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Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
Harding Confident Nation Has Passed
 The Turning Point

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 31.-Perfect weather favored President-elect Hard ing and his vacation party today on their fishing trip.
 A tropical sun shown down from unclouded skies and tanned the faces of the fishermen as their yacht, The Shadow, maneuvered about the fishing grounds off Cocolobo Island. The sea was smooth, but a breeze played across The Shadows deck, bunting the force of the sun-
 The Shadow is expected to put back into Miami tomorrow unless Harding changes his plans, he will start Wed. nesday on his return trip to St. Au ustine.
 No country can go through war without readjustment. but we have reached the lowest step and are on the upgrade" President-elect Harding said in an interview published here to. day. It was his only comment on poll. tical affairs
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
Colby Refuses To Do Ghost Dance''
 With Johnson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31--Sena- ! tor Johnson Of California, asked Secretary Colby today to make public the negotiations between the United States and Japan on the California land question and Colby replied thar If Senator Johnson expects to do a ghost dance on this subject he's got to do fl without me as a partner"
 Senator Johnson, in statement. reiterated his declaration that Ro- land s. Morris. ambassador to Jap an, and Baron Shidehara. Japan csc ambassador in the negotia- tions concluded tentatively, agreed on d treaty. which. in effect, re pealed the California alien land law" Pointing to Secretary Col, by's reply of Saturday that the California senator was proceeding on an erroneous assumption. Sen ator Johnson asked that the re- port of Ambassador Morris be made public. asserting that ''the people of the west are en- titled to know what that report contains"
 Secretary Colby, who replied in- formally today. asserted that there is no indirection or con cealment here Cat the state depart ment) and no secretiveness- The secretary intimated that the nego- tiations would be made public at ''the proper time"
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
DRYS PREPARE
 T0 MAKE LAW
 BULLET-PR00F
Flat Jail Sentence, With out Fine, Is Latest In
 Prohibition Ranks

WASHINGTON. Jan 31.-By the Associated Press.)-Prohibition lead CTS in congress are hoping to tighten up the Volstead law.
 They are planning new legislation to provide flat jail sentence for the first offense of selling liquor without giving the court the optional right of imposing a fine
 Other changes being discussed re- late to the search and seizure clause. so as to reach the home brew and to make more sweeping the law under which a person buying liquor may be punished equally with the person sell ing it
 Confiscation of all liquor held by citizens is also being urged. This would legaliZe seizure of all private stocks. Objection to that however has been made by some dry leaders on the ground that little such liquor finds its way into channels of boot leg trade and that 1t won't be long before all such liquor will be gone.
 In the effort to stop home brewing and distilling, prohibition leaders ad- init that they will run into a storm of opposition.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
TESTIFY WOMAN
 CASHED CHECKS
 FUR DEAD MAN
Denton's Banker Says Sig natures We're Not Those
 Of Slain Promoter

