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THE tfttii OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY. 4, lilies.
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SMALL INCOMES
TAXABLE UNDER
THE NEWWAR LAW
Returns Must Be Made to Col-
lector by March U Failure
to Do So May Mean
Heavy Fine.
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YOUR INCOME TAX.
Amounts War income tax re
turns must be made by all single
persons with annual incomes of
$1,000 or more; and by all married
persons with annual incomes of
$2,000 or more. Persons with
smaller incomes need not make
returns.
Time The returns must be
made before March 1, 1918.
Place For Omaha, the office of
the internal revenue collector in
the postoffice building.
Blanks These may be secured
by writing to the collector of in
tcrnal revenue.
Failure to File Returns If you
fail to have your return in the of
fice of the collector of internal
revenue for your district by March
1, you are liable to a fine of from
$20 to $1,000 and an additional tax
of 50 per cent. .
False Return If you make a
false return of your income you
are liable to additional tax of 100
per cent; also to a fine of not more
than $2,000 and imprisonment of
not more than one year or both.
Time of Ta Your return must
cover all the income you have had
from all sources between January
1, 1917, and December 31, 1917, iiK
elusive. .. . .
Income Eaempt Proceeds , of
life insurance policies, property
received, by gif- or bequest, inter
est on city, county, state or fed
eral securities are exempt from
taxation. Salaries of public school
teachers,. state, county and city of
ficials and employcPare also ex
empt from tax. ,
This, year, for the first time In the
hMory of this country,.personsi with
small incomes have to pay income
tax. If you haven't made your re
turns to the income tax collector. you
, should hurry. Returns must be made
by March 1. Failure to make return
by then exposes the ( individual to
--heavy fine.
1 There are two Income tax laws
now operating in the United States.
One was pasted September 8, 1916,
and requires payment of income tax
by all single persons with incomes
of $3,000 or more. per annum and all
married persons with incomes of $4,
000' or more per annum.
The second or "war inceme tax
law," was passed October 3, 1917, and
requires payment of income tax by
all single persons with incomes of
$1,000 or more per annum and all
married persons with incomes of $2,
000 or tnore per annum. '
Many Subject to Second, -
The second law affectsvastly more
people than ,the first- While less
than 4,009 people in Nebraska are
subject to the first law, It is estimated
that fully 70,000 will be subject to the
second.
Those whose incomes - are large
enough to bring them under the first
law have also to pay the taxes speci
fied under the second law.'
The amounts payable are graduat
ed according to income, the percent
age of the income taken by the tax
growing larger as the income grvs,
irger. Persons with incomes of less
than $5,000 a year under the second
law have to pay .only 2 per. rent on
that part of the income above he. re
spective exemptions of $1,000 and
J2.000. - ' '
Thus, a married man with an in
come of $4,000 a year has to pay only
2 per. cent on $2,000, or $40. If he
has four dependent children he gets
a further exemption of $200 for each
chili
A ,man with an income of $1,000,000
a year has to pa aearly $500,000 in
come tax to the government.
,, When Were You Married?
In' determining whether a person is
married or single his status on De
cember 31, 1917, is taken. If he is a
married person on that day. he gets
,the $24JO0 exemption. . If. he is a
! widower, he gets only the $1,000 ex
emption. ', fv w !
In addition to married persons, the
$2,000 exemption is allowed to
"heads of families," that is, a person
who4 actually supports. or maintains
one or more individuals closely con
nected with him by blood relation
ship or marriage. -.- . : .
Here are a few more questions on
the law's operation with their ans
wers J
Q. Will an Information contained In mjr
ge MMl return b disclosed to another?
A No. Th law peclflcally provide
that any Information relative to an Indi
vidual' Income and d auctions, obtained
from ale personal return, or otherwise. In
connection with the Income tax. ehall be
iuiAiHlw xAnfMentlal.
' Q. It any attorney requests a eopy of my
return r any information reiaiiye iiwnw,
will bl requeat be granted? ' -
A No; unlea the return wea rendered by
him for and In your behelt, or he eubmlta
an authorisation, peraonally elgned by you.
permitting- the oopy or Information to be
glvea to mm. . . .
a ran the aroounta expended by a
business man In entertaining- out-of-town
miinitiin. or Drosneetlv customer, . be
- claimed at deductions? :
A. Tea. If the eoie purpose of the busl
neea man In making aura expenditures is
' to cultivate the good wllf of his customers
nd secure an Increase in trad they may
be eo claimed. I
a Can a salesman working on a com
mission basts claim aa deductions .. the
amounts expended from his own funds for
railroad tare, xcees baggage, texlcab or
street car fare, how 'rooms, assistants, ad
vertising, etc. T . - .
