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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
FRENCH HOLIDAY TRADE
so PER CENT NORMAL
crop in Buying Due to Increase In
Value Of Franc without De-
cline in Prices.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, January Santa Claus
remembered the children of France as
usual last week, but very few grown
ups received as many of the tradi.
tional New Year gifts as they were
wont to in the past.
Purchases for yearend remem'
brances generally make quite an item
in the French family budget. The
rapid rise in the franc without any
fall in prices brought about tight
ening of purse strings this time, how
ever, the public being of mind to
wait for better values.
During the holiday season the
shops were filled with visitors as
much as in previous years. but bust
ness was so per cent below the turn
over of the previous season.
The working classes, relatively well
paid, went in strongly for retrench-
ment, as there was considerable
alarm over the laying off of artisans
in several Industries during Decem-
her. while in others there have been
prospects of temporary stoppages or
reductions in personnel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
BOYCOTT Is DECLARED
ON PARIS RED EMBASSY

Bv the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 1.-The Russian
chauffeurs of Paris with Czarist pref
erences-and they are numerous-have
declared a boycott on the Soviet en-
bassy In the Rue de Grenelle. Any
one asking to be taken to No. 70 in
that aristocratic left-bank street Is
liable to be deposited almost any
where en- route on the pretext that
the machine has run out of gaso
line, that a tire is leaking, or some
thing of the sort.
For time, persons having bust
ness with the Red Ambassadors staff
were able to get somewhere near the
embassy by giving numbers In the
70s, but the Muscovite chauffeurs
caught on to that trick. Nowadays,
the only sure way to approach the
embassy--in the event the driver is
a Russians to give the address of
the ministry of education, No. 10,
and then walk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02

was suspected of embarrassing his
employer
Next day the charge was officially
introduced at the palace. He was APP
palled to find the fiustered little man
he had shaken up and beloved at
was the President. Also he discovered
that the officer of the guard that took
the secret envoy" prisoner had gone
to the calaboose for ten days in pun
ishment. Still later. when the charge
and the President had become very
friendly, the American official felt
called upon to- assume the peacemaker
role in an impending revolutionary
crisis and set out into the back lands
to talk with the rebels, The Presi-
dent insisted on a body guard, who
appeared in the person of the recently
jailed officer.
Its all right" the President ex-
planned to the dubious American. He
bears you no grudge.
And besides; he's the best shot
in the army"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
First New Year
Washingtonian
Arrives at 1902

A boy born to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Epner Sawyer of 22l1 Naylor road
southeast. in Slbley Hospital. two
minutes past midnight. yesterday
morning, was probably the first
person to become native Wash
ingtonian in the year 1927. The
native population was also in
creased by. three additional visits
of the stork during the day.
The other births were a daugh-
ter born to Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert
S. Moore of zoos f. street south
west, at Columbia Hospital at
a m. yesterday: a son To Mr.. and
Mrs. John Joseph O'Donnell. 500
p street northeast. born in Sibley
Hospital at 1885, and a daughter
to Mr.. and Mrs Raymond Juncal,
Sis Cathedral avenue at 11:l5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
NEW NOVEL BY G0RKY
SOON TO BE PUBLISHED
"Decadence" Traces Family of
Factory Owners Through
Three Generations.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASsoC11ted Press.
LONDON, January IA new novel
by Maxim Gorky is to be published in
England this month. He calls 1t DE
cadence" and with his characteristic
cally mordant pen traces the fortunes
of family of Russian factory owners
through three generations.
First. there is the sturdy peasant,
who by his indomitable purpose Gre
ates the firm. and last there are his
grandchildren, whose shoulders are
not strong enough to bear the burden
of their inheritance
The chief character is Pyotr Arta-
monov, whose life is infinitely de-
scribed In relation to his family. to the
outside world and to his own inner
consciousness. "Decadence" begins in
the czarist times and covers the World
War, the Russian revolution and Dol.
shevism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Pupils Answers Original.

