Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - February 16, 1934, Winslow, Arizona SERVING The heart of the picturesque Indian with Air and Railway gem of the Harvey Indian and an unexcelled Year-Round WINSLOW MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR SIX MONTHS SINGLE 5c VOLUME 42 NAVAJO 16,1934 NUMBER 29 ARIZONA GET CENTRAL AGENCY LITIGATION THREATENED COMMISSION Washington And Lincoln bol Of Sym Honesty And Co urage Abraham Lincoln's birthday anniversary has come and gone with the lower grades of the schools about the only organizations giving the great emancipator more than passing And next Thursday the anniversary of the birth of George first first in war and first in will be observed with no more So far as is known merchants will not close their doors on this notable although some agitation to make it a half holiday has been Until recent years the average American considered America's two most beloved heroes as distinctly different placing the first president on a pedestal as an aristocrat of the Puritan and Abraham Lincoln as a more human type born of the middle classes and self educated in the school of hard But more recent biographies of Washington show him to be of much the same Northern Delegation Determined to Prevent Funds Transfer PLANS BEING MADE Local Men Told Nothing Has Been Done Yet by U. S. Bureau Warning that litigation would be resorted to in event rumored plans of Commissioner Jake Barth to transfer from the U. S. 260 Project to U. S. 60 were carried delegates from Northern Arizona invaded a meeting of the State Highway last Whether the plea of the delegation forestalled the plans of the St. Johns commissioner was not indicated by the but a motion by Commissioner Adams against this transfer was lost by lack of a and the Holbrook and Winslow men are making plans to take court action if any attempt is made to grab the money already allotted for improvement of the 16 miles between the Petrified Forest and A survey of the minutes of the commission disclosed that no transfer actually had been but that the bureau of public roads had been asked to approve a federal program on the a state The funds proposed to be transferred are federal but it is said that they can. legally be transferred to secondary highway with the approval of the The northern delegation in protesting the proposed transfer of funds from Highway 260. advised the commission that the stretch of for which had been set up in the was extremely and that the original plan Of improving it should be carried The stretch is 16 miles long and runs from Petrified Forest southeast toward It was explained to the delegation that no state funds could be but that federal funds set up for that project or any project could be transferred by the on page for fight on land exchange Cattlemen are girding their loins a fight to prevent | Episcopal and Lutheran churches the Navajo board of supervisors j observe Lenten During the next few weeks there will be numerous special services conducted at the local churches observing Army Planes Enroute To Mail Base Fueled At W. A/s Airport In accordance with the United States post office department's turning over of all air mail contracts to the army air four army aviators of March stopped at the local airport Tuesday afternoon enroute to where they have been called for duty when the army will start handling air mail The of the 75th pursuit in of Capt. Bernard each were flying a Boeing pursuit human type as albeit in his day there was naturally more class distinction than in the Civil war like was a and while he had the advantages of a better education much of his knowledge was gained by personal experience on the He as fond of anecdotes as Lincoln and was known as a wit among his intimate It was Washington's honest belief in right that carried him through the bitter hardships of the while the same high purpose gave Lincoln the courage to struggle unwaveringly through four years of internal Both men left behind them legends of their but as this necessarily must be a trait of any great personage there is nothing unusual in this similarity of the nation's greatest Washington has gone down as the father of his country on page Lenten Season Was Started Wednesday By Local Churches The season of Lent began last Wednesday and will end at noon on the Saturday before which is March 31. This season has been observed since the earliest days of the Roman Catholic church as a. period of fasting and It continues 40 exclusive of which are symbolic of the 40 days Christ fasted in the Last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday and the opening day of when priests in the Catholic churches throughout the world made a cross on the forehead of faithful at the altar rail with ashes and then that thou art and to dust thou must which is the spirit of humbleness that the church wishes its worshippers to stress during the Lenten In addition to dispensing with meat at least two days a week those who observe Lent are asked to forego some of the worldly