Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 285, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1927 — Page 2
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U. S. AND MEXICAN RELA TIONS STRAINED
eaooo CHINESE - IN BATTLE ARRAY NEARSHANGHAI Position of Port City More Precarious —Americans Recapture Boat. Bu United Pres* SHANGHAI, March 5.—-South China struck hard against the power of the north today. The Cantonese nationalist attack with 50,000 troops moving forward in three columns was developing rapidly on both sides of Lake Taihu. whose eastern shore is about seventy-five miles due west of Shanghai. Advance guards of the Cantonese army reached Wu Kong in their thrust toward- 800 Chow, which lies on the Shanghai-Nanking railway between Shanghai and the lake. The Cantonese sought to cut rail communications between the North China army at Shanghai and Nanking, which is the farthest south base. Shanghai’s position became more precarious owing to action of Gen. Li Pao Chang, formerly a subordinate of the resigned Marshal Sun Chuan Fang. Li was reported to have refused to accept the leadership of Sun’s successor, Marshal Chang Chung Chang, and to have gathered 16,000 troops about him with the intention of joining the Cantonese. The British apparently did not intend to reply to the Chinese protest against- action of British and Italian troops in taking positions outside the foreign settlement. American sailors/from the IT. S. S. Pigeon today recaptured the third of three Standard Oil Company launches seized by Chinese soldiers. The nationalists had this craft at Hankow, where it was located at a native landing. The Pigeon attached lines and towed the launch to modstream of the Yangtze river and ordered the Chinese to surrender it. The launch Meifoo was recaptured from Chinese here yesterday after a chase downstream. All Standard On launches have now been regained. Twelve hundred United States marines paraded through crowds of silent Chinese and cheering foreigners in the foreign settlement. Labor unions of Shanghai, sympathizers with the Cantonese cause, today laid plans to resume their general strike in the city, when w-ord was received that the southern forces are advancing, the London Daliy News correspondent reported. A pamphlet urging workers npt only to strike but also to obtain arms from defeated northern soldiers was reported to have been discovered by police.
HOME CONTEST PRIZES OFFERED i Carpet Firm Competition to End March 16. Prizes, which include a first prize of SIOO in gold, will be given high school students in an essay contest on the slogan, “Your Home Shftuld Come First,’’ conducted by the Taylor Carpet Company, 110 S. Meridian St., A. Taylor, president, announced. The contest ends March 16. The slogan recently w r as adopted by the National Retail Furniture Association. ‘“The purpose of this contest is to stimulate the interest of young persons in better homes,” remarked Taylor. “We feel that it will be beneficial for these men and women of tomorrow to consider the possibilities and advantages of the home.” ‘SLACKER’ BILL KILLED Bill Carries Clause That Repeals 1921 Law With unusual speed, the Indiana House of Representatives, late Friday killed tho Cravens-O’Rourke Senate bill, which apparently sought to prevent draft evaders who had served more than six months in prison from holding office. V The bill j was killed by indefinite postponement when it appeared for second reading. The real purpose of the bill was expressed in its clause repealing a 1921 law prohibiting former Mayors Roberts of Terre Haute, Johnson of Gary and Bunch' of Muncie, from holding office because they have served Federal terms on conspiracy charges. LOCAL STUDENT NAMED Co/nr.ierce Club at I. V. Elects * Officers IS it United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 5.Gilbert Shedd, Rolling Prairie, senior at Indiana University, has been elected president of the Commerce Club, comprised of a group of advanced students of the School of Commerce. Other officers are: Franklin Petry, Lowell, vice-president; Emerson Biggs, Williamsport, secretary; Paul Emert, Indianapolis, treasurer; members of board of directors, Glen Sutton and Robert; Barbour, Seymour, Peter Blue, Claypool, Walter Krick, Milan and Watson Benson, Bridgeton. C OINCIDENCE RULES Coincidences rule the lives of great men, so they say. Speaker Harry OL Leslie experienced a coincidence week when he cast his first vote .Thursday in giving a Senate resolu#fß>n a constitutional majority in the House. The next day he had to vote on the next Senate resolution to be acted upon. ’The second time he cast the necessary vote to kill the resolution.
