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YOUTHFUL VOICES
HEARD AT SESSION
More Than 1,000 Sing at
Convention of Federation
of Music Clubs.
Bj the Aseocleted Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. April 24.—Youth
ful voices—more than 1,000 of them
In all—swelled the music-laden breezes
today at the twentieth biennial con
vention of the National Federation of
Music Clubs.
From the cotton mills of South
Carolina to the Bacone Indian School
of Muskogee, Okla., came groups of
young musicians to provide the festi
val’* junior day program.
A chorus of 400 children from the
rural schools of flood-stricken Jeffer
son County, Ky., presented Edgar
Stlllman-Kelley, octogenarian com
poser, a musical birthday gift by sing
ing his operetta, "Alice in Wonder
land."
The white-haired, rosy-cheeked com
poser, who observed his 80th birthday
anniversary April 14, radiated his
pleasure.
From Birnjingham, Ala., came the
Apollo Boys’ Choir, which twice has
sung before President Roosevelt at
Warm Springs. Ga.
Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff, director of the
Federal music project, spoke at a din
ner tonight.
"The Federal music project,” he said,
“is definitely enriching the life of
America and doing much toward the
development of an American school
of music.” A nation without music
is an "inert nation,” he said, adding:
"The Federal music project is striv
ing to make music as easily attainable
as the other cultural pursuits which
have become a part of our accepted
civic and cultural system.”
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FORMATION DETAILS
Display Club Will Hear Several
Speakers at Meeting Wed
nesday Night.
Organization of the National Cap
ital Display Club will be completed
at a meeting at 8:30 p.m. Wednes
day in the Pan-American Room of
the Mayflower Hotel, it was announced
yesterday by Miss Tina Marranzano,
executive secretary. Affiliation with
the International Association of Dis
play Men also will be arranged at
that time, and first steps will be taken
toward obtaining the association’s
1938 convention for Washington.
L. C. Schilder of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation will speak on
"Organization..” James Hardey, ad
vertising manager of Woodward <fc
Lothrop, also has been invited to
address the group, consisting of about
65 local display workers.
Arthur Gray, president, will pre
aide, and Curtis A. Hodges, chair
man of the Greater National Capi
tal Committee of the Washington
Board of Trade, will attend.
Jewish Symposium Planned.
A symposium on "The Challenge
of the American Jew in the World
of Today” will be held at a combined
meeting Wednesday night of the Argo
Lodge, No. 413. B'nai B’rith, and the
Institute of the Jewish Community
Center at the center's headquarters.
Seymour S. Guthman, Dr. Jack Levin,
Rabbi Isadnre Breslau and Isadore
Hershfleld will be the speakers.
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High Lights in Seven Weeks’ Hearings on Supreme Court Bill
ATTORNEY GENERAL
CUMMINGS
As he launched the fight.
SENATOR WHEELER.
Democratic opposition leader,
about to read Hughes' letter.
DOROTHY THOMPSON,
Newspaper columnist, who op
posed the bill.
The last witness—J. F. Smith,
Connecticut Democratic offi
cial, who attacked the bill.
Down goes the curtain and here is the result—1,150,000 words
of testimony. Left to right, the official reporters: Earl H. Pendell,
Charles A. Brown and Earl W. Cooper.
—Star Staff, A. P. and Harris-Ewing Photos.
YOUR TAXES I
What You Would Pay and How Under
the Bills Proposed in the House.
Article No. 12—Insurance Company Tax.
' ESTIMATED YIELD—$675,336 (an increase over present yield of
$200,000*.
PURPOSE—To raise additional revenue, simplify existing tax, add
to taxable companies.
AFFECTS—All insurance companies doing business in District of
Columbia.
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AXES on insurance companies
operating in the District would
be increased roughly 33 per
cent by passage of H. R. 6032,
one of the series of revenue measures
offered by Representative Collins of
Mississippi, which has been referred
to the House District Committee.
The bill has three major purposes.
