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WEATHER. (P. S. Weather Bures Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness and colder to- a.m. Full report on Page 7. day and tomorrow followed by rain in afternoon or night. Highest, 56, at 10 a.m.; Temperature— lowest, 32, at No. 1,143—No. 30,238. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. MEXICO SENDS PANI 10 SEEK SOLUTION OF OIL LAND ISSUE; Former Finance Minicter to Confer With Companies in New York This Week. HOPE TO LAEARN DESIRES OF U. S. FIRMS HIS OBJECT Obregon Understood to Be Ready to Persuade Calles to Accept Results of Mission. By Cable to The Star and New York World. Copyright. 1 MEXICO CITY, February 12.—A thorough survey of the position of American ol interests in the dispute between the American companies and the Mexican government will feature the mission of Alberto J. Pani, former finance minister, to the United States. Senor Pani is officlally authorized to confer with the companies. He is ex- pected to arrive in New York next week. His mission is being stressed here as an urgent effort on the part of the Mexican government to reach a basis for an amicable solution of the exist- ing conflict. Senor Pani will endeavor 10 learn exactly what the ofl com- panies desire and all his cards will be laid -on the table at the forthcoming conferences. Firms Willing to Treat. It is further understood that'sev- eral days ago the oil companies formally signified their willingness to ! thresh out the issues with Senor Pani. These arrangements were _effected through the intercession of the bank ing house of J. P. Morgan & Co. Pani is credited with having the confidence | of Thomas W. Lamont of the house| of Morgan, as well ‘as Blair & Co., This latter company, which is affiliat- ed with the Pan-American Eastern Petroleum and Transport Co., is un- derstood -to have used its influence to insure Senor Pani a hospitable wel- come from the heads of oil companies when he arrives in New York. “The intercession on the part of the aforementioned bankers was sought 10 eliminate any opposition among the die-hards in the Petroleum Producers’ Associatign, as well as to shape a [ eeks Oil Peace ALBERTO PANI REPLY OF FRANCE - TOLIMIT PARLEY Briand Ready to Talk, But Reserves Decisions—Italy in Same Mood. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 12.—The French government is ready to associate jtself with any movement tendingn to dis- armament, M. Briand, foreign minister declares, but the problems are difficult. M. Briand points out that the League of Nations committee worked on this problem for a Jong time, but that the conference proposed by President Coolidge of the five great naval powers. would be inadequate on account of the Mediterranean, in which Spain, Greece, Turkey and Russia are in- terested. The semi-official Havas agency is authority for the statement that the French reply to President Coolidge ‘will declare that it presents two incon- veniences. These are, that first, while recognizing the arbitrary existence of two categories of powers, the subject of naval disarmament applies to only one category, the others escaping the risk, thus leading to injustice, and second, that the proposal is contrgty to the fundamental principles of the he WASHINGTON, D. C., 3 PRESDENT SEORES FRST PONT WITH PONERS N PARLEY Naval Reduction Discussion Apparently Certain, Though Results Are in Doubt. KELLOGG EXPLAINS ISSUE BETWEEN U. S. AND PARIS Patient Effort to Reconcile Two Schools of Thought on Disarm- ament Is Advised. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Coolidge's plan for a con- ‘ference at Geneva on further naval limitation promises to bear fruit. The formal replies to the President’s sug- gestion are expected to assent to dis- cussion. Whether these discussions will lead to an international agreement, limit- ing cruisers, destroyers, submarines and other auxiliary craft, is another matter. France, according to reports re- celved here, may assent to a con- SUNDAY MORNI EARLY REPORTS FROM WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION NG, FEBRUARY 13, THE VARIOUS T Sunthy Star, 1927112 PAGES. \ RAINING CAMPS. sideration of the proposed naval pact, supplementary to the Washington treaty on capital ships, but will make “very serious reserves.” It is in- timated that the .representatives of France may not be empowered to negotiate a separate naval treaty, dealing with all types of auxiliary craft, particularly submarines, as pro- posed by President Coolidge. Italy Probably a Member. The acceptance by Japan and Great Britain of the proposal for what is virtually a separate conference on naval limitation is regarded here as practically certain, with acceptance by Italy a probability. France has been distinctly opposed to a separation of naval limitation from limitation of land and Airip. ool strength since the beginning of the; DY the Associate s preparatory conference of the powers! PEKING, February 12.