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alton as a nominee Of the G. Q. P. next
year has benn that he is a friend of the
farmer and favorable to the principles
Fof the McNary -Haugen bill. His boom
so far has been largely centered in the
corn and wheat belts. Vice President
Dawes has been regarded as the
residuary legatce of the Lowden
strength in the next Republican
national convention If and when it be
mated And the Vice President, too.
\ of the McNary-Haugen bill. sitting in
ut the last session to help
iparfect the measure.
The unrest Of the farmer in the
! Middle West and the West. where
Republicanisn1 has been strong, has
become a source of hope to the Demo
Gratis. They see union of the South
and the West, at times, to defeat the
/ Republicans in the national election,
with the farm problem as main
tissue. For that reason some of the
democrats in Congress may be anX-
ious also to prevent the passage of
farm legislation at the coming session.
But to prevent farm legislation may
be a dangerous game for the Demo
Gratis or for the supporters of Mr..
Lowden or Vice President Dawes.
Secretary Jardine is convinced of
the efficacy of the measure which has
been made public. Indeed. he is con-
fident that had the bill been a law last
year the cotton farmers would have
been saved millions Of dollars, and
that other producers Of staple crops
would have Jared better.
Provisions of Bill.
proponents OF the new bill, is to ed
ucate the farmers to the value of the
measure in dealing with the surplus
crop problem as Il means of STABILIZE
ing prices. The bill provides for the
careful scrutiny of crop conditions by
the Federal Farm Board. for the es-
adjustment of sterilization corpora
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lem as an issue from the next cam.
paign. II 1t be accomplished cannot
fail to have a far reaching effect upon
the nominations for President and the
result of the national election. One Of
the criticisms in the West OF Secretary
Hoover Of the Department Of Com.
merce has been that he stood firmly
against the McNary-Haugen bill with
the President. If the farm problem
has been settled by congressional legis
lation for the time being, the issue
cannot lie against Mr.. Hoover next
year. The same would be true in the
case of Charles Evans Hughes, former
Secretary Of State.
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Senator Fletcher said he would OBJ
ject to the appointments as having
been made by the administration
"to take care of" the former members
of the War Finance Corporation.
Inundated
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following a statement by Senator
Fletcher, Democrat. Florida.
Recess appointments have been Civ.
en- Eugene Meyer. former chairman OF
the War Finance Corporation, and two
of his associates. George NJ. Cooksey
and Floyd r. Harrison.
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WILL FIGHT NOMINEES.

Indications Of fight against con.
firmation of three nominees for the
Farm Loan Board doomed last night
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FEDERAL FARM AID
PLAN SEEMS NEAR;
EARLY ACTION LIKELY

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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
BULLETS FLY THICK AND FAST
AROUND CAREER OF DIPLOMAT
IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF WORLD

WASHINGTON, March 19 P-Fred
Morris Dearing, one time district
school teacher of Columbia, Mo-,
career diplomat and former assistant
secretary of state, whose legation at
Lisbon was recently 'shot up'' during
a revolutionary outbreak, is stormy
petrol of the state department.
Whenever bullets fly thickest in
riot or revolution at some foreign
capital, it seems that Dearing,
man of medium stature and evident
physical frailty, is most likely to
be found.
He received his baptism of gun
fire in Havana, in 1906, when Presi-
dent Palma was put out of office.
He had gone there as secretary to
the minister, but soon became secre-
tary of legation, thus beginning his
long diplomatic career.
He found himself in the path of
revolution for the second time at
Mexico City, where, during the de
cena Tragica,' or tragic ten days,
the embassy was under fire almost
continuously More tranquil years
followed, and then having married
Dorothy Sittenham, of New York,
he took his bride to Petrograd in
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
| aris Now Censoring
Noted Spicy Reading

