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Arizona Republic, The (Newspaper) - October 4, 1947, Phoenix, Arizona Weather scattered High cloudiness Day and n change so the Arizona Republic Republic bulldog safety tip the state s greatest newspaper dont be the fool Driver warned about drive pages october five Cento Blaze destroys streetcars Vigil for school age Cotton pickers starts children located i i in Fields by cuu borne ncckoll8 with the opening o the first bolls in arizonans Cotton growing the state labor department is resuming its annual Vigil against the illegal employment of school age children in Cotton Theodore department announced yes Pustarfi disclosed three cases of children working in the Fields Dur ing school hours already have been uncovered through inspection by the department in All three the excuse was Given that the children involved were absent from school by special permission because they had sore in no Case could special certificates be produced which Are required in cases of school age youngsters employed during school and the labor department is checking with the appropriate school authorities to learn if the three minors legitimately were absent from dais if it was charges would be preferred against growers in whose Fields they were while employment of minors during school hours in the Cotton Fields is a violation Only of the states school attendance Laws and punishable As a this years a worry to the department and to school author is a violation of the Federal fair labor standards conviction for which brings severe i years ago the department Diuquid Federal government Aid in prosecuting two growers under the provisions of the with the re cult that last season illegal employment of children in the Cotton Fields was reduced to a it appears some growers have forgot ton the object Are will fully ignoring View of which the labor department intends to redouble its efforts to keep Chil Dren out of the Celic this periodic Rob Donom will be made in All Cotton growing in connection with these the department in tends to keep a Check on Sanita Tion conditions in Cotton pickers disclosures of squalid and generally unhealthful living conditions which labor department found two Yean ago in Many Large Cotton Camps provoked such a wave of Public pro continued on Page 3 at confab by Al Leach Republic staff correspondent oct Ory of the United states unpreparedness for world War ii is growing Dun and the country is on the Brink of making the same drug danger h eliminated the Era of the cheap drunk fun Arizona is the state won its Point with the Lone manufacturer of the common nasal inhalant revealed Fly the Arizona Republic a week ago As being used by juveniles and state prison convicts to induce All such inhalers shipped to Arizona since last tuesday have a vomiting inducing agent which will make violently 111 anyone who misuses it by swallowing its filter this was revealed by the com Pany in a letter received yester Day by chair Man of the Public health commit tee of the county medical who proposed it Only last Sun we feel certain that the de natured inhaler will eliminate All trouble in the the com Pany wrote Hamer promises it will give the misuse a firs class belly Kwh Al Secretary of the state pharmacy Board and who last week i continued on Page 4 lightning kills two Globe men Snen were killed late yesterday when struck by lightning at a prospecting Camp on the West slope of mount approximately 30 Miles Northwest of the dead Are Oscar 57 years and Eugene both of Arthur Lucas was knocked Down by the but was not injured the men were prospecting at the Starlight which they planned to they had just completed erecting a teat when the bodies were taken to Globe in aircraft development committed after world mistake that it War Carl Vic Epresi Dent of the Lockheed aircraft declared tonight in an address at the third annual Ari Zona aviation conference which opened Here we Are Well along the Road to becoming a third rate air pow Squier told the More than 150 aviation operators of aircraft and Allied and National and International pilots gathered Here to hear the latest developments i Avia our military air forces is be Low the requirements for mini mum Squier the aircraft Industry has contracted to the Point where its very existence is and More than two Yean would be required to reach the maximum wartime output or air transport Indus try is working under extreme difficulties and indifference has set in among the Squier explained he was reluctant to express his views on the aircraft Industry because he was associated with but he said i would be guilty of reasonable restraint if i did not know what i believe to be continued on Page col s Auto explosion politician oct a Burkett a controversial political figure ousted from office in the famed 1946 Mcminn county election was killed today in mysterious automobile As Ivins stepped on the starter of his car in his garage a terrific explosion ripped off his right mangled his left injured his Fivey Earold and Tore the front of the car to it looks like some explosive More powerful than said Knox weve got nothing to work the 65yearold Veteran demo cratic Leader died in a Hospital in nearby Athens within a few min the boy was treated for lacerations and Ivins had held Public office for 26 years until he and his political