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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
D. c.. Naval Reserve


While the last of the fleet divisions
of the United States Naval Reserve
Battalion of the District of Columbia
is out on its annual training cruise
of j. days. the other officers and men
of the battalion who have completed
their annual tour of duty at sea are
making preparation for the Fall and
Winter work in the armory.
The United States destroyer Allen
training ship OF the local reserves, left
her berth here yesterday for rem
devious off the New England coast,
where it is scheduled to join up with
the vessels composing the Atlantic
scouting fleet to engage in war games
and target practice for a period of
two weeks. The men will spend this
afternoon and tonight in New York
City. while the next week end they
will spend at some point along the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

Marie Creahem, Mrs. Marie Hanrahan.
Miss Florence Hosford. Miss Margaret
Breen, Mrs. Nell Terry. Miss Margaret
Fitzgerald and Miss Elizabeth McCor
mack.
Groups of members are spending
their vacation at the G.. d. A. Cottage,
North Beach. this week. including
party from Fredericksburg. Md, and
next week many from Baltimore have
made reservations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF
AMERICA.

TO commemorate the fourteenth an.
niversary of Court 212 class will be
initiated in October. The membership
committee Is endeavoring to have 200
members for the class. The committee
consists of Mrs. Catherine Ryan,
chairman; Miss Mary OHanlon. sec
rotary; Mrs. Mary Dunn. Mrs. Mar
garet Ray, Miss Mary Clifford. Miss
Mary Carney, Miss Agnes Barry, Miss
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SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF
LIBERTY,

At the last meeting of Justice Coun-
Gil, in the Naval Lodge Hall. Coun-
cilor Bessie T.. Bryant presided. A
reception was rendered the State
councillor, Mrs. Cola Duvall. and the
deputy, Mrs. Scokolaslla. The chair
man of the good of the order commit
tee. Mrs. Ollie Montgomery, was in
charge of the buffet supper. Gifts
were presented to the State councillor,
deputy and Past Councillor Efie
Schikler in behalf of the members Of
this council. Vocal selections were
given Ivy Nh. TaMneV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF
LIBERTY

Hope Council held a pie social Tues
day. The annual picnic of the coun-
ell was held yesterday at the home of
Mrs. Bayne, near Chesapeake Beach
Next Tuesdays meeting will be fol.
lowed by watermelon feast.
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FRATERNITIES

ton for the bus was read. The install
lation of John Sherb as the associate
vice councillor and Mrs. Sophie Lewis
as conduCtress was conducted by the
associate State councillor, Mrs. Pearl
Wolfe. Mrs. Ella Lacey presented
Mrs. Amelia Backenheimer. junior
past councillor. with past officers
jewel, while the treasurer, Mrs. Min
ME Rabbit. presented the associate
Junior past councillor, Mrs. Fannie
Brown. with a past officers pin
Loyalty Council convened August 5
at the Northeast Masonic Temple, with
the newly installed councillor, Mrs.
Ethel Allen, presiding. Mrs. Viola
Frazier was installed as conductress.
500 card r"rty is being planned by
this council, to be given early in Sep.
TENDER, for the benefit of the drill
team. A string of beads was pre-.
scented Mrs. Julia Columbus. former
assistant recording secretary. and n
string OF beads was also presented to
the retiring councillor. Mrs. May l..
Gibbs.
Mizpah Council convened Tuesday
evening AZ the Potomac Bank Hall,
Wisconsin avenue and NJ street. with
the associate councillor, Mrs. Ellen
SHoeiildkeI presiding In the absence OIL
the councillor. Mrs. Mary Van Sise.
The application of Mrs. Alice Poore
was presented for membership. Mrs.
Wary Cockrell was installed as asso-
late Junior past councillor by the
deputy state councillor, Mrs. Louise A.
Grubbs. The annual moonlight ex-
cursion of this council will be made
on the, steamer Hampton Roads
August 90. leaving from the Seventh
street wharf at pm.
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DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA

The monthly meeting of Circle No
t7S was held Monday evening at the
Washington Club, Mrs. James G.. Has
kell regent. presiding. Mrs Haskell
presented a report on the convention
of the National Circle, held in Fort
Wayne. Ind, last month. Mrs Harry
H. Bicksler for the past four years
State regent, was elected to a direc-
torship on the national board. OF in
terest to local members was the dona-
ton Of $4,000 to the National Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception to cover
the increased cost of the st. Elizabeth
altar, which was donated four years
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WOMAN'S BENEFIT ASSOCIATION

Liberty.Union Review will meet to.
morrow at 8 O'Clock at Pythian Tenn.
pie. Mrs. Helen Luckett. president.
who has recently returned from the
Summer camp at Port Huron. Mich.
where she attended the quadrennial
convention. will preside and will re.
port on the convention.
Victory Review. Mrs. Ada Byrne
president, will meet at s o'clock
Thursday evening in Pythian Temple.
The regular meeting of the Alpha
Beta Chi Girls will be omitted until
September,
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Mrs. Edna Cook: Waneta, Mrs. Lillian
Jost. Mrs. Eva Jenkins: Mineola, Miss
Margaret Fastnaught and Mrs. Annie
Swindells.
Idaho Tribe membership committee
announces class adoption for Octo-
Der. Sachem DIR. G. G. Caylor an
nounces social night for August 16.
Mineola Council is arranging for a
class adoption in September,
Great SaChem A. l.. Thompson an
nounces the official vista tons will
start September 16 with visit to
Mineola Tribe.
Great Representative Robert s.
Strobel IS arranging a tour of the
Northern States.
The first Fall meeting of the mem
bership campaign committee will be
held at Red Mems Hall next Tuesday
at 8 pm.
Hiawatha Council will hold a class
adoption at its first meeting in
September.
Powhatan Tribe met Thursday eve.
ming. with the Sachem. +. NJ Sullivan.
presiding. The chiefs degree was
conferred on two candidates and one
application was received. Addresses
were made by J. o. Van Allen. George
f. Harting. r. d. Seiffert, j. +. Baker
and j. w Tidler
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Her Future Occupation.

From the Boston Transcript.
A visitor said to a little girl: "And
what will you do. my dear. when you
are as big as your mother?"
Diet" said the modern child.
A redwood tree in California last
year produced 5000 900 seeds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

orchestra Thursday evening. The pro.
gram included a reading by F'austine
borough, ukulele number by Margaret
Bennett and piano duet by Nesta
Pollock and Edna Zeverly. Lewis w.
Bennett is leader of the orchestra.
The president of the Rebekah AS
sembly. Nettie Il. Mettler. has APP
pointed Margaret Royston vice presi.
dent Of the assembly, chairman of the
Rebekah anniversary committee. She
has also issued a call for representa-
tives from each Rebekah lodge to
meet with the chairman next Wednes.
day evening at Odd Fellows Temple.
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ODD FELLOWS.

10 visit that lodge the evening of
August IS and confer the second de
gree. The caravan of automobiles
will leave Odd Fellows Temple AT I
O'Clock
Word has been received from Hot
Springs. Ark. that all il in readiness
for the annual session Of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge September ~ Members
are asked to advise the grand Secre.
tary if they intend to accompany the
Washington delegation to Hot Springs
The grand sire paid visit To Tow
son Rebekah Lodge, No. 50 Of Tow
son. Baltimore. last Monday evening
Grand Secretary Harry l.. Andersen
and his wife also attended the cele-
bration.
The official Grand Lodge bulletin
sent to the subordinate lodges last
week requested the appointment of a
representative from each lodge to
meet with Margaret c. Royston, chair
man of the committee on the Rebekah
anniversary. which committee will
hold it's initial meeting next Wednes-
fav evening in the Odd Fellows Tenn
pie.
: At the last meeting Of Friendship
lodge the right supporter to the noble
Grand. Edna Rankin, was installed.
Past Noble Grand Minnie Holm was
presented with the official Rebekah
min. She was also presented with an
engraved hardwood gavel by Agnes
Herbert. Friendship Lodge will meet
Tuesday evening in Masonic Temple,
Fourteenth and u streets southeast.
Mount Pleasant Lodge was enter.
tained by its newly organized concert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

The Beaver Dam Country Club,
about one mile from Landover, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and a little
over five miles from the District line
has been selected for Shrine bar
becue on Wednesday. Sentember %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

