Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 7, 1918, Page 1

GET TOD DJI B0 8 # a:separate return if desired. - If ‘a joint return is filed either one may claim the exemption or it may be di- vide® between them. A widow, a woman living apart from her hus- band or-a maid is assessed on hel net income above-$,000. A <Net income” means gross income less certain deductions provided for by the act.. Expenses actually in- curred in carrying on any business may be deducted, but not family nor living. expenses.- 7 A uet ¥ - making may deduct th income: . Interest paid on mortgages and EXPLAIN DETAILS ‘ Must Be In Haxds of the " Collestor ‘Not, Later Than Gross ; out your return you e fo)loWing from gross ' March 1’ Next. notes and other indebtedness, except 2 oy T e SR indebtedness for the purchase of tax - INCOME mfi GROSS . | exempt securities. : haE INCOME LESS DEDUCTIONS lRe_nt paid for offices or business G| x except for local: im- Taxes paid, provements “‘such as sewer and wa- ter, income: taxes' and -egcess profits taxes. y x. i | Losses :systained in business or trade arising from fires, storm ' or other casualty or by theft; if not compensated for by . insurance or otherwise. If property was purchased ‘prior to March 1,°1913, the fair mar: . List of Exemptions; Penalties Se-. ‘vere; Serions Error If Attempt to Evade the Law. . - (Special to Ploneer). ashington, Feb. 7 :33 ‘b‘ur ‘income’ t g rticle which has been pre- parsd. with the approval of -U. S: Tevénye experts tells you how, when |- d: where to do it. ' The first thing to be understood is that tlie income : only to. your income. for ufl-filurl" yea o 17. Y r“ix;— ¢ for prior. yearg and your esti- m’:ed income for lg_IB%[e not: to be _conafdered. ik o War Revenue, Act of October 911, provides for a normal rate i (Coutlnued on Page s;xi MUSICIANS UNION-~ REELECTS MOVER - “he ‘American’ Federation of Mu- sicians, Bemidji local, elécted officers last evening at its- annual meeting, and the following were chosen: President—Howard = Moyer elected). ~ iam J. Werth. (re-. 80 re you must get a tax k‘lflnnk,» fill it out and file it with the| “gollector of internal revenue in the “district in which you live, If mar- nd yoyr net income was $2,000 ore you must file a return. with 7| “collector. . Returns must be in the hands of collectors-not later than * ““Mfarch 1, 1918. The old income tax _““under the Act of September 8, 1916, :still i3 in effect, 80 that’ the total of r tax will be the sum of these taxes added:together: Under.the Act of 1918 the normal tax rate is 2 per - cent ofi ‘incomes of ‘married persons in excess of .$4,000 and on incomes of “single persons in_excess of $3,- 000. _ Point in Ilustration, - For example, if .you are married and your net income, for 1917 was $4,500_ you will' pay a tax of $60. This.is 2 per cent on the amount . above your exemption of $2,000 un~ der the act of 1917 and 2 per cent on-the amount above your exemption |. 0f.$4,000 under act of 1916. An ad- " ditignal. exemption of $200.1s allow- .ed 'a married person or head of a family ‘for each dependent child if under eighteen. years of age or 1in- capable of self-support. “A taxpayer is considered to be the dead of a family and entitled to all the ' exemptions allowed a married person if he.is actually supporting one:or mpre persons tlosely .connect- ‘e jth him by 'blood relationship; onship by marriage, - or by Women as well as men must pay an income tax. The com- bined net income of a married couple {n exceas of $2,000 is assessed. They may file a joint return or each file Major Vice president—William Secretary—Elford Benson. Treasurer—A. E. Elletson. The local is-in excellent condition. AMERICAN GUNS PLAYING ON FRONT (By United Press) At the American front, Feb, 7.— American artillery* is active inter- mittently along a wide frdnt. Ger- man guns are replying spasmodic- ally. RUSSIANS REFUSE * GERMAN DEMAND (By United Press) Petrograd, Feb. 7.—Russian dele- gates to the Brest Litovsk conference have unanimously refused to accede to the Teutonic delegates’ commands that_a separate peace be: signed im- mediately. Negotiations: are con- tlnul?g. 5 TWO MORE ENLIST Fred A. Reed and Leger J. Godin were accepted today by Corporal Clarence -Foucault as volunteers in the coast artillery. They left for Duluth this noon whence they will be sent to training quarters. .