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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
NAVY WAGE AWARD
ST|RS RESENTMENT
Civil Employees Express Dis
satisfaction and Petition
for REIMBURSEMENT.

Dissatisfaction with the recent Navy
wage award fixing the rates of com
pensation for all civilian employees in
navy yards and stations throughout
the United States was expressed today
to Assistant Secretary OF the Navy
Robinson by Luther &. Steward, preSl-
dent. and Gertrude NJ. McNally. score
tarv-trea surer of the National Fedora
ton of Federal Employees, who headed
delegation of representatives from
the Eastern yards which called upon
the Secretary.
They urged that compensation fixed
by the award be readjusted on the basis
OF the facts as previously submitted
of the Departmental Wage Board and
as recommended by the local boards
composed of naval officers at the Narl-
GUS yards
Following the conference Mr.. Stew
ard issued a statement, i'll which he
declared the recent wage award lis
completely unsatisfactory"
ut was arrived at on an erroneous
basis of fact, and. if permitted to stand,
will prove to be a definite handicap
on the work to be done at the various
naval establishments" he added.
I'VE believe the wage board acted
contrary 70 'ile Al''Hi' VA tiF2 '"N
which specifically presc1'ibes the man
ner Of fixing rates of compensation
for civilian employees of the Navy and
enjoinS due recog milton Of the facts
presented. The act of July 10, 1862.
tho statute which applies, supulates
that the rate Of wages Of employees
in the navy yards shall conform. as
nearly as IS consistent with the pub
lie interest, with those Of private es-
Establishments in the immediate vicinity
of the respective yards.
THE employees contend that neither
the budget estimates nor the amount
Of the appropriations should be the
determining factor in fixing the rates
of compensation. Those factors, they
maintain, should affect only the NUM-
Der to be employed and not the rate
to be paid"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
Files $4,000 Damage Suit.

Charging that Thomas Armat. 2230
California street. ignored a stop
sign at Massachusetts avenue and
Garfield street August % and injured
her, Mildred NJ. HOyle of ChestcrtoWn,
MI, yesterday filed suit in the Dis
trict Supreme Court to recover $50 900
damages. The plaintiff was II pas
senger in the machine with which Mr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07

JAMES ]. BECKER.
JAMES J. BECKER. ~
W. SPENCER ARMSTRONG,
EDGAR NJ. MAYNE,
ERSKINE GORDON,
JAMES B. NICHOLSON,
ALLEN c. CLARK,
WALTER r. WILCOX,
LOUIS r. PEAK,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
Quotes From Dispatches.

In bringing the affair to the atten-
ton Of the Senate, Senator Wheeler
said a controversy had arisen between
some of the ledaing newspaper cor
respondents and associations OF the
country and Secretary Kellogg on the
subject. He then quoted from vari
Gus news dispatches and editorials.
The Montanan recorded that on No
vember 81, 1926, the ST. Louis Post
Dispatch published an article written
by Paul Y. Anderson, in which it was
stated that. Assistant Secretary Olds
Of the State Department had called in
representatives of the three press as
sociations, pledged them not to quote
him and then told them, with other
things, that "a steady stream Of boil
shevist propaganda. has been filtering
from Mexico down through Central
America"
IF this statement, published in the
st. Louis Post Dispatch is correct, :"
Senator Wheeler said, 1T is, to say
the least, reprehensible on the part
Of the State Department or any mem
her of the State Department to give
out a story to which he refuses to
sign his name and ask the great press
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07

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W. ]. Robbins any time. Adams 9303. sc
CLOCKS REPAIRED AT YOUR HOME.
Drop a postal; will call. Address CLOCK
MAKER. 3126 P st. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07

Armat is said to have collided by r"a
son of alleged disregard of the sign t."
stop his car before entering Massa-
chlIsetts avenue. Attorneys Bride,
Seal 4 Boswell appear for the plaintiff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
Burns Letter Brings $3.50.

NEW YORK, January R.-A
letter by Robert Burns, Scotch poet,
to his brother. discussing the evils of
garrulity brought $3.50 at sale here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07

As a result OF the musicians strike
in Mexico City II moving picture
theaters were closed for several
weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07

An English woman, who lost three
sons in the World War, walked las
miles to Whitehall to attend d me
mortal service held recently for war
heroes.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
MARYLAND CITY MERGER PLAN
STIRS INTEREST IN % TOWNS
Area Under Discussion Comprises Ten
Square Miles With 10000 Population
Opinion on Matter Divided.

