German governments have reached an understanding re- garding the payment for the coal mines in case the plebiscite, which is to be held within a fortnight, favors the return of that province to the Reich, * ok ok ok ‘The thousands of refugees from Ger- many who have been given shelter in the Saar are using the most cunning devices of propaganda to induce the Saar population to vote at least for the maintenance of the League of Nations administration. Among these refugees who had to flee Germany since the coming into office of Adolph Hitler there are many intellectuals who are used to political fights. They THE SUNDAY BTAR, WASHINGTON, D." C FAIRBANKS SAILS, [Some Reasons Why the Nation DIVORCE LOOMING Plans Yachting Expedition to South Seas—Mary to Press Court Suit. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 29.— Filmdom's. “ideal romance” appeared definitely ended today. Only a few hours after Mary Pick- ford announced her decision to press to a quick conclusion her divorce suit, which has been gathering dust in Superior Court archives for more than ® year, her estranged spouse, Douglas Fairbanks, sailed from New York for Europe. Booking passage only an hour and 2 half before the liner Ile de France sailed, Fairbanks declined to comment on his wife’s announced intention of severing for once and all ties that bound together Cinemaland’s “first family.” Plans Yacht Trip. “I'm going abroad to charter a yacht,” Fairbanks stated. He needs the craft, he said, for a have their own newspapers, through | projected film expedition to the South which they carry on a powerful cam- paign against the reunion of the Saar to Hitler's Germany. The latest stories of another “blood purge” in the Reich emanated from these sources, and while the story was convincingly denied in Europe, those denials had little effect in the Saar. Berlin is naturally sore at this propaganda and accuses the French of having organized this campaign through the German refugees. The Nazis in the Saar lack the power of intellectual argumentation Hitler opponents can bring forth and are using blunt force and unconvinc- ing propaganda. There may be serious clashes, despite the presence of an inter- national police force. It is feared that any intervention on the part of foreign soldiers might irritate the native population and cause Teal trouble. it is on this the Nazis are counting, especially since the French forces on the Saar border have been greatly reinforced. The Nazis have been forbidden to parade their brown shirts. But they have been able to defeat this order by wearing distinctive caps by which they can easily be recognized by friends and foes. They are deter- mined to create trouble should the arguments of the anti-Nazi Germans prevail upon the voters to demand the continuation of the present regime in that province. * ok ok ok Nobody envies the job of Jefferson Caffery, the American Ambassador to Cuba. Not even his worst enemies can consider it a sinecure. He is the only Ambassador in the world who lives on a volcano, and whose life is in danger every day. Not that the Cubans dislike Caf= fery. Those who threaten his life have nothing personally against him. But the Cuban Communists —and their ranks are swelling every day—want to assert them- selves in the strife-torn island by doing something big and spectacu= lar, * ok k *x Seas. “I shall leave the Ile de France at Havre, and go to Italy to look at a yacht I have in mind for my expe- dition.” s The athletically inclined film star declined to say whether he expected to see Lady Ashley, who recently was divorced from Lord Ashley in pro- ceedings naming Fairbanks as co- respondent. He said, however, he would return to_America in about a month. Fairbanks and Miss Pickford saw each other frequently after both re- turned to Hollywood, Doug from Lon- don and Mary from Eastern engage- ments, several weeks ago. They took automobile rides together, dined together, met at business con- ferences. Both are directors of United Artists Corp. Hollywood envisioned a reconciliation; waited impatiently for an announcement of one. But it never came. It was understood there had been a financial settlement between the pair. From that information it seemed likely that their meetings were primarily for the purpose of settling their financial affairs prior to the divorce. NEWSPAPER BOARD’S OPINION IS ASKED N. R. A. Requests Recommenda- tion on Proposal to Remove Eagle of Call-Bulletin. By the Associated Press. The Newspaper Industrial Board will be asked whether it thinks the San Francisco Call-Bulletin should lose its Blue Eagle. The N. R. A. Administrative Board decided to call on the newspaper board for its opinion after the Labor Re- lations Board asked the N. R. A. to remove the code compliance insignia. ‘The labor board made that request after the paper, en interest of Wil- liam Randolph