Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1927 — Page 3

DEC. 1, 1927_

WORLD FRENZIEDLY’ HEADED TO WAR, RUSSIA WARNS

SOVIET’S NOTE HERALDS NEW GIANTBATTLE Pacifists and Diplomats Are Derided in Warning to Parley, ‘HEAP UP, ARMAMENTS’ Hopes Revived by League Painted as ‘Chimerical’ and Futile, By HENRY WOOD TTnJted Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Dec. I.—Russia today followed up her demand for immediate and complete disarmament by handing the preparatory disarmament commission an eleven-page memorandum predicting anew and unprecedentedly gigantic war. The memorandum was handed in by Maxim M. Litvinoff, foreign undersecretary and head of the Soviet delegation, who Wednesday presented a demand for disarmament. After ' denouncing efforts to fix the guilt for the start of the last war, the new memorandum declared that such discussions aimed not to find the real origins of the war, but to seek a pretext for waging it. Deride Pacifist Rules Roles played by liberals and pacifists in postwar diplomacy were derided in the memorandum. "Their catchwords numbed. the consciences of hundreds of thousands of people,” it declared. The memorandum detailed World War casualties and postwar debts. “Despite that disaster,”, it continued, “the world is frenziedly heaping up new armaments, while the League of Nations is reviving chimerical hopes.” Dissensions cropped up at the outset of the first meeting of the League of Nations security commission today, when French and Greek delegates tried to revive the defunct Geneva protocol- The protocol would have formed a sort of international police force to wage war on warlike" nations. Lord Cushendun, chief British delegate, in his first speech at a League of Nations meeting, moved promptly to crush the attempted revival. In security commission sessions will be fought out the action of the i League of Nations’ preparatory disarmament conference on the proposals of Russia and Germany for the convening of the disarmament conference in March. With many important elections taking place in the twenty-three nations represented at the conference during the coming year, it was understood a majority of the delegates were said to be for postponement until autumn of 1928. Remains Aloof The commission is to draft a form of treaty that will guarantee mutual protection against attack, and so make it possible for European nations to reduce their armaments. Conferences have been held be. tween the American delegates headed by Hugh R. Wilson, American minister to Switzerland, and the leaders of t£e meeting. Efforts were made to persuade the United States to send an observer to the security committee sessions like the Russians, who also are not members of the League of Nations. Washington officials, it was understood here, will abide by their original refusal to participate in the sessions of the security committee even to the extent of sending an observer.

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Robert G. McClure, secretary of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in the Valley of Indianapolis, who died Wednesday night of heart disease. Funeral services will be held Friday from the First Presbyterian Church.

MID-WEST HELD IN ZERO CLUTCH M I ■■■■— ■ 0 Snow, Floods and Biting Winds Reported. Bu United Pro's The Middle West shivered today in the coldest weather of the season, with temperatures in many sections below zero and forecasts predicting even lower marks before the weekend. / Strong northwest winds, sweeping out of Alaska and Canada, sent thermometers tumbling after several unseasonably warm November days. A drop of more than forty degrees was reported in some places. Snowfall, rapidly rising water, and disrupted wire communication and transportation added to discomfiture in several sections. Indiana probably was the most severly hit by the sudden turn. A biting sleet storm isolated the central part of the State for a time yesterday by disrupting telephone and telegraph service and halting train movements. Snow fell in Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and parts of Illinois. The fall in parts of Missouri was said to be the heaviest since 1906. Cold Weather Hits City The frigid weather which descended on Indianapolis from the Northwest will continue today and tonight and temperatures will be only slightly higher, B_to 10 degrees, Friday, J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau head predicted today. Lowest temperature of the night was 24 degrees at 6 a. m. Friday night’s temperatures will be about the same as last night, Armington said. Indiana Trains Halt WABASH, Ind., Dec. I.—Flood waters from the Wabash river forced suspension of traction service between Peru and Huntington today. Passengers are being transferred between the two points by bus. Temperatures of 18 above zero lessens probability of further flood damage. RULE ON LAKE SEWAGE Stale Health Board to Issue Orders Governing Disposal. State board of health orders governing installation of sewage disposal systems in towns bordering on Lake Michigan will be issued within a week, Dr. W. F- King, health board seoretray, announced today. Officials of ten lake cities coniferred with Dr. King Wednesday.

