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WASHINGTON, D. C., THUKSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938. * , »*»
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-SENATORS HP
HIGHWAY PROGRAM
IN DISTRICT BILL
Eliminate Underpasses and
Restore Fund for New
Anacostia Bridge.
COMMITTEE REPORT
TODAY IS PROBABLE
Deficit to Be Met by New Taxes
Put at $4,700,000 Under
Change.
BACKGROUND—
One of major sections of District
appropriation bill for 1939 as
passed by the House was that pro
viding for extensive program of
street and bridge improvements.
City’s growth in population in re
cent years has created tremendous
traffic problem, with "bottle necks”
at Dupont and Thomas Circles be
ing two of worst problems. House
bill would have provided for con
struction of vehicular underpasses
at these points.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee probably will report out the
1939 District appropriation bill late
today after reviewing numerous
changes made by the subcommittee.
Including wide revision of the highway
fund construction program.
In finishing work on the measure
yesterday afternoon, the subcommittee
Struck out the $480,000 Dupont Circle
traffic underpass, a similar $530,000
underpass at Thomas Circle, and the
$320,000 grade separation structure at
K street and Rock Creek and Potomac
Parkway. These cuts amounted to
$1,330,000
The subcommittee then adopted a
* substitute highway program consisting
of $620,000 to start the new Pennsyl
vania avenue bridge across the Ana
k costia; $460,000 for a new bridge
across the Rock Creek and Potomac
Connecting Parkway in the line of
Massachusetts avenue, and $300,000 for
> additional street paving in various
sections of the city. These items
amount to $1,380,000. The new Mas
sachusetts avenue bridge is designed
to facilitate movement of traffic along
the connecting parkway.
May Exceed $47,000,000.
While the exact total of the re
vised biff will not be known until
the full committee reports today, un
official calculations indicate the House
total of $45,076,000 will be raised to
approximately $47,000,000, and pos
< sibly higher, depending on how many
of the House cuts in miscellaneous
budget estimates are being restored.
A substantial factor in the increase,
however, is restoration of the $765,
000 for street lighting, which was
omitted entirely in the House after
it had been eliminated as a new
charge against the highway fund.
The Senate subcommittee has re
stored it to the general fund.
As the committee prepared to act,
unofficial estimates indicated the re
vamped measure would boost the city's
deficit to be met by new taxes from
approximately $2,000,000 under the
House bill to about $4,700,000 under
, the Senate bill.
Items added by the Senate subcom
mittee would make the deficit in round
numbers $4,000,000, it is understood.
It is feared, however, that collections
" during the current year from the busi
ness privilege tax will probably fall
about $700,000 shdrt of the $3,000,000
estimated yield from that source. If
that proves correct, the $700,000 would
have to be added to the expected deficit
for the coming fiscal year. This means
the House District Committee prob
ably will have to widen the new tax
program. To what extent, however,
will depend on final agreement of
House and Senate conferees on the ap
propriation bill.
May Try Parking Meters.
The Senate subcommittee yesterday
authorized Chairman Thomas to offer
again the amendment which would
provide for a tryout of automobile
parking meters in Washington, and the
, Item is believed to have more prospect
of being approved this year. It has
failed of adoption twice, the last time
on a point of order. Senator Thomas
plans to ask for its passage under
suspension of rules if a point of order
Is raised this year.
The subcommittee also adopted an
amendment specifically authorizing
Health Department inspectors to in
spect public as well as privately
owned restaurants. One member said
the subcommittee took this step after
being advised the jurisdiction of the
Health Department had been ques
tioned at the Interior Department and
the Senate restaurant.
The House item of $5,000 to enable
the House District Committee to
• study proposed plans for reorganiz
ing the District government was elimi
nated.
t, The subcommittee approved an
amendment to allow the Highway De
partment to test materials in its own
laboratory.
The unemployment relief item is
being left at the House figure of
$900,000 for the time being, but with
$7,500 being recommended for an
immediate independent expert survey
to determine before Congress adjourns
whether more should be provided in
the last deficiency bill.
