The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 12, 1918, Page 8

HAVE YOU PAID YOUR WAR TAX? U.S. IS READY Unele Sam's war collectors are on the job and ready to collect the $10,000,000 that people of this State must pay into the govern. ment coffers before June 15. This was the message brought to Seattle by Internal Revenue Collector David J. Williams, Whose headquarters are in Taco: ma, He addressed the members’ council of the Chamber of Com Merce, explaining the workings of the war and income tax, in the Masonic ciab rooms, in the day noon. 00 persona in the state of Washington wil! pay in-| taxes to Uncle Sam this year, | collector estimated. | This means | Mat 50,000 people in this state will make payments. "Designating these acts ax the most | Gomprehensive laws that the natior has ever passed, Williams stated tha iO married man earning a net in| ‘Gome of $2,000 a year, or more, was | ‘@zempt from paying a tax. This ts) by the w tax act The| © Fate of taxation under this act ts 2] Per cent on all in excess of the ex ‘Old Law Still in Force Under the income tax law, stil! in the exemptions are set at i for single men and $4,000 for men. Tho rate of taxation Per cent here also, on all in ex Of the exemption. If a man’s falls within the provisions of facts, there will be a double tax on all above the exemption of ot. Incomes over $5,000 are subject surtax, which is graduated. excess profits tax applies to incomes exceeding $6,000 » and to corporation incomes pexceas ‘of $3,000 a year, This, also, Forms for making returns to the 's office, where the net In is less than $3,000 if single and than $4,000 if married, nay now at room Forms this have not yet arrived. obligation is absolute on any #8 Subject to the tax to see that his t is in the hands of the in Tevenue collector before 1918, The tax must be paid defore June 15. Sameans of checking up, the te provide that employers or oth Who, during 1917, paid salaries, ‘Other fofms of money, to em . exceeding $800. must report Ihe fact to the collector Black Diamond council of pa- Service will direct a patriotic Meeting Thursday evening at Diamond. mick-Acting es cones tr biliousness and indé nis a dose or two of "PILLS ———— CLEMMER || vast 4 History Been the Winning Way The odds are great in his case, but Yankee in- ity scores another hit. A STAR SPANGLED COMEDY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS— Young or Old The Most Sensation: Ww “THE WOMAN WHO SOLD 7 SMASHI Includes 226 federal | for taxes other | “TODAY” FLORENCE REED And, of course, a real rib-tickling comedy. Don’t Miss This Greatest Play of Modern Times. ADMISSION 10¢—CHILDREN 5¢ ( SENATORS WILL BUCK PAYMENT TO RAILROADS WASHINGTON, Jan. Il— Government ownership advo cates In the senate are deter. mined to reduce income guaran- tees provided for the railroads In the federal control legislation Director General McAdoo has proposed, . The proposal to pay the lines a} compensation based on net railway operating incomes the past three years would mean about $950,000,000 Jannually. Senator Cummins, rank ing republican of the senate Inter |wtate commerce commission, be Neves this to be too much by $200, 000,000. “I am opposed to the people guar Janteeing the railroads any surplus | which shall be added to the property and ‘the people forced to pay income on it,” he mid. As the result of his feeling ann that of certain other members, |neems likely that amendment will be made in committee or else the budget | for changes will go to the senate floor, GIVE ‘STEAMER SEATTLE NEW AMERICAN FLAG An American flag was given to the steamship Seattle Saturday morning as a token of the city's | pride in the first steel veasel of the Mberty fleet launched. Presentation was made by Presi- tle Chamber of Commerce and Com- mercial Club, at the Pacific Coast coal bunkers. The play was accepted by Capt. R. H. Baggott. Music was furnished by the Skin- ner & Eddy band. The presentation was caught by motion picture and camera men. lr CLEMMER THE COLLEGE CLASSIC OF THE STAGE AND SCREEN Adapted from the novel and celebrated stage play of the same name. SEE THE PIG BOAT RACE See the Best College Story Ever Written Sidney Drew Comedy and Pathe Weekly Last Times Tonight Bab the Fixer With Jackie Saunders Coming Tomorrow—Sunday—3 Days Only al Drama of the Age ITH HER SOUL FOR CLOTHES” ING REELS War Tax. “DEGNIAT dent Albert J. Rhodes, of the Seat-| a PUT THE END OF ACANE ON THE PLOOR, = HANDS OW THE HEAD ON Your S -EVES CLOSED AROUND IN