First, it would increase the present
rate of tax on net premium receipts
and on policy fees, from 1.5 to 2 per
cent. Also it would increase the
nominal franchise and license fees
charged by the District.
Second, it would broaden the field
of the insurance business subject to
the tax by bringing into the picture
the fraternal insurance companies and
the mutual fire insurance companies,
which heretofore have been exempt
from the tax.
Third, it would repeal the present
complicated series of levies which are
applied to the marine insurance busi
ness transacted in the District and
substitute for present formulas the
same simple rate on net premium
receipts which would be applicable to
all other types of business.
If adopted, the bill would affect all j
types of insurance business, including
domestic and foreign, fraternal, stock j
and mutual, the reciprocals, Lloyds,
insuring against loss of life or health, |
or by fire, marine, accident, casualty, j
fidelity and surety, title guarantee or
other hazard not contrary to public
policy.
The yield is calculated to be roughly
$200,000 above the revenues taken
from the present system of levies.
Some think the additional revenue
may go slightly above this figure.
There are now 382 insurance com
panies engaging in business here
which now are subject to the present
tax levy of 1.5 per cent on net
premiums. The effect of the bill
would be to add to this list a total of
110 companies now exempt. These
would be 42 foreign and 3 domestic
mutual fire companies and 59 foreign
and 6 domestic fraternal insurance
companies.
Premiums collected by the 65 fra
ternal companies in the calendar year
1934 (the latest for which the Dis
trict Insurance Department has pub
lished official figures) was $543,802.
It may be assumed the total of
premium receipts of these companies
has gone up since that year. But,
for the purposes of conservative esti
mates, a tax levy of 2 per cent on the
net premiums at $543,802 would pro
duce additional revenues of $10,860.
The 45 mutual fire insurance com
panies, which are not subject to the
tax imposed on other insurance com
panies, took in $254,491 in net
premiums in the calendar year 1936
on risks written in the District, ac
cording to a current calculation. The
proposed 2 per cent tax on net
premiums would bring to the District
additional revenues of $5,089.
There would be a much larger boost
in revenues from the proposed increase
in the rate from 1.5 to 2 per cent in
its application to other concerns, now
subject to this tax. The yield for
the calendar year 1935 and paid
March 1, 1936, amounted to $475,
336.35. To increase the rate by one
third Is expected to boost the revenues
by $158,445, and with the application
of the tax to the futual fire and the
fraternal companies, plus the pro
posed higher franchise fees, the grand
total would go to about $675,336.
i lie pieseni sysieui oi tuAca uii me
marine insurance business written in
the District is described by insurance
experts as a ‘'riddle.” One official
said the triple system is as much of
a headache to the insurance com
panies as to the District officials, in
making the annual calculations.
The mere description of the series
of taxes and the formulas against
which they must be applied requires
a statement of no less than 1,700
words. This outline is contained in
Sections 8 to 13, inclusive, in the
marine insurance act, approved March
4, 1922.
This present tax system may be
described broadly as follows: First,
there is a 5 per cent tax on the un
derwriting profit made by marine
insurance companies on risks writ
ten in the District, this to be ap
plied to the average profits over
the preceding five years. Second,
there is a 5 per cent tax on the aver
age earnings on reserves for unpaid
losses and unexpired premiums and
for the p rposes of this tax such aver
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age earnings shall be deemed to be
not more than 2 per cent of these
reserves. Third, there is a tax of 2
per cent on investment income from
funds representing capital stock and
surplus.
To quote briefly from this third tax
application, as an illustration of com
plications the bill would remove:
"Such investment income shall, for
purposes of taxation under this act,
be arrived at as follows: Add the grass
assets at the beginning and end of
the calendar year and strike an aver
age. Add capital stock and surplus at
the beginning and end of the year and
strike an average. Ascertain the pro
portion which the average capital
stock and surplus bears to the aver
age gross assets. Credit to investment
income on capital stock and surplus
such proportion of all income, except
income taxed under this act, de
rived from interest, dividends, rents
and profits on sales or redemption
of assets. Charge against invest
ment income on capital stock and
surplus such proportion of all losses
on sales or redemption of assets.”
