New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1923, Page 15

B SHOOTHAS PLAN " FOR LUAURY TAX Yould Exempt Farmer's Sales But nclude 8750 Shoes Balt Lake City, Aug. 31.—A levy on luxurfous and extravagant purchases is the purpose of an expenditure tax which is being prepared by Senator fmoot, to be presented to congress as a substitute for the. proposed. sales tax, according to announcement made by the senator here. 8enator Smooth said that all farm- ers' sales up to $6,000 would be ex-) emp under the bill, Commodities such as a $3.50 pair of shoes or an inexpensive automo- bile would not be taxed, but expens- ive purchases, such as a $2,600 au- i tomobile or a $7.60 pair of , shoes, would be taxed at the rate of one and one-half per cent. “The sales tax, which caused con- siderable debate at the last session of congress, will not be revived," Sena- tor Smoot said, “but in its place will be proposed the expenditure tax, which I think will be more service- able and cause leps opposition. I do . not expect any opposition from the farmers on account .of the exemption up to the $6,000 inark, “A man who can huy a $2,500 au- tomobile can afford to pay a tax on his'purchase,” Senator Smoot said. “It is for that reason that the tax is to be drawn upon a graduated scale. FEx- pensive purchases will draw a heav- fer.rate. The tax ratc on a $500 pur- chase will amount to $2,50 under the provision of the proposed measure." Senator Smoot is a strong believer in the workabil of a sales tax or the proposed .expenditure tax. He explained that considerable opposi- tion was made to similar taxation when it was proposed in Canada. but | gaid that the opposition had vanished and farmers there were now strong advocates of that form of taxation. “In England, Germany and other European countries,” he gaid, “the -sales or expenditnre tax is being ac- cepted as the most advizable form of etaxation.” DECLARES CROPS MUST BE SAVED FROM DISTILLERS New Yorker Deseribes Vight-Hour Treatment Without Food to Naturopaths, Chicago, Aug. delegates and visitors to the twenty- geventh annual convention of the Na- turopathic association, which opened a two davs' session here yesterday, last night heard Dr. Benedict Lust of New York, founder and president of the association. describe a water treatment to prevent old age. Dr. Lust instructed his audience, in- eluding many an aged person Who cupped a hand {o an eagér car. in the details of transfofming the old ba room into a rejuvenation emporium, None showed signa of disavpaintment when' the physician stated that = te wash away their years onc must re. main ander a sho with the water at a temperature ranging from 95 to 106, for eight hours withont food. Directions for constructing fistures required for the super-bath and for “taking” it arve contained in a pam- phlet issued jointly by Th. 1 aud Dr. Christos Parascn, as follow: “Put up a special shower head fo a ‘height of from cight o fonrteen feet and let the hot water fall upon 2 eor’ matting, wood cratinz. air mattrezs or just a porcelain or file floor, where- on the body with extended arms and legs, head and feet. can comfortably spread out, or may asume any other position. “Starting by showering the lower parts of the hody, the lower joints, the knees, then going upwards al over the hody, front; back and sides from the tces up to the top of the body, then the same showering all over again. Plenty of showering must be applied upon all parts which during the many years have acquired an old 1ok, hut not much to he applied to the chest and ears on the first three hours of the eight-hour unit. “The temperature of the bathroom must be mild and comfortable and must be without vapor; the air must be pure and wholesome. During treat- ment no food of any kind should he taken. but soft warm water as much as desired.” “VICE. WAR IN ATLANTIC CITY. Thirty-Two Arrests “Clean-Up” Crusade, Made in New Atlantic City, N. J.,, Aug. 31.—De- fendants named in thirty-one vice in- dictments returned by the Atlantic county grand jury are being rounded up by county detectives and held un- der from g,uo to $2,500 each for their apepaFfance before Judge W. H. Smathers in criminal court at Mays Landing today. The indictments were returned late Wednesday aftternoon and Prosecu- tor. Louis A. Repetti immediately started detectives to serving warrants and seizing contraband liquors and bling layouts. Thirty-two arrests were made. Plain clothes men from out of town gathered the evidence on which' in- dictments were based and in one in- stance a detective was engaged as manager in .one of the places which was under investigation. The present round-up is the second of a series of descents which the prosecutor has in mind. The first oc- curred on Aug. 7, when the grand jury returned more than fifty indict- ments against proprietors of North Side saloons, alleged gambling dens and other types of alleged disorderly houses. Several beach front places were caught in this dragnet. REVENGE BY TELEPHONE Berlin, Germany—Frauléin FErna, pretty young typist, faced the most peculiar charge ever brought up in court hére. It was getting revenge on her employer, who had discharged her, by telephone. She jhad all her friénds call him up during the night, thanking him for flowers and other gifts he had never sent. She got off with a slight fine. 31.