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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10

directors at a meeting here today.
Although the directors made no
formal statement of their action it
was intimated that the trip into Mex
leo was deemed exceedingly dan
religious controversy now in prog
ress in the southern republic.
The latest found shack is said to
be located 12 miles below the inter-
national line. Neither Mrs. McPher-
son nor her mother, Mrs. Minnie
Kennedy, would comment on the
boards action.
ssUpon receipt of the report from
the Douglas committee the directors
feel that the, Identification of the
cabin is as complete as can be with
out Sister Mcpherson making the
trip to see it with her own eyes but
conditions are such now that we
won't believe it advisable at this
time" j. w. Arthur, chairman eof
the Angelus Temple board of direc-
tors, said at the conclusion of the
meeting.
Sister Mcpherson has been under
useIU strain ana SINCE ner escape
from her abductors, and the trip, due
to the heat and general weather
conditions would only add to her
hardships,' he added.
Thousands packed Ange1us Temple
today to hear Mrs. Mcpherson
preach. The sermon topic for the
morning service was "The Fiery
Furnace, or the Form of the Fourth, =
while at the afternoon meeting, She
spoke on The World d-Wide Revival
For tonight's sermon, she chose the
subject, Sitting on the Fence
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10
sHEEPHERDER KILLED.

FLAGSTAFF, Aug. s9.-Manual Chris
tine, Mexican sheepherder, was killed
by lightning yesterday on Anderson
Mesa, said a report tonight from Nor
mon lake, 27 miles southeast Of here.
The ground on the Mesa is believed to
be underlined with iron ore.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10
Coolidge Back at
White Pine Camp Monday
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Mrs. Coolidge were greeted warmly by
the people up to the time they left
their train at Gabriels, where they
found a large crowd of natives and
summer residents who gave them a
warm welcome to the Adirondacks once
more.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10
Committee. Not Able to
View Shack Monday

two grocery slips will not hamper the
materially, officials said,
since more than a score OF photostatie
copies of them had been made and
were said OF be as clear as the orig
inals.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10
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Registration at u. of A.
A. is to open Sept. 13
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saturday september is, the close
Of the first week Of the college
year, will be"A'' day, at which time
the freshmen class climbs and !.
paints the laege university symbol
on a. mountain west of town.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10

Rev. wv p Clark of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, stopped fishing long enough to
marry Weldon Miller and Miss Mildred
Cory, who followed him to the creek
when they didn't find him at home.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10

Only blind persons are permitted to
practice massaging in Japan, the law
being designed to give the blind an
opportunity to earn living.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10
WRONG SHACK.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9.-A reporter
and photographer from the Los AM
geles Evening Express, who accom-
panied Aimee Semple Mcpherson on
her last trip to Douglas, Ariz., de-
clared today that the evangelist at
that time inspected the shack re-
ported recently discovered there and
said it was not the one in which
she claimed she was held captive by
lxidnapers.
The newspaper men inspected n
photograph of the most recently
discovered shack and state they were
positive that it was abe one visited
on Mrs. McPhersons last trip to the
border where she appeared June 2s
after five weeks absence from her
Angelus Temple here.
Mrs. Mcpherson was said by her
mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy last
week, to have positively identified
the photograph of the hut as the
one. from which she escaped.
Leslie Gatliff, Douglas police lieu
tenant, when questioned Monday eve
ming regarding the report emanat-
ing from Los Angeles newspaper
that Mrs. Aimee Semple Mcpherson
had previously visited the shack re-
Gently located by him, declared that
to his positive knowledge the
evangelist had never seen the place.
A reporter and photographed
from the Los Angeles Evening Rx-
press are Said to have declared that
the evangelist visited the shack in
question on the occasion of her re-
turn visit to Douglas and at that
time declared that it was not the
one in which she had been i'm
prisoned.
Gatliff. however, declares that he
himself accompanied Mrs. McPher-
son on her search and that she did
not visit the one which he located
during the past week. He explained
that the evangelist, together with
the Los Angeles newspaper men
visited a shack very similar in ap-
pearance to the one recently located
but that it is situated four miles
south.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10
Democrats of Texas
PLACE 2 on Ballot

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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-10
Reports as to Russian
Revolt Mere Fiction

