Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. rair and co'der tonight, with free jug temperature; tOMOrrow, incréas ing . cloudiness, becoming unsettled by tomorfow night. Temperature for twenty-two hours ed at noon teday—Highest, 54, at 0 a.m. today; lowest, 41, at 7 p.m. il report on page 5. New York Stock Market Closed Tod:y : AY MORNING EDITION ening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Net Circulation, 86214 Entered as second-class matter 2 post office Washington, D. C. , Q 7on No. 730, FANES KIDNAPED IFTER GIVING TIPS [N LAKE MURDERS fouisiana Autherities Start ‘Search for Victim of Un- identified Men. In St. Louis, Washington Agents Assailed in Raid on Monte Carlo. Pretty Girl Swats Charles Grill CALLED FROM BUNKHOUSE | in Evye. TO WAITING AUTOMOBILE Hearing in Dr. McKoin Extradition B the Associated NEW YORK, January 1.—An ex- {tremely wet New Year day—under- | foot—followed the wiriest—from a Case Set for Wednesday Volstead standpoint—New Year eve | ; | that New York ever had. It was also | in Baltimore. turbulent. SLNSRRES L. | Leaden skies wept coplously toda: |over battered hats and smashed bot- | 1.—Tiarold | tles on deserted streets which a few time- | hours earlier were filled with deter- at |Mined- and frequently grimly ugly ated Press. By tie As BAS anuary ved company P a a carbon | which occurred keeper Spyker, was kidnaped Friday night by a party | ©of men and his bouts was un- | Enown, ng to a report received | by Department of Justice agents and | £herift Fred Carpenter. | Sherifft Carpenter returned to ‘Bastrop last night after an investiga- | tion of the kidnaping. He said he| was Informed that at midnight Friday eegeston was called from his quar-| ters in a bunkhouse by men in auto- mobiles, who drove away in the Tarkness with him. The sherift said @ was told there were sixteen men a the party and that they occupied cars from which the se tags had been removed. Was State Witness. T. J. Burnett, £ n the who is i tary g La., four miles south of here, ord fce st person arrested investigation, and il under mili- of murder, was employed at th bon plant at Spyker. He has denled, according to | the auth complicity in the Kidnapir 2 Watt Daniels | &nd T} and | said he expected to prove he was at the the night the ere mployes at| it and re to be used y_him to prove said. Departme agents are said to have 1 Teegeston for some time ht prior to the vestigators he Rastrop ard on a ch Hrit 5 an en 1o call at the expect wit 1stice investigators had re- the whereabouts employe. : about ho will ring on & the the mass of investigators It was timony concermimg dep- anized and masked ore than a year past had wed by th ttorney Gen- It was declared that the | 1d v reveal e ppl ) the kidnaping over by month | iring the 1 that »ands for s office. W hearing de and kill but would resuit rigid investiga- on of other alieged crimes laid at i door of masked bands, mot onty i Morehouse sh- but’ in other ouisiana Mayor Defends Citizens. Mayor A. J. Goodwin of Bastrop is- sued a statement today in behalf of town, “to correct pa she the citizens of hi the false impression the public has obtained of our home country be- cause of the outrage last August, wehich 1, together with the people of strop, most vigorously condemn.” “we are mot a gun- vage people. We are ke the people of the of the United States, Other com- munities throughout the country have had similar tragedies in th t, hut they have not been condemned as @ unit.” He declared that he "can assure v one that life and limb are safe | t order prevails.” ! M'KOIN HEARING WEDNESDAY | Maryland Governor Confers With | Officers on Extradition. ! BALTIMORE, Md., January 1.—| Gov. Alhert Ritchie of this state has | g6t next Wednesday at 1 p.m. for a hearing on the requisition for the Feturn to Louisiana of Dr. B, M. Me- Xotn, arrested here Tuesday in con- | nection with the murders and kid- napings at Mer Rouge last August. This was announced by the gover- | yior afier a conference with Special Deputy Sherift Calhoun of Morehouse | Parish and Chlef Detective James P. | Glynn of New Orleans. The Louis- sana officers arrived here last night with a warrant charging the doctor | with murder, and with necessary ex- tradition papers. Dr. McKoin, it was a yemain in the elty jail until the hear- ing on Wednesday. He has, accord- ing to the prison physicians, almost completed recovery from he cold ! that caused his removal to the prison hospital. 1t _was explained that the public| hearing will be held in Baltimore be- | cause of the fact that the executive | office at Annapolis is too small for | such a purpose. GERMAN SHIP ARRIVES SANS GROVER BERGDOLL | unced, will Close Search of Jupiter, at Pensa- cola, Fails to Reveal Trace of Draft Dodger. PENSACOLA, Fla, January 1.