. A. Tea. If he Is not reimbursed for ueh
exdeadltures by his firm, he should report
' ander 'Oros Income" the total amount of
commissions received, and he may then
claim auch expense as were actually in
curred and psid in the earning of those
commimions.
Cj. "A." who Is employed In a city, has
his bom In a suburb. He nays car far be
twreo bis boms and place of employment
nd takes his noon lunch In the oily. Can
the amounts expended for car fare and
touch be claimed as a business xpenT .
A. No, aa such amounts art held to be
Item of personal expense. -' f .
Q. Are the item of xpense Incurred
and paid by m during the calendar year
In connection with a farm 'which I ieaa
to another on a csta or crop-share rental
basis, auch aa repair to fense. farm build
ings, etc., allowable aa deductions?
. A. .Tea.
'"- Q. If my salary -for December, 1S17. ta
not paid to me until soma day la January.
. llt. or later, is Its amount to b Included
la my. 1117 return? '.
A. It is to be returned for the year dor-
ing which It was actually received by you.
Q. "A" I employed by a corporation at
an annual salary of 13.000. The corporation,
being ra financial straits, only paid "A"
. IJ.M9 during each of the years. Jill and
1S1C. la i7,'.VA."- received hi aajary
WHY SEND PRESENTS WHEN
Bishop Stuntz Objects to Sending Tons' of
Usele.M Gift When Ship Space Is Needed.
SOLDIERS IN NEED OF SHELLS
By HOMER C. STUNTZ.
Bin hop of Methodist Episcopal Church In
Nebraska.
Parents should decide whether their
boys in France shall have resents to
delight them or shells to defend them.
They cannot have both.
Any large postal terminal gives
food for thought. Multitudes of pres
ents are there addressed to soldiers
in France, some bulky, some moderate
in size, and nearly all poorly wrapped,
and the total running into tons of
shipping space just when space in
ocean-going ships is like gold for
preciousness. Do these lovers of the
soldiers think? Or is it a heedless
love careless of life while prodigal
of baubles?
-pie lives of the soldiers, and their
triumph, depend upon getting ammu
nition, guns, coal and food supplies
in vast quantities across the Atlantic
ocean before the awful offensives of
the spring hurl their hail of death
ifpon them. Poor comfort will it be
to a lad when he stands face to face
with the leaden blast to have had a
plum cake and some knick-knacks
from borne if the cartridges and
shells which he needs to drive back
the enemy are not there because there
was not room on the ships for both I
When the government simoly cannot
get enough ships to carry the military
supplies as fast as they are needed,
it is time for those of us who have
loved ones on the firing line to hold
In check our impulses to send fre.
quent proofs of our love in the way
of presents while we ask ourselves
this question, "Shall I give my boy
presents, or shall Uncle Sam have him
abundantly supplied with bullets, food
and surgical supplies for the terrific
strain that lies just ahead?". .
When Kitchener was under the
strain of, the South African war, and
when cuns and shells and surgical
supplies were so lacking that British
lads were driven to oppose their bare
hands to Boer rifles, and were fester
ing and dying by sccres in hospitals
because medical supplies were not
forthcoming, and after he had cabled
again and again for these things, a
large ship-was loaded full of Christ
mas presents, and sent all that weari
some way to South Africal
As Kipling says in that withering
satire called "The Lesson:"
"And ye sent them comfits and
pictures
To help them harry their foes."
Imsgine the cold fury of officer,
and doctors before whose 'eyes the
flower of the British manhood was
being riddled with shot and rotted
with preventable infections when they
learned what that great ship brought
from London. They raged like mad
men at the appalling blindness of, a
public who loved without judgment.
The parents and friends of those
GERMANS MAKE
PRISONERS OF
' BRITISH FLYERS
. Amsterdam, Feb. . 3. Two cap
tured British airmen, the Tages Zei
tung of Berlin says, have been sen
tenced by a German court-martial to
10 vears imprisonment for dropping';
a hostile proclamation in Germany.
