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FORCED TO FLEE, - SAYS MRS PHLLPS Hammer Murderess Declares Carsen, at Pistol Point, Made Her Leave Prison, By the Asmoctated Press 3 SAN ANTONIO, Tex. May 31—"T will fight.to the last court tol'win back my freedbm and my. geod name.” Clara Phillips, hammer murderess, de- eélared early this moraing in the Southern Parific railway yards here in an interview with an Associated Press representative. In’ company with her siater, Mrs. Ktta Mae Jeck- son; Undersheriff Fuzene Biscailus and his wife_and Walter Huster. a deputy sherift. Mrs. Phillips reached San Antonlo at {:50 a.m.. en Foute to California to serve a ten-year term at San Quentin for the murder last sum- mer of Mrs. Alberta Meadows. As the train pulled into the station ecial cordon of local officers took arge of the prisoner, while Bis- ilus was besieged: by qln and photographers. il Mrs. PRilitps 1n Sectaston. her {bira. Phillips remained in her state- rjom. She stated that the had not/ Bpt since leaving Touston, where e saw Mrs. Lee W. Phillips, bpther-in-law, and Sadie Phillips. be: gpter-in-law. Leaning against the 4iroen that held her from the liberty A “Which’ she intends to make: a sperate ficht, Clara Phiilins told of e hardships she endured in her mad (co through three nations with Mrs. JFeckson and Jesse Carsen. i According to Mrs. Phillips, she did gt leave the prison at Les Angeles v,glunmrny. but was forced, at the int of a pistol in the hands of Car- n. to climb through the window, afier he had sawead the bars Annoyed by Carsen. ‘During the entire trip from Los Angeles to Honduras, Carsen was brutal to me and to my sister, Etta Mae. In Mexico, especially, where he. #ank a great deal, he not only both- efed us constantly with his atten but made a great deal of trou or us by his actions, which at due attention to our party declared. T am going back now.” she aaded. “f want to win back my freedom and my good name, not the freedom that T 'have experienced during the last féw mont but real freedom 1 want to be able to walk down the street again without having to ‘size up’ every one that approaches me, and feeling that every one is my Will Stick by Sister. Gray of this city, foster fa- ther of Etta Mae Jackson, was at the train to greet his adopted daughter. Mrs. Jackson rushed to his arms, and vested her head on his shoulder for a few moments, and then, turning to a acore of newspaper men, she stated Her intention to stay with Clara until atter had won her fight. my sister and I love her and, more, I know that she is as in nocent as any one, declared Mrs. Jackson. ‘Mrs. Jackson said that people of Honduras were “wonderful” to them, but that despite the desperate strug- gle ahead both she and Clara are ®iad to be back in the United States. RELEASE OF ALLEN _ AROUSES U. S. HOPE (Continued from First Page.) ”""’“’"M!‘SMITH'S MIND OPEN Local Pastor Ends Own Life REV. J. MACBRIDE STERRKTT. AS HEARING BEGINS ON DRY REPEALER (Continued from ¥ deluged him from partisans of hoth sides, and despite a vast amount of 'potitical pressure that Las been bronght to bear. Gov. Smith went up to the capitol seeking more light to guide him to a dceision at the bi- partisan hearing. scheduled to start at noon, eastern standard time. Drys Well Armed. Opponents of repeal were with arguments that to make the re- peal bill law would leave New York State prey to bootleggers, with only a handful of federal agents to enforce a law the enforcements of which, to date. has been done, for the most part, by state forces. Orvilie 5. roland. counsel Anti-Saloon League. had pre- figures showing that state cies. since the enmactment of the Mullan-Gnge act, had dona 25 per cent more enforcement than federal State cour he declared, had brought about 2,843 convictions, While federa courts convicted only 2172 The courts were clear, he said. while ca pending in the Tederal courts had in creased from 1412 at the st of 1922 to 2.563 at the end of the ¥ Chemist to Speak. Dr. Eliwood Hendrick, former presi- dent of the Chemists' Club of New | York. and & lecturer on chemistry at | the College of the City of New York. planned to attack the Mullan-Gage bill as an enemy of industry. A state- ment he prepared for the gov de- clared that while the Volstead act defined as intoxicating liquor the manufacture or sale of which is pro- hibited by the eighteenth amendment only such compounds containing more than one-half of on er cent of alcohol as be used “for bev- erage purposes,” the Mullan-Gage act defines all compounds contalaing more than ome-half of jne per cent! alcohol as intoxicating liquors. l Shown Two Courses. No political pressure was to be ap- plied at today's hearing. Most of it already has®heen applied. The governor has been told that if he signs the repealer he has a good chance to lead the democratic party in the 1924 presidential campaign on a wet platform. He also has been told that if he vetoes the repealer he primed for the { | | miadical corps is stationed at Manila. #8 was on vacation leave in China when, with the other foreigners, he was taken from the Shanghal-Peking ex- press near Suchow on May 6 and car- ried away by the bandits. Ma). Pinger of the ordnance corps also is stationed at'Manila. Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Pinger, ether with the two sons, Robert Alien, jr., and Claud Pinger, jr., were cdptured, but later released. In & letter to the Associated Prees, written before he was moved down from the summit, Maj. Pinger express. ed gratitude that his parents had beén kept informed of his situation. Can See for Sixty Miles. fWhile we can see for sixty miles afound.” he wrote, “we hear only at Jittle gossip percolates from the wmples where the other foreignérs are ‘stationed. Nome of the bandit chiefs come up to the top. We three ae kept busy, correspondence (aking aisubstantial share of the day. We are constantly improving the appea: amce and utility of the ‘Sap Club. omon cooks on a charcoal stove; Allan and 1 alternate at dishwashing, Which we view as a danger because of the water-borne diseases. l“With plenty of food and comforta- vlé cots, we cannot help comparing ofir 1ot with that of the Chinese chil- n captives here. One kiddie's ribs afie sticking out as in famine pie- tdfes. Every time we try to sive thém food the bandits snatch it away. Al the children are unspeakabiy i fijthy. When we first came up they iré moribund, but a few clandestine nitd-boiled eggs have livened them up and seve are constantly hang- ing_around waiting for a chance to ag little favors for me, with the idea of ‘getting_candy, a potato or an exE a$ reward. We are told that the custom is to hold such kiddies for vears, waiting for their folks to earn the ransom, which oftén is as ruch 28:5,000 taels each. If the ransom 18 not forthcoming the youngster is brought up as a bandit. “How can &ny country amount to afiything where such treatment of in- ngoents {8 possible” Maj. Pinger s2id he was preparing a.detalled narrative of his experience the American press. ——— /| PLAN SPECIAL ELECTION. Morth Carolina Governor | Tribute to Mr. Kitehin. By the Astociated Press. RALEIGH. N. C., May 31.—A special eléction will be called in the second congressional district of North Caro- lifa to select a successor to Claude Kitchin, former democratic leader of the lower house. it was announced today at the state capitol. Primaries by both democratic and republican parties may be held first under the 1aw. The special election is expect- ed to be held in about ninety days, on call from Gov. Morrison. » *“Mr. Kitchin will go down in his. tory one of the greatest parila- mentary leaders of thé world.” Gov. rrison said today. “He was g ag a leader of opposition, and un in the history of our.Congress al leader for the government in power and responsible for legisiation. “Very few of the great pariiament- ai'y leaders of history have been great 1n. both oppositicn and powe: J“Mr. Kitchin was widely beloved I:MQ people of this state and of the ngtion. Pays I regarded him as one of the iy great of the United States. yThe governor and members of the T men uncil of state mdnf ordered t s on all state bulldings lowered —— { MORE GIVE TO FUND. Two more -subseripitions to The ‘s ‘“Memorial day fund,” which ught the total amount to 3766.40, Pll sreby ok oWl Mrs. Al i n, has & good chance to lead the demo- | cratic party in the 1924 presidential | campaign on a wet platform. The difference is that one set of advisers professes to think he could make himself more popular by striking the wet keynote with signature of the re- peal act, while the other says he ought to veto the repealer to show his respect for the eighteenth amend- ment and the Volstead act as long as ; they stand, and then seek the presi- | dential nomination on a platform | almed at their modification. Opposition to the repeal of the Mullan-Gage _state prohibition en- | orcemént law was expressed by Col. ! William Hayward, United States dis- trict attorney for the southern dis- trict of New York, at the hearing be- fore Gov. Smith’ in the assembly chamber here today ‘Asgerting that he appeared without the knowledge of President Harding or Attorney General Daugherty, he daclared that “the repeal of the Mul- lan-Gage act would be but a gesture, futile so far as legalizing beer is concerned, but vicious in that it would invite in the state the manufacture, sale and transportation of