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Police Spirit
fontano Out of
Camorra Reach
Cri?2>?? Apostate of Italian
Murder Gang Is Slipped
From the Tombs Before
Vengeance Strikes Him
Grilled for Four Hours
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Detectives Get Names of
More Slayers in Long
Vendetta Crime Series
Warned of the Camorra's determina- j
tion to penetrate prison walls to still i
the tongue of their apostate, Bartolo t
Fontane the police have spirited their <
prisoner out of the Tombs. The itin- I
?rant barber spent last night in the j
Raymond Street jail, in Brooklyn, j
Where he will be to-night is known
only to Acting Captain of Detectives i
Michael Fiaschetti, head o? tho Italian [
squad. j
For four hours the confessed mur- ;
derer v.as held at Police Headquarters j
yesterday afternoon, subject every ;
minute of the time to a painstaking ;
examination conducted by Fiaschetti.
Each time a swarthy faced member of
the Italian squad entered the room
where Fontano was being questioned '
the marked man cringed in his chair,
betraying his ever present fear of the ;
ver.gear.ee of his fellows.
In spite of that tear, or pernaps be- i
eause of it, he gave more and more in?
formation concerning tho men with
whom he has been associated in what
ke describes as a murder gang. He
?aye Fiaschetti additional names?how
many the detectives declined to reveal
?and.wh.it was most important, is said
to have identified the chief of the mur?
derous organization. This man, it is
understood, has made his headquarters
is Buffalo.
The decision to take Fontano out of
the Tombs was reached after a con?
ference between the head of the Ital-j
ian squad and Assistant District At-1
torneys Hennis and Marro, of the!
Homicide Buieau, who have been co-1
operating in the effort to trap the en?
tire band of alleged murderers. All of ?
the authorities concerned are extraor-1
dinariiy elated at the unusual oppor-1
tunity that hau presented itself of ex- ?
tracting information from a Sicilian j
killer who is willing to talk.
In the thirteen and a half years that!
Fiaschetti has beer, in the Police De- !
partment, and practically all of thati
time he has been in the Italian squad,
he has never had such nn opportunity.
It is almost axiomatic at Headquarters
that an Italian in contact with the po?
lice is mute.
The present situation is due solely
tj the unusual circumstance that Fon?
tano, once a favored member of the
Camorra, learned that he was to be
killed because he knew too much. Be?
lieving that his only hope of prolong?
ing his life was to get himself into
ia.il, Fontano confessed?and is still
confessing.
Fiaschetti yesterday questioned the
ether m^n held in the Tombs, those
first involved by Fontano's confession,
but these men are in a different situa'>
tion from the man who gave their
names to the police.
The Italian squad leader, asked what
he had learned from them, merely
shrugged his broad shoulder?. Fias?
chetti was undisturbed by threats of
death that have corne to him since
Pontano's confession started the round-i
up of Sicilian murderers.
"Those are things to be expected
in this business," he said. "If a de?
tective paid any attention to them he
would be utterly useless to the Police
Department."
Word was received at headquarters
last night that Bert McPherson, lieu?
tenant of detectives of the Detroit po?
lice department, would arrive here to?
day to cooperate with the local police
in clearing up a number of murders
that have occurred there that were en?
gineered from New York. Two mem?
bers o? the iocai Itaiian squad went to
Newark to see if they could pick up
any threads leading from the murder
there yesterday of an ita'ian that con?
necte-: with the web of evidence given
by Bartolo Fontano.
Surrender of Ex-Kaiser
Demanded by Bottomley
LONDO.V, Aug. 18.?The declaration
that Holland should be called upon to
surre ?er the former German Emperor
was made in the House of Commons to?
day by Horatio Bottomley, Independ?
ent, who again raised the question of
the recent trais in Leipsic of Germans
accused of acts in violation of the rules
<:' c vilized warfare in the World War.
Mr, '.'? ttomley said that if the demand
for the ex-Kaiser's surrender should be
refused by Holland and the British
i nt found itself unable to deal
.' . the matter effectively the govern?
ment should make way for "men of
:? mer stuff."
