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The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
Henry c. Wallace, y. S. Secretary Of agriculture,
Guest Of Honor Of Flagstaff Rotary Club

Flagstaff, which doesn't have an
opportunity every day to welcome
member of the presidents cabinet
though congressman are almost
weekly occurrence here-entertained
Secretary Of Agriculture Henry Can't
well Wallace at the Rotary club meet
ing on Tuesday and the brief address
he made was listened to by the MEM
bers and numerous guests of the club
with great interest.
The secretary arrived here Monday
afternoon, following short visits at
Grand Canyon and Williams.
Monday evening the secretary and
his travelling companion, William
Ashbry Jump of Maryland, budget of
ficer of the u. S. department of agri-
culture, were taken to Lowell obser-
vatory, where DIR. V. NJ. and Earl G.
Slipher showed them the planet Sat-
urn through the big telescope. In the
party were President |. B. Koch of
the Rotary club, Frank G. w. Pooler
Of Albuquerque, district forester; Su-
perintendent Ed Miller of the Coco
nino national forest; Superintendent
George Kimball of the Tusayan nat
ional forest and Bob Rhinehart of the
local forest office.
Tuesday morning the visitors were
taken to the government forest exper-
iment station at Fort Valley, where
the chief, G. A. Pearson, showed them
around. Then they visited the lava
beds. In this party were Messrs.
Pooler and Miller, County Farm Agent
Francis A. Chisholm and Marinus
Westveld of the forest service.
Following the Rotary luncheon, the
secretary and Mr.. Jump were taken
to the Greenlaw logging camp of the
Arizona Lumber & Timber Co., where
the secretary saw for the first time
in his life how logging operations
were carried on. Then they rode to
the head of Oak Greek canyon. Re-
turning, they stopped at Mercy hos
pital, where an American elm tree was
planted by Secretary Wallace and was
formally named after him.
Here Mr. Koch presented the Sec
retary with a handsome big Navajo
rug bought by himself and commit
tee from Rotary short time before
and presented on behalf of the Rotary
club and Flagstaff chamber of COM
merce as a memento of his visit here.
The secretary was greatly pleased
with the gift.
In this party were t. A. Riordan,
president of the chamber of commerce; );
Captain Harry B. Enbach, represent
ing the state cattle association; Joe G.
Dolan, general manager of the Flag
staff Lumber Co.; Paul Roberts, for
est supervisor of Holbrook; F. S.
Breen and Messrs. Koch and Pooler.
At the Rotary luncheon, following
some snappy piano music by Miss Ell
sa Myers and singing by the whole
bunch of "Out Where the West Be
gins" President Koch announced that
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
GET NICE STILL NEAR
WILLIAMS; Fl. SORRELL
IN PRELIMINARY TODAY

Prohibition Officer Hugh Anderson
and Deputy Sheriff Billy Rudd went
to the Williams country Tuesday to
hunt whiskey factories, which just
now seems to be the most popular out
door sport.
They found one, with nice 15-gal-
lon copper still, coil, mash, a little of
the finished product, etc. 1t is here
in the county Jail.
|. A. Means and Al Tilton were ar
rested and brought back here. They
were given preliminary hearing before
u. S. Commissioner Tom l.. Rees, who
released them. They happened to be
in the vicinity Of the still when it was
discovered by the officers, but indi-
cations were strongly in favor Of
their innocence of any connection with
its ownership or operation.
The next day the officers went back
and arrested Henry Sorrell. Commits
missioner Rees ordered him to appear
today at 2 o'clock for hearing, letting
him go until then on his own recog-
nizance because of the serious illness
of his wife.
The still is believed to be the one
from which "Frenchy" Bordeau, now
in Jail as told in another column, OBJ
tanned his supply for peddling. 1t
has not been developed yet whether
Bordeau was part owner of the booze
factory the officers got or merely a
commercial traveller for It,
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
FOREST FIRES

Forest fires started early this year.
The scarcity of storms during the last
few weeks, including the almost total
loss of the equinoctial storms we were
supposed to get last month, has left
the forest dry. The rain this week
will help some in preventing fires.
Last week there was fire on the
Rosa Anderson place, east of Flag
staff, which burned over 160 acres or
so. There was one on Observatory
hill a day or so before that, which
covered 12 or Is acres. 1t is believed
to have been set by lightning. Then,
on Sunday, there was one in Fort
Valley. None of these did any great
damage to standing timber, the loss
being chiefly in the seeding pines.
Fire Chief Nichols of the forest
service hopes campers and picnic par
ties will be very. careful with camp
fires, cigarettes and matches, because
the slightest carelessness may start a
forest fire that will do many thou
sands of dollars worth of damage.
Every forest fire is harmful to
Flaggtaff's prosperity.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
SHERIFF HAS NEW WAY
TO GET CONVICTIONS IN
BOOTLECCINC CASES

