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The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
TROTZKY ANXIOUS
TO VISIT GERMANY
Russo-Teuton Military Ali.
. ance to Sweep Europe, Is
Berlin Rumor.

BERLIN, Aug. 3o-Linking up
with reported rumors of a contem-
plated Red offensive against West
ern European states is an admission
today by a German secret service
agent that Leon Trotzky. although
not officially asking permission to
come to Berlin, has expressed a de-
sire to see Foreign Minister Tchit-
cherin somewhere in eastern Ger
many.
Owing to the ease with which
could return to Russia
for the interview, the matter gives
rise to a suspicion that Trotzky de-
sires to visit Germany for other
reasons than stated.
There is much talk regarding the
possibility of Red offensive against
p, land to force a common boundary
between Russia and Germany in the
event of a war against France.
Copyright, 1e22.)
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
GIRL RESCUES MAN
WHEN OTHERS FEAR

NEW YORK. Aug. 3o.-John
Radan. student, unable to swim.
ventured out of his depth to-
day at Brighton Beach and was car
ried out by the undertow. He cried
for help. Two men started out,
then turned back when they saw
Radan lighting madly against
drowning. They feared they might
be drowned themselves, for both
were weak swimmers.
But Elizabeth P. Duhy. teacher.
none too powerful. plunged and
swan toward him.
She caught one of his arms as he
was sinking, when Radan flung his
arms around her neck and gripped
her with his legs. A man hit Radan
a blow that knocked him uncon-
scious. Radan was taken to a hos
Dital. where he will recover.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
FLAMES CHECKED
AS2CREWS SEEK
ENTOMBED MINERS
$50 Feet of Granite and
Earth Form Barrier
To Rescuers.

JACKSON. Cal, Aug. 80. -. Fire
which has been burning in the main
shaft of the Argonaut gold mine
since Sunday night, when forty
three miners were trapped. was
checked today.
AS a result of this - the first sue
cess in the battle to save the i'm
prisoned miners - second rescue
crew was able to take up work. 1t
entered the Argonaut shaft and be-
gan driving it's way downward.
beating back the flames, in a race
with the crew which has been at
work since Monday tunnelling into
the Argonaut shaft from the Ken
nedy"-an adjoining mine.
Skilled diamond drillers and
power men were held in readiness
to go into the Kennedy mine and
blast away SO feet Of granite which
is known to separate II from the
Argonaut. These men will begin
their work Immediately when the
miners complete clearing away 400
feet Of earth which forms the re-
raainder of the barrier between the
two mines.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
CROWD WATCHES
POLICEMAN KILL
FLEEING NEGRO
Seizes Officers Gun, Flees
And Threatens Lives
OF Citizens.

After threatening the lives of a
dozen citizens in an effort to evade
arrest. following a two-block chase
by police, an armed negro was shot
and killed almost instantly by a po-
liceman in view of nearly 100 per-
sons at Tenth street and New York
avenue northwest. shortly before
midnight.
At Emergency Hospital the negro
was Identified as Leonard Reed, 26
years old, porter at a local bank.
living at 1919 Twelfth street north
west. Identification was made by
Superintendent B. B. Sandridge. Of
the hospital, who had seen him six
weeks ago when his brother. Charles
Reed, applied at the institution for
q position.
The negro, during q tussle with
Policeman Joseph H. Huntin a room
in the rear of 1915 New York ave-
nue. northwest, grabbed the officer's
gun, and. fleeing from the house.
crossed New York avenue leading
in the chase
As Reed fled through an alley,
Hunt. blowing his police whistle.
attracted civilians, who followed In
the chase, =
Policeman Jesse A. Ruleman at
tempted to capture the negro The
fugitive, sporting the ofiicer in the
distance, turned again toward New
York avenue. aiming the revolver
at q dozen citizens.
At the same time Ruleman ran
toward New York avenue. AZ
Twelfth street. Reed 10 alleged to
have pointed the revolver at RULE
man, who In turn whipped out his
own gun and fired once. Reed fell
to the sidewalk, dead.
Both Hunt and Ruleuan were or
dered detained by Lieut.. Beckett
until the coroner takes actisn. An
Inquest win be held at the District
morgue this afternoon.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
Most Beautiful Girl in Nations Capital VIII Be
Guest at Box Party Tonight
At Belasco Theater

