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, 1927-10-26

The Ydoc Company is preparing
to resume drilling operations in
Horse Center. and will have it's rig
in operation again by next week.
This hole is down $50 feet and
hopes for oil are in the next hun
bred feet or so.
The Ohio is cleaning its hole on
the Pulley permit, east of Cody,
after understanding and setting cas-
ing at 1865. Operations have been
slow at this well due to water and
envy formation.
, 1927-10-26

h F~erdig-wyoming mas resumed
~Sperauons on the Hough permit,
sec ls-51-l00, and drilling at bet
Yer tnan 1000 feet. Some time has
Seen lost during the last few weeks,
ane to lack Of casing.
, 1927-10-26

The Linco Oil company has sus-
pended operations on both the Lyle
permit, Sec. ~24-51-101, depth 1918.
on the Pulley permit. Sec. 49,
Sl-lO1. depth 1910 feet. These
roles have been DRILLED with cable
.oois' and a rotary rig has already
.oeen built over the Sec. "a well.
WIN the plans TO finish hole with
this style of equipment.
, 1927-10-26

Fred G. Ostland is spudding Of
the Shaw permit. Sec. ~1S-51-100.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
new YORK, PARIS
FLIGHT REACHES
COURT in ACTION
Bertaud Secures Injunction
Against His Displace-
ment as Pilot

NEW YORK, May 49, (P)-Lloyd W.
Bertaud obtained temporary in
junction late today against Charles
A. Levine to restrain him from sup
planting Bertaud as co-pilot and
navigator of the Bellanca airplane
Columbia" on the proposed non
stop flight from New York to Paris.
With the Bellanca plane held up
by the court action, continued incle-
ment weather over the Atlantic as
reported late today, prevented any
possibility of either Commander Rich
ard Byrd or Captain Charles Lind
bergh hopping off tomorrow morn
ing.
The temporary injunction and order
to show cause issued to Bertaud was
granted by Justice Mitchell May in
the supreme court in Brooklyn on
application by the pilots attorney,
Leo T. Kissam. The order, returnable
next Friday afternoon, was directed
against the Columbia Aircraft COR
poration, builders of the Columbia, :"
and Charles A. Levine as the COR
poration's managing director.
The injunction restrains the de-
PENDANTS from breaking an alleged
contract made May 12, by which
Bertaud and Clarence D. Chamberlin
were to be allowed to fly the Bel
Continued on Page ,Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
RICH BROKER AND SECRETARYS
DEATH WAS MURDER AND SUICIDE

Cned the abandonment by CHER
Deputy District Attorney Harold
Davis of his sensational theory
that the couple may have beer
murdered as the result or
knowledge Powell was reported 10
have of intimate detail. of the
Julian Petroleum corporations
financial tangIe.
Despite the fact that he has
. abandoned his theory of a double
murder which yesterday caused
him to take an active hand i'll
the investigation, pre- emptOrily
ordering an inquest, Davis said
tonight that evidence that
Powell was active In the Julian
petroleum. affairs and that he
was suspected of listening in OF
secret conferences by company
officials, was strengthened today.
First reports to the district at
torney's office was that Powell
had a dictaphOne connection
with the office of attorneys for
S. C. Lewis, who recently re-
signed as president of Julian
after trading in its stock had
been suspended due to an over
issue.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
DOUGLAS MAYOR
COMMENDS FAIR
AT Aqua PRIETA
Joe Tardy, Climate Club
President, Also En-
dOrses Plan

Mayor A. E. Hinton last night warm
ly commended the action of the leading
business men of Aqua Prieta and Son
ora for their determination to raise
funds for the Mississippi valley flood
sufferers by means of a fair and fiesta
to be held at the Club Sociale next
Saturday evening.
I'm my opinion the fair and fiesta
sponsored by leading men of Sonora, to
be held at Aqua Prieta Saturday to
raise funds for the flood suffers, is one
of the strongest proofs ever offered
people of Douglas and vicinity of the
real friendship and understanding
between the peoples of the
two great republics" Mayor Hinton
said.
Speaking as mayor Douglas, I hear
tily commend the action of Ignacio
Soto and his many and liberal friends
and supporters for this manifestation
of their friendship and sympathy. 1t
is indeed a touching tribute to the ties
of friendship binding together the
people of Sonora and Douglas.
'"Those on both sides of the inter-
national border who can patronize the
fair to be given by our friends across
the line should surely do SO. It is being
given in most worthy cause"
Joe Tardy, president of the Border
land Climate club, also gave his hearty
approval of the fair and fiesta being
planned for relief of the flood victims
1.-The action of the citizens of Sonora
and Aqua Prieta in arranging a fai1
and fiesta for relief of flood sufferers
in the United States is the strongest
expression of friendship and good will
the Mexican people could give citizens
of this country at this time to show
their real brotherly feeling for us,
Tardy said.
"The fair deserves the fullest pos
sible Cooperation from all the people
of Douglas. 1t should be well pat
ronized from beginning to end. Many
will go out for pleasure Saturday
night, and it will show they have the
right spirit if they patronize the relief
fund fail"
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
'CINNIS JURY
IS IMPANELED
AT TOMBSTONE
Taking of Testimony Will
Start at 9 O'Clock
This Morning

