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INCOME TAX PUZZLES EXPERTS Proposal Prompts Questions at Hearing on Yield and Application. ‘Who would pay the proposed income tax for the District and the amount it would yield in revenue was one of the puzzling subjects discussed during recent hearings before the House 8ub- committee on Appropriations on the 1938 supply bill. ‘The question came up near the close of the hearings when the subcommit- tee endeavored to solve the complexi- ties of the three-point formula recom- mended by J. L. Jacobs, Chicago ef- ficiency engineer, as a basis for set- tling the District-Federal fiscal rela- tions controversy. George McAneny, who served as chairman of Jacobs Ad- visory Committee, was on the witness stand at the time. By his side sat Jacobs. An income tax was suggested by Jacobs in his fiscal relations report as one of the potential sources of revenue to be tapped to offset the huge deficit | that would confront the District if the three-point formula is approved by Congress. Other potential sources were recommended, too, notably an inheritance tax, an increase in the gasoline tax, a weight tax on automo- biles and higher or better distributed business taxes, but the discussion cen- tered chiefly around the income tax | because of its wide ramifications. Collins Raises Question. Chairman Collins himself injected the question into the discussion when he asked: “Who would pay the in- come tax?” McAneny, didn't know the answer. That, he said, “is a question to be determined.” “The reason I asked the question,” Collins declared, “is because while 1 have always favored an income tax for the District, it has been suggested to me that it would not raise as much taxes as the intangible tax because | most of the income in the District comes from Government employes who would be exempt from the payment of those taxes.” But McAneny reasoned, if the tax | is applied to Federal employes as well | | as those in private employment it would produce, at a rate of 3 per cent, between $8,000,000 and $9,000,000 a year. Representative Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland pointed out, however, that many Federal employes who | work in Washington live in Virginia or Maryland, and that while Virginia has an income tax it is forbidden by law to tax the income of Govern- ment workers. McAneny argued that “the Gov- ernment has the right, clearly, to impose taxes on its workers, if it chooses to do so.” States’ Rights Enter. “That would mean a corresponding right that must be given to the States,” declared Collins. “Perhaps morally so" said Mc- Aneny, “but there would not be any legal obligation.” “That would be the result,” replied Collins. “That the States are forbidden to do, to assess an income tax on Fed- eral employes,” continued McAneny. “The States,” replied Collins, “would mnot relinquish that right to | the District of Columbia.” “I presume,” McAneny declared, “there would be some caustic discus- sion in other places.” “So, after all.” Collins said, “you do not know how much revenue would come from an income tax?"” “No,” he answered. George Lord, Detroit tax expert, | who assisted the special Mapes Com- | mittee of the House with its fiscal relations investigation some ago, told the subcommittee the net amount of income that would be subject to taxation from Federal employes would be “a negligible quan- tity compared with the total revenue derived ‘from'an income tax in the District.” “I do not know just what the average salaries and wages of the employes is at this time, excepting, of course, that of the executive officers of the Government,” he said. “How- ever, I dare say, it will not average more than $1,700 or $1,800 a year.” ‘Would Exempt Non-Residents. In imposing the income tax, Lord said he would” exempt non-residents who pay an income tax in the State “in which they have their legal domicile.” Representative Engel, Republican, of Michigan asked if the District could levy an income tax on a person who is not a resident. “In reference to the question of resi- | dence,” said Lord, “I think there is a misconception about that. If you have followed the courts on that ques- tion, as undoubtedly you have, you will remember that the courts have been a little ticklish about saying to a man who lives in one place the year round and votes in another that his legal residence is where he votes.” “That is not the class I am talking about,” declared Engel. “For instance, here is a man who is working, we will say, in the Department of Justice: He lives in Virginia. He comes to town across the bridge every day. ‘That is his home; he votes there. He drives back there -every night. You could not reach him, could you?” Thomas F. Murphy, assistant con- troller of the Farm Credit Administra- tion, who formerly was assistant chief of the old United States Bureau of Efficiency, answered the question: “We drafted a bill which had a pro- vision in it that a tax would be levied on incomes derived in Washington and that a resident of Maryland or Virginia would be entitled to a credit for the tax he paid, in the State in which it was paid.” FIRE RAZES BUILDING AT CHARLOTTSVILLE By the Assocratea’ Press. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 30.—Fire of undetermined origin razed a four-story storage building of the Michie Co., one of the South's largest publishers of law books, yes- terday at a loss unofficially estimated at betwee $50,000 and $100,000. Firemen battled the flames for more than three hours, but a strong wind swept the blaze through the entire structure and little but the walls was left. The building originally was the plant of the old Monticello Wine Co., and firemen labored under constant danger of falling through the burn- ing upper floors into the 80-foot vats in the basement. ‘Thousands of books located on the second and third floors were destroyed, moved from the first ficor. vears | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, sum Federal payment, of $1,515,114 over current appropriat Proposes drastic reorganization vision to Health Department. Also other hospitals. of Playground Department to the the public schools. Abolishes Receiving Home for home system. Creates municipal bonding com! tion counsel. personnel. velopment and maintenance. legad holidays. Prevents salary increases after children. COLLINS DIREGIS PHONE RATE PROBE Utilities Commission Will Act on Request of House Official. Investigation of the recsonabl!nes.s! of telephone rates in Washington will | be made by the Public Utilities Com- | mission at the direction of Chairman | Collins of the House subcommittee in | charge of the District supply bill, it was revealed today. Suggestions that telephone rates here are too high, that street car fares | might profitably be reduced and that street car service is not what it should be was made by Collins at recent secret. hearings on the bill, publication of the | hearings today showed. At the direction of Collins, Chair- man Riley E. Elgen of the commission | furnished a proviso for insertion in the 1938 budget act directing an in- vestigation of telephone rates. The discussion was opened by Col- lins with a call for a statement of what the commission had been able to do “for the public and to the public. Cites Reduction in Charges. Starting with last August, Elgen | | said gas charges had been reduced by about $50,000, that about a month | | later telephone charges were cut some | i $251,000, and that in Janusry, 1937, | ! electric power charges were reduced | by $504,000. \ “T happen to have been out of Con- | gress for two years and during that | time I had a law office here, and natu- | rally I had a telephone,” said Collins. “I found my telephone bill was, as I thought, enormous.” Elgen replied that he thought tele- phone rates here were below the average for comparable cities, but Collins retorted: “I do not see how | that can be.” Elgen insisted, however, | and by request furnished a comparable | statement on rates in various cities. He held that business telephone rates here to be “exceptionally low.” As Collins insisted oa the point, | Elgen said a broad investigation (of | value and rates) would be necessary | for a determination. | Richmond B. Keech, a lawyer, who is vice chairman of the commission, | interposed the point that actions of the | commission are guided by congres- | sional authority, as interpreted by the courts. A. T. T. Collections Allowed. “That does not mean anything so far as the court is concerned,” an- swered Collins, “because they allow the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to collect certain fees for certain purposes, for the securing of loans and a lot of services that may or may not exist.” Elgen: “For the service you are talking about the A. T. & T. collects 11, per cent of the gross. * * * That has been passed upon by the S8upreme Court in the Illinois Telephone case.” Collins: “You have not changed that.” Elgen: “We cannot change the ar- rangement. We disallowed everything we could to try to have the court go along with us. But it is futile to take such actions when the decision of the court is against us.” Elgen said a real investigation of the telephone company would cost roughly $100,000, that a valuation case would require 18 months to two-years. He said the whole cost should be paid by the telephone company. In the discussion of street car fares and service Collins declared: “You will increase the earnings of the street car company if you reduce the fare to 5 cents. The railroads increased their earnings when they reduced their fare.” “That is a question,” replied Elgen. “I have some very definite views along that line myself. I believe in mass production and that by mass production you produce better results. But when you get to the courts you cannot carry that story in there.” Court Fixed Trolley Rate. Collins: “The railroads took their case into court after they saw that their earnings were increasing.” Elgen: “They (the street car com- pany) took us into court and the court fixed the rate which exists in the District today.” Collins also questioned both Elgen and Keech on filling the vacancy