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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
estimony Concluded
In Tax Suit Against
Old Ford Stockholders

WASHINGTON, Feb "a R)-What
promises to be one of the most not
able tax cases in American legal
history came to temporary con-
clusion today when the government
and counsel for former minority
stockholders in the Ford Motor COM
pany, concluded testimony in the lat :
ters' appeal against an assessment
of $30,000,000 additional federal taxes
on the sale of their stock to Henry
and E,dsel Ford.
The board of tax appeals, hearing
the case, will now examine the mass
of testimony piled up in the hear
ings conducted here and in Detroit
since january H. Counsel for both
sides are allowed 60 days for prep
aration of briefs and oral arguments,
after which the board will take the
case under final advisement.
The final hearing today was de-
voted to the introduction of rebutta
testimony by counsel for the stock
holders, chief of whom is Senator
Couzens of Michigan from whom the
government demands an additional
tax of $1O,OOO,O0O.
Walter Duham, vice president of
the First National Bank of Detroit
a rebuttal witness for the appellants
gave the principal testimony today
Asked whether the transfer restr1c-
tion on stock imposed by the by
laws of the Ford company, affected
its negotiability, Hunham said the
provision was without effect on the
value Of the stock as collateral and
did not act as a ban or it's safe.
Ford stock did not have to go
begging for buyers in 1913" he
said "There We're hundreds Of
business men in Detroit who were
keen to acquire it and who were
even willing to get it on a tenn
porarily low dividend basis in re-
turn for future prospects,"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
State Champion Beaten
B Mrs. j. w. Williams In
Golf Tournament Play

The woman state golf champion,
Mrs. Warren Macarthur, Jr., of Phoe-
nix, was toppled from her throne in
the first flight of championship play
in the fourth annual tournament of
the Arizona Women's Golf associa
tion here yesterday, meeting defeat
at the hands of Mrs. J. w. Williams,
a Phoenix teammate, 4 up and to
play.
The defeat of Mrs. Macarthur was
one of the two big upsets in cham
pionship play during THE day, the
other being the defeat of Mrs. P. NJ.
Bucllwalter, state champion two years
ago, from Bisbee, by Mrs. J. L. Hous-
ton of Ray, 4 up and to play.
Mrs. Larsen Skov ofF Benson, who
led all entrants in the qualifying
round Wednesday with a score of 80
for 1S holes and broke the course
record for women with 43 for nine
holes, continued her peerless golf
yesterday and overwhelmed Miss
Portia Morhous, Douglas Country club
champion, and 6.
The fourth match in the cham
pionship flight was the most closely
contested, Mrs. Lynn Palmer of Doug
glas, president of the State Golf as
sociation, nosing out her teammate.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25

Miss Harriet shedd, up and to
play.
Play in the semi-finals will start
this morning with women from four
cities still in the battle for the
crown. The title will go home to
Benson, Phoenix, Ray or Douglas as
the result of match play today and
tomorrow.
The match between Mrs. Skov and
Mrs. Williams, to be played today, is
expected to produce the big thrill Of
the tournament. Mrs. Williams, who
led all qualiffers in the state tourna-
ment in Phoenix last year, played a
sensational brand of golf to defeat
Mrs. Macarthur and is expected to
furnish OPPOSITION for Mrs Skov, who
has had a walllaway thus far.
Mrs. Houston gained prestige and
hackers through her defeat of Mrs.
Buckwalter yesterday and is figured
to defeat Mrs. Palmer in play today.
Her knowledge of the links and ex-
perience in playing over the course
may lead Mrs. Palmer to victory and
into the finals.
Comparison of records during the
qualifying round and first round of
championship play indicate that Mrs.
Sllov and Mrs. Houston will be the
Continued on Page Five)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
QUACK DOCTORS
HIT In SPEECH
BY DR.. MARTIN

