Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Iricreasing cloudiness, with mild temperature today, followed by light rain’ today or tonight; tomorrow rain and colder; moderate southwest winds. Temperature for 22 hours ended at 10 lust night: Highest, 66, at 4 p.m. yes- “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at . WEXICAN REBELS terday; lowest, 40, at 6 a.m. yesterday. ¥ull ‘report on’ page 23. = No. 976.—No. 29,076. Entered as second-clai post_office Washington, matter D. C. REPORTED ROUTED IN FIRST BATTLE Retreat Near Orizaba Marks Activities From Vera Cruz to Juarez. GARRISON AT BORDER REINFORCED FOR SAFETY | Huerta Supporters Say 95 Per Cent of People Are With Him. Estrada Joins Revolt. | \ By the Amwcisted Press YL PASO. December —Federal Lore: yesterday routed insurrection- fsts In the first battlé of the Vera Cruz revolution at Maltrata, a station on the Mexican railway, half way be- tween Mexico City and Vera Cruz, ac cording to unofiicial information re- ed in Juarez tonight. The revo-! ts were reported in retreat Maltrata & a small mountain village | year Orizaba. The report was uncon- | firmed in official circles at Juarez Huerta Backing Stromg. Tuousands of troops are at the dis- | posal of the de la Hue cause in | Mexico and 95 per cent of the people of Mexico are for his election, accord- | ing to a joint statement given to the | El Paso, Herald today by Carlos M. | Diaz d P. M. Vela. ' Diaz. a friend of long standing of | Adolfo de la Huerta. un recentiy b in charge of the gcneral offices of the Mexico Navigation Company in| Mexico City, will open an office in 1| Paso in a few days us representative of the de la Huerta revolution, he sald, and Vela will be his assistant in charge when he is called out of the city. | “De 1a Huerta in the period when he, was serving as minister of finance, | always pald the army and all fed-| eral employes on time. Seen ns Man of Fature. “Capitalists In the United States| &nd peopls of business everywhere see In de la Huerta the man of the| future in Mexico, because when he was provisional president, he proved Rimsels,” the statement said. “He pacified the country without dropping a drop of blood and turned it over to Obregon, as we .Say in Spanish—the table's there. “The constitution of Mexico savs that a president must be born of native parents. It is generally un- @erstood in Mexico that the father of Calles was a Turk.” : Relative to the strength of the de- | Ja Huerta military movement in| Mexico, Messes Diaz and Vela gave | the following- figures | + “Gen. Guadalupe Sanchez at Vera Cruz has §5,000. It is false that he | lost 22,000 under his command. | “In Tlaracala, Gen. Espinosa Los| Montoes has 7,000 men. “In Guerrero, Gen. Figuereroa has an additional 7,000 men. “Gen. Estrada has 15,000 men Jalisco and Michoacan. 11,000 Chihuskua Supporters. “In Chihuahua, the Villista party | and the Made: favor de la Huerta and have more than 11,000 men ! “Surrounding Mexico City are three | regiments of artillery, numbering a | total. of 3,000, all In favor of de la Huerta. “In Tamaulipas there are about 11,000 more supporters of de la Huerta “In Michoacon Gen. Franciseo Gar- denas has 10,000 men favorable to the €e la. Huerta cause. “In the samo state Gen. Rentoria Laviane 000 men. “In Zacatecas Gen. Marcelo (‘ara\cn} Lias 3.000 men “In Sonora 21l the Yaqui Indians pro favorable to de 1o Huerta and n rebellion against Obregon and Callew They number about 5,000, “In Sinaloa Gen. Angel Flores, working for himeelf but friendly to de la Huerta, has 36,000 men.” JUAREZ IS REINFORCED. in} Step Explained as Precaution Against Possibilities. JUAREZ. Mexico, December 8.—Or- ders to reinforce the garrison lnl this city with approximately 400 men were given by Gen. Eugenlo Mur-, tinez, commander of the northern smilitary zone. Additional cavalry- men will be brought to the eity im- medlately from Villa Ahmuda, a sta- fon about half way between Juarez #pd the capital of the state. The step simply Is a precautionasy mea- sure against anything that may ariss, eccording’ to Gen. Martinez. Gen. Martinez was advised Sat- urday morning by President Alvaro ©Obregon that the city of Guadule- jara. commanded by Ge. Juan Lstrada With 1.200 men, had gone over to the do la Huerta faction. MATAMORAS HELD DOWN. Soldiers Doing Police Duty in Quiet Northern City. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., December §. *-The city of Matamoras, opposite Brownsville, placed under martial Yaw last night, continued entirely frea from disturbances of any sort today. Soldiers are doing police duty the police force of the city having been disarmed on orders or Col. Kuil- lermo I Rosas. City officials were said to be under surveillance of mili- rary. ] Commerce bstween the United Btates and Mexico here {s normal and ‘ol. Rosas | the police. he Sunday WASHINGTO D. C. Should Concentrate On Urgent Needs, Says Reed Great Improvements Held Vital-Sees 1,000,000 City—Favors More Schools and Parks—Bond Issue Held Fair. BY REPRESENTATIVE STUART ¥. REED, 2 New Chairman of the House Distriet Committee. The citizens of Washington should find & way to let Congress know actly what they want in the w legislation and the order in which they desire it taken up for considera- tion In the city are a large number of organizations, federatlons, associu- tions and societies. Many of them seem to feel that It is necessary to get some special law ed by Con- Bress for which they may get the credit and thus justify the continued existence of the org: tion. The legislation sugge: them s often commen: not eriti- cizing any organ but 1 am STRANGLED WIFE REMOVED HEAD, HID BODY, MAN ADMITS Husband, Former Professor, Breaks Down, Confesses. | Child Gave Clue. { | By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis.. December 8 — E. Ray Tompkins, real estate dealer of White Fish Bay and former mem- ber of the Milwaukee Normal School taculty, {8 in the county jail for- mally charged with the murder of | his wife whose nude and headless body was found today near Dongas bay, eleven miles from Milwaukee. Tompkins confessed that strangled his wife until she became unconscious, placed her body in & bathtub and severed her head under a tap of running water, according to District Attorney George A. Shaug- nessy. _Mrs. Tompkins disappeared from her home last Thursday. About § am. that morning she sent her two childven, Marjory, ten, and Robert, sewén, to school. and told them she would not be home in the morning but would return in time to prepare lunch for them. The girl said her father met she and her brother that noen and took them to lunch, sent them back to school and took them to dinner away from home that evening. When her mother did not return home that night she refused to go to school Fri- day, she said, and called her uncle, Willlam C. Conrad, and told him her mother was missing. Conrad notified ne Another woman brought about the conditions at the Tompkins home which resulted in his attack on his wife, police said. Tompkins, they said, was found by detectives, hired by his wife, at an apartment with a woman sald to have been a student of his at the normal school where he taught for twelve years. Wife Planned Divorce. As a result, police said, a divorce was to have been obtained and Mrs. Tompkins was to have received a pre-divorce settlement the day she disappeared. Tompkins was arrested yesterday and questioned regarding the whereabouts of his wife, but he dented any - knowledge of why or where she had gone. / The police, in their search for Mrs. Tompkins, learned from J. F. Dongas, owner of an estate on which the body was found, that Tompkins had talked with him regarding the location of the caretaker's home and that later an automoblle of the same make owned by Tompkins had been driven to Lion's Den, a wooded glen near Dongas Bay. The Imprint of the tire tread was the same as the tread on the tires of Tompkins' car. An Investigation of the tonneau of the car revealed blood stains as did a pair of overalls identi- fied as Tompkins’. County officials took Tompkins to the Lion's Den this morning and he aided them In the search for his wife. The body was covered by muck, leaves and stones in a well hidden spot. Tompkins turned to Sheriff Phil Westphal and in a choking volce, crled: “Who could hoping they may all find some practi- |cal method of getting together and |agreeing upon u reasonable amount of Jegislation demanded this year: |1 niean constructive measures of par- |amount importance, the need for which can be clearly shown to the _members of Congress | Confiicting statements and diverg- | ing conclustons and arguments about |1ocal legislation have hindered con- gressional consideration and unques- tionably caused the defeat of