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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
ARIZONA PRESS
CLUB MEETS IN
TUCSON SUNDAY

PHOENIX, Jan. 20 P-Members of
the Arizona Press club will gather at
Tucson Sunday for the. purpose of Sc
lecting new president to fill the un-
expired term of Arthur Powell, of NO
gales, resigned, and to act upon other
matters of Importance, including vari-
GUS committee reports. Powell has en-
tered the employ of the Associated
Press at Mexico City.
Representatives from Bisbee, Tucson,
Phoenix, Miami, Nogales, Globe, Pres
cott and Douglas have indicated their
intention of attending.
Those leaving Phoenix include Ed
Harrington, Howard w. Hayes, George
Comparet, Jack Lynch. Douglas w.
Churchill, Tim Brady, Ronald Wagon
er, G. H. Threlkeld, Al Wilkie, c. G..
Nuckols, Cliff Sheriff., Harlow Akers,
Claibourne Nuckols, John Cobb, Ed
Fitzhugh, Ed Asford, Ralph Rollins
and Jack Lindsey.
Gazette members will leave for Tue
son at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow after
noon, while the republican representa-
tives will not start until after the
paper goes to press at 1:30 a. M, Sun
day.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21

resolution, hope to take up through
joint house and senate committee
Their amendments would provide
money for any kind or degree of
investigation the presiden; may desire
to make, hut not commit congress
to We bound by us results.
The pros and cons Of this PROPOSE
ton took most of the senate's time
and engendered considerable heat now
and then. But Senator Dill en-
barked on a Nicaraguan side issue,
demanding action by the foreign re :
lations committee for investigation of
that subject. Bruce came down on
his colleague like a thousand OF brick
and the fur flew for while with
both senators, about four feet apart,
frequently talking at the same time.
And there is mere in prospect next
week. Heflin, Of Alabama, popped
up, amid a craning of necks in the
galleries and quick mobilization from
cloak rooms and the outer press
gallery, to put the senate on notice
he would talk Monday he said. about
the mayor of Montgomery, Ala, who
has dispIeased him, about certain
Alabama papers which have attacked
him, and about "other things" in.
Guiding the Roman Catholic political
machine which he declared he was
attacking as distinct from that re-
ligion. The excitement supsided-
until Monday.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
FATHER AND son
HOLD REUNION In
HICKMAN'S CELL

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 (R)-Father
and son today met in fearful
reunion in the jail cell of William
Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper
and slayer of little Marian Parker.
Thomas Hickman, the father, ar
rived here from El Paso with the
announced intention of joining in
1.-THE court fight to attempt to save
his son from paying the death penalty
for his crime.
The fearful and apparently affec~
tionate meeting came as surprise
& to jail attaches for short time
previously young Hickman had told
jailers he had no desire to see his
father.
"He's the cause of me being in
this mess" the youth declared. ''He
deserted my mother and us children
and if the family had stuck together
] wouldn't be where am today
At the time of the kidnapper and
slayer's capture and confession the
elder Hickman had been quoted as
Voicing his approval of the death
penalty for his son. Today he was
interviewed at the office of Hick-
mans counsel by reporters and de-
clared he would take the stand as
a witness for the defense in his sons
sanity trial if the attorneys desired
Both father and son Wept copiously
at the meeting in the jail cell. The
elder Hickman did not question the
prisoner regarding the crimes which
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
SUB VICTIMS DRoWNEp

!. BOSTON, Jan. 20 (P)-The 80 men
whose bodies were recovered from the
sunken submarine Sd died CT slow
drowning, the naval court of inquiry
investigating the S-4 disaster was
informed yesterday. DR.. George B
Magrath, medical examiner of Suffolk
county, presented to the court the
results of autopsies performed on
several of the bodies as well as
blood tests made in three instances.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
NICARAGUA
Continued From Page one)


