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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
TURKS CLAIM FRANCE
Is PREPARING FOR WAR

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 15.-
Turkish officials claim France is
concentrating military airplanes at
Alexandretta and Aleppo, in north
ern Syria, said a dispatch from An
CORA today. According to the Turks
the French are erecting barricadIS
with barbed wire entanglements and
are making other preparations for
warfare.
Turkey is demanding the evacua-
ton of Syrian soil for which the
French hold a mandate, but the
Turks deny that they have concen-
trated any troops in that region as
claimed by the French.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
WATERS RACE THROUGH STREETS.
(By international News service.)

(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, May 15.-Hot Springs, Ark, city of
$1,000, with large tourist population, today is
scene of INDISPENSABLE confusion, with FIRE consum
ing its buildings and food waters racing through the
streets.
Wire communication with the stricken city is en-
tirely cut off and only fragmentary reports of the
disaster could be gathered early today by Interna-
tional News Service shaky wires to Oklahoma
and Tennessee towns. Many lives are reported to
have been lost and damage is appalling
TERRIBLE FLOOD, SAYS WIRE.
At dawn the St. Louis headquarters of the American
Red Cross received the following message from the Red
Cross representative in Hot Springs:
Terrible flood and fire. Damage ndescribable Will
need immediate assistance"
National headquarters at Washington Immediately
advised of the towns desperate plight, according
William Baxter, jr, the ST. Louis Red Cross representa-
tive and directed that effort be spared to relief
to the town.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to send Henry Baker
a representative of the Red Cross from ST. Louis
train which will reach the Arkansas resort tonight Ear
lier plans to airplane were abandoned.
HIGH WIND FANS FLAMES.
At dawn a high wind reported blowing through
the of the city aftermath OF the cloudburst
Flames being driven before it in raging furnace
The Marquette Hotel and the Marquette block,
business structure adjoining reported consumed by
the flames Some believed to have lost their
lives fleeing from the buildings
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
HAGEN SHOOTS
T. 70 ON LINKS
At LEEDS
Sarazen Gets rs in Qualifying
Round of Yorkshire
News Tourney.

LEEDS, England, May Is
Walter Hagen. of New York, British
open golf champion, scored a 10 in
the qualifying rounds of the York
shire News tournaments today
Hagen's score was the third best
turned in Of the early starters, X
G. Wilson being in the lead with
a 68.
Gene SaraZen, American open
champion, turned in a rs for his
first appearance on a foreign
course. He played we'll on the out
going journey, but after the turn
for home he experienced difficulty
in his putting and driving. On the
other hand, Hagen played the last
seven holes in three under As.
Joe kirkwood, the Australian
champion, turned in a 70.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15

The conference included Samuel
Gompers and other representatives
of mems labor organizations and
Miss Ethel Smith and Miss Rose
Schneiderman and other leading
representatives of labor organiZa-
tons of women. 1t also included
representatives of the public, - h
as f. p. Costigan, of the United
States Tariff Commission; Father
Ryan and other clergymen.
The chief task of the conference
was to consider the wording of a
proposed minimum-wage constitu-
tional amendment. This wording is
so designed as to overcome the re-
cent decision of the United States
Supreme Court and permit the en-.
acting of minimum wage laws.
Some members of the conference
Continued on Page %, Column ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
French Ex-President Dies.

PARIS, May I'm. Freycinet
former premier of France, died to-
day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
MONOPOLY
IN SUGAR
HERE
Commerce Department Finds
Americans Have Control Of
Cuban Trade.
BY ROBERT S. THORNBURGH,
international News Service.

