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Evening star., 1925-09-08

Now that we have had our annual
pry into other peoples income tax
returns, we want more!
Why doesn't Uncle Sam do this
thing right and open up all the other
private matters a trusting and con-
fdlng citizenry have confided to him?
What juicy reading those old draft
questionnaires would make, to be
sure! AS ''snappy reading" they
would have the income tax returns
backed clear off the map two ways
to Sunday, as the peppy expression
has ii.
The income tax returns. we all are
ready TO admit now, were a trifie con-
fusing. SO many names. and so
many figures. that we often failed to
find the very neighbor we were
looking for.
We particularly wanted to know
what old John Smith paid, but, after
looking in the lists for three days
and never finding him, we gave him
up.
Anyway, 1t would have been i'm
possible TO discover just what he
earned, and that, of course, was what
we We're after. We always did won
der how John got that big new car.
Getting right down to II, Uncle Sam
ought TO give more details, IL he
wants us to get our moneys worth
out of the tax returns. If he is
going to give the tax, why not the
sums on which the tax is paid?
Then, IL tho earnings, why not the
name OF the firm which paid the
money. what 1t was for, and whether
old John Smith really earned IT. in
the private opinion Of his boss?
A few little details such as that
would make those tax returns a great
deal more spicy than they are at
present.
j.. Mannlngham Travers, learned
paid an income tax of sos 1926.
How interesting,
OF course, I do not know " Man.
ningham. and he does not know me.
l imagine If ! called at his front door
his butler would frown nightly at
my tie.
That is one of the tricks Of buffers.
If you ever aspire TO be butler re.
member this tip. Whenever any one
calls at your big front door frown
deeply at his tie.
Then he will feel uncomfortable and
wonder II he put on that flaming red
scarf by mistake. OF course. the color
or design makes no difference TO q
doorman. His big aim is TO frown al
II, ana tnereOy make the caller Ill al
ease.
Just what good it does me to know
that J. Manningham Travers, who
sells more bars of soap than any man
ufacturer in six States. paid exactly
ss5,1S< 20 income tax last year l dc
not know.
Do you?
There is some benefit. Of course in
knowing that Henry Ford paid q per
sonal tax of more than 81 900 900.
Just think. he paid more tax than
most of us will ever earn in several
assorted lives. 1t would take most oi
us a million years to earn two million
dollars-and Henry just hands out
that sum as easy as you please every
year.
Then think of what he had left
A fortuitous combination of eco
nomic factors. you say. Well, yes
rather
Pitiless publicity. say we.
Take those draft questionnaires
The last we heard of them they were
stored in a big warehouse just out
side the District of Columbia.
Every single one of them. packed
in great boxes, done up neatly in
parcels by draft boards in all parts
Evening star., 1925-09-08
Dreams of Opulence.

They are talking a great deal about
the prosperity of the farmer"
Yep" replied Mr.. Corntossel. But
life seems about the same. Supposin'
1 did have a gold hoe or an ak with
diamond-studded handle; it 'ud be just
as hard as ever to dig an chop wood" !"
Evening star., 1925-09-08

A big excursion steamer accom-
modating gly sank at her pier at
Hoboken yesterday before her pas.
sengers arrived. What would other
wise have been a disaster is 10 be
Evening star., 1925-09-08
An AInhaheticaI Shift

There is a strong egoistic tendency
in modern literature"
Yes. Formerly, when a man want
ed TO be startlingly emphatic. he used
a big D. Now he uses a large l."
Evening star., 1925-09-08
Rate by MaiI-Payable i'm Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.
All Other States,
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
30 the U.s. for republication OF all news dis
matches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied IN this paper and also the local news news
published herein. All rights OF publication
~ snecla disnatchcs herein are also reserveo
Evening star., 1925-09-08

The base ball fans of the City Of
Brotherly Love failed to live up to
their municipal faith yesterday when
they razzed the Washington team.
Evening star., 1925-09-08
A Tourists Confession.

I've travelled many a distant land
And to gather, it appears,
Some wobbly foreign accents and
Great stacks Of picture souvenirs.
Evening star., 1925-09-08
Jumping at a Conclusion.