Hurst, refused to re- instate Dean S. Jennings, a rewrite man, who complained he had been forced to resign for activity with the American Newspaper Guild. The board ordered Jennings' rein- statement, despite the contention of the paper and Donald R. Richberg, Caffery has lived in Central America | director ¢ the Emergency Council, for some years and understands the | that the case should have been heard psychology. He probably is nervous, | by the Newspaper Industrial Board. but does not show it. He moves about the streets of Havana in a big open car of a distinctive color so that there can be no mistake that it belongs to him, and makes public appearances as often as possible. It is apparently the safest way of warding off an attack. Caflery remembers how Smedley Butler handled the Nicaraguan soldiers when he brought the Marines to Nicaragua. He landed and decided to go into Managua, accompanied only by one naval officer. He had to cross a bridge which was occupied by *Nicaraguan troops ready for bat- tle.. A handsome general on & white horse and with a pistol in his hand was prancing up and down the bridge. Butler advanced. The general shouted at him and showed him the pistol—a beauti- ful weapon with mother-of-pearl handle. Butler looked at him, ad- vanced, took the pistol out of his hand, took out the cartridges, threw them away, then returned it to the amazed general, saying: “It’s all right now, you can’t hurt Gen. anybody.” Not a shot was fired at Butler. * x ok x When the newspaper board would act on the case has not been made known here. WOOLWORTH HEIRESS VISITS WITH PARENTS Princess Mdivani Arrives With Party of Friends at South Carolina Plantation. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S. C., December 29.—Barbara Hutton Mdivani is in South Carolina to spend New Year, The wife of Prince Alexis Mdivani arrived Thursday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin L. Hutton, at their plantation, Prospect Hill, on the Edisto River in Charles- ton County. “Barbara came down with a small party,” Mrs. Hutton said, “for a rest, and she will remain here until past New Year. I really can't tell the names of the other persons. I'm very sorry.” On November 27 the 22-year-old Woolworth heiress returned from Europe without her Georgian prince, but denied they were permanently separated, T Claudia Dell Is Married. LOS ANGELES, December 29 (#).— Claudia Dell, film actress, and Edwin Silton, theatrical agent, were married today by Superior Judge Fletcher Bowron. The couple plan to leave soon for A British vice consul stationed in|Palm Springs, desert resort, and later Northern Abyssinia has proved recent- | will go to Europe. Iy that the country is not all moun- tains and jungle. The British official, stationed in a small place about 100 miles from Addis Ababa, was ordered to report to the Minister in the Abyssinian capital. The only way of travel was on mule back, a sport he disliked. So he got himself a couple of car- riers for his baggage, a dozen golf balls and his clubs and walked all the way to Addis Ababa hitting the white pill. He claims to have lost only four balls and to have encountered only one poisonous snake, which he killed with his driver. CENSUS OF HOUSING BY GOVERNMENT URGED Statistical Association Great Results Obtained for National Planning. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 29.—A periodic census of housing by the Government was urged by Ernest M. Fisher, economic adviser of the Federal Hous- ing Administration, at the closing meeting of the American Statistical Association today. He said this type of census has been conducted in some European countries and the information obtained had been “of great significance from an economic as well as a national planning point of view.” More ~recognition for “consumer interest” and less emphasis upon price fixing were suggested by Thomas C. Blaisdell, jr., acting executive director of the N. R. A. Consumers’ Advisory Board, as a means of preventing in- Miss Dell gave her age as 23. Silton said he was 44. First of Low-Cost Duwelling Projects Ready for Tenants Rentals Average $10.51 Per Room in Phila- delphia Plan. The first Government-built, low- rent apartment project, erected for hosiery workers in Philadelphia from Hears | P. W. A. funds, will be occupied soon. At rentals averaging $10.51 per month, tenants may take their choice of apartments providing two and a half, four and five rooms. Leases for dwellings in the project, called the Juniata development, will be taken to- morrow and the first of the four apartment buildings will be occupied on Saturday. The project was financed by a P. W. A. loan of $1,039,000, and is a limited dividend corporation project sponsored by the American P‘edennonl of Hosiery Workers. It is one of cight limited dividend low-rent hous- | ing projects going forward under the program