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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
MRS. KERRICK IS
RELEASED FROM
CALF PRISON

LOS ANGELES, Nov. tR-As the
result of the appellate court having
reversed the nanslaughter conviction
of Mrs. Sarah Kerrick, widow OF Tom
Kerrick, she was released on her own
recognizance today by the superior
court. Mrs. Kerrick was brought
here last night from San quentin
prison, where she had served six
months of a one to ten year sentence.
Kerrick was slain during Holly
wood gin party, which was attended
by Mrs. Kerrick and four film extras.
All five were convicted and given
similar prison sentences on the man
slaughter charge All filed appeals,
which resulted in the recent reversal,
and the Quintet will appear in sup
erior court December 2, when the
disposition of their cases will be
decided.
The other defendants are Joe Hunt,
Florence, Ariz. cowboy; Iris Burns,
Anita Davis and Henry Isabel. The
latter was released on bail several
months ago because Of chronic illness
and the others, who had remained
in the county Jail, were released last
week..
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
State Law Enforcement
Department Imprisons 80
IncOmmunicadO.
NORMALLY NEAR
Mines in Southern Colorado
Fields Reported Increas-
ed Forces.

DENVER, Nov. z R-All known
leaders of the striking Colorado coal
miners were held iIlcommunicado in
southern Colorado jails tonight. Start
ing a series Of raids shortly after
midnight, the newly formed state law
enforcement department did not stop
until 10 persons, including all the
prominent I, w. w. chiefs, had been
arrested. Eleven leaders were arrest
ed yesterday ,a /. .1e.,s
With 80 of their leaders imprisoned,
the southern Colorado strikers found
themselves without directing head
today and not a single instance of
picketing was reported in Las Animas
and Huerfano counties.
In northern Colorado and in Ere
mont country the situation was
changing and the first reports OF
organized picketing were reported
from there today. The northern
Colorado pickets prevented the at
tempted opening of the Imperial
mine which had been leased by IS
miners Nearly 200 picketS blocked
the road to the approach of the
Columbine mine in Weld county, but
miners living near the mine reported
for work and the property continued
to operate today. In Fremont county
the plans of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company to reopen the Rockvale
and Coal Greek mines were thwarted
when sthe pickets visited the prop
critics early today No arrests were
made.
The strike leaders now in Jail in
southern Colorado include Roger
F'rancezon, chairman of the national
executive committee Of the I. W. W.;
Christen Svanun, in charge of all
I. w. w. activities in the coal ano
metal mines; Alexander Korr, ma
tional publicity director; Byron Kittc
former publicity director; A. S. En-
bree, national organizer of the I
w. W., and K. Clemons, chairman
of the strike committee in the north
ern Colorado fields
Twenty additional officers were
sworn into the state law enforce
ment department today. when word
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
Witness Says Producers
Would Cut Cost of Cars
Amount of Tax.
TO PROBE LOBBY
Member Ways and Means
Committee Promises An
Investigation.

WASHINGTON Nov. 7 ga prom
ised investigation of the expense ac-
counts of tonorrow's witnesses and
rough handling of the treasury's plan
to continue to collect a tax from the
thousands of persons who buy new
automobiles enlivened today's tax hear
ings by the house ways and means
committee.
While Governor Green of Michigan
was advocating repeal of the estate or
inheritance tax, Representative Rainey
democrat, Illinois, interrupted to ask
if he knew anything about a lobby
seeking such action.
The governor said he did not, and
added:
II paid my own expenses to Wash
ington."
II am glad Of that" snapped Rainey
There's going to be an investigation
of who's supporting that lobby"
'I'm here at my own expense, y
reiterated the governor.
"It's the most expensive libby I
know" continued Rainey. Il proposed
to ask that question to all witnesses
appearing on the estate tax"
The committee tomorrow will hear a
group of witnesses on the inheritance
tax, including members here attend
ing three-day session of the nation
al council of state legislatures. which
seeks, among other things, repeal OF
this levy
Governor Sorlie of North Dakota,
spoke briefly at the opening session
of the council today, favoring repeal
of the inheritance tax. He said 1t
was no longer a war measure, but was
a regulatory law.
Rainey's reference to the estate levy
rnomenta11ly interrupted a running
fire of criticisms by representatives OF
automobile associations of the treas
urys proposal to retain the 3 per cent
sales tax on automobiles.
Heads of the national associations
were supported in their argument by
representatives from local clubs, up
wards of a dozen witnesses declaring
the levy should be repealed.
The group unanimously held thai
the tax, an inheritance from the war
had no place in peace time tax struc-
ture and disagreed with Secretary
Mellon that the levy was necessary, t6
a well balanced tax system.
CONTINUED on Page Ten)
George M Graham, Toledo, Ohio
said the national automobile cham
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
Assistant Attorney General
Denies Charges Of De-
tective.
DENY AFFIDAVIT
Court Says No Complaint
Referred to Was Receiv-
ed BY Him.

