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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
u. S. OPPOSES D|Az
ON PROTECTORATE
Treaty Proposed by Nicara-
guam President Faces Re-
lection by Coolidge.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Such a treaty as that proposed by
President Diaz of Nicaragua. setting
up virtually an American protectorate
over that country for 100 years, is
not the sort desired by the United
States under it's policy to help stabil-
ize conditions in Central America, in
the belief of President Coolidge.
Announcement of his position at
the White House yesterday clearly
foreshadowed a rejection Of the Diaz
proposal.
Must Solve Own Problem.
The President feels that while the
Washington Government is prepared
to assist any Central American coun-
try in any way 1t can while at the
same time maintaining its own rights
and those of its nationals. Nicaragua
and her neighbors should be permitted
to work out their own national prob
lens.
1t was explained that it was in
conformity with this policy of letting
the Central American States find for
themselves a way out of recurring
revolutions and attendant disorders
and property destruction that the
United States withdrew her Marines
from Nicaragua prior to the political
upheaval that sprouted into the Civil
War now going on between the Liber.
ais and Conservatives.
Policy win Stand.
The Washington Government, it was
said at the White House. has no in.
tention of altering this general policy
but proposes to take steps to protect
its own rights and the lives and prop.
erty of its citizens, especially when
there is evidence Of interference by
any other power i'm the internal af
| fairs of Central American Republics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
GAS CASE IS LIKELY
TO GET FIRST CALL
Utilities Commissioners Call
at White House to
Thank President.

The Washington Gas Light valua.
ton case probably viii be the first
big case upon which the new Public
Utilities Commission will 6frect it's at,
tention.
President Coolidge was informed to
this effect today when the members
of the commission and Ralph b.
Fleharty, the peoples counsel. called
at the White House to formally pay
their respects and to ask the Presi-
dent if he had any suggestions to
make in connection with their work.
John w. ChiIdress. chairman of the
commission, and Col. Harrison Brand,
the two civilian members of that body,
who, with Mr.. F'leharty, were per-
sonal appointments of the President,
took this opportunity to thank the
President for the honor he had con-
ferred upon them and the confidence
he had shown in selecting them for
this important public service.
President Keenly Interested.
The President showed keen in
terest in the public utility situation in
Washington during his brief talk
with these callers, and asked num-
ber of questions concerning utilities
and the laws governing them, and
cited features of the utilities law of
Massachusetts, with which he is very
familiar, having been a member of
the State Senate of that State as well
as mayor of Northampton.
1t was indicated by the President
that he was anxious to know if the
Commission had arrived at any con-
clusions regarding how it proposed to
proceed, and especially whether or not
1t had decided upon a program for
taking up the more important cases
that are pending. in answer to this
inquiry. the Commission informed the
President that they had mapped out a
tentative program of procedure and
told him that while they had not def
nitely decided upon the question of
taking up the more important cases,
it was felt that it would probably be
advisable to proceed first with the
Washington Gas Light valuation.
The President was informed also
that the Capital Traction valuation
and the Potomac Electric Power rate
case as well as the merger of the
local traction companies were among
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Adjourning from the dance floor, by
mutual agreement, to an unroped
circle on Harvard street. near the
entrance to the Zoo, two youthful
gladiators essayed 10 settle a little
argument early today by staging q
highly exciting impromptu fistic
match, only to run afoul of unsympa-
thetic police.
Just what the difference was about
Is yet a moot point, but when Lieut..
Stott and a squad of policemen from
No. 10 precinct dashed up to the scene
in patrol wagon, they found the
fight at its very height, with both
participants partially stripped for the
fray and with punched noses and cut
faces bearing evidence of the earnest
ness of the combatan
Found Lightly Clad.
The principals, according TO the
police, were Horace Wade Trice, %.
of 122 Twelfth street northeast, and
William Robert Lyman. 81, of 1912
Floral street. Both young men for
feited SIS collateral on disorderly con.
duct charges in Police Court today.
From all available accounts, the set
to was a most gentlemanly affair-of-
honor, with both contestants conduct
ing themselves strictly. according to
Marquis of Queensbury rules until ar
rival of the police.
Then the crowd of eager onlookerS,
some 20 or 80 in number, and the
fighters themselves, scattered in all
directions. The, latter forgot to stop
for their clothes, and Lyman. police
say, was arrested half an hour later
in a clump of bushes near the Ar
gonne Apartment house-attired only
in his shirt and an overcoat loaned
him by friend.
Round Up Several.
Lieut.. Stott and his men encoun-
tered considerable difficulty in round
ing UP the fugitives, but finally they
arrived back at the stati6nhouse with
half dozen or so of the spectators
most of them friends and supporters
Of the opposing youths.
One police version Of the affair today
was to the effect that the controversy,
at its ohtsa. Started over a young
lady. NeitheT Trice nor Lyman was
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BRITISH DRIVE BACK
500 SHANTUNGESE
|NSHANCHA| MARCH
Clash Is Averted at Entrance
of Foreign Area When
Chinese Retreat.
CHANG WORRIES CITY
BY $4,000, 600 DEMAND
Defending General Asks Money for
Military Expenses-Cantonese
to Attack Soon.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The first attempted invasion OF the
international settlement at Shanghai
bv armed Shantungese soldiers oc
CURED today.
A group numbering about 3oo ap
preached the settlement, but 200 Brit
ish soldiers of the Durham Llght IN
fantry were rushed up and the Shan'
tungese withdrew.
Guards about the international set
tlement at Shanghai were doubled
this afternoon.
Native Bankers Worried.
Native bankers at Shanghai are
worried over the demands OF Gen.
Chang Tsung Chang, Shantungese
leader, for money to finance his de-
fense of the city against the Can
tonese.
The second anniversary of the death
of DIR. Sun Vat Sen, pioneer Chlnese
Republican leader, was observed al
Shanghai today, many factories fail
ing to open. Labor unrest there Is
increasing andt strikes multiplying.
Big Offensive Expected.
Despite the bad weather Chang
Tsung Chang continues to bring up
reinforcements to defend Shanghai.
According to reports in London the
cantonese may start big drive 10
capture Shanghai within a week.
Business activities are resuminS at
Wuhu, on the YangtZe River, where
anti-foreign riots occurred a rev
days ago.
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AMERICAN CONSUL
IN BRAZIL KNITTED
Condition Is Grave-U. S.
Citizen Is Accused of Stab
bling Official.

