THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. AUGUST 13. 1921.
6
Revision of Tax
Laws Completed
In Conference
Several Additional Changes
Made in Measure by Repub
lican Members of Ways
And Means Committee.
By Tbe Associated Irm.
'ashingtofi, Aug. 14. Revision of
the 1918 tax law was completed to
day by republican members of the
,iouse ways and means committer,
with the adoption of these, addition
al changes.
'Repeal of the express and oil pipe
line transportation taxes, effective
January 1. 1922.
Imposition of a license tax of $10
on venders of soft drinks effective
i upon enactment of tire bill.
Substitution of a manufacturers'
tax, of 12 cents a gallon , on cereal
beverages (near beer) for the pres
ent levy of IS per cent, effective up
on enactment of the bill.
Imposition of a 5 per cent tax on
the full manufacturers' selling price
of the following articles, if sold by
the manufacturers at levels in ex
cess of those specified:
Carpets and rugs, $3.50 per square
yard; trunks, $30 each; yalises, trav
eling bags, suitcases, hat boxes used
by travelers and fitted toilet cases,
$15 each; purses, pocketbooks, shop
ping and handbags, $4 each; port
able , lighting " fixtures, including
lamps of all kinds and shades, $10
each;, fans, $1 each, and house or
smoking coats or jackets and bath
or lounging robes, $5 each.
Will Cover Shortage.
These taxes also would become
effective upon enactment of the bill.
, Announcing comDletion . of their
paid they believed the bill as agreed
tipon would produce the $3,000,000,
,000 total which Secretary Mellon es-
timated at the White House tax
i conference last Tuesday it would be
necessary to raise from internal rev
enue next year. Not all of this sum
would be collected on this year's
business, however, as the total in
cludes $300,000,000, which treasury
officials estimate can be collected on
back taxes
The bill,' as finally drafted by the
committee, will be presented to the
"" house Monday, under present plans
of republican leaders, and will be
passed next Saturday. From the
house it will go to the senate, where
the finance committee will consider
it during the proposed congressional
recess, with a view to reporting it to
the senate when congress recon
venes, probably late in September.
f Retain Phone Tax.
) With the removal of the express
anH oil nin lines taxes, the com
mittee eliminated all of the transpor
tation taxes. No change was made,
however, in the levies of telegraph,
telephone, cable and radio messages,
this section of the old law remaining
in force.
The manufacturers' tax of 5 per
cent on carpets, trunks and other
articles is designed to replace the so-J
called luxury levies now in toice, in
cluding those on wearing apparel,
but the olan now is to continue these
ttxes. collected and paid to the gov-
. t
1 CTTilllCIll UY IMC
uary 1 despite the fact that the man
ufacturers' tax would become effec
tive upon enactment of the bill.
The licenses tax on venders of
soft drinks is a new levy exclusive
of the manufacturers' tax on syrups
used at fountains and on unfermented
beverages, carbonated waters or other
soft drinks sold in containers.
Soft Coal Production
Continues to Slump
Chiracs Trtms-Omah Bm Leased Wire.
Washington, Aug. 14. Produc
tion of bituminous coal continued to
decline during the week ended Au
gust 6, according to the weekly re
port of the geological survey. The
total output for the first week in
August was 7.296,000 tons, a de
crease of 56,000 tons from the pre
vious week. In the corresponding
week of 1918 the total was 12,130,000
tons and a year ago it was 10,432,000
tons. " . ,
Disputes between operators and
mine workers, resulting in the clos
ing of several collieries-, were the im
n4; 3i of a sharo decrease
in the production of anthracite dur
ing me nrsi wcck m nuu.
total output was estimated at
i toi nno rnns. which was a decrease
of 273,000 tons, or IS per cent from
the week ended July ii, wtucii was
the latest week unaffected by labor
in
others Pension Bill
Mav Be Passed in Illinois
Hinsdale. 111., Aug. .M.-A bill
drafted and fathered by Judge nenry
v..t t citv. "father of the
mother's pension" system, has just
been passed by tne tower nousc o
the Illinois legislature and is on final
passage, without oppisition in the
It provide! pensions for mothers
of dependent children, when the fath
er is imprisoned over a year or more.
