Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1935, Page 4

SLUM CLEARANCE PLAN HITS SNAG D. C. Property Cwner Files Demurrer to Block Condemnation. Residents of Southwest Washington see no reason why “roughnecks” from all over town” should be brought in to settle there on a low-cost housing project. That appears to be the view of that wrea and is the principal reason why Miss Minnie Keyes, 714 Seventh street southwest, moved in District Supreme | Court yesterday to block condemna- tions proceedings instituted by the Government on a 13-acre tract in the vicinity of Army War College, to put through a $3,000,000 slum clearance project, she said today. ““There are a lot of good people in Bouthwest Washington, white and colored, who have lived here a long time,” says Miss Keyes, for years an occupant of the Seventh street ad- dress. “It’s nice and quiet, and we don’t want this slum clearance. Why | should we have roughnecks from all| over town brought in?"” Ickes Ready for Test. ‘Meanwhile public works officials sald today that Administrator Ickes was preparing to meet the challenge in the District of Columbia courts. Since the recent appellate court ruling in the Cincinnati circuit deny- ing Federal power to acquire land in this manner for a project in Louisville, Ky., Ickes’ slum clearance program is threatened in several jurisdictions. Despite court challenges in Wash- ington and also in Detroit, the public works administrator announced he was going ahead with plans to file con- demnation proceedings in Minneapolis, Minn,, in the belief that the Govern- ment’s action might be upheld in other Jurisdictions. Says Discontent Voiced. Miss Keyes, who has colored ten- ants in 15 properties sought by the Government, insists colored people velopment. “They don’t like that word ‘slum’ and they say they can't afford the rent,” she explained. Miss Keyes gets $168 monthly for her houses. Eleven houses from 121 to 141 P street rent for $12; two at 1256 and 1261 Half street rent for $12.50, and two at 9 and 10 Plerce court for $10. “I keep my rents down,” she says, *and keep the properties up. I have three men working on them— s0 that's three I've kept off of the Telief rolls. “This slum clearance is only a money-making scheme anyway; they don't care anything for the colored people and they don't care anything about me.” Even if Miss Keyes did want to sell she has an idea that the Gov- ernment wouldn't pay her what the property is worth. According to her story, a Public Works emissary came around last January and talked about taking over the P street property. “He said he thought he could get it for about $3,000, says the disturbed owner. “I said he was crazy. Any- way, I told him I had nothing for sale.” The next thing she knew about the whole affair, Miss Keyes adds, was a notice last month that condemnation proceedings had been instituted sgainst the three groups of property. If the Government is determined to take the property, Miss Keyes con- cedes, she’ll have to sell, “but they're not going to rob me or scare me.” If the worst comes to the worst and she has to sell, Miss Keyes doesn’t know just what she wants, but dis- claims any effort to get “a fancy price.” As she says, she has been “dabbling” in real estate ever since she came to Washington from Virginia with her parents, now dead. Some of the property she purchased; the rest was bequeathed by an old friend, Leonard A. Hamilton, in 1933, Wrote Will on Box Top. Hamilton, & Pennsylvania Raflroad telegraph operator, engaged a room at the Keyes home when he came to Washington to work at the turn of the century. He never left. When he died he scribbled a notation on s cardboard box top making Miss Keyes his heir. “You have been good to me, Minnie,’ all is yours,” it said. This odd testament subse- quently was upheld by thecourt. The legal proceeding instituted by Miss Keyes wasg & demurrer to the condemnation suit and asks the court to declare the project unconstitu- tional. It s based on a decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals which recently held unconstitutional @ similar slum clearance project in Kentucky. ‘The demurrer, filed through Attor- neys W. Gwynn Gardiner and I. Irwin Bolotin, contended that the proposed condemnation is not & taking of pri- vate party for public purpose within the meaning of the Constitution. While officials did not conceal dis- appointment over the action taken by Miss Keyes, they said that Ickes has no intention to withdraw from the proceedings filed in the District Bupreme Court. “As in Loulsville, a minority of the property owners in Washington are seeking to deprive the majority from taking a fair price for their land and mm," & spokesman for Ickes said . “No one has offered the property ‘owners more money than the Govern- ment and if the condGemnation pro- ceedingy fail here it is probable that the idle property will remain un- rented, but taxes will have to be paid on it.” 67 Per Cent Optioned. Ickes disclosed recently that the Government had received options on per cent in Louisville. The Government is not obliged to go ahead with its condemnation case n Wi face of the No been ashington in the objection flled by Miss ,gau,aJ ROOSEVELT GIVEN |Excess Profits Proposal Is Made, but Evokes No