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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22
Chicago Swarning
With Biggest Fight
Crowds of aNHistory

championship match to a decision.
will hold the little square of lime
light amid a cheering mass of fan
dom.
So far as the strange contrasts
of pre-battle speculation go, Dempsey
will climb into the ring probable
favorite in the betting as well as
with the support of popular sentiment
out Tunney will be the choice OF a
majority of the assembled army of
experts.
There are powerful undercurrents
and crosscurrents of suspicion and
doubt, always a forerunner Of big
heavyweight fights, but more pro-
nounced here than ever before There
are Sharp conflicts of opinion every
where but the general prospect is
thai, on its merits, the fight will
be closely and sensationally fought
between resourceful champion, fully
confident of himself and a reckless.
punch throwing challenger substan-
TALLY improved over his dismal form
of last September.
Tunney's supporters insist that the
fighting machine that all but crushed
the slugging Dempsey a year ago
in the rain at Philadelphia is equipped
to repeat, probably in more decisive
fashion. Dempsey's hackers see the
old Manassa Mauler as once more
the aggressive, battering plunger; as
the battler TIFF knocked out Willard,
Carpenter, Firpo and Sharkey, ag-
gressive, if not quite as fast as of
yore, but far from the flounderlng
figure of 1926.
To the experts summing up rival
pros and cons. it appears that Tunney
has the decided edge in speed, boxing
ability, as well as three years in age
and the confidence that comes to
a champion. Dempsey, on the other
hand, is conceded the more dangerous
punch, a more aggressive attack and
flaming spirit of combat that is
willing to risk everything Tunney
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22

CHICAGO, Sept 81 IP-With it's
last legal barriers cleared today and
the city sWarming with the greatest
fight crowd of all time, the Dempsey
Tunney battle of dollars, open letters
and mixed opinions moved toward
it's climax of actual fistic combat
tomorrow night in Soldier fields spec
tacular setting.
Subjects of more debate than any
two other gladiators in all ring his7
tory, Gene Tunney and Jack Demp-
sey will meet in their return battle
for the heavyweight championship
of the world before colorful crowd
that is expected to shatter, all records
by numbering close to 10000 and
contributing to a gate" of probably
$2,75OOOO
In it's attraction of worldwide
interest, in the fierce and bitter
character of its preliminary debates,
in the size of the stakes involved
81 100000 for the two fighters as
well as the magnitude of the pro-
motion enterprises, the second chap
ter of the Dempsey -Tunney feud
far outstrips any sports event in
history. SO-calloQ paCCl6S OF UIlG
century" within the past few years
pale by comparison with the proper
tions of this unprecedented struggle
for gold and glory.
1t will pit Tunney, the soldier,
masterful boxer and champion,
against Dempsey, the plunging, per-
sonally magnetic slugger, badly beaten
a year ago by his handsome foe,
but now primed for the big act of
the most sensational comeback drarna
the boxing game has ever known.
Who will win?
The answer to that question, eagerly
sought and discussed everywhere by
millions, debated at the crossroads
as evil, as ON Michigan avenue, Broad
way and the Rue de la Paix, will
be known between $50 and 1890
p. m. TOMORROW night, Chicago day
light time, When the ten round
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22

Miss Clara Beth White today
leads the Miss Douglas contest by
a margin of 1S9 coupon votes over
her nearest and only competitor,
Miss Alice MahOney.
Unless the unexpected happens,
it will be either Wiss White or
Miss MahOney who will represent
Douglas next week when a COM
mittee of local business men chooses
young woman to be hOnOred as
queen of the COchise county fair.
In the unofficial tabulatiOn at
chamber of commerce headquar-
tiers last night, Miss White had
1928 votes, Miss Mahoney 1894.
Tuesday night the two young
women were tied with GIG votes
each, but yesterday the supporters
of Miss White rallied with 3O7
fresh ballots, while Miss Ma
hOney's campaigners collected only
11S.
Two days remain in tlVe con-
test which closes at 4:3O p. m. to-
morrow. A coupon ballot appears
in this edition of the Daily Dis
patch and another, the last, will
appear tomorrow morning. I'm
less someone is clipping and hoard
ing ballots the race will go to-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22
ST. PAUL FLIER WINS SPOKANE DERElY
Colonel Lindbergh Returns to California Hom
: y x y y y y as i. * y y y 4
Associated Press Will
Use I45,OOO Miles OF
Leased Wire On Fight

