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I Fiftieth Ycar-No. 174. Price Rye Cent. OGDEN CITY, UTAH FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1920. LAST EDITION 4 P. ML
if BERLIN ACCEPTS DISARMING PLAN
ip S 3 fr
CORRUPT USE OF
I IBilE
Campaign Contributors Seek
Their Reward in Various
Ways. He Tells Masons.
I REDUCTION OF DUTY
FREQUENT REQUESTS
Former Secretary Declares
Primaries Are a Disgrace
to United States.
NEW YORK. July 9 William G.
McAdoo. open King at the dinner of the
National League of .Masonic riubs
here last night, declared "there is no
menace so great to our nation as the
corrupt use of money for campaign;
purposes."
I was secretary of the treasury for
six vears and know the brum that la
done by the misuse of tQOriAy in this
Ii way," ho said. 'I am not talking
abQUt Republicans aJono. but Demo
crata as well, for they all look alike
to me when they are guilty of spend -d
' ing money In the manner indicated. '
Mr. McAdoo declared campaign coii
trlbutors would seek their reward In
I various ways, one of Which was the
i eduction of duty on imports. Hel
pointed out that a fraction of a cent I
I reduction would run Into big figures, i
ACTION PRESSED-.
Mr. McAdoo raid that "as an Amer
ican citizen Seeking nothing.' there
I were some things about the coming
election he would like to refo to. The
appointment of the senate commute,
to investigate campaign expenditures,
ho declared, was one of the "few In
telligent thing 'lie nate yer did."
"There Is one thing America can
never stand i"t," he continued, 'and
that is the purchase of the preside ncy
of the United Suites."
"In in) opinion the election law
Should be changed," he said "The
expenses for running tile national elec
tions should be paid out of the na
tional treasure and if this vere done
BSMSB tile cost would be Infinitely less It
H would be reduced one-fifth . The
HaSM i bney should be taken from IhK fd-
WHjj . I treasury and the law should pre-
MAm i'' uiiiiij how t.i"
I . '.Id be spent. If such 0 step were;
. i would to a great extent purl- '
! i i.'Ui' laws.
Ii Ul '!- CROOKEDN E6S.
'It would theu oe out of the qu?s
' i.. n tn );ias laws for crooked polltl-
Oiups who have to be repaid In some!
i ... to I the moneys they have ad-,
I !d for some candidates cam-
1 i-ign."
He urged a nation-wide presiden
tial primary at which nominees would
i. selected without the old of politi
cal bosses.
'If a contributor to a national cam-,
paign." Mr. McAdoo said, "were able'
to obtain the remission of a fraction1
of one cent on the duty on a particu
lar article in which he was Interested, j
he might receive In return for his
campaign contribution ten times fifty
times possibly even one hundred times
the amount he had subscribed.
prim nu s iuM.it i
The presidential primaries In va-
Ipalsn, he declared, were D dlsgr.ua to
the nation lie proposed that nomi
nations be made In the national con
ventions by plurality vote. Instead of1
the two-thirdsvote of the Democrat!
and the majoritj ote "i the Republi
cans. To make thin succebuful, he as
serted, national politics must first be
purified.
The nominee must be the nominee
Of tho people, not of the bosses.' Mr
McAdoo said "The nominee of the
future must not be the 6 lection of a
; -Ji bossed convention. The delegates
I must really n present the people, BO
RfRJll n J that the can'lldates can go forward
I and moke a flghi for the people'"
Ml ST ADOPT I EAGVVi.
jyH II Mr. McAdoo sold the only method
ij of preserving peac is th- adoption of
U4I I a league of nutions. and, sooner or
later, America will see It In Its proper
IF light
In order to stabilize conditions In
the central powers, it Is neces3aiM', he
asserted, to aid In curbing economic
boycotts directed against thoso na
tions. This would also ser e to pro-j
mote domestic tranquility,
"Let us all remember," he added,
"we have a constitution and all Amer
ica reveres it, even with the eighteenth
amendment, We lov the American
constitution and we a. . . pi u "
1
DELEGATE IS NOT HURT
AS BADLY AS REPORTED
!!Sk' CAN FRANCISCO, July fi An X-
ray examination today of Colonel J. 8.
