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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
POSSES SEARCH
FOR COLORADON
WHO SHOT M AN
fBy Dispatch A. Z. Elrel

MONTROSE, Colo, June 2S.-While
!. sheriff's posses from several west
ern Colorado towns and from Moab,
Utah, pressed forward in their hunt
for Ed Williams, western slope bad
man." alleged cattle rustler and fugi-
tive from justice, a tale of Williams
chivalry toward H. G. Getty, Sr.,
the ma nhe shot and wounded dur
ing a gun battles Sunday morning,
came to light.
The story was told by the wound
ed mans son, H. G. Getty, Jr., as
he returned here today with his
wounded father. When Getty fell
wounded in the exchange of shots
that followed the pairs attempt to
capture Williams, the bad man"
came to Getty's aid, dressed his
wound, assisted him for several miles
to his automobile and started him on
his way to Norwood.
Posses today encountered Mrs. VIII"
liams, the fugitive's wife, in the
upper reaches of the Gypsum valley
region near Dove creek where the
shooting occurred. She was driving
a blackboard and said she was headed
north where she hoped to find work
and shelter, saying that she was
without found and means of support
since her husband fled after the
shooting. She did not ,divulge her
husbands whereabouts and the
posses continued their search south
west into the region around Dolores
and Cortez, Colo.
The sheriff's office here late to-
day sent orders to the posses to bring
the woman into Montrose to be held
in connection with the wounding of
Getty. She assisted Williams in his
gun battle with the Gettys by re-
loading weapons for him.
Getty was resting. easilyA tonight
and physicians predicted that, barring
unforeseen complications, he would
recover from his wound.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
SYRIA VIRTUES
I'm THROES OF
CRUEL STRIFE
lRz nispatch AP. Niral

DAMASCUS, June 2S.-syria today
is writhing in the throes of one Of
the cruelest wars ever waged and
charges and counter charges OF
atrocities of the most revolving sort
are constantly being made.
Stories of diSembowele1 men found
along the roadside, of others found
with their ears cut off and suffer-
ing from the most atroclous kinds
of mutilition are common.
Without going into the matter Of
responsibility for the present situa-
tion. the fact remains that Syri',
which it was intended should enjoy
peace and prosperity under the pro
lection of the league of nations,
now is a country where the hang
man operates in the public square.
Whether the journey were made by
road or railway, one used to enter
Damascus through long stretch Of
orchards and running waters in
pleaasnt oases and gardens. Today
one passes through barbed wire bar
ricades and danger turks everywhere.
AS explained by Syrians to a corre-
spondent for The Associated Press
the use of Circassians and Armenian
mercenary troops by the French
command is the greatest obstacle to
peace in the inundated territory.
Syrians and Druses profess even
greater hatred for these mercenaries
than they hold for the Senegalese
and the Algerians.
Sultan Attrache, in the statement
June IS, made it plain that the arm
ing of the Christian Circassians and
Armenians by the French was one
of the bitterest causes of resentment
among the Druses. Nationalist
leaders in Damascus charged these
mercenaries with revolving atrocit-
les
While allowance must be made for
the hatred for their opponents un-
der which the dissident tribesmen
are laboring, neutral observers wno
have been in Syrian since the armed
hostilities began, are inclined to be-
lieve that some acts contrary to
the laws of civilized warfare have
been committed. In no case, how
ever, have the French white troops
been implicated in any of these al
legged acts.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
Monday Warmest Day OF
Year With Thermometer
At IO2; Phoenix Has ll2

Douglas experienced it's warmest
day of the summer Monday when
the maximum temperature, accord
ing 10 weather officials here, was
1O2 degrees.
This failed to make much impress
sion ON the reported high tempera-
ture in Phoenix ON Sunday, how
ever, which was given as 112. Tue
sons maximum during the hot spell
of the past few days has been 1OS,
so Douglas is still pretty cool.
On Thursday of last week the
high temperature was 1O1 i'm this
city, ON Friday it was 100, and it
was also 100 on Saturday and Sum
day, going up Monday to 1O2.
While other cities in the state
were suffering early last week with
temperatures of well over 100, Doug
las was enjoying "a daily maximum
temperature of about 81.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
De Autremont Brothers
Believed Under Arrest
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)

