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KANSAS CITY, Kans., December
15.—Prosecution charges that Maj.
Charles A. Shepard fatally poisoned his
wife with mercury were met with de
fense testimony in the Army medical
officer’s murder trial today that another
Army Medical Corps officer used
bichloride of mercury in treating Mrs.
Shepard.
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dentistry, testified that under his direc
tion four or five pints of a solution of
bichloride of mercury was given Mrs.
Shepard as a mouth wash up to the
time of her death at Fort Riley. Kans.,
lin June, 1929. He said Mrs. Shepard
suffered from trench mouth.
“Do you know whether you killed
her by your treatment?” District At
torney Sardius M. Brewster demanded
in cross-examining the witness.
Questioned Ruled Out.
C. L. K~' of defense counsel ob
jected r . is question was ruled out I
by the court without an answer from
Maj. Rose.
Maj. Rose testified he was called in
Mrs. Shepard’s case about two weeks
before her death. At that time, he said,
there was positive evidence of a trench
mouth infection and none of mercury
poisoning.
He said he prescribed the bichloride
of mercury mouth wash and warned
Mrs. Shepard, Shepard and the nurse,
clara Brown, the solution was poisonous
and urged them to see that Mrs. Shep
ard did not swallow any.
The mouth wash was prescribed to be
used every two waking hours and was
administered approximately two weeks
up to the time of Mrs. Shepard's death,
he testified.
Maj. Rose said the bottle, labeled
“Poison” was kept on a stand near
the bed and was in easy reach of the
patient, who, it was brought out in
the testimony of Maj. J. C. Dye, Fort
Riley eye specialist, told him during
her illness:
Quoted as Wanting to Go.
“Why don’t you let me go. I won’t
get well, anyhow.”
Maj. Rose said that each pint of the
mouth wash contained about two grains
of bichloride of mercury and that the
treatment brought a gradual improve
ment in the condition of Mrs. Shepard’s
mouth.
After the autopsy Maj. Rose stated he
took smears from the ulcers in the
stomach of Mrs. Shepard—which the
Government alleges were caused by mer
cury poisoning—and found under micro
scopic test evidence of Vincent’s angina,
or trench mouth.
“Vincent’s angina is fatal in some
cases,” he testified.
HINDU-MOSLEM PARLEY
WITH MACDONALD FAILS
Religious Sect Representatives
Meet at Country Place in Vain
Effort to Agree.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 15.—Despite the
best offices of Prime Minister Ramsay
MacDonald, the differences between
Hindu and Moslem delegates to the
Indian Round Table Conference still re
main and present what may be an
insurmountable obstacle to conference
success.
The prime minister had as his guests
over the week end at Chequers repre
sentatives of both religious sects and
attempted to effect a compromise be
tween them, but found his efforts no
more availing than those of other
negotiators for more than a century
past.
The objection of the Moslem minority
to unequal representation in the pro
jected Indian legislature is one of the
chief bones of contention between the
two camps.
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TO REMOVE INSCRIPTION
American Architect Loses Fight for
Library Sentence Recalling
World War Hatreds.
By the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, December 15.—The Court
of Appeals today decided against Whit
ney Warren. American architect, in the
now-famous Louvain Library suit by
pronouncing in favor of Louvain Uni
versity. which stood out for removal of
Warren’s inscription on the library
facade.
The inscription, reading “Destroyed
by Teutonic lury, restored by American
generosity,” was objected to by the uni
versity as tending to perpetuate hatreds
of the World War. Warren refused to
; ! withdraw it, and the lower courts sus
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Lieut. Jack C. Richardson of the
Navy went around the world with Dr.
i Eckener on the Graf Zeppelin last year
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expenses.
He was ordered to the cruise by the
Navy Department, but when he sub- j
mitted his expense account. Controller 1
General McCarl disapproved because j
the trip was not made on an American '
vessel.
Secretary Adams today requested
Congress to appropriate $143 to pay the
claim.
JEWELER IS ROBBED
CHICAGO, December 15 </P). —Harry .
Fine, New York jeweler, reported to po- |
;; lice yesterday he had been kidnaped
, land robbed of diamonds valued at
$60,000.
Fine said he was seized in the Loop
district by two men, who forced him
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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1930,
! OTHER NATIONS THAN THE U. S.
LIBERALLY AID THEIR CAPITALS
Results of Extensive Survey in 1915-16
Along Lines Suggested by Mr.
Simmons Are Recalled.
