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HOOT, BASIL! 4 Well, there’s one thing sure; this Basil Manly isn’t going to hit OUR pocketbook with his expose on the income tax thefts, We're certainly safe THERE. VOLUME 19 RPART OF DUBL |) MILLIONAIRES OF U.S. * STEAL $320,000,000 EVADING INCOME TAX y immense Sum Is Fraudulently Withheld Every Year; Basil Manly, the Noted Investigator, Reveals Situation for The Star three volumes. it is everywhere known today as the oritative work on the steel industry, and quoted as such by all authors on economic subject In 1913 Manly made for the United St bureau the famous inquiry into the ris In anthracite coal, reporting to congress that min. ers’ wages had increased but 8 cents per ton, while the wholesale price of coal had increased 25 cents per ton, with the result that the operators were net ASIL M. MANLY, the foremost economic in vestigator in America, who won great fame | as the director of the investigations conduct- ed by the United Stat commisison on industrial felations, under ‘the chairmanship of Frank P. Walsh, and who wrote the famous Manly report, i just completed for the newspapers which are members of the Newspaper Enterprise association, @ deep and sweeping investigation of the workings ef the United States income ta: | ting an increased yearly profit of $10,000,000. ‘The work has taken Manly and a corps of news- | The next year Manly became the director of pub- jr men and statistical experts, SIX FULL | lic hearings and director of the department of re- INTHS, and the revelations he is about to make | search and investigation for the United States com- the people of America REPRESENT THE FINAL | mission on industrial relations and wrote his fa WORD on this subject. Manly’s Irreproachable rep- utation as a social investigator stands behind the Manty’s academic training as an economist wa gained at Washington and Lee university, from ih he graduated, and at the University of Chi- he gpecialized on the subject for two Professor J. Lawrence Laughlin, the ist in the United States. labor This report is the in ail rying phases ever made, and immediately has placed Ma the aupreme class as an economic and social ex- pert. ‘The United States government tried to secure his services again, but the Newspaper Enterprise Association, of which this paper is a member, per- suaded him to undertake for them this se investigation of the workings of the Unit income tax. He has done 80, having now worked on this in- The first of his find- Others will follow department's investigation into the a. } ject of woman and child labor in the United States, largely writing the “Report on Women and Children — In the Glass Industry.” | For this bureau he next had complete charge of | aquiry for over six months. its investigations into the steel industry, This was | ings are presented here today. finished in 1912, signed by Manly and published in In daily succession —EDITOR. States © THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: Three hundred and twenty million dollars of your money was stolen last year thru income tax frauds and evasions, in- volving thousands of wealthy and prominent citizens and thousands of the most profitable Americgn corporations. THE INCOME TAX SHOULD DUCED AT LEAST FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS REVENUE. THE TOTAL COLLE WERE ONLY EIGHTY MILLIONS. Two hundred and fifty thousand American citizens and resident aliens, who should have paid income tax, failed to file a return or a proper return. At least TEN BILLION DOLLARS of annual in- come, upon which the tax should have been paid, suc- ceeded in evading the law. The United States income tax is a HAVE PRO- MILLION TIONS failure, both as a pay their just share of the nation’s burdens. The income tax law was deliberately drafted to per- mit just such frauds and to render their perpetrators practically secure from detection and punishment. These are the big facts that stand out as the result of the first exhaustive investigation of the workings of SHEL 16, HANEY the income tax law. GERMAN DANGER IS NOT YET OVER over more than six months. In a series of articles, beginning ltomorrow, I will lay these facts be fore you clearly and completely, | I will show you the rich who are honestly paying their income taxes DO YOU WANT TO PAY MORE TAXES? I have the facts as the result offnow busy devising new taxes to an investigation made especially! meet the Impending deficit. These for The Seattle Star, extending) new taxes will rest either upon the common people or upon those of | 1. How these millions are stolen. If not, insist on immediate | 2. Who some of the tax thieves action by oe president and ee ee. |e: Staten milliisne’ and unteh the Officiais sounded a warning to- 3. How to stop the thefts. sasuse even on the mod ° Preparedness nce in day against over confidence in | to ogram advocated by Presi wishes to avold a break But the suddenness and tone of | President Wilson's note brought ARREST JAPANESE; not only more than enough to face to| pay the entire cost of military the Teuton government We, ithe uses tor acion| Rrapwregees owt gaee ae FIND FORT PLANS at atime when It is apparently difficult to convince the German | LION DOLLARS which can be | Bid sae - : ople that there is such a neces used for old age pensions, un- | WASHINGTON, April 25.