policy in Nicaragua came only from
extreme pacifists and radicals" He
suggested extension of the powers of
the senate Mexican investigating COM
mittec to include a search for cor
respondence between American radi-
Gals and those in Mexico or MIC
aragua.
Meanwhile the house debated the
merchant marine problem N general
under the supposition that 1t was
perfecting the half billion dollar
supply bill about which there is no
dispute It was a truly soporific
session to one member. who dozed
comfortably most of the afternoon,
disturbed only by the shouts of an
occasional orator. One youthful re-
porter held down the press gallery
part of the time, but investigation
explained his presence. He was read
ing novel
The secret of house inactivity
leaked out finally It mas nothing
else to do but talk and adjourned
tonight until Monday. various big
supply bills are still being groomed
in committee. A steering committee
decision to bring up soon the senate
'lame duck" CONGRESS constitutional
amendment resolution may stir things
up next week.
The senate is in little better shape
to complete legislative action 1t
knocked off over ; Saturday after
failure to put through an admjhistra-
ton plan to transfer the whole prob
lem Of submarine safety in general
and the Sd tragedy in particular to
presidential commission composed
Of three civilians and two retired
admirals.
The plan was badly manhandled
by the democrats during the debate
and the resolution authorizing the
commission and providing $4,000 for
its expenses went back to the calendar
with a group Of democratic pending
amendments attached to it that would
change its complexion completely
Concerted democratic action ditched
the original plan on the theory that
it was device to throttle congress
sional inquiry into the S-4 sinking,
that the democratic managers, despite
house adoption of the administrative
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
SMALL RESENTS
SENATE ACTION
in SMITH CASE

CHICAGO, JAN 20 0P-Illinois has
received an unwarranted affront from
the United States senate in its refusal
to recognize Colonel Frank L. Smith
as one of its senators, Governor Len
Small declared today in formal
statement in which he served notice he
would refuse to recognize the senate
action.
Coupled with the declination of
Colonel Smith to resign, the governors
statement was interpreted as meaning
that Illinois would function with one
United States senator for the next six
years unless other developments inter
vened.
Colonel Smith was with the COVER
nor when the typewriter statement
was passed out to neWspapermen in the
office of Werner w. Schroeder, Gov
ernor Small's personal attorney.
Schroeder said he did not represent
Colonel Smith and he did not know
whether the senator-elect contemplat-
ed legal action in renewed effort to
force recognition by the senate.
Oscar E. Carlstrom, state attorney
general said he had no statement to
make now, but might have one at some
later date after a conference with
Colonel Smith
1t was understood Carlstrom was
ready, as head of the states legal de-
partment, to assert publicly that Col
Onel Smith still was SenatOr-elect from
Illinois, despite the senate action, that
his credentials were good for six years,
and that there was no vacancy subject
either to election or temporary ap-
pointment.
The Illinois general assembly was on
record with joint resolution holding
Colonel Smith was entitled to his seat
in the United States senate. !
Colonel Smith declined to indicate
what his next step might be.
Two forms of litigation we're said by
some to be open to him. One would
be to compel. payment of the senatorial
salary and the other to compel Vice
President Dawes to administer the
oath of office.
A third, discussed in some unoffic-
ial quarters, was that Colonel Smith
might see fit to have a notary public
or some ether capable officer admin
lister the oath of office to him. A
On the other hand, the Chicago
Daily News quoted an unnamed re-
publican leader as explaining Colonel
Smiths dilemma had two prongs:
'If he attempts to hold his certifi-
cate of election the democrats will
nominate a candidate for the Smith
vacancy in the senate. The republicans
then will be forced to nominate a
candidate or permit the democratic
candidate to win without opposition.
Smith will, have to- run again for re-
nomination and reelection to his own
seat orr stand idly by clutching a
worthless certificate and watch another
take the seat to which he was elected" ;"
" Governor Small called the senates.
action Outrageous" and said that it
s"constitutes a dangerous attempt to
nullify the the rights of a sovereign
state and the people thereof fraught
with the most serious consequences to
constitutional government that have
arisen in the United States since the.
Civil war. M
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21

organization, Ambassador Judan nom,
mated Eduardo Alfonseca, of Santo
Domingo. for the chairmansnip Of the
committee on resolutions with sub
sequent election.
Alfonseca'S nomination and election
was practically the only important bit
of business transacted in today's
session of the conference, the congress
adjourning shortly after noon to re-
sumo it's sessions Monday The
election came only after Dr. j. Varela,
Uruguayan minister at Washing On,
had refused to accept the chairman
ship because he said his delegation
had agreed not to accept any Of the
presidencies of committees. Long
technical arguments delayed and
finally prevented the transaction OF
other business.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21