—The armies under the auspices of the League of of two old-time enemies, Chang Tso- Nations in Geneva last May, just as' Lin and Wu Pei-Fu, have clashed, the United States has been favorable ang as a result a new alignment of to that plan. It remains to be seen China’s war lords may be effected. CHINA NOW FACING TRIANGULAR WAR Wu May Intervene in Fight Between Northern and Cantonese Forces. interdependence.of land, sea and air industrial andeconomic forces. friendly attitude in the State Depart- ment. toa ex- S W:-"& , Senor nal yeport ‘of s pro- m*:n jooged for to pro .a crisis in cabinet. “Opposition to &y ments short of full surrenaer to the petroleum law and regulations of 1925 s been forecast to come from the| ministry of industry, commerce and Former President Obregon, however, | is believed to be ready to give hlsi backing ‘to any plan of settlement of the controversy which Senor Pani may be able to reach. Gen. Obregon is specifically counted on to persuade President Calles to acquiesce in the resuit of Pani's mission. * The general expectation in oil circles in Mexico is tl ‘Senor Pani’s con- ferences will r the air and define the issues more sharply than they have ever.been defined before. Senor Pani is out to prevent the oil com- panies’ from shutting down and there- by bringing on a financial crash in Mexico. Persuaded by Obregon. Inside information indicates that Senor Pani's mission came into being after he arrived in the United States. He resigned his pest as finance min- ister two weeks ago and left um- mediately for the United States, ostensibly intending to proceed to France to assume his dut.es as Mex- jean Ambassador to that country. He went to Los Angeles, Calif., and conferred with Gen. Obregon. It is understood that Gen. Obregon per- suaded Senor Pani to undertake to find a solution to the controversy with the State Department over the oil imsue. | CIGARETTE SMOKING “AD’ | STIRS SCHUMANN-HEINK | Never Uses Tobacco, She Declarés, Branding Testimonial | as a Hoax. Y | | I | i By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., February 12.—| Newspaper advertisements of a well | known brand of cigarettes, picturing | Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink ! not only as using them regularly but | as enjoving them during her leisure | moments in retirement, have so dis-| tressed the singer that she has placed | the matter in the hands of an attor- | ney. Tier concern was apparent on her arrival here today when she found in | her mail letters from friends through- | out the country and many persons whom she did not know, enclosing | clippings of the advertisement fnd | commenting on her use of the weed. “Heavens above,” she exclaimed. “I never smoked a cigaretté in my life and, although 1 don't condemn women who do, neither do 1 approve of it in them. It is preposterous. Why, even my sons ars not permitted to smoke in my prefence on the days 1 sing. Do 1 ook like a smoke: I, the mother of eight and the grand mother of €leven?” She declared she had been made the victim of a hoax when her signature, reproduced at the bottom of the ad- vertisement, was obtained. FRUIT SHIP GROUNDED. BOSTON, February 12 (#).—Radio dispatches Teceived here tonight said the steamship Aracataca, bound for Port Limon, Costa Rica, to Pucrto Colombia, was ashore on Verde Island, “off the north coast of Colombia. The Inessage said the ship was resting easy and that tugs were proceeding to her wid from Jamaica and Cristobal The Aracataca is 9,000 tons burden and owned by Elders & Fyffes, Ltd., « British subsidiary of the United Frult Co. Shé is engaged in the lanana trade between Central Amert- cun ports and Liverpool. ‘. |the invitation Monday, it will have i cour, who strongly opposes the Amer- Before the conferences will! el dcsmat n al ns durllllfle worR. vier as impossible the number of subjects are France thus may sit in at the Cool- idge disarmament party, but apparént- ly her disposition is to leave her treaty-signing pen at home. Diplomat- ic politeness presupposes acceptance, however unwilling, but the “serious reservations” expressed by the cabinet today are construed as portending strong disagreement with the Amer- ican view. French Action Tomorrow. When the French cabinet acts on before it the report of M. Paul Bon- jcan plan. As reporter of the League of Nations Disarmament Commission, M. Paul Boncour represents France. His opposition is generally shared by French leaders and the newspapers. The French feel that they did not get the treatment they expected. at the first Washington naval confer- ence, and distinctly dread another session. Thelr ideas, expressed at Geneva, are squarely opposed to those of President Coolidge, and no one here has mentioned any reason for aban- doning this position. As M. Paul Bon- cour’s