London, Feb. 3. Reprisals are de-
minrlerl hv the Dailv Mail for the
action of the German military authori
ties in sentencing two British airmen
to 10 years imprisonment tor crop
ping leaflets in Germany.
The newspaper,' which features th
story to the exclusion of most other
news, says:
"The enemy is carrying out the
threat published after the report that
1.000,000 copies of President Wilson's
declaration of peace terms would be
droppetl from airplanes in Germany.
"The Germans first began to drop
propaganda leaflets in the allied lines
more than three years ago. The
practice helped to wreck Russia and
cause the disastrous Italian retreat."
- The Daily Mail wants the repris
als to take the form of putting Ger.
man officers and prisoners on the
same rations and living conditions as
British prisoners undergo in Ger
many. . Department Orders.
, Washington. Feb. S. (Special Telegram.)
South Dakota postmaster appointed:
Blaha. Bonhomm county, James I. Hykora,
new office; Vera, Jones county. Pearl Du
vail; vice Franklin S. Weaver, resigned.
First Lieutenant Frank A. Swetey. medi
cal resrv corps. Is relieved from duty at
Fort D. A. Russell, Wye, and will proceed
to his borne.. , . , .
full plu the balance of the salary due htm
for the two previous years. Must he in
clude the full amount received In 117 In
his return for that year?
A. Yea. F.ve thousand dollars shoi'ld
be returned, and that amount will be sub
ject to Income tax at the rates prescribed
for the year 117. '
Q. It an employer agreea to pay an em
ploy a certain stipulated aalary and fur
nish him with room and board, are the
tatter Items to be considered In computing
income tax liability?
A. Tea, A fair rental ' value I to be
placed upon the room and a fair value upon
the-meals ftirnished,' and thrlr amounts r-I
porcea a income oy me employe.
Q. t An employe recelvee a per diem al
lowance tor exprnee In addition to hi regu
lar aalary. la this amount to be Included
aa Income tn his return?
A. Yea. The enUre amount of allowance
received should be reported as Income. The
difference between the expenses Incurred
and paid while away from home and the
ordinary expenses . white at home may be
claimed as a deduction. '
U; S, Warm Workmen
Not to Heed News '
Of German Strikes
New York, Feb. 3. A warning
to American workmen not to relax
their efforts in shipbuildings and
other trades because ot Jhs strike
disturbances in Germany . was is
sued here today by the United
States employment service.
: The unrest in Germany may be
quelled any minute," 4he statement
says in part, "and the war Is not
over yet by any means. 'The Uni.
ted States must build ships this
year above everything else, and
men of skill should enroll now so
as to be available for this patriotic
service whenever the shipyards are
ready for them."
The workmen are urged mean
while to retain their present jobs
until notified they are wanted for
shipbuilding.
British soldiers seemed to prefer that
their loved ones should be delighted
with trinkets rather than equipped
with bullets.
There are about 500,000 American
soldiers now in France, according to
the statement of the secretary of war.
It one-ntth ot these lads were to re
ceive presents up to the weight limit
of seven pounds, as now allowed for
France, it would call for nearly 500
tons of ship space, or one-tenth of the
carrying capacity of the ordinary ves
sel. Valuable as these would be in.
keeping up the morale of the lads,
think what might be carried in the
place of these gifts, and of how much
more value the ammunition and aur.
gical supplies would be to the very
men concerned. It might well mean
the difference between life itself and
a passing sensation of pleasure.
Our i soldiers are the most highly
paid and the best fed troops in the
world. If they need knick-knacks
they are able to buy them at the can
teens either of the reanment or ot the
Young Men's Christian association.
What they need now is ammunition
and guns and then more ammunition
and more gunst Surgical supplies and
solid food come next. Let Uncle Sam
have the shipping space and they will
have these needs met and met soon.
Open a hank account for the lad
you love. Put into it what you 'are
inclined to spend for. presents. Write
to him good, chatty letters twice
as often as you now, write. Let
ters are what he wants. A mode,st
bank account to the 'credit of the re
turning .soldier will-furnish better
proof of our real love and interest in
him than any number of bulky baubles
we may send across the sea.
We all love the soldiers. We desire
to prove our love and our interest, in
ways that leave nothing to the imagi
nation; Let love do her perfect work
under the guidance of large common
sense and an earnest desire to secure
for him the best things rather than
the good or even the better.
