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Evening star., 1938-05-28
Neev Tax Law Explained
It Ends Group Of Nuisance Taxes and
Revises Business Levies.

, capital losses, and permits excess OF
18-month losses over gains to be car
ried over to following year; includes
in ordinary income two-thirds Of capt.
tai gains taken in from 10 to "a
months, with maximum tax rate on
these gains Of 20 per cent and per-
mission to credit excess capital losses
against other income; includes in ordi-
nary income half of capital gains real
lied in more than "a months with
maximum tax rate of IS per cent and
permission to credit excess losses
against other income.
Corporation Income Law.
Corporation income-Old law pro-
vided normal tax on profits of to
IS per cent plus to 27 per cent tax
on undistributed profits. New law
provides single tax of 1212 to 16 per
cent on profits of corporations earn
ing less than $4,000 in year; inter-
mediate rates on corporations close to
the s25,00o line; fiat tax of 10 per
cent on profits of larger corporations,
less credit of 212 per cent of amount
of profits distributed to stockholders
thus making 1612 per cent minimum
tax on corporation distributing all
profits.
The last provision to go in effect
will be a reduction from $4,000 70
$4,000 in the gift-tax exemption, be-
ginning next year.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
WARMERS T0HAVE
NEW MOVIE HOUSE
Beverly viii Be Located
on Fifteenth Street
Northeast.

Completion of plans for a new thea
ter to be built at once on Fifteenth
street NE. between Tennessee avenue
and street was announced today
by Warner Bros. Theaters through
John j. Payette, general zone man
ager.
Warner Bros. thus continues an ex.
pansion program in Washington start.
ed several years ago. The new thea
ter will be the fifth addition in three
years to the Warner group here. Ar.
rangements for immediate construc-
ton have been made with Garfield
I. Kass, president of the Kass Realty
Co., owners and builders.
The new sfowhouse, to be known
as the Beverly, will be sister theater
to the Penn, Sheridan, Uptown and
Calvert. A contract for long-term
lease has been signed. 2
The Beverly, designed by john
Eberson, well-known theater archi-
tect. will provide 1000 seats on one
floor. A striking feature of the de-
sign is the height Of the auditorium,
an innovation in theater construc-
ton. The interior will be decorated
with warm shades of orange and
ivory set of by blue and gold trim.
The latest type of air conditioning
will provide comfort the year around.
Concealed lighting fixtures will be
used, and chairs will be spaced un.
usually far apart for added comfort :
Three stores to be included in the
building will be leased through the
Kass Realty Co. 4:
Evening star., 1938-05-28

BY the Associated Press.
The new Federal tax law which
became effective last midnight wipes
out a group of nuisance taxes" and
revises business taxes.
On July l the Treasury will stop
collecting these taxes:
Tooth paste, soaps, and other toilet
articles, S per cent; furs, 3 per cent;
phonograph records, S per cent; sport
ing goods. 10 per cent; cameras and
lenses, 10 per cent; chewing gum, 2
per cent; matches, 2 cents per thou
sand on plain wooden and one-half
cent per thousand on paper matches.
The only new excise tax will be an
increase, also on July l, from 81
to 1925 per gallon on newly manu-
factured liquor.
The revised income-tax laws, In
Guiding provisions dealing with un-
distributed profits and capital gains,
apply to 1888 income. upon which
returns must be filed by March Is,
1899.
Changes Summarized.
These changes, in brief:
Individual income-No change in
rates or coverage except as to capital
gains.
New law includes in ordinary in
come all of capital gains realized in
less than 18 months, minus similar
Evening star., 1938-05-28
WAR STAND GOES
TO PRESBYTER|ES
TWo-Thirds Vote Required
for Change in Church's
30O.Year-OId Law.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2S.-The
Presbyterian Church in the U. s. A.
sent to its 276 presbyteries today a
proposal to revoke a 300-year-old
church law that participation in war
was permissible on lust and necessary
occasions"
The church's General Assembly ap-
proved the plan to leave the question
Of engaging in war strictly to the in
dividual conscience
The presbyteries will vote whether
to substitute for the old 18th century
law new chapter in their confession
of faith decrying war as a manifesto
ton Of the power Of sin in the world" ?"
Even when war is waged with sin
cere purpose to restrain evil, it tends
to produce greater evils than those
against which it is directed" the
amendment reads
1t said further that civil govern
ment has the right to require loyalty
and obedience of its citizens, but may
not require Of them that allegiance
which belongs to God alone"
The Rev. Paul C.. Johnston of Lin
coin, Nebr.. called the resolution the
'churchs answer to the demands Of
totalitarian government for absolute
allegiance"
The resolution said:
If occasions arise when the Gov
ernment deems it necessary to wage
war. Christians. whether as private
citizens or as public officers, are bound
in relation to it, to obey their con-
sciences before God, who alone is Lord
Of the conscience. and the church
must recognize and uphold their duty
thus to obey conscience, whatever its
commands may be-"
Dr. Johnston headed a committee Of
IA who prepared the amendment after
a years study.
Approval by two-thirds of the pres
byteries is necessary to pass the pro-
posed law.
The committee said it purposely
side-stepped defining the rightness or
wrongness of whether governments
and individuals should engage in any
particular war.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
Taxes
Continued From First Page.)

