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POSTAL OFFICERS GET ROSCOE TODAY Toledo “Gambling King” to Be Turned Over by F. B. I. Agents. Joe Roscoe, reputed ‘gambling king” of Toledo, Ohic, and alleged member of the Karpis gang, was to be turned over to postal inspectors today by special agents of the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation, who seized him in Miami, Fla, last Baturday. Roscoe’s arrest did not become generally known until yesterday after- noon, when J. Edgar Hoover, F. B. L. director, disclosed that he will be prosecuted by the postal authorities for alleged participation with Karpis in the $34,000 train robbery at Gar- rettsville, Ohio, in November, 1935, Capture Details Withheld. Details of the capture were not . made public. Hoover said Roscoe was questioned by G-men about his alleged essociation with Karpis and Harry Campbell, who are serving life sen-| tences for the kidnapings of William A. Hamm, jr., and Edward G. Bremer, at St. Paul, Minn. Karpis and Campbell were captured in swift F. B. I raids at New Orleans and Toledo, respectively, last May. Roscoe was indicted with Karpis, Campbell, Fred Hunter, Benson Groves, John Zetzer and John Brock for the Garrettsville robbery. Hunter was arrested with Karpis at New Or- leans and is serving two years at Atlanta Penitentiary for harboring Karpis. Zetzer and Brock are await- ing trial at Cleveland for mail rob- | bery. Groves is still at large. Served 14 Months in 1907. Records of the F. B. 1. show that Roscoe served 14 months for receiv- | ing stolen property, at Ohio State | Reformatory in 1907, and that he was | arrested for burglary at Toledo in| 1915. In the Garrettsville robbery Karpis and his associates held up an express train with machine guns as it pulled into the station, tossed off mail bags containing the pay roll of the Warren steel mills, loaded the bags into an automobile and fled. Four days later Karpis and Hunter chartered a plane and flew to Hot Springs, Ark., where a futile raid on their hideout was conducted early last year by G-men and postal in- spectors. an apartment on Canal street, in New | Orleans, where they walked into a = v 7 v | G-man squad led by Hoover on May | o cony chosen a method of compari- | 1 of last year. BYRD WILL GO BACK PORTLAND, Oreg., January 27 (®). —Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd told interviewers here there are 1,000,000 square miles of unexplored Antarctic territory rich in coal and oil. “There is plenty of coal down there to supply the entire world,” he said, “and I am sure there is oil under the ice.” He said as soon as physicians pro- | nounced him recovered from the ef- fects of poisoning incurred during his trip to the South Pole two years ago | he will return to the regiol FOUND. ‘COLLIE_Female_small brown: also large male black dog Wwith red harness. Phone Wisconsin_55K! 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Estimates cheerfully extended. Columbia Planograph Co. B0 L 8t. N.E. otrmu-n“v* - | Karpis and Hunter hid in | containing | a“Tasuzanee | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. ARTICLE IIL The New Fiscal Issue In Past Measurements of Municipal Tax Burdens the Experts Disagree Both on Choice of a Yard- stick and Their Conclusions — Astonishing Methods of Last Comparison Shown. This is the third of a series of editorial articles discussing parts of the fiscal relations issue suggested by the recent re- port of the so-called Jacobs Committiee. Yesterday’s article demonstrated the wnpractmabitity of measuring value of “in- departmental” services exchanged between the National Gov- ernment and its administrative agency for governing the District—the municipal government. Today’s article discusses HE adequacy of Washington’s tax burden has been explored and probed in the last six or seven years by five experts or expert agencies, all of them appar- ently qualified by experience or repu- tation to do the work. Possibly the best commentary on the abstruse na- ture of their research lies in the fail- ure of the experts to agree among “hemselves on the most accurate and equitable method of comparison and the varying and even contradictory results of their findings. Comparing tax burdens is by no means an exact science and may never be. Nor will much progress be gained, as far as accuracy is con- cerned, until there are uniform meth- ods of taxation and, more important, uniform methods and standards of assessing property. There is no uni- formity now. The experts are agreed on that. Nor is there much demand | elsewhere for the tax comparisons that are made in Washington. The test of fair taxation in other cities is whether the taxpayers are moder- ately satisfied that they are getting their money’s worth. If convinced | their tax burden is too high, the tax boosters have to run for cover or change their ways. In Washington the unique test of the tax burden's adequacy is com- parison with what other cities pey. And the difficulty is in the choice of a yardstick of relative measurement. Bureau’s Search for Yardstick. The Bureau of Efficiency had no axes to grind for anybody when it was given the task of measuring ‘Washington's tax burden in 1929-30. As the Government’s independent fact-finding agency, it was the first third party called in from the outside to settle a matter hitherto in dispute between some members of Congress |and the local commuuity. If it had merely to butter its own the bureau might have dis-| | sought bread, son that would indicate Washington's undertaxation. But it carefully searched for a yardstick that would be fair to every- body. It discarded what it called the “usual” method of adjusting tax rates for the reason that “no two authori- ties” can agree on how thoroughly property is assessed in other cities. Theoretically, the adjustment of tax rates is simple enough. A city which taxes property at the rate of assesses property at only 50 per cent {of real value, has an “adjusted” tax rate of $12.50. But the difficulty found by the bureau was that no two authorities agree on the ratio of assessed to real value and “the widely | varying results obtained indicate | rather conclusively that the method |is unsatisfactory.” The former Bu- reau of Municipal Research of De- troit had been using this method to show trends in taxation, but the Bu- | reau of Efficiency quoted the Detroit give more attention to the problem of | determining the ratio of assessed to | true value, exact information relative | to tax burdens will remain a mystery,” used in adjusting tax rates on this basis are of no specific interest, but are useful only in indicating general trends.” Shows D. C. Adeguatelv Taxed. The Bureau of Efficiency therefore devised a method of its own, which assessment values in comparable cities by raising them to the level of assessment in Washington. This was done by applying Washington’s per capita assessment—the highest in the 'coumry for total property—to the population of other cities, on the theory that actual value of property is approximately equal in cities of comparable population. The actual tax levies of these cities were then d'vided by these adjusted valuations, and the quotients represented ad- justed tax rates. The bureau found that it is “manifestly unfair to com- pare tax rates and tax revenues in Washington with those in other cities without taking into consideration the large property holdings of the Fed- eral Government which are exempt from taxation.” As for Washington's tax burden, the bureau declared: “This comparison bears out the conclusion based on adjusted tax rates that the burden of taxation in Washington, when due allow- ance is made for exempt property holdings of the Federal Govern- ment, compares favorably with the average tax burden in a group of 14 comparable cities.” Mapes Investigation Follows. ‘The Bureau of Efficiency’s investi- gation was one of the developments leading to the special investigation by the House committee which took the name of its chairman, Repre- sentative Carl Mapes of Michigan. ‘The Mapes Committee chose an out- standing tax expert, in the person of George Lord of Detroit, to make the tax comparisons. Mr. Lord adopted the method just condemned by the Bureau of Efficiency; that is, he ob- tained the best available estimates of the ratio of assessed to real value in other cities and adjusted tax burdens NY lon that basis. Mr. Lord frankly admitted the weakness of the method, although placing reliance in his figures as be- ing “as accurate as it is possible to obtain.” Unfortunately, the commit- tee did not include in its report all of Mr. Lord’s tables or all he had to say in the accompanying discussion. Mr. Lord very fairly included, how=- SCABS GLOVER'S MANGE It relieves itching and itritation; kills the mange mites “Mmlmhm ticks and chiggers. S W s Hookwotms. Alsoliquid Vermifugefor Puppies. Famous DOG BOOK—Veterinary sdvice FREE Address GLOVER'S, 468 Fourth Avenue. the measurement of tax burdens in different municipalities. ever, along with his estimated or ad- Jjusted tax rates, a comparison of to- tal and real estate tax levies per capita. While the adjusted tax rate comparisons naturally showed Wash- ington as relatively low in tax burden (the probable explanation being the high standard of assessment here as compared with other cities), the per capita comparisons were less unfavor- able. For if the committee had been willing to accept the argument that State taxes and interest payments should be eliminafed from the com- parison—which will