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Evening star., 1926-12-28
GEN. PANGAL0S SEEKING
DIVORCE, VIENNA HEARS
Ex-Dictator of Greece Reported as
Blaming Wife for His
Present Woes.
Bv Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1925.

Bv Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1925.
VIENNA, December 2s.-It Is re-
ported from Athens that Gen. Panga
los. former dictator Of Greece, blames
his woes on his wife and is asking a
divorce. 1t is generally believed that
his ambitious wife pushed Pangalos
into seeking power. Pangalos is ex-
pected to be brought before a parlia
rnentary committee of 25 members In
February to answer to a charge of
high treason.
From Saloniki reports have been
received of an anti-government move
ment among the army officers. One
lieutenant has been arrested.
It is also reported from Athens that
Achmed Bey Zogu, president Of AL
bania, is seeking Italian support to
make himself King of Albania.
Evening star., 1926-12-28

A 1,0O0-pound safe, containing about
81 900 in cash, carried by burglars
from the store of the Sanitary Grocery
Co.. at 4413 Fourteenth street, during
the night. was found early today in
"a ravine back of the store, with the
money und!sturbed.
Two picks and an ak lying nearby
and battered hinges gave evidence
that the amateur yeggmen probably
were interrupted in their efforts to
open the safe and made a quick get
away.
When employees reached the store
early today they were surprised to
find the heavy safe missing. Search
Evening star., 1926-12-28
13DEAD IN FLOODS;
LOSS|SS1,0)O,O())
4,O00 Now Homeless, 5000
in Nashville, Tenn, Where
100 Blocks Are Inundated.
BY the Associated Press.

bS the AsSOcIdteu ETtsS
MEMPHIS, Tenn, December 2S.-
Thirteen persons were known today tC
have perished in foods in three South
ern States. Approximately 1000 per
sons were homeless in Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Tennessee and Kentucky
Property damage was estimated al
more than a million dollars.
Six were reported dead in Arkansas
five in Mississippi and two in Tennes
see as direct results Of the food. Three
thousand were driven from their homes
in Nashville when the Cumberland
River overflowed.
The product of thousands of acres
of corn was being transferred fron
the lowlands of Kentucky and Indiana
as a result of food stage being reached
in the Ohio River. Much ungathered
corn has been ruined by flood waters
in these two States
Rain Due Today.
Rain was forecast for every South
ern State today, and while the waters
of many of the smaller streams had
begun to recede, apprehension was felt
further downpours. The forecast fol
tomorrow is generally fair.
Train service has been crippled
Some schedules have been Cancelled
while others have been changed by the
necessity Of many detours. This is es
peciauy true in Tennessee and Missis
sippi.
The brunt of the floods in Arkansas
had passed today.
Lowlands along the Ohio River In
Kentucky and Indiana were just be
ginning to be badly flooded. Alabama
was hit by floods in some sections
but property damage was not as great
as in neighboring States.
Nashville Hardest Hit.
The greatest property damage was
in Nashville, where nearly 100 city
blocks were flooded and hundreds OF
business houses and homes deserted
Great damage was caused to crops In
outlying territory.
Most of the deaths reported have
been due to highway traffic accidents
There have been scores of minor auto
mobile accidents as q result of slip
perry roads. Many highways have
been impossible, some for as long as q
week.
The Mississippi River will be affected
by the floods along its tributaries, ex
perts say, but not to any appreciable
degree, unless unprecedented down
pours occur within the next few days
Evening star., 1926-12-28
DENIES MEXICANS AIDED.
Liberals Agent Sees Diaz Regime
Given Fatal Beating.

