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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-09
FRIEND
SENDS MESSAGE
TO FIRE VICTIM

H. A. Wimberley of the firm of
Meredith and Wimberley announced
last evening that the partners would
keep open regularly from now on and
at present will be located on G. avenue
between the Grand theater and the
Arizona Southwest bank. They were
burned out in the Gadsden fire and
removed a small amount of their
property to this location. They will
not sell anything for while but
will receive collections,
Wimberley said that negotiations
were going forward /, rapidly for a
location at which they will continue
their business and he hopes to be
able to announce such an opening
within the next few days and pos
sibly today.
The firm is receiving many letters
expressing the sincere sympathy OF
their many friends throughout the
state and in northern Mexico and
among others Wimberley, who is a
prominent member of Kiwanis got a
letter yesterday from his KiWanls
Friend x. This letter which appears
below is typical of the Friend K
system in which every member of the
club is assigned some other member
for whom he is responsible and Tor
whom he is required to do every kind
ness possible.
Douglas, Arizona,
''Feb 7, 1928.
Dear Pete: I want to sympathlze
with YOU for losing your store ana
the grief the Gadsden fire put you
to. There is little can offer, now
ever, that would prove of real COM
fort or consolation to you for your
loss. -,
"However, Pete, old man, can Wlsh
Won all the luck in the world in IND
inc a better location and gettlng
started again. You can't keep gooa
man down. old boy, so off you go 10
q new start. We are all with you
and for YOU and will do all IN our
mower to make the new year a happy
and prosperous one for you' even
after its rotten start. ,.
again, let me wish you good lmuch m
for the future and pledge you my
own personal support.
"Your Kiwanis Friend, x"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-09
HAssELL MUST DIE

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 8 (A9-GoF.
Moody today refused to commute the
death sentence of George j. Hassell,
of Farwell, Texas, confessed Slayer
of 13 persons, who is scheduled to
die in the electric chair at Huntsville
Friday.
A report of two heads OF state
asylums that Hassell can distinguish
right from wrong was Ullc basis foI
the governors action.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Athletes Get Too Much
Attention, Says Teacher

Too much time is wasted celebrat
ing athletic victories by students,
business men and the public gener
ally, while ''lamentable lack of ap-
probation is accorded scientific at
tainments," Prof Ira B. Cross of the
University of California believes.
Addressing the Lions club at Berke-
ley, Calf, the economic instructor
criticized. Berkeleyans who greeted
members of the university crews, vic
tors in the Olympic shell races at
Amsterdam. Only two men who rowed
in the winning race arrived home, but
schools were given a half holiday.
'If Doctor Millikan, discOverer of
the cOsmic ray, truly wonderful
feat, paid visit to Berkeley, would
he be given the welcome that these
two oar pullers were accorded?'
asked Professor Cross. .'Of course
not, he would hardly be noticed"
The professor also deplOred Berke-
ley's attempt TO attract industries, de-
claring that the city cannot remain
an intellectual center and also be-
come a factory town."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Golf Ball Strikes Tree
and Is HOled Out in One

The 150-yard No. hole of the
Highland Park course in Birmingham,
Ala, is an easy par or hard 8
and is famous as place where freak
shots are becoming the rule rather
than the exception.
Joe Spain, Birmingham amateur,
was trailing in threesome when
they reached No. 3. He pulled his
mashie shot over the trees bordering
a street and the ball landed on a con-
crete uphill driveway. Taking kick
backward, the ball came through the
boughs of the trees and landed few
feet off the green, from where Spain.
still using his mashie, clOuted it into
the cup for birdie.
Col Karl Landgrebe's hole in l on
No. 8, however, still remains the out
standing freak shot of the course.
With a tremendous drive from the
tee, the colonel sent his ball sailing
down the fairway TO the right of the
green, where it struck tree trunk,
carOmed to the green and rolled sew
eral club lengths into the cup.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Big AL Weston Is Back
Again in Eagle Uniform

AL Weston, ace of the Boston college
backfield the last three years, set at
rest al. rumOrs that he would not
play football this year when he ap-
pea ed in uniform the other day.
The big Needham boy declared that,
inas.nuch as he had played football
last fall and had been playing baseball
practically every day siSce early
spring, lie thought weeks rest would
do no harm and perhaps some good.
He looked to be In perfect condition
and spent the afternoon following the
new plays as put on by a temporary
first team.
Another newcomer was Frank Lyons,
former New.on High star, and a sub
stitute back the last two years. His
work as caddy master at Brae Burn
has kept him in good condition.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
SUPERSTITIONS OF
COACH MCMILLAN
Former Centre College Foot.
ball Star Played lunches.

