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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
HONEY DEW MELON
PICKED LAST FALL
is STILL DELICIOUS

That honey dew melon grown in
this section in the summer season
may be easily kept and shipped to
eastern markets at Christmas time
is the contention of J. w. Taylor of
1919 Twenty first street, who is
proving that fact.
Yesterday Taylor brought melon
into the Dispatch office which he
has kept in his. cellar without any
special care since the time of the
county fair last November. 1t was
in excellent condition and Taylor be-
lieves that if the dry farmers of this
section would store their honey dew
melons they would find them in good
enough condition to ship to New
York at Christmas time and thus
realize considerable profit on them.
This marks the second year which
TAYLOR has kept melon of this
nature in his cellar, last year stor-
ing it from fair time until the fifth
of February and this time saving it
until the 18th of February, In each
instance the fruit was in excellent
condition.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
NEW S. P. TRACKAGE
TO PHOENIX READY
JULY 1--W. DOUGLAS

Trackage on the new main line Of
the Southern Pacific thorugh Phoenix
will be completed by July 1, Walter
Douglas, ia director of the Southern
Pacific company and president of the
Phelps Dodge company, stated last
night upon his arrival at Douglas in
his private car.
The copper situation in the opinion
of the official is now more encourag-
ing than at any time during the last
five years. Mr.. Douglas came to this
city from Phoenix Saturday and is
accompanied by Mrs. Douglas and his
three daughters, Elizabeth, Katherine
and Naomi. He is expected to be the
guest of honor at the newspaper pub
fishers banquet at the Social club,
Aqua Prieta, Monday evening.
Two weeks ago Friday, Mi. Douglas
and several other prominent Southern
Pacific officials stopped in Douglas
for a few hours enroute to the in
terror of Mexico in "a special train Of
five private cars.
Accompanying Douglas and his
family on the special train into Mex
leo were H. S. Titcomb, president of
the Southern Pacific of Mexico, Dave
Goodrich of the Goodrich Rubber
company; r. H. Harkness, a director
OF the Southern Pacific and his FAM
ily; A. E. sweet Of Ell Paso, assistant
general manager of the S. r., and L..
e. Morris of El Paso, superintendent
of the Rio Grande division of the
Southern Pacific.
On this trip the officials visited
new construction work on the South
erm Pacific of Mexico on the west
coast between Topic and Guadalajara.
Although work on this project was
delayed considerably by the recent
rains and floods in the district, com
paratively little damage was done to
the work, he said, as the large re-
ported losses of the company in the
section occurred on older sections of
the line The first through traffic
on this new line will begin about the
middle of December, according to
present plans, Mr.. Douglas said
The new line will open up one OF
lthe largest and richest agricultural
districts of Mexico, according to Mr..
Douglas, who stated that although
Vegetable crops grown in the secuon
were practically the same as those
grown in California and Arizona,
they would not compete with the To-
cal crops because seasons in the
Mexican districts at different times
of the year, Mexico would supply
markets of this country at interven-
! ing times, he said over 5000 cars
Of green vegetables We're shipped
from the West Coast of Mexico to
eastern markets of the United States
last year, he said.
In summing up the copper outlook
Mr.. Douglas said that market ihdlca-
tions were statistically more encour-
aging at this time than they ihaVe
been for the past five years. With
the many new uses of copper that
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
M'CRECOR WILL
GIVE ADDRESS
ON RIVER PLANS


The Douglas League Of Women
Voters this month is studying all
available. data from many sources
on the development of the Colorado
river. Many of the units are holding
weekly study periods of varying
lengths and a great deal is being
accomplished in the way of prepara-
ton for complete and Intelligent
understanding of the speaker for
this month A. G. McGregor Of War
rem, we'll known engineer.
McGregor has promised a clear and
nom political survey of events leading
up to the present critical Colorado
river situation in which matters now
stand for Arizona. In view Of the
widespread interest in the, subject,
the local league is sending out in
vitations to the mayor and city
council the chamber of commerce
and the Kiwanis club to be at the
Episcopal Parish house on the eve
ming of Thursday, February 25,
where rMcGregor will speak. The
invitation is extended through the
the press to all other Interested men
voters Of Douglas The women Of
the league will serve hot coffee and
sandwiches after the address and
there will be opportunity to talk in
formally with the speaker on any
puzzling points which may arise.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
(By Dispatch A. P. w.ro)

