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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10
By WILLIAM HARD,

What is the most important subject
getting discussed in the present deep
and dark conferences between the
heads of the public financial systems
of Great Britain, France, Germany
and the United States in the course of
house parties on Long Island. club.
corner encounters in New York City,
and drawn-blind luncheons in Wash.
ington?
This writer unhesitatingly answers:
The power-the actual power or the
supposed power--of the gentlemen
who control the Bank of England and
the Bank of France and the Bank of
Germany and the Federal Reserve
system of the United States to in
nuence the general trend of the prices
or commodities and thus to help to
lower or to help to raise the anna rent
cost of living" for the hundreds of
millions of citizens OF the four out.
standing leading countries of the
world.
Naval Farley Less Important
Compared with such power, the eco.
nomlc Importance of the discussions
now going on between diplomats and
sail ) at Geneva, Switzerland. for
the limitation of the numbers of total
tonnages of naval cruisers can truly
be said to sink to relatively nothing.
That the conversations between our
american officials and Sir Montague
Norman, governor of the Bank of Eng
land; DR.. Charles Rist, deputy gov.
g ernor of the Bank of France, and DIR.
aJaimar Schacht, president of the
bank OF Germany, are, in fact, cover.
ing the topic of prices and the "cost
OF living this writer can assert with
certainty.
1t can also be with equal certainty
asserted that among the other topics
discussed have been the following:
Inc gold reserves of the central
banking institutions of the four coun.
trles' the money exchange movements
between the four countries; the finan-
clal assets held by each Of the four
countries in each of the other three
and the possibility that France NAV
soon join Great Britain and Germany
and the United States in maintaining
The gold standard and a free gold
world market.
Don't Know Why"
The secrecy surrounding the confer.
ences has a perfectly simple human
explanation. 1t was competentIv
stated by one of the most eminent of
New York's private bankers, who, on
being asked why Sir Montague Nor
man and DR.. Rist and DR.. Schacht
were coming to this country, said:
Il will confide it to you. I will
whisper it to you. They don't them
selves know
In other words. the situation is
this:
The so-called central banks" of the
world-like the Bank of England, the
Sank of France, the Bank of Ger.
many and the Federal Reserve sys,
TEN of the United States-find them
selves clothed with powers and en-
dowed with opportunities such as
never before were possessed by ma
tlonal banking institutions in the his
tory OF the world. The heads of
these central banks" are men of very
great ability, but they are only men
and not archangels of pure perfect
knowledge. They are themselves
puzzled as to the proper powers and
proper duties Of the colossal machines
which they are suddenly called upon
10 operate. They are the Lind.
berghs and, Chamberlins and Matt.
lands and Byrds of finance, sitting at
the levers of unprecedented new insti.
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America stands
on the threshold
of a great trans
portation e + a.
New transporta-
ton lines have
come into exist
ence during the
past few months.
More are in the
process of forma.
ton. 1t will, in
my opinion, not
be long befor" air.
ways will stretch
from coast TO
coast and, who
can say, some day
American air lines
may span the
seven seas. The
Army's &c o o d
Will" mission to
Pan.A m e r c a n
cou n t ri g s last
Winter thoroughly
demonstrated the
poSSih litieS of
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civil aeronaut1cS.
There is every in.
dication that even
greater a c c o m.
plishments may
be expected DUR
ing the next II
m o n t h g. I n
Europe the dis
tances b e t w e e n
the centers of
popul a ton are
C o m p a r a lively
short and are
broken by many
in t e r n a t / 0 nal
boundaries and the
flow of commerce
IL localized to a
great extent with
in the several
states.
All of the great
air transport lines
Of Europe have
been operating un-
der a system Of
direct pnveruuacpt
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a & e imagination
has been the sug-
gestion that regu-
lar transatlantic
operation of air
craft Is now with
in easy reach.
The suggestion
is too brightly
optimistic. Won
derful as has been
this Springs dem
onstration Of the
quality Of Amer
lean aircraft and
of the men who
fly them, those
men themselves,
certainly the high
est authorities on
the subject, are
the first to see the
difficulties in the
way Of regular
repetition Of what
has been three
tim e s a c c o M
Nils h q Il. Their
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Routes Will Span Nation
and Seven Seas,
Says Dawson.
By r. TRUBEE DAWSON.

Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation.
" HE transoceanic flights by Lindbergh,
Chamberlin, Maitland Hegenberger
and Byrd have not alone demonstrated
u the progress made in the development
Of airplane motors and airplane designs, but
have proven that the plane is capable OF
bridging long distances over the seas it
is in covering vast areas over land
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Much Yet Must Be Done
to Curb Perils En-.
cOuntered i'm Air.
BY EDWARD r. WARNER.

AssIs0dIt oECItEdTy OF NdVy IUT AVIdtIOh
" HE wonderful flights Of Col Lindbergh,
of Chamberlin and of Comdr Byrd have
served nothing ever did before to
turn public attention upon aviation,
both military and commercial. The military
and naval implications, real or imaginary, have
been the subject of a considerable amount of
discussion, but far more appealing to the aver
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u. S. Offers Great Field
for Development of Air
Transport Service.
BY WILLIAM p. MACCRACKEN, Jr.

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautcs.
| HE United States. with its great distances
between centers of population, its gener'
ally favorable meteorological conditions,
l. it's high standard of living, its active
industry and its dense commerce, offers
wonderful field for the development of sue
cessful air transport service. During the
past year real progress has been made in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10
BY FRANK Fl. SIMONDS.

I n HIS Denver speech the other
day Senator Borah called particu-
lar attention to European events
of the past few weeks. These, in
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The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04
Senator Will Sue
C.. of C.. for Libel

Senator Andrew Bettwy, Santa Cruz
county, announced he would institute
suit for 100000 damages against the
Nogales Chamber of Commerce in con-
nection with the reading in the house
Of telegram from the chamber
labelling Bettwy's joint memorial To
congress a "misstatement of facts.
The memorial prays congress to ap-
propriate money for the paving of the
road between Camp Stephen d. Little,
near Nogales, to the international
boundary line.
Bettwy said he had retained Duane
Bird, mayor of Nogales, as his coun-
sci.
The telegram, read in the house by
Speaker Crawford, said that the me-
mortal had been introduced without
previous consultation with this organ
ization or the board Of aldermen of
this city. We desire to state to you
following a special meeting of the
board of directors of the chamber Of
commerce that the. said memorial is in
every particular misstatement of
facts and if passed to the Arizona
delegation in congress, will jeopardize
the retention of troops at this point,
and adversely affect federal projects
in which this community is vitally in
terested.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04
WarnsAgainst California sGreed
NECKTIE PARTY AT
FLORENCE is CANARD

Eight convicts were not hung at
the Florence prison yesterday And
thereby hangs tale.
A Phoenix newspaper recently
printed a full page story about a
forthcoming ''necktie' party to be held
at the prison. Eight convicts, five of
them Chinese, were to be hanged all
at one time. There were pictures of
the eight men and short account OF
each mans crime All of them were
painted as martyrs.
Copies of the paper reached Tucson
and caused much comment. Four men
organized party and drove to Flor
ence to witness the executions. Ar
rived there, they found the warden
knew nothing of it. All of the eight
men in the death cells have filed ap-
peals of their cases. Not one could be
hanged until the appeals are heard.
Plainly the warden could not arrange
any such party.
The story Of the octuple execution
was a pure invention, to be used as a
part of campaign against capital
punishment.-Tuc Star.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04
THREE PINTS OF BOOTLEG
TOO MUCH FOR MEXICAN