Padgett, vl o chairman of tho South
Carolina delegation to the Democratic
national convention, who was hit by a
street car, disclosed that he had uf
'tjr " fered a broken eollor bono and broken
bone In the nose, First reporte were
that he had had concussion of tho
jByr la brain and possible fraotiire of tho
fflffl M ekull. Colonel l'adgeu said ho expect-
?f?I!f 1 e1 10 returri to his home at Waltor-
I , bovo lo a wek.
I GRAPE JUICE AS r
APPETIZER BEATS
I I COCKTAIL, CLAIM
NEW YORK, July 9 Day
by clay the evidence is piling up
to prove that those persons who
! used to exist on a diet of rick-1
cys, highballs and cocktails
have taken to consuming real,
honest-to-"'oodness iood.
i '
The latest person lo appear
J upon the witness stand is Oscar
Tschirky, the famous "Oscar"
of the Waldorf-Astoria.
I "The eld cocktail may have)
been an appetizer," says Oscar
"but the average appetite seeing
to be much better now that i
nothmp; stronger than grape 1
nothing stronger than grape
juice is in order.
HUERTA POLICY
TO REPORTERS
Provisional President Says
Five Genera's Are in Revoit
Against Government
MEXICO CITY. J.ily 9. Article 27
of the Mexican constitution which na
tionalizes petroleum deposits will be
sustained theoretically but nil decrees
Issuer hy former President '""arrann
prejudicing prior rlglits of petroleum
owners will be abrogated b a presi
dential decree to be Issued shortly.
Prov!iional President Adolfo de In
Huerta made this statement to foreign
correspondents lst night.
Oil men will be (riven the right to
i pre-empt petroleum claim within f!C
irs, but once pre-emption 1 made
thry will have an Indefinite time with- J
In which to drill, the provisional pres.
ldcnt said.
MAY EXTR CT OIL.
"While the nation will toll oil men
that It ow n? the petroleum Jn the Bub
soil." he snld, 'whrit difference will It
make when the- government cedes tol
operators the right to extract this oil
and dispose of It nt their pleasure?
It is merely a question of name. The
substantial rights of owners will be
safeguarded '
Tim projected decree will protect 1
prior owners by forbidding outsiders
pre-i tnptlng the former's property) and!
I lurincr, an ucn ;,r( rvjoue x .ions n i
r outsiders Interfering with prior rights!
win be abrogated, sold the provision-1
I al president. lie declared he would
present legislation to this effect to the ;
, new c"xr u w hn it meets in Beptejn-1
ber. After that the matter will be in
the hards of the legislators.
RECEIVES REPORTERS.
The provisional president received 1
i eight North. American and British cor
1 respondente and spoke from his sick
! bed. It was the f lri it Interview he haa
Klven Klni e fluting e. banipiet to for
cIku eorreepondents he was takon III
while giving a dramntlc recital of Ills
; break with Garransa
Five Knerals have taken tip arms
I agalnsl the new Mpzloan goemmenti
! provisional President de la llucrta told
I foreign i orrespondent.s, hut he deolar.
od they did not constitute a military
menace since thry had but very feu
followers He estimated that nr,t more
than Kef men had been involved In
I recent outbreaks.
He usaortod tho army had been re
I organized, that unstcbio foices could
not (-hake tjio administration.
"The Garransa government," said d
la Huerta, laughing, ::fod for more
than four yern against over B6,000
rebels, and there Ih no reason why the
present government cannot contend
with less than 500."
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GOVERNOR GIVES REPRIEVE
TO CONVICTED MURDERERS
Ll-N'OOLiV. Neb., July 0. Aloon P.
Colo and Allen Vlnoent Orammer to
bave been electrocuted here tod.iy for
the inurdur of Mrs, Lulu V'gt tn How
ard county, July l, 101?, were grant
u r' prb-vo until AujtiC t) by i")o -ernnr
fc li, McKolvJfi, booausw Gram
mar slll had an appeal pepdlh in the
United RtafeB clruult court of i. ppe-ilu
This le the twelfth reprieve f.r Colt
and the eleventh for Crammer since
they wore sentenced to death Juat twu
years ago.
