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Evening star., 1938-12-08
Taxi Rate Hearinu
Expeeted 10 Be
Called Soon
Commission Prepares
To Review Pepco
Power Charges

A public hearing on proposed in
creases in taxicab zone rates was
planned today by the Public Utilities
Commission after it had considered
petitions for rate hike filed re-
Gently by more than 1900 owners
or drivers.
At the same time. commission
officials proceeded with plans for
the annual review of rates of the
Potomac Electric Power Co., with
indications that power consumers
may receive "substantial' aggre-
gate rate cut in February.
Hearing in January.
The date for the tax rate hear
ing has not been fixed, but COM
mission officials said it probably
will be held early in January. The
commission today issued an order
for investigation of taxi rates, and
said it would be necessary to make
an assessment against taxi owners
and drivers to cover the cost of
the investigation and hearing.
This is in accord with established
practice and law under which the
costs of Investigations and hearings
are assessed against concerned utili-
ties. One commission member said
the assessment might be Is cents
for each of the more than 1000
taxi operators, which would produce
more than $1,000.
Large groups of taxi operators have
requested an increase from the zone
rates from the present 2O-3O-5O-7O
cents to 20-40-60-80, plus changes
in some zone boundaries and estab-
lishment of certain auxiliary zone
lines which would increase the
charges further.
Earlier Petitions Rejected.
The commission has rejected two
previous petitions for a hearing on
the ground the number of petitioners
was not large enough to represent
the industry, but the investigation
order was issued today because the
latest petition showed more than
$500 signers on two petitions, one
from the Independent Zone and
Rate Committee and the local of the
Taxi Drivers Union.
Last January the commission or
dered reductions in power rates
amounting to $4,000, a good part
Of which resulted from the COM
Missions order reducing the initial
rate of return allowed the power
company under its sliding-scale
plan from 612 to 6 per cent of the
agreed rate base. Final figures ON
the business of the last year are
not yet available, but there were
indications there are possibilities of
a cut of considerable size. although
probably lower than that of last
January.
Evening star., 1938-12-08
Mrs. Doyle Will Discuss
Handicapped Children

Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent of the Board of Education, will
discuss the work Of the Committee
on Handicapped Children in the
District, at 1890 pm. tomorrow at a
meeting of the Council Of Social
Agencies at the Y. w. C. A. Build
ing.
Mrs. Mary Steele, director of rec
reational and educational projects Of
the District Works Progress Admin
istration, will give an analysis of the
work being done by w. P. A. for
handicapped children.
Evening star., 1938-12-08
Funeral Rites Held
For Paul Anderson

The body of Paul Y. Anderson,
one of Americas foremost reporters,
today was returned for burial to
Knoxville, Tenn, the city where he
began his career as newspaper
man.
High Government officials and
newspaper colleagues crowded into
Gawler's funeral chapel, in the 100
block of Pennsylvania avenue NV,
yesterday to attend funeral services
for the veteran reporter. Mr.. Ander-
son died in Emergency Hospital
Tuesday after taking a quantity OF
sleeping tablets.
Mr.. Anderson. who was As, had
been in Washington for Is years as
a correspondent for the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch and later for the st.
Louis Star Times.
Expressions of grief came from
high government officials as we'll as
leaders in National and local groups.
President Roosevelt, at his con-
ference Tuesday, joined with others
in praising Mr.. Anderson's out
standing qualities as a newspaper
sman. John L. Lewis, chairman of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions, and Senator George Norris of
Nebraska delivered eulogies at the
services yesterday, as did George r.
Holmes, chief of the Washington
Bureau of the international News
Service. Prominent men present in
al, 10 II ol%
OF the Supreme Court and Harry l..
Hopkins, Works Progress Admins
traitor.
Mr.. Lewis recalled Anderson's
wisdom and skill" in throwing
light on race controversies, confu-
sion between capital and labor and
on problems of Government and
said it was becoming increasingly
difficult to replace men OF Ander-
sons stamp.
Evening star., 1938-12-08
Returning for Trial

Identified by the proprietor Of a
liquor store here as the man who
held him up on November 80 and
robbed him of 800, man arrested
In Miami, Fla, is being returned
here for trial, Inspector Bernard w.
Thompson announced today. The
suspect is charged with robbing
George Chaparas, proprietor of
liquor store in the 900 block Of II
street NV.
Evening star., 1938-12-08
Two Pedestrian
Control Plans
Giiyen Citizens
Finul Drafts Studied
By Commissioners
This Morning