This law authorizes the juvenile
courts to pay such motners oo a
month for the first child and $15 per
month for each additional child un
der 14 years of age. A special tax
OI r IV a jimi 19 n uc kiu iru
All pU;c( V7 ivf V v mi. m iiivi.iv.a
nrnxMHi fund, out of -which the
nn'mn nrnsinns are to be fiaid.
This fund, in : Cook county (in
cluding Chicago, 111.), would amount
to $750,Q0O a year.
$6 a Month Rent for House
Stuns. Purchaser, of Paper
' St. . Louis. Mo.. Aug. . 14. Rent
gougers don't flourish at Linn. Osage
county, Missouri The residents of
that quiet little town, far removed
from the rumble of speeding railroad
trains; have never had occasion to
become vexed at the high cost of
living, according to A. C. McKibbin,
director of oublicitv for the republic
an , state committee.
- "I bought a weekly paper at Linn,
says McKibbin; "and the citizens
asked me if I didn't want to rent a
house a handsome new cottage.near
my office. ......
"The rental agent said it would he
$6 a month when. I asked the price!"
Chief Dempsey and
Aides Show Bravery
Under Movie Fire
"Now chief, turn jour head a little
to the left talk to your side-kicks
show ' a little action amile, smile,
SMILE like you're goin' to appoint
50 more coppers ah, that's it. chief,
show those Teddy Roosevelt mo
lars." It was.H. F. Chenoweth, head of
the Chenoweth Film company, direct
ing Chief of Police Dempsey in a lit
tle movie Saturday, entitled, "Chief,
You're a Wonder."
Chief Dempsey made his debut in
the movies in front of Central pol;ce
station with Inspector of Police An
drew Pattullo and Chief of Detectives
Charles Van Deusen. It was the first
lime this trio of Omaha police vet-,
crans had appeared before a movie
camera. The film will be shown at
a local theater all this week.
Atfempts Suicide
Because Wife Left
Despondent Over Separation
And Nonemployment, Luth
er Blevins Inhales Gas.
Worrying over lack of employ
ment and despondent because his
wife left him about two weeks ago,
Luther. Vance Blevins, 4507 South
Twenty-sixth street, attempted sui
cide Saturday afternoon at attaching
a rubber tube to a gas jet, placing
one end in his mouth and then turn
ing on the gas. ' .;
He was found later," lying uncon
scious on the bedroom floor by E.
F. Sallander, 2311 North Sixteenth
street, who had gone to the Blevins
apartments to collect rent that was
two months overdue. .
Police Surgeon Young of the Sout"
Side station was called and had
Blevins removed to St. Joseph hos
pital. For a time he was in a serious
condition, but early this morning at
tending physicians said he would re
cover. . .
Blevins, neighbors said. had
worked for his father-in-law, Eugene
Conklin, 5608 South' Fifty-third
street, making cement blocks, but
he had given up that job and had
been idle.
The following note expressing his
love for his wife and his little daugh
ter was found in the room in which
Blevins attempted to commit Miicide:
heart. You have broken my heart.
"Helen Blevins: Good-bye
Sweetheart. You have broken my
heart. I know I have done wrong,
but it's too late now. You don't
love me any more. Dear, I love
you and little Virginia, but I can't
live without you so good-bye,
God bless you. Maybe we will
meet in another world. Luther."
Engineer Suggests
Subways 400 Feet Deep
To Serve New York City
Chirac Trtbtuia-Omaha Bm laaatd Win.
New York, Aug. 14. Rapid
if,n; t;n 400 fret beneath the
surface of the city, and with trains
running straight as the bee mes to
all points, at . a speea 01 w. mues
an hour are suggested by Reginald
Pelham Bolton, a consulting engi
neer, who is developing his plan to
submit to the transit commission.
The present subways, he explained,
with their curves and irregularities,
could be used as thoroughfares tor
-hirta and nedestrians. and he
pointed out that they w6uld splen
didly serve these purposes lor.xney
would be cool in summer and shel
tered in winter.