—Three hundred | plan I Firemen Called to Rescue vard record for girls. This relay team, the Meadowbrooks of Philadelphia, Pa., They did the distance in 54-1. Bough, Madeline Adams and Grace Rittler. Left to has just established a new 440- right, Berenice Ayer, Dorothy VIRTU0SO OF JAZZOLOGY | P'aul Whiteman Tells Dancing Teach- | | | ers It Is Up To Them To | Edncate The Public New Tork, Aug. 31-~Paul White- man, orchestra leader, known as the “King of Jazz," told the American so- | ciety of teachers of dancing, meeting at the Waldori-Astoria ycsterday, that e would do everything in his power to popularize a substitute for “jazz' “I hold no hrief for | * said thoe | rchestra leader, “and any change the | incing macters can make in rhythm 1 b wele I'll be the first to it and will do my bhest to popu- 2 it. But it 2 matter of edu n, and the dancing masters must nme the burden of educating the | ancing public to their new rhythm. | estra leaders are not responsible tor the’ present popularity of jazz They age, ereatures of public demand }ind the public has demanded jazz. | I've trigd time after time to play the tango and waltz, but the demand is for jazz. %This ‘can only be met by cducation 3 a new rhythm, “Much heen said of the evils of | [iozz, but it is more sinned against | i i 0 than sinning. In thoe first place, the ng of o natien reflects the tem- perament of its people, American | people naturally is reflected in peppy And the dances founded ve spread rapidly hecause simple. The dances to re NN not he complicated, z dancing has gone through a nge evolution. It really started | with the Tommy. Then came | the Bunny Hug and then a reaction which hrought into vogue the slow, graceful hesitation waltz, which did not Jast long and fell hefore thoe ¢ steps, the slow dragey blues then the collegiat: glide of toda which little attention is paid thythm by the dancers. The tras have mer followed these changing fads because of public de- mand. They could not do otherwise. “I'll do anything in my power to| help. And if the dancing masters, who really have the opportunity, will educate the public in the new rhythm, 'l adopt it willingly and gladly,” Lonis Chalif, the newly appointed président of the American society of teachers of dancing, which closes its conyention tomorrow, exprossed grati- fication at the attitude of Mr. White- man. they are ‘|Z|lI in | to | orches- | ' SLEEPWALKER GETS STUCK INFALL DOWN A CHIMNEY Lad in Archie Roosevelt Home— Captive All Night Huntington, L. L, Aug. 31. —Fire- men yesterday extricated Marston Coffin, 19 years old, from the chim- ney of the Archie Roosevelt home on Turkey Lane, Cold Spring harbor, in- to which he climbed and became wedged while walking in hig sleep, The Coffin family had rented the house for the summer. Marston Cof- fin slept in a room on the second floor. He had shown no previous tendency toward somnambulism, but last night while asleep arose, opened a dormer window and walked out upon the roof. The brick chimney was breast- high and he climbed into it. He weighs 150 pounds and he slid down | about 20 feet when he hecame wedg- ed in an elbow of the chimney. He did not awake until shortly after daylight this morning. Then his muf- fled cries were heard by other mem- bers of the family. They traced the cries to the Kitchen and to the fire- | place. A rope was dropped down the chimney from the roof, but the boy | was unable to grasp it. Other means of rescue failing, the family sum- moned the Cold Spring Harbor fire department. The firemen’ worked for more than an hour and finally had to batter down a large portion of the lower end of the chiminey. Dr. William Gibson of Huntington, who treated the boy, said he.appeared to have suffered nothing more than fright. —_— BOOST FOR WOMEN Paris, France.—For the second time in the history of the French Bar, a woman has been' chosen secretary of the lawyers’ organization, She is Mile. Luclile Tinayre, 24, and will Afl the post once held by Millerand and Poincare, | the RUM CONSPIRAGY VIA AIR UNFOLDED Aviator Admits Being Paid $75 an Hour as Smuggler New York, Aug. 21.