Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-08
Current News Events
Summary of Important National, Foreign and
Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the
Convenience of Students.


The House Republican committee
on committees wound up its work by
appointing subcommittee to work
out committee assignments for the
next Congress during the Summer.
Before doing so, however, it decided
to follow the lead of the Senate and
punish the insurgents who broke
away and followed La Toilette in the
last election, by leaving them off i'm
portant committee assignments.
History.
While America rejoiced in the in
auguration of her thirtieth President
last week, Germany mourned the death
of her first President, Friedrich Ebert,
who died from the results of an
operation. President Coolidge and
members of his Cabinet attended
service which took the form of Il
mock funeral here Friday. while
thousands of sorrowing Germans
lined the route of the funeral cortege
in Germany on Wednesday.
The German elections to choose
successor to Ebert will be held
March %. The German President is
elected by direct popular vote of all
persons over 20 years old If the first
election fails to give any candidate
an absolute majority, another cleo
ton is held within two weeks, and
the one who obtains a plurality is
elected. The two most likely can
didates for the office now are Chan
cellor Marx and Chancellor Luther.
The allied disarmament commits
sion's report on Germany's state of
arms arouses much discussion pro
and con Marshal F'och of France
sees in il the fact that Germany is
preparing for war instead of peace.
In Germany the report is not taken
so seriously, public opinion insisting
that the allied governments have
used the report as an instrument to
prolong their occupation of Cologne,
which, under the Versailles treaty,
should have been evacuated.
Soviet Russia, dispatches say. will
direct hunt for the hidden library
of Ivan the Terrible, who ruled long
and vigorously over all the Russias
from 1880 to 1884. Legend has it that
his library contained 500 volumes,
bound in pure gold, in addition to
priceless manuscripts in Arabian,
Persian and Assyrian. The story has
it that at the end of his reign Ivan
was so surrounded with intrigue and
enemies that he hid his library be-
meath the towers of the Kremlin, in
Moscow. Attempts have been made
before to discover its hiding place,
but they have been unsuccessful.
researches in later years
have led to the belief that the library
exists, and the Soviet has sponsored
a project to eNcavate in search of it.
Tsuneo Matsudaira, new Japanese
Ambassador TO the United States
landed in San Francisco last week on
his way to Washington. Il am now
proceeding to your Capital on mis-
sion of peace and good will" he said in
a formal statement. Japan wishes to
live in peace and good will with her
great height Dor on this side of the
Pacific. a sentiment which is no doubt
fully shared by the whole Nation of
the United States
Russias mobiles and landlords"
have been evicted by the Soviet gov
eminent, which last week issued
formal decree ordering them to va
cate all their land holdings by Jan
uary 1, 1926. This extinguishes com
pletely the remaining rights of the
Did regime under the Russian Gar.
Those evicted under the decree are \
TO receive small allotments of land in
distant colonies.
Fifty-two vessels of the battle feet
Of the American Navy modified last
week off the Coronado Islands in the
Pacific Ocean for the greatest naval
ever staged in the Pacific
Another feet, composing some fifty
eight craft, gathered off the Panama
Canal. their duty being to seek out
and destroy" the other fleet
The maneuvers will last two
months. They have been protested
by an element in Japan which see in
them a preparation for war only
against Japan, but the Japanese
government has not opposed the
in any way.
The third earthquake since Hendrix
Hudson sailed up the river which
bears his name shook most of the
Eastern part of the United States
Saturday night a week ago in a
series of tremors which sent the
needles on the seismographS at
Georgetown University far off their
ragged courses and caused buildings
TO shake and tremble in most of the
cities in this part of the county. The
center of the earthquake was about
$40 miles away from Washington. IT.
was caused, scientisists believe, by
the shifting of a large body of rock
IN a great fracture OF the earth'S
surface and known as the Fundian
fault. 1t lies deep in the bed of the
off the Maine coast. Other
scientists believed it to be the shift
ing of another mass in Logan's
fault, in Quebec.
Japan would be willing to join an
arms conference called by the United
States, but should prefer to see the
agenda or program first, according
10 Baron Shidehara, the foreign min
lister, who replied to d question in
the Japanese Parliament last week.
The Turkish government resigned
last week. The cabinet which was
formed last November by Fethi Bey.
premier, has been confronted with
two troublesome issues, the first a
rebellion in Kurdistan by an element
which demanded autonomy, and
second the dispute with Greece over
a.