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VOTING SYSTEM CHANGE
IN w. L. ID. A. Advocated
Some Circuits Seek Balloting by Leagues Instead of
Indiyiduals-Much Interest Manifested in
Impending Mems Tourney.

showing conSidera BILE interest in the
event to be conducted under new
ture. the sweepstakes for unclassiffed
duckpinners, is attracting much at
tention.
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
bowIers are conducting their own
sweepstakes event. They already
have rolled block OF FIVE games and
will toll through five more at the
Convention Hall drives next Wednes-
day. starting AT o'clock The re-
suits of the first block follow:
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COMMERCIAL LEAGUE.
Team Standing.

Commercial Leagues race seems TO
have shaped itself into fight for rum
ner-up laurels as Garry Ice Cream APP
parently has first place clinched.
Last week The Evening Star boys
had a bad night and lost all three
games to Dulin and Martin, and the
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High team sets--W ashinEton Centennial.
1741: La Fayette. 1.713.
High team games--Potomac. GAG: NJ M.
a Hss n fis4s dyssns y ss.tti
lI5.ss; Cox &c. whiting, 1921: Lewis
High Individual .games---Iseman THAR
mony,. 1874: Dyre tTakomal, 1859.
High individual sets--Schmidt columbia
No. 81. $50: Urban LA Fayettel 40: J.,
Ulrich lPotomacl. 800.
High strlkIe es VA, aks Fayettsl ~
centennian ss L. Becker 9s j. Gompers}
High spares-Cox &c. G. whiting. 1855:
j. Ulrich 1Potomac1 l73 1semann fHar-
monyl. 1881 Urban La Fayettel, 1853.
La Fayette lost ground last week
in the Masonic League when it
dropped all three games of a post
poned set with King David, but main
tanned its pace by taking over East
Gate for all three,
New Jerusalem, which took the
place of Warren G. Harding. has re-
linquished It's franchise in favor Of
Petworth u. ID. The new team will
be captained by Edgar Heimer. for
merly Of Osiris.
The week as whole produced very
poor bowling. only three $50 sets or
better being rolled. Earl Lewis hit
1857. Blumenthal 355, and Jack
Ulrich $50
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EPWORTH BOWLERS
TOP WOMEN'S LOOP

!. Epworth still holds the lead in the
East Washington Church Ladies'
Bowling League, although it is but
game ahead Of Keller, the team that
has to its credit the greatest total
pirfall. Other teams in the circuit ap.
parently are out the championship
trimmings
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Duckpinning Is famous for /

Duclpinning Is famous for its
curious breaks, which. of course, ac-
counts for lot of the interest the
sport carries. In an eight-club league.
all teams bowling the same evening,
one club lost three successive sets,
six games out of nine, in which. 1t
bowled well enough to have won two
or more games each set from any
one of the other seven teams on the
floor except the one it happened to he
shooting against. And then on the
fourth evening it won a match from
an OUTFIT that bowled- well enough to
win from any other team on the floor
except 1t. Try and heat the game. I
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High team sets-lnformation 1.3sl: Ste
noerapherss 1853
High team g5snies--Information, asa Ste
High individual sets--Greevy. 32s;
Greevy and Robinson. 314.
High individual games-RObinson and
GreeVy 124 Greevy. t22.
High individual average-Greevy, 80;
Adams. 50.
Livestock triumphed over the Ste
nographers in two of three games in
the Agricultural Economics Ladies'
League last week. The Stenogs did
their usual good bowling, especially
Capt. Adams. but the Livestock
aggregation got off to a flying start
with good games by Madeline Tippett,
Edna Heffner and Emily Clark and
refused to be downed until the third
game.
After a poor first game. Farm
Management picked up to take two
games from Fruits and Vegetables,
Kathryn MacKinnon struck a high
game of 116 for the winners. Grace
Robinson and Mildred Moore did good
scoring for the losers.
Information outplayed the Land
Economics quint In two games. Eliza
beth Knee. who has been off the alleys
for several weeks on account of Ill
ness, returned to register two good
games for Land Economics Marietta
Thomas I'm her effort to improve her
average did we'll for Information.
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Carr Brothers and Boswell and First
National Bank of EVANSVILLE waged
a warm war on the Arcade drives in
the Maryland suburb in their special
match. After dropping the first game
the Grocers came hack to grab the
next two from the Bankers. The
scores were 453, 463 and 496 to 462,
455 and Az, the Grocers winning by
63 pins. Hitting the little piles for
a set of 800 and a game of Ill. Tfott
of the victors was high scorer of the
battle.
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FEDERAL LEAGUE.

