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ARIZONA STATE LODGE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE - Officers .1947-48CLAREKCE J. MALLEY . Presiden~t EDMOND JOLLEY Financial SecretaryJOHN W. WILSON Vice-Preaident E. C. BROWN . ConductorGEORGE SCHEERER Secretary-Treasurer JOE VALENZUELA GuardTRUSTEES-Fred Gettner ... W. V. Burr ... Jim Lane ... Louis Mounce ~.. Geo. Van Dorn ... John Higgins ... A. L. Holly

Published Monthly at 33 Subway, Bisbee, Arizona, by the Arizona State Lodge, Fraternal Order of PoliceCLARENCE J. MALLEY .Editor M. J. FLANIGAN Advertising Director J. V. KAUFFMAN Managing Editor

Aims and Purposes of the Fraternal Order of PoliceTHE PRIMARY PURPOSE of the Fraternal

Order of Police is:

To provide proper protection for peace officers andtheir dependents in obtaining adequate salaries while onactive duty arid pensions commensurate with the per-formance of hazardous duties;

To provide an agency through which all policemencan act in unison in the accomplishment of a commonpurpose;

To provide for exchange and interchange of ideasfor the development of Police service;

To obtain and to make uniform the best policeservice possible;

To assist the administrative officers of the subdi-visions, upon request in matters affecting the publicwelfare, and

To create an esprit de corps in our profession thatwill assure to the people, an the part of their policemen,FIDELITY TO DUTY AND UNQUESTIONINGOF THE LAW AT ALL TIMES.

The Fraternal Order of Police is the only bonafide police organization open to all policemen, and yet inits active membership confining itself solely to police-men. It is the only police organization that is truly cap-able of representing all of the police. It is strictly non-political, non-sectarian and is not and cannot be affi-liated with any labor or political-action organization.

Filling a NeedTHE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE is the an effective organization to cope with current needs, and

only organization of its kind in the country today. It is in the same way they may engage in state activities bythe police organization that is inclusively national, state reason of their membership in the tripartite Fraternaland local in its character. A member of the subordinate Order of Police. The Fraternal Order of Police is in-lodge, therefore, also belongs to an organization that is terestecl in promoting the welfare of all American Police-also state and national in scope. If the subordinate me111- men and its organization is so patterned and constructedbers are interested in primarily local activities, they have that it can function in all units of American government.

ConclusionTHE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE is pri-

marily a service organization for the police of the nation.Membership in this national police organization off-

ers many advantages to the intelligent and progressivepoliceman.

Pride in the police profession and a desire for itscontinued development are reasons why the FraternalOrder of Police should be the medium through whichto direct the best thoughts, ideas and energies of theAmerican police body to the end that the best interestsmay be achieved.

The many vast contributions that the FraternalOrder of Police has made among various police groupsin the improvement of professional, social and economicstandards, should be a source of inspiration for othersto join and affiliate with the Order whose principles•are basically altruistic.

You owe it to yourself, your family, your friends,your community, your profession, to identify yourselfwith an organization that was conceived solcly for yourbenefit. Inquiries regarding the organization arewelcomed. EDITOR·.

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FoO.Po Charter Member

JANUARY, 1948

Jack Edward Mertaugh

Jack Edward Mertaugh was bornin Columbus, Ohio, on April 1, 1871."Not long after, his parents moved toCleveland, Ohio, where Jack attend-ed public school. At the tender ageof 13, Jack left home and started outin life on his own, drifting from placeto place getting such jobs as a boyof his age could secure. For thenext several years, he endured manyhardships. His first experience withnight work was a job wranglingmules for the Union Pacific Rail-road, then building a new road inone of the \i\T estern States.

In 1897 he followed the gold rushto Alaska where he spent some time.Then in 1900 he first arri ved in Ari-zona. At Yuma, he secured employ-ment as a guard in the old Territor-ial Penitentiary then located inYuma. Later he lived in Clifton,Globe, Morenci, Bisbee, Tucson andBenson. In 1809 he married MissLaura Wiswell of Benson and resid-ed there until after Arizona becamea state. Then, he and his familymoved to Bisbee where he worked inthe mines for some time. In J an-uary, 1923, Jack Mertaugh was ap-pointed Deputy Assessor under

.George R. Henshaw. In July, 1926,he secured employment as a Patrol-'man on the Bisbee Police Depart-ment. January, 1930 was the yearhe was promoted to Night Sergeant

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New Lodge OrganizedIn Prescott

As this magazine went to press,State Lodge President Clarence J.Malley left for Prescott, Arizona, toattend the installation of officers atthe new F.O.P. lodge recently formedin that city. A complete story of theinstallation along with the names ofthe officers installed will be presentedin the February issue of Arizona Po-lice.

Holiday MagazineCovers State Growth

Thousands of copies of the Holi-day magazine for December, weredistributed throughout the state re-cently. The 38-page section on Ari-zona covered the growth of the en-tire state, along with individual stor-"ies and pictures, many of them" incolor, of historic spots.

Edwin Corle, author of "Listen,Bright Angel," and "Coarse Gold,"wrote the lead article on the statefor the section. Editorial work andresearch was done under direction ofDolores Taylor Scott, native South-westerner who returned to home ter-ritory from Philadelphia to compileinformation used in the review.

March, 1931, he resigned his posi-tion and moved to New Mexico,where he operated an apple orchardfor the next three years.

Returning to Bisbee in ;1934, Jackagain joined the Bisbee Police De-partment as a patrolman. In 1938,when the Fraternal Order of Policewas organized in Cochise County, hewas one of it's Charter Members andwas a member of the first board ofTrustees of the organization. He re-signed from the Police Departmentearl y in 1944 due to ill health, andduring the latter part of that yearand 1945 he worked under the U. S.Marshal's office at Tucson, trans-porting Federal prisoners.

Mertaugh died June 14, 1947. Hiswi fe had died on March 5, 1946.They leave four surviving children:Katherine, Laura, Jack and Timmie.

Alfred-A. DeLardi, Holiday's staffphotographer, spent several weeks inArizona taking pictures for the arti-cle. His work is supplemented by anumber of photos taken by leadingexperts of the state.

The presentation was called by themagazine "the most complete articleever written about Arizona for amagazine with national circulation."It portrays in stories and photographsa large cross-section of the varied cli-mate, living conditions and economiclife of the state, opening with a gen-cral survey and then giving individualmenton to prominent cities and in-dividuals,

Tucson, Phoenix, Tombstone andJcreme carne in for their share ofpublicity, with pictures includingcccnes in Bisbee, N ogales, Prescott,Pearce, Grand Canyon, Douglas,Flagstaff, Willcox, San Xavier delBac, Chiricahua national monumentand Tonto national monument, tomention only a few.

Holiday pictures Arizona's Indiansand stresses both the pageantry souniversally considered a part of theirlife, and the stark reality of the eco-nomic problems now facing them. Asecond section on the Indian is de-voted to crafts which have becomeclosely associated with the race. Bril-liant colors illustrate the pages whichcover ancient arts of many Arizonatribes.

Arizona's Spanish-American citi-zens and their part in the state's de-velopment are specifically referred toin one of the stories. Two articlesof particular interest to prospectivevisitors are a magnificently illustrat-ed description of Arizona cactus andone devoted to ways and means 'usedto create increased interest in thisarea through national publicity.

Other subjects touched in the mag-azine included Arizona's cowboys andcattle industry, and the water prob-lem of the state.

Chambers of Commerce, newspap-ers and other groups throughout thestate cooperated with the editors ofHoliday when writers and photog-raphers were in the area creating thepicture-story.

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EARL L. O'CLAIR IS NEWPHOENIX POLICE CHIEF--~~~~~==~~

That handsome ·.picture a~orning) POLICE WITNESSES TO \our front cover this month IS noneother than Earl L. O'Clair, former BE GRANTED TIME OFF .chief of detectives, who was pro- Earl O'Clair, Phoenix police chief,mated to Phoenix Chief of Police has inaugurated a policy affordingon Dec~mber 1st. cfficers time off· for that required-

O'Clair succeeded Chief E. C. of them while testifying in court dur-Moore who retired after serving 20 ing their off-duty hours.years as a police officer, during He said he expected it to encourwhich he served three times as Chief. age policemen to arrest for more min-

or offenses since they would be as-sured of compensation for their owntime required to prosecute such of-fenders.

