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Work Ahead for House.

of the House who hail from western
States.
Work Ahead for House.
While the Senate completed its or
ganization Of standing committees at
the outset Of the special session. the
House has yet to make up its commit
tees. except the ways and means COM
mittAe and one or two others. However,
the appropriations committee Of thu
House is already at work getting ready
the big supply bills. which must be
passed during the coming session.
When the Senate reconvenes Senator
Walter Edge, who now has become AM
baSSador to France, will no longer be
in the Senate, but will be succeeded by
David Baird. jr.. recently appointed by
the governor Of New Jersey. The ~
tirement from the Senate of Mr.. Edge
leaves q vacancy in the important
finance committee. which handles tariff
and revenue legislation. The progress
sive Republicans are insisting the place
shall go to Senator La Toilette Of wis
consin, one of their group, and are pre-
pared to fight for It.
How long the coming regular session
of Congress will continue depends upon
future developments. There viii be
demand for as early an adjournment
as possible. because the entire member
ship of the House comes up for election
in 1890 and more than one-third of
the Senate membership. Much de-
ponds upon the legislative program laid
down by the President, the scope of
which has not yet been revealed.
There Is serious talk of some effort
to deal with stock gambling, in view Of
the recent fluctuations in stocks on the
New York Exchange. Senator Garter
Glass of Virginia, former Secretary Of
the Treasury and chairman Of the
House committee when the Federal Re-
serve act was put through Is giving
consideration to q plan to prevent
speculation in stocks through a tax to
be levied on purchases Of stocks when
the purchaser holds the stock only
few days and clearly for q speculative
gain rather than for investment pur-
poses. Another suggestion Is that
law be passed to prohibit short selling"
on the market: to prevent the sale OF
stock which Is not owned by the seller.
The Senate lobby committee. headed
by Senator Caraway, has suspended It's
hearings until after the regular session
begins. 1t Is expected, however, that
the committee viii submit report. or
several reports. to the Senate and may
advocate the passage Of legislation deal 4
Ing with Hobbies and lobbyists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
''Tiger" Fearless Toward Death
Dreamless Sleep Not Very Terrifying and With Neither
Pain Nor Pleasure, Is What He Expects, Cemenceau
Reveals in Last Chapter of His Autobiography.

of every day. When we have COM
pleted our daily tasks, do we not seek
to recuperate in sleep? Death is no
more and no less than sleep. In the
evenings everyone looks forward to the
approaching hours of Inconsistencies.
Insomnia is considered an unsurpassed
evil. How senselesS it is, then, to In
weigh against a state the rhythmic re-
turn of which we value so highly!"
Clemenceau would not be misunder-
stood, however, in creating the impress
sion that he priced unduly the state
of Inconsistencies called death. He
said:
ut would be paradoxical for me to
maintain that life is temporary woe
and death the supreme state of hap
pinesS. 1 do not in the least believe
1t. ! fully appreciate the great achieve
ments OF consciousness with either at.
tendant and inevitable sequence Of 10,
and SorroW--"
Bat these great achievements h.
described, in another portion. as "wisp:
OF smoke which they call glory" and
said that the reason men lay such a
store by them q because they And in
after DEATH"
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| DEAD, z HURT IN WRECK,
speeIal. .,!spatoh to The star.

Special ~!spatch to The Star
UPPLRVILLE, Va, November 23---
One man was instantly killed and two
other persons critically injured when
their automobile crashed into q bridge
and overturned today on the Winches-
ter pike a mile above here.
The dead man is Thomas Buchanan,
IS years old. of Chilhowi, Tenn. The
injured are Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dur
ney of Yonkers, N Y. Buchanan's
body is in the C. w. Wiltshire under
taking establishment here. The in
jured were taken to the Winchester
Memorial Hospital, where their condi-
ton Is said to be serious. Both are
unconscious. They are thought to have
been proceeding to Buchanan's home
from Yonkers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
Nv the AssocIa ted Press.

