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Bisbee daily review., 1922-03-17
WILL D|SPERSE FLOOD SCARES;
 WATER ENOUGH
 FUR ALL PLANS
Hoover to Recommend Dam Project; Other Speakers
 Voice Approval of Plan
COST TO BE $45, 5,OOO, GOO
Davis Declares Water Enough to Provide For Every
 Irrigation Project

PHOENIX. AriZ. Mar. IG.-Secrs- tary of Commerce Hoover. speaking at dinner here tonight, declared he was prepared |, to recommend the Boulder Canyon dam project.
 When engineers Of the status Of Arthur P. Davis say that dam is prac ticable. and that it will not encroach upon the rights of any of the seven states involved, I am prepared to adopt that dam, Secretary Hoover as- serted
 Davis is director of the government reclamation service.
 The Colorado river commissioners also were guests at the dinner.
 Report Before Congress
 The report of Reclamation Director Davis, endorsed tonight by Secretary Hooves, describes the Boulder Can yon dam site as the most feasible site for control of the lower Colorado.
 Based on extensive studies. Davis report, which now is before congress, estimates that the cost of the dam with a flow line at 1230 feet, would be about S45.OO0000. This would have a storage capacity of about 2l.- 100000 acre feet.
 speakers Endorse Plan
 Speakers before the Colorado river commission here today voiced unani- nous approval of the Davis plan for development of the Colorado river.
 One Of the outstanding recommen- dations of this plan, which has been submitted to congress, is the con struction at once of the Boulder Can yon dam to forestall possible destruc- tion of the Imperial and Yuma valleys by flood waters.
 Arthur P. Davis. director of the government reclamation service. was present at the session and outlined his plan to the commission. He de- clared there is enough water in the Colorado river to provide for every feasible irrigation project in the 'sey- en states of the Colorado basin.
 The question of the allocation O water and the priority to use of the Colorado's undeveloped resources among the seven basin states remain ed in the background today. while speakers emphasized the flood dan ger menacing the lmperia l and Yu- ma valleys.
 Willing to Waive Rights
 After several southern California speakers had asserted they were will ing to waive all prior rights to water even for a period of years. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who is presid- ing over the hearings, remarked that construction of the Boulder project may mean an agreement among the basin states to "20 year legal holi- day"
 Professor A. P. Smith, an engineer ing expert of the University Of Arizo- na, declared that the flood peril must be removed.
 William Mulholland. engineer of the Los Angeles public service com
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F0RDNEY STILL
 DETERMINED TO
 BRING UP BONUS
If Gillette Against Suspension of Rules, to Bring Up Bill
 Under Special Rule
2 NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Member Circulates Petition :; Fordney Files Report on
 Compromise Bill

WASHINGTON, Mar. 16. - There were just two developments today in the soldiers bonus muddle. One was the filing by Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee, of the majority report on the compromise bill, which was estimated to cost the government total of S4,09S, 1850. The other was the circulation of a petition by Representative Lieberger, of California, a former service man, for conference of house Republicans for next Tuesday evening to discuss the bonus legislation.
 Lineberger announced tonight that there were 60 signatures to the peti- tion, or 10 more than the number re- quired under the rules for confer ence call. He said, however, that he hoped it would not be necessary to present the petition to Representative Towner. chairman of the Republican house organization. Its presentation. he added. would depend upon the out come of the conference between house leaders and Speaker Gillett rgarding procedure for the calling up of the bill on the floor.
 If there is a decision at that con- ference to consider the bill under a suspension of the rules, Lineberger said, the petition would be presented. There was some speculation as to
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PLEA THAT WAR TIME PRISONERS BE FREE OPPOSED
Various Bodies Seek to Have President Consider Liberty
 for Long Term Offenders
CLASH WITH MEMBERS
Committee Refuses to Lister to Criticisms of Harding
 and Attorney General

