Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1937, Page 13

he Su Star OFFICIALS SUBMIT - RULES TO PROTECT LIVES AT AIRPORT List of Instructions for Air- lines Expected to Form Operation Basis. KING PRESENTS DRAFT OF CAMP SPRINGS BILL Bolling Field to Be Used in Emer- gencies Pending Solution of Problem. BACKGROUND— Washington Airport long has been considered by airline pilots to be dangerous for new high-spzed air- liners. Ten days ago they served notice they would refuse to fly there unless conditions were im- proved within 60 days. A few days later the 14-month-old District Airport Commission recommended o Congress development of a model airport at Camp Springs, Md. Not a pawrnshop or a rum Lawrence Caddington. who ha Articles shown here represent of whoever turned them in. the Capital Transit Co., at Thirty-sirth and M streets. approximately 1,000 street cars left 11,226 articles and 81,209 in cash; $1,029 was reclaimed. If not claimed within 90 deys they may become the property WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1937. % . mage sale, this photo shows ndles the lost and found for In s and buses last year people freq only the haul since April 1. How any one can lose false teeth in a bus or street car has always puzzled Caddington, yet, he says, they The principal haul outside of keys, glasses and various cases is umbrellas—scads of them and mostly women's. include blue prints, garden equipment, one small alli- gator, one parrot, several cats, dogs and children, uently come in. Unusual nore than 1.20 piints items turned in with the conve Sports—Pages 6 to 11 PAGE B—1 0 Diamond cabs of the District. ntions that come to town At 1735 Fourteenth street Mrs. Sara Jewell takes in what people leave in the With enough variety to start a simall department store, Mrs. Jewell says the principal traffic is in umbrellas. Blue suit cases, toys. clothes and occasional bridgework come into her office People lose things mostly at night and in the Winter, she said, with hauls varying She phones a list of turned-in articles to the hack inspector's office every day, she says, and those not claimed in 30 days go to drivers. Most valuable thing turned in was a $1.500 diamond pin about whom commending letters are written to the association receive a cash reward and crask the columns of the Diamond Chatterbor Drivers 2 e New Industries for Islands. The Philippines Government will finance new cotton spinning, meat packing, fish canning and can manu- facturing plants Dancing Teachers To Go to School Of Masters Here About 200 Will Learn New Routines in Two- week Course. About 200 dancing school teachers will themselves go to school for two weeks, starting tomorrow, when the annual normal school, sponsored by the Dancing Masters of America, opens at 10 am. at the Mayflower. Ten of the best-known dancers in the country will show the teachers new routines for the coming year's classes in children’s and advanced tap, mod- ernistic, gymnastic, ballet and Span- ish dancing. The two weeks' course of dgily classes precedes the annual conven- A draft of instructions to airlines | operating out of Washington Airport | setting up procedure to be observed | in local operations for the protection of life and property has been sub- mitted to Assistant Secretary of Com- merce J. M. Johnson. Whipped into shape yesterday after a prolonged session of Commerce De- partment officials and airline pilots, the draft is expected to form the basis of air transport operations here pend- ing the construction of the long- | proposed model air transport terminal. At the same time final steps were being taken at the Capitol on the | drafting of a bill which would pro- | vide for the acquisition and develop- ment of an airport site at Camp Bprings, Md.. by the Federal Gov- ernment King Submits Bill Draft. “I have submitted a draft of the | bill to members of the commission,” said Senator King of Utah, Chalr-‘ man of the District Airport Commis- | i pan of fhe Dt At Commi | Men Arrested After Writer opportunity to go over the draft and | i Rubmit their views we wil be ready| DieS in Hold-Up Are to go ahead. If there is any serious | . obygguon to the bill, I expect to call | Still Held. 8 meeting;of ‘the ‘commission_to} see | 1 ooh men. arrested in con- i ‘an agreement cannot be reached | ooiion iy the case of Anthanass duced in the Senate and House.” P. Econom, 48, a W. P. A. writer l'hf! died Friday night after being robbed th*’fflr’filsr;fiufl Pue_;lgfi“-?