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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
MAN TO BATTLE
HICKS TOCOME
FROM FL PASO

Lieutenant Luongo, athletic officer
at Camp Jones, announced last eve
ming that first class fight card
will be staged at the Service club at
the camp on December 49, The
arrangements for this card have been
held up because of the inability of
equal to going a good fight with
Battling Hicks In the big fracas
on Thanksgiving day Hicks was put
into the ring for the main event
against WhirlWind Jett and Whirl-
wind could not stay with his to
any great extent.
Hicks is generally regarded a first
class bush league fighter. He has
a long record of knockoutS and takes
all the punishment necessary without
getting groggy. The dope at present
is that boy is to be imported to
try his luck against the snappy Hicks
The Ell Paso training camps are being
combed and the promoters reported
late yesterday that they expected to
be able to secure man who will
at least stay in the ring with Hicks
through enough rounds to make the
fans like it.
While the heads OF the arrange
ments committee for the battle re-
fused last evening to discuss rumor
that the boy coming from Ell Paso
is already known and is likely 20
knock Hicks out OF the ring there
are many fans in the city who are
betting that this is the case. Just
who the hard hitting gent could be
has not been intimated but the army
men have promised that the fight
will feature only good boys who are
willing to go in and take what comes
their way.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
ALL STAR SOUTH
GRIDIRON TEAM
READY FOR |. A.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Dec. 16 up =
From throughout Dixie tonight, 10
football players representing the senior
classes of southern conference schools,
assembled here as the first all-star
eleven ever to represent the south.
The southerners will play an all-star
Pacific coast team in Christmas day
charity game at Los Angeles.
Under the tutorage of Coaches Wal
lace Wade, Alabama, Dan McGugin
of Vanderbilt and Bill Alexander of
Georgia Tech, the Dixie team will go
through brief drill on Denny field,
Alabama stadium, before they entrain
tomorrow for California.
Although without the, services Of
Nash and Shiver, powerful University
of Georgia ends, who have announced
they will not be able to make the trip,
the team will lack neither speed and
drive on the offenSe nor power on the
defense. Wingmen inclUded in the
aggregation lare SPOTS Of Washington
and Lee, Crowley of Georgia Tech,
and Creson of Vanderbilt.
Spears, ace of the Vanderbilt back
field, will be counted on to lead the
attack of the southerners.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17

geles at .6:05 p. m. daily, arriving at Ell
Portal 10 a. m. the following morning
Dining cars operated between Merced
and El Portal will serve breakfast.
More people now visit Yosemite in
winter" McGinnis said "than did in
summer only few years ago. Even
tourists coming west to avoid the
rigors of winter plan a week or two in
Yosemite, where winter sports includ-
ing sleighing, skating and SNOWFALL
parties, are found under agreeable
climatic conditions and amid the
worlds grandest scenic wonderland"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
SHIELD TEAMS in
CONTEST TONIGHT
ON BISBEE ALLEY

Bowlers Of the Y. M G. A. shield
team will, travel to Bisbee tonight to
play the second round OF the match
between the teams of the two asso-
Citations. The local Steam now has
a lead of 1877 pins in the match and
they are going into the contest this
evening confident OF retaining the
lead and hopeful OF widening the
margin.
The personnel of the team making
the trip this evening is Smith, Hill,
Struthers, Pollak, Meiser, Lewis,
Evans, Negri, Cooper and Hinton,
The team will be accompanied by
Secretary r. M. Petersen of the
association and some others inter-
ested in the bowling.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
JUNIOR LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION
RETAINS TITLE ON FOUL IN l4TH

