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WEATHER.
»U. 9 Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair and continued cold tonight and
tomorrow; minimum temperature to
night about 26 degrees.
Temperatures. Highest, 43. at 2 p.m.
yesterday; lowest, 27, at 8:30 a.m. to
day. Full report on page 7. |
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MEXICAN CHILDREN
WILL HONOR LINDY
IN PROGRAM TODAY
6,000 Pupils to Take Part in
Fete as President De
clares Holiday.
AVIATOR TO TAKE
CALLES FOR PLANE RIDE
Visits Flying Field and Tries Out
Govtrnment Craft With Offi
cials at Passengers.
B.V the Aworiated Pros*.
MEXICO CITV, December 17.
CoL Charles A. Lindbergh. America’s
good will air ambassador, today
started an exceedingly busk week end
which will be filled with Mexican
demonstrations of admiration.
The first numl»er on the week end
program was a great popular demon
stration in his honor this morning in
the Mexico City stadium, where 30,-
000 or more spectators gathered for
a public fete arranged by tt? Depart
ment of Education.
On the program was a series of
songs, drills, dances and tableaux by
from 6,000 to 10,000 school children
of Mexico City's public schools eager
to perform before the American air
hero. President Calles, American Am
bassador Dwight YV. Morrow and a
large body of prominent officials.
Holidays Called Off.
Although Mexico's schools had closed
for the Christmas holidays before Col.
Lindbergh's flight, the department of
education issued orders as soon as the
American airman hopped off from
Washington that all teachers and stu
dents should call off the holidays and
report to their schools to prepare a
great demonstration.
Secretary of Education Puig Ca
aauranc and Undersecretary Moises
Saenz within a few days succeeded in
organizing one of the greatest gath
erings of Mexican school children
that the capital has ever seen for a
public demonstration.
The stadium, which scats about
30,000 persons, began to swarm with
people early this morning, many being
there with the first streak of dawn.
Groups of school children marching
in formation from their classes and
schools began to arrive several hours
before the program was scheduled to
open.
Calles to Make Flight.
President Calles of Mexico and Mex
ico's next prospective President, Gen.
Obregon, will enter the realm of the
airman next week when Lindbergh
takes them aloft as his guests.
President Calles himself first
broached the subject to the flyer. It
was understood that he had been con
sidering nftaklng a flight with Lind
bergh ever since the Lone Eagle ar
rived.
Lindbergh immediately agraed to
the suggestion.
It was then suggested that Gen.
Obregon, w ho is the only candidate to
succeed Calles, be invited to make a
flight after the President. This was
agreed to.
“Os course I will go.” Obregon said,
when told pf the invitation. “I have
never flown, but I will go with Lind
bergh. This is a good chance to
strengthen international relations, be
cause if we crash Lindbergh and I will
be buried together.”
The flights will be made in a two
seater plane borrowed from a commer
cial company.
labor Plans Parade.
Labor also desires to pay its tribute
to Lindbergh. The Confederation of
Mexican YY’orkers invited the flyer to
attend a big labor parade tomorrow, in
which 180,000 will march through the
streets of the city, paying homage to
•‘the hero, who covered himself anew
wtth glory.”
Lindbergh will review the parade
from the balcony of the National Pal
ace with President Calles and Ambas
sador Morrow. The parade will start
at noon to give Lindbergh an oppor
tunity to attend a rodeo later.
One part of the proposed Sundav
program which has aroused consid
erable discussion is an invitation ex
tended Lindy to view- a bullfight.
More than 60 protests have been re
ceived at the embassy from the United
States against Lindbergh attending
the fight.
In American embassy circles the
excitement is regarded as a tempest
in a teapot. Although Morrow would
M y nothing for publication, his atti
tude was understood to be that the
Ambassador has nothing whatever to
do with it, that it is Lindbergh s own
affairs whether he goes to the bull
fight or anything else outside his of
ficial program.
Lindbergh's attitude is that he is
the guest of the Mexican people and
the nation, that he should not lie put
in of criticizing one of the
favorite pastimes of the people or of
offending them by refusing to see
their popular sport, when invited to
do ao. He announced that he might
attend it if it did not interfere with his
official program.
“I think Mexico is perfectly capable
of choosing her national sport,” he
said.
Telegrams Made Public.
The invitation to the fight was not
extended by the government, but by
the management of the principal hull
ring. From the Mexican viewpoint it
js as if the management of the New
York Giants invited a distinguished
foreign visitor unacquainted with
base ball to attend a game.
