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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-15
Mrs. Z. M. Joyce Secures
An InterIocutOry Degree
OF DiUorce on the Coast

TUCSON, Oct. Ia Mrs. r. NJ.
Joyce. wife of E. M. Joyce, former
signal corps officer now serving
n six year sentence for mnna
slaughter i'm the Florence peni-
tenhiary for the killing of Jess
whitley, cowboy, at the CarlinS
granted an lnterlocutOry decree OF
divorce in a Los Angeles court
today, according to a speeinl dis
patch to the Arizona Daily Star.
Mrs Joyce cited court records Oh
the murder trial and asked far
her divorce ON the grounds that
her husband was convicted OF n
felony.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-15

NEW YORK, oct. 14-(P)
Copper steady; electro-
lytic spot and futures 14M
@14A. Bar silver 55h.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-15
FTTM SrAN INJIRED.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. II GP)-Alice
Calhoun, film star. was injured in an
automobile collision here today. A
passing automobile took the actress
TO her home. In addition to bruises,
a cib was fractured ana her forehead
was cut by flying glass.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-15
CATHoLIc WOMEN ELECT

MILWAUKEE, Oct. IA R)-Mrs.
Arthur. F. Mullen Omaha Neb. to-
day was reelected president of the
National Council of Catholic Women
She was chosen by the new board
OF directors elected at the closing
session of the annual convention
Wednesday, The convention will be
held next year in Washington, D. c.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-15
WOUND THREE.
OTHERS, STEAL
.S1OQ,00OMAN

ELIZABETH, N. j., Oct.
IA (AP)-Eight bandits to-
day killed a postal employe,
wounded three other per-
sons, and looted a mail
truck of 100000 or more.
Riding in two powerful
cars, they crashed into the
trucks and its convoy of
one motorcycle policeman at
Sixth street and Elizabeth
avenue, on the edge of the
business section, raked the
streets with hand machine
guns and sawedoff shot
guns, broke into the truck,
and escaped with five bags
of mail. John Ense, a we'll
known semi professional
ball player and driver of
the truck, was toppled to
the pavement, t, fat ally
wounded, in the first round
Iof shots.
The others wounded were:
Patrick F. quinn, Enso's helper;
Policeman Jacob christman, and Ar
thur Decauter, a pystander.
force of SIS state troopers. were
mustered and deployed abopt tbo
Watshung mountains in the belief
That the gunrnen were at bay. Major
Mark O. Kihberling, in charge, sent
for reinforcements of SO men.
The robbers victims were shown no
mercy AS the truck drew up to tile
Sixth street intersection with Eliza
beth avenue, the leading bandit car
containing four men. pulled up i'm
front of the truck. Ense applied thu
the rear, crashing into Policeman
Christman and throwing him from
his motorcycle
/ AS the cars came to stop, men
leaped from both machines Three
turned their attention to the men on
the drivers seat of the truck, and
Christman. Operating their sen1i-ma
chine guns from the shoulder thd
robbers sent a spray of bullets in ali
directions. christman was shot as he
lay helpless beneath his machine.
Quinn, jumping from his seat with q
pistol in his left hand, was incapaci-,
tated by bullet throughgNthe wrist
Ense was shot through the head and
fell unconscious, dying in a few min
utes.
The three who were not firing at
the victims formed a circle about
the automobiles and set UP hail of
IS calibre bullets and slugs,. which
sent the few pedestrians on the
streets scurrying to cover.
A large crowbar and wire nipper
were used TO gain entry to the truck
'Of the mail sacks contents, more
tnan 100000 was known OF have
been consigned to the Elizabeth Rort
/, Trust company. Bank officials would
not reveal the exact amount.
Elizabeth police tonight held as
Ilsuspects three men who are free on
bail in connection with other crimes
They were Frank Barra, former sea-
] MAJ, on the steamship George Wash-
ing ton, and implicated in a $4,000
mail robbery on that boat; Lee Nc
Richie, accused Of hoidup in a
] Staten Island ferry three months ago,
4 and Mutton" Syms, awaiting trial
i an a charge of implication in the
(ConSinued on PAGE Eighty
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-15
GREATEST DIRIGIBLE,
LOS ANGELES, ON WAY
TO DETROIT TONIGHT

