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The border vidette., 1927-09-03
MEXICO HITS cATTLEMeN
Thursdays Herald)

taxes yesterday jumped from one
to twenty five pesos per head
causing near panic among cattle
shippers Of the state OF Sonora,
Mexico, who, here in large mum.
bers. unite in declaring to the
Herald that the increased export
tax will make further shipments
of cat,l. into the United States
almost prohibitive and thus put
a stop to much of the business
creating a dismal financial future
for many of the smaller ranchers
and causing heavy losses to the
largest cowmen.
The increased taxation went
into effect at Ncgales. Sonora,
yesterday and Immediately upon
receipt of a telegraphic order
dispatched the collector of Gus
toms from Mexico City. There
are presently 1000 head of cattle
awaiting shipment into the Unit.
ed States and at Nogales, Sono
ra, but due to the new tax are
being held back in hope that the
law, coming sudden. may be held
in allegiance until shipments
now moving are disposed Of.
Although the Herald could get
no actual, official reason for the
heavily increased tax it is in
formed that the measure is pro
tective and to force cattlemen of
the west coast Of Mexico to
market in the interior, particular.
~ in Mexico City. instead of
shipping to the United States.
With the new through line to
Mexico via the west coast ship.
ments now can be made direct to
the national capital where beef
shortage is acute and where
prices are excessive.
Sonora catt!emen meeting at q
local hotel this morning were of
the same opinion in that ship.
ments under the new taxation
will be impossible and would
mean a loss.
The international port leads
the entire Mexican border in the
customs handling of imported
Mexican cattle last year passing
4l.6l3 head. This according to
official figures.
| Cattlemen here are now trying
to secure q modification of the tax
The Sonora Cattle Association
has appealed to the Mexican
federal government for 60 days
of grace before the enforcement
of the newly imposed cattle tax.
This request has been wired to
Mexico City. it is stated. Whe.
ther it will be granted or not is
a debated question.
Should the new Mexican ex.
port tax on cattle be rigidly>im
posed it will ruin a great number
of cattlemen," said one cattle
shipper to The Herald this morn
inR The cattle business in
Sonora was thriving and the new
tax came as q bolt from the blue
sky. 1t is prohibitiye tax. Mex.
leo may just as we'll have stop
ped all cattle shipments. The
new export duty completely stalls
the cattle business. The export
tax, together with commissions
is about $3.50 pesos per head.
This is about $14 in American
money. This amount added to
the price per head makes it i'm
possible for this section to com
pete with other sections on the
market. The cattle business has
been killed completely by the
new export tax imposed by Mex.
leo and the only relief is the re.
peal of the tax"
The border vidette., 1927-09-03

For SALE-A BARGAIN-Lot
Thirty three approximately n
by 21O feet, and part of lot mum.
Der thirty, situated on the north
(high) side of Elm street. oppo.
site the Bulge Flats. An ideal
The border vidette., 1927-09-03
STATE OF. ARIZONA, | -
County of Santa Cruz

STATE OF ARIZONA, ss
County of Santa Cruz
This instrument was acknowledged
before me this 3rd day of August, 1927.
by Fred Itnle, Leslie @. Hardy and
Charles l. Hardy, known to me to be
the persons whose names are subscrib-
ed thereto, and who acknowledged to
me that they executed the same for the
purpose and consideration therein ex-
pressed.
WITNESS my hand and seal of Office
the day and year in this certificate first
above written.
(Notarial Sear w. w. BARBEE,
Notary Public.
My commission expires Feb. s, 1881.
First publication Sept. 3.-6t
The border vidette., 1927-09-03

site for an apartment house or
residence, being near the Elm
street school and close to the
business center. For particulars
see Emory u. Miller at THE
BORDER VIDETTE office.
The border vidette., 1927-09-03

