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The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-09
CLEAN UP

This the spring of the year. At most of
months accumulation of tin cans ashes dead
Twenty below and sixteen inches of do not create cond
lions that induce desire to roll ones sleeves and work
corn and half his annual trip to the Tropc Of
and has brushed the of winter The early birds
flowers here herads telling it is time up
The coored people of St. Paul happen to live in of the
ctys best locations Our neghborood is downtown 1t
convenient to twin city, We weatherbeaen
hill top nor in stencil filled valley by stagnant pool Our
streets well curbed and lined with beautiful
smoky and noisy railroad yards busy manufacturing
tc And the transportation good Such neighbohood
worth keeping clean.
What the mkman, postman and collector sees
neghborood will be reflected the whole community
illness quick approach to respect And respected people get
consideration
To the who supposed be leader church. lodge
of club this the time prove your leadership Your rubbish
should be cleaned first We cannot expect city officials
spend money for schools lights and paving in rundown neigh
borhood Let us invite attention by cleaning up.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-09
Beacon for Mount Etna

Winds which sweep the magnificent
summit Of Mount Etna, Sicily, soon
will be harnessed to light one Of the
worlds most powerful beacons, a mil
lion candlepower light which will
guide flyers on the Mediterranean air
routes, according to Popular Science
Monthly. Experts estimate that the
power 1t will draw from the winds
will exceed the power which is gene
rated by the huge plants at Niagara
Falls.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-09

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GIRLS WANTED

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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
NATIONAL GUARD MAY RE USED
TO INSURE QUIET ELECTION OF
CHICAGO MAYOR NEXT TUESDAY

CHICAGO, April 2 R = Adjutant
General Carlos Black was ordered to
Chicago from Springfield today to
determine whether it will be neces-
sary to call out the national guard
to insure riotless mayoralty elec-s
tion here next Tuesday. Governor
Len Small, in statement revealing
the order to the adjutant general
said:
Il have instructed Adjutant General
Black to go to Chicago ana confeh
with Major General Roy d. Keehn
and Sheriff Charles e. GraydowH
and give whatever situation may
arise his personal attention.
Il have too much confidence in
the people of Chicago to think there
will be race riots or other serious
disturbances but when sheriff asks
Intervention or preparation for in
tervention mis- request must be tax,
en- seriously We are going to see
that the people of Chicago can so
to the polls Tuesday and safely cast
their ballots"
The governors action followed q
request by Sheriff Graydown of Cook
county that the governor be prepared
to mobilize the national guard or
quick notice. Pandemonium in the
city's three -cornered mayoralty cons
test broke tonight Shouting, post
ling crowds jammed downtown
streets. spasmodic fist fighting was
reported by police
The streets about the hotel in
which Mayor William E. Dever, dem
ocrat and William Hale Thompson,
republican, both have their head
quarters were crowded. The third
candidate is Dr. John Dill Robertson,
running on an independent republ1-
can ticket. Sheriff Graydown, who
is aligned with the republican or
g;lnization backing rnompson's can
didacy said he was impelled to ask
the governor to be ready with troops
! by what he charactered a demo
| crat-inspired plot This was. tho
| under the stamped signature OF
Thompson. The letters requested the
recipients to meet Thompson at his
hotel headquarters yesterday.
Thompson said he believed the fet
] tiers were fer the purpose Of fiilinr
4 the downtown streets with large
| numbers OF negroes wearing InonN'
son badges. A fight was to be
started, according to Thompson ad-
hcrents, with the possibility of 9
liot resulting.
Managers of Mayor Devers cam,
paign said the plot appeared t.
! them to be somebody's April foo
joke. They disclaimed knowledge OF
| it.
whether or not soldiers are called
to guard the ballot boxes, there wiz
lie unusually strong police prctec-
tion.
National politics became further
embellished as an issue in campaign
tonight when United States Senator
/ Charles S. Deneen, making his first
campaign speech for Thompson
4 charged that if Mayor Dever is re.
elected the mayor will join witt
George Brennan, democratic nationa
committeeman and chief hacker o.
lever, in throwing their strength in
to the democratic national convex
tiop for the purpose of defeatins
!. the national republican party.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
1T ALLAN FLIER
TURNS AIRPLANE
TO WEST COAST

