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L WEATHER. rs and thunderstorms today and t; cleudy an ler. Temperature for hours—Highest, 89; Full it No. 28,231 BARRIER ON RHIN 10 END SEPT. To IF GERMANY PAYS Supreme Council Decides.to Lift Bar, But Keeps Con- trol of Three Cities. 855.—No. U. S. TO BE REPRESENTED ON ALLIED COMMISSION Briand Sarcastic in Opposing Giv- ing Up Towns in Ruhr—Har- vey Takes Active Part. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 13.—The lifting of the economic barrier of the Rhineland on September 15, providing Germany pays up the amounts she undertook to pay under the London ultimatum and agrees to remove the boycott against French goods, was decided upon at the final session of the allied supreme council today. It was de- cided, however, to maintain the occu- pation of Ruhrort, Duisburg and Duesseldort until the next meeting of the council, which, it is understood, will be held previous to the Wash- ington disarmament conference. At that time Premier Briand consented the question of the occupation of the right bank of the Rhine should be reconsidered. ‘With the question of the disposition of Upper Silesia out of its hands, the council went to work today on the other matters which it had to take under advisement. The decisions were reached after M. Briand, as pret dent of the counclil, replied to attacks made by Lord Curzon. the British foreign secretary. and Sir Robert Stevenson ‘Horne, chancellor of the British ex- chequer, against what was termed the present expensive system of ad- ‘ministering the treaty, especially as concerned occupation of the Ruhr re- glon. 4 Trritating te German Pride. This. Lord Curzon said, “is very costly and also irritating to German pational sentiment and pride.” The chancellor of the British ex- chequer argued that continuance of the present system impoverished every one of the interested powers, and that ‘means ought to be examined for redue- ing the cost. as the high expense meant lers reparations, Lor e, It was agreed to creatg dn intér- allied commission of finan: experts, on .which the United States would be “represented, to study ways and means whereby a reductiop in occu- pation costs might be deviged. The French premier. in & long speech, indulged in - some sarcastic utterances regarding Lord Curzon’ reference to, German natignal senti- ment. He opposed strongly discon- tinuance of occupation of thé three Ruhr cities. 2 Fears Wirth May Fall. “The French government,” declared M. Briand. “has no intention what soever of hurting Germany's national sentiment or maintaining occupation of the Ruhr cities indefinitely. But there also is the national sentiment of France to be taken into account. “Occupation of Duisburg, Ruhrort and Duesseldorf was decided jointly by France, England, Italy and Bel- gium, because of the repeated fail- ures of the German government to fulfill its obligations under the Ver- sailles treaty.” He was convinced that the Wirth government now was making all ef- forts to live up to the undertakings entered upon after the London ulti- matum, but added: “The Wirth government may fall, another with more reactionary ten- dencies may be formed, and another crisis reached between France and Germany.” Ambassador Harvey Active. The matter, however, was not so pressing, M. Briand concluded, that it might not be postponed until the next meeting of the council. All the delegations agreed to this sugges- tion. Marshal Foch's military commit- tee, after it had been decided to maintain military control in Ger- many, was intrusteq with the task of deciding how such control was to be exercised—whether by commis- sions on the spot, as now is the case, or otherwise. Ambassador Harvey -took’' a more “active part in the three hours’ meet- ing of the council this morning than at any session since the delibera- tions were started, being asked for his opinion or taking part in the discussion of practcally evéry ques- tion brought up, as America was ai- rectly interested, especially ‘in the Russian and Austrian situations. Decides on Russian Relief. At this session the council decided upon the make-up of the interna- tional famine relief commission, which will deal with the famine si uation in Russia. This commission will not be merely interallied, but Sweden, Denmark, Norway and other nentral countries will be usked to join. The nucleus il be formed by the entente countries and the United States, each to appoint three dele- gates. Concerning the diplomatic situa- tion created by the undertaking to feed famine-stricken Russia, it was agreed the commission will have ab- solutely an unofficial character, and | “that such conversations-as