, EASY PICKINGS
IN MEXICO FOR
BOOTLEGGERS
EL PASO, Texas, July 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Bootlegging has as
sumed widespread proportions in
Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, across
the border from Douglas, Ariz., ac
cording to Americans who have inves
tigated liquor conditions in the border
state. Open saloons are prohibited
bv Sonora state laws, but little or no
effort has been made by the authori
teis to curtail illicit liquor traffic, they
say.
Cognizance of the situation has been
taken by the authorities, however, to
the extent that a bill has been intro
duced in the state chamber of depu
• ties permitting the establishment of
>pen saloons for the sale of light wines
4and beer under strict state supervi
sion. The bill purposes limiting the
number of saloons in accordance with
population and the payment of high
state and municipal licenses.
Well-informed Mexicans believe that
saloons will return under the proposed
new law, as they contend that while
General P. Elias Calles, military gov
ernor of Sonora, is an advocate of pro
hibition, he would much prefer the
legalizing of the liquor traffic, with
the consequent revenue, to combating
the increasing number of bootleggers.
The liquor situation in Agua Prieta
is a troublesome one to the better
class of Sonora Mexicans and resi
dents of Douglas and other border
towns. It is pointed out that Agua
Prieta offers easy access to anyone
in Douglas who desires to obtain
liquor. At the present time certain
Mexicans with a great show of friend
ship invite Americans across the line
to visit the bootleggers.
The Mexican policemen watch all
visitors closely, and, it is reported,
make a practice of arresting Ameri
cans when their conduct becomes
boisterous and robbing them of their
money and other valuables. Should
1he Americans protest there is always
the alternative of a real arrest and a
prison sentence or a heavy fine.’ Some
observers here say the reopening of
the saloons will do much toward mak
ing a bad situation worse.
LASTING PEACE
IS FAVORED BY
LOS ANGELES, July S (by Associ
ated Press). Joe Mills, the richest
Indian in the service of America in
world war, has had enough of
fighting and favors a lasting peace.
He saw eighteen months’ service, in
cluding participation in the memer
able engagement at Chateau Thierry,
where Mills stopped a German ma
chine gun bullet. He still carries his
arm in a sling as the result of the
wound.
Mills is in Los Angeles to “rest up
to get the memories of the European
fighting out of my mind,” as he put it.
Hills said from earliest childhood he
had heard the old men of his tribe—
he is of the Osages—tell of the glories
of war, and he thought soldiering
▼ would be a good adventure.
“So it may have been,” said he,
“when the old men of my tribe were
young; but that was before the day
of the machine gun and poison gas.
The slaughter in France was horrible.
1 did my duty, and 1 will do it again
if Uncle Sam needs me, but until he
does I am going to stay in the good
old United States of America and
look after Mrs. Mills, my eight-year
old son and my property.”
i Though he mentions this property
interest last, Mills is rated a million
aire. Most of his income is derived
from oil-bearing lands in Oklahoma,
his home.
Mills served as a member of the
field artillery.
TUNGSTEN AND C
TO RECEIVE PROTECTION
WASHINGTON, July 5.—Tungsten’
was the first war mineral to receive
attention by the house ways and
means committee under a proposed
tariff to protect the mining and mill
ing of tungsten ores. This measure
Was introduced by Congressman
Witnesses who appeared before the
committee were: J. H. Holmes, a
Colorado producer; Roy McKenna of
Vanadium Alloys Company; A. H.
]$fedle, engineer of the United States
tariff commission; George Otis Smith,
director, Geological Survey; Frank R.
Hess, geologist, United States Geolog
ical Survey, and George H. Bailey, as
sistant secretary of the American Min
ing Congress, who spoke in behalf of
the entire tungsten industry. It was
shown that Chinese, Burmese and Bo
livian tungsten would drive American
producers from the field unless domes
tic ore was protected. High-class
American miners can not compete
with coolie or Indian labor abroad.
Colorado, California and Nevada
produce 60 per cent of the tungsten
used in the United States.