Nogales people are paying
their taxes promptly and with.
out kicking.
r. N. Leatherwood, the sheriff,
was down from Tucson on bust.
ness Tuesday.
Conduc w. G. Bulge came
up from Carbo Thurday with a
trainload of wood.
Attorney S. M. Franklin of
Tucson, was in Nogales Wednes
day on legal business.
Col. VIM. Roy and John LULU
spent the day at Calabasas Sun.
day with Major Read.
Jose Saralegui. a candy manu-.
facturer of Magdalena. was in
town Monday on business.
Mrs. J. A. Saxon and her son
Alfred were visitors to Nogales
from Calabasas Wednesday.
Hugo j. Donau, Of L. Zecken.
dorf & Co., of Tucson. was IN
Nogales Tuesday on business.
The Yaqui river country pro
misses to be the richest mining
and agricultural portion of Mex.
leo.
The Larks are going to make
= complaint soon about some hog
pens which are maintained in
their vicinity.
Mrs. F. 81. Seymour and
daughter went to California
Monday night to spend the re-.
mainder Of the summer.
VIM. S. Smith, superintendent
of the Esperanza and La Fran
cisca Mining Co. went to the
Guacomea mines Monday.
The opening of the Nogales
schools has been postponed for
one week to permit the plaster
ing on the school building to
dry.
William Rosenberg has return.
ed from a successful business trip
to Sonora. He says business is
good down there regardless of
the fall in silver.
w. r. Albright and his part.
ner A. j. Weinart, are here with
another band of Phoenix horses
for sale. They have some very
fine animals.
Postmaster Wylie this week
>moved the postofice into the
new building. When it is COM
plete6 Nogales will have q
creditable postoffice.
O. K. Franklin and w. 81.
Randall sent out q big lot of sup
plies to the Favorita mine were
they have large force of men
at work developing.
Mrs. L. L. Lindsey and her
two daughters are in Nogales
from La Nina Mexicana and will
leave soon for California to
spend the remainder of the sum.
mer.
Henry Snow, the pumper,
went to California Thursday
night. He will be gone two
months and will visit British
Columbia before returned to No.
gales.
L. Ephraim went out to his
Promontorio mine Monday. Mr..
Ephraim continues to work this
great silver producer regardless
of the low price of the white
metal.
Little Ned Titcomb, the eldest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Tit.
comb, celebrated bis fifth birth.
day Tuesday and had a few of
of his little friends present to
assist him.
Mrs Geo. Christ and her
daughter, Catherine. left for
Tucson Thursday night to reside.
A large crowd of friends went to
the depot to bid them goodbye.
Tuesday night a number OF
friends of Miss Christ gave her
q surprise party at Mr.. Ed. Tit
combs. Music and singing was
INDUCED in and the evening was
most pleasantly spent.
Chas Berk and Joe Carbon
have formed a partnership in
the butcher business and have
opened a shop in the wedge op
posite the international bank.
Both Messrs. Carbon and Berk
are we'll known and popular
gentlemen. They will attend
The border vidette., 1927-09-03
DO YOU REMEMBER NOGAIEs 80
YEARS AGo-ssPT. a, 1912

(THE BORDER VIDETTE)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
Organized Business
Takes Position On.
Public Questions

WEST BADEN, Ind, Oct II Re-
Out of speeches, reports and recon-
nendations of officers placed today
before the directors and councillors of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States will evolve affirm defini-
ton of the policy Oh organized busi-
ness of virtually every contested legis-
lative and economic issue before the
close of the four-day session Wednes-
day.
The speech of Lewis E. Pierson, New
York, president of the National Cham
Der of Commerce, was a clarion call to
business to stand firmly for federal
tax reduction, federal control of Missis-
sippi- flood relief Sympathetic co
operation with agriculture and swift
revision of postal rates.
James r. McColl, Providence, R. T.,
amplified Persons statements on tax
reduction when he presented the re-
port of the federal taxation commit
tee recommending a score of specific
reforms, among them reduction of the
corporation income levy from 1872 to
10 per cent, repeal of the excise taxes,
repeal of teh federal estate tax, dis
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18

