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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
INVESTIGATION OF
McARTEN HOSPITAL
IS NOW UNDER WAY

TUCSON, Oct Is P-Anonymous
charges of inefficIency against GER
tain officials of McArtan General
hospital No. 81, which may result in
dfsmissals, are under investigation
by veterans bureau officials, II pc
came known today when Colonel r.
r. Tan1y, chief coordinator for this
district United States Veterans pu>
reau, admitted that he intends to
take the sworn testimony of v.rually
every member of the McArtan hospi-
tai staff within the next Few Gays.
The charges thus far, Colonel
Tandy indicated, are veiied. No dt-
rect charge has been made agaHns'
anyone but various accusation wheth-
er or not having a basis Of fact have
been made and the veterans bureau
official intends to so to the bottom
of the case.
Colonel Tandy, with his staff OIL
five, which includes experts in fl
nance, drugs, supplies and other
branches of the rehabilitation work
is here on his regular annual sur
vey
Tonight, it was declared, that tho
charges against the officials under
fire have not been signed. Colone
Tandy, admitting that the taking OF
sworn testimony will start tomorrow
advanced the opinion that he does
not believe he will find any one or
the hospital staff or among tht
patients who will sign charges sc
that they may be forwarded to Wash.
/ ington for formal action. "The only
thing that I can say at this time is
that the charges or accusations dC
not involve DR.. w. D. McFau1, SUI
perintendent of the hospital in an!
way" Colonel Tandy said. ''Tht
fus;llade is aimed below DR.. McFau
on the hospital staff. Just who ma,
! be hit, if anyone, remains to b.
seen. I shall take the sworn testi
mony during the next few days o
all members of the hospital staff an
may possibly call on some other
who, I have been informed, may b
able to throw some light on tn
situation"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
CALIFORNIA, TEXAS
AND ARIZONA JOIN
IN PHOENIX PARTY

PHOENIX, Oct 1g R-San Fran
cisco, San Diego, Los Angeles anc
FL Paso joined with Phoenix and the
Salt river valley today in genera
tion of the opening of the Southern
Pacific's new main lin9 placing tins
capital city of the state on a rail
carriers main line for the first time
since it's founding ana Facilitating
freight movements from three fertile
valley.
Today's demonstration here, starv-
ing with the arrival of two special
passenger trains, one from Ell Paso
and the other from Los Angeles, ana
in which the entire state Jo:ned, was
graphic picture of the part the
railroad plays in the upbuilding or a
virgin country. The Salt river, lower
ella river and Casa Grande valleys
! were as enthusiastic over the open
, ing of 40 miles of new steel to traffic
as were those pioneers who witnessed
the wedding of the rails which es-
! tablished the first trans-continental
! railroad.
The two special trains cut rib
bon of roses stretched across the new
main line track as they puled int
! the station and ushered in new
era for the Salt river valley after
nearly 40 years Of waiting to obtair
! a place on the arterial map of 6
national transportation syst M
! Crouched on the tender of the Lo:
i Angeles special rode band of Yuma
Indians, feathered war ponnets OF
their heads, beads and buckskin or
their shoulders. The Yuma IndIal
band furnished entertainment durin.
the day for Phoenix visitors.
Nearly 80 Southern Pacific offIc1aY
were on hand to participate in tn
days festivities, including rne speecI
making tonight and the choosing or
bathing girl beauty. Thousand
packed the tent housing the annua
automobile show and the state in
dustrial exhibit, encompassing al
lines of business in the state
two-mile parade tonight depicted tn
. progress of Arizona from its earlies
: days. Floats from many cities O
: the state represented what each cit
was noted for, While valley town
S laid particular stress on the import
t ance of the new main line railroa
to them.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
No One Was Dead, Even
Though Yuma's City
Hall Flag So Indicated

YUMA, Oct. 15.-Tony Romero, the
hard working city hall custodian, went
out as usual yesterday morning to
hoist Old Glory to the top Of the flag
pole.
He saw something unusual as he was
well into his work of raising the flag
and hurried over to City Fireman Jack
Morgan
Come. here, quick" said the excited
Tony Morgan rushed to the city hall
lawn and looked around. Then he
said:
who's dead, Tony?"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with your
snorted Tony.
well, / thought somebody had ex-
pired-the flag is at half mast, re-
piled Jack.
And so it was. Tony, excited in the
middle of his raising job by seeing 8
hole in the lawn where the septic tank
had caved in, had tied the rope and
sought Jack.
The flag went to it's usual place
pronto-the hole is still there.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
RICHARDSON. REPLIES
TO HIRAM JOHNSON ON
LEGISLATIVE CALL

