Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01

There's a magnificent piece of res
idential property in Washington that
nobody can buy or sell. It's the
former Russian embassy in fashion.
able Sixteenth street--one of the fin
est granite mansions in the Capital.
The Canadian government, this OBJ
server Is informed, was ready to pur-
chase the establishment for it's Wash
ington legation. But when it was dis
covered that proper title is not OBJ
tainable, the deal was off. Both the
old czaris4 government and it's sue
cessor, the Kerensky democratic gov
eminent, occupied the embassy build
ing. 1t happens that both govern
ments were represented by Ambassa-
doris of the same -Bakhmeteff-
though they were not related. After
Senator Borah kicked up a row in
Congress about the status of the
"Kerensky Ambassador" the latter
vacated the embassy. Since then it
has been in the keeping Of NJ. Ughet,
financial attache Of the post-czarist
government, who remains in official
custody Of Russian property in the
United States. NJ. Ughet now has a
81 200, 900 suit pending in the Federal
courts against the Lehigh Valley Rail-
| road Co., covering Russian war ma.
terials under manufacture here and
destroyed In an explosion. for which
German agents were said to be re.
sponsible.
X u y n
Thoughts of Maj Gen. Summerall,
chief of staff Of the United States
| Army, travel back these days TO his
own military career in China during
| the Boxer outbreak 81 years ago He
was young lieutenant of artillery
| then, attached to the famous Reilly
Battery" which blaZed the way for
the entry of the American contingent
into the Forbidden City at Picking.
| Summerall was in command of the
! guns which battered down the cele-
| brated gate through which our re-
| lief forces then poured. 1t was while
standing alongside Summerall, atop
| one of the walls of Picking a day or
| two before, that Capt. Henry j.
Reilly. the gallant commander of the
| battery that bore his name, was
killed by Chinese Boxer sniper.
! Not all American farmers are
broke" this year, for a whole ship
load of them are going to Europe at
| the end Of July for Il tour of the Old
| World. They will sail on the Gun
|
| be filled with the party. The ex-
| petition is being organized by the
| American Farm Bureau Federation
| chief booster of McNary- Haugen
| legislation for the depressed and
down -trodden deniZens of the dirt.
| Officially, the junket is called pill
| grimage." It's to take in the Isle of
Jersey, England, Scotland, Germany,
| France and Denmark. Altogether
| seven countries and nearly fifty
! towns and cities will be visited. The
| tour has been worked out in such
| detail that participants are guar
anteed 1000 miles travel by steamer,
$500 miles by tram and $50 miles by
automobile. Horny handed sons of
| the soil---and their sisters and their
, cousins and their aunts-are invited
| to do" Europe under American Farm
| Bureau Federation auspices for 1856
| apiece.
| Clifford Pinchot, now in Washington
| keeping a weather eye on power
| grabbers." claims he has no political
| plans for the future, but there are
| Pennsylvanians who believe he for
mer governor has very definite things
| up his sleeve. His particular objec.
| tive is said to be the United States
senatorship which he tried and failed
| to capture in 1926. Pinchot's pro-
gram. some of his fellow Pennsylva-
mans aver, is TO get the senatorial
| nomination that will be the bone of
contention in the Senate primary of
4 1928. This is how 1.-The Forester" is
reported to be figuring out the situa.
ton. He is confident the Senate next
| Winter will either reject or expel Sen
ator-elect William S. Ware. If that hap.
pens, Gov. Fisher Of Pennsylvania will
appoint a successor TO Ware. who will
have to present himself for nomina-
| ton and election as soon afterward
as possible. That will be next year.
when the keystone State will indulge