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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25
Commercial Flying
Is Considered By
Pan American Union

HAVANA, jan "a P)-C Commercial
aviation, frontier police, the incor-
poration Of international legal prin-
ciples in conventions and the estab-
lishment of Pan-American tribunal
at Havana for the adjudication of
disputes occupied the attention of
the committee on international public
law Of the Pan-American conference
today
All these problems will be the
subject of further study and con-
sideration before they are presented
for the decision of the conference
itself.
Commercial aviation was brought to
the forefront by Ambassador Henry
P. Fletcher, of the American dele
cation, who brought in amendments
to the proposed commercial aviation
regulations.
Under the original clauses any
plane engaged in postal, customs,
police or other governmental service
privately owned or otherwise
exempt from the terms CT the treaty.
Under the amendment only "air
craft owned, controlled and operated
by the contracting state" in connec-
ton with these services, are exempt.
No discrimination is made as between
national and foreign privately owned
planes.
Mr.. Fletcher's proposals were dis
cussed by the committee, particularly
the amendment allowing special
agreements between countries to
specify the prohibited zones for
military purposes.
Enrique Olaya, Colombian minister
at Washington, was of the opinion
that a commercial aviation conven-
tion if it were desired to advance air
communications should, above all,
bear pacific stamp, avoiding all
appearance of military measure.
The Fletcher amendment, Senor
Olaya added, thrust military con-
ceptions in an otherwise pacific
article to a point that "opens the
possibility of local military alliances
in America"
The amendments were received
favorably, but will be reported back
to the committee at some future Gay.
Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentina, adj
vocated the closest cooperation among
the border patrols Of adjoining coun~
tries and also tine right of pursuit
of criminals attempting to escape
across the border He recommended
a treaty containing such provisions.
The separation of well-established
and indisputable legal principles from
those not firmly established and their
incorporation in conventions, as sug-
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25

WASHINGTON Jan "a P)-Harry
F. Sinclair was named today before
the senate lands committee as the
source of the $23O,5OO in liberty bonds
received by Albert B. Fall, after he
had leased the Teopot Dome naval
reserve to the wealthy New York Oil
operator in April, 1922.
This testimony, twice withheld from
the federal courts was given freely
by the man who handled the bonds,
M. T. Everhart, of Pueblo, Colo, son
in law of the former interior secre-
tary. He declared that besides this
sum, for which Sinclair was to get an
interest in Falls New Mexico ranch.
Fall received. $2,500 in liberty bonds
and $4,000 in cash as '1oans" from
Sinclair. The witness said he did
not know whether these were repaid.
At its original inquiry four years
ago, which was revived today, the
committee received testimony that Sin
clair also advanced $4,000 in liberty
bonds to Fall after the latter had
retired from the cabinet and before
he made a trip to Russia as the oil
operators representative in negotia-
tions with the soviet government.
Thus the record now stands that
the former interior secretary received
a sum total of $294,OOO from Sinclair
and 100000 from Edward L. Doheny
after the lease of the Teapot Dome
and Elks Hills, California, naval oil
lands, which since have been recov-
cred by the government.
Testimony at the Fall-Sinclair GRIM
inal conspiracy trial here which was
halted abruptly last November after
Burns detectives Shadowed the jury,
was that the $230,5O0 in bonds which
Everhart says Sinclair personally paid
over to him were part of a block of
such securities which the Continental
Trading company, limited, now
extinct Canadian corporation, bought
in New York out of it's profits on the
purchase and resale of oil in this
country,
The committee will set out now to
ascertain if it can what became of the
remainder of the $3,000000 in profits
which the Continental company is
alleged to have made by buying oil
from the late A. E. Humphreys, OF
Denver, and reselling it to the Stan
dard Oil company of Indiana, the
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing COM
pany, the Mid West Refining company
and the Prairie Oil and Gas company.
AS the first step in that direction
it called A. G. Downing, secretary of
the New York Trust company, who
produced the records of that bank
showing transactions in liberty bonds
totalling more than $1,000,O0O by Hen
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25
GOOD ROADS ASS n
URGES PAVING OF
PR|hARYH|CHNAYS
Asks Directors To Prepare
Plans For Hard Sur
facing Such Roads

