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Evening star., 1940-01-29
Supreme Court
Continued From First Page)

all State taxation is to be con-
demned, because in some manner 1t
had an effect upon commerce IN the
State, and there are many forms OF
tax whose burdens, when distributed
through the play of economic forces
affect interstate commerce, which
nevertheless falls short of the regu-
lation of the commerce which the
Constitution leaves to Congress"
Not Forbidden in Clause.
eft" it continued, "as guides to
decisions, we look to the purpose Of
the commerce clause to protect in
terstate commerce from discrinl-
inatory or destructive State action,
and at the same time to the pur-
pose of the State taxing power
under which interstate commerce
admitted must bear its fair
share of State tax burdens, and
to the necessity of judicial recon-
Citation of these competing de-
mands, we can find no adequate
ground for saying that the present
tax Is a regulation which, in the
absence of congressional action, the
commerce clause forbids."
The opinion continued that the
court had uniformly sustained a
tax imposed by the State Of the
buyer upon a sale of goods, in
several instances in the original
package, affected by delivery to the
purchaser upon arrival at destina-
ton after an interstate journey,
both when the local seller has pur-
chased the goods extrastate for the
purpose Of resale. and when the
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Marine Valves Hearing
On Murder Charqe

Waving preliminary hearing,
Alexander J. Stevenson, 28-year -old
Marine Corps private, was being
held in the Alexandria, Va, Jail to-
day fol- Federal grand jury action in
connection with the murder of Sid
ney NJ Little, %.
Stevenson, arraigned before United
States Commissioner John Monroe,
jr, voluntarily surrendered the
privileges of a hearing and agreed
to be remanded to the grand jury.
His bond was continued at 50,000,
and two other Marines, William j..
Palmer and James Hewlett, booked
as Federal witnesses, had their
bonds of $4,000 each continued by
the commissioner.
The body of Mr.. Little, who lived
in Fredericksburg, Va, where he was
employed in a tobacco company
was found on a picnic ground at
Fort Hunt, Va, January 7. He had
been beaten to death with an iron
furnace grating a few hundred yards
off the Mount Vernon Memorial
highway.
The Federal Bureau of 1nvestiga-
ton agents, headed by Guy Hotel,
arrested Stevenson at Quantico last
week and also took Palmer and
Hewlett into custody as witnesses.
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Income Tax
Continued From First Page)

q provision which would blanket into
civil service all employees of the Un-
employment Compensation Board
who have been with it more than
a year His motion was voted down
after Mr. Dirksen had pointed out
that ITO employees of the board had
been connected with it some time
. and should be qualified without an
examination to carry on their work
efficiently.
Engineer Bill Delayed.
1t was at Mr.. Dirksen's suggestion,
too, that the committee agreed to
delay action on the bill to regulate
professional engineers. This meas
. ure was returned to the judiciary
subcommittee for further study. It's
chairman, Mr.. McGehee, said he
would hold another public hearing
on the bill to give opponents an op-
portunity to express their views.
I'm in sympathy with the gen.
eral principles of this bill" declared
Mr.. Dirksen, but we don't want to
make mistake. We should delay
action for week or two and re-
move from it any provisions that
might cause a hardship"
Representative Schultz, Democrat,
of Indiana, who presided in the alb
sence of Chairman Randolph, said
he was opposed to certain features
of the bill because he believed they
would create a monopoly among
certain groups
Will Show Safety Film.
Representative Seccombe, Repub-
Hcan, of Ohio, inquired what had be-
come of a bill vetoed by President
Roosevelt last year to establish a
five-day week in the Fire Depart
ment. He was told by Mr.. Schultz
the measure still is before the COM
mittee but probably would not be
reconsidered unless it is reintroduced
in modified form in an effort ito sat
isfy the powers that be-"
The committee at the suggestion
of Mr.. Schultz, who is chairman of
its subcommittee on streets and
traffic, will make arrangements for
a showing at the Capitol of an edu-
cational motion picture film on
drunken driving. Washington I.
Cleveland of the District Motor Club
of the American Automobile Asso-
citation, offered to procure the film.
Representative Vreeland, Repub-
lican, of New Jersey, also volunteered
to borrow from traffic authorities
in his State films depicting various
traffic evils which will be shown at
the same exhibition to which all
members of Congress are to be
invited.
Evening star., 1940-01-29

