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Evening star., 1933-03-31

from the scene of the shooting
Martin was lying at the bottom Of
the canal wall, few feet from Bor-
kett's mail box, which Is numbered
4520 Canal road.
His left hand was in his trousers
pocket, and his hackers cap was hang
ing on a branch of bramble BUSH A
few feet away was the pistol, from
which one shot had been fired.
His cab, with motor running and
lights turned on, was parked on the
road above A gray fedora hat, later
identified as his, an empty liquor bottle
and the cartridges were on the front
seat.
About half an hour before he found
the body, Borkett said, he heard a
noise. like somebody hitting two
, boards together Thinking somebody
was trying to steal his skiff, he said, he
| walked up to the canal. He saw the
parked taxi and heard a strange
| "gurgling noise" he said, but thought
nothing of it. After ascertaining that
his boat still was where he had moored
| 1t, he returned to his house, he said.
/ The noises he had heard worried him,
| however. he continued, and he decided
| to investigate further. Returning to the
canal and crossing to the road side in
his skiff, he discovered the body and
notified the police.
Martin, according to other occupants
of the g street house, where he roomed,
had been respondent for several days.
He came to Washington from Romney,
w. Va, about three years ago.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
D. c. WAGE Farmers
TO PROTEST RENTS
Federal, District and Private
Employees Meet Tonight
at Mckinley High.

On the eve Of the placing into ef-
feet of the Governments is per cent
general salary reduction, wage earners
in Federal, District and private en-
ploy prepared today to register oppo-
sition to rental rates in Washington at
mass meeting in Mckinley High
School at o'clock tonight.
The meeting was called at the in
stance of the District Department of
the American Federation of Govern
ment Employees as the first step in its
program to fight for reduction in Iiv-
ing costs as result Of the salary re-
ductioEs.
Costs Held Too High.
The Government workers, through
the committee arranging the mass
meeting. announced that sit is the firm
belief OF Government workers that
housing costs are too high in Wash
with Michael D. schaefer. president
Of the District Department of the fed
Grafton, presiding. the program tonight
will begin with the addresses by SEN
ator Arthur Capper of Kansas, Repre-
sentative Virginia Jenckes of Indiana
and William Green, president Of the
American Federation of Labor 'The
High Cost of Housing in the District"
VIII be Senator Capper's topic. while
Mr.. Green will discuss THE High Cost
Of Living in the District" Mrs. Jenckes
VII! speak ON ''The District of Colum-
bia as Home"
Following these talks, the meeting
VIII be given over to discussion and in
PRODUCTION of resolutions.
Meanwhile, the Washington Real
Estate Board which yesterday announced
iormation OF special committee
10 consider protests of tenants as to
nlgn rents, reported objections were
being filed by disgruntled renters.
Inc board, however, is emphasizing
that the protests are being accepted for
study. and recommendations" will be
made where they appear to be justified
NO city-wide rent reduction is planned
ana protests are to be handled in
divioually.
:, Inc real estate men pointed out that
tney cannot reduce the cost of housing
until some OF the factors entering into
rent-making are brought down. They
reiterated statements made before the
Rent Investigating Subcommittee dur
ing the last Congress that taxes. inter
est rates, and, in the main, operating
expenses. have remained at the same
levels as they were during more pros
porous days.
Figures made public earlier this week
py tne Bureau OF Labor Statistics of
tne department. of Labor show that the
cost OF living in Washington has Drop
ped Fl per cent since 1923.
The reduction, statisticians said. is
Dased on reduction in food costs of
81 per cent; clothing, 81 per cent;
rents, per cent; fuel and lights. 6
per cent; household furnishings, 81 per
cent. No changes, the bureau said,
have occurred in the miscellaneous
items in Washington.
Committee Heads.
The COMMITTEES arranging for the
mass meeting in the school auditorium
at Second and T streets northeast is
composed of Cecil M. Mears,. Miss
Fanny P. Lamson, Charles E. Ridge
way, jr, and ]. P. Simpson. They have
extended a blanket invitation to all
wage earners to attend the session, and
accommodations have been made for
several thousand persons.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
PETITIONS FOR PROBATE
FILED FOR TWO ESTATES
Moakler and Joerissen Wills Dis
pose of Legacies in Excess
of 100000.