High tssm games, Agriculture. Sss; Com
ping ns Boa iss" sst: snip
High Individual games, Fnsettl Commsre re-.
100; De Glantz. Agriculture 1o2' Dotson'
= High individual sets Fagett, commerce.
3ss; Maize. Commerce. 3s4: De alantz'
s Hish spares ss' Clements Commerce. 14s;
De Glantz, Agriculture l45: Fugett. Com
High strikes. General Accounting once,
az; Haneke. and o1hberheim. Interior. 81 T;
Bu Han snd Park. fo54 PUGET
merce, 107-16; Flannery Interior, 1o6-bS'
Rolling high set for the night,
Shipping Board knocked down 1903
naples to win three games from
Public Buildings and Parks last week
in the Federal League.
The match between the first ana
second place Commerce and Elmer
gency Fleet teams was looked upon
with great enthusiasm, as the Fleet
bowlers had won nine consecutive
games. Fugett's set of 361 ana
Clements 336 set won three games
for Commerce.
Interior. by virtue of winning three
close games from Navy, passed both
Emergency Fleet and Agriculture
and is now in second place by one
game. -,
Cant. Hughes and Covert rolling big
sets of GAG and 337 each, took two
games from Agriculture.
The Marine team. led by OToole
with 333 set and a game of 1873.
won the odd game from the stare
team.
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PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY LEAGUE.

American Legion quint, which
achieved the title in the Prince
Georges County Duckpin Association
last season with great last-minute
drive. must again be reckoned with
seriously.
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EAST WASHINGTON CHURCH LEAGUE.

High individual avefaEe--TLordeil. IlU-l2.
High Individual game--Mftchcll, 156.
High individual set-Price 1888.
Highest number Of spares--Cordeli; 100.
Highest number of strikes--Forney 49,
High team ganle-Waugh. sos.
High team set--Ninth No !. 1853.
Ingram gained a game on its near
est contenders last week in the East
Washington Church League by taking
two of three games from Epworth,
while Centennial lost two to Fifteenth
Street and Ninth No. dropped the
entire set to Ninth No. /.
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Mount Pleasant broke two league
records in the Odd Fellows circuit
last week in its set.to with Wash
ingten, rolling sol for high league
game and totalling 1859 for high
league set. just beating. Amity's for
mer high set by single pin. McFall
led the PIN splitting contest with a
set of $50, featured by q. game Of
la In his last effort, In which game
he finished with a double-header
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is playing the best game of his career.
He recently lost in challenge with
Hoppe Both played poorly, Cochran
should have won. He claims that all
billiard players are victims of ner-
vousness when competing in big
matches and that he lost to Hoppe be-
cause of a $4,000 vaudeville contract
waiting for him Ii he won the title.
Although he does not worry over
the loss OF q game or a title he says
that he lis anxious to win 1t this time.
more from mere desire to accomplish
lit once and please his friends than
from d niercenary standpoint.
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Ray Marx. rolling anchor on the
Savings turned in a set of ISL in the
Bankers League last week, which
helped his team to win two games.
Marx games for this set were III, 8S,
and In the third game, starting with
a three box, he stuck gamely to his
task and came out with 1852, which
broke the high-game record of 151
made by George Pollock. Marx was
awarded the weekly high-game prize.
Fisher. Washington Loan No 1,
took high set weekly prize with 36s
Fisher and his teammate Osborn, with
$50. enabled Washington Loan No.
TO take three games from American
Security Branches.
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Last week the Legion maple
smashers swept into second place.
displacing st. Jerome's. and are now
but Ave games behind the pace-settinE
Collegiates.
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latter now is only one game behind
The Star,
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BANKERS LEAGUE.

