TAX REDUCTION
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CHICAGO, Sept. 10.——(AP) A tax
reduction of $350,000,000 is in
"sight. thinks Congressman Martin
B. Madden, Republican, Illinois.
chairman of the liouse Appropria-
tions Comllllllei'. lie believes that
I it will be possible to shave appro-
priations by $125,000,000 and that
the next Congress will do it. The
foundation or any tax reductions
must be laid in moderate appropri-
ations, he observed, In connection
with an expression 'of his views on
government finance today.
Repeal of the federal inheritance
taxes because "the government
needs live taxpayers, not dead es-
tates" was favored by Mr. Madden,
as well as a reduction of the max-
imum suriax to 15 per cent.
“No man who is required to_pay
66 per cent. of his income to the
government is going to work very
hard to increase his income,” he
said. anent the high surtax theory.
More money would be yielded to
the government by a 15 per cent.
surtax than the present rate of
forty per cent., he is convinced. Re-
ductions already mace and the mod-
eration of the tax on capital gains
have proved that lower rates mean
* more revenue from the big incomes,
he thinks. ‘
The normal rate on incomes up
to $5,000 should be lowered to one
per cent: the maximum normal
rate should not exceed five or six
per cent. Mr. Madden calls suicidal
and destructive to public interest
and efficient government the total
exemption of small incomes.
“Nuisance taxes, especially those
on theatrical admissions and auto-
mobiles should be repealed." he
said. ”The motorist is already heav-
ily taxed, whereas the gasoline tax
, levied by the states and applied to
highway construction is almost an
ideal form of automobile taxation.
. since the motorist levies his own
? tons in proportion to his use of the
roads.
DELEGATE ASKS
MODIFICATION
_ ( OF LIQUOR LAW
M Labor Convention at
my New Britain H a 5
Resolution for
Change— Other Mo-
tions
NEW BRITAIN, Sept. 10.——-(AP).
At yesterday's session of the State
Federation‘of Labor convention in
this city a resolution was presented
by which the cooperation of the
American Common Sense League
would be sought in seeking a modi-
fication of the 18th Amendment to
the federal constitution. The reso-
lution expressed the conviction that
the amendment, did not represent
the opinion of the people of the
x United States and that light. wines
and beer would be beneficial rather
than detrimental. It also condemn-
ed as unduly burdensome restric-
tions on the sale of spirituous li-
quors for medicinal purposes.
Other resolutions introduced ask-
ed delegates not to support three
large baking companies and urged
them to buy only bakery products
bearing the union label; recom-
mending tliat union labor support
only candidates for political office
,who are pledged to support labor:
for reorganizing the building trades
council in this city and advocating
' the formation of union label leagues
’ and women's auxiliaries here. All
.resolutions were referred to the
cOmmittee on resolutions.
A delegate from the Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway Em-
ployes stated that wages of men em-
ployed in this industry were not
what they should be and that the
,-hours were not consistent. He
‘ complained that the Connecticut
. company is not putting older em-
» ployes on buses but is hiring men
who are not affiliated with the As-
sociation.
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FOR MEMORIAL
_ Io SIIENANDOAH
“Farmer on Whose
Place Part of Dirigi-
: ‘ ble Fell, Willing to
Give 'Acre to U. S.
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CALDWELL. Ohio. Sept. 10 (AP).
V T. A. Davis. who owns the farm
3;” Ava where the Shenandoah tell
last Thursday morning. has written
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur offer-
ing to donate one acre of his farm
land as a site for a monument or a
I national park. in memory of the 14
failed. The land is that on which
the control cabin crashed.
my ms mourn.
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~ . NEW HAVEN, Sept. 10 (AP).;-
City Clerk Miles today had. too much
of one thing on his hands and that
was copies of the game laws. The
office usually receives 6.000 but
through some one's error, 30.000
IN SIGHT; SCORES BIG SORTAX
Wants Rate Up to $5,000 One Per Cent. and
i. Maximum at Not More Than Six——Believes
Theatres and Auto Owners Should Be Re-
, ‘ lieved'From Burden
OF $350,000,000
VETS’ BUREAU. .
GIVES $69,701,000
T0 IRESSURI
Effects Big Saving on
Its Appropriation of .
$481,957,898—M o r e
Economies
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10 (AP).—
By cutting down expenses all along
the line, the Veterans‘ Bureau, which
has required nearly half a billion
dollars to operate in the last few
years. returned to the treasury $69,-
701,000 of its appropriation of $481,-
957,808 for the fiscal year ending
June 80 last.
The saving.a detailed report of
which has Just been made to Direct-
or Lord of the budget by Frank T.
Hines ,director of the bureau. was
made despite an increase in com-
pensation payments for disability
and death benefits from $115,494.~
991 for the fiscal year 102445 to
$129,597,457 last year. The increase
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of more than $14,000,000 was due
the World War Veterans’ act of last
year.
