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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-19
Preventative Legislation On
Great River Is Main Issue
Ahead
" IS ANXIOUS
Publisher Visits Summer
White House Giving As
surances of Support

RAPID CITY. S. D., July 18, F9-
President Coolidge will engage this
week in his first conference with a
cabinet officer since coming to the
Black Hills five weeks ago, when
Secretary Hoover reaches here on
Wednesday.
Bringing with him more detailed
report on the Mississippi river floods,
Mr.. Hoover possibly will take up sew
eral important problems with the
president. At this conference it is also
likely that Coolidge will get more de-
tailed information which he desires
before reaching a decision on the ques-
ton of calling congress into special
session before the regular meeting
time in December. a@ n
While he does not believe the flood
situation alone would necessitate a
special session, the president IS arlx-
ious to learn how soon report can
be made on the Mississippi floods on
which preventive legislation would be
based
Commercial aviation also promises
to occupy the attention of the presi-
dent and MI Hoover, who is stopping
off here on his way to California.
Charles A. Lindbergh, New York to
Paris flier, has been in conference
with the secretary in Washington.
The president had time today to
put in an afternoon fishing although
devoting several hours to visiting with
callers. Among these were representa-
tive Johnson. republican of this state
and Frederick E. Murphy, Milneapo-
lis publisher, who was guest at din
ner tonight
G. Watt Brandon, publisher of the
Sheridan, Wyoming, Journal also call
ed at the state game lodge today. He
was convention manager in Wy
oming for Mr.. Coolidge in the 1924
campaign and he assured the president
today that wyoming was ready again
to vote for him.
Mr.. Brandon said that the President
was still undecided about making the
proposed trip through Yellowstone
National Park. He was accompanied tc
the summer White House by Leroy d
Brandon, Journal clerk of the house
of representatives at Washington, a
brother, and their wives.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-19
REDS
F FACING CHAIR
REFUSE TO EAT

BOSTON, July 18, tPl-NiciH Sac
co and Bartholomew XanzeJJi abstain
ed from food at the state prison today.
Vanzetti drank coffee at breakfast and
lunch. Whether the two men sentenc-
ed to die next month for murder in
a case which has attracted interna-
tional attention have definitely en-
tered upon a hunger strike is sJill un-
certain.
The Sacco-Vanzetti defense commit
tee says that Vanzetti has said plain
ly that he will eat no more, giving as
his motive dissatisfaction with the
methods employed by Gov. Alyan T.
Fuller in investigating the case. War
den Hendry and other prison officials
are still inclined to think that the
mems abstraction from food IS only
temporary and is largely due to the
hot weather of the last lew days and
lack of exercise.
It was the second successive day
that Sacco had refused food and
Vanzetti had accepted only coffee. The
men have drinking water III their
cells.
Mrs Sacco visited her husband to-
day. She said he had given her no in
timation he was planning a hunger
strike. Sanford Bates, state commits
Sioner of correction, said he Woulc
leave the question of forcihle feed
ing entirely to Warden Hendry in
case the srike should be prolonged.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-19
Bombing Planes Go To
Rescue Of Beseiged; Scat
ter Attacking Force
TENSION GROWS
Secretary Kellogg Describes
General Sandino's Army
As Outlaws