Should the House Fiscal Inquiry
Committee act on the suggestion made !
by Representative Simmons of Nebraska j
and institute an investigation into the \
method by which capitals of other na- j
tions are financed —with special refer- I
ence to the solutions applied to the
problem of support for the cities in
which seats of Government are located
—the committee would be retracing
steps that were taken in 1915-16 by citi
zens of the District, who presented j
comparable data for the information
of the Joint Select Committee then in
vestigating fiscal relations.
But unless there have been drastic
changes in law and a revision of prin
ciples then discovered as directing the
amount of aid that, national govern
ments furnished their capital cities, the
inquiry would not, as Mr. Simmons
forecasts, show that Washington is the
only city in the world “that takes the
position of demanding something from
the Federal Government or the Gov
ernment agencies in their midst.”
The Reverse Is True.
The research of 1915-16 disclosed
| facts that are just the opposite, gen
erally speaking. It developed that
Washington is not the only city that
takes the position outlined by Mr. Sim- j
mons. But Washington is about the j
only important national capital where
the question is ever raised, it being
taken for granted elsewhere that the
national government owes a distinct
debt to support of its capital, and in
larger or less degree appropriates for
such purposes generously.
In 1915-16 Dr. George F. Bowerman,
i librarian of the Washington Public Li
brary. and John Barrett, the former di
rector of the Pan-Amprican Union, un
dertook a joint survey of the support
rendered other foreign capital cities by
the national governments. Dr. Bower
man’s research covered, generally speak
ing, the cities of Europe, end much of
his information was compiled with the
assistance of the State Department,
which distributed his questionnaires
through American consuls general. Mr.
Barrett took the principal cities of
South America. These researches last
ed several months and produced thick
pages of data.
The results of the survey, together
with other data, were for convenience j
arranged in tabular form by Theodore j
W. Noyes for use in his argument and
in the brief presented by the Joint Citi
zens' Committee on Fiscal Relations,
enabling the Members of Congress to
determine at a glance the status of
national-local fiscal relations in other
capitals, as well as the political status
of the taxpaying members of the oth-r
capitals. In addition, a series of arti
cles in The Star developed the points j
of interest in connection with the i
specific and extraordinary capital im
provement plans followed by other gov
ernments, one of the chief points be
ing that the American Congress could
with advantage study capital financing
methods of European and especially
South American capitals. The exam
ples in South America were considered
especially apt. in view of the somewhat
similar constitutional provisions setting
aside Federal districts.
Table Summarized Findings.
The table, which appears on page 300
of the hearings (Senate Document No.
247, 1916), divided into five classes the
capitals considered, the first being the
capitals of republics which, like the
United States, have federal districts
under national control: the second, the
capitals of republics which have no
distinct federal districts under some
special national control; the third,
capitals of locally self-governing Brit
ish colonies, and fifth, the capitals of
the then strongly centralized mon
archies, Berlin, Vienna and Budapest.
It was found that the inhabitants
of all the capital cities paid federal
taxes, as the members of the local
community do here] and with two ex
ceptions the nations spent liberally for
national objects in their capitals. The
degree of exceptions noted was merely
that in Switzerland and in the Union
of South Africa, the capital cities of j
Berne and of Cape Town were treated
the same as other municipalities. Most
of the other governments were found
to be contributing “lavishly” to the sup
port of their capitals. It was noted
that in the case of Ottawa there was
dissatisfaction over the amount of ap
propriations for capital development,
protested as being inadequate, a matter
that development on a fine scale in the
Canadian capital has tended recently
to correct.
Washington an Exception.
It was found that in every case—
with the outstanding exception of
Washington—the national governments
of other countries encouraged the de
velopment of local taxable resources,
such as industrial development, that
! would enable the local communities
more easily to bear their individual
tax burdens. It was pointed out in
this connection, that “the United States,
alone among nations under a system
atic though unwritten policy, cripples
the commercial growth of Washington,
thus reducing to a minimum its taxable
resources and its ability to meet un
aided the heavy drain of National Capi
tal municipal expenses.”
Interesting extensions of this policy
have been shown recently in the promi
nent part taken by the National Capi
tal Park and Planning Commission, the
Fine Arts Commission and other Fed
eral bodies in fighting industrial de
velopment in Arlington county, Va., in
an area that lies outside their Federal
city Jurisdiction. The commercial de
velopments were of a nature that
would have been objectionable. In vievtf!
of the Federal plans for adjacent Wash
| ington. The citizens themselves joined !
