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than $4,000 non taxable returns, for
a total so far of nearly half the
number expected to be received,
and payment of SECS, 900 from
corporations, which pay a fiat rate
Of S per cent, there being filed so
far something more than 1000
returns from corporations.
One reason why Maj Donovan is
a bit skeptical as to whether the
income levies will produce as much
as $4,000 is the thought that
perhaps many Of the Government
workers who anticipate they will be
exempted from the personal income
levy, on the basis of the recent
ruling by the United States Court
of Appeals for the District. consti-
tute large percentage of those who
so far have delayed filing their per-
sonal income tax returns.
Today's meeting of the Commls-
sioners with Auditor Donovan and
Corporation Counsel Seal followed
the suggestion made by Chairman
Randolph of the District Commit
tee that they develop a new tax
raising program.
Another plan must be worked
out that will have some chance of
enactment by Congress-" declared
Representative Randolph. The Dis
trict faces a serious revenue problem
that must be met. The new plan,
however, should not contain a sales
tax. am confident it would be
futile to even advocate such a tax"
Mr.. Randolph said as he views
the present tax dilemma, the Com
missioners have one Of two alterna-
tives: Recommend an increase in
the present SITS tax on real and
personal property or propose higher
rates for the existing tax on per-
sonal incomes which reaches down
into the lower salary brackets.
Request Follows Vote.
The request for a new revenue
program was made by Mr.. Randolph
after the House late yesterday vir-
tually killed the proposed combina-
ton 2 per cent retail sales tax and
tax on earned incomes in excess
OF $4,000 a year, by refusing to
even consider a bill designed to
put the plan into effect. The pro-
test against this proposed legisla-
tion was reflected in a decisive 1866
to-106 record vote.
Representative Nichols, Democrat,
OF Oklahoma, chairman of the Fiscal
Affairs Subcommittee of the District
Committee in charge of revenue
legislation, agreed with Mr.. Ran
dolph that an increase in the real
and personal property tax rate ap-
peared to be the principal solution
OF the existing tax problem.
He estimated the District would
face a deficit of 100000 in the
coming fiscal year, which would
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penditures through February of
$14,8l338 for actual relief purposes
and $3,198.55 for overhead.
Reports from more than 200 or
ganizations throughout the country
authorized to solicit funds for re-
lief in the belligerent nations
showed total collections from Sep
tember through February of s4,84l,-
358, with expenditures of $3,174,O99
for relief, $320,455 for overhead and
a balance of $1,353,786 on hand
March /.
State Department reports did not
cover funds collected by the Amer
lcan Red Cross. which reported sep
arately to the Secretary of War, or
those contributed for relief in Fin
land. which never was named a
belligerent under the Neutrality
Act.
Only those organizations solicit
ing funds for relief in Poland. Great
Britain. France or Germany are
required to register under the Neu-
trallty Act and submit monthly
reports.
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Children Open War on Rats
Horossing Temple Center

Half hundred young people of
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
and the Temple Center at Tenth
and M streets NV. today we're dis
tributing rat poison to residents Of
the vicinity of the Center in an
effort to eliminate a pest of rodents.
The volunteer exterminators were
handing out Government-approved
poison harmless to children, cats
and dogs to householders in 16
blocks surrounding the Center with
the request that the poison be dis
tributed tonight.
Rats. it was said, have hampered
and annoyed social welfare workers
at the Center, where clothing and
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food for the needy has been
damaged, and children in the
nursery sometimes bitten. The
Chevy Chase Church is one of the
Center's principal sources of support
The Mothers Club at the center
appealed to the District government
for help and learned that the Sani-
tary Department had no funds for
exterminating rodents or removing
conditions which breed them.
Money for the determination of
rats and vermin has been sought of
Congress without success, it was said
The young people, faced with an
emergency. decided to take matters
into their hands.
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British Move to Reopen
Italian Trade ToIks

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, March 26.-E. w. Playfair
British government commercial ex-
pert, conferred today with italian
authorities with a view to reopen
ing trade negotiations suspended
more than two months ago.
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Sir Richard Squires Dies

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March
rs R-Sir Richard A. Squires, so,
former Prime Minister of Newfound-
land, died today after long illness.
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night when the sad-faced Lincoln
sat looking down from his box III
Fords upon the second act of Our
American Cousin"
In the Kimmel collection there Is,
for example, charming portrait OF
the little flower girl from Bow Street
Market for love of whom JunluS
Booth left his wife and infant son
in London and embarked on an ad-
venture that was to bear him to
America, log cabin on Maryland
farm. and ultimately, 10 mad and
gifted illegitimate offspring.