the worst kind of poisonous liquors. Cites Danger of Repeal. he_Cavilller act,” he continued, “is no lawful charter for beer, but an outlaw charter fof bootlegging, With its three handmaidens—-perjury, forg- ery and bribery; three heiniots, de- testable and dangerous crimes, the perpetration of which may deprive an Innocent man or woman of life, liberty or good name, and yet every one who buys from & bootlegger must nacesearily have induced some person to become a felon and to commit one or all of these orimes. It would also withdraw the state inhibi- tion against that ancient enemy of mankind — the intoxicating liquor saloon. “I need not point out that the federal ameéndments and the national and state prohibition acts are the culmination of a century of Atruggle, experiment and thought on the liquor question. Before national prohibi- tion thirty-two sovereign states of the Union had gone dry, acting in- dependently. All but one state have state enforcement codes to assist the federal government. he question today is whether the great Empire state, having put its hand to the plow, will now turn back. t seems to me that repeal would be serving notice, not only to the police and Gther officers of this stat 1of the people, that we were | affirmatively disinterested in the enforcement of the federal law. ‘Wouwld Overwhelm. ‘The machinery for federal .enforce- ment in this state consists of about one dosen judmes, a half dozen United States commissioners and about 200 federsl prohibition agents. The ma- | chinéry of the state, which it is pro- posed “to neutralise in the great war for law enmforcement, consists of 268 | mitted THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSD AY, MAY 31, 1923.- Neck, Halifax county, to take a long rest. STRIKES IN RUHR - HAVE RUN COURSE Recurrence of - Communist Outbreak on Larger Scale Is Predicted. By the Associated Press. DUESSELDORF, May 31.—The Ruhr strikes, affecting a half million work- ers, have apparently ail but run their coursés. The men are returning to their labors by the thousands and it is predicted that by next week most of them will have so far recovered from the effects of the recent dis- turbances that they will go back to the plants, | The need for an adequate police force, called strikingly to the atten- tion of the authorities by the recent serlous demonsirations, is 0 he met by reorganization of local police. hese forces, however, will be sul ject to the restrictions of the French. THREAT STILL EXISTS. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. opyright, 1923 COLOGNE, May 31.—With the sup- pression of the communist uprising in Bochum the labor troubles in the Ruhr are virtually ended, tnough the conditions which created them con- tinue. The Bochum confllct never reached the stage of a decisive struggle. It was essentially a maneuver for posi- tlon and the concentration of arms. The whole battle conslsted of cau- tlous sentry firing, and from all over the Ruhr rms and reinforcements ere rushed to Bochum. The reds saw that the whites had won the bet- ter position and gradually dissolved with a Ittle shooting and leaving the whites in possession of the town. It 1= uncertain whether the red) lice in Gelsenkirchen and Watten- | scheid will dissolve without a strug- gle. but it is generally belleved that { nobody wants any further fighting The import of the Ruhr incidents | last week ma easily be exaggerated. Fundamentally they were not “com- munist uprisings,” but a revolt of the hunger driven population, in which a minority of communists took the most spectacular part. The real vil- lain. according to the German view, is dollar,” which persists in and raising prices with it ges lag behind. This made conditions intolerable to the majority of the working people, who entercd upou a general strike asking the advice of their unions. he communists. who are! shrewd politiclans, sought to direct the movement with two slogans, lhe‘ first lower food prices and the sec- | ond workers' police to enforce them. The conflic at Muelheim and Gel- senkirchen were spontaneous and | were conducted with “billles” and a fow firearms. but when the situation hegan to look serious both sides con centrated in Bochum, where the whites won in the race to gather firearms. Hence the communists ad- defeat and the whole move- ment collapsed , The insurrection episode is virtually ended for the moment, but. as pre- viously noted. the conditions which produced it continue. The mark will continue to fall, entailing rising prirces; the employers, impoverished v the French occupation, will be un- ble to meet the demands of the workers and the reich will be unable | to give adequate financial support. Hunger and desperation are certainly coming. No one feels sure that the | next time there is a labor revolt it | will not be overwhelming. Reparations Plan Opposed. LONDON, May 31.