Mr. Bolton plans elevators to
carry passengers and from the deep
at th rat of 700 feet a min
ute.. Subways 400 feet deep would
be able to travel straight in any di
rection because there w-ouia oe no
obstacles to overcome.
Canada's Remarkable Growth
Is Shown by Statistics
On.,,..., Ant Aitor 14. Banks in
Canada at the confederation of the
provinces in 1867 numbered lfJ, ac
-A a rnmrvtrativ statistics re
wi"B -- - f
leased by the government showing
the development 01 me uuiuuuuu,
and "had increased in 1920 to 4,500.
r-4a' raitriart mileasre was
2,288 and had increased 38,896
last year. .Not a single grain eic
r.r wa in Canada in 1867. while
i 707 tnrlav. In 1867 it "was
generally believed that wheat grow
ing on tne western prairies was im
possible. For the last 10 years the
three prairie provinces have won the
annual wheat championship of the
North American continent. For five
years they have held the interna
tional championship for oats.
$3,000 Asked by Man
. Bitten by Airedale Dog
West Frankfort, 111., Aug. ,14. A
leg's a leg for a' that whether it be
the graceful limb of femininity or the
strong but unattractive male mem
ber. ... '" .'.
So thinks Samuel D. Ashby, who,
while not claiming the impairment
of any beauty, is suing Louis Malan
drone and four ethers for $5,000 for
the bite of one female Airedale .dog
on the leg of the plaintiff, from
which the latter became "sick, sore,
lame and disordered, and remained
so for a long space of time."
Steamships
Arrival.
New Torlr, An. II. Pri, Havre; Al
banian. Liverpool: Taormlna. Naplei;
Xbordman,. Rotterdam; Manchuria,. Hara-
. Palmero. Aur- . I. Providence, So
ton. . -
London. Auf. 12. Saxonia. Xew Torfc.
New York, Aoc IS. Robin Ooodfellow,
San Francisco. . -
6hanhal, Aur. 10. Africa Wafu, Ta
coma. ..--
Kobe, Aur ' 10. Waet Caddobin, Ban
Francieco.
Hsnrkonr, Aox. 11. Silver States, Baa
Francisco. ...
Queenetova, ' Aur. IS. Bendoran,. Port
land, Ore.- . .
Vapartare. .
Yokohama, Aug. 10. Croei Keyi. Seat
tle. ' - ' '
Kew York. Aoe IS. Olympic, South
ampton; Orbita, Southampton, and Hamburg-;
Tanta. AllthlerV Naples; Lao XIII,
Cadis; Martinla. Liverpool;' Lasovia,
Havre. Columbia. Glasgow; Kleuw. .
Amsterdam, Rotterdam; Kroonland.
Antwerp.
- Southampton, Auf." II. Finland, New
York. ,
' Q'rtenst own, Auf.- l. America, ' New
York. . , . -, . . . .
- Qlasjow,. Auf.. IS. :amronla, . JeW
Yerk. '.
Rail Labor Board
To Announce New
Rules This Week
Motion of Union Representa
tives to Extend Old Working
Agreements Refused Fur
ther Hearings Denied..
Chirac Trlbane-OBialis Be Leased Wire.
Chicago, Aug. 14. The first of
new rules governing working con
ditions of railways of the country,
to replace the national agreements
esablished during federal control,
will be laid down by the United
States railroad labor board early
this week, it was announced today.
Just before making this announce
ment, the board rendered a decision
defeating an effort of union repre
sentatives to extend the period dur
ing which the national agreements
are to remain in' force. This decision
denied all applications for further
hearings on separate disputes involv
ing working rules. ' i
The substitute rules now to be
prescribed by the labor board will
apply on such roads as have not
reached agreements with their em
ployes. Reports indicate few if any,
roads have been able to "get to
gether" with their employes on a
complete new working code.
Following public hearings extend
ing over many weeks last winter
and at which' both sides introduced
rvn1iiminrn! ' tiinnnv. the railroad
labor board, on April 14, decided
that the national agreement against
which the railroad executives had
protested should terminate July 1,
1922.
The same decision directed rail of
ficials and employes' representatives
to meet in conference at which sub
stitute rules might be agreed upon.
