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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
HOOVER AND MORGAN AID LAMENT SCARCITY OF
INVESTMENT SOURCES; UNEMPLOYMENT CERTAIN
BY LELAND OLDs. (Federated Press

A sharpening of class lines is the
prospect in America according to inn
portant pronouncements on American
foreign investments by Thomas w. La
mont of J. P. Morgan & Co., and sec
rotary of commerce Herbert Hoover.
Lamont cautions against rash or eX-
cessive lending to Europe while Hoov-
err advises against lending for unpro-
ductive purposes in Latin-America.
Taken together these important fig
ures in the American financial en-
pire show that the two most import
ant fields for foreign investment even
tually will be providing their own
capital and perhaps looking for for
eign fields in which to invest their
surplus funds.
Lamont, who might be described as
secretary of state to the American
capitalist monarchy, pictures the rise
Of American financial imperialism dur
ing the world war. He says
1--WE must recall that up to the out
break of the war, America had for
decades been borrowing heavily in
Europe. Because, however, of Amer
ica's enormous excess of exports over
imports (such excess for war years
1915-1920 alone being over S1S,000,-
000,000); because Of the heavy repur-
chase by Americans of their own Sc
curities and because of the foreign
loans made in the last decade, Amer
ica's credit position had now been so
far reversed that the gross annual in
terest and sinking fund service pay
able to America upon foreign loans,
and the dividends from industrial and
other investments, now total about ST.
0o0,000,000 per annum."
Lamont recalls that America furn-
ished foreign countries with about ST.
000,000,000 in new capital in 1926,
bringing the total of American foreign
investments to about S12,000,0 900.
lie reveals the plethora of American
funds looking for investment when he
speaks of American bankers as camp
ing on the doorsteps of European gov
ernments, municipalities and corpora
tions offering them money. And he
raises the question how long this can
last.
Prospect of Unemployment.
81 cannot" he says, attempt to an
swer this question. Yet we can note
some factors that are likely to affect
this flow of American capital over
seas. 1t is clear that Europe is getting
more firmly on its feet. AS farming
land is restored, as manufacture in
creases, the necessity for purchases in
America will diminish. AS European
enterprise prospers and as savings in
crease European investors will more
nearly be able to return to their for
mer practice of supplying capital for
their own development"
Lamont holds that the American in
vestor must scan the situation with
increasing circumspection and avoid
rash lending.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
A LONELY PROFESSOR.

Chimes, novel; by Herrck. Macmillan So
Robert HerricE New Highlander of the
Baptist university reurected with the millions
campus buildings st unfinished
This 80 Today aided by the college diplomas
the capitalist world and by the modern methods of drives for millions
costly buildings, influential faena houses and dispens yearly
cers and those enough contribute the pkeep of this
F Mexico
get money except by getting great numbers of
studens they dare not set higher standards than rival institutions
the nghborhood So the American fabby
counts show and in every department get by with superiy
t 20 f u the bbb the b e1n0s TN? grad
in the lobby of the Blackstone hotel"
Chimes interesting novel Of the academic world
the conflicts and compromises of the professors life and the social and
administrative ngues which hamper his work and his friendships
Herks disgust results not from his discovery that the university
from generation to
cause the life Of the sp neglected. Roekeees UNIVERSITY
universities will economies
Geology history relationships Heic reconcd
preoccupaion
There danger of oversimpifaon always directly
huge libraries dis
tribute attractive feowp and publish learned theses early English
every hour
weeks absorbing the subtle
OF without mean
veen Nearing, Sinclair Lewohn all these have
place in the American university is merely decorative Thus the courageous
agcous teacher of
position really pathetic Undepaid
lonely ponzed the hand by successful businessmen
them impractical fools provide the college credits
dinners vague maea
SENDER GARLN y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
GOOD NATURED CROOKS.

Revery by Hopkins Adams. and Hveright $780,
story "Oho Harding
hy disguised here Willis Markham, jovia god-natured
liked his liquor and his poker the with
This experienced Of public pluneers lived the lives pirate captains
and pirates they in fact
The story with poker with suicide
the is the uest piece of political undertaking that has
time Unusual interest added thru
characters hn disguised Willis Markham
there in all their ngoy president
Daugheys gobeween the graft worth the
two good meals alright
IT. J. O'FLAHERTY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
CARRY APPEAL TO
SUPREME COURT
Car Strike Leaders Want
Convictions Reversed.

