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Evening journal., 1918-08-07
EXCESS PROFITS TAX.
IS REVENUE ISSUE
Treasury Wants 20 to 90
Per Cent. Rate
Maintained
COMMITTEE FOR
5000 PER CENT

WASHINGTON, Aug. THE Treasur,
Department and the Ways and Mean
Committee Of Congress are at odds owe
the question Of writing a straight wal
profits tax into the new ss,OO0,0Oo,0O
revenue bill, and the final action Of tht
committee on war profits and excess
profits taxes has been postponed for 4
few days, pending an adjustment Of
the differences.
The Treasury Department wants tc
levy on excess profits and both the
Treasury Department and the members
OF the committee favor a war profits
tax OF so per cent. to be levied on all
profits that are due strictly to the war
and also an excess profits tax TO be
used by the Treasury Department as
an alternative.
The Treasury Department, however,
wants the excess profits tax TO be
the same as II Is under the existing
law, though IL wants the 80 per cent.
war profits tax 10 be enacted so that
the department can employ that meth
cd OF taxation which Will yield the
most revenue In each individual case.
The members OF the Ways and Means
Committee want the so per cent. war
profits tax, but they wsnt TO increase
the tax on excess profits from the exist
ing schedule Of 20 TO 60 per cent to
the new schedule recently adopted by
the committee, which would levy tax
ranging from 30 TO so per cent. on eX-
cess profits.
According TO Representative Kitchin,
OF South Carolina chairman OF the com
mlttee, the plan Of the committee
would yield at least s2O0000,0O0 more
revenue than the plan Of the Treasury
Department.
AS an example, he said that a nrm
having 100000 capital that made $4,000
Profit before the United SvAtes entered
the war and that was making $4,000
proflt now would have TO pay Si55OO
excess profits and war profits taxes
under the committees plans. as COM
pared with only s4400 taxes under the
plar OF the Treasury Department. while
a flrm with 100000 capital that made
S26,000 profits during the pre-war per-
iod and that was making the same profit
tOdy would be taxed only $500 under
the Treasury Departments plan, as
compared with more than $4,000 under
the plan OF the committee.
Mr. Kitchln said that under the plan
OF the Treasury Department TO levy
an so per cent war profits tax and leave
the excess profit tax where II is now.
Of the corporations OF the
country would have their taxes in
creased from 80 to 300 and 400 per cent.
over 1917. The other one-tenth would
not be taxed any more than last year,
he added.
The one-tenth, he explained, includes
the large corporations that were maxi
Ing enormous profits during the two or
three years before the United States
entered the war and whose profits have
lot Increased materially since April, |
9i7.
Among these corporations are the |
standard OIL companies, the American |
'obacco Company, the Liggett & Myers
Evening journal., 1918-08-07
ITCHING IRRITATION
EASILY CURED

When you suffer with any skin trou-
bic, even though the itching seems un-
bearable, do not think that it Is neces-
sary to use some disgusting, greasy
ointment Try HOkara. a pure and sim
pie cream, that is guaranteed to con-
tain no grease or acids and which is
so cleanly that 1t does not soil the
linen.
Its power to instantly relieve any r.
ritation Of the skin and make II soft.
white and beautiful is almost miracu-
lOus.
Not only do minor skin troubles like
pimples, blackheads, acne, BARRIERS
Itch, etc, quickly disappear, but the
worst ulcers or cases Of salt rheum or
eczema are cleansed and healed by this
wonderful skin food.
In order that any one may try Ho-
kara at small expense, n. B. Danforth's
Drug Store is selling a liberal-sized jar
at Doc, and in addition guarantee to re-
fund the money if the treatment does
not do all that is claimed for it.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07

II would be well 10 advertise los.
articles In the Want Ad column this
week. Transfers. chauffeurs, carriers
and engineers are all under a bene-
fcent ruling.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07
ENGLISH GUIDE Rnnks

(By Newspaper Enterprise Association
LONDON, Aug. 7.-(By N. E. Al
Baedeker guide books are to be rlvalled
by a series announced as of 'All-British
authorship" A member Of the Bae-
deker firm of Leipzig was killed re-
Gently In action against the British
army.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07
HUNS OFFER REWARDS
FOR AVIATOR CAPTORS

