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Evening star., 1923-12-23
DEPUTIES CHARGE
OBREC0N CAUSED
MEXICAN REVOLT
Manifesto by Chamber Claim
ed to Be Opinion of
Majority.
By the Associated Press.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. December p.
members of the Mexican national
chamber OF deputies and made public
tonight by Ruben Vizcarra, president
of the chamber of deputies and rep
| resentative in San Antonio of Adolfo
dc la Huerta. lays the onus of caus-
ing the revolutionary breakup on
President Alvaro Obregon. The mani
festo claims to embody the sentiments
of a ma jority of the chamber of depu-
ties.
1t declares that the president for
many months has failed to respect the
freedom OF municipalities.
I'm ousting constitutional boards of
aldermen, by direction Of unscrupu-
lous governors supported by the
president. fragrant violations of SOW
ereignty of the states occurred"
The manifesto claims that foresee-
ing the danger of armed conflict. the
ma ajority of the chamber of deputies
appealed to all constitutional re-
sources and protested time and again,
but without avail.
Obregon. IL Is charged, was more
interested in forwarding the cause
of Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales as a
presidential candidate than in the
functions of government for perform
ance Of which he had been elected.
The manifesto charges that Gen.
Arnulfo r. Gomez, with tho protec-
tion of the president, prepared to as
sassinate in mass the members Of the
co-operationista bloc in the house Of
representatives.
Obregon also is charged with con-
senting to and ordering the arrest Of
federal legislators and constitutional
governors. These acts, the manifesto
asserts, have forged an opprobrious
chain which the Mexican people will
break even at the cost of it's blood"
The manifesto concludes with a
resolution expressing accord with the
proclamation of Adolfo de IA Huerta,
subscribed in the port of Vera Cruz
December Z, and recognizes de la
Huerta as supreme chief of the revo-
luton.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
POLICEMAN KILLS
MAN IN GUN FIGHT
Fired at Thrice, Officer Gains Pts
tol and Fells Adversary
With One Shot.

A traffic argument last night at
5th and P streets northwest led to a
fight that resulted in Robert Jack
son, colored. being shot to death by
Policeman w. N. Settle Of the eighth
nrecinct station after the latter had
been severely beaten. One shot pass
ed through Jackson's stomach, kill
ing him instantly.
Jackson was driving an automo-
bile for the A to 2 Business Bureau,
1910 G street northwest, east on T
street. Settle, accompanied by
Young woman, was driving his ma
chine directly behind. After the col
ored man, it is said by the police, had
obstructed Settles passage, the latter
drew up alongside at 9Th street and
called upon him to stop.
Settle was in civilian clothing and
off duty at the time. and Jackson is
said to have violently resented being
called to account. Suddenly the col
ored man was seen to leap from his
seat and swing on the policeman's
neck, both rolling to the wet street
In the struggle that followed.
AS Settle fell, with Jackson on top,
his revolver dropped from Its holster
and the fight from that moment be-
came one for possession of the weap-
on. Over and over In the wet, mud
DIV street the pair rolled. Finally
Jackson is alleged to have obtained
the pistol. He fired three times at
Settle.
In one last, desperate effort the
policeman rushed upon his opponent
and struck him so hard on this chin
that the policeman broke his own hand
Jackson then dropped the gun. Set
tie picked it up, flred one shot
through his opponents abdomen, and
crumpled In the street, weak from
the loss Of blood and injuries he had
suffered in the nght. None Of the
shots fred at him had taken effect.
In the meantime, the young woman
companion Of Settle had tainted. She,
the police and jackson were taken to
Freedmen's Hospital. Jackson was
dead before he reached the hospital.
Settle and the woman were permitted
to continue on their way. No charges
had been placed against Settle at a
late hour last night .-
Evening star., 1923-12-23
President to Greet Macmillan
In Christmas Radio MESSAGE

