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Douglas, On the Broadway of America, Is the Second Largest City On the Southern United States Border, and the Gateway to Sonora
Fair Saturday and Sun
day; not much change in
temperature.
VOL. XXV.
a 0. P. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE lIES
Airplane Endurance Record is Back in U. S.
EDI sin
MHUEMMI
sn NEW MARK
German Record Broken By
One Hour and 14 Min
utes by Americans
53 HOURS, 36 MIN.
Single Motored Stinson-De
troiter Jockeyed to Best
' Advantage
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla.,
March 30 <J P)—The world’s airplane
endurance record came back to
America from Germany today when
Edward Stinson and George Halde
man set a new mark here of 53 hours,
36 minutes, 30 seconds.
The new' mark was one hour, 13
minutes, 59 seconds beyond the record
of 52 hours, 22 minutes. 31 seconds
made last August by Johann Risticz
and Cornelius Edzard, German fliers,
using the Junkers monoplane Europa,!
After jockeying their single motored j
Stinson-Detroiter monoplane to take
every advantage of breeze and alti- \
tude, the American aviators came 1
down this afternoon at 1:14:10, east
ern standard time. With five ' gallons;
of their original 550 gallons of fuel j
still in the tanks. They had taken:
the air at 7:37:40 o’clock last Wed- j
nesday morning.
It was the second time that Stinson, j
veteran flier, had made an endurance
record. Overjoyed at the feat and
worn and begrimed from the more
than two days and nights in the air,
he said simply:
“Tired, yes, but happy that we were
able to bring the record back to
this country.” .
The first day the fliers experienced
June-like weather,/ but yesterday
choppy air currents forced them to
high altitudes to escape the bumps i
and conserve fuel. They had to
climb higher stil; last night but today (
a brisk southwest breeze buoyed them
and they took every advantage of it.
“We had rough going at times yes
terday and today," Stinpon c aid,;
“running into choppy winds, but it
wasn’t so bad.” The fliers smiled
out of their hotel window this after
noon when a rainstorm swept up.
“Seemed- the weather saved up
most of its meanness until we came j
down,” Haldeman remarked.
A great throng was on the beach!
when the monoplane came tc earth j
this afternoon. Eager spectators j
broke through the lines of .the beach |
patrol and wildly acclaimed the fliers j
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SCHOONER IN DISTRESS
PORTLAND, March 30 I The j
Helen B. Sterling, formerly the j
Oregon Pine, a six-masted schooner,
was in distress tonight off Hecata j
Head, between Coes bay and Yaquina]
bay. The information was received |
here from the coast guard station;
at Siuslaw. The coast guard captain
said a heavy gale was whipping the
sea into a white fury.
FOUNDATION FOR BOULDER DAM
SOUND SAYS CALIF. GOVERNOR
SACRAMENTO, March 30 <#>—
Assurance that the foundation pf
the proposed Boulder dam on the
Colorado river is sound and has
been subjected to severe engineer
ing tests was contained in a tele
gram sent to Congressman Phil D.
Swing by Gov. C. I. Young. The
contents of the telegram were
made public today.
Recent failure of the St. Francis
dam in Los Angeles county and
consequent loesl of hundreds of lives
has furnished opponents of the
Boulder dam measure with am
munition against the project, Gov
nor Young asserted today. The
executive added that ammuni
tion was defective because both the
Boulder and Black canyon dam
sites have been inspected and ap
proved by A. J. Wiley, chairman of
the St. Francis dam investigating
commission, and Dr. F. L. Ran
some, of the California Institute
of Technology faculty, also a mem
ber. Both of these experts asserted
that the bed rock foundation at
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH
* *
* Remus, Cincinnati Wife *
* Slayer, Adjudged Sane *
* By Court Os Appeals *
* CLEVELAND, March 30 W— *
* George Remus, Cincinnati wife *
*’ slayer, today was adjudged sane *
* in a decision handed down by *
* the third district court of appeals *
* at Lima, to whom the former
* bootleg baron had appealed for *
* release from the Lima state hos- *
¥ pital for criminal insane. *
* Only the bare announcement *
* of the court’s action came from *
* the Allen county seat for the en- *
* tire, commiunity was cut off to- *
* day by the sleet storm and bliz- *
* zard which demoralized lines of *
* communication in the northern *
* part of the state. *
* *
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SIX ARMY CORPS
PLANES IN CITY
FROM RIVERSIDE
March Field Fliers Land in
Camp Jones Grounds
As Night Falls
The parade ground at Camp Harry
J. Jones bore the appearance of some
great airdrome last night as six army
| air corps DeHaviland planes roared
: out of the clouds of smoke above
the smelters to the west and settled
down on the field. Hie planes left
March field at Riverside, Cal.,
shortly before noon, stopped in
T-ucson for gas apd arrived here 55
minutes later.
