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Evening star., 1927-03-31
CHANG DEMANDS
RECALL OF FOREIGN
TROOPS AND SHIPS
Refuses to Accept Respon-
sibiIity for Aliens While
Shanghai Forces Stay.
ADMITS ONLY 6 DEATHS
IN SMELLING OF NANKING
Powers Consider Action Against
Cantonese if Proposed Over
lures Are Refused,

BY the Associated Press.
Chang Kai- Shek, Cantonese mill
tary chief, today called for with
drawal of the foreign troops and
warships from Shanghai. The Ma
tionalists, he said. could not assume
responsibility for the safety OF the
foreigners in the settlements as long
as the present "intolerable condl-
tion" prevailed.
AS for the Marking incident, he
said, if full investigation fixed the
responsibility on the Nationapsl
forces, he was prepared to give fut
satisfaction, including indemnity to
the families of the victims.
Ships Shells Kill Six.
Chang said Chinese had beer
killed and Is wounded by the Anglo
American bombardment at Nanking
The majority of the casualties, ne
claimed, were among civilians.
Draft demands on the Chinese Ma
fionalists in consequence OF the anu
foreign excesses at Marking are un
der consideration by the powers, as
well as the steps to be taken In the
event Of their refusal.
Shanghai dispatches say Americans
and Britishers there see only two al
ternatives for the powers-either te
withdraw from the Yangtze Valley OF
take quick definite action.
Chinese have torn down and de
stroyed the American flag on the con
sulate at Chungking, in the middle OF
the Yangtze Valley, where anti-Amer
icanism is rife.
Stoned by Mobs.
The American residents have con
centrated near the waterfront and con
sular officials have moved their head
quarters to a gunboat.
Americans and Britishers reaching
Shanghai from Anking, Anhwei prov.
lnce, say they were attacked and
stoned by, Chinese before gaining the
safety of an American destroyer.
Eugene Chen, Cantonese foreign
minister, is expected to arrive In
Shanghai soon with the feported OBJ
feet Of demanding surrender Of the
foreign settlements there.
Evening star., 1927-03-31
SWEDISH CRISIS SEEN
IN RIVALRY IN BALTIC
Anglo-Russian Diplomatic Policies
Feared Likely to Overthrow
Stockholm Government.
By Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1927

BY Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927
PARIS. March 31.--Anglo- Russian n
diplomatic rivalry, with consequent
tension in the Baltic, is causing a
grave political crisis in Sweden. The
Swedish government is In danger OF
being overthrown on the naval policy
issue.
According to the government prof
ect. the Swedish navy by 1888 will
consist of armored cruisers, de
stroyers, 8 submarines, fast scout
ships and / airplane carrier, mostly
OF new construction. together with a
few older cruisers, torpedo boat de
stroyers and submarines for the de
fense OF Swedish interior waters
among the Isle nds.
The government, supported by the
Conservatives, desires not only to pro
tect Swedish neutrality in case Of g
new war, but to be able to defend
Sweden against possible aggression.
The Socialists and Radicals refuse
to admit the possibility of foreign ag
gression against Sweden and wish tc
reduce the building program. Unless
the government by compromise car
win greater support from the Center
1t is likely to be overthrown.
Evening star., 1927-03-31
PUBLIC WILL ESCAPE BURDEN
IN SHUTDOWN OF COAL MINES
With 100000 Tons in Storage and
Production Near Consumption, Tie-Up
Would Hit Only Miners and Operators.

porary agreements with their men.
These temporary agreements call for
continuance of the Jacksonville
wage scale.
Three years ago the Jacksonville
agreement was entered into. At that
time some 60 per cent of the coal pro-
duced came from union mines But
the Jacksonville agreement, with Its
comparatively high scale Of wages,
gave the non-union mines a great ad-
vantage when it came to getting con
tracts. They were able to underse!l
their union competitors. They pro-
ceeded to do SO, and the consequence
has been great development of non
union mines and many union mines
closed down or operating only part
time.
Another factor in the situation has
been the great development of hydro
electric power and the services of the
public utilities to the individual man.
ufacturers. Many of the manufac-
turers no longer rely on their own
coal piles. They get their power from
the utility corporations. The utility
corporations have increased their fa-
cilities for storing coal, until they can
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Evening star., 1927-03-31
District AutOists
Have Until 4:30
To Get New Plates

