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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
BRITAIN FEARS DISTURBANCES
IN ARABIA, PALESTINE AND INDIA
Singapore Uprising and Java Boycott lndi-
cate Effectiveness of Soviet Agents
Propaganda Drive

would welcome the Ibn Soud as lib
orator if he chose to march against
that British official"
The agents add that the Turks, VINO
have just signed a new treaty with
Moscow, will do their utmost to heip
Ibn Soud and that Moscow is willing
to finance the Sultan.
Great Britain, the agents argue, now
is spending $5,000,000 a month on her
troops in Shanghai, and will not be
able to put up a successful resistance
to Ibn Soud's troops should they at
tack soon the inundated territories
Officials Are Apprehensive.
How successful the arguments of
the agents has been is not known here
at present, but the war colonial and
India offices, while not taking Ibn
Soud very seriously, are nervous about
his activities. 1t is stated that a small
air force, the local troops and a few
battalions from Egypt will be more
than sufficient to cope with the situa
ton. But even such a restricted cam
paign would cost the treasury a few
more millions, and it is doubtful wheth-
er the treasury can stand the strain.
The British are confident they can
easily defend the inundated territories.
Yet even a slight initial success for
lbn Soud would have great repercus-
sion in Afghanistan and India, where
there is superficial quiet, but where
activities of nationalist or boIshevist
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"Mussolinii' - of Little Massachusetts,
Hamlet Defeated After Reign of 80 Years

ure in his capacity of road superin-
tendent to dig them out of the Win
ter's snowfall and his personal row
with the telephone company that
caused the community to lose its tele
phone service.
Creamer is 66 years old. He has
run the general store for 3S years and
is reputed to have made small for
tune.
The town has no doctor, lawyer,
railroad, trolley, gas, electricity or
coal. Its school for two pupils costs
$270 annually. 1t is free from paupers
and always has balance in the treas
ury.
1t has 113 inhabitants and all but
two voters went to the polls
Creamer succeeded in squeezing
back into the Offices of selectman and
tax collector by the margin of a single
vote in each case. For the various
other offices he was defeated by diff
ferent persons by small majorities. No
one of those elected stands out as a
successor to Creamer in domination of
the towns affairs. as the upset was
due to a combination Of his OPP
ponentS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15

With Senator King of Utah under
stood TO be on his way to Santo Do
mingo, it was reported today that the
Haitian government, standing on It's
rights as a sovereign" republic, has
issued orders for his immediate arrest
should he endeavor to cross the bor-
der into that country.
State Department officials would like
to consider the exclusion of Senator
King as closed incident if they
could. Recognizing. however, that
President Borno apparently holds the
trump card, and considering as irrev-
ocable his refusal to permit Senator
King to enter Haiti. officials expressed
the hope today that the Senator would
not deliberately put himself in the
position of being arrested and deported
as an undesirable.
So far as the State Department is
concerned, it feels it can do no more
than already has been done.~ through
John Fl. Russell. the American high
commissioner to Haiti, who asked ad.
mission to that country for the Sen
ator
Senator King, it was pointed out,
has been notified of President Borno's
refusal to admit him and If he persists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
SENATOR DILL WEDS>
GEN. ROSALIE JONES
Nationally Known Suffrage Leader
Will Keep Her Own Name for
Business Purposes.

