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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-02
BISHOP SEES NO HOPE
IN u. S.-MEXICO DISPUTE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 2.-Settlement
of the differences between the United
States Government and that of Mex
leo or between the Mexican govern
ment and the Catholic Church Is i'm
possible, Right Rev. Pascual Diaz,
Bishop of Tobasco. Mexico. and secre-
tary to the Mexican Episcopate, de-
clared last night in statement before
sailing for Europe on the White Star
liner Majestic.
THE Gales government" he said,
does not represent the Mexican peo-
pie. Your people wiz never make
friends with the Mexican people by
making friends with the tyranny that
Expresses them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-02
Goldfish School in Lake Erie.

DUNKIRK, N. Y. April Op.-A
school of goldfish has appeared In
Lake Erie. near this harbor. and the
ieast-imaginative local fisherman has
no difficulty In recognizing descend
ants of small aquarium family which
was washed into the lake during a
Spring freshet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-02
TWO PERSONS DIE
IN MISSOURI STORM
Wind and Rain Create Havoc.
CaroIinas Suffer Prop
erty Damage.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo-, April 2.
Two persons in this section were
known to have been killed as the re-
suit of a wind and rain storm which
struck here yesterday.
William Davenport of Pascola was
killed when his house was wrecked
and a negro girl died when tenant
house blew over.
Roads were impossible in some
places and creeks were swelled out of
their banks. Communication by wire
was greatly hampered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-02

10000 MINERS IDLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-02
Was Coal Digger.

Lewis was coal digger at Panama.
ILL.,, in 1908 when he actively entered
union circles. Work as legislative
representative fitted him for the duty
of a union organizer. Then he was
elected vice president In 1917, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-02
AWARD TO KENTUCKY.
Float Entered in Festival Of States
Wins First Prize.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, April 2
R).-The State of Kentucky. with it's
entry of a float typifying a kentucky
cardinal. was given first prize in the
seventh annual festival of States pa.
rade here yesterday. The Blue Grass
States entry was led by vanguard
OF three pretty girls mounted upon
thoroughbred horses.
Michigan was adjudged second.
place winner and Rhode Island third.
The floats were entered by the respec.
tive tourist societies and the winners
received prizes from the Chamber of
Commerce Two hundred thousand
people witnessed the parade.
Evening star., 1927-04-04
PLAN L0WDEN BOOM
IN ELEVEN STATES
Iowa Legislators Get Assurance
That He Will Consider" En-
tering Presidential Race.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
DES MONIES. Iowa, April 4.-Act-
ing on the assurance from former
Gov. Frank o. Lowden that he would
give serious consideration to a re-
quest that he seek the Republican
nomination for the presidency, "if a
sufficient number of agricultural
States in the Middle West demand
ii" a group of Iowa legislators re-
turning from Illinois today an
nounced it would at once perfect an
organization Of II States for a Low
den boom.
The legislators visited Mr.. Lowden
in Chicago yesterday.
A. {. Gustafson, chief clerk of the
Iowa House of Representatives, who
headed the delegation, said that while
Gov. Lowden expressed a desire to
continue in private life, his deep con-
Germ for the future of agriculture
would be paramount to his own per-
sonal wishes.
Gov. Lowden assured the delega-
tion, Mr.. Gustafson said. that il the
movement requesting his candidacy
which started in Iowa would spread
into a sufficient number of agricul-
tural States of the Central West, he
would give such request his serious
consideration. The committee left
the governor with his full acquies-
cence in its program and 1t will
proceed at once to perfect an organi-
zation Of the IL agricultural States
in the Middle West and other States
Evening star., 1927-04-04
CAPITALS BUSINESS PROGRESS
Barred BY INCOME TAX FIGURES
Increase in Number of Corporations and
Also in Their Profits Shown by
Reports for 1925