FREE MEDICAL SERVICE
IS PROVIDED BY BILL
Retired Firemen and Policemen of
District Would Benefit Under
Jenckes Measure.
Retired District police and firemen
would receive free medical service and
hospitalization if their disabilities or
illness are “reasonably calculated” to
be an outgrowth of injuries or diseases
contracted in active duty under a bill
introduced late yesterday by Repre
sentative Jenckes, Democrat, of In
diana.
t The House referred the measure to
the District Committee, of which Mrs.
Jenckes is a- member.
•* She also is sponsoring a bill, now on
the House calendar, to establish a
five-day, 60-hour week in the Fire
Department.
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The Way to a Vice President’s Heart Is Through His Stomach
Mr. Garner eats his way through office as Senators and
Representatives ply him with different foods native to their
States. ‘‘Isn't that cheese a pip?” asks the S7niling Senator
Duffy of Wisconsin. His constituents made it. The Vice Presi
dent is giving a dubious sniff Mr. Duffy later spread the Vice
President and his colleagues at a cheese party.
NEED OE STADIUM
IN D. ^STRESSED
Reynolds Indorses Project
Strongly at Victory
Post Gathering.
Construction of an all-weather, all
purpose stadium for athletic and
public events in the District was ad
vocated strongly by Senator Reynolds
of North Carolina in an address last ,
night before the Victory Past of the '
American legion.
"Washington is the economic cen
ter of the entire world, and yet in
stadiums it stands forty-second in the
United States alone,” the Senator
said.
"We have never been able to hold
the annual Army-Navy football game
here because of seating facilities.
Chicago has an athletic plant that
seats more than 100,000 people; Buf
falo, N. Y„ a stadium that will seat
90,000, and Philadelphia one that
holds more than 100,000. We need a
stadium that will accommodate the
Olympic games.”
The Senator said a new stadium for
Washington should include a new and
long-needed National Guard armory.
It should be equipped also for ex
positions. ice skating, roller skating,
swimming and for other sports, he
declared.
Plans for a stadium, as part of a
major recreational development at the
end of East Capitol street, on the
banks of the Anacostia River, have
long been carried on the books of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission. C. Marshall Finnan,
superintendent of the National Capi
tal Parks, has been one of the warm
est advocates for such a proposal, but
while the Federal Government owns
the land in question, Congress has
thus far failed to appropriate any
funds for the stadium construction.
Some Government officials would like
to see the Thomas Jefferson memorial
here take the form of the stadium
development.
Lack of Vote Cited.
The present inadequate National
Guard Armory quarters are allowed
to exist,. Senator Reynolds asserted,
only because District residents do not
have the right to vote and therefore
to secure the advantages to which they
are entitled.
In further support of his contention,
he cited the estimated 5,000,000 people
within a 100-mile radius of Washing
ton and 3.000,000 annual visitors to
the Nation’s Capital.
Members of Victory Post, who gath
ered at the Bamboo Gardens to honoa
their District championship indoor
baseball team, pledged their support
to the Senator and started a move
ment to secure the backing of all 42
Legion posts in the District.
Drawings for an all-weather sta
dium were shown to the Legionnaires.
They are the work of J. H. de Sibour,
Washington architect, and were pub
lished locally a year ago.
Trophies Presented.
Mike Thomas, post commander,
presided, and Assistant Secretary of
War Johnson presented trophies to
members of the indoor baseball team
which won the championship of the
Community Center Indoor Baseball
League. The Community Center
trophy went to Oren Shanks, Treas
ury Department pitcher, selected by
Harry C. English, center athletic di
rector, as the league’s outstanding
player. Another cup went to Harold
Edward Steffes as the league’s leading
pitcher and designated by players of
the league as their outstanding per
former.
Individual medals were presented to
Ridgely Wilson Axt, Edward J.
Baronowski, Morris A. Bealle, post
athletic officer and judge advocate;
Joseph Bertolini, Graciano Carvajal,
Thomas S. Clark, Frederic C. Geb
hart. Arthur P. Gill, Henry F. Long,
Charles S. Porter, Mr. Steffes and
George R. Vidi.