of Col. Horatio B. Hackett, director of the Housing Division. Other types of projects are being financed by P. W. A. in more than 30 cities. The Philadelphia apartments will contain all modern conveniences, in- cluding refrigeration and electric stoves. The project is designed to dustrial codes from becoming “self- pay off the P. W. A. loan on an amor- tized defeating” agencies. besis in 33 years. A S M hould Contribute to Capital’s aintenance and Upbuilding Obligation Based on Payments From Local Revenues for National Purposes and on D. C'’s Heavy Payment of National Taxes. THEODORE This is the third of a series of articles which will present, with a few omissions and sub- stantial additions, the address of Theodore W. Noyes on “Fiscal Equity for Washington” at the recent Oldest Inhabitants’ din- ner. Yesterday's article discussed the obligations of the National Government to be considered in connection with its exclusive power over the District and the Nation’s pride in its Capital City. Obligation "Based Upon Excessive Ex- actions From Local Revenues for Payments, Wholly or in Part National. 3. Obligation based upon payments made from local taxes, solely because Washington is the Capital, in excess of what would be paid if Washington were the ordinary commercial self- sustaining community. Also obliga- tion based upon payments which are national or semi-national and impose an obligation upon the Nation to pay all or half or 40 per cent of expendi- tures and which render inadequate the Federal contribution of approxi- mately 17 per cent in the current fiscal year. ‘These items should (a) either be eliminated from D. C. bill and handled under some other appropriation bill with specific equi- table provision for distribution of pay- ment between Nation and Capital, or (b) if retained in D. C. appropriation bill should ‘be coupled with specific statement of equitable distribution of payment between Nation and Capital, or (c) if retained in D. C. bill and payment made with low percentage of national contribution (such as 17 per cent) under present lump-sum pay- ment, then this unjust excessive con- tribution by Capital to be considersd | in making equitable increases of lump | sum contribution. Decreasing Federal Contribution te Semi-National Projects. The argument accompanying the | recent petition to the President from | the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fis- cal Relations Between the United | States and the District of Columbia touched on some of the semi-national undertakings, the larger portion of the burden of which has been thrown on the District. For example: The Municipal Center. The Com- missioners, having been advised that the Municipal Building would be needed by the Federal Government in its Avenue _triangle - development, sought in 1929 to obtain permission from Congress to purchase two squares of land as the site for a new M nicipal Building. or group of buildings. The total estimated cost, land and buildings, was $12,000,000. The Dis- | trict then had surplus revenues in the Treasury amounting to about $6,000,- 000, and it was the understanding (see H. R. 7878, Seventy-first Con- gress, second session) that the Dis- trict would be credited with the value | of the District Building, tentatively | placed at $5,000,000. The Commis- sioners’ project was possible without undue strain on current revenues. Congress changed the plan, on the theory that the new District struc- tures should conform in scale and grandeur to the Federal development (see House hearings on S. 4180, Sev- enty-first Congress, second session, April, 1930). The Commissioners were ordered to purchase additional land and to plan for a municipal center de- velopment, the estimated cost of which ‘ was in excess of $22,000.000. More than $6,700,000 has now been ex- pended in purchase of land and | preparation of plans, and the District is unable to proceed with completion of the project because of lack of reve- nues. In the meantime, deplorable conditions in the Police Courts and other lower courts, due to overcrowd- ing, have become worse, and there is no definite promise of relief through the construction of new bulldings. Congress has been unwilling to ad- vance its sharg of the cost of this semi-national undertaking, and ac- cess to other sources of revenue (such as the Public Works Administration) has been denied. Park and Planning Commission. This national body was created by an act of Congress (Public No. 202, Sixty-eighth Congress) in 1924 for the development of parks within and outside the District of Columbia, the name being changed from National Capital Park Commission to National Capital Park and Planning Com- mission in 1926. The broadly na- tional conception of this task was indicated in the wording of the act, which proposed the appro- priation each year of “a sum not ex- ceeding 1 cent for