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Evening star., 1932-03-21
N0TABLES TO ATTEND
DISTRICT BAR DINNER
Acceptances Received From Vir
tually All Invited to Annual
Affair on April 2.

Numerous notables in local legal cir
cles will be the guests of honor at
the annual dinner of the District OF
Columbia Bar Association April in
the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Stanton c. Peelle, chairman of a
Subcommittee on Invitations, an
nounced acceptances had been received
from virtually all of the guests, in
cluding:
Chief Justice Martin and Associate
Justices Robb, Van Orsdel, Hitz and
Groner of the Court OF Appeals; Chief
Justice Wheat and Associate Justices
Bailey, Gordon, Adkins, Luhring, Cox
Proctor, Let's and O'Donoghue of the
District Supreme Court; John Lord
O'Brian and Charles P. Sisson of the
Department of Justice, Leo A. Rover
United States attorney; William w
Bride, corporation counsel; Edgar G.
Snyder, United States marshal; Theo-
dore A. Cogswell, register of wills; A
Leftwich Sinclair, auditos; William r
Harr, in charge of veterans cases;
Henry w. Hodges and Moncure Burke,
clerk and deputy clerk of the Court
of Appeals; Frank E. Cunningham
clerk of the District Supreme Court;
fTeQ ". ~ SOuHcu, dSSiSlHlcut COil
missioner; Walter I. Mccoy, A. A.
Hoehling and Wendell p Stafford, for
mer justices of the District Supreme
Court: Guy A. Thompson, president OF
the American Bar Association; William
r.. Valance, president of the Federal
Bar Association; Thomas Ewing, Judge
D. Lindley Stone, president of the
Maryland State Bar Association; Vir-
ginius r. Shackelford, president Of the
Virginia State Bar Association, and
Charles L. Sturtevant, vice president
of the American Patent Law Asso-
citation.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
|GRANGE HEAD RUNS
FOR SENATE IN OHIO
Louis ]. Taber Supported by
Anti-SaIoon League and
Temperance Union.
BY th1 Associated Press.

BY thu Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March Ill
Louis j. Taber, master of the National
Grange, will seek the United States
senatorial nomination in the Ohio May
primary on a platform stressing eco
nomic recovery, tax reduction and main-
tenance Of constitutional government
as the three real issues in this cam
paign"
Taber, supported by the Ohio Anti
Saloon League and the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union, is opposing
three other Republican senatorial
aspirants, including Attorney General
Gilbert Bettman, prohibition foe
In seven brief planks, Taber pledged
support of the national administration
in every movement to stabilize eco
nomic conditions, urged drastic cuts in
governmental expenditures and reor-
ganiZation of departments of Govern
ment to stop overlapping duplication
and waste" and opposed any national
sales tax on the necessities of life.
He advocated maintenance of tariff
rates fair to producer and consumer
alike as a means of keeping the Ameri-
can market for the American business
man. laboring man and farmer. He
further urged Tightening of immigration
restrictions to protect American labor
and American ideals"
While making no direct reference to
prohibition, Taber said he would if
nominated and elected uphold con-
stitutional government, honest law en-
forcement and legislation for the
elimination OF judicial delays"
Evening star., 1932-03-21
RITCHIE PREFERS ROAST
TO NO.MENTlON AT ALL
Maryland Governor Declares He
Cannot See Power as Major
Campaign Issue.

BALTIMORE, March 81 (P.-"It is
better to be roasted than not to be
mentioned at all" declared Gov. c.
Ritchie last night in commenting on
the declaration of the National Popular
Government League on his attitude
question.
Gov. Ritchie said he believed the
power issue might be an important
one In certain sections of the coun-
try" particularly where large power de-
velopments are located. He does not
however, regard it as major issue
in a national sense
He reiterated his opposition to pub
lie ownership of utilities, but declared
he would countenance Federal regula-
tion in instances of interstate power
operations.
The Maryland Governor said Judson
King, director of the league, had writ
ten to him March requesting that
he forward copies of speeches and other
data which would outline his position
on the power issue.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
CHEVY CHASE CIRCLE
MEASURE IS SHELvED
Bloom Bill Calling for Accepting
Fountain Passed Over by House
Without Prejudice.