The Association of Worshipful Mas
ters for 1927 will fill the stations in
the degree work in Mount Pleasant
Lodge. No. IS, tomorrow evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

A meeting has been called for the
masters and matrons' committees for
August II at Masonic Temple to make
arrangements for a ball. This will be
the first annual ball of the Masonic
fraternity. Arrangements have been
made to use the Washington Audito.
rum November 80.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
HANKOW RADICAL
ARMY DEFEATED
Chang Routs Chen Troops as
Step Toward Punishment
for Marking Affair.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI April 29.-Gen. Chang
Kai-Shek, moderate Cantonese COM
mander, is reported in Chinese ad-
vices from Marking to have routed
an entire army of 5000 men under
Gen. Chen Chen. He is said to have
disarmed all of Chen's troops and
killed 80 of them, and also to have
captured large bodies of troops at
Wuhu, up the Yangtze from Nam
king, and other towns.
These advices told of the cutting
Of the railway between Marking and
Kiukiang, it being explained that
Chang did this to prevent the escape
of Chen's troops.
Chinese advices from Marking say
Gen. Chang has decided formally to
declare war against the Hankow Ma
tionalists and has ordered Gen. Yang
Sung to proceed against them with a
punitive expedition Of $4,000 men.
Chang's supporters here interpret
the action as. an important defeat for
the radical section of the Cantonese
and as the first step in Chang's cam
paign to mete out punishment for
the Marking affair.
Chen was in command of the Can
tonese forces at Marking during the
outrages which prompted the shelling
by American and British warships
anchored in the Yangtze. Before the
arrival of Chang at Marking Chen
fed in the dire ton of Hankow with
his troops, apparently feeling he
would be safer in Hankow than in
Marking
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Decision Involves 1000
Wards of District at st.
EIizabeth's Hospital.
CASE is HELD SIMILAR
TO CHILDREN'S STATUS
Commissioners, Aroused Over Sit
uation, Arrange Meeting This
Afternoon to Consider Plans.

Controller General McCarl today de-
MED the use of 1928 appropriations to
care Immediately for District of Co
lumbia INDECENT insane in st. Eliza.
beth's Hospital. funds for which have
been exhausted on account of failure
of the second deficiency bill. Two thou
sand wards of the District are in
volved.
S25O,O00 Is Needed.
In a decision rendered to the Board
of Commissioners, the controller gen
eral said the case of ST Elizabeth s
was similar to one recently submitted
concerning the care of children in the
District under the care of the Board
of Public Welfare. In that case Nc
Carl denied the use of 1928 appropria'
tions, which will become available
July T. and it was necessary for four
public-spirted citizens to advance a
fund so the District Commissioners
could care for the emergency.
The Commissioners asked the con-
roller whether they could borrow from
the 1928 appropriations beginning as OF
March 2, 1927. They pointed out that
there was an emergency due to the
failure of an appropriation of $3.50, 900,
which had been included in the defic.
iency bill caught in the Senate jam at
the close of Congress.
Meeting Is Planned
Aroused over the decision Of the
controller general, the District Com
missioners planned to meet this after.
moon tC consider what emergency steps
could be taken to provide for the care
of the more than 1000 insane patients
who are affected.
Commissioner Sidney F. Tali9ferro
indicated that the situation resulting
from the controller generals decision
would be serious, as the hospital will
be without funds for the care Of the
Districts patients until the end of the
current fiscal year on June 30.
The Commissioners had hoped that
the Controller General would find some
loophole in the law which would allow
them to advance the use of the 1928
appropriation for the care Of the
insane patients of the District, in
order to use the S250,000 needed for
April, May and June.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
LANGLEY DAMAGED
BY BLAST At SEA
Navy's Only Available Plane
Carrier Probably Unable to
Share in ManeuverS.