GERMANS SIGN
TERMS OF ALLIES
UNOERPBOTEST
Disarmament Agreement
Drawn Up at Spa Will Be
Observed by Berlin
ACTION IS FORCED BY
THREATS OF ENTENTE
Vote to Accept Taken After
Telephone Conversation With
Members of Cabinet
SPA, Belgium. July 9. (By the As
sociated Press) German;, delegates
signed at 11:45 o'clock this morning an
agreement accepting the terms of the
allied note relative to disarmament
presented yesterday. This action was
taken under protest by the German
renresenrntives.
The allied note demanded that the
Germans accept the terms presented
i by noon today anc stipulated that If
(the Germans failed to carry out the
provisions of the demands allied forces
would pecup partp of Germany
The Germans protested that the
Versailles treaty did not obllgatD them
to MeXWiesoe in furthet territorial
1 oupallon except for failure to fulfill
the treaty terms regarding repara
I Hons.
I Tho German cabinet unanimously
decided to obey the allied demand
j early this morning. The vote was
taken after u telephonic eommun'cn
I lion w ith relohetag leaders in Berlin.
The German protest was submitted
; In wriilng. In It the delegates de
nied authority to consent to occupa
tion of German territory except as
'jltovlded for in the treatv of Versall
i les
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MAKES VIGOROUS ATTACK
ON YANKEE SHIP POLICY
GENOA, July 7 A vigorous attack
agallist the American marine policy
1 wa made by Emlle Deckers, Belgian
Miip owners' delegate at todays' ple
! nary session of the International Sea
; men's conference. He charged unfair
; methods on the part oi America
j which, he declared, would "paralyze
J the work of the conference."
M Deckers read a letter salrl to
have been sent to seamen of many
j countries by Silas Blake Axtell, of Now
I York. nttorne for the Seamen's Union
jof North America. This letter pur
( ported to be an appeal to seamen to
join the American merchant marine,
j offering both moral and pecuniary in-
, flucempnte
Tho speaker declared America de-
sired to appear capable ot Kiving a
imillenlum to the world and added:
"isn't it b pre conceived plan to de
stroy tho European merchant marine,
especially' that of small countries like
mine? Shouleln't we do something to
protect ourselves against these at
tempts from America?"
EGYPTIAN YOUTH HANGED
FOR ATTEMPT ON PREMIER
1 CAIRO, Egypt, July 8 The 19
I year-old Egyptian, lbrauam Masso id,
p i:o on Juno u attempted lo assassl
j uato Tewflk Nesslin Pasha, iho Egyp
tian premier, wan fixocutod today by
hanging Sentence upon him had been
I pronounced two days previously.
The attempt upon the premier's life
was by means of a bomb thrown at
I the automobile In which nc was drlv-
I InK.
GRAND VIVIER AND TURK
DELEGATION LEAVE PARIS
PARIS, July p, Tho grand uitr,
accompanlt i by ti membera of the
Turkish delegation, loft fop Coiutan
tlnople thlu evening, Tho delegation
haw been In l'arla tn connection with
(hn Turkish treaty, Tho grand vlzior
bad delayed hia departure in tho ex
pectatlon of being called to Spu, Bel
glum, for i:e allleil Gorman, contcr
nliru bolng held thero, llu locolvod a
noto from tho ministry of foreign af
fuliu, hewevep, that hie proenco was
not ne. le,i nt Spa,
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VERMONT GOVERNOR IS
DOUBTFUL ON SUFFRAGE
RUTJjAND, N't , July p. Govomor
Clement, returning horns hero for the
first time since hiM conference In
Wuthiiiyton with gcnutoi Harding ro
gardinK a speele, sessipn. pf the r
input legislature tq muku posible r,itir
fication pf the; worn.h pufragc
umendmeut, salc ho wa isllll undo
Clded ts to a special passion.
"That Washington mattur was glv
i Mogethcv too much publicity, he
add i dg
! TAKES 60 DAYS TO
GET JURY TO TRY
MILLIONAIRE 'RED',
CHICAGO, July 9. The jury
; to try Wilhani Bross Lloyd and
i nineteen other members of the
i I Conimunist-Labor party for al
I leged conspiracy to overthrow
j the government by force war?
i completed today.
