Yuma Weekly Sun, The (Newspaper) - January 22, 1937, Yuma, Arizona The Newspaper That Goes Home THE YUM A WEEKLY SUN And THE YUMA EXAMINER Everything in Yuma Revolves Around the Sun VOLUME ARIZONA FRIDAY JANUARY 22 1937 Gleanings By the Publisher JETS WISE Yesterday the last of the series of city property on which the taxes arc delinquent Thousands of dollars have been paid Into the city assessor's of- fice since the publication of the started a month ago Other thousands are expected to be paid the remainder of tills week and nil next week when any property advertised Is up for sale for the amount of taxes against it o- City officials report that in times past just a few people who understood the details of trans- fer of property took any Interest in tax sales but that this year a lot of people are consulting their attorneys and picking out they would like to get hold of for the taxes due on them o It is pointed out that a trans- action of this kind may be led thru an attorney or direct by the purchaser if he desires to look after the details himself i Graphs of all plots In the city are maintained so that u buyer may ascertain out any trouble just what pieces of property are for sale from the description lot and block bers published In the Sun o been living in Ji rented house for several years one stated It was bought In ior delinquent taxes by a man who hud no more money than I did but who was smarter than I was Last the wife and I ed up how much rent we have paid and we found out that we had paid the owner TIMES as much in rent as he paid the property bought for quent taxes We've decided if we can pick up a piece of property for the taxes we're going to do it and save that extra rent for a rainy day We're figuring on en or eight places and if some of them are redeemed maybe we'll get one or two out of the lot If get two we'll be in a position NINE DIE AS COLD WAVE HITS WEST ALUMINUM GOLD STRIKE REPORTED IN DISTRICT Works for Auto Strike End 1 The mining district north uf Calif Is enjoying u and is duo for larger one in the near to reports received here today In addition to several rich pold strikes in recent months plans were announced day for development of aluminum claims in the Chocolate tains 50 miles north of here Tlie announcement was made by A Ritchie of Seattle Wash a director of tile Gold a ton corporation which owns the 18 claims as well as 10 placer gold claims in the district Years Ago Discovery of the alunite deposit was made about three years ago suid but as a feasible method of extracting tho per cent aluminum content from tile white clay was lacking ment was delayed The chemist J Priestley of Seattle recently discovered a feasible process however and work Is to mart at once on con- struction of u plant in Seattle he said the capacity to be 10 tons per days shipments to start in about three months Here S C Hedrick president of the corporation is staying at the Gables near tlie alunite claims overseeing preliminary ment work being done by a force of four AU officers anU most stockholders are residents Another who contemplates building just the kind of 11 house he wants is scouting around for a lot on which the taxes have gone delinquent He had a great dis- appointment last week He tells about o I had the lot nil picked out which we wanted I know the lot is worth several hundred dollars but tlie owner had lei It be ad- for an amount less than K in delinquent taxes It was just what 1 wanted but last week it disappeared from the of Hea gold strike mad STATE POWER AUTHORITY BILLS URGED PHOENIX Adz Jan Creation oi a state power empowered to deal with dis- in Arizona of power from Boulder dam urged today in twin bills to both houses of tlie stale legislature Sen Daniel K Gila introduced the Senate and Rep Jj s Williams Williams the House hill creating a power of three members to be pointed by thi to Senate approval and ating for a of tric power potentialities in t he state The power commissioners would draw salaries of each and could not be connected with any power organisation Playing a prominent role as peacemaker in the General tors strike F Dewey above federal labor conciliator held conferences with both union chiefs and corporation leaders Following the parleys he was optimistic that the opposing forces could be brought together for discussions that would show the way to settlement To Soil Tower The commission would be em- powered to seel electric power ns a corpora t i on t would bo f o Frog Mystery At Rehearsal Of Little Theater Hoy Where's that There was a kind of a mystery hidden to accept tlie Colorado ri- last night among the members of vcr compact the Little Theater who were re- Rep Williams said the hearsing parts for thuir latest would mutch similar laws in production the tentative date of feet in California and Nevada Ken J Hubert Smith i Two Unit Here of T reS placer Caring For Teeth by a Mr of CCC