Dy MODLhA 0s lhOMINDOAsAAAA5
international News service.
Important and startling facts
bearing on the alleged sugar
monopoly and the recent boost
in prices, which have already
cost American housewives thou
sands Of dollars, have been
secured by Department of Com
meree agents investigating the
situation In Cuba, it was learned
today from official sources,
VI Control Is in u. s.
InformatioR obtained showing ex-
.actly who are in control of sugar,
valuable information in fixing re.
sponsibifity for the rise in pr Se,
has been turned over TO the Dep - /.
ment OF Justice, with which the
Department Of Commerce. is CO.
operating
The real control of many of the
Cuban plantations, which produce
big percentage Of the world cane
crop, have been traced to this coun.
try, it was stated. ~.
Evidence so far obtained in the
Cuban investigation has shown of.
ficials that any probe which brings
out the actual facts and develops
responsibility for conditions in the
market will have to be conducted
in New York and other financial
centers Of the United States, Off.
Gals declared.
The Department of Commerce
working with funds available from
the $500 900 congressional appropri-
alton authorized for the probe o1
monopolies, sources OF supply and
markets for raw materials produced
abroad and used in this country
was said to be "in close touch
with the sugar situation in Cuba
and the United States" Within
two weeks it was intimated some
startling disclosures might be made
public.
Yield Uncertain.
The Department of Commerce
agents in Cuba are keeping a close
watch on the harvesting of the
new crop, but it was admitted that
until the sugar is actually in bar
rels no reliable figure on the yield
will be available.
Control and operation policies OF
the Cuban plantations are also un
der investigation, the information
obtained being made available tc
the Department Of Justice.
While the present abnormal con
ditions in the sugar market are
getting the principal attention just
now. it was indicated the De
partment Of Commerce would con
tinue a close study Of sugar pro
duction. refining and marketing to
bring about permanent preventa
tives. If possible, against monopoly
and what are regarded as un
justifiabfe price boosts.
This study, along with that OF
rubber. sisal, nitrates and other
raw commodities, is aimed al
American independence from for
eign producers of raw material
Legislative steps to prevent un
scrupulous American capitalists
from dominating American raw ma
ter:al markets, under the cloak OF
apparent foreign producers, are be
Ing framed for the next Congress
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
C[0UDBUR5T5 DE[UGE
STREETS; LIGHTNING
FIRES BUILDINGS
(By international News service.)

Il 80. (By International News SeFVce)
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 15.-Seventeen persons are
known to have been killed and q large number Of
Others are missing at Hot Springs, Ark, following
the food and fires there early today, according to
telegram to William NJ. Baxter, jr, director Of the
American Red Cross. The telegram said search for
additional dead is being pushed forward rapidly
The general Offices Of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way here early today received word from train
dispatcher at Hot Springs that the FIRE believed
TO have been brought under control, but the mes-
sage was fragmentary and indefinite that il was
not accepted as entirely authentic.
Two representatives Of the Red Cross left here
this morning on . special train for Hot Springs,
Ark, to render aid to the city 2
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
FRENCH BALoONIST WINS
AERO CLUB RACE HONORs

PARIS, May 15.-The French
baloonist, Moineau, won the Grand
Prix of the French Aero Club in
the international sperical balloon
race which started Sunday, the
Aero Club announced today.
Moineau travelled approximately
1877 miles under adverse weather
conditions. The Belgian baloonist,
Veenstra, reported that he landed
near Chalons Sur Marine at o'clock
Sunday night
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN
FOUND DEAD IN WATER

NEW YORK. May 15.-The body
OF an unidentified woman, appar-
emily about twenty-three years old
was FOUND just inside the surf line
on Long Beach today. She had been
dead about an hour, police said.
The body was fully clothed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
CRIES SAVE GIRL OF 8;
HER ABDUcTOR is HELD

NEW YORK, May 15.-Frederick
g. Allen, forty-five years old, a
salesman, was arrested and held
without bail yesterday, charged
with kidnapping eight-year-old Stella
Woverobitz from her home in New
ark, N. J. The cries of the little
girl that she wanted to go home
attracted the attention of a detec.
tive as Allen was leading her into
a house at Third avenue and Nine
ty-fifth street. Stella told the Of
ficer that Allen had found her play
ing in front Of her home and offered
TO give her an ice cream party.
Allen said he had brought the
girl TO New York because he loved
chilI~sn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
REVISED BORDER TREATY
SENT BY U. S. TO OTTOWA

A modernized version of the
Flush Bagot treaty, by which the
United States and Canada agree to
limit military and naval armament
along the border, has been com.
municated to the Ottawa govern
ment for it's consideration, it was
announced at the State Department
today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
COMMUNICATION cur orr.

