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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
BARBED WIR f
ON AUTOS IN
LONDON TODAY
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)

LONDON, May 6.-Motor busses
with barbed wire entanglements on
their hoods appeared in the streets
today as an answer to hooligans who
have been stopping busses, uncover
ing the engines and smashing them
with sledge hammers and stones 1t
is expected that the barbed wire will
hold of the attackers until police can
arrive.
The General Omnibus company Of
London said that 80 busses were in
operation today, AZ of which were
damaged in street disturbances. 1t is
expected stronger police protection
will be available tomorrow. The
busses have been operated with VOL
unteer crews, carrying four or five
men apiece in addition to a police
man. Many youths in plus fours and
college blazers were among the crews
and were especial targets for taunts
from the strikers pickets. The col
lege men, however went about their
business collecting the fares as part
of a serious duty to which they are
devoting themselves in the crisis.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
PRAISES
ARIZONA WHILE
ON BISBEE T RIP

BISBEE, May 6.-Arizona is expe-
riencing probably greater develop
ment in agriculture and expansion in
it's other industries at the present
time than any other in the union,
Paul Shoup, vice president of the
Southern Pacific company, said today
in the course of an address before a
local civic organization. He was ac-
companied on a one-day trip here by
Joseph Dyer, general manager of the
same company.
outlook for business conditions
throughout the country are very
bright, Shoup said, in telling of con-
versations in the past ten days with
many of the major railroad leaders in
the United States, all of whom he
found to be optimistic for the future.
The speaker also asserted that more
mileage of new railroad construction
is being carried on in Arizona at the
present time by the Southern Pacific
than in any other state in the union.
Over followed Shoup in a talk on
the new construction program of his
company in this state and said that
passenger and freight traffic over the
El Paso and Southwestern lines of
the system has trebled since the mer-
ger of the two companies, thereby
indicating an increase in the volume
in this section of the country.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
PLAIN
OF TEXAS GE t S
HARD RAINFALL
rBy Dispatch A. P. wireA


DALLAS, Texas, May 6-The coast
al plains of Texas were drenched
with heavy rainfall last night and
today, the precipitation ranging from
as high as nine inches in the Corpus
Christi section.
One life was lost at Bishop, where
a veritable cloudburst fell last night.
r. w. Westmoreland of Eagle Lake.
employed by the United States geo
logical survey, was swept to his
death last night when an automobile
he was driving went through wash
ed~out bridge.
Conditions were approaching nor
NAL tonight, late reports indicated.
virtually. every section of the state
has received heavy rain during the
last 20 hours.
The entire area adjacent to Corpus
Christi received approximately nine
inches of rain, the peak of precipita-
tion at Robstown, where water was
several feet deep in some stores in
the business section. Highways be-
came running rivers and fields were
lakes AS cotton was well up the
crop loss is expected to be consider
able. Crops on higher lands escaped
serious damage.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
k KIW ANS CLUB
HE AR S HEALTH
WE LECTURE

Looking at society from an eco
nomic standpoint, we find that the
health of the child is the great store
of the future wealth and strength OF
nation" says DR.. E. w. Adamson.
their weekly luncheon at the Gadsden
featuring National Music Week and
Health Week. Mayor A. E. Hinton
was taken in as a member of the club
and DIR. J. r. Newcomer presided as
chairman at the luncheon.
The musical program was conducted
by Mrs. M. j. Anderson, Mrs. H. A.
Wimberley Mrs. c. A. Foreman, Mrs.
E. C. Piper, Mrs. w. H. Meischer anad
Mrs. A. B. Murchison, representatives
of the Douglas Music club, who sang
several home selections of old songs.
The district Kiwanian cup which
this district to stimulate inter-club
relationship was presented to the
Douglas club by e. M Brinkman, Ell
Paso Kiwanian, visitor to the Doug
las club. The cup was received by
H. A. Wimberley, president of the To-
cal organization. l.. S. Perrin won
the attendance prize, which was pre-
sented by Charles Nichols.
AdamsOn's Address.
Speaking on the Economic Value OF
Health and the Economic Loss of Dis
ease, DR.. Adamson said:
"Disease has been known as long
as man has been known. LookinG
back into history, we find very re-
markable ideas regarding the cause
and nature of illness 1t was once
supposed that the devil was respon-
sible for the plague-that it was Wis
itation because of wickedness. Some
such superstitions still remain in the
minds of considerable number of
our present day population. they
still hold something of such notion
toward the health problem and epi-
denies. AS a matter of fact, how
ever, there has been a remarkable
growth of knowledge during the last
so to 60 years. We have managed to
find out that a certain microscopic
plant caused tuberculosis, another
typhoid fever, others infections such
as boils, child bed fever, etc. That
certain animals and insects carry the
cause of diseases like malaria, typhus'
yellow fever, bubonic plague, tropical
sleeping sickness Moreover, they are
as different as cabbage is from an
orange. They grow in the human body
and their growth damages 1t. we
have set up devices that will prevent
these organisms from gaining en-
trance and growing in the individual
one of the duties of the z. 5. 7. r.
Continued on Page Five)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
EVERY YBODY IN
ALL ENGLAND
IS BUSIER THAN |
BEFORE STRIKE
From King George to His
Humblest Subject, Finds
Time Occupied.
MANY TRAFFIC JAMS
Society Women Organize
Motor Transport Corps
To Help Workers.
(By Dispatch A. ?. yyirel

