: . 1 : f -;- FRIDAY, ' AUGUST M' 1918. TUESDAY, AUGUST . 20, ' ,918. SEMI-WEEKLY. -.-..4 '? A. v. c , . ... . . . X', . ... Va . .....i. . . i ' ;. . ........ . .. " . . i . lU S V;s -... . WM I... A v ..w,: i t. 1 'r-,:: ii. GOVERNMENT'S' THREATENEQ; Terauchi and His Cab- Critical TOKIO. August 18 (Special to N'ippu Jiji) An urgent imperial edict; Retting forth rega Iatinn relatinrr to oimniilunrv . . purchase hy the government of all available domestic ' rice 'sup plies as well as for "importation from Korea and China of foreign flee tas yesterday" promulgated by the frtiperor; Th goverruiietrt recently made an appropriation of 10,000.000 yen' for fhe ptirpW. The utterances of the pTess are rtx6t bitter in condemnation of the present Cabinet;'- headed by rremr Teraucht' Open 'denun ciation .xl the government for permitting the rice riot situation throughout the empire to beeome AO criiealjls fnade by the leading 'papers which at the same time are- demanding the ' cabinet's resigna'tiort.1:- V -f i CALLED INCOMPETENT "The responsibility for all these disturbances Testa upon thi Tera-i nchi-cibinet,-' said the press, "and its failure in meetitig the situa- It has ho " excuse to remain s tn power. ' Jt roust resign," . . txi.: fr '..Ut,.,; ffon ' prcerly- show, that the Jf l ''",t,nf "V V : , Deputy MaishaJ Vawter ia bm report, ministry IS wholly incompetent l'vWhcn no liquor ean be had there p. in 'Vianftllnii- t Via nut'in'm a ff 7 f ' notfareable decrease ia the numbef . -...""' uuiiHiuiij i Tanana atnee .the. aloonr or,e closed; J nere i te' ease 11 f few Trlrtimi win. 5' rnni!r!.i I hare 'not seen a Dkrnin iindsr-fLaiiiV fair rait on Co)ocrn( 'rl fclnmn.. r,.6. wf. f.Uquor aine, th day. af Ooputy .KuekoJ ... ...w. rr...lovru,--ll,v, leard of no eomplainU from aaid there had been nalist, IS -authority fo an, aytfga-f othera. , Every one is obeying the law, of the population n . alreaay.ajrnven at a aeClBlOtl that ! tnrJsfgatiSn- of ht -eabinet- J " the only way open for himself, ?nd his official family - r"0 nd Alaska iaila wU go out of thfrf had been some easulties. , tu. a . , . " '. fbuaioeea." ' "What will be the rrputation of the. toe general belief, however, IS j edodition peculiar to Alnaka nave press if thoy are forced to spread such that the Terauchi nrmistry will m,B Nofvil most noticeke false reportaf" he asked. . Meerfield . - !.' Ipriug the dark wiuter months said thut methods of the "enernl eom remain in XJWer for Sometime. fa the northlaiid the salooos have been, mi.n.1 remin.lrrl him of suvint that VJ" j ptaetirally ib only gathering plare "'under martial law eve.-v jackass can CONSIDERS DOWNFALL OFrARTNriTrPPTAtM UI CABINET CERTAIN r?' The 'Terauchi Ministry ft eondemil- ed," said K. Kawamura, city, editor . i. - w: t.-i j, . . ... ."iiu will, yesioraay in aiseuar, eiuK iur ibic or ine Japanese govern- xaeat. "The downfan of the cabinet is inevitable and it is now bat a qaee- tion f tine when Terauchi wil be eaat down and out. ; ' ' ' "Premier Terauchi is unmistakably one of the grfateU and ablest aUtaa mon In Jaj.nu. Ife is a man of eqetgy and reeonreei He lias many able lieo- tenauts in hia nabinei,. aiich mea aa Baron H. rioto, minister of forelua af- 'fct; y"0 mitet & to?i merce. But since he ia a bureaucratic statesman aad as hia cabinet has o foundation in any of the political pax. ns, uis success as tne aeaa C the na tion's affair evnnot but be queation ed. PITUATIQM PBOTJUAB "It ia a peenl(ar thing o see a so called ''uaeonstitutioaal eabihet, a cab inet that has ne foundation in any political party, a the present Tere,u. ehi cabinet, rise to power In Nipppn. "Teraucki's rise to power came aa a climax of one of the most bitter poli tical flghta In the modern history