Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1927 — Page 3

JUNE 3, 1927

CLASH OF RUSS AND BRITISH IS GERMOF WAR Trouble Far More Deeply Seated Than Observers in America Think. B.v William Philip Simms WASHINGTON, June 3.—lncreasing fear of another world war today is gnawing at the vitals of Europe. The true cause of the diplomatic rupture between Great Britain and Soviet Russia was not any mere act of espionage or the filching of secret documents on the part of Moscow’s agents in London. That served as an excuse. Every embassy and legation the world over is more or less guilty of much the same thing. The real reason for the break is far deeper than that. ' Fosters Hate of Britain In China, in India, in the British East Indies, in Persia, in Africa and elsewhere in the British Empire, Russia stands accused of fostering antiBritish movements and, in spots, these are becoming dangerous. Believing Russia slowly is undermining the very foundations of her empire, Britain has determined to stop Russia, even at the cost of war. Premier Baldwin and Foreign Minister Chamberlain may, or may not, be overestimating the peril; the Soviet Influence may, or may not, be as powerful as British Conservatives believe; that is neither here nor there. Nor is the antipathy between Britian and Russia of recent origin. It .is almost traditional. Only the instinct of self-preservation led the countries to join in a triple entente with France in the years of bickering leading up to the Great War. Even then, the understanding was formal, rather than real. Once Cause of War In 1854 Britain became convinced that Russia aimed at the conquest of Constantinople and the dismemberment of Turkey, whose integrity Britain deemed vital because of her interests in the East. So she declared war, the bloody Crimean War. Russia and Britain have been at cross-purposes wherever paths touched. In Joseph Chamberlain’s day—father of Sir Austen, now Secretary of Foreign Affairs —relations were so strained that overtures to Germany openly were made in the hope of an understanding which might offset the Franco-Russian partnership. The Anglo-Japanese alliance largely was to safeguard British interests in the Middle and Far East, jeopardized, in British opinion, by Russia’s newly acquired naval base at Port Arthur, China. Today, under Communist rule, just as then, under the Czar, Russia and Britain are clashing in China, in India, in Persia, in Afghanistan, in Turkestan and elsewhere, all the way from the Yellow Sea to the Mediterranean. And there may be bloodshed. Opinion in Europe is thfct Britain already has an understanding with at least France and Italy, and that other countries where British, French and Italian influence is felt, are likely to fall into line. BIG PLOT TO SMUGGLE RUSSIANS TO U. S. BARED British Steward Fined—Tells of Cuba Business Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, June 3—Existence of a widespread plot to smuggle Russians into the United States in excess of the immigration quota was revealed by Assistant United States Attorney Graham, prosecuting a smuggling case here. Newton Joseph, steward on the British freighter General Lukin, accused of bringing three Russians on the vessel’s recent trip from was fined S3OO. Graham told the court thousands of Russian citizens were in Cuba waiting to cress into the United Ctates, and that a large business was being done smuggling them. Joseph admitted he was paid SIOO for each alien he could smuggle aboard his ship, Graham said. SENORA CALLES’ BODY TO MEXICAN CAPITAL President’s Wife, Mother of Eight, Dies After Operation. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, June 3.—The body of Senora Natalia Calles, wife of the president of Mexico, will be sent to Mexico City late today. Senora Calles, 54, died late yesterday of a Ijeart attack as she was convalescing from a major operation. At\he bedside when death came were three daughters, Alicia, Natalia and Hortense, wife of Fernando Blanca. The other daughter, Mrs. Robinson, is on a honeymoon trip to New York. Senora Calles also is survived by four sons, Rodolfo, Plutarco, Gustavo and Alfredo. Oral Argument Requested Request for oral argument on petition to dismiss the petition of the Peoples Motor Coach Company for establishment of a bus line on Guilford Ave. from Union Station to Sixty-Third St., was filed with the public service commission today by Attorney Charles B. Welliver, on behalf of himself and other vicinity residents. Hearing on the company petition has been set for June 30, and if grantedy, oral argument may be held before then.

Powder Bu United Press NOTTINGHAM, England, June 3.—When an efficiency expert told him that the girls in his factory powdered their noses an average of six times an hour, George E. Goldier, the proprietor, posted a notice for bidding powdering during working hours..