30 Mcmillan, the famous and color
full Centre college quarterback OF
few years ago, who took Charley
Bachman's place as head coach OF the
Kansas Aggies has a thousand and
one football superstitions. AT least
he did have them while he went to
school. Perhaps, as coach, he has
found superstitions do not win games
and has discarded them, but anyway
he had them at one time. And how
Bo had blue shirt and red neck
tie, for instance, that he never failed
to wear whenever Centre went on a
trip. He put them on when lie dressed
to leave town and kept them on, ex-
cept for the time he wore his football
suit, until he returned. Now Centre
in those days took number of long
trips. The team played on both the
East and West coasts. But even on
trips that kept him on the hop for a
week he stuck to that old shirt and
necktie though SCOT lined the wrinkles
of both.
30 also had an old belt he wore in
high school do vi at Fort Worth. He
kept il when he went TO college and
never went into game without it.
oh, yes, quite superstitious. He even
made over every pair of football pants
he wore at Centre, if just to tear open
the seams and sew them again himself.
Centre was a much photographed
team in its winning years, and not the
least photographed by any means of
all the men vas Bo. However, for ali
the insistent attempts of the photOg
raphers to snap him before a game,
and insistent is right, they never
could. Bo would have none of it.
After the game, all right, but before
never.
He insisted further on being the last
man to enter the park, the last man
to leave the dressing room and the
last man to set foot on the field. Even
Charley Moran. the coach, had to pre-
cede him.
OF superstitious nature, he natural
ly played the widest lunches. One
night before big game 30 dreamed
he ought to put pair of dice on the
roof of a certain high building. No
sooner dreamed than done. He got up
the next morning, put on his sO0ty
blue shirt and red necktie, picked out
a high building and stuck the dice,
snake eyes, up, in cornice.
Centre won the game.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Own Olympic Games

The British empire is to have its
own set of Olympic games. according
to nj. nj. Robinson, manager of the
Canadian Olympic track and field
team. A British empire sports feder-
alton is to be formed for this purpose,
Mr.. Robinson said on his arrival from
Europe recently, and the first track
and field meet of the athletes will be
held at Hamilton in 1880. Pledges to
send teams to the 1880 games have
been secured from sports officials ir
every section of the empire.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Loughran's Big Offer

Tommy Loughran, light heavyweight
champion, at his camp at Haryey's
Lake, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, has re-
ceived a cablegram from a Buenos
Aires promoter offering him $4,000
for heavyweight bout there at the
end of November. No opponent was
mentioned in the cable. Joe Smith,
Loughrans manager, said he believed
the opponent the Argentine has In
mind is Luis Firpo. 1t is the opinion
IF those on the inside that LoughraD
Aill accept.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Haskell Indians Living
Up to Nomadic Instincts

The Haskell Indians will defend
their title of the ''most travelled" col
lege football team again this fall. OF
a ten-day schedule only two will be
played at the stadium of Haskell in
stitute at Lawrence while road trips
will take the braves from New Or
leans to Minnesota and east nearly to
the Atlantic seaboard.
Fifty Indians, representing twenty
four tribes over twenty-five states.
comprise the 1923 squad. Teams to
be played include the University of
West Virginia, Loyola of New Or
leans, Minnesota university, st. Xavier
of Cincinnati and LoyOla of Chicago,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Presidency Hazardous

The President of the United States
follows a hazardous occupation. ac-
cording to statistics compiled by the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company.
Only one President since the Civil
war, Grover Cleveland. lived beyond
his normal expectancy at inaugural
ton, and three-Lincoln, Garfield and
McKinley-met premature death at
the hands of assaSsinS.
Taken as lot, however. the Amer
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Chicago White Sox Were
Strong on Pop-Up Flies

