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D. C. Budget IViii Necessitate Higher 1 axes
AMOUNT OF
IWEISE
111 DOUBT
New Rafe Will Become Effec
tive July 1, 1925—-Appro
priation Pleases
Higher taxes will be needed to
provide for the budget of $32,355,-
827 allowed by the Budget Bureau
for the District of Columbia for
the fiscal year beginning July
1, 1925.
The material increase allowed
in the budget for the current year
resulted in taxes being raised
from $1.20 to $1.40 on every SIOO.
A change in the method of Fed
eral financial co-operation with
the District was also responsible
for the higher taxes.
Amount Is la Doubt.
Just how much this increase will
be could not be forecast today.
Officials of the auditor’s office
declared they could not even esti
mate the tax change until the end
of this fiscal year when the .results
of tax collections are known defi
nitely.
Satisfaction was expressed by
the District -Commissioners today
over the action of the Bureau of
the Budget.
"Os course, we would like to have
had more," Lieutenant Colonel J.
F. Bell, Engineer Commissioner, said
today, “but on the whole I think
it is a well balanced budget.”
The estimates, as made publio
yesterday, were SBOO,OOO higher
than the bureau originally intended
to allow the District.
Convinced Bureau
The original estimates of the Dis
trict Commissioners called for S3G.-
000,000. The Commissioners were
Instructed to reduce it to $31,551,-
505. However, in hearings which
followed, tho Commissioners con
vinced the Budget Bureau of the
need of additional funds for the
eity. >
Heads of engineering departments
of the District met with Colonel
Bell today and dlscussed-the budget.
Plans for the 1925 fiscal year were
talked over.
DEIBHRIJL
AFTER VICE
RAID
Wife of Louis E. Tanner De
nies Guilt After Arrest With
Man in Apartment
Mrs. Veronica M. Tanner, thirty,
IW4 R street northwest, the wife
«f Louis E. Tanner, a local attorney
With offices in the Jenifer build
ing, was arrested last night by the
vice squad and in. Police Court
today pleaded not guilty to a
Statutory charge .and demanded a
jury trial. Ernest P. Greene,
, twenty-seven, who was arrested at
same time in a fashionable
apartment on Sixteenth street, for
feited SIOO by failing to answer to
the collateral list today.
"We had been separated about
two years," Tanner said today, “and
last night I trailed her to the
apartment. I saw a light turned
on in the apartment and then I
called the vice squad. The arrest
followed the observations made by
me and the detectives after I had
led thfcm through the bath-room
window into the other room of the
apartment."
Lieutenant O. T. Davis, De
tectives N. O. Holmes and .the
husband went in the window and
In the confusion Mrs. Tanner is
said have covered herself hastily
with a coat and attempted to
escape. Sergeant McQuade caught
her running put the front door,
he said. *
MUST StRVE YEAR FOR
THEFT OF OVERCOATS
i a Weeding guilty to the larceny of
out ovoroAts, the property of local
university students, Henry J. Kauff
man.' twenty-four, who gave hie
n ßy BILL
MODERN MOTHER GOOSE.
la days of old. when nights were cold
And blankets were a need.
In bed we crept and soundly slept
_ And Ignored the rambling steed.
But now in greed we nightly feed
On tidbits green and rare,
•To bed we paddle, then mount the
saddle -
And ride the old night mare.
Tweedie Dee and Tweedie Dum went
out to get a quart of rum.
Said Tweedie Dum to Tweedie Dee:
"We’ll have an old time Jamboree."
Said Twedele Dee to Tweedie Dum.
"I wonder where the darn stuff’s
from."
’Twas iodine ahd banana oil, with
mange cure added at a boil.
Now Tweedie Dee and Tweedie Dum
Are registered In Kingdom Come.
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn.
The Ship of State its differential has
worn;
The 18th Amendment makes it sail
On Volstead water and ginger ale,
No oil the friction to alleviate.
So Just creak on. Os Ship of State.
,+ » BILICUB.
The old saying, “riches have
wings,” may explain why gild
ed youth “fly high."
1
It is getting so that women
use so much care with what is
worn that you seldom see a
careworn woman. OIDONO.