NdANAGUA, Mic, July 18.lP- A
scant two score OF American ma
rines, supported by a few more than
that number Of marine trained ma
tive constabulary, hold the bloody
field st Ocotal, in the first decisive
engagement in the country since the
occupation One marine is dead,
another seriously injured and one
member of the constabulary has been
treated for severe hurts. OF the at
tacking force of 500 under the re-
calcitrant liberal, General Sandino.
which tried during II hours Sun
day to enter the town OF OCotal 300
lie dead outside the town and 100
are wounded. Hordes OF vultures all
ready sweep over the hotly contest
ed field. A..e. -, u,
Private Michael A. Obleski, OF
Raulette Pa was killed and Private
Charleg Sidney Garrison OF Ashe-
vile, N. c., was seriously wounded.
lGarrison's chances for recovery, how
ever, are said to be good. He was
brought to NIanagua from Ocotal by
airplane together with a wounded
member of the constabulary. 1a' gt
The battle might have terminated
in different fashion had it not peenl
for two scouting planes from Mama
qua Swinging across the country
ON a routine "look see," the ma
chimes traversed the lines after the
fighting had progressed several hours
and brought word here.
A squadron Of five bonlbers was
Nv
Logan Feland. Driving full speed
the 10 miles intervening, despite
tropical storm, they swung low across
the attacking lines, raking them with
rifle and machine gun fire, and KILL
ed 80 men. AS successive charges
detonated General Sandinos follow
ers threw away their arms and fled,
Tonight the general is believed to
be fleeing to the businesses oil the
northeast with handful OF men.
Major c.. d. Hatfield, in commend
of the marines at Ocotal, and his
fellow officers today were receiy--
ing congratulations from Nicaraglan
government officials ON the bravery
shown by the American force IN the
face OF such great odds.
GSIerdl OdAAOAAlO ID ooAN w 1AsSsySS
promised his followers that II they
captured Ocotal, they could loot it
at will.
WASHINGTON July l8.R-This
country'S relations with Latin Amer
lea, particularly with Nicaragua, were
brought into sharp focus again So7
day by the clash OF American ma
Continued on Page Ten)
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WASHINGTON, July 18,tR-This
countrys relations with Latin-Amer-
lea, particularly with Nicaragua, were
brought intc sharp focus again So7
day by the clash OF American ma
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-19
US MARINES FIGHT NICARAGUA REELS
Coolidge Will Confer With Hoouer On Flood
Note In Bottle Revives Hope
Of Finding Nungesser and Coli

JOHNS July 10 GA bottle containing bit of paper
NungesSerCo help French washed
Point May N F. The note written
pencil tightly corked in brandy flask and found by
Patrick Cousins, ID old boy
the bottle revived hope that
fle be found in this region
OF the plane having been resulted IN
several searching expeditions being sent out
were a
which evidently had been torn from
larger sheet.
inspector the postal telegraph who
ST. that the
boys story of finding it genuine
at the extreme of Burn peninsula
miles southwest
first hearing arpane
originated after Nunes Coli failed to complete their trans
Atlantic flight
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|: Burglar Dives Through
!: Window When Caught
|: at Work by Householder

4 The home of G. E. Bellus
+ at 960 Eleventh street was en-
Y tered and robbed Sunday eve
ming while the occupants were
Y absent, for the second time in
Y three months.
+ The house was entered Dy the
= bathroom window in the rear of
Y the house and the burglar was
= interrupted by the return of HAr.
Y and Mrs. Bellus.
Y Bellus Immediately sensed that
Y someone was in the house and
Y got his gun. In escaping the burg
Y lar went through the rear bed
!: room window head first carrying
+ screen, sash and frame with
l: him.
+ A hasty examination Of the,
y house showed that all that was
+ taken was the uniform coat to
Y Bellus' suit. Bellus is federal
Y officer.
+ The rest of the loot was drop
Y ed near the window when the
Y man made his hasty exit.
+ T. T. # r. + * s. T. # Il = Il *
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Mostly Fair Tues
day and VrVedne5-
day.
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EARTHQUAKE TOLLS

LONDON, July 18 @-The colonial
office has received telegram, dated
today, from the acting high COM
missioner in Palestine reporting the
casualties in the Palestine earthquake
as 200 killed, 356 seriously injured
and 375 slightly hurt. In Trans
jordania 68 we're killed and, 1O2 in
iured.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
My Philosophy of Life ;'S;:: ::: '