Selection OF jury to try T. F.
McGinnis, former Kelto2l postmaster
and general Storekeeper charged with
four counts of receiving stolen prop,
erty was completed yesterday at
Tombstone McGinnis is on trial
before Judge Dave E. Ling OF Green
lee county, as Judge "A. M Sames
has been disqualified The entire
day was spent in selecting the jury
and an alternate juror,
McGinnis, long resident of Kel-
ton and one OF the most widely
known and influential residents OF
that district, was indicted several
months ago following Investigations
made by Sheriff George Henshaw,
Deputy Sheriff o. A. Ash and other
county peace officers into Tie alleged
operations of a bandit trio, who are
said by officers to have used the
McGinnis property as place to
cache much OF their loot.
The bandit trio was broken up
following shooting of a sheriff near
Iiolbrook, and two men o. the gang
sent to the state penitentiary at
Florence. = woman, Dolores Sulli-
van, the third member OF the alleged
bandit gang, is now held at Tomb
stone as material witness against
McGinnls. The state expects her to
aid materially III showing that the
former postmaster OF Kelton knew OF
the operations OF the bandit gang
and that he allowed them to use
his property as a hiding place for
! their loot, knowing it was stolen.
The case has attracted wide at
tention because OF the prominence
OF McGinnis It is expected that the
court room at Tombstone will be
crowded during the trial.
County Attorney James T. Gentry
said last night that McGinnis is t.
he tried on only one OF the four
counts against him at this time II
is possible, Gentry said. that ne may
be tried ON the other three at q
later date. Gentry IS the prosecutor
j. It. Kingsbury of Tombstone, and
Alexander Murry of Bisbec are the
defense attorneys in the McGinni;
case The first witness Will be pIaC-
l. Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
WARN PEOPLE.
Of q TOWNS.
TOFLEE HOMES.
No FOrcible Evacuation
Will Be ResOrted to In
Atchafalaya.
RY BRIDGE DOWN
Farmer and Son On Bridge
When 1t COllapses and
Father browns.

NEW ORLEANS, May 18 [Rj.-In-
habitantS of 27 towns in the path OF
the wall of water sweeping down the
Atchafalaya basin were being warned
to flee their homes under instructions
issued early tonight by Flood Relief
Dictator John M. Parker.
Mr.. Parker, basing his warning upon
bulletin of the New Orleans weather
bureau today charting the path of the
flood through the section, had a corps
of telephone operators speeding the
message to the inhabitants, urging
them to speed the evacuation if they
would save their belongings.
There will be no forcable evacuation,
but the message of the flood relief
dictator strove to impress upon the in
habitantS the seriousness of the flood
danger ard the imlminences Of the
threat.
Five hundred persons grouped on the
narrow crown of the levees above Mel
vile, La, today saw the last link con-
Meeting their home town with high
ground shut off.
A span of the Texas and Pacific
bridge connecting Melville with the
east bank of the Atchafalaya river col
lapSed, carrying to his death Tony
Pitalala, a farmer. Pitalala and his
son were crossing the bridge when it.
fell. The boy clung to log and was
rescued.
Few persons, however, were left in
the immediate path of the two ex-
panding lakes of Aoyelles and st
Landry parishes tonight. Fed by flood
waters from crevasses in the Atcha-
falaya levees at Melville and in the
Bayou Des CLASSES rampartS, the lakes
joined at Big Bend to engulf virtually
the whole of the two parishes
Spreading outward from the Bayou
DeS CLASSES crevaSSe the flood had sub
merged Morrow, Big Cane, Palmetto
and Rosa. Opelousas, on ridge in the
Atchalafalaya basin, was not in danger
of being flooded The breaks were 13C
and ITO miles above New Orleans and
on the opposite side of the river from
this city.
Port Barre, on the western edge Of
backwaters from the Melville crevasse
was under six inches of water, which
was rising rapidly. Residents were
being evacuated over the Texas ano
Pacific, although the track in the vi
cinity of the town was under water.
Towns directly in the path of the
flood were being evacuated more
readily as news spread of the disastrous
effects of the waters to the north
Krotz Springs, already with a foot anc
a half of water, had been deserted.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19