ing forty-three words of cheer from
President Coolidge to Capt MacMil-
Ian and his crew in the lonely Arctic
solitude, will be sent from Hartford
to Refuge Harbor, North Greenland,
entirely by means of amateur trans
hitting stations.
The presidential Merry Christ
mas" was filed with the Radio Cor
poration of America. reaching its
New York office this morning
The message will be forwarded by
an amateur radio route, which will
take 1t to the Dakotas and diagonal
ly across Canada to North Greenland.
The complete text cannot be made
public, owing to the regulat ton
which provides that messages must
be held in strict confidence.
Capt. MacMillan's schooner, the
Bowdoin, being equipped with an
smateur transmitting station, he is
able to communicate only with anna
teur stations in the United States
and Canada 1t was for this reason
that the Radio Corporation appealed
to the league, asking that the anna
teur organization forward the mes
sage.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
RUM RUNNERS DEFY
REVENUE CUTTERS
SmuggIers Grow BoIder as
Christmas Nears and Fleet
Watches Closer.
Bv the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS. n. j., De-
cember %. The coast guards
mosquito feet of speedy rum-chasers.
Tightening their blockade of the Jer-
sey coast as Christmas draws nigh
and desperate bottle fishermen grow
more bold, have had busy time of
it since last midnight
The aeroplane driven craft
operated by "Al tho Sheik," was re-
ported captured when 1t attempted a
quick dash out to the rum fleet. AL"
one OF the best known bottle fisher
men Of this sector of rum row, was
taken prisoner. charged with being
in possession Of one quart Of Scotch
whiskey. His boat was empty.
Coast guards reported they broke
up rum landing party and captured
small cargo of bottled contraband
off Sandy Hook. when they frightened
off thirty men and boys who ran
down to the beach to help a harassed
government men arrived
Loser In Two Encounters.
The mosquito fleet was the loser in
two encounters with the runners,
however. Coast guards reported they
fired several one-pounders across the
bows of a scudding bottle boat in a
chase that extended from near the tin
of Sandy Hook to well beyond the 12-
pile limit. The last they saw Of the
runner he was hitting toward the
horizon with motors wide open.
Another craft of the government
fleet reported a similar experience
its prey having led rum-chaser a
merry race down the coast, until the
pursued was able to duck into a con-
venient fog bank and disappear.
The brush with the volunteer sal
wage corps of men and boys occurred
off the stone breakwater at the
southerly tip of Sandy Hook, the
coast guard sailors related.
A runner was tearing ashore from
rum row, loaded to the gunwales
with bottles in cases. A cutter got
the scent and gave chase. The run
ner, his high speed motors handi-
capped by their bulky load, realized
he was being outdistanced, and made
for the Hook, where he beached his
craft with It's 200 cases of liquor.
AS the runner hit the beach, ac-
cording to the government men, men
and boys from nearby cottages ran
to the spot and were frantically
tossing cases out of the boat on the
sands when the coast guard men,
having beached their craft out of
sight, surprised the salvagers. They
scattered, with the rum runners
leaving the liquor in possession of
the invaders.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
P0INCARE IS GIVEN
CONFIDENCE. VOTE
Deputies Reject High Cost of Liv.
ing Allowance Bill,
392 to 169.
pv tbe Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 22.-Premier
Toincare won the first stage Of hard
fight in tonight's session of the
chamber Of deputies, when that body
by q vote Of 3s2 to 169 rejected an
amendment of the high cost of living
allowance bill. Tho premier had
made rejection Of the amendment a
question of confidence in the govern
ment.
The amendment, introduced by the
governments opponents, would give
the state functionaries the right to
elect delegates to a commission which
would decide what functionaries
would benefit by the bill. The premier
already has announced that he will
make passage Of the bill a matter of
confidence in the government. A
final vote is not expected before the
early hours Of the morning.
AS it now stands the bill would
give slight increases in the high cost
iof living allowances to government
employees in those cities where the
conditions are severest. To fulfill it's
aprovtsions would cost about 2s0. .oo0,-
moo francs year. as compared with
iabout 1,00o. 900, 900 francs under the
trlsn favored by the opposition.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
q WAR PRISONERS
STEP TO FREEDOM
Only Three Included in Am
nesty Are Held for
Deportation.
By the Associated Press.