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A committee of magnesite producers
ha$ just closed a two-day battle royal
with" the representatives of certain fur
hace interests who attempted to show
t!\e ways and means committee that
■Congressman Hadley’s bill to protect
•American magnesite should not he
adopted. The question of American
ism as against American interests in
Austria was brought into the discus
sions, which furnished lively dramatic
incidents.
A discussion of zinc tariff is now
proceeding.
SIR ARTHUR NEWSHOLME
Sir Arthur Newsholme, M. D., chief
medical officer of the local government
board, England, is head of a delegation
of distinguished foreigners who have
been touring the United States to study
child welfare and other social and in
dustrial conditions. Sir Arthur has
oeen instrumental in saving the lives
of thousands of babies in England and
is recognized internationally as an au
thority on the causes of Infant mcr
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la11 ly .
“DO WRONG” GOT IN WRONG
“Act Right” Helps Out His Brother
When Jail Threatens in
Georgia.
Atlanta. Ga.—Do Wrong Henderson
ami his brother, Act Right Henderson,
lived in Walton county. Ga. Do Wrong
got in wrong by breaking into a house
In Monroe and eating everything edible
in sight. He bad also burglarized an
other house and was convicted nearly
five years ago on both charges and
sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
Through a mistake the sentences
were not concurrent and Ho Wrong
was due to serve another five years,
but Act Right, who always acted right,
has gone before the state prison com
mittee to have tlie sentence effective
concurrently, thus saving Do Wrong
Ivp years additional servitude.
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BANDITS MAKE
WOMAN DISROBE
Trio Gets $1,800 Diamond Rinc
Hidden in Clothes, She
Tells Police.
Chicago.—Three ungallant holdup
men compelled Mrs. Grace Harvey par
tially to disrobe in her apartment at
3014 South Michigan avenue. So per
sistent was their search for hidden
loot, in fact, that the pretty young
woman finally defied the robbers’ men
acing pistols rather than “drop anothei
stitch.”
The police found certain mysterious
circumstances which lend them to be
lieve the affair was unusual, as such
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Defied the Robbers Menacing Pistols.
robberies go. They are searching for
former visitors at the apartment as
possible suspects.
For the robbers, undoubtedly had
advance information on Mrs. Harvey’s
jewels. There was one item of an
$1,800 diamond ring. She slipped this
down the front of her house-gown
when she heard the men at the front
door order her maid. Bessie Jensen, to
hold up her hands. They had rung the
doorbell.
Yet. though the ring was invisible,
the robbers immediately demanded
that she produce it. And when she
protested ignorance of such a ring she
was ordered to disrobe.
Three Are Electrocuted £
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James S. Nott, her six-year-old •$
A baby boy and a Chinese servant ft,
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out clothes in the rear yard of A
ft1 her home in Honolulu. V
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ft* leading from a back porch to a ft
fernery, had been strung across £
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first to die. Mrs. Nott, in going ►*<
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is believed that the little boy at
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TOT WALKS IN HER SLEEP
Four-Year-Old Girl Unlocks Door and
Tramps Four Blocks to
Grandmother's.
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Rock Springs, Wyo.—Arising from
her bed at 3:30 a. m., while sleeping
soundly, four-year-old Lucille Davis
unlocked a door, left the home of her
parents, walked four blocks to her
grandmother, broke a window pane
with her fists, unlatched the window
fastening, hoisted the sash, crawled
through the window, climbed the stairs
to the second floor of the house and
was discovered—still sound asleep
standing against a wall that barred
her further progress.
Her presence was betrayed by the
harking of a watchdog, the noise
made by her entrance not having
aroused her grandmother’s family.
Aside from a few cuts in her hand,
the child is not suffering as a result
of her remarkable performance, which
is thought to be one of the strangest
cases of somnambulism ever recorded.
SPENDS HALF LIFE IN JAIL
Criminal With Long Record Declares
Life of Crime Does Not
Pay.
Omaha, Neb.—“Stretch” Bird, arrest
ed in Omaha charged with implication
in the robbery of a garage and theft
of a dozen high-priced automobile tires,
has had an eventful criminal career.
He Is forty years old and has spent
more than one-half of his life In prison.
“And it was worse than wasted,"
Bird said, “for all of the robberies I
have committed yielded me less than
$100 in money. It doesn’t pay to do
wrong.
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