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- IDLE TALK SPARK OF VICE CRUSADE Lawyer’s Remarks About $100,000,000 Racketeers Inflame Public. Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, August 3 (NANA).— The spark thaat may blow the lid off New York's vast underworld citadel of organized crime and expose its polit- ical protectors was dropped last March by a lawyer for one of its kingpins in ar expansive mood. The iawyer was J. Richard Davis, attorney for Arthur (Dutch Schultz) | Flegenheimer, who has just defeated | Uncle Sam’s second attempt to send him to prison as an income tax dodger. g Schultz achieved a measure of dis- tinction as a public enemy in the pro- Hibition era, but he did not hit his full stride until repeal retired him from the beer-running business and forced him to seek other ways of liv- ing in the style to which he had grown accustomed. By common report, Schultz now| controls the policy games or the num- | bers racket in which the poor of Har- lem and other sections of New York daily risk their pennies in the hope that the lottery will bring them riches. Summoned to give testimony in an inquiry into bail bon dabuses, Mr.| Davis wished to have it understofld! that he was not wasting his talents | on small affairs and estimated that | the “take” in the policy racket amounted to well over $100,000,000 & year. War Chest Corrupts Officials. Somehow the lawyer's statement caught the public imagination where the exhortations of reformers had| failed to do so. It drove home the| realization that criminals with such & war chest were well able to cor- rupt politicians and officials and sct themselves up above the law, and it led to a general demand from the press and civic organizations for a | clean-up. These demands fell upon the ears of William C. Dodge, the district at- torney of New York County, who was one of the few Tammany candidates to survive the Fusion landslide of two years ago. His gestures of in- vestigation failed to meet the popu- lar demand for action and before he knew it he had the grand jury in revolt and the public clamoring for his removal, It was in response to this demand that Gov. Lehman, without remov- ing the district attorney, set in mo- tion an invesMgation which has al- most unlimited and unprecedented | possibilities. Convening an extraordi- nary term of the Supreme Court, the | Governor directed Mr. Dodge to ap- | point Thomas E. Dewey to prosecute an inquiry to punish crime and lay bare & s alliance between criminals and politicians. Fusionists Handled Weapon. The effect of the Governor's order was to set up in Manhattan, chief of the fve boroughs which compose the city of New York, and tte last strong- hold of Tammany Hall, two separate | district attorneys, each with his own | staff and offices, His order gave| Mayor F. H. La Guardia and his Fusion administration what they had failed to win in the election—an anti- Tammany prosecutor. The debonaire Mr. Dewey, who went | into office with the blessings of the bar association and the approval of four oldsters who told the Governor that he could do the job better than they, approached his task realistically by demanding and getting' an appro- priation of $253,000 a year for his in- vestigation. Although he is only 33, Mr. Dewey already has an enviable reputation 8s a prosecutor who gets results, As a former United States attorney, he succeeded in sending Waxey Gordon, a notorious racketeer, to prison for income tax evasion and prosecuted succesefully a dozen other outlaws who had escaped puni-ament in the State courts. Not Awed Task. If Mr. Dewey is awed by the - tude of the task before l’l’hn, :e“g;r:‘ ceals it well. With extreme care, he is choosing a staff of able young law- yers in whom he has confidence. He has invited the victims of racketeers to tell their stories to him, and he has promised that the names of his wit- nesses will not become public knowl- edge, He has received pledges of co-oper- ation from Mayor La Guardia and his police commissioner, Lewis J. Val- entine, a man who was elevated to the top by the Fusion administration after being dropped to the bottom in former Mayor Walker's time after a series of gambling raids on Tammany district clubs. A squad of undercover men has been created in the Police Department to help Mr. Dewey. The political skies are unusually propitious for an inquiry of the type he is about E undertake. With Tam- many on the outs with President Roosevelt and none too friendly with the incumbent of the executive man- sion in Albany, there is no one in the White House or in Albany who is likely to interfere, Mayor La Guardia certainly won ¢Copyright, by the No Newspaper Alliance Americsn ! THOMPSON RITES SET NEW YORK, August 3 (#)—Fun- eral services will be held tomorrow for George Kramer Thompson, noted architect, at Nyack, N. Y. Thompson, 75, died last night at his home in Piermont-on-Hudson, N. Y. Thompson, who had been retired for 15 years, was the designer of some of New York City’s earliest skyscrap- ers. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa. Stomach Removed, Esophagus Serves As Its Substitute Veteran, 3 Weeks With- out Organ, Is Missing No Meals. By the Associated Press. ‘TORONTO, August 3.