LOS ANGELES, May Is (E1-
New evidence supporting the be-
lief that the deaths of George E.
Powell. Cr, wealthy broker and
Margie Pike, his secretary, werc
case of murder and suicide,
and not the double murder
which the district attorneys Of
flee yesterday announced was
suspected was uncovered today
by police detectives.
Witnesses who will testify at
an inquest tomorrow, according
tc Captain of Detectives James
Bean, that the stenOgrapncr
made detailed preparations Tor
her death shortly before she and
Powell were found dead in the
brokers' automobile carly yester
day morning. Other evidence,
Bean said, would be produced to
support his theory that the
neurotic girl stenographer, spu""
led on by an unrequitted in
fatuatiOn, shot her employer ana
then turned the pistol on her-
self.
The new evidence Obtaiued by
the police was said to have hast
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
TOTS, RANGING
FROM 6 TO 8
DIE IN BLAST
Teachers and Children Are
Buried Beneath Falling
Walls, Ceilings.
BLAME FARMER
Victims Hurle d Against
Walls and Through Win
dows by Explosion.

BATH, Mich, May 1S tP).-Touched
off by an apparently demented farmer,
who fell victim to his own devices, two
dynamite explosions at the consoli-
dated school here today brought death
to at least S8 perSons-33 of them pupils
in the school. Most of them were tots
ranging in age from six to eight years.
Forty others, injured, were in Lansing
hospitals.
The dead, in addition to the S3
pupils whose bodies had been recovered
tonight, were the farmer Andrew
Kehoe, who served as treasurer of the
school district E. E. Huyck, the prin-
cipal; Miss Hazel Weatherbee, third
grade teacher Glen Smith, Bath post
master, and Nelson McFarran, a Bath
resident. The latter two were passing
the building at the time of the ex-
ploSion.
Search of the ruins was continued
until darkness overlook the workers,
after state police had estimated that
from dozen to is bodies remained to
be located.
The explosions at the school followed
by only short time a blast at the
nearby farm home of FEelaoes sssa ne AlSlast.
and subsequent fire demolished the
Kehoe home and barn.
The entire north wing of the school
a three-story brick structure, was
levelled by the blasts, which caught ali
of the pupils indoors, over their books
or engaged in recreation periods in
their rooms. Many Of the pupils were
crushed at their desks, as the tons Of
bricks and beams crushed down
State police, probing in the tangled
wreckage of the school, found that
elaborate preparations had been made
for wrecking the building. The base
ment was criss- crossed with network
of wires which were connected to more
than 500 pounds of dynamite scattered
in various places. Search of the ruins
was interrupted for time while un-
exploded dynamite was removed. State
police said Kehoe apparently had car
ried the dynamite into the school
building during the night and arranged
his wiring.
He was seen to drive UP in his auto
mobile in front of the building soon
after classes convened. Completing his
plans, he is believed to have run wire
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explosives were stored, to the charges
in the basement Rifle shells, several
OF which we're found near the battered
automobile, served as fuses.
At this point, witnesses said, Huyck
ran from the building and grappled
with the farmer who set off the ex-
plosive by firing rifle into the rear
of his automobile. The detonation,
which killed both Kehoe and Huyck,
set off the dynamite placed in the
basement, burying the teachers and
pupils under tons of debris.
Panic ensued among the school chill
dren with the first rumble of the blast
outside Terrified, both teachers and
pupils rushed to the exits, only to be
caught beneath the falling walls and
ceiling loosened by the second blast.
Some leaped to the ground from lower
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
NOTORIOUS OUTLAW AND BAND
LOOT TWO BANKS IN OKLAHOMA

BEGGS, Okla, May Is Up -
Playing Il return engagement in
his old home town, Matthew
Kimes, notorious outlaw, invaded
Beggs at the head OF band Of
eight other robbers today, looted
two banks of nearly $lS,000 and
shot their way out, leaving the
town marshall dead and wOHs-
an who apparently frustrated the
robbery OF a third bank prob
ably fatally wounded.
Officials of both looted banks
said the leader Of the bandits
undoubtedly was lkimes, wilI-O-
fhe-wisp young desperate whose
sensational exploits have been a
modern parallel of the careers OF
Jesse James and AL Jennings.
Dashing into the little tOwr
this morning in three meteor cars,
the nine members of the gang
divided into groups and drove up
to the three banks. Two of the
banks, The Farmers National aud
The First National were invaded
Immediately.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19