NEW YORK, March Is [R.-Miss
Rosalie ("General'D Gardiner Jones,
nationally known leader in the WON.
ems suffrage movement, and United
States Senator Clarence G.. Dill of
Washington were married today at
ST. Johns Episcopal Church, Cold
Spring Harbor, Long Island. The
ceremony was private.
A reception will be held later today
at the Hotel Gotham, in this city.
The Rev. Henry Barrett, rector of
the church, officiated. The bride was
unattended and no invitations were is
sued for the wedding.
The couple first met in 1924, when
she visited Washington as a delegate
to "a peace movement, and, with the
Senator it was a case of love at first
sight" At that meeting she "raked
him over the Goals" for his evasive
answers of the womens questions,
and when he tried to make her an.
grier she left his office in a huff. He
succeeded later in locating her. and
they were formally introduced by
friends.
Through the wedding the Lucy Stone
League, an organization of married
women VINO retain their maiden
names, gained another recruit, as the
bride announced recently that she re-
fused ito become an echo" to her
husband. While she will be known as
Mrs. Dill socially, she said she would
continue to be Miss Jones in the con-
duct of her business interests. These
range from suffrage to conducting a
chicken farm, and include managing
a $5,000.000 estate left her and two
brothers by their father, DIR. oliver
Livingston Jones
They will maintain residences in
New York, Spokane and Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
AVIATOR BELIEVED
LOST IN ALASKA
Ed Young May Have Been Forced
. Down on Tundra In
Arctic Gale.
Rv the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
NcGRATH, Alaska, March 10
c,oye fears were felt here last night
that E,d Young, veteran Alaska ava
tn,. had been forced down alone and
without shelter, on the desolate wastes
Of uninhabited tundra which stretch
for miles on either side of the lower
Kuskokwin River.
Young, inaugurating passenger
and freight service to the isolated vii
Lagos of southwestern Alaska left
here on the last leg of his 5O0-mile
journey to Bethel at noon yesterday
A. the time of his departure the ther-
,nometer stood at 25 below zero and Il
65-mile gale was bowling out of the
north.
The hop to Bethel should have been
made i'm three hours, but he had not
arrived late last night. The plane was
last seen over the summit OF the
Tacoina Mountain, so miles west OF
here. a half hour after leaving Nc
Grath.
Young, in flying from Anchorage to
McGrath last week, had the distinc-
ton of being the first aviator to cross
the Alaskan range of mountains at its
highest point, near Mount Mckinley
On returning to Anchorage after
the present trip he was to proceed to
Fairbanks to join the Detroit News
wilkins Arctic expedition, which will
soon begin it's attempts to find lands
in the Arctic north of Alaska.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY Gable To 1.4r Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927.
LONDON, March 15.-The fears ex
pressed a month ago by British au-
thorities who were watching the boil
shevist anti-Brltish activities in the
Far East, appear to have come true
earlier than even they anticipated.
The Chinese coolie riots at Singa-
pore and the boycott of British goods
at Java apparently were preliminary
steps to activities on n larger scale
in the Far East British intelligence
agents now report that notorious
Egyptian nationalists, who keep in
close touch with Moscow, are visiting
Ibn Soud, the Sultan of HedjaZ, with
a view to inducing him to start his
we'll organized force of $4,000 Arabs
on a campaign against the British in
Palestine and Iraq.
Agents Very Convincing.
Moscow agents are using very con.
Vincing arguments to convince Ibn
Soud that this is. propitiOus moment
to strike for the freedom of Arabia.
They point out that certain Arab ele-
ments in Palestine are dissatisfied
with the British mandate and are
willing to join the Wahabite leader,
while a large section of the Arab
population of Iraq is so discontented
With King Feisals rule that they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15

BY the Associated Press.
PERU. Mass. March 15.--The 33-
wear political reign of Mayor" Frank
q CPeamer, "Mussolini" of this little
hamlet on "the roof of the Common
wealth." had ended today.
For 33 years he held 13 town Offices
on the Democratic ticket. collected $65
annually for his duties and ruled
Peru with an iron hand, but today he
was certain only of the job of tax col
hector and minority selectman. He
was defeated for moderator and town
treasurer. He tied for tax collector.
Two rivals were elected selectmen,
which means he will lose appointive
offices.
Peru's SO voters decided his politi-
! cal fate at the 121st annual town meet
! ing Yesterday. There was evidence
/ of the approaching downfall before
the meeting ended. when the opposi-
/ ton declined to accept his hospitality,
which for 20 years has consisted OF a
| luncheon to the voters
! Creamer blamed his defeat on his
H"enemies" and their whispering cam
paiGn."
His rivals declared il was his fail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
RETIREMENT BOARD
Of NINE |SPLANNED
President, Senate and House
to Name Three Each Un-
der Proposed Plan.
RY WILL r. KENNEDY.