The embassy made public two tele
grams of protest without giving the
signatures or point of origin. They
r *“The civilized world expects Lind
bergh to refuse to witness a bull
fight, if invited. Thete is opportu
nity for him to further endear him
-elf to his countrymen or to disap
point them if he attends. There is
opportunity also for a lesson and
example to the whole world in
humanity and for greater fame for
program for enter
taining Lindbergh includes bullfight.
We certainly hope you (Morrow)
will use your influence to prevent
thler fight. Also please express our
feelings to Lindbergh regarding any
such thing. All our society consider
& bullfight the meanest kind of
cruelty and we think every real
American should oppose it.”
Takes Friends for Flights.
While these protests were being
made public Lindhergh himself was
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! LINDBERGH PRAISES MEXICAN
PILOTS FOR THEIR ABILITY
Must Overcome Unusual Atmospheric
I Conditions, He Finds; Expects to Visit
Nicaragua on Tour.
1 BY COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH.
By Mexican War Department Wireless Direct
to The Star and the New York Times
MEXICO CITY. December 17.—Yes
terday was one of my most interesting j
days in Mexico City, because I was
able to meet some of the Mexican
pilots and fly some of their planes.
They are excellent pilots and have to j
meet some difficult conditions which j
■ [ exist in only a few parts of . the
j United States.
i Their flying field is excellent, al
t though 1 never saw the wind change
jso fast in a short time as it does
here, probably due to the fact that
j Mexico City lies in the bottom of a bow l,
jin the mountains. The wind shifted j
Jas much as 180 degrees in a short
time, and it was rather bumpy.
I 1 have looked forward to this visit j
’ ! to the flying field ever since 1 landed, j
* i for there was no time before to do
j any flying and 1 was glad to be able j
' | to take up some of the pilots who j
i have done some remarkable flying j
I over some of the worst country on the
I continent.
Flew Over City.
11 Two of the men it was a pleasure
- to meet were Maj. Castrejon and Capt.
* Emalio Carranza. Capt. Carranza is ;
. the pilot who flew from Mexico City
to the border in a non-stop flight and j
. who. when his engine got on fire ;
. j managed to put it out by side-slipping J
i I ’ j"
15 RED OFFICIALS !
: DEPORTED BY CHINA
i
■ Consul General at Hankow
One of Group—l 9 Russians
Executed at Canton.
i
By the Associated Pres*.
HANKOW, December 17.—Fifteen
Soviet officials, including Consul Gen
eral Plitsche, were deported this morn
ing. They left aboard a Chinese
steamer en route to Shanghai an\T
Vladivostok, Siberia.
Most of the Russian and-Chinese
officials arrested in yesterday's raid
on the consulate and Communists ap
prehended in other parts of the city
were released. Sixty persons were de
tained for further investigation.
19 RUSSIANS EXECUTED. i
i Shot In Public as Warning to Com- i
munists at Canton.
1
! SHANGHAI, December 17 (A 3 ).—,
| Nineteen Russians have been executed j
in the streets of Canton as a warning !
1 i to those who turn to Communism, ad- i
vires from Hongkong stated today.
The registration of all Soviet sub
i i jects bv December 23 has been ordered
1 by the' Nanking Nationalist govern
i i ment in its campaign against Com
munism. The registration will be car
. ried out throughout the territory over
■ which the Nanking government rules.
Those who do not register will be ex
i pelled.
At least six Russians of the Soviet
I consular staff were executed. Others j
were lodged in the city jail. It was ;
. said they would likely share the fate ;
. of their unlucky compatriots.
Lined Up and Executed.
Thirteen other Russians were exe-j
cuted Thursday. Condemned as Reds,
; they were lined up outside the en- j
trance to the bureau of public safety j
' and shot by a military squad. The
1 execution was carried out openly,
! apparently the authorities having in
’ view the salutary effect which this
“(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.)
SMITH GETS HEARING
HERE ON JANUARY 7
Special Senate Campaign Fundi
j Committee Also to Give Samuel
Insull Right to Testify.
By the Associated Press.
Frank L. Smith of Illinois, who has
been denied the oath of office by the
Senate, will be given an opportunity
* to present his case to the special cam
-1 paign funda committee, beginning on
January 7.