for 1925 show a decrease to 3,4l5,Sl2
or 46.35 per cent, also a decrease IN
total net income amounting to $4,466,
303, 1886, or 17.41 per cent. but an In
crease of $27.111, sol, or 3.S5 per cent,
in the total tax. The average net in
come is S., 1853. II, the average amount
of tax $IS497. and the average tax
rate 3.4j per cent
Corporations reporting net income
in the District of Columbia increased
from 942 in 1924 to 1,049 in 1925. While
those reporting no net income. but a
deficit, decreased from ia in 1924 10
636 In 1925. The net incomes for cor.
porations here in 1924 increased from
$47,457 $50, on which tax of S5,745,,
401 was paid, TO net incomes In 1925
of 1868, sol 1886, on which tax Of
$S.032 OF was paid.
Better conditions also existed a dis.
closed by the decreasing deficits for
District of Columbia corporations. The
deficits in 1924 totaled $G,679.8t9, as
compared to $4,34S,09S in 1925.
Seven Pass $4,000, 900.
The preliminary statistics collected
by the Internal Revenue Bureau for
1925 showed that seven persons in the
nation occupied a class by themselves
by paying taxes on incomes of more
than S5,000,000, the total tax of this
group amounting to SCI, ,3S2,S63
approximately one-half Of the
returns were filed by persons with
net incomes in excess of $4,000 and
4S12 per cent of the total collections
was paid by individuals with incomes
Continued on Page Z, Column So
Evening star., 1927-04-04

Along with a general increase in
prosperity and in the number of mil
lionaires throughout the country in
1925, as reflected by income tax
figures disclosed last night by the
Treasury, District of Columbia cor.
porations made substantial progress
over the prior year, with ar increase
moi only in their number. but also
in their net income. Persons paying
taxes on incomes Of more than $1,000
600 a year jumped from IS in 1924 to
207 in 1925. throughout the country.
For the nation, the Treasury dis
closed, the new revenue law, with its
lower rates had produced a steadily
rising influx of taxes, with the prln-
Cipal tax reduction on the income
from wages and salaries"
BY lifting the weight OF taxes en-
tirely from over 40 per cent of the
former contributors. Acting Secretary
of the Treasury Mills pointed out that
preliminary returns for 1925 show that
% of l per cent of the population
pay over 80 per cent of the individual
income tax; II per cent pay less than
3 per cent of the tax. and the remain
ing 50 per cent pay no income tax.
Decrease Over 1924.
The number of returns of individ-
uals for 1925 filed up to September
!, 1926, was .3,953,976. the aggregate
net income $21,189,850,11S, and the
net tax $7S1, 1877 191. AS compared
with the number Of returns filed for
the calendar year 1924, the returns
Evening star., 1927-04-04
SCORES D. c. LACK
. Of WAR MEMORIAL
Capt. MCGahan of Legion
Declares Capital LagS in
Proper Tribute to Men.