One of the first acts of the Seven
tieth Congress, when it meets In De
cember is expected to be authorlza-
ton of a commission of nine mem
bers-three from the House, three
from the Senate and three appointed
bv the President--to investigate the
subject of civil service retirement
and the operation and administration
of the law, to see how it should be
improved.
Until this proposed commission
makes it's study and reports to Con-
gress there is likely to be no further
liberalization of the retirement law,
ard the Government cannot know now
it stands financially on this important
fund.
The resolution authorizing the Gre
alton of this commission has the IN
dorsement of President Coolidge, is IN
line with the recommendations in the
annual report of the Board or Actu-
aries on Civil Service Retirement. has
the unanimous report of the House
civil service committee, was faVorably
considered by the House rules commit
tee, is favored by the United States
Bureau of Efficiency, has the approval
0f
propriations committee and other
House leaders and is sponsored by the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes.
Fathered by Hudson.
Representative Hudson of Michigan,
a member of the civil service commit
tee. is fathering the resolution with
the whole hearted support of Chair
man IehIbach of the committee, VINO
declares that it is absolutely unbusi-
nesslike for Congress to go further in
amending or liberalizing the retire
ment act until an exact study has
been made, and especially with view
of determining what the Govern
ment's financial obligation is, so that
regular appropriations can be made 10
at least meet the current costs.
Approximately 39o, 900 Federal EN-
ployes are affected by this proposal.
president Coolidge told Mr.. Hudson
that his only condition would be that
he should be left free-handed to select
tbe three members of the commission
at large. not restricted by any require
ment that one should be an insurance
expert or one should be a member or
civil service organization.
The present law governing civil
service retirement has been In opera
tion for seven years, but up to date
there is no one who knows with any
degree of certainty what its actual
cost to the Government Is.
'All cost figures are little petter
than guess work, Chairman Lenl-
bach has repeatedly emphasized, ana
Chairman Madden OF the approprla-
Continued on Page S. Column ID
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ARMS LIMIT BLOCKED.
Increased Expenditures Curb At
tempts to Halt Race.
Bv Cable 10 The Star and Chicago Daily
"' News Copyright. 1927.

Bv Cable 10 The Star and Chicago Daily
News Copyright. 1877.
GENEVA, March 15.-1ncreased
military expenditures in Europe,
actual or planned. are blocking the
efforts of the League OF Nations ana
the United States to limit armaments.
This became evident Monday night
when italy and Japan, aided by the
British. side-tracked an effort OF Hugh
Gibson of the American delegation TO
force a provision for complete pup
licity concerning arms manufacture
through the League commission IN the
private manufacture OF arms.
Mr.. Gibson, acting formally on be-
half Of his Government, bluntly pro-
nosed that all arms statistics-not only
of private firms, but also OF govern
ment arsenals-be published.
Although Italy's and Japan.s Oh,
iections were based on technical
grounds, they make no secret or the
fact that they regard the demand for
n,,hlicitv on the activities of their
government arsenals as unwarranted.
Italy Increases Expenditures.
italy in the past four years has
dcuhled her naval expenditures and
almost ouadrupled her aviation eX'
penditures. 1t is known that all her
munition factories are working to the
limit. nj,
France, naturally, feels obliged to
keep pace.
here that these nations, and perhaps
others. are engaged in a real arma
ment race, making the League efforts
at limitation futile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
LEAGUE PROPOSES
THREAT" POLICY
Air Demonstrations to Be
Used to Curb Warlike
Activities in Future.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
GENEVA, Switzerland, March Ia
Aerial demonstrations, like naval
will Aenceforth be a weapon of the
League of Nations against any coun
try which threatens to start wal
without awaiting arbitration proceed
ings.
After a long discussion today the
League Council committee appointed
to strengthen the operation of the
covenant for staving off war agreed
to text whereby. if a recalcitrant
state persists in hostile preparations,
warning measures may be taken by
those states which are members of
the council. e
Not only may naval demonstrations
he emuloyed. the committee says but
'.it is possible that aerial demonstra-
tions can be used in the future'
within reasonable limits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
Mine Unity by Radio Planned.

BEI4LEAIR, Ohio. March Is Up.-
A radio station would be used in an
attempt to organize non-union miners
of the West Virginia coal fields. under
the terms of resolution introduced
at the convention here of the Eastern
Ohio Miners Union. The proposed
station 20 be erected here. would cost
$500. 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
Chang Claims Successes.
CANTONESE CLAIM VICTORY.
Occupation of Thing, 100 Miles From
Shanghai, Reported.

