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ROOU METAL MARKETS ARIZONA WEATHER Bar silver: Foreign . . . , Domestic - Copper Quiet. Electrolytic spot- 61 J4c -r994c -11 to PIONEER PAPER OF ARIZONA & $ ' Handing's Bonus Address Is Quarrel SENATE TAKES 12KDURS0VER SRIPiEASURE TO CHEW HAGS (Associated Press Night Wire) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 22. After a continuous session of more than 12 hours, during which Presi dent Harding's course in recently ad dressing the senate on soldier bonus legislation was vigorously debated, the senate reached an agreement on all provisions of the shipping board deficiency bill, carrying $-18,500,000 and upon adjournment at 11:15 o'clock tonight arranged to take a vote on passage of the bill upon re convening at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Early in the day, the senate elim inated an amendment to limit salaries paid to officials of the board. The discussion on the president's speech was started by Senator La Follette, republican, of Wisconsin, who referred to lie. resolution intro duced in the house by Representative W. Burke Cockray,,de;nocnit," of" New j York, criticising the president for ad dressing1 one branch of congress on pending legislation, and drew many senators into the fray. Recites Wilson Precedent Senator Lodge, the republican leader, called attention to the "peace without victory" speech of former President Wilson to the senate prior to the American entrance into the war and his address on the suffrage amendment later. It would be a bad day, the Massachusetts senator said, for the republic when any one of the three branches of the government could not confer with anotlicr. Declaring it was not necessary to "eulogize" Mr. Harding, Senator Bo rah, republican, of Idaho, said that on the question of the bonus "we surrender our judgment to his dicta tion." Mr. LaFollette assailed the presi dent for what he described as execu tive interference with the legislative branch of the government. TO CURB CHURCH GOING MERIDA, Yucatan, Aug. 22. A bill has been presented to the lower house of the Yucatan congress pro hibiting children under 15 years of age entering a Catholic church Priests who would permit such en try are to be subject to a fine of $500. A law to this effect is uncon stitutional, according to the news papers quoting legal authority, but in view of the radical make-up of the lower house, it is asserted, the bill probably will be passed. DEBT FUND PASSES HOUSE (Associated Press Night Wire) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 22. The administration's railroad funding bill was passed tonight by the house. The measure now goes to the senatel The vote was 214 to 123. It is not the present intention of the senate to take up the bill before the recess. An unsuccessful effort was made to eliminate a section which provides that no payments shall be made by the government to any carriers "on account of the so-called inefficiency of labor" during federal control. An amendment to strike out this provis ion offered by Representative Web ster, Washington, a republican mem ber of the commerce committee which had favorably reported the bill, was rejected, 145 to 17. 12c TIMED SM DCE 1CB MM TO G0TH1N: TBUL C1HF0SAMI (Associated Press Night Wire) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22. The motive the prosecution .will try to prove was behind the slay ing of J. Belton Kennedy was "occult love," Malcolm McLaren, special investigator for the dis trict attorney's office, declared today. He said he believed that office already had sufficient evi dence to establish this motive, but that further investigations were under way, reaching across JUROR ILL AND SMOKE ONE DAY; ATTORNEYS Interest of those concerned in the smoke case yesterday flashed upon the jury, which, by reason of the ill ness of Juryman Tom Crawford, as sumed unwonted importance. There was no hearing held" yesterday, al though the case may go on with Crawford back in his place this morning. A complication of ailments cul minating in rheumatism is said to be responsible for Crawford's condition. lie suffered from an injury to his right hip when a youth, and the wet DRY LEADERS FAILE TO DELAY THE RECESS (Associated Press Night Wire) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 22. In the face of all sorts of claims by prohibition leaders that congress should not quit work unitil the anti-beer legislation has been enacted, indications tonight were that the senate and house would recess Wednesday without final action on the measure. The house plans to adopt the conference report with its com promise home and property search amendment tomorrow but there was much uncertainty as to what the senate might do if Senator Sterling, chief of the conferees, should decide to call it up. The general view of leaders was that the house would act, leaving the report before the senate for con sideration in the fall. ILL DADTV UMI Another provision of the section which Mr. Webster failed to have stricken out, stipulates that no funds shall be used in making settlements with carriers which did not "forever bar said carriers from setting up any further claims, rights or demands of any kind or character against the United States", growing out of or connected with the possession, use or operation of such carriers' property by the United States during the per iod of federal control." Proponents of the measure suc ceeded in voting down all motions to amend the bill in important particu lars and as passed, the measure, ex cept for a few minor changes, is in the form in which it was' reported to the house. PRESCOTT JOURNAL-MINER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1921 the continent to New York city. The nature of these he could not divulge, he said. McLaren said he did not be lieve the case would go to trial before late in October or early in November. Arthur C. Burch and Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, indicted for the alleged murder, will appear to plead next