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Evening star., 1946-09-24
Ruling on Bank
Tax Deductions
Due Tomorrow
Conference Planned
With Commissioners
On Vests Report

District banking representatives
will confer with the Commissioners
at II am. tomorrow to receive the
long-awaited ruling by Corporation
Counsel Vernon E. West as to what
is deductible by the banks from
their gross receipts to arrive at a
gross earnings figure on which they
are taxed.
Banking circles have been await
ing for months for the answer to the
question and have been given a
postponement without penalty In
the payment of the gross earnings
levy pending final decision on the
matter.
The opinion was sought by As.
SCISSOR E. A. Dent after finding there
was no uniformity in the deductions
claimed by the financial institutions
In paying their taxes.
Long Conferences Held.
Mr.. Dent has conferred at length
with a committee of the District
Bankers Association in an effort to
reach general agreement on de-
ductions before finally submitting
the question to Mr.. West for solu-
ton.
Part OF the complex problem stems
from the fact that Washington
banks are taxed under two separate
Acts Of Congress, 1t was understood.
Under the Act of 1902 national
banks must pay 6, per cent tax on
gross earnings. An amendment to
this law In 1904, however. made saw
ings banks taxable at 4 per cent and
permitted this type of bank to de-
duct from gross receipts interest
paid to depositors. 1t Is understood
the purpose OF the amendment was
to stimulate savings locally at that
time.
While details of Mr.. Vests find.
ings have not been made public, 1t
Is expected he will seek to tax all
banks at 6 per cent on the ground
that there are no more strictly saw
ings banks in the city and that all
banks are doing essentially the same
type OF business.
Hamilton Bank Appealed.
The situation was brought to A
head recently in the Court of Ap-
peals decision in the case of the
Hamilton National Bank which ap-
pealed District ruling that 1t could
not deduct interest paid to depositors
in connection with the tax payment,
The court remanded the case to
the District Board Of Tax Appeals
with instructions to cancel the
assessment based on inclusion Of In
terest payments unless the tax
assessor, on restudy Of the entire
subject of bank taxation, removes
the discrimination" now existing.
1t Is this discrimination argument
which the city is expected to invoke
If 1t recommends boosting the taxes
OF banks presently paying per cent
to 6 per cent. About eight banks
are believed affected by this phase
| of the ruling.
Evening star., 1946-09-24
New Bus Route Approved

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. "A tP).-
The State Corporation Commission
yesterday granted a certificate of
public convenience and necessity for
the operation by Virginia Stage
Lines, Inc, of Passenger bus service
from New Market to Broadway by
way of Timberville.
Evening star., 1946-09-24
Rutgers Alumni to Meet

Jack NJ Wallace, assistant alumni
director Of Rutgers University, will
address meeting of the Washing
ton Rutgers Club at 8 o'clock tonight
lat the National Press Club. Former
Rutgers students, faculty members
and others associated with the uni
VerSity are invited.
Evening star., 1946-09-24
Annapolis to Resume
Submarine Troinina
by The Assoeiofsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, Sept. 24.-Re-
vival Of the midshipman indoctrina-
ton program in submarine warfare
was announced yesterday by Vice
Admiral Aubrey w. Fitch, superin-
tendent OF the United States Naval
Academy, with the arrival OF two
submarines.
The Dogfish and Sablefish tied up
at Santee Dock at the academy and
Will be used for training first class
men during the fall term.
The submarine indoctrination pro-
gram was carried on before the war.
but abandoned during hostilities.
Evening star., 1946-09-24

In the District ways In which CO.
operation could help both his of1ice
and theit business, He said he
wanted to make getting drivers
permit pleasant experience.
Biggest complaint Of the instruc-
tors was the long periods people had
to wait to take road tests for their
permits. Mr.. Keneipp pointed out
that new system Of assigning defi-
mite times TO all applicants had gone
into effect last week and should do
much to help.
Evening star., 1946-09-24
1892 Enrolled
In D. {. Schools
0n0peningDay
Absence Of Jewish
Holiday, GI Influx
Held Reason for Rise
BY Henry A. Muslin

