TUG BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1921.
Senate May Amend
Repeal of Excess
Taxtojan.1,1921
Sentiment to Make Action of
House Retroactive to Fin
Of Year Other
Change Planned.
Washington? Sept. 7. iliat ti
JCiuto will utrnil the hou rev
rune Lill to make retroactive to Jan
tiary I, VM, the repeal of the ex
cr profit Ux and the bracket! (or
the individual income surtax abov
S2 per cent was indicated in a tate
mcnt by .Senator 1'cnrose. chairman
of the the senate lutance committee,
. Following study of the tax ached'
ii le by the senate committee, sen
ator fYiirose made this atatement
"There ia a strong impression that
this committee will favor the repeal
of the excess profits tax and the
higher brackets of the surtax as
of January 1, 1921. Our information
it that the secretary of the treasury
will recommend this and there is
a strong impression that the people
were promised that this would be
done."
As the tax bill was written by
the house ways and means com
mittee. repeal of these taxes was
made retroactive to January 1, last,
hut by 1 narrow margin, something
like 10 votes, the house republican
caucus overrode the committee and
directed it to amend the bill to post
none the repeal until January 1, 1922.
A very serious phase of the mat
ter is that such repeal would leave
the house bill something like $l,uuu,
000.000 short of providing the rev-
cnue a majority of members of the
senate finance committee believe the
government must have to meet its
obligations during the next year. In
its present form, the house bill will,
i is estimated, produce auout $.i,uw,
' 000 000 from internal taxes.
Resuming work after the Labor
clav recess, the senate committee
continued to study the provisions of
the bill with the assistance ot ur.
T. S. Adams, Treasury department
exoert. This part of the work will
be concluded tomorrow, Senator
l'enrose said, and then on Thurs
day after hearing- Secretary Mellon
the committee expects to be ready
to begin the constructive worlc ot
redrafting the house bill.
Governor to Make Address
At Emancipation . Celebration
Elaborate plans have been made
for emancipation celebration at
Krug park next Monday under the
ausDires of St. Johns Atrican Memo-
(list Episcopal church. The program
includes an antomqbile street parade,
concert by Desduiles band, an ath
letic carnival and an old-fashioned
barbecue. "?.
' Soeakinar exercises will take place
at 4:30 p. m. Gov. S. R. McKelvie
nnd Attorney Eugene J. Marshall of
Chicago will make addresses, bhort
talks also will be given by Bishop
. H. Blanton Parks and Dr. W. W.
l'eebles.y commander of Roosevelt
. post' of the American 'LegionV St.
Johns male quartet will sin'.
Invitations, to attend the celebra
tion have been sent to city commis
sioners and the governors of Ak-Sar-ften.
. .
Governor 'McKelvie will be the
guest of Gould Dietz while ia the
city. '
Fatal Fall of World's Largest Airship
Portland Man Admits Part ,
In Robbery of Beach Resort
Salt Lake City, Sept 7. Harry
Hamilton, "23 who gives his address
as Portland, Ore., but who admits
that he is traveling under, an as
sumed name confessed to the po
lice and newspaper men here that he
was one of a party of five which
Monday night held tip and robbed
more than 100 patrons of a bathing
resort about two miles from the
city. ,. . , , -
The loot of the robbers is' esti
mated at from $1,000 to $1000, and
much jewelry taken from envelopes
deposited with the resort manage
ment.. The police are holding sev
eral other suspects in connection
with the robbery. An effort is be
ing made to connect them with the
holdup of a Union Pacific passenger
tram between this city and Osrden
Tst week. .,'-.
Fuel Alcohol Is Distilled
For Eight Cents a Gallon
Honolulu, Sept.. 7. Due to the
lack of wood fuel available for use in
stoves in its employes' houses, com-
limed with the low market price of
fered for molasses, the Maul' Agricul
tural company, one of the largest
Hawaiian sugar companies, is "mak
ing extensive experiments in the pro
duction of fuel alcohol from mo
lasses, and officials of the company
report that, the experiments are suc
cessful. . -.
Making use of the new type of
still, it is found that about 55 gal
lons of alcohol can be produced per
ton of molasses. At an estimated
price of $4 per ton for molasses, the
cost of fuel alcohol is brought down
to less than 8 cents per gallon.
Syracuse University Co-Eds
Succumb to "Lure of Road"
Syracuse, N. Y., Sept 7.-Two
co-eds of Syracuse university have
responded ttf the "lure of the road."
One of the girls, Winifred Hoyt,
hails from Yonkers, N. Y.; the other,
Marion Clifford, is claimed by New
ark. N.J. .
