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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
Speed Trap Operating
In Superior, Autoists
Warned By Auto Club

PHOENIX, Oct 25.-The Automo-
bile Club of Arizona has been noI-
fled that speed trap is m opera,
tion in Superior. Motorists driving
faster than IS miles per hour viii DC
asked to contribute $40 or more.
The good roads of Arizona nave
caused the average driver to- gauge
his machines speed at & faster rats
than that and many are being caught.
Every motorist using the MiamI-Ssu,
perior highway should be careful and
keep within the speed limits estap.
.ished by tho Pinal county authori-
ties and thus avoid paying out good
mazuma.
Superior is on the Lee highway, a
great trans continental route tnat
carries much traffic. The passing
motorists will soon spread the news
of the speed trap from coast to coass,
even should they get by witnou.
making the acquaintance of the
judge
| Arizona has always enjoyed an
excellent reputation among visiting
motorists for the courteous treatment
accorded visiting motor travellers in
all parts of the state
F.; News of this speed trap will nat
urally throw travel to the more south,
ern route that passes through Doug,
las, Bisbee, Tombstone and Tucson,
known as the Main street through
I Arizona.
! The Automobile club of Arizona is
warning all motor travellers visiting
the Phoenix office to slow up before
entering Superior.
Manager Treadwell stated that the
speed trap proposition evidently was
working west from the more thickly
{, populated regions of the east, as re-
! Gently complaint was made to tbs
club of trouble of th:s nature De-
J tween FL Paso and Mesillia Park.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26

until recently, on the very eve of
the present campaign" senator Cam.
eron questioned.
81 will tell you why. Because
reither ne nor any other champion
of free trade could" he answered
They are not answering my con
tentions now All they are saying
is that it can't be DONE" he addeG
"Well / tell you it can be done, ant
+ am going to do it," he en-
rhasized with 4 blow on the table
1--WE must have a tariff on copper to
protect Arizona's greatest industry
from being wiped out, and l an
going to gee that tariff. ] know
that tho. free-traders are more IN
terested in developing African ano
South American fields than they are
in seeing Arizonas mines working.
That is one of the reasons they
know nothing about the domestic In.
dustry and that is one of the reasons
want to see our mines active and
cur miners we'll paid A proper
tariff Will do this and 1 am go.
ing to get that tariff" he declared
amid tremendous outhurst af APP
plause.
Another remark that brought down
the house in delight was his state
menf that Such an un-American per.
son as Harry Chandler Goes not be-
long in this country He terminated
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
ARMENIAN Loss, BOTH
LIVES AND PROPERTY
REPORTED MUCH LARGER

IENINAKAN Armenia. Oct. 25 (P1--
IRA p.meotarv reports over the crippled
wires from Karakala ana other ruin
~ towns in the territory laid waste
nv the eartnquale Friday night In
dicate an even greater loss of life
and more widespread havoc than al
first reported. The latest es,'mates
admittedly based on incomplete dava.
place the deaths as nigh as 500, With
1000 other manned or miesing, and 4
$50, ,00O,0 900 property loss,
1T will be weeks before the full
extent of the catastrophe is known
owing to the fact that large part
OF the population in the earthquake
zone is nomadic, widely scattered and
not registered. Possibly hundreds Of
peasants per.shed in obscure noun
tain roads. valleys and isolated ham
let's far from human succor.
1t was established today that no
Americans in the widespread chain OF
relief stations conducted by the Neal
East Relief in the devastated area,
are among the victims, although sew
eral of their Armenian assistants per,
ished.
Twenty carloads of flour, medicines
blankets and fuel arrived here toda!
from Tiflis. The few stores which
remained intact re-opened tonight fol
business. All the American relief
orphans ut Len;nakan are living H.
the open fields or in tents composed
of American army blankets. All art
well, out badly shaken by their
narrowing experiences.
The tremors, which continued IN.
termittently since Friday night, ceas-
cd early today. and the distracted
populace ventured from their TEN
porary shelters in the fields to visit
their former homes, which in most
cases they found mass OF wreck
age. That there was not higher
death toll was due to the fact that
the American relief workers, wnt
had made a special study of the eff
fects of earthquakes, with which,
A Armenia is periodically afflicted, had
taught the inhabitants to rush from
their homes at the first tremors ana
talSe refuge in the fields. Provident-
:ally 90 per cent Of the population
were in the open when the second
quake came, which buried the city.
otherwise they would have perishec
in their tottering homes, which
crumbled like tinder wood.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
HAYDEN AND DOUGLAS
TO TALK OVER RADIO

