Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1935, Page 16

B2 =» STATE SALES TAX GAINS MOMENTUM Levy in Effect in Dozen Com- monwealths and 12 More Ponder Bills. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) NEW YORK, March 9.—The sales tax, that comparatively young baby of revenue collecting by Government, is acquiring a steadily improving ap- petite. A dozen States already have ar- ranged to increase their incomes by sums ranging from five to sixty mil- lion dollars a year by the 1, 2 or 3 per cent tax-on-purchase method, and another dozen are mulling the matter in their Legislatures. A few States, notably Kansas and ‘Texas, have given positive “noes” to all sales tax proposals. Others—Ten- nessee and New Jersey among them— are looking about for ways to cut costs rather than increase revenue. New York Tax for Relief. New York State employs an “emer- gency tax” in connection with its col- lection of income taxes, rather than | use the sales tax method, but New York City gets 2 cents on every dol- lar spent for merchandise (other than food), and expects these pennies to add up to $40,000,000 during the year. The entire tax will be devoted to Telief. Michigan's 3 per cent, operative now for two years, turned in $34,871949 last year. Ohi~ hopes to get $60,000,- 000 before her 3 per cent sales tax expires at the end of this year, but the Legislature is dickering with a bill which would exempt certain items and consequently reduce the estimated revenue to $40,000,000. Colorado began collecting 2 per cent March 1, and hopes to add from four to six million dollars to her revenue within a year. West Virginia Extension Asked. West Virginia's 2 per cent sales tax expires July 1—it became effective last April 1—and the Legislature has been asked by the Governor to extend its life. South Dakota’s Legislature approved a8 2 per cent retail sales tax Thurs- day, and the Governor's signature will make it law. Except for a minor amendment, North Dakota’s similar tax bill, expected to net $2,000,000 an- nually for the next two years, is ready for the Governor. The House of the Washington Legis- lature wrote a sales tax chapter into tha; State’s revenue bill yesterday, but didn't decide on the amount. A 2 per cent “pass on” tax is generally Zfavored. Wisconsin legislators have a sales tax bill before them, but are awaiting Gov. La Follette's complete tax pro- gram. Wyoming Votes Tax. Sentiment for a sales tax is growing among Pennsylvania legislators, and the State Bar Association and State Chamber of Commerce have indorsed such a levy to supplant Gov. Earle’s tax program. The Governor's plan seeks to get $203,000,000 by levying on tobacco and amusements and by in- creasing the gas tax from 3 to 5 cents a gallon. ‘Wyoming will begin collecting 2 per cent April 1. New Mexico has re- enacted its 2 per cent tax. Oklahoma is pondering the ad- visability of boosting its sales tax from 1 to 3 per cent, and Missouri legisla- tors would like to leap from 3 per cent to 2 per cent. The present Mis- souri tax is absorbed by the merchant, but the lawmakers want the consumer to pay the 2 per cent. A gross sales tax of 2 per cent was proposed in Montana, but got no sympathy. Texas lawmakers were defi- nitely hostile to a suggestion that a sales tax be offered for popular vote #s an amendment to the constitution. Arkansas Measure Pending. The Arkansas Senate said “yes” two weeks ago to a 2 per cent sales levy, but the House has started to amend it. Gov. Futrell told the House yester- day the bill will bring the return of emergency relief money. Connecticut set up a special com- mission to study the matter, and it recommended a 2 per cent sales levy, now being considered. Maine has a similar proposal, but at a hearing ‘Wednesday it ran into plenty of op- position. When a bill to collect 3 per cent from Tennesseeans was offered in the Legislature, it was tabled, and efforts are now being made to re- duce expenses. Maryland's 2 per cent proposal is directed, paradoxically, to ease the tax burden by affording relief to property owners. No immediate leg- islative action is likely. The bill would return about $6,000,000 an- nually, its