T|lE WEATHER, ARIZONA, Friday partly cloudy; Saturday fair, lit tle change in temperature. COLORADO and NEW MEX ICO? Friday and Saturday fair, little change in temper ature. VOLUME 35 MINE EXPLOSION TAKES 20 LIVES Heavy California Storm Damages Crops, Paralyzes Traffic ALL TRAFFIC FROM ARIZONA IS TIED UP LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 9, LAP) —Crop damage was mounting hourly in the Imperial Valley to night as the storm was yesterday descending on the area about Los Angeles, moved southeastward, virtually paralyzing motor traffic, washing out railroad tracks and filling irrigation ditches to flood stages. Continuing rain, already passed the record point, wrought serious damage to barley pasture fields, the lettuce crop and unpicked cot ton. Livestock was suffering from exposure to the driving rain and wind. The main irrigation canal, supplying about one third of the water of the valey, burst from its banks at Dixie Land and spread over the San Diego-El Centro high way. Northwest of Brawley, the Salton Sea Highway was closed hy order of the state highway com mission, the rain having undermin ed the pavement or covered it with heavy sand. Highways in every other direc tion were impassable. Arizona railways stopped all traffic east of Yuma. Stages and other ma chines were unable to get through the washed out sections of high way by the San Diego route. A washout on the Southern Pa cific line northwest of Niland, de layed outbound and main line west bound trains last night until 2:00 o'clock, this afternoon. Trains.are now running an hour or more late because of soft track. No more earth shocks were felt today following the series of jolts yesterday. The last tremor was felt at 9:50 p. m. las't night and was of equal intensity with the pre ceding shocks. NO damage was re ported. The rain fell generally over the valley. Niland reported more than three inches, El Centro a little less than two inches and Brawley 1.37. Strong, cold winds whipped Los Angeles during last night and to day following the freakish storms yesterday. Harbor crafts were threshed about in a sixty mile gale, but outside of a small steamer be ing stranded on a mud bank, no ser ious damage was done. The yacht Poinsetta, formerly owned by the German Crown Prince, was erroneou dy reported to have slipped her moorings and crashed onto the breakwater at San Pedro during last night’ gale. A check this morning showed the Poinsetta undamaged. (Continued on Page 3) RAIN AND SNOW THROUGHOUT ARIZONA CHEERS UP FARMERS BUT BLOCKS TOURIST TRAFFIC General rainfall which lias been a prominent part of the entire Ar izona scene for the past week, in some places blocked traffic and closed roads, and in Winslow chiefly manifested itself in an in termittent drizzle that alternated with snow for the whole week, leaving streets swimming in mud of pea-soup consistency. Agricul turalists and stockmen take the rain as a god-send, and there is no question but that the state-wide precipitation has been worth thou sands of dollars to Arizona as a whole. Among others tile Winslow Daily- Mail takes its place as a storm sufferer. Expecting an operator from the Associated Press, plus a desk man to edit the wire news, the owners of The Mail received a call yesterday afternoon from Prescott, advising that both men had been delayed on account of the storm. The report said that they were delayed by a wreck, their car overturning near Black Canyon, and that the two men uould arrive as soon as possible. Heavy snows fell in the higher altitudes of Northern Arizona, and were reported as far south as Date Creek, Prescott, Flagstaff, Ash fork and other points reported smv" m quantitii ->. (Continued on ! J ;uo :> A PAPER FOR THE (5c PER COPY) 4-4 , 4-4 , 4 , 4 , 4 , 4-4 , 4 , 4 , 4 , 4 , 4*4- * DOUGLAS ELECTION * 4- EXPENSES $3,117.00 * 4* 4- 4* WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 —(By..