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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04
SPOTLIGHT ON DOUGLAS MAN
IN CAPTURE OF COAST KILLER

from a detention school few days
before the killing.
yhen people of Pomona found
out about the killer the police
feared that an attempt would be
made to lynch the boy. Chief l. B.
English called for aid from the
sheriff's office and then took the
boy to Los Angeles under a hevay
armed guard.
The Douglas man is receiving
cOmmendatiOn in the state for the
way in which he handled the sit
uatiOn in Pomona.
Prior to going to California about
six years ago English was mem
Der of the local force. He made
his home at the corner of Thir,
teenth and B avenue. His daugh-
ter, Miss Mabel English, graduated
from the, local high school the year
that the family left Douglas for
Pomona. Mrs. English was prom
inent in local circles and active
participant in clubs.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04
CATASTROPH
IS Of MAJOR
PROPORTIONS.
Recheck of Casualties Find.
Flood Damage More Than
Five Million.
TRAINS TIED UP
! 1851 600 Persons In Area At
fected by Disaster; Sup
plies Forwarded.

LOUISVILLE, KY, June 3. 4P-A
disaster Of major proportions in the
mountains of eastern Kentucky, by
storms Sunday and Monday, was
augmented by resultant floods, a re-
lief committee was told today at a
conference here.
Upward of hundred lives were
lost, an incomplete check revealed;
several thousands were homeless and
the property damage to homes, coal
mines. business property and rail-
roads was estimated at upward of,
$5,OOO,0Oo.
Coal operators in the Big Handy
valley alone were said to face loss
of half million dollars in business
through inability to get cargo coal to
Great Lakes ports because of wash
outs along the railroad and damage
t equipment. No trains will be able
to operate on the McRobertS end OF
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
for some days, reports from head
waters OF the Kentucky river SAID.
A car loaded with food and sup
plies for flood sufferers left here to-
night and train was being loaded
tonight with additional necessities.
DR.. A. T. Mccormick, secretary of
the state board of health, has been
designated chairman of the disaster
relief committee in Kentucky. He an
nounced at the conference today that
preliminary survey indicated the
disaster was of maj08 proportions, ap-
proximately 125,0OO persons being in
the affected area and $4,000 others
IN adjacent territory.
Latest compilations indicated that
Al Of the dead had been identified
and that 43 remain unidentified. Two
persons were missing.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04

A former Douglas man who is
receiving a great deal Of mention
in the newspapers of Los Angeles
and southern California at the
present time is I. B English. for
many years a resident OF Douglas.
English is now police chief in
Pomona and was instrumental III
capturing 16-year- DUrward
Witenmyer, who has confessed to
the murder of Mrs. Fannie Weigle,
prominent Pomona woman.
Young Witcnmyer was captured
Monday evening after police had
begun to suspect him, His father
questioned him and the boy broke
down and told the entire story,
although ne could give no reason
for the atroci0uS crime.
Bloody fingerprints found by
English and his men on a piece
of steel near the body of the dead
woman as well as a record of a
simalar crime attempted once Oe-
fore directed suspicion upon Witen-
myer. The boy had been released
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04

PARIS, June 9 t9 = Captain
Charlie Lindbergh is going home
tomorrow
Laden with such honors as never
before nave fallen upon one OF nis
years, the young American aviator,
who hoped of on his epochal New.
York to Paris flight just two weeks
ago, will again start across the At
lantic-this time aboard his own pri-
vate WarsJlip for week-the U. S. S.
Memphis, which will carry him
straight to a greeting with President
Coolidge.
His plane, the Spirit OF ST. Louis, .
which served hirn on his memorable
flight, will go with MIN, Grated ana
carefully slowed away aboard the
Memphis.
When he, leaves Paris tomorrow
for CherbOurg, he will be taking tho
heart Of Paris with him as well as
his smile that captivated so many
thousands, tired as he is.
Today he was honored by men or
his own stamp-flying men and by
children, soldiers and statesmen, but
above all by the common people. He
is q hero who has lasted two weeks,
which is a long time in Paris or for
that matter most everywhere else.
When the man of the Atlantic"
as he has been dubbed, dropped
through the haze from England this
morning, after flight from the Ken
ley air field, he fought french en-
thusiasm upspent, the hunger to see
him unsatisfied and the demands on
his time enough to keep him busy
for month. He still says he wants
to see Paris, that he appreciates the
honors that have been showered on
him and likes the American embassy
where he is a guest, but he would
enjoy breaking through the ring OF
ceremony that has constantly sur
rounded him. He is coming back,
therefore, later for a real visit.
Although the young American air.
lnan will ship his wings tomorrow
night for the voyage to the United
States, he is closing his historic witt
to Europe in true birdman fashion.
After being held up by fog and
haze yesterday, Lindbergh hoped Off
from tie Kenley air field in England
at $40 a. M, flying single scatter
Chester GaInecock provided by the
British authorities. Conditions were
still unfavorable and the American
aviator descended at Lympme, 38
later after covering only
about so miles.
Here he waited for a little over an
hour and again took the air at S:l5
when the heavy mist began to thin
under the warming rays of the sun.
There was some fog over the channel,
bit conditions were better toward
the end Of the flight as he dropped
down gracefully at 1902 a. M. on
The flying field at LIE Bourget where
he had descended in such triumph
or May 21.
Tomorrow he will fly from Paris
i'll French plane to Cherbourg
where he will be taken aboard the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04
FLOOD PASSES
I 0 ST ACE 0 F
Emergency Situation Left
Behind as Waters Con-
tine to Fall