pleasures and amusements such as eating candy and playing The most faithful will give up all The Catholic church and the 4 Escape Injury When Gar Upsets After Tire Blows What is by local garage men as a miraculous escape from serious injury or ' death occurred Sunday 33 miles west of Winslow on 66 a car owned and driven by A. K. of turned over twice traveling the rate of 60 miles an and Mrs. Heaton Mr. and Mrs. Hickman all escaped with only slight scratches although practically every pane of glass in the car was The accident was caused by a the car turning sideways and turning over when a wheel The Heatons bought a new car and returned to their home without losing more than a few hours man is killed by pip MhR adamana Death Is Instantaneous When Head and Body are Badly Crushed Struck by falling pipe which he was helping to unload at 20 miles east of 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stevens of was killed instantly last Monday afternoon at 4 according to word reaching His head and body were crushed by the impact of the heavy corrugated metal Mr. Stevens was assisting two other workmen employed by the Frost company unload a car of He had cut all of the wires but one that held the flat car stakes together when the heavy pipes on top One struck the stake Stevens was working breaking it off. He fell to the ground face downward in an effort to escape the falling but one of them hit him on the head and another struck him on the Sheriff Marion Haws of St. Johns summoned a jury which brought in a verdict of unavoidable The jury was composed of F. R. George J. T. M. E. John Webb and Elmer The body was sent to Winslow for preparation for burial taken to where services were later Hunting Buffalo In Arizona and funeral Membership Drive To Be Conducted By Legion Sunday In a final effort to put the post over the top in the membership drive which ends Feb. 24, two teams will get into the field Sunday and call upon every known ex-service man in the Bob post Darling and Dan Lewis will be in charge of the which will be comprised of four members The losing team will furnish members of the winning group a set of aluminum ear something equally as Mrs. Cora of astride a buffalo she tracked down in a corral during the recent House Rock hunt conducted by the state game There were four other in this same corral at the time this picture was The sixth brcke the fence and causing one of the hunters the inconvenience of chasing it several Commercial Aviation Is Dealt Severe Blow REVENUE MAN TO AID LOCAL INCOME FILING crows will be and clerical workers laid and the air travel business in general greatly retarded if the presidential decree turning over all air mail carrying to the army is made Jack vice president of Transcontinental and Western Air declared last Saturday during a brief stop over in Frye and several other officials were making a test flight in one of the new Douglas airliners the company planned to put on the run this There is more than a possibility that the regular schedules would the past few weeks a j be withdrawn if the cancellation total of 22 members have been is not Frye to the roster of the During bringing its membership up to about 90. the depression the membership totaled close to 200. Commander Crozier expects that Sunday's drive will net at least 50 approving the so-called Navajo land extension which would exchange several thousand acres of land lying south of the present Navajo boundary for an equal amount in an indefinite The board will meet February 26 to determine what action it will and the stock raisers will be present in a body to offer their It is not known whether there will be much of a fight made to get favorable action by the board the but several prominent Holbrook men are said to be anxious to see the deal They give as their reasons the steady encroachment of the government on public and private lands during the past half century and say that Senator Hayden's definitely fix the Navajo boundaries if the exchange is The feel that the land which the Indian wants is far superior to any that could be found in Navajo and even go so far as to claim that there is not sufficient land available for will they point that for the 600,000 acres the In an effort to prove that the wants it will exchange land in mail can tae carried across the continent in 15 the T. W. A. will stage a demonstration Sunday in one of its new Douglas air The plane will take off at T. W. A. To Try Fast Trip Across Country ether counties of the A large delegation of headed by an will attend the meeting in Holbrook February 26, and a warm session is the board agrees to the the last day the company flies Senator Hayden will not j the bearing six passengers his in the I and a heavy load of It is Apache already has agreed to the ' hoped to be in New York 13 hours of hind in that later with passengers and at 9 p. m. on A deputy collector of internal revenue will be located at the city starting March 9, to aid federal income tax payers make their it was this week from the