Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 4

POLITICS SWAYS [ CALLESINOIL ROW Possible Yielding to U. S. Held | to Be Based on Obregon’s By Presidential Aims. r BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Back of the dispatches from Mexico City, indicating « feeling of optimism that a way will be found to adjust the oil controversy with the United States, is the knowledge on the part of the Mexican authorities that a dis turbed political situation will interfe with the campaign in which Alvaro Obregon is scheduled to come back 10 the presidency in 1 The Mexican government tried in 1918 to put into effect the retroactive clauses of the constitution and was balked by President Wilson. The same effort, begun in 1925, has been balked by President C: % Mexico has had in the last two weeks a clear statement of the feeling of} the Washington CGovernment, opening to her the paths of friendship or aloofness. She has apparently chosen the former. No Threats Made. No threat of war or intervention was made, but certain factors could have been brought into action which would have been unfortunate for the Mexican administration. One was the lifting of the embargo on arms—some- thing that is feared far more than intervention. The other was the boy cott by the oil companies themselves, which was beginning 1o Mexican revenues and spread unem ployment. The latter came at a time figures indicated for 1927 a large over- production of oil anyhow. But revolu tions are bred when the Federal pay voll is cut down, and Mexico's officials began to realize that the fight with the oil companies was going to be an expensive one. Also there arose the question of transporting ofl if the lands were confiscated. The companies Wwho claimed their properties were being confiscated are under no obligation to jend their tank steamers or bipe lines to companies which fall in with a program of confiscation. Pressed by Radicals. President Calles has been pressed by radieal groups, as well as by business interests seeking to obtain possession of confiscated lands. 1f he can remain In power until the next presidential lection of 1928, then his good friend and ally, Alvaro Obregon. can easily be elected. It a revolution is to be permitted then the whole situation be- comes confused and Senor Obregon’s chances are imperilled. ‘Alyaro Obregon is a business man and he saw during his first administra- tion how troublesome the oil question gould become, so he allowed it to drift slong without bringing matters to a climax. His advice unquestionably has been sought by President Calles in the present emergency and there is every reason to believe that he has suggested compromise. President Coolidge has indicated that if the main issue, confiscation, could be settled there would be no difficulty in_reaching an understanding on the collateral questions growing out of that controversy. U. 8. Officials Skeptical, The press dispatches, which g0 so far as to say amendments may be proposed to the Mexican constitution 80 a8 to eliminate any construction of the constitution as retroactive, sound too good to be true to Washing- ton officials, though they realize that such a course, and only that, will put the relations between the United States and Mexico on a permanently satisfactory basis. Even if the amend- ments are not immediately adopted, the effect of a recommendation to that effect from the Mexican chief execu- tive will be to prevent confiscations in the interim. In a nutshell, Mexico is faced with the possibility of an embargo on arms being lifted, so that all factions can get munitions, and she js faced with & ban on her borrowing of money in the United States unless she respects the rights, lawfully acquired, of for- eign nationals. Her decision to follow a policy of conciliation rather than hostility to foreign capital, as reported from Mexico City, is halled as a sign that ‘economic influence is a more powerful factor nowadays than military threats. BORAH DEFIES CRITICS. when the Unswayed by Attacks Upon Course in Mexico. Senator Borah yesterday served no- tice on ofl operators that “no amount of criticism” would keep him from his course with regard to the Mexican situation. ‘The chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee replied to a letter from Guy Stevens, director of the Association of Producers of Petroleum in Mexico, who had eriticized his course in communicating directly with President Calles irecently. Renator Borah described criticism of thi: tion &s “an expression of that agony which comes from fear of the facts.” Sees Desire for Break. “I haVen't the slightest doubt,” the Idaho Senator said, “but what there