HOSPITAL FULL WITH WAITING LIST OF SEVEN With all beds filled at the Yuma General hospital there is a waiting list of seven patients for whom there is no room it was announced today by Supt Paul Lipscomb Most of the patients are ill with i influenza I Patients discharged from the j hospital yesterday and today j J H Hamilton of the county treasurer's office who has been ill with the influenza admitted to the hospital Jan 13 Gilbert Demark of Burbank Calif admitted Jan 11 Mrs Gus Bejarana and infant daughter 12th street and First avenue admitted Jan 19 Mrs Clifton and admitted Jan 11 Mrs J Ij Lewis of Well ton and baby girl admitted to hospital Jan 1C Mrs Adolph Falken of New YorK A Edwards Southern Pacific employee 161 Jones street Mrs Mervin Smith who under- went an operation Jan 12 Debutante Aide Safety Council Orders Emblems Carl D Farrar president of the Yuma safety council announced today that emblems bearing the legend Yuma County Safety Council had been ordered by the council Miss Helen daughter oi Mr and Mrs Kalph M velt ami a cousin of President Roosevelt is one of the junior fur the New York ball January in of the birthday and to raise for the against infantile paralysis SNOWFALLS AT PHOENIX AND TUCSON UNITED TRESS Arizona shivered today on the heels of a storm which left snow at Phoenix normally one of the The emblems arc made of steel warmest spots in the state am and are to be attached to the piled higher tlic blanket of white and running as high as per yard in gold I The service now being snid has sunk a rendered all CCC camps foot shaft from bedrock in a wash out the country was Initiated in and has extended his tunnel the District at Camp SPREADS TRASH IS IGNITED TRUCK MAKES RUN Getting out of control when it P on Jan 19 by Dr aid K 1st Lt dental serve Is accompanied to Yuma by his assistant loe Doyle and Lorenzo truck driver Here Two Weeks I The dental team will spend I which Is set at Feb 9 Sid Fancher director was in a fog He the script No It didn't call for any frog effects What goes on queried i puzzled Mr j Alter going through a twice which involved Jim Bandy the mystery was Jim had a cold Every time he dropped his voice and stooped to pick it up he bore a decided resemblance j to a frog croaking cense plutes Tlie words are printed In large red letters on a background which covers the northern district The snow at Phoenix the first in exactly four years began ing shordy before S o'clock last ed list The owner had gone in I spread to some trash nearby wocks cre treating vv in thc cases and doing A third annul why he was keeping a close watch on the delinquent list I'm Ruing to dip into it for an he said Property this town have already gone up and they're bound to go of houses have been bnill during the past year and with rents aa high as they are others are to build and tier control and no damage was reported Homo of the workmen had ed crude oil waste in order to warm stiff chilled by the unseasonably cold weather KAY Kay now residing i buy Tf I a house j spending the work for back tuxes and get my i friends nnd Ht former Flagstaff is visiting title to it and sell that house for SIX TIMES what I paid for it or then that beats Ing for a living as I have the most of my life And I'm going to take a shot at three or four places which have lesa than against them Property can be sold for the taxes against it any lime on or after January 30 That date and the days following are going to be headache for those who have valuable property but are letting it go unprotected for a fraction of its value And the earlier it is taken care of the more convenient it will be ready at times so many many people appear at the city cate fillings trench mouth and tlic like will be taken care of here in without io the Joe Doyle the assistant re- that during the first days little cleaning terial for the was needed One of the too familiar high winds was blowing that day over the old mesa carrying with it plenty of Hii Farrar staled that aa soon as1 and increased in the tags arrive there will be a til after midnight when a mantu meeting of the council to lay out of covered 1 awns a safety program for the ensuing year Three persons were lield in the county jail today by city and officers two on drunk 19 FEARED LOST IN SNOWDRIFTS CROP DAMAGE IS LARGE START FILMING SCENES TODAY Principals Miss Mae Clark Jack Holt and Victor Varconi character actor head a cast of GO persona hero from Hollywood to film the Darmour Productions picture entitled Trouble in rocco The company will have headquarters in Yuma for the next four or five days while shooting scenes in the nearby sand dunes Although several to have been taken yesterday work was held up until today be- cause of unsettled weather conditions Seeing that nearly the complete company would be ex- yesterday it is reported that the director remarked Too bad we aren't on location for Gone With The