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» ARMY-NAVY FUND Ships and Larger Mili- tary Budget. By the Associated Press. Close ‘'upon Japan's denunciation of the Washington naval limitation treaty came “word yesterday that President Roosevelt will ask Congress to increase the Army’s appropriation for the com- ing fiscal year by $445,000,000 and allot “at least” $100,000,000 to con- tinue building the Navy up to treaty strength. A high Navy official reported, how- ever, that the department had asked only for funds to lay down 24 vessels, which are to be the first of the 78 authorized, but not appropriated for, by the Vinson Navy law.' Cost esti- mates were guarded, but one official predicted the 24 would involve an out- lay of $135,000,000. Only appropriations for the frst Yyear of construction would be asked, it was said. Money to complete ships already under construction, it was added, would bring the figure to “well over” $100,000,000. Below Dern’s Estimates. Funds to add 6,500 enlisted men to the Navy and increase the enrollment at the Naval Academy by one-third were disclosed to Jave begn included in the department budget. In high Army circles, word was passed that the $445,000,000 increase was far below Secretary Dern's esti- mates and that a projected increase of Army strength to 165,000 would be impossible. Its present enlistment is 118,000. - The figure includes funds for be- tween 500 and 600 new planes and motorization and mechanization, but figures for these also were below the department’s requests. A warning that the present depleted Navy personnel “is a serious menace to success in battle in the event of an unanticipated emergency” came yes- terday from Rear Admiral W. D. Leahy, chief of the Bureau of Navi- Ration. Preparedness Is Stressed. In his annual report to Secretary Swagson, Leahy insisted that the fleet “should at all times be prepared to gmeet an enemy,” and that 85 per cent of the authorized complement Was the “minimum.” / A bill drawn up by the Navy De- partment after consultation with Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee provides for the gradual addition of 1,513 officers, bringing the total to the 7,000 said by Leahy to be ‘“necessary to man the treaty Navy.” In addition, the bill provides for 900 aviation officers, to be obtained by re- turning Resesve officers to duty or as- signment of non-commissioned avia- tion personnel. UTOPIANS ESTABLISH OFFICES IN CAPITAL Western Organization to Obtain Information on Activities of Congress. —— By the Assoctated Press. ‘The Utopian Society of America, an organization described by its advocates as intended to educate the people for economic reform, yesterday opened Washington headquarters. Mitchell T. Kennedy of Los Angeles, director of the national field organiza- tion, will be in charge. “We are not here to establish a lobby,” Kennedy said, “we are not a political organization. Our purpose in establishing headquarters in Washing- ton is to obtain information of con- gressional activities for our members :1nd to co-operate with the administra- on."” The Utopians claim a membership of 1,000,000 in their semi-secret society on the Pacific Coast. “We have no connection with Upton Sinclair or any other California po- litical leader or organization,” Kennedy said. WORLD’S WHEAT YIELD SMALLEST SINCE 1925 Output of 38,420,000,000 Bushels Outside Russia May Bolster Prices. By the Assoclated Press. The smallest world wheat crop since 1925 was reported yesterday by the Bu- reau of Agriculturai Economics. The entire world output, with the exception of Russia and China, was es- timated at 3,420,000,000 bushels, com- pared with 3,722,000,000 last year and an average for the past five years of 3,762,000,000. The bureau said there was some pros- pect for “strengthening of world prices during the next few months,” because world shipments are running slightly above last year and the southern hemisphere crop is about 75,000,000 bushels less than last year. —_— SPECIAL NOTICES. OFFICE OPF THE FIREMEN'S INSURANCE Company of Washington and Georgetown. 303 Seventh street northwest, Washington. . C. ‘The stockholders of ihe Firemen's y of Washington and 1 meet at the office on Y. January 7, 1935. for the purpose ing thirteen directors for the en- ear. Polls open from 11 a.m. ERT_W. HOWARD. AUL_FULL OR P. LOAD to or from New York. Richmond. Boston. Pittsburgh and all way points: special rates. NATIONAL DELIVERY ASSN. INC. 1317 . Y. ave. Natl. 1460. Local moving also. D. 