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final enactment with these pro-
visions:
l. Designation Of earning power
instead of market value as the de-
termining factor in real estate as
sessment.
2. Limitation of tax collections to
So on zach 500 of taxable property,
and in no instance to more than 20
per cent of the normal annual net
income produced by property de-
pendent for value upon it's earnings
8. Right of appeal from state tax
board decisions on assessment dis.
putes.
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DENVER, Colo. March 12.-Tht
sun shone on the Southern Rocky
Mountain section today after two
day storm which crippled traffic
rail, auto. telegraph and telephone
Forty school children, forced to stay
in the town of Wray by snow drifts
have been taken to their homes. Rail
roads are blocked by the worst drifts
in ycarg
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Ann Arbor Students
Using Stink Bomb.

ANN ARBOR. Mich. March IL
Differences between local theatres
and the students. which resulted
in IA riot last Monday night. broke
out afrosh last night when a stini.
bomb was hurled into the Arcade
theatre. Patrons fled and the show
was closed
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postcards back to Iowa, Kansas and
Oklahoma,
Apparently they are under very
little supervision and many are
heard to remark how easy it would
be to break the glass and help ones
self to cogple of million dollar
crowns or sceptre or two. But the
last serious attempt to raid the
Crown Jewels was made by Colonel
Blood in 1871 and he never recover.
ed
The Jewel Room in the Tower of
London is as nearly burglarproof as
human ingenuity can devise. The
(Contin2ed ca lA2e Threo)
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TIE D1f ~ THE
LEGISLATURE
In the Senate
L -

BillS Introduced:
S. T. No. 9, Mr. Frame. APP
propriating 100000 for road
from Anchorage to Matanuslta.
Referred to Committee on Taxa
tion, etc.
S. b. No. 10, Mr.. Frame. To
amend Section one. Chapter p,
Session Laws of 1919, relative
to filing of mortgages of per-
sonal property, etc. Referred
to Committee ON Judiciary.
In the House
House met in routine session
and adjourned until 2 p. III.
Monday.
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SlTKh MAN
IS SUICIDE

SlTKA, Alaska, March f2.- Chris
Larsen was found dead in his baka
shop this morning q suicide BY hang
ing himself 10 the doorknob. He was
found by his wife. A eoroner's jury
was quickly impaneled and returned
a verdict Of death by strangulation. .
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PILOT ED YOUNG
IS AT M'CRATH
Flies Over Alaska Range at
High Altitude in Good
Time from Anchorage

McGRATH. Alaska, March 12.-
Ed Young, pilot of the four-passen-
ger plane of the Anchorage Air
ansportation Company which left
Anchorage at noon yesterday landed
on the ice of the Tacotna River
here at 2:15 o'clock yesterday after
noon. Young flew over the Alaska
Range, via Broad Pass, at an alti-
tude of 1000 feet.
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When religious frenzy threw the
Plains Indians for the middlewest
into the so-called "Ghost Dance Up
risngs" of 1890 and 1891, the sage
counsels of I-See-O, KiOwa army
scout, held the Kiowa and Comanche e
tribes from participating in the dis
orders that were quelled among 9th
err tribes only after considerable
bloodshed.
For his services as peacemaker
given the permanent rank of sergeant
and an Indian scout, I-See-O was
in the United States army and wore
the khaki until his death. Thus he,
perhaps, was the oldest soldier on
the army's active list
I-See-O's exact age was not known,
but when he enlisted in 1913 for the
last time, he gave it as 65.
Born on a reservation near Larned
Kans, near the middle of the nine
teenth century. I-See-O, whose name
fCoufiuuod m poUa CtvN
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CREW AT ThKU HARBOR

Thirty-fye men with II. a. Berry
at the head, are putting the Libby,
McNeill and Libby cannery at Taku
Harbor in condition for next years
operations They cane north on the
Alaska this week.
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Widely Known Artist
Eludes Nurses, Suicide:

CONCORD. Mass, March 12.-
Miss Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts,
widely known artist, eluded two
nurses who have been attending her
during her illness, tied rope
around her neck and jumped over
the banister of the stairway.
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Billiard Championship
Contest Is on Tonight

WASHINGTON, March 12.-Welker
for the 1872 balkline billiard champ
ionship of the world tonight as the
result of Cochran suffering his first
defeat last night again Hoppe 33T
IN 2O2
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TWO FlREMEN KILLED, 13
INJURED IN CHICAGO FIRE

