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The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09
Wants Change of Venue.

Attorneys for Joseph H. Stephens, charged with complicity in the mur- der of Robert Miller, who was killed by Stephens son, Bud, have notified Superior Judge J. J. Sweeney, that they will ask for a change of venue when the case is called for trial Au- gust 6. Judge Sweeney is said already to have intimated that he will grant the application and thus save the county the expense of calling several panels of veniremen. Until Bud Stephens was convicted, the elder Stephens had meant to take his chances in the Yavapai court.-Je- rome News.
The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09
Killed in Auto Accident.

Word was received here Tuesday of the death of Charles Day of St. Michaels, which was caused by an auto accident near Navajo last Satur- day. MT. Day and his father were on their return trip from St. Johns, where they had been attending to some matters ii. court, and when near Navajo in some way their car was overturned. MT. Day lived two days after the accident, but never regained consciousness. The remains were shipped to Gallup for interment. MT. Day, Sr., was also quite badly hurt, but, we are informed, not dangerously. St. Johns Herald.
The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09

Captain Harry Wheeler, formerly sheriff of Cochise county and who re- signed to join the army, recently was called back to Washington from France on military business. Captain Wheeler has been indicted with a large number of other prominent men for driving the wobblies out of Bisbee last year. He went to Bisbee and gave bond for his appearance in the federal court.
 The arrest of two boys named Hicks for robbing a postoffice in Globe led to the discovery that an or ganized gang of boys had been plum dering warehouses and homes in that city. P. c. Molina and his wife of Miami are believed to have directed the operations of the gang.
 A fire which started from the ex- pulsion of a celluloid box containing toilet articles, gutted the interior of the Chloride drug store. Had the building not been of concrete block construction the town would certainly have been destroyed.
 Sheriff w. H. Wilky's report shows that an average of IT autos were
The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09
Vital Statistics for the State of Ari-
 ZOna.

Vital statistics for the state of Ari- zona for the six months period ending December 31, 1917, have just been made public by the state board of health.
 These show total of births for the state of 2,S56 and total of deaths of 2,073, net gain in population of 7S3.
 As usual, tuberculosis heads the list of causes of death, the mortality from this disease amounting to 357. Diar- rhoeal diseases of children came sec ond with total of 257, while pneu- monia was third with 152. In the six months period there were 32 cases of homicide.
The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09
C0LD-BLOODED ATTEMPT
 TO MURDER BILLY WOOLF

Billy" Woolf, for a number of years deputy sheriff under Carl Hay den and an ex-captain in the old Ari- zona regiment, was shot and danger ously wounded at Phoenix last Satur- day by a man named J. B. Van Ritter. Woolf was working in a garage at Phoenix when assailed by Van Ritter because of an auto he had failed to make payments on was taken away from him. When Woolf's back was turned he drew an automatic and shot Woolf through the body; he escaped into the street and held large crowd at bay with his automatic, after calmly reloading it from his pocket as he walked into the street. While he was engaged in conversation with two officers, Officer Grove stole up behind him and after a fierce strug- gle, during which time Van Ritter att tempted three times to shoot himself through the head, he was disarnfed and taken to jail. He was known to be tough character and had gone to the garage to make trouble and was well prepared, with extra cartridges in his pocket. Woolf, at last reports, had an even chance for his life. He was a popular young man and gave no excuse to his assailant for his des- perate attack.
 The abolition of capital punishment in Arizona is giving her a worse repu- tation than during the old days when guns and booze were popular.
 According to the Winslow Mail, the El Paso owners of the local telephone exchange at Winslow, have turned over their interests to the Mountain States Telephone Company. In any event, all lines are now under the management of the United States, so what's the very particular difference.
 It is now claimed that the Maricopa county mystery of many skeletons of Indians found in cave on the Indian reservation is cleared up by the in formation that it was an old Indian burying ground and known to have existed by the Indians for many years.
 As a result of cavein at the Cor onado Mine of the Arizona Copper Company at Metcalf last Friday morning three miners were killed: H. Stephens, American shift boss; An tonic Cordelli, Italian miner, and Tomas Vanderval, Mexican miner Clifton Mining Journal.
 
