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WEATHER FORECAST
Generally fair tonight and Thurs
day; moderate temperature.
ESTABLISHED 1873
TAXPAYERS WILL SAVE $308,000,000 ANNUALLY
OIL FINDING
AT ROBINSON
PURE GAMBLE
Professor Leonard Says Con
ditions All Against Find
ing Oil in Quantity
SOIL IS UNFAVORABLE
No Reputable Geologist Has
Examined the Field So
Far As Is Known
Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 11.—(/P)~
Samples of oil taken from the well at
Robinson, which has created intense
excitement in Kidder county by pro
ducing gasoline, show that the sub
stance is in fact refined gasoline,
Prof. A. G. Leonard, director of th ■
North Dakota Geological ».i. i , ;.:ld
the Associated Prfss today.
As a result, l’rof. Leonard said,
prospects of finding oil in the Robin
son district, or near Wing, Burleigh
county, are “a gamble pure and simple
with the chances all against those
who invest in the projects.”
Prof. Leonard’s statement followed
numerous reports which have gained
wide circulation throughout the state
that geologists have examined the
Kidder county area and declared it
to be an oil-hearing formation. As
a result the hopes of Kidder county
citizens that oil will be found in com
mercial quantities have been raised
to such a high pitch that some land
owners are holding their property at
51.000 an acre.
Investigation by the state securi
ties commission failed to locate a sin
gle reputable geologist who had made
a favorable report on the possibility
of finding oil in the region. In fact,
state investigators were not able to
establish the. identity of a single ge
ologist who has inspected the area
recently.
Townley Bald to Have “Oil Witch”
Reports received by state indicate
that A. C. Townley, former Nonparti
san chieftain and one of t.he leading
promoters in the' Kidder county dis
trict, has placed at least partial re
liance in an “oil witch” imported from
Kansas. It is alleged to be an instru
ment which,' when carried over the
ground in a certain position, indicates
the presence of oil. A few persons,
who visited another oil development
project sponsored by Townley in Kan
sas, claim to have seen the “witch”
in action and profess to believe in it.
r Commenting on the numerous
stories of favorable reports by un
named geologists on the prospect of
finding o’J in Kidder county, Prof.
Leonard said:
Leonard's Statement
"I am glad to make a statement re
garding the possibilities of finding
oil in Kidder county and the adjoin
ing region. While 1 did not carry
on any investigations in that county
the past summer, I and other mem
bers of the Geological Survey have
spent considerable time in that re
gion during previous summers and
are familiar with the geological con
ditions there. So far as I know, no
reputable geologist from outside the
state has ever examined the field or
made any report on it, favorable or
otherwise. In fact, 1 am quite sure
that no reputable geologist would be
willing to make a favorable report
since the geological conditions are
all against the finding of oil in com
mercial quantity in that region.
“The samples of oil from the Rob
inson wells show that it is refined
gasoline and cannot have 1 come from
the rock formations since such oil is
not found in the ‘oil sands.’ There is
no evidence whatever of any anticline
or other oil structure in the region
and in the absence of these there is
practically no chance that oil will be
found in commercial quantity. Pros
pecting in the area is thus a gamble
pure and simple with the chances all
against those who invest in the pro
jects. , .
2,000 Feet of Shale
“Below the glacial drift of the re
gion, the well would go through 2,000
feet and more of shale which is so
compact that it does not contain oil
in an quantity, if at all. Below this
shale is the Dakota Sandstone which
seldom carries oil even where the
structural conditions are favorable.
It is thus practically certain that oil
cannot occur in commercial quantities
in the vicinity of Robinson and it is
a waste of money to prospect for it.
“The deep well drilled over a year
ago, southwest of Marmarth on the
Cedar Creek anticline where the ge
ological conditions were all favorable
for the occurrence of oil, 'has found
no oil although considerable gas was
struck in the well.”
I Weather Report I
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Tcmperuture at 7 a.
Highest yesterday ™
Lowest last night
Precipitation to 7 a. J?
Highest wind velocity
WEATHER FORECAST
For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen
erally fair tonight and Thursday;
moderate temperature.
