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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
MELLON RAPS
E-OPEN|NC Of.
PARLEVS.
Treasury Settles Definitely
Attitude of the Admins
tratiOn.
CLOSE ANALYSIS
Secretary Sets Educators
Right On Inter Allied
Obligations.

/ WASHINGTON, March 49, R-A re-
4 opening of American debt settlements
in Secretary Melons opinion, would
be a step backward, calculated to
produce discord and confusion rather
than contribute to the economic sta
/ bility and orderly betterment of
world prosperity.
His view was set forth in a letter
! to President Hibben 'of Princeton,
made public today at the treasury
without comment. 1t was in reply to
the suggestion of members of the
| Princeton and Columbia university
faculties for a revision of the Ameri-
can debt settlements, and was consid-
cred at the treasury as settling def
Iinitely the question of the adminis-
tration attitude. toward any deviation
from it's debt funding ploicy
Asserting that nation is hardly
likely to deserve and maintain the
respect of other nations by sacrificing
it's own just claims, Mellon declared
that cancellation of debts owed the
United States would not of itself
change the dislike with which the
educators declared Europeans look
upon this country.
With reference 20 the unratified
French debt settlement, the secretary
said that cit would not have been
amiss for you and your associates TO
have taken into consideration
that the inevitable effect of such a
pronouncement would be to encourage
and strengthen the opposition in for
eign countries to such. ratification"
Such encouragement, he added, would
be entirely unwarranted in view of
the approval of the Mellon -Berenger
debt funding accord by the American
house of representatives in which de-
bate indicated that an overwhelming
majority of the representatives were
opposed to more lenient terms"
Declaring that the advances to for
eign countries We're beyond dispute
loans and not contributions to allies,
Mellon said that what the United
States government had done in effect
during the war was to enable it's
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
SLAYER OF BOY
is SENTENCED
TO LIFE TERM

CHICAGO, March 16 (P-Less than
! three hours after retiring to deliber-
Hate, jury tonight found Harold J..
Croarkin guilty of the murder Of
six year old Walter Schmith whom
he beat to death with a hammer,
and fixed his punishment at life
Imprisonment.
Life Imprisonment it appeared, had
been compromise between the
states contentious that the 26 year
cid son of a Chicago flour dealer
was sane when he beat the child TO
death in a northside riding academy
after attempting to mistreat him
last December II, and therefore
should be sentenced to death and
the plea of the defense that he was
insane then and is insane now and
should be sent to an asylum.
The verdict was reported to have
been reached on the third ballot The
jurors retired after receiving seven
forms Of a verdict they might re-
turn ranging from not guilty TO
guilty, with a sentence of death.
On the first ballot, it was reported
they decided he was sane The sec
ond ballot was reported to have been
eight for life Imprisonment and four
for death and after half an hours
argument the third ballot was taken
and the verdict was reached
Walter Schmith, father or the dead
key, expressed his disappointment at
the verdict. 81 had hoped for the
Geath penalty" he said. None of
Croarkin's family was in court when
the verdict was read although they
were III constant attendance at the
trial and testified in an effor to
save him from the gallows that they
believed him insane.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
CLUB
BOARD FAVORS
CONTINUATION
BorderIand Directors See
Success of Advertising
Campaign

With unanimous sentiment preVa-
lent to continue the work of the Bor-
derland climate club during the com
ing year, an enthusiastic meeting of
the board of directors of the club was
held last evening at the club offices.
Conclusive proofs in the form of rec
ords show that the club is doing great
work and more than returning the
money put into it by the city
A record of IS arrivals has been
made by the club and an effort to
check up on expenditures of Al of these
was made. A conservative estimate OF
the expenditures of these Al was given
as SS,OSO
The new arrivals have purchased
four automobile in Douglas. One
house was purchased by new arrival
at cost of $4,000 The Southern Pa
cific railroad brought 20 of the club
arrivals to Douglas.
Three families have settled here for
year and possibly for longer, through
the advertising of the club. Figuring
on a basis of Al arrivals spending
$S,0S0 gives an average expenditure Of
$192.07 per person in Douglas.
With only one fourth of the adver-
tising year gone, the club figures to
get between $50 and 200 new arrivals
from the first years advertising and
money returned to the city in an
amount of at least four times the ex-
penditures.
Nearly $500 inquiries relative ito
Douglas and the surrounding country
have been received as, result of the
advertising, the exact figure being
2,4S2. The first magazine advertise
ment appeared November s.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
UncoUers Gold
Resulting IN Mining
Rush to Ariz. Field

