Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1920 — Page 3

Before Xmas Reductions B. N. FENDIG'SSHOE STORE

GIVE SHOES FOR CHRISTMAS

announced on Oct. 15, the beginning o£ a permanent policy of reduction to which we have strictly adhered. This necessitated reductions in our prices in keeping with and greater than the reductions of the manufacturers. Our second reduction was made Nov. 15, and om- Dec. 15 we made the reduction which we had anticipated making January 1, hence you can buy shoes now as cheap as after Jan. 1, 1921. • . \

All SIB.BO Shoes, men or women 2Q All 15.50 Shoes, men or women slllO All 13.85 Shoes, men or women s»n nr now : All 12.20 Shoes, men or women * qc All 10.00 Shoes, men or women qc. now * ’ ‘, All 8.00 Shoes, men or women rr qK All 6.50 Shoes, men or women PC 4 C now u Children’s Shoes correspondingly reduced.

We have 50 pair of Men’s 4 Buckle Overshoes, mostly large sizes, at per pair mJO.Ovz

All Comfys and House Shoes are reduced 10 to 15 pr ct $2.25 quality, now. . $2.00 $2.75 quality, now $2.25 $3.00 quality, now $2.50

VISIT OUR STORE WHEN LOOKING FOR USEFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

B. N. Fendig THE SHOE FITTER Opera House Block

SPECIAL Christmas Sale On All Hats Reduced to Cost Price 'l II 1 ■ The Vogue Millinery Store West Side Square Trust and Savings Bank Building

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METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS PARTIES Christmas parties will be given for the members of the Methodist Sunday school at the church next Thursday. From 1:30 to 3:30 the Beginners and Primary are incited. From 4:00 to 6:00 the Juniors. From 7:00 to 9:00 the Intermediates, Seniors and Adults are invited. The pastor will preach a Christmas program in the evening, to which the public is most cordially invited. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of •NdWnPJi

TAXI SERVICE PHONE 567 ‘ i Charles Osborne Taxi Service JV . . To All Trains * City Calls Country Service St Joseph College AND Rensselaer- Remington LEAVES Rensselaer .8:00 a. as. Remington 5:30 a. as. WuqsAt . 4:00 P> Remington 8:15 P» ■*- • —— ■ y— . Frank G. Kessler

THE BTBNING RBPVyLIBAN,

MISS JULIA EMORY

Miss Julia Emory of the National Woman’s party, arrested 34 times for her suffrage demonstrations, announces that she will head a band of suffrage pickets to raise funds to place a memorial statue of Susan B. Anthony, first suffragist arrested for her principles in America, in the rotunda of the capitol. Miss Anthony was arrested In Rochester, N. Y., in 1872, for attempting to cast her ballot.

STRIKERS, SOLDIERS SLAIN

Workers Who Seized Post Office and Railway Station Driven Off by Troops in Czecho-Slovakia. London, Dec. 16. —A military dictatorship has been imposed in some of the industrial districts of Czecho-Slo-vakia and a “proletarian dictatorship” has been established in several others, according to a Central News dispatch from Vienna. Many casualties have occurred in conflicts at some points, It is declared. At Bruex, adds the message, five strikers were killed and fifteen others injured. At Goeding, Moravia, the workers seized the postoffice and railway station and proclaimed a general strike. They disarmed many soldiers, say the advice, but fresh troops arrived and killed and injured many of them.

MILLIONAIRES CAN’T PAY TAX

More Than Score Seek in Vain for Extension of Time to Meet _ Levy on Incomes. - New York, Dec. 16. —More than a score of millionaires, whose 1919 incomes called for federal tax payments ranging from SIOO,OOO to $2,800,000, told William H. Edwards, collector of internal revenue, that they were unable to meet the last quarterly payment of the tax, due Wednesday. •These taxpayers told me they simply did not have the cash,” Mr. Edwards said. “They begged for an extension of time, which I was powerless to grant.”

DAILY RATE LOWER IF PAID IN ADVANCE

The rate for The Evening Republican is IB cento per week. If paid in advance the rate is 45 cento per month, $2.50 for six months or $6.00 per year.

We Are In A Position To Make Loans Of All Kinds Without Delay. Odd Fellows Building CHARLES J. DEAN & SON

SPEND A MERRY XMAS at the Ellis Opera House . SAT., DEC 25 > when the Mon Players present “Tess of the Storm Country’’ By Grace Miler White AFTERNOON AT 2>30 Adults, 39c, Tax Paid Children, 17c, Tax Phid - 1 ■ ■■ x NIGHT AT 8:35 9 Adults 58c. Children, 28c.