are powerful interests which would like to see a complete break with Mexico and, as a distinguished repre- sentative of the oil interests has de- clared, to see Mexico Cubanized. “I have no. desire in the world to see the oil compunies or interests de- prived of their legitimate rights or to see their legitimate interests un- protected. But I utterly disagree with the policy which would seek that protection by a break with Mexico. “In doing what 1 have done, I have had in mind nothing more than to secure facts from all proper sources and 1 have not intended to unjustly reflect upon any one, whether they were oil interests or other interests. Will Stick to Course. This hypoeritical ery that wpuld revent one who is in a place where he must act upon important matters from gathering information from whatever source he may is but an ex- pression_of that agony which comes from a fear of the facts. “But 1 kpow what I want to do and 1 know that no amount of criti- cism will prevent my doing it.” RUMORS STIR MEXICO. Calles Government Maintains Secrecy Over Tellez Visit. MEXICO CITY, March 11 (P).—The visit to Mexico of Manuel Telle: passador at Washington, coupled with the secrecy with which the Govern- ment has veiled discussions connected with the international situation, has given rise to all manner of rumors concerning Mexico's future attitude in the present oil and land law disputes, but they are merely guesswork. The only official pronouncement in soveral days came last night, when the foreign office denfed that the in- ternational situation was discussed at o cabinet meeting Wednesday. The statement said that Ambassador Tel- Jez had merely made an oral report to President Calies the morning after his wrrival from Washington, when the eituation was discussed at length. Blectrification of the Paulista Rall- way of Brazil is to be done by Ameri- diminish | HISTORIC GATES’ The old gates between the the State, War 1z, ordered removed by Congress. What to do with the s leading to many suggestions, Lower: The seal on the gates—eagle, guns and anchor, representing the emblems of the State, War and Navy Departments. SENATE DELAY HITS U.5. COURT INCHINA Upper: White Hou and Navy Failure to Confirm Appoint- ment of District Attorney Retards Justice. BY REGINALD SWEETLAND. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dail News. Copyl t, 1927 SHANGHAI, March 11.—C able consternation prevails at American consulate here, owing to failure of the Senate to confirm the | appointment of George Sellett as United States district attorney of the United States ourt for China. The Senate’s failure to act virtu- | leaves the court without a dis- | attorney at a time when im- | portant cases are docketed. Includ- i Leonard Husar, accused of | having accepted $25.000 for suppress- ing evidence in an opium case. It is believed here ‘that the: Husar case will be found to have inter- national ramifications. John Van A. McMurray, American Minister fo China; C. E. Gauss, American consul, and Judge Milton Purdy cabled the State Department, urging immediate confirmation of Sellett’s appointment. It is believed here that the opium ring which Husar was ordered to investigate is bring- ing pressure to bear in Washington to block further investigation on the part of local American officials. Sellett continues in office, though he is powerless to act. Court pro- cedure is at a standstill except for minor hearings before the consular court. torney MISS CLARA V. KELLY DIES Was PFatally Stricken in Church While Attending Communion. Miss Clara V. Kelly, 40 years old, who became suddenly ill while at the altar rail of St. Aloysius Church when about to receive Communion ‘Wednesday morning, died last night at the home of her sister, Mrs. Annie Myers, 30 Quincy place northeast, with whom she lived. Miss Kelly was a clerk in the De- partment of Agriculture and was an active worker in St. Aloysius Church for a number of years. She was a daughter of the late Lieut. John F. Kelly of the Police Department. Funeral services will be held at the residence Monday morning, after which requiem mass will be said at St. Aloysius Church at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Surviving Miss Kelly are two brothers, John and Edward J. Kelly, the latter a detective sergeant of police, and five sisters, Mrs. John Brennan, Mrs. Willlam Barrett, Mrs. Annie Myers, Mrs. Catherine Reed and Miss Alice Kelly. DR. HEALY TO LECTURE. Representative Porter's Absence Causes Change of Program. Dr. Thomas Healy, assistant dean of the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University, will speak in Washington study at Rmuscher's, at 0 o'clock tomorrow morning, on certain treaty relations between the United States and Latin America in the course of international relations. This lecture is advanced in the pro- gram, as Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania s detained in Pittsburgh and unable to return to Washington to speak on China until a later date, it was announced today ENDS 7,000-MILE TRIP. ST. LOUIS, March 11 (#).