PARIS, Mar. 10 (RO-Paris is act
ually censoring some of it's light lit
erature"
Scores of newspaper stands on the
boulevards have been closed for from
one to three days for selling a certain
collection of frivolous" stories Other
vendors have been fined for displaying
periodicals whose covers are quite
realistic.
I'VE don't read these things" some
vendors told the police, $50 we don't
know what is in them. We buy them
because the foreigners want them
What stirs adverse criticism of this
censorship in the main, however is that
scores of book-shops devoted almost en-
tirely to books that are barred from
the American mails, flourish. Many
of these stories also are in arcades
and side streets where tourists seldom
go.
Not only have these places been in
existence for generations but we'll
known periodicals whose illustrations,
text and advertisements all would be
banned under the most primitive cen
sorship, are everywhere displayed and
sold
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20

everything should be left just as
it was until the police arrived He
picked up the telephone 1t was
out Of order He ran to a neighbor's
house and called police.
Patrolmen came in a hurry They
examined the sun room thoroughly.
When detectives from the central
office looked for fingerprints they
found many-but all were prints of
the. patrolmen.
Mates story UnshaI1en
DR.. Loomis was arrested and ques-
toned closely But, the detectives
We're unable to shake a single detail
of his story.
They asked him where he went
on his three quarters of an hour walk,
and how fast he walked. He told
them. A policeman took the same
walk, at the same pace-and found
it took just 45 minutes.
Telephone company records show
that DR.. Loomis' phone was listed
as out of order from 9:O5 to $3.50
o'clock, as Loomis had said.
They asked why he had blood
stains on his overcoat his gloves
and his hat. He replied that these
came when he stopped to pick up
his wife's body.
They asked him why there were
no bloodstains on the telephone re-
ceiver He replied that he had re-
moved his left glove when he tried
to use the instrument.
DR.. Loomis was released on a writ
of habeas corpus, the court finding
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
Swiss and Italians
Take Tourists Away


PARIS, March 10 P)-Mussolini and
the Swiss republic are hurting the
hearts of many thrifty French ho.el
keepers.
mo taxes and no trouble" for
tourists, billboarded over the country
by the Italians and Swiss, is damaging
Frances tourists trade. The caustic
things said of Americans and other
foreigners also help
Premier Poincare and the chamber
of deputies had sad session recently
listening to the troubles of tourist
resorts. It was agreed that foreigners
were few and that something must
be done. Deputies told the premier
tourists generally left just before the
375 franc tax became effective and
that others avoided the country be-
cause of the tax and the annoying
formalities. The tourists, they said,
are going to Italy, Switzerland and
other countries.
Poincare said the foreign office had
opposed the anti-f@eigner legislation
and that various governments had
protested.
=.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
SECOND A. E. F.
.MOBILIZINC FOR
PARIS EXCURSION
September 20 Is To Be
One Grand Holiday In
French Capital.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 10.-
September 20 is to be one grand
holiday in Paris.
Shops will close and the populace
will turn out in formal welcome
to 10000 of Uncle Sans veterans of
war-members of the American legion
lin the French capital for the ninth
annual convention of the legion.
Americans will stream into Paris
several days before the opening of
the convention, finding their tenn
porary homes in the many hotels of
the French metropolis.
But on the goth they all will be
there to make a grand march down
the Champs d'Elysees, before the
eyes of their wartime commanders,
who will sit in the reviewing stand
near the Arc d'Triomphe.
The convention opens on the 10Th
in the Palace Trocadero, on the Seine,
across the river from the worlds
tallest construction--Eiffel tower.
For two years a France convention
committee, of which Bowman Elder
is national chairman, has been work
ing on plans for the movement of
the peace-time army. Travellers will
go on chartered ships from Montreal,
New York, Boston, Hampton Roads,
Charleston, New Orleans and Gal
weston. Landings will be made at
three French ports-Havre, Cherbourg
and Boulogne-and one Belgian port
Antwerp.
Upon arriving in debarkation ports
the army of legionaires will board
special trains, numbering more than
half a hundred, to speed on to Paris.
In the reviewing stand on parade
day will be General Ferdinand Foch,
General John j. Pershing, General
Gouraud, military governor of Paris;
Howard p. Savage, national COM
mander of the legion and commander
in-chief of the Second A. e. F."
and many other noteworthies.
The Trocadero, in which the con-
vention sessions of the legion are
to be held, was built in 1873 by the
French government and is used as
a place for all sorts of exhibitions.
The Palais d'Orsay one Of Paris
best hotels, has been obtained as
the convention headquarters for the
$40 and g." The Continental hotel,
long familiar to American travellers
in Europe, will turn over it's ball
room for convention sessions of the
American Legion auxiliary. General
headquarters of the legion will be
at the Hotel Crillon.
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the pubs after the churches are
closed The idea is to provide the
kind of Sunday evenings such as
we should like to have at home"
Mr.. Walker added that the club
had already proved itself a success
as definite social institution and
that it was proposed to open new
centers in other towns as rapidly as
possible.
The musical program Is given in
the church's lecture hall, and on
the inaugural night consisted of
pieces by an all-girls band, songs
by a popular local baritone and
soprano, and humorous sketches.
The young people sit at small
tables containing copies of magazines
and popular weeklies. In corner
is a bar where sandwiches may be
bought for two pence each, packets
of biscuit for a half penny, and
also tea, coffee, lemonade and other
light refreshments.
Mr.. Walkers announcement of
intention to open the club was made
after the hearing of summonses
against SO boys and girls who had
been charged with street obstruction
and fines of about go cents were
imposed in the majority of the cases.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
PASTOR HAS CABARET IN CHURCH
TO COMPETE WITH CORNER PUB"