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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16

appearance there, telling her story
of kidnapping and escape.
A few minutes previously Mr.. and
Mrs. o. A. Vicke of Culver City, had
been equally positive in their iden-
tification of Mrs Mcpherson as the
woman seen by them in an autono-
bile passing through Culver City on
the day to Los Angeles and away
from Santa Monica at about or
p. m. on the day she disappeared.
This was about the time or a little
later than the evangelist said she
was kidnapped at the beach There
was no indication, the Vickes said
that the woman was being held in
1.-THE. car against her wishes.
The testimony of Mr.. and Mrs. Wick
was similar to that Of police Capt.
M. o. Barnard and Mrs. Barnard OF
Culver City, who previously told the
jury of Mrs. Mcpherson driving
through Culver City.
The dramatic elements expected
evangelist in the grand jury room
The Jurors had requested that Mrs
Mcpherson bring with her six OF
seven of her workers from the An
gelus Temple garbed in similar style
as herself. She arrived alone, how
ever, and her attorney when asked
why she did SO, replied: I'VE know
all about this and we didn't think
there was any necessity"
Pape was taken into the jury
room first, and few minutes later
! ba c+ AL
not to say anything, entered the
room. She remained standing until
juror told her she was excused.
Pape was reported to have told the
jurors then that he was certain that
Mrs. MCPHERSON was the woman he
saw in Aqua Prieta.
Pape had identified partially H. ID.
Hallenbeck, a friend of Mrs. McPher-
sons and former building inspector at
Angelus Temple, now a rancher near
Yuma, Arizona, as one of the men at
Aqua Prieta, and a call was sent out
for the rancher, but he could not be
located tonight.
AS the grand jury adjourned it was
learned that DdsuNct Attorney Asa
l.. Keyes had received a telegram pun
porting to come from Ormiston, in
which the radio operator said he was
sending the district attorney by air
mail imptrtant documents on the Nc
Pherson case. The telegram was sent
from North Carolina, where, it was
said, Ormiston has been heard from
recently by friends here. The district
attorney, however, refused to disclose
the contents of the telegram.
Milton Carlson, handwriting expert
was said to have testified during the
half hour he was before the grand
jury today that the telegram sent
from Oakland to Mrs. Minnie Mother"
Kennedy, Mrs. McPherson's mother.
three days after the evangelist's dis
appearance and telling her that her
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16
oFFICyER. on WAY
(By Dispatch A. T. wirel

JOLIET, ILL.,, July 15.-P D. Clark
son, chief parole officer of the state
board of pardons and paroles, left
Springfield for Joliet tonight and ex-
pected to proceed from here to No
gales, Arizona, where Charles Dusch-
owski, one of seven convicts who es-
capped from prison here several weeks
ago after killing deputy warden
was reported under arrest.
Duschowski was the alleged leader
of the convict band which made it's
escape Five of the convicts have
been recaptured, and James v. Price
is the only one still at large if Dusch-
owski is in custody.
The message to prison officials here
said that an escaped convict from
Joliet penitentiary was in custody II
Nogales and that his name was
Charles Duschowski, but gave no fur
ther Identification A general prison
shakeup followed the escape and all
seven convicts have been indicted for
the murder of the deputy warden.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16
Jury DECIDES
IN F AVOR OF
ESTATE
(By Dispatch A. p. wire)

BUTTE, Mont, July 15.-The jury in
District Judge ]. ]. Lynchs court to-
night unanimously decided a special
verdict in favor of the estate of the
late Senator w. A. Clark estate.
The jury found that there was no
marriage between Senator William A..
Clark and Tabitha c. (Kate) Brooks,
mother of the three claimants to
daughters share in the $4,000, 600 es-
tate. Answering other interrogatories,
the Jury declared itself satisfied with
evidence of the marriages of Senator
Clark to Kate Stauffer and to Anna
LachapelIe and of the blood relation
ship between the senator and the five
children of those two marriages who
participated under the will. The iden-
tity of the other 1egatees also was eS-
tablished by answers to interrogatories.
TIL everdict in each case was unani-
nous. The jury required about an
hour to answer all of The 15 questions,
but in that time considered them sew
eral times. Appeal will be taken, ac-
cording to Ed c. Hyde, chief counsel
for the claimants, Effie Clark McWil-
liams and Alma E. Clark Hines of
ClarksdaIe, Mo-, and Addie l.. Clark
Miller of Denver Chief reliance in
the appeal, he said, will be placed on
the admission of records of several
Masonic lodges which were presented
to the jury after considerable argu-
ment.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16
GE T S
CATCH OF
FISH THURSDAY
lRx Dispatch A. 2. Mirel

