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Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
NEW BOULDER DAM
MEASURE WILL BE
SOON

not be convenient to the treasury
He suggested regular methods CT
financing, a congressional appropria-
ton of the amount needed. with the
treasury's hand left free as pro-
viding the money.
It has, been strong urged propon
ents of the Swing johnson bin that
a bond issue arrangement would lie
project pay for itself without re-
course to tax payers money Melons
letter to the committee was taken
that if revenues from the project
were to be paid into the treasury
the project, if successful, would be
paying for itself regardless Of
whether there was a bond issue as
proposed in the Swing Johnson bill,
or a direct appropriation, the latter
course having the added advantage
of permitting the treasury to OBJ
tain the most favorable financial
terms.
The first Boulder Canyon measure
of the congress would provide for
the construction as a regular recla-
nation project, but this was sub
stituted by bill drawn by the sec
retary of the interior, which was
believed to have the admin strafon's
approval, providing for the $1z5,-
100000 bond issue. It also provided
for construction of the project after
six Of the seven Colorado river basin
states had ratified the water COM
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
COLORADO RAIL
LINES STARTING
own MOTORWAYS

DENVER, March 22.-Railroad and
tramway experts, city officials and
business men today told the state
public utilities commission that rail-
roads of Colorado are facing a crisis
in their efforts to meet motor bus
competition parallel to their lines.
This was the substance of vol
ume of testimony presented at the
hearing upon the application of the
Denver = Colorado Springs Pueblo
motorway Inc, for certificate of
public convenience and necessity 70
operate a bus line from Denver to
Pueblo, via Colorado Springs. The
application is that of a bus line
formed by the Denver and Rio Grande
western, Colorado and Southern and
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
roads to experiment with bus trans
portation as a supplement to exist
ing railroad transportation facilities
between the states three largest
cities.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
Federal Employees To Be
Put Under Oath AS To
Means Used To Get Jobs

WASHINGTON March 22.-Charges
of abuse in the handling of federal
patronage in southern states Gull
minated in the house today with the
Introduction af bill to put federal
appointees on oath that they had
not used improper methods to gain
offices
Representative Wilson, democrat,
Mississippi, first charged that fed
eral jobs in his state were "sold in
the open market to the highest bid
der' and then Representative Wurz-
bach, republican. Texas, one of the
leaders in, the natronage fight, in
troduced the bill which he said would
correct the southern patronage sys-,
tenn.
''In my state today" Wilson sai1,
control of federal patronage is al.
most entirely in the hands of negroes.
MY people will not submit to
negro domina6on."
Asserting the battle cry of the
republican party in 1920 was "back
to normalcy," he added that ''they
went back to stealing"
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
OIL CITY, Pa. is
THREATENED ! BY
SERIOUS FLOOD
(By Dispatch A. P. Wire)

OIL CITY, Pa, March PA
steadily rising river a drizzle Of
rain and a melting temperature COM
bined tonight to throw fear into the
hearts of Oil City residents that the
flood which has already driven SO
families from their homes and caused
damage estimated from two and one
half to five millions dollars would
reach more Of a serious stage by
tomorrow The city tonight is i'll
darkness, an ice movement this
afternoon having torn away steel
tower supporting wires that car
ried temporary power here from
Clarion.
Streets were patrolled by more
than four score special policemen,
recruited from among national
guardsmen and members of the
American Legion. Residents driven
from their homes by the rapidly ris-
ing water were being cared for by
friends, the Salvation Army and the
Red Cross. The flood area tonight
covered an area ten blocks loEg
and four blocks wide, taking in the
heart of the business section. The
water was from three to five feet
deep and approximately two hundred
business places were flooded.
The flood, generally admitted the
worst ever experienced in this sec
tion, assumed disasterous proper
tions this afternoon when a new
movement Of ice in the Allegheny
river sent Oil Creek up from five
to seven feet within ten minutes.
The gorges, however, continued 10
hold.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
(By Dispatch r. wire)

