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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-02-20


The United States Steel Corpora
ton, the largest industrial corpora
ton in the world, today completes the
first quarter century of its existence.
Two hundred years ago today was
born Col. William Prescott, who COM
manded the American troops at
Bunker Hill, and who told them to
wait ''till they saw the whites of the
enemy's eyes"
Tonight in Carnegie Hall, New
York City, the Navy Gross viii be
pinned upon the breast of Captain
George Fried of the steamship
Roosevelt, in tribute for his rescue of
the seamen of the British steamer
Antinoe.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-02-20

Former Ambassador Bernstorff to
represent Germany in League of Ma
tions Council.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

halted this morning by washout near
Naco until trains were rerouted The
roads main line was crippled when
bridge caved in at Bisbee Junction ana
branch lines also were reported out of
service.
Tucson reported a bridge washed
away, a second unfit for use and an
other threatened by high waters, to-
gether with several main highways
which were made impossible by flood
washes The Southern Pacific railway
bridge at Calabasas on the Nogales
route was swept out Of line and rail
travel discontinued The highway about
the Robles ranch on the road to Ajo
was entirely swept away by flood
waters.
The channel of the Santa Cruz river.
normally dry, is carrying stream run
ming 1900 cubic feet per second, which
is rising rapidly. The rainfall in Tue
son and vicinity was 1913 inche..
Bisbee had the heaviest rain in 20
years between midnight Saturday and
o'clock this afternoon. Easements
were flooded and retaining walls wash
ed out by 632 inches of rain, while
some streets were blocked with boul-
ders and silt washed down from, the
hillsides A bridge on the Tombstone
Nogales highway was washed away,
while another suffered the loss of a
span.
On the Cochise branch of the South
ern Pacific, 25 rail lengths of track
were swept out, and one bridge on the
Fort Huachuca branch was reported
washed out.
Hundreds of motor cars were reported
abandoned on the roads in the vicinity
of Douglas while adobe houses in the
Douglas section and in Aqua Prieta,
across the international boundary line.
are near collapse.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28
Entombed Men Get
Line After 4-Day Siege
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HEARD MEN WORKING

IRONWOOD, Mich, Sept. 81 (AP)---
Certain that he had heard signs of
life, Alfred Maxi, a grim and gaunt
miner was hoisted to the surface
tonight after a trip through G. shaft
of the Pabst mine here to obtain
communication with 43 imprisoned
men, Magi, one of the group OF
workers who claimed to have ne:rd
distinct signals on a water pipe late
in the day was unable to get re-
sponses to signals while in G. shaft.
AS he came to the top after the
expedition which brought him closer
to the entrapped men, than any other
being since the cave-in Friday morn
ing, a shout went up from the crowd
Of wives, mothers, children and rela-
tives 3anxiously waiting for any wore.
Maxi, who is Finnish and talks Eng.
lish with difficulty, unbuckled the
flashlight from his belt, loosened 400
feet of rope from which he was sus-
pended and smiled hopefully.
IT heard men working afar off,
he declared 1T was dim but |
know it was the sound OF men
working"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28


stances" said Gilbert.
Mrs. ParlSes, who said she lived next
door to the Benedict cottage at Carmel
testified that on the morning OF MAY
10. between and o'clock, she saw d
man and woman enter the Benedict COT
tage Through the kitchen window
she said, she noticed that the woman
had red hair piled high on her head.
Asked whether she saw the woman in
the court room, she said she thought
she did. Mrs. Mcpherson was asked TO
remove her hat, exposing her mass OF
red hair, piled on her head. The wit
ness laughed and said:
"Oh. dear" and added, that sure
looks like her."
Mrs. Parkes then described the auto
mobile in which the couple came to
Carmel as 'fblue roadster"
She said the couple remained until
May 30.
Mrs. Parkes said she saw the man
and woman frequently, and that the
man walked with a limp.
Cross examination by Attorney Gill
bert then began, and incidentally more
wrangling with Keyes and Deputy
DennlSon. GILBERT lnSlSleu MIS- 1l h00
"sit on the stand and study in order
to state when she saw the man and
woman in the adjoining cottage the
second time. Mrs. Parkes, assisted by
numerous objections, evaded a direct
answer She said she saw the woman
in the cottage yard some days later for
about two minutes.
After further testimony to the eff
feet that she believed the woman
to be Mrs. Mcpherson, Mrs. Parkes
was excused and her husband, Percy
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

