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The Washington times., 1935-12-26
Smart Ensemble

Off for the afternoon wearing,
under your coat, a slim suit of
black velvet with a blouse of
white and silver lame. This has
a slim skirt of street length and
a Jacket with broad velvet belt.
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
Invitations to "GiftAHa1rs
Only Is PuzzHng
To Reader
Bv MRS. CORNELIUS BEECKMAN

By MRS. CORNELIUS BEEOkMAN
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
my relatives through marriage invite me or my
husband to their social affairs and evenings throughout the
year. but when shower wedding takes place they always
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
Clever Women Invest
Now in Clothes for
Summer
Summer
By WILMA LAVILLE

For years I've written this same story less and
each year believe and morethat the best clothes
for out in December and January designed for
resort and cruise 1t particularly true this year
If you really wise you will go downtown right and
select some summary Clothes you not going South
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
HOuSeWarming

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
'Is it understood that guests
bring gifts to the host and hostess
at a "housewarming" in a new
home? ID"
It isn't expected" that guests
bring gifts to a housewarming, but
it is, Of course, correct for them
to make this compliment to the
new home and its hosts, if they
wish.
Close friends often bring i'm
portant gifts for the new house,
and less intimate friends bring
some trifle that shows careful
thought and appropriateness for
the home that is being started.
Copyright, 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1935-02-04

The administration is craftily play
| ing the bonus fish, and now believes
it may land him.
When the Patman Jonah tried to
swallow the Vinson whale, the New
Dealers pulled in a lot of slack line.
! If they can just continue to encourage
this contest between bonus proponents,
they will win easily.
The American Legion high COM
mand recognized the difficulty and re-
Gently rushed up lobbying reinforce
mentS
The bonus situation will change
many times before the bonus fight
is over, but it is evident now that the
administration can expect to win in
| the end, probably by the enactment
of a satisfactory compromise and pos
Sibly by jockeying the whole bonus
business into legislative stalemate.
A group OF Mr.. Rooseuelt's
workers presented him on his
birthday ,0ith personal present
and q Stltuette OF forlorn figure
inscribed: "HarUdrd '04." When the
President sato it he remarked:
"ThiS is one of the tet0 1Dho has
not been to see me about job for
himself or friend"
Jesse Jones has little scheme for
unfreezing the mortgage market and
rescuing the New Deals housing Eliza
from the ice. You will hear much
about it in speeches he is planning.
That is why he got authority from
Congress in his new bill to buy pre-
ferred stock of mortgage companies.
Scheme Holds Promise.
His scheme is to reorganize some
existing mortgage companies, setting
up new ones and then advancing Gov
ernment money as working capital.
He also has an idea of placing cash
sale or loan value on mortgage GER
tificates. Then he will sell the Gov
ernment's interest in these certificates
to insurance companies and big banks,
which are now reluctant to step in.
That is lot of ice for him to thaw.
About S21 900 10000 of home mort
cages are now outstanding and SIS
000, 100000 of other mortgages. If any
one can make dent in 1t, Jones can.
He has a way of getting around things
in one way or another.
Representative McDuffie's appoint
ment to a Federal judgeship gives a
revealing insight into Congress now.
He was an experienced and efficient
legislator with nothing to do.
His name was not widely known
outside Alabama, but he knew the
business of legislation as only a few
House members know it. He spent II
years learning it. Yet during the
last few years he has been able to do
nothing in the way of constructive
legislative work. The important laws
are written down town, in the main,
by New Deal lawyers.
Congress has become necessarily
routine enacting body. to correct
errors and appeaSe the ConStitu-
tion. The opportunity for legiSla-
the brilliance no longer eriStS.
One member who retired last ses-
sion came back few days ago to look
down at his comrades from the gal
lery. His observation was: Il was only
push button during the last few
years and I would not go back"
Evening star., 1935-02-04
TOBACCO REVENUES
HIGHER THAN 1929
Virginia and Maryland Manufac-
turing Shows Heavy In.
crease in 1884.