sponsors think. Curley Opposes Levy. Massachusetts’ Legislative Commit- tee on Taxation is sifting several sales tax proposals. Gov. Curley however, has announced he is “agin’ & sales tax except as a “last resort.” California, collecting $93,000,000 bi- ennially from a 2% per cent tax, is waiting to see what its lawmakers do with a proposal for extending the tax to add another $7,000,000 every two years. Indiana has a bill pending, but it likely will not be acted upon until the Legislature meets in an expected special session. Gov. Hoffmann's recommendation in New Jersey for a 2 per cent tax to net $20,000,000 annually for emer- gency relief has been in committee for six weeks, and action has been deferred another month. — BLIZZARD TOLL RISES MARIPOSA, Calif., March 9 (P).— Two deaths were charged to Sierra Nevada mountain blizzards today with the discovery near here of the body of A. R. Stramer, 49, of Healdsburg. August Gerst, 32, miner, was found frozen to death in a snow drift near Strawberry Valley yesterday. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dance, Psi Lambda Tau Sorority, Continental Hotel, 10 p.m. Dance and card party, Ladies’ Aux- iliary of Har Zion Hebrew School, Ar- lington Hotel, 9 pm. Town Hall meeting, Shoreham Hotel, 8 pm. Speaker, A. A. Berle, jr. ‘TOMORROW. Meeting, Graduate Nurses’ Associa- tion, American Red Cross, 1730 E street, 8:15 pm. Dinner, Federation of Civic Service Clubs, La Fayette Hotel, 6 p.m. Dinner, the Hecht Co., Shoreham ‘Hotel, 7:30 pm. Dance, Ohlo State Soclety, Shore- ham Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Instruction in advanced contract bridge, auspices of Massachusetts State Society of Washington, Roose- velt High School, 8:1€ p.n. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Victims of “Tuxedo” Bandits Two urbane bandits in spotless evening attire invaded the Park avenue apartment of Mrs. Georgia Chapman Lloyd in New York Friday night, bound Mrs. Lloyd and her da sacked the place and made good their ughter Alice with picture wire, ran- escape. They took with them, police said, jewelry valued at $2,000. Mrs. Lloyd (right) and her daughter Alice are shown leaving police headquarters, rogues’ gallery pictures. Mrs. Lloyd s six years ago from Chicago. where they spent some time studying aid she had come to New York about . —A. P. Photo. ALYCE CELEBRA TES STOMACH OPERATION BY EATING CHICKEN Growing Appetite and Hearty Meals Favorable Recovery Sign— Truck Needed to Haul Her Mail. By the Associated Press. 1 FALL RIVER, Mass, March 9—| Alyce Jane McHenry grasped a| chicken wing today and chewed the| meat from the bone with all the relish of any hungry 10-year-old. | Alyce Jane, whose misplaced stomach and other organs were put in proper position last Monday in | a difficult operation, had not for many months been able to partake of such solid food without extreme discomfort. | She also enjoyed other nourishment | today such as beef broth and cereal 1n generous quantities. ! ‘The hospital described her condi- | tion: “Temperature, 99.6; pulse 110; | respiration 20. Patient comfortable. Progress satisfactory.” Alyce Jane indicated her improve- ment more enthusiastically. She asked a dignified surgeon how his hair happened to be so curly. Happy With Presents. She insisted that her mother, Mrs. Leuella McHenry of Omaha, Nebr., and her aunt, Mrs. Loren Nelson, open her many presents and show them to her. She showed keen interest in her mail, which would drawf many mo- tion picture stars’ correspondence. The post office has been forced to use a truck to deliver messages of encouragement and good wishes and presents which are pouring in from | all sections of the country and Canada. The little girl's interest in food was interpreted as a very favorable sign and the hospital staff is attempt- ing to meet the whims of her appe- tite so far as is practicable. When told she could have chicken, she feared it would be minced or boiled. “If I could only take a wing in my fist and eat it she said, “I would think I really was having chicken.” This was permitted and “Oh, boy, did she eat it!” exclaimed her jubilant mother. Wants Pancakes, Too. Alyce Jane