I Those who are opposing the scheme
speak in high terms of the Importance
of local self-government and contend
that the chief result would be in
creased taxation.
Between these two widely separated
views is the vast majority of residents
in the area, who are bewildered by the
array of conflicting arguments and al
legged facts presented by the extreme
elements on each side and are anxious
to have some real light thrown on the
proposition.
Area Under Discussion.
The area that has been proposed for
the new city begins with Mount Raj
nier, at the District line. and extends
far enough TO include Hollywood. be-
yond BerWyn. 1t varies in width from
about one mile to about two miles. 1t
embraces some thickly settled and
some sparsely settled territory.
One plan is to create city similar
to Baltimore which would be entirely
separate from Prince Georges County.
1t would raise it's own taxes and spend
its own revenues. 1t would have one
mayor, or city manager, one city coun-
Gil and its own police. fire and health
departments. 1t would have it's own
courts and judicial administration.
Many persons believe that the Mary.
land Legislature would never consent
to complete separation from Prince
Georges County, or could not, without
an amendment to the State constitu-
ton. These persons would be salts
CONTINUED on Page 3, Column p
Evening star., 1927-10-30
CONSPIRATORS FOILED.
Five Held in Quito After Police
Report Failure of Plot.

QUITO, Ecuador. October 90 R.-
The police announced today the dis
covery and failure of a new con.
spiracy against the government. AL
berto Donoso Cobo, Coils. Benjamin
Peralta and Carlos Andrade and Majs.
Elias Paz Mino and Hermosenes
Cortes were arrested and lodged in
| prison.
The minister of Interior returned
| from attendance at the army maneu.
vers and Immediately conferred with
the chief of the secret service, who
was instrumental in nipping the al
Evening star., 1927-10-30
RESIGNATION PLAN
DENIED BY JARD|NE
Secretary of Agriculture
Aqain Calls Revived Reports
of Retirement BaSeless

DR.. William NJ. Jardine, Secretary
Of Agriculture. categorically denied
Yesterday revived reports that he
planned to resign from the cabinet at
an early date. Yesterdays stories had
December / picked as the time when
his resignation would become effective
and there was the further detail tnat
President Coolidge was looking about
for his successor.
absolutely nothing in it," was Sec
retary Jardine's response TO inquiries
1t became known several weeks ago
that Florida citrus growers had
approached Secretary Jardine, through
friends, with proposition that he
take over direction of their co-opera-
tive marketing association, and later
at which the matter was discussed
there was a meeting in Washington
directly with the Secretary At that
meeting DR.. Jardine laid down certain
conditions of orga niZation which
would have to be met before he would
be willing even to consider a formal
offer, and the citrus fruit men have
not yet reported that they will be able
to meet those conditions.
Secretary Jardine said Yesterday
that there had been no recent change
in the situation and that he has no
expectation of leaving the cabinet in
the near future. He is anxious to re-
main in his present position at least
through the coming session of Con-
gress, in the hope that it may be pos
sible to enact into law some effective
plan of agricultural relief.
One Western Senator said he had
been asked for suggestions for sue
cessor to Mr.. Jardine, but that he
had made none. Men whose names
are mentioned. however. in this con-
nection are former Senator Dixon of
Montana, a follower of Roosevelt in
the Bull Moose days; former Gov.
Carey OF Wyoming, and Jacob G.
Mohler. secretary OF the Kansas State
Board Of Agriculture.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.

Twenty-eight communities, includ-
ing nine incorporated towns, in upper
Prince Georges County, Md, just
across the District line, are seething
with interest and discussion. public
ana private, as the result of a pro-
posal that they unite to form a new
municipality. for which the name of
maryland City" has been suggested
The area proposed for the new city
comprises a little more than 10 square
miles and has an estimated popula-
ton of approximately 10000. If the
plan should be carried out in it's en-.
tirety, the new municipality would be
the fourth largest city in Maryland
Those who favor the plan as now
proposed picture a modern city, pro-
viding innumerable benefits for it's
inhabitants in place Of large number
of small communities rubbing shoul-
ders and handicapped by jealousies.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
OIL
CASE NEARING END
Prosecution Should Finish
This Week, Barring CompIi-
cationS-Defense Ready.