SUPERIOR. - Drinking in rapid
succession, one bottle after another,
until three bottles of questionable
white mule had been consumed, Man
uel Lopez, aged about 45, staggered to
his home in the west end, fell on the
porch and died afew minutes later. A
physician was summoned before death
ensued, but was unable to cope with
the poison. The death of Lopez fol-
lowed payday spree. The dead man
is survived by a widow and four
daughters. TIL eremains were taken
to Miami for burial.
Just what provoked Lopez to drink
such a large quantity of liquor at
zone sitting" is not known His FAM
lily relations were pleasant and it is
not thought that he poured the stuff
into his system with view of COM
mitting suicide. The act was wholly
voluntary and was not prompted by
a wager or in a spirit of demonstra-
ton.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04

up, supervisor after supervisor came
forward as individuals and whispered
in the ears of Sutter Of Cochise, the
senate chairman, and Abel of the
same county, the house chairman, that
"you won't get a cent until you are
rid of Zander and McCluskey."
C. M. Zander is secretary of the
board of state institutions, the cen
tral executive authority of the gov
ernment, and director of the state
highway department. III. S. McClus-
key, former secretary to the COVER
nor, is little Of everything. Just
now, he is in Los Angeles as one OF
an unsalaried commission of three
representing Arizona in negotiations
with California and Nevada over divi-
sion of water and power rights in the
Colorado river. His recess appoint
ment to the state industrial commits
sion is before the senate, which al
ready has held two executive sessions
on it. Between times he is what the
sailor calls Jimmy Legs" very
busy functionary.
1 McCluskey managed the governors
Campaign for reelection. McCluskey
was in close consultation with State
Engineer Lefebvre, when it was first
decided to break the news gently that
the department was hard up. Nc
Cluskey, in fact, wrote the statement
given out by Lefebvre to the press.
McCluskey was the go between for the
governors office during the special
session.
Nevertheless, it is not at all i'm
possible that McCluskey may be con-
/ firmed as an industrial commissioner.
/ Seven senators comprising the COM
mittee on labor and capital reported
/ favorably on his appointment. In ex
J ecutive session last Thursday, he is
/ reported to have been actually con-
firmed. But somebody moved recon
sideration and then it was discovered
that, under the senate rules, day
must elapse before action on the mo-
tion Saturday second session was
held, with no announcement forthcom-
ing at its conclusion.
Evidently there is hesitation to
move one way or the other. Senators
realize that if they reject the nomina
ton, the governor always can say
nothing, wait until the legislature has
gone home and then make another re-
cess appointment, good until the ninth
legislature meets.
Less publicity has been given to
bill introduced by Senator Favour Of
Yavapai, which proposes to write off
65 per cent of the debt owed by
Apache county settlers under the Ly-
man dam. Attempts in one form or
another with the same general end in
view have been blocked by opinions
Of the state supreme court and Attor-
ney General Murphy at two proceed
ing sessions. Laws were passed but
held unconstitutional.
Based on this past experience the
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The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04

Every legislative session is entitled
to one scandal, but the eighth Arizona
legislature, now in the third week of
it's regular session, has opened up
three
The most uproarious OF the trio
centers in the burst Of indignation
over the breakdown of the University
of Arizona Now torn b. suspicion,
bitterness and distrust that begins
with the student body and extends up
ward through the faculty and the
presidents office into the board of
regents, and the governors chair. But
the deepest seated are the state high
way and the Lyman dam investiga-
tions, which reach backward and
downward into the very vitals of gov
ernment finance through Governor
Hunts last two terms, Governor
Campbell's administration and the
reign of Tom Maddox as state engi-
neer Neither political party can
come into court with clean hands and
the possibility for recrimination is
endless.
Here are the facts that forced the
legislature in the double role Of pub
lie prosecutor and grand jury:
/. The state highway department
owes something more than 100000.
The precise figure is in the hands Of
the joint highways and bridges com
mittee of the house and senate, but
has not been made public.
2. There is owing to the state gov
ernment 1881, ,427.91 on the Lyman
dam project in Apache county, IL
miles north of st. Johns. If delin-
quent taxes were added, the total debt
would exceed S1,000,0G0 and not tho
slightest chance Of collecting moro
than a small fraction of it exists.
3. Registered state warrants now
outstanding amount to within approx
imately 100000 Of the constitutional
limitations placed on the state debt
S350,000. One of the best known law
yers in the state has advised the bank
for which he is counsel to cash no
more Of them.
The attitude of the legislature to
ward the highway department is not
hostile. 1t appreciates that the engi-
neering executives now in charge in
herited an incubus of debt, politics and
disorganization, heavy enough to
break the back of an army mule.
Nothing, however, can modify the fact
that housecleaning is long past due.
At the close Of last weeks confer
ence between the joint legislative COM
lnittee and the Arizona supervisors
association, snap vote showed seven
county boards of supervisors favorable
to tho highway departments propos-
ais for an emergency appropriation OF
$625,000 to lift its most pressing debts
followed by successive bond issues for
total of S10,000,000 and a 4-cent
gasoline tax to finance its future pro-
gram. Graham and Pima county
voted no and five boards were not rep
resented.
But as the meeting was breaking
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04
Prescott Woman
Gets z to 10 Years

