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Evening star., 1927-10-25

Chamber Of Commerce, made him a
promise to write at regular intervals
and detail the current doings of Capi
tai folk whom John knew.
Others might have accepted the mer'
chants promise with smile, seasoned
with the usual grain Of salt. Mr.. Cans
is a busy man, not alone as head OF
a large department store, but is an un'
firing worker in civic affairs of the Ma
tional Capital. But John Martin knew
that Isaac Cans would not fail, and
through the years the letters have
come regularly, to cheer the bed-ridder
journalist in his fight.
Dispatches from Asheville state that
Martin seems prouder of the latest
letter from Mr.. Cans than of any OF
the others, for all of which, however
he was profoundly grateful.
John Martin was a familiar figure In
the newspaper world here, covering
politics, legislation and other features
His last assignment was the disarma
ment conference.
John says he still has hopes of get
ting back in the game" thanks to
the encouragement Of his legion OF
friends
Evening star., 1927-10-25
SUES GAS COMPANY.

The Washington Gas Light Co. was
sued yesterday in Circuit Court for
$4,000 damages by Heber L. Thorn.
ton, for the benefit Of the Great Amer.
lean Insurance Co. Through Attor.
neys Clephane, Latimer & Hall the
plaintiff says that he is the owner of
the apartment house at 40. Cedar
street, which caught fire on May 5.
BY reason of the failure of the gas
light company to locate the shut-off
valve in the service pipe so that the
f1remen could find it, meter explosions
occurred and damaged the property
more than 1t would have been dam.
ac2l otherwise, 1t is charged.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
ASKED
BY LLOYD GEORGE
Gigantic War Looms j
World Fails to Use Jus.
tice, He Claims.
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, October 25.-Former
Premier Lloyd George thinks that the
most terrible war in the world his
tory is threatened unless the nations
make up their minds to seek justice
and protection from established right
and not from force.
The growing zeal for arbitration
which was displayed by the smaller
nations at the recent Assembly Of the
League Of Nations is due to fright
over 1.-The snarling sounds which dis
turb the nerves Of Europe" the wal
premier declared in an address under
the auspices Of the League of Nations
Union.
The peace Of 1919 left some ragged
ends that need adjusting. he declared
or they ''are bound to irritate and in
flame the canker."
Treaty Interpretations.
The great source of peril to the
peace of Europe, he asserted, was in
too harsh an Interpretation of treaties
or in failure to give an honest effect
to clauses in them which impose obli
cations on victorious nations.
He said he referred particularly tC
"the wholesale defiance" of provisions
for protecting racial and religious
minorities in annexed territories and
the continued occupation of the
Rhineland.
But above the causes of disturbance
Lloyd George declared, was "the fla
grant disregard Of promises given in
reference to disarmament" Since the
military strength of the allied nations
was more formidable now than in
1914, he continued, it would thwart
any attempt on the part of the Lea
que to deal with certain questions
Amy dispute, he asserted, which would
involve the surrender of any advan
tage enjoyed by a fully armed nation
would lead to desire on that ma
tion's part to avoid arbitration.
Breach of Faith.
This continued existence of large
armaments was q breach of faith, he
charged, on the part of nations "whc
entered the war to uphold the sanctity
of treaties
AS a source Of permanent anxiety y
Europe always has the Balkans with
which to reckon, he pointed out.
Russia, he argued. should be read
mitted to the fraternity of nations, be.
cause she might emerge from her
present internal troubles "the most
redoubtable country on earth"
The recent naval disarmament con.
ference was termed by the former
premier ''an incalcuable calamity to
the cause of peace and good WILL"
Evening star., 1927-10-25
NEW SEIZURE PLAN
FORL|QUOR URGED
Camp Wants Confiscation of
All Contraband Without
Court Action First.
Nv the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Revision of customs regulations to
permit confiscation, without first OBJ
tanning court action, of contraband
liquors of any value has been sug
Rested by Commissioner Earnest w.
Camp of the Customs Bureau to a
mouse ways and means subcommittee.
Yesterday he told the subcommittee
which is inquiring into administration
Of the customs service that existing
regulations permitted confiscation
without court action only of property
not in.excess of 81 900 in value nd
argued that, regarding liquors, this
limitation should be removed.
May Modify Suggestions.
Mr.. Camp explained that his sug-
,Eestions had not been passed upon by
She Treasury Department, which
Knight see fit to modify them.
Another recommendation, while not
referring specifically to prohibition
enforcement, would make it more diff
cult to land liquors from rum-runners
by requiring all vessels leaving Ameri-
can ports with trans-shipments to
obtain a manifest of their cargoes.
The commissioner also urged re-
vision of the customs regulations to
enable agents, in determining the
value of an imported article, when
no foreign, export or United States
value could be ascertained. to appraise
the article according to the value Of
'that most nearly comparable.
Seen as Economic Plan
This, it was explained by committee
members, would eliminate the neces.
sity of sending agents abroad to deter
mine production costs, a practice that
has caused some opposition from for
eign governments.
Another proposal would eliminate
the requirement of authority for the
Secretary of the Treasury in demand.
ing access to the books of foreign ex-
porters in the event of a controversy
and. should access be refused, to place
ian embargo against the exporter S
fproducts. Mr.. Camp suggested the
Secretary be given authority to in.
crease the tariff duty by so per cent
IN such cases.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
BARKER DUE FOR TRIAL.
Alleged Bad-Check Passer to Be
Brought From Milwaukee.

