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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-07

500 Hoo Wing, Of New York, were
convicted of tong war in Man.
chester last March.
Kitty 500 was fighting a lone
hand for her husbands life until
Mrs. Clara A. r. Kicker, Newark,
n. j., wealthy welfare worker. be-
came interested and joined forces
with the young wife. The board OF
pardons will be urged today to COM
mute the sentences to life imprison'
ment,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-07
Gospel Mission Wins 80
In D. C.. Jail Services

Thirty ''guests" Of the District
Jail today are converts to religion,
They pledged themselves to tread
the straight and narrow path yes
terday when the Gospel Mission held
afternoon services at the local
bastile. This feat topped off day
of usefulness for the Gospel Mission
when they entertained so way
farers at q Bible class reakfast to
inaugurate Washington's first real
cnld snan Of the wear.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-07
TO TALK ON GENIUS.

DR.. William Thomas Shepherd
will speak on "a New Definition
of Genius" at a meeting of the
Society for Philosophical Inquiry
tomorrow night in the National
Museum.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-07
9 Killed, II Wounded
By Russian Bandit,

WARSAW, Nov. Mime person
were killed and II wounded wheI
Russian bandits raided and shot N
the town of Posotka on the Russo
Polish frontier.
The bandits escaped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-07

Maintaining its yearly increase il
petroleum output shown since the be
ginning Of the industry, Venezuel,
has ATTAINED fourth rank among oil
producing.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-24

Continued on Page seven>
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
WILL
HELP FINANCE
HOSTELRY HERE
Good Roads and Hotels
Make Country, Cover
nor Hunt SOys

'I will subscribe to the fund for con-
struction of tourist hotel in Douglas .
Governor George w p Hunt said last
night when asked his opinion relative
to the campaign to build such resort
here Good roads and good hotels
make country" the governor con-
tinued 81 put money into construction
of the hotel at Flaggstaff and also the
one at Prescott
The governor arrived in Douglas
yesterday and will leave for Phoenix
today, he said.
Il believe there is very good open
ing in Douglas for the sort of hotel
the business men here are planning to
build" the governor continued. Roads
are the life of the state, and good
hotels will bring people to Arizona and
keep them here. With more good
hotels in the state and good roads to
bring people to them, Arizona will ex-
perience greatly increased prosperity.
The people of Cochise county have
my sincere sympathy because they N
not get a penny from the past legis-
lature. The roads of this section are
in need of work and that costs money.
l did my best to put through salts
factory legislation that would really
improve the roads all over the state
The governor pointed out the suc-
cess that has attended the efforts of
other cities in Arizona with tourist
hotels built by local capital. THE
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
GOVERNOR DERN
DENIES FEDERAL
RIGHT IN WATER
Declares States Should
Control Element Essen
tial to Life

SALT LAKE CITY, April 80. (P--
rne proposed theory of federal cor
srol of the Colorado river regardless
Of the rights of the states through
which it flows, must be resisted by
each of the states of the arid re-
gion," Gov. George H. Dern said in a
statement issued today. The statement
replies to reviews of the Colorado
river controversy since the adoption
of the seven states pact in November,
1922, and Governor Dern sees no OBJ
Stacle in an agreement between the
parties to the pact being reached be-
fore the coming session of congress-
Without direct mention either of
the recent addresses of Senator Hiram
Johnson or the statement of Secretary
Hubert Work at Yuma yesterday,
Governor Dern declares the States
of the upper basin are not mere OBJ
structionists. On the contrary, they
are all desirous of encouraging, in
every legitimate way, the construction
of flood control works along the
lower river"
But" he says, s'they are con-
fr9nted with the fact that when the
water is used it will give rise to
claims of prior appropriation unless
an Interstate pact, which,, to date
has not been ratified by California
and Arizona, is concluded and rati-
fled in advance.
1T proceeds from the vicious bu-
reaucratic hypothesis that in all
western states the United Staes (and
not the states) owns and may dis
pose of the waters of every stream,
and that congress at any time may
wholly remove the control of such
waters from the state; and that the
states exercise their present control
over heir rivers by mere sufferance
Without control of the waters
these states cannot exist" he said.
preservation of this control is a
matter of necessary defense Subject
to settlement of disputes with neigh
boring states and to the right of
congress to conrol interstate com
merce, each state is justified in re-
so1tlhg to extreme measures when
ever necessary to protect it's inherent
sovereignty respecting the control of
the element essential to it's very ex-
istence."
Dolph E. Carpenter interstate riv-
ers commissioner of Colorado, who
was in Salt Lake City today confer
ring with Governor Dern and others
on the Colorado river situation en-
dorsed the statement of Governor
Dern, adding that all the western
states having similar problems should
awaken to. the immediate danger
confronting them"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
BURGLARS Get
$500 LOOT IN
TWO JOBS HERE
Bazaar Store and Ward
Home Robbed; Store
Loot Recovered