\. NEW YORK, Sept. 81 P-One
y hundred and forty-five thousand
y miles of Associated Press leased
*wires will be used to carry news
= of the Tunney-Dempsey fight in
y. Chicago from the ringside to
y more than 1000 newspapers. Both
:. the morning papers and a record
= breaking number of afternoon
y dailies- between 700 and 300
+ will be brought together in one
= great group for the event.
* Three leased wires from the
:4. ringside, two of them directly
* connected with trans-continental
X. trunk wires that feed into As
81 sociated Press bureaus and news
:4. paper offices throughout the !
X country, will speed blow-by- blow
4 descriptions.
= For the first time in Associated
). Press history, additional printing
:*telegraph machines have been set
Sup in the composing rooms OF :
). member papers to save a few adj
& ditional seconds in transmission
* from editor to linotype machine.
s. Another record to be set is in
:Y. the number of member news
81 papers which will broadcast the
*. progress of the fight by radio, :
* 60 such papers having arranged
). for Associated Press service di-
s. rectIy into studios which they
y own or have leased
*
y s. * a. * y * y H * * =. y + :
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22

De La Huerta had not entered
Mexico"
1t has been the belief of the
Santa Cruz county sheriff all
along that reports Of AlfOnsO's
execution were part of a "hOax"
and that in reality De La Huerta
was more afraid of a federal
bench warrant which has been is
sued for his arrest on a charge of
conspiracy to violate the United
States neutrality laws" than he
was of being kidnapped by Mexi-
can federals and removed to So
nora, where the alleged execution
is said to have taken place last
Thursday.
General Pablo MaciaS, the COM
mandant, when confronted with
the report of AlfOnsO's execution
reiterated his previous denial of
the report and laughed at the
rumOr, George HilSinger, Tucson
attorney, however is quoted as say
ing that he received information
of the alleged execution from per-
sons who said they were informed
by high Mexican officials"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22
Defense Contends Patents
Were Anticiated by Sic
mems Furnace.
HAS No BLAST
John Moore Samuel Testi-
fies on Technical Angle
of Patents.

TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 81, P)-Af-
ter having remained out of the
testimony, examination and cross
examination for almost week, the
blast furnace angle in the Carson
investment company's patent IN
fringement suit against the Phelps
Dodge corporation and the Calumet
and Arizona Mining company was
revived today in U. S. District court.
The defense contends that the
Carson patents were anticipated by
the Siemens general metallurgical
furnace. The plaintiff argues that
this could not have been the case
since the Siemens furnace is a blast
furnace and the Carson model is a
'reyerbatory."
Last week, John Moore Samuel
head of the investigation department
of the reduction plant of the Cop
per Queen branch of the Phelps
Dodge corporation at Douglas, tes-
titled that the Siemens design was
not a blast furnace because, the
learned Welshman said, "it hasn't
got blast"
This afternoon, after hours of
foundational questions, which evok-
ed from Judge William H. SaWtelle
the suggestion that unnecessary de-
tail'' be avoided by counsel, Charles
S. Wheeler, Jr., of San Francisco,
chief counsel in charge of the case
of the Carson Investment company
asked Samuel the following question
in connection with the alleged SIM
ilarity between Siemens and
blast furnace:
"In each case, you use carbon
nonoxide gas to effect the reduct-
ion of the metal?"
"Yes," Samuel replied.
"To that extent at least, the pro-
cesses are identical?" Wheeler con-
tinued
J Considerable was said about "plen-
UNI of pressure" or superatmospheric
pressure pressure greater than
that of the outside atmosphere. This
pressure forces the reducing gases
into the ore hoppers of the Siemens
furnace, it was said.
Samuel testified that ''plenuni of
pressure" was maintained in a
Phelps Dodge reverbatory furnace at
Clifton, Ariz., constantly and in one
at Douglas most of the time.
What he declared was an Sim
putation of unfair tactics" laid at
the door of Samuel by Wheeler, was
energetically denounced by Arthur A.
Olson, Chicago, of the defense
counsel.
Wheeler had asked Samuel to read
from the report of the U. S. Com
missioners to the Paris exposition of
1867" vol. II, issued by the U. S.
Printing office in 1870.
Apparently, the expert metallur-
gist did not read far enough to suit
the plaintiff chief counsel and the
latter demanded:
"Why didn't you continue to read
this?"
1t was here that Olson interposed
vigorous objection to "this sort Of
cross examination" Judge Sawtelle,
however, permitted the witness to
answer the question. Samuel said
he had read far enough to cover the
point he had relative to the opera
tiveness of the SiemenS furnace
contended for by the defense.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22
Atlantic Ace Speaks to a
Throng of 10000 On
Aviation Needs.
TUCSON FRIDAY
Aviator Denies Report
That He Would End
Tour in Arizona.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. II R-COl.
Charles A. Lindbergh, after being
cheered by the largest thrOng that
ever greeted any man in San
Diego. took the newspaper men
with him for a talk late today
and i'm the course of his con-
versation with one of them asked
for denial of report that ne
was to be married.
TELL them, said the Colonel,
chat 1 am not going to get
married when 1 return east. I'm
coming back to San Diego, not
! just once but often. And I'm
coming back single"
Col. LiIidbergh also asked for
denial of a report that his tour
would end at Tucson, Ariz. He
said he would fulfill the terms
Of his contract, which will keep
him touring until he reaches New
York OH October Is.
SAN DIEGO, Set. 81 R-- Coming
back to the place where his trans
Atlantic plane was built, the poin
from which he started his flight
across the continent to dash fol
Paris, and the city which for thai
reason San Diegans call his "home'
Col. Charles A.. .Lindbergh today go
a real "back home" welcome.
Whistles roared the first welcon.
when the spirit of st. Louis" SCARED
over the city from Los Angeles thi.
afternoon. Thousands lined the route
of long parade which escorted tht
aviator from the landing field to the
city stadium and cheered every foo
of his ride to that point, where, agar
greeted tumultuously, Lindbergh SPOKE
to a throng estimated in excess o
6O,0SO.
At any rate the crowd overflowec
from the seats to every available
standing point and at times mad
the police struggle hard to keep adult
from encroaching on the floor 0
the vast enclosure, which had beel
reserved for school children.
The parade, formed largely. of arm,
and navy units from ships and sta
tions here, made one of the mos
brilliant displays of the kind seel
here since the World war. A grea
cheer arose from the stadium thron
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22
RUNNING STORY ON GENE-JACK
TILT MEGAPHONED BY DISPATCH

Hundreds of fight
will gather this evening in front of the
L.
blow by blow round by round
Soldiers
field Edward Neil. of
Associated sport staff will dictate the vivid blow
office through
with
tmean Iotlya
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22
GERMAN REACHES ANGORA

ANGORA, Turkey, Sept. Il Or.
Lieutenant Otto Koennecke, who ar
rived here this morning from Cologne,
announced today the route that he
plans to follow i'll his flight to the
United States.
"I will hop off Friday for Basra,
Mesopotamia, and thence to Bombay,
Calcutta, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sakhalin
islands, Alaska San Francisco, Mexico
City and New York" he said.
"I don't know how long it will take
but we hope to reach our goal"
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-25
odd FELLOWS. WILL
CONFER 3RD DEGREE
Crystal FOunt Lodge Of Milford
Is One OF Two Lodges In State
Doing This Work.

Crystal FOunt Lodge, No. 10, I'M
proved Order of Odd Fellows, of
Milford, will complete its winter
schedule of work on Monday evening
at which time it will confer the
third degree in full form upon
class of candidates at their lodge
room on North Walnut street. The
session will start at 1880 o'clock.
The third degree is one of the most
beautiful degrees of Odd Fellow
ship, and requires much time and
work in it's preparation. The degree
team has been working hard for
sometime in preparation for the
work on Monday night and they now
have the beautiful work so well in
hand that those who attend will en-
Joy a real evenings pleasure. The
team is composed of the following:
Noble Grand, VIM. e. Manlove; Vice
Grand, Paris Kirby; Past Grand, A.
E. Num-; R. S. N. G., William Wat
son; L. S. N. G., Henry Wilkins; r.
S. V. G., George Abbott; L. S. V. G.,
Marshall Plummer; Chaplain, Mil
lard Belts; Warden, Willis Ham
mond; Conductor, George houHSy'
Inside Guardian, J. w. Cannon; Or
ganist, E. ]. Salevan.
There are only two lodges in Del
aware which confere the third de-
gree in full form. AS this is the first
time in ten years that Crystal Fount
Lodge has put on this work, the
members are congratulating the
captain for his interest. A new class
of candidates will be started at once
and degrees will be conferred dur
ing the spring months. There is
much fraternal interest at Crystal
Fount Lodge, and the feeling OF
comradeship is greater than in
years. A welcome has been extended
to all Odd Fellows in this vicinity
to attend Monday nights meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-25
few CHANGES INDICATED
in M. E. CONFERENCE
Rev. D. w. Jacobs Accepts Call To
Newark Church

