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Evening star., 1938-05-27
NAVY COLOR GIRL
PICKED FOR RITE
Michigan Student, 18, Due
to Arrive Tonight-Honor
Men Selected.
Bx the Associated Press.

BY tNe Associated fIeSS.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 27.-With
the color girl and the honor men Sc
lected, the Naval Academy ended
preparations today for the annual
June Week, beginning tomorrow and
ending with visit OF President Roose-
velt-snd graduation on June 2.
Midshipman Elton L. Knapp, cox
swain of the Navy varsity crew and
Commander, Of the Sd Midshipman
Company that won the interregimental
competition. selected Miss Ruth
Schiedinger, Is, of Monroe. Mich, his
home town, for the color girl.
Miss Schiedinger, brunette, IS q
senior in the Munroe High School
She is expected to arrive here tonight
ready to present the National and
Academy colors to the Sd Company at
a dress parade Tuesday afternoon.
Midshipman John Elmer Dacey, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Dacey of Biloxi,
Miss, won the graduating class honors,
standing highest for the four-year
course. His standing gave him two
more prizes, and he will receive six
at a dress parade Wednesday after
noon.
He will be awarded the Gardner l.
Caskey Memorial Prize, gold watch,
and a prize of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. a pair of night binoculars, for
leading the class.
Previously he won an automatic
pistol for standing highest in English,
a pair of marine binoculars for ex-
ceiling in seamanship, life member
ship in the United States Naval In
stitute for excellence in history and a
letter of commendation from Rear Ad-
miral Wilson Brown, superintendent
of the academy, for positive character
and oficer-like qualities.
Midshipman Paul Gibbons Schultz,
jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. P. G. Schultz
of Roswell, N. Mex, won second honorS
Third honors went to Midshipman
Frank Cox Jones, son of Capt. c. A.
Jones, U. S. NJ, and Mrs. Jones of New
London, Conn.
Evening star., 1938-05-27
TAX COLLECTIONS
FOR WASHINGTON
MUCH IMPROVED
Percentage of Bills Paid
Before End of Year Sets
New Record.
GETS 97.37 PER CENT
FOR THREE BRACKETS
But Business Privilege Levy Falls
Even Below Revised Revenue
Estimates.

Substantial improvement in the COL
lection of tangible, intangible and
gross receipts taxes this fiscal year, as
compared with the proceeding one, was
reported to the Commissioners today
by Charles A. Russell, District deputy
tax assessor.
Not only were the valuations and
tax bills higher for these three brackets
of levies, but the percentage of the
bills paid before the end of the fiscal
year has set new record, Mr.. Russell
found
Counting yesterdays receipts, the
District has collected 97.37 per cent of
the total of the bills in the three
classes, more than month before the
end of the fiscal year, Mr.. Russell said.
This record is in sharp contrast to
that for the business privilege tax pay
ments. which have fallen below even
revised estimates of the total expected
revenue.
INCREASE Ol SSUo,0SJs
The tax bills for the tangible and
intangible personal property taxes and
for the gross receipts and gross earn
ings taxes on banks, utilities and rail-
ways amounted to S6,454,259 for this
year, an increase of s708,579 over the
sum billed in the fiscal year 1887. Only
Sl69,896 Of this sum, or 1853 per cent,
remains to be collected.
For tangible personal property the
assessment base for this year was
placed at S8l l,566,lO7, an increase of
S12,115,O ,O32 over the valuations record
ed in the past fiscal year. The 1888
tax bill on tangible property was
s1,426, 174, an increase of $685., 1876 over
the levy for the past fiscal year.
Mr.. Russell calculated that roughly
half this increase in tangible property
tax collections resulted from the in
crease in the rate from $3.50 per 500
to SITS and voiced belief that the re-
mainder of the increase should be
attributed to more intensive drive for
tax payments.
Fear More Examiners.
The assessors Office last year was
given appropriations for the hire of
four additional examiners, and the
District made extensive use of its new
power to check tax returns to the Dis
trict against the Federal income tax
returns at the Bureau of Internal
Revenue.
The tax base for intangible personal
property for this fiscal year was found
to total s575,472,07O. an increase of
S48, ,494.39l over the preceding year.
The 1888 tax bill for intangibles was
s2,877,36 or an increase of s252,47
over last year.
For the various gross receipts and
gross earnings taxes (not including
the business privilege tax on gross re-
ceipts) totaled S2.l50,125. or an in
crease of s70.673 over last year.
Evening star., 1938-05-27