SHANGHAI, China, March Is CP).
The occupation of Thing, port on
the western side of Lake Taihu. 100
miles west Of this city is claimed by
the Cantonese, but lacks confirma-
ton.
Responsible authorities here believe
that the Cantonese, who are getting
close TO Nanklng from the north, are
making a blg effort to capture that
city or to isolate it by cutting the
railway To the north and south.
Arrangements have been completed
for evacuation Of the foreign women
and children from Nanking if neces-
sary.
Local industrial unrest continues.
Fifteen thousand cotton mill. workers
are striking. Inhammatory itera-
ture continues to be posted in prom
inent places.
Political Tension Grows.
With the next serious fighting now
expected at Marking, political develop
ments assumed an important aspect
In both Hankow and Peking.
Belated advices from Hankow ~e-
. reived by the Associated Press told of
a bitter internal fight in the Kuomin.
tang, or Cantonese Republican revo-
lutionary party, whose central execu.
tive committee is now i'm session
there. Despite reports that a truce
had been declared by the contending
factions, there seems little doubt that
the dissension is adversely affecting
the prospects of the southerners and
has reached a pitch where reconcilia
tion is highly doubtful
AT the same time the Peking gov.
ernment made plain that il is still do.
ing its best TO induce the powers ia
negotiate the treaty question with
Peking. Wellington koo. acting pre-.
nier, explaining the position of the
northern government to the foreign
{ correspondents, asserted that the
whole of China was united in it's on
position, not to foreigners, but 10 spe.
rial privileges for foreigners and thai
therefore any engagements entered
into for revision of one-sided treaties
would be accepted and respected by
che whole of China.
Murder Theory Probed.
Working on the theory that he was
murdered, police are investigating tho
death of Sergt. James II. Montague
United States Marine Corps, whose
body was found today in the Whang
poo River. Sergt. Montague, ma
tive of Virginia, served in the Marine
Corps for many years and was will
the forces that arrived from SaI
riego on the transport Chaumont.
The Cantonese split at Hankow i:
one involving fundamental divergen
cies between the Aoderates. HEADED
continued on Page 4. Column 1)
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BRITISH SHIP IN MEXICO.
Cruiser, Sent to Nicaragua, Calls
at Vera Cruz,

VERA CRUZ, Mexico. March Is
R.-The British cruiser Colombo, re-
Gently sent to Nicaraguan waters for
possible use as a refuge for British
subjects, has arrived here. The usual
courtesy calls were exchanged by
Capt. Lecky and the local Mexican
authorities.
Today Capt. Lecky and 10 officers
will go to Mexico City TO pay their
respects to President Gales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
Former Joliet Prisoner
Names Leopold as Originator
of Recent Break.
FUGITIVES PLANNED
TO LIVE IN MEXICO
Were to Have Resided in Luxury
at Palos Verdes, Paroled Man
Tells Police.

| BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March IA plot to
empty Joliet Penitentiary of it's 1,2O0
| inmates by the wholesale slaughter by
poisoning of the guards has been re
vealed to prison authorities and chi
cago police by a parOled convict
The plot, set for execution next sat
urday, is the third of a series, behind
all of which now looms the figure OF
Nathan Leopold, jr., plotter and CO.
executor of the murder in Chicago or
little Bobbie Franks.
1t was Leopold, the officers have
been told. who conceived the original
prison break in which seven men
escaped after killing a deputy warden,
only to have six of the seven recap
tured and sentenced to hang for MUIR
der
Named i'm Other Plot.
1t was Leopold. too, said the detailed
stories over which the officers now are
working, who financed last Saturday $
break from the Joliet jail--a break in
which three of the six recaptured in
the first escape reached freedom and
shot to death a policeman. Two later
were recaptured
Leopold is not linked directly with
the latest escape plot as told to Off
GERS by Leo Delgoda, paroled convict,
but it was Leopold's original plotting,
Delgoda related, that inspired the
scheme to evacuate the penitentiary
next Saturday by killing the guards
with arsenic, to be put in their cof-
fee
Leopold planned the original peni-
tentiarv escape" Delgoda said i'm
story printed today in the Herald and
Examiner. From his friends outside
he obtained $4,000 which was to
finance the fight of himself and his
picked associates first to Detroit,
thence TO Canada and finally to
Mexico"
Planned to Live i'm Luxury.
Palos Verdes, Mexico. was the place
picked as the refuge for those who
escaped. said Delgoda, who obtained
his information from letters in Span
ish to the plotters which he was CALI
ed upon to translate. The plans pro.
vided that the men who escaped were
to live in luxury in the Mexican town
with funds furnished by Leopold's
Chicago friends.
Delgoda said the original plot pro-
vidcd for the escape, besides Leopold
of Bernardo Roa. Gregorio Rizzo and
Robert Torres, the three Mexicans
who broke from the Joliet jail last
Saturday. OF this trio. Roa is still at
large. Charles Shader, = Charles
Duschowski and Walter Stalesky-
three men who were under sentence
Continued on Page 6, Column 81
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LATvIAN PRESIDENT DEAD.
Head of Parliament to Assume Of
fee Pending Election.