are en- gaged in with the soviets must be limited strictly to humanitarian questions. The manner in which con- tact with the soviet government is to be made was not decided. Financial aid for Austria was con- on cooler touight; tomorrow, partly . . d cool twenty-four owest, 71. report on.page 7. Bntered as second- matter post offics. Weohinston Deer Carving Depicting Life of Christ Took Five Monks 15 Years NEW YORK, August 13—A ‘Wwood carving descriptive of the life of Christ, on which five monks worked for fifteen years, will be placed on exhibition here Monday. The carving, val- ued at $1325.000, was brought te America by Father Germanos Ageltes, one of the monks who made it in the monastery of the Brotherhood of Nicodemus, &t Mount Athos, Macedonia. The composition is twenty- elght inches high a twenty- one inches wide, and includes several hundred figures in high and low felief. The central ple- ture is ‘“The Last Judgment,” reproducing in wood the tall of Michaclangele’s mous patmting. fa- RUSSIA AGREES T00.35. GONTROL OF FOOD RELIEF Fight Against Famine Yet to Be Worked Out. By the Associated Press. American rellef administration food distribution In the famine dis- tricts of Russia was agreed to famine relief committee. The agree- ment was reached director of the American relief ad- ministration, which began ‘Wednesday. Methods of applying American con- detalls were not taken up today, are to be considered at a confere to be held next week. Following the vut nce principle this afternoon by Maxim |Status and Litvinoff, representative of the soviet!South in her own time, as he be- in negotlations with Walter Lyman Brown, European | Pull of economic and peaceful forces” trol, local administration and other |letter, conclusion of to- WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1921 : ENGLAND OFFERS - MINION STATUS T0 SOUTH RELAND Officidl Issuance of Smuts Letter Throws Light on Ne- gotiations With:Sinn Fein. ARGUES THAT 'ULSTER MUST COME IN LATER Sees Lloyd George’s Offer to 26 Counties as Only Solution, Since North Cannot Be Coerced. By the Asnociated Press. LONDON, August 13.—Official light upon the status of the Irish negotia- tions was given by the government for the first time today in the form of a letter written by Gen. Jan C. Smuts, the South African premlier, to Ea- mon de Valera, the Irish republican leader. This letter, which is dated ‘August 4, reveals that Premier Lloyd Details of Carrying Qut |Seorse ofterea the twenty-six Sinn Fein counties “complete Dominion status, subject to certain strategic safeguards.” v It is also shown by the text of the letter that Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, has refused to nego- tiate with Mr. de Valera, and that RIGA, August 13.—Control by the | Ulster is standing firm for retaining of | her present government. Gen. Smuts, ' however, urged the in | repubMcan leader to accept Dominion let Ulster join the leved that “through the. successful running of the Irish state“and the Ulster eventually would be brought here|into line. Dominion Status Offered. “The British prime minister,” wrote Gen. Smuts in the courge of his long “offers complete Dominion status to the twenty-six counties, sub- ject to certain strategic safeguards which you are asked to agree to vol- day’s meeting there appeared to be no insurmountable obstacle to keep the American relfef administration from working -in harmony with the soviet government and a Russian non- partisan committee on foreign relief. M. Litvinoff also sccepted the pro- posal that the American relief ad- ministration be given sanitary con- trgl in the famine districts, in- ords! to guard against cholers, in-case such communication to American.- relief workers, together with equal priority with Russian famine relief organiza- tions with regard to transportation. The -soviet authorities are to pay ransport charges from ports interior destinations. X ‘The main point of contest now ap- pears to be the apprehension of the bolsheviki that the Americans might the soviet into posts where they on whom the work of actual distri- bution of American food would fall. BANDITS SEIZE $114,000 Onlookers Dazed as Robbers, Dis- arm:- and Strike Cashier Over the Head. SPRINGFIELD, I, August 13.