The Prescott daily news., October 09, 1919, Image 1

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AIRPLANES BLAZE
AERO MAIL ROUTE
Greatest Speed Contest Ever
Known in History Was Start
ed Yesterday—Three Fliers
Are Killed.
4 Mineola, N. Y., Oct. 8—Forty-seven
airplanes, piloted with one exception,
by American military aviators, start
ed from here today to blaze an aerial
trail of 5,400 miles across the conti
nent and return in the greatest speed,
endurance and reliability contest in
history, while from San Francisco 15
planes took the air for the east. Five
more planes will leave here tomorrow.
At sundown tonight, Lieutenant
Belvin W. Maynard, a Baptist minis
ter and winner of the recent trip con
test between New York and Toronto,
had flown 840 miles from Mineola and
landed at Chicago, while several other
west bound contestants were resting
overnight at Binghamton, Buffalo,
Bryan and Cleveland, control stations
along the way.
Eight accidents in which three
persons were killed and one injured
had been reported tonight to the
headquarters ofAhe American flying
club here, which is co-operating with
the army air service in conducting the
contest.
Major D. H. Crissey was instantly
killed and his observer, Sergeant Vir
gil Thomas received injuries from
which he later died, when the plane in
which they had left San Francisco
early this morning crashed in attempt
ing to land at Salt Lake City.
Sergeant W. W. H. Nevitt died this
afternoon of injuries received when
a plane in which he and Colonel Ger
ald Brandt were riding fell to the
ground at Deposit, New York. Col.
Brandt was reported to be not serious
ly injured.
Five forced landings were reported.
Lieutenant Ross Kirkpatrick came
down at Vernon, N. Y., when his com
pass ceased to function. He received
permission to return to Mineola and
start again tomorrow.
Lieutenant R. L. Maughan, who re
ceived permission to fly today from
Major General Charles T. Menoher,
commanding the army air service,
after he had been physically disquali
fied yesterday by local officials, land
ed at Glendale, N. Y., with motor
trouble. Lieutenant Willis R Taylor i
was compelled to land at Nicholson,
Pa.
The only foreign entrants in the
race, Air Commodore L. E. 0. Carl
ton, air attache of the British em
sassy in Washington, and Captain De
Lavergne, air attache of the French j
CINCINNATI WINNING FIRST WORLD SERIES GAME
The victory of the Cincinnati Iteds over the Chicago White Sox in the first game of the world series was a shock
to the Sox fans. The photograph shows Ruether, the Reds’ pitcher, cinching the game by scoring In the fourth Inning
after making a three-bagger.
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embassy, were eliminated before they
had an opportunity to cross the state
boundary.
Commodore Carlton, with Flight
Lieutenant P. T. Traill, as the alter
ntae pilot of his Bristol fighting
plane, wrecked his machine in making
a forced landing at Ovid, N. Y.
Captain De Lavergne, who was fly
ing as a passenger in a DeHaviland
machine, and Lieutenant D. B. Gish,
his pilot, were compelled to withdraw
from the race when their plane burst
into flames and was forced to land at
Canadice, New York.
AMERICANIZATION DAY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27
Little Rock, Oct. 9.—Gov. Brough
has issued a proclamation designing
Monday, October 27, as Americaniza
tion Day in the State of Arkansas.
He calls upon the citizens of all com
munities and the schools and churches
of the state to hold meetings for the
purpose of inspiring our citizens with
the high ideals and principles of
American citizenship for which Theo
dore Roosevelt stood, and offer prayer
that the Almighty God, in His Infinite
Wisdom, will keep up steadfast and
true in our duties as American citi
zens during these trying hours of our
nation’s history.
Hemstitching Machine now installed
at my home. Work promptly and
neatly done. Price 10c per yard. Mrs.
W. R. White, Jr., phone No. 57. tf
ON PAY-DAY
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The man who likes to jingle his
pay-day money and keep it in his
pockets, seldom has enough left at the
end of the month to mend the HOLE
IT BURNED there.
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Pay-day to the successful man
means a deposit in the bank, settling
bills by check and a surplus at the
end of the month.
We would like to help you start an
account in the right way. Call at the
bank.
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CONFERENCE NOW
READY FOR WORK
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Showdown Between Capital and
Labor is Expected to Come
Today—A Definite Move is
Awaited.
Washington, Oct. 8.—After three
days spent in organization, the indus
trial conference called by President
Wilson will come to a showdown to
morrow on the business to be trans
acted.
Only a brief session was held to
day, adjournment being taken to per
mit the groups representing capital,
labor and the public to formulate such
suggestions nad proposals as they
wish to submit for consideration.
None was ready for submission to
day except the preamble of a resolu
tion to be introduced by Charles E. S.
