Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1937, Page 2

A—2 wxx ZAKHAROV PICTURE IS MOST POPULAR “Ballerina” Ballots Lead In Corcoran Gallery of Art Referendum, “Ballerina,” a striking full length portrait of a girl in ballet costume, by TFeodor Zakharov, New York artist, has been adjudged the most popular picture in the Fifteenth Biennlal Ex- hibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of -Art, ‘The painting received the largest number of votes in a public referen- dum conducted at the gallery last week, it was announced today at the gallery. Zakharov will receive a $200 “popular prize.” Zakharov's picture, showing with almost photographic faithfulness a ballet dancer poised on her toes, with other dancing figures in the back- ground, received 343 of the several thousand votes cast during the week. Chapman Work Next. Next in popularity was “Alice Through the Black Bottle,” by Charles B. Chapman, which received 134 votes. Third largest number of votes was cast for “Testimonial” a large symbolic painting on war, by R. H. Iyes Gammell. . ~Zakharov was born in Russia in 1§82, but has become a citizen of the United States. He is a graduate of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculp- tyre and Architecture. His paintings are owned by a number of Russian museums and by private American col- lectors. In 1928 he received the Lip- pincott Prize at the Pennsylvania Atademy of the Fine Arts. He was represented in the Corcoran Gallery’s Fourteenth Biennial Exhibi- tion by a painting entitled “Madame X.” Of his current entry the gallery today said: “‘Ballerina’ is not only a worthy work of art, but is also most attrac- tive in subject and gives evidence of discriminating taste on the part of the visitors to the exhibition “The painting has been invited by fhe Toledo Museum of Art to be shown fn its Annual Exhibition of Selected American Paintings.” Landscape Called Best Picture. A jury of art experts chose a land- &eape, “Cape Cod Afternoon,” by Ed- ward Hopper, as the best picture in| the show. Hopper was awarded the | $2,000 W. A. Clark first prize and the Corcoran Gold Medal. Three other paintings were selected by the experts for other Clark awards, but none of these pictures figured heavily in the popular balloting The exhibition will continue through next Sunday. The last eve- ning inspection period will be Friday from 7:30 to 10 o'clock. EE— Firearms (Contirued From First Page.) $han machine guns, since they can be &oncealed with greater facility. During the past two or three years new types of weapons and ammunition have been developed with greatly increased penetrative power. The situation is one of urgent necessity and must be prought under control.” Cummings apparently had reference fo the so-called Magnum revolver, which, according to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigatiog, is so powerful that it | makes useless steel vests and other protective shields adopted by law en- forcement agencies. The present fire- arms law does not apply to the new gevolver. The new law would impose a tax of $1 on every transfer of firearms of any type. There would be no tax imposed for registering. The 1934 act imposes a $200 tax on all transfers of machine guns and sawed-off guns snd this levy would be continued. Sees Burden Not Great. . Cummings expressed the opinion t no serious financial burden would involved in a $1 tax on transfers ©f revolvers, pistols, rifles or shotguns. “The honest and law-abiding citi- gen,” he said, “would be caused far less bardship by the proposed enactment than by the existing requirement that Be register his automobile, while a system of registration of firearms would place a potent weapon sgainst eriminals in the hands of law enforce- ment officers.” ' Federal officials do not expect, of Course, that criminals will register their guns. They hope, however, to make it more difficult for gangsters to | get firearms—and when one of themi‘ 48 caught in possession of an unregis- tered weapon he could be prosecuted, even though there be no other Federal eharge against him, , There have been instances in which the authorities have been compelled fo free known gangsters, and return their pistols and rifles to them, be- eause of lack of a Federal firearms Iaw under which to hold them. Since enactment of the 1934 act more than 18,000 machine guns and Machine rifles, 16,00 sawed-off shot- ns and sawed-off rifles and 700 lencers have been registered, mostly By law enforcement agencies and mili- tary organizations. . Constitutionality of the act was wpheld recently by the Supreme Court. W. F. HORSTKAMP :FUNERAL CONDUCTED Retired Carpentry Contractor Is Buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery. . Funeral services for William PFrancis Horstkamp, 58, who died Friday at his home, 1107 Eighth street, were held today in the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, after Brief services at the residence. Sol- emn high mass was sung by Rev. John Horstkamp, his cousin, assisted by Rev. Joseph Gedra as deacon and Rev. Francis P. Harrity as subdeacon. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery. For many years Mr. Horstkamp was {n the carpentry contracting business here, until forced to retire by failing health several years ago. He was an fisher at the Immaculate Conception Church, a member of -the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Holy Name So- ety. A lifelong resident of this city, e was & son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William N. Horstkamp. » Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Pearl May Horstkamp; four sons, William F. Jr.; Lester, Gwynne and Marion Horstkamp; two slsters, Mrs. Benja~ Voted Most Popular Picture This Painting, entitled *“Ballerina,” by Feodor Zakharov, naturalized New York Russian, public referendum at the Fifteenth Biennial Exhibition of Con- temporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington Wayside Tales THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON received the most votes in the INTRODUCTION. DMUND PLOHN, manager of our major legitimate theater here, was born in Louisville, Ky., where he became a close friend of the late “Marse Henry"” Watterson, last of the old school fire- eating Southern editors. In later years whenever “Marse Henry” went to New York and wanted to see a show, he would call upon Mr. Plohn who, as a big shot in the theatrical world there, held within his power the open sesame to all metropolitan theaters. One time when “Marse Henry” was unable to get up to the city for a certain opening he sent along his sec- retary, Arthur Krock, now the Wash- Times. Mr. Krock bore s letter of introduction from Watterson, took it to the theater, but found Mr. Plohn out. He presented his credentials, re- ceived tickets, left the letter on Mr. That was in 1912. The other day, looking over some papers he had to Washington to work, Plohn found | the letter written a quarter of a cen- tury ago to introduce Krock. He never had met the gentleman, never- theless, s0 he took the note around the corner to the Albee Building, pre- sented it to Mr. Krock, introducing Mr. Plohn. The two promptly became fast friends. * ok ok X MATCHED PAIR. The larger the bullfrog, the heavier its croak. The deep- throated voice of the Great Dane mocks the yap of the terrier, but it 18 best to forget all theories about size as an indicator of vocal timbre when referring to men. In The Star Glee Club, for example, the star basses are “Rudy” Kauff- mann, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 195 pounds and has a voice in proportion, and Clayton Baus, a linotype operator, who is 4 feet 11 inches high, weighs just a bit more than 100 pounds and can give the low notes quite as much punish- ment as his fellow warbler. * X K X PROTEST. Random Observations Events and Things in Capital. ington correspondent of the New York | Plohn’s desk, and went on to the show. | brought down with him when he came | of Interesting the other day ajter more than three decades of doing handsomely by a local citizen, who had infinite faith in its magic. It was Spring (still is, by the way) and he was feeling young and vital and confident, when he saw 7,000 miles bob up on the speed- ometer of his car. He was re- minded that 7 had always been his lucky number, that during the next 1,000 miles he probably would be smiled upon by all good fortune so far as his motoring was concerned. Sure thing. The 7,000 miles was not 5 miles old before he had the first puncture that has befallen him in years. He did not sur- render then to disillusionment, but the next day he had misgivings when the car developed several conspicuous rattles. The third day the heavy blow fell. There was a sudden whirring down near the transmission, climazed by a sharp click, then silence. He looked at his speedometer. It had ceased to function, giving up the ghost in the middle of its 7,077th mile. BENEFACTORS. O HEAR them tell it, the cigarette | manufacturers have discovered | tobacco formulas to improve your} golf, polo, married life, digestion, throat and pocketbook, although most of the people who bear witness to these wonders are known to receive handsome cheques for their testimony. Recently, however, a cigarette con- cern hit upon a scheme that is with- out a doubt turning our Nation into & race of research scientists. Outfit started a contest in which participants must identify properly 90 names in a list of 1,000, the identification being made through clues given in a series of pictures. The winners are to share some fancy prize money, provided any one at all knows enough about heraldry, history, chemistry and what- not to get the answers. Just how far the thing has gone in stirring the populace to vast mental exercise is suggested by a recent rul- ing of the Mount Pleasant Library, limiting the use of certain reference books to 15 minutes per person. After all, high school and college students have to dig up a few facts, t0o0, not- withstanding the milling mobs of GOING through Rock Creek Park their elders who cluster around the RASKOB-DU PONT LINK IS DESCRIBED U. S. Counsel Questions Of- fice Manager for Financier at Tax Hearing. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, May 4.—The close business and personal relationship existing between Pierre S. du Pont and John J. Raskob was described today at the hearing of the Government's case to collect approximately $1,800,000 on the 1929 income tax of the two finan- ciers and industrialists. Nathan B. Leming, chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Bureau in the hearing befere Tax Commissioner Richard Disney, brought out the de- tails of this relationship in question- ing Harold G. Seer, office manager and statistician for Raskob. At the time in question, before Raskob and Du Pont moved into their offices near those of Alfred E. Smith in the Empire State Building, Seer said the two men occupied joint offices in the Grand Central Building. ‘They had connecting suites, with a common receptionist, but each had his | own telephone and buzzer system. his | own personal systems. Leming's questioning was designed to show joint business action on the part of the two men—something which lawyers for Raskob and Du Pont have offered to stipulate all along. “I'll try this in my own way,” Lem- ing replied at the mcrning session staff and own filing when another offer of stipulation was | made by James S. Y. Ivins of Wash- ington, chief counsel for Du Pont. Previously Leming brought out that on November 13—two weeks after the Wall Street stock crash and panic— personal checks of Du Pont and Raskob of $4,606,000 and $4.582.750, respe tively, were brought to the Banke: Trust Co. in the same envelope and deposited at the same time These checks were exchanged by Du Pont and Raskob in the sale to each other of certain blacks of stocks in which both had losing positions. Counsel for the two have not contested the Government's contention that these stocks were sold to establish losses after the crash, de- ductible from their 1929 income tax. However, they have denied the Gov- ernment's contention that the two men had agreed to repurchase the stock. contrary the income tax statutes. The stocks were repurchased in toto in January, 1930, but counse! for Du Pont and Raskob said the sales and purchases “were all made at the risk of the market” and were not made in accordance with any agreement. Both Raskob and Du Pont were in the hearing together again today, ar- riving 15 minutes before Tax Commis- sioner Disney pounded his gavel, and left carrying their own brief cases at the close of the morning session They obtained a severance of their cases and while the Du Pont case is being heard Raskob is remaining in the room with his lifetime friend and business associate, LOW-RENT HOUSING EXHIBIT IS REOPENED Display Shows Transition of Di- lapidated Areas Into Mod- ern Centers. to The slum clearance and low-rent housing exhibit sponsored by Wash- and Government ington churches agencies was reopened at 12:30 p.m today by the Church of the Immac- | in ulate Conception at Hurney Hall, the 700 block of N street. Displayed last week at St. John's | shows the transition of dilapidated housing | Episcopal Church, the exhibit areas into modern apartment centers, photographs of living conditions slum conditions here. Activity of the Public Works Admin- istration in building homes and apart- ments for low income families is shown in miniatures of such projects as the now under con- struction at Benning road and Twenty- first street northeast, and Greenbelt Langston Terrace, at Berwyn, Md. The exhibit will be open from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. every day until Sunday. Yakut Survey to Start. Lesser known regions of the Yakut republic will be studied by a geolog- ical expedition of the Arctic Insti- tute which recently left Leningrad, Russia, and which has 46 members who will make investigations an ares of 30,000 square miles before January, 1939. millionaires | of underprivileged families and the Alley Dwelling Authority's work to relie\et over |a hospital. D. C, TUESDAY FILM PICKET LINE FREED OF WOMEN Central Strike Committee Acts Without Announc- ing the Reason. BACKGROUND— Newly-organized Federated Mo- tion Picture Crafts, afiliate of American Federation of Labor, is- sued strike call Friday night, with four unions, involving 3,500 work- ers, responding Saturday morning. Seven more unions joined walk- out yesterday, but Actors’ Guild de- layed decision awaiting outcome of talks with producers. Union recog= nition and a closed shop is de- manded. By the Assoclatea Press. HOLLYWOOD, May 4.