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Established 1887
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W. G BRYANT
Attorney-at-Law
C5UZEMS CHARGES
TAX ‘DISCIPLINE
DAVID C. COLLIER
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tornai Revenue Bureau
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Office Phone Main 93
Moro
Oregon
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' 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
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Dr W. N. Morse
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Physician and Surgeon
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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
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appeals, awarding the Warren broth
ers >18,635 against the late Oskar
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.> Eyesight Specialists
* Huber.
In the latter oase suit was brought
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Manufacturing Opticians
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’ ' Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted . for royalty on bitullthls pavement laid
by Huber’s company upon contract
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Exclusively Optical
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, Complete Lens Manufacturing • from the state in 1919 and 1920. The
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Plant in Connection
i state highway commission, under the
condition of the contract agreed to pay
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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No< 26—Cord tire to fit your
automobile.
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No. 28.—Ford wheel.
No. 29
No. 30—Tourist canteen.
No. 31—Motor Meter
No. 32
No. 33—Bar cap.
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No. 36—Emergency Kit
No. 37
No. 38.—Tire cover.
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No. 41—Quart auto enamel.
No. 42—Radio Battery
No. 43
. No, 44—Tire sleeve.
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No. 46—Tire Repair Kit 1
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No. 48—A Genuine Crescent
Wrench.
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No. 50
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bar of lbs tariff commisiion.
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