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“The best looking colonel In the country,” University of South Dakota students call Miss Eva Jean Leslie. She’s honorary colonel of the R. O. T. C. at the university, and in tins capacity led the grand march at the school’s annual military ball.
‘LIFER’ TO 48 YEARS SHIELDED Pardon Board Seeks to Protect Slayer Now Harmlessly Insane. Bu United Press WETHERSFIELD, Conn., March s.—Forty-eight years ago the 20th of this month, the iron doors of Connecticut’s State Prison closed on Frank Bassett, a* young man of 24, convicted of second-degree murder, and they have yet to open to allow him to depart. For almost half a century Bassett has shuffled through the corridors of the prison, and today, harmlessly insane, he is the sole survivor o? his prison :neration. Holds Two Records Basse’t is Connecticut’s/ oldest “lifer,” both in age and length of prison service. He has “outstayed” and outlived every convict and every official of the prison who was there the day lie entered. The aged man’s crime is shrouded in mystery because prison officials have little documentary evidence concerning it. As far as can be ascertained he conspired with a married woman to murder her husband. The plot was successful and both he and the woman were sentenced to life imprisonment from Fairfield County. His arrest occurred when he attempted to sell the-body of the murdered man to the Yale Medical School. Woman in Case Dead The woman for whom he murcVired died in the Middletown Hospital, after spending a sjiort time In the prison here. Twenty-five attempts have been made by Bassett to obtain a pardon, but the board has refused to grant release. In making these refusals. the pardon hoard has been actuated more by its desire to help Bassett than to keep him incarcerated for the rest of his life. Every examination of the prisoner by the doctors has resulted in the same report—“harmlessly Insane, hut unable to care for himself if released.” For this reason Bassett Is still in prison. Beer-Seeking Trio Robbed by ‘Guides 9 Virgil Edwards, 905 Chadwick St.; Herbert King, 226 \V. Wyoming St., and another person were in Maywood searching for beer, they told police, when they met three other men in an automobile who said that they would take them to a place where they could get some. The trio of friends were driven by the three strangers to the end of the W. Washington, St. car line, where one of the strangers drew a gun and took sl9 from them. Carl Roberts of Shelbyville, Ind., reported to police that he was held up at West St. and the Canal by three men, one very young, who obtained $17.75 and Roberts’ overcoat and a flashlight. UTILITY SALE APPROVED Commission O. K.'s Purchase of Allen County Light Company Members of the Indiana Public Service Commission Friday approved purchase of the Allen County Electric Light and Power Company, by the Indiana and Michigan Electric Company, South Bend, for $60,057.95. Approval was also given to the purchase by the South Bend company of the Indiana Power and Light Company, serving Butler, St. Joe and Spenserville in DeKalb County, at $102,544.15. Recent modification of new freight rates on iron and steel, placing Indiaua on a parity” with Illinois, were passed upon favorably.
THREE INDIANA BILLS PASS IN G9THCONGRESS Marion Military Home Gets Fund—Two Birdge Measures Enacted. Times Washington Bureau. J 322 New York Avenue WASHINGTON, March s.—Three bits of Indiana legislation slipped through the Senate jam occasioned by the filibuster yesterday. They are: A bill authorizing $700,000 in improvements for the Marion Military Home. Aided by Senator Watson, its author, Representative Hall of Marion, got it through. It had previously passed the House. • Two bills authorizing bridges across the Ohio River at Evansville, which have occasioned a bitter factional fight there, slipped through and were signed by President Coolidge shortly before noon. One authorizes a State bridge and the other a private toll bridge. Legislation which failed included the resolution appropriating $1,750,000 of Federal funds for a memorial to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes;; a bill authorizing a foreign trade office of the Commerce Department at Indianapolis, and appropriations for the beginning of new Federal buildings at Hammond, Ft. Wayne, East Chicago\.nd Rushville. Senate confirmation was lacking nomination of Postmhster Robert H. Bryson at Indianapolis, the confirmation having been protested by Representative Updike. A bill which would have raised Bryson’s salary from $6,000 to SB,OOO a year also was beaten by the House after passage by the Senate.
