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I MODIFIES CORPORATION TAX Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR Y0U Levy on Telegraph and Phone Mes sages Repealed by Senate. Events or Noted People, Governments and Pacific NorthweHt, and Other Things Worth Knowing. ('locks of Chicago will bu turned onu hour ahead next Saturday night tu conform with tlio daylight saving regulation. Firo at C'ebu, tho oldest city of the Philippines, Tuesday destroyed 200 houses and rendered more than 1000 persons homeless. Tho monetary loss Is estimated at $100,000. Immedlato revision of tho reclama tion law along tho lines Indicated In tho report of Secretary Work's fact finding commission was recommend ed to congress Monday by President CoolidgQ. Harry K. Thaw was declared sane Tuesday night by tho jury that had been hearing testimony to determine Ills mental condition. The Jury de clared him fully capable of looking afler bis estate. llenllo Mussolini, Italian premier, was mailu a Human citizen Monday. Tho ceremony was imposing and was participated in by a distinguished ns Hi'inblugu on tho anniversary of the founding of tho clly of Homo. A snowfall of 4.7 inches was re corded at tho Fort Wayne, Ind w eal her bureau Monday, breaking all records for tills tlmo of year. The previous record fall was on April 4 !i20, when 4.1 Inches was recorded. Mario t'orelli, English novelist and nulhor of a score of popular romantic tales, died Monday from heart dls caKO at ber homo Slrultord-upon-Avon. She hail been ailing for some weeks, but apparently was recovered whi n thu fatal seizure occurred. Allegations of liquor disappearance at tho department of Justice, of de faults in antitrust law prosecutions and of privileges extended to "million aire" convicts at Atlanla federal peni tentiary wero inado Monday before tho senato Dougherty investigating Clllll in i I ( i o. All tho Smiths In Spokane believ ed to number 1000 or more have been invited to meet next Tuesday for the purpoKO of forming an association for social purposes. A committed of Smiths, Including n mlnlsler, an at torney, a dentist and several others, has been busy on tho proposal for some time. Ci lla t'ooney, 20 years old, smiled a demure goodbye as she hoarded a train in Jacksonville, Fht., Monday for New York In custody of two ilc teclives lo face charges of highway robbery anil assault Willi luient to kill In connection with a long Berles nt daring holdup credited, to tho "bob bed hair girl bandit." A Joint resolution was adopted by the senate Tuesday nulhori.lng cluing Inc. the name of Mount Italnler, Wash., lo Mount Tucoinn, The resolution re cileil Unit whereas It was "die mil versal practice" to perpetuate Indian mimes in tho geographical noiiioiieln luro of the country, Mount llainlcr j now boars tho name of "the nun mander of a IIiIUhIi shli engaged in depredations along die Atlantic coast." California Stock Lost Light. Sacramento. t'al. - A very small per ntage of tho livestock of California s been alfecled by tho foot and nioulh disease, naiil lr. I', li. llouck. lulled States government chief In hargn of the eraillcalion forces, Moll- lav. Ir. llouck further stated "the sue ess in combating tlio malady by onibined iiuarantlne, destruction of Iniected and exposed animals, and dis mt. eiion. as now carried on. deinoii- t rat os in a shilling manner thu ef ficacy of the present method." The California crop report, special bulletin No. 4;i. Issued hv tho I'nlted Stales department of agriculture. Material modification of tho land 1 l'u' s 'be following census of livestock provisions of the McNary llaugeii agri Washington, D. C Modification of tha corporation tax and repeal of tho tax ou telegraph and telephone me.