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The Washington times., 1927-01-06
MEET SOLDIERS

The Glover cagers are meeting the
Fort Washington basketball team
tonight on the Fort Washington
court. All Clover players are asked
to report at the Washington Bar
racks this afternoon at o'clock in
order to make connections with the
boat to Fort Washington.
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
SOUTHPAW INK

Frank Lewis. jr.. one of the lead
ing golfers at the San Antonio
(Tex.l Country Club, has been de.
feated only four times in major tour
naments in recent years. and each
time at the hands Of left.handed
nlav0r
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
WHOLESALE SCALE

In order to carry out a 60.game
schedule, Clifford Wells, basketball
coach at the Logansport, Ind, High
School, has selected three teams to
represent the school. Eighteen vic.
tories have already been turned in
by the three teams without SUI.
eering q defeat.
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
FEW CHOSEN

Fewer new players were tried
out in championship games in the.
major leagues during 1925 than
in any year since 1921, only 90 new
faces breaking into the box scores
in the last pennant chase.
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
KANAWHAS LISTED

The Kanawhas and the Y. M.
II. A. basketball teams will furnish
competition in the Jewish Com
munity Center gym tonight at 9
o'clock. The game will prove a
factor in the championship of the
senior loon.
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
MONOPOLY

Three players OF the Boston Col
lege hockey sextet are named Fitz-
gerald-Leon, goal tender; Pierce,
right wing, and Joe, left defense.
Leon and Pierce are brothers Of the
famous Jack, who captained the
team that won the intercollegiate
hockey championship in 1924.
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
TY LIFE Of PARTY AS
DIAMOND STARS SAY
R|SBERG IS LIAR
BY Gene Hoffman

CHICAGO, JAM eff the luminaries attending
Commissioner Land special invitation
the charges brought against them Charles
Swede" Rsberg there nothing their
tion to indicate the fact
It like homecoming celebration grads than
famous ball players whose brilliant
the diamond threatened to be wiped by the suspicious
scandal The famous DID, "Ha Hail. the Gangs All would
not have sounded Of place. considering happy mood
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
ROSES Play APACHES

The fast-stepping Epiphany Roses
will meet the Apache basketball
team tonight in the Epiphany gym
at o'clock. Both teams are on
edge for the contest. A victory for
the Indians win mean much In
their standing among local clubs.
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
BL(JEGE IS.
IN LINE

Ossie Bluege, who Is residing in
Chevy Chase since his marriage last
fall Immediately following the end
Of the season, visited the Washing
ton clubs headquarters today and
signed his 1927 contract without any
flourish nor waste Of time. He
makes the eighteenth member of the
team to swing into line and the
fifth veteran, the others being Man
ager Harris, Sam Rice, Walter John.
son, and Goose Goslin.
Bluege, by many believed the best
fielding third-sacker in the Amer
lean League, fell off bit with the
stick last year, but the slump was
not great and he Is confident that
he will be back there again in April
as good as ever.
Goose GOslin, the leading slug
ger with the Griffs, happening
to be in town and within easy
driving distance of the club
headquarters, called upon Presi-
dent Griffith yesterday and
signed his 1927. contract without
any argument. 1t had been sur
missed that he might have wait.
ed bit longer and President
Griffith was pleasantly sur
prised to have his great bats
man sign the papers 80 readily.
Goslin is in fine physical condi.
ton. Since the end of the Laurel
meeting he has been at his home. in
Salem, N. j., doing a little hunting
and keeping in the open air as
much as possible.
The Goose's ambition for 1927 is
to make a fight for the batting
championship. He finished sixth
last year. with a batting average of
1854, being passed only by Manush.
Ruth. Heilmann, Fothergill and
George Burns. He topped all the
Washington batsmen. Sam Rice be-
ing second with a mark Of 1897.
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
LIBERAL GAMBL Err

Two years ago Nicholas Forzly.
better known on the turf as mick
F." cleaned up 100000 making book
and betting at the New Orleans race.
track, and before he left town dis.
tributed $4,000 to those who were
''broke.''
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
WALTER REED RnnKEn

