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has the advantage. unless his soldiers
are won over To the other side.
Chang Tso-Lin is head of a recently
formed, powerful alliance of northern
war lords.
Marshal Sun is opposing the north
ward advance of the Cantonese at
Hangchow, ITO miles from Shanghai,
while Marshal Wus forces are in the
interior of Honan, to the north ana
west.
Despite consular orders to leave.
missionaries, men, women ana emil
dren, have decided to remain IN
Chengtu, capital of Szechwan province
and one of the large inland cities OF
China. Advices received here stated
that the British consul viii leave
January 81. Only six foreign women
remain I'm Chunzing, IT'S miles from
Chengtu.
1t is understood that the inspector
general of customs, Sir Francis Aglen,
has instructed the commissioners of
customs not to collect the surtaXes
recently ordered by the F'ukien gov
eminent.
The tax. amounting to PIG per cent
on all dutiable imports and an add
tional 2b per cent on Injuries, was TO
have become effective February l.
Such tax was agreed upon during
the formulation Of the nine-power
treaty in Washington in 1922, but ne
gotiations failed at a special confer
ance held to fulfill the conditions.
The commissioner of customs at
Shanghai announced that the mari
time customs officials have no connec-
ton with the surtax on imports. 1t
is believed that the surtaXeS will be
collected there by Marshal Sun Chuan-
F'ang's appointees.
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purpose of paying the compensation
of an attorney at law"
Provide for Counsel.
Maj. w. E. r. Covell, Assistant En-
| gineer Commissioner in charge of
public utilities, explained that "the law
does not change the existing status
1 of the corporation counsel, who will
continue, in addition to his other
duties, as general counsel of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission, receiving
| therefor the sum of 81 900 a year and
J getting no extra assistance in the way
of additional helpers. The law states
that the peoples counsel shall be an
additional counsel to the commission.
1T is rather vague condition, because
the peoples counsel gets $500 and
the total compensation of the cor
poration counsel is $4,000, $4,000 for
his work as corporation counsel and
1000 for his other work for the
Public Utilities Commission, and yet
he is the general counsel for the Pub
lie Utilities Commission"
For compensation of jurors in the
Juvenile Court the item of 81 800 is in
addition to $500 already appropriated
making $1,000 in all.
The present appropriation of 5000
| has been entirely expended, and, as a
matter of fact, obligations amounting
to approximately S172 have been in
Cured in excess of the amount of the
appropriation for jury trials in the
Juvenile Court through the end of
| December.
The additional amount of $500 is
based upon holding jury trials in the
| Juvenile Court every other week from
now until June 80, 1927-one jury
| trial in each two weeks.
Court Work Increased.
Two conditions have developed bear
| ing on this additional appropriation.
| One is an act of Congress approved
April g. 1926, which raises the jurors
per diem from SO to $4. The second
| is an act passed on June 10, 1926,
which restored to the Juvenile Court
| concurrent jurisdiction with the SUI
preme Court of the District of Column
| bia in cases of non-support of wife and
children.
The result of the act of June 10.
| 1925. has been TO. throw nearly all
cases of that kind into the Juvenile
! Court. -.
Those two conditions, the raising by
| law of the compensation of the jurors
from SO to 81 a day and the additional
work imposed upon the court, bring
about the need for the supplemental
appropriation of 81 500 asked for.
Each time a jury trial is held a
panel of &c men is called. That is
$104.
| About 25 per cent of this supple
mental amount is due to the increase
in compensation of jurors from SO tC
81 per day, and about rs per cent is
due to increase in the volume of bust
ness of the court.
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AMERICANS UNHURT
IN CHINA, IS BELIEF
Rioting Report Confirmed,
But State Department Is
Not Informed of Injuries.