PHOENIX, March 16. P-Arizona' S
proverbial million dollar rains" liter
ally flowed With pure yellow gold q
few weeks ago--and today the state
is experiencing it's greatest mining
rush in recent history, if not IN all
time.
First signs of the yellow metal
which ultimately lead to the Dripping
Springs strike were uncovered after
a week of heavy rains in the district
about the middle of February, when
the rich dyke was revealed after
rivulets had washed away the earth.
An old adobe house, partly built
into the hillside, had been the home
of Joe Lee, veteran Arizona sour
dough, for many years. Joe, follow
ing the confidence that only pros
pector knows, had worked on and on
in tunnel on the opposite side of
the hill from his habitation.
Then came the heavy February
rains, and the old adobe walls melted
under the incessant dripping from the
heavens. When the north wall fell
away it carried with a part of the
natural earth flooring, and in the
mud that flowed with the debris
that had been Joe Lees home came
tiny yellow specks. Lee panned some
of the gold and traced the dyke into
the hillside. 1t wasn't long before
news of the old sourdoush's activi-
ties spread, and prospectors who had
searched the desert region years be-
fore came back, following to the
confidence of their kind-to search
for the mother lode.
Among them was Dan McGraw,
who discovered wire gold on one of
his old claims, and with his partner,
James B. Grand, we'll known mining
man and civil engineer, made a sur
vey of the surrounding country-al-
ways following the surface tracings of
Lees dyke Samples We're picked at
rnadom, according to Girand, from
outcroppings of the dyke. Returns
from the resulting assays showed
gold values running as high as $780,
600 ton.
Whispered reports of the new find
travelled from prospector to prospector
and soon the news was spread on
the streets of Phoenix.
Tuesday morning the Arizona Re-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
HUNT SCORES
LEGISLATURE
UNMERC|FULLY.
Refers to Indoor Sport Of
Shearing Chief Executive
Of Power.
BROW : BEATING
Characterizes Actions of
Legislators as Being In
timidating.

PHOENIX, March 16 Qp--True to
prediction, made yesterday, Cover
nor Hunt today vetoed house bill
49, creating the office of "legisIa-
tive examiner" and providing an
appropriation of $4,000 for mainten,
ance thereof. He also vetoed house
bill 80, providing for the organiza-
tion of county mutual fire insurance
companies. The message which ac-
companied the executive disapproval
was the strongest yet put out by
the governor this session, i'll which
he has returned eleven bills to the
legislature, with his veto.
Quoting from the veto record Of
former Governor Campbell, who dts
approved a similar measure Hunts
message today stated: 1T appears
that the indoor sport OF shearing
the chief executive of his preroga-
tives is pastime inaugurated by
the dominant party as early as 1918"
The governor condemned the social
ed sport as obviously ill-advised,
ill-considered, reactionary and mani
fest!y unconstitutional"
Governor Hunts veto further states
that he would be unworthy to SIT
i'll the governors chair were I to
yield to the present demand that
surrender the constitutional preroga-
tives vested in the governor auditor,
and treasurer of this state to the
men in he legislature who are al
recting this session and brow-bear-
ing, intimidating and cajoling mem
bers thereof in order to pass the
legislation which they have deter
mine dto drive through.
The governor referred to the In
surance bill as having all hte ear
marks of being designed to fit some
particular insurance scheme and
that it is mot in harmony with
sound public policy based upon ex-
perience.'
No definite action by the states
executive on the highway and ap-
preparation measures is expected be-
fore Friday, perhaps not until short
ly before aocn, when his veto limlta-
tion on both bills expires A veto
on the highway measure was prom
ised by the governor Monday.
The repeal of the law enacted by the
seventh state Legislature providing for
the taking of school census in Feb
ruary of each year was authorized to-
day by the governor when he affixed
his signature to house bill 146. The
repeal will become effective 80 days
from the day the legislature adjourns
Other bills signed today by Governor
Hunt were house bill 1873, providing for
an amendment of the laws relating to
the canvass of school elections and the
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th0u;;ht Of unpleasant things, but
Back in my mind was the thought
that 1 had friends working abOve.v
Mrs. AshWor h. stroI5ing her hus-
bands hand, hastily brushed aside a
tear and told the wife's side of the
story.
1T was shortly before o'clock yes
terday morning that Jeff was lowered
into the WELL" she said. 1T was an
old well, probably so years old
AT about 40 feet down rock started
falling. Jeff yelled up to pull him up,
but before the men at the windlass
could reverse the whole walls toppled
in. 1t sounded like thunder just
knew Jeff had been killed
II called to him but he didn't answer
A new rope tackle was rugged UP and
the men started bringing out the.
rocks, one by one, but there wasn't
enough help.
There wasn't a telephone in ten
miles and we had to have help. One
of the boys grabbed truck and went
off after help. Soon the whole neigh
borhood came. There must have been
500 people there. They worked like
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
TRUST COMP ANY
OFFICIALS TAKE
STAND TN CASE

