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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
CONGRESSIONAL
ARE
CLEANING SLATE
February 20 Is Red Letter
Day for the Seventieth
Congress

WASHINGTON Feb. 90 tP)--This
was red letter day Tor the 10th
congress, quite aside from the fact
that it was Feb. 29, date that,
like IaGional election day, gets around
only once in four wears.
The first major legislative job, aside
from appropriation bills, came off the
congressional ways almost unnoticed
It was the alien property bill, pro-
viding for the return to Germany,
Austria and Hungary III ile course
of time OF property seized during the
war The house approved the con
ference report. and the bill went to
the president for signature.
While this job was being done, the
house found itself without anything
else ready and that gave Representa-
tive Garrett, democratic leade-, q
chance for thinly yelled criticism of
republican management A little later
after the agriculture department ap-
preparation bill had got footing on
the floor with grand total of
$143,31900O to be voted, Representa-
tive Oidfield, Arkansas, the demo-
cratic whip, took a shot of his own
at the majority party. The republi-
can managers, he averred,. were de-
Iiberately holding up tariff reduction
legislation demanded by the farmers
That raised a storm that flickered
and flared at times all the rest OF
the day.
The senate worked a while ON thu
middle Rio Grande conserVancy mea-
sure that has been cumming things
up little these last few days. then
got back to Muscle Shoals with
Senator Norris narrating on the
success OF municipal electric power
projects all over the country to sus-
tain his proposal for continued gov
ernment operation OF the big power
and nitrate plant.
Both senate and house committees
were again delving in the ramifica-
tions of Mexican labor, hearing op-
position to the BoX-Harris proposal
to slap on a quota restitution
Wyoming's two senator's said the beet
sugar industry, way up in theil
northern territory, was dependent or
Mexican help.
Vigorous opposition to the proposa
to ban block booking and buying o1
films developed before senate COM
mittee. Spokesnen Tor the big pro
ducers insisted the existing system
of distribution should not be dis
| turbed unless something better wa
put in its place They deniec
monopoly allegations.
| Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
Congress Provides
For Weather Data
For Agitation Use

+ WASHINGTON Feb. 90 PJ-Activi-
ties ranging from the furnishing OF
weather data for the fast growing
aviation industry to the fights against
the Mexican pink boil worm, the
Gypsy moth, the European corn borer
and the Japanese beetle were provided
Tor today iii the appropriation bill
for the department of agriculture
which was reported to the house.
The bill carried grand total OF
$143,319,349 for the fiscal year be-
ginning next July 1, and standing high
in its recommendation was one for
the expansion of weather bureau serv-
ice for aviators.
An appropriation of $2,7O9, 900 was
recommended for the bureau, of which
$25,00O would be for the establishment
of additional meteorological stations
and service on commercial airways,
the committee declaring that this
was necessary ito properly carry out
meteorological service for the benefit
of aviatorS, as contemplated by the
air commerce act of 1926" A total
of SIT, 100000 was recommended for
road construction, of which $71,000,-
coo is for federal aid to states.
Appropriations for various activities
of the department included
Farmers cooperative demonstrations
81, 1852 900; cooperative agricultural
extension wcR $1,3O0OO0; flood devas-
tated farm area relief 100000; eradi-
cation of tuberculosis $5,708,000; in
Spection and quarantine $712,000;
eradication of the cattle tick $780,
900; eradication of hog cholera SAL
600; enforcement of packers and stock
yards ect $374,OOO; meat inspection
$2,176,0O0
For investigation by the bureau OF
plant industry; fruit diseases $174,O00;
citrus canker $4,000; blister rust con-
troll $445,OOO; vegetable and forage
diseases $200,500; crop physiology and
breeding $90,160; cotton, rubber, and
tropical plants $255,8OO; seed testing
laboratory $4,000; cereal crops and
diseases $728,OO0; tobacco investiga-
tions 100000; alkai and drought-re-
sistant crops 1920; sugar plants
$1s3,179; dry land agriculture $2O8,-
O5O; western irrigation agriculture
$141,095; nut culture $4,000; and TO-
rage crop Investigations $142,500.
Other appropriations included for
the forest service $11,035,10 bu-
reau of chemistry and soils $1,370,-
613; of etymology $1,952,248; upper
Mississippi wild life refuge $4,000;
and for the bureau of agricultural
economies which is in charge OF CO.
operative marketing activities, $5,548,-
26O
Appropriations for plant quarantine
and control included the following
pink boil worms $687,000; thurberia
weevil $32,97O; Gypsy and brown-tai
moth $556380; European corn borel
1887 600; Japanese and Asiatic beetle
$265 800; white pine blister rust $685.
500 and Mexican fruit worm 100000
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
Hoover Managers Will
Make Bid For G. 0. P.
Delegates OF Michigan