each inhabitant of the Continental United States, as determined by the last preceding (1920) decennial census.” Funds ap- propriated for use within the District of Columbia were to be paid “from the revenues of the District of Co- lumbia and the general funds of the Treasury in the same proportion as other expenses of the District of Columbia.” New Terms Impose Greater Burden. But when the park development law (Public No. 284, Seventy-first Con- gress) of 1930 was enacted, and s total sum of $16,000,000 authorized to be advanced for use within the Dis- trict, repayments were demanded from the District ate the rate of a million dollars a year, and between 1924 and 1930 the proportion of the Federal lump-sum payment had shrunk from approximately 40 per cent to approximately 20 per cent (in the current fiscal year it is about 17 per -cent) and participation in this semi-national undertaking was there- by reduced by more than half, throw- ing a much greater proportion of the cost on local taxpayers. Rock Creek-Potomac Parkway. This addition to the national park system of the Capital was proposed by the Park Commission of 1901. Prior to that time Congress had directed the chief of engineers to report on a suitable connection between the Na- tional Zoological Park and Potomac Park, and his report was made in 1900. The Park Commission adopted one of two proposed plans of treat- ment, but it was not until 1913 that Congress took action by creating s commission to acquire the land, all of which was in private ownership. The act authorized expenditure of $1,300,000 for acquisition of the land, and from the fiscal year 1917 through the fiscal year 1926 appropriations for purchases were made, ranging in amount from $50,000 to $250,000 an- nually. The money was divided, first on the basis of 50-50 and later 60-40, between the United States and the District. The authorised appropria- | street improvement, tion of $1,300,000 was exhausted in the fiscal year 1926. In the calendar year 1926 the House passed & bill 1l W. NOYES. appropriating $600,000 of District sur- plus revenues for additional parkway land purchase. The Senate amended the bill to provide for sharing the $600,000 cost on & 60-40 basis between the United States and the District, on the ground that the undertaking had been thus far carried out as a joint enterprise. The conferees on the bill were unable to agree, and fearing in- definite delay should the bill fail in conference, the Senate conferees final- ly ylelded. A large part of the cost of the land acquisition, originally planned as a joint enterprise between the District and the National Govern- ment, was thus placed on local tax- payers. National Zoological Park. This acientific enterprise was begun as a branch of the Smithsonian Institu- tion, and expenses were shared under the 50-50, and later 60-40, division of expenses between the National Gov- ernment and the District. It is now maintained wholly, in upkeep and de- velopment (such as new buildings), out of revenues of the District, to which the Federal payment has de- creased from 40 to about 17 per cent. Water Plant. The District water system was in the beginxing con- structed to supply Federal needs alone, | Later the District was permitted to supply its needs from the system, provided no expense would devolve upon the United States (1859). Later still, the District was taken into part- nership in maintenance and develop- ment of both supply and distribution systems, and the capital investment in water system by the District (In ad- dition to maintenance) finally ex- ceeded that of the United States. Both supply system (formerly main- tained and improved out of general revenues) and the distribution system are now maintained by the water tax (water rent) payers of the District, while the United States Government and the District government (its agent) obtain their large supply of water free. The fact that cost of plant development as well as mainte- nance is placed upon water tax payers prevents a consistent policy of regular rate reduction toward that desider- atum, on sanitary and other grounds, of maximum water use at next-to- nothing cost by the community and the National Government, Gasoline Tax (street improvement). The Capital's street system was laid out on & grand scale, befitting a non- lun:\uml, beautiful Capital. The vernment in the beginning prom- ised, through implication, to main- tain the streets. Under the National Capital-National Government partner- ship of 1878 development and improve- ment of streets was shared, the gen- eral tax fund meeting the greater part of the cost. The gasoline tax, originally proposed as a substitute for the personal property tax on auto- mobiles, was enacted as additional, in- stead of substitute, taxation. Its reve- nues have increased until the greater burden of street (and recently bridge) improvement