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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1935 District Adequately Taxed, 8 UNDER ARRESY Municipally and Nationally, INGAVBLING WAR i/ For Capital’s Upbuilding 3 Women Among Those Held| Reliable Cor;l_[;arisoh'g on Equitable Basis of Washington’s Tax Burden With Those of Other Cities. THEODORE ‘W. NOYES. in Raids — County Pushes Campaign. The War against gambling swept on today,, with eight persons under arrest and the Prince Georges County commissioners officially on record for an_intensive clean-up. The eight, five men and three women, were taken in :custody in three raids yesterday by the vice squad. Two of the raids were against alleged numbers game establishments and the third against an alleged hand- book place, in which Joseph Hooker Nealey, 68, better known as the “Sen- ator,” was arrested. ‘The Prince Georges County com- missioners’ action against gambling, | informally agreed upon December 23| at a meeting in the home of Com- missioner Joseph H. Blandford at Brandywine, Md., was set down in the minutes today in the following lan- guage: i ;0 “That the police department, be or- dered to exercise especial vigilance to clase and keep closed all: gambling places in Prince Georges County.” Nealey Taken in Raid. Nealey, former aide of the notorious Jack O'Hearne, was arrested with two other men in a raid in the 1400 block L street. Police said his apartment was being used as the headquarters of “street-corner bookies.” | | Those with Nealey identified them- , selves as Hugh R. Moore, 30, of a dowatown hotel, and Robert Contino, 37. of the 1400 block I street. Raiding the store of Jack Schwartz, 25, grocer, of the 1800 block of Sev- enth street, police charged him with operating a lottery aiter seizure of a numbers game book. Two “customers” Were Wwaiting to place bets at the time of the raid police said. Three Women Held. Charles E. Pinkney, 34, of the 1800 block of Corcoran street, was arrested with three women when the vice squad raided a cigar store in the 1500 block of U street, seizing numbers slips and racing handbook slips. Pinkney, police said. told them he was an agent of Jimmy La Fontaine and phoned La Fontaine's attorney to seek release of himself and the three girls on bond after their arrest. The girls are: Mary Gibbs, 25, 2000 block of E street: Eva J. Henderson, 22. 2000 block of L street, and Eva F. Cotton, 26, 800 block of Westminster street. RN S — New Warship Completed. Germany's second “pocket battle- ship,” the Admiral Scheer, has just been_taken into_commission. SPECIAL NOTICES. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of the Norfolk and Washington . C.. Steamboat Company will be held at the general offices of the company. 1120 Seventh street southwest. Washington. D C.. Thursday, February 14. 1935 at 17 o'clock noon. for the election of directors for the ensuing yvear and for any other come beiore the s will be closed to February 14 inclus! LL S. SMITH, etary OFFICE OF THE FIREMEN'S, INSURANCE Company of Washington and’ Georgetown. :i03 Seventh street nortawest. Washington. C. The stockholders of the Firemen's Insurance Company of Washington and Georgerown will meet MONDAY. January 7. & of electing thirteen ‘dir suing year. Poll noon. ER’ y 4. 1955 ive.” ODE the purpose ors for the en- s open from 11 a.m. to 12 T W. HOWARD. Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of A S. Pratt & Sons. Inc.. Wiy be held at the offices of the company, 819 15th st. n.w. Washington, D. C.. at 11 o'clock a.m.. on Tuesday_January 8. 1035. __G. C. TRUE. Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE- holders of the Home Building Association for the election of officers and direciors and such other business as may properly come before the meeting will be held Tuesday. January 8. 1 at pm 2t the office of the association. S00G Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Books now open for subscribtion to shares of the This is the seventh and con- cluding article of a series which presents, with a few omissions and substantial additions, the address of Theodore W. Noyes on “Fiscal Equity for Washing- ton” at the recent Oldest In- habitants’ dinner. In the statistics booklet of the Citi- zens’ Joint Committee on District Fis- cal Relations, based on the census figures of 1930, the yardstick for meas- uring comparative tax burdens, de- scribed in article 6 as measuring with greater accuracy than any other, is applied with the modification$ and limitations suggested to certain Amer- ican cities approximating Washington in size and