be discussed in a later article—the per capita show- ing of Washington's tax burden would have been higher in relation to the average. Uses Discarded Method. The next attempt at a tax burden comparison was made by the Treas- ury, which adopted the siaple ex- peditnt of using the figures assem- bled by the Detroit Bureau of Munici- pal Research, previously considered as unusable by the Bureau of Effi- ciency and apparently by the Mapes Committee as well. The Treasury presented its figures as “a prelimi- nary crude measure” of tax burdens and the result naturally indicated a low tax burden for the District for the same reason that the adjusted tax rate comparisons of the Mapes Committee did. The Treasury experts never completed their investigation and nobody seemed to pay much at- tention to its preliminary conclusion. The Board of Trade, however, de- cided to engage the services of a tax expert in whom the tax committees on both sides of the Cap..ol reposed high confidence—L. H. Parker, chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Mr. Parker went straight to the source ol the only official figures relating lo] taxation in all the cities of the coun- try, the United States Census Bureau, which has been gathering financial | statistics of cities for years and inter- preting them according to uniform methods in the hands of skilled statisticians. Mr. Parker attempted | | no conclusions, merely presenting the | results of a “factual” study of tax burdens. Treating the debt factor as | noncomparable, he first compared the | and that “ratios which have been | consisted in an attempt to equalize | combined city and county tax bur- dens of the 44 largest cities c* the | {country and then combined city, | | State and county tax burdens of the | | same cities. With State taxes elim- | inated, Washington, standing four- | tude of per capita tax burden. With State taxes included, Washington stood | eighteenth. Other comparisons were made, including unusual and interest- ing elements which might affect tax ! burden, the result showing Washing- ‘ ton as standing relatively high in its tax burden. Still Another Method. ‘The most racent comparison of tax | burdens has been made by the so- ! called Jacobs Committee and the re- | the Bureau of Efficiency findings gen- | | erally and in other respects are most | { unusual. | The method of this committee was | a modified version of methods previ- | ously condemned both by the Bureau ;or Efficiency and the Mapes Commit- tee. Instead of relying on the esti- mates or guesses of the ratios of as- sessed to true value in the cities com- pared, it placed most faith in the esti- mates of various appraisers in the different cities who were requested to select “typical” properties in five glasses of property and give their best Jjudgment as to value. The appraisers’ estimated value of these properties was then compared with actual taxes and assessed values, and on that basis tax rates were adjusted and ratios of assessed to true value were set down. Choice of “Typical” Property. Curious results are evident in the fiscal report’s own tables and inter- pretations. The report joins with other experts in the belief that no confi- dence can be placed in tax rates of various municipalities “without rela- tion to competent and uniform ap- praisal of property values.” Assess- ments of property, said the report, “do not recessarily reflect the value, even though the statute requires that the assessments should be based on the value of property.” So it went ahead on the theory that if sound appraisals of “typical” properties could be ob- tained, the comparison of the actual taxes paid on those properties would be simplified. The experts laid great stress on the selection of “typical properties.” The report indicates something approach- ing enthusiasm when it states that “short of actually moving the typical properties with their owners from city to city, uniform assumptions and appraisals were made so that the property and other taxes paid on typical properties were obtained from each city.” Moving Properties Around. Let us examine one of the “typical” properties. A typical multi-family dwelling, for instance, is described as follows: “Four, five or six-room modern apartments, brick, average size rooms, one bath. All to be typical walk-up buildings, not over 20 years old.” What happens when we move this SN e llv[rmlul[l/l//[/ %PIANOS NN\ S S a month m $8 & A good selec- makes— you pay appli th. BHN it YIIII-H‘I‘IDI E:w-rt Phone NAtional 3223 THE ARTHUR JORDAN PIANO COMPANY ll!l 6 STREET (Corner of 13tN) Crrrsvrrsrsisosnnssstosithe 4, “typical” property from city to city? We find that the average appraised value of this property ranges from $11,725 in New Orleans to $312,643 in Washington. In