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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
Golfer OPPOSES
TRI-STATE P ACT
URGED In REPORT
Senator Disagrees With
Findings Of Governors
Commission.

PHOENIX, Feb. 10 (PJ-Sharp lines
of agreement and of disagreement
feature the minority report submitted
by Senator Fred Golfer, member of
the committee sent to Washington
by Governor Hunt to oppose passage
of the Swing4J ohnson Boulder can
yon dam bill.
Senator Golfer in his report dis
agrees with the majority report
wherein it states that it is essential
for an agreement between Arizona,
California and Nevada before final
action can be accomplished He
states that such action would find
"Arizona's head the only one in the
loop"
Approval of portion of the ma.
;ority report is expressed by the
Arache county senator regarding
the necessity of an agreement be-
tween all the basin states, but lie
adds that an entirely new agreement
should be drawn and the old one
completely discarded.
Arizona, the minority report reads
is not favorable to tri-state COM
pact, which is sharp. rebuttal tc
the report submitted by Dwight
B. Heard DR.. Clarence Tally. Judge
Samuel White and w. L. Barnum
Senator Golfers report further states
that an increasingly large number
Of Arizona citizens are opposed tc
such compact.
That the greatest danger to the
state lies not in any congressiona
action of the present congress but
legislation that may be enacted a
the next regular session, concludes
1.-the minority report.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
SUN REoRGANIzEs ARMY

SHANGHAI, Feb. 19tR0-The defeat4
ed troops of Marshal Sun Chuan- Fang,
ruler of Kiangsu province and the ma
tionalist army that forced them to re-
treat from the rich city of Hangchow
yesterday We're reorganizing today to
continue the struggle that will de-
termine the possession Of Shanghai the
Paris of the Orient"
Forty thousand of Suns soldiers,
thrust from their masters province Of
Chekiang, were seeking place along
the Hangchow Shanghai railway to
make a stand against fifty thousand
Cantonese preparing to drive against
them. Sungkiang, 2S miles from Shang-
hal was believed to be the place Sc
lected by Shanghais defenders be-
cause of it's strategic location on the
Whangpoo river.
Each of the armies was reported to
be receiving reinforcements
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
JUDGE ORDERS
MUNCIE EDITOR
BE RE-ARRFSTED

MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 10 P.-George
r. Dale, Muncie newspaper publisher,
who this week appeared before. Justice
Butler in the United States supreme
court and succeeded in having his ap-
peal from contempt proceedings rein
stated, will be arrested ON orders of
Judge Clarence w. Dearth, of the Della
ware circuit court, when he returns to
Muncie He is expected home from
washington tomorrow.
Order for his arrest was issued today
when Dale's newspaper published an
anonomymous letter in which the
writer connects Judge Dearth and
Mayor John c. Hampton with alleged
IawIessness and corruption in Muncle.
Judge Dearth said Dale would be
charged with something worse than
criminal libel"
More than so newsboys selling the
weekly publication were taken into
custody by the police today on orders
of Judge Derth and in court were
relieved of their papers after they had
told where they got them They We're
reprimanded, it was understood, by the
probation officer after being released
by Judge Dearth.
The article to which Judge Dearth
took exception charged that gambling
houses, places of i'll fame and blind
tigers were operating here this alleged
situation having produced conditions
that are said to have resulted in two
killings in Muncie recently. The article
charged the judge and the mayor will
~
the theory that they have the power t'
close disorderly places, and the judg'
has the power to impeach the mayor.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
SHANGHAI ORGANIZES CITIZEN S0LDI
Johnson Demands Vote on Boulder Dam Bill
10000 Men Are Used
To Clear Snow From
New York City Streets