Tommy Connolly, the veteran Amer
lean league umpire, relays this one
from Joe Berger, the shortstop of the
Chicago White Sox some years back.
The White Sox were in disastrous
hitting slump and their turn at bat
was just one pOp-up after another. 1t
was getting on the nerves of the play
ers.
Berger was going to his position in
the field just after an inning in which
three of his mates had popped up to
the infield. He sighed sigh as he
passed Connolly. Tommy" he said.
"some day we're going to run across
a team that's weak on those pop-ups
and were going to beat them to death"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Warrior Presidents

The following Presidents served in
war: George Washington, Revolution
airy; James Monroe, Revolutionary !;
Andrew Jackson, Revolutionary and
1912; Franklin Pierce. Mexican; Will
liam Henry Harrison. 1872; John Ty
Ter. 1872; Zachary Taylor, 1912 and
Mexican; Abraham Lincoln. BLACK
Hawk; Andrew johnson, Civil war !:
Gen. z. s. Grant Mexican and Civil
wars nnf'prford B. Hayes, Civil war !;
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
SUDiss Bomb Ha;Istorn1

In an effort to break up hailstorm
and prevent damage to crops Swiss.
scientists recently bombed the clouds
with high explosive rockets, says Pop
ular Mechanics Magazine. Opinion
after the experiment was divided, how
ever, as to the value of the results
achieved
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Our Traue.ing Presidents

Five American PRESIDENTS have
gone outside the United States while
I'm office. President Cleveland went
fishing beyond the three-mle limit, a
theoretical boundary. Roosevelt wen.
to Panama, Taft visited Mexico. vii.
son made Two trips 10 Europe and
Harding. en- route to Alaska, visited
CaEada.-I.iberty.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
They We're Masons

The following Presidents CT the
United States were members of the
Masonic order: George Washington.
James X. Polk. Andrew Jackson.
James buchanan. Andrew Johnson
James Garfield. William Mckinley.
Theodore Roosevelt. William II. Taft.
and Warren q. Harding
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

president of Williams college, says
that his father was naturally left
handed in childhood, but he learned
to write with his right hand, and in
time became ambidextrous, using both
hands with equal ease. There is a
story to the effect that President Gar
field once demonstrated his ambidex-
terity by writing in Latin with one
hand while he wrote Greek with the
other.-Kansas City Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

lean Presidents by no means have
been short lived, according to the life
insurance figures. The average age
of the % now dead is 6S.41 years. and
the one living ex-President, Chief JUS
tice William Fl. Taft, is seventy
Kansas City Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

James A. Garfield, Civil war; Benja
min Harrison, Civil war; William Nc.
Kinley. Civil war; Theodore Roose-
welt, Spanish war.-ChicagO Tribune
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Left-Handed President

James A. Garfield. the twentieth
President of the United States, has
been our only President thus far who
was Ieft-handed. Harry A. Garfield,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

Railroads in this country spent more
then SO. 0G0000 on pensions in 1926.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

Christian churches began to use
bells in about the Fifth century.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
Plentiful Supply

"We're going south for the winter"
"What? With so much of it right
here in Alaskan"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

1t delights old people to be made
much of by young people and costs
the young people so little.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

man may not be political lead
er, but if he doesn't vote he isn't
even a good follower.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

+ SOME one suddenly de-
manded that you name the
fourteenth President of the
United States, could you do
it? Or if they said, who
was President just before
Willard Fillmore and who
just after him?" could you
answer promptly?
If you were one of those
persons who, as a school
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

Travellers checks detained at Gus
toms.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

Clint Brown, star right handed
pitcher of Harrisburg's New York
Pennsylvania league championship
team. has been sold TO the Cleveland
club of the American league.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

Suzanne Lenglen has definitely an
nounced her permanent retirement
from tennis, both amateur and pro-
fessiOnal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-26

Anyway, Connie Mack has one dOu
Bile \ special in Jimmy FOxx.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-09
ROY WHEELER NAMED
 CAPTAIN OF PATROL
 BOAT BY COMMISSION

