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J. J. J. J. PAGE FOURTEEN THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1929 FREIGHT RATES CUT ON WHEAT Railroads Accede to Hoover's Request to Meet Farm Emergency CHICAGO, May to the request of President Hoover to assist in an agricultural western trunk line railemergency, today announced freight rate reductions on wheat and wheat flour for export.

The cuts, made subject to the approval of the interstate commerce commission, from cents to cents pounds ransiod and are to expire September 30, 1929. The rate changes shall not be regarded as a precedent or as an admission that present rates are not reasonably. low, said a statement E. B. Boyd, chairman of the western trunk line committee.

Eastern railroads recently took similar action on their wheat rates. "The changes shall be construed only as indicative of the attitude of the carriers to assist the president of the United States in his program for relieving an emergency," said Boyd. The schedule of reductions, which Boyd termed "abnormally low," follows: From the Missouri river to Chicago, cents per 100 pounds; to the Mississippi river, cents; from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Chicago, 7 cents; from Omaha to the gulf, 20 cents; from Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison and Leavenworth to the gulf, 19 cents: from Minneapolis to Duluth, cents; from Omaha and Sioux City to Duluth, cents; from Kansas City, St.

Joseph, Atchison and Leavenworth to Duluth, 13 cents; from St. Louis to New Orleans, cents. A reduction of 6 cents is made from the Missouri river to Chicago and the Mississippi river, and from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Chicago. The cut from the Missouri river to the gull is cents and from St.

Louis to New Orleans cents. All western trunk lines are participating in the reductions. DR. P. K.

HILL NEW HEAD OF DENTISTS Dr. P. K. Hill was elected as president of the Tucson Dental society at the annual meeting of the organization held Monday night at the offices of Bennett and Fee, in the Thomas- Davis clinic. Other officers elected were: Dr.

P. H. Bennett, vice president; Dr. N. O.

Lynn, secretary; John V. Cogan, treasurer. Dr. S. T.

Adams is the retiring president. Papers were presented by Dr. P. N. Williams, Dr.

J. Johnson, of Bisbee and Dr. A. E. Bard.

General discussion was held on various diseases of the mouth. The next regular meeting of the society will be held in September. Lengthy discussion was held by the society on vincents angina, or trench mouth disease. The society advocated that every precaution should be in public places aguinst the spread of this disease. The disease, the dentists claim, is highly contagious.

Several dentists who are spending the winter in Tucson attended the meeting and made short talks, At the September meeting the program committee will present plans to the association by which 3. regular course of study will be outlined. EVERYBODY'S GOING The WILD BIG DOINGS! MUCH WHOOPEE! PARTY CLARA BOW Ci Garamount Picture. Make Your Dates Now It Starts Friday RIALTO Sinclair Assists Surgeon With Operation in Prison Oil Man Gets Special Privileges As Pharmacist, but Can Have Visitors Only on Sundays; Tries to Be Good Fellow With Prisoners WASHINGTON, May 7 F. Sinclair, ations in the oil industry involving huge sums, today clan of the Washington jail to perform minor surgical of the inmates in his new role as pharmacist at that Begnning the first full day of his three months' In Washington (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The new tariff bill was introduced in the house.

Harry F. Sinclair was put to work in the prison pharmacy. Senator Watson the Informed, preofferdebenture plan was expected tomorrow. Bolivia protested to the state department against the Tacna-Arica settlement agreed to by Peru and Chile. President Hoover said the government would follow up its declarations at Geneva favoring further disarmament.

Senator LaFollette called the commerce committee to consider a resolution for investigation of textile working conditions in the south. Senator Brookhart introduced a bill to "outlaw block booking" of moving pictures. CITY DEPARTMENT FIGURES ANNOUNCED NOGALES. May News Bureau) -License tax collections for the city during April totaled $1644.37, according to a report made at last night's meeting of city council by Phil Herold, city clerk. The figures were embodied in the monthly report of Chief of Police J.

J. Lowe, who also reported that, in he capacity of city sealer of weights and measures, had tested 79 scales during the 30- day period, collecting fees amounting to $48.15. Police Judge Charles E. Hardy heard 67 cases, according to a report made by him, a total of $486 being collected in fines. An aggregate of 23,032,500 galIons of water was used in the city, according to the report of E.