WASHINGTON, Feb. Exchanging
the Anti-Saloon league with exercis-
ing an "insidious influence" over the
treasury department. in the appoint
ment of prohibition enforcement Of
ficers, Representative Britten, repub7
lican, Illinois today introduced res.
olut1on to Investigate the activities
of that organization.
The inquiry was requested, the res
olution said, because high officials
of the league or it's subsidiaries have
been sent to prison for collecting
money under false pretenses, and al
so because it has been shown that
.tEe high officials of one state We're
81 the leagues payroll while serving
in3 their respective offices. Although
he resolution mentions no names, :
Britten said in a statement it refers
Indirectly to VIM. H. Anderson, head
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
FINAL YOTEON
ARMY BILL WILL
COME TUESDAY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-The house
virtually completed consideration OF
the army appropriation bil1 today ap
proving $5O,OOO,OOO. for rivers and
harbors, $1S,O5O,OOO for aviation, ano
funds to maintain the army, national
guard and organized reserves at
their present strength. final vote
on the measure was deferred until
Tuesday.
While the bill was being discussed
Representative Bason, republican,
New York. announced that he was
drafting a resolution for investiga~
ton into the condition of the army,
and would press it unless the senate
restored the positions of several
thousand commissioned officers
which otherwise would be abolished
by the army measure. Consideration
of sections alloting funds for nation
al homes for disabled volunteer sol
diers provoked a sharp debate, in
which the subsistence provided IN
these Institutions was attacked.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14

Ships at sea reported last night
that they We're fighting high seas and
hurricane winds while the surf
shore-side was smashing down sea-
walls, beacA homes and pleasure piers
Wind and surf kept all craft har-
bor-bo while playing havoc with
the light shipping off shore. At San
Pedro a heavy southwesterly gale
put a stop to all fishing operations
tore targets of the United States
battle fleet adrift from their moor
ings and broke many yacht anchor
ropes, setting these craft adrift. The
concrete floor of the municipal pier
at Santa Monica had sagged to such
an extent today that police ordered
all spectators and workmen to leave
the structure.
Flood-lke rains accompanied the
storm, turning streets into miniature
rivers in some of the southern. towns
caving in sections of the coast high
way route near San Juan Capistrano'
and causing big landslides Several
streets in the western section of Los
Angeles and Hollywood were flooded,
with scores of automobiles stalled in
the water.
Apartments at Redondo Beach were
undermined to some extent by the
breakers, and occupants were moving
their effects into the streets. At
Santa Barbara combination of flood
tide and smashing surf carried away
the club house of the Santa Barbara
Yacht club, which had withstood
storms of Is years. Streets near the
Santa Barbara shore line were flood
ed or undermined. At Pismo Beach,
the sun porch of the Hotel wave was
reported to have been torn from the
building. six hundred feet of Ven
turas shipping wharf was carried
away today after resisting a long
pounding by the surf. Water tlooded
high into the beautiful homes OF
Jesse Lasl1y, y oseph Schenck the mo-
tion picture magnates, Tom Bundy'
noted tennis player, and a number
of others at Santa Monica, while
south of Venice many other resi-
dences were undermined, including
that of Edward Everett Horton, stage
and screen actor. Some Of these
homes were on the verge of collapse
Some hundreds of miles north the
destructive sea smashed down Sc
ries of sea walls and beach struc-
lures at Santa Cruz and Capltola'
swept into the seaward side or the
big Sutro Baths in San Francisco
taking several tiers of windows with
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
TIAJUANA CAFE
OWNER HELD FOR
ATTACK GOES ON
A HUNGER STRIKE
Luis AmadOr First Attempts
to Cut Wrists With
Razor Blade.
FACES SPEEDY TRIAL
Charged With Assault Upon
Peteet Girl, Led to Fam
iIy's Suicide.
nv Dispatch A. r wnel


