Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1927 — Page 2

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WEATHER BUREAU SEES NO RELIEF FROM SPELL Forecasts Mercury Drop to • About 15 Above Tonight in Indianapolis. Little relief from the Icy conditions in Indianapolis was promised today by Meteorologist J. H. Armington of the United State Weather Bureau. The temperature was not expected to rise enough to allow natural thawing. Moderate winter temperature was predicted for Tuesday. Although streets were extremely slippery Sunday, there were few auto accidents in the City, police said. Ice on city streets was well broken up today and Ice on downtown sidewalks was melted generally from warmth of the buildings. Mercury to Drop About 15 above will be the lowest reading of the mercury tonight, according to Armington. Lower tributaries of White River continued to rise in the southern portion of the State, in many places the streams being above flood stage. There was no danger of White River reaching flood stage here. High water continued to play havoc with Indiana road cor ditions. the following warning of closed and impassable roads wsa issued by the State highway department in an emergency bulletin: "Road No. 37. Slides south of Grantsburg in Crawford County have completely closed the road. Efforts will be made to open it to one-way traffic as soon as possible. “No. 62. Closed by high water west of Evansville. "No. 45. Closed between Huntington and Jasper. No. 150. Closed between French Lick and Paoli. "No. 50. Closed between Washington and Vincennes, because of White River. No. 31. Impassable detour north of Columbus. "All roads arc soft in southern part of the State and beginning to settle. They are still covered with ice today." Motorist Cautious Street car officials said the icy streets added one-third more passengers during the rush hours. "People seem to be afraid to take their automobiles out in the icy weather. This accounts for the large crowds and the slowing down of the cars,” said Superintendent James P. Tretton. "A number of unavoidable delays were caused," officials said, "by cars and trucks skidding on the street car tracks and breaking down. Cars were run all night Saturday night to keep the trolley wires free from ice.” Traction companies said the ice had little effect on their service. Car* have been running on time, they said. FLOODS IN FIVE STATES Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania Affected. Bu United Press Five States were menaced by flood waters today as the Ohio River poured over its banks, inundating thousands of acres of low lands, damaging dozens of towns and cities, and causing the death of one man. Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky felt the crest of the nigh water today. The danger appeared past in Pennsylvania.. In eastern Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana river towns, facing flood stages today, took emergency precautions as Government weather bureaus forecast rising waters for the next twenty-four hours. Frank Neutling, 50. died today lin "'Pomeroy, Ohio, from pneumonia contracted while working in flood waters there. Pomeroy and Marietta, Ohio, today faced the most serious situations. Water washed six feet deep over Pomeroy’s main street, business was completely suspended, schools closed and mail and transportation facilities blocked. Residents were moving to the hills as the river was expected to rise two more feet before the crest is reached. The hamlet of Warrentown, Ohio, junction point on the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad, remembered as the town to suffer most from the flood of 18S4, reported every house inundated by the high waters, but the flood was receding today.

EVANSVILLE IN DANGER River Threatens to Shu- Off All Roads, Hamper Transportation. Bu United Press EVANSVILLE, .ind., Jan. .24.With a stage of 39.7 feet at 7 a. m., nearly five feet above flood stage, the Ohio river here was rising at the ale of a tenth of a foot an hour. •dUh little, evidence of the flood crest >elng reached in the near future. .This was nearly a three feet rise •mce Sunday. More rain is forecast for this district and indications point to a 42foot stage by Tuesday. At that stage this city would be shut off by roads, with other forms of travel seriously hampered. Long distance telephone service is impossible to many towns in southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. Many small towns are completely isolated. At Jasper county basketball tournament fans who accompanied visiting teams were forced to walk railroad trestles to their homes. Several mines in this vicinity were reported flooded.

GETS IRVING LETTERS NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 24. A collection of eighteen letters written by Washington Irving was turned over to Yale University recenty as a gift from the alumni. The letters date from 1828 to 1830, and make the Yale collection of Irvinglana one of the most valuable of its kind in the country.

‘CHINA FOR CHINESE' BA TILE CR Y RINGING IN EARS OF FOREIGNERS

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War lords of tlie liour in China are pictured heie. The picturesque Chang Tso-lin rules nortii China. Arrayed against him are the South China and Yangtse river valley followers of Chang Kai-Shek and Feng Yu-lisiang. Sun Chuan-fang is an ally of Chang Tso-lin.

BARBED WIRE SHIELDING SHANGHAI’S DEFENDERS Foreigners Prepare as Nationalist Chinese Forces March Toward Port City.