LONDON, May 6.-Every body from
King George to his humblest subject
is buster in England than before the
strike. Transportation is so disor-
ganized that strikers on their way to
meetings and workers on their way
to work put in most of their time
walking. or wriggling through the mo-
tor traffic jams.
Society women under the leadership
of Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the
prime minister, have organized a mo-
tor transport corps which is affording
transportation for working women in
the London area. Limousines no long,
er are available for tea, bridge par
ties and theater parties, as their own
ers have been largely drafted into the
volunteer work.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
$ MINERS HURT
IN EXPLOSION
(By Dispatch A. p. wire)

PoTTsvILLE, Pa, May Give
miners were killed and four injured
by an explosion of gas in the south
Pennsylvania colliery late today; two
of the injured were seriously hurt.
Those who lost their lives were:
William Colson and his son, AL
bert; Edward Green, Bruno Trycko
and Albert Brimbo.
First reports were that number
of workers had been entomber and
the head of the shaft was soon sur
rounded by weeping women and chill
dren. Colliery officials, however, set
the rumors at rest by statement
that all had been accounted for. Res
cue parties reached the dead and in
iured without difficulty.
The explosion was said to have
been caused by the discharge of dy-
Mantle in a gas laden atmosphere.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
HAIL, DAMAGES
LARGE CROPS
IN COLORADO
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)

PUEBLO, Colo, May 6.-The general
rain which visited the Arkansas valley
today, extending from Canon City,
Colo, to the Kansas line, in some
places took on the form of & cloud
burst, damaging crops, roads and rail-
roads 10 I; great extent.
Fowler. Colo, about 80 miles east
of here, was hit hardest by the storm,
for mirgled with the rain was hail
and tonight hail stones to depth of
six inches lay on the ground for a
strip one mile wide. This strip was
in a northeasterly direction from
Huerfaano county to Lincoln county.
to Lincoln county.
Fruit trees were stripped, what lit
tie corn was up was ruined and it is
doubtful if any of the alfalfa crop
can be saved. Water was running
hub deep in the roads and they were
blocked in all directions.
At Nepesta, Colo, a railroad sta
ton near the boundary of Pueblo
county, the oxford and Highline canal
broke, inundatin&s fields, roads and
railroads. One Santa Fe train was
held up for some time by the water
over the tracks. Automobile roads
were reported impossible and the
damage to the crops is said to be as
great as though there had been hail
Avondale, Is miles esst of here, was
treated to the heaviest rain in the
history of the community, heavier than
the flood rains of 1921. All Easements
in the town were flooded, in some of
the lower places the water reaching
above the first floor.
Fields took on the appearance of
lakes and children were marooned in
schools until nearly dark. Light and
telephone wires were down early in
the day, but repairs were made be-
fore dark. In the dry land section
east the rain was of untold value, as
this section missed the hail and the
cloudburst followed the river
Throughout the irrigated section near
Ordway the rain was referred to as
the "million dollar proposition"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
HOUSE DEBATE
ON FARM BILLS
ENDS SATURDAY

