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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-01
U. S. TREASURY SURPLUS $64O, 600, 600
Tourist Hotel Stock
Sales Reach Total.
$4,000 Thursday


Sales of stock in the tourist hotel for
Douglas were run up to a total OF
$4,000 yesterday with only a few
hours of the canpaign yet to go. 1t is
believed that the total will pass the
$125,O0O mark when all subscriptions
are in.
That more and more people are
taking advantage of securing the stock
now that it is seen by all that the
hotel is assured for the city is shown
by the report of sales for the 24 hours
from noon Wednesday to noon Thurs
day.
During that period total of $i2,500
worth of the stock was subscribed. This
figure exceeded that of any oJher day
since the. opening of the drive last
week The first days record of $4,000
is next high.
The number of subscriptions each
day grows greater, 80 new subscribers
coming in yesterday to make up the
total OF $12,500.
A check of reports shows that 531
people have shown their faith in the
future of the city aTd in the ultimate
success of the tourist hotel project by
subscribing to stock. 1t is practically
certain that the number of subscribers
will pass the 600 mark by the end Of
the campaign.
Another name was added to the list
of prominent men residing out OF
Douglas who have subscribed to the
stock when General Fausto Topete,
recently elected governor of the state
of Sonora, Mexico wired in rcserva=
tions for a large block of stock.
The action fthe Sonora executive
is being praised by the hotel workers
as another Indication of the an1ity
existing between Sonora and Arizona
and the great republic of Mexico and
the United States.
Governor George w. P. Hunt has
subscribed to ablock Of stock a1lG Fred
e. Edwards, collector of customs for
this district with headquarters in
Ncgales, is another who has expressed
belief in Douglas by taking similar
action.
douglas is to be congratulated on
stepping out and putting this thing
over" said Dr. Simns, Of Bisbce, who
was a visitor at yesterdays luncheon.
"And you put it over without the aid
of some Of your richest men.
seThe Bankhead highway is going to
be the big artery Of travel through
Arizona. When the highway is paved
from Rodeo to Douglas, and it will be
paved, the tourist travel is coming back
to this section.
Douglas is the first natural stop
ping place west of El Paso and this
fact will help the hotel. Keep it up,
you can't lose"
L. A. Webster, representative cf the
Hockenbury system, who is aiding in
the campaign, attacked rumor that
the hotel cannot be built for It's esti-
mated cost of $4,000.
"Such rumor is going around but
it is absolutely false Webster said.
ST challenge the man who carted the
rumor to come before you or go to the
daily newspaper with figures showing
that the hotel cannot be built for
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-01
NAVAL PARL.EIYS
MOVE F0RW Ard
IN CONFERENCE.
No Supremacy Statement
of the British Creates
Confidence

GENEVA, Switzerland, June 80 H9
The tri-partite naval conference
moved forward today in an at1nos-
phere of mutual confidence, which
was the Immediate outcome CT Great
Britains spontaneous act in pro-
claiming to the world that the Brit
ish empire seeks no supremacy over
the United States in sea power and
that everything that everything that
Great Britain may wish to build to
meet national needs may aSsuredly
also be built by the United States.
It was in this atmosphere of con-
fidence created by the statement
which w. @. Bridgeman, first lord
of the British admiralty gave ex-
clusively to the Associated Press
correspondent, that the naval eX-
perts reached an agreement today
that the maximum size of flotilla
leaders shall be 1850 tons.
It was further decided that all
warships above 1850 tons in the class
of auxiliary surface craft shall hence
forth be designated as cruisers.
The experts will endeavor tomor-
row to regulate the questions of
submarines, and later take up the
most delicate problem OF all-tllat
of mutually satisfying Great Britain
and the United States on the ques-
ton of the calibre OF guns on cruis-
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ALL RECORDS
EXCEEDED BY
SUM On HAND
Public Debt Also Reduced
More Than Billion Dollars
in Year
TAX REDUCTION
Intention to Put Through
a Bill III Congress Cutting
Taxes

