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fullpacks, who had missed their train
but had been picked up by the M. P.s
and charged with being' A. W O. I
'1 often wondered who was in charge
of Vaers-Torsi, and who classified and
sent the 'men to the farm. I used to
wonder also why men with unhealed
wounds and no signs of a bandage
were sent to Farm No. 2 instead to a
hospital, and were forced to march
that long distance, often without a rest.
"I was at the trial of those officers
and sergeants at Tours, and it may
sound strange but the fact remains,
that those men were convicted not so
much on the evidence of the prisoners,
as by the testimony of the "men of
Smith's own command, who hated him
for the brutal acta he had been guilty
of, and the treatment they themselves
had received at his hands.
"Tou may print this if you like, and
anything I have said will be vouched
for by any of the men of the detach
ment Very respectfully.
"ORION M. ZINK."
(Sgt, Orion M. Zink, Company A,
158th Infantry.)
and $50,000 to the state's attorney for
use in his investigation.
The 6,000 state troops, as well as po
licemen and sheriffs deputies, con
tinued on guard duty in the negro dis
trict. o
of the police at the failure of their
strike to secure the withdrawal of the
police bill, and the possibility of an
other big railway strike, the labor
situation has again become so threat
ening that it is stated Arthur Hender
son, the labor leader who is attending
the socialist conference at Lucerne,
has been hurriedly summoned to Lon
don. Liverpool was quiet today but it
remains the center of agitation, for a
strike of the dockers is now being
threatened in support of the striking
policemen. The executives of the
Dockers' Union today passed a resolu
tion demanding reinstatement of the
dismissed policemen, failing which they
will give whole-hearted support to the
policemen's strike.
Another meeting of trade union or
ganizations of all trades was convened
at Liverpool tonight to consider the
advisability of calling a general strike
in support of the police union.
Negotiations between the govern
ment and the Associated Locomotive
Engineers and Firemen to arrange a
new 'scale of pay for engine drivers
have been in progress for six months.
The government has just issued what
is described as a final adjustment ot
the scale, as a result of which the
executive of the union has been snowed
under with indignant protests as to tht
inadequacy of the scale from all parts
of the country. The executive has ar
rived in London from Leeds to Inter
view the board of trade on the subject
and the outlook is considered serious. .;
Further, there are the beginnings
of strike movements on the Scottish
railways, owing to a local dispute.
The number of men out on the Lon
don Southwestern railway almost
doubled today and passenger service
is suffering severe inconvenience.
TAHAN'S DAUGHTER
Tells of Indian Girls' Religious Work
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Republican A. P. Leased Wire
CHICAGO. Aug 5 Twenty-five
cases, involving 30 persons, black and
white, alleged to have participated in
the race rioting last week, on charges
of murder and assault, were prepared
today for presentation, to a special
'5
CONSIDER INCREASED FARES.
grand jury tomorrow, Seven indict
ments, naming fourteen negroes, in
cluding two women, were returned to
day. Twelve indictments, naming 17 ne
groes, were voted yesterday.
The county commissioners today
voted $100,000 to the sheriff for pay of
special deputies and other expenses
incident to suppression of the riot spirit
CHICAGO. Aug. S. The state pnWU
utilities commission today took undet
advisement the application of the Chi
cago surface lines and the Chicago
elevated railways for increased , fares.
The increases were opposed by counsel
for the city. j u
Use The Republican Classified Page
for results Read for Profit. i
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
LONDON", Aug. 5. With the YorkJ
shire strike still unsettled, the bakers'
strike continuing, a number of mifor
sporadic strikes in other rtades in sym
pathy with the smouldering discontent
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1919
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TO READERS:
Princess Nacoomee is the daugh
ter of Chief Taban Whose Indian
Stories have been such a hit with
The Republican boy readers. Her
stories are authentic accounts of
woman and child life among the
Indians written especially for
Phoenix and Arizona girls and pub
lished in The Republican only.
EDITOR.
BY PRINCESS NACOOMEE
Of the Kiowa Indian Tribe
Every Indian girl worked. Until
njr people began to live like white
people, work was a part of her very
fife. As soon a3 she was bigfenough
hr- helped her mother Carry wood and
water: she picked berries, dug roots,
tunnel the skins of animals which she
marie int oclothing.