Final drafts of two suggested plans
for pedestrian control were studied
by the District Commissioners today
and sent out to citizens associations
and other interested groups for their
consideration prior to special
public hearing on the question on
Thursday, December 20.
The Commissioners went over the
proposals with Traffic Director Will
liam A. Van Duzer and Maj. Ernest
w. Brown, superintendent of police.
After the conference Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen said that while he
favored pedestrian control in prin-
clple, he still wants to know how it
can be enforced.
The president of the board sug-
gested that spokesmen for civic
groups formulate suggestions on how
pedestrians can be protected from
motor vehicles when both are cross
ing intersections on proper signals.
He evidently referred to pedestrians
crossing street closed to through
traffic by a red light, but open to
vehicles turning right and left into
it from the cross street with its
green light.
The Commissioners are anxious
that every interested individual and
organization be given adequate time
to study the proposed plans and
determine their stand prior to the
hearing.
Municipal officials have invited all
interested organizations or individ-
uals to send representatives to the
hearing, and they have indicated
clearly that in making a final de-
cision on whether the District will
have pedestrian control regulations
they will be guided chiefly by the
reaction of the public at the hearing.
Final Drafts Prepared.
Final drafts of the two proposals
were prepared late yesterday by
Corporation Counsel ElWood H. Seal
and one of his assistants, E. w.
Thomas
The one suggested law deals with
pedestrian control at intersections
and the other with control of pedes-
trians crossing in the middle of the
block. The first one says:
mo pedestrian shall disobey the
signal of any police officer direct
ing traffic at intersections or cross
walks. No pedestrian shall enter
or. cross a roadway at intersections
where traffic is controlled by traffic
control devices against the signals
given unless directed to do so by a
/ police officer. The police officer
shall have full power to regulate
traffic
The second proposed regulation
states: mo pedestrian shall cross
or attempt to cross any roadway
between street intersections at any
place except within crosswalk."
King Backs Reasonable Rules.
The latter suggestion states that
'in the event this proposal is adopt
ed, it will be necessary to mark
crossWalks between the curb and
car-loading platforms.
Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee, in commenting yes
terday on the action of the Com
missioners in arranging for public
hearings on the subject, said he
would approve reasonable regula-
tions to govern pedestrians as
part of traffic control here.
While I have no desire to say
how the question should be decided
by the local authorities, in my home
town of Salt Lake City they have
pedestrian regulation, and it has
worked admirably the Senator said.
Evening star., 1938-12-08
Band Concerts

BY the Soldiers Home Band in
Stanley Hall at $50 o'clock tonight.
John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmas-
ter; Anton Pointner, assistant.
Tomorrow.
BY the United States Marine Band
tomorrow in the auditorium, Marine
Barracks at 3 pm. Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader: William F. Santel-
mann, second leader. Educational
series for high school bands and or
chestras.
Evening star., 1938-12-08
School Board 10 Seek
Funds for Girls Gym
At Coolidge High
Construction Of Project
Sought by Time Building
Is Finished in 1910

The Board of Education will seek
funds to insure the construction of
girls gymnasium at the Calvin
Coolidge High School. now being
built at Fifth and Sheridan streets
NV, by the time the school is
ready for occupancy, in February,
1910.
At meeting of the board several
weeks ago members we're informed
that appropriated funds would not
cover the expense of the school
building as planned, and rather than
delay the entire project they de-
cided to omit the girls gymnasium
temporarily.
Yesterday the members voted to
seek funds from the Commissioners
from possible unexpended balances
from other construction funds, and,
if these are not available, the Com
missioners will be asked to include
an item to cover the cost of the
gymnasium in the first deficiency
bill.
Supt. Frank w. Ballou did not
state what the cost of a new gym
nasium would be but said the origi-
nal bids varied greatly.
Report on Liquor Permit.
DR.. Ballou reported to the board
on additional evidence placed be-
fore the members by attorneys for
Leo j. Rossiter, local restaurateur.
whose application for Glass C
liquor license has been opposed by
the board. No action was taken,
the members preferring to let the
matter carry over until the next
meeting, when they would have had
time to consider DR.. Ballou's report
Mr.. Rossiter is asking the board to
reconsider.
The superintendents report de-
clared that no change in the boards
position could be recommended. He
said he had conferred with princi-
pals of the schools in the area OF
Mr.. Rossiter's establishment and
found their professional opinion un-
changed that the granting of the
license would be detrimental to the
interests of the children.
Application for license to oper-
ate a gasoline station at Twelfth
and K streets NV. was opposed by
the board as a hazard to children
but no objection was offered to a
similar application at Third and
Sheridan streets NV.
Hands OF Policy TJrTed.
Robert A. Maurer, vice president
of the board, urged that the board
officially observe "hands-of" pol
icy in regard to such licenses. He
said he has been told by reliable
authority that the zoning body en-
powered to issue such permits was
also empowered to consider the
proximity of the applicant to a
school,
Other members thought, however,
that under the procedure of getting
signatures in behalf of an applicant
or against him from property own
ers the Board of Education, as re-
sponsible agent for the school prop
erty, would have to act.
i DR.. Ballou presented a report on
the need for both white and col
ored school for crippled children
in the District and urged that the
board continue to seek sites for these
schools in the school budget. One
would be located in the vicinity OF
Children's Hospital and the other
near Freedman's Hospital.
Evening star., 1938-12-08

