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KELLOGG TAKES HAND
IN WILKINS KIDNAPPING
Orders Sheffield to Make Represen-
tations at Mexico City
Foreign Office.

Nv the Associated Press.
Ambassador Sheffield at Mexico
CITY was directed today by the State
Department to make representations
al the foreign office regarding the Kid.
naping at Guadalajara Sunday or
Edgar NJ. Wilkins, an American citl-
zen.
Mexican military authorities at
Guadala lara have been making efforts
TO obtain wilkins release and capture
the bandits. thus far without success,
so far as the Washington Government
knows.
wilkins is held for $4,000. His 10
vear.old son, captured with him. was
released to take the ransome demand
TO Guadalajara.
Apprehension is felt by officials over
the safety of Wilkins.
Consul ID. G. Dwyre has advised the
State Department that he considers
Wilkins in a very dangerous pre-
dicament, as Mexican military authori'
ties in an encounter with the bandits
Monday failed to effect a rescue. the
brigands escaping during the skir-
mish. The Mexican commander
Dwyre said, has promised to renew
the pursuit at once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30

The executive committee of the Sew
enth-Day Adventist Foreign Mission
Board will meet tomorrow morning at
the conference headquarters at Ia
koma Park TO decide ON whether or
not to call home the majority of the
denominations missionaries in China,
il was announced today.
The meeting will be held as the re.
suit of a communication from the
state Department. addressed TO all
sects maintaining missionaries in
China. advising that they be brought
home until the present disturbed con.
ditions are improved.
While church officials said today
that 1t is impossible to forecast what
action will be taken, 1t is extremely
unlikely that they Will consent 10 CIV
ins no the work, ven temporarily,
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removal Of Americans from the long
reaches of the Yangtze River Valley
OF China was continued today to the
accompaniment of constant firing from
the shore at destroyers and other
ships of refuge.
reporting on the activities in the
region where conditions have been
made most acute by the advance of
the Cantonese Nationalist armies,
Rear Admiral Williams, commanding
the American forces in China, inform.
ed the Navy that the Cantonese were
sending shots at the river craft from
Marking and from other points along
the river.
Meanwhile there was apparent un.
easiness over conditions at Wuhu, i'll
Anwei Province, where anti-foreign
outbreaks, such as that which took
place at Marking. were reported to be
momentarily expected. Anti-foreign
agitation was reported by Consul A.
G. Swaney, at Tsinanfu. as having
spread also to Shantung Province,
heretofore held by the Northern Chi.
nese troops. Tsinanfu was quiet, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
LISTENERS ASSA|L
RADIO CONGESTION
Want Only 230 of 733 Broad
casting Stations, Com
mission Told.

The great army of radio listeners
had their day in court before the Fed
eral Radio Commission today.
Out of mass Of expert, technical
testimony on the subject Of closer
separation of broadcasting stations in
the United States, came a clear, con-
else declaration of opinion on behaf
of more than 100000 broadcast u.s.
teners in Iowa, and abstractiy on De-
half of all radio listeners in the
United States.
Francis st. Austell, president of the
Iowa Listeners League, with mem
bership of 458000 persons In the
State. declared that congestion on the
broadcasting wave lengths is now so
severe that even with the most ex-
pensiye receiving set located In Des
Moines. Iowa, he cannot get more than
eight station programs without inter-
ference" Interspersing his remarks
with forceful language by way OF en-
phasis. Mr.. Austell cautioned broad
casters to get together In the interest,"
of the listening public, to eliminate
the "tealousy" between them and to
remedy the 'mess into which broad
casting has fallen"
Calls Most Stations Unwanted.
"Out of 733 broadcasting stations on
the air today there are but 230 that
the listener wants" Mr.. ST. austen
said "You shoul@ forget your fire.
n,encies. forget your little jealousies
and get together for the benefit of the
listening public. Radio has gotten into
sucb n mess because of jealousy be-
tween broadcasters that the situation
iS now almost hopeless. Find 80 broad
"a sters and you will find so fighters.
"Get together among yourselves and
Won could easily improve the situa-
tion. We don't want 733 broadcasters.
but we do want good music, uninter-
rupted by interference. Ii you don't
get together you will make the work
of the commission very hard, and If
YOU do get together you will make 1t
much easier
Closing Gaps Suggested.
Mr.. ST. Austells declaration came
otter several suggestions had been
made by prominent radio engineers
for improving the broadcasting situa.
ton by closing the gaps between sta
tions. Two of them, r. Fl. Langley of
the Crosley Radio Corporation of
Cincinnati and Prof. Alfred N. Gold
smith of the National Broadca sting
co. were not in agreement as to the
nossible deviation from assigned wave
lengths of broadcasters to prevent
interference.
Virtually all the engineers agreed
that kilocycle frequencies ending in
SIS rather than zeros are preferable
to prevent second harmonic in
reference on frequencies below the
original signal. Mr.. Langley ventured
the view that frequency deviation of
2h Kff0cycles would not cause much
interference. His view was sharply
challenged by DIR. Goldsmith and DIR.
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WOMAN TEST|F|ES
|NBR|BERY CASE
Charges Millionaire Gave Her
$1,000 for Dry Data
in 1922.

