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KENT-SUBURBAN PROPERTY.

FOR RENT-S45 MONTH-ATTRACTIvE
fve-room bungalow: all modern improve;
ments garden front and back loh lawns good
lent: 20 minutes from Washington. Walter
HGiShts M n an va Phone clar s3o,F6,!!4
NEW, 5. s AND 8 RM. ABSOLUTELY
modern bungalows: oak floors. hreplaces. ga
rags large lots to Oh 5espons,hle parties $40
Va. Highlands. Phone Clarendon fowl.
TO-
COY 4ROOM 2-PORCH, HALL AND
washroom cottage, furnished Except linen
low we rent. W. H "HOUGHToN. 4th ave- ave.
Washington Grove. Md.
LEE HE1GHTs-NEw ENGLISH sTUcco
home. rooms, 2 baths and servants toilet,
Fails c s6Essfeo 3sw2 1oeF''e rental fn0ne
lst FLOOR. ROOMS AND BATH. SLEEP
ami., End floor: rents reduced . '6 6ois
Willow ST.. Takoma Park.
5-ROOM MODERN BUNGALOW: NEWLY
Phila aye; Chsstnut St. Takoma. Nd
ATTRACTIVE 5-RooM AND BATH BUN
gaiow, hot-watcr heat. gas, electricity; large
G IT,; co,nyenvientiy located Az Garrison 3D.
Bg{,ESGtAtI4oW. UNFURNIsHED. ROOMS s@
rier pl. Potomac Heights, D. G. To-
y ROOMS. ELECTRICITY. GARAGE, CON
crete road: Is Minis. to city: $50. c. B.
MCNSON. Arlington. Va.
NEW FIVE ROOM JNGALOW. A N +. GA
rage: acre; $500 yearly: Arlington, Va.
Address OWNER Box 204-E. Star office. 10'
BEAUTIFUL HOME. READY FOR IMME-
date occupancy: all modern, and garage;
$50 mo.
5-room and bath bungalow on paved
street 90 minutes downtown: $45 mo-
Telephone NJ. a. MACE. Falls Church 294.
TAKOMA PARKS ROOMS. BATH AND
sleeping porch: u mi
ia Elm ave. $50
. Allegheny ave. near Elm ave. $35
Will sell without cash payment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-09

FIVE-ROOM SEMT-BU GALOW: BATH:
electricity; large porches; bright basement;
garage. shade trees. excellent lot. 50x300
feet No Carroll St Riverlale Hts, Md; re
duced TO S50e0: terms, small cash payment
and .S+5 per month; adjoining lot may be
Chase D. c, lot cast of Circle on 3@nd ST
NV. at 50 cents per foot. Call between
6 and z pm. Art. Is, I107 l1th 81. NV
Phone Eraf7klp f@I
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NICE HOME PLACE; BUNGALOW:
rooms. bath. large porches gas, electricity:
beautiful shade, trees, lot 30 by 1875: u
block from car line: near store. buses. etc:
stove heat: 81. 500 terms. RAY COGS-
WELL. Phone Clarendon 1241: Sunday.
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CHEVY CHASE,
Near Conn. Ave.
$l2,950.

This beautiful new home Just being COM
pieted contains. a living room % feet long
with open fireplace An exceptionally large
porch modern kitchen with large pantry:
three be9rocms, Of unusual size with ex,
completely equipped tile bath. Hot-water
heat. Hardwood floors upstairs t and 20 down. ISn;
on concrete street and is more than 100
feet deep There is. buiIt-in, garage.
This delightful home is located about
three short blocks from Connecticut ave.
in an excellent neighborhood convenient to
neia hborhood stores.
FO" appointment to inspect, phone Wis
cons.p 27G3 until 0:30 pm.
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For salr-~>,"st a.tt..,, .c. low. n,o..or.,
Dutch COLONIAL r"<'iaHt". p2tior 3lxf2,
r,' " ftt1a ha'3' divine room. stu parior
2hT9 } hc 4r""u:7, bathroom. large Kitchen
servants toilet BoaUuf1ii@ prepared
throU@ out. AWniH.& shrA}shcrv: fronting
nn girtaX rtrr!' tt.t-sizr hae"-ront with
l0U1t.ry tubs .ui furnace V2te" gas. e'ar-
trI"ltT beautiful fixtures in plaCet. Lot
nrariH quarter acre largo enough for sum
MGR house, TROLLS ho~crs. kitchan- garden
and small or large frn:t trees. l5-mjnute
Re'lwar TO 20 lyp. co1ro"tise c 1bitai Trac-
Il nv NGSToNE. Room sG5. 1877 j It.
NV, Phone Nam 700 er CeluAaoia =,
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NEW 5.R. ENGLISH

housc: absolutely modern: electric range,
fireplace oak floors M and downstairs:
large porehes garage: beautiful Tot: ideal
home: $3.50. $3.50 cash viii accent lot
as part payment. J. L. PRICE. $40 Girauit
ave. Va. highlands Phone Clarendon
445-w-1. Others for rent I 3, 6. rooms;
some 2 baths: $40 to $50 mt. large, loss;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-09

