Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
MANY FIR ON DISTRICT STATIONED
IN WAR ZONE IN SHANGHAI AREA
Navy, Marine and State Department Lists
Disclose Names-Missionaries Also
Include District Folk.

| invalid pensions committee of the
| House of Representatives from 1908
! until 1906, when he was appointed a
clerk in the State Department.
Spiker Native of Washington.
| Mr., Spiker was born in Washing
| ton in 1888, and is a graduate of
| central and Technical High Schools
and George Washington University.
I He was employed as a craftsman in
the District Water Department from
1906 until 1914, when he was appoint
ed to the foreign service.
Mr.. Lockhart was private secretary
to a member of the House of Repre-
sentatives from 1902 to 1911, clerk of
the House committee on public build
| ings and grounds from 1911 to 1913,
and clerk OF the Senate committee on
expenditures in the Department of
Agriculture from 1913 to 1914. He
was appointed assistant chief of the
Division of Far Eastern Affairs of the
State Department. lie served as an
expert assistant at the Washington
conference on the limitation of arma-
ments in November, 1921.
Earle 4. Hobart, manager for the
Standard Oil Co. at Marking, China
together with other employees of the
oil company, is safe aboard an Amer.
lean gunboat, although he sustained a
broken ankle in a battle with Chinese
| MOB, according to infofma ton con
tanned in cable received this morn.
ing ny +, q. NOurse. head of the agri.
culture division, Institute of Eco.
Monies.
/, Mrs. Hobart, who sent the cable. is
mr., Hourse's sister and has reached
place OF safety at Shanghai. She
is the authoress of book on Chinese
analrs. entitled by the City of the
Long Sand"
Many From TaiSoma Park.
The largest local missionary delega.
tlon In China is from the Seventh
Day Adventist headquarters at Ia
koma Park. which is headed by DIR.
Harry w. Miller, former head of the
washington Sanitarium. DIR. and
Mrs. Miller are stationed at Shanghai.
Others in the Adventist delegation
are At Shanghai, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin
ii. Evans, Henry w. Barrows, Clar-
ence Z. Crisler Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
Guild, Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm Knowles,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. G. Erich. Mr.. and
Mrs. Il. G.. Wood, Miss Bessie Mount
and Miss Ruth Stickney; formerly in
Marking and now moved to Shanghai
for safety, Mr.. and Mrs. Loren f.
Schutt, Mr.. and Mrs. Laclare Reed,
J. p. Anderson and DR.. and Mrs. ],
n. Andrews.
All these have been stationed at, Ia,
koma Park, at the Sanitarium or the
Washington Missionary College, dur
ing the past few years and most of
them have relatives i'm the local Ad-
ventist community.
Five Dominican missionaries now in
China are we'll known in Washington,
since they were until recently sta
toned ct the Dominican House of
Studies in Brookland. They are: Rev.
Edward Brennan, Rev. Michael Bar
rett, Rev. Acquinas Gordon, Rev. Ser
rer Cassidy and Father Burke.
Miss Evelyn Speiden. a member of
the National Baptist Memorial Church
here, is a missionary in China, and
is now in Shanghai. She is the daugh.
ter of DIR. Edgar Speiden, and was for
FIVE years a missionary in China, She
came here more than two years ago
on a furlough. She later returned to
Shanghai, where she has been for the
past two years.