'Bliggins has hay fever"
Gracious said the absent. minded
person. with hay at it's present price
I don't see how he can afford it,"
Evening star., 1925-09-08

A dreary prospect of a murder trial
with alienists on the witness stand is
opened by the New Jersey juvenile
crime4
Evening star., 1925-09-08

New jerseys boy murderer ap-
parently had no trouble in getting a
gun. even though he had a record for
mental incompetence.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

Labor day would be a much more
satisfactory occasion if so many OF its
ceIebrants did not contribute TO tho
traffic casualty record.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

When a local husband hit his wife
on the head with a flatiron venerable
tradition of domestic warfare was
violated.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

child born at a motor race at Al
toona, Pa, is to be named for the
winner. He is lucky that it was not
Horse race.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

Babe Ruth passed out OF the pic
ture as recalcitrant just in time to
make room for Col. Mitchell
Evening star., 1925-09-08

stimulating study, so simple and
friendly and wise, comes to one as a
rescue-the rescue of greatness from
the -oyerzeal of IT. friends.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

Q. To raise roses from seed when
should the seed be planted H. J.
A. The seed should be gathered be
fore extremely cold weather and
should be planted either in . green
house or covered with glass very
early in the Spring.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

An immense gain TO readers, this. to
those who desire ardentlv to feel
actually the immeasurable gift of
this man.
1t is with distinct shock that one
hears Hamlet" called pure melo-
drama. Yet we knew it all the time.
Ghosts, murder, incest, madness. sui
eide, pirates, imprisonmentAall these
and more range themselves here in a
rush of melodramatic fervor. Man
ager Shakespeare knew his audience.
SO, from this old, old saga of the
North he fitted play to their taste.
But, melodrama though it be, it has
periods of passion and superlative
genius. These are the times, SO Mr.
Bridges rea asonably concludes. when
the greatest of poets came into mo-
ments irresistibly his own. moments
when the stage and the rude London
audience and the passing success of
the enterprise were forgotten, mo-
ments when some clear vision lured
the playwright away and set in his
stead the immortal bard singing to
the ages. The study Is bound to fas-
cinate and refresh one because of its
seeming originality. an originality
that is rooted in straight-dealing
mind operating under the inspiration
of the most uncommon of common
sense. F9
No, not an iconoclast, not in any
sense a destroyer. Rather one who,
with learning at his command. and
the theories of others upon the sub.
ject in hand. has chosen to present
the plays of Shakespeare. and Shake.
speare himself, in the light of all the
related facts, rather than in the light
of piled-up theories and Suppositions
that most iahorious and depressing
scholarship has imposed upon Shake
lspeare. the man and the poet. This
Evening star., 1925-09-08

0. Does an elephant drink through
it's trunk or its mouth?-E. h.
A. The elephant drinks by means
of its trunk by sucking up a quantity
of water sufficient 10 fill it and then
discharging the contents into the
mouth.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

Q. Does a man retire from the
Navy after 16 years service with
three quarters pay?-J p.
A. An officer in the Navy may
retire after 30 years service on three
quarters pay. An enlisted man may
retire on one-quarter pay after 10
wears service.
Evening star., 1925-07-30
TINY MUSICIAN WINS
HARMONICA CONTEST
Wart Championship Goes Begging
at Outing for Needy Children
at Arlington Beach.

| An excellent rendition of Onward
| Christian Soldiers" played on a 10
cent mouth organ, won for Gus Da
| Ros, harmonica artist OF Schotts alley
the title of champion player of Wash
ington'S Main street" at the Gospel
Mission outing for underprivileged
children at Arlington Beach Park yes
terday afternoon.
His reward was a handsome, shiny
harmonica. donated by Manager Jesse
Thomas of the park and presented by
l.. w. Strickland, conductor OF the
beach orchestra, who acted as chair
man of the board of judges. Gus. who
Is but years old, stood high above
the shoulders of the other members
OF the missions mouth organ band, as
far as manufacturing music was con.
cerned, although he could scarcely be
discerned in the group of IL players.
John Kendrick of Linworth place
was awarded a league base ball bat
for his proficiency at eating buckle
berry pie without the aid of his hands.
He came home ahead of 13 COM
petitors. winning by a good mouthful,
although Ii was necessary to beat him
on the back at the finish to prevent
him choking on a piece of crust.
The much -heralded wart contest fell
fiat for want of warts of the bigger
and better sort. Half a dozen children
tied, with three warts each, so the
championship still goes begging.
The rides and amusements were
turned over to the youngsters, free of
charge. for the afternoon. The swim
ming events were the opening feature,
some $50 children taking their first
plunge of the year at a beach resort.
Free pop by the case and ice cream
cones were given away by Mr.
Thomas, Frank Nelson and several
concessionnaires
The children were carried to and
from the park in vans donated by
John Newbold.
Evening star., 1925-07-30
Search Warrant Quashed.

