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Evening star., 1923-11-24
BACKED
AS SENATE LEADER
Capper Opposes Cummins.
Says "Vigorous Man" Is
Needed Now.

Senator Capper, republican, Kansas
chairman of the farm bloc. announc-
ed on his return to Washington to-
day that he favored Senator Curtis
of Kansas, the republican whip. for
president of the Senate in opposition
to Senator Cummins, republican. Iowa
Senator Capper said that at this
session more than ever the Senate
needs "a vigorous man" as It's presid-
ing officer. He will confer with
members Of the farm bloc within the
next few days, but there probably
Will be no formal meeting Of the
organization until after Congress
gets underway.
= Curtis Is Backed.
Selection of Senator Cummins as
presiding officer of the Senate has
been regarded generally as almost
a foregone conclusion. He served
last session as president pro tenn, and
neither Senator Curtis nor any other
senator on the republican side has
announced himself as a candidate
for the place. With the elevation
of Vice President Coolidge to the
Presidency, the president of the
Senate will draw $4,000 additional
salary and be provided with an auto
mobile and other perquisites of office
FavOrs Tax Reduction.
Outlining his attitude toward legfs.
lation, Senator Capper declared in
favor of a tax reduction, but said he
had not had opportunity to study de.
tails.
He said it might be possible tc
make an even greater cut than that
proposed by Secretary Mellon, ant
suggested that the interest from tht
British debt might be used for the
payment of soldiers bonus. A yer,
erroneous impression has been giver
the country, he said. as to the yearly
cost OF the proposed soldiers com.
pensation
The senator said he planned to re.
introduce his bill for the repeal OF
the guaranty provision of the trans.
portation act.
Evening star., 1923-11-24
ASKS CIVILIAN RULE
FOR VIRGIN ISLANDS
Gompers Writes President Advo.
eating End of Naval Officer
Control.

President Coolidge has taken under
consideration a communication from
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation Of Labor, advo-
eating the establishment of civil gov
ernment in the Virgin Islands in
place Of the present control of the
islands through a naval officer.
Mr.. Gompers wrote to the President
in accordance with resolution
adopted by the recent convention of
the American Federation of Labor,
and submitted a report made by an
investigator for the federation, who
visited the islands.
This report urged that a civil gov
ernment be established upon the prin-
ciples that economic independence
from absentee landlords Is ESSENTIAL
to the welfare of the island; that
industrial power should be public
trust; that the taxing power should
be used to encourage enterprise and
home industries; breaking down
monopoly by the diffusion of wealth,
and that the gradual municipalization
of the soil is a just and practical
method of dealing with the land
monopoly problem.
Evening star., 1923-11-24
SENATOR TO URGE CRAIG
CLEMENCY ON MONDAY
President Arranges to Hear Cope
land in Behalf of New York
Controller.

Executive clemency for Charles L.
Craig, controller of New York city,
whose appeal from a sentence of sixty
days in Jail for contempt of court
has been lost in the Supreme Court,
will be asked of President Coolidge
on Monday, by Senator Copeland,
democrat. New York and others from
that city. He made an engagement
for that purpose today at the White
House.
Under the rules of the Supreme
Court the mandate of the court does
not have to issue for thirty days, and
IT is understood that it probably will
not issue Immediately in this case.
Department Of Justice officials de-
clare that since the opinion of the
Supreme Court nothing regarding
Controller Craig's case has been
brought officially to the attention Of
the Department pf Justice
Evening star., 1923-11-24
GOVERNOR-ELECT BANS
DANCE AT INAUGURALS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY. November "a
William J. Fields, Governor-elect OF
Kentucky, announced here yester-
day he would not attend the inaug-
ural ball scheduled to be held in his
honor in the executive mansion at
Frankfort on the night of December
H.
Mr.. Fields was said to have been
very emphatic in his statement, de-
clarine that If such a ball is held
It will not be in the governors
mansion. nor will any dancing be
permitted there while he is governor.
as neither he nor Mrs. Fields ap-
prove of it. The governor-elect,
however, is said to have declared
that he will do nothing to interfere
with dancirA outside his future home;
In the meantime a committee of
Frankfort citizens are going ahead
with plans to hold the ball.
Evening star., 1923-11-24
FORD IS CANDIDATE,
CLOSE FRIEND SAYS
Thinks Detroiter Will Accept
Nomination as Independent,
Without Platform.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, November 24.-Henry
Ford will run for President of the
United States if nominated on an in
dependent ticket, without a platform
Robert r. Pointer of Dearborn, life
long friend of the automobile man
ufacturer, said last night, following
a meeting of a committee arranging
details of the Ford-for- President club
conference here next month
Mr.. Pointer said he talked with
Ford recently on the subject. but
declined to outline the nature of the
conversation. Mr.. Ford did not tell
me TO desist in my efforts to make
him President, however" Mr.. Pointer
added.
Evening star., 1923-11-24
U. S. DEMANDS CHINA
GAIN CAPTIVE'S RELEASE
Secretary Hughes Informs Mother.
in-Law of Seized Missionary
of American Action.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associat ted Press.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, November "a.
A telegram from Secretary of State
Hughes assuring her the American
legation has demanded that the
Chinese government effect the release
of DR.. E. A Smalzreid, a missionary,
captured recently by bandits in HUI
nan province a few days ago. was
received today by Mrs. Margaret
Schroeder of Geneva, mother of DIR.
Smalzreid's wife.
Dispatches said four women, in
Guiding Mrs. Smalzreid, were in the
party held up by the brigands. but
were allowed togo.
Evening star., 1923-11-24