—Three weeks without a stomach, John Johnston, a ‘World War veteran, isn’t missing any meals. The entire organ, diseased by car- ¢inoma, was removed and Johnston's esophagus connected to his small in- testine by Dr. G. E. Wilson, chief surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital. “What happened is that his eso- expanded and became a sub- stitute for the stomach,” Dr. E. H. _Bhannon, head of the X-ray depart- “cnt at the hospital, explained. A entertainment. director. Need of Every Nearly 50,000 girls and women were | aided last year by the Washington branch of the Young Women’s Chris- | tian Association, which offers services ranging from community center ac- | tivities to a course on successful mar- riage. The administration center, at Sev- enteenth and K streets, is the hub for | 8 varied program of activities which includes health education, room serv- ice, business and professional training and placement, musical education, general education, industrial vocation training, recreational services and camp and vacation facilities. The organization tries to satisfy the need of every girl and woman it comes in contact with. For the athletic there are swimming and sports. The musical can enjoy group singing and glee clubs. The untutored can learn their A B Cs. Transient girls alone In the Capital can find aid and a bed at Elizabeth Somers’ residence, 1104 M street, or the E Street Community Center, while girls anxious for a cool vacation away from the city can go to Kamp Kahlert, on West River. Variety in Recreation. Dances, sings, shuffie board, ping pong, educational trips—the Y. W. C. A. arranges all these. Throughout the city, chapters func- tioning as separately organized parts of the association have been formed— in Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, the Dupont_Circle section, Georgetown, Mount Pleasant, Parkview, Princeton and St. Albans. L A special feature of the Y. W. C. A’s work is the organization of Girl Re- serves, which is open to any girl be- tween 12 and 18, and operates through co-operation of the junior and senior high schools. 4 The weekly club meetings at the schools give girls opportunities for making friends through music, sports, dramatics, dancing, discussions, handi- crafts and other special hobbies. The Girl Reserves are part of an organi- zation which reaches 52 countries and so has a natural channel for se- curing information about girls in other lands, for meeting people of other nationalities and for expressing their interest in them. Camp Stay-at-Home, the Y. W. C. A. town camp for girls between 12 and 18, opened July 5 under di- rection of the Girl Reserve depart- ment. Included in the program of its activities are handicrafts, camp- craft, first aid, knitting, dressmaking, cooking, flower arrangements, Whit- tling, fencing, papercraft and gar- monica band, social dancing and sing- ing are offered as additional interests to the 172 girls enrolled this Summer. The industrial department extends its facilities to girls employed in homes and in cafeteria work. To aid these young women, who might otherwise ‘have no proper recreation or educational and social o] ties, the Y. W. C. A. has formed club groups for girls employed in homes and nationality groups consisting of two Greek clubs and two Armenian clubs. Americanization Class. An Americanization class, 8 Class in English and citizenship for foreign- 8] Wwomen and girls under di- rection of the District of Columbis Americanization School, is given in connection with the education de- partment, which also arranges-varous THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 4, 1935—PART ONE. High Estate Tax May Pump More Wealth Into Wall Street Forced to Raise Cash to Meet Levies; Heirs Likely to Pay Heavy Premiums to Big Money Interests. One of the objectives of administration supporters of the pending tax legislation—that of leveling off the concentration of wealth and economic power now centered in the hands of a comparative few—may turn out to be such a boomerang in application of the proposed inheritance taxes that this concentration will be considerably increased. This possibility has been recognized by opponents of the legislation, H. L. Maze, 50,000 in Year Aided by ‘Y.W. In Great Range of Service Girl and Woman, in Athletics, Music, Business and Even Marriage,Metby Organization Here. sightseeing trips in and around Wash- ington as well as week end trips about | the surrounding countryside. One hour each day is devoted to domestic employment service. ‘The Education Department also conducts an Educational Council, composed of representatives from the different classes who meet monthly to assist in planning the work of the department from the standpoint of the girls. Directly connected with the Educa- tion Department is the Public Affairs Committee, which concerns itself with the study of civic and national affairs. ‘The Health Education Department is fully equipped for a well-rounded program of physical culture activities, including swimming, tennis, basket ball, badminton and gym classes of all kinds, as well as a health room equipped with various machines and a solarium with both ultra-violet and infra-red lamps. Classes in