For North Dakota: Generally fair
tonipht and Thursday; moderate tem
perature.
Weather Conditions
The preaure is low over the North
westand rain occurred over the west
ern Rocky Mountain slope and in the
north Pacific region. General
ly fair weather prevails from the
eastern slope of the Rockies east
ward to the Atlantic coast. The high
pressure areas over the Southwest
and in the East have moved very
little during the past 24 hours and
moderate temperatures prevail in all
sections.
ORRIS W. ROBERTS.
Official in Charge.
diesTwhile RUNNING
London. —Dr. E. H. Barton, pro
'•**<»or of nhvsics at Nottingham
University College, died while run
ning to catch a tramcar. All the
university professors attended his
funeral in caps and gowns. t
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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [ FINAL EDITION |
A PROGRAM FOR PEACE
■ BY JOHN R. McQUIGC.
National Commander, the American l.egbn
At 11 oclock in the morning seven years ago today the guns on
the western front suddenly became silent. The greatest conflict
of the ages was at an end. It seemed th a the forces of death,
destruction and desolation were exhausted.
The cost in blood and treasure was staggering. The black clouds
of war. receding, left behind a
torn, dazed and bleeding world,
but liberty ami justice had tri
vUHRHMP umphed, popular government
" as ,e,l< l eret i more secure and
S' m °dern civilization was pro -
served. Ihe victory was woil’n
TfjH America helped t<> bring
that victory and helped to
that price. From Flanders to
I! the Vosges tbou.ands of Amcr-
K -JHHMk loans no other
I';. quiem th"
p er * v * ‘ chatter of machine
guns. •• r thou-ands began
fl a period •’ pa ; n <n 1 suffering
B". "'Wm fl that has i ,t yet run its course.
K/>s' ( /:A':a • In-sofa < . - lies we owe
H '• t 0 *n Flmnlei
«■ >'.e|il ail •: s ( * w!ie :e, fell
o,•|j,.f that they wei<> fight ng
: is : Wm a "un - to end wars, to -ee t
: oB that their desires and dreams
BB for peace come true.
The American Legion believes
that, to great extent, th:
he accomplished ■• > :
.p'vfj',’' *jS.. Sillf The maintenance of adv|ii..t
force.- for internal and e\tc.
-Jmw Thf prompt enactment
l-t'v of the principle of th" uni
versa! draft, thereby taking the
• ~ » profit out of war; and
The immediate adherenc by
the United States to a perma
tient court of international ju>-
COMMANDER McQUIGG The American Legion, in the
name of the untold suffering
and sacrifice of comrades, offer s this program for peace in the
hope that through it the men and women who fought for peace
may give some further service to America and to the world.
BLAZER CASE
IS READY FOR
JURY TODAY
Half Holiday Granted During
Which Judge Will Prepare
His Instructions
Littleton, Cs>lo., Nov. 11.— UP) —
With all evidence presented and a
half holiday recess granted to permit
preparation of jury instructions and
closing arguments, 12 men in district
court soon will have the task of de
ciding the fate of Dr. Harold Elmer
Blazer, country physician who is
charged with the murder of his 04-
year-old daughter, Hazel —the “child
woman” who never grew from in
fancy.
Did Blazer actually slay his first
born child?
If so, was he insane when he took
her life?
If the deed was his, did he do
wrong when he slew the imbecilic
cripple, who was not, defense attor
neys contend, “a reasonable human
being as comprehended by the stat
utes of Colorfado?”
These are the questions that con
fronted the 12 jurors as they pre
pared to take the case into their
hands for final decision.
With the words, “the state rests,”
Prosecuting Attorney Joel E. Stone
late last night paved the way for
Judge Samuel Johnson’s instructions
to the jury and the closing argument
of both state and defense counsel to
day.
To Hasten Verdict
Determined to bring the now fam
ous case to as speedy a close as pos
sible, Judge Johnson granted but a
half-day holiday recess to permit him
to prepare his instructions to the
jury and allow opposing counsel time
to marshal facts on their closing ar
gument.