High team game--Perpetusl 500 Riggs
500: Washington. sos: Hibbr, SOL.
High team sets--Rigss. / ,677; WASHINGTON
Loan No. /; 1,87o,; American Security $50
lock, ISL: sheehy. 100.
High indv idual sets--v. OFT. SOL: Souder
3SR: Sheehy asa
Highest number strikea--Gheen. ~.
Highest number spares---Sheehy 1872
Highest aVerageE--Sheehy, 114I6; Gheen
1928; Wood 113-3.
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High individual average--Fischer ninth
Street,. 96.19.
Hieh spaIes-Gemeny tE.pworthl. SO.
High gfrdkee-Mertz tKcllerl. 20.
High individual game-Mertz tKelier1.
High Individual set--Mertz fKellerl. 325.
High team set-Keller. So.
High team game--Keller. 4TS.
Individual Records.
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oDD FELLOWS LEAGUE.

High team Rame--Mount Pheasant, BUI
High team set--Mount Pleasant. 1859.
High individual game-Harville and
Ward. I4s.
High individual sat--Harvii1e. 3e7.
Greatest etrikes-sJ Elicit "a
Greatest epares--P. Elicit 100
High individual average. Elicit.
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NORTH WASHINGTON CHURCH LEAGUE.
Team Standing.
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RAWLINGS for the Davis Cfll
tennis competition will ~
made on March II at IN,
. White House by special invi
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alton 10 elect officers and TO
mulate plans for its annus
4aiarS11ip tn1tyf1 IN q n
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
IMPERSONATING OFFICER
CHARGED TO VETERAN
Arrested on Tailor's Complaint, He
Is Accompanied to Jail by
Bride. ~

Alleged to have impersonated an
Army officer. Arthur NJ. Adrian, %
years old, of New York City was ar
rested Friday afternoon by Detec.
tives c. j. r. Weber and Carlton
Taliey He was residing at 3o33 Six
teenth street. His bride of three
months accompanied him to police
headquarters.
Adrian, reported by the police to
have been known under the aliases
Da lid Gleason, Bert Gleason and J. s.
Bond served in the Army and. ac-
cording 10 his reputed statements to
the detectives, served time in prison
1or deseltion.
Several days ago he visited a local
tailoring establishment and convinced
the proprietor he was Lieut.. Har-
baugh" and obtained a coat and cap,
leaving his old ones.
Report of the incident was investi.
gated by Detectives Weber and Talley
and the arrest resulted. I.
The prisoner entered a plea of
guilty when arraigned before United
States Commissioner Needham G..
Turnage He was held for action OF
the grand jury and committed to jail
in default of $4,000 bond.
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CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Week-Genera Federation Board Members Gather for
Annual Session-Clubwomen to Have Full Week.

