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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-13

In Hawaii are 10000 Hawaiian-bOrn
japanese who are growing up as
American citizens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-13
Division OF Tax Burden.

"A list of the proportionate amount.
as borne by the local taxpayer and
the Federal Government, since 1920
will emphasize this:
Amount charged Amount pay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
PERSIA WINS POINT
!. IN FIGHT ON OPIUM
BoSton-Bred Delegate Sc
cures Customs Autonomy
for Country.

BY the Associated Press.
u GENEVA. September 15.-The Bos-
ton bred Persian delegate, Col. Daniel
w, Mccormack, has won signal
! victory for the country to which \"
. .vas loaned to help solve the opium
problem.
Not only did the League of Nations
. assembly committee investigating the
opium evil congratulate Persia last
evening upon her decision to reduce
exports of the drug 10 per cent an
nually for three years and then review
. the situation. but it went on rccor !
to the effect that she should have
customs autonomy.
/. Manufacturers Are Blamed.
/ Finally. the committee put the blame
for continuance of the drug evil not
upon the countries producing raw
opium. but upon those manufacturing
! morphine. cocaine and heroin.
The American followers of the anti
drug movement. among them Mrs.
Hamilton Wright of Washington.
n. G.. heartily rejoiced over the days
results as tending to prove that the
League Is determined to do something
. definite 10 wipe out the worldwide
drug traffic.
Col. Mccormack, in his final
speech before the committee. empha-
sized that Persia for a century has
had her industry stified. commerce
ruined and population impoverished
because foreign traders. thanks 80 the
customs control. have been able to
underSell the native producers.
Persia Makes Appeal.
He warned that, unless the nation
were unshackled from the customs
bondage. it would probably have to re-
vert to the previous scale of opium ex-
portation, since the saturation point in
taxation had been reached.
Persia" he said. does not prete nd
to tell other nations how to put their
houses in order. She only asks that
the sacrifices she is called on to make
shall not be in vain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

More than 1000, 100000 pounds of
cocoanut oil was produced in the
world in the past year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
FORD'S RUBBER DEAL
GIVES LONDON THRILL
Holdings in Brazil Cited as Max.
ing Magnate Factor in
Trade War.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, September 15.-The re-
port published in the United States
that Henry Ford has purchased more
than 100000 acres of land in Para,
Brazil, for rubber growing Is given
prominent display on the first page Of
the Evening News, which carries it
under a seven.column head.
The newspaper publishes its story
under the following heads: Mr. Ford's
$4,000 900 Rubber War Move" United
States Dream of Rubber Empire and
Mr.. Ford Enters the War in Dramatic
Fashion"
The Evening News dispatch from
New York begins thus: Into the
world rubber war today enters Henry
Ford, reputed to be the worlds richest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
Buchanan Would Quash Suit.

! Declaring that he and his wife have
sreconciled their differences. Col James
"A. Buchanan, owner of the National
Press Service, has asked the District
supreme Court to dismiss a suit for a
limited divorce recently brought
against him by his wife, Ethel r.
buchanan, $500 Fourteenth street. He
lis represented by Attorneys Mcneil &
Humphrey,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
Gets New License
To Wed After He
Tore First i'm Anger

Angered by statement that his
girl had decided to marry his rival,
Oscar DePrato, % years old. 229 ID
street. tore into shreds a marriage
license issued to him last Mon
day to marry Pearl Freeman. Is
years old, of Virginia Highlands.
Va.
DePrato renewed his courtship
and again won the consent of the
young woman. Today he appeared
1T the license counter and obtained
a new license.
The couple went at once to the
office of Judge Robert f. Mating
ly of the Municipal Court and had
the bonds securely tied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
FOUR DIE IN RAID.
Pair of Reds and Two Policemen
Slain in Turkey.

