8 NEWWARTAX RULING J « WORLI OF Law Applies to L ife Insurance. The­ ater Tickets. Stocka and Bonds, IS IW ALL! BRITISH OF UNITED-STATES Merchant Marine Is First Line of Naval Defense in This War. Public Utilities, t'igara*and Clear- ettes Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. Increased Postal Kates Also Are in Effect. VESSELS WORK FOR ALLIES New Agreement is^Greeted as Most Momentous Event. ARE FEEDING MANY LANDS Tlireo-cent letter postage went Into effect Friday o f last week, as an addl- i tioual measure to increase the rev- English Freighters Fight U-Boats j enues of the United States during the Whlls Neutral Craft Ply to Safe Y f i l l war Period. Postal cards double in • U U price. Zones— Half Tonnage Working The postage on letters will be at the for Franco Sent by England. rate of 3 cents for every ounce or (taction thereof, excepting drop let­ Loudon.— An analysis o f the pres­ Brents o f Noted People, Gore ents ters mailed for delivery from the o f­ Interests in China Recognized. Open fice at which they are posted, which ent status o f Great Urltulu's merchant Door Maintained Kra o f Good and Pacific Northwest and Other may be mailed at the rate of 2 cents licet us affected by the war will Indi­ an ounce or fraction. W ill Appears Inaugurated. Things Worth Knowing. cate more cloarly than any statement Postal cants are required to be pre­ heretofore issued the extent to which paid 2 cents, and therefore 1-cent pos­ tal cards must have a 1-cent stamp af­ the merchaut ninrliie has been ab­ fixed to them in addition to the 1-cent sorbed into national service under llie A t a meeting in Petrograd Saturday, stamp Impressed on such cards, Washington. D. C.— Japan and the immediate coutrol o f the government. representatives o f the whole Petrograd Private mailing cards with written United States have reached a complete There 1s no more emphatic proof garrison passed under the guidance messages sent openly in the malls will agreement in regard to China and at of the meaaure In which England has and influence o f the Bolsheviki, the be transmitted at tbe rate of 2 cents placed her resources at the disposal of radical pacifist group. There was each, payable by stamps to b© affixed the same time have arrived at a d ear by the sender. understanding as to military, naval the war cause than this analysis of the great excitement in the city. If less than 3 cents is prepaid on merchant fleet's disposition. British In the region o f the Black Sea coast a letter or other tirst-clasa matter it and economic co-operation in the war ships are working for France, for Italy, the Russians have driven the Turks will be returned to the sender. If against Germany. I for the unfortunate neutral states that from their first line and advanced in known, for the deficient postage. If This momentous development was would be threatened with starvation the sender is not known, it will. If some places to the third line, the War prepaid at least 2 cents, be marked announced Wednesday by Secretary If the allies did not help to keep them office announces. Large quantities o f with the deficient postage and sent to Lansing, who made public notes ex ­ alive. Troops, munitions, equipment, arms and munitions were captured. its destination for collection of the changed between him and Viscount food supplies huvo been brought from Uhii. the special Japanese ambassador, all quarters o f the world In British The first woman letter carrier, un­ amount due upon delivery. The new rates are applicable to let­ uniformed, but with a government ters addressed for foreign delivery, formally recording an agreement rec­ *hl|>s, not exclusively for British con­ badge, was seen in Washington Wed- as follows: The Bahamas. Canada, ognising that Japan has a special in­ sumption, but for all of Brltulu's al­ Without the neaday. She is on a light route, as an Cuba Barbados. British Guiana. Brit terest in China, but pledging the in­ lies and for neutrals. experiment for women substitutes for ish Honduras, Dominican Republic, dependence and territorial integrity o f nrltlsh merchant marine the world's men, owing to the shortage o f men. | Dutch West Indies, England, Ireland, the great Eastern republic and re­ International commerce would be al­ _. .. ... , . . Scotland. Wales, Leeward Islands. affirming the doctrine o f the “ open most at u standstill. Five ships with a tonnage o f about Mexico, Newfoundland. New Zealand door” for commerce and industry. A famous authority on shipping uml 25,000 thus far have been placed by alMj panama. In a statement