NOGALES, Ariz., Jan. "a (P-Di-
rectorS of the Arizona Good Roadg
association were urged in resolution
adopted at the closing session here
today of the associations sixteenth
annual convention to prepare plan
to be submitted at the next conven-
ton for hard surfacing roads of the
primary highway system of, Arizona.
Convention delegates requested that
the directors make a thorough study
of this phase of the highway problem
as a. basis for action upon the plan
to be presented later.
Casa Grande, Ariz was selected to-
day as the city for next years con-
vention Winslow was named as host
for the midsummer session.
w. w. Midgley Of Clarkdales was
unanimously reelected president of
the association All other officers
who served during the past term
also we're reelected. Officers who
with President Midgley will direct af-
fairs of the association this year are:
W.. H. Gardner, Tombstone, first vice
president; Gustav Becker, Springer
vile, second vice president; G. j..
West, Holbrook, third vice president.
and G. Taylor, Phoenix, secretary
treasurer.
Federal construction of roads
through Arizona, forest reserves and
other federal lands within the state
with as. little delay as possible also
was asked in resolution adopted
by the convention The resolution
calls upon congress to increase the
appropriation for this work from $4,-
10000 to $9,O00OOo annually. Under
the plan Of this resolution, federal
construction of forest reserve road
ways would link with state highways
of the primary system.
Federal aid for the, hard surfacing
of highways which show a high main
= CONTINUED on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25
MARINE PATROLS
SCATTER REBELS,
KILL SIX TO TEN
General Sandino Said To
Have But A Small Band
OF Followers

MANAGUA, Mic, Jan. "a (P-Be-
tween six and ten rebels have been
killed by United States marine corps
patrols in the vicinity of Ell Chipote in
the past Few days, marine corps head
quarters was informed today.
The region where the rebel General
Augustine Sandino had been active,
has been extremely quiet since bomb
ing attack by American planes ten
days ago. but today Col. Louis Mason
Gulick, in command of operations
against the rebels, was notified that
marine patrols had establish contact
with rebels several times in the last
day or so.
Major Archibald Young, commander
of the marines in the affected section,
reported that g column of marines had
established itself on the slope of Ell
Chipote mountain. Sandino fled to El
Chipote after marines captured his for
mer headquarters, Quilali, from him in
battle Dec. 80. A week ago Saturday,
marine airplanes bombed Ell Chipote
heavily, and air patrols later reported
the town showed every evidence of de-
sertion. Since that the region has
been quiet, with marine patrols eau
tiously feeling their way toward the
rebel chains headquarters.
Col Gulick today said it was fairly
well established that Sandino had been
wounded in the bombing raid, but it is
not known how seriously.
Sandino is said to have small group
of followers with him, but the main
- e II. 10a 1OI 5o o1s y0<J
to have broken up into smaller bands
now scattered through the eastern part
Of Nueva Segovia.
Major Gen. John A. Lejeune, chief OF
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25
OPEN BIDS ON
FEB. 25-PLANS
GET APPROVAL
Architect Assures Trustees
Cost Will Be Within
$115,OOO Allotted
OPEN BY OCT /
Will Become Link In Popular
Hamilton Chain From
Coast To Coast

Bids will be open and the contract
awarded ON Saturday, Feb. 25 at 2 p.
m., for the general contract for con-
structing the community hotel in
Douglas. That was made certain at
the meeting of the trustees of the
community hotel company yesterday
with the architect, Carleton NJ. Wins
low, of Los Angeles, who brought the
final draft of the plans for the ap-
proyal of the board. The plans were
approved as presented there having
been some modification of them as
originally shown to the board several
weeks ago.
The contract will be let with the
provision that work must be begun
promptly and carried forward with, all
possible speed consistent with the
quality of construction required so
that the structure will be ready to
turn possession to the tenant who will
occupy it by Sept. /, next. That will
give the tenant one month in which
to furnish it and get ready to accom-
modate the travelling public by the
opening of the season which is re-
garded as Oct. l.
AS has been previoUfly told, the
community hotel will occupy a site on
Twelfth street at Florida avenue which
has already been acquired It will be
building Of SO rooms and there will
be two cottages of five rooms each,
thus providing hotel accommoda dations
of 60 rooms, all modern There will be
Sc OF the 60 rooms so arranged as to
afford private bath and in the cot
tages, each Of the five rooms has its
own private bath There are only
four rooms without bath convenience.
The architecture will be Spanish
type influenced by the climate in some
of it's features, type ideally suited to
the Arizona setting. The roof will be
flat except the tower and this will be
covered with red tile. The walls will
I be Of adobe approximately two feet in
thickness embedded in a lime mortar
giving it more permanent character
The cost of the hotel will be within
the allotted $115,000 That is the as
surance of the architect and it is the
intention of the board of directors, It
is the assumption that that sum will
be the maximum that may be expected
in the bidding and that the cost will
actually scale safely within that fig
ure Architect Winslow says that he
has no fears about getting bids within
the sum proposed.
When the community hotel is ready
for occupancy, it will be taken over
by the Hamilton Hotel company, Inc.
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25