the Twentieth Century limited and
soon we're whisked away.
1 seemed possible that somewhere
on his journey President Cosgrave
might easily enough meet Eamon N.
De Valera, Irish republican leader and
his political adviser, who is also in
America, but little was said about that
my mission is one of friendship,
the president told reporters. "It would
not be fitting for me now to speak OF
Mr.. De Valera"
From Chicago the president and his
party will go to Ottawa, Washington,
Philadelphia and back to New York.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
MEREDITH WITHDAWs

DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 20 H9-
Without endorsing any presidential
candidate, two-day series of confer
ences by Iowa democrats closed here
today.
A second attempt to approve, E. T.
Meredith, Des Moines publisher, as
Iowa's favorite son, was dropped today
at his request, and the conference
adopted a policy of allowing the pre-
cinct, county and district b-divisions
to determine the presidential choice of
Iowa democrats.
Meredith announced he was not q
candidate.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
CONTINUED From Page One)

fundamental points Of national policy
regarding which its delegation here
will doubtless, at the proper time, be
adamant
Specific points whereon the United
States will prove intrans:geant were
not designated, but it was generally
assumed that these include the pro
posal for the establishment of un-
conditional compulsory arbitration by
the muchly discussed American
court, total prohibition under all con-
ditions OF, international intervention,
and allied questions which it is ex-
pected will be thrashed out fully in
committees here.
This morning in the last committee
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21

IlNSSGlSdC1I1S Tie Oh disaster was
informed yesterday. Dr. George B
Magrath medical examiner of Suffolk
county, presented to the court the
results of autopSies performed on
several of the bodies as well as
blood tests made in three instances
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comes king?
36. Who wrote the play "Faust?"
81. Who was the first person to
openly lead a rebellion against the
medieval Catholic church?
38. In pugilism what is meant by
"flyweight?"
80. Name the insect that destroys
cotton. #
40. Name the two parts of the
heart. 4
Al. Who wrote "Don Quixote?"
AZ. What American coin is nearest
in value 10 an F'no7ic7o shilling?
,.43.. Name four of the Great Lakes.
"A. Correst this sentence: "Hc
don't know anything
49, In football how many points are
scored when a field goal is kicked
46 Who reached the north pole IL
1925 in an airplane?
At. What aninoo7 : "'- --7 the
""Ship of the Desert?"
A. Who invented the machine gun?
40. What Finnish runner is the
holder of most distance running
records?
SO. OF what political party was
George Washington a member?s
Answers to above:
/. Treasure Island.
2. Rayon.
3. Frederic Penfield--
4. Semi-precious stones.
5. Democratic party organization in
New York.
6. George Eliot.
z. Wife of U. S. president.
8. Suzzane Lenglen.
g. Lucky Strikes.
TO- Brutus or Cassius..
IL. MCMXXVIIT.
II. Manhattan
13. Majestic.
9 14 1854 feet.
. As. George Bernard Shaw.
49, John Hancock.
IT, President of y. S. Steel corpor-
alton.
49, Chameleon.
19. Gutenberg Bible.
TO- Buddhism and Shintoism.
81. Eucalyptus.
22 Anti-toXin.
%. PadereWSki.
a. Mt. Everest.
a. Tea.
g. Honey and wax.
o. Vegetables.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
WHAT IS YOUR
GRADE, BASING
IT ON THESE?