against it. With Mr.. Levenstein's
device each fish is kept in an indi-
vidual receptacle until a signal is
given. when each owner lifts a gate
releasing his entry. Then all the fish
can swim along together or each in
an individual channel. II necessary,
as in dog racing. bait can be trailed
ahead Of the fish q little faster than
it can swim.
With quiet water, he explains, a
fish is likely not to swim at all, and
it never will swim down stream unless
to avoid capture, pursue prey or obey
its mysterious migration instinct. But
once given an uphill track and all
its temperament disappears. 1t is
out to bring home the purse to Its
owner.
Goldfish racing being such . new
Evening star., 1938-05-27

the power The sulphuric ether makes
the mixture more volatile so that it
can rival gasoline in this quality.
The corn oil makes it flow more
easily and assures an equable dis
tribution through the engine. For
one or another of the constituents
about everything farmer wastes can
be used.
In contrast to straight alcohol or
alcohol-gasoline. he claims, there Is
little tendency toward overheating the
motor or the depositing Of carbon
with the resulting engine knock.
4 \ \ 4
A kind of electric light bulb which
can never burn out, and which Is
described as particularly desirable for
street lighting, was patented BY Rene
A. Coustal Of st. Maur. France.
The light y provided by "a1stained
Evening star., 1938-05-27
SLATED
ON BUDGET CUTS
D. C. Groups to Be Heard
Today on Training School
and Relief 'DiVerSion.'

Civic organizations and several
members of Congress are to appear
before the House Deficiency Subcom-
mittee on Appropriations this after
noon regarding the items recon-
mended by the Budget Bureau for the
National Training School for Girls, the
Receiving Home for Children and the
S.39,500 recommended as contribu-
ton to a Works Progress Administra-
ton project under which 1000 women
in the District are holding jobs they
are likely to lose.
Chairman Woodrum indicated that
something must be done" to take
care of the 60-odd colored girls whom
the courts found unfit to be about
the streets of Washington and COM
mitted to the National Training School
for Girls. He made it rather plain
last night that one of the three propo-
sitions recommended by the Budget
Bureau should be adopted. He en-
phasized, however. that he is 'of open
mind" regarding what should BE- done.
The Board of Public Welfare, Wash
ington Council of Social Agencies, the
Monday Evening Club, the League Of
Women Voters and other civic and
welfare organizations are to be heard
this afternoon.
It is rather generally expected that
some of these colored girls will be
paroled, when the institution is closed
on July l, and that about 40 of them
will be transferred to a dormitory at
Blue Plains now occupied by colored
boys, who are to be placed in foster
homes.
Other District organizations are to
appear before the subcommittee in
opposition to the proposed withdrawal
of about 100000 from the 100000
relief fund, of which $189,500 would
be used for the sponsors contribution
to the w. P. A. project" and $4,000
for train fare for stranded transients
The Citizens Committee on Unem-
ployment Relief, the Washington
Council of Social Agencies, the Mon
day Evening Club and the District of
Columbia Industrial Union are op-
posed to such Withdrawals from the
relief fund.
Chairman Collins of the Subcom-
mittee on District Appropriations also
is opposed to diminishing the funds
authorized for direct relief. It is
pointed out that unless the $189, 500
is appropriated some 1000 women now
employed on w. P. A. projects here
will be discharged, and that if the
relief fund is cut practically the same
number must be dropped from the
rolls.
Evening star., 1938-05-27