LEAVENWORTH, Kan. Dec.mber
22.-Twenty-seven men convicted of
wartime offenses and sentenced TO
the federal penitentiary here were re-
leased tonight. They were among the
thirty violators OF wartime laws re-
Gently pardoned by President Cool
idge.
Three of those who received par
dons were left behind-held for de-
portation.
Before the men left the prison
1881 was paid to them. This money
came from friends on the outside, but
included SIS given by the government.
The men received various amounts.
ranging from 800 to $3.50.
The released prisoners departed for
Kansas City.
The men released were convicted at
Chicago, Sacramento. Calf, and Kan
sas City. James Rowan was under
the heaviest sentence. His term of
twenty years would not have expired
until 1910.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
Russian Actress
Gets 3 Years for
"Insult" to Souiet
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
kHARKOV, Russia, December
22.-Mme. Aksarina, an actress,
has been condemned to three
years imprisonment at hard labor
for insulting" a workmen's DEM
onstration during the celebrating
of the anniversary of the boil
sheVik revolution. Nine. Aksarina
and her husband, a well known
actor and producer, were standing
on balcony while the demonstra-
tors were passing when, according
to witnesses, she was heard to
say: What a rabble. When will
it be over?"
Besides the sentence passed upol
Nine. Aksarina her husband was
dismissed from the Kharkov thea
ters.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
By the Associated Press.


HARTFORD, Conn. December a.
President Coolidge is sending Christ
mas greetings to the north pole.
Winged north by amateur radio at
speed Of thousands of miles per Sec
ond, Merry Christmas" from the
White House will greet a tiny group
Of explorers in their ice-bound cabin
on the top Of the world, only eleven
degrees from the pole.
A short time after he had written a
Christmas greeting to the children of
the United States, President Coolidge
wrote a Christmas message for Capt
Donald B. Mcmillan, who Of all men,
is nearest the home Of Santa Claus
and possibly the first to win the con-
fdence of the old saint
Amateur radio men connected with
the American Radio Relay League,
the radio telegrapherS organization
that has maintained communication
with the Macmillan, expedition, will
start the Coolidge message on It's
4.ooo-mile journey from this city
tonight
The text - ths greeting. contain
Evening star., 1923-12-23
ALBANIAN RULE TOTTERs.

ROME, December 22.-Dispatches
from Albania state that the govern
ment has suffered an adverse vote
of confidence, and that Premier
Ahmed Zagoli will resign.
Professor Guracucci of Scutari is
expected to be called upon to form
q new ministry.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
FORD SUPPORT PAID
FOR, SAYS JOHNSON
Muscle Shoals Trade in Auto
Magnate's Coolidge Plea,
Seen by Senator.

Henry Ford's announcement sup
porting President Coolidge for the
republican nomination and election
was the result of a trade whereby
Ford is to be given the right to
purchase the Muscle Shoals power
project, Senator Hiram Johnson of
California, who is himself seeking
the nomination, suggested in for
NAL statement, issued last night.
Senator johnson also declared that
Mr. Ford was for Mr.. Wilson when
Mr. Wilson was President, and was
for Mr.. Harding when Mr.. Harding
was President. Mr. Ford is for Mr..
Coolidge while Mr.. Coolidge is Pres
ident Mr.. Ford is marvellous
business man"
Questions Ford's Sincerity.
American politics. said Senator
Johnson, presents most interest
ing psychological study. Henry Ford
has declared for Mr.. Coolidge, be-
cause, as he says, Mr.. Coolidge Is
safe. Immediately the part of the
press of the country representing
special privilege. which has always
denounced and caricatured Mr.. Ford
gives him a certificate of character
and, with open arms, welcomes him
to it's ranks.
Perhaps the time is propitious for
Emma Goldman and Bill Haywood
to return, declare for Mr.. Coolidge
and be acclaimed by the same spe-
cial privilege press.
But, in the light of Mr.. Fords pre-
vious utterances, just when did Mr.
Coolidge, in Mr.. Ford's opinion, be-
come safe? On the 18th day of
October, after Mr.. Coolidge had been
in office for more than two months
and when Secretary Weeks had sold
what Ford claimed to be a part oi
the Muscle Shoals project. Mr.. Ford
denounced in unmeasured terms the
Secretary Of War, and, inferentially
the administration, as being under
the control Of private interests, inim.
ical to the farmers, and the Secre-
Continued on Page 2, Column II
Evening star., 1923-12-23
WALTON APPEALS
TO SUPREME COURT
Former Governor Claims
KIan Controlled His Trial
in Oklahoma.