attitude at Geneva fs con- trolled by the government, his ideas, it is to be supposed, will have much weight. Piecemeal Work Opposed. He disagrees with those who say that the League of Nations commis- sion is not getting anywhere, and he recalls also that at Geneva it was France which championed the idea of interdependence of land, sea and air forces, which the commission adopted against American opposition. He is distinctly adverse to plece- meal limitation and says that the Americans might have presented their naval plan at the Geneva sessions they attended. France's reply will be drafted by Foreign Minister Briand and will be presented - for final approval of the cabinet Monday. ITALIAN PRESS CYNICAL. Strong Restrictions on Naval Con- ference Is Advocated. ROME, February 12 (P).—"Italy must insist on absolute liberty to con- struct and use as many destroyers, submarines and all other types of light fighting ships as she considers necessary for her defense,” the Gior- nale D'ltalia declares tonight. k The entire Itallan press agrees in expressing cyncism over the pos- | sibility of success of President Cool- \idge's proposul, while the foreign 1 office announces that Premier Mus- solini still 15_consulting military and whether Frange will be influenced b; | Troops« of Chang Tso-Lin, head of the acceptance of such a plan by the| 50 Lb o Tl hee of bl other four powers. ‘While it awaif e from Wu's troops when Amierican. me: p val he. replies to the! fa ~ Ynst of being a_sharply drawn Shitege Beétwéen the Peking and Can- tonese" (Nationalist) govérnments to rile 450,00800 population, mittee, rman Porter yesterday'there may be another element intro- ed fs bly a bill authorizsing | duced in the ‘gerson of Wu Pel-Fu, the appi lon of $75,000 for the, able general anll recently undisputed continued ' participation of American | war tord of central China. delegates at the Geneva preparatory ;:ontererce‘ Whg::n is u_}on to resume Blamed on Misunderstanding. ts sessions in eva. The appro) E tion will be Iheluded, it Is expecten, in | ,, Th% AEAting in Honan Province, the next deficlency appropriation bil, | 5aid headquarters here of the north- Chalirman Porter may ask a special | ©f" alllance, was due to subordinates of the armies of Chang and Wu mis- understanding the purpose of the rule for ‘the consideration of the authorization bill this week. The re- port of the bill by the committee was|movements. The northerners asserted unanimous. that they had disarmed some of Wu's troops who attempted to prevent their advance toward the city of Chenchow, At the same time the bill was re. ported, a letter from Secretary Kel- near the eastern frontler of Honan. The forces of the northerns are be- logg of the State Department (o the lieved to be those dispatched from committee chairman recommending Shantung Province by Chang Tsung- its passage, was made public. In this letter Mr. Kellogg declared | Chang, its governor and ally of the Manchurian dictator, Chang Tso-Lin. that the preparatory conference, not- withstanding reports to the contrary, had made progress in its meetings last | Other forces going southward through year. He said, too, that the “thesis” | Chihli Province received the signifi- prevented by the United States’ rep- | AN message Thursday from Wu that resentatives for separate consideration | they had best halt at Changteh, of naval, land and other arms limita. | Northern frontier of Honan, to pre- tion had found favor finally with half | Vent possible conflict due to ‘“misun- derstanding” by opposing troops. The strength of Wu's armies, which of the conference. & U. S. Will Not Withdraw. | lie between those of the Peking and o | Natlonalist (Cantonese) governments, © Secretary of State makes it |is not known, but his past record is clear, in urging that the United States | sufficient to inspire opponents’ re- continue its participation In the |spect. Although he suffered defeat preparatory conference, that this Gov- | last August, when the Cantonese ernment does not intend to withdraw | forced him northward from his capital and give to other nations the oppor- |at Hankow, the success of the Can- tunity of declaring that the faflure of | tonese was belleved due as much to the conference is due to this country. | insubordination of Wu's generals as Tt:‘:ag:y:e‘:gyaf?‘” is Dot to be made | to their own skill and strength. or a failure at Geneva. 