Answers received in response to a
questionnaire sent recently to 500
South Wales school children between
the ages Of 12 and Is brought out that
"the people OF the Steppes walk on
stills in order TO avoid the snakes"
the best about the Dutch is that they
give too little and ask too much" "a
carburetor Is place where they dance
all night" and that ut was st. Paul
who said there was no mean city, but
he preached in Greece, not Scotland"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Surgeon for Charleston Fans.

LONDON, January GP.-So many
are the complaints of Charleston
knees and Charleston ankles" de-
yeloped because of the strain of the
energetic dance. that c. B. Cochran
has retained the services of Wilfred
Smith. H11anipulative surgeon, for his
Charleston Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Wireless Pictures in China.

A German company has announced
that 1t Is erecting a wireless station al
Mukden, China, fer the purpose OF ex
perime nting with wireless photo
graphs, and when the trials are com
pleted another station will be estab
lished at Picking. Eventually all OF
the Far East will be covered, the an
nouncement saws
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Hollywood Wins German.

BERLIN, January l @.-Conrad
Veidt, popular German motion picture
star, who has just returned from
Hollywood, declared to the German
press that his two months abroad
were the happiest of his whole life.
He is proud of the fact that he was
the first Of the German movie stars
to reach Hollywood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02

More than 900 Jewish workers are
busy in building roads and construct
ing drainage work in the Hanifa
Bay development project in Pales-
tine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
SITUATION GROWING WORSE.
LawIessness at HankOw Increasing
Russians TO Evacuate.

SHANGHAI, April I tF)-"Situa-
ton growing worse steadily" said a
wireless report received here today
from Hankow. where riotous anti
foreign outbreaks occurred c~er the
week end.
From all accounts, lawlesSness in
Hankow is increasing, with apparent
" no effort to check 1t. The COM
mander of the United States angtZe
River patrol is pressing Americans
still in the city to hasten their evacua-
ton. Another japanese cruiser has
arrived.
japanese are leaving Hankow in
large numbers, 100 Germans are nego-
tiating to charter a steamer to take
them away, and the members OF the
Russian colony are making prepara-
tons for their departure.
At Ichang. further up the Yangtze
from Hankow. 100 Japanese. men,
women and children, have taken quar-
ters aboard gunboats and tugs be
cause of the threatening situation.
The British consuls and the re-
mainder Of the British communities
at Chungking, Ichang, Changsha and
Changing have been removed to
Hankow. This is in accordance
with the decision to bring all the
British gunboats out of the upper
Yangtze areas.
All the members of the Augustana
Synod Mission of the American
Lutheran Church are leaving China,
it was announced today by the Rev.
]. l.. Benson of New Haven, Conn,
the secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
DR.. SAMUEL ]. PORTER
is LENTEN SPEAKER

