Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - December 30, 1938, Winslow, Arizona f I do not agree with what you 1 will to the death your right to say WIN SLOW SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Six Single 5o VOLUME 47 DECEMBER 30, 1938 NUMBER 21 ' WE WONDER A dispatch from San under date of December 27, Jewish youth awaiting trial in Paris for killing a German embassy death brought an assessment by the Nazi government of fine on Germany's says he no contributions towards his returned a the amount of which was to Dr. George San Francisco physician and wartime with the wish that money be given instead to 'the 1,200 innocent Jews robbed and exiled and suffering from cold and hunger on the Polish To take the life of another after an unjustifiable and contrary to His shalt not yet we wonder if this foolish young Jew has not filled a greater niche in this world than did the man whom he RIGHT A. J. of the Arizona state prison at in a lengthy with members of the staff of the office of Joe attorney with regard to the conduct of the avowed that on two separate occasions refused the to the post of. but finally accepted it at the insistence of Gov. Stanford and his executive Dr. Junius Barnes said that he not want to go down because didn't think I was the man for the 30b." It may sound funny coming from even at this but BARNES WAS TRUE Madman and his Nazi bigwigs are very much over on Page 75 ALUMNI OF WINSLOW HIGH We Wish Our Readers Everywhere A Happy New Year Get Lower Heat Rate Former Treasurer Asked To Account For Funds Due State of Arizona Winslow gas consumers were into purchasing extra such as furnaces and heating by claims of a former administration of the ArU zona Gas that heating costs would be and incorrect billings to uphold this claim are in a measure responsible for the financial condition of the now in in opinion of Charles corporation commission following a survey made December 13 to 15. Claiming that in some instances consumers in 1937 received billings 35 per cent less than what their should have and that others were billed for less than the actual cost of the engineer stated in a report to the city council that the company could not continue to operate with such low rates and advised those who cannot afford to pay rates that will at least meet the cost of to find some other means of heating their By with R. C. receiver for the gas only actual cost of the oil will be charged during the winter for those who use gas in heating equipment above 5,000 cubic Since the oil costs slightly less 60 cents on Page STATE TO GO ON CASH BASIS ON FIRST OF * Indian Dancers To Super Chief At Depot Saturday * * The Santa Fe * * band will make its first * + lie appearance in * months Saturday when * * it greets the at * * The dancers who * last year conceived a dance 4> * which they called the Super- * * will also This * dance was given at the * mas eve at the * * Indian camp this year and * * made such a hit that railroad * * officials present asked that * 4> it be presented * * at the first * * The Indian band recently + * was reorganized by Charlie * + Erickson and will .be heard in * * many concerts in the 4 VETERAN SANTA FE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER DEAD Graduates of Winslow high school classes from 1914 to 1937 enjoyed a Christmas at the golf club last Sunday Approximately 120 were were including 75 including and Chinese were with prizes being awarded Dancing was held in the with a prize for the best waltzers going to Margaret and During an intermission presents were distributed from a huge Christmas j tree to every one Refreshments were served at the close of the Those who enjoyed the evening and the classes which they represented Eleanor Henderson J. P. Glen Dean Clyde Dennis Clyde Gardner and Helen Eddie Willie David Charles Dover and Thomas Bessie L. D. Margaret Hartney and C. J. Joe Jay Bob Roscoe Ralph Howard Parker and Louise Walter Robert Dick D. James Eugene Schmitz and Gwen Vernie Harry Mary Alice Charles Oare Eleanor Joseph A. Harriet Tom Walter Robert Gilpin and Emil Rosalie Seymour E. Anna Mae F. E. Lillian Doris Evelyn Jones Florence 1'ed Archie Homer Eleanor Bob Mary Margaret LaZear and Willard Earl L. G. Lucille Joe Marion Helen Ed Murphy and Patsy Santa Fe Income In November Increased YEAR Henry who started to work for the Santa Fe 56 years last November as a wiper in the mechanical department in and who remained with the company as an engineer on the third district for 49 died in the Santa Fe hospital at 5:30 p. December 27. He would have been 77 years of on January 19. Mr. Heide lived in Winslow all of his railroad career until his retirement in 1935, when he moved to the coast shortly afterward for the benefit of his Outside of three and one-half years as a Heide BY COLUMBUS GIRAGI The calendar tells at midnight tomorrow another year will have passed into the abyss of the past and the New with its of joys and successes and births and will be ushered in. While we know but little in detail of what 1939 may we do know like other it will be made of a succession of each of which will