-isuges was voted Monday by the senate In advancing consideration of the revenuu bill. Notice was given, however, that contests would be made later on both of these levies. Tho corporation tax was Increased from li to 11 per cent with tlio understanding that tho capital stock tax would be eliminated. This lat ter amendment is yet to be acted upon. Senator Simmons of North Caro lina, ranking democrat on tlio finance commitleo, announced that minority members wero drafting a substitute amendment proposing to replace tho present corporation tax with one carry ing a graduated scale. Pending the writing of this amend ment, Senator Simmons said ho would ask for postponement of considera tion of income tax rato sections over which tho main contest on tho bill will center. These rates were reported but were passed over at tho request of tho North Carolinu senator. In voting for tho repeal of tho tax on telegraph and telephone messages, I ho senate rejected the recomnieuda tlon of the flnaneo committee. Hepcal of this tax had been suggested by Secretary Mellon and was voted by tho house. Chairman Smoot of the finance ooinmlltoo announced he would ask for a record vote on It later. Senator Smoot explained that tin tax Involved revenue amounting to $ri 1,000.000 annually and it had been restored to tho bill by tho commit tee because It was found necessary to raise more revenuo than would be u. S. 601 FRAUD IS TERMED MYTH Sec'y Mellon Clears Engraving Bureau of Charges. REPORTS TO COOLIDGE Losses by Theft in Seven Years De clared to Amount to No More Than $13,100.00. fort hcoinlng under the framed by the house. measure as EXPLOSION TRAPS 114 MEN IN MINE Wheeling, W. Va. One hundred and fourteen miners wero entombed Monday by on explosion and fire in tho Iienwood Mill mine of tho Wheel ing Steel Corporation at Iienwood, a few miles from here. Hope has been practically abandon ed Unit any of tho men would bo res cued alive. The bodies of 14 miners had been recovered but tho progress of mine rescue) crews was madu diffi cult by poisonous gases that filled I ho workings. Two miners w ere alive when found hut died a few minutes later. (Inly a faint hope was held out by official)) of tho mine rescue car Holmes for die other 100 men In the mine at tlio time of thu explosion. If liny of them escaped being killed outright and had time to barricade themselves in rooms filled with fresh air, some of tho trapped miners may lie found alive, they declared. I'pon that possibility rescue crews in short bids worked frantically throughout the day and night but bad not reached die scene of the explosion late Tues- lay. cultural export hill was agreed upon Tuesday by the house agriculture com millee. A substitute was approved wliU h would give the president authority lo declare embargoes on any agricultural product or to Increase tariff duties when importation result in 1om.cs to the corporation to tie created iin.b r the bill for the mar ketin:; abroad of surplus f.iim com m 'dttios. Another attempt to bring back L' per not beer by modification of die Volstead act was made Tuesday be fore tlio bouse Judiciary committee Samuel (lompers. president, find other representatives of the Amerlc- a Fed oration of Labor, vigorously urged leg Idatlon that would penult once more tho Halo of boor with this alcoholic content on the ground that It would give the working man a "good, pala table, nourishing drink" that had "warmth" to It. hi California as of January 1, 1K: Milk lows, including hellers over Is months, tit! 1,0011. All other cattle 1. 1 -t, mm, sheep. H.ir.iUnio, swine Ml, eeo. goals U'd mm. Total 5.1X3.0(111 head. To date approximately t'dl.Oim head in the inrectej districts have boon destroyed, per cent of which were i in two counties, of tho number ex j terminated, nearly half wore tattle. Harvey B.crk nt Desk. New York. Colonel Coorge Harvey, 'c x ambassador to Itreat Hritaiu, has I r siiuied the editorship of the North Ahhm-u an licucw, it was announced ; at the publication's office Monday. J MM first article, on President Cool- idge, will be published in tho June j issue of tho nnigaiine. Colonel Harvey's return to editorial ! work Just before the presidential cam- paigu Is considered us of particular Ignlfit ance Washington, D, C Secretary Mel lon advised President Coolidge Sun day night that the treasury bad com pleted its inquiry into charges of ir regularities of tho bureau of engrav ing and had found them baseless. The charges, made by Charles It. lirewer, department of Justice attorney, and which were accompanied by wholesale dismissals in the bureau by President Harding, contained no ele ment of fact, Mr. Mellon asserted, lie Informed tho chief executive that he was enabled, as a result of tho in vestigation, to confirm the integrity of tho government's securities. Contained in the report to the presi dent, a document of magazine size, wera