Formal application to review the
of Oklahoma was made yesterday TO the
Supreme Court by his attorneys. f. E.
Riddle and Henry B. Martin.
The petition alleged prejudice by
the Oklahoma senate, which tried the
governor and removed him from office
and by the house OF representatives
which preferred the impeachmen
charges Because of mem bership In
the Ku klux Khan. it was charged
members OF the legislature were
pledged in a conspiracy in advance
to convict the governor.
Case Is Precedent.
Never before has the Supreme Court
been asked to review the impeach-
ment of a state officer. The grounds
upon which yesterdays action was
based was the "due process" provision
Of the Constitution. Gov. Walton
counsel declared he had been denied
due process of law by being tried by
prejudiced judges, a majority oil
whom, it was alleged, were members
Of the Khan.
The petition was presented to the full
court, in chambers. Associate Justice
Van Devanter recently was asked tc
grant a writ in the case individually
but he deferred action. Yesterdays plea
cannot be acted on by the court until
the present holiday recess ends, Jan
uary ..
Chorpes Against Khan,
The Klan was charged in Gov Wal
toms brief with having secured contro
of the Oklahoma government, and, by
the impeachment of Gov. Walton, ol
having denied the people of Oklahoma
protection Various alleged cases OF
mob violence, fioggings and imprison-
ment of citizens by Klan members were
alleged.
The governor, during the trial, pre-.
sented facts. the brief declared, clear
ly showing a conspiracy between a ma
jority of the members Of the court and
an agreement in advance to convict and
remove the executive. 1t was declared
that Gov. Walton was entitled to q
judicial trial and IAN opportunity to be
tried by judges unprejudiced and quail.
fed to sit in judgment"
"The facts averred," the brief con-
tinued, must be accepted on their face
as true. Then the petitioner had nc
trial. 1t was no more nor less than a
party having his case prejudged BY
conspirators under an agreement tc
unlawfully remove him from the high
Office to which he had been elevated by
the people Of the state"
Grounds for Review.
Supreme Court review Of the i'm.
peachment was asked on the ground
that Gov. Walton may not be de-
graded from his high ONCE, with al
the attendant dishonor disgrace and
financial injury, by supergovernment
preiudgment or conspiracy: that the
will of the people of a sovereign
state shall not be strick en- down by
the secret, influences Of any empire,
visible or, invisible"
The impeachment. the brief de-
clared, injured Gov. Walton's name
and reputation and It was added tha,
"the people Of Oklahoma are thereb,
exposed to anarchy, insurrection. and
their attendant evils and subjected te
the government and domination OF
the aforesaid secret society knowr
as 'the knights of the Ku. Ku1
Khan and tho Invisible Empire and
that the will of the people Of tn.
state of Oklahoma. regularly ascer.
tained and declared at their elec.
ton, has been set at naught, stricken
down, nullified and overcome"
Evening star., 1923-12-23
SECRETARY WEEKS ILL,

Secretary Weeks Is confined to his
residence, 18th and " streets, with
an attack of tonsilitis and has been
obliged to cancel engagements to
spend the Christmas holidays in Mas
sachusetts.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
TODAY'S STAR
PART ONE-24 Pages.

