Peiping, Apr.
Members of the American Legation staff here congratulated themselves today at the end of a prolonged search for a large box of Texas pecans, sent by Vice-President John Garner as a gift to Mrs. Huang Fu. The nuts now are safely on the way to Mokanshan, where Mrs. Huang intends to plant them in the garden of a girls school la which she takes 'a. special interest. The American Minister, Mr. Nelson 'T. Johnson, personally escorted the nuts from Wash ington to Peiping. They were packed ina box which on the outside bore in large letters the name of a well-known brand of American soap. A house-boy therefore stored room designated for laundry supplies, and ff remained for a laundress to solve the mystery which for so long had threatened to disrupt the Legation peace—United Press,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.