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 2. up
Commander francesca De Pinedo,
italian air man who. is touring four
continents on 3O,OOO-mile aerial jour-
ney, waved goodbye to the Gulf of
Mexico today and completed his first
dry land hop in the United States
when he flew from Galveston to San
Antonio. His gigantic twin-motored
monoplane, which is equipped to land
on nothing but water, made the ESQ
mile journey without mishap and is
in shape to speed away at 4:S0 o'clock
tomorrow morning for Elephant Butte
dam, New Mexico, where it will land
on the waters impounded by that
dam. His next hop will be to the
Pacific ocean at San Diego, Calf
Commander De Pinedo turned his
plane to the west early this morning
at New Orleans, his first stop in the
United States, and flew approximately
800 miles along the Gulf, arriving at
Galveston shortly before IL o'clock
After three hours spent in dining
and tuning his plane, he took off for
San Antonio at 1:41 p. M, and flew
almost due west until he crossed the
city and came to rest on the waters
of Medina lake, 80 miles away.
A flight of five army planes met
the flier near the outskirts of the
city and formed an escort for him
until he had located the lake, which
is hidden among deep hills After cir
cling the lake once, the Italian drop
ped to the surface, while the other
machines sought nearby landing
fields
A large delegation Of high army
officers, prominent italians and
chamber of commerce officials, drew
alongside the plane as it landed and
accompanied it to the wharf, where
hundreds of spectators had gathered
! to see the arrival.
| Commander De Pinedo leaped to the
wharf clad in a natty golfing outfit.
| He refused to devote much of his
attention to the spectators and well
| coming committee until he had given
| his plane a thorough inspection and
superintended refueling and servic-
J ing operations.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
G. 0. P. CHAIRMAN
WILL MAKE TOUR
OF The COUNTRY
Butler Intends to Make
Survey Of Republican
Political Situation

WASHINGTON, April 2 (P.-After a
conference with President Coolidge,
William NJ. Butler, chairman of the re-.
publican national committee, an
nounced today that he would begin a
political situation beginning about
April Is. The national chairman plans
to be on the road about month, and
while his itinerary has not been fully
worked out, he said he would visit Pa
cific coast states as well as those in
the northwest, comforting with ma
tional committee men, state chairmen
and other party leaders.
Asked if one purpose was the sound
ing of sentiment on the suggestion of
the denomination of President Coolidge
next year, Butler said candidates were
not being considered at this time; that
the idea was to tighten up the party
machinery.
Such a trip as that about to be un-
dertaken by the man personally Sc
lected by Mr.. Coolidge to conduct his
campaign in 1924 has been suggested
for some time by several of the party
leaders and friends of the president.
They have emphasized that there has
been no gathering of the national com-
nittee III two years and that steps
should be taken to get the national
organization into better working order.
Mr.. Butler said he had planned such
a journey as he is about to make dur
ing, last January, but abandoned the
idea at that time because congress was
in session and many political leaders
with whom he desired to confer were
not in their states at that time. He
said he had decided upon plan OF
travelling from state to state rather
than to visit a central point and invite
the leaders to confer with him there.
The national chairman is expected tc
give particular attention tcAoonditions
in border political states, but the ex-
tent of his activities in territories
where the names of Frank o. Lowden
of Illinois, and others have beer
brought out as possible opponents o.
Coolidge for the republican nomina-
tion is not made clear at this time
While on the road-and his trip is t.
consume at least a month-Butler viii
look over facilities offered by variou:
cities for the republican convention
next year. already arr
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
WILKINS DEATH
STRAINS. MEXICO,
u. S. RELATIONS
Sheffield Is Instructed to
Make Urgent Repre-
sentatiOns

WASHINGTON, April 2. (P-Mur1er
Of Edward M. wilkins, American min
ing engineer, by Mexican bandits at
time when the killing last Septem-
ber of another American, Jacob Ro-
senthal, still is an unsettled diplo-
matte case, has given a new twist
to the already disturbed relations
between the United States and
Mexico.
Official report to the state de-
partment today from Consul Dwyre
at Guadalajara that wilkins body
had been found was followed imme-
diately by instructions to Ambassa-
dor Sheffield at Mexico City to make
urgent representations concerning the
murder to the foreign office
The note delivered by the ambas-
sador supplemented previous repre-
sentations made at the time of the
kidnapping of the engineer on March
20.
Dwyre reported that wilkins had
been dead four days, having appar-
emily been slain when the bandits,
hard pressed by federal troops, be-
came convinced they would not col
lect the 10000 pesos ransom. At the
time of his capture near Guadalajara,
wilkins, formerly a resident of Sa-
vannah, Ca, was with his 10-year- old
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
SINCLAIR AND.
DOHENIACT|ON
IS RESc|NDED
President Says Revocation
Is In Line With Courts
Decision.
LAND RESTORED
Naval Petroleum Reserves
Nos. / and 2 Will Revert
To u. S. Navy.

