Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1921 — Page 3
EXEMPTION TAX RATES UNDERGO MANY CHANGES Revision Committee Will Hold Night Sessions to Complete Work. Special to Indiana Daily Times ami Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—Rejection of the Mellon recommendations on tax reTision by the Senate Finance Committee in favor of decisions reached by the House, now appear probable. On the repeal of the higher surtaxes. Senator Pen rose of Pennsylvania, chairman, announced yesterday that the committee already had agreed to make this change effective Jan. 1, of next year, as decided by the House contrary to the recommendations of the Secretary of the Treasury. The committee also agreed to repeal surtaxes above 32 per cent instead of 25 per cent, he said. Changes in the normal income tax rate, including an increase in the exemption for married men receiving an income of $5,000 or less from $2,000 to $2,500 and in the exemption for dependents from S2OO to S4OO as provided in the revenue revision bill as passed by the House, were also agreed upon by the Senate committee, Mr. Penrose announced. The committee will vote on the bill and amendments including the date of the repeal of the excess profits tax on Friday, Mr. Penrose said, and beforp Congress reconvenes a week from Wednesday, the measure will be prepared for consideration in the Senate. In view of the decisions reached by the committee, the prediction was made that the committee again would concur in the decision of the House to repeal the excess profits tax Jan. 1 of next year Instead of Jan. 1 of this year, as proposed by Mr. Mellon. Whether or not tho Senate committee concurs in the decision of the House to repeal the transportation taxes depends upon the effect of the repeal of the excess profits and surtaxes. The same Is true as regards the amount of increase in the flat corporation tax. Mr. Penrose said those matters were now in the hands of experts who would submit necessary data to the committee within a few days. The committee will hold night sessions, he said, if necessary to complete consideration of tire revenue revision bill before Sept. 21. The committee also agreed to the roealled net loss provision adopted by the House, the Senator announced. —Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.
RUSSO-POLISH TREATY BROKEN Diplomatic Relations May Be SeveredPARIS ,Sept. 13—Charging the Moscow Soviet has not executed the terms of the Russo-rolish treaty, the Polish government is preparing to send a note to Russia threatening to break off diplomatic relations and to eolse the RussoPolish frontier according to a Warsaw dispatch today. Foland is demanding cessation of Bolshevist propaganda in Poland and also the release of all Polish prisoners from Russian jails. Poland is also becoming anxious over the ’nereasing traffic between Germany and Russia. Both Poland and Russia have made counter claims that the Riga treaty is not being respected. The Moscow Soviet charged Poland with allowing antiSoviet plotters to carry on their activities with impunity and eveu gave assistance to them.
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ALVIN H. SMITH, President. With the Cleveland branch from 1909 to 1912. then transferred to take charge of the Indianapolis factory branch. Jan. 1. 1919. resigned to take over the distribution of Fordsou Tractors in Indiana for Henry Ford & Son, and continued until August. 1920. when Henry Ford & Son was absorbed by the Ford Motor Company, since which time Mr. Smith has headed the Ford Dealers Supply Company, distributing Approved Farm Seed-bed Tools. Belt Power Machinery, Supplies, etc., t Ford Dealers.
J. H. BATTES, Manager. A recent associate —a man of long experience in matters of accountancy and in the transaction of large financial affairs nor big iuteresta. Hig udi ministration for us is invaluable.
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FRED E. WHITE, Manager Parts, Accessories and Supply Dept*. At one time representative of Bell Telephone Company of ludianapolis, Contract Department, later with Parts (Illinois) Ford Dealers and Montezuma (Indiana) Ford Dealer as General Manager.
G. A. R. ROOM COUPON FOR NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT WEEK, SEPT. 25 TO 29. STREET OWNER PHONES NO. OF ROOMS WITH BATH WITHOUT BATH NEAREST CAR LINE PRICE REMARKS This coupon should be properly filled out and mailed promptly to the housing committee of the G. A. It., Room 9, the courthouse. If you can furnish one or more rooms for the use of old soldiers or their families during the week of the G. A. R. encampment, Sept. 25 to 29. In regard to bath the housing committee requests that the words not applicable be crossed out. Under remarks it may be designated whether the owner has an automobile, and whether meals will be served. Persons desiring to list rooms can also notify the housing committee by telephone by calling any one of the following numbers, Main 6408, Circle 0513 or Circle 0423.