NEW YORK, Feb. 19ND-A driv-
ing snow put an end to the spring
like weather Of the past few days
in the east. The storm was ush-
cred in last night with falling tenn
perature all along the north Allan
tic seaboard and west into Penn
sylvania. Sleet in the morning
turned into a driving storm of fine
snow and soon settled down to
steady fall that in most cases was
predicted to last from "a to sc
hours.
New York City augmented it's
treet cleaning department with TO-
900 additional workers mobilized to
keep the streets clear. Pennsyl-
vania from New Jerseyto Ohio was
covered in most places with ten
INCHES of snow during the, night
and no immediate abatement of the
storm was forecast.
The Connecticut valley was grip
ped in one of the worst storms of
the season with the thermometer
standing about 1S above zero. The
storm was general throughout New
England.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
FINAL ACTION
NOT EXPECTED
THIS SESSION
Substitute Requiring Seven
State Pact Ratification
Offered.
SMOOT OPPOSES
Senate JOckeying May Have
Influences on Senate Vote
Vote on Act.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (P)-DemanG
for vote at this session on the
Boulder canyon dam bill was made
in the senate today by Senator john,
son, republican, California, who with
VIGOROUS and eloquent strokes, pic
tured the threat of the Embarrassed
Colorado river to the thousands III
tho Imperial valley of his state.
Besides urging congress not to have
the fate of these people upon 1ts
hands, he pleaded for action to re-
lieye Mexican domination of an
American river" and to provide water
power, irrigation and reclamation
and flood control along the vast
reaches Of the river. Before the
Californian got the floor to open
the senate fight for the long sought
legislation Senator Phipps, republi-
can, Colorado, chairman of the irrl-
cation committee, offered a sub
measure as we'll as amendments to
the Swing1Johnson bill. Under the
terms of the substitute the dam
could not be built until each of the
seven states in the river basin had
ratified the Colorado river pact. Ari-
zona has refused to ratify and Utah
has withdrawn it's ratification.
In addition, the substitute would
prohibit the federal government from
constructing hydro electric plant
at dam but would provide fo1
the leasing of the water for such
purposes by the federal power com
mission.
Discretion would be given under
the Phipps proposal to the interior
secretary to locate the dam al
Boulder canyon or elsewhere and tx
either build an all-American cana
for the irrigation of the Imperia
valley or to construct other irriga
ton works.
Senator Johnson also offeres
amendments to his own bill which
would eliminate revenue-raising pro
visions and thus meet objections o
Arizona senator's who are fighting
it, that revenue legislation mus
originate in the house.
Consideration of the Boulder dan
bill lasted only little more thai
an hour today, but the measure still
will be the unfinished bushes
Continued on Page Tlree)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
CHAPLIN DINED AT HOME SIX
TIMES In TWO YEARS SAYS WIFE

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Feb. 19
Rj-Lita Grey Chaplin, who is suing
her film famous Husband, Charles
Spencer Chaplin fUf divorce, said at
her home last night that she was
married to an actor, not man."
a husband who .'in two years was
home for dinner only six or seven
time, he was always too busy.
Charlie is funny man; he's
hard to understand" Mrs. Chaplin
said. Il was just child in short
dresses and socks when we first
met" explaining that she was seven
years old when she made his ac-
quaintance in Hollywood tea room.
HE came over to me and did some
funny tricks with his hands. L
laughed. He seemed 81 fatherIy
funny man and we became friends"
They renewed the acquaintance
two years later, Mrs. Chaplin related.
and when she was eleven, Chaplin
invited her to go to the studio
sometime where the romance began
which led to her marriage.
"The terrible things they said about
mother" she continued, "are not
one of them true "She always told
me tnat money only DTlngS trouble.
She's just the opposite of what they
say"
This house never seemed like
home to me. Everything in it re.
minds me of some unpleasantness
III our married life. I'm afraid iii
it, ! think il | spend another six
months in it I'll go crazy"
Mrs. Chaplin said she was Is when
she came back from school after
not having seen Charlie for about
three years.
"Mother and / went over to the
studio to see Charlie. He exclaimed:
why, I never saw anyone change
so much in my life He signed me
for the lead in the Gold Rush
1--WE became engaged before go
| ing on location at Truckee. came
home after we had been there about
| month and a half. 1t was about
May, 1 think, Charlie said we should
keep our engagement secret as it
would hurt him in pictures"
Mrs. Chaplin said three trips had
been made to Mexico before the
marriage ceremony.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
BUILDING, LOAN
.ASSOCIATI IONS
GET ATTENTION
Senator Favour Introduces
Measure to Eliminate
SpeculatOr.

