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Washington Evening Journal (Newspaper) - December 6, 1920, Washington, Iowa Mali peer waste of cows thru this Ming journal nasal fled Columna the evening journal t no a of Ltd t on it with rain n. Kit portion two a a a generally fair. Vol flinch Chan in temperature. Volume 28 a Washington. Iowa Mon oat risking Dei Mem Hek i 1020 no Meek 251farewell to the u. S. Senate nay extend War debt sixty years senator Watson of Indiana urges measure to lighten tax Burden. To Rush hearings on Bill tax situation following i attorn from a chefs Roncs with senator Penrose Long Worth la for repeat. Washington Exielu Dol of tin hint fur the inf prot of the War debt Over h Peri if so yearn i advocated by senator Watson of Indiana. Or urges Flint to lighten the lax Bur Den. He a a i of Theta �rul1i� Tai and reduction of the Attr Tive. Pm Large income aim were urged by him. Senator wuts on focussed i lie Tai al Tuati a following id return Fri a a conference it Philadelphia with san to a srum tile a in Tor la chairman of la to in in committee it we Mena Tor Watson a a opinion that hearing on either tax or Tariff legislation should Start soon after the Holiday to be i melt uniter Way by the time a a a a Lettl Messutta tailed under the new administration. Longport for repeal. Representative i a a a go a in to favors al get a wow it it Loci of a tax pm Uii be of tinted profits of cot porn lion. He maid he did riot believe Confra won by approve a Pale tax. Senator Watson declaration for Extension of the time for payment wan significant a showing a de ble Ltd Drift of opinion among Tho Republican Lender. It Hun Batt the program of the Treasury de a arts but to pay up the War debt within lift yearn. Representative Lori Gwnith in Dvo rating a tax on undistributed profits a if corpor Athetis goes counter to the flows expressed by represent of it Ira Copley of Illinois Amit Lier repute Beau member of the Committer. Or. Copley want the repeal of the excels profits taxes hut Doe not lie Lleve any other Tux that the to per cent Normal tax should he levied against corporation profits. Wants different tax. A we my Refial the exp a profits tax hut in so doing we Lutish find a substitute representative said. A there ure so Many object Londahl features of a sales tax that i do not believe Congress will approve it. In flu first place it is difficult to 1 raft la Hill which will Deal with the situation adequately. Just what transactions should in covered by the sales tax is a difficult problem. A if in were to adopt a tax on retail sales Only to i per cent tax would not produce More than woo,000,000 at the most. In order to rank the place of the Revenue anticipated from tile excess profits tax in the next fiscal year a a i i it or cont tax would Hare to be Ira i used. It is futile to think Congress would Ever approve u 3 per cent Tux on retail ask South delegation Cut National association reports negroes barred from voting for congressmen. New York. Dec do investigation of alleged a violent. Illegal and Monsy tut Lonny disfranchisement of coloured people in Southern states looking urn s re reduction of congressional representation in Lark states As pore tided for in the fourteenth amendment to the United states vast Ltd Lori. Was urged upon the House committee in the census by the National association for Tfir advancement of coloured people in a Lefter to representative Isane Siegel chairman of the commit made Public today. James it. Johnson chairman of the organization. Who signed the letter requested that representative of the Assoria finn a in led Talf of 12.000,000 negroes of the United Blat a he allowed to appear before the committee in Washington next week to present facts. Harding May break Long precedent president elect May put Cabinet on Job in february. Seeks a smooth chan6e japs oppose the Lano Law Many associations pass resolutions condemning the California Meas ure against the japanese. Washington Ltd a a Fahley Rran received in Oft Hall a a milers lure from Tokyo says at a meeting in la Enber i if twelve or More Jup hts est us six let tons a Resolution urn passed condemning to to Uli Forslu land Law arum efforts to conclude a treaty which would abrogate the no culled gentleman s agree Merit. A a for get the Ual Ufondu land Law is an infringement to tin Universal Pron Cople of humanity arum righteousness a the Resolution rends a ill win wreck absolutely the spirit of Friendship be Quot to a Japan Ami t of United Hist est be a a a disapprove Alua stitely of the Cutie u is on of any treaty which will abrogate the working of the Gen Flem no a Gre ment will Aid striking miners United mine workers give full moral and financial assistance to men. Indianapolis do a. workers on strike in Alabama util weal Virginia were promised a the full moral and financial assist anted a of the full mein i