Among the many other things she
did, war, to rook. In' the old rlays
when the hunter brought, in the buf
falo, deer, or other game the first
thing she helped her mother do was
fo cut a piece of the meat as an offer
ing to her sod. This was put upon a
pole .behind the tepee. It was the In
dian's way of thanking her god fur the
, food. After that, she might fix tender
pieces of I he steak on the ends of short
sticks, thrust the other ends of the
sticks into the ground near the fire,
slaniing toward it. Rut just near
enough so that the meat would not
burn. When the juice began to drip
from the broiling meat, it. fell into a
rup often made of buffalo horn on
the ground beneath it. The marrow
bones were put into the fire and
roasted
Those two ways were the easiest
ways for our people to cook, and they
ate more 'meat than anything else. In-;
deed, for many, many days, at times, j
there was nothing else to eat. Fori
future use the meat war, cut into thin!
strips and dried on scaffolds of poles j
In the sun or over a slow fire. .-:
While it is true that she worked i
hard, the Indian girl was never driveh 1
to a task; she was never a drudge nor!
a slave; she worked gladly with joy;
in her heart and a song on her lips.
Until the Indian learned the white'
man's ways, such a thing as a girl I
who did not work, was unknown. But ;
while she was always busy at some-
thing, there was variety in plenty. In
the long winter evenings there were (
gatherings of the people in some one ;
of the large tepees to listen to the le-;
gends of the tribe. These, together
with stories of the heroic doings of
mighty men of the past made up In
part the unwritten Bible of her peo
ple. And they influenced her life as
truly as do the written Scriptures of
the most devout Christian.
There were dances, too, when the
young men and women met together
in the fireshine. when there would be
singing and much merriment. For the
Indian was not the stoical, solemn
creature which has been pictured.
Sometimes, too. they would act out
the story of a mythic hero, for they
had their theatricals.
Grandmother was what you would
call a "savage squaw." I am civilized.
But there is no doubt that she got as
much fun out of swinging an ax as I
do out of swinging a tennis racquet.
Working with the knowledge that she
was doing something worth while made
the Indian girl of her day strong and
healthy.
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IT FSB TELLS
OF piS
Higher Officers Did Not
Know Because They Did
Not Talk to Prisoners
Denies Most of Prisoners
Were Deserters.
Charging that Lieutenant Wright
and Colonel Cirinstead were not aware
of the brutal maltreatment of prisoners
at Farm No. 2, near Chelles. France,
because they never took the trouble
to interview the prisoners. Sergeant
Orion M. Zink of Kay, formerly ot
Company A, 158th infantry, and a
guard at the farmt has contributed
further material to the prison camp
controversy.
"Men were beaten sn often and for
such trivial offenses that it would be
impossible, to remember all the occa
sions" says Sergeant Zink. who states
that he was at the' trial in Tours of
officers and sergeants, who are now
serving sentences, and that their con
victions were due more to the testi
mony of men in their own detachments
than to the statements of prisoners.
Sergeant Zink also denies the truth
of t'olonel Grinstead's statement that
most of the men who enme through
the prison farms were A. W. O. L. and
deserters.
"When they say that most of those
men were A. W. O. L and deserters,
they don't know what they are talking
about'" the sergeant states. "Men do
not go A. W. O. L- with a full pack,
and fully half the men that came in
each night were carrying full equip
ment men who had missed their
trains or whose trains had pulled out
without warning."
Sergeant Zink makes many other
sensational statements in a written
statement made and signed in Ray and
forwarded to The Republican office
yesterday. ' ,
The complete statement follows:
Ray, Ariz., August 4, 1319.
To the Editor,
Dear Sir:
The Statement
"Have been very much interested in
the articles relating to Prison Farm
No. '1. especially General Tuthiti's.
Colonel Grinstead's and Lieutenant
Wright's opinions of conditions at the
farm, and have been wondering if you
would be interested in hearing from one
who was not merely stationed "near
the farm." but who was a member of-
the detachment assigned to duty at
M. Meniers, generally known as Farm
No. 2.;
"Why these officers will insist in up
holding 'Hard Boiled' Smith in his con
duct is beyond me. unless their motive
is the defense of the organization, 'the
15Sth Infantry.' to which they all be
longed at one time or another.
"Lieutenant Wright may have visited
the farm, and may never have seen
any evidence of brutality on any of his
visits, and it is not surprising, for like
Colonel Grinstead and every other of
ficer who paid a visit, they drove up in
a machine or side car to the office,
warmed themselves at the fire, asked
Smith 'How things were going,' and
were off again; and never once did an
Inspecting officer or any other inter
view the prisoners, so how could they
know the real conditions existing
there?