‘tmi‘::’-‘i&;f |in the park behind the State, War e a d . -|and Navy Building. were still being S T e S wD R O Bl 2t lice line-u uesday night in ington Airport is unsuitaole, under | g PR HOSEP THEERY TERL 0 e e ol an imwmben [RorkDe | inked Swith fother! recent frobberies agreement” between the War and |yare Commerce Departments and tN€ &5 | Gpief of Detectives Bernard W ) % | Thampson revealed this plan after War Department permission for | 2"/ hherc victim of several days ago i“’h “é‘; fégmt‘”zfier‘[‘:‘:c e ";“"l‘,‘;)d | failed to identify any of the men in as ring at th e Po- s vesiardns tomac river flood which put Wash. |® Lne-up yesterday. ington Airport out of operation and | Economs body was found near never has been rescinded, it was ex- | the First Division MnnumenL‘b,\ three plained yesterday by Gen. Malin | Youths who said they investigated Craig, Chief of Staff. The permis- ¥hen they heard him “gasping for sion has been rencwed verbally, the | Dreath” after noises which “sounded general explained. No written order | like a fight." They reported seeing is necessary, he added. He said that three men running from the scene the Army always is ready to give the | &S they approached, and this led fullest possible aid in any case of | Police at first to believe Econom had public emergency and that the |been slain and robbed Washington Airport emergency is no, An autopsy yesterday established exception to the rule. definitely that Econom, a Greek Written Rules Unnecessary. |Amencan W. P. A. relief employe “There's no need for written rules | had died of natural causes, induced and regulations to insure Army co- | by heat. The autopsy showed a Gen. Craig said that the question | violence on his body. Apparently of closing Military road has again |, ™. oo robbed after he colo been raised as a means of improving | lapsed. the alctyiotaWa bineion Sport | - Several other victims have reported l'ghf wl” Dfil;‘;;’:‘;m‘w“:,‘j‘mm:e | being beaten and robbed in that vi- BIAC0 flopclose 3 > . | cinity during the past several weeks. Craig said, “but I do not think that | gty GOT0E Joe BNt e we have the legal right to do so. The |17 poth of 1733 K street, and Ray- road is no longer of value to the War | o0 Cox, 25, of Spruce Pine, N. Department and we have no money | G ~were the three youths who re- for its maintenance. It is in Very |ported finding the writer's body. Cox bad shape and we have erected signs | subsequently was held by police on warning the public that the road iS |an open charge. All except one of In dangerous condition. Peraona]ly,‘!“hg men held are transients, police do not see why people continue to |sajd. use it. There is only 3 minutes| p.nom 5 World War veteran, had difference in travel time between Mili- | ;.4 at 120 C street southeast until tary road and alternative routes. In|myirday night, when he left, tell- view of the bad condition of Military ing his landlady, Mrs. M. Action, he road and the danger of crossing the | waq going on a 10-day trip to Val- sirport, it's not worth the difference.” | oy Stream, N. Y. At the Historical No Formal Regulations. Records Survey Office, 816 Indepen- ‘The Bureau of Air Commerce prob- | dence avenue southwest, where he was ably will not issue formal “regulations” | employed, it was learned Econom had governing the use of Washington Air- | made no application for leave. He port by air transport planes, it was | has no known relatives, but was said said yesterday afternoon by Assistant |to have come here in 1935 from Director of Air Commerce Howard F. | California. Rough. The necessary Federal rules in the case probably will be issued in the form of “instructions” to the air- lines using the field. They will have the effect, however, of regulations, in 80 far as individual pilots are con- cerned. Bolling Field is to be used, in case of emergency, only for the actual han- dling of air transport schedules, it was made clear yesterday at the Com- merce Department. There will be no maintenance or repair work carried on there and no servicing beyond refuel- ing, which will be handled by tank trucks. Airliners which require other servicing, under emergency conditions, will discharge passengers and cargo at Bolling Field and will be flown to ‘Washington Airport for whatever work may be necessary. Lightening of the airliners by the dropping of passenger Joad and cargo is expected to make 1t possible for them to get into and out of Washington Airport under con- ditions which might be classified as dangerous for the same airplane with its normal load, it was explained. VISIT AQUATIC GARDENS Bandy Spring Little Garden Club Discusses Water Lillies. IN ROBBERY GASES SANDY SPRING, Md., July 17 (Spe- eial).