 Uncle" George Chase died sudden ly at his home in Clifton last week. He had undergone an operation short time before, but was thought to be improving when death came while he slept. He was twice elected state senator from his county and was one of the most popular men in Greenlee county.
 Louis Fornairs, an Italian 34 years of age, coimmitted suicide by shooting himself through the head with a six shooter at Clarkdale last week. He had arrived from California only a few days before and was stopping with a relative at the time. The inquest disclosed the fact that he was Respondent and irrational at times.
 The big strike of miners at the United Verde at Jerome was called off, the men being advanced 75 cente per day.
The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09

stolen each month during the first half of 1918 in Maricopa county. This is an increase of 30 per cent over the corresponding period of 1917.
The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09
Charles Day Killed in Auto Accident

Charles Day Killed in Auto Accident.
 While on the road from St. Johns to their home at St. Michaels, last Sat urday afternoon, the car in which Chas. Day, his father, S. E. Day, Sr and an Indian boy were riding, turned over twice at bad place on the Nav ajo road near Milky wash. Charles Day received a gash on the head and was so seriously injured that he died soon after being taken to the hospital at Winslow. He was unconscious when picked up and remained in that con- dition to the end.
 Mir. Day was a highly respected young man and had many friends throughout the county who extend sympathy to the bereaved family. The remains were taken to Gallup and the funeral was conducted by the Masonic lodge, of which the deceased was a member.-St. Johns Observer.
The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09
Girl Attempts Suicide.

After being accused of perjury, Miss Amanda Courtesy, 20-year-old girl of striking beauty, held at Tucson as the principal witness in white slave case, attempted to commit suicide by drinking solution containing 24 bi- chloride of mercury tablets. She wi probably die. Frank Whit was ar- rested on charge of violating the Mann act by bringing Miss Courtesy from New Mexico to Arizona. At his preliminary examination her testi- mony was very damaging to him, but at the trial she completely reversed herself and a charge of perjury was filed against her.
 When Manuel N. Periera entered a store at Gold Road and asked for loaf of bread, the clerk, James Irvine, asked him for his card. He replied by cursing the United States and strik- ing Irvine on the jaw. He was prompt ly jailed.
The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09
More Troopers Arrive.

A detachment of fifty enlisted men arrived at Fort Whipple yesterday morning from Fort Riley, Kans. The men are to be connected with the medical department of the local post. Yesterdays addition brings the num- Der of men, both well and invalid, sta toned at the local post up to more than $50. More are expected to arrive within the next week or so.-Prescott Journal Miner.
The Coconino sun., 1918-08-09

Jack Gibson has been appointed postmaster at Winslow, vice Bill Daze, resigned. Gibson had been an appli- cant for the place when Daze was ap- pointed. Wm. Daze was brother of Joe Daze, well known in Flagstaff, where he was employed for couple years as cashier at the Santa Fe depot. Wm. Daze went through Flag staff last week on his way to the coast to an officers training camp for naval reserve officers.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Must Obey Ali
AvA Child Labor Laws

In suggestions of ways boys and girls
can earn the committee lays stress on
strict adherence to the child labor laws.
No jobs are to be taken even temporarily
for Victory" work unless the boy or
girl qualities by the necessary working
papers. Yet there are many odd jobs
and ways to earn, within their own
homes and for their neighbors, that fail
outside the class. Brooklyn boys have been
very successful canvassing residential
neighborhoods for odd jobs, while girls
have been equally energetic in washing
dishes, conducting jam and cake sales.
caring for invalids and babies, and so
down a long list.
To help members in securing them
the cooperation of the Public Library
has been secured as clearing house
for odd jobs from people who are glad
to help Victory girls and boys
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Low Members Will
1 1 Pull for Victory