Because the American people used
more tobacco in 1884 than in 1929, to-
bacco manufacturing generally showed
a sharp increase in 1884, throughout
Virginia and Maryland, according to
the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Tax revenues on cigar and ciga-
rettes both showed a substantial jump
in 1884 over 1888 in Virginia. Rev.
enue from cigar manufacturing rose
from $436, ST. 81 in 1888 to $512, ,733 %
in 1884, while the income on ciga-
rette taxes rose during the same period
in the Old Dominion from 500, ,020,-
283.54 to $107,610,515.85. Manufac-
tured tobacco taxes jumped from S.
653,269.9O to $3,847,124.2l.
In the Maryland district, which also
includes the District of Columbia,
cigar revenues were on the upgrade,
increasing from 40,77025 in 1898 to
S52,26381 in 1884. But cigarette
manufacture. which is small in Mary
land fell off from $257.93 to $138.09
Manufactured tobacco taxes in Mary
land dropped from $236.52 to $l32 48.
Virginia was second only to North
Carolina in cigarette manufacture,
but in cigar output fell behind Penn
sylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jer-
sey and Florida.
More tobacco was sold throughout
the country in 1884 than in any year
since 1929, according to figures. Total
tax revenues on tobacco manufactures
for the years from 1929 to date are as
follows: 1929, $449, ,058, ,963.84; 1880,
S446, 156,35467; 1881, $424, ,532, ,735.25;
1882, $387,271 ,26901; 1888, $409, ,308,-
921.04, and 1894, $452, 1856, ,438.07.
Evening star., 1935-02-04
MARINE OFFICER
DUE FOR PROMOTION
Name of Col. Holcomb Sent to
Senate by President to Be.
come Brigadier.

President Roosevelt today sent to
the Senate the nomination of Col.
Thomas Holcomb of the Marine Corps
to be brigadier general. Col. Hol-
comb is appointed to succeed Maj.
Gen. James C. Breckenridge as COM
mander of the Marine Corps School
at Quantico. Col Breckenridge was
promoted to the rank of major general
to succeed Maj. Gen. John T. Myers,
who retired last week because of age.
The names of the "a Marine off,
GERS selected for promotion to high
ranking places in the Marine Corps
probably will be made public within
the next "a hours
This list containing the names was
sent to the President for his approval
more than week ago and 1t was said
at the White House today that the list
will be returned to the Secretary of
the Navy this afternoon with his
necessary approval
The promotions include two colonels
to be made brigadier generals.
Evening star., 1935-02-04
Your Income Tax

Husband and WIFE May File JOINT or
Separate Returns.
Husband and wife living together
may each make a separate return Of
the income Of each, or their income
may be included in single joint re-
turn If a joint return is filed such
return is treated as a return Of
taxable unit. and the income dis
closed is subject to both the normal
tax and the surtax. If joint return
is not made by an agent of the tax
payers it must be signed by both hus-
band and wife and sworn to before
a proper officer by the spouse pre-
pairing the return. or if neither or
both prepare the return then by both
spouSes.
Where separate returns are filed by
husband and wife, the joint personal
exemption of s2,5O0 may be taken by
either or divided between them in any
| proportion as agreed upon. In GER
tain cases it would be to the ad-
vantage of the couple if they should
| file separate returns and one spouse
claim the total joint personal exemp-
ton. In the following examples,
which illustrate this point, the hus-
| band has a net income of S4700, all
| of which represents earned net in
come, and the wife has separate
| net income of $2,50O, not earned net
income.
Separate Returns.
Net income husband 81. 700. 90
Less personal exemption. ...... 2,b00.00
Balance (surtax net income) 100000
mo sur Snrtax Ia, applicable ISa Snne Slnce
Earned income credit. ........ $1,000
tax ................. $4,000
cent ..................... ~ s69eO
Net income. wife. SO. 500 90
Less personal exemption. ...... None
Less earned income credit. 80. 10000
Net income subject to normal
LAX .c-'-ou''"
Wife's normal tax at 4 per cent. 10000
Total tax Of husband and wife SI592O
Computation Of Joint Return.
Net income. husband. S4.700.00
Net income. wife. .... 100000 m
Less personal exemption ... 2,5O0.Oo
Balance (surtax net income) .S4,700.00
Earned income credit
10 per cent of earned
income Of hus- .,-ooo
band, 81 200; ...i $4,000
40 per cent Of net
income Of wife.
$500 25O.OO -ooo
net tax income SuO.ec. M ~ ss.esooo
NCsiss 81 $50 TAX ................c, D s159.20
surtax at i per cent on amount
in excess of 81 000 but not
over $4,000. per cent on
500 learned income credit
Of surtaxj ................ $500
Total tax. Joint return Of hus-
band and wife. ........... S1S7.20
1t will be noted that the saving in
tax resulting from the filing of sep
arate returns amounts to $28 in the
above computations.
sNote-In filing a Joint return husband
and wife compute the earned income credit
in the same manner as in filing separate
returns. If taxpayers net income Is not
more than $4,000 the entire net income
is considered to be earned net income.
Evening star., 1935-02-04
LAY EN-
Hand No Royal Flush.