Monday afternoon, reports the road I'M
passable to ordinary cars Dips be-
tween Tombstone and Tucson were re-
ported to be running bank full, and the
San Pedro river is reported to be
threatening the entire valley near Here
ford. Ranchers in the lower sections
of the valley were reported to be MAX
ing preparations to leave their homes,
Hundreds Of cars are reported aban-
doned on the roads in this section, some
Of these being service cars from vari-
Gus Douglas garages that had gone out
to assist drivers. Some of the occu-
pants of these cars have walked into
the city, others have been picked up
by the Pickwick stages and others have
made their way to the nearest ranches.
The Pickwick stage service east of
Douglas was halted Monday.
Telephone service in the city and
county has been seriously impaired by
the storm, mostly because of rain
soaked cables. A. A. Sundin, manager
of the Douglas office reported Monday
that $50 city telephones are out of COM
mission as we'll as a number in the
country Long distance lines have not
been seriously injured. Expert repair
!
men called from Tucson and other
points to help repair the damage have
been unable to reach Douglas because
of the condition of the roads
! number of persons in Aqua Prieta
and Douglas have been made homeless
| by the flood. The steady downpour of
rain has beaten in the walls of adobe
houses until many have crumbled.
william Henry was appointed a special
building commissioner by the city of
Douglas Monday afternoon and is SUI
Epervising the work Of roping off un-
safe houses in this city. More than a
dozen homes in Aqua Prieta have been
abandoned because of fallen walls and
roofs and many others on the west side
of the town have been abandoned be-
cause of flood danger
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28
REPUBLICANS OF
N. Y. COME OUT
FOR DRY LAWS

NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (AP)-The
republican party OF New York state
came out squarely for enforcement
of the 18th amendment and the VolN
stead act at, tonight's session of it's
convention. 1t also urged full par
ticipation of the voters in the wet
and dry referendum to be acted on
this fail.
The platform reiterated the party's
1924 stand on prohibition and then
added:
"The people Of the state are rightly
alarmed by the lack of observance
and enforcement of the federal law
relative to the sale of intoxicating
liquors. From this has resulted the
pending referendum to obtain the op-
inion of the people upon the question
of the modification of the law The
referendum gives all the opportunity
to express themselves. We urge a
full expression at the polls on this
matter"
other planks included
protection of the public in the
event of futurH strikes in the coal
industry.
The return Of alien property 70
it's rightful owners, the settlement Of
the just debts owed by our govern
ment to German citizens and the
payment of American claimants.
Regulation of radio communica-
ton SO as to eliminate the existing
chaos
The strengthening of our national
banking and federal reserve system.
"The amendment Of our immigra-
ton law so as to reduce to a mini
mum the tragedy of divided families.
..rhe prompt ratification of the
French debt settlement
The platform was adopted unani-
mously and the convention adjourned
until tomorrow morning, when noni-
nations win be made.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

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the ground that there was notheHg to
show that Harry Daugherty was ever
aware of the transactions. Buckner
answered this by pointing to previous
testimony that Nal Daugherty had
turned over to his brother bank records
which Harry Daugherty destroyed,
which Bucl1ner said showed that the
two were on such terms as would
strongly indicate that the banker was
acting in any such transactions with
the knowledge and consent of his
brother.
The prosecution offered no expltna-
tion as to how the Merton bends ar
rived at the Midland bank.
NEW SUIT STARTED
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 81 (AP)-
Joseph F. Guffey, former director o;
sales in the office of the alien prop
erty custodian was served with q
summons today as one of % defend
ants named in a civil suit brought by
/ the department of justice in Mass
tachusetts federal court a week age
to recover $5,535,564 from the sale OF
properties of the Bo@ch Magnetic com
pany, seized during the World war
| A. Mitchell Palmer, who was allen
property custodian at the time <tht
Bosch plant was sold at auction, was
another defendant named in the SUIT
| The action was based on a clam
that the price obtained was .ess
than the true value of the properly
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28
XIV WANIANS ARE
HIGH IN PRAISE
OF NACOZARIANS

