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rs=?????- TT'rifc?? WOMAN VICTIM OF HYPNOTIC CROOK Forced to Wed Desperate Criminal and Then Keep Him , Supplied With Money. - UNDER INFLUENCE 7 YEARS Woman Arrutod for Kmbosalomont Tolla Omaha Pollco Romarkablo I Story?Often Eoeaped Only to Bo Caught Again. Omaha, Neb.?A hypnotic victim of desperate criminal for seven years, during which she claims she was forced to marry the hypnotist, to steal money from her employers and give It t* her master and otherwise cater to him, was the remarkable story told the Omaha police by Miss Emma Uhler of Omaha when she waa arrested for embesxlement. She obtained her freedom from the hypnotic criminal only when he was thrown Into the Missouri river by several of his cronies, whom he had wdouble-crossed." Miss Uhler said. The Omaha police don't know whether or not to b.elleve the story, but are Investigating the strange case. Time after time she escaped from the hypnotist, she said, and went to "other cities, only be traced by her master and brought back to bondage and , to work. * Miss Uhler was a bookkeeper at one of the big stores of Omaha. She was accused of taking company funds. Pursued by Gangster. According to the story told by the girl, she discovered ten years ago that m? man and woman she Had looked ' upon as her parents were not related to her at all, and that she was an orphan. She thereupon left home and went out, at the age of seventeen, to make her own way. Three years laier she met the gangster, who followed her from city to city and forced her to supply him with money. "It was In Minneapolis," Miss Uhler told the police, "that I first met him. ' That was seven years ago, when I was twenty. I was In the public library. In the most casual way/whlld handling a book, he spoke to me. We discussed the book. He was fascinating, so much so that before I knew It I had made a date wl{h hint for the next evening. We went to a theater and to a cafe. He Induced me to take a drink, something I had never done before. I didn't know anything else until the next morning when I awoke In a hotel. "Hello, wlfey," said Lou, coming Into my room. Lou was his name. He t?Ud me we had been married the night hefore. "That was the start of the. affair, lie told mo he was wuuted by the police and that, for the present, we must keep our marriage a secret. So I went back to work." * From then on, for seven years, the gangster kept the girl under his influt ence, she told the police. He forced hereto give him money, and wheu her v salary was not sufficient for his needs, he forced her to steal or embezzle from her employers. h\. times she rebelled and escaped, but always be found Iter again. "Through his hypnotic Influence. an/4 ft, Ibkitirlk funs aarl* I oh h lno?lllA*l I WMV *'UH??. 1VUI nillV H MC IllOUimi Into niy mind, I hnri to'do his bidding," said Miss Uhler. "He told me he lind killed three people." she said. "One night he rarae to nie with a lot of blood on his clothes and face. He sakl he lihd killed a man that night. That was In Kansas City." From Minneapolis Miss Uhler ran away and went to Chicago, where she obtained work. Three months later she met "Lou" on thlT street, she' said, and ' he re-established his old Influence over her. and forced her *o give him money. Forces Her to Qlve Checks. "After escaping from him two or three other times, I came to Oiuaha . and went to work," Miss Uhler said. "Months passed, and I thought I had loot him completely. But one day last $T spring, going to the poet office with letters and checks, I met him. He made me give him the checks, which I later made g<md to the firm. a ' "Some time in August he disappeared, but that was not unusual, as he often did not show up for weeks at a time. One day I met one of his friends on the street. He told me ttfey had thrown Lou Into the Mississippi river because he had double-crossed them. I have never seen him nor heard of him since." By that time'Mlas Uhler was so deeply Indebted to the firm because of money she had taken that she had lost fekAIMi Sk# a?aa jintnKlnw wsv nstil ?TI ?f?. VXIUIIUT ?