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TRAFFIC TOLL 12
FOR MONTH HERE
Jerome C. Elliott, 72, Expires
at Hospital of Truck
Injuries Tuesday.
The traffic toll for this month was
Increased to 12 today with the death
of Jerome C. Elliott, 72, who was hit
by a truck Tuesday afternoon.
Elliott, who lived at 733 Sixth
Street, died In Emergency Hospital of
skull Injuries. He was knocked down
at Sixth and H streets by a truck
which, police said, was operated by
Theodore G. Economonu, 22, of 606
Fifth street.
Although several other mishaps
were reported during the last 24
hours, none of the victims is be
lieved to have been injured seriously.
Two Hurt in Collision.
Joseph L. Starry, 23, of 3310 M
itreet, was cut about the head and
Albert E. Morton, 38. of 1720 M
street northeast suffered a cut lip
and a leg injury when their automo
biles collided at New Jersey avenue
and K street. Starry was taken to
Eibley Hospital and Morton to Cas
ualty.
Charles Hess, 8, of 607 South Caro
lina avenue southeast was treated
at Providence Hospital for a knee
injury after he was knocked down
by a machine near his home while
Skating.
Held in Fatal Accident.
At an inquest yesterday Ervin H.
Thompsen, 27, of 7311 Georgia ave
nue was ordered held for Police Court
action under the negligent homicide
act in connection with the death
Christmas eve of William A. Boss,
69, vice president of the Waggaman
& Brawner Realty Co.
Thomsen was the driver of a truck
that collided with Boss’ car as the
real estate operator, his wife and
sister-in-law were on their way to
Arlington Cemetery to place flowers
on the graves of Mrs. Boss’ parents.
Evacuation
(Continued From First Page.)
emergency affecting all or a portion
Of the 500,000 persons along the river.
Engineers turned their attention
primarily to the stretch between Cairo
end Memphis, which will receive the
peak of the flood during the week end.
Gen. Craig notified corps area com
manders:
"It appears tha a very difficult fight
must be made to hold the main line
levees along the Mississippi River be
low Cairo, particularly in the Memphis
district.
“Col. Reybold, district engineer at
Memphis, is fully organized for this
purpose and believes the water now
In sight can be carried through the
district safely.”
At New Orleans engineers hoped a
portion of the flood waters would be
diverted into Lake Ponchartrain.
Organization Complete.
The Red Cross and Government
agencies reported organization of re
lief forces in the Ohio Valley was
complete, but that work among refu
gees would have to continue for some
time.
The Red Cross was giving relief
In 179 counties in 11 States. It W'as
operating 198 concentration and relief
camps and 50 field hospitals.
A sufficient supply of doctors and
nurses—1,000 of the latter were on
duty—was reported. The Public
Health Service described health con
ditions in the area as good.
Chairman Glass called a meeting
Of the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee for 2 p.m. to consider the
$790,000,000 relief bill, already ap
proved by the House.
The administration sought quick
action not only to provide funds for
flood victims, but to replenish the
work relief treasury, which will be
•mpty on February 1.
Sulphur Usjd on Pests.
Sulphur is the chief substance
Used by cotton growers, grain farmers,
orchadists and poultry raisers in com
bating insect pests and plant lice.
FOUND.
WIRE-HAIRED TERRIER, white nose, tan
head, black spots cn body: McLean. Va.
Call Brinkley. District br. tj.'IS.
LOST.
BILLFOLD brown leather, containing
driver’s permit, registration and insurance
cards. Reward. Potomac 0688. 28*
CHILD'S GLASSES in case, probably on
Burieith bus or on F st. between 14th and
10th sts. n.w. Reward. Call Emerson
8165.__28*
FALSE TEETH, in small cardboard box.