Further economies are promised
by Director Hines, whose, return last
June came close to being half of
the total remitted by the Govern-
ment Departments.
Each year finds the Veterans’ Bur-
eau paring down its huge budget,
and the $405,713,559 appropriation
for the current fiscal year is expect-
ed by bureau officials to be mater-
ially reduced in revising preliminary
estimates for 1926-27 in anticipation
of further- cuts in administrative
costs and salaries.
While material savings in running
the Government‘s biggest independ-
out agency were aceoniplished in the
transfer from Federal to] private em.
ployers' payrolls of men who com-
pleted vocational ,rehabilitation
courses. the expenses generally were
shaved all the way down to the price
paid for envelopes.
Under the law the bureau could
not induct into vocational training
any veteran after June 30 last, and
since there were not enough students
enrolled to maintain them, all of the
‘11 vocational schools were
being permitted to
training of students.
Big slices in costs also were ac-
complished by reduction in person-
nel. with a not. decrease of more than
1,000 employee in the regional ot-
flees and about 200 in the central
office.
The cost per day per patient in 52
hospitals was cut 62 cents from 84.57
to $3.05 during the ten months end-
ing April 1, 1925, compared with
complete the
{operating expenses increased. due to
additional facilities provided for in
the Reed-Johnson act, from 515.851.-
000 for 3,460,817 patient days to
$18,720,205 for 4,471,878 days.
More than $60,000 was saved by
permitting medical officers in charge
of hospitals to purchase their own
food and supplies; administrative
expenses under the World War Ad-
justed Compensation'act were shav-
ed $314,050; printing and binding,
$108,000, and office rent, $101,583.
Approximately half a million dol-
lars was lopped on? the cost of trans-
porting patients; expense of medi-
cal examinfiiions and treatments was
cut $34,000; dental examinations.
$25,000, and travel of employee, the
cost of which came under severe at-
tack during the Senate veterans' in-
vestigation, was kept to the mini-
mum of "actual and visible neces-
sity."
CLAIMS ERROR
lN DECISION OF.
IUDEEIIIIIIIIS
U. S. District Attorney
Appeals Case of Li-
quor Boat Released
From Control
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NEW HAVEN, Sept. 10 (AP).—‘
An appeal has been taken by the
Government from the decision which
released the steamer Blairmore and
her liquor cargo. and the craft re-
mains tied up at New London.
was thought the vessel put to sea
after her cargo was reloaded under
a ruling by Judge E. S. Thomas at
South Norwalk August 81. The rul.
ing was based on the court's deci-
sion in the Underwriter case.
The United States District Attor-
ney’s office at once appealed and this
will be heard early in October. The
Governmentmlaims an error in the
decision. ‘ ‘
AFTER. TAXPAYERS.
NEW HAVEN, Sept. 10 (AP).-—
Every city policeman is to be used
by City Attorney C. M. Robinson in
service of 1.080 writs against de-
linquent personal taxpayers. This
number has been selected from a list
of about 20,000 delinquents.
ponies were delivered by an express
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during the year, private institutions‘
the previous ten months, although.
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field Prisoners to Cut
Way to Freedom
HARTFORD, Sept. 10.
Michael J. (Letty) McDonnell and
Frank Land, who escaped from the
state prisou a week ago last night,
out their way out of cells with im-
provised drills which they made
themselves. prison officials
found. A thorough search of all
parts of the prison to which the two
convicts possibly could have had ac-
cess has revealed scattered pieces of
the two drills and these, it is be-
lieved, eliminate the possibility of
outside aid having been extended in
the effecting of the escape.
Parole Agent Bradley said today
that the drilling by which the two
men out triangular shaped holes in
the ceilings of their cells was done
with twist drills which were used at
the prison for fixing sewing mach-
ines. The two worked in the shirt
shop where sewing machines are
used. The drills were turned with
an improvised brace made out of
bits of- wire. Lead bearings from
sewing machines also went into the
construction of the drills and there
were ferrules taken from either
screw drivers or pipes. One of the
drill handles was a discarded bottom
of a stick of shaving soap and the
other was a block of hard wood ap-
parently seized when new floors
were laid recently in the prison
shops. .
And the two prisoners had gresie
to quiet the action of the drills and
the contact with the sheet steel ceil-
ing. Prison doctors at times issue
boric acid ointment to inmates 'and
it has been found that McDonnell
and Land used some oil this during
their drilling. They also had some
light green paint, the same kind
that was used when the interior of
the cells was recently painted. With
It ! lead to the discovery of several hobo
this they coated pieces of tissue
paper which were placed over the
holes when bored, thus preventing
guards during inspection from dis-
covering the activity of the prospec-
tive fugitives.
Prison officials have sent through-
out the cbuntry circulars bearing
descriptions of the two- men and
they are still diligently- pressing the
search throughout the east. Ser-
geant Ward of the Midd§etown police
notified the prison yes‘ erday that
two suspects had been seen in the
Woods near the trolley tracks in
Westtield. An investigation did not
disclose the two convicts but did
camps in that section.
