ARIZONA NEWS
In 1928 President
Hoover received mighty support from the nation's women. But so much
help had come to the Roosevelt cause this year from the distaff side of
the Electorate that there was talk of putting a woman in the Roosevelt
cabinet. Candidates:
Mrs. Isabella
Greenway. She operates large copper interests in Arizona left her by
her late husband. Longtime intimate of the Roosevelts. she was a
bridesmaid when they were married in Manhattan on St. Patrick's Day
1905 in the presence of T. R. and to the accompaniment of a roaring
Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and
Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years
later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to
homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway
married her she was a full-fledged ranch operator. At Chicago, Mrs.
Greenway. who shuns rouge & lipstick, seconded" the Roosevelt
nomination, said that mention of her for the Vice-Presidency was "a
purely honorary candidacy."
Time
Magazine, Monday, Nov. 21,
1932
Contributed by Kim T.
"Beware influenza!"
Warning signals went up last week in the U. S. Public Health Service
Washington headquarters: "Beware influenza!" The number of cases
reported had more than doubled in a week, had jumped from 3,086 to
6,306. The uncrowded South and West suffered most. Alabama's cases
totalled 1,940 as against 204 the previous week. Louisiana had 600 (23
before); Arizona 479 (175 before); California 1,721 (903 before);
Oregon 112 (81 before).
Time Magazine, Monday, Dec. 12, 1932
Contributed by Kim T.
Arizona telephone
poles, from the Grand Canyon to the Mexican border, blossomed out last
fortnight with posters that screamed:
"Big Arizona
Scandal:
$200,000 Phoenix
Graft!"
Advertisements in Arizona daily papers repeated the outcry, paid for by
the loud Los Angeles Examiner to sell its issue of Sept. 24. The
advertisements were an implied wager that no Arizona newspaper would
print the scandal story. The Examiner was right.
The Examiner's story alleged that 15 unnamed Phoenix "politicians,
businessmen and others" had been paid $200,000 by unnamed contractors,
before the awarding of a $2,000,000 pipeline contract. The Examiner
sketched the efforts of a former U. S. District Attorney to lay before
a grand jury information obtained by U. S. Internal Revenue
investigators. Still no Arizona newspaper followed up the story.
When the Examiner promised more details in its next Sunday edition, the
Tucson Star did publish an interview with former U. S. District
Attorney John Gung'l, which said that the Examiner's story was
substantially correct. This was the only indication that Arizona's
Press knew it was being scooped. Last week, the Examiner printed more
stories on the scandal, reported that U. S. District Attorney Clifton
Mathews was investigating the matter.
To Arizona newsreaders it might have seemed that the real "Arizona
scandal" was the fact that an outside newspaper could advertise for a
week in advance a local news sensation without danger of having its
scoop spoiled by local courage and enterprise. Leading Arizona papers
are Phoenix's two dailies, the Republic and the Gazette, owned by the
same company.
The late Dwight Bancroft Heard brought the Republic (then the
Republican, a "progressive independent newspaper") into affluence,
willed a large block of stock to his favorite employe, Charles A.
Stauffer who, with Mrs. Heard, later purchased the Gazette. Since
Publisher Heard's death, the Republic has ceased to champion any cause
except the 18th Amendment.
Next in importance in Arizona are Tucson's two papers, the Arizona
Daily Star and the Daily Citizen. The Star is part-owned by the estate
of the late Ralph Everett Ellinwood, whose father is counsel for Phelps
Dodge Corp. Arizona mining interests. The Tucson Citizen is owned and
managed by onetime (1909-13) Postmaster-General Frank Harris Hitchcock.
Last year Publisher Hitchcock abruptly discontinued the Citizen's
editorial page, recently resigned as Republican National Committeeman
for Arizona. At Bisbee, Phelps Dodge copper mining centre, the Review
and the Evening Ore are both controlled by Cochise Publishing Co., a
Phelps Dodge subsidiary. At nearby Douglas—named for Dr. James Douglas,
who discovered the Copper Queen mine and whose grandson is President
Roosevelt's Budget Director Lewis Douglas—the Daily Dispatch is
independent but fully as conservative as its rivals.