CHICAGO. March 1.-Two fire
men were killed and - injured late
yesterday afternoon when an ex-
plosion occurred during fire in the
Chemical Company's plant.
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THORNTON SCJRRENDERS W SEATTLE
Six Mwderery Stage Jail Break; Rpvnmjuq Gtm Battle
Gambling May
BE u ude Open
In Ncuada

RENO, New, March r. Tha
State Assembly has passed bill
to leealze wide open gambling
i'll the state. The vote was 29
to II with spirited debate pre-
eedinS The roll call The measure
now goes TO the State Senate
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TRY A BLUFF

SHANGHAI, March 12.-Five hun.
dred Shangtungese soldiers attempt
ed an armed invasion of the Inter
national Settlement but two British
Guards refused them passage Two
hundred Durham light infantrymen
ready to go rushed up for action
but the Shangtungese retired and
the Settlement guards were doubled
Bankers are worried over Gen.
Chang Tsung-Chang's demand for
money to finance his defense OF
Shanghai
The second anniversary of the
death of DR.. Sun Vat Sen, pioneer
Chinese Republican, was observed
today.
Many factories are closed and la
Dor unrest is increasing with strikes
multiplying.
Reports say the Cantonese may
start a big drive to capture Shanghai
next week
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Is Still Alive

BUENOS AIRES, March IA dis
patch received this afternoon from
Sac Pauo, says the American Consal
is still alive, in the hospital but his
condition is grave.
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ESCAPE WITH $4,000

NEW YORK, March IL. Six
masked men gagged and bound three
candy company employees early to-
day, dynamited the safe and escaped
with $50 900.
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HAllBUT PRICES

PRINCE RUPERT, b. c., March -
Thirteen thousand pounds of hall
but was all ordered for sale today
American sold for 10 and 1850 cents
and Canadian for IL and 1850 cents.
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FORT SILL Okla, March r.
I-See-O, last of the famous Indian
scouts, died at his tent home on
the army reservation last night.
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A Sunday law in Chile provides
that alcoholic drinks may be sold
in public places only if served with
food.
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Evening star., 1927-02-02

Gay with bunting and floral decora'
tions. with the traditional pots of tea
and favors ready for all callers, Wash
ingtons Chinatown, in it's warm but
particular spirit of festivity, quietly
welcomed in the New Year today.
This mid Winter day heralded the
advent of the sixteenth year of the
Republic of China in that strip of
Pennsylvania avenue between Third
street and John Marshall place--the
season for calling and exchanging
gifts. the season for wiping the year S
slate clean of debts and starting in
anew on credit and loss, the season
when Chinese orchestras strum out
high treble tunes of welcome to the
Good Luck God.
Temple i'm Festive Attire.
The celebration will continue for
two weeks. The temple of the On
Leong Chinese Merchants Associa-
ton. on the fourth floor of that quiet
looking building at 335 Pennsylvania
savenue, is brilliantly beaming in its
annual holiday attire. On the altar
fruits of choice variety are grouped;
fowls are dressed and garnished in
elaborate fashion. incense ascends to
the ceiling. filling the room with an
exotic aroma.
Charlie 500. the mayor of China
town. and George Wen, his deputy.
vice president of the association, stand
az the door to greet the holiday crowds
of Oriental residents. A large orches-
ira composed of violins which resem-
BILE mallets with hollow heads, over
which are drawn two strings. and bows
which are actually bows. and clarinets
Evening star., 1927-02-02
CHINATOWN. IN FESTIVE ATTIRE.
WELCOMES NEW YEAR TODAY
Settlement on Pennsylvania Avenue Her
aids Republic Anniversary with
Joyous Celebration.

of ancient make; gongs, cynbals,
drums and fiutes-all symphonic in
producing the ancient songs of the by.
gone dynasties which We're old when
Confucius was young.
At the Hip Sing Association head
quarters. 325 Pennsylvania avenue,
the same spirit of welcome pervades
the store of Lee Soon Yum. Past diff.
ferences apparently are forgotten be.
tween the Hip Sings and On Leongs.
Both are content to live in their own
lanes of life in peace.
War Means Little.
The fact that war RACES in China
has no effect on the local celebration,
it seems. Even in China thousands
are but an infinitesimal part of the
population, and the vaster numbers
according to local Chinese savants,
are enjoying their New Year day in
streets which are laned by lighted
multi-colored lanterns to the accom-
paniment of incessant fire-cracker ex-
plosions New Year day is something
to be taken festively and seriously by
the Chinese. And the local contingent
believes in celebrating it properly.
Thine vhf1a pennsv1ya pia ovep,,a' q
Evening star., 1927-02-02
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Evening star., 1927-02-02
S7,OLO,ODD mansion
SOLD TO OBU|LDER
nClark's FoIIy,' Bringing
Less Than $4,000, 600, to
Be Displaced by Apartment.
~ the A.soclaLed Press.