Bv The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina. March
IA dispatch to La Nacion from
Sac Paulo, Brazil. today said Hern-
don w Goforth. American consul
there. was still in the hospital today,
in a grave condition from the knife
wounds inflicted upon him yesterday.
His assailant, an American giving the
name David Caffield. is 73 years old.
and has been a resident of Brazil
since 1871.
About two years ago, the dispatch
says, CaffieId made an effort to return
to the United States. but found that
he could not obtain passport. Re-
Gently he had again been pressing. the
consular authorities in this connection.
He called at the consulate at about
10 O'Clock yesterday morning and
talked violently to Mr.. Goforth. Final
ly he produced knife and stabbed
the consul several times. He told the
police that he had acted in self
defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
EUROPEAN POLITICAL TENSION
GROWS AS RUSSIA PROTESTS
Note Sent to Italy on Latters Stand IN
Bessarabian Problem-Latvian Treaty
Is Wedge Against League.

Lithuania and Poland seems to nave
failed Grave frontier incidents are re-
ported with Lithuanian incursioIs
over the Polish frontier, severai houI
of fighting and considerable loss u
life.
Great Britain has persuaded ger
many to resume commercial relations
with Poland. but Foreign Minister
Stresemann has safeguarded Ger
many's Russian policy by statlng
publicly that Germany needs 10 Worh
closely with Russia.
France Proceeds Cautiously.
France, meanwhile, is proceeding
cautiously. Herr Stresemann. at For
eign Minister Chamberlain's request,
has consented to postpone his demand
for evacuation of the Rhineland until
June. On the Saar issue, compro'
mise is being sought. France, Great
Britain and Poland are doing their
best to persuade Russia to participate
in the forthcoming disarmament con-
ference at Geneva. Switzerland mas
been persuaded to offer special gov
ernment protection to the Russian
delegates If they consent to attend
but Russia apparently means to re-
fuse.
France and Italy still have not been
invited, even as observers, to the
three power naval conference pro-
posed by President Coolidge to be
held at Geneva in June.
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MACHINE GUNS KILL
TWO IN GANG WAR
Chicagoans Shot to Death in
Auto-Third Man Slain
in Front of Home.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 12.-Gangland' s
truce has ended.
Two henchmen of Joe Salts, who
recently signed a peace pact with
members Of rival band of liquor
gangsters, were slain late last night
when they were riddled with machine
gun bullets poured into their autorino.
bile nthe West Side.
A Staying earlier in the evening also
was linked by police to renewal OF
the warfare.
Belief existed that Salts himself
may have been an intended victim
of the fusilcade, as the car in which
his slain lieutenants were riding be-
longed to the South Side gang leader
Whisky Arrests Blamed.
The recent arrest of four men who
We're siphoning whisky from Gov
ernment warehouse holding 81 .00O, ,000
worth of pre-prohibition liquor was be
leived to have started gangland seeth
ing
Rumors were prevalent that the ar
rests were the result of a tip-off by
liquor rivals, and reprisals were ex
pected.
The men slain last night were
Frank Lefty" Koncil and Frank
Hubacek, who had several aliases
police said. The man killed earlier in
the night was Benjamin Schneider
real estate dealer and reputed com
panion of North Side bootleggers.
Koncil and Hubacek were found
dead near Thirty.ninth street and
Ashland avenue. Nearby stood the
large expensive automobile in which
they had been riding.
Big Hole i'm Door.
A hole three inches In diameter had
been blown through the rear left door
of the car. All the windows of both
sides and the rear had been shattered
with gunfire, as had the windshield