?or Genera!, Sir Ernest Pol
represented the government
?t the trials in Leipsic, reviewed thei.i
and declared that the punishments ini
the German court on convlctcl
German officers must be judged by Ger?
man standards. It already had been
1, he said, that when the Italian
up the lawyers of France,
Belgium, Italy and Great Britain
;'? t together to decide the true
: v, to :. taken of the trials.
rnest said it should be remero
b'.red that the Leipsic trials were the
.?i the history of the world in
v ? ? a i anqaisheu country had been
tt - : to >.ry its own nationals charge;!
??.'?. wai guilt.
Just How You
Stand Tonight
The day's sales of each
department, summary of
cash received, accounts
payable and receivable,
bank balance, window dis?
play, advertising?
All at a glance, on Na?
tional Business Statement
Form 80-AF. Ask your
stationer to show it to you,
with National Ring Binder
6408 or 6508.
/ ook for Thi? Tr*H? Mark
Whsjn You ?ur
(\ NATIONAL^
Istoi* Lmof and Bound Books
MATfONAL. BLANK BOOK CO.
'H, Klv*r?M?, ti'AyoO*, M*?*.
Breaks Horse9s Wooden
Leg; Sued for $10,000
HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 18.?
Jacob Diamond, a peddler, to-day
filed suit in Superior Court for
$10,000 damage? against a motor- j
ist who ran into Diamond's three
legged horse and broke its wooden
leg. The suit alleges the animal ?
was "brui.sed and humiliated" to ;
that extent.
The horse, which has worn the j
wooden leg for five years, has had ?
a troubled career. On one occa?
sion the leg caught on fire and the
fire department was called to ex?
tinguish the blaze.
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Burns Succeeds;
Flynn as Chief j
Of Investigation!
(Continued from page ?ne)
feited that government officials at first '?
declared them genuine. Burns discov- ,
ered that they were made by splitting ?
$1 notes, washing them and photo-en
graving them into certificates of $100 ?
denomination.
He sent four men to prison for coun- !
terfeiting these notes and a fifth for !
attempting to bribe him.
Mr. Burns's work in connection with j
the dynamiting of The Los Angeles I
Times in October, 1910, when twenty- |
one persons were killed, is considered '?
his second greatest feat. He was re- i
tained on this job by the Mayor of Los j
Angeles. After seven months of work j
he caught and convicted the two Me- j
?amara brothers and two other men '
implicated in the dynamiting.
It was at the request of Secretary j
of the Interior Hitchcock in 1903 that
President Roosevelt assigned Burns to !
the land fraud investigation. As a re- j
suit of his discoveries many sensa
tional convictions were made and the j
land fraud game was put out of com- I
mission. I
In 1907 Mr. Burns obtained a leave j
of absence from the Secret Service to !
help the citizens of San Francisco !
clean up the graft conditions in that !
city, it was Mr. Burns who placed !
Abe Ruef. the political bo.*s of the j
city, in the penitentiary and convicted ?
the Mayor and got confessions from all i
the members of the Board of Super- I
visors except one. After he had lin- \
ished this case Mr. Burns severed his I
connection with the government and I
opened his detective agency in New !
York, where it is now carried on by j
his sons.
Mr. Burns wan bora in Baltimore on >
! October 19, 1861. His family moved to
j Columbus, Ohio, where his father be- '
came Police Commissioner. Through '
i this association young Burns, who had [
| attended a commercial college, gained '
his first knowledge in criminology. I
? ?
! Rum Yacht Is Captured;
I Police in Wait for Second
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Craft, Once Owned by Ex-Gov- j
ernor Lowden of Illinois, Is
Seized at Cleveland
CLEVELAND, Aug. 18. ? Cleveland
police and Federal officials are patrolling !
the shore of Lake Erie to-night looking I
for the arrival of a second whisky
smuggling craft from Canada. One !
vessel, the yacht Venice, was seized ;
? here to-day with a cargo of liquor. Such >
| a craft is said by Cleveland police to
; have left a Canadian port wiih a second
! cargo of liquor before it could be noti
i tied that the Venice had been appre
' hended and its cargo confiscated.
The principal figure among those ar
! rested in the seizure of the Venice is
? Captain William L. Curry, who admits,
according to the police, that he was also
; master of the steam yacht Tranquillo,
1 carrying a cargo of liquor, seized in
' Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland, some
weeks ago by the Lakewood police.
Those taken on the Venice included
four men and four women.
