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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Will Command Cavalry Brigade
at Fort Bliss, Tex.

Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Rockenbach,
commander of the District of Wash
ington, has been relieved from his
post here and assigned to command
Cavalry brigade at Fort Bliss, Tex,
the War Department announced today.
Gen. Rockenbach has been granted
two months leave of absence before
reporting to his new assignment.
He will be succeeded here bv Brig
Gen. George c. Ber,hardt, just pro-
NOTED from colonel the 9Th United
States Cavalry at Fort Ogelthorpe.
Gen. Bernhardt has been ordered to
proceed here at once to take over his
new duties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
U. s..JAPANEsE PACT SEEN.
Observers at Geneva Believe Saito
will Propose Plan.

GENEVA, Switzerland, June rs Up.
-Overtures by Japan with a view to
the signing of a perpetual peace pact
with the United States are expected in
authoritative circles of the tripartite
naval conference.
Notwithstanding denials by both the
Japanese delegates and Hugh S. Glib.
son, head of the American delegation,
that any such suggestion has been
made, competent observers persisted
in the belief today that when he had
assurance that the overtures would
have chance of being favorably con-
sidered, Admiral Viscount Saito, the
propose a treaty outlawing war be-
tween his country and the United
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
MARINES BEING RECALLED
500 to Leave Nicaragua in Line
With u. S. Plan.

Immediate recall Of 500 Marines
from Nicaragua in line with the plan
for withdrawal of the American ex.
peditiouary force there was ordered
yesterday by the Navy Department.
The submarine tender Argonne will
bring the contingent to the Quantico,
Va, Marine base. The vessel is sched-
uled to return to Nicaragua imme-
diately, and, if conditions then war
rent it, second force of 400 men
will be taken to San Diego, Calf.
If Nicaraguan conditions are still
favorable a third withdrawal of 600
Marines to Haiti and Quantico Is con.
templated. This would reduce the
number of Marines in Nicaragua to
about 800 men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Fl AUTOS STOLEN.
Police Fire as Four Suspects Nea,
One Car Flee.

Twenty-one automobiles were stolen
here yesterday and last night, accord
ing to reports received by the police
for the 24-hour period. Three Of the
machines were recovered this morn.
ing.
Two bullets, fired by Policeman
Rodgers Of the eighth precinct. failed
to stop four men whom the officer
discovered near parked car at Sec
ond and U streets early this morning.
They sped away in another machine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
TICKET FRAUD CHARGED.
New York Theatrical Firm and Of
fcials Indicted.

NEW YORK, June 25 R).-The
Federal grand jury yesterday handed
down an indictment charging the
Alexander Theater Ticket Office, Inc,
Oscar Alexander, the president, and
urer, with "wilfully attempting to
evade and defeat the revenue act of
1926" There are 13 counts in the in
dictment charging false returns for
every month from March, 1926, to
March, 1927.
The indictment grows out of the re-
cent investigation of IL ticket agencies
by United States Attorney Tuttle. As
sistant United States Attorney Leisure
said it would be made test case. and
would be brought to trial not later
than July II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Artist Found Dead.

PARIS, June 25 OP.-The body Of
Laurence Murphy, 26. an American
artist, was found today in his gas
filled apartment in the Latin quarter.
The artist was we'll known in the
Montparnasse section of the city, hav-
inn spent several years here a. @
- ystudenk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Ruth Spent $4,000 to Spread Own Fame
In 1924, Batsman's Tax Fight Shows

to constantly keep himself before the
public"
This item, more than most base ball
players receive in year. Ruth wants
deducted from the deficiency assess.
ment placed on his earnings of 1924,
which were given as S66,215.34.
Counsel for the famous batsman de.
clared the case had been Tentatively
disposed Of" but 1t was said at the
| board of tax appeals that it was
recorded as still at issue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
BY the Associated Press.

Although fame is fieeting. Babe
Ruth seems to be determined that it
will not fit away from him while he
sits idly by.
The base ball celebrity, in a tax ap.
peal filed at the Treasury, has dis
closed that during the year 1924 he
expended the sum of $4,000 for the
purpose of establishing and maintain
ing good will to the extfnt of enter.
tanning sports writer's. xgess agents.
and others similarly situated in order
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Two Drown When Canoe Upsets.