-—A Central News dispatch from Berlin says that high offi e i while w cials of the German government regard | the reparations plan of the industriaiists | as impossible of acceptance because the | conditions attached to it are not to the | liking of the social democrats and the parties of the left. These groups par- ticularly object to abolition of the eight- hour day. . BIG COAL PRICE BOOST. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 31.—The price of coal throughout Germany will be increased 53 per cent beginning tomorrow. in| consequence of the further deprecia- | tion of the mark and the increase in | wages granted to the miners, it was | announced today. This increase will bring Ruhr coal | to 221,000 marks a ton, as compared | with _about 437.000 marks a ton for | English coal delivered Hamburg. | The retail price of German coal, ho ever. will again be advanced shortly, | due to a 40 per cent increase fn | freight rates, which also becomes ef- | fective tomorrow. Speaking at the meeting at which the toal prices were fixed, Dr. Fried- rich August Pinkerneil, mining ex- | pert, declared the coal situation was | satisfactory both in occupled and un gocupled Qermany. = Imports .from England were continuing on a large | ale, he said, and in some cases were | eing bought on a paper mark basis. | The average miner in Germany now | s receiving 28,700 marks for each shift. H without providing a substitute is an attempt to defeat or thwart the! amendment and a violation of consti tutional duty,” he declared. “Among the forty-six legislatures which rati- | fled the eighteenth amendment was | that of New York state.” Mr. Wheeler said that the repeal of the enforcement code of the state “would be a fruitless attempt to nullify the Constitution.” Its sole ef- fect, he asserted, would be to take away from officers of the peace their | present power to arrest lawbreak- ers. 2 “By adopting this repealer. New York would be in the position of seeking to retain the protection of a national government of laws with out contributing to that protection.” he said. “To repeal a law necessary to enforce the Constitution and sub- stitute nothing for it, is plain and palpable nullification. It is nullification of the slacker type that stands idly by and sees lifo and property destroyed that could be saved. If a state may as- sume _constitutional obligatio: then ruthlessly disregard them at the whim of a legislative body, the Con- stitution Is reduced to a of paper. B ‘$| Will Open a Savings Account. e Capital, 250, 911 F Judges, besides the magistrates, 350 state oconstabulary, sixty-two sheriffs with all their deputies, and 12,000 police in the city of New York alone. To sud- denly withdraw the support of the state of New York with its courts and officers - would take us comp! by surprise and leave us absolutely over- whelmed. “Governor, the United States attor- re commanders of outposts in the battle line formed by state and na- &n against the bootleggers, the crook e grafters, the , rich and poor, ‘who m the law. You are the com- thandef-in-chief of the mighty army | constituting our support and our re. serves, I you desert and abandon us now in the height of the battle? I believe not.” , - GQov. Bmith was told by Wayne B. Wheeier, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, that New York state would become “the rendezvous of rum runners and liquor bandits of other states” if the bill was Slen 3Mr. Wheeler, citing voluminous de. ons of United States Suprem ‘ourt and other federal and stal tribunals, declared that the states were duty bound to'enforce the eight- eenth amendment. ) repeal of the Mullan-Gage act ney: “St ikin g —is riot the good fortune of many in this matter- of-fact world. Hard work, self-denial, frugality, are the more usual sources of riches. { Lay the foundation for pay day by opening a Savings Account at this {DRY NET TIGHTENS | the ivia water. Columbia National Bank Five Prominent Race Include 4 Local Men o T AP WAL REvV. DR. GEORGEFISKDUDLEY, Jt‘-}.flephseuj ?P ri:/kE'Y —_ MARRIS-BwNG REV. DR.C.ERNEST SMITH, St.Thomas ' CRUrck. Among the clergymen who have| been most prominently mentioned for | the bishopric of Washington, for| whom the local clergy and lait are | voting today. are Dean G. C. F.