Evening star., 1942-01-15
Auto Use Tax STAMPS
Go on Sale Today With
Glue on Wrong Side
Motorists Must Apply
MreiIoge to Face to
Afiix to Windshield

The. new auto tax stamps went
on sal. at 8 am. here and in all but
three States today, but motorists
are supplying their own mucilage
as tn. result of boner in the
stamp preparation.
1t seems they have glue on the
backs instead Of the faces. as GER
tificat.s designed for the inside of
a windshield should have.
At my rate, to comply with .
District law promulgated Yesterday
by tn. Commissioners, car owners
shoulc afix the stamp to the inside
of IT,. windshield on the blind
spot" behind the rear-view mirror.
Early Business Is Brisk.
TTs main post oflce at North
Capita street and Massachusetts,
avenw, Benjamin Franklin at
Twelfth street and Pennsylvania
avenu. NV, and all branches were
doing q brisk business IN auto tax
stamps this morning.
Several hundred were sold at
Benjamin Franklin Station during
the frst hour. The stamps were
available at all windows, and with
each one went a post card addressed
to the Collector. of Internal Revenue
and which the car owner is required
to fill out.
The information called for on the
card includes the name and body
type If car, the year it was made
and is engine number.
Motorists in the Washington area
must send their cards, on which
they also pay postage. to the COL
lector. of Internal Revenue at Balti-
moreJ
February Is Deadiine.
The stamps, procurable At any
post once or branch, must be dis
playeG on all motor vehicles begin
ming February 1.
Voidng q previous announcement
that tie stamps would be available
here Ald in most States this morn
ing, tie Bureau Of Internal Revenue
said Yesterday that distribution
would be postponed until January
~. TIE oficial explanation given
was tlat the move was designed
to make the stamps available to
everybody at the same time. But
later, ifter it was brought out that
the glIe was on the wrong side, the
bureal declared its intention of
going ahead with the distribution.
Places Of Sale.
The following branches and sub
stations will sell the stamps:
Ana,ostia, 1877 Good Hope road
Sc; apex, 8l3 Market space NV;
Benjamin Franklin, Postomce De-
partm.nt Building; Benning, 519
Minnesota avenue NE; Bethesda,
Wisconsin avenue and Montgomery
lane; Brightwood, 1921 Georgia
avenu. NV; Brookland, 5000
Twelfth street NE; Central, 14ls
Eye street NV; Chevy Chase, 500
Connecticut avenue NV; Cleve-
land Park, 3430 Connecticut avenue
NV; Columbia Heights, 1923 Irv-
ing street. NV; Columbia Road,
It'll Columbia road NV; Connec-
ticut avenue, 1920 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV; F Street, Seventh and r
streets NV. (Tarin Commission
Build hg); Friendship, 40o5 Wis.,
consin avenue NV: G Street,
Woodward d Lothrop Store;
GEORGETOWN, 1915 Thirty-first street
N.W.:a Mid City, '140s Fourteenth
streets NV; National Airport,
Gravdly Point; Northeast, 1016 H
streets NE; Northwest, 5632 Con-
nectic1t avenue NV; Petworth,
4211 Ninth street NV; Southeast,
408 Eighth street Sc; Southwest,
4l6 Seventh street S.W.:: T Street.
1409 : street NV; Takoma Park,
301 Cedar street NV; Temple
Heighs, 1910 Twentieth street NV;
Treasury, Treasury Building; Tr1x-
ton Circle, II Florida avenue NE;
West End, 1751 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. f.W.; Woodbridge, 2211 Rhode
IslanC avenue NE; No. 23, United
States Capitol: No. 20, Senate Once
Building; No. II, House Once Build
ing: No. 2, New House Once Build
ing; NO. IS, Army War College;
Walt@ Reed, Army Medical Center; |;
Naval Air Station, Anaeostia; Navy
Yard. Navy Yard; Woodley Road,
War6fnau Park Hotel.