In fact, the motto of the Girls Divi-
sion is symbolic of the energy and de-
termination with which both bows and
girls have thrown themselves into the
work to back up the seven organizations
for each and every soldier in France.
Under the picture of girl in row.
boat pulling strongly at her oars against
a high tide everywhere is used the
motto, Every Girl Pulling for Victory"
The counterpart of the Boys Division
shows boy backing up a fighter in
bayonet action. "A Million Boys Be
hind a Million Fighters is It's no less
inspiring slogan.
Each boy and girl who becomes a Vic
tory member, in addition, receives a ser
vice poster for home display. Under an
American eagle with outspread wings.
the symbol of the Victory campaign. it
bears the words, "a boy has enrolled in
the Victory Boys to earn and give to
make our fighters fit. United War Work
Campaign" There are similar ones for
girls.
In taking the pledge to Earn and
Give" each boy or girl can pledge any
amount ne personally feels he can earn.
Payment is allowed IL several install
ments, with a time limit up to March /.
However, the "V" used not only stands
for Victory" but for "V," SIS, which
it is hoped will be pledged from every
boy and girl. In order to encourage
them the directors have issued book
let, What SIS Will d." showing what
that amount can mean to each individ-
ual fighter in France in supporting for
him the combined comforts and recrea-
tional features of the seven organiza
tions united not only in the campaign
but in work in France.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

Miss Il. Smith for the Protestant or
ganlzatlon of that name, while also on
the long list is Miss Crystal Bird, of the
colored girls.
So much for the organizations through
which it is planned to reach every boy
and girl in New York.
The network of the organization.
thanks to the comprehensive work of
Mr.. Van Dis, who is temporarily loaned
from the national headquarters of the
Boys Working Reserve in Washington
for the campaign, would do credit to
political campaign. For each borough
of greater New York, including Staten
Island, borough director has charge
of the Victory Boys work. His associ-
ate in the work represents the Girls
Division.
Under them the borough is divided
into districts for which the respective
district leaders appointed for the "Vic-
tory" work are directly responsible for
lining up the boys and girls of their
zone. 1t is their duty to work in CO
operation with the schools, both public
and private, the churches and the junior
organizations within their district. With
them the boys and girls have appointed
fellow girls and boys of their own age
as local representatives. For the actual
campaign itself is to be left as far as
possible to the girls and boys them
selves
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10


the first year of it's existence?
To answer the question means figures
many figures. For the Y. M. C. A.
has sprung from small band of pio-
m ers, who arrived overseas with little
more than their trunks and plenty of
business of really amazing scope, to an
institution which is trying unreservedly
to do it's share toward tringing the war
e. g quick, successful conclusion.
In the year it has covered ali Of Al
lied Europe and penetrated into part OF
Asia. From France it moved across to
England to meet soldiers as they came
from America. 1t has gone into Italy,
into Greece, into Rumania, into Mesopo-
tamia. And through all the Russian
turmoil it has held to the job in that
country, patiently biding the time when
order shall return and Russia will again
hold up her head
Its work in France is, of course, most
important. Here, naturally, it has
focused attention. Here it has devoted
most Of its energies and concentrated
most of its effort II has made the Red
Triangle in France almost as familiar
as the French language is TO the natives.
The figures for the country tell story
all their own.
Begin, if you please, with the huts.
BY hut is meant every type of building
that bears the sign of the Red Triange.
1t may be first class chateau or dug
out in the woods. The word is short
and popular; it has stuck ever since it
was first applied to the buildings in the
cantonments in the United States.
On August 1 the Y. NJ. c. A. was
operating with the American army in
France, as nearly as could be estimated
in the face of constantly changing con-
ditions, 1,190 huts. At the same time
the Foyer du Soldat, the branch of the
Red Triangle with the French army, had
$50 huts and other agencies for serving
the poilus to bring the total number to
S31.
The 1,190 American huts included
every point of contact with the army.
They ranged from chateaus, as has been
said, to dugouts in the front lines. They
counted in rolling canteens, canvas
tents and rented buildings of various
kinds. The largest huts in France are
of special design, with an auditorium
FOR between 700 and 1000 men. They
are supposed to take care of 5000 SOL
diers without taxing their capacity or
the energies Of the secretaries who run
them.
Together with smaller huts of similar
type they numbered 410 Of tents there
were 320. 'Fhe remaining number con-
sisted of 160 rented buildings in per-
r1anent areas in the S. O. S. and 500
POINTS of contact not easy to classify be-
cause of their nature.
The Y. M. c. A. hut construction de-
partment, now a big business in itself,
has wo French factories working excla-
sively for it and eight contractors who
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Two Million Feminine War Workers
Who Have Taken Up Work Men Dropped
Must Be Housed, Fed and Mothered