of Japan. . When tha ! Okuma cabinet, which was backed up by the Kenaeikai tout opposed bitterly by tha rieiyukai, the two largest '' political parties of Nippon, resigned a fear ysras ago, and when Couut Terauchi, who was at the tkme Japan 'a governor general of Korea, waa called upon by tha empsroi to' form a new eabioat, the Belyukai promptly went to tka aid of the count and pledged its support to the new cab inet in the Japanese diet POUTIOAL MAJfETJVXB "What the Beiyukai leaden med at was the dowafall of the Qkuma cab inet and the enseikai and they did not rare mui'h who the successor would )e.' It was merely a political plot that .tleo) a temporary knot between the Bel yukai and the Terauchi cabinet. "Following formation of the cabinet, .Terauchi ordered the dissolution of the diet as the Kenseikai held a control ling majority over the Heiyukai. When ft new election waa held the latter, with every possible assistance by the gov ernment, won over Us opponents. The Heiyukai, therefore,' possesses at the present timf a controlling majority in the diet. ' 1 ' ' WTTHOCT StTPFOETEBJS "The fate Of the Terauchi cabinet ia at the mercy of the Belyukai since the cabinet baa- no backing in the diet of any political' party except the major ity party. Torniug the back of the itai Vukal against Premier Terauchi meaas ike downfall of the rablnet. As there i euWeient reaaon td believe that the tSeivakai ia not so friendly to the cab inet as it baa been I am expecting the HEW TORE, August l (Associated Pre) Troop have Won called out to supprra te rioting in almost every important eity of Japan, it ia related jwt ntivirfa 'w ibi Associated , 1'rae mat atioa at Maibam han been affected byth spirit, of unrest a4 it in belie lit possible hat the Empire ia nesting a social eriaia, , , -Ji r Fretn art i ties' of Japar cam Tirta Mt 'disorder' and terrorism. qui NajMya, the great iinvwelain renter, a in the rioting. At several places, including Kol, the -soldjer were compelled to nm their bayoata ami even to fir on. tha snobs to cans them to scatter, anil disperse. .''' ) 1 ,' (',: . , In Tukle, houses and business place nave been rullaired'nif damaa-ed by the' rioter kail Kanakas, tha great recreation raxert, wan damaged by the mob. k" populate ia being J ury aaif tii (falhariB(r ara prten ntronly aotl rapifalidtic fn their too. Tha trnubl 14 evidently an expression f, symptom, i . i . .. . ' Tieatsi advice received ia London taiil: "The Japanese rice riots are proving ta be tha worst outbreak againt sonstitutrd authority that .ha been witnessed ia Japaa for many yeara. ' The" rioter r resorting to arts of ex treme violence aneh ai the aae of dynamite an( tneentllariarn. II Uiil JAILS OF ALASKA Nearlj AH Sentences In Past Twenty-Years - Due To Use of Liquor Is Conclusion of Official ' FA IBBANK8, AU.Jca. . Augimt 1 Jaila, in A'AJa have ; been rapidly eiaptied of priaonera alnae prohibition went into effect on peeember .11, and, according to C VV. Vawter, deputy United Ktatet marihal at Tanana, ro porting to hia chief, 1. T; Krwia, I'nit ted Ktatea marsbal for the fourth divi sion, with heAilquartera ia Fairbanks, tka jaila 'will mob be available for other naea thanie eonflnement of lanbreakej-a. ,, ""inei I ntv'a been in Alaska, nearly twenty year now, 1 believe that the eaua of the fonApainnt of ninety nine pereent of tne priaonera who have serv ed at-ntenrea in air can be traced dl of ajetm ta, M illustrated by the- awal' made recently ia ihe aaaiU' ' '' ' " . ! number,' i district. . 