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Take Up Positions as Chi
nese Groups Maneuver for
Battle Over Metropolis.
AMERICANS WILL LAND
ONLY IF CRISIS COMES
Clash Between Northern Troops
Arriving to Defend City and
Suns Soldiers Feared.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
The military situation at Shanghai
seems to be rapidly approaching a
crisis.
Three thousand British regulars
this evening moved into position sur
rounding the Shanghai international
settlement. This action followed an
appeal by the Municipal Council to
certain foreign consuls for aid in de-
tending the city.
Additional sandbags and barbed
wire entanglements are being placed
around the international settlement 10
prevent any invasion OF the foreign
section by the demoralized soidlery or
Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, whose de-
feated defense forces are falling back
into the native section or Shanghal.
g. Miles From City.
Suns retreating defense forces nave
reached Sungkiang, only. 70 miles
south of Shanghai, and are not
thought likely 10 hold that city unless
quickly reinforced. o,.
The Shantungese have won thelr
race to reach Shanghai ahead OF the
Natfonalists. About 5000 Shantung
troops already have arrived and their
battle squadron of Is ships IS report
ed to have left Tsingtao for Shanghla
to help defend the city against the
advancing Nationalist.
Three American destroyers,. the
Preble, Noa and Hubert, reached
Shanghai today from Manila. But the
1900 United States Marines who ar
rived yesterday on board the trans
port Chaumont will not be landed I'M
less required for the defense of Amer
lean interests.
More British on Way.
A thousand British marines sailed
for Shanghai from Hongkong today.
The diplomatic body at Peking has
issued a warning cautinoing the EN-
battled Chinese armies against Jeop-
ardizing foreign lives and property in
the fighting around Shanghai.
Labor conditions at Shanghai are
almost normal following the calling
off OF the general strike. A one-day
general strike was called at 7Iankow
today in protest against the British
troop concentration at Shanghai.
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HOUSE VOTE SAVES
CRU|SERSF0RN NAVY
Senate Expected to Concur
Today in Appropriation
Amendment.

The cruiser fight for the Navy is
won, so far as Congress is concerned.
The Senate IS expected to concur in
the House amendment to its appro-
priation for beginning construction of
the three new scout cruisers.
Discretion is left with the President
as to whether he will use the money
for beginning work on the cruisers.
The act Of 1924, in which the light
cruiser program was laid down, gives
him this discretion.
But the net result of the action of
Congress in placing the cruiser ap.
preparation in the bill is to save to
the Navy these three cruisers. Had
no. appropriation for beginning their
construction been made at this session
Of Congress, the authorization for
their construction would have expired
next July.
Veto Held Unlikely.
Suggestion of presidential veto of
the Navy bill because of the cruiser
appropriation, which the President
has opposed at this time, was made
on fhe floor of the House during the
debate yesterday afternoon. But
such arVeto. They say frankly that
if<fhe President vetoes the bill. he
sfhay force special session of the
next Congress, due to the failure of
the Navy bill.
Senator Hale of Maine, chairman
of the naval affairs committee and
in charge of the bill in the Senate.
was prepared when the Senate met
today to move to concur in the House
amendment to the cruiser appropria-
ton. The House amendment reduced
the appropriation for beginning work
on the three cruisers from $1,000, 900
to $450.O0O.
The amount, it was pointed out to-
day, is not material. The victory was
one of principle and the cruisers have
been saved. in all probability. to the
Navy. Furthermore, the Congress has
given another demonstration of the
fact that the Navy is not to be al
lowed to fall below what the country
considers an adequate first line Of de-
Tense.
Vote Is Impressive.
The vote taken in the House yes
terday was impressive. Representa-
tive Buffers motion to concur in the
Senate cruiser appropriation, with an
amendment reducing the sum, was
carried POS to 172, a margin of So
votes. 1t was particularly impressive
In view of the fact that on January Z,
when the bill was first before the
House, similar proposition was voted
down, 1873 to 161.
The victory for the cruisers. which
is termed by the cruiser program sup
porters a victory for an adequate
Navy, was particularly non-partisan,
for 104 Republicans and 104 Demo-
Gratis were found voting side by side
in the House yesterday for the ap-
preparation.
President Coolidge will be called
upon to determine at an early date
whether he proposes to expend the
money appropriated for the three
cruisers yesterday at this time.
Bids to Be Asked.
1t is the plan of the Navy Depart
ment to call for bids on three cruisers
already appropriated for on March 10,
and it is expected that bids for the
three additional cruisers appropriated
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BRITISH GUARD BORDER.
Americans Held ON Their Vessels I'm
til Crisis Arises.