Mon day, a continuance to that time having been granted them today because of the absence of their chief counsel. CASE ADJOURNS FOR REGRET LACK OF 1ST i wenfher is thought tn bnvp hrnnirlit on a most painful attack of rheuma tism. Crawford underwent a siege of malta fever last spring. Attornevs for the' litiirants vester- day were regretful they had not 'fore-" seen possible delay due to illness which is very possible during a trial of the length of this one. Under stipulation of counsel, it is possible under the Arizona law to draw an alternate or thirteenth juror to serve along with the specified 12, and take the place of anyone incapacitated. YAVAPAI 23 YEARS Otto Lind, 59, who had lived in Yavapai count3' for the past 23 years, died at Rochester, 'Minn., where he had gone for an operation, and the funeral will be held there, according to word received here yesterday. Mr. Lind was born in Sweden. During his residence in this count' his work had been that of hoist en gineer and mill man. He was a mem ber of the Elks, Odd Fellows and Moose. Mr. Lind is survived by two sons, Otto H. and Melvin, both of Prescott. HUNDRED GADS DELDJISTORH Machines Are Mired or Abandoned North of Glendale, Report Says Over 100 automobiles ate mired or left standing between Glendale and the mouth of the Black Canyon, ac cording to reports received here "yes terday by Bob Byrns, of the Arizona Bus company, local manager of the Arizona Automobile club. Due to the heavy floods at Glen dale, and o washouts along that part of the Black Canyon road, it was im possible yesterday to get into rhoc nix. , Many motorists and truck drivers left their machines standing. Forty machines were abandoned near Glendale Saturday, according to re ports received Sunday by Byrns. COTTON MARKET NEW YORK, Aug. 22. Cotton closed strong at a net advance of 38 to 50 points with December quoted at 13.92 compared with 13.47 at the close of last week. UNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IS THE ESTIMATE PUMPS (Associated Press Night Wlrft) PHOENIX, Aug.. 22. Seven hundred houses in Phoenix were damaged by yesterday's flood and in 400 of these water went into the first story .according to esti mates made by newspapermen today. City Manager Avery Thompson estimated the damage in the city exclusive of that done to the state capitol at $100,000 Yesterday's flood washed five new holes in the banks of the Arizona canal, the principal ar tery of the Salt River valley irri gation system, and enlarged the five cuts made by Friday night's flood. The ten cuts now run from 20 to 150 feet. In the Grand canal, the second largest artery of the irrigation' system that was crossed by the flood on its way from Cave creek to Phoenix, five breaks were made, ranging from 10 to 40 feet wide. Officials of the" irrigation dis trict estimate the damage to their canals at $5,000. They said the breaks would be repaired and AUTO CLUB TO BE CI TOPIC Sid Ross Will Tell of the Work of A. A. C; Traf fic Bureau Work For the purpose of hearing Sid Ross, president of the Arizona Auto mobile club, tell of the work that club is doing throughout the state and what 'its plans for future work j arc, the members of the Yavapai County Chamber of Commerce - are being given a special notice of the meeting schedule for Thursday night. President Ross is coming to Pres cott for this meeting, accepting the invitation of Bob Byrns, local repre sentative of the club. All automobile owners should make it a point to attend the meeting. What the Auto mobile Club of Southern California has done for that state can be ac complished by the Arizona Automo bile club for Arizona. That it is an organization well founded and with a definite program of activity in view will be shown by President Ross. Roland Johnston, manager of the Traffic Bureau of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce will tell the meeting something of the work which the traffic bureau is doing for the Salt River valley. CLAM HAHON WEDS (Associated Press Night Wire) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22. Clara Smith Hamon, who was acquitted in Ardmore, Okla., several months ago when tried for the murder of Jake L. Hamon, was married here late to day to John W. Gorman, a motion picture director. After obtaining license to marry, the couple drove to the residence of the Rev. M. Howard Fagan, pastor of the Wilshire Boule vard Christian church, who performed the ceremony. Mr. Gorman announced he and his wife would make their home here. Mrs. Gorman has been engaged since last April in making "a film under his direction. Topic in the Upper House OF DAMAGE; IN BASEMENT OF THE CAPITOL water service to the farmers re sumed within two weeks. PUMPS USELESS AT STATE CAPITOL No estimate of the damage done outside the city nor of that to the capitol were available to night. Five large pumps were kept busy drawing the water from the basement of the capitol today but tonight were forced to Cease work because of the mud. At that time there was about a foot and a half- of water and mud in the basement. DIMINISHED FLOOD IS STILL FLOWING Water still was coming down from Cave creek through the Arizona and Grand canals but the volume tonight was so di minished that it was being di verted at the Salt River canal, one of the smaller canals of the district, and was not reaching the capitol grounds. Northwest ern Phcenix was still largely under water, however. People living south of the Salt River canal were able to return to their Judge Bollinger to Be Here Wednesday; Two Cases Coming Up Trial of the Hesla highway suit, involving a petition for an injunction to stop the highway commission from proceeding under the engineer con tract with Olmsted & Gillelen, will probably be begun in superior court here before Judge E. E. Bollinger of Mohave county, it was indicated at the court house yesterday. The chief work of prosecuting the suit will be in the hands of the six intervenors, represented by O'SulIivan & Morgan. The major portion of the defense will be conducted for the