Detective Ira Keck, member of In
spector Pratt's bad check squad, start
ed this afternoon for Milwaukee, Wis.
to bring back Frank F. Barker, 25
years old, under arrest there on
charges Of having passed several al
legged worthless checks in this CITY.
Barker, resident of Covington, Ky,
and member of the National Reserve
Oficers' Association, was arrested at
the instance OF Col. Leroy Smith of
TINS city, who was in Milwaukee to
address meeting of that organization.
Identification of Barker was made
comparatively easy. it is stated. as he
is feet inches tall. 1t is charged
the defendant passed checks for sums
totaling 1855, some upon friends and
others upon hotel keepers.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
TREAT FOR VETERANS.
"Chrysanthemum," Japanese Op
eretta, Tonight at Reed Hospital.

''Chrysan a Japanese op-
eretta. which was given recently at
the City Club, under the direction of
Paul Bleyden, will be repeated at Wal
ter Reed Hospital tonight. Those in
the cast include Helen V. Harper, Le-
ona Anthony, Marguerite b. Venable,
Margaret Morgan. Frances Fallon,
Selma S. Klein. Mary v. Doyle, Mil
dred Brashears, James A. Barr. Mae
Harris Clarke, Anita Tilley, Margaret
Hoover. Evelyn Burns, Margaret
Blount, Shuta Meyst, Jane Bates,
Mariana Machen, Jane Lynn, Frances
Staley, Charlotte N Keefer, Margaret
Parker. Ana Maria Sherwell, Chris
tine Block, Marian Hartley, Mildred
T.. Potter, Loretta Clark, Dorothy
Stansell, Audrey Stansell, Adelaide
Shuler, Virginia Ludlow, Helen A.
Ryan, Frances Sherer, Alice Sherer,
Dorothy England and Anita v. Muel.
Ter,
Evening star., 1927-10-25

Current magazines for Uncle Sans
fighting men in Nicaragua are desired
by the District Chapter of the Amer.
lean Red Cross, it was announced to-
day, with the statement that Mrs.
Mason Gulick, wife of Col. Gulick,
commanding the Marines in that coun-
try, will leave the United States to
join her husband on November IL.
Mrs. Gulick made her appeal yester-
day. asking that reading matter be
left at the chapters headquarters. S21
Sixteenth street. This will be taken
Evening star., 1927-10-25
RADIO AS POLICEMAN.
German Delegation at Farley Sug
gests International Service.

By the Associated Press.
Radio as an international policeman
has been suggested by the German del.
egation to the International Radio
Conference here, which proposed that
o. wave be reserved for the exchange
Of criminal information among coun.
fries.
The Germans said that such a rec.
bmmendation was made by the In.
fernational Criminal Police Confer
ence at Amsterdam last July.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
u. S. POSITIONS OPEN.
Civil Service Commission An
nounces Six Vacancies.


nounces Six Vacancies.
The Civil Service Commission today
announced open competitive examina-
tions to fill vacancies in the following
positions:
Assistant scientific aid at $1,000 a
year; Junior scientific aid at $3.50 a
year,, under laboratory apprentice at
81, ,140 year.
Junior patent examiner. Patent OF.
flee. at $1,s60 year.
Assistant educationist (foreign edu.
cation), Bureau Of Education, at 50, 400
a year.
Assistant surveyor craftsman. For
est Service, Department of Agricul-
ture, at $1,000 to 1880 q year.
Full Information and application
banks may be obtained from the oflice
Of the eemmission, 1724 B. stfssts ,ssr:s1(
Evening star., 1927-10-25
BRITISH FLYERS ON WAY.
Hydro-Airplane Squadron Hops Off
From Naples.

