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The Washington times., 1927-01-08
BY GARDNER MACK.
MELANGE
/ FOR WEEKEND

The weekend program for loud
speaker delivery promises one of
those amazing combinations. of music
and drama that nothing but radio
could provide! Chamber music of the
most correct sort. symphonic COM
positions of brilliance, vocal soloists
famous in concert and opera, Ibsen
by one of his most devoted and able
| interpreters of the stage, jazz from
| the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
nonsense interpreted with ballads
and topical tunes are all on the
programs set forth for Saturday and
Sunday evenings. Most of these are
available for all listeners who care
to tune them.
The WRC program opens this
afternoon with the concert of the
Lenox String Quartet in the Coolidge
Memorial Auditorium at the Library
of Congress. This afternoons con-
cert will be the last of thu Saturday
afternoon programs played in Wash
ington by the Lenox organization,
| one of the best known in the world.
There will be no dinner music on
| the WRC program this evening, the
weekly Bible talk being scheduled
| for 7:15 and one-act play,
"Phipps," tom New York at 7:30.
After the play the WEAF musical
| comedy section will entertain for
| half an hour.
SYMPHONY IN
BALKITE HOUR
The New York Symphony Orches-
ira, with Walter Damrosch directing
and making a short talk about each
number on the program, will come
to loud speakers at 3 o'clock on the
| Balkite program. The symphony
will play four numbers, and there
will also be special features to intro
| duce the soloist of the evening,
George Barrere, flutist, who is well
! known to radio listeners through his
many concerts with his own little
symphony orchestra. After the Bal.
kite concert there will be half an
hour OF music from the orchestra of
LIE PerroQuet de Paris, which is con-
Quoted by Roger Wolfe Kahn.
From WMAL this evening there
will be a program Of great variety.
Among the many features will be
a joint recital at $50 by Fannie
Shreve Heartsill, soprano, Francis
P. Heartsill basso, and Katherine
Floecker Cullen. pianiste. at 8
o'clock there is to be another joint
recital. this time by Vladimir Vase
pianist and Wayne johnson. saxo.
phonist. The cabaret program from
the City. Club will be broadcast at
$3.50 and at IL o'clock Borguno's
Valencia Club orchestra will play a
program of dance music.
In Philadelphia, at WIP. three of
the prize winners in the recent ma
tion-w!de contest conducted by the
National Federation of Music Clubs.
| will be presented at S:15. These are
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home today. read the homes for sale in
today's Times and Herald Classified
Ads.
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LORD CALVERT
MAKES HIS BOW,

The Lord Calvert Ensemble
made its debut as a radio subsidy
without creating any very serious
surgings on the wave lengths. The
orchestra Of very good musicians
Daniel Breeskin has assembled
under Fred Stark's direction seemed
just a bit too anxious for exactness
and correctness of playing the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
WOMEN
LOSE IN
+ CONGRESS
Lobbying Ladies Able to
Put Over Little LegiSIa-
By Martha Strayer