General News-Locai, National, Foreign.
National Political survey-Pase 4.
Radio News and Gosslp-Paaes 1s and 10.
Financial News-Pages 20 and 81.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
PART TWO-2O Pages.

PART TWO-.O Pages.
Editorials and Editorial Features
Washington and Other Society.
Tales OF We'll Known FoIk-Page 9.
At the Community Icenters-Pase IL.
News Of the cIubs-Paee 13.
D. A. r. Activities-Paee 13.
Parent Teacher Activities-Paee f3.
Schools and coIieoe-Pase ~.
Army and Navy News-Paee IS.
The Civilian Army-Page IS.
Around the City-Pase IS.
Classified Advertisements-Pa IS to
10.
Art Notes-Paee 20.
Veterans OF the Great War-Pase 20.
PART THREE-l2 Pages.
Amusements-Theate and the Photo
play.
Music in Washinston-Paoe 5.
Serial, "Above Suspicionr-Paoe S.
Motors and motorine-Pases 8 TO 9.
FraternIties-Paees 9 and 10.
o. C. National Guard-Paoe 8.
Spanish War veterans-Pase 9.
Reviews Of New 6ooks-Paee 10.
Young Folks Psse-ti.
Boy Scout-Paoe n.
Girls and Their Affairs-Page II.
Girl Scouts-Page II.
PART FOUR Pages.
Pink Sports Section.
PART FIVE-8 Pages.
MAGAZINE Sectjon-Features and Fiction.
GRAPHIC SECTIONS Pages.
World Events in Pictures.
COMIC SECTION- Pages.
Mutt and JEFF; ResIar FeIIers; Betty;
Mr.. and Mrs.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
ROME TO HAVE, SUBWAY.
Will Run From Tourist Center to
Eastern Limit Of City.

ROME, December 22.-Rome is to
have q subway to relieve the present
congested condition OF the street car
systems.
The subway will radiate from the
tourist center in tho Piazza di Spagna-
The first line will run to Porta Aphia,
at the eastern limits Of the city.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
Revision, Based on Recent
Exchanges, to Be Finished
Within Week.
FEAR OF BRITISH MOVE
SPURS FRENCH PREMIER
Ludendorff- Hitler Outbreak Again
Looms in Bavaria-Von
Kahr Guarded.
Ey Cable 10 The Star and New York Tribune
Copyright 1923.

Ey Cable TO The Star and New York Tribune
Copyright, 1928.
PARIS, December 2e-Foreign Office
experts today began drafting a re-
vised French reparation plan, the
major motive, based on the exchanges
that have already taken place be-
tween Paris and Berlin, being to
bring the two countries nearer to
some kind of an agreement. Premier
Poincare ordered his experts yester-
day to begin work on this plan, and
1t is expected it will be finished with
in another week.
Meantime new German proposals
are expected here Monday. Official
circles are informed that the reich is
stressing its insistence on main
tenance of the status quo in the
1thineland, and is asking France,
now that the republican movement is
virtually extinct there, not to en-
courage even the idea of an au-
tonomous Rhineland state. 1t is un-
derstood that Premier Poincare is
willing to accede to this request.
On the other hand. it is reported,
the reich is willing to offer its great
est efforts toward re-establishment of
inter-allied military control in Ger
many-which the present govern
ment deems necessary.
Fear British Policy.
The French plan is also based on
the possibility, strongly feared here, Of
a radical policy emerging from Britain
under Ramsay Macdonald, and there
fore leans more than ever toward a
direct Franco-German agreement
without regard to England in the
event that Mr.. Macdonald's program
challenges French rights under the
treaty. Mr. Macdonald's succession
to the premiershinp in Britain, Paris
understands, is virtually certain.
AS Premier Poincare announced In
the chamber yesterday, France Is
also preparing instructions for her
experts on the reparation's commit
tees. 1t was frankly stated here to-
night, however that If a labor gov
ernment In England reverses the
Baldwin policy of cooperation, the
tasks of both these committees Will
be not only useless, but undesirable
from the French point Of view.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
RUMANIA WELCOMES
GREEK ROYAL COUPLE
Cheers Given at Bucharest When
They Are Escorted From Station
by Ferdinand and Marie.