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Yesterday's article dealt with national obligation based on the city’s large nationgl tax pay- ments and the fact that great State bounties are mot shared by the District, Obligation of District Taxpayers for Capital Upbuilding. The obligation upon the Capital community to contribute to the main- tenance and upbuilding of the Na- tion’s city is adequately met. It is adequately taxed in both local and national taxes and in view of 1s peculiar disabilities, it is heavily taxed. (a) In national taxes. See facts and figures already set forth. (b) In municipal taxes. In comparing Washington's city tax burden with those of other cities the following considerations must be taken into account to reach equi- table conclusions: (1) In measuring the Capital's municipal taxes compared with the taxes of other American cities in- equity use as the measuring yard- stick comparison of actual tax levies when cities of Washington's approxi- mate population and conditions are concerned, and per capitas of such levies when the comparison is with cities much larger or smaller than Washington. (2) In equity consider the higher standard and greater thor- oughness of District assessments. (3) In equity the proportion of tax rates and tax levies representing interest and debt payments should, to prevent misleading confusion, be eliminated from all city tax rates and tax levies in making comparisons. (4) In equity States taxes should be eliminated from city tax comparisons when the taxes of other cities are compared with those | of Washington. 1. Statisticians are coming to agree that attempts to measure comparative | tax burdens by combining tax rates | with the reported relations of assessed to true value bring results that are misleading and worthless. (References: Evening Star article on eval- uated tax rates, December 24. Book of statistical tabulations, prepared by Citizens’ Joint Com- mittee on Fiscal Relations, 1932. Remarks of L. A. Carruthers at Oldest Inhabitants dinner, printed in Star of December 11. Argument of Edward F. Col- laday before Senate Subcommitt- tee on District Appropriations, first session, Seventy-second Con- gress, 1932. Argument of Theodore W. Noyes before Congressional Joint Com- mittee of 1915, Senate Document 247, first session, Sixty-fourth Congress; before House District Committee, December 12-15, 1919; before Senate Subcommittee on District Appropriations, consider- ing District appropriations bill for fiscal year 1921, April 5, 1920.) ‘Where cities are close together in population and surrounding condi- tions, direct comparison of tax levies gives informing results; and per capita tax levy comparisons give reasonably reliable results when the: cities to be ! compared differ greatly in population. The High Standard and Greater Thor- oughness of District Assessments. 2. The second of these considera- tions concerns the high standard and greater thoroughness of assessments in the District of Columbia which, as emphasized by the Census Bureau's report of 1922, gives the District a higher actual ratio of assessed to full value than any of the States of the United States. One reason why this is true springs frem the commonly acknowledged and recognized fact that whereas in many of the States and cities the assessors are political office holders, usually elected, and are, therefore, responsive to political pres- sure from their constituents, a pres- sure which tends to bring down the assessments, the District assessor is an official appointed by the Commission- ers and removable only for cause, the Commissioners being the representa- tives of the President and responsible only to him and to Congress. All of the pressure exerted upon him by .those to whom he is responsible is to make the assessments reach a level that is as near the 100 per cent required by law as it is hu- manly possible to bring it. Whereas, in many cities other than Washington and States other than the District, the taxable area is divided into a number of assessment areas presided over by as many different assessors, who follow their own theories and the dictates of individual cofiscience regarding the rates at which they shall assess property for taxation, ‘Washington is assessed by one assessor and by assistants responsible to him alone and who follow out the prin- ciples that he lays down for their own guidance. Regardless of the theories as to why | Washington is highly and fully as- sessed, the facts speak for themselves. ‘Washington, with an excessive pro- portion of its taxable real estate placed on the “free list” by reason of occupation of such tax-exempt prop- erty by the Federal Government, or by the embassies and legations of the - | nations of the world, or by the na- tional churches or national headquar- ters of certain organizations, has a higher real estate assessment (statis- ticians report) than all of larger, com- mercial cities like St. Louis, or Balti- more, or San Francisco, or Milwaukee, Who in the world would admit that if St. Louis, or Baltimore, or San Francisco, were assessed with the thoroughness with which Washing- ton is assessed, these larger, industrial cities, with their valuable real