PAUL SMITHS, n. Y, July Is. -
President Coolidge demonstrated to-
DAY beyond question his prowess as a
fisherman. Whipping the rapids of a
swift stream near Fondsby pond on
the old William Rockefeller reserve,
12 miles from the summer White
House, for four hours today he and
his small party of secret service men
returneN to White Pine camp at
O'Clock with 10 pounds OF brook trout.
Coolidge himself caught 80 and
also the two largest of the afternoon,
one weighing a pound and three-quar-
ters and another a pound and quar-
ter. Fishing with worms and batting
his own hook and removing the fish
himself, the president showed keen
zeal for the sport and with reluctance
finally looked at his watch as the sun
was sinking in the west and decided
that it was time to leave for home.
Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him on
the expedition, but did not fish when
the party of a, half dozen, with Oscar
Otis, the camp caretaker, as guide,
clambered over rocks and tried the
many likely looking spots.
1t was near the same pond to which
Coolidge went by invitation early this
week and caught five trout.
1t was the second fishing expedition
of the day for the president, for in
the morning he put out on the waters
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16

I am IMPRESSED sby the. marked con-
fidence of a republican success in the
fall primaries shown in all counties,
was the remark of judge e. S: Clark,
republican candidate for nomination
for governor, who was a visitor in
Douglas Thursday.
Judge Clark, accompanied by H. S.
Corbett OF Tucson, chairman of the
State republican committee, is con-
cluding a hurried tour of the south
ern part of the state and stopped
only a few hours before proceeding
to- Phoenix and points in northern
Arizona.
The platform of Clark, who has q
long period of public service through
out the Al years of his residence in
the state is well known to the citi-
zens' of Arizona. Clark sums it up
briefly in the statement, II stand at
all times for those things which will
in the greatest !dkgree benefit the
people of Arizona"
A native of Maine, Clark settled
in Apache county in 1882, and has
also been resident of Coconino,
Yavapai and Maricopa counties
He began his practice of law in
1894 and has served as district at
torney in both Coconino and Yavapai
counties. He was appointed attorney
general by Governors Joseph Kibbey
and served in that office throughout
the Kibby administration.
In his tour of the southern counties
the republican candidate states that he
has noted evidence in all counties OF
a spirited competition between the
democratic gubernatorial candidates.
Clark will visit the five northern
counties in the state and will then
begin his active campaign with a more
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16

the main gate of the prison on the
pretext of going to work in the prison
fields. Taking Kelley with them in
an automobile. they sped to the out
skirts of Joliet. where they threw
Kelley out of the car. They then
continued until they came to blind
country road, where the car was over
turned and abandoned. The group
then went toward Morris, Ill, where
they found that the alarm of their
escape had been sounded and were
forced to scatter, due to encircling
searching parties. =
For five days Duschowski said he,
wandered through the woods, hiding
under haystacks, coming out after
dark to steal chickens and milk, while
posses rode almost upon him. On the
fifth day of his freedom he was
driven into river to avoid being
recaptured Later he returned to
Joliet, where, he said, he believed he
would not be sought, and stayed there
a day. The next morning ne boarded
a train for Chicago, from which point
he came west, finally arriving in Tue
son, Arizona, from where he made his
way into Old Mexico.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16

Ryan said that 1dentl1lcatloh q
Mrs. Mcpherson had been made by
Dennis Collins, night attendant at
the Salinas garage, frcin photo
graphs shown hin. by Ryan. The
deputy prosecutor volunteered to
bring Collins to Los Angeles to give
his testimony and to fave the evangel-
list before the jury in an attempt to
identify her further.
Ormiston had left his automobile
at Salinas on his way to Los An
geles where he appeared the next
day and denied knowledge of any
facts in connection with Mrs. Nc
Pherson's disappearance, leaving be-
fore he could be questioned in de-
tail. l ma letter to q police officer
here the radio man later denied that
he returned to Salinas for HIS auto
mobile.
Ormiston was involved in the in
vestigation of the Mcpherson case
Immediately following the vanishing
of the evangelist when it became
known that Mrs. Ormiston, prior to
sailing for her home in Australia,
had threatened to sue for a divorce,
citing Ormistons friendship for the
Angelus Temple leader. After Orm-
iston's car had left Salinas it was
reported to have been traced to San
Luis Obispo, where it's driver and
woman registered at a hotel as Mr..
and Mrs Frank Gibson, later driv-
ing south to, be accosted by a news
paper man at Santa Barbara, where
the driver denied he was Ormiston.
The statement of the district at
torney was but one of several sen
sational development just prior TO
the adjournment of the grand jury
until Tuesday morning, when it will
resume it's investigation of Mrs. Nc
Pherson's story of being kidnapped
from Santa Monica May 1S to es-
cape 35 days later when she re-
appeared at Aqua Prieta, Sonora,
Mexico, and was taken to a hospital
in Douglas, Arizona.
c. E. Pape, Tucson, Arizona, auto
mobile man faced the evangelist in
the grand jury room and is reported
by officials to have been positive
in his Identification of her as a
woman whom he had seen in Aqua
Prieta with another woman and two
men three days before she made her
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16
.BARRISTERS OF
u. S. SEEK WAY
TO AID COURTS
tBy Dispatch A. P. wire)

