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Evening star., 1933-11-25

progress Of c1v1!1zatlon. It ShouId re-
nect the dependence OF one upon an
other and the responsibility OF the
State toward the individual. Taxation
was never intended to mean conf1sca-
ton, but by our Constitution and laws
we are coniiscating real estate. In our
frenzy TO do something about It, We
are depending upon palliatives to cure
our tax mess. What we need Is new
basic system"
Evening star., 1933-11-25
CITY SECURES PROPERTY
AT WEEKLY TAX SALES
City Collector Young Says Owners
Realized on Investment;
Let Taxes Go.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, November 25.-At tax
sale this week the city took over 80 Of
"a pieces of property that were put
under the auctioneer's hammer. The
only piece Of property for which there
was a bid was small vacant lot. Ac-
cording to Thomas G. Young, city COL
lector, the owners of most of the prop
erty taken over by the city made
enough money out of them during the
World War, when dwellings Of all kinds
were at a premium. to let the taxes
accumulate and finally to surrender
them to the city for tax sales.
nAs A rule. p.oplitlls that gel Into
tax sales are not worth having" Mr..
Young asserted, The owners got all
paying taxes. realizing satisfactory re-
turns from their investments and leav-
ing the city holding the bag"
Bidding at these forced sales, which
are being held weekly. has been far
from satisfactory and in most cases the
property has to be taken over by the
city, Young said.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
England's System
|OfTaxatiOnF Favored
Over u. S. Methods
Chicago Real Estate
Broker Declares 1t Is
Free of Atrocities.

England's tax system is preferred to
Americas by a real estate broker OF
Chicago who returned recently from
London. There is an experience OF
1000 years back of the British idea
Of levy, says Henry N. Lorish IN the
National Real Estate Journal. who
asserts he favors the British method
because it has not the atrocities we
have"
The British have two major forms
of direct taxation" he declares. "One
is the national income tax and the
other a local levy called rates All
land. houses and improvements are
valued by the authorities at their an
nual occupancy value or rental value.
This is termed the assessed value,
which results in the 'rateable value.
The financial requirements Of the local
government are then spread over the
sum total of the rateable values of the
area or municipality which results IN
the levy called rates. and this tax Is
paid by the occupant of the property.
mo rates are collected on vacant or
unused property. BY this system every
occupant of housing unit (house or
fat and every person or corporation
who occupies or uses any parcel OF land
or building must pay an equitable por-
lAOll Va tAAC Pu6hN CAfSAA0S'
Rates are collected twice yearly. A
demand note or bill is sent each six
months which Is due upon receipt al
though the local authorities may, If
they SO desire, make an allowance up
to Is per cent to the ratepayer who
pays within three months from the
date of the bill. Procedure for appeal
has been provided for those who are
dissatisfied with their assessment. Fail
ure to pay may result In civil suit, dis
traint on property or in some cases
'gaol.'
Factories and certain miscellaneous
properties are assessed by taking 6 per
cent Of the capital valuation as a
theoretical annual occupancy value.
On gas plants and railroads the rates
are derived from an assessed value
based on income and the mileage OF
gas mains or tracks in the area. Farms
are assessed on the annual rental value,
the same as houses. Certain churches
and charitable institutions are exempt
from rates. In the case Of hotels and
rooutng houses the rates are paid by
the management.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
Lavatory Designed.

In bath room lavatory and bowl
Of new design the supply tank for the
bowl Is built into the back Of the lava
tory, giving q dressing table eject to
the latter. Connections are concealed.
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WORK OF CLEARING
CAPITAL SLUMS TO
BEGIN THIS WINTER

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NEW BUILDING LIST
HAS $500, 900 UNIT FOR
GALLINGER HOSPITAL

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CHAPTER TX.

IN DANGER.
THEY drew near the landing
~ Curt looked down the shore TOO
yards and saw four old stone
houses in the middle Of a sec
ond-provth clearing.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
and charitable Institutions are exemp
NTNyAll6n IhUlld bl 4 lvmbOl Of The

