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The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
SALT RIVER MELON
CROP is ICED HERE

While a few stray carloads of can
taloupes have come through earlier
this season from the west, the real
season is now on and the trainload
lots are being pushed through for
the next five or six weeks from the
Salt river project
The early arrivals of the real crop
manifested themselves Monday in the
shape Of two train loads of canta-
loupes, total OF so cars, which iced
at the plant before going through.
One train had 38 cars and the other
AZ. Two others were up the line on
the way and it is said that for the
next five or six weeks an average of
seven trainloads of melons and fruit
will be iced here each "a hours. The
melons ale Arizona products while
much of the fruit is from California
The Santa Fe devotes about 1000
cars to handling this crop and each
car when it arrives here will neces-
state the placing of from two to two
ator.
With each car carrying a minimum
Of two tons of ice a train of 40 cars
would require 80 tons and seven
trains daily $50 tons, or more of ice
to be handled here each day This
means keeping the ice plant busy and
its storage plan supply growing lower
each day.
This flow of traffic is practically
uniform throughout the shipping sea-
son except for one day week, that
being Wednesday. The railroad men
know Wednesday as California Sun
day" They gave it that name for the
reason that fruit picking is foregone
in California on Sunday and it takes
until Wednesday for the effects to
reach here, reducing to a minimum
the freight business here on that
day.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11

Winslow presented the aspect of a
real frontier town on July Fourth,
with tribes of Indians encamped in
the town and along it's outskirts,
while scores of them walked the
streets and cow-punchers rode the
thoroughfares.
For several days those who expect
ed to participate in the various con-
tests had been making their way into
town from the ranches and reserva-
tions miles away. Indians trekked in
families from the north to Winslow,
families coming on pony, in wagons,
automobiles and all sorts of rigs that
would serve the purpose of getting
them into the place where they could
celebrate the national holiday.
Frontier events crowded the day at
the reunion grounds north and east
of the city and there was good
crowd present. Financially, the
American Legion, which sponsored the
event, made good. They paid all ex-
penses, and according to a statement
by Postmaster Kliendienst, will have
a small balance for their treasury.
The day ended with a boxing con-
test at the Kelly hall, which was
well attended, and at $50 a dance was
staged.
One disappointment was the fire
works which were to be fired from
Russell Halls airplane. Hall made
an ascent during the morning and
afternoon and looped the loop and did
a number of other stunts for the edi-
fication of the visitors. But when
evening came and the big stunt was
to be pulled off, rain interfered.
The Days Events
In the list of events there were
many entries, including a number of
local men. Jonas Marley, local meat
dealer, won the first money for rop-
ing and tying a calf, making the job
complete in 81 second. The second
money was taken by Jones who re-
quired one second longer to perform
the feat.
In the steer team roping contest,
first and second prize was divided
three ways, Duke working with Jones
and Burnett, both teams doing their
stunts in 80 seconds. Third money
was divided between two teams, Don
ohue, Hart, Burch and Duke, who did
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
Four Initiative Measures
To Be On Fall Ballot

Assurance has been given by check
ing of signatures that each of the
four initiative propositions filed
prior to July 8, the last day of filing,
will be included on the November bal
lot. The initiative propositions to
be voted on include a constitutional
amendment providing for the con-
struction of the Blythe highway at a
cost not to exceed $3,500,000; q meas
ure providing for the creating of a
state highway commission; a measure
to create state racing commission,
and measure providing for the high
line canal.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
AGED WOMAN DIED FRIDAY
ON NO. 8 NEAR HOLBROOK

Death came to an old lady, Mrs.
Charlotte Wayditch, while she was
hurrying westward on a Santa Fe
train on the morning of Friday, July
f. The death occurred on the Nav
ajo, train No. 9, east of here, and the
body was taken off the train here and
to the Winslow Undertaking Parlors
where it was prepared for burial.
Later the remains were sent out on
Train No. 21, on which they were ia
ken to Los Angeles for burial.
Mrs. Wayditch was accompanied on
the train Dy her son. Mrs. Wayditch
was 80 years of age. She was Hun
garian by birth, but had lived in this
country many years.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
WORK ON DIAMOND CREEK
is PERMANENTLY STOPPED