—Testimony in- dicating some of the big aeromarine companies of America confed- erates of the rum fleet off the coast was brought out yesterday at the Cus- tom House in examination of two av- jators captured in aAeaplane off Long Branch, N. J., when a disabled pro- peller forced them to lund Bdward G. Barnes,_assistant cus- toms solicitor, who questioned the men, said the a ft fleet combina- tion was. the 'biggest conspiracy in annals of the Customs House." als rstigation., es of are ofrf in companies and some of their officials, a few of them well known, were given. The aviators' atements showed it was common for ceaplahes to palrol rum row on or- ders from men stationed on land, who apparently control movements of inany rum vessels. Both aviators ad- mitted piloting planes sent out for in~ formation about locations of rum ships, passengers or rum fleet, A coast gt the cutte the seaplane, been in patrol craft operating the rum fleet. Both The aviato taken liquor from the ard official intimated that eminole, which picked up has for several days to check up on air in conjunction with Served in War, are William A, Hughes, No. 9, Harding Terrace, Newark, N. J., and C, A, Shaw, of No. 51 West 86th street, Manhattan, both of whom served in the Canadian air forces in the war. They had started out from Keyport, J., to pick up the location of the itish steamship Lynntown, which N aid there will be a thorough | They denied they had landed | the coast guards had reported in rum row for several days. Hughes, owner of the seaplane, asserted he was hired by a man named “Cline.” The Lynn- town was supposed to have been or- dered to move further east to im- prove her strategic position. “We were within about two miles of the rum fleet when we were forced to land,” said Hughes, “although the seas were choppy and it looked like we would be drowned. We began to taxi toward land. The coast guards tollowed and finally took us in tow." Hughes testified that four or five weeks ago he was hired to look for the French schooner Gerbeviller, after agents of the vessel on land had re- ceived a ‘'telegram' that her pro- peller had been broken. Two men named Freeman and Hogan hired him, he said. Was Paid $75 An Hour, Hughes said he had once taken IF'reeman on a trip over the rum fleet. The Gerbeviller trip lasted three hours, Hughes asserted, and he was paid $756 an hour. About four weeks ago, Hughes tes- tified, he was hired by one Chick | Callahan to look for the Rritish schooner Diamantina. This required an hour and twenty minutes, he said, but he declared he has never been raid, Hughes said he thought Cline lived in Perth Amboy and Callahan | somewhere in New Jersey, The names of aeromarine com- panies were mentioned by Shaw. He said he had worked up and down the coast as far as Miami, IFla., for dif- terent companies. He started making trips over the rum fieet only last fall. On these trips he always took his or- ders from officials of the companies and he never knew the names of his passengers. “You are lending aid to the big- gest conspiracy in the annals of the Customs House,” said Mr. Barnes to the men after the hearing. ‘“Here we have off our coast a fleet of twenty-one vessels which practically amounts to invasion.” Both men were paroled in their own custody to appear again today, when they will attempt to recover the seaplane. The craft was towed to Fort Hamilton. A Washer That Stands Up THE SPLENDID CONSTRUCTION OF The Universal Electric Washer Guarantees You An Article That Will Be Equal to All Your Wash Day Requirements Through the Years, The Wonderful New Improved Lubricating Requires Attention Only At Rare Intervals is ystem That of Especial Interest to Al Admirers of Fine Mechanical Workmanship. FREE TRIAL IN YOUR OWN HOME Only $7.50 Down The CONNECTICUT 92 WEST MAIN STREET Monthly Pagfnents LIGHT & POWER-CO. TELEPHONE 230 1ICAGO BAR FIGHT FILM District Attorney Will Prosecate for Conspiracy if They Are Shown. Chicago, Aug. 31.—James Me- lon a federal warrant charging trans- | portation of the Dempsey-Gibbona| | fight films from Butte, Mont. He| | walved examination before United| | states Commisioner Glass and was| I held to the federal grand jury in | bonds ot 81,000, District Attorney Olson | vesterday that any attempt to show the films here would result in gen- cral prosecutions. He had intimated that the method adopted after the Dempsey-Carpentier fight two vears ago when Tex Rickard, promoter of the fight and in control of the motion | pletures, paid a fine of $1,000 for vio- lation of the law against interstate shipment of fight pictures, which was followed by showing of the pictures |at theaters here, would not be toler- | ated. | In his ghreat of general prosecution | on a conspiracy charge if any attempt | | i1s made to show the films the distri attorney included Champton Jack | Dempsey and his manager, Jack Kearns, who are understood to own 70 per cent in the pieture rights. “If the pictures are exhibited, 1 shall at once start prosecution under the federal criminal code, section 27, | setting