gym- nastics, natural, tap and ball room dancing will begin in October. Kamp Kahlert affords the campers & place where they can make new dis- coveries and find new interests in working, exploring, experimenting and learning to be at Lome in the out-of-doors with other girls. General camp activities include swimming, rowing, aquaplaning, tennis, canoeing, dramatics, creative writing, pho- tography and clay modeling. ‘The broad gauge activities of the “Y” will be increased even beyond their present range when the new residence hall, donated by Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong, is complezed. Work on this building, which will house 200 girls, has begun on a site just north of the present administrative building. |- (This is the tenth of a series of articles on privately-financed social service work in the District. Another will appear here nexi week.) MISSING GIRL FOUND WORKING AS BARKER “Learned More in Coney Island Than Year in College,” Says By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 3.—Ann B. Sibley, pretty 21-year-old Chicago co-ed, was found working as a barker in a Coney Island sideshow today ex- actly one month after she disappeared from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, 'dening. Nature lore, stars, birds, har- | ohio, “I learned more at Coney Island in one month than I did in a year at college,” detectives quoted the girl as saying when she admitted her iden- tity. Her father, Joseph B. Sibley, is a Chicago attorney. Ruth Rabinoff, and the latter's father, , who was Miss Sibley had been found. Camp Roosevelt Holds Aquatic Day The Boy Scouts at Camp Roosevelt, down on the Chesapeake Bay, took to the water yesterday to ob- serve “aquatic day”—one of a series held during the camp session devoted to certain types of recreation and Upper: The beginning of & 60-yard free style race. Left to right are: Oliver Atkinson, Frank Thomas, Charles Plozet, Paul Davis, Bill Holbrook and Bob Bamman. Lower: A group of Scouts loaded on the “shore boat” which took them out to the Coast Guard Cutter Apache for an inspection. seventeenth session of the Boy Scouts at Camp Roosevelt. This is the assistant Scout executive, is camp —Star Staff Photos. Gas (Continued From First Page.) event of the failure of negotiations by the commission. The proposal also embodied o recommendation for a “sliding scale agreement” for the two gas light com- panies under paragreph 18 of the public utilities act. The sliding scale, Roberts indi- cated, would be patterned after the | existing arrangement for the annual | adjustment of the rates of the Po- | tomac Electric Power Co. Under this errangement, the company is guar- | anteed 7 per cent as a “fair return” on its valuation. 6 Per Cent Return Favored. Roberts did not indicate he had a 7 per cent return for the gas com- | panies in mind, but it was believed he would support a slightly lower rate, possibly 6 per cent. The Pepco er- rangement has been decreed by the courts and a similar “sliding scale” agreement with the gas companies, it was believed, would provide a basis for determining future rates and avoiding costly court litigation. “The stability afforded by the slid- ing scale arrangement,” Roberts said, | “would be conducive to financing on & much more economical basis. The record * * * is filled with illus- trations of major economies which could be effected if the owners of the property cculd finance additional equipment. _The commission well knows that the gas light companies are confronted with an extremely severe financial problem due to the large percentage of funded debt, some of which is in immediate need of refunding, and due to the require- ments for additional investment et a time when bank losses have reached their highest safe level.” Roberts did not reveal the basis on which he computed his proposed $820,000 reduction on the theory that in doing so he would “show his hand” to the companies and pave the way for protracted rebuttal. Favors Commodity Rate. For this reason, he said, he was presenting only the single figure of the amount of the rate reduction from the preux:}.l standard rates without regard to the 8'2 per cent temporary reduction. In withholding spproval of service fiable, particularly when there are relatively few customers in the high- consumption brackets. this type of service. “The large consumption by customers is in the interest of the consumers in the District of lumbia, as it tends to reduce the sion that the expenses of the valua- tion and rate cases have, according his estimate, been more than $600,000. Two Injured in Crash. CHICAGO, August 3 (&) —Mrs. Edith Judah, 52, and her daughter, A.B.C. REPORTHITS DRUNKEN DRIVERS Fewer Arrests of Minors Noted—Intoxication Tide Held Ebbing. ‘While reporting a decline in ar- rests for intoxication, particularly among minors, the Alcoholic Bever- age Control Board lashed out yester- day at drunken drivers as constitut- ing “a hazard which we should not tolerate.” In its annual report to the Commis- sioners, the board urged jail sen- tences and revocation of drivers' per- mits for all who fall within this class of offenders. The board presented figures to show “the tide of intoxication” in the Dis- trict is receding. It