Highways and By-Ways of LiF OF New York Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos. By RAYMOND CARROLL
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.— Broadway is bubUing with fall gossip, and here are some of the bubbles. Irving Berlin, the actor-song writer, publisher-manager Is going to return to the stage appearing at his own New Music Box Theater. Daphne Pollard, the tiny American comedienne, who has been appearing for several years in London and Is now b *me, says in her absence some woman has been voting her name in State and municipal elections, which charge, if substantiated, indicates that ‘‘women repeaters ’ are being used by one another of th* political parties. The Union Church in West FortyNinth street, which came into prominence with a large electric sign to advertise its services, has beeu renting its church hail for theatrical rehearsals. The all-colored musical show, “Shuffle Along," which has been playing several months just off Broadway, has received an Invitation to play In Loudon at $5,000 a week, which is SI,OOO less than it wants for the foreign engagement. One of the big men of tbe Metropolitan returned from abroad and says Italy is iu the grand optra “dumps," the company playing "The Arena” in Milan, closing after losing 250,U00 lire in eight days. The opening of the Coney Island Mardi Gras this week marks the closing of the regular season at the famous seaside resort. Vaudeville circles are agitated over the Shubert invasion of that Held, the first five theaters on their circuit of the Shubert select vaudeville being scheduled to open their doors a week from today. William Fox ,the motion picture promoter. who owns sixty or more theaters that use vaudeville with the pictures. <s reported to have cast his lot with the Keith circuit for the booking of future acts to play in his theaters. Nora Bayes is reported to have topped the vaudeville record in salaries by sign-
THE FORD MOTOR CO. Has Appointed A New Authorized Ford Dealer Experienced Organization The officials have had wide experience and long association with the Ford Motor Company’s establishment and progress in this territory
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ing a contract for $3,500 weekly with Shuberts. The fad for theatrical revivals gave New York last week “The Merry Widow," operette and the “Easiest Way," comery, both doing extraordinary well In their initial performances. Os thirty-three attractions playing the leading - New York theaters on account of tbe hot weather and other causes, nineteen were compelled to send their pasteboards to the cut rate speculators in order to muster up any kind of audience. • • * “Now, what's that?” was the identical question asked of the writer by Lord Bryce and Lord Northcliffe on different ships, when coming out of the Narrows before entering the upper bay. Each distinguished visitor, standing on the deck of his respective liner, pointed at the twelve red-painted piers projecting into the harbor from the Staten Island shore—the $50,000,000 Stapleton improvement. It oefully inadequate answers were given. But we registered a vow to know more about the great water Improvement. Hence our trip to Staten Island. The next distinguished visitor who asks, “Now, what’s that?” will be toid. The construction of the twelve concrete piers Is the outstanding accomplishment of the Hylan administration and as a dock Improvement constitutes a tremendous advancement for New York City. In fact, the dozen piers are the finest and most up-to-date In the world, each being long enough to accommodate the largest steamships. I met Walter O. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and he gave me the news from Mexico In exactly three words: "Everything is satisfactory.” Those familiar with the ins and outs of tbe so-called "Mexican situation,” that epigrammatic sentence tells it all. Mr. Teagle is the head of the committee of American oil men who visited* Mexico and conferred personally
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13,1921.
Georgetown University to Have Shipping Class First Department of Its Kind to Be Opened by American University at Georgetown.
Special to Indiana Daily Tim , and Philadelphia Public Ledg ■. WASHINGTON, Sept, lb.—For the first time on record the profession of shipping is to be included tn the curriculum of an American university. Georgetown, at Washington, Is introducing the innovation with the college year just about to open. The course will be given at the "school of foreign service,” which is tbe only one in the United States as a branch of a university and giving full-fledged degrees. Graduates, presumably, will be enabled to aspire to the degree of "doctor of shipping.” The new course will be under the direction of Hr. Roy S. MacElwee, dean of the school of economics, who was formerly director of the Bureau of Foreign Domestic Commerce at the Department of Commerce It will Include the following basic subjects: 1— Ocean transportation, (history and organization). 2 Ports and terminal facilities, (world wide in scope). 3 Steamship office management. 4 Wharf management aud warehousing. 5 Steamship classification and elements of construction. 6 Steamship operation. 7 Marine insurance. 8— Export packing and ship stowage. 9 Shipping legislation. 10— Admiralty law. 11— Railroad law. 12— Railroad traffic and rates. The avowed object of the Georgetown course in shipping is to train a generation of young Americans scientifically equipped to tackle ocean carrying problems, just as colleges and universities now train lawyers, doctors or newspaper men. Experienced and practical shipping men wll! act as instructors, or as occasional lecturers. Among them is W.