TIJUANA, Mexico, Feb lat was
learned tonight that the defense Of
Zenaido Llanos, chief of police, held
in prison here in connection with the
alleged attacks last week on the
Peteet girls will be that he Is ply
sically incapable of the crime OF
which he is accused.
TIAJUANA, l.. c., Feb. lS.-Luls
Amador, Tiajuana saloon proprietor
charged jointly with Chief of Police
zenaido Llanos of attacking Clyde
and Audrey Peteet, after being
thwarted in suicide attempt this
morning, announced his intention to
go on a hunger strike. Amador's
suicidal attempt was with a safety
razor blade with which he succeeded
in slashing one of his wrist before
the jailor discovered his act and
took the blade from his.
The prisoner. in morose and nerv-
GUS state, announced that he would
eat no food. Mexican officials say
that the mans mind is probably af-
fected.
Final depositions of the seven men
prisoners held in connection with the
attacking of the girls and resulting
in a suicide pact, in which the girls
and their father and mother killed
themselves, were taken today. Those
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14

are now being employed, including
an extensive use in the east of brass
pipes in plumbing, the vast amount
of copper being used in construction
of new telephone systems and in con-
nection with hydro electric projects,
he predirts marked increase in the
demand for the protuct. Nearly 100
per cent more copper was uset in the
United States during 1925 than in
1913, the first year preceding the
World War, he said.
While in Phoenix, the director ac-
companied by Chief Engineer Boschlle
of the Southern Pacific company, left
for an inspection trip to the con-
struction work on the new line west
of Hassayampa. They went to the
end of the track about 20 miles west
of Hassayampa and from That point
went over the work by motor.
Construction is progressing satis-
factorily and the road is expected to
be open for through traffic by Jan
uary i, 1927, Mr.. Douglas declared
yesterday.
The two bridges at Wellton and
near Florence, which have been
among the most comprehensive engi-
neering features. of the main line
construction, will be completed by
June l, according TO present plans,
Mr. Douglas said, The remainder of
track on the line will be in place by
the first of the month following al
though the roadbed will, not be in
shape for through traffic until sew
eral months later, he said.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
tBy Dispatch A. P. wire>

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ia House
leaders served notice today that they
would insist on restoration to the
revenue bin of some of the federal
taxes wiped out by the senate in
going more than $125,OOO,OOO beyond
the total of $SSO,OOO,OOO reduction
proposal for this year by the house.
Opening of the conference between
representatives of the senate and
house at which differences will be
ironed out, delayed until Monday
The general feeling prevailed to-
day on both sides of the capitol that
the $23, 100000 additional reductions
provided by increased cuts in the
surtax rates applying on incomes be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 as voted
by the senate would be acceptable.
These cuts were made at the insist
ence of senate democrats in the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
EARL OF CRAVEN
May BE ORDERED
TO LEAVE u. 5.
(By Dispatch A. 2. Wirel


NEW YORK, Feb 13.-The Earl of
Craven may unwillingly follow again
the footsteps of the Countess of
Cathcart, this time on no elopement
to South Africa but thrugh Ellis
Island and out of this country.
Exclusion of the countess by the
immigration authorities while the
Earl Of Craven, named as co-respon-
dent in her husbands divorce suit
remains in New York, has aroused
storm of protest among prominent
women.
H H Curran, commissioner Of i'm
migration, said today that he had
ordered and investigation of the
earl's case.
An inspector was sent to seek
the earl at the address of his uncle,
Major Bradley Martin, on Park ave-
nue., but he could not be found. Cur
ran said he would be questioned and
information on his case referred to
Secretary of Labor Davis, the only
person having the right to issue a
warrant of arrest and to decide on
deportation. He said the earrs case
was being pressed as vigorously as
that of the countess and would be
thoroughly investigated, no matter
what the outcome of hers.
clause in section 10 of the inn
migration act of 1917, which covers
the exclusion of the countess on the
grounds of admitting Commission of
an act involving moral turpitude, +"
covers also the deportation of any
alien already in the country who ad-
mits to the commission, before en-
trance, of any felony or crime in
volving moral turpitude." The COM
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
House Leaders Will Insist On
Restoration in ReUenue Bill
or Some Taxes Cut BY Senate

much discussed compromise by which
they accepted the 20 per cent max
imum surtax figures.
While house spokesmen today
vented their wrath on "the wild tax
cutting" engaged in by the senate,
leaders of the latter body took the
day off to relax from the strain Of
the more than two weeks constant
driving which preceded final enact
ment of the bills, 5S to 8, last night.
Predicting that the house con-
ferees will "rigidly insist" on
changes in the senate BILL Represen-
tative Tilson, of Connecticut, the
republican leader, issued statement
today defending terms of the house
bill. Tilson endorsed personally the
repeal of the inheritance, automobile,
admissions and dues taxes but be-
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
Congressman Asks Inquiry Of
Insidious Influence of National
Anti-Saloon Leagues Actions