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. is P(-
Governor Friend w. Richardson today
bitterly attacked Senator Hiram w.
Johnson for the senator's statement
IN washington yesterday, declaring
a special session of the California
legislature on the Colorado river com
pact unnecessary and premature.
The governors statement said:
"I am surprised and pleased that
Senator Hiram W. Johnson has de-
clared in an interview that he IS
!! opposed to a special session of the
California legislature to ratify the
! six state Colorado compact. Inc
| senator cares naught for the peril
| TO the lives and homes of the people
of the Imperial valley. He heeds
net the fact that last summer a
few inches further rise and the Coz
orado river would have overflowed
/, II basnks, leaving devastation in its
! wake.
"He has no interest in the grea'
need of southern California cltles
! for more water and he is indifferent
+ to the benefits to the state IRON
mower development on this grea
river. with Senator johnson th'
I Colorado river is political issue
Should the California legislature rati
\ fv the six state pact without reser
+ yatior1s, should the revised ana re
written Swing johnson bill pas
congress and should the government
start work on the Boulder dam am
the all American canal, then Senate
Johnson would no longer have tht
issue for his political aid and com
fort,
II am surprised that the senate
should show his hand, but am par
t:cularly pleased that he has Ill
interview opposing the session t
ratify the pact shows him in his tru
light as a political opportunist seek
ing solely his own political welfar
regardless of vital, interest of tn
state.'
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
WOMEN SEEK TO r=N%E
U. 5. "HOMEMAI[ERS" LISTTGT,

COLUMBIA, Mo-, Oct. Is (Rl-Legis-
lation authorizing the census bureau
to see to it that the next census
lists women homemakers as having
All official occupation is one of the
most important tasks organized wo-
men have before them Mrs John ID.
Sherman, president of the General
Federation of Womcn's Club, declared
in an address Nheree last night before
the Missouri Federation of Women's
Clubs
Mrs. sherman said the housewife
was listed with the census bureau
as having no occupation, when Off
clally she should have credit for
having the occupation of home
maker She asked the public to helr
obtain legislation necessary to give
the housewife an official occupation
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
THOUSANDS EXPECTED
TO ATTEND BOY SCOUT
HONOR COURT TONIGHT

More than 5000 persons are eX-
pected to attend the boy scouts an
nual court of honor to be held at
1880 o'clock this evening at Twin
Buttes, on the highway between
Douglas and Bisbee. Nearly 5000
were in attendance at the court OF
honor held last year and present ir-
dications point toward a large at
tendance this evening.
A special stage carrying about SO
grammar school boys will leave the
Pickwick stage depot at $3.50 o'clock
this evening, bound for the honor
court.
It is at the court of honor that
special awards for meritorious serv-
ice are made, and it is one of the
purposes of the annual court to in
spire the scouts to greater effort.
Many competitive exhibitions will be
given and the spectacle will prove
of great interest TO scouts and par
ents, alike.
The following is the program:
| Scout Commission A. M. Morris, OF
| Tombstone, will preside.
Band concert by the Bisbec school
| Danu, ". II. IAd5lCSLlOAN1 NAAS ASSsOAs
Grand march and introduction OF
troops.
Invocation by Rev. Weaver of Doug
las. ..
Scout oath, led by a scoutmaster.
Camp quartet, singing Camp VIC
torio songs.
Stretcher bearer contest by troops.
Fire by friction contest by troops
Musical number by band.
Introduction of chairman Of cour
by ]. H Davis of Douglas: H. A
IClark, chairman of court.
Presenting of merit badges, AM
life and star badges by H A Clark
Presenting of eagle badges, Dl
n. G. Bledsoe.
Address by older scout.
> Scout play, "The Proof of the Pud
ding is in the Tasting" troop Q
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
TWO DAYLIGHT HOLDUPs
IN DENVER ON FRIDAY

DENVER, Oct. 15.-((P))-Police to-
night were searching for bandits who
made two daylight holdups, one OF
them shooting James Bach, rs, cloth
ing man. through the head and robbing
him of $500 here today.
Bach will recover, hospital attend
ants said. He was shot at his, fathers
store at 1870 am. when he fought
with the robber to retains possession
Of bag of money he had just borugh'
from a bank. A second holdup was re-
ported at 8 D. m. by w. A. Golden
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16

mo Breakfast Complete Without.
The Dispatch"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
RoLD BANK ROBBERY

CRESCENT CITY, Calf, Oct. 15.-
([P)) Two unmasked armed bandits
entered the Liberty bank of Del Norte
county here shortly after noon today
locked the cashier and four other per-
sons in the vault and escaped in an au'
tomobile with a sum estimated at $780,,
900 to $3.50
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
r A Nichols. director.