SEE RELIEF FOR TAX DELINQUENTS

—♦ House Expected to Eliminate ln- . come Penalties Up to March 15. EFFORT TO AVERT DISASTER Feared Many Big Business Concerns Will Be Forced to the Wall Unleee , Congress Comes to Their Rescue at Once. Washington, Dec. 20. —Belief for the many large business concerns which were unable to pay their December installment of the income tax seems to be in sight. The house ways and means committee practically has agreed to report favorably a bill introduced by Representative Edmonds of ‘Pennsylvania whereby the penalty of 5 per cent for failure to pay the December installment shall be eliminated and shall not be made to apply unless the amount is still unpaid by March 15. Secretary Houston vigorously opposed any extension of time to taxpayers when the matter was first proposed simply because it was feared, that no discrimination could be made between those who were really unable to pay and those who naturally wanted to use the money for other purposes; But with December 15 now past and the collectors of internal revenue from all parts of the country reporting large sums unpaid the seriousness of the situation is fully realized here.

U. 8. Now Without Discretion. Indeed, unless the government takes action as provided in the Edmonds resolution some big concerns will be forced to the wall. The Treasury department has at present no discretion whatsoever and the 5 per cent penalty is already in effect. The law is mandatory. It provides that ten days after the income tax shall have been due and been unpaid the collector of internal revenue shall send out a warrant of distraint Within thirty days thereafter collectors shall be compelled under the law to force the sale of all the assets of a concern in order to get the Income taxes due the government. It is one of the most drastic laws on the statute books. Congress has the responsibility for the momefit of helping the business men over a tight place. The Republicans in the house have sounded their colleagues in the senate and the impression is general that both houses will pass the Edmonds measure. Might “Invade” Big Houses. It will be recalled that Senator Smoot and others issued a warning to taxpayers that no resolution of relief could be promised, but that was before December 15, when it was to the Interest of the Treasury department to urge the payment of every cent that actually could be raised. At present the question is whether the government win actually invade the properties of big business houses to collect taxes or whether It will extend the period of payment until March 15 and charge Interest for the time extended. AU signs point to the passage of the measure, and though Secretary Houston has given no intimation of his attitude, it is not believed that be will oppose it. For the alternative Is eithes making the government stand the less temporarily or forcing receiverships In many important business houses. There is no promise, however, that any extension will be granted after March 15 nor can the action of congress be regarded as a precedent for the future.

AUTO MYSTERY IN HOLDUP

Stolen Car May Have Been "Planted” by Robbers on Track Near. Milwaukee. —— 1 Milwaukee, Wls., Dec. 20.—The fate of a stolen automobile wove its way Into'mystery surrounding the alleged robbery of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul freight train at Him Grove, 12 miles west of here. The automobile was on a trestle just ahead of the point where the train was reported to have been robbed. It "is believed that the automobile which was stolen downtown here may have been "planted” on the trestle to insure that the train would stop after hitting it, and Insure the gang a chance to loot the car. Although reports ascribed to railroad employees state that the train crew was held up at the points of revolvers by bandits while others loaded the contents of a box car into a truck and drove away, no official report of the incident has been filed, according'to railroad officials.

DRINKS HOME WINE, DIES

Drumhead Manufacturer of Chicago, 111 After Ramping Hts Vintage. , Chicago, Dec. 20.—Michael Zumer, M manufacturer of drum heads, made some wine three days ago. According to Mrs. Mary Zumer. 2187 South Racine avenue, who Is today a widow, her husband became violently ill after 1 drinking wine. He died at night. Dr.' Prank Kadlec, 9000 South Ashlaud avenue, who was called to attend Zumer, said that he had died apparently from the effects of the wine. An ’ antopsy will be held.

TAX COLLECTING BILLION BEHIND

Bureau Unable to Audit Returns Under Complex Law, Declares Expert 1917 RETURNSJNCHEGKED Auditing Under Existing Regulations Has Become So Stupendous That the Internal Revenue Bureau Sees No Way Out, \ He Declares. , Washington, Dec. 16.—The Treasury department estimates that “more thi.n $1,000,000,000” Is outstanding in unpaid taxes because of the government’s inability to audit the returns, Dr. Thomas S. Adams of the treasury staff testified at a hearing on taxation before the house ways and means committee. Because of the complex nature of present revenue laws, Doctor Adams added, the internal revenue bureau has been unable to complete the checking up of tax returns for 1917. He saw no immediate hope of making the audit current with the tax roturns filed. Can Bee No Way Out. The task of auditing the tax returns and of tracing evasion and other causes of failure to pay all taxes due, Doctor Adams said, has become so stupendous that the Internal revenue bureau sees no way out at present. He declared he would “thank God if the revenue machinery does not break down in two years under the burden of any addition to its Job of tax collection.”

