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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
RARE FOSSIL TRACKS
FOUND BY BIOLOGIST
Prof. Nininger Of Kansas Traces
Animals and Birds of Thou
sands Of Years Ago.

BY the Associated Press.
MCPHERSON, Kans., February %
A heretofore unknown bed Of fossil
tracks, clearly revealing traces of
strange birds and animals which
stalked the Southwestern part Of the
United States thousands Of years ago
has been located by Prof. II. II. MINI
ger, head of the biology department
of Mcpherson College.
Footprints of 19 different kinds OF
animals and birds found in the bed
have been segregated and identified
by their tracks, and some Of them
Prof. Nininger declares, are new to
modern science.
Reading of the Kansas biologists
work in unearthing fossils of giant
prehistoric animal Of the cat family
in central Arizona last April, Lee
Means, a rancher living near Valen.
tine, Tex, wrote to him saying there
were some unusual imprints In hard
flint.like rock on his farm.
Prof. Nininger went to the Means
ranch, not far from the Mexican Dor.
der, and investigated the imprfnts. lie
believes that country was, in prehis'
toric days, large shallow lake. the
bottom of which was covered with a
stiff muck. On this muck the animals
and birds walked, leaving their tracks
firmly imprinted.
Then came a time when the land
was submerged with sediment
known as anhydrite. closely related to
gypsum. All OF this was again be.
meath other sediments to a depth OF
from $50 to 200 feet and on top Of this
a 15o.foot layer of basaltic lava flow
ed. During the Pleistocene period. pos
sibly from $4,000 to 100000 years ago,
a great upheaval broke up the forma.
lions and a stream has since brought
to view the fossiliZed tracks, imbed-
ded in the rock which resembles flint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
CHIMES FOR $50 YEARS
AID TRAVELLER AT NIGHT
Endowment Left by Woman Who
Was Lost in Snowstorm Keeps
Bells Ringing.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated ffesS.
LONDON, February 2S--The chimes
of a church bell ringing out over the
midlandS these Winter evenings re.
call a curfew that has been kept for
more than $50 years.
birthstone, near Melton Mowbray, is
a picturesque Old World village which
lies on the southern declivity of the
Void Hills. and still retains its stocks
whore public offenders are punished.
Two and a half centuries ago u
Grimstone' woman lost her way while
walking from Melton Mowbray to her
home in snowstorm. But for the
tolling Of the church bell, which en-.
abled her to find her way, she would
have persisted i'll the cold Thankful.
she bought the field wherein, she first
heard the sound OF the bell and be.
queathed its income to future bell
ringers, provided the bell should be
tolled every evening from October to
April.
The bell rings out the day Of the
week and also the month. Although
the deeds have been lost these many
years, the curfew is still faithfully
kept every evening at s o'clock and
the woman's field Is let at public auc-
ton each Easter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
NEW APPEAL BY SACASA
Fears Lives of L. s. Marines May
Be Sacrificed.

Fear that the State Department.
may be impelled Ito sacrifice the peo-
pie of Nicaragua and the lives of
American Marines for the benefit OF
purely material interests" was voiced
in a statement issued here last night
by representatives of Juan L. Sacasa,
the Liberal leader in the Nicaraguan
civil war.
The statement bears Sacasas name
and is dated from Puerto Cabezas.
The statement continues:
Nicaragua feels deeply grateful to
every one of the American Senators.
Representatives. and newspaper men
who have SO nobly defended her cause.
and I once more appeal to the spirit
of fairness of the American people to
help secure justice for my country in
tho interest of pan-Americanism."
Sacasa says he still Is ready to step
aside, providing Alfonso Diaz, the
Conservative President, also with
draws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
PROPOSED GROUP
OF CITY BUILDINGS
PLEDGED SUPPORT
Continued from First Page