He—What do you do when you
are kissed?
She—l yell.
He—Would you yell if I kissed
you? •
She—No; I am still hoarse *rom
last night. BLONDY.
»♦♦
Hush, little oyster,
Soon your pearl
Will make a dress
For a dancing girl.
FLORENCE N. HOAGLAND.
SAYS SAMBO:
’ JAKE TBLL HIS WIFE OAT •
DE REASON HE WENT OQT I
WIO ERNOTHER WOMAN
WUS KASE HE JEST ER.
BOV, MEN’ALLY ILL
Dey say hg’s still
ill out de doctah
Took FOTEEM SYiTcHES!
——
THE RIME OF THE FROG.
(By Hugh B. Roesell.)
The Frog, he would a-boosing go.
Whether the dry law would let him
or no.
So off he went In hie old slouch hat,
And on the way he encountered the
Bat.
They came to Bootlegger Mouse’s
Hall,
And they tapped on the door and
whispered a call.-
"Say, Mrs. Mouse, can we come in?"
"Tec, gentlemen, I am making gin."
The Mouse brought whiskey, wine
and beer,
And the Frog and the Bat enjoyed
good cheer.
And while they were making a
merry din
The prohibition raiders came smash
ing In.
The wise old Bat through the window
Jumped,
And the little Mouse down -a trap
door slumped.
The raiders drank all the liquor In
sight.
And the Frog took his hat and bade
them good night. >
As the Frog was walking baek to
town,
A prohibition gun-man shot him
down. .
And this was the end of one-two
three t
The Bat end the Mouse and the lit
tle Fro*-**.
address as 1729 Thirty-fifth street
northwest, was given a year in jail
today by Judge McMahon in
Police Court.
Kauffman, according to Head
quarters Detectives C. P. Cox and
B. R. King, who made the arrest,
would leave his overcoat in a
store near the university and while
the students were attending class
slip in the hall and take the coats
from the hooks. The police re
covered nine coats of the fourteen
which have been reported missing
from second hand stores where they
had been sold.
D. C. POLICE WILL BRING
J. R. KING BACK FROty N. Y.
Headquarters Detective John
THE COLUMN'S ARCHITECTURE.
The Good Old Column has an
architecture all its own, Bill.
It is not lonic or Doric, or Corin
thian. It is Sunshinian. How
ever, the mental carpentry or\
masonry which has built it from
the foundation up and kept it in
excellent repair can* be equaled,
and it should last for ages to
come. There will never be a
dearth of mechanics to keep it
bolstered from the Blues or other
joy-disturbing elements.
GEORGE B. C. KUSTER.
Fat Lady—Could 1 have a seat
near the stage?
Box Office Man—Why, certain
ly. What row do you want?
Fat Lady—Don't get fresh,
young man. GUS LANGLEY.
PUZZLt PICTURt
jf* \ 9 / J
Guess which one is saying, "Oil,
Mercy!”
I HER BROKEN TOOTH.
Some eulogise the sky blue eyes
Os maidens they adore.
Or else the hair they think so rare.
But listen I taiplorec
I've got a gal, a true blue pal,
A wonder girl forsooth.
Believe me, you ought to see
My sweetie’s broken tooth!
«
In tones devout, some talk about
Their lady’s many charms.
Os skin so white, that they delight
To gather her In their arms.
These things are great, beyond debate
But listen, here’s the truth.
My gal can show them up.l know,
She’s got a broken tooth.
Some fellows smile. In happy style.
Because their girls possess
A charming way. quite -Joyful, gay,
Which io some help, I guess.
But let ’em rave, and be a slave.
To .Betty, Jane or Both.
My gal, you see, means more to mot
She’s got a broken tooth!
JOB H. HOLMAN.
A funny bird is the African
honey guide, which guides
men to bee trees and waits
around for a chance to share
in the swag, Jduch like the
bootleg participus of Amer
ica, the human bird which
gets the stuff from the boot
leggers for respectable citi
zens and expects some of the
liquid for himself.
BIMBO BEN.
WISHING AND REALITY.
I wish I had a 'girl,
Someone to call mo dear;
Or to whisper nice things
That I would like to heart
To tell me that she loved me,
That I wds her heart’s desire.