—RBooks peor employment insuranc containing plans of Pacific Coast vorarily cel the’ activities | porartig, to; cease their. acts | efficiency. to have been found in the posses toeton tonight. SEATTLE, of prices mous Manly report, presented to the public by lone of capital and la. | hing revenue producer and as a means of making the rich|’ the pending submarine issue deficit of ‘QM. | negotiations with Germany. | $167,000,000, if the sugar tariff and Hope of a eb ashy, 208 |stamp taxes are discontinued Manly's second article expos mee ee nog sain tnoine BUT, if the income tax thefts Ing the fraudulent attempts to many's dt yd the justice of are stopped and the THREE | defeat the income tax law by Preoldert Wilson's demands. HUNDRED AND TWENTY | the very rich will appear in wf , President er anquestionably| MILLION DOLLARS stolen | The Star tomorrow. wait ig believed German submarines| °F social measure forts and San Francisco harbor, heve siready been ordered tam-| “vet form the i |and a plan for a Japanese invasion | true national preparedn: of California, were reported today THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS WASH,, TUESDAY, OF WHISKY Find Secret Walls in Stewart | St. Pharmacy; Much Booze Destroyed Tuesday's developments in the police war agai boot legging revealed false walle containing botticd whisky In the Stewart Street pharmacy, and uncovered the smuggling | of booze in soiled laundry from California boats onto laundry wagons } At noon, | Ingham ordered Police Chief Beck } the fixtu: | and stock of the Sherwood bar, | 512 Second ave, seized and | brought to headquarters. James Jewett, proprietor, had been arrested Tuesday morning for the second t ince Saturday for violating the liquor law. The trucks ond plain-clothes of ficers immediately mobil | the drive At the same time six city jail trusties” at Fifth ave. and Ter race st. poured a quantity of lquor | into the sewer Inlets. It had been | seized at hn Boyd's drug store jand the Stewart Street pharmacy | Find False Walls | Police Chief Beckingham worked lwith five officers in the Stewart Street pharmacy at 2 a. m. Toes Before morning they tapped | false walls, and on ripping them open, found shelves of Nauor. They shoved back a solid coun | tet, and foond under ft a bole cut it of the concrete floor, It con: |tiined bottled = goods. = Loone boards were found In the Moor, and |lquor was found under them The place was still locked at noon Tuesday, because the officers had not completed their search They were to return Tuesday aft {brnoon and look for more trick caches. Fred Billingsley of the place, was arrested before the raid when Officer Petersen | caught him loading an automobile with Whisky in the rear of the place | Officers were detatied to watch the laundry wagons at Pler D. They phoned to headquarters at 11:30 a. m. Tuesday that 30 quarts jot whisky had been found in the bundles of one wagon. The driver |had not been booked at noon | Lundin for Vigliantes Prosecutor Lundin, in an addreas on “Enforcing the Dry Law livered before the Municipal league at the Washington Annex at noon Tuesday, urged that Seattle citt in the form of vigilance com together to go out mittees band and prosecution of blind-piggers and doot-leggers The prohibition Jaw,” he said is a misnomer. It does not pro | |hibit. There are many violations. he county auditor's records show |that one druggist, between Febru ary 22 and April 7, got permits to ship into the state 150 barrels of whisky and 247 barrels of beer. FIGHT BLAZE IN Firemen wearing oxygen hel- mets fought for three hours be- neath the decks of Temiya Maru Tuesaday to put down smoulder- that thr ed the big liner as she lay alongside the West Seattie coal bunkers. At 9 a.m. the flames were un: der control, altho the forward hold was choked with smoke, | a d it was feared new fires might break out. City firemen were called aboard ship at 6 m. and fought under difficulties. It Is believed the fire started in matting and planks used between layers of cargo, when the ship was being fumigated Monday Sa house & Co,, who have chartered the steamer, eald they would not know whether or not much damage had | been done until the smoke cleared out of the hold. This would take hours, they said hull was not dama Temiya Maru ts scheduled to clear Monday, with a cargo of war supplies for Russia Or ia bates xp ng officials} The penalty for failure to make/sion of Sho Shiato, arrested in OHIO VOTING TODA that Ambsesador Gerard assured |® Tetorn is the addition of 60 per | Brooklyn that Ambassador Gerard many ta[cent to