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PRESIDENT TO MAKE
ADDRESSES HERE
Another in New York, Ali Prior
to Vacation Trip, Are on
Schedule.

President Coolidge has agreed to
make four speeches, three Of them in
this city. before his Summer vaca.
ton.
This was revealed at the White
House, where announcement was made
that the President today accepted in
vttations to deliver an grafton at the
Memorial Day exercises to be held at
Arlington National Cemetery, May 30,
and to address meeting of the Amer
lean Medical Association, May II, at
Arcadia Hall, Fourteenth street and
Park road.
The President will speak In New
York on the night of April %, the oc-
casion being the celebration of the
twentieth anniversary of the found
ing of the United Press Association,
and on the evening of June IL, when
he appears before the semi-annual
meeting here Of the business organi-
cations OF the Government.
The President has received many in.
vitations from all sections of the
country to make addresses, but 1t is
his intention to conflne his speaking
activities to the program OF four
speeches he now has on his schedule.
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Ill JUROR HALTS
TRIAL OF BOERS|G
Farmer, so, Stricken While
Closing Arguments Are
Being Made.
By a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

By a staff Correspondent of The Star.
| FAIRFAX COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, April 6.--Illness of juror,
| John NJ. Plaskett Of Lorton, Va, twice
| DELAYED the murder trial of Louis f..
Boersig. which opened it's concluding
day this morning in the 127-year-old
courthouse here.
The second time Mr.. Plaskett
slumped in the jury box it was ap-
parent to Judge Howard w. Smith,
who is presiding, that the juror was
in extremely bad physical condition
and he Immediately recessed the
court.
DR.. Ford Swetham, who treated Mr..
| Plaskett. reported to Judge Smith that
his patients condition was very bad"
and that he doubted whether the
court session could be resumed in less
| than two or three hours. DR.. SWEET
/ ham regarded the. condition of Mr..
| Plaskett serious enough to cause the
authorities to communicate with his
people at Lorton. Mr. Plaskett is a
farmer and about go years old.
| Friends of the sick juror said today
| that he was subject to heart attacks
and evidently the close air in the
| crowded courtroom had proven too
| much for him.
/ Judge Instructs Jury.
| Before Mr.. Plasketts second illness
| 1t appeared as if the case would be
| given to the jury before the lunch
hour recess.
At the outset of today's session
| Judge Smith read the instructions to
the jury, going into every phase Of
murder degrees, their punishment and
the Virginia law concerning premedi-
| tation.
After Judge Smith instructed the
| jury at length Commonwealth At
torney Wilson Farr began his sum.
ming up of the case. After reciting
the details of the killing of 7-year-old
Loretta Ridgeway and the childs
| sister, Cathleen, 4, and the serious in.
! jury of their mother, Mrs. George
| Ridgeway, who We're dubbed at their
home March 4, he reiterated his belief
| that Boersig was the perpetrator.
At the conclusion of his statement,
which he delivered cody and without
dramatic effect, he informed the
| jurors:
II ask you gentlemen to bring in a
verdict of guilty of first degree murder
and that you specify the death SEN
tence as the penalty"
Evidence Called CircumstantiaI.
Frederick L. Flynn, in making the
closing statement of the defense, en-
deavored to impress upon the jurors
that the evidence against Boersig was
| solely circumstantial and in an i'm.
passioned tone challenged them to
send to the electric chair q man
against whom he said the common.
wealth had failed to make a case.
Flynn told the jury that while the
State cited robbery as the motive they
had never found the $50 Boersig was
| supposed to have taken from the
Ridgeway home. He said that while
it would have been impossible for any
one to have murdered the two little
girls without having blood stains on
their clothing, the authorities never
had found any blood on any of
| Boersig's clothing.
At this point Flynn ordered Boersie
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MANCHURIAN WAR LORD RAIDS
SOVIETS' EMBASSY AT PEKING
Six Russians and IS Chinese
Observation-Disclosures Gun
and Rifles Seized.
American Woman and Man
Detained by Marshall
Outside Legation.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEKING, April 6.-Troops of the
army of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, the
Manchurian war lord, and armed po-
lice raided the Soviet embassy this
morning. Six Russians and Is to 20
Chinese were taken to the police sta
ton, and a machine gun, Is rifles and
a quantity of ammunition were re-
moved from the embassy.
Measures had been taken previously
to guard all entrances to the building.
More than 100 troops and police, act
ing on signed authorization of the
diplomatic corps. rushed the embassy.
One shot was heard, after. which a
Russian was dragged out, fighting and
kicking. He was bound and carried
off in a motor car.
Troops Hold Embassy.
The troops still occupied the build
ing this afternoon.
The Russians and Chinese arrested
at the embassy were described as agi-
tators.
Marshal Chang Tso-lin has been de-
scribed in dispatches to the London
newspapers as determined foe of
bolshevism. After the disorders at
Marking, Chang, expressing sorrow
over the events, was reported by the
Westminster Gazette of London to
have said that he believed the powers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06