— ‘With a score or more persons looking on four automobile bandits held up an armed deputy sheriff and a bank cashier at Kificaid late today and escaped with a miners’ pay roll of $114,000. The money had been: sent from ,Chicago and police’ expressed a belief that the bandits had followed it from there. F. N. Jones, cashier of the Kincaid Trust and Savings' Bank, who was carrying the money, was struck over the head by one of the bandits, when he did not respond quickly to the demand, “Hands up.” z Jerome Lockhart, the deputy, al- though he carried two revelvers, was quickly overpowered by two of the bandits, who took his weapons away. The men then grabbed~ the money and disappeared in their car. The quick action ,of the bandits seemed to daze the onlookers. teed personal safety and freedom of] place active political opponents of would control the Russian committees untarily as a free Dominion. * * * It is far more than was offered the Transvaal and the Free State.” Gen. Smutz in the letter asserted he had been desirous of helping along an Irish settlement, but there ex- isted an impasse which he did not know at the time how to get aver. Mr. de Vilerf ware aqually {mmayv- able.4n” their positions, fie former maintaining that Ulster would mot consent to change from her present status and the republican leader in- ting that Ulster come under a United Ireland constitution. Force Is Out of the Question. “Force as a solution of the problem,” continued Gen. Smuts, “is out of.the question, both on your (de Valera's) and his (Craig’s) premises. The process of arriving at an agreement will, therefore, take time.” Gen. Smuts explained that for this reason he considered he could be of no further use at this stage of the negotiations and, therefore, was going ome. Any solution on the lines of Ulster coming into an Irish state was fore. PAY ROLL IN SIGHT OF 20 | acomea to aiure at the present, ns declared, as Ulster would not agree to this and could not be forced. Gen. Smuts urged Mr. de Valera.to let Ulster alone at present and con- centrate on a free constitution for the Temaining twenty-six \counties of Ire- land, “and. through the successful running “of the Irish state and the pull of economic and peaceful forces eventually bring Ulster int6 that state.” “As I said before,” reiterated Gen. Smuts, “I don't consider one single, clean-cut solution of the Irish ques- tion possible at present.” Gen. Smutts in the course of his let- ter said: : “I believe it is in the interest of Ulster to come in, and that the force of the community of interests will over a period of years Become so great and compelling that Ulster will, herselt, decide to join the Irish state. Not only will she not consent to come in, but even if she- does the Irish state will, I fear, start under such a handicap of internal friction and dis- cordance that the result may all be a failure once more. “The humble acceptance of facts is (Continued on ge 3. lumn ’._——_-—___-_—_—.———' SEEK ESTIMATED COST OF COMING CONFERENCE ON ['DISARMAMENT Secretary of State Hughes, who has been selected by~ President Harding to head the American delegation at the sessions, and to have direct chafge of the arrange- ments for the disarmament con- ference, has designated Undersec- retary of State Fletcher to be the fiscal officer on this particular oc- casion. 7 \ Secretary Fletcher conferred yes- terday afternoon with Brig. Gen. Dawes, director of the govern- ment budget, and after some rapid figuring on general costs they conferred with President Harding. They were anxixous to obtain his views regarding certain features of the coming conference, which may necessitate extra expense pot figured on by Secretary Hughes In the yegular program. It will'be some little time before definite figurés of the probable expense will be arrived at, but it was ex- administration, fn’ |, ter' conténd tifat this Dbusiness efficiency, demanded some idea of “what it all' is going to cost” before advancing far in the arrangements. Although the nations invited fo participate in the sessions will pay the expenses of their respec- tive delegates, the United States 7 P RELAYING THE GOOD NEWS. J HAS : R TURNED! [ MILLIONS BACKING LIQUOR SMUGGLERS Greatest Maritime Conspir- acy Since Days of Piracy * Is Disclosed. $360,000 WHISKY TAKEN Special Dispatch to The Star. involved in the alleged conspiragyio run rum- between the s and United States coast~Thiets proved today that the-statement that it was the maritime . conspiracy -sine the days of pirscy was no exaggeration. 