Senator Reynolds and Representa
tive Randolph of West Virginia were
awarded medals for making indoor
baseball possible in the District.
Banquet guests included Thomas
Mason, District department comman
-der of the Legion; Mrs. Dorothy Har
per, department president of the Le
gion Auxiliary, and David Herman,
department commander of the Veter
ans of Foreign Wart.
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BEGIN IN DISTRICT
Federation of Churches
Inaugurate Season With
Union Rites.
Many impressive services have been
arranged for the Lenten season
which opened yesterday at Catholic
and Protestant Churches throughout
Washington.
At a union service arranged by the
Washington Federation of Churches
yesterday at the Church of Epiphany,
the Rev. Ze Barney Phillips, rector,
Inaugurated the penitential period
with a plea to a large audience not
to forsake religion and the manners
that go with It.
He said breaches of good taste and
good manners Indicate the offenders
have lost something “inside,” and
deplored the tendency of many to
condone the breaches with an atti
tude of “it's all right with me."
Attacks Held Foolish.
Speaking of the drives against re
ligion in Germany and Russia, he de
clared, “It is perfectly foolish to think
that the Roman Catholics or the Jews
can be deprived of their religion.”
Special masses were celebrated in
Catholic churches yesterday. Ash
Wednesday, and each of the 28 Luth
eran churches held services yester
day, with wftkly services scheduled
during Lent.
lenten services will be held Wed
nesday afternoons until Easter at the
Church of the Epiphany under aus
pices of the Washington Federation
of Churches, with ministers of sev
eral denominations preaching.
Sitae to Preach.
The Rev. A. P. Wilson of the Co
lonial Heights Christian Church will
speak next Wednesday; the Rev.
Horace Cromer, president of the fed
eration and pastor of Emory Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, will
preach March 16; the Rev. James
R. Sizoo of New York City, March 23;
the Rev. Edward H. Pruden of the
First Baptist Church, March 30: the
Rev. Peter Marshall of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, April 6,
and the Rev. Frederick Brown Har
ris of Foundry Methodist Episcopal
Church, April 13.
During the three weeks prior to
Easter a series of union Lenten serv
ices will be held by three neighboring
downtown churches. Calvary Baptist,
First Congregational and Mount Ver
non Methodist Episcopal South.
The Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, spoke at a spe
cial Ash Wednesday service In Wash
ington Cathedral yesterday. Even
song was observed in the Cathedral
during the afternoon and the first of
a series of Lenten lectures w-as given
by the Very Rev. Noble C. Powell, dean
of the Cathedral
MEDICAL UNIT HITS
PLAN FOR GALLINGER
More Nurses, Not Doctors, Are
Needed at Institution, Local
Society Holds.
Opposing the pending proposal to
appropriate $32,000 to pay six more
physicians for Gallinger Hospital, the
District Medical Society, In session
last night, declared that what is need
ed at Gallinger is more money for
nurses.
The Medical Society members stand
ready now as they always have, a
resolution stated, to render without
charge all medical and surgical at
tention which Gallinger patients need.
Only 10 additional nurses are pro
vided for Gallinger in the 1939 Dis
trict supply bill now pending, instead
of the 125 requested.
Nominations for officers of the Medi
cal Society, to be elected in April, re
sulted in the naming of Dr. William J.
Mallory for president and two candi
dates for the newly-created post of
president elect: Dr. John H. Lyons and
Dr. William J. Stanton. Candidates
for first Tice president are Dr. William
T. Oill and Dr. H Lomax Wells.
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Senators Borah, left, and Pope, both of Idaho, examine a
few Idaho potatoes. “1 wonder how Mr. Garner would like
these?” Mr. Borah asked Mr. Pope. They found out at a potato
party.
Now for the oysters. Senator Green of Rhode Island, in
the upper picture coming forward to meet his shellfish half
way, arranged the bivalve feast to prove the glory of Narra
gansett Bay’s oysters. The Vice President looks like he likes ’em.