| Continued from First Page
| from Union Station to Pennsylvania
| avenue at Third street.
West Of John Marshall place, front.
ing Pennsylvania avenue, it is pro-
posed to locate a police and traffic
control building.
East Of John Marshall place and
along the Louisiana avenue frontage
and facing Judiciary Square it is pro-
posed to erect a building or buildings
for the Juvenile and Municipal
Courts and for the recorder of deeds.
West of John Marshall place and fac
ing toward Judiciary Square may be
determined upon as a site for the new
Police Court Building.
Those who are making the ten
tative plans are going forward on the
assumption that the action of the
House on eliminating the appropria-
ton for the Police Court in the
second deficiency bill means that this
Police Court Building is not to be
placed In Judiciary Square, where the
remaining space is needed for future
expansion of existing court buildings.
This would bring all the District
agencies related to and doing business
with the courts into the same close
neighborhood and be important in
giving greater dignity to the court
group.
Buildings for other municipal
agencies, such as the Municipal Lodg.
ing House and the laboratories of the
Health Department and other branches
of the District government are being
considered, to be placed on the square
back of the police and traffic building
between John Marshall place, Sixth
street and Louisiana avenue.
Would Promote Economy.
The entire municipal group. it is
pointed out, would promote economy
and efficiency in the transaction of
the public business in the District
and would clean out the now decadent
area that was once a most fashionable
section Of the city.
Such a group is imperatively need
ca, because the present District
Building is deplorably overcrowded. Is
not at ALI fitted to the present day
needs, adequate space for expansion
cannot be provided in the Mall tri-
angle without seriously interfering
with the orderly grouping of the new
Federal buildings, and efficiency de-
mands a careful coordination of the
District government units.
The delay in erection Of the sadly
needed new Police Court to relieve a
condition that Mrs. Edith Nourse
Rogers told her colleagues in the
House is worse than wartime prison
camps, because of difficulties in decid.
ing upon proper site for the new
building near the other courts. en-
phasized the need for a most careful
study of all the District building
needs in relation to each other and
for establishment where the best
working conditions OF the entire mu.
nincipal establishment can be had.
The District officials, with the adj
vice and counsel and cooperation of
the other agencies concerned with the
development Of the National Capital.
will be working all Summer on this
District government housing prob.
lem so as to he ready to make a def
mite and detailed report to Congress
in December with definite recon-
mendation regarding the proposed
group, and exact figures as to prob.
able cost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
KULTUR ILL TREATED.
American Film Producers Protest
German Ruling.

BERLIN, February % R.-Ger.
man film producers are rendering
kultur poor service in protesting
against the wholesale importation Of
foreign films, in the opinion of Ameri-
can movie representatives in Berlin.
The German ministry Of economics
recently decided to renew for 1927 the
ruling whereby one foreign film can
he imported for every German film eX.
ported. The association of German
him producers has protested this &C.
ton and demands that foreign films
be admitted only at tho ratio OF one
foreign film for every two German
productions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
"TAx WINKER" DEVELOPS

LONDON. February IS Op).-Win-
ston Churchill's cordially hated bet
ting tax has created new kind OF
tax dodger. called the tax winker."
Betting men ask their bookmal1er to
take a bet without tax" and on the
later refusing they go TO a street
bookie who is quite ready to treat the
betting tax as a dead letter. II is said
by professional hackers that where
street bookmakers dealt in shillings
before they now deal in pounds, and
by winking at the tax have increased
their business enermouasA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
S6(O,0(O|SASKED
/. FOR AIRPORT HERE
Stalker Introduces Bill in
| House for Appropriation
+. to Purchase Land.

