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Evening star., 1927-05-21
BUILDING PERMITS
DROP 13PER CENT
Reports from SOB Sources
Show Decline in Figures for
Month of April.

Building permits for April in 500
places reporting to the S. w. Straus
& Co. national monthly building sur
vey showed loss from April 1926, of
nearly 13 per cent. The April total
for these places. representing more
than 20 per cent Of the population of
the country. was $391.179.762, COM
pared with S449, ,1411S7 in April. 1926.
and S399 4S6. 273 in March this year.
With the fourth month Of the year
thus showing the same proportion of
loss which was revealed in January,
the building permit volume for the
first third of the year develops a
shrinkage of between $3.50 10000 and
s200,0000 600 from the first third of
1926.
The 25 leading cities which for the
first quarter Of the year were slightly
ahead Of LAST year, in April showed
loss Of 10 per cent from April, 1926,
and an IS per cent decline from April.
1925. The group also declined 3 per
cent from March this year.
Washington Shows Loss.
Among the cities in the first group
which showed April losses were De
troit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Washington, d. c.; Boston.
Newark. Baltimore. ST. Louis, Pitts
burgh, Evanston, ILL.,, and Columbus.
Ohio. The April loss in Greater New
York was $11 .G05,000. about il per
cent, with decline also from March.
this year, Of s per cent. New Yorll's
loss for the four months IS 50, $50 259.
Chicago continued to gain. as it has
since November, 1926, and reported
an April increase of G per cent. Chi
Cago's gain for the first four months
is $29, ,751 800. Other cities in the first
group which showed April gains in
clude Milwaukee, Cleveland, Cincinnati
and Flint. Mich, in the Central West:
Buffalo, Yonl<ers. Louisville Miami
Birmingham and Portland, Greg, and
Seattle in the Pacific West.
Material Prices Decline.
The downward trend in building
material prices continued in April.
Softening Of the market was espe-
cially pronounced in lumber The
Mississippi River food. however. has
curtailed the production of Southern
timber, and it is expected that this
will affect the price. Common brick
declines were reported al Los Angeles,
Seattle and Detroit.
Stabilized wage scales with practi-
Evening star., 1927-05-21

general malaise. 'as though one had
been on a spree" he says. Where
the bees get the toxic nectar is still
an unsettled question. but suspicion
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
VICE PRESIDENT
IRISH COUNCIL
IS SASSASSINATED
Ireland Generally Remains
Calm AS Hunt Continues
For Assassin

DUBLIN, 1relanc, july IL R-
While the Irish free state mourns
the death of Kevin O'TIiggins, the
government is making every effort
to find and punish his assassins
Civic guards made nine arrests in
Dublin today of men suspected OF
completely or in the actual murder
They will be arraigned in the police
court tomorrow.
No new light however, has been
thrown or the motive for the crime
The republican leaders have publicly
Irepudiated responsibility for it. On
the other hand, fears that the as
sassination OF the vice president OF
the council might have q serious
Iaftermath in the way of disturbances
have happily not been fulfilled IN
Dublin, and Ireland generally re-
mains calm On all sides express
sionS Of horror at the crime and
sorrow over the loss OF a great
statesman and lover of his country
are heard.
Professor John MacNeill, was the
principal witness at the inquest TO-
day. His testimony was purely &,
formal recitation of the tragedy ac
he witnessed it.
The jury returned a verdict OF
wilflll murder and added = a rider,
condemning in the strongest terms
the cruel crime and trusting that
the murderers would be brought to
justice.
Before the body of the minister,
clothed in the habit OF our Lady OF
Carmel, was removed from the home
at Black Rock to the mansion house
for the lying in state, there was o
poignant scene Timothy Healy,
governor general, came to pay his
last respects. Bowling his head over
the bier, the governor was met by
the trembling and weeping widow,
whom he embraced and sought TO
console in her distress.
Huge reverent crowds watched the
transfer of the body to the mansion
house, most Of the women dressed
in black and many weeping. All
heads we're barred as the cortege
passed into the temporary death
chamber. A civic guard of one hum
dred men was stationed outside the
building.
President William T. Cosgrave was
at the head of this mournful pro-
cession. He was followed by the
governor general and the members
of the government and both cham
/ berS of the Dali Eireann.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
Banquet Heralds New
Era of Great Growth;
Boosters Stand Firm