Messages to officers at Camp Jones
i earlier in the day had stated that
five planes would come. 'They are
on a cross country test flight but
will be the guests of the first bat
talion of the 25th at Camp Jones
over the week-end.
Three of thd planes hove in sight
at 6:30 p. m. and landed with good
light. The officers in charge imme
diately asked that flares be prepared
Oli the parade ground for the other
planes, stating that three more would
be in shortly but would not make
it before dark. •
I The Hares were prepared, five fires
built to show the landing direction.
The entire population of Camp Jones
1 and hundreds of people from Douglas
who had been attracted by the first
group of planes waited. Darkness!
came and then out of the red glow j
above the smelters the three ships j
appeared Hying side by side and:
coming on full tiiv
The flares were lighted and the j
ships circled the field. Through
I some error in directions the first ship
took the ground at the wrong end
of ths field but alter laying heavily
ion either wing while banking down
they struck evenly and the other two
ships came coasting in one after
the other frorii the proper end of
the field and made perfect landings
so that the six ships had arrived,
landed and been hooded for the
nierht within 45 minutes without in
cident.
The night landing was a thriller
as the dust raised by the first to
land and the glare of the flares
made it hard for those on the ground
to locate the ships aloft and they
were warned of their nearness to
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the two sites stood a pressure test
four times as severe as that sus
tained by the concrete in the St.
Francis dam.
“The failure of the St. Francis 1
dam need cause no apprehension
whatever regarding the safety of
the proposed Boulder canyon
dam,” said the governor’s message
to Congressman Swing.
The report of the investigating
commission also states that there
is nothing in the failure of the
St. Francis dam to indicate that
the accepted theory of gravity dam
design is in error or that there is
any question about the safety of
concrete dams designed in accord
ance with that theory when built
upon ordinarily sound bedrock, but
that on the contrary the action
of the middle section of the St.
Francis dam which remained
standing even under such adverse
conditions is most convincing evi
dence of the stability of such
structures when built upon such
firm and durable bedrock as is
present in Boulder canyon.
DOUGLAS, ARIZONA, SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 31, 1928
HE EFFORT
10 01111
INVESTKATIOI
Senator Ladd Refused Im
portunities of Hays to
Stop Probe, Said
TWO MEN TALK
j .
Former Colorado Senator
And McArthur Relate
Story Ladd Told
WASHINGTON, March 30
ate Teapot Dome committeemen have
taken under advisement the question
of calling former Senator Alva B.:
Adams, of Colorado, and Douglas H.
McArthur, former secretary to the late
Senator Edwin F. Ladd, of North Da
kota, for relation of conversations they
hAfl with Senator Ladd concerning ef
forts of Will H. Hays to stop the oil
investigation in 192.
Both Adams, who then was a mem -1
ber of the Teapot Dome committee, j
and McArthur said today that when:
Senator Ladd was chairman of the j
committee he had told them of a visit:
to Washington by Hays and his at-!
tempt to use a political argument oni
Ladd to have him join forces with I
other republicans of the committee to
stop the inquiry, which Senator Walsh,'
democrat, Montana, then was vigor- j
ously pressing.
As Adams land McArthur, who now!
is secretary to Chairman Nye, of the |
committee, related the story, Hays went)
to the White House; summoned Ladd:
there and then had him ride around I
town in a taxicab while the former j
postmaster general and now a direc-!
tor of the moving picture industry, j
presented his reasons why the inquiry;
should be closed.