Army Medical Center basketball
team will hook up. with. the strong
Stanton five in the Walter Reed
Hospital gym tonight. Stanton,
which has been setting a fast pace
for local teams, hopes to add to.
nights opponent to the list.
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
NAVY SUFFERS LOSSES

Coach Bill Ingraham at the
United States Naval Academy must
face the 1927 football campaign
minus the services Of twenty-six of
his Squad A gridders, who are due.
to graduate in June.
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
CARDIGAN TuRMS TRICK

The return OF Bill Carrigan to
baseball as manager Of the Red Sox
has restored baseball to heights AZ
Boston that have not been reached
since Harry FrazeA cast his shodow
over the territory -
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
NEWARK 0uTRInS LEAFS

It is said that Newark has beat
out Toronto for the services Of
Ownie Carroll. the former college
pitching star, II the yojzg man il
sent out another season for more
experience
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
LEADING CONTENDERS
OPEN HIGH SERIES
BY r. D. Thomas

Two Of the leading conend for the high school basketball cham
pnshp will clash right at the start Central and Western with
advantages the three other in the sees will
The Washington times., 1927-01-06
TOPS
GOLF FIELD

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.-The first
round Of elimination play in the Los
Angeles $4,000 open golf champion.
ship tournament got under way here
today with 1872 players participating.
In the medal qualifying play yester-
day 1913 entrants were eliminated.
and today's eliminations are ex-
pected to further reduce the number
of those eligible for actual tourna-
ment play.
The first 10 holes i'm the tOur.
nament proper will be played to.
morrow over the course of the
Ell CabellerO Country Club.
Charles Guest, California profess
sional champion of the Lakeside
Country Club, had the honor of lead
ing the large field that teed off yes
terday morning. He turned in a
matchless 142 for his two rounds,
played over the Hillcrest course.
Cyril Walker, United States
open champion in 1924, paced the
qualifiers at the Midwick COun-
try Club. He had 1915, for a
total OF 148, which gave him a
tie for the lead over that course
with "Chet" Beer, of Portland,
Ore.
At Wiltshire, Olin Dutra, of Fresno,
and John J. O'Connor, of New York,
staged a battle royal for the cad.
Both turned in 144
The Washington times., 1927-01-06

The first 10 holes i'm the tour
nament proper will be played to.
morrow over the course of the
Ell CabellerO Country Club.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18
Restraints Department OF
Industry From Cancel
ling Permits.
PROVISION VOID
J,,NgeS Unanimous in Their
Findings in American Oil
Co. Appeal.

MEXICO CITY, Nov. II R)-The
Mexican supreme court today ruled
in favor Of the Mexican Petroleum
company, an American concern. In
the first decision involving the new
Petroleum law, the court by unani-
nous decision granted the appeal
restraining the department OF in
dliStry, commerce and labor from
cancelling certain Of the company's
drilling permits.
The court also declared unconsti-
tutional the important sections IA
and Is of the new law as far as
this suit was concerned.
Section IA in effect substitutes SO
year concessions for oil land titles
acquired before 1917
Section is forfeits titles to- oil lands
for which no application Tor CON
firnatory concessions had been made
within one year from the effective
ness of the new law.
The fact that the supreme courts
first ruling upon the new Petroleum
law should be unanimously in favor
of the contention of one of the many
foreign oil companies which have
suits pending against the law Is
interpreted by many observers as OF
the utmost significance and as in
dicating the policy the court may
follow in the other cases.
The decision is not one declaring
the entire petroleum law constitu
tional or unconstitutional. Further
more. the two sections, which are
declared unconstitutional in this par
ticlllar suit, are not In blanket terms
declared unconstitutional for all pur-
poses. but only as they apply to
the Mexican Petroleum company in
the issues presented in this case.
Thus, the courts decision does not
once and for all answer the question
rs to whether the new oil law is
constitutional. but those well informed
think that it is an entering wedge
for series of similar decisions,
which if made would remove the
features of the law which have been
most Objectionable to foreign inter-
ests.
The issues in the present case were
as follows; The Mexican Petroleum
company filed in the lower courts
a suit for an "anparo" equivalent
to either mandanus or an inisnc
tion-against the secretary of the
department of industry, commerce
and labor, which has charge Of the
enforcement of the new petroleum
law Tr.,e basis of the suit was that
the department. of industry had can
celled under the new law, drilling
permits previously granted to- the
petroleum company in section of
the Panuco district, state of Vera
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18
WASHINGTON Is
HIT BY TORNADO
| DEAD; 70 HURT.
Property Damages Caused
by Storm Will Total
Many Millions.