DONvILLE, Ills, June 2S.-Three
suspects believed by postoffice inspec-
tors to be Roy Ray and Hugh De Au-
fremont, brothers wante dior the muir
der of four men in the robbery of a
Southern Pacific passenger train Octo-
Der IL, 1923, near Siskoyou, Ore, We're
arrested today at Gibson City by Dam
vile officers. They are held here for
examination tomorrow by department
of justice officers. The men gave their
names as William Marti, Beloit, Wis;
Otis Alexander, Houston, Texas, and
Cecil Nelson, ,Artesia, N. M.
Hugh De Autremont was graduated
from high school of Artesia.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29

Steps were taken in connection
with the action to make it possible
for members Of the police depart
ment to devote required time and
attention to the case though it was
brought out that every man on the
force has worked with unremitted
energy from the moment the evangel-
ist was found here.
Mayor A. e. Hinton in an address
to the council commended the work
Of the department. 1t was brought
out during the meeting that the re-
sponsibility, in a way, for the solv-
ing of the case, is laid on this city.
The Los Angeles authorities who
came here and who did what they
could in the matter left with the
statement that they were depending
on Douglas to solve the mystery.
While little of Importance was de-
veloped in the tracking work on the
Mcpherson abduction caes over the
weekend, the officials divided efforts
Monday morning and with two mem.
bers staying in the city to run down
SOA CcIA1l SA0SS dAiu AOPOAIop bWO bACAs
Lieutenant Leslie Gatliff of the police
department and Deputy United States
Marshal Tom Simms continued the
elimination work in the hills, and were
able to report last evening that they
had completed the circle of the 20
mile possibility zone and had verified
their original finding by the fact that
there is not one possible sign in any
other direction.
This finding completes the prelimi
nary work necessary to the establish
ment of the tracks leading approxi-
mately eight miles south from Niger
Head mountain as the only tracks in
the entire area, and with the added
fact that several of the tracks on the
trail leading into the south from Mig
ger Head mountain can be fairly said
to be those of the snoe worn by Mrs.
Mcpherson, the quest has narrowed
down to a six-mile area centered about
the shack which was officially con-
sidered on Saturday and which may
yet prove to be the right one.
That it is this shack reported by
the four crackers or that the genuine
shack is within an area of six miles
LOTu IlllS one is lI1S DC11Sl VI SNGAy
official who iss in aNposition to know
of the matter.
Chief Bowden is occupied with an
giles of the case that require his CON-
stant attention in the city. He has
therefore turned the shack matter
over to his lieutenant and has stated
that he will not even attempt to verify
any report on the shack until asked
to do so his officers. He states that
he can absolutely depend on his lieu
tenant and that when Gatliff tells him
that the shack is unquestionably found,
he will echo his statement. He can.
not, however, officially verify thesI
finding until Gatliff first verifies it
to him and he then visits it himself.
Two more Los Angeles men joined
the party of newspaper men of that
city yet here on the case, last night.
The Los Angeles newspaper men who
have been here since Thursday are
carrying on AM independent inyesti-,I
cation for their papers.
During Sunday and Monday search
ers were busy on both sides of the in
ternational line, seeking the cabin in
which Mrs. Mcpherson was held cap
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
ARTHUR .. ZURICH WE'D.

LOS ANGELES, June 2S.-Arthur
e. Burch, co-defendant with Madalynne
Obenchain, formerly of Chicago, in
their trials for the alleged murder of
J Bolton Kennedy here several years
ago, has been married three months,
it became known today. Burch refused
to tell his wifes family name, but said
that her given name was Anne and that
she was daughter Of the south. They
are living in Pasadena.
Burch and Mrs. Obenchain were tried
three times, but in each instance the
jury disagreed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
GLOBE BAPTIST
CHURCH SPLIT

GLOBE, June %. - When members
several men and women of the First
Baptist church of Globe, went to the
parsonage of the church here this aft
ernoon and requested the Rev. Tallie
der the property to the First Baptist
church by vacating, he ran from the
place and when he reached a down
town telephone he called upon Police
Chief Eugene Shute for protection
Police Chief Shute and several pa
trolmen hurriedly went to the scene,
bu+ the chief stated tonight, saw no
evidences of violence being done or
intended" upcn which he left the par
.sonage, withdrawing nls men.
Members of the church, the First
Baptist, affiliated with the northern
convention, stated tonight that they
served notice upon the Rev. Mr.. Will
liams to vacate, placing the notice in
his hands June IA, this month, and
that he had refused and failed to do
so.
At late hour tonight it was stated
that the household effects of the Rev.
Mr.. Williams had been packed by the
members of the First Baptist church
and removed from the house to a
place under it, there to stay until
Tuesday morning, at which time, they
said, the Rev. Mr.. Williams had agreed
to remove them from the Premises
Several weeks ago the congregation
of the First Baptist church split over
doctrinal matters, one wing going
with Reverend williams, the other re-
naming with the First Baptist church
Reverend Williams and his followers
subsequently organized L First South
Tern Baptist church and he was called
Ito be the new church's pastor.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
United Verde Extension
Pays T0xesiOf $l65,2I2
To County Of YaUGpGi
(By Dispatch A, p, wits)