WASHINGTON, March 8. $3.50 The
lobbying ladies won't cherish many
kindly memories of the Sixty-Ninth
Congress, second session. Legisla
ton sponsored and worked for by
women lobbyists and womens or.
CARNATIONS which was passed could
be counted on the fingers Of one
hand, with two fingers and a thumb
left over.
The Sheppard-Towner maternity
bill, after a bitter fight lasting for
days, went through for an extension
Of two years. This was the pet
measure of women's organizations.
Many of them Joined hands in lob.
bying for it.
The District of Columbia-which
means the city Of Washington-was
given the privilege of having WON
en- serve on juries. This, too>was
a pet women's measure, for which
women had fought hard and long.
No other bill in which women
were interested was passed, and
neither of these two successful meas
ures went through as women want.
ed them. In each case the lobbying
ladies had to be satisfied with half
a loaf as being better than none.
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FOREIGNERS FLEE
LOOT|NG CHINESE;
AMERICANS SERVE
Women and Children Evacu-
ate Wuhu After RiotouS
Outbreak. 7
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
HONGKONG, March "a Chinese
mob looted the custom house and
Customs Club at Wuhu and foreign
women and children there took
refuge on steamers, British sources
here reported today. Foreign men
were prepared to withdraw if neces-
sary.
Chinese soldiers commendeered the
British steamer Wusung but a de-
stroyer intercepted the ship below
Hankow, put an armed guard aboard
and took the ship to Hankow, where
the troops were landed under naval
escort.
British reports from Wuhu today
said a United States destroyer as
sisted in the evacuation of women
and children.
Chinese military authorities we've
lukewarm in attempts to suppress
the rioting at Wuhu, the reports
said.
A detachment of troops Of Chang
Tso-Lin, which was attacked by Gen.
Chin Yu-Nao, WI Peifu's rebellious
commander, succeeded today in cross
ing the Yellow river and joining 49,
900 other northern soldiers awaiting
an opportunity to attempt to retake
Hankow from the Cantonese.
Striking workmen today threaten
to take over the factory of the
British-American Tobacco Company
at Chiaokow tomorrow if their de-
mand for an 80 per cent increase in
wages is refused. The factory al
ready has been occupied by pickets.
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When Wee Miss Muffet disap-
peared, the TIMES all felt very
cheered. They'd found another kind
ly- friend who had a treat in store.
Said Copy, well, she's surely fine.
She treats us nice and as for mine,
I guess really like this funny coun-
try more and more"
The crowd then saw hill near by,
and Clowny said, 81 guess I'll try to
climb away up to the top and gaze
out into space" He scrambled off
land made the trip and when he'd
reached the very tip, he soon dis
covered there were many queer
things round the place.
Off to the left and to the right
some wondrous buildings rose in
sight. They had the queerest sort of
towers, that seemed to sadly lean.
Wee Clowny stood there, quite per-
picked. Said he. That's where Wen
all go next. 1 think they're quite
the oldest things that 1 have ever
seem"
And then he went back to the
bunch and found them all enjoying
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
FUNDS APPROVED
FOR IMPEACHMENT
Jackson Signs Requests in
Spite of Ruling.

Although Governor Jackson &C.
cepted the opinion of Attorney Gen.
eral Arthur l.. Gilliom regarding the
alleged unconstitutionality OF the
impeachment trial of Judge Clarence
w. Dearth OF the Delaware County
Circuit Court, his signature Of tho
budget bill today provides funds for
financing the trial. Date of the i'm.
peacl..,ent proce dings was set by
the Indiana Senate for March 81.
Dearth is to appear before the Sena-
tors and will be prosecuted by the
House Of Representatives board OF
managers.
Acting upon advice Of Gillian and
"other attorneys" the Governor re-
fused to appoint successor TO
Dearth. Under the statute an im-
peached Judge must leave the benoh
until after he Is tried.
In an opinion of the attorney
general, attention was called to the
clause providing funds for the
Dearth trial should be taken from
the Governors contingent fund.
Gilliom declared that this could not
be done as the impeachment pro-
ceeding is unconstitutional.
Jackson indicated that II would be
impossible for him to change the
text of any bill before him for sig.
nature and that the only thing left
for him to do was to sign the APP
preparation measure. Pay for the
Senators for the time the trial takes
is provided in an amendment to the
measure.
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CITIZENS PROTEST !
OUST|NG OF CRAFT
Continued From Page y

