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Reality in Role Of Cross-eyed Bow

"A couple of fake religious leaders wandered into
the city of Nuevo Laredo Mexico the other day and
announced that by the laying of hands and by
faith they would cure all and sundry Of any ailments
they possessed.
In the SICK the crippled and the uniformed.
a. by hundreds. There much talk Of the cures
that had been done. Everybody happy.
And then something slipped. Somebody led up
a cross-eyed boy. And that spilled the beans. The
.heaers" prayed and sweated and performed in
carnations without number, all to no avail. The
boys eyes stayed crossed. The crowds lost their
---iaitA. and the bloom went off the BOOM
Most of the striking examples Of public enthu-
siasm gone cockcycd don't end in quite ridiculous
a fashion. But it's always somewhat similar.
Someone always leads up a crosseyed boy.
Ever often, you know, large numbers Of US get
s-a1l tangled up with dizzy scheme and aren't
quite ourselves for while
A goodly multitude sat up all night year or
ago. firm in the belief that the end of the world
= was at hand. But it didn't come and they went
away cured.
A lot of us went nutty NJ. Coue when he
came to America few years back. We glibbered
his mystic formula in the fond belief that it would
make the blind to see and the halt to But it
didn't, and presently wd found over it and
able to 60 back to work.
Or, to get down to case trifle serious:
nearly 10 years ago got involved in war. 1t
was to be war that would end all and wipe
away all tears, and most of really lived in the
belief that the worlds major troubles would slide
away through the magic Of war and the millennium
would come as the peace treaty was signed.
But somehow it didn't work out that way. We
dscovered-in fact, we're still discovering t-that
the way to make the world better place is the
= same old way: to work and sacrifice and struggle
always for the good things, to support justice and
practice kindness, neighhorliness and tolerance So
we got over habit Of going about with our
Aonths open looking for great light from heaven.
and settled down to do our work again.
It's always the way. We go off on tangent
& over some new idea or theory or superstition and
We forget to work and it raise1 hob with US gen
orally. But we set over it. ..az
Somebody always leads scross-eyed boy around.
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But the blue cherry was magic and
much sought after. Paddy-foot
bring me the bylaws and the con.
stitution again."
So Paddyfoot, the bear, went out
to the pantry and dug down in the
sugar barrel and got the bylaws
and the constitution and brought
them in.
Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)
Ito Be Continued)
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A THOUGHT

The Lord will destroy the house Of
the proud, but he will establish the
border of the widOw.-Pr0v. 1925.
Some people are proud Of their
humility Beecher.
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Milk From Wisconsiu

q Miami. Of which the publicity agents have sung
long and loud depends upon the Wisconsin dairy
farns for it's supply Of milk.
The other day carload Of tuberculn tested fluid
I. mix from Wisconsin arrived in the wonder city
~ nforida Hauling fresh milk 1900 miles in a
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Cock With Gas. IT, the
Ideal Fuel
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BEGIN HERE TODAY

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
HENRY. RAND. IS, . bssiness
man, IL found mardered In .
cheap hotel in Grafton. Police
find wOman's Handkerchief md
the stub af . yeclow theaterf
ticket.
JIMMY RAND. his son. goes
to Mansfield. where the theeter
il. The stab In traced TO THOM.
AZ FOGARIY, who says he gave
|. Il % OLGA MAYNARD. . cabaret
singer. = +ft+
: Jimihy meets and falls II love
with MARY LOWELL Later he
encouaters Olga She faiats
when, she learns police want her
for murder. Mary. out with
SAMUEL CHURCH. Z wealthy
lawyer, sees Jimmy liftine Olga
into taxi and mjsunderseaada.
Olga tells pOliee the haAdkeF.
chief aud stab might have come
into possessioh Of = man who
"picaed her mp" two nights be.
fore the murder. J)muly receives
several mysterious wsfnings 20
leave Mansfield bat ignores them.
Later he II attacked at night BY
two men, bat edcapes. ~
with Jimmy and Mary e..
tranged, Church presses his 81.
vantage and gets Masy's promise
to marry him. Mary tells Jimmy
this when they meet. Jlmmy,
trying to hurt her, accuses her Of
marrying for money.
That. evening, with Olga, he
sees the man they are locking
for-the man who il Supposed TO
have got the ticket stub-in ~
automobile. IL IL one Of the men
who had attacked Jimmy. They
follow the car, but the man and
his companion escape. Later
they recognize his picture In the
BertillOn records AZ that Of IKE
JENSEN. 4.
That SANG night Jimmy goes
home to his room 70 find another
warning letter.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
TOLEDO ARMING
AGAINST TERROR
OF A 'CLUBBER'
lRy plspateh A p. wlten