WASHINGTON, April 2 R.-Presi-
dent Coolidge has revoked the execu-
tive order issued by President Harding
on May 81, 1921, under which Albert b,
Fail, as interior secretary negotiated
the naval oil reserve oil lease with Ed
ward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair,
which led to both civil and criminal
actions in the federal courts. The or
der of revocation was dated March IL
and it was stated at the White House
that it's, issue is in keeping with the
decision of the United States supreme
court revoking the contracts and leases
made with Doheny covering the Elk
Hills, Calf, reserve and oil tank stor-
age at Pearl Harbor.
Made public at theSstate department
in the usual routine way Of publishing
executive orders it reads:
Executive order No. 3474 Of May 81,
1921, committing to the secretary OF
the interior the administration and
conversion Of All oil aud gas bearing
lands in naval petroleum reserves Nos.
/ and 2, California, and naval petro-
leum reserve No. 8 in wyoming, and
naval shale reserves in Colorado and
Utah, undeL the provision Of the acts
of congress approved February 25, 1920,
and June 4. 1920, is hereby revoked"
BY this order Jurisdiction over all Of
the reserves save that in wyoming
the celebrated Teapot Dome-is left
exclusively with the navy department.
The Wyoming reserve still is in dis
pute, with Sinclair appealing to the
supreme court from circuit court de-
cision revoking the lease.
Both during the senate investigation
and the hearings on the civil suits for
the recovery of the reserves, President
Harding's order was attacked as illegal
because it in effect set aside an act
of congress placing jurisdiction in the
navy department.
In deciding the Doheny case, how
ever, the supreme court did not pass
judgment on that proposition. Justice
Butler, who read the decision, declared
the transaction evidenced by the con-
tracts and leases with Doheny was not
authorized by the act of June A. 1920,
under which Fall and Edwin Denby, as
secretary of the navy contended they
had authority to revoke the time-hon-
ored policy of keeping a great naval
petroleum reserve in the ground.
Evidence before the senate oil COM
mittee was that the executive order
which Harding signed was drawn in the
interior department
The order was approved at the navy
department and it was taken to the
White House for Harding's signature
by Theodore Roosevelt, then assistant
secretary Of the navy
After the order was signed, negotia-
tions for the leasing of the two prin-
J cipai naval reserves were entered
into, first with Doheny's company
and later with Harry F. Sinclair's
Mammoth Oil company. They ess.
tended over period of more than
year and in holding that the DO
heny lease and contracts were taint
ed with fraud, the supreme courr
cited the secrecy which attended
their negotiation.
| Fall has faced one jury with Dos
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
400 MINERS ESCAPE EXPLOSION
THAT TAKES TOLL OF SIX LIVES

COKESBURG, Pa, April = m
"A coal dust explosion in El;S-
worth cOIIerieS llinc No. 3, here
to-day, claimed the lives of =
miners but 400 others at work III
the underground tunnels escaped
uHinjured TO the surface by wn5-
of the main shaft Five Othe
wOrkerr were burned but wiFI
recover. The mine, one of tine
largest shaft operation I'm WaST-
iHgtOn county, was known until
recently as No. 53 of the Beth
lehem Mines corporation, subsil-
larry of the Bethlehem steel
company. The suspension of min
ing yesterday i'm the central COM
petftivc did not affect the Coke
burg mine. which is nOn-uniOu.
The regular force went to work
this morning, All men.
In room off the main head
ing. some miners tapped in a
shot of dynamite to .OOSen the
coal. JnSt as they had finished
preparing the shot rock tum-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
GREAT BRITAIN
ITO BACK DEMAND
WITH SOLDIERS.
Decides to Augment Force
In China to Exact Rep
aratiOn Asked

