Price Five Cents
Moro, Sherman County, Oregon, Friday, May 29, 1925
JULY FOURTH URGED
- AS DEFENSE DAY
WM.8. CULBERTSON
TO COLLECT LOANS
Attention of Several Govern
ments Called to Agreements
Made By Them.
President Favors That Date
for Test Rather Than
Armistice Day.
Office Pfitfne Main 93
Moro
Oregon
Practice in All the Cöurfi
of Oregon
Main 541
BANK Of MORO BUILDING
Oregon
Moro
Dr J. R. Morga
DENTIST
United Scales Denta! Exam
iner for this district.
«^-Office at
MORQi OREGON
Office and Residence
Hotel Moro
BUYING MOST
WE BUY
FOR LESS-
SELLING MOST
WE SELL
FOR LESS
OUR,
571-STORE
BUYING
POWER
SAVES YOU
MONEY
The United
Washington, D C
Washington, D. C. — Formal disap
States
government
has
taken
steps to
proval of the war department’s selec
collect not only the war debts owed
tion of armistice day for the holding
by Europe, .but the reconstruction
of a second defense test and a recom
i loans made after the armistice.
mendation by President Coolidge that
| ' Several debtor governments have
it be held on July 4, were announced
failed to *pay either interest or prin-
by the White House.
! cipal on reetoaetruction debts and in
The president, in a letter to Acting.
consequence the Washington govern-
Secretary of War Davis, suggested
meat haa eaUelFtheir attention to the
July 4 as a “more appropriate date”
agreements aegotiate’d at the time the
If you want to he right in step with Style, you.
and directed the department, if it
loans were made that there would be
chose any other day than a national
will wear one of these smart Printed Crepes
no dlcarimlnatlon in the- discharge of
holiday, to hold its plans in abeyance
obligations
of
this
character.
until the authority of congress is se
They are expressive of the gaiety of Spring, and
। Belgium is said to have paid Great
cured.
Britain about £8,000.000 on post arm
are the most popular fashion now.
The president also advised the de
istice
reconstruction and aid loans.
partment to emphasize in its letters to
Rumania also la understood to have
governors that participation of their
number of becoming
William
8.
Culbertson
of
Kansas,
made
substantial payments jo nations
states in the test is “purely volun
vice
chairman
of
the
Federal
tariff
which
advanced
relief
funds,
but
has
all of which are new
tary."
The war department will accept the commission, who has been appointed made no move to pay the United
States.
president’s suggestion and hold its de minister to Rumania.
The Jugo-Slavian government incur
fense test on July 4, it was said.in
a number of reconstruction debts,
red
well-informed quarters here.
but haa not made payment to any of
Acceptance of the earlier date calls
her creditors, and for that reason is
for extraordinary efforts to speed up
not held to be in the same position
the test machinery so that the muster
as Belgium and Rumania.
will show the maximum results pos
The debt commission sees no dis
*ible and the preparation of plans and
St. Paul, Minn. — A million-dollar tinction whatever between pre and
instructions already is under way.
motor bus and flight company, back- 1 post-armistice debts insofar as the ob
range
ed by Great Northern railway ’inter- ! ligation of the debtor nation to pay
subdued shades
ests, filed articles of incorporation ' is concerned.
Some conaideratiou is being given
here. The jxnnpany, known as the
Great Northern Transit company, will by the .Waahlngtuu government of
operate a fleet of passenger busses ficials to a proposal to publish a list
Our splendid, low price, out
and freight trucks, according to the of all debts owed the United States,
showing
not
only
the
amounts
due,
Philadelphia—In Justice to business articles filed.
very low price we might say, is
there should be a curtailment of fed The directors include Louis W. Hill, t but in each case the total payments
due to our great Buying Power I
eral bureaus and commissions engag Ralph Budd, W. P. Kenney and D. J. made on post and pre-armistlce debts.
ed in Investigating the industrial ma Kerr, all of St. Paul. Mr. Budd will
chine, Senator William M. Butler of be the president, with^Mr. Kenney as
Massachusetts, chairman of the reputx vice-president and F. L. Paetzobl sec- 1
lican national committee, declared retary-treasurer.