| pottery, agriculture, the working OF
metals-they are moderately advanced
| but are said to have learned these un
der Semitic influence and have GER
| tainly shown no development Of their
own. Their religion in these countries
! was formerly very debased and cruel
ietishism, cannibalism and slavery be-
ing the chief characteristics and out
comes, but they are now becoming
largely Mohammedan.
| "In the United States and South
Africa they are largely Christianized.
They are gay and passionate with
rapidity In change of mood, yet with a
subordination to authority arc marked
faithfulness. yet subject to sudden
failure. Their republic. Haiti. has al.
ways had a bad name. But in a very
short time you have. in the United
States, crossed these limitations and
begun to take creative part in the
artistic life of the country.
| THAT you should already have MADE
music all your own Is greatly TO
your credit. and this means the credit
of some 200.000,000, at which number
the Negroid race is at present csti-
mated.
I'm the United States there are
now more than 100000. forming
more than one ninth of the population,
and, as they are more prolific than
the whites, they are becoming an in
creasingly important factor in the
country's population.
II believe that big things are ahead
| for your race, since its emancipation
| in a land whose civilization 1t can
adapt itself to so quickly and com.
pletely. and you must let me express
| the hearty wish for numerous bless
| ings such as you deserve. Some day
| l may have the pleasure of hearing
you sing these songs which are a
lasting monument to days that will
be reckoned as such important ones
| by future historians of your race"
Colas: 1.-THE gentlemen. provided you
are willing, would like to sing for you
here today, NJ. Clemenceau."
Clemenceau: "Then wait until I call
| nv servant. He, too, must hear this
concert. 1t surely will be too good for
me to enjoy all alone" (de suited his
gesture to the word, and in a moment
was back with the faithful man serv-
ant who has been at his side for 40
years.)
The singers rise and in their rich.
| tropically melodious voices sing:
Swing Low. Sweet Chariot. Deep
River" and Nobody Knows But
Jesus"
Clemenceau: "This has been a very
pleasant experience, and must thank
you sincerely, for coming to see me.
will always be interested in your work
and wish you success. Is there any
service I can render you, wonder?"
One of the singers latter hesitating
and stammering slightly: Gould you
spare a photograph Of yourself, sir?"
Clemenceau: with pleasure" Tie
opened a drawer, took out some pho
tographs, signed one for each of the
singers and distributed them person
ally)
The singers in chorus taking their
leave and starting from Clemenceau's
door across the cobblestone courtyard
that leads to the street, photographs
In hand: THANK you. sir. Thank
you, sir. Good-by."
eoagfight. 1927. BY conssantia colaA
Evening star., 1927-11-20

race. In their purest form they are
probably found along the Guinea
coast, in the Gaboon, the basins of the
Shari and Benua and the lower Fam
besi; but the Sudan, as you probably
know, is considered the home of the
race. 1t is possible that they people d
Schlater's Lemuria,' contiren: COW
ering a large portion of the Indian
Ocean, and became divided on the sub.
sidence of the region in early and
middle Tertiary times" (He pauses
and appears to engage for moment
in meditative reflection.)
One of the singers deeply interested
and complimented on hearing the his.
tory of his race poured out with such
accuracy and sympathy): THANK you.
SIR"
Clemenceau: 'The negro children
are described as sharp, vivacious, in.
telligent, but deterioration - among
those who inhabit the sections have
spoken of-commences at puberty. and
the full-grown negro in those lands
remains childlike. unprogressive. leth.
argic, without initiation. In the arts
that is, building. spinning, weaving,
Evening star., 1927-11-20

