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LIVELY BIDDING
 O|v CLOSING DAY
 AT FUR EXCHANGE
EXCELLENT PRICES PAID FOR MARTEN: NEXT SALE ON
 FEBRUARY 21

SEATTLE, Jan. 28 (P)-Lively bidding on most of the items mark cd the closing day of the Seattle Flu. Auction Sales and netted good prices throughout.
 Msrten averaged BPS, with five of she best lot bringing S5S.
 Eighty-one ermine skins went for an average of s231 and one of the best lot sold for s4.05. The best lot of otter sold for an average of 23.50: there were 29.
 The best tot of wolf went for $25.5C witt. the average at s16.50.
 Beaver averaged from 23.10 tc s25-
 One-quarter of the fisher< were sold The best lot of 70 blue fox solo for s49.5O.
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'SALUTAT|ONI SENT
 ! FROM CHICAGO ID
 'MAC' LABRADOR
HELLO MAc!" IS MESSAGE SENT BY CHICAGO SPORTSMAN TO
 EXPLORER F

CHICAGO, Jan. 2s. (P)-Hello Mac" was the salutation which drift ed out of loud speakers in countless homes Thursday night as it winged it's way to one man iA the cabin of a ship frozen in the bleak wastes of Labrador.
 Standing before the microphone in station W z Chicago, Eugene IF. Me Donald, Chicago explorer sportsmen and president of the Ae- nth Radio Corporation, talked~t to Commander Donald B. MacMillan.
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RANSOM LETTER |S
 WRITTEN DEMANDING !. THOUSANDS F0R GIRL
kIDNAPPERS OF YOUNG GIRL DEMAND RANSOM OF s12,ooo
 GOES UNCLAIMED

NORTHHAMPTON, Mass, Jan. 2S. (P)-A ransom letter, in which the writer demands s12,OOO to restore missing Miss Frances St. John Smith to her grieving parents, has been re- ceived and the writer is still at large having escaped the police trap.
 Despite faithful adherence to in- structions in the letter to represent atives of the Smith family, the pack age, appearing to contain the money, went unclaimed.
 Had those in the plot, sought to snatch it from the designated spot at the foot of a head of stairs behind department store, they would have been surrounded by a squad of po- llicemen. Authorities say the letter was pencilled by an educated person.
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COMMITTEE TOLD
 TAKE COCN|zANCE
 JUDGE REED STATUS
HAND OF SUTHERLAND SEEN IN EFFORT REMOVE FINE
 JUDGE FOR FRAME

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S, (A9 m The Senate Judiciary Committee is directed to take cognizance of the fact Judge Thomas M. Reed, filling the office of Judge of the First Dlvl- sion in Alaska without appointment and without confirmation of the Sen ate.
 finder the terms of a resolution of Senator King, Utah Democrat, It points out that Judge Reed was ap- pointed by the President on Decem- Der 20, 1925, and that the Sub-Com- mittee recommended he not be con- firncd. The President then withdrew his name, it was pointed out, and nc other person has since been nominat ed although Judge Reeds term ex rAred in August. 1925, yet he stil continues to serve.
 The Senate was informed of these facts contained in the resolution ant a:e Judiciary Committee asked t report to the Senate whether or no Judge Reed is legally holding offic s- if he is an intruder and usurpel The Committee was also asked as t whether any proceedings are avai able by which means they can SC cure Judge Reeds custer if he illegally holding office and whethe my legislation is required to des with the matter.
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NOTED AUTHOR AND
 WR|TERV Y. 3. |NbANEZ D|ES, WAS IN EXILE
-FOUR HORSEMEN OF APOCAL- YPSE" MADE HIM FAMOUS
 SHORT ILLNESS

MENTONE, France, Jan. 2S. P)- Vicente Blasco Inbanez, whose" Four Horsemen of Apocalyse" made him one of the widest known of contem- porary writers in the world, aied' 3 political exile.
 Complication of hroncho pneumonia and diabetes brought death follow irg brief illness.
 His son flew to the bedside, in all airplane, and was with him during his last hours.
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URGES FEDERAL REGULATION

WASHINGTON, Jan 2S. (R-Fed- eral regulation of motor vehicles which are operated as common car riers of passengers on property in in terstate commerce was urged in a report to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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FIGHT FOR CONTROL