Miss Evelyn c. Lewis. 1905 FIJI
teenth street northwest. is now
Miss Washington"
Weighing physical beauty,
charm of manner. poise and cul-
ture. board of competent judges
selected her from a large group
of beautiful and attractive young
women as the one best quaiifled
to represent the District at the
great pageant at Atlantic CITY,
September 6, and s.
The selection of Miss Lewis fol-
lowed a lengthy conference by the
judges after they had interviewed
twenty-five candidates. who 5usti-
fed personal appearance before
the Judges.
After the candidates had been
interviewed the judges decided
that the signal honor of being
Miss Washington" rested be-
tween Miss Lewis and Miss Lulu
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
SURVIVORS TELL
HOW 300 PERISHED

SERENA. Chile. Aug. 30.-Four
survivors Of the Chilean steamer TIA
Ia. which sank OF the Choros Is
lands with a loss OF nearly 800 lives,
were brought here today.
Narrowing tales Of the disaster
were told by the survivors. Within
i've minutes after the crash, the
Itata went down. carrying most of
the Passengers and crew to death.
Men stood back while women
climbed into a small lifeboat 1t
later sank and all aboard were lost
One survivor Of the crew said the
little steamer was loaded beyond ca
pacity.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
JAPANESE CRUISER
SUNK BY TYPHOON

LONDON. Aug. 30.-The Japanese
Embassy here confirmed today the
report that the Cruiser Nitaka sank
in a typhoon of the coast OF 81
IBERIA several days ago with a loss
of 800 men.
Advices to the Embassy indicate
that most of the crew were lost.
The disaster occurred of the most
eastern point of Siberia. II was said.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
GUARD SHOT DEAD,
ANOTHER WOUNDED

AUGUSTA. Ga. Aug. so.-one
Southern Railway guard was killed
and another wounded when they
were ambushed near the Hamburg
yards in South Carolina across the
river from here today.
e. NJ. Feaster. 81. was instantly
killed and Reed Booth, 20, may die
from wounds. Feaster's body was
slashed with a knife after he had
been shot down and Booth was
badly beaten after he was wounded.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
SECOND PRIMARY
NECESSARY IN S. C..

COLUMBIA. s. c., Aug. 30.-In-
complete returns from all counties
In the State today indicated that a
second race for governor will be run
by Cole L. Rleare and Thomas G..
Mcleod. With approximately $4,000
votes counted, the question Of which
but the former was leading the Bish-
opville candidate by $3.50
The vote: Blease. 60.166; Mcleod,
53.s1s, Laney. 1887: Coleman. 22s7;
Duncan. 1852; cantey, 1.147.
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McGrath. The judges discussed the
respective merits of the two can
didates for more than an hour
and when a vote was taken the
honor was conferred upon Miss
Lewis.
"Miss Washfngton- To Twenty.
Miss Washington" as Miss
Lewis now will be known. is 20
years old. She is graduate of
Business High School of this city
and is employed in the Veterans
Bureau.
In making their announcement
of the selection of Miss Lewis the
judges paid this unique compli-
ment:
I'VE found her to possess e
the highest degree those qualifi-
cations which are required for the
representative of Washington. She
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U. s. Woman Robbed

LONDON, Aug. 30.-A $50, 900
jewel robbery with an American
woman. Mrs. J. Byrne, as the vic
tim. has led Scotland Yard opera
tives to seek the trail of what is
believed to be an international
band of train thieves. Advertis-
ments in London newspapers offer
$4,000 reward for recovery of the
jewels.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
Mexican Secretary Ordered
To Marion in Herrin Probe

MARION. Ill. Ang. 3o.-The Sec
retary of the Mexican Consulate AZ
Chicago has been ordered here hy|
his government. while the State De
partment at Washington asked At1
torney General Brundase 70 hasten|
his report on the story that four
Mexicans were killed during ths
Herrin massacre. i
It is said that on June q fous|
Mexicans were chased into the|
woods by a mob that suspected therr|
of being strikebreakers. The Mex
leans were so terrified that one 81
them Is said to have jumped dOyr|
a mine shaft That is the only oue|
accounted for as dead
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
U.S.. WILL PROBE
WISCONSIN WRECK

wAUKESHA. Wis, Aug. 90
Federal authorities are investieat-
Ing the wreck OF the Northwestern
road train near here to day in which
Harry True. so years old. of Bara-
boo. lost his life: Thomas Byre. of
Madisnn. fireman. was badly injured.
a-d 4 score of lives were impertlled.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
NEWEST PROPOSAL
Of GERMANY FAILS
TO MOVE POINCARE
Belgium Has Slight Hope
OF Healing Breach
With Britain.