state office in No charge will be made j for this service and any one does rot understand the j tion of his income tax is invited to make use of this All those whose income is over and and every one whose income is and married are to make out an income tax report even if exemptions allowed prevent payment of a Returns for must be filed not later than March 15, 1934 with the collector of internal Direct Relief Fund i In Navajo Cut Two j Thirds By CWA The CWA reduced the number of families direct relief in Navajo county from 472 in i 1933. to 226 at the end of the a report issued in the stater j quarters at Phoenix The i cost was reduced from per month to or about About the same ratio of reduction obtained in all other counties in the The total for the entire state was 8.000. It was explained that the reduction was brought about by the employment of heads of the families on CWA and that while the direct relief cost was reduced the expenditure of federal funds I was almost Navajo Contributes In Sales Taxes In 6 Months who said that it would be impossible to operate on regular the airmail He explained that this was due to the nature of the country through which a large portion of the company's line Traffic conditions west from Chicago to Los Angeles is not heavy enough to sustain regular flight operations without the aid of revenue from handling the S. he No Evidence Of Collusion INDIAN CAPITAL TO BE LOCATED NEW MEXICO BORDER Gallup Independent Claims to Have Received Definite Information from William Assistant to Commissioner John Collier on Thursday Definite information that the Central Navajo Agency would be located in the border of New has been received from William assistant to John commissioner of Indian The Gallup Independent informed the Winslow Mail over the telephone Confirmation of Zimmerman's received in a telegram to the Independent yesterday being ' * AIR MAIL FOR WINSLOW STILL VERY DOUBTFUL Press Dispatches Indicate City Will Be Left Off Route With the status of Arizona's air mail still in only one certainty arose out of the maze of fancies and Winslow would not be included in any set up the army decided upon it takes over the system That this may be only temporary is indicated by press but that there is little of air mail through here lor several weeks is seen by the announcement of the skeleton service planned for the which will cut the air miles now travel by commercial mail carriers from 2T.079 down to 11,106 It is indicated that there will be a gradual increase in the mileage by letting of contracts to private ccn with the army continuing on j the key routes will local observers that unless the northern route is selected as a key route Winslow has lost air mail for On the other it is pointed out that the lighted route from Los Angeles to Kansas City was constructed at a great cost and is not likely to be discarded by the government Phoenix still is uncertain whether it will be included on the army route when the army first takes the air mail Press quoted the post office department as announcing a route from Kansas City to Los Angeles via Albuquerque and but it was considered that a jump from Albuquerque to Phoenix over mountainous and forest covered terrain would be im- Of practicable because of the utter sought from Senator Carl Hayden in a telegram dispatched by the Chamber of Commerce early Although the announcement was a blow to the undying hopes of Winslow that the agency would be located the fact that the institution would be situated within the Arizona borders offered some and the announcement was met with elation by Chamber of Commerce The fact that it will be located hear the border of New Mexico indicates that according to those who are familiar with the reservation This site would give employes their choice between Gallup and some Arizona community in which transact their private Until the Painted road is Gallup would be the only outlet for those stationed at the agency in event it is at but it is believed route will be a reality by the time the Indian capital is For several weeks past there has been an unconfirmed rumor that the agency would be located away from established antl the announcement did not come as a complete Because the erosion school is included in the appropriation of nearly a million it was considered more than probable that the government would not locate the capital off the Encouragement given local citizens by Commissioner Collier last year was all that kept up the hopes of the Winslow Chamber of which believed that this city was the only logical site in event a city was to be Frye pointed out that there is j when the Arizona Good Roads as no evidence to prove that his com- obtained its contracts through mty contributed I decla Navajo con 007.66 toward the grand total of collected from the privilege sales tax for the six month period ending Dec. 31, 1933, according to figures released by A. L. of the sales tax division of the state tax The statement of the tax department shows that there was j a steady in the amount