Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1924, Page 14

MANY TAXES LIFTED SOON BY NEW LAW esides Income Tax Reduction, Levies on Phone Calls and Some Beverages Are Repealed. I SIS R | TOLL ON THEATERS REDUCED | Sale of Some Luxuries Still to Yield Return to U. S. ——— | month and next from are not confined to per cent reduction on individ- income tax returns, it was ex- in a statement made public the bureau of internal Benefits the the ual this ew tax act ined night by rtain taxes have been repealed. vhile others have been reduced. some effective upon the enactment of the ct, 4:01 p.m. Washington time, June on the expiration of thirty its enactment, midnight, tax pavments, some of may be reduced this quarter | certain conditions. will be 'h“‘i t. tomorrow, June 16, ina June 15 falls Sunda half of the entire due the government under the 25 per ocent raduction must be paid by that date, | is explained by the internal re enue bureau. Theater Tax Reduced. Among the additional benefits (o‘ taxpayers are the following, accord- ing to the internal revenue bureau: | tax on te as on sraph and telephone | cents for the transmis- sion of ssaga the charge for which is 14 cents and not more than | | Th messages n 70 cents, and 10 cents if the charge was 30 ¢ repealad, effective midni The tax ir rived from cereals on mineral waters sold by manufacturers, rs is repealed, effective 4:01 ne 2 tax nts—is aly on bevera fruit juice | and soft drinks | producers and | admissions, eftective | nEed fo apply ss of 30 cents. | revenue act of 1921 the | 1 cent for each 10 cents or fraction thereof of the amount paid ssion applied to admissions 10 cents. Levy on Many Luxuries. Effective midnight July 2, articles taxed by the revenue act 1921 under manufacturers sales | taxes, but not taxed by the revenue | 24, are X-ray films or plates, | bowie nd_motor boats not de: for trade, fishing or national def and ple d canoes, irre- | epective of the price for which sold. | The 1924 act impose tax_of 3| per cent on automobile trucks, chassis | and automobile wagon chassis or | leased for an amount in exc of $1,000 and on automobile truck bodies and automobile wagon bodies sold or leased for an amo in excess of $200. On other automobile chass and bodies and motor cycles, except tractors, the tax is 5 per cent. The| tax on tires, inner tubes, parts and any of the articles rated is reduced from 5 to 2 effective T g hat, effective 4:01 pm., the o per cent tax on the sales of works of art—sculp- ture, paintings, statuary, art porce- | lains and bronzes—shall not apply to the of 'such articles to re- igious as well as educational institu- tions and public art museums Tolls Repealed. The 5 per cerit tax imposed by the revenue act of 1921 on the sale for an amount in excess of a spacified price | of s, rugs, trunks, valises, etbooks, handbags, port- s repealed, ef- These were n as manufacturers’ sales taxes. Effective midnight July 2, the 5 t jewelry tax does not apply | leases of musical instru- . silver-plated fiat tableware, or rticlés used for religious purposce, to_articles sold or leased ount not in excess of $30 atches sold or leased for an amount | n excess of $50. | The stamp tax of 2 cents for each | $100 imposed upon drafts, check's and | Promissory notes is repealed, ef- ective midnight, July 2. Effective +lso on that date, the stamp tax on ales of produce on exehange: boards of trade and similar places is educed from 2 cents to 1 cent on ach 100 or fractional part thereof he stamp tax on plaving cards is increased from § to 10 cents. CONFERS ON RESIGNATION U. S. Attorney, Asked to Quit, Dis- cusses Case Here. United States Attorney Wiliiams of San Franci whose resignation has been requested by Attorney General rounds of “inefficiency and conferred late yesterday | fabel Walker Willebrandt, attorney general, on the situation in the Cnited States attor- ney's office at San Francisco which hrought about the call for his resig- nation. The interview was held with Mrs. Willebrandt in the absence from the city of Mr. Stone, but she said after the conference that any statement re- garding the case must come from the Attorney General. Stone on negligencs B Changes in Stations of Army and Navy Officers of Interest to Capital ARMY. Officers in this city other stations include Maj Booth, ordnance department, to Har- vard University, Cambridge, Mass. Maj. H. M. Rayner, cavalry, to Fort Riley, Kans.; Major l. O. Wright, ordnance department, to JBrooks| Field, Tex., and Col. F. H. Pope, Quartermaster Corps, to Fort Hayes, Ohio Maj. J. A. Dorst, 13th Engineers, has been transferred from Fort Humphreys, Va., to San Francisco. The following named officers have been detailed as military instructo: Maj. T. Gottschalk, field artiller: with the Wisconsin National Guard at Milwaukee: First Lieut. E. F. Barry, ordnance department, with National Guard troops at Chicago; Capt. G. W. Gillette, Corps of Engineers, with the Missouri National Guard at Kan- sas City; Capt. B. F. Hurless, infan- try, at the Campion College, Prairie Au