There is, too. the only known pic
ture extant of DR. Joseph Adrian
Booth, brother of John Wilkes.
which was identified by Kimmel
from a picture in the archives of
the War Department. There, since
the Civil War. it has been erro-
neously designated as likeness OF
David E. Herold, who guided the
assassin out of Washington the
night of the murder Also on display
will be five photographs. found in
Booths pockets after his arrest, -Four
of the lovely ladies they picture
day the fifth portrait was verified
by the author as that of Bessie Hale,
daughter of United States Senator.
In his book Kimmel has revealed
that Booth and this young girl were
engaged to be married.
Other women who played a part
in the lives of the Booths will be
represented, as portraits of Mary
Devlin and Mad Mary McVicker,"
first and second wives of the great
Shakespearean actor, Edwin Booth,
form part of the display.
In an old scrapbook at the NUM-
cipal Museum in Baltimore, where
he was digging about for additional
Booth material, Mr.. Kimmel un-
covered a drawing of John Wilkes
Booths eldest sister, Rosalie Some
pictures of Asia Booth. another sis
ter, and the family historian, are
exhibited
Rare Items.
There are numerous rare and in
teresting items that mark the career
of the assassin himself. There are
early theatrical pictures; likeness
as it appeared on the cover of
popular song of the day; photo
graphs of the hotels where he lived,
the theaters in which he played his
dramatic roles; letters he wrote to
John T. Ford, who was manager Of
the theater In wh1ch Abraham Lin
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front of this building on the after
noon following receipt of the news
of the surrender of Gen. Lee. when.
at the request of Mayor Richard
Wallach. a salute of 200 guns was
fired by batteries from Camp Barry
and the City Council paid for
the shattered windows in the struc-
ture caused by the salute. A hog
pen case was tried that year, the
pen. of considerable proportions, be-
ing about where is now the Union
Station. The Franklin School Build
ing was begun al this time. and
the District had population OF
about $4,000. and everybody knew
his next door neighbor and scraped
the mud from his shoes when calling
on him or at anyone else's home.
At this time in addition to Mayor
Wallach. the city had as principal
officers. Joseph H Bradley, as cor
poration attorney: William Morgan.
tax clerk: Samuel Ourand. clerk to
the Mayor; Randolph Coyle, water
register; Edwin j. klopfer, book
keeper: Jacob Kleiber. messenger:
William Dickson-later noted local
politlcian-collector: Willard For
syth. surveyor: jeremiah Hepburn
and John B. Wheeler. clerks; A. c.
Richards. superintendent of police:
John H Sessford. chief engineer of
the local Fire Department. and Will
liam Dickson. chief engineer, United
States Fire Brigade OF the Board
of Trustees of the Public Schools,
the Mayor was eX-officio president,
and Francis S. Welsh was president
pro tempore. and. as for the school
buildings, the Wallach Building.
dedicated in 1864. was the only
school house worthy of special men
ton, the Franklin Building not be-
ing dedicated until 1869.
Council Organized.
In addition to a Mayor, Washing
ton then had a City Council con-
sisting of a Board of Aldermen and
a Board of Common Council, and
serving in the former were: John
B. Turton, William w Rapley, j.
Russell Barr. George H. Plant, Jo-
seph F. Brown, Thomas Lewis. John
P. Pepper. C. H. Utermehle. Charles
I. Garfield. George F. Gulick. DON
aid McCathran, Richard Morgan,
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Crosby S. Moves and Thomas E
Lloyd Arthur Shepherd was secre-
tary and Jacob Kleiber. messenger.
The Board of Common Council
included James Kelly. John A.
H. c. Wilson. Samuel w,
Owens. William Pettibone. Samuel
A. Peugh, Thomas A. Stevens, James
Skirving. Noble D. Larner. Asbury
Lloyd. William w Moore. Elijah Ed
James B. Davis. J. B. Ward,
william P Ferguson. George r. Ruff.
BENEFIT Swain, William Talbot. w. T.
Walker, John G. Dudley and George
Frederick l. Harvey was
secretary and A. H. Eaton, mes
SengeT.
Original Members.