xWO million Of our fighting men
are in service. Two million
women are taking the places Of
these men in every phase of in
slsry.
sight million women were in the
,-sdes and occupations in this country
.tore the war began--now that $4,000
.,o are being drawn from industry for
every month the number of women
!, ,ainful occupations is steadily in
,,essing Women before the war worked
i qs5 out of 303 occupations listed in
&. census. Now they are doing every
ur Of work. They have come into
AMERICAN industry to stay, and the
,aole system must be adjusted to their
needs and welfare.
The Y. W. C. A, while taking an i'm
,,rta1t part in the work for the soldiers
eth in training camps at home and at
hs front in France, has undertaken as
ts particular work, to care for this
sother army'-the army Of women in
industry.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
rganization Helps
" in Reconstruction

In France and Belgium our men. hay
ing lifted helpless people to their feet,
must stand by to see that they do not
fall. There will be the work Of recon-
struction that will include in it's pro-
gramme the building up of the man and
the woman, morally and physically, as
we'll as the putting together of the walls
of the home. The victims of German in
vasion will be restored, as far as pos
sible. to a normal condition. That will
be work for our men and women in
France for many years to come.
AS long as our own American women
need the Y. w. G. A., and as long as the
French or the Belgian--or any other
women-need the Y. W. c. A., it will
stand by them.
There will be need of funds for this
work. The seven war work organza-
tions have united in an effort to raise it.
They want to raise $170,5O0,000; they
will come to you the week of November
Ills with this appeal
Without overlapping, each has it's
work to do, and they have united to do
it. They are the Y. M. C. A., Y. w. C.
A., the National Catholic War Council
and Knights of Columbus, Jewish Wei
fare Board, American Library Associa-
ton, War Camp Community Service and
the Salvation Army.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
What Yanks Can Do

ECLARING that million Ameri-
can soldiers have abundant cause
y to admire and respect the Saliva
tion Army, and that if anybody
has a. chance to Go the army q favor, they
should do it for the sake of our boys"
Bryan McGarvin recently addressed a letter
to his sister. Mrs. Jean McGarvin, of this
city, in which he warmly commends the
American boys for their valiant work of
the last two or three months, and incident
ally wishes success to the United War Work
campaign.
"I suppose you have heard the good news
that Kaiser Bill is now realizing that he no
longer has q chance to win this war, and
the way the doughboys are mussing him up
is scandalous. There is an awful lot of
German widows that were made so by Amer
lean 'Soldats.' and I may say there is an
awful lot of Hun soldiers that did not real
ze that the Yanks were here until they
were hung up at the end OF bayonets We
are doing our bit by getting the provisions
and ammunition up to the boys in the
trenches.
1--WE have Salvation Army hut here and,
believe me, if there is any one over here
that is doing good work it is these good
people. Ask any American soldier in France
what organization they respect most, and
ninety y-nine out of hundred will saw the
Salvation Army. And they do it all with
the money they get from the drums at the
street meetings! If you get chance to
help the s. A., do it, for, take it from me,
they have the respect Of million or more
soldiers"
The writer remarks further that despite
all that is said and written about the
Champs Elyses and Boulevard des rtaliens
in Paris. and Notwithstanding their beauty
and attractiycness, give me Broadway
every time" lie rejoiced in the fact that
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