PHOENIN, Feb. 19 lP-Stringent
regulation and reorganization of
building and loan associations op-
Grating in Arizona are provided for
in a bill introduced in the state
senate today by Senator Favour, of
Yavapai county Under suspension
of the rules the bill was referred to
the committee on banking and In
announced informally that a recon-
mendation that the bill pass would
be made to the senate Monday
Senator Favour described the meas
ure as one for the benefit of bu1id.
ing and loan association share
holders. 1t would, he said. reorganv
ize the entire operative procedure of
such associations and make them
cooperative organizations in effect.
Covering "a type written pages, tho
bill was drawn to provide a work
ing CODE eliminate the promoter
and speculator" and to minimize the
operation of the "exploiter of the
small wages in question"
The calendar of the committee of
the whole cleared the upper house
of the legislature was content today
to receive the Favour bill into the
fold.
The three bills to receive approval
in the house were:
A bill by the committee on edu-
cation, clarifying the election laws
and providing for printed ballots In
there is an attendance of 80 or
a cf-
ing standard grades of gasoline and
motor oils under a state inspector;
and bill by Representative Holub,
Maricopa amending the landlord
lien law so as to provide that liens
shall be ineffective after the death
or bankruptcy of the tenant or after
he has made an assignment to
creditors.
Senator Akers, Martcopa todaN
announced that Senator Nelson, OF
7 Navajo, and he had gone into the
bill introduced by the junior senator
from Maricopa, appropriating $25,OOC
for four state warehouses for the
storage of farm products, and thai
an amendment would be offered tc
strike the section providing for two
warehouses in Mariccpa county. The
amendment will contain provisions
for the construction of one of the
four at Winslow, Akers said.
The bill mas been recommended by
the senate agriculture and forestI
committee. Senator Nelson today
appeared before the house committed
| on highways and bridges of which
Representative Abel, Cochise is chair
man. to answer questions relative t.
| the needs of the old trails highwa!
/ a part of the states seven per cen
| federal aid system.
! Senator Bettwy, Santa Cruz coun
ty, said today that the bill intro
duced jointly by Senator Kimball
of Graham, and himself proposing T.
! tax real estate held by banks wa
constitutional, according to ruliH!
tv Attorney General Murphy !
mapority report by the committe
On banking and insurance ha
recommended the bill for passage
and it has been placed on the cal
erdar of the committee of the Whole
Suspension of the rules under
motion by Brooke. Yavapai, toda
mt the bill introduced Jointly b
seven senators January "a, proposin
to appropriate $4,000 for the erectio
cf a statue of General John c. Green
way. Arizona's outstanding hero c
CONTINUED on Page Three).
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20

The McNary- -Haugen farm relief
bill reached the White House.
Japan's acceptance of the Cool
idge armaments proposal was re-
ceived.
Postmaster Lueder of Chicago
was reprimanded for political activ-
ity.
The medicinal whisky bill was
given privileged status in the
house.
Senator Johnson of California,
renewed demands for Boulder can
yon legislation.
The senate confirmed Frederick
Sterlings nomination to be first
American minister to the Irish
state.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
DISARMAMENT
PLANS AGREED
TO BY JAPAN
President Is Keeping Open
Mind as to Next Step to
Be Taken.
ITALY is OUT
Rome Dispatches Say Italy
Will Follow Course of
France.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (P1-Japan's
acceptance of the American proposals
to negotiate supplemental naval
limitations agreements at Geneva
reached Washington today timed for
future publication. The document
itself was not immediately available
to the press, but it's contents had
Keen so fully foreshadowed by Tokyo
officials that only the language em-
ployed remained to be disclosed.
With the French rejection of the
plan already at hand, interest in
official circles in Increasingly appar-
ent as to the seeming delay OF
italy IN transmitting her rejoiner
Rome dispatches early this week
said italy would follow the course
of France and decline to enter the
negotiations and that her reply would
he sent immediately. Since that time
the French refusal has been pub
lished however and as yet no Of
ficial word has reached the state
department from Rome as to when
the Italian communication is to be
expected.
Senator Borah chairman of the
foreign affairs committee, was among
President Coolidge's callers today
and the arms limitation question
was discussed, but intimation as to
what was said was given neither at
the White House or the senate.
SO far as known the Washington
government is keeping an open
mind as to the next step toward
practical arms limitations agree
ments it may find it expedient to
take, if the replies Of the four major
naval powers approached by the
United States disclose possibilities of
agreements of a more limited char
acter than was originally contem-
plated, presumably President Cool
idge will revert to that condition in
the statement he is expected to make
when all the responses have been
received.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20

