DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

JOINT SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISCAL AFFAIRS OF THE
COMMITTEES ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
EIGHTIETH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

METHODS OF ACQUIRING ADDITIONAL REVENUE
THROUGH TAXES AND OTHER MEANS

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MARCH 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27,

APRIL 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 16, 19, AND 21, 1947

Printed for the use of the Joint Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs

of the Committees on the District of Columbia

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1947

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
EVERETT M. DIRKSEN, Illinois, Chairman

John Russell Young, President, Board of Commissioners, District of Colum-

bia, Washington, D. C..

Walter L. Fowler, Budget Officer, District of Columbia, Washington, D. C__

H. C. Whitehurst, Director of Highways, Washington, D. C___

David V. Auld, Superintendent of the Water Department, District of

Columbia, Washington, D. C___

Arthur R. Pilkerton, Auditor, District of Columbia, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒

Edward A. Dent, Tax Assessor, District of Columbia, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒

Clement Murphy, Chief, Fire Department, District of Columbia, accom-

panied by Howard W. Bowie, Assistant to the Executive Officer, Fire

Department, District of Columbia__

Walter H. Thomas, Acting Major and Superintendent, Police Department,

District of Columbia, accompanied by James H. Cox, Sergeant, Police

Department, District of Columbia__.

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George C. Ruhland, Health Officer, Health Department, District of Colum-
bia, Washington, D. C...

Ray L. Huff, Board of Public Welfare, District of Columbia, Washington

D. C

164

Milo F. Christianson, Superintendent of Recreation, District of Columbia,

Washington, D. C-----

205

Alan W. Payne, Chairman, Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, District of
Columbia, Washington, D. C___

Donald Clemmer, Director, Department of Correction, Washington, D. C‒‒‒

Hon. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Senator from Wyoming_.

222

228

237

Robert F. Cogswell, Administrator of Rent Control for the District of

Columbia, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒

244

Miss Clara W. Herbert, Librarian, Public Libraries of the District of

Columbia, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒‒

250

Roland M. Brennan, Purchasing Officer, District of Columbia.

258

Hon. Walt Horan, a Representative in Congress from the State of Wash-

ington__.

267

Hobart M. Corning, Superintendent of Schools, District of Columbia, ac-

companied by Carl F. Hanson, Executive Assistant to the Superintendent

of Schools, District of Columbia_.

274.

Brig. Gen. Gordon Young, Engineer Commissioner for the District of

Columbia, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒

309

Harold A. Kemp, Director, Department of Sanitary Engineering, Wash-

ington, D. C____.

318

Ellwood Johnson, Deputy Director of Sanitary Engineering for the Dis-

trict of Columbia, Washington, D. C.

324

William A. Xanten, Superintendent of the City Refuse Division, District of

Columbia, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒

327

David Auld, Superintendent, Water Division, District of Columbia, Wash-

ington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒

337

George E. Keneipp, Director of Vehicles and Traffic of the District of

Columbia, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒.

342

Archibald King, chairman of the committee on public improvements, George-

town Citizens Association, Washington, D. C_

347

Mrs. Robert G. Wilson, chairman, District of Columbia affairs, District of

Columbia League of Women Voters--

355

Mrs. Leslie Wright, chairman of the legislative committee of the Federation

of Women's Clubs, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒

361

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Jerome B. McKee, chairman, special tax and legislation committee, Federa-

tion of Business Men's Association, Inc., Washington, D. C--.

Rufus S. Lusk, president, Washington Taxpayers Association, Washington,
D. C‒‒‒‒‒

Donald Murray, legislative representative for the United Public Workers,

CIO, Washington, D. C

363

372

380

Woodrow L. Derricote, Randall Junior High School, Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Raymond Cole, 3164 Westover Drive SE., Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Etta L. Taggert, Highland Apartments, Washington, D. C.

385

389

391

W. Arthur Shelton, 3211 Tennyson Avenue NW., Washington, D. C--.

393

Mrs. Lichtenberg, 5604 MacArthur Boulevard, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ 396, 751

William G. Wilding, Deputy District Budget Officer, District of Columbia__

Guy Mason, Commissioner, District of Columbia__

547

552

Dr. John A. Reed, Chief, Board of Police and Fire Surgeons, District of

Columbia

564

Lt. Col. Vernon A. Shurm, Assistant to the Engineer Commissioner, District

of Columbia_____

569

Jerome B. Mckee, executive director, D. C. Retail Liquor Dealers' Associa-

tion, 321 Colorado Building, Washington, D. C_____

Gordon M. Atherholtz, representing the Northeast Council of Citizens

Associations, Washington, D. C.

571

579

Milton S. Kronheim, president, Milton S. Kronheim & Son, Washington,

D. C-----

592

Kenneth P. Armstrong, chairman, committee on fiscal relations and taxa-

tion, Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia, 1840

Shepherd Street NE., Washington, D. C___.

Washington I. Cleveland, manager, District of Columbia division, Ameri-

can Automobile Association, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒.

595

605, 695

Maj. Gen. David McCoach, Jr., chairman, municipal finance committee of

the Washington Board of Trade, Washington, D. C..

David L. Gordon, member of the legislative committee, Americans for Dem-

ocratic Action, 3807 W Street SW., Washington, D. C..