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Lindy Made Test of Cats Landing on Feet

By Morris Do Haven Tracy United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1927. by the United Press) CHAPTER IV Two cats have won honored places in any story of Charles A. Lindbergh’s career. The first was a pedigreed Angora, aristocrat of the feline family. Lindbergh dropped it from a second-story window. The second was a kitten of unknown antecedents. He treated it with such consideration that he has won commendation of humane societies and animal lovers the country over. In addition to these two cats,! which now have gained such great fame, dogs, horses and animals of every kind have had their places in Lindbergh’s life, for he is one of those men who never is alone as long as there is an animal, preferably a dog, near by. But to dispose of the cats. One of the earliest anecdotes of | Lindbergh was told originally as illustrative of his early development of the experimental urge. Someone had told him that a cat, no matter how far it dropped, would always land on its feet. He was then aged six and the family was living in the upper flat of a “two family house’’ in Minneapolis. The folks downstairs had a valuable Angora. Charlie appraised it and decided that it would be a good bit of material for an experiment to determine the truth of the stories of cats always landing on their feet. Ho captured the took it upstairs and dropped it from a window. “It landed on its feet,” he explained to his mother, when she took him to task for his experiment. The other cat was the one which adopted Lindbergh at Curtiss field, Long Island, New York, while he was preparing to make his transatlantic flight. He proved that his boyhood love of animals was still with him, for he never was too busy to stop a minute and play with the kitten. Often he was seen around the hangars, in those trying days, with the kitten on his shoulder. When, in the excitement of the start for Paris, someone attempted to put the kitten in the machine with him, Lindbergh was not too busy to object. “It may be cold and the kitten might die,” he said as he insisted that, for its own good, it be left behind. But dogs are Lindberg's real companions. Asa youth he wandered through the Minnesota woods around his home, often being gone all day with only his dog for company. He built a boat one summer in Minnesota and on it he and his dog embarked day after day on long excursions over the nearby waters. it was in those days that he became known first as a youth who always traveled alone. He did not dislike the company of others, but it was not necessary lo his happiness and when he was engaged in the thing in which he was most interested, he always wanted to be alone and have all the responsibility himself. It is difficult to say whether this trait was a development of those days of patrolling the woods and the streams with his dog and gun. or whether a desire to be alone was | the reason for such excursions. There was hardly a tree or a nook in the woods around Little Falls, where the family lived, that Lind- , bergh didn’t know by the time he was 15 years of age. He became a crack pistol shot and was also good with a rifle. But a cap pistol was one of his first cherished toys and he always seemed to prefer the smaller weapon. When a student at 'the University of Wisconsin, the only trophy he had won up to that time in any important competition was a medal of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps for pistol shooting. He prized it highly. Lindbergh’s father was always a great admirer of Theodore Roosevelt and he told his son stories of Roosevelt’s campaign in Cuba and of the Rough Riders. Soon Charlie decided that he was a rough rider. He added a horse to his list of animal friends and there followed a year or two of extreme anxiety on the part of his mother as almost daily she saw her son riding wildly through the country, alternating between the characters of a Rough Ricter and a cowboy. During all this time he continued his interest in machinery and was following closely the development of the .airplane. He became a motorcycle enthusiast later, but finally dismantled his motorcycle to apply the engine to a home-made ice boat in which he rode the ice of Lake Mendota. The ice boat came to grief in a collision, but after a couple of weeks it was in commission once more, repaired through the resourcefulness of its youthful builder. He learned to drive an automobHe and his friends say that he is as skillful behind the wheel of a motorcar as he is with an airplane. With the family forced to divide

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its time between Washington and Little Falls, Charles had his difficulties in the matter of his early school-

He attended school part of the time in Washington, then, in the middle of a term, would go back to Little Falls and become a student there. His mother, who was a school teacher before her marriage, and now a widow, is again teaching, spent much time acting as his tutor and it was through her efforts that he was able to keep up in his studies despite the many interruptions. There came a time during the World War when Charles’ father was forced to devote practically his entire time to affairs in Washington and away from home. Conduct, n f the little farm, where the family lived, accordingly fell upon Charles. He took hold of it In his customary thorough manner, but soon decided that there was not enough use made of mechanical power. He set about to remedy the defect. When he finished almost everything around the farm and farm house was mechanically operated and the farm became a center of much interest in the community. About that time he was graduated from the Little Falls High School and entered the University of Wisconsin. He began the study of mechanical engineering, but college was not to Lindbergh's liking. He felt he was not learning there the things he wanted to known. He stood well in mathematics and he was an eager experimenter in the laboratories. But it developed that his interest in experiments was gone when he completed the laboratory work. He disliked writing up his notes and he was continually behind. His main Interest in college was in the pistol shooting competitions. He took only a small part in college life, preferring to be by himself and to follow his own dictates. Finally he gave up college in 1921, without completing his course, and soon thereafter began his amazing career as an aviator. Whisky Care Saved Child, Say Parents

