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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1920
Page
8
Roy G. Elliott of Chicago urged repeal of the excess profits tax and a simpler overall tax system. He called for a sound basis of taxation with rate revisions to meet revenue needs, retention of progressive income tax, and a tax on undistributed corporate earnings to align shareholder and partner assessments. The committee planned further hearings and policy discussion on corporate taxation.
The committee argues that only the individual unit can recognize the time honored principle of ability to pay, emphasizing its unique role in measuring fairness.
Miss Bessie Wray a Huntington saleswoman fell about twenty feet from a hotel canopy onto the sidewalk. She believed the canopy was a porch and stepped out onto glass flooring, breaking through to the sidewalk. Dr C Ballard of Gap Mills Va aided her. initial check found no serious injuries.
Word arrived last night of the sudden death of Mrs Douglass Litton at her home in St Paul Virginia on Monday morning. Her husband, known in Clinch Valley coal circles and once allied with Lee Long of Freeport, faces a quiet bereavement. Mrs Litton was about thirty years old. In Galveston Texas a trousers pocket tag reading J A Hammill linked the dead man to the missing Ottawa millionaire, officials say.
Francis Brumley received a twenty year penitentiary sentence in Braxton circuit court after being convicted of a criminal attack on a woman at Sutton. The sentence was reported from Clarksburg, West Virginia, with word arriving today.
Two men were killed instantly in Newark Ohio when their automobile truck was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train. The victims are Charles Wills 23 of Newark and Wilbur Priest 30 of Granville.
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