Bu United rrrss SHANGHAI, Jan. 24.—American, British and other foreign residents of this "Paris of the Far East” waited behind Barbed-wire entanglements today as the victorious Cantonese troops converged on the city. A thin line of marines, troops and civilian guards was their main protection. After the defeat of the army of Sun Chuan Fang at Lanchi. near Mingo, the nationalist, or Cantonese army began moving toward Shanghai. Throughout the city anti-foreign demonstrations were being enacted. The British have ordered the evacuation of all missionaries, who were gathering at Swaton. More than 4.000 American men. woman and children were assembled in this city, with less than 1,000 American troops to guard them. Sunday passed as one of the quietest in weeks, but It was an ominous calm. A heavy police guard patrolled all thoroughfares. WASHINGTON ANXIOUS Concern Grave Over Antl-Forcign Riots in China. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 2 {.—Spread of the Chinese anti-foreign riots to Shanghai increased the apprehension of officials here today. Reports from Admiral Williams, commanding the Asiatic fleet, stated most of the twenty-six American war vessels in or en route to Chinese waters are concentrating at Shanghai. American missionaries and business men from interior and other cities are pouring into Shanghai, where they can embark on foreign ships if native demonstrations continue, according to consular dispatches. Though recognizing that the socalled unequal treaties, giving foreigners special privileges, are a major cause of the growing nationalist movement, the administration here lias decided on a wait-and-see attitude before announcing its policy toward anew treaty.

BRITAIN MOVES TROOPS Start for China by 1,000 Set for Today. Bu United Press LONDON, Jan. 24.—Moving swiftly to protect British ctiizens in China from further attacks of Chinese mobs, the war office today had conpentrated 13,000 men, 6,000 of whom are under orders to sail immediately, for service in the Far East. The first of the British troops will sail today, when 1,000 Marines embark from Portsmouth. The arrangements for troops, constituting the greatest movement of British military forces since the •Chinese crisis developed, called for immediate sailing of four battalions now stationed in England, in addition to the Marines. “Stand by” orders have been issued to two more battalions now stationed in India have been notified to prepare to move on short notice.

ARMED FORCES MOVING Great Britain Mobilizes Men aid Ships for Chinese Duty. Bu United Press LONDON, Jan. 24.—Great Britain today was ready with 16,000 troops, marines and sailors to meet the Nationalist problem In China, which

was construed here as menacing British lives and property. What are believed to be complete reports of troops and naval movements and orders here and in India, Malta, Hongkpng. and Gibraltar indicated that tvtifcve battalions of Brit.sh and Indian troops had been ordered to China or were en route there and in addition an armored car section of the tank corps and naval units were under similar instructions. The submarine X-l, reputedly the largest in the world, left Portsmouth today to join the Mediterranean ff.eet at Malta.

ICE SAVES OCCUPANTS Truck Slides After Being Hit by Train; Passengers Saved. Icy conditions of the streets and a railroad right-of-way Sunday probably saved three passengers of a truck that, was struck by a Big Four switch engine at the Belt Railway tracks and Sixteenth St. All escaped uninjured, although the truck slid oiip full block to Fifteenth St. before the engineer was aware of the mishap. Ogle Sanders, R. R. H, box 213, was driving the truck east, and liis wife. Ruby Sanders, and Kathleen Buzzard, who lives with them, were in the truck cab. A. C. Hubbard, 1105 N. Lasalle St!, conductor of tthe train, said none of the persons was injured beyond the slight bruise stage.

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Nationalist Movement Sweeps Aside Old War Lords as Yellow Race Strives for ‘Place in Sun.’ Times tt'ashinuton Bureau. t.ili New York Avenue Across the deserts of China, over mountain ranges and through trackless rice fields, American missionaries are fleeing with their families to the seacoast. There are twenty-six United States warships waiting to evacuate them, if necessary.

Behind and around the refugees are seething yellow mobs, sending up the ever old and ever new cry of nationalism: “China for the Chinese!” “Down with the foreigners.” In Hankow, so-called "Pittsburgh of China,” the British, long accustomed to rule, are humbly treating with the revolutionary nationalist government. After sending warships up the Yangtze River and landing marines at Hankow to protest the British concessions or settlement there, the British have withdrawn in favor of the nationalists. There is no longer protection in foreign guns —which only further infuriate the anti-foreign mobs. That is symbolical of what is hap-

