The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 1

VOL. THE ESCANABA DAILY PRESS XIX. NO. 229. Press Leased ESCANABA, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1927.

SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS HOUSE MAKES $289,770,000 TAX CUT nope Limn MISSION WILL A SUCCESS (RELATIONS WITH MEXICO STRAINED FOR YEARS Hearst Produces Documents Bearing Names OF MEASURE THE FIRST STEP IN VELMA FIGHT FOR LIFE BT DAVTD UWKKICI. (CttrHiM tMT. fcy rrsast Washington. Dec. between the United States ind Mexico have been so troubled the last 17 that there no disguising the high everybody In the government here feels with respect to possibilities of the Lindbergh vnlssion.

Vnr It Is a mission. President OiilVdge carefully out that lit is not official but that the good wishes of the government attend the youthful aviator. Throughout the government Is a Lindbergh may recover of the ground lost In the seventeen years of misunderstanding. Mexico Is a proud nation and sensitive about any implications as to Its size or power In the family of nations. Since Ambassador Dwight Morrow went there he has been endeavoring to develop a 2 iew understanding.

President Calles has reciprocated by lnvlt-1 Ing the American ambassador to accompany him on fco the people may see of the friendly feeling of the Mexican executive toward the United States. May Go Long Way. And now Lindbergh, the Idol of the world, accepting an invitation from the Mexican president, tip the Imagination of the Mexican people. Such a non-stop flight. It 1 conceded by many veteran diplomats, may do more than years of diplomatic notes end formal protestations of friendship.

Lindbergh go beyond Paris, Brussels and London in Europe, notwithstanding the pressing from other rountries, nor has he gone to any country nouth of the Rio Grande. His readiness to accept Invitation the source of much gratification here, for the government feel It had a right him to undertake a hazard- Journey In which life would be risked. The Pan-American who went on a good will mission to South America accomplished a great deal toward promoting better understanding but the greatest need has been a development of better relations between the two neighboring nations. At the White House it was stated on behalf of the president that Lindbergh went to encourage aviation in Mexico and elsewhere. It is true that commercial aviation needs aid of this kind and that airports will help Mexico immensely In the development of better communication with the tside world.

Indeed, the intent world has been hoping opportunity to aid Mexico in promoting her enterprises. Air mall service will supplement the direct long-distance qoinmuniea- FOUR SOLONS MAKE DENIALS TO ARTICLES BORAH, HEFLIN, LA FOLLETTE, NORRIS ARE NAMED New Canadian Liquor Laws to be Strictly Enforced New I Detroit, Dec. (IP i are to bo ordered home at thousand Detroit residents, who, night. Arraigned on the charge of murdfr, Velma of Perry, is pictured here as she began her battle for life. The young wife killed her husband In an argument over a bridge name she wanted to attend, according to the charge.

Her lawyers, Francis Poulson (left) and Richard Bostwick (center) also are pictured. The girl held without ball for the grand Jury. Inefficiency, Waste in Navy Department, Says Magruder THIRTY-THREE DEAD IN FIRE DEFENDS ARTICLES BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE Recover Bodies Charred Ruins of Orphanage; 21 Missing Washington, Dec. A barrage of accusations of inefficiency From in naval administration was laid down today around the heads of high naval officers by one of their brothers In command. Rear Admiral Thomas P.

Magruder. Defending Derore the house naval committee his recently published articles attacking the navy, Magruder declared that there were too FAIL TO SOLVE FATE Rumrunner May Have Rammed Boat in Which Agent Was Riding (BULLETIN) Washington, were 1 tonight for all telegraph ami cablo companies In New York to furnish tlielr messages relating to enn government business to the senate committee investigating chargea in Hearst of a 1 215,000 fund for four United Staten senators. Washington, Dec. (IP) of disputed authenticity saying that $1,215.000 had been set aside by the government of Mexico for payment to Senators Borah, Heflin, LaKollette and Norris, were laid before a senate committee today and were answered immediately unqualified by ail of the principals Involved. The documents were submitted by William Randolph Hearst, in whose newspapers they already have been published In part.

The publisher told the committee that while he had reason to believe the papers genuine, he had no evidence that any of the money was paid. Three of the four named came before the committee volun according to the latest estimates have made plans for crossing over to Windsor and other cities on tho Canadian side of the border to help Canada celebrate Its flrM New under return of liquor, are doomed to bitter disappointment by edict of provincial police Alfred E. Cuddy of Toronto, acting chief of police at Windsor has issued orders to provincial and Windsor police that the new liquor laws must be enforced. And the lawn, among other things, provide that there shall be no drinking In public. Further, revelers at all of the hotels, clubs, restaurants and roadhouses of the border cities DEFENSE ENDSJTS CASE Introduce Evidence to Show That Mrs.

