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INSURANCE STATEMENTS

STATEMENT of the condition Of the
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Conn
pany. of Hartford. Conn. on the s1st
day of December. 1927, as required
under the District of Columbia Code,
amended June 80. 1902. and August -,
1911 Assets: Cash in office. $6,42414;
cash in bank, $1,854. 298.69: real estate.
S4,313.869.13; real estate mortgages
first lien), s51.144.49423: stocks and
bonds (market value), $36.116,S92.O5:
premiums unsolicited ana in hands Of
agents, $2,188. 224.26: interest due and
accrued, $2.525. 2S8.73: all other assets
(poIicy loans and premium notes), $lb.-
22SS59.91; total assets. $11S.37S,351.14.
Liabilities: Net unpaid claims, $780,
79s.43: reserve as required by law. $91,-
$3.50. 90. salaries. rents. expenses,
taxes. etc, 550.76393: commissions.
brokerage etc. sss19s.52; cash divi-
dends remaining unpaid, $3.50, 240.b2:
ali other liabilities, $13,86O,753.74; total
liabilities. $113, 351.14: character OF
business transacted during the year,
1927, life; amount of risk assumed dur
ing the year 1927 SIS. 1850; losses
sustained during the year 1927. $4,O24,-
36593: money received during the year
1927, s2s,663. 0sS.54: expended during the
wear 1927. $17.5s9.99A12. s. H. Corn
we'll. vice president: H. e. Johnson. sec
rotary. Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 18th day of February 1923.
(seaI) ]. J. Gunshanan. notary public
u
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DEATHS

Thirty.third ST. n. w.
MarEarst n; Leib. 81 years. 7o1 Whit
Edgar Williams. so years. George
oliver II. Beavers. so years. U. s.
Soldiers Home Hospital
Henry e. Dunnavant, "A years. 1913
North Capitol st.
Annette Cook, ~ years. HOmeo-
Isaac Fiddesop, 10 years. siblsy
Emma c. Garrett II years. s4S o
Walter Underwood. 81 years, Home
for Aged and Infirm.
James d. Ketner, 81 years, George
Washington Hospital.
William Johnson, "a years, Sibley
Memorial Hospital.
Frank C. Turner. So years, Walter
Reed General Hospital.
Harry 0Hara. 81 years, Providence
Hospital.
Joseph Gallagher. As years, 5s27 Thir-
Charles r. Ciarkson. 81 years 1915
Thirty-third St. N. w.
Marion NJ. Tjalkens. % years, 1416
Pennsylvania Ave. N. W.
Bruce Andrews. years Children's
Henry E, waldron. 7 years. Chill
Joseph Hanna. ST years, Freedmen's
James F. Pratt rs years. $40 . st.
Ella sidney, 70 years. st. Euzabeths
Fannie Coates, So years, 3 NaiIor CT.
N. W..
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As THUGS
IN ALEXANDRIA

/ ALEXANDRIA, March S.-Police
yesterday arrested three men giving
their names as Melvin Elsner, Sam
uel Patrick and Robert Reynolds,
all of Galveston, and are holding
them for Norfolk authorities. where
they are said to be wanted on a
charge Of housebreaking.
When arrested by Officer Hum
mer, Reynolds had in his posses.
sion a revolver He was fined 800
and costs and sentenced to 80 days
in Jail by Judge Snow in police
court.
Efforts win be made by City
Manager Morton to secure a marine
instructor from the guard at the
torpedo station for the police depart.
ment pistol range.
william e. Studs, of Del Ray,
who was injured yesterday when
struck by a car while working at
Potomac yards, died shortly after
being brought to the Alexandria
Hospital. DIR. T. NJ. Jones held an
inquest last night and issued GER
tificate of death from an accident.
Waverly Lucas, colored, died Of
heart trouble yesterday while fixing
tire at the Alexandria service
station on North Washington
Street. An employe of the service
station heard a. tire fall and looked
over and saw Lucas body. He was
dead when Washington physician
who was getting gas, came over to
the body.
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WHEAT KING GOT
OIL BONDS

