Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-05

Political lines were ruthlessiy
broken in the Interstate Commerce
Commission vote against the Nickel
Plate merger. Among the seven
commissioners who smashed the Van
Sweringens' dream of a mighty en-
pire of steel rails were five Repub'
leans (Messrs. Aitchison, Meyer.
Esch, Campbell and Cox; one Demo
crat (Mr. McManamy) and one inde'
pendent (Mr. Eastnaan). The one vote
in approval of tho merger was cast
nv Mr.. Lewis, Republican commits
sioner, The three commissioners VINO
did not participate in the decision
were Messrs. Wocdlock and Taylor,
Democrats, and Mr.. Hall, Repub'
lican.
Col. EAnry w. Anderson, who be-
longs x that exclusive and limited
compan1 known as Virginia Repub-
Hcans. ZONES out of the Nickel Pate
controversy with a considerably en-
HANGED reputation. Anderson leo the
fight for the minority stocknoloeIs
of the Chesapeake and ONO. ne
did battle for many months WIN
Newton D. Baker, former secretary
If war. who captained the array OF
eminent counsel which the van o"el-
;npens flung into the breach. In
1oeo Col Anderson made a vigorous
"a n,naign to be Warren G. Harding
running mate as the Republican can
didate for Vice President. Anderson
is now at the head of the American
Mexican Mixed Claims Commission
and recently returned from MEXICO
Citv During the World War he was
American Red Cross commissioner 70
the Balkan states. Five years ago
he made an unsuccessful campals IL
for the governorship of Virginia.
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Mrs Coolidge has just made q
salesgirl in a washington department
store the happiest woman IN the
IYnited states. The other day the
EYrst lady Of the Land went SHOP
Ming for slipper buckles and looked
Of some in the store she Is accus-
toned to patronize for footwear. MrS'
Coolidge didn't make a purchase al
though a clever young clerk qua ner
hest to make a sale of a $l3 pair
without the slightest knoWleoge OIL
the identity of her distinguished Gus
toner. Soon after the episode tne
firm d.
House. reciting exactly what MIS-.
CooIidee's experiences were. and pre-
sentine her congratulations to en-
movers fortunate enough to have
working for them so polite and so
persuasive saleswoman.
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Speaker Longworth's more inti'
innate circle of friends has long
II ,~o,VCino1 fo1nnf HIT II
astonished a dinner party OF Con-
p-ressnen who recently were edited
nv il for the first time. Longworth
not only plays the piano and violin,
hut sings. He also composes-not
only music, but words for songs.
There doesn't seem to be anything he
can't do with fiddle. On the occa-
sion above mentioned the Speaker
held the dinner company spellbound
with a rendition Of "Humoresque"
that Fritz Kreisler might have en-
We'd. Then placing the violin at the
back of his neck, he played on it a
Jig. AS the next stunt Longworth
put his fiddle behind his back and
bowed off a. piece Of jazz. But his
colleagues thought the Speaker was
at his best when he sat down at the
piano and played his own accom-
paniment to a ballad Of his own COM
position about a Bostonian whose
hobby was collecting cast-off gar
ments of kings and queens. Mick"
has been convulsing his cronieS with
that particular ditty since his Har-
ward days in the nineties.
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The United States Senate finally got
the World Court out of its system
after three years of effort. But Mus