16
SALARY SCALE
OF OFFICIALS
REMAINS SAME
Woodburn TJie city council met
In regular session Tuesday night
which was the date for the annual
election of city officers. A motion
was made and seconded that John
Mulr be re-elected as street com
missioner but the motion was not,
put to a vote and the matter of
electing officers came to an abrupt
close. It will probably be taken up
again at the next meeting.
Salaries of all city officers were
fixed with no change from last year
The salary of the water superinten
dent Is $90 per month; that of the
street commissioner, sra per monin,
marshal. $85 per month; city re
corder, $85 per month; city attor
ney, $29.75 per month; city treas
urer. $25.50 ner month; fire chief,
$8.50 per month, and health officer
$85 per year.
A motion was made and seconded
that the ordinance committee be
authorized to prepare an ordinance
fixing the number of police officers
to be hired. This was discussed but
also failed to come to a vote. A mo
tion that only one police officer oe
hired was lost.
Chief of Police Alfred Ashland
was Instructed to secure a bond.
Tile scale of wages for municipal
labor was fixed at 30c per hour for
common labor and 50c per hour for
skilled labor.
Two Insurance policies, covering
the city hall, were paid, totaline
$153 In premiums for policies ag'
gregatlng $9000.
OILING PLANS
GET APPROVAL
Oiling of market roads In Clack'
amas, Yamhill and Washington
counties at a cost of nearly $100,
000 was approved late Wednesday
at a special meeting of the state
highway commission.
The commission met here primar
ily for a conference with the state
land board to object to paying roy
alty of ten cents per yards for sand
and gravel taken from the beds of
navigable streams.
It will cost the commission $76,000
more per year under the law passed
by the special session of the legis
lature, R. H. Baldock, state highway
engineer, said. Private companies
which now sell sand and gravel to
the state cheaply will demand ten
cents If the land board gets that
much, Baldock said.
State Treasurer Holman pleaded
for . the money for the Irreducible
school fund.
The engineer was Instructed to
conduct preliminary surveys for pro
posed railroad crossings in The
Dalles.
Construction of additional shed
room at Government Camp main
tenance headquarters, Including t
light plant, was authorized for
$1600. A $1000 addition to the Cor.
vallls maintenance shed will be built
later.
Hearings on highway rouje chang
es were set for Estacada on Decem
ber 27 and Astoria December 28.
The commission postponed until
' another special meeting in Portland
next Tuesday action on oiling of the
roadway leading to the top of Pilot
Butte at Bend, and on a letter from
Hedmond chamber of commerce
urging elimination of a dangerous
curve on the Ochoco highway one
fourth mile cost of a railroad cross
ing at Redmond.
Italian Wheat Yield
123 Bushels to Acre
Rome (LP) A world's soft wheat
record of 123 bushels to the acre Is
claimed for a new seed produced by
Senator Ntizareno Strampclll, Ital
ian authority on cereals.
The seed was experimented with
In the last sowings In Italy, and, It
Is officially reported, established the
record yield. The new wheat also
Is said to ripen faster than any
known variety.
KIN GET 2, STATE $3,278
Evansvllle, Ind. (IP) John W.
Tharling, local photographer, left
an estate on which Indiana will
collect $3,278 Inheritance taxes but
Ills closest kin, a brotner and sister,
get only $1 each, under terms of a
will filed for probate.
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hours ahead of rain or snow. It is surprisingly rcllablo on local
weather conditions. Made on strictly scientific principles. Wo
lmvo secured a special price on I quantity and, as long as they last,
will aril them for 69c.
PERRY'S DRUG STORE
lit So. Commercial HI.
ITALIANS TAKE ANOTHER ETHIOPIAN TOWN
A machine gun crew In action behind a pile of rocks, as tanks covered the rouoh around, bristling
with gunB, In the background. This action picture by Joseph Caneva, Associated Press staff photog
rapher, was taken on the Adlgrat-Makale frontier. The Italians took Makalo In their latest drive. (As
sociated Presa Photo) v
Not Sales Tax, but
Gross Income Levy,
G ommission Avers
In the first place it isn't a sales tax. Instead, the mea
sure passed by the recent special session of the legislature
was a gross income tax, the state tax commission declared
today.
But since the Income tax field em
braces levies on net and gross re
ceipts and gross sales, the new law
has easily, but Incorrectly, been call
ed a sales tax, the commlsison ex
plained. The gross Income tax, however,
would not be passed on to the con
sumer on each purchase as the retail
sales taxes operate In Washington
and California. It would be shift
ed only If and when the merchant
was able to transfer it Into the cost
of doing business.
It would be only paid In the form
of higher prices on more expensive
merchandise.
All Income from sales of foodstuffs
would be exempt from the tax.
This, the commission believes, would
cut the tax revenue 50 per cent
or from $8,000,000 annually to $4,
000,000.
The bill House BUI No. 85, by
Rep. Warner B. Snider of Deschutes
and Lake counties was Jammed
through the legislature on the last
day of the session, and was a sub
stitute for Snider's H. B. 54, which
was an exact copy of the Washing
ton state sales tax law.