influence the final Each no matter how small or will affect our whole To all friends Aye would wish a year filled with We would not wish them great but we would wish them sufficient for reasonable we would wish them we would wish them we would wish them increase in mental and spiritual With the psalmist we would pray that the Lord and Creator of all would grant to and to us an increase in wisdom and understanding that all may be guided to do to be just in our dealings with our to do each our part toward improving social and economic to make this world a better place in which to We would wish that 1939 be a year of in the relations between peace in the intercourse of peace in our peace In our peace to men of That is the peace of which the Angels sang in the fields near Bethlehem over nineteen hundred years Looking back over the years which have we are very grateful for the friendships with which we have been We trust that we may continue to merit those friendships and to repay our friends in a small way for the confidence and the trust they have placed in for the many kindnesses showered upon us during a confining illness that brought into dreary days that seemed and courage weary nights that were ' These clumsy still in the Go crushing blossoms without These well-meaning hands we thrust Among the of a If any have suffered because we have been guilty of the folly quoted we humbly beg forgiveness for having been so weak in the flesh that we bowed to of the and not the With the firm iii our humble to be of greatest service to our fellow we enter the New all those to 1938 FINALLY SHOWED SIGNS OF Several Determine Whether or Not Recovery Is To Continue Dec. 29. - Arizona will enter the new year on a cash Harry M. state Tuesday called all outstanding registered warrants for payment The call was made possible by collection of inheritance taxes on the estate of Lemuel C. Bisbee banker and president of the Shattuck Denn Mining who died on September 7. The state's operation on a cash will end about January 9, when the quarterly school apportionment is made to the As of yesterday the books Cash on hand Shattuck Warrants called but not yet paid Warrants outstanding Unencumbered cash - This unencumbered cash will be reduced about by the semimonthly payroll January 1, Mr. Moore Claude A. Associated Press General Financial Editor NEW Dec. 29.-Caught in the rip tides of depression at home and national belligerencies the United in 1938 steered once more into the seas of of large-scale governmental The wheels of stalled lated an 1937, began to whir in late after congress had approved President Roosevelt's program in From the slowest pace in four reached in late industry had accelerated by November to the clip first reached on the recovery in early 1936. Then the usual year-end slackening The new spending announced by President Roosevelt in was a complete about face from the policy of 1937, when the federal government's cash income and outgo was actually in balance for several As late as November of that when business had slumped Secretary on Page Methodist Church To Hold New * Lassoing Horses J * From Police Auto t X Dangerous Sport * * * * Patrolman Clarence + * who will resign soon to become * undersheriff for Dan + * hopes his new duties * will not include lassoing * * es from the hood of an auto- To prove that this is + * dangerous work he displayed * + sprained wrist this week and 4* 4< has ah kinds of advice on how + not to chase horses + from a seat atop an + * bile * * Houck and Carter were + 4* ter horses which wandered in 4 + from some nearby ranch + day Carter drove the * * police icar and Houck * * died the hood as he had done * * so many times He + * tossed a rope over one of the + * which stopped + * So did the police + * Houck He sailed high * * in the air and landed a good * * 15 feet away from the car * * and his wrist in * + breaking the + * worked fine on previous + + but lassoed + * my last horse from an auto- + * Houck + * * * * * * * * + * * Santa Fe's net railway operating income for November was according to a statement by President S. T. Bledsoe This is an increase of over of last Gross for the system was decrease below 1937, of or 1.7 7c Operating expenses were a decrease of or 11.54% under the same month of 1937. - Railway tax accruals were an increase of or 7.21%. Coast Line Official Passed Away Dec. 28 Charles E. assistant to the general manager in charge of schedules and personnel for the Santa Fe coast died in tht company hospital at 1:30 Wednesday He well known in Winslow and For several years he was a locomotive engineer on the valley division out of Fresno and served as general chairman of the committee for some He later became road foreman of engines in 1916, and eventually was made trainmaster at Gallup for about a He held his present position for the past 20 Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3:30 at the Little Church of the Flowers in Forest Winslow Drug Wins Decoration Contest Announcement was made week that the committee of judges for the Elks lodge had selected the Winslow Drug as the first place winner in the