Without mentioning any SPECIFIC
location in or near the District OF Co.
lumbia, q bill was introduced in the
House today by Representative
Stalker, Republican. New York. alt
th~ng the Commissioners to SC
uuire tract of land for the erection
OF municipal airport. and carrying
ssa appropriation of 5000. 0oe, to be
paid out of the revenues or the Das-
trict and the general funds or the
Treasury in the same proportion as
other expenditures Of the District OF
Columbia" The bill was referred to
the District committee, of which Mr..
Stalker is a member.
The Commissioners. under the blll
are authorized TO acquire by pur-
chase or condemnation proceedings
any land for the purpose of establish
ing and maintaining thereon suit
able airdrome to facilitate and en-
courage the development of CONNER
cial aviation, and to establish thereon
necessary hangers. beacon lights for
night flying, meteorological service
and any necessary equipment installed
for the protection and safety OF air
craft landing or taking off in this field
and to maintain such civil air field
Provides for Expansion.
"The field SO established shall be
large enough to accommodate all
types of aircraft. and shall be so stu
ated that it will be convenient to
transportation and other necessary
facilities, as we'll as being capable of
expansion as future needs may re-
quire.' the bill further provides.
THE field so acquired shall be re-
served wholly for the use Of the public
and shall not be leased to any corpora
ton for public or private purposes.
1t shall be open to the public as a
landing field for private aircraft of all
descriptions, the use of the Air Mail
Service and as a station for the ac-
eommodation of passengers from or
ganized passenger and air freight
lines"
The bill also authorizes such sums
to be appropriated from time to time
as are necessary for the maintenance
Of the airport.
Two Bills Before House.
The House now has two bills before
It bearing on this subject, the first
having been introduced by Representa-
tive Gasque, Democrat, South Car.
DINA, District committee member.
and calling for the acquisition OF the
old Washington Jockey Club property
in Benning and Keuilworth at a cost
of not to exceed S37S.806. The total
cost of the airport In that section
would be limited at 100000.
The Commissioners. to whom this
bill was referred. passed it on to the
Budget Bureau to determine whether
IT conflicts with the financial program
OF the President. A public hearing
will be conducted on the Gasque bill
by the committee on public utilities of
the Federation Of Citizens Associa-
tons Wednesday afternoon from 4:45
o'clock to o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
PLAN SERVANTS UNION.
TO GET INCREASED PAY
British Workers Also Consider
Union for Nurses to Win 49,
Hour Week.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. 4
LONDON, February 28.-Two new
unions are being planned for women
workers in the near future.
The Domestic and Hotel Workers
Uuion plans a servants organization
which will give servants an S-hour
day and 4S-hour week with no deduc-
tons for breakage, two weeks vaca-
ton, a minimum wage Of 81 shillings
a week for servants who live in, and
20 shillings for cooks. cook.generals
and working housekeepers.
A trade union for nurses is suggest
ed, with n 4S-hour week. a months
annual holiday on full pay and pen
sions at the age of So.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
SOVIET AIDS INVENTOR.
Russians Days Of Poverty and
Wandering End.

MOSCOW. February % U).-Ivan
Mouchkartoff. a Russian inventor,
with 120 important patents to his
credit, is to receive state aid after
wandering homeless and famished in
the Moscow region for the last year.
The inventor appealed to Nicolai
Bucharin Of the Soviet central COM
mittee. who sent him to the chairman
Of the Moscow Soviet with a note
reading:
Help this worthy man. 1t seems
society is made up of dumb idiots and
not men. This man deserves better
of the state"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
ANNENkOFF is ARRESTED,
Former Cossack Dictator Will Be
Tried by Moscow.

MOSCOW, February % OP).-It Is
announced that Gen. Annenkoff. Cos
sack dictator of south Siberia in 1918.
IS. whom the bolshevists charged with
responsibility for the deaths of hun
dreds of peasant rebels. has been
arrested in the territory of the Soviet
Union and will soon be tried"
Gen. AnnenkOff fed from Russia
after his exploits in Siberia. He has
been reported in recent years as
urging the white Russians abroad 10
abandon their struggle against the
bolshevists and return to Russia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
Curtiss Plane Design Wins.

The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor
Corporation of Garden City. n. Y, to-
day won a design competition for the
Navy's new training planes.
The Navy Department will offer to
buy two or three of the planes for
trial and on their success will depend
whether shex will b ssse2 gemexallxu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
LUXURIOUS CRAFT SOLD
TO 'RANJP THE CRICKETER
Yacht Owned by Eccentric Baron,
His Home for SO Years,
Taken to India.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, February 2S.-The lux
urious yacht Valfreyia. originally
owned by the late Bayard Brown, &C.
centric millionaire, who lived on it for
36 years at Wivenhoe, has been pur.
chased by the Maharajah of Nawan-
ager, better known as "Ranji" the
cricketer. The vessel will be maze
seawofthy again and taken to fno-..
Before the death of the American
recluse some months ago the VAL
treyia was always, theoretically, ready
for sea--but the yachts bottom was
sadly in need of repairs and she stood
in drydock for years. The Maharajah
bought the vessel at what is consid.
cred a bargain rate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
As MEXICANS KILLED
IN TWO-HOUR BATTLE
Federal Forces Execute Rebel
Leaders After Victory in
State Of Guantaiuato.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, February 28.-
Thirty.four rebels and eleven federal
soldiers were killed and numerous
rebels were wounded or captured in
combat Saturday near Dolores Hi
dalgo, state of Guanajuato.
Gen. Cedillo. in making this report
to the war department, adds that
several rebel leaders who were cap
tured were summarily executed.
Three military columns attacked the
rebels, entrenched on Zimarrona
Mountain. The fight lasted two
hours. Then the rebel forces fed,
abandoning their dead and wounded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
BRITISH INDIGNANT
AT RUSS|A'S REPLY
Soviet Note Says Trade Pact
Threat Will Not Cause
Alarm.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 2S.-Russias
reply to the British note warning
against continuance of bolshevist
propaganda against Great Britain
aroused further Indignation today
among those who for months past
the Soviet authorities to task. There
was no demand for severance of re-
lations, however.
| The British note protested against
the dissemination of bolshevistic prop
uganda by Soviet officials, citing as
proof speeches Of government leaders.
In reply Russia says that British
ministers have made derogatory
statements about Russia. The note
quotes Lord Birkenhead as referring
to the Soviet government as "a gang
Of assassins and robbers" and Win.
ston Churchill as describing the au-
thorities as "a band of cosmopolitan
conspirators, gathered from the un-
derworld from the great cities of Eu-
rope and America"
Not Frightened by Threat.
AS for Britain's threat to nullify
the trade agreement with the Soviet
or break Off diplomatic relations I'M
less the Russians changed their at
titude, the note declares that no one
will be frightened by this stand. The
note adds:
The Soviet government will con-
tinue it's policy Of peace. excluding
any aggressive spirit toward any
other countries, and will sincerely
welcome any mutual step toward
peace on the part of Great Britain. :"
The note says further that no sub
tantial evidence is given by the
British Of their charge that the Soviet
violated agreements.
Further Exchange Held Useless.
What can you do with people like
tl1ese?" is the tone with which most
Of the London newspapers comment
on the reply.
There Is virtual agreement that a
further exchange Of notes between
the two governments Is useless. and
that If, as many argue, Russian
trade is worth keeping. the only thing
to do is to ignore the reply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
50 JAILED IN RED PLOT.