Construction of the $36000,0O0 hy-
dro-electric power dam at Diamond
creek on the Colorado river launched
by James B. Girand, Phoenix engin-
eer, was permanently enjoined Mon
day by United States District Judge
Fred C. Jacobs at Prescott.
Authority vested in the federal
power commission, which declined to
sanction a license for building of the
dam, was held sufficient by the court
to order cessati n of all work by the
Grand interests on the dam site.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
WOMAN DIES FROM EXPOSURE
ON SOUTHERN ARIZONA DESERT

Mrs. Kate Clevis, wife of the min
lister of the Gila Bend Methodist (col-
ored) church, was found unconscious
on the desert, 20 miles from home,
and died few hours later. Mrs.
Clevis and her husband started in
search of a strayed horse They be-
came separated and the husband re-
turned to Gila Bend, where posse
was formed An Indian trailer with
the posse found Mrs. CleviS.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
FORESTS IN STATE GRAZED
100000 HEAD OF STOCK IN 1923

Recent figures compiled by officials
of the United States forest service
show that 259,94O cattle and 249, 1893
sheep were grazed in the national
forest areas of Arizona during the
year 1923. Officials of the service
declare that there has been a material
decrease in the number of animals
grazing in the forests during the past
three years.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
Calvin Coolidge, Jr., Son
of President, Died Monday

Calvin Coolidge. Jr., son of Pres
ident Coolidge, died Monday night
A sinking spell, the fourth he had
suffered in "a hours, brought
death. Notwithstanding the use of
oxygen and other restoratives, the
courage which had v-itilstood crisis
after crisis and had beaten death
off repeatedly, was unable to meet
the attack. The collapse began at
$50 o'clock and he gradually sank
into eternity. He died at 1890
o'clock.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
f, l.. GREEN ELECTED TO
JUDGE ABBEY'S POSITION

E L. Green qualified Monday as SUI
perior judge of Pinal county by filing
his oath of office with Secretary of
State James H. Kerby, as required
by, law, and plans to move into the
judges chamber at the Pinal county
court house at Florence at once.
Judge Green succeeds to the post
held by Judge Stephen H. Abbey, who
was recalled by the election which
placed Judge Green in the office
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
John w. Davis Of w. Va.
Nominated by Democrats

John w. DaYis of Wet Virginia
was nominated by the democrats as
the party's candidate for the office
OF presidi Mt of the United States.
His nomination was made on the
103 ballot.
Charles w. Bryan, governor of
Nebraska, and brother of William
j. Bryan, was selected for vice
presidential nominee on the second
ballot.
Chairman Walsh refused the
nomination for vice-president.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
TEN BOY SCOUTS WILL TAKE
AUTO HIKE TO CALIFORNIA

Ten Boy Scouts of the Grand Can
yon district will be chosen to take
part in an automobile hike to the
coast, to be gone three weeks, and to
visit interesting points going and
coming Dr. NJ G. Fronske, president,
and Chas. S. Mccormick, Scout execu-
tive, will accompany the boys. The
trip will be made in a truck specially
built with all conveniences
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
ONE KILLED, ANOTHER HURT,
IN GUN DUEL AT FLAGSTAFF

Gun fire flared from two pistols in
the hands of Juan Gonzales and Car
mel Ramierez when they faced each
other on a business street in Flagstaff
last Saturday. Gonzales fell dead
Ramierez, although wounded in the
right leg, escaped. The pair dueled
on the street after carrying their al
tercation from a crowded pool room.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
BOY DROWNED AT LAKE
MARY LAST WEDNESDAY