Barring unforeseen legal tangles
and blockades the special Government
oil prosecution will rest it's case
against Albert B. Fall. eormer Secre.
tary of the Interior, and Harry F.
Sinclair, oil magnate of New York,
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the Government in connection with
the leasing to Sinclair by Fail of the
Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. by the
middle of the week.
Between tomorrow morning, the
third week of the trial, and Wednes-
day afternoon at the latest Owen j.
Roberts of Philadelphia and Atlee
Pomerene of Cleveland. appointed by
President Coolidge to prosecute the
cases growing out of the Senate s
oil committees Investigations in 1923
and 1924, with the assistance of
United States Attorney Peyton Cor
don, will have presented to the court
and jury additional evidence on the
bond transactions. which to date have
proved to be the most sensational
feature Of the Governments case.
When this evidence is completed
Roberts and Pomerene hope to have
before the jury coherent story OF
the purchase by the Continental Trad.
ing Co. of many thousands of dollars
of Liberty bonds, together with the
numbers on each bond and of their
subsequent movements through diff
ferent banking institutions through
out the country, in which they are
linked with the name of "A. B. Fall
from time to time.
Features of Case.
1t is the Governments charge that
these bonds were delivered to Fall by
Sinclair a month after the Teapot
Dome lease was signed. and that they
were purchased from the profits of an
"oil deal" between the Continental
Trading Co. and the late A. +. Hum
phreys, a Texas oil magnate. The
prosecution maintains that the Cont
mental Co. was in effect mythical
oorganiza ton" in which Sinclair had
a prime interest, and that after buy
ing 30,000,000 barrels of oil from
Humphreys at $3.50 a barrel. the Con-
tinental Co. resold it to an oil com.
pany in which Sinclair had half in
terest, and another concern, at profit
of 25 cents on each barrel. Other
features of the Governments case
which remain to be cleaned up are:
Evidence of Falls receipt from Sin
clair of $4,000 expense money" in
connection with a trip by Fall, after
he retired from office. to Russia as
legal adviser to the Sinclair oil inter
escts in their efforts to obtain an oil
concession in that country.
Evidence on the failure of Harry NJ.
Continued on Page 5, Column A.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
YALE AND ILLINOIS
UPSET GRID DOPE
Army and Navy Win Their
Games and Three Local
EIeVenS Beat Rivals.

Yale's 19-to-0 victory over Dart.
mouth and Illinois 14-to-0 defeat of
Michigan were the high spots in the
realm of foot ball yesterday. While
neither result could be called a dis.
tinct upset, Dartmouth and Michigan
were slight favorites, and the decisive.
ness Of the scores the other way were
little surprising.
Navy and Aarmy elevens showed to
distinct advantage, the Middies win.
ming from Penn, II to 6, in a game
that was correctly regarded as a $3.50
affair. while the Cadets were more i'm.
pressive than expected in downing
Bucknell. which previously in the sea-
son had defeated Penn State. "a to O..
Harvard, too. came into it's own by
winning over Indiana, &c to 6, in what
might be considered the closest thing
to an upset during the day. Penn
State also won much more decisively
than looked for in beating Lafayette,
40 to 6.
Out on the Pacific Coast Southern
California won the big game of the
day in conquering University of Cali.
fornia, 13 to 0.
Notre Dame continued to show its
class by defeating Georgia Tech, 26
to Z, the Rockne machine being in
command all the. way.
In the South, Georgia. Vanderbilt
and Tennessee also continued to i'm
press with wins over Tulane, Ken
lucky and Virginia. respectively.
Three of Washington's six elevens
were successful, Georgetown having
an easy foe in Waynesburg, which it
beat, So to O.; American University
turning back Blue Ridge. 38 to o.
and George Washington taking the
measure of Ursinus. Z to 0.
Maryland lost a hard battle TO
Washington and Lee, 13 to 6; Cath
olic u bowed to the Marines. 33 to
13; while Gallaudet took 5S-to-0
beating at the hands of City College
Of NntE York
Evening star., 1927-10-30
THREE BANKS CLOSED.
Two Iowa Institutions in Hands of
State Examiners.

MASON CITY. Iowa, October 90
R).-Three Kossuth County banks
the County Savings Bank Of Algona
the Algona State Bank. Algona, and
the First National Bank at Swea City
were closed at noon today. The first
two banks are in the hands of State
banking examiners, and the national
bank is in charge of representative
of the Controller of the Currency.
Depleted reserves, due to heavy
Withdrawals, are assigned as reason
for the closing in each case.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
TWENTY BURIED IN BLAST
Powder Explodes at Coal Mine in
Pennsylvania.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, October 90 P)
Twenty men were burned, one seri-
ously, in a powder explosion in the
Knickerbocker Coal Co.'S No. l
mine at Hooversville today. The
cause of the explosion has not been
determined.
Stephen Malak, 81, OF Hooversville.
was burned about the body. He was
brought to a local hospital, where his
condition was regarded as fair" The
other injured received minor hurts and
returned to their homes.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
MRS. WALCOTT TAKES
INDIAN BOARD PLACE
Succeeds Late George Vaux, Jr., as
Member of Advisory Body, by
Executive Action.

