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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-21

Twenty-seven national automo-
bile shows have been held in Chi
cago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-21
sore throat

Never neglect sore throat It is warning that COLOR
worse-is fighting for the upper hand.
At the first sign of throat irritation Lsterne frequently
full strength Immediately attacks dseasepoducng germs
mouth and throat Many the cold and throat has
nipped in the bud
Use it systematically during cold weather months Lambert
Pharmacal Company, St. Louis, Mo, u A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
SUN SMILES ON FETE
OF CHERRY BLOSSOMS
First Annual Festival to Begin at
Hains Point at 8 This
Afternoon.

With clear skies banishing previous
fears that rain would interfere with
its outdoor presentation, Washing
toms first annual Cherry Blossom Fes-
tiyal was scheduled to begin at 3
o'clock this afternoon at Hams Point.
In spite of the failure of the bios.
SONS at that particular section of
Hains Point to appear in their fullest
glory, the trees have brought forth
sufficient bloom to give the pageant q
coIorful setting. The allegory Is woven
about the theme of international
friendship which the gift of the trees
to the United States by Japan SYM
boliZeS,
Headed by the Ambassador from
Japan and Nine. Matsudaira, and
Mrs. William Howard ,taft, in whose
honor the festival is being held, dis
tinguished list of guests has reserved
boxes for the fete. These include the
Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg,
diplomatic representatives OF many
nations and high Government officlais.
Viscount Matsudaira, who accom-
panied Prince Chichibu from Europe
to japan after the death of the late
Emperor. arrived in Washington to-
day en- route back to Europe, and Will
be a guest of the Ambassador at the
pageant.
The pageant was written by Mrs,
Alice Rogers Hager, and is being pre-
sented by the National Memorial
Foundation, under the direction of
Mrs. Elise Marsteller Mulliken. The
cast includes trained dancers from
local schools, children Of diplomatic
representatives and Washington chill
dren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
CITY MAKES READY FOR GALA
EASTER WITH RECORD THRONGS
Capital Welcomes Greatest Seasonal Crowd
With Elaborate Church and
Outdoor Attractions.

With unprecedented crowds arriV-
ing hourly to aug ent the throngs of
visitors already here, Washington
made ready today to observe, at
church or in the out-of-doors. an
Easter Sunday noteworthy in its his
tory.
The principal gateways TO the Capt.
tai yere thronged yesterday and to.
day with aim steady incomin&
streams Of men, women and children
--converging from scattered, distant
points by rail or automobile.
Approximately 80 special trains from
the East and even Canada viii have
emptied their passengers at Washing
ton terminal by nightfall, counting
the dozen Easter specials" which ar
rived at the station yesterday.
Transportation officials attributed
the remarkable L. owds this year to
a combination of factors, including not
only the attraction of spending Easter
in the Nations Capital, but the appeal
of the big cherry blossom festival this
afternoon, and the White House egg
rolling festivities Monday, not to ZEN
ton the d. A. r. Convention next
week.
The weather man, in the meantime,
is doing his best to find basis for a
fair-weather forecast for tomorrow,
with Questionable success. Increasing
cloudiness will bring showers tonight
or tomorrow. he announced, but there
is a possibility that the precipitation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
JARDiNE @. KS PLANS
FOR AGRICULTURE WING
Construction Wcrk on Central Por-
tion Expected to Commence
Within Two Months.

Architectural plans for the central
wing of the Department OF Agrl-
culture were approved today by Sec
retary of Agriculture Jardine, and the
construction work is expected to com
mence within the next two months.
This was announced today by Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey,
who Is in charge Of the public build
ings work of that department, and
who has had charge OF the prelim-
mary work incident TO starting the
new public building program.
Mr.. Dewey took the plans to Sec
retary Jardine and the latter readily
affixed his signature of approval. The
plans were drawn by Rankin & Crane
of Philadelphia, and they call for a
central wing with a colonnade in
stead of a Pantheonic dome as was
originally intended. With the con-
struction Of this wing, the two orig
inal sections of the new Agricultural
Department Building. which were
built a number of years ago, will
finally be joined
The public buildings program for
Washington calls for not only the
construction Of this central wing for
the Department of Agriculture, but
an additional building which will be
huge In size and will be erected upon
site to the rear of the present
wings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16