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (R)-Smashed
to the canvas three times for long
counts, groggy and bleeding from
cuts in his eye, nose and lips, Tod
Morgan, game little junior light
weight champion from Seattle, Wash,
stuck to his guns tonight to save his
title on foul in the 14th round
from Joe Click, vicious body puncher
from Brooklyn.
Click was disqualified when a right
smashed into Morgans groin after
two minutes and nine seconds OF
fighting in the 14th round.
Morgan went down for a count
of nine in the second round when
Click lasl1ed him suddenly with a
right uppercut to the stomach.
Morgan claimed foul, $4,000 fans IN
the arena yelled support of his claim,
but the bout continued. Twice in
the fifth session, the champion
crashed to the floor, the first time
from a left hook to the body the
second from another right that
zoomed into the stomach Morgan
came up at eight after the first
blow and, although the bell rang at
the count of eight on the second
knockdoWn, Click continued to punch
the champion Justify until hauled
away by the referee.
Keeling about the ring drunk from
punches, his face twisted as if in
pain, Morgan pulled himself together
to go down like champion, with
colors flying. Through four rounds
TN1i0ly I1oY hi,
never able to put him on the floor,
until blood streamed from cuts in
Tod'S lips, a cash over his left eye
was streaming, and his nose just a
crimson smear.
Morgan blindly forced the fighting,
dove forward into terrific body pun
ishment and in as courageous a stand
as the huge Garden ever saw, finally
turned the fighting in his favor.
The furious battling furnished the
strange spectacle of a home product
whipping champion apparently
beyond chance of loss, yet the crowd
cheered every move of the fading
titleholder, roaring him on to gamer
stands and finally standing for ten
minutes to rock the building with
cheers when Click was disqualified
for a palpably low punch in the 18th
round.
Last December Tod belted Click in
good measure t0 retain the crown In
a Is round go.
In the seni-final, also Is rounds,
Corporal Izzy Schwartz, phantom OF
the army, outscored Newsboy Brown,
of Sioux City, Iowa, throughout, to
win recognition in New York state
as the holder of the flyweight cham
pionship, vacated recently by Fidel
Labara
Benny Schwartz, Baltimore bant-
amweight, outpointed Johnny Erick-
son., of New York, in ten rounds.
Schwartz weighed III, Erickson 1161a.
Marty G al1ag gher,e Washington
heavyweight, scored a technical
knockout over Pete Hackett, of New
York, in the second round of four
round preliminary.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17

Dispatch Telephones-8l and 80.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
YANKS, GIANTS
ARE AVOIDED IN
BASEBALL DEAL

NEW YORK, Dec 16 P--The
Yankees and Giants may have one
Or two baseball deals in the fire,
but the evidence OF the midwinter
baseball pow-wow just closed en-
phasizes the fact that none of the
other IA major league outfits are
strengthen either of the powerful
New York clubs.
It is significant that the Yankees
and Giants are the only clubs that
have failed so far to figure i'll the
off-seaSon trading.
The three day parley here developed
some of the briSkest, activity by the
baseball David Harums in years, but
most of them showed distinct
tendency to avoid anything like
negotiations with either John McGraw
or Miller Higgins. The mere men
ton of giving the Yankees anything
like a ''breaka provoked shudder
among at least half dozen man
ayers.
There is considerable foundation
for this apprehension. In the last
seven years the Yankees have col
lected five and the Giants four
penants out Of the total of IA dis
tributed The Senators, Cardinals.
and Pirates have been the only clubs
to- break up the metropolitan march.
If Kiki CuyIers doesn't "burn up
the National league IN his new Chi
cago uniform next season, Joe Nc
Carthy, y boss of the Cubs, will be
sorely disappointed.
Cuyler, Joe holds, gives the Cubs
the greatest outfield in the game,
with Hack Wilson and Riggs Stephen
son to support the fleet ex-Pirate.
7 "I.ook 'em over" Mccarthy invited
while here, Stephenson led the
league last season in doubles and
was inside the first five Leading
hitters with a mark of .344. Wilson
led in home runs and was right
behind Paul Waner in runs batted in.
''Cuyler was in the lead in stolen
bases until he was injured and then
kept out of the game. He will lead
the league next year in that de-
partment and in most everything
else He's one of the greatest natural
players in the game"
Cuyler, it may be vouchsafed,
won't bat second in the Cub lineup.
1t was Kiki's superstition against that
spot in the batting order that figured
in his being benched by the Pirates.
Mccarthy intends to put Cuyler third,
the outfielder's favorite position.
Jimmy Hamilton, now manager OF
Nashville in the Southern Association,
had Cuyler on his club in 1922 when
he won the South Atlantic Association
pennant for Charleston, S. G. When
he moved to Nashville he took Cuyler
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17

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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY. MORNING DECEMBER u lg7
YOSEMITE TO HAVE
ALL-YEAR SERVICE

The Yosemite valley will be lined
with San Francisco and Los Angeles
by overnight sleeping car service every
night in the year, commencing De-
cember II, according to F. S. McGinnis,
passenger traffic manager for South
ern Pacific company.
Through sleeping cars will leave San
Francisco at 40 D. m. and Los An
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
BISBEE QUINTET
COMES FOR GAME
AT GYM TONIGHT