BY the Associated FTebS.
BOSTON, November 23.-GeorgeS
Clemenceau, veteran French statesman,
who died In Paris, held toward death
the same fearless attitude that he did
toward life, and advised others to learn
to accept it "as we find it." The last
chapter of his autobiography, In the
Evening of My Thought" completed
Just prior to his death and published
here by the Houghton Mifilin Co., re-
vealed the aged Tigers opinion of death
as ORGANIZES sleep" He watched its
approach complacently and with COM
plete approximation.
The chapter entitled "And Hereafter
disagreed with orthodox views regard
ing life after death and criticised as
lacking in balanced Judgment" those
who found such views necessary to
heir happiness on earth.
"A dreamless sleep that is a purely
negative state of unconsciousness, Is
all that we can anticipate of DEATH
he wrote. THAT is not very terribly
ing. An absence of pleasure: an abb
sence of pain. To dread such A state
surely Indicates lack Of balanced
Judgment, since we enter 1t, by no
means without satisfaction, at the end
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
THREE DIE IN FIRE.

ALPENA, Mich, November 2S CP1.---
Three persons were burned to death and
two of eight others who suffered severe
burns are expected to die as the re-
suit of fire which destroyed the farm
home of James Bondette, jr., IL miles
south of Atlanta in Montgomery Coun-
ty last night.
The dead are Peter Hube, Detroit. .
deer hunter: Jack, IA, and Bob, 10,
sons of Bondette. James Bondette, 81,
father of Bondette, and r. r. Wick
ersham of Detroit, q son-in-law. were
burned probably fatally. The owner OF
the house. his wife and four other
children were burned severely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

cipitated by China's action in dismiss
ing and arresting Russian operating Of
flcials on the charge that they were
disseminating propaganda against the
Chinese government
Diplomatic negotiations having proved
abortive and Russians having fired the
first shots, President Chang Kai-Shek
of China July 81 called upon the armies
of which he was commander-in-ch chief
to defend the sovereign rights of China,
saying:
UNLESS we unite in the fight against
red Imperialism our country and our
people will perish"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
Outcome Of Ran QuarreI.

and Fancheng and LaohokoW."
Outcome Of Rail Quarrel.
The condition approaching active
warfare between China and Russia in
Manchuria Is an outcome of desultory
fighting along the border Of Siberia and
Manchuria begun in July as result
Of the struggle of the two governments
to control the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Months of negotiations between the
Marking and Moscow governments ap-
iparently have failed to arrive at q
peaceable settlement, guerilla warfare
began at border towns, becoming in
creasingly violent until today it has as
sumed major importance.
The Chinese Eastern Railway, serving
one Of the richest districts in all China,
is q profitable enterprise. 1t was begun
in 1897, Russians providing the finances.
Completed in 1908 it has served Russia
as a short cut from Chita, on the
Transsiberian Railroad, across Man.
churia to Vladivostok on the Japan Sea.
other branches and connections run
southwark through Manchuria (Chinese
and Japanese controlled) and through
Korea Japanese CONTROLLED.
The trouble over the railway was pre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
RISING TEMPERATURES
FORECAST FOR DISTRICT
Thermometer Gains Are Expected
Today and Tomorrow With
Clouds and Light Rain.

Rising temperatures are promised for
washington for today and tomorrow.
Coupled with this forecast, however,
was the pronouncement by the Weather
Bureau last night, following q study Of
meteorological conditions, that skies
would be mostly cloudy" and that
light rains might be expected locally
tomorrow.
The temperature reading at $50 last
night was 81 degrees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

Automobiles and trucks now furnish
the only means Of quick transportation
into the Aintab, Diarhekie and Malatia
districts Of TurkaH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
RED TROOPS SACK
CHINESE CITIES IN
MANCHURIAN DRIVE
heavy damage on the enemy position
and Fancheng and Laohokow."

CONTINUED From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
CLEMENCEAU DIES
AT TER HARD SIEGE
Tiger of France, SO, Had
Asked That No Women Be
Present at Death.

Continued From First Page.)
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Out Of Politics ut SO.