many [ measures that were meritorious— leglislation that really meant forward | strides for the Distriet { Predicts Falr Treatment. T am in any not going sense as a prophet what _legislation will en (Continued on Pag umn 7.) CLEVELAND CHOICE OF G. 0. FOR 1924 to set myself up Chicago’s Invitation With- drawn as Leaders Make Preference Known. Announcement that the invitation from Chicago for the re'pu'uh(‘;(;‘::ax' tional convention of 1924 to be helq {n that city would be withdrawn, was made here last night by Fred wW. Upham, treasurer of the republican | national committee. The responsible administratioe leaders desired S the convention to be The announcement by Mr. Upham, who came here yesterday with a del. €gation of Chicago business rion to urge Chicago’s claims for the con- vention, was sald by republican lead- ers virtually to assure the seiection of Cleveland as the convention city., Burton Says Ohio Wina, Representative Burton of Ohio, leader among those urging the selec- tion of Cleveland, when advised of the withdrawal of Chicago, sald this meant definitely that the convention would go to the Ohlo city. “Now we will go to work,” Mr. Burton said, “and with the Cleveland spirit make arrangements to insure the comfort and satisfaction of the delegates. It will be Cleveland's first big political conveation and Cleve- land will do it right.” The break from Chicago will mark the first time that the republicans have not met in the Lake City for twenty years, de! Selection This Week. The 1924 convention city is to he definitely selected hers at a meeting of the national committee next Tuesday and “Wednesday. Chicago and Cleveland were the leading con- tenders, with other invitations from Angeles. Many republican commit- tee members, however, had favored either Chicago or Cleveland, and the feeling was said to be general that, with Chicago out of the race, Cleve- land would be an almost certaln win- ner. Mr. Upham, prior to his announce- ment last night of Chicago's wlith- drawal, conferred with Coolidge and Secretary Slemp at th White House, and said upon leaving the White House that the President was malntaining an impartial mind with reference to of the convention city, v Chalrman Adams of the national com- mittes and other prominent par leaders. Mr. Upham's, statement, re- moving Chicago from the lists fel- low . Upham Accepts Place. “Greatly to my surprise, T have been advised today by the responsible leaders of the administration that it is their belief that the convention should go to Cleveland. While I am deeply dis- appointed, especially in view of the fact that T had secured the dssurances of support “of the necessary number of members of the republican national com- have dome this thing? Find the guiity one.” Thres hours later, Shaugnessy, Tompkins’ and he confessed. according to nerve broke Letter Caused Quarrel. In her distress over the conditions at her home, Tompkins sald, his wife addressed @ letter to her father in which she detalled her troubles and told of her husband's infidelity. The letter sald she intended placing charges against her husband unless he divided his property with her and consented to a separation. “In his confessio: the district at- torney declared, “Tompkins sald he came Into possession of the letter be- fore his wife posted It. He returned home Thursday morning after the children had left for school and con- fronted her with it. After a stormy few morhents he declared his wife sald: ‘You are only good for tending furnaces.’ “This taunt enraged him caught her by the throat, choking her into unconsclousness. He carried her body to the bathroom where he placed it in the tub, turned on the and he mittes to insure the eelection of Chi- cago as thie convention city, as a staunch party man and friend of the administration I shall yleld to this re- quest, withdraw the invitation of Chi- cago and ask that the selection of Cleve- land be made unanimous.” Mr. Upham_tonight advised Chicago I do mnot | CONVENTION SCENE held “lev ‘;:H fn Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Upham | Des Mofnes, San Francisco and Los | President | WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1923.