NEW ORLEANS, June 3 tE9.-With
danger Of rising waters definitely con-
fined to the extreme lower Atchafalaya
river basin and refugee work virtually
completed in all sections, the flood
situation in Louisiana tonight was
about to pass from tn emergency stage
into that of rehabilitation.
Levees at Berwick and Donner, near
Morgan City and about 110 miles west
of New Orleans still were holding the
slowly rising waters. With hasty re-
Enforcement work in progress, little
fear was held for safety of the two
towns.
A special flood bulletin today said
that flood waters in the Tensas and
upper AtchafaIaya river basins would
continue to fall and that localities in
Louisiana could be safely rehabilitated.
The rise in the Mississippi river will
prolong the flood in some sections, but
will not cause further rise in areas
from which waters recede, the weather
bureau bulletin stated.
In the western Atchafalaya basin
the flood was receding rapidly while
its stage in the eastern basin has been
affected materially by decrease in
the overflow from the. .McCrea crevasse.
Water now entering into the basin
through the creVasse is estimated at
10000 cubic feet a second, about one
third the volume the first two days
after the break.
The Atchafalayas at Morgan City
(Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04
LADEN
FLIER LEAVES
FOR AMERICA
Trip Back Will Be On Pri-
vate Warship Straight to
Washington.
TAKES AIRPLANE
City Of Paris Strikes Off
Gold Medal for Presenta-
ton to Filler.

PARIS, June 9 49 = Captain
Charlie Lindbergh is going home
tomorrow
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04
LINDBERGH SAILS FOR HOME TODAY
More Than 100 Lives Lost In Kentucky Storm
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Sonora Chavez Rocks
Cradle With I62nd
Direct Descendant

PHOENIX, June 8 P.-The
hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world. So the old
adage, under which authority
Sonora Esperidiona Chavez, SO
today sits in the home of her
granddaughter, Mrs. F. A. Espi-
nosa, at LOG East Mckinley
street, rocking the cradle of her
lend direct descendant.
Sonora Chavez has nine
daughters and two sons, and
the fifth daughter, Flora, is
the mother of Mrs. Espinosa,
who is the mother of the newest
defendant of the house of
Chavez. All of Sonora Chavez
children were present when the
162nd direct descendant Of the
aged woman was born.
The great grandmother was
born in Santa Fe, N. NJ, in 1888.
She lived in st. Johns, Ariz., so
years and now resides in Los
Angeles, having made the trip
home at the birth of the latest
member Of the fourth, genera
ton.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04
CHAMBERLAIN INJURED

LONDON, June 8 W9.-Sir Austen
Chamberlain, British foreign secretary,
was slightly injured in an automobile
accident tonight while returning to his
home from the foreign office. Sir
Austen's automobile was proceeding
through whitehall square when a
woman suddenly stepped off the side
walk in front of the car. The chauf-
feur swerved sharply to avert her and
collided with rnid-street safety zone,
damaging the car and smashing most
of the glass.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04

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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-04

Entertainment Committee-T. de la
Cara, Esteban Mendoza, Fernando
Mendoza, Modesto Acosta, M. Was
serman, Jesus Soto and Guadalupe
GaScon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-19
COARSE IS OUR SONG
BY EUGENE KREININ.