Owners of motor vehicles still
operating with 1926 tags have until
4:30 o'clock this afternoon TO pro-
cure the 1927 tags which under the
edict of the Commissioners must
be displayed on all machines to-
morrow. Despite the approaching
"deadline' on the old tags the de-
mand for 1927 tags today was
light.
There also was a lack of the
usual last minute rush of taxpay-
ers in the Office of Chatham NJ.
Towers, collector of taxes. I'm
paid tax bills will incur a / per
cent penalty tomorrow. Taxpay-
ers failing TO make "a return today
also will suffer a 20 per cent
penalty.
Evening star., 1927-03-31
April Fool Day to Bring Police Court
Employees Payless Rest Instead of Raise

Mr.. Dooley is not the only victim
Seventeen other employees will share
similar fates between now and the LIST
of July, when the fiscal year ends.
According to the depleted chest of Po.
lice Court, 1872 working days have to
be made up in this manner, amount.
ing to $840.
The judges today decided to allot
the three remaining jury trial days on
the first Mondays in April, May and
June, and these to be given to locked
up prisoners. The lack of money for
Congress,
Evening star., 1927-03-31
VETERANS APPLY
EARLY FOR LOANS
500 Turn in Certificates Day
Before Bonus Funds
Are Available.

With 500 veterans bonus certificates
already turned in to the regional Of
flee of the Veterans Bureau here with
applications for loans, indications
point to a big business in advancing
loans to local veterans when the new
law authorizing the bureau to advance
funds direct becomes effective tonlor-
row morning.
Col. M. B. Macmillan, manager of
the Washington regional office, has
completed arrangements for taking
care of the new phase of the soldier
bonus, and a banking room, with all
appurtenances. including cage with
three windows, has been fitted out
on the second floor, room 2sl, of the
bureau The entrance is at 1910 Yer
mont avenue, where veterans may ap-
ply.
Similar arrangements. have been
perfected by bureau managers at
local offices throughout the country,
and, according to Director Frank 1.
Hines of the bureau. about $3.OO0,0O0
already Is available from premium
payments on insurance policies.
McCarl Decision Awaited.
The bureau Is eagerly awaiting a
decision by Controller General VIC
Carl as to whether an additional $25,-
900 900 may be borrowed from the
bureaus adjusted service certificate
fund and made available for loans to
the soldiers, sailors and marines. An
answer was expected this afternoon.
In the meantime, number OF
applicants called at the local regional
office this morning and obtained loan
applications, together with explana-
tions as to how the loans may be
negotiated. No loan may be obtained
until the certificate is two years old,
from the date of issue.
The newly developed banking room.
No. 291, has been placed in charge or
f. G.. Flester, auditor of the wash
ington regional Office. A system has
been worked out whereby the appllca-
tions will go through a routine, whlch
includes not only careful check oy
the Veterans Bureau representatives.
but also an official audit by an autho'
rized representative of the general &C
counting Office.
This so-called pre-audit, or ofiicial
check on the voucher before payment
is made, is in line with the general
policy recently adopted by Gen. Hines
throughout the bureau, whereby no
payments go out from the bureau until
they are checked in advance by repre-
Sentatives of Controller General NC
Carl.
The bureau will prefer to receive the
application and certificate and man
Evening star., 1927-03-31
APPLICANTS SEEK
ELDR|DGE'S POST
Announce Candidates. to
Succeed Traffic Head on
Demotion Tomorrow.