—112 PAGES. D."C, REED CHOSEN HEAD OF COMMITTEE ON DISTRICT IN HOUSE West Virginia Representa- tive, Elected Unanimously, . Has Served 8 Years. BALL STILL CHAIRMAN Capper, Elkins, Gooding, Weller, Hale, King, Sheppard, Copeland, | Stanley, Jones, Edwards Members. | . Representative Stuart F. Reed of West Virginia. who has served eight cars continuously In Congress, was unanimously elected yesterday by the republican committee on committees as chairman of the House District committee, which has jurlsdiction over leglslation affecting the National | Capital, At the same time the Senate repub- |Mean and democratic committees on committecs tentatively announced the following assignments to the Senate District committee: Senator L. Heisler Ball, Delawire, i nan; Senators Wesley L. Jones. | Washington: Arthur Capper, Kansas: | Davis Elkins, West Virginla: Frank {R. Gooding. Idahe: E. O. Weller, Maryland, and Frederick Hale, Maine. republicans; William H. King, Utah: Morris Sheppard, Texas; Carter Glass. Virginta: A. Owsley Stanley, Ken- tuck Royal & Copelund, New York, Jersey, democrats, | Subject to Revin The slate for the committee is | subject to revislon by elther or both {of the committees on committees, | which meet today to put the final touches on the committee assign- ments. Senator Ball is continued in the office of chafrman of the District committee, an office in which he has been considered fair and generous to the District. The new members of the committee are Senator ‘Hale of Maine, republican, and Senators Cope- land of New York and Edwards. of New Jersey, democrats, both being newly elected senators. Sehator Cameron of Arizona, who served on the committes in the last Congress, goes off at his own request, and the death of the late Senator Dil- lingham of Vermont created another vacancy. Senator Bayard of Delaware, democrat, also retired from the com- mittee. In the last Congress the po- litfeal complexion of the committee was eight republicans to five demo- crate. Under the agreement entered | into by the two parties, the ratlo was changed sp as to give the demo- crats added representation Under the reapportionment of the ccmmittees In the Housa 'the repub- licans in the present Congress are to have only twelve places on the District committee, instead of four- teen as in the last Congress. Six of those fourteen republicans: did not return to this Congress. Thers were four vacancies among the twelve places remaining to the republicans. Then Representative Roy O. Wood- ruff of Michigan was given a place on the naval affalrs committee and Representative Elliott W. Sproul of Illinois was glven a place on the post oftices and post roads committee. That made six vacancies in the twelve republican places. p ‘Three Places Vacant. The committee on committees yes- terday selected thres new men for the District committee and left three places still to be fllled by a special subcommittee designated to complete the work of minor committee assign- ments. This subcommittes will meet tomorrow at 10:20 o'clock, when It is expected the other three members will be chosen for the District com- mittec. The three new men chosen yester- day are: Representative Henry R. Rathbone, member at large from Illinois, who was born in Washington and whose grandfather was a- United States senator from New York. Representa- tive Rathbone spent most of his youth in Washington, where his family was well known and held property here adjucent to the White House until re- cent ycars. He has practiced law for twenty-eight vears. He was. pre ident of the Humilton Club of Chicago, the largest republican club in the United States when this country en- tered the world war and when Secre- tary Hughes was a candidate for the Representative Rathbone expressed his desire and intention to co-operate to the utmost of his ability in getting progressiye and sympathetic legislation for the District passed. Representative Ernest Wiflara Gib- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) PRESIDENT PUTS President Coolidge has set aside two days a week henceforth when he ‘will see 1o one except on strictly officlal and {mportant business, -Tuesdays and Fridays—the days upon which the President meets with his cabinet—are the days declded upon. According to C. Bascom Slemp, his secretary, handshakers and those callers who want audiences to tell the President how much they think of him will be denied engagements on these two days. The President’s daily engagement list s as large, If not larger, the water and went to the kitchen, where he prooured a large butcher