AKRON, O., oct. IA P-The dirigi-
lie Los Angeles passed over here at
1859 o'clock tonight. Although be-
hind the schedule the pfg ship wai
speeding. along at rate estimated
to bring her to her mast in Detroit
soon after o'clock tomorrow morn
ing.
The big silver ship loomed sudden
ly out Of the darkness anc passet
directly over the heart of the city
Crowds had been anx:ous:y waiting
for a glimpse of it for three hours
HEADS FOR DETROIT
LAKEHURST, N. j., Oct. Ia Or
Continued on rage Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-15
MISS X" IS
RACHEL WELLS
SAYS WITNESS
HALLO OF JUSTICE, LOS

ANGELES, Oct. IA (AP)-
The woman who made affi-
davits at Salinas, Calf,
that she was Miss x" Of
the Aimee Mcpherson case,
and occupied for 10 days a
cottage at Carmel with
Kenneth G. Ormiston, was
Miss Rachel Wells, of Phil
adelphia, it was testified
today by Mrs. Lorrain e
Wiseman-Sielaff.
The testimony was made while Mrs.
Wiseman, San Francisco stenogra-
pher, was on the stand in the pre-
liminary hearing of the Los Angeles
evangelist on charges of criminal con-
spiracy to defeat justice.
Mrs. Wiseman declared she sent
money given her by Mrs. Mcpherson
to Miss Wells at Philadelphia to come
here and pose as the Carmel cottage
companion of Ormiston, former radio
operator of Mrs. McPherson's Angelus
temple in this city.
w. r Gilbert, chief Of Mrs. Nc
Pherson'ss counsel, failing in an ef-
fort to attack Mrs. Wiseman's COM
potency as a witness on the ground
that she is not mentally responsible,
asked if she had rot taken her sister
to Salinas and presented here at tho
office of Judge }. A. Bardin as tho
Miss x" nf Carmel.
Miss Wiseman. however, insisted
that it was Miss Wells who accom-
panied here on the trip which she
testified was part Of a plan to de-
ceive the public into the belief that
it was not Mrs. Mcpherson who oc-
cupied the Carmel cottage for 10 days
of the five weeks which interviewed
between the evangelist's disappear
ence 1T n beach near here and her
temperance at Douglas. Ariz
Mrs. Wiseman said she had known
de!phia Miss Wells returned to San
Francisco about August IL and the
witness met her in the lobby of the
Y w c. A On August IA she went
there as ''AIrs. Wiseman and sistef.'
to Salinas. registering in the hotel
there as Mrs Wisernan and sister
The next day Roland Rich Woolley
one Of the attorneys for Mrs. McPher
sen, being present. they went to the
office of Judge Bardin. The affida.
vits-one by "NIiss X' and another
by Mrs. Wiseman, to the effect that
they were with Ormiston at CARMEL
were drawn Up and Miss Wells ani
Mrs. Wiseman returned to Los Ange
les, the witness testified.
Can you produce anything to show
that Miss Wells ever existed?:" asked
Gilbert.
Not at the present time" replies
Mrs. wiseman.
The witness said she believed Mis-
Wells was NOW in New Orleans.
Today's hearing opened with
quarrel between S. S. Hahn, attorne,
for Mrs. Wiseman, and Gilbert, TIL
two attorneys attempting to exchang
blows. Hahn accused Gilbert of is
suing statements branding Mrs
Wiseman "liar." Gilbert retorto
shat he was prepared to back up any
thing he said, when Hahn was cred
tied with striking at the defense at
torney, who attempted to return tn
blow. Others at the table intervenea.
Gilbert questioned Mrs. Wiseman a
length regarding where she had liv"
during the past Is or 20 years. final
ly coming to July OF this year, wha
the witness SAID she had met "M'
Martin"
Court was recessed until 10 a. n
tomorrow.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-15
Plan Protest