wanted the laws rewritten to make
them easier for taxpayers to under
stand and for officials to administer.
Mr.. Roosevelt hinted at sweeping
revision in his Arthurdale, w. Va,
address yesterday criticizing the ver-
sions of the undistributed profits and
capital gains taxes included in the tax
bill enacted at this session.
He left little doubt he would ask
revision of these business levies at the
next session-thus reopening his bat
tie with business over them-when he
announced he would let the tax bill
become law without signing it.
Calls Aattention Of People.
"By so doing" he said, II call the
definite attention of the American
neonle to - unwise parts Of the
bill"
Then in a general discussion Of
taxes, he said:
Il SQOulQ ike 10 sec d ACVAoioAA Va
our tax laws which would really en-
courage new enterprise and new in
vestment -. hope that Congress
will undertake a broader program OF
improving the Federal tax system as
q whole in the light of accepted prin-
ciples of fairness in American tax
alton =. Our whole tax system,
State, local and Federal, can and
must be improved in the coming year. y
The President was understood to
have three major tax detectives:
/. Reinforcement of the undistrib-
uted profits tax to make it unprofit-
able for large corporations to with
hold dividends in order to reduce in
come taxes of their large stockholders
2. Revision of the tax on capita
gains to apply graduated rates &C.
cording to the amount of capita
gains. Capital gains are the profts
realized from purchase and suhse'
Evening star., 1938-05-28

LONGER OFFICIAL
RESIDENCE URGED
Anacostia Citizens Call for
Ten-Year Requirement
for Commissioners.

A l0-year residence requirement for
appointment as District Commissioner
was asked by the Anaoostia Citizens
Association at meeting last night
In the Anacostia High School.
Expressing the sentiments Of the
association, Stanley E. Otto, president
of the group, declared that the present
three-year residence requirement was
entirely too short time for a man
to become thoroughly acquainted with
District affairs and needs.
The work Of George E. Allen, re-
firing District Commissioner, was
commended, and it was suggested that
direction Of the District Emergency
Relief Administration and Unemploy-
ment Bureau, which had nominally
been under Mr.. Allen, be given to
Howard j. Cass, now deputy admins
traitor.
Back Consumer Protection.
Another motion passed by the meet
ing approved the principle Of some
form Of consumer organization to
combat 1.-The high prices which pre-
vail in Washington. Cooperative
markets were favored.
The association opposed the fair
trade practices bill, now before Con-
gress, feeling the bill is an unwar-
ranted interference between buyer
and seller.
A report on the April 80 suffrage
referendum raised discussion as to the
actual value Of the poll, but members
generally felt that a great step had
been taken toward obtaining local
suffrage.
Approve Eastward Development.
Letters of approval Of plans of the
Park and Planning Commission and
Trafic Director William A. Van DuSer
to expand public buildings toward East
Washington were authorized.
Other business included approval Of
the request of Gallinger Hospital en-
ployes for better working conditions
and hours, a request that the pro-
posed Jefferson memorial be erected
in East Washington, and receipt Of
an engineers of11ce report announcing
placing of new street lights in the
Anacostia area.
Two new members, Earl F. Arm
strong and A. Barcelino, were admitted
to the association.
At the conclusion Of the business
meeting, Mrs. Catherine elliott, ac-
companied by Mrs. William Scantle-
berry, entertained with a vocal pro-
gram. The next meeting will be held
the last Friday in September.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
MINORITY ISSUES
BEFORE PARLEY
Jewish Social Welfare Six
Day Conference to Hear
DR.. J. P. Chamberlain.