y WASHINGTON, Feb, 20 QPl -
y Michigan is one of four states in
* addition to Ohio and Maryland
* in which political managers for
y Herbert Hoover definitely have
* decided to make a bid for re-
* publican national convention del
y egates. The other states are
y New Jersey, California and Ore
y. gon.
X The question of having the
y commerce secretary file in still
y other states is under considera-
y ton and it is expected that an
* active campaign in his behalf
* will be made in a number of
y them.
y; Mr.. Hoover has decided to re.
y main out of North Dakota, and
* it is said there is no possibility
y of him contesting with Senator
y Watson for delegates in the In
* diana primaries.
* Previous to today Secretary
* Hoover'S name had been entered
:* as a candidate for delegates in
y both Ohio and Maryland
X
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
MRS. COOLIDGE,
ILL, HURRIES TO
FAILING MOTHER
Northampton Reports That
Mrs. GOOdhue Is Failing
Rapidly

WASHINGTON Feb 20 Up - A
critical relapse in her mothers illness
prompted Mrs Coolidge to hurry to-
night to the bedside of Mrs. Lemira
Goodhue at Northampton, Mass.
Although hardly recovered herself
from an indisposition which has been
troubling her for about a month and
which as late as last night prevented
her from attending a dinner to Presi-
dent Coolidge by Secretary Hoover,
Mrs. Coolidge began the overnight trip
to New England accompanied by Mrs.
r. B. Hills of Northampton, friend
of school days, and by Lieutenant
Commander Joel T. Boone, White
House physician
Mrs Goodhue has been i'll with in
fluenza since last December when she
was taken to the Carpenter hospital
in Northampton. Last January her
condition aroused much apprehension
when Mrs. Coolidge rushed to her side
despite the fact that upon returning to
Washington she was faced with a
weeks voyage to Havana and back
Reports from Northampton that Mrs.
Goodhue was failing rapidly apparent
ly led Mrs Coolidge not to postpone
further departure from Washington.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass Feb. 90 (P,
Although Mrs. Lemira Goodhue,
mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, has
been growing weaker gradually, she
was said to have shown a brighter
condition tNnight at the Dickinson hos
81 c1N
since the middle of December.
Mrs Goodhue was stricken with in
fluenza on December IL. Her condi-
tion was critical for more than week
but she rallied and has been appar-
emily in no danger up to this time.
She is 78 years DID,.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
RAILWAYS ARE
in FIGHT FOR
MEXICO LABOR
Railroads Tell Senate Com
mittee Box Bill Means
Double Injury
MANY PROTESTS
Sugar Beet Growers Add
Voice Against Passing
Of Proposed Bill
MANY PROTESTS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 30 (R)-Touch-
ing on the nations labor situation
from several angles, new opposition
was brought by the sugar beet and
railroad industries today before house
and senate committees against the
Box bill tc restrict western hemisphere
immigration.
Sugar beet growers and manufact-
urerS presented to the house committee
the argument that Mexican labor, in
addition to performing the tasks OF
the farm, was aiding in curtailing thu
surplus Of agricultural products by
enabling the farmers to produce crops
which in addition to helping to fill the
nations sugar bowl, did not add tc
the staples in which a surplus exists.
Before the senate committee, Alfred
P. Thorn, general counsel for the
American Railway association, and E
E. McInnis, general solicitor of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
road, contended that by cutting of
the Mexican labor supply through pas
sage of the Box bill, congress would
work a double hardship upon the rail
roads. In addition to forcing them tc
pay higher competitive wage for theil
labor, they argued, their freight would
be cut down by the inability of farm
erS to produce their normal crops.
While the testimony before the
house committee several times was leo
by Representative Box, democrat
Texas, to consideration of a report
that Industrial Workers of the World
were organizing among Mexican la
borers and that the Mexican family
lived poorly, it always turned back tc
consideration of the agricultural anc
economic phases. Witnesses testified
that they had no definite knowledge OF
the Industrial Workers of the Worlc
and they considered the living condi-
tions of the Mexican good
Among those presenting the appeals
of the beet growers and sugar manu-
facturers that their labor supply be
maintained were Representatives
Anderson, Minnesota, and Hoch, Kan
,sas, both republicans; D. F. Hickman
labor superintendent of the American
Beet Sugar company; Howard Otter
shire, farmer, Shasta, Mimi, and H. F
Ross, farmer, Crookston, MINI.
Other protests from Michigan suga!
beet growers we're presented to the
committee by representatives Vincent
and Hudson, of Michigan, both repub-
leans They contended that they hac
found the Mexican laborer was not 9
menace to the community, was honest
and performed arduous tasks in the
beet fields which the American work
man would not do.
Howard D. Smith,, of New York
chairman of the immigration commit
tee of the American Mining congress
testified that passage of the bill would
hamper the mining operations IL
Nevada.
Canadian immigration was injected
into the house hearing by Representa-
tive Burtness, republican, North Da.
kota. He argued that many Ameri'
can-born persons who had since re
moved to Canada would find theil
children barred from the land of theiI
fathers No Canadian immigrant ha
ever given any trouble, he declared.
Such bill would have an i'll effec
upon the cordial relations that hav'
existed between the United States anC
Canada, he believed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01