Machine gun fire had cut through
the front part of the car across the
drivers seat so that not only the
windows but their upright supports
on both sides had been almost cut
away.
Hubacek had fallen about 15 feet
away from the limousine. Koncil
trailing blood had got half a block
away from the car. He had plotted
his escape acros sa prairie to the
northeast. but was brought down by
a fatal wound or collapsed from other
wounds.
The Salts gang was in almost per-
petual warfare with the notorious
Ralph Sheldon band for months be-
fore the peace past was signed
Slain i'm Front Of Home.
Schneider was shot and killed by
an assailant in front of his home on
the North Side.
The slayer, calmly putting a cigarette
according to witnesses, approached
Schneider slowly from behind, raised
pistol and fired once. The killer ran
few hundred feet, darted down an
areaway and vanished.
The police sent out messages ask
ing the apprehension of Make
Eisen, who was shot in the arm last
December. Schneider at that time
reported to the police that Eisen sus
pected him and said he had been re
ceiving threats of vengeance.
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Shaved, Shackled
Actors, 800 Strong,
Stage Soviet Show
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, March 12.-Moscow
witnessed one of the strangest
theatrical performances in history
today.
Dressed in striped prison garb
and shackled with chains and
handouts. and with shaved heads.
800 actors paraded the streets of
the capital guarded by Cossack
prison wardens carrying knouts
and swords. The purpose of this
grim procession was to show the
present proletarian public how
political offenders were punished in
czarist days and signalized the
tenth anniversary of liberation
from imperial jails of professional
revolutionists.
Each convict" wore on his back
a large ace of diamonds, which in
pre-revolutionary days was accept
ed as a symbol of degradation and
opprobrium. The entire company
proceeded to the Meyerhold The
ater, where they gave drama
based on prison life. under the en-
per0rs.
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BRITISH BLOCK sHANTUNGEsE.
Durham Light Infantry Causes Chi
nese Troops to Retire.

SHANGHAI, China, March IL OFI.--
Five hundred armed Shantungese at
temnted TO enter the international
settlement In Shanghai today puL
were kept out by detachment o.
Durham Light Infantry.
II was understood this morning that
100 Shantungese had received per-
mission to pass through the settle.
ment. hut on the provision that they
first be disarmed.
Later. two English guards on the
bridge leading to the settlement saw
a large body of troops approaching.
The guards refused passage TO Inc
Chinese, and in response 10 requests
Tor reInforcements, 200 men or the
Durham Light Infantry rushed up
ready for action.
Shantungese Then Retire.
The Shantungese, apparently realiz
Ing the futility of attempting TO force
q passage, retired. The guards az
the entrances to the settlement were
doubled this afternoon.
Gen. Chang Tsung Chang, who is
endeayoring to prevent the Cantonese
from taking Shanghai. has managed
TO bring up further reinforcements
despite the continued rains and re
kultant muddy conditions which have
brought military movements almost
TO a standstill These reinforcements
are being added to Chang's Shan
tungese forces at various points or
the misunderstanding Railway be
tween the Yangtse River anc
Soochow.
Meanwhile, Chinese financial cir.
cles here are greatly perturbed al
Changs demand for a large sum oi
money from the local bankers and
chambers of commerce to meet his
military expenses. The sum demand
ed is reported 70 total about Sc, 900 900
NEW OFFENSIVE SEEN
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RED CROSS GIVES $50, 900.
Sends Fund to Toxic to Aid Japa-
nese Quake Area.

