Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1924, Page 21

STONELE[GH COURT With table Luncheon, ol carte Mok shirts tail See Page 20 Thoroughly Reliable Instruments of a Variety of Well Known '1$92,750,000 TREASURY LOSS ' “So far as this ithan § THE EVENING STAR, TAX ON $5,000 INCOME Giant Marble Shaft _OR LESS IS OPPOSED Senator Ralston Asserts Proposal ‘Would Put Cost of War on Wealthy. \ Revenue, However, Might stiil Be Cut $200,000,000, He Says. Speaking in the Senate chamber for the first time since he was sworn in as Indiana’s junior senator, Samuel M. Ralstoy, democrat, in & two-hour discussion of taxation yesterday, urged that all provisions for taxing incomes of less than $5,000 be stricken frgm the income tax law. At the con- clusion of his address democratic senators surrounded and congrulu-l lated him on his discussions. Senator Ralston gave it as his opinjon that property should bear heavier burdens of taxation, particu- larly the expense of war, if there | must be war. | Able to Tax Rich Now. i country is concern- ed,” he declared s no need for a constitutianal amendment to in- ugurate the principle that in case of 1 be borne by the w Hx of the country and not by the Brawn that defends the weulth. an write it into American law now and here, by sl”k.nk: from the income tax law provi for taxing Incomes of 1 simply ail o s | 000. That action, if taken, would make 4 total reduction of income taxes of ,000 and would leave over $ ! (Meilon {an.000,000 poasible reduction for the reduction of other taxes ayment of adjusted compensation to ¢ . or for purposc to de . moreover, would b constjtutional pro: vision. written on the rts of th ndoned. aga war it would be with the > wealth of the 5 it justly should.” Decreane in Taxpayers. Makes DROOP’S Music House 1300 G Street Remember This When You Serve . 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If you have a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head. aches, a listless, no-good feeling, ali out of sorts; inactive bowels, you take one | of Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets nightly for a time and note the pleasing results. Thousands of women und men take Dr. Edwards’ Ollve Tablets—the suc. cessful substitute for calomel-—~now and then just to keep them fit nd 30c. { WIFE AWARDED SECOND | Florence Lord Had Rewed Will | McCRAY FACES TRIAL In refersnee to the Mellon tax pian, | 'ldtlll‘ Ralston contended retary has confined his almost conclusively to the jon of the reduction of inenme thout sufficlently ation the dec taxpayers. Th persons paying income taxes in 1921 than In 1820 on the baxis of Seeret Mellon's figures, enator “cxtraordinary of the peo not com- ia ause for this se in the incom ** Mr. Ralston sald he certain of, “but I venture the pinion, that it is largely due to the system of.taxing the masses the people for the benefit of fa- vored classes. e [LAWSON’S GIRL’S BODY : BACK HOME FOR BURIAL Funeral to Be From Church Where She Once Sang in | Choir. By tie Associnted Pross. ALVARADC. Tex., February The budy of Louise Lawson, young | musie ent and_ motion picture | ctress slain in her New York apart- 'nt & week ago, was brought ba\k today to lher childhood home for | burial, Tt was brought overland from Cleburne, Tex., where it arrived | night. accompanied by her | brother, Norman Lawson Friends of the girl from miles arrived last wlght amd early | or the funeral services : Frorn the ‘Alvarado. Bapttat in the choir of which a few igo she was a singer. itors were supplemented ! who came of _curiosity | the reports from the girl was gaggeld, bound and and of the ineffec- to solve the 14— fleft to s i were in! Groner, who | Elrl when she waud less After ihe burial today Miss Law- | brother will go o New York her estate and investigate ath. her d DIVORCE FROM WRITER M. Hough After First Separation. By the Assiciated PreW. W YORK, February 14.—Flor- ence Lord-Hough, daughter of al founder of a widely known Chicago { a:lunl ng firm, awarded by a vesterday ' her second divorce Trom Will M. Hough, playwright, \ First married in 1911, Mrs. Hough obtained a divorce and remarried Hough thirty months later, Their only child, a boy, lives with his ma- ternal grandmother. The jury named Arline de Campe in vaudeville as as chief corespondent Mrs. Hough's charges of mfidelity, although the playwright declared his “amanuensis and J unfaithfulness also were lm!d by the jury to have been com- mitted by Hough at the Kittatinny Hotel i the vl ang Tuland, and the Hotel do Jongh, The Houghs formerly lhnd al l-_vumslon 11 | ON LARCENY CHARGE Eleven Other Indictments for For- gery and False Pretense Pending. i By the Assoclated Pres | NDIANAPOLIS, Ind., February 14, | he indictment returned against McCray of Indlana by the Mar- | ion county grand jury, charging him with embezzlement and larceny s1 000 from the state board of agri- culture on June 2, 1923, one on which the exccutive will bo placed on trial March 4, according to an announcement yesterday by Clar- ence W. Nichols, special prosecutor. Eleven other indictments charging forgery and false pretense are pend- ing_against the governor. The federal grand jury Investiga- tion of the governor's fnanclal trans- actlons entered the third day with a number of Indiana bankers here to appear before.that body. Thers have been indications that attention' Is be- ing given to the exccutive's use of the malls in obtaining