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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-17
HOUSE GETS
D. {. TAX
BILL
Amended Measure Is
Offered at Opening
Of Chamber

The rule for special considers
ton of the District tax increase
legislation was. called up in the
House shortly after that body met
today.
Representative John j. O'Con-
nor CD Of New York, chairman
of the Rules Committee, made the
opening statement asserting:
/ Despite the editorial conn
ment and assertions by column
nistS in Washington papers in
the last few days, the Rules
Committee has been trying to
help out the District in this Sc
riOus situation.
TAXED TWICE NOW
'HThe action Of the House last
Monday, when IL refused to con-
slider the District tax bill, can
not be interpreted as it has been
in the local papers as selfish
action ON the part Of members
In trying to escape q local IN
come tax here. Mother can be
farther from the truth.
SIT Is a false understanding
that people have that Congress
men pay no taxes. We pay q Fed
eral income tax on our salaries
and we have to pay taxes in our
home States"
He declared that the difficulty
in dealing with an income tax in
the District is that a vast number
Of the people here are trar1sients,
many of them Federal employees,
and that for that reason it is diff
cult to draw an income-tax bill
that will be. reasonable and
equitable.
AS it goes to !. the House floor
today the bill carries amendments
Of the District Committee, ap.
proved yesterday on demands OF
House leaders, eliminating the in.
come tax provisions and including
a new section calling for an in
crease of 20 cents in the real es.
tate tax rate. This will raise the
rate to $1.70 per 500 assessed val
uation, instead of the present
$1.50.
Other Provisions
Other provisions of the bill are:
A business privilege tax, an in
heritance and estate tax; a motor
vehicle weight tax: an increase in
the tax on insurance premiums
collected; a Tightening of the in
tangible tax law; a provision to
bond importers of gasoline so as
to assure collection of all gasoline
taxes; a section authorizing the
District Commissioners to borrow
from the Federal Treasury during
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. 81
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DISARN MILLS,
SAYSMURRAY


Warning of a general civil
war" Phillip Murray, strike leader
for the C. I. o. today called upon
the government to disarm steel
plants, enforce collective bargain
ing agreements, and protect union
workers from industrial strife.
At the same time. Senator
Bridges (R.) of New Hampshire,
whose resolution to investigate al
legged interference with the mail
in the strike areas led to the in
quiry, issued a sharp demand for
Presidential intervention in the
strike.
Wide Probe Demanded
Bridges declared there had been
an appalling breakdown Of law
and order in this country and as
serted he had additional evidence
to warrant a wide and sweeping
investigation by the United States
Senate" He added:
1--WE have conditions In exist
ence in this country which are
a disgrace to the Federal Gov.
eminent and a challenge to the
American people,"
Murray, chairman Of the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee,
appeared before the Senate Post
office Committees investigation
CONTINUED ON Page 9, Col. 81
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PROBES
FILM HIDING
International News Service


A Chicago police captain and
an assistant States attorney have
been subpoenaed to appear before
the Senate Civil Liberties Com
mittee to explain charges they at
tempted to suppress a news reel
film of the Memorial Day strike
riot.
The subpoenaes were announced
today by Chairman La Toilette
'(PO of Wisconsin, of the investi-
eating committee. He said the
riot occurred outside the Republic
Steel Corporations plant in South
Chicago and resulted in the death
of at least seven workers and the
injury of scores Of others.
The suppressed film was run off
at a private showing for members
of the Senate committee and its
investigators.
La Toilette said the committee
was advised the film had been
confiscated by the Chicago police
department and hidden. The
names Of the police captain and
the assistant States attorney were
not Immediately disclosed.
The tip-off came, said Robert
Wohlforth, committee secretary,
from a Chicago minister who was
said to have witnessed the shooting
and fatal wounding Of workers
allied with the Committee for
Industrial Organization.
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Tax Evasion Schemes
Revealed BY Probe

holding companies for creating
SURPRISES and artificial deduc-
tiOnS.
MULTIPLE TRUSTS
Incorporation of yachts and
country estates. A rich man, he
said, treats q hobby as a bust
ness, and thus is enabled to take
losses in his income tax return.
Creation Of multiple trusts for
relatives and dependents. The
principal object of this method,
he said, is to split income be-
tween husband and wife or be.
tween father and children. This
has the effect of reducing sur.
taxes.
Husband and wife or father
and children partnerships. This,
he said, is a variation Of the
multiple trust plan.
Device of pension trust. The
revenue act Of 1886, he said,
permitted corporations to deduct
from income amounts paid into
q pension fund. One corpora
tiOn, he said, is trying to put
Continued on Page 9, Col. II
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i. 5.
PAY ROLL
THEFT
interior Aide Named
In Foreeries Said to
Exceed $4,000

