Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1937, Page 7

ADLEVYONY URGEDINTAK L D. C. Proposal Designed to Boost Development of Unimproved Areas.’ B-CKGROUND— How to raise $6,000,000 the Dis- trict wants to spend but hasn't got puzzles Congress. A House subcom- mittee has been holding hearings on the problem, and Tuesday some of its members will meet with the Commissioners to develop a taxation program, Chief point of debate is what ta tar: licomes, automobiles, land, building, business in general, insurance companies or what. BY JAMES E. CHINN. A new plan for taxation of r.eal satate, designed to encourage the de- velopment of unimproved property, today confronted the special tax sub- committee of the House District Com- mittee, now at work on a program of taxation that will produce $6,000,000 in additional revenue to meet the| anticipated budget deficit in the com- ing fiscal year The plan, embodied in a bill intro- duced late yesterday by Representa- | tive Bigelow, Democrat, of Ohio, a member of the House District Com- mittee, would in a few years force | unimproved property to bear the entire burden of real estate taxes. Improve- ments on property would be exempt from taxation. The bill provides that land shall be assessed at full value, but for the 1938, | 1939 and 1940 fiscal years the assess- ments on improvements would be re- duced, respectively, to 75, 50 and 25 per cent of the full value, and that in the 1941 fiscal year and thereafter there shall be no tax on improvements. | real estate.” '31 NAVAL OFFICERS Advance Land Values. Loss of revenue from the reduction The plan is be in effect discussed briefly Dirksen, Republic: recent hearings on the Di pro- | posed new tax program. Dirksen is a | member of the special tax subcom- mittee, and indicated Bigelow’s bill would be given serious consideration ‘when the subcommittee meets with the Commissioners Tuesday to frame a tax | bill to raise the needed $6.000,000. | Dirksen, as well as several other members of the subcommittee, at- tempted at the same time to allay fears | that the real estate tax would be m-‘ creased in the coming fiscal year to help make up the budget deficit Drafts Levy Decre: “There is no justi &n increase in the real estat 15 likely,” Dirksen declared. “I think the subcommi will take care of the deficit without hiking the real estate tax rate.” Representatives Nichols of Oklahoma and McGehee of Mississippi, Demo- crats, who also are members of the subcommittee, expressed the same opinion. Chairman Kennedy has been opposed to an increase in the reul estate tax since the inception of the tax study. *“I think it is possible to raise suffi- #lent additional revenue to meet the ax rate g Navy Medical Corps to the rank of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, “Nuisance” Captivates Nurses For the past three years “Nuisance,” a gray park squirrel, has been the pet of nurses at Emergency Hospital. Mrs. Loretta Moran is pictured paying “Nuisance” his daily —Star Staff Photo. —_— tribute. WIREPHOTO WINS PRAISE OF EDITOR Robert W. Reed Tells Journalism Week Audience Public Demands “Frank” News Pictures. BY the Associated Press. OOLUMBIA, Mo., May 6.—Robert W. Reed, news editor of the Kansas City Star, told a University of Mis- sourl journalism week audience yes- terday “startling frank” news pictures and a “public demand for informality” in press photos have heightened ine terest in photography. Reed said Associated Press wire- photos have made the public alert for good news pictures and added: “Wirephoto triumphed signally in the Hauptmann case and soon after- ward other news picture services began to look about for similar methods of picture transmission. “But not one of them, even today, can compare with the first efforts of wirephoto.’ Announcer Seeks Divorce. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 6 (®).—W. R. Johnston, jr., radio an- nouncer, has filed suit for divorce against Evelyn Gresham Johnston, whom he described as the showgirl Rudy Vallee was escorting during his recent encounter with a Boston news- paper photographer. Johnston said they had been mar- ried two and a half years. deficit without increasing the real estate tax rate,” said Nichols. “I am sure the subcommittee will avoid that possibility,” McGehee de- clared. “The tax base in the District is too narrow. I conceive it to be part of our duty to revamp the tax structure to broaden this base without touching WILL BE PROMOTED Medical Corps Will Advance Nine | Junior Lieutenants, 22 of Higher Rank. Promotion of 22 lieutenants in the lieutenant commander and 9 lieuten- ants (J. g) to lieutenants has been announced by the Navy Department. Selected for promotion to lieutenant commander were Herman Seal, Robert E. Baker, John F. Luten, James R. Fulton, Ralph H. Hofler, Clifford A. Swanson, John N. C. Gordon, Bernard S. Pupek, Henry W. Patton, Ocie B. Morrison, jr.; John P. Brady, David W. Lyon, jr; Hugh O. G. Wagner, Charles G. McCormack, Melvin D. Abbott, Bruce V. Leamer, Bartholomew W. Hogan, Harry I. Goff, Leroy F. Ferrell, Clark T. Alexander. David O. Zearbaugh and Harold O. Cozby. Those promoted to lieutenants are Ralph C. Boren, Julian M. Jordan, David H. Davis, James W. Shumate, Lewis T. Dorgan, Richard J. S. Silvis, Oscar Schneider, Clifford P. Powell and Carl V. Green, jr. Sl Y = Aid to Hold Dinner. ‘The