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Show 1 SIDELIGHTS liM, $2,000,CG0 "Gibrpliar of the Skies" J, 700,000 cubic feet ; total lift power under normal conditions, S3 tons; total to-tal horse power, 2,100; engines, G-Sunbeam Cossacks of 350 horse power each ; crew, SO. Its gasoline capacity is ."0 tons, which is sufficient for a night of 5,000 miles, if living at full speed, 70 miles an hour, or 0,500 miles, equal to the distance from Creat Britain to Japan, if traveling at GO miles an hour, the cruising speed. The maximum height the ship can reach Is 25,000 feet, as compared with 24,000 feet by the L-71. As a warship it will be the most powerful thing twixt the , earth and the sky. Its armament will consist of 14 Lewis machine guns; one 1-pouud-er automatic gun, eight 250-pound bombs, and four-other bombs. There will be two machine gun platforms at the inlet on the outside of the ship, one at the very stern, and another 100 feet from the tail on the bottom side of the ship to repulse attacks from beneath. Other guns will control con-trol the cabins and each o the engine en-gine gondolas. WASHINGTON. Ollicial Washington Washing-ton is beginning to sit up and take notice over the delivery by John Bull to Uncle Sam of the $2,000,000 naval airship, U-3S, scheduled for early fall. This "Gibraltar of the Skies" is now tuning up at Bedford, and Commander Maxfield, U. S. N., is now in England with an American crew. The trip across the Atlantic is expected to take two or three days, the airship's cruising speed beiug GO miles an hour. These are Its main dimensions and characteristics : Length, G95 feet ; diameter di-ameter So feet 4 inches ; capacity, "Never Did," Says THE United States Steel corporation corpora-tion and its 11 subsidiaries have filed with the federal trade commission commis-sion an answer to the commission's complaint of last April in which unfair un-fair competition in interstate commerce com-merce was alleged. The case will now go to trial on its merits before the commission. Answering eacli of the 12 allegations set out In the original complaint, the steel corporation and its subsidiaries call attention to the decision of the United States Supreme court on March 1, 1920, dismissing the suit brought against the corporation by the government gov-ernment under the Sherman antitrust anti-trust act. They aver that the record of the court shows : "That respondents did not have a monopoly of the iron ore deposits, either in the Lake Superior district or in the state of Alabama or in the United States at large; did not own or control the ultimate iron ore supply of the United States ; did not own or control a monopoly of the coal suitable for steel making purposes in the United States ; did not possess a monopoly of the railroad and lake transportation transporta-tion systems which carry ore from the United States Steel $ ' mines to the manufacturing plants of said subsidiaries. "That respondents did not own or control a sufficient amount of any branch of steel manufacturing to constitute con-stitute a monopoly thereof; did not fix or control the prices of steel ; did not possess the power to either control con-trol or destroy their competitors ; did not control the prices of steel products prod-ucts nor fix the prices charged by their competitors." The companies admit that the corporation cor-poration has a capital stock outstanding outstand-ing of the par value of $SG8,5S3,G00, and of a book value exceeding $1,500,-000,000, $1,500,-000,000, and that the gross sales of the corporation and its subsidiaries aggregate aggre-gate more than $2,000,000,000 annually. These Tax Bills FOUR bills imposing a land tax and a heavy inheritance tax, and eliminating most of the present taxes have been Introduced in the house by Representative Keller of Minnesota. The bills are sponsored by the committee com-mittee of manufacturers and merchants mer-chants on federal taxation and by the Farmers' Federal Tax league. One bill imposes a tax of 1 per cent on land values in excess of $10,-000, $10,-000, after exempting buildings and improvements, im-provements, and in the case of farms the cost of clearing and draining and maintenance of fertility. The exemptions exemp-tions are so applied as to exempt from taxation, according to Mr. Keller's es- Radically Different timate, approximately 98 per cent of all actual farmers. The bill aims to tax holders of natural resources, valuable valu-able sites in cities, and the holding of land out of use. The inheritance tax bill applies a tax of 1 per cent on estates of from $20,000 to $35,000, 2 per cent on estates es-tates from $35,000 to $50,000, 4 per cent on estates from $50,000 to $150,-000, $150,-000, 6 per cent on estates from $150,-.000 $150,-.000 to $250,000, and graduated taxea on larger estates on an increasing scale until the point of $100,000,000 is reached, after which the tax is 90 per cent. One bill repeals all existing transportation trans-portation and sales taxes except those on tobacco and distilled spirits, oleomargarine, oleo-margarine, habit forming drugs, and products of child labor, and repeals the excess profits tax and the 10 per cent tax on incomes of corporations. Another bill amends the Income tax law so as to distinguish between "earned" and 'unearned" Income. The tax on "unearned" income, together with the super-taxes, is retained, but the tax on "earned" incomes is cut In two Small Luxuries: $20 YES, indeed, the people are feeling mighty poverty-stricken these days. Candy, tobacco, soft drinks, jewelry and minor luxuries now are being purchased at the rate of $7,200,-000,000 $7,200,-000,000 a year In Chicago, New York and other big cities of the United Slates. At least $20,000,000 daily now is going over the counters of merchants dealing in small luxuries, according to the reports. This is an estimate based on the fact that the government govern-ment now is receiving approximately $00,000,000 a month from luxury taxes. With the approach of summer, thousands of Americans are apparently appar-ently feeling the call of the open load. The sale of new automobiles now is putting nearly $7,000,000 a month In the government's coffers, indicating in-dicating purchases of approximately 70.000,000 worth of cars. The tax collectors are getting nearly near-ly $10,000,000 each 80 days via the railroad ticket office. Pennies that go into the Utile gla.s ,000,000 Spent Daily jar kept by the soda dispensers now bring the government nearly $7,000,000 eacli month, indicating an enormous demand. Chewing gum brings the government govern-ment the comparatively small total of $130,000 monthly. This indicates that the United States now is chewing monthly approximately 2fi.0O0.000 packages, or 1,300,000,000 sticks, j Tl.e country is spending $20,000,-000 $20,000,-000 a month for candy. Smokers now contribute approxj. mately $24,000.1X10 monthly to the government gov-ernment in taxes on cigars, ehjan-t u-s tubacco and sum':'. |