~ “A man enlisted today is worth 10 tomorrow or a hundred the. next day,”: declared Major John D. Yost, U. S. A., head of the recruiting serv- ice, for Minnesota, to an “intently listening assemblage of business men’ dt-the Commercial club rooms last evening. 3 3 . “You have all no doubt subscribed heavily to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., savings stamps, Liberty Bonds and everything calculated to aid in winning the war, but recruiting can’t be over-subscribed. We’ll hawe to do better: We've got to hold that line until ready. , SV S ~ “If we get in_forcibly, the war will Tbe ended that much 'quicker. It we simply hold the line we give the enemy a chance. Don’t under- estimate the foe. “Remember one thing. Germany is fighting in countries of her en- emies. She puts in perhaps 600,000 or 700,000 men into.her armies yearly and I don’t think Germany has lost that many in ; the same}” period. @ center. Her country is a network of rails radiating to her borders. She can move troops across the coun- try in 48 hours. All the roads afe standardized. They have the same guage and all engines and rolling stock fit every road in the empire. That's what she has been doing in her preparations for war. While-the allies outnumber Germany perhaps ‘about 4,000,000 mén they are need- ed for the reason the allies will have to encircle large portions of Germany if they are to succeed, and I believe it will be two or three years yet before we are victorious. “And that’s why we must work and keep working.” : Carries Deep Conviction.. . Quietly, unostentatiously, with nothing except the gold leaf upon: each shoulder of his uniform denot- e A A A A A A A A A A A AAS RED CROSS BENEFIT Through the courtesy of the Elks’ /| lodge,. the regular Friday evening’s Up to America. dance has been changed to a Red “Germany has mnothing to fear|(Cross benefit. The Elks’ hall has from Russia. Italy was counted|been donated by the Elks and the Harmony Trio wi. furnish the mu- sic freee Everybody is invited and it is hoped that a large nuntber will attend and make it a success. stronger than she has shown. It is up to us, France and England. We've got to have a big army. Ger- many is like a circle. She is the AY'S NEWS OUT OF YESTERDAY' 853245258822 22522535222242233222222325222222333223 Submarine American Tran .commission to France. He will speak -and will be accompanied by Thomas | Dr. Lincoln was able to observe food and the encampments of American Yost Speaks To Bemidji Tells WhatRecruiting Means To The Nation tbeard, Major Yost personated S [ BE-U-BOAT VICTIM G 0 FRANCE WILL o i MINNESOTANS ABOARD; PART e FORESTERS; 210 LIFE TOLL Dr. Julius Lincoln Sept to England lirge Bemid Boys Believed OnBoard Ship AND CONFERRED WITH TROOPS (BULLETIN) (By United Press) Team of Three Will Visit Bemidji| St. Paul, Feb, 7.—State Forester Under Tour of Government; . - Lectures Illustrated. ' Cox, regarding the tompedoing of the transport Tuscania, today said he thinks amcng the recruits aboard from Bemidji and other Northern Minnesota parts included: Bemidji—G@. P. Mayer, Kreatz, A, D. McRea. Menahga—P. Mace. Thief River Falls—E. P. Britwit, J. 8. Pritchard, W. E. Smith. Crosby—W. J. Barthieume, Aitkin—F. Falkner. Baudette—A. Jenson, C. Huftile. flflgemell—w. H. Shook, F. Grif- th. FOOD COMMISSION - by A A ) ] (By United Press) ; B . “Washington, Feb. 7.—The best available figures today in- ' dicite 43 officers, 102 men, and 65 persons not members of the United States army or navy were lost on the Tuscania. The total lost was 210. & The total saved is-2,178. Hope is still held that isolated poi will raise these figures. : 3 Secretary of War Baker issued a statement today to com- fort those “whose sdns and brothers are added to the nation’s heroic dead.” : ; Baker said: “The sinking leaves us face to face with the - losses of war., It is the first challenge to the civilized world from an adyersary, who has refined, but made more . deadly stealth and savagery in warfare. We must and shall yin this war. Such casualties: will solidify the nation.” 1R «Brigadier General McIntyre of the war department said the list Jost will probably be greatly reduced later by lost persons being"located. Work of rescuing survivors will =furnish. the...._. greatest and probably the most dramatic work of the war., De- stroyers and -patrol boats, skillfully engineered by wireless by British officers, closed in on the-sinking. vessel, saving 90 per cent of the passengers. HUNDREDS OF SURVIVORS ARE LANDED Washington, Feb. 7.