A tentative list of the appoint
ments to be made at the fifty-ninth
session of the Wilmington Annual
Conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, which will begin on
Wednesday morning, March %, IN
the Asbury M. e. Church, Salisbury,
Md, and continue until the follow
ing Monday shows comparatively
few changes in the pastorates. Very
few of the larger churches in the
conference are expecting change.
Only two churches in Wilmington
seem likely to have changes this
year-Scott and Trinity. At Scott
church, the Rev. w. A. Wise has
announced his desire for lighter
work. At Trinity, the Rev. Howard
Davis, having made no declaration
of his intentions, although cordially
invited to return for another confer
ence year, is said to be looked upon
as a candidate for at least two other
churches in the conference, at cape
Charles, Va, or New Castle.
He is said to have been approach
ed by the officials of the cape
Charles Church, but has declined SO
far to commit himself, preferring to
wait until the suggestion comes
from the appointing power.
The Rev. V. S. Collins, pastor OF
the church at Cape Charles, has an
nounced his desire for a change,
and is said to be slated for the New
Castle Church. If he is sent there
the present pastor of the New Castle
Church, the Rev. Q. w. Wells, may
be sent to Cape Charles, although
he is said to be slated for Hollands
Island. He was slated for this latter
charge a year ago but was returned
to New Castle. 1t seems assured al
present that he is to be sent to the
Salisbury District, and has been ten
tatively assigned to the Hollands Is
land charge.
AS changes are indicated for botl
New Castle and Cape Charles 1
CONTINUED on page nve)
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-25
SUSSEX SCHOOL RECEIVES
CZECHOSLOVAKIA GIFTS
Letter Accompanying Portfolio Tells
OF Receipt OF Last Years Gifts

Public school children OF the VIII
school, near Franktord, IN
Sussex county, Of which Melissa NC
Cabe is the teacher, will this week
receive one of the most important
packages or documents they have
vet. experienced, this being port
folio from the school children OF
Mestecko. near Puchoo, CZechoslov-
aka.
Accompanying the portfolio is a
letter written in English which ex-
plains the book. The reason the
Williamsville children are being pre-
sented with this portfolio is due 10
the fact that last year they prepared
a portfolio with a request that 1t pc
sent to the children of CzechosloV-
aka. The letter from these children
across the ocean is as follows
"Dear Sisters and Brothers
in America:
eve got also some gifts Of those
vou have prepared for Czechoslovak
children. We feel that we must pay
Won in return. We are children OF
moor parents, and cannot therefore
send YOU similar gifts as yours were
We prepared at least this portfolio
for Won. We ornamented it with ma
tional patterns, with which our In
habitants embroider their costumes
From the enclosed picture post cards
YOU see what our district Is IKE
CONTINUED on page fTe)
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-25
KENT GRAND JURY MAKES
RECORD in RETURNING BILLS
True Bills We're Found Against 10
Persons On Monday

The Kent County Grand Jury con-
vened at Dover Monday and elected
William B. Tharp, of Pennington,
foreman, and w. Ross Jones, secre-
tary. The jury set record in act
ing on and returning 19 true bills
in one day. In discharging the grand
iuryHast Monday afternoon, Chief
Justice Pennewill stated that their
record was one of which they should
be proud and that their prompt SER
vice was a credit to the county.
True bills, charging the following
were returned: Elizabeth Giggs, IL
legal possession Of liquor; John G.
Branner, illegal possession of liquor;
Fred Gunner, two indictments, one
for carrying concealed deadly wea-
non and one for pointing a revolver;
Martin Swiggett, four indictments
for the larceny of automobile tires;
Samuel Jones, two indictments, one
of carrying concealed a deadly wea-
Don and one for pointing a revolver;
Charles Wayman, larceny; William
H. Collins, assault and battery; Har-
ry Griffith, desertion and non-sup-
port; William Lundy, embezzllng;
Cecil Grandy, assault and battery;
Samuel Leggio, statutory ofense;
LAFAYETTE C. Maluney, larceny; Ray
mond Berry, non-support Of minor
child and Edward Green, first degree
murder.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-25
GEORGETOWN FIRES
DESTROY CHURCH,
BURN LAW OFFICE
Total Loss OF $45,OOO Occurs
During A Heavy Gale Sunday
Morning.
FIREMEN WORK HARD
Carlisle Fire Company Of Milford
Responded To Call But Did
Not Go Into Action. 4