DENVER, July 15.-Indicted before
the bar of public opinion by its own
members on charges of failure to hold
public confidence and inability to en-
force the law against marauding GRIM
inals, the American judiciary today
started the taking of testimony in an
effort to fix punishment for it's dere-
lictions, which shall at the same time
be remedy for existing conditions.
Sitting as an inquisitorial body, ready
to meet the charges expressed yester-
day that the ublic no longer holds
confidence in it's courts or the ad-
ministrators of the law, the more than
1000 delegates at the 49th annual con-
vention of the American Bar associa-
tion spent the day listening to reports
of it's various committees and special
affiliated organizations.
Reports were read from 16 commit
tees and seven special sections. Each
report contained specific recommends
tions to the Bar association as means
for raising the level of the profession
in order to present a greater service
to the public. In each instance the
reports and recommendations of the
departments presenting them were
adopted without discussion. Chief in
Importance of these reports were those
of the committee of jurisprudence ana
judicial procedure, whic hscathinsly
denounced the growing preValency
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16

1.-TWO of us were at the door leaulnS
into the outer prison office" Dusch-
owski is said to have told Robinson
during the questioning. "A man
named Price and myself, one of the
five men who had gone into the war
6en's office after we got started on
our escape, said that there had been
trouble in the wardens office, but
did not scay Klein had been killed
This is the first have heard If it,"
When arrested about five miles
south of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico,
Duschowski gave the name OF Pietrl
Carazski. He waived extraditioa and
was brought here, where his Identity
was established He will be returned
to Jones Immediately upon the ar
rival of authorities from that point
Duschowsii's story of his escape
and the subsequent capture, as re-
lated to the Associated Press, was;
That the seven convicts forced Guard
Captain Kelley to pass them through
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16
F FOREST T FIRES
DOING DAMAGE
THROUGH WEST
(By Dispatch A. P. wire>

SEATTLE, Wash, July 15.-With re-
ports of blazes in many sections of the
Pacific northwest coast and into the
interior as far as Calgary, Alberta, and
Spokane, Wash, lay tonight under
wave of lightning, heat and fires that
began week ago. Blazes were also
reported in the Santa Monica noun
tains of southern California.
A fire near Port Orchard, across
Puget Sound from here, gaining head
way by a shift of wind, destroyed one
home and threatened another.
sixty state fire fighters, reinforced
by SO sailors from the navy yard. bat
tied this blaze, which threatened Port
Orchard. Reports from Portland lndl-
Gated conditions in Oregon better than
those in Washington and British Co
lumbia. Spokane listed fires in the
Kaniksu national forest north Of that
city as out of control Tourists We're
pressed into the fight. Canadian fires
swept over the international line into
the Colville national forest, eastern
Washington.
Smoke was preventing vision in the
Kaniksu forest fire district and rang
ers said they were unable to determine
the extent of the blazes today.
One blaze on Grouse creek in the
Pend O'Reille forest was reported as
covering between 1900 and 1000 acres
of heavily timbered land with impass-
ible underbrush hamperin gthe work
of fighters and causing the flames to
spread rapidly. Another blaze OF 25oO
acres at Cariboux creek is burning in
a regrowth of white pine and cedar,
now 80 years old.
A fire on Snow creek, near Bonners
Ferry, Idaho, has burned over half
section of land and other blazes around
Pend O'ReilIe lake in northern Idaho
have destroyed from 20 to 200 acres
of timber.
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NAVAL INQUIRY
IN TO ARSENAL
ON
(By Dispatch A. 2. Wirel

