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Arizona's Governor Howard Pyle declared that the colonists were in a "state of insurrection." Authorities alerted newspapers and press services weeks ahead of time. "This is a white-slave factory," an assistant attorney general announced. "No woman has escaped this community for at least ten years. They are forced to submit to men old enough to be their grandfathers." Warrants charging 122 adults with conspiracy to commit such crimes as polygamy, rape, bigamy and misappropriation of school funds were carefully drawn...
...land department. Mathews had suspected skulduggery in the leasing of grazing lands, then persuaded Governor Dan E. Garvey to investigate, but was denied access to the report of the investigation. Mathews sued, finally won in the Arizona supreme court two months ago, and last week got from Governor Howard Pyle a copy of the report. On Page One of the Star Mathews promptly printed highlights of the report, which said that a former state official used his position to acquire federally owned land, later sold...
Arizona: Howard Pyle...
...from making his papers pale stereotypes of one another, he encouraged local editors to lead their communities, as the Cleveland Press's Louis Seltzer has so notably done. Howard, whose vernacular is as colorful as his rainbow-colored shirts, developed Columnists Heywood Broun, Westbrook Pegler, Ernie Pyle, Robert Ruark, lets Mrs. Roosevelt write as she pleases, even though her views often conflict with...
...celebrate the opening of the new Ernie Pyle Bathing Beach in Albuquerque, N. Mex. last week, promoters scheduled a bathing-beauty contest. A large field of entrants got their bathing suits and best smiles ready. The winner was to be crowned "Miss Duke City...