Two disastrous fires which at one
time threatened to assume the pro-
portions of a confagration and
which caused a loss of approximate
ly $4,000 aroused Georgetown early
Sunday morning during the height
of the gale which swept over the
State. Both fires are believed to have
been caused by crossed electric
wires brought in contact by the vio-
lence of the wind.
One fire razed the First Method
ist Protestant Church and the other
damaged the building housing the
law Office and library of Former
Deputy Attorney General Daniel j..
Layton.
The first fire broke out in the
church and was discovered about 4
o'clock and before the firenlen could
reach the scene the interior was a
mass of flames. The upper portion of
the building is believed to have been
completely gutted before the fire
was discovered.
The high wind, blowing at a rate
of about 65 miles an hour, famed
the flames and carried blazing
brands over the residential section
for a distance of half a mile and it
was feared that many dwellings
would fall prey to the flames. Rain
soaked roofs and the heavy deluge
of rain, however, dispelled this fear
as the blazing brands were extin-
guished soon after they fell except
in one or two instances where the
occupants of the homes extinguished
them.
The church, erected in 1910, is
the second one of the congregation
to be destroyed by fire since its es-
tablishment in Georgetown in 1892.
The first structure, frame build
ing. was burned on the morning OF
Sunday, November 20, 1909.
Firemen did heroic work in keep
ing the flames confined to the
church edifice. The burning brands
carried by the wind caused much
apprehension and the Carlisle Fire
Company of Milford was summoned
and stood by ready to aid after max
ing a record-breaking run OF IL
miles to the scene.
Fire Chief Joseph Green, OF the
Georgetown department, had a mar
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-25
DIVORCES ARE GRANTED
in KENT COUNTY COURT
Six Couples Granted Final DEGREES
Seven New Cases Heard

Seven new divorce cases were
heard in Kent County Superior
Court Monday and final DEGREES
were given in six other cases.
James L. Seacord asked for di-
vorce from his wife, Elizabeth Par
fer Seacord, alleging that she M r
ried a second time before she had
been divorced from him. Dickerson,
the man she is said to have married
before she had obtained divorce,
was in court and testified for Sea-
cord, admitting that he had married
Mrs. Seacord. Judge Rice reserved
decision.
A decree nisi was granted Char
lotte B. Wightman from Guy w.
Wightman, on a charge of desertion.
Wightman deserted his wife in 1928,
according to testimony. At one time
he was a bookkeeper for a Dover
firm.
DEGREES nisi were granted the fol-
lowing: Wilbur w. Kirby from EN-
ma Virginia Kirby, on charge OF
desertion; Nose Draper, coloredr
CONTINUED on page ilve)
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-25
WILL GIVE SCHICK TEST
AT MILFORD SCHOOLS
State Board OF Health Representa-
tive VIII Be Here Next Friday

DR.. C. A. Sargent, of the Division
of Child Hygiene of the State Board
of Health, has notified Professor
Robert E. Shilling, Superintendent
of the Milford Public Schools, that
he will be in Milford next Friday,
March 4th, at which time he will
give the Schick Test to pupils who
desire to be protected against diph-
iberia. Both white and colored
schools will be visited by DR.. Sar-
gent and the pupils treated. In his
letter to Professor Shilling, Dr. Sar-
gent asks that the mothers of chill
dren of pre-school age bring their
children to the school in order that
the Schick Test may be administer
ed. Milford was one of the hrst
towns in the State in which the
diphtheria preventative was admin
istered by the State Board Of Health.
DR.. Sargent and his assistants came
to Milford last year and started their
campaign to eradicate the disease IN
this community. Hundreds OF schooi
children we're immunized at that
time. but many, owing to illness and
other causes, were not treated. The
visit of the doctor next Friday Will
give all who desire an opportunity
to take advantage of the service.