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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01

Doc Kemper continued his brilliant
scoring with a 64i that topped all Hill
crest league rivals in their matches at
mics stymied Jones Ircns in every game.
me pest drive OF Young's Drivers was a
SngIe victory over Warrens Traps: Rowes
Sel;nier's Caddies and Darnsby's pm,ss
oVtputted kemper's Divots twice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
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The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11
THE SPORTS CASTER
OF P.U.C.H.S' .
By Joseph Davis

Playing without ,the~ serm
vices of Ira Tiny O'neil
the Colored Hig b School
Monarchs4 turned back the
pride of tie Church League,
the Capitol ,Methodists squad
4O-32. Paul Lewis sensational
little sophomore forward was
'Hot' as he scored seven
baskets to total IA points.
Copeland and Smith followed
in order as named, Metcalf
was high point man for the
Methodists. The starting line
up of Lewis, Hamm. Cope :
land, Gerton and Smith pro-
vided for a large enough
margin SO that the reserves
played a nice portion of the
game. Coach Brown was sa-
tisfied with the defense but
he intends to drill on shoot
ing and timing of plays.
The Monarchs point this
week toward the Tempe frosh
encounter. =. Coach Brown
thinks his boys have a great
chance OWN. =
Should the M6narchs win
it may lead toIa game with
the University of Arizona
Frosh. Lets hope 'the4 boys
win. Z :
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11
HOLLYWOOD.
CHATTER
From the Cinema Graphic,
News Service =

Five more important roles
in Green Pastures Marc
.Connellys sensational stage
hit which Warner Brothers
are. producing on a,lavish scale
have been filled.. following a
series Of exhaustive tests
made under the direction of
the author himself. Ernest
Whitman will play the role
of PaEIaso.h. :.I Frank Wilson will
be seen as the patriarchal
Moses. who deliversthe chil-
dren of Israel. Freddie Ar
Iehibald will appaar as the
! gambler, and Will play two
other roles ia different ss+
.quences. Anna Mae Fritz will
be seen as the Stout Angel,
swell remembered by all who
(, saw the play. Oscar Polk will
rbe Gabriel. secretary TO s'De
: Lawd". Al Sykes will appear
ras Cain. Most of. the above
$ prominent Negro players had
chad roles In the original pro-
-duction, during IFS amazing
five year run, Rex Ingram,
Of course, will portray DE
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11

Mrs. Lawrence Coleman of
Los Angeles. Cal. spent the
Xmas season here with her
husband and his parents. Mr..
Coleman is here for the be-
nefit of his health,
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11
Notes of Science

Persons seeking informa :
tion in a London Railway
Station press buttons in a
new machine bearing the
names of stations to which
they wish to go and receive
cards telling when the next
train leaves.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11

For guidance of Great La
kes shipping a creYless lig
htship having all the usual
equipment has been in stalled
in Lake st. Clair that is op-
Grated by remote control from
a land station eight miles
away.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11
Fifty passengers and a

Fifty passengers and a
crew of 35 will be carried in
Germanys newest diriRible.
nearing completion for trans
Atlantic service, and will
have the uss of Is staterooms
each with running het ana
cold water!
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11

Mrs. Vincent. Carter of e.
Adams ST. received the sad
news of the death of her
grand ndmother last Saturday
uight in Seguire Texas. Mrs.
Carter left Sunday to attend
the funeral.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11
LOCAL;

Mr., and Mrs. Arthur Hicks
Los Angeles. spent the no.
lidays in the city visiting
her grandmother, Mrs. Richard
Rosser and family. 519 E.
Jefferson street. Mrs. Hicks
was formerly Miss Georgia
-
Rosser.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11

Mrs. 'Tbelma Evans. Chica-
go. arrived 10 the city last
week to visit her father Mr.
H.H Rice, 535 E. jefferson
Street, ,
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11