Rogers Was Insane BILL IS HANDED TO SENATE WITHIN TEN DAYS Thousands of reservations, most of them from Detroit residents. have been In the of border city hotel and club proprietors for a week or more, they said, and plans were going forward for the greatest New Year celebration on record. Many thousands of dollars already have been spent on favors, decorations and nolse-makers, and in many places, the arrangements for ushering In the New Year included dinner, supper and breakfast, with dancing and other ment. But the ushering Is to be of short duration If the of the police materialize, for they plan to maintain strict surveillance. DOAT IS DRIVEN RACK RY STORM Gale Prevents Search in Open Craft for Missing Ship La Grange.

Dee. Re-lntroduclng three alienists to bolnter their plea that Rebecca Bradley Rogers was insane when she robbed the National bank of Buda, Texas, a year 7 ago, the defense In the trial of tartly and made their denials under fhw forraer conege oath. Borah, of Idaho, who is chairman of the senate committee which with International relations, said he had never been approached casually, directly, expressly or Impliedly, in any way, shape or Heflin of Alabama declared he had received no money in connection with Mexico, except from ministers. Ku Klux Klansmen and oth Quebec, Dec. ice- sheathed ruins of Hospice St.

Charles orphanage for today had given up the bodies of 33 children who when tiro destroyed i night. Twenty-one otlu still Wftrp private yards rather than attempt Throughout the day. firemen the construction itself. and volunteers combed the tan- Magruder testimony was pref Detroit, Dec. (IP) The fate er8 for expenses of lectures on of Franklin P.

Wood, 32-year-old federal patrol officer, who dlsap Mexico and demanded that the committee make an example of peared into the fog of tho I)e- responsible for the charges troit river early today may never The patrol boat In which he last seen was found al daybreak. a floating wreck. Ivan Hall, chief patrol Inspec- Hear Other FaLollette of Wisconsin descrlb ed the attack to link up hls name with this matter cowardly fraud." Norris of Nebraska, confined to student closed its case today. The alienists were placed on the stand, in rebuttal to offset tho surprise teetlmonv of Dr. Joseph Wooten, a state witness who based his opinion that Mrs.

Rogers was sano on the autobl- ography she herself had written. District Judge M. C. Jeffrey was expected to deliver his charge to the Jury tomorrow, after which arguments opposing counsel will be given before the jury receives the case. Otis Rogers, husband of the defendant.

who as an attorney is a member of her legal staff, prob- tirouah freding up ms name, wiI, open arguments for the death, either through ting infamous and lutsldi iim (Continued On Page Two.) Road Report Pcinsuls roa da which Upper tsined for traffic this winter FwUral Hlfftiways U. 8. 8U. Pick ford. Moran, Rex ton, Envadlne, ManUtique, 'JUpid River, Gladstone, Escanaba, Spald- Norway, Iron Mountain S.

2 through Wisconsin doubtful. Usa 4ft and 69 to Crystal Falla) Crystal Falla, Iron River, Waters meet, Wakefield, Bessemer and Iron wood. Ian ace to junction with tried wreckage while grief-strlck- by a clasl1 between members lor, and James W. Oliver, house by Illness, rose from his parents besieged the morgue of the committee over whether he Patrol officer, last Wood. bed to prepare a statement, and hospitals in search of their proceed under oath.

It after the three( had a Haylng that he had an offer OJlH. 2. X. B. -Menominee, Stephenson.

Spald- Escanaba. Gladstone, Rapid River, to Carlshend not open). Carlshend-Marquette (Marquette to Neraunee not open). Neffsunee, Ishpeminc, Michivamme, Baraga, Houghton. Haneoek (Han- sock to Cain met not open).

Calumet, Phoenix. U. 8. Fallg to Covington. State Highways to Junction with U.

S. X. line, aWtersmeet, Bruces Crossing. Mass City, Painssdale, Houghton. 'Hancock.

Lake Lindea and Calumet. Ste. Marie, Brimley. Newberry, McMillan, (MeMillan to Seney not open) Seney, Wetmore, Munising, Chat. (ham, Scandia.