Basketball fans will have a chance
to see what is expected to be a
snappy contest at the Y. M. G. A.
gymnasium this evening when the
local quintet plays with the Bruins,
of Bisbee. The game will be started
at 8 o'clock and the local players are
looking forward to a real contest.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
VANITY Is ANCIENT.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. Is R-The
women of Mesopotamia, 54OO years
ago. wore gold hair nets and changed
their coiffures to keep .abIeast of the
times, G. Leonard WoolIey, head of
the joint expedition to Ur of the
CIialdees of the British museum and
the University Of Pennsylvania mu-
scum, said in a report made public to-
night.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17

with him.
"This superstition OF not being able
to hit second is not new with Cuyler, %
said Hamilton when he was in New
York during the baseball meeting.
''He told me at Charleston that he
could not hit in second place and
said, We'll, if you can't hit second,
you can hit third"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
BOWLING SCORES

American Legion: j. Cohen SGT, F.
Lindner Eat, D. Cooper 405, c. Ed
wards 288, r. Hoyal 432, total 2099.
Antlers: Handicap IA, Farber 476,
Mrs. Farber 387, G. Garcia 1885, H.
Caldwell 487, N. Caldwell 403, total
2293.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17
oUTPoINTs o'DoNNELL

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. Is [HJ-Sam-
my Mandell Rockford, ILL.,, light
weight champion of the world, easily
outpointed Johnny O'Donnell, st
Paul, in ten rounds here tonight The
title was not at stake, as both men
were over the lightweight limit of
135 pounds. Mandell weighed 1876 ga
and O'Donnell 1876 1-2.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-17

Dispatch TelephOnes-al and 80.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-03
BEAU GESTE" is
GIVEN VERIFY
BY LEGIONNAIRE

Beau Geste," Major Percival
Christopher Wren's thrilling mystery
story Of the French foreign legion,
which comes to the Grand next Sat
urday for two showings only, at
2:3O ana 8:15, was insured against
any errors In technicalities during
it's filming.
The insurance was Lieutenant
Louis Van den Ecker, who served
eight years in the foreign legion
and later in the World war with the
9th Alpine infantry. He actually
fought in the very scenes duplicated
en- the screen and watched every
eetail during "Beau Gestes" MAX
ing.
Lieutenant Van den Ecker has re-
ceived five major citations, being a
recipient of the Legion of Honor,
Croix Gle Guerre the Colonial Medal
Moroccan Medal and the Polish War
Cross.
He joined the legion when but
1S and took part in the Algeria,
Sahara and Morocco campaigns, Van
cen Ecker fought in Indo-China
against robber bands and in Ding
Dong against pirates. After the
armistice he took part in Poland's
fight for independence.
The company's own symphony or
chestra will interpret the musical
score written by Hugo Reisenfeld
for BEAU Geste.''
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-03
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH BUILDS
$4,000 ANNEX

Announcement of plans for con-
structing an addition to the First Bap-
tist church at a cost of approximately
$4,000, was made yesterday by Rev. Ben
Matthews, the pastor. Work on the
addition Will start Immediately.
The addition will connect with the
main church building and will become
| a part of it. The addition will be built
of the same material as the present
church building and when completed
the present building and the addition
will form one large structure.
The addition will contain one large
room, 80 by 40 feet, on the first floor
and above will be a room 40 by 20
feet. The large room on the first floor
opens on. to the main auditorium of
the church, increasing the seating ca
pacity.
The addition will be used as a Sun
day school classroom and as BAN
quet hall for church socials and par
ties. There will be no partitions built
in the main room and screens will be
used to separate the different classes
on Sundays.
The addition is to be built on the
north side Of the present building and
| construction will start at once. Crush
ed rock for use on the job has already
arrived. Ed Powell is experimenting
the work Of construction.
With operations being started inn
mediately the project is expected to be
| finished within go days and ready for
occupancy by May 1, at the outside.
One of the features of the new ad-
dition will be modern kitchen for
use in preparing refreshments for par
ties and socials held in the church
'tThe attendance at both Sunday
school and the church services for the
past two Sundays has been greater
than at any time since I arrived here"
Rev. Matthews said yesterday Fhe
increase in attendance warranted the
expansion of the building"
Rev. Matthews has been pastor of
the local church since June ] of last
! year, answering call to the pulpit
here from Phoenix. He is native
Missourian.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-03
Shipments Of Ore
Through Douglas In
Month Make Big Total