in the position of people’s counsel, which was resigned some months ago by William A. Roberts. Both said they believed the money (37,500 a year) could be used to better advantage, though they explained the appointment was not one under their control, but one made by the Presi- dent, with the consent of the Senate. Automaton Does Double Duty. The weighing machine, once homely and cumbersome, has been built on modern artistic lines and its size re- duced to modest proportions The newest one combines the weighing ap- paratus an” a phonographic feature, and the patron not only gets the ac- curate weight, but also a short sales message. Step on the platform and the dial will tell you that you are overweight and at the same time & message comes to you that your waist- Dosemn’s | Department District Appropriation Bill in Brief Scraps Jacobs fiscal relations plan and continues $5,000,000 lump- Carries total appropriations for next fiscal year of $45228,024, & reduction of $1,292,761 under Budget Bureau estimates, but an increase tions, Faces District with deficit of $6,149,119, to be raised by new and increased taxes. Real estate, however, would not be increased. of certain units of municipal gov- ernment proposed in interest of efficiency and economy. Provides for transfer of Gallinger Municipal Hospital and the Tu- berculosis Sanatoria at Glenn Dale, Md., from Welfare Board super- the contractural relations with four Transfers 16 municipal playgrounds and nearly half of the funds Community Center Department of Children and substitutes boarding ‘Transfers District License Bureau from assessor's office to Depart- ment of Weights, Measures and Markets. missioner and staff under corpora- Abolishes office of people’s counsel. Orderz Public Utilities Commission to investigate telephone rates. Places control of all auditing, disbursing and accounting of relief funds under District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan, including control of Diverts gasoline tax revenue to purposes other than highway de- Deprives per diem workers of annual and sick leave and pay for July 1 by precluding re-allocations ard. Establishes first of proposed series of health ocenters authorized. Prevents school teachers from doing clerical work and denies in- creased funds for transportation of crippled and other handicapped Authorizes increased appropriation for free public libraries. Provides an increase of 25 in police force. PLAYGROUND FUND REDUCED §37,36) Bill Provides Transfer of Many Activities to School System. Reducing by half the staff and funds of the District Playgrounds De- partment and transfer of & major por= tion of them to the public schools sys- tem is proposed in the 1938 District budget reported to the House today. By action on an appropriation meas- ure. the Collins subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee seeks to achieve a partial unification of the District's recreation program, which has been under study for more than & year and a half by a co-ordi- nating committee. Having sharply interrogated both Miss 8ibyl Baker, supervisor of the District Playground Department, and Lewis R. Barrett, co-ordinator of rec- reation, the Collins committee pro- posed that 16 of the municipal play- grounds and 59 of the regular staff of the department be shifted to the Com- munity Center Depertment of the public schools system. Adoption of the change would mean a great enlargement of the Com- munity Center operations and that the District Playground Department would g0 under an eclipse . Salaries of $97,565 Invelved. Salaries of $97,565 would be in- volved in the transfer of the fol- lowing playgrounds from the Play- ground Department to the Community Center unit of the public schools: Gallinger, Raymond, Twin Ooaks, Logan, Monroe, Rose Park, Avenue, Garfield, Hoover, Montrose, Park View, Sherwood, Barry Farms, Banneker Recreation Center, Howard and the Randall. “During hearings on the bill,” said the Collins report, “the committee gave much time and consideration to the advisability of consolidating all public playground activities. The consensus was that the co-ordination of playground activities on, and adja- cent to, school buildings under a single head in the Community Center of the public schools would be a highly desirable con- solidation.” The shift of the $97,565 item leaves an appropriation of $112,015 for the District Playground Department, or & little better than half of the total proposed of $208,580. Protested Duplication. During the hearing Collins told Miss Baker pointedly: “We should not have four agencies engaged in the same work.” He referred to the Community Center Department, the District Playground Department, the National Capital Parks Office and the Welfare and Recreation Association, under the Interior Department. Describing objections to the pro- posed transfer, Miss Baker told the committee: “In a city of the size of Washington, recreation reaches prac- tically all of the people with a pro- gram so vast and varied that it demands much specialized knowledge and trained leadership. “Such a