The Republican National Com
mittee had q deficit after the 1871
campaign OF between 100000 and
$500 900. James Patten, she Chicago
wheat king testified today at the
Senate's inquiry into disposition OF
fhe Continental Trading Company's
$1,000, 900 Liberty Bond "slush
Patten told Of advancing $25, 200
~ the late Fred Upham, Chicago
freasurer sc the Republicans, to
raw OFF 9. part OF this deficit and
receiving in return $25, 900 in Lib
erty Bonds. Patten gave the SEN
ate Committee a list Of the bonds.
COMMITTEES members said the
bonds given Patten were part or
those that Harry F.. Sinclair gave
VIII H. Hays, Republican National
chairman in the 1920 campaign.
Also Helped Democrats
Patten said he had contributed
to the Republicans for q good
many years. He also contributed
Chicago, he added.
Patten listed sci, 900 in contribu-
lions to Republican campaigns from
1913 70 1SS4s
He said he was Every indignant"
ut the size OF the Republican def
cit.
How much was it?''
s'Betwcen $600,00O and $500, 900 as
recall it, Patten declared. 1t
made me, very angry. ! used bad
language to Uphanl."
Paying For Dead Horse
''Upham didn't have the bonds
with him." Patten explained. but
he said ] could get them any
time at his office. ! went home
that night still sore and won
iered why Upham had sold me the
bonds instead of disposing Of them
on the New York market. But
lad given him the check-you
know, hated to give up money
to pay q dead horse.
Some time later, Patten said, he
made up his mind to contribute
20 the Evanston Hospital.
II went to Upham's office and
got the bonds,' he aaded. IT
turned them over to G. N. Stephens
as donation. to the hospital fund"
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CHARLEs HENRY OURAND

Funeral services for Brig. Cen.
Charles II. Ourand, who died Tues
day in his ninetieth year. were held at
the home. 2118 First st. N. w. to.
day at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. j. r. Huddle. pastor of
st. PauTs Lutheran Church, assisted
by the Rev. T. w. Cooke. rector of
the Church of the Ascension, of
ficiated. The pallbearers were
nephews of the Observation-Disclosures II.
Ourand, William III. Ourand, Guy A.
Ourand. Preston A. Blundon, Archi-
bald Williams and Courtney Geib.
Interment was in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
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Tyler. "A, both Of Winchester, Va.
The Rev John p. Tyler.
Frederick p. II. r. Kroeger, a. and
Helene He'll SO, both of Baltimore.
The Rev. H. NJ. Hennig.
John w. Rosenberger, 81. and Julia
C., Tyler, a. both of Winchester. The
Rev. J. p. Tyler.
Waterhouse. 81. of HSattsville. The
Rev J. N. Pierce.
John Bell IS, and Ada Boyd. -.
The Rev. b. T. Perkins.
Charles Miller. 80. and Mona White
head, 81. The Rev. w. M. Hoffman.
Robert Fortune, "a. and Annie Pow.
ers 10. The Rev. J. w. Waters
Robert NJ. bearing, 40. of Savannah
and Katherine @. Strachan. 80. The
Rev. J. N. Pierce.
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MOTHER KILLER,
Is, GETS LIFE
by International News Service

ST. CLAIRsVILE, Ohio, March
S.-Still asserting he did not kill
his mother. Andy Dyken, 15-year-old
boy Of Methodist Ridge, today
pleaded guilty to a charge OF second
degree murder, and was sentenced
to life imprisonment by Common
Pleas Judge w. w. Cowen.
Sheriff Hardesty announced that
Dyken would be transferred to the
Ohio State penitentiary, Tuesday,
when he will become the youngest
"lifer," in the State institution.
Dyken had been indicted for first
degree murder, but upon advice of
his attorneys, pleaded guilty to the
lesser charge.
After sentence was passed, young
Dyken, looked over the crowd in
the Belmont county courtroom and
espied his father.
well, I suppose the old man
win be satisfied now" the youth
remarked.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES

Philip 6: Geracl, 20, and Grace A.
hoyston' Il. The Rev. Earl Whitley. =,
isaac Freedman, SIS. and Rachai
Giaser: b3. The Rev. NJ. A. Horwitz.
walter s. Burfoot, 80, Cleveland
U II and Hazel Jochem, 26, Chicago
III, The Rev. John p. Tyler.
Dsnher n: Roberts, %. and Marie
ou.uo, ~. The Rev. Jason N. Pierce.
Fredreick Howard, p, and TheIma
husseii' lS. The Rev. q. w. Powell.
a. preston j. Via. ~. and Pearl Dunn,
-, both of Charlottesville, Va. The
Friedrich p. IL, Rroezey. a. and
Helene He'll 90. The Rev. II. NJ.
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BIRTHS

girl
Frank r. and Forrest r. Smith boy.
Thomas S. and lula KitsouIis, boy.
Frank H. and Mary r. Allen. boy.
Louis 8. and Dorothy e. Poats, boy.
Rodolph and Mary Bird, girl.
Harry M and Bessie e. Fridley. girl
ter. girl.
boy.
John r. and Minnie A. Bowen, boy.
CHARLES e. and Mabel A. Hanson, boy.
. John C. and Frances A. Paine, girl.
George NJ. and Lucy s. Provost, boy.
LLOYD B. and octavia Morton, girl.
Gharlee and Alice Lomax, boy.
francis and Anna Cooke, boy.
william s. and Mildred Smith, girl.
francls and Marie Baskerville, girl.
John T. and Lorene Coins, girl.
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MRS. MARIE TYDINGs

Services for Mrs. Marie Tydings,
wife of Emmett j. Tydings, will be
held at the home, S44 jefferson st.
N. W.. tomorrow at $50 O'Clock.
Requiem mass will be said at 9
o'clock at the Church of the Ma
tivity. Interment will be in Mt.
Olivet Cemetery.
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DR.. SIMON TO LECTURE

DR.. Abram Simon will deliver the
lecture ''In the Ghetto Of Rome
at the washington Hebrew congre-
CATION Friday night at o'clock.
This is the fourth of a series of
t.caru,ous in Stones"
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WILLIAM NEAMAR ROBEY

William Neamor Robey died yes
terday at his home near Laurel, Nd.
He is survived by his wife, Alice B.
Robey, and three children, Jane Lee,
William N. and Charles d. A. Robey.
Funeral services will be held at the
home tomorrow at 2 o'clock.
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MRS. SARAH HOWSON

Mrs. Sarah Howson, widow of
Neils William Howson, died yes.
terdav at her home, Gal Lexington
Pl. n. E. The funeral is being
arranged and will be. announced
later.
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WILLIAM e. LITTLE

William e. Little died yesterday at
the Masonic and Eastern Star Home,
Takoma Park. D. c. Funeral serV-
ices will be held at the s. II. Hines
Company's funeral home tomorrow
at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
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RUSSIA EXECUTES FOUR

LENINGRAD, March S.-Four
Russians were sentenced to death
today on charges or Arson, the
authorities alleged that the smen
fired q papermill at the instigation
spread reign Of terror.
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JAMES NJ. GORDON

Funeral services for James M.
Gordon, who died at his home, SOB
A st. S. E., yesterday. will be held
at the home tomorrow at 1890
o'clock.
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Births, Marriages, Deaths
MARK BLUM

Mark Blum. prominent merchant
Of this city. died at Emergency
Hospital today following q brief
illness.
= Mr.. Blum was GA years old and
had lived here all of his life. He
has been prominent in southeast
mercantile circles since his early
boyhood and for a number of
years had been active in the work
of the Masonic and ElEs fraternal
orders, Of which he was member.
He is survived by three sons,
David and Milford Blum, of this
city. and Norman Blum, of New
York city. Three sisters, Mrs.
Sarah Levy. Mrs. Aaron Levy. of
Tallahassee, Fla. and Mrs. Rose
Eisman, Of Washington, d. c., and
a brother. William Blum, Of this
city, also survive.
Funeral services will be held at
the home, 1886 Mckinley st. N.
W., Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Interment viii be in the Washing
ton Hebrew Congregation Cemetery
following. Rabbi Simon will of
ficate.
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Legal Notices
WILTON J. LAMBERT. ATTORNEY