allies were beaten in a bloody election by a nonpartisan i veterans group in the elec Tion resulted in a political turmoil throughout the county with whole Sale resignations within a few Ivins was to go on trial in ath ens for murder Henry Navy killed in training crash oct Navy fliers were wiled Oday As a two place Advance train ing plane crashed on the coast 10 Miles North of Santa sgt Victor Calhoun of the California Highway patrol said the plane was believed to have been from Moffett he said a Wal let bearing identification papers of Raymond William Jack was found in the California steal is charged by Ben Avert californian interpretation of the Colorado River compact would permit her to hog Between and acre feet of Colorado River water from other Arizona members of the Basin states committee said yester Day on their return from Salt Lake the Charles car Nellie Gail Baker and Howard expressed new Confidence in the Battle with California As a result of the wholehearted support Given Ari Zona by Utah and the they said would get the additional water both from Arizona and the upper under the California interpretation of the Arizona already is using More water than she is entitled to and the up per Basin states were Quick to see that they also would have to give up their water to satisfy California greed unless they act decisively and the compact divides acre feet of the Rivers flow be tween the the upper Basin getting scr feet a year above and the lower Basin acre feet delivered at Leei plus the water of tributaries below Lees mostly from the Gila River Esti mated atan additional acre feet a California contends that upper once its diversions reach must let All return flow come Down the by the same she con tends that arizonans use of the Gilas plus reuse through Salvage and now totals some despite the fact that the flow of the col Orado is diminished Only about acre feet the Basin states committee went on record As interpreting the compact to mean that the upper Basin is entitled to diminish the flow of the River at Lees ferry Carson subject to the compacts require ment that an equal amount be first delivered to the lower and it went on record that the lower Basin is entitled to diminish the flow of the River at the mex ican Border an additional 000 acre feet if californian interpretation continued on Page col 1 Overell murder due Given jury Santa 8 a the Overall yacht deaths trial went to the jury today after it hectic weeks court the longest murder trial i the six men and six Wom after the inc filed quietly from the jury intently by a packed court room nod two shaken defend ants who had just listened to an impassioned not however including a death from Eugene Wil assistant attorney Gen chief of the states Legal Williams castigated the two As a Young couple Willingto loll to get what they water contamination fight is announced a three front Campaign to combat an increasingly serious Public health of Domestic water Wells in suburban areas by announced yesterday by cooperating state the program is being initiated through combined efforts of the state department of Public the office of state land and the state corporation fearful that contaminated water May result in an epidemic of typhoid or some other dangerous the health department through George state Sani tary and his Reamy appealed to two other state departments for assistance in coping with the the response was immedi commissioner Williams announced his office is issuing a general order that the state real estate a division of the land will not approve any new subdivision tracts unless the Subdivider can present a cer Piccate from the health depart ment showing their water Supply and sewage disposal facilities have been examined and approved by the sanitary this new Williams in addition to the usual regulations governing opening of new Subdivider will be required to show what provision will be made for garbage disposal and that this sanitation essential has been approved by the health de the corporation commis it was announced will cooperate by requiring from Public water utilities health department certificates showing their water has been tested and found Williams said his office also is advising title and Trust companies not to Clear new subdivisions unless they have met health de continued on Page col i seven City trams go up in flames starkly portrayed against a background of Poniske awl two seven streetcars destroyed by a spectacular Simm maae at the municipal Streetcar barn yesterday Bear Mote testimony to the effectiveness of the fire in destroying the Sheet Natal occurring at the height of the 5 Oclock rash for the conflagration attracted thousands of persons and Hua of automobiles to the staff Brooklyn ties set by Oscar Fra lev new cookie an old Man with one leg in broke up a no hit Ball game today when two were out in the ninth inning and gave the battling Brooklyn dodgers a 3 to 2 Victory Over the vew York Yankees that squared the world series at two games it was on of the wildest and most hectic finishes in the history f the with Lavagetto blasting Bill sevens almost but no quite bid for the first no hit game in world with a crashing double off t Brightfield Wall which sent Young dodgers racing Over the late with the runs that won the All so the old Man who had been offered the Man age ship of a minor league