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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
MINE GUARDS
GET DRASTIC
BY CO.
National Call Sent Out For
|. w. WIS to March to
Colorado.
F E w RESPOND
Coal Strike Spreads to Gun
nison Field, Where Few
Report.

DENVER, Nov Is P)--If picketS ap-
pear on their property in the morning
they will be shot by mine guards, Of
ficials of the Rocky Mountain Fuel
company today informed Gov. w. HI.
Adams. The company operates the
Columbine mine in northern Colorado
and it has been the only mine to work
in that section of the state since the
I. w. w. strike was called month
ago. At the same time Samuel Lee.
in charge of state officers in the north
ern coal fields, asked the chief execu-
tive for so more men. State Indus
trial Commissioner william H. Young
described the situation as acute
Demonstrations have been held by
the strikers at the Columbine mine for
a number of days and this morning
several miners were stopped while on
their way to work.
The called of the official newspaper
of the I. w. W., Industrial solidar-
ity'' for all 'footloose rebels" to flock
to the aid of the striking miners, has
not met with any large response as
yet and few new faces were noted by
state police in the strike zone.
The newspaper which is published
in Chicago said "The rebels are NOV
ing on Colorado from all points of
the United States. This is our hour
of glory. Every l. w. w. who can
possibly march into Colorado for strike
duty should do so. Let nothing stop
you. We have nothing to lose except
our chains and we have a world to
gain.
you men of the fighting ]. W., w.
in the east, north and south and the
west come on. You battlerS of the
Wobbly host show the authors of the
Ludlow massacre that we shall not
forever be serfs to industrial domain"
The coal strike spread to the Crested
Butte coal fields in Gunnison county
today and only handful of men re-
ported for work. In the southern
Colorado mines more men were work
ing and the fores are nearing normal.
There has been a lull in activities in
southern Colorado but state police be-
lieve that the strikers are awaiting
the result of habeas corpus action
seeking to free eight of the strike
leaders before making any demonstra-
tions. A hearing on the habeas corpus
petition will be heard here Friday.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
ANIATORS HOP-OFF IN
NONSTOP FLIGHT TO EAST INDIA

tanks and plenty of provisions
for their long air journey. Wealth
er charts showed that they were
likely to encounter rain, snow
and mists over the continent.
Beyond that fair weather was
predicted.
The flight represents the fourth
time that an effort has been
made to make the long trip from
Europe to India in one hop. Two
attempts were made by royal air
fierce machines in recent months,
but one came to grief in the Red
sea and the other on the Danube
river. Levine and Captain Waiter
Hinchcliffe started on an India
flight this summer in the trans
Atlantic mOnpplane Columbia, but
got no farther than Vienna.
Captain MacIntOsh's attempt
to fly the Atlantic last September
ended on the beach at BaIIy-
bunniOn, Ireland, where he landed
after a storm had driven him
back from sea. He had started
a few hours previously from
DOublin for America.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
SECOND LIBERTY
BOND issue IS
PAID BY U. S.
One of Greatest War Loans
Is Discharged by u. S.
Government.
Edward j. KidweII

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is, P)--InSo-
far as it's creditors would allow the
United States today took up and paid
off one of it's greatest war loans, the
second liberty bond issue of $3,8O7,-
100000
The figures involved we're SO large
that Ogden Mills undersecretary OF
the treasury, refused to make any
estimate as to how successful the
governments efforts to retire the sec
end liberties had been Not until the
twelve federal reserve banks make
their report late this week, will the
treasury be enabled to tell how many
of the bonds remain outstanding,
though interest ceased upon them to-
day.
BY various conversions and continu-
GUS sinking fund purchases the sec
ond liberty loan had been reduced
last February to total of So, ,1O4,-
100000. Since that time the govern
ment undertook series Of financing
operations intended to bring about
the payment of the bonds or their
conversion to other forms of securi-
ties with the result that today, when
the loan was called for redemption,
there was a total of $73O,OOO00O OF
the bonds outstanding.
1t is expected that most of these
outstanding bonds will be utrned in
before the end of the present week,
although it is believed that some will
remain unretired for years due to
oversight of the redemption call or
the mislaying of their securities.
The final conversion offer in which
second liberties participated also was
cleared up today, Secretary Mellon
announcing that the November IA sew
en- months offering of 8 1-8 per
cent treasury certificates had all been
allotted. The government accepted
cash subscriptions for the certificates
to a total of $419, 900, out of the
total of $1,103 ,261, 400 that subscrib-
ers rendered, but it allowed new GER
tificates in full for the total amount
of subscriptions made in second hber-
ty bonds, which was $2,336,500.
The New York federal reserve dis
trict was allotted $110,412,60O of the
new certificates out of the $685., ,683, 100
for which it subscribed. Other federal
reserve districts were scaled down in
their allotments of the new certifi-
Gates in about the same proportion.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16

