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Bars ELMER Gantry."

BOSTON, April 1S.-District At,
torney W. J. Foley today suppressed
Sinclair Lewis "Elmer Gantry." He
declared that any further sales would
be prosecuted under the state statute
on "obscenc and indecent literature"
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By CHARLES YALE HARRISON

How often does one hear the cynical
American business refrain, "I'm not
in business for my health 2" And
when one has heard it frequently
enough, the question naturally arises
as to whose health the modern SER
vice-rendering Rotarian is in bust
ness for.
The big our" industrial (weekly
payment) life insurance companies are
continually prating about the "ser-
vice" they render to their 40 million
policyholders. The point is insist
emily stressed that they are "mu-
tual" companies. Every policy
holder shares in the profits of the
company" reads an announcement
sent out by the Prudential.
Hid Profits
Let us go back to 1905, the year
that the big Four" bought their
way out of the famous Armstrong
Insurance Investigation. In that
year they had total of THREE
BILLIONS of DOLLARS of insur-
ance on their books. Twenty years
later this insurance coverage had in
creased to Twenty Billions of dollars.
1t had, as will be seen, increased six
and a half times.
Assets twenty years ago were 245
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Washington Governor
Paroles Many, But Not
The CentraIia Victims

OLYMPIA, Wash, April Ia.
OPP .-Governor Hartley has pa
rolled 4S convicts from the state
penitentiary at Walla Walla. None
Of the Centralia victims are on the
list.
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THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
UNORGANIzED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
TRADE
RELATIONS PROFITABLE

E. F. Marlborough, trade commits
sioner of the Los Angeles Chamber Of
Commerce. will visit this city tomor-
row, according to communication re-
ceived by the local chamber.
Mr.. MacDonough is making an in
tensive survey of Arizona and New
Mexico to determine what products
needed in the Los Angeles and south
ern California markets might be pur-
chased in these two states.
In the opinion of Seward C. Simons
manager of the domestic trade depart
ment of the Los Angeles chamber, Ari-
Zona and New Mexico are becoming
dominant factors in the food supply
of Los Angeles and that this section
and southern California might indulge
in reciprocal trade relations profit
ably.
Mr.. MacDonough is making the tour
of Arizona and New Mexico not only
to seek new markets but also to re-
new mutual trade relations and to find
new markets for Los Angeles manu-
factured goods. While here he will
seek means of improving present serv-
ice to local fields by southern Califor-
MIA manufacturers.
The necessity of Los Angeles seek
ing a new source for it's agricultural
and live stock products in Arizona and
New Mexico has been brought about
by increases in population and the
corresponding subdividing of consider
able farm acreage, according to Mr.
MacDonough.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
ANOTHER STIRRING CHAPTER IN
PIONEER HISTORY OF ARIZONA

toned, waited to intercept them. In
the morning before sunrise, a mes
senger came into camp, asking that
Sheriff Mulvenon and one companion
come to a certain point to meet
party. They went and, it is under
stood, met George Newton, the man
at whose ranch the killing of the cow
boys occurred about three weeks ago.
What transpired at this conference
between Mulvenon and Newton is not
yet known.
On visiting the ranch of George
Newton the place was found aban-
doned and burnt to the ground, the
bodies of the two horses killed in the
fight there were found in front of the
the two cowboys, John Pain and Ham
ilton Blevins, were seen close by, but
no living thing was found near, except
hog and some chickens.
After securing the country carefully
tracks of the fugitives were found,
showing that considerable number
of horsemen had gone towards the al
most impenetrable canyons and ra-
vines on the farther side of the Basin.
That they had taken every precaution
10 prevent SuCC6SSlli pursuit was SNl-
dent, as on approaching ravine, two
horsemen had deployed on either side
of the main body to protect them from
any attack on the flank.
After considering the situation
Sheriff Mulvenon came to the conclu-
sion that further pursuit at that time
would be useless and unnecessarily
endanger the lives of the party, there
fore he resolved to abandon the chase
and the posse divided, Mulvenon and
his men returning to Prescott and the
Flagstaff men making their way here.
Things are in fearful condition in
the Basin. Since the two men, Pain
and Blevins, were killed by the par
ties firing from their concealed posi-
ton in Newton's ranch, William Gra-
ham was shot from ambush while rid
ing the Payson trail and died next
day. Old man Blevins is also prob
ably killed; he has been missing for
month and no trace can be found of
his body.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09