CONFERENCE HELD
BY SOCIOLOGISTS
Appraisal of Human Resources
of U. S. May Be Prelude to
, Larger Conclave.
A conference of some of the Nation's
foremost sociologists opened at the
Washington Hotel today for the pur
pose of appraising the country's
“human resource*.”
Convened entirely on the initiative
of the group itself, this conference may
be a preliminary to a much larger con
ference to be called by President
Roosevelt within the next year or two
to deal with the same questions in the
light of recent findings of the Na
tional Resources Board and other sur
veys.
Presiding at the meeting today was
Dr. Edward C. Lindeman. head of
the recreation division of the Works
Progress Administration, who ex
plained thf purpose of calling the
scientists together..
The conference was convened by the
following committee: Dr Lindeman,
David Cushman Coyle, former tech
nical adviser of the W. P. A. and the
Resettlement Administration; Dr. H.
S. Jennings, Johns Hopkins Uni
versity; Dr. William H. Kilpatrick,
Columbia University; John A. Kings
bury, New York social work expert;
Prescott Lecky, Dr. Arthur E. Morgan,
chairman of the Tennessee Valley
Authority; Eric Ponder, the Rev. Guy
Emery Shipler, New York clergyman;
George Reid Andrews, and George B.
Galloway.
TWO ARE CONVICTED
IN BEER STRIKE ROW
Union Business Agent and Driver
Found Guilty After Cafe
Owner Testifies.
Henry L. Myers, business agent for
the Beer and Soda Water Driver*’ Lo
cal Union, No. 67, which conducted
the recent strike of beer and soft
drink truck drivers, and Ernest V. De
Francis, a driver, were convicted in
Police Court yesterday on charges of
destroying private property during the
labor trouble. Judge John P. Mc
Mahon deferred sentence to permit the
filing of any motion that might be
desired by John Keane, attorney.
The complaining witness, Louis
Courembis. proprietor of a restaurant
at Eleventh and M streets N.W., testi
fied that a brick was hurled through
his window on February 12 after a
day of difficulties with union members.
He said he saw Myers and De Francis, j
together with an unidentified third
man, in front of his place of business
after the brick had broken the win
dow and a Neon sign.
Prosecution testimony was to the
effect that the restaurant had been
picketed all day and finally some union
members entered and asked whether
Mr. Courembis was going to purchase
any of a certain make of beer that
day. He replied he was, since he
would need it over the week end, he
testified. later, he said, approximately
20 strikers appeared and asked the
same question.
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Two Records of Modern Music
Are Sealed for Opening in 1988
Andre Kostelanetz, noted orchestra leader (center), shown
as he presented Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian of the Library
of Congress (left), with two phonograph records, sealed and
saved for criticism 50 years hence. Dr. Harold Spivacke, head
of the Library’s music division, looks on. —Star Staff Photo.
IP THERE'S a phonograph left In
1988 the Library of Congress is
saving two modem American rec
ords to play on it—two composi
tions which in the opinion of Andre
Kostelanetz, noted concert and radio
orchestra leader, will survive through
the ages "because they truly typify
the spirit of America and Americans.”
Today's younger generation prob
ably will be surprised to learn that the
"Dipsy-Doodle” is not one of these.
Nor is "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen.”
The records are George Gershwin’s
“Rhapsody in Blue” and F«rde Grofe’s
"Cloudburst,” from the “Grand Can
yon Suite.”
They were selected, Mr. Kostelanetz
said, “because in my opinion they in
corporate musically the essence of the
American spirit—an originality of
rhythm and melody that Is typical of
ths fast-changing AmsrlMB tom*.
“The type of orchestration used In
the recordings of ‘Rhapsody In Blue'
and ‘Cloudburst’ have found favor
with the American public during the
present era. It is impossible to an
ticipate what will be the favorite
forms of presentation for these num
bers 50 years hence.”
Mr. Kostelanetz made a special trip
to the Capital today to present the
two records to Dr. Herbert Putnam,
librarian of the Library of Congress,
whfl has consented to put them away
in a sealed container for opening in
March, 1988.