Petitions for probate Of two wills, dis
posing of estates in excess of 100000,
were filed yesterday in District Supreme
Court.
Miss Charlotte Moakler, who died
January 18, directed that her estate be
divided evenly between the Catholic
Orphanage at Nazareth, N. c., and the
Catholic Church Extension Society of
the United States at Chicago Miss
Moakler, who was a Government en-
ploye here for many years, had accumu-
lated an estate of ST. ,369 in securities
and cash.
Mrs. Gertrude L. Joerissen, who died
March 81, left her estate, valued at
SOS, ,404, to her husband, Carl A. Joeris-
sen of the Mayfiower Hotel The petit
tion for probate, filed through Attorney
Hugh Obear, said the estate consisted OF
real estate at 1919 Massachusetts ave-
nue., assessed at s39,874, and the bal
ance In securities.
Evening star., 1933-03-31

telephone company since 1925 and is a
member of the Board Of Overseers OF
Harvard University and is trustee OF
Johns Hopkins University, Cooper Union
and the Carnegie Institution. He has
been a member Of the Geographic So
ciety since 1914
Behind Admiral Pratt is a notable
career in the United States Navy. He
accompanied President Wilson to
France in 1918, was naval expert as
sistant to the American Commission
at the Washington Conference on Lin
itation of Armaments in 1921, and was
naval adviser to the American delega-
ton at the London Conference OF 1880
In that year he was made chief OF
naval operations. He has been a men,
ber of the Geographic Society for more
than a quarter of a century.
Dr. Wetmore Is distinguished orni-
thologist and has travelled widely In
studying birds. He has been asso-
ciated with the Biological Survey of
the Agriculture Department, the Ma
tional Geological Park and the Smith
sonian Institution. In 1925 he became
assistant secretary of the Smithsonian
and was placed in charge OF the Ma
tional Museum He has been mem
ber of the Geographic Society since
1927.
Mr.. Hutchinson, the new secretary,
has been on the staff of the society for
more than 25 years. He became asso-
ciate secretary In 1919.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
MESSAGE FROM REICH
DENIES ATROCITIES
Declares National Revolution Has
Freed Europe From Com
munist Peril.

The Koelnische Zeitung COLOGNE
Gazette, In ln-on-the- Rhine, Ger
many, informs its Washington corre-
spondent, DR.. George Barthelme, in a
radio message. as follows: "The ma
tional revolution has freed Germany as
well as Europe from the Communistic
peril. The Government guarantees
safety, the people are quiet, the defense
Is well disciplined"
THE Koelnische Zeitung has been
known throughout Europe as an organ
Of candid liberalism and tolerance" DR..
Barthelme said, "as the intrepid spokes-
man for free thought and free speech,
and above all as paper that religious
ly refrains from misstatements, from
sensationalism, exaggeration and dis
tortion. Thrown against such a back
ground, the above statement of the
Koelnische Zeitung may justly claim
the attention of those who cherish the
untarnished truth more than salacious-
ly dressed-up telltales
"As soon as the hidden sources of all
these atrocity stories are laid bare, we
shall also see the motives that prompt
ed them. Even the cleverest legerde-
main and Houdini trick Is liable to be
shown up. True conlusions can be
drawn only from true premises"
Evening star., 1933-03-31
TODAY IS LAST DAY
FOR INCOME FILING
First Quarter of Taxes Also
Must Be Paid as Time
Limit Expires.

Today is the last day for filing Fed
eral income tax returns and paying the
first quarter of the tax. Judging from
the scene at the local collectors Office,
1902 Internal Revenue Building, most OF
Washington's taxpayers must have set
tied up before the official deadline of
March Is. The date was extended 16
days by Treasury Department order for
the benefit of those with funds tied up
in closed banks. The local taxpayers,
up to noon, came only in handfuls, and
there was a complete absence of the
crowds that stood in long lines waiting
to fill in their blanks or deposit their
money at the cashiers windows
March Is.
Total Not Estimated.
Just how much the income tax will
total has not been estimated by Off
cials, but already this month it has
amounted to Sl76,325,778 for the entire
United States, drop of $4,000, 600
from last year despite a much higher
tax rate.
For the fiscal year since last July l
the tax has amounted to $559, ,657 BOG
or $228,000,000 less than for the same
period year ago.
The tax this year is per cent on the
first $4,000 OF net income and 8 per
cent above that amount. Surtaxes start
at $4,000, instead of $4,000 as under
the old law.
The new law also lowered the deduc-
tlons permitted married person, from
$500 to $2,500 and that permitted a
single person from $1,000 to $1,000. II
also eliminates the Is per cent deduc-
tions OF the tax heretofore permitted on
earned incomes.
100000 Payers Expected.
The number of taxpayers this year is
expected to be approximately 4,0O0, 900
or nearly double that of last year.
Taxpayers taking advantage of the ex.
tended time must pay interest at 6%
on the quarter installment due March
10. The returns may be sent in and
tax paid without any other penalty il
they are placed in the mail before mid
night tonight.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
BEER C0NVICTS' RELEASE
STILL BEING CONSIDERED
Attorney General Cummings, How
ever, Has as Yet Reached
No Decision.