Appeal to the United States Su-
preme Court ito save the anti-injunc-
ton provision of the Clayton act
from complete destruction" was ta-
ken today by Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Street and Electric Railway
NEmployes of America. it was an
nounced here by Frank P. Baker,
attorney for the trade union.
The action is in the case of Rob
ert B. Armstrong and John B. Par
ker, vice presidents of the union, and
others, who were enjoined by Judge
Robert c. Baltzell in Federal Court
last summer from advising en-
ployes of the Indianapolis Street
Railway Company to strike and later
found guilty of contempt when the
men did go out. The decision of the
lower court was upheld by the Cir
cult Court of Appeals in Chicago.
The appeal was filed there.
The decision to carry the appeal
to the highest court was reached,
according to w. d. Mahon of Detroit,
association president. after requests
that such a course be purseud were
received from William Green, presi-
dent of the American Federation Of
Labor, and other labor leaders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
LIGHTNING BOLT
HURTS WORKMAN
Three Others in Pit Affected
as Storm Hits City.

An aftermath of a sunny Easter,
a brief April thunderstorm broke
over the city this morning. 1t pelt-
ed down about four.tenths of an
inch of rain and sent a Negro work
man. who was struck by lightning.
to city hospital with conclusion of
the brain.
The Negro. Osh Etterson. as, of
1921 Station St. was working in the
gravel pit Of the w. P. Jungclaus
Construction Company at Howard
and Harding Sts., when lightning
knocked him down.
Hospital attaches believe concus-
sion may have resulted from his
being hurled to the ground. Three
other workmen felt the shock, but
were uninjured.
Temperatures continued warm
after the storm, but cloudy skies
prevented a rise to Sundays high
mark of rs degrees, the warmest of
the year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
REED ILL.,; LIBEL
TRIAL IN RECESS
Senator Says 'There Is
Nothing Serious

Bv United Press
DETROIT. April 1S.-opening of
the sixth week Of Aaron Sapiro's
million dollar libel suit against
Henry Ford was postponed until to-
tomorrow because of slight attack
of acute indigestion" suffered by Sen
ator James A. Reed of Missouri,
chief cross-examiner of the Ford de-
fense.
Senator Reed, who has been ques-
tioning Sapiro for two weeks, was
confined to his hotel room this
morning.
Don't send reports across the
country that I'm sick" the Senator
hoarsely asked the United Press
over the phone. which he personally
answered. This is nothing serious
and will be over in three or four
hours. I'm sure I will be able to
get into court tomorrow"
Ford is expected to take the stand
probably the first of next week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
Five Evade Jury Duty by
Opposing Execution of
a Woman.
By Paul w. White
United Press staff CorresDondent

CHttCU FTBS6 GtUJI COITt9UUHutHt
LONG ISLAND CITY, April 1S.-
The Snyder-Gray murder trial
started off today with a rush of. tales
men to escape jury duty because
they did not care to be called upon
to inflict the death penalty upon a
woman The woman whose life is
threatened in this case, Mrs. Ruth
Brown Snyder and Henry Judd
Gray, jointly accused of the murder
Of Albert Snyder, her husband,
seemed pleased by the development.
An hour after the trial opened both
had cast off much of the timidity
which seemed to envelop them as
they stepped into court and had
settled back in their chairs for the
long trial ahead.
Five Oppose Deaths
OF the first twelve men examined
as prospective jurors five said their
scruples would not permit them to
convict of first degree murder when
such a conviction carried the death
sentence as its only punishment, as
it does in this State. That, they said,
was particularly true in the case
Of a woman.
After the five opposed to capital
punishment were excused, one by
one the remaining seven were chal-
lenged or excused for cause-most
Of them because they at least inti-
mated that they either were preju-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
COLLINS ORDERS ARMITAGE CITED
White Riuer High
Waters in Gulf

Although flood waters whicn
inundated parts of Indianapolis
when the White River here
rose to a stage of 1911 feet four
weeks ago probably have
passed out of the Mississippi
into the Gulf of Mexico by this
time, they had an indirect in
fluence on the floods that are
devastating the Mississippi
River basin now.
1T usually requires from two
to three weeks for waters in
White River here to reach the
lower Mississippi" said Me-
teoroIogist j. II. Arlington to-
day. "The flood here four
weeks ago hardly would have
been noticeable in the Missis-
sippi had it not been for the
abnormally heavy rainfall of
the last two weeks throughout
the middle western States, par
ticularly in Arkansas and Kan
sas. Our flood waters part in
the present lower Mississippi
floods is limited to their effect
In keeping the Mississippi just
that muth higher a week or
so ago than it would have been
otherwise"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
TALK OF ULTIMATUM
Unverifled Reports of Action by
Power Still Current.

