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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
ARMY CHAPLAIN
NOT GUILTY, is
COURT VERDICT
(Bv Disnatch A. p. Wirel

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19.-Cap-
tain Orville Clampitt, army chaplain,
tonight was found not guilty on all
counts of improper intimacies with
Lucille Swallow, Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, girl, by court martial which
had been in progress at the Pre-
sidio here.
The acquittal came after Captain
Clampitt took the stand in his own
behalf and gave version of his re-
lationship with Miss Swallow while
he was stationed at Fort Leaven-
worth The point about which this
testimony revolved was the state
ment from the accused captain that
he had never visited Miss Swallow
while she had lived at a lodging
house in Fort Leavenworth What he
did do, the captain said, was to visit
a soldier who had quarters in the
same house 1t was while he was
lin the private's room that Miss Swal-
low entered and said she wanted to
talk with Captain Clampitt alone.
1t was then the girl made a clandes-
tine approach Captain Clampitt tes-
titled
Tt acquitting Captain Clampitt to-
day, the court martial announced
that the accused officer was freed on
the first ballot on every count in the
charges brought against him.
With reference to his future, Cap
tain Clampitt said he had not made
UP his mind whether he would leave
the army. At any rate he will not
leave the ministry.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
AYERS
CORONER'S JURY
IN HERRIN RIOTS
(By Dispatch A. P. Wirel

HERRIN, ILL.,, April 19.-The coro-
ner's jury which has been investi-
eating Herrin's latest factional clash
which last Tuesday resulted in the
death of six men, returned a verdict
of homicide" tonight after an all
day session.
The principal witness today was
Deputy Circuit Clerk John, Ford, an
eye witness to the shootings who
miraculously escaped death last Tues
day and who is a candidate for alder
man in tomorrow's city election here
States Attorney Arlie Boswell and
County Coroner George Bell, who
conducted the inquest, and who were
opposed to the cloak of secretary
about the inquiry when witnesses re-
fused to testify in the presence of
newspaper men, said that none ap-
pearing before the jury named
single person who took part in the
fighting, although it is reported that
names of alleged participants are
freely mentioned on the streets.
Today two guns, found abandoned
by the attackers, were presented as
evidence. One was large calibre
rifle which, after jamming, had been
thrown aside during the fight, and
the other was a sawed off shotgun,
abandoned in flight from the scene.
The automobile in which the anti
Klansmen drove up to a polling place
and commenced firing and in which
two of the men who were later
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
WILDEBRANDT IS
SURE VOLSTEAD
ACT CAN BE PUT
IN FULL FORCE
Woman Assistant Attorney
General Witness Before
Senate Committee.
REED QUESTIONS DRYS
Cites Police Arrests For
Drunkenness In "Dry"
State OF Kansas.
(By Dlspatch A. P. Wirel

WASHINGTON, April 10. The
Volstead act can be enforced relative
ly as other laws, Mrs. Mable Walker
Willebrandt, assistant attorney gem
eral in charge of liquor prosecution
declared today before the senate pro-
hibition enforcement
Before Mrs. Willebrandt was call
ed to the stand, the drys sounded q
trumpet call to the federal govern
ment to convince opponents of the
prohibition laws that the laws will
be made effective. Appearing for
the Methodist Episcopal church, South.
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., declared
that the law should be enforced in
the wet sections of the east at what
ever cost of men and money, to pro-
feet the remainder of the country.
Tightening up of the enforcement
statute also was urged by Mrs. Ella
A. Boole, of New York, national
president of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union; Fred B. Smith,
chairman of the Citizens Committee
of 1000 for law observance and en-
forcement, and Col. w. f. Jenkens Of
New York, who appeared as the per-
Evangeline Booth.
More teeth in the law also were
urged by Mrs. Willebrandt, who sug-
gested especially that the act be
amended SO that the act be amended
SO that federal judges can make the
punishment fit the crime in the case
of major offenders, tthe kind, Mrs.
Willebrandt said, that federal courts
should deal with.
While the committee thus was de-
luged with requests for Tightening of
the law, another measure was drawn
up today by the treasury to make
more effective the present coast de-
Tense against contrabrand liquor. AT
the same time discussion of further
/ agreements with England for curb
ing smuggling from that country were
renewed.
With the exception of Bishop Can
non, all of the witnesses today espe-
cially Mrs. Willebrapdt,a were ques-
tionad at length by Senator Reed,
democrat, Missouri, the wet prose-
| curtor. This finally lead to formal
, written protests from those present
ing the case for the drys with the
result that Chairman Harreld an
nounced that the drys would be given
additional time.
Mrs. Willebrandt and Senator Reed
engaged in a good deal of fencing,
with the senator disagreeing with
her conclusion that the Volstead act
could be enforced as well as other
laws.
"It will take longer period Of
time to get the law operating fully
than has been the case with other
laws" she said.
''How many men would you need 20
CONTINUED on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
BABY CONTEST
TO BE FEATURE
OF HEALTH WEEK.