the consul, when he returned from
the theater. He placed it inside the
hallway, but after retiring, he told
the police, he had concluded that a
passerby had left the box on the
doorstep temporarily and might re-
turn for it.
without a thought of the deadly
bomb concealed within, he got out
of bed and replaced the box on the
doorstep. A few minutes after re-
turning to his room the explosion
occurred, tearing out the entire
front of the building and wrecking
the consufs room on the second floor.
Mr.. de Motta was badly shaken up.
Bank Building Wrecked.
The Sons of Italy Bank building
was wrecked by the second ex-
plosion and a number of houses in
the neighborhood were damaged. The
fact that the Italian consulate was
located in the building led the police
to believe that the same persons
were responsible for the placing of
both bombs. Luigi Sillitti, the
Italian consul, was not in the city,
but vice consul Guido di Vincenzo,
Continued on Page ., Column IL
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RUM SHIP BROKE CABLE.
Charge Filed With u. S. Blames
Dragging Anchor. =

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. November
24.-The dragging anchor of a rum
runner lying off this port was the
cause of a break in the Pacific cable
connecting America with the Orient
seven days ago, according to Charges
Captain Sparks of the Cable repair
ship Restorer, has filed with federal
prohibition officers. Communication
over the cable haS-been restored.
Evening star., 1923-11-24
SEE GERMANY BREAKING UP.
London Newspapers Call German
Crisis Significant.
Ey the Associatpd Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 24.-The down
fall of the Stresemann government is
viewed here as an event of the ut
most significance, possibly involving
Developments destined to have a deep
and lasting effect on all Europe. The
fact that some of the morning news
papers oust the British election cam
paign from first place to disploy their
Berlin dispatches on the reichstag' S
rejection of the chancellor and the
situation in Germany generally, indi-
Gates that the crisis is regarded as
serious.
THE condition of Germany toda ,
is infinitely worse than it has been
at any moment since Germany be-
came an empire" the Times says.
The reichstag in the present circum-
stances is mere form. and fiction,
and through 1t common anarchy yes
terday recorded its verdict. What will
happen now is almost an inScrutable
problem for Stresemann. Ebert and
their associates, and it is a very seri-
Gus problem for all the world.
Germany is breaking up. This fact
must be realized now as the most
important event in cotemporary Eu-
rope, with the great tribulation of
Russia in the background"
Comments on Ruhr.
the loss of the Ruhr. which it says
Storn from the reich, land as far
as pefceivable, will remain separated
from Germany for at least a genera
ton
France has had her way" asserts the
writer. Her curiously systematic
and coldly logical effort Is nearing
its goal. A new political and econ
nomic entity is making it's appear
ance in Europe nodded and domina ed
ny France. A new Europe is being
shaped at our doors"
What really matters in the coming
election" the Times states, lis the
position the British empire is to oc-
"upy in the rapidly changing world
d world that has broken loose from
all accepted standards"
Prophesfes Futile.
Berlin dispatches to the London
newspapers agree that 1t is impossi-
bile to foresee what administration Is tc
follow, but some of the correspond
ents stress the growth of militarist
nationalism and hint at sensational
developments from that source. DR.
Stresemann in his talk with the
newspaper men commented bitterly or
the German parliamentary system
and said the next government would
be faced with serious task In de-
termining it's foreign policy. He also
referred. with considerable feeling, to
the recent allied note concerning the
former crown prince, the tone OF
which, he said, brought a flush OF
shame to the cheek of every German
1t was such notes, he added, that de-
stroyed democracy in Germany and
created nationalism.
DR.. Stresemann again defended
Frederick William, whom he de-
scribed as man with a strong sense
OF political responsibility and great
capacity.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Daily Mail quotes the defeated chan
cellor as saying:
L was at the theater the other
night and every time the band played
a military march the people applaud
ed. You know why? 1t was in pro-
test against the interference of for
eigners in the home affairs of Ger
many--a protest against the aboli-
tion of military service. You cannot
remove sentiment based on traditions
Of more than a century,
Evening star., 1923-11-24
HUNGER STRIKER DIES.
Irish Prisoner Victim, Although
Strike Was Called Off.