as superintendent. We were defied
in our efforts to remove him."
Kern scored the newspaper, declar-
ing they had printed "slanderous
attacks" against the three major
ity members of the board, and in
ferred that information they had
CLEANED regarding the situation came
from Graft and Johnson.
The brief resolution asked for
CRAFTS dismissal, effective immedi-
ately, and omitted any reasons for
the move. Vote by roll call followed.
"The position of superintendent OF
the Indianapolis schools is now va
can't" was the first remark follow
ing the vote, coming from Vonnegut
The action was taken at 9:59 p. M,
and the entire "ousting" consumed
less than three minutes.
Charges 'tNot Cited"
Johnson's plea that Graft, the
board and the public be informed as
to what charges the dismissal was
based upon went unheeded.
1.-THE public is aware Of the situa'
ton and desires the action be taken"
Kern declared. "They signified this
when they elected US at the polls. "
was it in your platform to re.
move Graff?" Johnson asked, TIE
question went unanswered, Kern
turning it aside by scoring Johnson
for his Campaign for villification in
the newspapers"
Joseph B. Thornton, assistant
superintendent, was named, in
another resolution, acting superin'
tendent until new official should
be appointed Kern declared the
majority group had no one in mind
at the present for the job.
1--WE have not been influenced by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
EARTHQUAKE DEAD
TURNED TO ASHES
IN FIERY SEQUEL
Flames Increase Horror
Over Devastated Areas
in Japan.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
TOXIC, March 9.-Wholesale in
cineration of dead, injured and mere
ly imprisoned residents Of the Japan
seacoastaI town of Mineyama &C.
CURED few minutes after an earth
quake leveled that town, an eye
witness of the horror told the United
Press today.
Eyewitness reports of the devas-
tated area of the provice of Kyoto
revealed that the overwhelming ter
ror of the earthquake scene has not
been conveyed in it's guesome en-
tirety by reports so far received and
cabled throughout the world.
The immediate area of Mineyama
was wrecked by the quake. The
story is partly told in the official fig
ures compiled by the Kyoto project:
Dead, 2,275; injured, 400.
Fire followed Immediately after
the rending movement o. the ear h.
Flimsy houses collapsed, burying
hundreds Of occupants. Many of the
dead, injured and imprisoned per-
sons could not be released and they
died amid the flames which con-
sumed their homes.
Everywhere today bodies lay I'M
buried. There were no tools with
which to dig graves. Among the
ruins of villages and at Mineyama
survivors sifted with their hands the
ashes Of their homes, to recover the
charrred bones OF their dead.
Seventy thousand persons are
homeless in the snow-covered south
ern provinces Of Japana, it was Of
ficially estimated today as casualty
lists in the disaster zone increased
hour by hour.
Nurses had reached the zone today
and blankets and rice were being dis
tributed to sufferers. Sailors from
Japanese destroyers were repairing
wrecked roads to permit relief work
ers to reach the interior. A storm
swept the stricken area last night,
adding to the suffering of the home
less.
No estimate of property damage
has been made, but heavy loss was
suffered by silk mills and other man.
ufacturing enterprises in the Kyoto
and Kobe districts. Damage to roads,
in which great cracks opened up,
making travel hazardous, also was
severe.
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TIA JUANA WOULD
BELONG TO j. S.
! BUT FOR ERROR
Mistake in Guessing Loca-
ton of Marker in 1847
Gave Town to Mexico.

BIZ United Press
BERKELEY, Cal, March 9.-The
resort town of Tijuana, Mexico, to-
gether with a strip of Mexican ter
ritory lying thirty miles to the south,
would belong to the United States
today, had not boundary adjuster
in 1S47 erred in guessing as to the
whereabouts of stone marker. This
was revealed with the recent find
ing Of the marker by George w.
Hendry, of the University of Cali
fornia history department.
The huge stone, formerly a base
for a wooden cross, was set by the
Franciscan monks, Palou, famous
mission founder, about ITO. Three
years later the king of Spain desig.
mated it as marking the official boun.
dairy between the Spanish territories,
Upper and Lower California.
In 1847 controversy developed
between Mexico and the United
States over fixing of the information
al border in the district. Both sides
finally agreed upon the historic stone
which had once divided the two Span
ish territories, as the international
line.
Nicholas P. Trist, Washington en-
issary, claimed to have been unable
to find the marker. He claimed its
location thirty-three miles north OF
where it actually stood. Mexican
ENJOYS were willing to abide by his
findings.
Trist, subsequently, was called
back to Washington and his work
discredited, but strangely enough
both countries agreed on the border
line, using Trist's survey as basis for
settlement.
Hendry's discovery was made posi-
tive by translation into English OF
Palou's diary, more than $50 years
old, by the department of history al
University of California.
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CITY TO MEET
Underwriters
FIRE POINTERS
Board of Safety Head Re-
CARDS Report Favorable
Recommendations Cited.

