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ROB TRUSTING ALIENS.
Two Sentenced for Ho1d-Up After
Promising Entry Into u. S.

SARNIA, Ont. November 2s.-
James F. Murphy and Harold Moore
of Windsor, Ont, were found guilty
In County Criminal Court yesterday Of
armed robbery from four aliens at
the village of Sombra on September
81, and sentenced to two years and
six months Imprisonment, respectively.
The two men who, it is alleged, had
contracted to smuggle four aliens
across the river to the United States,
lined up the trusting Hungarians on
the river bank and while one held
a revolver the other went through
the mems pockets, taking $57. They
then left the aliens to shift for them
selves.
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By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. November 20.
"A pretty girl who disappeared
on the night before her wedding,
q worried oom-to-be, and
a rejected suitor were the princi-
pals in a story which has come to
light here, and which may be
placed in the hands Of the police
today to unravel.
Miss Jane Conley, 2s, was to
have been married Thanksgiving
Day to Frank Strear. Philadelphia
real estate dealer. Wednesday
night she disappeared and her
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Conley, has
not heard from her.
Thanksgiving morning. however,
Mrs. Conley received q telegram
from Ashland, Ohio, signed by
A. c. House. who. it was said, was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-29
POLAND TO OFFER u. S.
MINISTRY TO PADEREWSKY
Piano Master Expected to Decline
Opportunity to Represent
Nation Here.

By the Associated Press.
WARSAW, November 29.-Ignace
Jan Paderewsky, the great pianist
and former premier Of Poland, will
be offered the post Of Minister to the
United States, it Is rumored in DO
litical circles. His acceptance, how
ever, is considered very doubtful.
NJ. Paderewsky and his wife are ex-
pected to arrive here today.
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SUCCUMBS
TO THROAT MALADY
Noted 0peratic Composer,
Believed Recovering, Dies
as Heart Gives Out.
v the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, November 29.-Giacomo
Puccini, famous operatic composer,
died at noon today from a throat in
fection following an operation. The
death of the composer was due direct
ly to a heart attack
Coming from a family which for
century and a half produced an un-
interrupted line of famous musicians.
1t was not surprising that Giacomo
Puccini early showed signs of pre-
cociouS muscial talents.
The great-great-grandf Of Puc-
cini, born in 1712, wrote church
music that was highly respected and
was the master of Guglielmi. His
son Antonio, born in 1747. was less
famous as a composer than as
theorist, while Domenico, the third in
line, born in 1771, attained distinc-
tion as a church composer, but was
more famous for his operas. His son
Michele, father OF Giacomo, won fame
for his compositions of sacred music
which We're admired throughout north
Italy. Upon his death in 1864 he was
honored by the composition of a
requiem by Pacini.
Puccfnf Leads Composers.
Puccini was one Of the few COM
posers of recent times whose opera
successes were both numerous and
lasting. AS to numbers he Is match
ed only by MaSsenet, but so far as
frequency of performances is con-
cerned the Italian composer far sur
passes the Frenchman in America at
least. Giulio Gatti-Cassazza, gen
eral manager of the Metropolitan
Opera House, once said Puccini was
the most popular composer with
Americans.
In his youth Puccini was an artist
whose riches were measured in terms
of genius rather than in hard cash.
He lived in an attic where he found
the problems Of existence more baf-
fling than those of harmony and
counterpart.
When Puccini had learned all that
the schools of his native Lucca could
teach him his name won him a pen
sion from the Queen of Italy. This
enabled him to enter the Milan Con-
servatory. Puccini's chief instructor
was Amilcare Ponchielli, at whose
suggestion he undertook the compost
tion of LIE Will" one-act opera.
This was so successful that 1t was
later revised and expanded into three
acts.
Wrote American Opera.
One Of the unfortunate efforts of
Puccini was his Edgar" produced
at the Scala in 1889. Although he
remained silent nearly four years, the
composer atoned for this failure with
his ''Manon Lescaut" This and his
later works. including La Boheme,"
La Tosca," Madame Butterfly" and
THE Girl Of the Golden West" proved
such popular successes that it is sell
dom a season of opera anywhere does
not include one or more of them.
THE Girl of the Golden West" was
the fulfillment of a promise by Puc-
cinf to Americans upon the occasion
of his visit to the United States in
1907. He came to attend the first
American performance Of his "Manon
Lescaut." He was so well pleased
with the reception of his work that
he promised an opera with an Ameri-
can setting. He had read many sto-
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Killed in Wreck of Auto.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK. Nd, November 90
Hurled from an automobile OF which
he had lost control, Louis Shellens,
Is years old, near Frederick, was
killed yesterday near Libertytown
when the machine was wrecked.
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INQUIRE ABOUT RATES.