The people will approve or reject
the gross income tax at a special
election Jan. 31, 1030.
Title of the bill supports the tax
commission's view In that the act is
not a sales tax. It rends: "A bill
for an act to provide funds for old
age assistance, aid to the blind, aid
to dependent children and aid for
the unemployed by imposing a priv
ilege tax measured by gross Income
from retail sales of tangible person
al property and, also, a privilege
tax mesaured by grass Income from
wholesale sales of such property. . ."
Neither taking a stand tor or
against the bill, the tax commission
made these observations for the
United Press.
"1. First and foremost, the act
is a gross Income tax not a sales
tax, the fundamental dflfercnce be
ing that a gross Income tax Is
charged to and paid by the merch
ant, not the consumer, and can only
be passed on to the consumer In the
sense that other Items such as rent
and personal property taxes are con
sidered In the cost of doing busi
ness and added to the merchant's
mark-up of his goods and cannot be
said to be paid by the consumer any
more than the real property taxes
on the merchant's store and stock
of goods arc paid by the consumer
"2. Unuko snips tnxrs. there nrc
.
no provisions for passing the tax
to the consumer, or that the con
sumer shall pay the tax at the time
of purchase.
"3 There are no tokens or other
means provided to be used In con
nection with small purchases.
"4 If it were a sales tax there
woud either be provision for pay
ment of the tax in pennies or tok
ens or at least a means offered of
paslng the tax on. Or there would
be exemptions of certain small sales
and schedules covering sales be
tween certain prices, such as are us
ed where tokens are In vogue all be
ing various types of machinery for
passing on the tax.
"6 It follows the Indiana gross
income tax low the purest type of
such inclme tax legislation in the
United States and Is similar to the
South Dakota and certain other
gross Income tax laws.
The gross Income tax law Is far
different from the retail sales tax
defeated by the voters In 1933, the
commission said. A sales tax has
been voted down twice.
The previous law was modeled on
the California retail sales tax and
provided for the passing on to the
consumer of a two per cent tax on
each purchase. It contemplated the
use of a schedule which would elim
inate the tax on purchases up to
15 cents, collect one cent on the
next bracket, two cents on the next
and so on, or else requires the use
of tokens to make change when
pennies did not work out evenly.
me new law. If approved at the
Warehouse Clearance
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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL.
. ....
January election, will tax wholesal
ers one-quarter of one per cent
and retailers two per cent on their
gross incomes. Both rates of tax
are on sales of tangible ' personal
property and not on personal serv
ices unless the service Is Incident to
the ales of the property as a suit
made by a tailor, a meal served in
a restaurant, and so on.
In order to avoid a nuisance to
both the taxpayer and the state,
there is an exemption of $50 per
month of gross income of each per
son from sales of tangible personal
property, thereby eliminating the
cigar stand, lunch counter and road
side stand.
The tax will be collected by the
commission in monthly installments
on or before the end of each month
next following the transactions.
TITLE ACCEPTED TO .
SCUTCHING MILLS
Title to the three flax retting and
scutching plants which will be built
in the Willamette valley by federal
and city cooperation was accepted
by the state board of control at a
meeting late Wednesday.
One of the plants will be built at
Eugene. The others have not yet
been located.
Ten Ford V-8 four-door sedans
were bought for the highway de
partment. Seven of the cars were
purchased from Alexander Motor
company, Albany, for $4344.20, and
three from Isaac R. Tower, Marsh-
field, for $1560.
Sixty per cent of the state's $60,-
000 annual tire and tube purchases
was awarded Lee Tire & Rubber
company, Portland, with the bal
ance to be distributed by Purchas
ing Agent Dan Fry.
A $2840 ambulance will be bought
for the Oregon State hospital. A
new flax scutching machine costing
$645 was approved.
Improvement of the grounds or
the Eastern Oregon Tuberculosis
hospital at The Dalles as a WPA
project "was approved.
$49.50
$59.50
-En $25
$29.50
$24.50
MAKES OF COPPER TUB WASHERS
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OPERATIC FILM
COMEDY, DRAMA
IS NOW SHOWING
America's favorite baritone, Law-
ence Tibbett, returns to the screen
in "Metropolitan," the 20th Century
production, showing at the Elsinore
theater, as the star of a picture that
sets new high standards In musicals.
In the course of the dramatic co
medy, which traces the adventures
of a young singer in pursuit of
fame and romance, Tibbett sings
selections from the operas "Car
men," "Pagliacci" and. "The Barber
of Seville," as well as a duo of po
pularnumbers. Romantic complications beset Tib-
bett's path in "Metiopolitan." In
love with Virginia Bruce, he cannot
reveal his inclinations because Alice
Brady loves him. She Is a tempera
mental prima donna, and Tibbett's
fate, and that of the company, hang
on her good will.
When Tibbett decides that he
cannot pretend for Miss Brady's
sake any longer, the company faces
a crisis, without money or support
ers. The climax shows how this gal
lant band of performers rally round
their leader and come through with
a crashing success.
Personally produced by Darryl F.
Zanuck, and directed by Richard
Boleslawski, "Metropolitan" features
Cesar Romero, Luis Alberni, Thurs
ton Hall and George Marion, St., in
its supporting cost.