NEWT. 5. AND RM. ABSOLUTELY
modern bungalows oak floors. hreplaces. ga
RACES large lots: to responsible parties. $40
70 500 mo. J. L. PRICE. 240 Girault ave.
Va. Highlands. Phone Clarendon 445-W-l.
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sALE-SUDURBAN PROPERTY

800 CASH. $50 PER MONTH
5-room bungalow. bath. ami; s. 400.
PERRY BOSWELL MT. RAINIER, MD
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COIONTAT, HOMES.

NORTH CLEVELAND PARK.
Be sure and see $500 Warren 81 NV. TO-
DAY; hest G-rOom home IN city for the price.
Any broker or ". G. IRWIN. owner and
builder CIeye 1881
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SALE-SuBURBA> PROPERTY

SECOND TRUST NOTE. s., 200. DUE IN ;
years viii sell for 81 $50. Lincoln S61i.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
GIGANTIC RAIL
MERGER PLANS
ARE MADE KNOWN
Great Northern, Northern
Pacific and S. p. & S.
Included

NEW YORK, Feb IA (P.-Detailed
plans for the gigantic northwestern
railway merger were made known to-
night by the unification committee,
composed of George F. Baker, chair
man; Arthur Curtiss James, deputy
chairman; J. P. Morgan, Louis w. Hill
and Howard Elliott.
The consolidation, which embraces
the Northern Pacific, Great Northern
and Spokane, Portland and Seattle rail-
roads, is to be brought about through
the direct operation of the lines of the
three companies through lease of the
properties to new operating railway
company, which will exchange it's stock
for stock of the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern. The Spokane, Port
land and Seattle is jointly controlled
by the two northern roads. Application
will be made to the interstate COM
merce commission for paproval of the
leases and of acquisition by the new
company of the stocks of the northern
companies as soon as the committee be-
lieyes deposits of stocks in accordance
with the plan have progressed suffi-
GENTLY.
The plan is unusually simple and
free from complicating features, mas
much as each of the northern COM
panies has only one class of stock out
standing and it's shares are to be ex-
changed on par for par basis.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
10 KILLED AND
50 INJURED IN
BRITISH WRECK

HULL, England, Feb. IA P).-Ten
persons were killed and more than SO
injured in a head-on collision between
two trains this morning outside the
Paragon station at Hull. Several of
the injured are in critical condition. A
local train proceeding from Withern-
sea to Hull and an express bound for
Scarborough came together about 200
yards from the station with a terrific
crash. The Withernsea train carried
$50 passengers, business men, women
and school children. Crowds in the
streets witnessed the collision. Six
cars of the local train were telescoped.
The foremost of these carried school
boys, one of whom was decapitated.
The accident occurred directly oppo-
site a hospital, and doctors and nurses
leaped the wall to reach the victims.
Many of the passengers were extricated
with crowbars and pickaXes and given
surgical treatment Immediately. The
engineers of the two trains escaped
with slight injuries. The cause of the
collision has not been explained, but
the wreck was the second in the same
district within nine days.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
REPORT FRANCE
PLANS TO REJECT
COOLIDGE PLAN
French Will State ImpOssi-
BILE to Take Question
From League

PARIS, Feb. IA up President
Coolidge's proposal for complement
tary naval disarmament distinct
from the general scheme under con-
sideration by the league. of nations
will virtually be rejected by the
French reply, which the cabinet will
take up tomorrow it is understood
on the highest authority.
The French governments reply
will avoid discussion of the merits
of the question as raised by the
Coolidge note, will confine itself to
discussion of procedure and will con-
clude by stating that it is impossi-
bic to take the question out of the
hands of the league.
Fullest sympathy with the object
of the presidents initiative will be
expressed with the promise of hearty
cooperation in any practical plan
but it will be pointed out that
France, having co-operated in the
preparation of a scheme for general
disarmament in the league of COM
mission, cannot separate herself
from that effort.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
The Day In Washington