Z PHOENIX, Oct .25 tR.-Radio will be
used to tell the voters of Arizona about
taxes, tariff and talk as it is served
in bounteous portions in congress when
congressman Carl Hayden, democratic
candidate for the United States senate,
eneaks over KFAD, Phoenix. Thursday
night Lewis w. Douglas, on the oen-
ocratic ticket as congressional as
pirant, also will deliver an ADDRESS
over the ether Hayden tonight was
given public reception in Tempe, his
old home He was the first white child
born in the little Salt River valley
town. $as So
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26

lis remarks on the colorado by say.
ng that The Boulder canyon dam
would not be built as long as the
leople of Arizona kept Cameron In
the senate"
Senator Camerons arraignment OF
Chandler proved to be one of tho
most wither.ng that has been de,
ivered from any platform during the
present political campaign.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26

NUICK QUAKER, savory and
~ delicious, takes less time to pre-
,are than plain toast Thus provides
hot and nonrishing breakfast IN a
lurry.
That is how every day should be
started.
Started with the ideal food balance
Sf protein, carbohydrates and VITA
pines-phls the bulk to make laxa-
Hves less often needed-that leading
6etary authOritiesnCw so~wldeiy urge.
Start your days and your children ;
hS that way. No need now, simply 10
eve time, to deny them the supreme
strength food Of the world.
Your grocer has Quick Quaker
also Quaker Oats ~ yoa have always
known them.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
FORMER STATE SENATOR
OF ILLINOIS KILLS FIVE,
ENDS HIS LIFE SUNDAY

MARION, ILL.,, Oct. 25 R.-During a
sudden fit of insanity late Sunday
night, w. 0. Potter, Sc. former state
senator and United States district at
torney, killed his wife, two daughters
and two granddaughters, one a three
weeks-old baby, and then drowned
himself in a cistern at the rear of the
Potter home. The skulls of each of
he five victims had been crushed with
an iron furnace shaker. - Z
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
REGISTERS AT SAN JOSE.

SAN JOSE, Calf, Oct 25 P).-Vibra-
ions of an earthquake perceptible for
everal seconds here at 1858 Sunday
afternoon were registered for period
If from four to five minutes on the
ieismograph of Lick observatory of
Mount Hamilton, near here, according
o DR.. Robert Aitllen, associate director
# the observatory.
DR.. Altken described the quake as of
minor intensity and on the same line
Is the big quake of 1906. Or. Aitken
estimated the center of the disturbance
IS from Is to 100 miles from the OBJ
'ervatory.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
SEEK INJUNCTION AGAINST
STATE ORDER ON COTTOl

LOS ANGELES, Oct 25 R-Appli-
cation fer an injunction to restrain
the Arizona agricultural and horti-
cultural commission from enforcing
its order that his cotton be inspected
and disinfeeted on account of the
presence of the mountain weevil, was
requested of a special federal court
here today by Thomas J. Smith, large
cotton owner of the Postvale area Of
Arizona. Decision will be rendered
tomorrow.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
Earthquake Registered in
San Francisco on Sunday

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, oct. 25 (FJ.
A mild earthquake, lasting about ten
seconds, shook san Francisco Sunday
at 1852 p. m. No damage was done.
The shock was felt by residents of
oalo Alto, 80 miles to the south. 1t
was described there as "Very mild
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
BRITISH WOMAN, LABOR
MEMBER OF HOUSE, HAS
NICKNAME MISS PERKY