team this was for his Aith in when they tried retire he told them the got one More year of base Ball left in these old sevens through eight and two thirds tense innings baffled the team which keynotes Routh and the big fellow rom a Tough Luck Guy who seems fated to lose one run continued on Page col 2 John Page to quit Post republics Washington Bureau National press building whose name has become synonymous with Western r will retire from the Bureau of reclamation of Ober the Bureau announced 59 years served As commissioner of reclamation from 937 to when he stepped it of that key Post because of ill and was instrumental in etting plans under Way for the Central Arizona during the years he served i Imperial and Arker dams were completed on lie Colorado Bartlett dam was built on the and it was his that the bureaus engineers make a Thor ugh study of the three controversial projects by which Ari Zona Long has sought to divert Colorado River these embracing the Arker pump the Bridge Janyon route and the Marble Gorge verde Tunnel resulted in the 150mile verde Tun Nel being discarded As too expensive and Uncertain of while a Compromise Parker Ridge project was picked for the Central Arizona Page served the Bureau almost since its creation in various no sneering capacities after Tepping Down As was named by his at the request of Gover nor Osborn to supervise planning or the Central Arizona he completed this Job a few months ago when the project was submitted to Congress for a Jap surrenders to Guam native Pearl Navy reported to Day a japanese Soldier sur rendered on Guam wednesday Guam without know ing the War had after living like an animal in the for More than three l f Shigero 41 years an ammunition car Rier with the 43rd Shikoku regiment which arrived at Guam said he decided to surrender after seven companions committed he said he tried suicide three but each he remembered his wife and seven children in he negotiated the surrender through a note written to a Guam Aida rancher at Tigo he was being held in the witness area of the War crimes stockade on and will be repatriated shortly to car mishaps fatal to two two Valley residents were killed almost instantly in separate automobile accidents within a 30 minute period near Phoenix last Conway 30yearold Arizona state College at Tempe student and a st marys High school football Star last was killed when his head was crushed Between a Telephone pole and the car in which he was Riding about at seventh and Glen Dale Dimas 41yearold Gil Bert died of a crushed Skull when he fell from the Back of a truck on the Tempe Bridge about they were the 171st and 172nd fatalities resulting from Ari Zona motor vehicle accidents since january John Highway patrol said the truck from which Charro fell was by route Box Mesa Coro said no inquest was Harry High Way said Dougherty was Riding with Carl Lee 745 East Myrtle when his car and one driven by Richard 911 South 17th ave another Pas Robert 1817 East Brill and Dougherty were thrown from walkers machine by the Force of the reclamation Bureau deficiencies denied by Jack Reed Washington Bureau National press building a letter replying to styles who had requested that reclamation expenditures be reduced to the 1948 Interior department appropriation level under penalty of a charge that the anti deficiency act is being Interior today declared that the Bureau of reclamation has no authority to slow Down or cancel contracts without incurring claims for dam and denied All charges that a deficiency has been drugs reply also hand Lei Bridges charges of political activity on the part of Michael w reclamation declaring that the Bureau of reclamation had sought to advise water and Power users and con tractors of its financial Stringency at an Early to report their the new Hampshire chairman of the Senate appropriations had charged the Bureau of reclamation with plan Ning expenditures beyond its appropriations this and had held Straus responsible for threats to suspend work on important reclamation projects in conferences with Western govern drugs letter follows i have your letter of september and press statements request ing action which would result in cancellation of the let some time ago and the halting of construction of various rec Lama Ion projects without further con Gressional no funds have As yet been requested of the con Gress and no hearings thereon have men the subcommittee on Interior appropriations has been advised that available construct Ion funds will be exhausted be fore the end of the present fiscal year on vital features of the Davis 3am on the arizon Nevada Bor the Central Valley project of the Columbia and continued on Page col 2 Mercury 100 More of same due the Early fall heat wave continued without setup yesterday As the temperature Rose to Taa one degree below the 51year record for the Date and about it degrees above Normal for the and nothing h in sight but More of the weather Bureau forecasts water users urge speedy dam permit Hope that state water will follow with an immediate decision the hearing on rights of groups inter ested in the City increasing the storage capacity of Horseshoe was expressed yesterday by Lin president of the Salt River Valley water users Assoc a after an informal hear ing failed to find an Avenue to agreement among water users below the dam and set a formal