The President of Latvia. Janis Y.
Chakste Tor Pschakpse), died at S:45
last night, 1t was reported to the
State Department today from Riga.
Paul Kalmin, president of the
Parliament, will assume the presi-
dency, it was said, pending the cleo
tion of successor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
President Flees,
Load of Lumber
HOisted Over Head

Workmen who are taking the
roof off the White House forced
President Coolidge to scurry for
safety today as they continued
hosting lumber over his head
while he was inspecting the work.
The President was standing un-
der the big crane in front of the
house at noon when he suddenly
discovered a pile of lumber was be-
ing lifted directly above him. With
out waiting for the warning of Sc
cret service men, Mr.. Coolidge beat
a hasty retreat to safe spot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
CHINESE OPEN FIRE
ON i. S. DESTROYER;
AMERICANS REPLY
Machine Guns Beat Off At
tack Along YangtSe With
out Casualties.
SHOTS GREET VESSEL
ESCORTING OIL LAUNCH
Cantonese Claim Occupation of
Thing in Shanghai Advance.
Marking Next Objective.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PEKING, China, March 15.-Tht
American destroyer Preble was hreo
on by Chinese troops Sunday neal
Wuhu, on the Yangtse river, while
escorting a Standard Oil launch WIN
which the Chinese had previously IN
terfered, it was learned today.
The bridge of the Preble was strucB
twice, but there were no casualties on
board. The Americans replied to the
Chinese fire with machine guns.
u. S. Envoy Investigates.
The American Minister John Van
A. MacMurray, has instructed Frank
=. Lockhart, the consul general al
Aankow, to investigate and, II II Is
proved that the Natlonalists Canton
ese) were responsible. lodge a protest
with the Cantonese authorities.
Shanghai dispatches last Wednes
day named the destroyer Preble as
one of the war vessels standing by al
Wuhu to protect the foreigners fol
lowing occupation of that city by the
Cantonese forces advancing down the
Yangtse toward Nanking.
An official report the next day said
the American women and children
had been transferred, with other for
indications later were given that they
had been TRANSFERRED, with other for
eign refugees. to the Steamer Kutwo
for the voyage down river
The detection of the navy at Shang
hal, in which the Yangtse squadron oi
IL vessels went over in its entirety tc
the Cantonese, has not affected the
war situation up to the present
Squadron Off Woosung.
The squadron, the best ships OF
which are two cruisers of 5000 tons
80 years DID, which changed masters
whenever the master became tired OF
being paymaSter for the flock of obso
lete craft, declared it's independence
after a quarrel with the Shantungese
over the usual monthly subsidy. 1t is
at present lying off Woosung, flying
the Kuomintang or Nationalist flag.
The Nationalists boast that the ships
will be useful to cut off the retreat of
the Shantung troops if they are forced
TO cross the Yangtse River, The Shan
tungese are paying little attention to
the incident, although it is reported
that Gen. Chang Tsung Cfiang their
commander, has ordered the still loyal
squadron in the south to give battle
In the remote event that the two
squadrOns clash, the spectacle would
be presented of an engagement be.
tween the WORLDS most antiquated
fleets. 1t Is pointed out, however, that
hitherto money and not guns almost
invariably have decided Chinese naval
issues.
Chang Claims Successes.
The headquarters of Marshal Chang
Tso.Lin, Manchurian war lord, claims
further successes near Chengchow, in
northern Honan, which city is about
TO be attacked by Chang's forces pre-
paratory to launching a drive south
ward toward Hankow, held by the
Cantonese.
Chang claims to have inflicted
severe losses on the semi-independent
Honan forces of Gen. Chin Yun-Ao
4. forcing them to retreat to Cheng
chow. Chang's air force which is co
operating in the advance of the
northerners, bombed Chin's head
N Fsfa