* 4* Associated Press) —Mrs. John * 4* W. Langley, of Kentucky, re- 4- 4* ported to the house yesterday 4 s 4* that she spent only $99 to 4* 4* gain the seat in congress held + 4* by her husband before he was 4* 4* convicted of prohibtion law 4* 4* violations. + 4* Today was the last for the 4* 4* filing of reports and it brought 4> 4* in all but a few of the ex- 4* 4* pense statements. Outlays re- 4* 4* ported by house candidates 4* 4* included: Douglas, Arizona, 4* 4* $3,117. * 4* 4* 4* ■£• 4* 4* 4 1 4* 4* 4* 4 1 4* 4* 4* 4* ASK DENIAL OF COURT REVIEW IN TEAPOT DOME CASE WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. (AP) Government attorneys in the oil cases asked the Supreme Court to day to refuse to review the civil case in which the Harry F. Sin clair Companies seek to set aside the cancellation of the Teapot dome naval oil lease. They con tended that the issue was the same as presented in the appeal of the CALL NAVAJO COUNTY GRAND JURY TO MEET DECEMBER 15 With the calling of a grand jury to be selected and go into session December 15th, and with the petit jury calendar made up this week and scheduled to start trials January 4th, court house business seems ,tq be picking up in Navao county, and all the legal talent in the county is preparing for a busy and pros perous season. Subpoenas were issued last week and were served pn Winslow men for grand jury service Saturday and Monday. DE LA HUERTA BRANDS REPORTS "PURE INVENTION” LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 9 (AP) —Adolfo De La Huerta today characterized a report that he had been repudiated' by Mexican Revo lutionists as a “pure invention.” Elias Palominas reports to have brought message to El Paso pro bably is a government agent he said. De La Huerta said he received a telegram today from a representa tive of General Nicholas Fernan dez, rebel leader, saying he was on his way to renew pledges of al legiance WASHINGTON D. C. Dec. 9. (API —The defense played it’s trumps in the Fall-Dohoney Oil Trial, weaving into the record on of the most ciliorful and dramatic stories which ever has gone before a jury in an American Criminal proceed ing. Edward L. Dohoney, 70 years old Multilmillionair oil man in a four hour examination told the story of his life from the time he was a “shave tail mule driver” in the old West until he found him self defendant in a suit involving naval oil reserve leases in which he had estimated there might be a profit of $100,000,000. His story was an unqualified de nial of all charges of wrong do ing. unpatriotic intent, or corrupt purpose in the leasing negotia tions. He repeated what he told the Senate Uil Committee: three year* ago couctming his siui oO.t ft omit:‘led on pag< j WINSLOW 7 , NAVAJO COUNTY, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1926 REPORT METEOR FELL 40 MILES FROM WINSLOW Meteors seem to have a peculiar affinity for Winslow. With the greatest Meteor crater known to man within 16 miles of Winslow, and with others reported in a ra dius of a few miles in the near past, this region hardly needed the new one which fell last night some miles southwest of here. Night Marshal R. L. Neill re ported last night that he and two companions say a large meteor burst from the sky, and apparently fall near Hay Lake. The phenomenon, which occur red at 8:25 last night, lit up the country for miles around, and made the summits of the moun tains at Sunset Pass plainly visi ble from here. Mr. Neill said that the meteor, even from a great distance, ap peared to be several feet in dia meter. Doheny side to set aside the case at Elkhills, a decision in the Elk hills case should be controlling. > Selection of grand' jurors- and preliminaries will probably be completed early in the morning of the 16th of December, according to Lloyd C. Henning, clerk of the superior court, and the jury should he hard at its work of returning true bills that same day. Speculation as to Hie rea sons for calling a grand jury panel are rife both here and in Holbrook, but the actual causes will remain a. secret at least until after the 16th. County Attorney l*. A, Sawyer left for Phoenix early in the week, and officially at least, he is the only man who knows the exact rea son for impanelling a grand jury. According to court records, only two grand juries have been called in Navajo county in the past seven years. The last grand jury, called in 1921, investigated reputed dishon esty in the case of the failure of the Holbrook State Bank, accord