Call after ti p.m.. Columbia 1344-J._
FOX HOUND, female, black and tan. vicin
ity Chain Bridge. January 21. Phone Clar
endon 287-J. Reward._29*
GLASSES, rimless, in black case, blue
lined, inscription “National Optical Co..”;
Tuesday at Bureau Engraving and Printing
or on 14th st. car line bound for Takoma.
Finder please return to R. E. Diggs. 5234
6th st. n.w. Reward.__20*_
HOUND PUPPY, female, light brown; In
Ashton Heights, Va.. January 25. Re
ward. Phone Clarendon 1182-J._
POCKET BOOK, small, blue, containing
bills and change; lost Sat. In Western
Market, Reward._2321 Pa. ave. n.w.
f'UPPY—Will man driving truck with Va.
ags who picked up setter puppy. 6 months
old. white with black spots, at Bladensburg
rd. and District line, return same to 863
Forest drive, Hyattsville. Md.? Liberal
reward
PURSE, containing money and valuable
papers, on Saturday; vicinity Georgia ave.
and Lamont st. Col. 6249. Reward.
WRIST WATCH. Elgin, lady’s white gold,
lost 18th and H sts. or Vt. ave. and K.
Reward. Phone National 5081, Ext. 667.
WRIST WATCH, Hamilton, downtown
shopping district. Reward. 2227 20th
n.w. Elevator man._
WRIST WATCH, lady's Bulova. small,
round. Call Geo. 6046 after 7 p.m. *
WRIST WATCH, man's. Elgin; lost Wed
hesday. Reward. Phone Georgia 3045.
WRIST WATCH, lady's; blue sapphires on
side, black cord, initialed "C. M. B." on
back; lost Friday In downtown department
•tore. Liberal reward. 1460 Columbia rd.
Columbia 8323.
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I WILL NOTBE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
debts contracted by any one other than
myself. MARGARET B. BLACK WILL, the
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DAILY TRIPS MOVING LOADS AND PART
loads to and from Baito.. Phlla. and New
York. Frequent trips to other Eastern
eltle*. ••DeDendaDle Service Since 1896.”
THE DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE
CO. Phone Decatur 8600._
OLD DAGUERREOTYPES, TINTYPES. KO
dak prints or any treasured "keepsake
pictures” restored. Improved, copied. ED
MONSTON STUDIO, 1333 F St. n.w.
ON FEBRUARY 6, 1937. AT 1:30 P.M..
we will sell at Eichberg Auction. 1227 R
at. n.w. for storage and other charges, one
Hupmoblle sedan, motor No. A-99794 and
gerlsl NO. A-99408._
PIERCE-ARROW 4-DOOR SEDAN, SERIAL
No. 2001418. engine No. A2323. left with
us In name of Ernest Penson. if not claimed
by February 12 same will be disposed of
according to law to satisfy storage and
repair charges. WM. H. CALLAHAN. 812
JJ st. n.w. _ _*_
ACCOUNTANT. .
Systems, accts. kept: complete tax and
ftcctg. service. Latest methods, low fees.
Met. 2339.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: THIS IS
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for any bills made or contracted by any
one except thoee made by myself. M. L.
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.---ARTICLE IV
The New Fiscal Issue
"Average” Level of Taxation Not Necessarily a De
sirable Objective—Special Considerations Apply
to Measurement of D. C. Tax Burden—Interest
and State Taxes Not Comparable Elements.
This is the fourth of a series of editorial articles discuss
ing some parts of the fiscal relations issue suggested by the
recent report of the so-called Jacobs Committee. Yesterday’s
article pointed out the failure of the experts to agree on an
accurate method of measuring tax burdens. Today’s article
discusses some special considerations in measuring Washing
ton’s tax burden.
THE experts themselves disagree
on the method of measuring
relative tax burdens. But If
they agreed among themselves
on a method of comparison warrant
ing the conclusion that Washington’s
tax burden is “below average,” it
would not necessarily follow that
Washington is undertaxed.