A | CIRCLE TEN TIMES , FRor LEFT TORIGHT, THEN | STRAIGHTED UP,AND WALK To Touer! SOME OBYECT ALRTADY DECIDED UPON, ABOUT TEA PERT AWAY ¢ AN CLECTRIC LiGHT SWITCH , Por issTANCEe IF YOU CAN DO THIS YOU WOULD MAKE A GOOD AVIATOR | Stein Held Wrong Name for 24 Years He didn’t know for 24 years. That # the story of Lebel Stein w 24 y Stein believed that a Rhode Island court had changed hin name to Stone, and it was not until he applied for a civil service p and produced his naturalization pa pers, at the comeniasion’s request that his error was discovered He has applied to the superior court to make the change from Stein & Stone | NAME COMMITTEE TO FRAME POWER BILL! p name nition, | WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-—A joint) committee to frame legislation that will develop water power resources of the country as, President Wilson requested, was created by the house today after a hard ffeht. | Mix members each from the agri ‘oultural, interstate commerce and public lands committees will com: pose the new committee, and it probable that Representative Ferris} of Oklahoma, one of the most active advocates of water power develop: ment, will be the chairman PARKER INVESTIGATES RAID FOR GOVERNMENT) Protessor Carlton Parker, of the University of Washington, ia work ing today as special investigator for | the government. to determine wheth: er county and city officials are inves: tigating the raid on the H. C. Pigott Printing Co.'s plant, Inet Saturday |night. He was appointed by Secre- tary of War Hake: The hearing on the wrecking of | the plant, conducted by five naval officers, headed by Commander W. | W. Bush, will be resumed Monday, in the naval recruiting office. Several Witneasen were éxamined Friday |HOLDING BACK SPRUCE | | IS SABOTAGE, HE SAYS, PORTLAND, Jan. Holding | spruce logs for higher prices from the government is “reverse English sabotage,” according to Col. Bruce P. Disque, head of the signal corps «pruce production board in a warn ng iswued to lumber-nen that any | one delaying in furnishing airplane | material will «uffer serious conse quences, among them the glare of unfavorable publicity. PERSHING SENDS FOR | 100 PHONE OPERATORS) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. — Are there any telephone operators who | epeak French? Gen. Pershing wants them, he cabled the war department | | the | today, He needs 100. Only 25 have enrolled for | training which they must have be or going overseas, | KESSLER PRESIDENT COMPANY A AUXILIARY Company A, auxiliary of the 16ist linfantry held an election of officers and a dance at the Swedish club, Friday. H. Kessler was elected president. Company D auxiliary of the 18th Railway engineers met Friday night in the Manufacturers’ Association building. Regular Friday night meetings will be held there. WOULD FIX MAXIMUM PRICES EVERY MONTH WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Maxi mum prices of all commodities will be fixed each month by a federal commiasion if a bill introduced in} the house today by Representative | Fuller passes. | ‘The commission would be compon- ed of five members to be appointed |by the president. The bill is the |first move in congress looking to | ward peice fixing. |BLIZZARD CAN'T KEEP | WASHINGTON, Jan, 12.—The re. cent blizzard inthe East did not in- terfere with President Wilson's daily |round at golf Finding the course covered with |snow, the president secured a num-| y “caddy,” game, Secret service men following him are not over-enthuslastic about win- | ter golf. lY. W. AFTER BIG FUND The Y. W.C. A. of the nation wants $4,000,000 to use in helping the nurses and munitions factory girls, Misa Julia Lee Tolman, New York, member of the war work council of the organization, is in Seattle to aid the drive. She spoke before the Women’s University club Friday. VIRGIN ISLANDERS TO CELEBRATE CITIZENSHIP 8ST. THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLAND, Jan. 12.