Failure of the people of Washing
ton to support more literally the cam
paign to erect here suitable memo
rial to the District men and women
who served in the World War was
sharply criticised lastanight by Capt.
Paul j. McGahan, American Legion
executive committeeman for the Dis
trict.
washington lags behind every
State in the Union in expressing its
appreciation of the services of its sons
and daughters who went to war .
Capt. McGahan declared. His criti-
cisms of both Washington and Con.
gress, behind whose cloak he claimed
the people Of the District were hiding,
were made at meeting of the board
of management for the temporary
home for Union eX.soldiers. sailors and
Marines and veterans of other wars
in the old Naval Hospital Building.
Capt. McGahan cited the evident
lack of public interest in the move
ment to erect a municipal memorial
to the World War veterans as an eX-
ample of the inertia that manifests
itself here in other movements in be-
half of veterans generally.
"Time to Pay Tribute"
washington lags lamentably," he
said. Washington lags to an extent
probably greater than any other part
of the United States. 1t is high time
that Washington came to realization
of its delinquencies. 1t is about time
that there began to materialize some
of the expressions of appreciation and
interest in the World War veterans
and their organizations and their
problems. Washington should have
these. They are to be found in every
other State in the Union, where they
have been created and established by
an appreciative and understanding
people,"
Capt McGahan told the board men,
bers that Washingtonians have left
such manifestations TO Congress, and
what Congress has done for local vet
Grams it has done for those of all the
States and Territories and insular
possessions.
Where" he asked. lis the District
of Columbia memorial to its soldiers
and sailors and marines of the World
War? Washington people have had
an opportunity to contribute to the
fund for it's erection, and that fund is
not yet completed, although real and
earnest work has been done by it's
projectors.
''Where is the memorial building
housing the veterans organizations.
such as are to be found in almost
Continued on Page Z, Column A.
Evening star., 1927-04-04
U. S. OPPOSES LIMIT
ON CIVIL AIRPLANES
Hugh Gibson at Geneva Insists on
Sharp Differentiation From
Military Aviation.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, April 4.-The American
spokesman, Hugh Gibson, again inter.
vened in the Disarmament Commission
parleys today to insist upon the neces-
sity of a sharp division between mill
tary and civil aviation and the neces-
sity Of doing nothing to prevent de.
velopment Of the commercial side of
aerial transportation.
He announced that the United
States declines to take civil airplanes
into account in any scheme for the
limita ton Of military aircraft.
The discussion, which was incon-
elusive, arose when the French pre-.
sented a clause whereby, in fixing
aerial forces, countries would be au-
thorized to demand. more or less. in
accordance with the civil aircraft
strength Of their neighbors.
Though several delegates reserved
the right TO change. their attitude, it
was agreed that. in limiting military
airplanes and Dirigibles, both the num-
Der Of the fachines and the total
horser over sNall be specified.
Evening star., 1927-04-04
CONVICTION UPHELD
IN BOXING CASE
Frank Dane, Promoter, Loses
Appeal and Must Serve
3 Years in Prison.

Boxing matches in Washington Sas-
tanned a body blow today when the
District Court of Appeals in an opin.
ion by Chief Justice Martin affirmed
the conviction of Frank Dane for pro-
noting a fistic encounter at the Ar
cade, at which an admission fee was
charged. The contestants were ac-
quilted by the jury but Dane was con-
victed and was sentenced by Justice
Stafford to serve three years in the
penitentiary. He has been at liberty
on bail awaiting the appellate courts
decision.
Counsel for Dane had contended
that the sole accusation against him
in the Indictment was the charging of
an admission fee to witness a fight
by and between his co-defendants:
that the indictment specifically stated
that the co-defendants exchanged the
blows complained of: that Dane could
not, literally, have been engaged" III
fight without taking part in it,
whereas this fight was, according to
the allegations of the indictment, par
ticipaated In by the two other men
only; and that the indictment did not
specifically charge appellant with be-
ing present, aiding and abetting" in
the alleged puglistic encounter.
Held Rightly Indicted.
Chief Justice Martin declared that
the court could not agree with this
contention. THE indictment charges
that defendants jointly engaged in an
unlawful pugilistic encounter between
man and man." says the Chief JUS
tice, ito see which an admission fee
was charged while his co-defendants
exchanged the blows. The appellant
was rightly indicted as a principal
Nor can the court agree with appel
lant's contention that the indictment
would not support a verdict of guilty
as to appellant and not guilty as to
his co-defendants. If the jury found
upon the evidence that the fighters
engaged in the encounter but failed to
find that they knew a fee was being
charged for admission to see the fight,
1t was their duty to acquit them, but
If at the same time the jury found
that Dane had induced or procured
his co-defendants to engage in the en-.
counter, and had charged and received
admission fees, although the code.
PENDANTS did not know that such a
charge was made, a verdict of guilty
should be rendered against Dane and
not guilty against his co-defendants.
To End Fistic Encounters.
The decision is expected to put an
end to fistic encounters in the Dis
trict at which admission fees are
charged. The question of the pur-
chase of membership tickets in
athletic clubs for admissions to box
ing matches was not involved in the
case of Dane, as some of the witnesses
for the prosecution testified that
money was paid to gain admission.
Evening star., 1927-04-04
Ruling Hits McCarl on Withholding Pay
OfArmy Officers; Like Recent Navy Case