An attack on criminal medical prac-
tice and plea for the people of Doug
las and Arizona to support senate bill
Ga requiring the passing of a basic
science examination to practice the
healing art in the state were the fea-
lures Of an address by DR.. Franklin X
Martin, of Chicago, at Kiwanis club
luncheon at the Gadsden hotel yester-
day.
DR.. Martin is a member of the Ameri-
can Medical association and secretary
of the College of Physicians and Sur
geons. All local physicians were in
vited to attend the luncheon yesterday.
"There is only one state in the union
where there are more crooks posing as
physicians preying on the people," DR..
Martin said. THAT is the state west of
this one. Last year while l was in
this state I called on Governor Hunt
to tell him that the people are beinE
preyed on by men who didn't practice
scientific medicine.
Il asked the governor if he realized
what Kind of a medical practice act he
was fathering and he said that he was
not in favor of the present act but that
it was the best that could be got at the
time
Governor Hunt promised his support
of model medical practice bill if
would get it drawn up. The problem
was worked on for a year and the bill
Continued on Page Four)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
FIVE MEN LOSE
LIVES IN BLAST
IN TEXAS TANK

HEARNE, Texas, Feb "a P-Five
We're burned to death and the bodies
of four We're incinerated while their
families shielled and wrung their
hands heiplessly about the holo-
caust here late today in pipe line
storage tank fire caused by the
ignition of oil waste which the men
We're engaged in cleaning out.
The dead:
Clifford Nicholson, 35; Jack Bland,
%; Dan Blair; w. c. Crawford, "A;
Eugene Wright, %.
Dock Williams, sixth man work
ing in the tank escaped by leaping
through the manhole of the tank
which shut to trap the others. The
body of Crawford was recovered be.
fore the blaze became too hot to
permit rescue work
The tank a $4,000 barrel reservoir
on the Humble Oil company's pipe
line was empty except for two feet
of waste oil and sediment which the
mon were removing. A gasoline blow
torch was said to have ignited fumes
from the oil, causing a slight ex-
plosion and filling the tank vita
dense smoke.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. "A
Death darted cold hand into n
dripping FOG 9,anket on the
bosom of the Chesapeake, early
today, but of the more than 200
lives at which it Snatcked, only
one was taken. Miss Virginia
StarI1ey, of Baltimore, pass
enger in forward cabin of the
Chesapeake bay line steamer
City Of Annapolis, which sank
after collision with it's sister
ship, City of Richmond. was MISS
ing when passenger lists were
checked here. The ships records
showed one hundred persons
aboard, AZ passengers and 53 OF
the crew. Ninety-nine were
found safely on the decks of the
City of Richmond, after the City
of Annapolis sank.
The paIatiaI liners which
nightly saIuted each other 100
miles down the bay on the route
between baltimore and West
Point, Va, IOOnled from the fog
like Spectres this morning. The
whistle notes which ordinarily
waited courteous greetings SWELL
ed to beIIOwings of disaster. The
ships met, not quite head-On, AT
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
ALL CARS WITH OLD PL ATES. ARE.
BEING GATHERED BY OFFICERS

Deputy SheriffS in the Douglas
district spent the day Thursday
in driving and towing to the
police station every ear that they
found on the streets not equip
ped with the 1927 license plates.
A large number of ears were
taken in by the officers. In
each instance where a car was
Sissh5ed in parking place
without the proper plates the
Officers examin7sd the driving
mechanism to see it if were
locked or if the keys were gone.
If everything was alright one
deputy drove the car to the
station while the other returned
the patrol car.
In Instances where ears were
not in condition to be driven
without consulting the owners
tow rope was used and the ma
chimes were rolled away to be
kept under guard until the 1897
plates are attached when the
owners may have them back.
The deputies told the Dispatch tha
many persons secured new plate
Within very few hours after the!
,ars were locked. They also sal
hat a number of cars bearing ii
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
ASKS CL0TURE'
RULE To SAVE.
RIVER BILL
Senator johnson Would
Gag Filibuster by Drastic
Action.
VOTE SATURDAY
Ashurst Declares Boulder
Canyon Dam Act Would
Dry State.