There Is no other treasure
I would rather acquire.
I wish I had a girl
With brown wavy hair;
Dreamy brown eyes to match
A complexion not too fair:
Bather small I would prefer
That this girl should be,
Full of life and happiness
Who would entertain me.
I wish I had a girl
Who was kind and true.
And wouldn’t do the things
That some other gins do;
Who would always etfek to me
Day by day and week by week.
And who wasn’t silly enough
To fall for every "sheik.
I wish I had a girl,'
One like this, I say, i
Who doesn’t like to change fellows
Every blooming day;
But I can shout It boldly,
Without fear or scorn.
There Is no such a girl.
For she’s never been Mrs.
NOBTH KEBLINA.
Fowler has left for Rochester,
N. T. to bring to Washington John
R. King, alias Jack Hurdle, on a
warrant charging grand larceny in
connection with the alleged fraudu
lent disposal of 1500 worth of
Liberty Bonds. '
King, who is said to be charged
with bigamy in Rochester, may
also have to face a charge of wife
desertion here.
He was arrested at the home of
his second wife, Mary Lorey King, in
Rochester and was carrying a letter
from his sister here, warning him
not to return to Washington be
cause police were looking for him.
The letter lea to the discovery in
Rochester that he had married
Miss Ruth Hull, of Washington,
under the name es Hurdle, in Rock
ville, Md.
WASHMBEnMES
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1924.
RUN TO BUS
BRINGS HIS
DEATH
Samuel Stark Killed by Auto
Truck That Comes From
Behind Vehicle
While running across the road
to catch a bus parked about ten
feet south of Highway bridge to
day, Samuel Stark, fifty-eight,
740 Ninth street northwest, was
struck by an auto truck and died
a short time later in Emergency
Hospital.
Stark, who was manager of the
Stark. Tater Flake Company, 434
Ninth street northwest, had been
talking with someone at the re
freshment stand on the west side
of the Virginia road when the
bus came along. Frank G. Camp
bell, patent lawyer, 734 Eighth
street northwest, who was in the
bus, said Stark started for the
bus when the large motor truck
came up from behind the bu.A
and struck him.
Police Hold Driver
The truck is the property of the
General Auto Truck Company at
217 Virginia avenue northwest, and
was operated by Robert P. Butler,
239 Thirteenth street southwest.
Butler was taken into custody by
the Fourth Precinct and will be
held pending a coroner’s Inquest.
After the accident, Stark was
rushed to Emergency hospital in
an auto driven by E. J- Fox, 4800
Wisconsin avenue northwest, where
it was found he was suffering from
a fractured skull. He died soon
after arrival.
The position of the accident has
raised a question of jurisdiction.
It occurred just about ten feet
south of the south end of the
bridge. The Military road is Fed
eral ’property.
Whether the post mortem in
vestigation will be conducted ty
District or Virginia authorities is
a question which will have to be
decided today.
An eight-year-old boy was ‘killed
and three persons were injured in
traffic mishaps here yesterday.
Robert Garles, eight years old, 27
Carroll avenue, Takoma Park, Md..
was knocked down by an auto
while crossing the street in front
of his home. He was taken to the
office of Doctor Alfred V. Parsons,
249 Carroll avenue, and later was
removed to Garfield Hospital, where
he died at 6:30.
The car which 'is said to have
struck Garles was operated by Max
A. Bradshaw, 18 Hickory avenue,
Takoma Park, Md. Bradshaw took
him to the physician’s home. The
driver will appear at a hearing in
Rockville today.
Aged Woman Hurt
Mrs. Thomas Clark, seventy, of
the Cairo' Apartments, suffered a
broken arm, bruises and a possible
fracture of the spine when sfee was
struck by an auto at New Hamp
shire avenue Q street north
west. The auto which hit her was
driven by William L. Minor, 1757
8 street northwest, ghe is in a
dangerous condition in Emergency
Hospital.
Mary C. Heinlch, 1026 Fifteenth
street northwest, was cut by glass
when the car In which she was a
p ? B^2 nger coU, <led with another car
at Twelfth and N streets north
west. She was treated at Emergency
Hospital.