NEW YORK. Jan. 2S. P)-A bit ter struggle for control of the Lehigh Valley Railroad will be waged in Phil adelphia. Edward Loomis, President Leonor Loree, head of the Deleware & Hudson, will lead opposition sides.
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WANTS TO TRAVEL

BERLIN, JaJn. 2s. (R-rhe former Kaiser William is petitioning for per mission to return to Germany and travel thru Europe, according to re ports in the German newspapers.
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It is reported many of the people in Seward awaiting to depart for the Interior will not leave until the bridge at Mile 49 is replaced.
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>ER SEWARD ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY N' 191o
BLAST FURNACE ExPLoDEs

BERLIN, Jan. 2s. (P-seven men were killed and 10 injured by an ex- plosion of a blast furnace at Roech- ling Works near Feldingen in the Saar district.
Evening star., 1928-04-29

and thus persuade her to leave shop
with an expensive but unbecoming and
useless garment or costume, is. quite an
other thing, and smacks too strongly Of
chicanery for reputable dealers or as
sociations of dealers 10 countenance for
a moment Just how a client can test
mirror or protect herself is not dis
closed in the London dispatches. but.
after all. it is the satisfied customer
who pays best In the long run. and. as
in the fur trade. the best protection a
shopper can afford herself. or himself
for perhaps some of the Bond street
boys may be up to the same tricks
is to confine ones dealings to houses
which are SO jealous Of their reputa-
tions that they would disdain thus to
entrap either the unwary or the wary.
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An Exemplary Endowment Fund.

Still further in the debt OF the fam
lily of the late Senator William A. Clark
of Montana does this city and this Ma
ton find themselves. for, through All ad-
ditional generous gift announced today
by Charles c. Glover, president of the
lery, the burden of maintenance of the
famed w, A Clark art collection is
thereby forever lifted from the budget
of the institution, already the richer
not only by the collection itself. bequest
of its aSsembler, but also by the spa
cious and beautifully harmonious wing
which contains the rare objects and
which was erected as a loving tribute
to husband and father by the widow
and the three daughters.
Not only are there no burdens, no
specifications and provisos now attach
ing to the bequest itself. save only the
one, cheerfully and proudly acquiesced
in. of the agreement to exhibit the coll
lection in perpetuity as an integer but
no set limitations affect this latest BEN
efaction. The endowment fund needed
for the adequate and continuous MAIN
tenance of the valued collection has not
even been fixed by those who have an
nounced the intention of Its provision
The sum which Mrs. Clark. Mrs. Marius
de Brabant. Mrs. Lewis r. Morris and
Miss Huguette Marcelle Clark will
Jointly give the gallery will be based
upon the annual cost Of operation, not
to be determined until after its trustees
shall have had sufficient actual expert
ence to enable them to prepare an ac-
curate estimate
That the National Capital and the
Nation at large will benefit hencefor-
ward both directly and indirectly from
tins additional gift is evidenced by the
fact that In the first thirty days follow
Ing the opening of the collection the
attendance at the gallery rose approx
mately $4,000 over the corresponding
period in 1927. No one who has viewed
the new wing and Its treasures can
doubt that the cost of proper main
tenance thereof must be goodly sum.
The knowledge that the Corcoran Gal
lery is to be relieved of this expenditure
and may devote 1t otherwise to the
cause of art advancement must en-
gender a distinct feeling OF personal
qualification In every lover OF art who
enters its portals.
Evening star., 1928-04-29
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES Z. FREEMAN. D. D, IL. D,
Bishop OF Washington