The greatest and most pretentious
southwest was staged at the Inter
national Cafe in Aqua Prieta last
evening in the form of banquet
honoring L. A. Webster, the organizer
who led the Douglas Boosters club
in their drive Tor funds to build the
community tourist hotel.
The meeting embodied fun and the
keenest of wit, with a deadly purpose
expressed in the statement of one
OF the speakers when he said that
the knocker henceforth would have
la hard time in Douglas.
Nearly 100 men, representing the
best interests of the district both
north and south of the border, at
tended the dinner. The addresses,
short and full of high spirit, predicted
unimagi1lable greatness for the dis
! trict through the one spirit, that of
cooperation and boosting.
The full significance CT the power
that comes through organization was
illustrated in story related by one
of the speakers who told of the man
WHO IllCKGQ lily dIlu d 1lOWC1 Will
whip but would not flick hornets
nest because, as he said, the hornets
were an organization.
The knockers OF the community and
I those men well able to give thousands
toward the hotel and who in many
cases gave but a few hundreds were
berated and denounced in the most
eloquent and stinging language.
Pointed expressions bringing before
the gathering the figures of men who
have been financial giants in this
city, who have been dictators to the
people in years past were made and
these men were declared discarded
into the chasm of the dead past to
live and dominate no longer.
George e. Buxton, that booster
without whose presence booster
meeting would lack something need
full, presided at the banquet. He
spoke briefly himself and introduced
each speaker with note of praise
for the efforts of each. No man wh(
did not do his utmost toward thu
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12

attaining of the ambition that has
just been crowned with success was
present and no man who had not
worked untiringly was asked TO
speak.
E. W. Graves, one of the men on
whose efforts the new hotel was first
launched and whose business in
tegrity and stability were held up as
guarantee of the advisability OF
the venture, spoke briefly, opening
the evenings eloquence. The gist of
his speech was that in the building
of the tourist hotel this city has
thrown off the shackles of the past
and of habit and can now join
together and overSubScribe anything
that will be for the good of the city.
The tourist hotel project has served
a great purpose, one beyond the mere
construction of fine hotel. It has
brought to the top the best spirit of
the city and has cenented in eternal
union the highest ideals that CON-
munity can have, those of service and
growth toward greater and better
things.
eloquence with which ne sways juries
tinged last evening with a ragged
dagger-Iike fieceness that bit to the
quick, spoke on "The Man Without
Country" 1t was in his speech
in yelled phrases, thin veil, that
the men who have betrayed their
city, men who have departed anc
have gone to far places to hide their
shame" as his words indicated, were
scourged and damned unutterably. He
characterized the "Nar Without
Country as the man WHO fails to
support his country. his city and his
fellows.
! Robert Hamilton, secretary of the
Bisbee Chamber of Commerce repre-
sented that city unofficially at the
banquet and sounded the new chort
/ of cooperation between the cities tha
has carried on feud since thei
existence. He sounded that note which
has come to be on every man.
tongue, the idea that anything tina
Continued on Page EighD
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
SEPTEMBER |
FIXED AS DAIE
FOR H0P-OFF
Count SOlms-Laubach, FL
nancial Backer, Will Go
As Passenger
TO USE BIPLANE
Aviator Would Take Wife
Except For Three Chill
dren, He Says

BERLIN, July IL, (R)-Otto Koen-
necke, the 35-year-Old war ace, who
bagged 46 enemy planes, caused SEN
Sation today when the announced that
he would be ready to take off from
Tempelhof airdome on September for
San Francisco in a one-motor bi-plane
constructed at the Casper airplane
works at Travefnunde He gave the
public a further surprise when he
stated that he, would be accompanied
Laubach, the 23-year-old German
sportsman who is Koennecke's finan-
cial hacker.
After the German press mad an
nounced his plans prematurely Koen-
necke so completely faded from the
picture that nobody in flying circles
any longer counted on him to make
the flight. Discussing his project the
airman told the Associated Press:
'For years have had flight to
America in mind With this in view
examined every type of machine
reachings Tempelhof field, but failed to
discover machine considered equal
to the task One day last spring a big
Caspar biplane, freight hauler,
dropped in on us. I said to myself:
AThat's my bird It is double-decker
which, for transatlantic flight, I
consider very important, since for
hauling large quantity of gasoline,
one should have the largest portability
and sustaining power possible.
"I went to TraVemunde and flew the
machine repeatedly. found it perfect.
It's junkerS Water-cooled motor eX-
actly meets my wishes as chryStalized
after many years of flying in fog and
other difficult weather. Naturally the
financial question was big one as
money in Germany is tight and the
federal and state governments won't
lend financial support, but through a
third parry mad h acquainanc OF
Coun Solnls Leubach, whose home is
in the southern province of REESE.
'The Count supplied most Ct the
csh while also sank what little saw
ings / had in this undertaking which
we expect will cost $4,000. we buoght
the plane outright
Both Koennecke and the Count are
married and each has three children.
my wife, my boy, aged and my
girl of often have flown with me,
said Koennecke, But my 11s year old
baby boy he's not yet been up. If we
had no children my wife would be
my fellow passenger.
Count Solms- Laubach, who fol
past weeks like myself has been rush
ing about the country buying instru-
ments and other necessary supplies
for the trip is now taking a course II
wireless. We expect to carry radio
with a 62O-rnile radius, which under
favorable conditions may be increased
to 1000 miles, but won't announce az
Byrd did what our wave length viii
be, so our appartus won't be killed by
amateurs calling us as happened tt
the Americans. Only those radio sta
tions with which we wish to commun'
icate will know our wave length"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
CALIFORNIA and
COLO. AGREE
ON RIVER PACT
Senator Phipps Explains
Opposition to Boulder
Canyon Dam