from rates. In the case OF hotels ant
roomtng houses the rates are paid b,
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cannons and all the fortlike arrange
ment of the ruins It had been more
q garrison than fur post, for the
Cossacks had not been traders. but ex-
torters Of tribute, and they had needed
defense.
The. main building was tumbling to
decay; briar and vine covered the slave
quarters; the prison house had been
struck by Q blast Of lightning. No
tepee or cabin stood near the ancient
Evening star., 1933-02-02
SENATORS TO OPEN
LOUISIANA INQUIRY
Howell Arrives for Hearings
in Overton.Br0usSard
Election Contest.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW ORLEANS, February 2.-Sena-
tor Robert B. Howell, Republican, Of
Nebraska, chairman of the Senate Cam
paign Funds Investigating Committee,
arrived here this morning from Wash
ington for the opening tomorrow OF
hearings on the Overton- -BrouSSard
senatorial election contest.
Senator Howell went into conference
with Samuel T. Ansell counsel for the
committee, and John Holland, special
investigator, who has had charge OF
collecting data for the committee on
the last Louisiana senatorial election, in
which Representative John H. Overton
defeated Senator Edwin S. BrouSsard
Other members of the committee were
to arrive on later trains. The group
is expected to include Senators Rob-
ert D. Carey of Wyoming and John
G. Townsend, jr., of Delaware, both
Republicans. Democratic members Of
the committee-Senators Tom Connally
Of Texas and Sam G. Bratton Of New
Mexico-have said pressure OF official
duties will keep them In Washington.
Senator Howell would not predict how
long the hearings, which will be held
in the custom house. will last. He said
the committee would hear witnesses
presented by Senator Broussard, who
charged Irregularities in the election,
and also any other witnesses desiring
to testify.
Senator Huey P. Long, who supported
the candidacy of Overton, has an
nounced he will appear as counsel for
Overton.
Evening star., 1933-02-02
ZION Conference
INVITATIONS SENT
More Than 40 Communities Asked
to Be Represented Here
February IL.

Invitations have been extended to
leaders in more than 40 communities in
the seaboard Zionist region to attend
a conference in Washington February
IL at the Jewish Community Center,
according to an announcement today.
Problems affecting the restoration of
Palestine and other questions of inter-
est to the Executive Committee of this
region will be discussed by the delegates,
who are expected to come from Mary
land, Virginia, The District and North
group also will be considered at the
conference
Among the local leaders invited to at
tend are Isidore Hershfield, Louis E.
Spiegler, Mr. and Mrs. John M Safer,
Mrs. Henry Oxenburg, Mrs. Dave Alpher
and Miss Lena Hyatt
Evening star., 1933-02-02
F. c. BONF|LS DIES;
DENVER POST HEAD
Publisher Succumbs at Home
After Undergoing Ear
Operation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, February q
Frederick G. Bonfils. publisher of the
Denver Post. died at his home here
this morning.
Mr.. Bonf1ls had been i'll for several
days and last Saturday underwent a
minor operation for an infected ear.
He was - years old.
Purchased Post In 1892.
Bonfils and H. H. Tammen purchased
the Denver Post in 1892. the Post then
being the smallest paper in Denver.
They pursued an aggressive policy OF
attacking corporate abuses and de-
veloped policy Of interpretative news
writing.
Tammen died July 10. 1924, and since
then Bonfils was the directing head Of
the Post.
Besides his activity as a newspaper
publisher Bonf1ls was interested ex-
tensively for many years in various
business enterprises in the Rocky
Mountain region and built up large
fortune.
He Is survived by his widow and two
daughters, Helen and May Bonfils
Bergman: two brothers, Charles and
Thomas of Denver, and two sisters, Mrs
Eta B. Walker of Fort Humphries, Va
and Mrs. Nell Barber of Los Angeles.
Bonfils & Tammen extended their
newspaper enterprise to Kansas City
in the acquisition October 20. 1909. of
the Kansas City Post. which they pub
lished until May 18, 1922, when it was
sold by them.
Recently Bonfils sued the Rocky
Mountain News OF Denver for 100000
for libel. basing the suit upon quota
tions from an address by Walter Walker,
Grand Junction, Colo, newspaper pub
Usher, in which BonfllS was attacked.
Cited for Contempt.
Attorneys for the News obtained
court permission for examination of
Bonfils by deposition. and In the course
Of the examination Bonfils objected to
certain questions. This resulted in a
citation for contempt of court, and a
fine of $25 was imposed upon him. He
appealed to the State Supreme Court
against this fine The examination was
to have proceeded in court this week,
but Bonfils' illness caused a postpone
ment
Born In Troy, Mo, December 81,
1860, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Napoleon Bonfil, the publisher when
he was 16 years old was appointed to
West Point, entering the Academy in
1878. There he met Miss Belle Barton
OF Peekskill, N. Y, resigned from the
Academy before graduation and mar
ried her. Among his classmates were
Gen. John J. Pershing and Gen.
Crowder.
Evening star., 1933-02-02
A|RMA|L SERVICE
FEUD NEAR CLIMAX
Post Office Heads Silent
After Senate Strikes
Out All Funds.

