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, 1922-12-12

Inc revenue rom the
federal income fsx,r afr, McKenssis
charged, SIS largely due from ertors
In the 1921 tax law end the existcnc,
of about $4,000. 900 900 Of tax frss
securities. The report of the secre.
tary of the treasury for this fiscal
year, 1929. which has just been pre-
ssrted TO congress- shows that there
are only se5 persons IN the United
States paying on taxable incomes Of
5000. 900 nj up Where is all the
money. In tax free securities. I'm
less issuing of tax free securities is
stopped. It will wreck our +, sys-
tenn"
He asserted what he callsd defects
in the present bin should DO remedied
at once.
There ii an epidemic OF stock divi-
dends,.. he continued. within 40
days they mount to s1.5eo. 900. 900.
The reason IA not far to seek. II the
Recipients have owned the original
shares for two years or more they-
, 1922-12-12
BANDITS FREE
One AMERICAN

PEKINd. Dec. 1z.-By Tho Asso.
ciated PressEAnton Luudesn. OF
Newman Grove. Neb.. a missionary
kidnapped by bandits in Hsnan pro
vince on oc,ober 1ss. last. has been
released. It was announced here to-
day.
Three other Americas are still held
captive and the diplomatic corps here
has appointed q commission which
VIII start fer Honan province Thurs.
day. to negotiate their release.
, 1922-12-12
LATE SPORTS

ST. PAsL, Mimi. Dec 12.-rom
Gibbons and Bill Mlskc, St. Paul
heavyweights. will box to n decision
when they meet hero Friday night
in a scheduled 1o-round bout. Sc
cording to announcements today by
the Minnesota boxing commission.
The announcement came as tho
result Of q request By both man
ayers that o definite result be an
nounced II the affair should 60 10
r,,ands. the limit permitted BY the
state law.
, 1922-12-12
Watch Tribune
Wednesday for
Prize AUards

Winners Of the Jiggs drawing
contest staged by The Tribune in
connsction with JiEgs' visit fo
Casper IN person this week with
the mushaai donnsdy ~ anser on
Ills Vacation" viii be announced
tomorrow from among several hun
dred contestants whose drawings
were stu pillng up this afternoon.
The delugs promised TO continue
until the contest ends 1t 8 O'Clock
this afternoon.
The best drawings will be sub
mItted 10 Miss Sarah Crumpfpn.
art supervisor In the Casper schools
who has Kindly consented TO make
the awards. =
Watch the Tribune tomorrow for
encouragement of tho winners. +
, 1922-12-12
ST0CKYARDS
INSTITUTION IS
SCENE Of BOLD
.HOLDUP TODAY
Bandits EXECUTE Holdup
And Make Escape This
Afternoon While Lob
by Is Crowded

KANSAS CITY. Dec. 12.-
While the main lobby of the
live stock exchange building
was filed with cattle commits
sion men and stockyards en-
ployes this afternoon, three
bandits shot and probably fatally
wounded Thomas F. A. Henry, credit
or the Drovers National
bank, and escaped with loot reported
to be $4,000. :
, 1922-12-12
PASSES
TREASURY Bill

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ia.-AR-
othen record In speeding ~appropria-
ton in the present session of con-
e was made today when the
senate passed after a short debate
the s115 .ooo,o Doc treasury appropria-
ton measure, the first of a supply
of bills, which passed the house
only last Saturday.
WASHINGTON. Dec. i2.-The ap.
preparation OF 50 .o9e, eco carried in
, 1922-12-12
COTTON CROP :
HAS SLUMP

WASHINGTON. Dec. i2.-Reducins
its forecast. made in October by ILL.,
900 bales, the department of agricui-
ture In its final estimate of the sea-
son today, plnced the total produc-
ton OF cotton this year at 1884 900
bales. The egtinate is smaller than
any OF the four forecasts made this
season which were based on condi-
ton Of the crop I'm the various montha
Of the growing season.
, 1922-12-12

