Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1935, Page 7

1935—PART ONE. SLOANE—DIstrict THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 711 Twelfth St—W. & J. TREADWAY SEEKS SECURITIES TAX] Proposed Amendment Would Prevent Exemptions in Future. Shipping Man’s Son Weds By the Associated Press. Agitation to tax future Federal and State tax-exempt securities was re- vived yesterday by Representative Treadway, Republican, of Massachu- setts in a proposed constitutional amendment. Warnigg that “the tax base is rapidly being narrowed and the bur- fler the ézwm‘orq. =i A 4% NOW COMES CLEARANCE ber of the W. d M Com- i s i " = = e decarea +1hat such » situaion It's a ninety-year-old rule that the W. % J. Sloane organization puts its house in order at each stock- can exist under the Constitution seems D taking period. That’s the task now—the complete and quick clearance of not only suites and separate pieces —of which, perhaps, only one or two of a kind remain—but, as well, more complete groups that under the new merchandising plans are to be discontinued. Policy of Treasury. The quickest way is the best way, which sanctions these VERY ACUTE REDUCTIONS IN PRICE. Secretary Morgenthau said last | Spring the Treasury favored Laxmg’ Under the circumstances we must ask that all selec- tions be final, for extensive interior store changes, the tax-exempt securities as a permn- nent policy applying to future issues. | to be begun at once, make clearance doubly imperative. ‘That has been the Treasury policy for | 15 years, Treadway said. Y 3 1 . Morgenthau's indorsement before | 1 * . the House Judiciary Committee, at ' |4 9 that time considering such a bill, was received with surprise in some quarters in view of the pending Treasury financing program, with huge issues of Government securities then coming up. Other congressional observers, how- ever, interpreted it as a smart move. Treadway estimated at $50,000,000,- 000 the securities which escape taxa- tion because the Government cannot tax State issues, and vice versa, with both consequently exempting their own securities in order to avoid any un- equal imposition of taxes. Would Remove “Subsidy.” “With all existing sources of revenue used to the fullest extent,” Treadway said in a statement, “and with vir- tually no new sources to turn to, it is high time that this subsidy to wealth be removed and the tax burden more equitably distributed.” Explaining he would tax only future issues, “since good faith and the obli- gation of contract would prevent any attempt to reach outstanding issues,” Treadway said that situation made early submission of the amendment to the States all the more imperative. OIL INDUSTRY GIVEN BEST YEAR IN MANY| Survey Says Production Less Than Consumption Hurts New Year Prospects. By the Assoclated Press. PASADENA, Calif, January 5— The statistical position of the petro- leum industry during 193¢ was the best in recent years, the annual review of William J. Kemnitzer, petroleum technologist, said today. His annual analysis points out that there was considerable controversy s to the best methods of production control last year, and that prices, al- though improved over those of 1933, continued at subnormal levels. ‘ “Restriction of domestic produc-! tion below total demand brought | forth a storm of protest from so-! called ‘hot oil’ producers. “With the price of gasoline at the| refinery 42 per cent below normal, while that of crude oil was less than | 19 per cent below normal, independent | Tefiners protested being forced to pay | & posted price for crude oil so far out of line with the price received for their main product. Likewise, with the wholesale price of gasoline more than 42 per cent below normal, the consumer complained when his price at the service station was only 15 per cent below normal. ! “Unless a more reasonable arrange- ment, conforming to the principles of a competitive system are arranged, 8 betterment of conditions in 1935 is dubious.” CONGRESS BACKING SEEN FOR PRESIDENT Chamber of Commerce Review Says Only Challenge Will Be the Bonus. By the Associated Press. Business, or at least that part of it represented by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, pre- dicted yesterday that members of Congress would “vie with one another in going along with the President.” In its Washington review, the chamber said “the only real chal- lenge to presidential direction” would be the bonus. The review stated that the last Congress “from time to time lost sight of the recovery motif and wandered away on various reform tangents.” “Proposals since (the last Congress) tentatively advanced as trial balloons to test the direction of the prevailing wind of opinion indicate that the present session may be subject to something of the same sort of con- fusion as between constructive effort and punitive expeditions,” the review said. — SEARS PRESIDENT SAILS NEW YORK, January 5 (#)—Gen. Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., who was director and chief quartermaster of the Panama Railroad during the con- struction of the canal, sailed today on the Santa Elena for his first visit, to the Canal Zone since 1915. After an unofficial tour of the Canal Zone, Gen. Wood will fly back to New York. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the former President, also was a pas- senger. She will spend the Winter in Guatemala. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dinner, District Liquor Dealers, Hamilton Hotel, 7 pm. Meeting, Bartenders’ Alliance, 1412 I street, 3 p.m. TOMORROW. Meeting, Society of Federal Trans- lators, Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets, 8 pm. | commissicn or board, shall be treated | it were the official act of such recip- i of the Board of Education. Dictato- Mr. and Mrs. James McMillan Mass,, yesterday. couple will live. SCHOOL POLITIC FEARED IN BILL Commnsswners Reported Seeking Power to Make Appointments. (Continued From First Page.) the other agencies now independently operated.” Under the terms of the bill actual management of the independent agencies would be left where it now rests, generally speaking. Dr. John- son last night put his finger on one provision which would transfer juris- Commissioners. This would authorize the Commissioners “to issue, deny, suspend or revoke permits to any in- stitutions not incorporated by an act of Congress claiming the authority to confer any professional or academic degree.” Such authority now is held by the Board of Education under the terms of March 2, 1929. Dr. Johnson ques- tions the reason for such a change of Jjurisdiction. The Commissioners’ powers bill | covers many subjects, but the section particularly at issue would give the District heads power: “To direct or prohibit action by any official, employe, agency, commit- | tee, commission or board financed in whole or in part from revenues from the District of Columbia (except the judges, officials and employes of the courts and those of the Public Utili- ties Commission), whenever in the judgment of the said Commissioners such direction or prohibition is advis- able in the public interests. “Such resolution of direction or pro- hibition, when received by any such official, employe, agency, committee, and have the same effect as though ient.” Sees Dictatorial Power. What Dr. Johnson seeks to ascer- tain definitely is whether this is in- tended to give the Commissioners power to direct the apopintment of teachers without regard to the results of examinations required by the act of 1906, the recommendation of the school superintendent or the judgment S rial powers over the whole school sys- tem would be placed in the hands of the Com misisoners if this proved the case, he believes. It is pointed out | school authorities are trying to deal character, whereas the Commissioners profess no such qualifications. In addition to the Board of Educa- tion, some of the other agencies| financed out of District revenues and subject by the terms of the bill to the same control are the National Zoo, the District Parole Board, the Board of Public Welfare and the National C1apual Park and Planning Commis- sion. In the case of the superintendent of schools, it was explained by one in- terested party last night, the Com- missioners could, if they saw fit, pro- hibit the Board of Education from re- appointing Dr. Ballou and then, later, tell the board who should be ap- pointed. Reports were circulated recently that the position of superintendent of schools had been placed on a secret patronage list made up by influential Democrats here. This could not be confirmed. Some officials deny knowl- edge of it. Some credence was given the report, however, by the statement to The Star that one of the objectives of the Commissioners was to gain the power over this appointment. Dr. Ballou recently was asked to consider the presidency of St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y. He de- cided after some study not to take that position, but to remain here. Those opposed to the Commission- ers’ plan argue that if there is to be a Board of Education at all, it should remain as independent as it is today. Power of appointment of members of the board, it is emphasized, was placed in the hands of justices of District Supreme Court to prevent a turn- over of school personnel after each change in the political administration. No Cash Down Written Guarantee Luncheon, Newcomers Club, Carl- ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Meeting, American Philatelic So- clety, Carlton Hotel, 8 pm. Lecture, Miss