Several applications for the position
Of traffic director, which will become
vacant tomorrow with the demotion
of NJ. o. Eldridge to assistant director
were filed with the District Commits
sioners today.
One of the candidates is said to be
an associate electrical engineer In the
Navy Department with 10 years ex-
perience in the handling of electrical
signal devices. Another is w. r.
Ryan. 1926 Sixteenth street, who said
he has been a professor in three col
leges and has been a mining expert
and engineer In Idaho. Montana, New
Hampshire, New York. Vermont and
other states. He is now employed in
the Treasury Department.
Child Safety Put First.
Mr.. Ryan advised the Commission
ers that should his appointment
eventuate from his application he
would at once invite personal in
terview with "the greatest traffic
expert in the United States" and a
man who has had European repu-
tation in regard TO traffic matters.
He also said he would invite the
major and superintendent of police
for consultation and go thoroughly
over the many. many, now existing
regulations and rules governing
local traffic" and would eliminate
some. at least, and simplify others.
Protection for the pedestrians. espe-
cially children, is one of the prin-
cipal planks in his proposed plat
form.
The Commissioners are giving seri-
Gus consideration to all of the appli-
cations, and indications are that 1t
may be several weeks, or perhaps
longer, before a new traffic director is
appointed. In the meantime, Mr.. Ell
dridge will serve as the acting director.
Gibson Sees Dougherty.
REPRESENTATIVE Gibson of Vermont
chairman of the subcommittee OF the
District committee of the House, which
exposed the Irregularities in the traf-
fic department and resulted in the
forced resignation of Assistant Direc-
tor I. C. Moller and the demotion of
Mr.. Eldridge, by choice. conferred this
morning with Commissioner Proctor
l.. Dougherty.
The nature of the conference was
not revealed, but Mr.. Gibson said aft
erward that he planned to have the
committee resume it's investigation OF
District affairs some time next week
in cooperation with the Bureau OF FL
ficiency.
Mr.. Gibson also expressed the opin-
ion that the Commissioners should
select a man for traffic director who
not only has administrative ability,
but who can qualify as an expert on
traffic signals and their installation.
A man having these qualifications, he
said, undoubtedly. would be difficult to
find, because of the comparatively
brief period in which engineers have
been studying electric signals.
Evening star., 1927-03-31

Tomorrow is April Fools day ir
washington and elsewhere.
1t lis particularly so in Police Court
where on that date the first OF the
employees who were given salary IN
creases by the Reclassification Board
starts a furlough without pay. Con
gress, which failed to pass the def.
cheney bill, is the practical joker this
April /. ssss.
The first victim of this practical
Joke is a hailiff. b. #. Dooley by name
He will u forced to take April /, 2,
5 and ~ without any remuneration
Evening star., 1927-03-31
S5OO.OOO PROFIT ALLEGED
IN FAT-REDUClNG FRAUD
Two Indicted on Charge of Selling
Salts, Gum and Soap as
Spurious Remedy.
NV the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fress
NEW YORK. March 31.-The al
legged sale Of EPSON salts. chewing gum
and soap as fat reducing remedies
has resulted In the indictment Of
Willis p. Learned Of Westfield, N. j..
and Earl e. Callan on charges of
using the mails to defraud.
The Learned enterprises" Assist
ant United States Attorney Webster
told the Federal grand jury, made an
annual profit of 100000 through the
national sale OF spurious patent medi-
cines supposed to possess almost magi-
cal reducing powers. The chewing
gum was described by the United
States attorney as "only something
to chew on and the soap as .just a
good soap"
Learned was alleged to be the own
err of the business. while Callan was
described as the uaa0A~aE.
Evening star., 1927-03-31
CLUBBER BEATS NURSE.
Young Woman Dying After At
tack in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, March 81 LP).-Miss
Catherine Madden, a nurse, about %
years old, was believed dying here to-
day from the effects of an attack by
a man who beat her with an iron pipe
last night Screams of the woman
awakened Alfred w. Harris, who as he
looked out of window saw the last
few blows fall The attack occurred
in the exclusive Shaker Heights resi-
dental section.
Harris pursued the man. who drop
ped a large iron pipe. The man. es-
caped in a wooded section.
Evening star., 1927-03-31
STUDENTS PLAN STRIKE
IN FIGHT FOR TEACHER
200 to Seek Reinstatement Of In
structor Ousted After 49,
Year Service.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
SUPERIOR, Wis, March 31.--Two
hundred Central High School senior
class students yesterday announced
they would refuse to attend school.
starting today. in an effort to bring
about a reconciliation between the
Board of Education and Miss Lulu j..
Dickinson, English teacher, who was
ousted two weeks ago from a teach
ing position she has held since 1904.
Groups of seniors planned to station
themselves about the school building
with cards declaring their walkout
and asking other students to join
them until the board meets demands
of the citizens committee by reinstat-
ing Miss Dickinson. The latter was
ousted by a 10-to-1 vote Of the board,
with approval of Paul K. Spencer,
school superintendent who said that
Miss Dickinson had been too critical
of school system policies and the ad-
ministration in general.
Evening star., 1927-03-31
FISCAL YEAR ENDS.
Deficit of f2o,ooo,ooo Expected in
British Treasury Report.