14 calls the “nat™ ment, it now de- WS 1 excess of 33,500, g the value of a fleet of nifje “ships,! five of which ha i selzed; a Jand fleet of auxilis fum-running automobiles, and wel equipped distributing centers. Most of. this investment .is now a loss, which even the heavy profits of boot- Jeggers will hardly counterbalance. ° Seisures Valued at Thousands. Since the newspapers bared the plot of July 25, and told of the govern- ment organization of the biggest peace-time law-loading air and water fleet of modern time, there have been whisky selzures totaling = $360,000. Ship seizures are estimated at $200,- 000 and automobile seizures at $30,000. A score of men are under arrest and have been held for trial. One man, grieved by the loss of his ship, has empted sgicide. Ten men are fugitive: formerly prominent business men who are alleged to have backed the venture are trem- blingly waiting for the ax to fall. Among- the rum-running ships still at large are belleved to be gne two- funneled steam freighter and three windjammers. The ships seized are all schooners, of an expensive type, worthy to weather the open seas, and are a totul loss to the alleged rum- running conspirators. These ships are the Thomaston, held at Campden, where its captain, Lewis B. Nephel, tried to hang himself; the Jennie T., held at Newhaven; the Curlew, held in Florida; the Pocomoke, held in Atlantic City, and the Henry ‘. Marshall, held in New York. With the Marshall $144,000 worth of intoxicants were seized, and with the Thomaston $100,000 worth of liquors fell into the hands of government agents. Three-Mile-Limit Issue. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 13.—Sea- faring bootleggers soon will have to take a course in admiralty law if they are to keep up with the latest contention of revenue officers—that the three-mile limit does not hold where liquor smugglers are involved. This was the stand taken by United States' Attorney Hayward today, wh@ period the government filed three libels!found it almost impossible to get men against the schooner Henry L. )l.r-wr the force who could pass the phy- shall and her 1,400 cases of whisky' after she had been seized outside the | thas there were scores of vacancies. three-mile limit oft Atlantic City with the British flag at her masthead. Col. Hayward invoked the maritime act of 1799, setting a twelve-mile 1imit oftshore as the boundary which ships could not pass if engaged in fraudulent pursuits. If the court up- holds his contention that this act necessarily will have to unloosen supersedes the doctrine that a fation the purse string for things other than the’ actual cost of the con- ference itself.. There wfll be a certain amount of entertaining to |pgrtant precedent will be set in the| warfare being.conducted against rum. | Wef. {Cleyton W. Durden, Robert L. Stephen- done by this nation asthe host of the affair. x Although ‘Undersecretary 'Fletcher “and Gen. Dawes would give no intl- mation of estimated costs, assurance was givén that the gathering of ne< tions will be trivial compared td”the cost of this country's participation in the treaty conferences held in France. ‘There has been an unofficial sug-- gestion that the afms. conference. . ‘would cost probably -$150,000, but- officials acquainted with the mat«" sum 1s | nad the right to protect its shores as “tfar as ancient cannon could shoot— three miles—it is.believed ‘an im- runners from Maine to'the Florida k B1G CONGRESS 10-0PEN. .STOCKHOLM, Atgust 13.—Sixteen parilaments, ineluding the Congress of the United States, will.be represented {at the -Tnterpariiamentary. congress| 2 4 to return to the force, ind police of- ~ About 250 delegates are éxpected to | attend. . The American delegates will] Do * guests of Ira -Nelson NEW _YORK, August 13.—Finances | Hen Mothers Eight Partridges After She Hatches Nine Speclal Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., August 13— Mrs. W. J. Carpenter of Bright- wood has a hen which hatched nine partridges, and is mow busily engaged in mothering eight of them. At night the birds nestle up under the foster mother's wings, and the owmer earries them to the house, so that nothing will happen to th ¥ mother her brood. Thelit- tle partridges are and en- tirely contented 1a the poultry yard. - WL ASK INCREASE ent for members of be asked of Congress in the next “District appropriation bill, Commissioner Oyster .indicated last night. k While the Commissioner has not yet gone over police estimates with Maj. Gessford, he sald he is. sat- isfied the force should be enlarged to properly protect a- city that s growing as steadily as_Washington. At the present time there are 932 men on the police rolls, but this fig- ure includes captains, lieutenan: sergeants anq plain clothes men. ‘When these grades are eliminated there remain only 804 patrolmen to walk the beats. When it is remem- bered that these men are divided into eight-hour shifts the need for more patrolmen becomes apparent. Consideration also must be given to the fact that there are scores of men on special details, such as the ‘White House, the embassies and with certain special squads, devoting thelr time to the enforcement of certain laws. Commissioner Oyster said he has not formed a