BUREAU RULES ON
FORGIVEN DEBTS
Are Not to Be Computed as
Income to Debtor, According:
1 . to Internal Revenue
Collector.
"Forgiven debts are not to be com
puted as income to the debtor," is a
new regulation made by the bureau of
internal revenue, working out the de
tails of the personal income tax law.
Formerly forgiven debts were com
nuterl aa income to the debtor and he
Was compelled to pay income tax on
them- .
T... omilgtinni envfminff flivi-
dends and depletion in Qilt gas and
mining properties are coniainea in n
.(RaI.I nAfiA rerikiue-rl VterA at -fne of
fee of Collector of . Internal Revenue
Loomis. , ' ,...;r
"The ruling on' dividends," says the
notice, "is that dividends paid during
1917 will be deemed to have been paid
from 19)7 earnings, jf ship earnings
during the year were greater than the
j;..;,l.nl jlUtriliii'tofl unless the corn-
orations show that at the time of dis
tribution ot any particular amqenas
the earnings: were pot sufficient to
cover. . ..' , t-
Bonuses Actually Paid.
t "A new ruling as an' alternative to
the existing one nas oeen proving ii
Amn.in h amntint neresiarv to
return capital invested in oil and gas
wells, the rule Dejng oascu upon
aeintl i aft- atf tVi.iinil"-rnlained in the
property, and fee erwners and lessees
are piacca-upon tnc nmc us ..wv..
as bonuses have actually been paid for
leases.
"With regard to mining corpora
tions, it is stated that in passingron
values set up as of March 1, 1913, as
a basis for depletion, the department
will give due weight to market quo
tations of capital stock as of that date
and to values stated by the corpora
tions in their capital stock returns.
Are Return of Capital.
' "It Is held that dividends paid out
of depletion or depreciation reserves
are in the nature of a liquidation divi
dend and are a return of capital to
the stockholders and not taxable as
income. Such dividends will not be
so regarded, however, unless the in
come and surplus have been first dis
tributed and the fact that their cap
ital has been reduced or partly re
turned is made public in their pub
lished statements.
"Provision has also been made re
. nrouimi rulino and holainB
as to stock returned to corporations
upon reorganization ior purposes
resale to raise working capital, that
the proceeds when sold shall not be
treated as income. .
"A provision of former rulings that
forgiven debts constitute income to
the debtor has also been stricken out
Pender Fato Knits for
His Two Soldier Sons
Tender. NeS. Fop. 3. (Specia .)
Walker Everett of Pender is not to
be outdone when it comes to knitting
for the Sammies. He has knit a
scarf and a pair of socks for a hof
his sons, one stationed "Somewhere
in France" and One at CaiTlD Cody.
-beside- one scarf and three sweaters
for the Red Cross.
Australia Has Wheat for Allies;
"Ships to Move It, "Urgent Cry
(By AsaocUted Pre.)
Washington, Feb. 3. Millions ot
bushels of wheat are available in Aus
tralia to feed the armies of the allies
if only ships can.be obtained, Craw
ford Vaughn, former premier - of
South Australia, today told 28 state
directors of the public service reserve,
who are aiding the campaign 'to en
roll workers for ship building.
"The prime- need of the' allies is
ships," Mr. Vaughn said. "There are
today 300,000,000 bushels of wheat in
my country waiting for tonnage. The
workmen in the yards of . America
must realize that every time they
slacken up or take time 'off, the ef
'feet lsJusf 'thearrie"as-'if rretr.?rtii-
FIVE KILLED AT
EL PASO; MEXICAN
GOES 0 WAGE
Troops Use Dynamite to Dis
lodge Murderer From Refuge
After Brutal Killing; Hun dreds
of Shots Fired.
El Paso, Feb. o. After withstand
ing a siege by more than 100 city and
military policemen, Felipe Alvarrez,
who late last night shot and danger
ously wounded Mrs. Trinidad Lucero,
killed her two small children, a police
man and a civilian who sought to cap
ture him, was dislodged from his
refuge in an outhouse in the densely
populated Mexican quarter at 3
o clock this morning by a charge of
dynamite.
Four charges of dynamite were ex
ploded before the building was wreck
ed and Alvarrez's body hurled high
into the air.