DCsLlN' November ZINE eai-
the political prisoners Of the Irish
Free State came too late to save
Andrew O'Sullivan Of County Cavan,
interned in Mountjoy prison. He died
in n hospital yesterday after a fast
OF forty days,
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sTRESEMANN IS OUSTED.

Ry the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 24.-Dr. Gustav
&1resemann last night resigned as
lContiaued on Page 2. Column 81
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Scouts Loss of Tax.

Some people may say that if that
were done the people of Maryland
would go to the District to buy their
gasoline and that the people of the
District would fill up their gasoline
tanks before coming into Maryland,
since the District cannot collect
gasoline tax until their bill passes
Congress.
THAT might happen with a few
Continued on Page >. Column A.
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Declares He Has Power to
Recognize Tags of Dis
trict Owners.
UNCERTAIN OF ATTITUDE
TOWARD 6O-DAY TRUCE
Only Question Is Whether Drop
ping of Bars Might Delay Passage
of Gas Tax Measure.
By a STAFF Correspondent.

BALTIMORE. Md. November "a
Automobile reciprocity between Mary
land and the District of Columbia by
January l seemed virtually certainty
today. following announcement by
States Attorney General Alexander
Armstrong that no legal obstacle
stands in the way of Gov. Albert g
Ritchie's approving the District Com
missioners' proposal for true during
January and February oas to give
Congress time to enact the legislation
that will make peace permanent
simultaneously the governor told The
Star from New York, where he is at
tending the Army Navy foot ball game,
that there is no doubt of his authority
TO accept the suggestion from Washing
ton for a mutual recognition OF tags
until Congress passes the gasoline tax
bill. When reached at his hotel in
New York. he said he had not yet re-
ceived the District of Columbia Com
mssoners' letter proposing a siXty-day
truce and would not state his attitude
until he got home and read il care
fully.
Evening star., 1923-11-24
Predicts Reciprocity.

we are going to have reciprocity
with the District of Columbia shortly
after the first of the year" he said,
but 1 cannot say now whether l Will
accept the Commissioners proposals"
There is no doubt of my power to
accept the District of Columbia Com
missioners' proposal. l shall not
reach a definite decision, however,
until l return 10 Baltimore and see
the proposition in its completed form.
Today l will enjoy the foot ball game.
Tomorrow l will be in Baltimore"
Those close to the governor, how
ever, have no doubt that he will ac-
cept the proffered truce. The only
thing that is regarded as likely to
delay definite action by him is the
fact that the lack of reciprocity
might hasten Congressional action
on the gasoline tax legislation that
Maryland wants before January I.
on the other hand. Gov. Ritchie Is
pledged to automobile reciprocity be
tween Maryland and the District by
the democratic platform on which he
was reelected early this month.
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Has Power to Act.

In stating that the invitation to
a truce had swept aside the last legal
obstacle to temporary reciprocity,
States Attorney General Armstrong
pointed out that the existing law au-
thorizes the governor of the state
to recognize the tag of any other
jurisdiction that will accord a similar
courtesy to Maryland motorists. No
mention is made in the statute Of
such restriction on District mo-
torists or of the pending gasoline tax
legislation in Congress, he said
In every quarter today the District
Commissioners proposal was acclaim
ed here. Thoroughly tired of the an
between the two alths,
high state officials and automobile
drivers alike expressed their desire
for a cessation OF the quarrel at the
earliest possible date, and 1t was con-
ceded everywhere that the Districts 5
proposal points to a mutually accept
able road to that goal.
If Gov. Ritchie will interpret the
law literally, l believe that automo-
bile reciprocity between the District
of Columbia and Maryland can be ac-
complished on the 1st of next Jan
uary without difficulty said H. NJ
Club of Maryland, today. But it
seems to me that If he had assurances
of the passage of the District gaso-
line taX-assurances which were be-
yond Question-he should be able to
do it,
Evening star., 1923-11-24
WEATHER.