definite idea as to how many more men the Commissioners should ask for. This question will be settled when the estimates are under consideration next month. Force Increased by 100. Prior to the war there were' ap- proximately 700 patrolmen allowed Ly the police appropriation, and dur- ing the cohflict the force was in- creased by about 100 men. During and since the war, however, the city has grown rapidly, with new suburban communities springing up in_ all “sections. This. development of the suburbs, it is pointed out, has greatly increased the nymber of homes to be protected. ; ‘The Commissioner is confident that when the appropriation bill comes up for hearing in Congress ne will be able to show the District committees of the House and Senate that the per- sonnel should be increased. z ’ During the. war, and for a long thereafter, the. department ical ‘examination, with the result At the present time there are only twelve jobs on the force unfilled. Dur- ng the period when men who would. tske police: fobs could not be fo; it was deémed useless tb ask Congr to increass the number b goditions. Six More Appointed. Six adaitions to the five meh-and one Woma son, Harry E. Métcalf and R H. Mans- field, while the young lady. appointed] a member of the women’s bureau, is Miss Nan M. Martin. 5 Richard H. Mansfleld, one of the ap- pointees, served on the force. prior to the war, but resigned to enter -work. He recently decided glaflly welcome his return. Mans- m@. according to: polics officials, al- | REALTY MAN'S BODY FOUND IN AN ALLEY Two Men Held Af_t_er/Tak?ng David A,-Offutt, Aged 62, —~""From Taxicab. AUTOPSY WILL BE HELD Rolled-Top Stockings, Low Necks and Rouge Banned in Store Edict CHICAGO, August 13.—Style of dress of it employes should be “refimed and businesslike,” . @ large State Street department store said today in a motice in which disapproval was €x- pressed of “skort sleeves, low- cut mecks and extremely whort irts, sometimes with rolled- down stockings.” “Rouge should mot be used, nor powder in excess, and ex- treme styles in hair dressing should be avoided” the metice said. Dresses “trimmed with span- &les and having embrok parts,” also were listed under the ban. 2 DEATH OVER FALLS BELIEVED FATE OF GOUPLE IN A CANOE Craft Smashed to Pieces in " Potomac as Man and Girl Fight Rapids. Otto C. Gsantner, aged twenty-eight. of 2811 Mills avenue northeast. and.|” Miss Olive Reynolds, twenty-two years old, 503 River road.)efiuldm Md., are believed to haye-ben drown- ed late yesterday sfternoon in an attempt to shoot the Little Falls of the Potomec in a carioe. W__D Tuckey, jr.. of 419 New York rénue, told the police he saw a canoe Coming- over Little Falls shortly be- fore 6 o'clock yesterday afterngpn with a man and woman clinging to the bottom of the overturned craft. When the canoe reached the “spout.” just above Middle rock, the woman is sald to have lost her hold on the canoe several times. Each time she was rescued by her companion, until the pair get into a whirl of water above Middle rock and lost their hold on the bottom of the frail craft. The The body of David A. Offutt, a|canoe is said to have come out of the wealthy real estate operator, who | Spout” with both ends smashed and lived at 901 B street northeast, was|the couple are believed to have taken from a ‘taxicab, which drove {drowned in the whirlpools just above up in an alley in rear of 1231 H street | Middle rock. They were not seen northeast late yesterday afternoon by | 282in by eyewitnesses to the supposed two men, who were arrested a few {tr2Eedy after the canoe drifted into minutes later before they had left the |the SWift water. spot. ., . S s beljy held at ihe Eave their himes ss Jumes L Lewts, 1621 Trinided Zvensie, Snd George W. Moran of Cegtral Helights, Md. Cance s Identified. . Thé ‘canop was recovered by the police just above the Chain bridge. In ‘the craft was a pair of black trousers, a handkerchiet with ~fhe Examination of Lewis and’ Moran|IP1ti2] “C four keys ang a bras led the police to belleve the three men had been drinking. Why the men drove up the alley and removed the body from the maghine, instead of notifying - Mg. Offut's relatives, the Ppolice have ot definitely established. According to the police, Moran and Lewis met Mr. Offutt about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and they en- gaged a taxicab and went for a ride out Conduit road. When the party reached Glen Echo, Offutt complained o his friends decided clty. Seen by Dedestrian. tag with the number 331. was pnmbéred 12150. Inquiry by the police at Dempsey's boahouse, just north of theé Aqueduct bridge, developed the fact that a cance bearing this number was owned by Gsantner, who “took the craft out alone about 1 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. He is supposed to have_paddied up the canal and, with tFe assistance of his companion, cirried the canoe from the canal to The canoe 1“1'1" 8aid, Mr.