WASHINGTON Nov II up - A
tornado, followed by two heavy rain
storms that drenched the city, struck
two sections of Washington and neigh
boring communities today, leaving in
its wake at least one death, more than
a score of injuredp and several million
dollars damage to property,
The storm, descending first around
2:30 o'clock in the afternoon, and
abetted by a 53-nile gale and blind
ing rain, struck in the southeast and
northeast quarters of Washington
tearing off roof tops as if they were
handbook lids, blowing down trees and
transmission wires, and sending hun
dreds scurrying to safety within their
homes. The only person known to
have been killed was Mrs. Jane Carter
who was struck by lightning.
Most of the damage resulted to small
dwellings, although many automobiles
were turned over and several persons
were injured in this manner.
That path cut by the tornado was
at least mile in width and about 20
miles long, Alexandria, Va, on the
south, and Hyattsville, Md, on the
lIO1 ACJOA G1AA5 having AS4S pAAN WV
and rain, with slight damage to wood
en- structures
Police tonight were erecting bar
riers in the affected area by placing
blown down trees at intersections tc
keep out possible looters.
Secretary of War Davis offered tc
place troops in this section at the dis
posal of city authorities, but none had
been requested early tonight.
Northwest Washington, where nost
government buildings and the larger
residential structures are situated
know little about the damage to thC
east, although the two torrents oil
rain, both deluging the city with {
! half inch of water in less than ter
minutes on each occasion, and low
! black clouds, hung over the entire city
and tied up traffic generally.
President Coolidge was en- route tx
/ the union station to take train fol
| Philadelphia when the storm was a.
its heighth, but he did not learn o.
the extent of the storms destruction
until after he left the city.
Ambuiances and fire engines darec
by the presidents automobile as i
splashed down Pennsylvania avenue
and it was only by these omens tha
the people in this section sensed tha
the stor mhad spent It's fury in SOM
nearby area.
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18
CONGRESS Will
ACT Sen. CAPPER
Tells FARMERS
Constructive Legislation
Will Be Adopted, De-
clares Senator.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. II, R--
Ten thousand national grange MEM
berS in convention here today turn
ed from fraterna1 work mad deli
beration on legislative problems to
hear Senator Arthur Capper of KAN
saS and Representative John G..
Ketchum of Michigan tell what the
farmer might expect from congress
when it onvenes next month. De-
claring that the formulation of a
national agricultural program to give
the farmer a square deal" in pro-
duction is vital to the nations pros
perity, Senator Capper predicted
congress would adopt constructive
legislation to aid the farmer
Representative Ketchun, a member
of the house committee on agri-
culture, said he was unable to see
complete solution to the farm
problem In legislation of any kind,
but believed congress would draw
up legislation that would aid in
stabilizing prices for farm products.
He emphasized the necessity of
maintaining permanent, pros
porous and progressive agriculture, "
and urged a better understanding
of agriculture's problems by both
business men and farmers as the
basis for working out a useful pro-
gram.
The junior Kansas senator warn
ed the farmers against backing a
pro~ram which is hastily put to-
getiler
1.-THE kernel of the whole agri-
cultural problem is the difference
between the value of what farmer
sells and what he buys. The Off
cial figures show that what farm
er sells will bring only 80 per cent
more than before the war. The diff
ference between the 80 and 81 per
cent is the handicap against agri-
Continued on Page Ten>
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18
MOROCCAN BANDITS RELEASE SIX
PRISONERS FOR RANSOM