*
Hays was quoted to them by Laddj
as having said that the inquiry had
become merely a political one, with thej
democrats seeking to cast odium on)
the republican party in connection :
with the leasing of the Elk Hills, j
Calif., and Teapot Dome, Wyo., naval j
oil reserves.
The North Dakota independent, who;
later was read out of the republican!
party councils by his senate colleagues, 1
finally became incensed by Hays’ argu-1
ments, the story goes, and made it
bluntly clear that he purposed to per
form his duty as chairman irrespec
tive pf the result on the republican or
any other party.
Adams was unable to recall the ex
act time that Ladd told him the story,
whether it was before or after Hays’
first appearance in March 1924, when]
he failed to tell of the whole $260,000'
contribution by Harry F. Sinclair to!
wipe out the republican party debt. S
The Teapot Dome committee held a
long executive session late today, but
without reaching a decision as to when
it would resume public hearings. Mem
bers said there had been a general
culling out of letters and suggestions
sent to the committee from many
sources, with a discarding of those
which obviously would bear little fruit;
upon investigation.
This work will continue tomorrow,
and after sbme of the more promis-;
ing of the leads have been brought)
under investigation the committee will
decide whether to proceed with the
public hearings or tto await further ef
forts of the field investigators in'run
ning down the trails of the Continen
tal Trading company liberty bond
profits.
o
INTERRUPT FALL’S DEPOSITION
EL PASO. Texas, March 30 WV-!
Because of the weakened condition of i
Albert B. Fall, former secretary of!
the interior, it was necessary to |
interrupt the taking of a deposition
from him this aiternoon. The hear- 1
ing was to be resumed later but no 1
night session would be held, Dr. H !
T. Salford, his physician, said
o •
MANY ARE INDICTED
NEW YORK, March 30 W—Ten
corporations and 13 individuals were
indicted by a federal grand jury in
connection with a department ofj
justice investigation oi the so-called
“Dutch quinine trust." The indict
ment charged conspiracy to restrain
free competition in and to increase
the market prices of cinchona bark
and quinine derivatives.
COMPLETE I.EASED WIRE REPORT OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
f \
i
B: -y- 'iS
Hermann Koehl .(left), German ace whose westward trans-Atlantic flight at
tempt failed last summer, has set out again toward New York from Berlin
with Baldonnel Airdrome, Ireland, his first stop. With him in his big all
metal Junkers monoplane “Bremen” are Baron von Heunefeld (right) and
Arthur Spindler.
Willis ’ Death Ends
Spectacular Fight
In Ohio Campaign
GERMAN FLIERS
POSTPONE TRIP
UNTIL MONDAY
Adverse Weather Over At
lantic Delays Proposed
Record Attempt
BALDONNEL. March'. 30 {*)—.Ad
verse weather in Ireland and over
the Atlantic ruined Baron von Huen
feld’s hope to continue his llight from
Berlin to Mitchel field, L. I„ this
week. The Junkers plane Bremen
was unleashed today from its air field
moorings, and with a full load of
fuel and oil aboard was carefully
rolled back into the hangar, and the
fliers are not optimistic about start
ing before Monday.
• Continued on Fage Ten)
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Geipian Fliers Trying It Again
! WASHINGTON, March 30 WP)—'The
! death of Senator Willis /brings to an :
; end one of the most spectacular con
j tests in file republican presidential
campaign, but at the same time leaves
Ohio republican politics in a tangle
whose* solution it is difficult to fore-;
see.
Senator Willis and Herbert Hoover!
were entered against each other in j
the Ohio primaries to be held April
24. Under the Ohio law it is neces- |
! sary for a candidate to express hisj
I willingness to enter the primary and j
; the date for filing such expression
I expired more than a month ago. j
J Whether it will be possible to re- j
j move Senator Willis’ name from the,
; situation is ror the Ohio leaders to
j decide. It also will ‘mean for the
• senator’s friends to determine whether
' they will now give up the campaign
against Hoover aiiu permit the dele
gation to go to him by defaut, or J
whether they will attempt to continue [
the fight in Senator Willis’ name with
a view to swinging the delegation
i tto some other anti-Hoover candi
| date.
| If the later course is adopted, it
i is assumed that an attempt would be
| made to line up Ohio delegates for
i one of those candidates who have
j expressed e. willingness to join forces
with the Willis contingent in Ohio
and have entered the April 24 pri
maries as second choice candidates.