Chien, Wis.; Capt. E. E. Schwien, 26th Infantry, at the University of Oklahoma at Norman. Brig. Gen. Malin Craig has been relieved from duty in the Philippines and ordered to this city for further orders. .. First Sergt. Harry Brown, 10th Cav- alry, at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., has been retired for age. First Lieuts. R. C. Jacobs, infantry; D. H. Nelson, cavalry; F. H. Curtis, in- fantry, and J. A. Stansell, Signal Corps, and Second Lieut. Robert Edwards, in- fantry, all at Camp Alfred Vail, N. J. have been ordered to treatment at Wal- ter Reed General Hospital, this city, NAVY. Officers at the Naval Academy. A: napolis, have been assigned to other st: tions as follows: Lieut. Commander H. B. Hird to the Navy Department, Lieut. ¥. M. Maichle to the Marblehead, En- sign G. G. Herring to the California and Bmsign W. S. Kurtz to the Marblehead. .Lieut. D. F. Pollatty, Supniy Corps, has been transferred from the Bushnell to the fuel depot, Yorktown, Va.: Lieut. R. L. Mabon, Supply Corps, from York- town, Va., to Norfolk, and Lieut. R. M. Thrig, from the Hull to the Naval Academy. The resignation .of Lieut.. Barl B. at the naval air station, Hampton has been accepted to take ef- foct at once. ordered to L_D. | versity, where he w ‘Evidence Contradictory, Judge Ex- | prosecution witnesses | said the evidence was contradictory. | A number of witnesses, | testified | gade and | be sent to the Marine Corps base at Wins School Honors | D. McQUADE Sixteen-year-old won of Sergt. Qunde of the vice squad, who gra ated with highest honors of hix class from St. John's Military Academy here laxt week. He won the only | xcholarship offered to Catholic Uni- I enter thix fall He graduated from Immaculate Con- | ception School here four years ago | ind won high honors then. He is an| accomplixhed musician and led the school orchestra at graduation ex- ercises. ALLEGED KLANSMAN CLEARED IN MURDER| Samuel Evans, First to Face Trial for Lilly, Pa., Killings, Ac- quitted by Jury. 30 OTHERS FACING TRIAL plains to Jurors. By the Associated Press. EBENSBURG, Pa, June 14.—Sam- uel Evans, alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan, tried on a murder in- ment which grew out of a fight between Klansmen and the towns- people of Lilly on April 5, was ac- quitted by a jury here tonight. The jury deliberated for one hour and twenty minutes Evans was the first of eighteen al- leged Klansmen and thirteen Lilly sidents to be tried in connection | with the killing of three Lilly men | during the fight. In addition to mur- der and manslaughter charges, the defendants who are said to be mem- bers of the Klan are charged with carrying concealed weapons. District | Attorney D. P. Weimer, the prosecu- | tor, after hearing the verdict in the | Evans case, was undecided as to his next step and he called g conference of his assistants to decidefen a course of action in the other cases. Gullty of Affray. | The thirty-one defendants now un- der indictment were found guilty of affray and unlawful assemblage sev- eral days ago. 3 The indictment against Evans named Frank Miasco as the victim of the fight. The state introduced testi- | mony to show t the trouble started after the Klan held a demon- stration on a nearby hillside and when the rvobed men marched through the village to a special train. Near the railroad station, witnesses testified, Miasco turned a stream of water on the Klansmen said a com- said a com- mand “halt—open fire' came from the ranks of the Klansmen, while others sald the first shots were fired from “behind Miasco.” Conflict of Testimony. The state closed its case during the afternoon, and the defense pro- duced onl# a' few witnesses to tell of happenings at the nozzle of the hose, which Miasco held. Judge T. P. Finletter in his charge he added, that Evans had protected himself from the water. If that was true. the court said, Evans had been acquitted, but if, as other evidence tended to show, Evans with others was in commission of unlawful as- sembly, then he and the other de- | fendants under indictment were re- | sponsible for all the acts that pro- ceeded therefrom. MARINES COMING BACK. U. S. to Withdraw Troops From Dominican Republic. Plans are being made for the with- drawal from the Dominican Republic, about the middle of August, of the 2d Brigade, United States Marines, and all the other marine officers and | enlisted men serving with the Policia Nacional, as well as the entire avia- tion personnel and equipment. The 4th Regiment of the 2d Bri- the aviation outfit will San Diego, Calif., and the remainder of the brigade distributed to other stations including Guantanamo, Cuba: Pearl Harbor, Hawail; Haiti and Puget Sound, Wash. Most of the of- ficers in Haiti, to be relieved, will be sent to the marine base at Quan- tico, Va. DIRECTOR HINES SPEAKS. Praises Reed-Johnson Act at Flag Day Exercises. Director Hines of the Veterans' Bu- reau was the principal speaker at Flag day exercises in the mail sub- division of the bureau vesterday. Gen. Hines stressed the vaiue of the Reed-Johnson act, which liberalizes