President Coolidge yesterday ap-
pointed Mrs. Mary VauX Walcott of
Washington as member of the
Board of Indian Commissioners, to
succeed the late George VauX. jr.,
who was chairman of the commits
sion. Mrs. Walcott is the widow of
DR.. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, and she
has recently been on a trip to
Alaska.
Mr.. Vaux was a brother of Mrs.
Walcott, who Is well known as q
painter of wild flowers and an out
door enthusiast.
Members of the board. residing in
various parts of the country and
serving without pay, travel on in
spection tours and advise the Presi-
dent, the Interior Department and
Congress on Indian affairs. Its func-
tions are not executive or admins
trative. but advisory.
new chairman to succeed Mr..
Vaux will be elected at the annual
meeting of the board in January. ac-
cording to Malcolm Mcdowell. sec.
yo -
Evening star., 1927-10-30
Bureau of Efficiency Says
Companies Should Make
Voluntary Cut of 80 Pct.
GROSS PROFIT TOTALS
81 PCT, FIGURES SHOW
Stricter Regulation by District
Department Urged to Prevent
Laws Circumvention.

Charging that residents of the Dis
trict are Disseminated against in fire
insurance premium rates, the Federal
Bureau Of Efficiency. in a comprehen-
siye report submitted to the District
Commissioners yesterday, recon-
mended that efforts be made to secure
an immediate voluntary reduction by
the insurance companies. A cut of
one-third in the present rates was sug-
gested
The bureau also recommended that
the superintendent Of insurance of the
District be given more effective con-
troll of companies, brokers and agents,
and submitted the draft of a bill which
it said would remedy existing unsatis-
factory conditions in this respect.
Fire Department Praised.
1.-The District of Columbia is com.
pact municipality, we'll developed as
to roadways and streets, served by an
adequate water supply and it main
tains an excellent fire-fighting serv.
ice," said the report. The streets are
wide and the improvements are rela-
lively of high degree fire resistant
and the fire hazards of use and occu.
patton are very unfavorable, as COM
pared with other Jurisdictions.
There is not the dense concentra.
ton of valuable commodities as is
found in the commercial centers of
other cities, and there are no large,
unprotected rural districts as there
are in the States. These conditions
hU
fire insurance companies. The aver
age rates of premium for the whole
United States is 80 cents per 100
while the average rate for the District
of Columbia is 81 cents. These fig
ures are for the five years 1921.1925,
inclusive.
1T is evident, however, that this
difference in rates fails to remove the
discrimination against the residents
of the District when an examination
is made Of available statistics of pre-
miums received and losses paid.
Gross Return Studied.
"For the period 1921 to 1925. inclu
sive, the ratio of losses to premiums
received for the whole United States
was 55.6, while for the same period
the ratio for the District of Columbia
was 38.1. In other words, for every
dollar received as premium for the
United States as a whole the com
panies retained 444 cents to cover
expense of operation and profits, while
for the District of Columbia they re
tained 61.9 cents. Thus it seems that
the rates applying in the District
should be reduced about one-third te
place them on a parity with the
average for the whole United States
''The corresponding ratios for the
whole period for which statistics are
available QSS0 to 1920 are, for the
United States, 532. and for the Dis
trict, 1913. 1t must be assumed that
the business for the United States as
whole is profitable, and there is un
mistakable evidence that it is profit
Continued on Page 6, Column ~
Evening star., 1927-10-30
POMERENE AND ROBERTS USE
OWN FUNDS TO PUSH OIL TRIALS
$50, 100000 Already Returned to u. S., But
Attorneys Stint Selves to Supply
Cash Congress Neglected.