WAYNESBORO, Pa, June 25 N).-
Richard Martin, II, of Fountaindale.
and Clark Shockey, II, of Rouserville,
employees at the Maryland State mill
tary reservation near here, drowned
today in Lake Roger when their
canoe upset. Vernon Warren, a
companion, saved himself by clinging
to the upturned canoe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25

ROME, June 25 R.-President
Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia
University was received in private au-
dience by Pope Plus today. DR.. But
Ter was accompanied by his wife and
daughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Sixty Air Craft
Added by Soviet
To Fighting Force
By the Associated Press.

&hoSVVItEN~VI INSo'
MOSCOW, June 25.-An in
crease of more than 60 airplanes in
the aerial forces of the Soviet
Union is announced as the result
of a countrywide campaign con-
Quoted under the watchword, Our
answer to Chamberlain"
This refers to the breaking of
diplomatic relations with Russia by
Great Britain. Sir Austen Cham
berlain is the British foreign Sec
retary)
Reports from % provincial cities
published here announce the inten-
ton of various unions in those
places to construct from l to IL
airplanes each. Leningrad leads
in the building program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
BUREAU WOMEN
GET PAY FIGHT AID
Labor Takes Up Battle of
200 Workers in Engrav-
ing Wetting Division.

Organized labor today took UP the
battle in behalf of 200 woman work
ers in the wetting division Of the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing
whose appeal for pay increase has
been fatty denied by the personnel
classification board.
A meeting will be called at Typo
graphical Temple Tuesday afternoon
, or evening by Federal Employees Un-
ion, 1O5, including the women of the
bureau.
Meeting Set for Tuesday.
What steps may be taken to cor
rect what the women claim is an in
justice will be decided upon at the
meeting. An appeal to Congress
when it convenes appeared likely to-
day as one of the steps, or according
to Miss Gertrude McNally, who is
secretary of both the local union and
the National Federation of Federal
Employees, the fight may go direct to
President Coolidge.
The meeting Tuesday will be pre-
sided over by Belle Trueland, presi-
dent of the local, and will be attended
also by Luther Steward, president of
the National Federation of Federal
Employees. Protests against the action
of the Classification Board also will
be formally registered by the State
Federation of Labor representing
organized labor in Maryland and the
District of Columbia.
This protest was authorized by a
resolution adopted yesterday at a
regular meeting of the board Of the
State Federation. The protest will be
made to the Classification. Board by
Frank Coleman, secretary of the State
Federation.
Increase Is Refused.
The Classification Board refused to
grant an increase In pay to the 200
women employees by declining to re-
allocate them from Grade / to Grade 2
of the clerical and mechanical service.
The range of salaries in Grade is
from As to so cents an hour. while
salaries in Grade Is from 55 to 60
cents an hour. The girls claim they
are entitled to the new classification
and an immediate increase.
Senator Smoot Of the Senate appro-
priations committee is interested in
some kind of readjustment of the
rates Of pay in the classification act
affecting the bureau employees and
held a conference prior to the ad-
journment of Congress last Fall with
representatives of the Government
and employees unions.
One matter discussed at the con-
ference was the gap between grade 1
and grade 2, with no rates of pay COW
cred between so and 55 cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Mexico Pays $747,S2 on Debt.

MEXICO CITY, June rs R.-It
was officially announced today that
Mexico has delivered to the Interna-
tional Bankers Committee, New York,
$747,827 as part payment of the
foreign debt service for the first half
of the present year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Anti Bolshevik Condemned,

MOSCOW, June 25 CP.-M. Butirin,
who was an officer in the anti-Bolshe-
vik forces of the late Admiral Kol-
chalk, has been sentenced to death on
account of his former activities in
the Perm district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
LEGALITY Of 600
WEDDINGS DOUBTED
Bishop Holds EIkton, Nd,
"Marrying Parson" Has
No Church Orders.