There would be substituted for this ,
and the other two tax formulas now
applied to ifiarine insurance business |
the levy of 2 per cent on net premiums
on risks written in the District. Just
how this change would affect the tax
receipts from marine business here
has not been computed exactly, but
it is believed there would be no very
great change in the total, although
the taxes on some companies appar
ently would go up and on others the
tax would be less.
In addition to the proposed re
visions of the taxes, the proposed new
bill would increase the license fees,
except as to the marine companies,
which now pay a single license fee of
$100 if the assets are less than
$1,000,000: or $150 if assets are be
tween $1,000,000 and $5,000,000 and
$200 if assets are more than $5,000,000.
The bill proposes that all insurance
companies entering the field here
shall pay a fee for a "certificate of
authority,” or what may be called
an "entrance” fee of $25. The similar
fee now charged to all but marine
companies is $10.
There would be an annual fee of
$20 a year for filing the annual
statements of insurance companies.
The present similar fee is $10.
Any company issuing contracts of
insurance here without having first
obtained a license from the superin
tendent of insurance would be made
subject to a fine of $100 per day for
each day illegally engaged in business.
The bill provides that the proposed
2 per cent tax on net premium re
ceipts shall be paid before March 1
of each year on the receipts of the
preceding calendar year. Net pre
mium receipts are described as being
“gross premiums received, less the
sum of the following: Premiums re
turned on policies cancelled or not
taken; premiums paid for reinsurance
where the same are paid to companies
duly licensed to do business in the
District, and dividends paid in cash
or used by policy holders in payment
of renewal premiums.
Any company failing to pay the tax
prescribed in the proposed act would
be held liable to the District for the
amount of the tax plus a penalty of
8 per cent a month until paid.
One of the arguments for applying
the proposed 2 per cent tax on net
premiums to fraternal insurance com
panies is that such associations are
business organizations though operat
ing through fraternal bodies.
In the opinion of one expert the
fraternal insurance companies have
been exempt on the theory that they
are fraternal institutions and not or
ganized for profit, but, in his words,
"they are, in fact, fraternal only in
spirit and name and charge the same
rates as the larger life insurance com
panies and have huge premium totals.”
A fraternal association, generally
speaking, is classed as a tax-exempt
fraternal Institution if it maintains
fraternal lodges. Proponents of in
cluding fraternal insurance companies
in the tax field, however, insist that
such companies will write Insurance
for persons not previously members
of the order, but who, in signing the
insurance contract, agree to a state
ment they will abide by the laws of
the order.
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Appropriations
(Continued From First Page.)
Acuity is that it may be applicable to
some things and not to others. Un
less the rule be hard and fast there
ought to be no rule at all, and each
appropriation should be dealt with
competently by the committees."
Below Budget Estimates.
Incidentally, five of the nine regu
lar departmental supply bills have
passed both houses, and in each case
Congress already has reduced the
total of the bill below budget esti
mates. Committees have gone through
the bills, however, and made cuts in
particular places, as distinguished
from a flat percentage reduction.
The present plan of Senator Byrnes,
Democrat, of South Carolina, who is
taking the lead in proposing the gen
eral 10 per cent reduction method, is
to wait until all the supply bills have
been considered, and then bring out
a resolution, or an amendment to the
last bill, containing authority for the
percentage reductions, except in the
case of certain fixed charges which
cannot be reduced arbitrarily.
nuuuicr ecuuumy-minaea senator
proposed yesterday that Congress ap
proach retrenchment of relief spend
ing only after a thorough Inquiry into
permanent needs. Senator Hatch.
Democrat, of New Mexico joined those
of his colleagues who are prepared to
support Mr. Roosevelt's appeal for
economy, but said he did not believe
an arbitrary figure covering relief
needs culd be fixed without a study.