MEXICO CITY, December % lP-
Dr. Pedro Zapeda, representative OF
the Liberal government on the east
coast of Nicaragua, today claimed
that the recent defeat of the Con-
servative government troops in the
Pearl Lagoon fighting zone meant the
doom of the government of President
Adolfo Diaz.
lie asserted that the Pearl Lagoon
defeat had left the Conservatives so
crippled in strength that they would
be unable TO oppose the advance of
the Liberals upon Managua, the capi-
fal of Nicaragua. The defeated gov
ernment forces. he said, now would
be forced to seek refuge in the neutral
zone at Bluehelds, where they would
, he disarmed by Rear Admiral Julian
J4atimer, in command of the Ameri-
can naval squadron there.
DR.. Zapeda, who was sent to Mexico
City by DR.. Juan Sacasa, who heads
the Liberal faction, denied reports
from Nicaragua stating that 300
Mexicans had fought in the Liberal
ranks in the Pearl Lagoon battle.
Evening star., 1926-12-28
SENATE MAY SEAT
SMITH AND VOTE ON
OUST|NG HIM LATER
Leaders Agree to Refer Case
to Committee as Soon as
He Is Admitted.
REACTION HAS FOLLOWED
RASHER FIRST IMPULSES
Regular Procedure Now Planned,
With Hearing for Appointee
Before Decision Is Reached.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Under an agreement among Senate
leaders, Frank l.. Smith is expected
to be permitted to take his seat in the
senate under the Illinois Governors
appointment after the holidays, but
with an understanding that the Sen
ate will vote ten days later on the
question of ousting him because of
his campaign expenditures.
This procedure is understood to
meet with the approval of the leaders
of Republicans, Democrats and In
surgents.
The first move will be made to seek
unanimous consent to seat Smith and
refer the case to the elections commit
tee with instructions to report within
FIVE days, with the Senate voting five
days later.
If the unanimous consent is
blocked, Senator Curtis, the Repub-
lican leader, plans to submit q motion
embodying the same proposal.
Evening star., 1926-12-28

responsible. Chairman Madden of the
House appropriations committee, and
Representative r. Walton Moore,
Democrat, of Virginia. representing
both major political parties, are giving
much attention to the suggestions put
forward by McCarl. Mr.. Moore has
already introduced a resolution put
ting the Government business on a
more strictly business basis, according
to the McCarl plan, and Mr. Madden
Is understood to be considering a pro-
posal to enlarge on this suggestion
1t will be difficult for the Govern
ment departments to come out early
in the fight to oppose the controller
general, championed as he is by one
of the most powerful of the admins
tration leaders in control of appropria-
tions. But judging from the com
planning that Is going or. and the
executive objection to the controller
generals restrictions around the de-
partments, it seems likely that when
the time comes this grumbling. which
at times has arisen to resentment
among the departments, may find
some means, Of expression.
When hearings begin on the pro-
posed legislation it is more than like
ly, according to indications, that the
executive departments, which have
Continued on Page 6, Column A.
Evening star., 1926-12-28
RIVERS BECOME TORRENTS.
Heavy Crop and Highway Damage
Threatened In Mississippi.

JACKSON. Miss, December % Up.
Central Mississippi rivers were be-
coming raging torrents today as tons
of water from the North. swelled by
heavy rains. caused many to leave
their banks and threaten heavy crop
and highway damage.
The Pearl River was at II feet in
Jackson and slowly rising today. Rain
continued intermittently today, while
leaden skies forced office workers to
burn lights.
No damage has been sustained near
jackson, but serious property dam
age might result from a continued
rise OF the rivers and streams.
Illinois Central trains from the North
are being detoured over the Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley Railroad be-
cause Of washouts north of Canton
and near Durant. The Yalobusha
River at Grenwia and the Big Black
River north of here were reported
out Of their banks and causing prop
erty damage that will exceed 500, 900
Evening star., 1926-12-28
BOY BANDIT WITH TOY
GUN KILLED BY VICTIM
Companion and Girl, Who Wanted
to Be Bandit Queen" Are
Arrested in Chicago.
~ the Associated Pres