program must use facilities not belonging to the schools, such as park facilities, swimming pools, golf ccurses, nature trails and tennis courts. To place all that under the Board of Education would be to add to the functions of the board a very large field which is not to be con- sidered as education.” Barrett explained that he was di- rector of a committee, representing the Board of Education, the District Government and the National Capital Parks Office and that this committee was seeking ‘“‘co-ordination” and not “unification.” Urged Commissioners’ Power. Barret suggested, under questioning, that he thought that since the Com- missioners headed the District govern- ment they should be the responsible agency in a unification program, though he agreed that school grounds now had a dual use, for education and recreation purposes. Henry L. Quinn, & member of the Board of Education and its represen- tative on the Co-ordinating Commit- tee, during an extended statement to the committee, urged that the public school system be given extended pow- ers over recreation facilities. Speaking particularly of the school grounds, used for playgrounds, he ¢ “We believe we should provide and can provide better supervisers and leaders. Our own physical education teachers can be used, with the assist- ance of some additional ones. Then, by that program, we are assured of having these children on the play- ground continuing along the lines and theories which they get when being taught during school hours.” TRADE CONTROL BILL Senate Passes Measure to Give Board More Power. ‘The Senate passed and sent to the House yesterday legislation broadening the control of the Federal Trade Com- mission over unfair trade practices. It would give the commission author- ity to bring action against violators 2{eZ38eN [ but five or six truckiosds were re- | line may be reduced by a course in Dr. | without the filing of & specific com- gymnastum, eompetttor. plaint by & » Potomac | D. C, TUESDAY, AID GOSTS CUT INDISTRICT BILL $1,411,500 Direct Relief Provided—Auditing Put on Donovan. BY DON S. WARREN. Costs of direct relief for destitute persons in the District ‘during the next fiscal year would be reduced—rather than increased, as urged by both pub- lic and private welfare leaders—under proposals contained in the 1938 supply bill as reported today to the House. Furthermore, to assure a “much closer scrutiny” of relief operations, the Collins subcommittee in charge of the bill inserted a direction that “all auditing, disbursements and account- Ing for relief funds, including em- ployes engaged in such work” be placed under the supervision and control of District auditor, Daniel J. Donovan. ‘That this shift in the auditing ma- chinery for District relief to unem- ployables would be incorporated in the bill had been previously reported un- officially during secret hearings on the measure. This change was sponsored generally in actions taken recently by the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions. $1,465,000 Proposed. The estimates forwarded to Congress penditure of $1,465,000 for direct relief, The Board of Public Welfare, to the opening of this session of Con- gress, asked for a supplemental ap- propriation of $830,000 for expansion of direct relief operations from Janu- ary, last, to July 1. That plan was killed by the Budget Bureau. John L. Keddy, the bureau official handling District items, sug- gested at the time that the churches should take over some of the relief problem. Instead of the $1,465000 item for next fiscal year, the Collins subcom- mittee recommended to the House a sum of $1,411,500, $188,500 less than $53,500 less than the Budget Bureau estimate. “The fact should be emphasized,” said the Collins report, in the funds actually provided for re- lief purposes is contemplated. The entire reduction has been applied to services, which is restricted to 10 per cent of the appropriation. The com- mittee has applied a similar restric- tion on administrative expenses paid from Federal grants.” Saving Forecast. As to the direction for scrutiny of relief operations by the District auditor, the Collins report said: “It is believed that a considerable saving can be accomplished through this pro- cedure and that relief expenditures will be subject to a much closer scru- tiny than at present exists. “In addition to funds made avail- | able in this bill, sums amounting to | $150,000 for direct relief and $24,000 for administrative expenses are ex- pected to be received in the form of grants from the Social Security Board It is estimated that the total sum available will provide for 3,780 fam- ilies (unemployables) on an average relief grant of $30 per month. No | funds for employables are provided under this appropriation.” $428,265 for Old-Age Aid. For old-age assistance the bill car- ries $428,265 as an appropriation charge against District revenues, which, it was calculated, would pro- | vide for an average of 2,200 persons in the mext fiscal year. Since the Social Security Board pays about half the cost, here as in the States, the total