|T wu ">W |D| It wlthoM her employers discovering the emhessletnent. "I started to commit suicide/ she aid. "Then I changed my mind and took the train away." After her departure her accounts vers checked and the defalcation dissevered. Her arrest followed. "It's the weirdest story 1 ever heard." stMOiyttlft Yin Densen, head of the ? vnsstfcs^ which, wu he hfMsed ' v * ''"X I I ? INCREASE SHOWN IN INCOME TAX; 7,463,177 Individual and Corporation Returns Made in 192ft Paying $2,700,288,329. 33 IN MILUOH-A-YEAR CUSS Four Paid Tai)ba on Incomoo in K? com of $6,000,000, Two of Thoo# Listed From New York and Two From Michigan. O * How would you like to have to pay taxes on an Jncome of $5,000,000 a year? Four men did in 1920. \'fi i .I ...... Washington.?Complete statistics of Income for the calendar yeac 1920, made public by the commissioner of internal revenue, show that 7,259,944 Individuals tiled Income tax returns, paying a total tax of $1,075,058,686, and that 203,233 corporations reported net Incomes taxed at $1,625,234,643. /As compared with 1919, the tlgures show a growth of 1,927,184 In the number of returns and an Increase In the total net Income reported amounting to $3,876,137,735, but a decrease of $194,576,418 In the total tax. Thirty-three Individuals In the United States paid taxes on net Incomes In excess of - $1,000,000, nineteen paying, on $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Three paid taxes on Incomes In excess of $1,500,(Rib; four on Incomes from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000, and four,, paid taxes on incomes in excess or eo.uw,(MXW two of these belnK listed from New York and two from Michigan. New York in Lead. Of the total income tax New York pnld 23.09 per cent; Pennsylvania, 12.13 per cent; Illinois. 8.68 per cent; Ohio, 6.76 per <-ent, and Massachusetts, 5.82 per cent. These Ave states together paid 57.68 per cent of the combined personal and Corporation tux of the country. These states, with seven others. Mlclilgun, Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey, California, Missouri and Maryland, 12 states in all, paid 65.83 per cent of tlii* total tax. The number of corporation Income tax returns for the calendar year 1920 was 345.395. Of these 203,283 reported net income amounting to $7,902,634,813; Income tax, -$636,508,292; war is'olits ahd excess profits tHX, $988,726,351; total tax, $1,625,234,643. For the calendar year 1919 the number of corporation returns was 320,198, of which 209,634 reported net income totaling $9,411,418,458 and taxes aggregating $2,175,341,578. There were 160 corporations that filed returns for 1920 reporting net income of $5,000,000 an{ over; 836 that ' filed returns of from $1,000,000 to $5,-1 000,000; 1,142 that filed returns of from $500,000 to $1,000.000; E.124 from j $250,000 to $500,000; 5,497 from $100,000 to $2504100; 7,092 from $50,000 to 1 $100,000 ; 35.994 from,$10,000 to $50,- i /UiA . as ar m * re swvrv a _ rvrvj v . wm; o.uiD iriiiu *ii,uuu 10 lu.uw; 48.808 from $2,000 to $5,000. and 75.005 that reported net income to $2,000. , I Greatest Net Income. New York tiled the greatest number of returns, both individual and corporation, and reported the greatest mount of- net income, followed by Pennsylvania and Illinois. New York's total returns were 1.108,129, of which 1,047,684 were personal and 55,495 corporation. I The number ef returns filed bjrmon resident aliens, resident aliens, and foreign corporations in busjpess or holding investments in the United I States was 12,482, allowing a net total income of $148,449,190, on which the federal tax was $21,065,882. The report show^ that out of approximately 845,000 capital stock tax returns 328.100 were tabulated, showi ing a fair value of $75,406,625,174. Of tlilf aggregate fair value, the manufacturing group reports approximately ; $30,500,000,000 or 40 per cent. The next highest la finance, hankI Ing, Insurance, >tc? with $43,700,'000,-' 000 or 18 per cent; transportation and other public utilities representing $11.