Major recommendation for the
fire department Of Indianapolis made
in the report OF the national board
Of fire underwriters, will probably be
carried out o. ID. Haskell, board Of
safety president said today.
The report which followed n sur
vey of the department, the first since
1912, is very favorable Haskell said.
He declared that he thought that
Indianapolis would keep its rating OF
Class 2, which is as high as any city
in the country has attained. The
class Of the city determines the Gre
insurance rates.
The major recommendations Of the
report are: g.
Adoption OF civil service recon-
mendations for the fire department;
organization of fire department train.
ing school; equipment Of engine COM
panies in high value district with
hose wagon; more extensive use of
three-inch hose in high value dis
tricts; equipment Of each aerial lad.
N1A - dRR Will itlANltI DlIts
ton of additional fire alarm boxes;
annual testing Of engines; equipment
OF ladder truck with life net, smoke
helmets and other such equipment;
installation Of additional hydrants in
congested districts and equipment Of
training school with drill tower.
Several of the recommendation
have already been adopted" Haskell
said. 1--WE have adopted the civil
service, organized a training school
and bought a large amount OF equip
ment which will be delivered SOON"
THE new equipment will cost
about S125,000," he said, land the in.
stallation of new fire alarm boxes
will cost about $3.50 each"
The fire alarm system was classed
as ancient" in the report. Haskell
declared that he had no idea of Just
what it would cost to install a new
Gamewell system, but that the board
would consider it.
The survey report describes the
operation of the police department
working in connection with the fire
department as good and offers no
criticism.
The survey was made by En-
gineers Louis w. Evans. Harvey It.
Mum and William De Rohan, repre-
senting the committee on fire pre-
vention and standards Of the Nation
al Board of Fire Underwriters.
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LIBRARY SERVICE GROWS
February Was the Busiest Month In
Central's History.

The largest figures Of service In
the history Of the Central Library
were recorded during the past month,
Charles S. Rush, city librarian, re-
ported at the school board meeting
Tuesday night.
Calls upon the reference depart
ment increased 81 per cent over Feb
ruary five years ago, Rush declared.
increases in childrens work, teach
ers' special library, business branch
and adult circulation, is a very graft
Tying result of the library's success
Rush's report:
Volumes. 425.45s; circulation IA per
cent ncrease). 203,65S: distributing
agencies. 100; home readers. 1O7, O4O
catalog cards issued 1875; reference
in building 63: exhibits displayed, 81;
books bound and renaired 10 200
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any outside forces as has been
stated by the press" Kern said.
The ousting move followed a spir-
tied argument between Johnson and
Kern as to the relative merits Of
heating and ventilating systems be-
ing installed in Indianapolis schools,
Johnson maintaining the majority
board members were adhering to the
direct-indirect system and not allow
ing other systems consideration.
1--WE are following the policy es-
tablished years ago by another
board" Kern declared. He cited
other systems as illegal and not
meeting the requirements Of the
State schoolhouse law.
Bids Readvertised
Heating and ventilating bids for
the new Shortridge High School,
were ordered readvertised. Kern,
buildings and ground committee
chairman, reported that specifi-
cations had been revised to allow
bids to be rendered on the split
system in addition to the original
direct-indirect system as provided
for in the plans.
The bids will be advertised for
four weeks to allow Nsplit system
bidders to complete their own plans
in accord with the revised specifi-
cations. The action is the result of
the State tax boards order that two
or more systems be bid upon when
they refused to grant bond issue
covering the $SOS.S51 low bid sub
mitted by Freyn Brothers on the
"D-I" system, declaring it ex-
orbitant. The "D-I" system is man.
ufactured BY c. C. Ship, who has
been active in unofficial school board
affairs and is believed interested in
the move to GUST Graft.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
INSANITY PLEA PUSHED
CroarIxin Murder Defense Puts
Alienists on Stand.

Croarkin Murder Defense Puts
Alienists on Stand.
BIZ United, Press
CHICAGO, March 9.-Glandular
mysteries and various katatonic
states were referred to a group of
jurors-composed of a cigar sales
man, a street car conductor, and
men of nonscience turns-today
as the Harold J. Croarkin murder
trial moved into its final stages.
Croarkin is accused Of brutally beat
ing to death Walter Schmith Jr., 6
years old.
The first witnesses to be called
this morning were alienists for the
defense, who contend that Croarkin
is mentally unsound, a subject of
glandular diseases, and therefore
should not be punished. Three de-
Tense alienists testified yesterday
that Croarkin was subject to demen-
tia praecox Of the katatonic type and
was victim of glandular disorders.
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u. S, MEXICO
TENSE IN CALM
ON STORM EVE
Feeling Prevails in Two Cap
itaES That Showdown
Is Near.
BY William Philip Simms,