bill for the program in the District is figured at $792,000. In contrast to the proposed District appropriation for old-age assistance, a sum of but $284265 was granted for the present fiscal year. District welfare officials recently admitted their estimates previously prepared for 1938 probably were too low, judg- ing from the recent increase in the number of cases approved, the rate at which new applications were being received and the 500 to 800 cases expected to be taken over from persons now on the W. P. A. roster. For aid to the needy blind the bill carries a District appropriation of $36,645, which is $17,355 less than the 1937 appropriation and $8,355 below the estimtaes of the Budget Bureau. The figure was based on es- timates that there would be 250 cases in the program in the next year, toward which half the cost would be paid by the Federal Government. D. C. Bill inued From First Page.) occupied by other municipal agencies. Transfer the control of auditing, disbursing and accounting of P. W. A. funds from the public assistance divi- sion of the Board of Public Welfare to the District auditor. Divert gasoline tax revenues to pay the expenses of the Trees and Park- ings Department, snow removal and support the Department of Vehicles and Traffic, including purchase and installation of traffic lights and mark- ers and motor vehicle identification tags. Hits Per Diem Workers, Deprive per diem workers of sick leave, annual leave and legal holi- days with pay by requiring that they be paid only for the time actually ‘worked. Prevent any salary increases after July 1 by reallocation of employes to higher grades, even though the change is approved by the Civil Serv- ice Commission. Reduce the salary of Frank Marks, poundmaster, from $3,080 to $2,000 a year. Water rates, under the bill, will be increased 25 per cent and restored to the former scale of three years ago of $8.75 for 7,500 cubic feet instead of the present 10,000 cubic feet for $6.36. ‘The raise will create & surplus in the water fund, purposely designed to build up a reserve to be used to finance improvements and expansions in the water system in future years. 000 of the surplus be invested by the Enrell for Cl Starting April 1 SPANISH iz llolulco-vnrulllnll Derlitz Meth um Conn. Also_ 10 Wuk: “Trav Course” r Laxate* with ousern.00. ¥ 7ig LAXATIVE oo v 0 . oov. MARCH 30, by the Budget Bureau proposed ex- | prior | the current year appropriation and | “that no cut | the limit of expenditures for personal | 1937. GAS TAX DIVERSION PROVIDED [N BILL 2-Cent Boost in District Anticipated hy House Appropriations Group. Anticipating approval of a 2-cent boost in the District's gasoline tax, the House Appropriations Committee today proposed that the gas tax fund be used to pay the costs of two divi- sions other than highways. They are the Traffic Department and the Divi- sion of Trees and Parkings. It then threw into the gas tax plc- ture the entire cost of snow removal operations and for the Adrst time in the history of the tax directed that it must cover the entire expenses of the Highway Department. The total additional charges to the fund would be $466,040. Appropriates $189,440. The Traffic Department appropria- tions for next fiscal year would total $189,440, as proposed by the House, this sum including $76,440 for sal- aries, $93,000 for purchase and instal= lation of traffic light signals and $20,- 000 for motor vehicle identification plates. The traffic lights item includes A sum of $30,000 for traffic light which would be transferred from the street lighting appropriation. The bill also would charge to the gas tax fund an item of $150,000 for assessment and permit work, which in former years has been charged to the general revenues of the District. The appropriation proposed for trees | and parkings, which would be added to charges against the gas tax fund, | is $126,000. | Would Eliminate Crossings. The committee recommended a fur- ther change; that is, that the gas tax money be held available for $250,000 grade-crossing elimination projects, for which the District is to receive a Federal grant under the Bureau of Public Roads later. During hearings on the measure, Capt. H. C. Whitehurst told the Col- | lins subcommittee the money was to | | be spent for widening of underpass on | Bladensburg road northeast just above New York avenue and the elimina- | | tion of the railroad crossing at Bates | road and Varnum street. | The committee recommended re- | ductions in several items, stating that | it “feels a substantial saving can be | effected in the street repair item due | to the extremely mild Winter and the | | resultant lack of freezing and thawing and the impairment to street surfaces which inevitably follow.” —_— | treasurer of the United States in Federal securities for the account of the water fund. Another innovation is provided by | the committee to carry out the re- | organization program it initiated. An | appropriation of $15,000 is allocated | | for a survey for an examination of\ | municipal activities to determine what | further changes and consolidations | can be made in the interest of effi- ciency and economy. The committee | said “it feels that there is overlapping | | of duties and lack of modern pro- | | cedure which should be corrected and | | that a general survey of these activi- ties will result in large savings in | appropriations and that a study of the tax system would ultimately re- sult in a considerable increase in taxes collected.” “ Allows Some Improvements. Although the committee cut the Budget Bureau estimates, it did allow | a comparatively few capital improve- | ments. These included the long-pro- | posed health center, for which $200.