Evening star., 1925-10-18
Capital Sidelights

| Alsatian Huguenots to unsettled
lands lying between the Blue Ridge
and the Allegheny Mountains, has a
proud descendant In Congress in the
person of Representative Walter r
Lfneberger of California.
/ Representative Lineberger boasts a
background of six generations of pio
neer forebears in America, back to
John Leyenberger, who arrived at the
port of Philadelphia on August 26
I35, on the English ship 'Billander
/ ollVer, having immigrated from the
| Vlilase or WittelSheim near MulhouSe)
! Upper Alsace. This pioneer soon mi
| grated to the section of the Shenan-
doah Valley near where Strasburg
| Va, now stands. He finally acquired
from Lord Fairfax 100 acres of land
| on the Little Hawks Bill Creek, near
| What Is now Luray, Page County, Va,
under deed dated september 10, 1749
Prlor to the Revolutionary War John
Leyenberger's son Peter migrated to
Lincoln County in western North Caro-
! ma IN 1888, and Peters son David
| migrated to Tennessee. In the gold
! rush of 1S49 John Lineberger, son
or David, and grandfather of the
! present Congressman, went to Cali
! tornla in sailing vessel around Cape
Horn, and helped To lay the early
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Tor John G. Fremont for President in
the California election of 1856
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| The public school system of the Ma.
| tional Capital will welcome to Con
gress veteran educator and Iegisla
| tor, Robert A. Green Of Starke, Fla
who succeeds the veteran Frank Clark
| VINO served continuously for 20 wears
| Mr.. Green was a high school principa
| Tor many years. He holds life State
teachers certificate and was vice prest-
dent of the Florida Educational Associ.
alton. He was connected with the
FLORIDA legislature from 1913 to 1920,
| in progressive rise from messenger
| assistant clerk. chief clerk, and mem.
Der, TO be speaker. Before election to
Congress he served as Bradford Coun-
| ty judge for four years.
Charles G. Edwards. who is coming
! into the next Congress as successor
! to Representative r. Lee Moore from
! the first Georgia district is an 'old
! timer who has come back. He pre-
Viously served here N Congress con.
| tinuously for 10 years. voluntarily re.
tiring in 1917 on account Of Illness in
the family. He is a big business man
| Of wide experience and was foI. years
| president of the savannah Board OF
| Trade.
| John J. German of Chicago comes
| back To swell The Republican ma jority
/ in the House with Il Gor hinI) decisive
| a nd glorious" victory at the polls. lie
| was defeated for Il seat in the last
Congress by ~ votes. but this time he
has defeated the same Democratic op.
! ponent. James r. Buckley. by 62 SOB
. votes.
Patron Of Pershing'' is what his
! colleagues in the House are going to
call their new member from the
/ fourteenth Illinois district. John {.
! Allen, who takes the place Of William
J. Ora ham. who has become Judge of
| the United States Court of Customs
! Appeals. Mr.. Allen secured the first
, appointment Of John j. Pershing. then
! lieutenant. as instructor of military
| tactics in the Nebraska University.
| He was secretary Of state of Nebraska
| for four years
Legislation for the upbuilding and
proper maintenance of the Washing.
! ton public schools will have the
earnest and expert support o. Mr..
Allen. For many years he has been A
+; member of the State normal school
! board of Illinois. and was for 20 years
! president Of the Monmouth board of
/ education.
Loren f.. Wheeler, 4 veteran mem
J Der of the House District committee
j is back in town, and will re-enter con.
sress in December. He served con
| tinuously for eight years in the House
ana then took 4 temporary vacation
for two years while Representative j
/ Earl Ma ior tried his hand at pleasing
that constituency. Mr. Wheeler is
familiarly known among his colleagues
as Red for very obvious reasons.
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! Nobel j. Johnson. who is going 10
! I'LL the place in the House left vacant
when Everett Sanders quit to become
! President COolidge's private secretary
! has reputation as ticket leader
! He comes to Congress with the largest
! plurality ever given a candidate in the
fifth district Of Indiana.
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An old Washington schoolbov is
coming back to membership in the
/ next House. Ralph +. Cpdike, who
| succeeds Merrill Moores. the long
time secretary of James r. Mann's
| famous committee on committees
from the seventh district of India ma
used to attend Dodd's Army and NAVY
! Academy here. He claims he received
1.-THE largest majority ever given con.
| gressional candidate in his district.
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Still another long-eXperienced edu
Gator who is going to take d particular
interest in our Washington schools is
Albert r. Hall of Marion. Ind. who
filled various school positions as high
| school principal. city superintendent
and county superintendent
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One Of the most striking autobiog
raphies in the next issue of the Con.
gressional Directory will be that OF
John B. Sosnowski. the only new man
in the Michigan delegation, who sue.
cinctly states that he is 100 per cent
Republican, and that's all.
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| George Washi1Aton Universitv's law
department has given us another new
| Congressman, Allen J Furlow who
| graduated five years ago and who
served in the aviation branch of the
| Army overseas during the World War
| He succeeds two famous men in the
House-James A. Tawney, who served
with distinction for Is years and was
then appointed by President Roose
welt as a member of the internationa
| joint commission for the settlement
! of questions between the United States
and Canada, and Sydney Anderson
who came here as a ''rube'' lawyer
and who recently performed tire.
mendously important task in compil.
ing an agricultural census as chair.
man of a joint congressional commit
tee on agricultural inquiry.
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