LONDON. March 81 CPl.-The Brit.
ish financial year closes at midnight
tonight. There were conjectures to
day as TO the size of the deficit which
is expected to be disclosed when the
treasury issues its report of revenue
and expenditure.
Several estimates place the deficit
between 2o.ooo.Ooo and fso. 900 900.
Evening star., 1927-03-31
30 REPORTED KILLED.
Spain Has Trouble With Tribes
men in Morocco.

TANGIEN. Morocco, March 81 Op).
Serious trouble between the tribes
men and the Spanish military is re-
ported in the La Rache (El Araish) re.
gion. Rebel tribesmen attacked q
Spanish camp at Aukarine, in the
Lukkos sector.
An unconfirmsd report is that 40
Spaniards were killed and an officer
taken prisoner.
Evening star., 1927-03-31
PATCHED PARK BILL
.GETSO.K. IN SENATE
Twenty-Five Amendments
Written Into Nearby Mary
land Planning Measure.
BY WILLIAM j. WHEATLEY.
Staff Correspondent of The Star

ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 81
Carrying 25 amendments, designed
principally to bring the measure
within the provision of the Mary
land constitution, the bill creating
the Maryland Washington metropoli-
tan district In Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties and the
Maryland National Capital Park and
Planning Commission was reported
favorably to the Senate last night by
Senator Eugene Jones of Kensington,
Montgomery County. The report was
adopted by the upper house and the
amendments were approved. The
bill was ordered printed for a third
reading. The measure will not come
up again until the printed copies are
received by the Senate, but efforts
will be made to rush 1t back so that
action may be taken on 1t in time
to send 1t back to the House of Dele
gates for concurrence In the Senate
amendment before the session dies
at Monday midnight
Result of Conferences.
The amendments are the result of
conferences between a corps of at
two county delegations in both
houses covering period of more
than a week. Two of the amend
ments deal with the 7-cent tax levy
within the metropolitan district to
provide fund for the purchase of
land for parks and to otherwise de-
velop the metropolitan area to con-
form to the general plan of the Ma
tional Capital. Whereas the bill as
1t passed the lower house directs the
county commissioners to levy not to
exceed cents year In order to pay
interest on bonds and to create a
sinking fund for the retirement of
them, one of the amendments makes
1t mandatory for the county commits
sioners of Montgomery County to
levy the full 7-cent tax each year
and turn the proceeds over to the
commission. However, If there have
been any bond issues the commission
will get only the cash remaining
after paying the interest and sinking
fund.
Evening star., 1927-03-31
Tax In Prince Georges.