The State Department yesterday re-
ceived official reports confirming press
accounts of Chinese anti-foreign riot
ing and looting of missionary estab-
lishments in F'oochow. The reports
did not indicate that any American
had been injured.
1t is anticipated that the foreign
population, including American mis-
sionarieS. will be evacuated from that
city to places of safety.
1t was revealed that the Navy IS
holding Marines at Guam and San
Diego, together with the cruiser HUI
ron, awaiting eventualities.
Kellogg Sees Wilbur.
Just before the reports We're re-
ceived, Secretary Wilbur of the Navy
Department and Rear Admiral Charles
b. McVay, jr., formerly commander
of the Asiatic squadron and familiar
with the situation from naval view
point. were called into conference by
Secretary Kellogg. 1t was said the
conference did not signify any imme-
date action by the Washington GOV
eminent, but the Secretary of state
had been anxious to inform himself
fully upon certain aspects of the chi
nese situation.
In a general way the Washington
Government probably does not antic1-
pate developments in China which
might compel armed protection for
American nationals there unless a
situation developed at Shanghai which
made such Intervention no longer
avoidable. The evacuation of AmRri-
can nationals from interior points
where they have been affected by the
anti-foreign rioting, although it is not
aimed particularly at them, indicates
that the Washington administration
would resort to military protection for
is nationals only when no other
means of averting bloodshed was
available.
Could Protect Shanghai.
Should the danger of similar out
breaks at Shanghai. indicated in
recent press dispatches but not yet
Confirmed in official advices, actually
develop, a decision could not be
voided. Protection could be granted
at Shanghai, but might be difficult at
oorts up the Chinese River far in the
interior.
In the meantime, many messages
have been exchanged by the State De-
Dartment with Minister MacMurray
in Picking, and it is indicated that
ways and means of meeting the seri-
Gus situation that has developed are
under discussion, although no official
of the department has been willing
discuss what steps may be con-
templated.
Minister MacMurray left Picking
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ployed in working on the new annual
assessment to be effective one wear
from the LIST of next July.
The item of $4,000 for furniture is
far the mcfarland Junior High
School, and is included in the budget
Tor the next fiscal year.
The Board of Education is extremely
anxious to obtain the appropriation
now carried in the budget for 1928 in
this urgent supplemental bill, so that
tney can get the money for the pur-
pose of advertising for the furniture
and equipment and have it placed in
the building as soon as possible.
This includes 200 pupils desks and
chairs, l25 lockers, general science
and gymnasium equipment, manual
training equipment, II typewriters and
equipment, five teachers desks and
chairs and other miscellaneous eauip.
ment.
This is expected to accommodate
100 high school pupils and six ele.
mentary classes, a majority of whom
are now In portable schools.
The item of sag 800 for uniforms for
the Metropolitan Police force is the
amount in addition to $4,000 already
available, which makes an average
cost per man for 1927 of $66.45. For
the next fiscal year the budget esti
mate is $4,000, or $55.68 per man
There are now 1,344 policemen, includ
ing SO crossing policemen.
Utilities Salaries.
The item Of $4,000 for uniforms for
the Fire Department is in addition tc
$4,000 already available. While the
average expenditure per man for the
Fire Department in 1927 is S7184
that average will drop to $3486 fol
the next fiscal year, due to the fact
that new Winter overcoats have just
been purchased for all members of the
Fire Department
The item of $500 for the Publ,
Utilities Commission provides for the
compensation of the two members o.
the commission appointed by the Pres
1dent at the rate of $500 from the
lst of February, 1927, to the Goth o
June, 1927, and for the employment
of two secretaries from the LIST of Feb
ruary, 1897, To the 30th of June, a
$l.860 a year each, and 81 400 for al
investigator to serve under the people
counsel.
District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan
explained at a hearing on the defici
ency bin that as regarding the pee
pie council, we have for 1927, as ;
part of the appropriation for the Pub
lie Utilities Commission, an item o
$500 for an attorney at law. Al
attorney at law has been employe,
under that appropriation for abou
TWO months. That leaves unexpende,
Of this $500 a sufficient amount t,
pay the peoples counsel from the Is
Of February TO the 30th of June, 1927
by making the appropriation availabl
for that purpose instead Of for tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
GOOD WILL FLYER
EXPLAINS DELAY
Capt. Ira Eaker Denies Dis
obedience in Trip From
Tampico, Mexico.