with President Obregon and other officials of tbe Mexican government. The oil committee was in Mexico City for a week. Details of the settlement will be forthcoming later, tut what the public wanted to know was, "Could they agree?" They have done so. ... When the Manhattan Opera Company closed its season of 1906-07, which marked the zenith of Oscar Ilammerstein's career as an operatic impressario, tbe stars of his company presented him with a silver loving Then, again, after the close of the following season, the members of the company Joined In giving him a cup of still greater size. Now both of these cups are to be sold at auction. Other Ilammerstein objects to be dispersed at tbe same time include paintings, bronzes murldes, ceramics, curios and some period furniture. When creditors enter the house of a deceased Impressario sentiment flier out of the window. • 0 0 I talked on the telephone with Mrs Elizabeth Tyler of Atlanta, who has been styled "Empress” of tbe Ku-Klux Klnn. over which there is now such an ado. She has a pleasant voice and asked me to come to s<e her. which quite disposes of the "invisiblenesa” of the organization, or whatever it Is. Inasmuch as she said she was in New Y'ork to start libel suit* against the profession which af fords us a living and that she really had nothing new to say except the Ku Klux was a most dreadfully maligned society we declined her kind Invitation. IxtteT we saw her pass across the rotunda of her hotel, a stout, reddish haired, pleas
? - B*TJILDINQ —WeII located, ndjoining Track Elevation near Union Depot, containing Car, Truck and Tractor Repair Departments, Tire, Battery and Radiator Rebuilding Departments, and a large, well-stocked department cevoted to sale of Genuine Ford and Fordson Parts, Legitimate Accessories and Supplies. ■■
L. Bull, assistant to the vice president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation who began his career as a boy with the Mallory Line and was an official of that organization until the war, having passed through every Btage of the shipping industry in managerial capacities. Another instructor will be A. H. Haag, who also has had varied experience, having been associated with the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company and later with the United States Shipping Board as chief constructor. Discussing the new shipping course, Dr. MacElwee said to the Indiana Dally Times and Public Ledger correspondent: "It is often said the United States cannot hope to compete successfully with the British Mercantile Marine because of Britishers’ centuries of experience and tradition as trans-oceanic carriers. We cannot, of course, begin where the British began. We must do our best to operate as soon as possible on terms of equality. That, it seems to be Georgetown University can most effectively achieve by systematic instruction in the fundamentals of shipping in all its varied branches. We shall teach in other words what the British have done and how they did It. It is ignorance of basic principles that is responsible, to a large degree, for the inability of Americans to attain that eminence in the world shipping trade which It Is easily within our power to reach. Capital alone will not suffice. If America had had a West Point or an Annapolis a:‘ shipping in operation for y.-ars beforo the war, we would have bean ready to meet the shipping emergencies of the situation with far greater skill than we did and at Incalculable money saving to the country. It 1s in the hope of educating and breeding a race of American .shipping experts that Georgetown's new venture has been Instituted.” —Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.
ant faced woman and enter the diningroom where she sat down and ate wltb the same sort of an appetite as anybody else. Invisible empire? pish, tush. The women of New Y'ork City do not seem to be seriously Interested over participation in local politics, so few of them have anouneed their candidacy for office. However, two have been nominated for county register, a post which the male bosses of both parties agreed could be filled acceptably by a woman. The Republican candidate is Miss Helen Varick Boswell and the Tammany aspirant is Miss Annie Mathews. • • • Alas, there is a New York man who bitterly opposes the Idea of a woman even in that Job, so he is running in both the Republican and the Democratic primaries for register. His name is John J. Hopper, who says he can consolidate an all - man prejudice against women candidates. Mrs. Margaret Dougias Is another woman who has entered in the Republican primaries lor the nomination of county clerk against the man picked by the leaders. Then Mrs. Mabel T. 8. Falco hopes to become a member of the board of aldermen and If successful she will ruin the name “City Fathers” as applied to the aldermen. That august body will have to be rechristened "City Fathers and Mothers,” which will be somewhat embarrassing should unmarried women get into the board. Two women Republican candidates for the State Assembly, on# running for controller (on the Socialist ticket), complete the entries of the women iu tbe primaries which are being held today.