Using them as a measure of the
general information of the members
of the teaching staff in the Douglas
city schools, superintendent j. E. Carl
son, Jr., recently prepared list of
questions to which he asked the teach
ers to furnish their answers. They are
intended as a general measure of the
breadth of information of the teach
ers and might easily furnish the in
dividual as measure of his own gen.
,eral information. The list is as fol-
lows:
1. In what book is John Silver a
character?
2. What is the new name given to
artificial Silk?'
8. Who was the ambassador to Aus
tria when America entered the World
war?
4. What have these in common:
Jade, carnelian, malachite?
s. What is Tammany Hall?
6. Who wrote Silas Mariner?
7. Upon whom is conferred the title
"first lady of the land?"
g. What French woman became a
professional tennis player?
g. What product is advertised by
the slogan "Its toasted?"
TO- Name one of the two conspira
tors against julius Caesar.
H. How is 1928 written in Roman
numerals?
r.. What island was sold by the
Indians for $24?
13. Name the longest steamship.
IA. Give within Is feet the height
of Niagara Falls.
Is. Who wrote Man and Super
MANI"
16 Who was the first signer of the
Declaration of independence?
II. Who was Judge Elbert H. Gary?
49, What animal changes its color
at will?
49, What is the most valuable book
in the world?
20. What is the religion of the Jap
anese?
81. What species of tree reaches
the greatest height?
o. How is diphtheria now cured?
%. What famous pianist became
president of Poland?
"a. Name the highest mountain on
earth.
25. What have these in common:
Oolong, orange pekoe, Ceylon?
26. What two products are obtained
from bees?
81. Are germs vegetables or ami
mails? -,
%. What is an axiom?
29. What were daguerrotypes?
30. What animal furnishes most of
our ivory?
81. What magazine did Benjamin
Franklin found?
80. Who discovered Canada?
33. State within five years the date
when motion pictures were first pre-
sented?
"a. Who was Walt Whitman?
35. What will be the name of the
present Prince of Wales when he be-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
A. F. L. DEMANDS
Continued from Page OneJ

respect and obedience to the law in
that it would lessen the bootlegger's
patronage"
The council rejected the applica-
ton of the New York Pocketbook
Makers union, which asked to be
made department of the leather
workers organization.
Reports on the resistance of miners
in the Pennsylvania coal fields to the
terms offered by coal operators fol-
lowing the failure of last winters
wage conference were heard.
The united mine workers are build
ing whole towns to quarter the labor
forces in this peaceful but protracted
industrial struggle, the codncil was
told.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
IRISH PRESIDENT
CONTINUED From Page One)
lands political affairs.

f! lands political affairs.
Eager to "see everything" Mr.. Co.'S
grave and the members of his party
stepped out to the platform in the rail-
road yards at Harmon, N. Y, where
they watched the huge steam locomO-
tives replacing the electric engines that
had puzzled their train out from New
York.
"Those big engines took my breath
away almost" said Mr. Cosgrave after
ward. "Such efficiency You = don't
waste minute when it comes time to
take the electrics off and put on the
steam ones"
Mr. Gosgrave said he was looking
forward keenly to his fortnight trip. y
His itinerary includes visit of four
days in Washington, after he leaves
Chicago on Sunday noon. After leav-
ing Washington, he will go Philadel-
phia, New York and Ottawa.
The official delegation included
Desmond Fitzgerald, minister of de-
fense; Joseph Walste, secretary of the
department of external affairs; Diar-
mud Hegarthy, secretary of the exc
cutive council; T. A. Smiddy, Irish free
state minister to Washington, and Col
onel Joseph Reilly, aide-de-camp to
MIR. Gosgrave.
The train was due to arrive in Chi
cago at GAS a. M, central standard
time tomorrow.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20 tP)-President
William T. Gosgrave of the Irish free
state, whirled through New York SO
fast today on his first visit to- America
that he was gone almost before it was
realized he was here. Landing at the
Battery just before noon, he was on
his way to Chicago well before 3
o'clock. if1is brief stay consisted of not
much more than a ride up Broadway
and handful of official speeches.
Three thousand police were called
out to preserve order but they had al
most nothing to do beyond watching
the parade and listening to the band
A few very minor disorders were
quickly quieted but they did not escape
the quick eye of the little blonde Irish
man. Asked as he was leaving if he
had noticed the weak attempts at un-
friendly demonstrations he chuckled
and replied, ooh yes, indeed"
The liner Homeric, on which Presi-
dent Cosgrave came to America, reach
ed quarantine late last night, but the
passengers remained aboard. This
morning the Irish leader was trans
ferred to the city tug Macon and
brought to the Battery by the mayors
welcoming committee, each silk hated
member wearing large gold badge
on which the visitors name was spelled
"Gosgrove" instead of Gosgrave, by
what Grover Whalen, the mayors
welcomer- chief, called Stupid err
rOr"
The crowd at the Battery, a friendly
crowd though undemonstrative and
scarcely more numerous than the po-
lice, had been cleared of three men
and woman bearing placards dero-
gatory to the president shortly before
he arrived.
The progress up Broadway was be-
tween lanes of police. A few women
waving flags and shouting remarks of
an unfriendly nature gave police the
only work they had to do.
At the city hall the president and the
mayor, who had met in Ireland last
year, exchanged fluctuations and then
the presidential party continued up
town to receive the blessings of Card
inal Hays.
After that they went to the private
cars attached to the fourth section OF
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
WOULD REVISE
Continued from Page One)

