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Evening star., 1938-12-14
Meeting Pushes
Draft Of D. T..
Tax Program
Three-Hour Session
Fails to Reach
Agreement

Meeting behind closed doors, mem
bers of the Commissioners Tax Ad.
visory Committee struggled for three
hours this morning in the faint hope
OF arriving at unanimous recon-
mendation on proposed revision Of
the Districts tax structure.
Following another executive ses-
sion last week, there were reports
that at least two members of the
committee of 10 had finally refused
to sponsor the suggested tax pro-
gram involving a combination of a
non-Wage, non-salary> personal net
income tax, with a per cent retail
sales tax excepting food, medicine
and rent. At that time rumors that
these committeeman would file mi
norlty reports if the combination
plan was adopted were discounted by
ofncials in charge of the survey.
Meeting Time Advanced.
However, today's meeting was ad-
vanced from the customary 2 pm. to
10 am. in order to allow longer time
Tor argument. Committee officials
nave shown some concern over the
reputed rift in the committee be-
cause Of the limited time remain
ing before the recommendations of
the group must be filed with the
congressional Joint Committee on
internal Revenue Taxation, which is
due the first week in January.
One or more members of the COM
mittee are said to be insisting that
the group ask Congress to adopt a
fortnight personal net income tax.
which would be applied to the 1OO.-
600 or more Federal workers as we'll
as others who earn their salaries in
the District, despite the fact that
Congress twice has turned a deaf
ear to the proposals. There are un-
derstood to be other points of issue
before the committee as to the four
point program offered by the COM
mittee for public consideration" at
the recent hearings at the Capitol.
Siam and Pond Attend.
Attending today's session were
Colin F. STAN, chief of staff of the
Congressional Joint Committee on
Internal Revenue Taxation, and Dr.
Chester Pond, the New York tax
expert employed to handle the sur
vey. The advisory committee con-
slsts OF the following five district
officials: Maj. Daniel J. Donovan,
District auditor and budgeter, who
is chairman of the group; Corpora
ton Counsel Elwood H. Seal. Jo v.
Morgan of the Districts Board of
Tax Appeals and Tax Assessor Fred
D. Allen, and the following five
civic representatives: Robert v.
Fleming of the Board of Trade.
Prof. Charles M. Thomas of the
Federation of Civic Associations,
Mrs. Ernest Field Parkinson of
"Voteless" D. C. League of Women
Voters, John Locher of the Central
Labor Union and l.. A. Carruthers
of the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations.
After lunch the committee was
expected to resume it's arguments
and to continue until probably
nearly 6 o'clock unless some agree
ment was reached meantime or un-
less there was an understanding
that the report could not be unani-
nous.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Nurse Robbed
.Of PoCkefbook
And Watch
CoIored Man Knocks
Woman Down in
Alley, Flees

A District nurse last night was
Knocked to the pavement of an alley
In the rear of the 1700 block of K
street NV. by a large colored man
who escaped with her pocketbook
and wrist watch.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ginrich, IS, of 1015
Eighteenth street NV, said her as
sailant fed across a parking lot and
disappeared in the darkness. The
purse contained SO and the watch
was valued at SIS.
How he was taken to beer joint
in nearby Virginia by taxicab
driver and later doped and robbed
"of his money and an X-ray machine
was related to police last night by
DR.. Joseph E. Morgan of Durham,
N. c.
l. X-ray Machine Stolen.
The visitor said he left his be-
longings in a checkroom at a New
York avenue bus terminal and told
the hacker to take him where he
could get glass of beer. He said
they drove to a tavern in nearby
WI slll1d, WllC1C 1lO dppdAClAC wac
doped.
Upon regaining consciousness, po-
lice were told, DR.. Morgan discov-
cred that $40 had been taken from
his pocketbook, along with his keys
and locker check at the bus ter
minal. He said that a 5000 X-ray
machine had been removed from his
1oclyn,. WI, ha oI fo tho
. minal.
Pursued by his victim in a taxi
cab, bandit late yesterday escaped
into the pre-holiday crowds on Con-
necticut avenue after holding up
grocery at 1887 Nineteenth street
NV. and robbing the operator,
Israel Pomerantz, of 81.
HOld-up Man Escapes.
The bandit, a white man, ran
from the store after the hold-up,
turning into Florida avenue and
Connecticut avenue.
Mr.. Pomerantz followed on foot
and then leaped into a passing taxi
cab. His cries of stop thief"
passed unnoticed on crowded Con-
necticut avenue and the hold-up
man disappeared. police were told
Mrs. Amy Meresette, 46, of 1137
Abby place NE, was struck in the
face and slightly injured early today
by a burglar whom she surprised in
her bedroom. The intruder fled
without taking any loot, police were
told, when Mrs. Meresette screamed.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Man Holds Up Store
For Dream Girl Who
Robs Him, Police Told
Virqinion and ; Friends
Indicted in D. C.-New
York Escopode

