Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1924, Page 2

PAGE Two. COULIDRE VETOPOLICE SHOOT TO KILL AND TO MAKE TAX BILL BIG ISSUE Appeal for Congress To Support Mellon Plan Likely. By DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) WASHINGTON, May 9.—Prest- dent Coolidge may veto the tax bill and appeal to the country in tho coming elections to give him a con- gress which will support the Mellon plan. Such a course is being seriously advocated here together with a pro- posal thatthe 25 percent reduction in taxes on incomes earned during the year 1923 shall be applied also to the year 1924 inasmuch as the congress elected next November could not be called into session until after March 4, 1925. Apart from his own personality and capacity as an administrator, _there is no issue as yet on which the present administration can go to the country. The opposition will. of course, have plenty, of basis for attack but it {s not the purpose of the Coolidge administration to wage a defensive*campaign. Some con- crete proposals will be necessary in order to ask for a continuance in power, The Mellon plan, it fs pointed out. was received with a wave of almost unanimous support when it was first announced. Congress was flooded with petitions and the editorial opin- fon of the country seemed preponder- antly in favor ofthe Mellon {dea. Since that time however, a combina- tion of insurgent Republicans and Democrats have operated in both the house and the senate, not only tos defeat the Mellon’plan but to add on certain objectionable features such) as the opening of all income tax re turns to public inspection. Mr. Coolidge as the leader of the Repu- blican party has been unable to com- mand the Republicans to follow the Mellon plan. His only redres is at the polls where it can be decided which brand of Republicanism the electorate wants, and whether the country wishes to replace Republi- cans with Democrats. 4 The whole theory of the Demo- cratic plan has been that it is bound to be more popular than the Mellon plan when fully explained to the voter. The administration is being urged to take a contrary view, name- ly that the Mellon plan, when ex- plained will have the same support at the polls as it was given by the editors before it was apparent that there would be partisan division. Which would business prefer? An acceptance by the president of the bill proposed by congress or a fight in the campaign to get a congress that would be committeed to sup- port the Mellon plan? There is abundant evidence that the uncertainty over tax revision has been a factor in adverse busi- ness conditions here and there. The whole situation has been so con- fused in congress that many busi- ness men have not realized that they would be given a cut of 25 percent on their 1923 incomes payable this year. If addition to that they knew that incomes recetved during the present year would be taxed at 1 25 percent reduction when paid in March 1925, they would be able to make thelr plans accordingly. A flat 25 percent reduction would in many ways be easier to compute than the Present house or senate bill with its complications. . There is another school of thought however, which thinks the present bill ought to be accepted by ‘the president and a fight waged for fur- ther tax revision later on. If the publicity feature of the- bill and other seriously objectionable clauses were eliminated, such a course might be viewed with more favor at the White House, The upshot of the whole thing is that congress is about to furnish the president with a vital issue on which to base his appeal for election next November. Whether he signs the pending bill or vetoes it, the president will continue his effort to get a scientifically adjusted scheme of taxes adopted the fundamental principles of which were outlined by his secretary of the treasury. § eral changes in the original Mellon plan are acceptablebto the adminis. tration in fact the treasury itself helped to make some, but on the big question of surtaxes, the adminis- tration 1s not yet in a mood to com- promise. _ Snow at Laramie LARAMIE Wyo., May fell for about two hours and melted Snow: snow occurred miles west of had fallen at ? 2 2 Wyoming Motorway ? ? BILLIARD AND POOL PARLOR NOW OPEN Basement HOTEL TOWNSEND DOBBIN REALTY co, Removed to No. 226 E. 2nd St. Zuttermeister Bldg. THEN INVESTIGATE IN NEW YORK BANDIT WARFARE, SAID BY ROBERT T. SMALL (Copyright 1924, The Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, May 9.