—The Cen- tral Strike Committee, without an- nouncing the reason, called all wom- an marchers off the picket lines sur- rounding Hollywood motion picture studios today. An official said the decision was made “after that trouble last night | at the Westmore's.” The House of Westmore, extrava- gant film colony beauty salon, was damaged, the owners said, to the extent of $15,000. Three men and a woman smashed mirrors, ripped car- pets and tapestries and smeared creo- | sote over the establishment. It is owned by the four Westmore | brothers. Each is a make-up execu- tive in different major studios. None has joined the make-up artists who | are on strike. | “We know that it was a framed piece of work,” an official of the striking Federated Motion Picture | Crafts said today. “It was obviously designed to turn public sentiment against us “I can say positively that none of | our people went near the Westmore salon last night.” As a result, however, woman strik- ers were asked to remain away from the picket lines today, the official said. They may return later, he added. “We're not expecting trouble to de- velop from this. But until the situa tion cools we don't want any women on the lines.” Picketing Is Quiet. Picketing, meanwhile, continued | | quietly and'in about the same volume | | as yesterday. Strikers said from 3,000 | to 5,000 men would be on the lines | before noon today, but when the studios first opened their doors at | 9 am. fewer than 600 were counted. | The stars again passed lhrough‘ | the lines without incident, and pro- | | duction executives said movie-making | would continue at a normal rate. | | No cameras were observed among | the pickets. As a deterrent, some said yesterday they would photograph members of other unions going | through the lines. | Plans for a mass meeting, open to | | the public, were being formulated to- day by the Strike Committee. | The Screen Actors’ Guild and the | producers named committees to con- fer, beginning tomorrow, on the guild's demands. The chief one is recogni- tion as the sole bargaining agency for motion picture players. Actors Go Through Lines. Some extras were reported to have refused to pass through the picket lines, but the big name players went through in numbers. Strikers contended that motion pic- ture production was hampered but Pat Casey, labor conciliator for the producers, declared “So far as the studios are concerned actual strike | eanditions do not exist. | “It already is quite evident that the | general body of studio workers are | not in sympathy with this particular strike effort.” | Confident & satisfactory agreement | could be reached with the guild, he . | sald he was awaiting demands as to wages or changed working conditions from the federated crafts. They have demanded recognition for their unions before presenting other demands. The guild will be represented in the conferences by Robert Montgomery, president; Aubrey Blair, business agent, and Eenneth Thomson, executive sec- retary. On the Producers’ Committee are Joseph M. Schenck, president of Twentieth Century-Fox; E. J. Fox, M.-G.-M. production manager; Hal Wallis, Warner Brothers production manager, and Samuel J. Briskin, pro- | duction manager of R-K-O. | Finds Neck Is Broken. BUFFALO, N. Y., May 4 (#)—Hit | by an automobile Sunday, 69-year-old | | Anthony Formica complained of a | pain in his neck, but refused to go to Today a doctor found | | Formica's neck was broken, but said | he thought the man would recover. MAY 4, 1937, Feared for His Life Kelley Fox, garage mechanic, who told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee yesterday that he saw Deputy Sheriff Frank White “shoot up” a union organizer’s home in Harlan County. He said he had never revealed he was an eye witness because “I didn’t want those fellows to kill me too.” was killed during the shooting. NEW RECORDING PROCESS SHOWN “Magnetic” Method Wil Make Single Record Lasting Forever. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, A Cinderella step-sister of the epochal inventions of nearly a half century ago, which gave rise to the phonograph and later the sound mo ing picture, rose from her long ob= scurity in demonstrations before the Acoustical Society of America meeting | at the Bureau of Standards today. This is “magnetic recording.” It was first practiced by a Danish college professor in 1900 and then allowed to lapse until its possibilities were explored by the Bell Telephone Lab- oratories, | The method, as now improved, has | certain extraordinary advantages, it | was explained by Dr. C. N. Hickman | of the Bell Laboratories. It will make | a single record which will last forever, Conversely, the sound may be com= pletely erased and a new record mads on the same tape as often as one | pleases. Its reproduction is remark- | ably clear and its special uses ares | expected to be in the study and the | business office. Two Primary Methods. A 19-year-old boy —A. P. Photo. La Follette (Continued From First Page.) ing was corroborated by Mrs. Minnie Clouse, mother of John, who added: “Wash Irvin and Luke Hubbard came to our house after we had kept | the boys home from the grand jury, | and said it was nice they didn't go— | that it might have caused us a lot of | trouble.” | Mrs. Clouse was followed on the | witness stand by Lindsay Baker, a | Harlan-Wallins Co. miner, who testi- | fled & “company thug” had beaten | him into unconsciousness with a | blackjack a few days after he joined the union. He said