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DEATH CLAIMS SECRETARY DF •SCOTTISH RITE Robert G. McClure Services to Be Friday; Burial / in Tennessee. Funeral services for Robert G. McClure, 65, of 1723 N. Delaware St., secretary of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in the Valley of Indianapolis, will be held at 3 p. m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. George A. Franz in charge. Members of the Ancient Landmarks Lodger F. and A. M., and the Scottish Rite male quartet will assist. Thirty-third degree Masons will attend in a body. Burial will be at Lewisburg, Tenn. Death Upexpected Mr. McClure died suddenly at his home Wednesday night. Friends believe the strain of preparation for the corner stone, laying ceremonies of the Scottish Rite cathedral hastened death. . Tuesday afternoon after he attended the ceremonies, Mr. McClure said, “I have worked hard for this event and it is with a feeling of relieved satisfaction that I view the culmination of the work.” Wednesday afternoon he had driven-" home from the cathedral, 29 S. Pennsylvania St., and told his wife to summon a doctor. He was dead when the physician arrived. Heart disease was believed to have been the cause. Mr. McClure was born May 29, 1862, in Lewisburg, Tenn. His father. Dr. Robert McClure, died at Lewisburg in 1881, and his mother, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Ewing) McClure, died at Anniston, Ala., in 1906. Educated in South Mr- McClure wa3 educated In Lewisburg public schools and attended the University of Mississippi and the Southwestern Presbyterian University at Clarksville, Tenn. He entered the employ of a Nashville (Tenn.) music house in 1882, and in 1884 he married Miss Jane Locke Bradford. I'he same year he accepted a position with another music house in Nashville, and two years later went with the Bank, of Commerce in Kansas City, where he stayed two years. ' In 1888 he became a salesman for the Standard Oil Company in northern Missouri, and in 1891 was special salesman for Missouri and Kansas. He was made auditor of the same territory two years later. In 1894 Mr. McClure was transferred by the oil company to New Orleans, where he worked a year. He resigned to practice law in Nashville. He was senior law-part-ner pf his firm and owner and publisher of a newspaper from 1896 to 1897, Comes to Indianapolis A year later he was named sec-setary-treasurer of the Indiana branch of the National Refining Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and had headquarters in Indianapolis. He was president and one-fourth owner of the American Oil and Refining Company from 1902 to 1904. In 1902 Mr. McClure joined the Indianapolis Commercial Club and was elected secretary in 1904, serving seven years. In 1909 Mr. McClure was worshipful master of the Ancient Landmarks Lodge, No. 319, F. and A. M., and served as thrice potent master of the Scottish Rite in 1918-1919. On May 7, 1919, he was elected secretary of the rite, to succeed Francis T. Holliday. He was made a thirty-second degree Mason when he was elected honorary member

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Elsie James Because her sweetheart “seemed so cold,” Elsie James, 17, of 826 Shelby St., took poison Tuesday night. Her condition at the city hospital is critical.

of the supreme council, Sept. 19, 1922 Memorial Friday Mr. McClure was a member of the Murat Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He was initiated by the Purdue chapter of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He was a deacon of the First Presbyterian Church, a member of the Indianapolis' Whist Club, Southern Club, Athenaeum and the Board of Trade. Friends may view the body 12 to 1 p. m. Friday, at the Hisey & Titus funeral home. A memorial service will be held at 10 a. m. Friday, by the Scottish Rite for members only at the Cathedral with Dr. Lewis Brown, chaplain of the Indianapolis chapter of Rose Croix and pastor of the St. Paul’s Episcopal'Church, in charge. . Surviving him are his wife, a son, Dr. Robert Locke McClure, Brownsburg, Ind.; three sisters, Mrs. Leila Harwell, Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Carrie Knox, Anniston, Ala.; and Mrs. Mary Hotchkiss, Tacoma, Wash. ‘SHOOT’ MOVIE TONIGHT Public to View Taking of Jr. C. of C. Comedy Interior Scenes. Interior scenes for the Junior Chamber of Commerce movie exposition comedy will be taken tonight at Tomlinson Hall. The public will be admitted without charge. Characters added to the “Our Own Gang” cast Wednesday night include Robert Shutt of the Sanders theater district, as "Wheezer,” and Edwin Russell, Stratford theater district, freckled boy’s part. An automobile crash scene will be staged downtown, probably Friday.