three majority commissioners- by LeRoy Anderson of Anderson, Gale & Nilsson. Preparations for immediate trial of the case have been made by the par ties and the court. Agreement was reached a short time back that Judge Lyman of Phoenix be called in to try the case, but it was learned he was ill and could not come. Judge Bollinger is engaged in some trials at Kingman, and yesterday no tified Judge Sweeney he would be able to come Wednesday, arriving in the afternoon. Unless plans are changed, the highway case will be brought to trial in the upper f court room Thursday morning. Judge Bollinger will probably also try the mandamus of Homer R. Wood against the board of super visors and the county recorder, to force the appointment of a member of the board vice Jack Jones, absent from the state due to illness. Eighty Thousand Will Visit Yosemite, 1921 YOSEMITE, Calif., Aug. 22. Ap proximately 85,000 people will visit the Yosemite National park this year, if present travel keeps up, it has been estimated. Last year 68,000 entered the park. HIGHWAY AND MANDAMUS TO BETHIEOSOOK MUD STOP homes today, but those living north of there in the flooded area cannot yetget to their houses. CARRY TRAIN TRAFFIC 2 MILES IN TRUCKS Although repairs to the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe - railroad had not been com pleted tonight two night trains for the coast left on schedule time. Their passengers were transfer red from the local railway station to the state fair grounds, two miles away, in automobile trucks, and there they boarded another train. These were the first Santa Fe trains out of here since last night. HASSAYAMPA BREAKS AT PALO VERDE BRIDGE Sixty feet of a 120-foot bridge over the Hassayampa river at Palo Verde were washed out by a flood in the Hassayampa river yesterday, according to reports here tonight. The flood in the Hassayampa river was caused by the same rains- that caused the Cave creek flood that swept Phoenix. OFF OIL FUSS H.S. TELLS (Associated Pi ess Night Wire) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 22. American Oil company officials who planned to go to Mexico City to con fer with Mexican government offi cials on the petroleum question, have been informed bv the state depart- mcnt that the American government would be gratified if the question of the recently imposed tax on oil could be settled amicably by the two par ties to the controversy. The attitude of the department is understood to have been set forth several days ago to representatives of the American Oil company, who transmitted to the department a de cision to confer directly with Mexican officials with a, view to reduction in the recently imposed petroleum ex ports tax. Other American companies operat ing properties in Mexico have not ad hered to the decision to conduct di rect negotiations, it was learned, sug gesting that such a matter be left to the state departments 1 PETROL PEOPLE ENGLAND SENDS FORMAL REPLY TO DISARM CONFERENCE QUERY (Associated Press Night Wire) WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 22. While diplomatic formalities of the disarmament conference moved for ward, with deliberation, the American government is at work defining prin ciples and collecting information which will guide its representatives at the council table. Considerable progress is under stood to have been made, both, to ward preparation of plans and data for the American commissioners and toward a canvass of the diplomatic field to determine what international problems are to be considered within (Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau and the Associated Press.) Tuesday and Wednesday General ly fair; somewhat unsettled Tuesday. FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR 'RITE MEET D AIL EIREA1 TO TALK ABOUT PEACE OFFER (Associated Press Night Wire) DUBLIN, Aug. 22. The dail eire- ann held frequent sessions today to consider the question of what shall be its reply to the British govern ment's peace offer. It adjourned to night without having arrived at any decision but will meet again tomor row in private simultaneously with the gathering of the Sinn Fein exe cutive' committee which is somewhat similar to the national political party committees in the United States. There is little likelihood of there being any public sessions of the dail eireann until Friday, by which time its reply may have been sent to Mr. Lloyd George. IS OF MANSLAUGHTER; . (Associated Press Night Wire) TOMBSTONE, Aug. 22. James Havcrty, cattleman, found guilty yes- Iterday morning of manslaughter for the killing of his brother, Richard, on April 23, will be sentenced tomor row morning by Judge A. C. Lock wood. ROTHER OF BANDIT HELD BOYS IS SLAIN (Associated Press Night Wire) EL PASO, Aug. 22 John W. Dye, rican counsel in Juarez, Mexic.o, tins attcrnoon advised the state de- partment at Washington of the mur der of Bennet Boyd, an 18-year-old American, on the Carretas ranch, in northwestern Chihuahua, 60 miles south of Hachita, N. Mex. At the same time, Mexican authorities in Juarez said a squad of soldiers would be sent to the ranch to hunt" down the slayers who arc said to be ban dits. Boyd, a former resident of El Paso, was killed on Thursday of last week, according to a message received by relatives here today. No details were given- The slain man's broth ers, Cecil and Gordon, were kid naped by bandits on the Carretas ranch in 1916, and held until a ran som of 55,000 had been paid. the scope of the conference. Both the army and the navy have taken an extensive part in the government's preparations. Meantime, although the conference has become an assured fact through the informal acquiescence of all in vited powers, the perfunctory story of formal diplomatic exchanges con tinues to hold the center of the stage so far as surface developments are concerned and to be the theme of all available official comment. The for mal acceptance of Great Britain reached the state department today. Formal acceptances from Japan, Italy and France are yet to come. ' $