—The entry of natives of the Virgin Islands into citizenship of the United States will be celebrated and enjoyed his usual WILSON FROM GOLF)" |ber of red golf balls, easily spotted | o GERMAN CRISIS IS REVEALED TO. LANSING HERE WASHINGTON, any's duplicity, an od the first Brest-Litovsk © conference split, resulted ois within dan, Geer cau a nearpolitical ¢ Germany This was reported state department in German press comment § That Germany period Hing with reng today to t « summary of dated Jan passed thru ne of her dou ot to the Baltic a eritical been ble provinces, wan evident from the summary The er however, abated when negotiations at Brest Litovek were resumed Germany misled her own people as to what took place at HrestLitovak Official statements gave the impres xion that interruption of negotia tions was due to German refusal to transfer the conference to Stock holme | Aw @ result the German people supported the government until about Jan. 6, when the Uberal ola scertained that the split was cauned the fact that while Ger many proclaimed a platform of “no annexations, no indemnities,” # }was actually trying to gain the Raltic provinces of Russia, under false pretenses A fe e more daring papers, including soctalint Vorwuerts, publi usian Leader Trot nky's to Germany, voiced when th came, Other papers which were not permitted to yet the telegraphic reports of the speech heattated about reprinting It from the neutral press. ’ “Trust Smith to Move Freight” Alfred H. Smith, McAdoo's first aenistant, is a “front office He known railroading from ground up. From mensenger boy to foreman of construction, from division super intendent to general superintendent; from general manager to president of the New York Central lines | bare outline of the stages thru which “Al” Smith passed in his railroad career gives some notion of the inth mate and extensive knowledge be gained on the way up There are other railroad officials who are better financiers, better en gineers, or cleverer politicians; but when it comes to getting traffic over the tracks they all take off their hate to Smith Railroad men say “Trust Al Smith to break the freight block = quicker and with leas fu any other man in the world.” His hobby ts farming. |“REGISTER NOW AND AVOID RUSH”--GAINES Better register before the rush if you want to vote at the spring mu nicipal election. The books close February 9. "It doen't now take long to register * mays Chief Registration Clerk William Gaines, “but later on prow pective voters must stand in line be cause of the rush.” WANT LEGISLATION TO BOOST INVESTMENTS Water power legislation should, and probably will, be passed by oc rene this year, which will encourag the investment of private capital cording to a report made to the mom: {1 of the Chamber of Com | merce, at its lunc heor min Arcade building, Frida report was adopted by unanknous vote. WARREN WILL SPEAK bers’ counc AT Y. M. C. A. SUPPER) Chief of Police Joe Warren will mpeak at the Y. M. ©. A. Friendship supper Sunday at 5:20, URGES FREIGHT RUSH An urgent re uest to see that all freight is moved as soon as possible was made by Great Northern officials in a letter Friday from W. P. Kenny, © president in charge of traffic at Paul MAJ. MEARS TO FRANCE WASHINGTON, Jan, 12,—Maj Frederick Mears, in charge of gov- nt work at Anchorage, Alaska, ‘ance on his own re of engineers, in a railroad construction regiment. PROBING CAR SMASHUP DES MOINES, Ia, Jan, 12.—The coroner today began investigating | the cause of the crash of two street | cars here last night, which resulted in the death of one person and in- St jury of 25 others, DEFEAT RUSS TROOPS cor 1A Jan, 12 Es thonian troops met and defeated a large body of pillaging Russian troops at Narva, according to a statement issued by the Esthonian information bureau today COMING WER OFF! Frederick §. Pratt, a Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co, director, here on Jauary 17, will arrive in Seattle Saturday night. He is on @ business visit, this | than | ' ' Flowers Birds wi' Men without honor Women without virtue. THE SEATTLE STAR | PLANTER” COME—and drink deep the toast of the tropics: without perfume ithout song STARTING TODAY TYRONE POWER A BIG SEVEN-PART DRAMA oe ee OF SOUTHERN MEXICO Admiesion 200 We Pay the Tax in Holdup Attempt MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 12--K Orr, railway ewitchman, was shot na death yerterday by Mabel Drumater, 28, a clerk, when he tried to hold up the MeCoy Fuel Co.'s office. Miss Drumater, who was alone, | woteed «a volver from beneath the counter, and fired. She said she felt it her duty to protect the money. | Orr had a family 'MRS. WRIGHT NAMED EXECUTRIX IN WILL! Mra. Chauncey Wright, widow of the Inte Seattle restaurant owner, is | named nole executrix by hin will, ad | mitted to probate Friday. One half | fof hia eatate is left to her. The other | | half in divided equally between Tillie |Heuss, adopted daughter, and 14-| | ward Chauncey Heuss, foster grand fon. FRENCH POPULAR STUDY WITH CAMP LEWIS MEN At a special request