UPAVON, England, Nov. IS tB
Speeding eastward over sea,
mountain, desert and city, two
British airmen, Captain r. II.
Macintosh and Bert Hinkler test
pilot, are attempting to achieve
the first nonstop flight to India.
Flying in the Princess Xenia, -
the same plane in which lie maze
an unsuccessful effort to span the
Atlantic to the United States
early this fall, Captain MacIntOs;
hopes to establish a new non
stop long distance record, repiac-
ing the one made by Clarence d.
ChamberIin and Charles A. Levine
on their trans Atlantic flight to
Germany. The distance between
England and Karachi, India, OBJ
jectiye of the flight, is more than
1000 miles, whereas the distancc
covered by ChamberIin and Le-
vine has been computed at 1905
miles.
The two filters took off shortly
after / o'clock this afternoon with
800 gallons of gasoline in Their
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
MEXICO FACES
.PROSPERITYAND
PEACE TEJEDA
Mexican Minister of Inter.
ior Sees Industry
Developing.

MEXICO CITY, Nov. Is. P)-The
Mexican minister of the interior
Adalberto Tejeda, in a statement to
the foreign and Mexican newspaper
men today, gave it as his opinion that
Mexico was in for period OF peace
and prosperity with the rebellion
crushed, the religious question set
tied and industry developing" and
that "for' ~ long time no one will
dare to rise up in arms"
Secretary Tejeda said that the
Gales government had written one
of the most brilliant pages of pro-
gress in its handling of the religious
question by conveying to the mind OF
the people that conviction that the
country's magma charta must be re-
spected
"The most transcendental question
the Gales government has had to
solve" he went on, was undoubtedly
the religious one It, touched the coun-
try's future, and was maturely con-
sidered. The dangers which it's Solu-
ton presented we're not hidden from
CAlS SOVGI1uIlC1AC UuG C11C SOVC11ullC41t
decided to face them resolutely. Thus
it showed it's revolutionary character
and watched over strict fulfillment
of the precepts of the constitution
Striking a death blow at clerical
ism and fanaticism, it imposed re-
spect for the supreme law of the
republic. Clerical elements declaring
themselves in the rebellion were over
come by the army, and the directors
of the league for the defence of re-
ligious liberty went abroad to hide
their failure
The secretary added that any i'm
preston abroad that Mexico does
not welcome foreign tourists is un-
true, as Mexico desired and woulf'
afford every facility for visitors.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
EXPLOSION TOLL
IN PITTSBURGH
MOUNTS TO 23
Rescuers Believe Fatalities
Will Grow as Debris Is
Cleared Away.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. Is lP)-Unider
the glare of powerful flood lights, the
monotonous search for additional vic
Tins of yesterdays gas tank explosion
went forward tonight in the ruins of
the devastated lower north side dis
trict.
cleaned up tons of debris during the
day, only two more bodies were re-
covered, bringing the known death toll
to %. All but three have been identi-
fled.
Rescue workers generally, however
believed the fatalities would mpunt
when the task Of clearing away the
junbled wreckage of the Pittsburgh
Clay Pot company has been completed
Officials of that concern one of the
chief sufferers in the blast that killed
more than score, injured 500 others
and caused property damage running
into the millions, announced that a
revised check up had revealed that 80
of the 1T men at work in the plant
at the time of the expulsion were
missing. Six were killed outright, a
dozen or SO are in hospitals and some
70 reported themselves SAFE. Plant Of
ficialS pointed out, however, that some
at least of the 80 men listed as miss
ing were safe but had failed to report.
Checkups of employees at all other
factories ravaged by the explosion
showed every man accounted for, so
that the Wreckage of the Clay Pot
company holds the secret of to what
extent if any the death toll will mount.
Great progress was made in remov-
ing the tangled ruins of the Clay Pot
company, which was located immedi-
ately adjoining the huge Equitable Gas
company tank which let go yesterday,
turned city blocks into shambleS. Of
ficers, however, estimated it would be
10 days before all the wreckage could
be removed and probably as long be-
Iore they could say definitely how
many of their employees had perished.
Ihe hazardous rescue task cost one
life today Frank Kuepferle, a laborer,
was killed while moving some twisted
steel, when reinforced steel fell upon
him. Two other Workmen were in
jured in other accidents
Residents of the desolated district
surveyed the ruins with a calmer eye
than had been possible yesterday and
began the work of reconstruction, aid
ed by a 100000 emergency fund pro-
vided by city council. Mayor Charles
H. Kline, said Is buildings would have
to be torn down to prevent their top
pling with the danger of additional
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
MIDDLEWEST Is BURIED UNDER
SNOW BLANKET; TRAFFIC HAL TED

