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The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

tastes almost exactly like the salt of
commerce and, in truth, more or less
sodium chloride is mixed in with the
sulphate.
The sulphate deposit is being prof
itably worked at the present time
and the owners naturally object to
the idea of being flooded out. They
also advance the assertion, and with
undoubted logic behind them, that if
inundated the sulphate would so inn
pregnate the water of the lake as to
make it unusable.
This is matter in which the Salt
River Valley is profoundly interested.
The valley is entitled to the normal
flow of the Verde, which the Para
dise-Verde enthusiasts propose to
impound and then release to us. But
we certainly don't want our water TO
be held up and salted.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
NOW LISTEN TO THIS

A mighty roar went up at Los Angeles when it
was reported that plaster manufactured in Doug
las Arizona, was to be used in the new city hail.
Indignant citizens howled that first of ALL locally
made building materials must by all means be
given the preference. Furthermore it would be
next thing to mortal sin to throw any business at
all to those drafted Arizonans who had fought the
Boulder dam project.
The Los Angeles Herald, Hearst paper stated :
Particular attention was called to the asserted
inconsistency in theuse of Arizona plaster in the
great municipal building when certain Arizona
politicians are credited with doing everything in
their power to block the two greatest municipal
projects Los Angeles ever undertook, the Boulder
dam power development and the Colorado river
aqueduct."
Whitening under the storm, the public works
commissioner issued statemen to the effect
that "home products will be favored Regard
less of how much better the Arizona plaster may
be, how many hundreds of millions of dollars Ari-
zona summer vacationists have spent in the Gold
en- State, we are boycotted.
This is matter that Arizonans will not forget
when deciding where to go next summer.-Mesa
Tribune.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
ARIZONA'S SALT LAKE
mesa Tribune)

Another obstable has arisen to dis
courage those who for these many
years have been battling for the con-
struction of dam to impound the
flood waters of the Verde river It
is now declared, and on good author
ity, that such dam would but cre-
ate lake of salt water utterly ruin
GUS to vegetation.
It's this way: The damsite is at
what is called Box Canyon, several
miles below Camp Verde. Water is
to be backed to a point some six
miles above that place. About two
miles southwest from Camp Verde,
right at the edge of the foothills
which separate the river bottom from
the mountains locally known as the
Black Hills, is deposit of sodium
sulphate in almost a pure state.
This sulphate, which is valuable in
paper making, glass making and
many other industries, crops well
above the surface. There are two OF
three fairly large hills that are en-
tirely sulphate except for thin
overburden of earth. The deposit GER
tainly contains millions and millions
of tons. No one can say how deep il
extends nor what its lateral dimen-
sions may be underground. In fact,
there is every reason to believe that
if that whole region is not underlaid
with sulphate there are many bodies
of the. chemical that are not very
deeply covered.
Sodium sulphate is highly soluble,
as much so as the common salt
which it so much resembles. It
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
HOW TO MAKE A BILLION

While The Sun does not usually advertise itself
by pulling off stunts like Bill Wrigley did, we
have come to the conclusion that something must
be done to secure several thousand more subscrib-
ers and for that reason only are we offering ONE
MILLION DOLLARS flat including a half inter-
est in Mr.. Hennery Fords flivver foundry, to the
first man, woman or child who will jump the
Grand Canyon from Bright Angel to the North
Rim. Grease and wings barred.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
Breaking It Gently

Mother (as Margery concludes her
prayer )-"You prayed God to bless
mamma, papa and grandpa, why
didn't you ask Him to bless Aunt
Jane also }"
Margery-"I didn't think it would
be polite to ask for SO much all at
once"
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
BILLS PRODDIN' OUR EGO

Colonel Fred Breen, he who makes the Coconino
Sun shine, has boosted and boosted until new
railroad station and tourist hotel reposing in
his city like a sawnill in the forest. Now he is
ready to send his sobrero to the cleaners and get
it ready to cast into the ring in 1928 the repub
lican candidate for governor Prescott Courier.
Editor Bill Stuart sometimes gets his politics
badly mixed and is off in his data at times Why
waste money throwing clean hat into political
ring? Not necessarily ours but anybody's
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
THE HUMAN SIDE
OF LIFE
A Eyes Man.

