Tax Commissioner to Test Constitutionality of Income Tax
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear a case challenging the 3 percent tax on net profits from stock market speculation. Tax Commissioner William D. Trefry has filed to compel Eliot T. Putnam of Milton to file a return for profits from 1916 stock sales and other alleged taxable gains. Putnam disputes the taxability of profits from rights sales and dividends as well as classifications under the constitution and the 44th amendment. The matter is expected to reach the full court.
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Commonwealth
Supreme Judicial Court
William D. Trefry
Eliot T. Putnam
Milton
Putnam
Swift & Co
American Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company
United Fruit Company
Massachusetts
Bernhardt Sidelined by Cold. Ill Star To Rest in New York
Springfield dispatch reports Sarah Bernhardt fell ill with a lingering cold and could not perform today. Upon her manager’s counsel she remains in New York for several days to recuperate before resuming her engagement schedule.
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Springfield
Sarah Bernhardt
Mme. Bernhardt
New York
Prison Term for Kaplan in Fire Incitement Case
Harry Kaplan of Fast Boston was sentenced by Chief Justice Aiken to the State prison for a term of three to four years after being found guilty of inciting Reuben Levine to set a fire in Kaplan’s home. A stay of execution was granted until the case reaches the Supreme Judicial Court. A motion for a new trial was overruled.
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Harry, Kaplan
Fast Boston
Aiken
Reuben Levine
Kaplan
Berenson
Supreme Judicial Court
Newport Police to Begin Weekly Military Drill
Newport R I March 12 Orders issued for police to report tomorrow evening for military drill Non commissioned officers from Fort Adams will act as drillmasters Weekly military instruction to follow one day per week across the city trunk.
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Newport
R. I
Fort Adams
Tufts Students Organize Unit in Preparedness Scheme
Tufts students organize a unit in the nation’s preparedness program. The Tufts faculty votes to grant three term hours for a course with two drill periods of three hours and two one hour recitations. Some 150 students have signed up, with expectation the unit will grow to about 500 participants.
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Tufts
Medford
No Evidence of Intervention Reported in Cuba
From Guantanamo Admiral Mayo received reports from five Cuban shore stations where U S forces were landed. None showed signs that the landing marked intervention. Five hundred marines and bluejackets patrol Santiago, with detachments at Guantanamo Manzanillo and Neuvitas. Only Escombre mine interior station hosts men-of-war.
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Santiago
Cuba
Guantanamo
Henry T. Mayo
United States ‘Atlantic Fleet
Manzanillo
Neuvitas
Storstad Sunk Off Ireland After Torpedo and Shelling
The Norwegian steamship Storstad, under relief commission for Belgium, was shelled and torpedoed north of 51.20 N 11.50 W in the Atlantic off southern Ireland. After signaling Belgian relief, the sub fired about 15 shots, then torpedoed the stationary vessel at 12:10 p.m. All crew were rescued except the fourth engineer who died of exposure. one American aboard was among the accounted-for.
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London
Storstad
American Commission For Relief
Belgium
Atlantic
Ireland
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