When the unanimous consent calen-
dar was under consideration in the
House today, the Bloom bill for i'm
provements of Chevy Chase Circle by
accepting gift Of fountain in honor
Of Senator Newlands and appropriate
landscape treatment. which was favor
ably reported by Chairman Gilbert of
the Library Committee, was again
passed over without prejudice. Similar
action had been taken when this bill
was called up on March 7.
Representative La Guardia, Repub-
lican, New York, said he does not
desire to object to this bill, but he
believes it should be passed over at the
present time because he desires to get
further information on the subject and
believes $4,000 would not erect any
pretenticus memorial fountain on this
important circle.
Evening star., 1932-03-21


OF articles on the District gasoline
tar and the proposal to increase 1t.
A ANY proposal to increase the
~ gasoline tax here recalls the
~ origin in the District Of that
4 a form of revenue-raising legisla-
ton, and no discussion of
proposal to increase the gas tax is
complete without review of the steps
that preceded its original imposition.
For the method by which the gasoline
tax was originally enacted by Congress
has left bad taste that still remains
somewhat bitter. 1t afforded an inter-
esting test of the theory advanced from
time to time that Washingtonians really
have a voice in taxing themselves; that
what Congress desires is the expression
of wishes and views regarding the taxes
that WaShingtonianS prefer to pay in
order that such wishes and views may
be ratified by legislation-proyided al
ways, of course, that such wishes and
views are reasonable and fair and pro-
ductive of adequate revenue. The
method by which the gas tax was en-
acted served to puncture that theory in
several places.
An Added Burden Invited.
The gas tax was proposed by Wash
ingtonianS who were willing to assume
the extra burden that it entailed. In
1923 the efforts to obtain automobile
tag reciprocity with the State of Mary
land had met with failure because
Maryland imposed a gasoline tax and
the District had no such tax, Maryland
thus losing potential revenue from
Marylanders who bought tax-free gaso-
line in the District.
The District Commissioners, backed
by some of the civic, trade and business
organizations and the organized motor
lists of the CITY, reached an agreement
with the Maryland authorities, under
the terms of which tag reciprocity and
a uniform gasoline tax would be estab-
lished between and in the two COM
munitieS.
There was no tax dodging In this
agreement. District automobilists asked
to have the form of motor taxation
shifted from a tax on automobiles as
personally to a tax on gasoline. Un-
der such form of taxation the desir-
able tax reciprocity would be gained
with Maryland, the District would pay
more revenue than had previously been
paid under the personal property tax
on aut NnobileS, and-although this ad-
ditional feature was contested as un-
fair-the funds from the gas tax would
not be applied under the law exclu-
sively to the Districts so per cent of
total appropriations, being handled in
stead as a separate, -divisible" ap-
preparation, whereas the receipts from
the personal property tax on automo-
biles had gone into the divisible gen.
eral fund.
Agreement Regarded as Fair.
In other words, the automobile tax
payer stood to pay more taxes by sub
stituting the gasoline tax for the per-
sonal property tax, and the general tax
payer ran the additional risk of having
the general fund-to which the United
States contributed under law in the
proportion of 40 per cent-cut down.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
THREE CAPTURED
5 IN FARM HOLD-UP
Pomonkey Man Tells of
Beating and Loss of $500.
Curbstone HaIts Chase.