CONSTANTINOPLE, September Is
R.-Two revolutionists and two
policemen were killed in an exchange
Of shots yesterday in the main street
of Para. when the Turkish police
raided a meeting of a revolutionary
committee. composed of three Arme-
mans and one Turk.
A store of arms was found In the
committee room and police took this
as an indication that political plot
was being Matched.
The attorney general and the minis.
ter of interior are investigating to
determine it's qualifications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

man and certainly so rich that he can
have no idea what he's worth"
The London rubber market, which
his been quiescent for many months,
was not appreciably affected by the re-
port that Mr.. Ford may extend his
land holdings in Para to $500. 900
acres. The production of raw rubber
has been exceeding the demand. and
the $4,000 tons of stocks in London are
more than double those of last year.
The present price of Is osnce l32
cents) a pound is low because of heavy
production on Dutch plantations which
do not participate in the British
scheme under which rubber produce
ton is restricted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
DIVORCE is SOUGHT.
Actress Charges Man Importunec
Her Into Marriage.

Dorothy Fields, Is years Old SOC
/ street, today filed suit in the District
Supreme Court for the annulment of
her marriage to Arthur S. Fields,
. which took place April last at Eli
colt City, Md. The petition says she
was working as soubrette in Il road
company when she was importuned
. b. Fields to marry him. She finally
consented and without permission of
her mother eloped to Ellicott City,
where she was married after Fields,
she alleged. had misrepresented her
age to the license clerk
Desertion is also charged in the Pc
ton filed by the young wife through
her mother. Mrs. Rebecca Lewis. At
.torney E. B. Frey appears for the petit
stioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

three grandchildren. The wife, Hazel
Knapp. Is given a house at James
town, r. l., and one in Chevy Chase.
Md. with the personal and household
effects. The remaining estate is de-
vised to the Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
of Baltimore, Md. in trust to pay
Dorothy NJ. Knapp $4,000 annually
for life and to pay the balance Of the
income to the wife. On the death of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
CONSTABLE FREED
IN DOUBLE Staying
Exonerated by Coroner's Jury in
Deaths of Two Non Union
Miners.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
P1TTSBURG. September 15.--Thom
as Drexler, a township constable and
boxer was eXonerated by a coroner
jury today of the Staying of two non
union coal miners a week ago near
the Moon Run mine of the Pitts
burch Coal Co.
DreXler was arrested on the strength
Of death-bed identification made
by James Fargo, one of the victims
The other miner was George Toots
also known as George Nehai of Cleve
land
The coroner's jury ordered Drex
ler freed when it was testified that
the dying man made only an uncer
tain identification of the constable as
resembling the slayer who fired after
asking Fargo and Nehai why they
did not join the union.
The coroner ordered an investiga
ton of a report made by Drexlers at
torney that he had heard the Staying
occurred outside the mining camp
with robbery as the motive, and that
the victims, one dead and the other
dying. were taken to the lonely sec
ton near Moon Run mine. where they
were found.
More than 1000, 000,0 900 pounds of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

either beneficiary her share IL to be
distributed among the four sons, Alex.
ander F.. Raleigh T.. John NJ. and
Maurice Knapp. Final distribution
among the children of these four sons
after their death is provided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
Messenger Jobs Available.

The Civil Service Commission to-
day announced examinations foi
junior messengers and assistant mes
sengers to fill vacancies to the de
partmental service here The en-
trance salary for Junior messenger
is 5000 year and for assistant
messenger 5000 a year. Full in
formation and application blanks
may be obtained from the commits
sion, 1924 + street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
KNAPP WILL GIVES HOMES
TO WIDOW, CASH TO SONS

The will of Alexander Payson Knapp
OF Chevy Chase. Md, who died Sep
tember =. was filed for probate yester-
day. He leaves $4,000 each to his
seven children and $1,000 each to his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

The new Rome-Constantinople sea,
plane service has two planes making
trips three times a week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

One-third of the homes in this coun
try have no bathtubs.
Evening star., 1927-04-14
PARK VIEW PUPILS WIN
SCHOOL PLAY CONTEST
THE Bad Baby Molar" Declared
Best Presenta ton in Dental
Society Competition.