found that dur- ing every month of the present year there have been fewer arrests for drunkenness than in the correspond- ing months of last year. 1,757 June Arrests. In June there were 1,757 arrests for intoxication as against 32,022 In the same month last year. In May the figure was 2,087 as against 2,120 last year. In April, the figure was 1,948 as against 2,307 last year. A tabulation of other data sub- mitted by the board, however, showed no recession either in arrests for driv- ing while drunk or in the number of accidents attributed to drunken driv- ing, for the period since repeal as compared with a similar period prior to repeal. In the 16 months after repeal went into actual operation here on March 1, 1934, police made 468 arrests for drunken driving, the study shows. In 16 months prior to March, 1934, the number of arrests for the same cause totaled 317, More Accidents After Repeal. The report showed that in 16 months after repeal began there were 334 acci- dents attributed to drunken driving, Wwhereas the number in the 16 months prior to repeal was 239, The board found its campaign against sale of drink to children was bearing fruit. Reports revealed that 506 minors between 17 and 21 were arrested for intoxication in 1934, as compared with 376 for 1933. That large increase was taken as & “chal- lenge” and the board established a drive in co-operation with police. In the first quarter of this year the number of such arrests was 76, as compared with 97 in the first quar- ter of the preceding year. In the second quarter, the number was 80, as compared with 143 last year. e e Taxes (Continued Prom First Page.) $15,000. The present rate is 13% per cent for all corporations, while Presi- dent Roosevelt suggested graduation from 10% per cent to 163, per cent. The estimated additional yield is $15,000,000. ‘The House bill preserves the pres- ent right of railroads to file consoli- dated returns if they wish to pay & tax at the rate of 15% per cent. (3) Excess profits tax on corpo- rations. This provision, not re- quested in the presidential message, would impose & new scale of taxes on corporation profits in excess of 8 per cent of the adjusted declared value used as a base by the corporation. Scale From Profits. From 8 to 12 per cent, such profit would be taxed 5 per cent; from 12 to 16 per cent, the tax would be 10 per cent; from 16 to 35 per cent, the tax would be 15 per cent, and all above 25 per cent woull be taxed 20 per cent. The present rate is 5 per cent on profits over 12! per cent of the adjusted declared value. No pro- vision is made to allow corporations to make a new declaration of value, although Republicans made several attempts to have such provision writ- ten into the bill. The yield from this proposal is estimated at $100,000,000, the gen- eral understanding being that the committee majority resorted to the excess profits tax rather than follow the President’s proposal for a wider range of graduation of corporate in- come taxes. (4) Inheritance taxes. The bill establishes a range of inheritance taxes, running from 4 per cent on the first taxable $10,000 up to 75 per cent of all inheritances over $10,- 000,000. Exemption up to $50,000 would be allowed where the inheritance passes to a close relative, with ex- emption of $10,000 allowed in any case. The tax would be applied to net value of inheritance, among the allowances being the amount assessed for Federal estate taxes as well as local levies. The estimated yield from this section is placed at $86,000,000. Curb Gift Evasions. (5) Gift taxes. These levies are directed at recipients of gifts and are designed, the committee said, to pre- vent evasion of the inheritance taxes. The tax starts at 3 per cent on the first taxable $10,000 and mounts to 57 per cent on all gifts above the $10,000,000 mark. The principle of consanguinity is recognized in this some of them Democraiic Senafors, and admitted by non-partisan tax ex- perts who have been in close touch with the drafting of the bill. The circumstance arises in the fol- lowing manner: On an estate valued at $10,000,000, the Federal estate tax now enforced through the revenue act of 1934 levies & toll of $4,416,600 upon death of the owner, this amount being 58 | per cent of the estate’s value. ‘Taxes Take Biggest Slice. Subtracting this tax from the es- tate would leave & total net valuation of $5,583,400. By the terms of the pending inheritance tax legislation, the first $5,000,000 would be taxed $2,471,600, and the remaining $583,- 400 would be assessed at a rate of 64 per cent, amounting to $373,376. The total inheritance tax, therefore, as now proposed would amount to $2,- 844,976, thus leaving $2,738,424. To these levies must be added in- terest rates on deferred payments, the interest beginning in 18 months on estate taxes and in two years on the proposed inheritance taxes. The in- terest varies from 3 to 6 per cent in each case, making possible a maxi- mum interest toll of 12 per cent dur- ing the period of extension granted by the Government and of double that rate beyond the allowed period. In the case of an estate that con- slets of an industrial concern, for in- stance, the raising of more than $7,000,000 plus interest for