—8ix hundred survivors of the trans- port Tuscania have been landed at Larne, Ireland, war depart- ment dispatches this morning announced, . The names of = 25 survivors landed at Islay have also been forwarded. The 600 are believed to be a_part of the 1,100 repopted landed at Bun- crannia and Larne last night. These dispatch*, however, did not say the surviyors landed at Islay.. Tha disgatch was brief. British hospital ships ‘rushed to the.sgeneiof the disaster and every means of succor is being psed.. .. - . A brief message from Admiral S8ims of the American navy said he believed the Tuscania was still afloat, He failéd to men- tion the convoy, but it is believed a British or an American de- stroyer convoyed her. British authorities wired their commands in §eotland and Treland to afford the survivors from the Tuscania every possible assistance and furnish them with clothing, It is believed the Tuscania carried.2,000 American soldiers. She was torpedoed. MET FATE OFF THE IRISH COAST Washington, Feb. 7.—The Cunard liner Tuscania, carrying 2,199 American soldiers, was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast Tuesday night, but official reports late last night said 1,912 of the officers and men had been saved and indicated that the list of rescued might prove even larger. The. troops, composed chiefly of detachments of Michigan and Wisconsin national guardsmen, were traveling on the Tuscania, a British vessel, under convoy of British warships. A Drief dispatch to the war department from Londdn last evening announced the disaster and reported the landing of only 1,100 survivors. Bhis was made public shortly after 10 o’clock and for more than two hours it was feared that probably 1,400 men, including members of the liner’s crew, had gone down. 1,912 AMERICANS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR When a message came to the state department from the em- bassy at London saying at 11 o’clock, 1,912 of the Americans had been accounted for, the joy of officials almost swept away the distress occasioned by the earlier news. The first 1,100 sur- vivors were landed at Larne and Buncrana, two widely separ- ated Irish ports, and this, coupled with the evident fact that rescue ships were at hand, quickly ggve rise to hope that nearly everybody on board the Tuscania except those injured by the explosion hight have been saved. The president, Secretary Baker, and in fact, all official Washington were up late waiting for further news. Only the briefest dispatches were received and none gave details of the attack on the liner. Even the time was missing. . " URGENT MESSAGES ASK DETAILS The president was at the theater when the news was re- ceived and he was not told until he returned to the White House. In the meantime, the war, navy and state departments had sent urgent messages by wireless and cable instructing their repre- sentatives in England and Ireland to_forward every available fact immediately. . ; Because of the nature of the military organizations carried by the ship the war department announced that it would be im- possible to say definitely what troops were abroad. until the list of survivors was received. Later, however, the adjutant gen- eral’s office made the list public. " The war department announced that its record show the following were on hoard the Tuscania : y : Headquarters detathment and companies D, E and F of the Twentieth Engincers, 170th Engineer Train, 107th Engineer Train, 107th Military Police, 107th Supply Train;;Number:100. Asro Squadron, 158th Aero Squadron, 213th Aero - Squadron, Replacement Detachments Numbers 1 and 2 ‘of the Thirty-Sec- ond Division. ~TFifty-one casual officers. The thirty-second division is compose ; 22 . nts reporting by water What in all probability will be ok By, 4 i the most interesting: address on war work, so far as it relates to the food problem, will ‘be the coming to Be- midji of Dr. Julius Lincoln,’ pastor the Swedish Lutheran church, James- town, N. Y., and a member of the. United -States food administration’s in Bemidji Tuesday, February 26, E. Greene:and ‘Mrs. Willlam Ogden Wade, who comprise