aT LEAL 2--Jury NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS New Englanders and Wall Street Eager to “Draft” President Coolidge. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ASTERN Republicans, political and business leaders, cannot reconcile hemselves to seeing President Cool- dge elirninated from the contest for he nomination next year. They never jave given up the idea that he could je “drafted” by the convention, and thould be, despite his expressed re- uctance to run again, Last week they rot very busy, especially in Wall street and in New England, with plans to push the Coolidge boom. In Bos on a chain letter petition wae started yy some of those who believe Mr. ‘oolidge should be virtually compelled o accept a re-nomination. The White {louse correspondents questioned the President on this matter and he told hem he could not see that the circula- ion of the petition would serve a good purpose and he hoped it would we discontinued. This being tele graphed over the country, the pro onents of the chain letter issued a statement asking that all work on the plan cease immediately. However, the correspondents left the White House somewhat mystified and 18 uncertain as ever in their interpre ration of the President's attitude toward the general proposition of con eripting him for another term. M Republican senators tives thoug! to the Co 2 and that, while the not want another term fects a re-non meets on December term agzitation will be r Kenutor La Follette will reintroduce hie resolution declaring a President gshonld not serve more than eight years. Frank O. Lowden's boom grew some- what with the authorized announce- ment that his name would be entered in the Indiana preferential primary. Dawes, it was undgrstood, would not contest the delegation with the former governor of Illinois, and Senator Wat. son. who has been credited with Presi- dential ambitions, was advised em- phatically by his friends to stay out of the race. The Lowden boomers de- clare thelr man will enter the conven. tion with more assured votes than he pad In 1920, ECRETARY MELLON'S program of tax reduction was ripped all up the back by the house ways and means committee, which practically sompleted the new revenue bill. First the committee agreed upon a reduc tion of taxes not to exceed $250,000. 000, and then it slashed the miscel laneous taxes that Mr. Mullen wanted unchanged. The taxes on automo piles and eapital stock transfers were cut in half. The exemption on admis sjons was ralsed from 70 cents to $1, the rate on boxing matches being in- ereased from 10 to 25 per cent on ad missions of $56 and more. The stamp tax on dealings in futures on grain and produce exchanges was repealed. The taxes on grape wines were re duced to the pre-war level, The tax on corporation earnings was cut from 18% to 11% per cent, one-half per cent more than recommended by Sec. retary Mellon. The Mellon proposal under which corporations with net earnings of $25,000 or less and with no more than ten stockholders would have the option of paying taxes as partnerships was rejected. In place of it the committee increased the ex emption on corporations with earnings of less than $25,000 from SS08A0 to £3,000, HICAGO won a big victory In the battle over diversion of walter from Lake Michigan through the Chi- eago sanitary canal. Charles Evi Hughes, special master for th States Supreme court, recomn to that tribunal that the case bre by Wisconsin and other states border ing on the Great Lakes be dismissed After holding that the complainants had presented a i versy and that the has no auothority to without the consent States, Judge Hughes decla congress has conferred authori the secretary of war to diversion, and that the March 3, 1925, gecording to | trol of CONZTeSK, that the Ix laws were materially by the Supreme court pretation of numer he worried collector. In one on Incomes rived by 5 joss wy ands, the right in sroceeding the in its contention thi of 1924 it 1 > n : g ade prior 10 end swenue act N A case brougl he in connection will Teapot Dome oll case They dered to appear before the court December 5 to show cause why they should not be sentenced under the statutes, on REAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM I. BULLARD, chairman of the fed eral radio commission, died suddenly of heart disease at the naval hospital in Washington, where he had gone to rest for a slight operation. His death came at the end of a famous career, 30 years which was spent in the United Stales navy. BOUT fifteen hundred convicts in the California state prison at Folsom staged a desperate revolt on Thanksgiving day and fought the guards, militiamen and other officers with guns, knives and other weapons in their effort to escape to the hills, In the first encounters two guards and gix convicts were killed and a num. ber wounded. Two United States army tanks were sent from Salinas to help the state troops, and at this writing the convicts are under siege in the prison, OL. NOBLE BRANDON JUDAIL, well known Chicago banker and lawyer and a distinguished war vet eran, was appointed ambassador to Cuba by President Coolidge. This is Lis first diplomatic post, and it is con. sidered an important one, especially because the Pan-American congress is to meet In Havana in January, Colonel Judah was born in Chicago in 1884 and went to France with the Three Hundred and Thirty-second field 5 ler: jater becoming assisian of staff of the First army co participated in five major aligns and was decorated for America and France, Co CHARLES R. FORBES, erans’ bureau, who was sent to Leav- enworth for two years for defrauding the government, left the penitentiary week. He had completed his sen tence and, having signed a paupers affidavit, served thirty additional days in lieu of paying a $10,000 fine ARFARLE sirike reg ected, Denver, opened ireatening mob of property «1 and more ti fle under a mask of 1 } Vice Foreign Minister Litvinoll de clared the Soviet delegation war going to Geneva to propose a complete and general disarmament, and he added that Moscow has no faith in the good » ability to disarm. | "Number, please?” You give the desired number to the operator, who makes the connection. When you are through, she takes down the connection. From dial telephones the opera- tions are essentially the same. To most people, that is telephone service. But we do not stop there. We feel that it must be a personal gervice—not only in the matter of making connections, but in our every dealing with the people we SETYe. THE BELL When you enter a Bell business office vou receive personal atten- tion to vour needs, Your telephone is installed—or repaired when in trouble—by a workman imbued with the spirit of personal service. The young woman and the work- man in the central office are per- sonally interested in the kind of service you receive. Nearly 25,000 people in this Pennsylvania organization are striving to give you the kind of service you want. Our everv effort is directed to- ward Personal Service. the opposition party in Russia, hav. ing been ousted from the Communist party, have been put on probation for six months with plain warning that unless they cease their machinations executed. gaid Trotzky supporters had fought the government police In Odesan, Khar injured. The Ukrainians want a sep arate republic. gigning of n protocol which declares an armistice In the economic battle over coal and manufactured products on the principle that the Poles will have the right to send coal, farm prod: ucts and manufactured articles into Germany while the Germans will have the right to open banks and places of business and sell manufactured arth cles In Poland, wn OCIALIST members of the Belgian WJ eabinet insisted on a reduction of the term of military service and brought about the resignation of the ministry, Premier Jaspar promptly formed a new ministry which contains no Soclalists,
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