of the Young Men's Christian Association, Charles L. Hemlinge, assistant professor of [French at the University of Wash: ington, will give full time to his work at Camp Lewis, Over 450 of. ficern of different rank have been studying 3 French s Camp lugwie TUG BATTLES STORM MARSHFIELD, Ore., Jan. 12 ‘The tug Pioneer ts safe in port to day, after having been in danger of running ashore near Bandon during | Friday's gale. The danger was #0 grave that the Pioneer sent out dis tress calls, but recovered control be | fore help arrived | = _| | | D R A 2F 5 T 8 | 260.8 Uravaasiry | ‘We Pay the War Tax Children ...10¢ Loge Seats 25¢ 15c |and reaching four inches above the |NOME EDITOR FINED ‘ever draft age, Girl Kills Robber | BOMBING OF MANNHEIM THOUGHT START OF REPRISAL DRIVES ON GERMANS BY BRITAIN BY MILTON BRONNER WASHINGTON, Jan. 12--MMlitary Washington is inclined to believe that the British airmen's feat in} bombing the big German city of Mannheim is only the first step in |the program of retaliation which | Lioyd George promised after some of | | the recent German raids upon Lon- | don. Heretofore the British have con- fined themselves to the strictly milt- | tary objects of bombing factories, supply dumps, railway functions, ete. | This did not it the temper of the Chinaman Resists Holdup; Is Killed SACRAMENTO, Jan. 12.-—-Police | are today combing the city and sur- | rounding country in search of two young bandit» who shot and killed Fong Gong, Chinene cashier of an/ Oriental restaurant, last night when | he resinted their attempt to rob the unl ‘The bandits had eaten a meal in the restaurant and as they were pay- ing their checks, one of the robbers pulled a revolver and ordered Gong to throw up his hands. Gong resist- ed and the armed robber shot him. | Death was instantaneous, | | UNCLE SAMMY GRANTS | YEOWOMEN NEW STYLES WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—"In her sailor's sult so trim, she'll be com. ng home to him.” That's the way the writer of a once-popular song would have pen ned the lines, had he delayed his composition until this year and writ: | ten about a yeowoman instead of a Jackie. Hereafter yeowomen enlisted tn the naval reserve for the war will wear a winter uniform of blue skirt, coat, waist and blue felt hat and a similar uniform of white in summer with white straw hat. Coats will be Norfolk style, | “slightly shaped to the figure,” with | plain seams and rolling collar. Skirts will be tailored, full at the bottom | ankles. AS DISLOYAL WRITER NOME, Jan. 12.—Bruce Rogers, formerly of Seattle, was found guilt yesterday by a jury in the U. 8 commissioner's court of publishing | seditious statements as editor of the Nome Industrial Worker, known as & radical publication, He was fined $200 and costs or 150 days in jail. A stay of judgment was granted till | levers for appeal. /MILLER WILL SPEAK LAST TIME SUNDAY) Representative John F, Miller will deliver an address at the Swed ish Tabernacle, corner of Pike st. and Belle ave, Sunday after- noon at 4. aul W. Rood, pas- tor of the church, will preside, and the public is invited. Miller's address will be on his ex- periences and observations on his recent visit to the battle front in France, and will be his last address before returning to Washington Tuesday morning. ARREST BROTHERS AS | RESISTERS OF DRAFT) WENATCHER, Jan, 12.—On a} charge of failing to register and re- | sisting officers who went to make | the arrest, Nat R. and Corey P. Huntington, sons of H. J. Hunting: | re held on $1,500 claim that they are | ton, of Che bail each n, n British people, who were in no =nood to see English cities attacked while German towns remained immune. Mannheim is a city of 200,000 peo- ple, one of the biggest in Baden. Oth- ers, within easy flying distance of the allied lines, are important cities lke Frankfort, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, | Darmstadt, Coblenz, Cologne and even Easen, where the great Krupp gun works are. It is probable that attacks will be eseayed against all these points. To do so, the British flyers will not use their own base at Arras, which ts too | far away, but will come down to Nancy. From here to the main towns it is only a distance of from GAIETY THEATRE First and Madison New Big Show Sunday “Pat’s Dream” A HIGH CLASS URLESQUE}) SHOW, With Will H. Armstrong The Funniest Comedian on the Pacific Coast and a Chorus of 20 sorts 20 15c,25c,35c SHOWS DAILY cliffe. 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