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31.-Signa- lures on two checks for sums totaling S75O. cashed by Mrs. Louise l.. Peete. on trial for the alleged murder of Jacob Charles Denton, were so mark edly dissimilar from those on checks he knew had been signed by the min ing promoter" that they attracted the attention of Victor H. Rosseti, vice president and cashier of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank here. ac- cording to his testimony at Mrs. Peete's trial today. He said he de manded an explanation from her. Milton Carlson, a handwriting ex- pert, testified he believed that Mrs. Peete wrote the checks and that no hand guided hers while she was writing Rosetti testified that on June 2. 1919 the day fixed by the prosecution as the date of the alleged murder of Denton-he mailed to the mining mans residence a statement of his bank balance. It showed he had in that bank S79S9S in cash beside bonds valued at several thousand dollars
 "On June D." Rossetti continued, Mrs. Peete called eo zee me at the bank She had with her some docu- ments, which she said she wished to place with other valuable papers Den ' ton kept in the bank. I gave her an envelope and she placed the papers i in it.
 "She also presented check drawn in her favor for $500 and signed J.
 C. Denton I placed my initials on
 1t and she cashed it. Later she pre- sented another check, also in her ia vor. for S450 and also signed J. C. Denton
 "A few days later my attention was called to the alarm of Denton's rela. ! tives over his disappearance looked at the two checks Mrs. Peete had cashed. saw the signatures were markedly dissimilar from those on cheeks I knew he had signed. ! T called Mrs. Peete to the bank and demanded an explanation. She said Denton had quarreled with a Spanish woman. had left his home with her and had returned with an arm in sling and a patch over one eye. She said he was unaoIe to sign i the checks and she had done so in his presence while his hand was on
 the pen with which she wrote" 1 Judge Russ Avery of the Los An geles county superior court and spec. | ial administrator Of the Denton es- tate. told of a conversation he had with Mrs. Peete in his chamber June | g last She was introduced to him. he said, by Charles Jones. detective from the district attorneys s orIIce. and engaged at that time in trylng 70 solve the disappearance of the miuius man.
 T am the vamp." the judge said Mrs. Peete told him At least. I am accused by Mir. Denton's relatives of being a vampire
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she was found early today.
 Then the two were taken to the superior court, where Judge Sid ney Reeve sat in special session to recvI, e their pleas Both read ed guilty, but Floyd Carr asked that sentence be deferred.
 We would like to have coun- sel, so we can present mitigating evidence" he told the court
 Judge Reeve continued the case until Wednesday and assigned W. T. Aggeler, acting public defend ST. as counsel for the men.
 Sheriff John c. Cline. who was prepared to have the men taken away tonight if they should be sentenced. directed that guards bs placed on duty at the county jail, to which the men were re- turned.
 The officers let it be known that they were- prepared to con vey the men to secret place for detention, should that become ne- cessary.
 Floyd Carr made eonfes,.o late today, according to the po- lice in which he said he planne l the Kidnapping and lured Mrs. Witherell from her home last Tuesday night by telling her she was wanted by some one injured in an automobile accident.
 Carr, IEe police said, told them he took Mrs. Witherell into 0 car,
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the newspapers would not take their advertis- ing, even if they had the money to spend for it. Choosing merchandise through newspaper ad- vertising Is buying re- duced to an efficiency basis.
 When you go to your merchant or phone for goods to be delivered there need be no delay or indecision as in the olden days. You buy with your mind made up as to the worth of goods that face the spot light of public scrutiny and are n Ot found faulty.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31.-Ar- thar w Carr and Floyd l. Carr. cousins. confessed kidnapers of Mrs. Gladys Witherell, wife of O. s. Witherell, investment company president. pleaded guilty to charge or Kidnapping in the su- perior court late today Sentence was deferred until next Wednes- day morning
 A plan to have the men sentenc- ed ationoe so they could be started for the penitentiary tonight. WAS abandoned when the prisoners asked for counsel, saying they wished to produce evidence in mitigation" of their offense
 Reports to Chief of Police Lyle Pendegsst that there was a bad feeling" in Hollywood over the abduction caused the authorities to decide upon an immediate dis position of the case, if possible.
 The Carrs said they were will ing to plead at once, and were taken to the county court house under a heavy guard. They were given a preliminary hearing be- fore Justice of the Peace Hinshaw who held them to answer to the superior court. NThe justice ques- tioned both men and they admit ted having taken Mrs. Witherell to the isolated ranch house near Corona. Riverside county, where
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
The Tin1e-SQUer
 The DOHQr-SQUer
 The EHOrt-SQuer

Minutes, money and motion are running a race to see which is the most valuable.
 Mir. Common People, multiplied by many mill ions, Is on the lookout for ways to save all three. Read the adver- Using columns of your daily newspaper. Here are the country's adver- tised products-worthy goods-up for inspec- ton.
 You may depend upon them as good goods; for, if they didn't "pass muster'' they would not continue to enjoy pop ularity. The public would not buy them and
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
EXTENSIVE NAVAL DEVELOPMENT OF PACIFIC lUA,1 URGED
Confesses Killing
 Travelling Man During Auto Trip