BUDAPEST. Hungary. February IS
N}.-Polfce said today they had un
earted a widespread bolshevik plot,
conferred in Budapest and with ram
ifcations in the principal cities of
Hungary.
Fifty persons were under arrest,
including Zoltan Szanto. brother OF
sary during the Soviet dictatorship
in Hungary.
He was caught a. the frontier
his way out of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
BOB CAUSES SUICIDE.
Husband Shoots Self After Quarrel
With Wife.

BARBOURvILLE, KY, February
Is P).--James Williamson, % years
old, is dead. a suicide. after differences
with his wife because she had her hair
bobbed had resulted in a quarrel at
their home Sunday night.
Williamson grabbed a shotgun dur
ing the quarrel and fired into his head.
The first charge took off a portion of
his chin. He reloaded the weapon and
sent another shot into his chest. while
his wife looked on, unable to interfere
Mrs Williamson was the only witness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
BAND CONCERT.
TOMORROW.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, Gas
PM: John 8. M. Zimmerman, leader.
Emil A. EsnStads sesepd leader.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
MINERS BODIES RESCUED.
Three Die Presumably From Acct.
dental Dynamite Explosion.

wALSENBURG, Colo, February %
R.-The bodies Of three miners killed
yesterday in an explosion in the Cad.
wei mine Of the Pacific Coal Mining
Co. were recovered today. Company
officials believe a drill set of a charge
Of dynamite.
The dead: Charles Shepherd, 10.
mine foreman; Alex Archuleta, 20, and
Frank Rivera, 30.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
Pinedo Arrives at Sac Pauline.

SAC PAULINE, Brazil, February 2S
R).-Thex Italian flyer De Pinedo ar
rived at 1l:o5 this. morning from Rio
Do JanasEQ4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28

Egypt's cotton crop this season will
weigh lz1e,0e0.0oo pounds less than
that Of last season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
Radio Breaks MOnOtOny.

About the room a dozen stout men
in sea boots were playing pool and
billiards. Behind them was a black
board with the scrawl: "Six men
wanted forischooner Mary Ann, double
dory." Another read: Single dory.
man for schooner Ageste.' These
were calls to the Winter harvest on
the Banks.
George E. Russell, the genial chap.
lain of the institute, named over the
years dead-three men lost when the
Ralph Brown was wrecked last Feb
ruary on Briar Neck, one lost in a
capsized dory, and one who fell or
was swept from the deck of his
schooner.
His records show 80 lost in 1926. IS
in 1924, rs in 1928 and u in 1922, but.
he says. it used to he worse. e,
Mr.. Russell estimates that 100
schooners of the fleet have radio sets
and a local station now broadcasts
market reports on landings and prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
GOUCESTERkEEpS
OLD-T|ME FLAVOR
S4+r~.
Modern Methods Have Cut
Toll of Lives, But Fishing
Trade Is Greatest Ever.


