Winslow Daily Mail, 1926-12-31

Snowbound rlyer Lives Three Days On Barreled Beer SAN DIEGO. Cal., Dec. 30 (AP) - Marooned for three days with his airplane in deep snowdrifts on top of a mountain 12 miles south southeast - east southeast of Mexicali. Mex., during which he subsisted on barrelled beer was the unusual experience of W. J. Barrows, a pilot of the Ryan Air Lines who returned to San Diego today. , Barrows is believed to be the first southern California aviator to be snowbound. He said one ex experience - perience experience was sufficient to last him a couple of winters. Barrows was one of three pilots from San Diego engaged in the transportation of barrelled beer from Mexicali to Tiajuana by air airplane. - plane. airplane. Piloting a small plane, he landed his ship on a plateau 4,000 feet above sea level where the beer was delivered in trucks. At that time, Barrows said there was three feet of snow on the plateau, with a snowstorm in progress. Be Before - fore Before the trucks could reach him over the almost impassable roads from Mexicali, the snow had piled so thick about bis plane he was unable to take off. The aviator remained with his ship until this morning when the snow had thawed sufficiently to permit him to again take to the air. o New War Due Inside Two Years, Sun Says j PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 30 (AP) I - Another great war within two years, caused by the culmination of | period of sun spot activity, is j j among the possibilities, according I 1° Professor A. Tchijovsky of the University of Moscow. His paper, sent from Russia, was read today before the Meteorologi Meteorological - cal Meteorological section of the American Asso Association - ciation Association for the Advancement of Sci Science - ence Science by Professor V. P. Dcsmitt, lecturer on meteorology at Colum Columbia - bia Columbia university. The Russian declared that all j | great wars had followed periods of ; intense sun spot activity. o HEILMAN BUYS COLUMBUS CINCINNATI, Dec. 30 (AP) August Hermann, president of the Cincinnati Nationals announced to today - day today that the offer to purchase the Columbus, Ohio, American associ association - ation association baseball club, had been ac accepted. - cepted. accepted. The Columbus club will be used | as a farm for the development of 1 young players. COLORADO MAN HONORED DENVER Colo., Dec. 30 (AP) - | Governor Clarence J. Morley an- j nounced this afternoon he would j appoint William T. Lambert of j Sedalia. Douglas county, to the state civil service commission. Lambert was speaker of the last House of Representatives. He will on January 1 take the place now held by William V. 'Roberts of Fort Collins. i

SEVERE QUAKES BATTER DISHES IN WASHINGTON SPOKANE, Wash., Dee. 30 (AP) - Violent earth tremors, which sent alarmed persons running from shaking buildings, were felt thru thruout - out thruout central Washington at 10 a. m. today. The disturbance centered around Entiat in north-central Washington where a chimney was shaken off a house on one of the main streets' and many residents reported that furniture and dishes in their homes were severely shaken. The tremblor was- felt in Yakima shortly before ten o'clock this morning. Employes in various of offices - fices offices in the Federal building there, reported that their desks were moved back and forth by the shock. Other Yakima residents within a radius of five miles from the Fed Federal - eral Federal building also reported notice noticeable - able noticeable shocks. A shock lasting two minutes was recorded by the seismograph at the University of Ganzaga, at 9:57 a. m. It's center was located 500 miles away. A few minutes later resident-i of Yakima and Wenat Wenatchee - chee Wenatchee felt the tremors. Similar light earth shocks were felt here Dec. 4 when western Washington and western British Columbia were visited by earth earthquakes. - quakes. earthquakes. Occupants of buildings in Wen Wenatchee - atchee Wenatchee ran out onto the streets when the tremblor started furni- I lure vibrating and dishes rattling. ' ° j Flood Toll Raised To Eight NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 30 (AP) - in Mississippi, in the Big Black river swamp, near Jackson, more than a dozen automobiles were reported under water by a flood inspection party which re returned - turned returned to Jackson from the flood area tonight. With Mississippi's flood death list standing at eight, two bodies having been recovered from Big Black river, members of j the party said the death list might : he increased when the water sub- j sided enough to reach the auto- j mobiles. The bodies of the two negroes were found recently in an auto automobile - mobile automobile in the Big Black river swamp when the top of the ma machine - chine machine was cut open by divers. o. Extreme Cold Wave Grips Florida Coast I JACKSONVILLE FLA. Dec (AP) j - Florida today experienced the j coldest weather of the winter, re reports - ports reports from several parts of the stats showing temperature,s of near freezing this morning. While the weather moderated during the day a heavy frost was forecast for the coast tonight and a heavy killing frost in the interior except the ex- | treme son'll yor'ion

