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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13
ARIZONA CRIPPED
BY RECORD COLD
WAVE APRIL II
Phoenix Weather Bureau
Reports Storm Has
Been Statewide

PHOENIX, April 12 tP).-Experienc-
ing the coldest April 12 in the history
of the Phoenix weather bureau this
city tonight hadt received reports from
all sections of the state that indicated
the storm, now in it's third night, which
has visited all Arizona showed little
signs of abating before tomorrow
Snow and rain, accompanied by
dropping temperatures, were reported
from Nogales and Douglas on the bor-
der line to Flagstaff in the northern
part of the state and from Yuma in the
southwestern corner to Winslow and
st. Johns in the northeastern portion
Late this afternoon. snow was falling
in Nogales, which reported the most
unusual April weather since 1912
Prescott, Flagstaff and Winslow all re-
ported heavy snowfall, with Flagstaff
partially buried under an eight-inch
blanket. 1t was still showing at these
points late tonight.
Temperatures at Phoenix over the "a
HOUL PCA4OU SllulllS etI y u. III. COulSnI
showed minimum Of AZ degrees above
While SO degrees was reported at Tue
son. Yuma recorded a minimum of 40
degrees. Five and one half inches of
snow fell at Winslow before noon to-
day with flurries reported there to-
night. Intermittent snow and light
rains were reported at Bisbee in the
southeastern corner Of the state Sleet
and wind with accompanying low tenn
peratures prevailed at Douglas
throughout the day.
There have been colder April days,
but they did not happen on the twelfth,
according to Robert @. Grant, in charge
of the Phoenix weather bureau. The
record low for the month in the 80
years during which the government
records have been kept here is 35
degrees. The record high for, April is,
102 degrees. Reservoirs of the Salt
river valley irrigation and power sys-
tenn gained 5,342 acre feet of stored
water during the past "a hours, touch
ing net total of 927,26 acre feet a
new high mark for the season. One
year ago Roosevelt lake held less than
900 acre feet
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13

training school far such teachers.
The new teachers VII work uIl-
der Miss MarIey's guidance and
become accustomed to the work
required i'm Douglas. Under this
plan these teachers will also re-
ceiVe training in handling of. the
nOn-EngIfsh spea k in children
who enter that school.
The ID girls who are graduating
from school this year and will
commence work in this status next
September are Miss Evelyn Tenn
pie, University of Southern Cali
fOrnia; Miss Agnes MahOney, Uni
versify OF Arizona; Miss Halle
Parker; Miss Virginia Reed; Miss
Dorothy Smith; Miss Ada Squire;
Miss Aileen Wright; Miss Gladys
Woodlands; Miss ThcIma AleXan-
der; Miss Lille Stewart; Miss
EuIa sanders; Miss Verena
Meischer; Miss Jessie Jones, and
Miss Mabel Mason, Tempe Teach
ers' college,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13
ARCTIC EXPL LORER BELIEVED TO
BE AFOOT IN POLAR ICE FIELDS

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April IL
tPj-Return OF Captain George
II. wilkins, Australian explorer,
and Carl Ben EieIsCn, HIS air.
plane pilOt from flight over
the Arctic "blind spot" frOE3
Point Barrow may be delaYeG
weeks or months due to the on
coming spring fOGs and thawS.
Wilkins and Eiels0n of the De-
trOit NewS-WilE1inS Arctic eXpeGl-
tiOn set. cut from Point Barrow
to explore the vast reaches of
the Arctic ocean between AIaSIxn
and the north pole, March %.
Latest reports here are that they
have not returned and are he
IieVCd to he making their way
To land on foot. due to mishap
whiCh befcll their plane.
G0urdouGhS here familiar
with conditions ina the Arctic,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13


