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MIAMI TO HAVE
51 DAYS RACING,
STARTING JAN. 15
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.—Word was
received today from Luke Cassidy,
manager of the Miami, Fla., Jockey
Club, and widely known in racing cir
cles throughout the United States,
giving first complete announcement
of entries to date for the 51-day rac
ing season to begin in Miami on Jan.
15. One thousand and eighteen sta
bles were ready at the track No
vember 1, and at this writing Man
ager Cassidy has received application
for 1,198 horses, and more are com
ing in every day. America’s leading
track stars will compete in Miami’s
first Winter race meet.
J. S. Ward’s Wise Counsellor, con
queror of Epinard; Colonel Shinn’s
In Memoriam, Max Hirsch’s Mass
Star, from the Vanderbilt stables;
Bud Fisher’s Nellie Morse, J. F.
Richardson’s Spot Cash, Joseph Mar
rone’s My Play, P. H. Stotler's Prince
of Umbria, J. T. Weaver’s Princess
Doreen, Sir Barton, famous Canadian
horse, and others, according to Mr.
Cassidy, have signed to appear this
Winter. The following horses will be
at the track by the end of December
Worthmore, Indian Trail, Donges,
Adolphus, Balbec, Fair Vision, Speck
led Beauty, Campact, Hoy, Brummel,
Opulent, Jyntee, The Roll Call, Bon
aparte, Infinite, Catalan, MacLean,
Nautical, Ballot Brush, Gold Bug,
Carlton, Wampee, Twilight Hour,
Slow and Easy, Chrysalis, Snowdrop,
Prince of Bourbon, Valador, Opper
man, Gladstone, Athelstan and Wilkes
Barre.
Max Hirsch will bring down horses
from the stables of George W. Loft,
millionaire candy manufacturer; Mrs.
W. K. Vanderbilt and Samuel H. Har
ris, the theatrical magnate. The Ran
cacos Stables will send down a string
and 12 fast horses from George A.
Widener’s stables are scheduled to
be shipped.
Leading jockeys have been engaged
for the season. J. Maiben, one of the
most successful riders of the 1924
son; Ivan Parke, E. Scobie, Prank
Geough, C. Lang, H. Thurber and L.
McAtlee will be among those to face
the barrier January 15.
Miami has one of the fastest tracks
in the country, costing nearly a mil
lion dollars and waiting for its initia
tion. A stell grandstand is the last
part of the track, set in semi-tripical
surroundings.
A total of $250,000 has been put up
for prize money. Daily purses aver
aging $7,500, with overnight handi
caps from $1,500 to $2,000 and $2,000
will be offered.
The Latest Song Hit.
“She -was only an electrician’s lit
tle daughter, but she gave him a
deuce of a shock.
Financial Leaders of
Many Western States
Meet at Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 26.—
Business and financial leaders of
eleven Western states assembled
here today in the opening of the
second mid-year meeting of the
Western division of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States.
Waste and extravagance in business
and government, the business of
farming, reforestation and shipping
problems of the Pacific coast were
on the calendar for two days’ dis
cussion with Paul Shoup, vice pres
ident of the Southern Pacific, as
chairman of the session.
The opening session today was
featured by a luncheon under aus
pices o-f the International Chamber
of Commerce, at which Henry M.
Robinson, member of the Dawes
reparations committee, was speaker.
Paul Shoup delivered the opening
address of the morning session and
reports of past work of the session
were read.
The afternoon program was de
i voted to the business of farming, E.
E. Faville, Portland, Ore., being a
speaker.
Average Housewife doesn’t
Know Beef When She Sees It
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26.—
Beef is preferred over other meats
on about 60 per cent of the coun
try’s dinner tables, but the average
housekeeper can recognize only a few
of the many cuts the department
of agriculture has found in a survey
of the retail meat industry and con
sumer buying habits.
Three of every five families visited
by department agents in fifteen wide
ly separated cities rated beef as most
popular. Pork was given second
place by poor families, while wel-to
do people put lamb next to beef. "Veal
was not generally mentioned except
by Italians, who rated it the equal to
beef.
