Weekly Journal-Miner, 1922-12-27

Backers of Opposition Ticket Take to Canvass and Publicity Publicity-Methods; - Methods; Publicity-Methods; Goldwater Adminis Administration - tration Administration Points to Its Record. Yesterday five working days be before - fore before the city election the supporters of the non-partisan ticket for mayor and councilmen, launched their broad broadsides - sides broadsides against the city administration which is seeking re-election and the approval of .the voters for the progress that has beqn made in civic.jinove, civic.jinove,-inent - inent civic.jinove,-inent during" the past term. A quiet but insistent personal cam campaign - paign campaign of political workers was the form in which the non-partisan candi candidates - dates candidates began their offensive. This morning with a paid newspaper ad advertisement, - vertisement, advertisement, they are presenting their first public appeal for votes. Mayor Goldwater and his adminis administration - tration administration are also engaged in the per personal - sonal personal campaign that may precede a more public form of vote-hunting. Both sides are in the preliminaries of what may prove to be a campaign as sharp as it is short. The administration was renominated at the regular primaries with no op opposition. - position. opposition. The opposition ticket was made up 10 days ago and-launched in an announcement by Henry Hartin, the candidate for mayor, and Messrs. Waara and Blumberg, who are run running - ning running for the two vacant positions on the council. The administration councilmen who are out for re-election are Art Davis and Ray Vyne. No political flavor is lent to the election, for more and more the municipal contests are being waged along non-partisan lines, with the major parties names mere handles by which one or the other ticket mayi be known. The election will be held on Tues Tuesday, - day, Tuesday, January 2, at the city hall and only those regularly registered for it may participate. Those registered at the last municipal election in January, ?920, are entitled to vote, however, on the strength of their previous registra registration. - tion. registration. Mayor Goldwater is standing, on the record of the administration for its handling of the city water problem and the new paving. During the course of his administration, he points to the sale at a premium of the city water bonds that had been held in the municipal archives for many months because df a low bond market, and the beginning of actual construction on the Banning creek water supply, to together - gether together with the rehabilitation of the entire distributing system. The other issue is the downtown paving which has been finished and accepted and on which the taxpayers have repaid about 65 per cent of the cost in cash, dis discounting - counting discounting the improvement district bonds. ' The opposition ticket is made up of Mr. Hartin and Mr. Blumberg, promi nent merchants, and J. W. Waara, surveyor and former city surveyor under several previous administra administrations. - tions. administrations. COTTON MARKET (Associated Press Night Wire) NEW YORK. Dec. 27. Cotton closed barely steady, net 5 points lower to 11 points higher, at ?26.75.

r r LODGE TELLS If HPS AGIST BO (Associated Press Night 'Wire) WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. The first official disclosure that President Harding is negotiating toward an in ternational conference for the consid eration of. European economic prob problems - lems problems was made by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican floor leader, during open debate in the sen senate - ate senate today on the proposal of Senator Borah, republican, of Idaho, for the president to call an international con conference - ference conference to discuss economic conditions and disarmament In opposing the Borah proposal which is in the form of an amendment to the naval appropriation bill, Sena Senator - tor Senator Lodge urged that the president be not embarrassed "in the efforts which he is not making as a matter of" fact." Senator Lodge in the course of an hour's address against the Borah amendment as presented did not op oppose - pose oppose the calling of an economic corf fcrence but said it should be carefully and strictly defined with such ques questions - tions questions as reparations allied debts and immigration specifically excluded from consideration. The state department which has consistently maintained silence as to any efforts the administration might "be making in reference to improving economic and business conditions in Europe, declined to add anything to the statements of Senator Lodge but it was learned that President Hard Harding - ing Harding was considering most seriously transmitting a letter to the senate giving information of his negotiations and at the same time deploring any intervention from congress which might operate to hinder his efforts. Senator Lodge based his opposition to the Borah economic conference pro proposal - posal proposal on the ground that it was too broad in terms. He also contended with reference to the Borah provision for a conference to secure lancj and further naval armament limitation agreements that it would be "futile" in view of the failure on these subjects at the recent Washington arms con conference - ference conference and unless it was developed that the European opposition to further disarmament voiced at that time had changed. TO GET A RECEPTION PENSACOLA, Fla., Dec. 27. With the telegraphic Announcement that Grover C. Bergdoll of Philadel phia, the noted slacker, had left Germany on a mercnanr vessel anu was en route to a gulf port, every ship and its crew was questioned heer today. It was later learned that the Ger German - man German steamship Jupiter was about to arrive and that Bergdoll is a mem member - ber member of that crew. That he sailed is definitely announced by German au authorities. - thorities. authorities. URGES WOMEN TO EXERT THEIR POLITICAL RIGHTS CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec 27. Mrs. May Van Wye, wife of a profes professor - sor professor and herself a former school teach teacher, - er, teacher, was elected by republicans of Hamilton county to be one of the women who -will represent this county in the Ohio legislature for the next two years. Mrs. Van Wye was elect elected - ed elected to the house of representatives by 76,609 votes.

