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House Bill's $6,146,000 of
Needed Revenue Raised to
$7,500,000 in Senate.
BY J. A. O LEARY.
The 1938 District appropriation bill,
passed by the Senate yesterday, with
its total raised to $46,600,000, is on its
way to conference where final decis
ions on the amount to be spent next
year will determine the size of the
city's new tax burden.
When it left the House two months
ago, the bill made necessary $6,146,000
of new revenue to meet the District's
share of a $45,116,584 total. The Sen
ate's net increase calls roughly for
$7,500,000 in new taxation, with
Chairman Thomas of the Senate Ap
propriations Subcommittee suggesting
that receipts from existing tax sources
will have a bearing on the ultimate
revenue requirement.
The Senate late yesterday named
the following members to represent it
at the conference table: Senators
Thomas of Oklahoma, Glass of Vir
ginia, Copeland of New York. King
of Utah and Nye of North Dakota.
lump sum >ot an Issue.
The next move will be for Repre
sentative Ross Collins of Mississippi,
in charge of the bill in the other j
branch, to ask for appointment of j
House conferees, but it is not certain
whether that will be bone today.
Since both branches have voted to
retain the Federal payment toward
District expenses next year at the
present lump sum figure of $5,000,000,
that question will not be at Issue in
conference. The total of the local com
munity's financial obligation, there
fore, will depend on what agreements
are reached on the various Senate
amendments that added about $1,
500.000 to the bill.
Ordinarily conferees compromise on
the differences between the two houses,
which would indicate that the amount
that finally will have to be raised
through new taxation will be some
where between the $6,146,000 deficit
under the House bill and the $7,- !
BOO.000 deficit under the Senate bill.
In passing the measure the Senate
rustained its Appropriations Com
mittee on all except two of the many
changes recommended in the House
text.
The two committee amendments the
Senate rejected on points of order,
were: To' give the Commissioners
discretionary power to try out auto
mobile parking meters, and to give
the Commissioners custody and su-;
pervision over the new Police Court
Building on Fifth street.
Health Shift Approved.
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne
braska made the point of order that
the parking meter amendment was
legislation on an appropriation bill,
and was sustained. Senator Schwel
lenbach. Democrat, of Washington
made a similar objection to the Po
lice Court item, and w-as successful,
which had the effect of leaving control
of the building with the Police Court
Judges. The issue was whether the
judges or the Commissioners would
control the use of space not required
Immediately for court purposes.
a. ntr amtrnumeiiL iraiisierring con
t.rol over public hospitals from the |
Board of Public Welfare to the health |
department—one of the major Senate
changes—met with no objection and
was approved without debate. In
the House it went out on a point of
order, and becomes one of the main
questions for settlement in confer
ence. It gives the health department
supervision over Gallinger Hospital,
the Tuberculosis Sanatoria and the
making of contracts for indigent
patients in several other hospitals.
The Senate inserted a provision for
the payment of traveling expenses of
District inspectors, who have been
staging a "walking strike" against
disallowance of payment of cost for !
use of their own automobiles in their 1
work.
The bill carries $10,296 to cover cost
of use of private cars by inspectors
assigned to full time field inspection,
allowing $264 per year per person in
such service. On March 15, about
40 of the inspectors in engineering
divisions refused longer to pay the
costs of use of their cars in govern
ment service, and have been walking
to job assignments.
Other amendments were approved
on the floor oT the Senate as follows:
Conferring power on the Commission
ers to purchase an asphalt plant, at
not to exceed $30,000, if they see fit;
relieving the Commissioners from the
necessity of advertising for bids in 1
newspapers outside of Washington: al- :
lowing the Court of Appeals $3,600 for
marshals, and liberalizing the power
of the Park and Planning Commission
in making small purchases, and regu- ;
lating the advertising of the delinquent
tax list.
Other Changes Made.
One effort was made by Senator
Frazier. Republican, of North Dakota !
to restore a $100,000 reduction the |
committee made in the fund to start;
construction of a new senior high
school at Fifth and Sheridan streets
northwest, but the Senate sustained
the committee. The item remains at
$350,000, leaving $1,000,000 to be ap
propriated later to complete the build
ing.
The numerous other changes the
committee had made in House pro
visions were approved by the Senate,
Including: Transferring back to the
Playgrounds Department 15 play- 1
grounds the House put under the Com
munity Center office; leaving the Dis
trict license office under the assessor
Instead of the office of weights and
measures; striking out riders limiting
clerical work by school teachers, and
holding the salaries of school librarians
to the average of salaries for similar
work in the Public Library; restoring
the annual and sick leave of 3,000 pier
diem workers; eliminating the ban on
salary adjustments resulting from re
allocation of jobs under the classifica
tion act; restoring the salary for a
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Massachusetts State troopers as they removed from an
abandoned cellar in Millbury the body of Homer Robbins, 31,
escaped mental hospital patient, slain early today in a gun battle
with Patrolman Elliott Hairyes, who was wounded in the affray.