every crisis and every situation and al
ways maintain high standard Of ex-
cellence The saints themselves were
fallible and mortal. Possibly many OF
them would never have been worthy Of
being canonized had 1t not been for The
assurance given them by some one who
believed In them. The lack Of conf
dence In the commercial world produces
a panic A like situation ensues where
there is a want of 1t i'm individual lives.
Jesus Christ is the supreme cxemplar
Of unfailing confidence in mans capac-
tiles and capabilities for goodness. The
peasant disciples With whom He dealt
intimately illustrate this in striking
ways. In His dealings with Peter, who
was highly impulsive, He never dis
closed impatience, and in every IN
stance He restored him to high favor
through an expression OF His confidence
and assurance. Even when he denied,
on the night of His great trial, having
fellowship with Him. we read that He
simply turned and looked upon Peter" ."
WIN Thomas who was constitutionally
doubter. He dealt with large genero, .'y
and affection, restoring him to favor by
making evident to him His own resur-
rected life. With no one did He deal
more tenderly than with the sinner.
gentleness knew no bounds. With His
neither do condemn thee, go and
sin no more" He not only gave them a
new outlook upon life, but finer con-
ception of their own potentialities and
powers.
We are tragically In need of applying
His great method to the conditions Of
life as we face them today. Somehow,
we have fallen upon a time when criti-
cism and harsh Judgment seem to be
more conspicuous than a charitable ana
generous course We seem to find 1t
easier to criticize than we do to conn.,
mend To doubt men seems to be easier
than to believe in them There are
literally thousands of people walking
the streets of our cities and towns. de-
spondent and despairing. who have lost
all hope because they cannot find any
one who believes in them. There are
children in our homes secretly eating
out their hearts because of the harsh
and ungenerous judgments passed upon
them who might be sent on their way
rejoicing, full OF hope and expectancy,
If only kindly word Of confidence were
given them.
The above text Is fine tonic for this
age--"Being confident--that he which
hath begun a good work In you, will
perform It,"
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The Automobile Excise Tax.

All obstacles to repeal of the three
per cent levy on automobiles appear to
have been overcome. Voted by the
House and approved by the Senate
finance committee. the repeal of one
of the two remaining war excise taxes
has been up to the present time con-
sistently opposed by the President. who
believes that the tax should be retained
to raise revenue comparable in some
degree to the amount spent annually
by the Government on Federal aid
roads. 1t is indicated now. however,
that the President has changed his at
titude and viii not oppose the repeal Of
the tax. which fact is believed to as
sure clear sailing for this clause in the
tax reduction bill
Ever since the Great War there has
been a clamor for relief from the au-
tomobile excise tax In 1925 1t was re-
duced from five 10 three per cent. but
efforts to eliminate 1t entirely met with
no success. In its two hundred-and-
ninety million dollar reduction measure
this year, the House included the repeal
Of this tax. but some doubt was felt
whether this repeal would remain In
the bill In the Senate. due to the nee
essary cutting down OF the total TO con-
form with the Treasury estimate Of a
safe general tax reduction With the
Presidents opposition removed, and the
Senate committee including the repeal
OF the tax in the measure which calls
for two hundred-and-th million
dollar reduction, prospects are bright
for the complete removal Of the ex-
else tax
In sponsoring the repeal. automobile
manufacturers. through the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce.
have promised that the entire saving
would be passed on to the customer
and the motorists Of the country Will,
therefore, benefit TO the extent Of sixty
six million dollars year. 1t will be a
welcome relief TO the already tax
burdened automobile driver, who, with
personal taxes. license fees, horsepower
taxes and gasoline taxes. has felt for
some time that he had about all he
could bear. With the passage of the
bin a three per cent saving on every
new automobile purchased will be given
10 the owner and almost thirty million
motorists will at some future date be
The beneflciaries.
Evening star., 1928-04-29

attitude the italian government will
take now that the island kingdom has
become known to large number OF
people In other parts of the world. 1t
Is not improbable that Italy will leave
the island undisturbed as Napoleon left
Andorra.
Andorra is a similarly tiny independ-
ent state. 1t, however, Is different in
that it Is not an island. but is situated
high UP in the Pyrenees. at the Franco
Spanish frontier. Moreover, it Is re-
public. 1t has been a republic from an
immemorial time. When Napoleon. in
the course of his conquest Of Spain.
discovered this independent state of
which he had never heard, he marched
around 1t. leaving 1t untouched, explain
ing that inasmuch as 1t had survived so
long he did not want Its demolition on
his conscience. 1t still survives, al
though either France or Spain could
crush II In IS minutes.
There is similar republic In the
north of Italy. Just another such spot
OF land. wholly surrounded by Italian
territory 1t also has been independent
for very long time. San Marino,
however. has enjoyed quite little pub
iicitv because IL advertised its existence
to the outside world by declaring war
on Germany and Austria during the
World War.
Now that Tavolara is gaining some
publicity Its principal danger probably
lies In the encroachments of tourists
rather than of governments. That
might lead 10 foreign entanglements.
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Misleading Mirrors.