"They did not know that Smith and
Mason and the five prison sergeants.
Bush, Ball, Wolfmier, Ragnovitch end
Smith, stripped the men of all their
possessions souvenirs, trophies from
the front, thines thev had boucht in
Paris to send home; jewelry, money I
and even photos of sweethearts, wives, ;
and mothers were taken and if a man j
asked for a receipt or return of prop- !
eny on evacuation he was promptly i
knocked down- I
"I Saw" j
"I saw 'Hard Boiled' Smith, while j
conducting a search of a new batch of
prisoners that had just arrived, hit!
and kick a man because he ventured !
to say that the amount of money taken
from him was more than the searching ;
sergeant bad declared. 1
"I saw Bush beat two men until they
were bleeding from nose and mouth, j
because they had dared to try and ob- i
tain a second helping at meal time, i
ami the two men in particular were !
half starved. Men begged me for just j
a slice of bread, and I have had men j
who bad been fortunate enough to con- j
teal their money at their search offer I
10 francs for a crust of bread. Any i
meal would find men at the garbage
can. fighting like starved animals for
the scraps that might be thrown away.
"Men were beaten so often and for
such trivial offenses that it would be
impossible to remember all the occa
sions. "The most brutal act Smith and his
aides were guilty of. though, was the
beating up of four men who had es
caped and had been taken into custody
by the M. F.s and returned to the
farm.
Used Blackjacks
"They had been thrown into solitary
confinement cell, and Smith and Mason
and the sergeants in turn beat those
poor devils with their fists and black
jacks until they were nearly uncon
scious, and their groanings could be
heard all over the prison building, and
they were left there on bread and wa
ter, or "white wine and angel food,"
as Smith called it, for ten days.
"When they say that most of those
men were A. W. O. L- and deserters,
they don't know what they are talking
about. Men do not go A. V. O. L. with
a full pack, and fully half the men that
came in each night were earning full
equipment men who had missed their
trains or whose trains had pulled out
without the warning whistle that they
were moving; and any one who has
ridden in those '40 hommes or 8 che
vaux' cars will bear me out that men
were being left behind continually, and
no one's fault but the train crews.
Came in Squads at Time
"Nearly half a platoon of engineers
were brought in one night, all with
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OFFERING OF
1 CUMULATIVE STOCK
OF
Pacific Cotton Mills Company
OF CALIFORNIA
The Southwest Cotton Company has secured an allotment of 2,000 shares, par value $100.00 (to
tal $200,000.00) of the preferred stock of the Pacific Cotton Mills Company of California to be
offered to investors in the Salt River Valley. Of this amount, 200 shares have been sold prior to
this announcement. More than the remainder has been subscribed, at Los Angeles, on the first
day of offering, but we have obtained this reservation for reasons we believe to be of especial
interest to the men of the cotton industry in this vicinity.
The production of high grade long staple cotton in the Salt River Valley of Arizona seems now to be assured. The
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is back of the Pacific Cotton Mills and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California.
.Work upon the latter factories at Los Angeles has begun. The rubber company has already contracted for the entire output of
the cotton mills, at cost plus ten per cent., thus assuring dividend requirements several times over, and the Cotton Mills Company
will immediately work for the production of a line of cotton goods in addition to the fabric and will establish a market iorsudhi
goods, in the United States and abroad.
These mills will, we believe, have these influences upon the Arizona industry:
1. A new market.
2. A closer market.
3. Shorter haul and in a different direction than heretofore, thereby larqely removing the danger of freight congestion.
4. A market far removed from any other long staple market and not influenced by labor shut-downs that may exist elsewhere.
6. A rapidly expanding market. Because of economic conditions favoring this section the local demand for cotton products will ermrmeasly itx
create.
The Los Angeles mill will require approximately 15,000 bales the first year The Southwest Cotton Company, will as In the past, pay the. highest
price for lint consistent with the world markets.
We hope that a considerable number of cotton grower stockholders may b e obtained and that thereby, in addition to the service rendered by the
Southwest Cotton Company, another relationship between producer and manufacturer may be established, for the benefit of all of us.
The following statements, made with the approval of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, demonstrate the soundness of the lnTestment:
A Corporation Organized Under the Laws of the State of California.