Partly cloudy and colder tonight; to-
morrow fair.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at pm. today: Highest, so, at
pm. yesterday; lowest, "A. at 3 am.
today.
Full report on>page Z.
Evening star., 1923-11-24
From Press to Home
Within the Hour

Tie Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1923-05-17

Mrs. Eliphelet Fraser Andrews will
also have some interesting Randolph
silver, from Robert Randolph Of East
ern View. and both Mrs. Dickins and
Mrs. Andrews will use the Randolph
coat OF arms as place cards:
Mrs. Dtcktns' guests include Mrs.
Jonn b. Randolph, Mrs. Buckner Ran
dolph, Miss Virginia Fleming Dick
ms, Mrs. Edgar Thurman Brown,
Miss Florence Seville Bergman, Miss
Jennie Mason Gibbes, Mrs. Edmund
L. Tyler. Mrs. William Kearney Carr,
Mrs. A. p. Lee and Mrs. Randolph
Dfckins.
among the guests at the Princeton
table will be Mr.. and Mrs. Winthrop
NJ. Daniels. Mr.. Daniels having been
LOT tWelVe years a professor at
Princeton, before his appointment to
the interstate Commerce Commission.
The great-granddaughte of Jonathan
Dickinson. first president of the uni
yersity; VIII preside. assisted by Mrs.
John Ritchie. The Princeton tiger,
with shield and colors, win be used
as decoration, and Princeton pennants
used as place cards. Additional guests
are Mr.. Henry Davis, Mrs. McEwen
Johnson. Mrs. Sidney Andrews, Mrs.
Z: {. Marbury, Mrs James Turner and
Mrs. Hitchcock.
From the ancient burg of AIexan-
dr1a Mrs. Stuart Jameson assemblies
charming party Mrs. William
Boothe. Mrs. William B. Smoot. Mrs.
D. Mauchlin Niven. Mrs Angus Craw-
(Continued on NJn7E %
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Society
President and Mrs. Harding and Their
Guests, COL and Mrs. Harvey, Attend
dwelling and Horse Show.

company informally at luncheon to-
day.
Mrs. William Graves Sharp. wife Of
few days at the Shoreham, after a
snort visit to her daughter, Miss
Efhe Sharp. at Goucher College, Bal
timore She Will leave today for New
York. where she will spend a month
Shan M,an her daughter Miss Margaret
nefore returning to her home in Ohio
tof the summer
Mrs. Robert l.. Collins. wife OF Col.
Loiilns. Is entertaining a company at
bridge today.
Mrs: Robert L. Lee has returned TO
washington from Wilmington. where
she has been the guest Of Mrs. Fran
els |. du Pont
MI and Mrs Max Surth. who spent
snort time at Wardman Park Ho-
tel. have gone to Hot Springs for the
remainder of the spring Their
daughter. Mrs. Jackson. wife of Com
mander man John p. Jackson. will prob
aoly JOIN them later in 'the season.
commander jackson. who has been
on leave, Will shortly join his shin,
the L. S. S North Dakota. and visit
foreign ports with the Atlantic feet.
Mrs John Hooe entertained a small
company at supper last evening at
lie Paradis. -
Tea at University Club
with Cornell HOstexscs.
At the tea being given this after
noon at the University Women's Club.
1854 ! street, by the women Of the
cornell Alumni Society. the guests
VIII be received by Miss Ruth Put
nam: formerly trustee of the uni
versitE; Mrs. E. E. Slosson. the first
from Cornell: Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mus
sey. who read law there, and several
members of the faculty, who are here
10 attend various conventions.
Dr. 4. Alberta Read will make the
introductions. Mrs. Harrison Stidham
will preside at the tea table. assisted
by Mrs. Harrison Dixon. Mrs w. L.
Saunders. Misses Ruth Hedgcock,
Anna Jenkins. Abbie TinGiey and Jean
Stephenson. Many Cornell men. as
will attend.
Tonight is University night" at the
dramatic fete of the District Pen
Women. and the list Of guests is
headed ne de- by the president OF George
Howard L, Hodgkins and the chan
cellor of American University and
Mrs. Lucius c. Clarke, who will at
tend the performance to be given this
evening by the Rams Head Players
al their playhouse. 132sIs 18th street.
This is the fourth evening in the
series of five evenings of the fete.
now drawing TO a close. and tickets
are still to be obtained at headquar-
terS.
Last evening was Army and Navy
night. and the interesting little the
"a
military and naval uniforms of the
man guests and the dainty evening
attire of the ladies they escorted.
Among the subscribers to the eve
ming. most of whom were present
We're Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Amos A.
Fries, Rear Admiral and Mrs Luther
E. Gregory, Mrs. Rachel Tongate
Beck, past president of the League
of American Pen Women and the
widow of Brig. Gen. Beck; Mrs John
". Ruckman and Miss Marjorie Ruck-
man, widow and daughter of Brig.
Gen. John W. Ruckman: Com
mander c. w. Fisher. L. S. N. and
party; Col. and Mrs. Hugh Matthews,
Col Edward kimmel and party, Mrs.
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EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c. THURSDAY MAY H. 1928