specific replies to every asser lion inado by Prewer in his repeated assaults on the treasury and by these, Secretary Mellon said, the "utter fal sity" of every charge was established. In addition, the treasury chief vigor ously assailed Ilrewer, personally, say ing in concluding tho report: "Ills report Indicates a conspicu ous avoidance of fairness, and the frequent adoption of artful and eva slve methods. Where the facts are susceptible of distortion, Mr.Urewer resorts to misstatements, where ir relevance will tend to obscure the facts, Mr. Prewer resorts to Irrele vance, nnd where neither .distortion, omission, misstatement nor Irrele vance will serve his purpose, Mr. Brewer resorts to insinuations and in nuendo. "Iloforo concluding, I am tuklng this opportunity to assure you that a most exhaustive investigation clearly estab lishes Mr. llrewor's charge to be ab solutely without foundation. There has been no fraudulent duplication or overissue of the pub lic debt, but on the other hnnd.'liy in vestigating tho Ilrewer charges and establishing the utter falsity thereof, the treusury is enabled unresorvedly to confirm the integrity both uf the government's obligations and those branches of the treasury service which have been engaged In tho handling of public: debt securities." Mr. Mellon assured the president there had been "no fraud or care lessness on the part of officials or employes responsible for tho safe guarding of the retired securities." He said Ilrewer had called attenlion to losses "during a period of seven years," and added that the total of these was $13,100, "and were the re sult of thefts committed. by subordin ate clerks or messengers in the treasury." "It lias been pointed out," tho letter continued, "that the loss of (1:1,100 over a period of seven years, during which time over 1100,000,000,000 in securities wero handled by thousands of employes. Is by no means a reflec tion upon tho officials or entploKB of tho treasury responsible for the safeguarding of retired securities nor upon tho treasury's system of controls and audits. Incidentally, tho thefts of securities lllitstrato tho danger of re taining Indefinitely, and not destroy- J STATE NEWS I IN BRIEF. Portland. Fire of undetermined origin swept the plant of the St. Johns Lumber company Sunday night, de stroyed a greater part of the plant and did damage estimated by com pany officials at $400,000. Portland. On the first 40,000 bal lots counted in the city-wide referen dum on the proposition of Saturday half holidays for carriers and clerks of the Portland postoffice from May 1 to October 1 tho patrons voted yes 39,994, no 6. Eugene. The million dollar mark In building permits was passed Satur day In Eugene. The permits for tho day totaled $119,750, making a total for the first four months of $1,104, 900, ns compared with a total of $1, l.'!7,919 during tho entire year 1923. Pendleton. Prospects for a wheat crop in Umatilla county this year are far from bright, according to H. W. Collins, local miller and buyer, and If needed ruins do not fall soon the yield in this section of the Inland Empire will be materially less than it was in 1923. Scappoose. Prompt action on the part of Scappoose citizens prevented a robbery of the First National bank here early Saturday. When the burg lar alarm at the institution was set off about 2 o'clock, heavily armed forces took up positions covering the bank as rapidly as possible. Astoria. A fire supposed to have started from a cigarette dropped from a passing train, Sunday afternoon burned a space about 100 feet square in the Hammond Lumber company wharf nnd destroyed tho side track. As a result of tho fire the Western Union Telegraph line to Portland was put out of business. ' ' Dayton. "Mado In Yamhill county" week will bo observed here, ns in all other parts of tho county, April 26 to May 3. Observance of tho week will he followed by a mude-in-Yamhill coun ty banquet given in the community hull at Dundee May 9. Excepting the coffeo everything served at this ban quet will originate In Yamhill county. Salem. A copy of a proposed amendment to the constitution of the stale of Oregon, abolishing the death penalty for murder, was filed with the secretary of state here Saturday. The copy Is signed by many persons promi nent In the affairs of tho state. The secretary of state is asked to request a ballot title from Attorney-General Van Winkle, lone Market GEO. W. RITCHIE, . Prop. Wholesale nd Retail Dealer in FRESH and CURED MEATS Your Patronage Solicited. Under New Management IONE HOTEL IONE, ORE. Refurnished and Strictly Up to date. Com mercial Table First Class. A home away from home, with best meals in Central Oregon. SAM GANGER, Proprietor. Nice Rooms. Good Service the dormant stocks of retir-d securities." Fruit Loss Is Heavy. Walla Walla. Wash.