Problems of all minority groups in
this country as well as abroad will be
discussed tonight at the first general
session Of the National Conference of
Jewish Social Welfare at the Willard
Hotel.
Prof. Joseph p. Chamberlain of Co.
lumbia University, a member of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Advisory Committee
on Political Refugees and chairman of
the National Co-or ordinating Committee
for German Refugees, and Prof. Oscar
I. Janowsky, College of the City of New
York, an authority on minority groups
IN Europe, will be the speakers.
The six-day conference, which 1000
lay and professional leaders in social
work are attending. will close Tuesday
after more than $50 sessions. Two al
lied groups. the National Association
Of Jewish Center Workers and the Ma
tional Council for Jewish Education,
have been holding sessions since
Thursday.
"Clear Philosophy" Sought.
Outlining the problems facing the
conference this year, Harry Green
stein, president Of the conference, told
reporters in an interview yesterday the
social workers would have to find a
new approach and adopt "a clear-cut
philosophy" to meet the changing con-
ditions today.
Former head of Federal relief in
Maryland and now executive director
OF the Associated Jewish Charities OF
Baltimore, Mr.. Greenstein declared
that one of the aims of the conference
will be to relate Jewish social work to
the growing Federal State and local
welfare programs.
There is also the problem of i'm.
proving standards of care and service
and of developing well-rounded pro-
gram" Mr.. Greenstein said. There
the the task of constantly and critical
ly examining the methods and pro-
grams of our different agencies in Or
der to be certain that outmoded prac-
tices are eliminated and new methods
initiated"
Economic Approach Stressed.
Citing an example of the necessity
to find different solution to prob
lens than in the past, Mr. Greenstein
asserted. Dependency in the Jewish
field was once distinctly Jewish re-
sponsibility and we spontaneously and
'cheerfully assumed this responsibility.
This is no longer a valid approach.
We, as Jews, must view our RESPONSE
bilities not only from the sectarian
angle, but also in the broader fields of
economic and political relationships"
Louis H. Sobel, executive director
OF the Federation Employment Serv-
ice, New York, told reporters how the
conference plans to meet the problems
posed by Mr.. Greenstein.
Several general sessions, Mr.. Sobel
said, will be devoted to attempts to
find answers to some of the pressing
problems facing Jewish social work to-
day" One of the general sessions to-
morrow evening will seek to indicate a
possible session will be devoted to a
discussion of the impact of social Sc
curity developments on Jewish social
work and community organizations.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
CIVIC GROUP PRAISES
COUNTY OFFICIALS
Prince Georges Commissioners
Took Initiative in Seeking
Business, Council Says.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
OXON HILL. Md, May 28-Prince
Georges County's Board of Commits
sioners was commended for taking
the initiative in a program of inducing
private industry to locate in the
county in a resolution adopted yester-
day at the meeting Of the County
Community Council here
Adoption Of the resolution followed
talk by E. Claude Gaylor. head OF
the Maryland State Employment
Service at HyattSville. in which addi-
tional industries were described as a
solution to the unemployment stu
alton.
Cooperation and coordination Of
all welfare agencies in the county
was advocated by Mrs Lydia Eicher,
secretary Of the Prince Georges County
Welfare Board. She was introduced
by Mrs. J. Enos Ray, chairman of the
Welfare Board.
Louis E. Kutch, manager of the
Hyattsville Office Of the State Un-
employment Compensation Commits
sion. spoke on the work his agency
is doing.
Evening star., 1938-05-28