Burglars last night entered the
Bazaar department store on &c ave-
nue. and the residence of 1. b. Ward,
724 Twelfth street, and secured loot
valued at approximately $500. Both
burglaries We're committed between
9 and II o'clock, police reported.
Loot, consisting principally of la
dies silk wearing apparel and bolt
silk, valued at not less than $500,
taken from the department store was
recovered by police through the as
sistance of Mrs Genevieve Hughes,
night nurse at the Calumet hospital.
Mrs. Hughes heard noise outside
the rear of the hospital and investi-
gated.
In an entryway between the alley
and the rear of the hospital she
found a large bundle weighing about
200 pounds. Night Watchmen Charlie
Griffith and R. L. Kirk went to the
hospital and took the recovered loot
to the police station and Lieutenant
Gatliff notified William Kline, Ba-
zaar store manager, that his goods
had been recovered. Kline told police
the loot was worth at least $500,
they said.
The Bazaar burglary was discov-
cred by Night Watchman George
Cook. The thieves entered the build
ing through the skylight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward returned home
from the theatre about II o'clock
and discovered thieves had forced one
of their doors. A brown overcoat,
two suits, a red dress, ruby ring,
q ruby stick pin and an Elk pin set
with small diamond were among the
articles missed, Ward reported to po-
lice.
Police believe at least two men
were engaged in the Bazaar store
burglary as hte bundle taken from
the building was too heavy and
bulky to have been handled by one
man. They are still working on both
cases
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
FEDERAL OFFICER
Sees SAFETY In
BOULDER CANYON
Federal Commission Max
ing Inspection Trip
Along Colorado

YUMA, April so P)-The 22-mlle
rock faced earthen dixie in Low er.
California, which holds back the
colorado rive in flood stage fror,
spreading over the below sea level
area of the Imperial valley was
viewed today by the newly created
federal river advisory board and
Commissioners Of Reclamation Elwood
Mead The trip which marked the
1Irst phase Of a general inspection
of the board of the delta levees and
sites of proposed dams for harness
ing the interstate stream, took inc
official parry over the railway line
built by the Imperial valley irriga-
ton district for maintenance of the
protecting dikes
Commissioners Mead expressed he
lief that the district engineers had
the situation we'll in hand and show
ed little concern over rIcod cordl-
tions this year He declared, how
ever, that not until the waters Of
the stream were stored and desilted
at Boulder canyon would the danger
t" the loWlands be entirely past.
From improvised rows of benches
on a railway flat car, the commits
$ioner ard the advisory board We're
shown what the district engineers
cons, ,dered the weak portions of th,
iHNee. Stops We're made at a dozen
or more points where the river s
muddy waters, often described as
100 thick to drink and too thin 20
plGW,' were slowly securing. away
tho sand IN which the rip-rapping
was imbedded
The advisory board accompanied
Dr. Mead as far as CaleXico re-
turning over The line of the proposed
all-Amercan canal for irrigating the
Imperial valley. The board, COM
posed Of former governor James G
Scrugnam Of Nevada: Governor Frank
e Emerson of Wyoming and Pro-
fcssor VIM. r. Duran of Stanford
university, will proceed from Yuma
to Phoenix tomorrow They will
then go into The Glen canyon coun-
try on an inspection OF dam sizes
James r. Garfield, former secretary
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01

fled. Albert Snyder had wanted a
boy. When the little girl was born
he was angry. They "quarreIed
often" about her, and the child,
whose birth she looked forward to
as "a means of restoring her to her
husbands affections, caused bitter
ness, sometimes lasting for weeks.
1t was little Lorraine who first
carried outside of the Snyder home
news that led to the discovery of
the murder. Awakened by her
mothers tapping on her bedroom
door, the child found her lying on
the fIcOr outside, her hands bound
and gag in her mouth. Lorraine
was sent to "a neighbOr'S house for
help. The neighbOr found Albert
Snyder dead in his bell, picture
wire twisted tightly about his neck
and his head battered by blows
from a sash weight.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
SEVENTY-SX MINERS ENTOMBED BY EXPLOSION
Aviator Killed Caught AS SmuggLqr Suspects
FLOOD AT A
GLANCE
! Thc Associatnd Press)