Another chapter in the Tonto Basin
war between the Tewksbury and Gra-
ham factions, taken from the files of
the Arizona Champion, predecessor of
the Coconino Sun, September 10, 1887,
reads:
The whole community of northern
Arizona has been in a condition of
agitation and suspense during the last
few days on account of the rumors Of
the murder Of Sheriff Mulvenon and
several of his deputies including John
w. Francis, j. w. Weatherford and
E. F. Odell of Flagstaff, in Tonto
basin. Stories were told with the
minuteness of detail that compelled
the most skeptical to believe the
many terrible circumstances related
must have some truth for their origin.
With this feeling prevailing in the
minds of the people here, the relief
felt can scarcely be imagined when
the deputies rode into town, both men
and horses worn with the two weeks
work, but safe and sound.
After leaving Flagstaff on Sunday,
August 81, the deputy sheriffs from
here met Sheriff Mulvenon and party
at Payson whence they proceeded to
the Basin, the sheriff with 10 war
rants for the arrest of the Tewks-
burys and others Of their gang. They
found the Tewksbury ranches unoccu-
pied and no trace of their occupants
in the neighborhood.
On going to store few miles
from John Tewksbury's ranch they
met a party of the Graham boys and
the man, Andy Cooper, the leaders of
the faction opposed to the sTewks-
burys, with whom they had a conversa-
ton, but as they had no warrants for
the arrest of these men they were un-
molested. The Grahams stated that
if the sheriff and his posse did not
arrest the Tewksbury gang, they in
tended to take the matter into their
own hands and make war on them un-
til they were exterminated or driven
from the country.
They found some trace of party
having gone northward, probably to-
wards Holbrook for provisions, and
camping near the place last men
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
State Prepares
Answer To Suit

The answer of the attorney gen.
erals office to the test suit filed in
the superior court to determine the
legality and availability of the $75,00C
tax levy made by the state tax com
mission to be used in surveying the
Colorado river was being prepared this
week by Assistant Attorney General
Anderson.
The hearing on the case will be held
before Judge Marlin T. Phelps on
September II and the attorney gen.
erals answer filed on that date. The
suit, filed by C. c.. Tillotson, an engi-
neer, asks the payment of $50 war
rant against the state due him for
professional services.
State Auditor Ana Frohmiller re-
fused to honor the warrant when it
was presented for payment and an
nounced today that no other warrants
would be honored until the dispute
over the fund was settled.
The present case is expected to de-
eide the matter, although state Off
cials expressed the opinion that it
would have to go to the supreme
court.
The $4,000 levy was made by the
tax commission and the last legisla-
ture questioned the authority of the
tax commission to make the levy and
the authority of the state board of
institutions to pass the resolution
which called for the levy.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
Warming Don't
Wait Too Long