Among the many features of health
week in this city, Nay 2-8, will be the
healthiest baby contest it was de-
cided at meeting of representatives
of the groups sponsoring the speciai
week at the Y. M. c. A last night.
Prizes will be offered for the ba,
bes who prove the best entrants in
this contest during the week of May
to 8.
The Y. w. c. A., Y. M. C. A., XII
wants club, American Legion, the
Douglas Ministerial association anad
the schools of the city were repre-
sented at the meeting last night at
which plans We're considered i1f an
informal manner. In addition to the
baby contest there will be demon
strations each night throughout that
week by various groups in the thea.
ters. 1t is also hoped by the COM
mittee to have doctors arrange to
give free physical examinations dur
ing the week for those wishing them
e. j. Huxtable is general chairman
of the health week program and the
following are assisting him: Marilyn
Continued on Page Eigh)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
INDIANS VALUE
FORESTS, SAYS
F. C. W. POOLER

When Europeans first landed on
contained one of the worlds great
est forests The Indian, who had
occupied the continent for centuries
prior to the landing of the write men,
states District Forester Frank c. w.
Pooler, valued these forests very
highly and protected them zealously
against fire. 1t was only when they
were harassed by other Indian tribes
or later by the white man that they
resorted to extreme emergencies TO
setting the forests on fire in order
to rid themselves of their enemies.
The forests furnished them with
shelter, fuel and food as we'll as ma
terials for making their weapons.
1t was not until long after the
white man came that the S22 mill
lion acres of virgin forests i'll the
United States began to diminish ap-
preciably. Recently, continued Pooie1,
one of the Indian tribal councils of
the southwest sent a letter to their
tribesmen admonishing them to guard
their forest wealth with the utmost
care. The letter expresses their con-
Germ for the welfare of the tribal
forest in the following language:
'Tt was not until the white man
came that the forest began to be
destroyed Most white men did not
love the forest as did the Indians.
That is why they were oEten care
less with fire, thereby starting fires
which burned many acres OF bean
tiful forest. And when the fire had
run its course there would be no
beautiful, green trees, but instead
there would be nothing but lot OF
dead trees, burned and black. In
such places the streams would soon
be dry and there would be no fish to
catch Even the grass and the
shrubs would be destroyed and the
deer, turkey, and other game would
have to go elsewhere. Most white
men did not seem to know that fire
was a good servant to a camper, but
a hard master. They did not seem
to realize that when fire is care
1essly turned loose in the woods, it
becomes a terrible red wolf which
runs about at rapid pace, devour-
ing all it sees and laying the beautl-
ful forest waste for many long years.
"Our reservation belongs to us and
we should do everything to protect
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
c. & A. BOARD
REFLECTS ITS
OLD OFFICIALS
lRu nisnatcl, A. p. Wlrnl


BISBEE, pAril 19.-Directors of the
Calumet and Arizona Mining COM
pany reelected the entire official
personnel of the company at the an
nual meeting of the board held here
today. They are:
Gordon r. Campbell, president;
Thomas Hoatson, vice president; Ed
win j. Collins, vice president; James
E. Fisher, secretary and treasurer;
Augustus ]. Dunstan, assistant sec
retary and treasurer, and Henry 3.
PAUL, chief auditor. Following the
conclusion of business here the party
left tonight for Phoenix, accompanied
by H c. Clark, general manager.
From the capital city the mining
men plan to continue to Jerome for
an inspection of the Verde Central
property there. before returning to
their homes in the east the group
has already visited the New Cor
nelia operations ir Ajo, which is also
owned by the Calumet and Arizona
Mining company.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
u. S. DECLINES
TO
TAKE PART In
COURT CONFAB
Formal DecIinatiOn Cabled
To Charge Of Berne
Legation.
HELD INAPPROPRIATE
Kellogg Declares 1t Would
Be Inappropriate For U.
S. To Attend.
(By Dispatch A. p. 1yire)