ELKTON, Md, June 25.-The le-
gality of marriage ceremonies, esti.
mated at 500, performed since January
by Rev. Richard p. Westien. marry
ing parson'' of this Gretna Green, has
been brought into question through
the declaration of Supt. j. w. Colona
of the wilmington district of the
Methodist Episcopal Conference that
Mr.. Westien is without orders Of that
church and, therefore, unqualified to
solemnize marriages.
States Attorney Henry L. Constable
announced he was investigating the
case and would seek an indictment
against Mr.. Westien If he finds he is
not a regularly ordained minister of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
For the second time, also, DR.. Co.
Iona has requested States Attorney
Constable to halt Mr.. Westerns ac.
tivities. On the first occasion. Mr..
Constable obtained copies of Westien' s
orders and forwarded them to the
superintendent. DIR. Colona, in turn,
sent the papers to Bishop William F.
Mcdowell Of Washington, in charge
of the area.
Bishop Renders Opinion.
Bishop Mcdowell is said to have de-
livered an opinion that, as a result of
Mr.. Westien's conviction by a jury of
clergymen, in 1921, on charges of
high impudence and commercializing
the solemn Office of marriage" when
his orders were Cancelled, the orders
became the property of the church,
leaving Mr.. Westein without standing
as Methodist Episcopal minister.
AT the time of his trial, Mr.. Westien,
upon advice of counsel, declined to
surrender his orders. He retired, how
ever, to his farm near here.
Believed Automatically Barred.
Mr.. Westien said he received elders
orders as local preacher from the
Upper Iowa Conference Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in 1908, with
Bishop Lewis presiding. He Is said to
have been dropped from the Montana
Conference roll in 1917 for failing to
report to the conference; this failure
automatically excluding him from the
active ministry in any State.
From 1921 until the beginning of
this year Westien remained on his
Maryland farm. Then. upon the re.
moval to Philadelphia of Rev. Earnest
Weaver, who had been the marrying
parson." Westien took up quarters in
the home Mr.. Weaver had occupied,
and again began marrying many of
the couples who flock here for hasty
weddings permitted by Cecil County s
lenient marriage laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
Imprisoned Paris
Royalist Leader Is
Released by Hoax
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 25.-Leon Daudet,
royalist leader, who was imprison.
ed June 13, to serve a term for
libel, was mysteriously released
from prison this afternoon as the
result, it is stated, of a hoax on
the prison director.
Daudet's associate, NJ. Delest. and
Secretary General Semard of the
Communist party, also were re.
leased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
OF Classic Design.

All Of the memorials will be Of
classic design drawn up by American
architects and maintaining an air Of
simple dignity.
The third great memorial will take
the form of shaft and will be erected
on the top of a hill at Montfaucon.
The hill itself will be cared for as a
permanent memorial by the French.
In telling of the memorials which
will mark for all time the sites of
the major operations in which the
American forces engaged. Gen. Per-
shing laid especial emphasis upon
the memorial to be erected at Chateau
Thiery. The general referred to the
operations between September 26 and
November Il, 1918, which finally
broke the Hindenburg line, as the
greatest of the operations in which
the American troops participated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-25
PERSH|NG OUTLINES
MONUMENT PLANS
Two Classes to Be Erected
on French BattIefieIdS
by Americans.

Plans for the construction of a sys
tenn of American battlefield monu
ments in France comprising two
classes of general memorials in addi
ton to individual markers, all to be
completed within two years, were out
lined this morning by Gen. John J.
Pershing, who returned last week from
three-month visit to France in his
official capacity as chairman of the
American Battle Monuments Commits
sion.
Gen. Pershing stated that the gen
eral memorials will be divided into
two classes. One class, which will
perpetuate the major operations In
which the American forces took part,
will be represented by three large
memorials. One Of these will be
located at Chateau Thierry and will
be erected on a hill overlooking the
Marine River. commemorating the di
visions which battled in the Marine
salient. Another will be erected al
Montiec. In it's general style of archi
lecture it will resemble somewhat the
Lincoln Memorial.
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WEATHER.

Fair, slightly warmer tonight: to-
morrow fair. continued warm Tenn
peratures-Highest, so. at IL am. to-
day: lowest. SIS, at $50 am. today.
Full report on page 3.
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R0CKENBACH SHIFTED.

Continued on Page 2, Column 81
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CONTINUED on Page 8, Column 2D
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Pope Receives DR.. Butler.