WASHINGTON, Mar. 16.-In the face of apparent and outspoken op- position, lawyers and representatives of various liberal organizations plead cd with the house judiciary committee today to report a resolution asking the president to give careful con- sideration" to the proprieiy of grant ing immediate amnesty to 113 politi- cal prisoners serving long terms for violation of the espionage act.
 Committeeman indicated that th resolution would not pass, insisting that congress had no right to direct the president in such matters, espec- tally because of the lack of opportun- ity to review the cases. Gilbert F.. Roe, an attorney Of New York, who advocated the general principle of ann nesty, said when questioned that he saw no impropriety in requesting the president, the attorney general and the secretary of war to look into the appeals because "the resolution seems as harmless as the four power treaty"
 Speaking for the American Fedora Nticn of Labor, Edgar Wallace declar> that war laws were necessary. that, they should have been enforced, bu' now in peace times there was no good reason for keeping war time offenders in jail
 There were many clashes between members of the committee and witne Ses. Representative Yates, Republi- can, Illinois. charged that representa- tive London, Socialist, New York, au- thor of the resolution, who declared he would free men convicted of violence if tbav did Sn hagauSa Of a daan TO- ligious feeling, of advocating violenc which London was quick to deny.
 Another verbal clash centeTed abcu. Harry Weinberg, New York lawyer. one time counsel for Grover Cleave- land Bergdoll, the draft dodger, who added that he had nothing what ever to do with Bergdoii-s escape" In a tilt with representative Reavis, Republican Nebraska, Weinberg said he would express his opinion on po- litical and economic conditions at any place, despite the supreme court of the United States"
 Referring to the release of some offenders, Weinberg charged that one obtained his liberty through the in- tercession of the Italian ambassador, and some of his comment drew from members the reminder that they would not sit there and hear the pres ident and the attorney general crit icised. This was after the lawyer had stated that one of the men in whose behalf he had appealed did not get out because he did not happen to be "a trust magnate". Weinberg denied
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J. {. LABOR WILL
 SUPPORT MINERS IN CONTROVERSY
Gompers Declares American Labor Will Back Mine
 Workers to Limit
SAY THEIR CAUSE JUST
Government Convinced Moth ing More Can Be Done to
 Avert Threatened Strike

WASHINGTON. Mar. 1G.-Bitumin- ous coal miners who have voted to cease work April l, come what may, will have the support of the American labor movement in their struggle President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, said in a state ment tonight. Coal mine owners, "boInd by solem agreement to confer with the workers upon the terms Of their own pledge, he declared, add ing that mo group of employers in any industrial controversy in this country has ever placed itself in a more indefensible position"
 "The citizenship of America can draw from this conduct but one con clusion,' GOmpers continued, and that the, pledge of the mine owners break their own word if, by so doing, they can reduce wages or weaken
 union.
 Profits and power with the mine owners come first. The United Mine Workers of America have an her able record of agreements honorably kept. The industry for 20 years has been conducted upon the basis of ne gotiations and joint agreement. The mine workers lave met every demand made in those agreements. What they ask now is negotiations and a.. reement. The thing they want least of all Is to be compelled to cease work as final protest against the dishonor of employers. The cause of the min. CTS is just and in that just cause they will have the united and answering support of the great labor movement of our country"
 No action was taken today by the government affecting the prol,ahle break in the industry and officiai5 conversant with the situation annear- ed convinced that nothing more should be done to adjust the disagreement in advance of its final development.
 J. A. Morrow, vice president of the National Coal Association, made pub lie tonight copies of a letter he has addressed to John L. Lewis, presiden' of the United Mine Workers, com that the union had sent broadcast" erroneous versions of tes- timony given by coal witnesses seek ing railroad rate reductions before the ntarstate commerce commission.
 h1orrow declared he had never tes- tified that average selling prices Of coal were $10.50 during 1891, out of which the miners received $1.97, as labor cost. but had fixed the total cost of mining bituminous coal during October as averaging $2 59 per ton,, against an average selling price received by mine operators of $2.73.
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Three bills were reported out by the senate committee on style. reviS- ion and compilation. They were the Larson motor vehicle bill, the county classification bill, and the Kimball measure, House Bill No. 2. is for amendment of the improvement act to stimulate competition in bids for street paving.
 Among the amendments to the mo tor vehicle bill was one requiring all vehicles on public roads 10 display lights at night. Violations are pun ishable by fines of from s2 to Sl0.
 The afternoon session was devoted mostly in the committee of the whole to consideration of the financial code Several amendments to strengthen or clarify were offered and accepted.
 Three bills were introduced in the house. One by Mrs. Bush, creates a fund for paying the cost of transport ing to Arizona the states pro-rata of road making equipment which the war department has offered to dis tribute among the states.
 A senate resolution was introduced and hurried through under suspcn- sion of the rules, declaring that most of the proposed dam site of the Col oradoa river lie within Arizona. and urges Arizona representatives to de- mand the greatest possible share O. benefits when the time comes for distribution of them.
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Buries 1 of Twins Alive; Surprised
 at His Arrest