NAPLES, Italy. October 25 @.-,
The British squadron of four hydro
airplanes. now on 25,000-mile flight
to the Far East, took off from Naples
today for Brindisi, the next leg Of
their Plymouth-to-Singapo flight.
The plane was here several days be.
ing oysrhaulsd. ~. s..F f4s as ssssssasx
Evening star., 1927-10-25
MRS. MARSHALL FIELD ILL

PARIS. October % LF).-Mrs. Mar.
shall Field of Chicago. who has been
on here. was said TO have passed bet
ter day by attendants at her hotel
hpartment today.
Mrs. Field slept longer than usual,
but is still very weak, ii was said.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
SETTLEMENT LOOMS.
Julian Oil Firm Seeks to Dissolve
Receivership.

hecelVersn1p.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 25 up.
The Examiner today says a settle.
ment Of the financial difficulties Of the
Julian Petroleum Corporation, which
crashed several months ago because
OF a 500. 100000 overissue in it's capi.
tai stock, is being worked out and that
it is hoped to dissolve the receiver
ship within As days.
Quoting S. c. Lewis, president Of
the concern, who is under indictment
in connection with it's failure, and who
has been taking a leading part in the
rehabilitation negotiations, the Elk.
aminer says the refinancing plan in.
wolves the floating of a $10,00O,0 900
bond issue and a $2,500,000 bank loan
on the concerns assets, which are
believed to be worth SS0.000.0o0 to
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Evening star., 1927-10-25
GOVERNOR PROBING
/. v. v. MINE STRIKE
Colorado Executive Person
ally Inquiring Into WaIkout
That Tied Up Coal Fields.
By the Associated Press.

DENE TR, Colo, October 25-Gov.
w. III. Adams today started a personal
investigation of the Colorado coal
strike called by Industrial Workers of
the World, which has tied up several
fields.
Gov. Adams went directly to Walsen-
burg, headquarters of the l. w. W.
and center Of the southern district,
where the walkout cut production to
about one-third of normal. Whether
he would officially recognize the /. W.
w. at conference the organization
claimed he had granted was undecided.
The governor denied he had granted
the conference, but said his Office was
always open to any one.
More Pickets on Duty.
AS the strike entered it's eighth day
/. w. w. leaders mustered more man
and woman pickets in an effort to close
this area % mines have shut down and
ating in the Walsenburg district. In
the area 25 mines have shut down and
the remaining 15 have continued with
only small part of normal forces.
Predictions that the strike would
spread in the northern field were sup.
700 more miners voted to suspend
work today. This would cripple coun.
ty mines in addition to the Boulder
properties, idle since the walkout
started.
Strike Organizers Make Boast.
I. w. w. organizers declared that
the strike was the most effective in
the history of the State, despite the
action of United Mine Workers in at
tempting to remain at work.
| Commissi ners of Huerfano County,
| in southern Colorado, who recently
agreed to handle the situation without
| State aid, threatened TO ask Federal
examination of strikers with a view to
deporting those unable to show citizen.
ship papers.
| A large percentage Of the strikers
are of foreign descent. Authorities
estimate more than 40 per cent are
| MeXicans.
Evening star., 1927-10-25
Reserve Corps Commissions.

Commissions In the Reserve Corps
Of the Army have been issued by the
War Department to Joseph A. Walsh,
1413 Taylor street, as captain of En-.
gineers; Raymond Davis, State De.
partment, as first lieutenant of En-.
gineers: William r. Longest, 1439
South Carolina avenue southeast, as
a second lieutenant of Infantry, and
Matthew III. Schrenk, Cherrydale, Va,
as second lieutenant of Infantry.
Evening star., 1927-10-25

A German company will build two
new railway lines In Turlssys &xgassl
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
DEATH HALTS
SANITY Case

LOCKHART, Tex, Oct. 26.-LR-
Death put a temporary halt to the
sanity trial of A. V. Millikin, SEN
fenced to el%ectrocution for the kill
ing Of Mrs. Virginia Petty Of San
Antonio, IN district court here today,
but the work of rival counsel went
on.
Late last night, after the entire
jury had been ordered to 20 to Red
Rock today with Juror Holland Page
for the funeral Of Pages grand
mother, the state got busy. First,
District Attorney Fred Blundell con-
ferred at length with two young wo-
men and a man who said they were
from Austin and later left for an
on. of town destination that he would
not announce.
Then Millikin was examined in his
jail cell by Doctors A. A. Ross, W.
II. O'BanIon and Edgar Smith, all
Of Lockhart and alienists for the
state. The examination undoubtedly
will draw fire from Clarence ]. CHM
and William Z. Hawkins. defense at
torneys, who have refused to allow
physicians 10 examine Millikin I'M
less defense attorney is present.
What immediate plans defense has
could not be learned.
The jury IS due back into Lock
hart about noon and court was to re-
convene at 1880 this Afternoon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
Attorney Lauds
Bankers Virtues

