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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1925)
T • U ’S s. • : f i OUNTY 4 BSERVEfl nt I / Bl I * Moro, Sherman County, Orerini. ; Fi-iday Established 1887 • .j W. G BRYANT Attorney-at-Law C5UZEMS CHARGES TAX ‘DISCIPLINE DAVID C. COLLIER | tornai Revenue Bureau . Is Vengeful. Office Phone Main 93 Moro Oregon I ' Dr J. R. Morgan DENTIST United Stale« Dental Exam iner for this district. Office at MORO, OREGON Dr. M. F. £royd Physician and Surgeon Office and Residence Hotel Moro vwwwwvm^************' ooooooooooooocoooooooooooc Dr W. N. Morse 1 Physician and Surgeon J Main 182 ' WASCO OREGON Dr. Penn C. Crum Optometrist Specilist in the exsmining of eyes and fitting of glasses. Lens grinding shop in connection. Upstairs across from the Edw. C. Pease Co. store Washington, D. O,—A charge that the Internal revenue bureau tried to "discipline" him through assessment for additional taxes because of revela- tiona made In the senate tax investiga tion wee nuale in the senate by Shu nter Concern, republican, Michigan. A letter from Commissioner Blair read into the -record by the senator. Indicated a desire by the bureau to »•-open thp senator's taxes paid in 1319 on the sale of Ford Motor car company stock, on the ground that there had been a large under-assess- menL Since the statute of limitation would run against a reassessment after March IS, the senator was asked to sign a waiver, which he said, he re fused to do. Evidence designed to show that the Foderai governmenr has lost millions of dollars in taxes through war amor tisation allowances to the United States Steel corporation, thè Alumi- nam Company of America, and hun dreds of othsr companies, is contain ed In official transcripts of hearings filed with the senate by the Couzens investigation committee. An over-allowance of at least >6,- 500,000 to the Aluminum Company of America on the amortisation total of >15,589,614 was alleged by counsel and the engineers. Counsel and engineers for the com mittee contended that an amortisa tion allowance of >55,063,312 to the United States Steel corporation, was >37,826,014 in excess of whst it should have been and that there was involved a difference of tax of >21,478,513. EUROPE IN NEW ' PEACE MOVEMENT Faris.—Europe made a faltering but »finite step toward peace when Chamberlain and Herriot came to a practical understanding which in high political circles is ex- pected to be the basis ot a future agreement binding France, England, Belgium and Germany in a mutual Mcurlty pact under the auspices of the League of Nations. . Chamberlain told Premier Herriot that England was vitally interested in such a paot, but believed that it should have a much wider scope than a more defensive alliance. It is understood that Chamberlain broached the sub ject ot mutual supervision of arma meats, practically intimating that England was willing to guarantee France’s Rhine frontier provided France was willing to give strong as sumnees in regard to her aviation program, the extent of which has been seriously worrying England. । CONTRACTORS. START SUIT Oregon State Highway Commission •nd Bonding Houses sre Defendants. Portland, Or. — Warren brothers, paving contractors, filed suit In Room 10, Vogt Bldg. equity In the federal court'Monday The Dalles, Ore. against the state highway commission, nine paving contractors and four sure ty bonding companies for >750,000, al |.nM I HH I» l l lT l HII> l l»+ leging Infringement of patents. The equity spit follows a recent decision < » < by the United States circuit court of appeals, awarding the Warren broth ers >18,635 against the late Oskar U .> Eyesight Specialists * Huber. In the latter oase suit was brought J ‘ Manufacturing Opticians ‘ ’ ' Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted . for royalty on bitullthls pavement laid by Huber’s company upon contract - > Exclusively Optical ; , Complete Lens Manufacturing • from the state in 1919 and 1920. The ' ’ Plant in Connection i state highway commission, under the condition of the contract agreed to pay OREGON ’ THE DALLES J 15-16 Vogt Block. ; any damage assessed through court action as a result of using a paving ♦ I I Il i I I ll i l l. 't n i -4-i"»! > Il I-1 process upon which patent rights were claimed by Warren brothers. De Larhue Optical Co. , JAMES STEWART SHERMAN COUNTY STOCK AND BRAND INSPECTOR Moro - - Ore,on DEPUT1ES: L. Schadewitz, Kent, Oregon; Dr. Joe. Saunders, Moro, Ore.; W. H. Meyer, Wasco, Ore. I i t 11 I !