Louise McKelligan, charged with
the murder of former City Manager
John H. Robinson, whose trial was
scheduled to begin February |, plead
ed guilty to a manslaughter charge
Saturday and faced immediate SEN
tence. Her husband, Eugene T. Nc
Kelligon, jointly charged with Robin
sons death, was found guilty of man
slaughter during the last jury session
at Prescott and is serving a. seven to
ten year term in the state peniten-
tiary
Robinson's body, only partly clothed,
terribly beaten and with three bullets,
was found on the night of August %
last year, near the McKelligOn home
where it had fallen from his car as he
attempted to escape. McKelllgon adj
mitted firing the fatal shots and
beating the man during struggle,
but claimed he fired in defense of his
home and his wife. A robbery and
blackmail motive was pressed by the
prosecution.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04
Want to KnOU Why
Salaries Got Boost

Dclving into an increase in the sal
aries of the state entomologlst and
others in his department, the house
appropriation committee found that
although the minutes of meeting Of
the state board of agriculture and
horticulture, held in January, 1925,
showed motion to raise the salaries,
the minutes themselves never had
been approved.
The salary hikes ranged from $1,000
year for the state entomologist,
Oscar C. Bartlett, to $500 for in
spectors.
The appropriations committee noted
that the seventh legislature STRUCK
that portion of the appropriation bill
pertaining to an increase in salaries
for state employees, but that shortly
before the bill was passed, an appro-
priation of $47, 900 year was includ-
ed as an emergency" appropriation to
establish road inspection stations
and fight an infestation.
The committee brought out by ques-
tioning members Of the agriculture
and horticulture board that shortly
after the passage Of the appropriation
bill, the horticultural board raised the
salaries of 10 employees and hired
seven additional persons. DR.. 7. S
Bishop, chairman of the board, con-
tended that "low salaries paid these
employees placed the state in danger
| of losing them to other states
Mrs. /. Fl. Lee and G. IS. Sorenson
board members, denied that such sal
arxy incroacac had haan sal1thoriZed ac.
cording to members Of the appropria-
tions committee and Governor Hunt
said he never heard of raising any
salaries. Mrs. Lee and Mr.. Sorensor
said certain increases had been au-
thorized but not to the amount OF
$4,000.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04

