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Evening star., 1935-02-26

fighting this legislation for years An
auto responsibility bill was introduced
in the Seventieth Congress about nine
years ago by Representative Rogers of
Massachusetts, She reintroduced her
bill in the Seventy-first Congress and
Representative Mcleod also introduced
bill which was passed by the House
but not acted upon by the Senate
Again in the Seventy-second Congress
Mcleod reintroduced his bill and Mrs
Norton of New Jersey also introduced
similar legislation. The Mcleod bill
passed the House q second time, but
again the Senate failed to act In the
Seventy-third Congress the Mcleod
auto liability bill was passed by the
House. The Senate passed taxicab
liability bill in that Congress. but in
a squabble that developed, neither
House accepted the others measure.
The measure now under consideration
combines the general auto liability bill
with provisions covering taXicab own
ers and operators. This measure is
in accordance with proposals for uni
form State legislation recommended
by the national conference on street
and highway safety, called by the
President. The measure was drafted
by corporation counsel in conference
with groups representing all interested
parties and was sent to the Capitol
by the District Commissioners. It
was introduced by the chairmen of
the Senate and House District Com
mitteeS,
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Your Income Tax
Automobile Deductions.

With the number of automobile own
ers registering in the millions, the
question of deductions for the cost of
operation and maintenance Of motor
car frequently arises. The purchase
price of an automobile, whether 1t is
to be used for business or pleasure,
cannot be deducted from gross income.
II used for business. 1t is a capital
expenditure; if used for pleasure, 1t Is
a personal expenditure-both deduc-
tions being expressly prohibited by
the income-tax law.
Several deductions, however, are al-
lowable in connection with the cost OF
maintenance and operation Of an auto
mobile, used either for business or
pleasure. If used exclusively for busi-
ness, deductions may be taken for the
cost of gasoline, oil. repairs. garage
rent and other necessary operation
and upkeep expenses. Depreciation,
based on the cost of the car and its
estimated useful life, also is deduct
ible
OTHER deductible items are as follows:
Sums paid during the taxable year
for registration fees, drivers licenses.
personal property tax. and municipal
taxes; interest on money borrowed for
the purchase Of motor car. either for
business or for pleasure; loss sustained
by reason Of damage while car Is being
used for business. provided such loss
is not covered by insurance or other
wise; damages paid for injury to an
other, provided that the car was being
used for business at the time, and the
damage was not covered by insurance
or otherwise, and the amount paid
for insurance on motor vehicles used
for business purposes.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
IN WOODS"
RETURN TO SCHOOL
Used to Sleeping in Forests,
They Suffer No Ill
Effects.