serve as a bridge between Egypt and
Greece and provide some continuity
and salvage between the decay of the
old and the rise of the new. The
island lay strategically on the sea
routes from Egypt to Asia and from
Egypt to Europe; 1t was halfway
house for trade, naturally fated to
produce a commercial and industrial
civilization.
BY 1000 B. c. the Cretans had be-
come wealthy enough to have not only
kings but artists. On the ruins of the
neolithic town of Cnoss they built a
great city, centering about a luxuri-
GUS palace, which Sir Arthur Evans
has in our own time recaptured from
the soil. Vast rooms, wide galleries,
spacious staircases and massive drain
pines reveal a material and mechani'
cal culture akin to the Egyptian and
superior in many ways to the physi cal
achievements of the Greeks. But in
their pottery and their textiles. III
their gem and ivory and metal and in
laid work, in their vivid painting and
decorative friezes, in their splendid
vases and marvelously engraved cups
we see the signs of that esthetic sensl-
tivity, that fine taste and careful art.
istry which were to pass from the
Cretans to Hellas and end the barbar-
ism Of their conquerors. No wonder
Greek legend attributed the beginning
of statuary to the Cretan sculptor
Daedalus, whose figures (the story
said were so lifelike and active that
he had to tie them down to keep them
still. Symbolic, too, of the Cretan
spirit was the noble legend that told
how Daedalus had tried to fly and how
Icarus had fallen into the Medlterra-
III ic xryivr
sun. So old Is the dream which in our
own audacious age has at last come
true.
AS trade increased along the north
ern routes the Cretans spread to the
mainland of Greece and founded the
"Mycenaean" civilization of Tiryns
and Mycenae Tea. 1900 b. c.. Then
step by step they passed alon,s the
islands Of the Aegean, raising so many
cities upon them that their culture
now bears the name of that incompa'
rable sea- And finally they flung their
farthest outpost down at what we call
Troy.
IL u X
Look at the place ON the map; for
it is as vital in Greek history as Con-
stantinople lat the other end of the
Sea of Marmora) is vital in the his
tory of medieval and modern politics.
AS you enter the straits today, pass
ing the spot where Leander possibly
and Bryon really swan the Hellespont.
you see the wreckage of the great
fleets that poured out the lives of
SOC, 900 English youths in a vain at.
TENT to take Gallipoli: and the whole
| weary succession Of sieges and wars
from Agamemnon to Winston Church.
| Ill moves before the mind.
Was there ever here an actual city
| Of Troy? Once every schoolboy knew
| that there was none; Niebuhr had
Evening star., 1927-11-20
4 ROOM at rue Franklin. Paris.

A ROOM at rue Franklin, Paris.
~ Summer, 1927.
"A Clemenceau's visitors, the
1 y Fisk American Negro Jubilee
Singers, are examining intentlv
huge autograph-book in which are
original letters of Napoleon, Marie
Antoinette, Louis XIV, Robesperre'
Lafayette and others.
on a horseshoe table nearby where
the Tiger" does his writing, lie the
English translations Of many OF Cieni'
enceaus works, which the writer, an
old Journalist friend of the former
premier's, has shown the negro
guests. whom he arranged to bring TO
nav their respects to the man VINO,
as one of the singers put 1t, sat on
the top of the world when 1t came TO
the most memorable turning point Oh
history"
On desk near the wall is Robins
| bust of Cleuenceau and the walls hoio
precious paintings Of Claude Monet:
Millet, Corot and two celebrated
| "heads" by Greuze. Drawings by
Sargent. etchings by Whistler, and
portraits of Anatole France. Votalre
and Renan fill the little places between
the immense canvases, and the dark
complexioned visitors, from their
shaky old chairs in the unpretentious
residence Of this venerable Journanst
and politician, gaze about oeAsnteuiy
! upon the various rare objects In the
| room.
Enter with an erectness eXtraordl-
nary for a man of his age. smiling
heartily, the greatest politician OF
Europe, if not Of the whole world
| the man who knows. as nooody eise
knows, what went on during ana atter
the World War. the man VINO piayeu
the most important part in that thron-
bling chapter Of history-Georges
| Clemenceau.
Clemenceau: "Well 1t surely II
good Of you to make me this VISIT.
am an old man, but my interest In
the affairs Of the world has not less
ened, and you come from country
where lived for long time; WORKED,
met the lady who afterWard became
my wife, and of which / have many
plea SAINT and undying recollections.
| lHe speaks in perfect and fluent Eng
| Iish. to the surprise of the singers,
and extends his vigorous handshake to
each in his turn, after which he sits
in an armchair beside the horseshoe
table, with his back to the windows,
looking toward his guests. whose faces
are in the lightJ
One of the singers: "Thank you. sir"
Another of the singers: THANK you.
sir"
Singers in chorus: "Thank you,
thank YOU"
Colas: my dear Mr.. Clemenceau. l
have accompanied these singers over
Paris during the past few days. and
today l asked them il they had seen
all the important sights they had in
mind when they came to France. You
may recall that they were received
by Signor Mussolini the other day, and
also by many other eminent people
during this present tour. No. one
member spoke up, lit probably won't
i've 1Arssilole. hat wa sho.IS have lnve6
Evening star., 1927-11-20