Exempt from Federal Normal Income Tax
$2,000,000
PACIFIC COTTON MILLS COMPANY
Par Value of Shares $100
7 Cumulative Preferred Steele
Full Paid
Non-Assessablej
Dividends payable quarterly on January, April, July and October 1st.
Redeemable only as a whole at 105 during first five years and
thereafter at 110 and accumulated dividends.
Security Trust & Savings Bank, Los Angeles, California, Registrar.
Authorized. Now to Be Issued.
Capitalization
Preferred Stock, 7 Cumulative (this issue) $3.000,0O
Common Stock ........ 3,000,000
$2,000,000
LOOO.OOO
The $1,000,000 of Preferred Stock remaining can only -be issued under special restrictions.
SUMMARY
(From letter of President F. A. Seiberling of Jury 21, 1919)
Organization
The Pacific Cotton Mills Company has been organized by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (of Akron, Ohio) to manufacture cotton fabric for tuse of the Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company of California in the manufacture of tires and other Goodyear products.
Earnings - ,
The entire outpupt of the plant at its capacity of 33,000 spindles will be sold under contract to the Goodyear Tire & Kubber Company of California at cost price plus a profit
of 10, SAID PROFIT APPLICABLE TO DIVIDENDS, TO BE NOT LESS THAN PREFERRED DIVIDEND REQUIREMENTS. At present prices it is estimated that net
earnings will be four times preferred dividend requirements on sock outstanding.
Purpose of Issue : - -
Proceeds from the $2,000,000 preferred stock (together with $1,000,000 to be obtained from the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, through the purchase of
$1,000,000 Pacific Cotton Mills Company common stock at par) will be used fn the erection of the plant as aforementioned and for working capital.
Elements of Safety
The stock is non -assessable, is preferred both as to assets and dividends, and dividends are cumulative.
The Company may place no lien or mortgage on any of its properties, nor create for a period of more than one year, any unsecured Indebtedness (excepting such obligations aj
are Included in commercial borrowing) without the consent of the holders of three-fourths of the outstanding preferred stock.
Net assets must at all times be maintained at 1 times the amount of preferred stock outstanding.
Dividends on the preferred stock will be advanced by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (of Akron, Ohio) until such time as the Pacific Cotton Milta Company Is is
operation!
Description of Plant
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California has acquired six hundred acres of land in the City of Los Angeles comprising Ascot Park and about four hundred forty acres
adjacent. This corporation will convey to Pacific Cotton Mills Company, at cost price, forty acres of land in this tract, which forty acres will be contiguous to the forty acres
reserved by the Tire & Rubber Company for its factory. The purpose is to construct the two factories side by side, so that the product of the Cotton Mills Company will be
delivered to the Tire & Rubber Company without transportation charge.
The Cotton Mills Company will inBtall forthwith a plant operating 33,000 spindles, pro-ducing approximately 150,000 yards of. cotton fabric per week.
Management
While the Pacific Cotton Mills Company will operate undef its own Board of Directors, the active and immediate executive management of its business and general policy, aaA
its operation of the factory, will be identical with that of the Akron Company.
The Akron Company will give to it skilled operatives, experienced managers, careful su pervision, and identity of product, so that the Goodyear reputation of high-grade products
will be maintained.
Application will be made to list the preferred stock of the Pacific Cotton Mills Company on the San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange and the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, i
Stock may be paid for in cash. However, to accommodate subscribers who would be realizing from their cotton fronr time
to time, a partial payment subscription has been adopted whereby each share of $100.00 may be paid for as follows :
$10.00 upon making the subscription. $25.00 per share on January 20, 1920.
$25.00 per share on August 20 1919 $15 0Q ghare Qn March 2Q 1920
$25.00 per share on November 20, 1919.
Subscriptions will be filled in the order of their receipt. If oversubscribed, payments will be refunded.
For further information, inquirers are referred to the following banks, which have consented to receive subscriptions -and
payments:
Bank of Chandler Chandler
Salt River "Valley Bank Mesa
A7alley Bank Thoenix
Phoenix National Bank Phoenix
National Bank of Arizona .Phoenix
Glendale State Bank Glendale
First National Bank Glendale
Tempe National Bank Tempe
Bank of Gilbert Gilbert
SOUTHWEST COTTON COMPANY
PHOENIX, ARIZONA