(By Newspaper Enterprise Association,
AMSTERDAM. Aug. THE German
military authorities are Offering re-
wards to civilians for the capture OF
allied airmen who are forced to land
on German soil. The public is warn
ed to prevent the aviators from burn
ing their machines.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07

Tobacco Company and the Utah Copper
Company.
Several members of the committee
who believe that the plan Of the Treas
ury DEPARTMENT finally will be adopted
are urging some kind Of excess tax that
would reach these large corporations.
DR.. T. s. Adams, chairman OF the
excess profits advisory board, Of the
Treasury Department, appeared before
the committee today and urged the
adoption Of the departments plan.
Today the committee will take up
again the surtaxes on incomes. An in
crease from 30 per cent. the existing
tax. to 70 per cent. on incomes OF from
100000 to s50O0,OOO is all that the
committee so far has agreed upon
tentatively in the schedule OF surtaxes.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07
ENGLAND COMBS OUT
IRELAND FOR ARMY

(By Newspaper Enterprise Association)
LONDON, Aug. IAN extensive effort
to arrest all Englishmen who fed to
Irehnd from England, Scotland and
Wales with the object OF escaping
military service. has begun. The men
are called upon to report to the near
est police station.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07
FLIES $50 MILES An noun

BELLEVILLE, Ill.-What is thought
to be a worlds record FOR long distance
flying was made by Lieut.. Bartlett,
who flew from Scott Field TO Payne
Field, West Point, Miss, 3ii miles. in
3 hours and minutes, averaging no
miles an hour. At times a speed Of
i50 miles an hour was attained.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07
LIVED ON MILK AND
TOAST FOR MONTHS

Toast and milk were the only things
! | could keep on my stomach before /
started TO take Tanlac," said Elizabeth
E. McCutcheon, 29i4 West Lehlgh Ave-,
Phila.: why soup would even ferment
in my stomach, causing gas and poisons
to accumulate. The sight Of food sick
ened me. Sick headaches often forced
me to stay in bed for days at a time
The least bit Of exertion tired me all
out.
II read about what Tanlac was do
ing in cases similar to my own, so got
bottle. Before / had finished half a
bottle l was eating regularly, my food
was dlsesting perfectly and | felt
stronger can safely say now that
Tanlac has entirely cured me Of stom-
ach trouble and gastritis"
The genuine Tsnlac which is being in
troduced at all leading drug stores,
bears the name ]. /. Gore Co. on outside
carton. Look for II tl-Advertisement.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07
MOVIES BY AIRpLANE.

LONDON-A new multiple camera
with which pictures at the rate OF one
per second can be taken is a new wea-
pom Of Allied alrmen. With a single
loading 7J0 exposures can be made, and
a fllm for a new exposure is turned
automatically.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07
CUTS OFF FINGERS
TO ESCAPE THE ARMY

tBy Newspaper Enterprise Association
BRISTOL, England-John II. Brown,
. young carpenter. was fined $50 for
cutting two fingers Off his right hand
by putting them In front Of circular
asw. 30 escape military service.
Evening journal., 1918-08-07
SERB YOUTHS TAUGHT
FARMING BY BRITISH

tBy Newspaper Enterprise Association
LONDON, Aug. IA number Of sons
OF Serbian farmres are in London TO
take instruction in British agricultural
methods through the medium of the
Agriculture Relief OF Allied fund.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
SOLLY SMITHS LAST REAL FIGHT

It was just 20 years ago today, Sept.
 26 1898 that Dave Sullivan defeated
 Solly Smith in i've rounds at New
 York; for the feathecweight cham
 pionsh!p of the world. Solly broke
 his arm early in the battle and had
 to quit. Smith, Q native Of Los An
 geles, had annexed the featherweight title about a year before by defeat
 ing George Dixon in 20 rounds at San
 Francisco. This bout was at 120i ipounds, and Dixon continued to claim the title, saving the championship weight should be 119, Public opinion acclaimed Smith champion, however, and Sullivan, C native of Cork, Ire land, became his successor His reign
 was brief, Tor within two months he accepted a challenge from George Dixon, and the "Chocolate Drop" won on a foul in the tenth round and thus regained his lost honors In the meantime Dixon lost tp Ben Jordan, an Englishmen, who also claimed the title. and Eddie Santry whipped Jor-
 dan in 1889. Dixon cleared the mud de by defeating Santry, and was then the undisputed champion.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
OUR BANK SAVINGS SAFE '-e
 UNLESS GERMANY WINS