WASHINGTON, FEB. "a. (P-In a
last effort to break the filibuster
threatening death to his bill to dam
the Colorado river at Boulder canyon,
Senator Johnson, republican, Califor-
MIA, asked the senate today to invoke
its drastic cloture rule, which would
limit debate.
A vote on the cloture petition,
which was signed by more than 16
senators, will be taken at / p. M.
Saturday., and if the required two
thirds majority is obtained a final
vote in the senate on Boulder canyon
at this session will be assured.
Scarcely had this petition been read
before another to invoke cloture{ on
the Tyson emergency officers retire
ment bill was filed. 1t will be voted
upon Saturday also if the Johnson
petition fails, but otherwise it will go
over until after the Boulder canyon
issue has been decided.
Immediately after the Boulder can
yon bill was laid before the senate
in mid id-afternoon, Senator Ashurst,
democrat, Arizona, a leader of the
filibusterers, took the floor. Senator
Johnson then left his desk to circu-
late petition for cloture, getting
signatures from both republicans and
democrats. Within a quarter of an
hour the fighting Californian ad-
vanced down the center aisle, waving
his petition and demanding recogni-
tion from the presiding officer, Fess,
republican, Ohio. Ashurst declined to
yield at the moment, but said he
would later, though Johnson held in
his hand ''the sword that will kill my
cause and my state"
Fess ruled that Ashurst did not
have to yield, but just then Vice
President Dawes, arch foe of the
filibuster, rushed into the chamber
and before taking his seat took the
petition from Johnson and immedi-
ately recognized the Californian.
Dawes could not be heard, however,
above the shouts of Ashurst and his
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
N0RV|EL SAYS
ACT AIMED TO
D|SFR FRARCH|SE
House Committee of the
Whole Approves Measure
For Passage.
PASS CODE BILL
Basic Science Act Indef-
inietIy Postponed by the
Senate.

PHOENIX, Feb. "a (P).-The house Of
midst of a neutrality-suspicious. i'm
broglio today and all on account of
bill by the gentleman from the Garden
of Eden, in the southwestern corner of
the state, better known as Yuma and
the Yuma project.
Representative Wisener (the gentle
man from the Garden) and Norviel, one
Of the eight republican members of
the lower house of 40 men and wom-
en-, were the principals at the argu-
ment The Wisener bill proposes to
create non-partisan primary elections
for county and municipal offices, there
by-according to Norviel-disfranchi
ing all republican voters. The candi-
date with the highest number of votes
in the primary would be declared
elected and would not have to run in
che general elections But" said> Wise
ner, this bill, on the contrary, would
eliminate politics completely, and
whether this law is passed or not, you
will have to make two campaigns"
Il won't say" replied Norviel, that
l. uOIl SCI elbSh lily SAC1NCS oCiAAS' NiAii0s''
They are some good democrats-just a
few-and I vote for my friends, irre-
spective of political affiliations. But
this bill just means that the people
who want to vote republican ticket
haven't got a chance. If it passes, the.
republicans won't come to the polls.
1t would be useless"
Be that as it may, the bill was ap-
proved for passage by the house COM
mittee of the whole. Under suspension
Of the rules the senate today passed
the bill introduced by the joint code
commission proposing to turn over the
work of Judge Fred c. Struckmeyer,
code commissioner, to publishing
house for printing and subsequent con-
sideration by legislative committee of
six, created by the bill. The vote was
10 to Z. Only Senator Golfer of Apache,
saw fit to register a protest for entry
in the senate journal when the bill was
brought up for passage. II maintain"
he said, that this work could be done
better and at less expense right here
and now.
The other negative votes were cast
by Bettwy, Santa Cruz; Jones, Mari
copa; Joyner, Pima; Kimball, Graham;
Nelson, Navajo, and Wills, Pinal. The
measure now goes to the house.
The so-called "basic sciences" bill,
first introduced by Senator Akers, of
Maricopa, Indefinitely postponed, and
then by Senator Bettwy, went the ]. P.
p route by vote of 16 to 2, with Sem
ator Sutter, of Cochise, absent from the
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
The Day In Washington

The Ford tax hearings were
concluded.
The house voted to appro-
pirate S45O,OOO toward construc-
tion of three cruisers.
The court of customs appeals
held the flexible tariff law pro-
visions constitutional.
A verbal tilt between Reed or
diana, enlivened senate proceed.
ings.
The Ku Klux Klan appeal In
the Kansas exclusion case was
virtually dismissed by the SUI
preme court.
Creation of q federal depart
ment of conservation was pro-
posed by Representative Garrett,
house democratic leader.
Further investigation of the
charges against Judge Cooper,
of northern New York, was or
dered by the house judiciary
committee.
Secretary Kellogg frewned on
the proposal to have the senate
foreign relations committee to go
Mexico and Central America.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
SHANGHAI FOREIGNERS CALLED TO ARMS
Republican Fights Non-Partisan Primary Bill
Residents Of Portland
Awaken to Find Homes
Afloat DotUn Willamette