extrastate seller ships them into
the taxing State for sale there.
TT has likewise sustained a fixed
sum license tax imposed on the
agent of the interstate seller for
the privilege Of selling merchandise
brought into the taxing State for
the purpose of SALE"
Plain Teaching of Decisions.
Unless, it continued, the court is
now ito reject the plain teaching"
of line of sales tax decisions going
back 10 years. the present tax must
be upheld. The decision also point
ed out that "a very large part, if
not most of the merchandise sold in
New York City is shipped interstate
to that market"
In his dissent, Chief Justice
Hughes said the ground most
strongly asserted for sustaining the
tax in the present case is that it is
discriminatory" and he took a
sharp objection to that line of rea-
soning.
"Undoubtedly," he said, "a State
tax may be bad because it is so laid
as to involve hostile discrimination
against interstate commerce. But
does it follow that a State may lay
a direct tax upon interstate COM
merce because it is free to tax its
own commerce in a similar way?"
Thus, a State may tax intrastate
transportation, but it may not tax
interstate transportation. The State
may tax intrastate sales, but can
the State tax interstate sales in
order to promote its local business?"
He added that while recognizing
that tax discriminating against
interstate commerce is necessarily
invalid, it has long been held by the
court in the interest Of the constitu-
tional freedom of that commerce
that direct tax upon it is not saved
because the same or a similar tax
is laid also upon intrastate COM
merce."
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Birthday Balls
Continued From First Page.)

stage at the Capitol and you-er-
told me the next time I was in New
Yorker, that is, to look you up
and here I am"
"Well?" countered Mickey, shout
ing an off stage" to his agent LES"
who was in an adjoining room.
Fumbling for piece of paper. the
visitor pleaded will you autograph
this for me? Say To Marilyn.'
Mickey borrowed a pencil and
obliged the guest" when another
faminine admirer walked in. She
was introduced to the nonplused
Mickey by the first visitor and after
the second autograph had been
given the awo departed hurriedly.
Can you beat that!" said Mickey.
Never saw 'em before in my life"
A telephone conversation with j.
Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, took place
and the young star excused himself
for shower.
Other Stars to Arrive.
Later today Edward G. Robinson.
Ona Munson, Pat O'Brien and
James Cagney are scheduled to ar
rive. All four will be at the Carlton
Hotel for the duration of their stay.
Tyrone Power, voted second in
box office appeal was also due to-
day, bringing with him the lovely
Annabella, who before she became
Mrs. Power was one of the magnets
at last years celebration.
Kay Kyser and his soloist, Ginny
Simms, will come to town at 7:30
m. tomorrow, only few hours be-
for the round Of events gets under
way.
Already here are Walter OKeefe,
Dorothy Lamour and Elsa Lanches-
ter, who arrived yesterday, and
Olivia de Havilland. Mary Howard,
Gene Autry, who had Mrs. Roose-
welt as his guest on a broadcast
last night; William Boyd and Red"
Shelton.
More than 1000 fans turned out
to see Miss Lamour when her train
pulled in at Union Station, and as
the glamour girl of the movies ex-
pressed it herself, That's the first
time SO many women came to meet
me"
Her first gesture after she got off
the train was to shake the hand of
every photographer there to meet
her and ask to be introduced with
I'm Dorothy Lamour. Who are
you?"
The mob at the station didn't
bother her a bit. In fact, she said
she loved it-even the high school
girl who kept tripping her up and
screaming, Il touched her coat"
The coat in question was shirred
beaver with a matching hat. Much
smaller than she looks in the movies
the actress. who thanks you for not
mentioning sarongs, wears on her
arm a heavy chain bracelet bear
ing an engraved message from
"Mommie.''
Will Not Sing.
Still suffering from bad throat,
Miss Lamour will not sing while
she's in Washington, but, judging
from the reception she got at the
station, she won't have to sing to
draw the crowds.
Describing herself as "a kid from
a country town." she kept her eyes
glued to the car window as she
Evening star., 1940-01-29
drove to the Carlton and expressed
a great desire to get President
RooSevelts autograph.