MEDICAL DILL IS DISCUSSED AGAIN Back for Concurrence After Passing Senate. House Bill 39, the medical injunction act, Is back in the House of Representatives today for concurrence in the Bradford amendment added in the Senate, It passed the Senate after a fight Friday afternoon by vote of 35 to 15. The added amendment does not change the original purpose of the bill. Senator Russell B. Harrison (Rep.), Indianapolis, called down the bill. Senator George W. Sims (Rep.), Terre Haute, and Dr. John H. Hewitt (Rep.), Terre Haute, engaged in a heater argument on the floor regarding the stand on the bill o;! their constituents back home in Vigo and Sullivan Counties. The bill was fought by the chiropractors. Under provisions of the measure a chiropractor or other drugless healer, choice to be made from the largest cult, will be placed on the medical examination board and practitioners who do not meet the board license requirements will be baited by court injunction. Standards will include examination in all of the fundamental science required by the regular medical schools except obstetrics, surgery and medicine. The chiropractors wanted their own board.
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Thirty-seven years ago Iwo men were slain in the hills of Scott County, Ya. Now three brothers, pictured above, have been arrested at McAlester, Okla. They were jailed to await the action of Virginia authorities. The men are Willis (top), Patton (cepter) and ,D. J. Flannery, who disappeared after the crime and turned up later in the Oklahoma coal fields.
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Jurors Who Returned Liquor Indictments
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Members of the Federal grand jury which returned an unusual number of liquor indictments today: Bottom row (left to lighti. Il.irltj K(genos, Burket; William E. Wilson, Sheridan; Frank Roberts, (ireeiuastle; Alexander G. Gavins, assistant United States district attorney, - liain O. Cleveland, Hagerstown, foreman; Albert S. Ward, United States district attorney; Frank P. Brockman, Colunmus, am i ’? • - Neely, Fowler. Middle row (left to right): Owen Speed, bailifT; Noah Kerns, Shoals; Arthur R. Harris, 1034 N. Tremont Aye., Indianapolis, Geo. Scott, Rensselaer; Clarence A. Cook, 3248 Washington Itlvd., Indianapolis, clerk; Laurence R. \\ right, 1 err e Haute, clei k, and . ' . a,! * ’ Ileaeh, New Albany. Top row (left t o right): Luke Cochran, Newberry; Otto Bleeke, Deratur; W illiam G. Lantz, A p w Ia estine, '' ' • Vance, Washington; Ora A. Lamm, BlufTton, and Alfred O. Meloy, United States marshal. Grand jury members Levi F. Moore, Kocnesiei, and Harvey T. Judson, Auburn, were absent when this picture was taken.
4 U. S. MARINES KILLED, REPORT FROM NICARAGUA News Brought by Passengers of Ship Arriving at Los Angeies. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, March s.—Reports that four United States marines were killed recently in the Nicaraguan revolution were current today/in Los Angeles shipping circles. The rumors, entirely unconfirmed, were brought here by passengers of the Panama mail liner Venezuela. When the liner stopped at Corinto, passengers said, talk of the death of the four Americans in fighting* between liberals and conservatives was general. Two passengers, C. Bernheim, traveling agent, and Mrs. Octavio Navas, wife of a Chinandega merchant, told vivid first hand accounts of the firing and looting of the city of Chinandega. Both said that at least 700 persons, including women and children, were killed. Airplane bombing by the Sacasa forces, they continued, set fire to the city and demoralized President Dial' army. The latter fled. Rumors that four marines were killed have been current in New York and Washington, several days. They were mentioned on the floor of Congress and drew from the State Department the statement that one marine had been injured in an amunition explosion, but none killed or injured in action. Bu United v~cs° LONDON, March s.—The British cruiser Colombo, sent to Nicaragua several days ago as ‘“a place of refuge” for British citizens, will leave Nicaragua today, the admiralty informed the United Press. Bu United Press KINGSTON. Jamaica. March 5. A British warship today was reported to have been ordered to Bluelields, Nicaragua, and the Jamaica government reported to have been ordered to hold ships in readiness to transport' British subjects who may be endangered by the revolution in the Central American country. The British cruiser Colombo was at Corinto, on the west coast, today. Bluefielda is on the east coast, and overland communication between the two ports is practically impossible. British subjects'live on both coasts.