Joyful, almost reverent, in their
praises of the fathomless hospitality
of the people of Nacozari, the Kiwanis
excursion returned from that city
on Monday arriving in Douglas at
ten minutes after IL o'clock, having
ridden in sweet Inconsistencies
across the Cabullona bridge Of the
Nacozari railway but a Very few
minutes before it was entirely swept
away on the crest of the greatest
flood in the history. of the district
After the train was safely landed
in Douglas following a voyage from
Nacozari which the passengers stated
resembled trip across the Atlantic,
it was related that the fireman Of
the train jumped as the head Of the
engine hit the Cabullona bridge and
that he refused to ride the wheeled
ship, across the wobbly structure.
The Kiwanians state that they did
not know of this at the time or
many of them might have Joined the
fireman on the ground.
The Nacozari band and all the citi1
zens met the Kiwanians when their
train arrived there on Saturday. The
KEYS to the city were turned over
! to the excursionists and everyone,
the Kiwanians state, acted as if his
life had been dedicated to making
people like Nacozari.
High spots in the trip were the
tourney through the tunnel and up
the elevator to Pilares, the city set
in a saucer on the top of a great
peak and reached by a mile and a
half of tunnel through the hills ana
ride straight up in an elevator.
The trip into the tunnel is made In
ordinary ore cars. A glorious dance,
delicious barbecue and spirit OF
unlimited hospitality kert the Kiwan-
lians and their ladies in an enthus
iastic glow during the entire Visit
and the unanimous expression of the
rarty upon it's somewhat damp and
almost miraculous safe arrival back
in Douglas was that the hospitality
| Of the colony at Nacozarl couid no'
| be equalled in the world.
! The committee in charge OF the
festivities at Nacozari were Frank
Ayers, Wallace E. Flippen, w. D. Nc
Donald, j. G. Manning. and W. II
Brady, all of whom are officials OF
the Nacozari Copper company.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28
STORM WAS GENERAL

PHOENIX, Sept. -(AP)-Scorched
for weeks by an unusually hot sun and
suffering from lack of rain, Arizona
today was struggling to keep it's head
above water following heavy rains over
the weekend in the central and south
ern parts. At Douglas and Nogales
both on the international boundary line,
rain continued to fall Internationally to-
night. Advices to the Herald said that
the west coast of Mexico also had been
swept by storms.
Highway travel from Tucson south
was virtually at a standstill. The Doug
-Bisbee concrete highway was closed
to traffic by the county commissioners
The Aqua Prieta river is running over
a bridge leading to a smelter near
Douglas and is estimated to be a half
mile wide Four automobiles were
washed away, but so far as is known
no lives were lost.
Rainfall at Douglas has reached 6.7
inches since Saturday night. Col. A. J.
Dougherty, commanding officer of the
25th infantry, estimated tonight that
from $4,000 to $4,000 damage had been
done by a ar-cloudburst which swept
Camp Stephen d. Little, wrecking bar
racks and carrying away the effects OF
negro soldiers stationed there. In No
gales proper 7O-hour rains flooded the
city, causing an estimated loss of $780,
900 and paralyzing train and motor
! transportation.
The Herald learned that washed out
bridges at Magdalena, Queroabe Llano
and Carlo on the west coast of Mexico
had suspended train traffic.
! Train service west Of Douglas was
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28
DEMOCRATS IN
RIOTS AT MEET
IN The CAPITAL