The Ford tax hearings were re-
sumed.
The senate delayed action on the
McFadden branch banking bill.
General debate in the house on
the McNary- -Haugen bill was con-
cluded.
Earl Carroll, convicted New York
theatrical manager, asked the SUI
preme court to review it's trial.
Representative Lowrey, of Mis-
sissippi, introduced a new bill for
operation of Muscle Shoals.
The house ways and means COM
mittee reported a bill to license
medicinal liquor manufacturers.
Witnesses who refused to testify
fully in the s-Pennsylvania
primary investigations were re
called by the senate campaign
funds committee.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
ALIEN OWNER
KNOWLEDGE IS
TESTIFIED TO
Swears Proof of German
Ownership In Attorney
Generals Files.
SMITH TESTIFlES
Woman Clerk Also Gives
Damaging Evidence
Against Defendants.

NEW YORK, Feb. IA R.-A docu-
ment was produced today in the
Daugherty- Miller trial to show at the
time the alien property custodian's and
attorney generals offices were passing
claim for $1,000, 900 of impounded as
sets, on the ground that they were not
enemy owned and had been enormously
seized, there was proof in their files
that the property was owned by Ger
mans.
Paul Smith, head of the corporation
erty custodian's office under Thomas
w. Miller, took the stand to identify
the document-a license granted to
Julian Beatty and Henry Bruere as
representatives of the American stock
holders of the American Metal COM
pany, to treat with aliens who owned
40 per cent of the stock of that COM
pany.
Smith said that in April, 1922, he was
summoned to the office of Miller, then
alien property custodian. A newspaper
reporter was with Miller. There was
some talk of senate investigation, he
said, and then Miller directed him to
get all the papers in the American
Metal case. Within half an hour, Smith
said, he had in his hands the document
that showed German ownership. 1t
was shown that the document was in
the file of either the alien property
custodian's or attorney generals offices
when the claim of Richard Merton,
German metal magnate and agent for
the Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs De
Metaud was granted on the ground that
the stock was not German owned and
should not have been confiscated. Strik-
ing quickly a second time, the govern
ment put on the stand Miss Edith
Haworth, a clerk in the alien property
custodian's office in 1921. Miss
Haworth identified a claim for the
same stock that had been denied while
the Merton claim was being considered.
Miller and Harry NJ Daugherty, for
mer attorney general, are charged with
conspiring to defraud the United States
of their best services in the award OF
the claim of Merton. Merton had pre-
viously testified he paid John T. King,
one-time national republican commit
teeman from Connecticut, $441,000 as a
fee for aid in getting the claim passed
The government alleges the $441,OOO
was split by King, Daugherty and
Jess w. Smith, Daugherty's handy man
and that Merton's two claims were
rushed through in three days without
investigation.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
ENGINEER AND
FIREMAN BURNED
IN WRECK, Die
Santa Fe Passenger Train
Derailed at Flores
Siding Sunday

PHOENIX, Feb. 14.-(P-The engi-
neer and fireman of Santa Fe pas
senger train No. 40, southbound from
Ashfork to Phoenix, died at an early
hour this morning, the result of burns
inflicted by escaping steam when
their engine overturned in a derail-
ment of the train at Flores Siding,
rear Congress and 40 miles north of
here, shortly before IL O'clock last
night.
S. Elmer Landon, engineer, died at
o'clock this morning while in an
ambulance en- route to ST. Joseph's
hospital. The fireman, E. L. Me-
Murtry, died three hours earlier on a
relief train at Wickenburg which
was bringing the injured men to
Phoenix.
The wreck, trainmen today stated
was probably caused by the engine
pilot dropping down, throwing both
the engine and tender off the track
When the engine crashed on it's side
pipes were broken and the escaping
steam scalded the enginemen. Three
cars, the baggage coach, smoker and
chair car, We're derailed and listed at
various angles. The cafe-diner did
not leave the rails. No injuries were
reported among the passengers, and
this, railroad officials said, was due
in great measure to the soft track
which necessitated the train runnin9
at slow speed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
REVISION
LLAPPROVED
By COMMITTEE.
Eight Hour Act for Women
Is Reported Favorably In
Senate.
LOWER SALARIES
Senate FavOrs Cutting Pay
Of State Officers Over
$1,5OO.