WASHINGTON, April 10. The
league of nations invitation to par
tfcipate in the world court confer
ence in Geneva next September was
declined formally today by the United
States.
An acknowledgements whick was
cabled by Secretary Kellogg to Alan
F. Winslow, charge of the Berne
legation, for transmission to Sir Eric
Drummond secretary general of the
league said it did not seem "appro-
pirate" for the American govern
ment to be represented. 1t invited
attention to the leagues circular to
the 4S court protocol signatories ask
ing them to indicate to the United
States the difficulty of treating the
senate reservations by direct negotia-
tions. 'Tt would seem to me,'' Kel-
logg said "to be matter of regret
if the council of the league should
do anything to create the impress
sion that there are substantial diff
ficulties in the way of such direct
communication"
Inc ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS also SITeSSSNt
the view of President Coolidge that
American representation could not
serve, "any useful purpose" and con-
tended that the senate reservations
''are plain and unequivocal and ac-
cording to their terms they must be
accepted by the exchange of notes
between the United States and each
of the 48 states 49,. before the
United States can become a party
and sign the PROTOCOL
Referring to the part in the in
vitation which said. the September
conference among other things would
discuss the framing of new agree
ments which might be found nee
essary to give effect to American
adhesion under the senate reserva-
tions, Kellogg said:
"This government does not consider
that any new agreement is necessary
to give effect to the conditions and
reservations on which the United
States is prepared to adhere to the
permanent court. The acceptance of
the reservations by all the nations
signatory to the statute of the per-
manent court constitute such an
agreement"
Greece has advised the United
States of it's acceptance of the SEN
ate reservations. Cuba is the only
other government thus far to advise
Washington that they are acceptable.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
Sea Beast Twice As
Large AS Elephant
Seen Off Washington

PORT ANGELES, WASH, April
1S.--A sea beast twice as big as an
elephant and with eyes that work
like trap doors, was reported here
today by QuiIIayute Indian seal
hunters of the Pacifie ocean 60
miles southwest Of Port Angeles.
Joe HuIIesn, former Indian chief
Of police at Lapush, small town
near the sealing grounds, and his
crew of two declared that they
nearly had their canoe upset when
the monster appeared at the sur
face near their boat. The beast
worked it's shutter-liIxe eyes as it
surveyed the canoe but made no
motion toward it. The Indians,
after a moment of frozen terror,
made record time to the beach.
Some who have made study of
the matter OpTne that an earth
quake in Japan September 1, 1929,
shifted the Japanese current and
that the strange sea beast is a
stray oriental Sunfish.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
STREAM,
30 FEET DEEP
COVERS TOWN
(By Dispatch A. +. wire1

HILO, T. H., April 49,
The native village Of Hoop
uloa lies under fifty feet of
cooling lava today, despite
the sacrifices Of Hawaiians
to Pele, Goddess of the
volcano. The villagers Of
fered pigs, herbs and dis
titled liquor to Pele, but
the molten rock stream
from Mauna Loa rolled
over the homes of the hum
dred inhabitants.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20


the public rooms of the Hotel Del
Coronado the night he gave dinner
party in honor of Butler. Officers
familiar with court martial proceed
ure explained as the court departed
that adjournment without definite
announcement of acquittal is a mill
tary courts courteous way of inform
ing a defendant he has neen con-
victed.
The verdict is expected to be Of
ficially announced in the national
capitol within week or two.
Dismissal from the service is the
maximum penalty possible under
naval regulations but in cases not
involving drunkenness on duty the
sentence usually does not exceed re-
duction in rank or numbers. Colonel
Williams was not on duty, when as
testified by General Butler during the
trial, he was full at his home and
staggeringly, gigglingly drunk at the
CONTINUED on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
Fire Department To
Get Tax Fund Money
On Fire Insurance

PHOENIX, April 19.-Twenty-
five city fire departments Will re-
ceivc money from the tax fund ON
premiums of fire insurance, the
corporation cOmmissiOnl7 announced
today. The fund TO be distributed
in one half Of the two per cent tax
levied by the state upon the pre-
miums for fire insurance collected
in the state for the year 1925 by
insurance companies.
Amounts to be distributed follow:
Bisbee, %GO5.O4; CIiftOaN $12S.72;
Douglas, $43S.4z; Flagstaff, $464.43;
Globe, $612.0O; Jerome. $3O2.23;
Mesa, $427.O2s Miami. $52O.92; No
gales, S526.16; Phoenix, $2,46S.ST;
Prescott, $441.2S; Tucson, $1,395.1S;
WHAsIOw, $I63.57, and Yuma, $619.S6.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
COOLIDGE MAKES
ADDRESS BEFORE
NATIONAL D. A. R.
AK Dispatch A. p. Wirel