CHICAGO, Nov. Is CP---A fore
taste of winter rushed down on
the middle west today, disrupt
ing traffic and closing schools in
Wisconsin with its snowfall; its
storm damaging docks and err
dangering shipping on Lake
Superior.
Rainfalls turned to snow and
thermometers dropped as the
first storm, forecast several times
by federal meteOrOlOgists during
Nhe past two weeks, swept across
the prairie states and into the
great lakes region.
IrOnwOOd, Mich, was almost
snOwbound and Ishpeming, Mich,
and Ashland and Superior, Wis,
were shoveIIing away drifts three
and four feet deep.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
STAND IN LINE.
WITH COOLIDGE.
ODPROIECT|ON
American Agriculture and
Livestock Production
Asks Tariff Wall.
RAP FREE TRADE
Cooperative Marketing Is
Also Considered and Urg-
ed BY Resolution.

KANSAS CITY, Nov Is, R--Any
general reduction of import duties at
this time was opposed in a declara
ton adopted by the resolutions COM
mittee of the American farm con-
gress here today after sentiment had
developed at general session against
permitting the American market to
be opened to foreign inportations OF
agricultural and livestock products.
The stand was in line with the posi-
ton taken by President Coolidge, who,
it was said at the White House to-
day feels that agriculture would not
be aided by a reduction OF the tar
iff such as suggested in the report OF
a commission for the relief OF agrl-
culture headed by Charles Nagel,'
former assistant secretary OF COM
nlerce
american agriculture and livestock
industries have entered an era in
which they must have protection in
the home markets from unrestricted
competition of products of countries
where land is cheap, standards OF
living low, or labor meanly paid, if
they are not to sink to the approx
natelevel of such countries" the resi-
luton declared.
For America to permit its own
agriculture to fall into decadence, and
to depend upon importations of food
stuffs from other countries, would be
most unwise."
The resolution committee went fur
ther than striking at imports from
foreign nations by adopting a reso-
luton aimed at competition from col
onial possessions of the United States
from which agricultural commodities
are admitted duty free.
Development in the PHILIPPINES and
other possessions should be directed
along lines that will not increase the
already burdensome competition OF
our own farmers" the resolution de-
c1ared.
It was suggested that the islands
be utilized for the production of such
non competitive commodities as rub
ber, fibrous plants and coffee, rather
than sugar, citrus fruits, nuts and
other crops, grown by a large number
of American farmers.
Farm irelief legislation was not
permitted to crop up in the first days
discussions
Direct buying Of livestock by the
larger packing companies, as opposed
to purchases at the established open,
competitive public stockyards, became
a lively subject for debate, after J..
H. Mercer, secretary of the Kansas
Livestock association, in formal ad-
dress had urged that the secretary of
agriculture issue an order prohibiting
direct buying within the switching
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
SENATOR GLASS
DIFFERE'NIIA
2 AMEIyDM En- rs
Declares Nothing Anala-
gous Between Fifteenth
and Eighteenth.