hrst duty OF seven out of every ten SOL
diers as they return from the heat of
battle tor rest. ] recall one soldier who
stopped at a rolling canteen on his way
back to a quiet area and asked for @
dozen sheets Of paper and three enve-
lopes.
whats the big idea-a book?" asked
the secretary
Nope, but l sure gotta lot to tell this
time," was the ready reply.
Anticipating the demand, the Y. M.
c. A. has, for the five months of No.
vember, December, January, February
and March, contracted for 152,0O000O
sheets Of paper and 100000 enve-
lopes. The order starts with 10000 600
sheets and 100000 envelopes for No
vember and ends with 4S,00O,O0O sheets
and 36000,000 envelopes for March.
Estimates have been carefully based on
past consumption and the coming of the
thousands on thousands of American
troops who, between now and the end of
next year, will help clinch the downfall
Of Germany.
The budget for 1919 calls for an ex-
penditure of 1885, 900 francs (s2,097,-
1859 for writing paper and envelopes
alone. No soldier will have the excuse
OF not being able to write home because
help it,
Soap is another item of interest. The
Y. NJ. c. A. handles twenty-four differ
ent brands of soap in it's post exchanges.
For the months of September, October
and November it has long since placed
orders for 100000 bars of the stuff
that, in the words of soldier who took
part in the memorable slamming of the
Germans from Chateau Thierry to the
Vesle, 'looks like q million dollars if
you can find the water to 20 with it af-
ter you've done nothin' for three weeks
to clean up, except washin' your face a
couple O. times"
In it's free canteen work, which means
the serving of hot and cold drinks with
out charge to men in the front lines and
on the march, the distributing of tobacco
in the trenches and in the hospitals and
the doing of hundred and one other
things to increase the comfort of the
soldier, the Red Triangle has spent
sum which will not be fully computed
until after the war. But one does know
that IN the twelve months from October
i, 1918, the General Supply Division in
France will see that approximately $3,-
684,OO0 goes into free canteen work. Its
budget figures name this sum.
Entertainment for the soldiers is one
of the Y. M. C. AS most important ac-
tivities. Lectures, motion pictures,
real plays, minstrels-every-
thing that will give the men chance 70
laugh and to enjoy themselves is being
During the month OF July,
for example, there were 1862 night pro-
grammes given by Y. NJ. c. A. enter
tainers up and down the front and in
the back areas
The numbers of entertainment units.
consisting of one or more persons, in
cluded twenty-seven American compa-
nies, fifteen French and eleven Franco
American.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Qoys and Girls to
- Have Own Bodv

Yet in connection with the approach
ing United War Work Campaign of the
seven organizations united in the appeal
for $170,5oO,000 during the week of
November Ills for the first time the
boys and girls of New York are offered
highly organized division of their own
as part of the campaign organization.
This is the Victory Boys and Girls,
which will be dignifed by their own
parade, meetings, specially designed
posters, service banners and buttons all
in their own name. Small wonder that
the boys and girls of New York are
proud to enroll under their own banner.
Of the U. W. w. c.! Already they are
swelling their quota toward the "Million
Victory Boys Behind a Million Fight
ers"
There is much else that differentiates
the Victory Boys and Victory Girls
from former projects to enlist the patri-
otic efforts of boys and girls. First and
foremost comes the Victory pledge
which is already meeting with the
hearty cooperation of the public This
is the slogan, Earn and Givel" which
every Victory" member must pledge
himself to live up to. For "Victory"
members are not to be allowed to beg
or solicit funds from others. Not only
must they pledge themselves to give
set amount to further the work of the
seven organizations for our men over
seas, but they must personally earn by
their own efforts all money that they
pay in!