A Virginia youth alleged to have
robbed Washington liquor store to
win his Broadway dream girl" only
to be robbed by the girl, was one
of four youths indicted by the Dis
trict grand jury today for the $500
hold-up of store at 1911 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. November 26.
The youth, according to Detective
Elmer Lewis, who interviewed him
in New York yesterday, was 23-year-
old Eugene Paul Corbin of Dunbar
ton and Richmond Others i'm
plicated by Corbin's story and in
dicted today in the local robbery
were:
Luther Myers, q, of Richmond,
Va, who was sentenced in New York
Monday, Lewis said, to to IL years
for carrying a concealed weapon,
and 7 to IA years for assault With a
dangerous weapon, and Robert S.
Chappell, %. and William P. Cros-
white, "a, both of Richmond, who
are under arrest here In the local
hold-up.
Detective Lewis said Corbin plead
ed guilty in New York City to
possession of gun and will come up
for sentence Friday.
Holdu to Get Money.
Corbin was quoted as saying he
had often dreamed of enjoying
Broadway's night life with plenty of
money and show girl blond who
knew all the answers. Not having
the money, or prospects of getting
it quickly, he said, he fell in with
the three youths and pulled" the
local hold-up.
The four eluded Washington po-
lice in their car, Corbin said, and
headed for the big town" They
fell in with Prince Georges County
police near Fort Lincoln Cemetery,
however, and two of them were cap
tured when their automobile skid
ded off the icy highway and ram
med telephone pole at Cottage
City.
Corbin and Myers, the former was
quoted as saying, went on to Man.
haitian. There they got acquainted
with a cab driver who offered to in
troduce Corbin, the latter admitted,
to the blond of his dreams. The
nexa morning Corbin, he said. awoke
with headache to find his dream"
girl missing, along with several hun
dred dollars in hold-up loot.
Cabby Shot.
The disgruntled youths, it. was
said, got into fight with the cabby,
who was shot during the fracas.
Meanwhile, Croswhite and Chappell
were returned here and charged in
the local hold-up.
Inspector Bernard w. Thompson,
chief of detectives, saw a newspaper
story of the shooting of the New
York hacker by two Virginia youths
and asked for their photographs on
a "hunch."
They were identified in the local
hold-up and Sergt. Lewis went to
New York to interview them.
Corbin's dream girl" meanwhile,
was still at large.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Tribute to B. F. AIort

Members of the Washington Civic
Orchestra honored the memory OF
its founder, the late Bailey F. Alart
who died December IA, 1885, at a
rehearsal last night. In a brief ad-
dress, William Lynch. secretary OF
the group, paid tribute to Mr.
Alart's service to the orchestra. Fol-
lowing the address the orchestra
members arose and stood for a min
ute In silent tribute to Mr.. Alart.
Organizing the orchestra in 1894
under the auspices of the Com
munity Center Department, Mr..
Alart was its musical director until
his death.
Evening star., 1938-12-14

the first fight across the Atlantic
by Navy flyers in 1919. He also did
notable work at the Naval Air Sta
ton at Lakehurst. N. j., in connec-
ton with lighter -than-air dirigibles.
Comdr. Reichelderfer, a graduate
of Northwestern University, served
during the World War as ensign
on astrological duty with the Naval
Reserve Force for Aviation. After
the war he qualified as a pilot in
the heavier -than-air, lighter-than-
air and free balloon branches of the
Naval Aeronautical Service.
Between 1922 and 1928 he was in
charge of reorganization and de-
velopment of the Naval Meteorolog-
ical Service. During this period
he worked in cooperation with the
United States Weather Bureau and
for several years was on duty daily
in the Forecast Division of the
Weather Bureau.
In 1928 he was assigned as meteor
ologist for the airship Los Angeles
and the Naval Air Station at Lake.
hurst. In 1896 he was Navy metero-
logical officer on one trip of the
German airship Hindenburg.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Police ImperiIed by Cab Seize
Hacker as He Reports Theft