— The German stéamship Jupiter, on which it was reported Grover Berg- doll, war dodger,. had shipped dis- guised as a sallor, arrived in port at P o'clock this morning. Exhaustive searches by soldlers, naval men and Department of Justice agents falled to_reveal the presence of Bergdoll. ‘The captain sal' he was surprised that any such Feport could have originated, as he was at Cardiff Jehien, clsstorsd for Pensacolo londs MACREADY MADE BARONET: LONDON, January 1.—Gen. Sir Novil MacReady has been made a baronet.on the occasion of his retire- iment as commander of the British Foroes in lreland. | merrymakers, who were usually dry, was stated that | Four of the | | n the modern meaning of the adjec- tive, Two hundred federal prohibition enforcement agents and several times that number of policemen and plain clothes men caused New Year to be ushered in with less of liquid cheer inside than ever before. One Knockdown Riot. This was accomplished by a series of raids in the White Way district that_brought many_minor | (Continued on Page 2, 39 ARRESTED HERE INDRY’ NEW YEAR Half Gallon of Whisky Also | Seized in Round-Up by Police. FIND PUT-AND-TAKE GAME | | Players Arrested—*Close i Harmonists” Also Get Free Ride. | 1f the pollce department had extra men out last night to keep Washing- ton “bone dry” during the New Year celebration, they found no more than the usual amount of intoxication and bootlegzing, judging from the num- ber of persons arrested. Thirty-nine men and women ran afoul of the law prohibiting drunkenness, and one lone | raid netted the prohibition enforce- ment squad a negro youth and one- | nalt gallon of whisky. For the week ! end, seventy-three persons were ar-: | rested on charges of intoxication, and | seventy-eight more were taken into | custody for various violations of the rational dry laws. Two of these were charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, fifteen for | drinking {n public places, and the re- | mainder for illegal possession and un- lawful sale of intoxicants, the charges | that are always preferred against boot- leggers. This is a slight increase in the num- ber of persons taken into custody for breaking the prohibition statutes, but the authorities have been waging an unusually hot campaign against such wiolations during the last week. Judging from reports obtained from every precinct in the city last night was probably the tamest New Year eve Washington has ever seen. The infor- mation sheet distributed daily from th office of Maj. Sullivan, which usually occupies three closely typewritten pages, required less_than one-half a | page this morning. It showed a total of 182 arrests on all charges, from 8 o'clock _yesterday morning until 8 o'clock this morning. Of these, twen- ty-two were charged with speeding and twenty-six with other traffic violations. One person was arrested under the narcotic act. Just after the wistle had finished | welcoming the® baby year, Patrolmen ! Jackson and Morrow and Prohibition | ‘Agent Evans swooped down on the | Port Arthur restaurant, 515 9th street orthwest, and arrested two men and | two women on charges of drinking n a public place. They were the only celebrants arrested in_a rald. Four other men were found playing “put and take” in an automobile at 15th¥ street and Pennsylvania avenue, but this was not construed as constitut- ing a raid. After each had “put” $25 collateral at the first precinct station he was permitted to go home. At 18th street and Columbia road northwest @ policeman of the tenth precinet found four men in full even- ing dress, from gray spats to silk top hats, blowing off some of their 1ti-Volstead steam in the form of lose harmon When the police- man suggested in vain that the quar- tet should hire a hall, he took them to the station house, where they were required to post collateral. = That | about ended the New Year celebration | so far as the police department was | concerned. | S | THREE HOURS IN FRANCE | | | Parliament Stops Clock “nfllelt Debating Passage ,of Budget Estimates. By the Assoclated Press, PARIS, January 1.