will end in time for the annual Easter
parade of feminine fashions in the
afternoon
Sunrise Services.
Impressive sunrise services will
herald the dawn of Easter morn to-
morrow, and throughout the day
there will be special and elaborate
services in the churches.
President and Mrs. Coolidge will
lead their fellow citizens in the re-
ligious celebration of the Risen Christ
by attending the services of the First
Congregational Church in the Wash
ington Auditorium. Rev. DIR. Jason
Noble Pierce, the Presidents pastor.
will off1ciate The 5000 seats in the
great assembly hall are expected to
be filled with a colorfully dressed body
Plans of Cabinet.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
then plan to pass the rest of the day
quietly at home.
Secretary Kellogg has dropped the
cares of the Chinese and other foreign
questions and departed for Hot
Springs, Va, where he will rest over
the Eastertide
Others of the Presidents advisers,
Secretaries Jardine, Dwight Davis,
James j, Davis and Wilbur and Post.
master General New and Attorney
General Sargent, will remain here and
attend services at various churches.
Secretary Mellon also will be here
after returning from his trip to
Continued on Page 4. Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
SALARY RAISES GRANTED 1.2OO
ENGRAVING BUREAU EMPLOYEES
Boost From IS to 60 Cents an Hour
Effective Next Pay Day-Nurnbering
Output Increased

increased efficiency would change
from lost time into productive time
from each employe about one hour a
day. Part of this was accomplished
by elimination of two 10.minute re-
cesses and curtailing the time allowed
for departure at the end of the day
from 80 minutes to 20 minutes. Thirty
minutes in the morning under the
new plan at starting time will be con-
vertcd into production instead of idle
ness. The increase in wages amounts
to 40 cents q day, or S2.40 week.
Announces New Basis.
Director Hall of the bureau, in his
statement TO employees. also laid down
a basis for production. He said. THE
capacity of the individual to perform
his given task efficiently and with
reasonable speed without impairment
of health. but at the same time con-
tributing a days work for a day s
pay. should be the accepted basis
But. he explained, 1T has never
been and never will be the intention
of the administrative officials to
establish fixed output which would
adversely affect the employe, nor is it
the intention of the officials to insist
upon the attainment of fixed produc-
ton i'm any case where the employe,
through physical handicaps either
temporary or permanent, is unable
without unreasonable effort to achieve
such production, or where mechanical
or other similar complications outside
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
Flesh Torture" Cult Ends 3-Day Ritual
Of Pain With Cruci66xiion to Expiate Sins

northern New Mexico are studded
with the crosses of the Penitentes.
Fundamental in the creed OF this
sect is the belief that sin can be
expurgated by physical suffering.
The most common method of i'm.
posing such t~rture is the use of a
braided rope of soap weed or cactus,
the end of which is made of a BAH
OF cactus needles. This is used as
a, whip, with which the penitente
lashes himself alternately over each
shoulder, meanwhile dragging a heavy
cross fashioned of wood, which often
takes on immense proportions. TO
increase the suffering, a large cross.
shaped cash is cut between the
shoulder blades.
Although great caution is used to
preserve secrecy regarding the cere.
mony, several persons claimed to have
witnessed parts Of the ritual. Many
left for Alcalde, y. Mex, last night,
where it was reported the crucifixion
Of "Gl Cristo" took place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16

Raise in salary from 55 to 60 cents
an hour for / 200 employees of the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing, effec'
tive next pay day. was announced to-
day by Secretary of the Treasury Mel
Ion.
A change also in the system of work
was announced whereby the produc-
ton of the numbering division was in.
creased so as to effect a saving of
about $10J 900 a year. The raise of
salary however, which effects not only
employees of the numbering division,
but other persons in grade two OF the
clerical mechanical service in the
bureau, it was explained is more than
the saving effected by increased eff
cheney.
Makes Personal Statement.
Director Alvin w. Hall of the Bu-
reau made formal announcement of
the changes by posting on the hul-
latins at the Bureau not only state
ment from the Treasury concerning
the hours of work and raises in pay
but a personal message from him.
self 10 the employees. In his personal
message he referred to the achieve
ments of the bureau and praised the
splendid spirit of loyalty which has
been manifested by the employees.
He pointed out in his statement.
however. that there mad been estab-
lished certain fixed mlnimums of
production"
Briefly, it was calculated that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
HOOVER HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM.
President Regards Him Too Valuable
In Post to Transfer.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