PROTEST MADE
BY ETHIOPIANS
Geneva, Nov. 21 (flV-Ethiopia pro
tested to the League of Nations yes
terday against any claim for a set
tlement of her controversey with
Italy which might be based on the
advances made by Italian armies
into Ethiopia.
"As the victim of unjustified ag
gression perpetrated under the most
unfair conditions, said the note,
"the Ethiopian government and
people refuse to entertain any pro
posal which directly or indirectly
would allow the aggressor to reap
the reward of his crime."
The Ethiopian protest accuses
Italy of military barbarity and op
pression.
"With the help of Almighty God,"
the government stated, "the Ethio
pian government and people will
fight to the death no matter what
the cost and however long the war
may last to escape this savage dom
ination. "They are confident of the sup
port of the League of Nations In
winning through in this dreadful
ordeal.
Ethiopia charged Italy bombarded
undefended towns from the air and
massacred women and children. It
denounced the leaders of the Ita
lian armies as claiming to be ful
filling "the sacred trust of civiliza
tion" on the ground that they ac
tually are engaged in murdering a
civil population of old men, women
and children.
The protest attacks Italy saying
that an unequal warfare was ac
companied by an attempt to buy
traitors for cash and to bribe them
to rise against the lawful govern
ment. Manitowoc, Wis. (IP) Marine dis
asters on the Great Lakes from 1900
to 1935 are described and tabulated
in chronological ordet in a record
book of Capt. Edward Carus, retired
local marine authority.
nop
Phone 6022
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New Bridge May be
Simpson Memorial
Naming of the Coos Bay bridge
"A. M. Simpson Memorial bridge"
will be considered by the state high
way commission at its next meeting
in Portland next Tuesday.
The span, now under construc
tion, is one of the five coast high
way bridges,
HOME REBEKAHS
SERVING DINNER
Woodburn The semi-annual
election of officers of Home Re
bekah lodge No. 58 was held Tues
day night at the I.O.O.F-.hall and
the following were elected to take
office in January;
Bculah Lessard, noble grand; Eth
el Tresldder, vice grand; Edith
Frentz, recording secretary; Mabel
Jackson, financial secretary; Myrtit
Hall, treasurer. The appointive offi
cers will be announced later by the
noble grand elect.
The Rebekah degree was confer
red upon Mrs. Ida Garrison. A num
ber of visitors were present from
Monitor and Needy and short talks
were given by the visiting member
during the social hour and also by
Mrs. Garrison. Refreshments were
served by Mrs. Susan Strike, Mrs.
Bculah Lessard and Miss Rowena
Cole.
Plans were made to hold the an
nual family pot-luck dinner Friday
at 6:30 o'clock to which members of
all branches of the order and their
families are invited. The committee
in charge includes Mrs. Nora Broy
les, Mrs. Edith Frentz and Mrs.
Pearl Hopkins. A program will fol
low1 the dinner and is being ar
ranged by Mrs. Cora Taylor ano
Mrs. Myrtle Hall.
At the next regular meeting, De
cember 3, degrees will be conferred
on three candidates and refresh'
merits will be served by Opal Ha
senyager, Kathleen Garrison and
Joyce Woodfin.
Chicago (LP) Leo Bterstein bought
a $15 German police dog for a
watchdog. "He's a one-man ani
mal," Bierstein told his friends. Af
ter letting the dog out for a run
one morning, Bierstein discovered
his "watchdog's" collar and license
tag had been stolen.
A Three Days' Cough
Is Your Danger Signal
No matter how many medicines
yuu imve tnea lor your cougn, cnesc
cold or bronchial irritation, you can
get relief now with Creomulslon.
Serious trouble may be brewing and
you cannot afford to take a chance
with anything less than Creomul
slon, which goes right to the seat
of the trouble to aid nature to
soothe and heal the Inflamed mem
branes as the germ-laden phlegm
Is loosened and expelled.
Even If other remedies have
failed, don't be discouraged, your
uruggmi, is uutnorizea to guarantee
Creomulslon and to refund your
money if you are not satisfied with
results from the very first bottle.
Get Creomulslon right now. (Adv.)
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THURSDAY.
CAMP COOKERY
CLUB TITLED
Gates The boys of the camp
cookery club have selected their club
name, "The Bluejay Porridge Club."
The girls' group are to be known as
"Patch-'Em-Up Sewing Club" was
decided at a special meeting the
first of the week.
Mrs. H. N. Wilson led the discus
sion for the plans for the year. Three
AUAmericabasmar
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Blended Whiskey.
So outstanding a
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whiskies today.
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additions were made to the previous
Official list K) inciuue nuuicy oei-
lnw ntanlcf DplftrR Dike. SOnit
leaden and Zetta White, yell leader.
A committee on games, rcireau
ments and on program have been
rmmoH anrl HpmOnKtrated their EST
vice following the business session
in a social hour. i
Mrs. H. N. Wilson will open her
home to the members for a party
Saturday evening.
Two divisions of the girls organ
ization report for work. The second
year classes are making tea towels
and the third year group are mak
ing articles of clothing.
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