Evening star. [volume], April 12, 1937, Page A-4, Image 4

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G. W. PAPER WINS
SILVERCUPAGAIN
Hatchet's Editorial Page
Held Best in Middle At
lantic States.
The Hatchet, George Washington
University weekly, has won for the
second time the silver loving cup for
the best editorial page of any student
publication in the Middle Atlantic
States, it was announced today.
Awarded the trophy at the annual
Spring convention of the Intercollegiate
Newspaper Association of the Middle
Atlantic States last week end in Phila
delphia, the paper also tied with
Temple University’s News for third
place in the news handling and gen
eral make-up competition. It won the
Editorial Cup for the first time at the
association’s Fall meeting.
At the Spring convention, Howard
W. Ennes, jr„ associate editor of the
Hatchet, was elected president of the
association. He lives in the 5100 block
of Forty-fifth street. Six delegates
from the publication attended the con
ference.
The Hatchet is edited by Miss Mar
garet Davis, 20-year-old senior, of 5
Rhode Island avenue. The rest of the
staff includes Edmund Browning,
Ennes, Robert W. Howell and Winfield
Rankin, associate editors; William
Coburn, John Daugherty, Frances
Humphrey, Howard Mace and Annette
Rich, senior staff members. Bernard
Holden is business manager.
Blossoms
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with automobiles two and three
abreast.
The crowd, which had been pouring
Into Washington steadily since early
In the week, reached its peak yester
day afternoon, when 213,000 persons
visited Potomac Park, according to
park police estimates. Other esti
mates placed the total number of
visitors in the city at between 250,000
end 450,000. Many, it was believed by
police, did not attempt the trip to
the Basin in the face of jammed
traffic conditions and overcast skies
which sent light rain and snow flur
ries down on the shivering throngs.
Huddled figures sleeping in parked
automobiles Saturday night testified
to the lack of housing accommoda
tions. Police reported many persons
were forced to sleep in Union Station.
A harassed Police Department
Strove valiantly, if not always suc
cessfully, to keep the seemingly end
less stream of cars in motion. Jams
of nearly a half hour were reported
on the more crowded streets—Rhode
Island and Massachusetts avenues and
Sixteenth, Fourteenth and Thirteenth
streets.
Ail day, from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.,
the flood of motorists—most of whom
entered the park from Seventeenth
street—moved around the Basin in
clockwise motion. A one-way traffic
rule was in effect throughout the day.
The park police estimate was based
on a count of 65,000 pedestrians in
the Basin area and the 37,085 auto
mobiles that crossed the Inlet Bridge.
Crowds, usually a bonanza to taxi
drivers, turned into a boomerang yes
terday. Hackers, with the rest of the
thousands, were caught in the slug
gish traffic stream. Many drivers re
fused to enter the congested areas.
“This darn day is well toward be
ing the worst I ever had,” said one
driver. “I’m either going home or out
in the suburbs.”
Even Presdent Roosevelt, out for an
afternoon drive, was caught several
times in the jams at the park. It took
the President’s car a little more than
an hour to complete the round.
If weather predictions hold true, the
thousands who left the Capital yes
terday will miss the blossoms at their
best. Today’s weather prediction calls
for fair skies and a rising temperature.
Park police said only a few' persons
and very few out-of-town licenses—
were in sight at the park early today.
It was expected, however, that many
Washingtonians would take advantage
of the improved weather conditions
and lack of crowds to see their city's
chief Springtime attraction. Thus far,
park officials said, the blossoms have
not been affected by the cold weather.
80 Per Cent in Bloom.
This morning the blossoms were
Ground 80 per cent in bloom, Frank
T. Gartside, assistant superintendent
of the National Capital Parks, said.
David Saunders, chief of the horti
cultural division of the parks office,
made an inspection of the trees and
found they had not been harmed by
the thousands w'ho tramped around
under the blossom-laden boughs. It
is against the law for any one to
pluck the blooms and park police
keep a wary eye out for any infrac
tions, which will bring a fine in Police
Court.
“Everything is ship-shape,” Gart
side declared. "The blooms are in
fine condition.”
The blooms will be 100 per cent out
probably late today or tomorrow, de
pending on a warming sun. Gait
side pointed out again that when the
blossoms are opened full they do not
present the deep pinkish tinge they
do when in the incomplete stage.
The April sunshine bleaches the
petals and the scene, after a time,
changes from pink to white.