gave a luncheon Thursday afternoon
at club headquarters in honor of the
. resident members. Mrs. J. Harry Gov
ington. chairman of tho committee
presided, During the luncheon plans
for the coming year were discussed.
Last night the Democratic club
women held the first of series OF
forum suppers, which will be held
each Saturday evening until further
notice. They will be featured by In
formal round-table discussions, with
one special leader. At the initial af
fair last night, Prof. Edward Heating
led the discussion on Primaries VS.
Conventions"
Program luncheons will be held on
Mondays, instead of Wednesdays. in
the future at the Democratic Club
headquarters. Mrs. Maggie w. Bar
ry. chairman of the American home
department Of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, will be the speaker
at the luncheon tomorrow afternoon.
MRS. CHARLES MONTAGUE 1R.
AvA WIN of st. Paul. a member Of
the Great Lakes.St. Lawrence Tide
water Commission and the only
woman selected to serve as one Of
the AZ vice presidents. of the commits
sion, has arrived in Washington to as.
Sist in the campaign to further the
interests of the tidewater project
Twenty-one States are represented on
the commission. and each Of those is
represented by two vice presidents.
Mrs. Irwin expects to remain in
Washington for six weeks or two
months.
A series of Sunday afternoon round.
table teas will be inaugurated this
Party headquarters, and will continue
throughout the season every Sunday
afternoon from to s o'clock.
No set program will be arranged
for these affairs, but open discussions
will be held on any subject connected
with the work Of the party. Miss
Laura Berrien will act as hostess this
afternoon. All members Of the or
ganization are invited to come and TO
extend invitations to their friends to
join in the informal chat over the
teacups.
Mrs. Abby Scott Baker spoke before
the Women's Party at a program tea
held last Sunday afternoon in the
clubhouse on Capitol Hill. Mrs.
Bakers talk was in the form Of re-
port OH the tOIulltOIlS III FdI1S, WIlcIS
the telephone girls are Waging bat
tie to have abolished the regulation
night work for women.
Their contention is that the men are
paid more than double the wages on
the night shifts that the women are
able to earn in the daytime.
Mrs. Baker has just returned from
Europe. She represented the District
of Columbia branch of the Woman's
Party at the meeting of the Interna-
tional Suffrage Alliance, held in Paris
last June.
Mrs Emile Berliner, chairman of the
District branch. received with Mrs.
Baker. assisted by Mrs. Richard Vain
wright Mrs. Isaac Dixon, Mrs. Nina
Allender. Mrs. Herman Gasch, Miss
Jessie Dell, Miss Grace Osgood, DR.
Louise Lawrence Of Boston, Miss
Aline Solomons, Mrs. Herbert Easter
day. Mrs. Andrew Stewart, Mrs. APP
pleton Clark, Mrs. Sumner Perkins
and Mrs. Samuel Hilton.
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gagements and conferences with
league chairmen.
| Miss Janet Mitchell of Australia
conferred last week with Miss Belle
ShArwin, league president, and several
other leaders in league work. Miss
| Mitchell, who is the daughter of Sir
Edward Mitchell. leading constitu.
| tional and international lawyer of
Australia, has been sent to this coun
| try to study our family budgeting and
thrift methods. Miss Mitchell is a
graduate of London University and
had the distinction of being the only
woman member of the Australian
| delegation at the Institute of Pacific
| Relations in Honolulu in 1925.
| ~ v -r--,...--
THE National League of American
Pen Women is in a position SINH.
lar to that OF the proud parents who
have so many brilliant children they
do not know whom to praise first or
| most. So many worth while things
are being done in the many branches
! OF the league throughout the coun-
try that the cup Of congratulation
| could be kept always overlooking
Just at present the national league,
| However. is watching with special
pride and interest the new venture
being made by the District League
OF American Pen Women in its re-
vival of the old English Coffee Shop.
revival so auspiciously inaagurated
Friday of the past week.
Mrs. Seton. president of the ma
tional league, in introducing the
speaker of last Friday afternoon,
Ismail Kamel Bey, charge d'affaires
Of the legation of Egypt warmly ex-
pressed her approval and interest in
the project.
The idea OF reviving those old-time
gatherings, which grew to have such
life OF England in Elizabethan days
originated with Mrs Aaron ID.
Newman, first vice president of the
District league, and her suggestion
was warmly seconded and nurtured
into fulfillment by Mrs. William Wolff
Smith, president of the District
league. 1t is probable that the idea
viii be taken up in other branches Of
the league and that these afternoons
devoted to literary talks. to be fol
lowed by discussion over the coffee
cups, VIII prove Of great moment in
the literary world OF the United
States
" f-tIt LAX monthly meetings of the
board of control and the Wash
lneton Unit of the League of Coast
Guard Women We're held Monday
afternoon, January 3, al Coast Guard
headquarters.
Mrs. +. G. Billiard, wife of the COM
mandant and chairman of the board.
presided over the session of that
group. Other members who were
present included Mrs. Q. 3. Newman.
Mrs. X. G. Crisp, Mrs. G. w. Cairnes
Mrs. H.. +. Schoe nborn, Mrs. w J.
Wheeler, Mrs. Charles S. Root and
Mrs. George G. Billiard.
The unit met Immediately following
the board session. with Mrs F. $,
Hunnewell presiding. Following the
regular routine business, plans were
discussed for q series of entertain
ments for the purpose of augmenting
the funds of the unit which are used
to carry on relief work among the
families Of the Coast Guard person
nel.s n
The membership committee of the
WOman's National Democratic Club
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The Nome nugget., 1927-11-05
FIRST AMERICAN SOLDIER KILLED IN FRANCE TEN
 YEARS AGO YESTERDAY