HOUSTON. Tex, Oct. 26.APt-
Bankers tread a path Of legal peril.
and if they stumble is il not usual
ly because Of malfeasance, but for
acts Of inadvertent omission, Silas
Strawn of Chicago, president Of the
American Bar Association said here
today in the only address before the
American Bankers Association meet
ing.
And yet. he concluded. after citing
many court decisions, some OF them
strange to laymen's ears and Others
which followed intricate by-ways Of
business and OF the law, considering
the volume Of business done, the
daily temptations 70 which they are
subjected and the many opportunities
10 make mistake. / submit that cases
IN which bankers have been held
liable, civilly OF criminally, are sur
prisingly few.
Therefore, may we not conclude
that the banker in the conduct Of his
business as well as in his daily life.
Is generally well within. not only
the civil but the moral law"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
REYNOSAF FIRE
RAzES SALOON
Cabaret And Dance
Hall Fire Causes
$4,000 Loss
Especial to The HERALD

HIDALGO, Oct. 26.-Loss of SIC, 900
was reported here Wednesday in .
spectacular early morning fire which
RACED one of the largest restaurants
and cabarets in Reynosa, Mexico.
across the Rio Grande from here, and
for a while threatened the greater
part of the city.
Night watchmen discovered the
blaze about three o'clock and sound
ed an alarm with their revolvers,
firing more than a hundred shots,
according to residents.
The city was alarmed, the report
spreading that an armed battle was
taking place in the plaza
Famed by a brisk breeze tha
Valencia" cafe was reduced 70
ashes about twenty minutes after the
fire was discovered.
The cabaret which burned was one
of the tourist show places of the
city, and vas equipped with luxuri-
Gus furniture all Of which was de-
stroyed, according 10 reports to the
police investigating.
Several parties in the cabaret al
most ended in disaster, as the fire,
apparently ignited from the outside.
was not discovered until a huge
sheet of flames sent one wall crash
ing into the room. Fifteen to twenty
persons escaped uninjured.
Hundreds Of residents Of nearby
houses removed their belongings
several blocks away as the fire
threatened.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
The Markets

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. 26sOF-
Several railroad shares were In b
lead Of another rise at the opening
OF today's stock market Chesapeake
and Ohio began the day four points
higher and Missouri Pacific and Erie
4 point or SO each. DUPONT scored
3 n overnight gain Of 4 Ia and Gen
eral Electrir 2.
General Motors, responding to re-
cord breaking earnings, opened with
a block of $4,000 shares from 1873 to
1873 1-2, against $50 rs at the close
last night. Numerous other shares
Of various classification moved for
ward in the face of q rather bearish
tinre in some Of the overnight news.
A decrease in the crude oil produc-
ton was partially offset by reports
by some companies Of declining IN
come. The decrease in third quarter
earnings Of U. S. Steel Corporation
was reflected by a point drop in steel
common soon after the opening.
General Motors fell below its open
ing before the first half hour was
over. international shoe had an early
jump Of 2 points, Case T~hreshing
Machine 3 IL and Philadelphia Com
pany and international Harvester 3
each. Several dividend paying rail
roads were again in demand, notably
New York Central, Atehison, Lacka-
wanna and Illinois Central. Wabash
soon made up part Of yesterdays
sharp drop and Tobacco, Chemical
and packing issues were included in
the early list Of advances. An over
night drop Of 8 Ia to 1888 1-2 cents
in German marks stood out in the
/ easy foreign exchange opening, de-
mand sterling ruling around s4.S6 SIS
| and French francs above 3.92 cents.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
IN
Rangers and Customs
Officers In Party;
Enjoin Managers
Especial 10 The Herald.)