TOMBSTONE, March 16. (P-At the
opening of court this forenoon, A. j.
McKinnon of Douglas went under Il
cutting Attorney Alexander Murray.
McKinnon again reviewed the details
of the first meeting with A. A.
Sperry after the shortage had been
discovered and of the following
meetings, in which the gentlemen
who were interested, r. j. Leeson,
d. C. O'Neil, Sperry and w. M. Dough-
Gritty, tried to clear up the trouble in
the books of the Commerce Realty and
, Trust company.
McKinnon testified, as did Dough-
Gritty, of Sperry's various alleged
confessions of taking money saying
that he never admitted having taken
more than $500 or $500 McKinnons
evidence about the whole matter was
very similar to Dougherity's. The
witness stated that they had asked
Sperry if he could replace the money
which he had taken and he replied
that he didn't see how he could He
was asked if he thought that Mrs.
Sperry's people would help him, and
he replied that he would see them,
but that they were out of town at
present the witness testified Later
on he came in to McKinnon's office
and told him: Mr.. McKinnon, I
raised the money and will be in with
a certified check in the morning"
He never came back. McKinnon then
went under a cross examination by
Attorney Gilmore. He told of his
many Years in banking experience,
and when asked if he had been fa-
miiar with the books of the Com
merce Realty and Trust company, he
replied that he had not Robert
Rae testified that you were the man
ager of the company" Gilmore stated,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17

to Judge Frank r. Dunn, aG-
dressed by Huppe as the 'smayOr
of Weepah."
The intense cold and penetrating
winds have driven everyone indoors
but the time has been used to good
advantage, judging from reports Of
many claims sold.
The largest of these deals trans
ferred three claims in the Old Bar
rel Springs section of the Weepah
district to Ed j. Roberts, San Fran,
cisco mining operator, who also
for some time has been associated
with the Veta Grande of Nevada ana
Homer Black of Los Angeles. Wes
Watson and John Dupratt filed on
the claim when they found shall
low shaft yielding nigh values On
arriving in Tonopah they met Roberts
and Black, and told them OF the
find and within an hour an engi-
neer was on the way to examine IT,
The sale was consummated last nighs
fer $4,000 and block Of stock in
the company that is being organized
to develop the ground.
When rumors OF this sale We're
circulated there was a wild rush for
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
= OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Nevada State Senate
By One Majority Kills
Open Gambling Bill