Of the original members OF the
Oldest Inhabitants. hardly man
would not be worthy here Of bio
graphical sketch if space would per-
NIT. Benjamin Ogle Tayloe. the first
president. held this office only for
a brief period of little over two
years. and occupied the chair at but
four meetings In May 1866. he left
Washington for his health, and died
abroad. as The Star tells us In its
issue of March % 1865. which says:
Death of B. Ogle Tayloe-We re-
gret to anounce the death of an old
and esteemed citizen. Benjamin Ogle
Tayloe, which occurred at Rome,
Italy. on the 25th of February last.
Mr.. Tayloe was the Oldest surviving
son of the late Col John Tayloe.
of Mount Airy. Virginia. and of
Washington City. and was born at
May 81. 1896. in the house
of his maternal grandfather. Gov
Ogle of Maryland. He received his
academical education at
Phillips Exeter Academy and was
graduated at Harvard University in
1915. In 1877 he visited Europe as
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25 miles from Baltimore. He rented
the cabin for this second. and IL
legal family Some time later, as
fame grew and he accumulated suf-
ficient money. he bought the cabin
and moved it onto newly acquired
acreage nearby. 1t was about this
original log cabin that Junius
Booth built the first real American
home of his family In the house
were born eight of his ten children.
including Edwin and John Wilkes.
Another interesting item-and
one bound to upset those historians
who have recorded JuniuS, jr's. birth
in Maryland-is significant excerpt
from the Baltimore census of 1850,
which gives his birthplace as South
Carolina.
Grave Found.
Contributing further TO new in
formation about this eccentric FAM
lily, the author of The Mad Booths
of Maryland" has established the
fact that the elder Booth had wife.
prior to his flight with Mary Ann
Holmes, and that she was a native
of Belgium. PainStakingly Mr.. KIM
mel dug out the facts and as result
We have the story of Adelaide
Delannoy Booth and her son Rich
ard. deserted for 25 years After
considerable search Mr.. Kimmel sue
ceeded in locating her grave in New
Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore,
where she is buried in lot No. 1884,
under her maiden name. The tomb
stone shows that she died on March
9, 1858. at the age of &c.
No less celebrity than Carl Sand
burg has spoken highly of Mr. Kim
mel's contributions to Lincolniana
OF his book he says: I'm a style
of antique touches, Stanley Kim
mel renders long and deliberate
narrative of one of Americas
Strangest and most amazing FAM
lilies. His research seems to De so
complete that no one is likely to be
later found in error who says the
work is def1nitive." 1t was dur
ing the course of this research
that Mr.. Kimmel collected the
many unusual items that will make
up the two weeks exhibit at the
Library of Congress.
His search took him from one end
of the United States to the other,
and into curious and interesting cor
ners, on the trail Of the "fast-mov-
ing. far-1ung, drinking, declaiming
raving and shooting Booths" He
prowled the Atlantic seaboard from
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Boston to Richmond and crossed
the continent to California. In
Washington he painstakingly copied
dusty reports in close attic of War
Department archives, with a guard
standing over him as he worked. He
went through lengthy police reports,
records Of trials. and followed every
inch of the route taken by Booth
on his flight from Washington the
night of the assassination.
Wherever he went he made photo
graphs. dug out old papers and
records, interviewed natives. tracked
down clues He spent, in short. six
years of intensive detective work.
during the course of which time he
accumulated the items which have
gone into his scrapbook and now
form part of the iKmmel collection.
The author is native of South
ern Illinois; he was born some 40
years ago in Du Quoin and he has
portrayed his native town in short
narrative sketches, collected under
the title Kingdom of Smoke" For
some years he studied piano and
composed music He prepared for
college at Tome School at Port De-
pOSit, in Maryland. and was grad
uated later from the University of
California. While engaged in the
study of law he sold stories to West
ern publications. During the World
War he enlisted in the French Am
bulance Corps and served in the
Verdun sector. Returning to the
United States he was in training
for the Naval Air Corps when the
armistice was signed.
A trip to the Orient supplied ma
terial for his book, Leaves on the
Water" sketches and tales of the
Far East. The Strange Voyage"
"ImproviSations" and "Crucifixion"
are other of his writings. BLACK
Diamond" folk drama of Southern
Illinois coal fields, was produced in
New York in 1888.
1t was while he was engaged on a
series of feature articles for The
Washington Star that Mr. Kimmel
first started on his search for au-
thentic Information about the
Booths. Thus the current exhibit
of his collection of Booth items at
the Library of Congress is of con-
siderable local importance 1t prom
ises to be outstanding among the
rare and unusual exhibits the
Library Of Congress sponsors from
time to time.