\ in the fights, and so far they all have >
j ended in victory.
I “Congress.” read the argument accom
! panying the table, “has historically dis
oouraged Washington’s commercial and
industrial growth. It has deprived the
Washingtonian of the means of self
support found in the local industries
that develop in the ordinary American
city. It has concentrated the great
local industries, corresponding to the
factories, mills, and manufacturing
j plants of other cities, in the hands of
the Government and then, by the ap
portionment-of-offlees law, shuts out
| from the classified service of these
' great national-local industries all who
| claim Washington as a residence, in
cluding the growing youth of the city.
Thus Congress denies the Capital great
Industries of its own; it shuts out Wash- .
ingtonlans from the national-local in-.
dustries; it drives out from the city the I
growing youth to seek elsewhere the ’
means of self-support.”
Many Different Plans. <
A diversity of conditions was found 1
as to whether the national governments
elsewhere contributed to muncipal ex
penses, either discriminating in favor
of the capital cities in this respect or
contributing alike toward all the cities
of the nation. Nearly all the nations
were found to be contributing some
thing toward municipal expenses of the
capitals, some of them very little, some
of them in large amounts. Some of
them made no discrimination between
the capital cities and the other cities
in such contribution: some of them
discriminated in favor of the capital'
cities. Nearly all the nations were
found to make such contributions by
meeting wholly or in part heavy items
of municipal expense, such as police,
fire department, education, sanitation,
street improvement, etc., and not by
appropriating under a continuing law
fixed amounts or a fixed percentage of
the total municipal expenses. In Cape
Town, tor instance, the union govern
ment as a property owner paid a fixed
sum in lieu of taxes, mutually agreed
.upon. In Ottawa, Pretoria and Rome
[ the capital communities were dissatis
ned with the amount of national money
towa . rd the maintenance
and upbuilding of the capitals. At
that time Ottawa was proposing to
assimilate the financial conditions and
relations to those of the District of
Columbia. Exact information is at
this time lacking, but since the report
the Dominion government has made
fine progress in capital development.
Lump Sum Too Small.
Pretoria adopted a lump-sum appro
priation, but the capital community
protested that it was too small, in
Rome the capital community and the
nation decided as far back as 1870—
about the time that the United States
was awakening to its responsibilities in
Capital City development—to go ahead
jointly bearing the expenses of a pro
gram designed to make the Eternal
City one of the world’s most beautiful
capitals. For street improvement alone
a municipal loan of $30,000,000, guar
anteed by the national government, was
made. The work of improvement went
; ahead so fast that the local community
found itself heavily debt burdened, and
! there were numerous complaints at the
: time the inquiry was made that the
national government was not assuming
its share of the responsibilities.
Paris, Buenos Aires'and Rio were
found to be capitals enjoying the ben
efit of lavish donations for improvement
out of national funds. France was
shown to be contributing about $2,000.-
000 annually for the Paris police, with
a large and fixed additional sum for
street and sidewalk making and im
provement. Almost universally in the
lease of foreign capitals it was found
that the police were a part of the na
tion’s military establishment and were
maintained partly or in whole by the
nation.
Other Capitals Have Voice.
It was found that every capital in
the world except Washington was repre
sented on equal terms with other cities
in the national government. Every
capital in the world except Washington
has a voice in respect to questions of
I local taxation, and either controls or
participates influentially in municipal
government. Since the report was made
j an interesting change has developed in
i Havana, Cuba’s capital, a city which
! was not, however, included in the table
lor discussion of 1916. After many years ;
of dual and overlapping responsibility,
divided between the local and national
governments, in the financial support of
the municipality of Havana, Cuba de
cided by constitutional amendment
] within the last year to take over the
government of the municipality and
with it the financial obligation for sup
: port of the city. It had heretofore sup
ported such agencies as the police and
| bore the majority burden of education.
Now it has created a federal district
! under exclusive federal control, as in
| the case of the District of Columbia.
The residents of Havana, however, still
: retain their voting status as Cuban
| citizens.
Unsatisfied With Power.
It was developed that some of the
practically self-controlled and locally
self-governed capitals were dissatis
-1 fled with the degree of interven
tion and control in their munic
ipal affairs exercised by the na
tional government. Paris, Athens and
Christiania were seeking larger freedom
of action and increased authority and
power in their own municipal govern
ments, despite the fact that they en
joyed full representation in the national
governments and maintained governing
councils permitting local self-taxation
injnunicipal affairs.
