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Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
WHEELER BEGINS
THIRD STAGE OF
HIS CAMPAIGN
New La Toilette Wave
on Hand Is Belief of
Wheeler

: HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. l2.-
Beginning the third stage of the east
ern Independent campaign, Senator
Burton X. Wheeler rode into Penn
sylvania today on the crest of what
he believes is a new La Toilette
wave.
Three facts are recited by Arthur
Garfield Hayes, New York state
chairman, as basis for elaborate
claims of what the Progressive will
do. f
I'm half dozen cities where
polls have. been taken, La Toilette
is either ahead of the Democratic
and Republican candidate, or is run
ming close second to- Coolidge.
2-The recent shaving Of prices in
Wall Street stock markets is at
tributed to sudden fear that La Fol
lette is gaining SO much strength
that he may. be able to throw the
election into the house.
3-Sudden- activity of Republican
leaders against La Toilette, recog.
nizing him as their most formidable
opponent in some districts.
Wheeler broke the schedule of his
tour to come into Pennsylvania in
answer to urgent requests. He con-
fidently expects to run first or sec
ond nj this state where there is a
big railroad and mine labor vote.
Speaking before state conven-
tion of railroad engineers, Wheeler
challenged President Coolidge and
John w. Davis to come forward and
state what bills they favored and
those they opposed on the railroad
question.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
DAVIS PLEAS FOR /
CO-0PERATI0N.i |
WITH OLD WORLD
Speaks Against the
FOrdney-McC Cumber
Tariff Law
BY FRASER EDWARDS
United Press Staff Correspondent)

NOElted PfeS5 starr correspondent
, DENVER, Sept. IL. Defense
Day, bringing memories of the great
war to the thousands of American
homes, found John w, Davis, Demo-
cratic standard bearer, taking ,lf
the crusade for the League Of Ma,
tions where Woodrow Wilson leH
off.
In the same hall-the municipal
auditorium--where Wilson. spoke
last as a'wea man, Davis departed
from his speech on western prob
lens to lift the torch of the former
leader of democracy. ..-....,s,ssg
With a throb in his voice that
was new to his campaigning, the
Democratic candidate made an ap-
peal for cooperation with Europe
that set all Denver talking today as
nothing else in, his speech did. :.
Davis chose the method of the
greatest of all teachers-Christ- L
and related parable to drive home
his message to the people-an' in
dictment of the isolation policy of
the Republican party and the Ford
ney- -McCumber tariff law.
If ocean Dried UP
"Suppose, he said, :" the At
lantic ocean were to shrink and be-
come a mere thread of water be-
tween two great tracts inhabited by
human beings, and on one side there
were great wheat and great corn
fields and great herds of cattle and
of swine, so much, indeed, that those
who live on that side of the river
had fed themselves and all their
,ountrymen, and still had a vast
,urplus crowding their granaries,
md thronging through their fields.
'And on the other side of this tiny
trip of water there lived other mil
ions under-fed--and some of them
,ctually starving. ~
"And they came to this water
ide and said to the farmer with his
surplus, I'VE are hungry for your
oread, and he answered, what
nave you to giveP
Shall Not Trade
"And they said, nothing but the
abor of our hand. We have no
money. That has long since perish
ID in paper that is worthless even
o ourselves. We have no gold. You
iave almost two.thirds of all the
gold in the world on your side of
The stream We have, nothing but
he things our daily labor can pro-
luce and these we bring to you and
'e beg you to accept them for your
benefit and for our physical saliva
Jli. ,G i-.
"Then there arose demon be- /!
tween the two and said, syou shall
ivr trade.
"What would we think of him7
That is the question. And deny
here is any man or woman in the |
United States that has not the in |
-elligence to understand it,"
Encouraged by the reception he
received in Denver, Davis leaves
his afternoon for Cheyenne, Wyo., |,
where he speaks tonight, elaborat-
ng on his conservation views and
western problems. |
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
BY LUDWELL DENNY
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.-Gen.
eral John J. Pershing locks up his
desk in the War Department to-
night, after the Defense Test re.
turns are in, and officially ends
the greatest career in American
military history for several genera
tions. qal.
Sixty-four years old, today up
standing and apparently in the
prime of life, ineptable army reg.
ulations which fix that age us the
end of mans active Usefulness
have crowded him into retirement.
"'He II leave mighty big hole
around here when he goes, said
the old noncoms at the War De-
partment.
When Pershing looks at you out
of his steady blue eyes, you just
natural~ straighten-up. Persona
lity plus a leader whom men follow
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
PARADES in MANY
/. CITIES JOINING
IN DEFENSE DAY