Robbins had been hunted three days.
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people's couasel, but eliminating the
proposed new bonding commission and
the new office of fire insurance rating
expert.
The final fate of all of these ad
ministrative changes, as well as the
increases the Senate made in amounts
of appropriations, remain, to be de
termined by the conferees.’
Taxes
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opposition to placing weight tax rev
enue in the gasoline tax fund to sup
port both the Highway Department
and the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic, as well as pay salaries of traffic
policemen.
Wants It in General Fund.
Sacks argued that the Highway
Department should be given adequate
funds, but the balance should be
placed in the general fund, where the
anticipated deficit will exist.
As the sniping continued, Repre
sentative Nichols declared:
"If we wanted to take individual
views about this program we would
be here until doomsday. We cannot
please everybody. We feel the pro
gram is fair and equitable to the Dis
trict government, the Federal Gov
srnment ant the taxpayers."
Chairman Kennedy of the Tax
Subcommittee, warned against a pro
longed discussion.
July 1 Deadline Set.
“We are working under pressure on
this bill," he declared. “We must get
It passed by the House and Senate
and signed by the President before
July 1.”
Delay in enactment of the bill is
threatened by plans of several mem
bers of the full committee to force
public hearings.
These members say they are anxious
:o avoid repetition of charges that
District legislation is “railroaded" to
the House calendar. The charge was
first made when the bill to legalize
-torse racing was reported, only to be
recalled and subsequently killed in
the committee.
Kennedy, however, appeared to be
indignant over reports that attempts
»re to be made to force public hear
ings and further delay action on the
program. He pointed out an oppor
tunity was given every person inter
tsted in the tax subject to appear
before the subcommittee while the
program was in the process of con
struction.
Opponents of immediate action
irgue that haste in rushing the pro
tram through Congress is not neces
sary since the District will not collect
my tax revenue until September. If
funds are needed before that' time, it
vas pointed out, the Kennedy bill
contains a provision authorizing the
Commissioners to borrow from the
Federal Treasury to meet current
expenses.
Meanwhile, regardless of what new
axes are imposed on the District to
neet the current emergency, the Com
nissioners will urge Congress to au
:hori2e a broad survey of the whole
nunicipal tax structure so a perma
lent program may cover needs of the
District for at least five years.
Such a plan, revived today at the
District Building, would contemplate
possible revision of the tax system at
the next session.
Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District
suditor and budget officer-, emphasized
that the bill now before the House is
oased only on the problems for the
fiscal year beginning July 1. He made
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clear it would be necessary to plot
the requirements of the District for |
future years and declared the urgent
need for a restudy of the tax structure
during the next six months.
Income Tax Not to Be Fought.
Other statements at the District
Building indicated the Commissioners
will make no future effort to prevent
adoption of the proposed District in
come tax and the proposed tax on
gross receipts of business and profes
sions as a temporary affair.
Likewise, it was said, the Commis
sioners are not objecting to the trans- i
fer of the District-owned hospitals
from the jurisdiction of the Board of
Public Welfare to the Health Depart
ment. Such a transfer was incor
porated in the District supply bill as
it passed the Senate. The change is
opposed by the Welfare Board.
Necessity for adoption of a long
range financial program for the Dis
trict is based, in part, on demands
for a five-year $30,000,000 school ex
pansion program and the approaching
need for construction of the new
Municipal Center.
"It must be remembered.'’ said
Maj. Donovan, "that whatever new
taxes are now adopted are proposed
to meet only the financial crisis for j
one year, the year beginning July 1.
We must consider prospects for 1939
and subsequent years.
Revenue Estimates Not Accurate.
"Furthermore, District officials are
unable accurately to estimate what
will be the revenues from the pro
posed gross receipts tax or even the
income tax. The purpose of the pro
posed tax structure survey would be
to study the early experience of the
new taxes adopted by Congress and
to calculate the needs of the District
in the future."
The Commissioners will seek ap
proval of an item of $15,000 for the
survey. Such a plan was proposed
when they drafted their original "stop
gap" tax program. It was left out
when the Kennedy Subcommittee
ordered the Commissioners to revise
their program and to substitute an in
come tax and a gross receipts tax for
the suggested retail sales levy.
The proposed survey would include
study not only of the new levies to be
imposed by Congress, but also the ex
isting taxes, such as the real estate,
personal property, tangible and in
tangible levies, as well as others.