BY the Associated Press.
An explosion of the electric rotor on
the airplane carrier Langley at sea
today paralyzed all electrical machin-
cry aboard, the Navy Department was
informed by radio. There were no cas-
ualties in the ships personnel.
The accident occurred at o'clock
this morning, while the Langley was
proceeding with the fleet off New
York. A 20O-kilowatt generator eX-
ploded, carrying away the main injec-
tion line, cutting the auxiliary exhaust
and steam lines completely.
Although the ship was said TO be
taking water slightly, the dispatch
stated, she was in no danger. After
the explosion the vessel anchored half
a mile from Ambrose Light. Later
she will be towed to New York for re-
pairs.
The Langley is the flagship of the
air forces OF the fleet. She is COM
manded by Comdr. John II. Towers.
Delay i'm Repairs FOreseen.
Although Navy Department officials
were unable to estimate the extent of
the damages, IL appeared uOuDtIul 10
engineer experts whether repairs could
be made to the ship in time for it to
participate in the joint Army Navy
maneuvers scheduled to begin May is
off Narragansett
Absence of the Langley from the
feet during the maneuvers undoubted-
ly would give the land forces distinct
advantage. since the carrier houses %
Of the fleets airplanes, which have
been expected to take a major part in
the war games.
Nays Only Available.
The Langley is the Nays only air.
plane carrier now in commission. She
was converted in 1929 from the collier
Jupiter. Including the staff Of the
commander of the aircraft squadrons.
there are 45 officers and 80 enlisted
men aboard.
The Langley is electrically propelled
and the accident put her completely
out of commission, so far as motive
power was concerned. An emergency
radio outfit was unaffected. The leak
was being met by the use of pumps,
the Navy Departments adVices said.
Assistant Secretary Warner, in
charge of naval aviation, is aboard the
disabled ship but no injuries of any
kind were reported to have been suf-
fered by any one.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
COAL PEACE IN FALL
PREDICTED BY LEWIS
Extension of Jacksonville Agree
ment After Summer Slump Fore
seen by Labor Leader.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, April 29.-There
will be nothing spectacular about the
termination of the present bituminous
mine suspension, in the opinion of
John l.. Lewis, international presi-
dent Of the United Mine Workers, who
thinks the end will come next Fan,
with the operators signing up with
the union in order to meet the Winter
demand for coal.
The settlement will be so gradual
the public will probably be unaware
it is going on" Lewis said before leav-
ing Pittsburgh for Indianapolis last
night. But i'll the end the bitumin-
Gus industry win have gone to work
again and the miners union will have
gained it's victory.
Even if there were no suspension
there would be little work now," he
said. THE majority of the operators
feel they can afford to wait until the
Summer slump is over before coming
to terms"
Settlement will be brought out by
extension of the Jacksonville agree
ment rather than by any major con.
ference, Lewis stated.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
HOW OIL FORMS BENEATH SEA
STUDIED FOR FUTURE SUPPLY
Investigation of Actual Conditions Under
Which Deposits Develop Announced at
Geophysical Union Dinner

sediments that in the future will be
possible source beds for petroleum are
forming today. It is expected to shed
new light on the question of the
origin of petroleum and materially aid
the geologist in his increasingly
difficult task of finding new oil pools.
Attention is to be concentrated on
the material now forming at the bot
tom of the sea. but the problem is
tied up intimately with everything
that goes on in the water above, par
ticularly the cycles of marine life
which go to produce oil. Information
on the distribution of organic matter
in sediments and how the organic
matter varies in different types of
sediments will be obtained.
Preliminary studies have been made
in two regions of the sea-about the
Channel Islands west of Los Angeles
and in Pamlic Sound, the large body
of shallow, bracking water lying in
side Cape Hatteras. All types of
sediment thus far examined have
been found to produce oil, but the
yield has been very low. The highest
has been 2.7 gallons per ton of sedi-
ment Ingeniously constructed instru.
ments have been devised to obtain
samples of the sediment at sufficient
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Evening star., 1927-04-29

With present oil deposits, upon
which so much of modern civilization
rests, of questionable duration, Ameri-
can science has undertaken an inten-
sive study of the actual condition of
oil formation at the bottom of the sea.
All the present oil fields once were
sea bottoms, and it is necessary to go
under the present-day oceans to learn
the chemistry of nature which resulted
in these beds. This project was an
nounced for the first time last night
at a dinner of the oceanography sec
ton of the American Geophysical I'm
ion, at the Cosmos Club, when prog
ress to date was reported by Parker
D. Trask, research associate of the
American Petroleum Institute.
The work is being conducted under
committee, one member of which is
DIR. Austin II. Clark of the Smith
sonian Institution, noted authority on
the biology of sea life. Other men,
bers are DIR. w. Van Der Gracht,
vice president of the Marland Oil Co.,
and DR.. T. Wayland Vaughan of the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The purpose Of the project is to
study the conditions under which the
Evening star., 1927-04-29
BISHOP LAWRENCE PLANS
TO RETIRE FROM OFFICE