e rub if the United min workers of America at n meeting of the International executive Bourd. A Tim International executive Board is Impre Neil with the spirit of self sacrifice by the min Trotter of Ala boats in thir fight to a Stabli ii the principle of Colic live bargaining and a it Mecl recognition by their Coal of orator of the award of the United states bituminous Mal commission a Caid the statement a tin 42,000 men women Anil children who Are engaged in this struggle Are suffering front the most intense Zierse Effion heaped upon them by tin arrogant Coal operators of that Kansas court ends strikes no walkout in stat since Industrial tribunal became operative nine months ago. St. Louis dec. Fred Dumont Smith of tile Kansas Industrial court in no address at the annual banquet of the bar convention Here explained Tho system of the Industrial court. Fie asserted that in Thim months prior to Quot last january there were thirty four strikes in Kansas hut that there has been no strike in the state since the court became operative nine months ago. German styles criticized Harding wants proposed members of i Cabinet to familiarise themselves with government business before inauguration. Washington in a. Harding Wilt break All precedents by naming ids Cabinet Early in february arid putting All of its morn a is immediately to work in Wash i rift Oft. According to information obtained Here. The country will in effect at that to rite witness the extraordinary spec taste of two Complete governments in practical operation at one a the on closing out its affairs and making ready to quit while the other takes lessons on its Job und prepares to move in. The informant stated be bad discussed the proposed plan in detail with Harry Daugherty confidential adviser to the pre lds it a Leaf a Elf us a president wet Aas a a a a for. Be with president Wilson dating his visit to Washington a la now expected la will Only la setting in example for Iii proposed Miner of his Cabinet whom he will a a to themselves with the government Busine la fore Day. A whomever or. I lording designates for Secretary of the Treasury taking that department As an illustration. Will immediately la requested to communicate with Secretary Houston with the suggestion that in the interest of a smooth shift of authority he will la permitted to spend two a Mihly three weeks in that department widely As not by Over preparing himself for his responsibilities. A in some in private secretaries might follow the to Usu process of prep ration. Co operation expected. A when As in the past these changes in Itera Onnel at the beads of the different departments have been Marl tinder circumstance which resulted in nothing hut disorder Ami disorganisation at least for a time we prolate to he ready to take Over things without so much a a halt in the governmental machinery. A no title \ i it it it let n hit ohm it of Hor Hearty co of Erato a from the retiring Wilson Cabinet off to Boca tis of the nations go Vertente Tai affair i Wing at j take. If Only Fie tile a sensible Abd tank arrange met flt or Transfer of control of the world it greatest Busine a while it is tit Derat oort that the president pc Tim approved the plan to official Atmo Cement la to lie made unfit the me selected for Harding a Cabinet hat been consulted. The matter till to it pro further a on in the Tim if Creme when Tho president elect Art a its in was Langton. Prohibit Cabinet choices. In spite of git previous suggestions to the contrary to selections for the Cabinet which App a most probable Are As follows. A return of by it a senator la try 1 a a Ai of to Ilsc of unit a it a he itself. Secretary of the Treasury George my Reynols of Illino. Secretary of la Navy John w. Weeks of . Secretary of w it Henry i. Stimson of new tort. Secretary of of a Lur a Henry us Wallace of Iowa. Attorney Genera hurry m. A ugh erty of Ohio. Post in ast or of Frei it in will h. Hays of in Luna. Secretary of in Boru pre entail be John i. Nolan of put fornia. Secretary of inter Kir a Herliert Hoover of to Alt Forton. Riot Call at meet of socialists Meyer London a attack on Lenini stirs up party factions at Chicago. Two to housed m Miti oppose russian Deal with the u. S. France concessions to Syndicate. A a charts soviet government has no right to d up oat of the great interests. Paris dec. 6.