Three Washington youths arrested
after a 6O-mile-an-hour chase through
AnacoStia today are being held as sus-
poets in a robbery and attack in which
Thomas Gray, 23-year-old Pomonkey.
Nd. farmer was robbed of $500, slugged
and abducted by five young men early
this morning.
Gray. in a dazed condition, and with
his clothes nearly torn from his body,
escaped from his captors and took refuge
in the woods when the five men stopped
at nearby farm house, presumably to
commit another robbery. The men fed
toward Washington in car which po-
lice say was stolen here last night.
The three youths gave their names
as Arundel r. Robinson, 81, Of 535
Seventh street southeast; Albert w.
Bridges, 81, of 1014 South Carolina
avenue southeast, and Stanley F. Pc
trone, %, of 1924 Georgia avenue.
They are being held at the Eleventh
precinct for Calvert County authorities.
Two Others Sought.
Two others said to have figured in
the attack are being sought by police.
Gray, according to Sheriff Robert B.
Cooksey, was awakened early this morn
ing by loud knocking at the door Of
his home. He dressed hastily and
went downstairs, where he was set upon
by five men. The intruders slugged
GRAY, took $500, which they found in
the house. and then carried their scan
tily clad and struggling victim to their
car and drove away.
The machine stopped in front OF a
nearby farmhouse, and Gray broke
away and dashed into the woods. The
men, apparently fearing that he would
raise an alarm. jumped into the auto
mobile and sped away in the direction
Of Washington.
Capital police were notified and given
the tag number of the machine, and the
eleventh precinct radio scout car,
manned by Patrolmen George Greenip
and L. M Welsh, gave chase when a
car answering the description was
sighted near the District line short
time later.
Curbstone Stops Auto.
The fugitives. speeding along at 60
mile-an-hour clip, were outdlstanclne
the policemen when their automobile
struck a curbstone on Nichols avenue
near Chicago street southeast, and lost
wheel
The five men jumped out of the ma
chine and dashed away. Robinson
Bridges and Petrone, who police say
admitted being in the car, were taken
into custody short distance away. but
their two companions made good their
escape.
Louis Totaro Of 1914 Kilbourne
place to whom the tags on the car were
issued, told tenth precinct police the
machine must have been stolen from
his garage some time during the night.
He knew nothing of the theft of his
machine until informed by police.
Sheriff Cooksey declared that Gray
said he had never seen the five men
before, and was at loss as to why
the attack was committed. Cooksey
and Gray were to come to Washington
this afternoon to view the suspects.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
Fiscal Equities Involved.
EIGHT DAILY NEWSPAPERS
JOIN ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, March 21.-
Eight daily newspapers in westchester
County became members of the Asso-
ciated Press today.
The new members are the group of
seven of Westchester County Publishers,
Inc, ]. Noel Macy, president, the Her
ald-Statesman of Yonkers, the Daily
Argus of Mount Vernon, the Standard
Star of New Rochelle, the Daily Item of
Port Chester, the Daily News of Tarry-
town, the Citizen-Sentinel of Ossining
and the Daily Times of Mamaroneck,
and the Daily Press of White Plains,
affiliated.
The membership became available
when Mr.. Macy last Monday consoli-
dated the Yonkers Herald, an Associ-
ated Press member, with the Yonkers
Statesman.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
The District Gasoline Tax
Original Measure Was Proposed by Washington'ans
As a Substitute Tax for Specific Purpose, out
Congress Disregarded Local Wishes and
Mddt 1t an additional Tax.

