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The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
PROPOSE DOUBLING TAX
MOVIES, LIQUOR, TOBACCO
Lengthy List of Necessities and
Luxuries Center of Interest
in New Revenue Bill.
(AssocIated Press.l

Washington, July 10.-Preparntions
for framing the new war revenue bill
went forward in the house ways and
means committee today, with atten-
tion centering upon the list of sug
| gestions for lower or higher taxes on
luXuries and necessities submitted
yesterday by the department. Mem
bers of the committee indicated that
| the list would form the basis for con-
sumption taxes in their draft of the
| bill, though some OF the proposals
would be changed and others disre
gardcd.
Besides doubling present taxes on
LIQUORS and tobacco, quadrupling soft
drink levies, and making general in
creases in other existing rates, the
treasury suggestions include taxes of
SO per cent. on retail price Of 1ewelry,
watches and clocks except those sold
to army or navy men; 20 per cent. on
automobiles, bicycles. musical instru-
ments, etc; 10 cents gallon on gas
oline to be paid by the wholesaler;
10 per cent on hotel bills for rooms
over $3.50 a day, or American plan
over IS; 10 per cent on all cafe or
restaurant bills and taxes of un-
stated amounts on mems suits selling
for more than $50; women's suits over
$40 and coats over $50; mems hats
over $4 shirts over 50; pajamas over
So; hosiery over 35 cents; shoes over
IS: gloves over 81; underwear over
So; all neckwear and canes; women's
dresses over $25; skirts over S15;
hats over $40; shoes over SO; lingerie
over So corsets over IS, and all furs'
fans, etc; chldrens clothing, in
cluding suits over SIS; purses, toilet
articles, etc, over 81.
In addition to all these taxes. which |
would be levied directly upon the
consumer, the list proposes doubling
the present motion picture admission
tax and imposing a tax of per cent.
on moving picture theater rentals,
with the present film tax eliminated.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
De KALB COUNTY LOSES
THIRD MAN OVERSEAS
Herbert L, Hill of Fort Payne,
Member of Marine Corps,
Falls in France.
Especial to The News.)

Fort Wayne, Ala, July TO- - News
has just been received here of the death
Of Private Herbert l.. HILL of the ma
rine corps, in France. Young Hill was
about Il years of age and enlisted last
fall. He was the son of the Methodist
pastor of Henegar, and was greatly
beloved by all who knew him.
This makes the third DeKalb sounty
man to fall in the service in France
the first being Maroni Williams OF near
Collinsville; the second, E. w. May
nard, of Geraldine.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
Captive Balloons Fired.
fAssociated Press,)

Paris. July 10.-Artillery on the IRON.
north ~ Montdidier and south of the
Aisne. near Chavigny farm, where
French troops have recently made IN
roads upon the German lines, were an
nounced by the war office today.
The statement reads:
activity was displayed by our own
and the enemy's artillery north OF
Montdidier and south of the Aisne in
the region of Chavigny farm. In the
Champagne French troops carried out
several raiding operations, which re-
suited In the taking of prisoners.
"Aviation-On June IS seven German
airships were brought down and two
captive balloons set on f,re and de-
stroyed by our air forces.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
SOVIETS TO JOIN HUNS
IN EVENT INTERVENTION

Amsterdam. July 10.-A declaration
that the soviet government Of Russia
would ally itself with Germany In case
OF Anglo Japanese intervention In
Russia Is connected in Moscow wire
message printed In the Vienna Neue
Treie Presse. according to an undated
message to the Berlin Lota, Anzeiger
The Vienna newspaper quotes the con-
Guiding sentence Of the dispatch as fol-
lows:
"If the japanese and English should
occupy Russian territory the soviet
government would Immediately join
Germany"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
MENOCAL'S PRESS
AGENT BRINGS SUIT
Just Wants Compensation for
Work and Will Make Rev
elations Unwritten History.
international News Service,

