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DIS L nave oASSOo'AA' L ~ : -
the hospitals TO lose one penny that is not
going to be Of benefit to anybody else,
End Member for Chrjstiansted Country
District (JdckSoR) remarked: Mr. Chair
man, in making this amendment | had
an item in mind from which a saving
could be made to meet this increase and
that item is the amount budgetted for
gasoline for the hospitals. Now it the
Government is taking such stand on a
purely Ieqis ative matter | am through
with this amendment. ! do not like the
principle that the Executive is interior
ing with the Legislature when matters
are under discussion.
DespatcAing Secretary (Sbamer) re-
marked: Mr,o Chairman, the Governor
has the power Of absolute veto; and II
lie is going to use it the Council should
know, end that is why | I'm informing
you in advance.
2nd Member for Christiapsted Country
D. strict (JdchSoR) remarked: Mr. Chair
man, let the Governor 20 ahead and veto
this. The COuucIiktoWs what is best for
the island. | am not going to withdraw
this amendment.
Despatching Secretary (Shomer) re
marked: MI. Chairman, the Honorable
2rd Member for 1hristiansted Country
District is mistaken when he speaks OF
interference by the Executive in legisla-
tive matters. Perhaps he fOrcets that
the Governor has a part of the legislative
functions Of the Government. This Is
matter in connection with the eXpendi-
tune of funds, a malterin which the Gov
eruor has a duty to fulfill. More than
500 of the amount budqetted here is 20
come from Federal Appropriation, and
for which the Governor is responsible. |
told the Honorable Member in advance
that lhe Governor has veto power,
and | suggested a way out, and that
is. that the c uucil declare its opin
.ol and its teel NJ 10 the Government
tuIougha memorial or a resO. ution and
leave the matter 10 the Government.
2nd Member for ChriSuansted Country
District ,Jack8OH) remarked. Mr.. Chair
man, | know the Governor has absolute
veto power If we pass a bIl and the
Governor feels IKE velCing it, let him go
ahead and 90 so.
2ud Member for Frederiksted Country
District lEiemiag): Mr.. Chairman, !
would like to ask whet er he Govern.
ment is ware that The Clerk in the Police
Office in Fledpriksted who is now receiv-
ing S45 per m0tth has not been receivlng
that from the time he went liz office. He
was first PAID $25 per month and later $50
and sometime ACC was given the tuIl
amount ~budgetted.
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, 1927-06-28
ST. CkOIX STATION.

Dublin, June 25th.- President Cos
grave signifed his formal concurrence in
his reelection by forming a cabinet
Immediately. Kelvin O'hlgeins remains
Vice President and Minister of Justice
andtakes over the portfolio Of EXter-
al Affairs, Desmond FITZGERALD, form
er Minister OF External Affairs be
comes Minister Of Defence E. Blythe
remains Minister of Finance, Z. Me-
Giiligan, Industry and Commerce, JIM.
0. Sullivan, Education = Hogan, Lands
and Agriculture. f. Lynch, Fisheries,
and JJ Walsh, Postal and ~Ieiegraphs.
General Richard Cuicahy becomes Min
lister Of local government and Health.
Roosevelt, field New York June 25th.
The flight of the |monopIane ''Amenca''
has cen indefinitely postponed, owing
to weather conditions failing to improve,
as they had been expected to do.
FUlchoW, China, Juue z5ib.-A strong
anU-Japauese feeling has arisen here,
following the landing Of Japanese troops
at Isiugtao. Chinese marines are
guarding the consulate.
Montreal, June z5th.-Th9 Canadian
government Merchant Marine will dis
continue the service it has been 0per-
ating between Vancouver AID the TINTED
Kingdom. it has been announced by b.
G. keelV, Pacific Coast Manager. Some
of The oil burning ships, which have been
used in his SCI VICE, VIII be tran, erred
to The Coapany's service between cana
da and the B itsh West lnoies.
, 1927-06-28
LOCAL