One Of the neanest NJ tricks WAS
brought To public attention In London
recently when guests ut fashion pa
rade were urged 10 view themselves in
mirrors made just the slightest bit con-
cave or convex. and we're told that GER
tain unscfnpuious dressmakers and
coutHriers were IN the habit Of furnish
Ing their salons with similar rejecting
devices. Later they saw themselves In
perfect mirrors, II b. to be- hoped. and
expected. that the now enlightened
patrons viii benefit by this exposure
and viii warn their friends.
10 decide, amid n wealth 9f various
costumes and accessories. what II or
IL not becoming ~ one'g self IN difficult
enough for an unbef0oied shopper
Many q woman. IL appears, has been
gictifnized into purchasing gowns In
Paris and elsewhere which were APP
parently nnSst becoming. only 10 be dis
iiiasiofaed ard deeply disappointed when,
later. she surveyed herself before her
GYn mirror. DFessmakins, millinery
and specially shops have always known
the benefits ~ their trade Of tricky
lighting effects, but most patrons were
"0n ~" this fact and automatically dis
counted certain percentage ~ THEN
feeling of self~satisfaation we'll knowing
that under less favorable illumination
. BIZ 0f The wonderful effect would dis
appear.
10 mtsieAd prospective purchases
~ 10 iSE own hlps on hsigDt, however
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New Hacking Rules.

The public will watch with interest
the effect on the general downtown
traffic situation of the new regulations
governing public vehicles. which are
soon to be drafted. Much work has
gone into these regulations. approved
in the principle by the Commissioners
after a years efforts by a committee
consisting Of Traffic Director Harland
Inspector Brown of the Traffic Bureau
and Sergt, Joseph Harrington. super
inten6ent of hackers permits.
The new regulations will set aside
one hundred and ninety-nine public
hack stands in the downtown and resi-
dental sections, which will be open to
any and all cabs. They will accom-
modate from three to eight cabs each,
and viii be located according to the
demands for business and the proximity
Of hotels. Office buildings, clubs. apart
ment houses and residential sections
In addition. there will be from six to
seven stands to be occupied exclusively
by the H" cabs, for hire by the hour
or the day. And for each hotel, spaces
will be allotted for the 81" cabs. to
be used exclusively by hotel patrons.
The regulations are designed to REM
edy the confused condition which has
developed over vaguely worded police
regulations and their Interpretation by
the courts in the past. The value of
the old public hack stands, numbering
eighty-three, was virtually nullified by
o court Interpretation which allowed
them to be occupied by any car, pro-
vi6ed all the space was not occupied by
public vehicles. The net result of this
was virtually to abolish the hack stands
and send the taxicabs cruising about
the streets or parking anywhere and
everywhere. The new regulations win
confine the occupancy Of public hack
thorities are leaving TO the taxicab COM
panies the task Of reaching an agree
ment among themselves as to the al
lotment Of the space provided.
1t is also intended to abolish, to some
extent, the taxicab monopolies on hotel
business. A court decision, rendered
In the days OF the old horse-drawn
vehicles, declared that . hotel has the
right to reserve q portion Of the street
for vehicles used by its patrons. It is
hoped by the new regulations 10 remedy
some Of the evils of the existing situa-
ton by setting aside spaces for "L"
vehicles used only by hotel patrons. but
near each hotel there viii be a public
hack stand where any cab may park.
It Is hoped, by the reasonable enforce
nent OF such regulations, to prevent
much of the snaiIiike cruising and
jockeying for business on the part Of
taxicabs which cutters up traffic and
makes Of driving hideous ordeal. 1t
Is further hoped that the provision Of
conveniently located hack stands viii
assist the public In finding cab when
one Is needed.
But, whether for better or for worse,
1t becomes apparent that the days Of
parking for private automobiles In the
downtown section are numbered To
the space nov set aside for bnsses and
freight entrances there viii be added
the space required for many new hack
stands. Sooner Or later the comfortably
parked private Car In the congested
district viii be relic Of happier, less
crowded. DAYS.
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ganda activities in Hungary, which oc-
cured recently, Bella Kun was as
signed to this task and was sent to
Vienna, from which place he was to
conduct his activities in behalf of the
Russian Communists. He arrived in
the Austrian capital about fortnight
ago and opened headquarters with a
sMvolesale drug business as cover, On
Friday the Austrian police found him
and he was arrested. Search of the
headquarters disclosed evidences of a
widespread organization for fostering a
revolution in the Balkan states. Re-
ports from Vienna state that the police
investigation has resulted III the arrest
of number Of others with Kun, but
that both the chief conspirator and his
associates have refused to divulge any
details Of their project, combining their
explanation to the statement that they
had come from Moscow to study po-
litical conditions in Hungary and in
Spect the Communist organization in
that country.
Under the terms of Austrias expul-
sion of Bella Kun he may be held by
thai country now and punished under
Austria laws or he may be returned to
Hungary for trial and punishment for
exceSSeS committed under his bolshevist
regime in 1919, 1t is felt in Hungary
that Kun should be brought to court
for his crimes. Many of the Com
munists associated with him In his con-
troll of Hungary nine years ago have
since been executed or are serving long
terms of imprisonment.
1t is limited that Russia will make
extraordinary efforts now to rescue Bella
Kun and that 1t may seek to tempt
the Austrian government with promises
of large commercial orders as the price
of his release. But there is reason tc
believe that Austria will not yield
especially as it is asserted that Kun was
in Vienna last July and instigated the
riots which occurred there in the course
of which nearly one hundred persons
lost their lives.
Bella Kun is a dangerous man, and If
now way is found to put an end to
his career there will be a better chance
for keeping peace in the Balkans and
preventing the spread of bolshevism In
that region.
Evening star., 1928-04-29