THREE MORE NEW FOOD PRODUCTS Arrival of More Foodstuffs Roosts Total to 10. The arrival of three commodities at the city market today brought the total of new foodstuffs this week to ten. Those added today were turnips, 10 cents a bunch; cabbage, 15 cents a pound, and home-grown white radishes, 15 cents a bunch or two for 25 cents. Other new articles received this week were: Sassafras, 5 cents a bunch; pinapples, 50 cents each; curly German endive, 20 to 25 cents a head; Argentine honeydew melons. $1.25 each; Argentine peaches, 15 cents each or two for 25 cents; asparagus, 25 cents a bunch, and fresh mint, 10 cents a bunch. After selling at 55 to 60 cents a quart for several days, all strawbarries were offered at 55 cents, none being higher. Eggs still ranged between 23 and 30 cents, mostly at 27 cents a dozen. Prices on other fruits, vegetables and produce did not change.
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Miss Helen Gretchen, 1120 Holliday Hr., Manual Training High School senior, smiled even though Technical High School beat Manual, 18 to 12, in the Indianapolis sectional basketball tournament at the State fairground Friday. Miss Gretchen was one of the thousands of girl rooters whose colorful attire mado the sectional a bright event.
50-50 BILL MAY NOT REACH FLOOR, Senate Fails to Force Meas- j ure From Committee. That the 50-50 bill, providing for equal representation of men and women in party organization, particularly in the precincts, may never reach the Indiana Senate floor was indicated Friday when an attempt of Senator William T. Quillen (Rep.), Indianapolis, to force it from committee failed. The bill passed the Houso almost unanimously, indicating that the opponents of the measure may have had some assurance regarding its future in the upper body. Quillin declared that an attempt was being made to hold it in committee untli too late for passage and a vote was taken as to whether or not it should be brought out at once and placed on second reading. The Quillin proposal was turned down by a single vote. WHISKY SIPHONING CASE Four Men Held at Chicago in Alleged $150,000 Liquor Theft. Bu United Press \ CHICAGO, March 5. —Four men who are said to have siphoned more than $250,000 worth of pre-war whisky from a government bonded warehouse within the past two days were under, arrest here today after police discovered them at work in a territory just outside the Chicago loop district. Six men, working with the four captured, escaped. The men arrested h. re allegedly among Chicago’s most notorious bootleggers. They are: William (Klondike) O'Donnell, said to have been with Assistant State’s Attorney McSwiggin when, he was shot in Cicero last spring James (Fur) | Sammons, wanted in Baltimore in I connection with the Sonneborn TaiI lorlng Company hold-up; John Barry : and John Davis. j A native of Baalbek, Turkey, unj earthed a small Roman theater in his cellar while building. Though realizing its value, be pleaded v/ith archeologists not to report for fear of losing his home.
