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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
SACCO UPRISING
LED BY STRIKERS
French Envoy Says "RabbIe''
Dominates Paris Demon
Stration.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, August 31.-The
Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations in
Paris were for the most part the work
of striking shoemakers ready to seize
any opportunity to make disturb
ance, said Paul Claudel. French Am
bassador to the United States. who
arrived on the liner Paris today.
He asked Americans to discriminate
between the acts of Frenchmen and
the acts of the Communists in France,
whom he characterized as "a foreign
rabble" There is no foundation for
the belief, he said, that the American
Legionnaires will encounter any"un-
pleasantness at the hands of the
French people during their convention
in Paris.
1.-THE Communists" he said, "are no
more French in France than they are
Americans in the United States, and
we are not responsible for their
actions, although we do all we can to
curb them"
Robert Lecour -Gayet. finance at.
tache, who accompanied the Ambas-
sador, said that the proposed new
French loan of S100,000000 is as vet
but conjecture. but will undoubtedly
be sought as refunding issue to
cover the loan negotiated by j. F..
Morgan g. Co. in 1920.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31

clans, stage hands and motion picture
operators and Los Angeles theater
managers declared today that propos.
ais and counter proposals exchanged
in connection with a strike called for
tomorrow had been without tangible
effect
Leaders Of both factions said they
had made their final propositions, but
declared themselves hopeful that new
conferences might be called today at
which an agreement might be reached.
Under the terms of the new con-
tracts being offered to the theater
owners stage hands receiving $50 to
$50 a week are asking increases of
from SIS to $40, with an additional in
crease for overtime and also a six-day
week. Musicians paid $68 to $40 q
week ask 10 per cent increase and a
day off each week. Operators receiv-
ing $45 to $50 ask SIS to $40 increases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
CASTELL is RETURNED.
Former Policeman Charged With
Retaining Badge and Pistol.

Edward Joseph Castell. former
Washington policeman, arrested in
Akron, Ohio. several days ago on
a charge of having failed to surren-
der his service badge and pistol last
year when he Is alleged to have de-
serted the force. was returned here
this morning by Detective Thomas J.
Sweeney.
Castell was arrested In Akron by
Detective Garner Scrivener, broth.
err Of the late Detective Arthur B.
'Scrivener of this city. He declared
he gave the two pieces of his equip
ment to a friend to turn in. but
records OF the department failed to
show that the friend did as re-
quested. The case will be heard in
Police Court tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
Would Annul Marriage.

Annulment of marriage is asked in
II petition filed today in the District
Supreme Court by George Bebaklis,
1402 Pennsylvania avenue. against
Amelia Pfeiffer. otherwise known as
Bebaklis. He declares that the de-
PENDANT was already married and had
not been divorced when she went
the marriage ceremony with
him in Baltimore, August IS, 1924.
F. Regis Noel and Stanley
Konopka appear for the husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
HELD ON TWO CHARGES.
Myer Weinstein Accused Of Push.
ing Mans Head Through window.

Myer weinstein, 90 years old. a
bondsman. residing at 1888 NJ street.
was arrested last night for engaging
in fight with Harry Gilmore Of 213
Fourth street southeast, and was
charged with disorderly conduct and
destroying private property.
It is alleged that the argument
started over the remark one of them
made, and Weinstein is said to have
pushed Gillmore's head through a
plate-glass window at 1926 NJ street.
The case was continued until to-
morrow as Gilmore Is in Gallinger
Hospital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
CHINA DROPS RATE RAISE.
Increase in Port Dues on Foreign
Ships Abandoned.

Official confirmation of the aban-
Comment by Chinese Nationalist
authorities of their attempt to impose
a so per cent increase in port dues
on foreign ships arriving at Shanghai
reached the State Department today
from Consul General Cunningham.
Whether the abandonment of this
tonnage surtax forecasts also aban-
donment of the projected general in
crease in customs duties at Shanghai.
against which Americans and other
foreign business interests have pro-
tested, Is still in doubt. The customs
increase was scheduled to become
effective tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
AUTO STRIKES TREE.
Crowded Off Road Near Ford in
Park LaIly in Morning.