has been shifted from the general fund (to which the United States contributes) to the gasoline tax fund, with constant pressure to in- crease unnecessarily the gasoline tax rate and to extend the expenditure ©of gas tax revenues to uses other than streets. As the National Government Pays no gasoline tax, the burden for impliedly as- sumed in the beginning, in the opinion of commentators, as & Federal respon sibility and later divided between Nation and community, is thus gradu- ally shifted from the National Gov- ernment to the shoulders of automo- bile owners and the general taxpayers of the District. P. W. A. Loans. In order to secure funds for urgently needed construec- tion work of various sorts, the Com- missioners, backed by public senti- ment, sought from Congress the right, enjoyed by every other American mu- nicipality, to borrow funds from the Public Works Administration. The act was passed (Public No. 465, Sev- enty-third Congress) containing the provision that “Ten cents of the as- sessed valuation of all real and tan- gible property subject to taxation in the District of Columbia shall be deposited in the Treasury * * * ” for creation of a special fund for re- imbursement of 70 per cent of the loan. The section eliminates par- ticipation by the United States, through its lump-sum appropriation, as a participant in National Capital expenses in such semi-national under- takings as the sewage-disposal plant, and guarantees protection only to the controlling, exclusively govern- ing partner in P. W. A. loan agree- ments. National Obligation in View of Fact That the District is Compara- tively Heavy Contributor to National Taxes. 4. Obligation based upon heavy national (internal revenue) taxes paid by people of the Capital compared with corresponding payments by the States. The District contributes to the national taxes from which the na- tional contribution is derived mere than any one of half of the States, more than nine States combined and more per capita than 40 States. (See 1933-34 internal revenue report.) The District not enly contributes more than any one of 24 of the States to the maintenance and building of the National Capital, but Pays more than one-half of the States to national expenditures in the States, including salaries of Repre- sentatives, Senators and President. Washington’s heavy burden, exceed- ing that of half of the States, is cou- pled with denial to Washington of participation in fixing, collecting and spending this tax money. Few, even of our own people, realize how substantial a contributor to na- tional taxes the District really is. Many believe that Washingtonians pay no taxes, either national or mu- nicipal, and that the Capital is sup- ported by the Nation with money wrung from the meager earnings of millions of Americans and flung as beggars’ alms to a mendicant people. Others know some of the facts, but do not know all. 4 Heavy National Tax Payments. As a consequence, amazement re- sults when it is disclosed that the taxpayers of the District paid into the Treasury in national (internal revenue) taxes in the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1934 ($10,742,662), more than any one of half of the States of the Union, ly, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, 'Idaho, Jowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Da- kota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wi ashington State, West Virginia and Wyoming. Our surprise is emphasized when it is further disclosed that the national the Treasury more dollars than were contributed by nine of the States com- ~ DECEMBER " 30, 1934—PART ONE. bined, viz., Arizona, Idaho, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Da- kots, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming, whose payments aggregate $10,078,814. The climax of astonishment is reached when the official report dis- closes that the District pays per capita in these taxes more than 40 States of the Union, exceeded only by eight States, viz, Delaware, North Caro- lina, Virginia, New York, Nevada, California, Kentucky and New Jersey. One Washingtonian thus pays into the Treasury in these taxes more than the average citizen of every State in the Union, except the eight States above enumerated. The revenue from these taxes (com- bined with customs duties) meets all national expenditures, including the lump sum payment for Capital up- bullding, bounties or subsidies to the States, the erection of public build- ings, the acquisition and development of national parks, the national salary list, including the salaries of Presi- dent, Senators and Representatives. For all these objects the District pays more than one-half of the States and the average Washingtonian pays (per capita) more than the average citizen of 40 of the States. No Slur en Smaller Contributors. ‘These figures involve no slur