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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
TWO CONVICTED
IN BALLOT FRAUD
Woman Election Official Is
Guilty in Pittsburgh-TWo
Are Acquitted.
By the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Hreses
PITTSBURGH, January 21.-Two
Pittsburgh election officers were con-
victed today of making fraudulent re-
turns at the May primary. Two clerks
were acquitted of the same charge and
all the defendants, three women and
one man. were likewise acquitted of
conspiring to make false returns.
James A. Battles, Judge of election,
and Miss Bess Candy, an inspector.
were found guilty on the one count,
while Mrs. Niolette Lomady and Mrs.
Margaret E. Conner, clerks, We're
acquitted of both charges.
The criminal prosecution followed p
contest of the Official count of the
votes cast in the tenth district OF the
twenty.second ward for the Repub-
lican nomination for the State Legisla-
ture.
Official Disappears.
Frank Casper. a fifth defendant,
who was an inspector in the same dis
trict, disappeared after the warrant
was issued for his arrest and has not
been apprehended.
The recount of the votes cast in the
legislative contest was made on petit
ton OF FRANK y. Adk,. WHO was uS-
feated for the nomination on the face
of the original returns, which cred
tied Daniel A. Malie with 80 votes and
Zak s. At the completion of the re-
count the court reversed the finding
of the election board and awarded the
nomination to Zak. The case was fire.
auently mentioned during the Senate
Investigation of the Pennsylvania SEN
atorial primary.
The defendants were unable to ad-
vance an explanation as to how Malie
had been credited with 80, while only
Sc ballots were accounted for as hav-
ing been cast.
Mrs. Lomady said she did not pay
any attention to the returns, because
she was i'll while serving on the cleo
ton board She testified Casper. the
missing inspector, read off the returns.
Woman Pleads Ignorance.
Miss Candy also told the jury she
was i'll and in addition testified sne
addressed envelopes and headed the
return sheets while some OF the ballots
were counted.
Mrs Conner asserted she cid her
duty to the best of her ability, but
said she knew little about elections.
During TIE trial of the case Battles,
the Judge of election, was cr1tlclzed
by the court when he testified he was
absent from the polls about three
hours on primary day attending 10
nrivate business and also went home
for lunch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
MACMURRAY SEN!
BACK TO PEKING;;
AMERICANS FLEE
Secretary Kellogg Cables
Orders to Minister After
Alarming Report.
NEW SERIOUS SITUATION
DEVELOPING IN HANK0W
1000 U. S. and British Citizens
Declared Leaving-Warships in
River Ready to Aid.
IN the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PEKING, January 21.-The anti
foreign situation at Hankow has de-
veloped seriously, says a telegram re-
ceived today from unofficial foreign
sources at the Yangtze River city
One thousand American and British
men are leaving. it says.
There is no official confirmation OF
the telegram from private sources OF
the evacuation of the American and
British men who had remained at
Hankow after sending their women
and children to Shanghai and else
where for safety after the riotous
demonstrations by Chinese mobs De-
Cember 5 and i.
The British concessions at Hankow
have remained under control of the
Cantonese or Nationalist government
since the coolie mob swept over 1t
early this month. American and
British warships lie in the Yangtze
opposite Hankow, ready to assist
their nationals if necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
DEATH TO 8 STUDENTS.
Communists Get Extreme Penalty
for Numbering Cashiers Wife.

MOSCOW, January 21 P.-Three
communist students, two of them
brothers. were sentenced to death
TODAY for assaulting the cashier of
Moscow trade school and numbering
his wife.
The court imposed the extreme PEN
atty las an example to other youths. =
The case stirred public interest deeply
because the 16-year-old fiancee of the
youngest defendant committed suicide
in despair over his erring ways.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
WOULD REFIT WARSHIPS.
Britten Proposes $13, 100000 for
Oklahoma and Nevada.

An appropriation of $13.500,000 to
modernize the battleships Oklahoma
and Nevada is sought in a bill intro
duced yesterday by Representative
Britten, Republican, Illinois.
The bill also would fix the cost of
the uncompleted battle
cruisers Lexington and Saratoga into
airplane carriers at $40,000,000 each,
and would increase the authorization
for a feet submarine to $1,000. 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
COOLIDGE RECEIVES ENVOY.
Marines will Stay No Longer Than
Necessary, Says President.

