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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
CONGRESS ABAND0NS.
SALES TAX PROGRAM:
Tax Revision Plan Agreed on by
= House Leaders and Treasury
Officials at Conference. =

Washington.-The program for tax
legislation began to assume definite
form at a conference between treas
ury officials and Republican members
of the House Ways and Means Commit
tee.
Among the developments were the
following:
Sales Iax-Republican members OF
the Ways and Means Committee, ac-
cording to an announcement by Chplr-
man Fordney, lfslve determined DEF
initely to abandon further thought OF
any sales tax. The committee is fa-
vorable in,general ito the treasury pro-
gram for tax revision.
Transportatfon Taxa proposal that
this tax be reduced BY 80 per cent for
a period of one year and eliminated en-
tirelY thereafter was given favorable
consideration. "a"
CorporationsIncome Tax-Coifl4iftte
members approved the treasury recon-
ntphAatio for an increase of the cor
poratien income tax from 10 to Is per
cent and the repeal of the present. S.
600 exemptions for corporations, the
additional revenue from these sources
being expected to offset the loss result
ing from the repeal of the excess profits
tax
Individual Income Tax-The recon-
mendation of the treasury for a reduc-
tom of the higher surtaxes to about 40
per cent will be followed. 1t appears
to be q settled fact that the present
normal taxes, on individual. incomes
cannot be reduced. :s
:: Customs Revenue-Joseph S. Mccoy,
-actuary of the Treasury Department,
told the conference that no more than
$50 100000 additional revenue can
possibly be raised under the new Ford
lTey tariff bill, or a total of S450, 0,0OO,-
900, as against S3OO,000,0o0 under the
= -ITndprwOOl law
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
TEXAS XII kiltUx KLAN
RENEW!S, terror REIGN
Masked and. d. Uniformed Bands
Seize Victims in Many, Sec
tions-After Moral Lepers.'
Naval Aide to the
Secretary of the Navy.

Austin, Textile Ku Klux Klan has
yigor of the terrorism that made it SO
terribly feared in reconstruction days
following the Civil War. Events Of
the last few weeks show that, such an
organization is in widespread opera
tion in this state, although no one out
side its pale can say who belongs to it.
1t moves secretly.
I Whipping, usually followed by coat
of tar and feathers, seems to be the
officially prescribed punishment for the
evildoers who fall under the ban of the
Ku klux Klan. These have been per-
formed bythe score since the first ap-
pearance> of the masked and uniformed
men at Dallas on the night of April l,
Not a day passes that not one or more
reports of affairs of this kind are made.
| For the most part the victims are
men of bad repute, perhaps they are
wife beaters, bigamists, gamblers and
offenders against the moral law. Adj
vance warnings are sometimes given,
but not always. Many more white
men have been whipped, tarred and
feathered than negroes. No discrimi-
nation as to race, color or nationality
is shown.
In Dallas ana many of the other
cities and towns of the state there
have been parades of masked men
who claim to belong to the Ku KluX
Klan More than 400 men were in the
parade in Dallas. Many public warm
ings to law violators and moral lepers
have been posted i'll public places over
the state These warnings are signed
by the ku kluX klan.
The local and state authorities have
as yet done nothing toward exposing
t: organization.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05

Two naval airplanes of she FL type
are cruising up and down the coast off
Cape May, n. J., III search of liquor
smugglerS.
Police of Munich, Germany, refused
admittance into Germany of q boy ten
years old because he was born in Vi
emma and might become a Communist.
The Fokker F-3, named Half Moon,
and formerly in service between Lon
don and Amsterdam, flew over New
York for the first time. Bert AcoStA
was the pilot and several newspaper
men and photographers were pas
sengers.
Commissioner Forbes, of the Woods
Forbes mission to the Philippines, dis
agrees with recently expressed opinion
that sugar plantations of the Philip
pines need imported Chinese or Japan
ese contract labor.
Anti-Blue Law League of America is
advocating the opening of Mount Yer
| non, the home of George Washington
| to the public on Sunday.
Federal Hill, old Southern mansion
near. Bardstown, Ky, where Stephen
C. Foster wrote the song "My Old Ken
tuck Home,' is now the property OF
the state of Kentucky.
Premier BRAND, in a speech to the
council of ministers, declared that the
supreme council would not take up the
Silesian issue until the end of August
or the beginning of September.
Maj-Gen. Charles +. Menoher, chief
of the army air service, said he did not
think the sinking of the German dread
nought Ostfriesland by air bombs
showed that the battleship was DOOM
ed
Belgium Is the third nation to de-
fault in the Davis cup contest.
Discount rates of Federal Reserve
banks in Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia and San Francisco have been
: rodI1oad to S1L nor cont
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
FOREIGN