Young Kimes led the bard
that robbed. the Farmers Ma
tiOnal Bank OF Beggs of $4,000
year ago.
Throw up your hands," came
the command almcst Simultan-
eOusly in the two banks, ana
employees and others in both In
stitutiOns complied. Both groups
then began a systematic search
for money. Mrs. Charles Camp
bell, shopper. left her chit
dren in an automobile ard ran
into a pool room crying thn
alarm. VI. c. McAnalIy, mar
shall, went Immediately to the
Farmers National Bank, arriving
just rs the robbers were emerg-
ing. Drawing his pistol, Nc
Anauy opened fire on the racing
figures, and a hail OF bullets
answered him, one piercing his
breast AND killing linn instantly.
Mrs. Campbell was struck III
the head by Il bullet.
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
DE- IA HUERTA AND FOUR OTHERS
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO
EXPORT MUNITIONS INTO MEXICO

not yet received any warrants in
connection with the Tucson charges
and had not been notified Of the
case.
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19

TUCSON, May 10 (A0-Two Mexl-
cans, Louis Gayou. alias NJ. EspinoSa
and Francisco FerriZ, alias Francisco
Ferris, are under arrest here, cnargs
cd with conspiracy against the Unit
I'd States, with exporting arms and
amnlunitions to Mexico, and three
others, including Adolfo De Ia
Iiuerta, former provisional president
ct Mexico, are similarly charged.
The others named in the con-
spiracy by federal agents are All
fonso Gomez Morentin, alias AL
Calif.: Enrique Breceda, alias w. B.
Hamilton, San Antonio, Texas, and
Adolfo De La Huerta, Los Angeles.
Gayou and FerTiz we're arraigned
here this afternoon before United
States Commissioner Edwin F.. Jones,
and were placed under $4,000 bond
pending hearing June 3.
Anselmo Bartez and Dolores Con
zales, two Indians. who were arrest
cd with the Mexicans by federal or
ficers are being held as material
witnesses.
The complaint specifically charges
the five men with making shipments
Of arms and munitions from Los An
gales and San Antonio to Tucson,
Ariz., Tor the purpose OF smuggling
them across the border. The ship
ments, according to the complaint,
5, and two on May Ia, and one from
san Antonio, May II.
The first shipment from Los An
yelcs included IL boxes containing
},C00 rounds Of 80 caliber bullets
md 4,OO0 rounds of 7 nillimeter
cartridges. One May IA shipment is
alleged to have been shipped from
Morentin to Ferriz at Tucson con-
listing of three boxes containing ten
Xrag -JorgenSen rifles, while another
inilar Shipment was also made. The
complaint further alleged that Ship,
nent FROM San Antonio was made
May IL, from Breceda TO the Tucson
defendants.
hdolfo De LIE Huerta is alleged to
have issued and delivered 10 Gayou,
1apers authorizing him to act as his
| agent in the furtherance OF reVOlll-
ionary plans.
On May 2 Gayou is further charg-
I'd with transmitting telegrans and
etters to Alfonso Gomez Morentin
1t LOS Angeles, instrdcting him TO
procure and ship to him here cer.
| ain rifles and munitions.
The arraignment Of the two men
his afternoon followed the arrest OF
our men Monday night by federal
agents. A. that TINE no announce
nent of tie arrest was made public,
and attempts were made by federal
Ulcers to keep the matter a secret.
1ne four men were merely booked
1T headquarters as federal prisoners -
LOS ANGELES, May 18 Up -
Adolfo De La Huerta, former proyi-
sional president OF Mexico, at his
home here today denied both that
he had been involved in attempts to
transport arms into Mexico or that
lie had any knowledge OF charges
'lled against him and tour others at
Tucson, Ariz.
| He reiterated his often-repeated
statement that he is observing the
neutrality laws Of the United States
If federal officers wish to question
him. De La Huerta said he would
be at his home ready to receive
Them at any TIM.
Both the Los Angeles department
Fof Justice agents and the United
Estates marshaTs office said they had
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
PROFESSOR LEFT 500, 900