Just sixty days were spent in 1
j selecting- the jury and more
than 500 veniremen were exam
I ined before twelve satisfactory
to state and defense were found. ,
Lloyd, millionaire sergeant-1
at-arms of the Communist-1
Labor party, and his associates, i
I were arrested last January dur
j ing the nation-wide roundup of ,
I suspected radicals and were in- j
dieted on four conspiracy j
j counts and a general indictment
I charging violation of the new
I j state law against criminal syn
i I dicalism
j
DEMOCRATS ID
: LATER li MONTH
'hirst Important Conference to
Arrange Campaign Plans
Set for July 20
DAYTOV. O . July 9 The first im
portant conl'e-rfnce to arrange Demo
cratic party plans will be held July
20, according to a telegram received
by Goernor Cox, the presidential
candidate, from Homer s. Cummlngs,
I chairman of the natlonnl committee,
tod o .
Mr. Cumming's telegram stated that
I he has called a meeting of the entire
niitional commltteo for that date to
confer with the Rovernor.
Governor Cox stated, however, that
he was not deflnlteK icrtaln whether
the i onference will he held here or In
Columbus as in n previous telephone
conversation with Chairman Cum
minKH the latter had indicated the con
ference would be In Columbus, Go1. -ernor
Cox Is of the opinion, however,
that the information contained in the
lelegiiim supersedes that contained In
tho telephone conversation.
COM 1 Rl fcfCB VRB n;icd
The proposed conference with tho
entire committee Is understood b tho
governor to mean there will be no sub
committee here for a pnxiouH coiifer
enco and that everything intended to
h.-lt been considered t the sub- com
mittee will be handled by the full
ciinmilt tee in addition to m. i n things
that the sub-committee could not r
range Plans fr 'be notification prob
ablj will he definitely arranged at the
eonferenc.
Mr. Cummlnr's telegram notifying
the governor of tho proposed confer
ence follows:
"After consultation with Moore (E.
If Moore, national committeeman for
"hio and manager of the goernor's
pre-convntlon campaign) and others,
I have called meeting cf tho Domo
cratic national committee to assem
ble, at the Hotel Miami, Dayton, at
1 I o'clock in tho forenoon of Tuesday
July 2u. This will enable us to pro
ceed In a body to Trail's End If this
accords with your wishes. A few of
the committee will probably arrlvo in
town the day before, I expect to
follow that course as the.ro are various
matters I would like- lo huo an op
portunity to take up with you per
sonally. Please et me 1 now whether
this Is In accordance with your Wish 08
or whether you have any modifications
to euggest, Wlm mo care of Palaco
hotel, San I'Vum-lnoo,"
Governor Cox Indicated that tho ar
rangements were perfectly satisfactory
to him and that he would so advise
Chairman Cumrnlnge,
Governor Co:i uinted today that hia
personal campaign heudquartera will
bt in Oolumbus, He would not com
ment on reports that national head
uuartera may bo established there.
' That Is a matter for the, notional
Committee tn determine," he said,
Theri probably will bo eastern and
western heada.ur tepi
The candldato arrived uj. Ms news
paper office from his hOm at Trail'u
End at t ten o'clock and Immediately
saw newspaper representatives, He
said he had been detained at homo
longer than he anticipated, answer
ing telephone (alia. A arge stack
of telegrams Iras availing him
Among tho morning messages, wus
on from D B Swing, chairman of tho
Democratic state centarl committee of
(Continued, on tp.) ,
one delegate
gets coin from
both fictions
, Witnesses Say They Received
Checks Signed by National
i . Committeemen
CAMPAIGN TO OUST
SENATOR REED PROBED
Edward F. Gotha Said to Have
Signed Paper for Ex
penses j ST LOUTS, Mo.. July 9. Checks
t signed by Edward Pj Goltra, Demo
cratic national committeeman from
I Missouri, were given to fll legates to
pay their expenses to the Democratic
st ito convention at Joplin, according
to testimony given today by members
'of the St. Lemis Democratic commlt
tee before the senate commltteo in
! vcstlpatlnn presidential campaign ex-
pendlturesi
This convention was Instrumental
in ousting United Stater Senator Jcjb.