|¢he river above Little falls.*Gsantner eeling ill, and | j5 said to have declared during the to Teturff to the|pagt week he intended to shoot the Little falls in his canoe. On account of the swift water at the point the After reaching the city, the police | COUPle are believed to. have gone say, ther inen headed for the northesat |90Wn. Efforts to dpag the river were section, and arriving at 12th and H | futile. streets turned north toward I street and drove up the alley. As they Tuckey's story was corroborated, according to Capt. W. T. Reynolds started to remove Mr. Offutt’s body | 224 Policeman ‘Ault, by several bath- from the machine they were seen by|°™® IR the rivér above Chain bridge, a pedestrian, who immediatély noty.|Who declined to give' their names. fled the police of the ninth precinct,| Th Stories agreed that the man and The men, however, had not left when the police arrived. Whether Mr. Offutt was dead when he was taken from the machine the police have not ascertained. The persons’ who notified the police ex- pressed the opinion that he was at least unconscious. As soon as the police arrived they summoned a Casualty Hospital am- woman were seen clinging to the bottom of the overturned canoe and that they were torn from their hold by the sWift waters of the river just above Middie rock. , Police Hunting Bodies. Gagnter’s effects, including a small tenf, which were kept at Dempsey’s, were taken in charge by the harbor bulance. Dr. A. G. Hess of the Ga. | POlice. Who are contipuing there ef- ualty Hospital examined Mr. Offitt and pronounced him dead. After Cor- oner Nevitt had viewed the body it was taken to the morgue, where an autopsy will be held this morning m!b’“" Sommaiuabol. an effort to definitely determipe the cause of Mr. Offutt's death. - ~No Indication of Strugsle. Yorts to corroborate Tuckey's’ story and to recover the bodies of the cou- ple. The swift water, it was ex- plained, has probably washed the Gsanter lived with his mother and a sister, Miss Johanna Gsanter. He was assistant ‘chiet of the document room of the Lib/rli‘y of Congress and a graduate Preliminary examination of.Mr, |9 Georse Washington University. He Oftutt’s body, Coroner Nevjst . L showed noJadications of « strugsle of any kind. o Mr. Offutt was sixty-two years of ago, and a lifelong’ resident of Wash- ington. He wad born in Georgetown, and lived his sister. He had been engaged in the real estate busi- ness he for many years, and for the I twenty-five years had been lde!lflefl Wwith the realty firm of Liebermann & Hawn, 1421 F street. JHe was reputed to be wealthy. Mr. Offutt is sujvived by a son :l daughter—Armand Offutt, who is connected - with the United Btates reclamation service, in Denver, Col., and Mrs. Gertrude 8. Rhodes, 901 B street northeast, with whomi he lived. Relatives of Mr. Offutt said last ‘night that he left home early yester- day morning and wag apparently in good health. $15,000 BONDS FOUD. bonds valued at $15,000, part of the $300,000 loot obtained by bandits from the Citizens’ State Trust and Savings Bank, Hanlontown, Iowa, and the Van Wert State Bank of Van Wert, Iowa, three months ago were found possession of Mrs. Florence Shomo when she was arrested today by.fed- on .an indiotment. 7u- eek. / CHICAGO, August 13. — Liberty i was said to be a member of East Gate Lodge, No. 34, F. ArA. M. His 'mother said he was an expert swim- mer and canoeist. Miss Reynolds was also employed at the Library of Congress, in the cata- logue division. —_— HUNGARMNS, APPROVING PEACE, CHEER U. S. ENVOY — Great Enthusiasm Marks Assembly Vote in Support of American Congress’ Resolution, BUDAPEST, August 13.—Approval by a unanimous vote of the peace resolution of the United States Con- gress was marked by great emthusi- asm in the Hungarian national as- sembly ‘yesterday. Foreign Minister Banfty was most cordial in his com- ment on America’s action in ending the state of war between the United States and Hungary. “America is the first big power to break the thrall of revenge,” the minister told the assembly, “anq this glant among nations now is offering a friendly hand to our small coun- try.” ; Grant Smith, American high com- missioner in Budapest, who witnessed the vote from the diplomatic gal- lery,: was heartily - cheered . b; deputies: * 3 PIoeY ¥ FIVE CENTS. TAX REVISION BILL COMPLETED, GIVING | NEEDED 3 BILLION G. 0: P. Members of Ways