A "Yes Man"
Mr.. Leon j. Ladner, M. r., told
good story against himself at a
recent banquet. He said.
II was married in Belgium and
the service was conducted in French.
While ] understood French when
spoken slowly, the minister spoke
SO fast that | was quite unable to
follow him.
''You can understand therefore,
that | was in quandry when to
make the right response. However,
/ thought to myself, when the min
ister looks me in the eye and his
voice assumes the tone of an inter-
rogation that will be my cue to re-
spond.
presently the minister did what
] had expected.
Looking me straight in the eye
he seemed to be asking me a ques-
ton.
$50, drawing myself to full height
/ threw out my chest and said In a
loud voice, 'Oui.'
eThe minister seemed surprised.
Then / heard slight tittering and |
began to realize that ] had blunder-
ed.
FINALLY it dawned upon me that
the question the minister had asked
was in effect, Is there any person
present who knows of any just
cause why this man should not take
this woman to be his welded wife -
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
"Just as Good

The grocer had just put a new
boy to work, and among the other
instructions was this:
IF you don't happen to have what
a customer wants, suggest something
else as nearly like it as possible"
and asked the boy, "Have you any
fresh green stuff today?"
s'No, ma'am," answered the boy,
"but we have some nice bluing."
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

Issuing 'tax anticipation bonds is getting to be
a regular habit in Arizona. 1t is like running the
state on the installment plan. Apparently our
"anticipations" are not realized for we have to
keep on anticipating year after year.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

spending over S50OO0O,OO0 for preliminary
survey of the Colorado river" says Mildewed
be definitely ascertained which way the river
runs, and why"
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
Hitting on all Six

Motto for motorists: Pedestrians
should be seen, not hurt.-Life.
Another: Say it with brakes and
save on the flowers. Judge.
Don't kid about safety. You may
be the goat.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
Time saved at a crossing may be
lost in the emergency ward. Mil
waukee Sentinel.
No domestic science course is nee
essary to enable a girl to make a
traffic jam.-Florence Herald.
One pedestrian is killed in the
United States every eight hours, a
statistician says. That pedestrian
must be getting awfully tired of it.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
REMARKS OF THE GANG

ion of the expenditure of less rather
than more money in carrying on cam
paigns.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

Mildewed Mildred says she notes by the papers
that Thomas Edison has become an octogenarian
and she believes no person of that age can be sin
cere in changing their religion.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

Some of our enlightened statesmen seem to
think it's all right for Mexico to do as she peases
with Nicaragua, but terribly wicked for Uncle
Sam even to protect his peoples interests there.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

To be d good statesman in the Balkan states
you don't merely have to know how to double
cross You have to be able to double cross a
double crosser.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
Prohibition

"a One-Act Comedy from Life)
A fellow from Minneapolis: Say,
fellows, | think it's time we all had
another drink. Another drink would
MT hurt a baby.
A Host Named Joe: How do you
know there amt poison in this
liquor? !.
A Fellow from Minneapolis: |
don't care. Poison US, Joe! Poison
us! (Glug, glug.)
1.-THE scene is repeated every five
minutes till 8 a. M, when Joe goes
to sleep under the bed.)
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
Full Steam Ahead

Two rival colored colleges in the
south were fighting their annual
football battle. The teams were even
and the play got pretty hot. AT
length one quarterback tossed his
helmet aside.
"Hey there, you," the referee ad-
vised him. "You'd better put your
headgear back on
"No, sub, no suh," returned the
colored lad. at amt my fault if |
injure any Of 'em."
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

Aimee is not to be mentioned in Mrs. Ormis-
toms suit for divorce Mrs. Ormiston is not going
to have three-ringed circus, she wants all the
limeght for herself.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

II 1t was forty degrees below zero in Moscow last
week so you can't blame those Reds for trying to
get into Mexico and Central America.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

Charlie Chaplin is a living proof Of the assertion
that it is possible to have sixteen million dollars
and still not be entirely happy.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

Gene Tunney has signed to fight for million
dollars, which is more money than we got for win
ming the World War.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