Because of the peculiar construc
tion of ('oloradp's criminal code, the
judge will deliver his instructions to
the jurors before final pleadings are
made.
Dr. Blazer appeared to be little wor
ried as the state rested its case.
“Naturally I am anxious, but I be
lieve the jury will acquit, me,” he
said.
“However, there is one person who
is more interested in the outcome
than I. That person is my mother —
she’s well past 80 years of age now.
She will be waiting news of the ver
dict in her little cottage near Hain
mondsville, Ohio.”
Much Expert Testimony
The finul stages of the case drew
from both lay and expert witness
wide diversion of opinion as to the
sanity of the Doctor. Almost as many
explanations and justifications of his
actions were laid before the jury as
■there were witnesses summoned, and
the jurors carried with them into
their quarters a bewildering mass of
technical phrases to ponder over.
Hundreds of letters of praise, con
demnation and scorn from all parts
of the country have poured into Lit
tleton to the principals and attorneys
in the trial. Many tales of patient
devotion are recited in letters from
parents of invalid children who con
demn the defendant. Likewise have
come letters of condolence and sym
pathy to the defendant from parents
who have “unwillingly borne the cross
of servitude” for helpless offspring.
N. Y. Company
Would Write Fire
Insurance Here
Application for permission to sell
fire insurance in North Dakota has
been filed with S. A. Olsness, state
insurance commissioner, by the New
York Underwriters Insurance com
pany.
The company formerly operated as
a nation-wide insurance brokerage
concern but now wants to go into the
insurance business on a larger scale,
Olsness said.
BOSTON LEGION
AND SOCIETIES
NOT IN PARADE
Boston, Nov. 11.— (A>) -Rather than
fraternize with pacifist and radical
organizations, the American Legion
and many civic associations declined
invitations to participate in today’s
Armistice Day parade.
The Kiwanis and Rotary clubs were
among the organizations refusing to
parade.
There wese particular objections to
•the women’s international league for
peace and freedom, the fellowship of
reconciliation, the fellowship of youth
for peace, and the league for demo
cratic control.
The parade was sponsored by the
Federation of Greater Boston
Churches.
In commenting on the peace parade,
United States Senator Butler said
that organizations had taken advan
tage of Armistice Day, which belongs
to the veterans alone, to express
views not in accord with the meaning
of the day.
10N0MINATED
FOR DIRECTORS
BISMARCK A. C,
157 Members of the Associa
tion Are Each Given One or
More Votes for Positions
A peculiar circumstance of the pri
mary election to nominate candidates
for directors of the Bismarck Asso
ciation of Commerce, which was held
yesterday, was the fact that out of
approximately 150 votes cast, there
were 157 members of the association
who received one or more votes for
the nomination.
The ballots were counted and the
vote tabulated yesterday afternoon
and the following were the 10 who
received the largest number of votes:
A. W. Mundy
H. J. Duenieland
S. W. Corwin
Burt Finney
J. L. Bell
F. A. Lahr
Alex Rosen
E. J. Taylor
O. N. Dunham
Carl Nelson
These 10 names will be placed on
an official ballot, a copy of which
will be mailed to each member of the
association within the next day or
two. Each member should then vote
for five of the 10 for the five vacan
cies and return the ballot to the As
sociation of Commerce before 1 p. m.
on November 20. The five out of
this list who are given the 'largest
vote will be declared elected.
Discuss Methods
for Increasing
Credit Facilities
Washington, Nov. 11. —(A*)—Meth-
ods for increasing the credit facilities
of the farm loan board were taken
up yesterday at the first session of
a three-day meeting between repre
sentatives of cooperative marketing
associations and the board’s interme
diate credit banking system. No
conclusions were reached, those par
ticipating declaring only a fow admin
istrative details were threshed out.
Albert C. Williams, member of the
board who was recently sent to lowa
with a of the agricul
ture department to study the farm
credit situation, returned to Wash
ington for the meeting, but probably
will visit the middlewest again before
making his report.
The cooperative association repre
sentatives who attended today’s meet
ing Included Walton Peteet, national
counsellor of the Farmers’ Coopera
tive Associations,
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1925
PROSPERITY !