WOLVERHAMPTON, England, March
10 (P)-It was because this town had
been voted as absolutely dead" on
Sunday nights that the Rev. G. D..
Walker decided to transform the
Presbyterian church into a Sabbath
night club so as to compete with
the corner pubs"
One of the cardinal rules is that
religion is not to be discussed, the
pastors idea being to arrange an
entertainment which will appeal to
young men and women and keep
them off the streets after nightfall.
Mr. Walker, explaining the purposes
of the Sunday night club and cabaret,
said he had been prompted to organize
this form of entertainment to give
the "boys and girls something to
do on Sunday nights other than stroll
about the streets and make remarks
about the passers- by"
"Wolverhampton is absolutely dead
on Sunday night as you all know,
and there's nowhere to go except
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
Motor Tax Brings
Back Heavy Horses

LONDON, March 19 [P)-Shire horses,
weighing ton each, and more, as
they did in pre-Roman days when
their ancestors drew ponderous war
chariots over the hilly roads, had
three days to themselves at the
Royal agricultural hall here, where
oats replaced gasoline in the filling
station which was part of an auto
mobile display a few days previous
Shire breeders claim that the heavy
draft horse is coming back because
of the higher tax on the motor lorries
Henry VIII was the first monarch
to recognize the "greate horse" as
he established a royal stud in which
they predominated Queen Anne was
also an enthusiastic admirer of the
Shire and had her gilded coach
drawn by long-tailed mares of that
breed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
Mems Suits in Red
and Yeuow Sunshine
Featured for Spring

LONDON Mar 10 (R)-
: Tomato red suits will be worn
by brunette men on Pfcadilly
this spring if the recommend
ations Of the National Fedora
tion of Merchant Tailors are
accepted by the public.
There also will be sunshine
yellow for men with whose
coloring it harmonizes. This is
the newest shade which James
Weddell, the president of the
Federation, has espoused.
Raisin purple also is very
generally offered by fashion
able tailors, who are giving
. more attention than ever be-
fore to giving men suitings
which do not clash with their
compilations. Browns are
shown in a great profusion of
shades, many of them very
bright. In fact, suitings are
much brighter than they were
for winter and London tailors
are trying to convert their GUS
toners away from the tradition
al dark grays, blues and
browns which make London
streets so drab.
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Gambling Halls Take
Risk Of Bad Checks