The Venice, according to its papers,
.formerly was owned by former Gov
i ernor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois.
| British Protest Seizure
Of Liquor Ship by U. S.
Recognition Denied of Federal
Jurisdiction Beyond Three
Mile Limit
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.?Formal
! notice that it cannot recognize juris
i diction of the United States over the
! high seas beyond the three-mile limit
: fixed by international law for many
: years has been served by the British
' government in connection with the
j Beizure twelve miles off the Long
, Island coa.st of the British schooner
: Marshal!, reported to have been laden
! with liquor.
It is expected, however, that the
! British authorities will await the out
? corne of court proceedings and final
i establishment of the vessel's registry
i before any further diplomatic step is
taken. It has been deemed necessary,
. however, to give notice in advance that
I Great Britain cannot acquiesce in ex
', tension of American jurisdiction over
the high seas beyond the usual limit.
Beer Bill Hits
New Snag and
s
(Continued from nnj? on?)
characterized this as "unmitigated in?
solence." He continued with a bitter
arraignment of the man who would
carry his "propaganda into the secret,:
if not the sacred, confidence of thereon- !
ference," and denounced the "pestifer- i
oils activities" of the Anti-Sa'oon
League chieftain.
Presence of Lobbyist Resented
"The admission of a paid lobbyist," |
Senator Reed went on. "if ho was ad-1
mitted, to interfere in these delibera- ?
tions between these two bodies of men!
meeting in conference is an innova- i
tion, a solecism and a piece of unwar- i
ranted and unmitigated insolence on
the part of any man who undertook the I
task. It is destructive of legislation]
and unfair.
"Have we three bodies of the legis- !
iature?one the House, another the '
Senate and the other the Anti-Saloon ?
League? If Wayne B. Wheeler repre- i
senting the Anti-Saloon League why ;
not somebody representing the Saloon j
League, if there is such a thing?
"The truth is, this is lobbying gone
mad. The lobbyist -who hibernates ?
here in Washington, who goes before j
committees to argue in the open or !
who buttonholes members of Congres.', '
has for a long time been a stench in |
the public nostrils."
Then Senator Reed turned his at- I
tention to Representative Volstead, j
who was sitting in the gallery mean?
while, nervously pulling his long, black '
mustache.
"I had never had the pleasure of
seeing until the other day the distin- '
guished author of the Volstead act,"
said Senator Reed. "I do not know
whether he wa ; born in the United
States or not, but I am informed he
speaks broken English. I do not know
what his ancestry may be: but I do j
know I have seen the picture of some |
of the conspirators of the past, the ?
countenance of those who led in fan*ti
cal revoit, the burners of witches, the |
executioners who applied the torch?
and I saw them all again when I looked \
at the author of this amendment."
Wheeler Denies Charge
Soon after Senator Reed's attack Mr.
Wheeler, who had been sitting in the
gallery, issued this statement:
"The charge by Senator Reed that I
sat with the conferees on the beer bill
on the date mentioned is not true. I '
went to the committee room when they |
closed their work for the day and urged I
thf m to agree on something in order
to secure a vote before the recess and
prevent the opening of the breweries. '
This is what Senator Reed and other
wet Senators are attempting to accom
plish in their filibuster on this bill, j
This amendment on search and seizure j
was evidently injected into the bill by'
the wets to muddy the waters and cause |
delay.
'The same beer interests that cor- ?
rupted the politics of the nation are j
back of this beer bill. One hundred
thousand dollars' worth of imported
malt, liquors in one lot is now ready for
distribution if the passage of this bill
is delayed until after the recess and
the beer regulations are issued. The
invisible lobby back of this filibuster
to force medical beer on the country
does not seem to worry those who are
vituperative and abusive of the dry ad?
vocates who work in the open."
When Senator Reed read the Wheeler
statement he returned to the attack.
"What business was it of this man
to go to a conference to interfere with
its business, whether before or after it
had concluded its session?" said Sen?
ator Reed. "He has just as much
right there as a representative of the
Standard Oil or any other interest, and
no more. He's a paid lobbyist and
nothing else.
"I charge that when he wrote that
statement he wrote a deliberate, will?
ful, coldblooded and premeditated falae
hood, and he knew it."
Crowds of Alsatians
Cheer Legion Visitors
Americans Place Tablet at Si.