In fixing this date the committee
today also decided to permit Samuel
' Insull. Chicago public utilities official,
and his personal attorney, Daniel T. j
; Schuyler, to appear at the same time :
‘ and purge themselves of contempt, j
This was in response to their requests. |
‘ Insult's heavy contributions to;
’ Smith’s primary Campaign fund in
t 1926 figured largely in the decision of
! the Senate to refuse him the oath
pending a further hearing. Insull
- told of his contributions to both
Smith and George Brennan, the Demo
cratic candidate for the same, but de
clined to disclose the names of per
sons to whom he gave around $40,000.
_ Schuyler took a like position.
t Pirate Victim Loses Leg.
\\ HANKOW, December 17 (o).— Capt.
5 ! i-alor, who was captured and held for
1 ransom by pirates who raided the
British steamer Siangtan, has been
taken to a hospital here. His leg was
* amputated below’ the knee because ot
infection of wound he received in the
raid.
- Union Army Veteran Granted Pension
; 50 Years Alter Leaving Civil War Unit
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By the Associated Press.
ST. PETER, Minn., December 17.
j More than a half century after leav
l ing the Union Army, a Civil War vet
r erun, confined to the State Hospital
V here, has been identified and granted
r the Federal pension accorded those
honorably discharged.
1 He is Charles W. Beals, S 3, who has
been under a mental cloud virtually
since finishing Civil War duties with
? Company I sth New York Field Ar
-8 tillery. He has been at the hospital
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WASHINGTON, D, C., SATURDAY, DKCEMBKR 17, 1027 —TWENTY•-KKIHT PAUKS. *
and flying through a rain cloud which
fortunately came his way.
I was very glad that they gave me
the opportunity of taking them up.
We went all over Mexico City, and this
; time I was able to look down upon it
while I was rested and see this beau
tiful and historical valley. It was not
hard to imagine those days when Cor
tez fought his way into the city, al
though Mexico City no longer resem 1
j hies the home of the Aztecs. It is a
beautiful valley and an ideal site for a
city. It is hard to realize that it is
X.OOO feet above sea level, although it
was very noticeable when taking off
from the field.
The air Is so light that a much
longer run is necessury than at lower
! altitudes. The Mexican pilots have
j this to contend W’ith'in their flying,
and it must he much more difficult to
' train pilots at such a high level, be
' cause .in landing a new pilot would
have to lie very careful.
1 shall stay in Mexico City now until
a day or two after Christmas. The
warmth of my welcome here has been
such that it would he hard to get
away before then. and. indeed. I have
no desire to leave until it is necessary.
I am enjoying every moment of the
time.
May Visit Guatemala First.
When I leave here I shall fly to the
Central American countries which '
have l»een kind enough to ask me-to
visit them. My plans have not yet
been perfected, but 1 shall probably go
(Continued on Page 3, Column 2.)
'FRANCE AND ITALY"
ARE MING PEACE
Welfare of Europe Hinges on
Conference Now in
Progress.
pi PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
B* Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927.
PARIS, December 17.—A1l Europe
is eagerly watching the secret nego
tiations which have been begun be
tween France and Italy for the pur
pose of allaying the growing rivalry
between these two “Latin sisters."
The negotiations will probably last
for months. They will be conducted
through diplomatic channels without
publicity. If they succeed Dictator
Mussolini of Italy and Foreign Minis
ter Brland of France will meet to con
secrate the agreement in a public
amity celebration, and what every one
has considered to be one of the gravest
dangers to European peace will have
been removed.
Tranquility will be restored In both
the Balkan and the Mediterranean re
gions. The peril of Italy joining Rus
sia, Germany, Hungary and other
lesser states in .a federation of mal
contents to undermine the existing
political order will have been elimi
nated.
Hostile Groups Forming.
If the negotiations fall it will be an
evil day for Europe. Already two hos
tile groups have been forming. Under
French influence are Jugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rumania and
Belgium. Under Italian influence are
Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania and .Spain,
and perhaps even Lithuania. The bit
ter diplomatic competition which has
been proceeding for months in the
Balkans, the Mediterranean region and
in North Africa would be likely to
spread to still other regions.
The Italians say the problems are
not local', but European, and that no
European peace is possible unless an
agreement is reached. The moment
is therefore decisive. According to
’Dictator Mussolini the problem under
consideration, while not insoluble, is
delicate. But the very fact that a so
lution is at least being sought arouses
hope.