A conflict of views" has de-
veloped among members of the
Commissioner Advisory Com
mittee on Taxation over the pro-
posed combination of a restricted
income tax and sales levy, 1t
became known today.
Rough estimates of the yield of
the proposed flve-point District tax
schedule-debated last week at a
public hearing at the Capitol-are
to be considered at a meeting Of
congressional experts and members
OF. the Commissioners Tax Advisory
Committee next Wednesday after
noon.
While the committee and agents
Of the Congressional Joint Com
mittee on Internal Revenue Taxa
ton report no final decision yet has
been reached, there are indications
they will draft a final report soon,
based on the tentative five-point
outline.
This plan would involve:
The repeal of the Intangible per-
sonal property tax, now bringing N
more than $2OOO,O00 a year, but
which has been called "the most un-
fair tax on the books"
Business Levy Abandonment.
Abandonment of the business
privilege levy on gross receipts, used
for two years as a major element
Of the "stop-gap" revenue program,
which is producing annually more
than $2,000,0 900.
Adoption of a corporation net in
come tax. with a rate of per cent,
this to be applied to Washington
utility concerns as we'll as other in
corporated businesses.
A non-wage, non-salary personal
income tax, with rates ranging from
2 to z per cent, this to be applied to
non-incorporated businesses.
A 2 per cent sales tax, exempting
food and medicine.
The Advisory Committee and the
two congressional advisers, DR..
Chester Pond, tax expert. and Colin
F. Stan. chief of staff of the Con-
gressional Joint Committee on In
ternal Taxation, also are giving fa-
vorable consideration to an amend
ment to fix the ceiling for the real
estate tax levy at SITS per $10O of
assessment, the present rate, and a
floor Of 81 so per $l00.
Uncertain Estimates.
So far, estimates Of revenue are
very uncertain, experts explaining
that there is no pertinent precedent
to go on as to two or more of the
new levtes. BY one method of CAL
culation, 1t is figured roughly that
the non-wage, non-salary income
tax might produce no more than
$500, 900, but by other calculations,
using a different base and different
estimates run as high
as $2,500,0OO.
Experts say the proposed 5 per
cent net corporation income tax
might produce more than $4,000, 900,
an additional 100000 or
so from application of this tax to the
utility concerns. 1t is said there are
some 5000 corporations doing busi-
ness in the District.
There is no final estimate yet as
to what the proposed 2 per cent re-
tail sales tax would produce. Some
committee members say it might be
no more than 100000 and others
estimate it might go as high as S.
600, 900 or $6,000,000. But these es-
Inmates are all subject to correction
according to what items are placed
in the exempt class and whether
items below a certain sales price are
to be exempted.
Evening star., 1938-12-08
Girl Dies of Burns

Blanche Hill, 8, colored, 1924 p
street NV, died today in George
town Hospital of burns received No
vember 9, when she brushed against
q stove In her home and her clothing
caught IRE.
Evening star., 1938-12-08
Proposed Tax
Program Yield
To Be Studied
Meeting Will Discuss
Five-Point Plan
Wednesday
BULLETIN.