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS.
ro Iih.aCT OF COLuMBIA--Holding an
Apollo Amusement Company, a Corpora
uon; Equity No. 48O51. ORDER OF
the petition filed herein for the dissolution
OF Apollo Amusement Company. a corpora
ti0ns IT IS this 9th day of March, A. D.
ested In said corporation appear herein on
or before the 18th day of April, A. ID,
why said corporation should not be dis
solved. provided copy of this order he
published in The Washington Times and
the Washington Law Reporter once a week
for three successive weeks prior TO said
last mentioned date. By the Court: W.
HITZ. Justice. lSean A true copy Test !:
HARRY M. HULL. Asst. Clerk.
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MRS. ELLA KNIGHT MEARs

Mrs. Ella Knight Mears, daughter
Of the late Capt. and Mrs. Henry
knight. died yesterday at the home
Of her sister, Mrs. Dora X. Muir.
1915 Webster st. N. W.. after a
short illness.
She is survived by four sisters be-
side Mrs. Muir, Mrs. M. F.. Thomp-
son. Mrs. C. w. Holmes, Mrs. w. r
Schmucke and Mrs G.. T. Ritter. all
of this city; two brothers, DR.. Car.
Isle p. Knight. of New London.
Conn, and Harry T. knight, Of this
city.
Services will he held at the home
of her sister. 1915 Webster st. N. W.,
tomorrow at 2 o'clock. Interment
will be in Congressional Cemetery.
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DEATHS

DONZIs-On wednesday. March a. ,102e.
ETHEL, rs years of age. beloved WE
of Renianin Donzfs. mother Of Harold
Funeral from the chapel of Bernard
Danzansky, 1901 l4th St. N. W., Friday.
March 8, at IL I'm.
FLING-on Tuesday, March 8. 1928. at
MIRA Evelyn Wilson, 6S26 Wisconsin ave.
n. W., LAURA AGNES. beloved wife OF
Eugene J. Fling. aged So years. She 1s sur
viyed by her son, mother and daughter.
five sisters and one brother. -
Funeral services will be held a. 10
o'clock Friday morning, at SO: Jonn
Church, Forest Glen. Md. Relatives ana
friends invited to attend.
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Rooms, Houses, Apartments. any one
Of them either furnished Or unfurnlahed
are listed for rent in tOday's Times
and Herald Classified ads.
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IN ARL||VCTQ

ARLINGTON COUNTY, March
s.-With the auditorium of the
Cherrydale firemen's hall filled to
capacity last night. with many
standing, the eighth annual minstrel
show opened for q three-night
stand.
The features OF the show were
the snappy jokes OF the popular
Doe and Handy combination as end
men, who were ably assisted by
Joseph Reynolds and Rees O,NeiE
Many new songs were introduced
by Boynton Hahn, Roland ComIey,
Thomas Bowers. John Winters.
Elizabeth Ekkis, Herbert Rollings
and little Gladys Marcy.
The chorus was composed OF John
Winters. Donald Locke, Thomas
Bowers, Tony Luzi, Milton Payne,
r. r. Smith, 81 =. Riley, Irs Posey.
Louis Shaw, George Griffin, John
Hager, Louis Williams, Vernon VIII.
liams, William Kimball, Frank
Tucker, william Topley, Kenneth
Baker. Edward Young and Krug
McCloskey.
The Washington times., 1928-03-08

Arrangements for the annual
banquet OF the CherrydaIe fire de.
partment to be given in the audi.
torium Of the Firemen's hall, March
20. are being repidly completed, &C.
cording to an announcement today
by President G. C.. Donaldson, gem
eral chairman in charge OF arrange
n1ents.
The Washington times., 1928-03-08
FLORISTS