TOLEDO o., Jan, 19.-Toledo armed
itself today against recurrence of a
terror that has prayed upon the city
for eight months, while police sought
the slayer, of Miss Mary Handley
who was found beaten to death ear
gly today in a back yard adjacent to
her home.
The scene of the Staying is in the
center of the district in which three
women have been killed and four in
jured by clubber since last May.
While Safety Director Arthur Hill
made the murder the basis for a
plea for 25 additional policemen, de-
tectives expressed the opinion the
attacker of Miss Handley was hiding
behind the identity of the clubber
by initiating his methods.
Miss Handley was the divorced
wife Of Thomas Kelley, "a contractor
She had been living with her two
brothers for some time and had been
absent from her home for two days
when her body was found.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
HUNT EXPRESSES REGRET

,.s,., si (By Dispatch A. p. Wire) .,.--~ .
PHOENIX, Jain. 19.-The death of
General John c. Greenway in the
prime of life, is one that the state
can i'll afford, Governor Hunt of
Arizona said tonight
"The state of Arizona has lost an
aggressive, constructive and patrio-
tic citizen" the governor said. ''His
services to the country in the Span
ishAmerican war in the world are
so well known as to require no
comment. AS an officer of the Rough
Riders regiment he endeared him
sclf to Colonel Roosevelt and his
men. AS an officer during the world
war he suffered in health from the
effects of active combat
"As a citizen his work in con-
hcction with the affairs of the
Calumet and Arizona, and particu-
larly of the new CorneIia Copper
company, stand out as monuments
to his engineering and managerial
genius.''
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
General John c. GreentOay
Dies in ~ Y. Hospital
Continued From Page one)

and when the Spanish American war
was declared, was thus employed He
enlisted in the Rought Riders at San
Antonio, Texas, of which the late
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was in
command. He was with the outfit
throughout the war, being promoted
twice, on one OCCASION for bravery
and galiantry in action" He was
promoted to be second lieutenant and
later first lieutenantl when at the
battle of San Juan Hill he displayed
extraordinary courage. He was rec-
ommehded to congress by Roosevelt
for the hrevet Of captain.
After the war. he took up work
in the steel industry again and be-
came associated with the G. and A..
company in 1910
On the declaration of war against
Germany, Greenway went overseas
as a major of engineers. He trans
ferred to the 205th infantry brigade.
as lieutenant colonel and was award
ed the Distinguished Service Cross by
the American government and the
Croix de Guerre with two palms by
the French government in the Meuse-
Argonne. He also has the French
Legion of Honor and the LEtoile
Noire After the war he was made
colonel in the organized reserve and
later was made brigadier general in
the reserves, which commission he
held at the time of his death.
The John c. Greenway camp Unit
ed Spanish War Veterans of Douglas
of which he was a charter member,
was named in his honor and on
"Greenway" day in the Bisbee dis
trict on June 8, 1925, he presented
the post with it's colors
Thousands of people from all Sec
tions of Arizona gathered in Vista
Park, Warren, on "Greenway Day"
to pay tribute to the famous charac-
ter and motorcade was on hand
from this city carrying a great
number Of his close friends here.
In his history of the Rough Rid
ers,'' Colonel Roosevelt paid a splen-
did tribute to Captain Greenway, re-
ferring to him as:
"a strapping fellow, entirely lear
less, modest and quiet, with the ahil-
ity to take care of the men under
him so as to bring them to the high-
est point of soldierly perfection to
be counted upon with absolute GER
tainty in every emergency; not only
doing his duty but always on the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20