Wind over Yumans explained weather conditions here are usually quite favorable for picture The entire company is in Yuma instead of at the JL is reported the stars By UNITED PRESS Nine persons were dead and at least 19 were feared lost in snow drifts today aa a wave of Arctic weather swept over the Western states damaging crops and ing temperatures to new lows Eighteen were be- snowbound without food a Pleasant Valley Nevada A state highway crew battled through huge snowdrifts in an attempt to break a road through to the ma who it feared may be dying from starvation o from extreme cold Thermometers 22 degrees below zero at midnight Wednesday Family Wiped Out Thc family of John Vargas was wiped out when fire attri buted to an overheated stove left scenes were burning while the family slept destroyed their home at Cal The victims were Vargas hia wife and their infant ter Icy weather brought death to John 21 who froze in Ills stalled automobile at Mont At Horace Carter 73 was burned to death when a stove overheated his cabin Another man was and feared frozen to death between Butte and Dillon Mont At Sonora Cal tho of Gus 44 was found by a leave their rooms en route to the skiing companion from whom he sand dunes shortly before seven had become separated was Other members of the east county officers two on drunk sent last night were Jennie charges and one for investigation ancler who by thc way is a littlo O P und Frank froggish also Eleanor nal were held for being drunk and fa Katherine Long and Jack Jack wag held for in- unu remained until this morning Yuma experienced a light fall early last evening tht first snow there since Snow At Tucson Tucson which haw had snow earlier this winter received ad- snow yesterday and last night but little on the Yuma Gets Sample of Snow Sleet With Hain First Since 4 Yrs Ago Making the third time the word the hogans snow has been recorded in the cal United States weather reau records Yumans ed a microscopic glance of the falling powder here last night There was also a trace of intermingled with rain according to James S Gordon head of the local bureau Gordon also stated thai would be no crop damage but that it would probably colder In 1845 Old timers state there was an inch or two of snow in the counties the blizzard continued but road crews managed to keep mam however was blocked as secondary in the and The anew and cold in the in tlie morning und return about five in the evening Guy Musgrove is in charge of all lives tick used in the tion filming in Yuma Gather Data On Yuma As Gretna Green Of West w i business visitors this week of the Los nl lhc Snn hotel While hor it is reported the Times have been Jerome fathering Pictures of Yuma as the Green the fr the victim of exposure and ex- Cur Stalled Mack Reese Dillon Mont was feared lost in snowdrifts A car in which he was riding be- came stalled on a highway Reese set out for help No word hag been received from his since nix area this Uric citrus industry did no damage Many of the court house at- Todt as far as could be determined laches have been photographed Federal agricultural authorities and Interviewed by tile hign trough the night depending on at had a tendency to Lnc tenacity o thc wind qualities that had a tendency to fill tlie patient's mouth in short order Fortunately the air soon and operations in Uie tal department proceeded without interruption TO Miss Daniels former corn by a friend W T Both Haw vcr and Featherman are with the highway department stationed near Flagstaff and be- ing unable to continue their work there for the next several days I court house employee has gone to because of the heavy snows de- j Phoenix where she will remain to spend their short j during this session of the tion here in thc sunny ture Miss Daniels is an attache land in lower house Indians a legend telling of the time long long ago possibly I'M years when there was a snowfall in Yuma heavy Young know darn that there was an inch and a half of snow in 1932 And it stayed J on the ground available for public usage in the form of snowballing for two or three days frost before tho temperatures drooped Collier Tonight Tho U S weather bureau's fore however was for however was or coming through Irom tonight ex- reported an inch and c t in Wcst central Gil a half of snow there and an amount through Tele graph Pass A doughty old man swore that a blizzard blew hard enough in the Picacho's to make imperative the removal of windshield wiper TOIL sheriff's enough to break in the roofs deputies doubted the story Proposes To Enforce Compulsory Education Law Thru Bus Drivers SEEK PARK IN HAUGHTELIN LAKE REGION A to deputy This proposal In be handled sheriffs of all ui through tho clerk of the school drivers Oliver I Lovett in the capacity of this proposed park dis- of chairman of tlie Yuma nnd what it will mean to playgrounds committee released these two counties and the y