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Evening star., 1934-06-07
City Cab Corporation Pro-
poses Formation of
New Association.
INSURANCE BILL FAILURE
SAID TO FORCE STEP
Company Declares 1t Cannot Com
pete With Others Under
Present System.

Because the House failed to pass
the bill to require all taxicabs to
post liability insurance the City Cab
Corporation has taken steps to form
the City Cab Association. The prac-
tical effect will be to make the drivers
primarily responsible for damage
claims.
City Cab Corporation officers said
they have been losing drivers. who
have gone into service with other
companies not operating as corpora
tionS. They said they could not con-
tinue to compete longer on this basis
and therefore decided to establish the
association plan.
The corporation, however, its Off
GERS said today, will continue to exist
as an operating company for the
time being and its future will depend
upon the success Of the association
plan.
Passed by Senate.
The Senate passed the taxi re-
sponsibility bill, sponsored by the
Public Utilities Commission and the
District Commissioners, but the legis-
lation was blocked in the House.
Richmond B. Keech, vice chairman
of the Utilities Commission, said to-
day the only hope for correction of
the situation now apparently lies in
enactment Of the general automobile
financial responsibility bill, which has
passed the House and now is awaiting
action by the Senate. He expressed
hope that a clause requiring taxicab
liability insurance might be added to
the general automobile insurance bill.
Keech said. to the best of his knoUl-
edge the City Cab Corporation has
paid all damages levied against it for
the operation of its drivers. The cabs
of the concern are owned by the cor
poration, and the drivers receive a
commission on the amount of revenues
they collect. The commissions range
from Is per cent on days business
OF 30 or less up to IS per cent for
daily business of $14 or more.
Damages Paid Out of Profits.
Damages levied against the cor
poration are paid out of profits over
and above the commissions paid to
drivers and other expenses.
The City Cab Association will not
own the cabs driven by its members
and will have but a nominal sum in
its treasury, ACQUIRING from dues. The
drivers are to buy their cars by pay
ing 500 down and $14 a week.
Keech said the practical effect of
the change would be that persons in
Jured by negligent driving of members
OF the association would have to look
to the individual driver for satisfac-
ton of claims, whereas under the
present setup they have action
against the corporation.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
RESIDENTS OF D. C.
TO GET TAX CALL
Blanks Were Mailed Yesterday
to 10000 Requesting Re-
turns Be Filed.

Forty thousand Washington resi-
dents today will receive the annual
call from the District tax assessor to
file personal tax returns on or before
July 81. The blanks were placed in
the mail yesterday.
Under the law, returns are required
to be filed by all who have main
tained residence here for three months
pror to July l of each year. Prior to
1880, taxpayers were allowed to accept
assessments tentatively made by the
Board of Personal Tax Appraisers,
but by a new act of Congress filing
of returns are required. A 20 per cent
penalty and court costs may be added
to assessments if mandamus proceed
ings are filed.
The levy for the year ending June
80 will amount to some 1851 ,545.82 in
tangible personal tax and S2,052, ,157.69
In intangible personal tax.
The assessor explains that persons
who will be leaving the District before
July l should call at the District
Building to make arrangements for
filing of returns.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
KELLER ASKS STUDY
ON BOTANIC GARDEN
Seeks Consideration for Two
House Resolutions Affecting
Disposition and Expense.

Chairman Keller Of the House Ii
brary Committee today appeared be-
fore the House Rules Committee, ask
ing a special rule for consideration of
his two House resolutions, one of which
would create a special House commit
tee to make a study Of the United
States Botanic Gardens and report
to the House at the next session on
what disposition should be made of
this agency, which is now under di-
rection CT the Joint Committee on the
Library.
The other Keller resolution would
authorize an expenditure not to ex-
ceed $4,000 from contingent funds OF
the House for the expenses of this
investigating committee. The Rules
Committee reserved action on Kel-
ler's application.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
TWO NEW A|RMA|L
ROUTES TO OPEN
Washington to Become One
of Worlds Busiest
Air Terminals.

