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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
MAYOR IS WARNED
OF PLOT ON LIFE
SteubenviIIe, Ohio, City A.
fairs in TurmoiI-PoliCe
Chief Accused of Theft.
By the Associated Press.


STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, January
1.-Steubenville municipal affairs
are in the throes of excitement again
with Mayor E j. Sander the recipient
of a mysterious death threat: Chief of
Police Ross Cunningham facing a
formal charge of larceny. and Night
Sergt. Richard Edgerly. retired on a
post following a legal opinion that
the city acted without authority.
Mayor Sander is not taking the
death threat seriously, although it was
admitted he is guarded by police.
An anonymous. telephone call to city
hall last night Informed Sander of a
plot to kill him. Sander recently
succeeded John Patton, who was
ousted as the city's chief executive.
Following on the heels of the threat
to kill the mayor, Chief of Police
Cunningham, successor TO Blaine
Garter, who was ouSted from Office
recently for misconduct and refusal to
enforce laws against vice, was formal
~ charged by former Safety Director
Oliver Conley with the theft of a bat
Cunningham will be given a formal
hearing before Mayor Sander next
week. Conley was dismissed by the
new administration.
Both Sander and Cunningham de-
ciared today that they are the targets
of the underworld and friends of the
0usted administration for their efforts
to clean up the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
TAGS BRING GOLD MEDAL
u. S, Army Wins in Geneva Red
Cross Competition.

The Medical Department of the
United States Army has been awarded
the gold medal of the International
Committee of the Red Cross, the first
prize in the competition of Wound
Cards" held at Geneva, Switzerland,
recently, in connection with the meet
ing of the International Standardiza-
ton Committee. Maj. Gen. Merritte
w. ireland, surgeon general of the
Army, has just been informed of the
award.
The wound Cards exhibited by
the United States Army are the
standard forms known as the Elmer
gency Medical Tag and the Field
Medical Record employed by the
Army In the field for tagging sick
and wounded for evacuation and rec
ord purposes. In addition to their
technical value in connection with the
treatment of each case, these forms
are eventually filed in the War De-
partment They then become valu-
able in connection with the military
record of the patient and in the adj
Justment of claims for pensions and
| compensation. They are also of
great value in the study of medical
| history.
The first of these tags is attached
| to the soldiers clothing at the time
| he receives first treatment for sick.
ness or wounds. The other is attached
when he Is first transported to a
hospital. Both tags remain with the
patient until medical treatment is
later. These tags constitute a con,
|. finally terminated, possibly months
| tinuous record of the medical treat.
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01

school and was called the Institute of
the People In February, 1926. it was
closed by the Mexican government be-
cause of alleged teaching of religion
by foreigners, and now the govern
ment has served notice the mission
building will become its property I'M
der the Mexican law, which prohibits
churches from owning real estate and
provides their property shall become
the property of the nation. The Meth
odist Episcopal Church. however, is
given opportunity to protest, and if it
makes no representations the property
automatically goes TO the Mexican
government.
This seizure of church property is
expected to add materially to the din.
0Nlties of a situation already dificults' -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
B|RGER STILL FREE
DESPITE WARRANT
Sheriff Fails to Arrest Gang
Leader in Illinois on Muir
der Charge.