The estimated value in Mexican
gold of ore shipped through the
ports of Aqua Prieta and Douglas
from Mexico during the month or
February amounted to $2,935,O0O, aco
cording to figures released here yes
terday.
This figure showed decrease
from the previous month when ore
imports were valued at $3,203,000
The Pilares mine, near NacozarI,
shipped a great per cent of the
ore The Pilares mine shipped 5,1Sc
tons during the month.
The shipments from other mines
in Sonora were: El Figre, 415 tons;
san Nicolas, 21 tons; Montaneza, q
tons; Estrella, 131 tons; Rosales, AZ
tons; Veterron, Al tons, and La
Carload, AZ tons.
A large part OF the ore shipments
was smelted in Douglas.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-03
Hold Dress Rehearsal
For Deacon Dubbs 7,
Class Play, T onight


The dress rehearsal for the junior
tonight and the final production for
tomorrow night at the Grand theatre
The curtain will be drawn at 8:15 D. M
Everything points to a very success
full play and the cast is ready to give
their best interpretation. This three
act comedy drama is full of humor
and the way these youthful actors and
actresses put it across" will delight
any audience. The lines are spicy and
there is plenty of swift action.
In the plot jolly, middle-aged
widower from Sorghum Center, state
of West VirgiEny, decides to visit his
nephew, Amos Coleman and the play
concerns itself with the laughable ad-
ventures of the deacon in the village
and the city. Amos is in love with
Rose Raleigh, the brave little school
ma am, VINO is something of a mystery
to the villagers.
Her little. farm is about to be sold
at auction as the result of a fore
closure suit, but Amos and the deacon
raise enough money to cover the note.
Rawdon Crawley, in looking over
y
of ore on the place Crawley decides
to bid OH the farm and has unlimited
capital ab his control. The deacon
pushes Crawley into an old we'll and
sitting on the cover calmly bids $4,000
and the farm reverts to it's original
owner, Rose Raleigh.
Several weeks elapse and the we'd
ding morn of Rose and Amos arrives.
Rose had spent three years in the city
and during this time had married Raw
don Crawley, but he had deserted her
and she had returned to her little cot
tage and began to teach school She
thought Rawdon had been killed so
she promised to marry Amos Coleman.
In the meantime, the deacon is smit-
ten by the mature charms of Miss
Philipena Popover, and tries to pro-
pose in ludicrously funny scene on
the morning of Roses wedding.
Many pranks are played on the mid
dle-aged couple by Trixie Coleman, the
village cut-up, who steals Miss Phili-
pena's headgear and poses as the OBJ
iect of the deacons affections. Raw
don Crawley turns up unexpectedly at
Roses wedding ceremony, but he is
arrested and taken away by the ever
present deacon Rawdon escapes from
the jail and interrupts a husking bee
held in honor of the return of the
deacon from New York. Rawdon is
killed in railroad accident and the
play closes with the deacon planning
a honeymoon for four back to the state
o. West Virginny
Much additional comedy is furnish
ed during the action of the play by
the bibulous Major McNutt, and the
efforts of the Swede girl to make the
farm hand, Deuteronomy, pop. the
question.
Country songs, country dances and
plenty of action characterize the ad-
ventures of Deacon Dubbs." Yennie
Yensen and Deuteronomy are a sure
cure for the blues"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-03
BRITISH PREMIER
Sees ANGRY MOB
OF WELSH MINERS