BIZ United Press
SHANGHAI, April 1S.-Univerified
reports that the powers were plan
ming to send an ultimatum to the
Nationalist government at Hankow
persisted today while firing on
merchant vessels and warships on
tn eYangtze river created a virtual
state of war.
Thirty-nine warships of the powers
now are concentrated at Hankow,
and two more American vessels have
been ordered to sail for there
Wednesday.
Rumor of Blockade
The concentration of ships led to
another rumor that the powers
planned to blockade the Yangtze.
Still another had it that Gen. Chang
Kai-Shek, leader of the Nationalist
moderates, planned to march on Han
kow, center of the extremist wing of
the government, in his campaign to
expel radical from the Kuomintang.
Two shells hit the u. S. S. Ford
when it was fired on by small party
of soldiers on the Marking side of
the Yangtze. The Ford did not re-
turn the fire, which soon ceased. 1t
was attributed to irresponsible
soldiers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
$4,000 IN
FLOOD AREA
HOMELESS
Raging Waters of the Mis-
- SiSSippi Sweep on to
i Delta.
9 KNOWN TO BE DEAD
Many Other Persons Re-
v ported Missing.
9 KNOWN TO BE DEAD

BIZ United Press
Fertile fields bordering on the Mis-
sissippi River today are inundated;
$4,000 pernons are. refugees; rail
traffic in many places is paralyzed;
hundreds Of militiamen and volun-
teers are doing levee duty as the
broad river-swollen to flood stage
sweeps toward the delta country.
Considerable suffering accompa-
nies the flood. AT Peach Orchard
Bluff, two miles from Mcclellan,
Ark, 800 persons are described as
being huddled together on high
knoll, without food and with very
scanty attire, as the swirling waters
overflow their farms and homes. A
similar situation is reported at
Hughes, Ark, in various parts oil
southeastern Missouri, southern llli-
nois and Tennessee.
Flee to Cairo
Cairo, ILL.,, is the principal port for
the refugees. Beginning late Satur-
day-after the levees Of the Missis-
sippi had broken in four places
there was a steady trek to Cairo,
which is virtually surrounded by
water. Despite the swollen Missis-
sippi, the Ohio and a smaller river,
Cairo is believed safe, owing to high
protecting walls on all sides of the
city.
Every available place in Cairo is
being used to house the homeless.
Halls. vacant buildings and all avail
able rooms have been given to the
flood sufferers.
" Army Provides Tents
In many parts of Arkansas, where
the situation is said to be the worst
tents have been erected for the
refugees by national guard reg
innents and the War Department.
The same situation is true in parts
of Tennessee and requests for aid
have goae out from Mississippi.
Most of the refugees were forced
to leave their homes hurriedly.
Huge levees. thrown up as pro
4ection against the Mississippi,
suddenly gave way anu tII0 AO"'ii' >
clay colored water, swept over the
rich farm land carrying away farm
implements killing many head OF
livestock and doing tremendous
damage to farm houses and build
ings.
Nine Dead
Thus far the death toll stands at
nine, but many persons are reported
missing, especially in Arkansas
where families were separated by
hasty departures from flood'threat'
ened homes.
No estimate of the damage had
been made today, although officials
say it will be in the millions.
Red Cross officials, army officials
and volunteer workers are carrying
aid to the flood district. Army planes
NAV be used in an effort to bring
relief, while militiamen and volun'
teers continue a patrol of the levees
on every section of the Missippi from
st. Louis to. New Orleans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
MERGER HEARING SOON
Commission to Set Date this Week
to Study Car.Bus Deal.