President Coolidge holds i'm the
highest esteem Herbert Hoover, Sec
retary of Commerce, and the definite
statement authorized at the White
House on Friday to the effect that If
Mr.. Kellogg resigned as Secretary OF
State, under no circumstances would
Mr.. Hoover be appointed, means
merely that the President feels
lawyer should be Secretary of State.
First OF all the President feels that
Mr.. Hoover has become the most
valuable Secretary of Commerce any
administration ever had and that II
would be a mistake to transfer Mr..
Hoover to any other Cabinet post so
long as his services are available to
the Government. This was the view.
point expressed when the President
had other vacancies in the Cabinet to
fill and it is unchanged today,
Secondly, the President has been
impressed with the fact that during
and since the World War the office OF
Secretary of State, under this and
preceding administrations, has seemed
to call for the services of a trained
lawyer. So many of the problems be
tween the United States Government
and Europe, on the one hand, and
with Central and South America on
the other hand, involve legal rights
that he thinks a lawyer is indis
pensable.
Insists Kellogg Will Stay.
But the President wants it made
clear that Mr.. Kellogg is not going
10 resign. His only interest in letting
H. be known that Mr.. Hoover was not
going to be appointed was to dis.
courage those who have been em-
barrassing both Mr.. kellogg and Mr..
Hoover by constantly talking about
appointment of the latter TO the
secretaryship of state.
Mr.. Kellogg has consulted the Presi.
dent on every important step taken in
the Chinese crisis and the cabinet has
been unanimous in it's action. Mr..
Coolidge took occasion to deny THAI
Mr. Hoover had favored separate ac.
ton in China. when. as a matter of
fact, Mr.. Hoover urged that joint &C.
ton be taken, lest the Chinese inter.
pret any other policy as sign Of dis
sension among the foreign powers.
Now Influences Foreign Policy.
So far as foreign policy is concerned,
Mr.. Hoover has every opportunity to
influence the administrators course,
because as the head OF the department
which is most concerned with foreign
trade, he is constantly watchful to see
that effects on trade be kept in mind.
He Is, moreover, on terms of intim
ate friendship with the Secretary OF
State. Mr.. Kellogg, so that the De-
partment of Commerce Is constantly
consulted when its interests are in
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
BOMB DOES $4,000
DAMAGE TO MANSION!
Fashionable Home of James Pet
tee, Cleveland Florist,
Shattered by Blast.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. 4.
CLEVELAND, April ia mys-
terious bomb explosion early today
shattered the fashionable 20-room
Edgewater mansion of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Pettee and caused damage es-
timated at $4,000. No one was in
jured.
The bomb, detectives believe, was
placed under window directly be.
meath the bedroom occupied by Mrs.
Pettee.
On arrival Of police Gordon of
detectives was thrown around the es-
tate. but investigation has failed to
reveal any clues.
Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Pettee could
assign any reason for the blast. Pet
tee is president of j. M. Gas1er Co,
florists.
The only possible theory Pettee
could advance was that the bombers
mist0ok his house for that of some
one else. A number of valuable paint.
ings We're ruined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
AMERICAN WOMAN
KIDNAPPED IN CHINA;
us. SHIP ATTACKED
Bandits Reported Holding
Miss Mary |. Craig
of Philadelphia.
DESTROYER PREBLE
SILENCES SHORE FIRE
One Sailor Wounded in Fight Near
Nanking-U. S, Property in
Wuhu Seized.

BY the Associated Press.
Capture of an American woman mis-
sionary. the wounding Of an American
sailor IN an attack on a destroyer IN
the Yangtze and seizure of American
property at Wuhu were reported in
today's news from China.
Miss Mary /. Craig of Philadelphia
is said to have fallen into the hands
Of Chinese bandits in Iunnan Prov
ince while trying to roach the coast.
Dispatches give no clue as to her
whereabouts or possible fate.
The Z. S. S. Prcble was fired on
with machine guns from the north
hank of the Yangtze half way be-
tween Nanking and Shanghai. \
sailor. unnamed, suffered q neSh
wound. The destroyer silenced the at,
tackers with her main batteries.
L. S. Hospital Seized.
Cantonese troops arriving at Wuhu,
above Nanking, seiZcd the American
Hospital and other foreign property III
the face of protests.
Continuing their drive to Gust the
Teds from the Cantonese ranks, the
moderates staged further Sangulnary
IIluS III NsdIlOli r<AAA A1AASAAe5 AA~AA'
One hundred radicals were killed
or wounded in the fighting at Canton
in which armored cars and SunooatS
were used to back up raids on the
Red labor unions
An undetermined number OF red
laborites were killed in the native
section of Shanghai. The general
strike there, called in protest when
the raids were started several days,
has been terminated.
Gen. Pal Tsung-Chi. commander OF
the Cantonese troops in the Shanghai
district, told the Chinese press today
that the reds must yield or definite
drive would be launched against them.
New Note Indicated.
Continuance of the military cam
paign against the northerners by the
Cantonese, he said, would not be at
tempted until this problem was settled.
Paris reports that the ministers OF
the United States, France, Great
Britain. japan and Italy in Paking
have recommended that they be en-
powered to draft new demands on
the Cantonese for redress for the
Nanking. outrages of last month. The
replies sent TO the first notes by the
Hankow foreign minister are regarded
hy the French as an attempt to
divide the powers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
WESTERN STATES RELIEVED.
Fair Weather Ends TornadOes,
Blizzards and Floods.