Sheriff w. A. Campbell doesn't rel
ish the seeming difficulty in getting
iuries to convict in whiskey cases. SO
he's adopted a new course. Whenever
the arrest is made in town, the police
magistrate gets the case. When it is
made in the country, the national pro-
hibition enforcement officer gets it.
The sheriff has the game beaten in
that way because punishment Is al
most invariably more swift and GER
tain than when the defendant goes In
to the county superior court and a
jury gets the case.
Hugh Anderson Of Adamana, en-
forcement officer for this part of the
state, got pair of men on booze
charges in Williams this week.
Pedro Gonzales, milkman, seemed to
have lots of callers. Always they
went away more cheerful than they
came. Anderson sent couple of men
there. They bought booze. Then An
derson dropped in on the cid man. The
daughter of the family raised rum
pus. So the officer brought her in,
too.
A small amount of white moonshine
was found on the premises. But there
were Is gallon containers, each con-
tanning from one to three teaspoons
full of booze.
Gonzales admitted his guilt before
u. S. Commissioner Tom l.. Rees, and
was released in $500 bond. He said
he bought the booze from someone
who came from the southwest and
drove big green car. He will be
tried in the u. S. district court at
Prescott. The daughter was released
c.. G. Bordeau, one-time lumberjack
Of Williams, who lately has seemed to
have less arduous work, was held in
81 900 bond on Monday by Mr.. Rees.
Andersen had caught him on hill in
the main road this side of Williams.
He says Bordeau had six pint bottles
on his person, all filled with booze.
AS the officer was coming fast toward
him Bordeau, working almost as fast,
managed to smash five of the bottles,
Anderson says. And that was where
he made a mistake, for the penalty
for destroying the evidence when ar
rest is being made is punished by a
more severe penalty than in any 9th
er activity in the booze industry. The
complaint against Bordeau covered
that single point, destruction of evil
dence. Bordeau plead guilty. He is
still in jail, unable to get bail.
Anderson has seized 10 automobiles
that were engaged in transporting
booze in the less than a year since he
became prohibition enforcement of
ficer. They range all the way from a
bankers Cadillac to a bum's Ford
Only four of the cars have been re-
turned to their owners, in those cases
it having been proven that the own
ers were themselves innocent of any
knowledge of the use to which their
cars were being put.
Anderson gentle intimates that hq-
uor conditions seem to be. worse in
our neighbor to the southwest, Yav-
apai county, than in any other part
Of the state, and that unless there is
change for the better maybe soon
there will be a concerted effort on
the part of the government men to
give that county a good cleaning.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

Mr.. Davenport was here for only a
few hours, leaving again for Los An
geles.
The Santa Fe's financial interest in
the present water system amounts to
$234,000, representing money the
money the company advanced to build
the system. The city doesn't have to
take over the present system and pay
the $234,000 until 16 years from now.
1t is estimated by the engineer,
Burns & Mcdonnell, that the proposed
new 50,000,000 gallon reservoir will
cost $222,000. The necessary i'm
provements to the intake system at
the springs will cost $4,000. This
makes a total of $237,000.
This amount of $237,00 plus the
$234,000 we owe the railroad company
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

for the present system totals S471,-
O0O.
The bond attorneys say Flagstaff
has a legal right to issue water bonds
to the extent of 1896, ,00O That would
still leave US $4,000 short of the
amount needed to make the new i'm
provements and buy the present sys-
tenn from the Santa Fe.
But here is Mr.. Davenport's sug-
gestion: Flagstaff is to bond for
S395,000. The railroad company will
loan us the $4,000 needed to buy and
build. We are to pay the railroad
company back in water, at 20 cents a
thousand gallons, which is the same
price we charge the mills. The $4,000
will be paid back in that way in from
6 to 10 years.
Continued on Page Three)
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

flg1C a1Tef the IlfSC OF July.
There may be no break in the pro-
gram at all, Mr.. Wheeler said, and by
the time the first lot of money is
spent they may be in shape to keep
right on with the second Tot.
Bids for constructing the first
stretch of road will soon be called for.
1t is to be 18 feet wide, surfaced,
probably with cinder. The surfacing
is to be six inches thick.
Bids will be asked two ways - as
above, and also with the addition of
an oil binder.
Mr.. Wheeler says this is only the
start. He believes the. building will
keep on rapidly and in three years or
so, according to a program worked
out by various interests, will be fol-
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