WASHINGTON, May 6.-Resump-
tion of debate. in the ohuse on farm
relief legislation today brought clash
of opinions as advocates of the differ
ent plans discussed the problem, one
of the most important and vexins
faced at the session. Operating under
a rule which brings general debate to
close Saturday the house held a
session tonight to accommodate the
many desiring to speculate on the
three pending bills, the Haugen sta
bilization measure, the Tincher credit
proposal and the Curtis-Aswell nation
al commodity marketing plans.
Another night session tomorrow is
in prospect The Curtis-Aswell bill
was urged by Representative Aswell,
of Louisiana, ranking democrat of the
agriculture committee, and co-author
of the measure. He said it's plan OF
handling each product separately could
be compared to the way crafts were
organized by the American Fedora
ton of Labor, while the scheme of the
Haugen bill was "the one big union
idea, backed by the I. w. w. and the
communists"
Aswell declared that Chairman Hau-
gen ''had been putty in the hands of
the corn belt lobbyists" whom he
charged with turning out an "un-
sound and unworthy measure that
would "leave the treasury holding the
bag"
The Haugen bill in the early stages
of debate today was upheld by Rep.
resentaAive Adkins, republican, Hi
nois, and Rubey, democrat, Missouri
both members of the agriculture COM
mittee They contended it was the
only plan that would relieve the dis
trnSs Of apriculture.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
ONE INDICTED
IN CHICAGO'S
TRIPLE MURDER
(By Dispatch A. p. wire)

CHICAGO, May 6.-Indictment of
the owner of the hotel where William
McSwiggin, Hanging prosecutor" and
his two gangster companions were
slain ten days ago, today was the
first action in the grist expected of
a special grand jury investigating
crime in Chicago and Cook county.
He was charged with keeping dis
orderly house
Shortly afterward, three more in
dictments were returned in connection
with a recent gang killing and seven
others for conspiracy to violate the
state prohibition act Meanwhile, de-
tectives secured the city for wit
nesses wanted to testify before the
special grand jury regarding an al
legel pardon mill through which,
officials charged, scores of Joliet con-
victs had obtained their freedom on
parole.
Coroner Oscar Wolff, in charge of
the inquest into McSwiggins death,
which is to be resumed tomorrow
and who had previously appeared be-
fore the grand jury for short time
at the request of Robert e. Grove,
states attorney and his political OPP
ponent, late today testified before the
grand jury at his own request.
He declared later however, that he
had "official proof" that Grove had
failed to act against "about 80" gang
sters recommended held for murder
by coroner's juries. The murder case
in which the grand jury returned in
dictments was that of Martin Gear
ity, who was, taken for ride" sew
eral weeks ago and slain. The in
dictments named Francis doc"
Whyte Sam Pullano and August An
nerina as Gearity's slayers while John
McMahon and Joseph Salvo were
named as accomplices.
One of the prohibition indictments
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
STRIKING NEWS
FROM STRIKERS

The British general strike has in
terferred with rapid transmission OF
Paris fashion plates which are sent
to the United States by wireless.
Plates of the newest creations are
rushed across the English channel
by airplane to the Croydon airdome,
then whisked in automobiles driven
by strike breakers to the radio send
ing room, only to meet delay IN
because of the flood OF
strike pictures being sent across the
Atlatnic by various news agencies.
Another hardening back to World
war days is seen in a rush of women
volunteers to help out during the
strike in various capacities, ranging
from driving motor cars to working
in canteens. Thousands of women
who saw such service during the war
are volunteering again in answer to
a call issued by womens recruiting
headquarters. A constant stream OIL
feminine applicants today passed in
and out of the recruiting office, which
is war time hut erected in the
foreign office quadrangle in White
hall street.
London's licensed victuallers are
considering the advisability of vol
UNFAIRLY closing their public houses,
the general rush home after work
ing hours having caused these es-
Establishments in central London and
the west end to be virtually to be
deserted in the evenings.
The Daily Mail announces that Il
has sold 100000 copies of today's
issue, including 25O,OOO printed in
France and brought to London by
airplane and steamer. Ten copies
were delivered at Buckingham Palace
for the king and queen and ten to
st. James palace for the Prince OF
Wales.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
STRIKERS YET
HOLD FIRM IN
GREAT BRITAIN
(By Dispatch A. 2. Wire)