drove to the Carlton and expressed
great desire to get President
Roosevelt's autograph.
Elsa Manchester, the II" Of
Charles Laughton and l." arrived
shortly before Miss Lamour and
kept reporters entertained for two
hours with comments on everything
from makeup men to the prepara-
ton of tea the English way.
Illustrating every word with ges-
lures, the red-haired English actress
described In detail how her husband
had managed to wink a false eye
in THE Hunchback of Notre Dame" "
how he had worked to perfect his
rendition of the Gettysburg address
in "Ruggles of Red Gap" and how
she had felt when she saw THE
Hunchback."
That pillory scene" she shud-
dered, lit was painfully good. In
fact, it gave me indigestion just
watching it,"
She scoffed at the secrets" Of
the makeup men, whom she re-
ferred to as "the prima donnas Of
the screen"
She admitted that Tearing to act
as one of the hardest jobs.
"Of course" she smiled a nat
ural comes along once in while
like Shirley Temple or Rin-tin-tin." "
OF the war, she said that though
she was terribly homesick for Eng
land she was glad to be in America
because Charles went through the
last war. think once is enough. y
During the tea-making demon
stration, she turned to Frank Swad-
ley, manager of the Carlton, to in
quire how his staff liked having a
hotel full of movie stars.
you know, Mr.. Laughton's family
is in the hotel business" she ex-
planned simply.
In fact, Elsa Manchester does
everything simply. She does her
own fingernails without polish), in
sisted on flinging the window open
herself, answered the telephone her
self and bustled about putting f1ow-
ers in water despite all the efforts
of the staff to do things for her.
Il have two perfectly good hands, "
she protested-and she uses them.
O'Keefe Master Of Ceremonies.
Walter OKeefe, third of the stars
to arrive yesterday, went to the
Shoreham Hotel where he retired
Immediately to nurse a bad case of
laryngitis. Mr.. OKeefe will need
his voice for all the chores tomorrow,
when he will be master of cere-
monies at the reception for the stars
in Commissioner Melvin c. HaZen's
Office at 11:15 am, at the Willard
Hotel reception at 6l5 pm, both Of
which will be broadcast; at the din
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Senute's Attention
Called to Celebration

Arising to call the Senate's atten-
ton today to the fact that the
Nation tomorrow would join in cele-
brating the Presidents birthday,
Majority Leader Barkley also called
the attention of his colleagues to
the presence in the gallery of Miss
Olivia de Havilland, one of the
movie stars who will join in the
celebration in Washington.
Senator Barkley explained that
the birthday celebrations have been
arranged again this year for the
worthy purpose of helping to stamp
out infantile paralysis and that II
stage and movie stars came to
Washington to help make the cele-
brations here success.
Evening star., 1940-01-29
keep the stars on the move tomor-

keep the stars on the move tomor-
row.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt ap-
peared on a Nationwide radio
broadcast last night with Gene Autry
and Elder Michaux, colored eyange-
list Of the Church of God, in ap-
pealing to the country for unity In
the tight against infantile paralysis.
The elder had along his Happy Am
I" chorus for the WJSV broad
cast from the National Press Club
auditorium.
The most persistent autograph
hunter to greet the stars was 13-
year-old Betty Lawrence of 434 K
street NV, but she gets every auto
graph she asks for because they're
for her sister Jane.
Jane Lawrence, who was stricken
with infantile paralysis when she
was a baby, is now at the Warm
Springs Foundation in Georgia. She
likes the autographs Of celebrities,
Betty explained as she dried the
ink on Elsa Lanchester's autograph,
so Betty sends them to her now.
II got a princess yesterday" she
reported with some pride.
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Reciprocal Taxation
Soon Will Be Placed
In Operation
Compensation Of 1888, 900
Employees Exceeds
S., SOC, ,S74, 900