V'tn nn Tntv 11. lew agreements
had been reported, and the board had
been unable to prescribe new rules,
the labor board indefinitely ex
tended operation of. the national
agreements.
The employes' representatives were
heard this week in protest iigainst
the proposal to establish the piece
work system in railway shops. A
decision, will be rendered later.
Bury Dn McKibbin Today
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 14. Funeral
services for the late Dr. J. W. Mc
Kibbin, pioneer of Adams, were
held Sundav afternoon at 3 under
the auspieces of the Masonic lodge.
Burial was in Adams cemetery. A
number of chvsicians and members
of the Masonic order in this city
attended the funeral. .
Let Fatima smokers tell you
Ask than at the Resorts
In the ozone of the seashore or
the bracing coolness of mountain
air, this smoothly balanced blend
seems to taste better than ever.
For certain it is that at many of
the nation's best-known playgrounds
Jjoort It Mtem Tobacco Co.
Tony Hauled It In
Toy Wagon But Sly
Sleuths Arc on Job
Liquor has been transported illegal
ly in many ways since the Volstead
net went into effect but it remained
for Tony Bartow. 2204 Toppleton
street, to find a new method.
. Tony was arrested Saturday after
noon at Twenty-second and Mason.
He was transporting six gallons of
"dago red" covered over with sacks
in a toy wagon.
Detectives Buford, Treglia and
Murphy arrested Tony and charged
him with illegal possession of liquor.
Legion to Explain
Drawing of Land
Ex-Service Mfn Interested in
Obtaining Homestead 'In
. vitcd to Meeting.
Adjutant Hough of the Douglas
county American Legion post has
called a meeting for ex-service men
who are interested in the land draw
ing in Goshen county, Wyoming,
known as a part of the North Platte
project. The meeting is to be held
Friday evening at 8 in Legion head
quarters. Hough has maps of the locality
which he will distribute. W. J. Mar
tin, chief clerk in the agriculture de
partment of the Union Pacific rail
road, and who has been over all the
land to be thrown open, vill speak,
as will J. VY. Cobbey, a Legion man
who drew a piece of land in Wyo
ming last year. (
Two hundred 80-acre tracts are to
be distributed among ex-service men
by lottery. Through the efforts of
Robert Simmons, state Legion com
mander, the required first payment
has been reduced to $150. Ad
jutant Hough says arrangements
may be made so that it will not be
necessary to.go to Wyoming to ap
ply for land.
Subscription Is Started to
v Salvage Racing Schooner
Gloucester, .Mass., Aug. 14. The
return of the steamship Fabia to
Sable Island to again attempt the
raising of the racing schooner Es
peranto was assured when a sub
scription was started to finance the
second expedition. Following a
meeting in the Chamber of Com
merce, when the first pledge was
made by A. B. Sadger, head of the
s&lvage concern which made the
first attempt, collections were begun,
and it is believed the Fabia will be
under way Friday.
iJf-
CIGARETTES
TWENTY Jor Q
-but taste
Aldermen File
Suit to Reduce
Expenditures
Action Started to Prevent
Spending $3,250,000 in Chi
cago Without Order From
Citv Council.
Chiracs Trlbona-Omaha. Pre l.ajd Wire.
Chicago, Aug. 14. Suit was filed
in the circuit court today by three
aldermen to thwart on alleged at
tempt on the part of city officials
to spend more than $5,250,000 in
1921 without the specific order of
the city council.
A large part of the huge sum will
be handed' over to traction, building
and real' experts unless the court
acts to prevent it, declares the peti
tion, which was filed by Aldermen
Schwartz, Guernsey and Woodhull,
the aldermanic committee 'investi
gating the expert fee scandal.