the tax originally due, and) New York agents of the depart : ready to make a concession for fraudulent returns 100 per! ment of justice are examining the| COLUMBUS, O., April 25. The German position, may be | cent 001: “preparedness” for the known shortly, it is believed If the penalties which are now, Chief Blelaski of the secret serv-|littcal conventions next June will When the president went to due upon the $320,000,000 evasions ice expect he boot to he for: | 1 the outcome of the primaries Prince: ew Jersey, t tolot last year are collected, the na, warded to him ff they prove tm-| Bab sop seated that any im-|tion will have at its disposal $500, portant | “Republicans are pledged solidly portant news from Germany be for-| 000,000 to spend as It chooses for for nodore Burton of Cleve warded to him immediately national preparedness and social Forty-five per cent of American|land, and democrats are affixing ‘The president returns to Wash-| welfare lincome is spent for food, 20 per|the name of Woodrow | The committees of congress are’ cent for rent. their ballots. bottied | manager | de-| | HOLD OF LINER’ APRIL 25, 1916. The Seattle Star . ON TRAINS NEWS STANDS, ONE CENT tr, NIGHT EDITION Having got the shower habit, Forecaster Salisbury apparently cannot shake it off. Today he wigwags us this message: “Showers tonight and Wednesday.” AND he F IRISH REBELS between soldiers and the insurrectionists. Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for told the house of commons today that four or five sections of the) city are held by rebels following a day of most serious rioting. Twelve persons were killed in the first clash bétween the soldiers, who were rushed from Curragh, and the rioters. Birrell said the troops had recaptured the postoffice, and that ithe rebellion had then broken out with redoubled fury. The post- office at Dublin is an imposing building of stone. eed for admirably as a fortress if properly equipped with guns. With communication cut off, there has been no further word received here regarding the situation. The uprising is regarded as part of a well organized German |attempt to stir up a revolution in Ireland. | Sir Roger Casement, captured yesterday aboard a German lauxiliary vessel while trying to land a cargo of arms and a force of German sailors in Ireland, is believed to have planned a dramat- ic entry into the country to head the revolution. Casement is held a prisoner here, awaiting trial. He formerly was in England’s consular service. The east coast of England was attacked by sea and by air last Zeppelin bombs did considerable damage. ing fleet shelled Lowestoft at long range, and was driven off by British warships after an engagement of 20 minutes. It is believed the Germans planned with an_ uprising ithe coast by cruisers and Zeppelins. night. ra | terrorism, x * * * of England; j LONDON, April 25.—A naval i. oft early today battle between British and Ger- ought off Under the cover of darkness, } at 4a cruiser m., squadron at long range. The a German raided | the evidence and ald in the, east coast, shelling Lowestoft light the miraity said two men, | a woman and child were killed minutes with cruisers Two British | ASKS } Harry C. Hammo MeN and one destroyer during the action, but were not were nd, inme After an engagement of 20 British and destroyers Germans escaped in the night. light cruisers light the hit sunk, The raiders appeared five hours after three Zeppelins | had dropped 70 bombs on the te of } Island federal prison, bas|be used by written a letter to Capt. Thomas B. Foster, of the U. & et serv ice here, asking his influence in s¢ curing a pardon Hammond declares he wishes to reform his Ways and le straightforward Christian life | Foster, ad in answer to his appeal, has turned the letter over Tuesday | | recommendation ster to Deputy Prosecutor Helsell with that ms be taken to send Hammond to prison ual criminal Helsell is preparing srs for such a prosecution Hammond made of his life history sary pape | In his letter clean breast the Representatives of Frank Water-| fo. the reat of his life as an habit neces a | DEFEAT DALE PLAN | Councilman Dale's resolution call ing upon the port ask for another belt line franchise} ‘or jthat would be “ben | meeting Dale, Thomson and Moore voted| for it The others opposed it Councilman Erickson pointed out | that {t was not the place of the request @ franchise. commiss! eficial f Ohio's | city and the port” was defe ational po.