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missioners.
by the President
to Secretary
member of the board of Indian
program for tax reduction
CO.
A
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Jury Scandal Causes Mis-
trial in the Falls-Sin-
clair Case.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
V] 1STRIAL in the case against Al
4 bert B. Fall and Harry Sinclalr
in Washingtod declared by
tice Siddons and the jury was dis.
sharged, because of alleged attempis
to fix one or more of the jurors and
because they all had been
to shadowing by operatives of a de
tective agency. joth the
tion and the defense agreed
continuation of the trial
present jury was improper.
jury immediately began
of the matter and it
that several indictments
turied.
The fixing
mainly on seizures made in a raid on
a hotel room where 10 Burns detec
tives assigned to shadow the jurors
had had headquarters since the trial
started. and on affidavits attributing
to one juror, E. L. Kidwell, state
ments that he would come out of the
trial “with a car a block long” and
that the jury would not agree on a
Aecdict. The raid disclosed that re-
ports were made dally by the detec.
tives to A. Mason Day, head of the
Sinclair Exploration company. Mr
Day refused to testify before the
grand jury on the ground that he
wight incriminate himself, Kidwell,
waiving immunity and declaring the
charge against him was “frame
was Jus
subjected
prosecu-
that
with
The grand
investigation
expected
would be re-
un
the
was
charges were based
agai a
up,” told his story to the grand jury
Fall a statement the effect
that neither he nor anyone acting in
fis behalf had any knowledge of or
connection with the alleged attempts
fo tamper with the jury.
+. Collapse of the trial came when the
government had practically completed
its presentation of a strong chain of
sircumstantial evidence to prove that
Sinclair paid Fall $230,500 in Liberty
ponds for the Teapot Dome lease and
had traced by a score or more of wit-
nesses the passage of the bonds from
the treasury of a company fn which
Qinclaler was Interested Into Fall's
bank account. It was thought unlike.
fy that the new trial could begin be-
fore January 1, owing to the necessity
for reassembling the government's
witnesses from all over the country.
issued to
ECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
O MELLON, backed up by Under
secretary Mills, presented the
hotse ways and means committee his
plan for a tax rednetion program,
making recommendations that would
result in a cut of approximately £225.
000.000. His specific recommenda.
tions were:
A reduction of the tax on corporate
income from 1335 to 12 per cent
Amending those provisions of the
law that apply to the tax on corporate
income go as to permit corporations
with net income of $25,000 or less and
with not more than ten stockholders
to file returns and pay the graduated
individual Income tax as partnerships
at their option.
A readjustment of the rates ap-
plicable to individual incomes that
fall in the so-called Intermediate
brackets, the effect of which wonld be
to cut taxes for all persons with net
imeomes of $18,000 and more,
On succeeding days the committee
weard from various business groups
which urged a more extensive tax re
duction than Mr. Mellon recommend
od, and from agriculture, as repre.
sented by the American Farm Bureau
federation, objecting to even so much
of a cut as favored by the treasury
and advoeating applying surplus
funds instead to the retirment of the
public debt. The majority of the com-
mittee seemed in favor of the Mellon
program.
io
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GRICULTURAL leaders from the
corn belt and the Southwestern
states held a two-day conferénce in
at. louls and before adjourning
adopted resolutions strongly indors-
ing the McNary-Haugen farm relief
measure and condemning every one
who opposed it. Those attacked by
name were President Coolidge and
Senators Borah of Idaho, Bruce of
Maryland, Reed of Missouri and Fess
of Ohio. [Presidential
were freely discussed
possibilities
the
ers, nnd though no one was named as
the farmers’ the of
Frank O. Lowden was frequently and
warmly applauded. There talk
of a third party, but it men
tioned in the resolutions.
Besides asking for the of
the MeNary-Haugen bill or one simi.
lar, the
bers of
“insist
rule
by
by speak.
choice, name
was
was not
passing
conference
the
upon
under
petition
requested mem
from West to
the adoption of =a
which 175 members can
take any from
any committee and place It upon the
calendar for a
effort to
legislation
Demands
the
v
house
house
measure
vote.” Thi
is
the death
house
wis an
prevent of farm
the
inlso
in
the
Republican and Democratic parties to
carry out
pledges adopted in 1024,
to farm
D
making
were made upon
their national platform
with respect
relief.
