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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
CHURCH BOMBER
is KILLED BY
FRISCO POLICE

SAN FRANCISCO, March (P).-Chief
of Police Dansel O'Brien today told an
unusual story of how two city depart
ments and a telephone company work
ed together to trap a persistent dyna
church, who was shot and killed by
police yesterday morning in fifth at
tempt to destroy the edifice.
Aroused by repeated bombings, the
police set up constant guard over the
church and maintained it since last
October.
In spite of the guard, the mysterious
character returned twice, setting off
dynamite charges in the vestibule.
Then, while police watched, conceal
ed in two rooms fitted up above the
vestibule, and another detail observed
from the parish house across the
street, a lure was put out. A sleepy,
careless patrolman was ordered to keep
va slip-shod guard over the church.
1t was believed that when the
drowsy patrolman slipped away for q
snooze, the dynamiter would return.
While keeping watch, the various
groups of police kept each other in
formed by buzzer and telephone sys-
TENS especially installed by the city
electrical department. and the teIe-
phone company. In order to relieve
all suspicion policemen entered and
left the church with the worshippers.
Early Sunday morning the sleepy po-
liceman went away for a supposed nap.
Within few minutes the buzzer warn
ed the waiting vestibule guards that a
suspicious character had been sighted.
A man stole into the vestibule, piled
an armload Of dynamite on the floor,
lit the fuse and turned to run. He'ig-
nored a command to halt, and the next
instant fire burst from the guns of
the church police squad. The man fell
dead AS yet his Identification puzzles
the police
Guns of the parish house squad had
spoken when the men in the church
fired They felled man supposed to
be a lookout He gave his name as
Clesten Eklund, and claimed to be a
worshipper, protesting he had no
knowledge of the bomber. While hum
dreds passed through the morgue, try
ing 20 identify the slain dynamiter,
and while detectives sought motive
for the mysterious series of bombings,
Chief of Police O'Brien was full of
praise FOR the squad. He said the men
had volunteered for the duty after be-
ting told of it's perils.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
dOLD-UP MEN
ROB ACTRESS
NEAR DOUGLAS

Donneta Morano, member of show
troupe that has been playing here,
accompanied by her husband, were
held up and robbed at midnight last
night. They had started for El Paso
in their ear and were a short distance
from Douglas when three men lined
up in the road in front of the car
and forced them to stop.
AT the point of a gun they were
made to hand over all the money in
their possession. The highwaymen'
who were on foot, departed, and
Mrs. Morano returned to Douglas and
reported the robbery. Two deputy
sheriffs armed with heavy rifles
rushed to the scene from which they
are expected to make an attempt at
tracking the thieves. Early this
morning no report of their success
had. come in.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
SUPREME COURT
RULES AGAINST
FEE CONVICTIONS

WASHINGTON, March (P)-In an
unanimous decision the supreme
cerrt held today that judicial Of
ficers are disqualified from sitting
IN cases in which they are financially
or otherwise Interested The opin,
ion was delivered by Chief Justice
Taft in case from Ohio in whicn
Ed 1uney had been convicted by
the mayor of the village CT North
College Hill on a charge of violat>
ing the prohibition law
The court held that the Ohio
statutes aimed to enforce the pro.
hibtion law and the village ordin-
ance under which the mayor was al
lowed fees on conviction was an en-
croachmcnt upon the due process
provision of the 14th amendment to
the federal condition. It was of the
opinion that the mayor, sitting as
judge, had a pecunary interest in
the result Of the trial which dis
qualified him
The Ohio statutes and the ciIlage
ordinance We're condemned as mean
ing that there was mo way by
which the mayor may be paid for
his service as Judge, if he does not
convict those who are brought be.
fore him.
Legislatures may stimulate prose
cutions by offering rewards, the
court held, but they have no right
to vest the judicial power 10 one who
by reason Of his interest both as
an individual and as chief executive
of the village, is disqualified to ex
ercise it. in the trial of the defend
ant
Referring to the contention THAI
in Ohio and other justices of the
peace and judges of inferior courts
Gerivc their only compensation from
fees and costs and to the similar
English practice, Chief Justice Taft
said that the penalties and costs in
such cases We're inconsequentiaI,
while in prohibition cases in Ohio
they We're not negligible but sub,
Stantial punishment
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
Abnormalities Of Son
Are Told by Mother