608

625

Vera M. Lundquist, Business and Professional Women's Club of the District

of Columbia, Washington, D. C----

634

Herbert S. Wood, president, Potomac Cooperative Federation, 2909 Brandy-

wine Street NW., Washington, D. C-----

635

C. F. Preller, president, Washington Central Labor Union, 403 Eleventh

Street NW., Washington, D. C.

641

Mrs. B G. McIlwee, 517 Peabody Street NW., Washington, D. C_

Mrs. Elizabeth T. Sullivan, representing Progressive Citizens Association

of Georgetown, Washington, D. C----.

644

645

F. Joseph Donohue, representing Washington Retail Liquor Dealers As-

sociation, Washington, D. C------

646

Joseph E. Keller, secretary, District of Columbia Petroleum Industries

Committee, 30 Munsey Building, Washington, D. C..

654

P. Y. K. Howat, president, Howat Concrete Co., Washington, D. C__

Herbert C. Whitehurst, Director of Highways, Engineer Department,

District of Columbia_

670

679

S. R. Harrison, Deputy Engineer of Streets, Department of Highways,

Engineer Department, District of Columbia.

Stanley H. Horner, representing the Washington Automotive Trades As-

sociation, Washington, D. C----.

708

J. M. Heiser, president, Federation of Businessmen's Associations, Inc.,

Washington, D. C

713

C. G. Hathaway, president, Veterans' Cab Association, Washington, D. C__

Lavona Haynes, taxicab driver_.

715

717

William E. Humphreys, chairman, legislative committee of the District

of Columbia Trucking Association, Washington, D. C.

James B. Carry, superintendent of transportation, Chestnut Farms-Chevy

Chase Dairy, Washington, D. C------

719

721

Alden T. Keeting, vice president and general manager, Yellow Cab Co.

of District of Columbia, Inc., Washington, D.C_____

Walter A. Saunders, taxicab driver_.

724

726

Salvitore Bucolo, taxicab driver___.

727

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Charles E. Cannon, taxicab driver_

Artin Brown, taxicab driver__

R. A. Herrick, executive director of the Retail Gasoline Dealers Associa-

t'on of Washington, D. C.

William Howard Payne, vice chairman, legislative committee, American

Legion, District of Columbia Department_

Lester Scott, representing the oil heating division and the coal division of

the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C------

E. L. Merzereau, representing the North Randall Community Association__

Mrs. R. B. Rands, chairman of the District of Columbia Women's Anti-

Sales-Tax Committee_

728

731

733

737

744

746

749

Mrs. Geraldine Rhodes, district chapter, National Association of Colored

Women's Clubs, Washington, D. C---

755

Rufus S. Lusk, Washington Taxpayers Association, 1508 H Street NW.,

Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒‒

756

Mrs. Gertrude Evans, executive secretary, Washington Industrial Union

Council, CIO, Washington, D. C

763

Gordon Payton, counsel for the Association of Cocoa and Chocolate Manu-

facturers of the United States____

'767

Harold O. Smith, Jr., manager of the Washington office of the National

Confectioners' Association of the United States, Inc.

768

C. E. Steidel, vice president, Fannie May Candy Co., Washington, D. C___

Philip P. Gott, president, National Confectioners' Association..

770

771

C. M. McMillan, executive secretary, National Candy Wholesalers Associa-

tion, Inc

776

William Shelton_____

777

Joseph E. Keller, executive secretary, District of Columbia Petroleum

Industries Committee, Washington, D. C_

783

J. C. Turner, chairman of the tax committee of the Washington Central

Labor Union, Affiliated with the AFL_

790

William H. Press, Washington Board of Trade.

795

Gertrude Parks, District Federation of Women's Clubs.

805

Leslie Wright, District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs-

Vernis Absher, Southeast Washington Citizens' Association_

807

812

A. Julian Brylawski, Motion Picture Theater Owners of Metropolitan Dis-

trict of Columbia____.

813

J. P. Hayes, National Symphony Orchestra Association__.

817

Jerome Kaufman, National Association of Tobacco Distributors, Washing-

ton, D. C____

819

Nathaniel Goldberg, Wholesale Tobacco Companies of Washington, D. C_-

Aaron Goldman, G. B. Macke Corp---

823

826

Ford E. Young, Fussell-Young Ice Cream Co‒‒‒‒

857

Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel, District of Columbia___.

Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, President, Board of Education, District of

Columbia___

Guy Mason, Board of Commissioners, District of Columbia.

Adelbert W Lee, member, Board of Education, chairman, legislative com-

mittee, District of Columbia_-_

Dr. Hobart M. Corning, Superintendent of Schools, District of

Columbia.

Mrs. O. G. Hankins, president, District of Columbia Congress of Parents

and Teachers, Adams School, Washington, D. C-----

980

Mrs. M. E. Carpenter, president, Federation of Parent-Teachers Associa-

tions of the District of Columbia.

982

Miss Sue M. Brett, president, High School Teachers Association of the

District of Columbia____.

983

George H. Murray, president of the Association of Senior High School

Teachers, divisions 10 to 13, Washington, D. C.

987

Mrs. Emily T. F. Gosling, president, Teachers Advisory Council, Franklin

Administration Building, Washington, D. C---

988

Miss Myrtle E. Moore, president, Junior High School Teachers Association,

divisions 1 to 9.

992

James W. Taylor, president, Elementary Classroom Teachers Association,

divisions 1 to 9.

995

Mrs. Martha W. Schoot, president, Washington Junior High School Class-

room Teachers Association, divisions 10 to 13__--

999