Robert Kenneth Stirton, two-and-a-
half year old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Stirton of Ajo, Arizona, was
drowned at Lake Mary, south of Flag
staff last Wednesday forenoon The
little fellow had wandered away from
the cottage occupied by the Stirton
family, and wandered into the lake
at a point where the water is nine
feet deep.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
WORK WILL START ON THE
SAN CARLOS DAM IN s MONTHS

Actual building of the San Carlos
dam will begin within the next eight
months, more than one year earlier
than had been considered possible
by even the most optimistic.
This prediction has been made by
United States Senator Ralph H. Cam
erOn, author of the bill.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
GOVERNOR HUNT OPPOSES
CALIFORNIA WATER PLAN

tits just another part of the Cal
ifornia scheme to get hold of our
states resources" said Governor
George w. p Hunt last evening, soon
after his arrival in Winslow, when
asked about the plan of the city of
Los Angeles to divert water from the
Colorado river to supplement the
Owens Valley supply.
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
STORK LEAVES PRESENT FOR
MIR. AND MRS. SUTHERLAND

The stork, accompanied by a young
man weighing eight and a half
pounds in his travelling clothes, paid
call at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
James J. Sutherland late in the af-
ternoon of Thursday, July 10. The
young ma will remain with the
Sutherlands for some time
The Winslow mail., 1924-07-11
FRANK VI. POOLE TO BE NEW
DIRECTOR OF PROH0IBITION

Frank NJ Poole of Winkelman has
been recommended by Senator Ralph
H. Cameron for appointment to the
post of prohibition enforcement di7
rector for Arizona, according to au-
thentic information given out early
in the week.
Evening star., 1924-05-07
Conventions and "Days."

Treasurer Upham of the Republican
national committee says that the con-
vention at Cleveland win probably fin
ish its work on Thursday, June IL,
and adjourn. This will avoid any
transaction of business ON Friday, the
18th. OF course, there is no super
stition in this, simply a matter of
winding up the work in short order
and getting away. Mr.. Upham, with
a view doubtless to allaying any ap-
prehension on the score of a possible
scare about the traditionally unlucky
cult to string the convention out be-
yond Thursday" Inasmuch as one
ballot will probably suffice for the Sc
lection of a presidential candidate,
and perhaps only one for vice presi-
dental choice, this would seem to be
sound reasoning.
On the Democratic side a different
situation prevails The New York CON
vention will assemble June "a, with a
large field of candidates for the nom
llldIlOH anu IL DllIeF llSnL IN prospect.
The two-thirds rule stands in the way
of a speedy decision. The question
there will be, Can the convention be
so managed as to effect a nomination
by the 4th of July? That would be
eleven days. With a recollection of
what happened in Baltimore in 1912
and in San Francisco IN 1920 this
would not seem to be an unduly long
period. And July would be a dra-
matte date for the climax.
So here is presented the prospect of
one party hurrying up its convention
work to avoid a date that is associated
with misfortune, and the other per
haps hurrying up its work to reach a
conclusion on q date that has a pa
triotic significance. The situation is
interesting in this respect, as in other
ways.
Evening star., 1924-05-07
Russia and Germany.

A diplomatic issue that has just
arisen between Russia and Germany
illustrates the closeness of the rela-
tionship between the soviet official
government and the business enter
prises conducted under the auspices
past a Russian commercial delegation
has been established at Berlin for the
purpose of promoting trade between the
two countries A few days ago a COM
munist prisoner, passing through Ber-
lin in police custody, by a trick escaped
in the commercial delegation Offices
through the assistance of the attaches.
The police raided the building and
took number of prisoners. Imme-
diatefy the Moscow government pro-
tested, claiming exraterritoriality, on
the ground that the commercial dele
cation was a part of the diplomatic
establishment The Berlin govern
ment refused to surrender the pris-
oners taken in the raid, and now the
Russian embassy at Berlin has an
nounced that it is temporarily putting
an end to all commercial relations
with Germany. closing the Offices.
Going back to the first incident,
there is evidence that the escape of
the communist was schemed by the
commercial bureau attaches There is
reason to believe, indeed, that the man
Evening star., 1924-05-07
Stalled Car. Eight Dead.

