Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1927 — Page 9

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U. S„ MEXICO TENSE IN CALM ONSTORM EVE Feeling Prevails in Two Capitals That Showdown Is Near. By William Philip Simms, Foreign Editor. Seripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, March 9.—The Mexican-American controversy is still in a highly critical stage notwithstanding the apparent calm. When I left Mexico City last week the air was thick with rumors principally to the effect that as soon as Congress had got safely out of the way, the United States would move fee a showdown. Back in the national capital 1 linu the same undercurrent of expectancy. And the White House spokesman, admitting the issue remains pretty much what and where it was at the beginning, confirms the impression that the present calm is only a lull in the storm. Two Stubborn Men Not the least disquieting feature the fact that the whole question of of this highly explosive situation is peace or possible war between the United States and Mexico now rests virtually in the hands of two men, both stubborn and viewing things from points as far apart as the poles. These two men are American Ambassador James Rockwell Sheffield and Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, president of Mexico. Here is what Mexicans say. of Ambassador Sheffield: ' Honest, but undiplomatic; well-intentioned and doubtlessly believing he is only protecting the legitimate rights of Americans in Mexico, but totally incapable, through environment and by temperament, of understanding that Mexicans also have some rights in Mexico. % And here is what Americans in Mexico say of President Calles: Honest, but stubborn as an army mule. Thoroughly determined to rule or ruin. Now, if these partisan characterizations are fundamentally true — and they are, with certain qualifications and amendments —it is perfectly obvious that the situation remains chuck full of dynamite./ That the Coolidge Administration takes its cue pretty much from Ambassador Sheffield is shown by the fact that following the ambassador’s three trips to Washington to report, j serious crises have resulted from j stiff warnings to Mexico. Revolutions Wait The most likely outcome, if the question is not arbitrated by the two governments, will be the raising of the arms embargo permitting Calles’ enemies in Mexico to buy war materials in the United States. That would revolution as certain as shooting. But a revolution would not necessarily solve our difficulties with Mexico. To the contrary. For not one, but several, revolutions await only the signal from Washington that arms and money are to be had on this side of the border, and once the fires of revolt start burning, Mexico for years to come will be paralyzed under a x-eign of blood and anarchy. Then would come the x-eal crisis leading almost inevitably to armed intervention something certain American concession huntei'S in Mexico have been desperately working for for years.

TIA JUANA WOULD BELIE TO 11, S. ’ but™ERROR Mistake in Guessing Location of Marker in 1847 ~ Gave Town to Mexico. Bu United Press BERKELEY, Cal., March 9.—The resort town of Tijuana, Mexico, together with a strip of Mexican territory lying thirty miles to the south, would belong to the United States today, had not a boundary adjuster in 1847 erred in guessing as to the whereabouts of a stone marker. This was revealed with the recent finding of the marker by George W. Hendry, of the University of California history department. The huge stone, formerly a base for a wooden cross, was set by the Franciscan monks, Palou, famous mission founder, about 1770. Three years later the king of Spain designated it as marking the official boundary between the Spanish territories, Upper and Lower California. In 1847 a controversy developed between Mexico and the United States over fixing of the international border in the district. Both sides finally agreed upon the historic stone which had once divided the two Spanish territories, as the international line. Nicholas P. Trist, Washington emissary, claimed to have been unable to find the marker. He claimed its location thirty-three miles north of where it actually stood. Mexican envoys were willing to abide by his findings. Trist, subsequently, was called back to Washington and his work discredited, but/ strangely enough, both countries agreed on the border line, using Trist’s survey as basis for settlement. Hendry’s discovery was made positive by translation into English of Palou’s diary, more than 150 years old, by the department of history at University of California.

Runaway Girl, 15, Back Home

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Independence sought by Kasia Mahoney, 15, daughter of a justice of the Supreme Court of New York, lasted just five days. While police combed the city under the personal direction of Commissioner McLaughlin, word was received from Cohoes, that Kasia had been found by tile authorities there. Kasia was a precocious child, who was believed to have left home to convince her parents that she could make her own vay in the world. CHOOSES OPI’OSED MAN Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 9.—President Coolidge today gave a recess appointment to Judge William J. Tilson of the middle Georgia district, whose nomination was withdrawn recently after the Senate Judiciary Qommittee voted against confirmation.

Three Faiths Unite in Prayer

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A Methodist minister, a Jewish rabbi and a Catholic priest united in prayer at Übana, 111. Together they wrote a prayer which unites their flocks in “kinship of the fatherhood of God.” The co-au-thors, pictured above, are the Rev. James C. Baxter, pastor of Trinity M. E. Church at Urbana (top); the Rev. John A. O’Brien, chaplain to Catholic students at the University of Illinois (centei Rabbi Benjamin Frankel.