PARIS, Mar. 19 ((R)-Bogus checks
are legal tender when given to gamb-
ling casino in France. It's a "caveat
emptor" for the casino.
The Court of Cessation, the highest
tribunal has established a rule in a
test case. A Monsieur Lambert of
Annecy bought chips with checks for
which there wer no funds. Issuance of
such checks in France is criminal Of
fense, far more severely punished than
in the United States.
Bad checks are bad checks, the court
held, but gambling debt is uncollect-
able through the courts, therefore a bad
check given for chips which then are
used for gambling is outside the law.
The gambling legislation even stops
collection of loan or advance made
by third party when it is known the
money is for gambling,
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there was no evidence against him.
His release came after there had
been widespread expressions of indig-
nation over his arrest. Friends signed
petitions expressing complete conf
dence in him.
There the case stands.
The $100 Dr. Loomis says he, gave
his wife has not been found. But
two diamond rings on her hand were
not touched
No trace of the club with which
she was killed has been found.
Probing the doctors past, detectives
learned he was born in Brooklyn,
Mich, on farm; studied medicine;
entered New York hospital as
inferno; met Grace Burns, nurse,
and married her.
Ideally Mated
In Detroit, Dr. Loomis had a pros
porous practice.
Friends said the physician and his
wife were ideally mated, fond of
each other, of their home, of their
two children.
The children have not been told
of the perfect crime.'' They play
together happily at the home of DR..
Loomis' mother, hoping their own
mother soon will return.
But she will not-for she was the
victim of what may prove to have
been the perfect crime" at last.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
ALOOFNESS OF
SCHOOL.MATES
ANNOYS QUEEN

PORTLAND, Ore Mar 10. (P)-
There are woes with the honors one
wins in beauty contest, laments
Miss Maxine Jennings, II year old
school girl, who was Miss Portland,
Oregon" in the last Atlantic City
competition.
Her plaint is that since she returned
to her school desk she has sensed
aloofness and an air even of unfriend-
liness on the part of her school
mates
How to overcome this has been
great problem. She wants her asso-
ciates to feel that she is Just her
own plain self; that the plaudits of
the multitudes have not changed her
from being only "a school girl for
all that"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
Tax Collector Says
Scots Best Payers
In United Kingdom,

. LONDON, Mar. 10 (R)-
Jokes about stingy Scotsmen do
not go with Sir Stanford
London, an old time tax collect
or, who says that the dwellers
north of the Tweed are the best
tax payers in the kingdom.
Actors and sailors, partly be-
cause of their occupations and
temperament, are the most diff
ficult persons from whom to
collect the income tax, asserts
Sir Stanford who entered the
inland revenue service in 1881
and has just retired from the
position of chief inspector of
taxes.
"It has been my experience
that Scotsmen always pay up
quicker than any one else" Sir
Stanford explained, although,
. it has been suggested, this may
be partly due to the lear of in
curing additional expense by
contesting the demand and hav-
ing to spend more money in the
end
Jewish people are no worse
than Englishmen as tax payers
says the collector, who added:
"The only difference is that
when pressed, the Jew invaria-
. bly, has the money-while a
great many others have not.
Chinese, too, pay up promptly,
when they realize there is no
other way out.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
Strive To Eliminate
Odd Sizes In Mails

WASHINGTON, March 10 R-Odd
sizes of mail matter cause a rift
in the smooth running Of the postal
machine. AS a result, the postal
authorities are striving to eliminate
from the mails the large and small
Christmas, New Year, Easter and
other special cards.
Progress has been made, but in
structions have gone out to post
masters to continue their efforts with
manufacturers and distributors to
keep the cards within reasonable size
The smallest size recommended is
3-4 by 4 inches; the largest by
inches.
Cards and letters beyond those
limits are Objectionable because they
cannot be run through cancelling
machines, requiring hand postmaking
and other extra work.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
CALL MURDER DOCTORS WIFE PERFECT CRIME
NO CLEW IS LEFT
BY MURDERER OF
PRETTY WOMAN
Sherlock Holmes Would Be
Puzzled In Solving Bloody
Mystery.