Through the clouds Of tobacco
smoke which are said to shroud the
membership of the Brightwood Citi-
zens' Association the good women of
that community were cropping their
wav today toward adoption of a com
bined bill of rights, proclamation OF
emancipation and declaration OF indie
pendence.
In a sort of preamble to what
should be a historic instrument IN
the annals of organized citizenship
the announcement is made today,
from somewhat yelled and secretlVe
sources, that the woman members OF
the Brightwood Association are being
literally smoked out of the organiza-
ton, puff by puff.
NAV Form Own Association.
Things have come to such a pass,
II is declared in a letter sent today
to President Yaden of the Federation
Of Citizens Associations, that the
ckoked and gasping ladies of Bright
wood need only the encouragement
and sympathy of federation officials
to follow the determined lead of the
women of Georgetown and organize
an association of their very own,
where women's rights are respected
and fragrance rules.
The letter, signed by Mrs. L. C..
W., for Committee of Woman's Citi-
zens' Association of Brightwood, :"
follows:
knowing your very great interest
In the ladies who are only now COM
ing into their rights and how you
were nobly seconded by former
president Of the association, Jesse
Suter, in your efforts to bring the
Woman's Citizens Association of
Georgetown into the federation over
the protest of the men. we are en-
boldened to lay the situation of the
ladies of Brightwood before you and
Mr.. Suter for your advice.
1--WE are adnltted as members to
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ny the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, April 6.-Evanston won
silver loving cup yesterday as Chi
cagos best suburb and based its plea
for fame partly on the fact that it is
the home Of Vice President Charles G..
Dawes.
The competition, in which six Chi
cago suburbs participated, was before
the Chicago Rotary Club and sextet
Of not-too-modest orators from the
suburbs presented the merits Of their
respective towns.
The women, along with the Vice
President, We're given part credit for
Evanston's fame by Prof Ralph B.
Dennis Of the School Of Speech of
Northwestern University, who pre-.
sented Evanston's claims.
Il plead" he said, for that shrink
ing violet Of cities. Evanston. We owe
our name to the surname of one man.
John Evans, but we owe our fame to
two women. The first was Frances
Willard, she of the W. G. T. u. The
second was that famous niece of Vice
President Charles Gates Dawes.
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SCHOOL QUIZ DATA
COVER TEN YEARS
Efficiency Bureau to Get Evil
denCe on Institutions
and Branches.

A mass OF evidence which has been
accommodating for 10 years win be
made available to the United States
Bureau of Efficiency when hearings
are started sometime next week on
conditions surrounding the incorpora-
ton of private schools and other insti-
tutions here.
This relates not only to the institu-
tions actually operated in the District
Of Columbia, but to their qualifications
throughout the United States and In
foreign countries. Much of this is In
the files of the United States Bureau
of Education, some is in the fiies OF
the State Department, and some IN
the office of the United States AT
torney for the District.
Anxious to Give Evidence.
David A. Robertson Of the Amer
lean Council on Education, who has
been 9. prominent figure the last few
years in the fight against the "edu-
cational underworld of the United
States,' said today he was anxious TO
place in the hands Of Herbert ID.
Brown, chief of the Bureau or EN-
cheney, all the information in the pos
session or his organization. Inc Gun
Gil has received frequent complaints
against institutions chartered in the
District of Columbia, but has been
able to do little except issue warnings
against activities of the low-grade
colleges
The determination Of the Bureau OF
Efficiency to hold hearings which will
bring the whole situation to the sur
face was hailed by Mr.. Robertson as
one of the most hopeful developments
which have attended the long fight
to rid the country of the schools
chartered in Washington whose
branches" have sprung up in other
States and in South America, Europe
and Asia.
Charter Obtained Here.
A search of the records in the Office
Of the recorder of deeds has just re.
vealed to Miss Pearl Mccall, assistant
United States attorney, who has been
central figure in past attempts to
root out the low-grade institutions,
that a New Jersey college, which set
up a branch in Washington few
years ago and granted a large number
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Nearly Million Votes Cast in
BaIIoting Marked by
Little Disorder.
FORMER COWBOY WINS
CITY COUNCIL CONTROL
Prodigious Support in Negro Wards
Overcomes "Silk Stocking" Re-
publican OBJECTIONS,