PRESCOTT, June 2s. ~ The
rendering today by the United
Verde Extension Mining company
of "a check for $165,212.O2 and its
acceptance by the board of SUI
pervisOrs and county treasurer of
Yavapai county has terminated
four years Of tax controversy be-
of the sum is, for taxes of the
tween the parties. The majority
organization for 1924 and 1925,
while $22,76O.s4 is penalties and
and interest ON the deferred pay
mentS. A settlement was agreed
pom last week as n result of
meeting of the board of repre-
sentatives of the mining company.
The case is now to be dismissed
from the federal court.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
MRS. M'PHERSONS STATEMENT
EXPL LAINS RELIGIOUS BEL LIEFS

who is seeking the identity of the
woman referred to by Mrs. Nc
Pherson as Rose" and said by her
to have been one of her abductors.
Cline today sent his assistant Cap
tain Joe Taylor, to Mrs. Mcpherson
with police bulletins containing pic
lures of women fugitives. From the
pictures the evangelist was asked to
pick out any which might assist the
police in determining the general
type of the woman sought.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
VIC. T.U. Cash
SPENT BY DRY
MEN, ON BOOZE
(By Dispatch A. 2. w.re1

WASHINGTON, June %.
Frequent purchase Of
liquor by social agents Of
the state with money out of
the $4,000 fund raised by
the Pennsylvania Women's
Christian T e m p erance e
union for enforcement of
the dry laws was disclosed
today before the senate
campaign funds committee.
Senator Reed, democrat,
Missouri, chairman of the
committee, said that the
law was violated in order
that it might be enforced,
but William B. Wright, spe-
cial counsel to Governor
Pinchot, who with Attor-
ney General Woodruff ad-
ministered the temperance
fund, defende the practice
of the agents.
II know of no other way you can
obtain evidence upon which to get con-
victions,' he said.
Pickingi at random from a large
lures from the fund, Senator Reed took
the expense account of Lawrence NJ.
Knox, which showed expenditures of
approximately SIS, for liquor from Sep
tember II to October 8, 1923.
On some days expenses for the pur-
pose exceeded living cost of the agent.
The highest days liquor bill was 5000.
Senator Goff, republican, West Vir-
ginia wanted to know if the agents
could keep sober when drinking so
much almost daily, but Wright assured
him that they did, explaining that
usually they travelled in threes and
that one agent paid the liquor bills
for all.
The smallest daily total for liquor
in Knox's account was SIS cents.
THAT must have been a bad day."
remarked Chairman Reed amid laugh
ter.
Wright told the committee that the
usual price for a drink of whisky was
SO cents and that beer ranged from Is
cents glass up to 40 cents bottle.
He explained Knoxs expenditures made
in 1923 by saying that from his ac-
tiVities, the first paddock injunctions
in Philadelphia were obtained.
Another Of the special agents paid
out of the w. G. I. U. fund was J. A.
Tatro, who got $3.50 month salary
and SIS day expenses.
sTatro was getting after the de-
natured alcohol aristocracy in Phila-
delphia," Wright explained.
'Then you have a bootleg aristoc-
racy?" asked Senator Reed.
Il should say so the witness re-
turned.
Wright gave the committee the
names of all men who had been his
assistants or who shad served as spe-
cial agents, except in the case of four,
whom edescribed as under cover"
men whose names he did not care to
disclose except in executive session.
''Ths committee does not believe in
under cover government Senator
Reed said, but passing, for the time
being, the question eliciting the names
in public, the chairman designated one
of the men as "Mr. X" another as.
ssMr. Y" another as "Mr. T." and the
fourth as "Mr. Zero"
Wright explained that all of these
men went around buying LIQUOR in
order to bring action against law vio-
lators "Mr X travelled alone, buy
ing drinks, and then later passing the
word along to other agents who did
the followup work and caused the ar
rests
Up to last June 4, Wright testified,
the state had drawn upon the w. G. I.
U. for approximately $4,000 of the
$4,000 fund Explaining the process,
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
MAN FOUND Dead.