{ Washington's 166 public schools
/ today were struggling to absorb tn,
| 1892 students whose first-day reg.
istration yesterday swelled enroll.
ment by more than 10000 over las
years figure.
I Returning veterans and the fac
that opening day did not coincide
with Jewish holiday, as it has ir
the past several years, were re.
sponsible for yesterdays large turn.
out, officials said.
Greatest increase was felt at the
Veterans High School Center al
Central High School, where 1884
students, including seven girls
signed UP for accelerated courses.
High Schools Rise is Highest.
The increase was spread across
all educational levels, with a % Der
cent rise for senior high schools
leading all the rest. Enrolment
Figures for this year and last, as
reported by Statistician Boise L.
Bristor, were:
1916. 1945.
Elementary -------48,15l 1858
senior High ----------15 ,291 1923
vocational --------- 1,270 914
Junior High 1854 1928
Teachers College 7O6 1853
Late yesterday the total ENROLL
ment was enormously placed at a.
593 but errors in class room reports
brought the downward revision, Of
1cials explained. Further changes
are anticipated.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
and other ofiicials were at their
desks early today in an effort to
clear several log jams and straighten
out the entire 1867 program.
Denial Of Veterans Poses Problem.
Foremost among the problems
facing them was what to do with
about half of the 1854 former sery-
icemen temporarily denied courses
at Central. The center handled only
about $50 veterans last year, with
no more than $50 in school at any
one time.
Fourteen of Central Highs class
rooms were set aside for veterans.
but this year great many more
desks are needed. DR.. Corning and
Norman J. Nelson, associate SUPER
intendent in charge of senior high
schools, conferred today in an effort
to determine just how many vet
eraps will be accommodated and
where.
Nearby elementary school class
rooms are being considered for the
overflow.
School officials reported no par
t1cular transportation difficulties
encountered in moving the mass of
pupils to schools in time to meet
the new 8 am. starting time. The
Capital Transit Co., which had pro-
tested returning the $50 opening
hour to its prewar time, also said
its buses and streetcars were able
to handle the load, but with some
crowding.
Half in Grade Schools Are Colored.
Nearly half the grade school en-
rollees were colored.
Mr.. Nelson expressed satisfac-
ton In the big increase in enroll
ment at the two teachers colleges
in view of the Nationwide slump
in the number applying for normal
school training.
Many parents and children had
to be turned away from kindergar-
tens because of the abnormal de-
mand for the preschool classes. An
example was the Kimball School.
which reached it's kindergarten en-
rollment capacity of SO last MAY
and now has n children on its
waiting list
Evening star., 1946-09-24
Do You Know That

No ward at Children's Hos
pital was ever closed during the
war emergency. when shortages
OF doctors, nurses and personnel
forced many Institutions to cur
tail their services?
The building fund campaign:
Amount needed 81 900, ,OOO. 90
Contributions TO date 1,O36,617 .9S
Received yesterday 3I3.77
To be raised 263, ,O08 "a
Please send contributions to
the Childrens Hospital Building
Fund. Thirteenth and v streets
NV. Washington Z. p. G.
Evening star., 1946-11-17
Arthritis Pains
(urbed Easy Way
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s-Day Trial .o6sr: To prove what RomlRd
can do 70 help you feel improved and how
fast IL works, get Remind from your drug
gist and take exactiy as directed. Bee the ~
suits for yourself. You be the judes. Unless
surprised and delighted, simply rsturn tn
empty package and your money back =
guaranteed. Don't suffer another hour WIN.
out trying Rsasla6. Insist On ReNln1--k
yssr drs9gist = - - ~ - - y 80
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Evening star., 1946-11-17
Marriage License
Applications

Under d. C. laDs, couples must
apply for a marriage license on
one day. ,Dait three full days and
recetre the license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
Evening star., 1946-11-17
iqhi Puins Of Swollen Joints,

Thousands Of sufferers from the pains and
eeAss of Arthritis, Rheumatism, Swollen
5etnts, Lumbsso, seiatica and Neuritis have
been delighted to discover that the Doctors .
formula called komind starts circulating
through tbs blood almost immediately after
The nrst dose, usually helping nature remove
poisonous wastes and excess acids that often
cause pains and soreness, and st the SAND
tinas promptly combating the pain and a.
0nnfesk
Evening star., 1946-11-17