sawdust, wood chips and kitchen
refuse.
In the past various alcohol substi-
tutes for gasoline have been proposed
as measures of farm relief, surplus
crops being used to distill alcohol.
Alcohol alone is neither so efficient
nor SO cheap as gasoline and alcohol
gasoline mixtures, and while required
in some European countries, never
have been quite satisfactory to many
experts. The plans have been object
ed to on the basis that what actually
is proposed is hidden system OF
taxation to aid the farmer-the tax
being the difference In cost and eff
cheney between alcohol gasoline and
straight gasoline.
Mr.. Jeans proposes to take gaso-
line out Of the picture altogether.
The alcohol and the acetone furnish
Evening star., 1938-05-27
Somewhere, it seems, there Is such

somewhere, 1t seems, there Is Sucn
a sport as goldfish racing
A patent was issued this week to
Irving I. Levenstein Of Brooklyn for
a device to keep such races on the
level and assure that the goldfish
War Admirals and Sea5iscuits put
forth their best efforts.
In nature, Mr.. Levenstein explains
in his patent application. fish swim
upstream so that more water, from
which they get oxygen, will pass
through their gills and because the
down-fowing water is full Of minute
forms of life on which they feed.
Nothing will aow into their mouths
when headed down stream.
So q goldfish race track must be
provided by a pump with . current
and the heads Of the fishes turned
Evening star., 1938-05-27
DUNBART0N STUDENTS
TO RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
One Certificate Will Be Mailed to
China-Right Rev. Patrick
r McCormick Speaker.

Seventeen students at Dunbarton
College of Holy Cross will receive
diplomas from Dr. Roy Defarraro,
secretary general of Catholic Univer-
sity, at final exercises at the college
tonight at 8 O'Clock.
An eighteenth graduate, Pei Chun
Huang, who completed the course last
January and is now in China, will
have her certificate mailed to her.
Principal speaker at the ceremonies
will be the Right Rev. Patrick j.
Mccormick. Eleanor Thomaides will
deliver the valedictory address
Other graduates are: Doris Batson.
Rita Conlon, Rose E. Dobbyn, Agnes
Doherty, Agnes Drew, Elinor Fox,
Jane Frances Houston, Mildred Lucas,
Marie Ruble, Marie Russell, Mary
Sheehy, Margaret Shireman, Margaret
viehmann, Anne Marie Walsh, Eliza.
beth williams and Vivian Wilson.
Evening star., 1938-05-27
CHEF is SENTENCED
FOR ACT VIOLATION

Constantine A. Anton, 48, a chef liv-
ing at 804 Ninth street NV, was sem
fenced by Judge Hobart Newman in
Police Court today to pay fines of sl00
or serve 80 days each on five charges
of violating the Unemployment Com
pensation Act.
Two restaurant owners testified that
Anton was working for them at the
times he applied for compensation.
When the warrant was issued three
weeks ago police said they could not
find the defendant but later learned
he was in the unemployment ADJUST
ment office at 2l5 Sixth street NV.
trying to find out what was holding
M hts chocka,
Evening star., 1938-05-27
HEARING ON POSTAGE
THEFT CHARGE TODAY
Store Receivers Issues Valued at
81, Notwithstanding
Also Alleged.

Robert Mason Shockley, 36, Of the
900 block of Morris place NE. was to
have a Police Court hearing today
on charges of HOUSEKEEPING and
grand larceny of postage stamps val
ued at $1,000 from store at 402
Twelfth street NV. yesterday.
Police reported that entry was ef-
fected by breaking glass door. It
was said that the intruder broke into
show cases and made careful selec-
tions of the most valuable stamps
for his collection.
Officers who arrested Shockley at
his home several hours after the rob-
berry said they recovered the stamps
on the premises.
Evening star., 1938-05-27