WASHINGTON, Nov H9-Back
fires were started today from two
different sources by those who have
come under grilling in the govern
ment investigations Of charges OF
/ jury tampering in the Fall-Sinclair
oil conspiracy trial
William j. Burns, founder Of the
detective agency bearing his name,
gave life to the first with charge
that the only agent who made con-
tact with any member Of the now
rismiSsed jury was not Burns man,
but an eInploye of the government
itself. That employe promptly gave
the "lie direct" to that accusation,
Edward j. Kidwell, celebrated juror
No. IL, got back into the hmeiight
by filing petition with Justice Sid
donS asking for a contempt rule
against the street car conductor and
newspaper reporter who said he talk
ed freely about the uaSe curing the
trial, and expressed the hope Of
getting an automobile block long.
Action on the petition was deferred
/ While these events were occurring
on the outside, the grand jury in
1 qliring into formal charges Of at
tenfpts to influence the jury laid
against Harry F. Sinclair, continued
with it's work, examining eight WITT
nesses and preparing to continue its
inquiry for many more days.
! Burns, chief under Harry M.
Daugherty of the department Of
/ Justice bureau of investigation, was
the first of the days witnesses. He
came out Of the grand jury room
bubbling ever with conversation
which he carried on with newspaper
correspondents for nearly an hour.
: With six of the Burns men who
shadowed the jury as a backfield
audience, the internationally known
detective lauded the virtues of his
own men and startled his listeners
with a demand to know why the
district attorney has not made public
a complaint and affidavit" filed by
his agents with Justice Siddcns last
/ Friday, making charges against
government man,
1.-THE only person who has made
contact with one of the jurors was
a government employe and news
paper reporter" he declared in a
high pitched voice that must have
carried to the grand jurors in a
nearby room.
There was scattering Of the news
men, some heading for District Attor-
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08

MEXICO CITY, Nov. tPl--
The bodies of ArnulfO Gomez,
former presidential candidate, and
his nephew, Francisco Gomez
Vizcarra, who were executed sew
eraI days ago, were buried this
afternoon at the end of long
row of graves in the French
cemetery where lie the bodies Of
General Francisco r. SerranO and
several Others who were slain In
the recent Mexican attempt al
revolution.
General Serrano and IL of his
associates were buried some time
ago in a row side by side, with
General Alfredo r. Quijano at
the end.f Today the row was
extended to incIuhe S;e two
others who paid with tneir lives
for the attempt to overthrow the
Gales government.
The bodies were lowered into
the graves and the excavations
were filled without any services
or other formalities except a brief
funeral Grafton by Vito AlesSiO
RObles, an old friend of Gomez at
whose residence the two bodies
rested in state after they were
brought from Mexico City.
No close relatives OF Gomez
were present, Gomez widow and
children being in Los Angeles,
Calf, and his mother at NavaJ JOa,
Sonora. Several of his friends
gathered at the RObles residence
before the funeTaR procession,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08

BOSTON, Nov. I Ro--Many
agencies lending a helping hand
in flood damaged New England,
with Vermont towns the chief
objective, have turned from rescue
to relief. Efforts to feed and
cIOthe the sufferers bore irlcreas-
ing fruit today as those on the
outside seeking to help the VIC
Tins fought and won over many
obstacles.
Trucks supplemented the faster
airpIanes Of slight carrying capac-
ity, which have played lone
hand in the first succor, flying
with medicine and food to dozens
of towns struck by flood.
There are no roads in many
places for the trucks to use. but
they pushed on anyway and re-
Iieved acute situations where food
was at a minimum.
Bolton, one of ,Ver1nont's chief
sufferers, however, remained cut
off and faced a problem of going
hungry unless a way is found 10
furnish relief.
Major General Preston Brown,
commanding the first corps area,
who completed a survey from the
air Of the situation in northern
Vermont, said tonight that the
problem has become one OF ad
ministration.
He called the flood disaster the
most serious that has come 10
the affected section, and he pai6
high tribute to the spirit of the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
RESCUE TURNS TO RELIEF IN
NEW ENGLAND FLOOD DISTRICTS