The so-called Mapes committee of
the House warned against arbitrarily
hiking Washington's tax burden to
any average level. “Indeed,” said the
’ report, “a majority of the commit
tee at least does not want to make
the burden of taxation in the District
as heavy as it is in other cities of
comparable size and advantages, be
cause the committee believes that'
taxes are too high and burdensome in
practically every locality in the United
States outside of the District of Co
lumbia.”
Certainly if Congress should choose
the unique method of hitching local
taxes to a level of taxation in other
cities—that level itself being measured
by a method by no means acceptable
as accurate—there must be collateral
considerations, first, of the character
of cities chosen for comparison; sec
ond, of the special modifications that
apply in any measurement of Wash
ington's tax burden.
“Average Rate" Not Desirable.
An “average" rate or level of taxa
tion does not represent a fair, or even
desirable, rate or level of taxation.
The average may be affected by waste
fulness, inefficiency, extravagance or
special factors that have no place
in the selection of a model rate or
level of taxation. The comparable
cities should be confined not only to
those of the same population class,
but to cities of comparable environ
ment, enjoying the reputation of well
governed, progressive cities living
within their means.
At the same time the comparison
must take note of certain considera
tions that apply peculiarly to Wash
ington, which among American cities
occupies a unique status in system
of government, as well as the nature
of population and the nature of the
city itself.
Of the 17 cities chosen by the
Jacobs Committee for comparison with
Washington, the Jacobs report states
that all of them follow the system
of bonding for outlays; that Is, bor
rowing the money for improvements.
Washington, on the other hand, by
specific direction and intent of Con
gress, follows the pay-as-you-go policy.
There are advantages, as well as dis
advantages, in both methods. The
bonding method permits spreading out
the cost of major Improvements over
many years, but is susceptible of the
common abuses associated with unwise
borrowing. The pay-as-you-go method
may be better in the long run, though
it tends to retard capital outlays—
as they have been retarded here.
Debt Factor Not Comparable.
But because of the very abuses in
herent in easy borrowing, the debt
factor should be eliminated in com
paring city tax burdens. The object
of the comparison is determination of
what constitutes a fair and equitable
tax burden. But if interest payments
are included in the comparison, the
objective is distorted. If the citizens
of one city decide to burden them
selves with debt to undertake public
service enterprises, or if they are led
into extravagant or unwise borrowing,
while the citizens of another city bor
row moderately and make the money j
go a long way the inclusion of the
debt factor injects an irrelevent ele
ment. Newark, N. J., for instance,
has a total bonded indebtedness of
$111,368,000. Cincinnati, the city
most nearly approximating it in pop
ulation, has a bonded indebtedness of
$49,061,000, which might be reduced
by $10,000,000 by allowing for the
revenues received from the city's own
ership of the C. U. O. & T. P. Rail
road, which are applied to the sinking
fund. Newark’s per capita Indebted
ness is $240 and Cincinnati’s is about
$85. Would the citizens of Cincin
nati be willing to Increase their taxes
to correspond with Newark’s debt
swelled tax burden? Would they ad
mit that they are under-taxed because
of the high taxation in Newark, which
reflects heavy bonded debt?
Particularly in the case of com
parisons between Washington and
other cities it is illogical and unfair
to include debt in comparison of tax
burdens. During the war and imme
diately thereafter, when borrowing
was easy and wealthy investors were
anxious to Invest in tax-exempt se
curities to avoid income taxes and
surtaxes, many American cities in
dulged in a financial jag and woke
up head over heels in debt. Part of
the money doubtless went Into useful
permanent improvements by which
the cities benefited; another part waa
represented in the extravagance
which was one of the characteristics
of the post-war boom. Congressmen
whose home cities may have borrowed
heavily nevertheless refused, as mem
bers of Washington’s Legislature, to
let Washington borrow at all.