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12.-South-
ern California joined with the ma
tion today in the national defense
test, held on the anniversary of the
st. Mihiel drive, and on the day
when General John j. Pershing,
commander Of the United States
army, reaches the age of GA and
retires.
In every city throughout the
southland, parades are being held,
or the day observed in some man
ncr to show this sections potential
strength, should ii ever be needed in
defense of the nation.
The days largest observance,
made so only by the size of the city,
is occurring in Los Angeles, where
several thousand civilian volunteers
are to march through wide gates to
the Coliseum this afternoon and lis
ten to an address by Secretary of
the Navy Wilbur ttr,f ff
The national guard units and 9th
er armed forces, with headquarters
here, will also be in the parade.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
~ : ',-.- .
WhOke'TOWn Is
Surrounded
By Fire

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 124-
The town Of Graaitcville Neva-
da County, with a population of
over 200, Is ri,iged with fire
and its fato is a mystery, for
octry service officials heIIo ad-
mittcd today. 44 .
Fire has completely rilged
the little community for 4S
hours. AL roads are blocked
by. flames and communication
has been cut off by wire. H.,
North Bloomfield, which was
threatened by fire yesterday,
has been saved with loss of one
BUILDING. The surface workings
at, the Union Bluo Mire, near
by, were burned during tho
night a l3ss of $4,000. -
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
'BLACK JACK'S' ARMY CAREER IS
OUTLINED, SPLENDID RECORD OF
UNITED STATES ARMY CHIEF TOLD

instinctivelv! There is tremendous
fire and vigor in the man. He ra-
dates will-power. His self.posses-
sion and poise are contagious.
Interested In Mn
BLACK jack is interested in
men, rather than ideas. Coupled
with this interest in people Is
native instinct for ordering their
lives. for governing. Order Is a
passion with him. Wherever he has
gone. whatever he has done, he has
gravitated to the tasks Of organiza.
tion. In his early days az military
instructor at the University Of
Nebraska, again in the Cuban cam.
paign. as a provincial governor In
the Philippines, IN France, even Ia
the postwar period--always no has
stood out as a great administrator.
one who brings order out of chaos.
Manv men can tell others what
TO do. But Perghing can make them
Continued on Page Gl
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
MICHIGAN STATE
/. is DEFINITELY
INDEPENDENT
by United Press Leased Wire

CHICAGO, Sept. 12.-By virtue
of the victory of Senator James
Couzens in the Michigan primaries,
that State is definitely in the In
dependent party territory, La Fol
lette-Wheeler headquarters here
declared in statement today.
They also announced that La
Toilette would open his active cam
paign for the presidency in a
speech in Madison Square Garden
in New York, ON September IL.
From New York he will make a
tour that will take him through
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
nois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Min
nesota and on to the Pacific coast.
He will stump the Pacific coast
down to the southwest, through the
south and up the Atlantic seaboard.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
GENERAL PERSFIlNG RETIRES FROM ARMY
National Defense
Day Pays Tribute
To War General
BY United Press Lensed Wire

By United Press Lensed Wire
WASHINGTON, Sept. H.
Defense Day should be held an
nually from new on, General
Pershing said, addressing massed
units Of the, Defense Day pa
iaue here.
Military Officers, as i a re-
suit of today's experiment, are
in position to l-u-y more in
tolligently in anticipation of the
Euxt test which might be on
shcrt notice. Pershing said,
''but which should be held not
not later than this date next
year and if possible be repeated
every year thereafter.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
Boxing Champion
is Evangelist 4. .@.... /.
Nov ..s1a. a. 4. .

by United Press Leased Wire
HAMILTON, O.,A Sept. IL.
Jack johnson, former heavy
weight boxing champion, bull
fighter, saloonkeeper, cabaret
proprietor, bus driver, actor and
financier, has turned evange-
list. 4'@ ~
The big negro will make his
debut in the pulpit of the Col
ored Baptist Church here Sep
tember 28. The subject of his
sermon will be my Exper-
ience as a Boxer 81 Ne
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
VICTORY GAINED
BY One GENERAL
IN CHINESE WAR
Miry Ground Prevents
Further War
Today
BY d. G. BESS
United Press staff Co-reepordent)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 1.-THE most
important victory to date of the
war in the Kiang Su province was
claimed today by General Lu Yung
Hsiang, who announced his troops
had captured Irsing, near Lake
Taiho and were advancing upon
Chang Chow.
The move threatens to cut the
line of Communications serving the
army of General Chi Hsieh Yuan,
Chi Ii leader, who is attacking Lu
before. Shanghai. f4s
Marking, whence Chi started AisT
march upon Shanghai, il anproteet-
ed, if LUIS army has feaHy succeed
ed in turning sfe ums4i left flank,
the Nankin9 railway is threatened.
Protection Rushed
There are many American and
foreign missionaries in Marking and
American destroyers were rushed.
up the river to protect them in the
event that LUIS army captures the
city.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
By RAY @. MARSHALL