A. Reed, Democrat, Missouri, from
I his natlonnl convention seat. Senator
Reedi a member of the senate com
mlttoe vvhjpb resumed bearings hers
'.i'- took no' part in today's sfpslon
othrr than to be present in order to
complete a quorum.
l ll His &XPGN6E8
Patrick O'N'eill. member of the
Democratic city committer, and a del
egate to the Joplin convention, told
j the committee he was eiven a check
for $15 0 signed by Goltra, to pay ex
penses to the convention.
( Ijawrencr P Daly, chairman of the
City committee. rnve him tho check, he
..aid. When O'Neill declrred ho wns
i",'a;n3t Goltra,' Senator Spencer ask
i cd if it 'wasn't unusual to accept Gol
i t ra's check."
j "No," answered O'Neill. "I thoucht
i the money was suhsi ribed. Why
' shouldn't the Democratic party pay
1 my expenses ?" $t
HeniT Streutker. another city com-
1 mltteeman. sId his check for Slf.O
was given him at committee head
eiuarters He asserted the money
didn't pa;, all expenses and the dele-
I Kates had hoped fhev would iret more
GETS ANUTIH R $100.
"Goltra was against Reed, but most
of the delegates who !raellcd on his
j money wer; for Rr-ed," Streuker do-
' clared.
Tony Steuve.r, another delegate to
the state convention, also gae him
$100, Streuker said Steuver was a
I friend of Senator Reed and favored
, Cox for president
In other words, you cot $K.O from
the Goltra faction and $100 from the
Steuvor faction when yon know these
l two factions won. antagonistic?" ask
ed Senator Kenyon.
Well, I thought the money had
I been subscribed and was to help the
! Democrats, " Streutker replied
' Goltra mado It plain the money
was for expenses and told i'n ddf.-
I pates he was sorry h" couldn't Kpt
I more "
LATE HEAD OF SANTA FE
LEFT ESTATE OF $720,000
I CHICAGO. July S The estate of
Edward Payson Ripley, late president
r the Atchison, Topeka ev- Santa Fc
railway, Is valued at $"20.0ff0. accord
ing to an Inventory filed in probate,
court today. Personal property val
ued at $fi0O,O0O and tho balance in
real estato In California and other
I estates Is Included.
ASK PROBATE CONCERNS
TO TRANSPORT AIR MAIL
, WASHINGTON, July 0 Experi
ments aro to bo made by the post
office department In tho transporta
tion of air mall by prlvato eoncorns
under contracts similar to thene. lot
lo railroad companies, It was said to
day at tho department. Reeiue.st will
be mado by the department within a
few days for bids for tho carrying1 of
air mall on several now routes.
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AUTO TOURIST MEETS
DEATH IN WYOMING
CHEYENNE, Wvo,, July , Honry
O, Covington of Hot Springs, Ark., was
instantly killed and hU wlfo and child
wpre badly Injure shen. Covington's
automobile overturned luU today on a
hill 30 mile north of hero and plunged
doyp, a twenty foot embnnkment,
Tho party wau returning from a
vacation trip In Yellowstone national
park.
TWO FLASHY BOYS ROB
NEBRASKA BANK OF $1500
WATERLOO, NebY, July " -Two
w i ll-dretsed buys robbed tho Dank of
Wal rloo hero today and escaped in,
an automobile with (100 cash- i
(TURKS FEAR LEST j!
GREEKS WILL GET
THEIRCAPITOL
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 6. j
(By the Associated Press)
Turks are beginning to realise
the critical situation created by 1
I the triumphant Greek advance
into Anatolia and what they re
gard as a complete rupture of
peace negotiations.
All newspapers lament the
i departure of Turkish peace del-1
egates from Paris and urge a
j discontinuance of Mustapha !
Kemal Pasha 's military opera
tions in Asia Minor.
There is much speculation as
! to the measures the entente I
: powers will take after the 1
I I Greeks dominate the Bagdad
1 ! railway
It is feared that the Greeks
j ;wiil be given the Mosque of
Saint Sofia or even Constantin
i i ople.
I ATHENS, Greece, July 8.
Brussa an important Asia
Minor city. 57 miles southeast;
! jof Constantinople, has been oc-!
cupied by Greek forces, accord
ing to reports reaching here.