The long fued between the Post
Office Department and Congress over
administration of the airmail service
appeared to be nearing a climax today
following the Senates action late yes
terday in striking from the Treasury
Post Office supply bill all funds for
domestic airmail.
Pest Ofi1ce officials would not COM
ment today on the action, but seemed
to regard it merely as a step toward
throwing the entire question Of airmail
policy into the new Congress
Civil aeronauticS leaders in the Cap
ital. including representatives of the
leading air transport lines, were in
clined to regard the step as directed
against the Pest Office Department
rather than against the airmail service,
though they admitted they were wor-
ried as to the outcome of the situation
and its effect on the aviation industry
in the United States.
Intensified Recently.
The differehces between Postmaster
General Brown and Congress over the
airmail have been intensified during
As
House Appropriations Committee, as
sured Congress that no great changes
of airmail schedules or routes were
contemplated. He said it was possible
to consider only two changes which he
thought might be made.
About January Is, however, word be-
gan to 60 around that the Post Office
Department was considering drastic
and far-reaching changes In both
routes and schedules over a large DOR.
ton OF the country.
Representative Mead Of New York
chairman of the House Committee or
! Post Offices and Post Roads, which il
investigating the Brown airmail ad.
mlnistration, Immediately introduced 9
resolution setting forth these rumor!
and calling upon the Postmaster Gen.
eral to make no changes until such
time as the committee, which has beer
authorized by the House of Represen.
tatiVes. submits its report"
On Tuesday the House Committee. al
a special session, adopted this resolu-
ton and it was sent by special mes.
senger to the Postmaster General. In
dehance OF the resolution, the Post
master General yesterday put into
effect a sweeping plan of extensions
totaling 1,500 miles. discontinuances OF
service totaling 1886 miles. and new
schedules increasing by 5,686 miles the
total flown daily by airmail planes.
Defiance Responsible for Action.
This defiance of the official request OF
the House Committee is believed BY
Capitol observers to have been largely
responsible for yesterdays action in the
Senate.
The House previously had approved
an appropriation of $4,000, 900 for tn,
domestic airmail service and the matte,
must be adjusted in conference. All
transport operators who hold airmai
contracts have had representatives ir
Washington during the course of tn,
Congressional consideration of the DOS
tai supply bill These representative.
pointed out today that their contract
are an obligation upon the Government
and cannot legally be cancelled with
out court action. They expressed tn:
opinion that the appropriation wouls
not be eliminated. but are fearful tha
it may be reduced to a point which viii
cripple the air transport industry.
Evening star., 1933-02-02
SENATORS ATTEND
TECHNOCRACY TALK
Howard Scott Expounds Views to
Select Gathering in Secret
Session in Bethesda.