One of the principal obstacles in the
way of an understanding is psycho
logical. France is rich and Italy is
poor. France is underpopulated and
Italy is overpopulated. France is the
oldest national state on the continent
and Italy is one of the newest. France
is perhaps the most democratic coun
try on the continent and Italy now is
perhaps the least democratic. France
is .satisfied with the pre.sent distribu
tion of the world’s territory and wants
to see it maintained, while Italy is dis
satisfied and intensely ambitious
Italy is jealous of France and France
has been perhaps somewhat contemp
i tuous of Italy. France feels that Italy
is trying to disturb the peace, and
Italy feels that France is trying to
block and thwart Italy’s legitimate
expansion at every point.
Claims of Italy.
j But even-greater than these pay-
I chological difficulties is the obstacle
\ created by the fact that while France
has nothing to ask of Italy, the latter
is asking nearly everything of France.
The government-controlled Fascist
press has gone so far as to claim for
Italy the French provinces of Nice,
Corsica and Savoy. Nobody outside
of Italy takes these claims seriously.
Italy's serious claims, so far as is
known now, are as follows:
1. France shall cease trying to
naturalize 130,000 Italians living in
the French colony of Tunis.
2. France shall accord a wide
frontier rectification to the Italian
African colony of Lybia at the ex
pense of the French colony of
Algeria.
3. Fiance shall support the Italian
claim to a share in the administra
(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)
Beals formerly resided at Redwood
Falls, Minn., where he lived alone as
a hermit, frequently donning his uni
form and telling of war service, but
unable to tell what his command had
been Eventually. .Julius Schrnahl,
State treasurer, took an Interest in
the case and began to delve into the
rosters of Union Regiments.
Identified as an honorably dis
charged veteran, Beals has received a
check for $3,672 for back pension and
will get $72 per month. His condition
makes it necessary that he remain
here, but relatives plan to keep the
i uioMf in trust Xwr hia benegj,
SIMMONS HOLDS
SENATE WILL RAISE
TAX CUT FIGURE
Democrat, at White House,
Expects resident's Hope
Will Be Unfulfilled.
PARTY LINES FORMING
FOR FIGHT ON SLASH
Oldfield Scoffs at Veto Possibility.
Hearings May Be
Delayed.
President Coolidge need not look to
the Senate to Have the administra
tion’s tax reduction program, accord
ing to Senator Simmons of North
Carolina, ranking Democrat on tin
Senate finance committee, who wa?
one of the President's callers at the
White House today.
The North Carolina Senator ex
pressed the confident belief that thr
Senate will not only refuse tp trin
1 the $290,000,000 cut of the hill passer;
by the House, but will probably pro
vide a greater reduction than that.
* He personally would like to set
taxes reduced $400,000,00(1, if that be j
possible, and said that during the con j
sideration of this legislation by th.«
Senate he will do all in his power i
make as large a slash as can b
consistently done
Veto Seen As Possibility.
Senator Simmons’ view op the tax
legislation and his predictions, regard
ing what the Senate will probably
do in the matter are especially inter
esting at this time, inasmuch as the
President, after expressing keen disap
pointment at the size of the cut voted
by the House, was represnted as
counting on the Senate to bring the
size of the reduction wtlhin what he
considered reason.
While discussing the matter with
friends yesterday the President, with
out giving any reason for it, said he
felt hopeful that the Senate would
pass a tax bill that w-nuld be of a
size not to threaten the Treasury sur
plus.
Already the President has hinted
that, if the tax bill when it finally
reaches him for his signture, provides
a reduction which he considers danger
ous and unwarranted, he will vteo it.
He expressed himself as being of the
opinion that it would be far Ixetter to
leave the tax rates as they are now
than enact a bill carrying the peril of
a f’.efiict.
The President's hint of a threat to
veto an unsatisfactory tax bill is not
taken by his friends as a political
gesture, but as being prompted by the
honest conviction of the Executive
that the reduction should not go be
yond the $225,000,001) cut as was
recommended by the Treasury Depart
ment after a careful consideration of
the whole subject.
Wojild Eliminate “Nuisance” Tax.
Senator Simmons said at the White
House that he would like to see the
inheritance tax and the so-called nui
sance taxes repealed entirely, and that
he approves of the elimination of the
automobile tax, as was provided by
the House in its bill, and that he
would like to see the tax on corpora
tions reduced even lower than 11 per
cent, the amount provided for In the
House bill. He said that he has rea
son to know that there is a strong
sentiment in the Senate for the
abolishment of the nuisance and in
heritance taxes and that there Is not
the slightest doubt about the Senate
voting in favor of the repeal of the
automobile tax.
The minority leader of the Senate
finance committee was most emphatic
in his declaration for a $400.000.001)
(Continued on Page 5, Column 4.)
