Arizona republican. [volume], June 30, 1919, Page PAGE TEN, Image 10

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PAGE TEN
THE ARIZONA RKrOBIICAN, MONDAY MOANING, JUNE 30, 1919
J I ; J X BROUGHT
HARD LUCK ID
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Only Explanation for Series
of Big and Little Mishaps
That Preceded Luke Me-
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What mysterious "jinx" pursued the
heven army airplanes that came to
Arizona last week to participate in
the Frank Luke Memorial Tourna
ment? A jinx it must have been, for
when Saturday came only two planes
were left in commiesion to take part
in the tournament, while the others
were strewn from Tucson to Needles,
and from Phoenix to Yuma.
A "jinx" is the only way the army
aviators from Rockwell Field could ex
plain their misfortunes. And to the
casual observer it also seemed a
"jinx," for the aviators were picked
pilots from the field, and most of them
iiad rarely damaged a "ship" before,
if a "jinx" it was, it was a whimsical
!ne, for in all the "cracks" not a man
was injured and some of the mis
haps were fairly pood sized crashes.
M any rate, the "jinx" managed to
disappoint thousands of Phoenicians
by leaving only two planes to take
part in the tournament, in making the
airmen considerably disgusted with
their hard luck, and in costing the
sovernment several times as much
money as the tournament netted.
Had it not been for the jinx, seven
airplanes would have participated in
the memorial tournament. Two were
already in this state on the recruiting
drive for the air service Captain L. E.
Appleby has been conducting for the
last three weeks. Five more planes
were also to attend, and they left the
field, to fly to Phoenix last Thursday
morning.
Included in the five were two Cur-tis-Hispanos
of the type already in
Nit state, a Dellaviland "Bluebird" and
a LaPere, two of the best and most
expensive models in America, and a
German Fokker, one of the crack Ger
man fighting models.
Jinx Began Work Wednesday
The "jinx" began its work Wednes
day when Captain Appleby damaged
his plane in landing at Yuma dam
aged it so badly it could not be re
paired until this week. At the same
time the captain's other plane, Lieut.
Worthington's "Hisso," was damaged
at Douglas, but it was repaired in time
to fly back for the tournament, where
thousands saw it do thrilling and ex
ceedingly dangerous stunts.
It was the Rockwell Field fliers that
the "jinx" worked on most effectively,
for out of the five planes that started
only three got to Phoenix, and only
i?e participated in the tournament.
The first plane to crash was the
De.Haviland, which bumped into an ir
rigation ditch in landing at the state
fair grounds Thursday afternoon, did
flip-flop, and rested upside down,
propeller shattered and wings cracked.
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It was wrecked so thoroughly that it
took Sergeant Mason, Sergeant Miller
and Sergeant Rumley all day Satur
day to getvits remains set up in front
of the grand stand for everybody to
see. Lieut. W. C. Goldsborough and
Lieut. H. R Haslam, its passengers
were uninjured.
The same day, according to meager
reports that came in later, the fast
LaPere lost its way, followed the Colo
rado river up to Needles, and crashed
there. It was entirely wrecked, though
its two birdmen also escaped injury.
Then the Fokker, after various mis
adventures in the Imperial Valley,
managed to get cracked up some place
near Yuma. Again the damage is un
known, though it was reported that
Lieut. L. A. Dayton, the pilot, was
not hurt.
The Growing Misfortune
The last and crowning misfortune
that may be blamed on the "jinx" was
the wreck of one of the Curtiss planes
that got over safely from the field.
This crash was the worst of the lot,
and occurred at 8:30 o'clock Friday
night at Center and Main streets in
Mesa, near the business district. The
1 12,000 plane was total loss, though
its remnants will be taken back to
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Lieutenant R S. Worthington and
Master Signal Electrician Mason will
leave this morning for Prescott for the
Frontier days' celebration, according to
an announcement last night by Captain
L. E. Appleby, air service recruiting
officer in this state. They will fly
the red Curtiss-Hispano airplane that
stunted so vigorously at the memorial
tournament Saturday, and will be fol
lowed tomorrow by the white plane,
carrying Captain Appleby and Lieuten
ant H. R. Haslam.