knife, he removed ber liead. He greater part of the time than was Mr. Harding's, and with Congre! mow in session and the national cam- I (Continued on Pago 2, Column b.) BAN ON CALLERS ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS — oring for audiences with the Execu- tive has resulted in this curtafiment. Afternoon Calls Of. Several weeks ago Mr. Slemp con- vinced Mr. Coolidge that he should not make afternoon:- engagements. As a result, the President has since been able to devote the hours after luncheon until dark to close and uh- interrupted application to the dutles of his office. Frequently he has found It possible to refresh himself by taking an automoblle ride for an hour or two. By adopting the new schedule, Mr. Slemp anticipates it will be easler for the President and afford at the same time a chance to keep abreast of'th endless.routine s V and Edward Irving Bdwards of New | The RR 4 PRESIDEN NGHTMARE FE Gridiron Club Flashes Mirror | Of Kindly Satire at Banquet| - Journalists at Clever Skits—Mr. Coolidge Speaks Briefly. Nearly 400 guests gathered Rbout the hospitable board of the Gridiron Club in the large ballroom of the New Willard -last night, including the President of the United States, members of his cabinet, of the diplo. niatic corps, of the United States Sgpreme Court, ‘of, the Senate and of the House, and an unusually large number of :diatinguished men . from widely separated sections of the country. The occasion was the an- nual winter dinner of the club, when it makes merry with men in public lite, with politics and politicians, and strips the cloak of pretense, all in good nature and kindiiness. Arthur 8. Henning of the Chicago Tribune, president of the Gridiron Club, welcomed the guests and ad- monished them that although the active members of the club are news- DERBY MAY HEAD CABINET IN BRITAIN Seat in Lords Held Chief Obstacle-to Selection to Succeed Baldwin. By the Associated Press. g LONDON, December 8—One of ‘the most remarkable’ weeks in the whole history-of ‘British .politics-closes with the burning question on everybody’s 1ips whether Stanley Baldwin wiil re- sign. The. premier. will 'be & brave man it he stands.to the helm, for seldom.has such a storm bréken around the head of any leader. - The bitterest attacks come from the newspapers and mem- bers of his own party. But for his declsion ‘to appesl ‘to the electorate on the protection question, they say, the conservatives might have. re- mained in’power for some' years, pur- suing the policy of tranqulillity which the country wWelcomed so warmly when the late Andrew Bonar Law an- nounced ‘it; hardly more than a year 0t ail of Baldwin's one-time sup- porters, ‘the Morning Post is almost alone in reiterating its confidence in him and arguing that the party must not drop protection. The_ premier is spending the week end at the pala- tial country place, Chequer's Court, which Lord Lee gave the nation as a residence for premiers, and there he will confer with the party leaders. No word has yet been given to the public regarding Mr. Baldwin's plans, if he has yet declded upon them, but many are predicting that this will be his last sojourn st Chequer's. Cartoon Seen: Significant. , The famous cartoonist, Bernard Partridge, Dpresented a prophetic scene in Punch on the eve of the elec- tions. Mr. Baldwin was pictured as introducing former Premler Asquith, liberal leader, to Chequer's. “This'place 'is hsunted,” Baldwin ;%MM‘ Star. THE GRIDIRON:SINGING - SCHOOL Offieials LaughWith paper men, “no reporters were pres- |ent"—and by the same token, ladies | were always constructively present. | Ten Sens of Presidents. | A unique feature of the gathering { was the presence of ten sons of | former Presidents of the United States and the.two.sons_ of Presi- dent Coolidge—John and Calvin. The' ten were: Abram Garfleld of Cleveland, Irvin McDowell Garfield of Boston, Dr. Harry A. Garfleld, | president of Willlams College; James |R. Garfleld of Cleveland, former Sec- | retary of the Interlor; Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the Navy; Archibald and Kermit Roose- | velt of New York city, Charies and | Robert Taft of Cincinnati and | Richard Cleveland of Boston. | _These were present in response to | ~ (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) RETREMENT LAW * HELD INADELLATE Pay Insufficient, System Un- fair, Civil Service An- nual Report States. Declaring that the retirement law has been only partially successful, | because It is Inadequate, the Civil Service Commission, in its fortieth annual -report, recommends higher annuitles and an adjustment of the contributions made by employes. i Full_possibilities of the retirement act have not been realized, the re- port states, going on to say that these proposed amendments should | receive consideration: i 1. Increase of annuities, with pro- vision for any resulting necessary in- crease of deductions from salaries. 