THE Bad Baby Molar," a play pro
duced by IL sixth grade pupils of the
Park View School. yesterday after
noon was declared to be the best OF
all school plays produced in the con-
test conducted by the Dental Society
of the District.
In selecting the best the judges
came to a tie on the ones produced
by pupils of Macfarland Junior High
School and the Park View play. Yes
terday afternoon these plays were re-
enacted at their respective schools
for the judges. who declared the Park
View production to be the winner.
The Bad Baby Molar" will be
given a { the New National Museum
auditorium Tuesday night, when DR.
Frank w. Ballou. superintendent OF
schools, will award the prize--a silver
loving Cup--to the school.
Those in the Park View cast are;
Mary Simpson, Muriel Lank, Laign
Tibbet, Harry Williamson, Randolph
Hughes. Glen Jonscher, John Hay,
Frances Bushlow. Harry laval,
Louise Keneipp, Virginia Evans and
Anna Gelfand. Miss Grace Meyer
dramatic instructor at the school, di-
rected the cast.
Evening star., 1927-04-14
RAIN STILL FALLING.
Many Streams i'm Oklahoma and
Kansas at Flood Stage.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April IA LED.-
With rain continuing to fall steadily.
flood conditions menaced today in
Kansas and Oklahoma.
In Oklahoma, just south of the
Kansas line, Nowata County was ex
periencing the worst flood in its his
tory, while new and serious inunda-
tions were threatened in southeast
Kansas.
The Verdigris River at Independ
ence, Kans., went out of its banks
again this morning after the river
had dropped TO five feet below flood
stage yesterday. Farmers along the
! Verdigris as far south as Claremore,
Okla, have been notified to move out
of the lowIands.
Residents of the Horse Shoe Bend
vicinity, north of Coffeyville, who have
been out of their homes since last
Saturday, faced the prospect of still
another week end on higher and safer
ground.
The Verdigris had reached 80 feet
at Codys Bluff, Okla, and continued TO
rise. The previous high record was 80
feet and 5 inches in the flood of 1904
Rain continued with no sign of letup
Residents along the Arkansas River
near Tulsa, were warned to flee their
/ homes in the lowlands. The Grand
and Neosho Rivers were reported to be
| flooding large sections in the north
| eastern part of the State.
Two youths, Tom Dodson, 81, and
Elmer Manard, IS, of Delaware, Okla.
guarding the Missouri Pacific Bridge
over California Creek, were killed early
! today when struck by train. 1t is
| believed they fell asleep on the tracks
Streams in western and north centra
Kansas reached the food stage last
night Spring Creek and Big Greek
| tributaries of the Smoky Hill River
overflowed their banks, and the Solo
non River at Beloit was reported bank
| full today.
Snow covered the ground in north
west Kansas today, Goodland report
! ing one and one-half inches.
Evening star., 1927-04-14
100 Are MarOOned.

by high water and which drop on
passing craft and logs.
Evening star., 1927-04-14
Will Discuss Accidents.

Means of reducing the number of
highway grade crossing accidents dur
ing 1927 will be the principal subject
of discussion at the annual meeting of
the safety section of the American
Railway Association, to open Tuesday
in Chicago. Embarrassing accidents
took a toll of 2,492 lives and caused
injury to 6.991 persons during 1926.
AS part of the campaign for accident
reduction the railway association has
inaugurated an essay contest among
college. high school and grammer
school students.
Evening star., 1927-04-14
Had A. f. r. Post.
COLUMBUS, KY, CUT
OFF FROM OUTSIDE
AS LEVEE BREAKS

Continued from First Paeel
Evening star., 1927-04-14

FORT SMITH, Ark. April IA dp).-
One hundred persons are reported ma
rooned at Blaine. Okla, a village eight
miles north of Keota, on the Arkansas
River, where a bridge has been swept
away and the town is threatened.
Water was said to be two feet deep in
Blaine. Homes in Hartshone, Okla.
were reported standing Sn two feet of
a
Evening star., 1927-04-14
DINNER FOR MACDONALD D.
American Federation Of Labor Will
Honor Former Prime Minister.