estate, factories and commercial plants, would not exceed in assessed value of real estate the fraction of real estate that is taxed in Washington—a city of homes, the vast majority of which are the modest homes of small-sal- aried workers? Personal Integrity and Efficiency of Our Tax Assessor. % There is another consideration in connection with Washington's assess- ment that relates to the personal character and reputation of the Dis- trict tax assessor, Mr. Richards, a public employe in whom the commit- tees of Congress for many years have reposed faith and trust because of his proven ability and efficiency in the execution of his official duties. Mr. Richards has on numerous occasions presented to Congress data to show that as a practical proposition, real estate in Washington during the days of booming property values was taxed at about 90 per cent of the true value determined by sales prices. It is to W. NOYES. be remembered, however, that this is an absolute ratio. Washington suffers in comparison with the assessment ratios of other cities when this abso- lute figure is, in such comparisons, used in a relative sense; that is, when Washington's ratio of 90 per cent is placed alongside a reported 100 per cent ratio given by some overenthusi- astic assessor in another city. Of course, it is impossible to achieve an actual 100 per cent assessment, with- out resort to legerdemain or other mystic art that would allow the assessor to know what the actual “value” of the taxable property hap- pens to be. Ninety per cent, more- over, was in the days of the boom, when the value of real estate was high. Since the depression, the value of property has shrunk, with- out correspondingly large decreases in the assessment figures, and Mr. Richards now holds that because of this shrinkage in realty values, assessments more nearly represent 100 than 90 per cent. It is doubtful— and every comparison that can be made will bear this out—that any city in the country assesses with such thoroughness and with such close ap- proximation to true value as Wash- ington. The Elimination of Debt and Interest Payments When City Taxes Are Compared. 3. In comparison of city tax bur- dens between all cities the payments representing interest on indebtedness or to sinking fund should be elim- inated, in order to reduce the com- parison to the expenditures for cur- rent maintenance and normal im- provements. ‘The fact that the citizens of one city decide to burden themselves with debt in order to undertake public service enterprises expected to yield them a return in the future, or to launch a program of public improve- ments, or because their city officials and politicians have persuaded them that it is right to borrow money, while another city decides to live on its in- come from year to year, should not be a factor in comparing their tax burdens, if the object of such com- parison is to attempt to decide what | constitutes an equitable tax burden. The comparisons should be limited to the money that the citizens must raise and spend for annual mainte- nance and normal improvements, and the matter of indebtedness should be left out of such comparisons. Particularly in the case of compari- sons between Washington and other cities it is illogical and unfair to in- clude debt payments in comparisons of tax burdens. For during the World ‘War and immediately thereafter, very many American cities indulged in a financial jag, borrowing easily and heavily from our wealthy avoidance of income taxes and sur- taxes. Part of this borrowed money went into useful permanent improve- ment by which the cities benefited: another part was wasted in extrava. gance or graft. Congressmen, whose home cities thus heavily and, in many instances, unwisely borrowed, refused as Washington’s legislature to let it borrow at all. It results that the taxpayers of these cities, having enjoyed the benefit of these loans, are now compelled to tax themselves to pay interest and sink- ing fund on the loans, and these items increase the amount of their property tax levy and of their tax rates, which in a way set the pace for Washington. | But why should Washington taxpayers who have enjoyed the benefit of mo such loans, up to the emergency loans of the current fiscal year, be required to pay on a basis which co-ordinates them in per capita and total pay- ments and in tax rate with cities which are compelled to raise millions | in taxes to pay interest? Washington, which has enjoyed the berefit of no such loans should not be required in order to put itself on a superficial taxpaying equality with other cities to tax itself in the amounts represented by these interest pay- ments, and they should be deducted from the property tax levies of these other cities and from the correspond- ing tax rates in a comparison with Washington. Tomorrow’s article will discuss other equitable