Those so entered include Frank O.
’Lowden of Illinois.
The Ohio contest between Senator
Willis and Secretary Hoover has been
a dramatic one from the beginning.
When he first announced his candi
dacy the senator hoped to have the
state without opposition.
The several other Ohioans who had
been mentioned for the presidency
all stood aside. Some other Ohio
I leaders, however, including Represen
tative Theodore Burton and Walter
F. Brown of Toledo, felt that the
senator really had no prQspect oi
securing the nomination and that
Ohio should fall in line with the fast
developing boom for Secretory Hoover.
Mr. Hoover did not announce his de
cision until a few days before the
time for filing expressions of willing
ness had expired. His announcement
that he would enter the primary was
hailed by b6th the Willis and Hoover
| supporters >n Ohio as forecasting an
1 unusually vigorous campaign in a
, state whose voting strength made it
! an important factor in the pre-con
' vention situation.
!' senator Willis was only beginning
i his speech-making in Ohio when he
! died tonight at Delaware. He had
been making week-end trips back
to his home state, delivering an ad
dress or two on these occasions. He
had planned, as the primary date
l approached, to spend much more time
traveling over the state and taking
up in greater detail the issues# of
the campaign.
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* Willis Eulogized By *
* Hoover In Expression *
* Os Regret At Death J
* . ~ if.
* NEW YORK, March 30 <P> *
* Secretary of Commerce Herbert *
* Hoover tonight said the death of *
* United States Senator Frank B. *
* Willis, was a “matter of deep re- *
* gret to every citizen,” *
* “Mr! Willis, as a school teacher, *
* governor and senator, has given *
* his life to honest, upright' pub- *
* lie service,” the secretary said in *
* a statement issued before he left *
* for Washington. *
* “The passing of do conscient- *
* ious a public servant is a matter *
*of deep regret to every citizen.” *
* *
**************
sijoolTash
GATHERED WHEN
SAFE IS ROBBED
Camp Jones Finance Offi
cer’s Quarters Visited by
Smooth Cracksman
One of the smoothest sale robberies
that has been reported m Douglas
for a long time was discovered at
Camp Harry J. Jones yesterday morn
. ing when those employed in the
i finance officer’s department reported
I for duty. Seventeen hundred dollars
! had been the reward of the thief
■or thieves and so deftly had they
: pulled the job that they left no
clews behind and only good grounds!
| for an inference that the work was
j done by an experienced safe robber
! who knew how to manipulate the
I tumblers of a safe by the sense of
I sound.
The robbery took place some time
between the closing hour of Thursday
i and the, opening hour yesterday
morning according to Maj. J. E.
Creed. The thief was of selective
nature, taking nothing but currency.
There were a number of checks in
the safe and also an amount of
j coins and stamps but none of this
: was bothered, the currency which was
in bills ranging from five to ttVenty
dollar sizes being Hie only item
missing.
| Entrance tc the finance officers
quarters was gained by breaking a
glass in a window that gave the
!• thief opportunity to reach Within and
! manipulate the lock on the door,
i That done, he had easy access to
; the room and once inside was alone
with ample opportunity to work the:
lock on the sale to his heart's |
content so that it is thought likely
that the job was done by an
experienced cracksman who preferred
Jto roll the tumblers v/hen he had
I the opportunity to taking a chance
on cracking the safe with explosive.
When the robbery was reported to
Major Creed he immediately took
the matter up with tne Douglas
police department and Assistant Chiei
A. B. Murchison went to the seen?
and took photographs of the safe and
everything that suggested a possibility
of getting helpful prints. He then
took prints at their suggestion of
all those who might have had an
opportunity to be about the place
and in a short time it had been
demonstrated. to the satisfaction ot
the officer that there was no sim
ilarity between any oi tne prints
he had and those shown on the
safe. This result was declared to
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WINTER PAYS MIDDLE WESTERN
STATES RETURN VISIT FRIDAY
CHICAGO. March 30 i/P)—Win
ter came back to the middle west
for a rousing encore today which
gave the March lion an opportun
ity to do a little rojiring.