A dinner will be given in honor of
Ramsay Macdonald. former prime
minister of Great Britain, who will be
in Washington next Wednesday and
Thursday, by the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor
next Wednesday night at the Hamil-
ton Hotel, it was announced today at
American Federation of Labor head
quarters
A program is being arranged in
which international union leaders will
participate.
Evening star., 1927-04-14
Situation More Serious.

NEW ORLEANS. April IA 0pl.-Re.
cent heavy and frequent rains over the
middle Mississippi Valley and western
tributaries of the Mississippi River
have augmented the flood waters and
Increased the seriousness of the situa-
ton. revised river forecast and flood
warning issued by the United States
Weather Bureau said here today.
Evening star., 1927-04-14
TRAFFIC HEAD POST
WAITS FOR RULING
Commissioners Desire DeCi-
sion on Retired Army Of
fiCer'S Availability.

The District Commissioners today
awaited an opinion from Controller
General McCarl as to the legality of
appointing a retired Army officer as
traffic director to fill the vacancy
created by the demotion of NJ. O.
Eldridge to assistant director.
The Commissioners want to give
the post to Brig. Gen. Henry Jervey,
retired engineer officer. of Friendship
Heights. Md, who, it is understood,
is willing to accept it providing there
is no conflict with the various statues
relating to retired officers of the
Army serving in compensate posi-
tions.
Appealed in Person.
Mr.. McCarl was asked for an opinion
Friday by Commissioners Dougherty
and Taliaferro. who called on him pei
sonally. An early reply is expected
in view of the desire of the Commits
sioners to fill the office of traffic di-
rector as soon as practicable.
Commissioner Dougherty revealed
today that Gen. Jervey is particularly
desired as traffic director. because of
his enviable record as an Army engi-
neer and his experience in handling
traffic.
Had A. f.. r. Post.
Gen. Jervey. the Commissioner
pointed out. had direct charge of all
of the transportation problems of the
American eXpeditionary force during
the war.
The appointment of Gen Jervey
probably will be made tomorrow if q
favorable opinion is received from the
Controller General in the meantime.
Otherwise. the Commissioners will
wait until next week.
Evening star., 1927-04-14

The Apache motor trail, Maricopa
County, Ariz., follows approx
mately the route used by the Apache
Wild" and his band of warriors in raids
on white settlements in the early sos.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14
TT WAS AN EYESORE ONCE.

The hitching post has taken it's place with those other de- parted symbols of an older civ iliZation, the hanson cab, the cigar store wooden Indian, the watering trough and the livery ,table. Those who have lived 70 see towns grow from a vil- lage of the horse-age to cities of the motor-age and those who have migrated from vil- !age to city will remember the )ld hitching post with its iron horsehead, or the hitching rail in front of the general store in front of which Old Dobbin and the mare--impati- ent to start for home--had stamped deep hollows in the earth, which formed mudholes greater part of the year.
 Yes, now that the hitching post is passing into obsoles- cence and extinction there is continent and romance attach ed to it. How different was mans reaction to it while it dominated village curbs! As long as there was a hitching post or rail in front of every store and before the more pre-. sentious houses they were com monly considered eyesores and traffic (pedestrian) obstruct-
 ons. Like so many other shings nobody associated TO- nance or tradition with the hitching post until it was in disuse.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS

stamps as utterly interruptions and untrustworthy those who gave them publicity. The stock investing public could not be expected to know this, and, as a result, lent ready assistance to the scheme to dispossess them of their holdings.
 During the extended period of depression Premier stock quotations reached the lowest level attained since the inaug. uration of the company, de- spite the fact that the Premier is one of the largest dividend paying mines in Canada and it's daily output of 800 tons is the largest in the mines hist ory.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14
BACK TO NORMAL

Premier quotations, after weeks of depression, are back to normal, reports from south ern markets disclose. This is as it should be and the news is gratifying. Although for a time loath to believe that such could be the case, we can no longer doubt that the slump was due almost if not entirely to misrepresentative reports published by an interruptions brokerage concern in the south regarding conditions at the mine. That these discrediting reports were based upon the mere word of a discharged and consequently disgruntled form. CT member of the Premier. staff, whose every word be. trayed his enmity toward the mine management, is not only a sufficient commentary or their reliability but also
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14
ST. VALENTINES DAY!

