Sherman County observer., March 06, 1925, Image 1

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B5ERVER
HERNAN
Moro, Sherman County, Oiwgon
Established 1887
W.G;BRYANT
Attomey-at-Law
” EAST IS «OCIED
BY EARTHQUAKE
»GENTS LOSE
POWE« IN CONGRESS
Rad cals
Are
Classified
Tremors Lasting,From One to
By
Reuse as Members of a
Five Seconds Are Felt Over
New Fourth Party.
Wide Territory.
Office Phone Main 93
Moro r
Oregon
Washington, D. C.—After wielding
the “balance of power*' in both branch­
es of congress for the last two years,
the La Follette insurgents ’ stood
tions
shorn of their republican
era
and herded by adm
rth
into the classification of a n
party.
ult of
This was the outstanding
Attorney -^t-Law
the republican caucus.
Those affected include Re esenta
Practice in All the Courts
tives Cooper. Voight, Nelson. hafer,
of Oregon
Lampert, Beck, Browne, S neider,
Freer and Peavy of Wlsco
Main 541
Pbooe
clear of South Dakota, Koller of Mtn
BANK OF MORO BUILDING
nesota and Laguardia of New York.
. Oregon
Moro
Senate and house republicans acted
simultaneously in displacing the in-,
‘I surgents. In the house the rebels
were barred from the caucus and in
the senate they were denied party
affiliation by a vote of the senate
committee on committees.
The specific action taken against
DENTIST
the four senate insurgents—Senators
La Follette of Wisconsin, Ladd and
United States Dental Exam
Frasier of North Dakota, and Brook-
iner 'for this district. -
hart of Iowa—was to deprive them of
all committee assignments as repub­
licans for the next congress and to
Office at
assign them as independents. This
action will rank them lower than the
MORO, OREGON
standing given Senator Shipstead of
'^WWWW^^************* Minnesota, the “third party" farmer
laborite.
Senator Mckary of Oregon was the
only member of the republican com­
mittee on committees to cast a nega
tive vote.
IBA M. PETEIS««
Dr J. R. Morgan
Dr. M. F. Froyd
Physician and Surgeon
*
Office and Residence
LONGWORTH NEXT
SPEAKER OF HOUSE
Mrs. L. H. Hadley, wife of Repre­
sentative Hadley of Washington, who
was nominated without opposition to
be president of the Congressional
club, the exclueive officiel women’s
oiub of Washington, D. C.
POSTAL SALARY BILL
SIGNED BY COOLIDGE
New York.—An earthquake,^arylng
in a general sway to a tremor öf such
intensity as to shake pictures from
w»Ua, Saturday night shook an area
of approximately
square miles,
Inhabited by mere th^
people, nearly one-third of the popu­
lation of the United States. The trem­
ors lasted from one to five seconds.
The territory covered by the quake
extended from Michigan to ti.e At­
lantic ocean, and from New England
to the District of Columbia, West Vir­
ginia, Lower Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The quake wjas &lt between 9:15
and 9:30. Thousands in widely scat­
tered communities rushed r from
theatres and other places of amuse­
ment, or from their homes into the
streets. The giant skyscrappers of
Few York swayed with the motion of
the earth. Manhattan island, upon
which these skyscrapers are built, is
solid rock. Excavation is such a diffi­
cult affair that a basement for an
apartment house Involves blasting.
But Manhattan island trembled before
the force of nature. No material dam­
age’was reported as a result of the
quake several hours after the first
tremors were felt.'
Washington, D. C.—The postal pay
and rate increase bill wa| signed by
President Uoolldge. It inejpases the
pay of postal clerks and carriers num­
bering more than 200,000 by about
$320 each a year, adding about $68,-
000,000 to the government payroll.
Revenue from postal rates Increased
by the new law will bring In an addi­
tional $59,000.000.
A new 2-cent service charge on par
cels post will raise $13,000.000 and
sone rates on newspaper reading mat­
ter In the second class will be in­
creased considerably. The rate on
postal cards is increased from 1 to 2
cents, but otherwise first-class ru a
are unchanged.
The bill also carries a "rider" lim-
ttlng campaign expenditures of con-
gressioaaL~candidateB.
Under the new law congressional
candidates cannot spend more than
the amount obtained by multiplying
Ihree cents by the total number of
votes cast in the last general election
for the office for which he is running^
but in no case exceeding $25,000 for
the senate and $5000 tor. the house.
A flat maximum of $10,000 for sena­
torial races and $5000 for house cam­
paigns is set for candidates from less
populous districts who would bo re
stricted to less than these amounts by
three cents a vote.
Quebec. — Three persons dead,
Scores of homes damaged by tremor
¿md fire, one church .collapsed and
Seneral consternation among resi-
ents of the St. Lawrence and Sague
nay valleys are the known result of
the earthquakes of last Saturday night
and Sunday morning.