accompanying the the American government at the d is-: W ith all of the above countries, by note Mr. Lansing said Viscount Ishii naval uffalrs recently pointed out that poeal o f Italy for the transport o f sup- mutual agreement, the same rate of and the members o f his mission, now the merchant murine has become the tlrst line o f naval defense In this w a r; plies. Before the month is over an- postage as that prevailing at home their way home, had performed a and It Is literally true. A majority of other 75,000 tons, it is said, w ill have: was charged for foreign delivery service o f the highest value to the Postmasters have been Instructed been turned over. I. that the provisions of the order do not United States, as well as to Japan, by merchant ships are now armed, and therefore take the same chance« ns away misunderstandings Convinced that pro-German agencies affect the rates applicable to letters clearing -hips. They are uttacked by the are at work to hinder the aircraft pro- to foreign countries other than those which, if unchecked, promised to de­ enemy on sight and they light the en­ duction program, officials believe a uamed, the rates for such remaining velop a serious situation in the Far emy on sight. drastic campaign against agitators may at 5 5 cents ceDts for ,or the lhe first fir8t ounce and 3 East. cents for each additional fraction. Keep Out of Danger. He spoke o f the attitude o f con­ be necessary, reaching to the spruce, On pleasures and necessities alike forests o f the Northwest, where the the war tax falls. It even applies to straint and doubt fostered by a cam­ Neutral vessels have sought the less wood for airplanes is being cut. life insurance, to theater parties, to paign o f falsehood adroitly and secretly dangerous tones o f o|>eraUon and ply carried on by the Germnas and said their trade to waters far from the Ger­ Hog cholera killed enough animals stocks and bonds, to public utility facilities, and to the manufacture of that, through the frankness and cor­ man submarine bases, where they may last year to have fed one million sol-1 cigarettes diality o f the Japanese commission­ reasonably be certain to remain un­ d ie rs a m e a t ration for five and a half I [ C‘ t As J a „ part of , the * " 1 war . revenue meas­ ers, the propaganda o f years had been molested. To the British merchant fleet months, the department o f Agriculture ure the tax is designed to aid the undone in a few days. Is left the uncomfortable duty o f serv­ announced Tuesday. This enormous liberty loan in financing the nation's Until Tuesday night, when an Asso­ ing In those waters where submarines loss, the statement said, was unneces­ struggle for democracy. The follow­ ciated Press cable dispatch from Pekin ure thickest, where mines are strewn, sary, as hog cholera to a large extent ing provisions of the measure have been furnished by Milton A. Miller. announced that the Japanese ambassa­ whore the Germans show the least con­ can be prevented. United States Collector o f Internal dor there had informed the Chinese cern for humanity, where every hour Coal operators o f Colorado, Utah Revenue, for Portland: foreign office o f the signing o f an and every mile represents the serious and W yoming have presented to the agreement by Secrearty Lang Lug and Individual Income Tax. chunce o f death and destruction. priority committee o f the W ar Indus­ Reports to be made between January 1 Viscount Ishii, it had not been known The French ministry of mercantile March 1, 1918, on income for entire genreally that the delicate Far East­ tries Board a request for a full car and year of 11*17. Exemptions— Married per­ supply for mines in those states to meet sons. $2000; single persons. $1000. Collec­ ern question had been taken up at the marine has Issued a statement which blank about January 1. urgent fuel requirements, both for in­ tor can furnish conferences between the commission­ sets forth the condition of the French Corporations Income Tax. merchant fleet. It is stated that the dustrial and domestic use in the inter­ Reports to be made between January 1 ers and American officials. French merchant marine amounts to and March 1,. 1*18. covering the calendar mountain section. In fact, it was stated authoritatively year 1917. $4,107,000 tons, o f which 2,100.000 tons soon after the mission’s arrival in W a r Excess Profits Tax. Because he opposed support o f the Reports to be made between January 1 Washington that such problems would has been loaned to Frnuce by Great government in its war policies and his and March 1, . 