U. S. TRADE WITH SOUTH BIG FACTOR Latin America Is Customer for Nearly One-Fifth of Exports. Times Washington Bureau. t-tZi Sew I ork Avenue •WASHINGTON. Jan. 24—What Latin-American markets mean to the United States is indicated in an international trade survey just published by the New York Trust Company. Latin-America cousumed 18 per cent of the total United Spites exports in 1925, this survey shows, compared wjgh only 13.6 per cent in 1913. , The percentage of exports to Latin-America increased while the percentage >to Europe and North America (principally Canada) decreased. Europe consumed 60.4 per cent in 1913 and only 53 per cent in 1925. North America consumed 16.4 per cent in 1913 and only 13.4 per cent in 1925. Some of the figures presented in the survey were prepared by the League of Nations for the International Economic Conference, slated for May. To the world the year 1925 was especially important, being the first since the World War that world trade exceeded in volume the prewar trade. Total world trade in 1925, on the basis of pre-war prices, was $39,600,000.000, compared with $37,900,000,000 in 1913. The United States in 1925 controlled 14.57 per cent of the world's total merchandise trade, compared with only 11.15 per cent in 1913. The survey does not include 1926, when United States exports to the three largest Latin-American markets—Cuba, Mexico and Argentina—decreased an estimated $47,500,000.

‘OLD MAIN’ HALL BURNS liOss of $250,000 Caused by Fire at Westminster College. Bu United Press • NEW WILMINGTON. Pa., Jan. 24. —The "old main" hall of Westminster College was burned to the ground today. Damage was estimated at $250,000. , The fire started on the first floor of the building, a structure erected in 1861, and since then the center of activities of the college. It is believed that crossed wires caused the blaze.

pening, or. rather, has already happened in China. Reversed Situations The foreign (lowers can no longer give orders; they must take orders. Deeper than the political internal divisions and the Civil War chaos is a unifying nationalism spreading rapidly from the students and laborers of the occidentalized seacoast back into the peasantry of the vast roadless interior The driving wedge of this nationalist movement is the Kuonflntang party, founded by the late Sun Yat Sen, "the George Washington of China.” While paper governments have risen and fallen in Pekin, in the north, largely at the hands of the foreign powers, the Kuomintang has held and governed Canton, in the south. There they prepared carefully for the drive northward, intended to eliminate the tuchuns, or war lords, who dealt with the hated foreigners and “exploited the people.” For this preparation the Kuomintang secured Russian Soviet political advisers, headed by the astute Borodin. Thousands of young officers were trained at Wuchang Military Academy under Soviet tacticians. Last summer the northward drive was initiated by Chiang Kai Shek, Within a few months the Cantonese had penetrated the northern lines as far as Hankow, which dominates the rich upper valley of the Yangtze. Now they are ready to march east to Shanghai and north to Pekin. Not only are the Cantonese armies superior to their adversaries, but their deadliest weapon is the cry of nationalism. Hearing this cry. many of the troops of the conservative armies desert to their ranks. Form Labor Unions And behind the Nationalist armies come the political and industrial experts organizing the coolies and peasants into labor unions and consolidating the municipal and state governments on Nationalist lines. All observers, including the foreign diplomats, agree that this as* tounding movement is esnontially nationalist, rather than socialist or communist. They are using the Russians, rather than let the Russians use them. Opposing these hordes of war zcajots are the old war lords, retreading farther and farther north. Sun still holds the lower Yangtze region and Shanghai. Wu Pei Fu, former Pekin dictator, has a, precarious hold to the north of Hankow. Chang Tso Lin, ally of Japan. is master of the rich Manchurian provinces beyong the great wall. When the Cantonese drove northward these old tucliuns stopped fighting among themselves to form the alliance wihrh is already breaking before the Kuomintang. But tlie nationalist awakening has spread so rapidly even the tucliuns now find it expedient to join the cry. Their paper government at Pekin lias refused to renew the “unequal” treaty with Belgium, demanding a new treaty restoring full sovereignty to China. Whether the Kuomintang will be able to secure control of all China except Manchuria depends upon the Cantonese army completing its squeeze movement with Feng YuHsiang, the.. "Christian general,” who Is leading the northwestern branch of the Kuomintang down from Mongolia. But the Kuomintang are counting, too, on internal revolt in Pekin and- Shanghai, still nominally conservative.

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How China has been checker-boarded into territorial strongholds of contending war lords is depicted by tjie map below. The key identifies the military leaders who dnuiinat e the various sections of the country. The two provinces shown in white are subject only to their own local governors.

RULE BY OUTSIDERS BACK OF TROUBLES IN FAR EAST As Americans Would Resent Armed Foreigners in Washington, Chinese Oppose Alien Dominance.