(By Dispatch A. L. Wlrel
LONDON, May 6. - The
British government and the
trades union congress are
still far apart. Neither has
shown signs of giving way
in the general strike, now
entering upon it's fourth
day that has caused the
greatest industrial upheav-
al the British Isles has ever
experienced. Premier Bald
win still insists that the
general strike orders must
be withdrawn before he will
enter into new negotiations.
The labor leaders reply
with an emphatic "No" to
such a condition, but de-
clare themselves ready to
go into conference, with
the government with a free
hand.
Adjournment of parliament tonight
until Monday removes another pos
sible source of appeals for peace.
The prime minister has the backing
of the house on the measures under
taken to control the strike situation.
A labor amendment seeking to modi-
fly a clause in the governments bill
for the protection of property was
defeated by a large majority.
Exemplary conduct on the part of
the strikers is again called for by
the union leaders, and they are obey
ing orders in rather unexpected
way, for only at two places in Scot
land, have any serious disorders oc-
CURED there have been innumerable
clashes, the breaking of window, the
overturning of automobiles, minor at
tacks on strike breakers and similar
incidents, but in an amazing man
ner, the two or three million men
involved directly in the strike are
keeping the peace.
At Musselborgh, near Edinburgh.
numerous passengers were injured in
an attack on a train. Five police
men and as many civilians were
hurt sufficiently to make hospital
treatment necessary. At Glasgow
always hot bed in time of strikes,
the police were roughly handled, and
some of the rioters were arrested.
In message addressed to all work.
ers, the trades union council says:
"The council wishes to emphasize the
fact that this is am industrial dis
pute. 1t expects every member talk
ing part to be exemplary in his con-
duct and not to give any opportun-
ity for police interference. The
council asks pickets especially to
avoid obstruction and to confine
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
S. p. Fireman Killed as Plane
Crashes in Tucson; 2 Injured

TUCSON, May 8. - Ray
Dickson, 28, Southern Pa
cific fireman, is dead, Carl
Samuelson, another railroad
man is seriously injured,
and Jack Dairy, pilot, Of
Cloverfield, Santa Monica,
Calf, is slightly hurt about
the face as the result Of an
airplane accident here this
afternoon, According to
the pilot, the accident oc-
Cured when Dickson who
the ship full left rudder,
was in the front cockpit OF
the ship, a dual control ma
chine, placed his feet on the
rudder bar and gave a push
sending it into a flat spin
out of which it was impos-
sible to right it before the
crash. The plane fell only
200 feet, but was completely
demolished.
Two girls, tourists from a nearby
automobile camp, were the first to
reach the wrecked ship. They found
the two passengers in the wreckage
of the plane, the pilot, dazed by the
fall, having wandered off from the
plane.
The girls, whose names are un-
known, rendered first aid to Dickson
who was bleeding badly from lacer-
ated arm, then called for aid. The
men were taken to hospital where
Dickson died later.
Samuelson is expected to recover
and Dairy, the pilot is suffering from
severe shock, an injured ankle and
cuts and bruises. Dickson, his rail-
road record shows, is from Illinois,
and has a father living. Mrs Dickson,
now divorced from her husband, hur-
ried to the hospital when she heard
of his injury, but arrived after he
had died.
PLANES DELIVERY STARTS
SANTA MONICA, Calf, May e.
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
French Franc Steadies
After Announcement By
Government on Thursday

PARIS, May 6.-Announcement by
the French government that meas
ures would be taken to protect the
frame this afternoon steadied the
exchange after series of violent
fluctuations had carried the frame
back and forth.
The frame opened at 31.77 ito the
dollar and then dropped to 32.32
during the first two hours, Great
ing a new low. 1t went back to
31.JO and then weakened to 32.25
mt the official closing but strength
ened to 31.90 after Che close of the
BOurse.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
Three Civilian Naval
Aircraft Workers Are
Drowned in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, May 8.-Three
civilian employees in the naval air
craft factory at the Philadelphia
navy yard were drowned today
when an aluminium hull of an air.
ship capsized in the Delaware
river. The hull was completed to-
day, and in tow of a light steamer
off the navy yard. was being tested
for water tightness.
sixteen men were aboard the
hull and all were thrown into the
water. Quick action by the crew
of the steamer saved 13 of them.
those lost were w. Morgan, sheet
metal worker; A. Renzi and II.
Langley. The hull was that of one
of the new Pm (super airship) un-
der construction at the navy yard.
1t is to be a sister ship to the
PN-0.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
ICELEss REFRIGERATION PUT
IN JUNCTION NINE
(By Dispatch A. P. Wirel \