ing to court house attaches, and indictments were returned against several New Mexico business men. The petit jury preliminaries, or part of them, were held Monday at the court house, when all cases on the docket were scheduled, and attorneys for defense stated wheth er or not they wished jury trials for their clients. Drawing of names from the jury box will be made between now and January 4th, and on that date the jury will be selected. These twelve jurors will try all cases in which jury demand has been made. Reviewing the calendar Monday, it was estimated that the petit jury session would consume about three weeks. In the same year, 1921, another grand jury was called by the county attorney to investigate cir cumstances surrounding the mys terious shooting of R. L. McLen nan, Santa Fe railroad man, who was found unconscious in his home early in May of that year, suffer ing front several bullet wounds. McLennon vfailed to give any in formation that would disclose the identity gs his assailant. Al though seriously wounded, Mc- Lennon lived si:: weeks, dying on June 15th, 1921, in the Los Angeles Santa Fe hospital. TO OPEN POLO SEASON TUCSON, Ariz., Deec. 9—-The University Polo season will offici ally open Wednesday afternoon when the polo squad will play the officers’ team at Fort Huachuca Captain P R Upton U com him.: rht- teani KIND WORDS FROM THE TOM BSTON E C OMMERCIAL CLUB —o — Tombstone, Arizona, Dec. 8, 1926. Giragi Brothers, Publishers, Winslow Daily Mail, Winslow, Arizona. Congratulations from the Tombstone Commercial Club on your advent into the daily field. Knowing you from the time you were each knee high to a grasshopper, we know you will put over your new venture as you did the “Tombstone Daily Prospector” here, and that great Cochise county family guide, “The Tombstone Epitaph.” % A. H. GARDNER, Secretary: Phoenix Man Is Found Guilty Os 2nd Degree Murder PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 9 (AP) D. G. Lane, formerly of Cisco, Texas, was found guilty of second degree murder hy a jury in the Maricopa county Superior court late today in connection with the fatal shooting last July 17 of Dr. Franklin Reed. Phoenix jeweler and optician. The jury was out 24 hours. Second degree murder carries a sentence of from ten years to life in the penitentiary. Lane was caught in an auto camp embracing Mrs. Reed. The defendant claimed self defense, the state claiming that Lane trap ped Relied at the Lane home by a telegram from Mrs. Lane." The de fense admitted intiinacies be tween Mrs. Lane and the jeweler. The jury returned tire verdict at 5:20 p. m. It tried the case at 5:05 p. in. yesterday. The verdict was rhdfclfed less than 30 minutes after Neri Osborn, jury foreman, had announced that the 12 men were hopelessly deadlocked and could not arrive at a verdict, each of eighteen ballots being the same, 10 to 2. Superior Judge M. T Phelps, however, sent the jurors back for further deliberation. Lane received the verdict with the same calm which had marked his demeanor throughout the trial, which began November 30th. Just before the jury filed into the box and while Lane was being con ducted into the court room, a court attendant said to the defendant “ Well, I believe the jury has a verdict of some sort.’’ “I’m glad its over,” Lane replied, “I’m tired.” After the verdict had been read and recorded, Judge Phelps an nounced that sentence would fe pronounced at 9:30 o’clock Wed nesday morning, Dec. 15th. The Arizona Statute pi >vide. that a sentence ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment, at i'te discretion of the court, -.hnli be imposed following a conviction of second degree murder. Judge Pheips tomorrow is ex pected to set the date for the trial of Mrs. Lane who, like her hus band, was charged with first de gree ’ murder following Red's death at a local hospital from four gun shot wounds July 18th, the day following the encounter in the Lane home. Prohibition Storm Breaks In House Over Enforcement WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9, (AP) —A prohibition storm broke in the house today, the flood of wet and dry oratory unloosed al most submerging the measure that caused it, the