KANSAS CITY. April 16 LP).-
Generally fair weather brought relief
to Western and Southwest States to-
day following a siege of tornadoes,
blizZards and foods.
Streams draining Southern Kansas
receded from high water marks as
suring oklahoma and Arkansas resi-
dents that the danger of further
floods had passed. Billiards abated
IN Wyoming and Colorado yesterday
to permit partial restoration Of traf
fic blocked for several days.
While receding waters left thous-
ands of acres Of fertile land in Kansas
and Northern Oklahoma covered with
silt and debris. scores of persons still
were marooned in extreme Eastern
Oklahoma and Northwestern Arkan-
'sas Several Southwestern Missouri
points also remained inundated.
Tents supplanted houses at Rock
springs, Tex, virtually wiped out by a
tornado that left upward of so dead
and scores injured. The Red Cross
Continued on Page 4, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
BLAST KILLS EIGHT;
-FOUR SHOPS RAzED
Bodies Burned Beyond Rec.
cgnition After Gas ExpIo-
sion in Chicago.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 16.-Eight per
sons were killed and their bodies burn
ed beyond recognition and four build
ings were razed. the result of an
explosion. followed by fire at West
Harrison street and South Trumbull
avenue early today.
The dead are:
Barnett Levin, 80 years old; his
wife, 40 their two sens, Albert, 20
and Leonard. IS: Harry Sokolsky, 40
his wife, 40; a son. Samuel, IA. and
a daughter, Anna, Is.
Police. the coroners office and the
fire department Immediately began
an investigation of the cause of the
explosion which apparently was due
TO the ignition of a gas pocket In a
tailor shop operated By Levin. The
Levins' had living quarters above the
shop, as did the Sol1olskys' above their
dry goods store adjoining.
Still EIast Possible.
A theory that a still may have ex.
ploded in grocery store operated by
Andrew Cardenali was discarded when
the grocer satisfied the police that
there had been no still in his store.
The gas pocket explanation met with
more general acceptance. Chief
Christ Peterman of the eighteenth
battalion. said that when he arrived
at the scene the fronts of the grocery
and tailor shop lay in ruins on the
sidewalk and in the street.
Chief PeIerman said there was a
deep hole in the basement of the
tailor shop, which supported the gas
explosion explanation.
Besides the tailor shop. grocery and
dry goods sore. a building believed
to have been vacant was destroyed.
Several relatives of the Levin and
Sokolsky families called at the
morgue during the morning hours,
but none could identify any of the
remains. Police finally decided it was
Continued on PAGE 4, Column L.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16

bN Tue AStOttdLtti ETtss.
SANTA FE, n. Mex. April 16.-The
ceremonial of the Penitentes, eccentric
cult of flesh torturers, which had
It's origin in Europe in the middle
ages, has ended after a three-day
seige of self-infiicted punishment.
Assembling the scattered survivors
of the cult from northern New Mexico
and southern Arizona. the Penitentes
leaders started the ritual Wednesday
in preparation for the climax yester-
day-Good Friday--when lei Cristo"
was crucified.
'El Cristo" is represented by a cult
member chosen in advance of the cere-
mony to re.enoct tne crucifixion of
Christ. This role is considered the
highest honor possible for a Penitente.
The chosen one is tied to cross and
remains there for two hours or more,
after which he is taken down for q
general celebration. The hill tops of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
POLICEMEN HAzY
ABOUT STOP SIGNS
Survey Shows More Than
Half Ignorant on Boulevard
Right of Way.
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