+ CHICAGO, March z (P.-The other
side of the tragedy of Harold J..
Croarkin's Staying of six-year- -old
Walter Schmidt was driven home to-
day when his mother, three sisters and
a former sweetheart testified concern
ing eccentracities and snb-normalities
they thought set him apart from other
children and young men.
Previously the same witness chair
had received mourning-cl Mrs. Wal
ter Schmidt mother of the slain child,
and the court room spectators had
heard her tell of the last time she had
seen her boy alive, and of his death
after Croarkin struck him three times
with blacksmith's hammer the eve
ming of December II, last.
Today Mrs Mary Croarllin was the
first of the other family to make her
way to the witness stand, small grey
haired and dressed entirely in black.
AS Mrs Croarlzin walked slowly to
the stand she passed within inches of
her son, who did not glance up. He
stared at the floor biting his lips, and
did not raise his eyes during his moth
er's testimony. He
Mrs. Croarkin gave history of
childhood illnesses which lasted until
Harold was IA, and left him backward
mentally and physically.
1t was not until several weeks be-
fore he slew the little Schmidt boy,
however, that Croarkin's entire per-
sonality changed, testifie Mrs.
Croarkin and her daughters.
Despite his Deficiencies, they said,
he previously had been happy, quiet
and temperate. Then somes secret sor-
row obsessed hindA and he begin to
drink gin, smoke incessantly and he
became dangerous.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
How Doctors Treat
Colds and Flu

To break up cold overnight or 10
cut short an attack of grippe, influ'
enza, sore throat or tonsillitis, physi-
clans and druggists are now recon-
mending Calotabs, the purified and
refined calomel compound tablet thu
gives you the effects of calomel and
salts combined. without the unpleas-
ant effects of either.
One or two Calotabs at bedtime
with a swallow of water,-that's all.
No salts, no nausea nor the slightest
interference with your eating, work
or pleasure. Next morning your cold
has vanished, your system is thor
oughly purified and you are feeling
fine with a hearty appetite for break
fast. Eat what you please,-no dan
ger.
Get a family package, containing
full directions, only S5 cents. At auy
drug store.-Adv.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
BIDS FOR new
BRIDGES ARE.
BEING EXAMINED

Bids for tho construction of six
bridges that were washed away. in
flood last. fall were received yes
terday by the county board of su :
pervisors. The bids total approx
mately $4,000 and except that ths
Benson bridge specifications have
been changed frem concrete to steel
they would total $125,OOO.
The bids were turned over to the
county engineer for tabulation and
investigation. The engineer will re-.
port to the supervisors at special
called meeting on March 81 at which
time the contracts will probably be
let.
The bridges to be rebuilt arG
Bisbee Wash on the road between
Twin Buttes and Double ADOBE,
Naco bridge on the Bishee- Naco
road, Greenbush draw near Here
ford, the Hereford bridge, the Ben
son bridge and the Palominas bridge,
the last to be repaired only
Bids were submitted by Ora Bunda.
Ogden, Utah; Raves and Wright, Ell
Paso; s. 4. Clark, Bisbee; Ware Co..
FL Paso; Ell Paso Foundry Machine
Co.; and Il. Worel, Alhambra, Caiir.
All Of these bridges are count,
bridges which means that the entire
outlay comes from the taxes of Co
elise county without any state or
federal aid gs
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
vEToEs ARMS BILL

PHOENIX, March 7 R-A bill by
Representative Harmon, Greenlee
regulating the purchase and posses
sion of small firearms. was vetoed
today by Governor Hunt. 1t at
tempted, said the veto message, "to
introduce class legislation of the
1anllest character"
Compelling merchants to take out
licenses to sell pistols and revolvers
and prohibiting them from advertis.
ing the sale of these weapons would
be rank discrimination against
the business men of Arizona.
An effort by Harmon to prevent
the reading of the veto message
provided stormy few minutes in
the house. Twice he attempted to
interrupt the reading but without
success.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
N. Y. Giants Slaughter
St. Louis BrOwnS, 1871