4 ""There haa. been nn 'drunkenneaa. in lit appear. . l emptied of , prisoners in the near fn- t.edrjr taw." All , the liquor that can possibly be cached away will have been consumed very -i,OT mua onnned toother in nettle mepls that are flit off from the rest of the wov!,l, and there has always leen a h e n(.:.. e iu the I o.iu Of ve' selstuiliii' t Ahini whirl .n -iven T . . .. . . . over l , re. l liquor itwi into the terrltorv. i - ' . IV: at. PH IJADELPHIA HOMES I IIIJ IIHI IIWIIIIUj . .! .A) 1 4 H ' City I Unable To Accommodate .... . . All Who Come To It PHII.A'DkL'pHIA. Aiik-ust 1 (Asso ciated Press) This city is crowded aa never before. The influx of strangers from, all parts of the United Ntafea to toil in shipyards, munitions plants and" 'in other places where jioveruinent work is beini( dose has greatly intensified Ule housing problem. Few nouses are available for renters. A, "To Let" sign is scarcely ever seen except In sections well removed from the industrial plants. Because of the high cost of building materials relatively few boubes are gong up, apart frpm those being con structed by the government' for ship yard operations until nfter the war. Withal the problem of finding ae eojomodajions for everyone is slowly being solved, and after a time niajiy families who have been furcd to share homes with others probably will be able to get plac.es. of their awn. Rents, iq kefping with other things,' .have taken an upward bound, sharply in ip,e instances' Htepi have been taka io prevent piofiteeripg but there ha been no governiiieotal db-. jwtion to advance where condition warranted them. Perkap no other city in the country eaa claim so large a number at proper ty owner as Philadelphia. Real estate men figure that within the past year more homes were purchased here than in the three preceding years. , Where it was formerly possible to clear a real estate transaction in few weeks, it new requires as mny moutlm. (rks tite and trust com panr offices have been compelled to work nights, as well as days, and eveq thee they have been uuable to keep abreast of their task, Because of the keen dematd fqr homes, real estate valuations kave in creased many millions, and official fig urea -which will be published later on are expected to show a pheaomertal in crease, ffrowth over those of 1 VI 7. The abnormal luoulrv bv homeaeeker Is attributed to the high wares patd DRY LAW EMPTIES 3 BENE A SQClAt CRISL tecwived yesterday. kivtil the nnvul ved At mob of more than (10.000 nersmiH enroled directed against all evidences of tux JfN f ' fijh.jfw jty only a 15 n t A eoldier for only a month, Chin i;nnn cnoy, a Korean draftee, waa found dead in hia bunk in the bnr raeka of Company A, First Hawaiian Infantry, ou Wednesday morniux just after oveille. ; Aa the aoldier waa around with mem bera of hia company the uiht before 4. appeared to. be in the best, of health, the finding of his dead body the next morning gave rise to many ru.Mora around the post. ' These were quickly act at rest by tha surgeon who pronounced tha man dead of heart failure, which -a post mortem examin ation eonilraied, . Private. Chun Cbin Choy wan thirty years of aire, a. native of Korea, and the first of his race in the drafted forces on Oohu to die in the military aervice. iv .ma. a. PROTEST AF MUZZUNG 5 OF GERMAN NEWSPAPERS NEW YORK, August 1. (Associated Prte) The press in Qermany waa M.' fOMd during a debate ia the Beiohxtaj AHied air raida on German eitiea -e- eordinir to German aewsbanera rae.eivad ' question waa ; the on Mav is. ; ' of' thaCentra ri'rtar no tjtnely warnins ov the military au taontiea. Meerfield, Socialist, said that although every child ia Cologne knew that tweDdy Civ, peraon.ljad been killed, the newspapers on that day were forced to y "that unfortunately rule. i , : ,,t , .. , ; , E MKS., A riyniiu, Aiyut 3 (AsstM'ia- itT.okne uiu,,,,! ,y lhe ('burch of Jesus Christ of th. Mesa. l atter Day Slants (Mormon) for Tho temple will