The doctrine of the cross is the doc
trine of beauty and glory, according to
Rev. DR.. Samuel Judson Porter, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church, VINO
spoke at the Lenten services at
Keith's Theater today. This doctrine
teaches us the glory of suffering, said
DR.. Porter.
zone tree above all others that grew
around Jerusalem has been remem-
bered," he said. This tree was hon
ored above all others when it was
made into a cross. 1t was debased
to an instrument of cruelty, and there
on the Savior was hung. Thus Jesus
became the Redeemer of Man and the
tree the radiant cross, the symbol OF
Christianity"
j. c. Duin. ir.. presided at to-
days meeting. Rev. W. G. Walte-
myer. pastor of st. Pauls Lutheran
Church. led the prayers. Or. Porter
spoke in place of DR.. Thomas r..
Green of the American Red Cross,
who was unable to attend. Chaplain
Axiom, L.. s. A., will be the speaker
at tomorrOws services. A. l.. Wells
will preside. Rev. J. ID. Buhrer Will
conduct the services.
Next week is Holy week The
speaker on Monday and TUESDAY
will be Bishop w. F.. Mcdowell and
on Wednesday and Thursday Bishop
James +. Freeman.
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Continued from First Page)
The text of the announcement OF
Minister MacMurrays report follows:
ut appears that permission was re-
quested by the competent Chinese To-
cal authorities on April s to enter
the diplomatic quarter to make a
search of certain private properties
(of the Dahlbank and the Chinese
Eastern Railway adjacent on the
West to the Soviet embassy, on the
ground that these places were known
to be headquarters of subversive
Soviet agitation.
1.-THE necessary authorization was
given by the senior minister in be-
half of the diplomatic quarter.
Went Beyond Authorization.
Shortly after IL o'clock on the
morning of April a raid on these
private premises was commenced by
members of the metropolitan police
force and by small body of support
ing troops. In the course of the raid
the Chinese, it appears, went beyond
the authorization and raided also the
compound of the former Russian le
private properties in question.
-Four Russians barricaded them
selves in a house with view to de-
Tending themselves with machine
gun and revolvers and set fire to VAR
ious papers and TO the house itself,
but were eventually overpowered
without using their weapons. There
was no fighting whatever and no SER
ious injury was sustained by either
side. A considerable number of Rus
sions were observed to escape over the
wall into the property of the Russian
embassy.
20 Russians Arrested.
$50 far as can be ascertained APP
proximately 30 Russians were reported
arrested and about 80 Chinese, includ-
ing prominent Communist named
Lii Tav-Chu. Considerable quantities
of propaganda and various documents
were reported seized
"A machiue gun, about 80 rifles and
a large but unknown quantity of re-
volvers, ALI with ammuniation, We're
reported found by the Chinese as also
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

Peter Cooper, pastor of the Herndon,
Va, Congrega tionalist Church.
Clagett was the first speaker on
the contestant program and he used
less than seven minutes of the al
lowed 10. His delivery was OF the
very quiet type, with few gestures,
and his voice was calm, with little
show of nervousness. Throughout
the period of his Grafton the audience
which crowded into the hall, making
it necessary for scores of listeners
to stand throughout the program,
was quiet and attentive, and when
the speaker had bowed his conclu-
sion applause reverberated heavily
within the walls.
Seeks to Become Lawyer.
Clagett is the son of former
Maryland judge, T. Van Clagett, ana
he is ambitious to follow the same
profession in which his father at
tanned heights-lsw. The son has not
yet decided upon his college, but he
said last night that he rather favored
the University of Virginia. With ms
first interscholastic victory yet fresh
within his grasp, Lansdale could not
discuss his future battles or his use
of the fruits of possible future
victories.
The orchestra of the Baden High
School played several selections at
the beginning of the meeting and
again while the ballots Of the three
Judges were being counted. Following
the announcement Of the victory OF
the representative of rival school,
the young musicians displayed a live
brand of sportsmanship by playing
a program of dance music for the en-
tertainment of contestants and sup
porters alike. Antony Nimmerrickter
directed the players in their concert
and dance program.
Lansdale Clagett must now face
Mark w. Woods of the Hyattsville
High School, William A. Loker of
the Leonard Hall School, John r.
Hardesty of the McDonough Institute
and the unknown victor of the group
contest that is to be held at Rock
vile tomorrow night in the Maryland
finals next week. The survivor of
that group will represent the Mary
land district in The Star finals May 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
COUNCIL |NDORSES
TRAFFIC CHANGES
Proposed "Pass-to- Right
Rule and Others O. KID
in Report.

The District traffic council in spe-
ciaI report to the Commissioners today
gave its Endorsement to the proposed
amendment to the District traffic code
which would permit vehicles to pass
either on the right or left.
The proposed amendment, together
with 80 others recommended by NJ.
Q. Eldridge. just prior to his demo
ton to assistant traffic director, were
submitted TO the council by the Com
missioners for considerable and re-
port. With few exceptions, the cuon-
ell approved all the changes.
The councils Endorsement OF the
passing to the right rule, the report
explained. was Influenced by strong
opinion that such a practice is now
generally engaged in. although it is
forbidden by regulation and no at
tempt has been made to enforce the
regulation for some time. In adopting
the new regulation, the council
pointed out that the commissioners
would "be only legalizing what is
now n common practice"
The commissioners do not plan t.
take action on any Of the proposed
changes until a new director of traffic
is appointed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07


