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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
Coal Chutes Brun

LAFAYETTE, Ind. Nov. ia
fire generated by spontaneous COM
bustion completely destroyed the
coal chutes at the Monon railroad
Shoes here Friday.2 The fire started
about noon and spread rapidly
through the structure. The chutes
we're filled with coal at the time
and were doomed before the four
fire companies which answered the
alarm arrived. The loss is estimated
at $25,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
Hundreds of Closed
Model Used Cars

Are being offered for sale
by Indianapolis Auto
dealers at very attractive
prices during Closed Car
week.
No matter what make
of car, or price you want
to pay, you are almost
certain to find it included
in this opportunity un-
usual"
A large selection OF
Closed Car offerings are
listed in today's auto
mobile for Sale" Want
Ads.
Turn to the Want Ads
now, select your car
while prices are low and
terms easy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
CITY AID FUND
$100, 900 SHORT
Short Changed
BIZ United Press

BU United Pr6SS
HUDSON, Mass, Nov. 12.-
After relieving Morris Shindler
of $50, robber handed back a
bill, saying, Here's a dollar so
you won't be short" Later
Shindler found that the "dol-
lar bill'' was two $40 bills which
had stuck together.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
DEATH PLUNGE HALTED
Window Cleaner Escapes Five-Story
Fall After Safety Belt Snaps.

Harry Peters, 48, OF 812 Bates st.,
a window cleaner, employed by the
Acme window Cleaning Company,
today was recovering from a broken
collar bone and head and shoulder
bruises, suffered late Friday when
one side of his safety belt snapped
while he was cleaning windows on
the fifth floor of the j. F. Wild
Bldg.
He was saved from death by the
other side of the belt holding,
though he dangled at the side OF
the building until pulled through a
window by employees Of the New
England Life INSURANCE Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
Eastern Star Initiates

Golden Rule chapter, Order of
Eastern Star, held an initiation Fri
day night at the Masonic Temple,
North and Illinois SITS. Mrs. Alta
M. Bebee is worthy matron. and
Mrs. M. E. Darling Is secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
MODEL PLANES STOLEN

Owner Refuses to Prosecute When
Boy Returns Property.
The lure of aviation overcame a
10-year-old boy Friday to the extent
that he took two small model air.
planes from the work shop of Har-
rold Stofel, 1860 Shelby st. Police
searched the neigborhood and found
the models. Stofel refused to prose-
cute when the models were returned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-12
POWDER HOUSE LOOTED
Dynamite and Caps Worth $50
Stolen at Beech Grove.

Stolen at Beech Grove.
Dynamite and caps, valued at $50,
were stole nfrom the E. I. Dupont
de Nemours Company Beech Grove
powder house Friday night, 1t was
reported to police today.
No clews were found 10 the iden-
tity of the burglars.
Police, on twelve-hour shifts, were
instructed to be on the alert for
safe-crackers.
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
Flagstaff Enjoys
Earthquake Thrill

(Coconino Sun of January 27, 1906l
On Thursday afternoon, at 1882
O'Clock, a severe earth quake shock
occurred here. The quake was of
less than a minutes duration, but
that was long enough to satisfy every
ore. Another shock, but not near
so violent, was felt at 1880 the same
evening, and none since.
But slight damage was done by the
tremor which seemed to come from
east to west, and extended from
Seligman to Gallup. The shock was
felt at Grand Canyon, but not at
Jerome or Prescott, and from what
can be learned, the section covered
by the quake, was probably fifty miles
wide, by three hundred miles long,
covering an old volcanic section.
The people were panic stricken and
rushed from stores, public buildings
and residences, to the streets.
At the public school the shock was
severely felt, the teachers and pupils
making a hasty exit from the building,
but fortunately none were injured in
the scramble to get out. The plas-
tering in every room in the building
was cracked.
At the court house, portion of
the plastering fell from the ceiling
of the clerks office. The chimney
at Heller's blacksmith shop fell and
the chimney on the Santa Fe bunk
house. A stone fell from the kitchen
door Of the old Bank hotel. In the
hardware department of Rabbits
store. glassware was thrown from the
shelves and bottles dislodged from
the shelves in each of the drug stores.
The clock at the Lowell observatory
was stopped, and in one instance, a
clock that had not run for months
was started. These are some of the
incidents caused by the temblor.
At Angel, the force of the quake
was great. In the house of the rail-
road agent furniture was moved.
AT Seligman, the depot and other
buildings trembled preceptibly, and
those who were in the company's
reading room ran out of the building
terror-stricken. The force seemed to
come from west to east.
At Williams, the shock was felt,
causing the building to tremble, and
shaking glasses and bottles from
shelves. The duration was about three
seconds, and seemed to extend from
west to east.
At Gallup, the shock was distinct
and it seemed to be travelling from
west to east. Buildings shook, desks
and tables were moved about and the
large pendulum Of the clock at the
depot was stopped.
At Winslow, the shock was distinct
ly felt for half a minute, the force
coming from east to west.
At Bellemont, the shock was severe
enough to break the ice in the ponds.
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
Claims Tucson Oldest
City in United States