Coarse is existence,
And rugged the struggle of life,
Brutal, the hold of oppression,
And forceful the steps of revolt.
Poets of proletarian thinking,
Lives of privation and want,
Release the song of the masses,
Summoning all unto strife.
Spreading the voice of thunder
Rolling for eras and ages,
Sending a curse to all tyrants,
And lifting the veil off tomorrow.
Strong as granite, our action,
The word as keen as a blade,
Digging a grave for the master,
Building the world for slaves.
7oarse is our song,
The words unvarnished,
llfr IS so crude.
And struggles, unpublished.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-19
IN ANSWER TO CERTAIN PLAUSIBLE YOUNG MEN

Monuments all about me-
That big dirty factory the Jersey shore.
Warmers sugar in electric letters
Grants Tomb-paunchy, imposing, eptaph another
Damfool in the palm of Wall Street
So-an-so's twinklng roadhouse
Where the wines aren't light,
And neither the "mommas."
Sky shot with chilly blue stars, the color
Of Sheffeld's lower grade mk-monuments to what?
This ribbon of a Riverside Drive,
That floating barge of a ferry boat-monuments?
That dirty factory that gray looming tenchy gas tank
Monuments?
That chugging train and those snay
Yes these be monuments.
Monuments to what is greater than the system which
Encompasses them-to men,
To men and work, to sweat and blood and thought.
Which are far greater than your glib PHILOSOPHERS
Your puny indivduasm your hypocrc characterization
Far, far greater than the class lies of the system
That breeds your stamp
SIMMONS GUINNE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-19
Golden West Aimee
To Clean Up Gotham
In Three-Day Stay

Aimee Semple Mcpherson, motor
ious evangelist, was in New York
today confident that in three days
time she can do more to reform New
York's great white way than all the
other censuring elements put to-
gether.
Mrs. Mcpherson says she isn't
worried over the fact that five radio
broadcasting stations have closed
their doors to her because of FUN
pleasant notoriety she received on
the Pacific coast"
The evangelist is here, she said, to
conduct a series of revivals which
will lase three days, and will trans
init her lectures from the Glad It'd
ings Temple here over WODA at
Paterson, N. J.
81 am trusting to divine power TO
broadcast my message to New York."
Aimee said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17
TIRE MAKER SUED
FOR S2,093,729
Misrepresentation While
President Charged to Sci
] berIing by Goodyear Co.

BY the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, January IA suit
for the recovery of 81, 093, 1926 from
Frank A. Seiberling, tire manufac-
turer, was filed in Common Pleas
Court here today by the Goodyear Tire
and Rubber Co., which alleged this
amount was due the company as a re-
suit of Interpretations by its for
rner president before he lost control
in the reorganization of 1921.
The action also seeks TO recover
$4,000 in dividends on capital stock
of the Akron, Canton and Youngstown
Railway Co.. which is made code
PENDANT with Soldering. Payments of
this amount were declared between
1920 and 1926 on railway stock which
was assigned to the Goodyear Co. by
Soldering in 1920, when he .acknowl-
edged a personal debt of S3,744729 to
the company and are now on deposit
with the Guardian Trust Co. of CleVe-
land.
Third Cause of Action.
A third cause of action asks for
judicial sale of $500 shares of Pruden-
tial Securities and Realty Co. stock
and S1,750,00 face value of Midland
Continental Railroad bonds, pledged
by Seiberling as security to satisfy
judgment on the debt
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
alleges the Interpretations of Sci
berling, while he was president of the
company, had created on December
6, 1920, a debt of S3.744, 1923 .06 which
he recognized and acknowledged. This
was reduced to 3,469.729 by the
transfer of certain real estate to the
Goodyear Co. To cover this indebted.
ness, Seiberling also assigned to the
Goodyear Co. 900 shares of the Ak
ron, Canton and Youngstown rail
way capital stock, and $50 shares of
East Akrin Land Co. stock.
The contract, it is alleged, guaran-
teed the Goodyear Co. against loss in
the transaction in the event Seiber
ling failed to exercise AN option to
repurchase the securities and the
company elected to sell them.
Stocks Sold for S1,376,0dN.
The stocks finally were sold in No
vember, 1925, for S1,276, 900, and the
company now asks judgment for the
difference between this amount and
the total of the 1920 debt. This action
is the second brought by the Goodyear
Co. against the former president with
in the past two weeks. The first suit
sought judgment for $1.131, 416, rep.
reSenting interest on Seiberling's al
legged misappropriations between 1918
and 1919 and 81 ,030,262 said to be due
on a real estate transaction between
Seiberling and the company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17
JAPANESE GET GRANTS.
Lumber Interests Obtain Large
Concession From Russia.

MOSCOW, January II 0P.--After
10 months of difficult negotiations,
Japanese lumber interests, represent
ed by the Rorio, Ringio Kumiay Cor
poration, have obtained from the
Soviet government the largest con-
cession yet granted to Japan. The
company, which is capitalized at $780,
900 900, has obtained the right to ex-
plot for six years nearly 5000 900
acres Of rich timberlands bordering
on the Tartar Straits in the mari
time provinces of the Far East.
Paper and pulp plants will be built.
The same company Is seeking fur
Their concessions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17
INFL JENA HITS ROYALTY.
Son and Sister-in-law of Denmark
King Ill.