The agreement seemed to the Com
missioners and to the WaSnlngtoIilaiMls us rs
who had negotiated it emlnentiy lail III
all respects. 1t did not decrease TAX
revenue: it increased it. 1t calleo LOT
no increased appropriations from tne
United States, but tended 10 decrease
the total otherwise paid py tne onIteu
States. It would, in aooltion, prove
mutually beneficial to the Dlstrlct ana
to the adjoining communities III MARY
land. The agreement with tne mary, y,
land authorities was DRAFTED lnGo Dlii
and submitted by the District and
Maryland to Congress with the petitlon
that it be enacted into law.
The bill was Immediately opposed In
the House on the ground that Maryland
ought to grant tag reciprocity to the
District. as it did to the states, Tor
nothing. and a bill was substituted IN
the House which would, in effect, have
con- pelled tax reciprocity Tor nothing
by threatening in case OF REFUSAL py
MARYLAND to withhold from that State
her share of Federal aid to the States
for road building. Another amendment
proposed retention of the personal tax
on automobiles, with an exemption OF
81 900 from every automobile assess
ment for taxation.
The District Loses
In the end Maryland obtained from
the House everything she sought under
the agreement, but every contention in
behalf of the unrepresented District was
abandoned or denied. The Districts
proposition of comfy to Maryland was
transformed into a new, superf1uous,
recedent-creating million-dollar tax.
When the bill was finally enacted into
law by Congress the full personal prop
erty tax on automobiles had been re-
stored.
The District had asked for a shift in
the form of taxation. 1t received in
stead additional taxation. Congress
showed that it was willing to listen to
Maryland's objections. But those by
the District we're unheeded, and when
spokesmen for the District protested
against the one-Sided outcome of two
sided agreement such spokesmen were
figuratively raped over the knuckles
for vcicing such objections.
The gasoline tax was enacted into
law, and is today producing revenue to
the extent of 81 ,659, 900 annually. It
has served materially to reduce the
Federal Governments financial respon-
sibility in the development and upkeep
of the Capitals great street system
throwing great proportion of this ex-
pense on the owners and users of auto
mobiles without compensating relief for
the general taxpayers.
Fiscal Equities Involved.
From the point of view of fiscal
equity the principle involved in the pro-
posal to double the gasoline tax, and
by this method to relieve the Federal
Government entirely of its financial re-
sponsibility in connection with the de-
velopment and upkeep of the streets
transcends in Importance the question
of the actual increase in the gasoline
tax.
The nature of the equities involved in
this question will be discussed in the
next article of this series.
Evening star., 1932-03-21

y O4tJOt1KtV'
The courage and scorn of danger dis
played by Lieut.. Jones inspired all the
men who witnessed his fearless minis
trations to the disabled Residence at
appointment, District Of Columbia.
DR.. Jones, later promoted to captain,
is now resident assistant surgeon at
Freedman's Hospital and his home is
at 1905 Twelfth street.
Copyright, 1882
Evening star., 1932-03-21
Districts Heroes
in the
World War
Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel.

S recorded In the official cita-
n ton, Thomas Edward Jones,
"A first lieutenant, Medical Corps,
4 \ attached to the 368th Infantry,
92d Division, American Expe-
dictionary Force, received the Dlstin-
guished Service Cross for extraordinary
heroism in action with the enemy, near
Binarville, France, September 27, 1918.
Lieut. JoneS went
Evening star., 1932-03-21
Kills Wife and Self.

NEW BRIGHTON, Pa, March 21 (A9
-Enraged because his estranged wife
Mrs. Margaret Smiley, 27, refused to
return to him, Edward Smiley, SO, a
brick worker, shot and killed the wom-
an yesterday and then committed sui
eide. The shooting occurred on street
corner.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
New Polish Cabinet Formed,

WARSAW, Poland, March 81 LP).-
The cabinet of Premier Alexander Prys-
tor was reorganized yesterday, with
Seweryn Ludkiewicz, general manager
of the land bank, taking over the port
Alfred Kuehl, minister of communica-
tions. was given the added portfolio of
public works.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
PREDICTS EASIER CREDIT
Editor Tells Association Conditions
Probably viii Improve.