The company, which is capitalized at
here in an addr«*ss to the Textile Man
>1,000,000, will maintain headquarters
ufactnrers’ association.
The time has arrived, he insisted, here.
Sa’cm. Or.—The necessity of addi
Mr. Budd, president of the Orc t
when business, “Meek ing to stand four
tional
mil service without unneces
square with the government,” might Northern, said the company had j.otu sary dupi>ntlon of investment was
ask congress to give it credit for decided definitely where the bujse* । emphasis *d by the Oregon public serv
“good intentions and sincerity of ac would be operated« buj. “th® plan is ice ccmmission In an answer Tiled In
tivities” by halting the multiplication to study the situation carefully, and connection with Nie petition of the
Mail Order» Filled Rromptlv
where an improvement in service can
of supervising tg jncies.
Oregon
Trunk
for
a
certificate
of
pub
“The government, with justice to be offered *we propose to operate bus lic convenience and rece’slty author
the member* of the great American route* supplementary to our train izing the extern Jou of its lino from
industrial family, can go further,” he service in the northwest."
Bend to Klamath Fall*.
continued, “and begin an elimination
Jack Smith, 1«, was -drowned In the
With a crowd estimated to be the
It was said that this answer ex
A full season of operation of the Al largest ever attending the annual Wiliam eUe river above Corvallis
of certain of the boards, bureaus, de
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
presses clearly the attitude of the com
pertinents and commissions of Paul
mission in connection with récent de bany cannery has been assured by a strawberry carnival was held In Roee- while in swimming.
Prying activity, and accomplish a sub
E. M. Ammons, former governor of velopment* in the central Oregon rail bumper crop of strawberries In the burg.
Bar examinations which were to be
district and the closing of the Lebanon
stantial saving of the public payroll Colorado died at his home in Denver. road situation.
Fire losses In Portland for April held in Salem July 14 and 15 will be
without any loss of public service."
He was 65 years old and had been in
Particular mention was made in the cannery.
totaled >53,532.82 and Involved four held on July 7 and 8.
Tho Salem district of the Portland deaths, according to Edward Grenfell,
falling health for several months.
answer to the fact that under the pro
The Clackamas county Jersey Jub
the Methodist Episcopal fire marshal.
.
PUBLICATION LAWFUL The Anti-Saloon league celebrated posed plan of the Oregon Trunk, its
ilee was he^i at the Clackamas county
was trackage woùld parallel the line of the church held its annual conference at
its 32nd birthday Sunday.
Ijibor conditions in Oregon have fairgrounds near Canby.
founded
tn
Oberlin,
O.,
by
a
group
of Southern. Pacific company -for 80 Silverton with 8G out-of town visitors greatly Improved, acisordlng to the
to
Print
Newspapers Have Right
At a meeting held at Halfway the
churches, throwing aside denomina miles, fro® a Junction point near in attendance.
Names of Taxpayers and Amount.
monthly report of the United State* dates for the Pine valley fair were set
T. H. Lonergan, national chaplain department of labor.
■Publication oi tional lines
Odell or Skookum to Kftimath Falls,
Washington,
for September 24 and 25.
Dr. Charles R. Erdman, Princeton, while Identical service might be af of the American Legion, will attend
income tax returns by newspapers wat
Salem will be the acene of the next
Several hundred residents of Clat-
upheld as legal by the United States N. J„ was elected moderator of the forded at a saving of more than three the state convention of legionnaires Oregon atate encampment of the Odd
■op
county attended the annual Scotch
through
general assembly of the Presbyterian and one-half millien dollars
to be hel^d at Prineville next month as
supreme court.
fellows, it was decided at the clo*- broom celebration at Columbia beach.
church
in
the
United
States
at
the
Pacific
publish
lists
ol
the
guest
of
the
Pendleton
post.
the
Southern
Newspapers can
joint use
iag session of the order at Ashland.
tracks between these points.
names of taxpayers and the amount o1 convention in Columbus, Ohio.
British government is reported to
tax paid, the court held.