Barrett, of Georgia, representing the
farmers’ union. The resolution will
demand a comprehensive national ag
ricultural policy. The preamble as
serted the farmers were not being
given due consideration in the pres
ent conference and the failure of any
attempt to settle national questions
without the consent of the agricultur
al element of the population was pre
dicted.
All the groups were busy after ad
journment considering suggestions of
their members to be submitted to the
conference.
Apparently with an agreed unani
mity of action not otherwise charac
terizing the deliberations, the three
groups refused to discuss specifically
what was under discussion or what
would be presented to the conference.
Each group was understood to be
ready with definite proposals on in
dustrial problems affecting domestic
peace, the labor group especially hav
ing a complete program already for
mulated, it was reported, but each
seemingly waiting to see what the
others were going to do before show
ing its own hand.
From the public group came the au
thoritative intimation that the mem
bers representing the “innocent by
standers” in the war between capital
and labor were prepared to abandon
the attitude of watchful waiting and
benevolent neutrality which they at
first thoought to be their best policy.
Not only were several concrete pro
posals said to be in the making, but
hte group sent to the shipping board
for documents dealing with the Amer- j
ican and English ship yards arrange
ments for adjusting wages and fore
stalling strikes by means of perma
nent committees constantly consider
ing grievances likely to cause indus
trial disruption. The opinion is grow
ing that the public group, led by Ber
nard M. Baruch as chairman, will not
rest until the right and left divisions
of the conference accept some for
warding looking proposal to material
ly increase and maintain steady pro
duction.
THE WEATHER
Thursday and Friday, probably
scattered showers, Friday colder.
Maximum .75
Minimum .70
Rainfall .j..02
NEW FIELD OF
INDUSTRIAL SALVAGE
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Little Rock, Oct. 9.—Information
has been given out by the U. S. Bu
reau of Crop Statistics that during
the last season, 18,450 crates of
strawberries that were too rope for
the market, were packed in barrels
with sugar and shipped East for pre
serving purposes. This is the equiva
lent of about forty-one car loads.
They were shipped to Boston to be
processed. This is said to be the first
time the berries of this grade were
marketed so extensively, and that it
probably opens up a new field of in
dustrial salvage.
SELECT DELEGATES FOR
CONVENTION COTTON MEN
Little Rock, Oct. 9.—At a confer
ence of the state organization com
mittee of the Arkansas division of the
American Cotton Association, held
yesterday afternoon in the office of
Gov. Brough, five delegates were se
lected from each cotton county of the
state, htree farmers, one banker and
one merchant, to attend a convention
to be held in the hall of the House of
Representatives at 10 a. m., Wednes
day, Oct. 22, to set on foot the plans
for the thorough organization of the
state.
STEEL STRIKE IS
STILL UNCHANGED
Neithr Side Now Putting Forth
Any Very Substantial Asser
tions—Order Now Prevails in
Chicago District.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 8—Steel strike
conditions in the Pitsburgh district
remained unchanged today, neither
side putting forth claims of any very
substantial gains.
Secretary W. Z. Foster, of the steel
workers national committee, returned
from Washington today and said the
American Federation of Labor would
support the strike to “the limit.”
Several important propositions in
connection with the strike have been
placed before the federation, he said,
and they will be announced later.
A delegation of labor leaders called
on Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, today to lift the ban on peace
ful picketing and on peaceful mass
meetings for advising strikers.
The strike leaders say they intend
to wage a strong fight for the right
to hold mass meetings.
Chicago, Oct. 8.—With Gary, In
diana, under military control of U. S.
troops and Indiana Harbor and East
Chicago under martial law with de
tachments of the Indiana state militia
on duty, law and order prevailed in
the Chicago area of the steel strike
today.
Officials of the mills reported that
the strikers were returning to work
in increasing numbers and that nor
mal conditions were slowly being re
stored.
At Gary, Indiana, agents of the de
partment of justice continued their
work of rounding up radical agitators
and confiscating socialist and I. W.
W. literature.
Labor chiefs denied that there have
been any large defections from the
ranks of the strikers.
Youngstown, Oct. 8.—Negotiations
between union leaders and officials of
the Trumbull Steel company at War
ren, near here, led to a statement to
day at strike headquarters that an
agreement with the company to per
mit re-opening is expected soon. Ne
gotiations were taken up at the re
quest of the Amalgamated Associa
tion of Iron, Steel and Tin workers,
it was slated, who have an agreement
with the company and want to effect
an agreement for the rest of the em
ployees so that they can go to work.
The Sunday school teaeher was as
tounded to see one of her small pupils
sitting on a younger playmate and
holding him tight to the ground.
“Why, Johnnie,” she exclaimed.
“Didn’t I tell you not to strike anyone
till you had counted one hundred?”
“Aint hit him yet!—sixty-five, sev
enty, seventy-five, eighty—”
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