—The dmerencal of cpinion between the scnate Illd; chamber of deputies nominally pro- longed the old year for nearly three hours. The point at issue was wheth- er the provisional credits for Jan- uary and February, which had to be voted before midnight .because parlia- ment had failed to vote the 1923 budget prior to the end of 1922, should be based on the corresponding months of the 1922 or 1923 budgets. The chamber desired that the 1923 figures should be followed, but the senate insisted on the 1922 figures, on the ground that it is yet knew nothing about the budget for' this year, which was still before the chamber. The clocks were stopped while the biil went from tho chamber to the senate and back several times. Fi- ally the chamber surrendered and aocepted the senate's Views ! le | will WASHINGTON, Revelers Rout Dry Agents New York Riots Chairs and China Fly in Fashion- able Hostelry. Leader Refuses to Continue Backed by Reserves. By the Assoclated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo., January 1.—Two men were shot and wounded, a woman was injured and a barrage of chairs, glassware, plates, knives and forks were hurled promiscuously in a riot at the fashionable Hotel Chasegin the west end section of the city early today when guests in* the main dining hall objected to the intrusion of prohibition enforce- ment agents and a squad of police- men, who were searching for liquor. No arrests were made in connection with the disorder, which started when the dry enforcement officers com- menced lifting table covers and searching for liquor. Failing to find any of the contraband, the officers first were applauded, then hooted. and jeered and finally the rumpus was in, swing. It lasted only a short while. | The Chase Hotel, like all the other leading hostelrie aurants, re- ~ (Contin Column 8.) HOUSE MEMBERS VIEW BAD STREETS Commissioners Also Point Out Need of Schools and Playgrounds. HEAD TOUR OF THE CITY | crease in D. C. Appropriations as Unlikely. The District Commissioners today are ng members of the subcommit- | tee on the District budget of the House appropriations committee on a person- | ally conducted tour of inspection of streets, schools and playgrounds in the District to visually lay before thesé members of the House who are draft- ing the District appropriation bill the physical facts regarding the District’s | needs for increased appropriations. Several members of the Board of Trade are included in this party mak- ing this tour of inspection. Chalrman Madden’s Forecast. Chairman Madder of the House ap- propriations committes said today that there is little likelihood of any material increase in appropriations for the District over the budget re ommendations, as it is the general policy of the committee not to ex- ceed the budget recommendations, except in very unusual cases of ex- treme need. There.are indications that in Sseveral items there will be a material reduction from the recom- mendations made by the budget bu- reau. The District appropriation bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next be reported to the House on Thursday, with the expectation that it will be disposed of in the House on Friday and Saturday. Bills Awaiting Acton, Owing to an agreement in the House that the final vote would not be taken on any of the appropriation bills un til after the holiday recess, there are three appropriation bills awaiting a vote in the House on Wednesday. These are for Agrviculture, Interior. and Post Office. Most of the day Wed- nesday will be taken up in the House on these measures. Thursday Chairman Madden expects | that the second deficiency appropria- | tion bill will be passed by tne House. 1 | ! is 132,000,000,000 gold tharks, which | | struction ‘hairman Madden Regards In-; !prime minister, and t Lshru‘gul. | s expected to reach F | lic on the eve of the important meet- | | tions question: B, 0., MON FRENCH ATITUD UNCHANGED ONEVE OF PARIS PARLEY Newspapers Declare Govern- ment Will Not Consent to Reduction in Reparations. BONAR LAW ARRIVES, BUT LAUGHS ASIDE QUESTIONS German Ambassador|Gives Notifi- cation New Propojals of His Country Are \ By the Associated Press. PARIS, January today was awaiting tomorrofw's conference of the allies with the hssurance con- veyed to the public thrbugh the press that_the government's jpolicy had not been changed since thp London con- ference of premiers on|reparations of which the Paris meetjng is a con- tinuation. This policy, as succintly reiterated, has the following for its main features: No redjction of Ger- man reparations witHout a corre- sponding cancellation jof Interallied debt, France being willing to set the example by canceling jsums due her from certain allfes. If such compensatory| action 1s ad- judged impossible, Fraijce 19 prepared to pay interest on her| debt, but not until she has reccived ffrom Germany | the sum necessary for jhe reconstruc- tion of the de ed fregions, which is calculated as about| equivalent to| what France ought td receive from the class A and class {B bonds pro- vided for by the Versaflles treaty. ent conslders | Ministers Argl | the granting | As the French govern of one Is found to hev'}xnpvlmmp. 