Washington is to become one OF
the worlds busiest air terminals be-
ginning Sunday, when the Post Office
Department has scheduled the inaug-
uration of airmail service on two new
routes out Of the Capital into new
airmal territory.
The new routes are from Washing
ton to Chicago by way of Charleston
w. Va; Huntington, w. Va; Gin
cinnati and Indianapolis, and from
New York to Fort Worth, Tex, by way
Of Washington, Southwestern Vir.
ginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texa:
points.
With the opening Of these routes
both of which are to be flown by
American Airlines, Washington also
will be given its first service to the
Pacific Coast on one airline. AT
present, although direct connections
are made and there is little delay al
junction points, transfers from one
airline to another are necessary on
all three tranScontinental routes.
Special Cachet.
In connection with the inaugura-
ton of service on the Washington
Chicago line, a first flight Of airmai
has been scheduled for Charleston
w. Va, which never before has hao
airmail service. The postmaster al
Charleston will be furnished with 9
special cachet for the occasion.
No ceremony is planned here ir
connection with the opening Of the
new service. On the Washington
Chicago route, already under passen-
ger operation by American Airl1nes
the first mail loads will merely be
placed aboard the transports and serv-
ice will go on as usual.
For the Fort Worth service, which
will open both for airmail and air
transport hitherto unflown territory
in Southwestern Virginia and the
Tennessee Valley, the airline has not
completed its plans, despite the Post
Ofice Department announcement that
service will be inaugurated Sunday.
Confined to Mail.
1t is probable, it was indicated, that
service between Washington and
Nashville, all of which is undeveloped
air transport territory, will be con-
fined for the present to airmail trans
portation. No airways facilities have
vet been installed along this section
Of the new airway. Development Of
ground equipment along the route will
be followed by inauguration of paSsen-
ger service, according to present plans.
On the Chicago run, stops at Hunt
ington will be postponed pending COM
pletion Of work on the airport there,
the Post Office Department has an
nounced.
The new American Airlines' through
service from Washington to California
will make it possible for passenger
leaving this city at 1915 am. to ar
rive in Los Angeles at 7:55 O'Clock
the next morning. Sleeping planes
are operated on this line from Gin
cinnati to the West Coast.
The Fort Worth route will give air.
mail service and later passenger serv-
ice from Washington to Charlottes-
vile, Lynchburg, Roanoke and Bristol,
Va; Knoxville. Nashville and Mem
phis, Tenn; Little Rock and Tex
arkana, Ark, and Dallas, Tex.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
Proposal Provides 4-Day
Week of Eight Hours
Each, at $1.25.
PLASTERERS CONTINUE
STRIKE FOR PAY BOOST
Ironworkers File Protest Against
Company on Quantico Con-
struction Job.

Striking carpenters were voting to-
day on whether to accept the pro-
posed compromise agreement on
wages and hours negotiated recently
under direction of District Commits
sioner George E. Allen.
This proposal would provide each
carpenter with four days work Of
eight hours each, making a 32-hour
week, at SIPS an hour, or $40 week.
This would spread employment, by
requiring more carpenters and would
give a full eight-hour days work on
every job.
The carpenters recently rejected
another compromise offer worked out
under Commissioner Allen as concilia-
tor. Some leaders were hopeful that
the carpenters would accept this new
proposal, but others said it was i'm
possible to predict what the vote
might be.
The polls in Carpenters Hall were
open from u to 6.
Plasterers Still Out.
Meanwhile, the plasterers continued
on strike for higher hourly wages and
six-hour day. The dispute on the
triplet buildings in the triangle was
further complicated by the suit fled
in District Supreme Court by the
operative plasterers against the Brick
layers Union. 1t will come up for
hearing June IS.
The plasterers are asking the court
for injunctions to prevent the brick
layers from breaking an alleged
agreement between the two unions
which provided for dividing the work
of setting accoustical stone. The COM
plant alleges that the Bricklayers'
Union "coerced" James Stewart Co.,
Inc, contractor on the job, to give
all the work Of laying this stone to
masons in the Bricklayers' Union.
The complaint also charges the
bricklayers threatened to pull their
men of other jobs of the Stewart Co.
if the work was divided $3.50. In
bricklayers from coercing the Stew
art Co.
Ironworkers File Protest.
Protest was filed yesterday by Les
lie Myers, business agent Of the IRON
workers, with Rear Admiral Norman
M. Smith, chief of the Bureau of
Yards and Docks, Navy Department,
against the Mayer Pollock Co. in
connection with employment Of iron
workers and laborers on construction
work at Quantico.
Myers charged Pollock was using
structural steel workers from the
State of Pennsylvania at the rate of
S1.10 an hour. He asked that these
men be removed, and replaced by
residents of Virginia, as 'is provided
for in the specifications" He re-
quested that the company be COM
PEELED to pay the prevailing scale OF
S1.65 per hour, retroactive on this
project. He also asked to have cor
rected ''the unethical practice of the
Mayer Pollock Co. employing labor
ers at As cents per hour, and work.
ing them along with ironworkers,
doing the work of ironworkers."
Evening star., 1934-06-07
MURRAY HALL is NAMED
FOR ALASKAN AVIATION
Department of Commerce Repre-
sentative Will Serve as Aero
nautical Inspector.

