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NEW RACE RACKET IS FOUND IN CITY Numbers Crusaders Dis cover Gullible Playing Game With 25-Cent Stake. Imported from New Jersey, a new racket has come to Washington. It Is called the Mutual Racing Special, « miniature Irish Sweepstakes effect with daily prizes of $500 offered the gullible at 25 cents a play. A spe cial Saturday offering gives the player a chance to take in $2.500. Members of the vice squad in chas ing down numbers runners inadver tently came across the New Jersey scheme, said to be backed by a New ark syndicate. In a series of three raids the police netted a bushel basket full of Mutual Racing Special tickets. Tickets Like Sweepstake· Boards. The tickets are printed #after the fashion of the sweepstakes tickets and in the same general style—even to the little coupon on the end, to be held by the customer. Five numbers are placed on each ticket by the holder. The winning numbers are determined by results of rases at various tracks. If a ticket holder cashes in on all five numbers for the day he gets $500. If he hits the last four num bers he gets half that amount. If he hits the last three numbers he gets $50. If he has the last number he gets a dollar. Saturday Prizes Higher. For the Saturday special the five numbers bring a total of $2,500 to the winner. The last four numbers bring $750. the last three $500 and the last number has a prize award of $50. Since the numbers runners have been harassed by the police, members of the vice squad believe that the New Jersey syndicate sees an oppor tunity to introduce a rival game In Washington—the Mutual Racing Spe cial. Men arrested are believed to be pawns of the syndicate. WJSV SALE DEAL NEARS COMPLETION Transaction Involving1 More Than $100,000 Expected to Be Concluded Tomorrow. Negotiations for the sale of WJSV to the Columbia Broadcasting System were virtually completed yesterday by the Independent Publishing Co.. own ers of the station. The transaction Is expected to be completed tomorrow. While the exact purchase price was not disclosed, it was reported to be In excess of $100,000. The Old Dominion Broadcasting Co.. a 100 per cent Columbia sub sidiary, has been operating the sta tion under a lease since June, 1932. This lease was contracted to run for three five-year periods at $20,000 a year. The sale will give Columbia undis puted possession of one of the most powerful stations in the country. WJSV is authorized to use 10,000 watts. Since leasing the station Columbia has spent more than $100,000 in im provements. It moved the old trans mitter from Mount Vernon Hills, Va., to a site on the George Washington Memorial Boulevard near Alexandria and installed new and modern equip ment. SUGAR IS SEIZED 179,624,552 Pounds Held in. Ex cess of Jones-Costigan Quotas. ΕΑΝ FRANCISCO. December 29 UP). —Seizure of 179.624.552 pounds of sugar shipped from the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands in excess of Jnnes Costigan quotas was announced today by Collector of Customs Charier, O. Dunbar. Dunbar said the sugar had been labeled "unclaimed merchandise" and would be held pending determination of the legality of the Jones-Costigan act, now being questioned in suits brought by Hawaiian and Philippine planters. He explained the seizures began last May after Philippine planters had openly disregarded the quota law. SPECIAL NOTICES. OFFICE OF THE FIREMEN'S INSURANCE Company of Washington and Georgetown. 303 Seventh street northwest. Washington. D. C. The stockholders of the Firemen's Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown will meet at the office on MONDAY. January 7. 1935. for the purpose of electing thirteen directors for the en suing year. Polls open from 11 a.m. to 12 noon. ALBERT W. HOWARD. Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK holders of A. S. Pratt A: Sons. Inc.. will be held at the offices of the company. S1."» 35th st. n.w.. Washington. D. C.. at 11 o'clock a.m.. on Tuesday January Η. 1035. G C TRUE. Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE holders of the Home Building Association lor the election of officers and directors and such other business as may properly come before the meeting will be held Tuesday. January 8. 1935. at 7:3υ p.m . at the office of the association. 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Books now open for subscription to shares of the ftPth Series. Payments $1 per month per share. „ JAMES M. WOODWARD. Secretary. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE American Security & Trust Co. has de clared a regular dividend of 2 per cent on its capital stock of $3.400.000. payable January 10. 1035. to the stockholders or record at the close of business on Decem ber 31 1P34. The annual meeting of the stockholders of said company, for the elec tion of directors for the ensuing year the presentation of the annual report of the president and the transaction of such other Business as may properly come before them, trill be held at the office of the company In the city of Washington. D. C.. on Tues day. January 15. 