WASHINGTON, April 19.-Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution,
opening today their 35th annual con-
tinental congress and tonight were
joined by thousands of radio listeners
to hear an address by President Cool
idge.
Several stations covering the east
ern half of the country were linked
to broadcast the speech. Speaker
Longworth of the house and Ambas-
sador Berenger of France were on
the program, following the president.
The delegates divided attention to-
day between an address by their
president general Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook, and discussion of the
forthcoming election of her successor.
Two candidates already are in the
field for the position, Mrs. Charles
White Nash, the New York state re-
gent, and Mrs. Alfred Brosseau of
Greenwich, Conn.
In her opening address, Mrs. Cook
coupled an appeal for observance of
the prohibition law with advocacy of
daily reading of the Bible, without
sectarian comment, in public schools.
She urged also that care be used to
present proponents of radical doe
trines from succeeding in their sat
tempts to make our schools and the
text books of history read by the
school children of the country, We
hicles for propaganda in support of
their pentilential theories"
Concerning law enforcement, Mrs.
Cook declared, 1--WE are at the cross
roads, and there "can be no mega
tive conduct in relation to this great
issue, for all conduct is positive. We
are either for, or we are against law
observance and law enforcement"
WASHINGTON, April 19.-Citizen-
ship in America is not a private en-
terprise, but public function, Presi-
dent Coolidge said in an address
tonight before the S5th congress of
the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution during
which he urged the people to exer-
else a greater interest in their gov
ernment by going to the polls on
election day
'The whole system of government"
he asserted rests on the ballot box.
Unless citizens perform their duties
there, such a system of government
Continued on Page Eigh)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
Engineer on Freight
Travelling Is Miles An
Hour Killed By Crane

DENVER, Colo, April 19.-FranI1
X. Wright, 81, of Denver, freight
engineer of the Colorado and SOMth-
ern railroad, was instantly killed.
today near LittIetGn, south of here,
when he was struck by "a water
crane. Wright's locomotive was
travelling at rs miles an hour when
lie left his cab to make an ADJUST
ment on the front part OF the en-
rine. The blow struck Wright on
the head, fracturing his skull and
LnOcI1ing him from the locomotive.
He was dead when picked up.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20

Some of the residents fled in ca
noes. Others, warned by the clouds
of smoke and steam, had time to
drive\ flocks of sheep to other viii
lagos.
A few saved some of their small
belongings. AS the red hot lava
poured through the village, it set
afire Is buildings and covered the
ruins. The beach, where the natives
had launched their fishing boats, was
covered by smoking rock. From the
sea arose clouds of steam and
roar like the exhaust of thousand
locomotives as the lava formed
new promontory on the ocean bed.
Thousands of spectators. coming by
automobiles over the government road
which encircles the island of Hawaii,
witnessed the. scene. Others from
steamers half mile off shore watch
ed fire and water meet.
Overhead were army airplanes en-
deavoring to photograph the phe-
nomenon for the benefit of science,
Professor Thomas A. Jaggar, of the
Hawaiian Volcano observatory, hav-
ing requested their services. The eff
forts of the aerial photographers
were of little success, however, for as
they circled in sitting heat 1000 feet
above the river of fire, their view
was obscured by huge clouds of
smoke and steam. Occasionally they
saw flames leap through the smoke,
as forests and native houses were
destroyed.
The flow which halted for a time
Saturday night when Hoopnloa was
destroyed increased in volume Sum
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
BERNARD v. REED DIES.
nv Disnatcb 4 p Wirel

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, April
19.-Bernard V. Reed, 65, a brother Of
Werner z. Reed, Denver capitalist,
died in Garden City, Kansas, last Fri
day, according to word received here
today. He was former resident Of
Colorado Springs.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-20
COL. WILLIAMS
GUILTY; COURT
IS ADJOURNED
CBy Dispatch A. P. wIrc)

