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Evening star., 1927-09-23

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covers made. Est. cheerfully given. Returned
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Evening star., 1927-09-23
SALES MANAGER.
$40 Day Extra, Spare Time.

Friends, business connections, neighbors
nse business and personal Christmas l1g cards
manent business: thousands do biggest com
mission weekly: sample book IRE tree ,e eexpSer'- S
3o5 w Madison Chicago. Representatives.
wanted small towns also.
Evening star., 1927-09-23
BUSINESS JPPORTUNITIES.

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selling experience and good business knowl-
edge. desires connection with first-class busi-
ness concern in which ii will be possible to
secure interest up to $4,000. Address Box
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Evening star., 1927-02-27
SALESMAN ACCUSED
OF EMBEZzLING $500
Howard James Wolfe Is Arrested
After Reporting Alleged
Robbery to Police.

Howard James Wolfe. 80 years old,
FOG F. street northeast, salesman
for the N. Auth Provision Co., was
placed under arrest at police head
quarters last night and charged with
embezzlement Of $500 of the provision
company's funds.
Wolfe, according to the police. came
to headquarters and declared that two
colored men had waylaid him at Third
and E streets southeast and robbed
him of the money. After a thorough
grilling regarding the hold-up, how
ever, the police report that Wolfe ad-
mitted that he lost the money in a
game Of dice.
Armed with the address where
Wolfe averred he lost his money, two
automobile loads Of detectives sur
rounded 1t, but found the alleged
game had broken up. 1t was after
this trip that the embezzlement charge
was placed against Wolfe.
Evening star., 1927-02-27
BORAH TRIP-PLAN BEATEN
Administration Senators Block Pro-
posed Mexico icaragua Tour.

By the Associated Press.
Administration senators on the for
eign relations committee won their
fight yesterday to keep that committee
out OF Mexico and Nicaragua during
the recess of Congress.
With his resolution proposing such
visit facing defeat in the committee
itself, Chairman Borah accepted an
amendment by Senator Swanson of
Virginia, the ranking Democrat,
authorizing the committee to sit during
the recess. but confining it's activities
within the borders of the United
States.
johnson Bolts G. 0. r.
Administration senators held out
against the resolution even in this
form, but they were outvoted by the
Democrats and Senators Borah and
Johnson, Republican, California, the
poll standing 10 to s for a favor
able report to the Senate on the modi-
fled resolution.
Chairman Borah plans now to make
the report tomorrow, but is not at all
certain that it will be adopted as the
parliamentary situation in the Senate
is such that very few senators can
combine to kill almost any measure
they oppose.
The vote on the resolution was
taken after the committee had heard
three officials of the State Depart
ment, who, by direction of Secretary
Kellogg, amplif1ed extensively the in
formation which he gave the commit
tee several weeks ago when assaults
on the administrator policy toward
Nicaragua first began in the Senate.
During the day Secretary Kellogg,
who has been i'll at his home, visited
the Capitol for a conference with
Senator Borah. They discussed the
Evening star., 1927-02-27


Senators casting their ballots against
the petition including La Toilette Of
Wisconsin and Nye of North Dakota.
Ashurst Issues Statement.
After the result was announced,
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona,
who has led the fight against the
Boulder Canyon bill, issued this
statement:
Arizona is very grateful and am
very humble"
THE breaks were all against us"
| said Senator Johnson. Here was a
bill of extra ordinary Importance to
our people. Pending were many other
measures Of importance to others.
The vets feared a cloture Of any
kind The drys were afraid cloture
on Boulder Dam would interfere with
the passage of their pending dry bills.
Some interested in the pork of public
buildings wanted that above every
thing.
Some enthusiastic advocates of the
alien property bill wished no cloture
upon another measure to interfere
with their pet program. About 10
Senators like Reed of Missouri. Borah.
La Toilette, Shipstead and Nye are
conscientiously opposed to cloture.
Another group feared an extra ses-
sion if cloture should be adopted.
Hurt BY Other Interests.
| '"The desires of all these elements
unfortunately united against us and
| the strange spectacle was presented
Of Senators actually for bill voting.
because of the intensity OF their in
terest in other matters. in a fashion
| quite contrary to the way they ulti-
| mately will vote.
"a majority of the Senate is for
the Swing johnson Bill and it will
ultimately be passed
Before the vote was taken on the
| Johnson petition, Senator Willis,
| Republican, Ohio, a leader OF the drys,
got the prohibition reorganization bill
before the Senate on a motion offered
when the vets were estopped by the
| rules from debating it. Then Senator
Jones of Washington, the Republican
whip" and another dry leader. filed
| a petition to limit the wet filibuster
on the measure.
Building Fund Up.
After the Johnson and Tyson petit
| tions had been disposed of. Chairman
Lenroot> of the public buildings COM
| mittee got up the measure to add
$125 100000 to the public building
fund and the Senate discussed that
| for three quarters Of an hour.
Any possibility of recalcitrant Sen
ators forcing an extra session of the
new Congress was removed with the
adoption by the Senate of the confer
ence report on the last of the regular
annual supply bills. that for the Dis.
| trict of Columbia.
With that out of the way, the Sen.
ate went into executive session to re-
new it's fight over the nomination Of
Abram F. Myers of lowe to be a
| member of the Federal Trade Com
| mission.
Evening star., 1927-02-27
DEFENDS POLICIES
IN LATIN AMERICA
Chilean Envoy in Italy Sees
No Imperialism in U. S.
Attitude.