By the Associated Press
President Coolidge believes that
American marines and bluejackets
now on Nicaraguan soil should not be
kept there any longer than the situa-
tion demands.
Accepting the credentials of Alejan-
dro Cesar, first Minister from Mica
ragua under the present Conservative
regime of Adolfo Diaz, the President
said yesterday that although Ameri-
can forces had been landed, with the
consent and at the request of Diaz, in
order to protect American lives an1
property and legitimate interests of
the United States, this state of af-
fairs should not continue longer than
is necessary"
The Minister told Mr.. Coolidge that
Nicaragua ''looks confidently to the
United States for guidance, co-opera-
tion and aid"
The President further answered
critics of his policy in Nicaragua by
asserting that the United States has
(CNoCfio1ad an Doca CoI,,,,oo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
Ex-U. S. Attorney
In China Arrested
On BriberyC Charge
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
S H A n G H A I, January q.
Leonard G.. Husar, former United
States district attorney for China,
was arrested here today on a
charge Of having accepted $4,000
in gold in connection with an
opium investigation. Bail was set
at SIS, 900. Husar came to Shang-
hal three years ago and staged a
sensation when. on seeing off
some friends at Woosung, a short
distance north of here, he boarded
a steamer there with his fiancee,
booked passage and was married
by the captain.
The sequel to this romance ap-
peared in the courts of San Fran
cisco recently when Mrs. Husar
sued for a divorce. Charges that
her husband had accepted a bribe
from opium smugglers were made
in her petition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
Gets Three Years for Fraud.

ST. LOUIS, January 81 UP.-Chris-
tian w. Week, 34-year-old real estate
dealer, was sentenced to three years
in prison and fined $1,000 by Federal
Judge Davis today for using the mails
to defraud in promotion of the Fed
eral Home Building Corporation
Investors lost $2S2, 900 in the scheme.
Beck was convicted Wednesday after.
a nine-day trial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
TRAIN HITS AUTO; 3 DIE.
Party Struck by Express From Cap
ita1 to New York.

ELKTON, Md, January 21 NP.-
Three men were killed instantly
shortly before noon today when their
automobile was struck by a Pennsyl-
vania Railroad express train en- route
from Washington to New York.
Two of the dead We're identified.
They were DR.. Lester A. Sparks, 35,
and James E. Westhall, 80. both of
Lakewood, \. J.
Two of the bodies were found
badly mangled lying along the
tracks. The body of the third vic
tim, thought to have been that of
the driver of the machine, remained
in the car, which was carried a quar-
ter of mile by the locomotive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
{, B. MCLEAN APPEARS
BEFORE GRAND JURY
Publisher Testifies in Inquiry OF
100000 Alien Property
Transfer.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, January 21.-Edward
B. Mclean, publisher of the Wash
ington Post, appeared today before a
Federal grand jury investigating the
alleged improper transfer of $7Ooo'Ooo
from the alien property custodian s
vaults to the societe Suisse Pour
valeurs de Metaux.
The grand jury, it was explained by
the United States attorney con
tinuing the investigation of previous
grand Jury that returned indictments
AGAINST Harry M. Daugherty, former
Attorney General, and Thomas W.
rThev were charged with defrauding
the Government of the honest and
intelligent service in the payment OF
the proceeds of the sale OF shares OF
the American Metal Co., seized as
enemy owned property during the
war
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
SEES MENACE IN REDS.
Bishop Fears Canton May Not Be
Able to Shake OF Communism.