NEW YOSK. Oct. IA R-Prepara-
t;ons were completed today by the
New York. section of the 1nterna'
tional Labor Defense for an open air
mass meeting on tine day that Queen
Marie arrives, protesting the med
ieval tortures" it is alleged are be-
ing inflicted on $500 political prison
Crs in Rumania.
A call was issued to the city's
workers to meet in Union Square
shortly after the hour of the queens
debarkation Monday, ''to express
their condemnation of the Runaniar
authorities for their brutal treatment
of political prisoners"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
Hathaway InstaIls New
Camp of United Spanish
War Veterans in Yuma

Tn the presence of large num-
her of wives, relatives and members
and a delegation from Phoenix, Will
liam e. Marvin, Camp No. 9, Depart
ment of Arizona, United Spanish war
Veterans, of Yuma, was formally IN
stituted Saturday might by William
G. Hathaway of Douglas, department
commander. The meeting was held
in the Elks club which was kindly
donated to the veterans for this oc-
casion.
During the work of instituing ana
installing, Commander Hathaway was
assisted by C. Emmet Newton OF
Phoenix Camp No. /, who occupied
+he chair of senior vice commander
Past Commander George w. Stokes
of Phoenix Camp No. 1, as junior
commander; Miss Rebekah Horn
a Spanish American War nurse ana
the, only active woman member OF
spanish American War veteran camp
in the state, as chaplain, and Q. "
Kinter as master of ceremonies.
II is the first time in the history
of the Organization IN the state that
three department officers were IN
attendance at the institution OF q
Camp. and C. " Kinter has the hon
or of being the only man in the state
to hold two commissions from the
national department to organize
camps in the state department.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
Bank of CIemenceau is
Rapidly Forging Ahead

j. H. Calvert, formerly employed
at the Bank OF Douglas zere and
NOW cashier at the Bank Of Glenn
enceau at Clemenceau, sent the fol-
lowing article to the Dispatch from
the Verde Copper News concerning
the fine showing of the latter bank,
believing that it will be of interest
Ito local folks:
The year-end statement of the
Bank of Clemenceau, shows the splen-
did condition of this sterling insti-
tuition which is rapidly becoming one
of the leading banks of the north
ern part of the state.
The growth of this bank is most
strikingly shown in the following
figures:
Deposits December 81, 1921, $751;
7O3.7S.
deposits December 81, 1922, $2S8,-
G28.43.
Deposits, December 81, 1928, $751;
5s6.45.
Deposits, December 81, 1924, $685.
544O8.
Deposits, December 81, 1925, $41s,-
o72.14.
The bank was organized on No
vember 5, 1920, and was opened for
business on February 8, 1921. Since
that date. its history has been one
of continued expansion and progress.
Within the week, it came to the
rescue Of the city Of Prescott, the
funds of which were tied up in the
recent bank failures, with a loan of
$35, ,OO0 The institution is a credit to
the community and one of the most
substantial and most conservative
banking institutions in the south
wet. It's many friends will rejoice
to know of its continued progress and
prosperity.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
PRINCETON MAN
FINDS HISTORIC
DATA in ARIZONA

PRINCETON, II. j., Jan. 13.-Foot"
prints to be those of the earliest
land vertebrae, described as a race
animals that evolved directly from
the fish, were discovered in the
Grand Canyon recently by r. Milton
Fulle, of Montclair n. ]. member OF
the senior class at Princeton, it was
announced today. Plaster casts OF
the footprints were made and are
being studied at the national mu-
scum of natural history Fulle came
upon the footprints just off the
Yaki trail in the Grand Canyon
where he spent three days with DR..
r.. M. Field of the geological depart
ment. The footprints are thought to
be those of an ancestor of the frog
or salamander and Il not distant re-
lative of the Dawn Fish," traces OF
which recently were discovered by
DIR. Howell of the Princeton faculty
The Grand Canyon amphibian was
much larger than either the frog
or salamander, since the foot prints
| are four inches in diameter and the
weight of the creature made an I'M
] preston in the mud an inch deep
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
Will
NOT DELAY TAX
BILL PASSAGE