SOLDIERS REST IN GRAVES THAX ARE UNMARKED Congress Fails to Provide Headstones for Heroes in Last Sleep. Special to The Times. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—The bodies of thousands of American soldiers killed during the world war and returned from overseas are occupying unmarked graves In this country with Congress to blame for the condition, according to reports of the national legislative committee and service division of the American Legion here. Hundreds of letters from gold star parents reciting the Government’s failure to furnish grave markers as promised and as required have been received by the legion organizations. Congress, however, has failed to appropriate sufficient funds to carry out the law which provides uniform Government headstones for the country’s military and naval dead. “It has been months and months since we wrote the quartermaster general of the army asking for a government stone for our boy’s grave: we have had no reply.” Is the tenor of the letters. Between fifteen and twenty thousand such requests are reposing in the files of the cemeterlal division of the quartermaster
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general’s office, wltb an average of 100 of them coming In dally. . Funds available for tbe purchase of the required marble headstones permit the ordering by the War Department of about 8.000, which, even when they are ready, will take care of less than onetenth of the graves in this country. The legion’s legislative committee announces Its intention of pressing the Military Affairs Committees of both houses of Congress for sufficient appropriations to mark all graves as soon as the body reconvenes the last of this month. ADVERTISERS TO MEET IN SO, BEND Session for Central West to Convene Sept. 20. Special to The Times. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 13.—A conference of national advertisers in the central West will be held Tuesday, Sept. 20, in the Tribune Building, this city. It will be one of a series being held over the country by the advertising bureau of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association and Is held here on invitation of the South Bend Tribune. , F. Guy Davis of Chicago. Western manager of the A. N. P. A. advertising bureau, will speak on “1921 and Newspaper Advertising.” The meeting will begin at 1 p. m. and will be presided over by F. A. Miller, editor of the South Bend Tribune. "This conference will be open to all ad-
vertisers, especially national adrertiserC” said Mr. Miller. "While primarily it Is for national advertisers in the central West it should be clearly understood that all advertisers will be most cordially welcome. The purpose of the conference Is to bring national advertisers in closer contact with each other; make them better acquainted with the objects of A. N. P. A. advertising bureau; to Inform them of what is going on in a national advertising way and to create closer relations which may be of mutual benefit. Local advertisers in Middle West cities also will receive benefit, and I hope they will attend. Boutb Bend, by reason of Its 250 manufacturing plants producing 400 different articles, has many national adverisers aud visits to their plants may be of Interest to other national advertisers. Good automobile roads lead to South Bend, so we hope to see this conference well attended.” SUFFOCAJED BY MUD. ANTWERP, Sept. 13.—While bathing at a summer resort on the Schedlt River, Count Flentise dove into the water ahead of his companions. When he failed to rise, search was made for him and he was found suffocated with his Lead stuck in the mud. ANTI-BEELZEBUB CAMPAIGN. LONDON, Sept. 18.—The Salvation Army has served notice on Harlesden, the “worst village in the world,” that It must reform. The army is going to conduct a three-month campaign there “against the forces of Beelzebub.”
WILLIAM F. MOORE, Sec.-Treas. For many years was the Representative of the Barber Asphalt Company In the State of Indiana. He was the organizer of the Ford Dealers Supply Company, originally known as the Indiana Tractor Company, and began business in May 1918, distributin'g Fordson Tractors and the Approved Implements. His knowledge of Ford and Fordson Owners’ needs is complete as a result of his constant attention to the sales end of the business.
WALTER EYERROAD, Service Snpt. Formerly a member of the Arm of Feterson & Everroad. Columbus. Indiana, from 1911 to 1914; with Indianapolis Branch Factory from 1914 to 1917 as Shop Foreman. Service Floor Snpt., etc. Later with a local Ford Dealer as Service Representative. _
ALFRED G. MFELLEk, Feed Car Supervisor. Long associated with the sale of used cars, lately with a local Ford Dealer In same capacity.
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