COPENHAGEN. Denmark. January
II R.-King Christians younger son.
Prince Knud, and the Kings sister
in.law, Princess Helena, have been
added to the influenza patients. Both
the King and Queen still are confined
TO bed by the disease, but are report
ed to be improving.
The epidemic, which is considered
mild, has reached diplomatic circles,
playing havoc with social functions.
Nearly all the pre-arranged dinners
and dances have been postponed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17

It's beauty is lasting, for the finest
workmanship and materials have
gone into its construction! Gov
cred all over with taupe and
rose velours. Reversible cushions
Evening star., 1927-06-07

rs there anything to the proposition
of carrying clubs in pairs so that
quick change can be made when
a club goes bad?
Some players do that, having
two midirons, two mashies and maybe
three putters, and say three drivers.
1 don't think this does much beyond
putting a heavy burden on the poor
caddy, who has an uninteresting job
with most of us as it is.
Every now and then one comes
upon golfer who carries these extra
clubs because he says it helps him
win back his confidence to shift clubs
after a shot or two has gone bad off
one club. / think this is a form of
self-deception. The real cure for those
bad shots lies elsewhere.
This practice, too, is in a way
frank advertisement to the world at
large that such a golfer frankly at
tributes all his bad shots to his clubs,
not to anything lacking at all in him.
self. Such practice has its worst
effect for that very reason-the man
is q slave to his clubs, whereas he
should strive TO make himself the
master of his cubs. Carrying extra
clubs for such a purpose promotes the
"alibi habit" which is bad in golf.
The real golfer never offers any ex-
cuses or explanations for poor shots;
Evening star., 1927-06-07

the golf world understands why poor
shots come off, and a player should,
least of all, never deceive himself
about his clubs being responsible for
his bad shots.
Now there might reasonably be an
exception to this in the case for an
extra putter. 1t is really true, think,
that the touch for putter--and a
faVorite one, too-can utterly be lost
for day or so. Making change un.
der such circumstances may well
prove to restore confidence and the
necessary putting touch. I person
ally carry but one putter, and when it
fails to work / assume that l couldn't
do any better with all the other put
ters on earth, but different golfers
find different experiences.
1t is possible, too, for the player to
so cultivate his sense of touch that
he would want, for. certain work, a
heavy or light midiron. or maybe a
heavy or a light mashie. In that
event, extra clubs would certainly be
a help for him. After all, the purpose
of golf is to make it pleasureable
therefore, if extra clubs add something
more than tonnage for the caddy, use
them. But avoid using them if they
give you nothing more than the ex-
cuse to blame the club. That's bad
golf.
(Copyright 1877
Evening star., 1927-06-07

top of the ball showing. Walter
promptly lifted the ball to identify
it and replaced it. Naturally some
of the nodded rot fell into the hole
first. He got home.
Hagen's drive is played with
speed. There is no pause at the
top and he comes into the ball with
all he has. That none too slow
backswing is probably why he sets
himself so firmly at the stance,
with more spread to his feet than
Jones. Hagen best explains it by
saying that in getting his stance
he employs one that would permit
him to catch a good sized weight
dropped across his shoulders. 1t is
interesting, as it helps one work
out his own golf troubles. to note
the way Hagen transfers his
weight when driving. First, at the
stance, it's evently distributed be-
tween his two feet. At the top Of
his swing his right foot carries the
bulk Of the weight, with the ball
and big toe Of the left taking the
balance. At contact the same
weight distribution holds as at the
stance. At the finish the left leg
carries the strain, with just enough
on the toes of his right to maintain
balance.
Hagen has wild moments in driv.
ing, but is so remarkable a recov-
cry expert that few handicaps put
him out Of the running. This re-
covery ability is one reason why he
doesn't have to worry so greatly
about keeping the line from the
tee.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-06-07
MUIR SAYS HE'S SURE
TlLDEN FOOT-FAULTED

ST. CLOUD, France, June Z (P.-
Alan H. Muir, the American tennis
expert, who called three foot-faults
against William T. Tilden in the
match which "Big Bill' lost to Rene
Lacoste, was positive of the correct
ness Of his rulings. Each of the three
decisions was protested by Tilden at
the time it was made.
II called the footfaults impartially
and squarely." Muir told the Associ-
ated Press. 'Lacoste never foot-faults.
II want no argument with Tilden
about it. He charges that / was not
conversant with the rule governing
footfaults in service.
"Why, it is preposterous! I myself
drafted that rule for international
tennis.
"As far as am concerned the argu-
n0ent is closed"
Evening star., 1927-06-07
WOMEN IN SPORT
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.