Die; Military Greeting
at Strasbourg
STRASBOURG, Alsace-Lorraine, Aue.
: 18 (By The Associated Press).?Civil
i and military authorities, delegations of
j veterans' associations and a company
; of infantry with colors and a band
I paid honors to the American Legion
? delegation when it arrived here this
! evening. Great crowds of Alsatians
gathered and cheered them.
En route to Strasbourg the Legion?
naires stopped off at St. Die, proceeding
to a point familiar to thousands of
Americans, in the rear of the old Lune
ville sector, where they placed a com?
memorative tablet on a house which
is called the "Baptismal Font" of
America. It was in this house, accord?
ing to tradition, that an Alsatian monk,
Waldsee M?ller, wrote a letter sug?
gesting that the continent be named
after Amerigo Vespucci.
Captain Rene Fonck, the French ace,
now a Deputy, was with the authorities
v,ho welcomed the American::, at St.
Die.
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Ti'd
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THE difference be?
tween Oriental
Pearls and Tecla
Pearls is just about
as nebulous as the
reply of the young
I lady who was asked
?J if she had read
Romeo and Juliet. F
She said: "I have
read Romeo, but
intend to take up
Juliet when I have
more time."
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Court Says Wife Should Share I
$500,000 Made in Boodeggiiig
Though She Doesn't Have Husband's Pride in
"Profession" and Makes Aversion Basis of Suit.
Judge Gives Her $300 Month of Profits, to Start
Mrs. Ethel Vannata, who takes no
pride in being the wife of a boot?
legger in spite of the $500,000 che al?
leges her husband made since the first
of the year, was awarded 5300 a month
temporary alimony yesterday in the
Brooklyn Supreme Court by Justice
Cropsey. The court made it clear that
he believed John T. Vannata, from
whom Mrs. Vannata seeks a separation,
was a bootlegger on a grand scale, de?
spite his pica of poverty.
"The. defendant husband evidently
has made large sums in illegal sales
of alcohol," said Justice Cropsey in
fixing temporary alimony, "and if he
has not property in his own name he
has placed it in the names of others.
While the parties lived together, they
lived at the rate of $10,000 to $15,000
a year."
Says He's Made $500,000
Mrs. Vannata said she objected to
the illicit business. Her objections
had not the slightest effect on her
husband, she averred, who informed her
that he hoped to clear more than $1,
000,000 before the end of the year,
adding:
"You should be proud to be the wife
of a bootlegger."
Mrs. Vannata found it impossible to
take pride in her husband's profession,
and finding him irrevocably wed to it,
she said, she started the action for a
separation. Although thoroughly dis
! approving of bootlegging, Mrs. Van
i nata thought it due her husband's pe
! cuniary exaltation to ask for $2.000 a
i month alimony, $12,000 counsel fees
' and $2,500 for ether expenses.
In reply to this demand Vannata
I asserted that he had retired recently
! from the wholesale drug business and
was just starting in the real estate
business. He had no office yet. he
said, and was making only $150 a
month. His total savings were only
$500, he declared.
Swears He's Bootlegger
His wife, intent upon identifying
j her husband publicly with the pro
i fession in which she said he took so
1 much pride privately, filed affidavits
I to show his interest in transactions
i in liquor.
An affidavit made by Arthur Ward,
? of 1I?7 Fifty-eighth Street, employed by
; Vannata from August, 1920, to Feb
; ruary, 1921, states that Ward drove
i Vannata in an automobile behind a truck
: loaded with barrels of liquor, which
were removed from a bonded ware
! house at 42 South Street, Manhattan,
! to the house of Vannata's father, in
; Seventy-ninth Street, Brooklyn.
Anthony Carrulli, of 236 Fourth Ave?
nue, Brooklyn, stated in an affidavit
| that he was acquainted with Vannata's
j personal affair? and knew that the man
had paid out $20,000 to a man named
j Klein, of the Kentucky Distillery Com
j pany, and $5,500 to an agent of the
I Federal Products Company.
j Mrs. Vannata lives at the Hotel St
' Georee.