WIGHT MORROW,
bassador to Mexico,
n
the
seems to be
ood start toward settling
amicably the troubles between that
country and the United States, and
President Calles shows » disposition
do all he can to in the
One day last Calles
took Mr. Morrow out te his hacienda
at ‘los Reyes for a breakfast of ham
and eggs and they were sald to have
spent severs! hours discussing the
most serious qfestions in American-
Mexican relations. Mr. Morrow's ex
ceeding good humor on his return to
the capital indieated thar the negoti-
ations started suited him, and it
sald he and the President would have
other informal conferences. It is un-
derstood in Mexico City that the am-
bassador will undertake te negotiate
a new treaty of amity and ecommerce
to replace the one rescinded several
months Many Americans al
ready have presented to hime matters
which have the
departure of former Ambassador She”
field.
new om
to musist
process. week
was
azo,
heen pending since
—
FTER a fight of severs!
adjust salaries so they would be
proportionate to expenses, the Kouth-
ern Pacific railroad has won & victory
before a Mexiean federal arbitration
committee, which will prevent work
men from tying up the operations of
the company
years to
The committee issued a decree de.
elaring the strike of the Bolshevik
railway union at Empaime, where the
Southern Pacific has its large shops,
to be illegal and ordering the men to
resume work within three dnys or be
dismissed. The applied
to the shops at Mazatlam® author
ized the reduction of the working
week In the shops to five of
hours
also
I
decree
days
each,
olght
OVERNOR ADAMS of Colorado
G sternly warned the striking eonl
miners out there that they must cease
picketing wnder penalty of arrest, so
the I. W. W. leaders who are conduct
inz the strike decided to abandon the
fllegal practice. For it they substituted
the holding of mass meetings of the
{dle men near the mine shafts at the
times when workers were coming off
ahift. The operators and citizens ob
jected to this as merely another form
of picketing. which would intimidate
the miners who wished to work, but
at this writing the governor had not
stated what action he would take,
further than to say that he does not
yet contemplate issuing an order eall
ing out the National Guard. In the
southern field the operators said
many men were returning to work,
APAN started off the week with a
review of the entire naval forces
of the empire by the emperor in Yo
kohama bay. On bonrd the great bat.
tleship Mutsu, the ruler passed
through eight long lines of 172 ves
sels, ranging from guperdreadnanghts
to submarines and hospital ship and
including the new airplane carrier
Akagi, displacing 27.000 tons, No
planes took off from the latter, but
swarms of them from the Yokohama
base flew over the fleet.
Comparisons showed that since the
Washington treaty of 1022 the fleet is
less powerful for offense, but is
stronger and more efficient In every:
thing except eapitnl ships and is well
adapted to. its task of defending the
empire. Its light cruiser strength has
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increased from 00
fons,
The British government
to the London Dally News,
let
sels
127.000 tons to 105
according
is soan to
naval ves
than $55,
to include nine de
contracts for eighteen
will
These are
whieh
O00 000
COL more
stroyers, three cruisers and six
This part of the great-
est British program of warship build.
sub
marines, is
ing since the grmist
A
in
and
ive,
1.1. records for
r
October
the
proximately
vrai
canal
and tolls on
the ansma were
broken
There were 07 transits,
amount
£9 300 O00
eollected was
These fin
do not
ude ni
Madden
ifie RE
gressimnn or
Hee 1
ing (he
been inspws
nounces that work
ns possible
Proje 1.
walter
on 1
which
storage
feet
and when it is completed
nl lock at
hails
wil
of
This will «
about
Hy HY (EE) OEY
eubie rst
£70,000 100,
an mdi
euch fou sfation w=
at cot of bhogt STI OO INN,
IVILIAN
Nationalist
first
for the Kwantung and Kwa
inces,
f the ¢
members o
in
ol al
regions
Linea
Haw
nnve
government,
»
party Camon
formed the
BNI prays
of the
discussion,
and announce that
military
tired
scheming and
they will devote themselves
tie
domes
nnd will not
the people's funds in military sdvens
tures, While not
lations with Nationalist
ment in the Yangtse
ten group declares
Kuomintang
invitation
improvement waste
openly severing
gover.