LYNCHBURG, Va, Nov. Is, 3P)-
Because the south is opposed to negro
suffrage, in the opinion of Senator
Glass, Democrat, Virginia, it's at
titude toward enforcement of the
fifteenth amendment dealing with this
question cannot be declared contra
dictory.
He expressed this view today in
a letter to W. H Stayton, of the
association against the prohibition
amendment, who had asked Senator
Glass to answer an editorial in the
New York Herald 1t charges incon-
sistency in the attitude of the Vir-
ginia senator in opposing the send
ing of federal agents to Kentucky
to supervise the state election there
and his approval Of sending them into
the states to enforce the national
prohibition laws.
when public man protests
against sending of federal satraps te
supervise state elections, for which
there is no sanction of law" said
Senator Glass, sit is rather silly to
suggest that such proceeding would
have precedent and parallel in sending
prohibition agents, under full sane
ton of the law, to suppress the
traffic in liquor
Contending that the attempt to
draw an analogy between the atti-
tude of the south on the question OF
negro suffrage and the position OF
persons intent upon nullifying the
eighteenth amendment to, the feder-
al constitution is simply stupid, the
Virginia senator continued
'Tf one were to inpute literal truth
to the alleged analogy, the conclus-
i've answer would be that the south's
resistance to the fifteenth amend
ment was intended to avert the
wretched consequences of the un-
speakable crime involved in. the
adoption of the amendment. It was
done in the passions of war, and con-
5tituted an attempt to destroy white
civilization in nearly one third of the
nation and to, erect on it's ruins an
Ethiopian state, ignorant, profligate
corrupt, controlled by manumitteo
slaves, not one per cent of them
-illiterate, and these led by q
Od1lQ VI .W11lUC 11llSC1Col1OS, CACC1d dOCU
figures in the nightmare OF recon
Struction
"On the other hand resistance tc
the enforcement of the eighteenth
amendment and the statute enacted
in pursuance thereof, is not designed
to avert crime, but to facilitate it
In effect, it amounts to conformation
It is intended to stimulate defiance
of both the constitution and the law
Senator Glass said he did not mear
to criticize those who asked for re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment
but that he did condemn "the mock
cry of the law and the applause
which it's flagitious violation is re-
ceiving in certain quarters"
The Virginian called attention thai
no statutes providing for the enforce
ment of the Fifteenth amendment
had ever been enacted, and, incident
ally remarked, that there was some
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
Sinclair : Fall Oil
Tried Jury Scandal
Probe Rests Tuesday

WASHINGTON Nov. IS P)--Any
hope that government counsel may
have had that there would be further
defections from the ranks Of the
Burns detectives apparently were dis
sipated today as the Sinclair-Fall oil
trial Jury surveillance case practically
was rested before the grand jury
after more than two weeks OF inquiry
For more than an hour Assistant
District Attorney Burkinshaw ham
mered away at Charles c.. Ruddy,
who directed the operations Of the
men shadowing the Teapot Dome
trial jurors, but there was no indica-
ton that he had succeeded in OBJ
tanning any corroboration of the
startling story of William j. Nc
Mullin, a former Burns man. about
the fabrication of reports so that the
defense might move for n1istria
if that course should have been found
necessary.
Coincident with the near compile
ton of the governments case, Justice
Frederick L. Siddons, who presided
at the Fall-Sinclair criminal con-
spiracy hearing, issued an order ap-
pointing three members of the Wash
ington bar to make an investigation
Ito determine whether there had been
criminal contempt of the District
of Columbia supreme court in con-
nection with the oil trial
This inquiry probably will be di.
rected largely to charges OF J. Ray
Akers, former street car conductor
and Donald K King, a newspaper
reporter, that Edward ]. KidWell, Jr.,
Juror No. IL, discussed the trial freely
and SD ted that he would be dis
appointed if he did not come out
ia the case with an automobile "as
long as this block.
District Attorney Gordon, John E.
Laekey, a former district attorney,
and Jesse S. Easily Smith are to
conduct the inquiry for the court
and bring any contempt proceedings
they may deem warranted by the
facts they obtain ':to the end that
the authority and power of the court
be indicated, sustained and enforced,
Kidwell has denied all OF the
charges made by Akers and King and
countered with a request that they
be cited for contempt of the court
in approaching a juror during the
trial. Justice Siddons today set next
Friday for hearing on this petition.
Under the court order, the scope
of this inquiry would encompass the
activities of the Burns men, since
Justice Siddons referred directly to
affidavits filed by two assistant dis
trict attorneys dealing with the Said
on the apartment OF the Burns
operatives at the Wardman Park
hotel. It was on the basis Of the
four affidavits that mistrial was
ordered two weeks ago today.
Only three witnesses were heard
tooay by the grand jury. William j.
Burns and his son, w. Sherman
Burns, appearing at their own re-
quest after the grilling of Ruddy had
been concluded. They were in the
grand jury room only a short time,
having been allowed to testify on the
stipulation that they would under
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16

