Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-06

! Information received from Wash
| ington recites an additional tax OH
tobacco will be one Of the five sources
of raising revenue for the payment
Of the proposed soldier bonus, ac-
cording to Republican house leaders
in charge of the legislation.
The amount Of the proposed addi-
tional tax upon tobacco and tobac-
co products has not yet been made
known.
The other/ sources of raising the
money with which to pay soldier bo-
muses., it was said, will be tax on
sales, a tax on real estate transfers,
a tax on stock exchanges and a
general increase in income tax.
Proposals to license meat packers
and to create a commission to en-
| force laws affecting the industry
were rejected by the house agricul-
ture committee at Washington.
With these eliminations agreed
| upon, a subcommittee headed by
chairman Haugen was appointed to
draft compromise legislation for the
| regulation of the packers.
Princess Nadeja Vassilievna Trou-
| betskoy, who has been called "the
most beautiful Red Cross nurse in
the world" was quietly married in
Washington in st. Paul's Protestant
! Episcopal church to Captain Wallace
| Strait Schultz, of Milwaukee, who
served in France with the One Hun
| bred and Twentieth field artillery.
The bride, who served throughout
the war with the Red Cross on the
| Russian front, has been a nurse in
the naval hospital for the last three
weeks, and doctors and nurses from
the hospital were among the few
guests at The ceremony.
| Miss Sara Fl. Cox, head nurse at
| the hospital, was the maid of honor
and the best man was Paul n. Ku-
| der of Milwaukee. business aSso-
ciate Of Captain Schultz The prin-
cess was married sin the uniform of
the Russian Red Cross. The couple
| left for a honeymoon in Canada prior
to taking up their residence in Mil
Waukee.
According to diSpa tcheS from Par
| is the chamber of deputies passed
bill prohibiting the export of works
| of art which the state considers form
part of the national artistic patri-
mony.
An export duty was placed on 9TH
er ancient objects of art of so per
cent ad valorem, plus so centimeS
| per 1000 francs for objects valued
up to 100000 francs and of 100 per
cent for those valued over 100000
francs.
In statement made at Washing
ton Attorney General Palmer an
nounced that Investigations by the
department of alleged fraudulent war
con tracts have uncovered illegal
transactions involving millions OF
dollars. Millions will be saved for
the government through civil and
criminal prosecutions now completed
or under way, the attorney general
declared.
questionable vouchers unearthed
| in one class of contracts alone" Mr..
Palmer said, have resulted in with
holding payments by the government
amounting to approximately $4,420,-
1000. These contracts, under inves
tigation for months, affect very
restricted area.
Warrants were issued recently for
six. of the leading theater ticket
brokers in Chicago, charging them
with defrauding the government of
approximately 100000 in war taxes
during the last year. Two Of the six
are women. One. Mrs. Florence
Couthoui, operates ticket agencies in
most of the Loop hotels and is the
agent for more than half of Chica-
COS theaters.
The steamers Yale and Harvard
"OA oO10 AOCCiAI1y Wy lIIS navy uS-
partment at Washington, 20 agents
for a Los Angeles syndicate, which
will put them back on the Pacific
coast run, on which they were OPP
Grating Whep purchased by the navy.
The price for both vessels was ST.
1855 900.
Universal military training was
Endorsed at Washington BY che Con-
tinental Congress of the Daughters
Of the American Revolution, an
amendment to make such training
voluntary instead of compulsory be-
ing lost for want of a second.
There was a scattering Of noes"
but no call for a division was made.
Copies of the resolution will be sent
to the house and senate military
committees.
Mrs. George Minor, of Waterford,
Conn, was unanimously elected pres
ident general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, succeeding
RMS. George Guernsey of Kansas.
Frank Richardson, of Edgartown,
Martha's Vineyard, hunting on the
shore of Senekontacket pond, and
seeing waht he thought were three
seals playing in the water, killed one,
and found that it WAS an otter weigh
ing t hirty-seven pounds and worth
more than 500.