“From Press to Borne WEATHER. 99 (C. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.! Within the Hour Rain this afternoon and tonight; The Stir’s carrier system covers slightly colder tonight: tomorrow fair. block the regular Temperature—Highest, 4S, at 3:15 every city and edi- p.m. yesterday: lowest, 39, at 5:30 tion is delivered to Washington homes a.m. today. Full report on page 4. as fast as the papers are printed. fatteningy WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Circulation, 105,461 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 V, J V Yesterday’s Jfc.* OP) Press. XT QH OQ(I Entered as second class matter U\\t Mean* Associated TWO CENTS. APRIL, 1927-THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. JM O. i)V',<!.nu. post office, Washington, D. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, 2, Civil War Veteran Three-Fool Snow BRITISH RUSH MORE Weds Girl He Left WILKINS. KIDNAPED And Winter Storms LADUE TO ASSUME CM; Home 60 Years Ago AMERICAN, Sweep California DISTRICT ENGINEER By SLAINBY By Press. TO the Associated Press. the Associated TROOPS - MINNEAPOLIS, April 2.—-An SAX FRANCISCO. April 2. interrupted romance which sur- With a three-foot snowfall at the vived for nearly 60 years of summit of the Sierra, and storms in all sections of the State except POST | separation bloomed anew' today as MEXICAN BANDITS ON JUNE 21 DEBATED a set- BLOCKADE the south. Spring a Civil War veteran of Minneapolis received started on a honeymoon with the back today in California. as girl he had left behind more than Murder Follows by Blue Canyon, Redding and New Commissioner First Of* New Outrages "Feared a half century ago. Pursuit Truckee, reported almost blizzard James M. Templeman, adjutant of conditions yesterday, and the ficer of Rank of Colonel Cantonese Army Starts of a looaj post of the G. A. R., was Soldiers and Doubt Weather Bureau predicted unset- married Wednesday at Cedar tled conditions in the f«»r Western Rapids, lowa, to Dora Dennis $20,000 Ransom. States today with probability of to Be Chosen. March North. Wray of West. Liberty, lowa. He rain in northern and central Cali- is 81 and she is 78 years old. « fornia, as well as in Oregon, Wash- They revealed that after the ington, Idaho and Nevada. SERVING AT OF CHANG Civil War, Templeman became BODY FOUND ON HILL; PRESENT DISMISSAL engaged to Dora Dennis. The engagement was broken off, neither ON GOVERNORS ISLAND LACKS CONFIRMATION could now remember why. They TROOPS KILL OUTLAWS met again last September at a G. A. R. encampment and the second engagement POLICE | Lieut. Col. Bell, on Way followed. Chase. RIVERDALE to Pan- Americans in Canton District Several Reported Shot After anfla, Is Expected to Beturn Warned to Seek Safety of But Majority Elude to Capital Early Foreign Colony. Federal Forces. in May. NORTH FORCED TO RESIGN - - CHINA CRISIS t.ol. B. By AsNoeiated Press. William Ladue. considered By the Ateooiated Pres*. the as one of the British gov- MEXICO CITY. April 2.— Edgar M. Hyattsville Mayor Assails ablest officers In the LONDON, April 2.—The Army Engineer Corps, Wilkins, the American kidnaped near and now on ernment, It was officially announced duty as engineer Guadalajara Sunday, was killed by his officer on the staff today, has decided to send reinforce- Tactics —Town Council Gets of the ALARMS OFFICIALS later, it is learned. commanding officer, Second to Shanghai, consisting of a captors 24 hours Corps ments made no attempt to hide Area, Governor's Island, New brigade of infantry and auxiliary The slayers to Y ork, of their crime, and the Officers Quit. was detailed yesterday after- units. the evidence noon by Dispatch of U. S. Gunboat to body found, lying on El Colli Hill, President Coolidge to the The reinforcements will consist of was post of Engineer near Santa Ana Acatlan. The discov- of the Commissioner of the n battalion each from the following As a result of a meeting District, succeeding Tientsin to Appre- was made by an employe of the Riverdale, Md.. last Lieut. Col. J. Guards, Royal, the Adds ery town council of Franklin Bell, regiments: Queen’s Chapala Electric Co., of which Wilkins by many citizens in- whose duty expires in Northamptonshire and Welsh. These night, attended June. Col. was engineer. dignant of frequent com- Ladue is the first officer brought to full strength hension Here. chief because units will be Wilkins, a former resident of Savan- plaints lodged against alleged speed of the rank of colonel ever to be the incorporation of army reserv- police named for the post by nah, Ga„ was captured Sunday w'hile traps maintained by Riverdale here. resignations of the entire ists. By the Associated Press. motorcycling with his 10-year-old son officers, the Col. Ladue will enter upon his new police force were asked for and ac- assignment June Discussed. In