-1 490.000,000, or 15 per cent; mining ! and quarrying, $6,700.0QO,000, or 9 per , cent. The agricultural group reports only $1,000,000,000, or 1 1*8 per cent. SEVEN DEAD IN CUBAN FEUD ? I Two Families in Island Republic Aro Determined on Exterminating Each Other. Quanajay, Cuba.?Seven killings In three years marked the Sanchex-Carache feud, which, the authorities have announced, must be ended If It requires the Imprisonment oi every remaining member of the two families. The latest fatalities occurred when Felix Caracne shot Batilde Sanches and then himself. The shooting was the outgrowth of a duel last February, ? In which Juan Batched, Bathlldo's brother, killed Felix' brother, Luis. | lianfi Women Buy Mash Tooth. ! London.?An interesting feature of OH iit?MtliMl dwtal nhtbttioa, mv Mm MM la Laodbm, are the ' Mte of artllMil tMth nada of a com| atilUom as black aa abpay. Thaj art IttaaM for Slanpao wocaoo, tettk wkoati II la tba caotaaa ta'tffflfethft NOW IN BREAD LINE Emperor's Sweetheart Becomes Victim of Hapsburg Curse. ??? \ ^Treasures Given-te Kathorina Schratt by Francis Joseph Have Dlsappeared and She New Sepe Food in Streeta. 1 1 i Vienna.?(Catherine Schratt, the morgantlc wife of Francis Joseph, last emperor of the Auetrians. the woman who once ruled u nation through her influence over the aged monarch, is now a daily member of the bread line . in Vienna, standing patiently hour after hour, uwalting the bread and meat ration handed out by the government. Her jewels, given her by her royal' lover, ure gone. Her clothes are In tutters, aiid she Is a living reminder | of the curse of the Hapsburgs. When the emperor died In 1010 ha left $250,000 to Katherlna Schratt to care for her In her dedinlug years. But the fuvages of war, and her many gifts to those less fortunate, soon de> ploted this small fortune, until at last she was reduced to poverty. Once the beauty of the Austriun stage, petted and feted wherever she appeared, she now lives In a barren garret, dependent upon charity for her livelihood. For 35 years, frftui the bloom of youth uutil middle age bent hel* shoulders. Katherina Schratt virtually ruled Austria through her hold ou Francis Joseph. For her he built a little villu right by the gates of the royal palace, and theae lie spent much of Ills time, especially after the events which tended to uphold the Hapsburg curse. The llrst manifestation of this curae came with the death of inad King Ludwig o/ Bavaria, Francis Joseph's cousin, and of his brother, Maximilian, shot in Mexico.. Then there was the ease of .tohanii Orth, his nephew, who run away to sen as a common sailor and was never heard from agHtn. The death of the young daughter of Archduke Albrecfit, whose dress caught tire from a cigarette she was smoking, and that of the Duchess d'Aleneon in the charity hall lire in Paris, quitkly followed. In 1880, Francis Joseph's; son, Jlmlolph. committed suicide In Meyerling, und nine years later his wife, Kllxabeth, was nssasslnuted st Ui'nt'VM, Then, to crown his sorrows, came the tragic assassination of the heir to the throne. Archduke Ferdinand, at Surt^evo, the incident that started the World war. Through all his troubles, the ekuperor clung to Katherina Nclirntt, hut the Hupsburg curse bus now descended upon her, and she has become a member of the bread Hue In Vienna. A LITTLE ROSE OF CHINA ^ ^ I J Tluu in v. hut they call little Hetty Sze. three-year-old Daughter of the Chinese minister to the United 8tetea and Mrs. Alfred Sse. Little Betty la at present the head of the household In Washington as Mrs. Sse Is In Bag* land arranging for' the education there of her elder,children. Thieves Rob Berlin Billboards. Berlin.?Bltlboard strippers constitute a new type of thief on Berlin's police blotter. Due to the In created value of waste paper, the plundering of street advertisements has aet In. ? : La............ " Highest Life PoNeytyd S Last Year Was *1,517,820 ; I - I } ' New York.?The * highest In* ! J surance policy paid In the Unit-. ? ed States and Canada last year, i J was held by Ferdinand Bcbles-i a singer of Milwaukee, chairman J of ih* board of directors of the Milwaukee Coke and Get Com* J peny of America, according to the Insurance Preea. Tbe pay* { mem amounted to fUUTjM). 