Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1927 — Page 1

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Conquest

Out of the fog of events occurring in the last sixty days a familiar figure appears. In various guises that same figure has stalked its way through human affairs since time began. It was Alexander and Caesar, Hannibal and Gliengis Khan, Attila and Napoleon. The figure is—Conquest. Stripped of all its wordy screen, that figure stands today on the steps of our State Department. # * * Desperate efforts are being made to prepare the people of this nation for a break with Mexico. And the reason is—Conquest. Weird excuses are being made. Excuses that do not excuse; that do not explain; meaningless messages to Convague talk about American property and lives; vaguer talk about bolshevism; a strang and new and different defense each day. • • • After 150 years of idealism —an idealism that has waxed and waned, but idealism nevertheless; an idealism that bred Washington and Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Wilson; that brought forth the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg address—we are now faced with the practical problem of whether the American doctrine of self-determination shall be abandoned in order that this nation may set its feet on the trail that bloody Cortez trod. • • • The American people will decide. If the public indifference that has characterized events to date continues, then those who are steering the ship of state will keep on in the course they have chosen. If we persist in displaying greater interest in Charlie Chaplin’s divorce and whether Tris Speaker bet on a ball game than we exhibit in what’s happening in our State Department, things will go on until the “program” is worked out. Then— The call to arms and the heartaches, and the long, long trail once more. Perhaps conquest is wanted. Maybe reversion to Cortez is the order of the time. If so, it can be had. Unless the American people register objections, our State may well assume that the policy it is now pursuing, Bin the path that leads to conquest, is approved. This newspaper today is offering the people an opportunity for expression. Bear in mind—that silence means approval.

Kellogg’s Red Scare Still Lacks Proof

By N. D. Cochran Secretary Kellogg’s attempt to throw a red Russian bolshevik scare into the Senate foreign relations committee has failed beeause he offered no proof of any connection between the Russian and Mexican governments.

The State Department tried the same thing over a month ago when Assistant Secretary Olds tried to get the three press associations to send out a story from Washington picturing the alleged danger of a Bolshevist “hegemony” throughout Central America. The State Department had no proof then. Olds admitted they had no proof and two of the press associations refused to send out a story SMITH TO FORCE MOVE Illinois Man Will Appear Before Senate for Oath Wednesday. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—C01. Frank L. Smith, Senator-designate from Illinois, will leave for Washington Monday and demand that he be seated in the Senate on Wednesday, he announced in a formal statement here. Smith will present his credentials, showing that he is a legally appointed Senator, and will seek to compel the Senate to administer the oath of membership to him, and try him afterward on charges of impropriety in accepting large campaign contributions. CITY’S MONEY TIED UP NEVADA, lowa, Jan. 14.—Two bank failures within the last few days have brought the city of Nevada to a state of near-bankruptcy, according to Mayor C. E. Lockingbill. The city’s funds are locked be hind the doors of the defunct Peoples Savings Bank and the funds of the city library, sufficient to run the town for a month, are in the same bank.

Vote Your Sentiment DO YOU WANT WAR? (YES OR NO) On the basis of the reasons presented to date by President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg, do you think the Government is justified in assuming a position that may lead tQf war with Mexico? VOTE—(YES OR NO). Mark your ballot and send it to the ini tor of this newspaper at once. And then if a war with Mexico means anything to you in dollars and cents, spend the price of a telegram in letting your Senators and Congressman know what you feel on this subject.

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so plainly poisoned for propaganda purposes. The Associated Press played the State Department game and sent the propaganda story to its newspapers. The exposure of the attempt to deceive the people was made by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, an Associated Press paper. The Associated Press was vigorously criticised by such prominent Associated Press papers as the New York World and the Baltimore Sun. The World then said: “The Associated Press unfortunately lent itself to the State Departments purposes.” Now Secretary Kellogg unloads the same story on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and on the entire country, with no more proof than his assistant, Olds, had when he admitted that he had none. The only difference is that Kellogg has finally assumed responsibility for the story and has charged a friendly government with something he does not prove. He has vindicated neither the State Department nor the Associated Press. UPHOLDS MATERNITY BILL Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—After a compromise had stopped a filibuster, the Senate last night adopted without a record vote a bill to extend the Sheppard-Towner maternity aid act until June 30, 1929. Adherents of the measure finally agreed to an amendment providing that the law shall cease to exist after its expiration. The bill now goes to conference.