WASHINGTON, March 22.-The le-
gality of the naval oil leases will be
decided by the supreme court
The controversy which started when
a senate committee investigated Tea
pot Dome which was injected into n
presidential campaign and which is
now the subject of criminal pro-
ceedings in the federal courts here
against Edward L. Doheny, Harry F.
Sinclair and Albert b. Fall, was given
a place before the highest court to-
day on petition of the Do1eny Pan
American Petroleum Transport and
the American Petroleum COM
panfes.
These two companies had leases
under which they obtained oil from
the Elk Hills naval reserve in Cali
fornia, and had contracts for the
erection of storage tanks for the
navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The
federal district court and the circuit
court of appeals both held that the
leases and contracts were invalid be-
cause obtained by fraud and corrup-
ton Incidentally the lower courts
challenged the right Of Fall as sec
retary Of the interior to make them.
The circuit court also held that the
Doheny companies were not entitled
to compensation for the storage tanks
which had cost about $1O,000,OOO. In
asking the review which the supreme
court today granted, the Doheny IN
terests contended that the questions
presented were broadly similar to
those in proceedings against Sinclair
in Wyoming, in which the federal
district court had refused to cancel
the contracts and leases made by Fall
with the Sinclair Mammoth Oil COM
pany and his pipe line company af-
fecting the Teapot Dome naval oil
reserve.
Pointing out what they contended
was the conflict of construction given
the naval oil reserve leases and con-
tracts by the federal courts in Cali
fornia and wyoming, Doheny's coun-
sci insisted that the supreme court
Should interpret the act of congress
under which the leases and contracts
had been made. Technically, how
ever, the recovery suits filed against
Doheny and Sinclair were entirely
separate proceedings, and the latter
have not yet reached the supreme
court Neither is there any direct
connection between the civil suit in
which an appeal was granted today
and the criminal action against Do
heny Sinclair and Fall, which is
pending in the court in the District
of Columbia
Largely from this beginning enla-
mated both the civil and criminal ac-
tions against Doheny ana his oil
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23

Senator Means, Colorado, will have
charge of the hearings and he will
attempt to hold the vets and drys
strictly to the subject of the bills at
issue Each side will have six days
for the presentation of it's case with
the vets taking the stand first.
Besides approving the program for
the hearings, the committee endorsed
the action of the subcommittee IN
indefinitely postponing consideration
of bill by Senator Edwards, demo-
crat, New Jersey for repeal of the
Volstead act This measure was
pigeonholed it was explained, because
its passage would leave the govern
ment without authority to enforce
the dry constitutional amendment.
The first measure that vii! he con-
sidered will be that by Senator
Bruce, democrat, Maryland, propos-
ing to change the eighteenth amend
ment so that those states and COM
munities which were wet when the
dry law went into effect again would
be wet, but would have to depend
upon the federal government for their
limited supplies of intoxicants.
Then the beer bills and the Edge
measure to remove the restrictions
on prescription whisky will have their
innings.
There are three bills proposing four
per cent, 2.75 per cent, and beer
notwithstanding in fact Senator
Edwards, democrat, New Jersey, is
author of The first, and Senator
Edge, republican, New Jersey, spou-
sors the other two.
Wet leaders have no hope that
the committee will report any of the
bills favorably. Thye asked for the
hearings, they explained SO congress
can elicit officially the opinions of
enforcement officers, educators, min
listers and others as to how the dry
laws should be amended so as to
make theft enforcement less diff
cult.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
TWO KILLED In
HOLDUP CLOSE
TO HERMOSILLO


HERMOSILLO, Mexico, March 22.-
A payroll of about $4,000 was taken
and two Mexicans, father and son,
killed when a band of 20 bandits
attacked the pair on the Hermo-
-Placeritas road early yesterday
afternoon said advices received here
today The payroll had been procured
at Hermosillo and was destined for
the Placeritas mine, about 80 miles
west of here.
The attack took place II miles out
of Hermosillo, the bandits firing
from ambush an descaping to the
north presumably heading for the
border
The dead are Miguel Lostaumau
and his son whose name was not
given in advices received here. The
mine is operated by San Diego CAPT
talists, Writ G. Bowman being the
principal stockholder.
First reports indicted that the
lives of American employees of
the mine probably were endangered,
but it developed that Lostaumau
and his son were alone when the
attack occurred.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
National Prohibition Poll Has
Reacheda Total Of ,574, 3O7;
Vets Continue TO Hold Lead

vania. Each of these states went
wet, emphatically, although each fur
nished a sizeable slice of dry votes,
more, in most cases, than states
which showed dry pluralities.
There was little change in the
standing of the states. Kansas and
the two Carolinas remain the only
ones in which the drys have clear
majorities. In Kentucky Maine, Ten
nessee, Oklahoma and West Virginia
the drys have pluralities, and in Ar
kansas, Florida, Illinois, Michigan
and Texas they are not far behind.
In all the other states the vets have
big leads.
The drys gained in Kentucky and
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Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
COODINC Bill
AGAIN ARGUED
BEFORE SENATE