Nv Cable 10 The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1927.
SHANGHAI, January 2l.-Bishop
l. ]. Birney. Methodist returned to
Shanghai today from interior 1angtze
RIver points. He takes a very grave
view Of the disturbed situation which
he believed not only menaces all white
men and women in China, but shows
Signs of getting beyond the control
of any responsible leaders.
while we are hopeful" the bishop
said that the extreme bolshevism
now characterizing the activities of
the Cantonese armies and officials
NAV prove to be passing phase
which time will modify, nevertheless,
indications point only to this conclu-
sion. That the developments we see
are a norton of a carefully planned
nroeram whose end is quietly to
squeeze Christian missionaries and
al other foreigners out of China"
In this statement Bishop Birney is
ca,.efuI not TO indict the leaders of
tho Kuaon1intang (Southern or Can
toreea uarty): he feels that they are
rot resnonsible. He is in touch with
Ger Chang Kai-Shek, Cantonese
ron1noand n-chief, and with DR..
chen chairman of a commission now
governing Kiangsi Province.
"No Sympathy for Reds"
DR.. Chen, who has doctor of
philosophy degree from Columbia
University. he quotes as follows:
we have no sympathy with COM
,ounism. which will be dealt with
later when the time is more oppor-
tune. The thing we must attend is
now our main drive to unity this
country by force Of arms.
Very many close students Of China
current history, however, are firmly
CONVINCED the Kuomintang will be un-
able 10 shake off Soviet influence. II
ia feared that the Kuomintang Is
starting something 1t cannot stop
something which will end in disaster
In Bishop Birney's opinion, the danger
to Americans lies in the blind pas
sion of inflamed mobs unable to make
distinctions as TO nationality.
AS TO the effect of all this on the
Christian church in China. the bishop
gaye: at is hoped and expected by all
missionaries that the storm VIII be
weathered. Certain benefits already
ere apparent. Anti-Christian propa-
(Continned on Page Z. Column A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
COnvicts i'm Poland
Will Get Amnesty
To Relieve Prisons

by the Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland. January 21.
All prisoners in Poland who have
served two-thirds of their sen.
tences will be released February /.
provided their records show good
behavior, under presidential de-
cree of general amnesty just is
sued. In cases of life sentences,
the prisoners are to be released IL
they have served more than Is
years.
The decree is meeting with gem
eral approval. there being wide
spread feeling that too many per-
sons are kept in prison at great eX-
pense to the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
HOUSE TO SPEED UP.

Session VIII BEGIN at UCIock
Tomorrow Morning.
The first sign of the usual Spring
log jam of legislation developed today
in Congress.
House leaders, computing that ex-
actly six weeks of the short session
remained, decided to call the House
together at IL o'clock tomorrow, an
hour ahead of the usual time. Night
sessions will come later.
At tomorrow's session the House
will consider what its future action
will be toward the McFadden branch
banking bill. now before a dead
locked conference committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
MISSING $4,000
SOUGHT IN PROBE
OF CLARKE DEATH
Woman, Believed Slain, Said
to Have Had Bonds When
She Left Capital.

CAPE MAY, n. j., January 21.-
State police and county authorities
who are trying to unravel the
mystery surrounding the death of
Miss Mary S. Clarke, wealthy elderly
woman of Washington and Pittsburgh,
whose frozen body was found on the
beach here last Saturday night, are
investigating report that she had
large sum of money and $50, 900 in
bonds in her possession when she left
Washington on January II.
Only 55 cents was in her handbag
when the body was found, which has
led the authorities to believe that she
may have been robbed and killed
Mystery Woman Theory Fails.
The theory that mystery" woman
accompanied Miss Clarke to Cape May
from Philadelphia, where she boarded
a train on the afternoon of January
IA. was discarded today when railroad
conductors who collected her mileage
coupon said she travelled alone.
Whether Miss Clarke was murdered
probably will be established when the
autopsy and inquest are held tomor-
row.
All theories except murder. with
robbery as the motive, have been
abandoned by officials.
I'm view of the facts Coroner Will
liam H. Thompson said today, I'VE are
entertaining only one theory. That is
foul play, with robbery as the motive. .
With the body definitely identified
as that of Miss Clarke. 63. the au-
thcrtties have nearly completed the
checking of her movements since she
left an Atlantic City hotel on jan
uary 10.
Traced to Cape May.
They have traced her as far as the
station at Cape May, where she ar
rived from Philadelphia Friday night.
81 hours before her body was discov-
cred on the blizzard-swep beach.
Trunks in a railroad station III New
York belonging to Miss Clarke have
been ordered held and probably will
be brought here for examination.
Joseph Clark, 18, and Harry Ruther-
ford, Is. who had been detained by the
Camden police, have been absolved
from any connection with the case.
Identification of Miss Clarke was
made positive when the assistant man
ager of Haddon Hall. Atlantic City.
and several friends of Miss Clarke
came here and viewed the body.
Came to Washington.
Miss Clarke lived at Haddon Hall
from last May to January 10. when
she left for Washington. She arrived
at the May1ower Hotel, Washington,
the same day and left the next day,
presumably for New York.
Her baggage was checked through
to that city, where 1t remained un-
claimed at the Pennsylvania Railroad
Station. Where Miss Clark spent her
time between January II and January
IA, the day she boarded the train at
Philadelphia, is not known.
An autopsy will be performed to-
morrow morning by DIR. Julius Way,
county physician. The inquest will
be held tomorrow afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
KELLOGG SENDS ORDERS.
MacNIurray Instructed to Return to
Post al Peking.