Investigative agencies of the De
partment of the Interior for three
months have been on an ap-
parently endless trail Of forgerieS
and pay roll paddings by one Of
the responsible officers of the Ma
tional Park Service, whose pecula-
tions are expected to exceed $780,
900 it was disclosed today.
Already arrested and at liberty
under q large bond, the official,
whose position placed him in di-
rect charge Of pay vouchers, may
be accused of having obtained far
more than the $1,000 charged in
his original arrest warrant, 1t was
said.
FORGED Names Of Employees
According to investigators, the
official forged the name Of others
employed In the National APark
service to D large numbSt Of
vouchers, obtained Government
checks on the vouchers and then
converted the checks to his own
use.
It was revealed that the first
charge already has ben presented
to the grand jury but, it is re.
ported, an indictment has been
withheld until the entire case has
been investigated.
May Take Several Months
The probe, it was said, may re.
quire several months. A bale of
checks and vouchers, believed 20
have been forged by the man, have
not yet been analysed concluSively
by, DR.. Wilmer Souders, Bureau of
Standards expert, to determine
whether the signatures they bear
are authentic or the work OF a
clever forger.
Further complicating the work
Of the investigators, it is said, the
latter find that each asserted pee
ulation gives a lead to another,
with the result that the burden
Of the investigation has almost
outgrown the departments secret
service staff.
Even at this time, investigators
admit, they have not reached the
beginning Of the trail of alleged
forgeries, nor can they tell where
it ends.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-17
''ScOEned'' Wife Costs
Ensign His Post

Hell hath no fury like woman
scorned," and, as a result, a Navy
ensign who was graduated from
Annapolis just few days ago is
out his commission and maybe
his wife.
The Navy Department revealed
today that the commission of
Charles A. Nash, jr., a star mem
Der of this years graduating class,
has been revoked because he vio..
lated the regulation which bans
the marriage of midshipmen or en-
signs for two years after gradua-
zion.
Meet At Beach
And Mrs. Charles A. Nash, jr.,
the former Miss Beulah Woodland,
announced that she is going to
seek an annulment or a divorce.
The young couple met a year
ago when Nash was returning
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-17
u. 5. DEBT HITS
ALL-TIME HIGH

The Federal public debt scared
to 500, 633 DOT 1902 June IS, the
highest in history, Treasury stats
tics revealed today.
On the same date a year ago,
the debt was $34,331, 1855 1857.
Issuance Of $500, 100000 in new Sc
curities this month, coupled with
a $500, 000, 900 payment to the
Government Social Security fund.
brought the debt figure to its all.
time peak,
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CurIey Lduds Hearst
As the Champion Of
American Defenses

BOSTON, June II u.N.So
Tribute to william Randolph
Hearst, whom he termed "the
clarion Of America" whose motto
ever has been safeguard the
United States of America" was
paid today by former Governor
James M. Curley in an address
concentrating the one hundred
and sixty-Second anniversary of
the battle Of Bunker Hill, in
Charlestown.
Curley told the Charlestown
Community Club, as he urged the
country to shake the termiteS of
communism and bolshevism from
the American flag:
"Mr. Hearst was first to call
for a strong Navy, first to de-
mand increase of the enlisted
personnel Of the Army and first
to urge expansion of our air
forces"
A huge parade, viewed by
100000, was the highlight Of the
celebration.
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Senator Chavez Back
Home From Hospital

Senator Dennis Chavez CD of
New Mexico. was at his home to-
day at 1861 Crescent Pl. N. w.. fol
lowing a days stay at the Naval
Hospital, where he underwent ex-
animation for a stomach ailment.
He was stricken at his office Tues
day. When asked about his health
today, he said:
"T never felt better in my life."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-17
Trolley Fun
Embarrasses Wife,;
She Obtains Divorce