WASHINGTON, March %. - The
Gooding long and short haul bill
was pictured again today in the
senate as friend of the farmer
and an economic salvation of the
inter-mountain territory of the west.
Senators Nye, and Frazier, repubiI-
cans North Dakota, Oddie, Republi-
can, Nevada and Ashurst, demo-
crat, Arizona, spoke on the benefits
that would accrues from enactment
and Senator Gooding, republican
Idaho, served notice that he would
speak tomorrow, particularly with
reference to results that would be
obtained east of Indiana had the in
terstate commerce commission grant
ed requested rate revisions that it
rejected recently
"The Industrious lobby which has
been busy here during the past three
in efforts to defeat the measure"
was attacked by Senator Ashurst
After reading a list of senators who
had voted for the bill in 1924, when
it passed the senate but was acted
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Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
POSSES SEEKING
MAN WHO SLEW
WOMAN OFFICER


CHICAGO, March 22.-The Chicago
police and posses of Northern Indiana
cities tonight sought Lester G. Sinp-
kins, civil engineer, who yesterday
in the presence of six Of his ten
children fatally shot Mrs. Lucille
Myers, 81, probation officer at Ham
mond, Ind.
Simpl1ins resented questioning Of
his children by the probation of
ficer. She had gone to the home
at the request of the mother who
is in a hospital with her tenth
child.
Mrs. Myers died shortly after the
shooting in a hospital in the ward
next that occupied by Mrs. Sinp-
kins and her baby.
Angered when Mrs. Myers ignored
his statement that he would do
the talking for the family" and
continued to question the children,
Simpkins drew revolver and shot
Mrs Myers in the head.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
INCOME TAXES.
WILL EXCEED.
OLD ESTIMATE.
lBy Dispatch A. 2. Wircl

NDy DlSpdtcl -. = WIZ
WASHINGTON, March
22.-The treasury announc-
ed today that income tax
returns for March, the first
to be collected under the
new revenue law, probably
would exceed by $780, 100000
the original estimate of.
Secretary Mellon.
Coincident with this announce
ment Representative Tilson Of Con-
necticut, the republican floor leader,
warned the house of a treasury de-
ficit for the year because of too
many appropriation bills. The tax
collections for March whcih included
only those for the first quarter of
the tax year from individuals and
corporations, totalled $38O,000.0OO at
the close of business Saturday, but
officials expect them to reach $780,
100000 or about $21,O0O,000 less. than
was collected for the same quarter a
year ago. when the tax rates were
higher.
Secretary Mellon interpreted the in
crease over the estimate as due to
stimulation of business in anticipa-
tion of a reduction.
With the reduction in sight sew
eral months ago, he said, business
generally had made investments in
a direction which would prove help
full in revenue collections
On the face of the March returns,
the treasury estimates the total in
come tax collections for the fiscal
year ending June 80 will amount to
S1,791, 100000 as against S1,760,000,
900 year ago and $1,80O,00O,OO0
which it had been estimated would
have been collected this year under
the old rates. These figures do not
include collections of miscellaneous
taxes, many Of which were repealed
by the new law.
Tilson, in urging that the brakes
be applied to appropriations for the
fiscal year 1927 declared congress is
in the unhappy position of a man
who has a fat check book without
any money in the bank. The new
revenue law and appropriations al
ready made, he said, now give an
estimated deficit of nearly $3O,000,-
900 next year. The governments
bank account for 1927 he estimated
in this way:
Receipts for 1927..... SO, 1924, $50, 600
New tax reduction ..... S19,O00,O00
Expenditures ....... S,494222,OOO
This would leave a balance of SILL
10000, he added, against which con-
gress already has drawn checks for
an overdraft of nearly $30,000,000.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
DISCOVERS NEW WAVE