Ruby Scoggins. 1002 Third street
northeast, was slightly bruised when
she was hit by an automobile while
crossing the intersection of Sixth
and H streets northeast. She re
fused treatment.
Police continued yesterday to de
mand high collateral from speeders
and other traffic violators in an
effort to break up the epidemic of
accidents by the “hit and run”
autoists.
Gives S6OO Bond.
After a car driven by Owen Lowe,
2118 N street northwest, had col
lided with a car driven by Lorraine
Ives, 3018 P street northwest, and
with a lamp post at Twenty-second
and Q streets northwest, Lowe was
arrested and charged with driving
a car while drunk and colliding.
Lowe was released only after he
had furnished a bond of S6OO.
Harry Carpel, 3611 Eleventh strpet
northwest, was surrounded by a
crowd of bystanders and held for
police, after he had coUteded with a
car driven by J. B. Gott. 1418 Fifth
street northwest, which was parked
on Eleventh street between I and
K streets northwest. Both auto
mobiles were badly damaged. Car
pel was charged with reckless clriv
tag and released on S3OO eoltaternL
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The stone gatepost* and the iron gate, standing far many years at West Executive and Pennsyl
vania avenues, which are to be removed to permit a freer flow of traffic along the passage between
the White House and the State, War and Navy building, provided a bill authorizing the removal is
passed in Congress. The bill was introduced yesterday at the request of the War Department.
GLASSIFICATION
RULINGS
GIVEN
X 1
McCarl Announces Decision on
Eighteen Technical Points
in Law
Comptroller General McCarl to
day made public eighteen decisions
affecting the administration of the
classification act.
Most of the. decisions relate to
technical questions involved in the
transfer and promotion of Federal
employes from one grade to an
other. The decisions, which relate
chiefly to classes in which the so
called “average clause” of the
classification law is not effective,
are of chief importance to the sci
entific and administrative offices
of the Government rather than
those in the clerical grades.
Pay in Transfers.
Comptroller General McCarl ruled
that an employe transferred from
one department to another, and pro-'
moted to a position in a higher
grade must be paid either the
minimum rate of the grade to
which he has been promoted, or, if
the grade ranges overlap, must be
paid the same salary that he has
previously been paid, even though
it be higher than his previous
salary.
This interpretation of the law
will clear up many cases in which
the salary to be given to promoted
employes was a matter of doubt.
Comptroller General McCarl makes
the following comment:
"While the spirit and intent of
the classification act would seem to
provide that transfers from a lower
to a higher grade between depart
ments should be at the minimum
salary rate of the higher grade, in
order to protect the interests of
those already in the grade in the
office to which transferred, it is
within the administrative authority
to determine simultaneously with
the transfer the right of ths em
ploye to be promoted within the
grade to which transferred by com
paring his efficiency with the ef
ficiency of those already in the
grade.”
Reinstatement Ruling.
When a Federal employe is rein
stated in the service in a grade
lower than that In which he was
formerly classed. Comptroller Gen
eral McCarl ruled, the reinstatement
has the same legal effect as a new.
appointment and is subject to the
same limitations as to pay.
The effect of the average clause
in the classification law is the sub
ject of a number of technical de
cisions. The Comptroller General
rules that “vacancies may he filled
by new appointments at the mini
mum rate of the grades even though
lhe salary average' remains above
the rate average. < Clearly, it was
not the intent of Congress that ill
appointments in or transfers to the
grade must cqase after July 1 if
the average of the grade has elreudy
been exceeded." ”
The effect of promotions upon
salaries under the classification act
is also den It with extensively in
the decisions.
Women Aid Road Fund
At the meeting of the mayor and
council, held In the Brentwood school:
last night, the Brentwood Women
Citizens Association presented the
mayor and his group S2OO to he used I
for the reconstruction of the Bunker
HUI road.
SECOND SECTION
. Women’s Clubs
What Clubwomen Are
Planning and Ao*
complishing.
The Takotna Park Civic Study
Club held one of the largest and
most successful meetings of the
year at the Takoma Park Theater
yesterday.