—In an ef-| i fort to make New York City safe for the democracy, the police have begun to shoot to kill. Taking a leaf from the book of the modern bandit, the pollos are in some in- stances shooting first and asking questions afterward. If a man is seen running away from some place or somebody and falls to stop at the first command, the blue coat opens fire, Two men frightened by an explo- sion in the muffler of a motor car ran away from the place, A po- liceman heard the report of what he thought was a pistol. He also saw the men running. He sent several bullets after them and one of the men was taken to the hos- pital, Daily the bark of the policeman’s automatic is heard in the streets of the city. In/one twenty-four hour period one man was killed and six men taken desperately ‘wounded to beapitals asa seeult £3 tbe. accu. rate fire of the blue coated guardians the peace, More and more time being required of the police at the official targets and even “rook- ies” of the force are trained to shoot with an almost unerring precision. One rookie has had the distinc- tion of getting a notch on his gun the first time he ever. fired it at a living target. He found two men actually in the midst of hold- ing up a drug store’ on’ a fashion- able uptown corner. The new cop —not yet a full fledged member of the force—kept his head. He did not blaze away into the drug store. He waited for the robbers to emerge. He called to them to throw up their hands. One attempted to reach his pistol. The youthful cop—a lad of 25—fired. The man dropped but attempted to rise again. A sec- ond shot snuffed his ite: out like a candle. The police are Reterebies that holdups and robberies must end. They say it is a routine drive against the crooks of the city, but in truth Jt_is an attempt to 2 clgan up for the Today and Saturday WILL BE BANNER DAYS In Our Shoe Department SHOES For Men, Women, Misses, Boys, Girls and Little Tots I am Moving to My New Location in a Few Days WE ARE SACRIFICING EVERY PAIR OF SHOES IN THE HOUSE At Prices That Should Appeal to Every Person in Casper Those who have made purchases know they have received the benefit of the lowest shoe prices in the history of Casper. Extra Clerks Will Be Here to Wait on You Shop Here Today and Saturday te BOSTON sie Morris Hayutin, Prop. Shoe Department, 260 SOUTH CENTER STREET @be Casver Daily Cribune ¢ f trators make their getaway in|other western and middlewestern Rostiias car. Every inspected car | cities, since October, 1921. ————— must wear a label on the windshield until the period of examination is Daylight Saving Voted at Cheyenne ended. The task is an herculean one, but the police are going about CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 9.—A it calmly and methodically. Some hundreds of irate owners, stopped referendum’ conducted by the Chey- enne Chamber of. Commerce to on the street, have protested against “invasion” but the police have ex- Democratic national convention which is to be held here beginning June 24 and ending no one knows just when. : Prospective visitors to the metrop- olis need not be alarmed by the tales of hold ups and “bob haired bandits” in these parts. 1t is thi rarest thing in the world that a man is held up on the streets of this city. In that ‘respect York differs from other big com- munities where “stick ups” are more numerous. The New York bandit goes after the il grocery store, the cigar stand or the delica- tessen shop. He likes to work quietly as a rule, | He dashes into the store, grabs the till and gets away in a waiting taxi of “big blue touring car.” This particular sort of robbery seems easy, Street work is not encouraged by the crooks themselves, and is decidedly frowned plained it is for the common good and have proceeded accordingly. ———e 31 INDICTED FOR FRAUD BY U.S. JURY upon by the police, ‘ SEWERS hd caged Sweaters Waists ——, “Tho chances are that by the time | oy june totere gud Skirts Dresses inghams grand jury before Judge Goddard has handed up an_ indictment charging thirty-one individuals and corporations with conspiracy to vio- late the prohibition act and defraud the government out of lquor taxes in transactions in the west and mid- die west, said to have aggregated more than $500,000, Assistant Federal Attorney Lemon said the Benthe! Manufacturing Cor- poration, mentioned in the indlct- ‘ment, and engaged in making hair tonic, had sold more than half a mil- lion dollars worth of alcohol to boot- leg in Chicago, Minneapolis and the Democrats arrive a dead lne will have been drawn about the city to make it safe for everybody including the shop keepers. One of the most ambitious under- takings the police have ever = at- tempted is a checking up of all the automobiles in the city, Every car is being examined as to the regis- tration certificates, etc. Already this inspect'on has turned up a num- ber of stolen automobiles and this is the principal reason for the move, for Hie police have found that in of highway eri Diamond Dyes 15-cent package of “Diamond Dys contains directions so simple any woman can dye or tint any old, worn faded thing new, even if she has never dyed before. 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