One eXtraneous reason why Mr..
Roosevelt does not want to disclose his
hand is that the relief cards he is
holding are not exactly royal flush.
Grave doubts exist as to whether he
can spend s4,8000 100000 in the next
II months in the general way he has
suggested. Certainly he has not been
able to put out the amounts promised
for the last two years. If he specified
his expenditures (the blue print stuff /,
a weakness in his hand would be ap-
parent.
Meanwhile the $4,000, 100000 figure
sounds big enough to the congressional
inflationiSts.
Another thing phicT Mr.. RooSe-
Uelt cannot get disclose, but pro-
poses to do on relief, is to appoint
regional 1oage boards to fr regional
Government relief tUdges. He mill
do this to meet the labor protest,
but he ,UiH insist that any iCages
so fired be less than the private
business scale.
The anti-Ickes boys were cheering
recently about a very special inside
rumor that the Interior Secretary had
presented his resignation to Mr..
Roosevelt to take effect March /. They
hoped it was true, but thought it was
not. =.
You would have had your best laugh
Evening star., 1935-02-04
STORES EXPOSITION
TO STAGE CONTESTS
To-Day Show to Open at Washing.
ton Auditorium Wednesday
Night.

A contest for whistlers Thursday
night will be the first of a number
of interesting and unusual competi-
tions scheduled for this years United
Food Stores Exposition, which opens
at the Washington Auditorium We'd
nesday night. The show will be open
10 days, during the afternoon and
night.
Another attraction is the fiddlers'
contest, to be held next Monday night
Then, on the following Thursday
night, there will be a contest for imi-
tators Of radio and screen stars, while
tap dancers will get an opportunity to
perform closing night. Two thousand
dollars worth of prizes are to be given
away during the exposition.
Workers are busy decorating the
Auditorium for the show, the most at
tractive and extensively finished the
stores have held. Most of the three
score exhibitors Of foodstuffs have al
ready set up their booths. A novel
feature in the way of exhibitions will
be a model grocery, complete in every
detail, constructed on the Auditorium
floor.
Evening star., 1935-02-04
BILL WOULD FORCE .
FARLEY TO RESIGN
Senator Norris Measure
Would Compel Him to
Quit One of Posts.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy Tic AsoOSldScu ELcoss
An "anti-politics" bill, under which
James A. Farley would have to re-
sign either as Postmaster General or
Democratic national chairman, was
introduced in the Senate today by
Senator Norris Republican, of Ne
braska.
The bill, the Nebraskan said, takes
the Post Office Department, from top
to bottom, out of the control and dom
ination Of partisan politics"
The President, with the approval of
the Senate, would select the Post
master General for a 10-year term.
Instead of the present system, where
by Congressman have an important
voice in the appointment Of post
masters, all employees would be Sc
lected by the Postmaster General for
merit and efficiency" only, Norris
said. Promotions would be on the
same basis.
"Congressmen ought to be tickled
to death to be rid of the job Norris
said.
Explaining the anti-politics clause,
the Nebraskan said:
The bill provides that no poStmas-
ter or other official of the Post Office
Department, including the Postmaster
General himself, shall be chairman or
member of any political committee,
and shall not take part in the man
agement Of any political campaign.
The Postmaster General is directed to
remove any official guilty of such prac-
tice, and the President is directed to
remove the Postmaster General If he
engages in any such political activity. u
Evening star., 1935-02-04
1884 TAX REFUNDS
TOTAL S48,664,202
List of approximately 100,-
600 Who Paid U. S. Too
Much Sent to Congress.
BY the Associate ted Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
The Treasury delved through its
heap of records today and handed
Congress a list of something like
100000 Cancelled checks, representing
S48,664202 in refunds last year to
| the Nations taxpayers.
Some of the Endorsements were
penned by National figures; others
by treaSurerS of some of the country'S
biggest corporations. But largely they
were the names of individuals OF
whom most people never heard.
Into every State went at least some
| small parts of the money the Gov