continuance of the governmental pol
icy Of building up of huge surpluseS,
establishment in the bureau of in
ternal revenue of the classified civil
service and numerous changes in eX-
isting provisions for taxing certain
specific kinds of income He also eX-
pressed the view formal action should
be taken continuing the powers of
the Joint congressional tax committee.
Lucius r. Teter of Chicago, pre-
sented the details of the postal revl-
sion plan evolved by the committee
on postal service. Re- establishment
of the one-cent rate on private mail
ing cards, removal of the allegedly
discriminatory rates imposed on maga-
zines and periodicals, and finally, a
thorough, scientific revision OF all
postal rates with the purpose OF en-
couraging the maximum volume OF
matter into the mails with conSe-
quent increase in net postal revenues.
He asserted the present higher rates
failed to produce any more revenue
than theold rates, and added the chief
effect of the larger charges had been
to drive from the mails many mil
lions of pounds of advertising, circular
magazine, newspaper and similar mat-
ter.
Presentation of the report OF the
special committee which visited the
region affected by the Mississippi river
flood was accompanied by remarks by
Frederick A. Delano, Washington, d.
c., chairman to the effect the COM
nittee had been convinced complete
federal financing, control and respon-
sibility, was imperative to obtain de-
sired results of harnessing the REBEL
ious Mississippi should ''be leglSlated
out of politics" and should be ap-
preached by the government with the
same energy that it used in building
the Panama canal.
Criticism of the federal reserve
banking system was discussed by Harry
A. Wheeler of Chicago, chairman OF
the committee on banking and cur
rency study. He defended the system
from all attacks, declaring many of
them were initiated by economic in
terestS abroad, which resented ac-
cumulation of gold in American vaults
with consequent shortage of the metal
with which to maintain, the gold
standard in such European countries
as have returned to it.
The tax reduction phase of Presi-
dent Persons recommendations for a
chamber program appeared to catch
the imagination of the rank and file
of the councillors.
A sufficient majority voiced agree
ment with Persons corporation tax
reduction and excise and eStatae tax
repeals OF indicate this will become the
settled policy of the chamber when the
matter finally is decided by referen-
dunn following this conference. Some
of the councillors, however, took the
position the national debt, the product
of this generation, should be paid by
the people who contracted it. Those
who disagreed said the past few years
had showed the ability of American
business to go along profitably in the
face of a 131a per cent tax on corpora
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
MOCK TRAGEDY
TURNS REALITY
AS GIRL DIES
Playing With Pistol Pearl
Mcdonald Shoots Self
to Death

Mrs. Albert Plun1ley, bride of a
few months accidentally shot and
killed herself at the home Of her
brother Phillip Mcdonald in Guada-
lupe Canyon on Saturday afternoon.
Mrs Plumley was a Douglas girl
and is better known by her maiden
name Pearl Mcdonald She was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Alonzo
Mcdonald.
In statement given to a Dis
patch reporter Mrs. Phillip McDon-
aid, sister in-law of the dead woman
and at whose home the shooting oc-
Cured told of being the first person
to reach the woman after the shot
was fired.
Mrs. PlumIey and her husband
had just arrived at the Mcdonald
ranch and were resting after the
trip. Mrs Mcdonald, accompanied by
another woman were taking pictures
short distance from the house
when they heard a shot. Mrs. Nc
Donald ran back to the house fear
ing an accident She said that she
recognized the report Of the pistol
and knew that it was her husbands S
gun which had been lying on a man
tie in the bed room, untouched for
three years.
AS she neared the house, Plurnley,
the husband of the dead woman,
rushed out shouting for help. Mrs.
Mcdonald entered the house and
found Mrs. Plunley lying across the
fire place dying. The bullet had en-
tered her neck in front and had
come out through the back of her
head, breaking her neck.
Plumley told the story OF the accl-
dent saying that he and his wife had
been joking with, one another and
that she had ran to the mantle and
Snatched up the gun and pointed II
at herself in mock tragedy. Plumley
said that he started toward her and
as she attempted to replace the gun
on the mantle it slipped in her hand
and went off.
! A number of relatives who were at
the ranch all testified that Plumley
and his wife were on the best OF
terms at the time and that there was
no ground for questioning the story
A coroners jury was summoned from
Cloverdale, for although Douglas is
the nearest city to Guadalupe can
yon, the canyon is in Hidalgo county
New Mexico The jury found that
Mrs. PlumIey had come to her
death through accident.
Deceased was 19 years OF age. she
had lived the greater part Of her
life in Douglas. She had been mar
ried seven months and seven days
when death came. Relatives were
summoned and a simple funeral
service was held at the Mcdonald
homestead and the burial took place
in the Mcdonald family plot in Cot
tonwood canyon, on Sunday after
noon. Porter and AmeS, Douglas NOR
ticians we're in charge.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
URGE DOUGLAS
Be CONNECTED
WITH DALLAS
Southwestern Representa-
tiyes in Washington Pre-
senting Claims.
SEEKING ACTION
Postmaster Huxtable Also
Wires Recommending
New Air Route.