Bill for Removal
Of City Hall Park
Postoffice Pushed
Hearings To Be Held Before
Committee in October and
Congress Is Expected to
Pass It at This Session
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.?Confident
of favorable action by the Committee
on Public Buildings, to which has been
referred his bill providing for the re?
moval of the postoffice, or Federal
Building, from City Hall Park, Repre?
sentative Albert B. Rossdale, Republi?
can, of New York City, predicted to?
day his measure would pass this ses?
sion of Congress.
From the standpoint of economy
??.ione. Mr. Rossdale, who served in the
antiquated building as a postal em?
ployee for ten years, believes the Ad?
ministration can be convinced of the
merit of his bill. He pointed out to?
day that the government is spending
more than $1,000,000 a year for the
rental of office space for Federal em?
ployees which could be saved through
the construction of a new postoffice
building near the Pennsylvania
Terminal.
Hearings on the Rossdale bill are to
be held by the committee immediately
after the House returns from its re?
cess, and favorable committee action is
expected before the middle of October.
Plans for pushing the measure will be
discussed at a conference of New York
members to be arranged within the
next few days.
"Sale of the fine granite in the
building," declared Mr. Rossdale to?
day, "will, I believe, pay for the cost,
of razing it and converting the site
into additional park space for the City
liai!. 1 was employed in the building
for many year.- and know it from cel?
lar to roof, and no private employer, I
am positive, would permit, its use as ,-<
workshop of that kind.
"The site originally belonged to the
park and should be returned. Its lo?
cation is without reason and is the
car.se of much duplication in (he han?
dling of the mails. Scores of heavy
trucks air used unnecessarily every
day in hauling the mails from uptown
and back again, and as they <?o lum?
bering through the congested streets
cf lower Manhattan they are a seri?
ous menace to life.
1 "The abolition of the office and the
const rue tion of t'.vo new o flic es. one
i back of the postoffice at the Penn
! sylvania Terminal and the other near
the Grand Central, have been recom?
mended by the joint postal commis
i sion, and f am sure that we will rcet
1 favorable action hy both the Hou3e
1 and Senate on the bill before the
I close cf the present- session."
Bennett Launches
Speaking Campaign j
At East Side Clubj
_
Predicts Honest Count ofi
Ballots and Overthrow
of Tammany; Opens His
Brooklyn Fight To-night
Former Senator William M. Bennett
i opened his campaign for the Repub
? lican Mayoralty nomination at the East
? Side Republican Club, at 338 East Thir
| teenth Street. James Mason, president
; of the club, presided. Joseph Beihllf,
i who is a d?sign?e for the Court of Gen- |
' eral Sessions on the Bennett ticket,
i also spoke.
j Bennett, in opening, referred to "my
leading opponent for the nomination
-, for Mayor," Henry II. Curran, who, he
! recalled, had said that one reason why
; he was confident that he was going to
| win out in the primaries and at the
i general election was that this was his
j seventh campaign, and that he would
be the seventh Mayor of New York.
"1 also believe in omens," continued
] Bennett. "Primary Day is September
] 13, and I am opening my campaign on
Thirteenth Street. The coincid? neo of
! these figures bodes ill for Tammany
! Hall on Fourteenth Street, one block
! above. ? confidently expect to be nomi
! nated and elected, as I would have been
I four years ago had the Fusion Commit
; tec not put a third ticket ;u the fit-Id
l after I won the primary."
The speaker added that he believed |
: that there would be an honest count j
I this year, and declared:
"The great issue in this campaign j
is whether the same people who stole
the primary in 1917 shall he allowed
? to name the candidates for the Board |
of Estimate and Apportionment this
' year. I think the answer at the pri?
mary will be an emphatic 'No,' and a
' victory at the primary for the straight
! Republican candidate:; will mean the
! defeat of Tammany Hall and the ou&t
I ing of John F. Dylan from the City
c Hall."
When Senator Bennett opens his
campaign in Brooklyn to-night at the
? district clubhouse of Jacob A. Livings
! ton, county chairman, Vincent Gilroy,
I the Republican-Coalition d?sign?e for
' President of the Board of Aldermen,
also will speak from the same plat
i form.
Killed Crossing "L" Tracks
A man believed to be Gaetano Dei
gostino, forty-eight years old, of 507
; East Eleventh Street, was killed yester
! day afternoon when he attempted to
cross the tracks of the Third Avenue
I elevated line at the Houston Street
; station. A northbound Bronx Park ex?
press wedged him against the station
plaf form.