j. Raymond McCarl, controller gen
eral Of the United States, received
another setback today when the Dis
trict Court of Appeals. in an opinion
by Chief Justice Martin, declared he
had no more authority to withhold
pay of Army officers to offset a disput-
ed claim of the Government against
the officers than he had in the case of
naval officers decided against him by
the same court some months ago.
Arthur W. Pence, first lieutenant of
the Engineer Corps. brought suit for
injunction against McCarl, Secretary
of War Davis, and officials of the
Army finance department to prevent
the Withholding of his pay 10 offset
claim of 81 l.609 representing payments
made TO him for Communication of quar-
ters, heat and light between 1918 and
1921.
Chief Justice AfaiMn quotes the
courts decision in the Cox case, by
which the right TO Hake naval Off.
Evening star., 1927-04-04
SILENCE ENVEL0PS
FLYERS IN ICE TRAP
Capt. Wilkins and Pilot Eielson Be-
lieved Able to Save Them
selves in Alaska.
BY A. w. SMITH.
B. Radio to The Star and North American
Newspaper Alliance


POINT BARROW, Alaska, April 4.
Capt. George Hubert Wilkins and
his pilot, Ben Eielson, marooned on the
ice 100 miles northeast Of here last
Tuesday by trouble in their plane
motors, have been unable TO commu-
nicate with this base by radio since
4 pm. Friday, when they sent the
two words, engine trouble"
Billiards have swept across this re-
gion almost continuously since their
departure, but last evening at e am.
April 8, Eastern timel the sky cleared,
though a light wind is still blowing.
Friday evenings message indicated
that the explorers were still trying TO
get their plane into the air. and no
particular alarm is felt for them here,
as both are experienced in the ways
of the Arctic and their provisions and
equipment are adequate for an almost
indefinite battle with the ice.
The Detroit News, No. 2, is standing
by for a rescue if Capt. Wilkins re-
quests it, but it is thought unlikely
he will do so. Nilhjalmur Stefansson
the most famous of the explorers of
this region, said yesterday that Wi
kins is perfectly able TO care for
himself and that his parting inStruc.
tions against a rescue flight unless
he definitely requests it by radio
should be observed in case the silence
continues unbroken.
(oopyright 1927. by North American News
paper Alliance III United states. Great
Britain and all countries. Reproduetioi
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Evening star., 1927-04-04
AMERICAN SAILORS
FIRE INTO CHINESE
ON YANGTzE RIVER
Guard Opens With Riot Guns
to DiSperSe Hostile
SampanS.
JAPANESE USE MACHINE
GUNS IN HANK0W ATTACK
u. S. Citizens Begin Evacuation of
! Canton-Exodus From Other
A Points Also Under Way.

Riot guns of American sailors from
the gunboat Monocacy in the Yangtze
River were turned upon hostile Chi
nese sampans Saturday, Admiral VIII
lams reported TO the Navy Depart
nent today.
Five Japanese sailors and five civil
hans were abducted by Chinese after
q battle in the Japanese concession al
Hankow, in which machine guns were
turned on the Chinese.
A general exodus of Americans from
Canton is reported under way. Eyac'
uation of Americans and other for
eigners from other parts of China, in
cluding Peking, continues as the Can
tonese armies press on toward the
north.
The United States cruiser Cincin'
natl is due in Shanghai today TO join
the cruisers Richmond and Marble
head.
The Shanghai Chamber of Com
nnerce has issued a call for immediate
concerted action by the powers 10 re-
store order in China
The British note of protest contain
ing a demand for reparations, is ready
10 be sent to Nationalist Foreign Min
lister Chen, according to London re-
ports.
Foreign Minister Chamberlain told
the British House of Commons that
another crisis seems TO be approach
ing in Hankow.
Evening star., 1927-04-04
MEX|CANS CAP PTURE.
WILKINS SLAYERS.
Son Identifies Alleged Leader
of KidnaperS-Confes-
sion Obtained.