sald she would also like pancakes or waffles, and they | have been promised her for the near future. Her first expressed choice, macaroni, has resulted in many gifts of that food. In her mail are many invitations for visits, offers of blood, if a transe fusion should be needed and a scatter- ing of communications with a theatrical flavor. Mrs. McHenry said she is not interested in the latter. For the first time since the opera- tion, Alyce Jane asked her nurse to read to her this afternoon and fell “funnies” in the newspapers. chew gum to strengthen the muscles | in her jaws, grown weak through lack | of use. Jewish Sculptor’s Figure Of Christ Evokes Criticism By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 9.—A controversy swirling about the thorn-crowned 6- ton figure of Christ chiseled by Jacob Epstein, New York-born sculptor, will be brought into the House of Com- mons Monday. Sir Cooper Rawson, Conservative, has given notice that he will ask the home secretary to “instruct police to| remove or confiscate” the statue, which “offends against the public| decency.” Sculptor Remains Silent. Epstein, who has been unable to lay hand to mallet or chisel in Eng- land for nearly two decades without stirring up argument, has refused to be drawn into the present one, say- ing: “I've made the statue and I've noth- ing to say about it—except what I've already said in the statue.” The 11-foot-high white stone crea- ton, entitled “Behold the Man,” gives Christ a squat nose and a square-cut, pugnacious chin. The wrists of the hands, crosséd on the knees, are bound | by rope hanging down to the feet like hawsers. While Dr. Walter Matthews, suc- cessor to Dean Inge at St. Matthews, sees “an expression of great power” and “an interpretation of one who can’t be defeated” in the statue, the Catholic Times castigates Epstein’s work with “we see only a distorted reminiscence of a man, the debased, sensuous flat features of an Asiatic monstrosity.” Epstein’s sale price for the statue is £3,150 (around $15,000). In Controversy Before. This is not the first time that Ep- | stein, whose art is rooted in New Work City's East Side, where he was born, ha® aroused controversy. Fifteen years ago his “Figure of Christ” brought a storm of criticism when it was placed on exhibition at the Leicester Galleries. Epstein, now in his 55th year, has always been the antithesis of his art, calm, modest, hard working, while his creations year after year are the cen- ters of attack, defense and criticism. He doesn't like to inject himself into these controversies, and he often fears they may hamper his sales. Yet once in & London cafe he struck a man who was condemning his cres- tions. The first international furor over Epstein came with his Oscar Wilde | tomb in Parls, Obfection was so vio= lent that the Paris police finally put | & sheet over it, and there were threats it would be removed unless modified. ‘Memorial Brings Indignation. Epstein’s “Rima” memorial to W. H. Hudson, the naturalist, in Hyde Park, London, in 1925, brought indig- nation. A painter took one entire day in Trafalgar Square denouncing it. Persons became so aroused that they offered to pay the cost of re- moving it. After the Hudson memorial there came “Day” and “Night,” and in 1931 “Genesis,” which set off the objectors with fresh fury. Whatever the critics thought, the public was interested. As many as 40,000 persons went to see the work in a single day. His most recent trouble maker prior to the present controversy was his “Venus,” last year, protests being made that it was derogatory symbol- ism of womanhood. Epstein studies in bronze have been applauded enthusiastically. His land- scape paintings also have received favorable comment. o Shipbuilders Are Busy. Shipbuilders of Scotland have more orders than for some time. SSOFOR DOGS- 2 AL\ES‘EEM-M[‘S"ZH { You save because you 4 BUY DIRECT FROM THE MILL. Just add milk or water. ips this scientifically bal- anced diet,” Con- tad; ry l' 5 100'%.'. g'SM th. ORDER DIRECT FROM THE DERWOOD MILL DEPT. §. DERWOOD. MD. asleep during the reading. Previously | | she had her mother show her the | Alyce Jane is being encouraged to | OPERA IN MOVIES GOAL OF LUBITSCH Light Variety First to Be Screened—Plot Major Problem. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 9.— The marriage of grand opera and the | movies will be the first major objective of Ernst Lubitsch, new production chief of a Hollywood studio. He outlined this ambition today in the first exposition of his plans given since he assumed his new post. Further, he disclosed he will never again direct so long as he retains his present position. Therefore, he will not direct Marlene Dietrich’s next pic- ture, although he was scheduled to do so. Miss Dietrich has signed a new contract and will remain at Para- mount rather than go to M-G-M. Thus the Garbo-Dietrich “glamour bat- tle,” awaited with tense expectancy by | the film colony. will not take place | for several months at least. MARCH_ 10, she can sing he loves her, But we cannot do that in pictures. “Not many of the famous opera works will be feasible,” he said. “We | might be able to do ‘Carmen’ or ‘Il Trovatore’ or ‘Cavalleria Rusticana.’ Wagner, I believe, would be out of the question.” He admitted negotiations for two famous works have been opened, but declined to say what they are. He did say a deal has been closed whereby rights to stories and famous arias of the Victor Herbert light op- eras will be filmed. A tentative title for the picture is “The Life and Melo- dies of Victor Herbert.” Actress-singers like Gladys Swar- thout, Helen Jepson, Mary Ellis and Grace Moore, Lubitsch declared, will be cast in it, and probably in actual grand opera productions. "TULSA IS STIRRED BY GUILT RUMORS Origins of Talk Linking Young Wilcox to Kennamer Case Sought by Officials. | By the Associated Press. |and city officials joined tonight in a drive to run down rumors growing Light Variety First. Bringing opera—light opera first— to the screen is the idea most in- triguing to Lubitsch. He explained previous efforts of film producers to photograph opera ran afoul two knotty problems. “Opera, as it is presented on the stage, is not motion picture material. | ing & 25-year prison sentence on a $1,500 or for any other sum whatever The story is not, in many cases, im- portant; opera lovers go for the music. i The plot line is inconsequential. “But a picture made for general |tigation when the assistant county| out of Tulsa’s “smart set” murder case. Topping a day of developments, De- tective Sergt. Henry B. Maddux an- ! nounced “there positively is no evi- dence to connect Homer Wilcox, jr., with the slaying” of John F. Gorrell, | jr., 23—a crime for which 19-year-old | Phil Kennamer has just started serv- | manslaughter conviction. Young Wilcox, 17, heir to oil wealth, | was drawn into the reopened inves- 1935—PART ONE. Farm Administrator Denies | Payment to Non-Crop Growers Cites Statements Attrib- utedto JamesT. Adams in Newspaper. By the Associated Press. | Chester C. Davis wrote James| Truslow Adams yesterday that l.he‘ Farm Administration was not paying | persons who had never grown cotton, | potatoes or tobacco not to produce those commodities. In an open letter to the historian the farm administrator cited state- ments attributed to Adams in an in- terview published by a New York newspaper, and added: “When you pass out 100 per cent untruths such as the three cited, it | just makes me wonder whether you are to be taken seriously in any ob- servations about the New Deal or about anything in the present or past.” The administrator quoted the his- torian as having said that a friend | owned land in the South “on which | TULSA, Okla, March 9.