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MEXICAN INVASION HI JOB Army Officers Believe It Would Take a Long Time. GOOD ARTERIES LACKING Could Not Hold Country Long After Victory. Timet Washington Bureau. IStB New York Avenue WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.— Army officers In Washington, including some with border experience, say freely that a successful invasion of Mexico by the United States Army would be a long, difficult and ex pensive job. They base this opinion on general principles of military science, on their studies of possible campaigns in Mexico and on the lack of success of the American expeditionary forces under General Pershing in 1914. The first problem Is geographical It Is a country over which an invading army would have to march over deserts and through known valley routes, and in which defending native troops would have the maximum advantage. Highways Insufficient Secondly, the absence of adequate railways or sufficient highways, upon which a modern army with artillery Is dependent. These factors, plus the Mexican strategy of separating and fighting in small bands, would make it a guerilla form of war—to which the Mexicans are trained and In which they are highly efficient. This form of warfare would leave the United States Army dependent almost solely on Its cavalry and air forces. The experience of the crack French air force In the African Riff causes many officers to doubt the effectiveness of aviation in a Mexican campaign. Pershing’s Experience Hence the United States Army's standing war plan for Mexico is based, officers say, almost exclusively on cavalry—which Pershing found inadequate before. Apart from these purely military considerations, officers stress thegreater difficulty which would arise from a belligerent civilian population. There would be millions of Mexicans happy to join In irregular attacks from a thousand quarters. These the unified Invading forces could not combat with any of the approved rules of strategy of mass warfare. The consensus of army officer opinion seems to be: “We could conquer Mexico despite the difficulties and expense, but we could not hold it long: it is much easier to defeat a weaker army than to consolidate that victory permanently by policing sixteen million fanatical Mexican patriots.”

ANSWERS AS TO JEWS Queen Marie Denies Persecution Exists in Rouniania. (Copyright, 1927, by United Press) BUCHAREST, Jan. 14. —Stories of American protests against alleged Roumanian persecution of Jews have have eached Queen Marie, and today America’s recent visitor received a representative of the United Press to deny that anti-Semitic violence had transpired In her country. The Queen also discussed former Crown Prince Carol and King Ferdiand. There was no hint in what her majesty said of any expectation that Carol ever would renounce his care-free life for the responsibilities of royalty and the throne. PASTOR CALM AT TRIAL Actual Healing of Norris Case Starts Witli Jury Complete. Bu United Press AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 14.—His long white fingers interlocked behind his head, the Rev. J. Frank Norris settled back in his chair today to hear the start of testimony by which the jury is to determine whether he shot and killed D. E. Chipps in self-defense or without provocation Chipps, wealthy lumberman, was killed in the study of Norris’ First Baptist Church in Ft. Worth last July. Twelve jurors, selected after four days of close questioning as to their religious and lodge affiliations as well as ideas on capital punishment, sat stiffly in the jury box, apparently bent on serious consideration of the case. 30 KILLED ON TANKER Flames Follow Explosion on Oil Craft at Tampico. Bu United Press * MEXICO CITY. Jun. 14.—Thirty were killed and many injured when fire swept the oil tanker Essex Isles at Tampico, following an explosion ulvices teeeived here from Tampico said today. A can of gasoline, dropped from a sling during the process of unloading, exploded and set the steamer on fire. Many of those killed, it was stated, were blown to bits by the explosion.

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HOLDS NO CAUSE EXISTS 10 ALTER FRIENDLpTUS Virginia Member of House Offers Resolution on Mexican Situation. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. A resolution declaring no justification exists for severance of diplomatic relations with Mexico or "forcible intervention in its affairs,” was introduced in the House today by Representative Moore (Dem.), Virginia. The pressure being exerted in favor of such a course, the resolution declared, "is no less than a criminal effort to substitute a state of war for the present peaceful condition.” Charges that “certain politicians in and out of the House,” were trying to "create a partisan issue out of the present difficult situation confronting our Government in Mexico and Nicaragua." were made in the House, by Representative Eaton, (Rep.), New Jersey. Opponents of State Department’s Latin-American policies today leveled thefr attack against what they term the “bogey of bolshevism” raised by Secreary of State Kellogg. Senator Robert M. La Follette (Rep.), Wisconsin, took the Initiative in the new offensive, with a speech prepared for delivery before the Senate, questioning the idea that Communist activities were formidable anywhere on the North American continent. La Follettte takes the position that Kellogg published the purported doctrines of the Workers' party with a view to diverting criticism of his policies in Mexico and Nicaragua. BIG COLISEUM TALKED Plans for providing a municipal building for large gatherings were discussed today by the Chamber of Commierce coliseum committee which conferred with Henry T. Davis, Chamber convention bureau director. Henry Danner is chairman.

Borah s Foreign Policy

Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. Here is Senator Borah’s proposed new policy and program for United States relations with Central and South American countries, as given by him to the Senate yesterday: “It Is up to us as a Government not to keep Mr. Diaz as president of Nicaragua until 1929, and evidently in opposition to the wishes of the vast majority of the people, and as against the two men whom they deliberately selected, but to again cal! for an election and to conduct it as we did practically in 1925, and give the people of Nicaragua an opportunity to pass upon the ques-

So That’s What Makes It Go!