WASHINGTON, June 80 R-Tne
government rounded out the fiscal
year tonight with a treasury surplus
estimated at $6s5,O0O,OOO to $64OOOO, :
600, the greatest in history Acting
Secretary Mills expressed the opinion,
however that the amount was to
an extent misleading because Of nom
recurring items which contributed
to it.
Inasnisich as congress at its last
session did not pass legislation to
apply at least a part of the surplus
to further reduction of taxes, it is
being applied to decreasing the public
Gebt.
It IS the intention, however, Of
congressional leaders to put through a
permanent tax reduction bill at the
next session and first steps toward
that end will be taken when the
house ways and means committee
meets october 81 to consider the
drafting of a new schedule of rates
In reviewing operations of the
treasury during the current fiscal year
Officials pointed out that along with
a reduction Of more than $l0O000000o
in the public debt, several offerings
of certificates and bonds had been
floated and approximately $1,828 8000,0 600
of second liberty loan bonds and a
considerable amount Of the thirG lib
erty loan had been retired.
The sinking fund for 1928 amount
ing to $3.50 100000, comes into opera
ton tomorrow and probably will be
used to further retire the second
liberties. The fund was created in
1920 for refunding purposes, to con-
tinue until all liberty bonds and vic
tory notes are retired
The March financing program of
the treasury, officials said, effected
a savings of approximately $1O,O00,0OO
in interest annually, while a further
saving of approximately $15,OoO,0OO
in interest payments was effected by
the June financing when 90 year
8 S-8 per cent bond was offered for
the liberties. The June financing
marked the first time since 1911 that
the government has undertaken long
term financing at an interest rate
of less than 3 IL per cent. The
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-01
FOURTH OF JULY
MADE BY
WIFE

RAPID CITY, S. D., June 80 Up
The last expectant hours of another
flight between New York and Europe
were followed with great interest to-
day by President Coolidge, who, al
though sequestered in the mountains
of South Dakota, was kept in touch
with Commander Byrd's progress.
After he left the executive offices
in Rapid City to motor to the summer
white house in the hills for luncheon,
his private telegraph wire was kept
busy with information cleaned from
press dispatches and official advices
from Washington.
Mr.. Coolidge has taken a personal
interest in the various flights which
have added gloriously to American
opinion that each creates further
popular appreciation of what the
future holds for transportation by
air.
In the state game lodge, white
house attaches were preparing for
July 4, the American holiday, and
also Mr. Coolidge's 55th birthday.
Mrs. Coolidge was laying in supply
of fireworks to properly commemorate
the day and in the kitchen the largest
mixing bowl was taken from the
cupboard for the big cake which will
mark the day.
All hopes that he might spend the
day quietly went into the discard
when it was disclosed that a cowboy
band from Terry, Mont, intends to
serenade the president with western
tunes to be interspersed bygh Vgoodly
rendition of Yankee Doodle yB63,
Born on the Fourth of JulyN oe
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-01

HAVRE, France, July OH.-The
Sub-prefect of police announced
this morning that the American
aviatOrs were safe at Yer Sur Mer,
but the source Of his information
was not given.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-01

PARIS, July Messages received
through different wireless stations sup
posedly from Commander Byrd be-
tween 1910 and 1880 o'clock this
morning led the authorities to believe
he was somewhere south Of Paris dur
ing that time. Consequently the min
istry of interior ordered gendarmes
within radius of a number of miles
70 Versailles, including the Issy terri
tory, to make thorough search for
the plane, but to 6 o'clock this morning
nothing definite was learned.
Instructions were issued later ex-
tending the search to the whole de-
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lie BOURGET, France, July
tH9. Commandant Ren0voise. OF
the LIE Bourget air field, announced
at $3.50 O'clock this morning that
he had received radio message
from Havre saying the American
trans Atlantic aviatOrs were safe
at Yer Sur Mer, although the plane
was smashed. He was seeking fur
ther information.
The message said the airmen
remained aIoft until 5:45 a. IN.
French time and then made a
forced landing within 200 metres
of the beach.
The telephone connection was
bad and the commandant said ne
could not learn the details.
Yer Sur NIer lies about 135 miles
west of Paris, and about 30
miles southwest of Havre.
Further details reaching Com
mandant RenovOiSe from Havre
said the plane flew over the
Partisan region at o'clock this
morning and then headed for
the sea coast where it was forced
to land.
If Commander Byrd landed at
Yer Sur Mer at 5:45 o'clock TINS
morning, Paris time, he was III
ehe air 43 hours FL minutes from
the time the America took Off al
Roosevelt field, N. ", Wednes-
day morning.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-01

Copper easy; electrolytic
spot and futures 1880.
Lead steady; spot GAO.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-01

Friday and SATURDAY
mostly fair, little change
in temperature.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-01