1s | ve. | i that any moratorium, | due to Germany's faulf, it takes the position that such moratorium | should be for a term jnot exceeding | two years, which iert-firarle as| reofganization of for the G ny’s finances. Mdreover, France is Inclined to maintain {hat the mora- torium should not appjy to the cost of the occupation, the ost of recon- of the devistated region nor lnt‘rlmps to the enjire cash pay- ment. When Mr. Bonar Lay, the British members of | armed with | r filled with bm the Calais Mr. Bonar Law was asked: “Do think the conferehce will be a | the Rritish delegation portfoiios and handbal documents, alighted fr) trai you Suceess “He laughed and exc a question!” He repeaty to the representatives foreign office, who mer [aimed: “What d it in French of the French bly smiled and | German Plan o Lord Curzon, the secretary, has arrived h sanne. Marquis Della Marquis Giuseppe Ra represent Italy at the ference, reached FPari| earlier. Dr. Wilhelm Mayer, ambassador, called at t fice this morning and a Karl Bergmann, the ( cial expert, would bring| Dpropositions on ron::ru(* German government. H. Summary of Financial Situation Ready for Conference. PARTS, January 1.—By courtesy of | the officials of the repgrations com- | mission we are enabled fo make pub- Way. itish foreign lere from Lau- Torretta and &i, who will remiers’ con- two hours the German e foreign of- nounced that erman_finan- to Paris new ons from the rr Bergmann is tomorrow | morning. HOW GERMANY TANDS. | | i ing of premiers in Parlg Tuesday the | following summary of {he status of | the complex and confusing repara- The total German reparations debt figuring the mark at its value of 23.8 cents, amounts to $31,416,000,000. | Of this sum France Is fo receive 53 per cent, Great Britain| 22 per cent, y 1 gium 8 and pther nations | (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Fire Walkers ““Stroll” Through Flames With Pins in Bodies, Repulsive, heathenish rites, includ- iIng barefooted strolls on a pathway of red-hot embers, as practiced today by the “fire walkers” of Malaysi are described by an eyewitness. A E. Iverson, formerly of Takoma Park, now stationed at Singapore as a Sev- enth-day Adventist missionary, in communications recently received by his friends here. “This ceremony of fire walking,” says Mr. Iverson, “usually takes place in the planting season and is sup- posed to insure a bountiful harvest; it also has to do with vows, each per- son making a vow, religious or other- wise, being required to go through this ‘ordeal and confirm it. “First, an excavation was made in he ground, about a foot deep, ten feet wide and thirty feet long. Sev- eral cartloads of wood were placed in this, after the fire had been kindled, and left to burn for about an hour. ‘Walked on Live Coals. Then, just before the ceremony started, the coals were so raked out that they covered the entire excava- tion. These people did not walk through the flames, but through the live coals. “At the end of this bed of coals Was another smaller excavation about the width of the large pit, but three or four feet deep. This was filled with water, and I think they poursd. weighing all of twenty! pounds, sup- (B into this as soon as they wers through | shoulders. in 100 or more gallons of perfectly go0d milk. The fire walkers stepped the fire. I presume It soothed their poor, burned, biistered feet. “Finally all was ready, and the four gods were lifted to the shouders of their carriers, so that they could look down on the people as they walked through the fire. Then it seemed that bedlam reigned. Polico were help- less to kcep order, The, oheors and | that some of them were| o possessed " (Continued on Page lumn i yells were deafening, for as they came in the participants alli wanted to rush through the fire at once. But there were scores of men; to hold them back, and let only a few|in the pit at a time. If they were all allowed to rush in as they wished, some would| be sure to lose their fopting, fall on the eoals, and be trampled and burn- ed to death.. We read hpw in Christ's time demoniacs walked{ through the fire without hurt, and s I watched these poor heathen it feally seemed { of the devil that they idid not even feel the heat of the live coals upon which they stepped. | Stuck Pins in ex. irst came the men. [Some walked deliberately. Some hurried. Some seemed unhurt as they|stepped into the milk and water, buf some faint- | ed. One man I noticed in Dnrtic\llar.: He walked