AUTO STAGE LAW
DECLARED INVALID
Washington, D. C.—Nicholas Long-
Washington. IX C.~A law of the
worth of Ohio will preside as speaker
alite of Washington requiring com­
of the house ia the sixty-ninth con
mon carrier#’ rimninc nutomobiles on
gress and John Q. Tilson of Connecti­
the public, highways for hire first to
cut will be the republican floor
Obtain permission for such operation
leader.
from the state ¡Hi ector . of public
The present majority leader was
yorks, was set aside, by the United
■selected by republican members-elect
Itates supreme court as constitution­
in the house in caucus as their candi
ally
Invalid. -
date for speaker on the first ballot by
E. V. Kuykendall, director of publU:
Physician and Surgeon
a vote of 140 to 85.
■works of Washington state, refused
Other selections made by the cau
an operating certificate in Washing-
cus included Representative Hawley
ton to A. J. Buck. Buck brought the
of Oregon as chairman of the caucus
suit to compel the «tate to permit
Main 182
and Representative Sweet of New
him to operate a bus line from Port­
York as secretary and Representative
land to Tacoma and Seattle. Counsel
WASCO - OREGON
Vestal of Indiana as republican whip,
for Buck contended that the refusal
a post he now holds.
of Washington to permit the bus line
Democrats elected to the new
was an unconstitutional Interference
house in a caucus selected Finis J
with interstate commerce.
Garrett of Tennessee as the demo
• Nineteen other states having simi­
cratic candidate for speaker and ae
lar laws for the regulation of bus traf
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
a result he will continue as minority
flc Intervened in this case and filed
leader in the bouse during the 69th
The senate called upon President briefs supporting the right of a state
I
Coolidge to make public the report to control all traffic upon its high-
congress.
Optometrist
of the federal trade commission on ways, Including that which had orig-
investigation into gasoline prices. Inated in other stat'-s.
Specilist in the examining of
BORAH LOSES PAY FIGHT its Major-General
Jamel Harrison Wil­
eyes and fitting of glasses^
son,
U.
S.
Ai
retired,
last of the corps FRIEDERICH EBERT IS DEAD
Lens grinding shop in
All Other Pacific Northwest Senators
A-
connection.
commanders in the Union army dur­
Favor Pay Rise.
ing
the
Civil
war,
died
at
his
home
In
First President of Garman Republic
Upstairs across from the
Washington, D. C —Senator Borah,
Falls to Survive Operation.
Edw. C. Pease Co. store
republican, Idaho, lost his fight to Washington, D. C.
The appointment of James F. Bar
have
the
senate
rescind
its
former
Berlin.
— Friederich Ebert, first
Room 10, Vogt Bldg.
action in voting an Increase of salar ton of Fort Dodge, la., as national ad- president of the German republic, died
The Dalles, Ore.
les of senators and representatives jutant of the American Legion was from peritonitis which followed an
announced by James A. Drain, na- operation for appendicitis.
from 17500 to $10,000 a year.
»
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tional
commander.
There was probably not, another
By a vote of 64 to 18, the senate
Vice
President-elect- Charles G. leader in Germany, his enemies ad
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to
suspend
the
rules
so
as
refused
to act upon an amendment to the Dawes announced the selection of E. fitted, who could have succeeded
second deficiency appropriation bill Ross Bartley, member* of the Wash­ whero he did, and his death four
which would have repealed the pay ington staff of The Associated Press, months before the presidential elec
Increase rider attached to the legls as his secretary.
lion produces more confusion in a
The German government has sent political situation already badly mud
’
Eyesight Specialists
' latlve bill by the senate and house
a note to the secretariat-general of the
' ’
Manufacturing Opticians
without a record vote.
died. ■
Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted <
Senators from the Pacific northwest league of nations protesting against
Ebert started life as a saddlemaker,
>
Exclusively Optical
* are overwhelmingly In favor of an In­ the maintenance of French troops in but years of experience as a labor or
Complete Lens Manufacturing • crease In congressional salaries, It Saar valley.
ganizer and official of unions, together
United States Senator Medill Mc­ with his wide training in practical
Plant in Connection
was disclosed by the vote. The only
vote from the Pacific northwest for Cormick of Illinois, one of the repub­ politics developed him.
OREGON
THE DALLES
the
amendment was cast by Senator lican leaders of the senate, died sud-
15-16 Vogt Block.
• J
His lack of early opportunities was
Borah,
its sponsor. McNary and Stan dently at his .hotel In Washington, Compensated for by“he training he
i l ll l lMIU III HUH I » H-H-
field, Oregon; Jones and Dill, Wash D. C., of what Coroner J. Ramsay Won Ip the world of affairs. He was
ington, and Gooding, Idaho, went on Nevill announced was heart disease.
described as ho dreamy theorist, but
I I I I I I H-1 I I I I I 4 1 ill» I ’H -H
record unhesitatingly for the Increase.