The other amendment is similar to
this one In that 1t makes It mandatory
on the county commissioners of Prince
Georges County to collect the full T.
cent tax only when the htree commits
sioners on the Park and Planning
Commission from that county make a
request for 1t. The effect of the
amendment is toHgive the commission
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Evening star., 1927-03-31

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Evening star., 1927-03-31

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-24

The following letter is from an
American missionary in China to one
Of his former classmates in the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
We publish the letter, not because
we are in agreement with it, but be-
cause it shows the trend of thought
among section Of the American
clericals who have been "civilizing"
the Chinese. As first hand account
Of impressions produced among this
class by the great upheaval in China
it is an interesting document. (Edi-
torial NOte.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-24

The Chinese liberation movement is giving world i'm
perasm lesson in strategy and tactics. But unlike the
strategy of mperiaist enemy be applied by the
imperiaists tho they understand it thoroly.
The Peoples Armies advancing Shanghai They meet
troops that know they fighting their people the interest
of foreign opprssors Inside Shanghai the working population
strikes and demoralzes the of Sun Chuang Fang.
The wholesale executions of strike leaders have not cowed
the workers but increased their and determine
worngclass the Shanghai workers. with the rich
experience strike the memory of the
BY troops the duty, which they understand
avengng the martyrs who executed in the last two
days.
Any tyro in military science knows that Sun Chuang Fang
successfully defend Shanghai under the circumstances
He is an imperaist ship in a of revolution.
Bombardment by the warshps of the imperas powers in
Shanghai habor may prevent the Peoples Armies from taking
possession time but this serious damage to
complete destruction of property owned by foreign capitalists
Imperialism has base in the Chinese population in the
southern central and southeastern territories and without
passvty support imperialism the greater portion of China
is defeated.
there much comfort for Imperialism especially of the
British brand that Chang Tso Lin has agreed
10 march against the Peoples Armies Like the troops of Sun
Chuang Fang and WI Pei their morale will begin decline
and there will be defections
The peoples government and the peoples armies represent
perats miarists landlords The know this and
the military strength of the peoples armies therefore not to
be measured only by number of troops and equipment
The strategy of the peoples armies is based the
strategy of revolution and the mperasts cannot use It,
Imperialism in China be victorious only by securing
loyalty neutrality from the of the population
This it cannot do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-24
The Mexican Government Makes a Bad Mistake

If the Gales government has suppressed meeting OF the
Antimperaist League dispatches from Mexico
City report taken what not only reaconary step but
a very unwise
designed cater to the preudices of Secretary Of
Kellogg who says the League Communist organization
the Gales government will find all nationalist governments
confronted with mperast aggression have found that
cessons not actually upon but made simply evidence
good faith willingness to submit only to arouse the
hunger the mperast aggressor The AAmerica Antilm
League Communist organization 1t is organ
izaon which its main the unifcation OF all ee
ents opposed to Wall Street aggression in Mexico Cen
trail The membership includes such well known
apostles Latin American independence Manuel Ugart poet
lecturer who represents the best of the antmpera
list Latin American intelectuals.
Wall Coolidge government will be satisfied with MOTH
ing its The Gales government
either instrument of Wall Street or 1t Will extend
and consolidate the gains of the popular revolution
It cannot hostile attitude to demonstrations
against Imperialism without weakening its position and
strengthening of the American state department America
has taken Nicaragua rules by armed force Wall Street
now has Central America from which to drive north
and south against liberties of the Latin American
In situation only statesman who underestimate the
preparing afraid of the than
of the mperast will make with Wall Street
against honest and capable allies
The policy expressed by preventing meeting of the ALI
America Antmpera League in Mexico City will prove dsas
ro TO the of the Mexican continued
The of Mexco working class and agrarians
will not let this of the Gales government without
emphatic protest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-24
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-24

taken Paul away on that lynching
party; and how could Bunny save
him?
The first thing he saw, in the
doorway, was a man with great
cash across his forehead, and the
blood streaming all over him; he
was staggering about, because he
couldn't see, and crying, "The sons
o'-bitches! The sons-o'- bitches"
Near him was another man whose
hand had been slashed across, and
a women was tearing her skirt to
make bandage. A little girl lay
on the floor, screaming in agony,
and some one was pulling off her
stockings, and the raw flesh was
coming with them. "They threw
her into the coffeel" said voice in
Bunny's ear. "Jesus Christ. they
threw the kids into the boiling
coffeew
Everywhere confusion, women in
Mysteries, or sunk upon the floor