Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1924, Page 16

ENGINEER IS HELD IN BOBE ROBBERY Ex-Convict May Offer Clue to Others—Maodiste’s Life Threatened. An when v aheut th Bobe, ier escort, 4 Oil of- guest presented the hostess with a gold plece, and, in addition, ved a dlamond bracelet. ought Robbery Joke. Mr. Hague today gave his version of the affair. He is heavily built and almost six feet tall. He began his career as a sailor and has been shot at in water-front strikes. He thought the robbery was a practical joke. He said that when a man poked a gun in his face as he and Miss Bobe entered her apartment hé stepped for- ward to poke his finger in the man’s ribs and laugh at him. Then he re- ceived a blow from behind that stunned him. One of the gang protested that Hugue had too good an opportunity to survey the gangsters’ faces and urged his fellows to do away with the oil man. Miss Bobe intervened and prob- ably saved Haguye's life by urging the robbers to take anything they might want. but to spare Hague. Both Hague and Miss Bobe denled that he had given her the bracelet at the party. WARNS STATE OFFICERS OF HIGH TAXES DANGER Treasury Undersecretary Says Ex- cessive Levy Kills Incentive to Create Wealth. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 18.—State taxing authorities were warned by Undersecreary ~ Winston of the Treasury last night to guard against tax rates that will eliminate incen- tive to creation of wealth, and there- by destroy important sources of revenue. He urged all students of taxation to give attention to long- time rather than immediate plans for raising Government revenue. Speaking before the seventeenth annual conference cn taxation, the Treasury official went at length into the subject of estate, or as he de- scribed them, “death” taxes, assert- ing that the States have a greater in- ways had worn .themselves out in time. As showing the effect of short- tine rather than long-time planning, Mr. Winston cited the Federal rates and returns on incomes of over $200,- 000 a yean. In 1916 when the maxi- mum surtax was 13 per cent., there were 2,449 taxpavers reporting net incomes of $200,000 or more. This number dwindled with increas- ing rates to 535 in 1921, when the total maximum surtax went to 73 per cent. In the next year, however, when the rate dropped to 58 per cent., the number of taxpayers in the $200,000 class jumped to 1,097. —_—— Only 100 of 425 miles of railroad, which would carry the products of the great northwestern grain fleld of Canada to salt water at Hudson Bay, remains to be finished. SKELETON STARTS PROBE. Grand Jury Takes Up Disappear- ance of Chattanooga Girl. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, September 18.—Disappearance of Miss Augusta Hoffman, modiste, in 1916, will be investigated by the Hamilton County grand jury today, the case being the aftermath of the finding of a skeleton in a shallow grave under a house in this city, a few weeks ago, leading to the arrest of W. H.*Bennett and his wife of\Rome, Ga., on a charge of murder. The Bennetts were occupants of the house where the skeleton was found when Miss Hoffman, an aunt of Ben- nett, disappeared The accused are now at liberty under $7,500 bond. Every morning 300,000 people ride into the City of London from a five- mile radius, 500,000 from a 10-mile radius and another 50,000 from be- yond. GET MORE HEAT USE LESS COAL Police Killed in Line of Duty. By the Associated Pres HUE, 'eland of Kaual, T. H., September 18.—Four policemen, kill: ed here last week, died from “gun- shot wounds received during a riot at Hanapepe, caused by an attack on the police by certain Filipino strikers 7 while the police were engaged in performance of their duty,” sald the verdict returned by a coroner’s jury’ after an inquest here yesterday. If you need work, read the want columns of The Star. GOOD-BYE DAN She's comin’ back! Her trunk came in today. I know it’s hers because it’s all marked over with little figgers, the size of the tab- lets and in them is the let- ters what spell Midol. Then Yhere’s ‘a picture of a man with a look on him like in ofen to see the Loidy. and he always tells me how Midol helped to put him on his feet by taking the pains away from him. I guess he’s stuck on her. So is a lot of them but T think this guy was the first to come to her for help and r masked Miss Bobe's Sa\'e 14 of your fuel bill by in- stalling a Honeywell Heat Regu- lator. 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Estate levies, that of Leflingwell of Connecticut, in | he said, are a capital tax, adding that history showed such assessments al- Furnished and Unfurnished Apartments 3945 Connecticut Avenue Corner of Tilden St. 1, 2 and 3 rooms with kitchen and bath, also bachelor apartment of 2 rooms and bath All New Furniture See Manager on Premises, or so she likes to keep his phiz around her. She’s comin back tomorrow sure. Then I'll be fired as the boss and no more talks of this kind will creak out of me. Ta! Ta! ido\ PER DAN ek apartment. Montague Pike, who said he was a eivil engi was arrested last he’s got his head in a \\.(c, under that it says “before.” Then there’s another pic- ter of the same man look- en happy-like 2: undcr that it says “after.” IM know the fellar; he comes had from £100 marked Miss Bobe's | secretary. said he admitted serving r sentence at Sing Sing for grand larceny. 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