2. Deductions of 2% per cent from the salaries of all employes alike re- quires a much larger contribution by the higher salaried employes with- out greater benefit n annuity. 3. The proposed maximum annuity for thirty years® service does not rec- ognize longer periods of service. 4. Reduction of the age for retire- ment to less than seventy years. 5. Extension of the act to addi-; tional classes of civil employes. Syatem Thirty Years Old. “The present schedule of annuities, which fixes $720 per annum as the maximum, was proposed thirty yeara ago, when the movement for retire- ment legisiation was begun, and was based upon 60 per cent of $1,200 =al- ary,” states the report “The increased cost of living has made the annuities far below a mini- mum of subsistence, and therefore Congress has not given what was asked or what it thought it was giv- ing. It was expected when the law was passed that living expenses| would deelfne. | “The annuity should more nearly approzimate the cost of subsistence «(Conf ) and servi 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 e will start immediately FIVE CENTS. ATURES OF THE DECE*'BER DINNER OF THE GRIDIRON CLUB. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—48 Pages. General News—Local, Natlonal, Foreign. Natlonal Political Survey—Page 4. At the Community Centers—Page 18. Army and Navy News—Page 20. 8chools and Colleges—Page 22. terans of the Great War—Page 31, The Civilian Army—Page 33, Notes of Art and Artists—Page 34. D. A. R. Aactivities—Page 35. | News of the Clubs—Page 41. | Fraternities—Page 42. Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 43. Radio News and Gossip—Page 44 and 45, Financial News—Pages 46 and 47. PART TWO0—20 Pages. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Soclety. Tales of Well Known Folk—Pages 15 and 16, PART THREE—I12 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music In Washington—Page 5. News of the Jewish World—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 10. Young Folks' Page—Page 11. Girls and Their Affairs—Page 11. Boy Scouts—Page 11. Girl Scouts—Page 11. Around the City—Page 12. Spanish War Veterans—Page 12. PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S Pages. Magazine Sectlon—Features and Fiction. PART SIX—8 Pages. Classified Advertising. D. C. National Guard—Page 8. GRAPHIC SECTION—S Pages. World Events in Pictures. COMIC_SECTION—4 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; | Mr. and Mrs. 28000 N GEMS MISSING IN STORE $150,000 Passed Up, F Street Jeweler Tells Police in Mystery Theft. Diamonds and emeralds valued at $25,000, and the wallet containing them, disappeared yesterday from the jewelry shop of Harry Fischer, 918 F street, according to a report filed with the police by the proprietor. It they were stolen, the thief passed up about $150,000 worth of set jewelry within an arm’s length of the stolen stones. Mystery surrounds ance. They were taken from the safe this morning. Mr. Fischer said, and put In the diamond room, a glass par- titioned division of his store about elght feet long and four and one-half feet wide. Joe Fish, a nephew of the proprietor, who took the diamends and emeralds from the safe about 8:30 this morning, recalls placing them in the steel tray in a cabinet in the diamond room, where Mr. Fischer had his desk. That's the last that was known of the precious stones. diamonds were in the wallet as well as twelve genuine emeralds, Mr. Fischer said. He was Lesitive in his assertion last night that a theft had been com- mitted, advancing the theory that a sneak thiel had gotten away with the loote disappear- | About 143 large | NELSON THREATENS NEW HOUSE TIE-UP OVER COMMITTEES Insurgent Leader Charges Republicans Are “Stack- ing” Against Him. REORGANIZATION ROW NOW FACED IN SENATE Senators Unable to Compose Dis- pute Over Foreign