/ (Coconino Sun of February IL, 19O6)
Treasure Land" valuable volume
on Arizona, maintains that the city of
Tucson is older than either of the two
contestants for first honors-Santa
Fe, N. NJ, and San Augustine, Fla.
The books statement in this connec-
tion is interesting. 1t says:
"Conceding Santa Fe's claim of
1905, and also paving due veneration
to the antiquity of San Augustine,
we claim priority for Tucson. Accord
ing to authentic records, Marcos de
Mia and the negro Estevanico ex-
pIored Arizona in 1889, passing
through Santa Cruz valley and the
Gila settlements. He made wonder
full report on the country, which ne
swore to, that the question of estab-
fishing a settlement in that section
was seriously considered, and in 1862
the matter was reported favorably
and the settlement ordered established.
The proof of this is said to be con-
tanned in a stained and time-Worn
document written on vellum, signed
by his Catholic majesty, Charles the
First of Spain, and fifth of Germany,
the successor of Ferdinand and Isa-
bella, the patrons of Columbus, and
countersigned by the Viceroy of
Mexico The document was discovered
recently among the relics of the an
cient mission San Xavier del Bac,
nine miles south of Tucson, and was
forwarded for safe keeping to the
Librarian at Washington, in whose
custody it now is or ought to be. The
date of the vellum is 1862, and allow
ing three years for good measure.
the date, of Tucson's settlement would
be 1866, at which time San Augustine
was merely a strip of coast line and
Santa Fe prairie dog colony. At
tached to the vellum is an interesting
account of the foundation of Tucson,
written in the fair round hand of
Marcos de Mia, of which the follow
ing is an extract.
"For years at time Tucson was
cut off from all official connection
with Mexico and lost sight of. The
church neglected it and the govern
ment ignored. But the Indians were
friendly, and the European settlers,
cut off from home and friends, dwelt
among them and became almost as
they were. When the missionaries,
more than century after Tucson's
founding, entered the country again,
they found many of their own race to
welcome and aid them, and this ac-
counts for the easy manner IN which
the people were converted"
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
Hydrophobia Skunks

(Coconino Sun of June 2, 1906)
On Wednesday night at their camp
near Marshall's lake, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas G. Frier, while sleeping, were
bitten by a skunk. Mrs. Frier was
bitten on the right check, and the
animal had to be pulled away by Mr..
Frier, who was bitten on the left hand.
They came to Flagstaff and left
for the Pasteur institute, in Chicago,
for treatment for hydrophobia. The
skunk which bit them was captured and
taken to Chicago. The skunk is not
known to be what is called a hydro
phobia skunk" and it is hoped that
this may be determined at the Pas
teur institute.
Friday night of last week, e. j.
Fuller Of Pine, Gila county, who was
on his way to Flagstaff, was bitten
on his right hand by a skunk. The
animal was caught and killed. Whether
the skunk was Of the hydrophobia
kind or not is not known but Mr..
Fuller decided to take no risks and
left Monday for the Chicago Pasteur
Institute for treatment.
In the past number Of persons
have been bitten by skunks and in
a number of instances, those bitten
died of hydrophobia, and number
have been treated at the Pasteur In
stitute.
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25