serve a the pure nt rliurch fyr the eutire souttbwest. At presi-iit there are but six of these greut ii'iuples in f iitcui o. Four are in I' tali, nun hi Cunuila and oue in Ha waii. Many Muriuon refugees from ileiicii hue settleil in the valley of Arixona. , w' ' ' " IS , ltl LMis AIKKS, August ) (Asaoci ated Pre,,) Thai Arjjyntiua although nut in ihi. Mar is suiTering Its material conseipiciii-es, in evidenced by the eon stanfiy inrri-asing cost of liviug, sear city nt uik, lowering of wages, devel opment (,f "trusts," cornering of ar ticles ut consumption, and extensive private Hru!atiun in iublic necessities. The government is being urged to adopt emergen, v measures similar to those 'pursued ly other countries where the war produced such condition. It has FOUND DEAD If SUFFERER been suggested that special committees-LelfiesHy be ;ii ut o.l bv the States to inter vene, or that additional power be ex tended to those brauehes of the public dmiuiidiution, i)ch SI, the police, hy giene, inin,r, which from the nature of their t'liin tiuns are best equipped for coping with the evil. , Comparison, of (nice of various article of prime necessity in force last year with those ruling today indicate that many in creases may not be attributed directly to the vwir luit rather to artificial fact ors engendered by speculation, price juggling nnd cornering of supplies. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS PAZO OINTMENT ia guaranteed to cure blind, bleeding, itching or pro truding in 6 to" Jdio or money refunded. Manufactured by tlie' AklS Mt.mCiNKCO .Sl.ouis U. i. a fjrstLiicrtidsr":" ? Are Quoted Above ht 'NEW TOEK, Attfun IS (Offl clal) Trading kaa recently boon acttre in Liberty ta Bond of. the fp-st ' lwue' and, or, Saturday' thay r-vhe tka bkgkeat flgur at tilch they liart bea 'ol4 their, (ssuance. OO.S passing par by on 61 a, point, ;' y ( ' Tbo. bond Of t issn 4 6 only non-taxable, but they are ; alao conyrtlbl Into r9ndi of tub-, aeiinent fsauw aad Vi wertpel dor liig whUh they poaaaci tall tet ter ausllty wtli 4op November .9' wWtk isy be'p to 'explain the advance of thro and a half -percent' govsrnment security abore par. t Too price cortainly t dedicate tho security felt bi gov amnant Ueuee, ';, i.y.'iw 1. 1 !i v ti -! .' . t Need of large Force Is Pointed Out To Allies' Representa- ' i i. lives By Leader " ' W A RH I N Q Ti ) N , August 1!) (Asao elated Prrsa-Al'rrent need of speedy taeiVtance,' rendered nn a. large scale by Jbe,. Allies is impressed upon th Allies. If the anecesse, then far achlev el by the Cstrhu r-lovnka are to be followed'.; tip- and pressed. Oenernl Die Wrhs, , commander of the Cxeeho.. Wovnk forefs has cnlled upon the rep reren'ativen of the- Allies and urged baste In the depatchin. of the Hibe rian expedition., H sold the assistance must com, on a large, scale and he Advocated an advance upon Irkutsk in Wr)er ,to aave WVstern (Siberia. ' ' Oflicisl despatches received from T (io. said that. the Caec.ho-Blovak force of the. Maritime provinces, left on An gust 8. (or.Usrbia, and traveled over, the tlilnee Kastera railway. On, tkt Hssuri front where it Is esti mated tne enemy has a trpgth of lOllXXK), quiet was prevailing. , "Th arr.ival of the advance forces of the expedition of the Allies baa nerved to greatly perturb: the Bolshevist and their A'eHftyGerman allies and numer oua desertions from their rank are re-POTted,- -,.,.,' ,- ... ' Penetrate As Far As Havre and ; ' Also ?hower Bombs on Cat ais and Dunkirk ,ir. . i i ii ," v" PABIB, August 19 (Associated Press) Oerman, air aquadrona bava been very active in bombing town be hind the front during the past two day. Numerous raidf in, . yariou dir ections are reported. . i At Kouen mi were billed and five