through and then came. back up one side and ddwn the other | before stepping out intb the cooling liquid. In the throng wire some who had long pins thrust through their! tongues; others had Jong needles thrust through one cheek and out through the other. Of cdurse this was to appease the wrath of the gods or! to court their special |favor. Then came some men with pins in_their bodies, stuck through fhe flesh and then out again. Some had hundreds stuck all over their bofiies, some at random, others in the|form of de- signs. Toward the lajt came men who carried large arches of flowers rted over their heafis by hooks ried in the flesk jupt below tI passed the went through any were on before they ‘After the men h Wo! came. witiout flinching, but the verge of faintin, reached the fire, and la numbers fainted as they came| out ‘at - the farther end. One womar stumbled and fell full length in the ifire, but men nearby rushed to the rescue’ {in i coke, DAY, JANUARY 1, 1923—FORTY-TWO CHEER UP., THINGS LOOKED ‘Vamped’ by Divorced Husband, She Says; Sues for $50,000 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 1.—Alexander Carr, who starred in “Potash and Perlmutter,” and now is appearing in a similar production at Chicago, has been made the defendant in a $50,000 | breach of promise suit brought by his divorced wife, Mrs. Mary Carr. it was | disclosed yesterday. The euit is based on charges that Carr, after having | been divorced from his wife, proposed | to her again, and was accepted,| thereafter inducing her to sign a pa- | per which she thought a deed to their Rockville Center, L. L, home, but which, in realtity, was a release of | claim to $17,933 alimony, in which Mrs. Carr heid the actor had fallen | arrears since their divorce in 1919. {e vamped me into it,” the di-| vorcee told reporte 1 didn't sus- | pect a thing. Fancy! 1 have lived | with him sixteen years since our mar- riage in 190 HASTE IN BUYING BRIQUETS URGED Coal Dealers’ Secretary Warns Fuel Substitutes May Soon Prove Vital Need. Calling attention to the fact that the next six weeks will prove the critical period of the winter, as far as fuel is concerned, Robert L. Lewis, secretary of the Coal Merchants’ As- socfation, today advised household- ers to lay in at least a small amount of some anthracite substitute. While it Is true, Mr. Lewis sald, that the coal-burning season is about half over, January and February are the months that make the deepest inroads on the coal pile. The coal dealers have found private families naturally reluctant to take briquets or lump Soft coal while the slightest chance existed to obtain hard coal. But, Mr. Lewis pointed out today, if a protracted spell of severe weather should descend upon Wash- ington during this or next month a small pile of some substitute to mix with the hard coal would look good in any coal bin. All Allotment Not I In thinking of substitutes, house- holders should bear in mind the order | of the Public Utilities Commission that no oonsumer shall receive | throughout this winter more than 60 per cent of his normal supply of hard Coal. Therefore if a consumer is to burn as much fuel this year as he does ordinarily 40 per cent of it will have to be made up of substitutes for_anthracite. This limit of 60 per cent was placed on each house because Washington ! as a whole has been allotted gnly 60 per cent of its usual hard coal re- quirements. And the latest figures of the Utllities Commission show the Distric® is 11,000 tons short thus far of its 60 per cent quota of hard coal, It was stated today by one coal man that many househoids already probably have taken their 60 per cent allotment of hard coal. These con- sumers will have to turn. to substi- tutes when they need another order. Expects Summer Orders. Mr. Lewis expressed the bellef today that the trials and tribulations of this winter undoubtedly will result in many families laying in their coal supply for next summer for the win- ter of 1923-24. Those far-sighted in- dividuals who took that precaution last summer when the coal strike be- gan are patting themselves on the back now. Washington has been extremely for- tunate in the weather conditions that have prevailed thus far, but it is en- tirely too soon, Mr. Lewls sald today, for Washingtonians to forget worry- ing about coal A year ago this city was hit by one of the heaviest snowstorms in many years and it came In the final week of January. Although more than sixty dealers have signsd an agreement to CO-op- erate with the Utllities Commissfon in preventing consumers from ordering fuel from more than one source at a time, it was learned today that