CO-ED BANK ROBBER
IS GIVEN 14 YEARS
Husband’s Insanity Plea for
Wife Fails as Jury Finds
Her Guilty.
By the Associated Press.
LAGRANGE, Tex., December 17. —
Mrs. Rebecca Bradley Rogers was
found guilty by a jury here today of
robbing the Farmers National Bank
of Buda, Tex., and was sentenced to
14 years in prison.
The former University of Texas
co-ed gave no sign of emotion when
the verdict w r as returned. She main
tained her calm w r hen the jury was
polled and each juror said his verdict
was guilty.
Sentence was fixed by the jury, com
posed of men. The charge against
Mrs. Rogers was robbery with fire
arms. Her husband, Otis Rogers,
voung attorney, had pleaded that she
be given the death sentence rather
than sent to the penitentiary.
Under Texas law the maximum pen
alty for the offense is electrocution,
while the minimum is five years’ im
prisonment.
Mrs. Rogers held up two officials of
the bank at the point of a pistol last
December and obtained SI,OOO, which
later was recovered. The defense
pleaded she w’as insane.
The day before the Buda robbery
the 22-year-old girl was alleged to
have burned a house at Roundrock,
Tex., in an unsuccessful ruse to rob
a bank there. At her trial several
months ago on an arson charge the
jury disagreed.
PATROLMAN SUSPENDED
FOR WINKING AT PARTIES
By the Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., December
17. —a patrolman who fails to take
note that his neighbor is violating the
law' is negligent in duty, the Civil
Service Commission has ruled.
The commission upheld the 00-day
suspension imposed by the chief of
police on .lohn W. Freberg. patrolman.
Other neighbors testified that parties
were held every night in one neigh
bor’s house until the police morals
squad raided thep lace on a liquor
charge. __ . . _ . .
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NAVY TO ABANDON
ARMY GAME PLANS
Academy Will Make No Fur
ther Effort for 1928 Contest,
Admiral Nulton Says.
By th<> As»oeiated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Aid., December 17.
The second bombshell in the Army-
Navy foot ball controversy was
thrown today when Rear Admiral
Louis M. Nulton, superintendent of
the Naval Academy, announced that
the Naval Academy contemplates tak
ing no further steps toward an Army-
Navy game for 1928
Admiral Nulton in his statement ex
plained that this year was the Navy’s
year to write the contract covering
the game, and included in it was the
three-year eligibility rule, in accord
ance with the policy of the superin
tendent of the Naval Academy as
announced in June, 1927. The au
thorities of the Military Academy,
feeling that they could not accept the
eligibiliy condition, returned the con
tract unsigned and the Navy authori
ties will take no steps for plans for
a 1928 foot ball game.
Admiral Nulton’s statement today
came as the answer to Maj. Oen. K.
B. Winans, superintendent of the Mil
itary Academy at West Point, who
flatly declared yesterday that Army
authorities would not adopt the three
year eligibility rule for membership on
athletic teams. ,
ARMY STAND FAVORED.
Department Approval Indicated as
Davis Issues Statement.
By the Associated Press.
War Department support for the ac-
I tion of the West Point authorities in
having rejected proposals of the Naval
! Adadem.v to adopt a three-year eligi
bility rule for players on the foot ball
team of the two service schools was
strongly indicated today, although Sec
retary Davis declined to express an
opinion until he had more complete
knowledge of the reasons of the Naval
Academy in urging adoption of the
rule. . ,
A formal statement Issued by the
War Department said that Secretary
Davis hoped the question of arrange
ments for the annual interservice
foot hall classic would be “left, as
heretofore, entirely in the hands of
the authorities of the two institu
tions.” This expression was taken
as indicating the unwillingness of Mr.
Davis to intervene in' the eligibility
rule dispute, which has brought foot
ball relations between West Point and
i Annapolis to the breaking point.
| “The present foot ball relations of
! the academies are based upon a con
tract for four years of competition.’’
Secretary Davis’ statement continued.
“That contract does not contain any
provision limiting eligibility of play
ers. The Secretary desires to refrain
from any expression until he knows
more fully the reasons why the Naval
Academy desires to depart from the
existing contract, which was only
entered into last year and still has
three more years to run.”
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RADIO APPOINTMENTS
ARE SENT TO SENATE
President Seeks Confirmation of
Caldwell, Lafount and Pickard
as Commissioners.