Appointment Of a Commerce De-
partment aeronautical inspector to
devote his full time to Alaskan avia-
ton activities was announced today
by Eugene L. Vidal, director of aero
nauticS.
The inspector, who will be per-
manently stationed at Juneau, is
Murray Hall, Commerce Department
representative on the American good
will tour of the French Ocean and
long distance flyers Dieudonne Coste
and Maurice Bellonte. Mr.. Hall now
is stationed in New York. He will
leave for Alaska within the next two
or three weeks.
Appointment Of full-time Alaskan
inspector is in recognition of the
rapid growth Of air transportation in
the Territory. In the past, an in
pector has made one visit a year
to Alaska. Mr.. Hall will be pro-
vided with Commerce Department
plane especially equipped for Alaskan
flying conditions.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
BREWERY ROBBERY
SUSPECT COMMITTED
Alleged Member of "Tri-State"
Gang Held Under $10,-
900 Bond.

Identification Of John Dunn, alias
Edward Johnson, as a member of the
bandit gang which robbed the Heu-
rich Brewing Co. of S1,646 last De-
cember, resulted today in his COM
mitment to Jail under $4,000 bond
when arraigned before United States
Commissioner Needham C. Turnage.
Dunn was said by police to be a
member of the notorious "Tri-State
gang" three of whose members still
are at large. Dewey Jenkins, who
was arrested in Richmond with Dunn,
was arraigned yesterday and held in
81 900 bond.
Meanwhile, three others of the gang,
held in Baltimore, still were awaiting
decision from the States attorneys
Office as to the disposition of the cases
against them.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
MISS MYER BURIED
IN CATHEDRAL CRYPT
Bishop Freeman oficiates at Serv-
ices, Aided by Dean
and Canon.

The funeral Of Miss Gertrude Wal
den Myer, who died Monday at her
residence, 919 Farragut square, was to
be held in the Bethlehem Chapel Of
Washington Cathedral at o'clock
this afternoon. Right Rev. James E.
Freeman, Bishop of Washington, was
to offlciate.
The Dean G. C. S. Brathenhal and
Canon William L. DeVries, also were
to be among those officiating.
The honorary bearers were to be
Col. John R. M. Taylor. Lieut.. Col. u.
S. Grant, Col. r. C. Richardson,
Charles S. Hamlin and A. G. Nc
Clintock.
Interment was to be in the crypt
Of the Cathedral, where Miss Myers
brother, Lieut.. Walden Myer, was
buried In 1926.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
Graduated From Kentucky U

Albion Keith Paris. Sd, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. K. Paris, jr, of
3140 @ street, was graduated last
week from the University of Ken
lucky Paris, who was a member
of the 1880 Glass at Western High
School, is a member of Kappa Alpha
and Delta Sigma Chi Honorary
Journalistic Fraternity.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
Girl Scouts to Give Play.

A Cornish folk play, The Silver
Thread" will be presented tomorrow
night at the John Burroughs School
by the northeast section of the Girl
Scouts of the District. The leading
roles will be taken by Elsa Lewis,
Mary Jordan, Sara Byrne and Mary
Lois Luton.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
DONOHUE CONVICTED
Will Be Sentenced Friday on
Charge of Abduction.

John Donohue of Baltimore was
found guilty in District Supreme Court
today on an indictment charging him
with abducting David T. Burgh and
taking him into Maryland, where he
was stripped of his clothing and left
tied to a tree.
Questioned by Assistant United
States Attorney John R. Fitzpatrick,
the defendant refused to say where
he was on the night of the abduction
Donohue and George Murphy, a CO.
defendant who pleaded guilty several
days ago, will be sentenced Friday.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
$4,000 Estate Bequeathed.