Crowded Of the roadway of Blagden
avenue near the ford in Rock Creek
Park by another machine. an automo-
bile operated by William j. Brown of
1909 Decatur street crashed into a
tree and was demolished early this
morning. resulting in injuries to
Brown.
Brown was picked up by passing
motorist and taken to Garfield Hos
pital where he was treated for cuts
about the head and body. His con-
dition is not serious.
The machine responsible for the ac-
cident failed to stop. Police of the
tenth precinct are searching for 1t.
having good description furnished
by Brown,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
TRIO FLEE POTOMAC JAIL,
Gate Said to Have Been, Left Open
as officer Answers Call.
Special Dispatch to The star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
POTOMAC, Va, August 31.-Three
negroes, all of whom are from New.
ark, N. j., escaped Jail here early this
morning, when officer C. A. Pettigrew
is said to have left the jail's main
gate open to answer a call A fourth
William Caldwell of Washington, es.
capped, but he was taken into custody
at his home by District of Columbia
police.
Henry Gowdy, Lewis Gowdy and
Romell Dobson. all under 81 years old.
charged with stealing automobile parts,
are the missing prisoners. Caldwell
was serving three months for alleged
violation of the prohibition law. and
an additional 80 days for escaping
while working as a "trusty."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31

"Non-spillable' checker boards have
been invented, the checkers being
magnetized, and will move only when
propelled by hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31

Soma" the recently invented mate.
rial of paper composition, will prob.
ably be used extensively in the max.
ing of clothes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
CHICAGO THEATER
ROW DEADLOCKED
Owners and Emp! yes Both
Refuse to Make Offers Look
ing to Compromise.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 31.-America' S
second largest city remained virtually
without movies today with theater
)wners and union operators deadlocked
in their dispute over two of the opera
tors.
No settlement was in sight as the
shutdown of the theaters moved into
the third day, with SIS, 100000 in thea
ter property and $4,000 movie en-
ployes idle.
Only one low-priced movie open in
the loop and a scattered few neigh
borhood houses kept the lockout from
being 100 per cent throughout the
metropolitan area. 1t was pointed out,
however, that even these would be
forced to close if film exchanges re-
fuse to distribute any more films. To
prevent this, the union prepared to
seek Federal injunction against the
exchanges on the ground they would
be restraining trade by not distribut.
ing the films.
Two more theater chains Joined the
lockout last night and the Chicago
Exhibitors Association today was
united in what it's leaders have called
an attempt by the operators to die
tate" theater policy.
Both Refuse to Compromise.
Neither the theater owners nor the
union operators have made any peace
move, both sides declaring there can
be no compromise.
The stage hands and musicians
unions, included in the lockout direct
ed against the operators, also have
made new working and wage demands
of the owners, but no agreements have
been reached.
The closing of the theaters followed
strike of operators in Orpheum Cir.
cult houses, after two operators had
been cut from staff of four at one of
the theaters. The other theaters join
ed the Orpheum Circuit in declaring
the lockout. rF
The following were estimates of the
figures involved:
Theaters idle-350.
Total seats-373, 900.
Usual daily patronage-400.0 900.
Daily loss of revenue-$225,0 900.
Value of property--$75, 000, 900.
Employees affected-25.000.
HOPE SEEN IN LOS ANGELES.
LOS ANGELES, August 81 R.-
Both representatives of union muSi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31

LOS ANGELES, August 81 R1.--
Both representatives of union must
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Perfection Oil Cook Stoves, 80
inches high, with three burners.
without cabinet, G16 S0
$3.50. With cabinet YOO
The Reliance Blue Flame
Wickless Oil Cook
Stove, with two burn * II
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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-03-18

above the usual cost in Great Britain.
This means that before the war an
American steamship company had to
invest $4,000 in a 10,000-ton ship,
compared with $35O,0O0 for a British
company, a difference in investment
of 151a per cent meant an annual
handicap of $1O,850.
It does not seem possible that
American yards in the near future
will be able to build as cheaply as
their competitors. Shipbuilding from
year to year is Of insufficient volume
to justify mass production. The argu-
ment that the cost per unit in our
yards is less than in Great Britain,
because ships are turned out more
rapidly on this side of the Atlantic,
is bunkum from the shipowner's
standpoint. A premium on speed Of
output has occurred less than half a
dozen times in the last so years.
It appears that little change in the
fundamental factors affecting the
profitableness of our shipping from
the economic point Of : view can be
confidentially expected in the next
few years. What may or should hap
pen in the political field, is, as Kip
ling is fond of saying, another
story"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-03-18
Do You Know This Man?

"HE charming old farm had
been one of the show-places
of the country side. But when
the neighbors passed it last fall they
shook their heads obviously. The
consensus of opinion was that the
new owner was lazy, worthless
fellow. This was not so. He had
merely entered a field of endeavor
new to him and had had no idea of
the variety of things a successful
farmer must know.
He had not known of the great
destruction waged by insects and
fungi and when he did discover
the inroads made into his crops
and ostensible profits, he became
panic-stricken, sprayed violently
and used the wrong kind of spray.
His crops were beset with sucking
insects and he used stomach solu-
tions, which are fatal to chewing
insects but left these unaffected.
A kindly neighbor told linn of
his mistake, so he set about recti-
flying it. He secured we'll known
formula for home mixing and en-
deavored to make it himself. He
had not the proper apparatus and
the results of his initiative were not
overwhelming. Figuring that he
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-03-18