Marquette, Negaunee. Ish- 4 Muling. Michigamme, Covington, Sidnaw, Kenton, Trout Creek, Bruces Crossing, Ewen. Berg land, Wakefield. Gladstone, Rock.

Little flake, Gwinn, Palmer. Nsgaunee (Negaunee to Scanee not open) Skanee, 'Baraga. Alston. (Alston to Lake Mine not open) Ontonagon and ten Mountain, Randville. Sago la.

Channing. Republic to U. S. Detour. Plckford.

Rudyard (Rud- 10 Trout Lake not open) Trout Lake, XUi.ton, Garnet, Newberry. line to Quinneaee. to M-S8. Narenta to Whitney (Whitney to Tester City not open) Foster City, Metropolitan, Randville, Sagoia. Crystal Falls.

with U. 8. Germfask. Seney. Grand Mars Is.

with M-M to Germfask DAILY BULLETIN All reeds rsperted bat sterm in until Friday children. Some of the missing, it was believed, had been taken home by friendB and relatives who had not reported their safety. Only a waate of charred wreckage marked the the 96- year-old orphanage. A modern wing, however, was untouched by the flames. Sorrowing crowds which flocked to the blaze last night returned today to aid in the search of the ruins.

Explosion of a furnace in the basement believed at first to have caused the fire, but firemen later said the cause of the blaze a mystery. Nuns and lay risked their lives to lead most of the to the street. Rose Anna Gaureault, 17, died in her efforts to save all her charges in the ward. cut off from leaped from the windows into life nets and snow Survivors told of the heroism of Miss Gaureault, who saved the lives of a score of little girls whom she led through Bmoke and flame from upper floors. Ignoring her own danger, she made a last trip up the shaking stairs.

later, her body was carried from a corridor near a room in which several were suffocated in their sleep. The disaster was the most serious of its kind ever visited on the city and was the third In Canada this year to take heavy toll of young lives. When the Laurler theater was burned down last January. 28 were killed. Twenty children lost their lives last September when the orphanage at Lac La Flonge, wag burned.

decided Anally, by a vote of I motor boat which was hauling a or aQy intimation that anybody con- 16 to 3, that he would not be sworn rowboat loaded with liquor. The templated offering me In. but not before Chairman Rutler latter officers were riding in the During its two sessions and a had announced that he would re-' captured motorboat which the tbird tonight the committee also sign from the committee before he would anticipate that this witness tell the Should Abolish Ya. J. The vote came after Representative McClintic, Democrat, Oklahoma.

had been denied permission to put in the committee record a statement saying that he did not care to participate in any proceedings rum had deserted in making their escape, when without signalling companions, Wood suddenly turned the federal boat out into the river and disappeared in the fog. The fog on the river was heavy all day yesterday, preventing the movement of large ships. It was extremely difficult to make a safe landing even in the middle of the day. At night, the low hanging that might be described as a white fog nfted a wall of darkness. A Seize ISO Cases of Whiskey in Speed Boat; Arrest Three Cleveland, Ohio, Dec.

(IP Three men in a 40-foot speed boat were arrested and 160 cases of whisky confiscated late today by the customs border patrol under Robert A. Burru. Seizure was made, according to federal officers, after a chase between West Slster- land and Toledo. The crew, Justin and Alfred Raymond, Rrown- lee Bliss, all of Newport. were placed In Ottowa county Jail at Port Clinton.

wash." and that he recalled In 1924, that Rear Admiral Robison had certain members of the naval committee In his of the Teapot Dome lease that photographs were taken and labelled "Naval committee finds nothing wrong with Teapot Dome Magruder who recently was relieved of command of the Philadelphia navy yard, told the committee that the Charleston, S. yard should be abolished and that he had his eye on the yard at Klttery, Maine, which, he said, was being kept open for submarine construction only. He approved the base being constructed in Hawaii as it is needed. The outspoken admiral declared that many of the old ships including flagships at were being kept In commission to police South America. He said ships were so old that their maintenance was expensive and that new ships should be assigned to the work.

Official Against Admiral. Disclosing that he had asked and been denied assignment as commander of the Charleston yard and of American forces In European waters, Magruder said the navy department had assigned this as a reason I had laid strictures upon the Charleston yard and criticized the small European gained the impression from press reports originating in Washington soon after the articles In the Saturday Evening Post were he continued, some high official or high officials in the navy department were attempting to place me in a false postlon before the public by misrepresentation and misstatement. This does not In any way reflect on the secretary ot tho check to be made of the from the Canadian shore In an attempt to trace the craft which might have been in the vicinity of the tragedy. heard denials from others who were named In the documents. Among the witnesses was Dudley Field Malone, the New York lawyer, named In the Spanish text of the documents as the pay-off man In this country.