in jured by the explosive which were dropped: Tho GoOa flew, far b Havre but there, they did no aeriooa dataiog to Uvea, person or property. Verdun ha been twice raided but without material-damage resulting. In the ojther direction Calais fad. Dun kirk were raided, no great damage be ing reported. ' Fonek is now the reading French Ae. Downing Six enemy planes in a single day he has record of seventy German dsnes to hi credit. w. a. a. REALLY MAT! I'ABIM, August 19 (Associated Press) The note which Spain sent to Genu n y deciariug that from this time forti) bpain will compensate itself for any marine looses occasioned by the Teuton policy pf ruthb? jpulmsriniiy; by taking over a tonnage of German ilitrqed nhippiug equal t that destroy ed, ia. to be., eqnsitlered an ultimatum. Madrid ()epatcbe pf yesterday con firmed the report of. the sending of the note and snid it waa Intended to be a final ultimatum on the shipping ques tion. '''' ' WASHINGTON, August 19 (Asso ciated Press) Five officer ami seven members of the crew of the 8-hurz which foundered after a collision with auother American steamer of the coast of Florida on June 81 kave been ape- o6mmeniTed fOr' bravery The Bchura wa formerly the Mer man steamer Oeier aud waa interned at Honolulu where it waa' taken over by the ynited State when war was dec'ared, repaired and put iuto eerv- GOVERNMENT SECURES IMINGSTOCK f. Ji M - l(, WASHINOTON. August JeJ (Ofti iJ) Th railroad administration re porta that it has received 10,694 eon I ear from the ar builders aine Janu Jh ffvn.tJua it. bo, re ceived a total of 19liq freight cars. During th- present year 4H,fl5H new eara of all kind will b aecured, SCURZ IS COMMENDED AMERICA DO WQT '-fi ( WA&HINQTONV A nguat . 1 (Associated fres) Act! vlty of the, Ameri ea fopee in-three sector are "told In, the oflfclal daspft?h .J?f'r'd las night from the ,'4mrrirn ronV f -''j v .', .- .V,, - (. lhe Vesle.aoetor the?, flghtiug waa eoalned to an rtiUery gagemfnC i'ronj )rrak bf idajr ntll,the'fall ,of 4rkaese, '(th4 Amerieaa-' artillery aeac shells' far1 0 the north, over the Vesle Bivrri T,tbla abelUna tk German' jtfpl.ied but that Frac.Americsn.'lit(eries througbout tke entire day averaged two sneita tj xb on or tji enemy, i t'atrola whlck were at out on Saturday night and penetrated p onsi.lerabl syay. to the norjl) of the river faileii to And the Garnab Infantry, indicating ihajsi a j withdrawal, la the dirnrtlea of tho Aiene ia ia progress. . ' . ,'V TT- v"1 V ' . .".'"' .- r i 7 oaiw Icosa obockd' . "'-Vr.' -'- , In the ldrraine '.H-tpr the" American goiaet still more ground about Frapellewhe. position whirl (hey took from th foe On Saturday, and main tained their bold on the town1 in ipit of the fact that the.' eurtny .dropped twnnty-flve kuqdred shell upon ; it On raid which th Boche' attempted -as repulsed by( rifle Are from automobile. . , . ' , .. 'it' t i-Jn the, Wevre aeetor' the American were ia aom lively patrol engage ments. ...f,;.. . ':., V P." V' Other despatches said that th American anti-craft' go a 3 rite off two Grrman bombing plane. ' PSHSKXVO General'' Pershing a eoipmfniqu, eonlirmed the' new f attempted enemy raid pn American bonpltalsitowning of enemy machine anif the taking of Prt i'H. , ' ""':-' ' ' ' -','t Ia the Ve sector he report that th enemy position er being shelled da pud night with tha enemy .replying WASHTNGTON, August ,1 (OflleiaOr-Danger of privation has now pasait i the cheering' naounremeut whirk has 'been male by Herbert C tlopyer, I'nlteil fUate food administrator-in public statemeat ia Lon .don, according to presa despatches received here. Ia thbi. atnnt he is . ; Rioted a having said i "The danger of privation kaa now" e passed, 'I am atisflel with the result of