Ty the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 2S. Two
youthful robbers, armed with a toy
pistol, and a girl companion, thrilled
ut the prospect Of becoming a bandit
uueen," met defeat last night at the
hands Of Robert Ray, 90, who shot and
killed one of them and caused the cap
ture of the others. with a real gun
fhey had overlooked when they held
him up.
The youths dragged Ray, postal
clerk, into an alley and robbed him of
SIT. but as they fled TO an automobile
in which the girl was waiting. Ray
opened fire, killing John Renzio. is.
Later Tony Oliver, II, and Eima Craw.
ford, q, were captured.
I The girl said she met the youths at
a. theater and had accompanied them
just. for the thrill Of being a bandit
queen"
II never thought anybody would
get killed." she said. They had only
that little gun. and it didn't look like
that would hurt anybody"
The two admitted several previous
robberies. all accomplished with a
water pistol,
Evening star., 1926-12-28
UNITED ARMy-NAv
BUDGET WAR SEEN
Friends of Military Prepared
ness May Join Stronger Sea
Power Advocates.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Before many days are past, friends
Of adequate military defense may be
found marching shoulder to shoulder
with advocates of stronger naval
ornaments. The Army establishment
of the United States has been system
atically "skeletonized" since the
World War, and suffered in some re-
spects more severely than the Navy
at the hands of the budget and of
Congress.
Public attention having been so con-
spicuously drawn to the needs of the
fleet by the House naval committees
demand for more cruisers, men inter-
ested in the Army's requirements
ehink the time has come to expose the
Nations military deficiencies, as we'll
Senator James w. Wadsworth. jr.,
Republican, Of New York. chairman
of the Senate committee on military
affairs, has long held vigorous views
on that score. It may be that the re-
tiring senior Senator from the Empire
State may convert his swan song in
Congress into a determined drive for
better treatment of the Army.
Year on Warpath.
For more than year Wadsworth
has been on the warpath in that d.
rection. His Gettysburg Address"
delivered at the dedication of a New
York monument on the historic bat
tlef1eld in September, 1925, was a blis-
tering indictment of the starvation"
of the Army at the Treasury's hands.
Senator Wadsworth, who holds to-
day the views he uttered Is months
ago, declares that there is nothing in
this world as extravagant as an ineffi-
cient military establishment" He
considers that the Regular Army 'is
already stretched to the breaking
point. it's units Gust hanging to-
gether, mere skeletons, so greatly
have they been reduced in strength"
insufficient personnel in officers and
enlisted men; aged and decrepit
horses; tens of thousands Of troops 'in
rickety wooden wartime cantonments,
with leaky roofs and saggtng fioors";
not enough gas masks to equip even
the Regular Army; heavy shortage Of
modern airplanes-these are some of
the counts in the indictment which
Senator Wadsworth makes.
If the Bureau of the Budget and
Congress between them should further
reduce personnel or deny required sup
plies and facilities, 1t is the New York
Senator's opinion that 1.-The whole
Army machine. creaking and groaning
as it is today, will break down.
Maj Gen. Charles p. Summerall, the
new chief of staff, has just signalized
his accession to the Office by ringing
Continued on Page 6. Column q
Evening star., 1926-12-28
, N|CARAGUAN MOVE
IS BIPARTISAN, IS
VIEW OF PRESIDENT
Intervention Solely to Protect
American Lives and Prop
erty, He Holds.
MARINES RECALL NOW
BELIEVED TO BE NEARER
Decision on Further Use of U. S.
Forces Rests With Admiral
Latimer There.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
American intervention in Nicara qua
is proceeding strictly along the lines
followed additionally by the United
States in Central America, in the
opinion of President Coolidge.
The only purpose of the American
landing forces is the protection Of the
lives and property of American citi
gems. the White House spokesman said
today, and there is no intention OF
allowing partisanship as between the
Contending forces.
The President believes that Ameri-
can intervention has had no effect in
favor of one or the other of the
Nicaraguan factions.
Marines May Withdraw
Termination of the situation which
led Rear Admiral Julian Latimer to
land American bluejackets and ma
Tines at Puerto Cabezas was thought
10 be nearer today by Washington
observers, after reading the news dis
Z patches and meager official reports
from Nicaragua.
They regarded as particularly sig
nificant, in this respect, the decision
of President Diaz to withdraw the
Conservative government troops from
the Pearl Lagoon fighting zone and
the spread Of neutral zones estab-
lished by Admiral Latimer for protec.
tion of Americans along the east
coast, which has been dominated for
some time by the Liberal forces.
Official Accounts Lacking.
Official accounts of the four-day
battle at Pearl Lagoon, in which the
Diaz troops were defeated, were lack
ing in Washington, but dispatch
from Managua last night placed the
Liberal strength at 800 we'll armed
men as against 1900 in the withdraw
ing force, and quoted the American
collector of customs at Bluefields as
saying 800 MexicanS had been report
ed fighting with the yictorS.
It has been made clear to the Diaz
authorities as Welt as to Liberals that
they must disarm if they enter the
neutral zones, which have been ex-
tended to include El Bluff as well as
Puerto CabaZas, the seat of the gov
ernment set up by Juan B. Sacasa
and recognized by Mexico, and Blue
fields and Rio Grande Bar. Decision
/ a. s to withdrawal of American forces
rests with Admiral Latimer, who has
command of the special service squad.
ron maintained by the Navy in Cen
fral American waters.
Landing Party Defended.
Washington authorities hold that
the landing of the naval forces at
Puerto Cabezas and Rio Grande Bar
does not amount to Intervention in
the Nicaraguan civil strife, but never
theless, agents of Sacasa here and
at Mexico City insist that it is inter
vention and have found a supporter
in that contention in La Nacion, pub.
lished at Santiago, Chile, which said
# was not necessary for protection
tOf Americans, but was deliberate
support Of a government whose legal
1ty is as questionable as that of the
government it opposes in civil war"
The Sacasa agents also charge that
censorship is preventing the public
from receiving news # events in Mic
aragua and is barring messages ad-
dressed to them.
Evening star., 1926-12-28
Commissioners Adopt Stag
gered System of Issuing
Renewals to Motorists.
DATES FIXED TO CALL
HOLDERS IN BIG GROUPS
Limited Response Thus Far Causes
Action on Recommendation of
Traffic Director.