Omitted Press staff CorreSpondent)
PEKIN, Sept. 12.- Pekin was
placed under what amounted to mar-
tlal law today by an order extend
ing the powers of the gendarmerie.
Sixty thousand troops were in
readiness to repel an invasion from
the north.
Chang Tso Lin is mobilizing his
full forces and moving southwark
from Manchuria, explaining as he
advances that this is merely cus-
tomary s'autumn maneuver.
Opposes Intervention
The Pekin government, headed bys
President Tsao Kun and maintained
by the alliance of Wu Pei Flu and
Chi Hsih Yuan, has announced it's
unalterab BILE position to any inter-
vention by the powers. 1t is will
ing to stand for the strength of the
present unifieation policy.
SHANGHAI, Sept. 2.-The rival
armies deadlocked before Shanghai
still were prevented by.miry condi-
tions underfoot from renewing their
conflict today. General Lu Yung
Hsiang visited his front.
LONDON, Sept. 12.-General Ii
NJ Il lang > second army has al
reed total of 20 mil,s in til;
.ast few days in us march north,
tne Cent.al News Shanghai cores
pondent said today, capturing Iris
ing and three strongholds of Taika
Lake.
Meanwhile, the correspondents
said, the northern front from Kwang
tu to Liuho remains virtually un-
changed.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
American Destroyers Rush to Protect City Of Nankng
Believe Flames
Are Checked at
San Gabriel NOlU
ny United Press. Leased wire

PASADENA, Sept. 12.-Coming
from the west, timely wind this
morning halted, at least for time,
the westward advance of the San
Gabriel canyon district forest fire,
and sent the flames off the west
fork and toward DEVILS canyon on
the northeast. a.
Observers ON Mount Wilson re-
ported that it is fairly clear
throughout the burning area and
they have been able to definitely
determine that the flames advance
ON the Monrovia Peak and Mount
Wilson districts has been checked.
Fifty men have taken up a posi-
ton along the western edge of the
fire, determined to prevent it from
coming down Monrovia Peak and
reaching Mount Wilson.
K, p Over 10 Mile Iarea
Although the fire is burning over
10 mile area, the usual morning
lull in the onrushing red tide was
apparent. 1t was agreed, however,
that nothing approaching control of
the flames has yet been assured
and it is feared a new advance will
come with the afternoon.
Mount Wilson observers are opti
mistic, and believe that their loca
| ttion is safe, although they are
watching closely every inch of the
fires progress.
I PASADENA, Sept. 12.-The for,
est fire raging throughout the San
Gabriel canyon district is, still out
Of control. This was the heart
breaking report received here from
the front early this morning, with
little possibility the situation will
be bettered during the day.
2 Flames ~. which late yesterday
swept. across the 17mile firebreak
as if it had never been constructed,
were today climbing rapidly into
the Monrovia watershed and around
Monrovia Peak.
Protecting Observatory
Down the slopes of Mount Wilson,
below the famous Carnegie obser-
vatory a band Of 200 men is work
ing frantically, clearing another
firebreak in an effort to halt the
fire before it reaches the priceless
instruments, should the flames
limb that high 'up. the mountain.
The world 8 largest telescope is
in the Mount Wilson observatory,
and it with other valuable equip
ment would be endangered and per.
haps ruined in event the fire is not
halted t.
The fire line on the west now ex-
tends from the east side. of Fish
westward to- Monrovia can
yon, approximately five miles, 1T
was stated. More than 40,000facres
Of valuable watershed have been
burned over since the flames start
ed ~ days ago, ignited by a match
carelessly dropped by a weekend
camper.
Major Kelly, chief of operations
of the United States forestry SER
vice of Washington, arrived here
during the night and at a. m. to-
day took personal charge of the
He Immediately start
I'd a reorganization of the fire
fighting force and planned new
inc of attack.
County supervisors will meet this:
morning in Monrovia, at which
meeting an, attempt will be made to
,btain aid from every possible
agency. y@.,es u
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
MANY JAPANESE !.
SAILORS DROWNED
DURING ACCIDENT
ny united Press Leased wire

TOXIC, Sept. l2.-Scores of Jap
anese sailors were drowned follow.
ing collision between two torpe
do boats in the Yokosuke naval
harbor at 1880 a. IN. today, accord
ing to first official reports. os'
The torpedo boats were attached
10 the warship Ragato and were
returning to the ship with eco sail
ors who had been spending the day
at Yokosuke. They collidedm and
both sank off .Togibahana Point,
practically all the sailors being
drowned. .E.p "A, %79v ~
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
MISS JACOBS WINS
ny United Press Leased wire.