annual Spring dinner of the Rector’'s Aid Society of All Souls’ Episcopal Church, Cathedral and Con- necticut avenues, will be held at 6 o'clock this evening at the church. HANES Shorts are famous too — because they’re not made for midgets! You can put the heftiest hips into HANES, and :hll have space to spare —to sit, stoop, stand, or walk .without any pulling or bindingl And look at the legs on a pair of HAnes. They're as long as a short leg ought to be — reach far enough below the crotch so they can‘t crawl and bunchl Genuine Lc_fioi in the waist. Colors that won't come out. They'’re fast e+ . but they can't runl Every time you step into HANES Shorts, pull on a HANES Shirt too. Watch how it grips you under the armpits . . . stretches so coolly and firmly across your chest. And when you get it under your belt, it's down there to stay. ,'l'hore'l enough tail-length on a HANES Shirt to keep it from riding up! See your HANES Dealer today. P. H. 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Rossiter, chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and surgeon general of the Navy, will present the certificates of graduation. The valedictory and the playing of “The Star Spangled Ban- ner” will close the exercises. The graduates are Lieuts. Leland J. Belding, Julian Love, Frank P. Gil- more, Charles L. Ferguson and Alfred ‘W. Eyer and Lieuts. (Junior Grade) Clark G. Grazer, Joseph F. Rech, Ad- rian J. Delaney, Howard L. Puckett, William O. Fowler, David R. Dodge, jr.; Theodore R. Austin, Dermot Lohr, Anton Zikmund, James C. Flemming, Martin T. Macklin, Eldon C. Swan- son, Robert B. Simons, William N. New and Eric D. Pearson. ENGLISH TOFFEE tce Cronm Special Mother’s D. Snl? Ice Cream in Fancy Forms. Order 48 bours in advance from your ern Dairies Dealer or telephone Soxthern Dairies. D.J. KAUFMAN, Inc. 1005 Pa. Ave. 14tk and Eye Sis. 1744 Po. 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Full Name Addre Income per month_ Employed by ____ Other Accounts (if any)_ MAY 6, 1937. SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED Harvard Business School Alumni Club to Give $300 Prize. The Harvard Business 8chool Alumni Club of Washington today announced it will again offer & $300 scholarship in the Graduate School of Business Administration of Har- vard University for the academic year beginning September, 1937. Applicants must have completed re- quirements for a bachelor’s degree at an accredited college or university by September. John B. Wilson, 2540 Massachusetis avenue, can provide information. CONSTITUTION LECTURE Federal Officials Among Patrons of Wilson Talk Tonight. Secretary of State and Mrs. Cordell Hull, Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas and other Government officials are among the patrons for the lec- ture on “Our Constitution and Its Makers” to be given by Fred Taylor ‘Wilson, author and authority on his- tory and government, at 8:30 o'clock tonight at Wardman Park Theater. Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia will introduce the speaker. The talk tonight is under auspices of the T. Arthur Smith * A—7 Twelve Die in Cairo Fire. CAIRO, Egypt, May 6 ().—Fire de- stroyed 385 houses in the village of El Bakatush {n lower Egypt and left 12 persons dead, 13 seriously injured and 2,000 homeless yesterday. The government sent tents and food. COLD CUTS cciiciols with LEA & PERRINS | SAUCE WORCESTERS ke W.& The House With the Green Shutters 711 TWELFTH ST. Always High Grade; Never High Priced Sale Following our usual custom at periodic times we make a special offering of the odds and ends and small lots which are the natural result of busy selling. 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An excellent copy of the ariginal, now in the Boston Museum. Tailored in red damask. $79 Reduced from $100 g\ogozme Rack and Lamp Table combined. enuine Honduras mahogany. Reduced from $4250 S29-75 $82.50 Oriental Rugs Kermanshahs, 9x12, in the wonderful Ker- manshah designs and colorings. Regular Price $395 ssss Sarouks, in the fascinating designs and luminous colors—prize selections of this famous weave. Size 9x12. Regular Price $295 3235 Heriz—with all* the dignity, charm and lf)euufy fosr wgich2 the Heriz looms are amous. Size 9x12. Regular Price $235 3195 India Rugs from our own East India looms— rich and beautiful. Size 9x12. Regular Price $425 szss The rug for $2%7-50 Lillehans—in scatter sizes. that awkward space. Size 3x5. Regular Price $35 Charge Accounts—Courtesy Parking, T e B S e P e eier $315 s mahogany. Complete in 8 pieces, ng twin beds 5485 Reduced from $645 Chinese Chippendale Group, genuine Hon- duras mahogany. 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Tailored in damask Reduced from $170 sizg Queen Anne Secretary, with double bonnet, executed in hand-decorated $398 red lacquer. Reduced from $550 Georgian Sofa, with handsomely carved legs; adaptation from an Eng- $149 tailored in lish piece Reduced from $200 Domestic Rugs Heavy Axminster Rugs, in modern, Colonial and Oriental effects. Size 9x12. Regular Price $60 549'5" Texture Rugs, offering a most unusual effect in cut and uncut pile. i 12. Size 912 531050 Regular Price $36.50 Beautiful Texture Rugs, in plain ribbed effects. Size 9x12. Regular Price $975 5347 Worsted Wilton Rugs, closely woven. Size 9x12. R $94-50 Regular Price $110 Capital Garage Fa