treasury appropria tion bill carrying approximately $13,000,000 for enforcement by the prohibition unit. Wets outnumbered the drys, 4 to 2 before the speaker’s dais and between them they invoked virtu ally all popular arguments for and against the enforcement act. o BUM) NEW (OKKAL TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 9—A new stock corral of five ear capacity has been built ai Mara no foi the Use ot stockmen. >f tli;u locality . TO REPRESENT ARIZONA SIDE AT DI HEARING IN WASHINGTON PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 9 (AP) Judge Samuel White and Thomas Maddock, former state engineer, left tonight for Washington, D. C., to appear before the House Com mittee on Irrigation and reclama tion at the request of Gov. Hunt as the special committee to repre sent the state at the hearings on the Swing-Johnson Boulder Can yon Dam bill. The decision to send the pair to represent Arizona was made fol lowing the receipt of telegrams from Senator Ashurst and Con gressman Carl Hayden, calling at tention that every effort was being made by California to obtain the passage of the Boulder Canyon bill during this session of con gress. Senator •Ashurst described the situation as “critical.” Governor Hunt lias asked the House Committee to await its hearings until the Arizona dele gation arrives in Washington. The committee is scheduled to meet Saturday morning. Propose Federal Super-Highway Coast To Coast WASHINGTON, I). T. Dec. 9 (AP) —Construction of a fed . oral super-highway from coast to coast was proposed in a bill today by Senator Dupont, Re publican, Delaware. A federal corporation would acquire a right of way o(Ml feet wide, with authority to lease the unused portion in such away as to eventually pay the cost and upkeep of the highway. There would be a two-way road for fast pas senger travel, and another for heavy freight, with tourist camps along the way. Dig cities would be avoided. A big highway the entire length of Delaware has been constructed by Senator Du pont at a cost of $4,001), (Mid and given to the state. SENATOR DILL OPENS FIGHT ON EXPENDITURES WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9 (AP) —The inevitable break over Senatorial campaign expenditures began today in the senate. Unex pectedly, Senator Dill opened the fight over the oulays in the Illinois and Pennsylvania Republican pri maries by offering reasons on which action was referred, declar ing William S. Var.e and Frank L. Smith, disqualified as senators elect from those two states. Earlier in the day the opening of a new,field for investigation was proposed by John R. Neal, attorney, of Tate Springs, Tennessee, who charged in a letter to the senate elections committee that Senator Neal. Democrat, had spent $60,000 in his campaign two years ago. Neal requested an investigation. Before the senate met, the com mittee discussed future activities behind closed doors for hours, but adjourned without reaching a de cision as when it would meet or to what it’s proceedure would be. In dications were given, however, that the committee’s activities were not through. (OMPLETL PLANS TUCSON, ArD.. Dec. 9. Plan and specifications for the new vet eran bureau's hospital will he com pleted bv the first of next month. 4*4 , 4-4-4-4-4-4-4 , 4-4-4 , 4-4 , 4* 4* FORGER FEARING * 4- ARREST SUICIDES 4- 4- FORT MORGAN, Colo., Dec. 4- 4* 9—(AP —Fear of arrest fol- 4* 4* lowing his forging of the name 4* 4* of his brother, P. Phil Dale, of 4- 4* Eaton, Colo., to checks total- 4* 4* ing nearly $1,500.00, caused 4* 4* John E. Dale, SS, Fort Mor- 4* 4* gan hotel man, to commit sui- 4* 4* cide here Monday, while Slier- 4* iff of Morgan county watched, 4 1 4* it is believed here. Dale had 4> 4* forged checks in payment of 4* 4* the Bijou Hotel here. Forged 4* 4* checks for the lease payment 4* 4* and deposited another forged 4* 4* check in a loeal bank for 4* 4* $137.00. All of the checks, 4* 4* written on a Greeley, Colo.. 4* 4 1 bank, were refused payment 4> 4* Wednesday. Dale contemplat- 4* 4* ed suicide beside an irrigation 4* 4* ditch Monday morning. The 4* 4* sheriff approached on his 4* 4* hunt for another man and 4* 4* Dale, believing his misdeed 4* 4* had been