PHILADELPHIA, November 20
(SpeciaD.-The Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio Railroads have
begun receiving inquiries regarding
transportation for Republican dele
cations which wish to attend Presi-
dent Coolidge's inauguration.
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BY r. A. MACKENZIE.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
RIGA, November 29.-Soviet Rus
sia's system of exile. which was
initiated more than two years ago,
is being increasingly used. Under 1t
people can be arrested without the
ordinary process Of law and sent into
exile without an open trial
During the past year several
thousand persons have been deported
to concentration camps, to villages
Immediately below the Arctic Circle,
or to the fever-haunted swamps of
Tashkent. The exiles include old
Whites, members of the old nobility,
members Of the non -Bolshevist poIiti-
cal organizations, professors, students,
churchmen, intellectuals, young girls
of Is and men and women of 70.
The two largest groups to go re-
Gently were social undesirables, who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-29

One toeek ago today the follotUing
dispatch 1cas handed to the Russian
censor at MoScot1. -Four days later
the correspondent t0ds informed that
1t could not be transmitted. That
afternoon he left MoScoto for Riga,
Lntptd, to take to the 1oorld the
truth about Russia, tuhich q CORE
Spondent may not send from that
country. He gathered his facts first
hand, and they tell their oDn terrible
story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-29
Discuss Housing Status,

Following the address a discussion
on the present housing situation took
place. 1t was suggested by one men,
Der of the League for Industrial
Democracy that too many regulations
on buildings and in connection with
building were in large measure re-
sponsible for the lack Of cheap houses
Among those who will speak at the
mass meeting at Central High School
tonight are: II. B. Low of the Fedora
tion of Federal Employees Unions,
Mrs. Vera Dorman, Mrs. NJ. C. weik-
ert, Arthur Holder, Philip ]. Doherty.
Mrs. E. w. Schwartze and E. H.
Schirmer, president of the Tenants
League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-29
MASS MEETING TONIGHT.
League for Industrial Democracy
Indorses Tenant Action.

Preparations have been completed
by the Tenants League of the Dis
trict for a rally and mass meeting
at the Central High School audi
torium tonight at s o'clock. The gen.
eral public is invited.
The local branch of the League for
Industrial Democracy indorsed the
work Of the Tenants League follow
ing an address by Mrs. Henry c.
Brown, secretary of the league, on
why Tenants League in Wash
ington," at the Penguin Club last
night.
Mrs. Brown said the objects of the
league were to secure permanent rent
legislation, curb imitation of property
values, punish those responsible for
1nf1atlng values, urge a building pro-
gram and create an organization to
look after the interests of the ten
ants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-29
''FrOnt Press to Home
Within the Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
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WEATHER.

Partly cloudy and colder tonight:
minimum temperature about 26 degrees:
tomorrow fair; moderate west and
northwest winds. Temperature for "a
hours ended at 2 pm. today: Highest,
4S, at 2 pm. yesterday lowest, 40. at
noon today. Full report on page 2.
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The Washington times., 1924-07-24

Mrs. Dorsey Richardson has ar.
rived in Washington from Europe
and is staying at the Shoreham.
Later Mr.. Richardson viii join her,
and they will make their home here
for the coming season.
The Washington times., 1924-07-24
SOCIETY NOTES.

Secretary Of Labor James J.
Davis Is In New York for ten days
and Is staying at the Hotel Aston.
The Minister Of Guatemala and
Nine. Latour will entertain inform
ally at dinner Saturday evening at
the Chevy Chase Club.
4 4 4
Mrs. Borden Hartman, who has
been spending a few days here, will
leave today for Long Island, to be
with her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Potter Russell.
Nkk
Miss Frieda Kenyon win spend
the weekend with her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Alan d. Kenyon, at their
summer place on the north shore
Of Long Island. Miss Elizabeth
Can't win accompany her.
Senator and Mrs. George Wharton
Pepper will spend August in the
Maine woods. The Senator who
spent the first of the week in Wash,
ington, has returned to Philadelphia.
Captain Paul v. McGahan will
leave Washington about September
is for visit in st. Paul. He will
leave August 81 to attend depart
ment conventions of the American
Legion In Havre de Grace, Nd,
Greensburg, Pa, Danville, Va, and
one or two other places.
= n A 4
Mrs. Goldsborough Adams has
given up her apartment at the
Marlborough and has left for San
Francisco, where she will join her
son, Lawrence Adams, who is in
business there. She plans to return
to Washington in October.
e w
Captain and Mrs. Harry Baldwin
CAN'T have gone to Fort Howard,
near Baltimore, where Captain
CAN'T is now stationed.
Gordon Lefebre. Of Detroit, is at
tho Hamilton Hotel.
The Washington times., 1924-07-24
GRAYSONS ARE
REYTVTIVG OLD
ESTATE

Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cary y !.
Grayson, who bought the "old
Nourse Place on Wisconsin avenue
opposite Friendship. !" the suburban
estate Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward B
Mclean, about four years ago, are
having the house renovated and M
decorated for their occupancy I'M
the autumn. The beautiful grounds
surrounding the picturesque house
Of stone are also being very much
Improved and the old.fashioned gar
dens are being made even more
lovely.
When Admiral Grayscn pur.
chased this place near the end 81,
the Wilson administration It was
reported that he had done 30 for.
President Wilson, who was then,
looking for q home when his term
Of President would expire.
So tar as I know no one has
occupied the house since the Gray.
sons became the owners and they
have continued to reside ct the
Gordon home at the corner Of Six.
teenth and Q streets-the house in
which Mrs. Grayson, formerly Miss
Gertrude. Gordon was born and
reared, and to which she, as the only
child, fell heiress with the death of
her father, doughty Scotchman.
Admiral Grayson is on q two.
months leave from the Navy. De
partment, which he is spending
with Mrs. Grayson and their three
sturdy boys at Easthampton, =. i.
He has not been well this sprina
and summer and he Is recuperaS.
ing. His close attention to the
late President Wilson made rather
heavy demands on his strength.
However, residence at the resfflii
place out, towards the country VIII
undoubtedly put the finishing
touches to Admiral Grayson's res.
toration to health.
The Washington times., 1924-07-24
SO NE SOCIETY
STAYS TN
TOWN

Just when had arranged in.
mind circunstantiaI evidence to
prove that Washington il getting a
reputation IN society ranks as q
pleasant place for the summer two
OF my best evidences can't bear
Witness Mrs. Harding having left
Tuesday tor her home In Marion,
Ohio, for an indefinite stay, and
Mrs. Richard Townsend having gone
to Bar Harbor Tor ! don't know
how long!
However, I might as well use
the other evidences and make
as good q case for the Capital as
possible.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Oakley Tot.
ten are spending the entire summer
In their delightful studio house on
Sixteenth street. Mrs. Totten IL not
doing much with her art this gum
mer but plans to take It up again
In earnest in the winter. BY that
time the Totten baby boy will
probably have been named and
then she win have more freo time.
TOttens Try To Find
Name For Baby Boy.
Just how to name the boy, who
is most beautiful child. IL q
large part of the family conversa,
ton. Mrs. Totten would like u
name him for. her father-but then
her father had such funny name
| for an American environment thai
she hardly thinks 1t would be con
siderate Of the boys later life Il
name him so Swedishly. And vel
| the mother Is very much drawn
to that name.
Nearby the Totten home is thu
apartment occupied by the artist
Clark Noble, and his wife. both o.
whom expect to be here all thu
summer. They have q delightful
apartment furnished in an original
artistic fashion. and every Sunda.
evening they entertain there in
formally.
Nine. Prochnik. wife Of tn
The Washington times., 1924-07-24