Capt Ira Eaker of this city. pilot
of the United States Army pan-Amer-
lean flight amphibian San Francisco,
has written letter to The Star from
Guatemala explaining why he flew
from Tampico, Mexico, to Vera Cruz
alone. after the other four planes in
the expedition had returned to their
starting point. Capt. Eallnr said he
had read newspaper accounts of the
flight which charged him with haV-
ing disobeyedt signals to return. The
Star. however, carried the Associated
Press report of the fight, and this
did not say that Capt. Eaker had
violated any instructions. :.
when the time came to take OH
at Tampico, as the planes were BENG
TAXED out ON the line, the San
Francisco sank in the mud and could
not get out under her own power,
Capt Eaker writes Maj. Dargue,
the flight comma nder. came over to
our plane and said that the others
would go ahead ami take off, and that
we should get help and get off as
quickly as possible. We got a tractor
shovels and men, and got away IN
perhaps 10 minutes after the last
plane before us had taken the arr.
No sooner had l taken Off than the
ammeter began to show discharge
and the voltmeter to fiuctuate
violently. told Lieut.. Fairchild
assistant pilot to fly from the back
seat while + opened arp the control
box and cleaned the points 1t was
perhaps from to 10 minutes before
these instruments were again register
ing normally.
Saw Only Mexicam OH.
when I looked up arid took over
the controls we were on the coast. l
turned back toward the landing field,
but saw none of the amlphibians in
the air, only a Mexican OH. l at
once assumed that they had preceded
me toward Vera Cruz by few
minutes, and since there was just
sufficient daylight left in which to
reach Vera Cruz, ] turned atnd headed
to that point, arriving there hours
and 45 minutes later.
Had / been in the formation
should of course have followed the
leader and returned to the landing
field at Tampico. / never did get with
the formation, since they took off
ahead of me, and I never saw them
again until they came to Vera Cruz
some six days later"
COMPLETE 5000 MILES.
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COMPLETE 5000 MILES.
T.. S. Goodwin Flyers Reach Panama
Canal Zone.

FANCE FIELD, Panama Canal
Zone, January 10 CP).-All five planes
of the United States Army Good Will
fiotilla now have completed the first
division of the 20.000-mile fight from
San Antonio over Central South
American countries. They left San
Antonio December 81 and have COW
cred nearly 5000 miles.
Escorted by 20 planes in battle
formation, the San Antonio, San
Francisco and Detroit reached the
Canal Zone from Punta Arenas,
Costa RIGA, last evening The other
two planes, the New York; and the
ST. Louis. arrived here last Satur-
day. After a brief rest the flyers.
in command of Maj. Herbert A.
Dargue, will take off for Valdivia.
Chile. where they will turn east to
Argentina.
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Avenue Plan Approved.

The co-ordinating committee of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission has approved tentative
plan for relocating Montana avenue be-
tween Michigan avenue, to a point at
the southeast corner OF Soldiers
Home, it was announced yesterday. 1t
is planned as a new cross-town thor.
,oughfare to connect the territory in
the vicinity of Soldiers Home with
RladenSburg road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
MUSICAL AT CITY CLUB.
Tenth in Series will Be Given
Tomorrow Night,

The tenth of a series of public mu
steals will be given by the City Club
at 8:15 O'Clock tomorrow night at the
City Club Building, when the United
States Army Band, under the direc-
ton of Capt William Stannard, u. S
A will render a concert program.
Included in the program will be a
medley of compositions by William T.
Pierson, director of radio station
WMAL, and the presentation OF tour
instrumental soloists. In accordance
with it's policy of furthering music in
Washington, the City Club conducts
these recitals, to which the public is
invited, without charges.
Although told at the age of Is by a
doctor that she had only one lung,
Mrs. Mary Garner of Conigsby, Eng
land, celebrated her Tooth birthday
anniversary in good health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
CADET INSPECTION.
Lieut.. Col. Deems to Review School
Companies Here.