FLAGSTAFF, Aria. Jan. 3l- Harry H. Nash. son of J. c. Nash. a banker of Hillsdale. Wyo. in a con fession alleged to have been made to Sheriff Campbell of Coconino county. admitted that he shot and killed Mar tin Schwab, of Payson, near here on April 15. last, but claims that he shot in self defense
 According to the alleged confession Nash said he started to Winslow Ari- zona. with Schwab. in the latter's au. tomobile on April 15. Thirty miles east of here Nash asked Schwab how much the trip would cost
 Twenty dollars" Schwab is said to have replied.
 Too much" Nash is alleged to have told Schwab. Schwab is then said to have replied "sl5; if you won't pay that get out and walk"
 Continuing, the alleged confession sets forth that Schwab got out of the car to fix the radiator. still arguing. Nash -let the air out of the tires to hold Schwab until somebody else came. Sehwab. it is alleged. pulled gun and shot at Nash. but the shot went wild. Nash then shot, the bull. let going through Schwab's head and causing instant death.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
Two Men Arrested
 At Nogales To Be
 Tried In Oklahoma

PHOENIX Jan. 31 - The gover- noI's office today received requisi- tions from Oklahoma for the extradi. tion of Forrest and Church Power. brothers, who were in custody of the chief of police of Nogales, Ariz- Ac- cording to the requisition, Church Powers was wanted to answer a charge Of theft of an instrument case emergency bag and medicine case from a physician in Custer county. Oklahoma. while Forrest Powers was accused of stealing an automobile which later was located at Graham, Arizona
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KIDNAPPED WOMAN RESCUED BY POLICE Telephone Girls Clue Unrauels Mystery

. with his cousin and nImSelf and drove away When Mrs. Witherell realized the situation and attemp- ted 10 break away, Floyd Car seized her and applied a handkeI- chief soaked in chloroform to Ter face. according to this statement. '-She became very talkative after that" Carr was declared to have continued '' She wanted to knoiy more about the accident" After driving. some distance from the city the Cars bound their capti'e band and foot and drove 10 the ranch house, which they had se- cured in advance to be the prison of their victim, according to state ments of both the men. as related by the police.
 IL was the statement of Floyd Carr and his expressed willingness to plead guilty that caused the police to decide, upon an imme- diate arraignment Arthur Carr. who was captured late last night as he was completing a telephone call to the Witherell residence in which demand for ransom was made, made a statement then which resulted in the police loSat- ing the ranch house and rescufng Mrs. Witherell while she was be- ing guarded by Floyd Carr.
 Arthur Carr, the police said, tol
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May Reduce PersonneI

WASHINGTON. Jan. Sl.-The nav al appropriation bill which probably will be reported to the house Weines- day. carries approximately SS95.000.. 000. reduction of about S3S.0o0. .000 from the amount appropriated last year and 2S4.e00.00o less than depart mental estimates.
 Az appropriation of S395. ,000 in the opinion of members of the appro- priations subcommittee that framed the bill. would necessitate reduc- tion of the navy's enlisted personnel from l43,000 to 100000. but would per init continuation of the navy's build Ing program al the same rate as dur ing the, current fiscal year
 Chairman Kelly declared today 100000 regulars would be ample for the nayy's needs during the year be- ginning July l. The potential strength of the navy. he added. can be thus maintained. especially since approxi- rfiately l20.0O0 former sailors would be available in an emergency.
 There will be no cut in officers ac- cording to the chairman. who said the hessub-committee believed. every one of the $500 now in service should be retained. Trained officers. be declar- ed. are the nucleus of an efficient navy.
 We have drafted the bill with the aim of maintaining the potential strength Of the navy so it can be quickly expanded" said Kelly. who added that during a conference with President-elect Harviing he had Sgain- ed the impression that Harding favor ed such a policy.
 \ navy of 100000 would be sam, cient to maintain all first class iisht. ing craft. he said. adding:
 We would have enough m, a to keep 100 destroyers and all oi our submarines in service IL probably would be necessary to tie up some out of date ships but it Is advisable tc do that to economize."
 Use of only modern craft, in the sub-committee's opinion, woald cut re- pair work and would permit reduc. ton in land forces and the possible abandonment Of some stations NO provit ion is made in the bin for the abandonment of any of the naVy's land bases Kelly asserting that such economies are matters of administra- tion Co be worked out by the next secretary of the navy.
 Secretary Daniels. commenting on the probability of reducing the en. listed personnel to 100000 said such curtailment would place a number of the older battleships and smaller craft In reserve commissios with skel eton crews, but would not seriously cripple the navy.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
HUGE SEA AND AERIAL FLEET
 BASES AT FOUR
 PORTS PLANNED
Joint Committee Advocates Strengthening Of Coast
 Yards And Camps VOTE IS UNANIMOUS House Recommends Enlisted Personnel Be Reduced
 To 100000 M en