The orchestra leader was moved in
his action by the oft-expressed skepti
cism that there is such a thing as
American music and that present-day
compositions from the pens of Amer
ican composers will not have a place
in the musical history of the future.
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What have you there, Mr. Vice President? Oh, pecans. They
come from Mr. Garner's own State, Texas. When he was Speaker,
he used to keep some in his pocket and give them to visitors.
At the right we see the victory smile of the Capitol’s first eater.
Mr. Garner has put doion his fork first in the oyster derby.
__—A. P., Wide World and Harris-Ewing Photos.
Ickes Will Get Proposal for
Freedmen’s in New
Tuberculosis Campaign.
Construction of an annex to Freed
men’s Hospital large enough to house
150 patients will be proposed to Sec
retary of Interior Ickes by Health
Officer George C. Ruhland In a re
newed drive against tuberculosis in
the District, Dr. Ruhland announced
today.
Dr. Ruhland said such an expan
sion of tuberculosis hospitalization
facilities would greatly relieve the
pressure of demands on the District’s
tuberculosis sanatoria at Glenn Dale,
Md.
Cost Not Estimated.
The health officer said he did not
know how soon he would file the
recommendation or the form it would
take, and he added he did not have
any estimate of the cost of the pro
posed annex. He emphasized the
question is one to be determined by
the Interior Department, which has
jurisdiction over the hospital, but
he added that the District was vitally
interested, since it pays half the cost
of Freedmen's operation.
Dr. Ruhland explained he was
motivated partly by findings that,
roughly, 55 per cent of the colored
physicians of the United States re
ceive at least part of their medical
training at Freedmen's.
400 Beds for Adults.
At the Glenn Dale Sanatoria. Dr.
Ruhland said, there are 400 beds for
adults, which are used almost to
capacity, and 300 beds in the chil
dren's building. He said 100 of the
latter are vacant. This he attributed
to the rule laid down by the Com
missioners that beds in the chil
dren’s building should not be used
by adults. As a result of the recent
controversy over the housing of adult
patients in the children’s building
the Commissioners ruled this prac
tice should be abandoned and no
adult should be placed In the chil
dren’s building unless some "emer
gency” arose.
Four dwellings are being erected
at the Glenn Dale development as
quarters for Dr. Joseph Winthrop
Peabody, the superintendent, and
other hospital physicians. Dr. Ruh
land is preparing a request for con
struction of an apartment house to
provide housing for other resident
employes of the sanatoria.
Conference on Wages for
Woman Workers in
Laundries Set.
Members of the Minimum Wage
Board will meet tomorrow morning
to perfect plans for the Conference
Committee which will begin to take
testimony March 15 on the basic
wage to be fixed for the 4.500 woman
employes of laundries and dry clean
ing shops in the District.
Nine representatives of the workers
were nominated last night at a mass
meeting in the District Building, at
tended by so large a number of
workers the session had to be held
in the corridor and stairway platform
on the main floor, instead of in the
hearing room on the second floor.
Though enthusiastic over the turn
out, which they called amazing in
size, officials of the board struggled
until midnight to handle the voting
for delegates to the conference. It
was estimated more than 1,000 women
attended.
Mrs. William Kittle, board chair
1 man, said she felt the turnout was
not only a "brilliant display of the
interest of workers in their industry,”
but also that it showed a definite
feeling of confidence in the board
and its work.
Those nominated from the power
laundries were Ruth Medley of the
Manhattan Laundry, L. Brooks of the
Tolman Laundry, Margaret Jones of
the Pioneer Laundry; from the hand
laundries, Florence Smith of the Grey
stone Laundry, Sara Lyons of the
Blackstone Laundry and Edna Wash
ington of the Enterprise Laundry; and
fro mthe dry cleaning business, Costina
Washington of the Regal Shop, Anna
Patrick of the Vanity Shop and Julia
Cole' of the Howard Shop. One from
each of the three groups will be elected
by the board to the conference group.