quent sale of such things as securities
and real estate.
3. Removal Of income tax exemp-
tions from future Federal, State and
local securities and salaries.
The new tax bill, intended to raise
over five billion dollars, became
law last midnight without the Presi-
dents signature upon expiration Of
the Today period in which he must
sign or veto a measure approved by
Congress.
Mr.. Roosevelt explained to his
Arthurdale audience of high school
students that he did not veto the
bill because this would prevent many
desirable features of it from going
into effect"
He cited the adoption of the fiat
rate capital gains tax in place OF
the present provisions for the in
clusion of varying percentages OF
capital gains in ordinary income,
and said this was definite aban-
donment" of a taxation principle
long ago accepted as part Of our
American system"
Voice Of Opposition.
He also expressed doubt that the
modification of the present levy on
undistributed profits would "elim-
mate the old tax avoidance practices
of the past"
Under the new law the fragmentary
profits levy will continue only through
the calendar years 1888 and 1899.
Senate opponents of this levy said
they would try to repeal it altogether
If Mr.. Roosevelt reopened the issue
next session.
Senator Burke, Democrat, Of Ne
braska said he hoped the outcome
wUuld be that we will wipe out at
once the last vestige of this tax"
Senator King, Democrat, Of Utah,
ranking member of the Senate Finance
Committee, expressed similar view.
Senator Gerry, Democrat. Of Rhode
Island, also q finance committeeman,
deplored the Presidents address as
showing a mot very encouraging atti-
tude toward business"
Evening star., 1938-05-28
.EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
IN PRAYER FOR MISSIONS
Dawn Services Held in Budapest
Churches After Masses
Lasting All Night.

By the Asse ciated Press.
BUDAPEST, May 2s-Weary but
exalted after an all night mass, thou
sands Of prelates and pilgrims to the
34th Eucharistic Congress streamed to
Budapest's churches at dawn today to
pray for foreign missions.
Preachers from many lands took as
their theme the need for more mis-
sionaries to spread the gospel in far
off lands and reduce the danger of
war.
Long before daybreak, streets were
thronged with the faithful, in trans,
buses and autos and afoot, at the end
of a night of devotions which started
at II pm.
An estimated 25O,OO0 persons
f, jammed Heroes Square for the mid
night alteration of the holy sacrament.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
Poor Drivers Hit.

PHILADELPHIA (P).-The main
cause of highway accidents, says State
Police Commissioner P, w. Foote, is
mot the drunken driver or the reck-
less driver" but the motorist who
doesn't know how to drive At least
half the licensed drivers in Pennsyl-
vania belong in this class, he believes.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
Golf
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
slam: Lawson Little of San Francisco,
in 1884 and 1885, and Sweeny last
year.
One other American, Bob Gardner,
got to the finals in 1920, and was
beaten by Cyril Tolley in 81 holes.
But Yates, who beat Tolley yesterday
morning in the quarter-finak and
followed with a 1-up. 19-hole defeat
Of 1896 Titleholder Hector Thomson,
was the first to win without previous
competitive experience on a British
course.
The Albanian and his Walker Cup
mates will meet the British team, to
which Ewing was named yesterday,
at st. Andrews next Friday and Sat-
yYrSov
Evening star., 1938-05-28
REMINGTON RAND ASKS
NEW HIGH COURT STEP
Seeks reconsideration of Recent
Refusal to Interfere With
Order of N. L. r. B.

By the Associated Press.
Remington Rand, Inc, asked the
Supreme Court today to reconsider its
recent refusal to interfere with Ma
tional Labor Relations Board order di-
recting the company to reinstate 1000
striking employees.
The petition contended the high
tribunal had never decided the ques-
tions involved in the controversy and
should do so.
The questions were listed as the
power of the Labor Board or the
courts to order "the wholesale REIN
statement of strikers not discrimina-
torily discharged" and to order 1.-The
wholesale discharge of employees hired
subsequent to a strike in order to
effectuate reinstatement of such
strikers"
Evening star., 1938-05-28
Man, Disliking Radio
Swing Music, Shoots
Girl and Kills Self
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, May 28.-Nicholas
Szaklenski, 35, didn't like the
swing music coming from the
radio.
When he suggested the program
be changed, Miss Adeline Les
kanes, Is, objected.
That enraged Szaklenski, a
boarder at the Leskanes home.
He left the living room last night,
reappeared with a pistol and
seriously wounded Miss Leskanes.
Then he went to his own room
where police later found him
dead, a bullet wound in the head.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
POST TO ATTEND CHURCH
Memorial Day Services Tomorrow
at Mount Rainier.