PARIS. Aug. 3o.-Proposals by
Germany to the reparations COM
mission to guarantee deliveries of
coal and timber in return for
moratorium on cash reparations
payments do not change Premier
Poincare's attitude, it is learned.
Feeling Is tense.
Minister of War Maginot and
Minister of Finance De Lasteyrie
are said to be engaged in a pro-
ject for occupation of the Ruhr dis
trict. This is regarded as Poin-
cares strong card and it is diff
cult to see how he can back down
in view of recent declarations.
Slight hope is entertained that
Belgium can bridge the gulf sep
arating the French and British
viewpoints.
Whatever decision the commits
sion reaches tomorrow will depend
upon outcome of the council of min
listers Friday where the whole ques-
tion will be taken up.
First evidence of isolated action
by Franco probably will be the
resignation of NJ. Dubois, French
commissioner.
Germany informed the allies she
fatty refuses to consider the sur
render of the Reichsbank reserve or
control of mines and forests in ex-
change for a moratorium.
State Secretary Schroeder said he
submitted the following PROPOSE
tions to the commission:
l. Germany to deposit sufficient
foreign currency to cover any fail
ures in delivery of coal and timber
until the end of 1922.
2. In event the commission re-
jects this proposal, Germany offers
deliveries of coal and timber Sc
cured by private commercial con-
tracts until the end of 1928.
Rejects Compromise Proposals.
BERLIN. Augl so.-Government
experts have decided to reject COM
promise reparation proposals sub
mitted by the reparations commits
sions recently. 1t was determined
to stand on the rejection and await
whatever action is decided upon.
Pessimism prevails in view of
Frances insistence on her original
demand for productive guarantees.
Belgium is understood to be will
ing to accept coal and wood con-
tracts for payment in kind pro-
vided a gold forfeit is deposited in
advance against fulfillment. But
the German government holds
this proposal is Just as impossible
of acceptance as Frances insistence
on her original demands.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
Both Sides Lose Heavily
As Athenians Rush
Reinforcements.
AUSTRIAN CRISIS
INVOLVES BALKANS
Italian and Jugoslav
Troops Ready to Fight
On Austrian Border.

VIENNA, Aug. 30.-Austria
has forwarded an appeal to the
league of nations at Geneva
asking for speedy help I'm the
crfsfs that II facing her. by the
time the proposed discussions
hnve been concluded. the appeal
states, Austrfa's downfall will
have occurred. Unless immed-
late assistance In forthcoming
the peace OF central Europe
will be seriously endangered,
the plea declared.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-31
WIN Push Prosecution.

The government made no new
moves yesterday in connection with
the coal and railroad strikes and
fs content to rest on the efforts of
the Department of Justice and dis
trict attorneys throughout the
country. to put q stop to strike vio-
ience and prosecute violations Of
the conspiracy laws.
The administration. IL was stated.
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co.ti~ssd .. Po9s Too.
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New-York tribune., 1922-10-01

on his forehead when he was overworked.
He had come back.
She wanted to cry out with joy. But a
strange cracking in her throat prevented her.
The others, however-the Sister and friend
who were talking in low voices by the window
had perceived nothing.
He is waiting for them to 90 to speak to
me-" she thought.
"How can / get rid of the,n?"
She was seeking way when drowsiness
attacked her--so overpowering that she had to
blink her eyes continually not to succumb to it.
Then there was another complication. The
doctor arrived. He, too didn't see him. The doc
tor would have to sit in his chair. Thank God.
ne didn't, but turned and went out at once.
40 was stiil in his place, busy polishing his
nails he raised his head only for an instant
to smile when the doctor departed without fest.
ing her lungs.
"You see. you are getting better"
tAt that instant whispered phrase came
from the next room:
1T is about an hour, doctor, since the death
agony began"
All! It was FOR this, then, that the ghost
had comet
a sudden clarity illuminated the confused
pattle OF thought against darkness, She un-
derstcod. That image of :isa seated beside her
was the fixed idea which attaches itself 10 the
last vibration OF the cord about to be broken.
But while she believed that she saw him she
was alone, all alone, as ne was alone before
when she saw him die
turning her eyes from the phantom, the
last Illusion OF life, she fixed then. resclutely
straight ahead Of her, on what was to be for
her either Nothingness or fhe Truth
Eceosssons. 1883. Ns0 Porn rrsouas r.a,
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session OF death and the tomb and orphans
were the only beings close to her heart, She
would have liked to succor them all in their
ship"reck and to explain to them that despair
is no more infinite than the other human pas
slons. At the moment when one feels most lost.
"heh one touches the bottom Of the gloomy
WE'LL ne discovers a resignation almost as beau
tlIul as happiness, especially when he has en-
Wsaged the possibility Of entering into the
house Of the mad and Of bowling with them.
She didn't become mad. She had accented
reality. AT nightfall sbe lighted lamp. She
drew the curtains on the funereal symbol Of
the window easements. She knew now that he
would not come back.
One beautiful winter day, when there was
sunshine outside and fire within. and several
persons in the room, he suddenly entered. He
had opened the door like any one else and came
TRANQUILITY to take seat beside her. !.
He entered without saying word and sat
down in a perfectly natural manner.
She was in bed, having been ill with the
grippe for nearly week. He did not seem to
be worried about her. And while the others in
the room did not notice his presence, he took
from his waistcoat pocket little knife which
she knew, well, with several blades and
tiny Tile, and began to trim his finger nails.
OH How like himself he was! She saw
again his delicate, supple hand, with brilliar.
sneil-like nails, and all the details OF his face
ene hlgh color OF his complexion when he was
Weai' ana the network OF veins which e..od out
New-York tribune., 1922-10-01