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April G.--William Hale
Thompson, former cowboy, lassoed the
election yesterday, and prepared to
ride into the City Hall with a plural
ity of S3,072 votes in his saddlebags.
Nearly one million votes We're cast.
Thompson received 512,740, Mayor
William L. Dever, Democrat, seeking
a second term, got 429.66S, and DIR.
John Dill Robertson, banner carrier for
an insurgent Republican faction. was
a poor third, with 51,209.
Viewed by wards, Thompson and
Mayor Dever split nearly even, Dever
carrying % and Thompson n wards.
The second, third and fourth wards,
strongholds of the Southside negro
vote, wrought prodigiously for Thomp-
son. OF his S3,072 plurality, these
wards contributed 59.215, Thompson
running better than 6 to / ahead Of
Mayor Dever there.
Besides the four-year term as mayor,
Thompson also apparently won con-
troll of the council, having the prom
Use of support from 10 of SO alder
men chosen at the February % pri-
maries, to which were added probably
16 favorable aldermen yesterday.
$500 Celebrants Endangered.
More than $500 Republicans, cele.
brating the victory Of Thompson, were
thrown into terror early today when
the floating clubhouse of the Fish
Fans Club, anchored in the Belmont
yacht harbor, sank slowly to the bot
tom, distance of feet.
F'iremen were called, and those on
board were ordered to leave the boat.
AS soon as the vessel was relieved of
the unusually heavy burden, it rose
several feet, and the flrement pumped
it out.
Despite dire forebodings of blood
shed and disorder, and much viewing
with alarm by law enforcement agen-
cies, the election was one of the
quietest in Chicago history "As quiet
as a Quaker funeral" Capt. Siege Of
the detective bureau called 1t.
Few Instances Reported.
Hoodlumism was almost entirely
absent, theft of one ballot box, dyna-
hitting of two places used as Demo
cratic headquarters. destruction by
fire of a negro church under mysteri-
ONo anu btiG AAai5 VA
a few shots We're the only untoward
incidents reported. No one was hurt.
Police attributed the peacefulness
of the day to a fear instilled in gang
lands heart by the shooting to death
on the eve of the election of Vincent
{Schemer) Drucci, beer baron of the
northside. Many known gangsters,
the police said, spent election day in
the country" rather than challenge
the warning that the police would
fire first, talk afterward."
Mayor-elect Thompson served as
chief executive for two terms, 1915
1923. He was not a candidate when
Dever was elected.
The new mayor will take Office as
soon as the official canvass of the
votes is completed-probably within
10 days.
Thompson ran strong on the north
and wst sides, and carried the gold
coast" area, but Dever had a lead in
the south side "silk stocking" terri
tory of Hyde Park, Republican
stronghold.
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should direct their action against boil
sheviks rather than against the Chi.
nese.
He declared further. according to
the Westminster Gazette's correspond
ent, that If the powers would guaran-
tee the Manchurian frontier against
soviet Russia. he could liberate 1907
600 reliable troops to help the Shan
tungese.
Chang was reported to have been
chiefly responsible for the seizure re-
Gently of the Soviet steamer Pamiat
Lenian and the arrest Of Nine. Boro-
din and three Russian agents, who
were aboard at the time. They were
charged with having in their posses
sion bolshevist propaganda intended to
help the cause of the Cantonese. or
Southern Nationalist.
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De P|NEDO UNHURT
ASSEAPLANE BURNS
Crew Also Escape as Four
Continent Flight Ends
DiSastrouSly.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
APACHE LODGE. ROOSEVELT
DAM. Ariz., April 1.-THE intercon-
tinental flight of Comdr. Francesca de
Pinedo came to disastrous end at
1906 today, when the Santa Maria
caught fire as the plane was being
put under way preparatory to taking
OF for San Diego from Roosevelt Dam.
The Santa Maria had arrived here
at 1914 am. mountain time from
Elephant Butte Dam, n. Mex, and
had stopped at Roosevelt Lake to re-
fuel The Italian flyer. who few over
dangerous Brazilian jungles without
nishap, had intended to reach San
Diego by PM, Pacific time.
The plane is a total loss. Comdr.
de Pinedo and his crew escaped unin-
jured.
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FEE SYSTEM CURE
SOUGHT IN BILLS
Virginia Legislators and Gov
ernor Seek Means to Cor
rect Judicial Evil.
BY REX COLLIER.
staff Correspondent of The Star.