Janet Richards, Wil- lard Hotel, 11 a.m. Luncheon, Variety Club, Willard Hotel, 1 pm. Dinner and card party, the 500 Club, Hamilton Hotel, 6 p.m. diction from the school board to the | with a specialized subject of this |Z after their wedding at Worcester, The bride is the former Virginia Cutting, daughter of Mrs. George B. Cutting of Worcester., Mr. and Mrs. James Thayer McMillan of Grosse Pointe, Mich., where the McMillan is associated with his father, the president of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co. ‘The bridegroom is the son of —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. Helen Keller Wins Fight to Protect Eyes of Newborn Illinois Has First Year in History Without Reportof Blindness. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 5—The bill that blind Helen Keller labored for in Illinois today brought its fruit—a full year minus 2 case of preventable blindness among new-born babes. The State Department of Health reported that in 1934 for the first year in Illinois history not a child was blinded by opthalmia neonatorum, the result of improper care at birth. The Illinois Society for the Preven- tion of Blindness and Miss Keller for years supported and lobbied for the which became effective July 1, 1933. It requires that a prophylaxis wash be put into the eyes of new-barn infants. The society, with Dr. Frank Jirka, director of the State Health Depart- ment, co-operating, carried on a cam- paign direct to midwives the past year. Doctors long had taken precaution to prevent blindness, but midwives, many urtrained in remote sections, had ignored the prevention measure, and natal blindness persisted. The society said that 4,000 bables were brought into the world by 409 midwives, 155 of them still unlicensed, unregistered and in the main, un- | trained, in 1934. The prophylaxis wash distributed to them by State health authorities, who assisted in an effort to train the midwives how to use it, was credited with the favorable result. Mukden Building Active. Mearly 3,500 new buildings were built at Mukden in the last year. 0 7 SEVENTH AND F JANUARY SALE Quality clothes at substantial v savings. All the new colors and % patterns! 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The comfortable, moderne Chippendale type, all hair filled and with down cushions. $207 Love Seat. ................... Size 5 ft. 6; all hair filled. Separate loose pillow-back cushions and seat cushions filled with down. Blue tapestry. $140 ChippendaleSofa..................$95 It has the pronounced Chinese influence and is covered in green damask. $145 Tuxedo Love Seat...............$72.50 Solid walnut base; attractive tapestry cov- ering. §155 Queen Anne Sofa............... Carved cabriole legs; down cushions; all hair filling; covered in green frieze. $245 Lawson Sofa. . Spring and down back; down-filled cush- ions. Upholstered in mauve velvet. $225 ClubType Sofa................. Attached down-filled back and down seat cushions. All hair filled and upholstered in figured tapestry. $235 Georgian Sofa...... Exqmsnte carving on mahogany base; gen- uine hair filling. Down-filled cushions and upholstered in green silk damask. $99 Roll Back Sofa. ................. 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Attractively upholstered in rust chenille fabric. $75 Colonial Wing Chair.............. The exposed frame is solid mahogany; hair filling. Upholstered in rust figured damask. $150 18th Century Wing Chair. . . . Genuine mahogany base; upholstered m black leather; tufted back. $75 SheratonEasyChair............. The exposed frame is solid mahogany; gen- uine down-filled cushion and upholstered in gold damask. ..$140 ..$98 -$59 Bedroom Suites $285 Chinese Chippendale Suite....... Genuine mahogany, 8 pieces including twin beds. $365 American Colonial Suite. . Block front design; genuine mahogany; 8 pieces, including twin beds. $298 Classic Moderne Suite.......... Painted and decorated in yellow and silver; crystal mirrors; 8 pieces, including twin $375 Dlre:tolre Suite. . Mahogany and rosewood; decorated in black and silver; 8 pieces, including twin beds. $360 Mahogany Chippendale Suite. .. An excellent adaptation; 8 pieces, includ- ing twin beds. $510 Queen Anne Suite. ............. 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Genuine mahogany construction, with ef- fectively carved base. $120 Hepplewhite Secretary Genuine mahogany construction with inlaid line. $135 Chippendale Table Desk..........$100 Of American rendition, with serpentine front and inlaid leather top. $65 English Desk.......................$40 Straight front type with split top; genuine mahogany construction. W &J SLOANE 711 Twelfth Street N.W. With House Free Parking Opposite the Store t he District 7262 Green Shutters