With representatives of various
southwestern cities in Washington
tomorrow to urge upon the postoffice
department the establishment of an
air mail line between Dallas and
Los Angeles, the Douglas Chamber
of Commerce and Mines at a meet
ing last night inaugurated tele-
graphic campaign to impress the
value of Douglas as a stop on the
proposed line.
A long telegram reciting the mer
its of this city as an air mail port
was sent to W. Irving Glover sec
ond assistant postmaster general,
who will preside at the conference
with the southwestern delegates. POST
master Huxtable also sent a long
message calling attention to the ar
guments, maps and other data which
he laid before the postal authorities
at the recent pOStnlasters' convention
at Niagara Falls
Today numerous other kilograms,
along the same general line, will be
sent to Glover by various prominent
business men and Douglas orgarli-
cations including the KiWanis Club
and the newly formed local chapter
of the National Aeronautical asso-
citation.
The chambers action was the
result of the suggestion Of Curt
Moore, chairman of the aviation
committee of the Tucson Chamber
of Commerce, who telephoned few
days ago, telling that Los Angeles,
Dallas, Tucson, FL Paso and Phoenix
were sending delegates to Washing
ton an dsuggesting that the local
chamber impress its wants on the
postal authorities by flooding Glover
with kilograms on the eve of the
conference.
The proposed air route as visual
lied by the local chamber, would
run from Dallas, through FL Paso,
Douglas, Tucson, Phoenix and Los
Angeles It would connect with the
Dallas Chicago route and the west
coast route, both of which connect
with the only existing transcon-
tinental air mail route.
The chambers telegram to Glover
last night follows:
douglas, is about the most re-
motely located city in the Unlteo
States insofar as air mail service is
concerned Air mail service between
Dallas and Los Angeles would serve
a fast growing population in this
immediate vicinity that now numbers
about sixty Thousand. This organiza-
ton respectively urges that the post
office department establish an air
,,ooi1 ,.o5,te oetween Dallas and Los
Angeles via Ell Paso, Douglas, Tucson,
and Phoenix, thereby, supplying this
(Continued. on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
GEN. SUMMERAL
IS NOT CALLED
B Y PRESIDENT
Chief Of Staff Called Home
After Making Speech
In San Diego.

WASHINGTON Oct. II, R-Al-
though called suddenly from the west
coast by President Coolidge to dis
cuss budget matters, Major General
Charles P. SummeralI, chief Of the
army staff did not have an appoint
ment with the president upon his
arrival in Washington today, nor was
there any indication he would be
called to the White House in the
immediate future.
Unless the chief of staff volun-
tarily calls upon Mr.. Coolidge, it
was believed the two would not
confer until the president feels the
time has come for him to discuss
budget matters with the general.
Summerall was called home after
making a speech at San Diego in
which he criticized army housing
conditions, but Everett Sanders, Sec
retary to Mr.. Coolidge, declared the
recall had nothing to do with the
speech and only with budget mat
terS.
Secretary Davis of the war de-
partment said after call at the
White House today that the pres1-
dent doubtlessly wanted the chief
of staff close at hand during Davis
absence in the south on a flood
control inspection trip. The Secre-
tary added that while he had not
discussed the recall either with the
president or General Summerall he
understood no newspaper reporters
were present at the meeting at
which Summerall spoke and that
published accounts of his remarks
were gained second handed.
Secretary Davis paid three calls
at the White House today, but
after each visit declared his con-
ferences with Mr.. Coolidge had no
thing to do with the recall
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
CARSON PATENT
RIGHT SUIT Is
ARC(JEDM0NDAY
Briefs and Additional Ar.
gument Will Be Heard
at Later Date.

TUCSON. Ariz.. Oct II. P-The
Carson Investment company's suit
for alleged infringement of patent
rights against the Phelps Dodge cor
poration and the Calumet and Ari-
zona Mining company, which has
been on trial here in the United
States district court since September
13, today was brought step nearer
to a decision, involving millions OF
dollars in smelter furnace royalties,
by presentation of argument by op-
posing attorneys.
Judge William H. SaWtelle, trial
Judge announced that by gareement
of counsel in the case it had been
decided that briefs and additional
argument would be heard at later
date, which indicated that it may
be weeks, even months, before q
decision as to whether the patents
of George Campbell Carson were
anticipated by side charging rever-
beratory furnaces used at the Dollar
Bay plant of the Lake Superior
Smelling company.
DR.. John Macy Zane, Chicago, and
Charles Wheeler, Jr., San Francisco,
represented the Carson Investment
company in closing arguments to-
day while the defendants arguments
were presented by James P. Boyle,
Douglas, and Thorely Won Hoist,
Chicago.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
MRS. GRAYSON TURNS BACK FROM
ATLANTIC FLIGHT; TO TRY AGAIN