~ the Associated Press.
A NEW YORK, February 2-The ST.,
0Oo, 900 granite mansion of the late
Senator William A. Clark, Montana
copper king, is the latest Fifth avenue
landmark to give way before New
Yorks architectural renaissance.
s. Anthony Campo gna, operator and
builder, has purchased it for less than
So 000. 900; a $T,000,00 12-story CO
Operative apartment house, the suites
of which will sell as high as $350,0OO,
will be erected on the site.
The famous granite pile at Seventy
seventh street and Fifth avenue. dub
bed "Clarks hobby" and CLARK s
folly in prose and poetry, will be
razed in a month.
Built on Elaborate Plans.
8 Plans drawn by the foremost archi,
tects of the United States and France
and revised by Senator Clark were
carried out in construction Is years
ego of an architectural monstrosity
containing 159 rooms. Thirty-one
baths, four art galleries, hidden ga
rage. 21 servants rooms, a swimming
pool and several dining rooms are in
cluded in the massive structure.
Materials from all parts of the world
were used. Granite from a New Hamp-
shire quarry purchased by the Sena-
tor. more than 200 tons of bronze were
made in New York factory which he
purcha sed, oak came from Sherwood
Forest, imported walls and windows
from French chateau and three
kinds of marble went into the prop
erty.
Campagna said he would have given
$10e, 900 more for the property with
cut the mansion. More than half the
purchase price represents the value of
15,400 square feet of land on which the
Clark home stands. Builders consid-
cred the mansion worthless, except for
second hand material.
Outlines of New Building.
Apartments in the new building will
range in size from 13 rooms and 6
baths to is rooms and baths. Each
room will cost about $50. 900.
Neither king nor emperor ever had
q palace similar to the Clark dwell
ing said tax experts of the mansion
that will fall in the steady demolition
of town houses of wealth and fashion.
Last Summer the Astor mansion, at
Sixty-fifth street, was removed; the
Phipps house is to go soon: the home
that Elbert H. Gary said he would
never allow disturbed has been turned
over for apartment development. and
the Stuyvesant Fish house, at Sixty.
third street, regarded as Fifth ave-
nue. social rendezvous, has passed.
Only a few more relics of the old
homes of the avenue remain for the
wrecker to claim.
Evening star., 1927-02-02

street cars pass in routine way with
their daily crowds to work and home,
the Orient lives in glamour and bril-
lance behind the plain fronts of China
towns homes.
Washingtonians friendly with these
people will visit them during the COM
ing two weeks. They will And, as al
ways, the warmest sort of welcome.
always characterized, however, by the
reserve which is inherent with the
Chinese.
festive color, is rampant. White, the
color of mourning, Is unseen except
on the prayer cards reverently gracing
the wall of the temple room. China
town is celebrating. And it will not
be over for another two weeks.
Evening star., 1927-02-02

Many Property Owners Receive
Personal Returns.

Approximately $4,000 personal tax
returns for the 1927-1s2s fiscal year
have been mailed to property owners
in the District, it was announced yes
terday at the office of Tax Assessor
William p. Richards. The returns
should be filed in March under the
new law, which changed the tax-pa%
ing months from May and November
to March and September.
Announcement also was made that
the second installment of the 1926
1927 taxes on real. personal tangible
and intangible property will be due
next month. With the returns for the
next fiscal year also due that month,
it was pointed out that property own
ers could handle both transactions
with but one visit to the District
ptIiIdinc
Evening star., 1927-02-02
Toolin Will Beuuests.