PHOENIX, Sept 27-1n one of the
most sensational democratic county
central committee meetings ever held
in Maricopa county, Russ f. Tatum,
ardent Hunt supporter, was elected
county chairman over Joe c. Haldi-
man, choice of the Ward Osborn fac
ton, but not until two riot calls
had been turned in to police head.
quarters in an effort to prevent
bloodshed and restore some sembl-
ance of order, according to numer-
Gus committeeman present Because
the real facts We're suppressed by
the local newspapers, actual occur
rences of the meeting are just conn
ing to light.
Haldiman had the endorsement,
presented to the meeting, of the great
majority of local county democratic
instead is looked upon by the Ward
Osborn faction as a direct slap at
these county candidates, and an in
dication that Hunt in his Maricopa
county campaign Will 'go it alone"
Immediately that Tatum's name
was offered, trouble started. Three
fist fights developed almost sim
ultaneously, pistols and knives made
their appearance, and one commit
teeman was removed from the hall
unconscious as the result of a blow
on the head from pistol butt The
police were summoned and ordel
was finally restored, only to give
way to a second melee when Hender-
son stockton, late campaign manager
for E. E. Ellinwood, offered resolu-
tions endorsing the initiative meas
IRE providing for restricting guber-
material terms to two of two years
each, and for repeal of the state game
code. Huntites voted these down by
a close margin, but the ensuing
wrangle again made call for the
police necessary, and even adjourn
ment for the noon hour did not bring
about a smoothing over, as, for
third time, fist fights among COM
lnitteemen present developed at the
afternoon session, and at p. m.,
after being in session all day, the
committee meeting adjourned wNh-
cut having completed it's organization
other than the naming of the county
chairman.
Net result of the Marieopa county
meeting of the democrats in two
distinct groups, with the Ward-Os-
Eorn group, fortified by most of the
local democratic county candidates, al
most open in its denunciatlon OF
Hunt methods Of steam rollerlng
the convention, and the HuntItes say
ing. equally as openly, 1--WE don't
need your votes"
Word comes from Cochise county
that an open split between the BIS
bee and Douglas delegations resuitea
from the Cochise county democratic
meeting there, when the ,Blsbee dele
cation double-crossed, so the Doug
llasites charge, the Douglas deies-
tion by naming county CHAIRMAN
whom it was known, would not
serve, in order to have actual con~
! trol through the vice chairman
Bisbee man.
All in all, the rift in the demo-
cratic party, already wide, is grow
ling wider with every move Of the
democratic machine" against the op-
moments of Huntism in his own party
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

of two feet in four hours. The mark
reached by the waters was the highest
attained in seven years. The rainfall,
as estimated this afternoon by govern1
ment weather bureau, was 1873 inches
in Tucson and vicinity. The precipita-
ton started Saturday evening with a
light, steady rain, turning into heavy
storm about / O'Clock Monday morning.
In one irrigated district northwest of
the city miniature cloudburst caused
rainfall gauges to register three inch
precipitation between Sunday noon and
Monday afternoon.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

ParlIes, was called to the stand. His
testimony followed closely that of
Mrs. Parkes
On cross examination, Parkes said
his interest was aroused at the ac
cupying the adjoining cottage, an6
when he saw the woman in the yard
five or six days later, he took a
good look at her. He noticed her
red hair piled high on her head, he
said, and the goggles which she wore.
Ralph Swanson, Carmel grocery
clerk, took the stand and testified
after looking at Mrs Mcpherson that
he. saw her at Carmel, May 21. He
went to the Benedict cottage, he said
in answer to call for groceries.
l.The woman known there as Mrs
Mcintyre" he said, opened the door
and gave him list of groceries to
deliver and asked him to get her the
I-morning papers, saying she had miss
ed a story she was reading.
He delivered the groceries and was
was given a second list to deliVsE
When he came the second time he
said she asked for the evening papers
also.
Asked any peculiarities about the
woman, Swanson said:
well, 1 noticed her eyes-they
seemed to draw me to her.
Ernest Renkert, fuel dealer of
Carmel, testified to having delivered
wood to the Benedict cottage at
Carmel the latter part of last May
He took note, he said, of the oc-
cupants of the cottage-a man ana
woman. He looked over the court
room and pointed out Mrs. Nc
pherson as the woman he had seen
there.
Renkert said he thought the woman
was "between 25 and 80 years old"
He admitted, though, that he had
told Judge j. A. Bardin of Salinas
that she was not over 25. Asked by
Gilbert to approximate Mrs. Nc
Pherson's age in court, he locked at
the evangelist for several seconds
| and replied:
Between 25 and 30"
Rerkert's cross examination had
not been completed when court ad-
iourned until 10 O'Clock tomorrow
Just like so many nice little cog
gies these Carmel Witnesses
to jump through the hoops and they
bad five months to train them" said
Mrs. Mcpherson at the close of court
today This was her summary OF
the testimony of five witnesses which
tended to place her as the woman o.
the Carmel cottage.
'They talked as if they We're
lhypnotized," she continued, as she
and her party zigzagged their way
through the basement passages of
the hall of justice to find a way
out that would avoid crowds outside.
such ridiculous stories they told
The close of the trial found the
evangelist pale and gaunt, with ner
! face lined and tired, but her asert
eyes were never still as She talked.
1T undoubtedly is another woman
| they are having in mind" she said
referring to the woman of the Car
(! mel cottage referred to by the wit
nesses.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