OLD ORCHARD, Me-, Oct. II (49
With a possible world record
under it's wings, the SikOrsky
amphibian plane, The Dawn, to-
night awaited an opportunity to
carry out its purpose of trans
porting the first woman over the
Atlantlc. $50. -. -. -.
"Impr0per distribution of load
forced The Dawn back to her pos
itiOn ON the hard strand this
morning, less than ten minutes
after a perfect take-Off apparent
Iy had started her on the hazard
GUS flight to Copenhagen.
"The steady hands and quick
mind of the crew averted what
might easily have become quick
tragedy. As soon as it became ap-
parent that the ship was "nose
heavy and would lose the scant
altitude gained by the beach run,
a dump-vaIve cord was yanked,
spraying many gallons OF gaso-
line through the air. The plane
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
YOUNG MAN KILLS TWO GIRLS,
CHILDHOOD FRIENDS, AND SELF

although companions on Sunday
night denied he had been drunk,
when they left him shortly before
he shot the girls.
Z AS late as. a quarter of an hour
before the shooting, about l a. M,
the party was laughing and talk
ing, apparently in high spirits.
A man who knew Winters saw
him with the girls as rented
automobile, in which the triple
shooting occurred, was held up by
traffic lights at an intersection.
A few minutes later the 5000
block in Rhodes avenue on the
South Side, was alarmed by fusil-
Iade of shots. At least two per-
sons raced to front windows in time
to see part of the death drama.
The three were in the front
seat, Winters at the wheel, Mar
garet next to him, and the Stadler
girl on the outside.
Apparently the first shot struck
Miss Stadler, killing her instantly.
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18
THREE WOMEN
ARE ACCEPTED
THE JURY.
Government Witness Fails
to Respond to Summons
Record Shows.
26 EXAMINED
Nine Are Excused Since
They Had Formed De-
finite Opinions.

WASHINGTON, Oct II tPD-Three
women, one a grey-haired mother,
qualified today along with eight men
as prospective judges of the guilt
or innocence of Albert B. Fall and
Harry F. Sinclair on a government
charge of criminal conspiracy in the
leasing of the Teapot Dome naval
oil reserve.
In ALL 26 veniremen were examined
by counsel at the opening day of
the second big felony trial growing
out of the senate oil investigation.
Nine were excused since they had
formed definite opinions in the case
and six others were excused, three
by the government and three by the
defense on peremptory challenges
Each side had seven such challenges
left when court adjourned and it is
possible that all of the ii who were
accepted today will be taken from
the box tomorrow and replaced by
new jurors chosen from an additional
panel which was summoned over
night.
During the day four women were
examined and one Miss Laura E.
Gilman, secretary of the institute
of economies, disqualified herself by
informing Justice Siddons in the dis
trict of Columbia supreme court that
she had formed firm opinion from
reading newspaper accounts.
Mrs. Annela l.. Bailey, a comely
young matron with raven black hair,
was the first venireman to qualify.
She had read only newspaper head
lines and she had formed no opinion.
Mrs Bailey formerly lived in
Boulder, Col, but has made her home
in Washington for number of years,
being employed in a piano store. Her
parents live in California.
Miss Bernice Heaton, a young
bobbed haired blonde instructor of
long distance telephone operators, be-
came tentative juror No. 2. She got
the call when Samuel Cooperman,
grocer, was disqualified because he
had an abiding opinion.
Like Mrs. Bailey, Miss Heaton said
she had read only a lew headlines
in the newspapers OH the oil matter
and had formed no opinion either OH
the basis of these or conversations
she might have had about the cases
during the more than three years
they have frequently been in the
public prints.
Mrs. Pauline Levitt, the third
woman to qualify, was positive she
had formed no opinion and could
return an impartial verdict. She
said she was the mother Of three
children aged 16, IA and 10, and
assists her husband in the conduct
of his cleaning and pressing business.
Counsel omitted to ask any OF the
women their ages, but those OF the
men were carefully elected. Two
youths, only slightly past 20, qualified
but were peremptorily challenged
later
In exercising three of its ten chal-
lenges, the government excused three
younger men, one of whom is a
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-18

responded at once and swung back
ito alight almost softly on the
hard sand.
I'm the absence of official records
Pilot Wilmer SuItz and Navigator
Brice GOldsborOugh were reluctant
to make any formal claims for the
load which was taken up and set
down today, but it was believed
that no seaplane or amphibian in
America, and possibly the world
could show a similar performance,
with horsepower taken into con-
SideratiOn.
A rough computation of the
gross weight at the take-Off was
1850 pounds. While in the air
about 1850 pounds in the form of
gasoline was dropped, making the
landing weight nearly 10000
pounds.
This work by The Dawn this
morning did much to console Mrs.
Frances w. GraysOn and her crew
Continued on Page Eight)