Both are sorority girls. They re
cently met Beatrice Rollens of New
York City, who, tanned and dressed
in khaki, had "hiked" the highways
for 1,000 miles or . more, and from
her learned the lesson of "the road
and simple life." .. They decided to
try it - '- y - -' :
Arrests Expected Soon -In
Texas Postal Robbery
Texarktna, Tex., Sept 7. Arrests
were expected - in connection with
the robbery of Kansas Chy South
ern northbound mail train No. 2 last
night seven miles south of this city,
the officers claiming to have infor
mation which they consider sufficient
to warrant arrest in the erent they
can locate four well known young
men. Postal officials have not made
an estimate of the loot, but said the
fcoldnp men obtained "everything of
.value in the mail cat-'
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Pershing in Tilt
With Labor Chief
Over Who Won War
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UPPER THE 2K-2 AS IT APPKARl) AN INSTANT AFTER ITS FALL INTO THE HUMBER RIVER. V '
For an instant after striking the water the ZR-2 held the shape shown. Then it began to go to pieces. Buried in the veritable shrouds were
the bodies of the dead and dying. , It can be seen why the efforts of rescuers, who had to tackle such a bulky mass, were not more successful
.The picture shows the ZR-2 immediately before the smoke ot smouldering ana burning wreckage began to surround it ;
CENTER, LEFT TAKING EVERYTHING MOVABLE FROM THE 2R-2 WRECK BEFORE IT WENT TO PIECES. ,
Hardly had the ZR-2 hit the water when it began to break up. Rescuers are shown making frantic efforts to take everything movable, whether
living or dead, from the wreck just before it finally lost all shape. The inset shows captain wann as he lay on his cot in the hospital after the ex
plosion. Captain Wann was in charge of the airship when the wreck occurred. ; , , r. ,
CENTER, RIGHT ONLY AMERICAN SURVIVOR OF ZR-2 WRECK.
Norman Walker of Commerce, Tex., is the only American alive of the 17 who were aboard the ZR-2 on its last voyage. ' ' '
LOWER, LEFT CLAMBER OVER WRECK OF ZR-2 TO FIND TRACE OF SURVIVORS.
Over the still-inflated portions of the fallen gas bag numerous rescue workers crawled. Slowly the gas escaped and the heavier portions of
the airship settled to the bottom of the river. The photograph shows some ot the hrst frantic efforts to get from beneath the clumsy bulk any who
might be alive. '';'.'........'.- : '
LOWER, LEFT NORMAN WALKER, SOLE AMERICAN SURVIVOR, TELLS OF NARROW ESCAPE. , ,
' Of the 17 Americans on board the ZR-2 when it exploded," only. Norman Walker survives. Thankful for his escape, he is telling the Britishers
how it happened. Walker lives in Commerce, Tex. ,
Hard Fight Expected
On Tax Bill in Senate
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(Continued From Pre One.)
as of January 1, last, the corporation
normal tax rate should be increased
from 10 to 15 per cent, effective at
the same time. " The house bill fixes
the corporation tax at per cent,
effective January 1, 1922.
Secretary Mellon suggested repeal
of the $2,000 exemption allowed cor
porations. The house bill continues
this exemption. . Serious considera
tion of this proposed repeal will be
given by the senate committee, if it
does what it now appears likely it
will do, makes the excess profits tax
repeal retroactive. Making this, re
peal and that of the surtax brackets
retroactive to January 1, last, would
lose to the treasury about S540,(XXV
000, it is estimated. -
Would Increase Revenue.
Increasing the corporation tax to
15 per cent would make up about
$222,000,000 of this loss, it is esti
mated, leaving a net loss of more
than $300,000,000 under the revenue
the house bill is designed to produce.
On how to make up this loss and
something like $500,000,000 additional
the senate committee is now awaiting
suggestions from Secretary Mellon,
who will appear before the commit
tee tomorrow.