Doctor J. B. Murphy, of the De
partment of the Interior, recently
returned from a Northern Alaskan
Expedition, gave an illustrated re
port of his travels, using films
which were released from the In
terior Department the day' pre
vious.
Reports from the Social Service
committee given by Mrs. Fred Aus
tin showed that the Montgomery
County Social Service workers are
having a banner season.
Mrs. Arthur Cordon, delegate to
the District Federation, gave ,a
lengthy report of the meeting.
Mrs. M. E. Me Indoo gave a re
port of the Public School Associa
tion, to which she was sent as del
egate from the Takoma Park Club.
The Chillum District Study Club,
at its meeting with Mrs. Ella Q.
Nalley yesterday, gave talks on
“Christmas in Other Lands.” Hol
land was described by Mrs. Isabel
A. Roy, Austria and. Hungary by
Mrs. Ruth S. Waters, and Spain
by Mrs. E. Q. Nalley.
Mrs, Nalley also gave an interest
ing rjesume of the life and work of
Murillo, the Spanish painter.
Mrs. .Roy and Mrs. Lulu L. Castle
read excerpts from Dickens' Christ
mas Carol. Mrs. Margaret H.
Rohm gave the current events of
the week.
Announcement was made by Mrs.
Daniel Chase, publicity chairman of
the League of American Pen
Women, that Miss Rebecca Dial,
chairman of the drama group of
the league, will give her first talk on
"What Each Act Should Do,” at
the meeting of this group at 1709 H
street next Monday. Miss Dial for
merly lectured on the play as a
whole.
The nature section of the Twen
tieth Century Club met at 3 o'clock
yesterday at the home of the
leaders, Mrs. Leo D. Miner, 1836
Vernon street northwest. Plans
were made for the winter's work.
The parliamentary law section of
the club also met yesterday at 1634
I street at 11 a. m. Mrs. Elwood
P. Morey had charge of the meet
ing. The subjects were “The Post
ponement to a Certain Time” and
"The Previous Question.”
Miss Grace Holder, Australian
lecturer, will give a talk on Aus
tralia today at the Johnson-Powell
Community Center at 3:30 p. m.
She will give her second lecture
Friday night at 8 o'clock in the
Wilson Normal Center.
CIVIC COMMITTEE PLANS
COSMOPOLITAN LUNCHEON
Plans for the luncheon of the
Cosmopolitan Club tomorrow at the
Franklin Square Hotel, are in the
hands of the civic ‘ affairs commit
tee, headed by Martin A. .Leese. and
including' David R. Myers, Doctor
John W. Laird, Edward W. Mlnte
and P. M. Bailey.
A further report will be made at
this luncheon on the progress of
arrangements for the Cosmoplitan
trip to Norfolk over the coming
week-end. Michael Heister, chair
i ’man of the trip committee, will
make final announcements in con
. nection with this project. The res-
I ervation list, which is practically 1
1 filled, will be closed at the lunch-
MB tomorroet
ALL WASHINGTON
HOME TOWN PAGE
Famous Iron Gate May
Yield To Traffic
War Department Spon
sors Bill To Remove
Stone Gateposts Near
White House.
FLEES HOSPITAL
TO ESCAPE
TRIAL
Harry Austin, Faced by Nine
Housebreaking Charges,
Eludes Police
Pleading illness as an excuse for
postponement of a hearing in
criminal court yesterday on a
charge of housebreaking, Harry
Austin, charged by police on ton
counts, was transferred to Gallinger
Hospital for treatment, and later in
the day escaped through a tran
som of his ward there.
Austin is third criminal of this
type to escape from the hospital
within the paid three months. The
others were Charles Williams,
charged with housebreaking, who
escaped two months ago ana David
Massy, said to be a confessed bur
glar who escaped in the same way
about two months ago.
Details Lacking
Details of the escape have not
been announced hy hospital authori
ties, but Major Patterson, superin
tendent, said the man escaped
through a transom while attendants
were in another part of the ward. ;
Police are scouring the city for
the man. His home at 1846 W
street northwest is being closely
watched and was under guard all
night.
The fugitive was without a coat
or hat when he left and was wear
ing carpet slippers belonging to the
hospital.