BY the Associated PreSe.
HARRISBURG, ILL.,, January AL
though a warrant was issued Monday
at Benton charging Charles Burger,
armed Harrisburg gang leader, with
completely in the murder of Mayor Joe
Adams of West City, Burger still is
at liberty and Sheriff Lige Turner
maintains silence as to his plans.
Sheriff James Pritchard of Fraklin
County, who delivered the warrant
to Sheriff Turner Tuesday, said he
could not understand Turner's atti-
tude. He talked to Turner over the
telephone yesterday, but said he did
not get any satisfactory information
as to whether the warrant had been
served or when it would be.
Warrant Was Read.
Burger told a local newspaper cor
respondent Tuesday night that
Deputy Sheriffs Elmer Gibbons and
Lon Travelstead had called at his
home and read the warrant, but the
next day he dfried he had been ar
rested Sheriff Turner admitted he
sent Gibbons and Travelstead to
Birger's house, but refused to affirm
or DENY that the warrant had been
served.
bIISGE Ilciu AAO "OSAAA
leave Tuesday night for Benton in
custody of Sheriff Turner and depu-
ties and would arrange to furnish
bond at once. Later he learned the
offense was non bailable unless
habeas corpus proceedings were
brought, which would leave the
question of bail to the discretion of
circuit judge.
Grand Jury Meets February Z.
The prospect of having to remain
in Jail at Benton until the next grand
jury meets February q, is believed
by some observers to have caused
Burger to change his mind about
surrendering.
Burger, who has been engaged in a
fued with the Shelton gang for con-
troll of the Southern Illinois coal belt
liquor traffic, has repeatedly said he
would kill Karl Shelton, one of the
rival leaders, at the first opportun-
ity. Shelton was recently released
from Jail under 100000 bond on a
mail robbery charge for which his
brother Earl and Bernie still are
held
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
UNION MEN SENSE
PROSPEROUS 1927
Miners Are Looking to Miami
Conference in February
for Augury.


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, January 1.
Trade union leaders share the opti-
mism of business leaders as to pros
poets for 1927. Officials of five inter
national unions which maintain head
quarters here were unanimous in their
confidence that industrial activity
will not diminish, appreciably at least,
for several months.
THE building trade is a pretty good
barometer of general conditions" said
William L. Hutcheson, president of
the international Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners, land we know
from projects already under way that
building operations will continue
briskly until next Winter. The last
two years have been abnormally pros
porous for builders. We anticipate a
recession from the peak of activity
within the next two years, but there
is no sign of its beginning as yet
Increase for Printers.
John w. Hays, secretary treasurer
of the international Typographical
Union, asserted that Investigations by
that organizations statistical bureau
had failed to disclose any reasons for
alarm as to the future.
I'm our last fiscal year." said Mr..
Hays, earnings of union printers in
creased by $16,216,32 over the previ-
Gus year, reaching a total of 1853 $685.
1856. A part of this increase repre-
sented scale increases, but business on
the whole was better than ever before
in the industry. The future looks just
as good. incidentally it is to be hoped
that no sudden depression will strike
business now, because the working
class of this country has no stored-up
fat to live upon.
High wages have helped, believe,
to make and maintain our prosperity,
but spending habits have increased
apace. The average worker is so well
loaded with installment-plan debts for
automobiles, radio sets, ETC., that even
a brief spell of hard times would ruin
him and at the same time give gen.
eral business terrible blow"
Miners Are Uncertain.
Jacob Fischer, general secretary
treasurer of the Journeymen BARRIERS
International Union, was optimistic
without reservation. Styles and re-
gard for personal appearance, he said,
have made the barber trade more
prosperous than ever before.
The International Brotherhood of
Transfers, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and
Helpers, which includes taxicab
drivers, truckmen and deliverymen
employed in various lines, has found
business, good throughout the country,
without any indication of slackening
according to Thomas l.. Hughes,
Secretary-treasurer.
The future of the United Mine
Workers of America is somewhat OBJ
scured at present by uncertainty over
the outcome Of the joint conference of
operators and miners which will meet
in Miami, Fla, February IA. Officials
will not hazard guess as to the scale
demanded that may be formed at the
international union convention to be
held here January rs.
Continuance of present policies of
the organization is certain, since the
administration was reelected recently
on the anthracite agreement signed in
1925, which will continue for five
years, assuring stability in these
fields.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The schoolboy impression that the
new American Government WHICH
emerged from the Revolutionary war
was compoeed almost entirely or ex-
noin,temer0 and that in later years
nuhlic officfaldom has been running
almost entirely to non-military ng-
ures seems to be all wrong.
Take. for Instance, the United States
Senate. When that branch of Con-
gress first set up in business in 1883,
with Rhode Island unrepresented, only
seven OF "a members had seen military
or naval service. In the present
Senate there are 10 out of SO. And
the first Senate had as its presiding
officer John Adams, whose military
experience was so scanty as to be al.
most indiscernible, while the sixty
ninth is presided oyer by no less than
a full fiedged major general, Charles
G. Dawes.
Warren Grand Old Soldier"
Gen. Philip Schuyler of New York
was the outstanding soldier-Senator OF
the Firt Congress, and the only one
among all his senatorial colleagues
whose military achievements have
lived in history.
Now the grand old soldier" of Con-
gress is Senator Warren of Wyoming,
holder of a congressional medal for
gallantry in action at the seige of
Port Hudson in the Civil War.
Warren ranked as "non-com"
throughout the war between the
States, but he serves now alongside
one general and a handful of cQlonels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
sELFIsHNESs DENIED.
Embassy Issues Statement By Indus.
trial Secretary.