�?fra net in Dis Patch an urgent protest to Washington on the acquirement by american interests Tho Vande clip Syndicate of Large Concession Iii Russia it icing Tim ground that suds conc Don. Do not belong to the soviet government hut to the 2d, in ,0oo of French investors in the external Loans contracted in la rth re glues of the czars according to the Lien Imper Lea Dernier Nouvelle i in Itu is. It is Pointe out Here that much a protest practically would be a a thou Shalt not pass warning to the whole world showing that France considers Russia her monopoly until the debts of tin Czar have been paid to French it Mizens. Trad exerts however believe the French position is illogical since it is great Britain a intention to accept Gold payments for go Sis stat to Russia by British citizen. France has registered no protest with great Britain. Charre broken hats smashed Ane Many facet battered before the police arrived and restored order speech resumed. Uld Cago. Lux. atmosphere of Petrograd developed at a a or a no shall when Meyer London Only soda list member of Congress sought to address 2,1 Nio i Hirago socialists of Chi fitting a Airbed. Alquit 1,01111 socialists like ids so let of View regarding la soviet government of Russia. Tile outliers lid not. Die result wit a riot rail to the Warren Avenue station. Assail soviet Rule. For More than to minutes Loudon had progressed a mid applause when he suddenly attacked the soviet government asserting that tin principles of i amino were not the Iiri Cipie of hire pm dualism and that the socialists of new York were a att rely out of sympathy with level Ament in Itu spill a Bot i it run Chicago a said or. London a you Are too glow to realize the faults of the russian government you go blindly on Iii the belief that anything a to tall St Doe must be fifty fights Start. Liere had been a rumbling of comment from the Start of the attack upon Lenin hut with the slightest referent a to Chicago there Carne Hie Aud i o is. In a moment there were Imit Tsi Persona i encounter in Progress at various Imants Iii the Hall. I a hairs w Ere broken hat were smashed Ami a score of socialist were battered before police arrived. Ten policemen were in the detachment. A Iii h their arrival there was an almost immediate cessation of hostilities. Congro Small London shouting above the Dill. Warned the men against a disgracing themselves a and his Appeal aided Amlice in restoring order. Broken chairs were put aside buttered nose were treated by physicians and London resumed his speech hut made no further reference to the soviet. The meeting was the principal event of a three Day meeting of the National executive commit tee of the socialist. Other spank to included James i o Neill editor of the fall and George j k. Rower of i knt Congress to kill War Law first act of body will be the repeal of wartime legislation. Washington de do president Wilson is to in i Ftp my of extraordinary Powers Given hint under wartime leg motion As the first act of Congreve. The House Republican steering committee decide to present to the Hon a to Adda for immediate passage a Resolution repealing nil wartime in that were to expire with the termination of the War Ami fixing a definite Date for the re Peitl of Oiler wartime Laws that were contingent on Pearl with Germany trained officers for army War department expects to secure 5,000 men with War expert enc for service. Washington dec. 0.�?the War department announced that wartime officers a been offered immanent commissions in the army As a result of examinations during the year. About Rwm have declined Ami a number have not Ite Eit heard from Bot it is a of a ctr a that at least 5,01 0 officers will he obtained. Harding says goodbye to i colleagues Previd but Elbut Kepi thred Hopes that he might have co operation of Renate violate Trost us roman Catholic archbishops exhort women to Reform their dresses for morality a Sake. Bertin i it be <5. A a pastoral letter sign by All la German roman Catholic archbishops says that immorality Bas greatly increased owing to the War and National misfortune. Among the causes of this growth is immodesty of fashions and Tho pastoral exhorts the German women to Reform their Moonshiner give a Bat Leto officers believed several Kentucky Moonshiner killed in fight. Nine Are captured and five stills de strayed in Belt county near Tennessee line. Lexington Kyd a dec. Moonshiner were captured and a number of others tit believed to have been j killed or wounded in a Buttle Between a to Moonshiner and 14 Revenue officers in the Southern part of Belt county near the Tennessee Border according j to reports received Bere by thief prohibition agent us g. Mcfarland Nom of tin government a hirers was injured although mar than i a am sinus went fired. Five stills were lest Rayed. Government forces were headed by prohibition agents Steve Cornett and Charles Winfrey. The prisoners will he taken to it it in Lex ill. The scene of the Battle is in on of the wildest sections of the a astern Kentucky mountains. The Moonshiner who a sealed fled into the mountains with Federal agents in Pursuit. Plans for tin raid were made during tile term of circuit court in London a a. For More than two years tin Moonshiner of that Section of the state have been growing bolder in their operations. To court martial sergeant army officer who 8truck in Chicago turned Over to Hie superiors. Chicago dec. Col. John