AAIC y 10 - aFdl VIII iCd We IlCA@
eriksted for New York at 9 a. M. to-
morrow.
In addition TO the 4th of July ceIebra-
tions a committee of ladies' propose hold
ing . sale Of feed and other refresh
ments for The benefit of the Lutheran
Church Funds at No. 1 King Street of
this town. Look ont for ad. later.
The Navy Band will terminate its con
cert tonight with a tramp around the
town.
The Fourth Of July Celebration Com
mittee hereby invites the genera pubic
to q meeting to he held TONI6HI al the
Chrisriausted Theatre, where the focal In
structIOns will be given regarding the
programme for the days celebration.
Besides making ii possible for this meet
ing to be held at the Theatre, the Man,
a2emeut has arranged to show d comedy,
free of charge Il is hoped. however.
that citizens who come, NIlI bring a
suitable contribution towards the ceiebra
ton fund. We are trying TO make this
celebration something ST. CrOiX will be
proud of. Viii you, dear Reader, help
as?
The u. S. ''Gre0e" arrived here at
moor yesterday from st. thomas WITH
the Glowing passengers: 1t. Comdr.
and Mrs. F. P. iraynor, Judge g. w.
WI ians, Mr.. Erie Nielsen, 1t. Comdr.
W. A. Pollard, nv. G. Loye, Mrs.
Johanna bowling, Ann Vessup. Jane
Tuitt, Eudora Kean, Halle Marsh.
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, 1927-06-28
The S. s. "MarayaP' will leave Fred
eriksted for New York at 9 a. NJ. to-
morrow.

The Navy Band will terminate its
cert tonight with a tramp around
town.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
House Committee
Starts OverhauLirg
OfNation' Tax Lau

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81 R-An-
other overhauling of the nations
tax law was begun today, the Coolidge
poSal to pare down the annual tax
burden by $255OOO000.
Under the administration plan most
of this reduction WoNld be accom-
plished by lowering the corporation
tax / 1-2 per cent. although the
program also includes, among other
things, repeal of the estate or inherit
ance tax, and revision of some of the
brackets of the income surtaX. 1t
provides for no changes in the in,
come tax rates of the great bulk
Of taxpayers.
The program was presented by
Secretary Mellon at the first session
of ten day hearing before the house
ways and means committee, which
had been called back to Washington
five weeks in advance of the con-
vening of congress so that some sort
of bill might be ready for the house
itself early in December. Both in
committee and house prolonged dis
cussion is certain, many democrats
and some republicans disagreeing with
the treasury secretary in his pro-
posal to limit the cut ito 1925, 100000.
Mr.. Melons request for such a
limitation was based on a treasury
estimate that the surplus for 1929
would amount to only $274,000,00O,
far under that which has been avail.
able in previous years. He made five
specific suggestions as to the means
by which the reduction should be
accomplished.
He would make the corporation tax
IL per cent, in place OF the present
13 10; repeal the estate tax out
right; revise surtax rates on indiVid-
ual incomes between $4,000 and
100000; exempt from taxation income
derived from American bankers ac-
ceptances held by foreign central
banks of issue; and permit corpora
tions with a net income of no more
than $4,000 and having no more
than ten stockholders to file returns
as partnerships instead of as cor
porations as they do now.
He argues against further abolition
or reduction of the remaining war
time excise and miscellaneous taxes
declaring these should be. kept "in
the interest of a we'll balanced t2Y
system" In some quarters it had
been thought the treasury would
sanction further cuts in these levies
'"The factor which definitely de-
terTnines the extent to which we may
reduce taxes is the 1929 surplus" Mr.
Mellon said. "The treasury has placed
the probable receipts at the highest
figure compatible with the most de,
pendable forecasts and believes that
tax reduction should not in any event
be in excess of approximately
$225, 100000"
The surplus Of only $274,OO0 ,OOC
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
FARM RELIEF IS
N 0 7 ENTIRELY
PROBLEM OF u. S.
Secretary Jardine Init
mates State Legislation
Overlooked.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81 R-Farm
relief is not likely to be accomplished
by a single legislative measure, nor
are federal laws sufficient to cover
the whole field of farm legislation
in the opinion of Secretary Jardine.
Federal laws, he believes, have been
so emphasized in recent years that
state farm legislation has been over
looked.
Expressing his views in an article
published today in the Oklahoma
Stockman and Farmer, the agriculture
secretary defended his own plan for
farm relief through stabilization cor
poratiolls under the direction Of a
federal farm loan board. Replying
to critics who have termed his plan
''a raid on the treasury and a shame
less subsidy" because of its proposed
revolving fund advanced by the gov
ernment to set it in operation he
said there was precedent for the fund
in the federal farm loan and federal
reserve systems.
eff there were no way of repaying
to the government loans from the
fund, there would be ample ground
for the charge that the plan is a
raid on the treasury" he added
eff there is a way, the charge is
unfounded. I believe there IS way.
Safety of the public money ad-
vanced out of the revolving fund
over a period of years depends on
the ability the corporation to sell
AZ price sufficiently above the
purchase price to pay interest on the
loans and other costs of storing.
This, I believe, is decidedly possible,
since this corporation would operate
only in years when clearly needed
to minimize price depression due to
abnormally large Surpluses. There
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
WILL
PAY HONOR TO
AIR VISITORS
State Officials Will Join
City in Welcoming Great
Aircrafts.
LONG STOP HERE.
Will Study Possibilities for
Great international Air
port.