KASBA TADLA, Morocco, Nov.
IL, (AP)-Six French prisoners
two of them women, and two of
them little girls, who have been
held by MoOrs for weeks past for
ransom in the Atlas mountains,
returned to civilization today,
while 100000 francs in gold
($4OO,0OO) laden on the backs of
calnels and mules, found their
way into the mountain recesseS.
Stumbling over the snOw-cOv-
cred passes of the middle Atlas
range, Yves Steeg, nephew of
the French resident general, Jean
Maillet and their two women
companions, Baroness Won Stein
he'll and Mime. Marie PrOkOrOff,
and the two children of the Ar
maud family, were delivered into
the hands of French officers at
Aguennous by Moorish brigands
who had been negotiating on an
even plain with the French pro-
testorate officers. .4
The nine and eleven year old
Arnaud girls, whose parents had
been murdered when they were
abducted were the first to be
surrendered by the mountain
brigands. They looked spale @nd'
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18

the tribe. Major Locke, as
chieftain, looked upon the In
dians as wards, whom he felt
obliged to protect.
Just before the shooting, the
testimony developed, the Majors
aged father, "Uncle Dick" Locke
was cursed and struck in the face
by Battiest. when the former
demonstrated with the young In
dian for his relations with the
girls. Hearing of this, Major
Locke followed Batticst and shot
him to death.
One of the twelve men who
composed the jury that convicted
Major Locke late today was de-
clared unqualified to serve as a
juror in another murder case,
because he was not a legal vO-
ter.
The juror, Charles Lewis, ad-
mitted having returned to Okla
home about year ago from
Arizona. A week ago he moved
from one precint to another in
the county. zee Welch, Major
Locke's attorney declared that
to be a qualified eIectOr, one
must have lived in the state IL
months, in the county six months
and in the precinct 80 days.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18
Frye of Aero Corporatior
With Party on Inspection
Tour To Visit Douglas.
TUCKER AT STICK
Local Leaders in Aero At
fairs Urge Royal Greet
ing to Visitors.

An eight-passenger. Fokker moro
plane in charge of w. j. Jack" Frye,
president of the Aero Corporation of
California, will land at the Camp Jones
landing Held this morning at II
o'clock or shortly thereafter This was
the message received late yesterday
from p G. Spilsbury, president of the
Arizona Industrial congress. who flew
with Frye in this plane yesterday from
Phoenix to 81 PaSo, from which point
the plane is to come here today
Harry Tucker is plotting the plane.
He isl the public relations manager for
the Phoenix depot of the Aero Cor
poration Of California and this trip Of
the giant Fokker is the maiden voyage
in a regularly established freight and
passenger traffic over the air route
between Los Angeles and other coast
cities and the larger cities of Ari-
Zona
Spilsbury, in his urgent message late
yesterday. which was received by
George B. Doubleday, secretary of the
Douglas Chamber of Commerce and
Mines, asked that everything possible
be done to assure a royal welcome for
the ship and plans went forward last
evening as the men of the local chap
ter of the N. A. A. notified everyone
they could reach to be at the field
at IL o'clock.
It is the hope of the officials of the
N. A. A. that 10000 people will appear
at the field to welcome the plane as
the corporation has definitely estab-
lished an air line into the state and
has depot at Phoenix and another
at Tucson and is now considering the
establishment of station here.
1T is the intention of the Aero
Corporation Of California Tucker has
gaid, ito run passenger and express
planes to Arizona twice each week
We will operate two eight-passenger
and one ten-passenger FokkerS and
intend eventually to establish line
from El Paso to the coast, but for the
present VIC will operate only between
central Arizona points and Los An
geles."
The eight-passenger planes are pow
cred with 400 horsepower Wright
whirlwind motors The 1o-passenger
ship to be delivered in Los Angeles
shortly, will be powered with 45O
horsepower Wash engine, Tucker said
The planes used by the Aero Corpora
ton of California are designed and
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18
LAW OF WHITE MAN PREVAILS
OVER INDIAN; CHIEF CONVICTED