there still are more than a score of oon- corns that have not signed such an agreement. The commission {s insisting upon observance of this rule, because it fools that In no other way can deliver- ies be cheeked. And If all dellveries of hard coal -cannot be accurately re- corded the commission will not be able to prevent householders from gett! mc:: than_ thelr 60 per cent of an | constable” Garrison” said,” he learnca JANUARY 1, 1923 “One day since we were divorced he took me motoring in Central Park and proposed again. ‘Yes, Alex,’ 1 told him. It was the shortest court- ship on record. I thought we would forget and forgive. But I was wrong.” Mrs. Carr was granted $10,000 a r “alimony for three years, and | 00 a year thereafter, “when she was divorced from her husband fn| October, 1919, in a suit naming “a beautiful blonde” as co-respondent. A month later Carr married Helen Cunningham, recently of the “Demi- Virgin” cast, who obtained a divorce from him in December, 1921, on grounds of cruelty. On the petition of the first Mrs. Carr, Supreme Court Justice Faber, in Brooklyn last May, ordered Carr to appear and show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt of court for allowing her alimony to fall $17.933 in arrcars. i His attorneys obtained a week's con- tinuance of the case. It was during this week, the divorcee alleges, that her former actor husband reproposed. CHARGES MURDER INSTOVER DEATH Constable Garrison, Hyatts- ville, Scouts Deathbed_ Con- fession of Victim. 1 “It is a plain case of murder. Iam looking for two parties who undoubt- edly will throw some light on the case and expect to make an arrest to-| morrow.” This was the assertion today of| Constable Thomas Garrison of Hyatts- | ville, Md., following a twenty-four- hour investigation of the death of Robert Stover, also known as Bob ‘Webster, who, according to first re- ports, mysteriously shot himself in the home of Frank Hubert at Capitol Helghts, Md., Saturday night. Questions Confession. “I am convinced that Stover did not ) use the gun Wwith which he said he shot himself,” said Constable Garri- son, who has given little credence to the statement the man made on his death-bed in the Casualty Hospital that | the bullet wound in his chest was self- | inflicted, “I know how that confession | was obtained,” he declared. Immediately after the shooting, that “two parties” were seen hastily leaving the Hubert house. One of them, he believes, was the woman who accompanied Stover to the house, and who, according to the story re- lated by Hubert, the only eyewitness, disappeared from the house with a small child and the revolver after the | shot was fired. The other personi was a man, the constable said. Con-| stable Garrison also declared he knew that Stover's death had been threat- | Sunday’s Circulation, 92,481 TWO CENTS. OFFICIAL CIRCLES IN GALA MOODAS NEW YEAR DAWNS White House Closed, But Cabinet Upholds Tradi- tional Hospitality. SECRETARY OF STATE ENTERTAINS DIPLOMATS Annwml Breakfast Brilliant Affair as Bright Uniforms and Beaun- tiful Dresses Give Color. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. ‘Washington is abroad today in gala mood making the capital one of the gayest in_the world, and while the ened. Still Ts Found. o Constable Garrison said the still.| which Hubert is sald to have ad- mitted was in the house, was found in a woods near the place. It had a ca-; pacity of forty gallon H In the cellar of the house, Garrison | declared, he found the contents of | three barrels of rye mash almost knee deep. The barrels had been smashed. In the cellar, he said, also was found a bag of rye grain. MINE MANAGER SLAIN. HENDERSON, Ky., January 1— Police today indicated that a roal miner's hammer, found within sixty feet of where the body of Gus Noff- singer, thirty-four, general manager of the Southland Coal Company, was discovered at his garage door here, Was the most important clue un- covered so far in the investigation of the murder. Noffsinger -was be- lieved to have been killed by a blow on the back of the head. An_ analysis of stains on the ham- mer to determine whether they were caused by blood was ordered. DR. BOWIE TO NEW YORK. NEW YORK, January 1—Grace Protestant Episcopal ' Church today announced that the Rev. Dr. Walter Russell Bowle of Richmond, Va., has accepted its call and will be installed as rector early in March, He will suc- cecd the. Right Rev," Charles L. Slattery, who recently became Bis- hop Cosdjutor of Massachusetts. PRESIDENT SPENDS QUIET NEW YEAR Contrast Between This and Last, When Thousands Were Received, Is Marked. ILLNESS CAUSES CHANGE Mrs. Harding Unable