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GER MIA NTOWN CRICKET CLUB
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. l2.- Miss
Helen Jacobs of California won the
national girls tennis championship
here Today The Germantown Criek
ct tclub courts by defeating Miss
Alice Francis of Spring Lake, N! j.,
in strafght sets. 90. 6.l. -.-..
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
DIES FROM JOY

NUTLEY, N. j., Sept. 12.-When
Harry Wills knocked down Luis
Firpo in the second round of their
fight last night, William II. Law
renee, listening on his radio here,
dropped dead Lawrence, his fam
lily said, was anxious that Firpo
be beaten.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-12
October 9 to Be
Celebrated, Fire
Prevention Day
ny United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.--Pres-
idcnt Coolidge, in proclamation
issued today, designated Thursday,
October 0, the fifty-third anniver-
sary of the great Chicago fire, as
national fire prevention day.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-25
IN AGAIN, orr AGAIN, IN
AGAIN--NOT FYNNEGAN

John McCarty, the man arrested
last week charged with breaking a
show window in the drug department.
at Babbitts and stealing some Indian
jewelry; then again arrested and fined
for lifting a revolver at a second hand
store, is now in county jail charged by
Babbitt BROTHERS Trading Co. with the
theft Of three pairs of shoes. Night
Marshal Black arrested McCarty on
the latter charge Saturday night and
Police Magistrate Sheffield remanded
him to the county jail for penal treat
nent. He admitted stealing the shoes,
it is said. McCarty is middle aged
and having previously borne a good
reputation the authorities are puzzled
trying to. decide what has SO suddenly
turned him into d law-breaker He
will likely be given hearing this
week. He has been working on one
of the county read gangs.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-25
STATE DISTRIBUTES IS PER
CENT FUNDS AMONG COUNTIES

Under the distribution OF that por-
ltion Of the gasoline tax for the month
Of June remitted Tuesday to Wayne
Hubbs, state treasurer, by James H.
Kerby, sec. of state, $I5,730.7i, on
one-haH OF the amount, was credited
to the Is per cent road fafnd of the
state while the re1naiiing half; was
distributed among the rs per cent
funds 0f the counties.
The total gasoline collections for
the month amounted to $B3, 1926, of
which amount $3I, ,746.33 was remit
ted directly to the county treasufers
by Mr. Kirby while the remaining
half was turned over to MIR. Hubbs
to be divided equally between the 25
per cent fund of the state and the
rs per cent fund of the counties.
s Under the distribution to the rs per
cent funds Of the counties, each fund
vas credited as follows: Apache,
$1S2.0S; Coeonino, $868.58; C0chise,
$i,711.50; Giia, $1,3B1.62; Graham,
$365,23; Greeillee, $222.9t; Maricbpa,
s5,9200S; Mohaye, $422.15; Navajo,
$717.61; Pima, 81 .692.44; Pinal, $502.-
rs; Santa Cruz, $303.98; Yavapai, ST.
425.20; Yuma, $807.35.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-25
CLAUDE VI. KNIGHT WANTS
10 BE A co. SUPERVISOR

Claude VT, Knight is THE fourth
candidate TO announce for n0fiiriAti0a
fer supervisor, District No. j, being
the third democrat to give notice OF
aspiration in that direction.
Mr., Knight IS generally and favoT'-
ably known in the EASTERN part of the
county, where this supervisoral dist
rict is located He is progressive and
combines it with other qualities thai
make him trusted and popular.
He was born in Warrensburg, Mo-.
in 1888. He came to Arizona in 1912
and to Flagstaff in 1917. He took
charge Of the equipment, transporta-
tion and road building for the Navajo
Copper Co.. and honest teaded ait Camp
1, at the farther end of Black Bill
Park, III 1913, living there ever since
handling his homestead and also
taking care of the copper company
equipment.
For 18 months onsthe border during
our trouble with Mexico, Mr.. Knight
as u. S. engineer; had charge of the
/ equipment and road work
With this experience as part of his
qualifications, and being q general
" up-to- date and aggressive man, Nh.
knight, it will be seen, needs nothing
else to qualify for the job he seeks
except the votes; and he says he is
going to get them. He announces nc
general platform. except his pledge
I to give as economical and careful adj
rnirlistratiofl of the office as is cof-
sistent with STEADY improvements oi
roads and the snaintainence Of good
schools.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-25