A Conflict of views" has de-
veloped among members of the
Commissioner Advisory Com
mittee on Taxation over the pro-
posed combination of a restricted
income tax and sales levy, 1t
became known today.
Evening star., 1938-01-14
AIR RAID TUNNEL

LONDON (R.-A long steel tunnel
for shelter from air raids Is being built
near the main entrance Of historic
Caxton Hail.
Eight to nine feet high, the tunnel
Is said to be gas and splinter proof.
It will be covered with sand bags and
gravel.
Object Of the construction. says a
Caxton Hall ofhcial, Is to show large
firms how easily shelters can be built
in q small space for protection Of their
employees.
Evening star., 1938-01-14

the Virginia Supreme Court Of Ap-
peals
The court ruled that the Rev. Will
liam r. Hayes, pastor emeritus of st.
Mary's Catholic Church. NeWburgh,
N. Y, was a resident of Virginia at
the time of his death in 1884 and
therefore his wife, Mrs. Adelaide M.
Gray Hayes, was entitled to the
estate.
Petition Dismissed
In ruling, the court dismissed the
petition of Mary Hayes Guilfoil. the
Rev. Hayes sister, attacking the valid
ity Of the will which named Mrs.
Hayes executrix as we'll as principal
beneficiary.
The priest was married to Ade-
laide M. Grady, his former nurse, The
record states. in civil ceremony at
Elizabeth City, N. c.. in SEPTEMBER.
1892 The will naming his wife as
Evening star., 1938-01-14
attempt to kill Holt on the latter's

attempt to kill Holt on the latter's
front porch.
S. Duval Martin. defense attorney.
said Whitlow merely fired at Holt ito
scare" him and that II he had wished
to kill him, he could easily have done
so, since they were only a few feet
apart.
Whitlow was acquitted by On Ap-
pomattox jury December % in the
death Of Miss Ocie Turner at an
Appomattox tourist cabin three hours
after Holt had been fired upon here.
1t was testified that on November
18 Holt and Mrs. Edna Whitlow, the
accused's wife. left the factory about
noon together, Holt returning and
leaving Mrs. Whitlow intoxicated at
filling station.
Evening star., 1938-01-14

beneficiary was made before the two
were married.
They established residence at Vir-
ginia Beach, Va.
At the time of his death at New
York on April 81, 1894, following
minor operation, 1t had not been
known at Newburgh that he was
married, the record stated, and It
was not known at Virginia Beach
that he was priest.
Question of Domicile.
IT those facts had been known
before his DEATH" Justice John w.
Eggleston pointed out in his opinion,
"he would have been subjected to
immediate communication under
Catholic Church laws"
The court said the sole question on
which it decided the case was whether
Father Hayes was domiciled in Vir-
ginia or New York at the time of his
Evening star., 1938-01-14
sver, abandoning the idea Of protec-

eVef, 1pA1luOnluB Cne 1ue3 OF pUteC.
ton.
The central idea, he said. is to re-
duce barriers to promote foreign trade,
but to retain sufficient protection to
"equalize competitive conditions" be-
tween American and foreign producers.
Among the men high in party coun-
cils Mr.. Rowell said were for the policy
change were the standard bearers in
the last presidential campaign, All
Landon and Frank Knox. Others
named were the new Policy Committee
chairman, DR.. Glenn Frank, and for
mer President Herbert Hoover, also a
committee member.
Evening star., 1938-01-14
2.99 and 3.99 Dresses

Brand-new Spring dresses
in prints and solid colors.
New rayon fabrics. Sizes
IA to 50 in the group.
Evening star., 1938-01-14

The Texas planning board says
some landowners in that State have
entire mountain ranges and rivers on
their ranches and one has 40 miles Of
navigable rivers on q farm.
Evening star., 1938-01-14
LOWER TARIFF PLAN
FORECAST IN G. 0. P.
Rowell, Policy Committee Mem.
Der, Says Change Being
Weighed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1.-THE
Republican party is nearing possible
turning point in It's tarif1 policy.
Chester Rowell, member of the ma
tional party Policy Committee, said
yesterday in an interview.
Many leaders in the party. Mr..
Rowell said, are at least considering
the advisability Of swinging toward q
lower-tarin program, without, how
Evening star., 1938-01-14
JURY IS DEADLOCKED
ON WHITLOW'S CASE
Unable to Reach Verdict on
Charge Of Attempting to Muir
der Wife's COMPANION.

By the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG, Va, Jan. 14.-A
Jury In Corporation Court last night
was unable to reach q verdict in the
case Of John S. Whitlow, Lynchburg
chauffeur, indicted for attempting to
murder Harold H. Holt. Court was
adjourned until 8 am. today.
Arguments were concluded shortly
before 6 pm. Commemorative At
torney w. T. Spencer, jr. said evil
dence plainly pointed to a deliberate
Evening star., 1938-01-14

death. The petition Of appeal con-
tended that II New York had been
his residence, Mary Hayes Guilford
would have been the legal beneficiary.
Evening star., 1938-01-14

Long forgotten memories may be
revived In q state Of hypnosis.
Evening star., 1938-01-14
MARRIED PRIESTS
WILL IS UPHELD
High Virginia Courts Ruling
FavorS Wife-SiSter
Contested Validity.