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CONVENTION OF
THIRD PARTY IS
. READY TO OPEN
I
Single Tax Group Objects to
Senator La Follette for
Head of Ticket
CHICAGO. July 9. Efforts to se
CUTS Indorsement of the Committee of
48 for a plank favoring American aid j
tosgard Irish Independence v. in be con-'
I tinuftd despite the adverse result ofj
la mall vote, it wns learned today, i
J'rimlc IJ Walsh, who participated In;
'the unsuccessful fightbeforc the Re-;
publican and Democratic conventions,!
is bringing It for presentation to the
convention Saturday Of 'he Committee1
of 48 and the Lrfibor party.
A majority 0l- the 30.000 persons,
voting on the recent relert. ndum ik
lstered opposition to planks submitted
on foreign relations, particular! the
Irish. Russian and Mexican jiiestlon. '
Tho rejection by single taxers of1
Senator l.a f ollette as a presidential j
candidate may result in announce
ment of two presidential tickets. La'
Follette led in the poll taken bj mem
bers of the Committee of 48, but sin
gle taxers hero for their meeting ex-1
pressed strong opposition.
The convention Will be cilled to or
der tomorrow by Allen MeC'urdv. of
I New York, who will deliver tho key-.
note add ress
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U. S. HIGH COMMISSIONER
IN FAR EAST RESIGNS
CONSTANTINOPLE. July 7 (By
Tho Associated Press) Colonel Wil
liam N Haskelli the American officer
who has been high commissi mer oi
tho alllea to Armenia since July, 19L',
I has resigned that position. His resig
nation will become effective when the
I British evacuate Batum.
The British, who apparently are
preparing to leave Batum before July
I 18, have blown up all the fortifications
on the theory that Batum should be
a freeport and open town In Georgian
terrltoi i
The Bolshevik embassy in Tlfils.
consisting of forty -eight persons pro
I vlded with man) expensive American
automobiles, have requisitioned the
bet hous0a in Tlfils The embassj li.
actively engaging In propaganda work.
CARDINAL GIBBONS IS
NOT GOING TO ROME
BALTIMORE, July 9 Cardinal
Gibbons mado a definite, announce-!
'ment today that he will not Visit
.Home thin summer- The prelate thus'
net at rest reports In ecclesiastical and
other circles that ho expects to bogln
a pilgrimage to tho Holy See sari
noxl month.
The reports had their foundation i
larit spring when the. cardinal admitted
thai he was considering such ft trip,
following a papa request that Curdi-,
nala visit Home during each five year,
period. The period started at tho be
ginning of this y!ar, and for some
time Cardinal Gibbons thought er-
lously of paying his respocts this your.
REPORT OF SUGAR SALE
IS DENIED BY CUBAN
HAVANA, July 0 Reports that the
Cuban cugai eulea committee had of
fered sugar for &a!ti were denied by
Balvatoro del Valle, u member of tha
committee, hero last night, Ho de
clared, moreover, that offers of 18'4
cents per pound lo that body had been
i efueed.
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RRPS TAKE 8 l-'OKTltKSSIfiS
I'ARlfl, July II Capture of tbr
FamOUS fortresses In Russia by the,
Bolshevik! are confirmed by a Polish
official statement issued yesterday and
received here today.
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MURDERER OF
MOTOR TOURIST I
HANGS FOR CRIME
Elbert W. Blancett Pays Pen- !
alty For Having Shot Clyde
D. Armour.
SLAYER'S TRAIL FOUND
THROUGH INDISCRETION
r
Dog Responsible For Finding of
Body in Deserted Gulch j
On Auto Road. I
SANTA FE. N. M .. July 9 Elbert
W. Blancett. convicted of the murder
f Clyde D. Armour, was hanged in I
the fall yard here at o o'clock this
morning. The crime was committed
October .3, ivtir. Tho ca-se has been f
in nil the State's courts and a plea of
clemency was refused the man's f
I The crime' for which Blancett was
conietei was the murder of Clyde D. f
Armour near Glorleta, N. M , about
20 miles east of here, tjctober 23,
1016
Armour, who lived at Sioux City, I
la., where he was employed as chief H
I clerk In the pa.sf n;:cr office of the
i Northwestern Railroad company, left H
: his home Septcmbei 'y. 1916, accom- t
jaim i,.- his motlier nud sister, on !
route to California in a new eight-
cylinder automobile, un arriving at
Clarke, Nelj., the sister was taken ill I
and when recovered sufficiently to
travel she and her mother proceeded
to their destination, Fresno. Cal , by
train. Clyde Armour continued lhi
trip by auto. He arrived in Denver,
He naked the Y. M. C A at Denver
tr. find a companion who desired to
travel b auto to the coast. The 'V"
b me unable to fhftl such a man, At- I
nionr inserted a want ad In one of tho
Denver papers, which was answered
by Blancett, an agreement was
reached and they started westward.