OAKLAND, Calf, May 18 (R.-The
will of the late Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
president emeritis of the University of
California, who died recently in Vienna,
was filed for probate here today re-
vealing that his estate consisted of
personal property valued at 100000
and that his widow, Mrs. Amey w.
Wheeler, is his sole beneficiary.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
70 F. WATER
WALL SWEEPS.
VALLEY.
Telephone Company Warns
One Town Preventing
Loss of@Life.
WRECKS HOUSES
Fate Of Other Communities
In Path of Flood I'm
: known; Wires Down.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. May l8 tAp
= Two Wyoming towns are under
water, one of them completely wiped
out by TIE flood let Loose at l1;3G
9 clock this morning when the GroS
Verltre slide dam gave way.
First direct reports from the al
fected area came in late this eve-
mig from Mr. Nunoy, merchant OF
Wilson, Wyo., 18 miles down thu
river from the dam, who said the
water, at that time was four feet
deep in The lobby OF the Wilson
hotel. He also said that houses
were being washed away and that
the inhabitants were rushing to the
highlands for safety.
WILSON, Wyo., May 1G (9-Elght
lives were lost when wall OF water
from what is known as the Slide :
cam in the Gros Ventre river swept
over the little town OF Kelly, about
25 miles from here about noon to-
Cay.
Roaring down its tortuous course.
the flood reached Wilson about two
hours later in the form OF a wall ot
weter 20 feet high that spread over
the banks of the stream until the
river, at this point, was one and one
half miles wide. No lives were lost
ir. Wilson for the telephone COM
pany, IN Independent line, had man
aged to issue warning OF the ap-
preaching flood.
Early tonight the FLOOD was ap-
preaching Swan valley, still further
down stream, but had not reached
that point up to 7 o'clock.
The dead:
Max Edick farmer.
Mrs. Smith, sister OF Mrs. Lovejoy.
Mrs. May LoVejoy.
j. F. Alrny.
Three members of the Needle or
Knedy family.
An unidentified hired man, work
ing for Mr.. Edick.
Word reaching here in fragnentary
form, for telephone lines are down
and highway communication has
been cut in several places, is to the
effect that only store and church
are left standing at Kelly,
Kelly is town of about IS per-
SONS living in homes scattered along
the river bottom.
The flooG came from natural
dam formed two years ago when
slides, ioosened by earthquakes, swept
down the sides of, ana across the
Cros Ventre valley, about four miles
above Kelly, to form natural dam
in the river. Soon after the dam
was formed, it was examined by d
number of engineers, officials of the
United States government and Idaho
and Wyoming state officials who be
lieved that, on account of the large
rocks and other debris i'll its con-
struction, it would not be source
|of danger.
The flood today was without warn
ing, as far us may be aScertained
and Kelly was engulfed as the vas
volume of water swept over the town
Other cities and towns in the patti
Of the o1lrusning flood have beer
warned by telephone and othel
means with the result that it is be.
lieved no further loss OF life may pt
| expected.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
SCHOOL HOUSE DYNANlITED; 38 KILLED
Dam Bursts; Two Towns Wiped Out; 8 Lives Los
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Flood Suffering Told
Of By Hero Wo Saves
Lives of 1853 Persons

ALEXANDRIA, La, May 18
tH9. - The Mississippi valley
flood has brought a new con-
ception of the amount of Suf-
fering humanity can bear.
w. r. Clark, of Alexandria,
World war veteran, accredited
with saving 168 lives in the
Bayou DeS CLASSES sector, de-
clared today he had never wit
messed so much distress within
space of two days as he saw
last Sunday and Monday.
A child was born in his small
boat as he was carrying the
mother to safety. A man and
his two children were drowned
before Clark's eyes when the
house they were on toppled over
into the waters after he rescued
the mans wife.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
SEEK woMAN,s PARDON

DES MONIES, Ia, May 18 GA
pardon for Anita Whitney, whose con-
viction under the California syndical-
ism law was upheld Monday by the
United States supreme court, is to be
sought by a group of prominent social
workers.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19

Copper steady; electrolytic
spot and futures 13. Lead
quiet; spot 6.65.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-19
Six Women Killed And
Many Injured BY Boy
Tanrpering With Brake

+ BERLIN, May 18 tP.-Many
+ persons were killed, IL seriously
: and many slightly injured at
: Cassell today through small
+ boys prank. Six of those killed
: were women.
!. Finding a crowded tram car
at the top of an incline momen-
tarily deserted by the driver, a
: school boy began tampering
+ with the brake. The car started
and, gaining speed, rushed to
: the bottom of the incline, where
|. it crashed into an iron scat
: folding and turned over into a
: ditch.
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