Originally the word politics was supposed to
mean the art of governing by policies of the state
or nation. In recent years it has come to mean
Peaches Fate in Hands of Judge0-says Ell
Paso scare head Here's hoping he preserves
Peaches.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
Eve and Ear

Oculist (handing sight-testing
card): I want you to read this
please.
Old lady: Would you be so kind
as to read it for me? My sight Isl
not very good.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
Spotlight

A professional gentleman who
had been baffled by the stage di-
rections in manuscript he had
chanced upon recently asked an act
or what "the center of the stage,
might be. "The center of the STAGE"
declared the actor, who was cynical
and old, 'is where all good actors go
when they die"
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

It is said that 13 900 new laws will be passed by
the various state legislatures in session this year
This means of course more work for the law
breakers.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

We expect Senator Heflin finally to get around
to the place where he will tell us who really hit
Billy Patterson.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
Another Version

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To get some modern Ticker;
Jack took two and he was through,
And Jill died even quicker.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

If the revolutionists in Nicaragua aren't salts
fled now they will have chance to tell it to the
marines.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

An exchange says Coolidge is silent on DR..
Nicholas Murray Buffers speech. Why not But
Ter seems to have said enough.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
Zoo Much FOR Him

Manager: Why did the flame
swallower complain about that to-
bacco you sold him the other day.
Clerk: He says it burnt his mouth
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

Johnnie: What's that black pigs
name?
Farmer: Ink.
Johnny: Why did you name him
that.
Farmer: Because he's always
running out of the pen.
81 want ersome er-face pow
der for era present for young
lady"
Eyes, sir. Would you care to taste
some?"
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

The legislature has bill up to create the office
of state comptroller. We thought we had one all
the time.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
Nothing Cheap


One of the sequences Of cinema
comedy Monte Banks is making at
the Hal Roach studio centers around
a wedding. Among the extras on the
set during the filming of this scene
was woman Of the type who has
"seen better days" and gives notice
of this fact to the public by comment-
ing audibly and wondering upon al
most everything she sees around
studio.
With the other extras she was
called upon to throw handfuls OF
rice after Monte and his leading lady,
Jean Arthur.
"Just fancy" she observed to the
person nearest her, they're using
real rice in this pictured"
Monty's ear caught the remark
and he turned, grinning broadly.
"Oh, yes indeed" he told the ex-
ira, "there is nothing cheap about
my pictures. Any time ] can get
realism in rice for one dollar you
just watch me do it,"
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18

Johnnie: What's that black pigs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
MENrs UNITED STATES SECURITIES EXCEED $125

the mean invested assets has also risen to the
remarkable figure of 500 per cent, as the result
Of substantial dividend increases, bonuses, and
stock privileges received in connection with
many of our holdings.
The quality of the investments listed in the
assets may be judged from the fact that on
9o.5S per cent of the bonds and on 9o71 per
cent Of the preferred stocks, not one dollar of in
terest or dividend is in arrear for even one clay.
On our common stocks the dividends now being
received are greatly in excess of the dividends
payable on the same stocks at time of purchase.
The total surplus earned during the year
amounted to $20,457 ,O77.2S. From this the
following appropriations have been made:
The sum of $1,000 900 has been de-
Quoted from the official valuation of our Sc
curities to provide for possible fluctuations in
market values. This raises the amount set
aside for this purpose to S. 200, 900.
In other words, the value at which our
securities are carried in the balance sheet is
100000 less than the appraisal made
by the Government authorities.
The account to provide for unforeseen con-
tingencies has been increased by $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
CHILE DUE TO DROP
PERU NEGOTIATIONS.
New Government Indicates
Hostility Toward U. S. Aims
in Tacna-Arica Row.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO. Chile, February H.
The polfcy of the new government,
headed by Gen. Carlos Ibanez as pre-
mien, is frankly opposed TO continue
ton OF useless negotiations" for set
Element of the Tacna-Arica problem
as between Peru and Chile.
A Spokesman said today the ques-
ton had beSn prolonged uselessly by
former Chilean cabinets due to these
negotiations. bat that the new govern
ment intended to- adopt IAN absolutely
contrary policy"
When questioned concerning reports
that Chile was likely to annex the dis
puted provinces, the minister of for
eign affairs. Conrado Rios Gallardo.
said there was no such Intention, but
he minated hostility toward continu-
alton of the present negotiations at
Washington.
lbanez. war minister in the previous
cabinet, took office Wednesday after
announcing that boishevism, facilitat-
ed by a weak government, had carried
the country to "deplorable eXtranes"
and that young blood was necessary.
Twenty naval officers have resigned,
following the example of Admiral Juan
Schroeders, who retired as director
general of the navy.
The desire of the younger naval Of
ficers for a reorganization of the
higher command Is looked upon as one
of the causes which led indirectly to
the ministerial crisis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11