—Wearing his Russian Jambskin turban, John Muntian, 15, ended his 7,000-mile trip to America from Corjeutz, Bessarabia. He is the gon of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Muntian. His mother went back to her native land shortly before the boy’s birth in 1912, and upon returning in 1914 left him with his grandparents on the shore of the Black Se There he re- mained until January 7, when he be- ing that of the former District At- | gan his journey to America alone. FIGHT BETWEEN WU AND CHANG MAY BE PIVOT OF CIVIL WAR (Continued from First Page) deal with the forces of Gen. Chin and Gen. Wang before coming in contact with the Cantonese Nationalists, or Southerners. Manchurians Being Used. Recent events in Kiangsi and Anhwei provinces have deprived Marshal Chang Tso-Lin of help from Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang, the Shan- tung leader, which previously had been planned. : Later dispatches show that the northern forces intend to meet Chin Yun-Ao's menace by attacking his rear through northern Anhwei pro- vince, while 60,000 reinforcements are being brought down from the Mukden area (Manchuria) to assist Chang Teo-Lin’s main advance, The first contingents ef these troops are already passing through Peking. INLAND LOOTING REPORTED. Mission Station at Luchow Said to Have Been Rifled. LONDON, March 11 (#) at the inland mission Luchow near Chungking is described in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch today from Hongkong. Southern troops are reported to he oncentrated 13 miles below Wuhu nd advancing on both sides o! the Yangstze River, large numbers cross- ing to the north bank. Reports from Ichang are few more missionaries have e posts up the Yangtze River. The Exchange Telegraph dispatch says it is reported that a ¥rench steamer searched at Wanhsein was found to contain arms and am- munition. Rumors of threatened attacks on high British military personages in Shanghai, says a dispatch to today’s Daily Express, have led the author- ities to take sudden precautionary measures. Among em was the posting of international police outside the general military headquarters and hotels where some of the com- manders are quartered. The Daily Mail's Shanghai corre- spondent says the latest troop move- ments on the Yangtze indicate there may be a clash soon. U. S. PROTEST BEING DRAWN. that a cuated Looting in City of Wuhu Affected American Missions. SHANGHAI, March 11 (®).—The American consul general at Hankow was drawing up a protest today for presentation to the Cantonese author- ities against excesses in the city of Wuhu after it was oclupied by Can- tonese soldiers several ago. John MacMurray, American Minister at Peking, instructed the consul to make the protest, as Ameriean mission prop- erty was looted. With military developments along the fronts south and west of Shang- hai prevented by raing, preparations for attack and defense by the South- ern and Northern armies respectively continued. The Northerners’ chief concern is to maintain communication along their principal artery, the Nanking-Shanghai Railroad, and they are continuing to send reinforcements of Shangtung troops to Nanking. Two thousand workers in one cotton mill have gone on strike because the management removed from the walls posters advocating a labor govern- ment and urging the murder of loyal workers. In another mill 4,000 work- S ,The terms of Morris Plan &> < have had an to_borrow. B For each $50 or} fraction you agree to de- posit $1 per week in an Account, the of which may be used to cancel Loans are simple and practical and fair—it is not necessary to account at this Bank’ Loans are pass- ed within a day or two after filing application— with few excep- tions. MORRIS PLAN notes are usually MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U.S. Treasury 1408 H Street N. W. *Character and Earning Power Are the Basis of Credit” ers struck in protest against the firing of a worker for care The railway strike at Woosung con- tinues, The Coldstream Guards was landed at Shanghai today. The soldiers marched for five miles through pouring rain to billets in Jessfield Park. Vice Admiral Sir Reginald T commander of the British naval force; and Maj. Gen. John Duncan, head of the British Shanghai defense force, took