—A tour to the W. B. Shaw aquatic gardens followed the July meeting of the Little Garden Club held with Mrs. Charles E. Bond this week. ‘Water lilies were the subject of discus- sion at the meeting. The two lily pools were inspected and & short business meeting presided over by the club's president, Mrs. Wil- m H. Hough, ' tion of the Dancing Masters of Amer- ica, to be held here the first week in August, when additional experts, in- cluding several from Holland and Germany, will be present. -Approxi- mately 400 are expected to attend the convention. Host to the normal school is Leroy Thayer of the Thayer School of Dance. who is also vice presidentaof the Dancing Masters of Ameri Star Staff Photos. |Oficial Conference Planned Meanwhile to Consider Immediate Threat of Slaughter House’ for an week of erec- plans were under way ial conference early th sider the im | tion of a sla Benning due to blocking of the K orton bill, Representative Randolph, Demo- crat, of West Virginia assured citizens of the District last night that he | will make an “earnest effort” to have | their wishes in opposition to undesir- | able industries written into law | Representative Randolph, one of | the most active and influential mem- bers of the House District Committee. was absent from the meeting of committee which made the righ | about-face last Wednesday in tabling | the anti-nuisance bill. This was done in executive session by seven oppon- ents of the measure after the sub- | stitute attorney for the Adolf Gobel { Co., Inc, with the acquiesence of Frank M. Firor, president, had as- | sured the committee the company had given up its determination to oper- ate in Benning Randolph said he intends to fin out just what influences were at worl | and if he discovers there is any leg- | | islative move he can make in the | | interests of District taxpayers, he is | ready and willing to make it. Mrs. Norton to Help. The former chairman of the com- mittee, Representative Norton of New Jersey, was absent from the city y terday, but those close to her gave | assurance that she also would use her influence in behalf of District citizens. | ‘ In discussing the ‘situation, Ran- | | dolph dictated the following state- ment: “I was unable to be present last! | Wednesday at the meeting of the Dis- | trict Committee, due to the fact that the House Committee on Labor, of | which I am a member, was attempting | | to expedite action on the proposed | | wage and hour legislation | “My knowledge, therefore, of the | ‘action taken in the District Commit- tee on the pending abattoir legislation comes from newspaper stories and editorial comment. I have always tried to see that the voteless residents of the District of Columbia got a ‘square deal’ on legislation affecting them. I have attempted to discuss the situation with various members of the District Committee, but have been unable to do so. “Of course, I recognize that there | was much controversy over this mat- ter. Earlier testimony before the committee seemed to indicate that there was merit in the measure to prohibit the establishment of unde- sirable industries. I will see what the legislative situation is and on what | basis the proposal to prohibit the | abattoir was dropped.” Delano Disappointed. Meanwhile Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, has instructed park officials here to do their utmost to block erection of the Gobel plant. Bitterly disappointed over the failure of the King-Norton bill and the company's unexpected avowal to go ahead with its building plans, Mr. Delano telegraphed The Star from his Summer home in New- burgh, N. Y.: “What we now need is a specific and effective act to protect the Na- tion’s Capital.” Mr. Delano, who had joined forces with Secretary Ickes and other Fed- eral officials in opposing the proposed slaughter house, is keeping in close touch with the situation. Interior Department officials gen- erally were in hearty accord with the demand made by Engineer Commis- sioner Dan I. Sultan that the move- ment to obtain effective zoning legis- lation should be renewed with vigor. At the call of Secretary Ickes a number of District and Federal offi- cials are to meet this week to con- sider what further action may be taken at this time to prevent the slaughter house from ‘being erected. Officials refrained from making any advance statement. Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal, who will return tomorrow from Ocean City, Md.,, will be called into the conference. Offers of aid eame various rection. quarters. The National Insured Homes Corp. which is building 33 Jow-priced homes a short distance from the Benning site. is watchir ments. It purchased about 56 acres in the vicinity at a time when there were pretty definite assurances that the Gobel would be defeated. Myron Davey, general manager of the company, has started construction of 15 model homes on an edge of the acreage at | Thirty-fourth sireet and Benning road. hidden from view of the slaugh- ter house site. The company also has begun excavations for 18 more homes. Construction of the slaughter house | may render it impossible for the hous- ing company to go ahead with its full p: residences of moderate cost The acreage extends to a point within a few hundred feet of the Gobel site. The threat to this housing project offi pointed out yesterday. is only action King-Norton bill Leaders in support of the anti- nuisance legislation * were counting vesterday on help from the numerous civic and business organizations that rendered former aid. In addition there are a large number of property owners in the Benning and Kenil- worth areas who may be depended upon to support the new movement in killing lfor protective legislation. Owing to the absence of several of- ficials, the day the conference will be held had not been announced. REFINING AT RECORD IN PRECIOUS METALS EBig Increase in Gold and Silver Noted for United States Last Year. By the Associated Press. The Treasury announced yesterday that the value of gold and silver refined in the United States reached an all-time record last year Figures on 1936 production, just completed, showed 4.357.394 ounces of gold, worth $152.508,800, were pro- duced in this country. This was $26.000,000 more than 1935 and $51,- 000,000 more than the record year of 1915. The 1936 production was about 500,000 ounces less than 1915, but the devaluation of the dollar has increased the price. The 1936 silver productior was 63.- 812,176 ounces, valued at $49,422,530, compared with 45.924,45¢ ounces, worth $33,008,201, in 1935. In the peak year of 1915 United States sil- ver production totaled 74,961,075 ounces, worth $37,397,300. California led in gold production last year, with an output of 1,048,- 606 ounces, worth $36,701,200, and Idaho topped the silver States with 14,814,585 ounces, worth $11,473,896. WELFARE ASSOCIATION BUILDING PLANS READY District Officials Expect to Issue Permit Wednesday for New Headquarters. District officials are expected to issue a building permit Wednesday for the new $107,000 structure of the Welfare and Recreational Association of Public Buildings and Grounds, Inc., to be erected at 1137 Twenty-first street, between L and M streets. F. W. Hoover, general manager of the association, yesterday conferred with the architect on final plans for the organization’s new home. The association is now located at 215 Eighth street southwest. Hoover said Victor R. Beauchamp, Inc., local contractor, has been award- ed the contract for the building. It will be 65 by 65 feet and will have two stories and a basement. Provi- sion has been made for construction of an additional two stories if neces- sary. closely | plans | ns, which originally called for 600 | the | BACKS FIREMEN'S WEEK OF ADHOURS Association Head Complains to Donovan of Pay Raise Inequity. McGhee, fighters’ Associati inciudes most of Washi 843 firemen, complained yesterday that “we never have had a chief engineer of the fire department approve of anything for firemen except the last salary increase, when the chief engi- neer received a 54 per cent pay in- crease while the lowly private re- ceived only a 14 per cent pay in- crease.” McGhee's complaint was contained in an open letter to Chief Schrom and District Auditor Daniel Donovan op- posing Donovan's contention that the institution of a 40-hour week for fire- men, or a three-platoon system, would be too heavy a drain on the District Curtis City Fi president | government's finances. Get 55 Pet. of Appropriation. “Does our Fire Department cost so | much that we cannot have our one of the consequences of the District | | Committee’s hour week reduced to even a 60-hour week?" asked McGhee. “The D. C. Fire Department uses approximately 5.5 per cent of the total D. C. appro- priation, while the average appro- priation of the 19 largest cities in the United States for their fire de- partments is approximately 9 per cent. i “If we should receive a 60-hour week, which would be a stepping stone to the eight-hour day or 44- hour week, our Fire Department would still require less than 6.5 per cent