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Laura Jean Smith Mrs. Leah Smith, 744 N. Elder Ave., and her husband “broke a law to save a life,” the life of their baby, Laura Jean. Praising Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom for his insistence that the Wright bone dry law be altered so physicians may legally prescribe whisky Mrs. Smith told how Laura Jean's life was saved. “Our doctor had given up hope for Laura Jean,” the mother said. "My husband and I looked down on the little body that was almost blue and lifeless. He went out and returned with a pint of whisky. It was against the law, but we resolved ter try it as a last resort. “So we gave our baby a diluted dose in a teaspoon. The little heart started beating faster Then we heated some of the liquor and bathed her tiny body, rubbing it briskly. Life returned and today she is a growing girl in perfect health. “Our doctor did not believe in using whisky. When he returned and found that our baby's life had been saved ail he would say' was, ‘Well, something surely did it.’ “I want to say that I'm proud of The Times for the stand it is taking in trying to get such a vicious law prohibiting use of whisky as a medicine changed.” President Grant during his entire term of office, did not make a single public address.

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COOLIDGE WILL TAKE VACATION IN FOE’S LAND Good Political Move Seen in Choice of Vacation Spot by President. By Ray Tucker WASHINGTON, June 3.—ls President Coolidge had selected his summer vacation spot with the 60le Idea of furthering his reputed third-term plans, he could not have made a better choice, in the opinion of national political leaders. Rejecting offers from safe Republican territory, the President has decided to spend three months in the heart of an area where antagonism toward himself and certain of his major policies has been reported by his emissaries. His lodge in the Black Hills of South Dakota will offer an excellent vantage point from which to persuade resentful Republicans that their only hope of prosperity lies in remaining true to him and the Republican party in 1928. Accessible to .Visitors His lodge will be only a few miles from the western border of South Dakota. It will be sufficiently accessible to visitors. Thus he will be within striking distance of the ten States where unrest reigns over agricultural reverses and falling land values. That bill was the West’s formal protest against an administration which, in their opinion, has neglected the farmers in the interests of the industrial and commercial elements of the East. Though President Coolidge vetoed it, he has indicated his willingness to do something similar for the farmer. Fervent reiterations of his plan to aid agriculture, made in confidence or by radio from porch of his forty-room lodge, may go a long way toward suppressing revolt in this region. It even may win certain influential G. O. P. leaders of the West from their attachment to Frank Lowden and Vice President Dawes. Disaffected States Near Contiguous lo South Dakota are such disaffected States as Wyoming, North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska and lowa. Within a rarhus of 600 miles Mr. Coolidge can reach Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. A week-end visit will bring him Into doubtful territory of New Mexico and Oklahoma. The total of convention delegates from these States is impressive. Several must be carried by any Democratic candidate who hopes to make even a respectable run against the Republican nominee. FEET ARE BIGGER I Dancing and Athletics Have Expanded Tootsies. NEW YORK, June 3. —Women's feet are getting larger. For generations the average size of the foot of the American woman has been 48. But the modern girl has outgrown this standard, according to figures published by the Woman’s Home Companion, and the average size at present is nearly half an inch longer and a full size wider than that of a brief decade ago. Athletics, dancing and much walking on pavements are advanced as the principal for the increasing size of the feminine foot. Some accompanying information on footwear includes the fact that women’s feet show less variety In size than formerly. Standardization is apparently in process of evolution. Standard Size A great industrialist, asked how he would apply modern methods of mass production to shoes, replies that he would make only one style and only one size—the average—and compel all persons with feet larger or smaller than the average to go elsewhere and pay higher^prices. 6,006 Hose Styles Women with the particularly dainty feet and men with particularly big ones may therefore some day have to go to the custom bootmaker. On the other hand, this survey of feminine feet and footwear shows that hosiery is defying the standardizes One large company which in 1920 carried 480 varieties—styles, colors and sizes—of stockings now has to carry 6006, because fashion has decreed a profusion of colors. BEN HID IN COLONY 4 YEARS, SAYS AID Witness Admits He Helped Build Trap Door. Bn United Press ST. JOSEPH, . Mich., June 3. “King” Benjamin Purnell, bearded leader of the House of David, religious colony, was in hiding in the colony during the four years he was being sought on statutory charges, a witness testified from the stand today at the State's suit to dissolve the colony. Thomas Atkins, State surprise witness. testified while Purnell was being hunted for alleged attacks on young women members of his colony the elderly leader was sale in “Diamond house.” “He locked himself in the base ment during the day and I helped build the trap door that led to the hiding place,” Atkins said. “At night he had a room above.” Meet After 40 Years Bu't ! nited Press METHUEN, Mass., June 3.— Two brothers met today for the first time in forty years. The Rev. G. Frank Howlctt of St. Mathew’s College, England, visited John Howlett of Methuen, who came to America many years ago.