Because the officer swearing out a
failed to designate the particular house
at Giesboro occupied by George A.
Day, who was charged with violating
the national prohibition act, Judge
Isaac r. Hit, in Police Court, quashed
the seGrch warrant at the request of
Attorneys John P. Mullen and Jesse
II. Wilson, representing the accused.
A charge of selling against Day was
submitted to the jury, which acquitted
him in three minutes.
Evening star., 1925-07-30
Labor Backs Textile Workers.

The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor yesterday
unanimously approved the protest by
President William Green against re-
duction Of wages in the textile indus
try. The council decided to indorse
whatever steps Mr.. Green proposed to
take in handling the matter, and also
ordered an investigation of profits
made by textile corporations.
Evening star., 1925-07-30
HURT IN TRAIN WRECK.
Woman Is Not Expected to Live
Other Passengers Injured.

URBANA, ILL.,, July 80 R.-One
woman was probably fatally injured
and several persons sustained broken
limbs and minor hurts last night when
a westbound Wabash passenger train
was derailed at Tolono, near here
Maggie Keokalo of Decatur was
taken to a hospital here with her skull
fractured Doctors said she had no
chance of recovery. The other injured
were given first aid in Tolono. The
cause of the derailment is not known
Evening star., 1925-07-30
TRADE PROBE STUDIED.
Legality Of Expenditure for Power
Inquiry Is Taken Up.

Although the Federal Trade Com
mission has asked for a, formal opinion
on the legality of spending money for
the prosecution of two inquiries which
it was directed to undertake by the
last Congress, the Attorney General 8
although the request Is said to, have
been transmitted through the Presi-
dent to the legal arm of the Govern
ment.
The commission was advised several
weeks ago by it's counsel and it's eco-
nomic advisers that one phase of the
electric power industry investigation
requested by Senator Norris was not
Evening star., 1925-07-30

one involving monopoly. and that an
other inquiry on the advisabilty of
which the commission split should not
be undertaken. The Senate ordered
at the last session that the commits
sion should not undertake economic
Investigations unless monopoly was in
volved or in case the resolution direct
ing the inquiry was a concurrent one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-14

Providence, r. l., Dec. 13.-(AP)
The elimination of public officials
of wet" sympathies and a state law
imposing Jail sentences for liquor
law violations were proposed by
Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel
of the Anti-Saloon League of Amer
lea, in an address here today. He
spoke at the opening of the three
day convention of the Rhode Island
Anti-Saloon League and the New
England workers conference for law
observation and enforcement.
Superintendent H. H. Hutton of
the Rhode Island League, in outlin-
ing the work to the mass meeting,
said:
1.-The Providence Family Welfare
Society reports no new families aid
ed last year whose poverty was due
to liquor, and of 40 such families
in the last wet year, 40 have become
self-supporting under prohibition"
Headmaster Horace D. Taft CT the
Taft School of Watertown, Conn.,,
brother of Chief Justice\Taft. said
that while he had opposed prohibit
ton on the ground of personal lib
erty he was glad to sacrifice this lib
erty to help prevent the dreadful
corruption of our national life which
preceded its adoption.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-14
Association Asks
Repeal Automobile
Passenger Car Tax

Washington, Dec. 13.-(AP)-Re-
peal of the automobile passenger car
tax was demanded today by the
American Automobile Association al
most on the eve of consideration by
the house of the section of the new
revenue bill which provides cut
in this levy from 5 to 3 percent
while repeating those on trucks,
tires and accessories.
The appeal re-opens the fight over
the passenger car tax, which Chair
man Green of the ways and means
committee expected to prevent
through an agreement reached with
leading automobile manufacturers Of
the country.
Under this agreement, Mr.. Green
said the automobile industry, which
receives a cut of more than &c.
100000 in the -325 100000 tax reduc-
ton program. accepted the two per-
cent reduction in the passenger car
tax in return for provision allow
ing automobile dealers refunds of
the difference between the old and
new taxes on cars in stock when the
latter go into effect three days after
enactment of the measure.
The house, after a week of debate
on the bill, will start the actual work
on it tomorrow. when it will be
ready for amendment and approval.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-14
Probing New Clue
In Disappearance !.
Of Smith College Girl