SHANGHAI. February % R).-
Three thousand British regulars took
up defense positions along the borders
of the international settlement here to-
night because of the situation created
by the arrival of Chinese troops in
increasing numbers in the city.
With the regulars in position, volun-
teer defenders of the foreign settle
ments remained on the alert to aid in
preventing native incursions as op-
posing Chinese governments, strug-
Cling for possession of the city, con-
tinued to concentrate their armies
south of here.
A volunteer machine gun company
also was modified this morning and
held in readiness. while British troops
paraded two sfx-inch motorized how
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necessar1es Of life 1t represents the
most vicious form of taxation It's
real effect is an employment of the
coercive powers of Government to the
end that certain special groups Of far
merS and professors may profit tenn
porarily at the expense of other far
mers and Of the community at large.
THE chief objection to the bill is
that it would not benefit the farmer.
Whatever may be the temporary infiu.
ence Of arbitrary interference no one
can deny that in the long run prices
will be governed by the law of supply
and demand. To expect to increase
prices and then to maintain them on
a higher level by means of a plan
which must of necessity increase pro.
duction while decreasing consumption,
Is to fly in the face of an economic law
as well established as any law of
nature. Experience shows that high
prices in any given year mean greater
acreage the next year. This does not
necessarily mean a larger crop the fol-
lowing year. because adverse weather
conditions may produce smaller crop
on larger acreage, but in the long
run a constantly increasing acreage
must of necessity mean a larger aver.
age crop.
Under the stimulus Of high prices.
the cotton acreage increased by IT,
600. 900 acres in the last five years.
Under the proposed plan, as prices
are driven up irresistibly by the arti-
fetal demand created by the pur-
chases of the board, the millions of
farmers. each acting independently,
with no assurance that self-restraint
on his part in the common interest
will be accompanied by like re-
straint on the part of millions of other
individuals scattered over this i'm.
mense country. will do just what any
one else would do under the circum.
stances-plant and grow all they can
in order to take full advantage of a
situation which they fear is only
temporary.
Fears Decreased Output.
This was. Of course. recognized by
the authors OF the measure, and they
proposed originally TO Offset this TEN
dency by means Of the equalization
fee to be paid by each producer. But
in the present bill the equalization
fee is to be paid by only part Of the
producers.
ION the other hand, higher prices
will make a decreased consumption
From 1917 to 1925 the per capita con-
sumption Of pork increased from So
pounds to 1868 POUNDS, but In the fol-
lowing year, when the price Of pork
rose by $3.50 a hundred and the price
of beef rose only 40 cents a hundred,
the per capita consumption of pork
fell off almost 9 pounds. 1t is not in
conceivable that the consumers would
rebel at an arbitrarily high price and
deliberately reduce their consumption
Of that particular product, especially
as uncontrolled substitutes would al
ways be available.
1.-THE truth is that there Is no such
thing as effective partial control. To
have effective control. we would have
to have control Of not only one food
product, but of all substitutes.
Increased production on the one
hand, coupled with decreased do
fC,nnAin,,all an po ca A Col,,x,ara q
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AGREE
ON DISTRICT BILL
$50, 282, 1886 Measure Cuts
Several Hundred Thousand
Off Senate Proposals. =