Of the army planes making their
flying base viii make any flights
today In search Of the two missing
ayiators, Colonel Marshall and Leu
tenant Webber. Captain Erwin.
stated tfn reason for not resunting
tine flights into Mexico this morn
ing was that all thep ianes had had
two days Of hard work and were In
need Of overhauling.
, 1922-12-12

can hqnidato and pay only 17h por
ant instead of the regular surtax
which runs to SO per cent
The personnel OF h tax depart
'rnent, he declared needs strengthen
Ing and he cited two instances where
In he changed the department lost
valuable men because Of an inability
TO pay adequate salaries. Reinstate-
ment of the excess profits tax. he
said. should come in event tho 1921
tax law does not produce sufficient
revenue.
, 1922-12-12

new structure would be divulgcd by
the officers today, This will be forth
coming at a meeting on December
This board of officers consists OF
the following: Elders. l. A. Reed,
G. l.. Ladbury. f. b. Birmin, d. NJ.
Hh.ncs. W. r. NaxGregor, ] w.
Longzhors, ]. c. Ross, C. q. Nc
Comb. and H. C. Bretschneidsr; trus-
Tees: O. l.. waIksr, T. 8. Foster, W.
H Leavitt, Charles A, FowIs-. Earl
d. Holmes, W. Ii. Yard and c. II.
Gomnf.
, 1922-12-12
BONUS URGED
BY SIMMONS

WASHINGTON. Dec. 13tDeclarA
ing that bonus to soldiers was an
justifiable "a bonus to the ship oper-
ators." Senator Simmons. Democrat.
North Carolina, today r~eintroducsd
the soldier bonus bill vetoed by Presi-
dent Harding in an amendment 10 this
administration shipping bill.
, 1922-12-12

las yet nc occarion seems TO have
arisen which requires formal action
The opinion by Attorney General
D~ausherty also unlssmitfed to the
senate held h n Secretary Wallace
had power undt,r the packer cshtroi
act to investigate violations Of tho
law. should there be any In the pro
posed purchase Of the Morris assets
by Armour and company.
, 1922-12-12
GREAT NARCOTIC
RING REVEALED

NEW YORK. Dec. 12-Narcotics
valued Mt $50, 600 and tho names and
addresses OF about 1000 persons
said by the police to be selling
agents and uddicts were seized carly
today by Deputy Police Commits
s-oner Carlton Simon and a force of
agents William Williams, I'm whose
apartment the drugs were found.
wss arrested ais: Is .eld for iayss.
, 1922-12-12

the treasury supply bill for tho en-
forcement Of prohibition during the
next fiscal year was declared by
Senator Broussard. Democrat, Lou
isiana, in a speech in the senate
today to be Inadequate and let make
the dry law effective even among
government officials and among
. those who forced the Eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead law
upon us.
, 1922-12-12
RED FLAG WAVES
NEAR COMMONS

Tho demonstrators had entered
the hhii in small parties, When
they had assembled in sufficiently
strong numbers they joined forces
and began their singing and placard
waving, This was the signal for
Intervention by the police, who cut
the demonstration short by the
sieclion. OF this rasnifestants.
, 1922-12-12

tIgation.
Among the seized letters and
cards. Deputy Commissioner Simon
said. IA one from n well known
motion picture actor I'm Hollywood.
Cal. indicating that The actor acted
as = selling agent. California zu-
fiioritles were notified Of the seizure
snd requested to make an invesii-
cation
, 1922-12-12

The erection of a ew Presbyterian churchw Will De commend to thu conareraton ON
"A at the morning service according to a resolution which was aninom
at a joint meeting of thee der andtudesh held last night
The proposedc church will BIZ bull ION the grounds at Wolrot and Eighth sreets and a
thorough and systematic campaign frf funds will bel begun immedhaLy after this HOLIDAYS
if the proposal is ccarte by the ongegaho
, 1922-12-12
COAST FLYERS
JOIN IN SEARCH