considerations in weighing the local tar burden, such as elimination of State tazes in city taxr comparisons, since the District enjoys no State benefits. HULL IS OPTIMISTIC FOR FOREIGN TRADE Predicts Real Progress in 1935 Toward Restoring Mar- kets Abroad. By the Associated Press. Real progress in 1935 toward re- storing American foreign trade was | predicted by Secretary Hull in a New Year statement. “We are entering the New Year,” Hull said, “with increased determi- nation and renewed energy to con- clude successfully the unfinished problems and begin with & clean slate of new undertakings. “On trade treaties, we have made considerable progress. The policy of negotiating reciprocal trade treaties was undertaken immediately after Congress passed the legislation last June. Since then we have begun ne- gotiations on 13 treaties, some of which will be signed early in the new year. “The year has been well spent in doing the necessary spade work to promote our own trade recovery as a component part of the restoration of world trade. “The battle has been difficult, but there are indications that other countries now see eye to eye with us on broad principles and we expect i«;z;fih‘\en real accomplishment in —_— CHAIN STORE TAX BEGINS Colorado Governor Promulgates Levy Approved at Polls. DENVER, January 1 (#).—By offi- cial proclamation Gov. Ed Johnson has made effective the chain store tax approved by the voters in November. The chain. store tax requires a license for operation of any retail or wholesale establishment in the State. A single store must pay an annual fee of $2. The payment ranges up- ward as the number of stores in & hain or group increases to $300 for | URGEDBY SENKTOR Pope of Idaho Would De- velop Industry as Relief Measure. By the Associated Press. A plan to develop gold, tin, chro- mium and other metal mines as relief projects will be proposed to Congress by Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho. “There are deposits of hundreds of millions of dollars in all parts of the United States which can be mined at approximately cost,” the Senator said. “If $10,000,000 is invested, about $10,000,000 will be recovered. There may be a slight margin of profit or a slight margin of loss, but the re- covered minerals will closely approxi- mate the investment required to mine them.” Pope said the mining would provide needed work. Private industry, he said, had never sought “and probably never will,” to develop these resources. Therefore, he sald, the Government would not be competing against industry. “All economists with whose work I am familiar have agreed that large additions to the gold reserves of any nation will inevitably bring about prosperity,” the Senator added. “The large additions which could be made to our gold reserves would in- crease the national wealth, stimulate industrial activity, and tend to strengthen gains in prices, employ- ment and consumption. There are billions of dollars which can be re- covered in this manner through large- scale operations.” ‘The program would be administered under the Bureau of Mines. EARTH HELD SOLE ABODE OF HUMANS; MARS IS DOUBTFUL (Continued From First Page.) as now exists in it. This shackled gas is known as “fossil oxygen.” “Given time enough” Dr. Russell said, “this inexorable process of rock decay might exhaust the remaining cxygen in our atmosphere and put an end to all that breathes. But this danger is indefinitely remote. It is a billlon years away anyhow, since life has lasted that long already and only half the oxygen has been ex- hausted. We can look at Mars, how- ever, and see there what looks very like the end of this process. The red- dish color of the planet, unique among the heavenly bodies, is almost inevita- ble in a surface stained with iron compounds. It has been suggested that in the thin atmosphere of Mars the oxidation process might be ac- celerated. “It would be premature, however, to conclude that Mars must be a life- less planet. The depletion of oxygen would be very slow and plant life | could probably adjust itself, as it has | investors | done on earth in response to far more | tuberculin hypersensitiveness was pre- in tax-exempt municipal securities in | rapid climatic changes. Whether animal life, if ever present, could have survived, is speculation. A race of no more intelligence and engineering skill than our own could presumably meet the situation and survive in di- minished numbers breathing electro- Iytic oxygen—provided that it paid any attention to changes so slow as to be imperceptible in a thousand gen- erations.” Venus, Dr. Russell pointed out. is still a great puzzle to astronomers, but the evidence is accumulating that it has no organic life and is un- suited for its development. Super- ficially, it might seem an almost ideal dwelling place. It is of about the same size, mass and density of