General Smuts cancelled his return
passage to South Africa. 1t is under
stood in London that the South Afri-
can premier will play dominant part
i'll the disarmament conference.
Reichbank Of Berlin has secured a
new credit of 5O,OO0,0OO gold marks
through the American branch of the
Mendelsohn Bank and is reported ne
gotiating for an additional credit.
Canadian government ordered the
release Of Werner Horn, German
who tried to blow up the International
railway bridge at Nanceboro, Me-, dur
ing the war. He was sentenced in
1919 to serve ten years.
Count Tsunetada Kato, in statement
to Toxic press, says Japan must get
out of Siberia to enter Washington
conference with clean hands.
Rebel tribesmen in the Melilla dis
trict, Morocco, repulsed attacks of
Spanish troops and have driven them
from recently captured POSITIONS
According to reports announced at
Riga the anti-Bolsheviki in Soviet Rus
sia are uniting with the Soviet to fight
starvation.
Hugo SHINES, German capitalist,
suffered concussion of the brain when
an automobile in which he was riding
was overturned at Wiesbaden, Prussia.
The labor unions of DanZig, protest
ing against the passage of the French
troops for upper Silesia through Dan
ria rnf tn inf
work in connection with such trans
port.
Two thousand actors were ousted
from the German Actors Union. They
| objected to high dues and against
affliliation with the transport workers
and the Socialist central organization
Senator France, who is in Russia
studying conditions, announced lie
would leave for Riga.
Cleveland is holding nine day ceIe-
bratfon Of its 125th anniversary.
! According to an Athens dispatch
| Mustapha kemal, commander of the
Turkish Nationalist army, had q mar
row escape from death. A Greek air
man dropped bombs in front of ke-
mails headquarters, killing eleven men
and wounding twenty.
Canada will pay off $15,000,0O0 of
E-51a per cent bonds due in New York
August l, according to reports.
According to announcement made in
the house of commons by Premier
Lloyd George, Great Britain will con,
tinue its construction of capital war.
ships despite the disarmament confer.
| ence.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
GENERAL

The Nichi Nichi announced the jap
anese cabinet had decided to withdraw
all troops from Siberia and Shantung.
Chief of Police Edward, of Kansas
City, No. charges that a million dollar
trust in Pittsburgh is shipping liquor
by the carload to all larger cities of the
United States.
Announcement tnat the police of
Philadelphia would use tear gas has
caused heavy demand by criminals
throughout the city for gas MASKS.
Chief of Police Mills announced great
care would be taken to prevent the gas
from falling into the hands of
criminals
Baltimore and Ohio railroad re-es-
tablished its agricultural bureau to
carry out the program which the COM
pany begun in 1916 but was forced to
abandon because of the war a year
later.
Three men were killed and twelve
injured in an explosion on the Stand
ard Oil Companys tanker Ardmore,
which was tied up in drydock in Brook
lyn.
Schooner Viola was burned off Pen
sacola, Fla. TWenty-three men, includ-
ing some Chinese, who, it is alleged,
were being smuggled into this. country,
were all lost.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
announced Brotherhood employees had
accepted Il proposal of the company TO
reduce wages 10 per cent.
Captain Mundon of the yacht Cur
lew, which was captured and contiscat-
ed at Fort ST Joe, Fla, declared that
from ten to fifteen schooners, armed,
are running liquor from Gum Key
Light to Miami, distance Of about
fifty miles.
Price of milk will be increased Ia
cents 81 quart in August, president Of
New York Dairymen's League Coop
erative Association announced, because
of the drought and small hay crop.
Attorney General Daugherty an
nounced additional suits against build
ing trades organizations will be insti-
tuted by the government.
Former German battleship Ostfries-
land was sunk in tWenty-one minutes
after three direct hits with 1,0OO-pOund
bombs scored by army aviatOrs.
Eight persons were drowned and
three others, near death, were rescued
when sixteen delegates 10 the Baptist
Young Peoples Union annual state ne
canlpment at Palacios, Tex, forming
bathing party, were caught in the
undert0w of the Gulf Of Mexico at the
mouth of Greens Bayou
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
LATEST EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON

In a telegram addressed by Herbert
Hoover to Maxim Gorky at Petro-
grad the Soviet government has been
told the conditions under which re-
lief from the United States may be
extended to starving Russia. Famine
relief depends upon the immediate
release of Americans now held as
prisoners.
Federal Board for Vocational. Educa-
tion opened camp at Fire Island
for disabled service men.
A warning has been sent out by In
ternaI Revenue Commissioner Blair
to beware of the fake income tax ex.
perts. -
Although the house. has passed the
Fordney tariff bill over to the SEN
ate, whose Finance Committee will
begin a revision of the measure,
there is no certainty that tariff Iegis.
Iation will pass the senate in the
/ near future.
Fred |. Cox of New Jersey was nomi-
mated by President Harding to sue.
ceed Chairman Clark of the Inter
has resigned.
House immigration Committee will in.
vestisate understanding with Japan
:: ihsfg08 concerning control of Japa.
nese immigration to United States.
Renewed confidence that Japan will
consent to a broad discussion of far
eastern problems as part of the dis.
-,
Washington official circles after an
other informal exchange of views be-
tween the Japanese and American
governments.
President Harding nominated a wo-
man to be a judge of the Municipal
Court, District of Columbia. She is
Mary o'TooIe, a practicing lawyer Of
Washington.
Postmaster. General Hays announced
total deposits of $153, 100000 in Unit
ed States Postal Savings System.
Republican leaders in Congress were
said by Chairman Penrose, of the
Senate Finance Committee, to be los.
ing hope of reducing either govern
~ ment expenditures or taxes.
Interest of $943, ,534,755 now is owed
the United States on Allied war
debts, Assistant Secretary Wads-
worth, of the Treasury Department,
told the Senate Finance Committee,
in further considering the. Admins
traton bill for refunding foreign
loans. He submitted a detailed
statement on delinquent interest and
said $73o,ooO,o in interest had been
paid by debtor nations.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
IRELAND GETS BRITISH TERMS
Said to Be. for: Dominion Rule With
-. -. :: Restrictions. .-.E---.

.: London-David Lloyd George, prime
minister Of Great Britain, handed to
Eamon de Valera HPresident Of the
Irish Republic a typewriter ,-docu-
mant setting forth the definite propo-
sails Of the British government. Rough
Iy speaking, the proposals amount to
an offer of self government such as
has been found acceptable by Canada
and South Africa.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
:%RAILRoADs GET U. S. CASH
Waive Demands for Compensation for
Labor Inefficiency.

ashington.-Ofticial announcement
that the railroads had acceded to the
request of the administration that they
waive their demands for compensation
for alleged inefficiency of labor during
the period of federal operation will
anal Ike possible speedy settlement and
the payment of between S4Oo, 100000
ami S90o,O0o,00o in cash to the carriers,
The rutdS will now be able to contract
for much needed cars.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
STRIKING CARPENTERS GIVE UF
Nine Thousand in Philadelphia Agree
to Employers Terms.

Philadelphia.-N thousand car
penters, who had been on strike since
May /, accepted terms laid down by
their employers, including a material
reduction in wages. Contractors said
the carpenters action would bring to
an end the entire building trade strike,
which was called when Il new aud low
er wage scale for all classes of labor
was announced. Work on many long
DELAYED buildings will soon begin.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
GET BUSY, KEEP BUSY
IS YOUR lob UNSAFE?

rs it itpermanent? You want lifelong
l. business. You can get into such
business, selling more than 1877 Wat
kins products direct to farmers if you
own auto or team or can get one; If,
you are under 80 and can give bond
with personal sureties. We back you
with big selling help; So years in busi-
ness: 20, 900, 900 users of our products.
Write for information where you can
get territory. J. r. Watkins Co.,
Department Ill, Winona, Mimi.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
SEES GERMAN-FOLlSH WAR

Former French War Minister Believes
: Europe on Verge of New Struggle.
= -.paris-.War h@tWep Germany ard
Poland may be. expected within fort
night" declared Andre Lefebvre, for
mer minister of war.
"Franee would be foolish to send
additional forces into Upper Silesia,
because she~cannot send enough to
prevent the inevitable conflict, Will
she would be bound to be caught be-
tween the fires of the two opposing
forces.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
MoToRIST SHOT DEAD
Bandits. Escape After Robbing Victim
, and Wife.

Hamilton, O.-Arthur B. Conery of
Columbus, Ohio. was shot to death by
two bandits who held up his automobile
near here Mrs Conery, who was with
her husband in the automobile, told
the police the highwaymen began firing
when ,Conery failed promptly to throw
up his hands. After robbing their vic
tins of several hundred dollars and;
jewelry the robbers fled leaving moi
clue to their identity.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-08-05
WOMAN TWELFTH TO DIE
Widow of Slain Gunman Killed in
Chicago Bad lands !:

Chicago-Murder No. u was conf.
mitted in the Nineteenth Ward, that
dark and bloody ground, wherein the
residents settle their disputes with
sawed-off shotguns or: sti[ettoS. The
eleventh political murder came when
1.-Two Gun johnny" Guardfno, notol1
ious killer, was caught off Lis guara
for Il second and his body riddled with
dum-dum bullets. The twelve crimes
were committed since January /.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-01-04

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the Teachers'
club have again pre9ared a course Of lec4
lures TO he given at the high school audi
torium. the proceeds To 60 toward the
support Of the Russell library.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-01-04
DIED.