|# vote of 6 to 3 at Monday's counct)| jon to the Wilson tolcouncil to ask the commission to d by| * * * German Fleet Shells Town on East Coast Driven Off After Brief Battle English east counties, injuring | one man, according to the of- ficial announcement. Simultaneously fleet of kirk, hurling bom! killing one woman. Three men | were wounded. | | ‘The public immediately connected |Sir Roger Casement with these at | tacks, Sir Roger, a former member of the | British consular service, now a Ger | man sympathizer, was apprehended aboard a German gun runner which ! | German | land arme in Ireland | Whether the naval raiders came | trom Zeebrugge or Heligoland is not | known All were exeeptionally | |speedy craft Twenty hours before the German NOW FACES LIFE SENTENCE is this confession which will the state In its effort to send Hammond to the peniten tlary for the rest of his days Hammond ts serving three years for impersonating a federal officer here in 1914, when he walked into the Oregon-Washington ticket of fice and obtained tickets for him cago, giving a spurious check He represented that the friends were government prisoners whom he was transporting His letter states served time in various since 1881 for forgery crimes It is this statement which the state will use against him | | that he has | prisons ind other | sshiaeienn i | NONPARTISAN MEET A meeting for the purpose of initiating a new nonpartisan bill will be held Thursday evening at the Good Eats cafe- teria, The new bill will con- tain nothing but the nonparti- san idea. Objection to Initi ative No, 9 has been raised because it burdens the prin ciple of nonpartisanship with a lot of other matters that have nothing to do with it, and a subsequent battle Ireland in parliament, 4 a three-angle campaign of in Ireland, then a descent upon was destroyed while attempting to} | self and a party of friends to Chi- |), OF MURDER | Authorities Don’t Know What | to Do With 12-Year-Old | Slayer KILLING “JUST PLAY” Js % wih 4 It would serve German Joe Burke He's just a school kid In knickerbockere—and he admits he fired the shot which kil Frank Bealer, aged miliman, Sunday evening. t Twelve years old, Joe Burke lived in an imaginative world of indians, cowboys end pirates. When the detectives arrested him he proudly said: “I'm gonna take my medicine like a man.” ‘ But the officers of the law are not so prepared to give him the “medicin nkly puzzled by. They are his case. There was a considerable gathe ering in Capt. Tennant’s office > + + & raid, British warships raided Zee brugge and Beigian coast towns | which the Germans are »olding, ac- cording to an Amsterdain dispatch. They bombarded Zeebrugge for} some time, damaging the harbor! and docks and sinking some small BRITISH TRAITOR IS _ THOUGHT DEMENTED \ 01 «er LONDON, April 25.—Sir Roger! He had flopped into a chat ae Casewent, Irishman captured yes-|a kid in a red sweater, fumbling terday aboard a German vessel try-|cap in his hands. He told his story ing to land arms in Ireland, will|and answéred questions without — | hesitation, |probably escape execution, it is be | Heved today | He had obtained the revolver | “swiping” it from “Red” Gleason’ (Continued on page 8) PORTLAND, April 25.—Harry Davis, an official of the freight de- partment of the Southern was subpoenaed today to go to At» lanta, Ga., to testify for the prose cution against Mr. and Mrs, Victor FE. Innes. The Inneses are accused of m ing away with the property of Hloise Nelms Dennis. Davis will testify about a ship — ment of freight for the Innes@s, which he handled when they came to Oregon after leaving San An tonio, His friends are of the opinion jthat he has been mentally unbal janced for the past three years. He will probably be confined in some institution Nothing has so stirred the Brit gun runner.” The newspapers gave big display to the details. Sir Roger Casement before the war was a member of the British consular service. For his activities in that department he was made a knight | When the Irish home rule issue reached a crisis just prior to the war's outbreak, he went to America to raise arms and money for Irish volunteers With the commencement of the war he expressed pronounced Irish| A globular lifeboat which can sympathies, and went to Germany/carry 16 persons safely thru the @ roundabout route, being re-|roughest water has been invented ceived with high honor in Berlin, by a Dane. A MODERN MIRACLE HAT’S what it seemed like when “Sun- shine Jane” came to spend her vacation at the home of her Aunt Susan Ralston. Aunt Susan was bedridden. But shine Jane,” a nurse, soon saw thru her aunt little bluff. Anne Warner tells all about it, with dozens of delightful little complications, in her story, “Sunshine Jane,” a popular, book-length novel, which will be published in The Star next week as the next of this paper’s now famous novel- a-week series “Sun- Monday afternoon when the boy © INNES CASE IRELAND IN REBELLION! RT OF DUBLIN IN HANDS DISCOVER Battle Fought in Streets of Capital BIGCACHE | Between Troops and Rioters; Be- THR STORY lieve Germany Backed Uprising; All Telegraph Wires Are Cut LONDON, April 25.—Dublin, capital of Ireland, is believed | BUSY DAY FOR POLICE today to be partially in the hands of Irish rebels. Telegraph wires were cut following an early bulletin from that city, announcing) seizure of the postoffice by armed rioters. 4 4 i ' & Bee 3G

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