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3l. - Recon. mendations for extensive naval devel- opment of the Pacific coast were pre- sented to the senate and house today by the joint committee appointed to investigate and report on strengthen. ing the naval and air defenses on the west coast. The committee. after an exhaustive study of all existing docu- ments and after personal inspection. unanimously reported in favor of ere ating four new military defenses.
 The recommendation was for the establishment Of naval fleet base at Alameda on San Francisco bay. This would supplement the Mare Island establishment, relieving 1t of all but construction and repair work. and be- come the principal operating and sup ply base of the west coast.
 Other recommendation call for an aviation base fin the Puget Sound re- zion to be located at Sand Point. Wash. and not to exceed $1.5O0. 900 In cost; retention Of Ediz Hook. Wesh.. for future development in case of emergency" as an operating station for small unit of aircraft destroyers and submarines; estab- lishment of submarine base not to cost more than S4.000.0O0 at San Pc dro. on Los Angeles harbor. and the creation of lighter than air naval aviation base at Camp Kearny near San Diego.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
BAN ON ALIEN !. OWNER ERSH|P IF LAND FAVORED
House Recommends Cotton Gins Be Chased As
 Public Utilities

PHOENlX. Jan. 3l.-While the leg islature was engaged today with a mass of legislation including cor tain amount of attention which the house paid to the day of rest and anti dancing bills, the state auditors of flee was engaged in a computation of the expense of the legislature snd af- terward announced that the present legislature was more economical in the matter of attaches than that of 1919, The attache salary roll in 1919 amounted to s2.632 a week. it was said, while the 1921 legislature has kept the payroll down to S2446. em- ploying 65 persons as against Fl who were employed in 1919.
 The senate. under suspension of the rules, late today passed the bill barring from land ownership certain classes of Orientals non-eligible to citizenship. Not withstanding some opposition. the house. in committee of the whole, this afternoon recom- mended for passage the bill to class cotton gins as public utilities. The vote was 25 to r.. Representative. 2. F A. Kimball. Pima county. eS3lain- ed his opposition. saying he was against placing the gins in the hands of the corporation commission. which, he said. invariably increased rates on the application Of corporations. In reply to an inquiry by Representative John P. Wylie. Cochise county. Rep resentatiye D. F. Jones. Asricopa. said control of the stock of the gins was held by great rubber companies. Representative O. D. Betts urged the law be given a trial to ascertain whether cotton growers really had a we'll founded grievance concerning the way the gins had been conducted.
 The house committee of the whole voted, 25 to 12. to table the bill ex- tending S5.000 relief to the widow of c. NJ. Spangler, town marshal of Tempe. killed In performance of his duty. In the course of debate 1t was stated that If this bill passed. others of similar character from at least two counties would be offered.
 The office creating the office of county school superintendent and deputy superintendent has been re- turned by the standing committee with an unfavorable recommendation but when it's author. Representative w.. Curtis Miller. Yavapai. explained there was no adequate supervision of schools in the larger counties and could be none under the present sys- tenn. sentiment changed and the com mittee of the whole recommended the bill for passage.
 The committee of the whole also recommended for passage the bill amending the law relative to widows exemption from taxation. The bill providing for state burial of deceased honorably discharged soldiers. sailors and marines were favorably reported as was also the bill remodeling the salaries of officers of Apache county. The bill relating to division of coun- ties into supervisal districts was sent back to the committee on counties and county affairs. ~
 The senate this afternoon passed the following bills:
 The bill effecting a change In the law relating to articles of iRcorpor- ation to permit churches and frater- nal organizations to change their articles without first disineorporating.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
Unions File charaes