He also urged the county attorneyand j ustices of the peace to defer call-ing policemen to testify until neededand to make an effort to set for lateafternoon those cases involving night-working officers,

Chief O'Clair has been on theforce approximately 16 years, be-ginning as a Deputy Sheriff. Hefirst made headlines for himselfwhen chasing a speeder; another carin front of him made an illegal leftturn-result-O'Clair spent severalmonths in the hospital.

O'Clair's history as a police offic-er is well known throughout thestate. He has been cited on manyoccasions for bravery above and be-yond the call of duty. These cita-tions resulted in rapid promotion un-til today he is said to be one of theyoungest men ever to be elected Phoe-nix Chief of Police.

Back in 1937, it was the policy ofthe Phoenix Gazette to ask variouspeople in that city to be "Guest Edi-tor" for a day. These chosen peo-ple were allowed to pick their ownsubjects and the editorial was pub-lished in the Gazette. Chief O'Clairwas asked one fine day, and it is in-tcresting to note that his subj ect was:"Pensions for Policemen." The fol-lowing is an excerpt from his edi-torial ... "A Policeman should havea pension so his family may be tak-en care of after he is deceased andhis star turned in ... This notationshould appear on the records: 'Diedin action, defending his life, yourli fe, .and our property.' "

In April, 1947, O'Clair was se-lected to attend the Federal Bureauof Investigation National Academyat Washington, D. C. He takes overhis new post well qualified as pastrecords' will show. '.Ve wish him ev-ery success in this new undertaking.

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Two Juvenile 'Badmen'Put Up Tough Battle

FOSSTON, Minn.-Two juvenile"badmen" who obtained six riflesand 10,000 rounds of ammunition inan all-night burglarizing spree, heldup a band of citizens and authoritiesfor two hours, in "western thriller"style.

Several persons narrowly escapedbeing wounded as the youths-eightand ten years old-fired on dwell-ings and passing vehicles. After bar-ricading themselves in a service sta-tion and the Fosston stockyards, theboys gave up at dawn and were jailedin Crookston where they were heldwithout charge.

Polk County Sheriff Torkel Knut-son said the terrorizing began about9 :30 p. 111.when several shots werefired into the Donald Andrick home,narrowly missing Mrs. Andrick.

Sheriff Knutson said the lads hadbroke into a sporting goods store andmade off with three .22 calibrerifles and the high-powered ammuni-tion as well as $51. From there, theycr.tered a barber shop where theytook $20; a hardware store, whcr."three more similar rifles were takenalong with several knives; and the

Cheats Chair) FormerCondemned Man Dies In Bed

RAIFORD, Fla. - A 76-year-oldprisoner who lived a fifth of a.cen-tury under a sentence to die in theelectric chair-die peacefully in aprison hospital bed after a heart at-tack.

J. '.V. Buchanan made appeal afterappeal following his conviction in1927 of slaying two prohibtion offic-ers, and each appeal put off hisscheduled electricutioll.

"Buchanan was under sentcnce ordeath longer than any person I everheard of," said Warden L. .P. Chap-man of Raiford Prison, where thecondemned slayer died Monday.

An oversight saved Buchanan fromthe chair when his last appeal failedin 1932.

"It jLIst so happened," said thewarden, "that no governor \1ad signeda death warrant for him since.'

American Legion Club, where pop,candy, poker chips and 'playing cardswere stolen. Finally, the lads barri-caded themselves in a service stationafter stealing nearly $25 there.

They shot up the service stationand gasoline pumps until they werea shambles, the sheriff said. Hesaid he counted 90 bullet holes inthe service station alone.

Meanwhile, a group of residentsarmed themselves against what wasbelieved a bandit gang. Police Of-ficer Louie Peterson and others at-tempted to hurl a tear gas bombinto the station, but they were turnedaway by gunfire.

Under cover of darkness, the boysmade a getaway to the stockyardswhere they barricaded themselvesand the gun fight with the posse wasrenewed.

Sheriff Knutson and Deputy Ver-110n Espe were called and a cordon.of armed men surrounded the stock-yards. The children slipped throughthe net and made for a field. Thcmen closed in, shooting into the airand calling on the boys to surrender.After a short time the boys laid downtheir arms and were taken to jail.

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NEW RESOLUTIONADOPTED BYCOCHISE LODGE

A new resolution designed to se-cure the status of the United StatesBorder Patrol has been adopted byboth the State Lodge and CochiseLodge 'No. 3, Fraternal Order of Po-lice.

The forming of this resolution, wasprompted by the fact that membersof the Border Patrol must serve aone year probationary period, andconservative estimates show that inorder to properly train one officer,it has been necessary in the past toappoint and attempt to train a mini-mum of six men.

Copies of the following resolutionha ve been sent to the State LodgeLegislator and to members of theGrand Lodge, Fraternal Order ofPolice for approval:

ResolutionBE IT RESOLVED by Cochise

Lodge No.3, Fraternal Order ofPolice:

That the Congressional Represen-tatives of the State and the UnitedStates Civil Service Commission befurther appraised of the not securestatus of \iVar Service Appointees,110W performing duties as Patrol Of-ficers of the United States Imrnigra-tion Border Patrol:

\iVHEREAS, a Presidential proc-lamation prevents any permanent ap-pointments after March 15, 1942,

AND WHEREAS, approximately40 per cent of the members of theImmigration Patrol in the EI PasoDistrict of which the Arizona Sectoris a part, are War Service' Appoint-ees:

AND WHEREAS, it is conserva-tively estimated that in order to prop-erly train and propel through a diffi-cult probationary period of one year,one officer, it has been necessary toappoint and attempt to train a mini-mum of six men, and

\NHEREAS, it has been expensiveto the government to properly trainand school the present personnel ofthe Border Patrol in this state, andshould they be replaced by untrained

LEDFORD NEW PRESIDENTOF COCHISE LODGE NO.3

Cochise Lodge No.3, at their reg-ular meeting on January 5, had in-stallation of officers for 1948, andput on a feed of roast young pig withdressing and sweet potatoes, coffee,rolls, apple sauce, and other goodthings to eat.

Robert Ledford, highway patrol-man based in Douglas, was installedas president along with D. \iV. Mur-ray, Douglas patrolman as vice presi-dent and A. S. Orton of Bisbee assecretary-treasurer.

The following members were pres-ent for the meeting and installation:

Douglas-Robert Ledford, \iVm. F.Bryce, George 'vV. Scheerer, Chas. S.Griffith, Joe M. Diaz, Charles M.Chaney, Arthur G. Brooks, Donald'vV. Murray and George W. Cook.

Naco~Harold J. Brown, FrancisC. Baker, v«. F. Maner, Alex M.Elias, j.; Marion L Russell, H. C.Pugh, C. Hoyt MacKenzie, ChesterMarlin, Fred Valenzuela, J ohn G.Templeton, Frederick A. Jaynes, K.S. Adams.

Bisbee-G. L Brady, W. J. How-

appointees it would require numer-ous appointments and entail a use-less expense to the Government andwould deprive the Government of theservices of men who have all satis-factorily passed probationary periodsand have from three to five years ofexperience and are performing theirduties in a credible manner and whichit is believed the Service desires toretain, and,

V/HEREAS, most of the men in-volved are veterans of \iVorld Vv'arII, and the service asked for andobtained deferments from the oper-ation of the draft for most if not allof the others, due to the nature oftheir employment:

BE IT RESOLVED that CochiseLodge No.3, Fraternal Order of Po-lice go on record as favoring that theWar Service Appointee of the Im-migration Border Patrol be givenpermanent status by the UnitedStates Civil Service Commission.

ard, 1. V. Pruitt, VV. A. McDonald,Carl Olander, A. S. Orton, \iVm. E.Ferrell, Arthur J. Kent, Tom C Har-gis, Clarence J. Malley, A. L Holly,.J ohn S. Sharpe.

G. C. "Red" Sanders, Fairbank;Joe A. Clinton, Hereford; Paul 'vV.\iValtz, Willcox; Clarence Post, Ben-son; and Wm. A. Tyler, Tombstone.

