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Show , uw f 'AUTOS TAXED $1 A DAY IN JAPAN; PHONE IS $1700 SEATTLE, Juno 1. A bonus of $1,700 to obtain a telephone and a lax of 51 a day to maintain an automobile in Japan arc prices quoted today by Samuel 11111 on his return from Japan, where ho went last April 10 on an invltn-!' invltn-!' tlon of tho Japanese minister of the Interior to give advico on a good roads program. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing tho excessive cost of their operation, the number of automobiles In Japan Increased from 5,000 last year to C.500 at present, ho 3tated. The government Is encouraging the building of roads In a large way. suld Mr. . Hill. Toklo. which .bad appropriated appropri-ated fifty million yeii for new paving, pav-ing, is planning oho Btreot 111 feel In width, Mr. Hill said. |