Roy Wheeler. an experienced navigator in western Alaska wa ters. has been appointed captain Of the patrol boat Seal. of the Alaska Came Commission, il was announced today by Acting Ex- ecutiye Officer L. NJ. Goddard. He will take command of the Seal without delay.
 Capt Wheeler has been employ ed as first officer on the Starr for sometime He is familiar Bili the navigation conditions on both sides of the Alaska Peninsula which Is the district served by the Seal
 Capt. L. R. Simpson, whom Capt. Wheeler succeeds. has re signed from the service on ac count of ill-health. Mir. Goddard said. Last week fae Seal made a hurried trip rom Cook Inlet Ba ters 10 Seward with Capt. Simp son who was reported sufferins from acute appendicitis. He was given emergency treatment ir Seward and will go 10 the States for an operation. 1t was said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-09
SPECIAL MEETING
 CITY COUNCIL TO
 BE HELD TONIGHT

There will be a special meet inC of the City Council tonight at o'clock in the Council Cham bers when the three newly elect ed members will take over their office. The annual report of the retiring City officials will be read and applications for the positions of city clerk. city treasurer, wharfinger, two assistant wharf fingers, chief of police, chief of fire department, fire truck driver. librarian. cemetery earetaker and health officer will be acted on.
 The new Council will discuss and outline a policy for the com ing year The City Council for the coming year will be made up of II. T. Tripp, Warren H. Will son and Charles C. Warner, hold lover members and Wallis George, w, P. Scott and c. H. Maespad- den who were elected last Tues. day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-09
REDINCTON TO
 ARRIVE IN MAY
Will Be Here May 8 for Visit of Ten Days Before
 Going to Westward

Paul c. Redington. Chief of the U. s. Biological Survey. who is scheduled 10 leave Seattle May 5, next, for an extended Alaskan trip. will visit il Juneau about ten days before proceeding to western Alaska for q brown bear hunt, ac- cording to word received today st local headquarters of the Alas ka Game Commission. This will be his second visit to Juneau since he became head of the Bio logical Survey ab8nt one year ago.
 Mr Redington will be accom- panied by Robert Froihingham, writer and lecturer on outdoor subjects They are expected 10 do some hunting oil Kodiak Island.
 II. N. Terhune. Executive off. cer aof the Commission, is now enroute from Washington to Se- attle on the way home from his annual trip 10 the national capi- tal to confer with Mr Reaington and other Biological Survey off. cials relative 10 Alaskan matters. He will reach Seattle April II and come 10 Juneau after spending 9 fw days in fhe former city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-09
BANNERS URGE ROAD BUILT FROM COAST
 TO LAKE ILLIAMNA

Gamers in the Bristol Bay re- zion have joined with residents of Illiamna in urging the eonstruc- tion of wagon road from llliam- ma Bay to Lake Illiamna, Gov. George A. Parks announced today. Letters have been received by inc Governor from William Tim son, Vbee-President of the Alaska Packers Association and D. W. Branch. Northwest Manager for Libby, McNein & Libby. urging him to recommend the project to the Alaska Road Commission for immediate construction.
 There is at present good trail from Tlliamna Bay to the lake. This, MT. Timson said. affords q route for travel but is not suffi- ciently improved for freight traf- fife. The construction of a road that would make automobile traf- fife possible, he added, would per nit the canners to ship supplies over it and down river to their Bristol Bay plants and would re- suit in a substantial business be- ing built up.
 1t is estimated that the cost of such project would be aboul S50,00e, Gov Parks said Owing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-09
CROWD HEARS EASTER
 PROGRAM OF MASONS

The Odd Fellows Hall was crowded yesterday afternoon when the Alaska Chapter of Rose Croix of the Scottish Rite, gave it's an nual Easter program of sacred music, to which the public is al ways invited In addition to the musical program the members ol the Chapter conducted the cere- mony of Relighting the Lights. Lester D. Henderson. Commission CT of Education for Alaska, gave the Easter address which was greatly enjoyed by all those pres ent.
 The delightful program consist ed of an anthem sung by the Presbyterian choir. duet by Mrs. L. D. Henderson and J. J. Farghar, solo by Cash Cole and a cello solo by Miss Stella Jones, in which she was accompanied by Mrs. Preston.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-09
GRAND JURY PAID TODAY