those fourteen ounces Of corn. And these "A
some Of the things she makes with it.
Her typical dinner consists Of the follows,
courses-corn soup, corn fish cakes, con
sweets and cup Of black tea. The fish caks
are made of the corn that helped thieken tin
soup mixed with little something caught n
the Moscow river. The sweet is made out d,
boiled corn mixed with oil and rolled in bresi
crumbs, which has been shaped and allowss
to harden. 1t is called "sweet" because of il
place on the menu. The "lneat course i
varied at times by corn fritters OF corn crs
quettcs or stuffed cabbage. Nine. Platonov.
recipe for corn fritters at present is boilg
corn which has been allowed to get cold, shaps
and fried in olive oil. Her croquettes an
boiled corn mixed with bread crumbs, favores
with little onion and boiled in olive OIL Hg
stuffed cabbage consists of boiled corn, choppel
onion and cabbage leaf placed on large cab
bage leaf and baked.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-01
Hunger Is the Leveling
Process II, Russia

Perhaps it is wrong to use the word
classes" in speaking Of a communistic coun-
try, but there IS no other that will convey
my exact meaning. AS regards living condi-
tons these people have been leveled. AS re-
cards mentality and refinement they remain
the same as they were before the revolution
turned Russia upside down. But with that
phase we shall dee' later
The three homes in question belong re
spectively to members of the old Russian in
te'lectual noble class, to member Of the old
noble class of average mentality and to the
family of an ordinary working man. I chose
the Tolstoys to represent the first for the
simple reason that their name needs no intro
duetlon to American readers. This particular
Tolstoy is Sergius, eldest son of the great lit
terateur. He lives with his wife in a two
room dwelling in the basement of a house on
Levishinski Pereulok, which looks as If it might
collapse at any moment. Incidentally, he is
iive-foot-six reproduction of his illustrious
father. bearded-shall l say, bad tempered?
Perhaps impatient is better word--and very
quick of speech
In the second house, which consists of a
single room, lives the widow Of the late Gen
eral Joseph Nicola Platonov once of the I'm
perial Russian Guards and equerry extraor-
dinary to the late Gar.
In the third, also single room, the six
members Of the family of Ivan Rabinoff con-
duct their attempt at menage. This Is not
the name Of the man in question, which with
hold for various reasons. 1t is typical Rus
sian name, and his is typical Russian home
of that class. Consider Ivan's menage then
as reproduced by hundreds.
Looking back on these three homes I find
they have two things in common-makeshift
furniture and American food. 1t was the lat
ter that prompted me to enter Them Like
many others who knew the American Relief
Administration was Issuing ration of four
teen ounces Of raw corn day. / wondered how
any people, however hungry, could continue to
eat such monotonous fare. Now know No
expert at per,nutations and combinations
could ring SO many changes on given set of
numbers, it seems to me, as these Russians do
on their A. Il. A. ration. But let's get back to
the furniture before we proceed to the food.
arrange our setting before we sit down to
table.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-01
BY MARGUERITE COMERT
Translated by William L. MCPHERSON,