Thanks to nights spent in the open
while touring the West with their
parents. 8-year -old John and Mar
garet Miller. twin babes in the
woods" were back at Keene School
today with not so much as a cold
from their Sunday nights sleep in a
thicket just of the Baltimore Boule-
ward
While a thousand men searched a
nearby Maryland swamp, the two
children of Mr. and Mrs George F.
Miller, II Milmarson place. slept
peacefully on a bed of pine needles,
one of their coats under them. the
other doing duty as blanket
Miller. a writer and publisher of
works on educational subjects, has
often taken his family on automobile
tours. Too. John and Margaret are
enthusiastic readers of adventure
stories. They hope to join the Boy
and Girl Scouts some day, and already
have begun to prepare.
John and Margaret, however, will
revise their never speak to strangers,
but only to policemen" rule. which,
they now feel, is more applicable to
city than country life. The twins
obeyed this rule and remained lost
within sight of one of the worlds
busiest motor highways.
Early yesterday the twins found the
policeman they had been seeking since
they were lost in the swamp Sunday
afternoon while on family picnic.
The twins had been seeking the
policeman no whit harder than the
policeman had been seeking the twins
Evening star., 1935-02-26
n. N.R.A.LEG|SLATVE R.
PROGRAM DEBATED
House Chiefs Believe Sen.
ate Should Act First on
Controversial Bill.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Differences developed today between
some presidential advisers and Demo.
cratlc congressional leaders over
whether the House or Senate should
act first on the proposal to extend
N. r. A. another two years.
Some of the administration strate-
gists thought the House should act
firSe, because: /. The Senate unset
the administrators plans on wages
in the $4,880, 900 900 work and relief
bill; 2. The House has been less prone
to revolt this session.
Senatorial spokeSmen were inclined
to agree, but they met strong opposi-
tion from Democratic chiefs on the
House side.
Byrns Explains Stand.
AS expressed by Speaker Byrns,
their position was this:
I've heard lot of talk around the
House to the effect that since the
House has to originate so many bills
anyhow. the Senate should start off
one of these controversial measures.
Besides that, the Senate is on the
verge OF an investigation Of the N. r.
A. 1t wouldn't be right for us to
bring in a bill extending the N. r. A.
While the Senate was still investi-
eating it.
Some members contend that the
Senate committee could investigate
the N. r. A. and consider the bill to
extend it at the same time"
Byrns did not say so. but another
majority leader remarked that 1T is
time the Senate took the rap on
something"
House Gets Blame
Asking that his name not be used,
this leader added:
we have to act first on all appro-
priations bills. The Constitution says
so. 1t also says that since the social
security bill carries tax, we've got
to vote on that first, too.
We had to pass the S4,880, 600, 900
bill first. Look what the Senate is
doing to it! If there's any liberaliza-
tion of that bill, the Senate gets the
credit and we get~the blame for the
original sin.
The same thing will happen on
social security. It's time these Sen
ators realized that House members
have constituents. too."
This member added that changes the
Senate had made in House bills we're
responsible, to great extent, for evi-
dences of dissatisfaction in the House.
Besides the public works bill, he point
ed to the fact that the Senate had
overridden an administration recon-
mendation and voted to restore the 5
per cent Federal pay cut on April /.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
15ARE CONVICTED
AS BARROW AIDES
Relatives and Friends Are
Found Guilty of Plot
to Harbor Pair.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS. Tex, February ga Fed
eral Court jury today convicted IS
relatives and friends of the slain out
law couple Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker on a charge of conspiracy to
harbor fugitives from justice
Judge william H. AtWell immedi-
ately began sentencing the Is. along
with S other defendants in the case,
who previously had pleaded guilty.
Year and Day for Methvin.
Henry Methvin. one-time associate
of Barrow, was given a year and a
day in Federal Penitentiary.
The other IA convicted today were
Mrs Cumie Barrow and Mrs Emma
Parker, the mothers Of Clyde and
Bonnie; Hilton Byee. S. J. Whatley.
w. D. Jones, Floyd Hamilton, Steve
Davis, Billie Mace. L. c. Barrow, Mrs.
Steve Davis, Marie Francis, Audrey
Fay Barrow, Joe ChambliSs and Mil
dred Hamilton.
Mrs. Parker was given a 30-day jail
sentence
Floyd Hamilton. brother of Ray
mond Hamilton, fugitive convict, re-
ceived two-year sentence in Leaven-
worth Penitentiary
Meanwhile Texas officers pressed
an intensive search for Raymond
Hamilton. the Southwest desperado's
former lieutenant.
Haunts of Hamilton, who succeeded
Barrow as the Southwest's No. pub
lie enemy. were watched by officers
after the desperate and companion
had shot their way out of a police
trap at Mckinney and kidnapped three
farm boys in their fight.
Released late yesterday, the boys,
Buster Mayes, J. C. Loftice and j. c,
Harlow, said Hamilton gave them 81
and told them to get back home and
keep your mouths shut"
They were allowed to take the
motor car their captors had stolen
from Mayes' father.
Later Hamilton and his companion
were reported headed north from Fort
Worth in a stolen machine.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.
TODAY.


SENATE.
Takes up slim calendar.
Munitions Committee questions
Eugene G. Grace, steel executive.
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
conducts hearing on coal bill.
HOUSE.
Considers miscellaneous legislation.
Agriculture Committee opens hear
ing on A. A. A. amendments.
Interstate Commerce Committee
conducts hearing on holding company
regulation.
WAYS and Means Committee works
on economic security bill.
YESTERDAY.
SENATE.
Passed $s8 900, 900 appropriation bill
for Commerce, Labor, Justice and
State Department.
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
heard mine workers indorse Guffey
coal bill.
Munitions Committee heard that
Eugene G. Grace, steel executive, has
received $4,000, 900 in bonuses.
HOUSE.
Naval Committee approved $38,-
OO0, 900 naval public works bill.
Military Committee opened hearings
on $405, 100000 Army modernization
plan.
Patents Committee heard testimony
that sabotage might have been In
volved in Akron and Macon airship
crashes.
Ways and Means Committee voted
20 increase pay roll tables for old
age annuities under social security bill.
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DUKE BENEFIT PLANNED