| son: Mrs. William Meade CouilinE.
widow of Maj. .C,ulling. and her
party; Maj; and Mrs Bamserser'
William H. Moses and party. Mr.. and
and party and Mrs. e. A. Brown.
the evening were headed by Mrs. Ella
o. Howard whose son Is at Annap-
oils She was assisted by Miss Cath
crime NJ Miller. Miss Martha z; Con
ter. Miss Ida NJ. Delaney and Mrs.
Mrs. Minnie Downs OF Ticonderoga.
" y. who has been visiting friends
in Washington. left here this morn
ing for Norfolk. Va. to VISIT hef
sister. Mrs. Nealie Prescott Elnsies'
for two weeks.
or the many distinctive tables at
4, the Monticello breakfast. TO De heIo
at Rauscher's Saturday Tor Ihe Mon-
ticello memorial. thirteen VIII repre-
sent the original colonies and each pc
named for some representative or
| that state. Nathaniel Macon has been
chosen for the North Carolinians
, Presided over bv Mrs Marion Butler,
there will be present Mrs. Giimer
Brenizer, Mrs. Ashe from Raleigh, Mrs.
Bryant, Miss Divine. Mrs. Foley, MRS
/, Horne. Mrs. Parhan, Mrs. Small. Mrs
Woodson and Mrs. Butler. The Faison
connection in North Carolina, OF
which Mrs. Butler is one mas spreao
, since the days of the Huguenot an
cestor, whose plantation was for gen.
, erations one of the greatest In the
state. A considerable portion or tne
, original grant remains IN mrs. but
, lers possession still and includes
remarkable old cemetery in the DE.
sign of a wheel. of which the old
Huguenot very properly Is the nun
More like spiders web than wheel,
for the successive generations are
! buried in ever widening circles. and
the whole plan is inclosed by a pic
turesQue wall Of dense cedars and yew
trees. Mrs. Butler states that under
, 70 circumstances will this quaint last
resting place Of her ancestors pass
cut of the ownership of the family,
, though. like most extensive planta-
tions, this one, Elliot, is slowly dis
, integrating.
Mrs. James E. Hurley. a cousin of
j ''Stonewalr' Jackson. and a descend
ant of Col. George Jackson. who was
a member of Congress from Virginia
during the Jefferson administration.
will preside at a table where her
guests will include Miss AWHILE AL
len. Miss Flora Wilson. Mrs. Samuel
Jones. Mrs. John b. Kendrick. Mrs
Stephen B. Davis, Mrs. Rose Craven
er. Mrs John B. Let's Mrs. Henry
Walker HoIcombe. Mrs. William Cor
gas. all connected with the Jackson
line. Miss AWHILE Allen Is the guest
of honor and direct descendant OF the
second member OF Congress. John
George Jackson. who married Polly
Payne, sister OF Dolly Payne, later
the wife of President Madison. The
sisters, Dolly and Polly, rivaled each
other in charm. and have come down
in history as great bellies OF that time.
The Thomas Mann Randolph table.
named for the Randolph of 'Tucka-
hoe" is in charge OF Mrs Randolph
Dickins. and will be graced with in
Evening star., 1923-05-17

was one of twelve loving cups
brought from England by william
Randolph of Turkey Island in 1910.
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teresting Randolph silver. especially
the old loving cup. which always
adorned the table at Tuckahoe. Il
Evening star., 1923-05-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Martin Saw
age will sail June for South Africa.
Mrs. Savage will spend a week at the
Chevy Chase Club before joining Mr.
Savage in New York
Mrs. Lester A. Barr entertained
Evening star., 1923-05-17

Jean Middies. regulation and
other styles; with colored and
plain white collars and cuffs;
slightly soiled: sizes on
s to 22e Values up OYC~
10
Evening star., 1923-05-17

7 HE President will be accompa-
MED by Mrs. Harding and
their house guests. the ambas-
sador to Great Britain and
Mrs George Harvey. for the ceremonies
attending the unveilinG of the Hamilton
statue this afternoon and later they
will occupy the presidential box at the
horse show
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-03-16

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