| DENVER, July IL R-California
today presented it's side of the Colo
RADIO river controversy to Colorado.
/ At conference lasting the entire
day the California Colorado river
commission explained Ca1ifornia's
position to Governor w. H. Adams
of Colorado, Senator L. c. Phipps,
long considered an opponent of the
/ Boulder canyon dam project, and
Senator Charles w. Waterman, a
member of Secretary Works fact
finding commission. After the meet
ing members of the commission ex-
press themselves as highly satisfied
with the progress made in clearing
up many of the difficulties hereto
fore misunderstood in Colorado rela-
tive to California's position with
regard to Arizona.
The outstanding declaration of the
day was Senator Phipps' statement
that he was not opposed to the con-
struction of the Boulder canyon dam,
but that he had in the past and
would continue to oppose its con-
struction until such time as the
rights of the people of Colorado were
fully protected Such protection, he
said, was not to be found in the
six state pact, but in the seven state
pact as drafted at Santa Fe.
His explanation of his position,
after he had spent the closing days
of the last congressional session
filibustering against the Swing john
son bill, came as a surprise, and
followed upon an announcement by
C. L. Childers, attorney for the Inn
perial Valley irrigation district that
California favored the seven state
pact above any other proposal that
had been made.
Senator Waterman, in compliment
ing the members of the commission
or. their attitude, assured them that
the Arizona commission had not ex-
pressed any bitterness toward Cali
fornia and expressed the opinion that
if the representatives of the two
states would only get together a
just settlement of the difficulties
between the two states would be
effected without much trouble.
However, feel that you are mixed
completely on the attitude of Arizona
but if Arizona seeks to levy any tax
or tribute on a government project
I'm against it," he added.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
D'lERGH.
TO VISIT ARIZ.
N SEPTEMBER
Atlantic Ace Will Visit
Every State in Union in
His MonopIane
STARTS JULY 20
Tour Will Be Taken To
Promote Aeronautics
Throughout Country


NEW YORK, July II Delivery
state in the union and rs cities will
be visited by Colonel Charles A..
Lindbergh, who will leave here in his
monoplane Spirit OF st. Louis" Oh
a three-months' tour under the aus
pices of the Daniel Guggenheim
fund for the promotion OF aero
nautlcS, it was announced tonight.
Colonel Lindbergh will leave here
July 20, and between that date and
the end of the month, it is planned
for him to visit various New England
cities and Syracuse, N. Y.
The remainder OF his itinerary as
announced tonight is as follows:
Between August and August IS
Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Wheeling,
Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville, Ia,
dianapolis, Detroit Grand Rapids.
Chicago and st. Louis. Ss
Between August rs and 3l-the.
tri-cities, Moline, Davenport and Rock
Island; Milwaukee, Madison, Wis,
twin cities, st. Paul and Minneapolis;
Little falls and Fargo, N. d., Sioux
City and Des Moines, Iowa; Omaha
and Denver.
Between September / and l5-
Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Boise,
Butte, Spokane, Seattle and Port
land.
Between September 16 and 30
San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento
Reno, Los Angeles, San Diego, Tue
son, Ell Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas
Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Between October / and l5-LittlS
Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Birming-
ham, Jackson, New Orleans, jack
sonville, Atlanta, Spartanburg, Win
ston-Salem and Richmond.
Between October I6 and 20
Baltimore, Atlantic City washington,
Wilmington, Philadelphia and New
York City.
Short stops will be made at Erie,
Pa, Springfield, ILL.,, st. Joseph, Mo-.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Lordsburg, NJ NJ,
and Abiline, Texas.
Arrangements for a reception at
each of the cities to be visited have
been made with the respective may
ors. 1t is planned to have Colonel
Lindbergh speak to large represen-
tative audiences with the intention
of building up support OF air mail.
establishment of airports and in
creasing general interest in aviation.
ing general interest in aviation.
Colonel Lindbergh will be accom-
panied by a department. of commerce
airplane which will carry Donald E.
Keyhoe, of the commerce depart
ment who will act as Colonel Lind
berghs personal aide.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
ATLANTIC ACE WILL VISIT ARIZONA
German War Ace Plans Flight Berlin to Frisco
y y. 81 * - y y. y. r. 4. Z. I, 4:
Darkness Falls
Over Great City
In Middle Of Day