1035. at 12 o'clock noon, and the polls will be open until 12:30 o'clock p.m The transfer books of the company will be closed from January 6th to the 15th. both days included, ί CORCORAN THOM. President. FREDERICK P. H. SIDDONS Secretary. \V ANTED—PRICE ON LOAD OF FTJRNI ture to Columbia, S. C. Phone Decatur 1375-J FURNISHED APT -TWO ROOMS. ELEC . eas. phone, refrigeration, dishes, linens. 550. Additional room. $15. GILLILAND, Apt. 31. 735 North Capitol. District 7000. INVALID ROLLING CHAIRS—For rent or sale: new and used: all styles, all sizes: re duced prices. UNITED STATES STORAGE CO.. 41 s 10th st. n.w. ME. 1844 SPECIAL RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL •nd part loads to all points within 1.000 miles; padded vans, guaranteed service. Local moving also National 1460. NAT L DEL. ASSOC., INC., 1317 N. Y. ave. DAILY TRIP8 MOVING LOADS AND part loads to and from Balto.. Phlla. and New York. Frequent trips to other East ern cities. "Dependable Service Since 1896." THE DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE CO., Decatur 2500. WEEKLY TRIPS TO AND FROM BALTI more; also trips within 24 hours' notice to •ny point in United states. SMITH'S TRANSFER φ STORAGE CO.. North 3343. I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts other than those contracted by myself. HENRY HOLMES. 725 Fairmont st. n.w. 30· ΓΤ ΠΓΤΡΙΓΛΪ REPAIRS AND 1 IvlV^AL wiring. Electric 8hop on Wheels. Inc., have shops all over town to serve you. See your Telephone Di rectory for branch n?arest you or call Wis consin 4 R21._No job too small or too large. /°LI A \>IDCD Ç Is one of the largest Π i\IVl DΠ, IVύ undertakers in the world. Complete funerals as low as S7.» up. Six chapels, twelve parlors, seventeen cars, hearses and ambulances, twenty-five undertakers and assistants. NO DELIVERIES MADE TUESDAY. JAN. 1. 1935. SAMUEL C. PALMER CO., 1066 WISCONSIN AVE. This hanging World Propaganda Drive in Saar Causes Fear of Trouble. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The possibility of trouble in the Saar district continues to worry Eu ropean statesmen despite the fact the French and the German governments have reached an understanding re garding the payment for the coal mines in case the plebiscite, which is to be held within a fortnight, favors the return of that province to the Reich. The thousands of refugees from Ger many who have been given shelter in the Saar are using the most cunning devices of propaganda to induce the Saar population to vote at least for the maintenance of the League of Nations administration. Among these refugees who had to flee Germany since the coming into office of Adolph Hitler there are many Intellectuals who are used to political fights. They have their own newspapers, through which they carry on a powerful cam paign against the reunion of the Saar to Hitler's Germany. The latest stories of another "blood purge" in the Reich emanated from these sources, and while the story was convincingly denied in Europe, those denials had little effect in the Saar. * * * * Berlin Is naturally sore at this propaganda and accuses the French of having organized this campaign through the German refugees. The Nazis In the Saar lack the power of intellectual argumentation Hitler opponents can bring forth and are using blunt force and unconvinc ing propaganda. There may he serious clashes, despite the presence of an inter national police force. It is feared that any intervention on the part of foreign soldiers might irritate the native population and cause real trouble. It is on this the Nazis are counting, especially since the French forces on the Saar border have been greatly reinforced. The Nazis have been forbidden to parade their brown shirts. But they have been able to defeat this order by wearing distinctive caps by which they can easily be recognized by friends and foes. They are deter mined to create trouble should the arguments of the anti-Nazi Germans prevail upon the voters to demand the continuation of the present regime in that province. * * * * Nobody envies the job of Jefferson Caffery, the American Ambassador to Cuba. Not even his worst enemies can consider it a sinecure. He is the only Ambassador in the world who lives on a volcano, and whose life is in danger every day. Not that the Cubans dislike Caf fery. Those who threaten his life have nothing personally against him. But the Cuban Communists —and their ranks are swelling every day—want to assert them selves in the strife-torn island by doing something big and spectacu lar. * * * * Caffery has lived in Central America for some years and understands the psychology. He probably is nervous, but does not show it. He moves about the streets of Havana, in a big open car of a distinctive color so that there can be no mistake that it belongs to him, and makes public appearances as often as possible. It is apparently the safest way of warding off an attack. Caffery remembers how Gen. Smedley Butler handled the Nicaraguan soldiers when he brought the Marines to Nicaragua. He landed