Mr. Mellon estimated that increas
ing the first-class, postage rate by
1 cent would net about $72,000,000
annually; the 2 cent tax on bank
checks about $45,000,000, Increased
documentary stamp taxes an addi
tional' $70,000,000. increased cigaret
and tobacco taxes another 557.000,000
annually and about $100,000,000 from
the "proposed automobile license tax
or nearly $350,000,000 t from these
new or additional taxes. J ogether
with the increased corporation tax,
there will be an offset by the loss in
revenue from retroactive repeal of
the excess profits tax and higher sur
tax rates. However, these sugges
tion were alt flatly rejected by the
house and shonld the senate put them
in the bill it is regarded as doubtful
that the house could be persuaded to
accept them, particularly the stamp
taxes, which house members gener
ally regard as obnoxious and to be
imposed only as a last resort, ,
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Pet Feline Denied
Last Resting Place
In $10,000 Mausoleum
Elizabeth, N. J.. Sept. 7. "Tiger,"
the pet cat of Edward G. Haskell,
was denied a final resting place in
the $10,000 mausoleum owned by
Haskell and which contains the body
of his wife. It was the wish of his
wife and himself that thf ir eat might
be buried there, but the- cemetery
officials were adamant regarding the
burial of animals in the grounds. '
So "Tiger." reposes in a grave
under a large oak tree in the front
yard of the Haskell home. Piled
high over the grave are masses ,o(
costly roses, contributed by Haskell
and neighbors' children, who shared
his love for the old cat. Haskell is
75 years of age, and the death of the
cat has shaken his feeble hold on life
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Fire Causes $150,000
Loss at Atlantic City
Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 7. Fire
early today destroyed the "Fun
House" of the Rendezvous park, in
juring several firemen and threat
ened the entire so-called - Bowery
section of the city, and was not ex
tinguished for several hours. The
loss is estimated at $150,000.
Assistant Chief Kranse, directing
three other firemen atop an exten
sion ladder, braced against the top
of the entrance of the "Fun House"
was buried with his men when the
top gave way.- The four men dis
appeared in a shower of sparks be
fore the startled eyes of hundreds
of people. Firemen made a rush for
the spot and Chief Krause emerged
with his men right behind him.
They shook the embers from- their
shoulders and went back to work.
Husbands, Wives Seek
St Louis Police Probe
Murder of Boy Years Ago
St. Louis, Sept, 7. The 'police
homicide squad today began an of
ficial investigation of the death
seven years ago of Jacob Silverman,
15-year-old son ot Mrs. Minnie
Silverman. The body was taken
from the Potter's field in East St.
Louis, 111., Friday and returned
yesterday after Mrs. - Silverman, a
doctor and a dentist, had identified
it as that of the long sought lad.
The detectives did not doubt that
the boy was murdered, they said,
as the hands were strapped across j
the back when, duck hunters found
the body in a lake. The detectives
will begirt working with a survey
of the circumstances incident to the
boy's departure from the union sta
tion where he last was seen alive
waiting for a man-who was to take
him to get some pigeons.
Lincoln Sheriff Must,
Take Finger Prints
Lincoln. Sept. 7. (Special.) Clif
Matson, Lancaster county attorney,
in a letter to the Lancaster county
commissioners stated that bhenff
Ire Miller of Lincoln was the only
wsheriS in the state who had failed
to take advantage of the finger print
system inaugurated by the state.
The finger prints of every one of
of . the nine prisoners who escaped
from the county jail were not avail
able, Matson charged. The county
commissioners have notified Miller
to take the finger prints of all pris
oners in the future.; Four of the
nine who escaped are still at large.
Blind Beggar Says His
Business Is on the Bum;
Wants Good Chauffeur
No Decision Given in ' .
Grand Island Hotel Case
Grand Island, .Nei.. Sept 7.
(Special Telegram.) Mrs. Dogette,
landlady of the Savoy hotel, the' re
cent raid on which led to a shoot-
i : rr .. k . u -L:r
Wore in Dallas, lexaSpoiiee and a present officer, was
Dallas, Tex, Sept. 7. With the given a hearing on the charge of be
unemployment situation in Dallas in j ing the keeper of an ill-governed
a serious condition, request has been
made to the board commissioners by
Miss Alice Brown, director of pub
lic welfare, that married men be
given preference in all work done by
the city until the situation has been
remedied. -
house. The defense first moved that
the case be dismissed on the ground
that the district court had dismissed
the injunction suit under the Albert
law against her and the owners, and
the defendant could not continually
oe Harassed tor ine same alleged pt-
Chicago, Sept. 7.-,-Peter Snider, a
blind violinist, says that the bottom
has dropped out of the begging busi
ness and until some of the millions
of loafers go to work professional
men like himself are going to have
a hard time.
"As soon as I can get a chauffeur
I am going to hit for the west and
south," said Snider. "I am willing
to pay $40 a week, but I want a
driver who will not be in too much
much of a hurry. . Unemployment
in this section of the country has
ruined the begging business. Akron
is the best town in the country, but
you couldn't pry a nickle loose there
with a twisted arm, club feet, broken
neck and hair lip combined. Until
Some of these 6,000,000 loafers go to
work professional men like myself
are going to have a hard time
marketing their personality."
fense. Police Judge Wilkinson de
nied the motion. Judge Wilkinson
took the case 'under advisement un
til Thursday.