WASHINGTON, Jan. Y3.-Natlonal
democratic party leaders today sent
word to minority members OF the
senate finance committee who have
sponsored a substitute tax reduc-
tion program, urging them to facili-
tate early passage of the penang
revenue bill even at the expense OF
success of their plan.
After a conference with Glenn Sha-
yre. chairman of the democratic ma
tional committee, Senator Slmmons
Of North Carolina, ranking democrat
on the committee, reiterated that ne
expected his program for Increased
tax reduction to be approved by the
senate. but that he would not hold
IN passage of the bill in the effort
to bring about it's adoption, On the
contrary, he said, he was ready 10
fight for early passage.
The national party leaders were
not represented specifically as OPP
posed to the sub program, which
calls for tax reduction totaling l$5OO,-
100000 instead of $330,0O0,O0O as
written into the nom partisan house
bill but it was made clear that they
believed early enactment of the
measure to assure tax reduction by
March is, was more important
A similar view is held by Presl-
dent COOLIDGE
With only few more rate sched-
ules to be acted upon the COM
day in hearing representatives OF the
special committee which investigated
the internal revenue bureau. Con-
sideration was given particularly to
the question of discovery depletion
allowances to oil and mining com
panies. Chairman Smoot announced
that the committee appeared to ia
vor a new form of taxation for
these companies, relieving them from
the corporation tax and repeating
the allowances for deductions for
discovery depletion. A tax on the
net income from operations or a
small levy on gross production were
proposed and taken under considera-
tion.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
ARIZONA FOLK
In BIG CHURCH
TIFF IN CALF.
lBx Dispatch A. p. Wirel

REDLANDS, Calf, Jan. 49,
Stormy scenes marked the justice
court trial here Tuesday of Mrs. Bes-
sic Barnett, leader Of the opposition
in the controversy that has split the
First Christian church Of Redlands.
Mrs Barnett is on trial on a charge
of disturbing the peace at the
church. The trial was preceded to-
day by a fist fight in the courtroom
which resulted in the filing of a
complaint by Mrs. Barnett against
the Rev c. j. Upton, whom she
charges with striking her Witness
es declared that words were ex-
changed between Mrs. Barnett and
Upton, one of the "ins" in the church
dispute and that he s.apped Mrs.
Barnett as she advanced coward him.
Upton denied that he struck Mrs.
Barnett, and said he merely raised
his hands to defend himself George
Knox, of the opposition" attempted
to separate the pair, but was struck
by Upton, he declared, Knox knocked
the minister to the floor.
Bystanders stopped the fight, The
encounter in the courtroom overshad-
owed the testimony in the case. Mrs.
Bert Osbun, Jr., a witness for the
prosecution, testified regarding the
disturbance at the church.
Mrs. Barnett told me she came to
break up the meeting and to clean
out the house of the Lord, the wit
ness said. She said there had been
considerable talk that the "opposi-
tion'' planned shooting. When the
Rev. r. Glenn Edwards, pastor of
the church, the last witness today,
took the stand, Mrs. Barnetts at
torneys attempted to question him
regarding a church trial in Arizona
and the court sustained objections to
this The court likewise sustained
an objection to a question as to
whether Edwards has borrowed
money from Mrs. Barnett. Mrs. Bar
nett came to Redlands from Arizona
and opened attacks on Edwards,
against whom he filed suit in the
supreme court to collect a Judgment
rendered in Arizona courts for SLAM
der Members of the church board
were acquitted last week of battery
charges brought by Mrs. Barnett.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
DANE COOLIDGE, AUTHOR OF NOTE,
NOW VISITING DOUGLAS, WRITES
OF TRUE LIFE OF The PIONEERS