New York, July 10.--J. v. Knight.
director OF the former Republic OF
Cuba News bureau in this city. who
claims that he acted as the press agent
for President Menocal of Cuba and the
Cuban conservative party. has brought
suit, alleging breach of contract and
asking an accounting.
One trouble, Mr.. knight explained,
was that the Cuban executive had too
many press agents. Former President
Gomez, now In this city, has been sub
poenaed as a witness and the plaintiff
says that there VIII "be revelations of
unwritten history" The news bureau
quit about six months ago.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
SOLDIERS GO OVER TOP
AFTER POLICE FORCE
Camp Mills Boys Were About
to Win When Military d,
Police Arrived.
tInternatIonr News Service,

New York. July 10.-Between twenty
and thirty soldiers from Camp Mills
who had been quarreling amongst
themselves at Rockaway beach, went
over the top against the Rockaway
beach police force early today and were
winning when three motor trucks fun
of Camp Mills policemen drove up and
put a quick end to the battle.
The trouble started when Detective
+. A. Murray tried to quiet the SOL
diers. Murray was badly hurt. Three
of the soldicrs--Privates Ernest Tay-
lor. Philip Kane and Arthur Raymond
all western men--were arrested. The
others fed.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
GERMANY HAD BIG
PROPAGANDA FUND
Facts Disclosed in Investiga
tion of Case Against DR..
Rumely, of Evening Mail.
international News Service ,

| tlnternatlOnaI news ScrNlCe.D
! New York, July 10.--Following the
| this city, has been purchased by
| agents of the imperial German gov
! ernment it was reported today that
Germany set aside $3O,000,000 to be
spent on propaganda purposes in this
country and today federal agents are
said to be making a nation wide In =
vestigation to determine how this
sum was disbursed.
The arrest Of Dr. Edward A.
Rumely, owner of the Evening Mail
on perjury charge and his subse-
quent release on $4,000 bail, may be
followed by other arrests as a result
Of the inquiry now under way 1t was
learned.
According to information gathered
by the government investigators 1t is
believed that the purchase of Ameri-
can press control began about the
time that the Lusitania was sunk by
n German submarine.
The primary purpose Of the Ger
man government In disposing of vast
sums in this country for propaganda
purposes was to keep this country out
Of the war but the chief side issue
was to disseminate powerful peace
propaganda, it was stated on good au-
thority today.
The grand jury is making an in
vestigation but so intricate is the
path through which the Germap
agents carried their negotiations that
developments are expected to move
slowly.
Steady Flow Witnesses.
There was a steady flow OF wit
nesses before the federal grand jury
today which Is investigating the per-
jury charge against Mr. Rumely.
It became known that assistant
United States District Attorney Har-
per expected to show that DR.. Rumely
could not have been ignorant OF the
true facts OF the Mail deal. The gov
ernment expects to show, 1T was
learned that the purchase money for
the Mail, $735,000, was handed to Or.
Rumely at a conference with DR.. AL
bert and Count Won Bernstorff, as di-
rect agents Of the Wilhelmstrasse and
two men well-known in New YORK
financial circles. The latter two men
are to be summoned in the present in
vestigation.
The government requested newspa-
per reporters to withhold for tho
time being the names of those who
gave testimony before the federal
grand jury today. The publication OF
certain names, 1t was said, would
suggest warnings to other witnesses
whom government agents are reported
in the act Of rounding up.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
KAISER VICTIM MALADY
RAGING IN GERMAN ARMY
Goes Home From French Front Owing
to Illness; Others Of Family
Sufferinq,

Rome, July 10.-Emperor William
himself has fallen victim to the in
fuenza that has been 10 prevalent In
the German army, according to ad-
vices from a Swiss source that have
reached the Epoca. These declare the
emperor has gone home from the
French front because of the attack OF
spanish grippe" as 1t is called, and
that several members OF the emperors
family are also suffering from the same
malady.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
MILITARY HONORS PAID
ITAIAN AVIATOR

Unternationa1 News Service.)
Hampstead, L. l., July 10.-Sergeant
Ganfelicio Gino, of the Royal Italian
Flying corps. one Of Italy's foremost
aerial instructors was buried here to-
day with all military honors. Six
Curtis battleplanes and a giant Caproni
dropped roses on the procession from
the sky.
Members of the Italian embassy at
Washington attended the funeral. Gino
was killed in an accident here while
trick flying. .-.---->
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
Finnish Jews Appeal
To World for Assistance.
Their Expulsion Ordered
by Sept. 80.