Payments on. your home are
made easy by renting room.
Renting a room is made easy
by advertising in The Star.
Call National 5000. Open 8
am. to IL pm.
Evening star., 1946-11-03
Bethesda.Lower Montgomery County
Suburban Parties Continue;
Residents Planning Tribs
By Lillian Arfhur

come Wednesday to spend fen
days with Senator and Mrs. Hicken.
looper.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Bateman Morris
and their two grandchildren, Mary
Ellen Morris and Edwin Batemar
Morris III, will leave tomorrow fol
Dunkirk, N. Y, to be present at the
marriage of Mr.. E. Bateman Nor
ris, jr., to Miss Elizabeth Heppell.
The wedding will take place Wed
nesday afternoon at the home Of
the bride.
The prospective bridegroom's
-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. H. Mills Of Bethesda, also
will 60 to Dunkirk for the wedding
Mrs. Mills will be the matron OF
honor and Mr.. Mills will be best
man.
DR.. Nicolas Minorsky and Mrs
Minorsky, for the last six years resi-
dents Of Rose Hill, Seven Locks
road, left on Thursday for PAID
Alto, Calf. DR.. Minorsky recently
has been appointed to the faculty OF
Leland Stanford University.
Mrs. Minorsky's daughter, Miss
Evening star., 1946-11-03

Twice . year the countryside
around Bethesda really comes into
its own--in the spring when the red
bud and the dogwood trees burst
into bloom. and again in the fall
when the leaves put on their bril-
liant coloring of red and gold.
Taking advantage of all this dis
play of color as a natural setting for
a party, MIR. and Mrs. Vernon H.
Brewster have invited some go or
more of their friends to their home
this afternoon to have a cup Of tea
with them and a visit with their
neighbors. And every one fortunate
enough to be invited has put 1t down
as a must" on this afternoons S
program.
Bunches of colored leaves and fall
flowers as decorations will rival the
coloring outside on the grounds
around the house.
The party will be as informal as
party of this kind can be. Mrs.
Brewster will receive the guests
alone but Mrs. Donald F. Roberts,
Mrs. william H. McCrillis and Mrs.
Herman p. Evans will assist Mrs
Brewster during the afternoon in
entertaining her guests.
Another party of the afternoon
that will have the same air of In
formality and the same thought Of
getting a congenial group together
will be the tea at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert H. Best. They have
asked their guests to come between
4 and 7. About go Bethesdans have
been invited to the party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton 8. Raynor
were hosts at q small party last
evening that began with a general
|get-together and ended with q late
buffet supper.
They plan to have another party
in the near future when the guest
Of honor will be Mr.. Raynor's mother,
Mrs. Clinton L. Raynor OF Missoula,
Mont, who will arrive today to be
with them for a month or more.
Before coming here Mrs. Raynor
had been visiting her son and daugh-
ter-in law, Mr.. and Mrs. Leicester
Raynor, at their home in Pakanack
Lake, N. j.. for the past month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Gilbert, Mr..
and Mrs. Warren Bailey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver F. Busby and DR.. and
Mrs. Julian Pollard. all of Bethesda,
were guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. s..
Durkin at a bridge party and late
supper last evening. Others at the
party were Mrs. Pollard's brother
and sister -in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
James Nugent Of Takoma Park.
A quick look over the neighbor-
hood gives the impression that
nearly every one Is starting out on .
trip or Just getting back from trip.
Mrs. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, wife
Of the Senator from Iowa, will spend
part of the coming week In New
York with Mrs. Harry Mitchell
Warren Of Des Moines, who will
Evening star., 1946-11-03