Aroused over the procrastination
or District motorists in applying for
new automobile operators permits,
the District Commissioners today
adopted a plan proposed by Traffic
Director NJ. o. Eldridge TO call in all
outstanding permits on certain fixed
dates. Drivers who fail to apply for
the new permits under this schedule
will suffer penalty in the form of a
fine of $40.
The plan is modification of the
staggered system of issuing permits,
recommended some time ago by Mr..
Eldridge but rejected by the Commits
sioners. The penalty proposed at that
time was fine of $500.
The new schedule for renewals fol
lows:
First Group of Holders.
Holders of permits numbered under
$4,000 must apply for renewal of per-
mits by February /.
Holders of permits numbered from
10000 to $4,000 must apply for a re
newal by March l.
Holders of permits numbered from
$4,000 to 100000 must apply for a re-
newal by April 1.
Holders of permits numbered from
100000 to 100000 must apply for a
renewal by May 1.
Holders of permits numbered
higher than 1S0, 900 must apply for a
renewal by June 1.
Any individual who fails to make
application for renewal of an old per-
NIT within the time specified will, il
found operating on the old permit, be
subject to fine of $40.
Mr.. Eldridge pointed out in his
recommendation to the Commission
ers that the applications for renew
ais are coming into the Traffic Bu-
reau at an average rate Of 240 day
and that as a result approximately
100000 outstanding permits must be
renewed before July 1.
Effect Of Further Delay.
''If motorists continue to postpone
making application for their permits
until the end Of the fiscal year." he
said 1T will be impossible TO search
! the records and issue these permits
before June 80.
F.! 'The result will be that a large
number of drivers will automatically
lose their right TO operate under the
old permit, and must then come in
and make application for a new per
nit, take an examination and give
demonstration as to their ability to
operate an automobile safely.
I'm discussing this matter with
those who had to do with this legis-
lation, l find it was the intention of
Congress to stagger the renewal of
these permits and to pass such rules
and regulations and to provide such
penalties as might be necessary in
order to force motorists to make ap-
plication according to the staggered
plan or otherwise lose their right to
operate"
The new plan was held to be legal
by Corporation Counsel Francis H.
Stephens, who submitted a long re
port 20 the Commissioners in regard
to the compulsory stagger system
Evening star., 1926-12-28
HASN'T ACCEPTED, HE SAYS.
Smith Still Refuses to Verify SmalPs
Announcement.

CHICAGO, December % R).-Ad.
vised today of decision Of Senate
leaders to seat him by unanimous
consent and to take a vote 10 days
later on the question of ousting him
because of campaign expenditures,
Frank l.. Smith, Senator designate
from Illinois, remarked that he has
not yet said he was going to present
his credentials to the Senate at the
short term.
Senate leaders have credited the
assertion of Gov. Len Small that
Smith would go to the Senate soon
after the holidays to present himself
as the appointed successor to the
late Senator Mckinley. Smith has
steadfastly refused to verify this
statement, and said today that he still
had mo comment to make"
Evening star., 1926-12-28
Thieves Take Half-T on Safe With $4,000;
Abandon 1t, Unopened, In Nearby Ravine