he was assaulted April 24 as he left a barber shop in Verda, | a company town. | “I had bent down my head to light a cigarette,” Baker related, “when Leonard Hobbs hit me with a black- jack and knocked me out. “When I came to, he was still beating on me, and three or four deputy sherifls just looked on with- | out doing anything.” A friend finally pulled Hobbs away he continued, adding that his res cuer was immediately reprimanded by a mine company official who saw the incident. Summoned after Kentucky coal diggers testifled that Harlan County mine operators had shut their pits within the last week in an effort to| halt a United Mine Workers organiz- ing drive, Bassham was to face cross- examination before the committee to- day. A former Harlan County deputy sheriff. Kelley Fox, informed inves. tigators yesterd hat he was an ey= witness to a thooting attack, in which & union organizer'’s son was killed. | Fox declared he had never reported the shooting “because I didn't want | those fellows to kill me t00.” Mike Little Bear, Off Reservation, Weds in District‘l | Clad in his tribal dress with & head- | dress of brilliant feathers, Mike Little Bear, 32-year-old Indian from the Chickahominay Reservation below Richmond, was married today to his sweetheart, Hazel May Adkins, whose chic gray costume was in strik- ing contrast to the bridegroom's ab- original garb. The ceremony was performed at the Methodist Building by Dr. James | Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House. Mike created quite a furore when he appeared at the marriage license bureau in the court house this morn- ing. Inquiries of curious attaches Tolled off him without apparent effect, | but Chief O. W. Adkins, whose In- dian nams is Nantau-us, was more | loquacious. He explained he accompanied the | young couple to see that they didn't | get lost. The chief indicated he wore | the multi-colored headgear of feath- | ers, too, because the last time he ac- | companied a bridal couple to the court : house an entire stranger. taken with their dress, bought lunch for all hands and entertained them royally. | thumb or relationship between the vol- | however, the plan to abolish the per- | “We’ll cross that other bridge when There are two primary methods of sound recording now in use, Dr. Hick- man explained. First is that in which a groove is cut on & wax or plastic disk which varies with the modula- tions of the voice. There may be either lateral or up-and-down varia- tions in the “ditch” in the wax and these govern the movements of the diaphragm of the loud speaker in reproducing the sounds. In electrical recording they cause tiny currents Taxes (Continued From First Page.) had been “free. untrammeled competi- tion” in the fire insurance business, | and insisted if Moor’s figures were ap- | plied to separate companies rather | ) e ;’;’“" s"u’cg Gl x'gc‘:l‘:‘e‘f not Pro- | L hich sre amplified and transformed : | into sound. “Thre is nothing to prevent any | Mych of the same principle is used company in the District from Writing | iy sound pictures, except that the insurance at any rate it sees fit,” Bra- | moqulations are those of light and shears testified. “Everything has been | gark shading on a celluloid film. These done to reduce the rate to the lowest | jight variations actuate tiny currents possible cost. That's done by compet- | which are translated into words and tion. The insurance companies believe | mysic by the appropriate mechanisms. the rates in the District are fair and The revived method of recording is not unjust. The fire insurance business | by an entirely different principle. By in the District has been conducted on | a complex process, modulations in the a basis to win and merit public con- | yoice cause variations in the mag- fidence. | netic flux or variation in a steel tape “There's not a thing in Moor's fig- | or wire. Within the steel, literally ures that have any bearing on the rates | millions of tiny magnets are made charged. Yet he hasn't told us any- | with varying fields of force. Then, thing about how he would go about | when the wire is again passed under fixing rates for the District | a magnet, the original sound is pro- Figures Relationship Denied. | duced. The variations in the magnetic “There just isn't any rule of the fleld of force can be used to set up tiny currents which can be ampli- ume of premiums collected by all the | fled to produce the sounds issuing from companies and the volume of Josses of & loud speaker. all the companies.” | Field Lasts Forever. Tax experts at the Capitol esti-| Now a magnetic field, once set up, mated that the five-point revenue ||s i forever unless something is done program sponsored by the Com- | gpoeir A s0ng or a speech thus re= missioners, if enacted into law, would corded is on record forever. There vield more during the coming fiscal | o nothing whatsoever to wear out. vear than is needed to meet the an- | Tne same result is obtained with other ticipated $8,000.000 deficit. types of recording by making master This was made