LEY The Associated PreSS)
Another break in main MiSsis-
&ippi leVce, this one south of
Natchez, is flooding vast areas
in east central Louisiana. Ir-
lndatiOn of practically all Of
southeastern Arkansas is grad
unIly taking place as huge
volume of water rush through
three gaps in the Arkansas river
lcVeeS.
mississippi goes well beyond
highest stages Of record ut
Natchex and VickSburg, flooding
lower portion of the last name1
city. Louisiana engineers con-
tinue blasting lCVee south ar
New Orleans. in effort TO divert
enough water into the practi-
cslIIy deserted parishes of st.
bernard and Plaquemines to save
the Crescent city.
The grcatcSt flood of record
GGv the Ouachita and Hack riv.
crs in Louisiana is forecast next
week by the weather bureau.
Warning that as u result of the
Up-StaGe floods every possible
effort should he made 10
strengthen the Ievees between
the Red River and New Orleans
is issued by Mississippi River
Commissioners West.
Secretary Hoover states that
while CaernaFvOn creVassc VIII
save New Orleans it offers no
relief to the area nOrthward from
that city. After week of survey
Presidents personal representa-
tive finds situation so serious
that he will return next week to
further direcF rescue and refief
work.
Coast guards begins mObiIizing
greatest fleet in history. TO Op-
crate off New Orleans ana
in preventing loss of life
in Louisiana floods.
More shan two hundred thou
sand already have been made
homeless by the flood and chou
sands of "thers eventually viii
have to join the army of refG-
gees.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
DARING TRAIN ROBBERY WILL.
BE RE-ECHOED I'M COURT ROOM

JACKSONVILLE, Ore, April 30
A9.--A carnival of death waged
with sUnfire and dynamite in the
black shadows of the SiSkiyOu
railroad tunnel will be re-echOed in
a small courtroom here during the
trial of Hugh DE AutremOnt.
charged with murder and at
tempted mail robbery. The trial
begins May 2.
The crime charged against the
23-year-Old youth and his two
brothers. who have not been appre-
hended, was one of SaVagery and
violence. 1t cost the lives of four
men, crippled lOadeel passenger
train in the gas-filled bore and
netted the bandits nothing.
The defendant, youngest of the
trio hunted over criSS-crOsS trails
throughout the western hemisphere
for nearly four years. is accused
of having been the moving spirit
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01

in planning and executing of the
train hOldup.
On the morning of October II.
1923, two youthful appearing men
swung ON to the tender of the en-
gine of Il Southern Pacific train as
is entered tunnel in the noun
tains Just beyond SiSkiyOu station,
Oregon. They covered Engineer
STd Bates with TeVOlVers and re-
quired him to halt the locomotive
as ii emerged from the bore. They
then shot him and Fireman Marvin
Seng, killing both. A similar fate
was meted out to Brakeman c. O.
Johnson, who came to the head of
the train to learn the cause of the
stop.
A third bandit placed "a charge
of dynamite under the mail ear,
and Railway Postal Clerk f. E.
DOuGherty died i'm the blast and
the fire that followed. The blaze
and smoke caused the bandits to
flee without getting amy lOOtS
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
. ]. 5. OFFICERS
DECLARE AIR
RING BROKEN.
Claim Planes Were Used to
Smuggle Chinese, Booze
From Mexico.
TRACE AIRCRAFT
Federals Lay In Wait Five
Nights to Catch Contra
band Planes.