- 000 is provided, and some urgemly‘ | needed school house accommodations. | | The principal projects authorized are |a combination Thomas Jefferson | memorial high school and library, | a new senior high chool at Fifth and | | Sheridan streets and a new building | | for the Lenox Vocational School. The long fight of civic and business | organizations in Southeast for a new bridge to- replace the Pennsylvania avenue span across the Anacostia River was lost again. Instead of pro- viding funds for a new bridge, the bill carries an appropriation of $40,000 to make repairs—repairs, the com- mittee said, which should make it serviceable for another few years. The plea of Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown for additional policemen was answered with ar appropriation for salaries for 25 more, but the com- mittee severely scolded those on the force for lack of courtesy, and said responsible officials should do some- thing to stop it. The committee also criticized the department for de- voting too much attention to enforce- | ment of petty offenses, such as park- | ing violations, and said officers cou)dw devote their time more profitably to investigating ‘‘more serious viola- tions.” | Fights Bondsmen System. Some of the other things the com- mittee did, rather unexpectedly, was to eliminate the salary for the office of people’s counsel, which has been vacant since November 1, and pro- vide for a bonding commissioner in the office of the corporation counsel. The object of the bonding commis- sioner would be to break up the lucrative practice of professional | bondsmen who ply their trade around police precinct stations. Fees taken in by the bonding commissioner would occrue to the benefit of the District. His job would pay $4.600 a year and he would have a staff of assistants. Especially critical of health condi- tions in Washington and its corre- spondingly high mortality rate, the | committee allowed a substantial in- | crease in funds for the Health De- partment to combat disease and in- sanitary conditions. And in view of the department's increased responsi- bilities in taking over supervision of Gallinger Hospital and the tubercu- losis sanatoria, it provided an in- crease in pay for Dr. George C. Ruh- land, health officer, and his assistant, Daniel L. Seckinger. The committee likewise provided an increase of $16,880 in the Health De- partment’s funds, with specific in- structions that this money be used to put into effect an inspection of all public establishments and employes where food is sold or served. such an Slp Covers CUSTOM TAILORED PLEATED AND ZIPPE 2-Piece Set, 531-95 3-Piece Set, $39.95 Cheice Chevron Cloth, Srured, s riped H % DRAPERY SHOP 0i3n-1317 F | spection work be consolidated after |July 1 with the smoke control au- | | could not be secured a survey should Luck of Double Pay For Poundmaster Dies in New Bill Fate was kind to Frank B. Marks last August when the Commissioners selected him as the new poundmaster of the Dis- trict. That meant a 100 per cent boost in salary for him, for he had been serving as captain of the guard of the District Build- ing at $1,500 a year. But Representative Collins of Mississippi, the chairman of the subcommittee in charge of the District appropriation bill for the next fiscal year, now proposes to do away with most of that in- crease. Whereas his salary since last August has been at the rate of $3,080 a year, the proposed 1938 | | supply bill would cut it to $2,000, which would leave him with an increase of but $500 over his wages a8 head guard. From reports of testimony at the hearings, it was indicated the slash in his pay was made because Marks was not a veterin- arian and rode on the dogcatch- er's wagon while the dogcatcher caught dogs. inspection, the committee said, is pro- vided in many other municipalities and that it is of prime importance in the National Capital as a safeguard Library Funds Raised. In view of the increasing demands for Public Library services, the com- mittee provided more liberal funds for the Free Public Library, covering both staff service and the supply of books | and periodicals. It also authorized completion of the Petworth Branch Library. The committee proposed that the | District government be relieved of making a contribution toward the | fund being built up by the District Unemployment Compensation Insur- ance Board. The Budget Bureau esti- mates proposed that next year the | District make a