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Moro, Sherman County,! Oregon, Friday,*May 13, 1927
Established 1887
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WE WANT YOUR TRADE !
’MTREASURER
PRAIRIE S M ÍES ARE
ALLEGED TO BE SHORT SWEPT BY TWISTERS
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Killef) and Prop
Damage Will Pass
hree of State's Well Known Many Persons
Citizens Charged With
If Good Reliable Goods,
(Lowest Possible Prices,
Fair and Square Dealing
and Polite Attention
Will Get It *
Embezzlement
erty
$4.000,000.
Moro, Oregon
Dependable Used Cars
$225
$625
$700
$475
$600
$300
$150
$125
$400
$150
Ford Coupe — 1926
Buick Touring Six...........
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We have Several Other Cars ranging
in price — and up — from....................
HIGHWAY CHAIRMAN
SUES FOB RECORDS INDORSE IDAHO NORTH
Olympia. Wash.—Difficulties of the
AND SOOTH RAIL LINE
state highway committee were brought
to the state supreme court In a man-,
damus action instituted by the at-
torney general against Róland H
Hartley, as governor of the state and
ex-officio member of the highway
Buy With Confidence
committee, and Samuel J. Humes, as
state highway engineer, requiring
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them to return to C. W. Clausen, chair
The Dalles, Oregon
man'of the highway committee, or to
allow access to. books, records, docu
DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CARS
ments, papers, minute books and un
GRAHAM BROTHERS TRUCKS
opened bids of highway contractors
which they are charged with wrong
fully having in their possession or
under their controL
The respondents were notified that
Friday, May 20, ‘at 10 A. M„ "or as
C. V. Belknap, Proprietor
soon thereafter as counsel could be
heard,” was set for the application tot
the peremptory writ of mandate.
The action was based on affidavits
Moro, Oregon
of W. G. Potts, state treasurer, and
C. W. Clausen, state auditor, ex of
Ladies and Children’s Hair Cutting
members of the committee, alleg
> flcio
ing that minutes of the highway com
and Shingle Bobbing
mittee meeting on May 3 at which
George T. McCoy was elected secre
tary and C. W. Clausen chairman, and
bids of firms seeking contracts for
state highway work to* be awarded
OQOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0O0G0C00OO0OCO0O0O0O00OO00O000CX? on. that day, were carried away.
Attorney-General Dunbar and As
sistant Attorney General Donley will
represent the highway committee in
the supremo court action.
$25
Moro Hotel Barber Shop
BATHS
R ead & G alloway
MACHINE
GENERAL
SHOP
Repairing Trucks, Tractor«, Automobiles,
(’aterj illars, and Combine Motors, Cylinder
Grin ’ing, Oyx-acetylene and Electric W elding
The Dalles, Ore
Phone Mein 4Q01
616 Eaet Second 8t
WHEN YOU TRAVEL
SET 4JP NEW WHEAT BUREAU
International Conference Takes Step
of Importance.
Kansas City, -r The international
wheat pool conference at Its closing
session here voted to establish a per
manent international bureau of co
operative marketing to act as a clear
ing house for statistical information
and the development of plans.
Delegates considered the establish
ment of this bureau the first step to
ward world co-ordination in pool wheat
selling.
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C. H. Burnell, Winnipeg, chairman
of the conference, urged the United
States co-operatives to sign 60 per
cent of the wheat production as soon
as possible.
-BY AUTO AND VISIT THE DALLES
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STORE YOUR CAR
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In the concrete, fully equipped, roomy garage of
Walther-Williams Company. Competent workmen
always ready to help you in any way they can
at least expense to you. for any service fender-
ej the charge will always be reasonable,
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THE PALLES,
“ when »amngt are greatest * *
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Reno, Nev. — Three of Nevada’« beat
Kansas Ctty. Mo. — Tornado apd
known citizens spent Sunday In jail, • storm casnsMles in middle western
two of them looking from their cell state« stood at more than 200 dead
window out across the main street of and upward >of 600 injured, many
the capital to the state house, former- probably fatally
ly scene of their employment at Car- | Hundreds -Were homeless In five
son City. They are Ed Malley, state states visited by a scries of freak
We Can Count on You
treasurer; George A. Cole, ex-state storms thafc^ouarted Saturday and
controller, and H. C. Clapp, ex-esushier reached a climpx Monday when lai go
For a Customer !
of the Carson Valley bank. The three areas were dqva*lated in Arkansas,
are charged with embezzlement.
Missouri, Texas and Illinois. Torren-
The men are involved in one of the tial rains over the week end added
most clever schemes, according to in- to property louses estimated at mil
vestlgators,
possible
to
devise, i lions of dollars.
Through their alleged machinations ' Arkansas reported 70 knov. n dead
Member Store United Grocer* of Oregoi
they are alleged to havè embezzled and more than 300 injured in the wake i
1516,322.16 from the state or the bank, of tornadoes that swept from th '
10000000000000000000000000900000000000000000000000000 It is not decided which will be the southern section of tha state to the
ultimate loser.
northeast counties. Lawrence county |
A feature of the operations with i was hardest hit. Twenty-eight perish |
which the men are charged was that 1 od there and approximately 200 were |
all the alleged transactions were of J injured. Eighteen were dead and 10 1
a nature that they would not be dis-i unaccounted for at Strong and Nor j
ooyered by a bank examiner or quali- , phlet in Union county, while eight J
fled accountant until something broke ! were killed In Cleveland county.
the
combination. That Occurred when | Seventy-three persons were known j.