Examination of his body disclosed
that he had received six bullet wounds
from the policemen and soldiers who
exchanged hundreds of shots with
the fugitive. -
Killed:
JUAN GARCIA, deputy city tax
collector.
OCTAVIANO PEREA, policeman.
SALVADOR LUCERO, aged 3.
ALFREDO LUCERO, aged 2.
FELIPE ALVARREZ.
. Dangerously wounded:
Mrs. Trinidad Lucero.
Stride in Germany .
Waning Under Iron
i Rule of Military
(Continued from I'asa One.) '
was to have been resumed at Kiel on
Saturday. , . .
Countries contiguous to .Germany
are threatened with labor troubles.
Holland is preparing to cope with a
general strike to be called in Amster
dam on Monday and a cloud of diffi
culties with the industrial elements
appears to be hanging oyer Switzer
land. , , !
Incite Disturbances.
Copenhagen, Feb. 3.-i-A copy of a
pamphlet issued by the independent
socialists, which has reached Copen
hagen shows that the strike in Ger
many was prepared by them. The
pamphlet points-out that, the pan
Germans' have brought the peace
negotiations and the future of Ger
many into great danger.
Admiral von Tirpitz, leader of the
Fatherland tarty, after an interview
with the imperial chancellor declared
that he was satiaf ed with the govern
ment's plans concerning the east
Such a declaration, says the pamphlet.
iroves that the government is in col
usion with the advocates of violence
and just at this moment the Reich
stag, the only place where the an
nexationist policy could be attacked,
is closed and other means of criti
cism made impossible b the govern
ment. ' ' " '' f - '
; . Appeal to Worker. : .- ;
;.Our: press is gagged, die com
ratjes are imprisoned, and i e fac
tories toka stil' greater extent are
materialized," continues the pamph:
let. "Men and women of tht work
ing classes, there is no time to lose
After the hcrrors and horrible suf
fering we have undergone, a new and
frightful disaster threatens our peo
pleyes, even the whole of humanity.
"Only a peace without indemnities
and annexations csn save us, and the
hour has come v hen you .mtst raise
your voice for such a peace. At this
moment the German people must by
means of powerful demonstrations
manifest its will to finish the war."
The pamphlet ia signed by F.Hourad
Bernstein, Hugo Haase, Wilhelm
Dittman, Georg Ledebour and other
leaders. '"
Arrest Strike Leaders.
Amsterdam, Feb. 3. A Munich
dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeitung
says that several strike leaders have
been arrested there, including the
writer, Kurt Eisner, and Frau Sarah
Lerch. The troc, s prevented a dem
onstration which was attempted be
fore Wittelsbach palace, where the
king resides.
Tumultuous scenes occurrc' at so-:
cialist meetings. The general situa
tion is tittle changed.
The Rhenishe Westfalische Zeitung
publishes a Munster dispatch dated
February."!, reproducing a, proclama
tion issued by the deputy command
ing general in which he says:
"Germany is face to face with her
hour of destiny. Her enemies have
abandoned hope of victory by arms
and are now trying to sow dissension
in our ranks. A propaganda on a
large scale, supported by the ideas of
the Russian revolution, has . resulted
in some sections of the population
following, the enticements of irrespon
sible agitators. They do not realize
that they are committing shameful
treason against the fatherland,
i Warns the People.
' "I raise "my warning voice and ask
you to consider what will happen if
our front begins to totter. Foreign
countries " are already rejoicing at
their success, observing 'with malici
ous gfee our-German Michael again
walking into a trap. That must not,
continue.
"Political resistance must and will,
in all circumstances, be smashed. Ger
many rryist not experience such con
ditions as the Russian revolution pro-
lery in France stopped the barrage
fire during a charge."
Louis F.- Post, assistant secretary
of labor, sent a reassuring message to
the states represented by the -direr-tors
that the voluntary recruits for in
dustrial war service - will be with
drawn f om their present positions in
such a way as to disturb manufactur
ing conditions as little as possible.
. "Tell -.your'jpeople," he said, "that
the ..war depends on ships and the
ships '.'depend on men. The part
America will play in this war will de
pend on -the ,'respopse to this tall for
ship buijders." : , . .
The campaignhas two weeks; more
o ryn'-and from preliminary reports
it is expected the gpal of 250,000 men
enrolled Via be more tnan reacnea.