sport, apparently no major scandals
have risen as yet, but tracks using
Mr.. Levenstein's device need not fear
them. Photoelectric eye devices. he
explains, can be installed along the
way to keep an automatic record Of
the race and for such emergencies
as photo finishes.
4 \ X
A new kind of farm-made motor
fuel was patented by James w. Jean
of Altadena, Calf. It consists Of 80
per cent butyl alcohol, 80 per cent
acetone, 10 per cent suphuric ether
and 7 per cent corn oil. 1t is as
ef3cient and about as cheap as gaso-
line, Mr.. Jeans claims, and can be
distilled and extracted entirely from
waste products Of the farm. such as
corn stalks. corn cobs, spoiled crops,
Evening star., 1938-05-27
Iowa Stamps Announced

! Postmaster General Farley early this
afternoon announced authorization
of new Scent commemorative
postage stamp to mark the centenary
of the establishment of the Territory
Of Iowa. No details were disclosed in
the official announcement concerning
design or first-day sales arrangements.
Evening star., 1938-05-27
Bullet Wound in Head Fatal.

Reginald Carey, 80. colored, OF
Washington, died in the Alexandria
(va.) General Hospital last night of
q bullet wound in the head. Accord
ing to Sheriff Eppa Kirby of Fairfax
County, Carey was visiting his sister
at Baileys Crossroads, Va, and shot
himself with pistol.
Evening star., 1938-05-27

The oldest Spanish university Is
that of Salamanca, founded in 1899.
Evening star., 1938-05-27
BAND CONCERT

BY the United States Army Band
in the auditorium at 1890 am. to-
morrow. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy,
leader; Karl Hubner, assistant, con-
Quoting.
March, la Pere De La Victoire,"
Came
Overture, "The Maid of Asturia,"
Secchi
Cuban serenade, La Paloma" IRE
quest) -Yradier
March, Alteration" Woods
Solo for cornet, Dear Old Pal Of
Mine" Rice
Ralph K. Ostrom.
Lanento, THE Unknown Soldier"
Woodin
Meditation, Twilight" Cesek
March, Colonel Bogey" Afford
"The Star Spangled Banner"
The Washington times., 1938-02-03
TONG AIDS HUNT
FOR 500 KILLER

With Chinese leaders pledging
aid to police, the killers of Henry
Der 500, murdered yesterday in
his laundry at laos H st. N. E.,
were still at large today.
Police were holding two persons
for investigation, Mary Tesvie,
colored woman who worked in the
laundry, and her husband, vii.
liam.
Meanwhile, detectives of the
homicide squad are attempting to
learn if there is any tong connec-
ton with the Staying. ....
Frank Fong, wealthy China
town merchant and head of the
On Leon Tong here, Of which 500
was once a member, went to police
headquarters late yesterday, &C.
companied by several other Chin
ese. and pledged his assistance to
police in solving the case.
500, whose passport carried the
name of Quan You, was strangled
with a rope found knotted around
his neck. His feet were tied, and
his throat had been slashed.
The Washington times., 1938-02-03

EvaIyn Walsh Mclean hat. She turned around with
terrible snarl and said: Keep your hands off me-
Don't you dare touch me. I refuse to remove
my hat"
Well, either had to sit there watching the roll
Of fat in the back of her neck-I couldn't see any
of the novie-or go home. So decided it was
better to leave. Reading book would be far
preferable to the view in front of me.
Joy Found in Terror
was coming out of another theater one time
where they were showing picture Of an earth
quake, and a delightful little woman who, 1
noticed was shaking all over, came up to me and
said:
'You know, was all through the San Francisco
earthquake and every time see anything like it
on the screen I go to pieces"
She was in such state offered to take her
to her home in my car and she gladly accepted. I
asked her why she went to see these pictures if
they upset her so much and she said: ..
'Well, lady, they have strange fascination for
The Washington times., 1938-02-03
COmbed
For Bank
Bandits