could make better concentrate on
t. e second try, he made another
and then another. All this time,
the insects were busily spreading
destruction.
It was finally borne in on him
that he was not chemist, nor was
he an entomologist, so he took his
troubles to experts and they told
him the following
His spraying and busting had
been bungled and until they were
handled in an accurate and profess
sional way his crops would continue
to deteriorate.
He was impressed with this and
had long talk with the local
dealer in insecticides and fungicides.
The dealer agreed to give him the
benefit of the expert advice that
was at his disposal. Together
they went to the orchard and de-
cided which were the harmful pests
that preyed upon the fruits and
how best to counterfeit them. In the
end, the dealer supplied the farm
er with the proper commercial
preparations that would destroy
both his insect and fungous
enemies.
The passing neighbors will have
a different spectacle next fall.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-03-18

United States Department of Agri-
culture.
For quick growth the "Bent"
grasses lead to date. These grasses
are SO called because they bend and
creep along the ground. They are
propagated from the nodes, or joints
of the stems, instead of by sowing
seed. The grass is chopped and
spread over prepared ground, COW
cred by. a thin layer of pulverized
soil and wet thoroughly. 1t is pos
sible to play on the greens SO pre-
pared within six or seven weeks.
Weeds Discouraged.
That the "Bent" grasses should be
more widely used for lawns and are
perhaps fully as well adapted for
this purpose as for golf courses, has
been established by government ex-
perts.
One important point in their favor
is that they lend themselves readily
to weed control. The acidity of the
soil. produced by properly applied
top dressings of ammonium sulphate
in soil and sand mixtures, does not
harm "Bent" grasses and does dis
courage plantain, dandelion and
crab grass as well as many other
lawn weeds.
The Importance of these expert
ments is emphasized by statistics
compiled by Floyd w. Parsons in
recent article in the Saturday Eve
ming Post. There are now 1884
golf clubs in the United States which
own their own property. The aver.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-03-18

Plant Research, YonkerS, N. Y.
suits of Experimental Treatment
Portion Untreated.
age size of each golf course is 145
acres. There are consequently about
$4,000 acres in all the golf courses
in the United States.
1t is estimated that golf club
lands in the United States are worth
$57O,0O0,O0O, and that club houses
and equipment are worth $15S,O0O,.
600, or a total of $728,O00,0O0 for
land, buildings, and equipment.
The membership in golf clubs
averages from $50 to 400. The small
clubs have about so caddies and the
large clubs $50. 1t is estimated that
there were 100000 caddies in the
United States and that last year
they received $l0,000,O00. This is
25 per cent more than the salaries
paid to all professional baseball
players in % leagues in this country.
Golf clubs in the United States
have more than l,75O,0OO members.
There are 5000 concerns making
golf accessories and of these 1910
confine all their energies to pro-
ducing golf supplies.
Last year Sl0,OOO,oo0 was spent
for golf balls and 100000 for
golf clubs. Sales of golf equipment
are larger than that for supplies in
any other sport in the United States.
In other words, golf has become
an industry representing a large
investment, so that the cooperation
of science in producing quick grow
ing resistant grasses for the spread
ing acres of fairways and greens
has real economic value.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-03-18

| tories of other countries. Ii DreaR
down occurred in the transport Of
wheat or meat to Great Britain the
British would be the first to com
plain. If break down occurred In
the transport Of toilet preparations
or automobiles, our exporters would
be likely to complain before the for
eign customer.
It might be said that country
which has been endowed literally by
nature with raw materials necessary
to an advanced Industrial develop,
ment cannot maintain, except at I'M
usual expense, merchant marine
large enough to carry so per cent OF
its total trade. The exploitation of
it's natural resources will be more
!, profitable than shipping ventures.
The expectation of primary commodi-
ties will unbalance it's trade, and the
profitableness of trafficking in these
articles, eagerly sought after by
other less fortunate countries, will
not make for that peculiar genius Of
management and economy needful for
the successful operation of ships on
multi-lateral voyages. In other words,
tramp ship operators will not be de-
veloped. Tramps are needed for
bulky materials and are usually oper-
ated by the country that must import
heavy raw materials and foodstuffs.
Until country has developed indus
trially to such an extent that a large
percentage of its manufactured prod
ucts must be exported, it is not likely
to develop it's shipping, and then not
for it's raw materials. The United
States is an example of a raw ma
terial exporting country, at least
three-fifths of the weight of our ex-
ports. belonging to this class. Spain
is another case. Imports Of that
country are about three-eighths of the
exports; large part Of the outward
movement is raw material-ore. Ar
gentina and other South American
countries are other cases in point.
Countries poor in natural resources
are forced into lines of activity which
do not pay so we'll as exploiting the
gifts supplied by nature; in the main
they enter the field Of international
trade and services. OF these activi.
ties, the shipping industry is inev.
itably one of the most important. The
return from the shipping of countries
poor in raw materials but advanced
industrially is equal to that obtained
from other ventures. 1t is necessary
for such countries to bring in bulky
raw materials which pay something
toward the expenses of a ships opera
tions and which consequently enable
lower outward rates to be made on
its finished products and a better
profit to be made from the transaction
as a whole. The United Kingdom
quite apart from it's geographic loca
ton, is an example. Exports from
the United Kingdom in 1918 amounted
to LOG, 100000 tons, Of which 76,000,00(
tons were coal. Imports totaled 55,
100000 tons. If the Continental Goa
trade is excluded, and it should be
because 1T is little more than coast
wise movement, the overseas move
ment was 57,3O0,000 tons outward ant
IS, 100000 tons inward. This balanced
trade made for economical operation
of ships and at the same time indi
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-03-18