A hacker who called at No. 6 pre-
cinct early today to report the theft
Of his cab was arrested for investi-
cation by police, who, q few hours
earlier, were almost crushed by the
cab as 1t rolled down an embank-
ment at the end of q wild chase.
Policemen H. A. CLANCY and v.
Minton started in pursuit of the cab
last night in their scout car because
1t was speeding, they said.
The driver stepped on the gas and
the chase proceeded, at q high rate
Of speed, In and out Of alleys, around
corners and through red lights in
the Northwest section, police de-
clared.
At Fourtsenth street and Colorado
road NV. the fugitive suddenly
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Band Concert

BY the Marine Band Orchestra in
the auditorium at the Marine Bar
racks at 8 o'clock tonight. Capt
Taylor Branson, leader; William F.
Santelmann, assistant.
Overture, Barber of Seville" Rossini
-t"Andante Canta5ile" from String
Quartet" Op. II Tschaikowsky
Song of the Bayou" Rube Bloom
Excerpts from Three Musketeers"
4 Friml
Xylophone solo, "Hora Staccato"
Dinicu-H -Heifetz
Soloist: Oliver Zinsmeister.
(a) Creole dance, "Melida" Ellie
s{b) "Slavonic Dance" No. l. Dvorak
Waltz. Moonlight on the Alster"
Fetras
Suite de ballet, "The Shoe" Ansell
THE Marines Hymn
Evening star., 1938-12-14
More Players Needed
For Other Mise Man'

With the cast Of leading players
complete, there is still room for ad-
ditional men and women in the two
main scenes of 1.-THE Other Wise
Man" to be presented December 26-
20 at Luther place Memorial Church,
Fourteenth and N streets NV, it
was announced today.
Rehearsals will be held at the
church tonight and tomorrow at
7:3o o'clock for those wishing to join
the cast.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
International Medical
Club Hears Putti

Richard Patti, acting chief of the
State Departments new Division of
Cultural Relations, told the Interna-
tional Medical Club of Washington
Yesterday how the department is
striving to coordinate the efforts of
various private agencies and other
wise work for cultural cooperation
among the nations.
He spoke at the clubs annual dip
lomatic luncheon, attended by sew
eral ENJOYS of foreign countries here.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
indictment Returned
In Ho|d-Up Of Two
That Melted $3.50
William KoppeI Named; ;
Grond Jury Files
TotoI of 81

William Kappel, 81. was indicted
on robbery charges by the District
grand jury today in connection with
the holdup of Wallace B. Hulse and
Wallace w. Beach in the rear of 1922
Tenth street NV, three weeks ago.
Two indictments were returned
against Kappel. The grand jury was
informed Kappel and an unknown
companion allegedly robbed Mr..
Hulse of $500 and Mr.. Beach of $3.50
and his automobile, valued at $780,
The car later was recovered.
The grand jury returned q total
OF 81 indictments and announced
that none had been ignored. Mary
Ellis, colored, SO, was named in a
half dozen indictments charging un-
lawful entry into homes, and two
colored men, William F. Coachman,
~, and Theodore Johnson. 80, were
indicted on a charge Of playing
three-card monte.
Webster M. Courtney, Kenneth c
Craig and Russell Fowler were in
dlcted on charges Of assault with q
dangerous weapon. The men alleg-
edly trailed trucks of the Grif1th
Consumers Co., and threw pieces OF
bricks at the workers. Five sepa-
rate indictments were returned
against the trio.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are: James A. Hack
EFT, joyriding and grand larceny;
Mary Ellis, William H. johnson,
John w. Smith and George B.
Bunch, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
Aaron Trachtenberg, three indict-
ments each charging violations of the
National Motor Vehicle Theft Act:
Henry r. Walker, Howard F. Davis,
John D. Graves, William Jones,
Lucy Mcintyre, Harry E. Rockelli,
Jack Williams, Phillip G. Shaner
and Robert H. Hodgson, violation
OF the gambling laws; Mark R.
Corby, violation of the White
Slave Traffic Act; Theodore john
son, John Brown and Albert Jack
son, robbery; Richard Holmes, as
sault with dangerous weapon.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
R. E. A. AIIots $4,000

The rural Electrification Admin
istration announced today allotment
of $78 900 to build 70 miles of line to
serve 287 members of the Mecklen-
burg Electric Cooperative, Boydton,
Va. Altogether allotments totaling
$3,447 900 for 80 projects in IA States
were announced today, bringing al
lotments made by r. E. A. since its
establishment in 1895 to $l72, ,622, ITO.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
president Finds
appointments
Like BoiIs
,y the Associated Press.