conditions of environment. [See tables 8 to 13, inclusive, statis- tics booklet, Citizens’ Joint Committee for District National Representation. See Star broadside February, 1932, series of articles commenting on the figures of this booklet and comparing them with the figures of the House (Mapes) special committee and the Bureau of Efficiency reports. See also argument of E. F. Colladay before the Senate Appropriations Committee (subcommittee on District bill), May 19, 1932.] Comparison With 1932 Figures. Let us measure, using the same yardstick, the comparative tax bur- dens of the same cities of a date closer to the present day, utilizing the fig- ures of 1932, the latest fully available. If we compare cities of approxi- mately the same population and con- ditions of environment, we do not need to bother with “evaluated tax rates” or per capita comparisons. The tax bur- dens, represented by the tax levies and the money actually collected from the taxpayers, can be compared directly with conclusive ‘results. (See Table XIII of Citizens' Joint Committee booklet, and Table A on this page.) The cities nearest in population to Washington (492,000) are Minneapolis (481,700) and New Orleans (474,500). These are the census estimates of pop- 1932, In realty assessment, Washington, $1.226,691,948; Minneapolis, $275,851,- 095; New Orleans, $363,324,313. Though the cities are of approxi- mately the same size, Washington's realty assessment is nearly twice as apolis and New Orleans combined. standard and greater thoroughness of Washington's assessment. In total property assessment (real and personal), Washington, $1,845, 089.606; Minneapolis, _$486,283,03: New Orleans, $488,215.767. Real Estate Tax Levy. In real estate tax levy, Washington, $20,853,763; Minneapolis, $20,059,25 New Orleans, $14,736,037. The close- ness of the tax-levy figures (tax rate and assessment combined), in view of the great difference in assessment figures, shows that the tax rate in both Minneapolis and New Orleans is much greater than that of Washington. ° In total property tax levy (real and personal), Washington, $27,468,761; Minneapolis, $24,259,619; New Orleans, $19,801,490. Per capita total property tax levy, Washington, $55. Minne- apolis, $50.36; New Orleans, $41.73. Per capita total tax levy less per capita interest payments, Washington, $55.83; Minneapolis, $43.99; New Or- leans, $32,29. These figures show the comparative tax burdens if interest ulation of the middle of the fiscal year great as the assessments of Minne- | These figures demonstrate the higher | and sinking fund expenditures are de- | the. 21 cities had a hu‘m assess- meiit, and they were all much larger cities—namely, Philacelphia, Detroit, Boston and Pittsburgh. ‘ When Senator Thomas asked the asséssor to state his conclusions as to the taxes being paid by citizens of the Disgrict, Mr. Richards replied that they are “paying a fair amount on their real estate, at $1.50.” Asked again by the Senator if the tabula- tions indicated any favoritism to the District, the assessor replied: “No. Fair Treatment.” (See Star broadside, February, 1932, “D. C. Not Under- taxed.”) Extensive Comparisons in the Past. Exténsive comparisons were made in 1931 by the Citizens’ Joint Committee on* Fiscal Relations using the census figures for 1930, the latest then avail- able. The nature of some of these comparisons (using 1932 figures), is indicated in the discussion above, illus- trated with Tables A and B. The 1932 figures produce results similar to those i | i demonstrating that Washington today is not undertaxed. One of the most interesting com- patisons made by the Citizens' Joint Committee (using 1929 figures, the latest then available for all the cities), included the 64 cities of the United States above 125,000 in population. That table compared population, total !and per capita realty assessments, | total property assessments and per | capitas, total and per capita real | estate levy, total and per capita tax | levy, total and per capita interest pay- ments, total and per capita State | taxes, total tax levy per capita less | State tax, less interest payments, and less these two items combined. | A reproduction of this table on a | a smaller scale is shown in Table C. | Instead of 64 cities, it includes the 14 cities nearest Washington in popu- | lation. seven larger. seven smaller. | And Tnstead of making all the com- | parisons, it reduces them to compari- sons of real estate levy per capita, | total tax levy per capita, total tax " levy per capita less interest, less State | | taxes and less these two