H. Hoy, chief engineer of the pumping plant. Fourteen calls were responded to by the Nogales fire department, with 2100 feet of hose being laid, according to the monthly report of Chief Art Peck. ABBOTS IS FREED IN TORSO PROBE LOS ANGELES, May Captain William Bright of the sheriff's homicide detail, said tonight search for clews to the identity of the young woman whose torso was found on the banks of the Los Angeles river a month ago, had turned to San Francisco. At the same time he announced the temporary release of Leland Wesley Abbott, 33, who was held for questioning for two days.

Bright said marriage license records in the northern city would be checked because of "certain statements Abbott had made." Bright said he had information Abbott married a. girl in San Francisco two months ago. Abbott denied he was married. Abbott, though still under technical arrest, will be returned by officers to an isolated government forestry camp back of Mount Wilson, where he had been employed. MANY DELEGATIONS ASK NEW HIGHWAYS PHOENIX, May Hearing various delegations with reference to proposed road projects, occupied attention of highway commissioners in session here this morning.

and other delegations be heard this afternoon. Delegations from Flagstaff, Jerome. Florence, Coolidge and Casa Grande presented requests for consideration of the commission in preparing its budget for 1929-30. BALBOA, Canal of Spanish days, dating back 300 years, have been unearthed in construction of the 14-mile Madden road between the canal and the site of a proposed dam at Alhajuela. Among them are a brass mould, aparently used for measuring gold, a brass cup and a human skeleton shackled with a chain and band.

The road is named for the late Representative Martin B. Madden. A diamond for GRADUATION ever after Commemorate your daughter's or young friend's Graduation with the one gift that will never grow -a diamond! On this day of days, it will thrill her as no other gift can. In to years come, it will still be to her a memoried treasure. Here you will find stones of superlative quality, in just the modish new settings youth prefers.

Greenwald liam JEWELERS, INC. EAST CONGRESS AT SCOTT ST. To Compare Is To Profit TARIFF RATES TO BE HIGHER Wool and Sugar Get Biggest Boosts in New House Measure (Continued From Page One) a pound instead of four cents. Hides remain on the free list gether with shoe leather and leather boots and 1 shoes. The majority of the committee also ignored requests to take from the free trade category raw jute, bananas and many other commodities not produced in the United States.

Rates in the chemical schedule were changed in the case of 39 commodities of which 33 were increases and six decreases. Some of the increases represent compensatory only. Among an Increased duties, duty from 3.3 cents to 4.16 cents a pound on flaxseed or linseed oil was proposed. The rate on soy bean oil would be stepped up from cents to five cents a pound a8 compensatory for the increased duty on the raw product. The existing law on watch and clock movements has been entirely rewritten and the present duties greatly increased.

Poultry Adjusted The duty on poultry was adjusted to six cents a pound for live birds, in place centhe, present three cents: eight pound for dressed fowls in place of six cents, except turkeys which are given ten cents a pound as against eight cents now. The proposed duty on eggs is ten a dozen in place of eight cents while frozen eggs are advanced two cents to eight cents a pound. Chairman Hawley said with respect to the agricultural schedule that "special attention has been given to the promotion of the growth of crops or products that will replace the great cereals which are now grown in surplus quantities." "In the southern tier of states of the United States vegetables, including beans, peas, tomatoes and others are grown for the win. ter and early spring markets and duties deemed sufficient to enable the producers of these articles to compete in the markets have been written into the bill." SMOOT'S DAUGHTER QUICKLY DIVORCED LONG BEACH, May 7. (AP) In the quickest divorce action in the history of local courts, Mrs.

Zella Smoot Nibley, daughter of United States Senator Reed' Smoot, today was divorced from Carlyle Nibley, local automobile dealer. The complaint on mental cruelty, was filed 10 o'clock. Two hours later the case was called for trial in a special session before Superior Judge Percy Hight, and the divorce granted. Although Nibley's answer was attached to the complaint, he did not appear to contest the suit, which went by default. Mrs.

Nibley was granted custody of three minor children, Owen, Reed and Carlyle, Jr. Through a property settlement made out of court she was awarded $5,000 cash, and $350 a month alimony until the children become of age. A further stipulation provided for transportation of Mrs. Nibley and her three children from Long Beach to Washington, D. C.

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Phone 379 Tucson, Ariz. Memory of George Roskruge To Be Forever Perpetuated An enudring monument of flowers James Roskruge by his brother Masons. The freshness of the flowers is of that "garden eastward in Eden," serpent's blight. For the flowers are to be annually renewed. Tomorrow, the candidates of the George James Roskruge Memorial Class will receive the -second degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.