The last month of the "See Ari-
Zona" scenic photo contest is here.
Those who are planning to submit en-
tries in the annual competition, but
who have not yet taken their pictures
are rapidly approaching the dead-line,
which is September 80. No pictures
will be accepted either by the indus
trial congress or the local chamber of
commerce after that date, and officials
of the former organization state that
it will greatly facilitate judging if
they are turned in as soon as possible.
However, that is only warning not
to wait too long, for almost the whole
month is yet before those who plan
to take their vacations now. In each
of the preceding contests a large
number of pictures have been taken
during the last month, and some of
the very best entries made the last
few weeks of the contest.
The annual competition is open to
everyone in the state, excepting of
course professional photographers,
and all pictures of scenic nature,
taken, however, since the close OF the
contest last year, are eligible for en-
try. There are many charming and
attractive places in the state that have
not been represented in the former
contest, and it is the hope of the or
ganizations sponsoring the scenic
contest that those places perhaps will
be this year. As one of the chief
aims of the contest is to collect as
complete file of views of as many
different parts of the state as possi-
BILE, such pictures will be of consider
able value in advertising work even
though they may not be prize Win
ners.
Attractive prizes totaling one hum
dred dollars will be awarded to the
four best pictures submitted, as in the
other contests, and will be divided as
follows: First prize, fifty dollars;
second prize, twenty-five; third prize,
fifteen dollars and fourth prize ten
dollars. To the first prize winner
also goes a handsome loving cup, an
nually contributed by the Phoenix
Chamber of Commerce.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
DANGER OF UNFAIR
NEWSPAPERS CITED

Newspapers that misrepresent were
pictured as a greater menace to a ma
ton than treacherous communist
propaganda by Lord Hewart, lord chief
justice of England and Baron of Bury,
in his address before the American
Bar association.
Lord Hewart's speech was the cap
sheaf of day of technical business
brought before the convention in re-
ports of 25 committees and sections.
He was introduced by William How
ard Taft, chief justice of the United
States.
Lord Hewart's speech was on the
subject of common law, but he wove
into it his references to communism
and newspapers. He laid it down as
philosophical principle that the ad-
ministration of justice is of greater
Importance to people than anything
else, asserting that confidence in the
administration of justice makes peo-
pie contented and happy.
Where there are just laws, admin
istered without fear or favor, by in
corruptible and impartial judges, there
is not much cause to fear popular out
breaks or revolution" Lord Hewart
said.
"It is, you may think, principally
for that reason that treacherous pro-
paganda of communism, so dangerous
in many other countries, can have lit
tie effect in the United States or
Great Britain.
1T is beyond the imagination of any
sane person that Americans or Eng
| 1sel. - ~ III
free institutions for the CHASTITY ty-
ranny by which the people of Russia
are, after fashion, ruled
Of newspapers, he said: What is
called the freedom of the press con-
sists simply in the right which every
person has to publish anything he
pleases, SO long as it is not libel. At
common law, newspapers have no spe-
cial privileges in the matter Of pub
lication, though by statute they are
specially protected with reference to
the publication of reports of proceed
ings in courts of justice and public
meetings. Nor, on the other hand,
have they any special obligations or
liabilities. The right Of freedom of
speech is similarly the right to say
anything, in public or private, which
is not either seditious or blasphemous
or defamatory of any person.
'1 should like very briefly to refer
to change which seems to have
taken place in the character and the
aims Of much of the newspaper press.
It goes without saying that if self
government is to be real and living
thing, the citizens who share the re-
sponsibility of governing, that is to
say all the citizens ought at least to
have access to information upon pub
lie affairs which is both accurate and
adequate.
zone of the instruments for that
purpose is, or at any rate ought to be,
the newspaper press. You cannot ex-
pect the right verdict from jury if
the evidence is not fairly and squarely
laid before it. TO put the matter the
other way round, is it not really a
kind of treason against the political
sovereign deliberately to mislead the
public either by active misrepresenta-
tion or by calculated suppression"
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
Never Monkey
With A Barber

"The Barber's Revenge" drama of
hirsute hatred in three acts.
Cast of characters:
Tony Sanchez, master barber.
Rufus Dow, master automobile driv-
er.
Time, present.
Scene, parking space for one car
only, near a Los Angeles theater.
Act 1-Sanchez reached space ahead
of Dow, but fails to negotiate in first
backing and pulls out for second at
tempt Dow cleverly slips into park
ing space, chuckling merrily.
Act 2-Tony Sanchez, master bar
Der, leaps from car, runs to Dow's car
and protests volubly. Dow chuckles
more merrily. The master barber
suddenly leaps on running board,
grabs Dow in strangling deadlock,
pulls pair of BARRIERS clippers from
pocket and shears every trace of hair
from Dow's head. Dow, humiliated by
outlaws of bystanders, drives away,
leaving parking space to victorious
barber.
Act 3-Dow files suit asking dam
ages of $1,000 from Tony Sanchez,
asserting that he, Dow, went to great
pains and expense" to grow the crop
of hair clipped by the master barber.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
Underworld So
Quiet It Hurts