upon the small-contributing States and should arouse no resentments. It is hard to refute the small contributor’s claim that it is more creditable not to contribute than to contribute largely to internal revenue taxes derived mainly from whisky, beer, tobacco and supertaxes upon swollen incomes. ‘The sole purpose is to demonstrate how large a contributor the District is to national internal revenue taxes, the only national taxes that fall di- rectly and unmistakably and in as- certainable amounts upon Americans, and that supply three-fourths of the national revenue; and to suggest that in the absence of national representa- tion to couple with this taxation the equitable obligation is upon the Na- tion, represented by Congress, to see that equity is done and that fair play prevails in spending justly and for the Capital's welfare the District's comparatively large contribution. In developing the Nation'’s City the Washingtonians are by far the largest contributors among Americans. They contribute on both the local and na- tional side of the account. As local taxpayers they are made unjustly to pay 83 per cent of municipal expense; and they cont more than half of the States to the national revenue from which the 17 per cent lump sum payment is derived. They are the only Americans who have absolutely noth- ing to say authoritatively concerning the disposition of the funds to which they are such large centributors. The equitable obligation upon Con- gress, raised by these facts, is obvious. Tomorrow’s article will discuss the national obligation based upon the hundreds of millions of boun- ties and subsidies given by Nation to States, toward which the Dis- trict pays in internal revenue taxes, but in the distribution of which it is not permitied to participate, PERSONNEL SHIFTS INQUIRY STARTED Civil Service Commission to Study Recent Changes in Tariff Body Staff. ‘The Civil Service Commission yes- terday was asked by E. Claude Bab- cock, president of the American Fed- eration of Government Empioyes, to investigate certain personnel shifts in the Tariff Commission, to see if the classification act is being violated. At the same time Babcock wrote Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the Tariff Commission, asking for data on the matter which, he says, involves salary reductions for some workers, boosts for others and employ- ment of non-civil service personnel. “While it is not the function of this organization to interfere with any legitimate reorganization of the Tariff Commission, it is our obligation to protect our membership against meas- ures whose effect will illegally reduce pey,” Chairman O'Brien was told. EMPLOYES OF BURNED HOTEL ARE CRITICIZED Michigan Coroner's Jury Urges Strengthening of State’s Protection Laws, By the Assoclated Press. LANSING, Mich., December 29.—A coroner’s jury which investigated the burning of Hotel Kerns on the morn- ing of December 11, with the loss of 32 lives, reported today that it had found no evidence of “actual crim- inal negligence,” but recommended strengthening of Michigan's fire pro- tection laws. ‘The report contained some criticism of the employes, asserting that they did not make “reasonable efforts” to arouse the more than 200 sleeping guests. It said that there was a “woeful and almost criminal” lack of protection for hotel guests provided by Michigan statutes. ‘The hotel management was criti- cized for not maintaining an adequate night force and for failing to instruct | ::' employes in their duties in case of The report failed to establish the cause of the fire. —_— SNOW IN NEW ENGLAND Northern Area Covered—=Southern Highways Are Icy. BOSTON, December 29 (#).—A heavy mantel of snow settled over Northern New England today while the southern States of the section were left with dangerous, icy high- ways as & result of sleet and rain. Rhode Island and Connecticut re- ported highway conditions were hazardous due to rain and subsequent freezing temperature. Similar condi- tions prevailed in Eastern and West- ern Massachusetts. Continued snow was predicted for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, while in the southern area cloudy and colder weather was foreci R (T GOL Silver and Pilat- 9 inum Purchased for Manufacturing Use. Max- imum Price Paid Federal License ‘WATCH REPAIRING BY EXPERTS The repair of your watch does - not complete the trans- action between wus, but estab- lishes our obligation to fulfill our guarantee of service. I el T2 717177727 IIIIIL 7T 77 22T I I I I TS 17 7717771777777 Forum Speaker SENATOR HENRIK L. SHIPSTEAD, SHIPSTEAD LISTED FOR FORUM TALK Senator Will Discuss Major Issues to Come Before Congress. America’s outlook for 1935 will be discussed by Senator Henrik L. Ship- stead of Minnesota speaking in the National Radio Forum at 7 pm. to- morrow. The forum program is ar- ranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to-coast