SARASOTA, Fla. March Z P.-The
New York Giants slaughtered the s..
Louis Browns in the opening exhibit
ton game today, 13 to 1. Lebourveau
led the game off with home run for
the Giants. Hornsby had two doubles
and single in four times at bat, and
figured in two double plays. Score:
Team: r. H. e.
ST. Louis (A) .y............... 6
New York (N) -...........13 .13 13 1
Batteries: Blaeholder, Faulk and
Dixon, O'Neil; Barnes, Henry, Clark
son, Alamada and Devormer, Handy.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
Federal Land Bank
Makes Record Loans

WICHITA, Kans, March R-
The federal land bank made 242
loans for total value of $1,011, 900
during February it was announced
here tonight. This is the largest
number of loans since July, 1924.
Loans by states for February were:
Kansas 81 loans for $434,50O.
Oklahoma 70 loans for $4,000.
Colorado So for $193,900.
New Mexico 3S loans for $146,200.
President Miles Lasater said the
increase is due to ihe increase in
the rate of interest.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
ROckefeller's Grandson
Wins Academic HOnorS
Supports Self in Shcool

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, March Z. Up
Continuing his steady stride in the
accumulation of academic honors at
Yale university, John Rockefeller
Prentice, grandson of John D. Rookie
feller, Sr., was the only academic
junior to be honored by election to
Sngma Jf honorary scientific society,
according to announcement tonight.
Prentice, whose election TO Phi Beta
Kappa was announced last week, and
who earlier in the college year took
second prize in the Ten Eyck prize
speaking with an oration on Leader
ship" was chosen an associate mem
Der of Sigma Xi on the basis of the
work in physical chemistry he has
done this year. Full membership is
extended only to those who have per-
formed actual research work.
In addition to winning scholarships
and elections to honorary fraternities
and delivering prize orations, Prem
tice works nights on the telephone
switchboard of a local hospital as a
means Of self-support. He remained
out of college for one year to accumu-
late financial surplus to help over
the hard spots
The list Of elections show 46 new
members, including Joseph Y. Parce,
Jr., Denver, Colo
Members of the junior classes, sci
entific school, include Hughes Z.
Ross, Warren, Arizona
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
Belgian Beats Hoppe
And Leads Title Race

WASHING TON, March (P)-
Edourad Horsemans, Of Belgium,
went into the lead in the world
championship 1872 balk line billiard
tournament tonight by defeating
Willie Hoppe of New York, present
titleholder, 400 to 23S.
The victory gave the Belgian a
top rating of three wins and no
defeats. Welker Cochran of Cali,
fornia, and Jake Schaefer of Chicago,
have two victories and no lost
matches to their credit. FeliY
Grange, of France, who today de-
feated Kinrey Matsuyama, of Japan
has won two and lost two.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
After the "Flu'' is over
---you need a Tonic
THREE
s

system so that you may have your
old-time strength and energy restored
S.SS. is unequalled for restoring
strength and vitality.
You owe it to yourself and family
20 give S,S.S trial 1t helps Nature
build up red blood corpuscles. 1t
improves the processes by which the
body is nourshed. 1t is time-tried
and reliable S.S.S is made from the
roots of fresh herbs and plants, AMI
is prepared in a scientific way in
a modern laboratory.
S.s.S. is sold at all good drug stores
in two sizes The larger size is more
economical.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
Suspend Student Nurses
Who Poisoned FiUe Babes

CHICAGO, March Z. (P-Three stu
dent nurses involved in the fatal
poisoning of six babies at Columbus
Memorial hospital here q week ago
through a mistake in using boric acid
instead of water, have been sus-
pended pending investigation of the
hospital board and the coroner's in
quest.
The student nurses are Miss Mar
garet Cuff, Miss Eileen Callahan and
Miss Irene Schwartz. All three inn
plicated themselves in the mistake
which caused boric acid to be given
10 babies when they should have
been given water. Four infants re-
covered. The inquest has not been
completed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
Pension Payments Will
Be Held Up BY Failure
To Pass Deficiency Act

WASHINGTGON, March 7. R-After
carefully assessing the effect of the
senate's failure to act on the defi-
cheney appropriation bill, interior de-
partment officials have concluded
that there is no way to furnish funds
in the face of expected deficit for
payment in May and June of Mexi-
can, civil, Indian and Spanish war
pensions or to make remittances to
about 90 widows of veterans of the
war of 1912.
1t is the intention of the depart
ment, however, to make the payments
for the two months as soon as funds
for the next fiscal year become
available July /.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
Help Is Needed to Restore
Your Wasted Strength
and Energy.