’ * headed, tactful leader,, who
I hard
Anti-Oleo Bill Passes In Idaho.
made
a gallant fight In behalf of the
JAMES STEWART
Rall Labor Board Hit By Ruling.
Boise, Idaho.—The senate of the German republic and the German
SHERMAN COUNTY
Washington, D. C. — Railroads are Idaho legislature passed the anti-oleo masses under * heartbreaking condi-
not required to submit to the rail­ bill championed by the dairymen of tiens.
STOCK AND BRAND
road labor board for arbitration labor this state Monday. The bill has also
INSPECTOR
disputes with their employes.' The passed the house. The bill places a
Dry Agents Free to Search Autos.
supreme court so declared in a de­ heavy license on the manufacture and
Moro - - Oregoo
Washington, D. (’.—Federal prohibi
cision declaring the roads can deter­ sale of oleomargarine and other^dgjry
tion agents* may lawfully stop auto-
mine
who
shall
be
recognised
as
rep
­
product substitutes. The license fee
DEPUTIES: L. Schadewits, Kent,
resenting their employes in labor dis­ for manufacturers Ik placed at $1000, Bioblles and other vehicles and search
Oregon; Dr. Joe. Saunders, Moro,
them for contraband Hquor without a
putes.
wholesalers $450, retailers $50, and warrant,, the supreme court dectded Jx)
Ore.? W. H. Meyer, Wasco, Ore.
restaurants $25.
g case from Michigan. In another
President’s Pardon Right Sustained.
H II III H I III IH4 IIHIH
liquor -case decision, brought from
Washington, D. C.—The president
Seattle Man Gets State Job.
Georgia,
the court held that states
hgs authority under the constitution
Olympia, Wash. ^Governor Hartley pray, under the constitution, make un­
to pardon persons held in contempt
of court In criminal cases, the su­ announced his acceptance of the resig­ lawful the possession of liquor acquir­
preme court held in a decision up­ nation of Fred j/TDltble as director ed legally before enactment of the
holding the pardon granted by Presi­ of. licenses and the appointment of federal prohibition get.
dent Coolidge to Philip Grossman» of Charles R. Maybury of Seattle as. JHs
successor, effective March 16.
Bridge Over Columbia Authorised.
Chicago.
Washington, D. C.—The-bill giving
consent to the state of Washington tc
Ex-Senator Clark of Montana Dead.
Plsrse Approve« Tax on Tobsooo.
Salem, Or.—Governor Pierce sign
New York.—William Andrews Clark, construct a bridge across the Colum
•d’ a bill providing for g 10 per cent ex-United States senator from Mon­ bia river at Vantage ferry was passed
tax on cigarettes, smoking tobacco tana, died at his home here. Death hy the house Saturday. The senati
and anuff. The tax is based on the was due to pnaumonia. Mr. Clark acted favorably on the measure somi
4tae ago.
was I« years p^d.
retail prices.
Hotel Moro
I Dr W. N. Morse
Dr. Penn C. Crum
De Larhue
Optical Co.
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4
•••WioHu«
Five Cents
March 6
Now In Stock!
Balloon Equipped
for only $25 additional
Oh! Boy!
You can buy a Balloon
and Ruckstel Equipped Ford at a
Big Reduction
Come in and see the
New Model Ford Truck
With Stake Body
The Improved Trackson - Fordson
is now demonstrating
Call us and we will take you where
it is working
It Will Pay You to Investigate
Where do you stand on the Prize List ?
Watch This List
For Prizes
No. 1—1925 body type car,
Ford roadster.
No. 2—Bug or roadster truck
No. 3.—Studebaker truck.
No. 4—Chevrolet roadster.
No. 5—Ford touring car.
No. 6 —Cadillac Truck
No. 7 _Your Car Refinished,
No. 8.—Set Hassler Shocks
No. 9
No. 10—Windshield spotlight
installed.
No.
No. 12 -
No. 13.—New Battery.
No. 14
No. 15—Sun visor.
No. 16
No. 17
No. 18.—Ford top.
No. 19
No. 20—Camp Seat
No. 21
No. 22—$10.00 in labor.
No. 23
No. 24
No. 25
No. 26—Cord tire to fit your
automobile.
No. 27
No. 28.-tFord wheel.
No. 29
No. 30—Tourist canteen.
No. 31—Motor Meter
No. 82
No. 33—Bar cap.
No. 34
No. 35
No. 36—Emergency Kit
No. 37
No. 38.—Tire cover.
No. 39
No. 40 *
No. 41—Quart auto enamel.
No. 42—Radio Battery
No. 43
No. 44—Tire sleeve.
No. 45
No. 46—Tire Repair Kit
No. 47 — .
/ e
No. 48—A Genuine Crescent
Wrenchi
No. 49
No. 50
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i
,
Buick,
Star,
Studebaker,
Oakland,
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''
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Everything for Autos^ Delco Lighting Systems
Electric Refrigeration, Farm Power Batteriesr
Complete Line of Genuine Ford Parts
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