Possibility of releasing Federal con-
victs imprisoned for violations of the
prohibition laws involving beer traffic
still Is being considered by Attorney
General Cummings, but no decision has
been reached, 1t was indicated.
The question, according to the At
torney General, Is very involved and he
has not been able to determine whether
the Justice Department could segregate
those convicts who would not be guilty
under the beer legislation bill.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
MAN HELD UP AND ROBBED
BY THREE MEN AND BOY
Basllios K. Antpakokas, Victim,
Loses About $45 When Sur
rounded Near Home.

Basilios K. Antpakokas, 1o6 G street.
was held up and robbed of about S45
early today by three men and a boy, all
colored. while in an alley in rear of his
home, he reported to police.
Clothing and jewelry, valued at s400,
was reported taken from the automobile
OF Al Eckstein of Far Kockaway, Long
Island, while the machine was parked
in the 1900 block of M street.
BARBARA w. Ward, 3446 Connecticut
avenue, reported $21 had been taken
from her pocketbook while she was try
Ing on coat in a downtown depart
ment store. She had left the pocket
book on a chair from which it disap-
peared, but was later found nearby with
the money missing.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
DEATH OF CAbMAN
DECLARED SUICIDE
Body of Taxi Driver Is Found
Near CanaI-BuIIet
in Head.

Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid ruled today that Aubrey r. Martin,
26-year-old taxicab driver, who was
found shot to death beside the Chesa-
peake g. Ohio Canal last night, killed
himself.
DR.. Macdonald issued a certificate of
suicide following an autopsy, performed
in the District morgue by Acting Cor
oner Christopher j. Murphy. A bullet
Of the same caliber as the pistol found
near Martins body was removed from
the dead mans head during the post
mortem.
Although official investigation of the
case was closed by issuance of the GER
tificate, a specimen of Martins blood
was submitted to the District chemist
for analysis, to determine whether or
not he was intoxicated at the time he
shot himself. An empty liquor bottle
was found in his cab, parked on Canal
road, near the scene Of the shooting.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
Crash Injuries Taxi Driver,

William p Atkinson, 2o, taxi driver
of the 1900 block of Kalorama road, was
injured last night when the taxi and an
clerk OF the House of Foreign Affairs
Committee, collided at Tenth and E
streets, causing the cab to overturn.
Atkinson was treated at Emergency
Hospital for cuts on the head.
Evening star., 1933-03-31

Will q buiiCe
wound in his head
and a .25-caliber
automatic a few
feet from his body,
Martin was found
sprawled on the
bank of the canal,
at the foot of the
stone wall between
the water and the
450o block of Canal
road.
M a T in. who
lived at 1915 G
street, was found
about 1890 pm.
by Harvey Borkett,
proprietor of a
boat house which
ic ot,,y,t 100 feet
Evening star., 1933-03-31
"0pen House by Phone Company,

Telephone subscribers in the North
Potomac-Decatur central office area will
be given an opportunity to inspect the
inner workings of telephone central
office at an "open house" to be held by
the Chesapeake q Potomac Telephone
Co. in the telephone Offices located at
Fourteenth and r streets. this evening.
The Washington times., 1933-11-04
Uncle Daniel Drew

Vanderbilt caught Drew in
the first great corner the mar
ket knew. Old Daniel sold
short of the coloneIs Harlem
railroad and leaped right lnto
the trap. He whined and Wep1
his way out for a cool million
dollars, and Vanderbilt was to
rue the day that he let the
old skinflint off so easily.
Uncle Daniel soon hooked up
with two young men OF 3O-one
a boisterous showoff, former
Vermont peddler, by name jim
Fisk. the other an underslzeo'
retiring fellow, a mouse trap
inventor from the CatSklllS, by
name Jay Gould. There's no
tale in all the tones to COM
pare to what they did to Van
derbi!t in 1868. Secretly they
set up a printing press ana
turned out 100000 shares OF
Erie stock, leaving VanderollC
to hold an empty sack while
they stuffed six million dollars IN
greenbacks into a couple OF
satchels and fled by ferry to
safety in New Jersey, just one
Jump ahead of the sheriff and
the enraged old colonel.
A wear later and tbs daring
pair had cornered the go@
market. Bringing about tha Ia
The Washington times., 1933-11-04