Germans Grossly Exaggerate
Toll of Ruthless Sub Warfare
(By Associated Press.)
London, Feb. 3.The German newspapers claim, that in the first year
of the unrestricted submarine warfare 9,000,000 tons of allied and neutral
shipping were sunk and that only 4,000,000 tons have been built to offset
them.
As showing how unreliable is the information which the German au
thorities give out,- The Associated Press is authorized to state that the
claim put, forward exaggerates the actual tonnage lost by more than 50
per cent ' The total net loss of the world's ocean-going tonnage since the
outbreak of the war, including the losses by marine risk as well a; by
enemy action arid allowing for enemy tonnage captured, amounts to less
than 3,000,000 tons, or, roughly, 9 per cent of the tonnage available at the
outbreak of the war. '
duced. Let every one help to termi
nate the 'shameful spectacle of a
strike, denounce the mischevious agi
tators and bring the'm to their de
served punishment."
Confer With Government.
Telegrams from Berlin reaching the
Dutch press says the discussions be
tween the government and socialist
deputies who are- members of the
strike -committee were resumed today.
It is expected that the conference
in which r riedrich von Payer, the im
perial vice chancellor, is participating
will attain good results. The inde
pendent socialists are not taking part,
having demanded that direct repre
sentatives of the strikers also shall
be heard.
According to a dispatch from Es
sen, 12 per cent of the workmen are
on strike today. In Rhenish West
phalia the number of strikers in the
coal district is constantly decreasing
According to the Fremdenblatt of
Hamburg a strike has commenced in
all the large industrial works in Lu
beck. Reichstag Threatened.
Stockholm, Feb. 3.Reports re
ceived here from Berlin indicate that
the strike has reached its high water
mark and now is beginning to recede.
The majority socialists appear to
have been half-hearted in the move
ment from the beginning and the
strike has been strongly opposed by
tne Catholic trades unions and by the
Hirsch Duncker union, which is the
largest non-socialist trades union in
Germany.
Another factor against the success
of the strike has been the opposition
'from the non-socialist parties in the
Reichstag majority bloc. The Frei
sinnige Zeitung, apparently speaking
with authority, declares that the pro
gressive party will have -nothing to
do with this new tendency in the so
cialist party and that the socialists
alone must accept the consequences
of their actions, A notice of the same
import has been given by the national
liberals and the clericals, and the so
cialists today clearly are face to face
with the prospect that if the strike
continues she Reichstag bloc will be
disrupted and the government will be
disposed to leave theocialists out of
its councils.
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G0RGASSAYSN0
LACK OF NURSES
AT ARMY CAMPS
Washington, Feb. 3.Surgeon Gen
eral Gorgas reported to Secretary
Baker'yesterday that as a result-o.,the
special campaign for the enlistment of
army nurses the deficiency- in that
branch has been made up.
Instances in which soldiers in camp
hospitals have had to endure unneces
sary discomforts have been traced in
nearly every case to the fact that the
War department had failed in its ef
forts to obtain enough-trained nurses
and hospital attendants to permit the
assignment of an adequate number to
each camp.
General Gorgas has recommended
additional buildings at the ca.nps- for
housing the nurses. In the meantime
the general has been authorized tf
find for this purpose "hostess houses,'
Young Men's : Christian assoriatim
structures or other such-accommodations
as may be avail-hie.
Dana Hall at Harvard
.University Burns Sunday
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 3. Dma'
hajl One of the oldest buildings of 1
the quadrangle in the Harvard yard,
was . burned today. Thirty thousand
rounds of ammunition in the base
ment was removed by men of, the
naval radio and ensigns' school under
the oirection of their officers. Val
uable records belonging to the uni
versity and the government schools
al?o were saved!
The fire started in the basement
near the furnace, apparently had
worked its way upward inside the
walls and was bursting Jhrough the
roof when it was discovered by a naval
officer. With handkerchiefs tied ovc
their noses, the sailors groped their
way to the shell boxes and brought
them all out.
Notable Happenings in
West Ambler District
A son was born last week to Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Pease on Forty-ninth
avenue.
The West Side Women's Christian
Temperance union will hold no meet
ine on Thursdav and all members are
urged to attend at the Red Cros
headquarters to make surgical dress-,
n?s. J' . '.. . . .