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FOREIGNERS FLEE 1 LOOTING CHINESE; AMERICANS SERVE Women and Children Evacuate Wuhu After Riotous Outbreak. Bu United Press HONGKONG, March 9.—A Chinese mob looted the custom house and Customs Club at Wuhu and foreign women and children there took refuge on steamers, British sources here reported today. Foreign men were prepared to withdraw if necessary. Chinese soldiex-s commendeered the British steamer Wusung but a destroyer intercepted the ship below Hankow, put an armed guard aboard and took the ship to Hankow, where the troops were landed under naval escort. * British reports from Wuhu today said a United States destroyer assisted in the evacuation of women and children. * / Chinese military authorities wej?4 lukewarm in attempts to suppress the rioting at Wuhu, the reports said. A detachment of troops of Chang Tso-Lin, which was attacked by Gen. Chin Yu-Nao, Wu Peifu’s rebellious commander, succeeded today in crossing the Yellow river and joining 40,000 other northern soldiers awaiting an opportunity to attempt to retake Hankow from the Cantonese. Striking workmen today threaten to take over the factory of the British-American Tobacco Company at Chiaokow tomorrow If their demand for an 80 per cent increase In wages is refused. The factory already has been occupied by pickets. CALL TO VOLUNTEERS Floreign Units In Shanghai Get Mobilization Order. Bu United Press LONDON, March 9. —An urgent order for mobilization of the Shanghai volunteers was issued Tuesday night, the Morning Post's cori’espondent there reported today. Authorities did not disclose the reason for the call, the dispatch said. Cantonese troops were reporte to have entered Soochow and Chinkiang, hoping to destroy property on the Nanking-Shanghai railway and cripple communication between the two cities, the correspondent said, adding that credence was given the reports because similar attempts had been made near Shanghai.

WOMEN LOSE IN CONGRESS Lobbying Ladies Able to Put Over Little Legislation. • By Martha Strayer WASHINGTON, March 9. The lobbying ladies won’t cherish many kindly memories of the Sixty-Ninth Congress, second session. Legislation sponsored and worked for by women lobbyists and women’s organizations which was passed could be counted on the fingers of one hand, with two fingers and a thumb left over. The Sheppard-Towner maternity bill, after a bitter fight lasting for days, went through for an extension of two years. This was the pet measure of women’s organizations. Many of them Joined hands in lobbying for it. , The District of Columbia—which means the city of Washington—was given the privilege of having women serve on juries. This, too.xwas a pet women's measure, for which women had fought hard and long. No other hill In which womervwere Interested was passed, and neither of these two successful measures went through as women wanted them. In each case the lobbying ladies had to be satisfied with half a loaf as being better than none. LIBRARY service grows February Was the Busiest Month In Central’s History, The largest figures of service In the history of the Central Library were recorded during the past month, Charles S. Rush, city librarian, reported at the school board meeting Tuesday night. Calls upon the reference department increased 61 per cent over February five years Sgo, Rush declared. "Increases in children’s work, teachers’ special library, business branch and adult circulation, is a very gratifying result of the library’s success.” Rush’s report: Volumes 425,458: eireulation (14 per cent ineftase), 203.058: distributing agencies, 130; home readers, 107.040; catalog cards issued. 10,705; reference Questions answered. 13.112; meeting's held in building. 63: exhibits delayed, 37: books bound and repaired. 10.209. KNICKERS BANNED Bu United Press MIDDLETOWN, Pa., March 9. Knickers have been banned as garb for students in the Middletown school. It is understood that members of the board at a meeting ruled that all girls who violate the rule will not be permitted to attend classes. L INDIANA PLEA SPURNED Bv United nrcss LANSING, Mich., Marcn 9.—Application for extradition of J. W. Hess of Lansing for South Bend police was denied by Michigan authorities today. It was held that insufficient evidence was presented for the extradition.

SHORTRIDGE WORK PROCEEDS

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Excavation at the new Shortridge High School site, Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts., shown after ten days* work, complete except for boiler and fan room sections. Cement pouring will start Monday, to be finished by Oct. 15. according to R. F. Hunt, construction superintendent for the H. R. Blagg Company of Dayton, Ohio, general conutractors. A pile of 100,000 feet of lumber has been received for building the cement forms.