Realistic writing-writing which
deals with life in the great south
west as it was truly lived in the pi-
oneer days-such is the type of liter
ary art which Dane Coolidge, a quiet
spoken, friendly and unassuming man
on the early side of middle age, now
visiting in Douglas, prefers to offer
the reading public.
And with his university education
and a love of this part of the coun-
try and its early characters to serve
him as a backgrounds, this author
seems destined to fulfill his desire
with pleasing success. Two novels
year has been the literary average
maintained by the writer for some
time and until this date, he has
written 27 of them, 13 of which nave
been published in book FORM At
present he is in Douglas and vicinity
from his home at Berkeley, Calf,
to gain some historical facts about
the famous cowman, Colonel Bill
Green, who located Cananea and who
was genuine personification of all
that the west was, when young.
"Rim Rock Jones' was one of the
it dealt with the west of the years
gone by, telling of such famous char
acters as Col. Green. In 1915 this
story was produced in the movies
with the late Wallace Reid in the
title role, and then it was published
in book form as the Desert Trail.
Some six years or more ago, Cool
idge finished THE Land of Broken
Promises" a tale of Nacozari in the
days when it was just coming into
being and this was published in Mum
sey's Magazine. Then there is the
book, "The Fighting Fool" with its
scenes laid in the Sulphur Springs
valley and having such towns as
Tombstone, Douglas and Bisbee as
it's back ground. In these novels, as
in all that he intends to write, Dane
Coolidge first seeks the life facts Oh
his characters and of the country
about which he narrates, rather than
using lust a growing imagination.
He studies and knows his characters
SO that his novels carry with them
a tone of conviction and truthfulness,
Recently, Coolidge has finished
novel dealing with the aspirations,
the philosophy and the dreams OF
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
5 POUNDS MORE
IN THIRTY DAYS

Ask Douglas Drug Co. or any drug
gist for box of McCoy's Cod Liver
Oil Compound Tablets. They cost but
little, are sugar coated and as pleas
ant to take as candy.
Skinny men and women take them
to speedily put on plenty of good
healthy solid flesh and for this pur-
pose they are so extremely good that
thin men and women often take on
pounds or more in so days. AS a
matter of fact, your druggist is au-
thorized to return your money if you
don't take on pounds in 80 days.
One thin woman gained Is pounds
in six weeks.
Be sure and ask for McCoy's, the
original and genuine Cod Liver Oil
Compound Tablets - go Tablets - SO
cents.-Advt.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
BANK BURGLARS
STAGE FIASCO
ON JAN. 18th
lRy Disnatch A. z. Wirel

FLINT, Mich, Jan. 13. Thirteen
minutes after o'clock in the after
noon, on the thirteenth day of jan
uary should have been a warning
to four Toledo, Ohio, bank robbers,
if they had been more attentive to
the study of superstition. Soothing
at the Hhirteen superstition the
quartet robbed the Bank of Hadley,
at Hadley, a town of 800 population
near here, stepped out of the front
door with bags of gold and currency
in their hands-and were greeted
with a fusillade of shot.
Three of the men fell wounded in
the snow, dropping their money bags,
The fourth reached the waiting auto
mobile and escaped from Hadley, on
ly to drive into the hands of state
police from Flint.
The robbers car appeared in Had
ley about 2 o'clock this afternoon
and drove through the main street
slowly several times. 1t was 2:lS
D. m. according to B, F. Hadley,
telephone exchange manager, when
the car stopped in front of the bank
and the four got out. Hadley's sus-
picions were aroused. The men were
all strangers to him and he wondered
Nhat business they had with the
bank He watched.
A moment later one of the men ap-
peared at the bank window and
pulled down the shade. Hadley's sus-
nicions crystallized into certainty and
he quickly went to storekeepers OF
the town, telling what he had seen'
and organized a posse.
The posse armed with rifles, shot
guns and revolvers, advanced on the
bank from every side. They were
close to the entrance when the un-
suspecting robbers stepped from the
door.
Fire opened. The first tvolley
dropped the three men. The fourth
reached the waiting car and drove
out of gunshot range. Ira Jones, 5O
year old, a Hadley citizen who was
lust entering the bank when -the
firing started, was wounded, possibly
morta1ly.
Telephone wires had been cut, but
Hadley finally was able to reacf
Flint with news of the holdup. State
nolice Immediately. started for the
village, meeting the escaping robbel
en- route. A quick exchange of shots
and this member of the robber banc
was wounded and captured. He sale
he was William Willard, S5 years
old. The other robbers were Harole
Anderson, 23 years old; Fred Will
liams. "a and Andrew BARRY, US
An were shot in the leg and theil
wounds were said to be not serious
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14