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. ueiacn
who were recently married, left Oma
ha Mondav for Philadelphia, when?
thev will remain for a month. Be-'
fore her marriage Mrs oeiacn was
Miss Isabel Schrader.
Pioneer Educator Dead.
Boone," la., Feb. 3. (Special Tele
gram.) Prof. . N. E. Goldthwair.
pioneer educator, publisher, agricul
turist, and father of Editor S. G.
Goldthwait,' president of the Iowa
Press association, died this morning.
He was 90 years old. He held the
chair of mathematics in Des Moines
college for years.
Hotel Dyckman
Minneapolis
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Pros, and Manafor
CAMOUFLAGED
FOOD DISLIKED
INKAISERLAND
Amsterdam,. Feb, 3. The almost
complete lack of nourishment in
many of the food "substitutes" now
being sold in Germany is arousing a
storm of warning from Oerman
scientist, who declare that gover
ment supervision of the whole, sub
stitute food traffic is an "immediate
necessity. Professor Juckenack of
the University of Berlin,' writing in
the Vossische Zeitung, says:
"It is useless any ionger to hide
the truth. ., Unless the , government
actively intervenes to put some con
trol over the flood of substitute foods
with which we are overwhelmed, the
end of the war will also see the end
of a third of .Germany's population.
Moreover, the remaining two-thirds
will be so enfeebled from malnutri
tion that, they will be unable to per
form the immense tasks of recupera
tion and restoration. -
"The devil alone knows what are
the ingredients of thousands of these
wretched substitutes that already do
duty for butter and eggs, oil and milk,
flour and spirits, meat and broth, cof
fee and sugar, tobacco and tea, fish
and sausage, cheese and caviar, and
so on without end..
"The latest products of the in
genious substitute-mongers are really
too terrible to be tolerated. A prcpara
tion of crude kerosene is now being
largely sold as frying oil, and 800
cases of serious illness together with
nine deaths have been traced to its
use in Berlin alone. A preparafion
called 'goose dripping' is prepared
from dog's fat; egg substitute form
a mixture of chalk and baking pow
der; caviar from fish scales, and bread
from straw. What people, no matter
how. patriotic, can hold out on such
fare?" .
49 Dead and 206 Hurt
In Recent Raid on Paris
Paris, Feb. 3. It was officially an
nounced today that the total number
of deaths resulting from the recent
pirplane raid of the Germans was 49,
and the total wounded 206.
M. Raux, prefect of police, in giv
ing these figures to The Associated
Press took cognizance of rumors that
I the administration was concealing the
anuai jiuuiuci ui igsueiitca.
He declared the foregoing totals of
dead and the wounded may be abso
lutely relied on.
t London, Feb. Zi The total. casualr
ties in Monday-night's air raid on
England, according to an .official an
nouncement tonight were: Killed, 58;
injured 173. . - j
In Tuesdays raid the total failed
numbered 10,. atld the injured num-.
bered 10.
Lt. Com. Titus, U. S. N.,
Dies by His Own Hand
New York, Feb. 3. Lieutenant
Commander Reuben Titus, U. S. N
reserves, died in the marine hospital
on Statenn' island today from a bullet
wound in the head, self inflicted a few
hours before at his home. His wife
told the police that she knew of no
reason for the act, but that the of
ficer had spent much time lately work
ing -on some sort of invention. He
commanded a small naval vessel.
Renewing- Blown Fuse,
. Many a lineman who has not taken th?
trouble to put on his. rubber gloves has been
severely burned while renewing- a fuse that
has "blown." A new "safety-first" fuse box,
however, makes lt possible for the most care
less lineman to perform his task in safety.
The fuse proper is clipped on the cover
of the fuse box. When the lineman opens
the doqr, therefore .the fuse swings back
with the cover and automatically disconnects
Itself from the dangerous spring contacts
on the back of th box. The Inspector re
move the defective fuse and puts a good
one in Its pkaoe without golnir near those
-live" spring contacts. The fuse and its
parts are very similar to those ordinarily
used and are operated automatically, with
out opportunity to nt-oduce a shock. Popu
lar Science. ' .
Give Warning- to the Dark. .
Perhaps the simplest of all devices for
protecting people . from taking doses from
poison bottles by mistake, is the sandpaper
label. The actual label with Its usual skull
and croasbone Is pasted on a piece of sand
paper large enough to go all around the
bottle, so that when you take up the bottle
in the night, no matter how daaed from sleep
yda may be, the rough unfamiliar feel of
the sandpaper rouses you, and you recognise
at once that tho bottle contain poison ot
some description. ' The printed label will
tell the kind. Popular Science.