Orders were slgned by Judge T M. Reed of the '. s. District Court this morning for the pay. ment of members of the Grand Jury. The total amount 10 be paid to them is S166.S0.
 The accounts of Charles sey T. s. Commissioner al Douglas for the quarter ending March 31, were approved by Judge r M Reed this morning in the District Court
 The accounts of Albert White, U. s. Marshal, for the past guar ter ending March 31. for the ex- penses of the Marshal's office were approved this morning by Judge T. M. Reed, after which court recessed until ? o'clock thie afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-09
JURY EMPANELED FOR
 HANL0N CASE TODAY

4 jury was empaneled and sworn to try the case of w R. Hanlon. ct. al, of Sitka, this morning in the United States Dis tfict Court. The case in which the defendants are charged with conspiracy to cheat and defraud. went to trial this morning after being twice delayed since the term of court opened last week.
 Those who will serve on the jury in the Hanlon case are: W. E. Britt, c. Ingman, Tom j. Me Cartney. F. Van Wort. Jack Aus tin. Pete Tourney, LeRoy Vestal. (. M Hahn. K. Stedman, Elmer E. Smith, Mrs. J Patterson and K. K. Kimbrough All other iur- ors were excused until 10 a. I'll. Wednesday. April H.
 The trial was to continue th.s afternoon at o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-09
LONDON POLICE GIVEN
 GRANITE DOWNING TOWER

LONDON. Eng, April a--A granite coming tower. impres nable to attack, has been briit at one corner of Trafalgar squase for the use of police to observe crowds who hold indignation meet ings and demonstrations in thai public place. The occupant of the tower will be in telephonic com munieation with Scotland Yard se that extra police .an be sum. m6nad immediately if coalitions warrant Powerful arc lamps a. the top of the tower illuminate the whole square at night.
 Hitherto the police have been able only 10 use small tele- phone booth for communication with headquarters. and being on q level with the crowds have not been able to overlook the whole square.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-09
VIRGINIA L1UDS BYRD FOR PLAN
 TO NODERNIZE STATE GOVERNMENT

RICHMOND. Va, April 9 Another outstanding accomplish. ment is added to the record of the famous "Tom. Dick and Harry brothers of Virginia. and this time the honor goes to the last of the trio-Governor Harry Flood Byrd.
 Within two years of his inaug- uration as one of the youngest governors in the history of the Old Dominion, he has finished his legislative program of progress. 3 which embodies virtual reorgani- zation of the machinery of state government, embracing abolition of approximately 250o officers and boards and a reduction in taxes of more than sl.00e,000.
 Now he is going before the vot- CTS for final adoption of the pro gram in the form of constitutional amendments al an election June t9 The administration proposals ran the gauntlet of three legis- iative sessions with so little op- position that "Byrd's Steamrollerp became the talk of Virginia and surrounding states.
 So complete was the harmony of the 1928 session that every item was cleared from the calen- dars and the lawmakers tendered the young governor a harmony banquet"
 Byrd's program visualizes the state as a corporation with the governor as president. the legisla- lure as the board of directors and the 2,J00,000 citizens as stoekhold- srs. It calls for coordination of departments, larger appointive powers for the executive. and de partment heads which function with the governor just as the pres- ident's cabinet functions in the national government.
 one amendment permits the governor to appoint the superin- tendent of public instruction, the treasurer. the commissioner of az ricuture and the secretary Of state. The state reserves certain subjects of taxation and allots others to towns and counties sur rendering taxes on land and per sonal tangible property Ii is the first time since l776 that Vir- ginia's tax laws have been codi- fled.
 Tax reduction ls brought about by lowering the rate on capital ill business. removing the tax on stock of nonresident corporations and giving credit in income tax for contributions to charity.
 Increased appropriations are provided for schools and state in stitutions. The Shenandoah Ma tional Park alone is given S1,000,- 000 Larger appropriations for construction of state highways are provided by an increase to five cents a gallon in the gasoline tax. All special funds are abolished and all collections must go through the general treasury for disbursement.
 The governor had the advice of | Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his brother, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, in his plans for ayi- ation, which contemplate net work of landing fields in all parts If the state. Localities are to