people. With am absence of any
thing approaching disorder, he
found the people attacking the
task of reconstruction.
A pressing need, said General
Brown, is to restore roads and
railway tracks that cOmmunica--
tiOn may be established and
supplies transported to those in
need. He threw the forces of
the army into the effort of the
Red Cross and municipal a.Hhor-
tiles.
Troops are assisting civil au-
thOrities in the emergency and
the army is furnishing blankets,
bedding and food. The efforts
of all relief agencies we're cent
cred today in the Winooski valley
where the need was greatest.
Many persons found themselves
homeless in the lower reaches of
the Connecticut river, but their
troubles were slight compared
with those in the north.
To add to the difficulties of
two flooded towns today fire add
ed its burden. At Ludlow, in
central Vermont, and Cambridge,
in the northwest. widely separat-
ed places, flames for a time pre-
sented an added menace. AT
Ludlow the bakery, an institution
it could ill afford to 1Ose, was
burned.
Richford, too, found its bakery
. flooded when a checkup was
made.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
One Killed, II Hurt
In Attack on Soviet
Consulate in China

SHANGHAI, Nov. tA1-Celebration
here of the tenth anniversary of the
bolShevik resolution of 1917 was mark
ed by an attack upon the soviet con-
sulate by white" russians, with r.le
reeultanE death of one person and the
injury of II others.
With the attacking mob dispersed,
police tonight were patrolIing the
neighborhood of the consulate and no
l-lther disorder was expected. How
ever, as an additional safety measure,
heavy police patrols were stationed in
the Chapel district, which is heavily
populated by Russians, in order to
prevent the gathering of further mobs.
The riot began during a reception in
the consular building in honor Of the
anniversary. A group of white Rus
slams, representing the classes that
we're expelled after the bolshevistS
gained control, gathered about the
building. AS the crowd grew and be-
gan surging toward the doors of the
building some of its members hurling
bricks at windows and attempting to
break in the barred door, shots were
fired from inside over the heads of
the crowd. E,
When the first pistol shots failed to
disperse the crowd, the aim was low
cred and individuals began to fall
Police said tonight that one man was
Killed and one woman and ten men
were wounded
A large number of tourists and So
ciety folk gathered in the Astor House
which is a rendezvous for fashionable
Europeans, ana were alarmed by the
firing. The first sounds of shattering
glass drew many of the guests in the
Continued on rage rem
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
MARINES WATCH
OVER ELECTIONS
| N NICARAGUA

MANAGUA, Mic, Nov. (F9-United
States marines and national guard
patrols kept watch over the municipal
elections held through Nicaragua Sun
day No disturbances were reported,
law and order prevailing throughout.
It will be several days before final
results are announced, but the figures
in some of the towns are interesting
In Managua the liberals scored heav--
lily over the conservatives. On the
recorded vote up to this afternoon the
liberals had 3,259 and the conservatives
1876.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
ELECTION TODAY
IN MANY STATES
LARGELY LOCAL
No U. S. Senators Win Be
Chosen and But Three
Representatives
(By the Associated Press

N-ND AADOOSAtSUNIt
Today's off-year elections call for
showdoWns at the polls in less than
a score of states, with interest cen
tered chiefly in state and local is
sues
No United States senators will be
chosen, although three vacancies In
the house Of representatives are to
be filled
Two statcs-Kentucly and MiSsis-
sippi-Will elect governors.
In otherS-NeW York and New
MeXico-voters will pass on constl-
tutional amendments, and by refer
endum in Ohio and New Jersey on
enactments of the legislatures.
New legislatures will be selected
in New Jersey, Virginia and Ken
lucky.
In less than a dozen states, there
will be elections of county, NUM-
cipal and other local officials. Among
the cities having bitterly contested
mayoralty fights are San Francisco,
Philadelphia, Detroit and Louisville
The vacancies in the house OF
representatives we're caused by the
deaths of Representatives Magee, OF
the 35th New York district, and
Stephens of the Second Ohio, and by
the resignation of Representative
Hazlett of the First Pennsylvania
ali Republicans.
| The Republican candidate fo1
congress in the First Pennsylvania
is James M. Beck, former solicitor
general of the United States. He
| has. the Sl1nDOrt of SeD9tOr-elpct
Ware, whose leadership also is
challenged in the Philadelphia may
orally contest,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
: y + * * 4 y 4 * 4 ~ y + Il
Navajo Indian Must
Pay Taxes On Sheep,
Federal Court Rules

X SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7 %
y. Because the United States gov
A.ernment gave the father of Little
y. Silversnith, an Arizona Navajo
y. Indian, two-cwe sheep in 1868,
=. Little Silversmith now believes
* he should be exempt from taxes
y. on the two ewes, / 900 descend
y: ants and exempt from taxation
4; on 100 head of cattle traded for
y woolen blankets sheared from the
* backs of the sheep and woven by
* his tribeSmen.
y The United States circuit court
= of appeals ruled otherwise here
* today, however, and upheld the
* decision of the Arizona federal
* district court.
r.
* * X * 81 * * * u II y y * *
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
MosCOW CELEBRAVEs.

MOSCOW, Nov 7 (#l-A mammoth
military and civil parade, unsurpassed
since the 1917 upheaval, marched
through the main streets OF Moscow
today in celebration of the tenth
anniversary of the soviet revolution
From early dawn masses OF hu-
manity topped with gray-red banners
came marching from Moscow's sub
urbs and adjacent villages, flowing
in an ever-swelling tide that con-
verged on the Red square, where,
amid roaring cannon and bands bIar-
ing revolutionary hymns, they filed
past Lenin's tomb.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
LIFE WITNESSES

Life'S whimsies as noted in the
report of a days news by The As
sOciated Press:
NEW. YORK.-GasoIine-a COM
mon product to the western world
apparently is still mysterious
unknown to large groups of peO-
pies in the far east.
Captain N. Macdonald, Of the
tanker Tecumsen, reporting to the
Standard Transportation company,
owners of the vessel, told of being
forced to put back his ship to
Yokohama and ship a japanese
crew because Of the mutiny of a
Chinese crew who believed a
gasoline deviP' had consumed one
of their shipmates.
The man was burned to death in
a gasoline explosion and the crew.
OF Al Chinese refused to permit
burial at sea for fear of repriSaI
by the devil they demanded
that the ship be put back to YOkO-
hama and that $4,000 be paid to
the family Of the dead man. The
captain turned back the ship, but
chased the crew from the vessel
as deserterS.
URBANA, Ills. - Students who
smoke, crew or drink will not be
eligible for three scholarships at
the University of Illinois even
though they can show brilliant
scholastic records.
Abstinence from these "vices" is
necessary under the terms of
three S1OO awards made by Mrs. L.
G. Gregory, wife of the first presi-
dent OF the university bOard OF
regents, her will reveals.
Three eligible students receiving
the highest grades in preparatory
examinations will receive the
scholarships. :.
KANSAS @CITY--F'Or the iirsyf
time In 20 years, John Caskey,
janitor and keeper of the court
house cats, is taking a vacation,
INT he is leaving the felineS to the
care Of substitute not without
misgivings.
"ThOse cats do more to preserve
the county records than 1 do"
he warned his. substitute in giving
instructions l'r the care of the
mice-kiIlers.7 IF it were not for
them the ,4fJrds would soon be
destroyed.
"It really is risky business for
me to take vacation"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08

Copper firm; electrolytic,
spot and futures, 1876;
lead steady; spot, 6.25c.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
LWW. Strike Leaders Are Jailed in Colorado
Court Refuses Decree
OF Death OF Aviator
In Atlantic Flight

Y LONDON; Nov. (R--An ap-
y lication by Mrs. Leslie Hamilton
4 to consider as legally dead heE
Y husband who vanished in August
4 with Princess Loweh5tein- Vert
\ helm and Colonel F. F. Minchin
y in an attempted trans Atlantic
y flight, was denied in court today.
Y Lord Merrivale, presiding JUS
4 tice, pointed out that only 10
y weeks had elapsed since the
Y plane flew into oblivion, that the
y ocean was wide, and that numer-
y Gus contingencies might arise.
4
Y X X X e y Y = 4 y i. 4 x 4
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08
GOMEZ, BODY LAID SIDE BY SIDE
WITH II EXECUTED COMPATRlOTS