The District appropriatioa<rbil as
agreed to in conference, carries total
Of $36, 1882, 1886, it was announced OFF,
cially today by thS conferees. This
is $66,69O more than the House al
lowed and several hundred thousand
dollars less than was provided as the
bill passed the Senate. Final total is
$6041inder the budget as transmitted
te<Congress by Gen. Lord.
The conference report is expected
to be presented to the Senate and
House for ratification within the next
day or two, after which it will be
ready to go to the President.
Additional details that were changed
in conference also became available
today when the draft of the confer
ence report was completed.
Land Purchases Cut Out.
Among these revisions were the fol-
lowing:
elimination of the Senate amend
ment for the purchase of land in the
vicinity of the Harrison School.
Elimination Of the Senate amend
ment for the purchase of land in the
vicinity of the Crummell School.
Elimination of the Senate amend
ment for the purchase of land In the
vicinity of the Park View School.
The House conferees agreed to the
Senate amendment which will allow
the Commissioners to spend $125. 900
appropriated in 1925 for an athletic
field for Western High School with
out Limitation as to price based on
assessed value.
In the item for the purchase of
IA o{f 20 lrna N
ed by the District on Grant road the
conferees changed the wording to al
low the Commissioners to buy other
land in the vicinity as we'll as adjacent
to that site.
The House item for the paving of
Sheridan street from Blair road to
Fifth street was modified to include
also the paving Of Fourth street from
Rittenhouse street to Sheridan street.
Street Items Listed.
Following is a complete list of
items for the paving. grading and
widening Of streets as the appropria-
ton bill now stands, awaiting final
action by the Senate and House on
the agreement Of the conferees:
Hawthorne street to Cathedral avenue.
Twelfth place, Taylor to Upshur
street northeast.
FYfty-seventh street, Blaine avenue
to Dix street northeast.
Minnesota avenue, Good Hope road
to Eighteenth street southeast.
B street, Fifteenth to Sixteenth
street northeast.
E street, Thirteenth to Fifteenth
street northeast.
Widen to so feet and repave HI
street from Seventeenth to Eighteenth
street.
Piney Branch road, west side, Van
Buren, to Butternut street.
Van Buren, street, Second street to
viaduct.
r street, Thirty.fifth to Thirty
seventh.
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What Inspired Farm Bill Veto

1t framed aid farmers whole, and it is,
furthermore rather than the general
public welfare"
THE dscrmnate definitely against products which
make what has universally considered of safe
farming.
The bill will providing practical method of
controlling the agricultural surplus
I'VE must be careful i'll trying help the farmer not to
eopardze the whole agricultural industry subectng the
of bureaucratic regulation and control That what the
present bill will do"
The bill is essentially prce-hxng bill. x
What the farmers and what the American people
whole will approve legislation which will substitute
mental bureaucracy for individual cooperative initiative
will facilitate the of
their elfgoverned organizations"
From President Coolidges Message.
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CHINA'S "CFIRISTIAN GENERAL
DECLARED TO BE HUNGARIAN
Marshal Feng Once Served in
US. Army, Says His
''Br0ther."
Married in Orient and Won
Way to Leadership in Civil
War, Is Story.

By the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary. February
25.-Feng Yu-Hsiang, the Chinese
Christian general" is I'm reality a
Hungarian adventurer, who served
tor period in the American Army
before going TO China, says Judge
Fengya Of Kassa, Czechoslovakia.
who declared the general is his
brother.
Judge Fengya asserted that Feng
held a commission as an American
Army captain, but finding American
life too tame, he wandered to China,
marrying the daughter of native
prince.
u. S. PASTOR BACKS STORY.
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Ignores
$4,000 Demand;
Home Is Bombed

NEW YORK. February 25.-
Threats that the home of John
Palmieri, former City Court Judge,
would be blown up unless he paid
$4,000 to the writer's of anonymous
letters were followed early today
by the explosion of a bomb in front
of his home, in Brooklyn.
The family, including four chill
dren, asleep when the blast occur
red, escaped injury. Windows in
the front of the house were shat
tered. The property is one of the
show places along Ocean Parkway.
The bomb had been hidden in
shrubbery in front of the house.
Mr.. Palmieri ignored the de-
mands in two letters that he post
$4,000 at a spot in Prospect Park.
He said he had no knowledge as to
the authors Of the letters.
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Eeng Joined Army in Aguinaldo's
Rebellion, Says Connecticut Man.

