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

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

SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISCAL AFFAIRS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
HARRY P. CAIN, Washington, 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..

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.......

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

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

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

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‒‒‒‒

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_

Page

363

372

380

385

389

391

393

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

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

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.......

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

of Columbia, Washington, D. C---

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

608

625

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_

Frank McLaughlin, filling station operator__

Lad Mills, filling station operator.......

686

702

704

Clyde H. Sorrell, filling station operator_

705

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__

Salvitore Bucolo, taxicab driver___

724

726

727

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Charles E. Cannon, taxicab driver_

Artin Brown, taxicab driver___.

728

731

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

t'on of Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒

733

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_-_

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---.

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

tion, Inc

770

771

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, Wasbington Board of Trade__

795

Gertrude Parks, District Federation of Women's Clubs----

Leslie Wright, District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs_

Vernis Absher, Southeast Washington Citizens' Association-----

805

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

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

Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel, District of Columbia---

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

Aaron Goldman, G. B. Macke Corp--

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

Columbia___

823

826

857

907

907, 978

Guy Mason, Board of Commissioners, District of Columbia---

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

mittee, District of Columbia_-_

909

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

Columbia..

915

916, 951, 1032

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