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The park board said to Frank Woolling, contractor, “You can’t do that,” (meaffing just what is being done in the above photograph). While the park board tried to figure out a

MOTOR INDUSTRY NOT TO OSE COT TARIFF THREAT Statement of C. of C. Official, Denying Rumors About Tax Removal. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. June 3.—The automobile industry does not intend to use the threat of general tariff reduction to obtain elimination of the present tax on passenger automobile sales. This statement was made by Pyke Johnson, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, who said reports of such a plan are without foundation. v Johnson said the automobile industry* is faced with a continually more difficult tariff situation abroad with tariff increases on automobiles recently authorized in Spain and threatened in Argentina. France. Switzerland, Norway and other countries. He said that everything possible is being done to prevent these Increases. but said there.is little sentiment in the automobile industry to seek United States tariff reduc-

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39 TO 41 SOUTH MERIDIAN ST.—“THE CENTER OF FURNITURE ROW”

way of keeping Woolling from completing sidewalks and approaches to a filling station at Thirtieth and Meridian Sts. (above), Workmen in shifts hustled to complete the job.

Poverty Bu United Press NEW YORK, June 3.—A SIOO bill, six $5 bills, fifteen $1 bills, a $2 bill, $5.20 in silver and 127 pennies were found on the person of Bessie Fefiine, 52, one of the city's beggars, when she was searched in a police station.

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Finally the park board gave up and decided to let Woolling go ahead while it tested in court its power to control building within 50 feet of a boulevard. Meridian St., is’ a boulevard at Thirtieth St.

CRITICS PUZZLE OVER PAINTINGS OF COAL DIGGER Miner’s Art Mystifies With Its Egyptian Motif and Originality. Bu XEA Service PARIS, June 3. Great canvases, expertly painted, highly decorative, Egyptian in character, are attracting the attention of scientists and artists tvho seek to solve the mystery of their conception in the mind of the French coal miner who painted them. Augustin Lesage. the artist-miner, declares that one day when lie was alone in a pit he heard voices say ing, "You will be a painter.” He had had no instruction in art. scarcely any education of any sort. B**t he was convinced that the “voices” came from another world, so he bought materials and started to work. Continuing his work in the coal fields and painting at night, Lesage has completed thirty-five canvasses, three of which have been lying in the Paris salon.

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WETS, DRYS SEE NO EXODUS FOR WINDSORLIQUOR Detroit Leaders Believe Drinkers Will Guzzle Right at Home. Bu United Press , DETROIT, June 3.—Both wet and dry leaders in Detroit appear agreed that advent of the liquor area in Windsor has not and is unlikely to materially affect bootlegging here. “There is too much inconvenience to making a trip to Windsor," Commander Leonard S. Coyne of the Charles A. Lnvned post, Ametican Legion, told the United Press, “and the cost would average sls for an individual ‘party,’ which is too great.” v Coyne is a former United State* assistant district attorney and had charge of prohibition cases here for years. Might Entice G. O. P. N "The average bootlegging establishment in Detroit." Coyne declared, “is maintained by the customer who drops in once or twice a week or once a day, for a bottle or two of beer and a ‘shot.’ Coyne saw an immense increase in petty smuggling of single bottles across the, ferry. Usual penalty for being caught is loss of the bottle and a $5 fine. “The change will bring thousands of extra tourists," Coyne added. “I would not he surprised to see it help bring the Republican national convention to Detroit.” Dry Bclitlles Effect The Rev. R. N. Holsaplo, Anti-S iloon League State superintendent, declared that he did not see the Canadian “arrangeinenf" ns having any effect on United States enforcement. "The people who patroize bootleggers here," Holsapple said, "will not be enticed to Canada.” The Ontario statute, according to State Representative Robert D. Wardell, director of the Michigan Moderation League, is a solution of the temperance question and the league will submit a similar proposal to voters In Michigan and more than twenty other States at. the general election.

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