the salute at the entrance of the British consulate, where most of the British residents had gathered. Given Rousing Cheers. As the guardsmen swung by they were given rousing cheers. A mixed crowd of Chinese and foreigners lined the Bund and Nanking road through which the route la As a consequence of rumors that he intended a coup d'etat against the left wing of the Kuomintang, or re- publican_ revolutionary party, Gen. Chang Kai-Shek, leader of the Canton- ese military forces, made a statement today reiterating his loyalty to the party. Through a Hankow news agency he declared he has been so occupied recently with military matters that he lost contact with his party comrades. “Nothing takes precedence in my mind over the party,” he said.. “I am engaged in no pursuit save revolu- tion; 1 follow no interest of my own.” 65 HOLD-UPS CONFESSED BY YOUTHS, SAY POLICE Gary, Ind., After Clothing Store Robbery. By the Assoclated Press. GARY, Ind., March 11.—Abandoning their protestations of inexperience, two Cleveland youths arrested here Wednesday in a holdup, yesterday be- gan detailing to Gary police a crime record which includes some 65 holdups in Cleveland, Akron, and Toledo. Ohio, and South Bend, Ind. The boys, Isadore Gorodkin, 19, and Howard Lee, 20, said they fled from Cleveland a week ago after they feared the shooting of a holdup victim would be fatal. Th stole a motor car at York, Pa., according to their story, and, with a third partner, oper. ated in Akron, Toledo, South Bend and Gary. Here the third member deserted them, taking the stolen car with him. They were arrested by Gary police after a clothing store hold-up here. Gorodkin claims to be the son of a Cleveland contractor. Lee, an orphan, said he recently was released from an Ohio correctional school. econd battalion of the British | | Pair From Cleveland Arrested in| FUTURE LOCATION House Will Be Used Here When Bemoved. The historic gates -across I e avenue between the White and the Stat War and Navy ing, the removal of which w thorized in a bill which passed on the closing day of Congress will probably not be moved for ne | If and when they are ed, they | | will be relocated somew in the | National Capital and not be given | way to some other community or to| whoever does the job of “‘wrecking.”| The Commission of Fime Arts and several citiz assocktions are lactive to have these gates preserved in the Capital City Senator Jones of Washing | for years pi nted the ramoval of | {these gates on the ground that toa many of the old landmarks are being destroyed. The bill as it passed th | House provided “in the intarest of safety to the public to remove the | s and piers now standing in West ecutive avenue.” The Senaie in serted an amendment which probribited removal of the stone gate posts, and | in this, during the closing rush, the| House concurred. So, as matters now stand, the gates can be taken down but the stone pillars which are the principal obstruction to traffic, cannot be removed, and there is no appro priation for doing the work Hayes Wants Gafes. Meanwhile, Col. Webb Hayes, eldest son of fc President Rutherford B. layes, in started negotia tions to have the gates turngd over to him to be placed at the entrance to the Hayes estate in I'reemont, Ohio. which has been given as a public park. The director of public buildings and public parks of the National Capital, who is authorized to remove the gates, finds that he has no authority to give them away, and there is a growing demand that he shall not give them Suild au-| aw: Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, points out that the gates could well be used in the pro- gram of that commission to have each of the principal entrances to the National Capital marked with memo- rial arches or gates. He suggests that the Executive avenue gates should be placed at one of the' entrances from Maryland, so that any tourist might know when he was entering the Capital City This suggestion will be ered at a meeting of the Mentgomery County Civic Federation next Monday night. This federation will advocate placing these gates either at the District line on the Rockville road, ort the Con necticut avenue entrance ned Chevy Chase circle, on the Seventh street pike or along the Conduit road. Citizens are Interested. In the meantime, citizens’' associd- tions in the District are becoming in- terested. Last week the Central Citi- zens’ Association advocated making North Capitol street a “Great White Way” and boulevard to the Mary- land suburbs. The North Capitol Citizens' Association at its next meet- ing will consider and expects to pass a resolution asking that these gates be placed at a