though it was regular Rotary meet
ing, most Of the time would be devoted
to hearing an address by the disting
uished visitor. He said if Flagstaff
was we'll known in Washington it
would become, because of its climate
and other advantages, the nations
summer capital.
The nature of our resources is such,
Mr.. Koch said, as to bring US into
closer relations with the U. S. depart
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
MISREPRESENTATION
WILL LOAN CASHTODEVELOP
AND PAY MORE FOR WATER

What seems to those who heard it to be the easiest and
most feasible way of financing the development of ad
ditiona water supply for Flagstaff sketched by
George Davenport assistant engineer of the Santa Fe
railroad coast lines to number of Flagstaff men, ncud
ing the mayor city clerk councimen and members of the
Rotary club and Chamber of Commerce, at meeting
specially and huriedy called for that purpose at the city
hall at o'clock last Saturday morning
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
LITTLE BOYS DIES

Mr.. and Mrs. Abencio Anaya have
the sympathy of their many Flagstaff
friends in the death of their little son,
four years old, which occurred last
Friday, following short illness with
diphtheria. The funeral was held on
Saturday, Rev. Fr. C. Vabre official
ing. Mrs. Anaya was formerly Miss
Julia Rodriguez.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

lowed by paving Of the road. He in
tends to build the new Flagstaff An
gell road in such a way that it will
form a perfect base for paving.
The paving program, of course, is
something that the future and the
taxpayers will have to decide. Ac-
cording to the program mapped out it
includes a $20,O0O,O0O state bond is
sue and the paving of all the 7 per
cent road system within the state.
The immediate plans include new
highway bridge at Winona and an
overhead railroad crossing below Win
ona.
Mr.. Wheeler returned to Oak Greek
on Friday. There he is keeping in
touch with the government survey
now being made for the proposed
Flagstaff -Sedona highway.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

ment of agriculture than with any
other department, and that we were
singularly fortunate in having at the
head of the department a man of such
high ability and character as Secre-
tary Wallace.
Following hearty applause, Mr.
Wallace spoke. His talk was with
out attempt at oratory, simply bus
iness-like, interesting discussion of his
CONTINUED on Page Five)
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
$50 GALLON WHITE OIL TRUCK
ARRIVES FOR UNION OIL co.

B. A. Cameron, manager of the To-
cal branch of the Union Oil company,
is exceedingly proud Of the new White
550-gallon truck which arrived Sun
day night from. Phoenix. His son
Harold left Phoenix Sunday morning
at Z a. m. with the big truck.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
Mr.. AND MRS. ARTHUR A.
FOSTER TO LIVE IN PRESCOTT

Their friends here will learn with
regret that Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur A.
Foster are soon to become residents
of Prescott. Mr.. Foster begins today
in a new position he has accepted with
one Of the largest mercantile concerns
of that city.
Mrs. Foster and the children will re-
main here until the end OF the pres
ent term of school and then will join
Mr.. Foster. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Fos-
ter are prominent socially and in fra
ternal organizations-the Eastern
Star, Odd Fellows, and others and
will be missed here.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
WHEELER SAYS WORK SOON
TO BEGIN ON SURFACED
ROAD; HOPES PAVING NEXT

Government building of the Flagstaff road will
Albuquerque district engineer Of the u S. bureau of pub
lie roads who met Joe B. Ricke in Flagstaff last Friday
afternoon for short conference the proposed road
building program Between $4,000 and $4,000 OF nat
ona forest money will be spent the road between now
and July Mr. Wheeler said like amount will be spent
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Bayless return
ed Saturday from Clarkdale and the
ranch on Beaver creek, where
they spent the winter with their son
Sheldon. Mr.. Bayless says the Verde
Valley is veritable summer land now
with fruit trees in bloom and ranchers
busy with their work.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Cockroft and
little son Of Lees Ferry were Flag
staff visitors from Saturday morning
until Monday night. Mr.. Cockcroft is
varying the monotony of his work for
the Southern California Edison COM
pany by raising some fine blooded
Airedales.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

S. S. Acker returned the first of
the week from Phoenix where he had
been for few days.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
$ s$*****%%%%*%+%%s