BISBEE, May Cooperation of a
five ton iceless refrigeration plant to
supply cool drinking water to un-
derground workers in the Junction
mine here was begun today. This
plant cools 1000 gallons of water
in eight hours and that amount is
taken down the mine in tanks and
distributed throughout the under
ground workings for each shift. 1t
is very hot on the lower levels OF
the Junction mine.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
Neuada Lumber Town S
Burned As 5O-MiIe Gale
Fans Flames on Thursday

RENO, New, May 6.-Fanned by
a gale that reached velocity of
40 to so miles an hour, flames
swept the little lumber town of
Verdi, II miles west of Reno and
nearly on the Nevada-CalifOrnia
line, starting at noon today and
destroyed the lumber mill of the
Verdi Lumber company, several
million feet of lumber, nine homes
and the village school house. The
damage lis estimated at 100000,
partially covered by insurance.
Only the fact that the houses in
Verdi cluster in groups which are
scattered over considerable area
saved the entire town.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
POSSES CAPTURE ALL
But THREE ESCAPED
CONVICTS IN ILLINOIS
(By Dispatch A. P. Wirel

LEONORE, Ills. May Gone of the biggest man
hunts in the history of Illinois narrowed tonight to the
trails of three convcts whose escape with four others
from the state penitentiary resulted in the death OF
of the convicts were pulled from underneath the hay
in barn today on the farm Of John Rose threeourths
of mile northwest Of here Two others were captured
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07

Having dropped two of their num-
Der between Morris and Ottawa in
their flight from Joliet in the auto
mobile of Deputy Warden Klein whom
they had slain, five of the escaped
prisoners entered the village on foot.
They had wrecked their automobile
about four miles from here.
Warned of their approach by
farmer whom they had held up and
robbed, the residents of Leonore
armed themselves and laid in wait.
They chased them amid a shower of
bullets to the outskirts of the village
where they caught two Bernardo
Roa, badly wounded, was taken to a
hospital, and Robert Torrez was
lodged in jail The three others es-
capped in the darkness. One of the
many posses securing sLasalle county
today including the wild wooded re-
gion along the Vermillion river found
Walter S. Taleska and Gregoria RHO
in the barn. The men showed little
fight after their revolver failed to
work Charles Duschowski, the third
to slip away in the night, was be-
lieved to have hidden on the farm of
William Schmidt and posses were dis
patched to search for him.
The two who left the automobile
near Morris, Charles Spader and J. D.
Price, were believed to have boarded
a freigh train for Chicago.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07
mann hal suSPECTS.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, May g.
Ten men, some of whom officers be-
lieve may be convicts who escaped
from the state penitentiary at State
Vile, Ill, late yesterday after killing
a deputy warden, are being held at
police headquarters. The men were
arrested late today during roundup
of suspicious characters in the Michi-
gan Central railroad yards The
sheriff's office has communicated
with Illinois officials asking for fin
ger prints and descriptions of the
escaped convicts.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07

UNEMPLOYED WRECK
ST. JOHNS TOWN OFFICES
ST. JOHNS. N F., May ga hum
dred unemployed men marched into
Harbor GGrace from Island Cove to-
day and wrecked the offices of town
officials after demanding relief.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-07

NEW YORK, May g.
Copper dull, electrolytic
1917. Silver 64B.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-30
Many Grown Ups
To Attend Festival

Grown-up folks will be in attend
ance in large numbers at the 18th
annual May festival Saturday after
noon.
They will have no part in the pro-
gram to be given, but the interest
in seeing the young folks perform,
the real spirit of the May that will
be in evidence is always an attrac-
ton that brings the older people to
the Augusta City hall.
The entertainment will begin at
sharp o'clock. There will be the
presentation of Mother Goose's
Goslings" and the May Pole dance.
Then general dancing will follow
With music by Douglas.
Booths for the sale of cooked
food, candy. icecream, lingerie and
children's clothes will be literally
patronized as is always the case.
There will also be grabs aud bal
looms for the children. A part of
the receipts taken at the door will
be given to the Augusta General
hospital.