BY th6 Associated Press.
ROME. February &c. - Complete
faith in the honesty and lack of i'm.
perialistic motives Of the United
expressed today by Enrique Villegas.
Chilean Ambassador to Italy, in an
interview with Giornale d. Italia.
"If occasionally circumstances, such
as those which came up recently, spur
the United States policies to lengths
having painful repercussiOn in the
entire American continent and even
in the interior of the United States
ITSELF he said, II persist in believing
that the United States is guided en-
tirely by its desire to protect its own
interests above and beyond political
considerations"
Ambassador Villegas expressed the
opinion that the Interpretation Of the
Monroe doctrine was greatly eXagger-
ated, and said that its sole purpose
was the prevention of the armed con-
quest of American soil by non-Ameri-
can powers.
He recalled a conversation with
President Roosevelt, in which Mr..
Roosevelt declared himself convinced
that many Latin American states
particularly Argentina, Brazil and
Chile. were able to defend themselves
without the aid of the United States.
The AmbasSado dor emphasized his be-
lief that the League of Nations COM
plements rather than is incompatible
with the Monroe doctrine, pointing out
that the activities of the Pan-American
Union were devoted to purely Ameri
can questions.
"The nations OF America" he con-
tinued, "desire to reach a peaceful
understanding among themselves on
political questions affecting the Ameri'
cas-, but spiritually and materially for
cultural and economic contacts they
continue to look toward Europe, we
South American nations especially to
the Latin nations of Europe"
Evening star., 1927-02-27

Continued from First PaSe.b
There. is no discounting the fact that
the, veto of the farm bill has increased
the opposition in these organized quar-
ters among the farmers.
Leaders of these farm organizations
have been referred to as the farmers
who farm the farmers" They may or
may not be able to influence the actual
dirt farmer against the President be-
cause of the veto; that remains to be
seen.
Whether the President is a candidate
TO succeed himself or not, many of the
Republican leaders here are strongly
of the opinion that he has strengthen
ed his party by his veto and his veto
message. They liken the present de.
mand from some Of the agricultural
states for the McNary- -Haugen bill to
the demand for free silver and the
Populist movement in the early COS.
Due to Hard Times.
Such demands. they say, spring up
periodically when times are hard. The
Republican party won its stand agains,
free silver and the Populist movement,
and il will win again, they insist, by
the stand now taken by it's titular
head.
Whatever the effect in the West
there is no doubt that President
Coolidge has strengthened himself in
the East by his veto OF the farm
bill. Many messages of congratula-
tion upon the veto and the message
have flooded into the White House
in the last - hours. They are by
no means confined to any one section
of the country. They come from
the West. Middle West. North, East
and South.
The seriousness of any anti
Coolidge movement in the agricultural
States will depend very largely upon
crops and crop price conditions dur
ing the coming year. IL there should
be poor crops or poor prices for farm
products. or both. then the revolt
might grow 10 large proportions But
II would not rest entirely upon the
veto of the farm bill.
Indeed, p revolt would lie Ekely
under such conditions no matter
what the President had done to the
farm bill
Evening star., 1927-02-27