Flooded with applications for rooms,
the American Automobile Association
turned to the Police Department yes
terday for assistance, after sending a
large part of its staff on a house-to
house canvass in search of lodging.
The Traffic Division reported a
record number of calls. A chief com
plaint was that “out-of-town motor
ists don’t know how to get around
the circles.”
On many highways last night, out
going traffic was given thre# lanes
and incoming one, instead of two each.
Even then, it was reported, traffic
frequently came to a standstill. Con
ditions were reported near normal
shortly after midnight, however.
Nearby Hotels Crowded.
Hotels in Baltimore, Frederick and
several other nearby towns reported
near sell-outs. Visitors to Washington
said that in several of the smaller
towns they were unable to find any
accommodations.
Humorous sidelights were a dime a
dozen as blase New Yorkers and others
pulled and turned, twisted and jerked
MAKES HUBBY HAPPY
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Prize-Winning G. W. U. Hatchet Staff
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Shoivn with the trophy they were awarded for winning the mid-Atlantic editorial prize, mem
bers of the George Washington University Hatchet staff are Margaret Davis, editor (center),
and <left to right) Robert Howell, Winfield Rankin, Howard Ennes and Edmund Browning,
associate editors. -—Star Staff Photo.
JULIANO AND 12
$2,000 Bail Required for
Principal Defendant,
With Hearing May 5.
Victor A (Toots) Juliano and 12
other persons arrested Saturday in
raids on three alleged gambling estab
lishments pleaded not guilty to gaming
charges before United States Commis- |
sioner Needham C. Turnage today and
were held for future hearings.
Juliano, wounded last December in
what police described as a "numbers
racket shooting." was arrested with a
woman and a colored man Saturday
in a raid on an establishment in the
141)6 block of Eleventh street. May
5 was set as the date for his hearing
before Turnage and bond was fixed at
$2,000. He was charged with con
spiracy to violate the gambling laws
and writh operating a lottery.
Beatrice Jeffries, 29, of the 2100 block
of Second street, arrested with Juliano,
was held for a hearing on the same
date under bond of $3,000 She was
charged with operating a lottery and
operating a gaming table.
Colored Man to Answer.
The colored man, Raymond Jones, !
1400 block of Eleventh street, was held
in the same amount of bond on like
I charges. His hearing also was set for
! May 5.
The other two raids were in the 400
block of H street and the 100 block of
Fourth street southwest. Those ar
rested and the action taken at the ar
raignments today were:
Wierd Allen Gibson, 37, colored. 400
block of Eighth street southwest, $2,000
bond, charged with operating a lot
tery and conspiracy to violate the
gambling laws.
John Edward Higginbotham, 36,
colored, 1700 block Seton street,
$2,000 bond, charged with operating a
lottery and conspiracy to violate the
gambling laws.
Marie E. Manning. 29, colored, 1500
block of Sixth street, $500 bond, j
charged with conspiracy to violate the
gambling laws and operating a lot
tery.
Wallace W. Beach. 28, of the 400
block of H street, $2,000 bond, charged
with conspiracy to violate the gambling
laws and operating a lottery.
Others Lnder Bond.
Jesse Edgar Rogers, 43, of the 1200
block of G street. $2,000 bond, charged
with conspiracy to violate the gam
bling laws and operating a lottery.
Alexander S. Patterson, 47, colored,
100 block of Fourth street, $1,500
bond, charged with conspiracy to vio
late the gambling laws.
Robert Luther Shepard. 28, Arling
ton, Va., $2,000 bond, charged with
conspiracy to violate the gambling
laws and operating a lottery.
Julius Spears, 42, colored, 1200
block of Fourth street, $2,000 bond,
charged with conspiracy to violate
the gambling laws and operating a
lottery.
Olin Malone, 18. of the 300 block
of E street, $2,000 bond, charged with
conspiracy to violate the gambling
laws and operating a lottery.
Margaret V. Gray, 29, colored, 100
block of Fourth street, $1,500 bond,
charged with conspiracy to violate the
gambling laws.
All the hearings were set for
April 16.
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in an effort to maneuver their cars
through a solid stream of other cars.
Mrs Maxine Bumstead, Columbus,
Ohio, complained of circling her hotel
six times in an effort to park the car.
She finally caught her husband's eye
as he stood waiting on the sidewalk,
and he climbed in the car as the cur
rent of traffic was about to sweep it
for for another circuit.