ATLANTA, Ga, March 2I R.-
Credit conditions during 1882 that will
be certainly no worse than those of
1881 and probably better" were pre-
dicted here today by William Nelson
Taft of Philadelphia, editor of the Ma
tional Retail Ledger.
He spoke at the Southern Conference
OF the National Retail Credit Mems
Association
Evening star., 1932-03-21

S@N-
out into an open
area, subject to
the direct and in
tense machine-gun
fire. to care for a
wounded soldier
who was being car
ried by another Of
ficer. While he
was dressing the
wounds of this SOL
dier, exposed to
the fire of the
enemy gunners, a
machine-gun bull
let passed between
his arms and chest
and killed another
soldier standing a
Evening star., 1932-03-21

three million out Of four Is tough,
but, on the other hand, ninety per
cent Of our people would be willing
to give up nine hundred and ninety
per cent Of a million If allowed to
make one. The crime of taxation Is
not in the taking 1t, it's in the way
that it's spent.
Evening star., 1932-03-21

NOVEMBER 4, put
a tax as high as
II per cent on
S o m e incomes.
That's thr e E.
fourths Con-
gress a I'm os t
tied pyorrhea-
it only gets
-four out of
hve," and Rus
sia only g e { S
half. Course a
man giving up
Evening star., 1932-03-21
Will Rogers
Says:

SANTA MONICA.-Congress, with
an eye not on the budget, but on
Evening star., 1932-03-21
McADOO ON WAY HERE
Former Treasury Secretary Makes
Short Air Stop in Atlanta.

ATLANTA, March 81 P).-William
Gibbs McAdoo. former Secretary of the
Treasury, stopped here last night, en-
route to his Eastern office, in Wash
ington.
Mr.. McAdoo few here from Houston,
Tex He said his visit had no political
significance, but the stop was made in
Atlanta to allow the pilot, Harry Ashe,
to visit his parents here.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
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Note-This is the first of a series
OF articles on the District gasoline
tar and the proposal to increase it.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
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Evening star., 1932-07-28
TWO GROUPS FIGHT
FOR BRIDGE LOANS
Bsckers of One Florida Project
Wire R. F. c. to Disregard op-
POSITIONS Plans.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, July 28-Disagreement
arose yesterday between two groups
sponsoring project to borrow Sl2,00O,-
900 for construction of two Florida Key
bridges on the MiamiKey West high
way, with the result that one group
teIegraphed the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation in Washington to disregard
the plans of the other
Glenn B. Skipper of Miami. acting
under authority of a proposed director
ate for a non-proflt corporation organ
lied here. sent the message to Washing
ton to refuse action on loan requested
by George J. Rosenthal, Miami attorney,
a representative of a private enterprise
interested in building the bridge.
The group represented by Skipper is
composed Of prominent business men
and officials OF Dade and Monroe
Counties.
Construction of the bridges, as advo-
Gated by both groups, would complete
the overseas highway between here and
Key West, and would eliminate long
ferry trip for automobile traffic.
Evening star., 1932-07-28
WAGNER, FUGITIVE
IN BABY CASE, SLAIN
Mother Denies Connection of
st. Paul Victim in Gotham
GangIand.
b. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 2S.-Abe Wagner,
who was mentioned often in the bulle-
tins Of New Jersey State police during
the search for the kidnapped and slain
1tndbergh baby, was killed last Mon
62y in st. Paul, MINI, his mother, who
Ives here, announced
The mother, Mrs. Pauline Wagner,
said her son had besn living in st. Paul
urder the name of Able Loeb. A
Eclgster Of that name was shot down
on busy st. Paul street Monday along
With Al Gordon, formerly of Philadel
phia and New York
Mrs. Wagner had no details of her
sens death, receiving only telegram
from his wife to the effect that he had
. been killed and that she was in need
of money. She sent her S143. The
body will be sent here for burial.
He was no gangster, but an honest
fruit peddler," said the mother, who
added that she had sent him $500 in
the past year.
During the Lindbergh hunt police
announced every day that they were
seaTching for Wagner and Harry
Fleischer Of the Detroit purple gang.
Though there was no evidence to con-
rect them with the kidnapping the po-
lice said they had learned that Wagner
wes near the Lindbergh home prior to
the crime.