thie Can.
liighent
an
Kuominthingists
of
by
ily
‘anton regions
re
the
valley
eed the
guthorily nnd issues
to other
interested’ in the establishment
civilian role and not dominated
militariste, (no go th Canton and
themaelveoe with the (
administration
HICAGO:' n
if
onrned ast
of ti
week the
loss ore tryst
Jdihin J
philanthropist
i Cis
Mitehell, hank
He and Mrs
an amtpmobile
notable
Harden, Ger
the formes
Hardy of
ome. author
Elizabeth Har
in ‘kindergarten work
Mills,
hecome
eminent
er and
Mitchell
nceident
men
killed
Other
were in
victims of
were Maximilian
nnd foe of
kaiser: Archbishop Ji ‘C3
Omaha: Jokn Luther
and playwright: Miss
risen,
and
siar,
death
man editor
pioneer
Floenoee
had
“iates
egro theatricnl
who
hited
ws popular in
ihe nnd Europe
ERRIVIC storms
of iritain
Sonres
wept
vind
mostly
thie coasts
Ireland and
fishermen,
(reat
of
were drowned
persons,
The property
at
damage
was heavy, being estimated nearly
R50 (0H (HX)
Final | of the
ing of
falda
number nt
RONFers
EEE
res
the sink
Mn.
the
fost in
the steamer Principessa
Brazil put
OF the first-class pas
af
Ww
aif the ooast
op
S14
a0 per cent
of
TH
the
Tos
per
The v
of its members
od:
officers, 45 per cent re
cent
HESIDEXT COOLIPDOGE Is making
P plans for his trip to Cuba te ate
tend the Pan-American vex that
opens in Havana January 1% fie has
named Charles Evans Hughes te be
head of the Amgerican deiegution, the
other members being:
Fleteher and
whe will, come, respectively, from
Rome and Mexico City for the meet.
ing: former Senator Osear W. Under.
wood of Alabama: Morgan J. O'Brien,
lawyer of New York: James Brown
Seott, author of several books on in.
ternational law; Ray Layman Wilhur,
president of Leland Stanford univer
sity, and Dr. 1. 8 Rowe director of
the Pan-American union. To thie list
the new ambassador te Cuba will be
added as soon as he Is appointed,
Congr
ARON FRIEDRICH VON P'RITT-
WITZ UND GAFFRON has been
appointed German ambassador to the
on Von Maltzen. He is only
career ot the Washington embassy,
An attempt to kill Admiral Paul
Konduriotis, President of Greece, wis
made by a young Communist in Ath-
ens. Cpe bullet was fired which
struck the admiral on the forehead,
inflicting a slight wound.
Mustapha Kemal Pasha was ro
elected President of Turkey by the
national assembly. His cabinet is be
Ing reconstructed under the premiem
ship of Ismet Pasha,
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\ Average Pioneer Not Good
| Farmer Because of Lack
of Experience.
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(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
In American experience new farm-
Ing regions are Hkely to he character
ized for a generation or two Ly meth
agriculture whicle result in
| gradually reducing slelds, The aver
nge pioneer is not a good farmer, not
because he not want to be, but
partly because he has not the experi
and knowledge of farm and
Its potentialities In under the
methods proved best by time aud trial,
and partly because the abundance and
cheapness of lund in newly developed
not favorable
utilization or
mds of
does
ence his
crops
regions is to intensive
methods of careful hus
of Only after
this period is past does agriculture In
such regions attain a
uwpment characterized
handing soil resources
stage of devel
by
increasing
Crop Yields Decline.
Thiz. substantially, Is the conclusion
reached by B. O, Weitz, of the bureau
of agricultural United
States Department of Agricultur He
that in
belief that
de
the
economics,
,
{
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Hii
{ iy
ports this with facts
face of
vields
the the common
been
fertility
pasted,
oron jr acre have
elining as the virgin of
bu “Nn exh
that
fields hi Depart
10
whent,
went statisties show
acr
in Vears
the combined ige of corn
fr , and potatoes ha
about 52
tion of these
& been expanded
The total
crops has jn
per cont. produc
four rensed
57 per cent, This means that a third
of the increased production the re
sult of a better yield per
Eastern Farms Not Worn Out.