to Stand Strain of Shaking Hands Vith Thousands. was observed quiet- Iy and simply at the White House. The day was in marked contrast to the New Year day at the White House la t one observy- ed by President and Harding in the White House, then alive. From early morning until dusk the President and Mrs. Harding received and extended greetings to thousands. There were high govern- ment officials, diplomats, ranking Army and Navy officers, statesmen and their fami and, most impor- tant of all, there was the long line of 7,000 or more of “general public.” Illness Causes Change. It was different this year. Because of Mrs. Harding’s physical condition it was found necessary to dispense with all_public receptions for the winter. It was a source of great dis- appointment and regret to both the President and Mrs. Harding to have o abandon their idea of again hav. ing the public reception on New Year day, as both of them enjoyed greatly the occasion of 19 In speaking of it the public reception was but wa not only a a revelation and in- spira to them, and that they in- tended to hold a similar reception on each New Year day they are in the White House. But Mrs. Harding had not _recovered sufficiently for her again to stand the ordeal of shaking hands with so.many persons, and jt was nec- essary to call off the reception. Office Force Gets Holiday. Aside from the fact that the office force nd a number of the attaches of the White House-have been given a holiday, today seemed about the same as any other one at the White Hous There was little, if_any, change in the regular routine. The exccutive arose at his customary hour and, after spend- ing an hour or so with Mrs. Hardin went to his desk in the executive office, where for an hour or so he pored over some important papers that needed his immediate attention. Shortly before noon he went to his library, taking with him_a bundle of papers, and, the next hour or so, he dictated lette and memoranda. During the afternoon he recelved in his library E. Mont Reily, governor of Porto Rico, who is in this country on a brief vacation. There are a num- ber of matters of importance concern- ing administration of affairs in island which occupied the attention of the President and Gov. Reily dur- ing their conference, which took a counsiderable part of an hour. Many Messages Recelved. Throughout the day : cheer and good wishes for the coming year were -received at the White House. Many of thesc greetings were accompanied by floral tributes. From long before noon until late in the afternoon friends personally left cards at the front door for President and Mrs.’ Harding. Among the latter were a number of foreign diplomats and officers of the government and of the Army and Navy. A few very close friends were ~received by the President diring the afternoon. Harvey May S top At W’llite House During Stay Here When Col. George Harvey, United States ambassador to Great Britain, who landed in New York yesterday, comes to Washington for his conference on international affairs with President Harding and Secretary Hughes, it is under- stood, he will be a guest at the White House. Although it 1s not known defini- tely when thé ‘““‘errand boy,” as Col. Harvey described himself to newspaper men when he landed, will come to Washington, it is thought by some about the White House that he will reach hera tonight, and that his conference with - the President and the Secreiary of - State will detain . him . in Washing- ton for the greater part of a week. The big house was | fterward, they said | for | White House is necessarily closed on account of the illness of Mrs, Hard- ing, the President'’s officfal family will uphold the traditions of New Year day with accustomed hospitality, The Vice President and Mrs. Coo= lidge wili- receive the whole of the Senate and many others from official society, Ingluding the members of the diplomatie corps following their re- turn from the diplomatic breakfast. They are simply “staying in,” as it were, with no one to assist them in receiving, though their hospltality takes the place, in a measure, of the tra- ditional White House reception, such as the President and Mrs, Harding held a year ago and which marked the opening of the mansion on New Year day for the first time in many years. Secretary Hughes Entertains. The Pan-American Union building is the point of greatest brilliancy, as Lit is there that the Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes are receiving the entire corps at their annual diplomat- ic breakfast and through the emis- saries of the chief rulers of the world. carrylng on an exchange of New Year greetings. Long