WAVE REACHES'
MONTANA CITY!
Copper Mines and Smelters
Are Working Three Shifts
a Day at Present
POTATO IS KING THERE
Butte to Stage Spud Show
With Object of Keeping
State’s Potatoes at Home
(Special to the Tribune By Geo. D
Butte, Nov. it. - Prosperity’s wave
lias reached Butte. Many of the
“for rent’’ signs have disappeared
smelters and miners are working
three shifts a day. When the copper
market is up, Butte is up. It has a
population of some (50,000 and. when
copper is up, a payroll of $55,00U a
• lay. In the days of Mary McLean,
Butte was defined as a “whiskey”
town entirely surrounded by ready
money. There is not as much ready
money now, and good whiskey is con
spicuous by its absence, yet Butte
still maintains its grotesque original
ity. It is a man’s town. More than
<55 per cent of the population is male.
The leading evening newspaper, “The
Rost,” a snappy sheet, has no society
column. There has been no demand
from the “Pink Tea” brigade or the
“afternoon bridgers” for such a de
partment. Now this is not an insin
uation that “poker” is the only diver
sion in this man’s town, for it “ain't. ’
Bridge runs poker a close second.
People Work Underground
There are few cities in the world of
(»(1,000 where so few people are seen
on the streets. A big majority of
the population goes down below at
dawn and it is dark at this time of
the year before they are “hoisted” to
the city’s level. That solves the traf
fic problem in Butte. A traffic cop
has a real comfortably job days; but
at night—well, that is u different
story ,
While corn is worrying Bismstrck,
the potato is king in Butte. Butte
is Irish. How could a (Tark-Daly
town be anything else? Hence, the
worry over the “spud” market,
“The Butte Miner,” a paper once
edited by J. M. Quinn, an old Tribune
writer, features Butte’s potato show
on page one, column one. A shortage
of spuds in Butte is a real catastro
phe and the first annual commercial
potato show will be held here Nov.
12-24. Its object is to keep Montana
potatoes at home.
A real potato shortage exists in
Montana. In many places prices
have more than doubled in less than
a week. Pick up a telephone direc
tory in Butte and go through tlie
“M’s” and “O’s” and it dawns upon
one why a “spud show” in Butte is
a live, vitul thing.
To Many Potatoes Shipped Out
Montana is tired of sending her
fine spuds outside the state to sat
isfy foreign “spud” eaters and if this
show succeeds, it will be hard to coax
a Montana “murphy” over the boun
dary line.
More than 100 carloads of Montana
potatoes have gone out of the state
and now many carloads must be im
ported if Montana appetites are to be
appeased.
Judging from the number of tall
men in Butte, and there are some re
markable types in this interesting
mining town, Montana “spuds” are
rich in the essentials that go into
brain and brawn —nowhere can there
be found a more cordial, hearty and
upstanding bunch of boosters and
“stickers.”
This is the spirit that has made
the West; that laughs at the vicissi
tudes. Indemitable force is here and
while Butte may not be beautiful,
from a civic if is a most
interesting study and asks odds from
none of those cities more favored by
scenic grandeur. There is another
kind of grandeur here —“The Spirit
of the West.”
Another Rismareker who has join
ed the “Butte Boosters” is A. P.
Peake, formerly of Valley City, and
once adjutant general of North Da
kota. He is in the mining game
here.
Slate Is Democratic
Political sentiment in Montana is
Democratic. The state seems incur
ably so. There is a Democratic gov
ernor, one near-Democratic senator,
Wheeler, now Progressive, and Sena
tor Walsh, a Democrat of unquestion
able allegiance. Many politicians
think Wheeler’s sun set when he went
political joy riding with the late
“Bob” La Follette. Diagnosticians
here see his finish when he comes up
for reelection.
Butte’s locality is more prosperous
than since the war and is not bother
ing much about politics. There are
evidences, however, that the wet
issue might interest Montana, na
tionally speaking, in 1928.