the law be made more specific with
respect to deductions on account of
amortization and depletion. A. w.
Gregg, solicitor OF the bureau, told
the committee that many of the
complaints of the special investiga-
ting committee already had been
Incorporated in the bureaus spolicy.
The committee will continue it's
consideration of the Couzens COM
mittee report tomorrow and then
will end up it's work on the rate
schedules. 1t has yet to act on the
inheritance, stamp and alcohol taxes,
and the proposal of the house bill
for repeal of the provision allowing
publication of income tax returns.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14

ate finance committee democrats for
an, increase of $17O,OOO,OOO over the
total of tax reduction provided by
the house measure would be unwise
from an economic STANDPOINT and
would involve a party fight which
might delay prompt action.
Senator Simmons, of North Caro-
lima, ranking democrat on the COM
mittee announced today however,
that although the committee had re-
jected the plan for increased re-
duction to gain enough support in
the senate for it's adoption.
AT the same time, he insisted that
fight for adoption of the amend
ments proposed by the minority
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14

members would not be permitted to
prevent final action on the bill be-
fore March 1, the present program
of leaders of both parties.
With most of the rate schedules
provided by the non-partisan house
measure already approved, the SEN
ate finance committee turned it's
attention today to suggestions for
changes in the administrative pro-
visions of the law from representa-
tives of the special senate committee
which Investigated the internal rev.
enue bureau.
Chairman Couzens of this COM
mittee presented it's report and Fl.
l.. Manson, it's attorney asked that
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
OFFICER is CENSOR.

CASPER, Wyo., Jan. 1S. - Harry
Brown, Casper motorcycle patroman,
was called upon to be a judge OIL
modesty in art Monday when cltl-
zens protested against a large snow
venus occupying the site in front Of
&. gasoline filling station. The snow
venus differed from the original
statue chiefly in the fact that the
maker had rouged the icy lips and
moulded a rose where shoulder
strap might have been but wasn't.
officer Brown investigated, decided
the statue wasn't immoral and would
not last beyond the first warm day
anyway.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
STATE OFFICIAL
OF ELKS TO BE- !
HERE TONIGHT

]. Knox Kent, of Miami, district
deputy grand exalter ruler of Ari-
iona south, for the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, will pay
his official visit to the local lodge
of Elks on Thursday evening. All
members of the organization are re-
quested by Exalter Ruler G. B. Flem-
ing to attend the regular lodge meet
ing, at which time Kent will be in
attendance. There will be refresh-
ments for all present following the
close of the lodge session.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14

One lot Of silk and wool dresses,
broken lots and sizes, regular values
to $12.95, during this sale, your
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14
COOLIDGE BELIEVES
NON-PARTISAN TAX
MEASURE DESIRABLE

WASHINGTON, Jan. l3. NUH-
nartisan action by the senate on the
house revenue BILL to assure its
enactment before March Is when
first income tax installments are
due, is, in the opinion of President
Coolidge, highly desirable.
He believes the program of SEN