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HEARING IS ‘SAFE’
Washington Police Cancel
Lookout for Miss Mary
Helen Daingerfield.
B!> c Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.. April 17.—Miss
Mary Helen Daingerfield, 56-year-old
heiress who eluded court guards and
fled while a sanity commission was
pondering her mental status, was re
ported “safe in Washington” tonight.
Police in the Capital, who earlier
In the day had withdrawn a lookout
for the woman, declared they had in
formation from a reliable source that
she was in that city.
The lookout, broadcast at request of
local police, was canceled when it
was learned no warrant had been
issued and that Alexandria authori
ties were not endeavoring to find her.
Miss Daingerfield, member of an
old Virginia family and heiress to an
estimated $800,000 estate of her
father, Edward C. Daingerfield, founder
of the Citizens’ National Bank here,
escaped last night.
Outwitted Guard at Home.
She outwitted a guard set at her
home by the Corporation Court and
ran across a field to an automobile
waiting some 300 yards away.
Attorneys for Arthur H. Bryant,
former director of the Citizens’ Bank,
who petitioned the court to examine
Miss Daingerfield, said tonight they
hoped to locate Miss Daingerfield and
persuade her to return to Alexandria.
They declared she could be extra
dited to Virginia if her sanity is
questioned and she is found incompe
tent in another jurisdiction.
Doubt was expressed by police, how
ever, that the woman would be
extradited and declared there is little
likelihood of her appearance here
unless she returns voluntarily when
her case is called for decision on
April 26.
Judge William P. Woolls, who left
for a vacation shortly after a special
commission he appointed to examine
Miss Daingerfield disagreed on the
question of her sanity, will return on
that date.
Before leaving, he1 nafned a third
physician to review the transcript of
the secret hearings and cast the de
ciding vote.
One of the two doctors who sat
with Judge Woolls held her to be
sane, the other declared the petition
should be upheld.
The guards appointed by the court
were posted at Malvern on Thursday
night, when the hearing ended. Mal
vern is the old Daingerfield estate
Where Miss Daingerfield lives alone.
One of the* guards. Ralph Nalls, told
police he saw the woman run across
a nearby field and enter a waiting
automobile after she disappeared from
her residence.
About an hour later, police said,
word was received from Washington
relatives that Miss Daingerfield had
been seen in Union Station, at Wash
ington.
Federation
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on the estates of decendente, on park
ing lot operators, on places of amuse
ments and higher and more uniform
taxes on public utilities.
Suggests Amendments.
In the case of several bills to these
purposes the federation suggested
amendments.
Opposition was voiced against the
proposed adoption of an automobile
weight tax, holding that such a levy
would not be so equitable as the
present personal property tax on own
ers of- vehicles.
There was protest in general terms
also against the proposed diversion of
the gas tax revenues, taken from ve
hicle owners to pay general Govern
ment costs, as opposed to specific
highway improvements. The body de
clared the gasoline tax should be no
greater than necessary to cover the
costs of the District’s highway im
provement program.
In this connection, Carruthers ex
plained that the District would re
ceive some $600,000 annually from the
Federal Government under the bill
which would give the District parity
with the States under the Hayden
Cartwright act for Federal aid to
roads. This would be the District’s
pro-rata share of the Federal road
aid monies and would substantially
increase the available District funds
for highway improvements. The bill,
sponsored by Chairman King of the
Senate District Committee, has been
passed by the Senate.
Insurance Levy.
The federation approved in principle
the bill proposed by Representative
Collins of Mississippi, chairman of the
District Subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee, for placing
a tax of 2 per cent on net premium
receipts on insurance companies. The
rate is now 1.5 per cent on all but ma
rine business, which has a compli
cated schedule, and fraternal ^nd mu
tual Are insurance companies, which
are not subject to the present priv
ilege tax.
However, the federation suggested
that there be a tax of 2.5 per cent on
net premiums, but urged that the
life insurance companies be exempted
from this levy. This is not pro
vided in the bill now being considered
by the House District Committee
The federation voted down a pro
posal to grant exemption also to the
mutual companies.
The proposed tax on insurance com
panies has been estimated to produce
some $200,000 additional in revenue
There was no protest by the federa
tion against the proposal to extend
the privilege tax to mutual Are in
surance companies or the fraternal in
surance concerns.
Stand on Tax on Estates.
In agreeing to the proposal for
adoption of a tax on the estates of
descendants, the federation suggested
that the levy be no higher than that
which would give the District the
credit up to 80 per cent of the levy
made by the United States, which is
the case with many of the similar laws
of the States. The bill to this effect,
which goes beyond the 80 per cent
limit, is estimated to yield some $750 -
000.
The federation approved the prin
ciple of a tax on the theaters, as pro
vided in the Collins bill, but suggested
that the Aeld might be broadened to
include the vaudeville and legitimate
theaters and professional base ball. It
held it would not be equitable if applied
only to the motion picture houses and
those offering a combination of movie
and stage shows. There was a sug
gestion also that the flat 2 per cent
on gross receipts might prove a seri
ous burden on the operators of some
of the theaters.
The federation indorsed the eug
gestion of higher taxes on the gross
receipts of the public utilities, al
though some speakers explained that
such taxes probably would be passed
along to the public. The bill which
Representative Collins plans to offer
on this score is estimated roughly to
produce some $1,200,000 more in reve
nues than the present rates produce.
Opposed by Saul.
The action of the federation was
protested by John Saul, who insisted
there was a disposition to “wipe out”
privately-owned utilities by taxation
and that "we don’t want Russian in
this country.”
Carruthers explained that the pro
posal was to make the utilities taxes
uniform, and higher.
The proposed privilege tax on cor
porations, estimated to Produce some
$300,000 in additional revenue, was
favored in principle, although the fed
eration granted the Carruthers com
mittee more time for final action. A
motion by Harry S. Wender to send
this matter back to the committee for
further itudy was lost by a small mar
gin. Wender then moved to exclude
from the proposed tax those concerns
incorporated under District laws, but
this also was voted down.
Federation sentiment appeared to be
against the adoption of a District in
come tax bill, which is estimated to
produce from $6,000,000 to $7,000,000
in additional revenue. Specifically,
the Carruthers Committee was given
additional time for action on this
measure.
Carruthers declared there was a
strong feeling that the Income tax
field should be left to the Federal
Government, and suggested the pos
sibility that the present Federal rates
might be hiked and that the level of
exemptions might be lowered.
Debate Over Economies.
Debate over the possibilities of fur
ther economies and efficiency in the
District Government then developed.
with President Thomas E. Lodge sug
gesting that there was not but a
"horse and buggy” system of tax col
lections.
Lodge voiced a hope for improve
ment In the methods and, perhaps, in
the personnel of the tax collection
machinery.
Harry N. Stull of Stanton Park pro
tested against a number of increases
in salaries granted to District em
ployes during the last fiscal year.
In another action, the federation
entered the public dispute over plana
for the memorial to Thomas Jeffer
son. It adopted a resolution suggest
ing use of the Jefferson memorial fund
for the construction of a public audi
torium or a stadium on a ‘'suitable”
site, on motion by Kenneth P. Arm
strong. *
During debate on this point there
was protest against destruction of
the cherry tree* and extensive re
vamping of the Tidal Basin, as
involved in plans for the Jef
ferson Memorial now planned.
The federation also urged construc
tion of an armory for the Distri#
National Guard, but held the cost
should not be placed on District tax
payers.
Creation of the proposed small
claims court was indorsed, with sug
gestions l’or a number of amendments
to the plan, on motion by Charles I*
Norris, the new chairman of the fed
eration Committee on Laws and Legis
lation.
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