A dance and card party will be held
at the Shoreham Hotel by the Duke
University Alumni Association Satur-
day night for the benefit of the schol-
arship and loan fund Of the associa-
ton, it was announced today by Miss
Jane Elizabeth Newton, president.
A special invitation has been ex-
tended the parents Of Duke students
who reside in Washington and nearby
Maryland and Virginia.
william w. "BilI' Werber, Boston
Red Sox third baseman, is chairman
Of the Ticket Committee.
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acquiring sites and has attacked real
estate spectators. A Louisville, KY,
Federal Judge held recently that P.
w. A. lacked authority to condemn
land. Perturbed, P. w. A. asked the
Supreme Court to rule directly or its
appeal without awaiting action by the
Circuit Court.
P. W. A officials are in the midst
Of preparations for an effort to put
an expanded housing. program in the
forefront Of the s4,000,0 900 900 work
program If such a plan meets with
necessary approval. Just now, how
ever, borrowings from the p. w. A.
housing division to exc out relief funds
while the huge work and relief bill
is tied up in the Senate have left the
housing division with insufficient
funds to finance more than one-sixth
Of the projects authorized.
Ickes, who recently declared hous-
ing was his major personal interest"
in the entire public works program,
expects the borrowed SOS. 900 900 to
be refunded from the $3.50, 900 900 the
huge bill carries for relief.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
MRS. MARY HARPER DIES
Funeral Services to Be Held To-
morrow Morning.

Mrs. Mary Ellen Harper, widow of
Charles z. Harper, died Sunday after
q lingering illness at her home, 1880
Irving street. She had lived in Wash
ington all her life.
Mrs. Harper is survived by three
sons, Charles G., Bernard T. and Ray
mond F. Harper, and four daughters,
Mrs. William II. Mandley, Mrs. James
C. Prince, Mrs. James B. Kennedy and
Mrs. John T. ONeill.
Funeral services will be held at her
home tomorrow at $50 am. followed
by requiem mass at Sacred Heart
Church at 9. Burial will be in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
President to Win His
Fight on Relief Bill.
Both Sides Bluff.
BY PAUL MALLON.

U you can save your eyes oy not
" reading most of the statements
I being given out by both sides
/ in this relief bill fight. Both
the New Dealers and the Sen
ate oppositionists are doing consider
able blufing. There will undoubtedly
be further hectic backing and filling
before the measure is finally enacted,
but in the end President Roosevelt
will get Just about any kind Of a bill
he wants.
Administration leaders confess as
much privately. They concede that
their latest move in sending the bill
back to committee was designed
mainly to teach the Senate lesson.
The strategy appears to have been
conceived in a moment of pique after
Mr. Roosevelt's temporary setback on
the relief wage plan. The idea was
that the country would Immediately
proceed to ridicule the Senate for
playing politics.
1t was a hazardous move. but the
congressional leaders are sure 1t will
work out all right.
Evening star., 1935-02-26

All Legislatures develop sheep hab-
it's after they have been assembled
in session for a couple of months.
They think in groups and not indi-
vidually. A group leader takes a
slant on an issue. His associates seize
it and poll parrot it around. After
it has been repeated often enough it
becomes a fact. This is what makes
the jobs of lobbyists easy.
In tact, the whole city OF wash
ington normally displays the same
tendency toUard developing deeply
grooued Uiewpoints.
Mr.. Roosevelt UGs able to use
this historic habit for his oUn ad-
Uantage during the initial tUo
years, but noU things seem to be
getting back to normal.
Patronage hungry Congressman are
behind the move for congressional
investigation of the Home Owners
Loan Corp. 1t is only a threat to
make the H. o. L. C. open up on jobs.
II Congress carries it much further,
you may see Chairman Fahey resign.
He has intimated as much privately
to friends. Fahey is dead set against
opening up the field agent jobs to the
spoilsmen.
Anti-Power Groups Aroused.
The Grubb decision against the
Tennessee Valley Authority has
aroused the anti-power groups in the
Senate so much that they have pri-
vately vowed to watch all judicial
nominations more closely hereafter.
The immediate effect has been to
inspire an investigation of a district
attorney recently nominated in a
southern State. The idea, of course,
is to ascertain how judges and prose-
cutors stand on the power issue be-
fore the Senate confirms them.
The best reason for signing
ToUnSend old-age pension plan
petition has been offered by
snaGll-totCn school superintendent
from a Rocky Mountain State. He
tuGs in to1Un recently, seeing his
Senator. The Senator remon-
strated ,Dith him for signing
Townsend petition, saying he had
better sense than to belieue the
rldn workable.
Il know it." replied the school
superintendent. But I had to do it.
You see, all the members of the
School Board In my town are over
Co." y
The Senator agreed this was sum-
cient reason.
tCopyrisht. 19351
Evening star., 1935-02-26