MANILA. P. l., Feb. 20.- When the grandfather of native twins born at Lagawi in the mountain province, was arrested recently for killing one of the babies In &C., cordance with the tribal custom, he was surprised and indignant at being arrested for what he consid- cred his personal and private af- fairs, says an official Philippine constabulary report.
 The destruction of one baby in the event of twins being born is an old practice and one still ob- served in certain parts of the mountain province, the report said.
 In the case cited at Lagawi, the mothers father buried the baby alive, but neighbor dug it up and cared for it until it died two months later.
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Amnesty Plea for 113 Political Offenders
Madalynne Hears Letters Read For
 Fifth Time During Her Trial; State
 Nearing Close of Final Argument
Accused Betrays Little Emotion Prosecution Haransues Jury For Her Conviction; Defense Declares Kennedy
 Was in Fear of Being Beaten Up

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 16. - Asa Reyes, deputy district attorney, was nearing the close of the final argu- ment in the trial of Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, charged with the murder Of J. Belton Kennedy, when adjourn ment was declared by Judge Sidney N. Reeve late today. Indications were Reyes would complete his address to- morrow morning and the jury would retire by noon.
 Reyes replied to defense arguments that no motive had been shown for Mrs. Obenchain to conspire with Arthur c. Burch to slay Kennedy, by declaring it had been shown she had been spurned by Kennedy He re- viewed the relations between the de- fendant and the slain man from 1917 to August 5, 1921, the date of the shooting, and read from the letters which passed between them. It was the fifth time during the trial Mrs. Obenchain heard these missives read Kennedy turned her down, not once but three times," the prosecutor de- clared.
 The jury was told that Mrs. Oben- chain held Kennedy, Burch and Ralph Obenchain ''in her grasp, and turned every one of them into love slaves"
 Speaking of Mrs. Obenchain's testi- mony, Reyes said:
 When Madalynne Obenchain tells you she never was in Burch's room while he was in Los Angeles except on one occasion, she is telling you a deliberate falsehood, and if she will lie about that, she will lie about any thing in this case"
 In opening his argument this morn ing. Reyes told the jury that there was sufficient evidence to convict
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Says Break Between
 Church and State in Italy Is Thing of Past

NEW YORK, Mar 16.-The recent ceremonies in Rome incident to the installation of Pope Plus XI should remove the least suspicion of schism between church and state in Italy, Ambassador Ricci declared tonight in an address before the Catholic So- ciety Of New York. The very fact of his. having been invited to speak before that body, he added, was evi- dence strongly in support of the hope that the legends" of the past were finally to be obliterated.
 'There is nobody in America" he said, "who would dare say that the pope is a prisoner and the Italian government his jailer since Plus XI blessed the kneeling and applauding crowd from the Loggia of St. Peter. and the representative of the royal army spontaneously asked to be among those soldiers who were to salute the pope while the notes of the royal march were heard"
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Impossible to Man All Army Posts With Small F orce---Weeks

ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla. Mar 16.- (By the Associated Press)- Secre- tary Weeks said he planned to inform the senate military affairs committee that it is impossible with a small force to man the 290 posts throughout the United States" in discussing to. day the action of the house appropri- ations committee in reporting a bill carrying considerably reduced fig. ures for the military establishment and providing for an army of 115.000 men and 11,000 officers. If the house committee figures stand. he added, 1t will mean that the forces at the ar my posts will be reduced to a point where they will consist merely of guards for the properties.
 Reduction in the personnel" he asserted. lis ehpecially unwise un- less the overhead expenses of the army is cut at least the same ratio. It now costs about $2.0OO per man per year. as against about $1,000 as be- fore the war. do not know what the present bill contains in detail. but so far as l am informed. it does nothing in reducing overhead expenses at many posts which may well be aban- dOned"
 Weeks said constant requests came to Washington for renewal of equip ment and buildings at the army posts but no expenditure Of $500 or more is allowed unless personally approved by him.
 If congress wishes to reduce army
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Mrs. Obenchain of the crime of mur- der," and said they would be false to their oaths" if they let the fact that the defendant was a woman affect the verdict
 Mrs. Obenchain watched Reyes in tently as he argued, but it was not apparent thath is statements concern ing her actions or her testimony af- fected her. She occasionally toyed with a small silver pencil.
 Jud Rush, senior counsel for the de- fense, completed his argument this morning in an eloquent plea that brought tears to Mrs. Obenchain's 8 eyes as she sat beside him. He asked the jury to return verdict that would open the barred doors for this woman who had suffered so much"
 Telling the jury that Mrs. Oben- chains testimony that she saw two roughly dressed men run from the scene of the shooting stood undisput- ed, Rush said:
 'T am sure you do not hold human life so cheap and human rights so in- distinct that you can find her testi- mony false and the mere theory of the state true"
 Rush told the jury that he was not defending Burch and that he was not required to answer the prosecutions question as to who killed Kennedy He said it was a significant fact that Kennedy feared some one long before he became engaged to Mrs. Oben- chain, and before Burch came to Los Angeles in July, 1921. To show that Kennedy realized this fear, Rush pointed out that the testimony showed Kennedy at one time had been beat en up;" that he always took some one with him when going out at night, and that he always carried a revolver.
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BRITAIN AND MEXICO
 TO ARBITRATE CLAIMS

LONDON. Mar 16.-(By the Asso- ciated Press)-Negotiatio are pro- ceeding with the Mexican govern ment for the conclusion of an agree ment for the submission to arbitra- tiou of all British claims against Mex ico. This announcement was made in the house of commons today by Cecil Harmsworth, under-secretary for foreign affairs.
 The British government, he added, was hopeful of eventual friendly re- lations between Great Britain and Mexico.
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ARBUCkLE JURY NOW C0MP MPLETED AND LOCKE ] UP
Prospective Juror Says She Was Asked Her Convictions
 When Member of Panel

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 16- The jury in the Roscoe Arbuckle case was finally completed and sworn in at the conclusion of the court session today The film comedian Is facing his third trial on a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, film actress. Four women are on the completed jury.
 Final selection of the jury was ac- complished after the defense had used eight of it's peremptory chal- lenges, and the state four.
 Superior Judge Harold Louderbach ordered the jury locked up for the period of the trial and the male iur- ors we're placed under guard of two deputies sheriffs. A matron was in charge of the women jurors.
 The jury as completed. was di- yersified one, containing a publisher, a broker. retired liquor dealer, a banker. housewives and business men Two alternatives will be chosen at the start of the Saturday session, the judge having ordered a recess over Friday in observance of St. Patrick's Day.
 A sensation wah caused in the tri- al late today when Miss May c. Shar- on, prospective juror. under exam ination, said she had been approach ed regarding her convictions in the case since she had become a member of the panel.
 She said that several days ago, a woman representing herself to be member of the Women's Protective League, had called her on the tele- phone and asked her opinion regard ing Arbuckle's guilt or innocence. She said she replied:
 If he is guilty, they are all guilty"
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Hoover Speaks Before Joint
 Session of State Legislature