charity carnival window decoration contest last The Heidelberg Tavern won second in selecting the prize winners was due to the absence of one or more of the judges until last week when they finally got together and made their had been a locomotive out of Funeral services will be held at the Wee Kirk of the Heather in Forest Lawn at 1:30 this Among those who will attend from Winslow are Charles Ed Riley and Harvey Surviving him are three daughters and a The daughters reside in and the is a resident of the Philip pine Police Warn Of Stop Signs Placed at Third Street and Kinsley Stop signs on Kinsley avenue and Third street have been installed by the and motorists are warned to obey these signs or they will be taken before Police Judge Cahn and During the next few days an officer will be stationed at this intersection to warn but after a reasonable time arrests will be The stop signs were placed on the east and west side of Kinsley at Third because of the increased traffic routed that way by the post office Several crashes have there in recent many of them during the early morning or late evening when the sun bothers east and west bound Kinsley will be a through REVEALS LACK OF BUSINESS SYSTEM Politics and Loose Management By State Officials Are Shown In Attorney General's Investigation Of Affairs of Arizona State Penitentiary I Capitol News Dec. 29. - promiscuous purchasing of supplies at exorbitant loose management and missing records are blamed for conditions at the Arizona state Guards and other employes were hired and fired directly by Gov. R. C. Purchases were made without calling for Spending continued at a rate two and three times amounts set up by the state were not checked against the More was paid for sugar in ton shipments than it could have been bought at retail in 100-pound It cost nearly twice as much to feed approximately the same number of prisoners during the regime of Warden A. J. Barnes than under Warden A. G. The huge telephone of the former secretary of the Board of IS FOUND Public Institutions was charged to the These are some of the highlights of the most recent investigation into affairs at the penitentiary revealed by Barnes to W. E. assistant attorney and P. D. special investigator for Atty. Gen. Joe The investigation was ordered in October by the 13th legislature on Page Ashfork Engineer Is Heart Attack Victim Michael 59, locomotive engineer for the Santa who has been at Ashfork for the past several dropped dead city December 27 from a heart Mr. known to third district had been off duty less than two hours when A program has been arranged for New Year's Eve at the Methodist It will begin at 8:00 p. m. and continue until The first hour will be in charge of Glen with Miss Doris Gardner playing the piano for the song The theme for discussion will be religious Two ways of teaching religion will be introduced by Mrs. Will The project method of teaching religion will be discussed and Charles Werner will speak on Mrs. Walter Olds will preside j at the second the general theme being the trials and triumphs of the Mrs. Charles Werner will speak on and the Church in Hitler's Mrs. Martha Evans will give View of Home and A. O. LaPrade will speak on Mrs. D. K. Martin will have charge of the third 10:00 to 11:00. This will be a time of social fellowship with games for Refreshments will be The fourth 11:00 to 12:00, will be in charge of R. C. New Year's resolutions will be discussed by The John M. will speak on concluding the Burr who came to Arizona by wagon from 63 years at the age of died in his sleep December 26. He was found by neighbors in his bed Monday death natural first come to Navajo county in 1884, when he joined the cattle He led a dangerous life during those stirring j times of marauding Indians and i cattle but survived most of those who helped write the early history of northern Funeral services were held at the Drumm Mortuary Wednesday afternoon at 4J.30, with Rev. David Jones reading the Burial was in Desert View Mr. Williams is survived by a a Mrs. Mabel both of San and a of All attended the funeral 1939 Plates Must Be Bought By Jan. 31st Or Penalty Assessed County Assessor Arthur Palmer will be in starting next January 6, for the convenience of local car owners who want to purchase the 1939 license He will remain here for one and after that the new licenses must be obtained by making a trip to Holbrook or through the The time limit for obtaining the new plates is February 1, and af ter that date all cars must have the 1939 plates or be Jury P. Caudell A Suicide Heroic Efforts Of Local Phone Operator At The story of how a local telephone operator and three police officers failed after valiant efforts tQ prevent a despondent man from ending his life came out at the inquest into the death of Percy Winslow some time during the early of Christmas After hearing the dramatic testimony of Bernice the telephone and Officers Bob Rudd and Terry the jury returned a verdict that came to his death from gunshot wounds self Investigation into the death of Caudell was ordered by Judge J. B. Drumm because brothers thought might have been