Mrs. Laura Lambert fun =
.eral was held Friday Jan. 8
at the Church Of God in
Christ 18th S.. and. Madison
Elder j. w. Taylor, officiating.
Mrs. Lambert was a pioneer
resident of Phoenix. East
Lake mortuary in charge.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11

Mrs. Pearl Turner'S teacher
of Fowler Ward School ret
urned to the city after a
pleasant visit with her da-
lighters during the holiday
season in Berkeley Cal.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11

MIR. R.H. Scott of E.Mon %
roe street. returned to the
city after a pleasant holiday
visit spent with his family ssin
Santa Barbara Cal.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-01-11

Mrs. Bessie Jackson Of
Brooklyn. N. Y, is visiting her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Smith, 23l. Yavapai St. Mrs.
Jackson plans to spend the
winter here...
Nogales international., 1936-10-31
E. r. THURMAN

Elbert R. Thurman, who IS unop-
posed for the post of judge of the
superior court, was born in Oakland
California, March 20, 1888, educated
in the grammar and secondary
schools of California, and the Uni
versity of Arizona at Tucson, grad
uating from the university in 1928.
He settled at Nogales on August
8. 1923 and was married at San
Angelo, Texas, on April l, 1928, to
Miss Lois DeBerry, a very charming
young woman. They have two child
rem. Edward Adair, 7, and Lois, 5.
He was elected county attorney
in 1928 and was on his seventh
year as county attorney when ap-
pointed judge of the superior court
December %. 1885. to succeed the
late Judge Charles l.. Hardy.
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cess he now enjoys.

cess he now enjoys.
Bowman served twice as city al
derman Of Nogales, elected the first
time in 1914 by the voters of No
gales He later ran for sheriff but
was defeated. In 1913 he was chos-
en- mayor of Nogales and served one
term. During the war, at the age of
A, he voluntarily placed his name
with the recruiting office, subject
to immediate call to service. He was
an ardent worker in all Liberty
Loan drives and during his term as
Mayor, led Nogales over the top.
In 1918 he was elected to a seat
in the Arizona State Legislature.
The. coming of 1924 saw him chos-
en- vice chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee and he
handled the entire campaign in the
absence of the chairman who was
out of the state. AS delegate he
attended the 1924 National Demo-
cratic Convention in New York and
was made chairman of the Arizona
delegation. The Arizonans went for
William Gibbs McAdoo and led by
Bowman, they held out for McAdoo
even on the 103rd and final ballot
which resulted in John w. Davis
being nominated the Democratic
candidate for President.
Following his return from the
convention he retired from the mer-
camille business to take charge of
interests held in Mexico by the
Mexico Development Company. The
Mexico Development Company was
a Mexican corporation organized
under the laws of Mexico for the
purpose of developing mines, ranch
Nogales international., 1936-10-31
LULA r. LARIMORE

Mrs. Lula r. Larimore, county
school superintendent, who is an
other Democratic candidate unop-
posed for reelection at Tuesdays
election, was born in Tyler county,
Texas, and settled in Nogales many
years ago.
Prior to becoming school superln-
tendent she taught in the Nogales
and Potrero schools.
Mrs. Larimore has made fine
record both as a teacher and school
superintendent and largely because
of that fact she had no opposition
this year in either the primary or
general election campaigns. She
stands high in the community as a
mighty fine citizen and courteous
and efficient at all times in the
conduct of her office.
Nogales international., 1936-10-31
HAROLD J. BROWN