Austin was arrested on Septem
ber 14, charged with housebreaking
in connection with the robbery
of the home of Leonard •Nors
worthy. 1731 Kilbourne place north-1
west. After an Investigation of
the man by headquarters detectives
he was later charged with nine
other cases of housebreaking, in
cluding one in which the home of
Senator N. B. Dial of South Caro
lina was robbed of about |609
worth of property.
Attempted Suicide.
It was this latter charge wMeh
was to have been aired in criminal
court yesterday.
Austin attempted to end his life
while in a cell at the Fifth pre
cinct about a month ago. He was
found with blood streaming from
his mouth and throat, after having
cut himself with the neck of a
bottle. He was. sent to Gallinger
then, and later went back to ths
precinct.
DISTRICT JUDGESHIPS
HANGING IN BALANCE
President Coolidge Is not yet ready
to send the nominations for the
local Police Court, and Juvenile
Court judgeships to the Senate, it
was Indicated at the White House
today.
It is understood, that no action will
be taken until a complete report
with recommendations has been
made by Assistant Attorney General
Rukh Holland. It is probable, how
ever, that action will not be long
delayed. There was no official indi
cation todav as to whether either
Judge John P. McMahqn, of the
'Police Court, or Judge Katharine/
' Sellers, of the Juvenile COurt, win
a
INOBIR Y B Y
HOUSE IN
KILLINGS
BEGUN
Gibson Denounces “Hell-Rid
ers”—Drastic Law Expected
Before Session Ends
Thorough investigation of traf
fic conditions in Washington, with
a view to enactment of legislation
during the present session of
Congress, was authorized today
at the first meeting of the House
District Committee.
On motion of Congressman Er
nest fy. Gibson, a committee,
headed by Congressman Henry R.
Rathbone of Illinois, was named
to study the reasons for alleged
wholesale violations of. the trafr
sic laws by Washington motorists.
The committee was instructed to
submit a report containing recom
mendations for legislation not
later than the first meeting of
the District committee in January.
Charges Terror Here.
Congressman Gibson declared
that the committee would be
neglecting its duties if it failed to
take action to end the “traffic
terror." •
"People are being killed and
injured every day in the National
Capital by 'hell-riders* ”, Congress-.
man Gibson said. "Such conditions
can not be tolerated. If the pres
ent laws are not sufficient it is the
duty of this committee and of Con
gress to pass the necessary laws
without a moment’s delay."
The committee, which Includes
the same personnel as that which
investigated alleged lawlessness in
Washington during the last session
of Congress, is composed of Con
gressmen Rathbone, Gibson, Ed
ward M. Beers, of Pennsylvania;
Thomas L. Blanton, of Texas, and
Alard Gasque, of South Carolina.
Joint Meetings Planned.
The committee instructed Chair
man Reed to confer with the chair
man of the Senate District Com
mittee in an effort to arrange
joint meetings of the Senate and
House District committees as a
means of avoiding wasted effort.
The plan was expected to result
in the handling of a far larger
amount of legislation in less time
than separately by the two bodies
of .Congress.
Congressman Reed was also in
structed to confer with Floor Lead
er Nicholas Longworth and to at
tempt to secure Monday for the
consideration of District legislation
on the floor.
A. committee composed of Con
gressmen Frederick N. Zihlman of
Maryland, Florian Lampert of Wis
consin, and Thomas L. Blanton of
Texas was appointed to arrange
! with the Commissioners for the
issuance of special police cards to
members of Congress which would
enable them to park their cars in
front of Government departments
without interference by the traffic
police.
The committee reported to the
House a bill correcting an error in
the Police and Fire Department
salary bill passed at the last ses
sion.
Through an error in engrossing
i the measure, the salary of assistant
battalion chief engineers in the Fire
'Department was listed at <3,060 in
stead of <3,260.
Muscle-lame
k 1 JI
Quickly relieve that
stiffness and ache
Start rich, healing blood to flow
ing through stiff, sore muscles—
and the lameness disappears as
if by magic. That's how Sloan’s
worlcs—first a glowing warmth,
then the pain is gone! AU dnup
Sloan’s liniment
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