Team ‘B’ of the United States’ food administra- tion’s lecture tours. ., é -All . of -the -meémbers -of: :the “team are’ talented speakers and are en- tirely familiar with .food conditions in the allied countries. The lectures wilk be illustrated with motion pic- tures and stereopticon views taken during the’':commission’s visit to Europe. ? Toured Battle Front. As a member of the commission, conditions in England and France, acting as an individual investigator, and assisted by government officials in both nations. His speech consists of a report on what he saw in Eur- ope. - He had ample opportunity to inspect the farming regions of Eng- land and France, and conditions in London and Paris, and later accom- panied the commission on a tour of the battle front in France. Interested in Task. In America, Dr. Lincoln was deep-| ly interested in this nation’s task of saving food for the allied nations. In Europe he was able to ascertain how American food is used, why it is_needed, and what will happen if our food shipments stop. Not only does he know the food situation among civilians of virtually all class- es, but he has found out how the great armies in France are supplied and fed, having visited all fronts R. E (BULLETIN) (By United Press) St. Paul, Feb. 7.—State Forester W. T. Cox thinks 300 Minnesotans were aboard the transport Tuscania. He said today part of the forestry regiment was from the northwest States and believes it included Co. E and Co. F. of the Twentieth engi- neers, reported to have sailed onthe These companies are the last of the unit known not yet in France. It was known that the companies were ready to sail, several days ago. Large numbers of northern Wiscon- sin and northern Minnesota men are in these divisions. troops where he met and conferred with soldiers and staff officers. Man of Broadness. Dr. Lincoln is a man of broad in- terests. His viewpoint on the econ- omic-and military situation abroad will be one of the first of its kind presented to an American audience. Harry E. Reynolds 18 in charge of the local arrangements for the coming of the team and if possible, A. D. Wilson, state food adminis- trator, will be here on that date. FATHER OF EREATZ IS SKEPTICAL OVER REPORT “It-is, in my opinion, a false re- port,” said George Kreatz, father of R. E. Kreatz, “with reference to my son being on.the Tuscania, because we received a letter from him a week ago saying that he was quarantined and did not expect to sail for at least two weeks."” BULLETIN €| Americans See Tragedy. London, Feb, 7.—It was learned this afternoon that the Tuscania floated several hours after being tor- pedoed. Americans aboard pther vessels witnessed the torpedoing. Latest Toll is 267. Washington, Feb. 7.—Latest offi- cial reports, compiled by the bureau of statistics, list 267 missing. Un- official reports are all lower than this. = United Press reports 210 missing. Of these 145 are officers and men. Others unattached to the United States service. - . Had Carried Thousands. New York, Feb. 7.—The Tuscania had carried thousands of Americans across to the battle zone. Previous- 1y she carried the old Sixty-ninth New York infantry to France. ing his rank, Major Yost, veteran in serviceof the United States military, narrated what it all means to the great cause of America. Tall, well put together, wearing the traditional military moustache and pointed the generally accepted-type of the sea- soned officer. But Y0st is more than that. He is,a human being. Years of service with all its attendant gla- mour and glitter has unaffected his personality. He came to Bemidji with a mission, to tell Bemidji what it was all about, what it means and he “sat up close” to 'his hearers while he unravelled his simple nar- rative in a manner which left deep conviction. © Renorts and Reality. . Yost paid high tribute to Bemidji and her patriotism. He said when he was brdered to report to Wash- ington from head of the recruiting in-California he was told to go up to Minnesota and see what the mat- ter was. He heard that Minnesota was in a state of lethergy, that there was but little patriotism and no spirit manifest toward aiding the government, but that when he reach- ed the boundary of the state he dis- covered all reports highly exagger- d of national guard (Continued on Page Six) (Continued on last page)