LOS ANGELES, April 80 (R =
Arthur A. Daugherty, "a, aviator,
was shot and killed, seven other
aviators were taken into custody, and
three airplanes seized by federal
immigration officers early today in
what they declared was the break
ing uD of an airplane allen smug-
Cling ring. The officers said Daugh-
crty was fired upon when he at
tempted to escape in his plane rs
the three planes landed at Eagle
airport after being reported by fed
cral agents 10 have taken aboard
ten Chinese in Tijuana, Mex, last
night
: Chief Immigration Inspector Wal,
9or Carr declared that Hugh Me-
Lenny, owner of the Red Top dis
tIllery in Tijuana, was the financial
hacker of the Eagle airport and OF
tie entire alleged airplane alien
smuggling ring An all day search
nv police and sherifrs deputies had
failed to find any trace of the ter
aliens asserted by the immigration
officers probably to have been un-
loaded in an oat field somewhere on
the outskirts of the city The Of
1ICEIS DuACIlSS OIL green OdlS
caught on the running gear of two
of the planes was proof OF the land.
ing of the planes, They said the ar.
rested avia!ors failed to make any
explanation of the presence of the
cat stalks.
The immigration officers also,
kclai,ned to have found large call
brc pistol and ammunition in the
Rex Purcell, one of the arrested
aviators and II witness of the shoot
ing of Daughcrty declared that he
was killed without q chance for his
lite The officers said that when
they ordered the pilots of the land
ing planes to throw UP their hands.
1)augherty put on speed apparently
10 take the air to escape.
Emmett Longbrake, another Of the
arrested aviators, was arrested sew
cral weeks ago as the pilot Of a
plane that landed at Yerba L nd,
south of the city and which was
suspected of smuggling aliens.
He was released because of in
sufficient evidence
The others under arrest are Jack,
@ Brien, pilot of one of the seized
pttneSi y. H. NndHcy, HdIdSSt OF
the airport; r. Cunningham, A. L.
FLEMING and Ford Wheeler
Purcell and the last three were
found at the airport The immigra-
tion officers said tha: It week ago
they had gained information that
extensive aren smuggling operations
were being carried out by means of
airplanes and that as ii result they
vicinity CT the Eagle airport
Late yesterday two planes left the
port and were reported ny govern
ment agents in Tijuana to have ar
rived there last night, taken on ten
Chinese and later departed Gov
ernment officers at San Diego early
to-day reported to the Los Angeles
Continued on page 1O)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
I MEN KILLED
AND
IS INJURED
a
Nine Rescue Crews En-
deavOr to Save Men Shut
In Living Tomb.
ONE GETS OUT
Survivor Leads Party Back
Into the Workings On
Mercy Errand.

PARAMOUNT, w. Va, April 30 H0
A terrific explosion this afternoon
trapped rs miners in the Everetts-
vile mine of the New England Fuel
and Transportation company, and late
tonight their fate was undetermined.
Seven men were killed outright by
the blast Is were injured while 10
are known to have mad their way to
safety from the wrecked workings.
Mine rescue crews from all sections
of northern West Virginia were push
ing their way into the mine in the
hope of saving some of the 76 men
still entombed.
OF the dead, two were killed while
at work outside the main entry, while
eight of the injured also were at
work outside the mine.
One rescue party penetrated the
smokefilled workings and brought
out five dead and seven men seri-
ously injured.
Manuel Porpo was the first man to
come from the blast-torn workings.
He said he had come through the
dense smoke with difficulty, but he
was unharmed Shortly afterward
ne .leu party OF rescue workers
back into the mine
The blast set fire to the tipple, but
the Morgantown fire department
quickly extingushed the blaze.
The mouth of the mine and the
main passageway apparently were
not badly damaged. The ventilation
system was operating and a good
current of fresh air was being circu-
lated late tonight company officials
said.
Federal Mine Inspector Mckay, ac-
by five other attaches of
the United States burea of mines at
Pittsburgh, were reported en- route to
the scene of the disaster to aid in
rescue work. Company officials said
the origin of the blast was undeter-
mined. Fire Boss William Cannon
said he had inspected the mine early
.oday and found nothing unusual.
Hravey Mckay, brother Of j. w
Mckay superintendent of the mine,
is among the men entombed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
UlNWANTED CHILD TO TESTIFY
FOR MOTHER IN MURDER TRIAL

NEW YORK. April 30 [R.-
Added to the list of prospective
witnesses in the Snyder-Gray
trial, which resumes Monday, is the
name of child who, by being born
81 girl instead of the boy her father
desired, so provoked pickering
that 1t ended only when the dis
appointed father was murdered.
Lorraine, nine-year-OId daughter
Of Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder, CO.
defendant with Henry Judd Gray
i'm their trial for the murder OF
Albert snyder, magazine art editor
slain in his Queens Village home
March 20, will take the stand in
her mothers defense Monday, it
was announced today by Edgar f.
HazeItOn, chief of counsel for Mrs.
snyder. Lorraine was an nh
wanted child" Mrs. snyder festi-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
WOULD RAISE RATES

PHOENIX, April 30.-(P)-The
APPLICATION of the Southern Pacific COM
pany for authority to increase the
refrigeration charges on melons
shipped from Yuma, Casa Grande and
other points along the lower line of
the company to the east will be
heard Monday by examiner j. c. Harr-
aman of the Interstate Commerce
Commission in the house chambers
of the state capitol building.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
Different Viie1us On RiOer
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U. S. Admiral Refused
Permit TO Go Through
Russia TO China Post