CHICAGO, Jan. 3l.-President Will son WAS asked tonight by represents tives of seven labor unions to inves- tigate the statement of Brigadfer General W. W. Atterbury. of the Pennsylvania Lines. that the roads must have wage establishments or be in danger of bankruptcy and il the statement were found true, to place the matter before congress and ask that body to enact remedial legisls' tion immediately.
 The union leaders. however. in a message to the president declared they did not believe the roads to be in the financial condition outlined by General Atterbury. They charged that he had. by delivering what they termed "an ultimatum" to the labor board, violated all decent proprie- ties, disregarded the transportation act and flouted existing agencies such as the Interstate Commerce. Commis. sion and even congress itself"
 General Atterbury's obvious policy. the telegram said. was ito disrupt the labor unions. turn. public opinion against the employees and place wages on a pre-war basis so that railway profits may be enhanced when pros perity returned" The shipper would have to pay increased rates and the laborer would be exploited. if General Atterbury had his WAY, the union men declared.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
RouGh oN ROBBERS

DOVER. Del. Jan. Sl.-The Della. ware state senate today passed bm making the penalty for highway rob bery forty lashes on the bare back. not less than % years imprisonment and fine of $500 The vote was m. animous.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01

There was a young lad named Katish Exceedingly fond of good fish
 "Oh gee. how I pine.
 For a good hook and line" A Want Ad will bring true his wish Phone 39 for Want Ads.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
WILL Ls0N TURNS DOWN REQUEST
 THAT DEbS BE
 GIVEN LIBERTY
Denies Justice Department Officials Suggestion
 For Communication
ACTION NO SURPRISE
Executive Refuses To Give Socialist Consideration
 Above Other Prisoners

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3l.z- Recon. mendation by the department of jus tice that the l0-year sentence of Flu gene V. Debs. long a prominent 'So- cialist leader and now serving a lO- year sentence at Atlanta for violation of the wartime espionage laws be commuted, effective February 12. Lincoln's birthday, was rejected to- day, by President Wilson and commu- tation refused.
 The presidents decision came as no surprise because of his previous refusals to intervene on the ground that Debs had sought to handicap the government through opposition to the selective service act and that the granting of clemency might induce similar tactics on the part of others in the event of another war.
 The case was reviewed by a spe- cial board and their findings were en- dorsed by Attorney General Palmer. The findings are understood to have pointed out that Debs would be eligi- ble for--paroie August II. 1922. and that his sentence. in case of good he hayior, would expire December 28. 1925.
 The recommendation is understood to have suggested that Dehs had been adequately punished. He waE i'm prisoned June 15. 1919.
 Petitions were presented several months ago by union labor and So cialist leaders asking for he release of the man. now 66 years old. who four times has been a candidate for president The case has been con sistently and bitterly fought in and out of the courts ever since Septem- Der F 1918. The case was appealed to the supreme court which sustained the lower court on March 10, 1919.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-01
Debs is Silent

ATLANTA. Ga. Jan. 31.- Eugene V. Debs. in the federal prison. ex- pressed pleasure today on receiving the news Of the decision of the Unit cd States supreme court. in the case of Victor l.. Berger and four other Socialist leaders. but declined to make any comment on President Will sons refusal to commute his sentence
 Discussing the decision. Debs said that the reversal will have a whole some effect"
 '1 didn't see how anything else could happen when the supreme court reviewed all the facts in the case. the statement continued