Business at the county Jail still re-
mains in a slump, only one prisoner
having been on the roster for the
past three weeks. Even Zone night
stand" boarders have failed to show
up, something very unusual, according
to the turkeys.
Calls for application of justice for
the past three weeks have been few
and far between and those that were
investigated brought in no returns.
"Still" hunting, usually successful in
bringing in one or more boarders for
the county has fallen off in results the
past month
The inactivity of the situation is be-
ginning to pail on the sheriff's men,
especially after a very full summer,
when at times the jail had Is or mere
prisoners at once. The officers are
looking for a change in the wind and
a cyclone when it does shift.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
Sec. Kerby Don't
Approve Acts OF
State Legislature

That the final sanction of Arizona s
course in Colorado river legislation
rests with the electorate of the state
is the opinion of Secretary of State
James H. Kerby, who during Cover
nor Hunts absence from the state is
acting governor.
Acting Governor 'Kerby said it was
his belief that as long as "Arizona
provides for the referendum and ini-
tiative form of legislation on its stat
utes, the Colorado river question, as
it affects Arizona's rights as a state,
should come before the people for final
approval"
"a number of persons have in
quired as to the final legality of pos
sible agreements which may be
reached at conference of Colorado
river basin states. l have told them
my opinion on the matter is that final
decision rests with the people of the
state"
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
Tucson Nan Says
He ROped A Camel
In Arizona Desert

Organizers of the proposed camel
hunt in the Arizona still are discuss
ing the project, undecided whether to
be cheered or discouraged by report
from Tucson that Arturo Carrillo had
lasSoed in 1894 what he considered the
last of the camels.
Boosters for the hunt contended
that Carrillo's story proved that there
had been camels in the desert 33 years
ago, and since Garlic turned his camel
loose, maintained that the same beast,
or its descendants, might still be
roaming secluded sands.
Garlic said he lassoed compara-
lively tame camel while making a
mail trip from the Harqua Hala mine
to the Vulture mine. He took the ami
NAL to Yuma, but, being unable to
find a purchaser, turned it loose.
Carillo's statement that the camel
he captured probably was the last one
on the desert was doubted by Robert
F. M. Duncan, William Leib and Wen
dell Harmon, San Francisco finan-
ciers interested in the plan. They ex-
pressed determination to carry on
their plans for the hunt.
The camels were imported to "The
Great American Desert" by the gov
ernment before the Civil war, for
transporting supplies. The scheme
failed because Americans were un-
able to manage the camels and Ara
bians imported for the purpose quit
the Job
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
CHARGED WITH BOOSTING
THE PARCEL POST RATES

Lloyd S. Ogden, 80, member of a
prominent pioneer family of Phoenix.
was arraigned there before Acting
United States Commissioner Clarence
E. Ice on a charge that he charged
post office patrons unlawful rates of
postage on parcel post packages. Og-
den is said to have admitted his guilt
before the u. S. commissioner and was
released on $4,000 bond.
According to Wilbur Hudson, in
spector at the Luhrs post office where
Ogden was employed, the defendant
is believed to have been working his
over-charge stunt for the past several
months at possible profit of between
$1,000 to $4,000. L. E. Miller, de-
partment of justice agent, signed the
complaint on which Ogden was ar
rested.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
AVIATOR REYNOLDS HAS
HARD LUCK IN MEXICO

