St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 4, 1926

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Stet inteeradinaee ee OMIC PA Ww E-DNESD BRUARY Tha CALL OUT - Resemveat - ae, | =) i q Resolution | A meeting of the presidents Paid Circulation for January DAILY SUNDAY 21 15,476 392,090 patch fs the only St. Louis iedned that 244 net paid circulation figures each month. Tosa e? With the Louis Associated Press News Servite ee ne — OT.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Paper in St ST. LOU IS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1926—40 PAGES. 78 NO: 130. PRICE 2 CENTS — OBL | HSENTED ANE DOCTOR SENT NO _ BILLS; LEFT MANY UNCASHED CHECKS | Approximately $3000 in Cash and Paper From Former Patients Found in Desk. By the Associated Press. LEOMINSTER, Mass., A policemen is standing guard to- Feb. 6} | day over the desk of Dr. —| | i fectir of F Mieaidente of | KE. Bigelow, who died Monday. In) F * Missouri 6 the desk are cash and checks total- University Called to Dis-| ing $3000. Many of the checks, | /-made out by patients, were dated, cuss Question ‘several years ago. The physician | |had a wide practice among al)! CTION FOLLOWS 3 | ~ STUDENTS OUSTER classes. He had the reputation of, inever sending a bill. | ' There are no immediate rela- | tives. Dr. Bigelow, who was in his, |of the Leominster Board of Health. for years. — ‘CHICAGO ADOPTS TICKET PLAN | OF FINING TRAFFIC VIOLATORS | iia aac to Hand Defendants Card Showing Amount of Pcn- pemnetng | Use of Liquors al Dances and Social Af- “hair to Be ee On. seventy-second year, was chairman | 15 MEN OVERCOME AFTER EXPLOSION KILLS 16 MINERS ee ee ees 0 Pittsburg Coal pee Con- taining Bodies Being Closed to Smother Out) Flames. RESCUERS S CAUGHT BY SECOND BLAST ‘Only Two of First Crew Escape and Workers Re- cover Three Bodies from Wreckage. ee alty to Be Paid. | By the Souieiate Press. CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—A_ legal OLUMBIA., Mo., Feb. 4.—The Guick-service machine, whereby a . traffic violators can admit offenses, | pe suspension of — draw printed slips indicating the, gn, star football player, and amount of the fines and pay the Louis girls from the Uni-/|cashier as they go out, somewhat w nf Missouri, as an indirect, after the mode observed in , a : rias and similar establishments, has e Beet rest, ete been approved by the City Coun- tention of university authorities sea gto the serious problem of cur- ng drinking among students. of President Brooks, Dr. Al- aK. Heckel, Dean of Men, and er professors say drinking in Pstudent body has decreased BS year, as compared with last, wadmit it is still being done. B support of his assertion that iking has decreased among stu- is, Pean Heckel made public fw number of cases in his me for last school ~ear the present year. In 1924 me were “3 students placed on bation, nine were suspended for ert periods and 12 were expelled. year 19 have been put on pro- For speeding. the acale fine will fe. six ere S00 faree Ibe $10 for the first offense; subse- mpped indefinitely, including | quent infringements will be dis- me ©6sOwever, the figures for | posed of by trial, The minor of- | mwere for both scmesters, while | tenges wiltcost “°dottar for the ay oe semester of the present /aret, $2 for the second and $5 for Phas been completed. These jtne third repetition: after that, the )pertain only to men stu-| gefendant will be haled into court. suspension of women stU-| Drivers charged with reckless driv- me being under a separate de-| ing or intoxication will not be ¢x-: rtr are abo. ae . [ : og A a vs abo . ss 00 | tended the privileges. Operation on | hin the university, mor ‘an ithe plan will begin Feb. 15. rice the number of women stu- RAE LOR LORE - ‘MAN, 94, CUTS OFF WIDOW, 25, IN WILL ON $500,000 ESTATE ya Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch, five minutes or, at pleasure, be ex- tended over a 36-hour There will be no cop in court testify to the wanderings of specdometer. Traffic policemen will give lators a ticket, checked with offense concerned and notifying the driver to appear at the within 36 hours. Once there, defendant can plead guilty. wai the customary “Good morning, Judge,’’ and be gone again in five minutes, or the fine may be paid by messenger. v10- of @ Greek letter fraternities with ban Heckel was called for this ernoon to discuss the liquor sstion. At the meeting a vote | l be taken on a resolution drawn Dean Heckel approving a reso-!Special to the Post-Dispatch. h passed last, fall by the Wom- | NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—The will | p Beit. Government Association, !of James Hervey Hart, who died at isting against the drinking of |the age of 94, filed for probate in! mor at dances and other univer-| Brooklyn, fails to mention the 25- AY affairs. ‘year-old widow, Mrs. Katie Hart. ' Women's Stringest Action. Except for minor bequests, the es- | le their Shin the samen tate, estimated at $500,000, goes to mdents took stringent measures five daughters, turtail this practice. forbidding The will was drawn #to have “dates” with men who|12/8 about a month after 1 been drinking and assessing marriage. He then was 87 years | tain punishments for failure to | 0/4 and his bride 18. Later Hart | fe the rule. sued for an annulment, saying he : he resolution to be\submitted to had found he was too old for mar- | EGaternity presidents PA Be but ae gar was dismissed | lt the majori eee eereniy (in March,: 1919. In ‘the following Men have ears Bleanproved mouth Mrs, Hart obtained $170-a- iy behavior which tends to low- month separation allowance and | the tone of our social affairs. the use of one of Hart € residences. Mlizing [ns our obligation|. ~“°*Pite the will, by reason of ihe good name of the university, her dower rights, Mrs. Hart can ave decided that each frater. | Claim and get one-third of the real estate owned by Hart, which is ‘Shall appoint one member to | me you may report any case of | V@lued at $360,000, making her share $12 0, 000. es at social functions.”’ B5s e Bion ean wich he! JAIL TERMS FOR BREWERS WHO MADE ILLEGAL BEER mtesult in establishment of a/ iy the Associated Press. ett tradition wHich will make | CINCINNATI, Feb. 4.-—George duty of every loyal student in from intoxicants at uni- functions.” H. and Joseph Osterfeld, president Party at Private Home. and vice president of the Mohawk Details the warty Brewery, drew jail sentences of B suspensic WW resulting iN|gix and four months, respectively, n of Jackson, a cap- in Federal Court today, on charges of manufacturing and selling Five Daughters Beneticiaries; How-_ ever, Mrs. Katie Hart Can Claim Her Dewer Rights. June 15, Hart's oe The entire procedure of violat- | ing a traffic law and regretting it) in harg@ cash can be transacted in | period, | | toilers dropped ismother fire in the the | bureau | the |! ive ithe i three . that | time of the ;ecme | men. | Seneral area as the first, |minal Coal Co., ‘attention (ers were ‘rescuers trom the pit after was taken to {By the Associated Press. PITTSBURG, Pa., }teen rescue workers in the Horning Feb. 4.—Fif- ' i'mine. where 15 men were entombed | by an explosion, were overcome by gas and smoke late today. They were brought to the surface by oth- er rescuers, and eight of them re- quired attention at an emergency hospital. Four of those affected were revived with pulmotors, | iwas bad came when several of the as they labored to ‘complete erection of a brattice ‘mine where the blast occurred. With erection Of the first barrier, mine officials planned to seal the} "4 hours. are in them has flame-swept area for The 16 missing men section and all hope for been abandoned. Twenty-one men were section, two miles back pit. when the blast occurred terday. Two escaped alive hodies have been recove Only Two Out Alive. early today dls: Travis and Lewis only miners to Ralph Holtzhau- reported rescued at work in in the yes- and red. A check Edward Powell were the come out alive ser, previously remained unaccounted for, said. Others in the mine at the the blast included Howard M. Ernst, general superintendent of Pittsburg Terminal Coal Co. mines and George Travis, manage of the Horning mine, Was Three rescue workers were anad many others narrow escapes when 'plosion occurred as they were en- |; deavoring to reach the entombed That blast, which was be- lieved to have come from the same was de- | scribed as being of slight force. Two of those overcome, officers of other mines of the Pittsburg required they were over- had when to the surfage. Rescue Workers Exhausted. A number of other rescue work- also overcome smoke, gas and Mckay, a Bureau of led a group of six 10 hours night by tion. George Mines expert, of exhausting labor. One of the emergency others, slightly af- and gas, were or- pital and the fected by smoke dered to rest. The first explosion, which tombed the men, occurred as they were fighting a fire which had de- veloped from some undetermined origin. George Osler, vice presi- dent of the company, who had led the fire fighters throughout the day, came to the surface late yes- terday and reported he believed the blaze under control. A half hour later the blast came. It was heard on