The final decision was rendered on be refusing to admit delegates from
DOROTHY ELLINGSON SANE
the publicity clause of the 1924 rev Russia and other European countries
enue act which permitted publicity o1 who proposed to attend annual con Confessed Matricide
specif j ference of British communist party,
the returns bnt failed
Degree Murder Charge.
whether or not they might be pub which opens at Glasgow May 30.
San Francisco. — Trial of Dorothy
lished by periodicals.
The German government proposes Ellingson, 17-year-old confessed matri
In Its decision, the court quashed Increase in tariff rates on imported cide, on a charge of first degree mur
the indictments returned against the grains in hope of stablizing prices and
der, was set for June 15 by Superior
Baltimore Post and Walter S. Dickej Increasing home production. The pro
Judge Harold Louderback. The girl
and Ralph Ellis, owner and editor, re posed new tariff on automobiles, it is
was accused of shooting her mother to
spectively, of the Kansas City Journal said, will practically bar American ma
death in their home here on the morn
—
Post.
chines from German market.
ing of January 13.
Mrs. George E. Chamberlain, wife
Dr. J. M. Scanland, medical super
McCamant Named Federal Judge.
Skaggs’ Cane and Maple
of ex-Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, intendent of the Naga state hospital,
Best Cane Sugar, 1001bs.$6.79
Sunday. and his staff, seven other physicians,
Portland, Or.—Judge Wallace Me died it Washington
Syrup—
Princess Flour, finest blend
Cammant, a leading member of th< She tad been in poor health for sev- presented a report to District Attorney
2y»-lb. can ................. 48c
of hard wheat, 49-lb. sk. $2.59
local bar, has been appointed by Presi eral years. She had lived in Wash Brady, saying that a close observa
5-lb. cai} . : ................... 85c
dent Coolidge as a judge of the Unite« ington since 1908, when her husband tion of the girl for a period of more
Rolled Oats, 9-lb. bag . . .55c
10-lb. can .................... $1.58
States circuit court of appeals, accord was first elected to the United States than 30 days had determined that she
Yellow
or
White
Corn
Meal,
ing to information received front senate from OregorRk
faculties
Standard
Corn, 6 for . *.. 89c
wm in full possession of her
He will succeed
Washington, D.
9 lbs,
and mentally responsible in every
Standard Peas, 6 for .... 89c
Judge Erskine Ross, of the ninth Ju
Mussolini Says Italy Will Pay.
Post Toasties or Corn Flakes,
way.
String Beans, 6 for .... 89c
dicial circuit with headquarters 11
Rome.—Italy will pay her war debt
each ............................ 10Ô
Tomatoes,
No. 2t/2, 6 for. .89c
San Francisco. Judge Ross recently to th® United States on a basis of long
Railway Taxes Cut by Board.
20c
resigned because of age and pool term payments yet to be worked out.
Kellogg
’
s
All-Bran,
pkg.
.
Bordens
or
Carnation Milk,
Washington, p. C.—The board of
health. His resignation was made ti Premier Mussolini announced during tan appeals in a decision held that
10c
tall
cans,
12
for .... .$1.15
Jello, all flavors, each ...
become effective “at the pleasure Of senate debate on the buBget. The the railroads under wartime control
Campbell
’
s
Pork
and Beans,
Swift’s Silverleaf Lard,
the president,” so It is assumed *htP premier denied that Italy recently had of the government may exclude from
5 for .........................53c
Judge McCammant will take offlc< been asked by the United States to their earnod and taxable income the
8 lbs....... i................-
whenever he is ready. *
Campbell
’s Soup, any kind
pay her debt, but admitted that he 2 per cent their Income withheld from
Swift’s Silverleaf Lard,
had had semi-official conversations them by the director general of rail
each ....................... 10e
4 lbs. ................... :
Federal Farm Loan Rates Cut.
with American representatives regard roads as taxes.
Skaggs’ No. 1 Coffee—
Washington, D. C.—The federal farn ing the methods of funding the debt.
Swift’s Jewel Shortenin'
1 lb..... . ,49c
................ ..
loan board took the first step in wha'
Northwestern Line and Omaha Unite.
8
lbs
..........................
<
$1.40
Politician Held as Bribe Maker.
is to be a general reduction of rate«
3
lbs.
...
J
.................