and decided to go into Managua, accompanied only by one naval officer. He had to cross a bridge which was occupied by 'Nicaraguan troops ready for bat tle.. A handsome general on a white horse and with a pistol in his hand was prancing up and down the bridge. Butler advanced. The general shouted at him and showed him the pistol—a beauti ful weapon with mother-of-pearl handle. Butler looked at him, ad vanced, took the pistol out of his hand, took out the cartridges, threw them away, then returned it to the amazed general, saying: "it's all right now, you can't hurt & anybody." Not a shot was fired at Butler. * ♦ * * A British vice consul stationed in Northern Abyssinia has proved recent ly that the country Is not all moun tains and jungle. The British official, stationed in a small place about 100 miles from Addis Ababa, was ordered to report to the Minister in the Abyssinian capital. The only way of travel was on mule back, a sport he disliked. So he got himself a couple of car riers for his baggage, a dozen golf balls and his clube and walked all the way to Addis Ababa hitting the white pill. He claims to have lost only four balls and to have encountered only one poisonous snake, which he killed with his driver. 1 - CENSUS OF HOUSING BY GOVERNMENT URGED Statistical Association Hears Great Kesults Obtained for National Planning:. By the Associated Pre». CHICAGO, December 29.—A periodic census of housing by the Government was urged by Ernest M. Fisher, economic adviser of the Federal Hous ing Administration, at the closing meeting of the American Statistical Association today. He said this type of census has been conducted in some European countries and the information obtained had been "of great significance from an economic as well as a national planning point of view." More recognition for "consumer interest" and less emphasis upon price fixing were suggested by Thomas C. Blaisdell, jr., acting executive director of the N. R. A. Consumers' Advisory Board, as a means of preventing in dustrial codée from becoming "»elf defttting" egencie·. FAIRBANKS SAILS. DIVORCE LOOMING Plans Yachting Expedition to South Seas—Mary to Press Court Suit. Br the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 29 — Filmdom's "ideal romance" appeared definitely ended today. Only a few hour» after Mary Pick ford announced her decision to press to a quick conclusion her divorce suit, which has been gathering dust in Superior Court archives for more than a year, her estranged spouse, Douglas Fairbanks, sailed from New York for Europe. Booking passage only an hour and a half before the liner Ile de France sailed, Fairbanks declined to comment on his wife's announced intention of severing for once and all tie· that bound together Cinemaland's "first family." Plans Yacht Trip. "I'm going abroad to charter a yacht," Fairbanks stated. He needs the craft, he said, for a projected film expedition to the South Seas. "I shall leave the Ile de France at Havre, and go to Italy to look at a yacht I have In mind for my expe dition." The athletically inclined film star declined to say whether he expected to see Lady Ashley, who recently was divorced from Lord Ashley in pro ceedings naming Fairbanks as co respondent. He said, however, he would return to America in about a month. Fairbanks and Miss Pickford saw each other frequently after both re turned to Hollywood, Doug from Lon don and Mary from Eastern engage ments, several weeks ago. They took automobile rides together, dined together, met at business con ferences. Both are directors of United Artists Corp. Hollywood envisioned a reconciliation: waited impatiently for an announcement of one. But it never came. It was understood there had been a financial settlement between the pair. From that information It seemed likely that their meetings were primarily for the purpose of settling their financial affairs prior to the divorce. NEWSPAPER BOARD'S OPINION IS ASKED N. R. A. Requests Recommenda tion on Proposal to Remove Eagle of Call-Bulletin. By the Associated Press. The Newspaper Industrial Board will be asked whether It thinks the San Francisco Call-Bulletin should loee its Blue Eagle. The N. R. A. Administrative Board decided to call on the newspaper board for its opinion after the Labor Re lations Board asked the N. R. A. to remove the code compliance Insignia. The labor board made that request after the paper, en interest of Wil liam Randolph Hurst, refused to re instate Dean S. Jennings, a rewrite man. who complained he had been forced to resign for activity with the American Newspaper Guild. The board ordered Jennings' rein statement, despite the contention of the paper and Donald R. Richberg, director c" the Emergency Council, that the case should have been heard by the Newspaper Industrial Board. When the newspaper board would act on the case has not been made known here. φ W00LW0RTH HEIRESS VISITS WITH PARENTS Princess Mdivani Arrives With Party of Friends at South Carolina Plantation. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S. C.. December 29.