the surface, but-did little dam- age there. Its force inside, how- ever, was terrific, rescue workers reporting that a string of mine cars en- : ona of next year’s football . “id the two girls were told illegal beer. They had pleaded guilty. tly ne tn Heckel, who said in Mcionseterdny that cr tations |g MeE® Worthman, whe bough blication os i oegli ape . } Ac : ey the beer and distributed it to Cin- P®ill do a great ia 3 “a this af. cinnati saloons, was sentenced to Ramp oy dtinking at the Uni- Atlanta penitentiary for 18 months. | ay of Missouri.” A truck driver for Worthman, joint- |ly indicted, was sentenced to one \year at Atlanta, and two brewery Bug took place last Thurs- Na private residence in ' workers were fined $250 each. had been blown to bits. | One Victim a Former Athlete. Ernst, one of the leading mining engineers of this bguminous re- igion, was a West Virginia Univer- sity athlete 20 years ago, being catcher for the baseball nine. Yesterday, when fire started in the new cut being made in the! south heading, Ernst was among the first to reach the scene. He ee with agi student ‘BILL TO LET NATIONAL BANKS "RUN BRANCHES PASSES HOUSE i Were _ , and the St. Lou b, Dean = two other men, Buents ggg — not By the Associated Press sa Rowe: oe however, | WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—The of Laat year 's | | McFadden bill, to authorize nation- y eshman foothall squad, al banks to engage in branch bank- resigned his position and ing in cities where state banks em- The | Ploy this practice, was passed to- ania | 'day by the House. * Who resides in Columbia. The measure now goes to D mnttnted & report that the Senate. - Was an instructor in the iiiewne et ~ a. me rom an un- Brew and Liquor. W and liquor were im- at the party, accord- Story told Heckel by * Companion trom Wiscon- Made j@ the le complaint which ee ee c Slumbia Since the affair. man % is said to he 4 , the Beats the K. K. K. by One K. Correepondence of the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, Jan. 20.—England now has the best of the K. K. K. Indeed it goes the American one K better. It has a comparatively new organization with four K's. It is known as the K. K. K. K.—the Klagsical Konfraternity of Kongen- ial Konfreres. It is a drinking so- hee e bre ely vy who blast center of it When the the very brattices. he was in and it is the general belief that he | was killed with the others. Many f those Arapped with Ernst were xpert mining men—assistant su- perintendents, fire bosses and oth- | er leaders who went into the work- ings to pnnet the flames. a ee PRICES ON TI TIRES REDUCED AKRON, O., Feb. 4.—A 10 per cent cut in the price of all tires and tubes is announced by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. The reduc- tion, effective last Monday, was the first in the industry in more than a year and follows a drop in crude rubber from around $1.10 a pound to near the 65-cent level within the on Page 3, Column 6. !ciety last few monthe. The first intimation that the air} to section of the | this | Tosed | and brother) | of one of those who escaped. a second ex-} Ter- medica! brought | during the | exhaus- | them hos- | playing } fullback on the football team and , superintended the work of erecting | came | ALBERT VON HOFFMANN GETS DAY IN WORKHOUSE ‘Head of Printing Concern | Going to Workhouse | Loses Appeal in Supeeme || for Day at Cost of $850 Court —Constitutionality a of Traffic Laws Affirmed | Hoffmann, wealthy | Council, who | constitu. | Albert von i member of the Safety C ‘volunteered to test the tionality of an ordinance imposing | 'a workhouse sentence for traffic lviolations, must serve one day in tae workhouse for speeding. The ‘State Supreme Court en banc, we Jefferson City today, upheld the constitutionality of the ordinance. ' “DT spent $850 to get in the Work- ‘house and I intend to serve that’ jone day,” said Von Hoffmann, iwhen apprised of the _ decision. | “I’m arranging to take along good | company. There will be newspaper | and movie photographers, too.” The president of the Von Hoff- | mann Press, the National Tele ‘phone | | Directory Co. and the St. Louis Au- | 'tomobile Club added that “he! wasn't so anxious to see the inside of the Workhouse” as he was to/| determine whether ‘“‘the law was}! right or wrong.’ A Test Case. “Now the matter is decided,” continued. ‘“‘Nobodv can go free after Von Hoffmann has served his day. It ought to be a good les- ison for everybody. I am not a |speeder. In fact I’m against speed- | ling, and I seldom drive a car my-| jself. It was a test case which my rassociates in the Safety Council and & city officials wanted me to un-; 'dertake for them. Just the same. | She bet it’s the first time anybody | ~ A TN i 7. ry) 6% si? —CGerhard Sisters Photo. ALBERT vor heniadeeemmedeabdl fever spent good money to get into! the Workhouse.” Police Judges Rosecan and Beck | expressed gratification at the Su- ;preme Court’s decision and said it would help in the safety movement. Judge Rosecan said ‘“‘the ordinance neay is a law with teeth in it.’’ Associate City Counselor Dolan ex- plained that the Police Judges ' could assess a six months’ work-. | house sentence, a $500 fine, or | ‘both, for traffic violations. “Commander Franco in Plus | It was a brush with Police Chief | Ultra Completes Hop ee - Gerk, then a Captain, that got | Von Hoffmann into court for, speeding. On April 11, 1924, Von | 'Hoffmann happened to pass Gerk ‘as both were on their way down- town, Gerk thought Von Hoffmann passed too fast—50 miles an hour ;—and arrested him, charging him j By the iWith violating the 25-mile speed | RIO DE ; limit. | The In adinitted Plus Ultra. lI‘ranco i statements, | previous arrangement he this afternoon. flight to Last Lap of Cruise. Aasociated Press. JANEIRQ, transatlantic sea- Brazil, Keb. Spanish Von Hoffmann) — the accuracy of Gerk’s ‘| plane, but made no plea. By,mander Was S€N- | -.o as eo. att) Police Court. piloted by Com- arrived here at o'clock conm- tenced to one day in the Work-} house, and appealed to the Court | Pie’ of Criminal Correction, which = oO. held the sentence. The case then The flyers thus brought their Mwas appealed to the Supreme Court | +4] on the question of the validity of | the ordinance. The Question Judge W. T. Ragland, who wrote | the Supreme “Court's opinion, an- | ‘nounced today, said the sole ques- | ‘tion involved was whether the city | Palmas, Canary Islands, could imprison violators of the| day. .They ' traffic ordimances or any other | Cape Verde Islands, on Jan. -6, to ordinance. He held | the island of Fernando do Noronha that power. thence Jan, 30, and Von Hoffmann’s attorneys con- | mae Se where tended the St. Louis Board of Al-|- a dermen had no legal authority to | PY the Asso imprisonment as a penal- BAHIA, B ty for violation of an ordinance. of roses, cut They asserted a prosecution for |hambuco ae s : violation of a municipal ordinance |/abecr Franco's seaplane as it was a civil proceeding for recov- |8Ped southward over this city, ery of a debt, and under the Con- about 425 miles from his starting stitution tmprisonment for debt|POint. Single buds sold at high was prohibited, except for non- | Prices — _— a oe payment of fines or penalties im-|°f the Spaniards’ flight. posed for violations of law. They contended Von Hottmann hea vot| PARTLY CLOUDY; LOWEST TEMPERATURE ABOUT 28 a fine. THE TEMPERATURES! ting the 1264-mile from leaving Palos, The remaining mileage since Spain, to 4845 miles lap, from this city to Buenos Aires, Involved. is about 1380 miles. “raneo and his Palos on Jan. 22, comrades arriving at city the city had the today’s ' on iday to jated Presa. razil, Feb. 4.—Bunches this morning at Per- dropped from Com- provide Judge Ragland stated the char- ter of the City of St. Louis: gave | the city power to enforce any of its ordinances, rules or regulations by fines, penalties or imprison- ment. “The language could not be plainer,’’ he wrote. “So far as the' ‘charter is concerned the power fs /expressly conferred upon the city) to enforce its ordinances by means! m.: of imprisonment.” j | Authority Under State Law. | | [ae - ~*~ ~INVoretcit= mw > Pp 44. at 12:30 pb. 45 p. m, ghest veuterds iV, lowest, 32 at 11 os a se WILL SMALL GROCERIES BE CANNED? for vicinity : Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; not much change in| temperature: low- | A State law 4lso giv2s cities of the first class, such as St. Louis, | the power to enforce ordinances ly} | penalties or imprisonmenc, the| | Judge stated. “From the statutes! ,it is obvious that the charter pro- vision in question is in complete harmony with the general law of ithe State,"’ he declared. The Judge overruled the con- ‘tention that the prosecution for! violation of a municipal ordinance | was a civil proceeding for collec- | tion of a debt and held the Von; ‘Hoffmann case was a proceeding! |which had for its sole object the infliction of punishment for viola- tion of an ordinance. “The ordi- | nance of the City of St. Louis pre- scribing the rates of speed at which motor vehicles under varying con- | sibly some rain or snow in | ditions, may be driven over fts| treme south portion; slowly ,streets, clearly falls within the | temperature Friday in Northwest category of municipal police regu-| portion. lations,” Judge Ragland wrote. | Arkansas: Tonight cloudy, “And its character in that respect | | rains; tomorrow partly cloudy: is in no Wise changed by the fact | tle change in temperature. i that there is a general statute reg- Sunset today, 5:26 p, m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:04 a. m | ° 8. Missouri: lv cloudy A cloudy and Friday; prob- ably light snow tonight in eXx- treme South por- tion; slowly ing Friday west portion. Illinois: ly cloudy and Friday; Part- tonight | pos- | ex- local lit- i Continued aR Page 3, Column 4. 