PRICE ADVANCE
IN POTATOES
AT STANDSTILL
Chicago, Nov. 11. —(4»)—Late re
ports from principal shipping sec
tions indicate that the big price ad
vance in potatoes has been brought
to a standstill after a rapid climb.
According to a statement today from
the United 'States bureau of agricul
tural economies, price levels appar
ently were too high and dealers hes
itated to buy.
In spite of some declines, city
wholesale prices are reported to be
still three or four times last season’s
corresponding range of values. To
tal shipments of United States pota
toes for the week are given as 6,440
cars—about 400 cars fewer than in
the week prior, but 900 more than
during the similar period last sea
son. Maine led with 1,100 cars. Idaho
and Minnesota shipped 750 to 800
each,
Man n. j
1918 - - - Memories - - - 1925
is*
DEFENSE IN
MITCHELL CASE
WINS A POINT
Court - martial Gives Mitchell
Permission to Subpoena
More Witnesses
Washington, Nov. 11. U P) After
another 'long wrangle between coun
sel, the court-martial trying Col. Wm.
Mitchell today authorized the defense
to proceed with its plan of bringing
into evidence virtually all phases of
the air controversy.
The flow of defense testimony was
interrupted only long enough to per
mit the court to hear both sides and
to retire for a brief consultation be
hind Hosed doors. Then new sub
poenas were issued for :»<5 persons
residing outside of Washington, all
summoned by Col. Mitchell in an ef
fort to prove the accusations against
conduct of the government air ser
vices which led to his trial.
The first witness questioned today
was Major Gerald Brant, an air ser
vice ol'Dcer now attached to the sup
ply and eonstruetion branch, he re
nlied negatively, addins that he had
been active in flying work.
.Major Brant said he was sent to
Hawaii during the recent joint army
and navy maneuvers, and was confi
dent that no attacking forces could
have landed if the air forces had not
been handled in a “round-about” way.
PINCHOT AND
LEWIS CONFER
OVER STRIKE
Pennsylvania Governor Will
Meet Operators* Spokes
man Tomorrow
Philadelphia, Nov. 11.- (A*)—Gover
nor Pinchot and John 1.. Lewis, in
ternational president of the United
Mine Workers, conferred 'today on
the anthracite strike situation, now
in its eleventh week.
“I have gotten the miners’ view
point; Pm listening in on both sides,”
said the governor after the confer
ence. “I don’t feel free to comment
on our conference,” Mr. Lewis said.
The governor will obtain the latest
views of the operators at Harrisburg
tomorrow' w'hen he will meet W. W.
Inglis, chairman of the operators’ ne
gotiating committee.
It is generally believed that Gov
ernor Pinchot, who was instrumental
in settling the last hard coal strike
in 1923, will make every effort for
a resumption of the wage conferences,
the breaking off of which cuused the
walkout of 158,000 miners on Septem
ber 1.
TELEGRAM BY PHONE
London.— An arrangement to send
telegrams .from telephone booths is
being tried out in a small scale in
England. The arrangement provides
a small coin box similar to the coin
box on a telephone. The sender can
drop the required number of coins
into the box and phone his telegram
to the central telegraph station.
High Court Gets
Action to Decide
Grain Ownership
An action to determine tin* right
of contesting parties who hold con
flicting liens on grain grown by Mike
V. Wanner, Dickinson farmer, was
filed in the supieme court Tlie. day in
the ease of the Fargo Loan Agency
vs. L. K. Larson and the Larson-
Bresden Lumber company. The Fargo
firm was adjudged to have a prior
lien in the Stark county district court
and appeal to the supreme court was
taken by the defendants.
SITUATION IN
DAMASCUS IS
VERY SERIOUS
Rebels and Druse Tribesmen
Are Trying to Provoke
General Uprising
Paris, Nov. 11. (A 3 ) Late advices
from Syria are to the effect that the
rebels and Tjebcl Druse tribesmen
arc closely infesting Damascus, and
that the French forces there are be
ing so placed as to be able to cope
with any eventuality.