the 'conference' of the food con trolera of the eo belligerent held here, during the paat three areeka. ' A. progmm has been agreed upon as to, the, different con) modi tie required - not only to maintain the health hut also tbe comfort, of th armies and the ei (liana as well. :: V '' ; ''. ''. ' '- 'U'?: ;V' ; "Tho people of North America will be abUvtblt year to shoulder th movement of the great built of food andj aupplica U th European , AJltef anu ii win luereiure u wwuk is cnruui mi fisi jengin, 0 tne voyage to bring the suppH to tboee European AlKes, effecting a considerable saving of -tonnage.. ., , . .- j ...$ a. fi- ; ... "Arrangement hv been made by the, four food cntroller for the creation of food, eoupeil which will be maintained in contlnuou aesaiou in lndon, . , ; n W . ..' " a-V-- . "There will be universal war bread but it will, bit of better quality than that pf last yeaa. . This wilt be for all tbos nation that ar fighting Germany and thi bread wilt practically be obtainable f without. rationing. There will be ample auppti of fats knd meat if nr pop.alatiOus wil( 1 - etooomicol and will avoid- wasta. W shall alsol be iblet Jtuild jip stoeks '.' of cereal against the next, harvest in case it shhnld pro,v to be less - bountiful than will tiie present barrMt.''. Vi.'.; 5.;v,. ,vy?-.r. . ft,,. w ' -. W4 a . Iflf'fllTlfl I 9YOCL' ATA ..! mw"iuv ;.iuitv,ti iu f " j f ' ' . ' urawn rrom I ri Ji M tl ft Most All Yocatjo:ns . .,a, Reoort of Collections ongW Where the Burden Rest, and, VAkar. It . I rait U I tcKtlwl Whtre It Is Felt Most Lrghtly In Its Many Applicatio'hs ' 1 - WAKHINGTON, August ' i-(Aso-ciated Preas)-rOi the tHSfiOOflfH) per sonal income tax collected for the fiscal year 1911, investor and speculators in all fields shouldered jast on-hird ot the burden, labor .086 percent of it, and the remainder earn ?rom th multitud inous ranks of those whose incomes were classed as derived from "busi ness" and "services". IO mb raced within the latter classes is every calling from that of banker tn the farmer with a scant aire, end, in the profession, from the practitioner of international law to the modest chiropodist. Ninety percent of the total tax wa derived from those fulsome income of more than f 26,000, and l.M pereent from those of the $5000 class and less, although the latter contributed more than third of the total 437,000 re turns. Tim - highest average rat of tax actually paid upon net iueome sb jeit to tax wa 12.9 pereent, whieh fell upon the highest income class of 5, 000,000 and over. Only ten individual, however, bore the burden of that rate. They contributed $13,000,000 to the totoi tax. The eve-ruga rate of tax paid declined through the income r lasses to a minimum of ,29 percent for the t.'IOOO and 401K , elaaa. Although income. of $100,000 and mor constituted only 1.5 percent of the total number of returns, they paid near ly three-fourth of the total tax. ' "Property" income from atock, bonds, rents, royalties and all money working sources constituting nearly one half of the net total of aix billion dollars 'reported, even In the face of the exemption of si) dividends, amount ing to exactly a third of the. total net income returued, bore nearly it pro portionate one haMf of the ' total tax because of the mueh higher proportion of "property" income in the returns of the higher income, classes, paying th heavier - rate of tax. "laoomas from " business " and "service" footed the remainder of the tax bill. Matrimony rroA table . ' As an evidence of the inducements to thrift in matrimony, the return of mnrried men, Making due deduction for .joint returns of buba)4 A wi, inJ diuutcd tl c'.r wealth at more than five times that of ingl, ne as showa by their returns, the former bearing a cor responding burden ot the tax except for exemption iu the $3000 ad $4i00 cu amounting to about t) percent of their toal income reported. Although for the country at large, the return of siugl men were doubl thus of,, single women,, find a)i . New Kiigluiid status were a conspicuous ex ception to the Tule. The total Income reported by single mm in that wetjeq goal CONTTKMI ' only Intermittently, .Wt'H; .barly JI5. pereent th ttal of ,ngl women, bearing teatt Itaorry .eitDkrav'tho.