MEMPHIS Tenn, May 15.-EfForts 70 commune
cate with Hot Syringe, Ark, by land failed today
when automobiles sent toward the flooded city krom
here were compelled to turn back. All bridges In
the neighborhood of Hot Springs either down or
impossible, the motorists reported. A message from
Little Rock said attempts being made 10
dispatch an airpane from there. Efforts also
being made to communicate by wireless 49,.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15

What the loss of life may
be from the rushing flood
waters is probIematical. It
may run into large figures
or it may be very small.
Scores Of automobiles are
known to have been caught
in Central avenue, one Of
the princi pal business
streets of the city when the
flood was at its height.
PASSENGERS STALLED.
Long distance communica-
ton here said the tracks of
the Missouri Pacific railway
were swept away for q dis
lance of four miles beyond the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
LABOR STARTS BATTLE FOR
MINIMUM WAGE LAWS

The National Minimum Wage Conference opened here
day and it accompanied by doubedged attack the
economic theories of Socialism and the theories of
the United States Supreme Court by Dr. John A. Ryan,
professor of moral theology in the Catholic University of
Washington and director of the social department the
National Catholic Welfare Council of the United States
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15
FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY
GREAT ESSEN DYE WORKS

ESSEN, May 15.-French troops
today occupied the Badische Anilin
Works, the biggest chemical and
dye works in Europe.
Evening star., 1923-05-17
Porch or Drop Curtains

To match the above window or door
swnius'' rs,ana = 8 feet wide. Special $4.37 ]
Made of hand painted green and white
striped duck, with grommets at top and
heavy poles at bottom. Also ropes and
all fixtures ready to hang.
Other sizes priced accordingly-
Evening star., 1923-05-17
High.Crnde Window or
Door AtUnings

Extra :, special Friday $1.04
Made of hand painted green and white
striped duck mounted on flexible steel
frames. Complete with fixtures to hang.
Size 80 inches wide to fit spaces % to
81 inches wide.
Other sizes priced accordingly.
&c. 42 and 4S inches wide,
to At spaces 81 to 80 inches $z.45
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
Eat at Bender's All-American cafe.

Eat at Bender's All-American cafe.
All kinds of monographs and sew.
ing machines repaired. Flagstaff
Furniture company. 4-13-23
Master Marshall Wilson, who had
been spending three weeks on Al San
ford's big ranch at Seligman, returned
the first of the week.
County Assessor Billy Beeson is
having his home thoroughly remodel
ed and modernized, even to new roof
and numerous other fixings.
DR.. Eric S. Flett and John Seay mo-
tored to Prescott on Saturday, return
ing on Sunday. Mr. Seay's wife and
little daughters will arrive from Pres
cott next week.
Fred S. Lusk dropped in on Mon
day from Los Angeles, partly to get a
little climate and somewhat to look
after business interests here, spending
several days visiting with old friends
and former neighbors.
L. A. Van Deren came up on Mon
day from his Sedona fruit ranch,
bringing along load of peaches. lie
says the road to the top of Schnebl,ay
hill has been much improved by the
county road forces, about 20 miles
having beer worked over so far.
Lloyd F. Jones, who last week sold
his interest in the Talxit-N-Pay groc-
cry, left on Tuesday in his car for
Phoenix, where he will enter his faith
er's law offices. His parents, intrie;-
ued by our delightful climate, are RI
naming in Flagstaff for few days
longer.
Mrs. James F. McCarroll Of Baton
Rouge, La, mother of George Al.
Fleming of Flagstaff, arrived here Oh
Saturday for Los Angeles, and thea
will visit Alaska in the course of all
extended tour. This is Mrs. McCar-
rolls fourth visit here, where she has
many warm friends.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lindblonl OF
Williams and the following Flagstaff
people were among those who visited
| the fish at Mormon Lake on Sunday;
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Albers, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Hillebrandt, Mrs. P. W,
Longfellow, Harold Longfellow, Mr..
and Mrs. P. H. Nelson, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. T. w. Coulter.
Howard Carter of Kansas City
brother of Mrs. r. H. Simpson, arriv-
ed ON Monday for brief visit. Mrs,
Simpsons brother-in-law, Walter
James of Beloit, Kans., who had beer
here a week or so, and the Simpsons
motored to Grand Canyon on Tuesday
returning next day, when the two Wis.
itors left for Los Angeles, to return
home over northern route.
Frank Zalesky last week bought the
Sam Black ranch, near the Lake Mary
road, southeast of, Flagstaff, and will
try out the theory that one can raise
rats and Persian cats, tanning the
rats and cats hides and selling then
| at a handsome profit, without proven
der expense inasmuch as the animals
of both genuses will subsist and was
| fat on the carcasses of each other.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
LOCAL BREVITIES
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You will enjoy what you eat at
Bender's All-American cafe.
We have Donofrio ice cream for
sale. J. C. Browns News Stand.
Just real good time for everybody
who attends the dance at Doney Park
tomorrow night. Waters orchestra.
Joe Frohmiller has joined Ed Bah
bits force of auto statesmen and is
talking convincingly of the super
merits of Fords.
Dick Bongberg is running an oil
plant at Anaheim, Calf, trying to
keep the production of gasoline up to
the increase in auto licenses.
Gilbert Sykes of the Blue Ridge
ranger station and Mr.. Young of Tue
son have been visiting at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sykes this week.
Archie Brown of Grand Canyon, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. Tom Brown OF
Flagstaff, went to Prescott the first
of the week to have a surgical oper-
alton performed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Thomas and
Mr.. Blanchard saw ten big buck deer
all in one bunch in the road at Ken
drick Park on Sunday. Moke Travis
ran up three antelope near Lake Mary
the same day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Cameron, Mrs.
Cameron's sister, Mrs. Clara Mae
Hyans and w. R. McClurken were
Grand Canyon visitors the past week.
Mrs. Hyans will leave for her home
in California or Sunday.
n
Senator A. A. Johns, president of
the Arizona Wool Growers associa-
ton, came up from Prescott on We'd
nesday and spent the day here attend
ing special meeting he had called of
the executive committee of the associ-
alton.
The will of the late Senator Hugh
E. Campbell of Flagstaff has been fill
ed for probate. All Of the property
is bequeathed to his wife, Mary E.
Campbell. His son, Daniel William
Campbell, is appointed executor with
out bond. The will is dated June g.
1923.
Elmer Jackson of this city, who is
now working in Clarkdale, and Mr.
and Mrs. Mooney and their daughter
We're Grand Canyon visitors over the
weekend, stopping here yesterday on
their way back to Clarkdale to visit
Elmer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. D.
Jackson.
Herman E. Hendrix, city superinten-
dent of schools at Mesa, and one OF
the most enthusiastic Rotarians o1
that city, arrived in Flagstaff the last
~Of last week to teach during the bal
once of fho Mor,,aal summer school
Mr. Hendrix until two years ago was Z
member of the regular faculty al
Normal and has host of friends here
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
An this time he had been thinking