the earth, and is nearer the sun, so that its average temperature would be con- siderably greater. Unfortunately, its surface is forever hidden by a thick Husbandry Head NEW CHIEF SELECTED FOR AGRICULTURE UNIT. . DR. HUGH C. McPHEE, ‘Who has been appointed director of the Division of Animal Husbandry, Agriculture Depart- ment, succeeding Dr. E. W. Sheets, who has been transferred to a Florida field station. Dr. McPhee, who is 38 and lives at 3407 Otis street, Mount Rainier, Md. has been working at the department since 1923. a density as great as it would be if liquified, or even solidified, by cooling. Some believe that the enormous pres- sure would actually solidify the per- mentent gases.” Jupiter's Atmosphere, The atmosphere of the nearest of the great planets, Jupiter, Dr. Russell believes to be composed, at least in its upper layers, of enormous quantities of frozen crystals of ammonia. This analysis of the atmospheres of the great planets, he said, reveals for the first time what so long has puzzled astronomers—the fact that both Uranus and Neptune appear green when seen through the telescope. This is about the effect to be pre- dicted from their predominantly methane atmospheres. Both these | planets are so cold that the ammonia must have been frozen out of their atmospheres, leaving them clear to much greater depths. The guilt of the rat flea in causing | endemic typhus fever in man finally { has been proved by experiments -in the hygienic laboratory of the Public Health Service, Dr. R. E. Dyer, assist- ant director, reported today. It has | been established, he said, not only | that this disease will be transmitted | from rats to men by these fleas, but | that the seasonal incidence of the in- sects is identical with the various oute breaks. } He told of experiments in Washing- the | ton which demonstrated tha potency of the virus in the les of | the fleas increases at least a million times in the course of 60 days after |lhty have been infected. It was pos- | sible, after two months, to transmit | the disease to a guinea pig with a solution containing one-millionth of | one fiea. A report on the mechanism of ! sented today by Dr. John H. Hanks of George Washington University. | Experiments at the Medical School | there, he said, have demonstrated that | the well known phenomenon of tuber- | culin hypersensitiveness is to be sought iin chemical fractions of bacteria | which, thus far, it has been impos- sible to isolate. A proposal for the establishment of a national instiution for meteoric re- search was made before the associa- tion today by Dr. H. H. Nininger of Denver. He urged organization of a Nation-wide survey with the ultimate object of making quantitative esti- | mates of the occurence of meteorites | in the soil and subsoil, the frequency | of falls, the quantity of meteoric ma- terial in Arctic -snow and ice and | numerous other matters shedding {light on the nature and behavior of these arrivals from space. cloud blanket through which tele- | scopes cannot penetrate. to have an enormous amount of car- ben dioxide in its atmosphere, No Water on Venus. ‘The queer thing about Venus is that it apparently has no water. Just a few years ago most speculations concerning the earth’s sister planet assumed that its surface might be all ocean, and that at least it must have oceans comparable in size to those of earth. Hence, it was sometimes said, the inhabitants of Venus must be fishes. But the spectroscope has failed to reveal any perceptible amount of water vapor, such as is certainly pres- ent on Mars, as indicated by the white polar caps that form during the plan- et's Winter. One suggestion quoted by Dr. Russell was that all the water might have been absorbed by rocks. Another factor operating against the possibility of life 5 that of possible intense heat—at least 100 degrees centigrade—due to the planet's prox- imity to the sun and the fact that its heavy cloud blanket prevents radi- ation from escaping. About once a century, Dr. Russell said, there may be witnessed from the earth a strange and beautiful phenomenon in respect to Venus. It may appear through the telescope as a crescent moon, or even as a thin gold ring—a sort of celestial wed- ding ring. It is only seen when the planet is within about a degree of the sun and will not occur again until nearly the end of the present cen- tury. Its importance is that it proves beyond doubt that Venus has some sort of an atmosphere, since it is due to the planet’s twilight. ‘The other planets, with the excep- tion of distant and little-known Pluto, were pictured by Dr. Russell as cores of rock and metal, like the earth and Venus, surrounded by vast shells of ice—frozen oceans thousands of miles deep—above which are atmospheres of a sort, made up chiefly of ammonia and methane. “Throughout most of these atmos- pheres,” he said, “the