And tomorrow the foundation of that deathless flower will be laid, when the newly- Magters of the Royal place a created wreath upon Uncle George's grave, out in the Masonic cemetery, on the Oracle road. Hereafter, on May 9 of each year, fresh wreath will be laid over the a spot where sleeps the father of Arizona Masonry. Announcement of the plans for this perpetual memorial to the great inspector general honorary was made last night by William Manahan Watson, 33d, secretary of the four bodies of the Scottish Rite in Arizona, which are holding their spring reunion at the Masonic temple. "The George Roskruge Memorial Class has established an endowment fund, the revenue from which will be sufficient to enable a wreath to be placed upon Uncle George's grave each year," Sectetary Watson said. "The ceremony will take place May 9 every year--the anniversary of the day when the Roskruge memorial class received the thirty-second degree." Secretary Watson last night announced the names of the Scottish Rite chorus that will assist in the conferring of the thirty-second degree at the Masonic temple tomorrow evening, at 8 o'clock.

The personnel the chorus follows: John M. McBride, organist; Mrs. Philip R. Haley, soprano; Miss Heloise McBride, mezzo-soprano; Mrs. Sophie Bennett, alto; Mrs.

Herbert Burrows, alto; Philip R. Haley, tenor; Raymond Kilburn, tenor; Herbert Burrows, bass, and Ralph R. Guthrie, bass. The two first historic degreesthe fifteenth and sixteenth-were conferred yesterday, which was the second day of the spring reunion. Today, there will be conferred the seventeenth, eighteenth and twentieth degrees.

In the conferring of the eighteenth degree that of Knight of th Rose Croix--James R. Dunseath 32d, will act as senior warden instead of E. D. Rockwell, as previously announced. Dunseath also takes the part of Count Reinfred in the conferring of the twenty.

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1, tonight was credited with winning the 1929 national elimination balloon race, the crew of the Detroit Times entry. last of the bags to report, advised race headquarters late today that they had landed near Newcomb, N. and that all was well despite discomforts experienced in landing in an isolated district. E. J.

Hill piloted the "Times" entry and Arthur Schlosser was his aide. The flights of the 12 race entries must be checked by the national aeronautical association before the winner is declared officially. The navy No. 1, piloted by Lieutenant T. G.

W. Settle, came down near Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, traveling a distance estimated unofficially at 900 miles. The bag was in the air 44 hours. Nearly three days had elapsed since the 12. balloons left here late Saturday before the Detroit Times entry was found.

The distance covered by the craft was estimated at approximately that travelled by the Goodyear VII, piloted by Ward T. Van Orman. The Goodyear VII came down at Keeseville, N. a distance of approximately 405 miles from Pittsburgh. First second place winners in the national race are entitled to complete in the international balloon race.

The United States will have a third entry international this year, Captain W. E. Kepner of the army being the defender. He won both the national and international in 1928. KATHLEEN NORRIS SUED FOR $80,000 SAN FRANCISCO, May Damage suits totaling $80,000 were filed in the superior court today against Kathleen Norris, novelist; her husband, Charles G.

Norris; Mrs. Killian Kolster, wife of the radio manufacturer, and James Benet, for injuries claimed to have been received by two Palo Alto youths in an automobile collision last March. boys are Robert Ethen, 14, anThe Joseph Ward, 15. They were passengers in a machine, owned by Mrs. Norris and driven by Benet.

DR. G. A. SCROGGS IS DEAD ON COAST accustomed to assisted the physioperation on one Institution. sentence, the oil mag- was put to work as a regis.

tered pharmacist. He followed that profession for several years, having studied pharmacy at the University of Kansas in 1897 and 1898. Sinclair vas up about five o'clock and breakfasted on the fare served to the 520 inmates. It consisted of cereal, ham and eggs, corn muffins and coffee. He then took a turn about the dormitory where he slept on an iron army cot, surrounded by sixty others.

Prison officials said the oil man maintaining a cheerful mien. Has, asked questions about the jail, and answered questions, they said, apparently naking an effort to have himself accepted as one who does not want any extra favors. As a pharmacist he is entitled to the the office same detail. privileges These as include those the in right to send and receive as much mail as he chooses. Major William L.

Peak, jail superintendent, said Sinclair's mail would not be examined. As a pharmacist, Sinclair must hold himself available at all hours for ministration to prisoners suffering from such maladies as toothaches and headaches, and to assist Dr. Morris Hyman, the jail physician, A nurse, Mary Kathleen Wright, is on duty Guring the day with Sinclair as her assistant. Occupying the cot to Sinclair's right in the dormitory bookmaker with whom he already has struck up an acquaintanceship on the basis of their common knowledge of the oilman's favorite sport -horseracing. The bookmaker is under sentence of four years and is an assistant steward in the mess hall.