Mrs. Kittle is expected to submit the
names of nine nominees as represent
atives of the general public at tomor
row's board meeting, and employer
representatives are to be suggested by
Claude H. Woodward.
Arthur L. Schoenthal, board mem
ber representing labor, who conducted
last night's meeting, will meet Monday
with the nine representatives of the
workers to begin drafting of their pro
posed budget demands.
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FOUR MORE HELD
IN COUNTERFEITING
Federal Agents Hake Arrests in
Baltimore and in Newark,
Ohio.
Secret Service agents followed up
the arrest here of four men on coun
terfeiting charges with the announce
ment in Baltimore yesterday that
two other men are being held there,
along with an additional pair in New
ark, Ohio.
The four men seized here while
allegedly palming off fake $10 bills
on liquor dealers were held for the
grand jury by Commissioner Needham
Turnage several days ago under heavy
bonds. '
The agents in Baltimore said that
George J. Renalli of Newark was
charged with possessing and passing
counterfeit bills, but the other three
had not been charged, the Associated
Press reported.
Agents said the four men arrested
here had bought the bills in Baltimore
for $2 each. One of the prisoners in
Baltimore had live fake bills in his
possession and $448 in real money.
Officers here seized $70 in bogus money
when they arrested the four in Wash
ington.
GOVERNMENT TOPIC
Mrs. Roosevelt Will Lecture at
Maryland U. March 13.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
discuss “the importance of knowing
your Government and taking part
in it” in a lecture in Ritchie Coliseum,
University of Maryland, at 11 a.m.
March 13.
Mrs. Roosevelt will speak at a
meeting sponsored by the Committee
on Non-resident Lecturers. ^
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BAN ON NIGHT PARKING
TO BE LIFTED MARCH 15
Commissioner Hazcn Opposed to
Extending Rule Because of
Lack of Garages.
The ban on night parking on sec
tions of more than 500 traffic arteries,
invoked to facilitate snow removal
operations during winter months, will
be abandoned March 15, as previously
planned, according to Commissioner
Melvin C. Hazen.
He said he was opposed to extension
of the rule because of the present
lack of a sufficient number of garages
to house cars of persons living in
congested residential areas.
McNutt Speaks Tonight.
Paul V. McNutt, Philippine high
commissioner and past national com
mander of the American Legion, will
speak to members of the Legion and
the Legion Auxiliary tonight at serv
ices at the Church of the Covenant,
Eighteenth and N streets N.W. Serv
ices will be conducted by Dr. John F.
B. Carruthers, past department chap
lain of California.
Maids Courtesy
Lands Her a Job
With Movie Star
Accepting an offer that grew out of
her courtesy to Joan Bennett during
a recent theater engagement here,
Miss Hazel Lam. 27, of 2819 Eighteenth
street N.W., today had forsaken her
duties as maid at the Shoreham Hotel
to become the movie star's personal
maid.
Miss Lam left for Hollywood last
night, after having been wired her
train fare and promised $100 a month
in addition to expenses.
She impressed the actress with her
efficiency when Miss Bennett stopped
at the hotel in December while ap
pearing at the National Theater in
"State Door.”
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D. t DISTRIBUTORS
OF BEER PROTEST
J2-A-BARREL TAX
Nichols Scouts Need of
Higher Retail Price if
Levy Is Imposed.
SUPPLY BILL CHANGES
COMPLICATE PROGRAM
Senate Subcommittee Increases
Leave Deficit in Doubt—Rate
on Incomes Undecided.
By JAMES E. CHINN.
Strong protests were filed with
Chairman Nichols of the Fiscal Af
fairs Subcommittee of the House Dis
trict Committee today against his
plan to write into the 1939 revenue
bill a provision to impose a local tax •
on beer at the rate of $2 a barrel.
Representatives of beer distribu
tors, Mr. Nichols said, told him the
margin of profit on the beverage is
so small dealers would be unable to
absorb the tax without increasing the
price to the consumer.
Mr. Nichols pointed out, however,
the retail price of beer in Virginia
is the same as In the District, al
though that State taxes beer at the
rate of $2.75 a barrel.