Accordingly, he said he would press
for action on a resolution introduced
by him and Senator Murray, Demo
crat, of Montana, calling for appoint
ment of a commission to inquire into
relief needs with a view to arriving
at a permanent program.
The Senate Labor Committee is
expected to take up the resolution this
week.
The present discussion has served to
recall the events of 1932. when the
percentage method of reduction was
injected into the economy movement
in the Senate. At that time certain
supply bills were sent back to com
mittee with instructions to take 10
per cent off the total. It led to
considerable controversey on the floor.
Congress that year reduced all supply
bills below budget estimates, but not
by a uniform rate of percentage in
each bill.
With the present Congress showing
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a disposition to hold each bill below
the estimates as it goes along,-if, at
the end of the session, a percentage
cut should be applied to the bills as
passed it would mean a double re
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Strikes
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ruination not to deal with the Cem
mittee for Industrial Organization.
Commenting on a Federal labor offi
cial's statement that unless the oper
ators agreed to a joint conference
he would call a hearing on charges
of Wagner act violation, one manu
facturer asserted they would “be no
party to conferences which have in
timidation as a background."
Powers Hapgood, a leader of the
shoe workers’ strike, last night prom
ised to "consider an ofTer of
settlement as a basis for immediate
discussion.”
National Guard troops continued to
patrol the area as the strike, affecting
19 factories, entered its second month.
Seven C. I. O. leaders were ordered
to trial Tuesday on charges of viola
ting an injunction against strike ac
tivities.
Food Supplies in Question.
The week end activities of strikers
will provide a determining factor in
whether or not part of their source
of food will be shut off by injunction.
Answering a request of manufac
turers that the strikers’ commissary
be restricted under terms of the in
junction. Judge Harry Manser of the
Maine Supreme Court said the con
tinuance of mass meetings by the
strikers over the week end would have
much to do with any decision he may
make regarding the commissary.
Strikers have been meeting daily in
the Lewiston City Hall and hundreds
of them have received relief from a
C. I. O. established food depot.
A Ford Motor Co. assembly plant at
Richmond, Calif., seized Friday in a
sit-down strike protesting transfer
of 12 workers, was evacuated early
yesterday and a union official said
the plant's 1,800 employes would re
sume work tomorrow, pending settle
ment of the dispute.
An official of the Ford Motor Co.
and a union leader sped to Richmond
last night to iron out the situation.
The strikers marched out shouting
and smiling as their leaders announced
Ford officials would settle a complaint
of discrimination against the dozen
workers.
Frank Slaby. strike leader and local
president of the United Automobile
Workers, said Ed Hall, international
vice president of the union, and a
high Ford company official were en
route from Detroit.
Stockton Normal Again.
Stockton, Calif., scene of Friday’s
outburst of violence in which 50 per
sons were wounded, returned to nor
mal. Only a few pickets and guards
remained near the strike-bound can
neries, w'hich owners agreed not to
operate. Ten of the riot victims still
were in hospitals and one had only
an even chance to recover.
Peace was tentative pending can
nery strike mediation efforts, but
county authorities indicated the op
posing forces were increasing their
potential fighting power.
Sheriff Harvey Odell said any fur
ther trouble might develop larger pro
portions than the battle yesterday, in
which 63 persons were wounded as
law-enforcement officers, special dep
uties and strike pickets clashed.
"I will use 5,000 deputies instead
of 500 if there is any further trou
ble," Odell said.
Other authorities said there was a
possibility that organized labor from
the outside might lend support to the
cannery workers who participated in
Friday's battle of Waterloo road. Ru
more had been circulated that work
ers from the San Francisco Bay area
might aid the cannery strikers.
A. F. at L. Fare* Court Action.
The American Federation of Labor,
which recently sued the Aluminum
Workers' Union of New Kensington,
Pa., for accounting of $27,000 after
the group switched its allegiance to
the C. I. O., was faced by a cross
bill demanding accounting for
$200,000, allegedly diverted from the
defense fund to other uses.