Douglas, c. A. Nichols, director.
Scout benediction, Rev. Scott OF
Bisbee. r6s ys
Taps by scout buglcr, Albert Wilson
of Douglas. .7~a
DENY REPORT THAT HOG
CHOLERA SWEEPS NEBRASKA
LINCOLN, Oct. 15 .(Py-An official
statement issued by the state veter,
inarian's office today denied that a
bog cholera epidemic was Gsweeping
Nebraska.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16

Scout play, '"The Proof of the Pud-
ding is in the Tasting" troop 5 o.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
Los ANGELES MEN HERE

James Kendrick and Joe Tausek,
newspaper writers Of Los Angeles,
and Jack Criss, investigator for the
district attorneys office of that city,
are in Douglas. Kendrick was In
this city following the appearance of
Aimee semple Mcpherson here In
June.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
PHELPS BEATS JANET

SUPERIOR, Oct Is up = owen
Phelps Of Mesa. decisioned Norman
Janet OF Ell Paso, in a 1O-round mid,
dleweight bout here tonighs
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16

filling station operator, who said a
bandit had held him up with a pistol
and taken between $40 and $40 from
the cash register.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08

The correct date of the weird Snake
Dance ceremonial of the Hopi Indians
lfa S been wired the Automobile Cluo
ofsfArizona by the Holbrook chambel'
.cf commerce as Saturday, August 2l'
at Hoteville, The westernmost Of the
five Hopi villages.
Authentic history shows this cere-
monial to have been observed in 1910,
when Don Pedro de Tovar, the first
white man to leave a record of Z
visit to}the Grand canyon of northern
Arizona,a visited Hopiland during the
season of the Snake Dance, but was
hot allowed to witness the ceremony.
DR.. Fewkea, the eminent archeolo-
gist, who has devoted many years to
tn study of Indians nwo residing, or
who Inhabited the southwest in pygone
ages, says the Hopi are the oilest
tribe now existing. His work in ex-
cavating9 the Pueblo. Eldon, near Flag
staff, convinced him that the H0pi
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08

Copyright, 1926, Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
rounds with him and not losing any
money.
''The girl is a fight fan, like lot
of 'em is, since these here younger
generation of the sex got to going to
fights, and she sits and listens to this
bird tell about the bouts he's had,
and gets him goin' on the big cham
pionships he's won till she thinks he
is the greatest guy in the world.
''He has a sparring partner he's took
around the world to use when nobody
would get into the ring with him, and
this sparring partner is pretty good, so
good that he thinks he could be the
champ himself if he could only get the
other guy out of the way.
Naturally, he don't say anything
about what is goin' on in the back of
his head, but he lays deep plot which
is to get Othello so strong for the girl
that he will break training SO he can
take gondalo rides with her, and get
soft and out of condition. Then the
guy who is booked to fight him as
soon as he gets back to the states
will cop, and the sparring partner
this Iago fellow-win challenge the
winner and be the champ himself.
IS "Wel1, Othello gets strong for the
girl, all right, and sticks around We
nice, but he has one eye on keeping
the belt SO he gets himself quarters
on one of the main canals and spends
every morning punching the bag and
sparring. He can't do much road
work in place like Venice, but it
will be kind of picturesque to have
him in running pants trotting up and
down them iedges over there and now
and then maybe hopping over canal
just to show what swell condition he
is in.
"Of course Iago is sore that he
can't get him to break training. He
tries all sorts of ways, and finally in
despair gets a couple of black handlers
to sneak up on him when he is doing
his road work and try to run a stiletto
into him. But Othello hears them
padding after him and turns aroun6
and gives them each a punch on the
chin, which not only foils their pur-
pose but tumbles them into the canal.
There will be big laugh when they
splash.
"Of course, Othello don't ever dream
his little pal Iago is trying to do him,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08