President Coolidge sent to the
Senate today the nominations of
Orestes H. Caldwell of New York,
Harold A. Lafount of Utah and Sam
Pickard of Kansas to be members of
the Federal Radio Commission. Mr.
Caldwell was one of the original mem
bers of the commission appointed bv
the President following Its creation
last Winter, but his appointment was
not confirmed prior to the adjourn
ment of the Senate, and he has since
been serving on the commission by
reason of a recess appointment.
Mr. Lafount and Mr. Pickard also
have been serving as members of the
commission by reason of recess ap
pointment, the former succeeding
John F. Dillon of California, who died
several months ago, and Mr. Pickard
succeeding Henry H. Bellows of Min
nesota. who resigned two months ago.
The President has not yet filled the
vacancy caused by the recent death
of Admiral William H. G. Bullard,
chairman of the commission.
Gnrland S. Ferguson of North
Carolina waa nominated to be a
Federal trade commissioner.
Destructive Fire in Buenos Aires.
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina, De
cember 17 (A*).— Much damage, in
cluding destruction of the treasury of
fice, was caused In a fire today at the
University of Buenos Aires. 1
| Doctors to Deny
Service to. Patients
Who Neglect Bill
B.v the Associated Press.
YANKTON, S. Dak., December j
17. —Persons who are in the habit j
of neglecting payment of bills for j
professional medical service had
j belter keep healthy after January
j l. for such service will be denied
j them in at least eight southeastern
| South Dakota towns.
Stirred to action because of the
i increasing number of patients who
change from one doctor to another
! to avoid paying for services, 18 j
j physicians in Avon. Tyndahl,
Springfield, Wagner, Tripp, Del
rnont Tabor and Scott have joined
hands in keeping this class of pa- j
j tients to a minimum.
Notices- signed by the physicians
I warn that after January 1 services
will be declined to all thoste whose
accounts are in arrears and who
have not m.idr arrangements for a
further extension of credit.
capoueThome
WITH ARMED GUARD
Chicago Gang Leader Defies
Police as He Returns
for Holidays.
By the Associated Pres*.
CHICAGO, December 17.—Undis
mayed by police commands to keep
out of Chicago. "Scat-face Al” Ca
pone. once a gangster, but now a
tourist, was home today.
He spent the night with his mother
unmolested by police. Accompanied
by six bodyguards he arrived in
Chicago by automobile after posting
sufficient bonds to obtain his release
from the Joliet police force, the mem
bership of which had constituted a
reception committee for him when
he alighted yesterday from a Santa
Fe train.
The gangster-tourist, who took
hasty leave of Los Angeles when a
police-newspaper-citizenry combina
tion demanded that he do so, left
Joliet at 6 p.m., yesterday in an
armored car, surrounded by his
henchmen, proclaiming defiantly to
all who were interested:
“Certainly, I am going back. I was
having a nice time iu California, but
Chicago is my home and 1 am home
sick. It’s the best town in the worlff,
and although the police ar* hound
ing me for no reason at all, I won’t
he driven out of it. Christmas at
home —that goes for me and the fel
lows with me.”
Police on Hand.
And he dared Mayor Thompson
and all of his Chicago policemen to
keep him—a taxpaying citizen—from
coming home.
Capone had heard of the reception
which Chief of Detectives William
O’Connor had planned for him, so he
arranged to leave his train at Joliet
and complete the rest of the journey
by automobile. But the Joliet police
were there —every one of them —and
Capone was arrested, found to be
at-med with two pistols, and booked
on charges of carrying concealed
weapons. Mike Sponza, who was ac
companying him. and five others, arm
ed with sawed-off shotguns, also were
booked. The five had brought the car
from Chicago for his homeward ride.
Leaving a newspaper reporter in
charge of headquarters. Chief of Po
lice Corcoran and Capt. McCanna of
the Joliet force called the reserves.
As Capone stepped to the platform,
the captain and his men advanced.
“You’re Al Capone.” he said.
"Pleased to meet you," said the gang
lender.
Then he and his companions were
locked in a ceil until freed on bond.
Police Chief Relents.
Chief O'Connor who had ordered Ca
poue jailed if he ever showed up in
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Chicago Robbers Do SIOO,OOO “Shopping,”
Mostly by Slugging, in Nine Hold -ups
By the Associated Pres*.
CHICAGO, December 17.—Chicago
stick-up men did SIOO,OOO worth of
Christmas shopping yesterday, furs,
jewelry and cash to that amount being
taken in nine robberies.