Action took the center Of the stage
in the long heralded flight Of j. L.
NIaddux, of Maddux, Inc, from De-
troit to Los Angeles by way Of
Douglas with two IL passenger aero
planes when word came yesterday
that the planes had left Detroit on
the first leg of their journey Sunday
morning. Fast upon this message
came one from Will N Fox in Los
Angeles announcing that he will ar
rive in Douglas at 4:30 this afternoon
to make the final arrangements for
the landing of the planes here on
Thursday at noon.
The message from Fox came by
telephone to Postmaster E. j. Hulk
table. Fox, who is the agent OF
AGaddux, said that ne was in a
hurry as he had to get to Ell Paso
in time to meet the planes,> which
in Houston, Texas.
Upon receiving the definite date
for the arrival Of the planes, Gov
ernor G.. W. p. Hunt Attorney Gem
eral John w. Murphy and President
p. G.. Spillsbury, of the Arizona In
dustrial Congress, were notified, they
having accepted invitations to attend
the great banquet to be held at the
Club Sociale in Aqua Prieta on
Thursday night in honor of the filters.
A delegation Of the prominent
business and professional men Of the
city, representing the Douglas chap
ter of the National Aeronautical as
sociation, will meet the train this
afternoon and escort Fox about the
city. He will inspect the landing
field and will attend reception at
which the members of the N. A. "A.
will have an opportunity to meet
him.
Fox will leave on the evening train
or Ell Pasc to make connections there
with the planes which; it is estimated,
will leave San Antonio this morning
for the Pass City.
1t is the plan of the aviators to
make their long stop here, arriving
shortly after noon and spending the
rest of the day In studying the
possibilities here for great inter
national airport. The banquet Thurs
day evening will be an elaborate
affair, attended not only by the
representatives of the Ford aeronau-
tical activities from Detroit the Ford
motor car officials who are making
the air trip. Mr. and Mrs. Maddux
and their guest on the flight, Wallace
Berry, the movie comedian, but by
the government executives and legal
and professional dignitaries Of Ariz-
ona
No definite message as to whether
Commander Richard e. Byrd, the
great explorer and aviator, is to pilot
the big ships has been received here
and the officials of the local chapter
of the N. A. A. are undecided from
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
MEXICAN REBEL
CHIEFS CAUGHT;
Held FOR TRIAL
General FOntes and Sena-
tor COfgOra, Captured
But Not Executed

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 81 (P)--General
Pauline Fontes, director of National
railways during the Carranza regime,
and former Senator Vittorio Cofgora
of Vera Cruz, have been captured by
the authorities at Jaxwpa, We're Cruz,
and sent to Mexico City, charged with
participating in the recent Gomez
Serrano revolt
General Fontes, who is said to be
an active supportre of General Arm
ulfo Gomez and prominent leader
of the anti-re- election movement, was
captured in Jalapa, where he had been
hiding. He has been placed in San
tiago military prison to await trial
dispatches to the Nogales, Arizona,
Herald on October 10 reported that
General Fontes had been executed near
Jalapa with some of his followers).
Congora, who recently was expelled
from the federal congress because of
his connection with the uprising, was
captured at a ranch near Jalapa. He
was released after his arrival in Mex
leo City following conference with
Adalberto Tejeda, minister of interior,
subject to President Gales final de-
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
GOVERNOR SMITH Is BELL .WETHER
OF TAMMANY, ROOSEVELT SAYS