CITIZENS PROTEST OUSTING OF GRAFF (Continued From Page 1) as superintendent. We were defied in our efforts to ren/iove him.” Kern scored the newspaper, declaring they had printed “slanderous attacks” against the three majority members of the board, and inferred that information they had gleaned regarding the situation came from Graff and* Johnson. The brief resolution asked for Graff’s dismissal, effective Immediately, and omitted any reasons for the move. Vote by roll call followed. “The position of superintendent of the Indianapolis schools is now vacant,” was the first remark following the vote, coming from Vonnegut. The action was taken at 9:59 p. m., and the entire “ousting” consumed less than three minutes. Charges “Not Cited” Johnson’s plea that Graff, the board and the public be informed as to what charges the dismissal was based upon went unheeded. “The public Is aware of the situation and desires the action be taken,” Kern declared. “They signified this when they elected us at the polls.” “Was it,in your platform to remove Graff?” Johnson asked. THe question went unanswered, Kern turning It aside by scoring Johnson for his “campaign for villifleatiori in the newspapers.” Joseph B. Thornton, assistant superintendent, was named, In another resolution, acting superintendent until a new official should be appointed* Kern declared the majority group had no one in mind at the present for the job. “We have not been influenced by

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When Wee Miss Muffet disappeared, the Tinies all felt very cheered. They’d found another kindly friend who had a treat in store. Said Coppy, “Well, she’s surely fine. She treats us nice and as for mine, I guess I really like this funny country more and more.” The crowd then saw a hilL near by, and Clowny said, “I guess I’ll try to climb away up tg the top and gaze out into space.” He scrambled off -and made the trip and when he’d reached the very tip, he soon discovered there were many queer things ’round the place. Off to the l£ft and to the right some wondrous buildings rose in sight. They had the queerest sort of towers, that seemed to sadly lean. Wee Clowny stood there, quite perplexed. Said he, where we’ll all go next. I think they’re quite the oddest things that I have ever teen.” And then he went back to the bunch and found them all enjoying

any outside forces as has been stated by the press,” Kern sJid. The ousting move followed a spirited argument between Johnson and Kern as to the relative merits of heating and ventilating systems being installed in Indianapolis schools, Johnson maintainig the majority board members were adhering to the direct-indirect system and not allowing other systems consideration. “We are following the policy established years ago by another board,” Kern declared. He cited other systems as illegal and not meeting the requirements of the State schoolhouse law. Bids Readvertised Heating and ventilating bids for the new Shortridge High School, were ordered readvertised. Kern, buildings and ground committee chairman, reported that specifications had beer, revised to allow bids to be rendered on the split system in addition to the original direct-indirect system as provided for in the plans. The bids will be vertlsed for four weeks to allow split system bidders to complete their own plans in accord with the revised specifications. The action is the result of the State tax board’s order that two or more systems be bid upon when they refused to grant a bond issue covering the $303,351 low bid submitted by Freyn Brothers on the “D-I” system, declaring it exorbitant. The “D-I” system is manufactured by C. C. Shipp, who has been active in unofficial school board affairs and is believed Interested in the move to oust Graff. U. S. FIERB PROCEED Bu United Press FLORIANAPOLIS, Brazil, March 9.—The United States Army’s PanAmerican flight squadron left at 2:25 p. m., today for Sao Paulo.

lunch. Miss Muffet had returned, and now wee Clowny heard her say, "Come on and join us, Clowny, do. The others wouldn’t wait for you.” And then he saw that they were eating bowls of curds and whey. It surely tasted mighty good and Clowny thanked her, as he should, and then suggested that they pick a pretty bunch of flowers. The Tinies all ran here and there and plucked the posies everywhere. Miss Muffet sat and watched them as they worked for several hours. And then they gathered by her side as Scouty walked right up and cried, "We’ve picked these flowers just for you, since you have been so kind.” "Oh, thank you. This is very sweet. Now I’ll suggest another treat. Go down the road and through that field, and something you will find.” >, (The Tinymltes meet Little Boy Blue in the next Story.) * (Copyright, 1927, NilA Service, Inc.)