Announcement that Mrs. E. r. Aims
worth, prominent in Seattle social
circles, has arranged for the pur-
chase of large tract of land com
prising 230 acres on Turkey creek,
which She will turn into an up to
date hostelry and guest house, has
been received with enthusiams by
Douglas boosters
In the days of the Dons, the large
locality, which combined beauty and
hospitality, flourishing far from civ
ilization. Since that time man has
gone his way ignoring the beauty
and seeking only food and shelter
for himself and his beasts of bur-
den. So, for a good many years, one
of the largest and most remunerative
enterprises in the country has been
neglected.
Now comes a woman with an eye
to the practical side as well as
heart for beauty. Mrs Aineworth
will begin operations at once to make
Rancho Manzanita,' as she has
chosen to call the establishment, into
modern year-round resort.
No feature of the natural beauty
of the canyon will be marred. The
ings will be left as nature intended
them.
A huge investment, however, will
be made to add every comfort and
luxury invented by the mind of man.
All the thrill of adventure and life
in the west will be retained and none
of the hardships and lack of necessi-
ties that made the life of the pioneer
hazardous, is the idea for "The Ranch
of the Little Apples" First among
these additions will be the guest
house. The inspiration for this comes
from the same source as that of the
be of Spanish architectural style A
low, rambling house to combine both
utility and beauty. 1t will be con-
structed entirely of native rock. There
will be in this building a lobby, din
ing room and billiard room, all spa
cious and roomy, all SO arranged as
to be converted into a ball room if
need be. The wide verandas of the
guest house will overlook the or
chard and Turkey creek, and far be-
yond through the clear Arizona at
mosphere, several miles distant, may
be seen Sulphur Springs valley. There
will also be a number of other rooms
with running hot and cold water and
fireplaces to break the chill of winter
evenings. All of these rooms will
have southwestern exposure to per-
nit the rays of the winter sun to
enter the house. Modern lighting and
heating systems will be installed. A
tWo-story tower will be constructed
as a portion of the main building
The kitchen will be under the direct
supervision of Mrs. Ainsworth's own
private chef who has been in her
employ at her country home on the
shores of Lake Washington near
Seattle. In addition to the guest
house there will be a number of mod
] ern and completely equipped bunga-
/ lows available to those who do not
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13

now consider wilkins situation
precariOus, as open leads in the
winter ice-cap may block glirecs
return to land by walking o-
make the route so circuitOus rs
to render the attempts danger
GUS with the scant supplies
wilkins and EielsOn are known
I" have carried iH their plane.
KcScue attempts at this season
Of the year wOuId be of double
ful success, AInsISans feel, as
the seasonal fog which defeated
wilkins Arctic flights last
y ear. is fast approaching.
Before wilkins hoped off
from Fairbanks, he said he WAS
prepared to be maTOOned in the
polar region over period of
years as he and EielSOR expecS-
ed to ''live off the country" by
shooting game for food.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13
FOURTEEN LOCAL GRADUATES TO
START TEACHING HERE IN JUNE

n. e. sOuers, superintendent of
schools, has just announced that
he will hire IA graduates of the
local school system as teachers
during the coming school year.
1t has been a policy for some
time I'm Douglas to hire teachers
whenever available who have been
graduated from the local schools.
This year there are greater
number than before.
Among the Douglas girls who
have signed contracts TO begin
teaching next September are two
college graduates and IL normal
school graduates.
All of the new teachers will
begin their work at the Seventh
street school under Miss Sara
Marley. SOuers made the state
1nent yesterday that Miss Marley
was exceptionally good at train
ing inexperienced teachers and
that the Seventh street school
would he used next year as "a
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13
OTHER WOMEN
AND CHILDREN.
WILL CO SOON.
Long Predicted Split In
Nationalists Reported to
Washington.
CONFLICT SEEN
Radicals Call General Strike
In Shanghai, Protesting
Raids.

PEKING, April II Qp - Mrs.
John A. MacNIurray, wife of the
American minister here, left
for home. She was accompanied
by Mrs. Ferdinand l.. Mayer,
wife Of the American counsellor.
other women and children Mt
tached to the American legation
viii leave PeI&ing shortly.
The American community at
present in Picking is the smallest
il has been in many years.
WASHINGTON, April II R)-Dc-
velopment of the predicted split III
the Chinese nationalist party with
moderate and radical groups warning
for control of recently captured ter
ritory was reflected tonight in Of
ficial &, messages but not clearly
enough to disclose the full scope Of
The break, or its probable signific-
ance in relation to the problem of
Protecting Americans in China.
A naval radio message said local
Chinese naval authorities at Annoy
and Fuchow have taken definite ac>
ton to prevent the landing Of
Kuomintang forces at those ports.
Presumably the move was to pre-
vent entry Of the two cities by radi
cal elements of the nationalist or
ganization. The message said q
demonstration by students at Annoy
lad been permitted and one banner
displayed declared for Chang Ka1-
Shek, moderate leader in personal
which now appear to have turned on
the radical faction in the party at
various points, including Shanghai,
in a drive to purge the nationalist
movement of radical agitation
Unofficial advices indicated that
the head of the Chinese central labor
union at Shanghai was among those
Killed in the raid by plain clothes
men supported by troops loyal to
Chiang against centers of radica
agitation III the native city. More
than 90 civilians at these centers
were disarmed.
Chang, with the backing and fl
51ancial support of native BANKING
and commercial interests in Shanghai
is now reported to be i'll Marking
fer the purpose of preventing a move
by the radical wing of the nation
alist party to transfer the political
capital from Hankow to Nanking
Press dispatches told of fighting be-
tween moderates and radicals in the
vicinity of Nanking.
An official message via Pel1irg
today said Chinese troops had oc'
cupied, on April Ii, foreign homes
and standard Oil company buildings
at Chinkiang. Which faction the
troops were allied with was not
stated but the message said firt
from Chinese steam launches hat
driven native craft eff the river al
Continued on Page EighD
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13