Questions Asked 25 Years
Ago Show World Progress
Clevelasd, Sept 7. A striking in
dication of the world's progress was
shown here recently when the 125th
anniversary , of the city's founding
was celebrated. -At that. time a let
ter written in 1896 on the occasion
of the centennial celebration was
read. It contained the following
questions, to be answered now:
"Have women the right to vote?"
"Has prohibition been achieved?"
"Has the north pole been dis
covered?" "Have people learned to fly?"
"Is the horseless carriage a
reality?"
All the question.", moot theft, arc
answered in the affirmative. ,
Keep Paid Secretary
Columbus. Neb., Sept. 7. (Spc-
cial.)--The directors of the Chamber ,
of Commerce have decided to con-!
tinue the full-time paid secretary
plan for another year, and re-elect- i
ed Harrison Elliott . v - J
CommauJer-in-Clilef Retcnti
Remarks That Labor Made
Result Possible nad De
clares Himself.
Washington, Sept. 7. General
Perilling and Samuel Conipers had
a tilt Uft night at a dinner given
at the conclusion of the exercise
here celebrating Lafayctte-Mirne
day. At least official Washington
regard it as a clash over the quel
lion of whether labor won the war,
Mr. Gompers had spoken on the
after dinner program and while he
made no claim that labor won the
war lie did tell of the record of the
American Federation of Labor dur
ing the war and declared that pre
vious to the entry of the United
States its sympathy was with the
cause of the allies.
Pershing Is Riled.
General Pershing, however, sppsr
ently regarded Mr. Gompers' re
mark as a claim that labor had
! wam 4 ft A avfia Ciai tf 4hAt w)ia
heard his remarks quote him as hav
mcr said substantially;
"The policies of this republic are
' not determined by labor unions or
ny any other organizations; but by
the consensus of opinion of it pa
triotic citizens of whatever af f ilia
i tions.
"I want to say that every Amcrl
can is a patriot whether he belongs
to some labor organization or
just an ordinary citizen and that it
is not a question oi lauor unions;
it is not a question of any organ
ization, it is not a question of wheth
er we belong to some association or
not.
Was Question of Loyalty.
'It is a question of whether we
are loyal citizens of the United
.States. -I am here to say to you
that the members of the labor un
ions were not the only ones who
won the war. It was the citizens
who inherited their patriotism from
their forefathers who came across in
the Mayflower and helped determine
and decide the independence of
America as well as those who have
adopted American institutions as
their own. It seems to be about time
for us to rise up and say . that
America shall be ruled and eov
erned by American citizens, and not
by organizations which have their
own selfish purposes to serve.
The incident, however, did not de
velop into a debate and ended with
General Pershings speech.
Farm Demonstrator Shoots
Cotton Gin Owner in Fight
Eudora, Miss., Sept. 7. T. A.
Finch, owner of a cotton gin and
grist mill here, was shot through
the body today by W. L. McBride.
county farm demonstrator. Accord-
ng to witnesses they exchanged
about 10 shots. McBride suffered
a slight wound in the hand.
i he trouble is said to have started
over a report of McBride paying
attentions to a 15-year-old niece of
Fincb.- ' ' -'
McBride surrendered to the sher
ff immediately after the shooting.
Omahan 1$ Chosen By
Film Venus for Hubby
(CiMtliivH fat On.)
yesterday morning over whal lie
considers good news, lie explained
that Mus M union is mistaken in
placing hit age at 21. He is 23
years old, height it fiive feet and
seven and one-half inches, weighs 165
pounds and atscrt that he it "ever
inch a man" and it ready and will
ing to prove it to the world's mot
beautiful model. Delacroix was a
"blue devil" for France during the
world war. entering the service at
IX in Pari, his native city. He won
the ski jumping championship of
France and Switzerland and achieved
honors at ducut throwing.
Engaged Six Timet.
Mis Munson's hut letter to the
Omaha' Apollo reads in part:
I have never met but three
Frenchmen in my tile and cne was
god married to a daughter of
J. P. Morgan. So, you tee, I will
have much in store to the credit, of
France in meeting you. I shall he
happy to tend you my photograph
when I get into my trunks in the
city. Isn t it a scream the way things
go? I'll have to tell you of tome of
the men I have been engaged to,
Illinois Miners,
500 Strons. Hold
n Encampment
Farmer Reports Armed Men
Control Road and Search AU
Comers Near Village of
Elizabeth town.
n order to give you a mental study
of how far off I get from the ideal
of pure race."