discovered, came to 4* 4* his decision and shot himself 4* 4* through the head before the 4* 4* officer could stop him. 4* 4*4*4*4*4*4'4*4 , 4*v4‘4*4*4*4* OLD-TIME OFFICER DEFENDS NAME OFTOMBSTONE IN CRABTREE CASE BOSTON, Mass,, Dec. 9, (AP)-- /,ona, was defended in a depositor read in Suffolk Probate court today, by the man who “arrested pretty nearly every man that done any killing there.” The deponent was Wyatt Earp of Los Angeles, deputy sheriff and United States Marshal at Tomb stone during the eighties and his testimony was introduced in sup port of the contention of Mrs. Car lotta Cockburn of San Gabriel, Cal ifornia, that she was niece of the late Lotta Crabtree and entitled to a share in the former actresses $4,000,000 estate. Looking hack on the days when he enforced law on the frontier, Earp declared that witnesses who have described Tomstone as a rough town, where all wrong, and then in it’s \yildness not half as had as Los Angeles. In fact, he retorted, he could count all the killings on his fingers. “The first man killed was Mike Killeen,” he began, “then city mar shal, White, he was killed by Cur ley Bill. I arrested him and took him to Tucson and put him in jail. Then the next man was killed by a man named Bradshaw. He kill ed his partner, Mclntyre. Brad shaw had bought a kind of funny looking shirt, a red striped shirt, and he went out in the street and everybody was making fun of it and saying, ‘where did you get that shirt?’ and he got hot over it and he says, ‘the next man that kids me about this shirt I am go ing to kill.' “The next man was his partner, and of course he said to Brad shaw', ‘where did you get that shirt?’ and Bradshaw jerked out his gun and killed him.’ That makes three. The next man killed was Storms, and he was killed by Rufe Short. That is four, and thats all except the Clanton-McLov/ry affair.” Earp said he remembered Jack Crabtree, but did not know that lie was related to Lotta, the actress. He knew that Crabtree had a child but was not sure whether it was a boy or girl. ILL HEALTH SENDS TWO TO THE GRAVE NEW YORK, Dec. 9. lAP)-111 health sent two women to their death, one jumped through a win dow. the other swallowed poison. Suffering from anervous disor der Mrs. Lewis Vanderbilt Hewitt, descendant of John Way, opened a window of her sixth floor apart ment and leaped out. She died a few hours later in a hospital. Miss Dorothy Smoller, motion picture actress, swallowed poison in her room in the Shelton Hotel. Letters in her room revealed she had tuberculosis, one letter to her mother. Mrs. Rose Smoller, of Long Beach, Cal., telling of “pains (SIX PAGES) FATE OF FOURTEEN MORE STILL UNDETERMINED AS RESCUE WORK STARTS; LITTLE HOPE IS HELD PRINCETON, Ind., Dec. 9 (AP) —An explosion in the Francisco Mine number 2 near here today, took a known toll of 20 lives. Fourteen more miners still were in the mine tonight, their fate unknown and as of 37 others rescued, many were so seriously burned they may die. Seventy-one men were in the mine when the blast occurred, apparently from dust. Thirteen were uninjured. The mine, one of the largest in the state, employ ed 300 miners. Brewers Contribute To Defeat Dry Law VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 9,(AP) —Henry Reifel, president of Van couver Brewer’s Association, in formed the Royal Commission in vestigating customs law in the Province that the Brewing Cor poration had made large expen ditures in the defeat of prohibi tion. INVITED TO CONFERENCE GENEVA, Dec. 9 (AP)—The U. S. government will soon be invit ed to colloborate in two League of Nations activities in an 'interna tional conference for the super vision of the private manufacture of arms. Chaplins Still Trying To Settle Their Troubles LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Dec. 9 (AP) —Charles Spencer Chaplin would be satisfied to take one of Iris two sons and let his estranged wife, the former Lita Grey of the screen, keep the other, if that would be an acceptable compromise in the difference of the comedian and his wife, Edward Manson. special representative of Mrs. Chaplin said today. Mrs. Chap lin, however denounced the plan as absurd. “I will never agree to this,” she