APPROPRIATE Funeral Tokens
GUIDE Bros. Co., 1919 b st. N. w.
Artisffc--Expressive-
PROMPT Alto DELIVERY SERVICE
The Washington times., 1928-03-08

Auth's Center Market Stand, AutKs Arcade
Market Stand, Auths 0 Street Market Stand
AutRs Riggs Market Stand, AutHs Park View
Market Stand, AutHs Eastern Market Stand
AntRs Store. 625 D St. S. W.
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Motor Coach Schedules

wINCHESTER, via Middieburg.. Fairfax,
Upperville and Paris. Valley Line con-
nections Leave 1880 o. m, ID p. m. 80
o. M 9th & Pa. Ave. n. W. N. V49S
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-06
Forty Years Ago

History repeats intF-s!amorea5b! Forty
YEARS ago, in tightttn hundred and sighy -sishi,
tie Eanmsa Kodak Company announced sfiN
pictures in black ana wdift for tdt amsisar. Thf
pboie siory Of the {yJifm @as ted in one hns,
"Yo. press tie kaisan; ne 10 The rsJt" Teddy
motion pictures in fiji eo!or for the amateur are
announced, ana fAe wAos ao,y is todd in tbf enc
line, "YoH press the ifptrs EssiasH does fAf
rest "~~.fRiht amateur needs 10 30 is 10 lead his
Cinf-Kedak wth kodefoioy .hbn iattead Of utth
the Htaal finn ana then shp The kodstclor Filter
attachment into place. He then prottedt 10 take
pictures just 81 he roslS efti tks regular fin,
It's all Is simple AZ that. "Yes press tis kerr
Easfnsn does tie rstl"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-06
OUTSTANDING WORLD EVENTS.
OF PAST WEEK BRIEFLY TOLD

regarding the welfare OF her nationals
in that province
One situation only seemed to offer
encouragement to advocates OF the
movement to abolish war. 1t centered
about Poland, whose several years dis
pute with Lithuania respecting boun-
DIARIES took OH some threatening as
poets. Summer maneuvers of the Polish
army started in several of the districts
bordering Lithuania and Polish legion
| naireS announced a convention for next
week In wilma.
This old city, renamed capital Of
Lithuania by constitutional amendment
a few months ago, is the chief conten-
| ton in a situation which has been de-
| Scrihed as offering the greatest existing
| threat to the peace of Europe. IT has
| been in Polish hands since October
| 1920. The League of Nations confirmed
| Polish possession in 1928 but Lithu-
| ania has never recognized the validity
of that decision.
The whole thing is to come before
the League again next month, but the
| ability of that body to settle the dis
| pute is problematical The last time
the Council of the League tried to find
an answer 1t only recommended that
| the countries reopen direct negotiations
This course was tried but it failed.
Nevertheless. the governments OF
both countries have expressed a wish to
avoid breaches of the peace, although
each continues to protest the military
activity" of the other
Political lines were frightened In Jugo-
slavia. Two Parliaments assembled in
| that country. one at Belgrade continu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-06

ing the governmental forms of the
triune kingdom, while at Zagreb en-
thusiasts for home rule In Croatia
opened session which seemingly is
uniting into one party adherents of the
dual monarchy and the federalized state
ideas.
Thus far the movement has not
affected international questions, but in
the background are the unratifled Net
tuno treaties with Italy. discussion Of
which furnished the spark that set fire
to the great magazines OF racial feeling
between the Serbs and Croats.
Down In Egypt King Fuads forcible
three-year adjournment of Parliament
has not taken" in all parts OF the body
politic The ''Wafdists." or opposition
party. decided the action was uncon-
stitutional and called session OF Ma
tional legislators, which 1t was reported,
embraced 202 of the 1916 members of
Parliament. They resolved that Parlia-
ment still existed and then followed
parliamentary procedure and adjourned
for the hot months until November.
Britain Blocks Industrial Clash.
Great Britain's attempts to cure some
of her industrial ills made Roadway
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-06
BURNED MAN SEEN
AS GANG VICTIM
Police Believe SIayers Char
red Body to Prevent ldenti-
| fication by Fingerprints.