Stockholm, July 10.-The Finnish
government has ordered all Jews
expelled from Finland before Sept.
80, and has instructed all communi-
ties to deny food to Jews after that
date, according to reports reat hing
the Jewish press bureau here. The
Finnish Jews have issued an appeal
to the world for assistance.
The Finnish senate. it is said. will
grant naturalization to onlp a few
Jews. especially those who fought
in the ranks of the white guards.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
Revised List Of Victims in
Nashville Disaster Runs
Up to l20.
TWO SOLDIERS KILLED
Heroism Displayed by Some of
Those Caught in Wreckage.
Traffic Resumed.
Associated Press

Nashville, July lO.-Early this
afternoon list of the names of
the dead and injured as complied
by the Nashville, Chattanooga 4
St. Louis railway Offices was is
sued showing 80 dead-3f white
and 55 negroes-and So injured.
An investigation to determine
definitely who is responsible for
the collision will be held next Sat
urday, according to w. l.. May
pothcr, federal manages of rail
roads in this section. o
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
FAIR, SAYS BILLY 'P0SSUM

I'm writin &
this verse back
W a r d S, w | I h
gentle hope i'm
bued, That when
the printer sets
it up 1t won't
look like it's
s t e W e d; For
often when l
read these lines
| have to get ac-
qualnted w it h
things 7 thought
T said O1yself
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
KAISER CONSENTS TO
RESIGNATION KUEHL MANN
(Associated Press.l

Copenhagen, July 10.-Emperor Will
liam has consented to the resignation
of DR.. Richard Won Kuehlmann, the
German foreign sec tary. the Wolff
News bureau of Berlin says it is re-
liably reported.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
international news service.)

Rome, July l0.-Another big ad
vance over wide front has beer
scored in the great allied offensive
against the Austro- -Hungarians il
southern Albania.
The war Office announced today that
the Italians and French had reached
the middle reaches of the Semeni river
The heights at the head of the To-
morica valley have been reached and
occupied by the allies.
The Franco Italian troops are driv
ing ahead on their center on both
sides of the Osum river.
That section of the war Office report
dealing with operations on the Italian
front said:
"The ARTILLERY duelling has become
much more intense in the sectors of the
Asiago plateau and around Monte
Grappa."
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
Official Statement.

( The statement rehds: .,-,...
7 Increased hostile artillery activity
last night east of llers-Bretonneux
was followed by Local attacks, wmcn
were repulsed. Early this morning ,ne
enemys artillery and machine guns ue.
ye,oned considerable activity from the
vicinity of Villers- -Bretonneux to the
"A hostile raiding party was driven
off Yesterday afternoon south OF Buc-
"During the night we advanced a
line a short distance by successiui
local operation in the neighborhood OF
Merris and captured several prisoners
and a machine gun"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
Reciprocal cannonading.

international News Service)
Paris, July 10.-Only artillery duel
ing and raiding were reported by the
French war office today. Seven more
German airplanes have been shot
down, as we'll as two captive balloons
There was reciprocal cannonading
north of Montddier and south OF the
Aisne. river in the region of Chavigny
farm.
In the Champagne district several
raids were carried out, netting some
prisoners.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
Artillery Active North Mont
didier, Where French Recent
Iy Penetrated Foes Lines.
BAG SEVEN B0CHE PLANES
British Garry Out Successful
Operation in Vicinity of Mer-
ris-Prisoners Taken.
unternationai News Seryice.D

London, July lO.-The British
line, in the Merris sector of the
Flanders front, was advanced
slightly by an operation last night,
the British war office stated to-
day.
Some prisoners were captured
The German artillery was ac-
tive in the Villers- Bretonneux
sector of the Picardy front.
German night attacks were re-
pulsed.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
ALLIES ADVANCE
ON WIDE FRONT
Big New Success Scored in or
fensive Against Austro.
Hungarians
IN BALKAN WAR THEATER
Franco Italian Troops Driving
on Ahead On Both Sides
of Osum.
IN BALKAN WAR THEATER
Associated Press.l

Rome. July 10.-The Italian troops
on the offensive in Albania are closing
their advance. the war Office an
nounced today. The enemy in yester-
days fighting was beaten back on both
sides OF the Osum river.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10

nd often I have tainted. The weather :?
Fair, with slight change in tempera-
ture,' ----- -,
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
German Guns Busy.