Apparently it is the purpose of the
rebels to so harass the French as to
bring about a general uprising, with
which it is thought the French, with
out receiving further reinforcements
would be unable successfully to cone.
At any rate, the situation is extreme
ly serious.
No reports have yet come through to
show that the French have gone on
the offensive against the rebels, as it
had been reported they would do, nor
have there been received any details
of the movement which was said to
be under way.
Sarrail Slopped I’illagc
From Alexandria, Egypt, comes a
report that General Sarrail, former
French high commissioner in Syria
who is on his way hack to France to
report on recent events, declared that
he had done his best to fulfill the
French mandate in Syria. He dis
claimed responsibility for the bom
bardment of Damascus, saying that
he could not surrender the city to
the. bandits and that there had to be
fighting in the streets.
“I stopped the pillage,” General
Sarrail said. "That was the extent of
my military repression, and, notwith
standing what some foreign newspa
per critics said, I had the situation
W'ell in hand.”
The general blamed the British con
sul at Damascus for provoking a
panic.
Italy Sending Warships
Like the United States government,
which recently sent torpedo boat de
stroyers to Syria to protect Ameri
cans, Italy is dispatching to the Island
of Laros, in the Aegean Sea, a squad
ron of warships to protect its nation
als in the disturbed region if such a
step should become necessary.
WOMEN’S HANDS LARGER
London. —The hands of English
women are growing larger is the ver
dict of a London jeweler of 30 years'’
experience. He bases his judgment
on the fact his calls to have rings
enlarged have increased in number
several hundred per cent during the
past few years. Golf, tennis and
general outdoor athletics are given
as causes for the enlargement of
women’s hands.
COAL COMPANY
HOLDS BOARD
OVERSTEPPED
Claims Administrative Body
Has no Right to Fix Stand-
ard of Coal Used
Fargo, N. D., Nov. 11.— (A 3 ) Con
tending that the North Dakota Board
of Administration has no discretion
in fixing the standard of coal used
in public institutions, and that it
must let contracts to the lowest re
sponsible bidder, arguments have
been prepared b\ Slum* and Murphy,
Fargo law firm, for presentation to
the state supreme court in the De
cember term when an appeal of the
Lignite Coal Company ease
against tin* board is expected to be
heard.
The appeal is from an order of
Burleigh county district court refus
ing a temporary injunction in an ac
tion brought by the Washburn Lig
nite coal company of Wilton, N. I).,
to restrain the board of administra
tion from carrying out and complet
ing certain alleged illegal contracts
for the purchase of coal for specified
public institutions.
The Washburn company claims to
be the lowest responsible bidder on
contracts let, or about to be let, to
other coal companies.
WALL STREET
MARKET OPENS
HIGHER TODAY
Heavy Trading Continues
Small Gains Follow Yes
terday’s Price Collapse
New York, Nov. 11.— (A 3 ) -Wall
Street breathed a temporary sigh of
relief this morning when tihe stock
market opened irregularly higher aft
er yesterday’s dramatic collapse in
prices. Powerful financial forces
working for higher prices apparent
ly had distributed ebtenwivc support
ing orders for the pivotal industrial
stocks, which more than counteracted
forced liquidation from inability or
unwillingness to meet margin calls,
bear selling and profit taking by
frightened investors and speculators.
Opening gains ranged from 1 to 5
preferred points with Mack Truneks
showing the largest initial advance.
Wool worth, Brown Shoe, Coca Cola,
Union Tank Car and Postum Cereal
were among the outstanding heavy
spots, yielding 2 to 3 points.
Trading continued in enormous vol
ume, taxing the facilities of the stock
market and of the employes of brok
erage houses, many of whom had
worked most of the night in order to
to catch up with yesterday's record
breaking volume of business.