—Barbara Hutton Mdivani is In South Carolina to spend New Year. The wife of Prince Alexis Mdivani arrived Thursday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin L. Hutton, at their plantation, Prospect Hill, on the Edisto River in Charles ton County. "Barbara came down with a small party," Mrs. Hutton said, "for a rest, and she will remain here until past New Year. I really can't tell the names of the other persons. I'm very sorry." On November 27 the 22-year-old Woolworth heiress returned from Europe without her Georgian prince, I but denied they were permanently separated. Claudia Sell Is Married. LOS ANGELES, December 29 </P).— Claudia Dell, film actress, and Edwin Silton, theatrical agent, were married today by Superior Judge Fletcher Bowron. The couple plan to leave soon for Palm Springs, desert resort, and later will go to Europe. Miss Dell gave her age as 23. Silton said he was 44. First of Low-Cost Dwelling Projects Ready for Τenants Rentals Average $10.51 Per Room in Phila delphia Plan. The first Government-built, low rent apartment project, erected for hosiery workers In Philadelphia from P. W. A. funds, will be occupied soon. At rentals averaging $10.51 per month, tenants may take their choice of apartments providing two and a half, four and five rooms. Leases for dwellings In the project, called the Juniata development, will be taken to morrow and the first of the four apartment buildings will be occupied on Saturday. The project was financed by a P. W. A. loan of *1.039.000. and is a limited dividend corporation project sponsored by the American Federation of Hosiery Workers. It Is one of eight limited dividend low-rent hous ing projects going forward under the program of Col. Horatio B. Hackett, director of the Housing Division. Other types of projects are being financed by P. W. A. in more than 30 cities. The Philadelphia apartments will contain all modern conveniences. In cluding refrigeration and electric stoves. The project is designed to pay off the P. w. A. loan on an amor tized bull In 33 year·. * Some Reasons Why the Nation Should Contribute to Capital's Maintenance and Upbuilding Obligation Based on Payments From Local Revenues for National Purposes and on D. G.'s Heavy Payment of National Taxes. THEODORE W. NOYES. This is the third of a teriet of articles which will present, with a jew omissions and sub stantial additions, the address of Theodore W. Noyes on "Fiscal Equity for Washington" at the recent Oldest Inhabitants' din ner. Yetterday't article discussed the obligations of the National Government to be considered in connection with its exclusive power over the District and the Nation's pride in its Capital City. Obligation 'Bated Upon Excessive Es actions From Local Revenaes for Payment·, Wholly or in Part National. S. Obligation based upon payments made from local taxes, solely because Washington Is the Capital. In excess of what would be paid If Washington were the ordinary commercial self sustaining: community. Also obliga tion based upon payments which are national or semi-national and impose an obligation upon the Nation to pay all or half or 40 per cent of expendi tures and which render inadequate the Federal contribution of approxi mately 17 per cent In the current fiscal year. These items should (a) either be eliminated from D. C. bill and handled under some other appropriation bill with specific equi table provision for distribution of pay ment between Nation and Capital, or (b) if retained in O. C. appropriation bill should be coupled with specific statement of equitable distribution of payment between Nation and Capital, or (c) if retained In D. C. bill and payment made with low percentage of national contribution (such as 17 per cent ) under present lump-sum pay- j ment, then this unjust excessive con- { trlbution by Capital to be considered In making equitable increases of lump sum contribution. Decreasing Federal Contribution to Semi-National Project·. The argument accompanying the recent petition to the President from the Citizens' Joint Committee on Pla çai Relations Between the United States and the District of Columbia touched on some of the semi-national undertakings, the larger portion of the burden of which has been thrown on the District. For example: The Municipal Center. The Com missioners. having been advised that the Municipal Building would be needed by the Federal Government in its Avenue triangle development, sought in 1939 to obtain permission from Congress to purchase two squares of land as the site for a new Mu nicipal Building, or group of buildings. The total estimated cost, land and buildings, was $12.000.000. The Dis trict then had surplus revenues In the Treasury amounting to about $6.000. 000, and it was the understanding (see H. R. 7878, Seventy-first Con gress, second session) that th· Dis trict would be credited with the value of the District Building, tentatively placed at $5,000.000. The Commis sioners' project was possible without undue strain on current revenues. Congress changed the plan, on the theory that the new District struc tures should conform In scale and grandeur to the Federal development ι see House hearings on S. 4180, Sev enty-first Congress, second session, April. 