were once more Numerous and inhab-
tied the country known as Arizona
New Mexico and Utah. Many RUNS
still remain to be uncovered.
DIR. Fewl1es has attended many of
the Snake Dance ceremonials, as have
3ther distinguished savants engaeed
III studying Indian manners and GUS
toms.
The Hopi traditions show a descent
from Snake mother apd the Snake
Dance is simply a prayer ceremony in
tended to persuade the gods to send
rain for the Hopi crops.
The entire ceremonial covers pc
riod Of nine days, during which the
rattlesnakes are gathered from the
desert, washed and otherwise cared
for while being instructd in the mes
sage they are to carry to the Snake
mother
The nine day period of fasting and
prayer ends with what the white man
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08

knows as the Snake Dance, which
rarely cover a period of more than 80
minutes, when the snake messengers
are taken to the floor of the mesa
and started on their mission
The Automobile Club of Arizona has
gathered travel information that will
be useful to those visiting Hopiland
for the ceremonial. This will be sup
piled all desiring it.
Hopiland can be reached from Flag
staff via Cameron and Tuba City, from
Wiuslow via Leupp and Oraibi, from
Holbrook via Keams canyon.
The Holbrook gateway is considered
best by travellers who have attended
the weird ceremony.
Manager Treadwell advises all Wis J
itors to carry their bed roll and pro-
visions for their stay, as accommoda-
tions are lacking in Hopiland for the
many visitors who will make the jour
ney.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08

fight in it with busted beer glasses
which was Knockout.
"of courses there's a, lot of major
changes to be made, but you can leave
that to me. I'll get the guy who
wrote the titles to Flaming Polly to
title it, and well set it here on the
lot. You boys do your stuff and it's
a sure hit.
tim going to discard the Moor busi-
ness, for we can't have colored man
playing the lead. I thought a while
back I would make Othello some kind
of an Arab SO as to get in on the pub
licity that fellow Add Kr1m got, but
he's a dead one now, so that's out.
Anyway We don't want no soldier in
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
FIXING UP THE BARD

a picture. Unless you spent couple
of million for war setting they're
no use.
"I've always got my eye on pub
licity, as you boys know, and there
won't be anything in the limelight for
the next month or two but the biz;
fight, So I've made up my mind that
.Othello will besa fighter and will come
back to the Girls house after a round
the world sparrfng trip in which he
took on all comers, offering hundred
bucks to anybody who could stay two
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
DOUGLAS pAnY pspATcH SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 1925

famous carpet in the world is. the Ard.
abil, now in thesmuseum. It measures
"a feet by II feet and is valued at
more than $25O,OOO.
Dorothy Dickson, the Kansas City
girl who won success as a musical
comedy star in London and then de-
serted musical shows to become Peter
Pan and later to take the leading role
in the mystery play, "ihe Ringer" is
about to return to musical comedy in
the London production of "Tiptoes."
Allen Kearns, an American, who is
new to London, is also to be in the
cast Laddie Cliff is to be the lead
ing comedian in the play
Rapid cure of severe case of sleep
ing sickness in a woman Of 6S by in
1ections of electro colloidal gold and
silver is reported by DR. Arthur WV
Fuller in the Medical Journal Lancet"
DR.. Fuller made the injection in the
seventh day when the case was con-
sidered very grave, and within an hour
the patient recovered consciousness.
Steady Improvement followed further
infections and at the end Of four weeks
the woman could sit up and eat ord93
mary food A week later, the patient
could walk about the room and at the
end Of six weeks, beyond general de-
bility and a stiff neck, there were no
abnormal symptoms.
ut is now five months since the
acute symptoms ssubsided,'' says DR..
Fuller "There are no abnormal ply
sical or mental signs and she is re-
suming her social life.'
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE

''I been lookini over this Shake
speare,'' said the Great Producer, land
while most of his stuff is pretty out
of date, I've decided we can make a
picture of that Othello play.
+ II want all you boys to think up
business that will be good to put in
it. Go over all the stuff we've done
for laughs and thrills and We'll try
to get EN- in. There was one scene
in She Loved With a Binding Pas
sion that might be good. There was
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08