RICHMOND, Va, April Ga def
mite move was under way here today
to obtain legislative relief from the
quandary into which Virginia's half
fee system of remunerating magis-
trates has been plunged by the recent
decision of the United States Supreme
Court in an Ohio fee case.
Bills have been drawn up to this
end by officials of the town Of
Potomac. where the American Auto
mobile Association has launched an
important court battle against Mayor
Kleysteuber and other town author
tiles accused of having pecuniary in
terest in the outcome of traffic cases
tried before them under the Virginia
fee system.
Little Hope Seen.
Copies of the bills were placed in
the hands of State Senator Frank l..
Ball and Delegate Charles T. Jesse,
Arlington County's representatives In
the Legislature, by Walter u. Varney,
CORPORATION counsel of Potomac, fol-
lowing conferences had Monday by
Varney with Gov. Byrd and Attorney
General Saunders. There appears to
be but little hope, however, that the
measure will reach the floor of the
Assembly at this hurried session.
One of the bills would remedy the
condition which allows the magistrate
to receive on acquittal of a defendant
only one-half of the fee he would
have gotten had he convicted him.
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"SMOKED OUT" WOMEN CHARGE;
THREATEN OWN CITIZEN GROUP
Puff uGng" Must Stop or They Will
Form Feminine Brig htwood Associa-
ton, They Warn Men

the Brightwood Citizens Association,
but it doesn't do us much good, for
when we attend. the men simply
smoke us out. Every man smokes.
/ counted one meeting and just one
member, Mr.. Clayton, smoked II
cigars in one hour. 1t is so thick, l
mean the smoke, that we can't even
see one another. much less talk.
Nov, some Of us women have got
together and have. formed quite a
large group ready for beginning of
the Woman's Citizens Association Of
Brightwood AS you gave the women
of Georgetown a charter for the same
territory the men claimed, we want
to know if you will give us the same
right in Brightwood and admit our
association on an equality with the
old Brightwood association.
Encouragement from you and Mr..
Suter and we will go ahead. One Of
our most aggressive new members
said we women could smoke Ciga-
rettes, but what can cigarette smoke
do against cigar smoke? Besides, the
real ladies' of Brightwood don't want
to smoke, not even cigarettes.
Clayton Defends Cigars.
"Will you and Mr.. Suter see that
our association gets into the fedora
ton If we go ahead?"
William NICK. Clayton, named as
the champion cigar smoker of the as
ISOLATION, defended his cigars against
the innuendoes of the women with the
statement that he smokes the same
brand of stogie as he gives away to
his friends. He conceded there had
been some agitation among the wom-
en- about the general smoke situation.
but indicated that he would part with
his cigars only with great reluctance.
President Yaden stated he had re-
ceived the letter, but in view of the
fact that the authors name was not
signed to it, he would not reply.
tits a matter for the democracy
of Brightwood to decide for itself"
he commented.
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CONDITION EXTREMELY GRAVE

BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 6
Rl.-King Ferdinand's condition was
extremely grave this morning. The
monarch, stricken with influenza sew
eral days ago, has been fully con-
scious. The semi-official newspaper
Indreptarea says he was able to sign
a number of documents and letters
yesterday.
Ferdinand passed a troubled night
because of his cought.
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Oil Branch Head Unaware of
Plan to Seize Him in
Capital Streets.
"REV0LUTI0NIST" BAND
UNDER C0RD0VA TAKEN
Intended to Hold A. E. Watts for
Heavy Ransom-More Wilkins
Murder Arrests Expected.