pressure must be so great that the gas is reduced to Old friends are the best friends. Ask your neighbors who have been using Colonial Anthracite for years. It appears' J. EDGAR HOOVER | Head Crime Squadron Hopes for Success in New Year. of Justice By the Associated Press. the Justice Department’s crime squad- expressed a hope for the new year. The birthday was his fortieth and this is what he said: “I am sure it is the hope of the Division of Investigation that 1935 will see the movement to curb crime meet with increasing success, based as it must be, og the collaboration of all law-enforcement agencies, backed by the sustaining force of public opin- ion.” The man who directed the division's drive to arrest Bruno Richard Haupt- mann and bring down John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd still lives in the house where he was born 40 years ago. It's a modest home in the south- east section. Unmarried, Hoover shares it with his mother. DANIELS’ OUSTER ASKED Removal of Ambassador to Mex- ico Demanded by Lawmaker. BOSTON, January 1 (#).—Removal of Josephus Daniels as Ambassador to Mexico was demanded in a bill, filed yesterday by Representative Thomes Dorgan of Boston, for “not seeing to it that religious freedom is protected” in that country. The measure called on the House of Representatives to memorialize Congress to effect Daniels’ removal. MARKS BIRTHDAY Department John Edgar Hoover, commander of rons, celebrated a birthday today and IPRESIDENT T0 GET SUPER. C. C. PLAN New Transportation Agency Would Have Control on Land, Sea, Air. By the Associated Press. A plan for a new Interstate Com- merce Commission, conceived as a super-agency of transportation, with authority over rates and similar mat- ters on land, sea and air, probably will be recommended to President Roosevelt. Under the plan, said by an author- itative source to have won much sup- port in Secretary Roper's Committee on Transportation, the 1. C. C. would be greatly enlarged in scope. Its mem- bership would be representatives of the various flelds of transportation over which it would have sway. ‘- Rallroads, airlines and the mer- chant marine would definitely come under the re-created commission, with the possibility that bus and truck transportation and pipe lines would also be under the same board’s sway. At present, however, rate fixing for busses, trucks and pipe lines is not a Federal function. The Roper committee, directed to work out a general policy on trans- portation for the administration, may complete its report within two weeks. An authoritative source said it may also recommend a flat subsidy for ocean shipping lines instead of the present system of aiding them with mail contracts. The new I. C. C. might be directed to work out the problem of the size of these subsidies and the rules under which they would be granted. COAL COSTLY IN NOME Price in Alaska Ranges From $22.50 to $35 a Ton. NOME, Alaska, January 1 ().— This should bring a warm glow to householders who are stoking their furnaces in the States. Coal costs Nome householders from $22.50 a ton for the British Columbia variety to $35 a ton for Pennsylvania anthracite. Freight charges to this Far North outpost are the reason. And you can't go owt and get your own wood in this treeless region. { N.R. A OUTLINES YEAR'S PROGRAM Major Gains Cited by Recov- ery Agency in Recount- ing Problems. By the Associated Press. 8 into the new year, the N. R. A. last night recounted some of its recent troubles and told what it was doing about them. Overlapping codes, multiple assess- ments, delays in enforcement and compliance procedure, the problem of closer Government contact with code authorities and proper safeguards for code administration funds—these the recovery agency cited as its principal worries. Steps have been taken to remedy these difficulties, the N. R. A’s year- end review said, and additional reme- dial measures will be worked out soon. Accomplishments Cited. It also cited four “definite accom- plishments” of N. R. A. since its crea- tion a year ago last June: 1. Elimination of child labor and curtailment of industrial homework. 2. Establishment of maximum hours and minimum wages. 3. Increased employment and in- creased purchasing power. 4. Curtailment of wage cutting in price competition. A table stated employment in Octo- | ber this year stood at 75.1 per cent of the 1929 level, compared with 76.1 in | October last year and 56.2 per cent | in March, 1933, Johnson’s Resignation. Codification of industry was nearly completed during the year. On Janu- ary 1, 1934, only 181 industries were under codes. Now there are 541, representing about 98 per cent of American industry. The review devoted only one sen- tence to the resignation of Hugh S | Johnson as N. R. A. administrator: “On September 24 Gen. 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