ernment handed back after it de-
cided it had charged too much for
,axes. The tota, represented a drop
from S5l ,484,000 in the 1888 fiscal
year.
List Fills Hundreds Of Pages.
On hundreds of neatly typed pages
the refunds were listed for Congress
under law requiring a yearly report
Of every one of $500 or more.
Treasury officials who have strug-
gled with the figures for weeks could
not say exactly how many checks
were sent out during the past fiscal
year, but they thought the total easily
was 100000. In 1888, there were more
than $4,000.
RepaymentS on processing taxes on
hogS, wheat, cotton and tobacco ap-
peared in the list for the first time.
Lie insurance companies and rail-
ROADS received some of the largest
amounts. The biggest check went to
the New York Life Insurance Co.
OF Louisville, Ky.-S4, 1927 ,03047.
Film Stars on List.
Film stars appeared on the refund
lists alongside the movie companies
for which they work. Marlene Die
trlch, Frankie Darro, Walter Huston,
Greta Garbo, Ronald Colman, Clara
Bow, Billie Dove, John Gilbert,
Maurice Chevalier and Jackie Coogan
productions got back from 1926 to
S13,292.
Big department stores, such as
Filene's Sons Co., in Boston, and
Macy & Co, in New York, came in
for slices of the refunds, along with
such representatives of big business
as the Republic Steel Corp, General
Foods Corp, Halsey-Stuart & Co.,
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co. and
automobile, airplane and ship manu-
facturers.
Prominent in the list of big names
were the AStors of New York and the
du Points of Delaware.
AstOrs Get Refunds.
Waldorf Astor put 81 ,632 back into
his purse. The Astor trust for life
benefits of Waldorf and John Jacob
Astor were returned S57,O22O2 each.
The Treasury sent Henry B. du
Pont of Wilmington $13,412; Eugene
E. of Greenville, Del, $5,683; Pauline
Louise of Winton $2,234 and the es-
tate of Thomas Coleman du Pont,
Wilmington, S755.
Mrs. Grace G. Vanderbilt of New
York got back s2,074.
Jascha HeifetZ, the violinist, re-
ceived $1,521; Walter P. Chrysler,
auto manufacturer, $15,595; w. L.
Clayton, Houston, Tex, cotton man,
$3.50; L. H. Wentz, Ponca City, Okla,
oil king, $11,946.
Congress, as in the past, will do
nothing with the lengthy list but turn
it over to the Committee on Expendi-
lures in executive departments, under
the Craftsmanship of Representative
Cochran, Democrat, of Missouri.
Evening star., 1935-02-04
REVOLT CRUSHED,
LONG WILL RETURN
Senator Plans to Stop in
Atlanta for Talk on Way
to Washington.
BY The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, February A.
Having put down another rebellion in
his turbulent empire, temporarily at
least, Huey P. Long planned a return
to Washington today.
Problems presented by Square Deal
Association members. whom he &C
cused of placing a price on his head,
were left in the hands of his lieu
tenants and 400 State militiamen.
The inquiry into the alleged plot
against his life was adjourned indef-
initely by Long, but it was deemed
advisable to keep a reduced military
force under arms to cope with
"eventualities."
Plans Talk in Atlanta.
En- route to Washington Long will
stop at Atlanta to address the Georgia
legislators. He proposes to talk on
any subject Gov. Talmadge selects.
Before coming here from Baton Rouge
Sunday Long saw to it that the Louisi-
ana Public Service Commission issued
an order drastically lowering electric
rates in the capital.
AS Long prepared to leave the State
a new f1are-up Of oppoSitionistS loomed
over control of the East Baton Rouge
Parish government.
Showdown" Seen.
Long seized control of the parish
police jury, the governing body, two
weeks ago under a legislative act
which empowered Gov. Allen to ap-
point one juror for each of the 13
elected jurors. Four of the elected
jurors were friendly to Long. giving
him a Sizable majority. The nine
anti-Long members, however, plan
to resist the reorganization by court
action.
DR.. Clarence A. Lorio, president
of the reorganized jury, called the
group to meet today to authorize the
borrowing of money for relief pur-
poses against the parish's gasoline
tax.
Borrowing authority is considered
the vital factor in the parishis man
agement and some quarters looked
for Showdown" between the two
groups after the meeting.
Evening star., 1935-02-04
Insurgents Plan Own Drive
Amid Talk of Potential
Strike April |.
BY the Associated Press.