net- gork of the National Broadcasting 0. With the Nation standing at the threshold of the new year, Senator Shipstead will take this opportunity of outlining to the radio audience the most important problems of govern- ment waiting to be dealt with during the months just ahead. It is probable he also will dwell on what the future holds for commerce, business and for the American people generally. With 12 years of experience in the Senate, Senator Shipstead has just been re-elected for another six-year term. His views on impending legisla- tion will be timely, with Congress pre- paring to convene on January 3. Sena- tor Shipstead is the only Farmer- Labor member of the Senate. SEAL SALE FUNDS ARE BELOW QUOTA $30,000 Received, but Half of Amount Needed for D. C. Tuberculosis Program. As the annual sale of the Tubercu- losis Assd ation’s Christmas seals nears a close, Washington has con- tributed just half of its quota of the fund urgently needed to carry through the society’s 1935 program of health protection, said Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director, last night. “The Christmas seals which our many good friends have already paid for,” said Mrs. Grant. “amount to a little more than $30,000. This en- ables us to begin the new year confi- dently in the faith that a large num- ber of those to whom seals were of- fered but who have not so far re- sponded will make it possible for us to extend the work during the whole year. “We know from numerous letters now received, as well as from the ex- perience of former seal sales, that a good many of our friends do pay for the seals after the New Year period. 1t is never too late to pay for Christ- mas seals. “To all of the many thousands of Washingtonians who have bought our little penny seals and who have contributed to the financing of the fight against our common enemy, tuberculosis, the officers and direc- tors of our association wish to express thelr sincere thanks,” Mrs. Grant concluded. May Tax Securities. Spain mny"ux state securities now o A3 _y BOOTLEGGER CURB SEEN IN TAX CUT | Wisconsin Liquor Official Says Congress Holds Key to Situation. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis., December 29.—To curb the bootlegger, make bootlegging unprofitable: Cut down legal liquo¥® taxes. That was the proposal today of A. J. Palmer, director of the Wise consin beverage tax division. He complained that prices are too high for the quality of legal liquor. Legislators, rticularly those in Washington, could deliver an almost fatal thrust at bootlegging by reducing liquor taxes and thus making the boot= legger's margin of profit too slifa, Palmer said. Moonshine Quality Helps. Palmer told the American Legislae tors’ Association, in the current issue of its magazine, that he is convinced the public still considers the prices of legal liquor too high. The prohibi- tion era, he said, produced a palatable moonshine and many old customers went back to the bootlegger after tasting some of the “horrible blends” of legal liquor which appeared after Tepeal. A 50 per cent reduction in both State and Federal taxes would mean a reduction of approximately 37!; cents & quart on liquor, or enough to put & bad crimp in the bootlegger's busi- ness, Palmer said. He expressed the belief that Government revenues would | not_suffer. | The Wisconsin director contended | wine-producing States should set a | definite standard which will assnre the | consumer at least “sound, clean, drink- able wine” and make producers cone form to the standard. He said the | tax on wines is far too high. ‘Would Limit Retailers. Palmer suggested that retailers be permitted to purchase only from manufacturers, rectifiers and whole- salers of the same State and that the | latter in turn be required to buy from only those out-of-State firms which hold a permit from the State ad- ministrator. | Control of the liquor trafic will be | effective only through co-operation be- | tween States, he said. This co-opera- tion would include the regular exe |change of information on manue facturers, wholesalers and other hane dlers of liquor, standardization of laws, rules, forms and regulations. “RAMON’S” CHARGES DENIED BY WIFE | Heigh-Ho Club Proprietor Said She Adopted Baby and Pre- tended Parenthood. Mrs. Catherine C. Bayasca-Perna, wife of “Ramon” of the Heigh-Ho Club, yesterday denied she had ever tricked her husband into believing she was the mother of his child. | The denial was contained in an ane swer to a suit for divorce filed re- cently in the District Supreme Court by “Ramon,” who claimed his wife | had adopted a child and then led him to believe it was their own. i The wife, through Attorney Ray= mond Neudecker, said “Ramon” knew she had adopted the child and cone | sented to the arrangements. 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