All this time he had been thinking
to himself what good man he was,
turning down an attractive offer that
meant millions, for the grandee's land
had appreciated tremendously in value
and oil had been found on it.
But did his wife turn to him with
heaming countenance and tell him
what wonderful husband he was?
She did not. She looked at him
with scorn and said: $50 that was
what you were doing all that time
down there!"
Which, DR.. Monsen said, reveals a
great deal of human psychology
Fred Breen, who ended the meeting
because he is vice-president of the
club, said DR.. Monsen's experience re-
minded him of the absent-minded pro-
fessor who, when chided by his wife
because he hadn't kissed her for sew
eral months, exclaimed: How annoy
ing! l wonder what woman it is I've
been kissing!p
Ed Babbitt was chairman for the
day and to him belongs the credit for
the program, which he skidded along
with expedition, sang froid and grace
full ease.
Visiting Rotarians: Van Petten,
Tempe; Don Gilchrist, Phoenix; John
Thompson, Needles; H. E. Hendrix,
Mesa; G. c.. Hall, Winslow.
Guests, besides those mentioned
above: DR.. Oscar C. Bartlett, state en-
tomologist, Phoenix; President
Fred Lusk, Los Angeles, who got
riotous glad-hand; Austin w. Brown,
Flagstaff; L. B. Jewett, new Flag
staffian; Dean Lockwood of the Uni
versity of Arizona; v. o. Wallingford,
Phoenix; A. J.. Mitchell, Flagstaff;
Zeke Newman, Holbrook; Walter
Myers, Flagstaff.
And the excellent luncheon is to be
credited to the following ladies of the
Woman's club: Mrs. Joe P. Wilson,
chairman; Mrs. P. J. Moran, Mrs. John
Hennessy, Mrs. /. B. Koch, Miss Elsa
Myers.
Frank Chisholm was sergeant-at-
arms, Bill McClurken being out of
town, and collected fines conscientious
ly from Jimmie Lewis, whom Loren
Cress had got into deep trouble, and
Earl Slipher, who had got to the
meeting on time.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
Loh'o's Wife Dead