items com- ! | bined. | In real estate tax levy per capita, | there are 6 of the 14 cities with less |realty tax burdens per capita than | Washington—St. Louis, Baltimore, New | | Orleans, Cincinnati, Kansas City and | | Indianapolis, (See Table C, second | | column.) In total tax levy per capita there | are also 6 cities with total tax bur- | dens less than Washington—St. Louis, Baltimore, San Francisco, New Orleans, | Cincinnati and Kansas City., (See Table C, third column.) When interest payments are de- ducted from total tax levy per capita. |we find 10 of the 14 cities with a| smaller tax levy per capita than Wash- { ington—Cleveland, St. Louis. Balti- | |more, San . Francisco. Milwaukee. | Minneapolis, New Orleans, Cincin- tnati, Kansas City and Indianapolis. | (Table C, fourth column.) | When State taxes are deducted from | | total tax levy per capita,,we find 8 of | | the 14 cities with a smailer total tax |levy per capita than Washington— | St. Louis, Baltimore, San Francisco, | Minneapolis, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Indianapolis. (Table | C, fifth column.) | When State taxes and interest pay- ments are deducted from the total tax levy per capita, we find 10 of the t | | | | i Louis, Balti- | more, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Min- neapolis, Cincinnati, Kansas City. Seattle and Indianapolis. (Table C, sixth and last column.) that Wwere shown with 1930 figures, |, ®3% A3 Washington’s High Tax Burden Shown in Total and Per Capita Confiparisons (1932 census figures.) Popylation estimated as of middle of fiscal year 193: (Table B) Total and per capita Realty Assessment, total and per capita Property Assessment, total and per capita Realty Tax Levy, total and per capita Total Tax Levy, total and per capita Interest Payments, per capita State Tax Levy and per capita Total Tax Levy less per capita Interest Payments and per capita State Tax Levy for Specified Cities, 1932. realty as- property as- Realty assessment Total sessment 7 St. Louis, Mo. . £ Baltimore, Md. 14 Washington, D. C 15 Minneapolis, Minn. 16 New Orleans, La. 21 Indianapolis, Ind. 44 Richmond, Va..... Comparison with, Washing- ton of the number of cities with per capita more, less or same: +More . —Less . Same . *Washington includes 2.215.140 per ce! —$1,021,606,508 — 1,158,906,697 1,226,691,948 275,891,095 363,324,313 393,445,490 243,034.223 249328 765.70 — — 1,050.87 — ~ +0 —6 0 nt of gross earnings in lieu of tax, —$1,231,89 ‘-—‘LON‘M!,MT —$1,717.67 +$27,685,536 —$33.3 — 1,412.44 — 1,598,034 444 — 1.048.73 1,845,089 506 57274 — 486,283,035 7488,215,767 571,236,430 — 1,310.16 — .275,068,987 Per capita property assessment Per capita realty tax Real estate tax levy levy Total tax levy Per capita total tex interest Day- ments caplta Interest Total | per payments s per capita Per capita_total tax Per capita total tax 3.750,18 42.39 — 1,008.51 — 1,02891 20,852.763 11,177,786 29.86 8 837,174,811 —$44.83 + 31,949 270 — 38.94 -+ 36,546,013 20,059,251 — 4).64 -- 24,259,619 — 50.36 — 14,736,037 — 31.06 — 19,801,490 — 41.73 +$3,121,274 + 8,098,824 3,066,804 4,478,249 1,665,531 44.54 27,468,761* — 55.83 16,229,202 — 43.35 1,525.74 — 1,482.85 1,504 — 30.79 — o 7,040,584 — 3795 1,706,905 +$3.76 —$41.0° + .87 — 34.67 637 9.44 445 9.20 +$2.06 —$42.77 + 419 — 40.35 ses S58% 5.56 — 44.80 6.96 — 34.77 2.20 — 41.06 - 449 — 33.46 5583 — 4399 — 3229 — 3890 28.75 —0 0 (See Table IX, Citizens’ Joint Committee’s Book of Tables.) (1932 census ,iyurc:.) (table . column 2 Population CITY 2 . 492,000 . 481,700 . 474,500 1 Washingten Minneapolis « New Orleans +Washinston includes a percentage of gross earnings of public utilities (% | Population and Total Tax Levies of Three Cities Compared (Table A) column (land only) assessment e IX. “table ¥ 5) Total property as- acres column Area o sessment 2 E 39,680 $1.226.691,948 $1,845,089,606 35,354 275,891,095 486,283,035 125,600 363.324.313 488,215,767 w tax able IX, col- ) av- Pix estate (table Total interest 2 E] H £3 8 3,066,804 4,478,249 7 *$27,468,761 24,259,619 18,801,490 $20,853,763 20,059,251 14.736,037 215,140) in lieu of tax on intangible personal property. (See Table XIII, Citizens’ Joint Committee’s Book of Tables.) yments. t Total tax levy less column 7-column 8. table X, column ). © inte $30,624.887 23215177 14,535,626 $34,880.230 26,327.090 18,150,345 $27,468,761 21192815 15,323,241 Comparison With 14 Cities (Tab) (1929 census figures.) levy le: Per capita Per capita per capi! realty tax levy. +33.51 7.31 *64.85 “64.05 *43.84 “48.09 *65.80 40.23 *45.68 33.01 738.86 *60.30 733.56 “52.70 