The Mexican embassy here today
Issued the following statement by
Luis n. Morones, Mexican secretary
of industry, department of commerce
and labor, Mexico City:
Ever since the PRONUNCIATION of the
petroleum law and regulations, this
department has been procuring, with
II its jurisdiction, the fulfillment and
application of their provisions, but in.
ferested parties have pretended to in
terpret this attitude as a policy of
obstruction following a deliberate pur.
pose on the part of the federal govern.
Elent to take possession of valuable
interests, the ownership of which the
proprietors are not in a position to
substantiNte.
1.-The p<oyisions of the petroleum
law and regulations clearly demon.
sErate that the government is not
actuated by selfish motives, as those
precepts dosnot establish for the ad.
1ninistration's any privileges nor royal
ties on private lands, whether they
may have been contracted for prior to
or after May /, 1917. On the other
hand, the constant efforts of this de
Iartment have been directed toward
granting the interested parties. all the
facilities consistent with the law in
the matter of declaration of rights
acting upon specific instructions from
the president of the republic
This department considers IL con
Nenient to state most emphatically
that the government does not intend
TO injure rights of any nature and that
enforcement of the legal precepts
above mentioned only obeys to a high
Rpirit guiding Mexico, as a sovereign
nation. to dictate the laws best suited
for the country's requirements and
the imperative need of enforcing them
fer the good of the community, and
the parties interested, to whom every
facility is granted.
with the above purpose and in &C
cordance with the final prescriptions
contained in article Is of the petroleum
law, this department, as a dependency
of the federal government, will no,
enter any applications of third parties
or outsiders for the exploration OF
exploitation of lands acquired before
May !, 1917, for the purpose of petro
ieum development, as the provision.
of said article are not in favor O.
third parties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
ONE DEAD, I HURT,
IS NEW YEAR TOLL
Guns, Knives, Hatchet and
Bricks Figure in Capitals
Celebration.

Bricks, guns. knives and a Ratchet
figured prominently in an untradi-
tional celebration of the advent of the
New Year in Washington last night,
and today the District Morgue and
the hospitals present a grim specter
of the result. One killed and seven
wounded was the toll. One of the
injured is Policeman William T.
Murphy of the ninth precinct station.
Two others are colored girls.
The body of Samuel Lucas, colored,
"a years old, lies in the morgue. the
victim of a gunshot wound inflicted
street, while police search for Jesse
Evans, also colored, 804 Twenty-sixth
street, who went to the house il
search of his wife and found her.
Assailant Opens Fire.
Lucas was killed almost instantly
when his assailant opened fire. An
other bullet buried itself in the foot
of Harold Bruce. colored, who was
taking part in the festivities.
Policeman Murphy was found in a
dazed condition in front of 213 War
rem street northeast, suffering from
severe wounds in his head and face,
with a fiatiron beside him. The po-
liceman had gone to interrupt dis
turbarce. John H. MoSley, colored,
213 Warren street, is being held by
the police in connection with Murphy's
injuries.
Lula Baylor, IA, and Emily Carter,
IS. were In Sullivan court southwest
when a group Of boys attacked them.
The girls were taken to Gallinger
Hospital for treatment. Five colored
boys are under arrest on suspicion of
being members of the attacking party.
Cut With Hatchet.
Seven stitches were required to
close a wound made by a Ratchet in
the forehead of Luther Chapman. col
ored of O'Brien court, who is said to
have engaged in a fight in a neigh
boris house.
William Hech, AZ years old. 321
Fourteen-and-a-half street, was cut
over the heart with penknife by an
unidentified man in a fight near First
and Fl streets northeast shortly after
the arrival of the new year. His as
sailant has not been apprehended.
A brick hurled by an unidentified
boy in F'itzsimmons court struck Riley
Morton, colored, IL years old, and put
him in Freedmen's Hospital for treat
ment, while another watch night"
party, at 1892 Jackson alley, resulted
seriously for Alexander Frye, colored,
who was shot through the back. Frye
accused his sister. and the police are
looking for her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
WILL HONOR SEWARD.