M . Kit RJCACHKD SANTA FE.
Armour never reached Santa Fe. ' I
but a man representing himself to be
Armour arrived here October 23, reg-
ring at a local hole). When he did H
so he committed the first indlscre
Hon which led to his arrest later on, H
a3, when he started to write "C. D.
Armour" the first letter he made was
"E." This he changel making a "C ' H
over the leter "E" which he had first
written. He remained here until Oc
tober -7. going then to Albuejuereue,
where he sold the automblle for $600. H
The night of ictober 80 he boarded H
a train at Albuquer. - and evidently
, m stri ight through to California j
By November 13 .Mrs. Armour who,
with her daughter, had reuched H
Fresno, became so alarmed over the H
failure of her son to arrive that shy
be;an Investigation Her son-in-law.
.Myron T Sawyer, went to Needles, H
GaL, from winch point Mrs Armour J
had received a message, purporting to
be from her son. to the effect that he J
had sold the car and would continue 1
his trip to Fresno by ttaln. Inspect- j
ing the original of this telegram, Mr
Sawyer at once decided that it was a
forgery Sawyer went to San Diego i
and Los Angeles and finally came on
to Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
BROTHERS SI ARt II1NG.
About this time Armour's two H
brothers arrived here from Sioux City
to take. haige of the search. The
learned that tho man who posed at I
Armour, during some of his conver- :
satlons hael said that he once lived !
near Astec, San Juan county, and II
iiu-tit ioned the- name of his mother,
who had remarried following the
death of her first husband, Hlaucett's
fatheT This is believed to have fur- I
nlshed the- officers with the clew
which led to his arrest :it the home
of his mother at Friday Harbor,
Wash . December 31. 1916, the family
having moved there from New Mexico
After Blancett was arrested he re
quested permission to stop into a cook
Shack to 'say good-bye" to somebody.
A moment later there was a report of
a gun shot from the interior of the
shack investigation showed that I
Blancett bad almost ended his life by '
firing a charge of shot into hia neck. j
When asked why he replied. "I
( OUldn't tell mother ' ,j
Although s diligent search was
made In the mountains east of here,
Armour's body was not found until
January 14, when a dog belonging to
Antonio Sandoval y Qriego walked in
to the house carrying a part of a hu
ii. in leg bone, on which 8 shot- still
remained. Antonio followed the d"' j
on tho back trail and found the bones
that remained of Armour's bods, Id I
an arroyo 300 yards from the main
road. About 2 0 foot away from the
ekele.ton lav a shot-gun and soms
clothing. Marks on the clothing and
paperB In the pockets served to indi
cate that the clothos woro Armour's
At an autopsy held later on six shots
were taken from the base of the
skull, Indicating that tho fatal shot
was flrod from behind, severing j
arteries and inflicting a wound from
which tho victim qulcltly bled to
death,
Blancett was placed on trial In the
Piintu Fo county district court April
13, 1917. The Jury roturned a verdict
of guilty of murdor In tho first do
greo, April 34. Blancott, when placed
on tho witness stand, admitted shoot- j
ing Armour, but said It was an acci
dent He wil'l they irot out of tho car .
te bunt and tiuit whllo he was walking
behind Armour ho stumbled and In
Irving to save hlmaelf from falling, j
tho gun he was carrying was dis
charged, On appeal both tho wtate supremo
court and tho supremo court of the
ultnd btntos affirmed the decisions
of the lower court and ordered the
sentence carried out.
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MASONIC VhVT OONVKVTION
NEW YtRK, July 9. Washington,
D, 0., wae selected for next year's con- i
ventlon of thi National league of Ma
dnli i l"l' at tho closing session of
I its 15th annual congress here today.