Krum's mother, Mrs. Joseph Cotter
OF Travillah, and number OF others
of the horse loving clan in the Po-
tonac Hunt country also will attend
the show.
Mr.. Bogley's brother-in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Sterling Ruffsn
Maddox. will join them in New
York for q week end of festivities
In connection with the show.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip j. Fischer are
making frequent trips to New York
during the football season.
Last week they went up for the
Army Duke game.
Next week end they will 60 to
New York again for the Army -Notre
Dame game. After the game they
will give dinner party for their
son, Cadet Dudley Fischer, and
some Of his classmates.
A two-day visit with Cadet Fisch-
er at West Point over the Armistice
Day holiday Is also on their schedule
for the week end.
Mrs. Oliver F. Busby and her
daughter, Miss Katie Brown Busby,
are in Williamsport, Pa, visiting
Evening star., 1946-11-03

| Evelyn wallace, who Is now on duty
at the French Embassy, is remain
ing in Washington to continue her
work there.
A talented musician. native Of
France who had accumulated many
hours of Red Cross work during
World War I, Mrs. Minorsky has
given most of her time to work for
French war relief since coming to
Bethesda.
Now that she has left the COM
munity to make her home In the
West, Mrs. Minorsky has given some
of the furnishings Of Rose Hill to
the Montgomery County Thrift
Shop in appreciation of the help
the Bethesda women have given her
in her work for French relief.
The proceeds of the sale Of these
articles will be divided among the
four organizations supported by the
Thrift Shop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel E. Bogley
are planning a trip to New York
to attend the National Horse Show
at Madison Square Garden.
DR.. and Mrs. August Krum, Mrs.
Evening star., 1946-11-03
THE SUNDAY STAR Washington, D. c. Do
3,

Mrs. Busby's brother-in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. M. l.. Stephens.
Mrs. H. l.. Richardson has come
to Bethesda to spend the winter
with her brother in law and sister,
Evening star., 1946-11-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L. SaunderS.
Mrs. Richardson, who is a former
resident of Washington, has been in
Los Angeles for the last several
months.
Evening star., 1946-11-03

Gaoronteed Dye Work. Exquisite Cleaner.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
County Requires Health Officer

Hedmeg for desiring the Harrison county job
and residence in Gulfport; but he will find
vigorous resistance if he thinks this county
will accept a part-time secondary kind OF
health work simply because he desires to
keep both jobs. We hope the board of super
visors will require DR.. Underwood to send
a trained full-time, health man Immediately,
and that they will not accept this arrange
ment which gives DR.. Hedmeg two jobs, at
the cost of deteriorated public health service
in this county.
Jackson county is one of the biggest and
one of the most important in the state, and
the wartime expansion of its population
created critical needs for a competent public
health officer to be equalled in very few
counties. Yet for some reason we do not
understand, DIR. Underwood and the state
board of health seem reluctant to keep a
permanent and qualified health man here.
We have Learned from experience that part
time services such as we had from DIR. Shipp
of Hancock county and such as are proposed
in the present instance are definitely UNI
satisfactory.
We are told that the state board plans to
send here a young man who has got a medi-
cal degree but who has not undertaken the
internship training necessary before he be-
comes a full-fledged doctor. He is to leave in
seven months to take hat training, and until
then it is proposed he serve as health officer
here under DR.. Hedmeg's direction. Jackson
county will not get satisfactory service out
of this arrangement.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

It has been announced this week that DIR.
Andrew Hedmeg has resigned as Jackson
county health officer effective September /,
and that he has accepted a similar post in
Harrison county with office and residence
in Gulfport. On behalf of Jackson county we
offer Doctor Hedmeg congratulations and
best wishes. and hope he will be happy in
his new post.
Many of us who have settled permanently
in Jackson county have made such moves
in the past, and 1t is one of the blessed free
doms of this country that a man who does
not find one background satisfactory can
seek another more suitable to his needs and
liking. What pleases one man does not neces-
sarily have to please another, and it would
be small minded indeed to argue that one
mans preference is superior to another. 1t
rests entirely with the Individual. We are
sincere in saying this and want to be UNDER
stood on this point.
When such a move is made, however, es-
pecially in a field as vital to public welfare
as public health work, it must be a clean-cut
move, and final. We oppose vigorously the
present plan by which DR.. Hedmeg will take
up a new job and a new residence and yet
keep his old job as Jackson county health of
ficer-on a part time basis. The present agree
ment or understanding to this effect, be-
tween DR.. Hedmeg and DIR. Underwood, di-
rector of the state department of public
health. works directly against the interests
Of jackson county and ought to be ended as
quickly as possible. 10 one will reproach DIR.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