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. t.
Seven army arp ahcs under COM
rnand Of Major George II. Btett.
chief OF the air service in the ninth
corps area left here today for
Nogaies, .niz., TO participate in the
search FOR Colonel Francis Marshall
and Lieutenant G. l.. webber, miss.
ing army air1ncn.
NOGALEs. Ariz- Dec. I2--None
, 1922-12-12

LONDON. Dec. Icy The As
sociated Press)-A turbulent. but
short lived zen was staged this
afternoon in the great csntral hall
adjoining the lobby OF the house of
commoEA when the police ejectsd
a crowd OF fifty unemployed men.
who had invaded the place and be-
gan singing tho "Rsd Ftag. and
waving piacar6A-
, 1922-12-12

Secretary wsuacs of b department
of agriculture concurred was com
muhicated 10 the senate late today by
Secretary Wallace in response to a
resolution OF inquiry. The secretary
said he had been studying the prob
able effects upon competition n the
socalied Armour-AIorS- merger
should become effective and added
, 1922-12-12

OF how n community chest wou work
and some Of the problems and periis
to be encountered was made by Mr..
o'sen. who eomes from a city which
uses this plan with splendid results.
Mr. Olson's statement was to the
effect that the very best brains OF the
city should be appointed TO a council
, 1922-12-12
GREEKS BLAME
BY TURKS FOR
LATE TRAGEDIES
Responsibility for Sacking and Burning
of Smyrna Disputed at Peace Meet
ing; Preparations Talked

LAUSANNE, Dec. 72-{By The Associated Press)-The
debate between Turkey and Greece over the question of
which nation is responsible for the tragedy of Smyrna con-
tinues to form a dominant factor at the Near East conference.
lsmet Pasha says he is quite willing that the treaty which the
delegates hope to frame shall provide for a system of pay
Turkey during h great war. butt of h whole problem xceedinyiy df
mont 1 o the ALLIED nations for tho ncult. -.
, 1922-12-12
MINNESOTA BANK
Also

HUGO, MINI. Dec. 12.-Thres
masked men held up III bank here
today. forced +. T. Carpenter. assist
ant cashier ODD a customer into tie
directors room and escaped with
1850 mostly in cash.
, 1922-12-12
SHIP ON ROCKS
CREW Is SAFE

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 12-The crew of the Brit
the California coast ten miles south of Point Arena, was be-
ing transferred to the steamer Cotton Plant at 8 a. M, ac-
cording to a wireless message received by the Federal Tele-
graph company here. IN hsndor. 8. ~. a,r.~. 8 -
, 1922-12-12
$4,000 LOOT IN
CHICAGO HOIsDUP.

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.--Four bandits
held up a messenger for the Loan
Square Trust and Savings bank and
robbed him of $4,000 today in tho
, 1922-12-12

serious to attempt a tow. according
10 a wireless message received from
the Orteric at 1870 a. m. by the fed.
eral Wireless company station here.
, 1922-12-12
''Fire Bug Is
Under Arrest

SEATTLE. wash. Dec. 12.-John
Berkeble. wan-ed at Dodson. Most.
on a charge OF arson was arrested
here las, night and is being held, for
authorities.
, 1922-12-12

each year to take cars OF all charities
instead OF The many little drives
which are now driving the blsiness
men OF the city TO q state OF mania.
The remarks also Indicated that Cas-.
per may have an incinerator to burn
all garbage.
A very eompreAenzive exnlnnnfinn
, 1922-12-12
NO LIVES LOST
IN BREAKING
OF BIG DAMS