HARLAN UTILITY BILL TO GOVERNOR Measure Passes House by 87-2 Vote —Rushed. The Harlan utility hill, authorizing the itublic service commission to j discount excessive operating costs of j a utilty in fixing Us rates, is ready for Governor Jackson’s signature after passing the House late Friday, 87 to 2. The hill Is regarded in the Houso as a companion legislation to the Nejdl bill, which makes the commission subject to appeals, which may be taken to county courts. The two Senate bills were given the right-of-way over the Bender-Mendenhall House bill abolishing the utility commission, which was killed in committee. The Nejdl bill is expected on third reading in the House today. With the Harlan bill passed Friday, the two measures will constitute about all the present session of the Legislature will do with the utility problem. Two Senate joint resolutions af- | feefing utilities await third reading j h the House. The Harrison iesolut|on requests I I Congress to limit jurisdiction of Federal Courts in hearing public utility rate cases. The dHuncy joint resolution Instructs Indjjina Representatives In Congress to introduce measures preventing utilities from obtaining relief under the fifth or fourteenth constitutional amendments. BUILT JAIL; IN IT NOW ; Supervisor Celebrated Completion of Job With Liquor. ' Bn United Pftss j LIBERTY, Mo., March s—Tho j most disgusted man in town is Wil- | liam Dunn, concrete boss and steel | worker. He built the- county’s new I $50,000 jail and was the first prisoner lin it. Dunn supervised sill the eonI crete and steel work and planned to celebrate with the rest of the town I when it was opened. But he started j out with a bottle of liquor, ' a fight and landed behind the bars I which he had so securely pieced a few. days before.
BRANDYWINE MAY BECOME NATIONAL AND STATE SHRINE Pennsylvania Proposes Acquiring Washington’s Headquarters. Bu United Press HARRISBURG. Pa., March 5. The colonial farmhouse which served as the headquarters of General George Washington at the Battle of Brandywine would become the property of the State of Pennsylvania and a national shrine ‘under the terms of a bill now pending in the Pennsylvania legislature. The measure, presented by Sta*.e Senator A. D. McDade, and backed by the American Legion, not only provides that tho farmhouse but the entire battlefield as well, be converted Into a State park. Plan Celebration Plana now under way for a celebration of International scope to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the battle. McDade said in presenting his bill nnd urged notion at once so that the field would become State properW before the date of th< ceremony. The battle of the Brandywine, said to have been the bloodiest of tho Revolutionary War, was fought Sept. 11, 1777. The celebration is planned by tho Legion posts of Delaware, Chester and Montgomery counties — parts of the battlefield being in each county. Original Thirteen President Coolidge and Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania will deliver addresses at tho celebration. The governors of tho original thirteen States will be in attendance and all States which had troops in the battle also will be represented. It was from Washington’s headquarters in the Ring farmhouse that the American flag was unfurled to receive its first baptism of fire, according to historical tradition. The Brandywine battlefield Is situated only a few miles from Valley Forge, another State park and national shrine.
ROCKEFELLER NOT THROUGH WORKING Oil King Spends Two Hours Each Day at Desk. Bu*Unite4 Press ORMOND BEACH. Fla., March 5. —Those who suppose that John D. Rockefeller has left pie world of business for good and is now indulging in the vacation time of life, are all wrong, zealous reporters hero j have found out. Each week day tho 87-lear-old oil] king spends two hours at his desk | tending to important business mat- ■ ters. He determines bis stock purchases and scans the New York stock Ust. An average of eight code telegrams ! a day come to him. They are usual- | ly each from four to five pages long and explain, in detail, it was hinted by a member of bis household, the status of Standard Oil affairs. ’’SWIMS ACROSS OCEAN’ i Hu United Press GLASGOW, March 6.—Thirty I thousand persons gathered at the i wharves here as the result of an an- , nouncement in a college paper that I Miss Anne Dapenny had left New I York a week before to swim ac ross j the Atlantic and was due that day jat noon. The throng grew until in : blocked all traffic Whcr> a small boat j containing, a bag-piper nnd a crew !of three appeared. Behind it swam | ‘‘Miss Dapenny.” who was one of | the men students sit the school. | “The sWim was easy as soon as I got j through the rum fleet off tlic AmeriI can coast,” he said.