Northampton, Mass, Dec. 1S-(APC
"A fresh clue to the mystery sur.
rounding the disappearance Of Miss.
Alice NJ. Corbett, of Utica. N. u
missing Smith College junior, was
developed today, just month since
Miss Corbett left her dormitory. An
unnamed person told State DETECTIVES
Joseph v. DAILY here that in Hadley
November 10 he saw the girl weaving
yellow slicker walk toward the
Connecticut River and disappear be-
low the bank.
Miss Corbett was wearing a yellow
slicker when she left her room and
the authorities recalled that q man
in Holyoke, five miles down the river
from Hadley, reported several days
ago seeing a yellow garment resemb-
ling a slicker floating down the
stream on the day of the girls dis
appearance.
Daily said that he believed that the
possibility of Miss Corbett's being
alive was remote, but that private
detectives maintained she probably
was earning her living in New York;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-14
RObber Band Uses
ChlOrOfOrm in
Series Five 'IheftS

Steubenville, Ohio, Dec. 13-(AP)
-Sheriffs deputies tonight after an
all-day search were without clues as
to the identity of robbers who yes
terday invaded the village of Brad
ley near here, chloroformed rs per-
sons and escaped with money and
Jewelry valued at $500.
The robbers confined their activi-
ties to five families. At the home of
David Landcrs five were chloroform-
ed; six in the house of Dewey Ly-
ons; four in the home of Joseph OAR
anex; three in David Harrison'S home
and seven in the home of Julius Lee
gross.
Entering the homes the robbers put
their victims under the influence Of
the anaesthetic and for several hours
deliberately and systematically ran
sacked the five houses.
Some of the victims recovered con-
seriousness around noon and notified
officers here who proceeded to the
mining village. A number of those
put under the anaesthetic still were
sleeping when officers arrived.
All the victims had fully recovered
today, reports said, and had suffered
no i'll effects. The robbers in each
home opened windows so as to in
sure recovery from effects of the
chloroform.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-14
HOLD DOCTOR
IN Death OF
JENNIE LYMAN
Private Secretary to Mass. Ag-
ricultural College Professor
Dies in Dickinson Hospital
Went There From Private
Hospital of DR.. Clarence
Sparks-Death Due to Blood
Poisoning After Operation
Doctors Nurse Also Held

Northampton, Mass, Dec. 49,
CAP)-Dr Clarence I. Sparks of East
Hampton, former associate medical
examiner for Hampshire county, was
in the count Jail tonight awaiting ar
raignment on a charge growing out of
the death of Jennie Lyman of West
Hampton. Mrs. Mathilda L. Zember,
one of his nurses, was in the same
Jail under charges of being an Access
sorry before the crime, and Kenneth
D. Childs of Northampton also await
ed arraignment under the same charge
as Mrs. Zeember.
Miss Lyman, who was private secre-
tary to Prof. Fred Sears Of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, died
here November IL at the Dickinson
Hospital where she had come after
spending week in DR.. Sparks private
hospital in East Hampton. Governor
Fuller recently ordered an investiga-
DIR. Sparks resigned his position as
questioned in Boston by the governor
and Attorney Jay r. Benton.
The arrests were made last night by
State Detective Joseph V. Daily and
Police Chief George w. Cook of East
Hampton. They took DR.. Sparks and
Mrs. Zember at the formers hospital,
and Childs, known as an acquaintance
of Miss Lyman's, at the Childs Motor
Company here. Childs was found by
the officers on the floor of his office
unconscious from heart attack.
During Governor F'uller's investiga-
ton DIR. Sparks was quoted by state
officers as having said that Miss Ly-
man told him she had been treated by
Holyoke surgeon, but was still i'll
and wanted to come to DIR. Sparks
hospital. During the week she was
there, he said, she became worse and
he sent her to the hospital in North
ampton. Miss Lyman was questioned
before her death but refused to name
the man responsible for her condition.
The authorities said at that time that
business man who was married has
admitted being engaged to Miss Ly-
man. The death was listed officially
as due to "septiceamia" (bloodpoison-
ing) following operation. probably
criminal
A roommate of Miss Lyman has said
that Miss Lyman left her room No
vember 2, telling her friends she was
going on a weeks vacation, and never
returned.
DR.. Sparks was appointed associate
medical examiner in January. 1923.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-14
Partial Break in
Ice Jam at Bangor
Relieves Situation