The first railroad entered Arizona
so years ago on September II, 1877,
according to notation in a small red
notebook discovered recently by D. b..
Genung, pioneer mining man, who was
born near Prescott in 1872, five years
before the territory was linked with
the outside world by rails
Genung, who moved to Tucson three
years ago from Yavapai county, where
he has spent most Of his life, is the
son of Charles b. Genung, one OF Arl-
zona's earliest pioneers. Genung dis
covered the notebook which his sister
gave him more than a score OF years
ago among some old family papers.
The first entry in the book, made
more than 20 years ago, reads:
"1st r. r. entered Ariz. Ter. on the
18th day Sept 1877 at $40 p. m. at
Yuma"
At the time the notation was made
Genung was working on Rich Hill,
Yavapai county. He got the informa-
ton from a fellow mining man, Adrian
Leglue. Genung had already ridden
on the incomplete line from Los An
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
FIRST RAILROAD ENTERED
THIS STATE IN 1877

geles to Indio enroute to his home in
Peoples valley, near Prescott.
Another notation in the book IS a
list of Indian names among which are
Aha-ca-zona which Genung said the
Indians called Date creek, the word
meaning Sinking Water, and from
which he believes the name Arizona
is derived; the other Indian word is
Aha -ja-ca, meaning salt water. Ge-
nung believes it was the name ap-
piled to the Salt river valley.
A third notation of interest in the
book says, "Porfirio Dias was raised
in the Verde valley that was known
by the Spaniards as Rio del Punto
Nacional" Rio del Punto Nacional,
Genung said yesterday, was the divid
ing line, or the northern boundary Of
what was then Mexico.
In 55 years residence in Arizona,
Genung has known many Of the char
acters renowned in state history,
among them the Apache Kid, the
Earps of Tombstone, and later the
principals Of the famous Tonto Basin
feud,
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
Give Us the Test to Serve
You BEST

in less time than decade ago. Mr..
Green says: Il was walking along in
the bush and saw deer off about 400
yards or more. | pulled bead on
him and shot. was surprised when
the smoke cleared away to see the
deer still standing there | drew
more careful bead the next time and
cut loose again. When the smoke
cleared again, I'll be golswizzeled If
the deer want still standing there in
the same place. The third time I took
extra precaution and pulled down
close and turned the rifle loose. This
time he was down for sure. john
Francis was with me on the hunt and
when we got over there we just natu-
rally found three deer, each Of them
dead and hit in the same spot exactly.
1t was very peculiar experience, that
deer having Implicated on me in such
a manner"
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
r. A. RiOyd0n Hunting
Deer and Got Lost

(Coconino Sun of November 27, 19O8)
Mr.. T. A. Riordan, with Frank Con-
rard as chauffeur and Arthur Riordan
as chauffeur, started out Saturday
afternoon in an automobile for few
hundred miles of jaunt in quest OF
several deer that were known to have
been in the vicinity of Sunset noun
tain last year, also to pick up any
stray balloons that might be dItched
in that section of the country. Ihey
were wandering around off the road
in the cinder section OF the country.
looking for deer when darkness over
took them. While the hamburger and
sputzplug were working, the clutch
on the sunlight would slip, conse-
ouentlv they bedded down for the
night. They had one blanket apiece
which they laid carefully down on the
ground and when they got to sleep,
took it out from under them and put
it over them.
Mr.. Riordan and party got back to
town the following day by horsefui
pullfullness. He claimed that he had
picked up an outside or hull OF
balloon on the trip, but it was gener-
ally understood by those he was talk
ing to, that he must have eaten up
the inside of it if he found one, for
the wagon sheet he showed them was
empty.
There was considerable uneasiness
Sunday for fear something had hap
pened to the party. They had no food
with them and several people well
acquainted with Mr.. Riordan's habits,
insisted that they knew he never went
a week without eating unless local
conditions were exceedingly unfayor-
able.
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
kOIb Brothers Safely
Thru Grand Canyon

(Coconino Sun of January 26, 1902
A letter from Emory Kolb, now in
Los Angeles, says he with his brother
and Bert Lauzon landed at Needles,
California, on the Colorado with their
boats, January 18, having made the
trip from Bright Angel trail down
the perilous river in safety. The trip
to the end of the canyon was extreme
ly difficult on account of the cold
weather, though no accidents occurred.
The two boats arrived in fair condi-
tion after having shot rapids and
weathered the swift and dangerous
river The boats will be kept as
souvenirs of the hazardous trip,
trip which no others, except Major
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
To Establish Forest
Experiment Station