Besides taking part in the Frontier
days' celebration, the two airplanes will
take part in an intensive recruiting
campaign for the air service in Pres
cott. With both the ships out of the city,
Phoenix will have no airplane here for
the Fourth of July. The only other
ship in commission in the state, that
now being repaired at Tucson, will be
flown to Florence for the Fourth by
Lieutenant Bernard Summings and
Cadet Nassamer. All three planes are
expected to be back in this city by
next Saturday, when they will start the
return flight to Rockwell field.
The DeHaviland "Bluebird" plane
which crashed in landing here last
Thursday will start back to the field
this morning by freight. With it will
go the remains of the Curtiss plane
which was wrecked at Mesa Friday
night. The other two Rockwell field
planes which crashed before arriving
here will be shipped back to the field
from the respective scenes of their dis
asters, Yuma and Needles.
The army aviators in the city, ex
cept the six who will fly the three
remaining planes, will return to the
coast by rail tonight, one of them, Lieu
tenant W. C. Goldsborough, leaving
yesterday. Included in the party will
b'j Lieutenant J. T. Lawson and Cadet
Cardiff.
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the field, but neither Lieut. J. T. Law-
son, the pilot, or Sergeant A. J. Nas
samer, the passenger, were injured, in
their forced landing.
Incidentally, this crash marked the
ignoble end of the first aerial news
paper delivery in the state.
A glance at these varied misfortunes
would convince almost any one that
the "jinx" should have been satisfied.
But it was not. It was working full
time Saturday, though in a less osten
tatious manner.
Lieutenant Goldsborough and Ser
geant Nassamer wanted to go to the
field, for instance, they had been prom
ised a car, but when they went to look
for it, it was not to be found. Neither
was any other car they tried to bor
row. However, they met a Republican
reporter, who hit upon the bright idea
of borrowing Sidney Myers' flivver. So
the flivver was borrowed, and it car
ried the party, now augmented to four,
to the fair grounds.
Adding Lrony to Disaster
On the way back the "jinx" bobbed
up again. The car ran out of gas, and
five cars were stopped before one was
found whose driver would take Ser
geant Nassamer back to the field for
some gas. Then it took Nassamer fif
teen minutes longer to find somebody
to haul himself and the gas back to
the car. And when the trip was re
sumed the flivver had more narrow
escapes from disaster in ten minutes
than ever before in its history. And
in the meanwhile other members of
the party of army fliers were having
other similar minor encounters with
their jinx.
In fact, one of the birdmen con
fessed privately that he was surprised
neither of the ships that took part in
the tournament was affected suf
ficiently by the jinx to get cracked up.
Another, Lieut. Goldsborough who took
the train for Rockwell Field yesterday
morning, was firmly convinced that his
train would be wrecked. It wasn't
however, so he had a little good luck
after all.
At any rate, the jinx" was with
the aviators several days and it did
its work well. So if it began a vaca
tion from duty yesterday it was about
time.
FIRST DUST STORM
OF SEASON PASSES
The first dust storm of the season,
a brief one, and outside the annoy
ance of the dust for a little while,
decidedly cooling, struck Phoenix last
night at 8:30 o'clock.
For about an hour the mounting
cloud of dun-colored dust had been
seen boiling down from the direction
of the Superstition mountains, rising
higher and spreading wider as it
came. For ten minutes before it got
to Phoenix the rollnig pall of yellow
dust could be plainly seen, and every
one had closed up the windows and
gathered out in the yards and on the
porches to enjoy the accompanying
wind.
The storm was of brief duration,
passing over and through the city in a
short time, and going on west looking
for other places to dust. No one paid
any particular attention to it. A one
resident recently arrived was heard to
remark, "Well, if that is one of your
famous dust storms I don't think much
of it.-
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EH CITY Tffi
W REMAINS
ST ID FIGURE
Despite Greater Expenses
and Improvement Expen
ditures, No Raise in Taxes
Is Planned for Citv
The tax rate for the city of Phoe
nix for the 1919-20 year will be $1.06
per $100 assessed valuation, the same
rate as last year. A semi-official an
nouncement to this effect ,was made
Saturday.
