Seventy-eight
whose owners
taxes on them
tober those tax
100, and In No
$27,394.
ling: $1,711,869 have
October 1 by Tax
r collections were
awkins and bis as
i those for Novem
06,556. Collections
ounted to $505,313.
lude poll taxes to
ober and $2,808 In
undred automobiles
id escaped paying
ire caught. In Oc
amounted to $20,
ember they totaled
BIG CLAMS AGAINST
GERMANY AREALLOWEO
Awards Bear Interest At 5 Per
Cent—One For $1,800,000
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Two
awards agrsraEatins J 1,800,000 In
favor of the United Shoe Machinery
corporation were announced late to
day by the German-An.erlcan mixed
claims commission. Interest of 5 per.
rent was allowed on a claim qf
$ 1,660,000 as of August 1, 1918, and
a like rate was granted for a claim
of $140.000. dating from September 1
of that year.
The Security Eyelet company was
awarded $700,1)00 wiih Interest from
March 1, 1918, ami iie lloessler and
Uasslacher Chemical company was
allowed a claim of 5400,1)00 with in
terest from January 1, 1917.
PARK SYSTEM AIDED
Banker Gives 7S Acres For Washing
ton Porks
WASHINGTON, I>ee. 4.—The cap
ital’s system of, natural parks, al
ready acknowledge! as one of the
most beautiful i
further enriched
tiie country, was
today by a gift of
7S acres from Charles C. Glover,
chairman of the board of the Riggs
National bank. The property lies in
the northwest section near the Amer
ica university grounds and was given
foi*, a parkway ard children’s play-1
ground. It is a Jrrile long and a
quarter of a mile Kvide and Is the j
largest grant of laid ever given to
the District of CoAimbia.