tensive proof and considerable trouble.
II, however. certain firm had q dis
tinctive bread which IL had thus deSig~
mated In use until strong following
had been built up, secondary mean
ing would apply 10 the descriptive term,
and under the proposed new law the
mark might be registered with little
expense.
Furthermore, the bill win lend itself
to protection OF secondary meanings In
another important direction. Organi-
aAtlona whose titles are registered can
not now prevent Use OF tho same or a
similar name on merchandise This
new measure would afford protection
And at the same time 10 would permit
registration OF collective marks, those
OF trades unions, service organizations,
associations. etn,
Proposing to consolidate the seven
separate statutes which nov cover trade
mark practices the present bill also
would eliminate conflicts and reduce
abuses. II repeals. for instance. a part
of the ioa0 act providing for secret
registrations without opposition which
was designed to give exporters means
OF protecting marks on shipments to
foreign countries, many OF which have
laws which permit the flrst applicant
to obtain registration, regardless Of
who had prior use the common law In
this country. ON the contrary. vestlng
the property rights In the ElEst user
Quick and secret registration for en-
ported goods stili Ia ID be permitted, but
safeguards are provided which would
prevent abuse OF the privilege one
thing not included which has been the
subject at long controversy, Ia plural
registration Of the same mark by dit~
terent Girms by agreement,
tCepyFlaht, lpaA,l
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Being confdent---thGt he which
hath begun a good work In you, tOill
perform 1t" philippians, i.6).
"Resiorcd Confidence"


Robert Louis Stevenson says that II
Is more profitable to meet a cheerful
person than 1t is to find a 5-ponnd
note Inevitably cheerful person is
a hopeful person, he has the capacity to
see and appraise opportunities that the
morose and the despairing are In
capable of seeing. The most cursory
study of life discloses the fact that
hopeful and expectant ones. While
situations may seem bad and almost
hopeless, they are capable of discov-
ing in them elements that, properly
cultivated and developed. have capac-
tiles susceptible of large growth and ex-
panSion. vote of confidence or word
of confidence has repeatedly changed
a situation from impending defeat to
one that issued in ultimate victory. All
Of us experience from time to time situ-
ations that present insuperable diff
culties we find ourselves utterly in
capable of surmounting them: until
some one stronger than ourselves, with
high expectations as to our capacity,
treasures us, gives us freshened en-
couragement. and puts us in the way
Of doing the seemingly impossible. I
recall the case Of man (who has come
10 large ulSJnctlon III MS CHOSEN call
ing) who told me that in his early
academic life he was practically a fall
ure in all his studies. until presently
some one more hopeful and with finer
conviction as to his inherent capabili-
ties told him that he knew with fresh
ened application he could do every
single task laid upon him. From that
moment. with new encouragement he
took hold of the studies In which he
had signally failed and ultimately grad
uated from his university as one of the
foremost of It's honor students. Conf
dence restored him and gave him a
fresh start Many of the most benefi-
cent agencies that we employ day by
day would never have come to us had 1t
not been that some one, somewhere,
gave to those who conceived them q
vote of confidence and assurance.
When 1t comes to the things of our
moral and spiritual life nothing is more
important to every one of us than the
word expressed in the text. Being con-
fident-~that' he which hath begun a
good work In you. will perform It," We
are not so contituted that we can meet