New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1917, Page 5

u-m 1D LEGISIATE .l mmmnn mrr . Sntohmnce Committee Pro'- ' poses Prohibitive Tax Washington, June §.—Prohibition Was ‘approved late yesterday by the Jeature of '-lu ':.:‘“b.l:l repinds s war Prohibitive taxes upon the distil- .huon of whiskey and other spirits for beverage purposes, with a ban ‘upon their importation, were agreed upon by a substantial majority of the committee. Taxes fixed by the house *Q-r =nd’ wines were left.. un- though they have not yet mhlufin upon menufacs the law is in effect, or dur-: . Increased taxes of $6 on mn molasses, syrups and 18- distillation tor bev- ré pu also was sagreed upon. its for. exportation would = be n _only for war purposes upon ap- £ plication. waufinnnmwnh Gn many. 8 “or scientific..' pur- Gbrg.ot Oklahoma, s, pro- mdvocate, was the II“‘MII' ot amendments. « révenne loss will result is based the mmt ‘whiskey and other W ! already myan be withdrawn o nxu, Levi Cooke [ for the national distilling in- sald tonight, will result in wvirtually complete oceséation of dis- m- l’or m purposes. Gore estimstes that sup- fluummnmummwnm ¢ m'ould..eeorflt‘mtlepml- . #ent rates of consumption, last for be- Sween two and three yéars, thus re- /moving thé prospect of serious cur- mwu!mmmt)w mofrow the committee plans to coasider & few questions. not yet ' ‘Pagsed upon, including the wine and ' beer schedules .and = documentary. stamp taxes. Stamp rates, to substi- "~ Ituta: tor the:Nouse's " wiknuthoturing |'-.x upon patent ‘medicines, perfumes, etc., Allo remain to bet set- ln addition . to determining the llquor questions today, the -commit- tee voted unuflvoly against increas- ing second class postage ratées on newspaper, magasines and other pub- lications. A flat 3 per cent. tax om .dvarfldn‘ receipts was agreed upon instead. Senator La Follette later m‘untod an ameéndment exempting certain classes of publications from ‘| the ‘advertising tax. Publishers re- celving less than $2,000 annually from advertising have been suggested for exmnflnm EMERSON BUBBLE BLOWS WP, Officers of Motor Car Company In- dicted—Were Going to RBut Mr. Ford in the Pooe Farm, New York, June 5.—The.Emerson motors bubble burst yesterday when & federal grand jury indicted all the executive .officers of the . .company, several o!llu directors and a number of other persons. who have been in- strumental in smoothing the way be- tween the pockets o‘l‘:n-u- or igno- rant {nvestors and ‘pockets of the mmns:'n. The Emerson bubble. is on. of the largest ever prlcked by the office department. ‘ Nearly $1,500, “sucker money” is said to have found its way into the Emerson company coffers since its organization a little over a year ago. Never did western ofl lands or gold mining . ventures prove such alluring: bait as the pros- pective profits of the concern which set out, according to its broadcast ad- i vertising campaign in many states, with the intention of outfording Ford. Men and women in every city in the:land had read of the profits Ford had made and of the other million- aires created almost over night by the rise of the motor industry. On every street they dodged the seemingly end- less lines of motor cars. There must be millions in the making of automo- bile, they reasoned—if such ‘mental Processes can: be called” reasoning— ‘land then: they bought Emefson Mo- tors. stock. They were buying stock, if the gov- ernment’s allegations are proved, in a: small ‘factory at Kingston which had turned out 250 cars by May 1 at & loss on each car, in ten sample cars which” wers - Fords with changed bodles and identificationt marks erad- icated; and in' such good will as had been created by expensive advertising —this handful of assets being cap- italtzed at $10,000,000. TO EXHIBIT PERSHING. ¢ | American General to Be Paraded in Streets of Paris. Paris, June 5.