ANTLERS, Okla, Nov. II, (AP)
Modern law Of the white man
prevailed today over the old
nnwritten code of the Indian
when Major Victor M. Locke, Jr.,
former c1ieftain of the Choctaws
was sentenced to ten years in
prison for killing Abner Battiest,
a young tribesinan. -, III
A jury in Pushmatah county
district court found him guilty
of mansIaughter, deciding he was,
not temporarily insane the night
Of Sept. 16, when he took rifle
aud walked to Battiet's home and
shot, him.
Tribesmen had called upon
Major Locke, high in the councils
Of the tribe, to uphold an In
dian chiefs pledge to protect
wOmanhood, accusing young
Battiest with mistreatment Of
tribal girls. On the witness stand
Major Locke said he failed to
remember the shooting.
Defense witnesses, some of
whom could speak only their
native Choctaw tongue, requiring
an interpreter at the trial, tes
titled Major Locke and Battiest
had quarreIed over the young
tribcsman's advances to girls in
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18

tired and their feet bled.
Then Steeg and Maillet and the
two women were turned over to
General Freydenberg, the French
commanding officer in the region
and hero in the war against
Add Ell NKrim, who appeSred
to relish little the situation.
"Allah is great; he desires us
to return the pris0ners!" said
Sidi Mohammed Ben Noceur.
In order to show that the
MoOrs still possessed ammuni
ton. a hundred horsemen rode
down the plain firing In the air.
"Baroud!" they cried. "BarOud"
means war" but the caravan
bearing the two million in gold
was then moving into the noun
tain passes and there was no war.
where are our father and
mother?" asked the Arnaud girls
when they reached French head
quarters. They were not aware
that their parents had been muir
dered but had been informed
that they returned home. The
girls are to be the guests Of
Mime. Theodore Steeg at Rahat,
wife of the resident general, un-
til their future may be assured.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18
j. S. CUNBOAT
IN China GOES
TO AID CITIZENS
Anti-Foreign Demonstra-
tiOns Are Directed
Against Americans

SHANGHAI, Nov. II, R-The sit
uation in China Is becoming in
creasingly difficult and complex with
the military difficulties aggravated
by famine conditions that affect
nine millions of people in the pro-
vinces of Shantung and Chihli.
Heavy fighting is reported along
the Tientsin -Pukow railway north
OF Mingkwang. The gravity of the
situation has compelled both Ameri
can and British naval authorities
to take action.
The Americans have dispatched
the gunboat Asheville to Yuengkong
where serious anti-foreign demon
strations have been directed espec-
tally against Americans. The British
today sent the chuiser Vindictive
up the Yangste river with troops
destined for FIankow. AS there is
no British possession at Hankow
the move is somewhat mysterious,
No official explanation was offered
and all sorts of surmises are in
circulation.
1t is generally supposed that the
move was simply precautionary as
it would be difficult to reach Han
kow with the fiver at its present
low level. It is assumed that if the
troops are landed they will be
quartered in former concession for
defensive and not aggressive pur-
poses.
Nankingese troops have success
fully occupied Hankow, but their
advent seems calculated to lead to
disorder, Already they have opened
prison doors liberating 1000 or more
convicts. Strict martial law, how
ever is being enforced and it is
hoped this will prevent serious de-
velopments.
Foreign dispatches from Canton
reveal renewed outbreaks in the in
ternational warfare of radical lab
tContinued OH Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-18
R. {. SOUERS IS
MADE Head OF
BISBEE SCHOOLS
Chairman of Board Resigns
as Douglas Man Re-
ceiyes Appointment.

Ralph E. Souers, who resigned. as
superintendent of the Douglas city
schools last spring for the announced
purpose of starting private school
for boys in the Clliricallua mountains,
was appointed acting superintendent
of the Bisbee city schools yesterday
afternoon by a vote of 2 to l of the
Bisbee school board
DR.. G. H. Hunt, chairman Of the
Bisbee school board, voted for G. H.
Meredith, assistant. superintendent of
the Bisbee schools for the position, and
upon finding that his two companions
on the board had voted for Souers he
rendered his resignation in a signed
statement.
The appointment of a successor TO
John A. Sexson who has been super
intendent of the BiSbee schools for
some years past was made necessary
when Sexson accepted position in
the schools of Pasadena, Calf, which
position he goes to on January /.
The appointment of SouerS takes eff
feet January l and runs until August
at which time the regular appoint
ments are made or reaffirmed
The statement issued by DR.. Hunt
said in effect that he wished to quit
his post because he felt that Souers,
or any other school head, would not
be able to function properly feeling
that member of the board was op-
posed to him.
Hunts resignation must be rendered
to the county board of supervisors who
will act on it and appoint man to
take the place pending the next school
election.