FIFTY-NINTH YEAR SIMP TIL LA. OFFICERS (Associated Press Night Wire) BASTROP, La., Dec. 27. Civil and military authorities today follow ed through the Redlow hills and swamps of Morehouse parish the trail they believe was taken by the masked and robed men on the af ternoon and night of August 24 when five "men were kidnapped and two murdered. The trail covered a distance of about 25 miles from a point on the Bastrop-Mer Rouge highway where the men were kidnapped, to a ferry landing at Lake La Fourche, near. where the bodies of the two men were found last week. The reconoiterers were seeking ad ditional cyidence implicating those responsible for the mysterious dyna dynamiting - miting dynamiting that released the bodies from the bottom sof the lake where they had beeniveighted, down forfour months. The day was devoid of local devel developments. - opments. developments. All eyes were turned to toward - ward toward Baltimore where Dr. B. M. McKoin, former Mer Rouge mayor, was battling against extradition to Louisiana, where he is to face a charge of murder in connection with the case. MISER! Al DEATH (Associated Press) DEDEAGATCH, Western Thrace, Dec. 1 (by mail) Heavy snow, icy winds and intermittent rains have wrought great misery and suffering among the half-million shelterless refugees scattered oer Thrace and Macedonia. Unless help is prompt and generous, the Greek and Armen Armenian - ian Armenian exiles in these areas will perish in large numbers. Already the ma majority - jority majority are half-naked, starving and diseased. All the elementary needs of life are lacking. Food stocks in the towns are growing low.. Famine must ensue this winter unless flour is sent in. Human woe and wretchedness sel seldom - dom seldom have reached such levels. Large numbers arc dying daily of exposure and inanition. The condition of the children and babies is pitiful. Infec Infectious - tious Infectious diseases are rampant. Typhus is gaining such headway that it is feared the great epidemic of 191S 191S-1919, - 1919, 191S-1919, which began at Cavalla, will re recur. - cur. recur. Life in the East always has been cheap, but never so cheap- as in this corner of Europe. Had the population been permitted to remain in Eastern Thrace and faced the Turkish invader, their lot could have been little forse. When the Associated press cor correspondent - respondent correspondent crossed the little river near Drama where Paul baptized the first Christian, he was assailed by a band of hunger-maddened Greek wo women - men women and children who begged pitc pitc-ously - ously pitc-ously for a crust of bread. They said they had been on the march for 24 days and were subsisting on beet beetroots. - roots. beetroots. Although there was a foot of snow on the ground, many were shoeless, coatless and hatless. The blistered, bleeding feet of the chil children - dren children left red silhouettes in the snow. In spite of many promises of help from the outside, little has been done to assuage the misery of these help less exiles. Most of them are women and children. They are sadly in need of help.