inc, carving more than 100 Douglas
Kiwaniaps home from two days trip
to Nacozari, arrived in Aqua Prleta
Monday noon after hazardous trip all
the wav north. At one point, when the
locomotive ran upon a bridge that
trembled beneath its weight, the fire
man Jumped from the cab, but the en-
gineer stuck to his post and brought
the train in safely.
Traffic on the Naco-Cananea high
way from Aqua Prieta was completely
stoned Monday West of Aqua Prieta
the Aqua Prieta river has formed lake
that is more than a half mile wide and
several miles long. A bridge that spans
the river in the center of this lake is
completely submerged. Naco is also re-
ported to be completely isolated from
the south and east.
The highway east is impossible from
a point eight miles from Douglas, roads
north are impossible to a point within
a few miles of the city, and the Bisbee
road is threatened. The Aqua Prieta
river about one mile west of Douglas
and ordinarily a dry creek bed, is run
ming 500 yards wide and theatening a
concrete bridge that spans it.
The driver of the Pickwck stage
from Tucson, who arrived in Douglas
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

colonization will be carried out In
accord with the foregoing stipula-
tons by the National Irrigation COM
mission, the National Bank of Agrar-
ian Credits or by private enterprises
duly authorized by the department.
of agriculture
Fourth, colonization of the national
lands: The colonization of the ma
tional lands shall be intensified and
to that end a special study shall De
made CT the lands on the northern
frontier of our country. No alien
, colonists will be admitted there but
may be admitted in the interior or
the country under the conditions al
ready outlined. Colonies in which
aliens are a part shall be not lesn
than one hundred llilometers from the
frontier.
Fifth, colonization of private prop
erty: Lands which are private prop
crty are declared of public utility
in accord with the provisions of the
law OF colonization of February j
this year.
Sixth, franchises: Franchises shall
consist of reduction of SO per cent
in railway fares, a reduction of so
per cent in freight on all household
utensils, farm implements, draft or
other animals, exemption from GUS
toms duties, the immigration tax and
exemption from export duties for
period Of five years.
Sevent h, regarding colonization
companies; These will be restricted
by special legislation.
Eighth, colonization agents: The
federal government and the author
lied colonization companies shall
send to the countries whose race can
amalgamate with the McXicans, col
cnization agents to enroll real farm
ers to come here to colonize.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28
SNAIL SHE'LL HATS.

London women have gone to the gar
dens and hedgerows for something new
in hat styles and have evolved ~ type
for the fall which is almost an exact
replica of the snail-shell.
The colors used i'll the makeup
green and gray-assist the illusion Gre
ated by the snail-like swathing of the
drapery.
The Neapolitan fisherman's hat often
has been copied in knitted material for
seaside wear but Bond street milliners
have appropriated the shape for their
smartest felt creations and are pro-
ducing it in many colors.
mo Breakfast Complete Without
The Dispatch"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

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The revised list of dead, as given
out tonight by the Lehigh Valley rail-
road follows:
Hugh McGee, baggage man, Allen
town, Pa
George McGovern, Mauchunk, Pa.
H. j. OFT, Allentown, Pa.
D. J. Shovelin, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Harold w. Bigel, of Lehighton, Pa.
David Baum, 'Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Charles D. Gate, New York City.
Unidentified man.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28
HARD RAIN Ar GLOBE

GLOBE, Sept. 27.-(AP)-Rain, which
started here at p. m. Saturday had
totaled 1876 inches when mt stopped
falling at 7:45 p. m. Sunday 1T was
the heaviest fall Of the year and brings
the years total to 14.01. inches, which is
Ill inches above the average normal.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

The channel of the Santa Cruz river,
normally dry surface stream bed with
an underground channel about 80 feet
below the surface, is running heavy
flow, estimated by w. E. Code, junior
engineer of the water resource branch
of the United States geological survey,
as $500 cubic feet per second, and is
still rising steadily. The afternoons
check on the water depth showed rise
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28

they are proportionately lntermingled
with Mexicans.
Third, colonization cf lands ac-
quired by the government through ap-
plication OF the irrigation laws; This
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-28
Colonization Laws .
Changed in Old Mexico

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