payment of taxes becomes a problem of con- siderable proportion, according to tax experts who may be short on politics but are long on figures. provision as in that of the inheritance taxes. The estimated yleld is $24,- 000,000. In addition to the variations from presidential recommendations indi- cated in the above outline, the House yesterday approved one provision di- rectly contrary to the expressed wishes of the White House. This rebuff, sponsored by the majority members of the Ways and Means Committee, is an exemption to be granted corpo- rations for their gifts to charity. Not included in the original draft of the measure, the amendment was sub- mitted yesterday by Representative McCormack, Democrat, of Massa- chusetts and adopted without a record vote after Representalive Treadway had called attention of the House to |the fact the Republican-drafted mi- nority report had rapped the majority for not including such a provision. Amendment’s Terms. The substance of the amendment, to apply to section 23 of the revenue act of 1934, listing sllowaole deductions, follows in part: “Charitable and other contributions by the corporations.”” In the case of the corporation, contributions or gifts made within the taxable year to or for the use of a domestic corporation, or s domestic trust, or domestic com- munity chest, fund or foundation, or- ganized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, lter- ary or educational purposes (but in the case of contributions or gifts to a trust, chest, fund or foundation, only if such contributions or gifts are to be used within the United States exclusively for such purposes), no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private share- holder or individual, and no substan- tial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legisiation; to an amount which does not exceed 5 per cent of the taxpayer's net income as computed without benefit of this subsection. Such contributions or gifts shall be allowable as deductions only if verified under rules and regula- tions prescribed by the commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary.” Faces Senate Revision. ‘With House action thus lacking only the formality of approval of the legis- lation as it now stands, the more con- sequential tax developments of the immediate future seem likely to come from the Senate. On that side of the Capitol, dissatisfaction with the House bill already has been voiced in several quarters and speculation tends to the belief that & rewrite job will be done on the measure before it is reported out of the Senate Finance Committee. Unable lact week to hear all those who sought opportunity to testify on the measure, this committee will meet again tomorrow for added considera- tion. Chairman Harrison expects, however, to bring the Senate version of the bill on the floor of that body by the middle of the week. Indication of that committee’s tem- per toward the legislation has been disclosed plainly in hearings thus far. Senator Harrison has stated several times his desire to draw a bill con- forming to presidential recommenda- dations, making plain at the same THE DOUBLE REED GULBRANSEN SPINET QRGAN —is & new and wonderful musical instrument, so sensationally low-priced as to make it within reach of the most modest homes. Imagine the pleasure an organ like this will bring into your home; its pipe organ tone-quality and volume control offer an opportunity for rare musical meditation. The children, father, mother, every one who has an apprecistion for music will find it enjoyable and inspiring. Come in and play this melodious instrument. E. F. Droor & Sons Co., 1300 G Steinway and Other Leading Pianos Everything in Musie Overlooking for the moment the possibility that financing operations coming so close to the total value of an estate might force the business to the wall and require enforced liquidation, there are two uninviting alternstives open to the owner of the estate. One is to surrender it to the Government in lieu of the tax pay- ments, the other virtually to surrender 1t to big money interests in return for loans to meet the tax obligation. Wall Street Is Alternative. ‘The boomerang is the latter alterna- tive. One of the Government con- sultants comments as follows: “Wall Street is the only money cen- ter where cash could be raised to meet the tax obligations of some oig estates as affected by this legislation,” he said. “And application of these inheritance rates surely will drive some of these non-liquid estates into the hands of the Street financiers. “The amount of revenue to be gained by such levies is hardly worth driving more industrial concerns into control of this narrow circle. “In the other direction, if industries are forced into public ownership through enforcement of oppressive taxes there would be no appreciable benefit to the public. After all, a vast industrial empire such as Ford’s is constantly keeping its capital in operation, giving men work and stand- ing as an integral force in the life of thousands of persons. Under public ownership and operation it could do no more.” time his criticism of the failure of the House to stay more closely with the White House proposals. On the other hand, Senators