BIsBEE, Feb 10 P)-Amado Perez
was acquitted of charge of mur-
der in connection with the Staying
of Canuto Avila here on october 16.
1926, by jury in the Cochise coun-
ty superior court at Tombstone, to-
night. The verdict was returned at
p. M, afte rseveral hours deliber.
Of
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
TEXT of NOTE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (R-Japan's
acceptance of the American prop
rosal for a five-power supplemental
naval conference at Geneva was made
public early today ny the state de-
rartment.
Making only one stipulation ont
side the language of the American
memorandum, it asked that the open
ing of the conference be set not
earlier than June 1, so a delegation
from Tokyo with adequate instruc-
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
ARMY OFFICER HURT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19P)-An at
tack made on Lieutenant John f. Luz
ten, of the American navy by mob
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-20
The Day In Washington

The McNary- Haugen farm relief
bill reached the White House.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23
MRS. LINDBERGH
REACHES MEXICO
CITY in AIRPLANE

MEXICO CITY, Dec. % PLThe
first woman to fly from the United
States to Mexico, mother of the
first man to fly from New York to
Paris and from Washington to Mex
leo City, had only one moment of
fear on 2000-nlile trip from De-
troit
The moment was when Mrs. Evan
geline Lindbergh and her famous son
landed at Valbuena field in different
planes. The fear was not for her
self or for her son, but for the. eager
spectators who rushed toward the
down coming plane to welcome the
flier and his mother Without the
police CONTROL deemed necessary when
Charles A. Lindbergh himself first
arrived last week, 1000 or more per-
sons gathered to witness the arrival
of Mrs. Lindbergh, twice forced her
son back into the air after landing,
in order to avoid damage to the
crowd or to his plane
Mrs. Lindbergh landed at 3:44 p.
m, from Tampco, her last stop.
Colonel Lindbergh had gone out in
OAAC VI OO' 4il11o W 1IlCCU I1CI
and escort her three -motored Ford
cabin plane toStne field.
The young man lefk the field about
so minutes before his mothers ar
rival, but missed her and returned
about five minutes after she had
landed. Only a few police were pres
ent and there were no lines of SOL
diers holding back the crowd, as they
did week ago when he first ar
rived. His admirers forced him to
circle about the field for nearly an
hour before he could get she "Spirit
of ST. Louis" safely into q hangar.
Meantime, his mother wasgstaken to
the American embassy in tie city in
an automobile with Ambassador and
Mrs Morrow. ag
When Lindbergh first landed, the
crowd rushed toward him Ind he
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23
BUSINESS YEAR
PLEASES THEM.
MERCHANTS SAY

Christmas trade in Douglas stores
took on real activity yesterday and
and all shops were alive with shop
perB until the close OF business last
night. It was one of the most
active shopping days OF the season
and dealers generally expressed them.
selves as pleased with the day They
all were optimistic about the trade
of the next two days which they
expect will measure up to the usual
busy Christmas shopping days in
Douglas in the past.
AS they handle their Christmas
trade and approach inventory season
following the turn OF the year, mer-
chants about Douglas are all appar-
emily finding their totals satisfactory
and that their bank balances have
a favorable aspect. Not a few OF
them have expressed the view that
the years business will mark sub
stantial increase, measured in per-
centageS, over the year which closed
on December 81, 1926. One merchant
was specific in his statements as
to the results he expects to find at
the end of the year.
Our business has been showing
good gains every month during the
year and it will not disappoint us
for December" he stated. "Our
showing for November was Surpris-
ingly favorable, as was also that
for October and we expect TO end
the year with an aggregate net
profit OF better than IL per cent.
That is satisfactory, for we feel that
when we can show 10 per cent we
have done we'll
Another of the larger businesses.
while showing a favorable balance for
the year, according to it's manager,
looks upon the closing year only as
average and not as an outstanding
one for profits. He says that one
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23