Speaking as "dirt farmer" Gren-
nan presented plan to limit the
amount of, crop a farmer might
sell by contract under cooperative
agreement. He said the farmers would
universally organize into cooperatives
if they were assured of orderly mar
ketlng by legislation.
The witness approved the equaAiza-
ton fee of the McNary- -Haugen bill,
but said he did not believe it could
be written into law.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21

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90 Early photographs.
3d. Elephant
81. Saturday Evening Post.
32 Cabot.
33. 1896
a. American poet.
35. Edward VIII.
SO. Johann Wolfgang Won Goethe.
81 Martin Luther. k<
38. 110 pounds.
80. Boil weevil.
40 Auricle and ventricle.
Al. CervanteS.
AZ. Quarter.
49, Erie, Ontario, Superior, Huron
and Michigan.
"A. He doesn't know anything.
As. Three. 1i
IS. r. E. Byrd. 90
At. Camel.
48. j. M. Browning
40. .Paavo Nurmi. x
SO. Wings.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21


he had confessed. Young Hickman
asked whether his mother were in
Los Angeles and his father told him
she was not but that shell be here
shortly"
The father promised to visit the
jail cell every day.
At the time of the meeting with
his father whom he had seen only
once before in the last ten years,
young Hickman was confined to his
cell bunk. DR.. Benjamin Blank, jail
physician, earlier in the day had
regarded the prisoners illness, the
result of a spinal fluid test made
by defense physician, as possibly
serious. Tonight DR.. Blank said he
believed there no longer was any
cause for alarm although he had
advised young Hickman to remain
in bed for the time being.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-21
CHINESE
CONTINUED from Page One)

ICOnGInued IrOln Page OL61
10000, anG, that the total cost
of the flight would exceed
S16O,OOO, $4,000 of which, he
said, has already been raised by
Chinese business men.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-05
MEIIOLAND NEWS
BY Press Staff CORRESPONDENT


MELOLAND, April 8 Grand
mother Meyer has returned to her
home in Los Angeles after spending
several weeks in the valley, visit
ing her three sons.
George Lindsay returned Tuesday
evening after number of days
spent in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Earle Allen and two children
are spending Easter vacation with
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Richards. Mrs.
Allen was formerly Miss Edith
Richards
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Crawford, and
two children, of Olive, are visiting
in the Valley during Easter vaca-
tion. Mrs. Crawford is the sister
of Ward McGrew.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney Laing and
son Edward of San Diego were Wis
iting friends in Meloland recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards recently
purchased a new sedan.
Mrs. Ralph Engebrctson and
daughter Carmen, went to San Di-
ego Monday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Engcbrctson, who were Wis
iting their son Ralph for couple
of days.
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Swcrdfegcr
lave just purchased new sedan.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-05
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NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING APPLI
CATION FOR LETTERS TESLA
MENTARY.
In the the Superior Court of the
State of California, in and for
the County of Imperial

In the Matter of the Estate of
Pierre Labrucherie, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a pc
tition for the probate of the will
of Pierre Labrucherie, deceased,
and for the issuance to Denis Cla.
vcric of letters testamcntary, has
been filed nj this Court, and that
Friday, the 18th day of April, 1928,
at Two O'Clock, p. NJ, of said day,
at the Courtroom of said court, at
the Court House, in the City of Ell
Centre, County of Imperial, State of
California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be grant
ed.
Dated March Goth, 1923.
c. G. MOUSSEAU,
Clerk.
By c. P. Harrison, Deputy Clerk
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