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THKWKATHKR Rain probably tonight and Sunday. Much Colder Sunday and northwest portion tonight. Strong shifting Wind. THE UNITED PRESS NEWS SERVIQE BY WIRE STITUTION. VOLUME XXXII CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI SATURDAY, JAN.

30, 1926. DAILY EDITION BATTLE OVER TAX REDUCTION BILL TODAY A REAL, CONFLICT WAS KD TO START LATE THIS AF- TERNOOX IX SENATE. LOCAL NEWS NOTES Body Taken to Neutowii The body of Anson Rook, accom-! panied by J. D. Gordon, local undertaker, and relatives, was taken to Newtown this morning where funeral services were held and burial made this afternoon.

INCREASE IN GERMANY POSES AS MAN FOR SEVENTY YEARS Bitter Warfare Will Be Wagvd on the Floor Over Important Potato of the Bill in Present Form. Almost Impassable I The roads leading into Chillicothe! are almost impassable in many plac- 'es. There were very few people from I the country here today trading and those who were here were compelled to ride on horseback or come afoot. THIRTEEN HUNDRED BANKRUPTCIES REPORTED DURING NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER Applications for 16OO Moratoria Wore Made and Granted by that Nation During: Those Two Months WASHINGTON, Jan. real battle over the $352,661,000 tax redaction bill mas scheduled to Tax Penalty Monday Today is the last day to pay your begin in the senate late today after city and township taxes to avoid a the reading clerk disposes of the doubl penalty which goes on Mon- fifly unread pages of the measure.

day February 1. After that date Bitter warfare will be waged on the law Provides that the collectors the floor over four important points sha11 add two Percent penalty to de- of the biU I nits present form: lin( taxes. of the federal inheri-', tance tax. Slioulder Dislocated. of th income tax Iola Steeby, the twelve year old BERLIN, Jan.

is in the throes of an economic crisis. Bankruptcies are increasing. Some of the firms in difficulties are products OL ihe inflation period which closed two years ago, but others are line con-vrrs unable to continue. The number of bankruptcies until October remained around the prewar level of 750 a month, but touched the 1300 mark in November and December, with a prospect of an in- licity clause. lower surtax rates which reach a maximum of 20 per cent on $590,000 income compared with the present 40 per cent maximum.

changes, mostly in the functioning of the internal revenue bureau, recommended by the i Conzens committee. The sporadic debate which has terrupted the reading of th measure during the last two days has indicat- ed that the fifht will find some regulars with the insurgents against the present bill. The debate which will be principally over the subject of the host of amendments expected is expected ''daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Steeby crease this month following d.

tern- fell and dislocated her left shoulder at the family home on Cowgill street Friday afternoon. Iola was running porary stimulation froj. Christmas the lodged bank- through the yard when her toe caught i rupicies, Germany hf.s developed a on a piece of wire sticking up out of i now type of business c'ltficulty the the frozen ground. She was thrown! "disguircd bankruptcy" in the form to the ground with such force as to of a moratorium." Applications for dislocate her shoulder. Mammoth Incubator Installed 1600 moratoria were made and granted in November and December.

Meantime, unemployment is also Grace's Accredited Hatchery at the lea S- Conservative estimates are to last for least. two or three weeks at The normal tax rates and personal corner of Elm and Webster Streets have just completed the installation that the army of the workless will be 2,000,000 soon, with the "short of their Mammoth 47,000 egg incu-, time workers making another bator. This is the largest size single O00 unit incubator sold in America, i Great indignation is aroused here is supplied by steam and is circulated hints in the foreign press that the among the eggs by electric fans. new economic crisis is merely clever Moisture is automatically supplied! Propaganda staged for the benefit from the steam pipes. Ventilation, so i of the creditors' gallery, but it is ad- essential in hatching strong, vigorous mitted that the industrialists have exemptions which will free 2,300,000 chicks, receives special attention ev-! cried vert in times of comparative peraoas from paying taxs, have beenj ery three minutes.

Temperature is! prosperity until their lamentations tentatively agreed to by the senate! controlled by positive regulators. Mr are sometimes taken with doubt. during the. reading, with the understanding that amendments may later be proposed. Senators and Swanson ot Virginia, Democratic leaders, indicated on the floor that they favor ot the administrative changes Grace expects to start setting his incubator next Thursday and iavites the public to come in and inspect this new equipment.

TO Take Northern Trip. The Jackson University basketball Nevertheless the crisis for the time being is quite genuine. Some follow the lead of S. Parker Gilbert, reparations agent general, in calling the crisis a ''recuperation" crisis, the inevitable accompaniment of a return to normalcy after Ger- proposed hy Couens. They engaged team will leave Sunday for a two Imany's inflation spree after the war.

in heated arguments with tnrougn Iowa The first Smoot of the senate finance stop wiu be Des Moines where on tee. who supports the bill in its pres- Monday night the southern Surety ent form. Senator Nbnis, Republican, Ne- team will be encountered. This team recently defeated the Cincinnati collegians and has been one of the lead- in this connection, it is pointed out that many of the concerns now going under were mushrooms growths of the inflation period. Still other elements are blamed.