LONDON, oct - (4T-Miss Ellen
Wilkinson, labor member of parlia-
ment, likely will be known as Miss
Perky" for the rest of her political
career. She was called that during
a hot debate by Sir Frederick Hall,
Il conservative, who tried to tease
her Miss Wilkinson flushed angrily
and appealed to the chair.
Mr. Speaker" she said, may I
ask whether ] am to be insulted by
the member next to me? claim
your protection"
The speaker admonished Sir Fred
ericl, but Miss Wilkinson had seen
The funny side by this time and
hogan laughing, The name stuck
Austin J. Small, better known as
"Seamark," the novelist, has con :
tributed several dramatic sketches at
the Little theater lately that received
favorable comment. Small ran away
and went to sea at 13. He rode
freight trains from New York to
the west, where he earned his living
singing in ranch houses and minin
saloons. Drifting south, he worked
as a cook. One day he met Jack
London and told him of few Of
his adventures.
BUY pen and write them" London
said. He did.
Viscount Ulls Water, former speaker
of the house of commons, says he
has heard enough speeches to last
MIN lifetime. Presenting prizes ut
public school at Kendall he said
There is nothing dislike so much
as public speaking. do not believe
in public speeches. 1 have heard
too many. Reckoning up not long
ago the number 1 heard in the house
of commons, / came to the conclusion
that II was $4,000. I am not anxious,
therefore, to add to the number or to
listen to myself"
People in England and Wales seem
ingly are steadily decreasing or are
not drinking as much as previously.
The number of convictions for drunk
enness in these areas, according to
government statistics, last year WAS
less than half the total for 1924,
these figures being 75,O77 for 1925
and ,83S for 1924.
"The occurrence of drunkenness
which leads to conviction is unevenly
distributed over the days of the
week., says the report carrying the
statistics. Saturday is the most
fruitful day for arrests and contrib
utes about 93 per cent OF the total"
The number of licensed saloons has
declined from 1o2.1S9 in 1900 to
So,420 in 1925. The 1925 figures
represent 2O.6S licenses per 10000 OF
the population.
Wearing a wrist watch for the
first time in his life, King George
has stimulated a custom which was
expected to die out after the Prince
of Wales deserted the wrist watcf
for 4 platinum pocket watch an'
chain.
The king is using a small square
watch. mounted in platinum which
is held on his wrist by small blaci
strap.
The Prince of Wales for some tim
mas favored a thin platinum water
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
,voMAN DRoPs DEAD

los ANGELES, Oct 25 tR}.-Answer-
ing ring of her door bell, Mrs. Wal-
ter Mumford, 30, was handed the.
monthly gas. bill by a collector. She
looked at it and fell dead, Police sur
geons said heart disease was the cause
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26
Quick. Quaker

and thin platinum chain which he
wears both mornings and evenings
and mis- example has been followed
by many young men about town.
Now that the king has gone in for
q wrist watch jewelers. are on TIP
toes to see whether father or son
gets the greatest following.
Beauty parlors and millinery saloons
run by members of the British aris-
tccracy are no longer a novelty but
Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, formerly
lord in waiting to King George and
to the late King Edward has struck
a new note.
He has opened a milk and vegetable
shop on his estate at Motherwell,
Scotland. He is 81 years old and
was formerly a major in the famous
Scots guards, with which regiment
he fought during the World war.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-26

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New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
PRINTS ARMS STORY
London Sunday Paper Publishes AL legcd Facts Concerning Armament Purchasing In Europe

London, March Q R}--The Daily Mail today makes no relcronce to i story 'o which its Sunday edition. the Weekly Dispatch. gave promin- encN, concerning oHtraordinarv SO cret negotiations for the purchase Of arms and munitions and q plant for their manufacture. hy several Euro pean countries.
 The Weekly Dispatch rnnrcsn0tcG the arms hunger as being colos43I It said that Russia jor aomc tfnr had boon buying huge quantities Of rifles, which were shipped 10 China all! P2rSia aS soon a& they were ob~ taned, and that she was still seek 'ius; mere. If aiso declared fhat Greece had placed an order for "0".o0o rifles in Italy that Jueo- slavia was trying to obtqin t00, CD" rifles, and that Finland. Lithulni@. Poland and Eumania and other Eul- kan states were urgently seeking supplies, German armament firms were being flooded with orders and secret German war stocks, hidden in nearby countries, were being sold wholesale and shipped as fast as possible to China and Turkey.
 The n'Wspap"r addoi that per siSt5nt efforts had been made to place orders in England hut all of them failed.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
Riifian Peace Offers
 Are Said to Re { seless

Paris, March 23 NP' --- Om~ial tX- ports wio have examined tho let ;ers purportcdly written by Abd- Fl. .Krim. the Ei1ian leader, with reference to the possibility aof peace in Morocco. declared thcy w"re all produced by Europeans
 Ii is said in official circles that some, and perhaps all, Of the let ters were moro or less inspired by Ahd-El- -krim. but that none offers any real chance for serious poaca negotiations. The proposals madr to Franco in these letters. it is added, are entirely different from those made to Spain.
 The conclusion of the French of ficials is that krim, knowing France will refuse to negotiate separately. Is distributing tho documents so h. can tell his fol lowers that Trance and Spain are ignoring his cftort5 toward peace and hence that he Is obliged to fight.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
Motorcycle Policeman
 For Evening Service