Lieut.. Col. Clarence Deems, jr., in
charge of reserve officers training
camp affairs at headquarters. Sd
Corps Area, Baltimore, will inspect
the Washington high school cadet
companies here Monday and Tuesday,
1t was announced today by Col. Wal
lace Craigie, professor of military
science and tactics in the local system.
Col. Deems present activities relate
principally to the military supervision
and coordination of r. o. T. c. train
ing and related interests in the States
of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
and the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19

Yesterday en- route here for confer
ences with Secretary Kellogg.
Secretary Kellogg has given no re.
cent indication as to whether he would
make public his contemplated reply
to the recently published British
memorandum on China before he has
had opportunity to talk with the
Minister. He has said positively
however, that Mr.. MacMurray would
return to his post in Picking at the
conclusion of his conferences in
Washington.
The Secretary's memorandum is eX
pected to set out American policies
as to China and to stress the desire
of the Washington Government to fol
low line Of action with relation to
Chinas development of nationalist
aspirations that would be sympa-
thetic and helpful toward establish
ment of stabilized government in
China
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
Officers Sent to School.

Majs. Kenneth z. Lord and Cliff
Andrus. Field Artillery, have been re
Iieved from duty in the Militia Blu
reau, War Department, and ordered tt
the Field Artillery School. at Fort
sill, Oklahoma. Second Lieut.. Doug
las V. Johnson, 10th Field Artillery
at Fort Myer, Va, also has been or
dered TO the Artillery School at Fort
Sill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
ANTl-F0RElGN TIDE
Is RISING IN CHINA;
AMERICANS LEAVING

CONTINUED from First Page.l
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1852 CITY FUND
IN DEFICIENCY BILL;
MANY ITEMS COVERED

Continued from First Page.)
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WILL AIR UTILITIES
CHOICE NEXT WEEK
Entire Senate District Com
mittee Will Consider APP
pointmentS as Unit.

The appointments to the new Public
Utilities Commission probably will be
considered some time next week by
the entire Senate District committee
rather than by a subcommittee, 1t was
Indicated today.
Senator Capper. chairman of the
committee, said that he has been DIS
cussing the question with other com
lnittee members and that several of
them believe it would be better to
have the whole committee take part
in the consideration of the nominal
lions.
About Clayton Report.
Senator Capper stated today that no
information had come to him concern
ing a published report that William
Mex, Clayton, candidate of the cit
liens associations for the position of
peoples counsel, had been approached
hy some one before the appointments
were made and questioned as to what
his attitude would be toward certain
utility problems, if he were appointed.
These published reports intimated that
the answer reported to have been made
by Mr.. Clayton lessened his chances
of appointment. Senator Capper said
that while he did not know what in
formation Individual members of the
heard nothing of this kind.
Mr.. Clayton refused today to dis
cusS the reports. He has consistently
declined to make any public comment
regarding the appointment of the new
commission and has absented himself
from meetings of civic organiza tons
with which he is affiliated Two of
these, the Brightwood Citizens Asso
citation and the Federation of Citizens
Associations, have gone on record
against the utility appointments.
Peyser Reveals Letter.
He declared today that he has not
conferred with any Senator about the
matter, and has left unanswered a
number of letters from congressional
sources.
julius I. Peyser, president of the
District of Columbia Public School AS
ISOLATION, today made public a letter
he has written to James G. Yaden,
president of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations, asking why the
federation has failed to protest, also,
against the appointment of Commits
sioners Taliaferro and Dougherty.
May 1 ask" the letter reads, why
these three men (the Public Utility
appointees), all bona fide residents of
the District of Columbia, should be
picked for elimination when the two
appointments as Commissioners of
the District of Columbia are ten
tatively approved? l do not see why
you should sacrifice the Utilities
Commission and permit the hand
picked Commissioners appointments
to be ratified"
Quotes Capper Letter.
The communication quoted from a
letter written by Peyser to Senator
Capper. condemning District Commits
sioner appointments and citing several
reasons why the school association
head believed the appointees ineligible.
The letter to Yaden concluded: "As
your organization as we'll as the
Board of Trade are on record favor
ing bona fide residents for appoint.
mentS to serve as Commissioners. we.
who are interested in the public
school system, feel that unless we do
get bona fide residents the schools
the backbone of the community-will
be neglected" 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
CARPENTER FUND
NOW TOTALS $574
Contributions of Last "a Hours
Reach $103, With $40 Largest
Sum Donated.