Put Prisoner in Cell
With Liquor and——
PATCHOGUE, N. Y.. Sept. 10.—
(AP). The mystery of how a. prison-
er remained intoxicated for three
days in jail was solved yesterday
when William Jackson, charged
with intoxication disclosed that he
had been lodged in a cell In which
seized liquor had been stored. The
police had failed to remove the con-
traband bottles. which had been
placed under a. bunk. ,
"It was here when I came in on
Saturday" Jackson explained in
court, “and I listed to see it lying
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hays .
it myself.”
fixin’ his clothes.
the cuff.
And then comes the portion
'the book’s out of line.
claims, “not for mine.”
And then does the missus
the iron and proceeds. unafraid.
for their wives?
FORD MUST BID
' F OR MAIL WORK
HE OFFERS FREE
Government Can’t Ac-
cept-Without Formal
Advertisingand
Contract
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10.—(AP)
Potmaster’Gcneral New said yes-
terday that‘ths air mail service be-
tween Detroit. and Chicago, using
the 'present Ford air service. would
have to await‘ formal advertising
and awardot an air mail contract
for the route. '
It is understdod,thc Ford inter-
ests were desirous of furnishing
that service immediately and at no
cost to the 'government, but the
Postmaster General was unable to
accept. any such concession.
.“I spent yesterday morning in
Detroit in conference with Mr. Ford
and his associates on the subject of
air mail generally." said Mr. New
today. “They are much interested
in the development of the science
of aeronautics and transportation by
air. The Post Office department
most gladly welcomes the entrance
of Mr. Ford to this field. What we
have been trying to do has been to
stimulate the interest of private
capital in aeronautical development
and Mr. Ford, with his unparalleled
resources. otters opportunities
which neither should be nor can be
disregarded.
“The Post onion department must
proceed in all things in accordance
with existing law. It is required to
let all air mail contracts to best
bidders." .
8 Years for Receiving
Stolen 'Automobile
WILLIMANTIC. 'Sspt. 10 (AP).—
Charles Danseresu of Moosup.
changing s. plea of guilty. was sent
to state prison for 8 to 10 years by
Judge Avery, this afternoon on a.
charge of receiving a stolen automo-
around my bed.',' He was sentenced
to 9.0. it“): ‘3‘,
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POEM
’ Says mother to father, “your suits is a fright. It looks like
you slept in a rain storm last night.” Then father replies, “get
the iron from the shelf. I’ll sav
e me some coin, ’cause I’ll press
The iron sizzles hot, ‘while the ironing board’s set, and
dad starts to press with a cloth that is wet.
troubles and frets, goodness knows. He wishes the tailor was
He ’s having his
The trousers are spread where the crease used to be, and
the iron just enlarges the bag at the knee. Poor dad is convinced
that he’s wise to his stuff, but he presses right over the dust in
that gets father’s goat. There’s
trouble a plenty in pressin’ the coat. The shoulders are saggin,’
When pop's half way through, be ex-
IrusII in to his old: She grabs up
How easy he’s stumped, though
BIG GERMAN .
OII. COMPANIES
Bitter Rivals Forced
Into Merger By For-
eign Competition It
Is Said .
,BERLIN. Sept. 10. (AP.)'—-A
sensation_has-been caused in com-
mercial and financial circles by the
amalgamation of the three large
German oil firms of Deutschs Erdoel
Ltd.. Deutsche Petroleum. Ltd.. ‘and
Reutgers Werke, Ltd. These con.
ce'rns had been engaged in a. bitter
tight and all previous attempts cov.
ering a' period of years
bring them together.
interests of the other two concerns.
and for this purpose the directors at
their next. general meeting will pro-
pose the company’s capital be in-
creased from 24,000,000 to 86.000,—
000 marks. . .
The pressure of foreign competi-
tion has finally broken down the
barriers and compelled the three hos
tile companies to fuse as s. matter of
self protection. The Standard Oil
and Royal Dutch interests. by virtue
of less expensive sales and distribu.
tion organizations were able to out-
bid the German companies and force
to the wall a. number of mushroom
concerns which sprang up in the
wartime.
Fearing a similar fate the three'
largest and oldest concerns conclud-
ed their pact. Their individual coal
interests and production of oil from
lignite are unaffected by the deal,
but all their direct all production in
Germany, importation of oil from
abroad and sales and distribution or-
ganizations are to be combined.
RAILROADS PROTEST.
_ WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (AR)
—-Railronds which were ordered last
month by the Interstate Commerce
Commission to prepare a new sched-
ule reducing rates on West Virginia
low volatile coal for movement to
the Atlantic seaboard and New
England statesfitoday tiled s. formal
bile and from 2 to 8 years on anoth-
2’33” gag-t the notch,
Now the Dcutsehe Petroleum Com
pany will takeover the petroleum.
how hard it man strives. Say, what would men do, if it weren’t "
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