He said he had never had any connection whatever with such a project, and described signatures purporting to be his as forgeries or copies. Arturo M. Elias, the Mexican consul general at New York, also took the stand and flatly denied the references made to him In the mysterious documents. He volun- (Continued On Page Three defense allensts. Dr.

Max Handman. criminologist at tho U. of Texas. Dr. W.

R. Johnson. superintendent of the state hospital for the Insane and Dr. Livingstone Anderson of the state health department testified they still believed Mrs. Rogers was insane.

Introduction of Mrs. life story in the autobiography presented by the state had not changed their minds, they said. Dr. Handman said the autobiography reinforced his position that she was insane. The autobiography related that Mrs.

Rogers, worrying over financial troubles. had planned to rob a bank to pay debts and planned to commit suicide if she failed in Ihe robbery. normal person would choose to rob a Dr. Handman testified, and plan to commit suicide In case of failure, In preference to facing debts. Houghton.

Dec. rambling blizzard from the northeast with the mercury rapidly falling and heavv sens running today balked the Eagle Harbor coast guard crew in Its search for the Canadian package freighter Kamloops, missing for nine days, with Its crew of 20 men and two women. The guards, after laboriously cutting a channel through the thick ice covering the harbor, managed to launch a lifeboat at daybreak today. After progressing six miles a northeasterner sprang up almost without warning. sending huge wavos breaking over the side of the lifeboat and covering It with a heavy coating of Ice.

After a valiant battle In the teeth of the gale, the trip was abandoned and the coast guards returned to their station. To con- lnvltlng or being dashed against the Washington. Dec. 15 a Democratic-Republican coalition holding the ship hand, the house early tonight passed the tax bill with three major amendments, which were vigorously opposed by Republican party leaders. On a final showdown, however, only 24 Republicans were willing to go on record against the measure after exhausting every preliminary means to eliminate the three contested amendments, among them one for repeal of the sales tax on The vote on passage was to 24.

Sent to the senate within ten days, the bill as approved calls for an estimated annual cut of S2S9.770.000 In treasury revenue compared with the $232.735,000 reduction proposed by the ways and means committee which whipped the measure into shape before the start of the session. Its total is above the $225.000,000 suggested by Secretary Mellon as the safe maximum and many of its provisions dlffer- 17 1 4 ed radically from treas-irv recom- ruruicr The three amendments which Republican leaders sought to knock out of the bill at the last minute had been adopted earlier In the week tinder rules which prevented roll call votes. Two. relating to corporations were sponsored by Representative Garner of Texas, ranking Democrat on the wavs and meaus committee. while that calling for repeal of the sales tax levy was championed by Representative McLaughlin, of Michigan, a Republican on the committee.

Antn Tax Repealed. Just before the bill came up for final passage, however, roll calls were in order nd when the house, by record votes, refused to reverse Itself on the three changes, the Republican leaders made a move to send the bill back to committee. But a majority of the memborship wanted It passed, and the motion to recommit, offered bv Representative Bacharach, Republican. New Jersey, was rejected by a wide margin. The roll call vote today on the McLaughlin amendment to repeal With heavy shore Ice forming the sales tax on automobiles was Mexican Congress Cheers Coolidge When Lindbergh Attends Session Mexico City, Dec.

(Jp for a president of the United States were heard today in the Mexican congress probably for the first time. The members of the chamber after receiving Col. Charles A. Lindbergh with honors never before accorded a foreigner, gave for Lindbergh, Coolidge and Morrow. President and Colonel Lindbergh were together three today when the aviator called formally on the president In the morning, when the president attended the session of the chamber of held in honor of Lindbergh late In the afternoon and again in the evening at a fete in the Iris theater.

The fete arranged by the foreign office and was attended, in addition to the president, by the members of the cabinet, Ambassador Morrow and staff and the foreign diplomatic corps. The foremost in the republic played and sang for the American flyer, chiefly Mexican compositions. The president expressed keenest Interest in the of the latest flight, when he met him at the national palace In the morning. They talked to- for about half an president produced a Mexico and examined It with Colonel Lindbergh, figuring out the probable course during the time he had lost hls hour. The ganlzation.