practicable. Ifi the schools west. of
Flagstaff weights and nleaslad 9flaeItts
have been taken for the THIRD time.
Three of the 13 schools are so far
from headquarters that they are not
being reached every month.
Weights and measurements thus far
taken show an average of more than
40 per cent of the children who are
per cent or more rnderweiqsht.
Available statistics make evident the
fact that in the country over, inclliei-
ing beth city and rural population, the
per cent of children who are 7 per
cent or more unde1weiglt, or, IN COM
mon parlance are in Danger Valley, is
about SO 1-3 per cent, CIR, about one
third of all the children in the coun-
try. If all the children who ere un-
der normal weight be included, the
percentage of course is naaich higher.
Weighing and measuring children
not only gives data useful in deter
mining actual physical conditions, but
Is the best means yet advised fcv in
terestings cildren in forming good
health habits and securing their cor
dial cooperation III learning to- eat
such foods as are essential to their
best physical development.
In northern Arizona experience has
proved to the agent that many child
rem will learn to eat foods which they
have not previously cared for, ane
some which they have positively dis
liked, in order to try to get tlleid'
weight up to normal. Moreover, their
Influence has been very effective in
they need. For example, one school
trustee IN another county, said to the
agent, MY children have been SO I'M
sistent on getting whole wheat flour
that / purchased it in another town
when it was not on the market here" !"
TO add In stimulating improvement
In health conditions health contest
has been put on in the rsiral schools
The county superintendent has offered
prize to the school which gains the
most points in proportion to its NUM-
bef of pupils, III accordance with the
following rules:
\ Pupils gain for Each time teeth arc
eleaned, one point, not to exceed four
eitlily.
Pupils lose five points each day
they have a cold.
Pupils lose-ten points each day they
are absent from school oh account of
sickness.
Pupils who do not fall below nor
NAL weight gain twenty points each
month.
Pupils who are 16 per cent above
normal weight lose ten points for each
additional one per cent on their
weight that they gaitiH s5ss
Pupils who are ufiderWeight gain as
many points as their gain iri weight
equals per cent of the pounds they
were underweight. For example, if q
child is two pounds urderweiglit and
gaifis one pound he gains fifty points,
or if he gains O1e-haH pound, he gains
twenty-fivh points
Each month that child who was
uflderweight in the beginning of the
IL
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-25
4 CALL TO THE INDEPENDENT
VOTERS OF ARIZONA

The political conventions have met.
The result Of their deliberations are
known to, all, A vote for either can
didate Of Hhe two dominant organiza-
tioiis Is only further perpetratior1 of
the long drawn out game of "Tweedle
Dee and Tweedle Dunn in so far as
the best interests of the rank and file
Of the American people are concerned.
Of all the conventions that of the
Cleveland Progressive convention was
epoeh-making in American history. II
was a decided expression of the Amerl
lean people that they intend to return,
to the form of gove ernmelt their fore
fathers left them wherein their ma.
ti0nal rights were guaranteed under
the constitution of the United States,
and they possessed certain state
rights which have been practically
eliminated at this time.
La Toilette and Wheeler are by far
the strongest ticket now before the
people. This independent ticket IS
progressive and all American in chat
acter. 1t is The desire that the Inde-
pendent vote OF Arizcra may not be
found asleep at the switch and To
prevent this, an invitation is being ex.
tended to every. independent voter OF
Arizona without regard to sex, race
or creed to be present at the House
Chamber at the state capitol building
at eight o'clock next Tuesday evening,
July 2g, 1924, for the purpose cf ftir-
tier organization of this Independent
campaign in Arizona.
/ BY order of
THE COMMITTEE.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-25
OVER HUNDRED OLD
TIMERS IN ARIZONA HOME

- -
There were 116 guests in the Pion-
eers' Home in Prescott on July 1, 1924
according to the annual report Of s.
P. Hall, superintendent of the home.
During the fiscal year, from July i
1923, to June 80, 1924, the report
shows total of % pioneers of the
state were admitted to the home
The number of guests at the home ON
June 80, 1923 was 116, Mr.. Hall
states.
OF those leaving the home during
the year, Is were called by death TO
the greater home, two were discliarg-
ed and four left on fllrloughs and
failed to return, Mr.. Hall reports.
The report shows that ON July {,
1924, there were I06 men and 10
wome.i in the home and that the
average age of all guests is rs years.