In the midst of them the Indians found human bones. They hastened back to report their discovery. The lure cf the bounty on wolves, however, urged the Indians to take the trail again with extra ammuni ammunition. - tion. ammunition. They sped behind their dog teams into thp woods as the vil villagers - lagers villagers waved good-bye. They did not return. " Yesterday a new searching party departed. They found another" patch trodden in the snow about two miles beyond the first The two guns the Indians had carried were lying there and scat scattered - tered scattered about were bones, bits of clothing and empty shells. The car carcases - cases carcases of, 16 dead wolves lay stretch stretched - ed stretched in a circle about the trampled patch of snow. IDS A MESSAGE OF CHEER TO AMERICAN PEOPLE (Associated Press Night Wire) PARIS, Dec. 27. Medical men at attending - tending attending Mme. Sara Bernhadt said this evening there had been no im improvement - provement improvement in her condition since morning but neither had there been a cahnge for the worse. The actress herself was optimistic as ever. "Tell them in America, tell all my friends how much I appreciate their kind in terest" she said. "I shall get well again, never fear." Her severe illness has given rise to much speculation regarding Bern- hardt's correct age. Most authorities give the date of her birth as 1S44, but the birth records were burned, in 1871 when the Paris city hall was destroyed by the revolutionists. The 'Divine Sara" herself has always said she was a "few years younger than Georges Clemenceau," who was born in 1841. NO SPEECH TO IRK INTO GOVERNORSHIP (Associated Press Night Wire) PHOENX," Dec. 27. Governor Governor-elect - elect Governor-elect Hunt will be inducted into of office - fice office Monday without ceremony and without delivering an inaugural ad dress, he announced today. The oath of office will be adminis administered - tered administered at the state house at 10 o'clock Monday morning by Justice MteAlis MteAlis-ter - ter MteAlis-ter of the supreme court. The governor-elect also announced the selection of three additional ap appointees - pointees appointees as officials at the state prison at Florence. They are Dr. Fred Perkins of Phoenix to be pris prison - on prison physician; A. T. Hammons of Payson to be prison secretary, and William Belbridge of Bisbce to be parole clerk. RETURN TO HOME John Wilson and family have re returned - turned returned to their home in San Francisco after passing Christmas with Mrs. Wilson's father, 'Judge E. W. Wells, president of the Bank of Arizona. Mr. Wilson arrived from San Francisco Sunday, joining Mrs. Wilson and their children, who have been visiting Judge Wells for some time past.

ND (Associated Pruss Night Wire) PHOENIX, Dec. 27 W. S. Nor Nor-veil, - veil, Nor-veil, state waer commissioner of Arizona, today granted a permit to James B. Girand, Phoenix engineer, for the construction of a $40,000,000 power dam cn the Colorado river at the mouth of Diamond creek, 26 miles north of Peach Springs, and approximately 100 miles above the site of the proposed Boulder canyon dam. The Diamond creek dam is to generate 200,000 horsepower of elec electrical - trical electrical units. Application will be made to the federal power commission at its next meeting in Washington Jan January - uary January 8 for a license for the construc construction - tion construction and operation cr the project, Mr. Girand said tonight He declared he felt certain the federal commission would issue the license as he was granted a permit for the site two years ago and a con contract - tract contract was entered into whereby the commission agreed to issue the license upon completion of certain development work on the site. This development work has been com completed, - pleted, completed, Mr. Girand stated. Construction of the dam will start late in January, according to present plans and the project will require approximately two years for completion. The permit, Mr. Norveil stated to tonight, - night, tonight, in no way conflicts with the prpvicions of the Colorado river compact, recently signed at Santa Fe, N. M. Upon receipt of the permit today, Mr. Girand paid a fee of $10,065 to the state water commissioner's of office. - fice. office. E OVER MRS. HAWORTH ERT Reports from the concert of Mrs. Haworth at Fort Whipple last night rang with enthusiasm for the im improvement - provement improvement of voice and technique of this Arizona singer. But the recep reception - tion reception she got, it was said, was one of the finest, if not the finest ever accorded a Prescott singer at the fort. Her three groups of songs were so heartily appreciated that she was recalled many times to the stage of the Red Cross house which was packed for the occasion. Mrs- Lester Ruffner assisted in ar arranging - ranging arranging the program and accompan accompan-ited - ited accompan-ited Mrs. Haworth. The piano solos of Marie Vance Ryland were thor thoroughly - oughly thoroughly appreciated as were the dance numbers of Andrea Bradley. The program was given under the joint auspices of the Red Cross and Knights of Columbus. VISIT SON HERE Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jett, parents of Onas Jett, are passing the Christinas holidays with their son and his family. Arriving Saturday night, they will be here until next week, when they will leave for southern California for a short vacation before returning to their home in Newton, Kans.