Harold j. Brown, candidate for
reelection to the office of sheriff,
first was elected sheriff in 1922, sue
ceeding Harry j. Saxon who had
been appointed by the board of su-
perviSorS as sheriff following the
death of Sheriff George j. White.
He was reelected in 1924, 1926,
1880 and 1882.
He was born in San Francisco on
July IA, 1893 and was educated in
Pasadena. For two years he was en-
ployed in the All Day & Night
Bank in Los Angeles and came to
Nogales in 1912. He joined the No
gales police force in 1915 and serv-
ed as a policeman and acting chief
of police about seven years. During
the war he resigned from the po-
lice force to enlist in the army.
Mr.. Brown is married and has
two. sons, one of whom is a stu
dent at the University of Arizona in
Tucson.
The sheriff is a son Of Mrs.
Catherine Brown who resides in
Pasadena and he is brother of
William G.. Brown, a Los Angeles
attorney, former manager of the
International Drug Store in this
city when it was owned by the late
Captain L. w. Mix
Brown is recognized as one of the
best campaigners in this county.
Nogales international., 1936-10-31
R. T. FRAZIER

R. T. Frazier, candidate for re-
election to the office of Supervisor
in District No. l, was born in Kop-
prel, Texas, April 8, 1893 He was
educated in Morgan, Texas; Tue
son and Naco.
He is local taxpayer and son
of Mrs. R. T. Frazier, Sr., of Hay
den,. Arizona. His father died in
August 1884.
R. T. Frazier settled at Naco in
1900 and he and his father were in
the cattle and butcher business at
Naco for a number of years, and
''R. To-, as he is known to his host
of friends, was manager of the Mo-
tor Transit Company office in Bis
bee for several years, prior to COM
ing to Nogales in 1920 as manager
of the Citizen Auto Stage Company
a post he has held very creditably
for the past 16 years.
Mr.. Frazier was married in 1927
to Miss Beatrice Jones, daughter of
Former City Alderman and Mrs.
Ben J. Jones. The Fraziers have a
daughter. Martha Ann Frazier, eight
and one half years old.
"R T." is now serving his second
term as supervisor and he has been
chairman of the public works re-
employment bureau here since it
was formed in 1888 and in that ca
pacity has spent much of his own
personal time putting many of the
unemployed to work and without
any expense to the community.
"I am for the refunding of county
bonds and a lower rate of interest
and have been assured by some OF
tho hondin~ c0mnan'es that it car
be easily done. it was said vester-
day by Mr. Frazier. who has made
- ~--ocl10-@+ reer-] as clJnarviSor
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California, Arizona, New Mexico and
Texas, until 1923 when he returned
to Nogales and was a merchant
from 1923 to 1927, later engaging
in the automobile business in this
city.
He has been deputy sheriff since
1888 and managed the 1884 and
1886 Democratic campaigns in this
county.
He is married and has two sons,
Robert, Jr., seven year old, and
Richard, three.
He is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
B. Fleischer, highly respected pion-
GERS, who were among the first set
tiers in this city. His parents have
lived here more than so years.
eff elected assessor I am going to
be impartial and fair to every
body" he said YESTERDAY.
Nogales international., 1936-10-31
LUCY T. MITCHELL

Mrs. Lucy T. Mitchell, candidate
for reelection to the office of
county recorder. has been a resi-
dent of Santa Cruz county since
1917.
Following her arrival in the coun-
ty, Mrs. Mitchell lived at the Now
ry mine for four years and since
then in Nogales. She was president
of the Parent Teachers Association
for two years and served on the
public library board four years.
She was first elected recorder in
1882 and reelected in 1884.
She is known as an official who
is very efficient and courteous and
has a host of friends who are con-
fident she will be victorious Tues
daV.
Nogales international., 1936-10-31
JAMES V. ROBINS

James V. Robins, candidate for
county attorney, was born in Hills
boro, New Mexico, August 8. 1892.
He was educated in the New Mex
leo schools and the University of
sNotre Dame, South Bend, Indiana,
receiving his law degree at Notre
Dame in 1914. He was classmate
of the famous football coach, the
late Knute Rockne.
Robins was admitted to the bar
of Texas and New Mexico in 1915.
When the United States entered
the World War he was practicing
in Ell Paso but as soon as war was
declared he enlisted in the 18th
Field Artillery, Regular Army, at
Fort Bliss, Texas. Shortly after
ward he was commissioned first
lieutenant in the infantry, and while
in France was promoted to captain.
He served one year oversease in
France and Germany and was in
five offenSiveS of the American
army. He is now major in the re-
serve corps.
He came to Santa Cruz county in
1921 and was married in 1922 to
Miss Mary Duffy, daughter of Col
lector of Customs and Mrs. Frank
j. Duffy. The Robins have two
children, James, Jr, and Virginia
Ann.
Mr.. Robins was county attorney in
1924 and 1925 He was city attorney
for several years during the Karns
and Wise administrations and hand
led all the legal proceedings for
bond issues, paving and other i'm
Nogales international., 1936-10-31