At his left Sinclair has a prisoner convicted of embezzlement who has charge the finger -print work. Friends of the oil operator may visit him only on Sundays. One visitor, who gave his name as General John M. Jenkins, retired, came to the jail shortly after noon today explaining he was "an old friend" of Sinclair's, but was not allowed to see him. SURVEY OF DEER SOON TO START A survey of the deer situation in the Chiricahua and the Catalina divisions of the Coronado national forest will be made in a few days by a party of government officials and private citizens.

Fred Winn and Claude W. MeKenzie, respectively supervisor and assistant supervisor of the Coronado national forest, will tomorrow for the Chiricahua division, where they will join C. E. Ratchford, assistant United States forester, in charge of grazing for the forest service, United States biological survey and state game department officials, sportsmen and stockmen. The party will visit the Chirichua country between May 12 and 14 and then wil proceed, by way of Tucson, to the Catalina division, where it will survey the deer situation May 15 to 17.

AMERICAN CLEANER PLANS EXPANSION An expenditure of $10,000 will be made immediately by Geo. K. Smith, proprietor of the American Cleaning Works, for an addition to his present on South Main street. hundred cleaning, square feet of space will be added to the plant, new boilers will be installed, and additional machinery. Smith said yesterday with this addition to his plant all of the cleaning and dyeing work be done there, while the store would.

Congress street will be devoted exclusively to his tailoring establishment and furnishing a downtown location for drop-in trade from his customers of his cleaning and dyeing plant. Work on the addition will be started immediately, Smith stated. The Sugar may if to too you urn boil big try a kettle of Jelly A SMALL quantity of jelly is easier to control. Likewise the roasting of coffee is perfectly controlled by Hills Bros. because they roast only a few pounds at a time by their exclusive, continuous process.

Every berry is roasted evenly and a wonderful, uniform flavor is obtained in every pound. HILLS BROS COFFEE Hills Bros anal Fresh from the pack. origvacuum Easily opened with COFFEE the key, 1929 is being builded for the late George to outlast even that of the blossoms which at the last perished from the MULHEIM PROPERTY REPORTED BISBEE, May 7. -Considerable activity in the field of mining in this section of Arizona has been caused by the striking of ore at the Muheim property at the Rosemont property in the Helvita district of Pima county, according to James Malley, deputy state mine inspector, who recently returned from a visit to that region. I Approximately 60 men are ployed in that section of the Santa Ritas, according to Malley.

The Muheim shaft adjoins the old Marrangasetta mine, which was a heavy producer years. Muheim has been operating the property for some time, sinking a two compartment. Ore was foot shattoo level, where a station is to be cut and further sinking undertaken. A 40 foot head frame, a new 25 horse power hoist, a Gardner air compressor and a blacksmith shop are included in the equipment, capable of sinking the shaft to a depth of 300 feet or more, which is installed. Quarters for the employes are modern and to date, according to Ma'lay.

A spring of mountain ups water 1s situated a short distance above the camp, providing plenty of water for operating and domestic purposes. TEHERAN, of adopting the Latin alphabet like the Turks, Persia is to return to old Persian script in before user the Arabic. The decision is attributed to Sir Denison Ross, English orientalist, who in a speech said that the Latin script was nothing but a corruption of the beautiful Arabic. of Secretary Watson, the class di- rector. The spring reunion closes night, with the conferring of the thirty-second degree.

Members of the Salt River Valley Scottish Rite club conferred the fifteenth degree yesterday, The seventeenth and the twentieth degrees will be conferred today by a team from the Globe- Miami district. LOS ANGELES, May Funeral services for Dr. Adolphus Scroggs, 74, Gustavus here Sunday, will be who died Wednesday at a local conducted a The Knights Templar mortuary, be used. ritual win Dr. Scroggs nad been of Los Angeles for 8 resident years, having come here from tave, to make his home 0c.

his adopted sister, Mrs. with Bailey. E. T. in San During the earthquake Francisco in and fire 906 he one of the first Los was sicians to respond to the Angeles phy.

aid. He was a member call for of the lodge, F. A. Tempe, Tempe Golden West commandery, No. Ariz; Knights Templar, Al 4, Shrine, Los Angeles.

Malaikah SERVICE OF AMERICA QUESTION! In case you should need an ambulance at any hour of the day or night. Whose phone should you call? ANSWER! Phone 5 PARKER GRIMSHAW Funeral Home 215-217 North Stone Ave. PHONE 5 1st The Winners E. Street, UPTON 701 S. Little Valentine Ark.