Orville Yowler, a retired police of-ficer from Springfield, Ohio, was avisitor. •

Frank C. Fitch of Bisbee, and FredD. Smith, of Warren, both of theImmigration Service at Naco were in-itiated into the order. Two othernew members were to be initiated butwere unable to be present, and willbe initiated at a future meeting.

D. \iV. Murray, Douglas police pa-trolman, was installed as vice presi-dent and A. S. Orton of Bisbee assecretary-treasurer.

Other officers installed were: JoeM. Diaz, Douglas, conductor; G. LBrady, Bisbee, inner guard; K. S.Adams, Naco, chaplain, and for trus-tees, George W. Scheerer of Doug-las, \iV. F. Maner of Naco and Will-iam A. Tyler of Tombstone.

C. M. Chaney of the Douglas de-partment was taken into the order asa member.

POLICE INTENTIONSWERE OF THE BEST

A couple of Phoenix poliecernnstarted out one fine December dayto do a good turn for a motorist, andended up by j ailing him.

Officers Charles Thomas and Vir-gil Lehman observed a car stalled atCentral Avenue and Lynwood Street,with the driver looking for someoneto push the vehicle, so they startedto lend a helping hand.

But the man's actions were sus-picious and he was taken to policeheadquarters for intoxication. It wasthen discovered he was wanted on acharge of passing a bad check herelast Oct. 17.

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F.O.P. NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORSMEET IN PHILADELPHIA

Arizona State Lodge President·Clarence ]. Malley is attending ameeting of the Grand Lodge ationalBoard of Directors being held -J an-uary 11th, 12 and 13th in the City ofBrotherly Love. The theme of thisyear's Grand Lodge meeting will bebased on progress and expansion ofthe Order during 1948. Malley plansto attend the full three day sessionand will report to the State Lodge ontopics discussed, on his return to Ari-zona. The following men are mem-bers of the National Board, Frater-nal Order of Police.

Grand President, Jack Dudek,Cleveland, Ohio.

Past Grand President, Ben. K.Perry, Gary, Indiana.

Grand Vice President, ArthurLow, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Grand Secretary, John ]. Quinn,Philadelphia, Pa.

Grand Treasurer, Tracy Vaughn,Jackson, Michigan.

Grand Conductor, Chester Fee,Covington, Ky.

Grand GU9,rd, Clarence ]. Malley,Bisbee, Arizona.

Grand Trustees-Frank ]. Scan-lon, Dearborn, Michigan; Bernard F.Richards, Reading, Pa. ; HermanFrazier, Huntington, W. Va.; How-ell Tice, Toledo, Ohio; William P.Shulte, Evansville, Indiana; CharlesE. Murphy, Phoenix, Arizona; O. S.McCaw, Lexington, Ky.; W. D.Newsome, Birmingham, Ala.

PUBLISHER'S NaTE:vVe wish to inform the mem-

bers of the Fraternal Order ofPolice, and the- Advertisers ofArizona Police Magazine, thatbeginning with this issue, theArizona Police will be publishedby the Golden Rule PublishingCo., of Bisbee, Arizona.

It has been necessary for us toreorganize our staff and this,coupled with the busy Christmasseason, has hampered our effortsto publish a magazine that is

worthy of national recognition.We have great plans for the fu-ture, and we earnestly solicit thecooperation of all members inhelping us print a magazine ofinterest to the general public aswell as to members of F.O.P.lodges.

We wish to point out to themembers of the entire state or-ganization that it will be impos-sible to publish a magazine of in-terest to all unless each individuallodge and its members gives oureditor stories which will be ofinterest. To date we have re-cei ved very little in editorial mat-ter from any lodge. This maga-zine is for the benefit of theState Lodge F.O.P and not forany particular few, so send inyours to the, editorial officesNO\"'. Don't wait until somefuture time to send this in, as thelonger it is put off the harder itwill be to remember the details.

You, and you alone, know thetype of things which are interest-ing to you and your friends anclif such stories do not appear inYOUR magazine the blame canbe placed on no one else.

SEND IN YOUR ARTI-CLES NOW FOR THE FEB-RUARY ISSUE W H I C HWILL BE IN PROCESS OFPREPARATION STARTINGJANUARY 15th. Our publica-tion date will be between the 10thand 15th of each month, and itwill be necessary that all articlesbe in no later than the fifth ofthe month.

In closing this message, wetake the opportunity to wish eachand everyone a prosperous NewYear, both personally and fra-ternally.

vVe shall do our part to make1948 the best year for the Fra-ternal Order of Police.

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ABC MARI(ETTHE MAN WHO HAS ALL THEANSWERS~UNCLE SAM

Do you want to learn how to:Judge a house?Speak Aleut?Raise a baby?Run a small sawmill business?Builda.house?Your government will tell you. It

will tell you how to do almost any-thing.

Instructions on an astonishing va-riety of subj ects have been preparedby government agencies and are soldby the government printing office atprices ranging from 5 to 50 cents.

Cooking recipes-except for fishand game-are prepared by the agri-culture department's bureau of homeeconomics.

Fish and game recipes are by thefish and wildlife service, interior de-partment. The home economics ex-perts teach you how to cook beaver,raccoon and possum as well as near-ly everything that lives in water-from trout to blowfish, garfish, squidand conch.

Babies are the problems that mostpeople ask about. "Infant care,"written by the children's bureau ofthe labor department, is the GPO'sbest seller-close to 4,000,000 copiesat 15 cents each.

Second best seller is "PrenatalCare" for 5 centsmore than 2,000,-CXlO copies.

Third best is "Your Child FromOne to Six" for 15 cents-approach-ing 2,000,000 copies.'

Publications on pilot training, nav-igation, aerodynamics and other avia-tion subjects are the second most pop-ular group. They are prepared by'the civil aeronautics administrationand some have sold more than 400,-000 copies' each.

The government has answers fornearly all the problems you meet asyou go through life. After helpingyour mother teach you how to brushyour teeth, sleep properly and holdgood posture, the children's bureaucarries you through adolescent rec-reation, your first job and your firstcontact with public dance halls.

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The office of education providesyou with a vast amount of advice onyour reading and schooling, and thepublic health service all through theyears gives you its latest inforrna-tion on keeping healthy. If you wantto go into business, the commercedepartment will tell you how to es-tablish and operate a great varietyof enterprises-a grocery store, serv-ice station, year-round motor courtor weekly newspaper.

When the time comes to buy ahome, you can learn for 25 cents"How to Judge a House." For an-other 20 cents you can learn "Careand Repair of the House."

Hobbyists can get the governmentto tell them about postage stamps,basic photography, fishing, leather-craft, collecting insects or medicinalplants or practicing judo.

If you want to learn the languageof the Aleutian natives, get the inter-ior department's "The Aleut Lan-guage."

The biggest investment you canmake in a single volume at the GPOis "The Atlas of American Agricul-ture"-$17. For a 37-volume reportof the major Nuremberg trials youpay $50. For the 39 volumes ofPearl Harbor hearings the price is$40.

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INDIFFERENTHITCH-HIKER

By Don PajamasHitch-hikers, as a rule, have some

set destination; they thumb trafficcoinc their way only, but I onceh bpicked up one who didn't much carewhere he went-he just wanted tokeep moving.

This happened before I donned pa-jamas and took to riding herd on amattress, some l4 years ago. I wason my way back to Phoenix fromTucson, and having stopped tochange a soft tire, about three mileswest of Tucson, I noticed a shabbilydressed, sprightly old man thumbingeastbound traffic. Noone stoppedfor him, and when I had the tire onand the tools put away, he came overto my side of the road and asked,"Can I help you, mister?"

"Not now," I said. "Where areyou headed for-j ust to Tucson?" Iasked.

"No, I'm headed for New York,but I ain't in a big hurry," he said.

"But why are you thumbing east-bound -traf fic on the west side oftOW.I1?" I asked.

''I'm more likely to get a ride onthis side of town than on the other.I thumb only cars with eastern-statelicenses on them. They might pickme up, figurin' I'm only going toTucson. I got a system-once theypick you up, they will generally takeyou as far as they are going-and ifyou hitch a ride on this side of town,they often stop for a meal in town,and invite you too," he informed me.