BRIDGEPORT. Conn. February rs
R.-Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang. China's
christian general" was Maj. John
Fengya Of the United States Army
during the Philippine instruction
and is of Hungarian. rather than of
Chinese descent. according to informa-
ton received by Rev. Stephen F.
Chernitzky Of this city.
DR.. Fengya Of Kassa, Czechoslo.
vakia. recognized q photograph OF the
Christian general" published in a
Kassa newspaper as that Of his miss.
ing brother. said Mr.. Chernitzky, who
gave details OF Feng's earlier life as
described by his brother.
Came to United States.
Fengya. or Feng. was born in Kassa
(tlnen in Hungary, and after gradua.
ton from the grammar and high
schools of his native city attended the
Hungarian Naval Academy. Upon
completion of his course there he came
10. the United States and Joined the
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20. 3. Weathef BUREAU FOrecast.T
Rain this afternoon or tonight;
slightly colder tonight: minimum tenn
peratare. 80 degrees; tomorrow fair
and colder. Temperature: Highest, 81,
at 3 pm. yesterday: lowest, SIS, at
am. today. Full report on page 5.
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This so-called equalization fee is
not tax for purposes or revenue In
the accepted sense. 1t is tax Tor the
snecial benefit of particular groups.
AS q direct tax on certaiR- of tho vital
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-09-16
High-Sounding Names
Ciuen to Founding

So long as there are foundlings
doubtless there will be the prob
lem what to name them.
Recently the Lewisham board of
guardians, England, tried a more
elaborate device-with rather com
plicated resdlts, according to news
paper reports. An infant was
found abandoned in a motor car,
and, striving to find a name that
should contain a reference to the
history of the case, one member of
the board suggested that the baby
be called Alice Motor. Another
member urged that they choose a
decent NAME" and then still an
other objected that as yet they
didn't know whether the founding
was q girl or a boy.
The chairman of the board
thought it was a girl, but the dep
uty clerk, "having made Inquiries"
made the emphatic announcement
that the child was a boy. This de-
tail established, the quest for a
name was resumed.
I'm What part of the High street
was the child discovered?" asked
a board member, reminding the as
sembled company that 1--WE had a
child discovered In Lewisham
park some years ago and called it
Park"
The clerk said the child had been
found near the Kings hall. Call
It George King" some one ven
tured.
And since the discovery had been
made close to Granville park, an
other thought the boy should be
named George Granville. Compro-
ended in the bestowal of a
very grand name indeed: George
Granville King. And al such II
was duly c"hristened by the chap
lain.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-09-16

ran into a brick wall ana was
killed. ~saSesSazsz -!
Gossip was aroused by the fact
that at varying intervals ms
Young widow got sums of money
from New Zealand. This came 10
he ears of the insurance COM
many. A quiet investigation was
started with the cooperation VI
the New Zealand police. AS a re-
sult a woman who was teachlns
school out there was arrested anu
brought back to England, chargeu
with being the Mrs. Bevan WHO
had died four years ago.
The attorney for the Insurance.
company, in outlining the case,
alleged that Mrs. Bevan, far lroif
drowning, had turned up that DAY
in the ancient town OF Exeter.
Here she is said to have gone .;
the Girls Friendly Society, sayihsi
! she was a member of a similar OF
ganization out in Australia. {, !
They believed her hard Iuch
story and got jobs for her as cooH
in various families. THESE sue
held until February IL, 1921
when she sailed for Aucklahot
| New Zealand.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-09-16
Built in 1910, This Grist Mill Still
Produces It's Ten Barrels a Dav

FEW industries, if any, in the
United States today can boast
of being established since ITO,
but the Great Valley grist mill,
located on the north branch of
Valley Creek, near Philadelphia,
can do exactly that. This mill
was built in ITO by Thomas Jer-
man and is 28 years younger than
Pennsylvania itself.
During the Revolutionary War
hundreds of barrels of -four
ground in the Great Valley mill
provided s~ustenance for Colonial
soldiers. Today the mill still
grinds away-grinding slowly
producing about 10 barrels of
-four daily.
Being close to the Lincoln high
way, the mill is a mecca for tour
lists. The structure has suffered a
lot at the hands of those who seek
as mementoes of their visits any
thing they can pry loose.
The mill, like others of the kind
which did a fourishing business
before the Civil War. receives its
power from a water wheel.
Even Bearings Are Wood
Most. of the rural grist mills
built prior to 1859 were equipped
with wooden machinery entirely.
Wheels. axie-shafts, bearings and
all incidental machinery were
made Of wood. Being by vocation
a millwright in that day meant
that the workman qualifying in
that trade must have the ability
to build a milling equipment en-
tirely of wood.
Hickory and maple were proba-
bly, most widely used for making
machinery. Gum-wood was used
in the making of some of the
smaller and more intricate cog
wheels and dogs" this wood be-
ing highly impervious to splitting
and warping.
OF course, had this machinery
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-09-16
Twelve Years Ago
From the Files of The Herald of
September II, 1915