The treasury representative’s statement was made in connection with an explanation of his attitude in opposition *to a general sales tax. He believed that, while a general sales tax would yield great returns, the administrative burden entailed would be too great to carry. Encounter Snag on War Debt. House ways and mean committeemen have encountered a stumbling block in their efforts to devise a method for disposing of that part of the nation’s war debt maturing In the next two and a half years. Believing that the $4,000,000,000 annual tax levy proposed by the treasury would be insufficient to care for the ordinary operating expenses of the government and to cancel the treasury certificates and Victory notes soon to mature, Chairman Fordney proposed refunding Into long-term bonds the certificates, aggregating nearly $2,500,000,000, and the first issues of War Savings stamps and Victory notes. The proposal of the committee chairman, however, met with the disapproval of Doctor Thomas, who told the committee that the program of the treasury appeared sufficient to provide revenues to take care of the maturing obligation, but who warned that the treasury estimates for taxation could stand no reduction If »the program were to be carried through.

URGE AMNESTY ON WILSON

World War Veterans Call at White House to Aid Prisoners Held for Espionage. Washington, Dec. 16.—A committee from the World War Veterans’ headquarters at St. Panl, Minn., called at the White House and on Attorney General Palmer and presented resolutions adopted by the organization last summer urging an amnesty proclamation for all prisoners still in custody for violation of the espionage act. Carl Calvin, national chairman of the veterans, headed the committee.

HOLIDAY SALES PRICES OUR SEASON’S GREETINGS SERVICE CHARGES REDUCED FROM >1 TO 75c PER.HOUR We offer more of those 6,000-mile LION TIRES at REDUCED I Prices. Y'IGAIIIIC f Winter Standard 1 2g.Sc P* uA2WLifll!i i P-uUr’lndian J GALLON EITHER - 1 Regular Indian ) . , Genuine Ford Parts I Alcohol , Maxwell Parts 7 Anti-freezing Solution Overland and Oakland Parts Radiator Covers Moboil Spotlights Havelino \ f . | Motometors Polarine SSSSTIU,. 20 Mo. guarantee , TAXI SERVICE. j WINTER STORAGE—SS.OO PER MONTH p ATT FOR YOUR CALENDAR The Main Garage The Best in Rensselaer

BRENNAN STILL GAME

Fighter Knocked Out by Dempsey Wants Another Fight. < 5 Says He Was Surprised When Referee Motioned Him to Hie Corner in ( the Twelfth Round. New York, Dec. 16.—8i1l Brennan, who was knocked out in the twelfth round by Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight champion, in Madison Square garden, said he Intended to ask for anpther match. “1 am not satisfied that Dempsey is my superior,” be declared. The challenger, while saying that be had vindicated himself, asserted he was “surprised”, when the referee motioned him to his corner, believing that he had beaten the count in the twelfth. “Brennan was tougher than I expected,” Dempsey said. “He stood up longer than I thought he would. His blows didn’t hurt me at any time, but I found him a hard man to hit properly.” Dempsey’s manager said the champion was not in the best of condition. having trained too hard. Dempsey expects to leave for the Pacific coast to remain until late in February, when he will come back to New York to train for his match with Jess Willard on St. Patrick’s day. For 11 rounds Brennan held his ground against the champion. At times he even outfought Dempsey, wading in grimly under showers of blows, risking everything on the one chance smash that would mean fame and fortune to him. For the greater part of the U rounds he hati the crowd, society women, clubmen, business men, rounders, gamblers and the riff-raff that follow the fighting game, upon their feet cheering for him. Once or twice there were fleeting moments when it looked as if the heavyweight title, richest ►prize in all flstlana, might Change hands.

Most of the people had gone to the fight, paying probably close to $150,000 and perhaps more, into the box office, expecting to see a brief finny of brown fists and the quick collapse of the Chicago man. Not over three rounds was the general prediction. Eleven rounds came and passed quickly, and Brennan was still upright in the ring, swaying his huge fists desperately in the direction of the lithe Dempsey. One minute and fifty-seven seconds of the twelfth round had gone and Brennan was out there plodding. Dempsey crouched to a low stoop, his bead almost to Brennan’s knee. He came up with a quick Jerk and his right hand shot out, sinking into Brennan’s white stomach. Then Dempsey’s left followed the right into Brennan’s stomach so fast the two blows were almost one punch. The big Chicago man crumpled, not at the kneea as is usual, but in the middle of his body, as if the smashes had broken him in two. Dempsey, bloody, furious, swung again, this time With his right. It landed on the back of the already crumpling Brennan’s head and was the finishing touch.

IRISH APPEAL TO RED CROSS

Lord Mayor of Cork Urges Irish-Amer-icans to Organize Relief for Ireland. London, Dec. 16.—Lord Mayor O’Callaghan of Cork has sent a cable message to the Irish-Americana of the United States, urging them to organize a relief fund for Ireland, says a Cork dispatch. Ttie lord mayor also has appealed to the American Red Cross to send a contingent to Cork speedily, the dispatch adds.

Norway's Rail Strikers Lose.

Christiania, Norway, Dec. 16.—The railway men’s strike has ended in a complete capitulation of the strikers, who won nothing of what they demanded. Traffic is being resumed and is expected to be normal Thursday.