Slugging seemed the preferred
“shopping” method. Emil (Under,
wholesale jewelry salesman, made the
heaviest contribution with $50,000 in
sample gems. He was robbed on a
street car by three men, who escaped
lin an antomobile.
C. W. Hudson, real estate dealer, do
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Mine opposes
CHANGE IN TARIFF
Secretary Warns New Policy
Will Hurt Rather Than
Help U. S. Farmer.
! By thr- Associated Pres*.
NEW YORK. December 17.—A
! change in the American protective
tariff would harm the farmer more
| than it would aid him, W. M. Jar
; dine. Secretary of Agriculture, told
j the Republican Club today.
“The time is approaching,” he said,
“when tariff protection will be more
important to agriculture than to in
dustry in this country, since agri
culture is becoming less and indus
try more dependent on foreign mar
kets.”
Agricultural products, he declared,
have been for many years a dimin
ishing part of America’s exports, and
agricultural exports are becoming *
diminishing percentage of the coun
try's total domestic production in
agriculture.
Export Values Grow.
The total value of agricultural ex
ports increased 122 per cent for the
period 1900-1904 to the period 1922-
28, he said, while the value of all
other exports increased 338 per cent.
"Since agriculture is becoming less
an industry more dependent on the
foreign market,” said Secretary Jar
dine, "it is becoming increasingly im
portant to agriculture that protec
tion should be maintained against
foreign competition, in our markets.
“Those who, unthinkingly or in a
spirit of political revenge, would
wreck our protective system in the
alleged interest of agriculture should
stop to think what it would really
mean. Competition of foreign agri
cultural products in our markets
would be keenly felt by our farmers
and agriculture would surely suffer
with the rest because of that in
stability of commercial relations
which drastic tariff changes would
create.”
Greatest Free Trade tenter.
Another factor essential to a fair
appraisal of the tariff policy in its
relation to agriculture, he said, is
that the United States today is the
world’s largest free trade market. He
pointed out that in this country there
are no trade barriers such as exist
in Europe.
“In addition to commercial free
dom.” he asserted, “we need stability
of commercial relations. This we
shall achieve in proportion as we
learn to control economic forces, to
the mutual advantage of all economic
groups. The tariff, I believe, has
done much to maintain commercial
confidence and a fair degree of busi
ness stability in this country in re
cent years. This. I am confident, is
so important that any effect which
the tariff has or may have on the
pricp of this or that commodity must
not be thought of as comprising the
whole tariff question. Any changes
in our tariff system which would
throw into disorder our commercial
relations could not help our agri
culture.”
PRICES NOT BAROMETER.*
Brand Holds Food Rates Fail to Indi
cate Farmer’s Condition.
Prices paid for farm products fail
to indicate the true economic condi
tion of farmers, in the opinion of Rep
resentative Brand, Republican, Ohio,
who has charged Secretary Jardine
with disregarding “other and more
accurate” measurements of the true
conditions of the farms in order to
present a rosy picture to the country.
“The real economic condition of the
farmer is not indicated by the price
he secures unless you also take into
consideration the amount of the
product he produces and thereby
secures his revenue,” said Brand. “In
1924 the index number of farm pur
chasing power was 83. In 1926 the
index rose to 85. But the net income
of capital invested in land in the
United States fell from 3.2 per cent
in 1924 to 2.7 per cent in 1926.”
nated $25,000 In jewelry, clothing and
valuable rugs, which were taken from
his home.
Mrs. Minnie Winner, wife of a hos
pital superintendent, gave up a SI,OOO
fur coat and jewelry valued at $3,000.
She was slugged over the eye and
several stitches were required to sew
up the wound.
Other hold-ups on the streets and in
stores brought the total to SIOO,OOO.
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TWO CENTS.
TELEGRAPH CHECK
1 FAILS TO REVEAL
SLUSH FUND DATA
I Wire Companies’ Officials
Testify in Probe of
Hearst Reports.
AVILA IS SUBJECTED
TO TYPEWRITING TEST
Witnctt Wto Obtained Documents
It &real led by Senate
Committee.
jUr th* Aw/ P!■*■**.
| A group t/i telegraph and cable offi-
I / Jala followed each other to the wit
iseea A!afi4 t«xlay to tell the Senate
committee investigating the Hearst-
Mexican aloih lun<l documents that
no record could be found of money
transfer* ar.d telegrams which were
purported to have passed between
Mexico and the United States,
j .lam** hi. Bresnahan, tor the West
| ern Union; Thomas Dowd, for the
1 Postal, and K. J. Hewitt, for the A!
America Cables, were called in the
; committee’s attempt to determine the
authenticity of the documents whie,
; Miguel Avila claimed to have obtained
from Mexico City and the Mexicai
consulate in New York for William
Randolph Hearst.