"Some system-but you are miss-ing a lot of cars; you had better geton the other side of the highway,"I said, stepping on the starter.

"Wait a minute-where are yougoing, mister?" he asked.

''I'm going to Phoenix - youwouldn't be interested, but if you are,hop in," I said.

He hopped in, and he paid for theride by entertaining me with tales ofthe road, first handing me his callingcard, which read:

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Texas Sheriff Kills Two MenAfter Being Badly Wounded

BEEVILLE, Tex.-Early in No-vember Bee County Sheriff Vail EJ1__nis shot two prisoners to death afterone of them had shot him twice, oncein the chest and once in the abdomen.

Also wounded was a filling stationoperator, Houston Prewett, 28, buthis condition was not serious.

The dead prisoners were listed byW. L. York, Ennis' chief deputy, andthe funeral home to which the bodieswere taken, as Pat Hines of Okla-homa City and William RaymondPittman of White Deer, CarsonCounty, Texas. Both were in theirlate' 30s.

York said they were wanted inKarnes county for swindling byworthless check. Other reports saidthey were escaped convicts. but thiscould not be verified.

"Glad to meet you, 'Your Maj-esty'" I said. "But I can't figurewhy you want to go to Phoenixwhen you were headed for JewYork."

"A hobo don't care where he goesmost the time, so long as he keeps

"'K' 'B id "Andmoving, I11g enson sai .this morning I'm sorta restless-andto tell you the truth, Mister, I'velearned to size people up-I'm sortaempty and I thought you might buyme a cuppa coffe and a sandwich onthe way," he said.

He was pleasant company; he hadtravelled all over the United States,and had met Presidents and Poten-tates-I learned the difference be-tween a hobo and a bum from him.A hobo works now and then, but abum never, he informed me. Hesaid that the hoboes all met annuallyat some "convention city" where theyelected a King, and that he had beenre-elected to reign that year-thatthere were many "pretenders" to thethrone, but he was the real king.

I bought King Benson a meal at adrive-in on East Van Buren Streetin Phoenix, where I left him hope-fully thumbing eastbound traffic-aquite natural pre-occupation for oneof royal hobo blood.

A Message Fron:Our PresidentTo Members of Arizona' F.O.P.

Greetings:

I t is at this time of year I wish toextend the Season's Greetings to allmembers of the State and LocalLodges, who have so. faithfully as-sisted in all ways possible to makeour organization a success.

During the past year we have add-ed many new members ... our Statorganization is growing rapidly. Withthis thought in mind, we should en-deavor during the coming year tofoster the aims and purposes of theFraternal Order: to develop withinour organization a co-ordinating unitto promote the welfare of all Ameri-can Policemen; to wage an all-outwar against juvenile delinquency, one'of the most serious problems in ourcountry today; and to inaugurate aNational Safety program designed tomake the public realize the need for... "Safety First." We want tomake our Order a source of inspira-tion for others to follow. To do this,we must have the co-operation ofeach and every member, both Stateand Local Lodges. Now is the timefor New Year resolutions; let usstri ve to make ,1948 the biggest inthe history of the Fraternal Order ofPolice.

CLARENCE J. MALLEY,

President

Looking at the picture of a bow-leggeel girl who is to be here for the •cattlemen's picnic, it looks as if shemight have a little trouble keepingher calves together.-Kingman Jour-nal.

GREETINGS FROM

BIG HATOn Miracle Mile

Fred and Loretta Belton

1749 Oracle Road

Page Ten ARIZONA POLICE JANUARY, 1948

DAN'S PLACEF.O.P. STATE LODGETRUSTEE RESIGNS ASDEPUTY SHERIFF

Clarence J. Malley, President of• Arizona State Lodge, F. O. P., re-

ceived notice during the past monthof the resignation of James J. Lane,Jr., a member of the Maricopa Coun-ty Shei'iff'~Department.

Lane has served as State Public-ity Chairman and as State LodgeTrustee of the Fraternal Order ofPolice for some time. The follow-ing notice was sent to President Mal-ley: "Due to the fact that I am leav-ing the State, I wish at this time tosubmit my resignations both as StateLodge Trustee and State PublicityChairman. I wish to take this op-portunity to thank you and all of theother members of the State Lodgefor the many courtesies that wereextended me. I wish to commendyou on the fine manner in which youhave led the advancement of our pol-icies to this and other new lodges inthe state.

"I am leaving police work for thetime being but I hope that I am notleaving the many fine fellows whomI have had the pleasure of workingwith. Thanking you again and ex-tending my best wishes for every suc-cess to you, the State Lodge, and allsubordinates ... " Fraternally yours,James J. Lane Jr.

DARKNESS DOUBLESTRAFFIC TROUBLES

The above slogan was recentlyadopted by the National Safety Coun-cil, intended to focus public atten-

• tion on this all important problem.. According to figures compiled by

the Safety Council, more than twothirds of all traffic deaths in citieslast year were caused by night acci-dents. It is interesting to note thatdespite the drop' in travel after thesummer months, deaths rise steadilyduring fall and winter. This, theCouncil says, is because of poorer vis-ibility due to earlier darkness andbad weather.

The influence of early darkness isespecially' apparent in the pedestriandeath figures. The National Safety

COYOTES SLAIN BYSCIENTIFIC DEVICE

PHOENIX.-Operation of a coy-ote killer described by E. M. Mercer,district supervisor of the U. S. fd1and wild life service, as the mostpractical and humane developed forcoyote control in 25 years, was dem-onstrated here.

The device is a metal tube partlyfilled with sand, buried flush withthe ground. It is fitted with a fir-ing device which is a percussion cap,a blank .38 caliber shell in which isa little cyanide, and a scented clothbaithead. When the bait is pulled,cyanide is fired into the coyote'smouth and the animal dies almost in-stantly.

Mercer says the killer has been suc-cessfully used throughout the South-west during the past year.

Council analysed pedestrian deathsduring only one evening hour-6 to 7o'clock-and found: 1st-the hour isdaylight or dusk nine months of theyear-February through October; itis dark inN ovember, December andJanuary as the average for the othermonths of the year.

The Council concludes that sincethere is no evidence of greater dis-regard for traffic regulations by eith-er motorists or pedestrians duringthe three most dangerous months, itis apparent that both drivers and pe-destrians fail to modify their traffichabits to compensate for low visibil-ity after dark.

Four important tips for night walk-ing are offered by the National Saf-ety Council:

1. Don't take it for granted thatthe motorist sees you. He may beinattentive or blinded by headlights.

2. Wear light-colored clothing orcarry something white when walkingin a roadway, and walk on the leftside facing traffic.

3. Obey all regulations and sig-nals. By all means, don't step un-expectedly from between parked carsor around a bus or stareet car.

4. Don't obscure your vision withumbrella, packages or newspaper.

Liquor - \iVine - DeerPhone 1083

BREWERY GULCHBISBEE ' ARIZONA

Air Haven Airport, Inc.

P. O. :Sox 954

.Phone 4-6507

4050 Grand Avenue

Phoenix Arizona

Wayne F. ZieglerBuilder of Better Homes

Phone 5-21424231 N. Longview Ave. Phoenix

902 BUFFETSteaks and Barbecue

Sandwiches

Complete Ilar Service

TVc Specialize in Mixed Drinks

Phone 3-2421PHOENIX

902 W. Van BurenARIZONA

Roman Sarwak Jimmy Fag-an

SMILING IRISHMANFINER USED CARS

Phone 3-9620

1634 E. Van Buren

Phoenix, Arizona

Grand Avenue CourtPhone 3-4745

1624 GRAND AVENUEPHOENIX ARIZONA

West Side Motor Sales"Where You Always Get More

For Your Car"Phone 3-2857

1509 W. Van Buren Phoenix

IIJANUARY, 1948 ARIZONA POLICE Page Eleven

Flying FiremenDisaster Crew

Any time an airplane crashes oris reported overdue on a flight in theUnited States, a small, picked teamof combat veterans of the air corpsis ready to go to the rescue.

These "flying firemen" are mem-bers of the U. S. air forces air res-cue unit, stationed at strategic basesthroughout the nation. Their pri-mary mission is to fly to the rescuein any aerial emergency. They goeven if "zero-zero" flying conditionsprevail and the search leads to thedangerous mountain peaks of theRockies or over storm-buffeted oceariwaters.