Foreign Editor. Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, March 9.-The
Mexican-American controversy is
still in a highly critical stage not
withstanding the apparent calm.
When I left Mexico City last week
the air was thick with rumors
principally to the effect that as soon
as Congress had got safely out of
the way, the United States would
move fer = showdown.
Back in the national capital l rinu
the same undercurrent Of ex-
pectancy. And the White House
spokesman, admitting the issue re-
mains pretty much what and where
it was at the beginning, confirms
the impression that the present calm
is only a lull in the storm.
Two Stubborn Men
Not the least disquieting feature
the fact that the whole question of
of this highly explosive situation is
peace or possible war between the
United States and Mexico now rests
virtually in the hands of two men,
both stubborn and viewing things
from points as far apart as the poles.
These two men are American Am
bassador James Rockwell Sheffield
and Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales, presi-
dent of Mexico.
Here is what Mexicans say of AM
bassador Sheffield: Honest, but I'M
diplomatic; well-intentioned and
doubtlessly believing he is only pro-
tectiug the legitimate rights of
Americans in Mexico, but totally in
capable, through environment and
by temperament, Of understanding
that Mexicans also have some rights
in Mexico.
And here is what Americans in
Mexico say of President Gales: Hon
est, but stubborn as an army mule.
Thoroughly determined to rule or
ruin.
Now, if these partisan character
izations are fundamentally true
and they are, with certain qualifica-
tons and amendments-it is perfect
ly obvious that the situation remains
chuck full of dynamite,
That the Coolidge Administration
takes it's cue pretty much from Am
bassador Sheffield is shown by the
fact that following the ambassador
three trips to Washington to report,
serious crises have resulted from
stiff warnings to Mexico.
Revolutions Wait
The most likely outcome, if the
question Is not arbitrated by the two
governments, will be the raising Of
the arms embargo permitting Gales
enemies in Mexico to buy war mate
rails in the United States.
That would revolution as certain
as shooting. But a revolution would
not necessarily solve our difficulties
with Mexico. To the contrary. For
not one, but several, revolutions
await only the signal from Washing
ton that arms and money are to be
had on this side Of the border, and
once the fires Of revolt start burn
ing, Mexico for years to come will
be paralyzed under reign Of blood
and anarchy.
Then would come the real crisis
leading almost inevitably to armed
intervention something certain
American concession hunters in
Mexico have been desperately work
ing for for years.
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Girl, 10, and Man, SIS,
LoUe Slayer, Charge

BIZ United Press
HENDERSON, KY, March g.
The State was prepared to attempt
to clinch its case today against the
l9-year-old widow of Elmer Yates
and her alleged lover, 55-year-old
Ed Powell, who are jointly charged
with Yates murder. Yates charred
body was found last December In the
burned ruins of an abandoned cabin
eighteen miles from Henderson.
Mrs. Yates and Powell were ar
rested and later released for lack
Of evidence. They were re-arrested
after being indicted by the grand
jury, when Ed Erwin, a friend OF
both Yates and Powell. declared he
had witnessed the murder from
field.
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FRENCH LINER AGROUND
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LONDON, March 9.-The French
passenger steamer Paul Lecat was
aground thirty miles from Woosung
near Shanghai, dispatches to Lloyds
from its Shanghai office said today.
The Lecat, one OF the largest OF
the passenger ships plying from Eu-
rope to the Orient via the Suez
Canal, was en- route from Marseilles
to Yokohama. 1t usually carries
500 or more passengers. but the size
ofthe passenger list this trip was I'M
known. 1t is 13,000-ton vessel
owned by the Messageries Maritime
Company. Tugs were sent to It's as
sistance.
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CALL TO VOLUNTEERS
Foreign Units i'm Shanghai Get
Mobilization Order.

BIZ United Press
LONDON, March 9.-An urgent
order for mobilization of the Shang-
hal volunteers was issued Tuesday
night, the Morning Posts correspon-
dent there reported today. Author
tiles did not disclose the reason for
the call, the dispatch said.
Cantonese troops were reporte to
have entered Soochow and Chink-
lang, hoping to destroy property on
the Nanking-Shanghai railway and
cripple communication between the
two cities, the correspondent said,
adding that credence was given the
reports because similar attempts had
been made near Shanghai.
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KNOCKERS BANNED

BIZ UHTIPW PfPHH
MIDDLETOWN, Pa March g.
Knockers have been banned as garb
for students in the Middletown
school. 1t is understood that mem
bers Of the board at meeting ruled
that all girls who violate the rule
will not be permitted to attend
classes.
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INDIANA PLEA SPURNED

BIZ United Press
LANSING, Mich, March 9.-Ap
plication for extradition of j. w
Hess Of Lansing for South Bend 20
lice was denied by Michigan author
tiles today. 1t was held that in
sufficient evidence was presented fol
the extradition.