138.12 6 City. St. Louis. Mo. . Baltimore, Md. Boston, Mass. Pittsburgh, Pa. San Francisco, Calif. Milwaukee, Wis. . Buffalo, N. Y. . Washington, D. C. Minneapolis, Minn. New Orleans, La. Cincinnati, Ohio Newark, N. J. . Kansas City, Mo. Seattle, Wash. Indianapolis, Ind. . Less than Washington *Greater thal (This table is reproduced in part Committee’s Book of Tabvles, 1932.) le C) Per capita total tax Per capita total tax e LT ta levy less capii per capita terest and State tax. Btate tax 6 737.25 Per capita total tax levy, 742 4 43.05 *7233 *67.27 51.44 *58.25 *66.16 53.81 *54.86 746.23 53.51 *77.34 748.20 *65.43 *54.69 6 interest payments 739.63 i34.18 *62.40 “58.24 744.43 53.73 *58.22 53.81 47.55 +38.50 740.60 *€5.72 +41.24 *54.66 50.76 10 138.26 *69.50 *67.27 i51.44 *56.13 *65.73 53.81 50.13 +38.29 752.40 29.39 5957 *58.24 144.43 ¥51.61 *57.79 53.81 142.82 +30.56 739.49 *57.02 38.89 146.02 T 145.21 10 ss than Washington. n Washington. from Table VIII of the Citizens' Joint 4 onal committees of 1915 and of 19 > The national payment of only 17 per cent of the total District appropriation is distinctly and grossly inadequate. It disregards the national obligation to pay (1) in lieu of taxation of its $550,- 000,000 of realty in the District; (2) in view of its damage to the District by holding tax-exempt a vast and increas. ing area of the District, while the ty’s maintenance and development expense steadily increases; (3) in view of its abselute and exclusive legislative and financial control of the city, since obligation follows power; (4) in view of the national responsibility to pre- vent the Nation’s city from becoming a national shame, and to make it and continue it an object of national pride; (5) in view of the many large com- pulsory payments exacted from local taxes, solely because Washington is the Capital, in excess of what would be paid if Washington were the ordinary commercial, self-sustaining commu- RODSEVELT SCANS CARRER REPORT 3Transportation Commission Urged for Railroads, Planes and Ships. | By the Associated Press. A bulky report which called for a transportation commission to oversee the operations of air, land and water carriers! is in the hands of President | Roosevelt for study. HOUSNGVOLUNE HTS SO0 1300,000 Jobs Created by i Campaign Since August, F. H. A. Reports. | The Federal Housing Administration | today estimated property owners have ! spent or contracted to spend more than $200,000,000 for modernization | | and repair to buildings since August 1. This average expenditure of about $15,000,000 a week has furnished em- | ployment to more than 300,000 men | at a relatively insignificant expense | to the Federal Government, it was| stated. i The figures denoted a sharp up-| turn in property modernization work | and were attributed directly to the | better-housing campaigns which F.H A. has sponsored. The $200,000,000 estimate includes reports as of December 31 frcm 3997 financial institutions which have made 72,658 loans totaling $30,450,583. Al- together, 11,036 financial institutions | have qualified to make modernization lcans, while 779 institutions with 1,254 | branch offices have qualified to make mortgage loans since the new con- struction program was started Novem- ber 1. These data are supplemented by re- ports from 3,798 active community organizations, showing that property owners everywhere largely have been financing the repairs and improve- ments themselves, rather than borrow- ing. | "F. H. A stated the modernization | movement has not reached its peak. I sion proposal ?Lr-;xpScrles. Payments S1 per month per | ducted as confusing and misleading in | Comparisons Extended. nity, as in financing national parks in har ___JAMES M. WOODWARD. Secretary. _ TWILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts 'contracted by any one other than myself.” J. 1. MOORE, 1118 6th st. s.%. * SPECIAL RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL and part loads to all points within 1.000 miles; padded vans: guaranteed service; local ‘moving also. Phone National 1460. NAT. DEL. ASSOC.. INC.. 1317 N. Y. ave. DAILY TRIPS MOVING LOADS AND part loads o and from Balto' Phila.and ew York. Frequent trips (o other East- < Dependable Service _Since 4 THE DAVIDSON TRANSFER & BTORAGE CO.. Decatur 2500. WEEKLY TRIPS TO AND FROM BALTI- more; also trips within 24 hours’ notice to any point in_United “Htates_ SMITH'S TRANSFER & STORAGE CO., North € lev; .000.00, and is_fully | paid up and that there are no debts of sald Company except current_expenses. AMES J. BECKER. President, EDGAR M." MAYNE. H. GLENN WILLIAM J. FLATHER, ALLEN C. CLARK. Trustees. 