Of the vicinity revealed it at the bot.
tom of the ravine.
One of the hinges and the knob
were badly battered, but the burglars
had been unable to open 1t. 1t is
believed that the noise of the blows
attracted the attention Of passersb by
and the robbers had no time to take
the safe with them.
Examination Of the premises by De.
tectives Keck and Thompson and po'
lice of the tenth precinct disclosed
the use of a brace and bit by the
burglars in gaining access to the store
through rear door. Police were sat
isfied that the work was that OF
amateurs.
Evening star., 1926-12-28
FRENCH SOLDIERS TAKE
BLAME FOR CONFLICT
Two Confess Being Intoxicated and
Starting Fight With Ger
mans in Mayence.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 2s.-Investigation
by the French authorities into the in
jury of two French soldiers at May
ence, Germany, early Christmas morn
ing, in a fracas with civilians, has
come to an end with the confession OF
the soldiers involved that they were
intoxicated and had sought the
quarrel.
1t was learned officially today that
the affair, which for a time threatened
to become an irritating subject of
Franco German interchanges, will be
concluded with the punishment Of the
soldiers.
First reports Of the incident said
that the soldiers were attacked and
beaten by a group Of seven Germans
as they left the Mayence garrison
chapel after attending a midnight
mass.
Evening star., 1926-12-28
SENTIMENT SHIFTS SUDDENLY
But "Change" Is Considered Merely
Reaction From First Impulses.
RY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Suddenly there has been change
in sentiment at the Capitol on the sub
ject of seating Col. Frank Smith. Illi
nois. The truth is there has been no
reversal of opinion as to the merits
of the case, but a natural reaction to
the hasty and impulsive methods that
were suggested at the outset for deal.
ing with the case.
And the Republican leaders are re.
sponsible for the decision to handle
the Smith contest with NOR ecare. To
refuse q man a seat in the Senate
without giving him a chance to pre-
sent his case was never likely to have
been approved by majority of the
Senate. To have done so would have
established a dangerous precedent.
All questions that have ever arisen
about the qualifications of members
or the validity of election returns are
referred to a committee before which
the contending candidates or their
counsel have an opportunity to pre-
sent evidence and argue their cause.
1t is now being insisted that at no
time did anybody intend to deprive
Col. Smith of that privilege, but that
he was to have his credentials held
up and then they were to be referred
to a committee.
Procedure To Be Regular.
All that has happened is that senti-
ment has crystalized on procedure
There is nothing wrong with the Gre
dentials Col. Smith will present. The
governor of Illinois has the right to
appoint a man Senator to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Of Senator
Mckinley. SO the Senate has viz
tually come to the conclusion that the
credentials must be accepted.
Then the point arises as to whether
Col. Smith should be permitted to re-
tain his seat. In effect the course that
now is being outlined is one Of ex-
pulsion. For If the Senate, after hear
Ing report from a Senate commit
tee, decides that Mr.. Smith has vio-
lated code Of ethics and made him
self unfit to hold Office, then the de-
NAL of his seat, which would require
a two-thirds vote, would follow
But 1t Is not altogether certain that
when the facts are presented to the
committee and the report is made to
the Senate that two-thirds vote will
be mustered. There are some authori-
ties who contend that majority is
all that is necessary. but the defend
ers of Col. Smith will not lose an op-
portunity to make it as difficult as
possible for the Senate to unseat him.
Col. Smiths case, in a way, affects
both Senator Gould Of Maine and
Senator Ware of Pennsylvania. And
each of the latter two have strong
friends in the Senate who are pre-
pared to wage a battle for the prin.
ciple that all the Senate can be judge
of is the election itself and not what
happens in a primary or prior thereto.
(Copyright. 1867
Evening star., 1926-12-28
Offers to Serve
Prison Term SO
Friend May Wed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ind, December
2S.-Facing a possible ID years
imprisonment for attempted bank
robbery. Russell Hoffman, 20, of
indianapolis has asked to serve
part of n companions sentence so
the latter may wed.
Hoffman, who has been taken
to the Pendleton ReforTnatory,
besought Judge Julian Sharpnack
of the Bartholomew Circuit Court
to transfer several years of Harold
Orr's 10 years to him. Orr and
Hoffman were implicated in an at
tempt to rob the Farmers and
Merchants Bank at Elizabethtown.