Why are ine lives and property of the 12,000 Americans in China in grave peril? Fully half of these Americans are missionaries, whose unselfishness and service have until now earned the respect and friendship of the Chinese. Others are doctors and professional men and women. The American business men, limited to the treaty ports and having no con-

SITS IN AUTO, ROBS ATTENDANT Police Hunt Lazy Bandit — Hold-Up at Restaurant. Hold-up men are becoming lazy, police said today, following investigation of the robbery at the Standard oil station. State Ave. and New York St., Sunday night, when S2O was taken from J. R. Sample, 2710 Station St., attendant, by a bandit who did not get out of the auto he drove. "Just hand over the cash in your pockets,” the bandit said when Sample approached his ear to see what was wanted. Sample gave the man the S2O and the bandit drove away. Three young men in a roadster took $4.50 from Donald McClain, 706 N. Sheffield Ave., while he was walking on Walnut St., near Pershing Ave. The same men drove to 554 Eastern Ave., police believe, and, as Frank Staub came out of liis home, started to search him. An auto with bright lights approached and the men fled, Staub told police. Lloyd Crouch, 316 W. Ohio St., night man at the Metropole restaurant. 420 W. Washington St., was held up early Sunday by three men. They took S4O. 10 MADE TENDERFEET Church Sunday School Presents American Flag to Troop. Ten boys were installed as Tenderfoot Scouts Sunday in the reorganized Boy Scout Troop No. 40 at the First Congregational Church, Sixteenth and Delaware Sts. The service was conducted by Rev. William L. Caughran, pastor, assisted by S. L. Norton, Indianapolis assistant Scout executive. The boys were Robert Sutherlin, W. D. and Alec Caughran. “William Klee, Robert and Charles Collins, Paul Bowman Jr., Thomas Keller, James Mueller and Sherrill White. Following the services an American flag was presented to the troop by the church Sunday school. CHAMPIONS EVOLUTION Ohio Professor to DRcuss ‘Science Vs. Religion.’ If the Book of Genesis is regarded as a poem of creation and the theory of evolution as the same story from a scientific viewpoint, no conflict between science and religion is necessary, says Dr. Edward L. Rice, zoology professor at Ohio Wesleyan University. Dr. Rice will speak at the First Baptist Church Thursday evening on “Science and Religion.” He is an evolutionist and served on the defense committee for John T. Scopes, the Tennessee school tacher, in the famous evolution trial. LEGION POST IN ATHENS First Foreign Brandi to Be Established This Y ear. The first charter to be issued to a new American Legion post this year lias been mailed to Athens, Greece, It was announced by National Adjutant James F. Barton, here today The post is named Athens Post No. 1, and the charter went forward to Henry C. H. Stewart, the organizer. Stewart believes 150 Americans in Athens will join.

tact with the Chinese millions, have for the most part dealt honorably with the natives. Transplant the paradox to the United States and it is not so difficult to understand. Imagine Washington with 500 British marines and an equal number from other European and Asiatic powers; larger numbers of foreign army troops holding the railroad from Washington to New York; the business area of New York a “foreign settlement,” governed and policed by foreigners. Imagine similar foreign concessions in Boston and the inland ports of St. Louis and Chicago; the foreigners having their own courts, their warships plying our inland waters, our customs under their management and our ta.-iff rates fixed by foreign governments. And all of this invasion of our sovereignty decreed and regularized by treaties. Extra-territoriality is the official word for this system. It existed in Japan—until the Japanese were strong enough to kick out this foreign rule. It existed in Turkey—until the new Turkey, which arose out of the ashes of the World War, tore up the unequal treaties. It exists in China. But unless all signs fail, its life there is short. Paying for Folly Meanwhile, the foreign missionaries and business men are paying for the folly of their governments In refusing- to recognize that China is awake at last, and from now on must be dealt with as an equal or not at all. YVhatever the justification of ex-tra-territorial foreign rights in the old days, there is no excuse for it now. Anyway, the question has now become one of expediency. In the Washington arms conference treaties the United States and other powers pledged themselves to progressive abolition of extraterritoriality and to the desired increase in Chinese tariffs. No action has been taken. A recent Pekin conference of the powers broke up because of the chaotic local conditions. An internatioal commission has “recommended” minor modification of extraterritoriality. but neither the United States nor other powers have acted on the recommendation. Now the Nationalist government at Hankow, controlling southern and central China, demands immediate revocation of all the unequal treaties. Even the conservative Pekin government has refused to renew the unequal treaty with Belgium, which has expired. The British are treating with the Nationalists at Hankow. According to reports, the British have turned from their former strong-arm policy and are ready to recognize the radical Nationalist government and accept most of its demands. United States Fails to Reply A British memorandum proposing that the long promised ' tariff ’ increases become ecective immediately has been waiting unanswered at the State Department in Washington for weeks. Meanwhile, Representative Stephen Porter, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has introduced a resolution proposing that, the United States give up its special privileges in China and immediately negotiate anew treaty of equality. Congressional support of that resolution is growing. The State Department declines to define its policy. President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg are anxious to grant the Chinese demands, but they believe the change should be gradual/ rather than abrupt. Before the protection of American troops and courts is withdrawn they desire to see a stable Chinese government and just courts by Chinese. The President has decided not to join in any "show of force” to frighten the Chinese. United States warships and troops will be used solely to protect American lives and to cover evacuation if necessary. Beyond that the President is undecided.