+ CARSON CITY, New, March
2 1G (P.-By 81 vote of to S the
+ Nevada state senate today
: killed the wide open gambling
T bill, which passed the lower
+ house IaSG week. The vote ON
: the measure came after a short
debate and was forced by the
: opponents of the bill, who yes
: terday spent the day delaying
: action on III.
: The bill, if it had become a
law. would have licensed gam
bling for fee of 81 900
: table. All kinds of
gambling would have been per-
mitted.
Senator Bcrney, of FaIiOn,
who yesterday by changing his
vote on the measure after it
had been rescinded, allowed it
to come before the senate again
voted against the bill today,
giving the opponents of the
measure the one vote necessary
to defeat it.
NO notice for recOnSidera-
tiOn was given by the support
crs of the bill and it is con-
sidered definitely dead.
y - a. ..
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
HARRY F. SINCLAIR IS FOUND GUILTY
Governor Vetoes Legislative Examiner" Bill
De Valera Salutes Irish
With Visions Of Hope
In St. Patrick's Message

NEW YORK, March 16 (P).--
SaIutinG those of the Irish race
with the Gaelic "Beatha AguS
SIajnte'-GreetinGs and health
; EamOn DE Valera, one time
"President of tsle Irish Repub-
lic." cviSiOnS the dawn of new
hope for the cause of Irish in
dependence in a st. PatricI1'S
day message
In recent months, he said, to-
day, the efforts to- heal the
wounds of the past and rally
the people of Ireland to resume
"the march towards independ-
ence" have met with success,
which short time ago would
have been thought impossible.
DecIaring that seven years
ago the Irish people were the
leaders in the fight of subject
nations for Self-detcrmination
de Valera urged his country
men to make their csl7ef aim
the recovery of that spiritual
leadership.
"TO this achievement every
true Gael Will pledge himself
this st. Patrick'S Day." the
message concluded.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
TEAPOT DONE
FACES
JAIL SENTENCE
Federal Jury Convicts Mil
liOnaire Operator On
Four Counts.
APPEAL CERTAIN
MultimiIIionaire Convicted
For Refusing to Answer
Four Questions.

WASHINGTON, March 16 R)-Harry
+. Sinclair, oil operator, was found
guilty today of having been in con-
tempt of the senate when he refused
TO answer questions of the oil COM
nittee during the investigation or
the Teapot Dome naval oil lease.
Sinclair was found guilty on each
Of the four counts IN the indictment
each count containing one Of the
questions which he refused to an
swer before the Senate oil commit.
tee Sinclair took the verdict calm
bond was continued. Sentence prob
ably will be imposed next week and
appeals will be taken through the
District of Columbia court of appeals
Justice Hitz will fixe the sentence
not less than one nor more than
twelve months in Jail and fine CT
not less than 500 and not more than
81, 600.
Sinclair unquestionably will APP
pea1 the lease and will fight his. Way
through the highest court in this
case as ne has i'll the civil suit
brought by the government for the
recovery of the Teapot Dome naval
oil reserve.
The multimillionaire oil operator
was convicted Of refusing to answer
four questions propounded by the
senate public lands committee on
March %, 1924, upon his sixth ap-
pearance in the oil cases which
furnished the sensation of that time.
The jury was out eight hours and
ten minutes, returning its verdict
at 1907 o'clock. It had agreed
nearly an hour earlier, however, but
could not report until Justice Hitz
could be summoned and reach the
court room.
Sinclair is the second man to be
convicted in the District of CoIumo
bia courts for contempt of the sem
ate. The first was Everton r..
Chapman, New York stock broker,
who was sentenced to one month In
Jail and fined $1OO, the minimum
after his refusal to reply
to questionss in the sugar trust IN
vestigation. Chapman served his
term in 1896.
WASHINGTON, March 16 QP-After
battling for two hours the IL men
returned to the court room to have
Justice Hitz read again some of the
instructions and then returned to IT'S
little room where the jury in the
Doheny-Fall conspiracy case wrang.
led for hours before returning It's
verdict of not guilty.
Less than half an hour later, or
at p. m. two message of such
significance came from the jury room
that Justice Hitz adjourned court
and went home where he held him.
self subject to call.
A message from one juryman tn
the bailiff said:
please telephone Josephine that
she can expect me when she sees
me-
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1 thought of unpleasant things, but
Back in my mind was the thought
that 1 had friends working abOve.v
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-06
The Struggle Sharpens in the Coal Fields.