and Proctor went into another cell on
the same tier, where he was greeted
by his two mates. Moreno joined his
two companions in still another cell
on another tier.
At 4:3O the dinner signal was given
and they filed down into the long cor
ridor with the other prisoners. To
the observer, every one was eating the
looking meal, but suddenly
one man was seen to swing around
on the bench and turn his back on the
food. At the same time he handed a
tin cup filed with coffee to a colored
mess attendant with a request and
the contents were emptied. Water
replaced the coffee and the cup was
handed back. The prisoner took one
swallow, placed the cup on the table
and resting his elbows on his knees,
buried his face in his hands.
No Singing Now BY Eagles.
It was Eagles-the man who sang
all night in his cell at the Tenth Pre-
cinct and who has sung continuously
up until yesterday morning, the
happy.go-lucky figure of the trial who
always found time to shoot a witty
remark at newspaperInen, as he was
led from the courtroom twice daily.
w HetneT tHe olhcI lWo pilSoiIeIS dLe
heartily could not be learned for they
melted 1t with the hungry, silent
throng that plunged into tthe evening
meal.
Maj. w. l.. Peake, superintendent
of the jail, does not plan on changing
the status Of the three prisoners as
yet. 1t Is not customary to place
such prisoners in the death house"
until a week or two before the date
of execution AS motions for new
trials for the three will be filed this
week and should they be denie - ap-
peals are to be taken from the sent
ences to death in the electric chair,
the Major does not consider transfer.
ing them from their present conf1ne-
ment.
Evening star., 1927-02-27
Movies Aid Study
of Explosives and
Flames by Bureau

Motion pictures are being used
by Bureau Of Mines experts to de-
termine what happens in ex-
plosions. how flame propagates and
how their effects may be controlled.
With special apparatus develop
ed at their Pittsburgh laboratory
they have been able to make pic
lures with such great rapidity that
they hope to be able to measure
even the speed Of the flame Of COM
bustion as it moves through de-
tonated dynamite cartridge.
By placing their cameras at
apertures In an explosion cham
ber they can photograph a blast
as it occurs and then study 1t at
leisure from every angle by pro-
jecting the films az slowly as they
please. In like manner they can
learn a great deal about mine ex-
plosions by showing what happens
when spark flies into Justified
coal gallery.
Evening star., 1927-02-27
LENTEN SERVICES HERE
ARE TO BEGIN MARCH 7
Laymen's Association of Local
Diocese Will Have Daily
Sessions at Keith's.

The ninth annual series of Lenten
services held under the auspices Of
the Laymen's Service Association of
the Diocese of Washington will begin
Monday, March Z, at 1890 o'clock in
Keith's Theater, DIR. l.. w. Glaze
brook. who has had charge Of the ser
vices since their inception, announced
yesterday.
The services will be held daily
throughout the season, as in former
years. from 1890 to 1 o'clock. The
Washington Federation of Churches
through the Department OF Religious
Work, directed by Rev. Frederick
Brown Harris. will again assist in the
programs. The services will be broad
cast through Station WRC.
DR.. Glazebrook has announced the fol-
lowing committees: Speakers. George
r. Wales, Gen. John L. Clem and DR.
Sinclair Bowen; publicity, Byron S.
Adams and Comdr. c.. T. Jewell;
finance. w. B. Patterson; music. J. r.
NJ. Bowie, and ushers, II. l.. Poynton.
Evening star., 1927-02-27
MAY GRANT DIVORCE.
Judge Expected to Free Wife of
Durkin. Sheik Bandit.

PONTIAC, ILL.,, February 26 (P)-
Circuit Judge s. r. Baker today in
dicated he would grant Irma Sullivan
Durkin a divorce from Martin Durkin,
the sheik bandit and killer, who now
Is serving q 35-year sentence in the
State penitentiary for the killing of
Edwin Sha nahan. a Federal agent
Irrna was known as the belle of
Cornell, ILL.,, where her father is the
village blacksmith. She became q
telephone operator in Chicago and met
the eeklooking automobile thief.
Eventually Durkin married her in
East ST. Louis, Ill, while he was flee
ing the authorities and she accom-.
panied him to California. On their
return Durkin was captured at St.
Louis. The ~evidence showed that
Durkin already was married.
Evening star., 1927-02-27
FARM CANDIDATE
I. SOUGHT BY |OWANS
Leaders Look Beyond Next
Congress Toward Presi-
dental Election.

BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, February 90
New evidence appeared today that
Iowa political and farm leaders were
looking beyond the next Congress and
into the next presidential compaign for
a concerted renewal of the agricul-
tural relief fight.
This evidence was the prominent
part the political phase played in dis
cussions of President Coolidge's veto
of the McNary- -Haugen bill.
Statement by Governor.
Gov. John Hammill. who called sew
eral cornbelt conferences last year
and led a farm delegation to Wash
ington on behalf of farm relief, con-
tributed this statement today to the
political discussion:
II am sure that a special effort will
be made to select at the next Repub.
lican national convention man
whom the agricultural interest regard
as in sympathy with their program. >
The governor, when asked If he had
In mind the presidential boom for
Frank o. Lowden of Illinois, said he
did not care to discuss him as presi-
AA1~S
of Mr.. Lowden's wishes.
A. c. Gustafson, chief clerk of the
Iowa House of Representatives, who
promoted a petition among members
of the Assembly yesterday asking
Mr.. Lowden to become agriculture s
candidate, wrote the former illinois
Governor today, asking his permits
sion to continue the movement and
make it Statewide.
Says Fight Will Go On.
Gov. Hammill declared that per
sons interested in agricultural wei
fare never have been so determined
as now that "a national policy look
ing to the general prosperity of all
industry be adopted.
They feel they were assured that
if they would agree upon a program
and 1t was passed by Congress that
the President would approve it. Sim
liar legislation has been passed for
other interests and they Will continue
vigorous effort to gain that recogni
ton for agriculture. There will be
no letting down."
Evening star., 1927-02-27
ARTISTS AT CITY CLUB.
Radio Professionals Will Appear
ON Program Thursday.

A number Of professional radio
artists will appear in the vaudeville
night program to be given at the
City Club on Thursday night. H. j,
Odenthal, executive secretary Of the
club, announced yesterday. The pro-
gram will be broadcast through Sta
ton WMAL, starting at $40 O'Clock.
The program includes music and
songs by Allen Virts and Ben Levin;
piano solos by Bernice Dorsey, intro
duced by Billy Gedney; ukelele songs
by Kin Carroll: Martin Rubin and
company, Fiest trio Of New York
Ponce sisters, recording artists: Edith
Mack. Dick Liebert and his orches-
ira. Edith Reed. Tex Brewster. Healy
and O'Halre. the radio thermometers,
and David McWilliams and his City
Club syncopators
Evening star., 1927-02-27

Adele Rogers st. John Charges
Husband With Cruelty.

Los ANGELES. February rs Op).-
Adele Rogers ST. John. novelist and
short-story writer, filed a complaint
for divorce I'm Superior Court today,
charging her husband. Ivan st. John,
editor OF a fiction magazine, with
cruelty.
The complainant stated that prop
ertv settlement had been made Mrs
ST. John revealed last week that she
had been separated from her husband
for about a year, saying that they
had agreed to disagree, and that do
mesticfty interfered with her many
writing demands.
Evening star., 1927-02-27
BRITISH CRUISER ARRIVES.
Salutes American Flagship at Co
rinto, Nicaragua.

CORINTO, Nicaragua, February
26 @.-The British cruiser Colombo
arrived here this morning. She
saluted the Milwaukee, Rear Admiral
Latimer's flagship.
The British charge, Harold Patteson,
who came here from Managua, imme-
diately went aboard the Colombo for
a conference with Capt. A. M. Lecky
The Colombo, which has been sent
to Nicaraguan waters ostensibly to
serve as "a place Of refuge" for Brit
ish nationals endangered by the dis
turbed conditions in Nicaragua, is the
first British vessel to visit these waters
since 1919.
Evening star., 1927-02-27
FOREIGN WAR VETS
WAIT CUSTER MOVE
Status of National Head
quarters Up to Kansas City,
Kans., Says Chief.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 26.-Whether
the Veterans of Foreign Wars will
remain In their present national head
quarters at Kansas City. Kans.. or
move to another city must be settled
by the people of Kansas City and not
the veterans.
This was the attitude taken today
by National Condr. Theodore Stitt.
Brooklyn, n. Y, here presiding over
the meeting Of the national council
of administration Of the organization,
when questioned on the Kansas City
situation.
50-Year Lease.
The veterans have their headquar
ters at present in the $500.000 war
memorial building in Kansas City on
a 50-year lease at 81 a year, on invi-
tation Of the city. Mr.. Stitt said.
Recently Harry Darby of Kansas
City brought a taxpayers suit to oust
the veterans on the ground that it Is
Illegal for a private organization TO
his suit in the District Court, and the
decision was upheld by the Kansas
Supreme Court.
Special Law Sought.
Comdr. Stitt declared he has since
had assurances that the city Is pre-
pairing to seek special legislation to
allow the veterans to remain. Mean
while enforcement OF the court verdict
! Is being held in allegiance.
At today's meeting the council made
plans for the annual poppy sale to be
held throughout the country on Me
| mortal day. This year, it was an
nounced, for the first time part Of the
proceeds of the sales will go to the
organizations national home for
widows and orphans OF veterans and
dependents of disabled veterans at
Eaton Rapids, Mich.
Evening star., 1927-02-27

situation at some length, but neither
had any statement to make after
ward.
While the committee as such will
not visit Mexico and Nicaragua sew
eral of its members will make unof-
f1cial visit to those countries Sem
ator Edge, Republican, New Jersey,
plans to sail from New York on
March for Nicaragua and others
will go to Central America later.
Evening star., 1927-02-27
COOLIDGE NAMES WHAM,
Nominates Him as Successor tt
Judge English.