1. EDWARD S. McKNEW. Treasurer of the’ Columbia Title Insurance Company of the District of umbia. do solemnly swear that the facts containied in the fore- Roing_certificate are true to the best of my knowledge and belief EDWARD 5. MKNEW reasurer. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd day of January. 1935, WILLIAM W. ENGLAND. Notary Public. WASHINGTON. D. C.. JANUARY 1. 1| A We. the president and the majority of the trustees of the Real Estate Title Insurance Company of the District of Columbla, do hereby certify that the_capital stock of the said company is $200.000. and is fully paid up and that there are no debts In per capita total tax levy less per capita interest payments less State tax payments, Washington, $55.7 Minneapolis, $38.43; New Orleans, $25.33. Equitable Deductions in Comparisons of City Tax Burdens. In these articles it is contended that in equity interest payments and Scate cities. Without these Washington's tax burden (real estate y) is slightly greater than that of Minneapolis and 41.5 per cent greater than that of New Orleans and in total property tax levy is in per capita 10.9 Der cent greater than Minneapolis and 338 per cent greater than New Orleans. With interest deduction from total property tax levy Washington'’s per capita tax burden is 26.9 per cent more than that of Minneapolis and 72.9 per cent more than that of New Orleans. With both interest payments and State taxes deducted Washington's per capita tax burden is 45.3 per cent more more thar New Orleans. Let us extend the comparison (as in Table IX of the statistical bookiet, Table B as reproduced on this page) to a few other cities, including the cities nearest in population to Washington (Minneapolis and New Orleans), rep- ©f said company except current sxpenses. AMES J; BECKER, President. CORCORA! MORTON J. LEON TOBRINER. H. L RUST. WILLIAM C. MILLER. GEORGE W. BROWN. GEORGE_E. FLEMING. CHARLES €. GLOVEE, R lstées. . EDWARD S. McKNEW, Assistant Sec- retary of the Real Estate Title Insurance Company of the District of Columbia. do solemnly swear that the facts contained in the ‘foregoing certificate are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. EDWARD S. McKNEW. . Assistant Secretar: Bubscribed and sworn to before me 2nd day of January, 1935, WILLIAM W. ENGLAND. Notary Public. 5 this IN THE MATTER OF THE WASHINGTON AMERICAN LEAGUE BASE BALL CLUB. ‘We, the president and a majority of the board of trustees of the Washington American League Base Ball Club. hereby certify that the amount of capital stock fixed by the charter of said club is Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200.000), ‘which sum is_fully paid in. and th standing bonded and other indebtedness amount to about Eighty Thousand Dollars (850.000). CLARK C. GRIFFITH, President. E. ON. JR. District of Columbia, to wit: 1. CLARK C. GRIFFITH. president of the Washington American League Base Ball Club. do depose and upon oath say that the matters and things stated in the fore- going statement. signed my me and a ma- Jority of the board of trustees of the Wash- ington American League Base Ball Club, are truc o the best of my knowledge. in: rmation an elief. & LARK C, GRIFFITH. President. gpSubscribed and sworn to Before me this ay of January. AD. 1935. (Seal)) NEENAH LAUB. Notary Public. D. C. ELECTRICAL EEARS ATR wiring. Electric 3 , have shops all over e T .Xm: your Telnznh ne Di- 5 GOOD ROOF WORK —by practical roofers at moderate - Gost, Well siadly estimate; Call us upt KOONS Goupany “Nortn 4423, - CH AMBERS 5 of the largest undertakers in the world. Complete funerals as low as $75 5 hapels. twelve parlors, seventeen Ui, Deassee and smbulances. twenty-ave undertakers and assistants. < resentative cities of adjacent Mary- land and Virginia (Baltimore and Richmond) and St. Louis and Indian- apolis, progressive cities representing the Middle West. ‘Washington in per capita total tax levy exceeds them all. Washington, $55.83; St. Louis, $44.83; Baltimore, $44.54; Minneapolis, $50.36; New Or- leans, $41.73; Indianapolis, $43.35; Richmond, $37.95. If from the total tax levy per capita the per capita interest and State tax are deducted the resulting figures are: Washington, $55.83; St. Louis, $39.01; Baltimore, $30.48; Minneapolis, $38.43; New Orleans, $25.33; Indianapolis, $36.61; Richmond, $24.26. Assessor Richards’ Comparisons, Assessor Richards made a compari- son of tax burdens for the Senate Subcommittee on District Appropria- tions in the Spring of 1934 with 1933 figures he had obtained from 22 -ities (not census figures). The 21 citles used in that compari- son (with New York excluded) were: Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Bal- timore, Boston, Pittsburgh, San Fran- cisco, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Newark, Rochester, N. Y.; Louisville, Ky.; Portland, Oreg.; Denver, Colo. Providence, R. I; Richmond, Va. Nashville, Tenn.; Des Moines, Iowa. Reading, Pa., and Wilmington, Des. The result of Mr. Richards’ com- parison was to show that in total tax levy per capita 8 of the 21 cities had a smaller levy per capita than ‘Washington. In city tax levy per capita—with State and county taxes excluded, but including interest and sinking fund payments on debt—15 of the 21 cities had a smaller tax levy per capita than Washington, only 6 exceeding Washington. Washington’s exceptionally high as- sessment of real estate also was clearly shown in the data given the Senate subcommittee by Mr. Richards, in which it was shown that only 4 of comparison of maintenance expenses. | the District and our over-grand mu- If we extend the comparison to the | | The property rehabilitation phase of | the administration’s program will ex- | would replace the present Interstate | tend through 1935, and intensive cam- The Transportation Commission ANTFRISTSSE LTS KW EAL Coming Tussle in Congress Over N. R. A. Sharpened by Conflict. ‘ By the Associated Press. The coming congressional tussle | over N. R. A. and monopoly had been sharpened today by a conflict | of opinion within the administration itself. An examination of proposals ad- vanced by the Federal Trade Com- mission disclosed them to be at vari- ance with the ideas of Donald R. Richberg, ace presidential adviser. Congressional critics of N. R. A, whose principal charge has been that that agency promoted monopoly and harried the small business man, quickly seized upon the Trade Com- mission recommendations as an ad- ditional store of ammunition. To halt what it termed a “steady trend toward monopoly,” the com- mission asked that its own powers be broadened. Richberg holds that an extension of authority should go to N. R. A. or some body created | under it. | Richberg declined to comment to- day, but N. R. A. officials noted a second conflict in which one commis- runs counter to the | provisions of a number of the earlier | codes. | Senator Borah, Republican. of Idaho, who led a fight against what he contended were monopolistic tend- encies in N. R. A. iast Winter, ex- pressed the opinion that the com- mission proposals were “certainly in | | the right direction,” but added it was MRS. MGHORD, ILL SINGEAUGUST,DIES . Wife of Former i. C. C. Com- | missioner Was Native of Kentucky. Mrs. Nell Grundy McChogd, wife of | Charles Caldwell McChord, prominent Washington and Louisville attorney, who served as Interstate Commerce commissioner for 15 years, died last night at their residence, the May= flower Hotel. Mrs. McChord had been ill since August. A native of Springfi°ld. Ky.. Mrs. McChord was the daughter of Thomas S. Grundy, a State Senator. well known for his horses and shorthorn cattle. Her great uncle was Felix Grundy of Tennessee, cabinet officer and Supreme Court Justice. She was educated at Science Hill in Shelby- ville, Ky. On January 8, 1888, she married Mr. McChord, who was also born in Springfield. Mrs. McChord had lived in Washe | ington since her husband’s appoint- ment to the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1910. During the World War she organized a large unit of volunteer workers who made chil- dren’s clothes to be sent abroad. They were given the whole lower part of the Interstate Commerce Commis=- sion Building in which to work Besides her husband, she is sur- vived by a daughter, Mrs. Margaret McChord Boyle. and a granddaughter, Josephine Boyle. They returned from Paris where they had been living for some time when Mrs. McChord fell ill last Summer. She also leaves four brothers, Thomas S. John, Charles L. and W. G. Grundy, and a sister, Miss Lida Grundy, all living in Ken= tucky. Funeral services will be held tomor- row afternoon in Springfield, where the body will be taken by train at 6 o'clock this afternoon. McCORMACK ASSAILED Communists Accuse Head of Probe on Un-American Activity. The Communist party vesterday charged Chairman McCormack with a “high-handed and indefensible ac- tion” in refusing to admit a party spokesman to a hearing last month before the committee investigating un-American activities. “important to enforce the anti-mo- | tax payments should be deducted from | total taxes in comparisons of cost of | maintenance