LENINGRAD, Russia, March 22.-
Discovery by women scientists of
short electromagnetic waves which
it is claimed will revolutionize radio
telephony, radio telegraph and photo
graphy, was announaed today by
Professor Boris Weinberg of Lenin-
grad university. Maria Levitskaya,
a physicist, discovered waves meas
uring less than four-tenths Sof a
millimetre (.O157 of an inch) while
similar waves, estimated to be only
the Tooth part of millimetre in
length were discovered by Glaglo-
vieva Arcadieva.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
WILL HAVE
WORLDS GREATEST
ELECTRIC PRODUCER
by Disnatch A. P. Wirel

CHICAGO, March 22.-The worlds
greatest manufactory of electric
power will be built on the Lake
Michigan shore on the Indiana side
of the Illinois Indiana line, it was
announced today from the offices
here of Samuel insult, public utilities
magnate.
The plant will have a capacity of
1885, horse power, million Kill
lowatts and the first unit costing
$25,OOO,OOO will be completed by 1929.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
SENATOR MEANS Will
HAVE CHARGE OF THE
COMMITTEE HEARINGS
lBx Dispatch A. P. Wirel

WASHINGTON March 22-The prohibition issue
which has agitated both houses of congress at this sea-
son as has no other question is to be given public ar
ing before senate committee during the two weeks
beginning April s. This was determined upon today by
the senate judiciary committee, which approved with
but single dissenting vote the program recommended
by it's subcommittee of five for hearings on the pend
ing measures for modification of the dry laws.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
Famous Female Operative for
Government Near Death After
Attempt at Suicide at Ell Paso

MRS. Gray tonight consistently re-
fused to see 1nterviewers OF to volun-
teer any information as to VINO She
is or where she lives. Belize tnat
the name of MRS. Gray" has been
assumed to avoid publicity was ex-
pressed by police.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
BORDER WATCH ORDERED
(By Dispatch A. P. Wire)

NOGALES, March 22.-Authoritiea
here have been asked to be on the
lookout for a band of Mexican ban
dts which yesterday killed Miguel
Lostamumau and his son and es-
capped with $4,000 payroll AdVices
from Hermosllo said the outlaws
were headed north toward the bor-
der.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23
FAMOUS OPERATIVE.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 22.-One
day, a few years back, nice little
old lady, wearing bit of a bonnet
that seemed to accentuate the
wrinkfed sweetness of her face, and
a worn paid shawl, stepped out of
the prohibition enforcement officers
quarters in the customs house and in
moment was lost to sight in the
tfrong on the streets.
An hour later the quarters were
informed that a 1.-TWO gun" woman
with a brace of handcuffs dangling
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23

Copyright. 1926, by NEA Service
Inc. Reproduction in whole or in
Part PrOhibited).
CLEVELAND, March 22.-The pro-
hibition vote crept close to 100000
and the vote for modification passed
three-q quarters of million as 10000
new votes were checked over in the
nation wide prohibition campaign con-
Quoted by NEA service and news
papers throughout the country. A
total of 1,574,307 votes has been cast.
The votes are divided as follows:
Prohibition-297376
For Repeal-499 ITS.
Fod Modification-777, 1853.
Six states have cast more 100000
votes apiece-California, Colorado, In
llana New York, Ohio and Pennsyl-
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-03-23

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NEW YORK, March 22.--
Copper dull; electrolytic
14A @14A. Silver 657s.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-16

r. L. Wiseman. taking Mrs.
Ernest Greyson to Univer-
sity hospital .............
Frank Howell, cash paid on
COW ...............
Mrs. B. d. Green, expenses
taking Harvey Thomas to
Faribault, allowed at ......
William Schramm,- taking
care of his brother, 2 bills
Sandstone Coop. Co., mdse.
for Paul Johnson .......
Peterson-Sandwick Company,
mdse. for Emil Wicklund. I.
e. A. Elsola, mdse. for Hanna
Hawley Grocery, mdse. for
Mrs. Ford ................
A. Markus, mdse. for Mrs.
Newman
Cunningham Mercantile Co.,
mdse. for Mrs. Walter Tom
czak, 2 bills .............
Pine City Mercantile Co.,
mdse. for Mrs. ChaS. Er1ck-
SOu ......'.. .....' $500
Finlayson Mercantile Co.,
mdse. for Man Monsoon -.
Mrs. H. P. Webb, care of Chas.
Cooper
Willow River Mercantile Co.,
mdse. for Mrs. Vanard. -.
Mrs. Matt Pietso, caring for
Man Monson ...............
F. H. Walters, inspecting boil
ers at County Farm $3.50.
Frank Howell, 8 tons of hay
Albert Oman, labor at County
Farm $500.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-16
Folsom Hardware Co., mdse.