LONDON, April 2. R-New evil
dence was given today of Great
Britain's firm determination to exact
reparations from the Chinese ma
tionalists for the Marking outbreak,
in which several foreigners were
killed or injured.
The war office officially announced
that another infantry brigade and
auxiliary units totalling approximate
ly 1000 men, would be dispatched
to the far east as soon as they were
brought to war strength by calling
up reservists.
Decision to augment the Shanghai
defense force came as a surprise
even to those in close touch with
events, but military experts at home
and in China have maintained that
it is essential, when the demands are
made on the Chinese, that there be
an adequate force on the spot to back
up threats of possible action. 1t is
stated the brigade will be rushed to
Hong Kong, relieving the troops there
for duty in Shanghai If usgently
necessary, they will be sent directly
to the Yangste.
Negotiations for American and
Japanese adhesion to the demands or
the Cantonese continue, but it was
stated at the foreign office tonight
that no agreement has been reached
yet. Meanwhile, Great Britain re-
mains firm in her resolve to take
drastic action alone, if necessary.
The newspapers are full of reports
and predictions that the powers fl
nally will agree on blockade as the
best step to take in the event tht
nationa1ists refuse reparation for thu
Marking affair.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03


blcd down from the room, settling
the explosives off. The miners
were unDrepared ana the eN-
PIOsiOn shot out in the entry.
setting off coal dust.
The entire mine had been In
suIated thoroughly with. rOc:S
dust and the explosion did not
spread beyond the entry. Eleven
miners at work nearby were
knocked out by the hsast. six
of these succInnbcd to deadly
after damp before rescuers found
them. Five others, burned
slightly, were rescued.
In other parts of the workings
400 miners were busy digging
coal. Some of these men mt
isolated points, from the scene
of the explosion, did not know
the blast had occurred. Mine
fcremen Mt the shaft mouth were.
advised of the accident and they
used the mine telephone system
to order the other men to the
surface.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
NEW YORK CHAMBERMAID MAKES
MOVE FOR SOVIET MILLIONS

The first move today WAS &C.
cInred by Miss SchIich to be
smashing strategic victory. She
had tWO-hOUr interview with
Christian RakOvs,1y, soviet envoy
to France, as an outcome %
which, she says, she has received
permission to go to Moscow 1o
carry the battle before the heacs
Of the Russian government
Miss SchIich plans to enter
Russia next week ami processes
confidence that within few
days she will be in possession O@
the estate. Under the terms Of
her agreement with Lenine, she
says. IL per cent of the estase
will go toward paying Russia's
debt TO the United states.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03

PARIS. April 2 R-Elizabeth
schIicIl, who has just arrived
from New York, where she work.
ed for some years as cham
5ermafa today made her first
move in her fight to obtain
fortune from the soviet govern
mcnt.
Miss Schlich claims to be tn"
wife of Prince Tchernitcheff. and
to hold the written promise OF
Lenine that her property in Mos
cow would not be cOnfiscateG tr
she showed ability to support
herself for two years. The prop
'erty has been smriOuSIs repOrs-
"a as worth from 40,0OO,OO0 80
$12O,OOO.OOO.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
STRIKE
SETTLEMENT
NOT SIGHTED
Illinois Operators Say They
Cannot Pay Jacksonville
Scale.
MINES CLOSED
Will Make No Attempt to
Reopen With Non Union
Labor, Said.

X CHICAGO, April 2 R.-Expressing a
Willingness to talk over the situation
with union sofficials at all times, Illi-
nois operators tonight were neverthe-
less pessimistic concerning any early
resumption of working in the bitumi-
nous coal fields, idle because of the
failure of operators and miners to
agree upon a new wage scale.
1--WE cannot afford to pay the Jack
sonville wage scale and survive in COM
petition with non-union fields" said
Rice Miller, president of the Illinois
operators controlling mines employ
ing $4,000 miners.
Illinois operators said that no at
tempt will be made to operate the
mines in this state with non union
labor. NO mine can operate without
the approval of the state board, which,
because of disorders that have arisen
in the past would be expected to
frown on any one-shop operation.
Reports from the entire central COM
petitive field and from other bitumi-
nous coal centers indicated that the
suspension has been general The ex-
ceptions are small mines scattered
throughout the several fields which
are continuing operation on the pres
ent scale pending agreement on a new
wage.
Both operators and miners have
shown reluctance to take any definite
steps toward immediate resumption of
work. During the day prospects for a
wage contract within the Ohio union
field went glimmering when the union
officials said they would decline to
participate in any conference which
had for it's basis discussion of a
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
NAT|ONAISTS
ACCOUNTABLE
FOR0UTRAGES
State Department Makes
Public Conclusion Of
~ Marking Consul.
NOT ACCIDENTAL
Davis Reports the Attacks
On Americans We're Re-
suit of Plan.