possible by the in-| records which are kept in storage and clusion late yesterday of the proposed | from which other records can be eut. Inheritance tax designed to rase a| o [ g u minimum of $800,000 on estates and | _BU' [SereusnIey a1l Soce a combined 1 per cent gross receipts | ¢'érYtNing that has been recorded, and license tax on all corporations | ¢30 be completely "'a]s'd t‘“'&:“”«" b; 5 = h a simple process similar to that use: doingsbisiness hare frakingiin wiew (e demagnetize watches by jewelers. This is of particular advantage, it was explained, for a dictaphone where the same tape could be run through again and again until it wore out. After each use it would be de-mage nified and emerge as good as new. The original Danish experiments were carried out simply with a piece of wire. One of the great improvee ments introduced is the use of a steel tape two one-thousandths of an inch thick and 50 one-thousandths of an inch wide. Great improvements Meeting Original Estimate. were also introduced in the system In announcing yesterday's approval | of recording of the two new bills, Commissioner Sympesium of Vibrations. Melvin C. Hazen said the tax pro-| The specialists in the physics of gram was prepared on the basis of | sound devoted their session today to meeting the original estimate of a|a symposium of vibrations, which are $6.000.000 deficit next fiscal year and | closely akin to sound. Among the not in view of the additional $2,000,000 | studies reported was that of the deficit which now appears certain. | vibrations set up in a school building 4 | by pupils exercising in the gymnasium. b b e e | It was found that the rhythmic Bo far as Capitol experts are con-| moyements of the exercisers set up & cerned, the Commissioners’ proposals | vipration close to the natural fre- would yield in excess of $8,000,000, quency of the girder system. This leaving ample margin in the event brmgé to the front another peril to that the deficit is smaller than now | pe ayoided by school building archie expected in view of proposed slashes | tects, since disturbance of the girders in appropriations 5 might seriously unbalance the struc- As the tax program shaped up last, | ture of the building itself. 000. This was made up of $1,100,000 ‘ ASSOEAEON PIANS ANNUAL MEETING from the proposed increase of 1 cent Washington Criminal Justice So- in gasoline taxes, $200,000 from in- surance companies and $1.500,000 ciety Convenes Today to Hear Survey Report. from a weight tax on automobiles Gross retail and wholesale receipts from sales by corporations in the The annual meeting of the Wash- ington Criminal Justice Association was scheduled to take place late this sonal property tax, which last year raised $1,900,000, it was estimated the corporation sales tax would account for a net gain in taxes of $4,100,000 or more Members of the subcommittee as- serted today that the proposed sales tax on corporations would make it unnecessary to levy separately on cigarettes and other tobacco, since | these sales naturally would come | within the scope. Embodied also in the proposal is a $5 filing fee when a corporation | makes application for a license to do District were estimated at $600,000,000 afternoon at the Willard Hotel, to the other day, a taxi driver saw a rather distinguished, conservatively dressed man walking along the road, apparently in search of something. He stopped and asked, “Is there any place I can take you, sir? Are you by any chance lost?" The fellow looked at him a moment and said, “Are all the taxi drivers in Washington absolutely nuts?" Cabbie allowed as how he didn't think so. “Well, I'm taking no chances,” said the man. “The reason I'm walking now is because I don't intend to get into one of the things again while I'm here. What do you suppose I'm doing in this park now, anyhow?” “Wouldn't know,” said the driver. “Nothing. Positively nothing. Ex- cept I took a cab downtown at my hotel and asked to be driven to the Monastery, which I wanted to see on this visit here. ‘The what?’ said my driver. ‘The Monastery,’ I said. ‘Where the monks are’ And where did he bring me? 'Way out here, straight to the monkey house the Zoo! Now I ask you! Faugh!” roared thé¢ fellow, his anger rising again. “Get on your way with your stupid taxi and I hope never to see another one.” The driver left all right, laughed most of the day. * x % % ACCORD. E HAVE it on the authority of Mrs. Robert Whitney Imbrie of the Carlton Hotel that during a father-and-son conference between Postmaster General Jam:s Farley and his boy the other day, the youngster asked: “Dad, when I grow up will I be a big man like you?” to which Mr. Farley modestly replied, “Why son, I dont’ think I'm such & big man.” “Come to think of it, I don't think and thin Groves, the latter of Baltimore, and Mrs. Florence Jouvenal, this city, and three grandsons, %0 either,” said the boy. * x % % LUCK. reference files. — Runaway Tractor Caught. LAMAR, Mo., May 4 (®).