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (AP) The tri-state conference on pro proposed - posed proposed Colorado river development closed today's session indicating but small hope that an agreement would be readied with but one more day for deliberation. The conference will adjourn to tomorrow - morrow tomorrow night to permit delegates to return to their homes for New Year's day and Monday the Cali California - fornia California delegation, named by the last, legislature, ceases to exist. Representatives of both Arizona and Nevada will return next week in the hope that some delegates for California will be named to con continue - tinue continue the conference, according to Charles P. Squires, of Nevada, chairman. Previously the conference reach reached - ed reached an agreement on water distri distribution - bution distribution but it is to be binding only' in event that a second compact on power and royalty payments he en enacted. - acted. enacted. It was this question of power on which the delegates de debated - bated debated today and .which will occupy the conference tomorrow, Squires said. Senator Johnson Elated WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (AP) Advices from Los Angeles that the tri-state conference on the Colora Colorado - do Colorado river development had reached a tentative agreemnt on appropri appropriation - ation appropriation of the waters of the: Colorado river, between the states of Cali California. - fornia. California. Nevada, and Arizona, eli elicited - cited elicited enthusiastic comment today front Senator Johnson, Republican, California, who is joint author with Representative Swing, Repub Republican, - lican, Republican, California, of a measure to aufhorize the Boulder Canyon dam project. the reports of harmony are correct,'' he said, am pleased, in indeed. - deed. indeed. f am interested not so much in any agreement which the conferees will reach as I am in whether the accord means abso absolute - lute absolute elimination of the objections which Arizona has raised to the details of the project." The Swing-Johnson bill has been reported by the House irrigation committee, and awaits action by the House.

WASHINGTON, Dc. 30 (AP)-- Prodded by Secretary Mellon, gov government - ernment government chemists turned again to their test tubes today in an effort to find some denaturant for indus industrial - trial industrial alcohol which is not poison. Realizing that such alcohol is seeping into bootleg channels, Mr. Mellon is not willing to poison drinkers to enforce the prohibition law. He W'ants the alcohol dena denatured - tured denatured so that it will lie too dis distasteful - tasteful distasteful to drink but at the same time not poisonous. The chemists, however, are not so enthusiastic about finding a non nonpoisonous - poisonous nonpoisonous ingredient. If industrial alcohol is to he made nauseating they feel it must contain a small portion at least of wood alcohol which they declare is the least in injurious - jurious injurious denaturing ingredient. New Formula January Ist Mr. Mellon believes that a quan quantity - tity quantity of two to four per cent of wood alcohol will not prove very in injurious. - jurious. injurious. He is not alarmed over the new formula which goes into effect January 1 containing 4 per cent of wood alcohol instead of the customary two per cent because this formula will not contain the pyrodine used heretofore. Complete enforcement of the pro prohibition - hibition prohibition law is an unreasonable ex expectation, - pectation, expectation, the treasury head declar declared - ed declared today, and some people are go going - ing going to continue to drink whatever they can get. He wmnts tire sub substitutes - stitutes substitutes and industrial alcohol so treated that drinkers will he warned by the taste and smell, that it is not good. Mr. Mellon does not believe that the numerous holiday alcoholic deaths resulted from denaturing alcohol but rather that probably too much drinking was responsible. Even before prohibition he recall recalled, - ed, recalled, there were deaths from the use of poisoned alcohol w'hich was re resorted - sorted resorted to by some dishonest deal dealers - ers dealers and drinkers.

eel by Leonard Hammer, also a member of the evangelist's legal staff, at the time of her prelimin preliminary - ary preliminary hearing. Denies Wiseman Charges Wooley said he had been excus excused - ed excused from the oath of secrecy and told newspapermen that his testi testimony - mony testimony had been a detailed denial of the new story of Mrs. Wiseman that it was he who engaged her to manufacture evidence to clear Mrs. McPherson,, whom the state con contends - tends contends was at Carmel with Ormis Ormiston - ton Ormiston during a part of the time she says she was in the hands of kid kidnapers. - napers. kidnapers. Attempts were made in the grand jury room, Wooley said, to ques question - tion question him concerning negotiations with Mrs. McPherson for the pay payment - ment payment of his hill against her for legal service. Keyes then had de declared - clared declared that these negotiations had nothing to do with the present in investigation. - vestigation. investigation. Attorney Oscar Law Lawler, - ler, Lawler, who handled the fee payment negotiations for Wooley, said when asked whether there had been a break with Mrs. McPherson when he offered to settle the bill, said that was "Wooley's business." Hammer was called to corro corroborate - borate corroborate Wooley's testimony that lie had advised the evangelist to have nothing to do with Mrs. Wiseman- STATE SlvYLliii ItKPOHTS PHOENIX, Dec. 30 (API - Hur- ing Huring the fiscal year ended June 30. 1926, a total of 3589 weights and measures in the state were inspect inspected - ed inspected and sealed as correct, said the report of the state sealer of weights and measures, filed today with Gov Governor - ernor Governor Hunt. Fees collected tot totalled - alled totalled $988.80. Inspections were made only in those cities having no sealer of weights and measures.