An estate valued at $4,000 was
bequeathed to Mrs. Josephine H. Will
marth by the will of her mother,
Mrs. Alice M. Mullen, filed for pro-
bate in District Supreme Court today
through Attorney L. E. Albert.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
SIGNS PAROLE BILL
President Gives Federal Board
Authority Over D. C. Prisoners.

11UIHOIHty OVc1 O' u IISUHcISd
President Roosevelt today signed
the Senate bill to amend the act of
Congress establishing a board of
Indeterminate Sentence and Parole
for the District of Columbia, SO as
to grant the Federal Parole Board
the same authority over District
prisoners that the local parole board
now has.
This measure was urgently recon-
mended because of changed condi-
tions at Lorton Reformatory. .
Evening star., 1934-01-21
Pretty Girls.

Harrison Fisher Is dead, and with him
passes a certain personal manner of
art His gift was not great, his drafts
manship was inconsequential, but he
had pattern which was attractive
and convincing enough to enlist the
dattery of widespread imitation. If he
did not invent the pretty girl magazine
cover, he at least developed it, and
1t will be his monument. He deserves
all the credit there may be for the
achievement.
It is remembered that once, when
he had tired Of endlessly repeating
the same theme, he attempted other
subjects. But the periodical kings who
dictate the sales appeal" of newsstand
displays would not permit him to
digress THE public wants pretty
girls" they said, "and so you will have
1 to draw pretty girls" Fisher perforce
cbeyed the command thus promulgated
OF course, from the commercial angle
his practice was eminently defensible.
He earned handsome competence by
the exercise of his pencil and brush.
And 1t was not his fault that popular
taste was stereotyped. He did not
formulate the elementary laws of BIZ
illogical and esthetic interest. All that
he did was to produce the supply to
meet the existing demand. If his
lovely ladies invariably were Of q single
model. the circumstance probably wts
Evening star., 1934-01-21

ing in importance in the world market.
In fact, coffee is today the most i'm
portant money crop IN Colombia.
Within the past few weeks we have
successfully completed reciprocal trade
treaty with the government at Bogota,
on our part providing that coffee and
some other Colombian products shall
continue to be exempt from import
duties, Federal excise taxes end any
prohibitions on importations.
Meanwhile the coffee code Is now In
its final stages at Washington and the
importers feel that their prospects are
Frightening. They are interested In the
new Federal food and drug bill from
the standpoint of proposals to make
public their blending fornulae and as
to the definition of unfair" advertising
Taken ell in all, however, as one leader
in the trade said this week, not for
many years has there been q combina-
ton of so many favorable features and
so few unfavorable ones IN the coffee
situation.
For some years the producing
countries have been appropriattng funds
for increasing the use Of coffee through
out the rest Of the world. A year or
50 ago the American coffee trade organ
lied itself and, In cooperation with
foreign producers, inaugurated q cam
paign to promote and extend our
coffee drinking tastes and habits. The
Brazilian government recently an
nounced its intention to cooperate
with the Associated Coffee Industries
of America in its campaign. 1t is re-
ported that as soon as negotiations are
concluded with Brazilian representatives
for q trade treaty similar to that we
now have with Colombia new efforts will
be made by producer and consumer to
increase business for both.
Evening star., 1934-01-21

governed by the fact that feminine
charm IL Q fairly definite and rigid
variety Of beauty. The amateur may
think otherwise, but Florenz Ziegfeld
declared, They are all alike"
There can be no question about the
pleasure Fishers work gave hundreds
of thousands Of people. He was q sue
cess because he deserved to be. Other
men will take up where he left of, and
they will be fortunate If they can tune
in on the universal harmony as skillfully
and effectively as he did. Pretty girls
will continue to intrigue the worlds
imagination, periodical publishers will
continue to employ the device to pro-
mote business and a long line of Fisher
disciples will follow the trail he blazed.
It may be left to sociologists to discuss
the social effect Of the phenomenon.
Evening star., 1934-01-21
A BETTER HOPE
RIGHT REV. JAMES FREEMAN D. D. L. D. D. 6. H..
Bishop Of Washington