CWM, Wales, March 2 (F9--An angry
demonstration that ended with half
hearted attempt Of a group of miners
to rush his car today, met Premier
Baldwin when he and Mrs. Baldwin
came here TO express condolences for
Yesterdays mine disaster in the Ebb-
wvale marine colliery, which is now
believed to have taken a toll Of 81
lives.
why don't you so down in the mine
yourself?" was one of the cries shout
ed amid boos, at the premier, as he
and Mrs. Baldwin left the mine offices,
where they had inquired about the
rescue work, going on all day, and to
express sympathy for the stricken.
ThJ prime minister and his Wife
emerged from the office to go to
their car, they were surrounded by a
group of several hundred persons. Get
back to your pigs was one cry
shouted, referring to Premier Bald
wins favorite occupation of breeding
pigs on his Worcestershire farm.
TRAITOR" was another cry hurled at
him.
In the midst of a bombardment OF
ordinations in Welsh, one man in an
excited voice cried in English What
about the men lying in the black VEIN!
The prime minister and his wife for
a short time waited in the face OF the
hostility for their car to be brought to
them Mrs. Baldwin appeared deeply
agitated and clung to her husbands
arm, while the premier pale and also
evidently agitated, continued smoking
his pipe AS they were preparing to
enter their car, some one shouted:
"Down him." and a half-hearted at
tempt of some of the miners to rush
the car was made, but was frustrated
by the police.
Despite the demonstration, the prime
minister and Mrs. Baldwin later visit
ed several of the stricken homes and
extended their sympathy to women
who had lost husbands or sons.
Evan Davies, member of parliament
accounted for the demonstration
against the premier by the fact that
the men and women of the mining
community were overwrought by the
strain of the terrible experiences
through which they had gone as re-
suit of the disaster.
One of the men, rescued from the
mine yesterday, after the explosion,
which caused the disaster, died today,
bringing the death toll to so assum-
ing that the % men entombed in the
so-called black vein are dead Vir-
tually no hope is held out for the lat
ter, but rescue attempts were contin-
ued nevertheless.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-03
MOTHER-DAUGHTER BANQUET TO
BE HELD TONIGHT AT Y. W. C. A.

With room for $50 women and
girls, which is less than were served
at last years banquet, a large grouT
Of mothers and daughters are ex-
pecting to enjoy the dinner and
program Of the community mother
and daughter banquet to be given
Thursday evening at the Methods,
church under the auspices of the Y
w. c. A. Those expecting to come
are warned by the committee In
charge to purchase their tickets from
one of the committee or at the Y
w. c. A. at once. IF it is not possi-
BILE to do this, reservations may be
made by calling 795 and the tickets
Sc reserved will be. held by name
and they can be asked and paid for
at the door the night of the banquet.
An attractive color scheme of REQ
white and blue will be carried out
in decorations and favors with the
white and blue emplematic of the
Young Women's Christian assocIa-
ton and all three colors as the ma
tional colors of the country
An always popular feature of the
mother and daughter affairs is the
singing of various stunt and club
songs by the girls. A new song
book will make available the worGs
of these songs so that mothers may
join with their daughters in singing
these amusing little songs. Those
present at last years banquet win
recall with amusement the life his
tory of Polly and what she did
at each stage of her career as we'll
as the song about the mother who
tried by all different gifts to bribe
her daughter to do her spinning
until she promised her just one
more thing and the girl found our
suddenly It was no longer painful.
This little German folk song con-
tains secret all mothers will want
to know How many will get
caught ''under the spreading chestnut
tree?"; how many mothers can an
swer "Are You Camel?"; or if a
sibilant IS. U. s." We're to be passed
down the table it is to be hoped
they would obey and suit UP
straight
An interesting program will include
a short address by Miss Lucille LIP
pitt, of New York City, several musi-
cal numbers, toasts in miniature by
presidents of the various girl clubs
and one by mother, and a simple
little pageant
Buy your ticket or telephone in a
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-03
Tucson Map Shows
Route She Walked to
Douglas From Shack

Aimee Semple Mcpherson and the
little yellow sticker is gaining for
Douglas more advertising than any
one thing that has ever happened here
or elsewhere" This was the state
ment Wednesday of J. w. Tardy, pres
ident of the Borderland Climate club,
and the originator of the Where SHE
Walked" stickers. Tardy is now ad-
vocating the painting of huge sign
on the bald, solid rock slope of Mig
gerhead mountain, using thd words
from the middle Of the yellow sticker.
Such sign could be seen for 40 miles
and would cap the climax in construc-
tive booster advertising, Tardy says.
The Climate. club chief tells Of see
ing a sign occupying the entire side
of building in Tucson. This sign is
a road map of the state and was placed
there by Tucson garage. Every
town in the state is shown on the
road map and each town has simply
it's name on the map and nothing more
with the exception of Douglas and
Aqua Prieta. Where the roads wind
down to Douglas on this big sign the
words "Where SHE Walked" appear
and south and west Of the dot show
ing Aqua Prieta is a winding trail
depicted as the trail Aimee walked
over and at the end of this trail is
the SHACK"
Tardy points out that this big map
is placed where everyone driving
! through Tucson may see it. 1t was
placed there by Tucson garage man.
The map gives no advertising to any
town in the state except Douglas and
no particular mention would have been
made of this city if it had not been
for Aimee.