Copper steady;
spot and futurel
steady; spot 7.2s
yer Sc 15.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13
TORNADO WIPES OUT TOWN; $50 KILLED
u. S. Minister Family Leaves Peking Tuesday
+ = ****** ***** =
Brother and Sister Are
Indicted BY Grand Jury
Embezzlement Charge

TUCUMCARI, N. NJ, April IL
B.-FOrmer Deputy Treasurer
Dan Paiz and his sister, Roma
Paix, former city clerk of Tu-
cunlcari, were Tuesday indicted
by the grand jury here on
charges of misapprOpriatiOn of
public funds during their ten
ure Of office. The man pleaded
not guilty of embezzlement in
the sum of $4,000 and will stand
trial at the term OF district
court in May. Miss Paiz pleaded
guilty of embexzIing $4,000. At
the request of District Attorney
Compton sentence was deferred
until the ease cculd be reviewed
and prepared for presentation
10 the court.
The grand jury found % true
bills, the majority of them pro-
hibitiOn law violations, and two
nO-bilIs. jack Harris pleaded
guilty to horse stealing and
was sentenced to two to three
years. 1t was the first cOnvic-
tEOn of this nature i'm ten years.
81 * * * * 4 n x* a * * * * s.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13
Devastating
WIND STORM.
PLAYS HAVOC
Texas, Oklahoma and Ar
kansas Visited by Violent
Hurricanes.
TOWN LAID FLAT
Rock Springs, Near San
Antonio, Is Practically
Laid to Waste.

HOUSTON, Texas, April 12 lF0.-Be-
tween $50 and 200 persons were killed
and hundreds injured late Tuesday
when a twisting, tearing hurricane
laid waste practically the entire town
of Rock Springs, county seat of Ed
wards county, railway dispatches re-
ported. Because the town is isolated,
without either railroad or telegraph
communication, and because every
available telephone was being used in
calls for relief from the stricken area,
only scanty details of the disaster
could be obtained by wire services and
railway dispatchers.
Clearest accounts given by a tele-
phone lineman who walked through the
devastated district to the nearest tele-
graph line, climbed pole and tapped"
the wire, thus getting connection with
a dispatcher at Del Rio, said that the
force of the cyclone slapped the entire
town flat, as though by gigantic
hand.
This report, relayed to Houston rail-
way office, said that few residents of
the town escaped death or injury and
that the suffering of the injured, with
out means of relief, almost surpasses
description. The call to Del Rio urged
that all available doctors and nurses,
with huge quantities of medical sup
plies, be recruited at once and started
in automobiles for the storm center.
Meanwhile, according to word from
Del Rio, the wind was growing in
intensity there and residents feared
ai4 olc fur1, oal
of the same storm.
SAN ANTONIO, April 70 P).-More
than 125 persons are believed to have
lost their lives in a devastating tor
nado which struck the little town of
Rock Springs, county seat of Edwards
county, located 100 miles west of San
Antonio, at $40 Tuesday night accord
ing to information reaching San An
tonic two hours later over an impro-
vised emergency telephone established
one miles east of the town Meager
information indicated that the total
dead would mount still higher when a
final check is made. A relief party left
Del Rio over the Southern Pacific lines
within an hour after news of the
storms reached that city and party of
doctors We're organizing another relief
party at Uvalde to go to the stricken
town. A relief party headed by City
Health officer w A. King and Fire
Chief j. G. Sarran was dispatched from
San Antonio. With the telephone ex-
change blown away, an operator at the
Rock Springs exchange went with a
lineman to point one mile east of
town and installed telephone with
which to maintain communication with
the outside world
The first message reaching San An
tonic told of the death of 126 with
many injured.
Later the operator at Rock Springs
declared that the dead, hurt and miss
ing comprised so near the entire popu-
lation of the town that there was little
probability of obtaining the number of
casualties before morning.
The Southern Pacific offices in San
Antonio reported shortly before IL
O'Clock that a contingent of U. S. cav
airy from Fort Clark had been ordered
to proceed to Rock Springs to assist in
Continued on Page Eight)
, 1927-11-16
LOCAL