before the appointed hour of the reception, 12:30 o'clock, the streets about the Pan- American Union bullding were lined with curious pedestrians seeking to catch a glimpse of the members of the corps in their court uniforms al- ways worn on such occasions. There was a breathless pause when each arnbaassador or minister went by in his dazzling array of gold braid, | while the rich scariet cloth coat with {its embellishment of gold worn by {Mr. Brun, the minister of Denmark, {brought ‘forth admiring exclaima: | tions:. | Secretary Sets Precedent. When the corps was a quarter present size it was the custom for |the Secretary of State to hold the New Year breakfast in his own hom but even when the late John Hay was Secretary it had so outgrown the a commodation of his commodious resi dence on La Fayette square that only ambassadors, ministers, their militarg nd naval aides and the charge d'af- aires were invited, leaving unenter- tained the lesser members of the corps. The resort of Secretary Hughes to the beautiful Pan-Ameri- can Union _building last year, with |ample accommodation for the entire corps and the other important guests, {like the foreign relations committes of the Senate and the forelgn affairs committee of the House, members of the cabinet and State Department of- ficials and a few others, proved so successful _that the building again suggested itself for the purpose today. French Ambassador Leads. The. Secretary and Mrs, Hughes stood just within the door of the lofty chamber calicd the hall of the Amer- icas to receive their guests, the dean of the corps, M. Jusserand, ambassa- dor of France, and Mme. Jusserand, being the first members of the corps received. T building was in gala a ion of palms, flowers and flag ‘l! e arrangements for the reception 1 b g made as stately and yet as com- | fortable as possible.” The guests first | to be received, the ranking members { of the corps, w#re taken to the sedond i { | in e floor of the building in the elevators. where they were recelved by Statd Department officials and escorted | through the hall of flags to the re- {ceiving line. Palms were arranged back of the station ken by the Sec- | retary and Mrs, Hughes and decora- | tive trees filled the niches along the | walls of the great cl mber and were | grouped at other points of vantage. i irs. Hughes' Gown. Mrs. Hughes is wearing a graceful, handsome gown, slightly draped, of reseda green, the lower part of the | Skivt of heavy corded silk and the {upper part and bodice of lace in the | same shade, the design carried out in bead One side of the skirt shows a lang panel with beading at the hem line, and the drapery of the right side is held by a handsome ornament. Mrs. Hugh, wearing_for the afternoon {a blac with plumes and a touch | of the color of the gown. Lending an air of hospitality are the two breakfast tables running | s e "sido" of the room, whers such viands as are- usually served at |2 Formal midday feast are enjoyed. plendid ciina, silver and cut glass ! glisten on the fine damask of the | ¢loth, and huge placques of poin- | settias are used as a d. ration. Vice President and _Mrs. olidge and the members of the i cabinet, and their ladies' were among the vefy first arrivals, Mra. Coolidge wearing a handso gowp of peri- | winkle blue crepe heavily embroid- ered steel beads, and a bird of | paradi enlived the hat of seal |brown with its gracefully curved | brim. | Nearly 400 Diplomats Present. | While the French ambassador, | Jusserand is the dean of the corps with the rank of ambassador, Vis- {count W'Aite, who as minister of | Portugal presented his credentials in 1902, outranks M. Jusserand in length of service here, and immedi- ately fcllowed the line of ambassa |dors. Fach staff has preceptibi i grown in the past few years and especially since the first year of the { worla war, and nearly four hundred ! foreign persons included in the diplo- { matic list issued by the State. De- | partment passed in review. M. Jus- | sorand had with him his entire staff, | nis military and navail aides being ia | full dress uniform. . | ""Another familiar figure to those ac< | customed o this brilliant * spectacle was Sonor Don Juan Riano, ambassa- dor of Spain, who first came as & 8ec: retary of legation znd finally 1n 1918 as ambassador, chamberiain to his majesty the King of Spain. Senorn de Riano, his American wifs, and the members of the embussy staft in their resplendent uniforms were with hi the group baing gne of-tha most bril ilant recelved. The ‘ambvassador «f Chile and Senora de Mathicu foilowea, and soon there cyr: zsgdof (Continucd on Page ‘olumn 6.)