n. Strait head of army recruiting in Chicago. Said that Berat. Robert Emmaus of the 52� Blate Street office will be court Martt aled for striking miss Mary of Connor Twenty of 4,150 West end Avenue a Telephone girl Emmons was arraigned in the South Clark Street court and turned Over to army authorities. Knifed Matfes supreme 4 out f taken drastic action against Lehigh Valley of. It. Set enl to Tkv Nln journal Washington la. C. La. standing it ills desk in the Senate today president elect Harding in a Brief speech in who a he towed deep a motion expressed the Hope that or might have thro opt ration of his colleague in the next four years. Call smallest convention amusement ticket printers totalling eight concerns meet at fort Smith today. Fort Smith ark., dec. 6.�?today and tuesday fort Smith will entertain one of the smallest National conventions held in the United state a that of the amusement ticket printers of America. The organization has Only about a dozen members associated with eight of the ten concerns that print All the amusement tickets of the country. Beside this City where All the circus reserved seat tickets Are turned out. Springfield mass. Boston Philadelphia Chicago Newark n. J., and Omaha will he represented. Budget for u s. To be 5 billions violate Sherman Law special to the evening journal Washington ic., dec. tile culled states supremo court today held the la High Valley la. R. Company we violating the Sherman Nutt tru pm and commodity rat us a a of the inter to nth Commerce Art in in Yaw Quot it Ned Conli it a filers the did mgt Luton of the various combination affecting the Anthracite situation Iii that confection. The decree of the Low r Cost i reverse. U. S. To buy 300 air planes government to spend $6,000.000 on new models a to Call for bids soon. Washington dec. War department in preparing to rail for bbl within a few any it Tor of taxi now air planes on designs worked out by the army aviation Section which include All latest improvements demonstrated to he valuable by restful tests. Approximately , it is estimated. Will be spent on the planes this being the minimum provided in the present army appropriation Dill for this purpose. No Relief from the Burden of Federal taxation. Most 8tupndous peace time budget Ever submitted to any govern mint in history. A Washington dec. Hopefl a Relief front the Burden of Federal taxation went glimmering with tit announcement that estimates for All brandies of the government aggregating $4,653,856,750, was in the hands of Congress it its opening. This is an increase of not less than 9906585,366,46 Over the appropriations made last year. And is by All Odds the most stupendous peace time budget Ever submitted to this or any Oiler government in world history. The estimates presented in the ?3 Supply Hills alone aggregate $. .-358,080,898, or $1,0118,533.805 Mort than last year. Yet the figures do not include the deficiency of Railroad items yet to come. Altogether Congress will he asked to provide something Nore than $5,-060,600,000, the stupendous size of Uncle Sam s excuses can Only he imagined when it is made Clear that the interest no flu Public debt is $962,650, Mai which with the $265,754,864 slinking fund in greater than the entire Cost of running the government up to within a few years of the War. Paris has big Gold Rush two foot vein discovered 80 feet below surface ten m Lee from City. Faris. Dec. 6.�?paris has is Ruck Gold the discovery of Clef Tea Miles from Pari of a we foot vein of Gold bearing Quartz in below the surface has caused furious digging by the residents of tie Region for Miles around. To a go do diggers Lune grown in no meters rapidly Ami the a a strike has taken on the Esq it a of of a Stampede. Police have had to lie dispatched from Paris to prevent a riot. California sheriff killed a rent it with a want and. Detective also loses life in Battle with gun men at Santa Rosa. Santa Ito not us Dee. 6.--sheriff James a. Pct Ray of Sonoma county Ami detective Miles Jaek a Iti of san Francisco were shot and killed and detective Lester Gorman ser Lou by wounded when they attempted to arrest three men suspected it Romp Liely in a recent attack on two girls in san Francisco. The three men one of them badly wounded in the gun Battle that followed the shooting of it rtt Ami Jackson were amazed Aud taken to tie Sonoma county jail Here. Latins multiply too fast no indications of race suicide in Italy Rome seeks outlet for surplus. Rome dec. 6. There is no indication of Tai suicide in Italy. On the contrary. Italy a population d in Tea lug to rapidly that the induct re ranted absorb of. Rim. Ipi i when the hint census was take Here fun bran an increase of i urn duo rho heavy losses during the War through tile influenza epidemic and by Tho emigration of dry Jim during tin tags to year

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