of the total D. C. appropriation. We firemen will be satisfied for several years to receive a 60-hour week as a stepping stone to our goal.” McGhee reminded Donovan that when the auditor was chairman of a civil service survey committee for the District government last year, grouped firemen among the employes classified for 40 to 44 hours of work each week. The longest work week set up by this committee consisted of 48 hours. Cites Other Hour Cuts. ‘Since your report,” McGhee told Donovan, “there have been 3,000 or more District employes whose hours of duty have been reduced to 40 hours a week or the minimum number of hours in their classifications. Does it seem logical to deny the 843 firemen even a 60-hour week when you con- sider the others? “Mr. Chief Engineer, we would like to ask you why you have worked so vigorously in obtaining costly 100-foot aerial ladder trucks? Why does not New York Citv have at least a few 100-foot aerial ladder trucks? g “Mr. Chief Engineer, if you are so hard pressed for a little money to buy hose and other things, why not put back into the fire-fighting division about one-half of the 45 men not in the fire-fighting ranks and replace them with civilians. “All these 45 men came into the Fire Department to fight fire. A good place to start is on seven or eight of those able-bodied firemen in your office. They did not pass a clerical civil service examination. Why do you need so many of them? They re- ceive $2,400 a year, and you can get good clerks at $1,200. They receive uniforms, medical attention, pensions for themselves, wives and children and work 39 hours a week.” NEW SPAN TO BE BUILT ON POINT LOOKOUT ROAD Bridge Over Dyers Run Will Cost $14,200—Construction Time 90 Days. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDAOWN, Md, July 17.— A new State road bridge will be con- structed over Moll Dyers Run, about € miles below here on the Leonardtown- Point Lookout Highway. The bridge will cost $14,200. It is being built by W. W. Hewitt & Sons of Valley Lee, Md. The time allotted for the span's construction is 90 days. ‘The new bridge over the historic run will help solve traffic tie-upe following heavy rains Venezuelan Scouts Return Home From Trip to La Guara Ex- | pected to Take Pair 22 Hours’ Flying Time. Two Venezuelan Scouts, who |8 two-year, 8.000-mile hike to Boy Scout Jamboree here, are on their way back to South America by air— and expect to make it from Washing- ton to La Guara, near Caracas, in 22 hours’ flying time. The youths, Juan Carmona, 26, and Rafael Angel Petit, left Washington Airport at 10:45 o'clock last night as guests of Eastern Airlines, They were due to arrive in Miami |at 5:30 am. today, in ample time to tranefer to a Pan-American Line clip- per. Both airlines are carrving the |lads back to their homes free. It is | their first experience in the air. | During part of the flight the pair will fly over jungles through which they had to cut their way many months ago with machetes. | The Scouts arrived here June 16 | by way of the Lee Highway. dragging la dilapidated cart decorated with Venezuelan and American flags. They were met by Venezuelan diplomats, took who accompanied them to the Capi- | | tol. where they officially ended their long walk CAFETERIA WORKER WILL BE EXAMINED | Physician Employed by Public Buildings Association to Conduct Tests. Employes who handle food in the Government cafeferias under the juris- diction of the Welfare and Recrea- | tional Association of Public Buildings | and Grounds, Inc., will be subjected association's general manager, F. W. Hoover, announced yesterday. The assoclation’s trustees author- | ized employment of Dr. W. G. Pur- year, who has just completed a three- year internship at Emergency Hos- duties immediately. Hoover said Dr. Puryear will give physical examinations to employes and will supplement the work of ‘the reg- ular sanitary inspector. He will also give a limited free medical service to association’s workers, Hoover said The general manager announced the appointment of R. D. Lewis as deputy general manager. Lewis for- merly was disbursing officer of the Surplus Commodities Corp. R. R. Ayers, son of the late chief clerk of the State Department, who has been a collector for the association, has been named as disbursing officer and acting treasurer. This move is due to the illness of E. F. Concklin, veteran treasurer. | ‘Jamboree by Air the | B | to rigorous physical examinations, the | &l pital here. He is a graduate of the | University of Virginia and starts his | ARMED BANDIT Believed to Be Man Who Has