PORTLA ND. Ore, Freb. "a P).-
The upper Portland harbOr was the
scene of reScueS and narrow escapes
today when about two score house
boats were torn from their moOrings
by log raft adrift ON the crest OF
a flood. Reused from their beds
aboard their floating homes. many
of the hOuSebOat dweIIers found
themselves adrift, rudderless, and
carried by swift current toward
the bridges that span the Villa
mette river here. Many managed
to reach shore over crumbling
walks or other means. Fire boats
steamers and tugs came quickly to
the rescue, and about 100 persons
were removed from floating houses.
About a score of the flimSy house
boats came to grief against the
bridge piers, and others were guided
or fIOated safely to Swan island in
lower [harbOr, where they were cap
tured and mOOred.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
AMERICANS On
GI|ARDAGA|NST
DRIVE
Crumbling Army, DemOr-
allied, Falling Back, Can
tOnese Follow.
RACE FOR CITY
10000 Foreign Soldiers and
80 Warships Guard Con-
ceSsiOns.

SHANGHAI, Feb. "a Ry-Foreign
residents were called to arms in
Shanghai today to prevent possible
invasion of their settlements by de-
feated and demoralized soldiers of
Marshal Sun .Chuan- Fang, deposed
ruler of this province of Kiangsu.
Volunteer companies of Americans,
Portuguese and Japanese mounted
guard to halt any irresponsible body
of Chinese soldiers from pouring in
to the foreign districts, and looting
homes and business houses, as was
done a week ago at Hangchow by
the same troops before they were
driven from that city by the victor
ious invading Cantonese.
Trainloads of suns troops arrived
from Sungliang, 2S miles south of
Shanghai, where the army of 100000
men was reported crumbling and
falling back toward Shanghai with
out waiting for the attack of the
Cantonese, moving northward from
Hangchow.
A race Developer today for pos.
session of Shanghai between troops
from Shantung province under Gen
cral Chang Tsung- Chang and the
army of the nationalist (Cantonese)
government. Apparently the Shan
tungese won.
Chang Tsung- Chang, once Suns
adversary in the field and recently
his supposed ally in the alliance
of northern war lords, assumed COM
plete military control of Kiangsu
province. Sun Chuan-F Fang, only a
few months ago war lord OF 49,
100000 people of five. eastern Chinese
provinces apparently has retired to
private life, his whereabouts un-
known-a great figure toppled by
Cantonese military force and po-
litical propaganda and the duplicity
of his ally.
The Shangtung troops are pouring
into Shanghai to go south to meet
the Cantonese enemy, almost az
Shanghai's gates Three thousand
arrived today from Nanlking and S.,
600 are expected daily for the next
few days to build UP the resisting
force against an advancing army
said to number $4,000. The Cantonese
are nearing Sungkiang by rail and
water from Hangchow Deserters
from Suns beaten army were halted
in their flight toward Shanghai by
the arriving Shantung troops. Il
clash took place at Lunghau, six
miles from this city, tonight the
Shantungese disarming the fleeing
men of Sun.
While Japanese and American vol.
unteers remained on duty all night
to guard their concessions against
invasion, the lights of some 80 for~
eign warships burned steadily as
the men of war rode at anchor in
the. Whangpoo river before the city.
More than 10000 foreign soldiers
were in the city ready for the call
100 CHINESE BEHEADED
SHANGHAI, Feb, "a. (R-Shanghai,s
Continued on Page Eighty
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
DEATH DARTS COLD HAND AT
200 IN FOG AND SEIZES ONE

an agile which sent the bow OF
the City of Annapolis glancing
OF, ana drove the knife-Iike
Prov of the City OF Richmond
fifteen feet into her sisters DOrv
side just forward of the for
ward gangpIank.
Miss Starkey occupied caTGn
20 directly in the path of the
City of RichmOnd's rending Prov.
Another passenger, Marshall Lee.
of Baltimore, awOke to find the
City of RichmOnd's prov in his
state room, and the cabin filling
with water and steam. He cs-
capped with wrenchcd back.
Rives Fleming, president of tht
Cameron Stove company of Rich
nond, Va, who occupied cabin Is
IN the City of Annapolis, told Of hi:
BED being crumpled by the City 0.
2ichmond's invading hulk IL few
minutes after he had left it. HI
said cabin 70, which adjoined his
totally crushed. Fleming
ife was saved by a glance from th'
5orthole, when the sirens awok'
lim. He saw the hulk of the Cit.
IF Richmond bearing down, anc
ushed across the room before th'
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25

m; electrolytic,
ures 1912. Lead
40. Bar Silver,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25

oenses as old as 1925 were picked
up Most of these, however, were
cars ordinarily licensed in Mexico
Many such cars were gathered in ana
the owners appeared and protested.
saying that they wished to purchase
their licenses in Sonora. They were
told that they could purchase their
licenses anywhere they pleased but
that they could not have their cars
back until they were properly plated
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
FACES MURDER TRIAL