oy inc ASSOClateu fTeSS
PITTSBURGH, Pa, February A.
InSurgent members of mine and stee.
unions started mapping today a labor
campaign of their own, in opposition
to union leaders policies, amid talk
of potential April l strike"
The rank and file faction of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers set up a Ma
tional Organization Committee last
night and called for a "whirlwind
militant" drive to force steel COM
panies to recognize the union as a
collective bargaining agency.
Some $50 miners in an adjacent
hall pledged corporation with the
steel workers and chose a committee
OF 27 to draw up joint plan of action
The steel workers drafted a l0-point
program opposing the policies of the
Amalgamated and the delay of the
National Labor Board in making GER
tain decisions.
At a combined session of the two
groups Joseph Finan, vice president
OF the MaSontown, Pa, local, United
Mine Workers Of America, said dele
gates to the miners meeting repre-
Sented $4,000 organized workers.
Our physical and moral support
will be given to the program you have
adopted" Finan told the steel rank
and fllerS.
Clarence Irwin of Youngstown,
Ohio, named head of the National
Organization Committee, said the 400
delegates represented 78 lodges in Hi
noiS, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania.
At both "rump" sessions speakers
we're outspoken in opposition to the
leadership of Michael F. Tighe. vet
eran president of the Amalgamated
and John L. Lewis, head Of the U. NJ
w. A.
Evening star., 1935-02-04
Bethesda Women to Hear Talk.

BETHESDA. Md. February (Spe-
ciaD Mrs. Everett B. Hickerson of
the Political Study Club of Washing
ton will speak at a meeting of the
Woman's Club Of Bethesda, book re-
view section, at II am. tomorrow.
She will discuss Forty Days on Mesa
Dagh" and Kate Speake Penney's ~.
s." Mrs. Charles Leonard Chambers
will review Lamb in His Bosom. .
Mrs. E. A. A. Dunn is luncheon
hostess
Evening star., 1935-02-04
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Relief Bill Changes, IF
Any, to Have White
House Q. K.
BY PAUL MALLON.

BIZ PAUL N1ALLoN.
-HE New Dealers who testified
about President Roosevelt's
S4,8OO,OOO,OO0 relief appropria-
L ton bill were like many wit
neSSeS in the Hauptmann case
They did not know or could not re-
member
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee started out to break down any
reticence. The persistent administra-
ton critic, Senator Carter Glass, was
in charge. He called Messrs. Hop
klns, Ickes, Bell, Peoples and as many
others as he could think of. When he
got through, he knew no more than
when he started. In fact, he admitted
he could not even find out who wrote
the bill.
This mystery melodramd is, OF
course, partially congressional stage
play Congress is trying to pin Mr..
Roosevelt do,Dn officially. and Mr..
Roosevelt ,oiH not be pinned do,Cn.
UnoffciGlly nearly euery one knoUs
1chdt is supposed to be in con-
templdtion and lrllo 1Crote the bill.
At least it all has been published.
Ordinarily it would be a very serious
thing if Glass, the Democratic chair
man of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, opposed the big Demo-
cratic relief bill, but that has been
all fixed Glass is chairman of the
committee in name only. The real
New Deal chairman is Senator Jim
Byrnes. He is the White House leg
islative handy man who can fix any
thing that can be fixed.
White House to Fix Changes.
This means the mystery bill will
be enacted with only such major
changes as the White House tells
ByrneS it wants.