Discussing the subject whether there
is any special obligation upon the na
tions to develop or maintain the capi
taW, the argument of 1916 pointed out
that in the case of Washington there is a
double obligation—(l) that arising from
the circumstances of the creation of
the Capital, and (2) that which is
| coupled with and measured by the ab
j solute control of the Nation’s City.
“The Nation’s obligation,” as set forth
|in the argument by Mr. Noyes,
I “to Washington under the first head
!is not duplicated in the case of
any other of the world’s capitals,
except Canberra, capital of Australia.”
which then was still in the planning
stage. “In resect to a few other capi
tals (Mexico City, Paris, Rio, Buenos
Aires, Athens, Rome) a national obliga
tion of this second kind is recognized,
measured by the degree of peculiar con
trol exercised over them in each case
by the nation. This equitable obliga
tion is substantial in the case of Mexico
and of Paris and much slighter in the
i case of Rio, Buenos Aires, Athens and
Rome. But even Mexico and Paris fa 1 !
far behind Washington in the height
j and breadth of this obligation.
True Basis Not Taxation.
“The true basis of this Nation’s obli
gation of proportionate contribution
toward the maintenance and develcp
! ment of the Capital is not solely or
primarily untaxed ownership of Dis
! trict real estate, though a substantial
and continuous obligation does arise in
connection with such ownership. The
strongest obligations resting upon the
Nation are equitable in their nature
and based primarily on the circum
stances of the Capital’s creation and
the treatment of the Capital by the
Nation ever since the birth of the Na
tion’s city. The general Government,
by the fact of planning a magnificent
Capital, covering a larger area and
characterized by broad streets, avenues
and reservations to an extent unsuit
able for a self-supporting commercial
city, and by founding this Capital in
a place comparatively uninhabited, as
well as by the terms of the bargain
with the owners of the soil, and by
the declaration of its representatives at
the founding of the city and after
wards. showed an intention to build up
a national city at the Nation’s expense,
on a grand scale, irrespective of the fu
ture population of the District. The
Capital was to be primarily a center
of Federal action, and the occupation
of the ground by settlers was merely
incidental to this great purpose. The
original owners of Washington donated
five-sevenths of the city's soil and
yielded the right of self-government to
the Nation on the understanding and
implied agreement that the Nation was
to build up here a magnificent Capita!
at its own expense, reimbursing itself
from the proceeds of the sale of do
j nated lots. A pretentious city was
• planned and lots were sold by the Gov
ernment on the strength of this un
iderstanding. For three-fourths of a
century the Nation violated or neglected
the obligations which it had thus in- ,
, curred But in 1878 the Government, I
which had in the beginning impliedly !
undertaken to meet all the expenses cf ;
Capital making and then shifted that
burden, in the main, upon private citi
zens, decided that justice required it
to pay one-half of the District’s ex
penses.
Obligation Follows Power.
"... The second obligation is that
obligation is coupled with power, that 1
Js, financial obligation is coupled with
political power. If the Nation controls,
1 it pays; and to the extent that it con
trols it pays. Washington is the only
city in the world in which, if certain
proposed policies prevail, the Nation
would do all the controlling and none
of the paying. Paris wants France to
pay without controlling; some men
would have the United States control
without paying.
“In Canberra ... as supreme na
tional control of the capital may be ex-
J
emplified as In the case of Washing
ton: but if so, this condition will result
from the fact that the nation will se
cure and retain fee-simple title to all
the land In the federal district and
will simply lease to Individual residents.
It will logically couple national govern
ment ownership with national govern
ment control in an interesting social
istic experiment. In Washington, if
certain theories prevail, the Nation will
retain exclusive and complete control
of the Capital, equal to that of Can
berra, without extinguishing by pur
chase all individual title to property
and without even recognizing and meet
ing of obligations which arise frem
partial ownership and full control...”
Lessons in South America.
Pointing to some of the “lessons
learned” from the study of South
American capitals, it was emphasized—
several years before the Federal Gov
ernment undertook the present Federal
building program—that if the United
States followed the example of Brazil
and Argentina in capital building, it
would be far more liberal “In capital
creation and upbuilding on purely na
tional lines.” *n the District, it was
pointed out, suen expenditures are pro
vided in others than the District bill
and are made solely from national
revenues, to which Washingtonians con
tribute on precisely the same basis as
all other Americans. The existence
of the relationship between the Capital
community and the Federal establish
ment as regards the financing of muni
cipal needs has no logical connection,
it was stated, with the projects of a
national character in Capital develop
ment. Until the present Federal pro
gram was begun, the United States lag
ged beb*"U Argentina and Brazil in
developing their capitals along national
lines.