| Bratenahl of the Washington Cathe- | { dral, the Rev. Dr. George Fiske Dud- ley, rector of St. Stephen's Church; | the Rev. Dr. James £. Freeman of the Church ot the Epiphany, the Rev. Dr. C rnest Smith, rector of St. Thomas’, | and the H >r. Ernest M. Stires, | rector of Thomas Church of New | York city | Dean Bratenahl of the Washington | Cathedral has been prominently | identified with the cathedral for many | years. He came to Washington in 1898 as rector of St. Alban's parish, | and was made a canon of the Wash- | ngton Cathedral 1903, He was| made dean in 1918. Dr. Dudley. rector of St. Stephen Church, has been rector of that parish since June 1, 1893 He has been identified with Washington since boy- | nood. dle h been a me er of the standing committee of the Diocese of Washington since 1912, and president | of the commiitee since 1921. { Dr. James ¥Freeman came to Wash- | ington in 1921, following the death of Re Dr. McKim. Dr. Freeman was called here from St. ) k's Church at Minneapolis. Probably no minister in Washington {8 more prominently identified with civic affairs and the betterment of the National Capital. Dr. Smith, rector of Thomas' Church, has been identified with | Washington since 1902, when he took | charge of St. Thomas' parish. Re- garded as one of the most scholarly ! £ HERE, SAYS HAYNES| (Continued from First Page.) offici plads. | This much does Mr. Read. however, | state officlally: The tightest cordon in | the history of prohibition has been stretohed around Washington. More | than a dozen automobiles are at the beck and call of the revenue agents and they are kept going all the time. Road runners have tried to break cordon at several vulnerable spots. and failed in most cases. Quite a few hundred gallons have slipped into Washington In these test cases, but in virtually every case the rum- running scouts have found the cordon impregnable. Having tried city en- trances at Benning, at the Pennsyl- Vania Avenue bridge. on Conduit road, and to the north of the city the fmaster minds” of the liquor men on the lower Potomac have decided to attempt an entrance of Washington This is to be the great coup or the great fajlure. It will be made only under propitious clrcum- nces. mi"lev'nue cutters have been center- ing operations off the Virginia capes for several days past. A number of suspiclous looking craft were escort- ed to thelr destination by revénue Sutters on their heels. Others escaped attention. Some of them ran up Ches- apeake bay. Others ran up the Poto- mac. Is are reluctant to disclose their e INJUNCTION DENIED. Chief Justice McCoy of the District Supreme Court has vacated the tem- porary restraining order procured by | tumbia Ofl Company of Rosslyn. Ve, [iogulnst the Independent Oil Com: pany and certain of its officials to pre- Vent alleged improper use of informa- tion secured by some of the officers of | the latter company while in the employ of the former corporation.. The court also refused to grant the injunction sked by the Columbia company. The independent company denied the allegations of thé bill through Attor- ney Conrad H. Syme. =1l Open_at 8:30 A.M. Dally Surplus, $250,000.00 It Rich” Street YOUR competence this in Bishop EWinNG. REV. DR. JAMES E.FREEMAN, Church.of Epipkan Y REV. DR.ERNEST M.STIRES, St. Thonta s’ New YoRL . DEAN GCF BRATENAHL Washinglon Cathedral. of local clergymen, Dr. fluential in the city. bishopri Dr. Stires has Thomas’ Church., New York, 1901, He has been prominent in eiv life, and duringsihe war spoke in the | to Wi | training _camps of the country abroad. He is at present in Italy. RID Your Car RID in OURS Auto Painting, Varnishing, Slip Covers New Tops, Upholstering Nickel Plating & Repairs T Smith has made his parish one of the most in- He has long | operation. been Tegarded as material for the|to ihe efféct that the operation was been head of St |thought he would soon be able to re- since | sume the ‘leadership in the House. || and | ed with dizzy spells, and last year he | HE approaching Shrine Conclave with its conges- tion and traffic restrictions makes this an oppor- CLAUDE KITCHIN, HOUSE LEADER MANY YEARS, DIES IN SOUTH (Continued from First Page.) man Kitchin, s brother. They had been with him throughout the night. The body of the statesman was re- moved esrly today to a local under- taking establishment, where it was prepared for burlal. Accompanied by members of his family and scores of friends, it will be carried to his old home at Scotland Neck, where the tuneral will be held. Funeral services will be held to- morrow in the family plot in_the lit- tle Baptist cemetery near Scotland Neck, the home of the Kitchins, who have served North Carolina in’ both the state and national capitals. Dr. Charles Anderson, pastor of the Bap- tist Church, of which Representative Kitchin was a member, will conduct} the services at the Kitchin home at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and many prominent men of state and natlon are expected to be present to