foul basing their suspicions on two empty cartridges and appeared to be a I made bullet hole in the Reciting how she received a call from the Caudell 114 West about 4:30 o'clock Christmas how she kept the man's mind occupied while she summoned Policeman Bob Deputy Sheriff Rudd and Terry highway She took such she because the whom she identified as informed her that he was to end it and wanted officers sent to his When she him if he on the New 1QQ cent penalty fIso be evening with prayer The public will be welcomed at anv time during the WHAT WILL 1939 HOLD FOR THE National Leaders Make Their Guesses + + * + + + + + making plates cost instead of Those who prove that they did not use their cars after January 31 will not have to pay the During his stay in Winslow Palmer will be located at the Ralph H. Cake Chevrolet garage on Third By Associated Press f will be between 85 and What does 1939 hold No one j 86-can say for but certain events j Col. Leonard P. been certain trends has are certain background coming year now promises to be movements can be discovered by a period of better On these here is * a in- and diplomatic j American and British will sure down the valley of the continue to resist the casting its eyes at the by guerilla and and making its weight | Generalissimo Franco probably felt with ballots in Would a look at the new Business Most business leaders look for continued business improvement in 1939, but say that much depends on congressional and foreign Twelve Wall Street economists at luncheon all made guesses as to what the Federal Reserve monthly industrial production index would average for the first six mouths of 1939. The guesses ran from 100 to 110. the average about 104!2. The average for 193S ing national income and increased volume of national Prof. O. M. W. Sprague of is not unreasonably optimistic to suppose that at least during the next few production and consumption will be on somewhat higher level than 12 months Foreign Affairs Foreign observers looked ahead for an answer to the how much further will the fascists and nazis already got Austria and Germany was she translate her influence into acts which was Germany's approving partner in much of her expansionist had a plan of her own afoot to expand at the expense of How much further it would go appeared to be a matter of Palestine will remain a sore spot for Germany's colonial demands will continue to cause Germany's anti-Jewish drive may taper but other countries will continue to worry about what to do with the heartened by will make another fort to crush Loyalist Preparedness National defense is scheduled to get even mort attention in 1939 than it got in as the administration moves to increase armaments on land and sea and in the Reports are that President Roosevelt will ask for thousands of new Government The biggest job of the new Congress may be to revamp important New Deal For both parties have pledged themselves to extend protection on rage Plenty of Noise Is Assured For Arcadia Dance New Year's Thiee crates of favors and noise maimers arrived this week to insure plenty of disturbance at midnight for those who attend the New Year's dance at Arcadia This will the final appearance of Arlic Vanderbelt and his to be the best dance orchestra to make more than a one-night in Winslow since the Arcadia Hall was taken over by the American Legion Vanderbelt will head for the coast after the first of the where he has several promising contracts offered The New Year's dance always attracts a large crowd at Arcadia Hall and this year is not expected to be an Dancing will start promptly at 10 o'clock and continue as long as the crowd For the year just drawing to a the work of the Winslow office of the Arizona state employment service affiliated with the United States employment has shown some very gratifying Employers have come to have a better understanding of the pose of this department of the government and the place it is ed to in supplying efficient workers to those needing such those seeking employment have kept up the registrations with the employment and numbers of them have found work or indirectly a result of such The employment being only local in its but calls are made upon it for operation between the If suitable workers are not one calls are made upon the offices to supply For special occupations skilled labor and those on Page Almost 1,000 Kiddies Attend Xmas Party Between 800 and 1,000 youngsters were entertained last Saturday morning at the annual Christmas The and girls were first treated to a cartoon and western after which Santa Claus arrived to distribute bags of nuts and fruit to all the children With the northeast and middle west in the throes of a severe cold Winslow basked in warm sun the past The minimum was 17 on the 24th and the high was 53 on the 28th, for a mean of 32.5, or about 2.5 above normal for this The severe cold wave hit Kansas and many sections of Montana and North where dropped far below The GranoV Canyon was the with a temperature ojf six below on the 25th. The which still is in is too far away to which is expected to continue to enjoy normal