DOVER, N. j., July 15.-The naval
board Investigating civil damage in
the Lake Denmark arsenal disaster, to-
day heard the testimony of three wit
nesses. A large olive-drab tent served
as court room. The witnesses, Aug
ustus FIGHTER and A. j. Sickles, civilian
Gunner W. A. Gerdts, who has been
one of the most active in rescue and
salvage work, described the destruction
in various towns and villages sur
rounding. the arsenal.
The funeral of Mrs Ida Wadhams,
one of the two known women victims,
wife of the chief civilian clerk of the
arsenal, was conducted today by Rev.
e. O. Wilson of the First Baptist
church here. Two score friends and
neighbors attended.
Relief organizations have closed
their Dover emergency headquarters
and storekeepers and merchants sup
ported their contention that danger of
more blasts is over by having plate
glass put in their windows that have
yawned emptily since last Saturday.
Searching parties continue TO comb
the shell-torn area for bodies of vic
Tins and parties of marines are ex-
tinguishing several smouldering fires
to prevent the possible firing of un-
exploded magazines.
Bodies recovered indicate that at
least % and probably more, died in
the disaster
Marine officers say four of their
command remain unaccounted for.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16
ESCAPED
CONVICTS ALL.
TAKEN AGAIN
lBy Dispatch A. ?. Wirel

I FLORENCE, July 15.-The liberty OF
five state prison inmates who escaped
the custody of Vernon Kenny, special
officer, yesterday was short lived
All five tonight were behind bars, two
at the prison here and three in the
county jail at Tucson, Arizona, near
which the trio was captured after
robbing a dairy.
Two were captured and returned to
the penitentiary by. Yard Captain ID.
r.. Hunt and H. Gardner, a deputy,
this morning. Prison authorities be-
lieved that the remaining three had
headed for Mexico until the proprietor
of the dairy reported to Tucson au-
thorities that the prisoners had ex-
changed their prison garb for clothes
found in his bunk house. The war
den's office tonight said Harry Har-
ris, George Hughes and Neil Flynn
held Nt Tucson-would be returned
here tonight or tomorrow morning.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16
DESERT HEAT
CLAIM S FIV E
I'M CALIFORNIA
(By Dispatch A. p. Wire)

SAN BERNARDINO, Calf, July Is.
Reports assembled here today list
five deaths, some of them from heat
in an unusual chain of tragedies on
the Mojave and Colorado deserts.
Malcolm MacDuff of Salt Lake City
died on the operating table at Yermo
as surgeons were preparing to oper-
ate for acute appendicitis. The tenn
perature was ia degrees. Heat pros
tration contributed to the cause OF
death.
James Purcell died from heat pros
tration near Atolia, where the temper
ature was 115 degrees.
C. C. Smithson, n years old, one OF
the last of the early day pioneers OF
the Mojave desert, was overcome by
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DR.. WORK PAYS
A TRIBUTE TO
JOHN W. WEEKS
(By Dispatch A. P. Wirel

PUEBLO, Colo, July 15.-The fol-
lowing is a tribute to the late John
Wingate Weeks. maid tcGay by Dr.
Hubert Work, secretary of the inte-
rior, who is here for brief stay in
his home town:
"A farmers son, country school
teacher, graduate of Annapolis, busl-
ness man.
Member of congress, United States
senate and secretary of war.
Successful in every, position in
which ne was placed, he was soon rec
ognized as one of the strong men OF
this nation.
"As cabinet minister his native
common sense and wide experience in
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Bullet Fired to Kill
Injured Horse Chances
And Strikes Man Near By
(By plspatcn a. P. wlrsl


COLORADO SPRINGS, July 15.-
A shot from a pistol. fired at
dying horse. landed in a. mans
body in an unusual accident today.
A train ON the Midland Terminal
railway, eastbOMnd from Cripple
Creek, Colo, to Colorado Springs,
ran into a herd of horses i'm
tunnel i'm Ute Pass.
The engineer, David Lynch,
stopped the train i'm time to pre-
vent serious accident. One of
the horses, however, was SO Sc
verely injured that it was decided
to shoot it to save it further pain.
The bullet. string a rock, glanced
and hit j. A.. Hawkins, a brakeman.
who was stAnding 80 feet away. in
The groin. Hawkins Will live.