~ LONDON, July IL, P-Ecipse-
y like darkness descended on Lon
* don this afternoon when two con-
y verging thunderstorms one from
4 the southeast and the other from
y the southwest, jointly burst over
* the city, accompanied by terrif-
y ic downpour like a cloudburst.
y Low lying parts of the city we're
81 flooded.
y Drawing the lightning flashes
*' Fraulein Thea Rasche, the Ger
y. man flier ascended at Croydon
~ with Mrs. Elliott Lynn, the Brit
y ish flier in the formers dinlinu-
y tive plane for Southampton
4 where Miss Rasch is toernbark
y on the Leviathan for the United
4 States tomorrow and the two ,vo-
r. men outrode the storm and /:
- reached Southampton safely.
81 - ~ * * y * s. * * * S. * *.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12

Copper steady; Elcctro-
lytic, spot and futures
12.621a. Lead, steady; spot
$40.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
NORTHWESTERN AGRICULTURAL
i CONFERENCE DEMANDS RELIEF

In an address tonight, Con-
gresham Charles Erand, of Ohio,
himself d republican, warned
his party that failure to pass
satisfactory legislation might en-
able "tile opposition to avail
itself of this great opportunity"
United States Senator AlDen
w. Barkiey, of Kentucky, said
any legislation would fail "un-
less ;s brings the power of the
government to control its sur
plus SO that it might be fed TO
the markets as the need OF con-
sumption requires"
Congressman L. J. Dickinson
and Gilbert N. Haugen, of Iowa,
the latter cO-authOr of the Nc
Nary Haugen bill, stressed the
condition of the farmer and urg-
ed the principles of the vetoed
bill as the only satisfactory
solution offered.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
: Holy SepuIchre Church
: In Jerusalem Damaged
|: By Earthquake, Report

~ NEW YORK, July II, P'--Pri-
y. vate reports unconfirmed> through
:* regular channels, report the
* church of the Holy Sepulchre III
y Jerusalem, one of the foremost
y. shrines of Christianity, was dam
Y. aged in today's quake. The extent ;
4. of the damage was not indicat-
x: ed.
y The report came in cable
y: gram from Ray Allen, one OF :
y: party OF American tourists in
y Palestine. /;
y Earthquake damaged church /:
y Holy Sepulchre; many buildings"
y the message said "Some fatal ;
y ties outside city. Allen party un-
y injured"
*
4 * ******* * *:Y *******:
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12

ST. PAUL, Minn., July IL H0--
Demands for satisfactory farm
aid legislation at the next ses-
sion Of congress or an over
throw OF the administration in
1928 marked addresses before the
northwestern agricultural confer
ence here today.
In every case speakers endOrs-
ed the principles of the Nc
Nary -Haugen bill, vetoed last
winter by President Coolidge,
and one called on the farmers
To carry on the fight until
"some president signs a bill
embOdying those principles.
While formal resolutions will
not come before the conference
until its closing session tomorrow,
delegates representing farm or
ganizatiOns i'm IA states applaud
ed frequently the references TO
the McNary- -TIangen bill.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
BYRD REVISTTS LANDING PLACE,
ONEVE OF DEPARTUREFOR u. S.

VER- -SUR-MER, France, July
IL R-Commander Richard e.
Byrd and his companions, No
vile, AcOsta and Balchen, paid
farewell visit today to the little
village of Yer sur Mer where
their plane, America, made It's
first landing in Europe ten days
ago, and the entire village turn
ed out to welcome them.
II know you are tired OF
champagne, SO / have made up 6.
cup of tea," was the greet ms.
Mime. Emil Golfer, the lady OF
the house where Byrd slept his
first few winks after the hectic
Atlantic crossing.
The American aviatOrs are
really tired men, as they appear
ed to relish Mime. COiffier's homo
made tea and genuine hoEse7y
welcome better than the speeches.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12

and sparkling wines of the recent
official gatherings.
The village was decorated with
French and American. flags ana
had the appearance OF a festive
occasion. The commander, ac-
cOmpanied by the ever-faithfuI
Balchen, iOurneyed to the light
house, where they were received
by the keeper, Lescaut, part or
whose wardrobe had served to
clOthe at least one Of the air.
men. The journey was a con-
tinnal progress Of acclamatiOn.
Here Byrd was met by Mayor
Bonnet, who impaired the well
come news that the commanders
log book had been found by
gendarnles and sent to the per-
lecture at Caen, where Byrd
might received it back tomorrow.
The loss of the log book had
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-12
KILAUEA REMAINS ACTIVE