Air rescue boasts the finest equip-ment available for its difficult duty.Each unit has both air and groundequipment, especially designed forthe particular type of terrain in whichthe search centers.

Headquarters of Squadron B ofARS, based at Hamilton Field, Calif.,is typical. Its primary equipmentconsists of a B-17 Flying Fortress anda B-29 Superfort for long-range rec-onnaissance; C-82 and C-47 cargoaircraft to carry medical supplies,search equipment and an air-borneradio jeep; an L-S single-engine"putt-putt" plane, used to combmountain draws and canyons and forliason between base and advanceunits of the search party; and SA-lOCatalina flying boat, affectionatelycalled "The Duck" by pilots, suitablefor landings on water or ground, andan R-S helicopter, whose ability tohover motionless allows search pilotsto pin-point wreckage.

No matter whether a civilian or

military plane is reported lost orcrashed, ARS goes to the rescue.

Recently, when Gov. Earl Snell ofOregon and three other men crashedin a desolate mountain area in south-est Oregon, ARS flew its search missions despite weather so bad no otherplanes would take to the air.

Secret of the succes of ARS infinding lost' aircraft in recent yearsis a complex radio liaison maintained

r

CHESS GONE, POLICEAWAIT NEXT MOVE

Prowlers broke into the GouldConstruction Company office in Dav-enport, Iowa, and stole a checker-board and a chess set.

One police official read the reportand remarked: "\Ve'llhitve to waitfor their next move."

The longest stretch of railroadwithout a curve in the United Statesis trhe 79 miles of the Seaboard AirLine between Wilmington and Ham-let, North Carolina.

between search planes in the air, theradio jeep which gets as close to theprobbale wreck scene as possible,ground search parties and the unit'shome base.

The radio jeep is the control point,its radio receiver beamed in on allof the planes in the air as well as be-ing able to transmit instructions toground men equipped with portable"walkie-talkie" radio sets and talk di-rect to his home base. Usually, ascanner in one of the planes firstspots the wreck and notifies the ra-dio jeep. The jeep relays to gruondmen instructions on how to find theplane.

If there were survivors, ARS al-ways has a "paradoctor" and an en-listed medical orderly who can beflown to the wreck scene anddropped by 'chute. Medical supplies,guns and ammunition, life rafts,flares, emergency food rations, warmclothing and other necessities also aredropped by parachute.

If no one survived the wreck, itusually is up to Air Rescue to re-move the bodies and fly them backto base.

ARS' duties are not always sogrim. Recently, First Lt. John Hal-pin of Detroit, Mich., pilot of thehelicopter and one of the finest wind-mill fliers in the air corps, spent abusy day fanning dry with the rotorblades of his machine 200 acres ofcherries which were in danger of be-ing blighted by a rainstorm.

SEA BREEZETOURIST VILLAGE

Phoenix

Extends Greetings

to the Peace Officers of

Arizona

DICI(EYaDA VIS CO.Butter - Eggs - Poultry

Cheese

Wholesale Produce"VAI,LEY RANCH" BRAND

P. O. Box 2721126 EAST WASHINGTON ST.

PHOENIX ARIZONA

•

Phoenix Laundry& Dry Cleaning Co.

Quality Service Since 1893

Phone 3-5175333 North 7th Ave.

Phoenix Arizona

Wells Auto ParksWaiting Room for Customers

Scott and PenningtonChurch and Alameda

TUCSON ARIZONA

SUNNY CORNERA Complete Food Store

Phone 2934445 South Fourth Ave. Tucson

J. IVLCONTREROSROOFERS

New Roofs - Repairs - Prompt ServicePhone 0130-14

272 W. 33rd St. Tucson

EAT WITH US

RAIL WAY CAFE7 DAYS IN THE WEEK10 North Fourth Ave.

TUCSON ARIZONA.

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VAN DYKE BEARDSAND WALKING CANES

By Don Pajamas

In grandfather's time, business andprofessional men, ci vie leaders andall men who amounted to anythingin a community, wore Vandykebeards, and carried walking canes.Many of them were young men, buthaving thus set a pattern for dignity,they seldom "let their beards down"as young men are wont to do, Theyheld their canes high-they walkedthe straight and narrow patch whichthe unbearded and the caneless coulddetour with impunity.

It might boost the nation's moralsif men would grow beards and carrycanes again. Too few of our promi-nent citizens want to accept the re-sponsibilities which go along withtheir positions in a community thessdays, Doctors, lawyers, merchants,even ministers, often break trafficlaws, and other laws. Some of themeven engage in saloon brawls, beattheir wives and do all those thingswhich, in grandfather's clay, weresurely beneath the dignity of a Van-dyked, cane-carrying citizen.

It is hard to visualize a man withL. Vandyke and a cane being anythingbut dignified, courteous, chivalrousand honest. You can't imagine himwhistling at a pretty girl passing by- you can't imagine him brawlingwith anyone in a saloon, bearded orunbearded. It would be just too fun-ny-the crowd would roar, unless, ofcourse, the crowd were also bearded,cane-carrying gentlemen. Then, they..ould turn away in disgust at such asight.

Hand me down my walking cane-barber, trim my beard!

Shanghai's policemen have re-ceived their annual moon festival giftmoney from Generalissimo ChiangKai-shek, along with the admonitionto "buy something useful" with it.The gifts--·5,OOO yuan for each po-liceman-s-are worth 10 U. S, centsat the present rate of exchange.

VET PLAC'EMENTSETUP IMPROVED

Directors of the Arizona State Em-ployment Service, Veterans Employ-ment Service and Veterans Admin-istration, concerned with job plac-ing, training and rehabili tation of\,y orld War II veterans, are estab-lishing a program calling for closerco-operation, it was announced re-cently.

Each agency plays a specific rolein job adjustment of veterans but allco-operate, said 'WiI1iam T. I-:1ard-away, manager of the Arizona VAregional office.

"If Arizona were dealing only withveterans who went into service fr0111this state, we would have a shortageof workers." Robert D. Kendall, di-rector of the state employment serv-ice said. "But, since the state hashad to absorb employment problemsof other states, there is a surplus ofjob applicants in many fields,"

Youth Wounded Running~

From Burglary SceneTUCSON.-Two juveniles, escap-

ees from a California detention camp,were arrested after one had been shotand possibly fatally wounded whenthey were allegedly surprised in theact of burglarizing the Old Pueblobowling alleys,

The wounded youth, 17, was shotthrough the back just below the heartas he fled from the bowling alleywhile ignoring commands to halt. Hewas found hiding on the floor of aproduce truck parked a short dist-ance from the scene of the shooting,

His companion, 16, succeeded ineluding officers temporarily. Dur-ing the five-hour period he was atliberty, during which he drove an au-tomobile for the first time, he struckand injured a 70-year-old pedestrian,wrecked the car which he and theother youth had allegedly stolen inCalifornia, and took refuge in a ca-boose in the Southern Paci fic rail-road yards where he was found andarrested,- Tucson Citizen.

TWO TUCSONIANSPROVE HONESTY

Two Tucsonians were recentlychecked off Game Warden \,y. P.Tharp's list as honest men.

L O. Batchelor, 4219 Monte istadrive, and R. A. Shiflett, 4020 MonteVista drive, came looking for him,Tharp reported. They said they hada dead yearling buck in their car, andthey wanted to turn it in for thebenefit of the Arizona Children'sHome.

Thanking them, Tharp comment~clthat there are mighty few hunterswho would seek out the law in sucha case. "In fact," he told them, "ifyou had been caught with it in yourcar, it would probably have been adifferent story. You might havebeen arrested. I hear all kinds ofstories about people finding dyinggame," The two men reported theyfound the young buck dying from abullet wound.

"Y ou brought it in, though, in-stead of carrying it home. Thatmakes all the difference."

Tharp said it was the third ani-mal that would go to feed the under-privileged children. One of the oth-ers in the cold locker now, he said,is a doe confiscated from a hunterlast week end, and the other is abuck which had both legs broken inan attempt to hurdle a moving car,and had to be shot.