charge ia affaires Of Austria, expects
to stay in town all summer. She
Is, perhaps. the ranking diplomatic
wife who ID elecking to have q va.
cation here, spending her time I'm
the Henderson swimming pool. or
on the tennis courts, or at the
country clubs, or motoring through
the adjoining country Of Maryland
and Virginia.
Mrs. Moffett, wife Of Admiral
Moffett, IL another who finds that
she can be. quite happy though IN
Washington in the summer. And
others are Mrs. Joseph Hines, Mrs.
Truman Palmer, Mrs. Joseph NOEL,
and Mrs. George ID. Hope. Mrs.
Hope had expected to go to Europe
again this summer, but apparently
has changed her plans. FL
Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin was
believed to, have gone for the sum.
mer, but she has come back and IL
to be at Graystone. the suburban
place which she and her husband
are occupying while they are hay.
ing q house built nearby.
Branch Of Anheuser Busch
May Be in Town.
Some rather new people. who
came up from their winter home ii
Florida late in the spring and who
are planning to take Washington
for one OF their homes, are Mr.. and
Mrs. w. M. Busch. They are STAY
ing here all the summer while they
are supervising the finishine
touches to the house which they
have bought at 3O12 Massachusetts
avenue and which they plan to oc
cupy In the autumn.
I have heard that they are tire
mendously wealthy, and / am won
dering IL they are a branch of Ill.
Anheuser Busch. There is on,
child In the family, a little girl.
1 Mrs. Geneyieve Clark Thomson
will return to Washington in a few
days from Summit Point, w. Va
and will again be the guest O
Colonel and Mrs. Breckenridge. tn,
brother.in-law and sister Of Mr.
Thomson.
4 Mrs. Dorsey Richardson has al
rived in Washington from Europ
and is staying at the Shorehan
Later Mr.. Richardson viii join hel
and they win make their home her
for the coming season.
The Washington times., 1924-07-24
jean ELIOT'S NEWS AND GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON
SOME MIDSUMMER SNAPSHOTS

At top, Mrs. Robert
Marion La Toilette and
Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler,
wife Of Presidential and
Vice Presidential nominees
Of new party, snapped in
the garden Of the La Fol
Iette home here.
Center, Nine. Tilmont,
wife Of the Charge DAT
flares Of Belgium, is one
Of the diplomatic set who
will stay in Washington
for the summer, but will
join her husband in Brus-
sells in September
The Washington times., 1924-07-24

invited him in and listened to his
arguments concerning the wisdom
even necessity-uf having In the
home the work Of the celebrated
author on cookery.
Now Lula White never expected
to make any dishes as taught by
Doctor Chase-she was going on
with her musical education-and
cooking-oh, well-anybody could do
that who wanted to or had to. She
bought copy Of the book though
because she liked the college boy
who was selling it.
1t developed thats the college boy
liked her equally, or more so; and
four years later, when he had had
two years to look around for a
congenial niche in the worlds work,
even as Robert La Follette-he
who decided that perhaps after all
than musical ones.
At this time Burton Wheeler, who
had begun life as the son or a shoe
maker in Hudson, Mass, was estab-
lished insecurity in q lawyers office
in Butte, Mont.-having tried few
months in San Francisco and then
In Grand Junction, Colo.
When Mr.. Wheeler was cam
paigning for election to the Senats
1t was very likely due to the help
Of his wife in defeating the propa-
ganda Of the opposition that he
won his way to Washington.
"Baby Snatchers' Club"
Worked Against Wheeler.
One phase of this propaganda
was the organization by some Re-
publican women in Butte Of what
came to be called The Baby
Snatchers' Club" as q little hep
toward defeating the Democrats
candidate. Certain Of these women
went around to the wives of ths
miners mostly foreigners--and told
them that Mr.. Wheeler was \
Bolshevik and Red OF the deepest
dye-and that II he were elected to
the Senate three months later all
their babies would be taken away
from them and the women national.
lied.
When Mrs. Wheeler heard Of
these stories and Inat they were
really being believed she went on
q two-weeks' tour Of the State
az speaker before various groups
A1eA6O
this propaganda. She must have
convinced many for her Husband
won the election.
Shortly afterwards, Mrs. Wheeler
attended q luncheon Of the local
League Of Women Voters, of which
she was q member. The President,
Just elected, happened to have been
the organizer Of the Baby Snatchers'
Club. And so when the wife Of
the new Senator was called on for
q speech as to ''how It felt to be.
la Senator's wife" she replied that,
not having gone to washington yet,
she felt that she hardly had any
impressions, but that she could
tell how 1t felt to be a member
OF a dead League Of Women
Voters" And then followed brief
talk on her ideas Of real Americans
zatiofl.
The result YVES that the Butte
League Of Women's Voters soon
had another president.
wife Goes to. Europe to
Learn About Bolshevism
When Senator Wheeler went to
Europe last summer on a three
months investigating. trip, Mrs.
Wheeler went with him---to France.
Germany, Austria and Russia. She
wanted to get a good look at
Bolshevism. Her observations on
the subject are extremely interest.
ing-but, II discussed too freely,
they might spoil the Senator'S
chances for q diplomatic post some
day-should he ever be q lame
duck"
The Wheeler home In Chevy
chssa hogdsranG an Rock Creek
The Washington times., 1924-07-24