1 The insurance was dMithsMil 2 among 94 concerns. {An inheritance tec eg mors .fcjn ' :'5;" i1 i , RELATES STORY OF PLANE WRECK Captain MacmiHan Tells of Thrilling Experience Afloat on Wrecked Seaplane. NATIVE BRIG PASSES THEM BY Aviators Kngagod In Round-tho.Wortd Flight Roocuod Aftor 00 Hours by Steam Launch Sent in -v Searoh of Them. London.?"Below ue were sharks; near the land crocodiles. Would we float near enough to grouud our Inverted top hamper and signal some otfe ashore, or risk swimming for It T Then our hopes were shattered, for an undercurrent caught our submerged planes and fuselage;, and faster than we could near the land, we were pulled away from it. Quickly It faded and our hopes sunk. We were utterly helpleas, and at the mercy of the wind and the tide." The above sentences are tuken from the long and thrilling narrative which records the terrible experiences of Capt. Norman Macmlllan and Cupt. Mallllns while afloat for 60 hours on a wrecked seaplane In the Buy of Bengal. They were engugetl In a' roendthe-w?rld flight organized by the Dally News. Brig Paaass Tnem By. - "Suddenly we noticed an alteration In the trim of eur craft," continues the narrative. "Hound and round we plunged.'water pouring over us. hanging on tooth und nail, and soaked by ......I. ?!.?* me ic|>caii?ru oavn him W1WKC iuiupletvly over us. Evidently we were In tide whirl." Perhaps the most Impressive thing lr the story Is Captain Mactulllan's account of ^helr abandonment by a native brig which passed near them when they were almost spent. "Mall* 11ns could hear beautiful Instrumental music," wrrtes Macmlllau, "and I the sound of the pipes playing laments In the distance. We did not mention this to each other at the time. We were each afraid of thul. "Suddenly we saw a?atl away down south. Was It coming up? Yea, lowly. "A windjammer. &>on Its yards appeared. Gradually It came along. Standing up we could see the hull. It wua all we could do to remain upright. "We waved our distress flag, signaling the International S. O. 8. The brig was coming straight for us. She must aliyost run us down. She could not fail to see ua. Rescued After Hours. "Was she changing her oourse? Surely not, but she was. "She turned off not half a' mile oway. and steadily passed up within half a mile, with two men looking at us from the poop. *<God! what inhumanity! Surely It could not be. C ~ "Mallllns, frantically waving, slipped and fell half overboard, cursing st his hurt, cursing the brig and her crew, and writhing. "Standing on our rocking float, I waved and halloed and flred pistol shots. ."But steadily she swept past, a native brig. Two men on the poop ran | forward aa she was abreast of ua. They saw us, undoubtedly, and were possibly terrified of ghosts and visions. "But in mercy let them never know what we felt like." The two aviators were rescued sons# hours later by a steam launch sent oat In aearch of them. FLEES MAN; LEAPS TO DEATH Pursued by Man With Horsewhip Frightened Weman Jumps Pram Feurth-ttory Window. Maw York.?Screams and the crack ef p horsewhip brought tenants in the vtatalty of 271 West Twenty-seventh street from their homes Just In time to see a young woman leap madly to her death from the fourth story of the' building. "All that the neighbors knew abput this women was that her name was Mae Leamon and thnt aha lived in a famished room on the eecbnd floor. About T :80 o'clock thoy heard her cry est and then raise her voice to a sharp scream as loud reports like the crack or e -neavy whip were heard. Then the neighbors saw a sun chase her te the roof, whence she jumped down to the third-floor landing of the Are After her went the man, and she frantically scrambled up to the top of h attic window on the fourth floor. Hum who had rushed to the street ysftgd to her hot to Jump. Help was owning for they saw Patrolman tfredtrick Robeqstein of the Weat Thirtieth ntsaet station nmnlng toward them, fme said that he shouted. "Wait ,a amend?I'll be right .up to help you.'