STATE AUTHORIZESBLUE SHIELD PLAN

PHOENIX,-The state corpora-tion commission has authorized theoperation of the Arizona Blue Shieldservice, a state-wide hospital surveyinsurance plan for employe groupsand their families similar to the BlueCross hospitalization plan.

Sponsored by the Arizona StateMedical association, the new planwill be' offered in the State in con-junction with the Blue Cross plans..1\pplications for membership in theplans by groups will be offered, itwas announced.

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GREETINGS, F. O. P.

REILLYFUNERAL HOME

Ambulance ServiceDay and Night

Phones 37 and 196102 EAST PENNINGTON

TUCSON ARIZONA

I(ELLER DRUG CO.Prescription Druggists

Phone 50902408 NORTH CAMPBELL

TUCSON ARIZONA

.Upstairs JewelersDiamonds - Watches - Jewelry

Phone 704135 Eo Congress

TUCSON ARIZONA

Wheels Made to OrderNovelty Iron INorks

North StoneWheel Clinic

Phone 2850-J1804 NORTH STONE

TUCSON ARIZONA

THE PRODUCERS

POULTRY EXCHANGELargest Poultry House In ArizonaComplete Stock of Fryers, Hens,

Turkeys, Ducks and GeesePhone 4857 P. O. Box 25468 West Drachman Tucson, Aril!.

Allen's Horne SupplyWesley T. Allen

"Cochise County's Largest FurnitureStore"

Leading Home AppliancesMain Street Bisbee

APACHE HOTEL4th Ave. and Broadway Phone 583

LEWIS HOTELSensible Rates

5th and Broadway

TUCSON

Phone 6131

ARIZONA

I

LACK OF GAS ISCAR THEFT TRAP

Because Harry Aitken, state High-way patrolman, of Benson, took uponhimself the role of Good Samaritan,two Idaho youths appeared in super-ior court to answer charges of auto-mobile theft.

The youths, Tommy H. Adkins, 23,of Pine Ridge, Idaho, and WilliamE. Allen, 20, of Caldwell, Idaho,passed through Tucson and allegedlystole an automobile belonging to FredThomas, 459 North Granada avenue.Then they resumed their journeyeast.

The automobile ran out of gasoline14 miles west of Benson and the pairtrudged into that town, obtained afive-gallon can of gasoline and start-ed back. About that time PatrolmanAitken passed by. Taking in the sit-uation, he offered the youths a rideback to their car and it was accepted.

They told the patrolman that theircar, which they described as a 1937Ford sedan, had run out of gas. Acr.-ually Thomas' car was an Oldsmobileof much later model. When theyarrived at the spot indicated, therewas no Ford but the Olds was partlyblocking the highway.

The youths helped Aitken removethe Olds from the road and when hesuggested that their Ford had beenstolen the two readily agreed. Thethree returned to Benson, where thepatrolman excused himself for a mo-ment and made a hurried telephonecall to Tucson and learned definitelythat the Oldsmobile was the stolen ve-hicle.

Patrolman Aitken then placed theyouths under arrest.

He'll Learn

FALLS CITY, N eb.-A Falls Cityman, new in the trucking business,has learned a price lesson. His firstjob consisted of hauling a load oftrash to a dump two miles away.The trash owner asked what the costwas. The trucker answered "what-ever you think it is worth." He washanded 17 cents.

A. L. Holly Becomes FatherOf Derby Winner

A. L. Holly, resident State High-way Patrol Officer in the Bisbee dis-trict, became the father of the dis-trict's first baby of 1948, on Sun-day, January 4th. The new baby, agirl, will be the recipient of 38 giftsdonated by merchants and business-men of Bisbee. A few gifts fOl'Moth-er and Dad will also be awarded.The new baby will be named LindaSue. At last reports, parents and"derby winner" were doing nicely. •

Nearly Half Of TrafficDeaths Due ToFast Driving

If every driver of a motor vehiclein the United States would hold :tothe legal speed regulations it wouldmean the saving of many lives a year,possibly as many' as 10,000. It hasbeen pointed out that speeding hasbecome the chief cause of traffic fa-talities in this country.

Recent studies by safety expertsrevealed that about 42 per cent of the33,000 persons killed in traffic acci-dents last year lost their lives as thedirect result of speeding. Unfortu-nately, not only the person guilty ofreckless driving loses his life, he oft-en causes other deaths as well.

Traffic regulations throughout thecountry are fairly liberal. It is nohardship for drivers to keep withinthe law. To drive in excess of legalspeed limits is nothing short of un-pardonable selfishness.

Many plans have been suggestedfor reducing traffic accidents in thiscountry. General opinion shows itwould be well to concentrate on thisone point. If we can regulate thespeed demons so that they will keepwithin the law we will have gone along way toward reaching the goal ofsafety on the highways of America.

Pat-What's Joe carrying his armin a sling for?

Mike ~ He got it fighting for agirl's honor, You see she wanted tokeep it.

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Traffic In Many Big CitiesMoving At Horse-and-Buggy Pace

One of the big jobs lying aheadfor this country is to untangle trafficand find more parking spaces, JoeMauzy of Bledsoe-Mauzy Motors,Naco, Rd., Lowell, Arizona, statedrecently ..

"Some typical tests recently weremade by a government agency inWashington, D. c.," he pointed out."Three cars, coming from differentdirections, were each driven six milesinto the heart of the shopping dis-trict. Their average driving speedwas only a fraction over 14 miles anhou 1'. Each driver lost seven and ahalf minutes in finding a place topark and another eight and a halfminutes were used in walking 'to thedriver's destination. From the timeeach driver started until he reachedhis destination his average speed wasonly eight and a half miles an hour..

"These tests were made to dem-onstrate the seriousness of trafficand parking conditions in Americancities. The same situation exists inmost smaller communities. It is abig national problem and will haveto be solved before long since, ac-cording to estimates, our traffic in1950 will be 35 per cent greater thannow.

"Eleven states have passed lawsaimed at relieving their parking prob-'lems. Numerous cities are spendingmillions of dollars in constructing im-mense parking places. In 345 citiesspecial off-street municipal parkinglots have been established, some ofthem giving patrons free service.

"In 111yopinion", Mr. Mauzy con-cluded, 'still bigger and better planswill have to be inaugurated becausetraffic and parking conditions, gen-erally ,are getting worse everywhere."

Advertisement in the Birmingham(Ala.) N ews- Age- Herald:

Wanted : A medium-sized hand-op-erated wench.

Mos~ of the helium for industryand medicine is obtained from cer-tain natural gas wells.

Woman Solves Tllcson

Parking ProblemDowntown parking spaces 111 Tuc-

ron are mighty hard to find, but somemotorists go too tal", Arizona High-way Patrol Clerk A: vV.'Roberts tellsthis one:

A woman drove up to the patroloffice and had her. car inspected forpurposes of registration. Severalminutes after . the inspector finishedwith her car, he noticed it was stilldouble parked, with nobody in _at-tendance.

All the windows were rolled up.He tried the door handles, but theywere locked. He tried to push it,but the brakes were set. So he hadit towed away ..

He later discovered that the wom-an had. gone shopping! Her park-ing cost her $5 for a tow job and $1for double parking."

HOTFOOT FOR FIREMEN

You might say suburban AlamaHeights (San Antoriio, Texas) fire-men are burned up. The night dis-patcher received a 'call and soundedthe .fi re ala I'm. Before the trucksroared out of the 'station, some alertf iieman remembered 6116 Broadwaywas the 'fire' station's address.

ARREST LEADER OF

BORDER DOPE'RING

DOUGLAS. - Bond of $10,000was set when Procopio Nuno-Ro-mero, 40, a native, of Mexico, 'ap-peared before U. S. CommissionerJames H. Barrett on charges of il-legal possession of 36 cans of opium,valued by customs patrol officers at$30,000.

N uno- Romero was arrested at theborder recently by Customs Patrol In-spectors George W. Smith, LeonardViles and Davicr'\N'. Hopkins, andArizona Narcotics Chief Earl Smith.

Smith listed the man as one ofthree leaders of a: gang suspected formore than a year 0'£ smuggling opiumfrom central Mexico across the Ari-zona 'border fO'l~'distribution to Phoe-nix and west coast points.