District officials confessed again
today they had no sure way of figuring
how much the gross receipts levy would
produce. One of their experts has
"estimated" it would bring in about
$3,000,000, but members of the Com- :
missioners' Tax Revenue Committee
say they do not know.
MANIAC IS KILLED
IN PISTOLBATTLE
Found Dead After Exchange
of Shots With Policeman,
Who Was Wounded.
By the Associated Press.
MILLBURY, Mass., June 9.—An
aged mother's appeals were In vain,
her fears realized today. Her son,
an escaped maniac, lay dead, loser
in a strange, wordless gun fight in
the dark.
A small-town policeman, Elliott
Hairyes, ended a two-day reign of
terror by killing the maniac, Homer
Robbins, 31, who had been sought
since he escaped Sunday afternoon
from State Hospital attendants and
headed for the woods near his Sutton
farm house home.
Patrolman Hairyes trapped Robbins
early today near the town's railroad
yards, emptied his gun in the duel,
and himself was wounded in the hip.
At Worcester Hospital. Hairyes, not
seriously hurt, said simply:
“I'm glad I got him.”
Robbins' mother, Mrs. P. Orrin Put
nam, had trudged through water
soaked woods during the search, call
ing for her son to give himself up.
State police withdrew during her ap
peal.
"He'd kill them, or they’d kill him,”
she had predicted.
Told by a citizen that Robbins was
near the railroad yards, Hairyes, with
two citizens, George Caplette and
Charles Stockdale, drove to the yards
and parked his car. As he got out,
Robbins, hiding behind another parked
car 10 feet away, fired six shots at
the officer. Hairyes pulled his owm
gun and emptied it at the form in the
dark. Neither had spoken a word.
Robbins fled. Hairyes collapsed.
State troopers found Robbins' body
in an abandoned cellar hole.
Robbins had fled after firing at a
State trooper, who, accompanied by
hospital attendants, sought to return
him to the hospital from which he
had escaped in February. Obscene
letters to Sutton girls led to his com
mitment.
Yesterday all the forces of the State
Sleuth Weds
DETECTIVE TAKES FLORIDA
GIRL AS BRIDE.
Joseph IV. Shimon, head
quarters detective, and his
bride, the former Miss Eliza
beth Keyes of Palm Beach,
Fla., who were married here
yesterday at the Congrega
tional Church, Tenth and G
streets. —Harris-Ewing Photo.
were pressed into the hunt, for farm
doors had been barred and school
children frightened. The maniac
nightly since Sunday had approached
his farm and fired at patroling police.
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on a search for two military flyers
lost in their plane "somewhere be
tween Salt Lake City and Elko, Nev."
"Plying at 14,000 feet—can't make
out position—lost,” said the last re
port from the ship, piloted by Maj.
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er of the 26th Division Air Service,
Massachusetts National Guard.
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Lieut. Joseph L. McNeil, also of Bos
ton.
The Elko (Nev.) Airport received
the last radio report from the plane
at 12:45 p.m. (mountain standard
time) yesterday, three hours after it
had taken off from Reno headed for
Boston. The flyers planned to stop
here for fuel.
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Army authorities said storm rather
than fuel shortage may have forced
the plane down. They denied Maj.
Hodge messaged he was “out of gas.”
Last report of the plane w as that it
had been heard in the vicinity of
Beowawe, Nev., about 50 miles west of
Elko.
The ship was a single-motored
(Douglas) observation plane.
“There are mountains and rocks
and canyons, but for the most part
the country in which the plane evi
dently was forced down is salty, sandy
desert, where a landing would not be
difficult,’’ one Army flyer remarked
before the searching party's take
off.
The new search is in an area combed
last December for a Western Air ex
press liner lost with seven aboard.
Wreckage of that ship was found Sun
day in mountains only 25 miles from
here.
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Rocks Near Scene of Air Crash.
SALT LAKE CITY, June 9 (JP).—
Snow and rock slides threatened seri
ous injury or death today to searchers
for the bodies of seven persons who
died in a December air crash.
Hundreds of tons, loosened by new
thaws, crashed down a mountainside
directly below where the plane wreck
age lies 25 miles south of here.
One falling boulder struck a C. C.
C. enrollee yesterday. He . was In
jured seriously. Greatest precautions
were ordered as a result.
The new hazard forced officials of
Western Air Express, owners of the
transport, to the reluctant conclusion
the search may extend many weeks.
However, a new base was estab
lished high up on the granite peak
into which the Las Angeles-Salt Lake
airliner rammed at full speed last
December 15. That Is where the bat
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parts, 200 letters, a human shinbone
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