Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1935, Page 12

BETHESDAC. OF C. STARTS TAX FIGHT Drastic Policy Aimed at Levy on Saes Is Adopted. BY JACK ALLEN, 8taft Correspondent of The Star. ‘BETHESDA, Md., December 3.—The ground work for a stubborn fight | against any continuation of sales taxes in Maryland was laid in the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce last night with | the adoption of the Special Sales Tax @Committee’'s progress report opposing #he imposition of trade levies for the plrpose of financing unemployment rélief. i Withholding passage of a formal | fésolution until the committee com- pletes its current study, the chamber Devertheless pledged itself to pursue | a “drastic anti-sales tax policy” in en effort to defeat any plan that may be advanced for re-enactment | of the gross receipts tax, or adoption | of a sales levy, when the State As- sembly convenes for its special re- | lief session. Hope for Reductions. Hope for permanent reductions in | the gas and telephone rates of sub- | urban Montgomery County that will | be comparable with those made re- cently in the District of Columbia | was advahced by Samuel E. Stone- | braker, chairman of the Public Utili- | ties Committee, after a conference yes- | tarday with officials of the two com- pinies. | 'Bitter opposition to the type of poles which were recently erected along the eastern side of Wisconsin mvenue to carry electric power lines mnd the new street lighting system was voiced during the meeting and an | attempt is to be made to have them yemoved in favor of more ornamental | standards. The Sales Tax Committee, headed | by Walter K. Bachrach, pointed out | in its report that a number of States | having sales taxes have suffered great CLIPPER AT WAKE; BUFFETED BY WIND Musick Climbs and Dips to Dodge Squalls—Lands 17 Minutes Late. By the Associated Press. WAKE ISLANDS, December 3 (Via | Pan-American Airways Communica- tions) .—~The trail-blazing China Clip- per landed here at 8:58 p.m. yesterday (4:58 am. Eastern standard time), completing the second leg of its re- turn flight from Manila to the Cali- fornia mainland. Guided unerringly by & radio beam | and landing flare set up at the island | base, the 25-ton flying boat glided to a perfect landing in the darkness. The big ship is making the first eastbound commercial flight across the Pacific, carrying about 1,000 pounds of airmail from the Philippines and Guam, her starting point on the hop she finished yesterday. | Unusually heavy head winds buf- feted the plane nearly all the way, but she flew the 1,560-mile overwater | stretch in 13 hours and 47 minutes, | just 17 minutes slower than schedule. For long periods Capt. Edwin C. Musick varied the ship’s altitude to | dodge rain squalls and atmospheric | disturbances set up by a typhoon | raging about 100 miles south of the Clipper's course. of Flight. BY CAPT. EDWIN C. MUSICK, Master of the China Clipper. ON BOARD THE CHINA CLIPPER, | Over the Pacificc December 3| (N.AAN.A) (By Wireless).—Leaving | Guam, the China Clipper is rapidly | eating up the miles on the second leg | of our homeward journey from Manila. ‘We left Apra Harbor at 20:11 G. M. T. (3:11 p.m. Eastern standard time, Monday) for Wake Island, which we | are scheduled to recch 13!; hours | TUESDAY, DECEMBER detail change until dawn while we slept peacefully. At breakfast, Airport Manager Gregory, the veteran of many Carib- bean hurricanes, discussed the com- pleted map. While the center was moving rapidly northward, he did not think it would approximate our course, and wuold affect us only by line squalls 200 miles out. The Clipper easily rode the storm which lashed the harbor outside, but the mechanics swarmed over tre air- liner under brilliant floodiights aug- mented by hand flashlights, inspecting every rivet, strut and section of the great hull, wings and engine. We easily transferred our record mail of 12,000 letters and boarded at 6:30, Crowd Watches Take-Off. Aboard we talked by radio to Man- ager Bicknell at Wake, 1,500 miles away, to get his Yast upper air ob- servations. When all was clear we cast off, following the same lighting buoys that brought us in last night, and got quickly out of the harbor. Dip- ping once farewell to the crowd which came out despite the weather to see the departure we rose