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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1921
Page
13
Secretary Mellon advised the House Ways and Means Committee in executive session today on tax revision ideas including a two cent tax on bank checks a flat ten dollar license tax on all cars a three cent first class postage rate and a new levy on cigars tobacco and cigarettes.
The notes describe suggested changes including cutting transportation taxes by half next year and eliminating them the following year, repealing soda fountain and ice cream taxes, repealing the excess profits tax and removing the $2000 corporate exemption. Corporate income tax would rise from 10 to 15 percent, surtax brackets above 40 percent would be removed, and surtax rates on incomes from $6000 to $50000 would rise. The revised revenue bill aimed to raise about four billion dollars next year, with Mellon’s memorandum withheld and Fordney to disclose it tomorrow.
A report estimates year end revenue at 450 million dollars plus 350 million from miscellaneous receipts including salvage. It cites a 10 dollar license tax on automobiles yielding 100 million, plus 25 million from cigars tobacco and cigarettes. Postal rate increases could add 75 million, while Pro ordo tax on bank checks remains undisclosed.
Reuben D. Weekes, a 41 year Providence fire department veteran and chief since 1906, will retire at midnight Saturday. He laments riding a red painted filover with a truck body after his speedy car was sold last spring and not replaced.
At a Malden American Legion post meeting 69, the order passed a unanimous vote of thanks to the Boston Post for aiding in obtaining hospital automobile rides for disabled veterans. The Malden legion band will perform in new uniforms at Labor Day events.
Indianapolis Aug 1 United News Governor Warren T McCray pardons Mrs Margaret Smith of La Porte who is about to become a mother to spare the unborn child the stigma of prison birth. She was convicted of forgery and sentenced to two to 14 years in the penitentiary.
Chicago reports Miss America will debut tall high hair with exposed ears and long gowns this winter. Madame Louise predicts transformations, feathered accents, and matching hair to gown, with blondes favored and bobbed hair fading from fashion.
Madamie Louise notes a shift as women abandon bleaching leading to a blonde shortage. She predicts this winter will be the blonde’s big season and claims 65 percent of American women wear false hair today.
Police search for the South End bully nicknamed the big bully after 12 year old Charles Tattlebaum was found unconscious by his Fay Street home. Doctors say a blow from a larger boy may have caused his condition and several neighborhood children reported grievances. Investigating officers plan to curb his militaristic conduct.
The United States army transport Cantigny reached New York from Antwerp bearing the bodies of 400 American soldiers. The arrival follows earlier losses as the ship brings home more war dead.
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