Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1937, Page 5

STEVENS TRIBUTES END OBSERVANGE Senator Eulogizes Officer and Fallen Comrades Here. With services on the District of Columbia’s only battlefield, in front of Fort Stevens, now Battle Ground National Cemetery, three days of local observances of Memorial day came to a close late yesterday. Standing in the cemetery in which lie 40 Union soldiers who fell as they advanced from Fort Stevens toward what is now Walted Reed Hospital to drive off the attacking Confeder- ate army of Maj. Gen. Jubal Early, Senator Schwellenbach of Washing- ton eulogized the memory of Maj. Gen. Isaac Ingalls Stevens, for whom the fort was named i “We meet today,” the Senator said, “at the site of Battle Ground Ceme- tery. Here lie the bodies of those | brave men who, in 1864, gave their lives that the Capital of their Na-| tion might be protected Name Honor Leader. “Fort Stevens was just a few rods from here and was given its name in commemoration of the bravery of Maj. Gen. Stevens, whose life was sacrificed upon the altar of his coun- try's cause in the nearby town of Chantilly, Va., September 1, 1862. He was the first Territorial Governor of Washington State.” Gen. Stevens, he related, was a graduate of West Point and was com- wmissioned a lieutenant of engineers. “He was out in the territory during the Spring of 1861, when Fort Sumter was fired upon,” the speaker continued vand he hurried to Washington and was appointed colonel of the 79th Highlanders, New York volunteers, and In the first battle of Bull Run the regiment suffered heavy losses. Later | he was commissioned a brigadier gen- | eral and took an active part in the | battle of Chantilly. As his men were | picking up their dead and wounded | under cover of darkness they found the body of Stevens, covered by the | colors of his beloved Highlanders.” The assemblage was called to order at 3:30 p.m. by a bugler, followed by | the raising of an American flag and | salute, under the direction of Maj. John Deavy. Francesco Della-Lane sang the “Recessional,” accompanied | by the Navy Band, led by Assistant Leader Alexander Morris. R. J. F.| MCcElroy read the orders of the Grand Army of the Republic and Vice Chair- man John Clagett Proctor introduced John M. Kline, sr., commander of the | Department of the Potomac, G. A. R., | who presided. Original Poem Read. The invocation was pronounced by | Rev. William E. La Rue, after which | Proctor read an original poem, “The | Battleground Dead,” and Talbot O.| Pulizzi recited Lincoln's “Gettysburg | Address.” Everett F. Warner recited | “The Star Spangled Banner”; the' children from the public schools in the vicinity of the cemetery decorated the | graves of the 40 veterans of the Battle of Fort Stevens, under supervision of | Mrs. Angus Lamond, jr. After the| benediction, taps were sounded by the | band, and a salute fired by soldiers of | the 16th Brigade, U. S. A. | Several of the surviving members of Kit Carson Post, G. A. R, were present on the platform. Department | Comdr. Kline, in the course of his remarks, said he was the only survivor of the 6th Army Corps. He read a telegram of regret from Mme. Julia Cantacuzene, granddaughter of Gen. | U. S. Grant, who could not attend. The G. A. R. Committee in charge included Department Comdr. Kline, Proctor, W. F. Dorsey and John T. Ryan. Tax Evasion (Continued From First Page.) | the decency of American morals is in- volved.” In his letter to the President, Sec- retary Morgenthau set forth eight of the principal devices “now being em- ployed by taxpayers with large in- eomes for the purpose of defeating the | {ncome taxes which would normally be | payable by them.” These devices are: | The device of setting up foreign | personal holding corporations in the | Bahamas, Panama, Newfoundland, and other places where taxes are low and corporation laws lax; the} device of foreign insurance companies; | the device of incorporating yachts and country estates; the device of the creation of artificial deductions for interest, losses, etc.; the device| of the creation of multiple trusts for relatives and dependents; the device | of husband and wife or father and | children partnerships; the device of | pension trusts. { Secretary Morgenthau also lists three “major instances” in which | the law itself permits individuals | and corporations to ‘“avoid their equitable share of the tax burden. ‘These are: percentage depletion; the division of income between husband and wife in eight community prop- erty States, and the taxation of non-resident aliens, which the Secre- tary insists is too low under the pres- ent law. There e indicatians today that Schwellenbach | - THE EVENING ’Chute Failed to Open A view of the hot-air balloon from which Fern Meyers, 20, (below) fell 150 feet and was critically injured Sunday when her chute failed to open. She is shown clinging to the big bag just after taking off. The jump was to celebrate the opening of an amusement park in Des Moines, lowa. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. congressional leaders | joint hearings with the Senate Finance Committee might be held. Details might be brought more into the open at these congressional hearings. Although the President is seeking to confine the proposed tax legisla- tion to the one issue—tax dodging— Senator La Follette, Progressive, of ARTHRITIS .« . rheumatism . . . neuritis should be arrested in their earlier stages .. . avoid a life of pain and helplessness. 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It is the duty of Con- gress, he said, to remove new loop- holes “devised by attorneys for clients willing to take an unethical advantage of society and their own Government.” The duty of the executive branch is to collect taxes and to investigate all questionable cases and to prosecute where necessary. As for the courts, he said: “It is the duty of the courts to give full consideration to the intent of the | Congress in passing tax laws and to | give full consideration to all evidence | which points to an objective of evasion | The President said that already “certain newspaper publishers are seeking to make it appear—Afirst, that if an individual can devise unantici- pated methods to avoid taxes which the Congress intended him to pay, | he is doing nothing unpatriotic or un- | MODERN WALNUT DRESSER, 48 inches long, with beautifully matched butt walnut veneers. Top drawer with jewelry, compartments. 30-inch REGULARLY $4155, NOwW____ D. C, TUESDAY ethical; and second, that because certain individuals do not approve of high income tax brackets or the un- distributed earnings tax, or the capi- tal gains tax, the first duty of Con- gress should be the repeal or reduc- tion of those taxes. In other words, not one but many red herrings are in preparation.” “Lawyers of high standing at the bar” came in for criticism by Mr. Roosevelt, who charged some of them not only have advised clients to use tax-avoidance devices, but also are using devices themselves. A reading of Secretary Morgenthau's letter on tax evasion had aroused in him a feeling of indignation, the Pres- ident said. He was confident, he added, that it would have a similar effect on Congress. “‘Clever little schemes’ are not ad- mirable,” the President insisted, “when they undermine the functions of so- ciety.” The Secretary of the Treasury in his letter, discussing the device of setting up foreign personal holding corporations as a means of avoiding taxes, said “Americans have formed 64 such companies in the Bahamas alone in 1935 and 1936 and 22 more were organized by Americans in the JUNE 1, Bahamas months.” One American with a $3,000,000 Ba- hamas corporation has sought to pre- vent the Internal Revenue Bureau from catching up with him by filing his individual tax returns in succes- sive years from towns in New Bruns- wick, British Columbia and Jamaica. Morgenthau referred also to the case of a retired American Army officer with & large income from American securities which he desires to sell at a large profit. This officer, Morgen- thau said, became a naturalized Ca- nadian citizen and six days later or- ganized four Bahamas rorporations to hold his securities. While Morgenthau lists many kinds and instances of tax avoldance, he leaves the impression that a great many additional cases will be turned up before the Treasury Department concludes its investigation of the 1936 tax returns. So far there has only been a quick check of & comparatively few individual returns. Most of the large corporation returns have not yet been filed. The ordinary salaried man and small merchant does not resort to these enumerated devices, Morgenthau said, and he added: “The great bulk of our 5,500,000 returns are honestly made.” 1937. during the past two Relief (Continued From First Page.) would be devoted to flood control and that the $131,000,000 in the P. W. A. revolving fund would be freed for approved projects. The latter money now is restricted by relief labor requirements. Democratic Leader Rayburn and his assistants spent the week end trying to work out agreements with the coali- tion, which won House approval to set | aside $45,000,000 of the relief money | for flood control, $300,000,000 for P. W. A. projects and $150,000,000 for road work. President Roosevelt contended the earmarking proposals, it finally en- | 630,000 works progress employes and men. May Boost Tax Revenues. Representative Starnes, Democrat, of Alabama, said, however, the coali- tion was “fighting for resumption of | congressional control over Federal | funds.” His faction, he added, does |not want Federal money “devoted to | the building up of State and city poli- | tical machines.” ! 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