PHOENIX, Feb. IA. P)--Today was
Admission Day and the state senate
was in no mood for work, even If it
did vote to hold both a morning and
an afternoon session, there was so
much jesting on the floor that it
permeated even the chair in commit
tee of the whole, leaving the junior
senator from Maricopa, Harlow Ak
ers, without the satisfaction of a
vote on his motion for reconsidera-
tion of the senate bill drawn to re-
duce the salaries of state officers.
Resolved into committee of thu
whole soon after the convening of
the afternoon session, the senate
heard Akers move for reconsidera-
tion of senate bill No. 67 by Kim
ball of Graham, Kinney of Gila,
Bettwy of Santa Cruz and Jones of
Maricopa. He had tried to put the
motion in regular session and had
been reminded by President VIM
son that the motion was out of or
der, inasmuch as the committee of
the whole had not reported.
"Bill No. 6S?" questioned Senator
Kimball, who occupied the chair
mo" replied Akers, bill 67, Mr.
Chairman"
six eight" repeated the senator
from Graham with broad grin. "All
thos in favor of reconsiderng ac-
tion on senate bill 6S say aye"
The action was lost.
"The next bill on, the calendar is
senate bill 69," went on Kimball, and
bill 67 was forgotten.
The measure was introduced Feb
ruary by the quartet and provides
for cutting salaries of all state Oft
GERS and employees receiving more
than $1,000 year by 10 per cent.
BY a vote Of to the senate went
en- record this morning as favoring
it's passage. companion bill to re-
duce by a like percentage the salaries
Of all county officers and employees
was shelved a few minutes before.
This action was taken in committee
of the whole and does not represent
final disposition of the bin in the
upper house of the legislature. The
senate first defeated q motion by
Senator Jones to retain the code re-
vision bill on the calendar and then
without debate approved the bill by
margin of two votes. In the same
manner, Akers' bill providing for an
eight hour day and 4S hour. week
for women in industry received the
approval of the senate committee of
the whole by a vote of 8 to with
four abstaining from voting. AS
amended, the bill exempts from its
provisions women employed as tele-
phone and telegraph operators when
not more than three are so employed
as we'll as to female nurses and
women engaged in the harvesting,
variety of perishable fruit or vege-
canning, curing or drying of any
tables in order to save the some
from spelling. The period of time in
which the eight hours of labor must
be performed is extendeds from IL
CONTINUED on Page Eight(
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
Wallet Found Near
Deming May Clear Up
Man S Disappearance

LOS ANGELES, Feb. IA. (R)-The
sheriffs office today began checking
a youthful tourists story of a mys-
terious wallet containing a large
sum of money and overcoat found in
a desert road near Deming, N. NJ, as
a clue in the disappearance of How
ard H. Hunter wealthy retired rail-
road man of Dallas, Texas. Deputy
Sheriff Walter Keating said the
youths description of the wallet and
coat tallies with descriptions previ-
ously furnished of the same articles
carried by Hunter when he left this
city several weeks ago with three
men and $2S,SOO in cash concealed
upon his person.
The officials started an investiga-
tion of Hunters disappearance two
weeks ago when a woman friend OF
his in Dallas wrote the sheriff of his
failure to arrive in thai city after
announcing he was leaving here with
the money and accompanied by three
men.
Today the youth, Oral George, II
related to the deputy sheriff of his
having been given lift in a touring
car while beating his way across
New Mexico. He said the wallet wa:
found in the road near Deming, which
was taken into custody by the
woman owner of the car, but that he
observed that il contained consi6sr
able cash. Later he :old the sheriff
! they found the overcoat and track.
in the road that indicated severa
men had been engaged in a struggle
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
Merchants Discontinue
Own Advertising Paper
And Use City Dailies

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb IA tP.-
The New HAaven Shopping News, a
paper produced by some merchants of
this city to take care of their own
advertising, has announced it will dis
continue publication on February 26
The New Haven Shopping News has
been in existence four years, resulting
from a campaign by some New Haven
merchants for lower advertising rates
The reasons reported for it's discon-
tinuance were the burdens involved in
the work and the expense of publca-
tion. The merchants affected decided
to place all their advertising in the
regular daily newspapers.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
American F orces In
Nicaragua Not Added
Expense, Says Wilbur

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA R)-Amer,
lean forces IN Nicaragua involve mo
added monetary expense" to the
United States government, Secretary
Wilbur has informed Representa-
tive Moore, in response to a letter
of inquiry. United States cont1n,
gents in connection with the Mica
raguan situation number 1876 officers
and 306S enlisted men, including 20
Officers and 400 men of the marine
corps and the remainder as the
complement OF five cruisers, five de-.
stroyers and one mine sweeper.
Representative Moore, a member
of the house foreign affairs commit
tee sought detailed information on
American forces operating under
Admiral Latimer in Nicaragua In a
letter dated February 5. Secretary
Wilburs reply of February 10 was
made public today by Representa-.
tive Moore.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
BURGLARS RIFLE
STEAMSHIP SAFE
AT FRISCO DOCK