MOSCOW, April 30 (P.-Per-
mix%ien to traverse. I,ussia ON
his way to China has been re
fused Rear Admiral Mark l..
Bristol, yviso is slated tO succeed
Rear Admiral Clarence $. Will
liams, commander of the Ameri-
can fleet in Chinese waters, the
Associated Press was advised
tonight.
T'he grounds for this attitude
by the Soviet government were
stated to be WashingtOn'S re-
flls;;I to permit former Finance
Commissioner Gregory SOkOI-
nikOff. George PiatakOff.
George Piatakcff, economic
commissioner, and Mime. I<OI-
Iontay, Soviet aIn6assadOr to
Mexico, to enter the United
States.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
=!
High State Jobs
Held By Scots

LONDON, April OR)-One of
the standing jokes Of England is
the great number of Scots always to
be found occupying high positions
in state, church and Industrial life
Scotsmen never turn back to Scot
land, say the English.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01

Conner steady; electrolytic
spot and futures 1S asked.
Lead quiet; spot 6.S5. bar
silver 55%.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01

Of the interior and fifth member of
the board, has not yet joined his coll
leagues. Commissioner Mead on re-
turning to ,Andrade, Calf, where
the start was made, boarded a train
fer Los Angeles. After a few days
in Los Angeles he will make a trip
INTO the northwest to inspect the
Klamath and Columbia basin reclaim
alton projects and he will then re-
turn to Washington.
Evening star., 1927-11-08
COAL INJUNCTION THROWN
OUT BY APPEALS COURT
Decision of Supreme District Tribu'
nal Reversed in Maynard
Company Case.

The District of Columbia Court of
Appeals yesterday reversed the action
of the District Supreme Cour, which
had granted an injunction TO the May
nard Goal Co. of Pennsylvania to pre-
vent the Federal Trade Commission
from requiring the company to make
monthly reports of the business of the
company in relation to the mining out
put and production at the mines of coal
produced by the company. The APP
pellate court, through Justice Josiah
A. Van Orsdel, directed the lower court
to dismiss the company's suit.
The decision is based on the action
Of the United States Supreme Court,
which held in the Claire Furnace case
that until the Attorney General had
taken steps to enforce any penalties
provided by the law against the com.
pany, it cannot suffer and when he
does act at the request of the commits
sion the company can promptly
answer and have full opportunity to
contest the legality of any preiudi-
cial proceeding against the company.
That right being adequate, the COM
pany is not in a position to ask relief
by injunction. the court points out.
Evening star., 1927-11-08
DR.. LEWIS J. BATTLE
AGAIN HEADS CITIZENS
Sixteenth Highlands Association
Elects First President-Merrill
and Clayton Speak.

DR.. Lewis J. Battle, one of the
founders of the Sixteenth Street High
lands Citizens Association and its
first president, was again elected
president of the organization last
night at it's first meeting of the year
to succeed the retiring president,
and DIR. J. w. Hollingsworth were re-
elected to the offices of treasurer and
secretary, respectively. Mr.. Lum
was chosen to replace John D. Rhodes
as delegate to the Federation of Citi'
zens' Associations, and the other dele
gate, Paul F. Grove, was continued in
office.
In the absence OF the scheduled
sneaker, Fl. P. Wilson, who was to
explain the proposed public utilities
merger, f. D. Merrill of the Wash
ington Rapid Transit Co. detailed to
the citizens the development and
problems of bus operation in WASH
ington and appealed to them to co
operate with the company in solving
their mutual difficulties.
William Mex. Clayton spoke al
length on the proposed merger, ad
vocating the plan, as it would end the
fights between the car companies and
the Rapid Transit Co. and thus pro
vide better service for the suburban
districts. where, he predicted, the fu
ture growth of the city will center.
A letter from the Kenilworth Citi
Zens' Association relative to the air
port was referred to a committee fol
investigation and report.
AS his first official act the new presi
dent. DR.. Battle. appointed Jesse Ben
iamin as chairman of the committee
on education.
Evening star., 1927-11-08

cluded Conclusions unwarranted by
the facts" Celler said he wrote FOR
the purpose of neutralizing any i'll eff
fects that may have been caused by
ill-considered opinions"
Referring to Johnson, he went on.
II know of no man in public life to-
day who has been less sympathetlc
to the alien than the writer OF the let
ter / criticize. No one has laid heaV'
ier restrictions upon the non-natiVes
than he. His suggestions, therefore,
must be taken with many grains or
salt and in the light of his prejudice.
Celler cited sociological and census
reports to support his contention that
foreign born have not greater rel
ative number of criminals among them
than the native population.
Evening star., 1927-11-08

An asbestos uniform an inch thick
is found to be good protection for
firemen who fight oil we'll fires.