and Means Committee Make Final Draft. LUXURY LEVIES PLACED ON THE MANUFACTURER Additional Changes Adopted—All Transportation Levies Now Revision of the 1918 tax law was completed yesterday by republican members of the House ways and means committee with the adoption of these additional changes: Repeal of the express and oil pipe line transportation taxes, effective January 1, 1922, I Imposition of a license tax of $10 on venders of soft drinks, effective upon upon enactment of the bill. Substitution of a manufacturers’ tax of 12 cents a gallon on cereal bev- erages (near beer) for the present levy of 15 per cent, effective upon { enactméht of the bill Imposition of a 5 per cent tax on the full manufacturers' selling price of the following articles, if sold by the manufacturers at levels in ex- cess of those specified: Would Reach Estimate. Carpets and rugs, $3.50 per square yard; trunks, $50 each; valises, travel- ing bags, suit cases, hatboxes used by travelers and fitted toilet cases, $15 each; purses, pocketbooks, shop- ping and hand bags. $4 each; portable lighting fixtures, including lamps of all kinds and shades, $10 each; fans, $1 each, and house or smoking coats or jackets and bath or lounging robes, $3 each. These taxes also would become ef- | tective upon enactment of the bill. Announcing completion of their work, members of the committee said they believed the bill as agreed upon would produce the three-billion-dollar total which Secretary Mellon esti- mated at the White House conference last Tuesday it would be necessary to raise from internal reventie next year. Not all of this sum would be collected on this year's buSiness, however, as the total includes $300,000.00¢ which Treasury officials estimate can be col- lected on back taxes. E _The bill as finally drafted by the committee will be presgnted to the House tomorrow, under present plans of republican leaders, and will be passed next Saturday after two days of general debate and two days' com- sideration of amendments under the five-minute rule. From the House it will go to the Senate, where the finance committee will congider it during the proposed congressional recess with a view to reporting it to the Senate when Congress reconvenes, probably late in September. Transportation Freed. With the removal of the express and oil pipe line taxes, the committee eliminated all of the transportation taxes. No change was made, how- ever, in the levies on telegraph, tele- phone, cable and radio messages, this section of the old law remaining in force. The manufacturers’ tax of 5 per cent on carpets, trunks, and other ar- ticles is designed to replace the so- called luxury levies now in force, in- cluding those on wearing apparel, but the plan now is to continue these taxes, collected and paid to the gov- ernment by the retailers, until next January 1, despite the fact that the manufacturers’ tax would become effective upon enactment of the bill: The license tax on venders of soft drinks is @ new levy, exclusive of the manufacturers’ tax on sirups used at fountains and on unfermented bever- ages, carbonated waters or beverages or other soft drinks sold in containers. Besides the changes agreed upon yesterday, the bill, as it will be pre- sented to the conference of House | republicans tomorrow, will contain, members said, these provisions: Other Provisions. l Repeal of the excess profits tax and an increase in the income tax on-cor- porations from 10 to 15 per cent, with the $2.000 exemption retained, effec- tive January 1, 1921. Repeal of the income surtax brackets above 32 per cent, effective January 1, 1921. Repeal of all forms of transporta- tion taxes, effective January 1, 1922. An increase from $2,000 to $2,500 in the exemption to married men having an annual net income of $5,000 or less, effective January 1, 1921. An increase in the exemption to heads of families on account of de- pendents to $400 for each dependent, instead of §$200, as at present, eftective January 1, 1921. Exemption from tax of the first $500 of income recelved by individuals from investment in building and loan associations, effective January 1, 1921. Refreshmeat Tax Repeal. Repeal of the tax on fountain - drinks and ice cream and the substi- tution of & flat tax of ten cents & igallon on all fountain sirups, to be paid directly by the manufacturer or maker, effective upon enactment of the bill. Repeal of the stamp taxes on per-. fumes, extracts, tooth paste and other toilet preparaions and proprietary medicines and the supstitttion of a manufacturers’ tax of & cent on the sale prices, effective On the en= sctment of the bill. - Substifution of & manufacturers’ tax %——w%‘ 4 on B