more at the cemetery and in adj
dition to these friends there were
present at the residence, along
the route of march ana as the
cemetery a number of spectators.
There we're no police or military
guards present. ...e.,
There were no demonstrations
at the funeral procession and
burial, although several women
became hysterical at tho grave
side.
Robles in his funeral grafton
praised Gomez highly. Sonora
Francisco Gomez Vizcarra, widow
of ono of the slain men, who
was standing beside the open
grave sObbing, broke into Mysteries
and began to scream.
The cOffinS were carried from
the gates of the cemetery to the
graves on the shoulders of some
of Gomez closest friends. MANY
wreaths and flowers which ac-
cOmpanied the coffins were piled
upon the graves after interment.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. P--Tw
more rebel officers of the Come
forces have been captured and exc
cuted in the mountains of Vera Cru
it was announced today at preSi
dental headquarters. One of tn
rebels was Gen. Fernando Reyes,
long time revclutionist, who ono
fought with Villa. He had not bee
attached to the federal army i
Continued on Page Ten)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-06
Victorious Defeat

Speaking of business, its greatest
figure in this country, if not in the
whole world, has just backed down
for the first time in his life.
You have to admit that if Henry
Ford knows when to start, he also
knows when to stop. Not only that,
but he has an uncanny instinct for
picking the psychological moment.
His abandonment of the chain
store venture was defeat, of course,
but he did it in such a manner as
to appear victorious and come out
the hero.
You can't imagine a better staged
performance than for Henry Ford S
store manager to step bashfully out
before a thousand irate grocers, who
had assembled for the purpose Of
cruising this latest Ford enterprise,
and announce in a most different
way that Ford had decided to close
his chain stores to the public.
No wonder the boys leaped to their
feet with shouts of joy. 1t wouldn't
be surprising; indeed, il the m,e-
jority of them went away with the
firm resolve to buy three fiivvers,
where they had only planned to buy
two, and to buy Fords, where they
had been considering other makes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-06
We Have Company

Just three days ago't the great Chicago Tribune,
commenting upon the present State Of Indiana poll
tics, hazarded the opinion that Indiana was in the
dark ages of political history, that fanaticism and
bigotry and ignorance would the intelligent
to leave the State as soon as opportunity presents
And now Chicago, where that great paper
should be the guide and counselor, the people, over
it's protest elect big Bill Thompson on an issue
of Down with King George"
The outcome suggests that many of the things
which we may have thought to be peculiar to In
diana are general in these United States and that
those who hoped that when this State had beaten
its way back to something of selfrespect in its own
government, all would be we'll, will be disappointed
as they look across the State lines on that happy
day.
1t is difficult for even Indiana to realize the
depths of public thought which would permit the
second greatest city to make the decision which it
did
From distance, at least, Mayor Dever had every
thing to commend him comparison with the former
mayor who goes back to Office.
During the Dever administration there had been
scandals, charges of graft no suggestion that
the politicians and privileges and permits. Under
the former Thompson era these had been prevalent.
Supporting Mayor Dever were the leading educa-
tors, most of the ministers, leaders in the business
and professional world, the thinkers and the doors
OF that city.
With Thompson was the mob and those who
could be aroused to hatred and unthinking malice
and prejudice.
And most of ALL the gunman and the bootlegger,
who represent very large business in Chicago,
were for Thompson.
Instead of an ineffective effort to suppress the
beer runners and the sale of BOOZE the people pre-
ferred to have no effort at all. For that was one
of the promises of the Thompson managers that there
would be no effort to enforce the prohibition laws.
Unquestonably there was a very large percent
of the voters who voted for the wetest candidate
and who tired of beer wars tired Of high prices
for illicit liquors, tired of the ineffective struggle
end who were ready to vote for plain notification
as far as police force and mayor may have power
TO nullfy a Federal law.
At any rate the Thompson election does not seem
to have it in any factor which would lead to the be-
lief that intelligence, honesty, integrity or prnci-
Ile have made any great advance
Chicago openly and boldly proclaims itself dedi-
Gated to the rule by the unfit the casting aside of all
law, the appeal to passion and prejudice and espe-
c-ally to an ignorant fanatcism and bigotry.
II Indiana deserves to be tainted for its political
devotion to fanaticism and ignorance, it is not
alone. If it were true, Chicago might easily be an.
nexed and assimiated without either lowering or
raising the standards.