Ry the Associated Press.
American Minister MacMurray, en-
route home for conferences with Sec
retary kellogg. has been intercepted
by cahlegram and ordered back to
Peking as result of the increasing
seriousness of anti-foreign demonstra-
tions and rioting in China.
Mr.. MacMurray left Peking Janu-
airy Is with his wife and two children.
Secretary kellogg cabled to him at
Toxic and points in Korea, but II was
not announced where he had been in
tercepted, the advices merely saying
he had received his new instructions
1t was emphasized at the State De
partment that the general increase in
the anti-foreign movement and its
spread TO Foochow and Annoy within
the last day or two had prompted Mr..
Kellose TO order MacMurray back TO
his post. Notwithstanding the Secre-
tary'e desire 10 talk over the Situa-
ton in person with tthe department s
recognized authority on Chinese and
other Far Eastern problems.
Plans for Warning.
No immediate condition at Peking
had called for the change in plans, 1t
was said, the department not as yet
having been advised Of the fears felt
by diplomats there that the trouble
might spread to the capital itself.
Action of the American charge,
Ferdinand Mayer, at Peking in ar
ranging a code of day or night
signals by means Of which American
residents there can be warned quickly
and concentrated in the legation com
mound under protection of the Marine
guard probably was in line with
decision of the diplomatic corps that
steps were necessary as precaution
against outbreaks in Peking, 1t was
suggested at the department.
The compound, it was said, would
permit American residents to find
shelter in tents and legation build
fngs. with both Chinese military forces
and the detachment of American Ma
rines. as well as the military guard
al other legations, to afford them pro-
lection from nobs.
The American destroyer Parrott has
gone from Shanghai to Foochow,
where foreigners have been threatened
and churches looted. Word of the
arrival of the Parrot has not reached
the Navy Department.
SEES MENACE IN REDS.
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%. s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Cloudy. occasional rain tonight and
tomorrow; warmer tonight; colder to-
morrow.
Temperature-High so, at pm.
Yesterday lowest, Al, at TAO am. to-
day Full report on page g.
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DEPARTMENT AGENT LEAVES

]. R. Ummel,special representative of the Department of the Interior, who has been making an extensive study for the past few months of var ious Alaskan bureaus with the idea of consolidation, passed through Sew ard Saturday enroute to Juneau and Washington, D. c. where he will sub init his report to Secretary Work
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NOTICE OF SUBMITTING FINAL
 PROOF

Anchorage, Alaska, July 29th, 1927. Notice is hereby given that Peter Anderson, entryman, together with his witnesses, Paul c. McMullen and Harl ry B. Melvin, all of Seward, Alaska, has submitted final proof on his Home stead Entry, Serial No. 05620 Lot No. 8, NV IA NE IA section One CD Township One CD South Range One CD West, Seward Meridian, That said final proof is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the said U. s. Land Office within the period of publication or within thirty days thereafter, said final prof will be accepted and final certificate will is- sue.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register Date of first publicat ton August 1, 1927. Date of last publication September 10, 1927.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-08-30