"Flu'' leaves the body weakened
and rundown. In such cases, tonic
is clearly indicated. Restore the
appetite and rid yourself of that
let-down feeling.
Flu is very enervating disease.
It leaves its victims so weak and
debilitated that there is as much
danger from the after-effects as from
the disease itself. In other words,
after an attack of the FLU" you
need a selective tonic to rebuild the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
Climate Club Received
36 Inquiries About City

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my family and have had good re-
ports of Douglas. How about schools.
population. roads, lights, gas, etc?
Amusements, lodges, golf and things
cf that nature?
I will greatly appreciate any IN,
formation, don't care anything about
business, don't have to work.
Respectfully,
L. E. c. SMITH,
Englewood, Colo.
A third letter, written in response
to one of the climate clubs attractive
booklets, says:
Englewocd, Colo,
March 8, 1927.
Borderland Climate Club,
Mr.. ]. w. Tardy.
Dear Sir:
7 am answering your letter Of
January goth. I was wondering it
you are in a position to tell me about
IL ranch. i wouiC like to spend the
summer somewhere on a ranch and
from your book I think L would like
to spend my summer in Arizona.
7 would like to know about what
expenses would be for me and my
mother. to either have room an6
board or to do our own cooking and
work
I like the friendly attitude of your
club and assure you that I will ap~
preciate it very much il you will
give me some idea of my expense
for each month.
Or if you know some reliable ranch
owner and will send me their name
and address I will get in touch
with them myself.
Thanking you for your kindness
7 am, sa
Sincerely,
REBA, SCALES.
This is just sample of one days. S
mail. The club has requests daily
for information about business pos
sibilities such as tourist houses, and
almost every line of business imag-
inable
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08

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but the original bill did not carry APP
preparations for the national guard,
the agricultural and horticultural
commission and the state Industrial
school for girls and few figures
were revised upward slightly in COM
mittee of the whole
The executive veto was sustained
for second time within a week today
when the senate failed to pass the
code revision bill over Governor Hunts
disapproval after debating, the question
for more than an hour.
Akers, Maricopa; Bettwy, Santa
Cruz; Golfer, Apache; Jones, Maricopa;
Joyner, Pima; Kimball, Graham; Nell
son, Navajo, and Wills, Pinal, COM
bired to defeat the move to muster a.
three-fourshs vote in the senate The
bill carried the emergency clause.
Meanwhile, the Joyner substitute code.
bill was referred to the judiciary COM
mittee for consideration.
Senator Donnelly, of Pima, NOV
ed the question of overriding the
executive veto, and followed up by
explaining his stand ON the Favour
bill which he said, took into con-
sideration that Code Commissioners
Fred c. StruelSmeyer had failed, tc
comply with the 1926 session law
creating the office Of code commits
son. The Struckmeyer report was
not complete, he declared. He took
exception to the Inference" cone
tanned in Governor Hunts veto let.
ter that the Favour bill contemplated
having the printing Of the report
Core outside the state. The recodi-
fled laws in the form of bills, should
have been in the hands of the 1egis.
laturo February, he added.
Then for an hour the senate argued
the worth Of the Struckmeyer report
adverting every few minutes to the
question of whether the Favour bill
contemplated the printing of the re-
port inside or outside the state.
Governor Hunts veto letter said the
hill apparently intended that the
work be done by a San Francisco
firm and suggested that an Arizona
firm Wcould do the work as well.
"The only difference between the
two bills" said Favour, SIS that the
bill introduced at the request of the
code committee provides for Leg
islative commission TO go over the
work. The question is, shall we
have a review of the work by a re
sponsible commission or shall we
have to take the code commissioners
word that the code is complete and
in saying that I do not wish to inn
pinge on Judge Struckmeyer's work" !"
Senator Akers, Maricopa, is reply
quoted Favour as having said on q
previous occasion that the work of
recodifying the laws was complete
and Joyner took exception to state,
ment by the other side of the house
that his bill contemplated duplicated
the work already accomplished.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08

Telephones-S1 and 81
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-08
Hunt Signs River
Commission Bill

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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-02-03
CeIotechnic Institute Studies
Home Builders Problems