81 the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Jan. 14-The will Of
q secretly married Catholic priest,
leaving all but 81 of an $4,000 estate
to his wife. was upheld yesterday in
Evening star., 1938-01-14
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F. Novelty rayons and
crepes, reduced
from our stocks.
Many smart styles
and colors. Sizes
IA to So in the lot.
Goidenberg's-Sec'
Evening star., 1938-03-14

and there are indications that he has
been toughened and hardened by the
lash of events. Happenings of the
near future may reveal him as hold
ing important cards in the British
lineup, or possibly as the focus of
merely romantic and visionary ideas.
Recent reports have been that
British labor had lost it's punch The
old militant leaders have passed. Ap-
praisal of the newly recruited follow
ing of the somewhat doctrinaire Mai.
Attlee may be important news this
week.
He has been leader of the labor op-
position since 1895. He is an Oxonian,
typical of many highly literate Amer
leans who have tried unsuccessfully to
plaster social philosophy on real
iStic and hard-boiled labor leaders.
He was lawyer turning to social
work. and serving as a tutor and lee
turer in the social sciences at the
London School of Economics He was
in the Tank Corps in the war, from
the day the big iron cucumbers first
rolled into action, emerging with his
present rank. In the Ramsay Mac
Donald cabinet. he was undersecretary
Of state for war, postmaster general
and member of the Indian Statutory
Commission. He is the author of sew
eral books in the field of reform and
social ameliOration. He has been an
alert gad-fly. assailing Tory policies,
but with qualities of practical political
leadership still to be determined.
(Copyright 193S)
Evening star., 1938-03-14
Sovereignty of the Lie
Schuschnigg Has Satisfaction of Calling German
Nazi Leaders Liars.

mean armed conquest, by forces out
numbering the Austrian 10 to l, even
if Austria were not already divided
by revolution fomented by NaN agents.
That's the story-but not, of course,
the one the Nazi press-claque tells the
German people and the world. They
denied, officially, that there had ever
been an ultimatum! chancellor Hit
Ter says in his book. my Battle" that
people readily detect small lies. be-
cause most people tell them them
selves, and catch others out when they
tell them, but that the colossal lie is
usually believed because the people
cannot believe that such impertinence
existsD They claim to have rescued"
Austria from chaos. Unfortunately
this time, even with the best inten-
tions, they couldn't conjure up a
Communist scare. There has never
been a Communist movement of any
proportions in Austria, and Chancellor
Schuschniggs predecessor 'liauidated"
the mild and wholly legal Socialists
in 1888, and they haven't peeped
since The only chaos in Austria in
years has been caused by the Nazis.
And the rescue" consists of putting
the rioters in power by force of arms
Plebiscite "UnconstitutionaI."
Chancellor Schuschnigg's plebiscite,
according to the official Nazi barkers,
was unconstitutional" profoundly
comic observation from a regime
whose leader swore allegiance in 1888
TO the constitution Of Weimar and
then proceeded to abolish it. So now
the Nazis are going to have a fair"
plebiscite-by implication, "constitu-
tionap'-and establish, nay. guaran-
tee, calm in Austria There will be
calm. all right. except perhaps for a
little while. in the Jewish quarters
OF the cities. But it doesn't take
much terror to establish calm" and
concentration camps will do a great
deal.
II only we could be spared the
piety!
The immediate effect of the Aus
trian coup detat is to end all hope
IN England Of the possibility of nego-
tiations with the Nazis. unless Mr.
Chamberlain is able to come to
quick agreement with Premier Musso-
lini-possible because Chancellor Hit
Ter has put himself. as we'll as these
democracies on the spot, and the
Rome-Berlin axis is extremely wab-
y-Chamberlainism will be as dead
as Austrian freedom in a very short
time
Will Get Needed Products.
Although it is reckless to prophesy
what the Nazis may do next, be-
lieve that the Austrian victory will
keep Hitler quiet for some time. He
will get from Austria iron ore. cattle
and lumber, all of which he needs
and which he can now pay for with
paper marks, instead of with stable
Austrian schillings.
The triumph" and the reorganiza-
tion of Austria will furnish prop
aganda material for months. with
strength through JOY excursions of
Austrian youth into Germany and
vice versa.
The terror will not be particularly
visible to outsiders, and the attempt
of the prosecuted minority to escape
may rebound as much against them
as against Mr.. Hitler. He will prob
ably move again. when the world
has become adjusted" to what has
happened
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