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EUROPE CLINGS ON WAR BRINK FOR ONE NIGHT I Poland’s Dictator Decides on League Appeal Instead of Massing Troops. Bit United Press WARSAW, Dec. I.—For one night last week, it was revealed today, Europe was on the brink of disaster—a mobilization of troops similar to that which precipitated the World War. Marshal Pilsudski, dictator of Poland, in an interview, declared: “When I received word during last week’s crisis that Lithuania was mobilizing I meditated throughout the night whether should mobilize to forestall attack. Decide on Appeal “Finally I decided instead to appeal to the League of Nations.” What might have happened had Poland mobilized her powerful army can only be conjectured. The most critical situation since the World War had arisen. France and Jugoslavia on one side and Italy and Albania on the other were squabfiling and exchanging charges of bad faith over their “defensive” treaties. Lithuania was complaining that Foland intended to attack her and seize more territory. Situation Like 1914 Russia declared openly that she could not remain disinterested in the event of such an attack. France is Poland’s ally, bound by treaty to help her if she is attacked. But for the League of Nations, the situation was that of 'July, 1914. Then, while peaceful-minded men did their utmost, Europe’s great armies, one by one, mobilized for “defense,” and the greatest war in history was on. Historians still disagree how it Started. Auto Kiiis Aged Woman TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 1 Mrs. Anna Duenweg, 79, is dead of injuries suffered Tuesday night when she was struck by an automobile driven by Fred Willis, student at the Indiana State Normal School. ANY BANK ANYWHERE WILL PAY YOU SI.OO IF “END-O-CORN” DOES NOT RID YOU OF CORNS No matter what kind of corns you have, whether vascular or common, no matter how many other remedies you have tried, no matter your age or occupation, "END-O-CORN” will clear your feet of corns and callouses. If It DOESN'T, then cash our guarantee certificate at ANY BANK IN THE UNITED STATES. "END-O-CORN” has been tested and Indorsed by the following druggists, but If they are not near you and your neighborhood druggist doesn’t have It, write to END-O-CORN LABORATORIES, 4 Garfield Blvd., Chicago, and we will see that you receive a Jar. Haag and Goldsmith Drug Stores —Advertisement.

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DAWN BANDITS BUSY Another Filling Station Held Up ‘Before Breakfast.’ Two youthful "before breakfast” bandits staged their second hold-up in two days this morning and got S4O at the Silver Flash filling station, Thirty-Eighth St. and College Ave. One of the youths covered him with a revolver, when he went up to their automobile, Attendant Donald Casper, 1997 Hillside Ave., said. The bandit with the gun followed him into the statioi! and forced him to hand over the money, he said.

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6 COUNCILMEN m FACE CHARGES NEXT MONDAY Real Estate Dealer Said to Have Given Bribe, Also Faces Court. six city councilmen will be arraigned before Criminal Judge James A. Collins Dec. 5 oh bribery charges. They are Millard W. Ferguson, Walter R. Donistt, Boynton J. Moore, Otis E. Bartholomew, Claude Negley, president, and Austin N. Todd. There are two indictments against Dorsett and three against Moore and Bartholomew. Martin Frankfort,' local real estate dealer, alleged to have distributed money to councilmen to vote rezoning the northwest comer of Meridian and Twenty-Seventh Stsfor business, also will be arraigned. Defendants are expected to ask for a change of venue. All will file motions to quash, it was said. The councilmen are alleged to have accepted money tfo influence impeachment proceedings pending Oct. 15 against former Mayor John L. Duvall. They also are alleged to have accepted the rezoning meney and to have been bribed for voting for purchase of certain fire apparatus. Indictments were returned in two groups. Those against Todd and Negley, and additional ones against Moore and Dorsett were filed ten days ago, before the grand Jury took a week’s recess.

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