Chief William c, Hart Of the po- lice department has announced that he plans to detail a motorcycle po- liceman on a night shift effective on April because ot the increasing pocd for this service especially dur. lhg the summer months when trsf. iic is so heavy.
 This service can be provided be. cause the police department has been given an appropriation for an additional motorcycle. The chief plans 10 have the shift extend from tho afternoon until a late hour at night. lt Is thought that there will he enough work 10 kccp t motor. cycle man busy at night and with TWO automobiles and a motorcyrle available. the night protection will be considerably improved, he thinks.
 Three new motorcycles have been shipped and are expected daily The two old machines in use in the do. partment have been turned in as par' payment on tho new machine and another new one has been pur- chased lf the weather permits inc motorcycle pa'rolmen will resume service about April 1.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
BOHEMIAN FROLIC THJRSDAN,

The Ladies Auxiliary, No. 45, l. c. F. R.. will give q Bohemian FroMc Thursday evening, in the Burrit' ho- t"l ballroom. Cards will bc enjoyed during the early part of the evening, winch will be followed ny entertain. ment and dancing. Tho committee in charge are: Tickets. Mrs. A. Levitt and Miss E. Miller; refreshments, Miss R. Segan and Mrs, \. Schoolcr; entertainment and publicity. Miss A. NAinstoin and Miss R. Miller; dec- "rattons, Mrs, W. Leikon and Misses Dora Protass and Edith Rogin. Gen "raI committee Of arrangcmcnrS: Miss n. ProtasS, Mrs. J. Lash, Mrs. A. Littman. Miss Sarah CroI
 Entertainment for tho evening will be furnished by Katie Fmkle- stein and $. SahIotsky, Frank Clinas and $. Shehanian. The following will act as waitross"s: Helen kcimowitz liilda Bcssoif, Bessie kalmanowitz, Rose kirshnitz, Ethel Zuckcr. Mary Arkin. Julia Levine, Jean Gourson, Bessie Koplowitz. Cigarette girls: Misses Zelda EIackman and Chuck Witkin.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
! nintentiOnal Homicide
 Plea in Matteotti Case

Chieti, Italy, March o2 (Py -- The trial Of the five men accused Of Kidnapping and murdering the an- ti-fascist deputy Matteotti in June, 1924, entered its final phase this 'ftornoon when the crown prose- rutor began summing up his case.
 The prosecutor took the floor after the defense attorneys had de- Wandcd the inclusion of an addi- tional defense argument Of lex '"nuating circumstances" in tho list Of questions 10 be answered by he jury.
 The prosecutor expressed eel '0inty that the jury would uphold the attorney generals verdict that the accused men committed unin- tonlional homicide. rendered es. p"cially grave because of Matteot- ifs position as q member Of parlia. ment.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
Many Drunken Drivers
 Escaping Punishment

Washington. March 22 lPY --- Be- 'I'f that large percentage of per sons arrested for driving automo- piles while intoxicated are not punished was expressed toaay hv Marcus A. Dow. director Of the Stewart Warner safoty council Of Chicago, here to attend the na- Uon"I conference on street and highway safety tomorrow.
 Dr. Dow said q survey of 1S5 Cities disclosed that of 14.5o5 rcr- sons arrested for driving while in ;o%'catcd, &$ per cent were released "lthont punishment, while q per F"nt W"ro sentenced and 46 per mt fined. only onn per cent of nos" arrested for reckless driving, nc Soid, were iniied, while 46 per e nt were fined.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
OxIord-C ambridge Crews
 Drinking Little W atcr

II nly -on-Tham1s, March ?2. -~ Watrr has nearly disappeared from tn, list of beverages which il" nN- foId and Cambridge rr""s arc talk iu~ while in training for the annual boat race on the Thames, March 2i.
 Hcth crews get ron@id'rah beer. Ta, oarsmcn arc permitted 10 have urrt wine, tea, coffee, cocoa, and ry,n q half glass of champagne, ct ,;it' rvals. But very little water is drnnk. It IS said that the tame lGtrhor of water thai was placed on the dining table at Bournocnd when th" OXforLs boys arrived still is rhero, At Henley, headquarters Of tho Cambridge r0Wcrs, water is never called for, nor even mentioned. There is no demand for soups at rithcr of th" camps.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
Carries Two Daughters
 To Safety From Fire