Some economists find the tariff at braska, expects to use the Couzens report to bolster his demand that publicity of income taxes be retained. He will also demand that publicity be day night gtilrs colu ge of steo- extended to the operations of the rev-; patn of Des Moines and the Jackson1 and the millions involved in the dual ing entrants in the national tourna-i £ault Others point to the 250 000 ment the past three years. On Tues-i 00 ex euse involved in maintaining Germany's "toy" fleet and small army enue bureau. ADOPTED SOX OF CAMFOBKIAX ATTACKS DAVID HEWITT WILL. LOS ANGELES, Jan.

brass team will play the preliminary to the Drake-Nebraska University conference tilt at the Des Moines Coliseum. From Des Moines the Jackson University boys cut across the state to Davenport and return home by way of Centerville. At least- band did not play at David games will played on the trip. funeral, although it was one of his! last requests, Hewitt, a wealth San i Diego cittxen, had a provision in will that a brass band play at the'dal interest at the First Christian; system of state and federal government. At present, it is estimated that $40 a head is paid annually for such outlays, while even the worker earning $1 a day or less must pay 10 per cent in income tax and another 30 percent in indirect taxes.

Germany's proposed military ex- pendiures in 1926 show a 25 percent increase over last year's. Although Germany's defeat resulted in a great Question Box Services. Germany defeat resulted in a grea There will be two services of spe-; reduction in tho size of her army and navy, the annual budgets of both funeral. His will was under protest church Sunday. At the morning ser- since the war have continued to grow of relatives in federal court.

i ce the plans for the prqposed now; ste year's exceeding last An adopted son. William Hewitt church building will be submitted to year Dy 104,000,000 marks. of Galena, demands a third or the congregation and explained. Under the 1926 budget, Germany's the property, claiming he just recent- is imp ortant that all the members of army will be iQO.OOO troops compared the church be present. At th even-; to 800,000 in 1914, while her navy ing hour the Question Box service be approximately 15,000 corn- will be held at which time the ques- pared to 79,000 before the war.

ly learned of his father's death. 1080 EXTRAS PAID FOR WATCHING BOAT tions which have been placed in the. The present budget foresees a total chifrcfcj Qufcstilm Box during i expenditure of 460,000,000 marks One thousand extras, used by Dir-, mon will be answered by Rev. Ivan (about $115,000,000) for the army ector John Ford-during the filming Young. A few of the questions to; as compared to 1,284,000,000 in of fight scenes for "The Fighting De answered are "What is the signi-: 1914 while the naval budget calls for Heart," were paid for watching ficance of the statement of Rabbi' $193,000,000 marks (about masters when George Wise wi(n 1T 0 rence to 000) compared to 452,000,000 marks Victor MacLaglen, Leo Houck, Can a Business Man be Successful in 1914.

Dempsey, Marty Cross and Jimmy in Business and be upright and Dime staged several fast bouts for i is the most profit- the benefit of the camera. All of able way to pend "Can A ST. JOSEPH BANK OFFICIAL KILLS BANDIT Frank Bergman Fired Through the Opening of a Vault Door Killing the Bandit Almost Instantly. BAKER DROPS STATE SCHOOL FUND! GOVERNOR FINDS THAT THE OPPOSITION TO MOVEMENT IS TOO STRONG. ST.

JOSEPH, Jan. 30. Frank Bergman, president ef the Bank of North St. Joseph, today shot Executive, Sounding Out Senti- and killed a bandit who attempted to hold up the bank. The bandit as yet is unidentified.

robber entered the bank, forced Bergman and a customer in the vault and gathered up $1400 in The door of the vault swung meat. Decider Ittblfe Not Favor of Procedure by Initiative. JEFFBRSON CITY, Jan. 30. Governor Baker today announced abandonment of the administration cash.

open and the bandit attempted toj an to crea a separate tax fund close it. Bergman had seized a or sup rt of Missouri public State revolver and fired fiv times through the open door. The bandit was kill- CLOTHING CAUGffT IN FLYWHEEL OF GASOLINE schools and State educational institutions, because of adverse reaction from all over the State. New amnse- I ment and tobacco taxes were to have included. The proposed measure will not submitted at the election next November, but the Governor plans to ask the Legislature a year hence to enact laws establishing the same idea.