"friends of Mexico." map of The school was named "Benito after the Mexican patriot who was called "the Lincoln of and at the opening ceremonies. name bearings after leaving Tampico, was linked with They came to the conclusion that the plane had moved In a big circle westward through the states of Morelia and Mlchoacan, back to Mexico City. Attend Library Opening. Lindbergh said that the map of Mexico he had used on his flight did not show the great of Popocatepetl and suatl, which tower on Mexico horizon. If he had had them by the two other several speak-great names ers.

Foreign Six hundred school children cheered as he entered, then stood and sang tho Mexican and American anthems, as well a "Old at Black and Mexican songs. The children carried the lean flag and the Stars folk- Mex- and even more rapidly than before, the severe drop in temperature and the mouth of Kagle Harbor once more choked with Ice. Capt. A. F.

Glaza after a rough but uneventful trip back to the coast guard station advised the of the Kamloops that a further search with an open boat would be Impossible and urged that a tug be sent from Port Arthur, Canada, to scout the of Manltou Island and Isle Royale. Are Meager. The blizzard sweeping the region bodes HI for the crew of the Kamloops. The guardsmen feel confident the boat has not been wrecked on Keweenaw, leading to the theory It has been hurled on the rocks of Isle Royale rather than Manltou. or has sunk.

Unless the Kamloops crew made Manltou and has found shelter In the deserted lighthouse which was left stocked with food and fuel, chance of the men's survival of the latest storm on the heels of the one a week ago are regarded as meager. There Is a slight chance that tho men, If cast 011 Isle Royale, mignt have made their way to the cabins of the dozen fishermen and game wardens who inhabit the Isle during the winter, miles away from where the Kamloops was seen headed for the rocks. This, how- over, Is unlikely as the men. drenched by the spray, would have frozen before they could have progressed a mile. Isle Royale is 50 miles long and about 20 across.

They may, however, have stayed aboard their ship and are waiting the arrival of some other craft. Rescue efforts now must rest with a quick run by powerful tugs from the Canadian mainland to Isle Royale and Manltou. ORGANIZE LAND PARTIES. Montreal, Dec. (IP) parties havo heen organized to scour the coast line of Lake Su- 245 to 151 with Democrats and about a score Republicans supporting the proposal.

The bill as It reached the house from the ways and means committee proposed a reduction of the present three-per cent rate to 1 per cent. The two sponsored by Garner were reported by a similar coalition though a smaller number of Republicans turned a 4eaf ear to their leaders. One a bracket of lower tax rates for corporations with net taxable incomes of $15,000 or less instead of the fiat rate of 11 per cent recommended by the committee the other would require corporations and their subsidiaries to file regular. The house by a vote of 121 to 181 sustained the lower rate proposal and then adopted 210 to 187 tho joint tax return plan. Isadora Support Measure.

Bacharach. in a last move, to send the bill back to the ways and means committee Instead of passing It along to the senate, would have undone the work the house had accomplished on the bill and the motion was defeated. 301 to 93. Chairman Green was Included among those opposing this move. The final vote on passage found (Jreen, Representative Tllson, the Republican floor leader, and prac- located, he might havo found his Stripes and after the formal cere- perior for clues as to the fate of aoPPiNlQj DAYS Till right course sooner.

The president asked numerous questions about the details of flying and how the navigation were used, and, In return, he received much information on some of the fundamental points involved. The party proceeded to the Lincoln library, which was to be opened in one of the biggest public named In honor of the Mexican patriot. name given to the library, which about 1,000 in English presented monies they swarmed around the the steamship Kamloops, missing gsthor through an interpreter, 'to the school by an American flyer, all lnalstlng on saluting him personally, and most of them succeeded in touching him at least, before he departed. Earlier In the day at the foreign office, when Colonel Lindbergh called on the acting foreign minister, Senor EBtrada, several hundred persons crowded In from tho street and thronged around him, the minister and Ambassador Morrow In the audience chamber. the same children, were eager to shake with him.

touch him or get as close as possible. with her crew of 22 the storm which swept the Great Lakes last week. Alex A. Auld. superintendent of the Canada Steamship lines, said at Toronto that officials of the company had every hope of hearing from the Kamloops yet.

There was no probability of the ship's food supplies having given out, he believed. Thfe pointed out that the freighter had no wireless and there nothing to dlsprovs that it might be lying in a sheltered spot, inaccessable from land. hgKis ymi ked last 1 Have likely blown sway. You'd check them and Buy wKst you today..