Mr.. Joseph Alexander. manager Of the
st. Croix agency Of The Texas ell Co.,
is erecting a new building at The north
west corner OF Smith and King Streets iu
this town at which site d gasoline filing
station viii be installed, This place will
fur Ish more room now needed for stock
ing certain lines and products and Mr..
Alexander is planning to have a conVe.
nient private office in the new quarters.
The Navy Band was favored with fair
weather last evening and rendered its
program as advertised. On Thursday
from z 10 s pm. it viii make its last ap-
Deerance on this visit to ST. Croix and
there viii surely be a lar e gathering cut
to enjoy the music and renew The assn
lances we always give the band of a
hearty welcome and full appreciation o.
, 1927-11-16

bringing in Porto Rican laborers; we can
not consider Porto Ricans as foreigners
and therefore the money cannot be used
to bring them in; it is UP to the Planters
who are DESTROYS to have Porto Rican
lab0rers to make things so inducive that
the laborers would want to come of their
W accord. an opposed to this 0rdi-
name and [ do nottthink it is fair to this
Community to bring it before this COun-
ell. J do not think it is drawn in the Ian
euage of a lawyer. Be that as it may, |
do not think it should be passed today; it
should go to a committee: / will never
vote for it as it is at present.
Ord Member for Ghristiansted Town
(F0bjo) remarked: Mr.. Chairman, the
proponent of this bill has conveniently
prefaced bis remark in introducing the bill
with The decreased population since the
transfer of these islands. 1t is true that
very many laborers have left he island
since the transfer of these islands, but
Why? Because of the poor wages that
were paid to them by the Planters. To-
day We are confronted with another con-
GilIon, the Planters are offering Porto
Rican labOrers higher wages than that
which is paid TO native laboGers, and
besides that better accommodations.
Now | an viewing thus matter from a
business viewpoint. The Planners have
their trouble, they want laborers to reap
their crops; we in the commeI cial lire
have our troubles also, but we do not
rush TO the legislature for help. If the
Planters would pay the people of this is
land the wages they are pay ing the Porto
Rican laborers they would have no truu.
BILE for labor in the crop time or any
other time. Section 3 of the ordinance
reads: Request for reimbursement of
tW0.thirds of the expenses in connection
with The introduction OF laborers shall he
sent in writing to the Despatching Score.
tary's Office. | would like to ask what
those expenses signify? As / have said
before this is purely a business matter:
the Planters should fight their own way
out of their troubles; and | think it'wou,d
lie more in keeping with the object OF
the ordinance creating the fund if the
money be lent out tor the purpose of
raising more crops on the island.
5th Appointed Member Armstrong
remarked: Mr.. Chairman. | nave heard
some very interesting discussion on this
ordinance and / would like to reply to
one or two members who have spoken
upon it. / think we should consider this
a very healthy ordinance. One reason
given why Porto Rican lab0rers should
, 1927-11-16
IL H0DERN lDEA

More than ever IS the ply
s.clan placing dependence upon
hygiene, fresh air, sunlight and
adequate nourishment To bring
about a restoration OF strength.
That is why
, 1927-11-16