The latest grade-crossing accident
Is reported from Amsterdam, n. Y,
where a motor car carrying eight peo-
pie was stalled ON a track and struck
by an express train. All of the eight
ware killed. This case is typical Of a
large number of the grade-crossing
tragedies. The driver of the car tries
to get across the tracks, "chokes' his
engine in attempting to accelerate his
pace or to back off, and is left helpless
on the rails. There is no time for the
occupants to escape
The roads are filled with motor cars
driven by inexperienced persons, new
drivers" as they are called. They
have not mastered the mechanism.
They have not reached the point of self
control in emergency. In city traffic
- stalled car may be quite safe from
accident, perhaps even safer than a
moving car, for traffic adjusts to Il.
But at a grade crossing car that has
Evening star., 1924-05-07

was an agent of bolshevism. Ger
many appears to be- deeply resentful
of the manner in which the Russian
government has sought to establish
at Berlin an organization which is
both political and coHlmercial in char
acter.
Documents that were submitted
some months ago to the Senate from
the State Department in connection
with the proposal to recognize the
government at Moscow plainly showed
the ''interlocking directorate nature
of the organization in Russia There
is no branch of service over there that
is not tied up directly with the gov
ernment itself and with the com
munist ''internationale." which is in
reality the handspring of all the en-
ergies. Germany is now feeling the
effect Of this remarkable system.
Evening star., 1924-05-07
The California Primaries.

Returns this morning of the results
of yesterdays presidential preferen-
ial primaries in California showed
mat President Coolidge had Il majority
over Senator Johnson of nearly three
votes TO the precinct, which if main
tained at that ratio would carry the
state for him by about 10000. The
johnson people said the returns We're
100 inadequate to estimate upon,
which smacked OF realization of inn
pending defeat
The question Will be presented. if
The senator really has lost his own
state, will il not eliminate the pos
sibiity of his boiling the party and
essen the prospect of encourag ging the
formation of a third party, thereby
throwing the election of President
into the House with the certainty of a
deadlock in that body through in
ability of either party to command a
majority?
Politicians are said to believe that
Senator Johnson Will not bolt the
cleveland convention. 1t is held that
he will have no occasion to stage a
dramatic exit from the hall with his
little handful of South Dakota votes.
He cannot claim that ne has been
treated unfairly in the primaries. The
expression Of the voters in favor of
president Coolidge has been too over
Avhelming to lend color TO possible
fharge that there has been any
manipulation in bringing about the
Verdict in favor of the President.
The reversal in form of the johnson
strength in his own state has been
remarkable in four years. 1t raises
speculation as to its cause. One sug-
Sestion is that the new blood in the
electorate, mainly in the business ele-
ment. is responding to the sentiment
which is shown to exist so widely and
uniformly over the Union. confidence
N President Coolidge and unwilling
ness to make change in the govern
ment.
Evening star., 1924-05-07
gone dead is in the gravest danger.

gone dead is in the gravest danger.
Usually the grade crossing is a
hump in the road. 1t often requires
change of gears to make the grade.
The car may be stalled in the shifting
or in acceleration. Given an mex
perienced driver, who is subject to
confusion in a crisis, and this may
happen any time.
OF course, there is only one real
cure for this evil, and that is the total
elimination of grade crossings. But
that is a long time off. To abolish all
the grade crossings in this country,
even in the closely populated eastern
section. would cost an enormous sum
far beyond the possibilities of several
decades of large expenditure. But
whatever the cost, that must be the
objective of endeavor. Meanwhile, all
grade crossings must be protected"
so that it will not be possible for any
road user to reach the tracks when a
train is approaching within a range
of possible accident.
Motor car drivers who go into the
country where grade crossings are
encountered must take into account
the fact that they are liable to be
caught without power at these points.
There is only one safe rule for all
drivers, however experienced, and
that is 10 stop the car before going
across the tracks, to make sure that
there is no danger. If every machine
were thus checked before crossing
these shoe king accidents would be cut
down to a very small percentage.
Evening star., 1924-05-07
Park Commission Bill.