SEWARD, Alaska, January l CP).
William Sulzer. former Governor Of
New York, and George A. Parks, Gov
ernor of Alaska, Wednesday night
were elected directors of the Seward
Memorial Association, which has
started a movement to erect a $780,
900 monument to William H. Seward,
Secretary Of State under President
Lincoln.
Seward is credited with having been
largely responsible for the purchase
Of Alaska by the United States from
Russia in 1867. A proposal to enlist
in the campaign has been taken un-
der consideration.
Sulzer has long interested himself
in Alaskan affairs and is the author
of articles on the Northern Territory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
WORLD RELIGIOUS
MEETING IS PLANNED
Pentecost Committee of Disciples Of
Christ Propose Session in
Capital in 1880.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, January 1.-The Rem
tecost anniversary committee OF 15
appointed at the National Conven
ton of the Disciples of Christ in
Memphis, to plan a world meeting in
1890. met Wednesday and named an
ARRANGEMENT committee of 1870.
The convention will be held in Wash
ington, where it is planned to erect
the Capital Church Of Christ, costing
81 900 900. A tenth Of this sum
already has been pledged by r. A
Long Of Kansas City.
A campaign to increase the mem
bership Of the church from 100000
to 1000, 900 by 1880 also will be con.
Quoted, along with campaign to add
1000 churches, 1000 preachers and
1000 laymen preachers to the organi'
ZatiOn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
PRESIDENT OF ALBANIA
SENDS THANKS TO ITALY
Gratitude Is Expressed to Musso-
lini for Aid in Recent Earth
quake Relief.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, January l. President
Ahmed Zogu of Albania has sent
message to Premier Mussolini convey
ing the thanks of the Albanian gov.
eminent for Itaiy's action in sending
a Red Cross detachment Of 2 officers
and 10 men to aid in relief work at
Durazzo. which was shaken by an
earthquake last week.
The mayor of Durazzo and the presl'
dent of the Albanian Red Cross have
visited the Italian legation there and
expressed gratitude for Italy's speedy
aid. They said that 1t was an afi1r-
nation of the friendship between the
two countries which would augur well
for the effectiveness of the recently
signed Italian-Albanian treaty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
$50, 900 LONDON ROBBERY
POINTS TO US. THIEVES
Department Store Gems Taken by
Persons Concealed in Place
Before Closing Time.
BIZ the Associated Press.


LONDON, January IA $50 900
jewel robbery in Harrod's famous de-
partment store has been added to a
list of sensational robberies here of
late, which Is causing police to sus-
pect that in some cases American
thieves have been engineering the
coups.
The burglars in last nights rob-
berry concealed themselves before
closing time yesterday in Harrod's,
then calmly collected the jewelry dur
ing the night and decamped.
Recently there have been numer-
Gus sensational robberies, many of
them daylight jobs. by motor bandits
working much after the style of
American hold-up men. In some cases
the police suspect American thieves
have been behind the robberies, which
are less risky for themselves in Eng.
land than IN the United States, since
the regular English police do not
carry pistols. Consequently the Eng
fish robberies have not been featured
by the shooting that character1Zes
many American hold-ups.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
EX-U. S. ATTORNEY HELD.

