Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1940, Page 16

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SIMON DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION Exclusive Wholesale Distributors 2501 H Street N.W., Washington, D. C., RE. 2181 by Real Estate Men Confer Here on Ways To Shift Tax Load National Meeting Seeks To Cut Governmental Revenue From Land . A 19-year-old junior in the Fair- fax County (Va.) High School was under arrest today as a kidnaper, robber and license-tag switcher of extraordinary talents. He was in jail in Washington today, awaiting action of the grand jury, after being arrested last night in Fairfax, Va. His activities resulted in the ar- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 25 1940, High School Junior Is Held As Kidnaper and Robber thieves, who knew each other only | having been given early this month by number. by the elementary school P.-T. A. In the gang he was “No. 7.” He said he got. the stolen car from a youth known only as “No. 6.” } listened, and then Washington de- tectives took the boy to the District and jail. Directors are A. L. Applegate and R. W. Hill. stolen car, which was parked out- side a barber shop in Fairfax. With State Policeman Charles Blue he arrested the 19-year-old boy when| he got in the car. A pistol was| found in the auto. Fairfax County Sheriff E. P. Kir- by staged a line-up last night at P.-T. A. Benefit Play Sponsored jointly by the parent- teacher associations of the Kensing- ton Elementary and Junior High Schools, a play, “Aunt Dinah'’s Quilt- From all over the country real estate authorities gathered here to- day to cope with a major tax problem —the question of adjustment of real estate taxation to the shifting in- come basis of the American people, s0 land investment might be en- couraged and emphasis on the land as a source of governmental revenue might be reduced. The National Real Estate Tax Conference opened at the Mayflower t] morning, and will continue through tomorrow night. Myers T. Cooper of Cincinnati, former Governor of Ohio, com- plained: “We have permitted taxes to be levied on property in a cumula- tive manner without regard to in- come or value and without serious effort to shift unjust burdens to other forms of wealth.” As chairman of the Committee on Real Estate of Real Estate Boards, he is presiding over the conference. He said in his opening address: “It is our archaic tax system which hes put the brakes on progress and which is responsible in no small degree for much of the economic distress in our national life.”” Indirect Taxes Mentioned. Mr. Cooper said that while the gross annual income of privately owned real estate in the United States is about $7,000,000,000, the local real estate taxes amount to $4,500,000,000. Later Newton C. Farr of Chicago, president of the Nationa] Association of Real Estate Taxation of the National Association | rest by mistake 6f a Dapartment of Justice man by police for driving an automobile with stolen tags, it was revealed after the you'.hs ar- rest. The full story was told as follows. On Sunday night Miss Ethel Krieger, 25, of 1125 Twelfth street N.W., was kidnaped by a young gunman who got into her automo- bile when she stopped for a traffic signal. He forced her to drive to M;:Lenn, Va,, and stole her automo- bile. Stole, Set of Tags. Earlier the youth had stolen a set of tags from an automobile owned by Robert H. Black of Fair- fax. He took these tags and put them on a car belonging to Frank Justice Department man. la car belonging to Miss Elizabeth Salisbury of Merrifield, Va., and Miss Salisbury’s tags later went on the stolen car. Mr. Black reported the theft of a search for them. On Sunday State Police Lt. E. J. McDermott saw the tags and stopped Mr. Oogje, who was driving along blissfully un- aware that any but his own license | plates were on his car. The matter was explained when Miss Salisbury discovered that Mr. Oogje’s tags were on her car. Lt.| McDermott then began a uarch for her tags. He spotted them last night on the — J. Oogje of Dunn Loring, Va., the| Mr. Oogje's tags were placed on | his license plates and police began | which Miss Krieger identified the youth. He told police that he was a member of a gang of young car On Sale at all Leading Food Stores MILK ing Patty,” will be given at 8 pm. tomorrow at the junior high school for the benefit of both associations. The play is a repeat performance, VITAMINS—to rebuild MINERALS—for energy LAXATIVE-to clear away poisons Sample Reduced Fares One Wey Rd.Trip Cumberland _$3.00 $4.50 Parkersburg _ 5.60 10.10 New York__. 3.30 5.95 5.75 10.35 nal 8000 £ Blue lldll Ph.l- ME. 1523 {9104 BLUE/\IiID(;E GRAND OPENING BOULEVARD MKT. Formerly MILLER’'S MKT. Thursday, April 25th | nation of home owners will do more Boards, told the conference that real estate is taxed indirectly through income taxation and social security taxati Both these taxes, Mr. Farr said, “add a new element in the question of adjustment of the tax load borne by real estate.” “Real estate taxation” Mr. Farr saild, “is primarily a problem of State Legislatures and municipal governments. These are the officials to whom we look in our own com- munities We must work with them in establishing new and improved laws with respect to taxation, the study and examination of proper budgets for expenditures to provide the essential public services and in assisting officials to see that the tax burden is equitably shared.” Mr. Cooper took the broad view of the relation of present bases for real property taxation to the general national welfare. First he high: lighted his contention that real prop- erty taxes are too high by pointing out that “sales prices of the first 900 sales of real estate made in Bos- | ton in 1939 averaged only 49 per| | cent of the existing tax values of the properties, which means sim- ply this, that the owners of these| properties were paying taxes on 51 per cent of fictitious valuation.” Calley Key Log of Jam. Then he said: “The economic effects are felt by every person in the community when real estate tax delinquencies mount as they have been doing in virtually every subdivision of every State in the Union. We must pull the key- log of the economic jam if we want to permit a better flow of business by increased building. “We cannot as a people afford w‘ see the soundest of all values, the | yardstick for all values, taxed until | it is no longer an asset, delaultmg to the municipality. In a democracy, | real property ownership is one of | the great incentives to thrift. 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Encourage, through adequate guarantee of loanable funds, im- provement of existing properties, thereby increasing tax income and taxable values. Some Progress Made. Progress already is being made on point six, a survey by the con- ference disclosed. Nine States have adopted an over-all limitation on the general property tax rate—In- diana, Michigan, New Mexico, ©Ohio, | Oklahoma Rhode Island, Washing- | ton, Nevada and West Virginia. James McD. Shea of Washington, president of the National Apart- ment Owners Association, called the sessions to order. The other speak- ers this morning besides Mr. Cooper and Mr. Farr were Philip C. Hodill, Pittsburgh, president of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers; Byron T. Shutz, Kansas City, Mo., president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, and Herbert D. Simpson, Evanston, Il professor of public finance, North- western University. On this aftermoon’s program are Louis J. Taber, master of the Na- tional Grange; Earl C. Smith, president, Illinois Agricultural As- sociation; Gov. Clarence D. Martin of Washington, Frank J. Murray, president of the Taxpéyers’ Federa- tion, Inc. The meetings will close tomorrow with a banquet at which Rogert Whiteford, Washington at- torney, will be toastmaster and Rep- resentative Celler, Democrat, of New York will talk. The confererice is sponsored by the | National Association of Building Owners and Managers, the Mortgage Bankers’ Association of America, the National Apartment Owners’ as- sociation, the National Grange amd the National Association of Real Estate Boards. - MixX GIVE HIM aTREAT A platterful of deliciously light and tender corn muffins. He'll love them. You'll be proud of them. And you can whip up 12 to 18 in 3 minutes with FLAKORN, . Gen. Cox to Speak Maj. Gen. 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