To Marry Seventh.
Then Miss Munson referred by
names to the son of a minister who
was affected by heart disease, a rail
road telccranher. the owner of a
Providence cotton mill and a wealthy
Englishman in California.
W hen I was a Rirl. she ridded, a
Gypsy fortune teller told me that I
would be engaged six times and mar
ricd the seventh time.
"Well, my dear boy, von are very
young. When 1 was H I was en
gaged to a man who was only 19. I
was born on June 8, 1891. Your
iews of home life are clean and
wholesome and your ideals as they
should be. Do be careful of your
self and if not too dangerous try to
win. (ihe rctcrs to the international
ski jumping contests at Minneapolis
next February, in which contests
Delacroix has entered).
Stop, Look and Listen.
Miss Munson, in a recent state
mcnt, asserted that che may have
placed herself open to the charge of
seeking cheap notoriety" in seeking
perfect man to be the father of
her children. She made the statement
few months aeo while in conversa
tion with a group of Syracuse friends.
A newspaper man chanced to hear
her words and asked permission to
ive.thcm publicity. Many answers
nowetf. Miss Munson insists that
is the privilege of every woman to
stop, look and listen" before decid
ing on the man she will wed
Landis Cuts Building Trade
workers Wages Slightly
Chicago, Sept. 7. Buiidina trades
workers were given slight wage de
creases and new working rules were
set up in the arbitration decision
Judge Landis handed down today.
The decision opened the' Chicago
territory to all contracting firms and.
according to contractors and union
men, opened the wav to renewal of
millions of dollars worth of con
struction. A top wage of SI. 12'
tor fire proofers and $1.10 for brick
layers against the former hourly rate
f $1 .25 was fixed by the dicision.
which affects about 50,000 workers.
F.lizabethtown, III, Sept. 7. FIva
hundred armed miner are encampcl
on the head waters of Dig Creek of
Karhcr Kidgc, 12 mile north of
Flizabethtown, according to worJ
brought in last midnight by a farmer
boy.
All telephone wires leading north
through the ridge for considerable
distance were cut before 8 o'clock
I;i t night.
Scouts after covering the roads
and hills for eight miles returned this
morning without finding any trace of
strikers. A farmer who reached
riiabeilitown at the same time re
ported nearly 200 strikers com
manded by three armed men in con
trol of the road six miles north of
here. They stopped all comers, he
said.
Vigilantes On Duty.
Vigilante stationed watchers on
all hill north of Elizabethtown and
Kosiclare. No one was allowed to
enter or leave after sundown without
search.
The farmer boy told officials that
the miners expected several hundred
reinforcements today and planned to
march on the Fluorspar mine at
Kosiclare. If the march is made,
county officials do not expect it be
fore tomorrow, when they believe
the miners may attempt to go to
Rosiclare in force to draw the week
ly rations which have been issued
there every Thursday by the strike
committee.
Firing at Colorado Mine. ,
Trindad, Colo., Sept. 7. Several
shots were fired this morning in the
vicinity of the Ideal mine of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company
near Walsenburg, p. A. Stout, man
ager of the fuel department of the
company announced here. He said
that no one was injured and that re
ports from the superintendent of the
Ideal mine were that the shots had
probably been fired to intimidate
miners who were planning to go to
work this morning. None went to
work, Mr. Stout said.
U. S. Not to Aid Citizens in '
Quebec to Obtain Liquor
Washington, Sept. 7. Americans
visiting Quebec probably will have
to take their chances on obtaining
liquor without assistance from this
government, Internal Revenue Com
missioner Blair said today in com
menting on the action of the Quebec
liquor commission in requiring
American citizens to obtain permits
from their government to purchase
intoxicants, except in small quanti
ties, in the Canadian province.
Large Hog at Liberty
Liberty, Neb.. Scot 7. fSoecial.)
R. H. Smith, who farms a short
c-'iftance from - town, has a 3-year-
old hog that weighs 1,156 pounds.
It attracted much attention at the''-,
Home-coming celebration. -
E v ening G o wns f o r the First
Social Activities of Autumn
The artistry of the Parisian modiste
is expressed in an impressive bril
liance of ornamentation and a charm
ing detail of line and design.
: American adaptations achieve a dis- ,
tinction that promises a season of
unusually beautiful gowns.
The Extensive Showing
Awaits Your Approval
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