PHOENIX, AriZ.. Mar. 16.- Before the greatest crowd that ever packed the house chamber in the capitol. Sec retary of Commerce Herbert Hoover delivered a 40 minute address today to the state legislature convened in joint session.
 Reviewing the trials and tribula- tions of the United States from the beginning of the world war, he de- clared the country was rapidly emerg- ing from the industrial and financial clolapse following the war. He said all Americans should strive for final solution of the economic problem.
 Speaking in subdued tones and without gestures, Hoover said he would touch upon the economic prob lem row before the American peo- pie"
 This problem" he said. lis not the basis for a1 emotional appeal. but for calm judgment and action. You in this emergency session and the con gress and officials in Washington are facing similarly the one foremost problem of public economy"
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LEADERS ASSUME
 RATIFICATION IF
 TREATY ASSURED
Opposition Campaign Still Is Waged, But Interest Wanes
 and Senate Deserted

WASHINGTON, Mar 16.--The cam paign of the irreconcilables against the four power Pacific treaty contin- ued without abatement in the senate today despite signs of waning inter- est and disposition of leaders to re- gard ratification of the pact as fore gone conclusion.
 For more than three hours. in a senate chamber which most of the time was all but deserted, Senator Reed. Democrat, Missouri, assailed both the four power and naval treat ies, which he said would fit together to put the United States in a position of 'helplessness" in the Pacific. He charged that the facts underlying the five-five three naval settlement had been misrepresented, and put into the record figures of his own designed to
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expenditures" he said, it should abolish everything not necessary for the military defense of the country"
 He said he had asked congress nine months ago for authority to dis pose of about 100 pieces of real es- tate. There are, in addition, he as- serted, number of military posts now valueless. many of them scat tered throughout the west, construct ed originally for defense against the Indians. There are still others, he continued. which contribute in no way to the nations defense.
 Reduction of the army to 115,000 men will necessitate abandonment of many posts. he said.
 We will have to take troops out of them," he said. Tt requires about 45.000 men on the border and In for. eign possessions, which would leave 10000 to garrison the remaining 25O posts. The 10000 includes aviation. quartermaster corps, medical corps, etc. so that the remainder is only about 50.000 combat troops. This is only enough to act as guards of gov, ernment property if they are to be divided among all the posts.
 '1 shall hope to have an oDportun- ity to explain the situation to the sen. ate committee and have with me the exact figures on the distribution of the army If all the posts are to be maintained"
 Weeks said the American army in Germany would be reduced to 1000 men by April 15.
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Pass Inheritance Tax Bill

The senate's most important action today was passage of the Larson in heritance tax bill by a vote of 10 to g. None of the various amendments proposed accompanied the measure.
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THE WEATHER

Arizona: Unsettled west, Eain east portion. Friday: Saturday fair, no decided change in temperature.
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-06-30
Farmers Visit
Federal Farm

Redfield, June 30---Wednesday of
this week was farmers day at the
government experimental station
Just east of Redfield. The plan to
have the farmers of Sphinx county
view the work of the station was
prompted by Percy T. Smith, county
agricultural agent.
The trip through the experimental
farm started at 9:30 in the morn
ing. each plot being labeled so that
the visiting farmers could under
stand which particular breed Of grain
or producti being grown there, and
the success or results of the var
icus experiments with different prod
uots were explained.
This experimental form Is one OF
the most elaborate of its kind main
tanned by the government anywhere
in the west and is doing good work
IN developing grains and other prod
ucts which can be grown at profit
In South Dakota.