ent criminal proceedings. Added to
this burdensome outlay, the Govern
ment attorneys also have been
forced to defray all the incidental eX.
pense of preparing the appeal to the
Supreme Court in the civil suit in
volving the leasing of Teapot Dome.
Cancellation of the Sinclair lease.
as recently ordered by the Supreme
Court. ultimate tely will turn back into
the Federal Treasury some $6,000.000
in cash. Through the successful
prosecution of the Elk Hills civil
suit. the Treasury already has col.
lected from Edward l.. Doheny in ex.
cess of $24.000,0G0. These amounts
are small in comparison to the mil
CONTINUED on Page 5, Column u
Evening star., 1927-10-30
MAN "COMES TO LIFE"
AFTER BEING GARROTED
Cuban Slayer Puts UP Fight After
He Is Removed From
Death Machine,
By the Associated Press.

ny tHe AsfpCtdteu ETeSs.
HAVANA, Cuba, October %
Baldomero Rodriguez, convicted for
murder, was legally executed twice
today in the Pinar Del Rio Prison
Because of d defect in the garrote,
or due to careless adjustment of the
metal band which fits about the vic
TINS neck to cause strangulation,
the supposed dead body of Rodriguez
was laid on a stretcher and suddenly
showed symptoms of life as spec
tators were leaving the death cham
ber.
The man put up furious struggle,
but was overpoWered by guards and
prison officials. He was then re-
placed in the death machine and
again the strangulation band was ad-
justed, the body remaining on the
garrote for % minutes before he was
officially pronounced dead.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
SEVEN ARE SOUGHT
IN 4,1O|+FOOT MINE
Air Blast Traps Crew Repair
ing Fire Damage Far
Underground.
By the Associated Press.

oS Tue asSOCIdleu fTeSs.
HOUSTON, Mich, October ga
rescue team of $50 picked mine timber
men tonight were digging frantically
into the bowels of the earth 400 feet
underground in an effort to reach
seven men trapped in the forty-first
level of the Quincy Copper Mine near
here today by an air blast.
The victims, members of a crew of
IL mine timber men, were repairing
the level, damaged last week by a
fre, when the blast occurred from be-
meath, tearing out the floor Of the
level above. Four of the men had just
left the forty.first level to obtain more
tools and were in an outlet between
level 40 and SO when the accident oc.
Cured. Two other and more distant
detonations followed the first explo.
sion, according to the men, who were
hoisted to the surface and spread the
alarm.
Rescue Team Recruited.
Mine officials imediately recruited
the rescue team, members of which
were lowered back into the shaft and
began the gruelling work of clearing
the level Officials were of the opinion
existed because of the terrific force of
the explosion, but declared the rescue
would proceed until the victims were
found.
Rescue workers found the shaft
leading into the wrecked level COM
pletely choked with huge stones,
Jammed in like huge cement mix.
There was a possibility. however, that
the obstruction might conceal a
cavity beneath, and that the forma.
ton may have been hurled upward
and caught in the outlet by the terri
fic percussion. Workers were hope
ful of piercing the obstruction by
morning.
First Accident in Mine.
The Quincy mine has been IN oper-
alton for 70 years and todays acci-
dent was the first ever recorded there
The shaft has SO levels, approximately
100 feet apart and goes down into
the earth for nearly 5000 feet
Origin of air blasts, such as the
one which occurred today, are more
or less OF mystery. Some geogol-
lists and mining men believe they re-
suit from earth tremors. caused by
| the slipping Of strata. Others con
tend they are brought about by the
settling of superintendent rock in
Worked-out openings, causing violent
compression of air elsewhere in the
mine.
A number of air blasts have oc-
CURED in the Quincy mine, but here
| tofore the explosions have occurred
in abandoned parts of the shaft, with
no particular damage being done.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
BY NELSON NJ. SHEPARD

Inquiry has developed at least one
plausible reason why Atlee Pomerene
and Owen J. Roberts. special Gov
ernment prosecutors in the Fall-Sin'
clair conspiracy trial, economize dur
ing the daily lunch hour by frequent
ing the moderately-priced basement
cafeteria directly across from the
courthouse.
Since July l the two Government
attorneys, neither of them blessed
with an excess of this worlds goods,
have been compelled to dig down
into their own pockets for virtually
every dollar expended in bringing the
two defendants to trial in the pres
Evening star., 1927-10-30
Emigration to Philippines Held
Alarming to Islanders.

MADRID. October % R.-The
emigration of Chinese to the Philip
pine Islands is viewed by the news
paper Ell Sol as a decided menace to
the F'ilipinos.
The Chinese population is growing
and the Filipinos are leaving to bet
ter themselves, says the paper, with
the result that n continuation Of this
must be disastrous for Filipinos who
love their country. Within the CEN
tury the islands will be more Chi
nese than Filipino.