judges, endorsed by the bar assO-
citation, who are running this year
in New York city.
'He has investigated every sUs-
piciOn of improper actions on the
part of republicans, but he has
not investigated either the coun-
ties of the greater city or Al
bany, which all know were subject
to investigation, and where he
could have found matters OF all
sorts in need of correction.
"There is one conclusion and
one only, that fair minded citi-
Zens of this state or nation can
draw-GOvernor Smith is a Tam
many man, and there is no such
thing as a new Tammany.
II said at Rochester that "a ma
mus be judged by the company h
keeps and though we do not questio.
the personal integrity of Governo
Smith, he is sponsored and backe
by Tammany hall. There are no tW
ways about it, Governor Smith wa
bred in the Tanmany fold and
the bell Wether of their flock
Col. Roosevelt said since his Rocl'
ester speech there had been no at
tempt to meet any of the issues
raised against Governor Smith an
Tammany.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
20 THOUGHT DROWNED IN STORM
THAT SWEPT COAST OF BRITAIN

LONDON, Oct. 81 (P-Hope for
between so and 20 persons and a
score of small vessels believed to
have been lost in the storm which
swept over the British Isles over
the week -end, virtually was given
up tonight.
Fifty or, more men of the Irish
fishing fleet have been given up
as lost. A message to LlOyds ma
rine register says five of the crew
of the Argentine ship Fortuna
were drowned when the vessel
sank off ArklOw Bank lightship.
Other reports show a total of IL
small vessels on the casualty list.
Three tuberculosis patients in
hospital at Lancaster drowned in
their beds.
Reports of casualties continued
to come in all day. In Fleetwood,
Lancashire, six persons lost their
lives and rescue work was III
progress for 1000 persons who
were marOOned by flOed waters.
Refugees were housed in schools
and other public buildings.
Virtually every bread winner at
Lackan Bay, village in county
Mayo, Ireland, was drowned with
in a few hundred yards of his
home when their fishing boats were
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01

dashed to pieces on the rocks. One
family of these Irish fishermen
and farmers lost five men. Thir-
ty-One fishermen are maSsing
from Cleggan, county Galway, and
nearby fishing towns, while eight
bodies have been washed ashore in
that vicinity. The boats used by
most of these fishermen were only
tarred canvas craft, as they were
too poor to buy modern equipment.
Thousands of seals were driven
ashore by the storm. They uttered
loud cries of anguish as they
flOundered along the beaches.
Superstitious people on the
stricken coast are talking of a wrath
ship which one night last week
followed a fishing boat from
InishbOfin, Galway, and which re-
fused to answer to any hail. But
it remained by the boat all night.
This the crew of the fiShmen in
terpreted as a warning of a COM
ing disaster, and declined to go
out again.
Many of the poor fishermen sac
rificed their lives in attempts to
save their nets, and heart-rending
tales are told of incidents in the
fishmen'S 80 minutes fight for life
with the pitiless winds and seas,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 tR-Gov-
ernor Alfred E. Smith was
characterized as ''beII wether of
the Tammany flock by Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt tonight in an
address simplifying the key note
speech at the republican state
convention in Rochester. At the
end of his address, Col. Roose-
welt summarized his charges
against the governor as follows:
"For IL years in the assembly
at Albany he represented Charles
f. Murphy Qate Tammany chief
and sponsored the Tammany
legislation.
"As reward for this work in
Albany he was made sheriff of
New York county in 1918.
'FOr seven years he supported
Mayor HyIan.
''For many years he was party
to the delay in putting in voting
machines in New York city.
''He refused to institute and
push non-partisan inquiry into
the milk scandal.
'He pretends to believe in a
nom partisan judiciary, but refus-
ed to interfere in behalf Of up
right republican municipaI court
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
Fall Fights Admission of Oil Deal Testimony
: y y X * y * y 4 y 4 j. y y
Impossible Happens!
J. E. Adams Shoots A
Hole In One; Honest

* A hole in one! That improb-
y: able but not impossible shot
* which spells the Eureka of all
* golfers was achieved on this golf
y links again by j. L. Adams when
* he drove down the 220-yard dis
X tance Of the eighth hole and
X rolled into the cup.
* Someone has figured that not
* once in million and sixteen
* shots does anyone roll their ball
* into the cup for hole in one.
y In other words once in a blue
y. moon on Sunday somebody makes
y. hole in one.
y The hole in one made by
* Adams on the eight hole is the
* first time in the record OF the
* club that anyone has made a hole
81 in one on that hole.
* Playing with Adams at the
* time he made his shots were A.
81 H Grant, H. M. Thompson and J.
* F. Wright.
81
* * X * % * * * * * X * y y
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01