may be equally advantageousto navi-
cation.
1T is understood and agreed that
while the canal so provided shall be
equally free to the vessels and traffic
OF the parties hereto, whether carried
in vessels Of the parties hereto or any
other vessels, that the said canals
shall be under the sole control and
supervision of the Canadian Depart
ment of Railways and Canals, as shall
also be the Welland Canal, notwith.
standing that the cost thereof shall be
borne by the parties hereto as here
inbefore provided.
In the concluding article the United
states Is asked to agree to stop the
diversion of water through the Chi
cago drainage canal and, at its own
expense, to install dams and spillways
or other devices to regulate, at the
most desirable navigable depths. the
waters OF Lakes Erie, Huron, Michi-
gan and Superior, with any tribu-
taries thereof that may be used as
reservoirs for low water relief"
Copyright. 1927.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
CITIZENS COUNCIL
TO STUDY BUDGET
Members Indicted Into Of
fice-Workmen'S Compen-
sation to Get Attention.

The newly-elected Citizens Advisory
Council was indicted into Office today
and proceeded Immediately to map out
program of activities for the Sum
mer. The two ma ior questions placed
on the calendar are the budget esti
mates for the next fiscal year and
reconsideration of the Fitzgerald and
Underhill workmen's compensation
bills.
The inaugural ceremonies were held
in the office of Commissioner Proctor
l.. Dougherty in the presence of the
Board of Commissioners and a number
Of former members Of the council
Daniel f. Garges, secretary TO the
Board of commissioners. administered
the voluntary oath of Office to the
councilmen.
Yaden Lauds Colleagues.
James G. Yaden. chairman of the
council, in introducing the members
to the commissioners declared that
he believed the new council is com
posed of "a very conscientious, capable
and fearless" group Of men.
"The councilmen," he said, are
men of good. sound judgment and
discretion. and there is not a rubber
stamp among them"
AS chairman of the Board of Com:
missioners. Mr. Dougherty pledged
the cooperation of the city executives
to the council and paid tribute to the
assistance given the Commissioners
by the two former councils
A brief organization meeting FOX
lowed the inaugural ceremonies.
Edwin s. Hege was '.imously elect
strong was chosen to fill newly
created position of assistant recorder
and treasurer.
Meets April 81.
Chairman Yaden urged the council
men to study thoroughly the t1tZ-
gerald and Underhill workmen's COM
pensation bills with a view to making
a report to the new Congress. The
retiring council indorsed the F1tz-
gerald bill, and its.action provoked
storm of criticism from the business
interests of the District, who had
aligned themselves with the Commits
sioners in supporting the underh1ll
measure.
George c. Havenner. who is begin
ming his third term as a member of
the council, was appointed chairman
of a committee to study the budgetary
estimates for the next fiscal year and
to recommend a tentative total OF APP
preparations for the consideration of
the council. A vote of thanks was ten
dered Harry n. Stull retiring recorder,
for his work. The council set April
81 as the date for its next meeting.
The new council is composed OF
James G.. Yaden, chairman; Edwin s.
Hege, recorder; Kenneth p. Arm
strong. assistant recorder and treas
urer; George c. Havenner. George r.
Wales, Robert r. StrObel, Col. Henry
G. Newcomer, DIR. George II. Richard
son and George I. Beason.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

tremendous number of Kuomintang
Chinese Nationalist) flags. Soviet
flags with Chinese inscription, and
banners for demonstration purposes.
Search of the premises was still being
carried on on the morning OF April ~
Warning Is Issued.
SHANGHAI, April GP).-The So.
Wet consul general, Wilhelm +. Linde.
today called on the Norwegian consul
general as dean of the consular corps
here and announced that IL the Soviet
consulate in Shanghai was raided as
were the buildings attached to the en-
bassy in Picking yesterday he would
hold the consular body responsible.
SPECULATION is RIFE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
SPECULATION is RIFE.
London Believes Moscow May Con-
slider Raids Act of War.