HILL, Island OF Hawaii, L. H., July
IL P0-The tremendous subterranean
forces which last Thursday began
forcing their way to the surface
through the ancient Kilauea crater
and spreading hundred acre lake OF
molten lava over the flow OF the
eight-mile wide Halenamau pit TO-
day continued their activities un-,
abated, despite the gradual harden
ing of the surface of the fiery liquod
rock over the widespread bowl
Pocahontas star herald., 1927-03-10
OcOnee

The snow last week kept a lot of
people from putting out their gardens.
Several from around here attended
the program at Charter Oak Friday
night
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Crawford were
Saturday night guests of John Hig-
gins and family.
Mrs. Mira Smiths mother has been
very low for the past month but is re-
ported a little better.
Miss HERNIA Marshall is on the sick
list this week.
C. H. Casey Of Ravenden Springs
was over Friday night to see his moth
er, who is sick.
You, Brakebill writer, will you please
tell me where DOlph Casey is in the
next weeks paper. Please
Harry Smith of Manson spent Sat
urday night and Sunday with his par
ents, II. s. Smiths, of Dalton.
Dalton, you and Ingram quit your
quarreling and make friends. If you
don't. Sheriff Joe Perry Spikes will be
up there hold of you, and then you
will quit your quarreling with one an
other for sure.
| Elmore Jenkins was n Sunday even
! ing guest of Addie Smith.
Come on, Brakebill, we like to hear
| from you.
Vada Cook and Monnie Armstrong
were Monday callers at jess Bakers
The Cow. the SOW and the Hen
Pocahontas star herald., 1927-03-10
Sanders

Some say peaches are killed by the
late snow. We hope not
Mrs. Lena French and children were
visiting at Charley Wells Sunday.
Charley Wells has purchased an in
cubator of a $50 egg capacity. 1t seems
that most everybody is going into the
poultry business.
Those who visited at Mrs Mona
Wells Sunday were Mrs. Matte Ford
and little daughter, Pauline, Mrs.
Grace Fowler and children, Mrs. Maye
Morgan and children, TOmmie Ivy,
Willie johnson, John Haynes and Mrs.
Della Ragsdell and children.
Prof. Lee Rice of 0'Kean was in our
midst Sunday.
Mrs. Gertie Dean and children spent
the week end with her mother, Mrs.
Wilma Bottoms.
Miss Ethel Ford was Sunday guest
at Charley Haynes.
The wedding bells have been ringing
again of late. Gerald EndicOtt and
Miss Bass Jones were married one day
recently and Milas Haynes and Mrs.
Nora Wicker were married last week,
so we heard.
Pocahontas star herald., 1927-03-10
Little Brown School

w. A. Pettigrew and granddaughter,
Winifred. and Glenafay Pettigrew went
to Pocahontas Saturday.
]. f. Taylor Is sick.
Joe Troxler went to Pocahontas ON
business Saturday.
Misses Bessie Taylor and Oracle
Troxler were at Mrs. Gates Sunday.
Miss Mona Il. TrOxler spent Sunday
evening with Miss Elsie Taylor
Little Frank Taylor is back in school
again after an attack of flu.
Frank Gates and Vence Mannings
we're at Mr.. Stevens Sunday.
Vence Mannings was Sunday night
guest of Willis and Luke Taylor.
Duke TAYLOR and Columbus ThOmp-
son were in Biggers Sunday.
Misses Della and Beulah TolliveT
were at Fannie Arnold's Sunday.
Miss Beulah and Myrle TOlliver are
absent from school on account of had
weather.
Mrs. Denton and daughter were at
Mrs. Goodwin's Sunday.
Vence Mannings has been staying al
Frank Gates for the past week.
Miss Ulena Goodwin was at Ray
and Tommy Campbel's Sunday and
Saturday.
Boys and girls you had better get
| TO work. for this is examination week
Mr.. Perryman is moving this week.
We are all wishing for Miss Mildred
Carroll to get the summer school. We
all like her fine.
We have large crowd of pupils in
school for the weather to he so bad
Miss JOnnie TrOXler visited at Alice
Denton's Sunday