Mme. Kollontai, Minister to Mexico, Answers . Kellogg. Editor's Note—Mme. Alexandra Kollontai. the only woman diplomat In the world, who possesses plenipotentiary powers and who is the ambassador of Soviet Russia to Mexico, has written for the United Press her reply to the statement made Wednesday by Secretary of State Kellogg on the Mexican-Nicaraguan situation. Secretary Kellogg charged there was communistic influence in the Nicaraguan situation, iostered through Mexico; that communism sought a base in Mexico from which to operate against the United States: and he presented copies of resolutions allegedly passed by the Communist International and other papers to support his claims. Mme. Kollontai answers that the Russian government Is distinct from the Communist party, and refuses to admit that the documents cited by Kellogg have connection with the Soviet government. She emphasises that “Russia is not hostile to the United States.” Mme. Kollontai s reply follows: By Mme. Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet Russian Minister to Mexico (popyright. 1927. by United Press i MEXICO CITY. Jatf. 14.—1 t must be remembered that the Communist. Internationale is a union of the political parties of ( various countries which happens to have its headquarters at Moscow, but which just as well could be elsewhere. The Russian Communist party is affiliated with the International, but the Communist party is not the Russian government. Mr. Kellogg refers to an American speaking before the executive committee of the Communist International in February, 1926, but remember this was merely a speech and was made by an American who was unnamed. The resolu(Turn to Page 19) Three Brothers on Law’s Missing List “Still at largei” This phrase, in bold black type, was received today by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, from Grant B. Miller, chief inspector of the Postoffice Department at Washington, along with a bulletin regarding three men wanted for murder. "Press dispatches from time to time have carried news items of the alleged apprehension of the three De Autremont brothers, who are wanted for the hold-up of a mall train and the murder of a railway postal clerk and three trainmen on Oct. 11, 1923, near Siskiyou, Oregon,” Miller's dispatch read. “These men are still at large and official announcement will be made when one or more of them are arrested.” ▲

tion as to who shall be their ruler. “While we seem to think that the Mexican shadow envelops the situation, I will propose to the Mexican people that the controversy in reference to oil land there should be submitted to arbitration. “Inaugurate a campaign of peace; abolish the idea of force; try friendly relations; seek to establish amity, seek to get in touch with the masses, with the people themselves and we can establish a policy in Central America which will protect our interests and respect our rights and which will do that which we are entitled to do—receive special consideration from those people.”

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PLANS 10 DEPORI PRIESTS WHO AID REBELLING GROUPS Calles Government Alters Course of Death Sentences for Treason. Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Jan. 14.—A1l Catholic priests captured with rebellious groups will be deported, the Government announced today, instead of being executed for treason. Rebellious activities and bloodshed continued today in Mexico as the: Government strove to put down the somewhat unorganized armed opposition. Federal forces in Jalisco today reported encountering a rebel band between Arenal and Amatitlan. A sharp fight ended in dispersal of the rebels, who suffered many casualties, the Federal report said. Offer to Surrender Other rebellious groups in that region were said to have offered to surrender if their lives were spared. An infantry detachment of fifty was sent to Ayutla today to pursue rebels, and additional troops had been detailed to guard repair crews engaged on the reconstruction of bridges destroyed by the rebels. Bu United Press While moving energetically to curb the Insurrection reported from five States, Mexican government, through its foreign department, emphatically denied Secreary of State Kellogg's aaccusations of a reapprochement with Soviet Russia. Charges by Kellogg of such poltical relations, a statement by the foreign office said, "Cannot be applied justly to Mexico.” Accuses Americans Communist activities in Mexico have been inspired mainly by Americans, not by Societ Russia, Ricardo Trevino, secretary-general of the “Crom”—the Mexican federation of labor —today telegraphed Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Denying Kellogg’s allegations relative to Mexican communism, made before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, Trevino, in a lengthy telegram, laid the tide of communism In Mexico to American sources. He specifically named Americans, who, he said, had promulgated communism In his country. The Americans named were A. E. Gale, A. Fortmeyer, M. Paley (alias Levin Bertram Wolff) and others, all American citizens by birth and all of whom, he said, have been expelled from Mexico. BREAK BURMA CRIME WAVE Bu United Press RANGOON. Jan. 14.—Intensive police campaigning has broken the Burma crime wave, according to government officials. During the last two years there were 1,937 murders. Os these only 411 were caught, and convicted, while 165 murderers were hanged. Immediate steps have been taken to bring more of the criminals to justice and officials declare the crime wave is on the wane.