DULUTH. Mimi. Dec. 12.-Persons
returning from the lower points OF
the Iron river today. reported no
loss Of lie had apparently been oaus
ed TO settlers by the flood which
swept down the river early today
when the Mud lake power dam went
out. p. ]. Savage, editor CT the Iron
River, CWis.) Pioneer told .he Assoc
ciated Press over the Ions distance
telephone.
SUPERIOR. Wis, Dec. 12.-Three
dams in Iron river went out early
today when Mud lake reservoir a mile
and a half south of the town or Iron
River. broke from the force of stored
water. Sweeping aion gifts course. the
river caught .he Northern Pacific and
South Shore bridges and tore them
from their piers cutting off train
service from the east into the twin
ports. Iron River is left without alec
trio light power.
, 1922-12-12
Don A. ToLBERT, CONTRACTOR, is
ARRESTED ON LARCENY CHARGE;
S4,079 SAID TO BE INVOLVED

Don A. Tolbert, alleged silent partner in the stryker Con-
struction company, which yesterday completed the work on
the rip-rap at the Casper municipal pumping plant west of
the city, was arrested yesterday in Denver on the complaint
of a local bank, charged with grand larceny to the extent
of ~S4,079.E9.
, 1922-12-12

church. lodge, club or society 20 help
II in its hour OF need. This work is
supported entirely by voluntary do
nations and subscriptions. Every dol
lar IL a gre help to Il. =
, 1922-12-12
NO RULING in
PACKER CASE
President Harding and Advisers "Pass
Buck" on application for Merger of
Armour and Morris Plants

WASHINGTON. Dec. i2-President Harding and his adj
visers have decided that there is no obligation on the part
of the administration to act on the application of Armour &
Co to buy the assets of Morris & Co., another of the Chicago
big five packers. M
The deciaion in which Attorney General paugherty and
, 1922-12-12

NORTHAMPTON. Eng, Dec. Ia
Mrs. Irene. osga5d, novelist and p,s-
wright. del at her home here today
after a month illness. Sine vas horn
in the United States and retained ici
American citizenship.
, 1922-12-12
HOME SOCIETY DRIVE ORGANIZED
witt OPEN IN CASPER THURSDAY

o. E. McCracken, superintendent of the Wyoming Chill
dren's Zone society, was in Casper yesterday making prep.
arations for the drive which will start next Thursday in be-
half of the society. The drive will be an endeavor to raise
IS 1000 in Natrona county.
, 1922-12-12
TAX FREE SECURITIES
FLAYED, I'M
REVENUES Is PREDICTED
Epidemic of Stock Dividends Is Also In
!. equitable, Farm Bureau Taxation Di-
rector Declares in ADDRESS

CHICAGO, Dec ia completes breakdown of the ma
tlonal revenue system unless tax free securities are prohib-
tied, was predicted here today by I. C. Mckenzie, taxation
director Of the American Farm Bureau federation, in an adj
dress before the fourth annual convention of the organiza-
ton. also advocated the taxarion of national banks.
, 1922-12-12
graph company here.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Dec. IL
The British freight steamer orteric.
carrying 50 persons. aground off Fish
Rock. on the California coast 50 milea
north OF point Reyes. WIS sighted at
lao a, m. today by the steamer
E~lsegundo, according 10 a wireless
message received al the Federal
Telegraph oompany's radio station
here. The Elsegundo left San Fran,
cisco last night to rescue tho Orteric,
The Elsegundo reported the Orterlc
YVES being pounded on a steep coast
and that 1t was unlikely any of the
crew had gone nshore but that II
would not be difficult to effect a res.
cue from the seaside.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07

A newspaper man is a member of
a learned profession under ruling
just made by United States immigra-
tion officials in Montreal Canada. The
decision was given in the case. of n
native of England, resident for years
in Canada, who left the dominion the
other day for Boston there to pursue
his occupation as a newspaper man.
Late at night he was reused from his
train berth by an immigration officer
and was compelled to leave the train
and submit to an examination by n
board of officials at the border TO de-
termine whether he came within the
scope of the law which prohibits
bringing alien labor into the country
under contract. He was quizZed as to
his ansecedents, his occupation, the
number of years he had followed it,
which were many, the conditions un-
der which he purposed going to the
United States, the extent Of his re-
sources, the size Of his family, ETC..
Fhe issue, proving too big for deter
mination by tho border officials, was
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07