said. George Beebe, attorney for Mrs. Chaplin said eveiy effort would b made to settle the differences be tween the Chaplins out of court. COUNCIL AROUSES CURIOSITY Os SPECTATORS, BUT FAILS TO SHOW EXPECTED FIREWORKS Ormiston Under Arrest; Enroute To Chicago, 111. HARRISBURG, Pa.. Dec. 9 (AP) Kenneth O. Ormiston, missing radio operator in the Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson case was on his way to Chicago tonight in company with Charles Ellwood and Harry Don nelly, Chicago detectives. This statement was made by Os car Carson, Harrisburg detective, who aided the Chicago authorities last night in the capture of Orni iston. He was traced to this city through a letter. Carson said that charges of con spiracy would be made against Or mi ton on his arrival in t liieugo. Ormiston is wanted in Los An geles on charges of "subordina tion of pre-jury." and conspiracy to defeat justice. Carson, while admitting the trio were Chicago bound, did not know their destination when they left the hotel in Harrison. The party left in an automobile hired by the Chi cago operatives, who refused to (Continued on Page 3) ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE Subscription Rates: One Year $6.00 Six Months 3.25 One Month 60 NUMBER 1 PR IN ( ETON, I ml., Dee. 9. (AP) —Fire in the south en try of the Francisco Coal Com pany's number 2 mine in which *2l men were killed today and the are still entombed, tonight drove rescue crows from the sliult. Seven men were rescued alive from a heretofore unex plored entry tonight, but one of them, Ollie Itolil, of Evans ville, died before he reached the hospital. II was in an entry adjoining the part where seven men were released that the fire broke out, augmenting the dis aster which occurred at (5:30 this morning when an explo sion, of undetermined origin entombed seventy-one men in the 500 foot shaft as they, the first contingent of the too men which toiled in the mine, went down at the beginning of the day shift. The explosion occurred in the southeastern part of the shaft shortly after 5 cage-loads of min ers had been lowered for the day’s work. An emergency hospital was established at the mine and physi- * eians and nurses summoned from Princeton. After first aid treatment was given the more seriously injured were rushed in ambulances to the Methodist Hospital here. Most of those rescued suffered severe burns about the face and chest. In their care of the injured the resuers did not stop to record lhe dead, and it was several hours before the toll was known. Word of the accident spread rap idly and roads leading to the min:; were jammed with relatives of the workmen. It was necessary for officials and miners to organize , traffic squads as well as rescue squads. Veteran workmen stood at the top of the shaft warning the trap ped men to cover their faces to es cape pneumonia through exposure. Rescue workers experienced considerable difficulty in getting ( (Continued on Page (i) After a mysterious conference 1 held behind closed doors, which j scamecl from the attitude of the I council to presage dire happenings. | breathless spectators who lingered | until midnight Tuesday in the hope \ of hearing and seeing a display of ! exciting fireworks, were sent away | disappointed. The conference fol i lowed a recess which was original !iy planned for ten minutes, but the recess stretched out over the hour and well over and almost through a second hour before the 1 city fathers reappeared to take up their official duties. Marsha] \V. Harp and night j marshal Neill, as well as the mun icipal court docket, figured in the ! closed conference, and speculation took as many different forms as i Hie recent weather. The curious spectators are still curious, though, ajul will likely remain so officially.; One offilVial act that followed the long recess wasa decision made by the council to hoar down on I card players who seek their amuse j ment in public places. Members j of the local clergy appeared to be behind the move, but whoever waq behind it, it passed, and from now on the red, white and blue chips will no longer flaunt their patrio tic. colors on tables in Winslow poolrooms. (Continued cn Page 3)