Government Works to Con-
meet Up Defendants In
Bribery Charge.
CONTRACT READ
More Details Will Be
Sought by u. S. Counsel
Today of Oil Co.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81, (P-De
Tense counsel in the Fall Sinclair con-
spiracy trial fought strenuously today
to block the government in the pres
entation of testimony showing the
wide ramifications of oil deals in
volving the Continental Trading Com
pany, Ltd of Canada, and the Sin
clair companies in which the Stand
ard Oil company of Indiana holds a
half interest.
They were successful in keeping
from the jury what companies were
named in the skeleton" draft Of the
final contract under which the Con-
tinental concern agreed to purchase
thirty y-odd million barrels of oil from
the late "A. q. Humphries companies,
and also figures showing that HI. Il.
Phillips, president of the Sinclair
crude oil purchasing company, had
been in error in his testimony as to
the amount of oil delivered under
that contract.
Despite these setbacks, special oil
counsel presented evidence designed to
show Harry F. Sinclair and Robert
W. Stewart, chairman of the board
of the Indiana standard, guaranteed
the Continental contract for the di-
rectors of the Sinclair purchasing
compan, although they were not them
selves directors of that company,
which is owned jointly by the stand
ard and the Sinclair consolidated
companies.
There also was testimony to the eff
feet that the contract subsequently
was sold to the Sinclair purchasing
company for $4OOOOO, which govern
ment counsel contended was worth
millions Owen j. Roberts of counsel
for the government, told the court
the purpose of this line of testimony
was to show the Continental company
was "a mere SHELF organized to carry
through the business arrangement
with Humphrey and was disbanded
and it's records destroyed after its
purpose had been accomplished.
Contracts read into the record
showed that in guaranteeing perform
ance of the Continental agreement to
buy oil at $1.50 a barrel and resell
it to the Prairie Oil & Gas company
and the Sinclair purchasing company
at a minimum of $1,75 a barrel Sin
clair, Stewart and James E. O'Neil
then president of the Prairie company
made it possible for the Continental
to take a profit of 100000 from
their own companies. The govern
Continued on page 81
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
|. v. v. COMPLIES
WITH DEMAND TO
STOP PICKETINC
Colorado Coal Striker Pro-
vokers Quail Before
Show of Force

WALSENBURG, Colo, Oct. 81
(AP)-"We will stop picketing,
but we are certainly not going to
give up the job" declared Roger
FrancezOn, generalissimO of the
/. w. w., tonight at conference
here with three officers of the
Colorado National Guard. The
conference followed the strike
? leaders announcement of his or
ganizatiOn to comply with Gov
ernOr Adams request that picket
ing be stopped.
Colonel Paul p. Newton, adult
ant general of the national guard
Colonel A. L. Hart, ranking line
officer and Major r. F. Grinstead
attended the conference with
FrancezOn.
II will stop picketing," France
zOn said, "but that does not mean
that the Colorado picketing law
will rob us of the right of free
speech and assembly, conversation
and communication"
DENVER, Oct. 81, N)-As the thir.
ty hours grace granted by Governor
w. H. Adams to I. w. w. strikers tt
to him that picketing woulc
be discontinued in the Colorado strike
rolled away, I. w. w. leaders seemed
unable to agree on the matter. Witt
fifteen of those hours gone by anc
the entry of national guardsmen int
the situation imminent, Byron Kitto
publicity agent for the I. w. w. stat
ed just before his arrest for picketine
that pickets would be maintained a
any cost.
Roger F'rancezon, leader of the I
w. w. in the United States, at -tht
same time addressing meetings a
and Aguilar asked tina
picketing cease.
Kitto was one of "a men arrested
today by Sheriff j. j. Marty in La
Animas county, near Trinidad whil
he was leading a demonstration a
the Tobasco mine of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company near tina
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01

Tuesday rain south por-
ton; snow northeast por-
ton.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01

Copper steady. electrolytic
spot and futures, 13Ac;
lead dull; spot N. Y. 6.25c.