MEXICO CITY, April Ga plot 10
kidnap Albert Edward Watts, head OF
the Mexico City branch of the Sin
CLAIR Oil Co. was discovered by the
police last night when they captured
a band headed by former Gen. Fed.
erico Cordova.
Mr.. Watts left for the United States
yesterday morning without knowing
that he was to be captured Monday
while driving through the commercial
section of the city and taken to the
mountains in the state of Morelos.
near Cuernavaca, where Jacob Rosen.
thai OF New York was murdered last
September.
The police allege that the kidnapers
intended to demand heavy ransom for
the release of Mr.. Watt. The plot was
discovered when Cordova approached
a secret service man disguised as a
chauffeur looking for work, promising
him a percentage of the ransom
money If he consented to drive the
car in which Watts was to be taken
into the mountains
Three Said to Have Confessed.
Julian Navarro, Clemente Trinidad
Rames, Serafin Corrales and Nazarit
Matas Porras. all followers of the late
Gen. Emiliano Zapata, rebel leader.
were captured with Cordova, and are
said by the police TO have confessed
their part in the plot.
Cordova is described by the police
as 'revolutionist." He specialized in
kidnapping several years ago. and was
responsible for the kidnapping of Will
liam o. jenkins, then American con-
sular agent at Puebla, in 1919.
wilkins Murder Held Plot.
Confirmation that the murder of
Edgar M. Wilkins, American cleo
trical engineer, was part of a plot
against the Government, was reported
70 the War Department today by Gen.
terreira. The general says the confir-
nation was had through a letter
found upon Mariana CaIzada, chief OF
the gang which kidnapped and subse-
quently murdered Wilkins. The letter,
according to the general, was from
lawyer named Gonzalez Flores. al
legged to be the intellectual leader of
the Malfsco rebellion. 1t read:
l call your attention to the affair
VI M4SteI----t HlednlnS Wlikln5l which
must necessarily benefit us, because
II we do not get the money from the
electric company and he dies from
fright, then our neighbors (meaning
the United States) will make trouble
for the Turk Gales and it will help
help US bust HIM"
More Arrests Expected.
Flores was among six men executed
by firing squad at Guadalaja lara re-
Gently. Four of them accused of di-
recting the rebellion in the State Of
Jalisco, which has been giving the
authorities trouble for many months,
while the other two were charged
with manufacturing ammunition for
the rebels. After a summary court
martial, seven men were executed
Monday morning for the killing of
Wilkins, who came to Mexico from
Savannah, Ga, Is years ago.
FL Universal Grafico says that many
more arrests are expected at Guada-
lajara, on information CLEANED through
the investigation into the Wilkins
case. But the government, it adds. has
nipped the plot in the bud. and now
will be able to crush the Jalisco rev.
dictionary movement.
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DOUBTS COOLIDGE RACE.
Moses Quoted as Saying President
Won't Run Again.

NEW YORK, April LR.-The
Herald-Tribune today quotes Senator
Moses of New Hampshire as saying
President Coolidge will not be can
didate for reelection next year.
'Mr. Coolidge's psychology is such
that he does not want to be confront
ed with four years of diminuendo,"
said the Senator.
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TAXI LIMIT RESCINDED.
Commissioners Recall Order Per-
hitting Only 1850 Vehicles.

An unlimited number of taxicabs
and other public vehicles may. operate
in the District as result of the action
of the Board Of District Commissioners
yesterday afternoon in resembling a
previous order limiting the number to
1880.
The limitation has been a target Of
criticism for many months.
The chief compliments have been
the independent taxicab companies.
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FERDINAND GIVEN
EXTREME JUNCTION
Peasant Party Reported De-
manding Revocation of
Carols Exclusion.


VIENNA, April GA Bucharest
dispatch to the Neue F'reie Presse this
morning said King Ferdinand had re-
ceived the last rites Of the church and
that his death was expected hourly.
The same correspondent says the
National Peasant Party is trying to
enforce a demand that the King sum-
mon a crown council at his bedside
and revoke the exclusion of Former
Crown Prince Carol from succession
to the throne.
The dispatch adds that nervousness
prevails throughout the country.
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INFL UENZA SWEEPS TOWN
Disease in Epidemic Form Hits
Bethel, in Alaska.

NOME, Alaska, April 6 R.-An
influenza epidemic of serious proper
tions in the town of Bethel, on the
lower Kuskokwin River, was reported
by r. H. Merrill, aviator, who arrived
here Monday night from Anchorage.
Merrill obtained his information
when he landed at McGrath, 200 miles
northeast of Bethel, to refuel. Re.
ports there said that virtually all the
residents of Bethel were stricken.
Bethel has about $50 inhabitants,
mostly Eskimos.
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DUTCH LINER STRANDED.

LONDON, April 6 ga Hong
kong dispatch to the Evening News
reports that the Dutch liner Tjileboet,
bound for Java with 500 Chinese
emigrants, stranded off Kingting
ISLAND, 10 miles south of Hongkong,
In heavy weather.