and keeps on telling the Girl-Desde-
mona-what fine boy he is. But the
girl is off Iago and won't more than
/ say good morning to him when he
comes down to the gondola landing to
wish them pleasant trip.
"Ill think up quite lot Of ways
for Iago to try to spoil the romance,
hke havin' barges ram the gondola
and tempting othello with some of
that swell italian wine. But none of
them will work, and he finally gets
desperate.
$50 he finds out which of the We
nice lads Desdemona was keeping
company with before she took up with
Othello, and he gets this lad to come
out one night with a uKelele or what
ever they play over there, and sere-
made the dame. He takes care to come
along with Othello about that time and
point out the fellow. Meantime, he's
told Desdemona that it is Othello who
is going to serenade her, and she leans
out of the window to listen and drops
mash love note down to the minstrel
boy.
"Othelo don't need no urging to
paste the. fellow on the jaw and grab
the note and when he reads it he is
naturally as sore as a dog. He goes
right into Desdemona's house, smashesl
fall the buffers and footmen who are
trying to stop him, and walking into
her room, asks her what she means
by writing that kind of stuff to a
strolling music player.
"Of course the girl is taken aback
and also pretty sore to think Othello
has crushed the house in that way, sol
she is naughty and refuses to answer
and he stalks out-only to be arrested
for burglary by cops Iago has put wisS
to the game
Well the fellow that wrote the
play had Othello to smother the girl
with a pillow, but would bust up theI
show and leave a bad taste in the
mouth of the audience, SO I've fixed
it up better way.
"Othello clouts the cops and theyi
fall into the canal, too, which is al
bigger laugh because it is expected
this time. Then he gets ashamed OIL
the way he busted into the house and
goes back to square himself, followed
by Iago, whoi getting pretty ner-
vous by now. -
Seem that if he sees the girl
again everything will be squared andi
he will lose out, Iago decides that thel
only thing to do is to take a punch
at Othello. relying on the fact that hel
lis made and won't have any self con-
ftrol.
'But no sooner does he set himself
for the wallop than Desdemona, who
has got into her street clothes, comes
down the stairs and lets out warn
ing shrek, and then the big fight
commences.
"They fight UP and down the stairs
and all over the place and finallyl
Othello backs Iago into a bedroom
topples him over on the bed and stran-l
giles him with pillow. Then he andl
Desdemona make up, and she tells |
him what Iago told her, and they /
pitch the scoundrel out OF the window
into the canal, which finishes the pic
ture with the biggest laugh of all. 4
I'm going to read some more of
those Shakespeare plays. The fellow
had something on the ball. but ofai
course he was way behind the times, |
and his stuff while it may do for high
brows, would never be good for anyi
thing in our business"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
JUAREZ AGAIN CALLS
FOR IDENTITY CARDS
(By Dispatch A. P. Wire)

Ell PASO, Aug. Passports were
required of all Americans crossing
the international bridge into Juarez
today. The bridge had been open
since the racing season in April.
Officials said that the closing of the
bridge had no connection with the
religious turmoil in Mexico. Tourists
are allowed to pass into Juarez with
out passports provided they show
Identification cards proving they are
tourists.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
CROCODILES AND
NATIVES ARE ON
FRIENDLY TERMS
(The Associated Press)

LONDON, Aug. 7-Crocodiles and ma
tives fraternize in the most friendly
manner at Tumu, a village on the gold
coast of Africa.
Princess Marie Louise, cousin of
King George, tells about the good feel
ing between the crocodiles and gold
coasters in travel letters. of hers which
have just been published.
The natives regard crocodiles as the
familiar spirit" of man and never in
jure them. In fact, they believe that
any person who Injuries or kills a croc
odile also might be killed.
eve watched village women wand
ering about among crocodiles in the
village pool quite undisturbed" said
the princess. 'The women seemed to
/ have no fear. They even pushed the
crocodiIes aside if they got in their
way The natives fill their pots and
bathe among the reptiles without the
slightest fear"
The lot of the naughty boy is not
usually happy one, but he has found
( a champion in Lady Ellen Lambert, the
sister of the Eaerl of Cavan. Lady
Ellen declares that will all his faults,
she loves him.
In opening a scouts fete, Lady Ell
len said the devil attacked boys be-
cause they were worth attacking. She
!, knew from her experience in scout
work that some boys were wild, but
in spite of all their sins, she loved them
and loved to, work among them.
Although there are a great number
of good carpets in England, there are
not many Of great value and in this
9 latter respect, America is far better
off than England, says Cecil Totter-
shall, an expert of the Victoria and
Albert museum.
Mr.. Tottershall asserts few people
understand the value of an old carpet
and the person who was reported to
have spurned Persian carpet 100
years old did no more than the ma
jority of. people in England would have
done. He added that there is a for
tune in carpets for people who know
how and when to buy, and there must
be hidden away in old houses carpets
and rugs of great values. The. most