3 Getting started is the hardest
s part of painting and vanishing.
6 After the work is done you Won
= der whv you put it off so long.
: The improved appearance and in
+ creased value of your property,
3 and the enlarged feeling of per-
+ sonal pride in your home more
!: than repay the comparatively
5 small cost of painting. And
= painting your home is long
= term investment.
s Flagstaff's Clean Up campaign
3 begins Sunday.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
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!"
; Tuberculosis and other germ
: diseases are generally brought
, about by dirt and filth. The
: germs of tuberculosis cannot live
where there is sunlight, clean
, liness and fresh air. The scrub
: bing brush, soap and water, paint
; and whitewash are deadly enc
; mics of tuberculosis. The easiest
way to get rid of the germs that
; have nested in your house. and
around your premises is: Clean
; Up and Paint Up. - National
!. tuberculosis Association.
: Flagstaff's Cleanup, Paint
: up campaign begins Sunday.
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20
AS The Sun Cartoonist Saw Him

things Hen this earth and chickens
crops from family of always farmer
will into Iowa State College at
called home for five and then went back has
and did During the time out of school
articles which him the job Of
professor his Alma "en has been writing editing, pub
professong raising prebred livestock
Back in 1920 Roosevelt advised the G. P not to
when policies which advice needed
Harding needed good live secretary of agriculture
He hoe a good smile
The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

J. c. Dolan of the Flagstaff Lum-
Der Co. left on Tuesday for a short
business trip to Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
New Aprons
30c Each

Stamped in several very
pretty designs on un-
bleached muslin. At 3oc
each.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
TrefOusse Gloves Made By Ex-
perts and of Fine Quality Skins

l6-button Chamoisette and
Chamois Suede Gloves, spear
point and two-toned embroid-
cred stitchings, in mode, CO.
vert, new gray, pearl, and
French gray. At, pair, SIPS
Suede Fabric Gauntlets, OF
and embroideries. AT
Evening star., 1923-09-30
Lunch Sets.
S1.60 Set

Stamped on fine Mt.
Melich cloth, French knot
designs, Roman cross
style, with four doillies,
at $1.69 set.
Also stamped and stem
ciled on white art cloth
in the Roman cross style,
with four napkins, al
$3.50 set.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
Stamped
Bedspreads, $1.39

Stamped on very good
quality unbleached sheet
ing. Size 72x1OS inches.
At $1.3o.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
Lamp Outft

including wire shade frames with
materials to complete shade. Greatly
reduced to close out this line. Sl.o9
outfit for $I.OO; $l4 and SIS outfit for
$500.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
Tan NeedIework

Stamped Table Runners at 800.
Stamped Pillow Tops with back, 39c.
Stamped 36-inch Center at soc.
Palais Royal-Main Floor.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
13=Piece Jap Lunch Sets

consists of one 24-inch center, six
1O-inch doillies and six 6-inch doillies.
At 75c set.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
Grade Silks Is Creating
the Latest Arrivals is:

Rich Moire Silks, in practical
colors, at $40 yard.
Then there are the rich pile
fabrics that are replicas of the genuine
fur, very smart for Jacquettes and
Wraps, prices range from $5.oS to SLABS
yard.
New Wool Coatings i'm wonder
full variety, comprising Krimmer, b.
livia, Kapella, Lustrosa, Astrakhan,
Camels Hair, Plaid backs, Velours,
Zibelines, Monotone plaids and stripes,
at prices ranging from $2.9S to SLIPS
yard.
Palais Royal-seeend Floor.
Evening star., 1923-09-30

Brocades, in
! shades, $3.9S to
bs Crepe Satin
krticular mention
Pubtedly one of
combine with the
Elvets, over 20
bse from. Priced
lrd.
brics of Silver
fh, Broche Velvet
kn& Imprime at
| %.oS to $1,000
Evening star., 1923-09-30
Bedspread Fringe, Csc Grade
at zoe Yard

Pearl Crochet Cotton, all coiors, nice
for light weight slippers, zoe ball.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
Not a Moment Too Early to
Start Your Art NeedleW0rk!
Piowcases That Regularly Sell for $125 Now SOC Pair
Beautiful designs stamped excellent quality tubing pair
Polly Prim Aprons
$l.39

Regularly $1.5O. Made
up and stamped on excel
lent quality white art
cloth. At $I.39 each.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
Dresser Scarfs, Csc

trimmed variety combined with h and uy
A Sc each.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
Csc Tea Towels
23c Each

Stamped on Uni o n
toweling, blue striped
border. New and appro-
pirate designs. At z3c
each.
Evening star., 1923-09-30
me to Think of Making
Outing Flannel, Soc Yd.