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tary, and Dr.. A. Med. Davis, record
ing secretary.
Col. Tayloe, on being escorted to
the chair, delivered a short address,
thanking the association for the
honor conferred and expressing his
feelings on being called to preside
oyer an association composed. as it
was, of those who are, like himself,
familiar with the times of long ago."
Names of Signers.
Then follow the names of those
who signed the constitution. with
the date of their birth, and the date
when those not born in Washing
ton took up their residence here:
B. Ogle Tayloe. born at Annapolis,
Md, May 81, 1896; settled in Wash
ington 1901 w A Bradley, Con-
necticut, February %, 1894; settled
in Washington 1902 Peter Force,
New Jersey, November 26, 1890;
1915. N. Callan, Washington, Octo-
ber 25, 1903. J Carroll Brent,
Washington, July 25, 1874 A. Med.
Davis, January %. 1908 Col. j. S.
Williams, Maryland, April /, 1885.
E. J. Mattingly. April. 1910. F. r.
Dorset. Maryland, March 4, 1894.
John Coburn. Massachusetts. Sep
tember 25. 1896. J. T Callan, WASH
ington. December 25. 1910. William
Young, Westmoreland County. Va.
E. F. Brown, February 81, 1907; Oc-
tober, 1916 Poulus Thyson, Hol-
land, February 10 1903: 1920 C.
Cammack England. November, 1897:
1916. J. H Goddard, Rhode Island,
November 3. 1899; December 26,
1916. Chauncey Bestor. Connect
cut, August 26, 1888; January. 1910.
Samuel StetinuS. District of Colum-
bia, March IA. 1908. Thomas Dono-
no. July 4 1900 Edward Deeble
England, October s. 1871, 1895. F
R Lord. New HAMPSHIRE, December
20, 1892; 1915. James Clephane,
Scotland, October 20, 1890; 1916.
John Waters. Maryland. June %,
1876: 1909 Joseph Bryan. Penn
sylvania, August %. 1895: 1918.
George Savage. Baltimore. May IA,
1901 1925. David Hepburn, Ana
lostan Island. D. c.. October 30.
1899. jeremiah Hepburn, District
of Columbia, July 5 1902. Patrick
Crowley Washington. November Is,
1901. John A Ford. Washington,
January /. 1902. John H. Plant,
Georgetown. D. c., August II. 1872
John Johnson, Virginia, December
10, 1896; April, 1911
Building Still Stands.
The Court House Building, once
known as the City Hall where the
Oldest Inhabitants held the initial
and many subsequent meetings. still
stands substantially as it stood
three e-quarters of a century ago.
Begun in 1920 with funds from the
proceeds of a lottery. it was once
occupied by the Offices of the Mayor.
register. clerks and collector of taxes,
in addition to other branches of
the District Government, and in 1865
by the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict OF Columbia. then consisting
of David K. Cartier, chief justice
and Abram B. Olin. George P.
Fisher and Andrew Wylie. associate
justices. together with the United
States Marshal for the District of
Columbia In 1873. Congress bought
out the equity of the District in this
building and from that time on it
has been the United States Court
House.
1t is especially noted for the many
celebrated civil and criminal cases
that have been tried within its
portals. notable among which was
the trial of the assa ssin of President
James A. Garfield. An event of more
than passing interest occurred in
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By Lucy Salamanca.

The fruits of a SiX-year pursuit OF
facts. myth or legend in connection
with the tragic. theatrical Booths
that resulted in Stanley Kimmel's
definite book The Mad Booths of
Maryland" will be on display in the
Library of Congress beginning De-
cember 18 and continuing through
January /, in an evhibit of the
authors source material and per-
sonal Scrapbook of historic diScov-
cries. The exhibit, to be shown on
the main floor. at the right of the
entrance, will be noteworthy for the
rare items it will contain and the
light it will throw upon hitherto un-
known facts in the ill-starred. tam
gled lives of its famous and in
famous characters.
Authenticating much of the data
presented for the first time in Mr..
Kimmel's book will be documents,
letters. diaries, photographs and
other items that prompted revision
of existing accounts of such matters
as the involved matrimonial affairs
of Junius Brutus Booth. ST.. father
of Edwin. Wilkes. Junius. jr.; Asia
and all the melancholy tribe; bio
graphical material having to do
with Junius. il. as one OF the I'M
portant theatrical managers of the
day; Edwin Booths picturesque So
journ in California; new details
about Dr.. Samuel Mudd who offered
nights shelter to Wilkes after the
assassination; War Department re-
ports and documents recording
Wilkes pro-Southern activities in
ST. Louis; previously unpublished
letters and photographs and inter-
view material garnered first hand
from survivors who knew the
Booths.