hearing for november this delay was necessary because the Law requires 30 Days the association is extremely anxious that the City of Phoenix get its water permit from the state water Orme said our records disclose water that will be stored by the Gates of Horseshoe dam now goes to the City and the association Are in Complete agreement on the it continued on Page 7 Holland Queen yields Power the 3 up Queen who has been ill with bronchitis for the last few today turned Over All her Royal Powers temporarily to Princess Princess Juliana now is Louis who announced that the Queen had temporarily transferred her lid not know How Long the Reg ency would but assumed it would be for some Queen Wilhelmina is 67 and has ruled the Netherlands Empire for 49 plans Are being pre pared to celebrate her 50th anniversary As Queen in grizzled cowpokes stage reunion exclusive Republic dispatch of the Days when there was not one Fence in Arizona and apaches took a Many cattle As wolves and Mountain Lions was the topic of the Day for nearly Loo genuine southwestern cow boys today As they gathered at the convention of the South Western Pioneer cowboys As the official delegates were genuine co punchers because eligibility rules require 40 years of Riding the Range or male blood relation of one of the Many Range riders who came to the Arizona territory in the 1870s and hence there it were Many cowpokes pushing the late 70s in years who Rode the modern automobile to Doug Las instead of a cow but still used a horse on the Range and can talk of the Days when the Apache and outlaws like curly Bill and Black Jack hid out in the outlaw Roost in the Chiricahua most of the session consisted of tales of the open cattle Range when a Pony and a bed Roll was full equipment and it took six months to Complete a the old by their insisted that the air plane and the jeep have not replaced the hone in the cattle one of the Best stories of the Day was told Bill Mcdonald of who came Ari Zona territory As a boy and left Home whence was 13 years i thought i was the aging but Active i had a six shooter and took off for the open the first Day i saw an was so scared i Rode for Home and the Indian look off in the opposite the Pioneer Cowboy association was formed in 1938 by five old time cowboys who met regularly in the Gadsden hotel bar and swapped yarns Over they conceived the idea continued on Page col 4 City loss is set at by Gene Melain a spectacular fire yesterday swept a Phoenix the municipal Streetcar barn at 13th and Washington and destroyed seven More than half the remaining 20 year old electric boxcars which pioneered City an eighth Streetcar was so badly damaged repairs will take a Long and it May be a bus Drivers private car firemen under personal direction of chief Barnum pre vented the Blaze from spreading across a 20foot alleyway to a highly inflammable paint from which it could through the rest of the transportation valued at another the Blaze started in a Street car inside the half Locklon Sheet Metal from a Short in the spread so swiftly through the Greasy ventilated Structure that it was a mass of flames when first firemen thousands of persons and Hun dred of automobiles jammed the alarm sounded at that height of the 5 Oclock Rush for firemen found difficulty getting equipment to the then controlling the surging crowd of a huge pall of smoke Rose High into the sky and attracted hundreds of other from Many sections of the police dispatched five traffic patrolmen in a futile attempt to control that no one was Polios and firemen regard As the cites eight Montgold automatic bus which Cost was As was machine a carpentry a dozen spare Streetcar i to 15 generators and Many other tools and pieces of Jess City transportation said the sue remaining trams now in service on the Capitol Eastlake Park line will be augmented by and schedules will not be no fire insurance is carried on continued on Page col 1 Apache fair draws by Jack Karie Republic staff correspondent 3 by a Holiday Atmos firs Day events of the fifth annual Apache county fint since attracted an estimated visitors in warm weather Here the Lockhart ranch at operated by Lynn annexed top honors in the division for Hereford Whiteface Range while Bruce Over sons Quad Ter horse filly captured the Blue ribbon in its the entry of Crosby of Greer honors for Myrl heaps entry won Guernsey milk cow honors and Wallace dewitts entry paced the Jersey outstanding women Divi Sion Blu ribbon winners were Monita made Over clothing Childs and Lucille piece Paul Jones of Secretary of the Arizona state fair expressed on visiting the fair at wide Range of exhibits from Over the he urged officials to Send Many of the entries to he state opening november 7 in the Johns High school red skin thumped round 21 o in a Northern conference football game highlighting afternoon a Quarter Lorse race at halftime was won by Earl Jarvis of a Jalopy race will be Tomor rows chief sports the fair is presented under aus ices of the Apache county farm Bureau with cooperation of county chair manned y James Shreeve and including Mccarrell and l Ash county Agri cultural and the Lair com Wiltbank of a Eric Overson of Johns and Elf Force Smith of play ending Republic and Gazette average net paid circulation for u47 morning and evening a irk sunday

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