(ASSOCIdtVu TfeSs'T
London, July 1o.-Considerasie
morning by the German artillery
and machine guns in the region
east Of Amiens, from the vicinity
Of Villers- Bretonneux to the Anere,
saws today's war office report.
Tho Germans delivered local at
<acks In the viIIers. erstonneux
area, but were rspuised.
ON the Flanders front the British
carried out an operation in the vicinit!
of Merris, northeast Of Nieppe wood
by means Of which the line was ad
vanced a short distance and prisoners
were taken.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-10
AUSTRIA REFUSES TO
ACCEPT GEN. Won BELOW
Associated Press.)

Rome, July 1O.-Austria has declined
to accpet the German general. Otto Won
Below, as commander in chief OF the
forces on the Italian front, because
Germany refused to send twelve Ger
man divisions with him, according 10
the Epoca, which bases the statement
on advices from a Swiss source.
Austria, it adds, has Temporarily
given up the idea of revenging herself
fer her recent defeat by Italy.
Dispatches from Rome, through Paris
on July Z, reported that Germany in
tended sending three army corps 10 inc
aid of Austria to be put under Gen.
Otto Won Below as communicating -chicf
on the Italian front. Reports from
Zurich several days earlier declared
that Gen. Won Below had been ap-
pointed commander-i chief. but there
has been no official confirmation that
such a change in command had been
effected or was contemplated.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-05-08

CTS of that group, there was no telling what might happen. His interests might become permanently identified with Granville.
 Bill informed her from time to time as to the progress of his venture. The company was duly incorporated, with an authorized capital of one hundred thousand dollars, five thousand dollars worth of stock being taken out by each on cash basis-the remaining sev- enty-five thousand lying in the con- pany treasury, to be held or sold for development purposes as the five saw fit when work began to show what the claims were capable of producing.
 In early March came a telegram from Whitey Lewis saying that he had staked the claims, both placer and lode; that he was bound out by the Telegraph Trail to file at Hazelton. Bill showed her the message-wired from Station Six.
 "I wish l could have been in on It. that was some trip he said-and there was trace of dlscontent In his tone. "I don't fancy somebody else paving my chestnuts out of the coals for me. It was sure mans job to cross the Klappan in the dead of win ter"
 The filing completed, there was am- pie work in the way of getting out and whipsawing timber to keep the five men busy till spring-the five who were on the ground. Lewis sent word that thirty feet of snow lay in the gold-bearing branch. And that was the last they heard from him. He was a performer, Bill said, not cor respondent.
 So in Granville the affairs of the Free Gold Mining company remained at a standstill until the spring floods should peel off the winter blanket Of the North.
 Ultimately, spring overspread fn2 eastern provinces. And when the snows of winter successively gave way to muddy streets and then to clean pavements in the city of Granville. new gilt sign was lettered across the windows of the brokerage office ln which Paul Lorimer was housed.
 FREE GOLD MINING COMPANY P. Fl. Lorimer. P. J. L. Brooks. Sec.-Ireas'
 William Wagstaff. Manager.
 So 1t ran. Bill was commissioned in the army of business at last.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-05-08
CHAPTER XIV.
A Business Journey.