Although the new rate remains un
changed from ,last year, city officials
look upon it, in reality, as a substan
tial reduction, especially in the face
of increased salaries and costs of
materials.
Operating expenses of the city have
increased approximately 20 per cent
within the past year, it was explained.
Likewise ,the new rate includes an
appropriation of $105,000 for perman
ent improvements, an increase of $50,
000 over the permanent improvement
appropriation of last year.
Conservative administration of city
affairs during the past year, whereby
the year's business will be closed to
day with a, remainder of $b0,000 in
the city treasury, is partially respon
sible for the unchanged tax rate for
the coming year.
Water Department Made Profit
This surplus remains irrespective of
the influenza epidemic last fall and
winter, in which the city expended ap
proximately $20,000 in an effort to
combat the disease.
Another big item that enters into
the new rte is the revenue from the
wr.ter department. Total revenue from
the water department for the coming
year is estimated at $145,000. Operating
expenses for the period will be $45,754,
according to the estimate, and an ad
ditional $33,700 will be expended for
new mains, services, hydrants, meters
and pumping equipment, leaving a to
tal net revenue of $65,546 from this
source to go into the general fund. The
total net revenue of the water depart
ment, exclusive of the money to be
expended for the purchase of new
equipment, is $99,246.
This annual net revenue from" the
water department would pay the in
terest and leave a remainder of $20,000
for the sinking fund each year for the
proposed new Verde project, it was ex
plained, in the event that property
cwners vote the necessary bonds for
the construction of the project.
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TEMTH CAVALRY BAND
A large and appreciative audience
turned out at the capitol last night to
hear the public concert rendered by
the tenth cavalry band from Fort
Huachuca. The crowd was estimated
at 2500 people, scattered all over the
state house lawn in various attitudes
of comfort, the youngsters rolling in
the grass and doing Ruth St. Denis
steps to the music.
A feature of the concert which was
given at the request of the governor,
was a one-step named the "Governor
Campbell," written by C. S. Gronegal,
leader of the Fort Grant industrial
school band, a dignified but catchy
melody, apparently much approved by
the hearers, for a number of them were
noted attempting to whistle it.
During the afternoon the band, a
colored organization, was honored by
the colored folk of Phoenix with an
entertainment at Eastlake park, com
prising good things to eat, speeches,
and a general good time. The colored
population turned out to the concert
also, being there in force.
The band is a good organization,
rendering excellent music, and the
crowd that gathered to hear them was
a demonstration of the fact, as most
of the people present had heard -them
the day before at the memorial tourna
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Riverside Park
This morning sees the big pool all
filled with fresh heated water after
having been thoroughly scrubbed,
cleaned and refilled last night This
non-delay method Qf cleaning the big
pool is making a big hit with the swim
mers, for it insures them the use of
the big plunge early the next morning,
after the same has been emptied and
cleared the night before. In former
years, it was at least one lost day
whenever the pool was emptied and
cleaned.
The Alf-Ine candy factory is quite
an interesting sight at Riverside. The
making of the candy can be followed'
here, and it is always the scene of a
great many interested parties, watching
an industry which promises to take its
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OPEN TONIGHT
10 P.M. to 1A.M.
DANCING
SWIMMING
CABARET
Come and dance under the big
electric fans
Watch for the special Fourth of
July announcement of
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It will appear promptly.
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place among the features of the Salt
River valley.
The concessions are running full
Mast, and attract many eager sight
seers throughout the day and evening.
Morley's Country Club
Special arrangements have been
completed for bus service between the
city and the club for the big Fourth
of July "doings" at the popular resort
The Union stage line will run special
cars from its office opposite the Ad
ams hotel every 15 minutes throughout
the day and night. The management
of the club will also run )wo service
autos from the city hall to the park
from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m., to carry chil
dren who have no other means of get
ting to the park for the big Fourth'
celebration. All children will be hauled
fiee by these two cars, donated by the
management.
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The big' pool was thoroughly
scrubbed and cleaned last night.
It is full of fresh heated water
this morning.
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See how Alf-Ine candy is made.
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