lector during the entire eight years
of the Wilson administration.
For the past IA years he has been
Justice of the Peace and is now
making his eighth race for that
office.
To Judge Hardy and his very es-
timable wife, was born two sons,
Leslie G. Hardy, now a prominent
attorney at Phoenix; and the late
Superior Court Judge Charles L..
Hardy, who passed away last De-
cember.
Judge Hardy is one of Arizona's
leading pioneers and a justice of
the peace who shows no partiality
in his ruling, man who gives ev-
erybody a square deal.
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es, farms, etc.

eS, farms, etc.
Mr.. Bowman is now permanent
resident of Nogales, Arizona. now
serving his second term as democrat
ic National Committeeman for this
state, having been appointed for the
second term following the Demo-
cratic National Convention at Phil
adelphia in June of this year. He
is also chairman of the Board of
Directors, and principal stockholder.
of the First National Bank of No.
gales, and the Montezuma Hotel in.
Nogales, as well as owner of MANY
other interests, being the heaviest
individual taxpayer in Santa Cruz
county.
In his own words - ''I made nv
money elsewhere but brought back
to Arizona everything I have, which
is really the achievement I had
planned and looked forward to ali
these years. 1t is source of ex-
treme pride and satisfaction to call
Arizona my home, where I expect
to spend the rest of my life, among
my real friends
HIGHLY PRIZED POSSESSION
One of Mr. Bowman's most high
ly priced possessions is paid up
union card in The Order of Rail-
road Telegraphers, which he joined
in 1894.
He is also a member of the Elks
Lodge, the Lions Club, 32nd De-
gree Scottish Rite Mason, honorary
life member of AL Bahr Shrine, San
Diego, member of AL Malaikah
Shrine of Los Angeles, and the No
gales Chamber of Commerce.
Nogales international., 1936-10-31
c. E. HARDY

Charles E. Hardy, who is a can
didate for reelection to the office
of Justice of the Peace, NogaleS
Precinct, was born in Manchester,
Chesterfield county, Virginia, April
6, 1864.
From Virginia he went to Ken
lucky in 1881 and engaged in the
railroad construction business. He
was married in Kentucky in 1885
to Miss Minnie Martin Boone, a
relative of the famous Kentucky
explorer, Daniel Boone.
Following their marriage Mr.. and
Mrs. Hardy lived in North Carolina
for a few years and came to Tue
son in 1894, and to Nogales in 1913
the year that Mr.. Hardy was ap-
pointed by President woodrow Will
son as Collector of Customs of the
Port of Nogales. He served as col
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w. S.

w. S. Larcom, candidate for re-
election to the office of constable,
Nogales precinct, was born at Dun
lieth, Illinois, October 81, 1862.
He settled in Arizona IN 1895,
first locating at Winslow. and later
residing at Laguna Dam, II miles
north of Yuma, for six years.
He located at Nogales on July Z,
1916 and has been constable for
the past six years. He is a former
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him, What he is today he made
himself.
Writ G. Bowman came into the
world at West Point, Miss, on the
18th day of March 1874. His father,
John H. Bowman, was a railroad
man in Mississippi and was station
agent at West Point, Miss, for the
NJ & o. railroad during the Civil
War He resigned his position in
1886 account of bad health and
moved to Childress county, Texas,
where he had filed on section of
land in 1885 under the old Texas
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provements in 1928, 1929 and 1890.
He is the present county attorney,
having been appointed by the board
of supervisors to fill out the uneX-
pired term of County Attorney E.
R. Thurman who was appointed
judge of the superior court follow
ing the death last December of
Charles L. Hardy.
Robins is an active member of
the firm of Duffy & Robins. Many
of the largest business houses and
firms in Santa Cruz county are
among his clients.
Nogales international., 1936-10-31