There seems to have been a very in- sidious propaganda carried on, obvi- ously by secret agents of Germany, to the effect that savings banks deposits are to be confiscated. It is difficult to believe that any such person in Am erica could credit such a report for an instant. Secretary McAdoo says that the absurdity of these statements is manifest, but in order to allay the fears of a few who might be alarmed by such reports, he repeats officially that these rumors are wholly base less.
 There is but one thing that will in the least put in danger of confiscation the savings of the American people, whether deposited in savings banks or other banks or invested in Liberty Bonds or any other investments, and that one thing is a German victory. It is not the American Government that our people should fear, but the German Government, and with the American soldiers fighting in as they are in France and the American peo- pie supporting their Government as they are in America, their rights, and their savings are safe.
 The United StateA> instead of con- fiscating or endangering the savings and other property of it's people is defending them and theirs with all the irresistible might of this invincibIe Republic.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
.RUNES COMES BACK
 IN RIOTOUS STYLE.
Opens at 30 to 1 and Comes Home Like a Champion in
 the Stonybrook Stakes

Runes, the aged bay ge1ding owned by H. Waterson, staged his annual autumn comeback at the Aqueduct track yesterday and those in the know made a respectable cleanup. The gelding won the Stonybrook Stakes. the feature of the day, at mile, in the splendid time of 1:3S, un- der 116 pounds and ran a race wDr- thy of the best in training. Only the day before Runes started in a six fur long dash and never having had any pretentions toward sprinting ability, the gelding was a poor also ran.
 Yesterday the horse was ignored by everybody except select coterie which had information as to his form at mile. He opened at 30 to 1 and was backed down by his owners to F tO 1, with most of his supporters get ting at least 20 to 1. Runes got away badly, fell back in the first quarter and was no better than sixth when the last quarter was reached. At that stage Assume, ridden by Johnny Lof- tus, was third, with Jyntee and St. Isidore heading him. Then Runes, under a splendid ride by Willie Knapp, began his challenge, and nip ping Assume at the head of the stretch, came home a winner by half a length.
 | Assume was second favorlte to Jyn- tee, which ran a poor race and fin ished just outside the money. The route was about a quarter too far for Jyntee. Reveler, which finished third, gan a rattling good race.
 Runes's comeback resent bled a sim liar performance by him last fall. On that occasion too he was nowhere in @ sprint before his longer effort. Two Iyears ago he was accounted one of | the best horses in the handicap di- vision, but now appears to be strictly a holiday" performer
 The biggest disappointment of the day came in the steeplechase, in which Mrs. Payne Whitney's import ed Moccasin III., ridden by Vincent Powers, was expected to show the way home over the two mile route. There were four in the race and much the chagrin of Mrs. Whitney, who was an oniooker, her jumper finished fourth. Mrs. Skiddy Won Stade's Ira ditioner was the winner, with Tudor King 15 lengths behind and Reliance in third place. Moccasin III. was a prohibitive favorite, at to 5.
 After the race James Owens, trainer for Mrs. Whitney, reprimanded Pow CTS, but the jockey explained that his mounts poor showing was due to nc poor judgment or handling. Power!
 declared that while taking the fourtl
 from the last jump Moccasin came
 down extra hard. Powers said tha
 no doubt the horse had wrenched hi!
 back then, for he hung over the othe,
 three jumps and the rider despaireC
 of his being able to come home.
 The sixth race brought out five to1
 notch two-year- olds and they were let
 home by Lord Brighton. War Kiss
 Osgood, Hannibal and Under Fir
 followed the son of Ballot.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
PROF. MIKE DONOVAN'S
 BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

Friends of the late Prof. Mike Don ovan, once middleweight champion and for 30 years boxing instructor at the New York Athletic club, will com memorate the 71st anniversary of his birth tomorrow. Many of the men he trained in the manly art" are now serving their country at the front in France. and these. too. will give the ,''old man" a kindly thought
 It was about half a century ago that Donovan engaged in his first ring tussle, which went nearly one hundred rounds, in St. Louis Forty four years ago, in 1874, he won the middieweght title from George Rooke and defended t against all corners until 1882, when he retired undefeat- ed. He returned to the ring when he was well past forty to fight Mike Dempsey. then middleweight cham pion. This bout was pulled off in Brooklyn. and it was approaching midnight when the men entered the ring, the fight having been postponed In order that bunch Of actors, head ed by Nat Goodwin, who recently shed his sixth or seventh wife, might get over from Manhattan after their nights performance.
 Everybody expected the oli man to fall an easy victim to Dempsey, but everybody had another think coming. It was a beautiful exhibition of box ing, with the professor" on the az gressive. Mike got first bl,od and he stood right up to Dempsey right through the whole show. and looked fresh as a daisy when the affair was ever. The referee called 1t a draw
 but any shade there might nave beer favored the "professor."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
PENN REORGANlzES
 FOOTBALL AFFAIRS
Schedule and Folwell Re tained- Student Army
 Corps Run Things

Philadelphia, Sept. 26 - Football Pennsylvania this fall, but as Stu dents Army Training Corps sport. This was the solution arrived at by the university council on athletics yesterday. All members of the S. A. T. C., including freshmen, will be eligi- ble for the team. The following an- nouncement was made by B. R. Bush nell, acting graduate manager:
 When the university was informed of the establishment of the training corps we realized that the control of athletics would pass into the hands of the commandant. We offered our athletics facilities to the military au- thorities and they were accepted with request that we manage the football team, subject to the supervision of the commandant.
 Our list of games was cancelled as university schedule, but our oppon- ents were asked to retain their orig inal dates pending as effort to re- schedule them as s. A. T. c. games. The reconstruction of the, schedule is now being made. RobertlC. Folwell, | whose contract as coach was handled in the same way, has been. re-engag- | ed"
 Candidates for the team will report this morning. On account of the large body of men in the training corps there will be only an hour and half daily for practice, with Satur- day afternoons free for games. ] On the old schedule only one game was away from home-that with Pittsburgh on Oct 26. Whether it may be played will depend upon the ability of the team to leave the city i the night before the contest No games will be scheduled which inter- fere with the military program. Vir- z, tually all members of last years team are in the war service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
VETERAN FOOTBALL
 ELEVEN FOR ARMY

West Point, Sept. 6-Real scrim- mage work marked the football prac- tice of the Army eleven yesterday in preparation for the opening game Of the season with the aviators from Mitchell Field on Saturday. It was almost a veteran eleven which the Army flashed as the varsity yesterday. Stokes, playing his third year, was at centre Luce and Adams, both of last years eleven, were the guards. "BulT' Vandegraaf and Smith, anoth- CT pair of veterans, were the tackles, and March and Shrader were the ends
 Barrick, Jersey City high school lad, who was substitute quarter last season, drove the varsity. George, a plebe, who made a reputation at Rice Institute Texas, also showed "pep" when he was given a chance at quarterback. Gene Vidal, cap tain; McQuarries, former Univers- ity of Montana captain, who played for the Army part of last season, and Monroe were the backs. Vidal got away to one long run of forty-ftve yards. The varsity scored two touch downs. Nandegraafs bunting was a feature. No better material was ever seen on the gridiron here.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
MISS BALLIN IS BEATEN.

Boston. Sept. 26.---Miss E1earora Sears advanced into the semi-final round of the woman's singles in the tennis tournament at the DOngwood Cricket club yesterday. In the third round she defeated Miss Florence Bal lin of New York in a hard fought three set match at S---6, Is, To
 Hiss Helen Hooker, the 1S-year New York girl, who displayed much promise in the first round, was de- feated in the second round yesterday by Mrs. Charles McGrath of Brook line, 6---3, S---6
 Miss Molla Bjurstedt and Miss Ma rion Zinderstein came through the second round of the singles. Later playing together in the second round of the doubles, they defeated Mrs. A A. Shurtleff and Miss Evelyn Sears 6---0, 6---1
 In the feature match of the second round, mixed doubles, Mrs. George W WightmRn and H. c. Johnson defeat. cd Mir. and Mrs. Nat Niles. 6---O, 6---2
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
NAVY HARD AT WORK