ry M. Blackmer, former chairman of
the board of the Midwest, who now
is in France and has refused to re-
turn here to testify in the Fall-Sin-
clair case.
The testimony in the District Of
Columbia supreme court here is that
Blackmer, James E. O,Neil, former
president Of the Prairie company;
Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the
board of the Standard OIL Of Indiana,
and Sinclair guaranteed the perform
ance of the Continental contract with
Humphreys.
The committee wants to know who
got the remainder of the companys
profits and what disposition was made
of them. In that connection it lis
limited that several former directors
of political campaigns will be called
upon to say whether any of the al
legged .Slush fund went to pay off cam
paign deficits.
Sinclair, in Washington on account
of his hearing in the local courts on
a contempt charge growing out of his
joint trial with Fall on a criminal
conspiracy charge, refused tonight to
make any comment on Everhart's tes-
timony. He is under summons to go
before the committee and may appear
tomorrow or Thursday.
Until today Everhart had conSiS-
tently refused to tell what he knew
about any transactions between Fall
and Sinclair on the ground Of self
incrimination That barrier recently
was removed by special act Of
congress and after he had made it
clear to the committee that he was
testifying under compulsion and not
voluntarily, he told the details vol
ubly, apparently happy that at last
he could tell his story without fear
of criminal prosecution.
Upon leaving the witness. stand
after being questioned for more than
an hour, Everhart said he did not
know whether Fall was aware of bis
plan to tell the details of the bond
transaction.
II had to tell my part" he said,
"in fairness to my family / could not
keep still any longer because it was
never any more to me than an ordi-
nary ranch deal. If it was anything
more did not know it,"
Everhart told somewhat vague and
involved account of refinancing OF
New Mexico ranch properties held
by himself and his fatlaer-in-law, the
details of which he said had been
arranged by Fall and Sinclair before
Everhart was brought into the deal.
Briefly the story was that the ranch
properties were to be Jumped and a
(Continued on Page EightO
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25
PRESIDENT NOT ALARMED OVER
SANGUINARY FORECASTS OF WAR

Although willing 20 concede
that it is the duty of defense
officers to work for the best in
terests of the elements they serve,
Mr.. Coolidge is disp1eased with
the turn their war-like statements
sometimes take but so far as he
can see there is nothing to be
done.
If he should publicly point out
the inadyisibiIity of their state
ments he feels that he would only
be accused of muzzIing free
speech. He believes he can simply
recommend to the army and navy
officers that they consider the
welfare of their country in a
larger sense.
This latest White House gesture
towards allaying suspicion of
American aggressiveness came as
prologue to possible further airing
of the position of the United
States defense when congress
takes up shortly the administra-
tion's proposal for a $74O,OOO, 900
rounding out of the navy.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25

LOS ANGELES, Jan. "a R-
Sane or insane is the issue TO
be decided at the trial OF William
Edward Hickman, confessed kid
napper and slayer of Marian
Parker, which opens here to-
morrow.
Having pleaded mot guilty by
reason of insanity" On both
charges of kidnapping anG mur-
der, the jury will be chosen to
decide his mental condition. Legal
authorities interpret the Jaw to
demand that. if proved sane, he
be sentenced for the crime.
Less than 125 persons, aside
from court officials, attaches and
the jury, will be able to witness
the trial of the man whose con-
fessed crime shocked nation.
Fifty of these will be newspaper
men and women.
Late today Superior Judge Car
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25
WILL FACE JURY TODAY
IN TRIAL ON HIS INSANITY PLEA