At So years Of age then Clemenceau
found himself excluded from political
life at the time when his party was at
last gaining the ascendency. He plunged
into literature and journalism. For 10
years his pen was wonderfully active
He contributed articles on literary, ar
tistic and social subjects to a large
number Of Partisan and provincial peri
odtcals. He became the chief contribu-
tor of La Justice, the radical policy OF
which he had, up to that time, merely
inspired.
The Dreyfus affair. beginning in 1894
brought Clemenceau back to the front
The case against the accused officer
caused a political, religious. racial and
social struggle which shook the ma
tional life of France. Clemenceau be-
| lieved firmly in the innocence of Drey.
| fus and, Obtaining financial backing
he launched the newspaper L'Aurore
the chief or ia In the campaign fol
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- n
In 1851 Clemenceau went to Paris to
complete his medical studies, becoming
q house pupil in the Hotel Dieu and,
later, house surgeon in the Salpetriere
Hospital and the favorite pupil of the
famous DIR. Edouard Robin, whose the
iories Clemenceau condensed, organized
and expounded In a clear body of doc
trine in a thesis entitled: de Ia Gene
ration des Elements Anatomiques," a
volume which remains an important
contribution to medical science. On
the strength of this work Clemenceau
was, in 1865, accorded the degree Of
doctor of medicine.
r Paris, In the early eos was In state
of seething political fermentation and
It was impossible for young Clemenceau
to avoid participation In the discussion
and formulation, general among the
students Of the time, of anti-imperial
plots and plans Through friends Of
the family in Nantes he became ac-
squsinted with a soldier Of fortune
named Cluseret, who had served In
the United States with Grant and had
returned to Franc" to enlist aid for
the Northern cause. Cluseret had an
American following which hated the
. Emperor because he had encouraged
tfae--sAcessionists. Speaking English
= Clemenceau was able to converse with
Eauseret,S American friends. and while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
His Pistol Always Ready.

more than $4,000.
His Pistol Always Ready.
Montmartre, in 1872, returned to its
allegiance and sent Clemenceau to the
Paris municipal council. He became,
in turn, secretary, vice chairman and
chairman Of the body. In 1876 he was
elected to the Assembly and thereupon
began a new period in his life.
Although a supporter OF Gambetta
In the early days OF his political life,
Clemenceau, following his entrance to
the chamber, became the deadly foe
of the Opportunist doctrine held by
Gambetta and his followers. He fought
with all his strength against the Oppor-
tunists, using his mastery scholarship
and forensic skill against Gambetta's
fiery oratory.
The foreign expeditions in which
Jules Ferry. in 1882-1885. involved the
French policy were for Clemenceau an
opportunity for new oratorical triumphs
He condemned all wars of conquest and
upheld the right of the natives OF
Tonking, Tunis. Egypt and Madagascar
to control their own destinies without
interference from European nations.
Colonial expansion, the Opportunists
held, alone could revive France after
her crushing defeat by opening new
markets to her declining industries
This Clemenceau would not admit; ag.
erosion aboard, he held, would imperil
| the peace France had SO dearly gained
| One Of his speeches drove Jules Ferry
from power with the nickname Ia
| Tonair"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-30
Opinions Differ EmphaticalIy
Over Export Debenture Scheme

part Of the farm bill it would "mean a
long and bitter fight over that meas
ure, with the strong likelihood of it's
veto IN case Congress insisted upon it,
Senators representing the agricul-
tural interest," according to the In
dianapoliS News, ARE known to favor
| the debenture plan. How far they will
go i'll their support of it is yet to be re-
vealed." The Nashville Banner, how
ever. finds that 1T is evident that farm
relief has stepped to the center of the
stage at the National Capital and is
certain to hold it for some time" The
Bloomington Paragraph expresses the
view, Responsible leaders in both
houses OF Congress would likely line up
behind any measure which is definite
and has the known Endorsement of the
President and his avoWal that he will
do his best to make 1t work"
A different view is held by The Flint
Daily Journal, which concludes: "Presi-
dent Hoover assumes leadership of leg
islation by warning Congress that a di-
vision over the manner of agricultural
relief is likely to imperil relief in any
form. Without entering into
the merits or dement's of any particular
plan for agricultural relief, it was clear
~ the duty of the President to take the
helm in this situation. One is
quite likely to find different brand of
leadership from that which was dis
played by Mr.. Coolidge. 1t is likely to
be more vigorous and expressive"
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nection with this contest over the ma
tional orlgins clause. The American
Legion and number of other patriotic
organizations have backed the national
origins plan. But there are many men
and women who insist that its adoption
would b. sn injustice TO descendants
II some CT tn, best stock which has
acme to settle in America.
President Hoover has taken a stand
against the national origins clause. In
his recent nlecsaGe to Congress. he adj
eocated It's suspension. Unlass Congress
acts before July l to suspend or repeal
Effective at that time. A very pretty
fight has developed in the Senate ever
his matter. Senator Resd Of Pennsyl-
vania, Republican regular of regulars,
is shown fighting shoulder to shoulder
with Senator Heflln and other Demo-
cratic Senators in favor of the rCton-
ton of the national origins clause. SEN
ator Hiram johnson, chairman of the
committee on immigration. who has de-
scribed himself political pariah,"
has aligned himself. on the other hand,
with President Hoover. The immigra-
ton committee. however, has declined
TO report to the Senate any bills OF
resolutions before it for repeal or suS-
pension Of the national origins clause
Senator Nye Of North Dakota has of
fered resolution to discharge the COM
mittce from consideration of bill to
repeal the clause and to bring the bill
directly before the Senate for conSidera-
ton. The tactics of the supporters of
national origins is for delay-anything
TO prevent vote on the question until
after July l. Unless they become con-
WINGED that they have a majority on
heir sidc-which they are not today.
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Ancient Mexican Gods
Statue Put in Museum
BY E. E. FREE. PHI. d.