"ENDS THE QUEST FOR THE BEST TT
Holiday .branP
NUT
Many claim it is
'Better
We claim it it Eaua.1 to
The Best
Butter t
,NOT A DECEPTION ,
BUT A. REVELATION!
TRY A POUND TODAY
Th U. Si Revenue Law re
quires branding this packsg
'Oleomargarine," but It is
not oleomargarine. There la
no oleo or other animal fata
used in th making; of this
splendid, product.
IE
TWO AMERICANS
KILLED, 6 HURT,
SAYSJERSHING
Report Probably Includes Men
Who Fell Before German Raid
on U. S. Trenches Wednes
day Morning.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Feb. 3. Two A:ner
can soldiers were killed in action and
four others wounded January 30, the
War department was advised today by
General Pershing.
Although no details were given, h
is assumed that these were the men
who fell when the Germans raided a
sector of the American trenches
under cover of a barrage fire early
last Wednesday morning. The dead
are: '
CORPORAL ERWIN MARCH,
infantry, Slayton, Minn.
PRIVATE GEORGE A. RAUH,
infantry, New York.
The wounded are:
Privates John Theron Parks, in
faotry, Obion, Tenn.; Raymond J.
Gillett, infantry, Minot, N. D.; Clar
ence King, infantry, Toledo, O., and
Clarence A. Larson, infantry, Tun
bridge, N. D.
General Pershing also reported that
Private Herbert C Minniear, medi
cal detachment of infantry, was slight
ly wounded in action January 28 and
Harvey Dilley, infantry, slightly
wounded January 31. Minniear's home
is in Bluffton, Ind., and Dilley's in
Cole Harbor, N. D.
Order Arrest of All
. I. W. W.'s in, Kansas City
Kansas City, Feb. 3. Orders for
the arrest of every Industrial Worker
of the World in Kansas City as soon
as his identity is established were is
sued tonight by the chief of police.
Five men wearing I. W. W. buttons
were arrested ir a saloon last night.
The five are said to be an advance
guard of the organization espousing
"workless" days. They are held for
investigation.
Japs to Study U. S. ,
History and Diplomacy
York, Feb. 3.A. Barton
Hepburn, New Y6rk, has made a gift
said to amount to $125,000 to the im
perial University of Tokio for the
foundation andiendowment of a chair
in the study of the constitution, his
tory and diplomacy of the United
States.
TEETH
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- in advanced, high grad dental serv
ice. ' : : : - i . .. J
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Dandruff Soon
Ruins The Hair
Girls if you want plenty of thick,
beautiful, glossy, silky hair, do by all
means' get rid of dandruff, for it will r
starve your hair and ruin it if you
don't.
It doesn't do much good to try to
brush or wash it out. The only sure
way to get rid of, dandruff is to dis
solve it, then you destroy it entirely.
To do this, get about four ounces of
ordinary liquid arvon; apply it at
night when retiring; use enough to
moisten the scalp and rub it in gent
ly with the finger tips.
By morning, most if not all, of your
dandruff will be gone, and three or
four more applications will completely
dissolve and entirely destroy every
single sign and trace of it. , j
You will find, too, that all itching
and digging of the scalp will stop,
and your hair will look and feel a
hundred times better. You can get
liquid arvon at any drug store. It is
inexpensive and four ounces is all
you will need, no matter how much
dandruff you have. This simple rem
edy never fails. Advertisement.
- BUTTER
THE HOMES OF THE
THRIFTY
ARE USERS OF
This Butter
SUBSTITUTE
' Are you one of the thrifty
thousands?
- You can save 35 to 40 per
cent by using
Holiday Nutmargarine
as a butter replacement with
out sacrificing any -in quality,
nutriment, flavor or color. This
Nut-Butter is made by the
Northern Cocoanut Butter Co.,
and having a phenomenal sale
because it is so good really
superior to most butter in the
test of taste, flavor and aroma.
BE THRIFTY!
SAVEI
USE "HOLIDAY BRAND"
Sold by All Dealer 'n Pare 1
Food Products.'
U. S. Food Administration License
Np. G-13775.-
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