6-1, rs, and Miss Rollins received a
default from Miss Henry.
The title match between the sur
vivors of Thursdays encounters will
be staged early next week.
One local girl survived first and
second round play in the Maryland
State tennis tournament, which open
ed yesterday on the Baltimore Coun-
try Club courts; one advanced to the
second round on a bye, and two fell
by the wayside.
Marion King battled her way to
the third round, defeating Julia Will
liams of Green Spring Valley, 6-3,
6-1, in her initial tilt and took the
measure Of Mrs. Charles Buchanan of
Baltimore. 6-1, 60, in the second
round. She was to play Eleanor Cott-
man, ranking Oriole star, this after
noon.
Pearl Smiddy, daughter of Minister
Smiddy Of the Irish Free State, lost
to Reba Carlson Of Baltimore, Go,
Ga. Mary Ryan of Washington was
bested by Mrs. Refs, Michigan State
champion, 6-1, 6-1. Margaret Ryan
drew a bye and was to oppose Eliza
beth Warren or Richmond, Va, today.
Miss King is paired with Miss Carl
son III LIl0 OOuDleS, anu the Ryan Sis
ters have entered as team.
Brent and Gage were victorious in
the two feature schlag ball games yes
terday in the elementary school series
now in progress on the District play
grounds.
Brent's team defeated Ketcham, 13
to IL, on the Virginia avenue field,
while Gage earned a one-run decision
over Langdon in the latter.
Line-ups Of the teams included the
following players:
Brent--Elizabeth Leek, Muriel
Barnes, Rena Burnham, Jennie jack
abec. Marie F'aber, Nola Stone, Ellen
Elliott, Bessie Pruss. Margaret
Brookes and Margaret Burch.
Ketcham-Catherine Hammer, Dor
othy Davis, Mary Nuttycombe, Dor
othy Hampton, Nora Dean, JacQueline
Kelly, Ruth Dean, Elsie Pumphrey
and Wilma Ryner.
Gage-Pearl Riddler. Ellen Listner,
Maud Mezger, Nettie Gather, Marie
McKenny, Rebecca Bachrach, Eliza
beth Gibbs, Hazel Cookman, Mignon
sullivan and Caroline Moore. ."
Iangdon-Jean Carnahan, Ella AL
Iison, Gertrude Hyatt. Edith Clark,
Eleanor Imley,' Virginia Dixon. Helen
| Anderson, Dorothy Walton, Ruby All.
| bee and Ellen Haber.
Evening star., 1927-06-07
MONROE WINS WAY
TO DIAMOND FINAL

When the city finals OF the
Municipal Playground Elementary
School base ball series are STAG ed
soon the Western section will b,
represented by Monroe, which yes
terday vanquished Curtis Hyde, to
8. Monroe will meet the school that
wins the Eastern section honors.
Mostow hurled fine game for
Monroe yesterday, allowing but five
hits. 1t was his second series tri-
umph. Fred Flaharty, Curtis Hyde
finger of no-hit fame, did well, Civ
ing up but four hits while pitching
the first five innings. but was handi-
capped by poor support.
Batting honors were garnered by
Senia, Monroe's first baseman, who
socked a double and triple to drive
in two runs. He also scored once
himself.
Evening star., 1927-06-07
.RIT0LA GOING AFTER
TITLE FOR SIX MILES
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June THE world
record for the Smile run, which has
stood for nearly % years, will be the
target Of Willie Ritola in a Summer
campaign.
A program mapped out for the Fin
nish-American A. c. distance star by
his trainer, Hugo Quist, includes the
smile event IN both the Senior Metro
politan A. A. u. championships here
June IS and the National A. A. u.
championships at Lincoln, Nebr.,
July 2.
In going after the district and ma
tional titles Ritola will seek to erase
the world mark of 29 minutes SO 4-10
seconds, which was made by Alf
Shrubb in England November 4, 1905.
Ritola never before has completed
in the national outdoor meet, although
he has won the 10-mile, steeplechase
and senior cross-country champion
ships. Most of his running has been
done indoors in the Winter or out
doors in the Fall. This season, how
ever, he is IN top form after a light
indoor season, and believes he has the
best chance of his career to lower
the emile mark.
In the national event Ritola will
toe the mark with a field which in
cludes Philip Osif, the young Arizona
Indian, who now holds the title. The
two have fought it out before, the In
dian running a good second to Ritola
in the national senior cross-country
event last year.