Evening star. [volume], June 01, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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STEVENS TRIBUTES
END OBSERVANCE
Senator Schwellenbach!
Eulogizes Officer and Fallen
Comrades Here.
With services on the District of
Columbia's only battlefield, in front
of Fort Stevens, now Battle Ground
National Cemetery, three days of
local observances of Memorial day
came to a close late yesterday.
Standing in the cemetery in which
lie 40 Union soldiers who fell as they
advanced from Fort Stevens toward
what is now Waited Reed Hospital
to drive off the attacking Confeder
ate army of Maj. Gen. Jubal Early,
Senator Schwellenbach of Washing
ton eulogized the memory of Maj.
Gen. Isaac Ingalls Stevens, for whom
the fort was named.
“We meet today," the Senator said,
“at the site of Battle Ground Ceme
tery. Here lie the bodies of those
brave men who, in 1864, gave their
lives that the Capital of their Na
tion might be protected.
Name Honor Leader.
"Port Stevens was just a few rods
from here and was given its name
in commemoration of the bravery of
Maj. Gen. Stevens, whose life was
sacrificed upon the altar of his coun
try's cause in the nearby town of
Chantilly, Va., September 1, 1862. He
was the first Territorial Governor of
Washington State.”
Gen. Stevens, he related, was a
traduate of West Point and was com
missioned a lieutenant of engineers.
"He was out in the territory during
the Spring of 1861, when Fort Sumter
was fired upon.” the speaker continued
"and he hurried to Washington and
was appointed colonel of the 79th
Highlanders, New York volunteers, and
In the first battle of Bull Run the
regiment suffered heavy losses. Later
he was commissioned a brigadier gen
eral and took an active part in the
battle of Chantilly. As his men Were
picking up their dead and wounded
Under cover of darkness they found
the body of Stevens, covered by the
colors of his beloved Highlanders.”
The assemblage was called to order
fct 3:30 p.m. by a bugler, followed by
the raising of an American flag and
talute, under the direction of Maj.
John Deavy. Francesco Della-Lane
*ang the "Recessional," accompanied
by the Navy Band, led by Assistant
Leader Alexander Morris. R. J. F.
McElroy read the orders of the Grand
Army of the Republic and Vice Chair
man John Clagett Proctor introduced
John M. Kline, sr„ commander of the
Department of the Potomac, G. A. R.,
who presided.
Original Poem Read.
The invocation was pronounced by
Rev. William E. La Rue. after which
Proctor read an original poem. "The
Battleground Dead,” and Talbot O.
Pulizzi recited Lincoln's “Gettysburg
Address.” Everett F. Warner recited
"The Star Spangled Banner”; the
children from the public schools in the
vicinity of the cemetery decorated the
graves of the 40 veterans of the Battle
of Fort Stevens, under supervision of
Mrs. Angus Lamond, jr. After the
benediction, taps were sounded by the
band, and a salute fired by soldiers of
the 16th Brigade, U. S. A.
Several of the surviving members
of Kit Carson Post, G. A. R., were
present on the platform. Department
Comdr. Kline, in the course of his
remarks, said he was the only survivor
of the 6th Army Corps. He read a
telegram of regret from Mme. Julia
Cantacuzene, granddaughter of Gen.
U. S. Grant, who could not attend.
The G. A R. Committee in charge
Included Department Comdr. Kline,
Proctor, W. F. Dorsey and John T.
Ryan.
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Tax Evasion
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the decency of American morals is In
volved.”
In his letter to the President, Sec
retary Morgenthau set forth eight of
the principal devices "now being em
ployed by taxpayers with large in
eomes for the purpose of defeating the
income taxes which would normally be
payable by them.” These devices are:
The device of setting up foreign
personal holding corporations in the
Bahamas, Panama, Newfoundland,
and other places where taxes are
low and corporation laws lax; the ]
device of foreign insurance companies;
the device of incorporating yachts
and country estates; the device of
the creation of artificial deductions
for interest, losses, etc.; the device
of the creation of multiple trusts for
relatives and dependents; the device
of husband and wife or father and
children partnerships; the device of
pension trusts.
Secretary Morgenthau also lists
three "major instances” in which
the law itself permits individuals
and corporations to "avoid their
equitable share of the tax burden.
These are: percentage depletion; the
division of income between husband
and wife in eight community prop
erty States, and the taxation of
non-resident aliens, which the Secre
tary insists is too low under the pres
ent law.
There were indications today that
’Chute Failed to Open
A view of the hot-air balloon
from ivhich Fern Meyers, 20,
(below) fell 150 feet and was
critically injured Sunday when
her chute failed to open. She
is shown clinging to the big
bag just after taking off. The
jump jvas to celebrate the
opening of an amusement
park in Des Moines. Iowa.