of the Anti-Saloon league of New
York, who has just completed a term
in the penitentiary. 1t also refers
indirectly to Justice Richard ]. Hop
kins of the state supreme court and
Attorney General Charles B. Griffith,
both of Kansas, who We're credited
with being on the payroll of the
league. after IAN investigation of the
leagues affairs in Topeka, Kansas.
The resolution would provide for
appointment of a special congression-
al committee to conduct the inquiry
and would authorize an appropriation
of $4,000 to defray expenses.
"This expenditure is trivial" Brit,
ten said, when compared with the
$1S, ,OO0,OO it will cost the taxpayers
this year to enforce the silly .Vol-
stead law. The investigation would
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
Petting Parties Cheap
and Drinking Passe in
Ocky Mountain Schools

FORT COLLINS, Colo, Feb. Ia
Petting parties are cheap and
drinking among college students
is passe, cO-eds from nine Rocky
Mountain universities and colleges
decided here today Mt conference
of associated women students.
Although the conference passed
resolutions cOndemning pcttinG
and drinking, it passed up mention
of smoking among women students.
Conference leaders said the smOlx-
ing problem was mot serious
enougR' in this region to warrant
amy definite acFiOn.
The conference did not map out
rigid program, but was planned
with the view of delegates carry
ing back to their own schools the
problems of campus morality
discussed at the meeting.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
{. c. BERGDOLL.
IN I T0|LS Of.
GERMAN LAWS.
(By Dispatcf A. p. wirel

MOSBACH, Baden, Ger,
Feb. 13.-Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, war time United
States draft evader, was
arrested today in a hotel
in the village Of Hueffern-
hardt, once the home of his
mother, Mrs. Emma G.
Bergdoll, Of Philadelphia,
and is now l6dged in the
Mosbach jail.
He was taken on the complaint of
a private detective named Sachs, said
to be a German American, who al
legged that three years ago Bergdoll
seduced a girl in Heidelberg. The
police, who are holding Bergdoll on
an open charge while investigating
the charges against him, refused TO
divulge the name and age of the
girl, but Sachs has undertaken to
produce her to substantiate his allega-
ton.
The detective, who now lives in
Frankfoft-on Main, has been making
an investigation regarding Bergdoll
in this neighborhood but his mo-
tives have not been fully disclosed
The police said today they believed
the complaint is backed by persons
desiring to be revenged against
Bergdoll on account of his killing one
member of a party which tried to
kidnap him at Eberbach on August
H. 1928, and wounding another.
Villagers in this district assert that
they have overhead Sachs saying,
"I'll get something on Bergdoll yet.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
SNOW AT FLAGsTAFF
NV Dispatch a. p. Wire)

FLAGSTAFF, Fep. 13.-Three inches
of snow fell here today in a storm
that was general in the northern
part of the state. Grand Canyon,
Prescott Seligman and Winslow all
reported snow fall
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
sURPRTsE TO RELATIvEs

EBERBACH, Germany Feb. 13.-
The arrest of Grover Cleveland Berg
doll and his detention at Mosbach
was complete surprise to the draft
evader relatives here. His maternal
uncle, John Bonrmann,. owner of the
hotel which was the scene of the
sensational attempt to kidnap Berg
doll in 1923 asserted today that he
knew nothing of his nephew's al
Deged relations with Heidelberg
girl.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
AK nisnatch "a P. Wirel

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Feb. 1S-After having
goaded the seas along more than thousand miles OF
coast line into an ORGY of distinctions storm of record
size and force was moving swiftly inland tonight
wake of shattered beach structures from an Francisco
to San Diego three dead and at least two sturdy shS
hopeessv battered and broken left as mementos
of the disturbance
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14
BUILDINGS ON BEACH
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
TO SAN DIEGO DOWN

Three Lives Lost Ashore-Shps at Sea Report Fighting
Terrific Storm that Goaded Seas to Fury Along 1000
miles of COast-Craft HarbOr Bound Flood Like
Rains FaIIing-Los Angeles Hollywood San Juan
CapistranO San Pedro RedOndO Beach, Santa Bar
bara, Pismo Beach, Ventura, Santa Cruz CapitOla,
San Francisco Santa Monica and Venice Damaged.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-14

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-12
CHILEANS ARE ACCUSED.
Summary Hearing Follows Demon
stration Against Americans.