instantly into clouds at a thousand feet. ‘We did not see the island again. The effects of the typhoon, which we easily flew away from, were im- mediately apparent. The clouds were heavy—a black gray, even when the | rising sun struck them in a flood of | golden light. We had a head wind | of 35 miles per hour on the quarter- ing bow, making it moderately rough in the clouds, but we soon settled to 600 feet and cruised smoothly, We are changing watches hourly instead of every three. The head winds make more work at evey post in the us every 15 minutes. Rain Creates Din. At 60 per cent horse power, our cruising speed is reduced to 97 knots by head winds of nearly 40 miles per hour. At*200 miles out in two hours, we rode into our first line squalls. The wind shifted to north of east, directly over the bow. At our speed, rains last but a few minutes, creating a din on our metal hull and wings, pouring torrents down window portholes while we fly by instruments. Then suddenly we come into clear again—now thousand feet above surface—we are half way between the clouds and the sea, with it crested white caps. We are making about 105 miles, ground speed, and everything is| smoothly routine aboard. The rains are of little concern to | those aboard the China Clipper. As & matter of fact, four of the six || + officers will never see the outside | untl they go off watch and then they are more interested in sleep and food. 1t is now noon on board and lu .ch- | eon is being served in the lounge. We | are 485 miles out and making a good | course. (Copyright. 1935. by the North Newspaper Alliance, Inc. HEARINGS ARE BEGUN ON FOOD COMPANIES 30 Concerns Are Accused of Vio~K lating the Packers and Stock- yards Act. By the Associated Press. | The Agriculture Department has opened hearings in the case of 30 food companies accused of violating the | packers and stockyards act. | The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and 29 packers are involved in the charges. The Government alleges C. J. Noell, A. & P. employe, repre- sented himself as an independent broker, collecting commissions from the packers on sales to the A. & P. and its competitors. The Government contends Noell turned these commissions over to the leanen COAL NO WASTE! NO DIRT! NO SMOKE! NO SOOT! Quality fuel ... all lump .. modern vibrating shaker screws money saver. DUSTLESS Pocahontas Coal C‘H‘ere's the finest Bituminous oal money can buy. Thorough- ly chemically treated to pre- $9'7S STOVE 310.65 Ton _ EGG $7(-%0 Delivery to city and suburbs. | Ton Office open until 11 P.M. vent dusting. Smokeless, and P. WOODSON CO. ’Amerlcsn cleaned over . & genuine NUT Ton “order a ton NOW. | ship, especially for the radio officer, | THUNDERS THROUGH SQUALLS. since guarding stations are constantly | should find the concerns guilty he — | in touch and demanding reports every | could order them to cease the prac- | Clipper Pounded by Rain—Chief Tells 30 minutes, while bearings are sent tices. Violation of this order would | | will not clog the flue. For economy . . . for warmth = A. ra t P, chere‘r:z uivsngun unfair ad- COAL _ _ _ FUEL OIL vantage over competitors. 1202 Monroe St. N.E. No. 0176. If the Secretary of Agriculture | Experienced Advertisers Prefer The Star be punishable by fines. W. 8 J. Sloane 711 Twelfth Street loss of trade to adjacent non-sales tax States, particularly New Jersey, where trade declined 22 per cent, Wit later. | weather again and the entire plane The China Clipper got her first taste | becomes a mass of prismatic colors | of a Pacific typhoon while protected ' as sunlight strikes the wet surfaces. a similar increase showing up in New York and Pennsylvania stores. The New Jersey tax was repealed several | months after its enactment. Hold Merchants Suffer, Holding that Maryland merchants have suffered under the gross re- tion yesterday Louis. transportation. The Winne Mae, globe-girdling plane of the late Wiley Post, is shown as it arrived at its final resting place at the Smithsonian Institu- It will be hung near Lindbergh’'s famous Spirit of St. Workmen are shown as they wheeled the famous plane through the east entrance of the Smithsonian, which is filled with many relics of —Wide World Photo. | ceipts {ax enacted nearly a year ago, thie committee recommended that the chamber wage an “unrelenting, per- sistent