■+■»♦ H + I-IM H H-FH 'Gilliam a»d Wkeeler Counties STOCK & WHEAT RANCHES FOR SALE F. T. HURLBURT Upper Main Street, opp. Garage Condon - - Oregon REPUBLICANS OUST INSURGENT BLOC La Follette Followers Assigned to Committees as “Inde pendents.” Michigan Senator Declares In Washington, XX Over the pro tests of Senator Borah of Idaho, and other repotoltcana, a m w fourth party was created tat the senate when the I«a Follette insurgent bloc was form ally driven out of tHe ^publican party and assigned to commttteea as "ln- dependents." Formal approval of the demotion of the La Follette Insurgents from their rank on the standing committees was given by the senate. The vote was 64 to 11 and came after five hours of debate, confined largely to the republican side. Demo cratic leaders interrupted occasion ally, but mainly to reiterate their de sire to keep clear of the row within the republican ranks. The real test as to whether the mar Jority party was to complete organize tion of the senate according to a pro gram, came on the propoaalzto re move Senator Ledd of North Dakota, one of the insurgents, from the chair manship of the public land* commit tee. / Senator Stanfield of Oregon, the majority candidate, was elected, re ceiving 36 votes to 13 for Ladd and three for Senator /Jones, democrat, New Mexico. Senator« Wheeler, demo crat, Montana, La Follette’s running madt on the independent presidential tRket last November, and Copeland, democrat. New York, supported Ladd, while Bruce, democrat, Maryland, vot ed tor Stanfield. Twenty-five democrats voted pres ent, as did Ladd and Stanfield. Colonel D. C. Collier, of San Diego, CaU who has been named director- general of the - Sesequl-Centennlal celebration of Philadelphia, Pa. BOY FAILS TO SAVE MOTHER FROM PRISON Los Angeles.—The dramatic “con fession" of 15-year-old Harold “Sonny" Willis that he murdered Dr. Benjamin B. Baldwin had apparently failed to save his mother from a life term in prison. / "The boy is lying like a gentleman,” Buron Fitts, chief deputy district at torney, declared. "The case will not be re-opened.” The district attorney’s ultimatum virtually means that Mfs. Margaret B. Willis, the lad’s mother, must serve a life sentence In San Quentin peniten tiary. She was convicted after a lengthy trial in superior court here and appeal for a new trial was denic.l by the supreme ^ourt. Mrs. Willis expressed her sorrow that her son had "confessed’' crime tor which she would rather pay the penalty. : Harold, according to evidence sub mitted when Mrs. Willis was granted a seven days’ stay of execution, has confessed that he shot Dr. Baldwin when the latter attacked his mother, but that he was sent out. to play after the shooting and consequently did not know the doctor was dead until after his mother had packed the body in a trunk, cast it over an embankment north of here and finally had given hersdlf up to the police. .ACTION TO VOID OIL LEASE BEGUN BRIEF GENERAL NEWS General John J. Pershing was taken 111 at Havana after he arrived from Santiago de Cuba. Dr. F. J. Stewart, 66, coroner of Pierce county, Wash., died in Tacoma following an apoplectic stroke. W. B. Curtis, for 16 years post master of Marshfield, Or., died, aged 71 years. Curtis was formerly a sea captain. The late United States senator Mc Cormick left his entire estate of more than $2,000,000 to his widow, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, ftor her life- time. An explosion of kerosene used to start a fire in a heating stove result- ed in the death of Mrs. James W. Bhelts and her three small children at Lostine, Or. Postal employed throughout the country will receive in their pay en velopes March 14 an additional check covering the Increased pay voted them in the new postal pay and rate bill,, The pay increase was retroactive to January 1. ; Seizure of Booze Ships Held Legal, New York.