EARTHQUAKE DEAD TURNED TO ASHES IN FIERYSEQUEL Flames Increase Horror Over Devastated Areas in Japan. Bu United Press TOKIO, March 9.—Wholesale Incineration of dead. Injured and merely imprisoned residents of the Japan seacoastal town of Alineyama occurred a few minutes after an earthquake leveled that town, an eyewitness of the horror told the United Press today. Eyewitness reports of the devastated area of the provlce of Kyoto revealed that the overwhelming terror of the earthquake scene has not been conveyed in its guesome entirety by reports so far received and cabled throughout the world. The immediate area of Mineyama was wrecked by the quake. The story is partly told in the official figures compiled by the Kyoto prefect: Dead, 2,2 7 5; Injured, 4,100. Fire fo'lowed immediately alter the rending movement of the ear h. Flimsy houses collapsed, burying hundreds of occupants. Many of the dead, injured and Imprisoned percould not be released and they died amid the flames which consumed their homes. Everywhere today bodies lay unburied. There were no tools with which to dig graves. Among the ruins of villages and at Mineyama survivors sifted with their hands the ashes of their homes, to recover the charrred bones of their dead. Seventy thousand persons are homeless In the snow-covered southern provinces of Japana, it was officially estimated today as casualty lists in the disaster zone increased hour by hour. Nurses had reached the zone today and blankets and rice were being distributed to sufferers. Sailors from Japanese destroyers were repairing wrecked roads to permit relief workers to reach the interior. A storm swept the stricken area last night, adding to the suffering of the homeless. No estimate of property damage has been made, but heavy loss was suffered by silk mills and ojher manufacturing enterprises In the Kyoto and Kobe districts. Damage to roads, In which great cracks opened up, making travel hazardous, also was severe.

INSANITY PLEA PUSHED Croarkin Murder Defense Puts Alienists on Stand. Bu United, Press CHICAGO, March 9.—Glandular mysteries and various katatonlc states were referred to a group of jurors—composed of a cigar salesman, a street car conductor, and men of nonscience turns —today as the Harold J. Croarkin murder trial moved into its final stages. Croarkin is accused of brutally beating to death Walter Schmith Jr., 6 years old. The first witnesses to be called this morning were alienists for the defense, who contend that Croarkin is mentally unsound, a subject of glandular diseases, and therefore should not be punished. Three defense alienists testified yesterday that Croarkin was subject to dementia praecox of the katatonic type and was a victim of glandular disorders. Girl, 19, and Man, 55, Love Slayer , Charge Bu United Press HENDERSON, Ky„ March 9. The State was prepared to attempt to clinch its qase today against the i9-year-old widow of Elmer Yates and her alleged lover, 65-year-old Ed Powell, who are Jointly charged with Yates’ murder. Yates’ charred body was found last December in the burned ruins of an abandoned cabin eighteen miles from Henderson. Mrs. Yates and Powell were arrested and later released for lack of evidence. They were re-arrested after being indicted by the grand jury, when Ed Ervin, a friend of both Yates and Powell, declared he had witnessed the murder from a field.

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Work in Relays at Artificial Respiration for Seventy Hours. DEATH’S HAND STAYED Patient Better Than at Any Time Since Sunday. Bu United Press EVANSTON, 111., March 9.—A modern battle with death, with thir-ty-five men offering physical endurance and medical science in an attempt to give artificial respiration to Alfred Frick, is being waged today in a white-walled room at St. Francis Hospital. Frick is suffering from paralysis of the diaphragm and cannot breathe, yet for more than seventy hours a group of his co-workers has kept him alive. Indications that the valiant fight being waged was showing results came this morning when doctors announoed: “Frick la in better condition now than he has been since Sunday.” The patient Is conscious. He Is able to speak only a few words, these words are encouragement and thanks to the men who are making life possible for him. One week ago Frick had two teeth removed. He became ill last Thursday and complained of acute pains in his stomach and chest. Saturday progressive paralysis set in and he lost the use of his legs. Sunday morning respiration became next to impossible and Dr. Charles Read, specialist in nervous disorders, announced paralysis of the diaphram was setting in. Breathing Ceased Frick’s respiration ceased entirely at noon that day and three doctors, working two at a time and in exact rhythm, forced artificial breathing and kept life within Frick. 1 The monotonous rhythmic pressing*>n Frick’s chest was holding life in the patient, but the three doctors were tiring. Word passed that volunteers were needed to keep Alfred Frick alive. Co-workers from the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, where the 22-year-old victim worked, volunteered. In groups of two they walked into the room where the wan-faced Frick —a trace of a smile over his rather boyish face—sat strapped in a chair. The stenographers, bookkeepers and salesmen of the power company were given a rudimentary course in science—that of pressing regularly to establish artificial respiration—and the battle with death continued. At first the couples worked for thirty-minute shifts. Then when It became apparent that a protracted fight was on, the shifts were cut to fifteen minutes. Work Without Break Day and night, without a break in the steady pressing, the workers have stood over Frick, maintaining life within him. One pause in the pressing means death, because Frick has no way of breathing save for the constant, untiring work of his comrades. Since Sunday Frick has been able to sleep only fifteen minutes. He is unable ta eat and is nourished with a glucose solution injected into his leg a quart at a time. His illness is diagnosed as Landry's paralysis and is manifested as a paralysis of the spinal cord and lower center of the brain. This has cut off the nerve supply and has paralyzed the chest wall muscles. Medical authorities wore urjahle to say when a break In 'he malady could be expected, as the disease Is rare and the prolonging of life through artificial respiration—for such a time as has passed—ls much more rare. ‘WHITE SLAVE’ REPORT Comfnission Presents Data to League of Nations Council. Biftlnited Press GENEVA, March 9.—Organized International traffic in women and girls exists today, although it has decreased since the end of the war, the League of Nations white slave commission revealed In Its report presented today to the League council. The League’s investigation of the white slave traffic was conducted with funds furnished by the American Bureau of Social Hygiene. Five thousand persons connected with commercialized vice had been questioned during the two years of the Investigation.