She asked:
"Oh, have you heard sonlething?''
eyes," she was told, "they have
found Edward. He has confessed to
a part in the kidnapping. He said
the actual killing was done by some
one else"
The mother bowed her head. She
clasped her hands so tightly her
knuckles. showed white, and her eyes
stared piercingly into a blank wall.
For perhaps three minutes she sat
that way.
Then she said:
"This is all SO muddled. I've been
so puzzled over it, 1t looks like /
haven't a friend in the world They
are bounding my boy to death
Just because they have a clue"
Then the woman broke into a
convulsive dry sobbing, which cli-
NAKED in collapse and it was more
than an hour before she was able
to discuss the case again.
Recovering, she was gripped with
a terrible fear. 1t was heartbreaking
to see the manifestation OF it in her
carelined face.
She grlpped the SIDES OIL the chair
in which she was sitting and almost
stood.
my God! My God!'' she shouted.
They'll kill him! They'll kill himp'
"They won't even give him a chance
to say anything for himself. Oh, I
must get to him. must get to him
I must get to him someway, at once.
He needs me, oh, so badly"
Outside, even as she spoke, there
was the cry, "Extra Extra! Killer
found"
The woman shuddered and col
lapsed again.
Colonel Charles Edwards, former
chief OF police here and friend OF
the family--the man to whom Hick-
man was paroled after the forgery
of the checks in Los Angeles
motioned every one from the room
and the grief stricken mother was
left alone with her daughter, begging
and pleading with her to find some
way for them to start to the aid OF
her son.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23

of the things that Douglas merchants
have experienced during the last year
has been an active competition and
that while he believes they all had
a reasonably good result, he does not
class it as the best they have enjoyed
He looks to the future with more
enthusiasm than he does TO the
passing year. 1t is his view that
the new year holds much greater
promise than the present year did
when it entered last January. Look
at the cattle situation" said he. 1.-THE
ranchers will have more buying power
than they had this year. Further
more, until they got the prices OF
this year, most of them were facing
time obligations at the bank which,
as l understand, they have almost
all now paid. Take the copper mar
ket That gives promise OF adding
to the buying power of our people
who are employed at the smelter,
for if prices of copper continue to
advance, then it will mean more
wages which always means more
purchases OF the things the mer-
chants have to offer. am really
very optimistic about the coming
vera"
One of the smaller shop managers
declared that his business had been
very good, both for the entire year
and for the Christmas buying. He
said that there had been some spots
that were rather poor, one being a
condition in the autumn that made
it unreasonable tor his line but con-
ditions finally righted themselves and
overcame the handicap
A lumberman declared that his
business for the year had been
favorable and that the buying in
recent months had begun to demon
strate an improved condition with
the consumer. People have come TO
the point where they know that they
have favorable balance and they
are casting about to see how that
shall be utilized in adding to their
daily comforts. One of the ways
is to improve their living quarters
and there is where the lunberman
realizes. Ranchers just now are i'm
proving their homes, their barns,
their. fences and other improvements
where lumber figures. And we shall
see greater results in those lines
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23
MRS. HICKMAN
WOULD HURRY
TO SONS SIDE

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. % H9-
Mrs Eva Hickman, mother of William
Edward Hickman, received the news
of her sons confession in connection
with the kidnapping and brutal say
ing of Marian Parker in stunned
fearless bewilderment here early to-
night.
The mother who has not slept
since her favorite boy was connected
with the fiendish crime, was sitting
with her II year old daughter, Mary,
in their rooms on the third floor
of an old fashioned house in a sub
urban residence district when news
papermen arrived with the informa-
ton.
One reporter walked into the room
where Mrs. Hickman was sitting,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23

promptly took to the air. He cir
cled about for some time and finally
landed in nearby field Again the
crowd streamed toward him, and
again he took to the air. Valbuena
field had been vacated and he seized
the opportunity to land near han
gar and rushed the Spirit of ST..
Louis" into safety before the crowd
could reach it, He then followed his
mother to the embassy in another
automobile.
President Gales was not among
the WelcomerS, nor we're any cabinet
members, since she is not guest of
the government, like her son, but a
private visitor of Ambassador and
Mrs. Morrow. However, General Al
varez, chief of the presidential staff,
was present as personal representa-
tive Of the president and was the
first person to greet her.
As soon as Mrs. Lindbergh's plane
came to a halt, General Alvarez
stepped into the cabin and present.
ed her with great bouquet of poin-
settias. He then extended on behalf
of the president message Of warm
welcome from the chief executive
and the Mexican government.
Mrs. Lindbergh told him that "the
entire United States has been thrill
ed by evidences of Mexican friend
ship for our country since my son
has been here"
Ambassador and Mrs. Morrow went
into the planes cabin right behind
General Alvarez, and warmly well
coined Mrs. Lindbergh.