Annapolis. Md, Sept. 26-The mid shipmen had the longest football practice of the week yesterday while a big contingent of midshipmen as sembled in the stand to encourage the teams. Two teams ran through sig nals under the direct guidance of Gil Dobie and afterward lined up for half an hours stiff scrimmage.
 There were several absentees, in- cluding Capt. Ingram, who was kept away by the illness of a relative, and others incapacitated by the ''flu' or minor injuries. The two backfields at the start were made up of Roberts, Butler, Orr and Alvord on one side and Benoiss, Severn, Rawlings and Rodes on the other.
 The Midshipmen are looking for as strong an opponent as possible for No- vember 16. This date had not been filled, as too strong an opponent was not wanted a week before the pros pective army game. As no settlement can be made as to whether the ser vice game will be played, it has been determined to get the strongest pos sible opponent for the 18th. The army game has not been abandoned, however.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
HOW THE EXPRESS
 BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED

One of the problems which Director General McAdoo acquired with the railroads was What to do with the express busine<s?" The express com- panies were doing their business un- der contracts with the railroads which it soon appeared could not be carried out under the general operation con- templated in unifying the railroads.
 After considerable negotiation, :ha plan has been adopted of organizIns new company officered by the most progressive express men, which bought the property of all the old ex- press companies, assumed their leases and took up the handling of all the try where the old companies dropped it on July l, 1918. The contract which the Director General under which the new American Railway Ex- press Company operates is unique; the Government, taking the place of the railroads, is to be paid 50.25 per cent. of the gross earnings of the Express press matter and in addition is to par ticipate in all net earnings in excess of a five per cent. return on actual capital invested by the Express Co. The Governments share is graduated being one-haIf of the first two per cent. in excess of five pre- cent; two thirds of the next three per cent, and three-fourths of any furthr excess.
 The experiment here tried is well worth watching. If the new Express Company, allowing 1t a proper time to organize it's service, makes good, it may prove the solution of much larg- CT problems than the express. Upon it's face it seems sound, combining as it does the benefits of private man. agement, ownership and initiative with Government supervision, regulation and participation in any excess earn ings. The first important develop ment since its beginning indicates both decision and courage; the man. agement having received a ten per cent. advance rate, promptly expend- ed the entire amount of the increase in raising the wages of employees re- ceiving less than s2,000 per annum. Company from transportation of ex-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
MISS MILLER VICTOR.

Miss Violet Miller of Baltusrol re- turned a card of 98-6, 92 in the one day tournament of the Women's Met ropolitan Golf Association at Baltus- rol yesterday. She led for both net and gross awards. By taking the gross prize Miss Miller left Mrs. s. H. Brown, clubmate, winner of the net, with 116-2O, 96. The women will take part in another one day event today at Siwanoy. Scores re- turned were as follows:
 Miss Violet Miller, Baltusrol, 9S- 6, 92; Mrs. S. H. Brown, Baltusrol 116-20, 96; Mrs. F. B. Ryan, Baltus- rol. 1925, 97; Mrs. T. H. Thomas Hackensack, 109-7, 1O2; Miss M. s Conroy, Fox Hills, 1o9-6, 1O9; Mrs Albert Taylor, Marine and Field, 123 IS, 1OS; Mrs. N. P. Rogers, Baltus- roI, 110-1, 1O9.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
DOINGS in SCOTLAND
.HOPPE IN FORM
 IN BENEFIT MATCH

Although Willie Hoppe, the balk line billiard champion, is back in Class 4 A of the draft, he continues to play Class billiards. He defeated T. Henry Clarkson, the noted Boston amateur by 300 to 90, at Kismet Tenn ple Brooklyn, last night in game staged for the benefit of the Brooklyn unit of the Women's Motor Corps.
 In the presence of an appreciatlve assemblage Hoppe ran out in ten in nings, for an average of 30. His best work came in the ninth frame, when he held the balls on the short rail at the head of the table for a brilliant cluster of 1SO, stopping when he failed to get the worries ont of balk. He finished his 300 in the tenth inning, with run of r, and then gave a be- wildering exhibition of fancy shots.
 District Attorney Lewis made brief address, setting forth the splen- laid work of the corps. The members of the corps, 90 in all. occupied the stage, while Miss Grace Meek sang The Star Spangled Banner"