of revenue reflecting better business conditions ail over the Of the amount collected in Navajo county will be returned to the The largest or will go into the general fund of the state to help wipe out the huge Over two thousand will go into the relief which has not been found necessary because of the and probably will be turned into the general fund at the end of the Paid Out By CWA Last Week Feb. 15 - Arizona Civil Works Administration were paid Saturday for work during the week ended Feb. Miss Florence M. Checks went to 16.923 All 14 counties benefited by the collusion and declared that the cancellation order did not appear to be fair to the T. W. A. and several other lines that have pioneered in The only fair thing to do would be to give these lines a and until they were proven to have obtained special favors from the post office department they should be permitted to carry the he His Frye has offered to carry the mail until such an investigation is made and then if collusion was proven no charge for the service would be Frye handed the press a statement from R. W. president of T. W. to Postmaster General in which the former protests tae action of the chief executive in cancelling air mail contracts without first on page Good Roads Body To Meet In Tucson Feb. 20 and 21st i n lu boosters from all the annual election ' forest covered terrain would be Of a board ot directors for the bons of the state are expected practicable because of the utter | Winslow Chamber of Commerce invade Tucson next Tuesday and j of emergency landing fields j were mailed out this week by February 20 and 21, j and the great j Walter Lindblom to all - - The mem be mark relation holds its annual - selections and return the Frank R. vice president j early set with the southern lots to the At the next and touted as the next route being j meeting of the chamber of will be among the Winslow j none of the dispatches merce the ballots will be indicated anv proposal to revert to j opened and counted and the results BALLOTS OUT FOR C. OF C. DIRECTORATE Two Rabies Infested Dogs Killed During including Homer president of the University of Arizona Governor Tom j Residents of and the northern end of town are warned to watch their pets closely dining the next few days as the result of the discovery of what the police believe were two well developed of Two dogs were shot by the police this and while no scientific test was Chief R. L. Neill is positive that both canines were in the final stages of the dread far as is known no person or other dogs were bitten by the but Chief Neill urges every one to watch their pets and re- i port immediately if there is any ' sign of r i Officers for the en- On the program of speakers present routes wnen cne govern i * * ' switching back from suing year will be elected by the several prominent men of the uacK J army planes and pilots to private directors at the same commercial carriers on the j Six directors are to be chosen on page from the list of 15 nominated by special nominating committee pointed by President Greaves at last week's supper Those nominated J. A. W. G. F. R. V. H. E. O. H. A. T. G. O. M. Walter O. L. George A. Wellon John J. P. Clark and Dr. W. G. i state will give a port of his Washington and Past Rv i state Mack of New I asl Xf Uy I UUCC will tell of highway plans of 1 his Other speakers will in- on page Tourist Hurt When Auto Turns Turtle Turning over while traveling at an estimated speed of 45 miles an a light sedan and trailer 25 feet off the high 42 Given Work In County Past 2 Weeks j Q. R. Navajo county reemployment office that his office has cured new employment for 42 men I and women in this county during the past two Thirty-four of that number were placed on highway construction while a portion of the balance were employed on public I way and landed upside late works with three women in Wednesday afternoon eight miles low employed in house east of here on S. 66. Mrs. R. It was stated that there are now L. one of the eight i 67-i men and women in the county pants of the was the only one who are with a ' - - PROBE DEATH Feb. 15- tonight were investigating circumstances surrounding the death of W. L. 25. Glendale wangled body was beside railroad tracks near hyre cuts and bruises j ber of this figure having been | due to Three children escaped of road work arg laid off at i ent. Manager Gardner again wishes to stress the importance of of anyone who loses his or her job and seeks This the only manner which the records of the rt. may be that required attention at a J. L. driver of the which was headed for the Sabin's home in St. gaid that the right rear tire blew out and caused him to lose control or the Contents of the trailer were about the des Carl Former Resident Succumbs Word of the death of Carl former Winslow in Phoenix this was received by friends Mr. Behn operated a ready-to-wear and store in the building adjoining the Rialto theater for many leaving here about six years ago for and going to Mr. Behn is survived by a sister in and a in