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IA P-
With a boldness that rivalled the
audacity shown by movie comedy
Williams, burglars on the steamship
Columbia today tried to make off
with S17,24O in currency which had
been recovered following theft of
$4,000 from the ships specie tanks
en- route from Salvador to San Pedro
The money had been replaced IN
the specie tanks and was carefully
strapped in a suit case. l.. H. Lowe.
Los Angeles, representative of the
Firemen's Fund Insurance company,
noticed that the bar fastening the
specie tanks was out of place. He
entered the tank where the money
was, and found that the suitcase
had been partially unfastered, al
though the intruder was believed by
police to have fled when searchers
approached.
Police declared that the thieves
were playing hide and seek with the
authorities in an effort to escape
with what remained of the loot, and
to recover what the searchers have
regained The S17240 was found
early this morning in a ventilator
which had been searched carefully
a short time before. The situation
of the ventilator, near the gang
plank, convinced officials that the
money had been transferred there
with the intention of taking it
ashore at the first opportunity.
Search of the vessel continued to-
day but no additional funds were
reported found.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
BATTLESHIP MAINE SUNK IN
HAVANA HARBOR % YEARS AGO

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA P.-Twenty
nine years ago tomorrow night the
battleship Maine was sunk in Havana
harbor, and public opinion, already
aroused over the oppression of the
Cubans, arose to such a pitch that war
with Spain soon followed.
The public convicted the Spanish of
blowing up the Maine with submarine
mine, although the authorities of that
country contended she was sunk by an
internal explosion.
The Maine had been sent to Havana
to protect Americans because of feel
ing against them among the Spanish
element because of criticism Of their
rule over the Cubans. The first explo-
sion occurred at 9:40 p. M, rending the
ship in two. Another explosion of a
powder magazine followed. The crew
numbered $50, and 267 were killed or
fatally injured.
The wreck rested in the harbor until
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
MANCHURIA WAR
LORD SWEEPS ALL
BEFORE HIS ARMY
Completes Occupation of
All Territory North of
Yellow River

SHANGHAI, Feb. Is P.-Troops of
Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian
war lord, sweeping down from north
ern China in their drive on Hankow
and the rich Yangtse river valley, have
completed occupation of all territory
north of the Yellow river With the
new development, interest in the Chi
nese civil war has shifted from Che
kiang province, where the nationalists
have relaxed their pressure on Shang-
hal, to Honan province, where the un-
certain attitude of Marshal WI Pei-Fu
has created a three-cornered affair. A
part of Wu's. soldiers were disarmed
several days ago by the advancing
northerners, and Chang has sent a
warning that he will brook no inter
ference in his southern push. There
has been no indication yet from WI
whether he will oppose or cooperate
with the Manchurian offensive. At
present he is at Chengchow comforting
with his leaders.
Meager reports from Chekiang indi-
cate that the threat against Shanghai
from that direction has been allayed
for the present. 1t is believed that the
southerners are withdrawing large
numbers from the Chekiang Kiangsu
front to defend Hankow against the
drive of the Ankuochun (forces of the
northern alliance of war lords). The
nationalists also are reinforcing north
of Hankow with troops recently
brought down from Ichang and other
up-river points. A considerable portion
of these troops have been landed in the
region of Wuseuh, a strategic point
along the Yangtse river between Han
kow and Kiukiang.
General Chang Hsueh- -Liang, son of
Marshal Chang, who has been desig-
mated by his father to command the
HIonan expedition, has conferred at
Tsinan with Chang Tsung- Chang, gov
ernor of Shangtung province. The lat
ter is expected to advance westward
simultaneously with the Manchurian
move toward Chengchow. The Shan
/ tungese also are expected to drive
! through Anhwei province in the direc-
| tion of Kiukiang
/ It is reported from Peking that for
mer Premier LANG Shih-Yi and Yang
Yu-Ting, governor of Kiangsu pro-
vince, are attempting to arrange g
compromise between the Manchurians
| and the nationalists.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-15
Lighted Match Costs
Lives Of Two Youths

NEW YORK, Feb. IA P-A lighted
match which fell into a barrel of
shellac caused an explosion in the
basement of a Brooklyn apartment
house today which cost the lives
Of Richard Pugh, 10. and Clarence
Bennison, II.
At the sound of the blast, resi-.
dents of the building saw the two
young men rush from the basement
their clothing on fire, and fall into
a puddle of water. Pugh ided be.
fore, medical aid arrived and Ben.
nison died in a hospital tonight. The
two were living together in a base
ment room.
Bennison told police his compan-
ion tossed away a match which
ignited the volatile substance.