Washington police today joined
with authorities of Maryland,
West Virginia and Pennsylvania
in a search for two bandits who
yesterday held up the bank at
Keedysville, Md, and escaped
with between $4,000 and $4,000.
The bandits fled in a car car
rying Maryland tags, and police
later found evidence that led
them to believe the men had
started for Washington.
George w. Buxton, cashier. was
alone in the bank when the un-
masked bandits entered, drew
guns and threatened to kill him
if he made an outcry.
While they were scooping
money from the cage, F. Os-
borne Wilhelm, vice president of
a Baltimore investment banking
firm, entered.
The bandits robbed him of 500,
then tied both men in the base
ment of the bank, entered their
car and drove away.
Buxton managed to free him.
self and sounded the burglar
alarm. Police put guards on all
roads, but found no trace of the
bandit car.
The Washington times., 1938-02-03
3 GRAIVELY j HURT
IN TRAFFIC HERE

Seriously hurt, three persons
were in local hospitals today, vic.
Tins of traffic accidents.
Mrs. Frances S. Graves, 49, of
Brentwood, Md, was brought TO
Casualty Hospital last night by
the Prince Georges County Res
cue Squad from an automobile ac-
cident in Brentwood. She was
treated for a fractured hip and
head injuries.
Felled by a truck while crossing
North Capitol and N Streets last
night, .7-year-old James Fair, col
ored, rs L st. N. w., is in Child
ren's Hospital with possible inter
nal injuries, and Robert O'Connor,
colored, 81, 1921 Eighth st. N. W.,
is in Freedmen's Hospital with Sc
riouS head injuries.
The Washington times., 1938-02-03
DIR. BallOu Eager
To See Big Apple

Superintendent of Schools
Frank Washington Ballou indi-
Gated today he would like to look
into the merits of "that big apple
dance" personally before giving
out his views on it to the press.
IT have never seen it," he
said, but I would like to-"
The school heads interest in the
hot-cha type of dancing first mani
tested itself several days ago when
the teachers in charge of Roose-
velt High School entertainment
program halted dance proceed
ings when the orchestra Strayed
from the BLUE Danube waltzes
to more pulsating rhythms.
The Washington times., 1938-02-03

Helen E8saFy
Mrs. Hobby is quite charming. Her candidacy
went with a flourish. Too much of a flourish to
please the opposition which promptly started an
evil rumor about her. t.....
RunOr Is Started
'You can vote for Mrs. Hobby, If you want"
the whisper went around, "but there's something
you ought to know about her. She is parliamen-
tarian!"
"a What?" echoed many of the simple citizenry.
"A parlamentarian! You know what they are"
''Kinda like a Communist or white SLAYER or
cIoP"
"Well, kinda" the whisperers insinuated.
Gee whiz!" the fearful proletariat would reply.
The Washington times., 1938-02-03
Guilty Purse Grabber Thanks
TudQe for Fairness of Trial

OF all the 13 trials he has had
in the criminal courts during his
A years, Haywood Pope enjoyed
the one he had today most of all.
Each of Pope's trials have re-
suited in convictions. The one to-
day will probably send him to
prison for three years, but he still
was appreciative.
Turning to Justice Daniel W.
The Washington times., 1938-02-03
Save Coal;
FOur-Day Holiday

Because this years anniversary
of George Washington'S birth falls
on a Tuesday, District school chill
dren will be given a four-day holi.
day, the Board of Education de,
cided yesterday.
ITO save heating costs over
the weekend" was given as one
of the reasons the board ruled
the schools will not reopen until
Wednesday, February %, this
year after closing time on Feb
ruary 18.
The Washington times., 1938-02-03