Weather bureau forecasters,
however, indicated tonight that
March’s passing tomorrow will be
accompanied by a lamb-like bleat,
for fair skies and rising mercury
were expected on the heels of the
severe snowstorm which over
spread the mid-section of the coun
try last night and today.
The snow, the second of .the
week, and sleet in some sections
did heavy damage to wire facilities,
particularly in northern Oliio, and
hampered transportation from the
Ohio to the Mississippi river.
In the Great Lakes region the
snow turned to sleet which clung
to telephone and telegraph lines
until they snapped, and as a re
sult wire facilities from Pitts-
Copper firm; electrolytic,
spot and futures, 1414 c;
ead steady; spot, 6.00 c.
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| Frank B. Willis Succumbs
To Hemorrhage at Po -
litical Meeting
READY TO SPEAK
Largest Political Meeting
In Delaware History
Ends Tragically
DELAWARE, Ohio, March 30 (VP)——
United States Senator Frank B. Wil
lis, candidate for the republican presi
dential nomination, died of cerebral
hemorrhage here tonight, while in an
ante room at Gray’s chapel, where
2,500 persons had gathered to listen
to Delaware’s son deliver a campaign
address in a huge home-coming cele
bration.
He drew his last breath in an ante
room of the chapel oi Ohio Wesleyan
university. On the stage, unaware of
his passing, the Buckeye Glee club
of Columbus was singing a campaign
song, “Farewell.”
Senator Willis died at 9:09 p. m.,
when he fell into the arms of his
secretary, Charles A. Jones, just as he
entered the ante room. •
Senator Willis \ya& just preparing
to speak when he became ill. As .te
left the stage with Mr. Jones, he
remarked: “Jones,. I never felt this
way in my life. There is something
awfully wrong.”
Then as they entered ,the ante
room, Mr. Jones said the senator
staggered, grasped desperately at the
wall and slumped/ The secretary
caught him just before he reached
the floor. t >
The senator called feebly for his
wife. She was summoned quietly off
the stage, only to enter the ante
room as her husband drew his last
breath.
Secretary Jones returned to the
stage and announced:
“Mr. Willis never will be with us
any more.. He is gone from us for
all time.”
He asked that all persons leave the
hall and allow only relatives to re
main.
The crowd, which only a few mom
ents before had participated in the
greatest political ovation Delaware
had ever known, had marched in a
torch light parade, had carried red
fire and had listened to a band, was
stunned.
A moment of silence, then pande
monium. People jumped from thefr
seats and hurried from the hall. A
few, dumbfounded, could not move,
and sat glued to their seats. Tears
ran from the eyes of his old friends.
It was half an hour before many could
believe the news.
Five physicians were called to at
tend the senator; doctors Dorrance S.
James, I. T. McCarty, Floyd V. Mil
ler, A. R. Callandar and W. Q. Ben
ner. They pronounced death due to
cerebral hemorrhage.
Earlier in the evening Senator Wil
lis had complained of the gas from
tht: torches used in the parade. He
said they made him feel ill, Jones
said.
Mrs. Willis said the , senator had
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burgh as far west as Des Moines
were badly hampered.
Lima, Ohio, was hardest hit and
for a time was entirely cut off
from the outside world except by
radio. While the city was isolated
it was reported that a tornado
had struck it, but this later was
found to be Incorrect. With tele
graph facilities halted the Lima
News obtained part of its informa
tion from the outside world by
radio from the Associated Press,
and also transmitted news of the
city by radio.
Several villages in Pennsylvania
were cut off from communication
by the storm and many through
trains both east and west out of
Chicago were delayed mostly be
cause of poor wire facilities. In
Chicago the storm, ltyte the ill wind,
had its compensating features. The
mow extinguished a fuse attached
to eight sticks of dynamite under
a downtown bnilding.