Folsom Hardware Co., mdse.
for County Farm ..... 1856
Marudas Bros, mdse. for
County Farm ........... 1852.
Minnesota Power & Light Co.,
electrical services and fix
ing electric line, bills. 713:
Klein Clothing House, cloth
ing for County Farm 1880. SIG,
Lee Webster, mdse. for County
Farm -. 24.b!
H. G. Wheeler, flour and feed 1885
Central Lumber Co., mdse.
and fuel .................. $685.
Wicker Dept. Store, mdse. for
Sarah Campbell ....... 15.0(
Nathan Bluestien, apples for
County Farm ......... 2.2E
Road and Bridge Fund.
H. V. Jorgensen, expenses as
engineer 77.3t
N. C. Peterson, expenses as as
sistant engineer .......... 72.4e
Wendell P. Huber, expenses
as instrument man 1880. 114.6C
Erick Erickson, board for en-
gineers ............... 1880
Ole Nyrud, blacksmithing,
bills ................... 121.5C
Berger Manufacturing Co.,
culverts, 4 bills ........ 1849.77
Standard Oil Company, gas
and oils, bills ........ 200.16
Gehl Oil Company, oils 80. $3.50
Hogan Mercantile Co., gas. 1915
Albert Neubauer, blacksmith
ing, 3 bills ............. 56.67
Central Lumber Co., hdw.... 800
John Nelson, blacksmithing. $50
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-16

Folsom Hardware Co., 2 road
scrapers, mdse. bills.. 31.3t
Pine City Hardware Co., hard
ware Observation-Disclosures. S.ss
Chas. F.. Johnson, part pay
ment on contract Job No.
26-16 1851. "a
Askov Garage, supplies ..... 1896
Cunningham Mercantile Co.,
mdse. ................... 2.77
A.. j. Weiss, graderman 49,. 1890
Jim Kozisek, tractor operator 1920
Eastern Minnesota Power Co.,
lighting county garage 49,. Lis
Koed & Bovbjerg, blacksmith
ing .................. IVA
Adam Biederman, gas and oils 1928
G. A. Bogue, labor on snow
pillow ..................... 1870
John B. Weber, repair Of tire 1.5O
Albert Oman, pipe and labor 17.55
w. A. Sauser, hardware $500. 9.35
Parrish-Boo Lumber Co., lum-
Der, 2 bills ............... 24.O9
Arvid Seedlitz, labor ON road
north of Cloverton ...... 17.50
William Lentz, blacksmithing 800
H. C. Hansen, lath. ......... $50
Williams Stationery Co., en-
gineer supplies, 2 bills 80. Sd
G. M. Babcock, testing cement 2.63
Minneapolis Bridge Co.,
channel irons ............. 1900
T. N. Thomson, lumber and
: nails OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ESQ
Fred ]. La P1ante, gravel. 1880
J. d. johnson, mdse. ...... $50
Thos. Gardner, freight and
drayage 1.O1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-10-02
MISSIONARY MEETINGS
BEGIN FRIDAY EVENING
First of Episcopal Educational
Services Will Be Held in
Epiphany Parish Hall.

The first of series of missionary
meetings arranged by the educational
committee Of the Woman's Auxiliary
Of the Episcopal Church in the Do
cese Of Washington will be held in
Epiphany Parish Hall next Friday at
s pm. This meeting has been ar.
ranged to appeal particularly to
young people.
The speaker will he Miss Halle
Williams of ST. Agnes School, kyoto.
Japan. who will answer the question.
is Our Work in Japan Worth While?"
Mrs. r. l.. Sitter of st. Paul's Church,
this city. will recite a Japanese poem,
and Miss Clara Cooke Of Chevy Chase.
will give a monOlogue representing a
Japanese girl. Rev. DR. u. 3. Phil,
lips, rector of Epiphany Church, will
preside
Miss Halle Williams is a sister Of
DeaConess Maria Williams, whose
work in the mountains of Virginia is
well known to many church people in
Washington.