SPECULATORS REGAIN
CONTROL OF MARKET
New York, Nov. 11.— (A*)—Specula
tors for the advance regained control
of the price movement in today’s
stock market bidding up prices 3 to
in points in a remarkable outburst of
(Continued on page three)
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NEW SCHEDULE
WILL RECEIVE
FULL SUPPORT
Nearly AH Excise and Occu
pational Taxes Will Be
Done Away With
EXEMPTIONS INCREASED
New Surtax Schedule Estab
lishes a Maximuum of 20
Per Cent Instead of 40
Washington, Nov. 11. —t^ 5 ) - Revised
tax schedules that would mean a sav
ings of at least $308,000,000 annual
ly to federal taxpayers will be in
corporated in (he tax reduction bill
to be presented to the house by its
ways and means committee on the
opening day of congress.
The committee yesterday conclud
ed its work of slashing the various
tax rates after a week of discussion
preceded by two weeks of public
hearings. It worked out the new
rates it will propose on a nonparti
san basis, an almost unprecedented
peace time action, and virtually un
animous committee approval of the
measure is expected. This would as
sure almost united support by the
house, party leaders declare.
Excise Taxes Wiped Out
Most of the excise and occupational
levies would be wiped from the books
by the committee’s action yesterday
in voting a cut of about $114,000,000
in those taxes.
Reductions in the income rates
through cuts in the normal and sur
tax schedules, increased personal ex
emptions, and increased allowance for
the “earned income” credit, account
for $103,574,540 of the total slash in
federal levies to be proposed.
Another $5,000,000 will be saved
taxpayers by repeal of the gift tax.
Chairman Green believes the propos
ed reductions in the estate or in
heritance tax will have no effect on
government revenue next year. The
cut in the maximum rate from 40 to
HO per cent and the 80 per cent credit
to be allowed for payments on state
inheritance taxes, however, is ex
pected to result eventually in a loss
of $25,000,000 annually on this tax.
New Surtax Schedule
Approving the new surtax schedule
with a maximum of 20 per cent, in
stead of 40 per cent, to apply on in
comes in excess of SIOO,OOO, the com
mittee decided to make reductions in
these rates, effective only on brackets
between $40,000 and SIOO,OOO.
A proposal to allow the S4OO de
duction for children between 18 and
21 years of ago who are in school
was rescinded by the committee upon
complaint of the treasury that it
would he impossible to administer.
The age limit now is 18 years in all
cases.
The committee gave further study
today to administrative provisions
of the law, with a tentative agree
ment reached for retaining the mem
bership of the board of tax appeals
at 16 members. It would give the
members life terms, subject to good
behavior, and increase their salaries
from $7,500 to SO,OOO annually.
6 OCEAN SHIPS
BRING CARGOES
TO CHICAGO
Sponsors of Inland Waterway
Movement Regard Feat as
Herald of Future
Chicago, Nov. 11.—(A*)—Six ocean
going ships this year have steamed
more than 1,000 miles inland from
tidewater to laydown European and
South American cargoes in the port
of the great midwe&t-Chieago.
Four of the salt-water craft
brought China clay from Fowey, Eng
land. One brought coal from Car
diff. Wales, to Montreal, and came
thence to Chicago. The other brought
Chilean nitrate which had been tak
en to Montreal in a larger vessel, and,
after unloading her, sailed for Do
troit, to pick up a cargo of automo
biles for Norway.
Five of the vessels were of Nor
wegian registry, and the other fiew
the Danish flag.
Heralds of the Future
None was large, since the present
Welland canal limits to 3,00 ft tons,
craft finding their way from the sea
up the St. Lawrence River and
through the Great Lakes to the mid
dlewest.
Nevertheless they were regarded as
heralds of what sponsors of the
greater waterway picture as tjic ulti
mate fruition of dreams of a great
inland port, base of direct interna
tional trade in oriental bottoms be
tween the middlewestern granary and
industrial districts, with American j
and foreign ships bringing to the in
land country foreign goods and tak
ing back grains, packers’ products j
and steel.
Hallowe’en Prank
May Put Teacher
in Dairy Business
William Jackson, instructor in the
agricultural department at the nor
mal and industrial school here, is
contemplating an entry into the dairy
business as the result of a Hallowe'en
prank played on him by nvembers of
his class. On the morning'after Hal
lowe’en the instructor found a cow in
his coal shed. It was Segis Yeksha
Whitehall, a pure bred cow with a
good record for milk production.