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HIGH CRIME COPS PRIZEFOR]APCOPr

In the dingy little Japanese jail,Police Chief Suzuki Yaru of Yoke-suka, Japan, sat beaming.

His oversize gold badge shonebrightly on his chest in the semi-dark-ness, matching the glow on his face.

In his hand Chief Yaru held a pap-er notifying him that his police sta-tion had been selected as the thirdbest police station in all the Yoko-hama and Yokosuka area during "N a-tional Felonious Crime SweepingWeek."

An honor? By American stand-ards, no; but in Japan, oh, yes.

For Chief Yaru had the third high-est amount of crime in the area dur-ing that week-s-rather than the thirdleast.

Capt. Benton Decker, USN, com-manding officer of the YokosukaNaval base and head of the naval oc-cupation forces of Kokosuka-where

. the chief has his station-took a dimview of Yarn's shining award.

"N ational Felonious Crime Sweep-ing Week was a farcical thing byAmerican police standards, for theman who caught the 1110st criminals

. was judged the best policeman in-stead of the one who worked thehardest at crime prevention," saidCapt. Decker.

Here's how the awards were fig-ured:

100 points for catching a murderer.80 points for catching a rapist.70 points for catching an embezzler.60 points for catching a big thief.40 points for catching a little crook.I 0 points were awarded for catch-

ing a black marketeer.The police station with the most

points-and thus the most crime-was picked as the best. If a policechief was good at crime preventionand kept his command free of crime,he didn't get points. Thus he was afailure by Japanese reasoning.

Chief Yaru, the model of a suc-cessful and satisfied man, just pol-ished his badge with his sleeve andwaited for more business.

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Car Owners Urged ToStudy Safe DrivingTechniques

With traffic fatalities and acci-dents this year running at about thesame rate as in 1946, it becomes in-creasingly apparent that individualdrivers must pay more attention tosafety techniques. This was pointedout recently by F.O.P. State Presi-dent Clarence J. Malley.

"For the first 10 months this year,"he said, "more than 26,000 personswere killed in automobile mishaps.This is 4% less than during the samemonths last year. But when figuresfor November and December are allin, there might even be a gain in fa-tali ties and accidents over last year.

"Many remedies have been sug-gested, such as more severe penal-ties, stiffer fines, jail sentences, sus-pension of driving permits, and life-time cancellation of operator's licen-cs. A good deal of stress also is be-.ing put on educational efforts. Per-haps we should have a mixture ofstiffer penalties and more drivers' ed-ucation:

"Fundamentally, there must bebrought about in some way a changein public attitude. Too many driv-ers are hardboiled these days, ap-parently indifferent to the conse-quences of reckless driving. Morepeople must be made to realize thatwhen a man 01-· woman sits behindthe wheel of a car they are in a posi-tion where the slightest error of judg-ment, excess of speed, infraction ofa traffic regulation, or the slightestdefect in the car's mechanism mightbring instant death or injury.

"Drivers in general are aware ofall of these things, but the deep sig-ni ficance of safety facts apparentlydoes not penetrate deeply enough into'their hearts."

FORMER MARINE JOINSDOUGLAS FORCE

A fanner marine, Charles M.Chaney of Douglas, has joined thepolice force it has been announced.

Patrolman Chaney was born 24

Relief Legislation'Airtigh tRacket'

\ Vhile the population of the state.has increased from 650,000 in 1946to about 700,000 ·now (a 7.8 per centjump), according .to Valley NationalBank statistics, Arizona's welfareload has increased 40 per cent fromJanuary, 1946; to August, 1947, dateof the last available social securityand welfare department state report.

Emphasizing this oddity is the re-port of Druce Parkinson, director ofthe employment security commission,who recently said that employment inSeptember, 1947, is one and a halfper cent higher than in September of .last year.

Ernest Sayre, manager of the Tuc-son Clearinghouse association, re-ports that bank clearings, if the pres-ent rate continues, will be the high-est in the history. of the city, indicat-ing a high dollar volume of businessand consequent ability of employersto retain employes. In fact, all busi-ness indices show higher levelsthroughout the state than a year ortwo ago.

Then why is welfare relief increas-ing?

There is no dissention on thatpoint. Miss Olga Welch, informa-tion officer of the state social secur-ity and welfare department, says em-phatically that when the welfare lawsmakes it mandatory that certain types

years ago in Ajo, and was reared inDouglas, He attended public schoolshere until 1936.

While in service with the marmecorps he served with a sea detach-ment aboard the USS New Mexico.He was wounded at Lingayen gulf,off Luzon, Philippine Islands, whena kamikaze suicide plane crashed intothe New Mexico.

Upon his return to the UnitedStates following his injury, he waswith the military police detachmentin Bremerton, \Nash.

Unmarried, he resides with his par-ents, 1.'1 r .and Mrs. G. B. Chaney at634 iIteenth Street, Douglas.

of persons must be placed on welfarerolls, the department can do nothingelse, within limits of money avail-able. Briefly, the fault is the law.

Welfare workers who work first-hand with the problem echo the sameopinion-it's the law.

For example, the old age assist-ance act, the aid to needy blind actand the aid to dependent children actstate bluntly that when applicants donot have enough money or resourcesto live "in compatibility with decencyand health" they SHALL be given ,assistance. Nowhere in the acts isany discretion given by use of thewords "may give."

Results show graphically 111 thewelfare department records. In J an-uary, 1945, total number of personscertified to receive payment was 11,-917. By August this year the numberhad climbed to .'16,435, and the num-ber was expected to climb even moreduring the past two months, Septem-ber and October.

"The only limiting factor to grant-ing relief right now," one welfareworker said, "is that the legislature,fearing an astronomical number ofpersons seeking relief, very wiselylimited appropriations to a reasonableincrease over the previous two years.

"In fact," this worker continued,"when we confer with state officials,their emphasis and their entire atti-tude is based on the queston of howwe can get more people on relief, nothow people can be helped to supportthemselves. Their entire idea seemsto be to build the relief rolls. I guessthose people (on relief) vote regular-ly, and right," the worker smiled. "Ifyou notice," he added, "the majorpart of that welfare load is made upof those receiving old age assistance-nearly 11,000 of them in the state."

Probably the rawest sore spot inthe entire welfare problem is aid to'dependent children. Welfare work-ers from every section of the statereport ever-increasing numbers ofseparations and desertions resultin ,.fr0111 war marriages, with all 01' mostof the split couples leaving dependentchildren. Added to this burden is

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the Arizona law which says the wel-fa re department SHALL be givenjurisdiction of a child declared de-linquent by the court.

"These children are here and mustbe fed. Where the money is comingfrom to feed them is more than Iknow," another worker declared."J udges give their best cooperation,but it seems a hopeless problem."

However, a third worker was noteo certain that the matter is hopeless.Too little emphasis is placed on help-ing the mother to support her chil-dren, and too much interest is shownin making her dependent on the wel-fare department, this worker said.

Miss Welch declares, however,that the department does attempt tohelp the mother as well as the child-ren find employment and means oflivelihood,

\iV elfare department reports showthat the number of grantees increasedonly one between July 1 and Aug. 31in the state, from 2,357 to 2,358.There were 2,053 and Jan. 1, 1947,

Miss Welch says flatly the reasonfor no appreciable increase is "lackof funds."

The welfare board recently votedto stay within its quarterly budgeton this item, after overexpendingthen cutting the amount given eachgrantee the fi rst and second months.

"The whole problem of relief un-der state and federal laws, and theijofficial interpretations, is so compli-cated that the layman cannot under-stand it," a welfare worker com-mented. "In fact, in the case of thechildren, it's so bound up with redtape that edicts from the state officeare crue!."

This worker cited the cut in aid todependent children, followed by anincrease. As it finally worked out,he said, each child was cut $1, arbi-trarily, For most families that meant$4 per month, a sizable amount whenthe total income is around $100 or$150 for a family of four or fiveduring inflation.

"It would have been the commonsense and humane thing to do to re-view each case and cut where it was

POOR OLD MANLEAVES $90,000

1\ shabby and threadbare old manin Cleveland, Ohio, who ate hot cakestwice a day because they "were allhe could afford" was recently re-vealed to have left $90,000 to twocousins he hasn't seen in 20 years.