MOUNT RAINIER, Nd, May %
(SpeciaD Members of the Charles
F. Huntemann Post, American Legion,
and the Women's Auxiliary will attend
a Memorial Day service at st. Johns
Episcopal Church here TOMORROW
morning at II o'clock. The Rev.
Walter P. Plumley, vicar of st. Johns
Church, will deliver sermon, after
which Comdr. Doffert and Post Chap
lain William F. Sampsell will conduct
brief memorial rites.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
CONVICTED ATTORNEY
GRANTED ERROR WRIT
Court of Appeals Acts on Case
of John P. Mullen, Suspended
by Police Judges.

by Police Judges.
The Court of Appeals yesterday
granted a writ of error in the case Of
Attorney John P. Mullen. who was
convicted by board of Police Court
judges Of alleged improper legal prac-
tices. He was ordered suspended for
six months in practice in the Police
Court.
The petition, filed on behalf of the
accused lawyer by Attorney William
E. Leahy, questioned the Jurisdiction
Of the Police Court Board to order the
suspension; contended that the evi-
dence adduced under the accusation
did not sustain the charge and that
everything brought forth in that hear
ing did not constitute improper or un-
professional practice.
Mr.. Mullen was accused Of soliciting
business.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
FAREWELL SERMON
Rev. q. S. A. Heavener to Retire
After so Years.

The Rev. U. S. A. Heavener of St
Pauls Methodist Church, Kensing-
ton, Md, will give his farewell SER
mon at II am. tomorrow. Dr. Heav-
ener has been a pastor for so years
and expects to retire at the Methodist
Conference in Hagerstown next week
He will reside at Kensington after
his retirement.
Evening star., 1938-05-28

In the reign of Richard I scholars
were maintained at Oxford by royal
bounty.
Evening star., 1938-05-28
DIPLOMAS GIVEN 81
AT NURSING SCHOOL
Ruhland Addresses Graduates at
Exercises Held in Gallinger
Hospital.

Thirty-seven nurses last night re-
ceived diplomas from Supt Edgar A.
Bocock of Gallinger Hospital at the
commencement exercises of the Capt.
tai City School of Nursing.
The address to the graduates was
delivered by District Health Officer
George c. Rutland Miss Catherine
E. Moran, superintendent of nurses at
Gallinger, presented the nurses pins.
DR.. Ruhland told the nurses your
duty never ends"
Nursing" he said, "is probably the
finest profession woman can enter.
1t calls for her noblest qualities, SYM
pathy, patience and unending self
sacrifice
Miss Creelman Rowland gave the
valedictory address following the TAX
ing of the Florence Nightingale pledge
by the entire class. Music was sup
piled by the United States Marine
Band.
The exercises we're followed by re-
Evening star., 1938-05-28
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-06-10
FEATURES
In THIS
Issue

Shining Palace" the story of girl
who LETT her devoted step-father
for the love of ne'er-do-weH.
At twenty-one, Tommy Heinrich is on
the way to a great major league
career. George Barclay, our sports
writer, sketches his Story-book
life in Speaking of Sports"
A trigger finger highly effective with
the six-shcoter is revealed as one
of the abilities of Brazil's versatile
President Vargas in a life study
by Lemuel F. Parton. See who's
News This Week"
Pop Wimpus loses a fair bet to Des-
perate Ambrose. For the pay-off
see "S'Matter Pop" i'm our funny
page.
Secretary Hull's ST. Lawrence sea-
way plan meets stiff opposition IN
Congress. Details in Edward W..
Packard's weekly News Review. p"
State Senator Coboun victim OF
drunken auto driver. Commence
ment activities of Rising Sun High
school. Other live local news on
first and last page.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-06-10
Rider Acquitted Then
Rearrested

john Rider, who some months ago
Wright, near Oxford, then sold most
of the machinery, etc., as we'll as
having considerable dealings" with
some of our Rising Sun business
men. was aquitted by a Chester
County jury, the verdict being SO
directed by the Court on the grounds
of insufficient evidence.
The charge upon which Rider was
tried was that of larceny, in connec-
ton with a tractor.
Immediately after the verdict was
announced Rider was again taken in
custody and remanded to Jail in de-
fault of bail, the charge this time
being that of larceny of bailee.
According to the stories told by
witnesses at the first trial, Rider
bought the Wright farm in August,
paying down $500 of the purchase
price, the balance to be paid i'm April.
Wright testified that later, Rider
wanted to by the tractor on the farm,
but was told that this would require
cash payment. He also stated that
when he went to the farm in the
latter part of March he found that
Rider had gone and there was moth
ing left but the cat. He stated that
he had traced the tractor to Church
vile, Md, and found that Rider had
sold it there and received in payment
check made QUE to w. H. dip. Rid
er was traced to Baltimore where,
it is claimed, he obtained money
from a finance company and then
left for the West, being finally locat-
ed in Wyoming. officers were sent
out there to bring him back to an
swer the charges against lin.