—Copyright, A. P. Wlrephotos.
congressional leaders would move
promptly to give the President the
remedy for which he is a: ';ing. Chair
man Doughton of the House Ways
and Means Committee suggested that
joint hearings with the Senate Finance
Committee might be held. Details
might be brought more into the
open at these congressional hearings.
Although the President is seeking
to confine the proposed tax legisla
tion to the one issue—tax dodging—
Senator La Follette. Progressive, of
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Wisconsin and others Interested in
revamping the Income tax law, with
higher rates for those of large in
comes and an extension of the tax
to many persons now exempt, would
be in a position to offer their pro
posals as amendments to any bill
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In his.message, Mr. Roosevelt said
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have a joint concern in the attack on
tax dodging. It is the duty of Con
gress, he said, to remove new loop
holes "devised by attorneys for clients
willing to take an unethical advantage
of society and their own Government.”
The duty of the executive branch is
to collect taxes and to investigate all
questionable cases and to prosecute
where necessary. As for the courts,
he said:
“It la the duty of the courts to give
full consideration to the intent of the
Congress in passing tax laws and to
give full consideration to all evidence
which points to an objective of evasion
on the part of the taxpayer.’’
The President said that already
“certain newspaper publishers are
seeking to make it appear—first, that
if an individual can devise unantici
pated methods to avoid taxes which
the Congress intended him to pay,
he is doing nothing unpatriotic or un
ethical; and second, that because
certain individuals do not approve of
high Income tax brackets or the un
distributed earnings tax, or the capi
tal gains tax, the first duty of Con
gress should be the repeal or reduc
tion of those taxes. In other words,
not one but many red herrings are
in preparation."
"Lawyers of high standing at the
bar” came in for criticism by Mr.
Roosevelt, who charged some of them
not only have advised clients to use
tax-avoidance devices, but also are
using devices themselves.
A reading of Secretary Morgenthau's
letter on tax evasion had aroused in
him a feeling of indignation, the Pres
ident said. He was confident, he added,
that it would have a similar effect on
Congress.
“ 'Clever little schemes' are not ad
mirable," the President insisted, "when
they undermine the functions of so
ciety.”
The Secretary of the Treasury In
his letter, discussing the device of
setting up foreign personal holding
corporations as a means of avoiding
taxes, said “Americans have formed
64 such companies in the Bahamas
alone in 1935 and 1936 and 22 more
were organized by Americans in the
Bahamas during the past two
months."
One American with a $3,000,000 Ba
hamas corporation has sought to pre
vent the Internal Revenue Bureau
from catching up with him by filing
his Individual tax returns in succes
sive years from towns in New Bruns
wick, British Columbia and Jamaica.
Morgenthau referred also to the case
of a retired American Army officer
with a large income from American
securities which he desires to sell at
a large profit. This officer, Morgen
thau said, became a naturalized Ca
nadian citizen and six days later or
ganized four Bahamas corporations
to hold his securities.
While Morgenthau lists many kinds
and instances of tax avoidance, he
leaves the impression that a great
many additional cases will be turned
up before the Treasury Department
concludes its investigation of the 1936
tax returns. So far there has only
been a quick check of a comparatively
few individual returns. Most of the
large corporation returns have not yet
been filed.
The ordinary salaried man and
small merchant does not resort to
these enumerated devices, Morgenthau
said, and he added: "The great bulk
of our 5,500,000 returns are honestly
made.'*
Relief
(Continued From First Page.)
would be devoted to flood control and
that the $131,000,000 in the P. W. A.
revolving fund would be freed for
approved projects.
Tlie latter money now is restricted
by relief labor requirements.
Democratic Leader Rayburn and his
assistants spent the week end trying
to work out agreements with the coali
tion, which won House approval to set
aside $45,000,000 of the relief money
for flood control, $300,000,000 for P.
W. A. projects and $150,000,000 for
road work.
President Roosevelt contended the
earmarking proposals, if finally en
acted, would force dismissal of about
630,000 works progress employes and
would give work to only 100,000 other
men.
May Boost Tax Revenues.
Representative Starnes, Democrat,
of Alabama, said, however, the coali
tion was "fighting for resumption of
congressional control over Federal
funds." His faction, he added, does
not want Federal money "devoted to
the building up of State and city poli
tical machines."
The Senate meanwhile is still await
ing the submission of the Senate
Judiciary Committee’s report recom
mending that the chamber reject
President Roosevelt's bill to increase
the membership of the Supreme Court
unless the elder incumbents retire vol
untarily.
The report, a lengthy document
going into all phases of the Issues
raised by the court bill, probably will
not be ready for submission for several
days.
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