VT7HAT grasses are best for
" golf courses and which re-
" spond most readily to treat
ment for the prevention and cure
of "brown patch" are questions an
swered by experiments that have
been in progress for some time at
the Boyce Thompson Institute for
Plant Research at Yonkers, N. Y.
The work so far indicates that the
Metropolitan Bent variety gives the
best results. DR.. C. r. Orion, who
has been making the experiments,
also states that the use of chemical
compound, chlorphenol mercury, APP
piled every two weeks with fertil-
izer, instead of being followed by the
fertilizer as has been the custom,
gives the best results in preventing
"brown patch" a blight attacking
both golf greens and lawns.
The experiments at the Boyce
Thompson Institute have been car
ried on for about two years on
specially prepared plot, and on the
adjoining Hudson River Country
Club links.
Seven varieties of grasses have
been planted in strips and different
chemical treatments have been ap-
piled in transverse strips marking
off comparative squares of turf. The
work being done by DR.. Orton is an
extension of previous experiments
made at the Boyce Thompson Insti-
tute by C. H. Godfrey, and Of the
pioneer work done in this line by
Doctors Piper and Oakley of the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-03-18

may be delayed; secrets concerning
them may be stolen. While these
points are susceptible of exaggera
ton there is some pith in them.
The United States has developed
economically to a point where good
sized merchant marine is necessary to
the success of it's foreign trade. The
domestic market for many of our
manufactures has not grown in pro
portion tc the enlarged output of our
factories. The surplus products must
be exported to save the home market
from decentralization. If our oversee
trade is to expand, regular steamship
services are needed for the punctual
and careful shipment Of goods, for the
convenience of buyers, and for the
protection of trade secrets.
To illustrate this point, the British
Board of Trade says that before the
war "the interests of German and
also of Dutch shipping were assisted
by the activities of two shipping asso-
Citations which collected from the
manifests particulars of all goods
brought to the United Kingdom and
there transshipped into German OF
Dutch vessels. One of these associa-
tons was established in Germany and
the other in Holland, the latter work
ing in close touch with the former.
The particulars collected included the
names Of the consignor and consignee,
whether or not the cost Of transship-
ment was included in the ocear
freight and so forth, and this infor-
nation made the basis Of canvass
at both ends for the traffic, with the
object of capturing 1t for Germany
and Holland to the benefit of the
manufacturers and Oh the ship own
ers Of the two countries respectively"
Many American exporters will testify
to the financial value Of protecting
trade secrets, and will agree that the
interests of our expanding trade de-
mand a certain amount of American
shipping.
1t is obvious that successful for
eign trade in highly competitive arti-
cles requires American banking and
insurance facilities az we'll as Ameri-
can ships for it's protection. The
whole process of foreign trade from
the factory to the purchaser abroad
should in large part be facilitated by
American institutions.
1t should be borne in mind that the
delivery-wagon argument does not
apply to tramp shipping or the car
riage of bulk commodities. Such
goods uniformly move in ship loads
at the lowest possible rates after
higgling in the market. The ships
of all countries compete for this trade
and sometimes sail in ballast half
way around the world to suit the
seasonal convenience of these COM
modities. One can hardly insist that
our wheat or coal Is Disseminated
against when the ships Of all coun
tries compete for the privilege o.
carrying them and offer, perhaps, the
sole surviving example Of free ant
unrestrained competition.
The necessity for these commodi
ties is usually so great that Other
countries must have them. In the
case of many manufactured articles
however, which approach the class o
luxury goods, desire for them mus
first be created and then they mus
be sold in competition with the fac
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-03-18
Making Gardens Beautiful

Gardens, like everything else in the
world, should be made with imagina-
ton as well as knowledge. The setting
out of plants, pots carefully concealed
as in a florists window, carries no real
thrill to the beholder There must
seem leisure in the loneliness and
permanency. In short, the beauty Of
a garden lies in looking lived in-by
dreams at least.-Arts and Decoration
Magazine.