Robbed Dozen Liguor Shops. An armed bandit, believed by police to be the same one who has robbed a dozen liquor stores in recent weeks, | held up the Nichols Liquor Shoppe, | 1719 Pennsylvania avenue. and escaped | with $100 last night while an officer | detailed to catch him waited half a block away The robber, who was well dressed, kept Theodore Nichols, clerk: a woman customer and a colored porter covered with his pistol while he rifled the till. | Then he escorted Nichols to a back room, robbed him and dashed from the store. Nichols started in pursuit. and was Joined by James and William McHenry. brothers. who work in a lunch room next door. They followed the bandit into an alley, but when they nearly caught up the man drew his pistol and held them off while he escaped. Police Watch for Man. Police, watching for an appearance of the bandit. have stationed men i | plain clothes in various parts of the city | each Saturday night. A specially de- tailed officer was at Seventeenth and | Pennsylvania avenue when the Nichols | | store was robbed. police stated | In another robbery last night, Wil- |liam Thompson, 825 Twenty-fifth Isuee(_ delivery boy for a liquor store | at Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania | | avenue, reported he was robbed of $9 after making a delivery at an apart- ment house. Burglars broke into the Volga Boat- man, Thomas Circle night club, for the | | second time in two weeks, and stole whisky, champagne, caviar and silver, | | ‘Woman Reports Rings Stolen. Elizabeth M. Rinker, 37, of 22 Third street southeast, that two diamond rings valued a $130 and a small amount of cash were stolen from her pocketbook yes- terday in a beauty shop at 1204 G street, where she is employed Fred Booth, 47-year-old war vet- eran, reported to police the loss of a black bag containing $900 in bonus bonds. He said he left the bag on a street car which he boarded at Four- teenth and G streets. LUMBERMAN DIES E. F. Allison Succumbs at Estate in Alabama. BELLAMY, Ala, July 17 (#)—Col E. F. Allison, 71, | Col. | died of a heart ailment at his country | estate here today. | Col. Allison's timberland holdings | stretched over about 121,000 acres | along the Tombigbee River,®nd had been converted over the last 30 years into an outstanding game preserve Invalid Brings Passing trains which break the monotony of an invalid's life for Mrs. Evelyn Middlekauff, 49, brought trag- edy to the narrow world framed by her windows again yesterday, and for the second time within a year she made her way painfully to the telephone to call for aid for an injured man. George McCoy, 29, of Clifton Forge, Va,, is the latest victim aided by Mrs. Middlekauff. He fell against a Balti- more & Ohio freight train reportedly while attempting to swing aboard it near her home at 3104 E street south- east. He is in a serious condition in Casualty Hospital. One year ago next week Pete La Londe, 30, of Cleveland fell beneath the wheels of a B. & O. freight train &s it passed Mrs. Middlekauff’s home. Seated in a wheelchair at her window, Mrs. Middlekauff witnessed the acci- dent and summoned aid. Ever since her back was broken in & hit-and-run automobile accident in October, 1935, Mrs. Middlekauff has been a watcher of the passing trains and s friend of trainmen. It was one of latter who rushed Aid to Victim | Of Second Accident in Year to her house yesterday to inform her of the accident, Mrs. Middlekauft said. She was not at her usual post at the window yesterday because she has recovered sufficiently to leave her wheel chair. “I walked to the phone this time,” Mrs. Middlekauff said triumphantly “Why, just today my folks took the wheel chair back. I had to go real slow, I guess, but I hurried as much as this metal brace and cane would allow me.” McCoy was’ first seen by John Biro, 15, of 3202 Eli place southeast and Leroy Pole, 18. of 230 Thirty-third street southeast. They shouted to Engineer J. E. Mastin, 2602 Third street northeast, who was backing his train toward a nearby water tank, and he stopped immediately. McCoy suffered a probable skull fracture and severe lacerations to his left shoulder. He was injured less than 10 feet from the spot where La Londe was hurt, according to Police- men H. A. Turner and R. L. Eubank, who were ed to the scene of both accidents ¥§ Mrs. Middleksuf!. HOLDS UP STORE reported to police | an outstanding | Southern lumberman and sportsman, | THIS WEEK'S FIGHT ON COURT TO HOtD FATEOFD. C. BILLS If Battle Is Settled in That Time, Passage of Local Measures Is Seen. ACTION TO BE SOUGHT TUESDAY ON CITY