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Mass, April 29 (P).--
Bishop William Lawrence will retire
from his office as Bishop of the Prot
estant Episcopal Diocese of Massachu-
setts tomorrow, having rendered his
resignation because of advancing
years He will continue his duties at
the cathedral in this city.
Owing largely TO Bishop Lawrence's
initiative and organization ability,
$S, ,000, 900 was collected as a pension
fund in 1916 for Episcopal clergy in
the United States and their dependent
families. Born in Boston, May 80,
1850. he became BISHOP of Massachu-
setts in 1893. Succeeding the late
Bishop Phillips Brooks. 4.s..------.-a
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Members to Visit Scene.
LEGATION CLOSES MAY |.

The Latvian Legation here will
close officially May /, it was announc-
ed today.
All consulte matters will be attend
ed to by the New York council gem
eral, Athur b. Lule. He has been
consul general for Latvia in New York
for five years.
The Legation will be closed only
temporarily until the return of this
Minister. Mr.. Seta, from Latvia.
where he is sailing May Z, it was
said at the LagaAioH today. ns.s.sA
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Russian Prisoners Detained.
BY the Associated Press.

By IlE Ass0EIdLFU TItss.
NEW YORK. April 29.-The great
est tiotiila of Uncle Sans sea fighters
ever TO visit New York at one time
122 grim, sleek craft-began to pass
into the harbor this forenoon for a
fortnight's visit.
The flagship Seattle led the inspir-
ing procession up the bay, followed
by the California and the Florida.
Some of the craft went to dry dock
in the Brooklyn Navy Yard for a gen
eral oyerhauling after the extensive
maneuvers in Southern waters, but
most of them anchored in the Hudson
River. -a.-.-. -
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Banker Safe in Mexico.

LOS ANGELES. April 20 CP.-
Baron J. G.. Won Koenigswarter
European banker. who was reported
missing. has notified friends here that
he is safe ON ranch near Colimas
Mexico. Reports that bandits had
raided his property prompted hur
ried trip into Mexico.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Base Ball Gloves
Of Johnson, Ruel
And Harris Stolen

A thief with a bent for hero
worship stole base ball gloves of
three players of the Washington
base ball team from the locker
rooms under the grand stand at
Griffith Stadium last night.
A pitchers glove used and auto
graphed by Walter Johnson, a
catcher's glove bearing Muddy"
Ruels name and valued at SD;
"Bucky" Harris second baseman's
glove and two base balls auto
graphed by Rogers Hornsby are
missing.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
122 u. S. Warships Arrive at New York;
Greatest Fleet Ever to Enter Harbor

The vessels include portions Of the
battle fleet, the naval force in West
ern waters and the scouting fleet, the
naval force assigned to Atlantic
waters. They have been engaged in
maneuvers and target practice in the
Caribbean and are bringing approx
mately % 900 men and 1900 officers
for a taste Of shore leave before they
are off for combined Army and Navy
games at Narragansett Bay.
Rear Admiral Charles f. Hughes
commands the fleet
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Favor Employing Printer.

District officials view very favorably
the suggestion that practical printer
competent to prepare and edit all copy
and standardize all blank form work
be appointed to handle all matters
pertaining to printing for the Dis.
trict. The officials doubt seriously,
however. whether a printer with the
qualifications outlined by the bureau
could be employed at the $4,000 an
nual salary stipulated by the bureau.
Another recommendation of the bu-
reau that a separate item to cover all
expenditures for printing and binding
for the District government be set
out as a special item in the 1929
appropriation bill also made a favora.
BILE impression on District officials.
appropriations for such items in the
past have been scattered through the
appropriations for the various depart
ments, and consolidation, 1t was
said, would be desirable.