GLOUCESTER, Mass, February IS
Only one of the famous old New
England fishing ports, Gloucester, re.
tains the full flavor of the spicy olden
days, and even Gloucester has changed
in that new and improved methods
have reduced loss of life among the
men who go to the sea in ships.
The sealing industry went the way
OF the seal. and the whaling ports sue
cumbed to petroleum and electricity
but fishing for food goes on apace and
Gloucester has just completed what
the old timers claim is the hest
maclerel fishing season in it's history.
Gloucester in Winter is q city of
snow banked streets, ice clad fishing
schooners creaking at their piers along
the water front cold winds whistlinc
through frost-stiffened shrouds and
Ticking salt from the crests of white
capped waves in the harbor.
Proud of Business.
At the Fisherman's Institute the
landsman can breathe deep of the salt
atmosphere. Oldtimers there, wealth
erbeaten veterans of the banks. taking
it easy between trips. bit taciturn
about this fishing business and a bit
proud of it. too, will talk with ap-
parent reluctance of the old days and
now.
Yes" said one, as he leaned back
in his snug corner, this years mack
erel season was the best in the his
tory of Gloucester and they're adding
to all the fleets out of here every
year. And, what's more, the fisher.
mans life amt what 1t used to be.
In my time there We're 90 women
made widows when their men lost
their lives from Gloucester every year.
II never saw the worst of it. Meth
err. From 1870 to 1886 there were PIT
vessels of the Gloucester fleet lost and
l,954 men drowned or died aboard.
Better schooners are one reason for
the imprOvement--that and more gen.
eral auxiliary power. And life has
been made easier, too. There's the
radio at sea, and when the schooner
docks the fisherman is through--he
her"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-28
CLOTURE INVOKED
IN SENATE DEBATE
OVER DRY BUREAU

Continued from First PageD
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-02-03
TOWN OF PARK

TOWN OF PARK
Supervisors-Nels Berg. Frank Macn.
Chas. Kunz.
Address: Star Route. Br ano.i M hapson
5astIcs q q the Peace Joe q s7 + Rsdd
constable .......... Frank Meister
TOWN OF PARTRIDGE
Petersen. Adolf Jensen.
Address: Route 2. Askov. M: Mimi nl'n'
Justices Of the PeaceIchris. F. Fre sepasa
sen, Einar Jensen.
Constables-Fred Olesen. John F.
KrantZ.
TOWN OF PINE CITY
Supervisors M. Hudak. Martin
P: Haug. Henry Kraft.
Address: Pine City. Mimi.
treasurer ................M M. A. Volta
TOWN OF PINE LAKE
Supervisors-J. R. Hannu. Geo. Beck.
Chas. Hellman.
-. Address: Finiiaiy;ssonhs MINI MINI. n'a"
Justice Of the Peace Art 5oe R 2as9Paen
TOWN OF PoKEGAMA
Supervisors-W. G. Ausmus, VIM. o.
Daniels. H. F. Tesch. '' "
ADDRESS: R 5, Pine city; a. M Raia'a
Justice Of the Peace 80. W. II. sch1Itz
constable ........... Fred Norstrom
TOWN OF ROCK CREEK
Supervisors-A. J. Anderson. Victor
Pepin. Frank A. Peterson.
o' Address: Rock Creek iet Mimi n1"osre"
JUSTICES of the Peace-Joh ni E Fl dsor.
Constables-H T. Mills John Nalson
TOWN OF ROYALTON
Observation-Disclosures Downing. A. ].
Weiss. John Thunberg:
-, Address: Route 2, Pine City, MINI: -
Constable .......... Albrecht Pangeri
TOWN OF SANDSTONE
Supervisors--C. w. Johnson. Gust E.
Johnson. Albert Eitens.
CLERK Address: sandstone @' MINI ii Mneeier
Treasurer ..............J. c. Hansen
TOWN OF STURGEON LAKE
Supervisors-R. A. Bissonnette. James
-, zalesky. A. A. Upgren.
o'er Address: sturgeon Lake era Mimi A'ns
TOWN OF WILMA
Supervisors-Warren Shute. Harry Geb-
hart. w. U. Grace.
justice Of the Peace 49,: ~ John on IL TIdwig
Constable ............ Norman Matson
TOWN OF WINDEMERE
Supervisors Beccue. John w
Anderson. John Storm:
clerk Address,: Moose L Sserg M4 nj Aa'"
ju rsasaser of the PeaceNB 6 ie3 Wade
Observation-Disclosures Nyberg. Victor An
derSOn.