BY the Associated Press.
A group Of Senators and others heard
Howard Scott, leading exponent of
technocracy, expound his economic
views at quiet meeting held last Sum
day at the home Of Luke l. Wilson, re-
tired manufacturer, in Bethesda, Md.
SCOTS meeting with the lawmakers
was arranged with great secrecy for
some unexplained reason, and today
Wilson and most of those who attended
were unwilling to discuss what took
place
Among. those present were Senators
Norris, Republican, of Nebraska; La
Follett, Republican. Of Wisconsin, and
Costigan. Democrat. of Colorado, and
about Is others some of them from the
Senate and House." it was said
Mr.. Scott and group of others were
guests at my home Sunday" Wilson said,
but the meeting was social and in
formal and do not care to discuss it or
to reveal just who attended"
Senator Norris said he had found
Scott's presentation of technocracy
very interesting" He added he was
not in agreement with 'the remedies
offered by Scott"
One person who attended said Norris
and others had questioned Scott closely
and picked most of his statements to
pieces"
Evening star., 1933-02-02
HITLER REQUESTS
GERMANS TO DELAY
JUDGMENT YEARS
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and all-destructive idea" he said, in
attacking Communists and Socialists.
THE parties of MarxiSm and its con-
federates have had IA years to prove
their ability. The result is a field Of
destruction. One year Of Bolshevism
would destroy Germany. The section Of
the world representing the richest and
most beautiful culture in the world
would be changed into chaos he de-
clared.
The Wolff and the Telegraphen-
Union Press Associations both reported
police strength has been augmented
and that detectives have occupied the
Communist headquarters, Karl Lieb-
knecht House, on Buelow-Platz. Off
cial confirmation at present was with
held. Police were searching the build
ing.
Another death resulted when one
Communist was stabbed by a NaZi in
Evening star., 1933-02-02
HITLER TAKES TIME
FOR A BRIEF REST
Gets Little Sleep During Last
Few Days of Political
Conferences.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. February with the OBJ
streperous Reichstag off his hands by
the bold step Of having President von
Hindenburg dissolve the body and call
for new elections, Chancellor Adolf
Hitler was enjoying today his first rela-
tive peace since his arrival in Berlin
Saturday.
The 43-year-old Nazi leader hardly
had time to sleep since coming here for
the party negotiations which resulted in
his appointment to the chancellorship.
His days and nights were one success
sion of political conferences.
Prominent callers were obliged to
pace the lobby of the Kaiserhof Hotel
for hours before he received them. He
was still without an official home, Vice
Chancellor Franz Won Papen was oc-
cupying the new wing of the chancel-
lory and President Won Hindenburg the
old Bismarckian wing, while the old
presidential mansion was being re-
paired.
As Baron Won Papen has a, large
family it is expected that Hitler, a
bachelor, will be content with a suite
to be especially remodeled for him in
the new chancellory. He already has
established his secretariat for National
! Socialist party work there.
Hitlers immediate problem is finding
time for party affairs. The structure
of the organization is built around his
personality. The leadership requires
his continual attention, therefore, and
he is considering creating a general
party secretaryship, to which he prob
ably would appoint some trusted lieu
| tenant.
Hitler was expected to take a promi-
| nent part in the campaign leading up to
the elections March S in the hope of
winning enough Reichstag seats to
make his cabinet purely Naz insti-
tuition.
Evening star., 1933-02-02
NURSE IN DOCTORS
OFFICE HIT BY BANDIT
Bride of Week Robbed After Being
Knocked Unconscious by
Blow on Forehead.

Mrs. B. B. McCeney of 1919 r street,
22-year-old bride of a week. was
knocked unconscious today by a bandit
who robbed her and her employer, Dr.
Stuart o. Foster, of SAG.
Her assailant entered Dr. Fosters
Office in the Medical Science BUILDING.
Vermont and L streets, at 9:45 o'clock
this morning.
rs your doctor IMP" he asked.
When Mrs. McCeney answered in the
negative and inquired if she could do
anything for him, the bandit slugged
her on the forehead, knocking her un-
conscious.
The nurse regained consciousness five
or ten minutes later and discovered she
had been robbed of $40 and that s36
Of Office funds were missing. Inquiry
revealed that apparently no one had
seen the man enter or leave her Office.
She said she could identify the bandit,
however.
Before her marriage last week. Mrs.
McCeney was Miss Marian E. White
Her husband is an accountant in the
National Savings e. Trust Co., Fifteenth
and New York avenue
Evening star., 1933-02-02
NAVY BOARD TO PICK
44AS COM MANDERS
Rear Admiral Laning Heads Off,
cials Considering Promotions
Here This Week.

Forty-four lieutenant commanders
will be recommended for promotion to
commander by a selection board now
meeting at the Navy Department.
Rear Admiral Harris Laning, presi-
dent of the Naval War College. New
port, R. l.. has been designated by
Secretary Adams as president of the
board.
Serving with him are Rear Admirals
James j. Raby, commandant of the
7th Naval District. Charleston. S. c.;
Arthur Hetburn. on duty in the Office
of Naval Operations, Navy Department;
Clarence S. Kempff, commandant of
the Portsmouth IN. H. Navy Yard;
George T. Pettengill. commanding the
Submarine Base New London, Conn;
Cyrus W. Cole, Division of Fleet Train
ing, Naval Operations. Navy Depart
ment: Adolphus E. Watson, General
Board, Navy Department; Harry L.
Brinser, in charge of the Navy Yard
Division, Navy Department, and Edgar
B. Larimer chief of the Bureau OF Ord
nance, Navy Department.
Comdr Robert H. Shelton. on duty
in the Bureau of Navigation at the de-
partment, will act as recorder Of the
board. which is expected to be in ses-
sion for 10 days and then make recon-
mendations to President Hoover.
Evening star., 1933-02-02
ELECTRIC LIGHT GROUP
TO END LONG CAREER
"Nela," of New York, Will Be Sue
ceeded by Newly Formed Edi-
son Electric Institute.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 2.-The Ma
tional Electric Light Association, which
had only three more years to run in
order to round out half century of
existence, will be disbanded Febru-
ary Is.
1t will be succeeded by the newly
formed Edison Electric Institute. COM
prised Of 81 per cent Of the member
ship Of the dying "Nela." The insti-
tute has announced its intention to
regulate and improve the public utility
industry from within "Nela" has
been severely criticized for much of its
activity, particularly In disseminating
propaganda.
The new association, among other
duties of public or semi-public nature,
will take over the weekly compilation
of electric power production figures. a
work which has grown to assume a
commanding Importance as barometer
of American business conditions.
Evening star., 1933-02-02
DEATH HELD SUICIDE
Coroner's Jury Holds Filling Sta
tion Employe Killed Himself.