The operations during the past year have re-
suited in substantial advances in all depart
ments. -.
The new policies paid for. :. almost double
the figures Of two years ago.
The assurances in force. after deduction Of
reassurances, :. show an increase OF. 80.
over twentythree per cent.
Policies and group certificates now outstand-
ing aggregate well in excess of half million.
The high quality and profitable character OF
our investments has again been demonstrated.
As result of continued reduction in prevailing
rates of interest, and of satisfactory industrial
conditions, there has been further rise in the
market values of our long-term bonds and OF
our preferred and other stocks. The appraisal of
our securities made by the Government lnsur-
ance Department shows that the excess of
market values over cost has increased during the
year by Sc, 1914 ,266.26. In addition, the sum
Of 81, 72o ,364.52 has been realized as net profit
from the redemption or sale of municipal deben-
lures and other securities which had risen to
high premiums. The rate of interest earned on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11

bringing the total under this heading to
$11, O0O,0 900. -.
An additional amount of $500, 900 has
been set aside to provide for greater longevity
of annuitants. The total held under this head.
ing in excess of Government requirements,
is now 81, 10000 -.
To our policyholders, profits have been
paid or allotted during the year to the amount
of $o,235, 5000.
After making these deductions and alloca-
tons an addition of S., 371 ,564.56 has been
made to the undivided profits. The surplus
over all liabilities, contingency accounts and
capital stock, now stands at $34, oil ,565.25.
For six years in succession we have increased
the profits to participating policyholders Dur
ing this period our profit scale has been doubled
While the assurances in force have multiplied
two and half times since 1920, the amount
paid or allotted as profits to policyholders has
multiplied FIVE and half times. We are gratifed
to announce, for the seventh consecutive time,
further increase in the scale of profits to be
distributed to our polcyholders in the ensuing
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11

