Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1940 — Page 5

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Taxes Little Changed Since 300 b.

the hiring and maintenance of |amount was not promptly paid. The items were unearthed short-

on the financial operations of a fruit grower nanted Eirene which constitute one of the first records in history of a woman actively engaged in business. The non-Zenon papers contain a decree, probably promulgated around 229 B. C., describing a general tax on gross income from properties. The Zenon items cover a period from 259 to 239 B. C., and- include the correspondence, ledgers and inventories of Zenon, overseer of one of the largest agricultural enterprises in Egypt. Every phase of activity in the management of a farm is described

in those accounts which consist

chiefly of reports sent to Zenon

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rious parts of Egypt.

workers, breach of labor contracts

300 B. C. [ANT UNDER LEASE 70 WESTINGHOUSE

1 CANTON, O. Dec. 18 (U. P).—

and formal complaints from the|ly after the outbreak of the World| The Federal Government's projected workers thereon, usury and rental|War in a building in the Fayum|g16000,000 naval ordnance plant

agreements. :

The | correspondence regarding

in Egypt, where they had been pre- . ; served for some 2000 years. They|lere Will be operated under lease

were acquired by Columbia in 1925/by the Westinghouse Electric and

Eirene discloses that she once be- fang haye been studied ever since.|Manufacturing Co. the F. W. Dodge

‘came indirectly involved in tax difficulties with the. government. It consists of two letters from a tax collector to one Leontiskos and his associates, fruit-pickers. who had leased a section of the orchard

* CLUB TO PRESENT PLAY

The Pun Makers, young peoples’| dramatic club at Christian Park will{nance building and equipping of the |

Corp., . construction authority, re- | vealed today. : Although: the government will fi-

properties of the well-to-do woman, [Present & play, “The Little Red/plant, work will be supervised by

The Leontiskos group had neglect- |Shoe” as the main event on afengineers under H.

A. Saurbrey,

ed to pay on Eirene’s behalf the|Christmas program at the park to-|chief construction . engineer for

: £ : NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (U. P)~— i | The business man of the third cen- . lems of taxes and labor the same Carnegie Institute to Replace 2 his modern counterpart, ancient : University feyes]. the "7 : ts The documents are the “Zenon With U. S. Exhibit. der the Ptolemies. The Zenon ./_ PITTSBURGH, Dec. 18 (U. P.).— |Dapers, together with three other "negie Institute will replace its in-|ers, have been translated, edited . ternational exhibit of paintings next and annotated by Prof. William : ings by living Amercan artists who |Keyes of Columbia, and Dr. Herbert have never been represented in a |Liebe .. The exhibition, to be known as “Directions in American Painting,” ? heretofore exhibited at Carnegie In- 2 ad stitute,” Homer Saint-Gaudens, Di-’ “stitute said. The exhibit will be * held from Oct. 23 through Dec. 15, 1941. : s i which contemporary art from all over the world competes annually " because of the war. In its place "was “a Survey of American Paint- : colonial times to the present. This survey closed last Sunday. ‘exhibit, next fall will be chosen by & jury of selection, composed of dens who will meet in New York and Pittsburgh. This jury also will seven prizes ranging fr 1 io ging from $100 to United States and has not been srepresented in a Carnegie Interna‘the jury of selection, although only one may be accepted for exhibition

+ WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18, 1940 tury, B. C., was harassed by prob- : documents annotated at Columbia Famed Internatioinal J Papyri” which date from Egypt un- . Because of Europe’s conditions, Car- documents from a later Ptolemanic fall with an exhibition of 300 paint- | Westermann and Prof. Clinton _ Carnegie International. The documents contain reports aimed to recognize “talent not * rector of Fine Arts at Carnegie InThe Carnegie International, at for prizes, was not held this year . ing,” showing American art from * The canvases to be shown in the four painters and Mr. Saint-Gau-serve as a jury of award to award Any artist who is a citizen of the tional, may send three paintings to ~ from any one artist.

BRIGGS WORKERS RETURN DETROIT, Dec. 18 (U. P.).—Approximately 1400 employees at the Vernor body plant of the Briggs Manufacturing Co. returned to their jobs today after an unauthorized half-day walkout in a dispute over transfer of a man described as & former lieutenant of Homer Martin.

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Santa Shows His

Resourcefulness

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, Dec. 18. (U. P).—Santa Claus rehearsed here today with a dog team in case. some Idaho hunter has

mistaken his reindeer for domestic deer and shot them. The reindeers were imported from Alaska for a Christmas cele-

bration, but wandered off during

the deer hunting season. One of them came back, the other was captured, but the third is still at large—or in some hunter's frying pan. :

ISFEK CAUSE OF MINE

EXPLOSION KILLING T

BECKLEY, W. Va. Dee. 18 (U. P.) —Inspectors equipped with oxygen masks entered the No. 6 coal mine tipple of the Raleigh Coal and Cole Corp. today to repair damage and restore -proper ventilation preparatory to an official investigation inte the explosion which took seven lives ‘yesterday. N. P. Rhinehart, State Mines Department chief, said he would begin an inquiry after the mine is cleared of fumes. The investigation . is scheduled to begin tomorrow. Within five hours after the blast, rescue workers recovered the bodies

of the seven victims and rescued 66 other men in the mine workings.

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