If the taxpayers of other cities In
vested their borrowing in wise ven
tures or improvements, they have en
joyed the benefits. If not, they are
paying a heavy penalty. But why
should Washington, which has not
enjoyed the benefits and has escaped
the penalties—whatever either may be
—be required to pay taxes on a basis
which co-ordinates them in per capita
and total tax payments and In tax
rate with cities which are compelled
to raise millions in taxes to pay in
terest and amortize the principal?
Washington, which has enjoyed the
benefit of no such loans, should not
be required, in order to put itself on
a superficial tax-paying equality with
other cities, to tax itself by the amount
represented in interest payments. In
terest payments should be deducted
from the comparisons.
State luxes Not Comparable.
The same equitable considerations
demand that in the comparison of
city tax burdens (which should In
clude county taxes, because large cities
dominate or include the counties con
taining them) the State taxes should
be eliminated from the comparison.
Taxes, to be equitably compared,
should be oaid by contributors sub
stantially In the same area and for
the benefit of the area alone. In the
light of this principle, municipal taxes
and State taxes are as far apart as
the poles, being separate and distinct
in personnel of contributors, in pur
pose of creation, in scope and area of
distribution.
As Washington does not receive all
the benefits that accompany state
hood, it should not be compelled to
bear the burdens which compensate
for such benefits.
If the comparison is between Wash
ington and Baltimore, the equitable
comparison should be between what
Washingtonians pay for expenditure
in the District and what Baltimoreans
pay for expenditure in Baltimore.
The comparison should not be be
tween what Washingtonians pay in
taxes for expenditure in the District
and what Baltimoreans pay in taxes
for expenditure in Baltimore and in
the State. If State taxes are in
cluded, the comparison might as well
include National taxes.
Does not Receive State Benefits.
If it is contended that the Wash
ingtonian receives the same benefits
through his municipal government,
alone, that are enjoyed by the resi
dents of other States through their
city, county and State governments,
the contention should be met by ex
amination of some of the benefits of
statehood. The chief benefit is not
represented in the driblet of State
expenditures which the county govern
ment may permit the municipality to
share. The State tax is representative
of full citizenship In a sovereign
State, with the full benefits and
privileges of citizenship. These are
not conferred on the citizen of Wash
ington.
Full citizenship means the right
of representation in Congress and the
electoral college, a recognized status
in the Federal courts and the finan
cial benefits which come from the
enjoyment of subsidies and grants
made to the States, from which the
District is excluded.
The Washingtonian does not enjoy
the full political or judicial rights of
statehood and does not share in the
financial benefits whicn accompany
statehood. Why should his tax bur
den be held to include what the citi
zen of a State pays In connection
with these rights and privileges?
A State and Not a State.
That proposition carries out the old
idea that Washington is to be viewed
as a State when burdens are imposed
and not viewed as a State when bene
fits or privileges or rights are to be
conferred. The District has been
pronounced a State under a treaty
with France—a construction confer
ring privileges on aliens—but not a
State under the Constitution, whose
people can sue, either as State citi
zens or as aliens, in the Federal courts.
The District is a State when direct
taxes are to be collected, but not a
State when Representatives are to be
apportioned, though the Constitution
couples the two things. The District
is not a State to make and carry out
through a State Legislature laws of
it* own benefit,'but is reproached as
a State because it escapes tax bur
dens incident to statehood.
II State taxes are included in a
comparison of city (and county)
taxes, it means that the District is
not to be a State to enjoy any of the
political, judicial and financial bene
fits, privileges and rights of a State,
but It is to be a State to the extent
that the equitable tax burden of its
people, in comparison with the tax
burden of other Americans, must be
figured to include consideration of
State taxes.
Pays High National Taxes.
The District Is remembered as a
State when national Internal revenue
taxes are collected, but Is Ignored as
a State in the distribution of grants,
subsidies, bounties, etc., to the yalue
O’Donoghue Rules for U. S.
in Case Which Involved Gov
ernment Ex-Officials.