The Stock Exchange, having
bluffed Tammany to a stand
still, booms along, waiting for
the day to come again when
the lamb shall lie down with
the ion-but inside the lion.
They say history repeats, and
it more than does that in the
record of the Stock Exchange:
The fact is that the story OF
wall Street has been always
that of it's first two Titans-
Cornelius Vanderbilt and
Daniel Drew-staged over and
over again, with only the gen.
erations new and the principals
different men.
Old men they were in the
Civil War days-Vanderbllt, the
dreamer and builder OF en-
pires, dictatorial, silver-halred'
with a tongue as sharp as a
ton sergeant's; Drew, the gam
bier and trickster, tall, cadav-
erous, a pious hypocrite, an u
literate old man who kept
track and account Of his
mighty fortune of thirteen mil
lions in his head.
The Washington times., 1933-11-04

we can survive any obstacle.
But most of us haven't plenty Of
Spunk. We're timid, bewildered,
easily discouraged. Also, we're
lazy. It's tough to keep plug
ging along, bucking the line.
Yet, we MUST put ourselves
on record! Show we're differ
ent. Get a hearing, somehow.
AND so, SINCE WE CAN'T
BECOME MASTERS, WE BE-
COME MARTYRS.
If we can't prove that we're
Gods little pets. WE CAN, AT
LEAST. MAKE FOLKS REAL
IZE THAT HE'S PICKING ON
US WORSE THAN ANYONE
ELSE.
And if folks won't listen to
us?
WE'LL LISTEN TO OUR
SELVES!
WE'LL BE IMPORTANT TO
OURSELVES!
WE'LL GIVE OURSELVES
A HAND.
Sef-pity! There's the secret,
sick reason behind it. And
does that make YOU want to
snap out Of it? Or does it?
The Washington times., 1933-11-04
A Star at Sixty-TWO
No Job at Forty

On November Marie Dressler famous motion picture
will celebrate her sxty-second birthday
# the Civil Service Commission had anything to do with the
moving picture industry Miss Dressers birthday wouldn't
mean much to the American people
But since the Civil Service Commission couldn't stop Miss
Dresrs acting co. rather her starting when
she nearly co. the going public will unite in extend
ing best wishes popular star next week
may far cry from the trouble which the commission
has stirred up with its famous order the birthday OBJ
of motion picture actress but there much in the
Of the star that would enlghen the commission
recent decree.
few years ago Miss Dresser had seemingly passed from the
stage and pictures after moderately successful She
was approaching or had reached old Her seemed
TO be ended.
But the moving picture industry gave her another
chance And in the last few years she has taken the country
by storm.
She would have had that chance if the Civil Service
Commissions order had applied to the motion pictures.
And by the same token many would be de-
prived of successful late through the Spp
sQp Of the commission paW minimum ass EaRdagda w
The Washington times., 1933-11-04
Water Rates
Unnecessary Taxation

It is be hoped that officials of the Bureau of the Budget
who considering the local estimates for the coming
fiscal year will give serious consideration the desiraby
yeducing the District water rates.
AS budget the bureau from the District Building
It contained that the discount allowed
prompt payment Of bills be increased to 15 cent and
that in the meered allowance of water
These suggestions are fine but they do not 60 far enough
There could made effective reduction of at least 25
cent in the without interfering operation of the
water department. Of course the department could probably
use all Of the money collects it will be allowed
do this.
The only alternative putting the money back in improve
ents and maintenance Of the wr system is to let remain
idle in the Treasury.
It would much the and let the citizens
use the money they need it.
The Washington times., 1933-11-04