Carter '~AA ~SNASA~~'
of Belgium sent up his trial balloon-the pro
posal that five nations, United States, Britain,
France, Italy and Germany, form a pact to
abolish trade barriers and quotas: and buried
well down in the body of the report is pie. to
get rid of the world debts. namely, transfer them
from Europe's books to the back Of the United
States citizens. This was publicized January ~
and 3d.
The report was made at the request of Great
Britain and France. Itwas not addressed to the
United States Government. Nevertheless, the
State Department hurried to hand out copy of
the Van iceland document to Washington CORE
spondents.
Then the "EducatiOn" Commences
'In any event, leading officials Of the Admins
tration," says an article in the New York Times,
shave about come to the conclusion that the
country wants an accounting on foreign policy.
For this reason it is probable in the next few
weeks that various phases of foreign affairs will
be discussed in statements and speeches by Secre-
tary Hull, Undersecretary Sumner Wells, and
others"
The education" campaign gets under way or,
OF least, here's somebody else, other than this
The Washington times., 1938-02-03
|GRADUATEDTAX
ON BUSINESS
Seen IN D. C.
House Group Meets
To Draft Bill
BY JULIA A. BONWIT

A graduated business privilege
tax was seen today as the solution
of the Districts deficit problem.
The House District fiscal affairs
subcommittee, which is in charge
of the proposed tax program, is
drafting a final bill on the basis
of a $2,6O0,OO0 deficit.
Representative Jack Nichols
CD, Oklahoma. chairman of the
subcommittee, said today that mis-
group is proceeding on the theory
that the deficit will not exceed
the $2,600,O0 figure, and that II
that is true, only one form of tax.
alton to erase the deficit will be
required.
THREE-POINT PLAN TO GO
The subcommittee is, however,
committed to a ttree-point tax
program, decided on some time
ago when it appeared that the
deficit would be approximately
IS, 1000, 900. Over the protests Of
Mr.. Nichols, the subcommittee de-
cided on the three-point program
for a continuation of the 25-cent
increase in the real estate tax,
the business privilege tax and a
new tax on income.
Now, however, with the action Of
the House on the 1889 appropria-
ton bill, the deficit is reduced to
the $4,000, 900 figure.
FUND SHIFT DENIED
Originally, when reported by the
House Appropriations Committee.
the deficity was $1,000, 900, but the
action of the House has added
$765 900 by refusing to permit this
sum to be shifted out Of the gen
eral fund into the highway fund
for street lighting purposes.
The fiscal affairs subcommittee
has been working on modification
of the business privilege tax, which
in it's present form is flat two
fifths of ped cent on gross re-
ceipts of business.
Under the new plan, the tax will
be on gross profits, instead Of
gross receipts, and will begin at
one-tenth of 1 per cent for profits
up to 3 per cent, scaling up to two
fifths of / per cent where the
profits are 8 per cent or over.
The Washington times., 1938-02-03
THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1893.
'Bv Evalm Walsh Mclean

me- Just don't seem to be able to keep away
from them"
Another time was sitting In the back row of
theater, which is my fayorite place when noticed
tall, quietlooking man walking down the aisle
He stopped about four rows in front of me and
appeared to be looking for someone.
The next thing I knew he pulled gun from
his pocket and fired three or four shots into the
woman sitting on the aisle seat. He then turned
and walked out with great composure. The poor
woman slumped over and it seemed hours before
could move, was so stunned But finally
managed to get my legs working and when
reached her she was dead.
A Jealous Husband
The ushers were all so wonderful. They
were quiet and efficient, and carried the poor
soul out, and don't think there were more than
dozen people in the theater knew what had hap
pened. It turned out the man was her husband,
and had warned her not to go with the man she
was with.
have often looked at those seats since and it is
peculiar thing: people sit in them when there
are no vacant seats, but the minute there is a
chance to change they invariably hop up with no
apparent reason and leave the seat where the
woman was killed.
There is also a very nice little mouse that runs
around one of the theaters and only hope it
doesn't run up some lady's legs some day and
make lot Of trouble.
To me the movies are Godsend and really
think they are getting better every year. think
of the first ones used to go to on Ninth Street
and be laughed at by all my friends! Now the
beautiful theaters they have built certainly show
how the exhibitors have marched, hand in hand,
with the progress Of time!