Again, heli
he finds the
of
oer
nore
contrary to oon
red ses
Hoon
res show
the Ine in
rredd in the older farn
enst of the Mississippi river
proving soother erroneous impre wuion
fa the
United Stutex In genernl have become
worn In th of Vir
Morviand, the Ne Englan
fowu and Minnesolia are nan
of
zVerase
’
thier far older areas of
in
nt o ene of
gina Ww
sintle
% f
yields
that in
farming
to
develop
main
i thie
Ber ACT Mr. Weltz sancludes
the eourse of time, ax the
Fain ties Become accusiomed
. Po wilsilit if thelr fields
paiftalile strains of plants, earn profit
ahile use of fertilizers amd wise
in
of
crop
mations, that rields he
Humid mo
United States may approaneh the pres
arre
northeastern r{ions the
ent standards in northwestern Europe,
in thie dryer the United
States thie acre yields will be limited
necessarily by the mefsture available
to: the: crops
sections ef
Fall Care Big Factor
in Wintering Pigs
Pig growers have foand that of fall
pigs are given proper eare during the
inst of September, through ©Octeber,
and the early part of November, they
are ikely the
ted winter weather in good condition
and for the early spring
market
Every
vory to come through
ise reads
affort is made te keep the
young pigs growing rapidly, explains
WwW, (7 Skelley, assistant saimal hos
tmndinan. at the New Jersey Agricul
tural experiment station. Asx soon
the pigs begin to mie ap interest in
food! oilter than thet provided by the
sow me oreep: is built, Thix is & small
enclosure which allows pigs to
feed Uy themselves, away from the
(Corn and tankage ix Rept before
tiie pigs at all times as this prevents
any setback at weaning time. Good
nil pasture also Ik a dig help, or, if
that Is not available. the emttings of
any Rind of green stuff are provided
to: lielp strengthen the plex” eonstito-
tions
awn
the
Ww
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Poisoning Gophers
Marshall sounty, IM,
in poisoning pocket gophers, euls sweet
poate: cubes abeut an inch
each way, slits them and puis ia souw
strychnine. Them he runs a tooth.
piek through te prevent the potato
trem coming apart, He makes sure
that the peison is on the inside, as
Mr. Gopher will detect anything bit.
ter on the outside.
He drops two pieces in a runway,
which may be located by a probe,
Irish petatees may be used in case
sweet potatoes ure mot available,
Gist lade,
inte
Surrounded by Dangers
Before birth the young animal is
fairly well protected fwom shock, in-
jury, and infection. It has practically
food supply. But once
i
i
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ed with dangers—infectious ' organ
fems; extremes of temperature; the
possibilities of inadequate or impreper
fonds: overfeeding, and the presence
of actual poisons of many different
Hoist Egg Profits
If you can manage your Rock so as
to get one-fourth of the year's lay be
tween October first and Febroary first,
you'll hoist your profit ‘way up, say
the Ohio Agriculture folks. Seven
Ohio farmers who have done that for
five yonrs got an average year-round
compared with 8308 cents for eight
other farmers who sold only 4 per
cent of thelr eggs in the four high-
priced months,
Winter Protection
———
Froteetion of the hive Is a
sided Joly since it means not only pro
tection against cold, but also against
wind. Aplaries situated where there
best windbreak Is afforded by
greens which allow the wind to
gently through the upiary. A slatted
fence is good, but solid breaks are in-
eflicient, often diverting wind
| without checking its force.