Washington policemen, upon whom
falls the responsibility for enforce
ment of the boulevard stop provision
of the traffic code, one of the most
fundamental and fagrantly fiouted of
the citys motor regulations. have
vastly different conceptions of the
meaning of the law. This fact has
been emphatically revealed to an
Investigator for The Star in a city
wide survey.
Travelling in a car that bore a
foreign" license plate, the investi-
gator, as n visitor to the city queried
4 numer of patrolmen concerning the
proper construction of the regulation
and found .hat an average of three
in every five were decidedly hazy on
the law violation of which consti-
tutes one Of the most serious traffic
mcnaces in the city today.
Possibility OF Mistakes.
With these figures revealing that
the law is enforced differently in diff
ferent parts of the city, it is apparent
that through misconstruction of the
regulation the officer at the scene of
the collision might ally himself with
the driver who was in the wrong with
the result that justice would not be
obtained when the case was tried.
That this might happen is easily pos
stble with the policeman in the case
thinking that the man on the right
had the right of way over boulevard
traffic provided he had come to stop
before entering the more important
thoroughfare.
That many patromen would take
this position was made quite clear in
their answers to the investigator and
| those assisting him.
Another illustration of the astonish-
ing ignorance of the boulevard stop
regulation by some patrolmen is to be
found in a near crash which involved
a prominent local resident. This in
cident occurred at one of the inter
| sections which has been found to be
particularly bad and almost resulted
in a disastrous collision.
knowing that patrolman who was
standing on the corner witnessed the
incident. the driver who was on the
boulevard stopped and asked him why
he had done nothing about the other
mans violation of the law.
Blames Wrong Driver.
lie didn't violate the law" said the
officer. You did. He stopped before
he tried to cross the street. He was
on your right and that gave him the
right of way after he had stopped" !"
But that isn't the proper interpre-
tation Of the regulation" protested
the motorist.
That's the courts interpretation of
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
D. A. R. MAY ADMIT
LOCO AS MEMBERS
Vice Presidents General to
Be Luncheon HosteSses
Today to Mrs. BroSseau.

Upward of 1000 women are expected
to be admitted to membership in the
National Society. Daughters of the
American Revolution which begins
it's thirty y-siXth Continental Congress
Monday in the Washington Audito-
i. rum, by the national board of man.
agement now in executive session in
Memorial Continental Hall. Mrs. Al
fred j. Brosseau, as president gen
eral of the society, is presiding over
the meeting, which started at 10
O'Clock this morning and will continue
throughout the day.
This conference is considered to be
one of the most important d. a. r.
activities of the year. While periodi
cal meetings of the board are held
during the year for the purpose of act
ing upon applications for membership
in the society and to transact any
other business that may come before
the body today's meeting has the Iarg-
est attendance of the year due to the
presence here, in connection with the
annual congress, of all national off,
GERS and Stare regents, who comprise
the national board of management. n.
S. d. A. f.
Luncheon for President General.
In keeping with ID. A. f. traditions,
the vice presidents general act as
hostesses at Il luncheon today follow
ing the morning recess in honor of the
president general, Mrs. Alfred j. Bros
seau. Of Greenwich, Conn. The 21
vice presidents general are: Miss
Anne Margaret Lang. Oregon; Mrs.
Russell William Magma, Massa-
chusetts Mrs, Hoval A Smith, Ari-
zona; Mrs. Logan S Gillentine, Ten
nessee; Mrs. Paul Duane Kit. Mis-
souri,; Mrs. Thomas W. Spence, Wis
consin; Miss Amy F. Gilbert, Iowa.
Mrs. Robert j. Reed, West Virginia; !;
Mrs. Walter Ambrose Robinson, Ala
bama; Mrs. s.. A. Dickson, louisiana
Mrs. III. II. McClintock, Oklahoma
Mrs. John Hamilton Hanley, Illinois:
Mrs. George VI. Young, North Dakota;
Mrs. l.. Victor Seydel, Michigan; Mrs
Julius Y. Talmadge, Georgia; Mrs.
Charles Read Banks, New Jersey; Mrs.
Eugene H. Ray, Kentucky; Mrs. John
Brown Heron, Pennsylvania; Mrs. w.
o. Spencer, North Carolina; Mrs. Ly.
man B. Stoolxey. California. and Mrs.
Continued on Page 2. Column 81