* Psrhapa the patrolmen gu too fir away for rim woman to hear him or patflhly she was so wad with fear that werdf were migninglme to her.' She ? >' ?f mm. Mm at the MbM **f*? MAKE NEW MAP OF U. S. " 7 Uncle Sam Contributes Work at Part of Sketch of World. i ?? t Apiorican Map Will Taka About Ywolvo ' Yoara to Com plot*? Each Country I Will Map Torrltorioo and Watora Undor I to Jurisdiction. Washington.?Unci* 8am la processing on g new map of the country, to be a part of a new world inap, baaed upon a simple system proposed by American representatives In 1908, and accepted at International confer^ encee. It will be the result of years of effort to create a system of cartog- ' raphy whereby the same scale of dls- ; tances could be used In a world map, i with lettering and symbols uniform. The American map Is expected to be ; completed In ten or twelve years. Bach country will map the terri- j torles and waters under Its own juris diction. The globe Is to be divided Into 1,642 sections. Each section Is designated t by a distinctive letter and number j combination. In addition to a name derived from the, locality mapped. Each sheet, covering one section, will 1 cover 6 degrees of longitude and 4 degrees of latitude. The sheets are numbered from one to sixty, beginning at the 180th meridian of longitude und girdling the globe to the eastward, und I are lettered front A to V, north and ! south, with the equator as a starting j point. The north and south polur re- i glons are to be shown In clroulur sec- ! tlons from the eighty-eighth parallel of | latitude, and letter Z-north and | Z-south. m The main purpose of the Internatlonal tnap, which will be drawn on 1 the scale of one to one-nillllonth, is to | furnish a complete world map of unl- | form drawing, thus obviating different] scales or distances, and to enuble map makers and readers of every country to underatund the maps of every other. The details of the international map were accepted by nine world powers at conferences In 1909 and 1913. While it la | popularly known as th; "one-millionth" map of the world. Its correct title Is the .International map of the world on the scale of one one-iuilUonth. SEA MONSTERS ATTACK BOATS Scare Fishermen Frem Newfoundland Waters;?Expedition to Capture Them Is Planned. 8t. John's, N. F.?"Sea monsters" which are reported to be from forty to sixty feet long, have attacked boats engaged In Ashing out of British Har bor, Trinity Bay, and fishermen are afraid to go on the grounds. ^ A large school of these "monsters," of which no detailed description bus been received, appeared off the coast a few days ago and is still thought to be In the bay. An organized expedition will be sent from the settlements ff which the school lies in an effort to capture or disperse It. Several bouts which went out recently narrowly escaped being swamped by the "monsters." The appearance of the school was reported to the Department of Marine and Fisheries by the telegraph operator at British Harbor. APPLE TREE IN FULL BLOOM Freak in Middletown (N. Y.) Garden la ^ &aid by Old Timers to Presage a Mild Winter. Middletown, N. Y.?In the yard of Frank Crawford on South street Is an apple tree 1n full bloom. Never before has this tree bloomed at this time of year. Some of the oldest residents, careful weather observers for years, declare blooming of fruit trees at this time of year indicates a mild winter aud are sure there will not be a big demand for coal In this section. Crawford Is presenting bouquets of apple blossoms to his friends. j Sadie Aids Capture of Aute Thieves. Oakland, Cal.?The Oakland Tribune's radio station KLX was credited Dy the Oakland police with bringing j about the arrest In Ix>s Angeles of Clifford Heatofr and M. Dyke on a charge of stealing the automobile of C. H. Hoyt. The station broadcasts the numbers and description of stolen automobllee each night. * Bit of Flannel Leads Woman to Kill Other . Snncook, N. H.?Mrs. Harry O. Caroenter of this town was hot sad killed by her next-door ' " I neighbor. Mm. Barton (toward, who then went Into her 6wn house and committed suicide. When the bodies of the two women were found It was beHerod Mrs. Carpenter hfid died of heart .dleease while running to summon assistance when she found her neighbor dead. Bf> sruination of the woman's body later revealed a'bullet wound la the back. . A quarrel between -the two | women over this price of a piece ' of dannel led to the Sheotlng. ac- { uwdlag to Information ptren to II the pollen. Mrs. Gowfih). the I SeSm^'^Dr^n^M^^Owtna!