Observers had thought from start there was scant hope for the proposal, if put to the people, but Gov. Baker stuck to his guns till criticism began to pour in. Approval of the plan was given at a conference of State officials and public leaders in the governor's Here George Anderson, 28, a brother of last 65 although soi i Scott Anderson who resides on North attending refrained from voting. Sudden illness revealed that Dr. M.

V. Mayfield, who had practiced in Locust Street in this city, had a nar-j The proposed amusement and to- Mena, for over a quarter of a century, was a woman instead of a man. row escape from being killed at his! tieo were regarded by many Dr. Mayfield had made her rounds constantly and no one had suspected the) arm two and one-half miles north Persons, it was found, as nuisance taxes. Governor Bober said, te announcing withdrawal of the am GEORGE ANDERSON HAS NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH AT FARM NEAR WHEELING Was Assisting in Baling Hay Saturday Morning When Accident Be Fatally Injured secret.

When a little girl in England, her parents needed a boy to protect of Wheeling this morning. Mr. An- certawi property rights, and she was brought up as a son. She kept up the derson, who was assisting in baling deception as she grew older, going to medical school and moving to America hay on his farm, was standing near ajnaeat: as a man. She is 76, and it is feared her present illness will be fatal.

MATTEROF HOUSING ARMY IBIG PROGRAM FOR BASKETBALL BIG QUESTION! FANSTONIGHT LACK OF WINTER QUARTERS IS i TWO CONFERENCE GAMES WILL CALLED FIRST NATIONAL DENFENSE NEED An investigation Shows That 40,000 Troops Are Living Under Canvass or in Fire Traps This Winter BE PLAYED AT THE HIGH SCHOOL COURT The First anie Will be Between the Hornets and Excelsior Springs aiid the Second C. B. C. and St. Paul A double bill will be offered to bas- ation which has faced the ketball fans at the new time now confronts it i high school this evening when the WASHINGTON, Jan.

most 1 army in the matter of housing, war department officials declared today. Secretary of War Davis has appealed to congress to pass a bill prepared by the department for housing relief as the prime requisite which should take precedence over all defense legislation. The occasion for these shrill cries gasoline engine which was used running the hay baler when his clothing became caught in the Hy wheel of the engine. Before his cloning gave way Mr. Anderson was carried around several times and thrown to the ground a short distance from the Me" was picked up unconscious and carried into the house and W.

A. Swope summoned. An examination revealed several broken bones and bruises on the head, body and Jimbs. Dr. R.

Barney of this city was sum- moned and went to the Anderson home at noon where he assisted Dr. i Swope in caring for the injured man. The extent of his injuries could not be ascertained this afternoon. However, he is believed to be in a serious condition. high school Hornets play the Excelsior Springs high school five and the Chillicothe Business College quintet meets the St.

Paul college five from Concordia, Mo. Both are conference games, and a single admission 50 cents will entitle a fan to see both games. The C. B. Paul game was THE INLAND WATERWAYS A NECESSITY of inland waterways as "great i "1 don't often quit and I dou't like to give up, but I nave received adverse criticism on this proposal and have decided not to submit ft in initiative form.

I undoubtedly wUi have something to submit to the nert but don't aaow form it will take. 1 am cost almost as much to submit this proposal at the election as to noid a sesison of the Legislature." A publicity firm representative told the governor's conference Tueaflky it would cost 0,000, even with volunteer workers, to raise funds, obtain signatures to initiative petitions and seek support of the votars for the amendment ballots and other costs If such an amendment were adopted next November, its provisions could not become effective before the end of 1027, and laws of the Legislature, which will convene next January, could become effective just as soon. An important point- of opposition to the governor's plan lay in idea of writing the educational tax 'consolidated transported wag urged by Secretry of Commerce into the Constitution, the fundamental law, where it could be amended Hoover today before the House Riv- or withdrawn only with difficulty. for help is the fact that ov 40,000 scheduled for last night but the St. erg and Harberg committee.

troops are living under canvass or in Paul boys, who were driving from; RecO na tion of internal waterways firetraps through the hard winter. Concordia to Chillicothe in cars, as meang of transportation instead of Despite recommendations by the Secretary of War and chief of staff unable to complete the journey when their cars became mired in the Use of the initiative was regarded as accetable. The plan contemplated levying a disconnected or individual river and 10 per cent tax on all ordinary transportation," Hoover sail, amusement admission fees which in three vears and the preparation at a pomt betwee Avalon and Tma is of vital importance to the nation, many cases would have supplemented rvf i rr VACk tTmTYI. of an elaborate 10-year building the conditions are growing and After attempting to free themselves from the mud for several hours telephoned Coach Lail at the high school shortly after nine o'clock last Reports compiled by the depart- njgM that impossible for them rapidly worse it was said today. i the 10 per cent Federal tax), taxing HEIR TO OOO GIVES jail original sales of manufactured tc- WIFE NICKEL.