Chicago, Ill.—A consolidation of the
Swift’s Jewel Shortening,
Chicago.—James C. Callan, politi
of Interest charged farmers by federa
5 lbs. ......................... $2.35
Chicago & Northwestern railway and
land banks, authorizing a new rate o cian. was held under bond of >2600 by
4
lbs
...................
•••
850
the Chicago, St.’ Paul & Minneapolis
Skaggs’ No. 3 Coffee —
514 per cent for tihe Omaha district Judge Thomas J. Lynch in criminal
Snowdrift Shortening,
and Omaha railway, thé former of
lib.................... ..40c
effective June 1. The rate now in ef court as a result of charges that he
which controls the latter, Is In pros
8 lbs.
$198
$1.15
feet is 5H per cent. While there wai had sought to tamper with Ehl 11 ip J.
3
lbs
........ .
pect through a stock exchange, it was
no official statement beyond the bar« Barry, one of the veniremen in Wil
Snowdrift
-
Shortening,
$1.90
5 lbs....................
•
announcement relative to the cuts t< liam D. Shepherd's germ murder base. disclosed here.
Striking Patterns and
Charming Colors
MILLIDN DOLLAR BUS
FIBM INCORPORATED
ELIMINATION ASKED
IN FEDERAL BUREAUS
COMMISSION ADVISES
JOINT USE OF TRACKS
$14.75
Open Saturday Nights Until Nine O’clock
Main 182
WASCO
OREGON
OMometrist •1
1
SpeciliMt Ih the ’examining
eye* and fitting of glasses.
Lens grinding shop in
connection.
Upstairs across from the
Edw C. Pease Co. store
Jioom 10, Vogt Bldg.
The Dalles, Ore.
,
De Larhue
Optical Co.
Eyesight Specialists
Manufacturing Opticians
Eyes Examined !GI»Eses Fitted
Exclusively Optical
Complete Lens Manufacturing
Plant in Connection
OREGON
THE DALLES
15-16 Vogt Block
JAMES STEWART
SHERMAN COUNTY
STOCK AND BRAND
INSPECTOR *
Moro
Oregon
DEPUTIES: L. ScbaJcwha, Kent,
Oregon; Dr. J¿». Saunder*. Moro,
Ore.; W. H.
W mco , Ore
STOCK & WHEAT
RANCHES
;
FOR SALE
F. T. HURLBURT
Upper Main Street, opp. Garage
Condon • - Oregon
Cash
stares
be made in the other districts, it wa«
Yankee* Test Canada’* New Beer.
understood that the board was consld
Windsor, Ont.—Approximtely 75,000
erlng reductions as great as one-hal
persons, two-thlrds of them Ameri
of 1 per cent in some of them.
cans, already have paid between >150,-
000 and >100,000 hare to test the
Sued for Burke Blaze
Thirty damagt “kick” of the 4.4 per cent beer the
Wallace, Idaho.
suits, totaling 1160,611, were filed ii firat day it was placed on sale.
federal district court here against tin
Northern Pacific railway as a result o 235 New Oregon Statutes Effective.
Sâlem, Or.—Approximately 235 laws
fire which destroyed part of the towi
of Burke, Idaho, July 12, 1923, an« comprising the harvest of the last ses
sion of the state legislature, became
caused a loss of approximately
effective it m^alfht
Citizenship not for Oriental War Veta,
Washington, D. C. — Japanese and
other Asiatics who aerved in the Uni
ted States army, navy or coast guard
during the World war are not entitled
to naturalization, the supreme court
has decided.
Kansas Ex-Governor Cleared.
Topeka, Kan.—J. M. Davis, ex gov
ernor of Kansas, Was acquitted of a
charge of soliciting a bribe for a par-
ion while governor.
4 lbs............... • • • • IL05
Wesson or Mazola Oil
Pint ........................ . 30c
Half Gallon
Gallon ...
. 58c
$1.07
$1.98
Velvet, Prince Albert, Union
Leader and Geogge Washing
ton Smoking Tobaco, 2 .. ;25c
Climax, Horseshoe and Star
Chewing Tobacco, plug 70c
STORE NO. 79, THE DALLES, OREGON
442 Eut Second St.