Date of hearing the petition of the
Indianapolis Street Railway Com
pany to purchase the Peoples Motor
Coach Company for 100000 and
other consideration, will be set this
week by the Indiana public service
commission. Deal has been con-
sumated between the two concerns
and the petition was filed Satur-
day.
After purchase has been approved
by the commission the company will
ask for revised schedule of bus
service, it is expected, which may
mean the abolition Of the feeder
busses that now function in con-
nection with car lines. A straight
1O-cent bus fare with 2.cent transfer
is considered likely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
BAR HUSBAND At
SCHMIDT FUNERAL
Held in Jail as Slain Wife Is
Buried.

BIZ United Press
CLINTON, Ind, April 1s.-Author-
tiles today refused to let John
Schmidt attend the funeral of his
wife, who was shot and fatally
wounded from ambush near here
last Thursday. Schmidt who is in
Jail here for questioning was to be
taken to Newport County Jail today
where he probably will be held until
the Vermillion County grand jury
meets Friday.
Police Chief Wilmot Conner said
Margaret Molnar, 10, stepdaughter,
talks more freely now that Schmidt
is in Jail and says now that he
might have been" the assailant who
killed her mother and wounded her.
Police were still seeking the shot.
gun with which the two women
were shot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
THREE DIE IN CYCLONE
Man, Wife and Baby Killed at
BOIxoshe, Okla.-Two Injured.

Bp United Press
FORT SMITH, Ark, April 1S.-
Three persons were killed and two
injured by a cyclone which struck
Bokoshe, Okla, thirty miles south
west of here, last night, according
to reports from that community to-
day. The listed dead are:
Carl, his wife and baby.
The injured are Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Wood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
UNDECIDED AT EVANSVILLE
Clerk Refuses to Say Whether Coun'
Gil Will Get Petition.
BU United Press

BV United Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind, April 1S.-s
With the city council meeting to-
night, City Clerk Louis Sarlls still
refused to say today whether he
would certify to the council the
names of 1888 signers to petitions
demanding a city manager election.
Sarlls is reported to be wavering
between two groups in the local ad-
ministration, one of which wants to
hold back the petitions and force
city manager supporters to go into
court, and another which favors GER
tifying the names and putting the
matter to & test in an election.
The petitions were filed last Mon
day. The five days allowed Sarlls by
law to check the names and certify
the petitions expired Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
Plenty Of Sob Material to
EmheIIish Courtroom
Drama.
BY Niaurine Watkins


NEW YORK, April 1S.-Strike up
the band, for the show starts today
Bread and circuses for tAe rabble
of Rome, bull fights for the mobs OF
Spain and trials for the great Ameri'
can public.
The Roman audiences were limited
by the size of the ampitheater. but
the whole United States can attend
this circus via the newspapers.
To the gods on Olympus, or a
stranger from Mars, it might seem
family absurd-as if a hundred mil
lion beetles were suddenly to stop
and focus grave attention upon the
antics-the slow twistings and cum
bersome breathings-of two otheS
beetles. But that would mean only
the gods on Olympus or the stranger
from Mars did not realize the signifi'
cance of the Snyder case, for it real
ly is a whale of story.
Those Little Touches
First and best, it is murder, and
the public always loves blood, and a
nice juicy murder-no mere pistol
shot in the heat of passion or color
less poisoning, but CORY hacking,
with chloroform and picture wire for
good measure-it is grotesuue little
touches like these that aid to the
ghoulish shivers. And coolly pre-
meditated, days and weeks in ad-
vance, an alibi planned with an eye
for the perfect crime.
Add to this illicit love, 4 stodtsy,
older husband killed by Nis butter
fly wife and her lover, who, in turn,
has a faithful wife who stands by
with dog Tray devotion.
Sob Material
And for sentimental value each
has a child-a lovely, innocent child
in no way responsible, gentlemen,
for this awful tragedy. And as if
that weren't enough, each killer
boasts a mother. Never have two
defendants been equipped with bet
ter sob material, should any one care
to use it.
But this is not just love murder.
Money, which ties sex in interest
to mankind, is also involved, and
will perhapn prove the most damag-
ing factor.
Will Henry Judd Gray emerge as
Svengah who hypnotized Ruth
SNYDER to do his dread bidding, or
was he her love slave, or a wretched
man who killed to protect his fam
lily under blackmail threat of expos
ure?
What Will Widow Do?
And will the self-made widow take
her place as the trusting victim Of
a gay Lothario's evil Vaccinations,
a brave little housewife and mother
who loved not wisely but too well,
or will she go down as a little sis
ter of Lady Macbeth, Salome, or
Lucrezia Borgia?
And the verdict?
They're guilty as hell and ought
to die" That's the emphatic and in
formal opinion of certain of those
who know them best.
"You can't tell what turn it will
take" vas the gloomy prophecy OF
one reporter who found it the most
brutal and coldblooded murder in his
ten years experience as reporter
~ "They may both go Free" .sS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
PETITION ON
MANAGER IS
SUFFICIENT 7
Clerk Will Tell Council Plea
Bears 1852 Approved
Names.
SHOWDOWN TONIGHT
CounCiImen May Bolt to
Avoid Election Call.

