Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1913 — American Actors Objected To Saluting Panama Flag. [ARTICLE]

American Actors Objected To Saluting Panama Flag.

The Republican today received a Panama paper from Prank Crosscup, who Is a member of the canal zone police. The paper contained a story of the two young American vaudeville actors, Halllgan and Crosby, who had walked on a Panama flag while on the stage at Colofi. The flag was used In the decorations and It Is said that the actors had no thought of insulting the Panama government. It was taken as a great insult there, however, and the men were arrested and ordered to pay a fine and also to be taken before the police station on Sunday morning and compelled to publicly apologize and to salute the Panamanian colors. Americans were greatly wrought up because of the latter j>art of the sentence and they pronounced It “degrading” ana threatened to start something if the sentence was carried out