istrator of the estate of Albert John son, deceased. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said de- ceased to exhibit them, with the nec- essary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this no- tice, to said administrator at the law office of M. l.. Hickman, in the Town of Kodiak, Territory of Alaska, the same being the place for the transac- tion of the business of said estate in the Territory of Alaska.
 Dated at Kodiak, Alaska, this 30th day of July, 1927.
 O. L. GRIMES, Administrator of the estate of Albert Johnson, deceased. M. l.. Hickman,
 Attorney for Administrator. First publication August 10, 1927 Last publication September 1, 1927.
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IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF. FlcE FOR THE JUNEAU LAND DISTRICT A T ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.
 In the Matter of the Application of the ALASKA PACKERS ASSoCiA- TON, Corporation, for Patent Un- der Sections 23O6 and 23o7 Revised Sheaffers Lifetime fountain pens and pencils. Schallerer's Alaska Shop. Statutes, to a tract of land as Soi- dier's Additional Homestead en- braeed in U. S. Official Survey No. 1883 and Situated on the East Shore of lsanotski Strait.
 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT
 SERIAL NO. o64f2.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the ALASKA PACKERS ASSOCIA- TON, corporation organized under the laws of California, whose principal office is at III California Street San Francisco, California. has filed appli- cation Serial No. 06412 for a patent under and by virtue of Sections 2306 and 2307 Revised Statutes of the Unit ed States, as assignee of M. J. Wine, for a tract of land embraced in U. s. Official Survey No. 1883, situate on the East shore of Isanotski Strait upon the s. E. end of the Alaska Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska in Latitude 54 deg, 52 min. 43 sec. N. and Longi- tude 163 deg. 20 min. .00 sec. w., and particularly described as follows, to- wit:
 Beginning at Corner No. 1 M. c. of said U. s. Survey No. 1883. a point on the Eastern shore of Isanotski Strait from which United States Location Monument No. 1583 bears s. 5 degrees A minutes East Variation 20 degrees East 3.42 chains distant, and run ming thence from said Corner No. 1 M. c. along the meanders of the said Eastern shore of Isanotski Strait (frst course South 30 de- grees 34 minutes West 0.90 chains, second course South 34 degrees 10 minutes West 200 chains, third course South 40 degrees min utes West 59O chains, fourth course South 43 degrees 39 min utes West 6.S0 chains, fifth course South 45 degrees minutes West 2.68 chains), total of 1928 chains to Corner No. 2 M. c. Thence South soc chains to Corner No. 3; thence East 1197 chains to Cor ner No. 4; thence North 1874 chains to Corner No. M. C., the place of beginning, containing an area of 11.23 acres.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above described land should file their adverse claims with the Register of the United States Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, within the period of pub lication or 30 days thereafter or they will be barred by the provisions of the statute.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register. First publication June 27, 1927. Last publication Sept. 6, 1927.
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LEGAL. NOTICES
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
 OFFICE AT ANCHORAGE, ALAS

kA.
 SERIAL NUMBER oe40s In the Matter of the Application O EMMA JEWELL WATKINS for ; Patent to U. S. Survey No. 1876 situate on the South Shore of Nak nek River, Alaska.
 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That EMMA JEWELL WATKINS, a citizen of the United States, whose post office address is Railway Exchange Building Seattle, State of Washington, as the legal assignee of Valentine Griffin beneficiary under Section 2306 U. S. Rev Stats, has applied to enter the lands embraced in United States Sur vey No. 1876, situated on the South shore of Naknek River, upon the West side of Alaska Peninsula, in the Terri. tory of Alaska, more particularly de scribed as follows:
 Beginning at Corner No. of said U. s. Survey No. 1876, point on the South shore of Naknek River, from which United States Location Monument No. 1105, bears North 86 deg. 19 min. 23 sec. East (variation 22 deg. 45 min. East) 336S chains distant from which Corner No. of this survey Corner No. 4, U. S. Survey No. 1105 bears North S7 deg. 39 min 05 sec. East 32.70 chains distant, and running thence from said cor No l olnnp fho raoond0r iiv0 of the South shore of Naknek Riv- CT (frst course South 84 deg. 2 min. West 2.97 chains; second course North deg. 50 min West 0.84 chains; third course North 65 deg. 3 min. West 1.15 chains; fourth course South ST deg. 50 min. West 424 chains) a total of 9.20 chains to Corner No. 2; thence South 820 chains to Corner No. 3; thence East 8.37 chains to Corner No 4; thence North 7.36 chains to Corner No. 1, the place oi begin ming, containing an area of 658 acres.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any portion of the above de- scribed tract of land are required to file with the Register of the United States Land office, at Anchorage, Alaska. their adverse claim thereto under oath during the period of pub lication or within thirty days thereof, or they will be barred by the provi- sions of the Statutes.
 THIS NOTICE is issued at the United States Land Office at Anchor age, Alaska, this 25th day of April, A. D. 1927 and ordered published for a period of sixty days in the Seward Gateway, a newspaper of established character and general circulation, pub lished at Seward, Alaska, nearest the land herein described, and hereby des- ignated for that purpose.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register. J. L. WALLER, Attorney for Applicant. Address: Anchorage, Alaska. First publication June 23, 1927 Last publication Sept. 3, 1927.