TUCSON, June 28.--Clarence L. Lewis,
81 years old, was found dead in a local
rooming house early this morning.
Lewis death was due to an attack of
asthma, of which he has been a suffer-
er for many years His father, who is
an official of a large tobacco company
in st. Louis, has been notified of his
sons death.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29

LOS ANGELES, June 28.-Aimee
semple Mcpherson, evangelist, cen
ter of a kidnapping story which au-
thorities are now investigating, who
took exception to the designation
applied to her of "self-styled
healer" today, at the request of The
Associated Press, made a signed
statment of her religious professions,
particularly with regard to the
"divine healing advertised in the
Los Angeles newspapers. Under the
name of Angelus Temple, her head
quarters the statement follows:
Il preach salvation from sin. Men
and women come to the altar, con-
fess their sin and are saved. I have
led them to the altar and prayed
for them, it is trua, but now absurd
it would be to say # am savior;
here is man that 1 saved
likewise, 1 preach Jesus Christ,
the Great Physician, all sufficient
for body as well as soul. Men and
women come to the altar and touch
the hem of His garment and have
been healed of many diseases in
answer to believing prayer. Yet,
I would not say that / was a healer
or here is a man that I have healed
"Just as Jesus Christ is the savior,
so He is the healer and receives all
the glory.
"Divine healing in aswer from
the prayer is not something peculiar
to our church other churches have
always prayed for the sick. The
Episcopal churches have lately been
known throughout the land for the
wonderful meetings with prayers for
the afflicted. Practically all preach
ers pray for the sick of their flock.
"In Angelus Temple there have
been thousands of prayers answered
for the afflicted. However, no
credit for this is given to any hu-
man being, but rather to Him who
answers prayer and is the same
yesterday, today and forever"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
CITY Will CONTINUE
TO LOCATE
ABDUCTORS' CABIN

At a special meeting of the city council held
last night a motion made and unanimously
passed recommending that every effort be expended
in an effort to clear up the Aimee Sempe MPherson
abuction case. In discussion of the motion it was
unreservedly in favor of every effort that may in
any way aid in locating the shack or capturing the
abductOrS
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
MAKE MINUTE cnECK-UP

LOS ANGELES, June %. - Police
and the district attorneys office,
starting out to make a minute check
up on all of the statements con-
tained in the kidnapping story related
by Aimee Semple Mcpherson, in her
statement to investigators at Doug
las, Ariz., today followed two leads.
The first was being taken by Her
man H. Cline, chief of detectives,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29

that Le~will raise his campaign funds
by selling copies of his speech, Our
Freedom" for 10 cents each. Boys
and girls will receive two and half
cents for selling them, and If elected
he promises to donate $2500 to edu-
cational purposes in his district.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-05
Sioux City Mystery Is
 Now Thought a Murder

Sioux City. Iowa, Feb, . Rl-Con- Ninced that Mrs. George Solomon, mother of nine children, was mur- dered and not accidentally burned 10 death at tho door of her fur. mace, officials planned today 10 question further hS 7S-year- r-old husband.
 Although Solomon insisted that his wife was burned 10 death by flames which shot from the furnace because Of improperly arranged drafts. a coroners post portem re- Healed bruises on Inc woman's hands and fractured wrist. Tho children said their father and mother, who was 47 years old, had disagreed considerably of late and officers were working on the theory that a final argument Wednesday eliminated in her death."
New Britain herald., 1926-02-05
Subway Extension Line
 From New York Proposed

New York, Feb. R--A proposal for subway extension of the trunk lines of the New York, Westchester and Boston railway, topping existing or proposed subway and elevated lines in Manhattan, is announced by Leverett s. Miller, president of the railroad. The Metro-Urban system, as fl would be known, would extend by tunnel under the Harlem river and by a crosstown subway under la5th street.
 The proposal, designed 10 bring about decentralization of commuter traffic from Westchester county and the eastern section Of the Bronx, has been submitted 10 State Senator J. Griswold Webb, chairman of the New York state suburban passenger transit commission.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-05
l2 HOUR SEARCH FOR
 MINERS IS FRvITLESS
Three Additional hlrn In Rescue Party Are Overcome at
 iIorning shaft.