a maximum penalty of five| years in prison and a fine of $5,000| for conspiracy to violate the federal statute,” Mr. Olson declared. “And Dempsey and Kearns would be in- cluded were T to ask the grand jury for indictments.” Fined on Thre;'CN(:ll'nts In Court at Meriden John Byrnkowski, 28 years old of 96 Grove street this city, was fined $31 on charges of reckless driving, oper- ating without a operator's license and driving an automobile with muddy markers when arraigned in the Meri- den police court this morning. He was arrested yesterday afternoen in the Silver City by State Policeman declared Grath, a local promoter, was avrested | o | in Sullivan. . ({4472 ELK Black Suede Low Heel CROSS STRAP PUMPS alue $6.50 Men’s Mahogany Calf Hand Sewed SHOES and OXFORDS with rubber heels 3.95 Value $6 DR. KAHLER'S Corrective Women’s Unions in This State Probably Get Call New York, Aug. 31.—The New York state \\'flmrv“s trade union league to- day to trade union or- \izations having women members New York, New Jerscy, Pennsy sachusetts and Connecticut for a conference at Yorktown Helghts, N. Y., October 20 and 21 to cousiddr probiems confronting the woman trade unionist. Discussion will fuclude minimum wage legislation, chiid la- bor legislation, education of workers, workers' classes and colleges. issued a call vay Bridgeport Coroner Makes Findings in Two Tragedies | Bridgeport, Aug. 31.—~Coroner John J. Phelan, in findings filed today, ex- onerates from blame for the death of Herhert MeMahon, 26, of this city, Thomas H. McNamara, driver of the machine which fatally injured him on August 16. A second finding in the case of Samuel Mucci, 23, fatally in- jured in a fall from an aeroplane swing at Pleasure Beach, August 26, the coroner finds that he died as the result of an accident caused by no criminal act. RAW FOOD BOOSTERS ME Wax Enthusiastic, Urging Half Peck | of Onions as Weekly Diet. Chicago, Aug. 31.—The raw food hoosters are in convention here today with an asortment of edibles they a rt will allay all man's phy- al troubles and enable him to put up a longevity with Methuselah. They wax enthusiastic talking of the antiseptic and healthful effects of the raw onion. If human beings would only eat half a peck of raw onions a week doctors would have to go out of business they assert. Nuts, raisins, figs and honey, too, they say, have powers to make man over. They have a paste made from tiny plants which stirred in near beer con- verts the stuff into Scotch ale. Also they have tropical hon®y made by bees of Central Americ: OXFORDS WHITE BUCK OXFORDS Values' $3, §4, 85 Boys’ and Girls’ All Solid Leather SCHOOL SHOES $198" — Sble A\gen( For — W. L. DOUGLAS which | ¥ CLOWN TAKES VACATION Conklin, 83, Having First Real Rest in 24 Years New York, Aug. 31!—Pete Conklin, pioneer circus clown hag seen millions |of people amusing themselves during, the 24 years he has been at Coney Island. Now, for the first time in his life, he will take a vacation and seelk amusement himself, He hardly knows how to go about it, but Wells | Hawks, publicity director of Luna | Park, predicts that he will spend most of it along Surf avenue taking in steange sights and eating hot dogs. One place the old showman will | visit is Philadelphia, where, in Inde- pendence Hall, he was married 50 ars ago. Mrs, Conklin died last winter and Pete is lonesome now and wants to travel again, if only to Philadeiphia. Conklin, now 83, has followed the show business for 70 years. He be- came famous us a Shakespearean clown in the days when the circus |comedian sang songs and had lines. | He is sald to he about the last of {the surviving performers of the or- iginal P. T. Bdrnum circus. For 12 vears he has presided at the entrance to Luna's baby incubators. His brother, George Conklin, ls famous as a trainer of animals, |Meyer a_nd Retz Appointed Receivers for N. Y. Rubber New York, Aug. 31.—James G. Meyer and George W. Retz today e appointed receivers in equity for |the New York Rubber Co., by Federal Judge Bondy. The company, which | has offices here and a plant at Bea- con, N. Y. has listed assets of $1,003,160 and liabilities of $225,849. | . . . Man Killed in Norwich Is Identified Today Norwich, Aug. 31.—The man hit by a one-man trolley car last night, dy= ing shortly. after, was Charles Me- Caffery, a laborer employed at a local salvaging concern’s warehouse. He was b5 years old and leaves a step- mother at Montville. Sensational Sale All This Season’s Novelty Sandals and Kid Pumps to Close Out at Two Prices SPORT OXFORDS GREEN "~ KID BLUE ._KID RED KID and PATENT SANDALS Value 6, $7, $8 . Patent Fancy Lattice and Cut-Out PUMPS and OXFORDS Low heels $3.87 Value $5.95 Exceptional Values on Men’s Shoes 110 Pair Men’s Calf Hand Sewed SHOES To Close Out 1.98 Values to $8 RED CROSS SHOES For Wonien Who Look For Comfort