1264-MILE FLlGn! NeXT | CHURCH SOCIETY Temperance ! IN SPEEDING TEST CASE 'NAl SUPPORTED ~ PRORIBITION NOW FOR MODIFICATION Organization of Episcopalians, With 20,000 Members, Favors Light Wines and Beer. ‘CHANGE DUE TO SURVEY BY OFFICIAL an _ STRANGE MIP co temme INSENATE OVER ADMINISTRATION TAX MEASURE HE specified objections of Measure Attacked by Three the Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church to prohibi- tion are: 1. The effect of prohibition has been to put an end (to scientific temperance teaching. 2. It has discouraged the con- sumption of wine and beer and increased the demand for dis- tilled liquors, which today are mostly poisonous. 3. It has resulted in an in- , creased drinking among young Republicans, Defended 4. It has brought about. dis- by Like Number of Dem respect for ali laws. | 5. It is class legislation, dis- | | crats. : criminating in favor of the rich. 6. In our survey we found . intemperance increased. KELLOGG TELLS COURT IT HAS people. EE WRANGLE CAUSED BY 0 PER CENT SURTAX ‘Secretary Declares Law Has NO POWER IN KAROLYI CASE’ Senator Norris Challenges : ' showed Ended Tem perance, seeclianten of Countess Based on Teaching and Increased | Drinking Among Young. y the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—The Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, for- merly active in the cause of pro- hibition, it is announced, favors modification of the Volstead act | to legalize the sale of light wines and beer. The announcement was made through the Rev. Dr. national sec- yesterday James Empringham, retary, formerly national vice pres- ident of the Antisaloon League. A poll of the 20,000 members of the society, Dr. Empringham said, an overwhelming prepon- derance in favor of modific ation of | the Volstead law. i ' i f ' | | ihe from Pernambuco—Next | i ham } to-} | } left | Las } the same tlew td Porto Praya, i i j { .of prohibition. /closure ‘church He said that his announcement was mda@e public over the pleas of several prohibition leaders who asked that he suphbress it lest it do irreparable damage to the cause Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel to the Antisaloor League of America, was among those who asked him to hold it up, said. Wheeler at Washington has de- nied he telephoned Dr. Empring- on the matter, but has ad- mitted that he wrote to ask an op- portunity to present figures show- ing the other side of the picture. Secretary's Report. report made by Dr. Em-,| a closed meeting of In a pringham to Episcopal clergy at the Town Hall, | coal controversy that his society | today Monday, he said was now in favor of modifying the Volstead act because: 1. The effect of prohibition has been to put an end to scientific temperance teaching. ~. It has discouraged the con- sumption of wine and beer and increased the demand for dis- tilled liquors, which today are mostly poisgnous. Jd. It has resulted in increased drinking among young people. 4. It has brought about disré- spect for all laws. v. It is class legislation, dis- criminating in fator of the rich. 6. In our survey we found in- temperanée increased. The gurvey referred made by a yvear in an effort to prove tion was a success. This survey, he told the clergymen. showed lim | that prohibition had made the sit- uation worse.: Hope in Education. Le to “We ‘that continued, the first result of this dis- will be that the societies will get back on their old jobs and do thoroughly what they were doing when prohibition came along—carry on an educational movement, which is the only. hope for the suppression of the whole liquor traffic. But we honestly be- lieve that prohibition has been re- sponsible for a spread of anarchy and general lawlessness and that a modification of the Volstead act would be in the interest of pro- believe, he ihibition and temperance.”’ Official forecast | St. Louis and | tha Dr. re. io The change of policy of temperance society, Iempringham said, followed a port he made some time ago the Board of Directors. Dr. Empringham resigned as est tonight about |e of the Cathedral of Central New York at Syracuse, to enter the 'New York State Antisaloon League to jin 1915. tonight | Said, ‘temperance After nine months, he he disagreed with the policies of William H. Anderson, then a director, and resigned. The church society has a list of ;}members and officers that includes ris- | temperature | in North-| } . itest of Wayne B. Wheeler, rising | counsel of the Antisaloon League, 20 bagvone. Tells of His Survey. The naticonak secretary said he Most- | had made a report of his findings to the clergy of the Episcopal! ,Church of New York over the pro- general who requested him by telephone, telegraph and mail to withhold it, saying that it “would show that prohibition had failed.” “] started out a year ago,” Dr. | Empringham said. “ “to fs lh ma- Continued on Page 2, Column a ey 'man of the White! House, 'Calvin Coolidge, ‘ctitutes—and now Was one! Empringham more than!pim the strong, ago throughout the nation!taiks a couple of columns a day, that prohibi- and to preserve his pose as a non- |, | say it was the official spokesman. | The voice of the official spokesman ‘is the same voice the folks hear Minority to Reconcile Present Stand With That of Two Years Ago. | Evidence Entry Would Not Be for Nation’s Best Interest, He Says. By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-—Secre- | | tary Kellogg told the Supreme ‘Court of the District of olumbia | vee By CHARLES G. ROSS, today that evidence received by, ‘Chief Washington Correspondent him had led him to believe the en- | of the Post-Dispatch. try of Countess Catherine Karolyi; WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. The into the United States would be) Ww nted 3 prejudicial to the interests of the | strange Sse Yer ” the Senate today of three nation. He made this reply, through | Republicans, Norris of Nebraska. Government attorneys, to a suit re-, Borah of Idaho and Couzens of cently filed by the Countess’ at- | vichigan, attacking the adminis- torneys, who sought to force him | to permit her entry, after the re-|tTation tax bill, and three abie cent decision to refuse to vise her Democrats, Simmons of North Car- passport gt Paris. ,Olina, Underwood; of Alabama and The Secretary said he instructed | qiags of Virginia, defending it. ;the American Consul-General at, 9 ‘ Rear 1 pede ‘Paris to refuse a visa, and that the | Standing in the center aisle, No,- Democrats Countess is subject to exclusion ris challenged the under the passport control act of | break away from the coalitien their May 22, 1922, a proclamation by) ‘leaders have formed with the a the President of Aug. 8, 1918, and) jinigtration Republicans and jo.: an executive order of Jan. 12,) ‘him in putting a graduated atc = 1925. In addition, he said, he is) on incomes over $100,000. given discretion under the Seo nd As the bin now steeee determine what persons sha e 5 excluded and that this exercise of yesterdays vote fixing the discretion is not reviewable in’ court. He did not disclose the na- ture ~of evidence against Countess. io after niaxil- mum surtax at 20 per cent, or 5 per cent less. than Secretary Mel- tus | ago; -@ progressive scalé is provided on incomes Fomine uy), to $100,000. There the progres - sion stops. The tax is fixed at 20 COOLIDGE AGAIN CRITICISED FOR COAL STRIKE ATTITUDE! " in- comeés over $100,000, just as it was applied to incomes below that. amount, had anything to do with, “confiscation.”" He sald that he. h GOFF BEFORE U, S, GRAND JURY ic." cc,coss” S&*inat, confiscation Senator Questioned in Metal Co. Case. ‘property seized by the By the Aaociated Pres. States Guring the war. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—United! “I full to see,” said Borah, “how’ States Senator Guy D. Goff of West: you can confiscate under a system, Virginia appeared this afternoon of graduated taxes on income.’’ before the Federal grand jury} Tariff “Robbery 6ystem.”’ which 1s investigating the Ameri- can Metal Co. case. Goff was As- sistant Attorney-General under Harry M. Daugherty. who was be- fore the grand jury last week, jing to “tear down the present sys- tem of robbery,” there was a pro-: posal] from the Republican side to. ~ Continged on Page 2, Column 7. > b J * able. lon himself asked for ied. XP85 %... see how a simple. proposal to apply ™ American | ‘wouldnt even confiscate the alien. United ¢ Remarking that instead of seek-- tte enentrnellee. «iliac seg erect yall walang eens ttl ri cate ae or seam ‘as a -— x 2 awe wre t wi ee rene os tee ne ov enihehneeegetiny