ABOUT her became perceptible The curtains
oelied out, the cushions on the lonely divan
swelled and debated, the twin windows onenad
two great funereal pathways toward the
colorless evening skies.
Sometimes the whole room suddenly d;san-
peared dissolving into red and yellow disks
and she no longer noticed the creakings Of Tho
FURNITURE because of a rolling like that Of
marbles grating against one another in her
head, where the muscles strained In suner-
human efforts to break the bones Of the sl,ul]
She looked. she listened, and then. weary Of
discovering nothing, she began to speak in a
loud voice, all alone, or, rather, uttered ;nco-
herent words until she became once moro luc;d
and reasonable.
so the days and the evenings passed in vain.
Z Once she had the thought:
he doesn't want me to 40 mad"
from that moment she admitted to herself
tnac she was better. She became conscious Of
the fearful slowness of untitled time. She be.
gan to polish the furniture, to mend the linen
to open her books.
She went down into the street She bought
HoWers for him, cake Tor poor little bov
an orange and Newspaper for herself. She
ceased TO weep before people who spoke to her
OF hef bereavement, sometimes out Of commas
SION, oTtener out Of politeness She feirned mn
interest IN their foolish or drol stories. all in.
dlHerent to her, and she became again like
them IN outward appearance
"ue IN her inner self she cherished the oh
New-York tribune., 1922-10-01
Count Tolstoy Liues
In 7y1Do Rooms

Count and Countess Tolstoy's home consists.
IS have said, of two rooms. You enter
them by the Russian version of basement
door. One Of their windows is almost level
with the sidewalk, and in America the apart
ment would probably be assigned to the JAM
tor. The Count is an author and composer
whose settings to Bobby Burns's poems are
probably his best and best~known work, Be-
fore the war he was, Of course, INDEPENDENTLY
rich, and much Of his time was spent ia Paris.
where he won prize at the Maison du Chant
International competition in 1908. But the
only evidence of his profession now visible is
a cracked old piano standing in the corner Of
the room which serves as combination bedroom
and study for him and his wife. It is terri
bic piano even for person like myself, with
no very keen sense of pitch. How musician
ike Count Tolstoy can stand its wheeling.
Thirring, jangling attempts at harmony is a
matter beyond my comprehension, but the fact
remains that it is the counts sole soIace in life
how. He works at it all day, composing music
which he hopes some Of the American friends
will one day help him TO publish.
Bad as that piano is, however, it is far and
away the best piece Of furniture in the Tolstoy
menage. 1t is piano--Ilo ore can doubt that
1t has the size the shape. the necessary parts.
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XK ydEN after SIX months Of wandering
AN/ she returned one day, pale and sx-
v alted, to the house where she had
lived with him, and where he had
died, she did not suspect that he, too. would
come back again.
Great faith is needed, and also an unusual
presumption, to aspire to detach from their
contemplation those who have passed to the
other side of the world, those who know the re-
verse side Of life and the reality of experiences
which mystify us here.
She did not have enough faith or enough
presumption to hope for that miracle.
But miracle is not necessary. The dead
whom we truly expect do return.
That which resusctates them to the pure
eyes OF those who loved them is not an un.
known and supernatural power. It is an hum
BILE and entirely human virtue, the servor Of a
fixed idea.
The wise fear this virtue, which too often
degenerates into tragic infrmity and leads
to the imprisonment Of the spirit. The pris-
oners Of dream become prisoners OF NIGHT
mare. In the snadhouses, gr1macing with i'm.
patience or convulsod with terror, they expiata
their sacriligious obstinacy in refusing their
share Of the sun and in forcing the gates Of the
Great Beyond.
sne was 50 broken that she accepted that
prospect--of going mad in order to sea him.
she shut herself up in her room, where the
hands of the unwound clock still pointed to the
hour Of his death
Shuddering beside the cold frenlaca a++.-
i've 10 the creakngs of the furniture, watching
all day long the fluctuations of the shadows.
she patiently waited.
Little by little the breathing of the things
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sure that she had only corn to live on. One
does not pry without good purpose into the
dwellings of the new poor
The widow Of the late Cars late equerry is
very small, frail refined woman How she
lived before didn't ask her, but now she has
one room on Trobnekovski Pereulok For
bed she has hard board in one corner Her
covering is two pitifully worn blankets. Her
table Is a Lipton's tea box turned upside down.
Her chair is another box in a similarly re-
versed position. Her wash stand is a third
box. She does all her eating, sleeping and
washing in this room. She is her own "help"
and her days are spent in scrubbing. Every
morning she goes out to scrub for people of
whose existence she probably took no notice in
other days. And after five years of acute
misery, hunger and horror she still has the
energy to scrub. Russian aristocrats at least.
had good physiques.