of Washington with other | deductions | than Minneapolis and 120 per cent | | 13 cities next larger than Washington | and the 13 cities next in size, the re- | sults of the comparison of total tax | levy per capita, with interest and State | | taxes deducted, show that 19 of the | 26 cities have a smaller total tax bur- den per capita—New York, Philadel- phia, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, | Minneapolis, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Seattle, Indianapolis, Jersey City, Louisville, Portland, Oreg.; Toledo and Columbus. When the similar comparison was ! made with the 64 cities, the result was to show that only 9 exceeded Wash- ington in per capita tax burden, 54 cities having smaller per capitas. Washington Not Undertaxed. Can Washington be undertaxed when, compared with the two cities v«_‘hlch most nearly approximate it in size, its total real estate tax levy and its total tax levy is so greatly in ex- cess? Remember that the total tax levy does not include the Government lump sum payment, and that the total tax levy of Minneapolis includes $3,000,000 annually as interest pay- Baltimore, San Francisco, Milwaukee, | I nicipal center; (6) in view of the na- tional obligation to consider justly in this connection the heavy national (internal revenue) taxes paid into the Treasury by the people of the Capital compared with corresponding pay- ments by the States, and (7) in view of the national obligation in equity to ay heavily for Capital upbuilding in ieu of the hundreds of millions of dol- lars in grants, bounties and subsidies paid by the Nation to the States, from national tax revenues to which the District contributes more than any one of one-half of the States, in a dis- tribution from which the Capital has in the past been barred. * We are urgently appealing to the President and to Congress for speedy justice. ADMINISTRATION HIT BY G. 0. P. PROGRAM BEFORE CONGRESS (Continued From First Page.) | Commerce Commission. Its member- | ship would be composed of persons | representative of the railroad, airline | and merchant marine fields. And, | perhaps, also, of highway carries and pipelines. The President has indicated he de- sired to have a co-ordinated national transportation plan into which every | form of hauling would fill a specified | place. ‘Two other transportation studies are being made. One of these is being made by an interdepartmental com- mittee on the basis of airmail and ocean mail investigations. The other looks at the transport picture from the business side. It is being made by the Business Council set up by Sec- retary Roper. The one already in the hands of the President was drafted by a cabinet committee headed by Secretary Dern and with Secretary Roper and Joseph B. Eastman, the transportation co- ordinator, as the other members. Into it went some of the results of the studies made by the other two com- mittees. paigns are planned in all communities | 'DWIGHT G. HOWERTH FUNERAL CONDUCTED | Electrical Engineer Who Died Tuesday Is Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral services for Dwight G. Ho- werth, well-known young electrical en- gineer with the Potomac Electric Pow- » er Co., who died Tuesday night at his home, 1112 Euclid street, were to be held | today at 2 p.m. from the home, followed by burial in Rock Creek | Cemetery. | Howerth, a na- tive of Shamo- |CHILE HONORS NEWSMAN | with the Order of Merit by nopoly laws we already have.” | Louis Jay Heath Decorated for His Reportorial Work. Louis Jay Heath, Washington news- paper man, yesterday was decorated the Chilean government for his “accurate, intelligent and sympathetic reporting | of news affecting the peace, prosperity and general welfare of the nations of the American continent.” The decoration was conferred at the Chilean Embassy by Counselor | Benjamin Cohen. s = xA, Turn your _rinkets, jewelery and watches into MONEY at 'A.Kahn Jnc. Arihur J. Sundlun, Pres. 42 YEARS at 935 F STREET KA HN For a limited time! ment on debt, while that of New |measure for the relief of the unem- Orleans includes about $4,500,000— | ployed, liberal loans to private busi- which should be excluded from the |ness at a low rate of interest as op- comparison. / posed to the many wasteful and ex- Is it not a convincing showing that | travagant _expenditures now being Washington is not undertaxed when, | made and without the restrictive fea- compared with a group of 6 cities | tures now imposed by the Reconstruc- ghosen for reasons stated above),tion Finance Corporation in making ashington’s total tax le; these