1930). The Commissioners were ordered to purchase additional land and to plan for a municipal center de velopment, the estimated cost of which was in excess of 122.000.000. More than 86,700,000 has now been ex pended in purchase of land and preparation of plans, and the District is unable to proceed with completion of the project because of lack of reve nues. In the meantime, deplorable conditions In the Police Courts and other lower courts, due to overcrowd ing. have become worse, and there is no definite promise of relief through the construction of new buildings. Congress has been unwilling to ad vance 1U share of the coat of thli semi-national undertaking, and ac cess to other sources of revenue 'such as the Public Works Administration) has been denied. Park and Planning Commission. This national body was created by an act of Congress (Public No. 202, Sixty-eighth Congress) In 1924 for the development of parks within and outside the District of Columbia, the name being changed from National Capital Park Commission to National Capital Park and Planning Com mission in 1926. The broadly na tional conception of this task was Indicated in the wording of the act, which proposed the appro priation each year of "a sum not ex ceeding 1 cent for each Inhabitant of the Continental United States, as determined by the last preceding (1920) decennial census." Funds ap propriated for use within the District of Columbia were to be paid "from the revenues of the District of Co lumbia and the general funds of the Treasury in the same proportion as other expenses of the District of Columbia." New Term· Impose Greater Burden. But when the park development law (Public No. 314, Seventy-first Con gress) of 1930 was enacted, and a total sum of $16,000,000 authorized to be advanced for use within the Dis trict, repayments were demanded from the District atr the rate of a million dollars a year, and between 1924 and 1930 the proportion of the Federal lump - sum payment had shrunk from approximately 40 per cent to approximately 20 per cent (In the current fiscal year it is about 17 per cent) and participation in this semi-national undertaking was there by reduced by more than half, throw ing a much greater proportion of the cost on local taxpayers. Rock Creek-Potomac Parkway. This addition to the national park system of the Capital was proposed by the Park Commission of 1901. Prior to that time Congress had directed the chief of engineers to report on a suitable connection between the Na tional Zoological Park and Potomac Park, and his report was made in 1900. The Park Commission adopted one of two proposed plans of treat ment, but It was not until 1913 that Congress took action by creating a commission to acquire the land, all of which was in private ownership. The act authorized expenditure of $1,300,000 for acquisition of the land, and from the fiscal year 1917 through the fiscal year 1926 appropriations for purchases were made, ranging in amount from $50,000 to (250.000 an nually. The money was divided, first on the basis of 50-50 and later 60-40, between the United Statei and the District. The authorised appropria tion of $1,300,000 was exhausted in the fiscal year 1936. In the calendar year 1936 tb· Home puwd » bill à I appropriating $600,000 of District sur plus revenues lor additional parkway land purchase. The Senate amended the bill to provide for sharing the $600,000 cost on a 60-40 basis between the United States and the District, on the ground that the undertaking had been thus far carried out as a joint enterprise. The conferees on the bill were unable to agree, and fearing in definite delay should the bill fail In conference, the Senate conferees final ly yielded. A large part of the cost of the land acquisition, originally planned as a Joint enterprise between the District and the National Govern ment, was thus placed on local tax payers. National Zoological Park. This scientific enterprise was begun as a branch of the Smithsonian Institu tion, and expenses were shared under the 50-50, and later 60-40, division of expenses between the National Gov ernment and the District. It Is now maintained wholly, In upkeep and de velopment (such as new buildings), out of revenues of the District, to which the Federal payment has de creased from 40 to about 17 per cent. Water Plant. The District water system was In the beginning con structed to supply Federal needs alone. Later the District was permitted to supply Its needs from the system, provided no expense would devolve upon the United States (185»), Later still, the District waa taken into part nership In maintenance and develop ment of both supply and distribution systems, and the capital investment in water system by the District <ln ad dition to maintenance· finally ex ceeded that of the United States. Both supply system (formerly main tained and improved out of general revenues) and the distribution