—Vessels landing or at- tempting to land bootleg liquor in the United States from any point on the high seas are liable to seizure under the tariff act of 1922, Federal Judge Washington Saad Wheat Body Files, E. L. Garvin ruled in effect In de- Incorporation elding In favor of the government in Olympia, Wash. its forfeiture action against the Dutch papers tor the >100,000 seed wheat auxiliary schooner Zeehond. The vic corporation of Washington were filed tory gave the government possession with the secretary of state here Mon of one of the most valuable cargoes day. J.’K. McCornack, J. W. Bradley ever seized on a rum boat—liquors and Joseph Bally of Spokane were said to be worth more than >200,000. named as incorporato». The corpor ation may borrow up to >200,000 to General Mitchell Losea Air Job. provide Indigent wheat farmers with Washington, D. C.—The name of money to buy seed wheat, according Colonel James E. Fechet was sent to to the incorporation papers. the White House as the war depart- ment’s choice to succeed Brigadier Coolidge Acts In Chilo Row. General William Mitchell, assistant Washington, D. C.—A plebiscite to chief of the air service. Whose public determine ths question of sovereignty utterances In the controversy over air over Tacna-Arioa was ordered In an power have kept official Washington award handed down by President on edge for several weeks. Coolidge in the controversy over the territory between Chile and Peru. Wearing of Masks Barred In Texaa. Austin, Tex. — A bill prohibiting Father of Roooevelt Highway bead. wearing of masks in public was signed Newport, Or.—Benjamin F. Jones, by Governor Ferguson. The law pro «7, father of the Roooevelt highway vides severe penalties for persons en * and former Oregon legislator, died at tering public buildings, churches or . his home here Monday following a private residences -while masked. It stroke of apoplexy. 1 I was a democratic party pledge ot Um I last campaign. Five Cents March 18; 19« 5 CK yenne, Wyo.—With Teapot Dome and 1*8 su: posed vast stores of crude oil as the i rlze. the government en tered fnto a moinenttm* legal battle In federal court here Monday in an _ effort to re^lqlm to the government the lease which was granted by Albert B. Fall, ex-secretary of the interior, to the Maqimoth Oil company. Atlee Pomereno, asso- iated with Owen D. Roberts, as special counsel, opened the case for the government in a statement before Judge T. Blake Kennedy, reviewing the transactions between Harry F. Sinclair, president of the Mammoth company; Edwin Denby, ex-secretary of the navy; Mr. Fall and others, which led to the granting of the lease. Prepared to defend at every angle the legality of the lease and to dis- avow all charges of corruption in connection with it, the Mammoth Oil company and Mr. Sinclair brought into play a galaxy of brilliant legal minds. Martin W. Littleton, R. W. Ragland, G. T. Stanford, J. W. Zeeveley and John W. Lacrie are among the at torneys who will represent the de fense. Mr. Fall and Mr. Sinclair have been subpenaed as government witnesses. 1500 LOSE HOMES Court Orders .Lavoys, Wyo., to Quit Oil Field Site. Cheyene, Wyo.—The 1500 residents of the town ot Lavoye, Wyo., were deprived of their home/ by a ruling of Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy here, who ordered that the townsite must be vacated in favor of the Ohio Oil company, which holds a government lease on the land. in the Salt Creek oil field. n Business leaders at L«voye prompt ly called a mass meeting at which 100 persons publicly reiterated their stand not to vacate their homes and build ings and announced a continuance of their fight in higher courts. The townspeople authorized coun- sei to carry the ,< ase to the United States circuit court of appeals at St. Louis. Mayo Says Cancer Will be Controlled. Philadelphia, Pa—Dr. Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., one of the country’s leading surgeons, told the Philadelphia forum in an address that he believed cancer would be "un der control" within a few years. By this Dr. Mayo said he did not mean that cancer would be cured nor that it would be preventable, but that it would be more amenable to treatment and that its working would neither be so rapid nor so serious. He based this’’ belief, he said, on the theory that cancer is caused b> an organism, perhaps by a germ, and on the Wasser man test through which it Is claimed the presence of cancer may be detect- 0- Dennis Nominated for X*rlff Po»t- _ Washington, D. C.—Alfred P. Dennis of Maryland, was nominated by Presi dent Coolidge to succeed David J in Walt’s Profit Sharing Campaign NEXT WEEK Do not Loose Your Opportunity in this Contest, Closing April 30th 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. 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