law, two dollars per acre with forty
years to pay.
When young Writ had reached the
age of II he rode horseback from
West Point, Miss, to Kirkland, Tex
as, following the wagon train of a
cousin. 1t took seven weeks to reach
his destination. He wore the tat
tered and only clothes he possessed
night and day, to the end of the
journey.
BECAME COWPUNCHER
Reaching the age of IA he be-
came a cowpuncher and worked at
this job for SIS month and his
board. He stayed in the saddle for
some three years. In 1892 Writ left
his parents and Texas and came
westward.
Reaching Colorado he obtained
work in a lumber mill He made up
his mind that he would have to do
something else to get ahead but
first must acquire little stake so
he gave up his job in the lumber
mill and went to work on the rail-
road as a Section-hand and for
three months he welded pick and
shovel. When he had saved up $40
he beat his way from Trinidad,
Colo, to Elsinore California, IN
1893. His oldest brother was station
agent at Elsinore. He stayed with
his brother about seven months
getting a schooling and studying
railroad telegraphy.
He secured his first railroad JOB
at Temecula. California. working as
an extra for the Santa Fe. He work.
ed there until July, 1894. when the
Eugene V. Debs strike broke cut
and he lost his job for refuslr" 10
work as strike breaker.
After the strike he went to H'n1-
ct. California where a Mss F'1fe'-
finger had been appointed aren't 10
open that station. She knew 1e'ee-
raphy but not station work. V'r'
TAUGHT her how to run station Tor
which she got $50 month and
paid Writ $25 for teaching her. Al
ter she could handle the station
he went to work in the hardwar"
member of the Nogales police force
and former merchants night police
man in this city.
He was railroader about 80
years.
Mr.. Larcom is a property owner
and is married. The Larcom nome Is
located at 351 I4lldgin street.
"Dad". as he is known to his hoSC
Of fr'onds. will be reelected TueS-
day without any doubt.
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WRIT G.
BOWMAN
Life Sketch