contribution of | $175,000. The committee, however, | declared this donation was not needed | and that the States were not making | similar contributions to unemploy- | ment insurance funds. Since the District now has operat- ing a smoke inspection srevice, the committee proposed that boiler in- thority. This has been anticipated | with creation of the new Smoke Con- | trol Bureau, which was shifted from the Health Department to the Engi- neer Departement. School Light Rate Cut Urged. Recommending a reduction in the electric power rates for the publi schools, the committee said if a cut be made “with a view to establish- ment and operation of plants for sup- plying power for public needs.” The committee said because of the volume | of current consumed, school authori- ties “should be able to get a lower | rate, as one business concern, mslead‘ of paying individual bills on 175 di r-‘ ferent school buildings at retail rate.” The committee declared it did not be- | lieve “there is a business concern in the country which would tolerate the | existing arrangement.” | Development of boys’ clubs, as a | new activity of the Community Center | department of the public schools, is provided under a special item of $25.000, which the committee itself | inserted in the bill. The boys’ club movement in the District has been tremendously advanced in the past several years under the leadership of Police Supt. Brown. An increase of $30,000 in the ap- propriation for fire-fighting equip- ment and a reduction of $13.000 for the pay of officers and members of | the Fire Department are incorporated in the bill. The total for the depart- ment amounts to $2.469,520. More assistance would be available under the bill for examination and | preparation of the annual budget es- timates under a proposal to provide $10,000 additional for the purpose, in the auditor’s office. | TU. S. Inspection Slated. SILVER SPRING, Md., March 30 (Special) —The annual Federal in- spection of the Service Company, 1st | Infantry, Maryland National Guard, | will be held at the State armory here ‘ Thursday night. Col. D. John Markey | of Frederick will be the inspector {or[ the State and Maj. W. E. Tydings will | conduct the inspection for the War Department. [ | cour | office 2210, C. WORKERS HAVE EXTRA J0BS Supply Bill Hearings Dis- close From $3 to $8,000 Earned Outside. Two hundred and twenty-seven Dis- | trict employes, 78 of them connected with the public school system, have “outside” employment which adds anywhere from $3 to $8,000 a year to their regular income, according to a table included in the record of the recent hearings on the 1938 District supply bill before a House subcom- mittee on appropriations. The $8,000 income was reported by a member of the police department, Philip G. Alter, whose wife was listed a8 conducting a rooming house. The next largest income from ‘“outside” sources was reported by Capt. Richard H. Mansfield of the ninth police pre- cinct, who is listed as having received $2,080 for cartoons he draws for pub- lication. Virtually every recognized form of employment is represented in the Some members of the corpora I's staff are teaching classes, one employe in the audito! sells urance and another in the accessor's office is a real estate salesman. The playground department has employe who teaches boxing and employe in the electr ed as a veterinarian. Most of the school employes h or coach and several of them are listed as or ganists at Washington churches | school clerk was listed as a re sentative for a New York perfume concern, but her income from that work was not disclosed, but the record bore the following notation: *“Out of city (on annual leave) Chairman Collins disclosed d the hearings he had asked Maj iel J. Donovan, an 'al department Dan- auditor and budge! officer, to prepare st so he could learn how many District em drove taxicabs after regular work hours. The list, however, revealed that only one employe drives a cab and that his income from this work produced $200 a year. SABATH COLLAPSES DURING HOUSE TALK Representative in Tears After Defending Self Against State- ments of Church. Representative Sabath, Democrat, of Tilinois, the dean of the House, who collapsed in tears in the chamber yes- terday at implications he profited from his investigation of real estate bond- holders’ protective committees, was re- ported improved today. Members of his investigating com- | mittee said they would continue on the House floor his defense against state- ments of Representative Church, Re- publican, of Illinois, who had eited editorials suggesting improper rela- tions between Sabath's Chicago law firm and a real estate reorganization Sabath said his firm had taken no money in the case and that he was not directly connected with it. He had spoken for an hour in defense of him- self and his committee when he col- | lapsed. Dog Befriends Coon. DOUGLAS, Kans. (A.—The coon Fred Stearns captured became a great pal of his dog. A neighbor's dog Jjoined the play and decided to battle the coon. 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