Pittsburgh Feb, | tPl -- Tho ex. plosion'wreckcl Horning mino Of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal com. pany conlinucl today to retain its secret as iothc fate Of sixteen minors who were cntombcl hy n blast which shattered it's worliines Wednesday afternoon. While tho exact fate. was undetermined, res. enc workers, havc abandoned n possibility that any Of thc men would he found alive. but have been tmahle to recover thc bodies because of q fire in thc section of th" mirn where tho blast occurred
 \ r"scu" team returning 10 tho Slrlac" during tho morning brought a story Of q twclvo- hour search for tho on'omhod men and q denial of d previous report that three bodies hnd hncn located during the night. The rescue workers were of the opinion that the missing miners were beyond the three concrete walls constructed yesterday in An "itor' 10 smother tho fire and that i' would ho from @i 10 3G hours before that section Of the mine could ho explored.
 Throe additional mon were over. com" by gas during thc night ana were brought 10 thc surface for medical attention. A total of .2 mon has suffered from gas fumes during the grim search for thc bodies, hui all have been qnicl;lo revived, Canary birds were lowered into the pit today 10 test inc air 10 insure the safety of the rescue workers.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-05
40 CHRISTIANS
 REPORTED SLAIN
Massacre Takes Place in Village
 Of Maruneh

London, Feb. 5 R,-Reuter's cor. respondent at Damascus. Syria, says the massacre of 40 Christians fin the village Of Maruneh. news Of which was received last night. indicates that serious anti-Christian movc- ment is developing and that this ia confirmed by happenings in Dam ascus,
 On Monday. he reports, a son nr Hassan Fl Kharrat, bandit chic, was hanged with two other convict. ed briGands in public square in Damascus. This caused bad feeling. and brought threats that three Europeans would be hanged in re- vengc.
 Letters also were sent 10 the Catholic patriarch at Madam, threat ening to burn his house because some Of the witnesses for the prose- cution at the trial Of Hassan Fl kharrat's son were Catholics.
 Incidents Of this sort have caused bitter feeling among the population against Europeans, the correspon- dent says.
 A French soldier was stabbed to- day near the cast gate Of the city and his rife stolen. Attacks on the barricades continue.
 "The French are trying 10 form a provisional government" the cores pondent adds, but nobody seems willing 10 take office. It seems cer- tain that, if the authorities are 10 subduc the Djebel Druses during the spring, they will require more troops than are at present available"
 Beirut Syria, Feb. $ RAHenry De Jouvenel, the French high com. missioner in Syria. Is soins 10 An gora, the Turkish capital. 10 confer with President Mustapha KemaI Pasha and others.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-05
ADVANCES TO FINALS

New York, Feb. 5 (Pl-NIiss Mary K. Browne, formerly of California, but now q resident of New York, advanced to the final round in the Heights Casino invitation tennis tournament today by defeating Mrs J, Dallas Corbiere of Boston, 6-S, 6-f' Miss Browne will meet Miss Martha BayarI Of Short Hill, N. J.. who yesterday eliminated Mrs. MoIla B. Mallory, in tho final round to- morrow.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-05
Bulgarian Govt. Grants
 Full Political Amnesty

Sofia. Bulgaria, Feb. 5 R.--The now government under Premier liaptcheff has granted full amnesty to all political offenders except to the leaders of, and those criminally implicated in, plots against the gov ernment
 The Bulgarian political refugees in Jugoslavia and Greece will be able 10 return home under this measure. IL is hoped thus 10 pacify the country and enable the govern ment 10 carry out program of harmony among all classes.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-05
TRACTOR OyERTrRNS

Wakefield, Mass, Feb. Pt-A tractor used In blowing out snow bound roads here last night over turned and pinned Joseph Alvina, the operator, beneath 1t. The fro department vas called 10 right the machine and extricate Alyina, who was removed to the Melrose hospi- tai suffering from a compound frac- ture of the thigh and probable in tornal iniuries.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-05
SENTENCED TO DEATH

Mogilov, podolia. Ukraine, Feb. . Up) -- Sergius Boyanovski, state prosecutor during the regime of General Simon Petlura, was today sentenced 10 death on the charge of having sent many communists and Red soldiers 10 their doom.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-05
City Advertisement

Notice is hereby given that n hearing will be held before the Board Of Public Works, City Of New Britain, In Room 307, City Hall. al ';So o'clock, Tuesday evening, Feb mary 9th, 1926. on the proposed es- tabhshing of grade on Andrews street, from Kensington avenue east erly to angle in street.
 All persons interested are request cd to be present at said hearing, if they see cause, and be heard in re- lation to the above.
 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
 G, H. Johnson, Clerk.