| Show LARGE FORTUNES BECOME F FEWER WAR By ay Associated Press Pre WASHINGTON Oct 7 1 D Despite the popular belief that the bum humber r of Urge larre fortunes ha has haa Increased during the last lant fete 1 Years year income statistics made pub- pub Ho no today by the bureau of or Internal nue showed bowed a considerable de- de tor for 1917 1911 in those reporting In Incomes In in- comes In excess of or but a n nn n tk d increase in those reporting re net Incomes of or less leIs than Th The rl figures urell were considered oven even more surprising a u csT regards Incomes of ofa a million l 1 d ov fiVer r. r There was wasa as a II deer of or sixty five In such lIuch in incomes incomes in- in comes come only being beins reported In 1917 1911 A total of pen personal onal Income tax returns were filed during the he cal calendar calendar cal cal- year 1917 1911 The net income reported re reported re- re I ported on th these te so returns amounted to an increase of or 1716 over the corresponding figures for the preceding pr calendar year The large Jarg Increase H is attributed to the lower lower lower low low- er exemption of the act of October 3 1917 and partly to the general rise rille In Inthe Inthe inthe the scale of wag wages ea salaries and other forms forme of compensation n I |