1918. covering . .. Britain. Thus It uppears that half the the calendar congregation called for his resignation, year 1917, by individuals, partnerships not be touched upon and, as the con­ tonnage working for Frnnre is furnish­ ferences progressed, the general un­ and corporations. Exemptions— Individu­ the Rev. J. L. Taylor, pastor o f the als. and partnerships, $6,000; corporations, ed by Great Britain. This Is particu­ First Baptist church, leading one o f $3000. Blanks may be procured about derstanding was that such subjects as larly Interesting In view of the well- Japan’s need for steel for shipbuilding that denomination in Savanah, Ga., January 1. W a r T a x on Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco, and American gold for trade balances known fact that French shipping has announced that he would leave his pul­ Etc. been dealt with rnther tenderly by the were engrossing attention. pit next Sunday night. One-half of this tax became effective It now develops that these latter German submarines. coincident with the passage of the act 4. upon the floor stock of all deal­ questions have been left to the resi­ The greatest o f French shipping cor­ A dispatch to the London Exchange October ers. Inventory must be made as of that Telegraph from Amsterdam says Gen­ date and filed with the Collector of Inter­ dent ambassador, Aimao Sato, to work porations has been particularly fortu­ Revenue at once. Forms may be pro­ out with the proper officials o f the nate In this regard, and a curious ex- eral von Berrer, commanding the nal cured at 210 Custom-house. On and after Wurttemburg armies on the northeast­ November 1 all manufacturers or Import­ American government. must pay the full rate of tax on all Comment on the dispatch from Pe­ ern front, was killed Friday while vis­ ers such articles sold. kin wa3 withheld because o f an under­ itin g the trenches near Riga. General W a r T a x on Facilities Furnished by It standing between the two governments Public Utilities. von Berrer had a prominent share in SENATOR BANKHEAD This tax becomes effective November 1, that the announcement should be made the capture o f the Russian positions in 1917; monthly returns to be made there­ CARRIES “ BIG STICK" g Washington and this region. after showing amount of business tran­ simultaneously at sacted, and tax to be paid thereon at the Tokio. Warren K. Billings, under sentence rate of 3 per cent. E x p r e s s co m p an ies Washington. — Senator Bank- are affected likewise and pay a tax of 1 o f life imprisonment for murder grow­ cent for each 20 cents of the express head o f Alabama startled his S. WAR MISSION LANDS charges. Also on passenger fares a tax ing out o f a bomb explosion in San colleagues by stalking Into the of 8 per cent on the amount paid for such F’rancisco, in July, 1916, which transportation, except for commutation chamber Just before the recent claimed ten victims, was refused a season tickets on trips less than 30 miles, Delegates Are in England to Discuss adjournment with the aid of a and on tickets costing less than 35 cents. hearing by the state supreme court on Tax In every case to be paid by the party Prosecution o f Conflict. hickory stick six feet long. The paying for such transportation. his application fo r a new trial. The senator is no lightweight and he Washington, D. C. — An American W a r T a x on Insurance. state appellate court recently denied towera over the average man. On life insurance a tax of 8 cents on mission landed in England Wednesday his appeal. each $1000 lasued on and after November but a prop go entirely out o f all 1, 191 1 . On marine. Inland, fire and cas­ on the eve o f the opening o f the first accepted proportions caused Belated returns to the food adminis­ ualty Insurance on same date a tax of lc great war conference in which the comment for each $1 or fraction of premium paid United States will participate. tration Tuesday raised the total num­ for such Insurance. Senator Knox's curiosity w h s ber o f pledges received in last w eek’s Colonel Edward M. House, President W a r Excise Taxes. such that he demanded an ex­ On and after November 1, 1917, a tax of Wilson’s personal friend and adviser, intensive food-pledge card campaign to 3 per cent on the sale price of all automo­ planation. well above 7,000,000. Complete re­ biles, automobile trucks, automobile w a g ­ is the officially designated representa­ “ It ’s the stoutest bit of wood ons and motorcycles, all piano players, tive o f the United States. ports are expected to send up the total graphophones, He