los Hardy, who will preside,
signed and his clerk counter
signed the passes for admission,
and only those holding the paste
boards will be permitted through
the barricades built in the cOrri-
dor 50 feet from the courtroom
door.
In the county Jail tonight
Hickman is being closely guarded
and held virtually incOmmunicadO
Late this afternoon he was taken
to the roof of the county. build
ing, housing the Jail, for exercise
in the sunlight.
Members of his family, his
mother, Mrs. Eva Hickman, and
his brother, Alfred, from Kansas
City, and his father, Thomas
Hickman, from Ell Paso, Texas,
all of whom have arrived for the
trial, did not make an expected
visit to the prisoner tonight.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a R-
In the opinion of President
Coolidge no one need take seri-
OusIy the sanguinary predictions
of American army and navy
officials that the United States
is about to go to war with its
commercial rivals.
This announcement of the pres
ident's view, made at the White
House today, came in reply to a
statement attributed TO Rear
Admiral Charles T. PIunkett, COM
mandant of Brooklyn navy yard,
in which he warned that an out
break of hOstilities was not far
distant.
Such a stir was created in
European newspapers that the
White House felt inpeiled to ex-
plain that declarations of this
nature are the usual way in which
officers Of the national defense
attempt to work up domestic
sentiment at a time when army
and navy appropriation bills are
about to be considered in congress.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25
Complete Community Hotel BY Sept. I
Zion OUerseer Sets
Out To ProUe That
The World Is Flat

* CHICAGO, Jan. "a OP-Wilbur
4. Glenn Voliva, overseer of Zion
* City and head of the religious
* colony there, who has long main
:* tanned that the world is flat, to-
* day set out to prove it.
y Mr. Voliva and his wife left
* for a four months vacation in
Y Europe, expecting also to visit
y the Holy Land. He expects to
4 travel to the edge of the world
y and then walk around the rim.
X 1T will be- he said, "just like
y going around the rim of a big
# plate" Europe and Asia are
+ near the rim and when he gets
;* there, Mr. Voliva expects to pro-
y ceed around the outside of a flat
* world. His flat world theory is
X taught in Zion City schools.
*
y * * * * * * * * * 4 * * y
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25
SENATE COMMITTEE
FINDS EX SECRETARY
RECEIVED $4,000

M T. EverFart Banker SOn-in-Iaw of FALL DsclOses All
Details of Liberty Bond Financial Transaction Sue
ceeding Teapot Dome Leasing to Wealthy Operator;
Testimony, Twice Withheld in Court Is Freely
Given Committee.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-25
SEEK REMAINDER OF $3,OOo,OoO

New York Bankers Called Before Senate Inquistors in
Effort to Ascertain Disposition of Huge Fund
Created Through Now Extinct Canadian Cor
pOratiOn With Its Relation to Alleged Oil Frauds in
Leasing Naval Oil Reserves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-01
NATIONS ARCHITECTS
WILL COLLAB0RATE
Plan Being developed to Unity Eff
forts in Arts of Design Among
All Members of Craft.

To improve the Nations architecture
the American Institute of Architects Is
developing a plan by which union OF
effort will be brought about in the arts
of design Collaboration among archt-
tects. SculptorS. mural painters, land
scape architects and also craftsmen, It
Is held will mean a notable advance In
architectural expression
The movement Is being directed by
the institutes committee on allied arts
headed by J. Monroe Hewlett OF New
York. This committee, 1t Is announced,
has drawn no working principles for
collaboration which will be submitted
To the national organizations allied
with architecture.
The institute plans the establishment
of an interprofessional service. unique
in artistic effort in this country. 10
carry out a definite scheme of collabor-
alton First, however. the institute will
frame program ito bring about a gen.
eral understanding. a common acknowl-
edrment of collaboration RS q necessity,
and a strong desire for working CO.
operation. u,.s
The report of the committee on allied
arts follows n recent declaration by the
board of directors Of the institute that
there is danger in Standardization ot
architectural design, and that arcnl-
lecture is becoming "a universal PROD
uct made to sell"
Communities, 1t Is charged, are COM
ing to look like peas of one pod and 2
certain commercialism is making ltsen
more and more evident in the type OF
architecture universally employed
throughout the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-01
ZONING PLAN ADVISED
FOR RURAL SECTIONS
Filling Stations, Hot-Dog Stands
and Billboards Blight Town,
Report Says.