join in a last tribute. The public schools of Scotland Neck will remain closed unti} after the funeral. The active pallbearers will be Lewis B. Suliter, Robert Josey, James Shields, 8. A. Dunn, C. H. England, L. H. Kitchin, Stuart Smith and Willlam Leverton. A list of honorary pall- bearers was being compiled today. Americans generally associate the name of Claude Kitchin with the demo. cratic leadership of the national Con. gress from the {nauguration of Wood- row Wilson as President until the re- publican party won the elections of 1918 d organized both branches of Congress. Mr. Kitchin went to Congress from the second North Carolina district in 1901, and had served in gvery Con- gress from the fifty-seveth to the sixty-eighth. Career Brilliant. His career as the democratic leader in the House during the Wilson admin- istration was characterized as brilllant and spectacular. In the early days of the war. after he had voted against the declaration of war, his relations with President Wilson were sald to have become strained because of his position againgt the administration merchant marine. These differences were sald to have smoothed over, and it was understood Mr. Kitchin and President Wilson were on friendly |terms when the former left Washing- ton. Dr. C. A. Woodard said Mr. Kitchin's death was the culmination of complica- tions which developed after he suffered a stroke of paralysis in 1920. He had never been in good health since, Dr. Woodard stated, although the turn for the worst did mot come until about three weeks ago. During the long months of suffering {Mr. Kitchin always maintalned that {bright, cheerful and courageous dispo- sition which characterized his more than twenty years on the floor of Con- | gress. From the moment he entered the hospital here hundreds of friends from near and far visited him and he Ereeted them all cordially with a warm handshake and broad smile—a smile which made him one of the best loved | members of Congress. Stricken in Debate. Mr. Kitchin suffered a slight stroke of paralysis in Decmeber, 1920, a few | minutes after he had delivered a most | impassioned speech on the peace reso- lution. He was quickly removed from the Capitol to his Washington home. | He was accorded a most enthusiastic oavtion when he returned to his seat in December of the game year. Mr. » | Kitchin did not retdin his seat long. however. for dizzy spells began to bother him and he again was forced to go_to hls hom |~ On the advice of his physicians Mr. | Kitchin éntered a hospital at Al- bany, N. Y. where he underwent an Reports from Albany were | successful, and Mr. Kitchin's friends ic1Shortly after his return from Albany ! hington he again was attack- returned to his old home at Scotland E IN-in E OUT tune time to have us take vour machine in charge for needed repairs. No concern anywhere can assure better workmanship or better service, and should you find it necessary or desirable to have a machine during the Convention you will have the privilege of using one of our new Dodge Cars at the very nominal Semmes 613-617 G Street N.W. charge of $2.50 a day. Motor Co. Main 6660 HOOVE R The garments ciothes can be, handy bank. One dollar or more will identify you with our Savings Department. correct shapely. mean much to you. tailoring Clothes For _Present Wear were selected with an “eye” to comfort as well as quality and style. The elimination of every sur- plus ounce makes them cool as These facts should HOOVER ZOOK we are now selling Suits $38 to $60 while their keeps them ‘While at Scotland Neck last winter Mr. Kitchin contracted influenza, ‘which developed into pneumonia.” Lit- tle hope was held out for his recov- ery during this iliness, but he made a wonderful fight for his life This illness left him with trouble, however, which gradually rew worse until it resulted in his eath here today. Never Lost Temper. In the twenty years of his services in the House of Représentatives, in- cluding for years as its leader during democratic control, Claude Kitchin never once 1dst his temper in the thick of bitter and stormy de- bate. His big, round, red face al- ways was lighted with a smile or a 8rin “as he slaughtered the enemy,” &nd republicans often declared that Kitchin kept smiling “as he operated on_them before the country.” Back In the days when he was a troggling young North Carolina law. yer, Kitchin's temper was like that of & wild man, as he himself expressed it. One day a country trial justice decided a case against him and Kitchin started to clean up the court. It was an exciting moment. ‘And then It suddenly occurred to me,” he told friends later, “that if I expected to get along 1 had to put ice on my head and a bridle on my tongue. Right