AFRICA, Chile, January u P).-
A summary hearing was held yester-
day at the residence of Cen John ]
Pershing, chairman of the Tacna-
africa plebiscitary commission, as the
result of demonstration in which
about 400 Chileans took part and
which assumed an anti-American
character. The Chilean delegation on
the commission was represented at
the hearing.
The demonstration began when an
American named Lambert, employed
by the Peruvian delegation aboard the
transport Rimac. came ashore to sell
copies of the newspaper published
aboard the Rimac. Near the residence
reserved for the American delegation
he was stopped by a group of Chill
cans. On learning that he was an
American. the crowd, which increa sed
rapidly. raised loud protests against
what they termed american partici-
patton in Peruvian propa ga nda."
An American photogra pher attempt
ed to make a picture of the scene, but
was prevented by the ChileanS. who
said they feared the photographs
would be used for Peruvian propa-
ganda.
The crowd dispersed when police ap-
peared 1t is reported, however, that
William &. Dennis of the American
delegation was addressed in a disre-
spectful manner by Jorge Silva, head
of a local patriotic society, when Mr..
Dennis passed while the demonstra-
ton was at it's height.
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HUGE COUNTERFEIT PLOT GROWS
WITH Z NATIONS NOW INVOLVED
England Drawn Dangerously Close TO Enormous
Conspiracy as Full Extent Becomes Apparent.
Horthy Regime May Lose Control

the first disclosures. Count karolyi
stated fatty that the ringleaders in
the Budapest plots are Germans, nam
ing Gen. Ludendorff as one, while
Judge AlveZ Fereia, in Lisbon, who
is investigating the Portuguese end,
announced that the whole thing Is
BolsheviSt propaganda.
Whether old hungarian royalists
are as deeply implicated in the scan
dals as appears at present remains to
be seen, but even the royalists them
selves no longer deny that they are
being suspected and interrogated and.
in some cases, imprisoned.
fantastic story came from
bucharest today to the effect that
legitimists approached Nadossy, the
hungarian police chief, before his ar
rest and warned him of the approach
ing crash, advising that. in accord
ance with old Hungarian tradition, he
would do well to avoid arrest and dis
grace by committing suicide. Nadossy
refused. whereupOn he was arrested
and the storm broke.
The situation in each of the CAPT
tails concerned is as follows: In Buda
pest 20 men have been put in Jail
including NadoSsy and Prince Ludwig
W lndlSch-GratZ. a member of a ia l.
nous legitimist family. charged with
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MEMORIAL ARMORY
PROPOSED BY CAPPER
Senator Prepares Resolution for
New Guard Home Here 10
Cost 100000.

A joint resolution to provide for u
National Guard armory in Washing
ton, which would also stand as a me
mortal to those who served in the mil
itary and naval forces during the war
was prepared today by Senator Arthur
Capper, chairman of the District com
mittee, and is expected to be intro
duced this afternoon.
The resolution calls for creation Of
a commission. to be composed of the
Engineer Commissioner, director of
Public buildings and grounds and the
commanding officer of the National
Guard. to carry out the plans for the
armory, as submitted by the commits
sion appointed by an act of Congress
in 1908, or modification of those
plans.
a maximum cost of S2,000.ooo is
fixed in the resolution, to be author
lied on the 60.40 ratio between the
United States and District govern
ments The resolution would author
ize S25,0O0 for preparation of speci
fications. 1t is provided that the
building would have to be on ground
owned by the United States, to be Sc
lected by the commission created and
approved by the Fine Arts Commis
sion.
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TROPICS FREEZE WHILE ARCTIC
LANDS BASK In SPRING CLINE
Mexico Shivers, Sunny Naples Snow-Covered and
Icy Winds Sweep U. s., But Bleak Siberia
Enjoys Swimming.

started 10 rise in parts of Minnesota.
Kansas. Nebraska and the Dakotas.
Among the low temperature marks
registered last night We're s below at
Omaha, Nebr.: 4 below at Duluth and
MooSehead, Mimi: Charles City, Iowa,
below. and Minneapolis, zero.
Heavy falls of snow have marked
the latest wave of cold weather, the
white covering being general in
north central States and in the
Rocky Mountain areas. Rescue
workers toiled "a hours to tunnel
through snow 5 feet deep in drifts
between Denver and Limon. Colo.
before 20 persons marooned in auto
mobiles We're rescued. Many trains
moving eastward from Nebra ska We're
delayed
At Chicago the mercury dropped
during the night to eight above.
Snow plows cleared the way for bus
and street car travel.
The temperature in Chicago has
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