Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-11-13
TAX MEETING
IN RICHMOND
State Chamber of Commerce Plans
Noted Gathering

Noted Gathering
Richmond, Va, Nov. 11-Invita-
lions to the first of a series of tax
conferences sponsored by the Vir-
ginia State Chamber of Commerce
in Richmond, Nov. Is to 81 inclu-
sive, were mailed today by the man
aging director to more than seventy
five leading farmers and men vitality
interested in agricultural progress
in regard to Legislation and a frank
consideration of the value of present
legislation and what could be done
to improve it.
At the same time DR. Joseph H.
Smith. president of the Virginia
State Chamber of Commerce, direct
ed that an invitation be mailed to
Governor E. Lee Trinkle, Governor
elect Harry Flood Byrd and the
chairmen of the finance committees
of the Senate and the House, Hon.
w. A. Garrett of Ridgeway and E
R. Fuller, of Richmond. C. Lee
Moore, the auditor of Virginia, and
chairman of the Virginia State Tax
Commission, was also invited to at
tend all the sessions.
Two former governors of Virginia
Henry Carter Stuart. of Elk Garden
apd Wocfp,oraland DoviO Of Taoc
burg. are among the agriculturists
asked to attend. Governor Davis is
president of the Virginia State Far
mers Institute.
Among the other prominent agri
culturists asked to express theil
views at the conferences are E. S
Shields, chairman of the agriculture
committee of the Virginia State
Bankers Association, John ]. Over
assistant commissioner of the Vir
ginia Department of Agriculture
DR.. F. c. Johnson, director of the
Virginia Truck Experiment Station
George H. Bowles secretary of the
Farmers Educational and Co-opera
tive Union of Lynchburg; Ben T
Gunter, president of the Eastern
Shore of Virginia produce exchange
of Accomac; j. r. Horsley, of Sta
pleton; Brigadier General Samue
G. Waller, of Front Royal; ]. w
Nuchols, president of the State
Dairyman's Association, of Purcell
vile; George H. Lambert, president
of the Virginia Farmers Union, Of
Rural Retreat; Joseph A. Turner
of Hollins; E. K. Coyner, of Mar
ion; C. n Hoover, of New Market;
]. G. Eberwine, of Deanes. Frank
Lindsay, of Portsmouth; Frank S
Walker of Woodbury. Forest; R. w
Dickinson, of Castlewood; Harvey
S. Clapp, of Accotink, representing
the Crop Improvement Association;
E. Warren Wall, counsel and execu
tive assistant of the State Tax Com
mission and Robert Beverly, of tn,
Plains in Essex County.
The conferences will be devoted t;
the discussion of taxation in Vir
ginia DR.. Robert H. Tucker, o.
Lexington, chairman of the commit
tee on taxation of the Virginia Stat,
Chamber of Commerce will preside
assisted by DR.. Upton R. Snavely
10 ad nf tna
They include John Stuart Bryan, O.
Richmond, Richard Crane of West
over. Charles P. Macgill, of Pulaski
and Robert B. Tunstall, of Norfolk
Following the morning sessions
those attending the conferences will
be invited to a luncheon to be givel
by the Virginia State Chamber o
Commerce, and if there is any fur
Their business to come before tn,
body. it will be considered at an af
ternoon meeting.
On November 10, banking and in
surance interests of the State will
be invited to a conference, and No
vember 20 the railroad and publi
utility group will have a chance t.
discuss the tax situation as it eff
fects their interests. The last con
ference so far scheduled will be No
vember 81, when labor and genera
business interests of the State will
be heard.