-Higher ten p eraiuros from Sunday on did nw.iy n iih needs of smudging In the on h ards where the blossoms bad escaped tho freeze and orehardlsts felt re lieved. Reports coining In from the district show tho freeje, though al most general, xvus somewhat spotty, some trees escaping while cithers a few feet away seem to have lost til their fruit. Inspectors say there ill be more fruit than first expected. Long Railway Tunnel. New Zealand Bird a Plague. The kca, a parrot of New Zealand. The longest railway tunnel 111 Great n large us a c hit ken hawk, has been Pritaln is tho Severn tunnel. It has a ; known to kill thousands of sheep length of four miles, SIO yards, und j yearly to satisfy a craving for kid look over 13 years to construct. ney fat. Lowell's Lois Million. Lowell. Mass. -- One fireman . killed, eight were Injured and a pi p erty loss of approximately H.Oeu.ioO was caused when fire, starting early Sunday in the heart of Lowell's bad ness district, swept through five bui'.d (ngl destroying two of tho city's larg est office buildings, a theater, tiie Knights of Columbus building and a large garage. Watch Your Step. "One big advantage In avoidln' l.id company," said Undo Kben, "Is tint you don't have to watch yoh step so close to keep fuiu beln' cheated." Hood River. While the freezing weather of last Wednesday and Thurs day nights will give them a set back, mid-Columbia truck gardeners, be cause of the embargo on garden truck of California, due to the foot and moulh disease, expect a profitable year. Hardeners cif this section are already marketing a varied assort ment of produce. Eugene. Notice to Lane county farmers to comply with the stato law to eradicate the gray squirrels and other rodents of a similar nuture has been sent by the Lane county court. Members of the court Saturday stated that It is desired to get tho campaign well under way so that ns many of the rodents as possible may bo destroyed before the grain ripens. Salem. Several pedigreed puppies owned by Enest Flake were burned to death hero Saturday night when Flake's kennels on tho Portland road about two miles north of Salem on the Pacific highway caught fire and were reduced to ashes. The origin of the flro wns unknown. All of the outbuildings on tho Flake place were burned, but the houso was, suved. i Cnrlbahll. A water committee com posed of Harry E. Morgan, William ! McKlnluy, K. J. St. Ongo, J. E. Den- i ning. It. 0. Loop, W. E. Kobblns, H. J. Hitter and F. H. Wicker, appointed , at a recent meeting of the Garibaldi commercial club for tho purpose of formulating plans for obtaining an adequate supply of pure water for the town, already have dug up data of a favorable nature. Pendleton .Tentative plans calling for the holding of a series of wool sales In Umatilla county as a way of selling this year's wool clip are being made, according to Mac Hoke, secre tary of the Oregon Wool Growers' association. The first one probably will be held nt Pilot Itock, May 31. he said, and Indications are now that be tween 300.000 nnd 500.000 pounds of wool will be offered. Seaside. W. A. Yiggers of the As toria Marine Iron Works has announc ed that ho expects to let a contract iu the near future for a fine natator lum. The new building, which wHl be situated on the prom north of the Hotel Seaside, will be 100 by 100 feet in dimensions and will have a tnnk 50 by 80 feet. Mr. Yiggers said plans had been prepared and that a 45dy construction period would be required to have the natatorlum ready for operation. Farm Implements Vlilran anrl Oliwoi" Plsvura imArini" nriii. Fairbanks Morse Engines, Myers Pumps, Star and Aermotor Wind Mills, Winona Wagons. PAUL G. BALSIGER IONE, OREGON A r l t: n uuuu i nut; to Subscribe for the Independent Is Now! Advertise in THE INDEPENDENT Reaches the People