Only six days DID, the struggle OF the coal miners is already
becoming sharper
The coal companies in districts like Beaire Ohio short
distance from Moundsv West Virginia where members of the
the last strike and Western Pennsylvania where the coal
panes have modified their armies and the local
officials outright using the most tyranncal
methods.
Near Bellaire Powhatan Mining Company ordered
200 families living company houses in advance
suffer eviction.
In Allegheny county Pennsylvania the sheriff has limited
the number of union pckets to two after crowd of union pke
ahghway had been dispersed by state cossacks In this
of militant struggle
These two instances perhaps furnish insufficient basis
for prediction the general strategy of the coal baron but
with previous history Of coal mining struggles from the period of
organization up to the present time in mind there little
doubt but that the coal barons will attack less isolated
but militant sections of the union by all possible with the
hope of smashing them before the of the union and the labor
movement whole get into action.
purely defensive struggle will defeat for the United
shifting the center of the struggle to the union fields of
West Virginia and Kentucky by of organization drive
and this is what the coal barons fear.
The union also raise the demand for naturalization of
the mines and if wide popular agitation this
issue will give the coal barons something than
certain sections of the union
The coal mining interests popular idols by
Not only workers feel the of their large
Of the middle class look upon them robbers
With these methods at hand-organzaton the non
union fields and pressure for Naturalization with
whoeheared support from the of the labor
the strikers the former fields the UWA put up
winning battle.
The UNIWA must win.
It's defeat defeat for the American working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-06
Demand Withdrawal of All American Armed
Forces From China

The state department denies theoretically that
plates joint action with other powers China yet in the
breath the an dentc note
is being sent to Hankow by Great Britain and the
States
For those who have forgotten the Technology Wilson
regime volunteer the information that dent note the
thing carbon copy The difference such pro
cedure and Joint action" is not percepb the naked eye
There every believe that state department
is getting deeper into commitments for joint while
hberatey denying such intention Washington dispatches
state for instance:
Unless the antoreign sentiment becomes nfamed that
Americans again endangered the further arms will
probably be the last resort The demands in
be ultimatum the American government will
be patient unless outbreaks and may months
the Chinese to meet its demands"
The above statements might be to mean no armed
intervention in China for the fact naval
and military forces are being increased almost daily
Nevertheless it is clear that the Coolidge administration does
not dare to identify itself openly with British policy China
spite of the fact that the fall of Picking the Peoples armies
is predicted now by the most hostile press reports.
Another for the attempt caution the consoda
ton of the forces of the Peoples government knowledge
in the American state department that new Savior of
be made to look like attempt establish stable" govern
ment in China.
Summed the outstanding the present situation
that the public Indignation home by American
participation in the Marking massacre resentment in wide
popular circles against action with Britain the
continuous victories of the Peoples armies failure of
the muchtout split in the Kuomntang materaize are max
ing the state department watch its step
There must be edown in the demand for Hands Off
China and the withdrawal Of all from her ports
and soil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-06

Chicago Art Theatre to
Present Plays of Gorky,
Synge and Chekhov.

The Chicago Art Theatre is plann-
ing to bring before the playgoers of
Chicago at their playhouse on South
Michigan Avenue, nine plays chosen
from the foremost playwrights of
America and the continent, for pre-
sentation this month. Ivan Lazareff,
who was connected with the Moscow
Art Theatre for some twenty-five
years is the supervising director.
The plays will be presented in the
following order:
April 13-14-15: "Strasti Mordasti,"
by Maxim Gorky; "The Groove"
Geo. Middleton; "The Proposal" An
ton Chekhov
April 16-17-2O: "Chelkash," Cor
ky; "The Riders to the Sea- j. NJ.
Synge; THE Flattering Word" Geo.
Kelly.
April 2l-23-24. "The WITCH
Chekhov; ''The Will o. the Wisp,"
Doris Halman; "The Dear Depart
ed" Stanley Houghton. AS added at
traction on April 10, 16 and 81, Lola
Marie Santro will present "The Dance
of the Hammer and Sickle"
The International Workers Aid will
share in the proceeds of the nine per-
forRances. Workers of Chicago are
especially urged to attend.