the face of policy of. blank Guadalajara. The kidnapers, 21, the date of the Blockade Is a near Danced cepted. expiration of Lieut. Col. Bell Man Who , s detail. correspondent says official silence at the State Depart- headed by Severiano Canales, demand- H. stated Lieut. Col. Reuter’s Peking r Mayor John Schaefer Bell now' is en route to ransom, son w as is believed there that a blockade ment on the diplomatic angles of the ed $20,000 and the that Riverdale will be without a police Panama aboard a Government trans- it situation, obtain the Charleston at 109 SHORT SUSPENSION council Chinese coast and the Chinese speculation turned sent to Guadalajara to HAZARD IN CONTROL force until May, when a new port. where he plans make study ©f the southern to a mouth of the Yangtze River will prob- increasingly today to the northern money. will be elected which will have the of the various problems in connec- ably be started if the demands of the cities of China, with their large for- York power to create a new force. It is tion with the maintenance of the Murder Follows Pursuit. Dies in New salaried will be powers regarding the Nanking inci- eign populations and investments. , probable that a officer canal locks. He probably will return complied when j re- kidnaping reach- appointed, he said, doing away entirely to Washington the part May. dent are pot with Press dispatches from Shanghai and When news of the first of By Press. SENSED LEWIS fee officers, which result, he Before his embassy BY departure OF PLANNING ZONE the Ansorifiteti with Lieut. Col. eented to the Nationalists. Peking have indicated an increasingly ed Mexico City, the American would It is admitted in official circles that urgent representations to the NEW YORK, April 2.—Chaim said, in many arrests which not Bell sent to the office of the grave outlook regard and the made chief guch a has been prominently in that foreign office. Weiss, who danced the Charles- otherwise be made. of engineers a list bearing the names blockade sending Shanghai Tientsin of Mexican discussed. from to The kidnapers, hearing that federal Maryland Suburbs Pay ton a few weeks ago at a party Some Owners Foresee Lull Hyattsville Mayor Speaks. of six officers of the Army whom he was at- an American gunboat was an added them, believed be considered for Yesterdav’s cabinet meeting troops were seeking and appar- celebrating birthday, died should his Hugh Mon- his 109th Owings, mayor of Hyattsville. post as Engineer Commissioner. On tended bv Maj. Gen. Sir indication of official apprehension that ently convinced that the ransom last night at the home of the Kons Irvin of the air, their Costs, But May Lose Two Lasting for at Least was at the meeting and made this list were the names of Maj. \V. tagu Trenchard. marshal anti-foreign disorders may break out w'ould not be forthcoming, killed Daughters of Israel on the present committee and strong speech assailing the tactics E. R. Coveil, Acting Engineer Com- and other members of the there, where two battalions of Amer- captive. side, where he lived for a the federals lower east alleged were employed by missioner, and two former Assistant ©f Imperial defense. infantry already railway They were overtaken by Commissioners. years, Three Months. which he Baldwin, usually ican are on sew14 Harvey Smith, deposed Riverdale Engineer Commissioners. Majs. Ray- who Cerro Chine and several were killed. Premier guard duty under the Boxer protocol. at A few days ago while on his E. London on Friday for a week- The majority, however, escaped. police head, and ids three under mond A. Wheeler and Carey H. leaves The policy of silence defeated today daily walk he contracted a cold cited incidents which had Brown. end rest, postponed his departure. Sir Wilkins, w'ho was 55, had been a IJY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, which developed into pneumonia. By the Associate! Press. bailiffs. He Chamberlain, foreign secre- every attempt at the State Department resident of Mexico for years and his beer\ reported to him of improper ar- Austen to learn authoritatively the immediate Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO, Vpril 2. —Various esti- Surprise Greets News. tary. it is understood, is staying in wife was Mexican. He had been kid- rests and pointed out that the two of discussions with the London mates of the ccx 1-mining shutdown in by a "paper today and tomorrow. status naped twice before, but was released ANNAPOLIS. Md., April 2 municipalities arc divided Surprise greeted the announcement town and Tokio or other governments over the central competitive field and adja- AVashington-Baltimore regarding unharmed. Sweeping away powers that would line" on the Col. LAdue’s selection in the Nanking outrages and steps to be Wilkins was an electrical engineer cent territories \V ire made tpday.