AAAoAJ AAoACos Els10 Robinson
who should be out digging
bitches. moo and meow over
the radio by the hour, telling
the world about their Bloo-
oo-oes. In short. having a
Good Hard Cry over ourselves
is the best thing most of us do!
Why?
Is it really because we're
having all the Bad Breaks? Or
is there, maybe, another rea-
son?
There's another reason-a
secret, twisted reason.
WE PITY OURSELVES BE-
CAUSE WE WANT TO BE I'M
PORTANT.
Now. there's nothing wrong
or unnatural in wanting to be
important. We were born for
that purpose. We were born
to live-to do something with
ourselves. Self-preservation,
self development; these are the
first purposes of our lives. Self
expreSsion-that is the deepest
hunger in every life.
And it's a healthy and useful
hunger, if treated properly. A
man will lift himself out of the
gutter if given a chance to
express himself finely and
proudly.
But if he is denied that
chance, if his hunger for
Self-expression is continually
thwarted-
HE'LL NOT ONLY STAY IN
THAT GUTTER, BUT HE'LL
COPYRIGHT 1T, TAKE OUT
MOVIE RIGHTS AND STAGE
A SOLO STAR PERFORM
ANCE!
Why is selfpfty?
That is why.
Self-pity is the desperate ruse
Of a sick soul to feed it's own
hungry egotism.
We want, to be important.
The life in us wants out! We
must be important or We'll per-
ish from our own humiliation.
But the cards seem stacked
against us.
Tbe M nORluAs .nE anU
NA = go haze 1nut8& Sm1
The Washington times., 1933-11-04
Texas Rejects

This proposed amendment
has already received the ap-
proval of the legislatures Of
IS States. Twenty-one addi-
tional States must give their
legislative consent to complete
ratification, the approval of 36
States being necessary to ratify
a Constitutional amendment.
The States which have gone
on record in favor of the Child
Labor Amendment are Mich
igan, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oregon, Washington, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, nlinios,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Arizona,
California, Wisconsin, Montana
and Colorado.
The Texas House recently
voted it's approval of this
amendment, but the ratifying
resolution was voted down by
the Texas Senate.
If ratification of this much
needed amendment is to be
completed during President
Roosevelt's first term in the
White House, his Admin:stra-
ton must soon take the lead in
a national effort to this end.
Mr.. Roosevelt is going to
Warm Springs, Georgia, this
month to spend his Thansgiv-
ing holiday. Should he decide
while in the South to broadcast
an appeal for the prompt ratl-
fication of the Child Labor
amendment, his words would
have great effect upon the legls-
latures of many States which
meet early in the New Year.
Georgia is one of the States
that has not yet acted upon
the amendment. other States
that have thus far failed to act
upon it include Virginia, Mary
land, Tennessee, Alabama, the
Carolinas, Florida, Mississippi
Louisiana and Texas.
Even more surprising is the
The Washington times., 1933-11-04
Citizens Associations
The Voice of Washington

The citizens associations of Washington representing prob
ably largest organized group of czenry starting
their fall meetings at time when many problems demand
the attention and consideration of the general public
The present Administration and the coming session Of Con-
Rress being upon deal with many matters which
have direct and important bearing upon the welfare Of all
Of people.
The Administration and the Congress receive the views
and opinions the voteess people of Washington only
through the actions of the citizens associations and the other
trade and civic groups Of the city.
It has long been recognized Capitol Hill and at the White
House that the citizens associations the great bulk
Of people.
Likewise it has long recognized Capitol Hill that
larger membership in these associations and active
participation in their deliberations by all residents Of the
city would materially Congress determining the local
viewpoint.
The coming session of Congress will have deal with many
local problems and citizens associations will perform
important public service by expressing the wishes Of Wash
tngtonians on those problems.
There will be- of the perennial question of what is
fair for the Federal Government pay toward the
expenses of the National Capital
Determining it does the amount which local residents
will have to pay in taxes it important that the citizens
associations clearly and effectively present the facts that
Rhoud govern equitable adjustment of this problem
OF equally general Importance is the matter Of adoption Of
law to govern the handling Of whisky and wine in the
District repeal the Eighteenth Amendment Every
citizens association will want to freely and frankly
the views of its members how this delicate subject should
be treated
The matter Of the upkep of the District and the extension
will be to the fore in the
sideration of the annual appropriation bill.
The Congress- is be hoped, will finally act upon bill
10 abolish alley dwellings,
There are indications that the Administration will submit
Congress proposal for altering the form of the District
government The citizens associations will be on the alert
to protect possible the few vesges which remain
Of local representation in that government.
With these and other important matters pressing
for attention citizens associations prepare for busy
winter and spring
Their voice will be needed by Congress in finding the sou
tion to many problems
The Washington Times which has always understood the
important position which the citizens associations occupy in
the public life of the community, has created this year
special department present the and views of the
associations
the direction of who has long been associated
actively in the organized citizen movement it hoped that
the department will Of material assistance to the various
associations in acquantng them fully with the deliberations
Of the others.