By the Associated Press
BUCHAREST, December 22.-King
George and Queen Elizabeth of
Greece arrived here at o'clock this
afternoon from Athens
They reached the port of Constanta
this morning and journeyed to
Bucharest, a distance Of about sixty
five miles by rail.
At Constanta tho king and queen
were welcomed by the Crown Prince
and Princess OF Rumania, and Prince
Paul and Princess Irene Of Greece.
King Ferdinand and Queen Marie,
members of the Rumanian govern
ment, representatives Of the army
and navy. and members of the Greek
colony met them on their arrival in
Bucharest.
The party was cheered as 1t left the
railway station.
King George and Queen Elizabeth
will reside at the royal palace at
Controceni.
ATHENS, December 22.-The
Rumanian minister to Greece. NJ.
Djouvara, has suddenly been sum-
moned back to Bucharest.
Reports that Jugoslavia would adopt
q course similar to that of Rumania
were contradicted by statements in to-
nights newspapers, in which the Jugo-
Nslavian representative declared that his
country had no intention Of interfering
in the affairs of friendly and allied
nation.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
WEATHER.

Rain and colder today; tomorrow
and Tuesday fair; moderate shifting
winds. becoming northwest Tenn
perature for twenty-five hours end
ed at 10 o'clock last night: Highest,
SO, at midnight Friday; lowest, 40, at
10 pm. yesterday
Full report on page II.
Evening star., 1923-12-23

Continued ON Page 2. Column So
Evening star., 1923-12-23
From Press to Home
Within the Hour

The Star is delivered every evening and
Sunday morning to Washington homes at
90 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000
and service will start Immediately.
Evening star., 1923-12-23

COMIC SECTION-4 Pages.
Mutt and JEFF; Res'Iar FeiIers; Betty;
Mr.. and Mrs.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-26
INSANE JEALOUSY PROMPTS
RANCHER TO KILL WIFE
Continued from Page One.)

Continued from Page One.)
usuelly results in death.
The bullet entered the right side of
the head on an upward tangent and
followed the inner dome of the skull,
lodging back of the left orbit. He
appears to be in a dazed condition and
sleeps most Of the time. He put in
a restless period last night, when it
was thought his condition indicated a
turn for the worse.
According to statements made by
the officers and by nurses at the
hospital, there was no odor of liquor
on Maggard's breath, although he
was known to have recently INDUCED
in excessive drinking to such an ex-
tent that his wife, who was employed
as a machine operator at the Gallatin
Laundry company's plant, made a spe-
cial visit about six weeks ago to the
sheriff's office TO tell him of her life
having frequently been threatened by
her husband who, whenever he be.
came intoxicated would insist thai
she evict a boarder who occupied &
room in the Maggard home, and whose
rent money contributed largely to
ward the support of herself and he
~1l-vear-old son, Fred.
Said She Smelled Liquor
Mrs. Boyd A. Shookman, proprieto
of a grocery store next door to tn
Maggard home, said that she wa
positive she smelled liquor on Mag
CARDS breath when he entered tn
place to await the homecoming of hi
wife from her work at the laundr
to prepare the monday meal.
Mrs. L. B. Cubbage, married daugf
ter of the couple, who resides a fe'
doors from the Maggard home, sine
the separation of her parents sever;
months ago, said her father had bee
in the habit Of coming to her hous
whenever he was in town. She tol
of his having complained of the a
rangement whereby John Needy,
farm hand, occupied a room IN Il
Maggard home and occasionally a