watch to find some rev duty which
he could construe to be his, reAdy
to respond with eAgcrness to the
slightest suggestion of doing some
thing, whether or not it involved
tasks that were difficult and labor
ious."
A writer in "The World Today
referring to him and his work on
the Mesaba range once characterized
him as:
"A man of exemplary habits, who
inhiBits diss4pation by example; a
'tirel$ss worker; this man who does
things is OF that new type of Amerf-
cans who cam serve corporations and
at the same time serve their day
and generation"
General Greenway was one of the
sponsors of the. National Progressive
party and was one of the self con-
stituted committee which brought
that party into being by inviting and
personally escorting Colonel Roose-
welt to the Progressive National con-
vention held in Orchestra hall, Chi
cago June, 1912.
He was nominated by the pro-
gressive party as presidential
elector of the state of Arizona, was
also tonce member of the board of
regents of the University of Arizona,
once president of the Yale Alumni
association of Arizona, once presi-
dent of the Warren District Country
club and a member of the Sons Of
the American revolution.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
Refusal to Extend Time
on Verde River District
Permits of no Redress

WASHINGTON, Jan, 19.-Secretary
Works refusal to extend further
the time in which the Verde river
irrigation and power district might
use public lands in the construc-
tion of reservoirs, general land of
flee officials said, will not entitle
settlers on the project to financial
redress from the government
Irrigation district taxes have been
accepted by the government as pay
ment of settlers land under the des-
ert land law, and the officials hold
that they have had ample time since
the project was begun six years ago
to begin construction work or to
make use of water from other
sources. If there is a possibility of
settlers obtaining water in a few
years, however they said, the gov
ernment might still grant them ex-
tension of time in which to prove
their claims.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
WAS ). yEARs or AGE

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-John c..
Creenway, member of the same Yale
football team on which the late
Frank Hinkey played died today
hospital.
Greenway, who was 53 years old
also caught for the the Yale base
ball team, having been an all
American choice in 1894 and 1895. He
was an official in the Calumet-Ari-
zona Mining company at Bisbee,
Ariz,, where he lived prior to COM
ing there for the operation.
The body will be shipped tomorrow
to Ajo, Arizona, for burial, Green
way was member of Colonel Roose-
velt's Rough Riders during the
Spanish h-American war. In later years
he became active in Southwest poli-
tics and was a staunch supporter of
Roosevelt. At one time it was re-
ported he was to marry Alice Roose-
Welt, now Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
but this was promptly denied.
During the world war he was one
of the first to volunteer when
Roosevelt offered to raise divi-
sion. Later he was commissioned a
major of engineers and saw action
Sin France for which he won the
distinguished service cross, the
Croix De Guerre and other medals.
Greenway formerly was assistant
superintendent of mines for the
United States corporation at Ish-
peming, Mich In 1906, he was gen
eral superintendent of the oliver
Mining company on the Mesaba
range in Minnesota. After serving
there four years he went to Arizona
as general manager of the Calumet
and Arizona mining company.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
ONE KILLED, ONE HURT
AS POWER TOWER FALLS

PHOENIX, san. 1@ Charles Me-
Cullough, 40, of LeRiS was. killed in
stantly and William. Waddell, 80, Of
Phoenix, was probably fatally injured
when a 45-foot power line towcf
crashed while! they were WORKING at
its top two miles west of Goldfield
yesterday afternoon. Both were 2r-
ployed as linemen by the Salt River
Valley Water Users association and
were members of party engaged. in
stringing the associations new 100,-
600 volt power line from Goldfield
to the Magma mining property. The
crash of the tower, according to Of
ficials of the association occurred
when guy wire on one side loosen
ed, permitting the pull exerted in
the opposite direction by the newly
placed power line to pull it over.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
A TEST OF YEARS
Is the Experience of This Douglas
Resident.

Are you miserable with an aching
back? Feel tired, nervous and run
down? Do you have daily headaches
dizzy spells and annoying urinary
disorders? Then why not take the
advice of a Douglas resident who suf-
fered as you do and found lasting
relief by, using Doan's Pills-a stim,
ulant diuretic to the kidneys? Here
is a Douglas case that the years
haven't changed. Why not profit by
it?
Mrs. JAS A. Hay, S43 18th St. says:
"My back ached continually and if
I tried to bend over sharp pains
caught me in my back. I had dizzy
spells. My kidneys also acted ir-
regularly. used Doan's Pills and
they soon cured me-"
Al few years later Mrs. Hay added ::
"Since giving my first statement in
behalf of Doan's Pills, my cure has
proven permanent ADV.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20