CHICAGO, January l R.-Henry
!. Foster, a former Assistant United
States Attorney General assigned to
the Office of the alien property GUS
todian In Washington, was ordered re-
moved to Oklahoma City to face
charges of impersonating a Govern
ment officer in connection with the
cashing of a worthless check at Mus
kogee. Okla.
Foster, reported to be the son of q
member of the New Hampshire Legis.
lature, waived a hearing on removal.
He said he had not claimed to be a
Federal officer, but had merely pre-.
scented letters which he received while
in the Government service as means
of Identification.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01

Continued from First Pagel
ers but the continued control of the
vital agencies of the government.
Word has come from the State De-
paITment that Sacasa and his adher-
ents could not hope for recognition by
the United States even if he dis
lodged Diaz from his seat at Managua
In the present fight, since such recog-
milton would be in violation of the
Central American pact adherence,
which bans all governments that come
into being through violence and revo-
luton.
BOrah Expresses Concern.
While the United States continues
its announced neutral attitude toward
both sides in the Central American
republic, Chairman Borah of the Sen
ate foreign relations committee has
expressed his concern over the situa-
ton being rendered more complicated
through possible killing of an Amer
lean while United States marines are
in the country. He believes, however.
that unless something OF this kind
happens American forces Will be
withdrawn at an early date.
A policy of watchful waiting has
been adopted with regard to the New
Mexico oil laws. which went into effect
while American oil operators owning
extensive interests there were adopt
ing a tacit agreement to refuse to
apply for the required confirmatory
concessions under which they would
receive so and 80 year leases. with
privilege of renewal, in lieu of their
present titles.
Russian Relations Touched On.
While operators who fail to con-
Mrm their titles will 'renounce their
rights under the law" They will not
have their properties confiscated, ac-
cording to the Mexican embassy. In
other words, the embassy says, they
gWill lose their privileged position"
RusSian-American relations were
touched on when Boris E. Skvirsky,
director of the Russian Information
Bureau, said in New Year state
ment that "at present there are
obvious handicaps to the development
of commercial relations between the
United States and the Soviet Union,
which l hope win be removed in due
course" He made no reference, how
ever, to last nights Moscow dispatch
regarding recognition preliminaries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
NEW ATTEMPT TO GUST
COLORADO PRISON HEAD
Governor Complies Series of
Charges in Move to Remove
Penitentiary Warden.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
DENVER, January 1.-For a sec
ond time, efforts will be made by a
Governor of Colorado to remove
Thomas j. lyman as warden of the
State Penitentiary at Canon City.
1t was learned yesterday that
charges of incompetency, inefficiency,
INSTRUMENTATION and drunkenness
against Warden lyman have been pre-
pared by GOV. Clarence J. Nor
ley, and will be presented to the Civil
Service Commission probably today.
Gov. Morley's intention to
force trial of lyman before the COM
mission resulted from the warden's re-
fusal to permit two Canon City ply
sicians to enter the prison and ex-
anime three convicts alleged to have
been beaten for infraction of prison
discipline. An executive order of the
governor December 10 directed the
physicians to make the examination
Two years ago the Civil Service
Commission refused by a two-to-one
vote to uphold charges preferred
against lyman by Gov. w. e Sweet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
FRAUD CHARGE AGAINST
BROTHERS is DROPPED
Army Officers Sons Cleared of Gus
toms Duties Violation as Indict-
ment Is Withdrawn.
by che Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January Am in
dictment returned in 1928 against
Robert w. A. Wood and Thomas A.
Wood, sons of former quartermas-
ter general of the United States Army,
for conspiracy to defraud the United
States of customs duties was nolle
pressed by Assistant United States
Attorney Coleman.
The indictment was based on a
charge that 1000 bales of clothing
were imported as carpet wool from
South America in March, 1922, while
the emergency tariff act was effec-
tive. Under this act, clothing wool
was dutiable, but carpet wool was ad-
mitted free.
Yesterdays action was decided
upon, Mr.. Coleman's papers said be-
cause the United States Customs
Court of Appeals has decided there Is
little If any difference between cloth
ing and carpet wool.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
CHINA SEEKS EDUCATORS.
Peking Offers inducements for
1929 Convention.

AUGUSTA, Me-, January 1 up.
China has offered a cash bonus in
American gold and the use of the dow
ager empress palace as inducements
to the World Federation of Education
Associations to hold its third biennial
meeting at Picking in the Summer of
1929. DIR. Augustus 0. Thomas, pres
ident of the federation and Maine
commissioner of education, announced
the offer yesterday as the first that
has been received for the 1929 ses-
sions.
The 1927 meeting will be held in To-
ronto from August Z to u.