A nearly perfect statue of one of the
most remarkable gods ever conceived by
human imagination, being whose skin
was supposed to hang from his hands
like turned-back gloves and whose. gap
ing chest was laced together with a
piece Of rope, has been acquired by the
Museum OF the American Indian, in
New York City.
This god is the Xipe Totec. or "fayed
one divinity of the ancient AZtecs OF
Mexico. The New York statue, carved
from hard volcanic rock and standing
nearly yard high. is not only one
OF the best representations of this
divinity to survive the breaking
zeal of the Spanish missionaries, but
it bears the unusual distinction of a
date. carved in the Aztec system on the
back of the figure.
This date itself is remarkable, for
1t corresponds to the year 1907 AID,
which was the year in which the
ancient American ceremony of kjndling
anew the sacred fire of the gods was
celebrated for what proved to be the
last time. Every SO years the Aztecs
and their more civilized predecessors,
the MayaS, begin new calendar period
like the modern division of time into
centuries.
One such celebration fell in 1907. BY
1859, when the date for the next cele-
bration had arrived, Mexico was in the
hands of the SpaniardS and the rule
OF the Aztec gods was over The flayed
god Xipe Totec was perhaps the cruelest
god OF any national pantheon. His wor-
ship involved the slaughter of human
victims, whose hearts were first cut out
with a stone knife and whose bodies
were then completely fiayed; which ac-
counts both for the chest wound tied to-
gether with rope and for the glovelike
skin hanging from the hands, as may be
seen on the image now in New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-30
Statuary Hall.

The imposing statue of the late Sen
ator Robert M. La Toilette placed in
Statuary Hall at the Capitol brings the
number Of distinguished men and women
80 honored to fifty-five and raises the
interesting question of where the re-
naming forty-one statues can be placed
when each of the States takes advan-
tage Of its privilege to commemorate
two Of its sons or daughters. The fig
ures in bronze and marble which now
stand in such imposing array around
the walls Of Statuary Hall are too close
together for comfort. The effect is ex-
tremely depressing. The casual visitor
feels himself in the middle of an i'm
pregnable circle of the great and near
great who surrender any individual
character they may possess to become
merely parts of formidable picture
Statuary Hall has long since taken or
the appearance Of a small room packed
fun of huge -brae.
When this "old hall' of the House
Va Co WdS oGb dSluC iIt 4oO1
to receive from each of the States two
statues of famous citizens, it was evil
IDENTIFY far from the thoughts of thu
legislators that the States would 81
quickly make their decisions, and tina
so many famous men and women would
have been honored by 1929. But NOR
than half of fhe States have alread'
filled their quotas. Future arrivals mus
either be placed behind pillars, we'll GU
of sight. or advance boldly toward tn
center of the room.
Representative George Holden Tink
ham OF Massachusetts, has introduced
bill asking appropriations for the prepa
ration of plans and estimates for neN
and real Hall Of Fame ioc Etc fssc!oAi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-30
Talkies in the White House.