$10,000 in Prizes RENEWS USE" THE CURRENT "Recuperation for the Best Slogans in the Written on Feature 2nd BOND Awarded to REG. U.S. PAT OFT ARTHUR HOYT 25 Ivory Street, W. Roxbury, Mass. "Flashlight Feature" Contest "A BEAM OF LIGHT OR A CANDLE BRIGHT" I THE winners in the BOND $10,000 "FlashlightWritten on the "Candle Feature" Slogan Contest have at last been deLights Feature cided.

Over 250,000 people from every section of the country took time to study the six outstanding features of BOND Flashlights and Batteries and to send to While thousands selected the Candle-light feature 3rd us their slogan suggestions. Awarded TOLAND as the most important one on which to submit aloELIZABETH Ohio the gans, Safety other Seal, contestants Fibre chose Case or the the 3-way Shock-absorbers, Safety "MORE SAFETY LIGHT Seat" Switch. However, written by about far the the greatest remarkable of number sloIT'S "Safety gans were "RecuperWritten on Feature ation" feature of BOND Batteries. At the left are the names of the three major prize winners with their successful slogans. Below these 10 PRIZES OF EACH are listed the winners of the ten $100 awards.

$100 were awarded to the following: Difficult to pick the 1183 winners! Thos. B. Clark, Pittsburgh, "A SIMPLE REVAMP Selecting the winners from such a vast avalanche of entries FROM A FLASH TO A LAMP" has been a long and difficult task. A large staff was kept busy Ann Jana, San Francisco, for more than three months classifying the slogans. The task "HAS A WAY OF RENEWING ITS of judging, alone, took over four weeks! There were literally LIFE' thousands of good slogans.

Some of the best, however, had to A. B. Dale, Los Gatos, be discarded because they were too general-because then "SURVIVES THE SHOCKS OF FALLS did not apply directly to any one particular feature of BoND Lynn Z. Hill, Erie, AND KNOCKS' Flashlights or Mono-Cells, as the rules specified. "IT SELLS FAST FOR ITS CELLS LAST" Complete list of winners at your dealer's Robert A.

Waymira, Overton, "THE SHOCK OF THE FALL TAKEN To all who submitted slogans, the Bond Electric Corporation IN THE SPRING" extends its acknowledgments and thanks. We nave sent the George O. Mercer, Coatesville, complete list of the 1,183 prize winners to "A DENT DEFYING FEATURE OF your authorized BOND Dealer. Go to his BOND" E. M.

Martindale, Des Moines, Iowa, store today and ask to see it. Or, i if you "A FLASH FOR THE GLOOM--A wish, we will send you the list direct, upon LAMP FOR THE request. If you entered the contest, per A. C. Steurer, Greenfield.

"POWER THAT BURNS AND YET haps your name is among the lucky ones. RETURNS" Minor E. Gresham, Abilene, BOND ELECTRIC CORP. "THE INSIDE'S SAFE THE OUTSIDE'S FIBRE" Chicago JERSEY CITY, N. J.

San Francises Charles Swartz, Bronx, N. "HAS SHOCK ABSORBERS LIKE Mannfacturers of FLASHLIGHTS, MONO-CELI8, YOUR CAR TO GUARD THE BULB RADIO and BATTERIES, AGAINST EACH STORAGE and DRY BATTERIES BUY YOUR BOND FLASHLIGHTS AND BATTERIES FROM THESE AUTHORIZED DEALERS: TUCSON BISBEE-Bisbee Drug Cen- THATCHER Thatcher Boyd Drug cor. 4th Ave. and tral Pharmacy; H. E.

Wootton. macy. 8th St. Diamond Exchange, 51 W. Con- DOUGLAS-Arizona Drug TOMESTONE Ivey's Service gress.

356 Ferguson's Drug Station. Economy Drug Store, 107 So. Store, 11th and G. WARREN-McWhorter's; Ware Meyer Posten- Arthur Hdwe. Fleischmann Drug Store, 21 E.

Western Auto Supply 1121 ren Drug Co. Congress G. 3t. WILLCOX-A. A.

Nicholson. T. Ed. Litt, cor. Congress and Stone NOGALES American Drug Tucson Sporting Goods 15 Store; Owl Drug Store; F.

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White Cross Drug Store, 61 S. SAFFORD Crandall's PharMeyer St. macy. DEALERS Flashlights end Batteries dresser.

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