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BUDGET SYSTEM INCREASE SOUGHT* IN NEWMEASURE Would Extend Plan to All Units of Government— Prevents Transfer. Extension of the budget system to all units of Indiana government is provided in a bill to he submitted in the House of Representatives by leaders of the two party groups. Representative Lemuel A. Pittenger (Rep.) and Addison Drake (Dern.). The proposed law calls for the making of budgets by cities, towns, counties, townships, park districts and school districts and prevents the transfer of money from one fund to another, except in cases of extreme emergency. Both political parties pledged themselves to the placing of all State units of government on the budget basis, similar to that now in use by the State in their party platforms. Little opposition is expected. The new law provides a public hearing on the budget previous to its adoption, at which time taxpayers may protest any provisions. After being adopted, no changes can be made, save under the emergency clause. The bill may be submitted at to-J day’s session, which convenes at 2® o’clock.

GROITO OFFICERS’ ELECTION TONIGHT Preliminary Report on Masonic Home Rendered. Offices in the Sahara Grotto to which members will be elected tonight at the meeting to be held in the Denison are: Chief justice, master of ceremonies, venerable prophet, secretary, treasurer, and trustee to serve for three years. The officers of Sahara Grotto returned Sunday night from a meeting of the Indiana State Grotto Association at South Bend, where they wore entertained by Avalon Grotto. Tw r enty-ono delegates attended the sesion, important changes being made in the constitution and bylaws of the association. A preliminary report was received from the building committee in charge,of the proposed erection of a children’s home at the Masonic Home at Franklin, Ind. Chester O. Martin is the retiring monarch.

Journalistic Prize j to D? Pauw Man Bit United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 24. Harold Fleming of Rensselaer, Ind., a De Pauw University senior, lias been awarded the

Sigma Delta. t Chi "past president’s prize." The $75 award is presented annually by Kenneth G. Hogate, managing editor of tne Wall Street Journal, formerly of Danville, Ind. Hogate is past president of the professional journalistic fraternity, founded at De. Pauw in 1909. The Quill, the

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fraternity’s publication. The Fourth Estate and Editor and Publisher will publish tho article, "The College Man in Journalism," the winning manuscript.

ENLARGE HOUSE STAFF Several Will Take Positions Today as Pages and Stenographers. The House stenographic staff will be augmented by Misses Flora Johnson and Goldie Grimm, Indianapolis, today. A Mrs. Forrest Knepper. wife of Rep \ resentative Knepper, Warsaw, will join, the enrolling room force. New doorkeepers will lie Scott Schulz, Liberty; George W. Baker, Indianapolis, and W. C. Ardrey, Fort Wayne. Pages make their weekly change, those assuming positions today arr Arthur Noble, Elwood; Fred Smith, Indianapolis; Richard McGulley, Camden, and George Kaplan, Indianapolis. Senate pages going on duty today aro John Garrott, Battle Ground: Sarah J. Durham, Greeneastle; Joseph Stubbs and William C. MeGauhy, Indianapolis.

DISCUSS STREAM BILL Opposition to Measure in Senate Expected at Hearing. Considerable opposition was expected at. the public hearing of the Senate stream pollution bill before the committee on natural resources this afternoon. Hearing as scheduled immediately upon adjournment of the Senate. The bill, introduced by Senators L. G. Bradford and Claude S. Steele and backed by the Izaac Walton League, gives the State board of health supervision over all drainage apd water' stlpply throughout the State. This point is drawing the fire of Senators and others, who are opposed to further centralization of government. THAT BRIGHT BOY A . NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—The little* boy who promised to become u genius used to be weak physically. Now L. M. Terman, the psychologist, who has studied 100 Q especially bright children, declares that if the gifted child shows any variation from the normal physically it is usually toward better physical or nervous condition.