STE recently established with id
quarters in Chicago study problems
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-02-03
CHE WHY of
SUGGESTIONS
WEDDING RINGS, SITES
By H. IRVING KING


TT YOU want to cure sty just take
wedding ring-your own or
friends will do-and holding the ring
in your fingers reach your left hand
around over your head and rub the
sty with the ring The writer Stun
bled upon this superstition the other
day. A domestic in the family had
sty. A neighbor told her, "Oh, that's
easy enough to cure" loaned her the
necessary wedding ring and showed
her how to work the charm. The next
day the sty was better and rapidly
disappeared, thus making another con-
vert to the magic folklore Of the an
clients.
Upon inquiry this sly cure was
found to be a common superstition.
The basis of the superstition is, evil
IDENTITY, that very old magic symbolism
which is attached to the ring and
which has been variously explained
by many learned writer's, but never
quite satisfactorily. Possibly some Of
the explanations given are correct but
1t looks as if primitive man had some
thing in the back of his mind with
regard to the ring which has been
lost to his descendants. "For who
hath known the ways of time or trod-
den behind his feet?"
That the most sacred sort Of a ring
to us moderns is wedding ring ex-
plains why In curing the sty a we'd
ding ring should be used. There is
more than hint of sun worship in
the superstition under consideration
in that the wedding ring is of gold,
the color Of the sun and round like
the suns disc Also the taking of the
ring in the left hand and the move
ment of the hand over the head from
left to right, or sunwise-the "cere-
monial circuit''-emphasize the sun
"motif' in the "cure" There is a
lonely obelisk in Central park whose
gilded apex still catches and reflects
the morning light as it did when it
stood before the temple of Ra at He'll
opolis and sent back the beams of the
rising day across the desert sands
while within the falie the priests, NOV
ing in the ceremonial circuit adored
their god. From Heiopolis in 5000
b. G. to these United States It is a
far cry" and long journey has the
old obelisk made through the centu-
ries and across the seasl Yet If that
granite mass were sentient would ii
not funk that the old gods were not
entirely dead when beneath II walks
some nursery maid telling her com
panion how she had cured her sty by
using a wedding ring in the "cere-
monial circuit?
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-02-03
LONG

The health of our people is fairly
good, if it does rain.
Quite. a successful revival meeting
closed last Friday night at Classify,
conducted by the Blue Rock Circuit
Rider, Rev. Smith, assisted by ]. A.
Richmond and Brother Sloan. Some
twenty-five converts and the church
greatly revived.
Mrs. Ira Skockey was visiting in
Upshur county last Sunday.
A stranger passed thru our COM
munity lecturing on economy. He
said some good things, and some new
things 70 US frontier men. If we
don't hear more from him we may
quote some of his sayings later on,
but it may be like tramping some Of
our officials toes. IRA SHOCKEY.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-02-03

the State carries list of the forest
wardens in that section which the
book serves. Because Of these serv-
ices the State Department Of Forestry
is much interested in the develop
ment of telephone communication
throughout the state"
The state forest fire service In West
Virginia comes under the supervision
Of the Game and Fish Commission
The Forest Service Department fol-
lows closely the policies of the ma
tional forests and maintains lookout
area of 100000 acres In the state, is
tied in with a network Of telephone
lines that extend throughout the va
rious rangers districts. The districts
being connected through by lines OF
the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company. Phillip M. Browning,
i chief fire warden from his headquar-
tiers at Buckhannon, supervises the
| fire protection forces and keeps in
touch with the entire organization by
telephone
The Monongahela National Forest
in West Virginia covers an area Of
more than 100000 acres, while vir-
ginia has three national forests, the
Shenandoah with $4,000 acres, the
Natural Bridge with 40 600 acres and
the unaka in southwest Virginia This
latter forest is located in Virginia and
| Tennessee. About $4,000 acres is in
the Old Dominion and 100000 acres
in Tennessee.
Mr.. Browning says; "Our whole
forest fire organization is tied in with
the telephone company. Telephone
service is absolutely essential to the
mainteaance Of our protecrf~e organ.
izatfon which consists Of rangers, war.
dens and observation towers located
at strategic points throughout the
forests"
In addition to the national forests
in Virginia, the state forest service
manages 100000 acres Of the states
timberlands. Every forester in the
national and state forests highly com.
mends the value of telephone servics
in conserving the timber for future
| generations.