There was no question among in
siders that politics was behind the
Senate wage decision. Many of the
forty-four Senators who opposed Mr.
Roosevelt really voted from sincere
conviction. A fair backstage guess
has been made that possibly half of
them did You can tell the ones who
did by looking into their past labor
record.
The rest could be divided into two
classes: o. Democrats who wanted
to get in good with labor. and t2I
Republican old guardsmen who voted
against their real convictions just to
make trouble
The pote OF this latter class is
causing scandalous cloak-room dis
cussion. EUen the uictors did not
like the help they got from this
source. They say it dtscredited
their sincere efforts to get changes
in the bill
Half a dozen old guardsmen could
be named, who have always been
against boosting relief costs, against
union wage scales, against imitation
and everything the amendment stood
for, yet they voted for it.
Guns Guard Long.
A Washington newsman was sitting
in his semi-suburb ban home the other
night with his wife, when the door
bell rang. 1t was about 10 pm. He
went to the door, drew it open eau
tiously and was confronted with Huey
Long, fianked by two threatening in
dividuals.
Just dropped in for a little chat"
said Huey. Don't mind my boys
here. They just look big because they
have a couple of submachine guns
along"
The machine gunners stood guard
while the chat proceeded. When it
was over they secuted around to see
that the coast was clear, escorted
Huey to his car and drove off.
And this is the year of our Lord
1885, the year after a Century of
Progress in these United States was
celebrated rather expansively at Chi
cago.
Sheep Thinking in Congress.
Any one who has had any expert
ence with Legislatures. State or Ma
tional, will recognize the symptoms
behind the current disorderly situa-
ton in Congress, not only on relief,
but on every other issue.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
Jailed for Abandoning Child.

OKLAHOMA CITY, February 26
P.-David Penn Chitwood, convicted
of abandoning his daughter five years
ago when she was stricken dumb by
an attack of meningitis, was SEN
fenced yesterday to five years in the
penitentiary by District Judge Clar-
ence Mills.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
408-Pound Man in PLAY.

MAYFTELD. KY. R.-when the
casting director Of home talent play
assigned the part Of q mountain las
sic to Nathan Yates, 40S-pound news
paper reporter, the property man had
no small problem. His solution: A
dress containing 7,l08 square inches
of material.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
ENGINEER CATCHES FISH
ATOP 14-STORY BUILDING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, February 26.-L.
M. Grow. an engineer, caught a 6-inch
striped, small-mouthed bass on the
roof of downtown, History build
ing. The live fish dropped out when
he opened bottom valve on the
buildings water tank.
He believes it slipped through fish
screens high in the Sierra Mountains,
was carried through conduits the
$50 or 800 miles to Los Angeles and
dumped into the tank.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
HORSE SHOW TONIGHT
First of Series of Indoor Events
to Be Held at Fort Myer.

to Be Held at Fort Myer.
The first of a series of indoor horse
shows at Fort Myer. Va. will be held
tonight at 8 o'clock in the riding hall.
which is expected to be packed to the
limit of its 1900 seating capacity.
Lieut. Col George S. Patten. jr,
is the director of the show, and assist
ing him will be Capt. James T. Duke.
3rd Cavalry. who is acknowledged to
be one of the leading instructors in
horsemanship in the Army.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
NEW FARM DEBTS
FOR OLD CREATED.
Borrowing to Buy, Present
Trend, With Anxiety About
Day of Reckoning.