In most localities, the hives should
| niko be packed ne some efficient way,
Where days eccur J[requently
enough the bees to fly, a good
packing is given by leaf or straw filled
he
warm
te nllow
chicken wire nets, ent to surround the
hives on three sides:
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terial should be as
|
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thick as possible
at least six on
well
super placed over
1 kes
elght inches—and come
A leaf filled
burinp eosering the
The
the hives with
up about the hives,
frame ny a snug top packing.
nets tied about
bailing crossing the
attached 10 slat
| of Hive
{ contracted about
in
clos] wint
and
the edges
be
fs 14
ITORLs,
& nailed’ at
lie nets entrances mast
io two inches,
colder regions bong,
he rule,
filmnomt
are i cellar win.
tering is
BECessury
sOMme lines
in such locations
Feed the syrup while seid
Over
rin
feeders iriserted
the
Oar
frames wsnded by bard
ap
im
chamber
other material to keep the hent
An empty
for the f
SUper serves us a
ocederg an the closine
the hive rose {owns
top mil,
Way to Control Insects
Stored in Small Grains
small of
practically airtight and
the
y ow
seeds get
one
pour insect icioe
«
on
Brannon,
North
seeds,” says extens
sion £ at Carolina
filled
inches of
1
entomologis
“The barrel is
{th
State coll
with few
the top.
phid has been poured on, barrel
covered with double thickness
of heavy wrapping paper to keep im
the fumes, If the are still tos
be found in the after
treatment, another >
given immediately. It to keep
the paper over the barrel fo prevent
reinfestation.”
This
wt high the
treatment should be given in the mid
dle of the The same principle.
may be applied to large holding
bushels of stored
Twenty pounds of the disud
phid to each 1.000 cubic feet of space
will zive control, The seeds should be
covered with in this
help hold the fumes in the bin
Mr. Brannon states that this
ris} i¢ highly inflammable and iights.
shonid kept away from
bins or barrels
grain in a
and when the carbon disul4
the
n
insects
slored grains
one should 1
i= hest
disulphia works best
carbon
temperatures
and so
day.
hing
CArHon
uncle, cnse, tow
Foe
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Discourage Foreign Seed
The federal seed staining lows, ape.
plying te clover and alfalfa seed, sein
to discourage the use of foreign seed.
They provide that Imperted seed UR.
adapted for the United States shad
be stained 10 per cent red. Imported
seed of known origin, except Canada.
but of unknown adaptability, shall be
stained 1 per cent green. Canadian
seed. whieh is well adapted to his
country, shall be stained 1 per cent
violet, Reme seed grown here is oft
en not geod in other parts this
country.
of
Agricultural Notes
BO +e OU Ov OeOw ON
A good ram is had the fleek.
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A good dairy mation
abundant, succulent and ecsnomical
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Co-operation In selling
im hand.
i . ® 8
ing farm, machinery is halved if im
CI a
Farmimg is enough. of a gamble as
it is,
a good corn crop
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Cellars
the storage compartment,
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farmers with an agricultural college
by farmers with a common-school edn:
cation only,
a & =
Don't dig the sod away from “the
base of the trunk of fruit trees late
in the season; the new wood may
winter kill because it does not have
time to season before cold weather,
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Why do so many, many babies of to
day éscape all the Nitle fretful
and infantile allmengs that
worry mothers through the ds
keep them up half the might?
If you don’t kngw thy answer, you!
haven't discovered pure, harmless Cas-
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sweet In the little st And its
wentle influence seems felt all through
the tiny system. Not even a distaste.
ful dose of castor oil does so much
© spells
10
and:
used
'y
ae
sweet
omarch.
good.
Fletcher's
table, so you may
first sien of eolic
irrhe:
Castoria is purely vege-
freely, at
; or constipation ; or
Or those many times when
just don't know what is the mat
ter, For real sickness, call the doc-
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drops eof Fleicher's
The doetor often tells you to do just
and always says Fletcher's.
preparations may be just as
as free from dangerous
r experiment?
give it
you
Castoria,
Jesides,
k on eare and feeding of babies
with Fletcher's Castoria is
weight in gold!
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Ihbor,
ig
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that's the eapital.
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“riat’'s what you bave getting Rt
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simple. You give me $10;
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Appropriate Name
Mh architecture the term “whesl
window™ is applied te a circular win.
dow with radiating mullions resem-
Bing the spokes of a wheel.
The Bower of meckness grows on
the stem of grace.—J. Montgomery.
burning secretions,
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the of the
kidneys and aid in the elimination of
waste impurities. Are endorsed by
users everywhere. Ask gour meiphbor!
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Use Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh
Money bark for fret bottle if oot wolted, AN dealers,
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