-srlor lndpl,- . anf rnjn4T eapamty i thN England women or a reluctance to ahar District of Columbia iatf Uawkif were f ,la eonapiettoua lit that reeoect show I img siwwv ei(uir. revurus ior smgi men k a striking eccentricity In the report w uws-w t1 tv Vined and un- kH labor !, ftf 'twenty two i- comes abvvn tk ASOeWW marit, .five of them being above 100,000. Two hun dred knd eighty labor return were above lluTWO, : ' .: Four aotnjnereial traveler showed in come o,yer flQo.OOO,, id two salpoakeepera, pn . prof eaalonal sports nta,. eifhtfeea htel proprietor' ad twenty two. innurnne' agents, ' Actors, Binder anj musicians to the number of WIS showed a total iiu'ooie of $11.- .128,000 a net average of over $12, 000. and a possibility to stimulate the Other npfiQQ not, waking returns. Five ot the inoom were,,ov,er $160,900, Is the aas.of, authors, editors ani re porter, there were sixteen incomes' of better than $100,000, and two above $5,00,000. Twelve ministers of the gos pel, showed Uvcomea of more than uv, w,o. , ;,. ;. ,"' .... . Tbe legal profession earned the great est ,tOt.l incomes among profession, althugh the average income . among engineer waa hifdier. Of the 23.000 nir' rutuierj iu the country In 101C, ono in every ten made returns, paying a total of twelve per cent the tax l of the'merehaats, one in ten made returns, paying twelve lire tooth percent of the taxi of e.owiUrjs sioq broker ,io alt fields, one iu fi -. paying eiuhi percent; real estate boU era. y, In.fo-.ping 0.g3 peraent; lawyer, and Juiige. on. jo flv ... paying x5 percent! mi owner and opera- x5 perAenti nil owner and opera. tr, W,' PV'Pg 4 pewent. Que tarter ia about every four hun dred mad returns, paying an aggre gat of, one percent. of th tax, one teacher in. every two. hundred, one clergyman in about every aeveuty five. Maw York Leads. , Tkttyreerslates reporting the great est tbtal "jUwiV". Vr. the order of . their Utur,' New .York. Pennsyl vania and Illiaois., Nw York, with nearly two billion, reported almost a third of. the total retufas. This, how vr, I not an a ceo rate indieatioa of tha .aeUjal, wealth of a att, for per son flls-Mturas wherever they resifV rejiardlea of where tbeis investments or properties sr. It ia a fairly no. curate ' indleatiqn, however, of where that muck iooome i ipent. The net perapfal incomd reported in 1919 totaled t&,3QU)Q0Q, an increase ef $3,40000,000 osvet or about 40 percent. -- Corporat return for 1916 showed a total net ineoine of $rt,700,ooo,000, an tnereaie-'of more thao three billion over 1913 and flv billion over 1914, mnr thaq 100 phreeot: Of the 341100' eorporatioa reporting, 40 per cent (howed Bb net earning, which, however, trfl a,'w prce'ptag than U predU)g year. . j -. .Of Mia $)7;'aO,OO0 corporal tax oollecied. 