LOS ANGELES Feb. % R.-The
trial of Carl Westcott, charged with
the murder of his father, Charles ].
Westcott, formerly of Minneapolis, got
under way today. The jury is two
thirds feminine, there being but four
men on it.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
HOLDS UP BANK

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb. "a
P.-A neatly dressed man today
robbed the First American Bank and
Trust company here of $4,10O in cur
rency and escaped. Thomas L. Does
cher, the teller, was alone in the bank
when the man entered and held him
nm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Mr.. Santelmann Soloist
In Marine Band Concert

4 VIOLIN solo by Musician w. f.
Fl. Santelmann, son of Capt. VIM.
H. Santelmann, leader of the United
States Marine Band, will be the fea-
ture of the monthly symphonic pro-
gram to be presented by the Marine
Band Orchestra Tuesday, in the band
auditorium, Marine Barracks, at SIS
pm. Musician Santelmann will play
the beautiful concerto for violin, with
orchestral accompaniment, No. 20. in
A minor, by Jean Baptiste Viotti.
MoZart's Jupiter" symphony in G
major will open the program.
An interesting number will be the
tone-poem by Carl Busch, Opus 25,
founded on Tennyson's THE Passing
of Arthur" Mr.. Busch, a native of
Norway, has for a number of years
past been established in Kansas City.
Missouri. He won the Edwin Frankie
Goldman prize of $3.50 for the best
original composition for military band.
His symphonic episode, "A Chant
from the Great Palms." was selected
as the most meritorious by the judges
in the competition, Percy Granger,
the famous Australian pianist, and
the late beloved American musician,
Victor Herbert.
Goldmarks brilliant overture "In
Spring" elm Fruhling'0 Opus SO, will
close the concert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Resurrection Composer.
THE news OF the enthusiastic recon

THE news of the enthusiastic recep-
ton given the opera "Resurrec-
ton" when il was produced in Chicago
last season, with Mary Garden in the
leading role, was flashed across the
ocean to n blind musician who was
lying i'll in bed and it did much to-
cheer him. The blind musician was
Franco Alfano. who, % years before;
had composed the music to the opera
in which Miss Garden made such a
brilliant success and in which she will
appear in this city at the matinee
performance February II at Polls
Theater with the Chicago Civic Opera
Co.
Bach and Beethoven became deaf I'm
the later years of their lives and could
not hear their own music except
within their own minds. Alfano. who
gave the world Resurrection" and
numbers of beautiful songs and
orchestral pieces, is blind at the age
OF so. Yet his power of creating
beautiful music Is undimmed. for it
was he who finished Puccini's opera
Turandot" when the work was left
incomplete at Puccini's death, and the
brilliance OF the production of that
work. recently given i'm Italy, New
Ofk and South America, shows the
mastery of his handiwork. Puccini,
on his death bed, had expressed the
desire to have Alfano complete
"Turandot"
1t required two years to compose
Resurrection" which is based on
TolStOis novel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Barrere's Little Symphony -
To Play at the Library
IN the auditorium of the Library of

IN the auditorium of the Library of
Congress Tuesday evening. Febru
airy !, at $50 o'clock. a program of
orchestra music of the eighteenth CEN
fury will be played by Georges Bar
rere and his Little Symphony"
orchestra
Admission to this concert is free,
but by card only. Cards may be
called Tor at the music division of the
Library of Congress beginning Tues
day, January 25, between the hours
of 10 am. and 4 pm. Requests by
telephone cannot be honored nor
those by mail, unless from out Of
town. In view of the limited seating
capacity of the hall, persons unable
to use the cards that have been is
sued to them are earnestly requested
to return the same at least one day
before the concert. Failing to do so,
they cause seats in the hall to re-
main empty for the number of
applicants is always greater than the
available number of seats