The will of Mrs. Henrietta B. Toolin,
who died January Is, was offered yes
terday for probate. She leaves 1000
TO her husband, Francis NJ. Toolin, and
gives 81 900 to her brother, DR.. Francis
b. Brightwell. A legacy Of 81 900 and
the family silver are left to a niece,
Frances l3rightwell. A cousin, Mar
garet D. Br1ghtwell. Is to have $1,000
and a diamond ring. The remaining
estate is devised to another cousin,
Martha B. Wilson. Margaret ID.
Brightwell and David E. Wilson are
named as executors
Evening star., 1927-02-02
Mykt it deny you teeth beauty

the softest enamel-or dentists
wouldn't use it.
So enchanting whiteness is
yours without fear of enamel
injury.
Why ORPHOS alone can
remove ''YeIloev Mask"
Yellow mask is due to a liquid
cement" in your saliva. CLUES
to your teeth-then hardens.
Tobacco, food and coffee stain
it yellow.
Hard and slippery, this mask
battles all other dentifrices.
They glide right over it-like
one piece of ice over another.
Because it takes "Tri-Calcium
Phosphate" to remove it
and ORPHOS TOOTH PASTE
has il!
Evening star., 1927-02-02

of the American Railway Express Co.
They were married July 4. 1914, and
have two children. The wife charges
that her husband attacked her with a
knife and threatened her life. She Is
represented by Attorney J. J. O'Brien.
Evening star., 1927-02-02

SMILE-in your mirror.
What do you see?
An unbecoming yellowish tinge
on the teeth! If you see it,
others see it. And, quite un-
consciously, their estimate of
you is lowered.
For all teeth enamel is white
"a cleaning ivory white.
Then why, you ask, do mine
retain that thin yellowish hue
Il brush my teeth
religiouslyl
Evening star., 1927-02-02
Wife Sues for Divorce.

Cruelty and desertion are alleged In
the petition of Mrs. Gladys M. Chand
Ter for a limited divorce and alimony
from William A. Chandler, an employe
Evening star., 1927-02-02
Accept This Amazing Offer
This Week Only!

You want teeth loveliness We want you to have it,
So we make you this extraordinary Offer Clip coupon
shown. 1t is worth 21c to you. Bring 1t to any of
our stores and we will give you a large SOC tube of
oRPHos, containing enough for 1oz brushings, for
only 2o cents! Act quickly-for stock is limited!
Evening star., 1927-02-02
What is this
Magic Substance?

1t is "Tri-Calcium Phosphate" "
This material is what your dem
tist uses for cleaning and pol
ishing teeth. And you know
what miracles of beauty he
effects!
Just fancy the loveliness
awaiting you from daily use of
that precious substance!
The name of the tooth paste
composed of this magic sub
stance is ORPHOS.
Of course, it can't scratch
Evening star., 1927-02-02

Because only now has dental
science successfully found the
means of embodying in pleas
ant-tasting tooth paste the one
and only substance that will
remove that yellow mask.
Evening star., 1927-04-28
BAL LTIMORE CUNTS
TRY OUT new RULES

BALTIMORE, Nd. April 2S.-To
drihbIe or not TO dribble was the
ouestion last night at the 104th Medl-
cal Regiment Armory, where the new
amateur basket bali rules were given
trial in two exhibition games. Chlef
among the innovations is the restric-
tion of the dribble to one bounce, the
nenaIty for its violation being TO
award the bali out of bounds to the
opposing team.
In tbe first game the Govans
Pleasure Club defeated the 104th
service Co. % to 12, and in tire
major contest, between Catholic
League clubs, the champion Berch~
mann conquered the Lithuanian
Americans, 46 to 40.
Several salient changes worked by
tbA innovation were so pronounced
last night that it is sure basket ban
will present itself in an entirely dlt-
ferent cuise. SO far as amateur play
is concerned, when next season gets
under way
The new game seems faster; W
ona DIaver can control the ball for
anv length of time. He receives 1t,
NAV take one bounce and then must
mas or shoot. The tive-man defense,
contrary to expectations. seemed as
good as the man-fOr-man last night.
Abolition of the dribble makes all
the players take part in the game in
rapid sequence and results in better
condition being necessary for the fast
pace set.
The pivot. bounce pass and cut-ln
PLAYS all win be stressed more. ana
there will be a premium on forWardS
who can enjoy any amount Of success
with long or medium shots. AS the
defense of the new style is learned
more thoroughly. guards will be less
cautious in tying up the opposing
PLAYERS and lower scores are almost
certain to be the outcome.
Evening star., 1927-04-28