Bangor, Me-, Dec. 13.-(AP)-Ice
that for days has completely filled
the river below Bangor Water
Works, started this forenoon on the
Brewer side and also on the Bangor
side and enough of the piled-up ice
passed down and under the field to
leave large open spaces at either end
of the dam. This was followed by
a sudden drop of six feet in the
backwater, leaving sufficient head
for the operation of the largest of
the water wheels, which all day has
been running at full capacity. pump
ing enough water to supply the city.
The coastguard cutter Ossipee, or
dered here to break out the river,
had not arrived at eight o'clock to-
night.
The schooner Josiah B. Chase.
which on Saturday was towed four
miles down from Bangor through
the ice, was pulled through to open
today and tonight is anchored in
Fort Point Cove.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-14

Washington, Dec. 13.-(AP)-The
house plans to pass the 1925, 900
tax reduction bill this week while
the senate is considering the legal
right of Senator-designate Gerald p.
Nye, of North Dakota, to a seat in
that body and is debating the long
delayed proposal for American ad-
herence to the world court.
With general debate closed last
week, the tax measure will be opened
tomorrow to amendment and more
than a dozen changes will be propos-
ed. No important alteration of the
bill as it came from the ways and
means committee is expected.
A final vote probably will be
reached Friday and the bill then will
go to the senate, where the finance
committee will begin its considera-
ton January with a view to a re-
port by the middle of the month.
The New York case in the senate
is still in the hands of the privileges
and elections committee but Chair
man Ernst hopes to get out re-
port without delay. Several days of
debate on the floor Is looked for but
leaders expect vote to be taken be-
fore the world court proposal comes
up Thursday by agreement.
The resolution for adherence OF
this country to the court which the
senate is to consider is that offered
by Senator Swanson, of Virginia,
ranking Democrat on the foreign re-
lations committee. He plans to open
the debate with prepared speech.
A vote on this proposition, which
has had the approval of two sue
cessive Republican Presidents. Hard
ing and Coolidge, is not expected for
a number of weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-14
No Trace Slayer
Young Bank Clerk,
Wife and Little Son

Aurora, Ills. DEC. 13-(AP)-Few
clues were found today by investiga-
tors of the triple murder last night Of
Henry Jeske, young bank clerk, his
wife. Eva. and six year old son Ralph;
as they returned to their lonely farm :
house near Batavia. Ills, after Christ
mas shopping.
Their automobile, in which ths
slayer fled after leaving the bullets
pierced bodies of Jeske and the boy
in the yard and Mrs. Jeske in the
living room, was found this morning;
in West Chicago, Ills, five miles
away. 1t was covered with blood
splashes. Search was made on It for
finger print traces. 4
A finding of murder by persons un..1
known was returned by the corona
er's jury which recommended that a
large reward be offered for the slayer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-14

Washington, Dec. 13.-(AP) - De-
spite all of the difficulties met by
the navy in one of it's most eventful
peacetime years, Secretary Wilbur
reported today to President Coolidge
that his branch Of the national de-
Tense had progressed steadily and
that the morale never was higher. /,
Transmitting his annual account
ing to the White House, Mr.. Wilbur
devoted a great portion to air active
ities-including the disastrous voy-
age of the Shenandoah; the flight
toward Honolulu of the Pm 9 No. L.
and the Arctic thrust of the Mac
MILAN Expedition. He had only high
praise for those engaged in these
ventures.
AS for the fleet itself, the success
Of the trip to Australia was declared
to be practical demonstration Of
the fitness of the Navy and also
served to foster friendly relations
with our neighbors of the South Pa
cific"
Forced economy, the Secretary said,
has benefited the Navy by eliminat-'
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