Continued on Page 2, Column 4.
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Commodity News

FORT WORTH, August 20.-Texas
farmers are preparing to plant the
largest acreage of small grains. wheat,
oats, rye and barley ever known in
this State, according to reports from
'all the grain counties. The gain for
each of the grains is expected to be
10 to 20 per cent.
CLEVELAND. August 20.-Many of
the leading northern Ohio steel manu-
facturers anticipate sharp pickup
in demand after LebOr day. Cleve-
land will he among the first to feel
the impetus to trade of quantity pro
duction of Fords.
NEW ORLEANS. August 20.-The
Board of Port Commissioners has
started work on a warehouse on the
public docks to hold coffee. 1t will
cost $1.900,000 and have all convent
ences for handling and storing the
beans.
LIVINGSTON. Mont, August 90
An addition of 6j7 acres in the upper
Yellowstone Valley has been made to
the hogs of the Hill Cattle Co, of
which Walter j. Hill, son of the rail-
road pioneer, is chief stakeholder. The
Hill holdings exceed 5000 acres.
PORTLAND, Ore, August 90
Sharply increased demand for lumber
is shown in the weekly report of the
West Coast Lumbermen's Association,
with orders of 123994,689 feet, pro-
duction of 15,159,9 4S and shipments
of ia .Gs4, 083. Thirty-seven Western
pine mills in the past week sold 49,
$4,000 feet, shipped 2S,375 900 and
produced 34,7S7 900, denoting gain
in all lines of the business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.

CHICAGO, August 20 R.-Wheat
took an early swing upward today.
due to surprising strength shown in
the Liverpool market. Selling in
creased on the bulges, however, and
checked the advance. Opening y to
/ up, Chicago wheat subsequently
underwent a general decline. Contln-
ued cool weather over the belt gave
firmness to corn, which started 3 to
= higher and later sagged all around.
Oats sympathiZed with other grain
and provisions were steady.
Strength in the cash position of
wheat with advancing premiums West
and at the gulf at seaboard combined
with reports of large export business
overnight did much to encourage buy
ers today The wheat market rallied
sharply on early reports, which said
that all offers abroad overnight were
accepted, indications pointing to up
ward of 900, 900 bushels. European
buyers are beginning TO realize the
seriousness of the weather conditions
abroad and are in the market for
American markets to supply their
needs
Much damage has been done recent
ly by the weather. which continues
unfavorable. Heavy general rains are
reported in many sections.
Advices from the Canadian North
west were construed as bearish. From
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, came word
that the wheat crop has been only
slightly damaged by frost. while an.
other report told Of the rapid ma
turity of wheat. a greater part of
the acreage having turned natural
golden color. The harvest is well
under way in early wheat and will be.
come general about the middle of the
week unless unfavora bic weather sets
in. In some localities wheat on the
lowlands was slightly damaged by
frost, while some sections north and
west OF Saskatoon We're understood
to have suffered seriously, many fields
not being worth cutting. Black rust
is developing in the low places and
may materially reduce the present
prospects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20
BUTTER SHOWS LOWER,
BUT QUICKLY RALLIES
Easy Tone at Opening Of Week
Followed by Prices at
Higher Levels.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 20.--The release
of the August l storage report for the
United States on Friday, August u.
caused the development of an easier
tone on the butter markets at the
opening Of the week of August 15,
prices declining Il cent on Eastern
markets and Ia cents at Chicago.
The weakness was short lived, as re-
ceipts were rather light and buyers
began showing more interest. Deal
ers, sensing the development of a
firm position, began holding goods
more closely and prices gradually
worked to higher levels. At the close
all markets We're firm. with fancy
butter scarce and in active demand.
The into storage movement at the
four and six markets is slowing down
somewhat The net increase for the
first four days Of the week under re-
view was 1.2s4,949 pounds, as COM
pared with 1,970,S70 pounds for n like
period of the previous week and Gel SAB
pounds for the corresponding days Of
1926. Production continues to de-
cline.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, Aug. 20 Up Omitted
States Department of AGriculturc)-
Hogs-Receipts $500 head; light light
and pigs slow, few sales 10 To - low
er: others steady 10 with Fridays
average; meager supply 49, to 200
pounds, 1880 10 1865, top, 1865; pack
ing SONS, mostly 7.75 to 500; few 20
to 240 pounds, 9.75al0.25; finished 300
to 800 butchers, 8.85 TO 800. Esti-
mated holdoVer. 1000 head
Cattle-Receipts, 500 head; as com
pared a week ago strictly choice steers
all weights scarce, steady; other
grades uneVenly - 10 50 lower: in be
tween heayies and yearlings showing
most decline; fat she stock 10 - TO 80
off, native heifers showing maximum
loss; cutter COWS, steady TO strong
most Is TO % higher: yealers. 80 to
IS higher; highest since 1920: bestfed
steer midweieht. u 60; yearlings, IA. SO
light yearlings, 1925, heifer yearlings
up to 1880.
Sheep-Receipts. 800 head; natives
steady, 1875 10 1900; culls mostly
900 to $50; for the week l64 doubles
from feeding stations, 5000 head di
rect. Fat lambs, closing steady
sheep weak and feeding lambs strong
fat range lambs. I4.70: natives. lambs
1875; fat yearings. 1850, fat ewes
1925; range fedinG lambs. 1915.
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Canada's total tr,t.yM union mem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20
GENERAL MOTORS
SCORES ADVANCE
Prices Up Over 3 Points,
Chryslers Lead Independ-
entS. InduStriaIS Boosted.
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES,