The American Red Cross today sent
$4,000 to the Japanese Red Cross for
relief work in last weeks earthquake
in Central Japan.
The money came from the general
Red Cross relief fund and was cabled
to Ambassador MacVeagh at Toxic to
be given to the Japanese organization.
No specific use in the relief work with
the fund was made by the American
organization.
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EDUCATED IN CAPITAL.
Goforth Was Employed i'm Govern
ment Agencies Here.

ment ASeHclcS ucTt.
Mr.. Gofortn was born in Lenoir, n.
c., September 2, 1884. and was edu-
Gated at Rutherford College and
George Washington University. From
1902 to 1912 he was successfully a
teacher. principal of schools and
school supervisor in the Philippines.
He was employed as clerk. in the
Civil Service Commission in Wash
ington from 1918 to 1916, when he
was transferred to the Interstate Com
merce Commission. where he served
until 1919
Mr.. Goforth entered the consular
service the same year, and was as.
signed to Guatemala as vice consul,
third class. September %. He was
transferred to Santos, Brazil, in 1921,
and promoted to consul second class.
He was promoted to consul, first class
in 1929, and again assigned to Santos,
March %. 1928. and transferred to Sac
Paulo, August II, 1925.
According to the State Department,
Mr.. Goforth's family resides with him
at Sac Paulo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
PROOF" PLANE
ORDERED TO CAPITAL
Fighting Craft Built for Navy Will
Get Further Tests Here
Tuesday.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March I2.-The new
'fool.proof' fighting plane, built for
the Navy by the Curtis Aeroplane Co.
was ordered to Washington today for
further tests next Tuesday.
Successful tests of the machine,
said to be equipped with every safety
device possible. were made at Mitchell
Field yesterday.
A rubber lifeboat that can be in
fiated in six seconds with liquefied
carbon dioxide. 5-inch opening that
allows instant emptying of the gaso-
line tank, and motor fire sprinkling
system are among the safety devices
of the plane. The plane carries two
machine guns and there is space for
bombs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
NEW OFFENSIVE SEEN.
Cantonese Expected to Attack ON
Wide Front Next Week.

: LONDON, March 10 CP.-A new
offensive by the Cantonese along a
wide front with the object of captur-
ing Shanghai is expected within a
week by reliable authorities in
Shanghai. says a dispatch to the
Daily Mail today from its CORE
spondent, Sir Percival Phillips. He
asserts that the future in China is
likely to be full of surprises, but gives
no hint as to their nature.
Meantime the labor outlook in
Shanghai apparently is furnishing
enough unpleasant uncertainties. I'm
fresh signs of possible serious trouble,
and developments are being awaited
with uneaslness.
Chang's Adviser Arrives.
NJ. Merkuloff. chief White Russian
adviser 10 Marshal Chang Tso-Lin.
the Northern war lord, has arrived at
Shanghai from Tsinan, where he
conferred with Nine. Borodin and the
three Russian couriers arrested by the
Northerners when they seized the
Soviet steamer Pamiat Lenina last
Saturday. He is quoted by the Daily
Express as saying that Marshal
Chang does not consider them
prisoners, as they are protected by
diplomatic privileges, but that in any
event no drastic action viii be taken
before the case is thoroughly exam.
ined.
+. Merkuloff added that Nine Borodin
bad been making many voyages TO
and from Siberia and that on the last
occasion Marshal Chang warned her
ii would be unsafe for her to go again
10 Hankow because of his military
movements.
Seizure of the Pamiat Lenina and
the arrest of Nine. Borodin and the
three Russian couriers led to an inn.
mediate protest by the Soviet govern.
ment, which was followed by another
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
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Is FLEE FLAMES
IN APARTMENTS
Awnings Afire in Basement
Rout Occupants at 3 Am.
in Binding Smoke.

Scantily clad, most of them in their
night clothes or dressing gowns, Is
residents of the Mount Vernon Apart
ments 904 New York avenue, fed to
the street when fire threatened the
7-story building at 3 o'clock this morn
ing. While dense clouds of smoke
poured out of the basement up the
elevator shaft, the residents snatched
up any garments they could get their
hands on and crowded down the stair
way.
The fire was confined to huge pile
of awnings in the basement, but the
smoke. which went straight up the
elevator shaft in the center of the
building, caused widespread alarm ana
made 1t almost impossible for anyone
to remain in the house.
Taxf-Driyer Sees Smoke.
The smoke was discovered by Sam
Davis, a taxicab driver, who aroused
the janitor, James Brooks, colored.
who was asleep in the basement
Brooks Immediately turned in an alarm
and aroused the sleeping residents.
While Brooks sped up and down
the elevator shaft, vainly trying to
get the first floor elevator door open,
the residents, most of whom are
women and girls, streamed down the
stairway and out into the street. One
woman carried her canary with her,
and another had her arms full of
clothes, but most of them were con.
tent with what they had on.
Firemen from engine companies, 2, q,
IA and 16, and truck companies 3 and
a, under command of Battalion Chief
Gill and Deputy Chief Nicholson. and
the rescue squad arrived and found
the stairway packed with people.
They took charge and got everybody
out into the street in an orderly man.
ner without injuries. Mrs. George T..
Dietrich, who had been III In bed, was
assisted to a nearby lnpchroom.
Janitor Becomes III.
Meanwhile Brooks, who had been
carrying people from the top floors
to the second In the elevator became
Ill from the smoke and had TO be
assisted to the open air.
Firemen in masks entered the base
ment and soon had the flames under
control. They carried the pile of
burned awnings out into the street.
All windows IN the building were
opened by the firemen, who left short
ly after o'clock. All OF the residents,
however, were not able to return to
their apartments until after o'clock.
The damage Is estimated at between
5000 and $500 and is covered by in
surance. The building is owned by
the Stilson Hutchins estate.
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VIRGINIAN SHOT DEAD.

RICHMOND, Va, March - CP.-
/ r.. Adams, 20 years old. OF this city,
was shot to death on the Midlothian
turnpike at Bon Air early today by
i. 6. Powell. 2l, an employe of
filling station, who had been placed
on watch for marauders.
Powell said Adams and two com
panions, III. G. Cchneider, II, and
Martin Boritz. 20, attempted to break
lnto the hlling station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
Rum Treaty Ratified.

Ratifications of the liquor smuggling
treaty with France were formally ex-
changed today at the State Depart
ment 1t was signed in 1924 and is
similar to the original treaty of this
character with Great Britain. but has
been awaiting ratification by the
French government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
Kellogg Due Beck Monday.

Secretary Kellogg. having recovered
from his recent indisposition. will.
resume his official duties at the State
Department Monday morning. He Is
expected TO return from Charleston.
S. c.. tomorrow. eYening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
King Alfonso Better.

MADRID, March IL LP).-The at.
tack of the grip from which King AL.
fonso is suffering is running Its nor
NAL course, says an official communi-
que. lie passed q comfortable night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
WEATHER.

co. S. Weather Bureau ForecastS
Rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer
tonight and colder tomorrow. Tenn
perature-Highest, So, at $50 pm.
yesterday; lowest, 40, at 6 am. today.
Full report on page s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-19

SCHOOL SUPPLIES. sCHALLER. ER'S ALASKA SHOP
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-19
another,

A dollar saved is aollar earued' and so the shoe repair shop is a serv- ice station on the road to wealth.
 SEWARD LEATHER WORKS.
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WOMEN CAIN CONTROL
 ACCOUNT LONG LIVES

CHICAGO, Nov. 19. P)-Because women live longer than men they are getting control of Americas great for tunes and the time Is coming when they will dictate the policy of industry in the United States, Mrs. Bessie Mott official of the General Federation of Women's Clubs said.
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DECLARE DIVIDEND

NEW YORK, Nov. 19. (P-Direc. tors of General Motors Corporation de- clared initial quarterly dividends of SIPS on it's new stock placing that is sue on regular $5. basis. Extra div idend of $2.50 was also declared. Both declarations had been anticipated.
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PRINCESS cHRlsTENED

BRUSSELS. Nov. 1s. (R)-Princess Charlotte Josephine, daughter of the Duke of Brabant heir to the Belgian throne and his wife Princess Astrid was christened at the royal palace.