CHICAGO, June II GN.S0.-
Peter Kramer's fast excursion on
a borrowed street car full of pas
sengers a year ago cost him his
wife today.
She was very much embarrassed
by the incident, Mrs. Grace
Kramer, %, testified in obtaining
a divorce before Superior Judge
Joseph B. David.
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from the annual European cruise
the middies take. The hattleships
were anchored off Virginia Beach
for several days, and at a beach
club they met.
Nash started by making love to
her, she said, and a couple Of days
later they eloped to North Caro-
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Earhart at Calcutta

CALCUTTA, India, June II Il.
N.S0. - Completing a 1,4O0.mile
hop from Karachi. Amelia Ear.
hart arrived here at 3:46 p. m. to-
day on her equatorial globe-girdl-
ing flight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-17
DESH0NG ASKS
SHOT AT TIGERS
By FRANK "BUCK" O'NEILL

Roxie Lawson, whose name is
anathema to the GriffS, will hurl
for Detroit this afternoon as the
series with the BengalS comes to a
close at Griffith Stadium.
It is Monte Weaver'S turn to
pitch, but there is a chance that
Bucky Harris will send back Jimmy
DeShong. Jimmy says his defeat
the other day was due to bad
luck, and maybe he will have his
revenge today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-17
Murderer Of Girl, 7,
Critically III in Prison

OSSINING, N. Y, June II Il.
N.S0 Salvatore Ossido, Brooklyn
barber convicted of Staying 7.year.
old Elmer Sporrer, was in a serious
condition at Sing Sing prison to-
day following an operation for ap-
pendicitiS.
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100000 U.S.. PAYROLL THEFT CHARGED
Laugh, Clowns, Laugh

- PAO0NOAAS NA UA0NN'
Of Washington.
No wonder
The President is only one human being, after all.
But the outrageous and complicated tax schemes
proposed for the city of Washington by the present
session of Congress would test the skill OF dozen
Philadelphia lawyers and try the patience of score
of Biblical Jobs.
Problems, are they7
Taxes NAV be "problems" to the carefree members
of Congress who write the laws but they actual
hardshps to the people who have to dig into their
pockets to pay them.
What care members of Congress from Oshkosh and
Podunk who fasten $4O000,00o tax bill upon the I'M
franchised people of Washington?
It is not the members of Congress who pay these
taxes.
It is the people of Washington who pay them, out of
the sweat of their hard labor out of the bank deposits
they had saved against old age.
The city of Washington supplies schools, sanitation,
domestic water fire and police protection and the other
nnumerable services for the Congressman and other
public officials and their families who have only the
casual interest of temporary residence here-AND THE
PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON ARE EXPECTED BY
CONGRESS TO PAY THE BILLS.
member Of Congress expressed the diLettante
philosophy of the House. He said:
1--WE pay taxes at home, AND WE ARE HERE
ONLY
A motion was made IN the House affectlng the CITY
of Washington tax bill. The press reports described
what happened, as follows: -
on roll call that motion, the House voted 227 to
rs against THE MEMBERS LAUGHING AND RE-
FUsING TO TAKE THE MATTER SERIOUSLY"
So SIS AK
The matter of taxes may be a cause for laughter
among members Of Congress but not laughing matter
for the people of Washington who have to work hard
and earn the money to pay these taxes
One member If Congress- said that Washington Is q
city Of rackets.
When asked for bill of particulars he crawled,
saying:
'Maybe shouldn't have said it,
Washington is thus made the victim of the cheap
demagoguery from which the country az whole has
suffered from the mouths of Congressman who
suited to sit in the national legislative chamber of
Washington.
It not surprising that the President has been made
"dizzy'
Congress is irresponsible, irresponsible three
ringed circus filled with clowns and acrobats when
the welfare of the people of Washington is affected.
The only people who not dizzy'' are the people
of Washington who have to pay these taxes.
They dazed. If they keep on paying taxes, i'm
posed by Congress, they will ultimately be dragged
into the poor-debtor's court unconscious.
If the people Of Washington given the right to
vote they would settle their tax problems in SEN
sible orderly and equitable manner.
They vote not, BUT THEY PAY AND PAY AND
PAY.
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Today In the Steel War:
Washington anticipated the.
Federal Government would move
for peace.
President Roosevelt conferred
with Jecretary of Labor Perkins
after Governor Davey Of Ohio.
center of the strike, telegrsphed
that settlement was beyond the
powers" of one State.
Phillip Murray, strike leader for
the Committee for Industrial Or.
ganization's steel union, warned
of q general civil war" unless the
Government disarmed the steel
plants and forced collective bar
gaining.
John L. Lewis, C. I. o. head.
scheduled to appear on the strike
front at Chicago, suddenly can
celled his engagement. Lewis
is here" his Washington office
said.
Mail Probe Launched
The Senate Civil Liberties Com.
mittee called Chicago officials, to
explain the battle between police
CONTINUED on Page 8, Col. 81
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| EWIS TRIP
T0CHICAG0
HALTED
Coal Operators Notify
Clio. Steel Boycott
Violation of Pact