long-planned entrance to the Soldiers’ Home grounds at the head of North Capitol street. These grounds are one of the most attrac- tive parks in the city cond in size only to Rock Creek Park. ¥rom one of the elevations in the far north part of the Soldiers’ Home near the United States Cemetery is a ‘‘Capitol Vista," along the line of North Capitol street. It has long been the plan of the Fine | Arts Commission and the city plan- ners to have a memorial gate to the | Soldiers’ Home grounds at the head of North Capitol street. Henry Gilligan, president of the North Capitol Citizens’ Association, says that association is eager to co- operate with the city planners for such an improvement and is eager to get the gates from West Executive avenue relocated at such an ideal place. When Pillars Were Placed. The pillars and gates in West Ex- ecutive avenue were placed there be- tween 1872 and 1875. Originally the sites occupi the Treasury and State, War vy buildings were part of the White House ground griginally jhe’ “President’s Square,” comprising about 70 aeres. During the Grant administration, when the disfiguring iron fences which bordered the circular walks of the North grounds were removed and the lawn thrown open to the present spacious proportions, the two Executive ave nues to the west and east of the Man. sion on a line with Madison and Jack- XERXFR Dobbs No wonder the May_ we suggest hi at The Hecht Co Main ing into vogue once again, when Dobbs makes them so they fit with the comfort of a felt. '8 Here Exclusively e Hecrr Co-F SIREET that you open a charge account where you Nationally Known Lines Bowler bowler is com- et et et et et e tetetat ot et atetatatataty buy so many Floor EXEX XXX X T X I X E X R XX TR IR EXEX R X ER T TR EXN *%E HEEXEX OFGATESINDOLBT: Ornaments West of Whitel’“ | tho | Wood son placed on the gates by retary last ses place were cut through the wlLLIAM cANNoN dent’s Square. work was done under Gen. . Babeock, who was Grant's mili- FOUND DEAD lN OFHCE secretary and also in charge of { o office of public buildings and | rounds under the chiet of engineers, % Y which office ieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, i 4 ecre o M i 3rd, now occupies. War Department Ogden Mills’ Secretary’s Body Dis- records show that the escutcheon was covered; Was Last Seen | en. Casey y marking them as the approach to the ; ! State, War and Navy Bullding, dis-| Wednesday. | ying the anchor of the Navy De-| | partment, the eagle of the State De " : partment and the gum for the War| ' ./ Ham Cannon o Un:| | okt | dersecretary of the Treasury Qgden L. The agitation for removal of the | Mills, was found dead yesterday in the uuhml}n ame lnuumn\hlp some 10 vears | office occupied by Mr. Mills, in the ». when bids were invited with the | R e I e e | House Office Building. while the latter take the gates and the stone posts as | Was serving as a Representative of his pay for removing them. Only one | New York during the n of | bid was then received, from a promi- | Congres: The body was discov nent firm of wreckers, which asked by the custodian of the House Office | $2.000 addition to the gates and | Building, hael X. Kerrigan, who | pier | went to the to open the door for | Gift Not Authorized. | # woman secretary, who had been un administration of [ able to get in i sident ng, Col. Hayes, the Deputy Coroner Dr. Joseph Rog t son of President Hayes, endeav- | $r% Was summoned and stated that | ored to get these gates for ath was due to heart disease I“"”i Pr . elde to Free Ohio, This request was I submitted (o President Harding by | 115 Belleved (i Licut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, then {1} A0¢ lay GoWa. Tt wAS Chone) engineer officer in charge of public | M beqn dead sice lae teqnes buiidingss grounds, who found |y, " ity this afternoon and fune that he nnl)mv these: gutes | o veicen nre’ t5. be: Neld there st 2w authorit rom Con- | g0 e Sl . s gress, olution was introduced to | e to,be annonnced luter. = evl uthorize the gift, but it was notf, Mr. Mills when the latter was a | passed s of New York, from 1914 . 917. And when Mr. Mills was| Wood Resumes Duties. | employed M 4]'}.':"...;‘ ool il MANILA, March 11 (®).—Gov. Gen.| Mr. Cannon is survived by his| today attended the first | Widow, who resides at their home in | meeting of department s elflrles.‘t:::2|1‘z:'l.h. SN e since his most recent operation. Aside | - from approving the promotion of cer-| of §00 private dwellings erected ml tain government employes only routine | Durban. South Afr in the past| business was acted upon. ! year 240 were housekeeping flats. 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