Comment. | By the Associated Press. The strength behind the congres- sional drive to impose heavy taxes on excess profits was disclosed today when it was reported authoritatively | the subject had been brogched to | President Roosevelt. He was said to have been non- | committal. PFurther discussions with | him were certain since varied inter pretations were placed on the fact that he had not committed himself. Some said that meant it made no particular difference to the Presi- standing by his original suggestion. Graduated Tax Urged. When the President messaged Con- gress about & tax bill for a “wider distribution of wealth,” he suggested the present flat 133, per cent tax on net corporation income be replaced by a graduated progressive tax starte ing at 10% and rising to 16% per cent. The National Association of Manu- facturers, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and individual business men protested that plan, con- tending it would penalize small in- vestors in big businesses. Immediately, sentiment began to grow in the House Ways and Means Committee for & tax on excess profits rather than the graduated levy on net corporation income. Calculators found that with a flat 5 per cent tax on all income over & 12% per cent profit, the Government collected $5,208,000 in 11 months of the last fiscal year. Figuring that indicated excess profits of about $100,. 000,000, many committee members asserted a reduction in the allowable profit and a stiff increase in the taxes on the excess would produce consid- erable revenue. Excess Profits Levy Favored. Likewise, they rela the =xcess profits tax to be more “equitable” and more nearly cumparable to the present individual inccme tax, whigh the President gaid was “wisely” pre- dicated upon the idea of taxing those who were best avle to pay. Committee leaders, talking privately, predicted if the committee did favor the excess profits levy instead of the graduated corporution income tax, the President would agree. A final choice by the committee between the two was not expected for at least & few days. Having set everything else aside in an effort to hurry the tax plan, ti.e committee met again today for anorner general dis- cussion of issues and policies {nvolved. Nazis (Continued From First Page.) Joy” displayed posters advertising the anti-Jewish magazine Stuermer. Nazi Jewbalters persisted in their anti-Semitic campaign, dropping more violent methods by government order but turning to the written word to de- mand death to Jews for various as- soclations with Aryans. The newspaper Judenkenner,-which rivals the Stuermer” in anti-Semitic for Jews guilty of intimacy with Aryan women. Restrictions on Business. The Nasi party’s syndicate service, in an article in the National Sozial- istische Partel Korrespondenz, de- manded that Jews be forbidden to rent apartments to Aryans, engage Aryan domestic help or accept Aryan clients, under pain of death if nec- essary. 5 < trict sald large crowds congregated before & Jewish-owned shop there, bug that the disturbance was confined to shouts as police looked on, . ‘The controlled press protested bit~ terly against “atrocity” reports abroad disorders, CONCORDAT END SEEN. in September. July W8 NEWPLANFORTAX won't live in the proposed new de- | dent; others argued it implied he was | activities, advocated the death penalty | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1935. Properties Involved in Southwest Suit L .. project. southwest. sources, since such matters are held confidential. Dr. Willlam Frick, Nasi minister of | interior, has come out openly on the side of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, leader of the German faith movement, and Catholic circles were convinced that the concordat would be abrogated. These sources said Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler was determined to estab- lish a special ministry for religion of all faiths, with Hans Kerrl, president of the Prussian Diet, in charge as minister without portfolio. YEGGS SHOOT OFFICER Three Men Escape on Washing- ton Road After Battle. GREENVILLE, N. C., July 18 (#.— Three unidentified men shot and wounded Policeman John Mobley early today in a gur battle ensuing when he discovered them attempting to open the safe in a business house here. Mobley was shot in the arm and leg while pursuing the yeggs for sev- ‘1 BOUGHT A MAGIC New York Ave. N.W, Wash, \ ational 0788. g Some of the properties owned by Miss Minnie Keyes involved in her suit to block condemnation for use of the sites in a low-cost housing Above: 1261 Half street southwest. Below: 9 and 10 Pierce court | 50 POISONED BY PIES Spoiled Filling. Cream filling in a banana pie served at lunch Tuesday has been held responsible for the 50 patients and three at} Walter Reed Hospital, Lieut. Michael A. Dailey of the hospital staff sald today. Col. Dailey sald hot weather caused spoiling of the filing and that no one who participated in preparation of the meal was to blame, All the suf- ferers have recovered, he said, ex- plaining that the poisoning was mild. Mid - Summer Clearance Ladies’ and Misses’ 4-Piece RIDING .OUTFIT CONSISTING OF ardine Vestee ine Breeches or Jodhpurs h " $1.00 Value Gabardine Riding Hat $7.85 Complete Reguler $14.85 Value Hospital Patients Sickened by U -GEORGIA ROAD FIGHT CONTINUES Dispute Unabated by Parley of Gov. Talmadge and Roosevelt. istration’s severest critics. Clark Howell, Atlanta editor, who party on Chesspeake Bay, brought the President and Talmadge together yesterday for a conference on Geor- gia’s highway question. Politics Not Discussed. Howell sald the meeting was oor- dial, and that political subjects were not under discussion. ‘The question of Georgia's $19,000,- 000 share in Federal road funds re- mained unsettled. After the White House visit Talmadge conferred with Thomas H. MatDonald, chiet of the Bureasu of Roads, who wants Geor- gia’s Highway Department reorgan- ized to eliminate what he described as inefficiency.’ Nothing tangible came of this meeting and Talmadge said: “I told MacDonald that ‘if you have a right to initiate road projects in Georgia there is not one vestige of States’ rights left.’” Shortly after Talmadge was at the White House President Roosevelt put Senator Long of Louisiana, another of his severest critics, on notice that he will have no influence over Fed- eral relief expenditures. Hits Louisiana Laws. Although he did not call Long by name, Mr. Roosevelt said at his press conference that laws recently passed by the Louisiana Legislature would make it very difficult to carry public works projects there. He added that, of course, the Federal Government ‘intended to control spending of its own money, but denied that the leg- islation would interfere with projects of Harry L. Hopkins' Works Progress Administration. In New Orleans, Long was quick to retort: “We ain't worrying abouj him down here. States where Roosevelt is sup- | posed to be helping out are so much worse off than Louisiana that we don’t want him messing around down here anyway.” CONTRACT PLANS LAID. Georgia to Let $1,500,000 of Work Tomorrow. ATLANTA, July 18 (P.—State Highway Department officials today went forward with plans for letting $1,500,000 road construction contracts tomorrow, despite the apparent dead- | lock between the Georgia Highway Board and the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. Gov. Talmadge, who made a sur-| prise visit to the White House yes- | terday to discuss the Georgia road situation with President Roosevelt, was expected to return to his office ‘The impression prevailed here that nothing had been accomplished by his visit to Washington to loosen the deadlock. OPEN SATURDAYS TALL 6 P.M. VACATION SALES THAT MAKE IT A REAL HOLIDAY! 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TWO-GUN' ALTERIE KILLED IN CHIGAGO Gangster Assassinated as He Leaves Hotel—Labor Trouble Blamed. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 18.—Louie (“Two Gun”) Alterle, “big-time” Chicago gangster, who survived some of the city’s bloodiest bootlegging wars, was shot down as he left his hotel to- day and died an hour later. A blast of shotgun fire dropped Al- terie ‘so seriously wounded that he! barely survived the ambulance ride to Lakeview Hospital. Nine shots struck him, and he died whije unconscious. | | His assassins missed woman com- | | panion, identified by police as his | wife, Irma, 35. She was taken into | custody. | Capt. Daniel Gilbert, chief of the State’s attorney’s police, blamed the killing on “labor trouble.” Once the partner of Dion O'Banion, pioneer | | Chicago bootlegger, Alterie had lately | been an official of a janitors’ union, | Gilbert said. Was Dion O’Banion Alde. 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Alterie won his nickname “Two Gun” when O’Banion was slain. Then Alterie posed for photographs, brand- ishing @ pair of pistols, and announc- his ranch to, testify before the Jury. “I'Nl shoot it out at State and Madi- son strgets with O’Banion’s killers.” [ The dueling scene he proposed is called “the world’s busiest corner,” in the heart of downtown Chicago. Even though the repeal of prohibi- tion ruined the beer business, Alterie still lived in style. Waiting at the carb for him today as he and his fashionably dressed brunette wife strolled from thelr hotel was an ex- pensive sedan. U.S. WILL PROBE MARRIAGE OF LI Immigration Official Awaits i Report on Wedding of Chinese to Clerk. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 18—W. A. Carmichael, district head of the Immigration Service here, made known today his department plans to “look into” the status of James Lin, son of the President of the Chi- nese Republic, whose Kentucky mar- riage to & lumbus $-and-10-cent store clerk became known yesterday. Indicating no steps will be taken until papers concerning the youth have been assembled, he sald there _ was “no report to make” at the mo- ment. At Columbus, Ohfo, Lin today ridiculed reports (not carried by the Associated Press) that he had been married previously in his native land. Lin told a reporter that he had had “romances” in China, but declared emphatically “there’s nothing to” the marriage report. Lin married Miss Viola Brown, 24, of Columbus, a former 5 and 10-cent store clerk. He met her when the young woman returned to him a purse he had lost. Lin and his bride said they intended to remain in Columbus until Lin re- ceives his master's degree at Ohio State University next Winter. 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