LONDON, April LP,.-Diplomatic
circles in London were specializing to-
day on the consequences of yester-
days raid on buildings attached to
the Soviet embassy in Picking by sol
diers of the Northern Army of Mar
shall Chang Tso-Lin.
1t was thought that strong action
might be taken by Moscow, the
guesses including the possibility that
the Soviets would treat the incident
as an act Of war and demand repara-
ton or otherwise attack Chang Tso-
Lin through .Manchuria. $3.50
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and Tor The Sunday Star not
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as vet occurred, Commercial Attache
Arnold advised the Commerce de-
partment by cable today, The Shang-
hal situa tion,g he said, continues very
uncertain.
Mr.. Arnold said there are no indi-
cations OF any disruption of commune
cations between Shanghai and foreign
ports, and no foreign trading firms
have withdrawn from the field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
BAND CONCERT.
TOMORROW

BY the United States Marine Band
Orchestra. at the Marine Barracks,
$50 o'clock, William H. Santelmann,
leader: Taylor Branson. second leader.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
EFFICIENCY KEYNOTE
OF REGIONAL SAVINGS
BANK FARLEY HERE

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CANADIANS TO ASK
TRADE TREATY WITH
ST. LAWRENCE PACT

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Flag Forms Background.

The auditorium in which the speech
makers did battle is set deep in the
basement of the building fitting
arena, it seemed, for combat to the
finish. The stage at one end of the
rectangular room was decorated with
urns of fresh-cut flowers, and a large
American flag. hanging respectfully
undraped, formed a background
against which the young expounders
of the Constitution stood during their
orations.
Rev. J. C, M. Shrewsbury, rector
of the Marlboro Episcopal Church,
was the chairman, and in his opening
address he paid tribute to the idea
of the National Oratorical Contest
and the purpose which it accom-
plishes-the establishment and fos-
tering of greater knowledge and UNI
Outstanding and consequently more
respect for the Constitution of the
United States.
The judges. whose compound de-
cision gave the Clagett boy his vic
tory, were w. A. Coombe, practicing
attorney of Washington and a resi-
dent of Clinton, Md; Rev. George G..
Culbertson, minister of the Ballston,
Va. Presbyterian Church, and Rev.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

from either of these, as he is Grating
on The Benefits of the Constitution, "
Miss Lucas will be the first speaker
on the contestant program. Dwight
Brown, second Miss Pattie, third and
John Bell, fourth.
A cash award of 800, the gift of
The Star. will accompany the cham
pionship of Virginia as the prizes of
battle, and, in addition, a place in
The Star finals will be included. Each
of the speakers on the program has
already earned an engraved certificate
and the winner Of tonight's contest
will merit another line of engraving
on the parchment to signify additional
nOnOrS won
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
Winner Only Is.

Lansdale Clagett. the winner OF the
fourth group contest of the Maryland
district, held last night at the Marl-
boro High School, is Is years old and
a Junior in the Marlboro School. His
subject, "F'ranklin's Contribution to
the Constitution" with the delivery he
afforded it. gave him a victory over
three spokesman from rival Maryland
schools.
Those who were conquered In a
rather close battle were James IL.
Shreve, jr., of the Surrattsville High
School, who spoke on THE Meaning
Of the Constitution; Eleanor Hartnell
Of the Brandywine High School, whose
subject was 'Lincoln's Contribution
to the Constitution" and Robert II.
Duvall of the Baden High School. who
competed with an Grafton on "Jeffer-
son and the Constitution"
Like so many of the group contests
between rival schools of a vicinity
within the contest territory of The
Star, the meeting last night was a
community affair. For half an hour
before the starting times o'clock
all paths leading to the little hill on
which the school building is built
were crowded with men and women
and children bound for the oratorical
h
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
SOVIET-PEKING BREAK
PREDICTED AFTER RAID
IN NORTHERN CAPITAL

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TROUBLE BREWING
AT HANK0W, H0UGH
REPORT INDICATES

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