*1" *** mm. I FIX GERMAN TAX LEVY ? Tctal Taxable Property 1,950 Billion Paper Marks. Seventy Per Cent of the Aggregate It Given as Real and Pereonal Proa erty?13 Billions Held by the ' Poorest Classes. Berlin.?The total taxable grepertj held by the Oerniun people umounts to 1,95*) milliards paper marks, according to estimate made by Reconstruction In Its current issue.. Seventy per cent of the aggregate is given as personal and real property, 11 per cent us town property, 14 per cent rural, 2 per cent mining, and 3 per cent as goods, ships, metallic currency, etc. (Milliard equuls the Auiericun billion.)' The average of prewar estimates on Herman-owned private property, tha periodical states, works out at 330 milliards gold marks, from which amount the following deductions should be made: Thirty milliards gold marks in state property (belonging to the empire, individual states and local authorities, such as railways, canals, forests, etc.) ; 13 milliards of property held by the poorest classes which 'escupes taxation, and further, a sum amounting to about 20 per cent of the total which either is especially favored by the regulations for economic reasons or manages v to evade taxation. This amounts to about 05 milliards gold marks. Deducting these 108 milliards from tlie prewar average of estimutes, a liulun,.,, .if > ? > i uniniivv vi niiiiiiu vio. i viuuiuo. rivui this total, however. Reconstruction states, the following sums must be deducted as a result of the war: Twentyfive milliards in values destroyed by the war (amounting originally to 50 milliards, hue-half having been made good by reconstruction) ; 30 milliards loss ?ut capital Invested, abroad; 2.5 I milliards loss of territory, and 10 milliards surrendered to the entente In railways, ships, etc. The sum left after taking off the** ' 00 milliards in losses, the publication I sois roundly at 130 mllllurds gold marks. In converting gold into paper marks, it states, the following index numbers based on the prices current In the home Gerinun viurket should be employed: Personal and reul property, 15; town -landed property, 2; rural landed property, 10; mining property, 1 10; and goods, ships, etc., 60. j When the various categories of prop| crty are multiplied by these figures I their values In paper marks are determined. According to this culcula! tlon, the average depreciation Index ; figure is 15. thus giving 1,950 milliards j paper marks as equivalent to 130 milliards in gold. GIRL ENGINEER ON LINER I - , V?3* Alius Violet Drun.mond, daughter of | Capt. and Mrs.. Drummond of Forfarshire, has sailed as an engineer ! with the Blue Funnel steamer Anchisea from Glasgow for Australia. She adopted marine engineerlbg as a profession and takes on all the dftles of the Job. During the war she WM in the engineering department of tbs Lilly-Bank foundry. Heart Pierced by Qlass. Los Angeles, Gal.?James Thomas. fourteen, student nt the Inglearood high school, In trying to preveQt a door with a glass panel from slamming, thrust his hand through the panel and a sliver of glass pierce* his ? heprt. As If nothing had bappaMd. he talked down the steps of the haH4? lng. Then he. collapsed and death came quickly. U??-?- I! j Married Six Months, ? <%, ; but Never Was Kissed j ' "I Have been married fix [ months and my husband, Wal- i S ter, has never hissed me," Mm ' j i Julia Brlghtmore, yeuug sad 11 I pretty, of Chicago^ told. Judfs j J Mangen when she entered a plea j To tb* coorf towtloos, ' : | Wart m?rrl?fe^ a?<T