to pay our respects to NJ. Clemenceau.
who is called the Tiger" and sat on
the top of the world at such a brill
liant time in history 1t was few
minutes afterward that I got in touch
with you and asked for permission
which you so kindly and graciously
granted me--to bring these gentlemen
to see you."
Clemenceau: II need not tell you
that your visit gratifies me. The
achievements of the negro absorb my
very genuine interest, and / heartily
felicitate you for having overcome so
many powerful obstacles and attained
to the positions you hold today--posi-
tons which are credit to your long
suffering race. The earliest begin.
nings of the strife of your race as re-
corded in history awakens a wide
spread human interest. and your
transportation to new soil and civil
lization makes you worthy Of animat.
ed study from several new angles"
One of the singers: Thank you,
SIR
Clemenceau: Negroes form one of
the four great classes of the human
Evening star., 1927-11-20
BY w. r. McCALLUM.


Within a few days Secretary OF
Commerce Hoover will pass upon a
decision given him by the aeronautics
branch of the Commerce Department
on which the existence of the entire
fabric Of governmental control OF
civilian aviation. as now concentrated
in q single bureau, may hinge. Aris-
ing in a relatively obscure case, in
volving the right Of the department
to suspend the license or a pilot en-.
gagged in commercial work, the issue
has been broadened by counsel for the
accused men, and by Gen. William
Mitchell, former assistant chief OF the
Army Air Service, until it now seems
certain recourse will be had to the
courts to settle the right of the Gov
ernment to control intrastate a1rpiane
traffic, or even the right of Congress
to delegate to the Commerce Depart
ment the right to control air traffic OF
any kind. The case marks the f1rst
test Of the air commerce laws. ana
particularly those sections OF the reg
ulations which deal with the conduct
Of civilian aviators in the air.
Gen. Mitchell, called into the case
as an expert witness. and professed-
]y testifying voluntarily with the in.
ed the Commerce Department that
the entire matter is certain to come
before Congress in it's constitutional
phases at the coming session. and
that Congress undoubtedly will hold
the Reiss case as guide post in ad-
ministration of the air laws. and the
legal right of their application. In
so far as taking of testimony and ap-
pearance of witnesses is concerned,
the case is closed The record. with
it's clear.cut implications and the
Commerce Department had gone out
side its authority in holding the arm
Of Federal regulation over claimed
intrastate matter. Is now before AS.
sistant Secretary MacCracken. in
charge Of aeronautics. who will make
a decision in the case and submit 1t
to Secretary Hoover for approval.
The Commerce Secretary is the final
executive court of appeal.
Accused Flyer Killed Pony.
Fundamentally, the case is simple
one. and not without ludicrous as
poets. Stuart A. Relss. pilot with
lengthy air experience. employed by
the Potomac Flying Service at
Hoover Field, near the south end OF
the Highway Bridge, was making
landing on the field on october 13
and in attempting his landing. struck
a pony with the tail skid of his ship.
killing the animal. He then turned
his ship around, and landed on the
field. Civil authorities. appealed to
by the owner of the animal, said they
had no jurisdiction. and turned the
case over to the newly created aero.
nautics branch of rne Commerce De.
partment. which administers the air
traffic laws. And now the crux Of the
challenge to the case Of the depart.
ment is centered In the statement by
counsel for Reiss and by Gen. Nit
chell that entire control of air traf.
fic within the States should be ad-
ministered by the States, just as auto
mobile laws are now administered.
and not by single bureau located in
a Federal department.
Reiss pictures the air Is years
hence filled with a host of airplanes,
darting hither and yon, under definite
air traffic rules administered by the
States, with State police officers pa
trolling the upper peaches Of the air.