bN lHe Associated PfeSs.
MEXICO CITY, April 4.-Members
of the band which kidnapped and mur
dered Edgar NJ wilkins, an Amer
lean electrical engineer, were in the
custody of the Mexican authorities al
Guadala jara today.
They We're captured by the local
police near there after having been
sought since week ago last Sunday
by Federal troops. Three of the men
captured were said to have confessed
that Wilkins was killed because the
members of the band were enraged
over the close pursuit.
Son Identifies Leatler.
The 10-year-old son of Wilkins. who
was captured with his father, identi.
fed Mariana Calzada, one of the men
taken into custody, as the leader of
the kidnapers. The youth had been
released by the Mexicans shortly after
capture and sent back into Guadaia.
Jara with note demanding a ransom
OF $4,000 for the father Isidoro
Parez and Vincente Perolsado were
the other men arrested. From infor.
nation given the authorities by Cal.
zada they We're hopeful of capturing
others of the band.
wilkins home was Savannah, Ga,
but he had resided with his wife III
Mexico for Is years. Government off.
Gals said that the murder of the
Amberican appeared to have the ear.
marks of a plot to embarrass the
government of President Gales and
possibly cause trouble with the United
States, which had protested against
the kidnapping and murder. Secret
service men were dispatched by the
government to Guadalaja to in.
vestigate the case.
Taken to GuadaIajara.
The body of Wilkins was found Fri.
day and taken into Guadala jara
where his widow resides.
Twenty members of the outlaw
band, which attacked the Laredo.
Mexico City passenger train a forth.
night ago, were killed Friday in bat
tie with federal forces, the war de-
partment announced yesterday. The
federal losses were given as two killed
and five wounded
Belief that Wilkins was kidnapped
and deliberately murdered last week
in plot by enemies of the govern.
ment of President Gales was ex.
pressed Yesterday by government Off
Gals
They say that wilkins murder by
outlaws appeared to have all the ear.
marks of a plot carried out to EN-.
barrass the present Mexican govern
ment and possibly cause trouble with
the United States
Detectives Go to Scene.
A carefully selected group of secre.
service men, under personal instruc-
tions from President Gales, has gone
to Guadalajara, near which the kid,
naping took place a week ago, to work
on this theory. At the same time
federal troops are continuing "a search
of the surrounding country for the
bandits or revolutionists who NAV
have been guilty of the murder.
The American embassy Saturday de
livered note TO the Mexican foreign
office requesting the capture and pun
shment Of the murderers. Advices
/ reaching the United States embassy
at Mexico City from Guadala lara
| where Mr.. Wilkins body was taker
after it had been found Friday, indi
Gated that the engineer was killed foui
or five DAYS ago.
Evening star., 1927-04-04
$50 Miles an Hour
On Open Highways
Seen by Segrave
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. April 4.-Automo
biles travelling at $50 miles an hour
ON the general highways are fore
seen by Mai. e. o. d. Segrave.
who last Tuesday drove his mys-
terry IS" car at a speed Of 21l
miles an hour at Daytona Beach,
Fla.
Maj. Segrave, who will return to
England tonight on the Beren-
garia, said engineers who perfected
his car had the idea in mind that
within a quarter of a century it
would be of practical use.
The secret Of his cars success.
he said, was in it's 6-foot blunt nose,
which covers the wheels and pre-
vents the wind from hampering the
speed of the car.
Evening star., 1927-04-04
Egg Rolling OK d, With Children Beyond
Danger of White House Repair Grew

Children of Washington viii be per-
mitted to enjoy their annual egg roll
ing in the rear grounds of the White
House on Easter Monday, regardless
of the fact that the White House is
undergoing repairs and a portion of
the northern section of the grounds is
strewn with building material and
debris.
1t was at first thought best to
abandon the egg rolling this year for
fear that some Of the youngsters
might be injured. but President Cool
idge, after receiving advices that the
northern section of the rear grounds
could be roped off and that virtually
all chances for injuries or mishaps re-
moved. announced that the egg rolling