Imperial brand. Extra fine and heavy,
shovn in a beautiful line of stripes and
checks. u inches wide. At SOC yard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-30
COURT RULES CHINESE
 GAME NOT GAMBLING
Despite This Fact, Fortunes May
 Be Won And Lost In It

MANILA, Sept. 29.-Mah-Jongg. the great Chinese fame of dominoes' IS not game of chance. A competent court of the land has ruled thus, and 1t is so ordered.
 The above decision was rendered in case against Teo Tong, Lee Loy, So Chee and Kuong Chang, all Chi nese, arrested on the charge ot gam bling. The case came before Judge Manuel " Moran, who based hts de- cision on the case of the United States vs. Liong-sin In his recision how ever, Judge Moran regrets the fact that local authorities have not ap- proved any measure regulating the game, as he believes that Mah-JongS is a game in which 1ortuEcs may bo won and lost.
 Judge Moran makes a leng hy an alysis Of the game in Which h$ says that while the elemen. of luclt pi@yS an imI ortant part in the winning oe the hand, the game ih itself g oEe of ability rather than luck. He con- ciudes that the elements of luck IS 1 limited, and as the game advances this element Is more and more re- duced by the proficiency of the play CT.
 Ills conclusion that in Mah-Jongg fortunes may be won or lost is based on a story in which it is related that four wealthy Chinese once played the game, wagering a grain of rice for each title. The player playing East Wind the story runs. put over a master stroke by virtue of which his three opponents and their de- scendants for three generations had to cultivate 1000 hectares (2,50l acresj of land planted to rice in order to pay what East Wind had won.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-30
CANCELLATION OF WAR DEBTS IS PROPOSED
American Financiers To Start Ma
 tionaI Campaign To That Effect

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 29.- A determined effort is obe made by leading American flnanclers to put through the recommendation or inc American Bankers association in conference here, that America cancel inc European war debts to this coun- try. Walter N. Head, newly elected "Granger president" Of the Amerl- can Bankers association, and hlm- self a middle westerner, from Omaha, will have charge of the campaign.
 The movement will be nationwide, looking to the ultimate cancellation total or in part of the allied debts, if in the opinion of the debt fund, ing commission such action would tend to restore peace in Europe, and so stabilize economic conditions across the Atlantic as to bring about an improvement in American trade.
 Leading members of the bankers Ever the fact that the balance of e9ade for the first time since 1914 is now running against this coun- try, and they are convinced that this adverse balance twill continue to grow unless sonse method is de- vised for the settlement of the repa- rations question.
 They believe that if France were relieved of paying what she owes to Great Britain and the United States she would be willing to ac- cept for reparations a sum which Germany would be willing to pay, and that thereby Europe can be started on the road to normalcy.
 Leaders in the bankers associa- tion are hopeful that the campaign of education which they will in- augurate will develop public senti- ment which will justify the debt funding commission in making an immediate informal inquiry Into the reparations question and be prepared to make definite recommendations to Congress early in the coming ses- <;1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-30
AMERICA INVITED BY LEAGUE TO HELP DRAF I ARMS PACT
United States Also Asked Not To Increase Armament
 Budget For Time

GENEVA, sepr. 29.-The United States was invited today by the League of Nations to participate in the drafting of new convention regulating traffic in arms.
 $ The convention Is to be part of the leagues general scheme for universal disarmament, which took practical form today with approval by the as semblY of a draft of Lord Robert Cecils mutual guarantees pact.
 The league also voted to request the United States in common with other nations not to increase arma- ment budgets during the period while the lehgue is perfecting and launch ing it's universal peace plan.
 An atmosphere Of thrills such as the league has been anticipating for four years accompanied the birth to- day of the peace baby.
 Even while he was rendering ob- jections in the name of M. Poincars to certain advantages that would ac- crue to Germany under the universal guarantee scheme Bebrun. delegate of France, declaring the treaty would form the keystone of the worlds future peace and security, and that Lord Robert Cecil as it's originator, would go down into history as one Of humanity's greatest benefactors.
 Under the leagues scheme there are to be general mutual defense treaties and separate little guarantee pacts such as France desires. Both the general and group treaties would be under control of the league council.
 The general treaty is to become ef- fective as soon as it is signed by five European states including three of the permanent member nations of the council, France, England and Italy. It is to become effective in Asia as soon as two nations, one a member of the league council Japan-have accepted it.