loans. them algl? o e “13. We favor a liberal policy to- Can Washington’s tax burden be|ward veterans of all wars. unduly light when its total tax levy| “14. We favor every effort to take per capita, compared with those of the | pProfits out of war and to promote con- seven next larger and seven next | tinued world peace. smaller cities (interest and State| “15. In time of war we favor the | taxes properly deducted), exceeds | principle of the universal draft. that of 10 of them; that when the| “16. We favor ample care of the comparison is extended to the 26|needy, aged and unemployed, but cities nearest Washington in popula- | maintain that the responsibility of ad- tion, its total tax levy per capita, with | ministering this relief should be left interest and State taxes deducted, ex- | With local communities. g ceeds 19 of them; that when the com- “17. We favor the principle of Parison is extended to the 64 largest | job insurance, to be paid for by the cities of the country, its total tax levy | employe, the employer and the State. per capita, with interest and State “18. We favor the principle of old taxes deducted, exceeds that of 54 |age ensions and assert that both of WOMAN FOUND DEAD Miss Sophie Thomas, 75, Native of District. kin, Pa, was a graduate of Cor- nell Univ ersity, and came to this city in 1925, to take up his posi- Was t G. Howerth. Despite the fact that all factory prices advanced Janu- ary 1st—we offer our patrons. Believed to have died several days ago, Miss Sophie .Thomas, 75-year-old native of the District, was found dead yesterday at her home, 523 Eighth street southwest, by her brother, Henry Thomas, who had not visited the home for several days, he told Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. Officials at the District Morgue said no inquest had as yet been ordered in the death. The body was taken to Tultavull's undertaking establish- ment at 436 Seventh street southwest, where last rites are to be arranged today. - tion with the local power company. He superintended construction of high voltage lines and repairs of power and light lines. In addition to his widow, Dorothy Fletcher Howerth, he is survived by a daughter, Claire, Litvinoff May Study Motor. M. Litvinoff, the Russian com- missar of foreign affairs, may take up motor mechanics as a hobby. He was 50 interested in a new film, shown recently in Moscow, depicting the training of chauffeurs that he ex- pressed a desire to take a course. our present stock of STERLING FLATWARE at Lower 1934 Prices Patterns in our stock available at 1934 Prices Aristocrat Late Georgian Factory Prices on SILVER have already Advanced! New, higher factory price lists on hand— come in and see them and note the of them—all but 9? It is not necessary to show that Washington’s tax burden is as high as the highest, nor would it be fair to compare it with the lowest, but when the comparisons are narrowed and broadened and in both cases indicate the same result, the conclusion is inescapable that Washington is not In Equity, Increase the Federal Pay- ment to the District. ‘Washington needs the expenditure of large sums in permanent improve- -| ments, long neglected, which cannot be financed from current revenues. These needs should be met not by any increase of local taxation, but by substantial increase in the national payment for the maintenance and up- building of the Nation’s city, whether that payment takes the shape of a lump sum or of a definite proportion- ate percentage of the total District appropriation. ‘Washington welcomes a thorough and impartial investigation of its com- parative tax burden. Its adequacy has been vindieated by every competent and unbiased tribunal which has studied including the joint con- A these subjects are primarily State functions and obligations. Agricultural Program. “19. We favor and will support all sound legislation to restore agri- cultural buying power and to enable the farmer to refinance himself in this period of depression. and further believe that the administration of agricultural legislation should be placed, as far as possible, in the hands of the farmers themselves rather than under a bureaucracy in ‘Washington. “20. W believe in freedom of speech and in freedom of the press, and in freedom of the radio for the discussion of national questions.” Adding that the Republicans “pro- pose to keep in step with the onward march of progress,” Snell said appro- priate bills embodying these sugges- tions would be introduced by members of his party. American Coal Arrives. 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