Priest Leaves Area in Troubled China

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The Rev. William 11. Munson is one of seven Catholic priests who left Shanghai for the troubled interior of China, Dee. 27. All are reported missing. He is a former Kansas City pastor.

CITY TO MEET UNDERWRITERS’ FIRE POINTERS Board of Safety Head Regards Report Favorable — Recommendations Cited. Major recommendations for the fire department of Indianapolis made in the report of the_national board of fire underwriters, will probably be carried out O. D. Haskett, board of safety president said today. The report which followed ft survey of the department, the first Zincs 1912, is very favorable Haskett said. He declared that he thought that Indianapolis would keep its rating of Class 2, which is as high as any city in the country has attained. The class of the city determines the fire Insurance rates. The major recommendations of the report are: Adoption of civil service recommendations for the fire department; organization of fire department training school; equipment of engine companies in high value district with hose wagon; more extensive use of three-inch hose in high value districts; equipment of each aerial ladder truck with ladder pipe; installation of additional fire alarm boxes; annual testing of engines; equipment of ladder truck with life net, smoke helmets and other such equipment; installation of additional hydrants In congested districts and equipment of training school with drill tower. "Several of the recommendations have already been adopted,” Haskett said. “We have adopted the civil service, organized a training school and bought a large amount of equipment which will he delivered soon." “The new equipment will cost about $125,000,” he said, “and the Installation of new fire alarm boxes will cost about $l5O each.” The fire alarm system was classed as “ancient” In the report. Haskett declared that he had no Idea of Just what it would coHt to install anew Gamewell system, but that the board would consider it. The survey report describes the operation of the police department working in connection with the fire department ns good and offers no criticism. The survey was made by Engineers Louis W. Evans, Harvey T. Munn and William De Rohan, representing the committee on fire prevention and standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.

FUNDS APPROVED FOR IMPEACHMENT Jackson Signs Requests in Spite of Ruling. Although Governor Jackson accepted the opinion of Attorney General Arthur L. Gllliom regarding the alleged unconstitutionality of the impeachment trial of Judge Clarence W. Dearth of tho Delaware County Circuit Court, his signature of tho budget bill today provides funds for financing the trial. Date of tha impeach >ent proce.dings was set by the Indiana Sennte for March 21. Dearth is to appear before the Senators and will he prosecuted by tho House of Representatives board of managers. Acting upon advice of Gilliam and “other attorneys,” the Governor refused to appoint a successor to Dearth. Under the statute an impeached Judge must leave the beneh until after he Is tried. In an opinion of the attorney general, attention was called to the clause providing funds for the Dearth trial should be taken from the Governor's contingent fund, Gilliom declared that this could not be done as the impeachment proceeding is unconstitutional, Jackson indicated that it would be impossible for him to change the text of any Mil before him for signature and that the only thing left for him to do was to sign the appropriation measure. Pay for the Senators for the time the trial takes is provided in an amendment to the measure. FRENCH LINER AGROUND Bu United Press LONDON, March 9.—The French passenger steamer Paul Lecat was aground thirty miles from Woosung, near Shanghai, dispatches to Lloyds from its Shanghai office said today. The Lecat, one of the largest of the passenger ships plying from Europe to the Orient via the Suer Canal, was cn route from Maneilles to Yokohama. It usually carries 500 or more passengers, but the size ofthe passenger list this trip was unknown. It is a 13,000-ton vessel owned by the Messngerles Maritime Company. Tugs were sent to ite assistance.

Success Leads to Man f s Death Bu United Press FT. WORTH, Texas. March 9. —T. S. Cline, 55, prosperous Texas swine breeder, fell dead at the fat stock show here late yesterday, because hla heart wouldn’t stand success. When judges announced that Cline'a barrow pig had won the grand championship, Cline fainted but was resuscitated by standers by. But when the announcement was made his pen of three pigs had won another grand championship, CUne fell dead.