WASHINGTON, April 2 69-An i'm
pending clash with nationalist auth
critics in China over responsibility
for the Nanlxing anti-fore&gn OUT
RACES was indicated tonight wher
the state department made public
conclusions of Consul John X.
Davis at Marking, holding national
ist military commanders directly ac-
countable for what happened.
Davis said all evidence showed
that the attackers of foreigners were
nationalist troops and that the ar
ticks clearly had been planned and
carried out under orders.
A statement by Eugene Chen, ma
,tionalist foreign minister, published
cipation of nationalist troops in the
attack prompted publication Of the
Davis report. Chen attributed the
outrages to 'reactionary" counter
1evolutionists and remnants" of the
defeated northern forces from which
the city had been taken by the
nationalists. He protested the bora
bardment by British and American
war craft and declared hundreds of
Chinese had been killed by foreign
naval guns.
Davis said seven persons f'were
killed in cold blood by soldiers in
the uniform of the nationalist party
'Information from wide range
disinterested sources" he added,
showed that only three Chinese
civilians had been killed in the
naval bombardment and that Chinese
military casualties could only have
heen among the forces attacking for
cigners.
''The outrages were committed by
the same troops which were engaged
il dismissing the remnants of the
northern army" Consul Davis said
''These soldiers Eore no resemblance
whatever to northern soldiers and
it is absolutely impossible for them
to have been agents of the north.
erns.'
Summing up his conclusions, Davis
continued 1T is proven that tho
Cutrages were planned and could
lrot possibly have been accidental
getting out of hand of Few troops
Publication Of the Davis report Is
particularly significant since the
state department refuses today tc
discuss steps it is preparing to take
to exact separations fer the insult
and injury inflicted upon Americans
alta Marking.
SHANGHAI April 2 lR.-Except fol
minor local disorders, Shanghai wa!
quiet today and the attention of the
foreign authorities was focused upor
the situation to the north of the Yang
tse, where the nationalist armies arr
sweeping onward, eventually, it is be
lieved, to meet the forces of Marsha
Chang Tso-IIin, the Manchurian leader
Reports from Nanking indicate tina
the situation there following upon las
weeks serious anti-foreign outbreak
was comparatively tranquil although
the British cruiser Emerald, anchoret
in the Yangtse, continues to be the tar
get for snipers along the shore. For
eign buildings made vacant by the gen
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03

ir south, unsettled
robably rain or
colder northeast;
enerally fair.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
COOLIDGE REVOKES OIL LEASE ORDER
u. S. Sees Impending Clash With Cantonese
s*******8* ******
Kidnapped American Is
Slain BY Mexicans In
Default Of Big Ransom

Y MEXICO CITY, April 2 R.--
Y Pursuit of the bandits who
y slew their captive, Edgar M.
Y wilkins, American electrical
Y engineer, was continued tonight
Y Army officers conducting the
Y man hunt said they were con-
\ fident of capturing or killing
Y the outlaws. wilkins was slain
Y when the bandits demands for
Y $4,000 ransosn proved unavail-
4 ing. announcement of the find
Y ing of the body was made yes-
\. terday. Advices reaching the
Y United. States embassy here
+ from Guadalajara, where tdle
y hOtIy has been taken, indicate
Y that the engineer was put to
Y death three or four days ago.
X The embassy today delivered
Y, to the Mexican foreign office 81
Y note requesting the capture and
Y punishment of the guilty par
r ties. However, news dispatches
from GuadaIajara report that
+ federal troops have been ac-
+ lively searching for the bandits
T for several days.
+
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
Street Car Conductor
Asks Police Protection
From Love-Sick Woman

CLEVELAND, April 2 (P).-
Eugene Foley is only 26 but he
has no patience with this idea
about young mans fancy
turning soft in the Springtime.
FOIOy is a street ear cOnduc-
tor. He appealed rOday to A. A.
Schrieber, police prosecutors, to
relieve him from the affection
ate remarks of "a fair passenger
whose ticket he collects every
morning.
He declares he cannot do his
work well because woman
passenger persists in making
love to him." Schrieber said.
The prosecutor has asked the
young woman to call for con-
ference Tuesday. when he hopes
to inStiII in her some of FOIey'S
resistance to the seasons lure.
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