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COKE BN OftNLf, DEMAMDS BREAK BETWEEN mraGKßipTi McLean-Owned Washington Post Call: for Calles Withdrawal—Comment of Other Papers. Times Washington Bureau. 13i2 New York Avenue WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—The Washington Post, whos editorials during the past several weeks have been very dost ly in line with the Coolidge and Kellogg policy, is now openl declaring for a break with Mexico. The Post is owned by Ec ward B. McLean, who told the Senate during the first Teapc Dome investigation that it was he that had loaned SIOO,OOO t Secretary Albert B. Fall—the loan whicli E. L. Doheny late admitted making. \ An editorial in this newspaper yesterday contained these pari graphs: “A break of diplomatic relations with Mexico is inevitable.” “Continued pretense of friendship with Mexico so long as Calk is its dictator would be a sham and fraud.” “The embargo on arms to Mexico should be lifted slmultaneousl with the withdrawal of recognition of the perfidious Calles goveri ment.” “If another government should be set, up In Mexico it should 1 recognized, provided it gives assurance that American lives an property will be respected,” “The stirrings of revolution in Mexico are unmistakable.” “Withdrawal of recognition of the Calles government Is nece sar.v if'the United States wishes to put an end to the aggressioi which are tending toward hostilities."

What the Press o: Country Thinks

DEMOCRATIC—(Ah editorial In the. New York World, Democratic.) The extreme gravity of the LatinAmerican crisis can no longer be doubted. The United States is nearer to war with Mexico than it has been since Pershing’s expedition and the landing at Vera Cruz. If the American people deside to preserve the peace, they have no time to lose in making their will known to the President, his Secretary of State and to the Congress of the United States. If the American people want pence, they cannot afford to wait un-

Sacasa Pleads That America Understand

By William Philip Simms.-(Soripps-Howard St ass Correspondent) (Copyright, 1927, by Seripps-Howard Newspaper) (Reproduction without permission forbidden) PUERTO CABEZAS. Nicaragua, Jan. 14 (By Wireless).Sitting in a three-dollar rocking chair in a half furnished pai lor, size 10 feet by 12 feet—in a one-story frame house wit corrugated iron roof, today, I interviewed Dr. Juan B. Sacast This is the man whom the liberal party calls the constitutions president of Nicaragua; the same man whom his enemies ca] a tool of Mexico. Hut Is Typical. If, as alleged by these latter, there are millions of Mexica: money behind Sacasa, all evidence of this money is well coifl cealed. His little house is at the end of a row of typical mifl town houses, occupied by sawmill workers. The parlor is thl executive office, the cabinet room and everything besides. SeveA cheap rockers, two imitation oak tables, linoleum on the floo and.a map of Nicaragua on an otherwise blank wall compos the furnishings—worth altogether about thirty dollars. Ther is one typewriter, at which Foreign Minister Espinosa and th other cabinet ministers take turns. First Correspondent There. “I am delighted that you have come,” said Dr. Sacasa In excellex English. “You are the only correspondent thus far to arrive. I hoi you will tell the truth concerning Nicaragua. i "I ask you if it looks like we had millions of dollars at our con mand?” he continied with a smile, looking about the bare room. Thei very seriously—"l give you my word of honor that 1 am under obPgi tions r.o no country. Every country in Central America has helped m as much as Mexico has. “The people are all sympathetic with our cause. First Arms from United States. “As for obtaining arms from Mexico, we first got them froA America. After the embargo was placed against us by the Amerlcal Government we got them anywhere we could find them. “Tales of bolshevism that you say you have heard have been sprea in a deliberate effort to discredit us. Communism is repulsive to ui every Ideal"I was educated in the United States. My social and political b liefs were developed there, and they are thoroughly American. Favors Canal Project. “I want to see the canal built across Nicaiagua, as the United Stab proposes. “I am known everywhere in Nicaragua ns being pro-American. I fact, the people elected me vice president as n compliment to the Unite States because of my early life and training there. "The war here must go on, In spite of the intervention by the Unite States, although we would gladly accept mediation on the basis of ow being the constitutional regime. "I could not, however, consent to war with the United State*, love your country next Uy my own, and would yield rather than ftu that alternative.* T ..V 1

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til they have become entangled i Mexico, as they are already enta gled In Nicaragua. They must ax now before the fatal decisions ai taken, before the war psychology aroused and men cease to be reaso able. The situation is so delicat the forces pressing for lnterventio are so powerful, the opposition is i yet so disorganized and unarous that there is no telling what migl happen If a blood-curdling incidei were to occur In Mexican terr toy. The stage is set for very serloi (Turn to Page 1*) 1