President Coolidge yesterday sent
the nomination of Fred L. Wham OF
Illinois to be United States district
judge of the eastern district of Illi
nois to the Senate
Mr.. Wham will succeed Judge Eng
lish. who resigned while Impeachment
proceedings were being instituted
against him in the House of Repre-
sentatives, If the nomination is con.
firmed.
The President also nominated John
II. McNary OF Oregon to be United
States district judge for the district of
Oregon. Charles l.. Redding was
named as United States attorney for
the southern district of Georgia.
Evening star., 1927-02-27

First Lieut.. Don Longfellow. Army
Medical Reserve, on duty at Walter
Reed General Hospital, has been ap-
pointed first lieutenant in the Reg.
ular Army Medical Corps.
Evening star., 1927-02-27

A statue Of the famous singer Jenny
Lind, modelled by Mrs. George Oakley
Totten, is shortly to be erected in
Battery Park, New York City. as a
national memorial to the Swedish
Nightingale" who made her first ap-
Evening star., 1927-02-27

CONTINUED from First Page)
nations may have reliance on Ameri-
can protection Of their rights.
'If the Monroe Doctrine means what
it says" he declared, there should
be no need for Great Britain or Italy
to station cruisers in Nicaraguan
water. The presence of British cruiser
to be followed by an Italian warship
Is but fuel in the hands Of the revolu
tionists down there and an evidence
of at least diplomatic discord between
the United States and foreign powers"
Evening star., 1927-02-27
DAM AND OFFICERS
BILLS MUST WAIT
FOR SENATE VOTE

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1927-02-27
u. S. GIVES BRITAIN
NICARAGUA PLEDGE;
BORAH PLAN BEATEN

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Evening star., 1927-02-27
GAINS IN COOLIDGE
STRENGTH SEEN IN
VETO or FARM BILL

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Evening star., 1927-02-27

Senators casting their ballots against
the petition including La Toilette OF
Wisconsin. and Nye of North Dakota
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
TUESDAY trElG0N 0NAPNlcl
ALASKA TOWNS MAY FIX
 ELECTRIC LIGHT RATES

San Francisco. July 1s, R-rhe right of Alaskan towns to deter mine electric light rates was yes- terday upheld by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth, Circuit by a court aGirma- tion.
 The affirmation was that of aR Alaska case. Samuel M. Grae: vs the town of Seward. Graef Is the owner of the Seward Power Com pany and is the eppellee from the Alaskan courts for an injuIcti ,n preventing the city ofncials of the town of Seward from forcing him to adhere to the electric light rates prescribed by them. Graef cla'ned that the rates fixed by the city were confiscatory. but now both the Alaskan and United States Courts have denied his petition for an injunction
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
ATTEMPT ASSASSIyATE
 AMBASSADOR CHAPMAN
 AT PUERTO. MEXICO

Washington. D. C.. July 19.(P'- Evidence of an attempt to assass- mate William Chapman. the Ameri- can Consul at Puerto. Mexico, has been transmitted to American offic- ial. after an investigation by Chap mans colleague. J. J. Sparks, the British Vice Consul.
 Consul Chapman was shot and seriously wounded in his residence at the Mexican port Sunday. Con- sul Sparks informed the American Embassy of Mexico City that two men had entered the building dur ing the night through skylight, one armed with a pistol and the other with knife. When Chap man arouse to investigate. they made no demand upon him, but followed him back to the bedroom and shot him.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
BYRD AND COMPANIONS
 ARRIVE AT NEW YORK
 GET RIG OVATION

New York. July IS. (R)-To the acclaim of their country men, five airmen stepped back on American soil which they last saw dropping away from under them as they took to their planes on a nonstop flight to Europe. crowds at the Battery broke into tumultous cheers of welcome to Lieut.. Byrd and his three man crew of the monoplane America and Clarence Chamberlain pilot of the monoplane Columbia. who arrived on the liner Leviathian.
 Among the persons who welcom- ed the fliers was Captain Charles Lindbergh. who preceded these five aviators over the Atlantic air route. The fliers arrived just as the great office buildings were disgorging thousands of people into the streets for lunch. Hundreds of policemen were keep busy with the task of keeping the crowds in order.