provisions for the care of the actually disabled veteran. “Under the provisions of the new law,” declared Gen. Hines, “the Vet- erans’ Bureau will be able to func- tion without legal entanglements, which do not assist the disabled men, and we will now be able to provide the maximum benefits which Con- gress has always intended.” LEAVE FOR CAMP TODAY. D. C. National Guard Detachment to Go to Simms. A detachment of selected officers and men of the District National Guard will leave the Armory, 472 L street northwest, this morning at 9 o'clock for Camp Simms, Congress Heights, where they will spend the week in rifie practice. Campanies E and F of the 121st Engineers and the 29th Military Police Company compose the detachment. Capt. Clar- ence S. Shields commands Company E, Capt. Thomas A. Lane, F Company, and Lieut. Raymond Peake, the Mili- tary Police Company. This is the last detachment of men to attend special camps of instruction before the annual encampment to be held at Fort Humphreys, Va., in August. Military leave with full pay is granted all government employes. Col. John W. Oehmann is commander of the 121st Engjneers and Lieut. Col. Harry E. Gladman recruiting and per- sonnel oflicer. THE . SUNDAY STAR, W. TREASURY DROPS 285 WORKERS FROM ROLL Dismissals From Office of Register Take Effect July 1—Caused by Appropriation Cut. WOMEN BECOME HYSTERICAL Other Bureaus May Employ Ousted Foree. On account of a cut in appropria- tions for the coming fiscal year the office of the register of the Treasury has reduced its personnel by 285 per- sons, including both men and women, to take effect July 1. Those to be dismissed beginning with the new fiscal vear, July 1, were notified Friday by officials in charge of the office. They were told, how- ever, at the same time that it was believed the government would take care of most of them In the increased work of handling the soldier bonus There was some hysteria among the | NNV 178N\ 474 T ” women who received notice of dis- missal. Some of the girls charged they should have had longer notice. May Administer Bonus. - Offictals of the register's office said they would gladly have notified the employes earlier had it been possible. By giving more than fifteen days notice, however, it was explained the civil service rules were being com- plied with. The discharges ~were made un- der a procedure mapped out by the personnel committee of the Treasury Department, it was said, undér. which preference in employment was given to those with military service, long employment 4n the civil service, those of fifty years of age or older and those specially qualified in particular work. Although details of how many workers will be needed to help ad- minister the world war bonus have not been disclosed, it was announced recently by the Civil Service Com- mission that among those who would recefve first consideration for employ- ment would be those who were dropped from the: government rolls at the end of the fiscal year. New employes will Le needed in the War and Navy departments and the Vet- erans’ Bureau. —_—— e Thousands of adult coal workers in TREASURY OFFERED 4 TIMES LOAN ASKED Could Have Borrowed $609,192,500 on Last Certificate Issue L at Low Rate. SMALLEST BID IN 15 YEARS Securities Run for Only Six Months, Officials Explain. 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Both of the maturing is- sues bore much higher interest rates, Dut the easy money market, togother with the fact that the certificates Just issued are for only six months, accomplished what is regarded by the “Treasury as unusual success for the i CITY HEADS TO BACK FISCAL SYSTEM PROBE Will Join Effort to Have Congress Make Thorough Inquiry | Into Situation. ue. Allotment of the amount accepted on the new issue marked the second Dhase of the June operations, which include paying off more than $500.- 000,000 ir maturing certificates and three-year notes, coliection of the June 15 installment of income taxes, and payment by the British govern- ment of approximately $69,000,000 as an instaliment on its debt to the ‘United States. With proceeds from the sale of cer- “tificates and the tax receipts, the Treasury expects to run without Tinancing until September 15. At that time another installment of taxes is due, as is &n issue of above $300,- 000,000 in certificates, \ and officiais have announced that an issue of sub- stantial size may be expected. Atlantic City Gets Women. LOS ANGELES, June 14—The 1926 biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs will be held in Atlantic City, N. J., it was determined today by the board of di- rectors meeting here. Oklahoma City was selected for the meeting of the federation council in 19 1926 ESTIMATES UNDER WAY Latter to Be Independent Change in Tax Methods. of The Commissioners will join in any steps that are taken in the fall to have Congress authorize a thorough inquiry into the fiscal relations be- | tween the United States and District governments, Commissioner Rudolph indicated yesterday. 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