Watch Thia Bulletin
Clapp was discharged as cashier of ( to have been killed in a dozen Mis I
For Good Used Ciar Values
he Carson Valley bank. His dis sourt communities Sixty died in a
charge had no bearing on the case, । tornado that razed the business sec
tion of Poplar Bluff in southeast Mis
It was authoritatively stated.
1920 Dodge Brothers Touring —- New •
A large num passed through the Car- souri. Relief workers had placed 42
Paint — New Tires — Overhauled....
son Valley bank each year. All col bodies in morgue«, while 12 bodies
1924 Dodge Brothen Coupo-New paint
lections for taxes, fees and other were taken to homes in the damaged
Lots of extras—been well taken fare of
•terns are paid by check, sent through residential district.
1926 Dodge Brothen Coujie — New
Ten deaths resulted from tornadoes
the mail as a rule. The universal con-
Duco Paint —■ Extras............................ r
.’idence accorded Malley and the bank In central Missouri Seven were kill
1923 Dodge Brothen Sedan — Excel
s declared to have been the basis for ed in Gallaway county In the vicinity
lent Shape ... ...........................................
I the transactions, under which alleged-1 of Auxvasse, New Bloomfield, Guthrie
ly fictitious cashier's checks were and Carrington. A 70unlle gale tlpt
1924 Dodge Brothen Sedan — Very
placed in the state treasury.
raked St. Louis caused three deaths
Good Value ..............................................
The -wen were arrested on a com-
Texas reported 33 dead, more than
1921 Dodge Brothers Touring — Over-
plaint sworn by Governor Balzar.
100 injured and property damage ex
ceeding 31,000,000 from twisters that
dipped at scattered points in Dallas,
Studebaker Six Touring — Good Shape
Collin, Hunt and Lunar counties.
Ford Touring — 1923
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Pnce Five Cents
OREGON
The reader of advertiaemente know« that he has the most
reliable guide to markets that exists in the world today.
Smallpox Shows Gsln In United States
New York:—The American Assocla
tlon for Medical Progress announced
। hat the United States for the year
1926 reported m|re cases of ^mallp^
than any other country outside of
Asia, although the percentage was
less than that 009257 Only two staili,
Rhode Island and Vermont, were en
tirely free from the disease last year.
Portland, Or. — Impetus was given
th* movement having as Its objective
issuance by the interstate commerce
commission of an-order to the,Union
Paciflp system to construct water-
grade rail connection between Home
stead, Or., and Lewiston, Idaho.
Officials of Idaho and Washington
and civic delegations 4from those
States and Oregon, met at the PorG
land Chamber of Commerce and per
fected an organization which will, it
is contemplated, institute a new ac-
tion with the federal commission re-
questing the rail extension.
Public service commissions of the
three Pacific northwest states will be
requested to father the complaint be
fore the interstate commerce commis
sion.
Washington and Idaho commissions
have agreed to co-o^erato. A special
committee was named to wail upon
the Oregon commission and request its
participation.
TwentJanine persons, 11 of thorn
officials of Washington and Idaho,
came to Portland-for the meltlfig.-
OWYHEE IS FAVORED
Plan Outlined at Conference Subject
to Approval by Mr. Work.
Portland. Ore.—Colonization of th'
SO,000 acres of the Owyhee reclama
tion project in Oregon will be under
taken by the government, providing
land owners will agree to the terms
ptlpulated by the government. At
trading settlers will not cost the
land owners a penny and by placing -
the sale under control of the govern
ment all suspicion of speculation in
values by owners will be eliminated.
Thus one of the big handicaps to niak
Ing reclamation projects successful
will be surmounted, thanks to the ef
forts of Uncle Sam*
Such was the proposal made by Dr
Elwood Mead, United States comnjis
stoner of reclamation; to n delegation
of Owyhee land owners at t meeting
here. Dr. M<*ad explained that the
proposition is subject, of course, to
approval of Secretary Work of the de- ■
partment of the interior, his chiefs
The Dalles, Oregon
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May Festival of trademarked
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ation of the April Silver Anni
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years of merchandising exper
ience. Behind this name stands
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Other Widths from 33c to 43c
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Ruth Snyder and Gray F.cund Guilty.
New York. -Mrs liuth thrown Sny
;g Made of staunch, durable 2.20 blue denim cut extra
der and Henry Judd Gtay, Her para
full all over, triple-stitched, six pockets, tacked to Prev«^
mour, are to pay with thalr lives foi
.ripping.’ All sizes, including extra sizes. Jackets with
the crime that «hatched th tm fron»
Engineers’ Cuffs to match. Overall or Jumper at our
obscurity and made' them Intornatiun
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than two hours, a jury convicted them
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hand, Albert Snyder, magazine art
Hudson Maxim l| Taken by Death. editor. Death sentence is mandatory
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Hoptacong, N- JL—Hudson Maxim, for flntf degree murder,
who Invented smokeless powder, the
Eugene Meyer Heads Farm Loan.
Maxim silencer, detonating fuses for
armor plated projectiles and other de
Washington, D. C.—rEugene Meyer
vices whioh have contributed to the and his colleagues on the war finance
Earn Penny a Day
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| horror* of war and jlolent death, died cor^bradon were named by President
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cent
a d«y represents the av
It is estimated that every w>ven
peacefully In his bed recently, at the Coolidge as members of the federal minutes somewhere in the world^a erage Inconte ror the majority of
S jge of 74 years. Maxim was the vio- farm loan board. Reorganization of pedestrian sets a new mark for the working people In the country districts
Um of anaemia.
of India.
that agency will be effected.
broad jump.—-Detroit Free Press.
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