Continued from Page One)
without having them real into the
record at it's session.
Representative Hill, republican,
Maryland, told the committee that his
measure would save a vast amount
of duplication in handling supplies,
would promote efficient national de-
Tense and air aviation particularly.
The war department recommends
tions called for changing the name
of the air service to air corps, APP
pointment of a second assistant sec
retary of war to supervise aviation
and three assistant army air chiefs
with rank Of brigadier general, tenn
porary increase in rank for certain
classes of air officers, and more pay
and extra government life insurance
for fliers.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20

holders $46,0OOOO of the $56, 900, 600
dividends distributed, and acquired
and developed the New Cornelia pro-
perty after many noted engineers
had turned it down. He retired as
general manager of the Calumet ana
Arizona properties on May q, 1925
Among the prominent men in this
section who expressed great sorrow
at the death of General Greenway
were p G. Beckett general manager
of the Phelps Dodge interests in the
west; G. H. Dowell general mama
ger of the Copper Queen branch of
the corporation, and dozens of those
who served under him
General John G. Greenway was
born in Huntsville Alabama, on June
6, 1872, being the son of DR.. G.. c..
Greenway and Alice (White) Green
way. His father and grandfather
fought under the flag of the Con-
federacy. He was graduated from.
Episcopal high school at Alexandria,
Virginia, a few miles out of Wash
ington, d. c.; later attended Andover
Academy at Andover, Massachusetts; !;
attended the University of Virginia.
and later went to Yale, where he
received his technical training He
was conspicuous figure from his
freshman year. when he was chosen
a member of the varsity football
team. He was president of his class
and also chosen most poplar man in
his class, graduating with a Ph. D.
degree.
Greenway worked as a helper in.
tine Duquesne furnaces of the Carne-i
gle Steel company, making at that
time $1S2 per day. He became fore,
aYt1 ei,ii
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
HELD For BANK RoRRER1Es

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 19.-Joe and
Jess Newton, two of the Rondout,
ILL., mail train robbers were arrested
at their home town of Uvalde, Texas,
yesterday afternoon and are being
held tonight in the Hays county
jail at San Marcos, in connection
with Texas bank robberies The
Newtons, released from Leavenworth
prison last month after serving SEN
tences for participation in the $2,-
100000 train robbery near Chicago,
are under indictment in Hays coun-
ty for alleged participation in the
robbery OF the San Marcos state
bank and trust company on January
5, 1924 They als6 have been indicted
in Comali county for alleged robbery
of the New Braunsfels State bank.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
MAI. CARRIER HtNoRED

TUCSON, Jan. 19.-Joseph r.. Kelly,
veteran mail carrier and a resident
Of Tucson for the past IA years, has
has just been named national state
vice president of the National AS
sociation of Letter Carriers by Ed
ward J. Gainor, national president
of Washington, d. C. Kelly has been
named to take the place of A. A.
Francis of Phoenix, retiring vice
president and also veteran car
rier
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
u. OF A. POET HONORED
nv D1sDatct A. P. Wirel

TUCSON, Jan. 19-Placed seven
teenth on the roll of honorable men
ton of contributors to the 1925
Witter undergraduate poetry prize
contest, Frank Mitvalsky, Phoenix,
a sophomore in the University of
Arizona during the 1924-1925 aca-
demic year, won recognition in a
field of 600 entrants from II COL
leges of 80 states. Announcement
was made on the university cam
pus today. MitvaIsky transferred to
the University of Arizona from. the
Phoenix junior college in his fresh
man year.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
Military COmmitte of
House Begins New Survey

Continued from Page one)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
WE'D CALIFORNIA WOMAN

(By Dispatch A. P. Wrel
BISBEE, Jan. 19.-GGenera1 John
G. Greenway, who died today in
New York City, was married to Mrs.
Selmes Munroe Ferguson of Santa
Barbara, Calf, November 4, 1923.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
Amundsen Pays Visit to
DIR. Cook in LeavenwOrth
Continued From Page one)

Paris and again in Christiania, Nor
way.
That was their last meeting until
today.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-20
HOWELL HEADS d. U. QUINTET

DENVER, Jan. 19-Pete Howell,
football and basketball star, was
elected captain of the 1926 Universe,
ty of Denver basketball team here
tonight. The vote was unanimous
Howell also was Pioneer cage cap
tain last season.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-22
WINTER GARDEN
|MPRESSES
TOb|N