Bill Castro, biological survey hunt
er, and Charlie Gillham, his assistant,
who got the big lobo wolf down in the
Barney Pasture country a few days
ago, came back to town this week with
the hide of said lobo's wolf-wife. She
was nearly as large as her late la
mented and no doubt had big list
Of stock killings to her credit. The
boys also got two coyotes and bob
cat on this last trip.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03

by a Spanish grandee inland from
Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. The
grandee had an immense acreage. He
also had six daughters, ranging in
age from II to 45. None were mar
ried. Eventually the old man told
DR.. Monsen he liked him; in fact, that
the whole family liked him. So much
that any one of the girls was pre-
pared to love him. So, the doctor was
invited to take his pick of the girls,
settle there and succeed the old man.
But DR.. Monsen had wife of a
year in San Francisco. He told the
grandee about it, but the latter said
that made no never mind. He knew
that the invitation amounted to a
command. He was under constant
surveillance. He hit upon the expe-
dent of not being able to make up
his mind which of the charming ladies
to choose. And he began weekly pill
grimages to nearby town on the
bank of the lake. Eventually the
body-guard relaxed vigilance and
when he met Danish skipper of a
freighter one day he planned escape.
At midnight he embarked and the
next morning was in the Carribean
sea on the way away from there.
For long time he didn't tell his
wife anything about the grandee anc
the six maids. But one night, mellow
he told her.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
August Lindstrom Visits Old Friends

August Lindstrom, for many years
woods superintendent for the Saginaw
& Manistee Lumber company Of Will
liams, was visiting old friends in Flag
staff Saturday He has lived for a
number of years at Hemit, California,
since leaving Arizona. For the past
couple Of months has has been visit
ing his son, Charles Lindstrom, who is
now woods superintendent for the
Saginaw company. August looks as
handsome and as husky as ever in
spite of the fact that he spent quite
several very active summers and win
ters in the woods.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
Not So Profitable

There were 1868 visitors to Grand
Canyon who went down Bright Angel
trail during 1922. Coconino county
got dollar head. The custodian's
salary is $500 year. Other Bright
Angel trail expense to the county was
$1.142.55. Last year holds the record
for the number of people paying to
go down the trail. The net revenue
to the county was $4,625.45. This
amounts to four and six-tenths per
cent on 100000, the price the super
visors have fixed on the trail if it is
sold. TO the U. S. government. And
the 100000, put on road improve
ments to Grand Canyon would mean
immediate convenience to our own
people and enhanced tourist trade
greatly III excess each year of the an
nual revenue from the trail.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
Keeps Step With Train

Just another step on the gas and
he would have beaten the train up
from Phoenix. Karl A. w. Johnson,
floor finisher at the new Flagstaff
high school, left Phoenix in his car
last Friday morning just as the pas
senger train was pulling out north
bound for Ashfork 1t was z o'clock.
Coming into Flagstaff that evening at
nine, he had to stop at the Beaver
street crossing to let the train cross
ahead of him. Flagstaff and Phoenix
aren't SO very far apart, even now,
for auto owners and, with the roads
getting better each year, as they as
suredly are, it won't be long before ev-
cry car of any account will easily
make the trip in day.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
Taps for Bruin

A big black bear that had killed Sd
sheep for Pete Espiel ended his career
the other day when Charlie Miller, U.
S. predatory animal hunter, and Jack
Fuss of Flagstaff caught up with him.
They had gone out after his scalp.
Gender is wrong, because she was the
mother Of two yearling CUBS. The cubs
went up trees, but the boys were too
intent on getting the old lady to stop
for them, and they got away. They
will go after the cubs later. The old
girl weighed 500 pounds. They got
her just back of Espiel's ranch.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
Moonshine at Sunset

Sijcilo Palibo and Nestor Brigido
are in county Jail, Flagstaff, charged
with violation of Volsteadism. Deputy
United States Marshal Walker of Co
conino and Navajo counties, and Les
Hart, found Palibo, car and a quart
of booze in Sunset Pass, southeast
of Flagstaff. Hart stayed by the man,
the car and the quart, while Walker
followed from there into the wilds
and says he got to the end of the
long, long trail a-winding just in time
to find Brigido firing up still to
transmute so gallons of mash into
something better looking. They will
be taken before u. S. Commissioner
Tom L. Rees.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-03
DIR. Fordyce Located

DR.. and Mrs. ]. o. Fordyce, who
had been visiting various points along
the Pacific coast while their suite of
rooms in the Mayflower block were
being re-decorated, returned the first
of the week and are now fully installed
in their new office, with living quar-
ters in the same building. DIR. For
dyce is graduate of the Palmer
school of chiropractic at Davenport,
Iowa, and has practiced in both Iowa
and Illinois.