that another investigation OF the
value of Ford stock, as of March /,
1913, would be conducted through
different channels.
The reading of Watson's letter into
the record was not accompanied by
comment giving any indication of the
motives which prompted him to sug-
gest a reopening of the case. Wat
son himself said yesterday that he
could not recall such a letter and
would make no statement until he
could find 1t in his files.
Senator CouZens, at the Capitol
however said that in 1922 the fight
on Senator Newberry Of Michigan,
was in progress and he thought
Watson deemed 1t good politics to
start action involving Ford's stock. as
the manufacturer had been New
berrys opponent at the polls. Later,
in 1922, Senator Couzens added. the
Treasury closed the case, but re-
opened 1t after he made his campaign
against the Internal Revenue Bureau
in 1925.
u. 8. Counsel Protests.
Half a dozen other letters and mem.
orandA from tho flies of the Treasury
were admitted into the record over the
strenuous protests Of Alexander w.
Gregg of Government counsel. All of
them dealt with the approval placed
upon the stock valuation made in 1919,
after an investigation had been con.
Quoted during 1921 and 1922 by various
Treasury officials.
The letters concur In indorsing the
method employed In arriving In 1919
at the Governments valuation of
$9,484 a share. one OF the notes from
Chairman Johnson of the committee
on appeals ana review designating the
valuation as fair both to the taxpayer
ana the Government" and suggesting
that the case should be closed. This
recommendation was made In Septem
Der, 1922. and was supported by G. A.
Naples, solicitor for the Treasury.
Counsel for Couzens and other an
pellants were Jubilant over admission
of official documents sustaining the
reValuation Of Ford stock and declared
1t nullified the purport of the letter
or Commissioner Blair to Senator
Couzens In March, 1925. which said
that there appeared to be nothing on
file in the Treasury supporting the
correctness of the 1919 appraisal.
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Continued from First Page.)
the differences which have arisen
among supporters of the bill over the
provisions as they relate to cotton. AS
the Senate met, however, these confer
ences had proved unavailing. Just
when it was thought late yesterday
that the matter had been Strengthened
out further conference was held
with Vice President Dawes taking
part, and at that conference the old
trouble over postponement of the
equalization fee on cotton cropped up
again. Senator Harrison wishes an in
surance provision inserted in the bill
designed TO safeguard the cotton farm
ers and other farmers against fluctua-
ton of prices. While Senator McNary
and others are willing to include the
insurance feature there is opposition
to having 1t substituted for the equali-
zation fee on cotton, with the defer
ment for two years of the equalization
fee on that commodity.
The McNary- Haugen bill was de-
feated in the Senate last June by "a
vote OF 1873. Supporters of the bill
today were counting on the vote of
Tour Senators who a year ago had
opposed tho measure. This would an.
pear to be enough to pass the bill.
III the vote in the Senate should result
IN tie, Vice President Dawes would
be called upon to cast the deciding
vote. The Vice President has been in
favor Of the principle of the McNary.
Haugen bill. IF he should vote for
the passage of the bill, and the Presi.
dent should veto 1t later, an unusual
situation would be presented.
Debate On the -Haugen bill
continued today in both the Senate
and the House. In the House a vote
is not expected until next week.
Senator Howell of Nebraska, Re
publican, opened the debate today in
the Senate, supporting the bill.
Stewart Supports Bill.
Senator Stewart of Iowa followed
Senator Howell in support of the
McNary.Haugen bill. Senator Walsh,
Democrat, offered an amendment pro.
posing to defer for two years the
equalization fee on all crops as well
as on cotton. Without such an
amendment, he said, he would be
unable to support the bill.
The blu was attacked by Senator
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E-STOCKHOLDERS
REST IN TAX FIGHT
Government to Present Evil
dence in Ford Case Begin
ming Monday.


Concluding the presentation of their
case in the hearing before three mem
bers of the board of tax appeals, coun-
sci for former minority stockholders
of the Ford Motor Co, who are re.
sisting the Governments attempt to
levy additional taxes on the sale of
their stock to the Ford family, yester-
day put Commissioner Blair of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau and G. r..
Nash, his chief deputy, on the witness
stand.
After a mass of letters and docu.
ments bearing on the controversy had
been put into the record. the hearing
adjourned until Monday, when the
Government will offer evidence.
The testimony of Blair and Nash
failed to produce official or political
sensations and was brief, concerning
itself only with their part In notifying
Senator Couzens of Michigan, one of
the former stockholders, who would be
called upon to pay 10000 900 of the
additional $50 ,000, 900 tax assessment,
of the reopening of the case.
WatsOn's Letter Put I'm Record.
Al letter from Senator Watson, Re-
publican, Indiana, to Commissioner
Blair. inclosing a copy of a Treasury
Department memorandum which
challenged its original appraisal of
the value of Ford stock, was per-
mitted to go into the record. The
letter, which was sent in February,
1929, by Watson to Blair's residence,
drew a reply from the commissioner
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I
senting the various defendants will be
held within the next few days, 1t was
learned.
Called Part of District.
Alexanders Island, the Government
wal contend, according to Indications
in the notices already sent out. is q
pal.. OF the District of Columbia, mas
mutA1 as the high-water mark of the
Potomac on the Virginia shore is the
dividing line between Virginia and the
Distri,at. The State of Virginia, how.
ever, INas been collecting taxes on
Alexantaers Island at the rate of
about $4,000 each year. according to
attorneys for some OF the defendants,
and 1t was considered likely that the
State OF Virginia may intervene In
the case ian behalf of the defendants.
The property is no longer an island,
but at one time was separated from
the mainland at certain seasons by
water which flowed into two creeks or
inlets from the river. These have
been filed.