system are now maintained by the water tax (water rent) payers of the District, while the United States Government and the District government (its agent) obtain their large supply of water free. The fact that cost of plant development as well as mainte nance is placed upon water tax payers prevents a consistent policy of regular rate reduction toward that desider atum, on sanitary and other grounds, of maximum water use at next-to nothing cost by the community and the National Government. Gasoline Tax (street improvement). The Capital's street system was laid out on a grand scale, befitting a non industrial. beautiful Capital. The Government In the beginning prom ised, through Implication, to main tain the streets. Under the National Capital-National Government partner ship of 1B78 development and improve ment of streets was shared, the gen eral tax fund meeting the greater part of the cost. The gasoline tax. originally proposed as a substitute for the personal property tax on auto mobiles. was enacted as additional. In stead of substitute, taxation. Its reve nues have Increased until the greater burden of street (and recently bridged improvement has been shifted from the general fund < to which the United States contributes) to the gasoline tax fund, with constant pressure to in crease unnecessarily the gasoline tax rate and to extend the expenditure of gas tax revenues to uses other than streets. As the National Oovernment pays no gasoline tax, the burden for street improvement, impliedly as sumed In the beginning, in the opinion of commentators, as a Federal respon sibility and later divided between Nation and community, is thus gradu ally shifted from the National Gov ernment to the shoulders of automo bile owners and the general taxpayers of the District, r. w. Α. Loan*. In order to secure ! funds for urgently needed construc- j tlon work of various sorts, the Com- | tnissioners. backed by public senti ment, sought from Congress the rifht, enjoyed by every other American mu nicipality, to borrow funds from the Public Works Administration. The act was passed «Public No. 405. Sev enty-third Congreas) containing the provision that "Ten cents of the as sessed valuation of all real and tan gible property subject to taxation In the District of Columbia shall be deposited In the Treasury · · · " for creation of a special fund for re imbursement of 70 per cent of the loan. The section eliminates par ticipation by the United States, through Its lump-sum appropriation, as a participant in National Capital expenses in such semi-national under takings as the sewage-disposal plant, and guarantees protection only to the controlling, exclusively govern ing partner in P. W. A. loan agree ments. National Obligation in View of Fact That the District is Compara tively Heavy Contributor to National Taxes. 4. Obligation based upon heavy national (internal revenue) taxes paid by people of the Capital compared with corresponding payments by the States. The District contributes to the national taxe· from which the na tional contribution is derived more than any one of half of the State·, more than nine State· combined and more per capita than 4· States. (See 1933-34 internal revenue report.) The District not only contributes more than any one of X4 of the States to the maintenance and up building of the National Capital, but pays more than one-half of the States to national expenditures In the States, including salaries of Repre sentatives, Senators and President. Washington's heavy burden, exceed ing that of half of the States, is cou pled with denial to Washington of participation in fixing, collecting and •pending this tax money. Few, even of our own people, realize how substantial a contributor to na tional taxes the District really is. Many believe that Washlngtonians pay no taxes, either national or mu nicipal, and that the Capital is sup ported by the Nation with money wrung from the meager earnings of millions of Americans and flung as beggars' alms to a mendicant people. Others know some of the facts, but do not know all. Heavy National Tax Payment·. As a consequence, amazement re sults when it is disclosed that the taxpayers of the District paid into the Treasury in national (Internal revenue) taxes in the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1934 ($10,742,662), more than any one of half of the States of the Union, ^namely. Alabama. Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado. Georgia. Idaho. Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi. Montana. Nebraska. Nevada. New Hampshire, New Mexico. North Da kota. Oregon, South Carolina. South Dakota, Utah. Vermont. Washington 8 ta te. West Virginia and Wyoming. Our surprise Is emphasised when it is further dlscloaed that the national taxpayers of the District paid into the Treasury more dollars than wer· contributed by nine of th· State· eem * bined, vis., Arizona, Idaho, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Da kota. Utah. Vermont and Wyoming, whose payment· aggregate *10.07β,β14. Thé climax of astonishment is reached when the official report dis closes that the District pay» per capita in these taxes more than 40 States of the Union, exceeded only by eight States, via., Delaware, North Caro lina, Virginia, New York, Nevada, California, Kentucky and New Jersey. One Waahingtonlan thus pays into the Treasury In these taxes more than the average cltisen of every State in the Union, except the eight States above enumerated. The revenue from these taxes (com bined with customs duties) meets all national expenditures, including the lump sum payment for Capital up building. bounties or subsidies to the States, the erection of public build ings, the acquisition and development of national parks, the national salary list, including the salaries of Presi dent, Senators and Representatives. For all these objects the District pays more than one-half of the States and the average Washingtonlan pays (per capita) more than the average citizen of 40 of the States. No Star M Smaller Cod tribu ton. These figures involve no slur upon the small-contributing States and ihould arouse no resentments. It Is bard to refute the small contributor's claim that it is more creditable not to contribute than to contribute largely to Internal revenue taxes derived mainly from whisky, beer, tobacco and lupertaxes upon swollen Incomes. The sole purpose is to demonstrate how large a contributor the District Is to national Internal revenue taxes, the only national taxes that fall di rectly and unmistakably and in as certainable amounts upon Americans, ind that supply three-foarths of the national revenue: and to suggest that in the absence of national representa tion to couple with this taxation the equitable obligation is upon the Na tion, represented by Congress, to see that equity Is done and that fair play prevails in spending Justly and for the Capital's welfare the Districts :omparatively large contribution. In level aping the Nation's City the fVaahlngtoniana are by far the largest contributor* among Americans. They contribute on both the local and na tional side of the account. As local taxpayers they are made unjustly to pay IS per cent ef municipal expense: ind they contribute more than half »f the States to the national revenue Γγοιβ which the 17 per cent lump sum payment is derived. They are the only Americana who have absolutely noth ing to say authoritatively concerning the disposition of the funds to which they are such large contributors. The equitable obligation upon Con tress, raised by these facta, is obvious. Tomorrow's article will discuss the national obligation based upon the hundreds of millions of boun ties and subsidies given by Nation to State*, toward which the Dis trict pays in internal revenue taxes, hut tn the distribution of which it is not permitted to participate. PERSONNEL SHIFTS INQUIRY STARTED Civil Service Commission to Study Recent Changes in Tariff Body Staff. The Civil Service Commission yes terday wa* asked by X. Claude Bab cock, president of the American Fed eration of Government Employee, to Investigate certain personnel shifts in the Tariff Commission, to see if the classification act 1« being violated. At the same time Babcock wrote Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the Tariff Commission, asking for data on the matter which, he says. Involve» salary reductions for some workers, booets for others and employ ment of non-civil service personnel. "While It is not the function of this organisation to interfere with any legitimate reorganization of the Tariff Commission, it Is our obligation to protect our membership against meas ures whose effect will illegally reduce pay," Chairman O'Brien was told. EMPLOYES OF BURNED HOTEL ARE CRITICIZED Michigan Coroner'· Jury Urges Strengthening of State's Protection Laws. Mr th· Aiioclttcd Press. LANSING. Mich.. December 29 —A coroner's Jury which Investigated the burning of Hotel Kerns on the morn ing of December 11, with the loes of 32 lives, reported today that it had found no evidence of "actual crim inal negligence." but recommended strengthening of Michigan's fire pro tection laws. The report contained some criticism of the employes, asserting that they did not make "reasonable efforts" to arouse the more than 200 sleeping guests. It said that there was a "woeful and almost criminal" lack of protection for hotel guests provided by Michigan statutes. The hotel management was criti cized for not maintaining an adequate night force and for falling to Instruct its employes in their duties in case of lire. The report failed to establish the cause of the fire. SNOW IN NEW ENGLAND Northern Area Covered—Southern Highwaya Are Icy. BOSTON, December 29 <JP). — A heavy mantel of snow settled over Northern New England today while the southern States of the section were left with dangerous, icy high ways as a result of sleet and rain. Rhode Island and Connecticut re ported highway conditions were hazardous due to rain and subsequent freezing temperature. Similar condi tions prevailed in Eastern and West ern Massachusetts. Continued snow was