then and there I de- cided I would never get mad with anybody again.” Mann's Apt Simile. James R. Mann, a veteran repre- sentative from 1lllinols, who often crossed swords with Kitehin in the House, declared on the occasion of the latter's retirement as democratic lead- er, that he was viclous in debate be- cause his attacks, like brick in a towel, were wrapped in smiles Kitchin's greatest fight with his leg- islative conscience came when the House was called upon to declare war against the German government in 1917. Congress was wildly excited. Word passed back and forth among members that the then majority leader would vote against it. Later, on the afternoon of April 6, members of th leader’s family and some of his mos! intimate friends were in his office. For once the leader had lost his smile. He was weary and fagged from loss of sleep. He told the group that he could not bring his conscience to the point of voting for war, that his right of leader because of ‘it would be chal- lenged, but that he didn’t care because | his heart spoke against it. Fought Against War. ‘Then he went to the House chamber ~—with every seat fllled and a vast throng in the gallery—and, during a tense and dramatic moment, took his stand against wal But once war was declared Kitchin threw his support whole-heartedily nd championed every move by the government for victory. There were times, it was said, when he was at odds with President Wilson at White Housé conferences, but his po- litical “enemles never doubted his patriotism after the weight of Ameri- can arms had been thrown on the side . | of the allies. . In the early days of 1919 Kitchin, when a republican House elected the preceding fall was waiting to come into power, went to the front as the party leader with the biggest war revenue bill ever framed by an American Con- gress. He put It through. Lomg a member of the ways and means com- mittee which framed the bill, Kitchin had every figure at his finger tips. Fordney of Michigan, who succeeded him as chairman of the committee, fought him at every step. Asked $2 Shirts. It was during the revenue bill de- bate, while the House was considering a luxury on shirts, that Kitchin, stand- ing before hundreds of well dressed men, declared he never paid more than $2 for a shirt in his life. His plea for simplicity in dress while the country was burdened with the big cost of war taken up by the press, and two- dollar shirts were urged. Not_long after the big revenue bill fight Kitchin was stricken. For a long time he lay in bed. trying to get wal but it was not an easy thing for a man 80 long in public life to shake off the old habit. Feeling better, he went back to the old grind, only to be stricken again. A new party had come into power. Champ Clark, stepping down from the Speaker's chair, became minority leader, with Kitchin as ranking member of the ways and means committee. When Champ Clark died Kitchin was made minority leader, but being ill_then his home in North Carolina, he aske that Finis J. Garrett of Tennessec b designated as acting leader, in the effort to hold the dwindling ranks of democrats in line. Elected in 1901. Claude Kitchin, who was born March 24,71869, first came to Congress in 1 serving continuously thereafter. On the closing night of that Congress—the Fift seventh—he attracted attention by fiery speech against French spoliation claims. From that day his reputation as a House debater was made. He was born in the district he represented He was the son of a_congressman, and his brother, Willlam W. Kitchin, served five terms in the House prior to his election as Governor of North Carolina During a hot political campaign in his district in 1898 Kitchin attracted public _attention by taking an acti part in what was known as “the red shirt movement,” a revival of demo- cratic tactics in some southern states in reconstruction times. It was organ- ized by the white peopie, chiefly demo- crats, for the avowed purpose of elimi- nating the negro in politics and office holding. But its purposes wers peace- ful. Thousands rode to the first pub- lic meeting in Kitchin's district in red buggies, on horses draped with red wearing red shirts, red hats, some even digging up the old red trousers of fox- hunting days. The speech made by Kitchin put him in line for the House, and he won the first time up. 5 A Design of Character in the Shannon & Luchs Intown Suburb 14th Street Terrace The first outlay to buy a Home in this com- munity is about the same as in far les sections. In the end it is desirable infinitely cheaper, because there is character and personality in the Homes, and this develops a greater future value. 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