—County he had never grown or tried to grow |thought of raising a pound of it.” |any cotton,” but that “last year the A. A. A. sent him a check for $1,500 | | for the cotton he did not grow.” When | the friend protested, he was said to | have added “they insisted that he | keep the money because it was down | on_the books.” Davis replied: | “You do not know of any such per- |son as you describe. No such person | exists. No cotton benefit checks for | | } have been sent to any person as own- | ers or operators of land on which | | cotton has never been grown.” | He quoted Adams as saying another | | | | CHESTER C. DAVIS, | The administrator replied: | “Your friend up in Connecticut, if | he has received the money must have been defrauding the Government. Ac- | cording to the terms of the tobacco | adjustment contract, benefit payments | can be made only to bona fide growers of tobacco. “Of course, your Connecticut friend does not exist in fact any more than the Southern landowner or the Long Island potato grower you told about. | Under the Agricultural Adjustment | Administration system of handling | contracts no person can receive a | check without warning or without consumption must emphasize its story | prosecutor asked for the youth’s pis- | friend owning a Long Island estate | first signing a contract to adjust his as much, or more, than its music. “Hence, the first great question is | tol—with which he admitted he shot out street lights near where the dental | had received a letter from the A. A. A. offerng to pay 80 cents per bushel | how to present the essentials of an |student was found dead of two bul- | for not raising potatoes. opera, following generally its story, yet making that story interesting, for it- self alone.” Lovely Singers Available. longer as insurmountable as it was— namely, to find a singer lovely enough to stand the cold analysis of the camera. ¥ | let wounds in the head last Thanks- | giving. |~ Maddux said one of the bullets | which killed Gorrell was easily identi- Davis replied that “the Agricul- tural _ Adjustment Administration | never has had a production adjust- | | ment program for potatoes. This ad- production.” In reply to an assertion allegedly made by Adams that 8,000 persons in Texas had moved from farms to cities | and were living on money received from the Government, Davis said: “We do not know what you may | fied as from Gorrell's own pistol, but ' ministration has never paid and never | have learned during your year in Eng- | ‘The second difficulty. he said, is no that it was impossible to classify the | hay offered to pay any person & sin- | | other accurately. | However, officials forwarded to | Washington for ballistics tests and | gle collar for growing or for not grow- ing potatoes.” ‘ | In the third instance, Davis said | land or your days on the steamer | Berengaria about conditions in Texas, but we do know that the population studies by the Department of Agricul- | comparisons Gorrell's .22-calibre pis- | Adams had told of a friend in Con- |ture shown an increase in the farm “There again” he smiled, “a real tol from which Kennamer testified| necticut who had, without warning, | population of Texas, Oklahoma, Ar- opera lover is not concerned if the the fatal bullets were fired and Wil-|received “a check for $1,200 for not|kansas and Louisiana of 440,000 from feminine lead weighs 280 pounds. If Sir Malcolm | cox’s of the same calibre. Campbell sets new A.A.A. marks with stock model Hudson Sedan ... praises PERFORMANCE and RUGG Again Hudson gives you proof of power, performance, ruggedness— instead of claims. Seven new offi- cial A. A. A. records at Daytona Beach, Florida —on EDNESS.... second gear at February 11. Performance and Ruggedness Top speed counts, of course! And Hudson seta new stock car record of nearly a mile and a half a minute. But more amszing mark of a mile at 68.18 Exaaf 7 World Event : 1-MKE (flying start) was its S-MILE (flying start) m. p. h. from a standing start. That's acceleration, and light- ning fast shifting with the Electric Hand. 1707 14th -St. N.W. And its running-start record in per hour —“the most savage punishment I ever gave a car,” the driver called it. That’s ruggedness! Single Morning 1-KILOMETER (fiying start) 1-MILE (second gear enly) . 