John Hessick. %, found dead yester-
day morning in the gas-filled office
of . filling station at Twenty ty-second
and M streets, committed suicide, a cor
oner's jury decided today.
by F. G. Ieake, 2032 P street, driver
of gasoline delivery truck; C. j. Lentz,
Chain Bridge Heights, Va. and Munsey
Brooks. 3o37 K street, who forced win
dow after they had looked through a
glass door and saw him lying in a corner.
His head was against gas radiator
which was turned on but unlighted,
they testified
Hessick, a native Of Floris, Va. board
ed with relatives at 1725 Irving street.
He is survived by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar Hessick, Of Floris, and four
sisters
Evening star., 1933-02-02

the Charlottenburg district Of. Berlin.
A Na1 at Essen was seriously wounded
and expected to die after being shot by
Communists. Five were wounded when
police dispersed a NaN- Communist af-
fray at Wanne-E -Eickel. Several were
injured in Communist demonstration
in Munich.
The government contemplated .
state funeral for a policeman Nazi, who
was killed in Communist riots Tuesday.
Search Of Homes Ordered.
Prussian police ordered a search oi
Communist meeting places and the
homes of suspected Communists this
afternoon. Communist meetings, even
indoors, were ordered dispersed wherever
found.
Chancellor Hitler issued an appeal to
his NaZis, admonishing them to remain
cool despite the increased Communist
activities.
Evening star., 1933-02-02
ELEVATOR KILLS TWO

PHILADELPHIA, February CR-
Two men were killed and third criti-
cally injured yesterday when the floor
fell out of a freight elevator in the N
Snellenburg & Co. department store
and they plunged six floors to the bot
tom of the shaft.
The dead are Samuel Thompson OF
Camden, N. j., operator of the car, and
Charles j. Beadle, Philadelphia. Charles
Waterford. AZ, negro, suffered frac-
tured skull and internal injuries.
Evening star., 1933-02-02
O'BRIEN DENOUNCES
'EMBARGO' MOVE IN
CROWTHER TARIFFS
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standard would be the paramount
calamity of this disturbing period.
Our imports today are at a very
low ebb. There is heavy balance of
trade in our favor We are not being
flooded by imports"
Representative Horr Washington
Republican, yesterday praised the plan
for automatically raising duties to
compensate for declines in foreign
money values, but another Republican
-McGugin of Kansas-vigorously as
bailed it.
Horr said the Democrats apparently
had failed to caucus on the legislation
because a good many of them Intend
to stand with U.S."
The subcommittee heard Dr. E. Dana
Duran. the commissions chief economist
say the Crowther tariff bill on which
Republicans, through a discharge petit
ton, have guaranteed House vote
February 13, would amount practically
TO an embargo"
After testifying that statistics showed
"no need for an application of uni
form rule increasing duties on every
article and that it would work in many
cases unreasonable hardships," Duran
said he would prefer the Treasury plan
introduced by Representative Hawley
Republican of Oregon, for broadening
Evening star., 1933-02-02
the commissions flexible power to meet
the deprecated currency situation.

the commissions flexible power to meet
the deprecated currency situation.
He estimated the loss Of tariff revenue
during the last year as result of de-
preciated currencies at about Sis, 900 900
instead Of the $100,000,00 which had
been estimated before the committee
previously.
McGugin told the House that to pass
the Crowther plan would justify Eng
land and other countries in laying an
embargo against U.s."
Then where would he be?" He de-
manded. This legislation would be OF
no real benefit because the American
farmer is the real American market.
and as long as the farmers wheat and
cotton are sold on the basis Of the de-
preciated pound you will have no
market"