Installation Of apparatus at the White
House for reproduction of sound pic
lures contains unlimited possibilities for
conserving the Presidents health, main
tanning his morale and saving his time.
provided the most practical use Is made
of the "talkies" It is q well known fact,
for instance. that much of the Presi-
dents valuable time is now taken up IN
receiving delegations of citizens, come
either to demand something, protest
against something CT merely to acquaint
the President with variety OF subjects
ranging from the superiority of the
Georgia watermelon to the extraordi-
nary proliiicness and acute hunger of
trout in mountain streams of the Blue
Ridge. Why net allow these delegations,
upon reaching the White House. to do
their expounding to microphone, thus
permitting the President to hear their
messages at his leisure?
Arranged Systematically, such pro-
cedure would undoubtedly work not
only to the advantage of the President
but of the country. 1t is an unwritten
rule now that those who see the Presi-
dent are not allowed afterward to make
public what took place during their
audience. But infringement of this rule
is no uncommon thing. It is done either
deliberately or through ignorance. The
gentleman who comes TO tell the Presi-
dent of the advantages Of Mukwonago,
Wis, as a Summer resort may receive
from him merely kindly nod in ac-
acknowledgement of the suggestion. but
upon leaving the President this gentle
mans imagination may have been so
fired that he will dwell at length upon
the Presidents unbounded enthusiasm.
thus infiicting upon the good people of
Mukwonago the evil effects of boom
i'll real estate.
One may almost visualize the Presi-
dent after busy day and comfortable
dinner hearing and watching at his ease
the proponents or the opponents of one
thing and another who called upon him
during the day. The prospect is made
even more inviting by the realization
that by wave of his hand or the pres
sure of button he could eliminate from
his vision and his thoughts the group of
vociferous ladies and gentlemen on the
screen-and no one would be the wiser.
There were no talkies in the White
House during the last administration
But science marches onward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-30
Potential Murderers.

! The District code is Enthusiastically
! plain in its restatement of the common
! law principle that one who causes death
during the preparation Of felony COM
| mits murder III the first degree. Thus It
| is not only reasonable, but essential to
! the safety of the community, to regard
! the man using the smoke screen as a
/ potential murderer If. in his use of a
| smoke screen he confuses and blinds
pursuing officer, causing the officer to
ride to his death by going over an en-
/ bankment or crashing against some OBJ
ject or brings about the death of a
passing motorist under similar circum-
stances, the smoke screen user is as
guilty of murder in the first degree as
the burglar who, caught in the act OF
burglary and corEered by man with A
revolver, shoots in defense Of his own
life and Stays his pursuer.
On the other hand, Officer Rouse.
now under suspension without pay and
awaiting action ~ the grand jury, has
been savagely denounced by his critics
as q murderer But 1t is difficult to dis
cover murder in homicide by police
man who fired as he says, at the tires
of an automobile during the height OF
the chase and half-blinded By hostile
smoke screen killed by chance a rum
runner. Poor Judgment or lack of dis
cretion in the performance of duty, re-
with mitigating circumstances, seems 10
constitute the maximum of his offenSe.
And it is yet to be decided by any au-
thority that Officer Rouse used either
poor judgment or lacked discretion.
The action of the coroners jury in hold
ing him can be regarded as mere
formality, passing to higher authority
the task of Weighing the elements in
yolved in his case.
Hesitancy on the part of policemen
to effect by any means the capture Of
felons using smoke screens following the
holding of Officer Rouse and the public
humiliation he has suffered renders the
forces of law and order practically i'm
potent in their war on armed and
smoke-screened criminals and shelters
with relative safety the criminals. Upon
the premise that the policeman is guilty
OF murder or manslaughter who kills a
smoke-screen user i'll attempting to APP
prehend him rests the unacceptable con-
clusion that an armed, high-powered
automobile, laden with unlawful whisky
and equipped with an unlawful smoke
screen device, can speed at will and with
impunity through the CITY, endangering
the lives CT automobilists or pedestrians
in the way and running down or blind
ing and choking with smoke and gas
the motor cycle policeman who III the
name of the law attempts to stop it.