is ac­ phonographs, talking ma­ ever cut in Virginia," said the g to 10,000,000, the administration’s chines and records; all Jewelry, real or companied by a staff representing owner. goal, for the week, and extension of Imitation; all ten n is rackets, golf clubs, every war agency in the United States. baseball hats, lacrosse sticks, balls of all “ Quite a good deal of it,” ob­ the campaign through this week in kinds. Including baseballs, footballs, ten­ The date and place o f the conference served the Pennsylvania senator. most o f the states probably w ill carry nis, golf, lacrosse, billiard and pool balls, have not been made public, though the fishing rods and reels, billiard and pool “ Do you know that if that stick it well beyond that figure. tables, chess and checker-boards and understanding here is that the sessions were cut in two, and one o f the pieces, dices, games and parts of games are about to begin. Arrangements for supplying cap­ (except children’s games and toys); a tax parts hud a nice sliver bead on In a statemnet accompanying his of 2 per cent on cosmetics, pills, powders. tured Americans with food and cloth­ lozenges, etc.; 2 per cent on chewing gum: announcement S ecretary f.ansiniz em- It, It would make a most appro­ tax In all these cases to be paid by the announcement, secretary uansing em ing in the German prison camps have priate gift for a friend?" manufacturer, Importer, or producer, with | phasized the fact that this gathering been made through the Red Cross, a tax of one-half these percentages on ig to be a war conference and nothing “ Not on your life,” responded which has a committee in Switzerland stocks on hand October 4, the gentleman from Alabama, else, charger] with mapping out a plan W a r T ax on Admission, and Dues. to send rations and other necessaries quick to reject the hint. "This A tax of 1 cent on each 10 cents or o f campaign against Germany to at regular intervals. As the number fraction thereof charged by any theater, was sent to me by a friend. I am “ bring the conflict to a speedy and moving picture show, etc., for admission, o f Americans in German hands in­ except In cases of theaters making a satisfactory end.” going to take it down home if creases it may be necessary to make maximum charge of 5 cents. A tax of 10 you fellows ever get through cent of the amount paid as dues or further provision for them through the per wind-jamming here and adjourn. ini Ration fees In any athletic or social 12,000,000 Company Forms. Spanish ambassador in Berlin, who is club, when such annual dues are In ex­ It w ill be Just the thing for me North Bend, Or.— Formation o f the cess of $12 per year. The tax becomes caring fo r American interests there. to use when I go prowling effective November 1, 1917. Consolidated Lumber & Tim ber com­ around my farm.” W a r T ax Stamps. The first arrests for smuggling un­ Stamp taxes will apply to bonds, stocks, pany at Cleveland, O., with a capital­ der the embargo section o f the espion­ deeds, notes, entry of goods, wares, etc., ticket to foreign countries, power ization o f $2,000,000, to take over the age act and the President’s proclama­ passage of attorney, and playing cards. Also a Buehner mill and timber is annouened tion in connection with it, were made tax of 1 cent for each 25 cents paid on Gains 200 Pounds as Soldier. J. A. Slattery, o f Portland; E. parcel post shipments, beginning with here. Thursday, Frank Stolaroff, a Douglas, November 1, 1917. These stamps may Syracuse, N. Y.— There is nothing be J. Maskee, o f Columbus, O., and S. A riz., merchant, and six Mexicans be­ purchased from the Collector of Internal Larson are named as stockholders. The the matter with United States army ing taken into custody by customs offi­ Revenue or from the Postoffice. purchase price is reported as $1,650,- “ chuck." W a r Estate Taxes. cers. The officers confiscated two A w ar tax on all estates, the tax being 000. Sergeant Imhoff, quartermaster’s Mr. Slattery has an option on wagonloads o f shoes and other mer­ graduated and ranging from 1 per cent up to 10 per cent of the net worth of the the Buehner holdings, the first pay­ corps, stationed at the Syracuse expan­ chandise. estate. ment being due November 20. Henry sion camp, retired after living on Buehner said he did not know whether Uncle Sam’s "chuck” for twenty-seven From Thursday until Borne undeter­ Dynamite'Plot|Fails. years. the deal would go through. mined tim e in the future, the Denver Aberdeen, Wash.