EDINBURG, Oct. 26.-Temporary
injunction restraining Helen A.
Haines and j. c. Lambert from OPP
Grating any kind Of gambling devices
in the roadhouse of which they are
managers on the highway near San
Juan his been granted by Judge Hood
Boone Of the 93rd district civil court
to Galloway Calhoun, assistant at
torney general.
This action was taken following a
raid on the place, known as the
Screen Parrot Sunday night by
Rangers Lite Townsend, Wheatley
and Hightower. and Customs Inspect
or Marcus Hines of Mercedes, act
ing under instructions from Gov
ernor Dan Moody and Attorney Cen
eral Claude Pollard.
The injunction was granted upon
the testimony Of the raiding officers
that gambling was going on Mt the
roadhouse at the time of the raid.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
WALKING BUG

Continued from page one)
to Monterrey, as otherwise they
might have been shot.
The odyssey began last year in
YucAtan. when they were offered
scholarships if they walked to
Canada, the offer being made BY
General Amaro. according TO their
claim. They walked to Mexico
City, but rough trails and cactus
thorns convinced them that life
in the capital was preferable. They
remained. Their money was spent.
Came the ~wanderlust, and the
standing offer to complete their
journey to Cansda-the scholarship
cleaning at the end like the pot
Of gold under the rainbow. Ac-
companied by Fernando Ayala Sol
is, and Emilio Monreal, the two
set out for the north, styling them
selves the -Four M~usketeers." II
was on September Is that they LEI,
Mexico City. with letter from Jose
Lopes C%ortez, the mayor, and from
the newspaper Excelsior.
"En avantl En- avantl" they chant
ed. flinging gaseonnades at each
other. They crossed the Hidalgo
mountains, shivering with cold az
they erouched over their little fires.
They sojourned in small huts, ogling
the daughters Of the citizens. Then,
n arm afternoon, the four mus
keteers arrived in San Vicente. San
Luis Potosi.
soap de Dieul" they shouted. A
captain, with his detachment Of fed
eral troops, or the lookout for rebels
belonging to ex-general Lacero's
forces, took them in TOW.
Gentlemen" he said, permit me
10 introduce you to the stone wall,
an architectural feature commonly
seen in revolutionary Mexico"
But" they protested we are not
rebels" They showed him their pa
pers.
All" he said, "you are very for
trnate indeed. | propose that, Ii 3
leave Mexico, you do 20 by train a
the rebels r not quite 90 discrsm-
mating as we are, and IL they catch
you: - He shrugged his shoulders.
The four ~musketeers understood-
too we'll They left San Yieente
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26

for the sugar plantation Of Gel
Higo."
"Thalassol" they exclaimed one
morning, in imitation Of Xenophon
and his companions. "The sea, the
seal" They took a launch up the
Panuco river, and a coast steamer TO
Tampico. In that oil port, an en-
ragged relative of Ayala Soils caught
the truant.
The trio, mourning the loss of
Aramis, went by train to Monterrey.
But Porthos, Montreal, arising one
moonlight night to dreams Of glory,
5ethought himself of leading the ex-
petition in triumph to New York.
He seized the papers. Discovery.
Struggles. Outcries. Election.
So Porthos his face black with
thoughts Of vengeance, brought the
police around next day just as
Athos and D'Artagnan boarded the
train. All went before the judge. Just
what has happened. has never been
three days; Porthos, on the other
manu. QGliAtH Tic cCAl1LNGH
Meanwhile Athos and D'Artagnan
set out for Matamoros. Porthos now
reveals that the expedition was to
New York and not 70 Canada. He
wished TO arrive in Gotham because
his family lives there, Espinosa, ro-
mantle D'Artagnan, to follow a
sweetheart, and the others for va
rious
Further, Porthos says, the walkers
did not walk all the way. Part Of the
trip, from San Vicente 70 Higo, was
on m~uleback. Incidentally, they did
not comply with rRe promise they
made General Amaro, not to receive
g cent, he says; but asked authori-
ties, through the letters, for food
and shelter.
But Athos and D,Artagnan, In
Monterrey, see before them only the
wide, wide highway leading to Can
ada-and to their scholarship in the
school of engineering.
Porthos is going to New York via
Laredo-on the train.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
REBELS MEET
DEFEAT ACAN
Unconfirmed Report
Says Gomez Has
Made Escape,

VERA CRUZ, Mex, Oct. 26.-(PD-
Federal troops who have been en-
gagged in a battle of several days
with the rebel followers of General
Lozado, have driven the rebels from
their position on the slopes Of the
volcano of Orizaba, compelling them
to dispense.
The federals are under the COM
mand of General Aguirre, who has
been seeking to round up General
Arnulfo Gomez former presidential
candidate and one Of the chief lead
ers in the recent revolt.
1t is reported here, but without
confirmation, that Gomez has left
Mexico, embarking at some point on
the coast of Vera Cruz.