1-KILOMETER (second gear only) raising tobacco when he had never more than 70 miles Said Sir by 1930 to 1934.” Campbell Pays Tribut Malcolm Campbell—“A remarkably smooth, powerful motor. But what amazed me most is the way the car was unaffected the slamming around it took in preparation for the Records in a Former Hudson's New AA.A.Record World Record (mp.h) (mp.h) 86.29 83.2028 86.068 83207 86.237 88.051 86.057 88.105 67.96 6818 625 68.252 62521 70319 A. all runs.” Remember, a stock Hudson sedan set these records—a car picked at random from a dealer’s showroom by A. A. officials. Come in and see its duplicate and by means drive it before you decide on any car. Try it! TERRAPLANE HUDSON DISTRIBUTORS ADams 6874 : Open Evenings and Sundays SCHULTZE MOTOR COMPANY 1496 H St. NE. Lincoln 6265 HUDSON-ESSEX CO. g (?umm. s TUNE IN ON HUDSON *NEW STAR REVURB" featuring Kete Smith—Bvery Mondey evening at POTOMAC MOTOR SALES 1218 Connecticut Ave NA. 7077 SIMMONS-HARRIS, R ceor (Packard Washington Motor Car Co.) 0. Coolican, President 'Metropolitan bul.n 'Nearby Dealers SIUS BROS. & GORMLEY nao mloelvllh. Md. OIL-RITE CO. 1720 15th St. N.W. 8:30 E.S.T., 7:30 C.S.T. | near Washington. ROACHES RUN BIRD SANCTUARY READY Parks Authorities Waiting for Warmer Weather Before Finishing Parking. ‘The bird sanctuary at Roaches Run on the Mount Vernon Memorial High- way is now practically complete, it was made known yesterday by au- thorities of the National Capital Parks, who explained that the curb and subgrading for the parking space are now in place. They are waiting until warmer weather before laying the blnck oil as binder and then the spot will be available for parking automobiles. Some landscaping remains to be be done, but this will be as a back- ground for the water. Clean-up of the islands will be carried forward by Civilian Conservation Corps work- ers. A new fence, marking off the railroad property from the bird sanctuary, has been erected and the old houseboats that used to dot the water there have been removed. Officials of the National Park Service expect that the bird sanctu- ary will be one of the show places By encouraging the growth of the natural feed for the birds, such as wild celery and rice, they hope to attract hundreds of them to rest on the waters of Roaches Run. Ducks, geese and many other varieties frequent that area now, as birds have been sent here from Louisiana, through the good offices of the Biological Survey, and their wings clipped to prevent their flying away. New Speed Mark Sought. An attempt to break the record of 137.195 miles an hour for Diesel oil- burning automobiles will be made in April by Dave Evans. The announce- ment was made yesterday by the American Automobile Association. POULTRY AND EGGS. Wb, EE————— iy ul, IM CROWING /07 BECK'S Quality Chii» Immed. del. Br. & Wh. Leg. Bar.. Wh. Buff Rocks, An- conas. Wh. BL. Buff Min.: Wh.. Gold. Silver Laced Wyand : Reds. Cross Breeds. $10—100: Wh. & Bl Giants, Buff Orping- tons. Brahmas. $12—100. Cornish Game Ducklings Day Old. Pullets. $20—100. Turkey Poults BECK'S 40c. HATCHERY. Mt. Airy, Md. 7 MORE WORLD RECORDS What “BUILT BY HUDSON" means The only cars with bodies all of steel . . . bodies that rein- force the chassis, while the chassis reinforces the body . . . giving greatest strength, yet eliminating hundreds of pounds of useless weight. Motors noted for their smoothness, balance and ability to develop more power than other motors of com- parable size. The result of this combina- tion (as engineered and built by Hudson alone), is the world’s greatest stock car per- formance . . . proved by scores of official A. A. A. records. Ruggedness proved in the recent 175,000-mile Rugged- ness Runs. Balanced riding with the whole car cradled on a wide spring-base of exclusive Hud- son design. Hudson Rotary-Equalized Brakes .. gowerlul. unfail- ing. They STOP you in a short, straight line. The am ELECTRIC \55/ HAND Hudson’s new world records at Daytona Beach were made %y a car equipped with the lectric Hand . . . greatest mechanical advancement of 1985. Simplified, easier, safer ng . . . faster, smoother shifting, with both hands always on the wheel. Anexclusive feature, standard on Hudson Custom Eights; optional (for small amount extra) on all other 1935 Hud- sons and Terraplanes. AndLook at thePrices! '695 and up for Hudson Siz (93 or 100 horsepower) . . . Hudson Eight 5760 and up (113 or 124 horse power) £. 0. b. Detroit for closed models. Connecticut at S ADams 6874 5 ’ NO. 1718 TYSON'S CROSS ROADS GARAGE, Vienna, Va. :30 M.S. 2813 M Street N.W. WEST END MOTORS NOrth 9685 uonligm"#o" ‘l co. ., 8:30 P.8.T.~Columbia Broadoasting System