FRAsER-In Providence, r. L, Jan Q,
1921, Mabel Francis Lester, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H Lester and
wife of Alexander Fraser.
Funeral at Graham Home, 571 Broad
street, Providence Tuesday at 2 p. m.
FITZGT RAID In Norwich. Jan. 3, 1921.
GeneVieve Fitzgerald. daughter of the
late. James j. and Mary Fitzgerald,
aged u years.
Funeral at flourigan's funeral parlors at
mass at st. Patrick's church at 9
o'clock. Burial in st. Mary's cemetery.
Automobile cortege.
DOLAN-In this city, Jan. 8. 1921, Mary
Nally Dolan, widow of Hugh Dolan.
Funeral at her late residence. No. 1 Lake
street, Wednesday morning. Jan. 5, at
9.15 Requiem mass in st. Patrick
church at 10 o'clock. Burial in family
lots in St. Joseph's- cemetery. Automo-
bile cortege.
Prudence S. James widow of Charles
Thompson, in her Ssth year.
Funeral services will be held at the resi-
dence of her daughter, Mrs. George l.
afternoon. Jan. 5, at 1890 o'clock. Ser
vices at the grave in Willimantic GENE.
terry at 23o.
SMITH-At the home of her daughter
Mrs. Everett E. Brown, in Pornfret
Conn. Jan. l. 1921. Frances Cornelis
Cornell, widow of John Staples Smith
late Of Plainheld, !, in the Goth year O
| her age.
Funeral at Porfret Wednesday, Jan. 5
| at 1 o'clock Burial in the family bury
ing ground at Black Hill. Plainheld.
DEITZ-In Norwich, Jan. 81 1921. Cath
crime, widow of George Deitz, aged Z;
years. -.4A
Notice of funeral hereafter.
BJyTToN-At Rocky Hill Jan. 2. 1921
Mary Utley, wife of worthington But
| ton. native Of Hampton, aged s.
years
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-01-04
HOPKINTON

Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Brown Of War
renville, Ct, were New Year guests at the
home Of Rev. E. P. Mathe~son. Mr..
Brown is representau-e-elect t-om the
town Of Ashford in the Connecticut legis-
lature.
Charles r. Kenyon and C. Arthur Mills
we're attendants at church in Rockville
Saturday morning.
Herbert Kenyon had lively chimney
Gre in the ell Of his residence Saturday
morning.
The public schools of Hopkinton opened
Monday morning after the holiday vaca.
lion.
The mild weather over Sunday re.
moved the snow and ice in this vicinity
md caused the roads to be muddy.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Allen visited at tn,
home Of their son, George E. Allen. a
Hope Valley Sunday.
The <Hopkinton town clerks office Il
to be omen Mondays and Thursdays onl,
during the winter, except by special ap
i pointment
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-nANrEI .soN

Y At wiliimantic there was hearing
in chambers before Judge George E.
Human Of the superior court, Monday,
relative to the matter Of confirming as
permanent receiver Alfred Pate of the
Fefniea company of East Killingly. Judge
Szbin s. Russell appeared as counsel
Annual meeting Of the Bohemian club
this CTuesday) evening .-adv
Miss Nellie Brown of Furnace street
has been entertaining, Deputy Fire Chief
H r. Taft and family of Norwich. Miss
Kate Taft, Miss Marie Taft Of Smith
college, Northampton, 1. L. Brown OF
Valley Falls. R. l.
Glen Lyon. who is employed at the
store Of A. E. Mech, was reported on
Monday as seriously i'll at his home
here
Chief John Mcfarland picked up Mon
day the first of the 1921 automobile
markers to be lost hereabouts
!. Schools throughout the town of killing.
Il opened Monday for the winter term.
-, There viii not be any more talk in
this section for the immediate present
about harvesting ice. The spring like
weather has spoiled the chances.
/. Miss Alice Morrissette, who has beer
spending the holiday vacation at hel
hottie near Wauregan. has returned Il
Thnnpsonville, where she is teaching.
Thomas ]. Aylward was in Bostor
Monday on a business trip.
Represemtative-el Frank SpaIding,
ottsBrooklyn, and Senator-elect Charlie!
L.EBlake, Brooklyns of the twenty-nintf
iiStrict. are in Hartford for the caucu!
ami organization of the legislature O.
1884,,
John B. Bassett and, A. W. Basset
ny
iness, trip.
- A business man tells of being offered
al load of wood, represented as being on
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DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS

ceard and half. Upon measuring the
load he found it to contain only 1872
cubic feet, just four cubic feet over one
cord. The load had been drawn into
Danielson and was being driven about
in search Of purchaser.
Some very fine calendars have been
given away here during the past few
days to customers Of business and man
ufacturing concerns in town.,
KillinEly came through the New Years
holiday period with clean slate inso-
far as arrests were concerned. thesrec-
ord being as good one as this town has
made
A number of friends of A H Aiming
ton were generously remember&d on the
New Years holiday with baskets con-
tanning fruit and numerous other prac-
teal gifts
Miss Eleanor johnson, who passed her
| S0th birthday las October, died Monday
morning at her home on Oak street
| Miss johnson had been blind for years
| an din very poor health for the past year
| She was a daughter Of Henry and Min.
| ervA Cady johnson and was born in thu
| town of Brooklyn. She had been res
! ident of Danielson for many years. Dan
/ lei johnson, who died years ago and .whs
/ was one of the best known of local con
tractors was her brother She leaves Z
sister, Miss Esther, who unfortunatel.
| is blind, brother, George, of Seattle
/ and a nephew. Louis Foster Of Vale!
| Falls, r. l.
At the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Franz
Rainville, on South street, Monday a
i one o'clock funeral service for Mrs
i Mary AlmiraN Dupmas was conducted b,
| Face to Face, and Safe in the Arms o
Jesus were sung during the service b!
| Mrs, C. Aloton Frost. The bearers wer1
/ Julius Rainville. Arthur Rainville, Har
old Macumbery Kenneth Hamilton, Franz
Vachon and Carl Rice, grandsons Of
Mrs. Dumas. Burial was in Westfelt
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YANIIC

Unclaimed letters here are for Miss
Mary Hannigan, William Back. Miss
Mary Canty. NJ Cheni. Jacob Turetsky
Miss Dorothy Waterman, Miss Elizabeth
Westcott.
The United States postoffce department
has designated the Yantic postofhce as
one of a number of additional interna-
tional money order offices to be estab-
lished at the beginning of business Jan.
3, 1921. Money can be sent TO SIS foreign
countries hereafter. The number of coun-
tries and places outside Of the United
states to which money can be sent in the
domestic forms is 20.
Mrs. R. V. Congdon and daughter Flor
ence have returned from stay Of sew
eral days with Providence relatives.
Mrs. Harry Fishhone and sons, Jacob
and Augustus, have returned after stay
of several days with relatives in New
York.
John R. McHale, Jr.. has been assisting
Harry Fishbone in his store during the
past week.
Miss Margaret Coughlin has returned to
her home in New York after few days
stay at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Coughlin.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Rowland Hewitt have re-
turned to Stonington after stay of sew
eral days at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elias Stockett
Miss Estelle Eldridge Of stonington was
a recent guest of relatives here.
Miss Rose Wathley of Kent was a
week end guest of Miss J. NJ Pendleton
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Eldridge and son
been spending the holidays at Oakridge
farm.
Harry Daniels, Emil Rothier and Frank
Hansen spent the holidays in New York
with friends. making the trip in Mr.. Dan.
iels' touring car.
Miss Anna Coughlin Of New -7ven anc
Master John Scanlon Of Westc-- wer,
New Years guests at the home OF Misr
Coughlin's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Johr
Coughlin.
Miss Anna Kelleyrof Ansonia. who spen
the holidays in town with her brother
William Kelley, was guest at Pine Ire,
cottage
Miss Mary Curry has returned to Nor
walk after spending the past ten days a
her home here.
Miss Helen Gardner has completed
visit in Middleboro with her sister. Mrs
Thomas Rawiey. and has returned to he
school in Lebanon.
Miss Lorena Bogue has returned t
|, Lebanon after weeks stay at her HON
here.
Ensign Harold Bentley has returned t
his ship. the L. S. S. Dickerson. and vii
soon leave for a cruise around sout
America.
Mr.. and Mrs. IIermon ]. Gibbs wer
guests at the Long Wilson wedding a
Montville.
John Proctor and son John have re
turned from a holiday visit on Long Isl
and with Mr.. Proctors parents.
X. v. Congdon and son Raymond ar
home after a stay at Stafford Spring
with Mr.. Congdon's parents, Mr.. and Mr.
Charles n. Congdon.