What delightful memories it brings to those who have older grown, what thrills and hopes to the younger!
 There is none too young to feel the throb of the gentle passion; none so old but that his memory goes back to the day when he first slipped sly ly beneath his youthful sweetheart's door a token of his tender feelings for her.
 " 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," wrote the poet, and it is true, whether the loss be that of the lover who has seen his sweetheart throw her self into the arms of a rival swain, or who has stood by her bier in the later years to say a last farewell. In either case the mellowing influences of love leave their tender memories, and life is made up of memories. Memories bright en life's dark corners, afford solace to the wounded heart and are the things dreams are made of.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14
Just for Fun

You have to keep out of the ruts on the road to success.
 Sweet revenge is as bitter as gall after you get it.
 He who laughs last has told the joke.
 Many things are true that can't be proven.
 A girl doesn't have to be on the stage to be a show girl.
 The Blueberry Kid says noth- ing makes a fool grow like flattery.
 Bad luck walters should re- member that the best of luck is plenty of pluck.
 The person who never makes a mistake never makes any, thing.
 You can reblock a hat, says Dave Allan, but there is no remedy for blockhead.
 There goes another life,'' cried the cat as it crawled out from under the steam roller.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14
THE OVERLOOKING
 WORLD

Since the rapid development of modern methods of com munication and transportation the world has shrunk so that, with the people of the earth. continually growing larger one nation, be it ever so small and apparently insignificant, can not turn over, nor squirm, nor stretch, nor jounce out an el- bow without jostling the other nations. Indeed, the interlock- ing relationships have become such a may network that it is not merely the adjacent nat ions on all sides which are af- fected by movement or move ments of any given nation. But if one nation progresses, if it retrogrades, if it trembles with a convulsion, or expands with an effort or a development of any kind, all other nations, nearby and remote--even to the uttermost parts of the earth are affected.
 If one country were the sole producer or source of one nec- essary commodity and some disaster should reduce that production to nothing or wipe out that source when the dis tributed supply in other lands should become exhausted the world would be affected in business and in living condit- ions by the famine in that one commodity.
 And the same principle ap- plies to nearly all articles of trade. Drought in areas in Asia has it's effect on Ameri- can business; a strike in Eng land has it's effect upon busi- ness in South America; legis- lation touching certain lines in America will mean much to Australia. The nations cannot live unto themselves--even in business. And through other interests the same principle holds with perhaps less tang ible grip but with no less cert ainty of the fact. This is a world of people of one race of humanity--an ever-shrinking world as measured by natural or invisible ties that bind the
 'Ieq49Sol u9m 10 seq!I4
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14

Pete Wilson says few things in the world taste as good as they look, and it may be that this is true of flappers, too.
 Civilization is a complicated system that defeats it's own ends by making it easier for weddings to survive.
 Another good way to keep from eating too much is to buy a used car and keep it in run ming order.
 It's almost impossible to help a man who overestimates his own ability.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14

Aviator to colored steward 1: "How would you like to have a hop?"
 Steward: "No sah; I stays on terra firmah, and the more firmah the less terrah."
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14

When I was up in the mount aims 1 came upon an old pros pector standing outside a cave. He told me he had just found treasure hidden inside. What is it?" I asked, Quartz Nav" he whisper ed, "Pints".
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-02-14

She--"Did I show you where I was tattooed?"
 He--"No; show me-"
 She--" "All right; we'll drive around that way when we go home."