Harking back to a 16-year-old
scandal which resulted in criminal
prosecution of two high Government
officials, Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue
of District Court late yesterday allowed
a $14,000,000 claim by the United
States against a Swiss corporation
which allegedly had obtained payment
of a war claim through fraud.
The case involved the disputed claim
by Sociate Suisse pour Zaleur de
Metaux of Basle, Switzerland, in 1921
against an alien property custodian for
$7,000,000, representing proceeds of
the sale of stock seized In New York
during the war and sold under the
trading-with-the-enemy act. The ad
ditional $7,000,000 allowed by Justice
O’Donoghue represents interest on the
original award.
Officials Indicted.
As a result of the award to the Swiss
company, Harry M. Daugherty, then
Attorney General, and Thomas W.
Miller, former alien property custodian,
were indicted and tried in New York
in 1927. Miller was convicted, but the
Jury disagreed as to Daugherty and
'he charge against him was dismissed.
Reviewing the international mach
inations that preceded and accom
panied settlement of the Swiss com
pany’s claim, Justice O’Donoghue said
that about $40,000 of the bonds paid
to the Swiss concern by the Govern
ment were "traced directly or in
directly, but with certainty, to the
Attorney General, Harry Daugherty,
and to the alien property custodian,
Miller.”
Stock Sale Involved.
Evidence to which Justice O'Donog
hue referred as Indicating that somr
of the bonds went to Daugherty was
to the effect proceeds from the sale
of these securities were deposited in
Daugherty's name in a bank which
later failed, and that in 1930
Daugherty claimed, under oath, that
he was the true owner of the money.
The Swiss company's claim con
cerned proceeds from the sale of
American Metal Co. stock which had
been seized during the war as the
property of two enemy German cor
porations.
Contending it was the .rue owner
of the stock, the Swiss company filed
claim September 20, 1921, with the
alien property custodian. Miller.
Miller allowed the claim the next day
and two days later it was approved
by the Attorney General and orders
were Immediately Issued for payment
of approximately $7,000,000, the court
found.
Finding that agents of the Swiss
company who handled the claim were
paid more than $400,000 for services
that involved only a few days' work,
Justice O'Donoghue said it was
“strange” that Miller should have
gone to New York to have dinner with
the Swiss company agents and pay
them more than $6,000,000 there.
Fraud Held Shown.
“The court concludes,” Justices
O'Donoghue declared, “that fraud has
been shown in the claim the plaintiff
made before the alien property cus
todian and that that fraud resulted
in the United States turning over
about $7,000,000 to the plaintiff and
that accordingly the United States is
entitled to recover • • •"
The current litigation was insti
tuted by the Swiss company for
$680,000, which it claimed as unpaid
Interest on the $7,000,000 award from
the time the stock was seized until
1921, when the principal was paid.
The government counter-claimed that
it was entitled to recover the $7,000,
000 with interest on the ground that
that original claim was fraudulent,
and that its allowance had been se
cured through a conspiracy involving
Miller and Daugherty.
Attorneys for the Swiss corporation,
Julian B. Beaty of New York and
McKenny, Flannery & Craighlll of
Washington, are expected to appeal
from Justice O’Donoghue's decision.
If his ruling ultimately is affirmed,
the Government still faces the prob
lem of collecting from the Swiss con
cern.
of hundreds of millions through the
District has contributed in national
taxes from which these donations are
paid more money than is contributed
by any one of more than naif of the
States, nine of the States comoi.ied.
or more In per capita than 32 of the
States.
In one part of its report the Jacobs
Committee made deductions from
State taxes (in comparing C06t of
local government) so that only those
portions of State taxes supporting in
stitutions and services comparable to
Institutions and services in the Dis
trict—asylums, hospitals, correctional
institutions, etc.—were included in the
comparison. That method is probably
fair. But the same deductions were
hot made in comparing city tax
burdens, although logic as well as
equity, demands that they should be.