Baltimore the average appraised value of such “typi- cal” iproperty is $23,364, but in Cincinnati it is $100,400. In Kansas City it is $20,682, but in Cleveland it is' $41,115, while in Pittsburgh it is $125,000. In Jersey City this “typical” property is appraised, on an average, at $47,147, but when this typical prop- erty is moved to Newark, a short dis- tance away, the appraisal jumps to $103,469. What Happens With a Store? Let us try again with a store, de- scribed in the report as: “Two-story business property; 100 per cent location. Two-story, brick construction, in the best retail business blocks. Stores not less than 50 feet or more than 100 feet deep. Tenant pays all expenses except taxes, insurance, deprecia= tion and exterior upkeep. If occu= pied by owner, estimate rental.” In moving this store from city to city we find that it is appraised at $7,500 in New Orleans and $409,643 in Seattle. This “typical” store is ap- praised at $111,929 in Baltimore, shrinks to $29,485 in Boston, leaps to $63,182 in Buffalo, nose-dives to $28,600 in Cincinnati, soars into the $157,143 clouds of Cleveland, spirals into the $241,891 stratosphere of Washington, D. C., hits the $355,417 ceiling of Indianapolis, descends to Jersey City’s $165,273 and then to Kansas City’s $21,725, with equally interesting ups and downs in other cities. While the apartment house was appraised at $47,147 in Jersey City and $103,469 in nearby Newark, the store was appraised for $165,273 in Jersey City and $46,850 in Newark. Properties Not “Typical.” These astonishing results show con- clusively, of course, that the appraisers in the 18 different cities included in the comparison had a very hazy idea of what sort of property the experts in Washington wanted appraised. If the property was “typical” of its class in one city, it was no longer typical as between cities. The appraisers were not appraising the same kind of prop- erty at all. And if they were not ap- praising typical property a good por- tion of the report’s case for adjusting tax rates on the basis of uniform ap- praisals of “typical” property imme- diately falls to pieces. ‘The experts relied, furthermore, on the estimates or guesses of property appraisers in different cities and their alleged appraisal of various numbers of properties. In Baltimore, for in- stance, the standard of assessment there and the theoretically adjusted tax rates were based on an alleged careful appraisal of 175 properties. Here in Washington 76 properties were Tepresented as having been ap- praised by three local appraisers, who apparently can recall carefully ap- praising only 14. Even if they ap- praised carefully all of the 76 proper- ties, would their results necessarily be a sound index of actual taxes paid ! for all property in Washington, or for | the actual level of assessments? The | value of property depends on mlnv things which cannot be reduced by | any known method to uniformity, especially when the property is dis- $25 a thousand, but which in reality | teenth in population, third in magni- j tributed over 18 citles in every part of the United States. Conclusions Based on Guesses. For one set of guesses by assessors in the different cities the fiscal in- vestigators substituted another set of | guesses by unofficial appraisers and | without allowing anything for State | taxes or interest payments, which fig- ure so largely in the tax burden else- where, but which are not equitably |to be included in measurement of Washington’s tax burden, roncluded| agency as warning that “until cities sults contradict both the Parker and!that Washington is escaping a fair | tax burden. But the method of reach- | ing the conclusion is so manifestly faulty that the conclusions can scarcely be accepted as fact by any one, ‘/Nezt articles Equitable deduc- tions in tax burden comparisons.) [MRS. LEILA ). COOKE HEADS HOME BOARD Unanimously Elected President of Masonic and Eastern Star Organization. Mrs. Leila J. Cooke has been unani- mously elected president of the Mason- ic and Eastern Star Home Board, it was announced today. Mrs. Carrie Smith was elected first vice president; Mrs. Esther Cross, second vice president, and Mrs. Selina Foster secretary. Mrs. Cooke is a past grand matron of St. John's Lodge Chapter, No. 18, O. E. S. Both she and Mrs. Foster were presented with gifts for their meritorious work. The Thrift Shop 425 10th Street N.W. Needs Contributions NOW Of Clothing For Men, Women and Children; Household Articles, China, Glass and Books, Etc. These Donations will only cost you a kindly thought and will enable the Shop to carry on its work for sick Children. Children’s H Prenatal Clinic of Colum Children’s Country Home Junior League Donations Called For Phone Met. 1026 Our new styles of ngraving executed in true manner are moderate h in cost to meet present-da demands 3 ‘BrewD 1217 G St. N.W. PHONE DISTRICT 4868 WEDNESDAY, Named in MRS. VIOLET WELLS NORTON. money from Clark Gable, actor, JANUARY 27, 1937. Gable Plot GWENDOLYN EDITH NORTON. Mrs. Norton, 47-year- old Canadian, is under arrest at Holly- wood, charged with mail fraud in an ulleged attempt to obtain by declaring he is the father of her 13-year-old daughter, Gwendolyn. —Copyright A. P. Wirephotos. RETURN OF REED BYF.B.1. SOUGHT Matthews Case Suspect, Held in Louisiana, lden- tified by Fingerprints. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, January 27— ‘The Department of Justice will be asked to return William B. Reed, 25, who is wanted for two murders, to Montgomery County on a Federal warrant charging violation of the Dyer act in order to avoid extradition proceedings, State’s Attorney James H. Pugh announced here last night. Reed, charged with Lawrence Gin- gell, Kensington, »nd W. Joseph Kirby, Scranton, Pa., with the murder of | Elwood Matthews, 67-year-old far- mer of Four Corners, November 21, is being held at Ruston, La. and was | identified through fingerprint records | in the Federal Bureau of Investigation after he had given his name as George | Morgan of Garden City, Tex. Gingell, who was captured by Wash- ington police attempting to hitchhike | his way out of town a few days after | Matthews’ body was found December | 13, near the Northwest Branch, at Burnt Mills, and Kirby are being held | by State police at Charleston, W. Va., in connectidn with the killing Thanks- giving day of W. Earl Dollman, Charleston, W. Va., salesman, at Sut- ton, W. Va. Pugh Describes Crime. Reed has been sought for question- ing in the Dollman killing also. He and Kirby became acquainted in the Maryland Penitentiary and are be- lieved to have been associated in a | series of crimes, in some of them with Gingell, according to Pugh. Pugh said that Reed is wanted for the kidnaping of a colored taxi driver November 15, who picked up three | men, believed to be Reed, Kirby and | Gingell, in the District of Columbia | and forced him out of his cab near | Silver Spring, after robbing him of a small amount of cash. In order to avoid the delay and ex- pense of extradition proceedings Pugh communicated with F. B. I officials in Washington to have him returned to Montgomery County on a Federal war- rant charging transportation of a stolen car across a State line, a viola- tion of the Dyer act Once returned here on the lesser charge, Pugh said he would confer with West Virginia authorities before deciding whether to bring Gingell and Kirby here from Charleston to be tried with Reed in the Matthews case or to take Reed to Charleston for trial with his alleged confederates in the Dollman killing. Details Meager. Pugh said he had communicated with Lieut. J. H. Fillinger of the West Virginia State police at Charleston, but would not decide finally on what Large, Airy Staterooms procedure ‘would be followea until Reed had been brought back here from Louisiana. Details of Reed's capture were meager. According to the Associated Press he was arrested in Vicksburg, Miss, Priday in connection with the abduction of a Ruston taxi driver. Sheriff Bryan Thigpen of Lincoln Parish said that Reed identified him- self as George Morgan, but that his fingerprints were sent to the F. B. I in Washington and proved his identity as Reed. Sheriff Thigpen asked details of the charges against his prisoner of Mont- gomery County authorities and said | he would be willing to release Reed if the district attorney of Lincoln Parish approved. With Reed at the time of his arrest was another man who gave his name as Alvin Parker, of Fayetteville, N.C. Murder Most Brutal. ‘The murder of Matthews, well-to-do | farmer, was one of the most brutal | ever committed in this section. Ac- cording to a confession allegedly made by Kirby, who was captured a few days later in West Virginia. Matthews was thrown into the Northwestern Branch | alive, with a rock tied to his neck, | after he had been robbed of $40. The rope broke and Matthews came | to the surface, pleading for mercy, | according to the alleged confession, | but was shot twice by Reed. Mat- thews, court record showed, had been | a witness two years before at the trial | of Reed’s older brother, who received | a 10-year sentence for robbery. P e B Lawyer, 105, Dies. HENRIETTA, Tex, January 27 (#)—W. G. Eustis, 105, who prac- | ticed law here 59 vears, died yester- | day. He was active until he became | ill & month ago. — Ce Schwab's Aunt Dies. LORETTO, Pa., January 27 (®).— Mrs. Susan Wertzberger, aunt of | Charles M. Schwab, steelmaster, died early today of pneumonia. She was 87. 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