Mrs. Della Fl. Evans, star witness
for the Government in the trial of
Daniel j. Shields, brewer and politi-
clan of Johnstown, Pa, for bribery,
testified before Justice Hoehling to-
day In Criminal Division |, that in Feb
ruary, 1922 Shields paid her 81 900 for
information concerning prohibition
reports on Pennsylvania brewerfes.
Mrs. Evans, who was then Miss Dali
la NJ. Hayes, said she was introduced
to Shields while she was employed
as clerk in the Office Of the chief
of the prohibition agents by former
Representative from Pennsylvania, in
January. 1922
The next night he took her to dinner
and a theater. Then followed several
other engagements and on February
26, 1929. Shields asked her how she
would like to have 81 900 week. She
said she didn't want it.
The next week he came and took
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
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SHIPS BEARING u. S. REFUGEES
FROM INTERIOR CHINA FIRED ON
MacMurray Calls on Americans to Leave
Kiangsu and Anhwei-Yangtze
Doubted as Safe Route.

the anti-foreign feeling also was in
evidence there, the consul said, and
precautions were being taken for their
protection.
Admiral Williams also reported the
looting of the American Catholic mis-
sion at Fuchow, Kwantung Province.
1t Is believed his message reported
the same incident as was recorded In
State Department advices Monday
which said mission had been looted
at Fuchow. The occupants escaped.
The report indicated no serious dis
turbances in Shanghai. where Brig.
Gen. Smedley Butler and 1900 Ma
rines are ashore to protect American
lives and to which point 1900 addi-
tional Marines and a number of war
ships are en- route as reinforcements.
The evacuation of Yangtze points
was said by Admiral Williams to be
proceeding satisfactorily but he
spoke of AZ Americans and British as
having left "Nanking' while stones
were being thrown at them. Spanish
missionaries and one American family,
a DIR. Taylor and his wife and chill
dren, declined to leave.
Dispatches from China reported
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column 81
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S25,O)0,ODO ASKED
FOR BONUS LOANS
Hines Seeks Permission to
Borrow for Demand Due
to Start Friday.

Hoping to be able to meet demands
of veterans who may begin applying
for loans on their veterans bonus
next Friday. in more adequate
fashion. Director Frank T. Hines has
asked Controller General McCarl If
$25,000,000 may be borrowed from
the adjusted service certificate fund
to be used as loans on bonuses. A
decision on the question Is expected
shortly.
Gen. Hines explained today the
bureau was all ready to go ahead
with it's original program of lending
from funds paid in as premiums on
converted insurance at the rate of
about $3.000.000 a month. The new
request to McCarl had nothing to do
with the original plan, said the direc-
tor denying that a negative answer
to his question to McCarl would tie
up the entire program of lending to
the holders of adjusted service certi-
ficates Friday.
All Arrangements Made.
Already the Veterans Bureau has
substantive law authorizing it to
make such loans direct, and arrange
the suboffices of the bureau through
out the United States to begin on Fri
day morning to handle applications.
This substantive law was passed fol-
lowing nationwide difficulty expe-
rienced by veterans in obtaining loans
from banks.
But should the s25, 900 900 loan from
the adjusted service fund, or bonus
fund, as 1t is better known, be author
lied by the controller general, much
more extensive and adequate financing
would be available to the bureau to
handle the applications.
The amount of funds which will be
available, regardless of the forthcom
ing McCarl decision on the new ques-
tion, Gen. Hines said, would be
about SO 900 900 on Friday.
This problem was the latest submit
ted to McCarl following failure of the
second deficiency bill, which tied up
any number of projects here and
throughout the country. AS result
of a decision yesterday to the Secre-
tary of the Interior, in which McCarl
denied to st. Elizabeth's s. Hospital the
use of funds deducted from pay for
retirement purposes, the District of Co
lumbia authorities will be requested to
ask McCarl for authority to pay funds
for the proper care and feeding or
INDECENT patients" committed to st.
EliZabeth's froms this city.
McCarl had been asked by Monte
Sanger. assistant to the superintend-
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 80
More than 500 men were entombed
by terrific explosion in the Ehren-
field mine of the Pennsylvania Coal
& Coke Corporation this afternoon,
according to reports received here.
The mouth of the mine was wrecked
by the blast, it was said.
A United States Bureau of Mines
rescue car, stationed at Derry, near
Ehrenfeld, has been ordered to the
scene.
All efforts to get into direct touch
with the mine failed. 1t is located
in Cambria County, about Is miles
from Pittsburgh.
George McCaa, mine rescue expert
of the Federal bureau, said he be-
lieved that between 350aand 100 men
had been trapped by tie biasf.
The explosion was of such great
force that when 1t ripped from the
shaft mouth Of the mine 1t blew down
q two-story brick Office building about
200 feet from the entry.
Some Office employees were injured
when the structure collapsed. Min
ing men familiar with explosions said
the blast was SO terrific they could
hold little hone for the men trapped
In the wrecked workings.
The mouth of the mine caved in,
making rescue work difficult.
Rescue Crews Arrive.
Volunteer rescue crews from all
parts of the entire Cambria field were
organized quickly when word of the
blast spread. These men, equipped
with helmets, were rushed to Ehren-
field by automobile.
Within a short time they were at
tacking the mine mouth blockade, in
an effort to get into the workings.
With the rescue car Holmes
moving toward Ehrenfeld from Derry,
officers of the United States Bureau
Mines here decided that the explosion
was so serious they must send their
directing heads to the scene.
d. j. Parker, director, will head
the Pittsburgh bureau experts. in
cluding j. J. Forbes, George Grove,
Phil Burgesky, and George McCaa,
veterans of many mine blasts. They
left by automobile during the after
noon and expected to reach Ehren-
field by pm.
The rescue men were unanimous in
the opinion that the explosion was
one OF the worst in the history of
ming in western and central Penn
sylvania.
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Successor to Buckner Expected to End
Dry Raids on Broadway Night Clubs

indicated by a statement he issued last
night in which he stresses that the
United States attorneys office is a
law Office and was not and is not
intended to supersede or replace other
departments and bureaus of the Gov
ernment In the exercise of their
proper functions.
Mr.. Tuttle, his friends say. is a
total abstainer from alcoholic liqtlors.
The raiding and paddock policies Of
Mr.. Buckner brought him Nationwide
publicity. 1t had been the custom for
young assistant prosecutors in Mr..
Buckner's, Office to personally visit
night clubs and obtain evidence which
later was used for raids and prosecu-
tions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 30.--Spectac-
ular prohibition raids on Broadway
night clubs by the United States at
torney's Office are expected to become
a thing of the past with the advent
of Charles Fl. Tuttle as United States
attorney for the southern district of
New York.
Mr.. Tuttle was appointed yesterday
by President Coolidge as successor to
Emory r. Buckner and expects to
assume his new duties within a few
days.
That Mr.. Tnttie will abandon the
sai0in6 sSiisE . his predecessor was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
College Bans Cars
And Planes; Buggy
Rides Alone Remain
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WACO, Tex. March 30.-The
horse and buggy was the fastest
transportation available today to
Baylor University students who
would take co-eds riding.
With use of automobiles for
hidden, students discovered the
faculty failed to ban airplanes.
Hoping to solve locomotion prob
LENS with planes, which a Prince
ton student found successful, the
young men turned to nearby avia-
ton fields.
President S. p. Brooks promptly
added airplanes TO the faculty
mandate.
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Seventh Day Adventist Board to Meet
On Recalling Missionaries From China

although 1t might be advisable to with.
draw the women and children.
The first word was received this
mornin~ from DIR. J. n. Andrews. son
of Charles Andrews of Takoma Park,
who has been stationed In charge of
dispensary in the Szchwan province
of western China, which announca I'd
that he had given up the work tempo.
rarily and left his station for Shanghai
Mr.. Andrews, a graduate of George
Washington University medical school,
is now in his ninth year of service in
China. The missionaries usually serve
seyen-year stretches" at the conclu-
sion OF which they spend a year at
home.
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HARRISBURG SENDS AID. :.
All State Mine Inspectors Ordered to
Scene.

HARRISBURG, Pa, March 80 N.-
Joseph j. Walsh of the State Depart
ment of Mines left here this afternoon
for South Fork, near where ESQ men
were reported trapped in mine today
by an explosion. The department also
ordered all State mine inspectors with
in that section to the scene.
Immediately upon hearing of the ac-
cident, Senator Baumer, Cambria.
went into conference with Mr.. Walsh.
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Relief Party Holds Out Little
Hope Men Entombed by
Pennsylvania Explosion
Can Be Brought Out Alive.
DISASTER AMONG WORST
IN HISTORY OF STATE
Two-Story Brick Building 200
Feet From Shaft in Ehrenfeld
Collapses, Crushing Workers in
Debris-Help Rushed From
Harrisburg and Cambria County
Points.

SOUTH FORK, Pa, March 80
R.-Between $50 and 900 miners
were entombed and a number OF
workmen on the surface were
killed this afternoon when a ter
rife explosion spread death and
destruction through mine No. 5
of the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke
Corporation at Ehrenfeld, near
here.
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BERLIN WOULD END
VERSAILLES PACT
Plans to Resume Liberty of
Action if Arms Limita-
ton Fails.
BY HIRAM X. MODERwELL.

" Cable 70 the s1ar ana CntSsaso Daily
GENEVA, March 30.-If Germany
does not succeed in forcing disarma-
ment on the members of the League
of Nations, which now are discussing
arms limitation here. she will consider
the treaty Of Versailles broken and re-
sumo her liberty Of action.
This strategy, already indicated In
the public statements of Herr Won
Bernstorff, the German delegate, be-
fore the disarmament commission, is
confirmed by private advices reaching
the correspondent. Whether In case Of
failure of the present disarmament
conference Germany would immedi-
ately denounce the treaty, or await a
more favorable occasion, and the man.
ner in which she would use her new
liberty of action, are questions not yet
decided by the Berlin cabinet, but 1t
now is certain that the former allies
must reckon with this strategy In
the near future.
Hold Treaty Is Binding.
Germany. as Won Bernstorff has re-
peatedly insisted, regards the German
disarmament stipulation of the Yer
sailles treaty, with its explicit state
ment that German disarmament was
prelude to general disarmament, as
an obligation legally binding on the
signatory powers. The United States
naturally is excluded. Germany, hav-
ing fulfilled her treaty obligations and
been admitted to the League of Ma
tions, now demands that the other
signatories fulfill their obligations.
No allied delegate here has attempt
ed m dispute the iuridical correctness
of Won Bernstorff's position. M. de
Brouckere, the Belgian delegate, made
an unfortunate effort to evade the
question when he asserted the dele.
gates were not considering other dip
| lomatic instruments than those direct
| iv concerning them, whereup Won
Bernstorff retorted that the Versailles
treaty was the instrument by virtue
of which the delegates had gathered.
Diplomatic circles here are fully
aware that Germany Is fast becoming
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Continued on Page 5, Column %
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The evacuation of Hankow by
foreigners is proceeding rapidly. To-
day the steamer Suiwo arrived here
with 285 refugees, all but one of whom
were Americans Most of them were
members of the Scandinavian Amer
ican Mission from the interior. The
Americans still remaining in Hankow,
ii was said, numbered 1879, including
80 women and IL children.
With the situation in Hankow
described as disturbing $50 Americans
left the city between Thursday and
Sunday, most of them coming from
the interior. Those remaining will be
evacuated as soon as possible.
Reports from Peking say that all
the American members of the staff
of Peking Union Medical College,
alarmed by the Marking incident, are
planning to leave for home Immediate
iy. The police in Peking, which Is the
capital Of the Northern government,
are actively engaged in a hunt for
Nationalist agitators there.
A telegram from Japanese source
Continued on Page 4. Column q
Evening star., 1927-11-20

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