L"ominstcr Mass, March s2 Pl.- Mrs. E. (. Graham carried her two daughters to safety when she awokc 10 find their homo on fire carly this morning, Mrs, Graham, who lived in an apartment In lho wooden Ora ham block, a"oke to hear the girls coughing. She found their room fill "d with smoke and both partly over come. The fro, which started on the @'reHt floor from an undetermined cause, damaged thrce business es. establishments and caused S7,0o0 loss.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
COLD SPRING IN TRANCE

Paris, March . (P> --- The off. cial entry of spring into Franco was accompanied by q bitter north. casterly wind and fIcsi. which played havoc with the fruit trees which were in premature blossom Snow fell in many regions, notahE at Chalons-Sur- -Soane. Clarcmoui Ferrand and Annecy, and even tho so-called sunny south" was visit ed hy q cold rain, speeding the de- parture Of the Riviera's guests.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
-'lore Petitions Asking
 Rate Be Left Unchanged

Washington, March 70 Ao} -,- Dis. 'rl$saI oi petitions for further hear. ings on the pcrmanoncy of rates on '"al from Pennsylvania to New Eng. E nd points was requested in two pc iHiona filed today with the inter, stat" commerce commission.
 The Central Pennsylvania Coal froauc"rs' association and the Som "rs"t County Coal Operators asso- cia'ion of Pennsylvania also asked Tho commission to investigate the r"aaonahl"nosS of all rates, including iid"Wator 'ranS-shipm"nt rates on "limainous rom Pnnnsylyania, Maryland, West Virginia and eastern kentucky to Virginia. the middI, Atlantic and the New England Hf1irS
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
Widow, Her Son in Jail, Removed to Hospital

Left alone and rsnnilcss in her homo on Dix avenue with her bus hand dead only a short time and her son serving a sentence in Jail for highway robbery, Mrs, Annie Tom "ki, age SI years, was admitted 10 the New Britain Grn"ral hospital last night for treatment, She lives just oyor inc line from Nov Britain in Ncwington ami nciEhbors dis covered her i'll at her home and un- able 70 summon assistance. The New ington authorities had her romoyed to the local hospital.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
Thirteen Chinese Rebels
 Are Killed in Outbreak

Batavia, Java. March 22 P,--- Thirteen Chinese rebels have been killed in a fight with a Dutch mill Itary detachment sent to Achin, Su- matra, where trouble broke out
 carly this month.
 Among the rebels killed was the leader of the band which attacked Ia Dutch patrol on March 3, killing ten soldiers and wounding six. One Dutch servant was killed and three soldiers Of the relief force were seriously wounded fin the latest
 clash.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
Irish Really Believe
 In Mythical Fairies

Mona gham. Ireland. March 22 Lp The Irish belief in fairies is being demonstrated here anew with crowds f1ocking 10 spot near the city where some Of the little folk have given manifestations of their presence.
 As the story goes, a. horse was saved from the BlackvatAr river. and two young Ren told the owner they saw it being driven furiously hy q Veritablc lcprechaum--a little man in red.
 At the cutting of thornhush, ",'in music was heard. while there ar" several persons who claim they picked up tiny candles.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
East Dedham Man Has Hearing on Charge of Murdcrinc Wife Last Week.

DHdham, Mass. March c2 Ry-- S,anislaus Kwistovski Of Cambridge pleaded not guilty in district court today of murdering his wife, Fran c"s. Mrs. Kwistowski was found hea- tfn to death, and her body weighted with q heavy stone, in brook in Fast D"dham las' Friday. + vas be li"THd that she was killed Thursday night. Tho court today ordered NWiStovski held without bail for hoa0inE March %t.
 The police continued today their s'arch for further clues in connec- 1ion win the killing. Although 1hc tl'nli'y O. tic woman which re mainod in douht, has been estah- ll:led, lttln is known Of her move ments on March IS. The police have no obtained Q satisfactory nxplana- ton for h"- presence in Dedham and q theory is held that further infor- nation nal hc obtained from some- one living not far from the scene Of the crime.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
GOES OYER FALLS.

Rochester, \. Y, March 22 tP,-- An unidentified man went to bis death over the falls in the swollen "aters or tho Gcnesce river here to- day. Men working near the river say they threw him rope, but that his efforts to grasp it failed and he was carried over the falls. S"arch was being made for the body in the low or gorge.