Byrd of Vir- ginia, Gerry of Rhode Island and Lonergan of Connecticut have made plain their disapproval of the ex- treme proposals embodied in the House bill. Business Fights Bill. Meanwhile, business made known its intention of continuing opposition to the legisiation through a statement of Harper Sibley, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The measure, he sald, “demonstrates the hazards which all business enter- prises, regardless of size, will run so long as public finances are not brought into ordered condition.” Its passage, he continued, “would increase the forces of disorganization.” Consideration of the measure in the House yesterday moved tranquilly for the most part as administration forces easily beat down all attempts to amend the measure beyond their own specific proposal. From the Republican side, the prin- cipal attacks were directed at the graduated cerporation income tax, with Representative Treadway lead- ing this battle. Supporting an amend- ment to exempt this provision, Tread- way handed the Democratic majority a tongue lashing for what he termed subservience to the White House and then forced the only teller vote of the day on his proposal. It was defeated, 96 to 40. On the Democratic side of the aisle, more amendments were offered, most of them from the so-called liberal ele- ment, which sought to broaden the base of the tax program or to greatly increase the rates in the higher brack- ets.. as one of Representative Kenney, Democrat, of New Jersey to have a national lottery bill substituted for the pending taX measure, were shouted down without difficulty and many times without argument by the com- mittee majority. Forgery Case Involves Lord. LONDON, August 3 () —Lord Ed- ward Montagu, second son of the Duke of Manchester, was charged to- day with complicity in an affair in- volving an alleged forged check and is to appear in Police Court Monday. Young Montagu has often figured in the news. He received much pub- All of these attempts, as well | SENATOR WARNS OF A A A, SUITS George Sees Crippling Flood of Injunctions if Privi- leges Denied. By the Associated Press. A “flood of injunctions” was pree dicted yesterday by Senator George, Democrat, of Ceorgia as the likely answer to any weakening congres- sional conferees on the Senatz amend- ments to the agricultural adjustment act permitting suits for recovery of processing taxes. “If the conferees are wise,” sald George, who was author of the amend- ments “they will retain the provisions guaranteeing citizens access to. the courts, and will even stregthem them. “Otherwise, they will invite a flood of injunction suits tha: will cripple the A, A. A Modification Question. The Georgian's statement was prompted by reports from one quarter that the conferees were contemplating modifying the suit privileges by per- mitting processors to appeal only to the commissioner of internal revenue for rebates iff event the processing taxes are held invalid. From other sources, however, came renewed assertions that the House conferees had sccepted the Senate amendments with little change. This was despite the statement of Repre- sentative Jones, Democrat, of Texas that the House members had not as yet accepted any change of the House language flatly outlawing suits for re- covery. There was agreement on one thing. It was that no final action on any issue before the Senate-House confer- ees would be taken until the return tomorrow of Chairman Smith of tie Senate Agricultural Committee, one of the conferees. Pending final settlement are the debenture plan, stricken out by the Senate, the price-fixing provisions, also stricken out by the Senate, the crop control programs for tobacco, cotton and potatoes, and other issues, Cause of Pending Suits. In his comments on the tax suit problem, Senator George asserted the several hundred injunction suits now pending were a direct outgrowth of the attempt to obtain congressional sanction for outlawing suits to recover "tax payments in event the law is in- validated. Any “competent counsel” to a proc- essing firm, the former judge said, would certainly advise an injunction suit to prevent collection of the tax if he felt the Government was going to prohibit recovering them if wrongly collected. “If the Government permits ac- cess of these processors to the courts to recover taxes,” George said, “the A. A. A. can go on collecting them, but if processors are denied that right, then the equity courts will be asked and will act, to protect them with injunctions.” George branded as a “most alarming tendency” the “evidence of impatience shown by executive and administra- tive agencies of the Government with the effort of the citizens to assert what he believes to be his rights under the law of the land.” J. G- MORRISON DIES Towan Had Been With Library of Congress 40 Years. John G. Morrison, an employe of the Library of Congress for 40 years, died yesterday at his home, 3041 Sedgwick avenue. Mr. Morrison, who was 73, was born in Keokuk, Iowa. He is survived by @ sister, *Ars. Helen M. Hall of Wash- ington. | ATTENTION | AUTOMOBILE OWNERS The Automobile Financial Responsibility Law Takes Effect August 1, 1935. 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