Grand Totals :. $12,500 $ll3,OOl
Honor Roll
Adams, Writ
ANDERSON, Fred
Apperson, B. j.
Arviza, Telesforo
Beattie Paul
Beatty, Geo. H.
Beckett, P. G..
Beever, Fred
Bentley, B.
Bosso, EStell
Botica, La Cruz Blanca
Brenand, Samuel
Brodie, d. G.
Brown, Roy r,
Burruel, Mrs. Refugia
Chavarria, r., Jr.
Cirtkovic, Tonla
Cisneros, S.
Clark, VIM. E.
Cowan, William
Cutler, G.. w.
billiard. G.. r.
Dorantes, Mrs. I.
Durazo, r.
Franco, Marcos
Freeman, Walter S.
Garcia, Ignacio
Cara, T. de Ia
Gerard, Fred
Gleeson, E. w.
Graeber, Carl A.
Hankins, M. C.
Harsell, Mrs. Ellen
Harsell, Mrs. ThoS. L.
HazelWood, H. G.
Holland, Lillian
Howard, w. G.
Hunt, Gov. Geo. w. P.
Iverson, Isabella
Johnson, j. M.
Joss, AL. B.
Keclik, j. A.
Klutz, S. L.
, Kong, Juan
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/ $180,000.
| ''This cost price is one of the items
included in the contract with the Hanl-
ilton Hotels system Actual figures
show that it can and will be built for
that figure. Any other reports are only
propaganda
That $13OO0O or $4,000 can be
raised by stock sales for the building
of the tourist hotel is the, BELIEF of Joe
Tardy president of the Borderland
Climate club.
1--WE don't want anyone to say that
we got by by the skin of our teeth, :"
said Tardy. 1--WE can sell stock to
make a total of $130,000 or $4,000.
Our goal when the campaign started
was set at $125,000 and we'll pass that
figure"
Tom Glenn's division took yi,e high
selling honors Of the day End the
goat yesterday with total sales
amounting to $780,
r. Breton and Ygnacio Soto ii group
No. 5 of Glenn's division showed the
way to other statesmen for the day with
a total of % sales aggregating $4,000.
Here's yesterdays report:
Seventh Day, June 80, 1927
Division A, Joe Tardy, Manager
Group. Managers. Today. To Date.
l. T.. S. Perrin .... S $500
2. r. e. Webster IS 1,400 7,700
8. Jas. A. Howell. -. 200 4,7OO
Total Div. A.. $1,000 $15,7OO
Division b, Tom Glenn, Manager
4. Geo. Doubleday 400 5000
S. Roberto Breton :. 5000 5,OOO
6. M. j. Anderson 500 $500
Total Div. ~. 5000 iS,8OO
Division G, Tom Schofield, Manager
Z. j. B. Cooper .... 1000 1900
8. Byron Dieckman. 1900 5,lOO
9. Frank Thompson. 4o0 2,2oO
Total Div. G 49, 2,7o0 12.2oO
Division ID, Harvey Johnson, Manager
10. Albert Stacy -. 1900 5,9OO
IL. w. W. Windham.. 500 6,9OO
IL. H. A. Wimberley. 800 $500
Total Div. d ~. 5000 1900
Executive Committee, E. w. Graves,
Chairman
1. Geo. BUXTON ....... .........'
2. Fred Hubbell -. ...... ......,.
g.. Jas. Logic ....... ....... ...,..,.
4. Rex Rice ........ ....... ........
- -------
Total Elk. Com. =. 1900 47,6Oo
Summary
Total Division A.. S 1000 S 35,7OO
Totals Division b.. 5000 8,8OO
Total Division Co.. 2,700 ZOO
Total Division D.. 5000 18,7OO
Total Executive Com. 1900 47,6O0
20 A1,n nno
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of America is now realized with yeur
deed"
Lieutenants Maitland and Hegen-
berger have booked assage on the
liner Maui next wednesday and will
proceed directly to Washington to
make a report of their flight to the
war department.
Lieutenant Maitland informed the
Associated Press that neither he nor
Hegenberger would give out COM
plete narrative of their flight until
the war department authorities au-
thorized them to do so.
Z HONOLULU, June 80 (P)-Lieuten-
ants Lester j. Maitland and Albert
Hegenberger, who landed near here
yesterday morning after a flight
from Oakland, Calf, over the 24OO
miles of Pacific ocean, were PLAN
ming today to leave for San Fran
cisco Wednesday on the steamship
Maui, The giant F'okker plane which
made the longest flight over water
will be left in Hawaii, for inter-
island flying by army aviators.
The love OF the aviator for his
plane. like the traditional love or
the sailor for his ship, wasproved
today when Maitland and Hegen-
berger visited the great monoplane
which bore them at nearly 100 miles
an hour in the history making flight
Of Is hours and SO minutes.
HaWaiianS marveled at the en-
durance shown by the trim young
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UNFORTUNATE
ENDING
NOT EXPLAINED
Mayor of Yer Sur Mer
Reports Men Safe and
Plane Wrecked
IN AIR 43 HOURS
Landing Place Was About
135 Miles West of Paris
At Sea Edge