At the beginning Of q new year. a.
We confront its unknown days and ways,
our outlook and expectations concern
ing 1t affect very largely its events and
happenings To begin a day or year
with a feeling that conditions are to
grow worse and not better means to in
vite misfortune and disaster This
world has not moved forward to its
present stage of development under the
shadows on the horizon The hopeful.
not the hopeless, the expectant, not the
doubling, are the benefactors Of the
human race It Is ever those who be-
lieve in better days and better condi-
late James J. Hill once told me con-
cerning his notable gallery Of paintings
that he never purchased q picture that
portrayed that which was cruel, and he
added: There Is too much Of this in
real nfe" He did not wish to have in
his gallery anything that was depres-
sing; he wished to get from his famous
pictures encouragement and inspira-
ton and a better hope concerning that
which was good and profitable in the
world in which he lived,
There are some people who have .
distinct penchant for that which sug-
gests the weakness and depravity of the.
race. They would rather hnger in the
shadows than in the light. They would
magnify out Of all proportion that
which Is cruel and ungenerous and in
equitable in the world In which they
live. We cannot believe that such folk
contribute anything to the bringing in
Of better days and better conditions.
Studying the many beneflcent institu-
tions that are designed to ameliorate
the hard conditions under which some
of our fellows live, we inevitably dis
cover that those who carry them on
with selfless devotion and efficiency are
ever those who are hopeful and expec-
tant concerning the betterment of social
and economic conditions. They literally
believe that 1t is possible, gradually and
slowly, to develop a world wherein
dwelleth righteousness" Such people
are not to be numbered among the ir-
rational optimists. but rather among
Evening star., 1934-01-21
THE CAPACITY TO OWE
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

France has a national debt Of $lb.-
O0O, ,000, 900. On per capita basis this
is s360--or $l24 more than the Amer
ican debt.
The Indebtedness which staggers an
others Is that of Great Britain. That
nation has national debt Of S37, 1885,
100000, which means 1913 per capita.
This is almost three and one-half times
the proposed per capita American debt.
1t means only the people of the tight
little isle. The others take care of
their own finances. Canada has been
mentioned. Australia shows a Com
monwealth debt of 1899 per capita and
the Union Of South Africa has q per
capita Indebtedness of S672. These ma
ttonS now have their budgets balanced
and are decidedly on the upgrade
England has re-employed more men in
the last year than, in any year since
the war and Australia is enjoying some
portance is the fact that the American
standard Of wages and income is
higher than In these other higher-sax
The English-speaking people appear
to have a special genius for owing
money. On the basis Of pre.war fg-
ures, Germany would have shown a
fairly heavy debt. but since the COM
plete financial reorganization her per
capita debt now is but $50. Italy owes
but Sll0 per capita Czechoslovakia was
not even a nation until erected by the
treaty Of Versailles and has national
gians owe S168. while the people Of
Holland owe STAT. Japan with all her
military operations. and all her recon.
struction after the great earthquake Of
1923, owes but $50 per capita. Rel
atively that sum is high. Although the
debt is shared, theoretically, among
90 900 900 people. the average standard
Of income is so low that $50 debt is
large. 1t Is equal to a years income
for some families.
Chronology of American Debt
While the debts accumulated in the
War Of the Revolution and the War
Of 1912 were not large in modern terms,
they were quite burden then. Never
theless, they were so quickly charged
off that from 1917 to 1848 only few
trifing items of internal revenue were
collected and from 1848 until 1862 not
! cent from any internal taX-income
tax, whisky, tobacco or anything. At
one period the Treasury had so much
money it made distribution TO the
States.
The Civil War made borrowing nee
essary, but the high point Of the public
debt. reached in 1866 was only S2.322.-
100000, or sos per capita. 1t began 10
sink Immediately and just before the
Spanish American War was only about
$500. 100000, or about SO per capita.
That short war caused the debt to
mount to s1,046 100000 at the peak, but
1t sank right back and was only ss71.-
10000 in 1916, the year before the
World War was entered That struggle
sent the debt up TO s25,234, ,000, 900. the
peak being reached in August, 1919.
Again the policy of quickly retiring
war debt was followed. and in 1890,
when the depression began, the ma
tional debt was only sl5.921 900, 900. The
proposal TO double that amount, in
view OF the past fiscal history of the
Nation, should not be dismaying OF
course, it has TO be paid back But that,
too, it has been shown, is wholly pos
sible.