The first consideration of Washing
ton’s unique status among American
cities shotild be the elimination of
interest payments and State taxes (or
a carefully computed portion of State
taxes) in comparison of city tax bur
dens.
(Next article: Additional consider
ations in comparing tax burdens.)
Alda’s Pupil
TO SING FOR BIRTHDAY
BALLS.
CATHREEN CARRICO
Of Clinton, Md., a victim of
infantile paralysis, who will
sing for 15 minutes, beginning
at 7:15 p.m., today over Station
WJSV in a benefit performance
for the President’s birthday
ball Saturday. Miss Carrico
studied voice at Peabody In
stitute of Music in Baltimore,
Md., and three years ago, in
competition with 200 others,
won a scholarship to study
under Mme. Frances Alda at
the Metropolitan Opera, in
New York City.
—Star Staff Photo,
WEAVER TO QUIT
NAVIGATION BOARD
Director to Complete Work of In
creasing Safety of Vessels
in Month.
Er the Associated Press.
Joseph B. Weaver announced yes
terday he would resign as director
of the Marine Inspection and Navi
gation Bureau.
Weaver, a consulting engineer, who
came to the bureau from the N. R. A.
Shipping Division shortly after the
Morro Castle disaster In 1934, said
he had devoted his energies to in
creasing safety of vessels and that his
work would be completed In a month
or so.
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Japanese to Test Ores. .
By permission of the Australian
government, four Japanese experts
will spend a year in analyzing and
grading the deposits of ore on Koolan
Island, ofl the coast of Western Aus
tralia.
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Georges Bonnet Expected
to Strive for Permanent
Stabilization.
Br the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 28.—Georges Bon
net, recently named French Ambas
sador to the United States, was con
sidered today to have been handed
as his principal goal permanent
stabilization of English, French and
American currencies.
A new alignment of franc, pound
and dollar was declared in parlia
mentary circles to be a likely outcome
of current negotiations as a stimulus
to the tri-power stabilization of cur
rencies.
Bonnet’s mission—he sails from
Havre. February 10, to assume his
new post—was linked to the visits
of Walter Runclman, president of the
Board of Trade in the British cabinet,
with, President Roosevelt.
(Runclman was understood to be
an unofficial commercial ambassador
seeking better trade relations.)
Prance, it was pointed out, could j
readjust her currency by letting the ;
franc drop to its lowest legal level,
thus tending to stem the flow of
French gold to the United States.
Meantime two simultaneous llnan-!
eial developments affecting the strained
European economic situation were re
ported:
1. Herve Alphand, French trade .
expert, was to depart for Berlin to |
start negotiations for a Franco-Ger- j
man commercial accord.
2. A new £50,000,000 ($250,000,000) j
loan to France from British bankers 1
was expected to be formally an
nounced.
Discussions between Alphand and
Nasi financial officials will seek to
establish an economic past ‘‘satisfac- j
tory" to both powers is practical.
The new British loan, with the ap
proval of the treasury, was expected
to be similar to the £40.000,000 < $200,
000,000) credit in 1936, repaid in De
cember, which tided the finance min
lstry over Its low-water period of tax
collection.
Should the flow of gold from France
to the United States be halted, ex
perts said, the gold content of the
franc then would be fixed at 43 mill
grams, or about 23 to th' dollar.
The present stabilization agreement
between the United States, Great Bri
tain and France Is holding the franc
midway in its legal range.
MORGENTHAU SILENT.
Declines to Discuss Situation In Re
lation to Stabilization.
Secretary Morgenthau described the
increase in the Bank of France dis
count rate today as "a purely Internal
affair.”
At his press conference the Treas
ury chief declined to discuss the
French monetary situation in relation
to the French, British and American
currency stabilization agreement.
He reiterated earlier statements,
however, that Treasury experts "are
studying the international monetary
situation—past, present and future."
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