Instead of crippling the Capital in
dustrially, commercially and in every
means of local self-support, the Nation,
as in Brazil and Argentina, should fos
ter in it every possible taxable resource,
so legislating for it as to make it pros
perous and able to meet substantial
municipal taxation, it was emphasized,
and in addition the Nation should
make definite and substantial contribu
tion to municipal maintenance, either
in accordance with substantive law or
through the substitution of another
plan providing for an equally definite,
substantial, proportionate contribution.
Each Nation Contribute*.
While in the case of Argentina and
Brazil there were no definite propor
tional payment guarantees, each na
tion met from the national treasury
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| 830 13th St. N.W. ® District 3324-3325 Shades /j
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'I Why Not Plan NOW To Have . tt
« Your Home Reshaded with Wash- ‘ «
g able du Pont TONTINE Shades '*
'ijfc Your window shade troubles—all the petty annoyances W
in connection with ordinary window shades—will vanish the ft*
r* instant you put du Pent TONTINE shades in your home, ta
AJ WASHABLE to the point of SCRUBBING, fadeless and extra Jy
91 serviceable. Why equip your home with any other kind?
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Jj Lamps
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Hundreds of lovely lamps, every one worth more than
Uj sl4. SOME WORTH OVER A HUNDRED DOLLARS , fflg£g||gfi
will all go at the price above. You have never seen such *
VJ a*i opportunity to buy such beautiful lamps and we don’t
think you ever will again.
w Whde there are hundreds s* B Be BUre to take advantage ;
on the floor, they wont last / ™ of this price today, aa we J
long. Come early, please. V~G TXttt t kJL don t think the y’U la«t long, j
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certain large Items of municipal ex- j i
pense. The plans for municipal aid 11
in these cities, however, were not held j
to be as sound as the plan followed I
with respect to Washington under the i
proportionate contribution system—a
system that remains in law at the
present time, but which has been legis- j
latively evaded since 1924. If the ex- !
amples of Rio and Buenos Aires were
followed in the matter of representa
tion in affairs of Government, Wash
ingtonians would have, like other
Americans, it was shown, representa
tion in Congress and the Electoral Col
lege. and. without disturbing national
control of the Capital by Congress, a
larger participation, direct or indirect,
in settlement of the questions how j
much and by what methods and for
what purposes they shall be taxed.
In Mexico City the nation collected
municipal taxes, but, disregarding en- j
tirely the proportionately small contri- I
bution of the local community, appro- !
priated liberally from the national |
funds (to which the residents of the
Mexican capital contributed just as
Washingtonians do) for municipal ob- i
Jects. The people there also have nor- i
mal representation in the national gov
ernment. In the case of Mexico the
“nationalizing” cf the capital is coupled
with full representation for the people
in the national government, it was j
pointed out, and with the grant through '
local municipal governments of power
to participate with the nation in local
government—as is now provided for
Havana.
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MRS. HOOVER’S PORTRAIT
WILL BE PAINTED SOON
Western Artist Given Commission
by Girl Scouts—First Sit
ting Next Month.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 15.
Gleb Ilyin, San Francisco artist, said
i today he has been commissioned to
paint the portrait of Mrs. Herbert
Hoover.
The Girl Scouts of California have
ordered the portrait, Ilyin said, which
will be hung in the national Girl Scouts’
headquarters in New York. Mrs. Hoo
ver Is an honorary president of the
national organization.
Ilyin said he arranged with Mrs.
Hoover for the first sitting on Janu
ary 14.
A Smokeless Chimney for St. Nick
There will be no smoke to impede Santa's
progress down your chimney if you burn
Famous Reading Anthracite—for nobody
ever caught this better hard coal smoking!
Order it from Marlow—he has it in just the
right sizes for your heating plant.
Marlow Coal Co.
811 E St. N.W. NAtional 0311
TALE Rights
M OTOR Reboring and Reconditioning—
/\ Xv 11 Starter. Generator and Ignition Labors
tory Chassis Straightening Electric and
K A Acetylene Welding—Machine and Blacksmith
v i idx " ork —Brake Testing, Adjusting and Relining—
I jk I Win Body and Fender Work—Upholstering and
/ WV At I Trimming—Duco Painting and Refinishing—
ri B Any Service. Any Car, Any Hour.
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