on their land: it is their fund. and | think
they have gone too far by placing the
administration of the funds in the hands
Of the Council. If the Planters are not
permitted to import Iaborers I don't see
how we can make the island produce. and
If we don't makedhe island produce the
Planters as we'll as the commercial peO-
pie VIII have to cease operations.
3rd Member for Frederiksted Country
District (Ander8ea) remarked: Mr..
Chairman. I feel that | should rise a.
gain, the 3rd Member for Christiansted
Town has called the immigration Fund a
public fund; | want to say it is not: II is
a semi-DriVate funC; it is a fund created
by the Planters of this island by vOiunta-
rlly paying a tax Of ten cents per acre
on their land. This tax is not paid by the
commercial people, nor the Lawyers,
nor the Doctors. So you see the Planters
have a right to come in and ask the
Council permission TO use it,. OF course |
do not think the Merchants, nor the Law
yers, nor the Doctors would like to
see the industry of the island dwindIe
into nothing. Our w local agricultural
laborers have the same privileges as
that given the Porto Rican Iaborers; they
are al llUeIJS 10 no JCD WOih anu make
as much money as they can out of it, /
90 not think the present system is in
any way harmful to our good native
Iaborers. One of my workmen told me
The other day. Mr.. Andersen, there are
better days ahead eff US, we are quite
satisfied so long as we are paid the same
wage as that paid t. hose from outside. "
This is from one ol our own worthy
workers. We are no interested in those
who are not ambj1ous. We are rNw
blessed with good Weather and a family
good crop and l thin everybody should
be happy. 1t seems 10 me that now is the
proper time to bring Gward such meas
IRE as | am sure it viii rebound to the
benefit of the small as well as the large
farmer.
TO be ~c0ntjHucd.)
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-05-05
MAY 10. ARBOR DAY

When the Pilgrim Fathers landed
at Plymouth Rock in 1920 they found
the new continent clothed with an al
most unbroEen expanse of virgin for
est. Cool springs were abundant,
streams ran clear and excessive ero-
sion had not left its mark upon the
land. The geologic processes of land
sculpture which had been going on
since time immemorial were of course
at work carving out the hills and val
leys.
AS time went on and population in
creased it was of course inevitable
that over large portion of the coun-
try forests should give way to farms.
Fires and destructive numbering
FASTENED the destruction of the forests
of the nation but it was not inevitable
that the change should be accompan-
led by such disasterous consequences,
1 it was then that the conscience of
the nation was awakened and arous-
ed to the fact that this reckless waste
was menace to the entire land, that
the forests it is that equalize tenn
perature, present erosion, affect the
rainfall and are the chief consumers
of noXious gases detrimental to the
life and health of humanity.
There is a proverb which says,
Whatever you would have appear in
a nations life, you must first intro
duce into it's public schools" Arbor
Day as such was inaugurated in 1874
in the State of Nebraska at the sug-
gestion of j. Sterling Morton, after
ward Secretary of Agriculture in the
cabinet of President Cleveland. Most
of the states now observe it as a
school holiday, when knowledge of
trees and shrubs and love of them is
incu Gated in the minds of BOYS and
girls.
But mere knowledge of the value of
trees is not enough The real purpose
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-05-05
HOW MUCH?

Say, do you remember that selec-
ton in McGuffy's old Fourth Reader
entitled, Il Pity Them?" 1t told of a
poor family who was travelling west
ward in search of a new home. AS
they were crossing a bridge one of the
horses broke through and was killed,
leaving them with but one horse with
which to resume their journey. Sew
eral people thereabouts gathered
about them with expressions of pity
but no one made a move towards con-
tributing towards buying them anoth-
er horse. Finally, so the story went, a
rough westerner in the crowd held up
a twenty dollar bill and said, "You
people all seem to pity this poor fam
lily, but I wonder just how much. l
pity them just $4,000 worth, how
much do you pity them?" The by
ISLANDERS took the hint and soon anoth-
er horse was purchased and the en-
migrants resumed their journey, all
of which brings me up to what I am
driving at.
You see, the floods which have in
undated the lower Mississippi valley
have already rendered 100000 people
homeless. They are our countrymen
and fellow citizens. Just sitting
around and plying them will not sup
ply them with food and shelter in their
hour of need. The American Red
Cross is asking for our assistance.
Carbon county's quota is 100000. Of
course, the members and officers of
the local chapter know we all pity
the flood sufferers but they would
like to know just, chow much"
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-05-05
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to take this opportunity
to thank most sincerely all of our
friends, especially the NSlovene Ma
tional Benefit Society No. 81 Of Red
Lodge and the Creation FTraternal
Union of America No. 483 of Red
Lodge for their many expressions of
sympathy and kindness and the beau
tiful floral offerings on the occasion
Of our recent sad bereavement, the
death of our father and cousin.
William O'ZanicR1
Joseph O'Zanich, Jr.,
Mrs. Felix Bubany
Mrs. Alfred Kirns.
Fred O'zanich,
Tony Polich.