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Slaying of American Complicates Dispute Over LandOil Laws. BAN ON ARMS MAY END Revolt Against Calles Might Be Sequel. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March B.—The State Department was waiting today for official advices on tho reported Mexican slaying of F. J. Betanza on a ranch in the state of Vera Cruz. The American ambassador will be Instructed to make represe.itatlons to the Mexican government for appreheriUon and punishment of those resp .sible The ”eported killing of Betanza. associate of Republican National Committeeman Creager, it Is believed may effect United States public opinion regarding the Mexican situation rather than lmpiediately effecting diplomatic relation.? between the two r. untries. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 5. An eventual break between the United States and Mexico appears inevitable unless the Calles government makes major concessions to the State Department’s demands. The department charges Mexican alien land-oil laws arc confiscatory nnd that Mex-' ico supports movements here and in Nicaragua opposing United States foreign policy. 11. B. Creager. Republican national committeeman for Texus, arrived at Mexico City today from La Gloria ranch, Vera Cruz, and said that early telegraphic dispatches describing his murdered companion. Albert Betanza, as an American citizen had been incorrect. Betanza was killed when agrarians fired on the ranch Thursday. The confusion as to citizenship nrose from the fact that Betanza had lived in Brownsville, Texas and in California for several years. Reports that tho United States has definitely decided to sever diplomatic relations and lift the American embargo on arms shipments to Mexico are said to be premature. But there Is every Indication that President Coolidge and his advisers consider the situation grave. Officials denied today there le any thought of war, but they did not deny they are considering lifting the embargo Is a last resort. According to Mexicans such action would result in counter-revolution against Calles and civil war south of the Rio Grande.
REED’S INQUIRY IIJONTUE, (Continued From Page 1) Klan, and never had. and at the conclusion of the statement I asked my friend from Missouri if he thought I had said everything T ought to say, and he said that he thought I had covered the ground. He said, ‘You said one thing that I would not have asked you.’ I said ‘what is that?' He said ‘You said you did not belong to the Ku-Klux Klan?’ I said, ‘Did you think I did?’ ‘Well,’ the Senator from Missouri ‘there are 350,000 or 400,000 of them in Indiana, according to reports, and I have always regarded you as a pretty shifty politician. I did not know whether you had allied yourself with them or not.’ ” Wadsworth Interrupted, and Reed said: “The Senator from New York need not get excited about that. We were having the pleasantest conversation in tho world, talking with each other. I say to the Senator that if wo had that conversation, it had entirely escaped my recollection, but if the Senator says he remembers it, of course, It occurred. Last at Both Ends Watson added: “In the statement I gave to the press I squarely stated I did not belong to the Ku-Klux Klan. Os course. It stirred the KuKlux Klan up when I claimed that I did not belong to them, and repeated it, and reiterated it, and yet on the other hand the Catholics and Jews and Negroes, a grent many ©fJ them, though I did belong, these fellows had appeared before the committee to say I did belong, and the result of It was that I lost, at both ends of the candle.” (Laughter) I lost both ways, simply because of the hullaballoo that had been stirred up In tho public press, without one solitary scintilla of truth in any of it. That Is the fact about it.” FEARED COLORADO PROBE Real Story of Republican Fight Against Reed Disclosed I Bu United Press WASHINGTON. March B.—Fear that the Reed election investigating committee might investigate Colorado elections nnd perhaps, thereby, adversely affect the Republican majority of one In the next Congress was one of the big actuating motives in the heavy filibuster attending closing of the Sixty-ninth Congress. The United Press learned reliably today the real stot v behind the.fight j which tangled the Senate the past i few days and caused nll-nlght I session. Senators had been informed that | Senator-elect Waterman • (Rep.), Colorado, had received wlmt they termed “offside us.dßtance'’ In last* Novem--1 ber's election. The story went that ! Waterman received ?35.000 from j Ghali-man Phipps of the Republican I Senatorial canqwiign committee 1 though Phipps tol l the United Press j emphatically today that the stor.g ! was unfounded and a “pure political | fiction.” Sorno Republican Senators, j however, saw n possibility that a 1 Reed probe might affect their narrow hold next December and wanted | this and other investigations halted now.