The navy will be forced to limp
along on a fuel supply fifty per cent.
under that estimated by Secretary
DENLY as necessary for the balance
of the fiscal year If the $6,300,000 ap-
preparation contained in the general
deficiency bill as passed by the house
Friday remains unchanged. The sum
represents a cut of one-haIf in the
amount asked and was approved by
TIC house without voice being lifted
in support OF the departments de-
mands after the figure was fixed in
committee. Although the department
is prepared to stop the movement of
practically all warships except those
assigned to foreign waters if the ap-
preparation remains as its present lev
ell, Secretary DENLY declared after
its approval in the house that no such
action would be taken end naval oper-
ations would be continued on their
present economical basis unless and
until the appropriation becomes q law.
The secretary said he believed no law
was being violated by continuing such
operation but in involving a deficiency
In passing the Sos, 900 deficiency
bill. the largest item of which was
the house also rejected by a vote tC
! OF proposed amendment which
| would have made $150,000 available
for the development of helium lifting
gas for dirigibles.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07
fifth avenue dwellers and greedy cap

Fifth avenue dwellers and greedy cap
italism.
Yet in the main the jobless are
representative Of a hopeful body of
men, who. caught in the fell clutch of
circumstance, are accepting their tenn
porary plight with philosophic cheerio.
When they sing, the tunes are mostly
patriotic and religious and the wilmer
is not welcome.
Two years ago, one man told me, he
had two cars and a home in Pelham.
His wife is in Europe with two daugh-
ters. He was forced into bankruptcy
by quick turn in the silk market.
"They have letters of credit to last
them until May" he said, land by that
time expect to be on my feet. Every
day I sneak up to a big hotel and
write them a letter about how well I'm
getting along"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07

Testimony before the State Indus
trial Court that a working girl can
dress on sS7.55 a year=-submitted by
Miss Nellie Berger, a department store
official-caused lively demonstration
at Topeka, Kansas last Friday when
200 girls storned the store and de-
manded to see her. Miss Berger was
not to be found and the girls charged
that she had slipped out the back door
They demanded to see stockings at %
cents a pair, included in Miss Bergers
budget and when the store manager
showed them they chose they threw
them on. the floor sand stamped on
them. Working girls in Topeka ARE
on the war path because of Miss Ber-
gers testimony, which was given in
minimum wage hearing. An effort
is being made to raise the minimum
wage In Kansas for women to $3.50.
Miss Berger's budget included such
economical estimates as: Corsets, 81;
worsted dress, $3.50; one $50 suit
every three years; >two hats, IS. 1t
made TO provision for garters, rouge,
powder, silk stockings. or any of the
things that modern girls consider nee
essities. ~
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07
NEW YORK JcBLESS
Ono of Them Had Two Cars and
Home Two Years Ago.

Manhattan's jobless caravan has
made its pitch down along the water
front near South street giving to this
colorful section all the medley of a
gypsy camp, writes c. o. Mcintyre,
New York correspondent. Street fires
blaze to cook the Mulligan stew and
long into the night the unemployed
sit about the glowing embers, pulling
at pipes and brooding.
Many Of them sleep under the tent
shaped advertising signs they carry
during the day and others wrap them
selves in newspapers and huddle to-
gether like sheep in a storm. Early
in the morning they trudge sleepily
to the docks to breakfast on the rot
ting fruit cast off South American
vessels.
Quite a few are the chronic har-
dened idlers-professional hoboes who
seek the big centers in winter and the
open road in summer-but the vast
ma ;ority earnestly hunting work.
Charity refugees are filled and the
waterfront army represents the over
flow.
In the non -descript gathering are
several actors. small part men strand
ed in the provinces, who come back
to town to face the theater job FAM
inc. In a shed near the steamship
warehouse by lantern light they offer
impromptu performances to the later
demalion audiences.
Two Wall street brokers were found
in the aggregation the other evening
budding financiers who were caught
in market slumps and made penniless
with the tick Of the tape. or course
the agitators are there with their
stock arguments against the govern
ment, the idle rich at Palm Beach
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07
FlAPPERS DEFENDED
Miss Adams Says Nothing Now So
Bad as BustIes and Rats.