predicted for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, while in the southern area cloudy and colder weather was forecast. Special Announcement ΓΛ1 Π SIlTer and Plat VSVSL.1S, inuni Purchued for Muifwigrini IV. Max imam Price PaM Federal Licente WATCH REPAIRING BY EXPERTS The repair of your watch ioet not complete the tram action between ut, but eitab· lithe* our obligation to fulfill our guarantee of service. V\\»W SINCE 1064 v v^031GSt=> ////✓///. ///////. ////✓//////// Forum Speaker SENATOR HENBIK L. SHIPSTEAD. SHIPSTEAD LISTED FOR FORUM TALK Senator Will Discuss Major Issues to Come Before Congress. America's outlook for 1935 will be discussed by Senator Henrlk L. Ship stead of Minnesota speaking in the National Radio Forum at 7 p.m. to morrow. The forum program Is ar ranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to-coast net work of the National Broadcasting Co. With the Nation standing at the threshold of the new year. Senator Shipstead will take this opportunity of outlining to the radio audience the most Important problems of govern ment waiting to be dealt with during the months just ahead. It is probable he also will dwell on what the future holds for commerce, business and for the American people generally. With 12 years of experience in the Senate. Senator Shipstead has just been re-elected for another six-year term. His views on impending legisla tion will be timely, with Congress pre paring to convene on January 3. Sena tor Shipstead is the only Farmer Labor member of the Senate. BOOTLEGGER CURB ! SEEN IN ΤΑΚ CUT I Wisconsin Liquor Official Says Congress Holds Key to Situation. Br the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis , December M.—To curb the bootlegger, make bootlegging unprofitable: Cut down legal Uquof taxes. That was the proposal today of A. J. Palmer, director of the Wis consin beverage tax division. He complained that prices are too high for the quality of legal liquor. Legislators, Verticularly those in Washington, could deliver an almost fatal thrust at bootlegging by reducing liquor taxes and thus making the boot legger's margin of profit too ililta* Palmer said. Moonshine Quality Help·. " Palmer told the American Legisla· tors' Association, in the current issue of its magazine, that he is convinced the public still considers the price· of legal liquor too high. The prohibi tion era. he said, produced a palatable · moonshine and many old customers went back to the bootlegger after tasting some of the "horrible blends" of legal liquor which appeared after repeal. A 50 per cent reduction In both State and Federal taxes would mean a reduction of approximately 37 V± cents a quart on liquor, or enough to put a bad crimp in the bootlegger's busi ness. Palmer said. He expressed the belief that Government revenues would not suffer. The Wisconsin director contended wine-producing States should «et a definite standard which will assnre the I consumer at least "sound, clean, drink able wine" and make producers con form to the standard. He said th· tax oil wines is far too high. Would Limit Retailer*. Palmer suggested that retailers be permitted to purchase only from manufacturers, rectifiers and whole salers of the same State and that the I latter in turn be required to buy from only those out-of-State firms which hold a permit from the State ad ! ministrator. Control of the liquor traffic will be I effective only through co-operation be tween States, he said. This co-opera tion would include the regular ex change of Information on manu facturers, wholesalers and other han dlers of liquor, standardization of laws, I rules, forms and regulations. SEAL SALE FUNDS ARE BELOW QUOTA $30,000 Received, but Half of Amount Needed for D. C. Tuberculosis Program. I As the annual sale of the Tubercu ! losis Ass ci ation's Christmas seals nears a close. Washington has con tributed just half of Its quota of the fund urgently needed to carry through the society's 1935 program of health protection, said Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director, last night. "The Christmas seals which our many good friends have already paid for." said Mrs. Grant, "amount to a little more than $30.000. This en ables us to begin the new year confi dently in the faith that a large num ber of those to whom seals were of fered but who have not so far re sponded will make it possible for us to extend the work during the whole year. I "We know from numerous letters now received, as well as from the ex perience of former seal sales, that a good many of our friends do pay for the seals after the New Year period. It is never too late to pay for Christ mas seals. "To all of the many thousands of Washingtonians who have bought our little penny seals and who have contributed to the financing of the flght against our common enemy, tuberculosis, the officers and direc tors of our association wish to express their sincere thanks," Mrs. Grant concluded. May Tax Securities. Spain may tax state securities now "tax exempt." 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