q have to go to the Klappan." Bill appraised his wife one evening. want to come along?"
 Hazel hesitated. Her first instinc- tive feeling was one of reluctance to retrace the nerve-trying trail. But neither did she wish to be separated from him.
 q see you don't" he observed dry ly. "Well, I can't say that blame you. It's stiff trip"
 "Tm sorry I can't feel any enthusi- asm for such journey" she remarked candidly. q could go as far as the coast with you, and meet you there when you come out. How long do you expect to be in there?"
 'I don't know exactly" he replied. "Pm not going in from the coast. though. I'm taking the Ashcroft-Fort George Trail. have to take In pack train and more men and get work started on a decent scale."
 "But you won't have to stay there all summer and oversee the work, will you?" she inquired anxiously. T should" he said. For a second or two he drummed on the table top.
 "But is there any real necessity for you to stay on the ground?" She pur- sued her own line of thought. "I should think an undertaking of this size would justify hiring an expert to take charge of the actual mining oper- ations. Won't you have this end of 1t to look after?"
 "LOrimer and Brooks are eminently capable of upholding the dignity and importance of that sign they've got smeared across the windows down. town," he observed curtly. "The chief labor of the office they've set up will be to divide the proceeds. The work will be done and the money made in the Klappan Range. You sabe that, don't you"
 I'm not stupid" she pouted.
 "Tm going tomorrow" he said. q think, on the whole, it'll be just as well if you don't go. Stay here and enjoy yourself. I'll transfer some more money to your account. I think I'll drop down to the club"
 She followed him out into the hall 1 and, as he wriggled Into his coat, she had an impulse to throw her arms around his neck and declare, in all sincerity, that she would go to the Klappan or to the north pole or any place on earth with him, if he wanted her. But by some peculiar feminine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-11
WOMEN NOW IDLE HERE
SOUGHT FOR INDUSTRY
Division of Federal Employment
Service to Make Complete
Survey of Washington.

Determined to mobilize for essen
tial industry all the now idle woman
power of the city. the Women's d.
vision of the local United States EN-
ployment Service announced today
that it will make q complete survey
of the city.
The organization expects to disclose
the number Of women In the city who
are not now working and to discover
for what employment each woman IL
best fitted
All women who arc able to do work
of any kind will be considered for
employment Recruits Of any age will
be accepted.
The woman past fifty will be given
a chance to earn something II she is
threescore and ten she will still be
regarded as having producing value,
unless sick or in other respects phys
ically unfit.
1t was stated that a great emergency
exists. especially in the stores of the
city. All are clamoring for help. All
are willing to employ any individual
who gives promise of efficiency.
1T is hoped says the announce
ment. that the women of Washington
will not wait to be recruited. but will
register at once at 1410 Pennsylvania
avenue, stating at what hours they
will be available for essential in
dustry."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-11
u. S. CLERKS CALLED ON
TO DEVOTE DAY LOAN

1T is an imperative and patriotic
duty that every government employee
who is excused from work tomorrow
Liberty Loan day-capitalize that
day of. freedom from regular duties
to do his full share !. in assisting to
make the fourth liberty loan a great
success
Secretary McAdoo- of the Treasury
made this statement in an official no.
tice sent today to all officers and en-
ployes of his department calling at
tention to Liberty Loan day"
''The necessary abandonment Of pa
rades and public meetings in behalf of
the fourth liberty loan," he said, sis a
great handicap in the campaign in the
District of Columbia, but I am sure
that it is a handicap which every en-
ploye Of the Treasury Department.
employees of all other departments Of
the government and citizens OF Wash
ington generally will make every eff
fort to overcome"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-11
47.OOO REFUGEES ESCAPE
TURKS IN MESOPOTAMIA
British Cavalry Drives Back Pur-
suers-6OO Christian Women
Seized by Moslens.

LONDON, October 1o.-Mesopota-
mian dispatches received here record
the arrival inside the British lines of
$4,000 Assyrian, Armenian and Rus
sian refugees from Urumiah, Persian
Armenia, who broke through the
Turkish front and made their escape
Another 10000 refugees. according
to the dispatches, are distributed in
Kurdistan towns or are wandering in
the hills. The Turks pursued them.
but were driven back by British cav
airy.
Later the Turks entered Urumiah
and massacred 200 persons. mostly
old men 1t is reported that 500 Chris
tian women have been distributed
among the Turkish troops and the
Moslem inhabitants of Urumiah.