MAXINE BASE,
San Diego, April
19.-Colonel Alex
ander S. Williams
today drank the
dregs o f t h e
cocktail he offer
to Brigadier Gen
seral Smedley D.
Butler when the
military co u r t
trying him on a
charge of intoXi-
cation preferred
by the general,
adjourned under
circu m S t a n c e S
leaving no doubt
as to his convic-
tion.
While the court
made no COM
m e n t or a n
nouncement, other
than that it had
adjourned t HI e
circumstances Of
its adjournment
were a tacit ad-
mission that it
believed the col
onel guilty of APP
naarino- drunk in
The Winslow mail., 1926-02-19

Tucson has had its artifacts !;
Phoenix it's primeval man and
WinsIow its ancient fossils but
Nogales comes forth with stories
of three bottles of 73-year-old
whiskey in the cornerstone of the
Montezuma hotel. Judge for your
self the most important of these
three archaeological discoveries
Nogales Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1926-02-19
THE GALLUP PROTEST

letter Gallup written by
Mexico taking with
weeks relative the protest entered
Navajo Indian funds help construct the Lees Ferry
communication letter
last week the subject
claims Gallup explained by the
opposition plan contained the deficiency
bridge be built that the Navajos
will should
building
this
tribal be that should
Gallup is concerned
far Wnslow interested
Northern the fullest
shall continue just that
wilt to
that inject something
WILD do n our help prevent it.
The Winslow mail., 1926-02-19
FREE PUBLICITY

Members of the
isbee publicity
the press-agen variety.
During grating
the has reached such climax
nuisance well
has become publishers
CRATER publish
Mail which happens
ton will certainly uphold it's
times 0
should
local condition the editor
however that while
There
that
association
tions that should
always accompanied sometimes
which
good
but the
publishers waking
with other
AS The Mail is believe to
classify publicity
and be it individual organization anything
whether
Mail unobeonable
here and that
used by the will
The Mail upholding
weight in boosting everything
Wnsow and surrounding territory
Will confuse that pledge and
gram on for they will surely be disappointed
The Winslow mail., 1926-02-19
INDIAN LEGEND


Some few years ago | was work.
ing at Ojo Benito, (Durans ranch
just across the New Mexico linel.
We were building a house and all
of the helpers were Spanish-Amer-
leans, except one who was Nav
ajo Indian, his name was Ray
Thomas Now Ray and myself be-
ing the only ones that understood
the English language (Ray having
gone to high school in Coloradol
of course we cOnversed together
good deal and as we were there
about five weeks we became we'll
acquainted Now, III all my wand
erings over this country, ] found
more old ruins arOung that ranch
than in any place I had ever been;
and having a day off on Sunday,
Ray and myself would take pick
and shovel and go out to some OF
the ruins. | asked Ray several
times if the Indians knew anything
about these old ruins and he said
they did not Ray would dig just
as hard as l would and we found
several good speciments of pottery,
arrow heads and some grain grind
ing implements. 1t being spring
weather the days were warm, and
The Winslow mail., 1926-02-19

him or her where the family did
not know where they were, for it
was bad medicine if they knew
where they were buried After the
medicine man had been buried for
three days he dug out and came
back TO the tribe. He then called
the Indians together and told them
what he had seen and where he
had been during those three days
He said after he was buried he
started west and Travelled a long
way And as he went along the
country became more beautiful. At
ter crossing long plain or prairie
he came to the mountains and val
leys, here in strange land he
found the red man, living as they
had lived here on this earth. He
said it was a most beautiful coun-
try, with green grass, trees, flow
ers and warm sunshine. The
mountains were full of game, the
valleys covered with bison. There
was no winters, no famines, no
sickness, in fact, all was peace and
cOntentment, and this land he call
ed the Happy hunting ground"
JAMES SHREEVE.
The Winslow mail., 1926-02-19

A citizen of a community who
does not support his hometown
paper is not a citizen-he is as
dead as door nail in so far as his
worth to his community is concern
ed.
The Winslow mail., 1926-02-19
WINSLOW'S LANDING FIELD

arplane landing field
a
provided
specifications
been laid
geographical location
will
flying Besides
army
through here the than
will be
on a development
landing field finally
refung will
small investment will
The Winslow mail., 1926-02-19
WANTED-A CITY PARK

weeks Mail doubt noticed
cities without the danger of being down in the
of
such recreationa the appeal
With building swimming badly
will follow
where
being thrown
We would for
while possibly expenditure part of city
would justified start the ball
rolling
behind