Royal Commission Asks
All Direct Taxes Be Given
To Canadian Provinces
QUEBEC, OT)—A Quebec Royal
Commission has recommended a
sweeping change aimed at giving
Canadian provinces all revenue
from direct taxation.
The drastic redistribution of
taxation fields can not be brought
about immediately, the six-man
commission conceded, but the
eventual aim should be to restrict
federal government to taxes on
sales, amusements, gasoline and
tobacco.
Under the long-range plan, the
provinces would collect taxes on
personal incomes, corporations,
and inheritances. Under tax agree
ments with all provinces except
Quebec, the federal government
now has almost exclusive use of
these, as wll as indirect taxes.
In return for the increased rev
enues, the provinces* would take
over responsibility for all social
security measures, the commission
recommended.
Labor Columnist Injured
With Sulphuric Acid
Expected to Regain Sight
NEW YORK —Hope was held
today that labor columnist Victor
Riesel would recover his sight
which was feared impaired after
a thug hurled sulphuric acid into
his face.
“Despite the severe injury, he
has a good chance to recover his
sight,” said Dr. Girlamo Bonac
eolto of St. Clare’s Hospital, where
Riesel has been under treatment
since after the attack Wednesday.
Meanwhile it developed that the
hoodlum who flung the acid may
have slipped in and out of a po
liceman s g.asp soon after the
attack.
TELL-TALE TRAIL
STARKE, Fla., UP)—Federal men
had some idea what William Lee
Jacobs was hauling when they
stopped his truck Friday.
Two five-gallon tins had burst
and a liquid was running out the
back of the truck, Agent Frank
W. Watt said.
"You could smell it for a block."
Watt said.
Jacobs was charged with ille
gal transportation of moonshine
whiskey.
AIRMEN JOIN COWBOYS IN
EXERCICE JACKRABBIT
MIDLAND, Texas, UD—Approx
imately 200 Air Force men from
Webb AFB joined west Texas
cowpokes Saturday in “Exercise
Jackrabbit,” an all-day shooting
aimed at reducing the rabbit pop
ulation. ,
A barbecue for more than 500
shooters is being prepared by
three Stanton area ranchmen. The
rabbits are devouring small grain
crops in this region.
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Honolulu GOP Club Heartily Agrees
With Stand of Alaskan Acquitted
By Jury of Income Tax Evasion
HONOLULU, tfl—A Honolulu
Republican precinct club was on
frecord today as “heartily in ac
cord” with the stand of an Alas
kan man who was acquitted by a
jury of income tax evasion on a
“taxation without representation”
defense.
But the Alaska case—although
the talk of Hawaii—did not spur
any of the territory’s residents to
try the same plea.
They continued to line up to get
their returns filed before the Apr.
15 deadline.
The local director of the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau assured them
Man Without Country
Finds New Homeland
After Two Years at Sea
ST. LOUIS, UP>—Ivan Skilpan,
57-year-old Yugoslav seaman who
for two years was a modem man
without a country, has a new
homeland.
He arrived here Friday in a
group of 24 refugees, sponsored
by the National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
He had to remain aboafd a ship
two years because of passport dif
ficulties. His passport expired
while he was at sea and he could
not land until he was cleared by
the United States under the refu
gee relief act.
Michael Ramesiri of St. Louis,
sponsor for Skilpan, found him a
home here and a warehouse job.
The tallest active volcano in the
world is Cotopaxi, in Equador. It
is 19,344 feet high.
that was a good idea.
Statehood leaders also warned
that any concerted move by is
landers to refuse to pay income
taxes until Hawaii is admitted as
a state would probably lose
friends in Congress.
Jack Marler, an Alaskan, start
ed the talk when he won acquittal
last Wednesday in Fairbanks from
a criminal charge of failing to file
returns. He said since Congress
had not admitted Alaska as a state
he shouldn’t be forced to pay his
income tax.
The government said, however,
it was going to find a way to make
Marler pay, anyway.
And in federal court in Honolu
lu Saturday a convicted tax evad
er drew an 18-month sentence and
a $10,000 fine. *
The county chairman (equiva
lent of mayor) of the island of
Kauai was released recently after
serving ten months of a year .sen
tence for a similar tax offense.
He also has to file for 1955—he
drew his salary while in jail.
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For Certification of “Certified Public Accountnt”
May9, 10, 11, 1956
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Board, P. O. Box 859. Anchorage, Alaska,
on or before April 21. 1956.
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SCIENCE IN ^
YOUR LIFE
Reaching A Ripe Old Age
When a 96-year-old New Englander was recently asked the secret
of his. long life and good health, he replied after a pause- “The reason
I’ve lived so long is because I’ve never died.”
His explanation is far more reasonable than many of the countless
longevity “secrets” proposed in the past
In the Middle Ages, for instance, <
the waters of a “Fountain of
Youth” — repeatedly sought but
never found — were believed to
renew aging limbs magically.
Today, because of modern med
ical advances, man has come closer
to his age-old dream of prolonging
life indefinitely than ever before
in his entire history. The average
man could expect to live a mere
22 years in the time of Caesar, 33
years in the Middle Ages and 41
years in 1840. Today he has almost
reached the Biblical span of three
score years and ten.
And he can look forward to an
even longer and healthier life, for
scientists each year are discover
ing more about the cause of old
age and the ways to forestall it.
So far they have traced some of
the blame to faulty diet, gradual
decrease in sex hormone output,
mineral-vitamin deficiency and in
* adequate intake of high-quality
protein
To counter such problems, sci
ence has now developed a new
compound — Neobon—which com
bines in a single preparation the
ingredients necessary to prevent
or relieve these undesirable fea
tures of the aging process. Pre
pared in a liquid dosage form as
well as in capsules, the prepara
tion is pleasant-tasting and easy
to take. ' •
Whatever help science gives
him, however, the oldster who
wishes to stave off old age must
rely mainly on his own ability to
keep alert and interested. This is
a conviction held by most medical
authorities, and specifically by 96
year-old Dr. John B. Cummings.
“Go when you feel like it,” is his
advice to the older person, “Go
when you don't feel like it. but
keep going!”
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