M. Herbert Solloway, who diedrecently at 84, spent his last 15 yearsat a cheap hote!' He complained atthe high cost of his $6-a-we<:k, third-floor walkup room.

Even Attorney Frank F. Lahut:the only friend Solloway retainedfrom his brilliant past as a corpora-tion lawyer, didn't realize the extentof the old man's fortune.

The cousins named in the will areWaite Solloway, Lakewood, Ohio,and Lee Heckman, Greenport, N. y,Both had almost forgotten their cou-sin's existence; neither knew of thewill or money.

Fire Laddies Outnumbered

BERNE, Ind.-Officers of theBerne volunteer fire department haveissued their last warning for peoplenot to follow fire trucks-especiallypeople on bicycles. The firemencouldn't get to a fire because toomany bicycles were trying to getthere first.

possible, then leave the most nc xlycases unchanged. Work? Yes itwould havc been work, and we hadit almost all done when the order onthe flat $1 cut came out," this workersaid.

It was his opinion that the wel-fare problem is definitely hopc'css,in at least one respect. "Bureaucratswrite the laws and interpretations sothey can put everyone and his cousinon relief. Then they put in a sectionthat no one can inspect welfare rec-ords unless he's authorized by thestate board, or is a member of a tax-payers' organization, or representsfederal government, If that's not anair-tight racket I never saw one,"the worker said disgustedly.

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TRAFFIC "TICKETS"BJI Don Pajamas

These are days when people needto be "hit with a ton of bricks" tomake them heed traffic laws - oranything. A printed traffic ticketmeans little to the average trafficlaw viol-ator except that he resentsit, but it seldom teaches him a lesson.

The failure to make a boulevardstop can result in a bad accident-thousands are killed yearly by motor-ists who don't heed the STOP signs.Special traffic tickets could be print-ed for such people. They couldshow a photo of an accident, of deadbodies lying in the street as a resultof such a failure on the part of adri ver. The ticket could have thewords on it: This is what happenedto a driver who failed to heed aSTOP sign.

Such tickets could cover nearlyevery type of traffic violation -speeders, hit-and-runners and all. Incases where bad accidents happen,and the blame is clearly shown, thedriver should be given a "ticket"showing a photo of the accident hecaused, of the dead or injured-amemento of his carelessness, a sortof a parting shot from the judge whoimposes the fine or sentence uponhim.

Pictures of accidents are generallytaken by traffic officers or by localnewspapers, so these could be put togood use by using them in the abovemanner.

Courtesy Big HelpIn' Police \Vork

A charwoman at the Copenhagenmilitary hospital refused to sit downwhen questioned by police investigat-

. ing a report that considerable quan-tities of liquid spirits disappearedfrom the hospital's dispensary.

The investigating policemen thatit impolite to let a lady stand andinsisted on her sitting down. But shesaid she liked to stand.

Finally a SUSpiClOUS policemanforced her into a chair. Out of herstockings dropped two bottles of spir-its.

PALACE CAFE"A GOOD PLACE TO EAT"

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HOME and INDUSTRIAL WIRINGElectric Appliances and Suppfies

Phone 1117-J Locknar Bldg.LOWELL, ARIZONA

Stewart Realty Co.Jack P. Stewart Ray Brunswar

Phone 4-2441 or 3-2693810 NORTH CENTRAL AVE.

PHOENIX ARIZONA

Complete Auto &Horne Supply Co.530 NORTH STONE AVE.

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Police Force Of 30)000Approved For Japan

General MacArthur has authorizedcreation of a 30,000-man nationalrural police force in Japan to fill the'gap left by the prohibition of armedforces under the new constitution.

Simultaneously, MacArthur or-dered the government to take imme-diate steps to decentralize present To-kyo control over the nation's law en-forcement agencies and to preventresurrection of a "police state."

MacRrthur's decisions were con-tained in a letter to Premier TetsuKatayama. The government said ap-propriate legislation was being pre-pared for presentation to the currentDiet (Parliament) session.

The present legal limit for Japan'spolice is 94,000 men.

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Philadelphia. MayorMade Life Member Of F.O.P.

Mayor Samuel of Philadelphia hasbecome the tenth recipient of an hon-orary life membership in the Frater-nal Order of Police, PhiladelphiaLodge No.5.

At a ceremony in the Mayor's re-ception room, he received an en-gra ved gold membership card fromWilliam F. Gibbons, lodge president.Mayor Samuel acknowledged thehonor with a brief speech praisingthe city's police force. Judge HarryS. McDevitt also spoke, denouncingthose who blame police "for thingsthe politicians cia."

Asserting that every ill of the cityis blamed on the police department,the judge scored critics of the forcefor "giving no thought" to men 111

uniform who "give up their lives toprotect the rest of us."

Micro-Film Records ForState Department Library

PHOENIX. - The state depart-ment of library and archives beganthe large task of micro-filming Ari-zona's official records and documentslast month.

Mulford Winsor, its director, esti-mates it will take two to three yearsto micro-film the nearly 15,000,000non-current records.

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BISBEE FORMSALL-YEAR CLIMATE' INC.

Formation of the Bisbee All-yearClimate, Inc., took place during themonth of November, at a meeting ofbusiness and professional men andwomen in that city.

Witli . the organization of thisgroup, the City of Bisbee is followingthe pattern of successful Southwest-cities in awakening the tourist-mind-ed to the remarkable climate and all-year climate conditions that prevailin the Bisbee area.

The A11-Year Climate, Inc., plansto build highway signs, print folders,stickers, and auto plates all bearing,in addition to the climate note, theadditional slogan of "Stay on Route80!'-a necessary point in directingtraffic through Bisbee.

The City of Bisbee itself is a pointof wonder to thousands of touristsevery year, because of its locationand layout. Towering mountainssurround the city, the main street ofwhich is built along the bottom ofthe canyon.

It is also interesting to note thatthe City of Bisbee is the only cityin the United States of over 5000population that does not have maildelivery service. Because of the highhills, the residents must have postoffice boxes instead of delivery scrv-Ice.

Inquiries concerning the Bisbeearea should be addressed to the ALL-YEAR CLIMATE, Inc., Box 399,Bisbee, Arizona. The club has officespace in the Arizona Edison Build-ing, Naco road.

Officers of the club are: MaxTwentier, president; Carl Morris,vice president; Dave Marks, viceprcsident : Howell Ragsdale, treasur-er; and J0 Schlachter, secretary.

Husband: "Doc, come at once; mywife has appendicitis."

Doctor: "She can't have. I tookit out three years ago, and who everheard of anybody having a secondappendix ?"

Husband: "Did you ever hear ofa f ellow ha viug a second wi fe ?"

Customs Seizures InBig Variety Offered

Shoppers visiting the federal build-ing in Mobile, Ala., can find a great-er variety of merchandise than at afive and ten cent store.

More than 650 articles, seized bythe customs department from seamenand travelers entering the port thisyear, have been offered for sale.Among items which the ownerssought to smuggle in were grassskirts, perfume, cameras, marmaladeand jewelry.

:rvTAN WHO CAME TO SLEEPALSO TOOK BEDDING

TUCSON.-Mrs. O. F. Verch isstill perplexed and annoyed. About11 one evening, she reported to police,a man walked into her rooming houseand went to bed. Around 2 :30 a.m.the next day, evidently refreshed, hearose and departed with all the bed-clothing.

She told police she didn't know theman, and neither did any of her ten-ants.

Thieves Escape With $1,000Most prowlers get away with

chicken feed, but there's at least oneburglar at large in Tucson who madea tidy haul.

Mrs. Paul H. Brietaupt, 4418 EastWhitman street, reported to city po-lice recently that her home was brok-en into, and $1,000 worth of clothingand home appliances are missing.

Items taken included a $750 furcape, a polo jacket, a sports coat, anevening gown, a cowhide bag, a port-able radio and an electric food mixer.

P",lPER TV/lIVES RULE FORONE SUBSCRIBER

NOGALES, Ariz. - The Heraldhas waived its ban on one-monthhome delivery subscriptions in thecase of E. M. Brown, pioneer borderresident.

Applying for a monthly subscrip-tion, Brown told the circulation man-ager:

"1 would be being presumptions ifI took a whole year's subscription."

.Brown if; 96 years old.

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