Most of the housewives were fami
liar by sight with only two or three
steaks and the average number of
roasts they could identify was less
than two. The investigators learned
that while buyers generally were at
tracted by quality of meat more than
any other feature of a butcher shop,
43 per cent, of the native white fami
lies bought from the nearest dealer.
Only 25 per cent, patronized shops
five blocks or more distant.
An Unusual Accomplishment.
Boss (engaging boy): Is there any
thing you can do better than anyone
else?
Boy: Yes, sir; read my own hand
writing.
Generosity Tax Be Amended;
Pensions Are Also Affected
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26.—
While “Tax Reform” is not one of
the administration proposals for this
session of congress there is unques
tionably a good deal of sentiment in
congress lor adoption of the present
revenue act, who sp etfic harm is
being <1* ne in the application of the
law.
Much has been said about the
publicity provisions of the law, but
tnere is another phase, namely, the
gift tax, which is coming in for
widespread criticism. Under the pre
sent act every gift of more than
$500, to any one person, even to mem
bers of one’s immediate family, must
be reported and is taxable, if there
already has been given away $50,
000. The tax applies to corporations,
too, and the question has arisen whe
ther companies will be inclined here
after to give pensions to injured
employes, retiring at old age or to
pay bonuses if there gifts are to be
taxed and the total expense thus in
creased. If a company had a lai’ge
number of employes the total taxes
would be large, even though the
bonus to the individual employe
might be small.
This tax on generosity, if not phil
anthropy in some instances, together
with the penalty that it imposes on
the rightful distribution by compa
nys of sums their employes have
really earned by faithful service is all
due to an effort to prevent avoid
ance of tax payments by the few
who give their money to members of
their family or close friends so as
to escape high surtaxes.
ATTEMPTS BE MADE
BRIGE LEGISLATORS
NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Emil Ruchs,
part owner of the Boston National
League Club stated today that he
had been solicited for a contribution
to the slush fund to be used to
bribe members of the Massachusetts
state legislature for the purpose of
passing a bill authorizing Sunday
baseball.
IMPROVEMENT RIVER
EL PASO IS OPPOSED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Brigadier
General Taylor, chief of engineers of
the Army in his annual repor ad
vises against the expenditure of fed
eral funds for the improvement of
the Rio Grande river at El Paso so
as to provide against flood destruc
tion.
XMAS SPECIAL
SILK HOSE
$3.00 THE BOX
Three pairs to the box;
Black and Colors
TOYS! TOYS!
Gifts for the entire
family
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SEWARD GRILL
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Pleasant Surroundings
Courteous Treatment
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Fleece Chink Merchant
Out of Over $3,000
VANCOUVER, Dec. 26.—A local
Chinese merchant’s preference for
gold money over currency resulted
in the loss of $3,000. Two men en
tered the store of Lim Chaw Jim
and asked him to give them currency
in exchange for $3,000 in American
twenty dollar gold pieces. They piled
up the gold on the counter and the
Chinaman turned over the currency
which was placed in an envelop that
one of the men put in his pocket.
Then the men said they had chang
ed their mind, gave back the envelop
to the Chinaman, covered him with
a revolver, scooped up the gold and
fled. When the Chinaman had recov
ered from his surprise and fright he
found that the envelope they had re
turned did not contain his currency
but a bundle of worthless paper.
UTOPIAN FISHERIES AT
SELDOVIA CLOSES DOWN
SELDOVIA, Dec. 23.—The Utopian
Fisheries Company ceased operations
today and the crew will leave on the
Redondo to connect with the North
western for Seattle. The steamer is
making an extra trip on account of the
heavy fish pack.
FAIRBANKS MAN INSANE
M. K. Hogan, of Fairbanks, was ad
judged insane recently and will be
taken to Morningside sanitarium.
Mother, does the young man next
door have a god father?
Not that I know of, dear.
Well, that’s funny. Last night I
heard him having an argument with
somebody and he kept on saying “My
godfather.”
Dr. Allen W. Freeman of Johns
Hopkins spoke encouragingly regard
ing a new compound for destroying
germs of tuberculosis in a recent re
port.
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