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Show TOUGH JOB OPEN AS DAN ROPER RESIGNS j WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S. Besigna-I i tion of Daniel C. Roper as commis-sionei commis-sionei of internal revenue will leave vacant enc of the important posts in the government. I Mr. Roper's intention to leave ihe bureau of internal revenue, which he !has expanded until it i3 perhaps the, j greatest tax collecting agency in the I 'world, has been made known to offi-j icials here, but his formal resignation! will not be tendered until after the' first Installment of excess profits and; income taxes for 1919 is paid MarchJ il5. He has not announced his future i plant;. J 1 Tuc man who succeeds Mr. Roper ;will have the task not only of collecting collect-ing $6,000,000,000 in taxes this year, but ajso of enforcing the nationwide I prohibition law. There has been no in-liniation in-liniation as to who will be named as his cuccessor, |