Copper quiet; electrolytic,
spot and future, 14@ Bc;
lead weak; spot, &c.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
REPUBLICANS TO NAME
DELEGATES APRIL Is

PHOENIX, Feb. 20 pPy-An official
call for the republican state conven-
tion in Tucson, April %, 1928, for
the purpose of choosing delegates to
the republican convention in Kansas
City, was issued today by H. S.
Corbett, chairman OF the republican
state committee.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
FIVE MARINES KILLED IN NICARAGUA
Senate Committee O. K Treaty Outlawing War
TwO Aged Women Are
iSuffOcated In A Fire
In Old Peoples Home

y CHICAGO, Feb. 30 A1-Two ;
y aged women, unidentified, were
Y suffocated and go others, occu-
Y pants Of an old peoples home,
Y were thrown INTO a panic when
Y fire of undetermined origin broke
Y. out in the four story brick build
X ing.
\ Several women were rescued
y from second and third-story win
Y dows by ffremen.
Y
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
M,ANDREW'S TRIAL ENDS

CHICAGO, Feb. 20 (R-William Nc
Andrews trial for -Britishism and
insubordination as superintendent Of
Chicago schools has ended. The school
board took the case. under advisement
today at the last of 25 sessions begun
six months ago and will return ver-
dict on March T. McAndrew's term
expired last Jan. 8.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-01
HINT GOES TO DOUGLAS

PHOENIX, Feb 90 CP) = Governor
Hunt will leave Phoenix tomorrow for
Douglas to attend the first Arizona
Sonora good will meeting which opens
there Friday The meeting also viii
be attended by Governor Fausto To-
pete of Sonora.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-03
4,37S is PLANE
TOTAL IN U. S.
Numbers Up to 10000
Have Been Issued.
BB Times Special

BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Although
the aeronautics branch of the de-
partment of commerce has issued its
lOO0Oth airplane number, there are
far from that many airplanes Ii
censed today, !, is said by officials.
Actual number of licensed planes
is 1884 while 1856 others have been
reported to the government. but are
not licensed. Some additional planes
probably are in existence in the
United States, but not in sufficient
numbers to make a total of 10000,
it is said.
The government total of planes is
4,379 while the number of licensed
pilots is 3,792.
The first license issued by the
aeronautics branch was C-26 on Oct.
&c. 1927. Because numbering be-
yond 900 would require too many
figures on the plane and thus in
cumber the wings, a new system of
numbering is being used, adding the
capital E to each number.
The numbers lie to 25E are re-
served by the Department of Com
merce for its planes. Number 27E
has been issued to Schlee and Brock,
round-the- world flierS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-03
HITS PROSPERITY CRY
Crawford LikenS G. o. P.
Slogan to Indiana Politics.
BIZ Times SpeciaE

By Times Special
ANGOLA, Ind, Nov. 3.-"Repub-
lican talk Of prosperity is like the
housekeeping they talk about in
Indiana" Earl Crawford, former
state highway commissioner, told
Fayette county Democrats here Fri
day night.
They told us four years ago they
had cleaned house." he continued.
well, they sent the wrong Coy
ernor to the penitentiary.
How do you explain the lost
amendments in the last legislature?
How about the illegal teachers IL
censes issued by the state SUPER
intendent of public instruction? How
about the certificates of title issued
by the secretary of states office for
all those stolen automobiles in In
dianapoliS ? How about George Cot
inns promotion from county to dis
trict chairman?
If you are satisfied with that
kind of housekeeping, you just want
little drycleaning done, that's all.
Elect Frank G. Daley Governor
and the Democratic state tiokeet TO
support him and he will funiRate
the statehouse."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-03
START HEALTH DRIVE
City Industries Help White
Plague Canvass.