LOAN House to Be Asked to Enact Bor- rowing Resolution at To- morrow'’s Session. A. O'LEARY. week in the Sen- Supreme Court may decide what will happen to the Dis- trict’s urgently needed tax bill and to a variety of other local measures that the House. eaches a climax sposed of within & short time, t Com- e, not some fore s there will be ti but 1 as well taxes are due The House will be asked tomorrow Ve unanimous consent = of the borrowing auth sponsored by Representativa v of Maryland. It would em- e Treasury to advance neces- nds to the Commissioners, bt in amended form the city would be required to pay interest at an undeter= mined rate, not to exceed 3 per cent. To Seek Action Tuesday. If the House tomorrow, Senat District ion and try 1 Tuesday adjournment passes the measure r King will poll the Committee on the to obtain Senate Since the Senate 1is of recess, the King made known yestere not in favor of require ict to pay interest on to be advanced by the Treasury, only until local tax reves begin to flow in. In view of the cit financial situation, however, he ind cated he could not carry his oppos tion to the point of preventing pas age of the measure. While passage of the borrowing provision will relieve the city’s imme- diate predicament, it will not lessen materially the need for speedy com- pletion of the tax bill. The reason is that the real estate and tangible per- sonal property levy is one of the main issues in that measure, and should the bill die. the Commissio ers would be forced to meet t tire $7.000.000 defic: the rate on property. raising it from $1.50 to $2.10, or boost of 40 per cent. They have ad- vised Congress thev would regard that development as “burdensome, onerous and unfair to property owners.” Land Tax Fight Seen. Property owners already carry the | major part of the city’s annual tax | load. In the pending bill the House | voted to raise the rate to $1.70. The Senate committee substituted a dras- | tic new system of property taxation by proposing that land—improved or | unimproved—be taxed at $2.50 per | hundred, retaining the present $1.50 rate on buildings. This would take $4.800,000 of the $7.000.000 deficit from property owners. The land tax plan is expected to meet opposition in the Senate, however, and in con- | ference if the Senat adopts it There are other differences between the two branches over whether to adopt a luxury sales tax or a modified business privilege tax on gross re- ceipts. It is believed, however, that conferees will be able to work out a compromise agreement, if the bill can be brought to a vote in the Senate and sent to conference. Even if there is no break in the court fight Senator King stili hopes to have a day or part of a day allotted to the tax bill by unanimous consent. In addition to the effect of the court debate on local legislation, there also is a possibility of a chanze in the chairmanship of the District Committee if Senator Harrison of Mississippi is chosen to succeed the late Senator Robinson as Democratic leader. Other Bills in Danger. Harrison is chairman of the ime portant Finance Committee, and if he should win the leadership and give up that committee post Senator King ‘Wmlld be next in line for elevation to the finance chairmanship. Senator King is understood to be of the opinion, however, that there would be no necessity for Senator Harrison to give up the finance post in the event he becomes leader. While public interest has been centered on the tax bill in recent weeks, there are other local measures that would stand a chance for enact~ ment if the court issue should be sidetracked soon. Four of these bills that have re- ceived House approval include: The proposed new code for the Juvenile Court; the plan to regulate and license real estate brokers and salesmen: the measure to require taxicab operators to carry insurance, and the bill to regulate operation of beauty parlors. The Juvenile Court measure has been reported favorably from Senate com- mittee and is awaiting action on the floor. The other bills mentioned; still | require Senate committee aétion. | Senator King said yesterday the taxi- | cab ir.surance bill would require hear- Mngs before it is acted on ¢ There are also a number of . bills passed by the Senate, but still pend- ing at the other end of the Capitol. These include the proposal to put more teeth in the laws against gambling; the bill to include the Dis< trict in Pederal-aid highway allote ments received by the rest of the country, and a measure to broaden the acope of the automobile satety responsibilityflaw.