The college fapper was kissed and
tod she was just about right recently
by Miss Eleanor N. Adams of Oxford
College for Women, in Chicago. After
describing the eccentricities Of the
fiapper, Miss Adams said:
Their mothers were verse" Then
she mentioned these features of a by
gone era: "Bustles, rats in the hair,
hoopskirts, balloon sleeves, trailing
skirts, narrow waists, bangs and
pompadours.
1T is the small town girl, as a rule,
who affects the greatest eccentrici-
ties in dress and manner. She has a
horror Of not being thought smart-or
Of being regarded as an egg
Another reason for her going to
extremes is that she develops group
nerves. She leaves q sheltered home,
where she has been the centre of
things, and becomes part of unit of
sixty or a hundred girls. Self-con-
seriousness, or group nerves. is the re-
suit But she will make q better moth
er than the mid-Victorinn mother"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07
A GOOD
TONIC FOR
OLD PEOPLE
Guides Pepto- -Mangan Re-
stores Strength and Pre-
vents Illness

Aged people often need good
blood tonic. When the blood becomes
clogged with poisons from the system,
GUIDES Pepto- Mangan purifies 1t by
driving offssthe waste matter. Good
blood is full of vitality and prevents
illness, giving the body greater power
of resistance. The weaknesses of old
age are greatly helped by supply OF
rich, red blood. Guides Pepto- -Mangan
Is sold in LIQUID or tablet form by all
druggists. 1t haa been recommended
by physicians for 80 years and Is a
valuable tonic2and builder for the weak
and run down of all ages from child-
hood to old age. Advertisement.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07
THE TAYLOR MURDER
Anonymous Writer Makes Alleged
Confession.

Los Angeles, March 5.-The latest
confession" of the murder of William
Desmond Taylor, film director, re-
ceived by the police here, In letter
from an unnamed Connecticut city
was made by. a man who described
himself as IAN avenging husband" II
was disclosed today by Captain OF De-
tectives Adams. The officers are
Withholding the name of the city from
which the confession" came and the
name signed to the document while
endeavoring to learn more OF the
writer.
According to the letter the film di-
rector had had an affair with the
writer's wife. Later the director had
"scorned" her, the wife confessed to
her husband, and the two of them
planned vengeance" the letter re-
counted. 90.
"The confession" stated that the
night of the murder, February 1, the
writer and his wife drove in an auto
mobile to within two blocks OF the
Taylor bungalow. There they parked
their car. From q distance they saw
Mabel Normand, film actress. leaving
the apartment, escorted to her motor
car by the director, and Henry Peavey,
Tcylor's negro servant, talking with
William Davis, Miss Normand's chauf-
feur
While Taylor was talking with Miss
Normand, the confession" continues
"the scorned wife" slipped through the
open front door of the directors bun
golow and unlocked the back door for
her husband to enter.
When Taylor returned, the wife and
husband confronted him.
Portions Of the letter concerning the
actual meeting and killing were not
given out, but, according to the parts
the wife, after Taylor had been slain
left by the back door, which the hus-
band locked after her and then hur-
ried to their automobile and started
the engine in readiness for a quick
departure when he rejoined her. Ther
the husband left calmly by the front
door, STOPPING slightly so he would
not be recognized If seen, Joined his
wife and drove away with her.
The police state that they place g
certain amount OF credence in, tht
confession" ...
Captain Adams declared the hand
writing Of the confession" was SINH
Ter to that of Edward F. Sands, miss
ing former butler secretary to Taylor
but pointed out that the context pre-
cluded it's having been written b!
Sands, who was not married.