and unalterable attack upon pblitical spenders and advocates of tHe sales tax now members of the State Legislature.” Tt was suggested that the State |in a presentation by the Children's YLegislature might act to place relief | Community Choruses of “The Christ- under the jurisdiction of the counties | mas Story in Song and Drama,” it was and Baltimore City, thereby relieving | Announced today by the John Bur- the State from that responsibility. | roughs, Thomson and Wheatley Com- George P. Sacks and J. Harry Welch munity Centers, sponsors of the pro- led the fight against the new electric | 8ram. The presentation will be at 4 light poles, declaring that an agree- ment with the chamber had been vio- lated through the placing of 55 and 60 foot cedar poles on the eastern side of the thoroughfare and asserting that $he trade body had received assurances they would be installed on the west side, where they would be less noticable. Backs stated that residents of the community have struggled for years to make Wisconsin avenue a beautiful highway leading into the National Capital and the installation of the towering poles has spoiled the resi- dents’ effort in that behalf. Harold Brooks, an official of the Potomac Electric Power Co., said that his concern was interested primarily in giving the suburban residents a high type of service and that appar- ently a misunderstanding had arisen over the manned in which the poles would be placed. Committees Named. A committee composed of Stone- braker, chairman; Joseph A. Can- trel, John Overholt, Harry L. Golla- day and A. R. Townshend, jr., was named to confer with officials of the gas and telephone companies on rate reductions, while Sacks, Townshend and Welch were appointed to confer with the electric company Tegarding removal of the poles. Dr. Arthur W. Shea and Owen E. Ryan were elected to membership. An appropriation of $25 was voted for the Christmas fund of the Bethesda Fire Department. A Christmas Gift for Mother TO HAVE 75 CHILDREN Seventy-five children will participate There are less than year need the protection it is easier to own an before the Holidays! In the Winter of Life, as in early infancy, sunshine is an absolute necessity . . . and when natural sunshine can not be had, that manufac- tured by the “G. E.” Sunlamp | is a Godsend. It penetrates . the body . . . brings warmth + and a feeling of well being. Prices as Low as '$14.95 Come in for a Demonstration v s 1330 N. Y. Ave. NA. 6800 L Visit eur showrooms. 411 3 COMMUNITY CHORUSES | pm. December 15, in the Luther Place WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY | Memorial Church. | The choruses are under the direction (ol Miss Esther Linkins, assisted by, Mrs. Edythe Lazaroff Goldman, Miss Florence Hinman, who has written a prologue to be spoken by Mrs. Gold- man; Mrs. Marie Little and Miss Helen Belt. | Eleven soloists. ranging in age from 6 to 20, will participate, Rehearsals are being held daily. ’ 20 days during the when nature provides proper temperatures for preserving food. So you of Electrolux — the Gas Refrigerator—all the year ‘roundl Thanks to a special term arrangement Electrolux now than ever beforel Buy yours right away. Tenth St. N. W. or eall District 8500 for complete explanation of our limited-time easy buying plan. | our Guam-wake course in her berth at the air base at Guam, | after her arrival from Manila. No sooner had the mechanics com- pleted servicing and fueling her when | gathering black clouds poured down a squally rain, which was driven across | the black waters of the harbor by a | | 40-mile gale. Unsettles Weather. Before we left Manila, the Pan- American weather man radiced a complete chart of the growing cyclone which yesterday centered at latitude 8, longitude 148, 150 miles off our course, which would not have affected our flight route. Moving closer over | night, it unsettled the weather on All night | the weather watchers at all stations entirely across the ocean kept hour | by hour record and advised us of every ' Then back into the clouds we go At the Bench Since Childhood Shoe Repair GEORGETOWN GAS LIGHT COMPANY Suggested Gifts In giving you want your gift not only to represent thoughtfulness in selection but discriminating care for quality and character. 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