the regulation 5, but Hagen's tee
shot was bad and he got a dis
couraging lie. A brassie shot also
proved bad, the ball going into the
air for so yards.
''I was facing my crisis" Hagen
relates. There was the ditch still
to carry and the intervening space
beyond the green. I took a full
brassie shot. The ball flew straight
to the green and stopped about 4
yards from the cup.
MY putt went in. I had birdie
4 and decided then and there that
was going to win the British open
title
Hagen was the first native Amer
lean to take the coveted honor.
Two years later, at Hoylake, he re-
peated.
Walter recalls how different had
been his experience on the first trip
to England several years before he
Evening star., 1927-04-28
MASONIC FIELD DAY
TO BE HELD JUNE rs

June 25 has been set for the four
teenth annual Masonic field day at
Clark Griffith Stadium featuring the
regular base ball games between
Almas Temple and Kallipolis Grotto
In addition to the ball game, which
will start at 3 o'clock, there will be
a number of interesting features. in
Guiding an automobile race, burlcsque
chariot race, boxing match, commu-
Evening star., 1927-04-28
AUDITORS WIN FLAG
IN DUCkPIN LEAGUE

Auditors won the flag in Southern
Dairies' Duckpin League, holding
four-game edge over the second-place
Ice Department, final figures an
nounced today show. Accounting was
third, 10 games behind the runner-up,
and Sterretts fourth, five tits in the
wake of Accounting. Final league
figures follow:
Evening star., 1927-04-28

won the open title. On this occa-
sion he finished somewhere around
thirty-second place. He left the
field with the determination he
would return and conquer.
In addition to the British open
championship, Hagen has been ma
tionaI open titleholder several
times, metropolitan winner thrice,
Western open victor twice, and pos
SCISSOR of the professional golfers
laurels in 1924, 1925 and 1926. He
is captain of the American profess
sional team in this years interna-
tional matches.
Evening star., 1927-04-28

Watch the progress of the Pan
American Flight as recorded in the
newspapers and in our advertisements.
Evening star., 1927-04-28
SILVER KING WINNER
OF 11O-MILE FLIGHT

Silver King, flying to the loft of f.
c. Whitmore, was the winner of the
opening old bird race under auspices
of the Aero Racing Pigeon Club,
vincing the 110 miles from Cumber-
land. Md, in 121 minutes for an
average speed per minute of more
than 1000 yards. A total of 1870
birds from 81 lofts competed, being
released at S:45 am. Silver King
finished at 10:46 am.
Summaries showing the average
speed in yards per minute of the
first arrival to each loft follow:
Evening star., 1927-04-28
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT.
BY the Associated Press.

By tHB AssOcIdtHu TFeBSs
WILMINGTON, Calf. Jackie
Dugan, Louisville, Ky. and Jimmy
Hackley, San Pedro, drew Q0).
OCEAN PARK, Calif.-Patsy Elan.
nagan, st. Louis, beat Jimmy Fox,
Los Angeles (6).
SAN FRANCISCO.-M Rock.
son, Boise. Idaho. defeated Marcel
Thuru, France Q0).
Evening star., 1927-04-28
Rv the Associated press.


Walter Hagen's spectacular golf
ing career has brought thrill after
thrill. But the national profess
sional champion believes his great
est moment came in Sandwich,
England, in 1922. when he won the
British open title for the first time.
The thrill was not in the winning
of the title so much as in an cpl
sode at the sixteenth hole of the
first round. which Hagen says gave
him the confidence that led to vic
tory.
Jock Hutchison was playing just
ahead of Walter and was going
fine. A year previously Hutchison
had won the title. There was the
460-yard sixteenth hole, par 8,
known as the "Suez Canal" be-
cause of a deep ditch before the
green.
Hutchinson went through, taking
Evening star., 1927-04-28

Purses given at Winter tracks are
increasing yearly and a new record
was established in 1927, when horse
men received $3.1Ss.75s during the sss
days of the sport at New Orleans. Tia.
juana, Juarez and on Florida and
Cuban tracks.
Evening star., 1927-04-28

nifty singing. music by brass bands and
varied other attractions.
Proceeds will go to pay the debt on
the children's dormitory a. the Ma
sonic and Eastern Star Home.
A committee of the aMsters. and
Matrons' Associations Of 1927, of
which J.. T. X. Plant is chairman, and
A. L. Ebersole, secretary. is in charge.