Tapping a new source of taxation,
Federal and State governments soon
will begin levying income taxes on
a total of more than 3,788,0O0
public employees, with compensation
amounting to more than $685.
S74,000.
This was disclosed by the Treasury
Department in a special report re-
quired by the new Public Salary
Tax Act of 1889. which permits
reciprocal taxation of each others
employees by both Federal and local
governments.
The report does not break down
the figures to show how many OF
these employees live in the District
OF Columbia, or in nearby States.
In the case of the Federal military
personnel, the report showed, the
total compensation included al
lowances for quarters and sub
sistence. For 1898 these allowances
amounted to $83, ,370, 900. Exclusive Of
military allowances, the compensa-
ton of active, Federal, State and
local officers and employees, amount
ed to s5,423 .5O4,OOo
In addition, s67,OOO0OO was paid
Federal temporary and substitute
post Office employees and $130, ,125 900
was paid the retired and reserve
Federal civilian and military per-
sonnel.
The new tax act upset the former
principle that the Federal Govern
ment could not tax State employees,
nor States tax Federal employees, on
the basis that the power to tax was
the power to destroy"
The new act subjects to the Fed
eral income tax for all taxable years
beginning after December 81, 1888,
the compensation of all State and
local officers and employees regard
less of the nature of their office or
employment. The United States also
consents to non discriminatory
State and local taxation OF the
compensation received after De-
cember 81, 1888, by all Federal Of
ficers and employees regardless Of
the nature of their Office or employ
ment.
The act provides relief from Fed
eral taxation for years prior to 1889
of certain State and local officers
and employees and likewise prohibits
the collection of State and local in
come taxes after April II, 1889, on
the compensation of certain Federal
officers and employees received in the
year prior to 1899.
Evening star., 1940-01-29
License Revocation Plea
Won By Liquor Dealer

Revocation by the Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control Board of retailers
liquor license, Glass G, held by Aaron
Horovitz, $40 Fourth street S.W., was
changed today by the District Com
missioners to a suspension of the
license for five days.
The A. B. c. Board order of revo-
cation grew out of charges against
Mr.. Horovitz of using the place for
unlawful purposes and bad faith"
in connection with a fight between
two colored men in the store. AS a
result, one of the combatants died.
Mr.. Horovitz appealed from the
boards decision to the Commission
ers who, after a hearing this morn
ing, decided to change the order.
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Wreck Blocks Supplies
For Siegfried Line
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BASEL, Switzerland, Jan. 29-
The wreck of a 24-car military
freight train at Schopfheim, near
the Swiss frontier, blocked the main
German rail link today between the
southern end of the Siegfried Line
and the upper Rhine valley.
Soldiers and rail crews worked to
clear the tracks. The train, loaded
with German military supplies for
the Siegfried Line, collided with a
shift engine and several empty cars
yesterday.
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Damage Exceeds Loot

OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 20 R.-
A burglar climbed boxcar, jumped
to a shed roof, forced open a hard
ware store window, knocked hole
in the brick wall of vault and
knocked the knob OF . safe-al for
A.
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Museum for Billiards

To raise funds for the Red Cross,
a museum showing the history Of
billiards by old billiard balls and
cues, photographs ad posters, will
be opened in London.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
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, He had a word with n or two
of the others. AS they passed out
of the rest room n OF them,
glanced at him and made a grim
ace.
"Now for the sweat box!" said
he.
what the devils that?" Gun
asked.
"Your first 60, eh? Oh, well,
you'll soon see. It's pretty stiff,
but it does you a world of good,
this lark. Finest thing for tn e
morning after I've struck yet, any
way!"
The next room was the smallest
yet, with a low ceiling, and orien-
tai cushions on the floor in II little
piles.
They removed their robes and
squatted on the cushionE. Attend
ants came around and offered Gig
arets, Turkish, Egyptian and Vjr-
ginias, from lacquer boxes.
Then, suddenly, the place COM
menced to glow with heat. It was
a radiant heat of some kind, but
there was no great glare with it
It got hotter and hotter, and the
perspiration commenced to pour
off Guns body, in profuse quaint
ties. He felt his flesh tingling with
the heat. An attendant came
around, offering elastic affairs to
put around the forehead, to pre-
vent the perspiration from running
into the eyes-an elaboration OF
what ships firemen and others
who work in great heat call sweat
rags" Gun commenced to feel that
the intense heat was going to be
too much for him.
In the midst of it he became
conscious that Pullinger was star
ing at him. The darkened glasses
they all wore made the eyes of
anyone else invisible at a distance
of more than a foot or so, but
Gun was quite certain that Pull.
1inger was watching him curious.
ly.
Struggling to keep his mind from
thinking about the heat, Gun let
his thoughts run back to the in
terview with the doctor. He had
got some useful information there
! Continued on Page Fifteen)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18