CHERBOURG, France, July /
Py.-The mayor of Yer Sur Mer
telephOned to CherbOurg this
morning that the plane America
fell into the edge Of the sea off
that place, but that the aviators
were safe.
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Havre de Grace Entries
WEDNESDAY
--International Newsreel Photo

FIRST RACE--Four-year-o and
up; purse. $1,000; claiming; fur
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SECOND RACE
6 Furlongs
THIRD RACE
9 Furlongs
(Weather, clear; track, fast.1
FIRST RACE

nervous collapse makes even that
possibility remote.
Mrs, Gray is very ILL., her sister
Mrs. Brundage. said. she has
been ordered to bed and it will be
several days before she will leave
thn h0llso y
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GRAY'S lawyer
POPULAR HERE

"oh, grant me honest fame or
grant me none"
This prophetic sentence in the
1921 year book of Georgetown Uni
versity Law School, voiced the plea
Of Samuel L. Miller, when in his
salad days. he worked his way
through college. He was famous
then, as varsity orator and de-
batter. Apparently he had no
thoughts in those days, of Snyders
or Grays, slayers or paramours.
He had position in the Signal
Corps Bureau at the War Depart
ment and attended classes after
working hours. Faculty and class.
mates recognized him as man of
considerable intellectual gifts and
he enjoyed a high degree Of popu-
larity.
How far Sam Miller has followed
or strayed from-his early prin-
ciples, voiced when he faced the
world with the enthusiasm of a
fiedgling graduate in 1921, the
world viii have an opportunity sto
Judge in the next few weeks.
For Samuel L. Miller, attorney
at.law. Of New York City. barely
80 years old. is now counsel for
Judd Gray, who is charged, with
Ruth Brown Snyder. with the muir.
der Of the woman's husband. Some
fine ,oratory is in prospect for the
holders OF gfandstand seats in the
Queens County Court House. it Mil
Ter still has his old-tifne eloquence,
his friends here say.
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Mrs. Gray Collapses,
Strain Of Staying From
Trial Deemed Reason

NoRWALK. Conn.,, April 19.--At
the moment Henry Judd Gray
walked into the Long Island City
Supreme Court to face trial for his
life. his wife Isabel Gray. suffered
a complete nervous collapse.
Mrs. Gray is described as seri-
ously III at the home Of her sister,
Mrs. Frank T.. Brundage. and there
Is but slight possibility that she will
come to the side Of her husband at
any time during his trial.
Urged to Stay Away
Until the last moment Mrs. Gray
had heen undecided. Her relatives
at q family conference urged her
to remain In seclusion with her
daughter. Jane. She then Welded to
their urging and agreed not to
attend the trial in its opening days.
Torn between memories of her
husbands love and knowledge OF
his unfaithfulness and the dread
crime he has confessed, his wife
left her final decision on going TO
court, where Gray waits the yer.
dict Of the anry. 70 the future Her
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JOHN GILBERT
IS IN JAIL
BY international News Service

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, April
19.--There was a big parade on to
and through the jail built under the
Will Rogers administration today,
for their, occupying one Of the
guest cells" was John Gilbert, film
idol, and there he will be for the
next 10 days.
Gilbert, police say, burst into the
Jail on April IL and insisted the
officers arrest someone. Failing
to get the desired action, Gilbert.
the records show, became impatient,
not to say indignant, whereupon he
was locked up for a few hours. later
being released on bail.
When he appeared yesterday to
answer charges of disturbing the
peace, he was given the 'tenner."
Gilbert's plight is the aftermath of
a party at his house. He said he
must have been suffering from
Authorizations for none OF his guests
had injured him. Under the law, as
he pleaded guilty to disturbing the
peace. the judge was Obliged to i'm.
pose the Today Jail sentence.
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SNYDER ODDS
continued from First Page.l

Continued from First Page0
Aristocracy is excited over
the love and money triangle
that ended in the brutal muir
der of Albert Snyder.
"Up at the Racquet Club, y
says the Marquis of Queens
berry, who is attending the
trial, "they are laying s to /
odds against the lady being
electrocuted.
mo, no, they say, she'll never
burnand they lay $500 against
500, you see.
"Of course, they think she'll
be punished-but not death.
It's all they talk of at the
Racquet Club"
A McGill University scientist i,
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8 ] ALL { D FOR
DIRTY PLAY