In renewed effort to inspire and
aid employees in indianapolis in
dustries to better health, more than
100 of the citys manufactures and
shops have joined hands with the
Marion County tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION IN an educational cam
paign.
One feature is the examination
by a reputable physician stN least
once year of every emplove.
Through this work incipient dis
eases are discovered and cures
erected before the maladies have
reached the insurable stage. Minor
physical defects are corrected.
The educational and curative
campaign is financed through the
annual sael of Christina sseals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-03
Great CHURCH
MEETING is
ARRANGED
More Than 1000 Methodist
Laymen and Pastors
to Attend.

Nearly 1000 Methodist laymen
and ministers from Indiana and
southern Illinois are expected to
attend a statewide council opening
here Dec. and continuing for two
days.
The purpose of the council, &C
cording to Bishop Edgar Blake of
the indianapolis area, who is di-
recting arrangements, is to carry
the ideals of the faith into the
everyday world by enlisting the ac-
tive services of prominent laymen
Of the church.
Included in the list Of speakers
are many men prominent in ma
tional affairs. Among them are
Edward A. Steiner, author and lee
turer, Grinnell, Ia; John Timothy
Stone, pastor of the Fourth Pres
byterian church, Chicago; William
S. Bovard, corresponding secretary
OF the board of education, Method
lst Episcopal church; G.. Bromley
Oman, new president Of De PAW
university; Branch Hickey. vice
president of the st. Louis Cardinals
baseball team and prominent Meth
odist layman, and others.
The council is one of g. series of
such meetings which have been
conducted in every area of Method
ism with the exception of Indian
apolls and Washington, D. G. A
local committee, headed by w. d.
Cakes and DR.. o. w. Fifer, district
superintendent Of the indianapolis
district, is arranging details of the
meeting.
Mr.. Steiner, one of the speakers.
is native of Vienna, Austria. and
is a graduate OF the University of
Heidelberg and Oberlin. At the
present time he is professor of
applied chemistry at Grinnell COL
lege, which position he has held
for the past twenty years. He is
the author of "Tolstoy, The Man"
and other works.
DR.. Stone, one of the most pron1-
ment ministers of the day. is q
former moderator of the Presbv-
terrain church. He is the author of
many religious works. Since 1909
he has held the Chicago pastorate.
Mr.. Bovard gave Twenty-Five
years to pastoral and college work
before being elected corresponding
secretary at the 1920 general con-
terence OF the Methodist church.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-03
MERCURY TO DROP
Near Freeing Predicted for
Tonight.

The temperature will drop to near
freezing tonight, but it will not be
cold enough to make it necessary
for motorists to fill their radiators
with alcohol and other anti-freezing
materials, according to j. H. Arm
ington, United States weather bur-
eau chief.
The low temperature tonight will
be from SO to 35, he said. Sun
day will be fair with the mercury
mounting to about 40.
A drop of about 25 is necessary
to freeze water in radiators of cars
in garages and the mercury must
drop to 80 or 81 to freeze cars left
outside, Arlington said.
Today 7 a. m. temperature of A
was 4 degrees above normal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-03
NATION SPENDS
II MILLIONS
IN VOTE FIGHT
Aggregate Collections of
Two Parties Nearly
100000.
DEMOCRATS BORROW
Expenditures Of Various
Societies Boost Total
to High Sum.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
United Press Staff CorresnondenI