~ the Associated Press
ENGLEwOOD. N. j.. August 6.-The
murder of a man whose body, shot
through the head and back and then
burned almost beyond recognition, was
found by a berrypicker along a vel
travelled road atop the Palisades, was
q mystery today to police.
They laid the murder TO a gang
feud. believing the dead man had been
staken for a ride" possibly from New
York. and after that he had been kill
ed. his body had been taken to the
SPOT where it was found and the cloth
ing was saturated with gasoline and
fired
The victim was about 80 years old,
weighed about 140 pounds and was
about 5 feet inches tall
The fact that the hands were more
ssSaA red than the rest of the body
strengthened police belief that it was
= gang killing. as they believed a special
S~dort had been made to preclude
Identification by fingerprintS.
A check was being made on all cars
passing over the upper Manhattan
ferries Saturday night in the posi-
bility that the victim might have been
killed in New York and his body taken
over to New Jersey.
The murder was the second in six
months in which an attempt was made
10 destroy the body by burning. Miss
Margaret Brown. governeSS, of New
York was found dying on road near
Nforristown, n J., her clothes in
flames, February 81. The slayer was
never found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-06

BY the Associated Press,
Old World statesmen lately have been
busy fostering substitution of a will to
peace for a will to war in European con-
sciousness.
The fourteenth anniversary OF Der
Tag" saw Eduard Herriot, q French
cabinet minister praying TO God be-
fore an audience in German CITY
that his country might use Its oppor-
tunity to win Germanys heart. IL saw
German press and officials striving to
persuade other powers to disarm that
The kellogg pact to outlaw war might
become an active agent and not mere
gesture. and it saw Lloyd George, BRITISH
wartime premier. backing this by de-
claring that unless the pact is followed
by disarmament and withdrawal OF
troops from the Rhineland. the people
Of the signatory nations will realize that
the whole thing has been pure hum
bug"
The war anniversary also witnessed
Sir Austin Chamberlain. British for
eign secretary and political foe OF
Lloyd George, calling upon American
public opinion to back up the kellogg
pact in order that it may become "a
most formidable deterrent to war.
King Georges speech from the throne
proroguing the British Parliament
echoed this hope
League Circles Optimistic"
From League of Nations circles came
word that pessimism respecting dis
armament has been replaced by opti-
mism Coincidence of acceptances of the
Kellogg pact with the finding of a
workable set of principles on naval re-
duction between Great Britain and
Franco compromise to which the
United States has given unofficial ap-
proval-caused this change in attitude.
There was lull, too, in the gather
ing of Far Eastern storm clouds, China
and Japan seeming to compose their
differences. International forces in
Chinese territory are being reduced
The Vatican and the League of Nations
gave a stable measure of recognition
to the de facto Nationalist government
at Marking Great Britain announced
its willingness to negotiate for revision
of unequal treaties" as soon as the
incidents growing out of the 1927
Marking riots have been settled. That
government also announced 1t consid-
cred Manchuria purely a part of China,
although recognizing Japan's anxiety
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THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON MONDAY AUGUST g. 1928

The threatened lockout of 100000 cot
ton mill workers was averted by the
Intervention of one-armed probation
officer who persuaded recalcitrant
unionist to rejoin his local. This
stopped a strike which had been cited
by mill owners as reason for ordering
the lockout
Unrevealcd difficulties apparently exist
In Venezuela where Gen. Juan Vicente
Gomez is rounding out IS years as
president of the South American re-
public. Indirect advices related that
several society women had teen arrested
in Caracas and charged with revolu-
tionary plotting. (Hitherto movements
against the administration nave neen
aScribed to students.) Then few days
later came word that two anti-govern-
ment leaders had put to sea in an open
boat. fleeing to port in some nearby
Dutch island possession.