We sometimes say that the policy
of nations is of two kinds. One is
the far-sighted policy which scans the
whole horizon with wise, penetrating
vision and builds for the long future.
Such policy we call true statesman
ship, requiring rare combination of
high wisdom and keen political sense.
The other deals merely with the inn
mediate future, and is concerned
wholly with considerations of per-
sonal popularity. This we call not
craftsmanship, but political expedi-
ency, and it will fare i'll with the ma
tion which submits itself to such lead
ership. Today the United States is
menaced with leadership of this sort
in more ways than one The con-
gressional activity at the present time
in connection with the so-called
Boulder Canyon project act" is case
in point.
The matter has been before con-
gress in one form or another for sew
eral years. It has been the subject of
study by the United States reclama-
ton service and by the United States
geological survey, so that the more
salient engineering features are ap-
proximately known. The Fundamental;
purpose of the proposed legislation is
the control of the Colorado river, a
wayward stream given to periodic
dissipation which results in damage
to property and danger to life in the
states which border upon it. No one
questions that the river should be put
under guardianship; it is the method
by which this should be done that is
in dispute.
And yet to the unprejudiced observ-
er it is a simple problem, the only
serious complication being that all
discussion of the subject seems to be
tainted with prejudice or politics.
The following facts are clear: The
dominant issue is flood control A
secondary though important purpose
is irrigation both of land belonging to
citizens of the adjoining states and
lands of the United States. The in
habitants of the Imperial Valley in
southern California viii be the most
important beneficiaries of this pro-
posed river control, because it is here
that the largest existing irrigation
works are in operation, and it is here
that the danger to life and property
is greatest.
The problem of the apportio ment
of the waters of the Colorado rive.
among the states bordering upon it,
namely Arizona, California, Colorado
Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wy
oming is, however, very difficult to
settle. Negotiations between these
states have been going on for years,
and in November, 1922, the so-called
Colorado River Compact was signed
by the commissioners of these states
and by the secretary of the interio:.
But this compact requires the consent
Of the state legislatures, which has
not so far been obtainable, although
at the moment this is not vital, be-
cause the control works now pro
posed relate wholly to the lower Ca
rado river and are of immediate in
terest only to California and Arizona
Considering the nature of the in
terests involved, the flood control
project is probably a legitimate en-
terprise on which the United States
may embark because the drainage
area of the river lies in seven states
and large acreage of United States
government land is also involved
River control and the irrigation of the
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04
Senate Committee
For Bridge Bills

At a joint session of the senate
committees on highways and bridges
and appropriations held Saturday
unanimous approval was voted on four
major highway projects requiring
special appropriations.
The measures indorsed include:
The Rice e-Springerville road, the
bridge across the Colorado river near
Lees Ferry, the bridge across the
Verde river in Yayapai county, and
the highway across the San Carlos
Indian reservation by way Of the
Coolidge dam.
/, The Endorsement carries approval Of
the matching by the state of 100000
set aside by the government from the
Apache Indian tribal funds for the
building of the missing link" in the
Rice-Springerville road between White
River agency and McNary, distance
of 21 miles.
Congress has appropriated $780,
900 for the bridge across the Colo
rado river, which forms an import
ant unit in the projected Utah-Ari-
zona north and south highway througl
the Arizona strip. A bill has been in
troduced by the Coconino county dele
cation for matching the appropria-
ton.
A bill by the Yaavpai county dele
cation proposes to appropriate $65 900
for the bridge across the Verde on
the new Fossil creek highway. The
measure would make the state funds
available when matched in equal
amount by Yavapai county, the United
States forest service, or any other
agency.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-04
Officers Look Up
Robbers Records

Search for additional members OF
the alleged robber band led by Rita
Dolores, connely "gun woman of 19,
and two men who were captured after
a man hunt extending beyond the New
Mexico line is under way by officials
Of Navajo and Apache counties
Meantime it was said at ST. Johns
that Sheriff A. A. Maxwell who was
shot when the trio escaped Wednesday
morning after being captured IL miles
south Of Houck, Ariz., was improving
rapidly and is virtually out of dam
ger.
Confessions said to have been made
by the two men, Walter Williams
and Charles Walton, together with a
partial one obtained from the girl,
clear up many robberies in this part
of the state, Sheriff Dan Divelbess
declared. Included in these are sew
eral railroad warehouse thefts along
the Santa Fe, burglarizing Of a gaso-
line station at Holbrook, a genera
store robbery at Joseph City and the
theft Of several cars Two large
sedans, one stolen at Adamana a
week ago and the second stolen in
New Mexico, were recovered when the
officers surprised the trio at their
camp Wednesday morning
The officers believe that Rita
Dolores, who alternately laughs and
cries under questioning, will event
ually break down and name others of
the band.
She declares that she is the wife Of
the man known as Williams and dis
plaved a wedding ring.
"They went at it too strong" Rita
said. Everything would have been
all right if they hadn't tried to do so
much" Then suddenly checking her
self, she refused to talk further.