(Coconino Sun Of September 25, 1909
Forest experiment stations will soon
be established in number of the
National Forest states of the west
according to plans which have just
been completed by the United States
Forest service. These new stations
are expected to do the same for the
development of American forests as
agricultural experiment stations have
done for the improvement Of the
country's farms.
AS a first step in the work an ex-
pertinent station has already been
established in the Coconino National
Forest in the southwest, with head
quarters at Flagstaff.
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
A DEER YARN

(Coconino Sun of Nov. 5, 1909)
Charles Green is crack rifle shot.
Crack shots often have peculiar things
happen to them and when they cas-
ually speak of them, auditors fre-
quently smile and sorter squeeze up
one eye doubtful1y. We haven't the
exact date and place for the story, but
it was somewhere north Of Flagstaff
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25

above and below. But in the valley,
though the pines are of the same va
riety and equal diameter, the trunks
send out branches from the ground
and the trees are only half or less the
height of those surrounding.
There is. d steep mountain with
very deep crater and deep down IN the
crater is lake in which the water is
so salt that one cannot sink and in
which an anvil let down 400 feet failed
to touch btotom Near the mountain
there is a big salt lake, fed by seep-
age from the small lake within the
crater-though the latter never varies
in level-and this larger lake has i'm
mense quantities of dry salt. Spring
erville gets its salt from there.
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25

Powell, ever made. The Kolb brothers
are to be congratulated OH the sue
cessful elimination of voyage
that will make them famous, aside
from the great value of the first
moving pictures ever taken of the
worlds famous canyon stream.
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25

and inability to handle the ore at that
time it was covered up and left. Rich
specimens running $500 to the ton
have been found or claimed to have
been found in that section Of the
country, but so far no one has ever
been able to locate mineral rich enough
to support the theory that a mine
really exists in that vicinity.
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25
Thought Had Silver
At Mormon Lake

(Coconino Sun of August %. 190s)
E. S. Carlos has been hunting for
a lost silver mine in the vicinity of
Mormon mountain the past ten days.
For good many years a story has
been in circulation to the effect chat
a rich silver mine was discovered there
by early settlers, but owing to the
conditions of the country
The Coconino sun., 1927-11-25

The Fifteenth territorial legislature
met at the capitol at Prescott in 1889,
but during the session they and Gov
ernor Zulick transferred the capital
to Phoenix. The legislators had a
good time during the transfer to
Phoenix, as they went to the new
capital by way Of Los Angeles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
ORGANIZED LABoR-TRADE UNION ACTIVITIES

NE WIS AND COM SIENT
BOR EDUCA ALTON
LABOR AND GOVERNMENT
TRADE UNION POLITICS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
of Hollywood
Actors Join Union
By ESTHER LOWELL.
Federated Press)

Nearly half the movie actors and
actresses of Hollywood voted them
selves into Actors Equity Association
at a mass meeting, union secretary
Frank Gilmore has wired New York
headquarters.
Not counting a few of the highest
paid stars and the "whole WORLD of
extras, the roo new unionists make
nearly half the total expected to join
before the campaign is over. Extras
will be lined up later.
Acceptance of the standard con-
tract regulating working conditions
in the studios is the movie unionists'
demand. A basic 8-hour day is pro-
vided, though overtime is allowed
Movie players are worked day and
night under present conditions.
Equity doesn't propose to interfere
with movie wages yet, states assis-
tant executive secretary Paul Dalzell
to Federated Press. But secretary
Gilmore, now in Hollywood, found a
much better response to his union call
after the movie magnates announced
10 per cent pay cuts. Equity sets no
minimum wage, but aims to collect
whatever the contract calls for with
out hitch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Wood Wants Army Rule
In Philippines; Slated to
Lose Job He Bungled

WASHINGTON. July 1O.-That
the Philippines should be ruled by
the war department is the position
held by Governor General Leonard
Wood, who. according to close OBJ
servers of the situation, is slated
to be fired for bungling his job in
the islands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Resent Appointment
Of Politician on
City Teacher Board