The archconservatism of the Arizona Press, due to mining influence, has
left the field open to outside papers like the Examiner and even the
far-away Denver Post. Actually it was competition with the Post, whose
makeup it copies in rural editions, that lay behind the Examiner's
splash, which it did not print at all in its home editions.
Time Magazine, Monday, Oct. 09, 1933
Contributed by Kim T.
For 30 years Dr.
Benjamin Baker ("B. B.") Moeur (pronounced More) was family physician
to thousands of people in the countryside around Tempe, Ariz. A hefty,
wrinkled-faced man, with a gruff manner and a heart of gold, he talked
turkey to his patients, drove miles through the darkest weather to
combat indigestion or bring babies into Salt River Valley. Even when in
1932, the wheel of political fortune boosted him from the role of
family doctor to Governor of Arizona, he never expected to become the
centre of an international incident.
Yet last week he was. The Press in Tokyo cried: "Arizona has supplanted
Manchuria as Japan's principal trouble zone." A consul of His Britannic
Majesty called officially upon the 64-year-old country doctor. From
distant Washington, Acting Secretary of State William Phillips, prodded
in the rear by Japanese diplomats, frantically telephoned Dr. Moeur.
The whole trouble was started by Dr. Moeur's old patients down in Salt
River Valley.
The sandy loam of the valley, when irrigated by good water from
Roosevelt Dam,* produces superior vegetables. But 1,000 disgruntled
farmers had gathered together in the valley for a protest parade. They
were incensed at 1,000 chipper little Japanese and some three dozen
Hindus who were raising great big heads of lettuce and juicy lemons on
their fertile valley soil, eating rice and doing nicely while an honest
Aryan could not make a decent living.
A white farmer named Fred Kruse got up and told the others what was
what. Hindus and Japanese were moving up from Imperial Valley. In spite
of Arizona's land laws which forbid aliens ineligible for U. S.
citizenship from owning, leasing or farming land except as laborers,
yellow men and brown were already farming 8,000 acres. It was time to
put a stop to it! Let every Japanese and Hindu quit the valley by
Saturday night or the Aryans would run them out!
Then the kettle was on the fire. From Los Angeles rushed Shintaro
Fukushima, Japanese vice consul and half a dozen Japanese businessmen.
They asserted that of 125 Japanese families in Salt River Valley, 25
were U. S. citizens by birth, that they legally owned about 150 acres
and leased 300 acres more, that all the others were laborers. Wentworth
Gurney, British consul, followed and went into a conference with
Daljitsingh Sadhari and Ralmat Ali Khan. Protests flashed East and West
and overseas.
Governor Moeur and State's Attorney General LaPrade went into action.
They let Salt Valley's farmers know that the Law would be enforced
without fear or favor, both the alien land law and the law against
violence. Warrants and temporary restraining orders were issued against
a score of people, some Japanese, others U. S. whites accused of
leasing land to Orientals (penalty: two years in jail, $5,000 fine).
Complaints poured in and more action was promised. Meantime 800 angry
Aryan farmers met and voted against violence if the land laws were
enforced.
Then Governor Moeur turned reassuringly to the Empire of the Rising Sun
and the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets to declare: "I want to
enforce the law not with an iron hand but gently, as I feel there is an
equitable way of adjusting this situation without trouble. . . ."
*Named after Roosevelt I and completed in 1911.
Monday, Sep. 03, 1934
Contributed by Kim T.
In condoning bastardy,
North Dakota and Arizona are the most liberal States in the Union.
Every child born on their soil is considered legitimate. At the other
end of the legal spectrum are Texas, Louisiana and Virginia which
forbid a local bastard to search out his father.
At an angle, stand Massachusetts and California which help a bastard
out by not requiring a statement of his illegitimacy on his birth
certificate. When he signs up for college, applies for a job or
supplies a statement for Who's Who, he can omit parental names and
pretend that he has made a decision to go on record as the founder of a
family without ancestors.
Last week the New York Legislature gave further aid to those of
anonymous ancestry. Hereafter, if Governor Herbert Lehman signs the
bill, when a bastard is born in New York State his mother, midwife or
other informed party must inscribe a surname on the birth certificate.
The child's mother, if she pleases, may assume the same fictitious last
name. Only stipulation in the pending New York law: the unwed mother
may not use the "name of any known living male."