BENJAM?N FRANKLIN SaVS:
"Old age will come, disease may come bejore"1 ..,.?.
The Motor
Must Keep Running
You would have little respect tor a machine which
stopped running the moment you fumed your back
on it.
Make sute, too, that your business and personal affairs
will continue in good running order when your hand
can no longer guide them. The best safeguard is a
properly drawn will, with provision for its competent
execution.
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vessels in to-day's
NEW YORK TRIBUNE
Shipping and Travel Guide
Court to Test
Police Power
To Hunt Liquor'
Magistrate Orders Arrest of
Plainclothes Man Who En?
tered Establishment Not
Public Place for Evidence
Action Is Called Illegal
Bootlegger Who Sold Whisky
to Detective Through Rub?
ber Tube Pleads Guilty
To test the right of a policeman te?
enier an establishment not a public
place and search for liquor Magistrate
Francis X. McQuade in the West Side
court yesterday directed the arrest of
Walter Clancy, a plainclothes man.
Clancy, who i? twenty-five years old,
lives at 116 King Street, He is at?
tached to the staff of Inspector Boet
t!er, of the 3d Inspection District.
Clancy's arrest followed the ar?
raignment and discharge of John Mc
Mahon, of 259 West Forty-fifth Street,
a restaurant keeper. MeMahon was ac?
cused of violating the Mullan-Gage
law. Tie told the court that he took
possession of the restaurant in the
basement of the Forty-fifth Street ad?
dress on August 1. He spent the fol?
lowing day cleaning the place, he said,
and was kept busy getting refuse out
and putting the establishment in con?
dition to do business. Early on the
morning of August 3, he said, Clancy
entered with anither policeman and
said they wanted to hunt for liquor.
Supposed Liquor Seized
A pint bottle containing some sup?
posed liquor was found on a window
sill and MeMahon was locked up. When
arraigned yesterday he asked for an
adjournment.
After hearing the complaint the
magistrate turned to Clancy and said:
''Did you have a search warrant to en?
ter this man's place?"
When the policeman replied in the
negative the magistrate said: "I am
iired of having to sit and listen to
illegal evidence. This man's place was
not yet open as a public restaurant and
you had no right to go in there. ] am
going to make a test case of this thing.
I have no personal enmity against you,
Clancy, but am simply doing this to
determine the legal right of a police?
man to enter a private establishment."
The policeman was taken into cus?
tody on a charge of violating Section
854 of the Penal Code regarding op?
pression. At Clancy's request the case
was adjourned until August 25. He
was paroled in his own custody.
United States Commissioner Henry
L. Rasquin, in Brooklyn, yesterday dis?
charged from custody Clarence King,
cook on the Henry L. Marshall. The
ship was taken into custody for alleced
whisky running. Commissioner Ras?
quin held that King had no guilty
knowledge of the purpose of the cruise
when he shipped. The captain and four
members of the crew are being held
pending extradition to New Jersey.
Got Liquor Through Tube
Before County Judge Mitchell !iay,
yesterday morning, William Henry
pleaded guilty to feeding Detective
Roger bootleg whisky through a rub?
ber tube from a rubber bap under his
coal, in violation of the Mullan-Gage
law.
Reger was hunting "hootch peddlers"
and discovered that the hallway of the
building where Henry lives was quite
a popular place at night. On August
10 he concealed himself in the d? rk
hallway. He waited until he heard a
voice ask, "Is any one there?"
"Ves," replied Reger, "I want n
drink."
"All right," replied the voice, "take
what you want."
Reger felt the end of a tube pressed
into his hand and took a "pull." One
"pull" satisfied him that the tube was
not connected to a water faucet on the
other end. When he flashed his light
he found Henry holding a rubber tube
which led to a mbber bag under his
coat. Two quarts of whisky still re?
mained in the bag. Henry was re?
manded for sentence on Monday by
judge May.
Proposed Tax
On Soft Drink
Sellers Dropped
Republican Committeenien
Also Agree to Change in
Levy on Profits on the
Sale of Capital Assets
War Pensions Exempted
Fifty Additional Amend?
ments Will Be Taken :
lTp ; to Vote To-morrow
WASHINGTON, Aug. IS.?Many
amendments to the Republican tax bill
I will be- offered on behalf of the ma
I jority members of the Ways and Means
Committee before the House takes a
! final vote on the measure late Satur
; day. Several changes were agreed!