Paris, Nov. 4, P)-Ten years ago November third, the first American soldier was killed in action in France, and fell under enemy fire. Three men of the Sixteenth United States Infantry met their death that night when raiding party of Germans were sent over into the front line trenches in Lorraine.
 The episode was recalled in a long article published i1 Le Temps by General Bordeau who command ed the French Division to which the first American Division was at tached at that time.
The Nome nugget., 1927-11-05

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that under Writ of Execution and Order of Sale issued out of the District Court, Second Division, Ter ritory of Alaska, on October 5th 1927, upon a Consolidated Jrdg- ment therein rendered and entered on the 4th day of October, 1927, ill favor of the Plaintiffs, H. c Long ley, in Cause No. 3o59, J. D. Andrr- son and G. w. Larson in Cause No. 3O63. and John E. Nelson in Cause No. 3064, and against the DafeAd- ants Wm. A. Nielsen, and Solomon Valley Dredging Company. corpo- ration, Defendants in all above men tioned Causes, for the sun of s556973, together with costs and expenses of Sale, I will on the 21st day of November, 1927, at the hour of II o'clock A. NJ. at the front door of the United States Court House at Nome, Alaska, as in said Writ and Order of Sale l am commanded. offer for sale at pub lie vendue and sell to tne highest and best bidder for cash, all of the right, title and interest which the Defendants or either of them had on the 4th day of October, 1927, or at any time since, in and to the following described real property, to-wit:
 Patented Placer Mining Claims known as Eva" Belle, or Bel," Mamie" and Gretchen" on Sol omon River in the Cape Nome Re- cording Precinct, Territory of Alas ka, U. s. Mineral Survey No. 1928.
 Dated at Nome. Alaska, this 18th day of October. 1927.
 CHAs. D. JONES United States Marshal, Second Division, Territory of Alaska.
 Publish Oct. 22, 2s, Nov. 5. IF. IS. 1927.
The Nome nugget., 1927-11-05
ElALL-SINCLAIR TRIAL RESET
 FOR JANUARY SIXTEENTH

Washington, Nov. 4, R)-Justice Siddons fixed January sixteenth as the new date for the Fall-Sinclair trial. The special Government counsel suggested the date and ex- the retrial could not begin within a few days.
 Justice Siddons said he realized the difficulties the Government at torneys would have in issuing sub poenas for their witnesses-describ- ed by former Senator Pomerene as being spread all over the world from Honolulu to France and from Texas to Canada.
The Nome nugget., 1927-11-05
FRIDAY ,TElEGRApHtCl
MINING CLUB WANTS TAX
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Seattle, Nov. 4. R)-The Mining Club of. Seattle is urging Congress to repeal the State tax on mining stock, holding that it is an unfair burden because 1t is an assessment ;:ainst a par value rather than l.. ..ast a real value.
 Mining men contend that most mining stock held is for the latter value rather than for immediate dividends, and because of this the the holder pays the same rate of tax on par value stock of small real value as he would were the real value great.
The Nome nugget., 1927-11-05
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 Hudkins claimed the title from the ring when the announcer made it known that the bout had been called mo contest" by the State Boxing Commission.
 After seventeen thousand fight fans had waited for an hour and a half they vented their wrath by smashing the ring side seats. They were quelled only after a riot call had been sent in for additional po- lice reserves. Some of the fans look measures to protect the price of their admission by strutting from the field loaded with folding chairs.
 The State Boxing Commission declared that the sixty thousand dollars surety bond protected the ticket holders The reserve seat spectators paid from three dollars and thirty cents to eleven dollars per seat for the best seats. Sport writers questioned the possibility of making a refund when the gen. eral admission ticket buyers hold no stubs for their tickets. They paid two dollars and twenty cents for general admission per seat.