Erratic Family.
The exhibit will be arranged so
as to present a narrative account
of outstanding events in the lives
of members of that erratic and spec
tacular family. whose genius and
weaknesses enchanted and scandal
lied by turns the 10Th century. 1t
will trace their tempestuous careers
with as much detail as space will
permit. and upset. thereby. many
well-established Booth traditions
and correct many erroneous impress
sions of what actually occurred in
the life of John Wilkes Booth, that
led him, step by sep, to that fatal
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was a frequent contributor to the
journals of The day"
Educated in England.

Jodi Va biiN Nos
Educated in England.
Another account tells us that John
Tayloe. the father, who built the
Octagon House at New York ave
nue. and Eighteenth street. was edu-
Gated at Eton and the University of
Cambridge. England; that Mount
Airy was on the banks of the Rap
pahannock. and that Benjamin Ogle
Tayloe dispensed ior more than 80
years. al his Lafayette Square
mouse, those elegant hospitalitles
the memory of which will long be
cherished Reference is also made
to Mrs. Perry. of Cumberland, Nd,
a daughter of Benjamin Ogle Tay-
loe. who died while he was in Paris.
Mr.. Tayloe's body was returned to
this country and buried in Troy
n. Y.
In addition to his Lafayette
Square home. Mr. Tayloe was one
Of the pioneer owners Of business
property in Washington. including
the City Hotel then at the north
west corner of Pennsylvania avenue
and Fourteenth street, site of the
present Willard. ard it was through
the interest in Henry A. Willard,
taken by the second Mrs. Tayloe
that the Willard brothers became
established in the hotel business in
this city.
willard Experience.
The way this came about is told
by Henry Kellogg Willard, son of
Henry A, who. in speaking of his
father coming to Washington. re-
lates the following.
While he was on the steamer
Niagara. of the New York & Troy
Hudson River Line my father met
Miss Phoebe Warren. a very pretty
daughter of one of Troys most ex-
elusive and best families. She was
the fiancee of The late Mr.. Benja-
min Ogle Tayloe of Washington.
D. c.. whom she afterWard married.
Mr.. Tayloe was the owner of the
old City Hotel. at the corner of
Fourteenth street snd Pennsylvania
avenue, which was in very much
rundown condition and he had
had great trouble i'll having it prop
erly managed He happened to re-
mark to his fiancee. Miss Warren.
that he wished he could find a suit
able young man to take hold of the
property. Miss Warren Immediately
answered: Mr.. Tayloe, I know Just
the young man you want-Henry
Willard, the steward Of this line.
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Theatrical Booths Be Shown Library

coin was shot; kilograms he sent to
fellow-conspirators; and, more in
teresting perhaps than any other
item, the diary that was found on
his person when he lay dying at the
Garrett farm in Virginia.
OF particular interest to Mary
landers will be the old photograph
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an attache of the American Ambas-
sador to the Court of ST James, the
Hon Richard Rush. In 1924, Mr.
Tayloe married Miss Julia Dickin-
son of Troy. N Y. the daughter of
Hon. John M. Dickinson of that city,
and for many years the representa-
tive of the Rensselaer, District in the
Congress of the United States. In
1846 Mr.. Tayloe lost his wife, and
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of the first home of the Booths in
Hartford County. Nd. Searching for
some inaccessible retreat to which
he might bear Mary Ann, the Bow
street flower girl. and their infant
soil. Junius Booth. came upon a
four-room log cabin on the farm
of Elijah Rogers, near Belair, some
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after several years married Miss
Phoebe Warren of Troy. N Y,
lady OF great beauty, On the break
ing out of the war he owned a large
amount of real and personal estate
in the Southern States, and his
losses were enormous. In May. 1866,
accompanied by his wife and son,
he sailed for Europe. where he re-
manned until his death. Mr.. Tayloe
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Jubilee Brings Group
ORGANIZATION Has HOnOred
Capital and Been Guide
To Unity Among Citizens
Pioneer Members Drawn
From Among Distinguished
Leaders of Local Progress
By John CIaeen Proctor.

Last large number of and gathered festive
Raleigh Hotel celebrate the
members themselves the
has nare-alone