Park, Is one of moderate size sur.
rounded by grounds whore the five
children can play. The children are
being reared to be useful and self
reliant. Even now the two older
boys--John and Edward--are maxi
Ing money for their college educa-
ton by selling papers when school
is over for the day and in their
summer vacations. John still pre-.
fers living In Montana, but tho
others find Washington just as
good.
When John began the study Of
Spanish his mother decided that
she would like to know something
about that language too-so abe
teok a course in It last winter 81.
George Washington University.
All OF the children except Dicks
--lie ts the baby still--go to the
public schools. Back where the
Wheelers came from children only
90 TO private schools when they are
mentally deficient, or ''something
Is the matter with them The
other children are Elizabeth and
Frances.
Senator and Mrs. Wheeler left
this morning for a few weeks raxt
IN Massachusetts, before entering 10.
lively upon the Progressive cam.
paign In which Mrs. Wheeler and
MIS- Ia Toilette plan to have speak.
mG DATA
The Washington times., 1924-07-24
.PROGRESSIVES' WIVES
ARE ELIGIBLE FOR
WHITE HOUSE
Mrs La Toilette and Mrs. Wheeler Share
], With Their Husbands In All Activities.
BY JEAN ELIOT.

Of the the Independent Pro-
grssve ticket have not been prominent figures Washington
For both Mrs La Toilette and Mrs Wheeler admirably equipped
for the social side Of life in the limited Society sense They
taken little part in applied society," because cher nnra
duties elsewhere following out these
factorily they had reward that made them content
The Washington times., 1924-07-24

Assistant Secretary Of Commerce
]. Walter Drake entertained at
luncheon at the Metropolitan Club
today in honor OF His Excellency,
LANG Shin II, former premier Of
China. The other guests were his
secretary, Yen PAX Law; the Charge
d'Affaires Of the Chinese Legation,
Doctor Yung Kwai; Acting Secretary
OF the Treasury Garrard Winston;
Assistant Secretary Of State Le-
land Harrison, and Frank r. Ed
ridge, chief Of the Far Eastern
Division Of the Bureau Of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce of the
Department Of Commerce.
The distinguished visitor who has
been q guest in the city for the
past few days, left Washington later
this afternoon for Niagara Falls
for a short visit. Later he win
visit Chicago, en- route to the
Pacific coast to embark for his
home country.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-27
PUBLISHERS FIGHT
INCREASED RATES
ON Mail MATTER
by United Press Lease Wire

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ii Pro.
posed rate increases on newspaper
and other second class mail are
'tinimical to the development of
the northwest, F. NJ. Hampson, Du-
luth. Mimi, president of the North
west Publishers association, declar-
ed before the senate committee hold
ing hearings on the postal salaries
increase bill today.
Papers Of the northwest are large
" circulated by mail and economic
condition of the region would not
permit increases of from 81 to 50 per
annual subscription which would be
forced by the rate increase to be
absorbed by subscribers, Hampson
said. If the proposed bin to in
crease rates is enacted, many papers
in the northwest will have TO dis
continue their mailing lists, he said.
\ flat increase of five cents per
package on parcel post rates was
advocated by George c. Lucas, di-
rector OF transportation of the Ma
tional Publishers association.
Second class mail cannot stand the
increase proposed by the new postal
bill. Lucas declared.
Laeas charged parcel post rates
were unfair to competing express
companies. He pointed out express
companies We're forced to charge 30
cents for the handling Of each pack
age.
Jess II. Neal, secretary Of the As
sociated Business papers, protested
against consideration at this time Of
the proposed postal increase bill.
Neal criticized the provision Of
postal laws which allows mail order
houses ta1send catalogues by parcel
post.
This is purely discrimination
IN favor of mail order houses against
advertisers in newspapers and peri
odicals,' lie said.
Neal told the committee fourth
class mail was ,Hot earning Il just
proportion Of the cost of handling
all mail and advocated revision OF
the fourth class upward along the
lines proposed in the Kelley bill.
Charles +. jenkins, chairman Of
the postal committee of the Agri-
culture Publishers association, said
the 2S different rates proposed on
the second class mail would result in
great confusion.
Farm journals are now paving .
postal increase OF more than 30 per
cent over the old cent "a pound basis
upon which they were founded he
pointed out.