~ sAe Sso0tSAeVVA = tScos
Reporters found President Roose-
welt in a fun-making mood yester-
day. When one newsman asked him
about forthcoming appointments to
nigh office, he replied that they
were coming to a head.
That, he added, is what happens
to boil.
rs it as painful as that?" the
reporter asked.
Mr.. Roosevelt laughed and said
1t very nearly was.
Another question involved a pre-
paid medical service plan proposed
by the District of Columbia Medical
Association.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he had not
heard Of plan and, with a smile,
asked what it was-a sort of slot
machine?
Evening star., 1938-12-14
CrosIey Hearing Waits

The Federal COMMUNICATIONS
Commission today postponed un-
til December % the hearing of oral
arguments on the application of
the Crosley Radio Corp. operat-
ing Station WLW at Cincinnati,
Ohio, for continuance of its license
to operate with a power of 10000
watts. In order that the full COM
mission may hear counsel, the
Monopoly Committee of the COM
mission announced today that it will
recess its hearings on December q
until January 4.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Typewritermen Elect

c. H. Davidson was elected presi-
dent of the Washington Typewriter
Dealers Association last night at a
meeting at the Hamilton Hotel.
Don Macdonald was chosen vice
president and Robert A. Mack, Sec
retary-treastlrer.
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Later Store Closing Asked

A resolution requesting that all
Connecticut avenue stores remain
open until 8 pm, from now until
Christmas was adopted at last
nights meeting of the Connecticut
Avenue Citizens Association at the
MayfoWer Hotel,
Evening star., 1938-12-14
Stockings Protected

"Splatterdashes," winglike devices
attached to each heel to prevent
silk stockings being splashed with
mud and rain, are being used in
London.
The Washington times., 1938-11-15
By tEUie' Robert

tendencies and kind heart, but he certainly has
distinguished himself in later life.
Fighting D. c. SlunS
0UR alleys are a pretty sight. 1 was walking
" the other day and it was heartwarming
to see the children. dogs. cats, and filth all
there together. Having always lived in Wash
ington myself, was not shocked too much
but how I'd hate to have some person from
away, who had come here to "see our lovely
city," have a squint at them alleys" Let's
have some kind of a move from somewhere
to clean up. Purges are now the fashion, how
about it? Nathan Strauss is trying to do some
thing about it, but it's scarcely a one-man job
to personally clean up block or two at a
time. 1t CAN be done, though; come on lets
get moving on it before the snow comes and
we have another reason to procrastnate.
About the Chest Drive
T SEEM to be full of high motives today;
but just wonder If you know where some
of the money you HAVE given, or are GOING
to give to the Community Chest, has gone, or
is going. There are three homes here for the
aged. Dear old souls who have probably given
everything they have to their ungrateful children,
who have been overworked and likely can't
meet the legal requirements for pension who
are feeble and i'll. What pleasure to feel that
YOU can make the last few days of these old
people happy and comfortable with good food
to eat warm place to live in and, above all
ease their minds. This is only one of the many
institutions the Chest looks after Seems plenty
laudable to me. Think it over.
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has come distance and half from the days
she strummed a guitar in a lowly saloon. New
conner to Manhattan is frolicsome, shapely lass
with magnificent voice, Mary Martin, whom
last heard and saw at the Trocadero in Holly
wood Nor was I aware then that the sad-faced
little beauty was such a fetching comedenne.
The audience furnished its excitement too with
such personalities aIsleseated as Governor Leh-
man and District Attorney Dewey and Post
master General Farley. The crowd surges about
them; but in a corner, watching the tableau al
most completely unobserved, is ponderer, chew
ing reflectiVely upon an unlighted stogie-A
Smith.
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hurt You'd also feel pretty bad if, through
breaking the law, you landed up in the jug"
to thi, < it all over for few days.
I was talking to fellow yesterday who was
born in the same town with that dear little
pet Of high society, CASTOR B. Means. Means
was about four years older than the crowd"
and beloved by all the kids and their mothers
1t was always alright for the boys to go out
coon hunting at night, or fishing, or bird shoot
ing if Bud" Means went along He always
looked after the little ones, and once, just at
dusk when a frightening thunderstorm came
up, he carried my particular friend on his back
through the marshes and put him down at
point where he could see the lights Of his own
front porch.
He must have been born with nice, decent
The Washington times., 1938-11-15