— The Northern Pa­ Imhoff weighed 125 when he enlisted mint w ill turn out nothing but pennies cific gas car from Pacific Beach ran and 825 when he retired, and, as he Is Peace Believed Nearer. __600,000 o f them a day— to relieve Amsterdam— Dr. Gustav Gross, pres­ said to be the largest soldier in the the need fo r great numbers of coppers over a stick o f dynamite Monday be­ low Stearnsville without exploding it. ident o f the Austrian lower house, at world, credit cannot be withheld. caused by the war tax bill. The dynamite had been fastened on the the opening o f Tuesday’s session o f The Iow a State Executive Council rail, and on the roadbed between the that body, according to a dispatch from Draft Leaves Only Aliens. has adjourned until November 5. I f two rails were other sticks o f dyna­ Vienna, referred to the Italian defeat Weirtown, W. Va.— The selective returns are complete, the council will mite, evidently expected to be ex­ as follows: “ Above all we may rejoice draft will leave only foreigners In this on that day begin t^e canvass o f the ploded by the first one. Whether there that the prospects o f peace have im­ steel mill town. O f the 950 registrants vote cast in the recent election in Iowa was any cap attached to the first stick proved. and that our former ally, Italy, here it has been found that 700 are on the constitutional prohibition or not is not known. Sheriff Jeff Bar- which for more than two years was aliens who are exempt from military amendment, which apparently was de­ tell, who was notified by the railway such a menace to our southern fron­ service. PracUcaily every physically feated by a m ajority o f at least 1000 officials o f the attempt to blow up the tier, it may be hoped, soon w ill be fit American will be taken In tbe first train, is at Stearnsville, investigating. struck from the list o f our enemies.” votes. National army. COMPILED FOR I INTRIGUE IS DOWNED WORKS FOR NATIONAL UNITY plnnutlon of the fact Is current In both France and England. It Is that this corporation represents a large Invest­ ment by one o f the most powerful and Influential religious orders of the lto- man Catholic, and that the Germans have made it a policy not unnecessarily to glvo offense In Ibis quarter. Second­ ly, It Is a matter of frequent note that certain French ships are always per­ mitted to escape, while Other vessels In the same waters are Invariably at­ tacked. Almost Cut Off. France Is now almost ns completely cut off from the privilege of commerce with her neighbors by land as Is Groat Britain. To put It III the reverse, she Is almost us dependable on shipping us England. Before the war. accord­ ing to the French ministry of marine, France Imported by laud 18,000,000 tons nnnunlly. while last year her lm|>orts by land amounted to only 1.- 000.000. Inasmuch as Iho total of Imports In 1910 was 4 l.000.0is> tons, the proportion received by land Is very small Indeed. Inasmuch as France Is at present much less capable of liv­ ing within Itself than Is England, by reason of the necessity particularly to Import metals and coal. It may fairly be said that France Is even more de­ pendent upon maintaining her touch with the sea than Is England. The French government Is co-oporat- lug with Kngluud In every possible way to Increase the production o f new tonnage ; but France’s contribution must necessarily be smull compared In those of England and the United States. The French minister o f mnrlne said that Great Britain would shortly have to recall a part o f the 700 vessels which she had lent to Franco. British needs are increasing rapidly, nml no vessel will ho recalled from the serv­ ice o f an ally unless It Is agreed be­ tween the two countries that It Is more necessary to Engluml than to tho ally. The British nation before the war was Importing 88,000,000 tons o f goods a year, which fell to 43.000,000 tons In 1016 and will be coiislderuhly further reduced this year. Before tho war foodstuffs represented less tl an 25 per cent o f the Imports; in 1016 two-thirds o f nil Imports consisted o f foodstuffs, munitions of wor and the manufacture o f war supplies. Theodore N. Null, who Is head of the League for Nutlotml Unity, organised recently with the approval o f I’rest- dent Wilson, Is prepuling nil Intrusiva campaign f<>r the nnl flea ihm of public opinion lu the «n r. Mr. Vail Is pres­ ident of the American Telegraph und Telephone company. WANTS TO SHINE SHOES FOR PERSHING’S ARMY l*tu*t»lo, Coin. Thonm* l*rt«*«\ twenty seven, n l»o<>t* l»Jnrk here, want» the Job «»f MlitnlniC *hoe* for Oeiternl Per n I i I h ^' s Stimuli«»* "over there.’* 111* rrli»i»!e