Rela- tions Posts. cterized as House committees committec vesterday of Wisc can i blocked Gillett Fallure of the insurgents to obta: more places on the important mittees Jed to 2 forecast of an: he republicar ttees was LL Representative Nelson of the republl nts, who for two days re-eicction of Spealer comn the i leaders. Mr. Nelson prise and indignati ment. which. he said, had been ac- corded hls group in the makeup of [the republican committee slates and sald the fight would be taken to the House when the selections made by the republicans were presented for ratification, perhaps late this week republican Insurgents in the Sen- ate reiterated yesterday that the e tent to which they would press a reorganization row in the Senats would be determined largely they fared in committee assignments. Thelr course of action still is unde- cided pending announcement of the results of the work of the majoriis committee on committees expressed n over the trea’ Two Sessions Yester This committee had two more sions yesterday, but bers said its work was far from completed. Fur- ther sessions will be held today with the hope of having the whole slate completed in time for action by the republican party conference called for tomorrow forenoon. The demo- cratic steering committee also will continue {ts meeting today with view to having fts committee assign- ments ready for Senate action tomor- row. Efforts to compose differences with respect to assignments to the t vacancies on the foreign relations committee were unavalling again vesterday and the comm!'tee irned to assignments for other .ommittees with tentative agreements reached in several cases. It was understood. however, that the choice to fill the three republican vacancies on the foreign relations committee would be made from the following: Willis, Ohio; Lenroot, W consin; Pepper, Pennsylvania; Edg: New Jersey, and Elkins, West Vir- ginia. Tentative decision by the democrats was reported to have been reached for filling th out of the four democratic vacancies on this con: by appointment of Rob- inson, Arka Underwood, Als | bama, and Walsh, Montana. Johnsxon to Get New Post, Senator Hiram Johnson, California is understood to have accepted offer to take the chairmanship of the committee on territories and insulur affairs. He had the cholce hetween | retaining his present chairmanship | of the patents committee, but iy un- derstood to have expressed his desire to take the former committee because of the interest in California in sular po: =sion While there w {nouncement. some committeamen said Senators ooding of ldaho. Couzens | of Michigan, Howell of Nebraska and | Fess of Ohio had been welected ten- {tatively to fill the vacancies on the Interstate Commerce ommittee, ‘whlrl\ deals with railroad legislation | The insurgents interested partic- ularly in the make-up of this com- mittee and some of today's selections were regarded by some republican loaders as in the nature of conces- to them. ‘or the four, vacancies |finance committee these tentativa s {lections were reported to have been Elkin West Virg M Ilinoi; Staniield, Oregon, Kentucky. sas: no formal an- re il on made rmick, and Ernst, } No Inxurgents Chosen. Mr. Nelson, in discussing the House committee situation, declared his group has been particularly anxious llo have place given Woodruff of | Michigan, on the ways and means committee; Back of Wisconsin, on the commerce commmittee and La Guardia !of New York, on the judiclary com- {mittee. Noue was selected. All three have been active in the insurgent movement. Members of the insurgent group who were members of the last Con- | gress have retained the committes | signments they held then. Littic | recognition thus far, however, has beent accorded new members allied with the insurgent bloc, although | Peavey of Wi in was placea ou the rivers and harbors committer. | The republican personnel of all the | major committees of the House was | tentatively agreed upon yesterla however, by the commitiee on com- mittees after balloting. The committee doferred action, however, on the five vacancies on the impor- committes, where Chair man Snell, New York; Representative Royal Johnson of South Dakota, and Representative Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota are the only remaining republicans. is_pretty well understood that [Continued on Page 2, Column 2. 8 0! mu | tant rules