DETROIT, Mich, March 19-The
perfect crime
The crime Sherlock Holmes used to
say never could be committed
Did it become a reality here when
Mrs. Grace Loomis, beautiful and
socially prominent, was beaten to
death in her handsome suburban
home, scant block from a police
station?
Sherlock Holmes, master mind at
solving crimes done in fiction, con-
tended a murderer could mot fail
to leave some clew that ultimately
would lead to his arrest.
Right, Maybe. But
Perhaps Holmes was right. But
Detroit's homicide squad" as cap
able as any in America, has worked
day and night on the mystery of the
clubbing of Mrs Loomis a few weeks
ago.
Their net progress toward solving
the death riddle is
Exactly none.
They are bewildered.
Mrs Loomis was the wife of DR..
Frank R. Loomis, respected Detroit
physician. They were in their early
thirties, parents of two children, ap-
parently living very happily in their
brick home on Marlowe avenue, in
suburban district.
The Tragedy
Tuesday evening, February 22 Mrs.
Loomis sat in the sun parlor of her
home. The lights were on and the
shades were not drawn. At about
$3.50 o'clock, DR.. Loomis came home
from his office.
Half an hour later-the narrative
is the husbands from here on-Dr.
Loomis gave his wife $1OO for various
household expenses, and then left,
the house to take walk.
At 9:45 o'clock he returned, let
himself in with his key-and found
his wife lying dead on the sun room
floor. she had been dubbed to
death There were signs in the sun
room of a terrific struggle.
One Entrance Unlocked
Front and back doors were locked.
Every window was locked. side
door, leading to the basement, was
not locked. There was much mud
outside. Anyone entering through
that door would have had very muddy
feet There were no footprints in
the mud, on the cellar stairs or on
the clean linoleum of the kitchen
to which the stairs led.
DR.. Loomis picked up his wife's
body. Then he remembered that
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
Two Bucks a Minute
To Dance Charleston
In Bucharest Cafes

BUCHAREST, March 10 (P)-It costs
two dollars minute to dance the
Charleston during the dinner hour
here and hence many jazz bands are
on their way to other lands.
The prefect of police is taxing the
new" dance out of existence. The
Charleston is in disfavor for many
reasons but She wise old chief, General
Eracles Nicoleaunu, knowing human
nature, did not forbid the dance. He
received protests against the Charles
ton but put taxes on all dance
establishments. His license fees are
$12O an hour from z to 8 o'clock,
which hits the restaurants; $16 an
hour from 8 until midnight, and $S2
an hour thereafter.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
Note Pads May Gust
Telephone Directories

Hartford, Conn, March 19 Up
There is a prospect that telephone
books will disappear from American
homes, in the belief of George A.
Gray, general manager of the COM
pany that developed the telephone
pay station system.
A list of most used numbers may
replace the telephone book, he thinks,
with central supplying the missing
numbers.
A survey by his company. developed
that few telephone subscribers other
than 100 different numbers a year.
He believes that issuance of blank
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20

1915, just as the clouds of revolution
were rolling up.
Under the stress of exacting service
as counsellor of embassJ there during
those strenuous war days, when he
worked far into every night, his
health became so impaired that he
was forced into temporary retire.
ment, thus missing the Russian revo-
luton itself. He left the diplomatic
service for a time, but returned in
1921 as assistant secretary of state,
and a year later was appointed
minister to Portugal, where he has
again found himself in the familiar
atmosphere of revolution.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
Mooring Mast Waits
For Air Ship That
Will Never Arrive

LEAVENWORTH, Kan, March 10 (P
Immediately south of the site of the
citizens military training camp on
the government reservation at FIT.
Leavenworth stands a steel mooring
mast, waiting for a ship that will
never come.
The mast was completed late in
August, 1925. It was to have moored
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS ESTIMATE

MEXICO CITY, March II (By Trens
gency)-Customs receipts for the
month of February will amount to
about seven and a half million pesos
according to preliminary estimates.
This shows a decrease over the month
Of January when collections were
eight million six hundred thousand
pesos.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20
PENNY-1N-sLoT RADIO

LONDON, March 10 R)-Penny IN
the slot radio apparatus is to be
here.
There will be booths in which
individuals will sit with ear phones
while listening to the wireless pro-
gram until they get their pennys
worth. The postmaster general has
sanctioned a private company under
taking the scheme.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20

the i'll fated Shenandoah on it's last
stop before swinging back to Lake
hurst, N. J., from its western trip.
But the naval dirigible crashed at
Caldwell, Ohio, early in the morning
of September 3, killing IA of the
crew.
The mast rears above the golf links
at the fort, a silent memorial to
the daring men who lost their lives
when the dirigible buckled and fell
to earth.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20

pad for subscribers to fill in would
effect tremendous economies in the
printing and distribution of telephone
books.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-20

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