International News Service
The Federal Government
moved into the steel strike
situation today with the ap-
pointment by the Labor De-
partment of a Federal Steel
Mediation Board which will
endeavor to bring peace to
the industry.
CAN Ohio, June II
N.N.S.).-One picket was hurt
by gunfire today in q clash be-
tween strike sympathizers and
railroad guards at the united al.
10y division of Republic Steel
Corporation. The picket, Stephen
Mann, 10, was struck in the arm
and was taken to Canton Mercy
Hospital. He was mot seriously
WUUUUGUs
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WASHINGTON FORECAST

Partly cloudy with showers this afternoon
and possibly tonight: tomorrow fair, rising
temperatures; gentle to moderate south and
southwest winds
CWeather Details on Page 12t
Evening star., 1937-01-31
Pre-Views

Nina Wilcox PUTNAM sold her
FIRST story at the age of eleven. 1t
was called Chickens and was
family humorous - enough to
earn the FIVE dollars she received
for it.
Since then she has published
twenty-five books and more than
a thousand short stories and
articles.
She loves fishing, cooking and
believe it or not - people who
argue; says discussing things with
people who disagree with her
helps to keep her mental muscles
in trim.
When she isn't writing or argu-
ing or experimenting the build
ing of her new home at Delray
Beach, Florida, she's usually out
fishing with her husband - for
big ones. In one day at Catalina
Island she caught four sword6sh;
the largest weighed 1874 pounds.
Nina Putnam created Arizona
West, the Girl from Yuma, ex-
pressly for the readers of THIS
WEEK, and they love her. Another
Arizona story will appear in an
early issue:
STRAIGHT SHOOTER"
Evening star., 1937-01-31

L. and the c. To-, fight for recognition,
it is really workers fighting each other
ashard as they often fight the employer.
In such instances, the worker takes
all the losses, which he can never re-
gain. If the strike is won, all that hap
pens is that particular union is recog-
nized as the agency for collective bar
gaining. The workers pay envelope is
not fatter. But he and his family have
paid the largest share Of the strike bill.
The employer pays, too. He may pay
in lost markets; in disrupted business;
in public antipathy to his trade mark;
in loss of confidence in his ability to
deliver goods as ordered.
In a country where everyone lives on
credit, few workers have sufficient cash
on hand to see them through a strike.
There is rent to pay, the monthly in
stallments to meet; and wages have
stopped. The most that strike fund
can bring is bit for food, and that
stops if the strike lasts too long. The
workers family rarely has a reserve
sufficient to keep all the complex rela-
tionships of any kind of American
home functioning well during periods
of strikes. Fright, uncertainty, the pos
sibility of long hunger and hate -
these are greater costs than money can
ever pay for.
1t seems to me that we are still primi-
tive in our industrial relations in this
country. We are still down to the law
of the gang: that to the hardest hitter
belongs the spoils.
We speak Of collective bargaining
but to me the very word bargaining"
is bad. For we ought not to bargain
about the work and welfare of human
beings. Rather should we think of our
industrial relations as being the union
of the investor, management, the skilled
and unskilled worker and the consumer
for the production upon this continent
of SO high a standard of living that all
human beings who live here really can
enjoy the full fruits Of our chronological
skill.
That cannot be done by strikes. That
cannot be accomplished by making
men and women suffer. That cannot
be achieved by hate.
That can only come from co-opera-
ton. That can only come from a rea-
sonable and friendly attitude among
all men.
Evening star., 1937-01-31