(Associated Press Night Wirel PORT ARTHUR, Ont., Dec. 27. A great roving band of hungry timber wolves has devoured three men, according to meager reports sifting in today from the snow snow-covered - covered snow-covered trauVof the Sturgeon River country. These reports told of a losing battle fought by two Indians after a white trapper had been downed and killed. Last Saturday an elderly trapper left his cabin in the woods to mush down to the settlement for his Christmas mail. About two miles from the settle settlement, - ment, settlement, two Indians found a spot pounded down in the snow and crimson-hued. Bits of dog harness torn to shreds -were scattered, about ACID CIS UN FIREMEN; FLOUR IS (Associated Press Night Wire) LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 27 Two firemen were seriously injured and more than a score overcome by smoke and gas when a four-story of fice building in the business dis district - trict district was gutted by fire tonight. Explosions of acids in the plant of an engraving company on the fourth floor generated quantities of gas which added to the difficulty of fighting the flames. Flour Mill Explodes. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 27. More than 30 men were injured and burned, some perhaps fatally, as the result of a dust explosion and fire at the mill of the Schrieber Flour and Cereal company here late' today. The plant was destroyed with an es estimated - timated estimated loss of from $125,000 to $150,000. FORMER ENEMY MAY FILE SUITS TO GET BACK ITS PROPERTY (Associated Press Night 'Wire) WASHINGTON, Dec 27 Presi President - dent President Harding tonight signed a bill which extends for one year until January 2, 1924, the period during which the German or Austrian citi citizens - zens citizens whose property was taken over during the war by the alien property custodian may file suit for recovery. INVESTORS LOSE IN TIMBER RIGHTS UNDER NEW MOSCOW RULING (Associated Press) TOKIO, Dec. 3. (By Mail) An Another - other Another heavy loss has been sustained by Japanese investors through the de decision - cision decision of the Moscow government to cancel concessions for cutting timber in Siberia granted by the former White government. Several of the largest firms in Japan had obtained these concessions by the payment of 3,000,000 yen to the old Vladivostok government, and a monthly sum ac according - cording according to the amount of timber cut. As a great amount of this timber was still awaiting shipment when the reds took Vladivostok the Japanese count the venture a total loss.

(Associated Press Night Wire) NEW YORK, Dec. 27. More than 36 "hours after they began, their inves investigation - tigation investigation the police tonight confessed themselves baffled in their search for a solution of circumstances surround surrounding - ing surrounding the death of Teresa McCarthy, 10-year-old school girl, whose body, with a .22 caliber bullet through the heart, was found in a toy-littered room of her Brooklyn home-yesterday. The investigation after the police had laboriously dissipated a half-; dozen clues sifted down to two theor theories. - ies. theories. The first, the one considered most credible by the police, was that the child was accidentally shot by a playmate who had been given a gun of small caliber as a Christmas pres ent. The second theory, which the police say they had little faith in, was that the child was shot down by a sailor of whom Teresa and several of her girl friends had complained several weeks ago, declaring that he had annoyed them. More than 100 boys living in the neighborhood of the McCarthy home were questioned by the detectives in a search for one who might have re received - ceived received a .22 caliber pistol or rifle as a Christmas gift. LAUSANNE, Dec. 27. Great un uneasiness - easiness uneasiness is spreading throughout the near cast conference circles as the time approaches when there must be a final reckoning on all important questions which have been passed by with only partial agreements or no agrrcment at all between the Turks and the allied powers. Lord Curzon's positive announce announcement - ment announcement today that Great Britain will not cede Mosul to Turkey and does not propose to discuss that question further, was the fore-runner of less positive statements from the .other delegations on various questions which indicate the conference . is reaching a climax and that prepara preparations - tions preparations arc under way for a final showing of strength. RETURNS FROM COAST Frank A. Hathaway, assistant cash cashier - ier cashier of the Bank of Arizona, returned yesterday from Long Beach, where he passed Christmas with Mrs. Hatha Hathaway - way Hathaway and their children. He reports that Mrs. Hathaway, who has been on the coast recuperating from an ill illness, - ness, illness, is much better.