the church fathers had assigned
to the Good Thief way back in
the for native days of the church
during the Dark Ages. The news
paper man referred to his adopted
patron saint as the hoodlum
saint, the forgotten one, who
roams the outfields of eternity
making the shoe-string catches
of souls" The yearly appear
ance of such an anniversary trib-
ute, by "A newspaper executive
who had been a convict, natural.
~ attracted attention, and the
story became widely known. We
forget many of the details, and
perhaps have even confused them
in memory, but we remember
that eight or ten years ago, each
st. Dismas anniversary saw a
little story in Time magazine and
on the wire services telling about
the newspaperman and about st.
Dismas Then Of course there
have been several churches built
within penitentiaries in honor OF
the Good Thief-or ''The Hood
lum SAINT" as we see the movie
writers have chosen to call it.
But the story which the Bible
tells about the repentant thief
is in a class by itself, a story
of sucn simple power, Tragedy
and glory, that il seems. not so
mucn blasphemy. but presump-
ton for any lay writer such as
those who operate in Hollywood
to presume to tell it at all. The
figure called, by later church
writer's, ''St. Dismas' appears
briefly in the Gospel of Saint
Luke. though not at all in John,
and enly in passing in Mark
and Matthew, who do not distin-
guish him at all from the other
thief, the Unrepdntant Thief,
who was also crueified. Nowhere
is either thief given a name in
the Scriptures. The story told
by Luke is a brief one and will
bear r%eprinting here. MS always:
And the people stood behold
ing. Ano the ruler also with
them derided Him. saying, He
saved others; let Him save Him.
self. If He be Christ, the chosen
Ard one Of the malefactors
which were hanged rallied on
Him, saying, if Thou be Christ,
save Thouself and US.
But the other answering. re-
buked Him, saying. Dost not
Thou fear God. seeing Thou art
in the same condemnation
And we indeed justly; for we
receive the due reward of our
deeds, but this Man hath done
nothing amiss.
And he said unto Jesus, Lord,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
Moss Point P-TA To
Honor Mr.. And Mrs.
Tanner And Teachers

The Moss Point Parent Teach
er Association will open the 1916
AZ sehoclyear by keeping open
house on the evening of Tues
day. September 10. beginning at
8 o'clock.
The occasion is in honor of the
new superintendent of schools
of Moss Point, Luther Tanner and
Mrs. Tanner, and the teachers
of the Lottie Hyatt school and
Junior and Senior High schools.
A feature of interest will be a
talk by MIR. Tanner in which he
will set forth his views regard
ing the schools and matters per-
tanning It their success this COM
ing year.
The public is cordially invited
TO attend. 1t will be held in the
Community House.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
Friends Surprise
Judson Rogers With
PortY On Birthday

A number of friends and rela-
tives gathered in the home of
Judson Rogers in Escatawpa, Sum
day afternoon, August Is, to help
celebrate his sixty-ninth birthday.
The party was a pleasant sur
prise to MIR. Rogers who has been
a shut-in during the past several
months.
A very prettily decorated
birthday cake with the sixty
nine candle was brought to Mr..
Rogers to cut. Many nice gifts
and greeting cards were opened
and displayed.
Cake and punch was served to-
about fifty persons, including all
eight children and grandchildren,
great grandchildren and other
relatives.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
Van Roberts Is
Honored By Aunt
On 18th Birthday

Van Roberts, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ruble Roberts of Mt. Pleas
ant, was honored on his 18th
birthday Sunday afternoon by his
aunt, Mrs. r. j. Van Horn. with
a party at her home.
Games and contests were en-
Joyed and birthday cake and
iced drinks served to Margie Nell
and Bobby Hardin, Ruth McMil-
Ian, Myrna Faye Allen, Myron
Tillman, McIlwain Vaughn, Lloyd
Ray Roberts, Buddy Harris and
Adolph Myers, the latter of Hous-
ton, Texas.
Other guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Florian Breeland, of Van
cleave, Miss Annie L. and Laura
Ware of Pascagoula, Mr.. and Mrs.
Coy Allen and daughter, Lynn
and Coy Ann, Mrs. ]. c. Harris
and daughter. Patty Carol. Mr..
and Mrs. Ruble Roberts and Miss
Dollie and r. c. Roberts.