From the Files of The Herald of
September II, 1915
The pontoon bridge began op-
Grafton on Sept. IA. Toll ranged
from so cents for a four horse
team and wagon to n cent a
head for sheep. Ladies and child
rem under IA years of age were
free.
A news story from Chicago stat
ed that carloads of peaches were
being carted to garbage heaps be-
cause there was no market for
them.
Miss Jessie Wetsit and Edwin
Bearskin were married on Septem-
Der 10.
Vida correspondence says: Our
mail carrier was obliged to leave
two loads of freight at Mr.. Heser's
on account of the snowstorm and
come in with a light rig, in order
to get the mail in on time"
The ladies aid took in $3.50
at an ice cream social.
Potatoes were selling for rs
cents a bushel.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-09-16
Woman Truck Driver
Hauls Grain $50 Miles

WINNIFRED. - Mrs. Gertrude
Hess has earned well-merited
praise since the combine season
started for efficiency and reserva-
ton in perating a truck. Every
day she makes three trips from
Woodhawk valley to Winnifred
with a 60-bushel load of wheat in
a Ford truck. The distance is
approximately 25 miles or so miles
for the round trip, SO Mrs. Hess
travels $50 miles every day and
hauls $50 bushels of wheat to mark
ct.
1t was only a year or so ago
when Woodhawk farmers, using
horses, consumed two laborious
days in marketing a load of wheat.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-09-16
Dead May Come to Life,
, Insurance Men EiMd

A WOMAN went out to take a
"A bath in the sea and she
never came back. In a cove Dy
the seashore, they found her poor
clothes, and they concluded her
mortal body was adrift some
where, battered and beaten Dy the
.pitiless sea. So they declared hef
dead. III
For four years Mrs. Susannah
Bevan was dead. Her relatives
put on mourning.
j And now with all the neighbors
and friends having forgotten q
fra gedy Of the sea, the dead wo-
man Is charged with being very
much alive. @uaesaGaaaalaaA9
How 1t Happened
A frail white-haired woman OF
s2 faces charges OF conspiring 10
,defraud an insurance company. Oh
manufacturing false evidence 10
mislead the courts. and OF ootaih-
ing money by false ~pretenses.
And it all happened because her
'daughter-in-law received money
from New Zealand. It's the most
extraordinary dead woman case
the British courts have ever hao
to deal with.
I Until 1922 Mrs. Bevan nad peer
living In Cwmllynfell in Wales. III
December. 1920. she had takel
out a policy on her life In f'epru'
airy. 1922, she made a will. leav
ing all her estate to her son
David.
!. In the spring of 1922 she had {
motor accident and in June, SUI
suffering from the bad effects o
II. she went to Iltracombe to take
the sea bathing. She stayed a
lodgings there and on June q
she disappeared.
After her clothing was found OF
the beach and after prolonged
search was made, her relative
gave her up for dead. =
In the following November IN
british High Court granted an ap
iplication for leave to presume ne
legally dead. Accordingly, in TN
following March the insuranc
people paid over to the execute
some $4,000.
The Voice of Gossip
Bad luck seemed to pursue In
family. In 1924 her son bought
motor a with part of the none.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-09-16
Ten Years Ago
From the Files of The Herald of
September 13, 1917

y eIS IC0 " hS Wv ~
September 13, 1917
Miss Dollie Smith of Wolf Point
and George Cusker of Seips were
married at Plentywood.
The Civic League elected the
following officers for the coming
year: Mrs. John F. Cook, presi-
dent; Mrs. Geo. H. Flint, vice
president; Mrs. Clyde Patton, sec
rotary, and Mrs. F. E. Rathert,
treasurer.
Announcement was made that
the Citizens National Bank would
open it's doors Sept. % with A. w.
Huxsol, president; H. B. Tyson,
vice-president; and F. W. Bleck,
cashier. The board of directors
was composed of D. N. Winton,
w. Huxsol, o. c. Johnson, A. j.
Isachsen and Ole Erickson.
B. K. Wheeler, U. S. Dist. Attor-
ney was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Patton. He had been to
Poplar to arrest a man of foreign
ancestry who had been INDUCING
freely in talk against the U. S.
government.