January 12, 1941

In 1933 Robert L. Doughton, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, by authority of a House resolution appointed a subcommittee to study and report upon the income-tax laws with a view to improving and simplifying them. One of the major problems considered by the subcommittee was the treatment of capital gains and losses.

Members of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design are now making plans for their annual costume dance and entertainment, which this year will replace the famous Beaux-Arts Ball, long an institution among the more colorful parties given here under the patronage of social and artistic circles.

In a simple floral setting of white blossoms and ferns a wedding of international importance took place here yesterday afternoon when the Hon. Mildred Noreen Stonor, younger daughter of Lord and Lady Camoys of Stonor Park, Oxfordshire, England, and Newport, R.I., was married to John R. Drexel 3d, son of Mrs. Thompson Drexel of 30 East Sixtieth Street and of the late John R. Drexel Jr., in St. James Protestant Episcopal Church.

LOS ANGELES -- Opened to visitors recently for the first time, the ranch home of the late Will Rogers in Santa Monica Canyon is rapidly becoming one of Southern California's foremost tourist attractions. To date almost 20,000 persons, an average of 100 to 300 on weekdays and 500 to 700 on Sundays, have visited the home of America's beloved humorist.