The problem of attractive communi-
ties to advertise their recreational AMI
residence advantages should be linked
I'D in the minds OF the community au-
thorities with the adviSability Of pre-
tecting the towns beauty by keeping
the roadsides approaching 1t free from
everything but their natural beauty. ac-
cording to a report which has lust heHl
made by the division Of housing and
town planning for the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts,,
The building of new main highway
lis not merely an engineering problem.
on the contrary 1t is primarily social
and economic problem, a problem 81
killing or making the region, the report
holds.
"A region rendered uninhabitable @x-
cept by filling station. hot-dog stands
and hillboards Is blighted, not helped.
Let a town, particularly what we call
a good Summer town, protect every resi-
dence by good coming plan. and Keep
its roadsides free from everything bat
their natural beauty, and the whole
country will know that town. No town
differently treated can compete with 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-01

That more than 1000 school children
of Fermangh, Ireland need dental
treatment and 1000 require ocullsta
attention. was the recent report Of the
medical inspector.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-01
STRESSES WINDOWS.

Windows are seldom given the atten-
ton by q person about to build which
their Importance demands should be
gwen them Julius Kahn expresses it
as his opinion that the windows OF a
home are so important in conserving
health and eyesight that they should
receive as much attention and study as
any other single item and more than is
given to most, In too many instances
windows are just taken as matter nj
course or treated as items of decorative
value
Mr.. Kahn points out that windows
can we'll be the difference between q
satisfactory, healhful. bright home and
a dull. unsatisfactory home, Obviously
the placing of windows Is the concern
OF the architect or the designer, WHO
must foresec the needs Of the occupants
Of particular rooms for light and air and
plan to meet these needs. The choice
Of the window still remains important,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-01
STACK TO BE USED
AS PRESSURE GAUGE
Wind Velocity ( 's Measured in
Chimney at Bureau Of
Standards.

Tests Ct the pressure Of wind against
buildings are to be made at the Bureau
of Standards in huge chimney stand
ing 1875 feet above ground. which has
Just been erected at the bureau In con-
nection with its new power plant.
A series of "a openings have been
built in the stack to serve as gauges to
measure wind velocities. Thus actual
pressures on full size structure can be
determined and compared with the re-
suits obtained in the laboratory In the
chimney" at the bureau.
The chimney Is circular in sect ion. IA
feet inches In diameter at the bass
and 10 feet at the top The foundation
is on the boiler room level, IS feet below
the street. So that the chimney actually
is 200 feet high.
At height of about 40 feet are
located the "a openings, which are pro-
vided with brass tubes connecting with
pressure gauges at the base Of the stack
Results Of the tests are expected to be Of
value to architects and engineers, the
bureau states
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-01
TELLS HOW } AVOID
BASEMENT DAMPNESS
Home Owners Writer Says Proven
ton Is Simple Through Use OF
Preparations During Building.
BY ARTHUR BATES LINCOLN.
Home owners Institute.

Home seekers are continually coming
in after they have been around visit
ing developments, locking for a house
which would suit them as home, ana
one Of the I1cst often recurring ques-
ticts relases 10 the basement. why
mus the walls always be damp? what
can bs dore 10 prevent wet easements?
Tu.i-g construction Of the rouse II is
a s APPLE matter to guard against damp
ness. II tr.e walls are poured concrete
a wate-oToe2rg. powder, liquid or paste
can BE- added to the concrete mix be-
fore :. IS poured This waterprooflng
either closes Up the pores in the con-
crete or coats them with a Aim which
re5ists capillary attraction. Where the
formation walls are Of store. brick or
concrete blocks other waterprooflng
means are adopted
The most thorough CT these is a
interpreting coating on the outside
face of all fourdation walls from me
Grade line to the footing This may
be a coat Of cement plaster with water
nroofing added, which is trowelet on, or
il NAV be n ccat of bitumlnous COM
mound applied with brush. the
latter requires fairly smooth surface
for It's application. In any case inc
wal, should be- clean and dry. before
interpreting is applied II there Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-01
Autumn Best Time to Seed Lawns.

September, contrary TO the opinion
held by many. is the best time Of year
To seed a lawn. The heavy dews COM
mon in the early Fall provide plenty Of
moisture 81 that termination proceeds
1T q good rate before frost and without
supplying moisture by means OF the
hose. Fall seeded lawns show good
early growth in the Spring.