One family of five was seen sitting
in their car in an alley. They had
sat there for some time. Questioned
by a passerby, who suspected their
plight, the father confessed he had
driven in the alley to "rest” and
couldn’t summon the courage to brave
the traffic again.
TRADE MARK NeaH* new Wurlitze.
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bench. General Electric
refrigerator, 10.7-cubic
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At Public Auction
AT SLOAN’S
715 13th St.
WEDNESDAY
April 14th, 1937
At 10 A.M.
Also at IS M.
Solitaire diamond ring, diamond scarf
pin, unset diamond, watch and chain
by order of J. R. Kirkland, attorney
for an estate.
Terms: Cash. ^
C. G, Sloan A Co.Flne.. Auets.
Established 1801
Held in Theft
ROBERT A. SISSON.
Sisson
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with stiff stock assessments due to
closing of the bank
When the Hamilton Bank was or
ganized he secured a position of trust
and began diverting funds to meet
the assessment of the closed bank,
hoping always to be able to make up
the defalcations later.
"My chief regret," Sisson said, “is
that I violated the confidence of Mr.
E. C. Graham and cast some reflec
tion on the wonderful progress the
Hamilton Bank has made since it was
organized.”
He used only a small portion of the
bank's funds to gamble in the stock
market, Sisson declared. He said he
used some of the money to buy his
home, but he emphasized that the
addition now being built is financed
with his own funds.
Sisson, a graduate of McKinley
High School and of a local banking
school, had been employed at the
bank since 1933. He is married and
has three children, aged 9 and 5 years
and 7 weeks. His home is at 101 North
Brook Lane. Bethesda, Md.
DR. EDSON RE-ELECTED I
FEDERATION LOCAL HEAD
Agriculture Worker Heads Group
in Federal Employes’
Organization.
Dr. Howard A Edson of Agricul
ture has been re-elected president
of Local 2, the departmental local
of the National Federation of Fed
eral Employes, it was announced to
day by the Board of Representatives.
Other officers named were: Miss
Lottie L. Anderson, Agriculture, vice
president; Henry G. Nolda, Veterans’
Administration, secretary - treasurer;
A. M. Raising, Interior, recorder.
Members of the Executive Council:
Robert W. Cushman. Library of Con
gress; Mrs. Mary L. Giordano and
Lee H. Shugar. General Accounting
Office; Archie C. Edwards. Agricul
ture: Joseph Stansfield. Interstate
Commerce Commisison; Jesse A Moss
and Joseph I. Menehan, Interior.
Delegates to the District Federa
tion of Federal Employes: Stansfield.
G. Nolda, William Walsh. General Ac
counting Office; Mrs. Rebekah K
Pedigo. Interior: Cushman, and
Frank L. Lombard, Agriculture.
Mexico bought 16 American land
airplanes in a recent month.
INCOME IAXURGED1
ON UiEMPLOYE
House Member Proposes
Amendment to Widen
Scope of Levy.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.
Chairman Cochran of the House
Committee on Expenditures, today
introduced an amendment to the Con
stitution, which would require every
Federal official and employe, elected
or appointed, to make a Federal in
come tax return on his or her salary,
and also require an income tax to the
State of which he or she is a legal
resident.
His proposal also would require all
State officials and State employes to
make Federal income tax returns on
their salaries. It further would re
quire officials and employes of all
national and State banks, members
of the Federal Reserve System, to
pay income tax to the States on their
salaries.
“The necessity for this legislation
grows out of the constitutional pro
vision which does not require a Fed
eral official or employe to pay State
income tax, and does not require the
President or members of the Federal
judiciary to pay Federal income tax,"
Cochran explained. He pointed out,
however, that although the salary is
considered exempt, all Presidents of
the United States since enactment of
the income tax law, have paid an
income tax to the Government on
their salaries.
Another reason for offering the
amendment, Cochran said, is that in
the case of Brush vs. Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, March 15, 1937, the
Supreme Court by a 7-to-2 decision
with Justices Brandeis and Roberts
dissenting, held in effect that State
officials and State employes are not
subject to Federal income tax on the
salary they receive.
A third reason given by Cochran is
that "officials and employes of na
tional and State banks, members of the
Federal Reserve system, are taking
advantage of a derision by the Social.
Security Board, holding that the banks
are instrumentalities of the Govern
ment. Officials and employes of the
banks thus place themselves in the
same category as a Federal employe
and therefore are not making returns
on their salaries to the various States.
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