part Of dog owners. Fond as
we all are of dogs. the value Of
human life is still more i'm
portant. So why not take your
dogs out in the country just
o few miles more and let them
run in fields where they can
really enjoy themselves, where
they can pretend they're
Indians or plainsmen. and try
to cooperate with the law?
You'd feel awful bad, I'm
sure, If your dog frightened a
H1~sn and Tho widow yuoS ha61V
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tendencies and a kind heart but he certainly has
distinguished himself in later life.
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(Boake Carter'S opinions are his oDn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TtnresJ
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Hammett, who also pens tones
Of sudden extinction with a
lighter complexion impress
sive is the premiere of the
usical diplomatic froth,
leave 1t To Me-" and Victor
Moore. is never more at his
wistful and frustrated best
and Sophie Tucker in more
robust tone. And here again
on the stage is my good friend,
William Gaxton, cockSure and
audible, and the frail, beauti-
full Chanteuse Tamara, who
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Says Boake Carter

10 IQe noneSC Qollar, equally true Is IL G1laC Ine
honest dollar is entitled to the honest days labor
That it is incumbent upon the poor man to
be just to the rich man as it is upon the rich
man to be just to the poor man.
That an injustice to one is wrong to all.
Saps Own Foundations
CGTNHAT when a community permits violence,
l. it is sapping the foundations of its own
safety License paves the way for despotism;
and the demagogue is only the forerunner of the
dictator.
THAT every dollars worth of property de-
stroyed by riot is so much of the worlds stored.
up labor blotted out and the rioter himself, as
a member of the community. is that much
poorer.
THAT no man and no class is permanently
lifted up by pulling another down. The ties OF
the worldlife are too closely interviewer for this
THAT mere acquisition of knowledge is not the
truest test OF the educated man; culture is a
better test; that culture is the ripening and mel
lowing of scholarship"
THESE truismS were written in 1907. They fit
perfectly the picture Of 1888. I found them
when desiring to learn something about the term
"Aryan" about which Hitler has tubthumped so
much. They are contained in Race Life Of the
Aryan People" of the Old World and New World
two volumes by Joseph Widney. He was a medi
cal officer in the United States Army. He wrote
them rs years before any one ever heard of
man named Hitler! They are not only fasci
mating, but uncanny.
(Boake Carter's opinions are his own and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TtnesJ
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L44c0c.
THAT labor is a blessing,
the greatest ever given to
man, and not a curse.
THAT the right to labor and
to become a producer is the
birthright of every human
being, a right not to be queS-
toned or denied.
THE idle man, whether be-
hind prison walls or on a
strike or subsisting on in
herited wealth, is fed in his
idleness by some ones toll.
The Washington times., 1938-11-15
Ewes Rib

7 GOT an irate letter from our Administrator
4 of Something Other today upon the very
serious subject of dogs being let loose in the
park on the bride paths. I've seen very serious
accidents occur through such laxness on the
The Washington times., 1938-11-15
Voice Of New York By Louis Sobol

A LBUM OF MANHATTAN; Solitary diners at
Al the Ambassador. tables removed, C. Furnas,
author of And Sudden Death" and Thin Man"
The Washington times., 1938-11-15
Dorothy KiZgdllen New Colunrnist

IN the Stork Club sits pert Dorothy Kilgalen,
attractive newspaper woman. Nor does she
confess that on this evening she has received
word that she is to be the new Broadway
columnist of the JournalAmerican. And join
me in congratulating brilliant and witty young
writer with fresh viewpoint on the glamorous
avenue.
once more run into Sculptor 10 Davidson,
" and this time I watch him molding like
nesses of notables from cubes of butter at the
Savoy Plaza and am impressed particularly by
that of Raymond Massey as the towns favorite
abraham Lincoln. Having listened to an i'm
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TEBut''

HERE is platform, composed of a number of
"A planks for the preservation of popular gov
ernment. The truths that must be learned are
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promptu grafton by Dudley Field Malone at Twen-
tyOne Club concerning the respective merits OF
candidates Lehman and Dewey, HE over to
Jack Whites 10 Club, and, 10 and behold, Malone
enters shortly thereafter and delivers another
and graceful grafton, prelude to an introduction
of Warren Pershing. Eloquent it is and much
of history from 1917 to present day is woven into
it 1t is the doorman here who inquiries of
Grantland Rice for good tip for the morrow.
Your daily newspaper" replies the sports writer.