The Senate has passed the bill for
the creation of a park commission
with powers to develop and extend
the park system of the Capital. The
passage of the bill shows "a liberal
and intelligent interest in the present
and future Of the American Capital
and recognizes that part of the re-
sponsibility for making Washington
a greater Capital, or the greatest
Capital. rests on the whole people.
This bill has also been favorably re-
ported by the House District com
mittee. It's aim is to give to the Cap
spaces, to preserve scenic tracts and
conserve stream flow and forest near
Washington and to bring Washing
ton in line with other cities in these
matters. The bill has the support of
the American Civic Association and of
committees of that association repre-
senting at least fifty cities. The as
sociation has said that Washington
has lost many areas vital to its park
system because Congress has been
slow to act or has not acted at all"
and that 80 much circumlocution is
required to add a single lot or acre to
the park system that it is hardly re-
markable that one plot after another
has been put to private uses by its
owner"
The bill would provide an appro-
commission would administer that
fund in acquiring desirable land
within the city, taking over the val
ley of Rock Creek from some point
some of its principal feeder streams,
acquiring lands on both sides of the
Potomac between Washington and
Great Falls, turning part of Sligo
valley and perhaps part of the valley
of Northwest Branch into public re
serves, developing a park and boule-
ward along the west shore of the river
between Washington and Mount Ver-
number of the civil war forts.
Tract after tract that should have
been reserved for public use has been
built on, bits of forest or stretches of
fine woods have been felled. streams
dried up and hills cut away and val
leys filed. The city has been built
beyond it's original bounds, with small
provision for park or play space, and
is growing fast, while it is powerless
to take over desirable and relatively
low priced lands for public use. If
this course is continued the new
Washington, already larger than the
Cid Washington and destined to be
very much larger than the Washing
ton planned and provided for by the
most illustrious Americans of the
revolutionary and early republican
periods, will be almost a parkless
town. Most cities are looking to the
future and reserving lands for the use
of all the people, and the Capital, if
it is to hold it's rank as a great and
desirable city, must do likewise.
Evening star., 1924-05-07
The New Crime Phase.

Yesterday in New York court the
"bobbed-hair bandit" and her husband
were sentenced to a term of from ten
to twenty years in prison. Having had
a. few months of excitement and, it
would seem, small profits from crime.
and a few days of publicity, they now
pass into the obscurity of prison life.
The young woman in this case
seems to have been the promoter of
the criminal enterprise. Yet when she
was arrested and brought under ex-
animation she proved to be of very
ordinary intelligence. Being in need
Of money, and not disposed to work
honestly to get it, she and her hus-
hand tried the trick of surprise hold
ups. 1t took nerve and some skill.
They were lucky. They got away with
a number Of robberies, which netted
them a ridiculously small sum. If
they had applied the same energy and
Intelligence to straight living they
would have made almost as much,
perhaps more, and would now be at
liberty.
While these two young people were
being sentenced a girl at Waterbury,
Conn, fourteen years old-and also
bobbed of hair-was confessing to
eight burglaries which she committed
without any assistance. She carried a
full kit of tools, and in some cases
broke into stores through cellars and
trapdoors. She was caught through
the foolish display Of five-dollar gold
piece to her schoolmates.
This is a new era in American
crime. Women are going in for high
waymanry and burglary, even chill
dren. 1t is evident that something is
wrong with the training of the
younger generation. Can it be that
certain motion pictures, with their
suggestion of daredevi1uy and adven-
ture, have promoted this development
Of juvenile and feminine crime?