At bayfield,, Wis, Chequame-
gOn Bay, an arm of Superior,
tore away part Of the city docks,
wrecked a fishing cOmpany's dock
and washed out a section of
logging railroad in the worst
storm since 1905.
Fear is felt for the safety of
the Steamer Butterfield, bound
for Ashland from Port Arthur,
Ont. Several ore boats caught in
the blizzard are believed to have
taken refuge among the Apostle
islands.
The thermometer has dropped
to ~ degrees in Kansas, while
Missouri recorded sub freezing
marks. Snow and temperature
of 80 or less by tomorrow are
promised for Illinois and Indiana.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
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Six Rebels Are Killed In
Attack On u. S. Marines
Scouting In Nicaragua

* MANAGUA Mic, Nov. IS R)--
y Six rebels were killed and seven
y wounded when they made two at
y tacks Sunday upon United States
y marine corps patrols near La
'* Cruz IN the department. Of Nueva
y Segovia, according to reports re-
y ceived here today. There were
* no marine casualties.
+ The patrols were on recon-
* naissance and combat duty
= The liberal general, Augusta
y SANDING, is reported to be send
y ing out distress calls for more
y men as the marines are gradually
y dispensing and surrounding the
y rebel forces.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
Los ANGELES OIL MAN
in PRESCOTT JAIL

PRESCOTT, Nov is up - c. L..
Nabors, Oil contractor, was irr>the
county jail here tonight on a tele-
graphic warrant from Los Angeles,
charging criminal conspiracy" Tele-
phone conversation reported between
Under-Sheriff Arthur McDonough and
the chief of the criminal division of
the Los Angeles sheriff's office result
ed in notification that Nahors bond
had been fixed in the coast city at
$4,000. No details were learned of
the nature of the alleged offense.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
RESCUE BuRIED MAN

DELPHI Ind, Nov. Is up. = Eff
forts of IL men who had worked
since noon yesterday to unearth
Charles Roth, 72-year-o1d resident
of RosCville, from a caved-in well
on a farm near here, were success
'ful early today Roth went down to
clean the well and the enclosure
caved in. He apparently was none
the worse for his experience.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16

Fair Wednesd lay and
T hursday not much
change in temperature.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16

Copper steady electrolytic
spot and futures, 131ac;
lead dull; spot, 6.15c.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
Farm Congress Opposes Reduction of Tariff
: = y * * * y y * 4 y * * y 4
Mexican Embassy Says
Papers Forgeries In
Nicaraguan Imbr 0 Clio

y WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. Is.
y Mexican consul, Douglas: The
y documents given out today by
:. some American papers regarding
y the alleged interference of Mex
+ leo in Nicaragua are nothing but
y gross and unequivocal forgery.
* Said publication is only another
* item in the long catalogue of
+ forgeries and malicious imagina-
+ ton with which some papers at
+ tempt unsuccessfully to upset in
y ternational relations.
X MEXICAN EMBASSY.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-16
HOLD FREIGHT NEARING

PHOENIX, Nov. IS lP)-Operator of
both scheduled and non-Scheduled
freight lines testified today before the
Arizona corporation at hearing TO
determine whether new rules and reg
ulations affecting such operations shall
be prescribed. The hearing will be
resumed tomorrow morning.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-28
CHARGES CORRUPTION
Counselor of Anti-Saloon League Says secretary of Damp" Temperance Society on Payroll of Wet Boosters

New York. Oct. o8.-lP-Nation- wide survey conducted by the Ma tional Episcopal church temperance society in which l032 Episcopal clergymen approved modification of the Nolstead act was regarded today by Orville $. Poland, counselor to the Anti-Saloon League, as the work Of an organization holding only "a parasitic connection with" the Epis- copal church and whose secretary apparently was in the pay of the wet cause.
 "lf the church temperance society which has published a statement rurporting to show that American Clergymen are two to one against prohibition had any official connec- ton with the Episcopal church I should refuse to comment upon their statement" Poland said.
 He declared Dr. James Empring- ham who as national secretary of the society took a prohibition poll about two years ago, apparently was on the payroll of the Association against the 18th amendment"
 Mr. Empringham said he was not and never had been on the payroll of the association named but wished he was as he could use the money"