Opposes Alternative.
A suggestion by Representative
Wood, Democrat, of Missouri, a mem
ber of the subcommittee, that the
local tax on hard liquor be raised
j instead of imposing a tax on beer
! was frowned on by the chairman.
"Beer is not taxed now and hard
! liquor Is,” he said. "There's no oc
i casion at this time for raising the
hard liquor tax.”
The present tax on hard liquor is
50 cents a gallon. In Maryland the
tax Is $1.10 a gallon.
The tax bill is now undergoing a
process of revision, but the subcom
mittee's work has been complicated
by the action of the Senate Sub
committee on District Appropriations
in raising the 1939 supply bill figure
above the $45,000,000 total approved
by the House. Unofficial estimates
indicate the anticipated budget deficit,
on the basis of changes made by the
Senate subcommittee, will amount to
about $3,000,000. The shortage, un
der the House-approved bill, would
, have been -.lightly less than $2,000,000.
Seek to Avoid Surplus.
Chairman Nichols said the amount
| of the deficit undoubtedly would have
j some effect on the final tax program
turned out by the subcommittee,
j There is a disposition on the part of
most of the members not to write a
tax bill that will yield more revenue
than is actually needed to balance
the new budget.
No accurate estimate has yet been
made of the amount the final tax
program will produce, since the sub
committee has not definitely decided
on the rates to be written into the
bill for the proposed income tax, or
the 1939 tax rate on real estate.
Figures given Mr. Nichols show an
, income tax based on one-sixth of the
| amount of the Federal income tax will
j raise $3,000,000. Continuation of the
| business privilege tax on gross re
| ceipts would produce another $2,000.
| 000. But this levy is expected to be
j scrapped. And continuation of the
| present $1.75 real estate tax rate as
proposed in the original tax bill will
yield about $2,800,000 more than the
former $1.50 rate. Mr. Nichols, how
ever, is fighting for a $1.60 real es
tate tax rate which would produce
about $1,200,000 more than the old
$1.50 levy.
WHITE HOUSE POLICE
WIN IN PISTOL MATCH
Defeat Metropolitan Policemen
and Lorton Reformatory
Marksmen.
President Roosevelt’s White House
police are good pistol shots.
Yesterday the pistol team of the
White House force defeated teams
representing the Metropolitan Police
and the Lorton Reformatory.
The White House team was com
posed of R. G. Ford, Capt. R. P.
Hallion, E. L. Ward, J. J. Cash and
H. W. Francis.
This team several months ago came
off with honors at an intercity police
pistol tournament in Pennsylvania.
C. I. 0. Counsel to Speak.
Lee Pressman, chief counsel of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion, will speak on ‘‘Labor on the
Economic Front” at a forum discus
sion sponsored by the United Federal
Workers of America tonight at 8:30
o'clock at the U. F. W. A. head
quarters, 532 Seventeenth street N.W.
BAND CONCERTS.
‘ By the Soldiers' Home Band Or
chestra at 5:30 p.m. in Stanley Hall.
John S. M. Zimmermann. bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, "Wake Up, Americal"..Glogau
Overture, "Semiramide”_Rossini
Entr'acte—
(a) “Air de Ballet” (French) .Borch
(b) “Canzonetta”_Herbert
Excerpts from musical comedy,
“A Blue Paradise”_Romberg
Popular numbers—
“Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams,”
Harris
"Waiting for the Robert E. Lee”
(request) _Gilbert
Waltz suite. "You and I”_Langey
Finale, “Wisconsin Forever"_Sousa
“The Star-Spangled Banner."
By the Army Band at 3:30 p.m.
today at the Army Band auditorium.
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl
Hubner, assistant leader.
Program.
March, “Invincible Eagle”_Sousa
Grand scenes from “Samson and
Delilah”_Saint-Saens
Cornet solo, “Some Day, Some Way,
Crist
Ralph K. Ostrom, soloist.
Spanish dance, “Malaguena” (from
the opera “Boabdil”_Moezkowskl
March, “The Path of Glory”...Woods
“The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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