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-The
Hoover Smith campaign was listed
today as apparently a $12,0O0,O0O
contest, the most expensive in
American history.
Reports of the Democratic and
Republican national committee to
the clerk Of the house and the house
campaign funds committee showed
aggregate contributions and col
lections of nearly $9,000,000 And
the money on Nov. /, was all spent
except for balances of a few thou
sand dollars each.
In addition, the separate ex-
penditures of state and local organt-
cations, the Anti-Saloon League, the
association against the prohibition
amendment, the Cannon Anti Smith
Movement, and the national COM
mittees' expenses for the final week
of the campaign are expected to
bring the total to $12,000,000 or
more.
Democrats Borrow Million
Both parties have surpassed their
early campaign estimates. The Re-
publican committee has received $4,-
911,744 in contributions and spent
$4,774,361. The Democratic commit
tee has borrowed $1,000,000 and col
1ected approximately 100000 in
contributions.
Chairman Raskob of the Demo-
cratic committee spent more than
one million dollars in the last week
of October, most of it going to state
Committees.
In contrast, the Republican dis
bursements to state committees were
smaller for the week, and some state
organizations made contributions to
the central fund.
On Nov /, with most of the cam
paign activities closing, the Repub-
lican committees balance was $751;
1888, and the Democratic balance
$92 1854.
Additional reports will be filed
after the election.
Will G.. Irwin of Columbus, Ind,
had contributed $500 to the Indiana
Anti-Saloon League for use in the
present campaign, it was shown
today by reports filed with the clerk
of the house.
Other contributors we're E. H.
Evans of Indianapolis and j.. l..
Inglehart of Evansville, each 500.
The league has raised $2.339 in
Indiana since Sept. l, out of a to-
tai contribution of $1,551 toward
the Varney national prohibition
ticket.
Mrs. Bertha B; Haynes Of ko-
komo has given $780,
G. w. Ball, Muncie manufactures,
who has contributed literally to the
national Republican committee,
also gave $1,000 to the national
Democratic constitutional commit
tee, Smith, it was shown by a
report of this organization.
Russ Ludlow, treasurer Of the
candidacy of Louis Ludlow for Con-
gress in Indiana, has received $500
froh the Democratic national con-
gressional committee and spent $110,
all for Autographs, it was reported.
L. F. Suttleworth, treasurer of the
Indiana Independent Equality for
Agriculture Club of Indiana, report
ed he had received from the Smith
independent organization Of Chi
cago, g total of $11,875.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-03
Clarence Saunders Refused to Stay
Doom; Back in MiIIiOnaireS' Glass
PiggIy Woggly Founder Is
Staging Spectacular
Comeback.
By NEA Seruice

By NEA Service
MEMPHIS, Nov. 2.-"Never let
the world keep you down. There is
success for every man who refuses
to recognize defeat
With these words Clarence San
ders, chain store magnate, sums up
his experiences in the last few years,
during which time he made a for
tune, lost it and then staged come
back to make a second fortune more
spectacularly than the first one.
Just minute, though, Saunders
doesn't like that word comeback"
He admits he lost a fortune, went
through bankruptcy and now has
a BUSINESS that he wouldn't sell
for 100000 cash-but he doesn't
like the comeback" part
81 Was Never Down
"It is true I lost money" he says,
''but the money wasn't me. never
was down. I didn't feel detached
from the proper value of things"
The story of Saunders rise, fall
and rise again is one of the most
spectacular in American financial
history, full as that history is of
precisely that sort of thing.
Five years ago Saunders bucked
Wall street in the famous Piggy
Wiggly corner. Today he could sell
his holdings in the Clarence Saun-
ders Corporation for much more
than he lost in that fight.
A financial deal which he made
on a recent trip to the east has
placed him at the head Of a new
company with a combined wealth
Of 500, 100000 to back him in a
new national chain of grocery stores
and meat markets.
New Company Formed
A new company has been formet
to take over the small chain ALREADY
established by Saunders. 1t is
backed by financial interests in Chi =
cago, New York, Boston and Detroit.
Already 1t has been announced that
the Clarence Saunders Stores, Inc,
will start in with a nucleus. of 81
stores in Is cities. expanding in six
months to a nation wide chain OF
$50 stores. And this will be but the
| first unit.
Saunders resigned from the presi =
dency of Piggy Wiggly, which he
founded, after Wall street wrecked
him. To wipe out his losses he had
to give up the pink palace" the
palatial dream home he was build
ing on the outskirts Of Memphis.
For. nearly a year the mansion,
three-quarters completed, remained
tied up in the courts; then it wa
sold under the hammer.
Then He Comes Back
Then Saunders got busy. He es-
tablished a new string Of stores.
They prospered; and, as he said,
critics began to turn to friends when
they saw how prontable the venture
was becoming. Now Saunders is
reaching the crest again.
The pink palace" today belongs
to the city of Memphis as a museum
of natural arts and history. The
city also owns thirty-nine acres OF
ground surrounding it as park, in
GLIDING ten-acre lake which Saun-
ders had constructed.