a letter sent to I secretary of the interior proposing an fare of the people in future years to come This area in all probability in county giving will according to Harkins ground and nark between Yuma would have developed prior to this lime except to the and Fair ther was predicted for most 01 the slate Persons marooned or lost in the drifted northern district were re- ported to be safe A snowplow crew through to Fort ander Tulhill near Flagstaff late to take medical aid tn thc child of a crew fore- man and U L Duncan mail Red Cross Official Fo Attend 1st Aid Class Friday Night Ben Carpenter of Sun co chief of the first aid division western region American Red Cross is in Yuma today and will attend the second weekly ing of the first aid class in the city hall tomorrow night it was announced by Mrs W J ler chairman of the Yuma county Willis Erickson Sell 10 Claims To Montana Group A mining deal was sed this week when ten adjacent gold mining claims located tn Yuma county were sold by owners John Willis and Simon both of Yuma to J M McClammy and others of Montana Willis announced The new mine owners arc now in Los Angeles purchasing new machinery so as to begin diate developing operations on the claims Operations are to be con- at the 300 foot level cording to present plans Terms of the deal give the new owners third interest until ter the development when they will acquire an additional one third Rod and Gun Club Meet Fri Night A special meeting of the Yuma rier who was forced to The last Blx weeks va cj his stalled on thc Hopi the class meeting each K ay ca eel by Char ey pros obtained shelter in In the city conned chamber c o Indian and later made his I at eight o'clock All interested way to a Hading post I an- invited to join the class Elderly Couple Sue Adopted Son For Restitution of Land Charge Failure To Support Them As Per Agreement Filed luday in the superior i court clerk's was THOUSANDS FLOODS INUNDATE PARTS OF 8 STATES Jan women und children lived In cars school houses Cross and private lie flood waters of four Ohio valley rivers and i score of rolled over tho farms nnd lages from which they tied for lives The number of homeless mated at more than ed hourly as tlie peak of ij flood llw Hver ley bursling levees swamping village streets and isolating farms nnd Ohio Virginia nnd Kentucky Illinois Missouri Arkansas and Eight persons are known dead A half million dollars worth of bridges highways and farm ON FIVFt ing to the number of pupils in j tendance in each school District are levied to complete thc fund furnished by the state and county enrollment would mean more money from tho state j and county resulting in the of district taxes according to Harkins proposal Shipment H day via the Southi road were announced ns to Ickes and tho senators from Arizona and California To Tn the letter to This proposed area in located on public domain of the United stocked with fish und at to assure of inj the rest of ent as several matters of ance to the club are to be taken GINNINGS Bales of cotton ginned day in thc Fanners Co-op Somerton 10th St -1 Bard 4 Gila S Calif Cotton Oil Somerton 17 Winterhaven 11 t time an outing place I complaint was people of this district Matthew Graham and his wife the possessors sonic ing land They nil oral agreement with adopted son To for many for Wating fishing and picnicking parties The Arizona State Game ment have in the past and will and in the only continue to furnish thru the local area one hundred miles department stock each year Yuma which is suitable for a for this lake The Imperial valley or park Yuma nnd Im- people arc wholeheartedly behind Pacific penal counties arc both fast this proposed project and with 17 cars cattle 14 cars lettuce 1 car cotton seed 1 car carrots 1 the ing counties and at thc presort I the construction of time neither county lias n county i canal and dam together park or playground area You nrc familiar with this district nnd I am that yon can see tho f with tho project de- velopment there is a crying n CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX 1C 500 M pd while at city jail 200 were Others with Colds He waa to farm the land undei that influenza cases j believed that direction and them were approaching epidemic m to the cases reported Jan Angeles city and county health officials today for the first rest of their In rrt urn proportions for were to give him County Health I I jT I said that more than to Ihi land and with to by physicians many ot her persons were confined to homes with colds which he was to buy a car using jn and county of I reported ill it for for himself them having been reported j off nnd the elder Grahams Two floors if Lincoln Heights This was done thc In Angeles city I staled in the complaint in order 500 prisoners were reported a somewhat mailer ill In the citrus belt cities the CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR
