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Evening star., 1927-12-03
500, 900, 600 GOLD COIN
READY FOR SANTA CLAUS
Federal Reserve Officials Estimate
After Demand for $780,
100000 in New York.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December 3.-Santa
Claus will drop some S100.000.000 in
gold coins into eXpectant Christmas
stockings in the United States this
year, Federal Reserve Bank officials
estimated following the demand for
S20000,000 of the gold coins in New
York.
The custom of giving gold coins as
Christmas presents places a heavy
strain on the Federal Reserve ma
chinery and on the banks that supply
their clients with the coins. Not be-
cause the Federal Reserve isn't used
to handling much larger supplies
SD, 100000 of gold was exported last
month through the New York Fed
eral Reserve organization-but the
distribution of the coins means a tre-
mendous number of small transactions
with thousands of banks.
The approach of Christmas also
means the appearance of $1.000.000
worth of $3.50 gold pieces. This coin
is not minted except on special occa.
sions, but because of the demand
100000 of them have been ordered
struck off for the Christmas rush.
Because of their scarcity and the
value placed upon them by collectors
very few of the $3.50 pieces ever are
seen again. The demand for them al
ways exceeds the supply, officials say.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
By the Associated Press.


MARSF,ILTE, December 3.-Amer.
lean generosity appears to have failed
10 bring the sOlace intended to the
widow of Capt. Fra ncis Coli, com
panion of Charles Nungesser in an
Inflated attempt to cross the Atlantic
by air iast May.
Nine. Coli is deeply dissatisfied with
the appOrtionment of the Coli family
share of the fund subscribed in Amer
ica for the Nungesser-Coli families.
The apportiOnment was completed re
Gently and Nine. Coli is starting an
active campaign of protest.
She has written a long and bitter
letter to Premier Poincare. expressing
the hope that he will give consdera-
ton to the situation in which she has
been placed. She desires that the
French government compensate in
some form for what she alleges to be
injustice on the part Of the commit.
tee handling the fund.
The committee allotted 500 900
francs (roughlv &23.720l. tn Coils
mother and father and 81 900 francs
Eoughly SS.8SQ, each 70 the widow
Evening star., 1927-12-03
Widow of Coli Objects to Minor Share
Of American Fund As Parents Get Bulk

and three children, which represents
a monthly income of $40 apiece, Nine.
Coli points out.
Another thing which rankles the
widow is the French law governing
lnheritancos. BY this at the death of
Coli's father and mother, what is left
of the 593 900 francs must be divided
into two equal portions, one going TO
Coils brother. who. she says, doesn't
need it. the other being divided again
among three daughters.
Nine. Coli says that if Coli were
called upon again to risk his life 1t
certainly would not be for his
brother
Altogether. she claims that the OBJ
iect of the subscribers--to try to rem
edy the injustice of fate by making
easier the lot of their bereaved fam
| ilies--has hardly been attained in the
| apportionment. This has resulted
| she says. from the fact that the fly
ers' mothers were consistently kept
| in the foreground, while she, the
widow, and her children, were kept
| in the background. She asks il their
| American benefactors ever knew of
the existence Of herself and her chill
/ draA- -
Evening star., 1927-12-03
D. c. ROBBER GETS
4O-YEAR SENTENCE
Justice Mccoy Sounds Warn
ing in Imposing Penalty
on Housebreaker.

Chief Justice Mccoy in Criminal
Court. Division No. /, struck "A blow
today to end the wave of robberies
in Washington. when he sentenced
Edward F. Tate, SO years old of New
York City. to DO years in the peni-
tentiary on four charges of house
breaking and larceny. Tate was ar
rested for the robbery of the Cinderella
Boot Shop. 1911 G. street. after scores
of police officers and detectives had
combed the downtown section. follow
ing a series of early morning: safe
robberies.
Tate. whose record shows he has
spent II years of his life in various
prisons, was also wanted in New
York City. Had he been convicted
there again he would have faced a
life term under the Baumes act.
One of his companions, Francis A.
kloss, 30, of Scra nton, Pa, was given
term of 80 years for his participa.
ton in three of the four safe-crack-
ing ventures.
In announcing the sentences Justice
Mccoy told the prisoners that they
had come to Washington for these
depredations and he intended to let
out-out-of-town thieves know that it
would be better Tor them to steer
clear of Washington in plying their
trade
Randolph NJ. Rawlett of Washing
ton, who was led into two of the ven
lures, according to the court, by
George WILCOX, the fourth member of
the band, was sentenced to serve five
years in the penitentiary, but was
placed on probation. He had pleaded
guilty 10 he two CHARGES
George Wilcox alias Gregory VIII
son, of New Bedford, Mass, was not
sentenced today, because his attorney,
Frank j. Kelley. has filed a motion
for new trial which has been sched-
uled for hearing next week.
Besides the Cinderella shop, the rob-
berries were committed last August at
O'DonnelPs drug store 1405 II street:
Peoples Drug Store at Tenth and +
streets and the Old Dutch Market,
3105 M street.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
BEAUTY PARL0R X-RAYS
CALLED CANCER SOURCE
Permit for London Shop Denied
After Warning Is Given by
Medical Officer.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 3.-The re-
peated use of X-rays in beauty
trea ailments" creates a serious risk of
cancer. DR.. w. B. Knobel declared
in opposition to an application for a
license to conduct beauty parlor in
London for the removal of superfiu-
Gus hair from the face by an X-ray
apparatus.
Admitting that single application
might be harmless, DR.. Knobel. who
is one of the London County councils
medical officers, said the councils
medical staff had records of large
number of cases in which cancer de-
veloped slowly from continued treat
ment In one London hospital, he
declared, there was a whole ward OF
such cases.
The applicants for the license
pleaded in vain that their apparatus
had been used successfully and with
out complaint in America. The con-
trolling committee then refused their
application.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
Girl Students Mob
And Duck Marshal
In Pennant Rush
By the Associated Press.

MOUNTAIN GROVE. Mo, De-
cember 3.-When City Marshal c.
j. Hinkle attempted to halt the
annual class pennant rush of the
high school here. group of girl
students mobbed him. carried him
bowling to the public square and
held him under the town pump for
several minutes.
While one group of girls held the
struggling marshal under the
spout. others worked industriously
at the pump handle. The result
was rather damaging to the mar
shafs dignity, and some one turned
in fire alarm. The crowd of
students dispersed as the Fire De-
partment arrived.
The pennant rush is an annual
event at Mountain Grove High
School. the seniors and sophomores
defending pennant from the
juniors and freshmen. The girl
students seized Hinkle when he
attempted to halt the affair.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
PRESIDENT OF CHILE
TAKES BRIDE TODAY
Diplomatic Corps to Attend Cere'
mony in Full Uniform-10,000
Flowers on Altar.
By the Associated Press.

SANTIAGO, Chile, December g.
Gen. Ibanez, President of the Repub-
lie, will be married today to Senorita
Graciela Letelier Y Velasco, daughter
of Ricardo Letelier, in the first we'd
ding of an executive in Office in the
history of Chile.
The marriage will be celebrated at
the Church of st. Augustine, in the
presence of members of the diplomatic
corps, who will be in full gala Hni.
form. Members of the consular body,
of the judicial system and of Parlia-
ment also will be present, as well as
chiefs of the army and navy and
members of the highest society.
More than 100,0 900 flowers will deco
pirate the altar and 81 musicians will
DIay
Evening star., 1927-12-03
HELD AS KlDNAPERS.
Chicago Arrests Believed to Have
Broken Up Interstate Gang.

CHICAGO, December 3 R.-Oper
ations of an interstate gang of kid
napers, recruited in Kansas City, st.
Paul and Minneapolis, was believed to
have been brought to light today when
police arrested three women and eight
men.
A number of raids by detective
squads followed news of the kidnap
ing of Norris Roisner, st. Paul real
estate operator and wholesale furrier
and the efforts of the gang to obtain
$75 900 ransom from IA wealthy friend
of Roisner.
A Minneapolis attorney showed po-
lice a letter to Mrs. Roisner, purport-
ing to be from the gang demanding
ransom for the release of her husband.
Roisner was kidnaped last THURSDAY.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
PROTEST RUSSIAN
FIGURES ON ARMS
Delegates at Geneva Aroused
by Soviet Charges Affect
ing World.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press
GENEVA, December 3.-Protests
against declarations made by the Rus
sian delegation to the Prepara tory
| Disarmament Conference concerning
the state of armaments throughout
the world have been filed by several
delegations attending the meeting.
President Loudoun. opening today's
session, announced that several dele
gates had called his attention to what
they described as ineXactitudes of fig
ures concerning the size of various ar
mics and armaments contained in the
Russian statistical paper submitted to
back up the Soviet proposal for COM
pfete disarmament and to prove that
ornaments are vastly larger than be-
fore the war.
Pleads Against Discussions.
President Loudoun also remarked
that some of the delegates thought
that some OF the phrases appearing in
the Russian document "were not in
accord with League customs" This
was an allusion to certain critical as
sertions made in the Soviet document.
The president. however, pleaded
against any discussion of these mat
ters at present. saying that nothing
could be gained thereby.
Maxim Litvinoff, the Soviet dele
gate, who suffered a defeat in pre-
liminary skirmish today. then took the
offensive for a quick disarmament dis
cussion by submitting a resolution
whereby disarmament should not be
made to hinge on the results of the
security negotiations and requesting
that the next meeting of the disarm-
ament commission be convoked for
January 10, 1928.
AlIudes to America.
1--WE Russians are convinced that
the date of the next session Of the
disarmament commission should not
depend on what may not be done by
the special committee which is study
ing security" LitVinoff said. I'VE do
not regard the work of this latter COM
mittee as Indispensable to the success
of disarmament. Moreover, the pro
gram drawn up for the attention of
the security committee consists large
ly in an extension to remodeling the
covenant of the League of Nations"
Then aluding to the United States
as we'll as Russia, Litvinof remarked,
now some of us here represented are
not members of the League.
The Russian resolution began by en-
phasizing the complications of the
problems before the security commit
tee and the inevitable length of time
which would be involved in discussion
Of them. 1t then declared that solu.
tion of the problem of disarmament
gives in and by itself the most effec-
tive guarantees Of security, and there
by justifies neither discussion nor So
luton of the problems submitted to
the security committee.
The resolution concluded that the
preparatory commission proceed to an
Immediate elaboration of the disarma.
ment program and call its next meet
ing on January 10, being convinced
that disarmament proper can in no
way depend on the outcome of the Sc
curity deliberations
Foreign Minister Benes of Czecho-
slovakia opposed the Russian resolu.
ton on the ground that the League
n
Evening star., 1927-12-03
LINER CLAIMS RECORD.
Miami-to-New York Voyage Made
in 49 Hours.

NEW YORK, December 3 (P).--A
new coastwise record of 40 hours fat
from Miami harbor lightship to Am
brose lightship off New York is claimed
by the Clyde Line for it's new crack
boat. the Iroquois.
An average speed of 20.4 knots was
maintained, Capt. John Staples report
ed yesterday on completion of the
ships maiden round trip on her reg
ular route.
A sister ship, the Shawnee, goes into
the same traffic soon.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
EXILE OF CROOKS URGED.
SABBATH of Illinois to Offer Deporta-
ton Resolution.

CHICAGO. December 3 R).-De-
portation of criminals will be advo,
Gated in the next Congress by Repre-
sentative A. j. SABBATH, Democrat,
Chicago. member of the House com
mittee on immigration.
His proposed bill viii provide for
deportation of "any and all of the
criminal element" without long delays.
and will apply not only to those who
have been convicted of crimes. but
"those who have been apprehended
carrying concealed wea pOns."
Representative SABBATH, who repre-
sents the fifth Illinois district, com
posed Of several wards on Chica go $
West Side, announced his deportation
bill today.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
DRY LEAGUE HEADS
READY FOR PARLEY
Two Men to Be Elected at
Convention to Succeed
Wayne B. Wheeler.

The vanguard of the dry crusade,
leaders of the Anti-Saloon League, to-
day began the work of what is hailed
as the most important meeting in the
history of the organization, the thir-
ty-fifth biennial convention, which
will open at the Mayfiower Hotel Mon
day morning. Officers will be elected
including successors for two posts
held by the late Wayne B. Wheeler.
drive in the forthcoming Congress
and the 1928 presidential campaign.
Members of the executive commit
tee today were wading through a
maze of reports and routine matters,
and late today they were expected to
make nominations for officers. The
nominations will be made by this COM
mittee and the nominating committee
of the board of directors and will be
voted on by the full board Monday.
Two to Succeed Wheeler.
Officers to be elected include presi-
dent, vice president, secretary, treas
urer, general superintendent, legal su-
perintendent and attorney. The last
two positions were both held by Mr..
Wheeler, but members of the commit
tee said today that two men would be
chosen for the places.
Meanwhile, today, representatives of
81 temperance organizations, which
concluded sessions at the Raleigh Ho-
tel yesterday, were planning for a
huge temperance convention here next
month, and leading reformers of the
Nation were assembling for their an
nual pre-Congress rally cry against
corruption in the body polite.
At conference of the International
Reform Federation last night, at the
Church of the Reformation. John 3.
Hammond, former chief of police of
Des Moines, declared that prohibition
should be "crammed down the throats
Of wet Senators and Representatives"
Representative w. c. Landlord of
Georgia defended his Sunday bill for
the District. and G. N. Howard. chair
man of the National United Committee
for Law Enforcement, jumped on
State authority in prohibition matters
and corrupt elections.
Says Vets Plan Changed.
Howard declared that the vets had
given up all hope of repeating the
eighteenth amendment and were now
working to get a majority in Con-
gress to liberaliZe the Volstead act,
which would require only a majority
vote in both houses. They bope for
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1927-12-03
Florentine Choir Threatens to Quit IS.
Unless Good Quality Wine Is Provided

America Is most wonderful coun-
try and your countrymen have been
most kind and courteous to US, and
the members of the choir acknowledge
with the deepest gratitude the compli-
ments which have been paid to
their art
But we must have our wine. as we
have suffered long and what little we
have had has been decidedly inferior" :"
The Florentine Choir is said to be
the oldest musical organization in
Italy. 1t is on it's first American tour.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
e0-40 Proportion T,is Year
Set in Bill Drafted for
Presentation 10 House.
COMMITTEE OF IS WOULD
DECIDE FUTURE NEEDS
Measure to Be Offered at Earliest
Possible Date. He Says-Citi-
zens' Arguments Met.
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

Calling for a return to the per.
manent law which provides for a
fixed proportion between the amount
paid by District taxpayers and bv The
Federal Government towards the cost
or maintaining the Capital City Of
the Nation. and setting the proportion
at 60-40 for the coming fiscal wear.
the new fiscal relations bill has been
drafted by Chairman Zih,mAn of The
House District committee and is
ready for introduction as soon as the
House is organized.
This new legislation. promised hv
Chairman Zihlman of the House com.
inittee. Chairman Capper of the Sem
aIe District committee, Chairman
Fhlpps - The Senate subcommittee on
Dlstrlct appropriations and other
lesIsiat leaders in both House and
senate. aims to put an end tn tho
unscientific and ineuuitabIe Iumn-suno
method of making District appropria.
TONS that has been emploved ms q
make-shft substitute for the past
three years
Provides Committee of Is.
After declaring for a definite propo.
sltlon basis for computing the Federal
Government share in the exnenses ~
the National Capital, as a fixed prin-
clple already esta ablished in law. Mr..
Alhimans bill proposes to set up a
committee OF 15-5 members Of the
rouse, members of the Senate and
HHe district cltlzens-who at the be-
glnnlnS' of each calendar year shall
make careful study of ali the eo1,i.
ties involved and determine what is
the 1ust proportion as between the
District taxpayers and the Federal
Treasury for the next fiscal year.
The Zihlman bill declares that "au
appropriations on and after June 30.
1879 for the government of the Dis
tr1ct of Columbia shall be divided he.
tween the United States and the Dis
trict Of Columbia upon a ratio basis,
and the percentage to be determined
upon for each fiscal year shall be in
an amount which is a just and euui-
table distribution of expenses of gov
ernment between the United States
and the said District for the year in
which the appropriations are made
available"
One especially gratifying feature Of
the Zihlman bill has been Included to
meet the arguments advanced by the
Federation of Citizens Associations,
the Citizens Advisory Council and a
large number of citizens associations.
1t is that in any committee or COM
mission organized to study the subject
of fiscal relations between the Federal
Government and the District taxpay-
ers the latter shall have representa-
tion as an assurance that their claims
may be presented as they wish them
presented, and that they may have an
opportunity to call attention insistent.
ly to all of the equities, some Of which
committee composed entirely OF
Continued on Page 8, Column 81
Evening star., 1927-12-03
DELEGATE IN BERLIN.

BERLIN. December 3 (P) En-
route to Geneva to place Iithuania s
complaints against Poland before the
league of Nations Council. Premier
Naldemaras Of Lithuania arrived here
this morning. lie will depart for &c.
neva late this afternoon.
The Lithuanian legation stated no
conference with the German foreign
office was scheduled. as Foreign Minis
ter Gustav Stresemann had already
heft the city.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
By the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, December 3.-Fifty
members of the Florentine Choir of
Florence, Italy, now in Los Angeles,
have sent an ultimatum to their i'm
presario. Frank w. Healy of San
Francisco. reading, in effect, mo wine.
no song
Members of the choir said that un-
less they were supplied with wine of
good quality they probably would
abandon the remaining schedule of
their transcontinental tour and return
to Italy.
A telegram sent to. .Healx said3
Evening star., 1927-12-03
HANKOW STUDENTS KILL
FIVE ANTI-COMMU
Union officials Dragged From Mill
Which Dismissed Woman
Employees.
By the Associated Press.

BY the AssOCldtPu FTtss.
SHANGHAI. December 3.-Four
hundred students of Sun Vat Sen Uni
versity stormed a cotton mill at Han
kow. which had dismissed several
woman workers, and dragged five anti
red union officials into the open and
shot them, it is reported from Hankow.
The shooting is said to have occurred
in the presence of armed police, who
did not interfere.
A recrudescence of Communistic ac-
tivities is seen and it is reported that
the Communists are organizing an
armed corps to bring about another
reign of terror.
Evening star., 1927-12-03

His preliminary figures had allowed
10 hours for the jump to ManaSua,
which was routed southWard to Ha-
vana. west to the tip of Iucatan, down
the Yucatan coast and across Hon
dutaS into Nicaragua.
The tropical radio station at Hi
alcah, near here. and those on the
route at Tela and Tcgucisalpa, Hon
duras, planned tn keep contact with
the plane on its 1,035-mile voyage. It
was also believed that several ships
would be plying the waters on and
near the course.
The only known emergency fields
on the route We're at Havana, Tela =,
TeguCigalpa and n marine field in
northern NiCaraCu
Maj. Brainard. who has insisted
Continued on Page 3, Column 81
Evening star., 1927-12-03
Street Lighting Saving.

The reduction in the street lighting
bill next year under the new schedule,
it was calculated by the Utilities Com
mission, will amount to S9,156.11.
In addition to approving the new
schedule OF electric current rates the
commission also indorsed a proposal
of the power company to extend the
discount period for paying bills from
10 to Is days.
The penalty for non-prompt pay
ment of bills, amounting to 10 per
cent of the bill. increased the revenue
of the power company thus far this
year SIT 900. The fiveday extension
it was estimated, will cut down the
penalties by so per cent. which will
mean loss to the company Of $3S,6S0
next year.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
REED MAY CONVENE
PROBE BY MONDAY
Senator Expected to Resume
SIush Fund Inquiry Before
Congress Meets.

With Senator Reed, Democrat of
Missouri, back in Washington today
1t is expected at the Capitol that
there will be a meeting of the spe-
cial Senate committee on campaign
expenditures. of which he is chair
man, some time before Congress con-
venes Monday to take up number
of pending questions. The Missourian
arrived this morning.
One of the questions looming Is
whether Samuel insult, Chicago pub
lie utilities official, and his lawyer,
Daniel f. Schuyler, are to be given
an opportunity they now request TO
appear again before the committee
and answer questions about contribu-
tions to the Illinois primary campaign
funds which they twice have declined
to answer.
Another Problem.
Still another problem is whether a
fight is to be made to have the Smith
Ware contests referred to the special
committee or to the regular privileges
and elections committee. The general
opinion at the Capitol last night was
that probably the members would de-
eide to ask for reference of the cases
to the elections committee.
Should insult and Schuyler be given
an opportunity to answer questions
about additional sums insult contrib
uted in the Illinois primary campaign
last year they would thus be purged
from contempt proceedings which the
committee decided at the last session
should be Instituted against them.
There has been no indication that
Continued on Page 3, Column 81
Evening star., 1927-12-03
WEATHER.

10 Weather Bureau Forecast1
Cloudy and colder tonight; minimum
temperature % degrees Tomorrow
cloudy, probably followed by rain or
snow. Tcmperaturc-High as. al
- midnight yesterday; lowest, SO, at
m. today.
Evening star., 1927-12-03
Says Vets Plan Changed.

Continued on Page 2, Column 81
The Washington times., 1927-05-28

HE ABANDONED a course in
engineering to specialize in avi-
alton and joined Army flying
field, Lincoln, Neb.
The Washington times., 1927-05-28

LINDBERGH as a boy was me-
chemically inclined, and always spent
his spare moments tinkering with
implements.
The Washington times., 1927-05-28

Another intensely interest
ing installment Of Ruth Syn
der's own story will appear
in The Washington Times on
Monday. Watch for itl