Chicago social service analysts last week found a gauge for measuring
to what degree poverty and social confusion cause illegitimacy. Of the
mothers of 373 bastards born in Chicago between May 1 and Aug. 31,
1934, 91% had been in trouble with the police or in the hands of
charity workers. The average age of the mothers was less than 24 years.
Most of them had started high school. But only 45 white girls and 33
black had graduated.
Time Magazine, Monday, Apr. 29, 1935
Contributed by Kim T
Tucson Daily Citizen
April 19, 1901
Daily Grist of
Arizona News.
Water must be
scarce in Tucson. Three weeks ago Sheriff Murphy sent a treaty out to
get a pall of water and the fellow a still out hunting for a well. -
Phoenix Gazette.
Bob McCleary well
know in Phoenix as a Jolly good fellow died at Butte, Mont., recently
of pneumonia. Bob had numerous friends in Phoenix who were sorry to
learn of his death-Phoenix Gazette.
A telegram
from Kingman says: Bill Epperson, a cow-puncher of the "Bejuses" style,
came to town
last night and called on a young lady. Miss Daisy Rucker with a
six shooter on. Moving around on a chair his gun went
off and shot a hole through his thigh and shot the young lady through
the ankle. Her wound is painful,
but Epperson's, unfortunately, was not serious enough.
Mr. William
Melczer returned yesterday from Nogales, where he has just established
offices of the mining company in
which he is interested, operating the big Copeta mine. The smelter is
not yet running but will be
started up shortly. The delay has been occasioned by want of
coke. The company has ninety cars of
coke at Carbo, the nearest railroad point, but only about 300 tons at
the mine. Mr. Melczer will remain
town about a week.- Republican.
The school
trustees of Nogales have selected the following teacher for the term of
school opening September 2: Precinct
No. 1: A. J. O'Connor, principal high school; Miss Nellie L. Walker,
principal grammar
school and teacher of the eighth grade; Miss Jessie Bohall, seventh
grade; Miss Olive E. Mix, third and fourth
grade; Mrs. Lulu R. Wood, second grade; Miss Florence C. Scott, first
primary.
Miss Bohall and Miss Scott are two new teachers selected by the
trustees.- Phoenix Gazette.
No more loyal or misrepresenting receptlon will be tendered
President McKinley anywhere on his route across the United
Stales than In Phoenix. The most genuine enthusiasm has marked the
initial steps in arranging for
the event and last, night's meeting of the city council and
representative citizens was well in line with
previous sentiments. It was the desire of everyone at the meeting that
expense should not be considered in
making a most impressive demonstration.
- Phoenix Enterprise.
Superintendent
Geo. H. Daily of the Henrietta mine was in town today, having brought
In a bar of bullion
from the above mine. He says that the Henrietta is shoving up better
than ever before in its history. Since
taking charge of the property Mr. Daily has sunk a new shaft, and at
the 100 foot
level of It he has run a drift for 300 feet, opening up an ore body
extending the rail length of the drift. there is
about 12 inches of this ore body that runs from $70 to $100 per ton in
gold. There
is still good ore la the old workings, but this Is all new ground and
adds very much to the value of the property.
Mr. Daily is running the mill right along, and the Henrietta may now
be considered
as having settled down as a regular producer of gold.- Prescott
Journal-Miner.
Matt Burts
Pardoned by Murphy.
The Phoenix
Republican says that Governor Murphy yesterday granted a pardon to Matt
Burts, the
train robber, for complicity in the Cochise and other train robberies
In which Burts, Alvord, Stiles, Downing, Bravo Juan and
others were Implicate. The pardon was granted at the request of the district attorney of
Cochise county, where Burts had been convicted. It was also recommended
by Frank
Cox who as a representative of the Southern Pacific,had assisted in his
prosecution and conviction. Burts had
turned state's evidence and materially contributed to the conviction of
his guiltier
associates. He would have been released earlier, but was held to await
the trial of all the members, of the gang in
custody. The last one to be tried was Downing, who was convicted in the
United
States court at Tucson about two weeks ago. There Is no early
probability of the capture of Alvord, and
considering the service Burts had rendered.it was decided that he had
already been
sufficiently
punished.