Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1923, Page 16

SLAYING OF CONEZ STIRS VENEZUELANS Crime Characterized as With- out Precedent in History of Country. By the Associated Pre CARACAS, Venezuela, July 2.—The Bssassination of Gen. Juan C. Gomez, first vice president of the republic, 1s characterized by congress as “most execrable, without precedent in the! snnals of Venezuela.” 1 Gen. Gomez, who was the brother of the president of Venezuela, was stabbed to death while asleep in his bed in Miraflores Palace early Satur- day morning. unknown, a when he n the darkest| annals of Venezuela. { I of Gen. Gomez took yesterday. Speaking at the grave s President Gomez said: “Those who did this should Know that we will not be intimidated by such an act, but will persevere in our work for peace and the aggrandize- ment of the fatherland.” ENGLAND NOW HOPE OF SOCIALIST CAUSE ! Morris Hillquit Predicts Early| Triumph of Labor Party In- spired by Socialism. CHICAGO, July 2—From war-torn and economically unstablé Europe will come the salvation of cl\‘llllu~‘ ton, Morris Hillqult, international ry of the matlonal soclalist | clared last night before a| up of socialists gathered in a restaurant in the Italian quarter, | where a banquet was given to lhu‘ party's executive committee. ; And staid and conservative Eng- land, he declared., is the brightest | spot in the world for the futurs of | manking from the viewpoint of the! soclallst and the laborer, adding that | where the eves of socialism had been | urned to Germany before the world aar, to Russia immediately after and! luring th. trial of communism, | oday they are turned to England, | vhere the labor party is rapidly gain- | ng prominence. | Within & few years, he asserted, | he labor party will be the dominant | sarty of the empire, and with the | Iritish empire in the hands of a arty composed of socialists and la- borii men it will become the hope of socialism and civilization. Communism failed in Russia, he) sald, because the change was too complete and too sudden. The ad- vance of soclalism in England, he pointed out, has been almost imper- ceptible, the movement starting about twenty-five years go with trade unions which objected to being link- ed with socialism. Today, he declared, the labor party controls 144 seats in parliament and has a membership of 5,000,000 Of that number less than 50,000 are socialists, but these form the back- bone and leadership of the party, he said. Similar combination of the soclal- ists and labor elements in America, he said, will be the only method of bringing to the front the luboring man’s political powers. He said that is one of the steps the executive com- mittee voted to further at its meet- ing earlier in the dhy. —where you become acquainted. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JULY 2, 1923. COULD NOT ROLL HER OWN | Girl’s Disguise as Man Given Away by Clumsy Smoking. CHICAGO, July 2.—Her inability to roll and smoke a cigarette in ap- proved mascuiine fashion and the fact that her coat pockets bulged with toilet articles, led the police to pene- ' trate the disguise of Nellie Mumaugh of Toledo, Ohio, who said she “rode the rods” from the Ohio city dis- guised as a man. ) Miss Mumaugh, claiming to be a! daughter of Arthur Mumaugh, at- tached to the federal prohibition | office in Toledo, sald she had ‘donned masculine attire and left Todedo on a | freight train last Tuesday to go to St. James, Minn,, to visit her sister. —_—— shut-ins are not shut-ups, anner of means. You will find in the many Departments of this strong Bank more than “money counters.” It is the desire of the Officers and other members of our staff to become personally acquainted with our depos- itors, particularly when opening a new account, in order to establish the friendship and confidence necessary to W. T. GALLIHER Chairman of the Board a mutual understanding. 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