This is the second OF series OF
fpe articles contrasting conditions
in the Northern States OF the Mid
die West, as Mr.. Roosevelt, q MEM
Der OF the editorial stat of the New
York Herald Tribune, found them
on a recent tour and in the Autumn
OF 1888.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
WILLIAM W. BRIDE
DIES AT HOSPITAL
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
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Claims and the United States Su-
preme Court His later private legal
work was of varied character and he
specialized in international law.
Resident Of Edgemoor.
For many years Mr.. Bride lived in
Edgemoor, Md He was active in
civic affairs and was one of the
charter members of the Montgomery
County Civic Federation and chair
man of the Public Safety Committee.
He, with other members in the or
ganization, was particularly active in
organizing the Bethesda Volunteer
Fire Department, serving several terms
as president of the Bethesda Fire
Board. At the conclusion Of his
tenure in this position he was made
an honorary president for life. Even
while serving as an official OF the
District of Columbia. he continued TO
take a tremendous interest in the
activities of the Bethesda Fire De-
partment.
Mr.. Bride was former counsel for the
Rumanian Legation. serving in this ca
paciy from 1924 to 1927 He also
served for several years as consul for
Rumania in Maryland.
Mr. Bride was born here in 1881, the
son of Cotter T. and Louise Henrietta
CWitthaft Bride He attended East
ern High School, ST Johns College.
Tnnruafnnv, TIpiuorcifyy l,to
College tnow George Washington Uni
versity) and the University of Ne
braska. He received the degrees Of
B. A. and LII. B.
During the war Mr.. Bride served
as a captain in the intelligence di-
vision of the Army and after the
armistice he returned here to practice
law. mostly before Federal depart
mentS. While engaged in that pur-
suit he represented many out-of-
town lawyers before these depart
ments.
Entered d. c. Service in 1927.
Mr.. Bride entered the District gov
ernment service July l. 1927. He was
brought to that office by Sidney F.
Taliaferro. then the Commissioner in
charge Of the corporation counSel'S
Office.
The administration of the Districts
legal department had fallen into dis
favor with some members of Congress
and Mr. Bride was selected TO effect
some reorganization Of its machinery.
One Of his last important acts as
corporation counsel was the prepara-
ton for the new Board of Commits
sioners of a draft Of the bill to legalize
sale of alcoholic beverages in the
National Capital.
Member Of Many Clubs.
Mr.. Bride was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in
1900. He served as a colonel on the
staff of the Governor of Nebraska
from 1908 to 1910 He was a member
of the Inaugural Committee for Pres
ident Wilson in 1918 and 1917. He
was member Of the Army and Navy
Club, the Racquet Club, the Chevy
Chase Club. the Delta Chi Fraternity.
the. Sigma Chi Fraternity, the Edge
moor Club and the Edgemoor Citizens
Association
He is survived by his wife. Luh Mae
Fairbanks Bride, and four sons and
daughters, Dorothy Fairbanks MRS.
Paul G. Felix. Adelaide Witthaft
William Witthaft, jr., and Noel Craw-
ford Bride.
Evening star., 1935-02-26
P. w. A. HOUSES ONLY
124 FAMILIES AFTER
YEAR OF PROGRESS

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Evening star., 1935-02-26
Think Of Day Of Reckoning.

In the next article, tomorrow, Mr..
Roosevelt win discuss the reactions
to the crop control policies Of the
New Deal
Evening star., 1935-05-06
DIR. T. c. D|NW|DD|E,
DRY LEADER, DIES
National Temperance Bu-
reau Head Had Been III
Since July.

DIR. Edwin G. Dinwiddie, superin-
tendent Of the National Temperance
Bureau. and for IS years a champion
Of the cause Of prohibition, died yes
terday at his home. 1902 Lamont
street, after an illness of several
months. He was in his 68th year.
Funeral services are being held this
afternoon at the home, in charge Of
DR.. H. w. Snyder Of st. Paul's Lu-
theran Church. Burial will be to-
morrow in Springfield, Ohio.
DR.. Dinwiddie came to Washington
at the turn Of the century, estab-
fishing headquarters for the Anti
Saloon League. He was the first legis-
lative representative of the anti
liquor forces, and was credited with
drying up Army canteens.
Formed Bureau.
In 1905. after q disagreement with
other ofncials of the Anti-Saloon
League, Dr. Dinwiddie was instru-
mental in forming the Temperance
Bureau, which banded together a
number Of organizations. and elected
to the superintendency, he remained
Evening star., 1935-05-06

lege and Wittenberg College. His or
dination took place In 1894 and In
1922 Wittenberg conferred upon him
the honorary degree Of doctor Of
divinity.
Surviving are the widow, who was
Miss Olive H. Smith of Selma, Ohio; a
son, Horace M. Dinwiddie of Irving
ton, N. j., and = daughter, Mrs. Sam
uel r. Painter Of this city.