Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1936, Page 25

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, COUNTY TAXTABLE REVEALS CHANEE Rate Cuts Shown in Seven Election Districts in Montgomery. B a Stafl Correspondent of The Star ROCKVILLE, Md., June 19.—A number of changes will be found in &pecial levies of Montgomery County's election districts and tax aress dur- ing the fiscal year beginning July 1, & table of supplemental taxes pre- pared by County Accountant Alexan- der Hancock disclosed today The levies have no bearing on the general county rate, which is expected to be continued at $1.50 on the $100 fssessment when the ccmmissioners adopt the new budget on Tue: the proceeds being used exclusiv to finance special public improvements and services received in those areas. Increases in assessable base and reduction of interest charges on road bonds will cut 1 cent off the total rate in the first. fourth, fifth, seventh twelfth and thirteenth districts, while taxpayers in the eighth district will receive a 2-cent decrease by virtue of the same develcpments Tax Bill Changes. Changes in the special tax rates of three communities be Teflected in tax bills for new year, Hancock said. The Citizens' Com- mittees of Section 2, Chevy Chase and Battery Park have voted for 5 and 2 cent rel tions. respectively. while the Ci ns' Commiitee of Oakmont has decided upon a 5-cent increase. Funds d-rived from the special area taxes are returned to the governmen- tal agencies of those communities for street improvement work and sanitary gervice Two new taxes authorized at the recent session of the State Legislature are to be collected for the first time A 2-cent levy will be imposed for support of the Silver Spring Publiy Library in an area generally conform- ing to the Silver Spring fire tax zone, while a 6-cent levy will pbe collected of the Takoma Park in that part of the precinet Wheaton district, utside the Takoma Park cor- area { of Table for Districts, Hancock’s table shows the follow- ing election district rates will result if the $150 tax enacted by the commissioners, his figures including the general county levy, district road Jevies and the State rate First, $1.83 $1.78; third $186. fourth, $1.79: fifth, $1.73 sixth. $1.82: seventh, $1.73: eighth, $1.76. ninth, 1.78: tenth. $1.78; eleventh, $1.78; twelfth, $1.83: thir- teenth. $1.75 to the above rates in spe- g areas will be as follows Chevy Chase. 30 Chevy Chase. 25 Chevy Chase. 35 cents Chevy Chase. 30 cents; tions to Chevy Chase. 24 iship Heights. 30 cents 5 cents: Oakmont, 10 cents: North Chevy Chase, 25 cents; Chevy Chase View. 10 cents: Battery Park. 11 cents; Northwest Park, 30 cents $1 Section 2 Bection 3 Section 4. Section cents cents; 5 Fire Area Taxes. fire area taxes include 6 cents; Chevy Chase. 10 cents; Bethesda, 10 cents: Conduit road. 10 cents. Gaithersburg-Wash- ington Grove, 10 cents sanitary rone of ninth election district and 5 cents outside sanitary zone: Kensing- ton 5 cents: Takoma Park. 6 cents Other special lev are Silver Bpring Library area. 2 cents: Mont- gomery County suburban district, 30 cents. Maryland-Washington metro- politan district, 10 cents: Montgomery Euburban district road tax, 4 cents; sanitary district, 7 cents The first, second and third pre- cincts of the thirteenth election dis- trict also have a special assessment for special improvements. They in- clude 3 cents in the first and third precincts for Viers Mill road and 3 cents in the second precinct for the Brookeville pike grade crossing. The Soring Silver 2 Citizens Name Officers. ROGERS HEIGHTS, Md., June 20 (Special).—Louis A. Day has been re- elected president of the Edmonston Road Citizens' Association, with Med- ford Webb, vice president: Mrs. Win- field Aub, secretarv; B. A. Bartoo, treasurer, and Mrs. Byron Moore, as- &ociate secretary. Capt. R. T. W. Duke, U. §. A, retired: Mrs. J. S. Crowley and Warren Thomas have been elected executive officers. THE STAR Touch With Keep In | RATES by MAIL Payable in Advance Maryland and Virginia Evening & Sunday Evening Sunday One Month, 85¢ 50c 40c {One Week, 25¢ 15¢ 10c Other States and Canada Evening & Sunday Evening Sunday |One Month, $1.00 75¢ One Week, 30c 25¢ Bites Snake BABY REMOVES REPTILE'S HEAD IN A BITE. JACK BONE. This, ‘adies and gentlemen, is a 17-month-old Atlanta boy who made news by bit- ing a snake. Jack found a grass snake in the yard and promptly severed its head with his teeth. He suffered no ill eflects, however. His par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam’ Bone, wouldn’t trust him with an- other live one, so Jack dem= onstrates with a toy one. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. LIBERTY LEAGURR | SUBCESTS WALKS Shouse Asserts Democrats | Owe No Loyalty to New Deal. Shouse. president of the a erty League. asseried last | Democrats owed no loyalty ew Deal and broadly hinted that they “take a walk” from the party's Philadelphia convention In a radio address, Shouse, who has consistently opposed President Roose- velt and his policies, refrained from | pledging his support to any candi- date by name. Emphasizing his view that a tre- | mendous task of national rehabilita- tion lies ahead. Shouse asserted that “a man of prudent caution, of hard- headed business sense, of inflexible will and determination is needed for - | the job | | Washington | John Dickinson, = PLANS ANNOUNCED BY ERASMUS BODY t 400th Anniversary of Dutch | Philosopher’s Death to l | Be Observed. Plans for commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of | Desiderius Erasmus, famous Dutch | rhilosopher, were announced yesterday by Dr. Lester K. Born, chairman, | Erasmus Committee, 1789 Lanier place. | The exact date of the quadricen- tennial is Sunday, July 12, and the celebration will center in that day. An internaticnal broadcast between Washington and Rotterdam, an exhi- bition of books and manuscripts by and about Erasmus at the Library of Congress, and a special service at Washingtcn Cathedral are included in the program. | Members of the committee sponsor- ing the commemoration are: Jonk- heer H. M. van Haersma de With, | Minister of the Netherland, and Dr. Marc Peter, Minister of Switzerland; Baron van Breugel Douglas, coun- | selor of the Netherlinds Tegation; former Undersecretary of State Wil liam R. Castle, Federal Communica- | tions Commissioner George Henry Payne, Assistant Attorney General | Dr. James Brown Scott, secretary, Camegie Endowment | for International Peace; Dr. Arthur D. Call, secretary, American Peace | Society; Dr. Will Hutchins, professor of history, American University; Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, former sec- retary, Yale University, now canon | residentiary, Washgton Cathedral; | Rev. Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney, | pastor, Covenant-First Presbyterian Church; Canon Albert H. Lucas, head- | | master. St. Albans School for Boys; | Dr. Ellis Haworth, head of the science department, and Miss Mildred Dean, Ihead of the classics department. Washington ~ public schools; Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian, Wach- ington Public Library; Dr. Joseph “Masking under the name of the | Democratic party.” Shouse said, “the | New Deal (at Philadelphia) will write | a platform of indorsement of the Roosevelt administration. Such in- | dorsement can only mean a radical | departure from the basic principles upon which the Democratic party was founded.” Because of the New Deal's record, | he asserted. “no Democrat who re- | fuses” to accept the doc- trines” of the Philadelphia platform “can be accused of disloyalty to his party.’ Shouse said Roosevelt was elected on “the best platform in the history of American politics.” but had vio- lated it in wholesale manner. $1,084,604 CONTRIBUTED. Gifts to Liberty League and Other Groups Rvealed. EY the Associated Press The Senate Lobby Committee said in a statement yesterday that during the past 18 months'a total of $1,084,604 was contributed to the American Lib- erty League and 13 other organizations | and that much of it came from Du | Pont, Morgan and Mellon associates. Washington! It does not matter how far away from home you spend your vacation the fine local and national news present- ed by The Star will reach you. 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She said he ran away from home to visit the blacksmith shop and that she believed his love of horses originated there, Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Quincy Adams, director, Folger Shakespeare Library: G. A. Lyon, as- sociate editor, The Star; Albert W. Atwood, editorial writer, Saturday Evening Post; Edwin N. Lewis, execu- tive secretary, National Cathedral As- sociation: Gerard Ten Eyck Beeck- man, editorial director, Bureau of In- dian Affairs; Prof. Stephen A. Hurl- but, Lieut. Col. Donald Armstrong. Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr, and James Waldo Fawcett, secretary. Erasmus’ best-known works are his Greek Testament, the first ever print- ed: his proverbs, “Praise of Folly and “Colloquies,” all of which still are read and appreciated Record-breaking sales always indicate record-breaking value, and that is why we are printing these figures. They are important, not because they establish a record, but because they carry the following message to all people who have yet to buy their 1936 cars. Anmerica is choosing Chevrolet because America is convinced that Chevrolet represents the most motor car for the least money. » [ D;. C.,. . JUNE. 21, 1936—PART ONE. W.P. A, WAGES SET BY COMMUNITIES Hopkins Reveals Move to Decentralize His Ad- ministration. Ev the Associated Press. In a new move to decentralize the ‘Works Progress Administration, Harry L. Hopkins announced at a radio | “staff meeting” yesterday that hourly wages under the new works program would be determined in local com- | munities. This action, which gave to W. P. A. a wage system almost identical with that of the old F. E. R. A, does not mean, however, that monthly wages $19-to-$94 monthly rates continued, ; ministrator, explained the result would | be a general reduction in working hours, Administrators of W. P. A. in 315 cities were gathered at their radios for the half-hour explanation of how W. P. A’s new $1,425,000,000 fund— to be | bill—would be spent. Despite his remarks that white col- lar W. P. A. projects had “gotten us | into more hot water than everything else put together,” Hopkins gave as- surances that employment of needy artists, musicians, actresses and writers would be continued. He made a similar statement con- cerning the National Youth Admin- istration, which is to spend $75,000,000 instead of $50,000,000 next. year. Acknowledging that W. P. A. labor | was sometimes inefficient, Col. F. D. | Harrington, chief W. P. A. engineer, who also participated in the broad- cast, sald this was because little labor- | saving machinery was used and many of the workers had to be trained Replying to & question by Chester Gray of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Hopkins sald W. P. A ! workers would be required to accept would be increased. With the present | Thad Holt, assistant W. P. A. ad-| vailable as soon as President | Roosevelt signs the relief-deficiency | | Ready to Quit FASHION EXPERT OFFERS SHOP TO WORKER: GABRIELLE CHANEL, Well-known Paris fashion ex- pert, has offered her business to her employes rather than make a settlement with them regarding wages and hours of labor, which, she says, she cannot, under present busi- ness conditions, promise to be able to fulfill. She proposed to the workers that they carry on the business at their own risk and on their own terms and that she will, in the in- terest of French dressmaking, remain as an unpaid adviser in fashion matters. —Wide World Photo. seasonal jobs if “decent wages” were offered * District k. 7LCVOEUVHUEdNP!‘Dm Pirst Page.) calendar and the other six on the Sen- ate calender. | others met death in the Senate com- mittee or in subcommittees of the House committee. These included a bill to legalize horse racing, the Guyer bill to return prohibition to the Dis- trict and a bill designed to tighten | the gambling laws. A bill to modern- ize and humanize juvenile court pro- | cedure succeeded in getting out of the House District Committee bearing a |stamp of approval, but it never | reached the calendar in time for con- 'sideration because the legislative s drafting committee took it over to revise and perfect. Aside from the purely District bills ‘emc!ed. the Capital is destined to re- | ceive benefits from two national bills | that went through Congress. The om- | nibus flood control bill authorized | 8571,000 for raising the grade along the Potomac River to protect Wash- | ington from flood waters, and the | rivers and harbors act authorized im- ipmvement along the Water street waterfront and dredging operations in the Washington Channel and Anacos- tia River. The last District bill to go through | Congress is one that sets up a new boller inspection bureau in the engi- neer department of the District gove ernment, thereby abolishing the only remaining fee office. It was rushed But more than 100 | through both House and Senate just prior to adjournment House bills enacted during the sece ond session were thoge creating the airport commission, strengthening the bribery lew, providing a higher status for vocational schools, amending the unemployment insurance act, amend- ing the charter of the National In- surance Co., authorizing issuance of licenses for practice of the healing arts and providing for the G. A. R. and Elks conventions. The Senate bills which became law included the one authorizing merger of the gas companies, the revocation of driving permits of non-residents, giving the health officer authority to open graves, authorizinz the Police Department prope k to dispose of unclaimed pro 2uthoriziny the Commiscioners to enforce liens on property bid in at tax delinquent sales, providing for exiension of char- ters of trust companics. making De- cember 26 this year a legal holiday. ratifying the appointment of Isaac Gans as a member of the Alcchol Beverage Control Board and author- izing preparations for the presidential inaugural next January. 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