—A farmer fainted and fell unconscious from his tractor, which continued on its way driverless. The farmer recovered, saw his tractor runming away. He leaped to his feet and overtook it. His age, 55, his name, Lynn Fast. Congress in Brief ‘TODAY. Senate: In recess until Thursday. Civil Liberties Committee continues inquiry into Harlan County, Ky. Judiciary Committee continues study of Roosevelt court bill. House: Considers minor legislation. Agriculture Committee resumes con- sideration of sugar quota legislation. Post Office Committee studies pro- posed revision of airmail laws. Appropriations Subcommittee con- tinues secret hearings on proposed ex- tension of P. W. A. TOMORROW. Senate: Will not be in session. Commerce Committee meets 10 a.m. Subcommittee on finance meets 10 am. House: Considers miscellaneous bills on cal- endar. Rivers and Harbors Committee meets 10:30 a.m. Indian Affairs Committee meets 10:30 a.m. Immigration Committee meets 10:30 am. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committes meets 10 a.m. / Higher Auto Taxes Do This? last year and probably will be more | next year. A gross receipts tax of 1 per cent, except wherein specifically exempted, would net $6,000,000 or | | hear the first annual report of a sure- vey of crime in the Nation's Capital. The report was ready for presenta= | tion by James Allen Nolan, manag- more. | business. A report must be filed Then there would be imposed & |ing director of the association. James showing the gross receipts of the pre- | vious year. Protesting against increased motor taration that “might bring a return of buggy days,” this horse-drawn Victoria, sponsored by the American Automobile carried 30,000 ballots from Washington motorists, opposing additional levies, to Congress. Mem- bers of the House District Committee met the equipage at the House Office Building and received the votes from Washington I. Cleveland, manager of the A. A. A. Motor Club. The driver is Sam The number 7 turned whimaical District Committes meets 10:30 am.| Green, and in the vehicle are Pauline Grimm A and Clarice Covington. he horse-and- sociation, today —Star Steg Photo. r special scale of license fees for cor- porations or partnerships from which it would be exceedingly difficult to estimate an equitable gross receipts tax. That would take care of gen= eral contractors, commission brokers and the like, it was said. It was estimated that $300,000 would be a very liberal amount to be | expected from the $5 filing fee. Since the special license rates are being left | blank in the bill for futurne deter- mination, it is impossible to tell how much these would raise. It was | learned from House committe ex- | perts that the gross receipts tax would be fixed at 1 per cent. The gross receipts tax and $5 filing fee, therefore, is estimated to raise| no less than $6,300,000. | Deducting the loss of an estimated | personal property tax, the additional | revenues from corporations and in- heritances would boost last week'’s | total of $2,800,000 to approximately $8,000,000. | The inheritance tax proposed would be a “bit Jower” than that provided in the Collins bill. The District proposes to take its 80 per cent share of the total tax that an M. Hepbron, .who is director of the | Baltimore Criminal Justice Commise | sion, and consultant to the Washinge | ton association, planned to speak, ine terpreting the report. | Eugene Meyer, president of the as- | sociation, was to preside, and officers | were to be elected. SIDNEY_H. PERHAM, 59, IS BURIED IN ARLINGTON Sidney H. Perham, 59, retired Gov= ernment employe and veteran of two wars, who died Sunday of a sudden illness at his home, 1930 K street, was buried today in Arlington National etery. Funeral services were held at Hines' funeral home, 2901 Four- teenth street. Rev. John Van Schaick, jrd editor of the Christian Leader, Boston, and an old friend of the fam- " ily. officiated. Mr. Perham served in both the | Spanish-American and World Wars, | being & captain in the latter. He was | retired a few years ago from a posi= tion at the Veterans' Administration, | after 30 years' Govermment service. h into the Federal | He was a native of Lewiston, Me., but ;"sr‘:afus;ys t::zde:vlnhna difference, | became a Washington resident when Whereas the Federal tax exempts the | Only 5 years ol;}*- He{ was & (l;r;:gsnon first $100,000, the Commissioners nre‘si fa‘:x‘:\? Perham, former Governor tion at . i‘;{,‘%fifif m’lghefl ’z‘;?;'m?fi.i("eé’lfilb be 1| Among survivors are his widow, Mrs. per cent of the first $100,000, which is | Jessie M. Perham; an tur;/clle. Vgnlunm the equivalent of the Federal tax up | L. Perham, and an aunt, Miss Georgia to $150,000. S. Perham. In the Collins inheritance bill ex-| emptions of $20,000 are allowed to a | verse the order of the two last exemp- widow, $10,000 to & husband, $5,000 to | tions, allowing $5,000 to a child and a brother or sister and $2,000 to & |$2,000 to a brother or sister. No levy child or lineal descendant. | would be made on these exemptions The Commissioners’ bill would re-| unless they total in excess of $50,000. 4 ! '