A case of mistaken identity in which
he was taken for an impostor for him
self was responsible for the five day
detention of Captain c. H. Reynolds,
Master Sergeant Gus Newland and
their plane in Mexico last week, the
captain said.
Reynolds and Newland were sent to
Arizona from Fort Sam. Houston to
assist in the search for A. z. Menard,
World war veteran who was lost on
the desert. In the course OF their
search an impostor represented him
self as Reynolds, and reported that
Menard had been seen from the
plane.
Reynolds was forced down in Mex
leo near Preside, Texas, on the re-
turn trip to San Antonio. His re-
lease by Mexican authorities would
have been only matter of hours ne
said, if it had not been for the hoax in
Arizona.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09

heard him gasp and stumble, then
heard what she described as "some-
thing like the kissing of air from a
punctured tire, accompanied by pc
culiar whirring rattle"
She rushed to the service porch and
her husband told her he had been
struck in the ankle by the snake.
"You take the car and rush to the
hospital" she said. Mrs. Lee did not
dare accompany her husband because
her young son was asleep on the porch
and there was a hole in the screen door
that might admit the snake.
Lee drove to the Phelps Dodge hos
pital and received treatment for the
bite. He had no sooner left the house
than the blind snake attempted to go
through the hole in the screen and
Mrs. took up her long and nerve
wrecking fight, at times holding down
the head of the snake with her broom
until the reptiles powerful muscles
would permit him to pull back and try
again.
When Lee returned and got his
shotgun, the snake coiled on the step
and prepared to strike. The first shot
ended his career. Lee was confined
to his home for several days due to ill
ness caused by the venom injected in
his blood, and the anti-venom serum
is thought to have saved his life.
The Lees believe the blind snake
was desperately hungry, and, attract
ed by the smell of the fresh young
rabbits, was furiously attempting to
get to them. Lee almost stepped on
the snake when he started toward the
garbage pail, and was struck before
he was aware of the diamond backs
presence. t
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
Clifton Woman Puts Up Desperate
Battle With A Blind Rattlesnake

Fighting off blind and desperate
ly hungry diamond back rattlesnake
for As minutes while her husband
rushed to hospital to be treated for
bite by the reptile, was the expert
ence of Mrs. George Lee of Clifton
last Tuesday evening. Her weapon
was broom; the object of the snakes
attack was some cleaned rabbits; the
cause of Mrs. Lees As minute vigil
was the fact that her four-year-old
son was asleep on the porch and the
snake was repeatedly attempting to
slide through hole in the screen door
and gain entrance to the porch.
Whenever the snake stuck his head
through the hole, Mrs. Lee promptly
pushed it back with the broom. The
snake was persistent, repeating his
attempts to gain entrance every time
he was stopped. Mrs. Lee had not
only the worry of the snake to con-
tend with, but was frantic with fear
lest her husband could not reach the
hospital in. time and receive anti
venom serum before the reptiles poi
son should surge throughout his veins.
The As minutes seemed lifetime,
Mrs. Lee said. Then Mr.. Lee re-
turned, rushed in the front door,
seized shotgun and ended the fight
with the first shot. He then col
lapsed. a..
1t all happened this way:
Lee, an employe of the Standard
Oil company, was on the back porch
of his house cleaning some rabbits
which he had shot. He finished two
and decided to carry the refuse to a
garbage pail outside, and as he
opened the door his wife, who had re-
tired to the adjoining sleeping porch,
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
Many Automobile
Accidents At Tucson

Twenty-four automobile accidents
involving casualties of one dead and
three seriously injured were the
weeks totals for traffic accidents in
the city of Tucson. Napoleon Salgado
was killed and two companions were
injured in the worst wreck of the
week when their automobile hit a
street car. The other personal injury
was a broken collar bone inflicted
upon an unidentified Mexican youth
when the bicycle he was riding with
out light hit an automobile.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-09
River Committee
Adjourns Jaunt

The seven state conference on Colo
rado river problems late Friday re-
cessed to meet in Denver again on
September 19. No agreement was
reached on division of water between
the three lower basin states, Califor-
MIA, Arizona and Nevada, but dele
gates expressed the opinion that a
groundwork was laid for an amicable
understanding when the meetings are
resumed.