Special Dispatch TO The star.
NEW YORK, August 20.-Tht
Stock Market started in today under
the influence of an interview with W
&. Durant, breathing enthusiasm fol
the market in general and for Gen
eral Motors in particular. With re
gard to the latter. he predicted an
other stock split-up.
The immediate result was n rush
to buy General Motors and an ad
vance of the price in that stock OF
over points in the first half hour
carrying the quotation UP within
measurable distance Of the record
high. The new General Motors sell
ing on a when-issued basis and other
automobile stocks participated in the
improvement to a greater or lesser ex
tent. The leader of the independents
was Chrysler. which current gossip
has so often connected with General
Motors. After the first upward surge
the market for General Motors quieted
down. but Chrysler pushed steadily
ahead.
Trade Reviews Optimistic.
There was no important news to af-
feet the market. The weekly trade
reviews were mildly optimistic. Per-
were more encouraging than anything
else. The statement that dividend
on New Haven was possible some
time next year caused an opening
jump of a point or SO in that stock,
but there was only a small turn
over. Erie common did n little better
following publication Of the July earn
ings statement. Here, too. however.
activity was restricted. The price of
Erie stocks has already discounted
good deal Of favorable results. Balti-
more & Ohio gained a point and
Delaware & Hudson was up frac-
tionally. The firmness in the latter
has brought a revival of interest in
the expected distribution to share
holders of an interest in the coal prop
critics.
Du Pont Up Over ! Points.
In the industrials du Pont was the
leader. running up over points in
sympathy with General Motors. Du
Points income from its holdings of
General Motors is larger than that
from any one other source. The talk
Is that some part of this General
Motors prosperity will be passed on
to du Pont stockholders. Merchandise
ing and mail order stocks held their
new gains well, especially Oppenheim'
Collins.
Irregularitv characterized the oils.
Houston. which had been the object of
a bear" attack Friday. rallied, but
Barnsdall continued under pressure
and there was no life to the demand
for other stocks in the group.
Market Holds Strong.
The market for the leaders held
strong up to the close. General Motors
and Chrysler were selling at the best
of the day at the end. The steels did
little, either United States Steel or the
Independents. General Electric was a
feature up a point or so, and Para
mountainous came to the front at a
new high on the move. Pressed Steel
Car stood out among the equipments
and Goodrich Rubber in it's group.
Right at the end General Motors,
touching 231, sold at the highest on
record under the present capitaliZa-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20

NEW YORK. August 90 GP.--For-
eign exchanges steady. Quotations
Din cents); Great Britain, demand,
4S5 1916; cables. 1876 3-16; 6o.day bills
on banks. 1915. France. demand,
3.91 u; cables, 3.921s. Italy, demand,
5.44A; cables. 5.44%.
Belgium, 1891; Germany,
23.7912; Holland. 1905; Norway, 26.01;
Sweden, 1852; Denmark. 26.7S; Swift
zerland, 19.27A; Spain. 1888; Greece,
1909; Poland, l1.20; CZechoslovakia.
1864; Jugoslavia, 1.76; Austria, 140S;
Rumania, 90; Argentina, 1864 !;
Brazil. 1l.S1A; Toxic. 47.43A; Shang-
hal, 60.1212; Montreal, 99.967s.