« Bresnahan did find messages to
Arturo M. Elias, the Mexican consul
general in New York, but the signa
tures were different from those held
by the committee, and he reiterated
no money was paid on them.
The committee apparently was de
f termined to test the veracity of Avila,
and he was asked to write on a type
writer in the office of Chairman Reed.
The typing was introduced into the
record without comment.
Bresnahan, the first witness, was
asked if he had any record of the
transmission of money from Mexico
to Arturo M. Elias, Mexican consul
general in New l'ork, in the Summer
i of 1926.
Messages Checked.
The files of all telegrams sent and
[ received prior to December, 1926, have
been destroyed, Bresnahan declared.
From December Bresnahan went over
• the record of messages held by the
i \ committee.
"One message supposed to have
been sent to Elias we find no record
of," he stated. "Another message
supposed to have been sent Elias by
Panl (former Mexican minister of the
treasury) we have no record of.
. "We cannot check on the messages
- sent prior to December, 1926."
] Going over the committee list of
l alleged messages to Elias in March,
. 1927, Bresnahan said he could find
i no record of transfers of money on
the dates named.^
The messages were supposed to have
been from the treasurer general of
. Mexico to Elias for the National City
; Bank and to J. P. Morgan and the
' Chase National Bank to the account
I of Elias.
"We have a double check on such
J messages and could find no record
I whatever of these messages.
“I want to tell you gentlemen we
’ find no messages signed by the treas
’ urer general. There were messages
’ to Elias signed by other persons,”
Bresnahan said.
Tells of Messages.
Chairman Reed asked for the names
* in the name of the Senate.
; "One was signed by Gonzla and the
other by Pini," the witness said.
"You are sure the name was not
' spelled ‘Pani’?” Reed inquired.
| “No. it is spelled Pini,” Bresnahan
said after closer inspection of the
message.
These messages were dated March
25. 26 and 27, 1927, the dates on which
Elias was supposed to have received
messages from the treasurer general.
The messages were in Spanish and
Bresnahan said he had no translation.
“Was any money paid on account
1 of them?" asked Senator Robinson of
! Arkansas.
1 “None was paid."
Telegram in Code.
Reed called attention that one was
in code, but the witness repeated no
money had been paid on account of it.
Bresnahan was called after Miguel
Avila, the man who obtained the docu
ments which William Randolph Hearst
presented to the committee and w’hich
named four Senators as proposed re
cipients of Mexican funds, had failed
to answer when called.
Continuing his testimony, the wit
ness said a message held by the com
mittee as sent to Elias December 15
was not signed by the persons shown
in the committee telegrams. He could
find no record of a message supposed
to have been sent Elias on September
12, this vear. signed by “Estrada.”
"Do you find any other telegrams
appearing to be within the intent of
the committee subpoena?” Reed asked.
“No, sir."
"Can you determine whether about
August 4, 1926, a telegram was sent
to Elias transmitting $1,200,000 or any
other sum?” Senator Robinson,
Democrat, Arkansas, asked.
No Record of Money Transfer.
“I have no knowledge of that. Such
a transmittal would be unusual,"
Bresnahan replied.
He said he had not asked New York
employes whether such a message or
messages had been received, but he
had had never heard of it.
“There is a possibility that there
may be some other record in the
treasurer’s (W. U.) office in New
York,” Bresnahan said.
“That is why I do not want to com
mit myself on that.”
Bresnahan said the search in th?
Western Union files had been only for
the messages described in the com
mittee subpoena. The search had ex
tended to New York and Dallas, Tex.
Johnson Queries Witness.
Replying to Senator Johnson, of Cal
ifornia, the witness said the ledger ac
counts of the company would show
whether Elias had a “running ac
count" with the Western Union and
would carry records of charge mes
sages. He could not say whether the
ledgers had been searched.
"If the Western Union received dur
ing the year 1926 a sum like $1,200,000
to be paid to Elias would the perma
nent records of the company contain
a record?” asked Senator Robinson.
“I would say.”
"So far as your files go no such
transfer occurred?”
“That is correct.”
Dowd said his company did not
transmit money from Mexico to the
United States by telegraph.
Avila was recalled and identified
a letter he wrote in Senator Reed’s
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