EDITORS NOTE: Writ G.
Bowman of NOgales, Arizona
Democratic National Commit
teeman, whose life sketch is
presented as follows has taken
very active part in the cam
paign now closing. He has spok-
en- in many parts of the state
in behalf of the Democratic tick
ct and the Democratic victory
in Arizona Tuesday will be
largely a result of his efforts.
STARTED WEST ON HORSEBACK
Laborer, cowpuncher, railroad
man, telegraph operator, cattleman,
grocer, hotel man, banker,
alderman, delegate to ma
tional convention and Democratic
national committeeman Writ
George Bowman has been all of
these.
No carpeted path was laid before
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store of her father for SIS a month.
He remained until October 1894 and
then headed for NogaleS, Arizona,
landing at Nogales on a mixed
train, via Benson (no road from No
gales to Tucson in those days., at
II noon, October IL, 1894 with Is
cents in his pocket. This he had to
divide with Mexican laborer for
taking his baggage Ca ten pound
cracker boX) into the inspection
room. Bowman says that if he had
had $25 instead of Is cents he would
have gone back on the first train.
but necessity is the mother of in
vention" and he stayed in Nogales.
He got employment as station
agent with the old Sonora Railroad
Company, now the Southern Pacif-
ic of Mexico, at Poza, Sonora. Pro-
motion came fast for him and he
was given all the best station on
the line as agent and telegraph op-
orator.
The road was taken over by the
Southern Pacific in 1895. He work.
ed in all Is years with this line and
held almost every position. Train
master, assistant terminal superin-
tendent at Nogales for eight years.
assistant superintendent and finally
acting superintendent of the north
ern division of the Nogales, Arizona,
to San Bias line. He resigned from
the railroad business on November
3, 1912
CATTLE BUSINESS
While Mr. Bowman was agent at
Nogales, there came that movement
in cattle out of Sonora which was
marked feature of the revolution
ary days. All cattlemen were an
xious to move out their herds and
thousands of animals were brought
out and sold. Bowman seized the
opportunity to get into the trade.
He resigned from the railroad and
established headquarters at Nogales,
Arizona, and went into the buying
and selling of cattle.
His knowledge of ranches, cattle
and cattlemen enabled him to
handle many thousand head, his
commission running into high fig
ures. He was more than successful
and when business turned slack he
went into the wholesale grocery
trade. Two years later he sold out
to Albert Steinfeld of Tucson.
He then established a jobbing
house at Nogales, which concern did
an extensive business, taking con-
tracts for delivery of many thous-
ands of dollars worth of merchan-
disc to the Mexican government, a
very lucrative and profitable trade.
While engaged in importing and ex-
porting, dealing principally in Mex
ican products, he became head of
the Bowman Mercantile Company,
a heavy trader in hay and grain
and other commodities.
MAYOR OF NOGALES
Gradually he became recognized
as one of Nogales, Arizona's most
prominent citizens and was greatly
liked by the people for his worthy
deeds on behalf of poor farmers. 1t
was in Nogales that he laid the
foundation for the fortune and sue
Evening star., 1936-05-12
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Marriage Licenses.

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Milwaukee: Rev j. B. Kelleher:
Nicholas j. Prato. 21, and Lola M. reed
90, both of 4009 Marlboro pl. Rev.
C. j. Dacey.
Robert G: ,Bolinger;; y; 81 Frsnklin .,in St
ne, and Nicola w. Waldron, II, Capln
Robert I. Dyer, 2s, 5lo4 sherrier pl.. and
GTase fd Se ReS Sia1I MiitenberEep e1a h0pe
James c. Clarke. 80, and Helen L: Blair,
o. both of Norfolk: Rev. G. E. Renski:
David R. Campbell, 90, Alexandria, and
Anna E. Swope, is, Cabin John; Rev,
H. M Hennig.
Mar,garet Davis Is. Fairfax; Rev. G.
James M NRe5g@u@i ROY Il. 1874 9th ST.. and Annie
Currie, Is. 434 St; Judge r. E.
coyal Jefferson, 81. and Ella Burgess,
q, both of Annapolis Rev. Vondell
Ausast c. Leathers. 90. Capitol Heights,
Rnd Rad Hertha + IA A Hall 49, Evanston H.;
Henry H Harper, %, 1900 Yuma St, and
Barbara A. King, 10, POL 9th st. ne;
Rev. A. E. Barrows.
Laurence R. Wilder, 4S, Lee House, and
Julia NJ. Kitchen, 20, Erie, Pa; Rev.
Albert Evans.
Willie NJ, Manning. 30, 41O L ST.. and
Mary l.. Davis, 10, los / ST.; Rev. Will
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Howard r. Gendau. 26. Scotch Plains
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Evening star., 1936-05-12

Ed Wynn will begin new radio
series on WRC at $50, assisted by
Graham McNamee. Lenny Hayton's
Orchestra, ard the Kings Merry Men,
will provide the musical background.
Coronation ceremonies of King Cot
ton and his queen at the sixth annual
Cotton Carnival in Memphis, will
be described over WRC at 10:30.
WJSV also has scheduled broad
cast from the carnival at HAS.
John G. Winant, chairman of the
Social Security Board, will discuss
The Constitution and Social Security"
during the You and Your Govern
ment" program on WRC at GAS.
Irwin s. Cobb, humorist; Frank
Shields, former member of the Amer
lean Davis Cup tennis team: and