17.fji perceo of it was drawn from .publie-, utiiHci 1). pereeat froiri Jroi m4 tte pj'oduciloui and. 9 per cent from oilvraf operation. The remainder ram, lamely from miaecila neoii oianufactnriog iniustrie, bank, ing and insufaqc eompaaiea, aod Pier ohandliing companies . , Heavy Shell'Fire Com els Bocl.cs f o Fall Sdck Security From Shells i jrV ASIllNGTON, Aitgijst 19 VV -r(Associated Press) Gradually j;he famous (.ys salient td hV' West rAmentieres' ia yieliing . ifrtdef 'the) ' Mfength of continued liritish pressure. Gen eral Haig'a forces are compelling the foe to seek ground further to the eastward and in the 'general direction ' of Arrtientieres where theyt nay be secure irOm tha big gun shells which for weeks past have been crossing this entire salient raising havoc among its boche' defenders and rendering insecure' the Teuton line. " Fur ther1 ground in 1 this salient was Evacuated by the enemy yester day the withdrawal made in good order.'1. Between Vieuxbcrquin and Baileuil, to the east of Ilaze brouck the British advanced to a depth .varying from 1000 to 2000 yards alongt four mile frbnt wbiLV at Merville,' further south west four hundred prisoners were taken and hositidns eained and fheld. ' Doth to the north and the soUth of the Somme the Franco British troops are giving the Ger mans no rest while' along the V'esle the Americans and French are harrassing the foe. In Lor raine the American forces are making local raids and harrassing the enemy with a heavy artillery fire. ' i-;t- GAINS FOLLOWED UP At the' joining or hinge of the enemy's Aisne and Somme lines (jturttlr important gains were madfe by the French yesterday following up their victory of Sat urday at Autreches, ten miles northwest of Soissons where (hey carried the entire' plateau, gain ing the high land between Au treches and the Aisne and gain ing positions which dominate the region to the northward, still fur ther menacing the 'enemy hold in that terrain, in the direction of ,tbe Oise. ENVELOPING ROYE Continuing ' the circling movement about Itoye, the Hritisb drew nearer to the Chonlnes Kove rood between Chilly and Kransart to tne north of the boleugured town thus jeopardiiting it from the northward wh;le to the south there were henvy artillery en gagement in progress throughout the Further roulli, in the direction of Noyop, there was spjrifid artillery flghtiii),' betwcii t'ainysiirii'.ntx anil Beuvrigny, between Novnn mid I ax.fiu ny fnm whence the French continue i to advance. I In the fighting to the south of the . Aucre, advances were scored by the I Krench forces which took 100 prisoner. , (jenerni March, United States chief lof stuff, iu summing up the results yes- " - d 0nHiv(, th. Allies ha ve s" i 'nt 1'icar surceeded in regaining aptiroximatelv one-third of the territory which the Germans took iri their March and April drive together with 40,000 prisonera and hwve suc ceeded in killing and wounding im mense numbers of the Germans and in taking mueh ordasnre which is regard ed as a hghly important port of th victory at this time Pre despatches tell of the confer ring upon General Ilnig of the Var Cross by Premier Clemenceau upon rec ommendation of General Focb in recocr- Lqitfon of the splendid service he baa rendered to the Allied cause. ...- MACHINE GUM OUTPUT . '' 1 " REACHES QUANTITY M !', t; ' ,ii , c I , WASHINGTON, August 19 (Asso eirted rreis) Vorn ripid progress in the Mliv -f ordnnnce for the Amer lean fX "diliornry force is beini; shown. Kepcrts W vt v'esterd'ay said that there hnve b.n-i 10H,8U.-I machine i gun turocd gut nm a. rented by the "overninent. Of these :W,2W were Brownings. FARMERS AW SUFFERERS DUBir, August 1H (Assoeiuted Press) With the Kiim Feiners rnidiug the farmers and taking their shotguns and th police in return seizing gun to prevent them' from falling into the hand of the binn Koinors, the farmers au.d themselves at a loss to protect their rpp. ,jfP'H .dastr.uetioii by bir'ta and gam. At Kuuiscorthy it was decided to make an apeal to the government la reference to th mutter. end will eome pefore long.'; j. to men fngaged ia government work. :r ,.,., ....) -.. , ... . .: :..: -.y ' (- ( V' '1 ' V.K-' .'.(ie'"M...i:. . (..)' 71