'KING BEN' WILL GET JURY TRIAL IN GIRL ATTACKS BENTON HARBOR, Midi., Dec. :3d (AP) - gome time after the Feb February - ruary February term of circuit court opens I here, Benjamin Franklin Purnell, one-time railroad tunnel watchman and more recently "King" of the House of David colony, "will be ] brought before a jury to answer charges of having criminally at attacked - tacked attacked a former young woman member of his cult. Justice Ara Weldon so ruled To Today - day Today after completion of the tran transcript - script transcript of testimony at the arraign arraignment - ment arraignment of the aging cult leader on charges brought by Mrs. Bessie Woodworth. For the fifth time since he was surprised by state police in a mid- I night raid on his colony in Novem November - ber November and arrested after a four-year search, Purnell came into justice court. As on each previous sion, the "King" was carried in on a stretcher borne by bewhiskered followers of Benjamin's faith. Likewise, as on previous occa occasions - sions occasions the little courtroom, was jammed, the crowd of curious ones flowing over into the corridor. At the conclusion of today's finale to the police court proceed proceedings - ings proceedings in the Woodworth charges, Purnell, clad in the same fur-col fur-collared - lared fur-collared overcoat and cap he has worn on each earlier appearance, was carried back to his colony, his $125,000 bail being continued. Os this amount SSOOO covers the charge ou which today's action was taken; the remainder is to guar guarantee - antee guarantee His further appearance in, justice court on similar charges brought by Gladys Bamford Rubel and Ruth Bamford Reed, also for former - mer former colony members and two capias actions.

case, was further puzzled tonight by a statement by District Attor Attorney - ney Attorney Asa Keyes emphatically deny denying - ing denying that the case against Mrs. Mc- Pherson, her mother, Mrs. Kennedy, her former radio engin engineer, - eer, engineer, Kenneth G. Ormiston, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff. would be dropped. Yesterday, the prosecu prosecutor - tor prosecutor declared that the dismissal of the conspiracy charges was immin imminent - ent imminent due to changes made in her story by Mrs. Wiseman, who dou doubles - bles doubles as one of the defendants and also a star witness for the state. He then branded Mrs. Wiseman as a "turncoat" and "perjurer," tell telling - ing telling "a new story almost every day.' Keyes Makes Statement Keyes' statement, today was: "Emphatically, I will not drop this case. While Mrs. Wiseman has changed her original story in l part, it is not diametrically oppos opposite - ite opposite to that she told on the witness stand during Mrs. McPherson's pre preliminary - liminary preliminary hearing. Instead, it is more of an elaboration of the vague parts of her previous testimony." The grand jury will resume it's inquiry Tuesday and court attaches forecast that the present conspir conspiracy - acy conspiracy to obstruct justice charges may j be dropped and indictments for per- j jury and subornation of perjury j substituted. Roland Rich Woolev, Mrs. Me- I Pherson's former personal attor-1 ney, was the first witness heard by j tlie grand jury and he was follow- j

4* PHOENIX, DEC. 30. * 4* (Associated Press) * * Four hundred bottles of ini- * * ported liquors, brave with * :* gold medals won at interna- * j* tional expositions were de- + * canted today for the exclusive * * refreshment of Phoenix sew- * j4* er rats. Seized two years ago * i * by prohibit ion agents at Globe, * |+ tliey had done their duty here * * as mute witnesses in the Uni- * * tei.l States district court and + * were destroyed by judieiiil or- + * dev. * 4* Twenty-two copper stills, * * ranging in daily capacity from * 4* live to 20<l gallons, were hack- * * ed full of holes and carted to * * tiie junk heap where they will * * bo sold ns old copper for the * * benefit of the United States * * Veterans Bureau. The prohi- * <- bit ion force, convinced that it * is never wise to trifle with the * 4* most peaceful appearing of 4* * pints, once it has passed the * + stake of adolescence, carried + * thirty casts of explosive home * * brew to Hie bed of the Salt * * liter, where filthy were de- * 4* foliated by pelting them* * against rocks. * ************ 4* * *