AS ALIMONY bacco in Missouri 10 per Cent, NEW YORK, Jan. whether sold first at wholesale or re- ment from the corps area commanders i'to reach here. It was then that i Bourne, heir to $40,000,000, flip-1 tail, and transferring to thia educa- game TRACY'S SATURDAY SPECIAL "Perfection Cream Fudge," regu- these actors were formerly top-' a man ake part in politics an still; lar 6Oc value. Special Saturday 29c. notchers of the squared circle lime-i be a christian an( "i there won't last long.

29-2t The Concordia boys spent the night in a church and walked to Tina this light. Regulation four-ounce gloves were used by O'Brien and MacLaplen in the fights in this screen version of Larry Evans' "Once To Every Man," a thrilling story of the prize ring. John Ford directed. The picture is playing at the New Empire Theatre tonight. A.

comedy and Yank Smith's theatre orchestra are added than one judgment?" Those Question Box services have attracted large crowds, and the service tomorrow (Continued to Page 6) APPLES AND HONEY Buy soon. We deliver. Phone 594 or 01101 11. G. A.

Smith. 27-tf describe almost unbelievable condi- LftU announced the tions in which officers wives and chil- wouhj be tonight fo i lowi dren are living in foul and flimsy tern- the Hornet Excelsior Springs porary dwellings and thousands of soldiers are without permanent sliel- ter altogether. Unable to secure adequate appro- and finished tMr journey priations directly, the department hasj by arriving here at 12:3 this proposed to congress that it be allow- afternoon ed to use for new building funds se-! cured from sale of various old army i posts, which are no longer of military value- ped a nickel to the floor, anfl, fund from the general revenue ing to his wife, said, "There's your; the State inheritance tax and the tax Mrs. Beatrice Clancy on premiums of insurance companies con Bourne, 22, his wife, testified in ther states doing business in suit for separation here yesterday, SO uri. "I love my husband," she continued.

There were approximately a thou- "but he just wants to run around and; have a good time." ference game to be played This is an opportunity which sel-i Governor Baker has pointed oat that the problem purely was eoe of creating adequate support of and colleges. WANTED EARN Money at home embroidering All American Expedition to Explore Arctic Being Formed WASHINGTON, Jan. All Detailed plans for the trip have As an example, the department re-j cently sold for over two million dol- sand people at the high school last dom comes to of seeing night to witness the first conference i two conference games for a single ad- game of the Ducks. wag A "rain check" a record breaking the fans which entitles i crowd is expected this evening. to witness the double header' The first game will be called at 8 lars a wartime aviation field on the tMg evening or any other state o'clock, water front between Miami and Coral Gables, Florida.

Though there are no other parcels of land which the department can sell so quickly and lucratively, it has more than a score which when sold will total enough to make a good be- ginning on the much needed housing CITIZENS AND SEARCH FOR ARMED WTTH RAZORS Twenty-Seven Dead As Result Of Mine Explosion In Alabama NY AC, N. Jan. of male residents aided constables and state police in patroling the streets here throughout the night in search of a lunatic, when last seen, was armed with 20 raaors. The man sought has attacked five women since Wednesday night, two last night after the armed searchers were stationed on every street corner. interesting work.

American expedition to explore the not been completed, and no decision pro gram. financed by Ameri- for us. Pleasant, Write, enclose stamp. Premier Art Arctic regions Co 237 Transportation Annex, Dept. can capital, is being organized by N156, Minneapolis, Minn.

Lieut. Commander. Richard Byrd, U. S. retired America has a sweet tooth which who headed the naval contingent of $20,000 pounds of su- the MacMillan expedition last sum- other Americans have promised finar.

i ulars has been reached as to whether an airship or airplanes will be utilized. i Edsel Ford and John D. Rocke; feller. have each promised to put it requires 10,000, gar per to satisfy. in or.

BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 30. plosion and it was hoped that the i every case the attacker clubbed the The death toll in the gas explosion remaining ten would be rescued alive, WO men he approached. iof the Premier Coal Company mine Eleven of the dead were money at hom clippi-ng news- at Mossboro, near here was' the rest were negroes. SEED SWEET POTATOES papers, addressing postal cards, brought to 27 today when searchers! The explosion was believed tht Nancy Hall and Yellow Jersey, for the expedition an-1 'No experience or canvassing.

Partk-jfound ten additional bodies. caus of a "windy shot'' which 2 .35 per bushel. Order now for Free zeno Service CO Seventeen bodies were taken from; off gas or dust. The blast did tre- spr i delivery. Wolford Bros.

Washington Desk Z207, Chicago. Sthe mine a short time aft-er th ex-jmendous damage to the mine. jConesville, Iowa. 29-lt i I oial aid it was learned today..