~—Marshal Joffre has b.nn designated by the minister ct nun h‘l. work. bogun tn to organise American plrfidpauon in .the war. He will, therefore, be the representa- tive of the French government in co- opering with the American command- er, Major General Pershing. Lieutenant Colonel Fabry, a chief of staff, and Lieutenant de Tessan. as ald, both members of the French war commission’ to the United States will continue with the marshal. ‘When General PRershing reaches Paris he wifl be received by Mr. Vi- viani, minister of justice, and Marshal Joftre, and will be escorted through some of the hzdpsl streets so that Parisians may. an opportunity to r. the aniinnmud Am.flqm sol- : phrased as | protection 'against renewed Italian | lust of aggression” to the extent de- AUSTRIA DESIRES T0| DOMINATE BALKANS, Mso Wants Stce of Serbs, Montenegro and Taly - Copethagen, June = B.—Austro- nunufl-.n “public opinion,” as inter- preted by the official Austrian Tele- mphle Correspondence Bureau; in a Mh purparting to summarise the results of the press discussion of the Dual Monarchy’s war aims, generally supports the proposals of Count Ceer- nin, the foreign minister, for a peace without’ annexation as far as Russia 18" concerned. It declares, however, that opinion is ‘oppased to the restoration of Serbia 48 that nation existed defore the war, |snd demands the retemtion of Monte, @egro’s mountain fortress, Lovchen; the. éreation of an autonomous Al- banis dependent upon Austria-Hun- gary; the extension of the frantiers at Ttaly’s expense; the establishment of s, Balkan customs union - dependent 'JM Austria-Hungary, and some form of war indemnity which will recompense the monarchy for the immense costs of the war and bring of | about the economic revival o! the countyy. Those famillar with the mothod: of the correspondence bureau, which is formally and officlally a department of the Austro-Hungarian . foreign ofleo, is setting forth public opinion have ‘slight hesitation in taking the foregoing summary as a statement of Count Csernin’s views on peace um-_ thus making it evident that his ; hedton to the formula of “peace with- . out ummtlorm‘ applies only to Ruesia, The demnd- regarding Italy are “increased and adequate manded by .the .Austro-Hungarian military experts, which 1is another way of stating the formula of Arch- duke Frederick when he was still gen- eralissimo of the imperial army and at the height of his success in the Trentino offensive, that the object, in fact, was the necessary extension -of the monarchy’s frontier. Regarding the customs union, the summary adopts the recently cabled Pphraseology of the = Vienna “Neue Frele Presse” regarding measures to assure Austria-Hungary’s commercial liberty and rights of navigation of the Danube. BRUSILOFF IN COMMAND ieff Retires After Short Stewardship. Petrograd, June § ,via London.— General Michael V. . Alexieff, com- mander in chief of the Russian armies has resigned. General Brusiloff, com- mander in chief of the armies of the southwestern front , has been ap- pointed to succeed him. ‘: General Gurko, commander on the western front, replaces Brusiloff on the southwestern front. General Alexieff was appointed commander. in chief oan April 15, soon after the retirement of Grand Duke Nicholas from the post. General Brusiloff recently resigned from his position as commander in chief of the armiés on the southwestern front, but withdrew his resignation after a con- ference ‘at Petrograd. 12 Equal Monthly Payments ~thes lsg Indiena T iteelf!- America’ Jus oy oot dev .,....r.':......,.':..*.'.fltm.mmm: u--dd ummm .-_‘nd“-( All-nmm INDIANA flmks & #MM.MH -771eir-0u7n -W an vealues and Aot m 1916 output is sold. Demomtrations—l)elivérieo Now! 332Park Street forAsit " hilt. H(b-’unud ln-vv-dutv type; ANARGRISTS IMT MILITIA Crowd Attacks Oritics of Soldiers and Free for All Fight Lasts for Fif- teen Minutes. New York, June 5—What the po- Hce termed “the tamest anarchist meeting ever held in New York,” ‘was held by league in Hunt's Point Palace, 163d street and Southern Boulevard last night. The meeting had been adver- tised as one of protest against the-se- lective draft law, but it turned out to be a very lame denunciation of the government, of ‘militarism which, all the speakers said, was about to grip America about the throat, and utter- the No-conscription ances along similar lines. Not one of the speakers advised anybody not to register today nor did they ask their BuiMing, but u. least half'of: these ‘were there through curiosity. and not through sympathy with the I. W. W.- Anarchist propaganda. It was after the meeting that the one big row of the evening occurred.’ It practically amounted to & riot for about fifteen: minutes and was = pre- cipitated when several anarchists.and tachment of Guardsmen. Some one shouted 'that the guardsmen were “a lot of bums,” and then others began. to shout “hit them.” The fighting followed, and when it was all over téen men and one ‘woman were under arrest for the part they played in the demonstration. In nearly every instance the man ar- rested was of conscript age. SPAIN TO ENTER WAR. Information From Rome Is of Posi- > tive Nature. followers to refuse to join the colors, if they ame drawn in the draft. More than 15,000 persons were massed in the streets outside the | Rome, June 5.—While positive in- formation that Spain is to Jjoin the Allies at an ly date is not available i BROTHER-YOU DON'T a member of the Pops’ u(onm{’ who possssses aceess to all commun- h-t-lm that Spain’s inter- vention 'is. now more yrohahle than ever before. Thisprelate added that Spain’s in~ tervention would afford; th. best. p‘lbol that ‘peace on the'All terms was jmminent, but he to hazard a guess as to when Spain would come in. ¥ §IFfING AT PLATTSBURG Ineficiency Wil Necessitate Weeding Out of 1,500 Candidates for Army 2 Hike in Sun. Plattsburg, N. Y., June 5Tt is an- nounced at headquarters that & reor- ganization of the reserve officers’ training camp here will take place on June 18, a reorgantsation which will ‘send three companies of student ar- tillery: officers to Syracuse and one company of embryo engineers to Bel- New York outfit, with the sama ¥ ber and arrangement for New land men. The_first real hot weather yesterday and as it was the wards, commander of the N ern department, arrived hers partment, would pay the camp nduvutmummm been indefinitely postponed. A SLACKER DO YOU" lF your house had been ransacked and burned, and your relatives and friends had been outraged, as have the Belgians and French, you would be burst- ing with rage and ready to fight, and fight to a finish. see its flames today, but our homes, '. e&l’ TO p&y’! our liberty, our freedom and our all, are at stake. Brother, you may not be ahle fo fight You may be too old, or have too many de-. pendentonyou,oryonuntpontbeu- amna_hon,oryonmneededinyourpru- entworktokeepthewheelsofbmm movmgatllome. . But there is somethi ‘F you CAN do, and MUS do, ‘somethin 6 that every- one of us MUST do, and that is subscribe to. the Liberty Loan. The nation must have $2,000,000,000 _subscribed by June 15th. "There are bon of $50, $100 $500 and upwards. y 3V2% and are rifice but the best strok business you ever dl_d* ¥oursell your family, olrxilm e od our ce you earned y: dollm-.yo ¢ commut a! the sor t investments that | has ever been known They are a‘first' mort; on the - wealth of gréatest wealth’ of ' the world. They are better United States, now theb than money for. they are. the same as money with in- terest nddnd. - The given preferesice small bayer for all appl%ca- tions for $50 and $100 bonds will be allowed and the large ones may not be. you MUST subec the ume for we n _-same,. YOu bond and yoi‘uuzw The banks' have sub- ° scribed liberally, but ,the funds of the banks, are, for the most part, n to ture. Our:factories, our merchlnts our banks these loans must go on if business isto goon lffoodistebepm-_ : W'lut YOU Mlnt Do The need is for you, yes Gu, to buy these bonds. he Nation needs the money to -its. men;; - for food; fof ships. You must not fail to protect ‘your country from disas- ter at arms through faulty or slow equipment of its men who go to fight your bnttleo.l.elf ou l;llls:l protect you your family, your friends. your nel z: your community from th disaster - of © business 'de- pression and hard times. - * Subscribe all ‘you can. Make a real sacrifice: And - remember, that if fi);u want our prosperity a3 here to be all that it can be, you MUST make a ml sacrifice. . rt industry and’ agri- borrow lil}elv from "the ' partial payment phw " banks of this city h: ready. asked -him you and have - ol you must help. m _ert every effort. to . every. friend you have s scribe. You must do g ptrt to aid your co grotect your job it better, to x your family and: help protect the f es | - the workers of" . You can b“ 150 g;)murbit. 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