/ the open air, wearing mostly an
onen-neck shirt. And in the thlro
the almost feminine whitsness OF
his body skin was marred only by
a tattoo mark on the left upper arm
This latter rather intrigued Gun,
It was a symbol he never hac
seen tatooed on anyone be t e,
looking at first glance something
like a key, but being actually the
Crux Ansata, or Topped cross-the
Egyptian symbol Of life, and o:
the goddess Isis.
Rather curious, Gun thought. The
only tattoo mark he had, and ar
Egyptian symbol, in that place.
Gun was in good enough condi
ton, and the physical jerks die
not disturb him overmuch. Never
theless, in the heat of that artif'
cial sunlight, he found himself
perspiring pretty freely.
Five minutes of strenuous exer
else. and then the instructor call
ed out:
THAT will do, gentlemen, Re
sumo your gowns and pass along
please"
Apparently he dealt with then
in dozens, and another dozen was
not yet assembled. That meant
rest for him, which he probably
needed.
The next chamber was smaller
and more oriental. A rubbing
down with rough, warm towels,
and a welcome rest on a narrow
divan, with light rays playing up
on his body all the time. Rather
to his surprise, Gun found himsel1
feeling distinctly better, if a trifle
lethargic, and came near to drop
ping off to sleep on his divan. Bu1
the sharp clang of an electric gong
reused him, and he passed on with
the others into the next room.
He noted that Pullinger n o "
seemed more at his ease. T
same party of II people kept to
gether, and Gun guessed that, nov
that there was no hope-or feal
|-of meeting whoever it was he an
ticipated he might meet, Mr.. Pull
linger felt more comfortable in hi
mind. Gun was careful not to speal
to him again-did not want to tt
arouse any suspicious in the man
mind.
Evening star., 1940-11-20
Police Complete Probe
Of Mrs. Cassidy's Death

Montgomery County police today
said they had completed their in.
vestigation Of the death of Mrs.
Alice Cassidy, 36, wife of George r.
Cassidy, assistant chief clerk Of the
Veterans Administration, who was
found in the gas-filled kitchen Of
her home at Gill Forty-fourth street,
Chevy Chase, Md, yesterday when
her two sons returned from school
for lunch.
DR.. c. E. Hawks, Montgomery
County medical examiner, said he
would issue a death certificate some
time today.
Mrs. Cassidy, who, police were
told, had been in i'll health for
several months, was lying on the
floor of the room. Bethesda Fire
Rescue Squad members worked over
the body for nearly an hour in an
attempt to revive her.
Her sons, John, 10, and James, 9,
pupils at Chevy Chase Elementary
School, were unable to gain entrance
at the front door and forced open
front window after obtaining
ladder at neighbors home.
After opening the window and
carrying their mother into the
dining room. the boys summoned
the rescue squad.
Evening star., 1940-11-20
Confirmation Of Mills
And Madden DELAYED
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt's two latest
/ nominations-Dr Harry A. Mills
for the Labor Board and J. War
ren Madden for the Court of Claims
faced at least a temporary delay
today.
Chairman Thomas notified mem
bers of the Senate Labor Committee
that Dr. Mills. Chicago economist
and educator. would be called before
that group before it gives expected
approval and sends his name on to
the Senate for action.
Senator Thomas polled members
of the Labor Committee and re-
ported that at least "one Senator
was anxious to talk with Dr. Mills
in person"
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
one OF the minority members of the
committee. said he favored immedi-
ate Senate confirmation for Dr.
Mills.
Some informed Senators predicted
that action on the Mills appoint
ment might be held up until the
Senate Judiciary Committee had
acted on the judicial appointment
for Mr.. Madden, former chairman
of the Labor Board whom DR.. Mills
would succeed.
Senators on the Judiciary Com
mittee said they had not been noti-
fed of any committee action on the
Madden appointment.
Evening star., 1940-11-20
AMs-Hungorion Protocol
Budapest Government Cites Reasons for
Signature Of Military Alliance

Italy and Germany during past
decades advocated policy OF un-
derstanding which resulted in an
alliance with Japan. the final aim of
which is lasting world peace, based
on justice.
Good Relations Desired.
This alliance, therefore. is not
directed against anybody. The same
aims and mutual past determine
Hungary'S standing.
Hungary desires TO maintain good
relations with all neighbors who
respect her rights and historic de-
velopment. From this viewpoint the
Hungarian government. with special
satisfaction welcomes article of
the Berlin three-power pact.
In keeping with her unbroken and
unchanged foreign and political past
and her peaceful aims. strengthened
through previous successes and in a
firm belief in the future. Hungary
joins the Berlin three-power pact.
She has the intention now, and
also at the end of the war. to con-
tribute within the limits of her power
toward better and happier political
and economic reorganization of
Southeastern Europe.