Z. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM is the
prince of mystery writer's.
He lives like king.
He has palace on the Riviera
and a castle in Guernsey.
In his private harbor are an
aquaplane and one of the finest
yachts in the world.
He entertains like a Rajah.
There is a table at the most
famous restaurant in London
which is always Oppenheim's -
though he frequently surrendered
it to the Duke of Windsor when
he was Prince of Wales.
Oppenheim understands rulers
of governments, beautiful women
and clever crooks.
Next week we shall begin an
other series of his stories written
around a character created ex-
pressly for THIS WEEK. Be sure
to read
THE HOUR OF RECKONING"
Evening star., 1937-01-31

IT has often occurred to me that the
reason that l hate strikes is because
early in my childhood l saw so
many innocents suffer from them.
Many of our friends and relatives
were tailors, buttonhole makers, mil
liners, white goods workers. Many of
them worked in sweat-shops. And they
seemed always to be striking.
And those who were always striking,
they did not seem to suffer so much.
But the wives, they ran up bills at the
grocers and butchers. And then their
credit ended and they suffered from
real hard times. And many of the chill
dren came to school without breakfast,
and their stockings were worn, and they
looked thin and tired.
l never could get used to strikes,
having that picture before me allmy life.
1t always seemed to me that a strike
was an admission of defeat. What is the
use of our civilization if we cannot find
areasonable and friendly way of settling
questions of hours, wages and working
conditions? There must be friendly
wayofdoing ngeverything upon thisearth.
And so, whenever l see a strike, l
wonder who will pay for this one. For
everything that happens on this earth
has to be paid for by somebody. There
is always price.
And when it comes to strikes, every-
body seems to pay. The worker and the
employer, the workers family and the
community they all pay. For the
cost of strike can be measured in
wages lost, in the increased costs of
commodities and in actual physical suf-
fering on the part Of those whose family
budgets are depleted.
What is so astonishing these days is
that when wages are rising, when en-
ployers are paying bonuses, when hours
are reduced, when working conditions,
particularly in the mass production in
dustries, are improved beyond anything
hitherto known on this earth-why
should there be so many strikes?
Watch the cold, shivering man and
woman on the picket line. 1t rains. 1t
SHOWS. They walk. They shout, Don't
buy! Don't work." Does any of it
make sense?
Nowadays, strikes are not always
over hours and wages. Many strikes
are called for recognition of the union"
When two organizations like the A. F.
Evening star., 1937-01-31
Snotches
Mosozins Section

1ERE is a new slant on old age
pensions. DR.. Louis I. Dublin,
Statistician of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, has
made the point recently that if
the American birth rate goes on
declining as at present, the ques-
ton will arise, "Who is going to
pay the pensions?" Recently he
told an audience of women of the
Child Study Association that by
the year 1880, unless new forces
are brought to bear to increase
the birth rate, $500 of the popula-
ton of the United States will be
over fifty years of age.
DIR. o. E. Baker, Economist
ofthe Department of Agriculture,
predicts that the population of
the United States will begin to
decline within fifteen years. Fifty
years from now, DR.. Baker says,
there may be only one-third as
many children in the nation as
now; there will be nearly three
times as many old people.
DR. J. DUNCAN SPAETH, Presi-
dent Of the University Of Kansas
City, has been quoted as saying
that poor spelling is sign of in
telligence (sometimes). Official
papers Of some of our most ia
nous statesmen and politicians
prove that correct spelling is not
essential in that game. Many
authors and some of the best
journalists cannot spell. A star
reporter Of the New York Sun
once spelled "stork" four differ
ent ways in one article.
AMELIA EARHART is claimed by
FIVE states. She was born in Kan
sas, has lived in Massachusetts,,
has homes in New York and Cali !
fornia; teaches in Indiana.
Just now she is trying, among
other experiments in her flying
laboratory at Purdue, to work
out the best foods for pilots on
long flights.
Coffee is approved for sky
meals - taken black. Candy is
also on the favored list. 1t is
practically impossible to boil any,
thing in an airplane flying high.
M. M. M.
"
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