The appointment of Bronx poll
tician as executive secretary of the
teachers retirement board has re-
suited in a row which may hold ,
its operations indefinitely.
Since the resignation of the prev
ious secretary on July 1st the bard
has been deadlocked on the selection
of a successor. Yesterday the fpur
non-teachers who are members Of the
retirement board outvoted the three
teachers and selected Irving Crane,
Tammany lawyer Of $50 East 16lst
St.. as the secretary.
Bitter accusations were made yes
terday by the teacher members Of
the board who insisted that only one
who has served in the public schools
can possibly be fitted to administer
the fund
The election was denounced as IL
legal and as a "cheap political trick"
Miss Lillian A. Hatch, a teacher mem
Der of the board, said she would re-
fuse to act on any more retirement
cases and added that most of the
teachers in the public school system
considered the retirement fund of
more vital concern to themselves than
any hoped-for increase in salaries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Il" Accidents Call.
For BeIated Action
On Wooden Car Use.

Moved to belated action following
the BIN. T. elevated crash last Tues
day in which Is passengers were
severely injured, the transit commits
sion has come forward with state
ment that "efforts will be made to re-
move the wooden cars now in service
on the elevated lines thruout the
city"
John F. Gilchrist, chairman of the
committee, under whose regime sew
eral wooden car accidents occurred
within the last year said that the ex-
cuse offered by the BIN. T. was that
the elevated structures were not
enough to carry the weight of steel
car.
The public reaction to the series of
calamities due to the use of wooden
cars has spurred the B.-M.T. to re-
move the death traps from the
Brighton line service.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Private Air Mail Hung
Up; Want More Planes?

WASHINGTON, July 1O.-The gov
ernment's REIMBURSEMENT of the New
York-Chicago air mail route to pri-
vate hands has been postponed until
September l, it was announced here
today. Officials Of the national air
transport company, who take over
the contract, requested the postpone
ment. When the government decided
to sell out, officials, in charge bought
a number of expensive new machines
which were sold for a song to private
parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
(By a Cigarworker)

The progressive local Of the Cigar
Workers International, Local 100,
New York City was recently sus-
pended by the president shortly be,
fore the International convention,
which is to be held in August 1927.
The reasons given for the suspen-
sion of this local is that it is deficient
in funds to the amount of 5000. This
amount is disputed by the local. A
closer examination of the circum-
stances leading to the suspension of
this local will reveal some interesting
facts. What are these facts?
Once Separate?
Until about months ago the pres
ent Local 100 was an independent or
ganization known as the Amalga-
mated Tobacco Workers Union. This
union had to, as matter of course,
come into conflict with the interna-
tional The Amalgamated Tobacco
Workers had to for the past several
years fight for its existence on the
picket line not only against the bos-
ses, but also against the international
bureaucrats as well.
The aim of the Amalgamated To-
bacco Workers, based upon progress
sive lines, could not be obtained due
to the existence of two organizations
in the field and large mass of I'M
organized workers in the industry
The Amalgamated, realizing h e
necessity for unified action in the in
Jdustry in order to better defend the
interests of the workers, agreed to
confer with the International Cigar
Makers Union upon the initiative of
Santiago Iglesias with the idea in
view of joining the A. T. OF L. organ
ization.
After a series of conference be-
tween the two organizations the fol
lowing main points for unity were
agreed upon: CD Conditions and
prices prevailing in the Amalgamated
shops before affiliation be main
tanned. ~(2) Immediate organization
campaign be started. 81 That the
Amalgamated receive a charter as q
separate local. All these points were
granted by the International and the
former Amalgamated Tobacco Work.
ers Union became known as Local
100, International Cigar Makers
| Union.
First Betrayal.
At the time of the granting of the
charter as a. separate local strike
was in progress in one of the biggest
cigar shops in New York, Bloom:
shop. The international took ovel
this strike and agreed to do its ut
most to carry this strike to a success.
full conclusion. Instead of fighting
this strike thru for the best interests
of the workers the president of the
International, in true class collabora.
ton style, effected settlement with
the bosses, based on a secret agree.
ment, which is not as yet known tt
the workers. This agreement call:
for a reduction in wages of 81 pei
cent. Local 100 bitterly fought thi:
betrayal without much success. Thi:
is the first skirmish this new loca'
had with the International officials.
Another Betrayal.
Local 100 then had to call another
strike in Schwab & Baer (this wa
after affiliation with the Interna