Here is what the petition says
about the defendants City Con
troller Harding, City Treasurer
Smith and the municipal corporation
itself:
"The defendants have, at times
past, ' illegally. wrongfully and
fraudulently disbursed moneys be
longing to the city of Chicago from
appropriations similar to those con
tained in the 1921 appropriations
ordinance, as hereinabove listed, and
that,
"Without regard to the legality of
payments, it is their intention to con
tinue the prosecution of their nefari
ous scheme to mulct the revenues
of the city of Chicago and of the
taxpayers thereof of enormous
sums of money illegally and with
out warrant of law; -
"That their actions in so doing
are pursuant to a wicked conspiracy
entered into between themselves and
other officials of the city of Chi
cago to deliver the revenues of the
city illegally and fraudulently;
"That in the prosecution of said
conspiracy, said defendants have
been aided and abetted and are now
being aided and abetted by the cor
poration counsel and other admin
istrative officials of the city of
Chicago."
Dies at Goodland
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 14. The body
of George Schneider, who was killed
in action overseas, arrived at Ply
mouth last night, and funeral services
were held Sunday morning at 10
from the Lutheran church at Ply
mouth. The American Legion was
in charge.
TIM
Bluffs Man Shoots
Thieves He Catches
Stealing His Auto
Arthur Montgomery, guest at 'the
home of J. W. Kelly, 702 Perrin
avenue, saved his automobile from
bting stolen carlv Saturday morn-1
ing and is quite confident he planted
a bullet in the shoulder of one of
the thieves.
The Kelly car occupied the gara.ee
and Montgomery had left his vehicle
in the driveway, protected by a
locked steering wheel. At 3 a. ni.
he was awakened by a noise and,
looking out of the window, taw hi3
car in the middle of the street with
two men trying to break the lock.
He had an automatic v'stl in his
hand and opened fire. He saw on?
of the men clap his hand upon his
shoulder and stagger. away, follow
ing the other, who was running. The
thieves had "jimmied" the steering
apparatus so badly that it took an
hour to get the car out of the street.
Thieves broke into the harness
shop of Charles D. Walters, 154
West Broadway, Friday nighty and
found $15 in the cash drawer. Noth
ing else was taken. They got into
the store by breaking a rear win
dow. Police detectives said it
looked like a boy's job.
Trial of Two Men
On Murder Charge
Begins at Atlantic
Atlantic, la., Aug. 14. Trial of
Arthur and Ben Hickman, charged
with the murder of Bert 1'atton, a
deputy sheriff of Page county, on
February 12, 1921, is scheduled to be
gin here Monday morning in the
Cass county court.
The Hickmans. who are brothers,
are charged with murder in the first
decree. Tatton was shot just as he
had stepped from a train on the Wa
bash railroad at Bingham in . Page
county, where he went to arrest the
Hickmans on a charge of holding ip
a dice game at Shenandoah on the
night preceding. It is charged that
the Hickmans were hiding behind a
pile of railroad ties when Fatton
was shot.
On agreement of attorneys for the
state and defense the case was trans
ferred to Cass county. Judge George
W. Cullison of Harlan will be on the
bench when the case is tried.
Two of the 2o names drawn for
the special venire to hear the trial
are those of women. They are
Mary Wasson of Atlantic and Mary
E. Anstey of Massena. Should they
be selected for the jury they will be
the first women to sit on a murder
trial in Cass county.
Federal Judge
Signs Order for
Brictson Audit
Hearing on Petition for Re
ceiver to Be Resumed Friday;
President Says He Can
Aeeouut for All Fund9.
Federal Judge Woodrough signed
an order late Saturday permitting
a-i audit of the Brictson Manufac
turing coninanv's books to be made.
The audit was asked by a com
mittee of stockholders, who met
yesterday afternoon at the offices
of their attorney, F. A. Mulfinger.
Hearing of the petition of stock
holders for a receiver for the com
pany will be resumed in federal
court next Friday. Yesterday O. A.
Bricston, president of the company,
haled into court by an order cf
Judge . Woodrough cn petition of
the stockholders, declared he "Can
account for every dollar and every
postage stamp"- used in transaction
of the business.
He. told how he had started with
cue employe in a barn in his former
home, Brookings, S. D., manufac
turing the "Brictson tread" automo
bile tire, and described how the
business grew to a $10,000,000 cor
poration. rHOTOPI.AYS.
Now Till Wednesday
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A play of
'7 Witts"
"1 Wont's"
7 Cant's"
All th wives are
belles and all the
poor old hutbandi
merely dumbells. '
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