; upon to-day by the Republican com- !
mitteemen and upward of half a hun
I dred others will bo considered early
i to-morrow before the bill is taken up:
? in Cue House for amendment.
One change voted to-day by the com- !
mittee was elimination of the proposed !
; annual license tax of S10 on venders of j
] soft drinks. Under another alteration .
\ individual taxpayers would pay 12V4 i
'. per cent on profits from the sale of |
capital assets if such profits and the '
taxpayers' net normal income exceeded 1
. 829,000. Under the bill before the I
House they would be required to pay 15 ?
: per cent on the excess over $40,000.
It also was decided tentatively to ex- |
: empt from taxation the government ,
> allowances received by veterans of the
j Civil and Spanish-American wars or
their beneficiaries, as well as those re
: ceived by individuals under the war
; risk and vocational rehabilitation acts.
Foreign Trade Exemption
Other amendments known to be un
. der consideration would exempt manu
i facturers of tooth paste and powder
: from the tax on toilet preparations
1 and would define as foreign trade cor?
porations business organizations which
I derive 50 per cent of their income from
| sources without the United States. The
; figure in the bill is 80 per cent. This
! class of income would not be taxable.
? There is a movement before the com?
mittee to propose creation of a special
j commission to devise some form o''
! plan by which incomes derived from
! tax-exempt securities can be taxed.
General debate on the tax bill ended
| to-night. Principal speakers for the
i Democrats were Representatives Oid
j field, of Arkansas, and Cockran, of
j New York, and for the Republicans
Representatives Green, of Iowa, and
j Longworth, of Ohio, members of the
i Ways and Moans Committee.
Mr. Ci ckran attacked not only the
! bill itself but the rule under which
the Democrats say they will be cut off
from offering any amendments to the
bill.
Using Treasury estimates to support
his argument that the tax bill would
result in a huge government deficit at
the end of this fiscal year, Mr. Cockran
declared that if the Treasury went
into the market for 51,000,000,000 to
help pay ordinary expenses of the
government there would be a panic.
To-night's session was enlivened by
! an exchange between Representative
! Byrnes, Democrat, of North Carolina,
I and Chairman Fordney, when the
i f'W.ne;- charged that the Republicans in
i framing the bill had shifted the tax
? burden to the poor to benefit :ich con?
tributors to the Republican campaign
fund last year.
"There is not a word of truth in the
statement, and you know it," Mr.
Fordney shouted.
'?That statement of yours is just a
lie," Mr. Byrnes retorted.
The House was thrown into an up
[ roar and both members reiterated
charges, but the remarks were finallj
i expunged from the record.
i 100 Russian Children on Way
NAPLES, Aug. I?. - - One hut.'ire,i
? Russian children have arrived here on
! their way to the United States. After
| passing the sanitary inspection they
1 will be embarked for New York.
2.300 British Veterans
Keen to Fight Moors
Unemployed Ex-Soldiers Storm
Spanish Consulate to En?
list in Legion
?? The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 1921 New York Tribun?Tue.
LONDON', Aug. 18.?Attracted by
yesterday's stories that a few men
were being accepted for service with
the Spanish Foreign Legion in Moroc?
co, 2,500 of London's unemployed w?r
veterans s ormcd the Spanish consu?
late in Bloomsbury Square this morn
r,-. eager '..? fight the Moors for 70
cents a day.
The consulate staff was overwhelmed
by the crowd of volunteers and called
the police, who, after some difficulty,
dispersed the crowd.
This evening- the consulate- an?
nounced that recruiting had hern
suspended for the present, but that
an .her office would soon be opened.
i; uiso published further conditions o:'
service, with a view to discouraging
the flood of jobless men, to whom any
employment is alluring. Many in the
line outside the consulate brought
their old service outfits, teady to de
par; immediately for the war zone
in Africa.
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: the biggest fleet of trucks.
I But the Owens plant does rep
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; method makes for the best in
: courteous and satisfactory ser
? vice.
! This combination applied to the
! handling of
has a tendency to make loyal,
I life-long customers, and be
| cause such customers are apt
to place their orders with intel?
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mine to the customer's bin is
stronger and tetter in every
link.
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