Il am convinced the Winter Garden
District is one of the most fertile
spots in the United States" said
Mayor John W. Tobin upon his re-
turn to San Antonio Friday. He nc.
companied Chamber of Commerce Of
ficials and other San Antonio bust
ness men on the one-day trade trip 10
that locality Thursday.
The mayor declared he was surpris-
ed TO see the thousands of acres in
cultivation. Il knew San Antonio
could grow palms, banana trees and
other semi-tropical plants in mid-win-
ter, but / didn't realize fields could
be so green at this time of the year.
"We saw field after field planted in
spinach. cabbage, beets, turnips.
onions and other green vegetables.
don't see why its's necessary for PEG.
pie to grow vegetables anywhere else,
there's such a large supply available
In the Winter Garden district, he
said. sand the people-they are just
as friendly and hospitsble as those in
San Antonio.
"They met us before daylight when
We rolled into Garlic Springs" he
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-22
LAST OF MONITORS KEEPS
TRYST WITH DAVY JONES

BALTIMORE, Jan. 22.-R-
Trailing enormously at the end of a
tow line, once proud monitor and
last of her type. today, was moving
toward her grave. The U. s. S.
Cheyenne was breasting her final sea.
Her destination-a junk pile at
Hampton Roads.
One of four sister ships laid down
in 1904, the Cheyenne, originally the
Wyoming. started her death march
alone with the U. S. S. Owl, a navy
yard tug, stealing ahead like a con-
science-stricken executioner. The Tai
lahassee, the last of her sisters, felt
the acctyele1e torch two years ago.
OF CIVIL WAR ORIGIN.
Sixty years back in American his
tory, the monitor type. embodied in
John Ericcson's Monitor-ncmesis Of
the Merrimac-revolutio naval
practice. Monitors maintained Presi.
dent Lincoln's blockade of Southern
ports during the Civil war.
The present and last monitor. liv-
ing to see her one all-powerful tyre
belittled by modern development.
epitomized naval progress when she
served as mother ship for subma-
rines on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts during the World war. The
Cheyenne. then the Wyoming. also
was the first naval vessel to feel the
thrust of modern oil burning engines.
Experiments conducted aboard the
Wyoming have since led the Navy De
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-22
MANIAC ELUDES
TRAP SET by
POLICE
Slips Away From 5. A.
Hospital for Insane
Scantily Clad.

Somewhere in the city a dangerous
maniac awaits his chance FOR dash
through some break in the Gordon of
San Antonio State Hospital attend
ants and city police to final liberty.
He eluded pursuit Thursday night.
following his escape. Friday officers
redoubled their efforts to capture the
desperate man.
Slipping away from the attendants
of the institution. the man, scantily
clad, chose a battle with the elements
rather than the protection of the hos
pital, where recovery probably meant q
return to Florida to face charges Of
forgery.
He was penniless at the outset OF
his dash for liberty. the hospital au-
thorities told police. Though appar-
emily tubercular the man outwardly
displays no signs of insanity. which
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-22
TRAFFIC SIGNALS
TO BE INSTALLED
AT THREE CORNERS

Locations for three more sets of
traffic signal lights were Announced
Friday BY Fire and Police Commits
sioner Phil Wright. The lights have
been ordered for the intersections Of
East Commerce and blackberry
streets, West Commerce and Zarza-
mora streets and st. Mary's and Mar
tn streets.
The lights probably will be in op
Grafton within the next MONTH" Com
missioner Wright said. A fourth set Of
lights will be installed at a corner not
yet decided on.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-22
Icy Weather
Misses San Antonio

San Antonio was spared the worst
part of the cold spell that has been
sweeping the state and, with the tenn
perature moderating Friday morning.
it is believed the Sunshine City will
come through without a serious freeze.
The lowest temperature here was
reached at o'clock Friday morning
when, according to the local weather
bureau, the mercury dropped to 81 de-
erees.
Immediately thereafter it began ris-
ing and continued a steady climb
throughout the morning, giving rise to
tho hope that the worst OF the snap
Is over here.
While only scattered reports were
available early Friday, it Is believed
the valley and the Winter Garden es-
capped without a freeze.
Lowest Temperatures reported in the
state during the night were at ANA
rillo, where the thermometer dropped
10 "a degrees and at Dallas where q
temperature OF 20 degrees was re
corded.