Five persons were injured, one se
riously, in the day's only strike vio
lence, precipitated by an effort to
prevent mechanical employes from
entering the plant of the Long Is
land Daily Press at Jamaica, N. Y„
where editorial workers have been on
strike three weeks. Three policemen
were among the casualties.
Mayor F. H. La Guardia again en
tered the controversy yesterday, de
claring in a telegram to William F.
Hoffman, publisher, that the contro
versy "has gone beyond private dis
pute" and urged the newspaper man
agement to accept the award made
earlier this week by a board of arbi
tration.
"It seems to me that there is noth
ing else that can be honorably done
than to accept the award." La Guardia
said. "There is no need or justiflca
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tion for a continuance of the strike.
Therefore, I publicly appeal to you
to accept the award of an ambitra
tion which you assured me you would
accept.”
Hofmann Soldi Reply.
In reply, Hofmann sent the fol
lowing telegram to the Mayor:
"Opposition of the arbitration award
has been misinterpreted to you.
Despite the fact that the wage scale
awarded is higher than any other
comparable paper in the whole United
States and even higher than some
metropolitan papers, we have ac
cepted it.
"We also have accepted all terms
of the award relative to work week,
dismissal bonuses, vacations, over
time, sick leave and other working
conditions, including collective bar
gaining.”
General Motors officials and rep
resentatives of the 550 employes of
the company's Windsor, Ontario, plant
reached an agreement last night under
which the workers will return to their
jobs tomorrow.
The accord followed closely the
agreement signed in Toronto Friday
settling the strike of 3.700 workers
at the General Motors plant at Osh
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*wa. The Windsor employes had not
been on strike. The Windsor plant
makes motors for the Oshawa assembly
line, and they were laid off when the
strike began at Oshawa.
Difference* in Pact*.
It was understood the Windsor part
differed from that for Oshawa in the
fixing of a minimum wage of 65 cents
an hour instead of definite wage In
creases. New wage scales, however,
are to be considered next week.
In New York a collective bargaining
conference between union representa
tives and officials of the Postal Tele
graph Co. adjourned in disagreement
over what constitutes a bargaining
unit under the Wagner labor relations
act.
The conference was one of a series
which began March 2* when the
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union pre
sented demands for wage increases
and Improved working conditions
which company officials said would
add $3,155,168 annually to its em
ploye expenses. No date was set for
a future conference.
Alexander Shaw, counsel for the
United Electrical and Radio Workers,
said in Pittsburgh he will recommend
to the National Labor Board a Gov
ernment-supervised election to deter
mine the collective bargaining agency
for workers in the East Pittsburgh
plants of the Westinghouse Electric
& Manufacturing Co.
Negotiating Several Weeks.
Westinghouse has been negotiating
for several weeks with both the
United, an affiliate of the John L.
Lewis Committee for Industrial Or
ganization, and the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, an
affiliate of the American Federation
of Labor. Both unions claimed a
majority of the workers.
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BLINDS
( Will keep vour rooms
I cool and well ventilated.
| Have them custom made
to fit and installed com
plete by
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GUARANTEED
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WATCH .
REPAIRING 1
R?Prir*v
MONDAY SPECIAL
Any Shape CRYSTAL
of First Quality
ERNEST BURK
Expert W’atchmaker
1105 G St. N.W.. Rm. 506. DIs. 2778
To Purchase fF^^TU I
or 11 Low os l 1 1
Refinancc 5%
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I Here Are Protected by Federo
■ Your Sovings Here 000
■ Insurance up to 55,
I COLUMBIA BUILDIHO Jj» Palais Rovol
B |H
Months
Free Use
in Your
Home
Just Telephone
NAtional 3068
... for full details regard
ing our plan for immediate
installation of Burner and
year-’round hot water equip
ment, or a penny post card
will bring the information.
Visit our show room any day
between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.
and see an ABC in actual
operation!
M&cly
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714 13th St. N.W. Notl. 3068
Opposite the Telephone Bldg.