loans o ASKS $10,000 ON NOTES. Suit for $10,000 alleged to be due ov PISO’S 7+ Jorcoughs B Use P1SO's—thisprescription quickly , relieves children and adults. pleasant st Noopiates. e everywhere. on two promissory notes was filed toe day in the District Supreme Court by the National Mortgagé and Invest- ment Company againgt Frederick Smith and three indorslrs. The in- dorsers are Mrs. Edythe Patten Cor- bin, widow of Gen. Carbi H. Koschwitz and the Aquia Creek Quarries Company. Through Attor- neys Minor, Gatley and Rowland lhe miaintiff says the notes were not at maturity and have not since vaid. L To Soldier Heroes Ready in Summer It is planned to have the nu- mental memorial to the dead of the 1st Division, American expedi- tionary forces, being erected in the park directly in front of the State Department building, ready for dedication this summer. The main shaft, consisting of 2 solid block of pink Melrose gran- ite. thirty-ive feet high and welghing fifty-two tons, is said ‘o be the largest stone of that kind ever quarried in New England. 1t will be brought by rail to the yards at 14th street and Maryland avenue, and it will be necessary 10 lay temporary tracks across the Washington Monument grounds and the Ellipse south of the White House to get it to its permanent site, near 17th strect and New York avenue. FOREIGN ENVOYS ASK G. 0. P. CONVENTION SEATS Anxious to Observe How American Candidates and Platforms Are Made. By the Assoviated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 14— Several ambassadors to the United States from foreign lands, and mem- bers of diplomatic corps, through Sec- of State Hughes, have re- quested Col. Carmi A. Thompson, chairman of the Cleveland convention mmit to make reservations for them during the period of the repub- : pnal convention here next foreign diplom unxious to observe how presidential nominations and party platforms are . Warren G. Harding n that for the lat= President's wido Human Hair Cloth. f human hair are be of cotta ¢ that wiil re pressure square hair of 4,000 to fuch. Onl is strong enouxh. price of camel's hair be- came prohibitive experiments were bLegun with human hair with the re- sult that special h: chines were devised supply of human b “hina. MEN’S $500,000 BALANCE FOR NEW ROAD WORK Number of Maryland Counties Have Credit, According to Re- port of Commission. BALTIMORE, February 14 (Spe- cial).—An unexpected balance of over $600,000 will be available for use in road work in tho countles having such credits for new construction this year, according to a report ot John'N. Mackall, chairman of the state roads commisslon. The report for the perlod from June 1, 1920, to September 30, 1923, shows the total amount of receipts from all sources and for all purposes handled by the commission was $22,136,999.94. Added to this was a balance on hand of $2,177,536.53, making a total of $24,314,536.47. Total disbursements for that period amounted to $21,781,016.90, leaving a balance of $2.533, inst which | there are outstanding obligations of approximately $2,000,000. The standing of the countles on this { available balance fund is given as follows: Allegany, balunce $5,410 | Anne Arundel, balance $53 | timore county’ balance $28, 0 vert, balance $9,517.55; Caroline, over- “The Ezclusive Rendesvous For Discriminating Peopls” St. Valentine’s Suml:er' Dlnnce armiag favors light supper menus await the supper guest. The Famous (-Alglon Orchestra with Peta Macias. WEAR Stock Clearing Sale Formerly $2—Now $1.15 Formerly $3—Now $1.85 Formerly $3.50—+x Now ..... 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SIDNEY WEST (INCORPORATED) DUNLAP HATS 14th and G Streets ‘STEIN-BLOCH CLOTHES WASHINGTON, D. C, spent $25,232.43; Carrell, halance $3,- 450.50; Cecll, overspent $1,092.10; Charles, balance $59,671.99; Dorches- ter, balance $10,007.66; Frederick, overspent $18,121.06: Garrett, balance $1,436.99: Harford. balance $7,061.45; Howard, bllance $10,180.23; Kent, bal- ance $3,08: ; Prince orgeu, bal- ance sa'l aduectt Anme, " balance $121.27 rys, balance $170.25; Somerset, Dataey $2,904.29; Talbot, 771.05; Wicomico, balance Worcester, balance’ $7,248.36. here is no beautifier ot complexion, or form, or behavior, lfke the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 9000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000¢ MILK $ GRAPE- FRUIT “'o»moo‘»»&on»n»now» 4-___. & - W $* THURSDAY, FEBRUARY I'.‘r! ”n SOAP 14, 1924, LEAVES PAY. FOR GAS USED TO KILL HERSELF P el Girl Found Dead in New Orleans House Also Provides Money for Funeral. By the Awsociated Press. NEW ORLEANS, La., February 14. Leaving & note and $90, which she said should e used for *ful and a two-dollar bill which she had used to asphyxiate herself, the body of a young woman about twenty years of age, and be- leved to be from Birmingham or Nashville, was found in a room- ing house yesterday. The girl reg- istered a few days ago iss Lilllan Leone, Nashville, Ten: but the note she had left on her dresser was signed “Lillian Levin The police found scraps of a note book which bore the name of Lucille Hurk written many times. Another sc of | paper bore part of an address in Bir- mingham, the number 1216, with the name of the street torn off. The girl had dark complexion, dark bobbed hair, was about five fect two inches in height and welghed about 115 pounds. At the Following Stores: U. S. 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