family of j. Edward Carpenter. who
was slain by bandits January near
his home at Indian Head, Md, con-
tinued to come to the cashier of The
Star yesterday and today. During the
past "a hours $103 was received. Fur
Their. donations win be acknowledged
through this newspapers columns.
The present standing of the fund is:
Previously acknowledged $471. IA
AZ
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-22

years of age, who had volun-
teered to play the violin. The
Turner proponents were show
cred with the shanghai berries
and just across the street
Frank Brunskill STOOD UP IN
HIS CAR AND LAUGHED
HEARTILY AT THE SPEC
TACLE. Take good hearty
laugh now, chief! Give this
one the haw-haw!
But, what's the use?
What can the people expect
from a man who graduated
into the police department
from the drivers seat on
brewery wagon!
It takes BRAINS to run a
police department, and Drawn,
sans brains, to juggle beer
kegs.
l wish to once more impress
on the readers of this timid,
shrinking, playful little publ
cation, that neither Of it's edi-
tors SOUGHT this fight with
Chief Brunskill. He forced it
upon us and:
We're not picking 'em out"
we're taking 'en as they
come"
We started this publication
with the perfectly good inten-
ton of mopping-up on the
gangsters, gunner and black
mailers of the city. One of us
got slot the first crack out of
the box and before the unshot
one had a chance to even get
mad, out pops Sir Chief and
proceeds to rap-not the gun
men who did the shooting, not
the gangsters, not the black
mailers, but THE UNSHOT
SCRIBE!
Is the man gone daffy? No
one invited him into this scrim-
mage. He horned in! incest
opportunity in the world for
him to have kept out, but he
didn't. Instead of doing some
thing to earn his biscuits, he
tries to keep our finances so
low that neither Bro. Guilford
or myself can make the first
payment on an oyster cracker.
And then he expects us to han
die him gently? How simple
some folks are.
yVboro xyoc Mnco xxrI,ap 4bo
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-22

] want to apologize to many
subscribers for the delay they
were subjected to in getting
their paper last week. Wrap
pers containing the names of
regular subscribers were mad
vertently mixed with several
hundred miscellaneous wrap
pers and were not mailed until
Tuesday, when the blunder
was discovered, as. usual, too
late. Don't cuss-I did enough
for all of us.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-22
attorney and look up the law

on this matter.
Courts have already decided
in numerous cases that the &C
tual transfer of money between
an official and person who
is, has or may be benefited by
the violation of any law, need
not be proven; that the secrecy
naturally surrounding the act
itself precludes the possibility
of eye witnesses; that the &C
ceptance of money or gifts of
any nature by any public off,
cial from known violators of
any law, is evidence of guilt of
receiving bride and irrespec-
tive of the alleged purpose OF
the donation.
The assumption is that Brun-
skill was receiving, accepting,
that two hundred dollars of a
bootlegger's money for cam
paign purposes and the offer
of the latter's three cars, graf
is, for use in the then cam
paign, indicates that the two
hundred Yankee kroner went
into the mayors campaign
fund. If it didn't, then where
DID it go? Did it 60 into Brun-
skills new Lake Harriet home
or into the mayors campaign
fund? 1t was paid to Nose
Barnett and the latter agreed
to turn it over to the chief.
The Saturday Press is inves-
tigating a few more "cam-
paign contributions of the
same character as the one men
toned above and as long as
Brunskill is so anxious to fight,
We are perfectly willing to ac-
commodate him. This is one
time since he quit plotting a
beerwagon in Minneapolis that
he backed up against the
wrong buzz saw. And before
we get too far away from that
phone conversation, l want to
ask you to ramble back to it
and get a real chuckle out of
the bootlegger's chatter.
". But some day want
to meet YOU" Think of the
longing in that bootlegger's
heart! Wanting to meet
anxious to meet-"the best
chief of police Minneapolis
ever had"-and couldn't do it.
Gimme your nose-napkin,
Aggie, while / swab the brine
out of my eyes!
And: you must be a darn
ed swell fellow and right
guy. ;" Gargle that we'll be-
fore you swallow. That's
right!
Well, don't we all know he's
both of these-and then some?
Darned swell (headed) and a
right guy" with the gang
Nose and Ed, and Jack and
Red" ct al. and ad infinitum.
q. Because you sure
s,,rroasndAd, voasrsAlf with