City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr.
will certify to city council tonight
that the city manager petition bears
an excess of the number of names
required by law for calling a special
election in June on the manager
form.
The petition bears 32,612 approved
and 1894 disapproved signatures,
Boyce said.
The law provides that the council
shall name a date for the special
election not less than thirty nor more
than sixty days after the next sue
ceeding May :.
Action i'm Doubt
What action the council will take
was not indicated. but it was pos
sibility that an effort would be made
to throw out the petition. Manager
leaders cited court rulings that held
the certificatior of signatures on
such petition could not be attacked.
Council President Claude e. Neg
ley will name two election board
members to serve with Boyce, ac-
cording' to the statute. The law
provides that the election board
members be resident freeholders, one
known against and the other for the
manager form.
Ballx Threatened
In heated arguments on the man.
ager plan several of the council
men have threatened to balk by fail
ing to attend the meeting tonight.
The council shall call an election
when the petition is filed, the law
provides. The "headless horsemen"
were subpoenaed> and brought to a
special meeting when they voted
down money to check the signatures.
Debate on the $1,700,000 bond
issue ordinance for the city hospital
was expected with health board
members invited to the meeting.
The ordinance proposing daylight
saving beginning the first Sunday
in May was up for final action.
A 100000 bond issue for repairing
Harding st. bridge was expected to
be passed following approval of
plans by City Engineer Frank c.
Lingenfelter.
The ordinance for $4,000 for city
market repairs which was killed
recently because of a legal techni.
cality was expected to be introduced
again tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
CARROLL MUCH BETTER
Sick Federal Prisoner Apparently
Past Relapse Danger.

BIZ UnitcG i feSs
GREENVILLE, S. c., April 1S.--
Earl Carroll, New York theatrical
producer, was reported much better
today after a night of constant i'm
provement. His wife and two broth
ers remained in their hotel all uiglt t,
indicating he was considered past
danger of a relapse.
James Carroll, one of the broth
ers, announced that Mrs. Earl Car
roll had definitely decided not ia
make her home in Atlanta while her
husband serves his sentence of a
year and day in the penitentiary
there. Carroll collapsed on the train
on his way to Atlanta from New
York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
DuUaU Is Back
and "Pretty Busy

Mayor Duvall was pretty busy"
today!
This was the word passed out to
visitors at the mayors office at city
hall by Hayes Wilson, Negro
messenger.
Duvall was back at his desk after
leaving Thursday on a iaunt to Chi
cago, where ne said he attended a
traffic safety conference.
Detective Chief Claude NJ. Worley
was among the few city officials to
confer with Duvall. They were
closeted for half an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
DODGE, WIFE REUNITED
wCoupIe ReconciIed in Hawaiian Noon
light Sails for Home.
BV United Press

BU United Press
DETROIT. April 1S.-Aboard the
Dollar liner President Madison,
ploughing it way from Honolulu'to
San Francisco, Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
e. Dodge today were enjoying their
second honeymoon following a COM
plete reconciliation effected last week
under the soothing beams Of a
Hawaiian moonlight.
That was the portent of a cable
gram received here today, which de-
clared Mrs. Dodge, who has been
in i'll health, was quite happy and
in high spirits" but refused to COM
ment on the reconciliation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
Flooded TolUn
Feels Quake

BD United Press
RIDGELY, Tenn, April 1S.-
A series of earthquake shocks
shook this. bloodhound town
early today. The first quake
occurred at 4:S0 a. m. After in
habitants, hundreds of them
flood refugees. sleeping in tents.
had gone back to their inter-
rupted sleep, two more quakes
followed in rapid succession at
$50 a. m.
Sheriff Damon Headden of
Lake County said no damage
had been reported.