NEW YORK, April ls.-7Mae West,
star and co-author of Sex was
today sentenced to 10 days in Jail
and to pay q fine Of $500 for par
ticipating in an obscene theatrical
performance. =
The same sentence was meted out
to James A. Timothy. lawyer and
financial hacker OF the play, while
Clarence William organstern. the
producer, was given a Today work.
house sentence without the fine.
Mounted on rubber tired wheels
to protect floors and furniture, a
new household serving table folds
nat Tor storage,
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Relatives Guard Her

Mrs Gray Is said to feel that her
presence at the trial cannot help
her husband, and her relatives
want to spare her the anguish Of
publicly listening to the recital OF
her husbands unfaithfulness with
Mrs. Ruth Snyder and other women
Still guarded from interviewers,
photographers, and curiosity seekers
by Norwalk. detectives and police.
men under. Chief William Penning.
ton, Mrs. Gray has steadfastly re-
fused to make public appeal for
her accused husband. She has sent
word to him that she has not de.
serted him. but unless his lawyers
finally convince her that she can
serve him by going to the trial.
she will remain in seclusion and
protect her child from public con.
tact with the case.
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10 MONTHS FOR lOYRlDE

William Hayden. alias Aggie
Johnson, colored. who pleaded: not
Sullty TO joyriding Saturday night
IN an automobile belonging to Wi.
purt L. Price. was given 10 montha
in Jail by Justice Macdonald in
Polics Court today
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To meet ia growing demand for
power the Tasmanian government
will double its present production
Of electricity by erecting a hydro
electric plant on the Shannon river
IKE.
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JUDGE IN JURY
SPEED PLEA

Continued from First Page)
sion four were excused because Of
conscientious scruples against cap
ital punishment.
First Juror Is 58th Examined
Judge Scudder finally took the
questioning out Of the hands of
the lawyers.
Have you not sufficient strength
OF mind to disregard a previously
formed opinion and give a fair and
impartial verdict?" he asked one
.talesman.
NO" replied the man and was
excused.
Judge Scudder continued to
question the talesmen, apparently
putting the weight of his position
back of an attempt to get a jury,
but one after another. those ques-
toned stated that they had formed
unalterable opinions.
William E. Young, publicity man.
finally was accepted as the first
juror. He will act as foreman.
Young was the fifty-elghth tales
man examined.
Mrs. Snyder studied him intently
as he took seat No. in the jury
box, and craned her neck to see him
better, but Gray showed little In.
terest.
The two defendants, Mrs. Snyder
and Gray, had just taken their
seats when the judge made his APP
peal As yesterday, the blonde Mrs.
Snyder, was dressed entirely in
black. She wore a pensive ex.
preston as she took her seat be-
tween gray-haired police matron
and Dana Wallace, one of her at.
torneys. For the first time she
glanced around at the spectators.
She and Gray are accused of
beating the husband over the head
with an iron bar as he slept,
chloroforming him and then tightly
twisting picture wire around his
neck.
Today, a month after the sIaugh-
ter of the home-loving husband. she
sits in court thanked by her at
torneys and taking an active part
in the management Of her case, self
possessed, sure of herself, her head
thrown back, she examines every
talesman as he is questioned. il
she does not like his looks, or his
answers, she tucks at the sleeve
Of Dana Wallace, one Of her law.
yers, and in no time the talesman
is rejected.
Defense Lines Are Indicated
Mrs. Snyder's attorneys indicated
during examination Of the talesmen
that she may not take the stand.
The talesmen were asked IL this
would prejudice them against the
rather good-looking defendant. 1t
was also indicated that her defense
will be that she did plan the crime
with Gray, but withdrew before its
commission and attempted to in
duce Gray to abandon it.
Gray's counsel are expected to
contend that she coerced him into
the crime, dominated him, and
threatened to expose their relations
to his wife if he did not commit
the crime.
Mrs. Snyder, stunningly gowned
in black, is the central figure in
the courtroom.
She shows no sign Of care or
fatigue as she toys with chain
of black glass beads and watches
the talegmen.
@On the contrary, her poise and
animated appearance could not be
greater IL she were attending a
bridge party-as she 50 frequently
did when her friends knew her as
Tommy" because Of her gaiety.
She has high cheek bones, clear
white skin, blue green eyes. q de-
termined chin and a rather de-
fiant mein.
And on her left hand CLEANS a
gold band wedding ring-given her
IL years ago by the man she is
accused Of helping to beat to death.
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A McGill University scientist is
trying to prevent the formation Of
anchor ice in rivers by using an
electric lamp that emits rays SINH
lar to sunlight under water.
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