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'8 NATIONAL DEBT
m0 “5 HEAVY [NUICESASIG
the course of his spoec
Bruce said:
includes 31400000300
excise.
inc hlegrsph receipts.
5 "the climates! expenditure is $310"!
1_1d.€05. showing an estimated surplus
or 33,472,135.
‘ “O! the accumulated surplus. esti-
mfled at $34,514,935. 816.000.000 will
I be used in the reduction of taxation
and the. encouragement of agriculture
31nd manufactures.
“The proposed remission of tilxntion ‘
indudes the increase 01‘ the general
oxsmptinn from $520 to $1.000 for all
Hr. Bruce announced that legisla-‘
tion would be introduced in the near
future to reduce the salary of mem-
bers of the llouse of Representatives
' from 86.000 to 34,000.
Bruce declared:
“'1'” gross
tailing 82.080.352.545. shows an
amounting to 871.752.420.
“The total national debt of Allstml- .
in. including the Commonwealth and
> _ compared
with the prmwnr debt of only 81.695.-
is 84.21 0.000.000.
000.0”,
m LOVER.“ AROUSE Tim IRE
0F FRENCH “'OMEN.
- national debt on June 30th.
84.210.000.000 as comparedl
‘ p pro—w." debt of 81.696.000.000.‘
h. .
_ "The estimated rev-‘
"tor. 1932-23. totalling 3:12.591.-l
customs-
W 370,250,000 income tan!
”d 001,850,000 post office. telephone! .
Commonwealth debt. to-
in-
crelos in the year ended June 30th
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Speaking: on the national debts Mr.3
William H. Woodin. of New York.
‘ and William D. B. Alney, of Penn;
sylvsnis. are two of the many State
Fuel Administrators. appointed by
various governors to aid in the tall
and winter bottle against coal
"gouging and to secure a fair dis-
tributlon of coal to needy families.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover and
the stats fuel chiets generally. have
succeeded in organising the com-
munity against proflteers on s non
political basis. much as the great
voluntary movements of the Amor—
_, ' Coal Prices Curbed By State.
"JOURNE. Australia. Nov. 10.! ' Fuel Chiefs; Hoover .Bringlng
his annual speech to the House
.fisprsssntauvss. Federal Treasurer
,7 .of Australia disclosed that the
About -Sta5uzaltion
MAND FOB. DMONDS
LONDON. Nov. 10.——'rhe ”present
'boo'm‘ln diamonds in England is at-
! ’tr‘ibuted partly to recent rumors 01
I ‘ war in the Near East. Experts in the
‘ - trade say that this phenomenon has
Ofsupp y .been noticed before. and that when
% political troubles are brewing the bust: '
ness in diamonds revives. Not only
in London is this activity noticeable. .
but in Antwerp also diamonds have‘
been changing hands in large num-
bers. somewhat similarly to the tradei
which occurred at the time of the!
first Russia. revolution. I
Another reason given .tor the dis.-
mond activity is that new fields are
'being opened. rough diamonds arel
coming to hand in larger quantities.
and customers want not only the finest:
sort. but also smaller stones for.cut-
tors. , .. .
£13.“:an Govrmsul-zxrsnx'r—
FENCES GRAFFERS TO DEATH.
KHARKOV. Russia. Nov. 10.——'I'he
Ukraine Soviet Government has been
making strenuous efforts to break up
the practice of graft and bribery
among State employes. and ‘in this
connection a trial ended recently... in
which the two accused principals. M.
Meletensky. director or the State Trad-
_lng department. and his agent. Balth-
h'mo‘utsk'y. were sentenced to be shot.
The prosecution charged that Mele-
tensky and Bakhmoutsky. by an in-
genious and extensive system or brib-
ery and graft. in disposing of State
timber tram one Government depart-
ment to another. had cleaned up some
20.000.000.000 Soviet rubles. amount-
ing at the time to about 850,000.
, WM. l-l. wooom
exempted by the Food Administrs:
tion.
Observers in Washington bells"
that the man who planted the Am-
erican flag in the hearts of millions
of European children has achieved
a halt less picturesque but no is.
important in steering the country
through the present cri‘s within
skyrocket prices and in stimu ,
ing the processes of public thought
lending to the Borsh Bill, them
pointment of the Presidsnt's
tact-finding commission and other.
measures toward permanent stabJ
..
COAL IN ENGLAND BECOMING
DEARER. i
DONDON. Nov. 'lO.—Coal prices in!
England probably will reach the high—
est level in history during the coming
lean public during the war arose. dilation 0: cool supply end prices.
PARIB. Nov. lG.—As the women of
Paris recently have been beating the
men in competitions for places as li-
brarians. a discussion has arisen over
women’s attitude towards book;
Writers~in general seem to agree
that woman in tho avowed enemy of
books. This view, which will seem
strange to Americans. is accepted by
the French as a fact not necessary to
discuss“ They seek only to show why.
and how greatly woman is hostile to
ers who keep books hidden.
One Parisian booklover. says
llersaucourt. smuggled home purchas-z
cs under his coat or in his pockebimogrx'nv
meanwhile. disarming his wife by
holding out cake or candy to her at
the front door in order to gain time
to slip the volume on to the shelf un-
noticed.
M. do the firemen arrived.
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Remap Bl'LLETS.
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noncow; Nov. 10.——Putty and co.
ment by the ton are being used in
winter. according to London retail
dealers A general increase of three
_ ' shillings a ton was made recently. and
‘tensnts escaped without “13‘er before another will be announceduwithln the
next low weeks. it is expected. I
The price of the best hard coal is
COVERING UP SCABS or flow 57 shillings. about 812 a ton.
grziiusting to 45 shillings {or kitchen
co .
the me grade- was 61. shillings and
48 shillings. k further increase ofslx
The highest prices last year {or
book
One of the prinrlpnl publishers is
quoted u saying that in the retail
trade women constitute only one per
cent. of buyers in France. Others di-
lato upon the difficulty their men
friends have in keeping a library of
fine books and in adding to the collec-
tion. Men's Ime or hooks. and wom-
en's dislike of them. are cited as hav-
ing caused the break-up of mnny
homes. M. de Bersaucourt, autlbr
:lnd lmoklnvt-r. l-nlds it to he the
of a bibliophilc to remain a bachelor.
He cites the (1180-5 or men who have to
buy books so-(‘rw'ly to avoid outbrenks
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\\ (HIAN‘i' DREAM OF mu: SAVES
MANY LIVES
/".\'Ew YORK_ Nov. 10.-—A woman's
dream is credited with saving the lives
ol sixty .iwellers in a tenement in the
Bronx Lilli)? today.
Mrs. Jessie llarotti
flames leaping through the house and
of muffled footsteps in the hallways.
She awoke screaming. "The house is
mire."
Her husband got up. went down the
hull and round a lire blazing near the
door of the apartment. where slept the
wife and six children of a policeman.
dreamed of
Moscow in an olfort on the part of the chilling: may be looked for.
Government to blot out traces of the The 131,0? tronblt‘s and the forecast
1917 revolution. 0‘ an early and severe winter are given
There is scarcely a house in the 80- as the reasons ‘01" "10 added cost.
viet capital which was not bullet
marked. more or less. in the fighting
and some of the larger buildings were:
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