0 Congress, it was predicted last night Cantoneso Are Preparing. will put through the aPpropriation of | Meanwhile the Cantonese, as usual, $75,000 for continued participation continue their preparations in secret in the Geneva conference, and will | to meet the northern menace. The lit- tle news that has filtered through add to it, if it becomes necessary. President Coolidge has proposed that | their censorship indicated heavy prep- a separate five-power conference, with | arations, with concentrations about full power to negotiate a treaty limit- | Hankow. ing naval auxillary craft, be initiated | Another unknown feature of the in Geneva while the work of the gen- | battleground of Honan is Feng Yu- Hslang, once styled “the Christian eral conference proceeds. If France and Italy should not be 'general.” Feng heads the Kuomin- un, the wandering armies of the | prepared to enter into such naval ! limitations negotiations, then it has | Peking government deposed by Chang Tso-Lin and Wu Pel-Fu when they b'Fen proposed informally that the United States, Great Britain and formed a brief alliance last Spring and drove out the Kuominchun. Japan go ahead with a treaty limit- ing cruisers. This might be under- Feng last was reported with a con- taken, but the administration at pres- | siderable force in western Honan. He | ent is considering only the five-power | claimed loyalty to the cause of the negotiations proposed by the Presi-| Nationalist government, having, like | dent. it, received aid from Russian sources. f But Feng’s loyalty is most unstable; Eresipencion M ptiswen, once he deserted Wu Pel-Fu in the At the Washington _conference, midst of a battle. Treaty Sovering capltoy ahips aa n i o 3 ships - craft carriers and lmiting the sige COLD WAVE WARNING | IS ISSUED TO WEST, and the gun caliber of cruisers was Storm Sweeps Northeast From tion at Geneva.., ‘e Eigensé Fund Is Favored. anlél:..‘lfmtm affairs com- |~ (ontinued on Page 6, Column 7.) entered into, France took a firm stand | California and Arizona—Mid- | | Special Dispatch to The Star. NEWARK, N. J, February 1 ! Ten ounces of metal notfons, composed lof 250 safety pins, stralght pins and | needles, formed into a ball, were re- I moved today from the stomach of Mrs. Margaret Burry, 35 years old. Mrs. Burry, who speaks no English, {said that before she came to Amer. ica she worked in Kurope as a nurse- jmaid. Her employers did not feed her {enough to satisfy her appetite. In her mouth she always carried two or three pins or a needle. If a morsel of unguarded food me her way, she would gulp it down before the master or mistress caught her and had her beaten. With the food, unnoticed in the excitement, a pin of needie would slip down without pain. Two of the. 4 1980 Pins and Needles Rolled Into Ball ’ Are Removed From Woman’s Stomach against the limitation of auxiliary craft in accordance with the then ex- dle West in Range. | By the Associated Press isting strength of the various navies. KANSAS CITY, Mo., February 12. Franee. was etrongly o (Continued on Page 6, Col —Warning of a cold wave in Montana | and snow in the Middle West tonight and tomorrow was issued today by | weather bureaus. Utahans awakened today to find a two-dnch blanket of snow on the ground and predictions that the snow- | fall would continue tonight and to- | morrow. straight pins had penetrated the walls of the patient’s stomach, according to Drs. George Blackburn, Louls Davis and Ilnrry‘ Seldman, who performed | the operation on Mrs, Burry at St.| riginating Cali- Michael's Hospltal, afier an X-ray, mr‘?.".‘,m ‘Arizona, the storm uw:p‘t taken Monday, and were hanging into . eastward and northeastward this the abdominal cavity until drawn out | morning and it was snowing at Win- today. Parts of the ball, Dr. Black-| nemucca, Nev., and in New Mexico. burn said, were in varlous degrees of | where a fall of from 6 to 8 inches corrosion, although, he added, no|was recorded. It was snowing also poison had been communicated to the| in the region of Grand Junction, walls of the stomach. Colo. According to the doctors, the bal'| Subzero temperatures were in pros- of needles was compact and the size | pect for Montana as a cold wave from of a base ball. They expressed wonder | Canada enveloped the border States, that the patient had not died from |the weather bureau at Helena said. blood polsoning or peritonitls, and| Missourt, Kansas, Nebraska and were surprised at her improved cond!. | lowa were promised snow tonight or tion hmmediately after the operation..’ Sunday. in southeastern | News of the TODAY’S STAR. PART ONE—44 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. & Maryland and Virginia News—Pages 19, 22, 23 and 26. Schools and Colleges—Pages 22 and 23. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 32. Army and Navy News—Page 34. D. A. R. Activities—Page 35. Radio News and Programs—Pages 38 and 39. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 89. Boy Scout News—Page 39. Serlal, “The Murder of Roger Ack- royd"—Page 40. Spanish War Veterans—Page 40. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 41. Girl Scouts—Page 41. Around the City—Page 41. W. C. T. U. News—Page 41. PART TWO—16 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Soclety. Notes_of Art and Artists—Page 4. eviews of Winter Books—Page %, 2‘"{‘{, ‘btcn uld!(‘r':awn Folk—Page 10. mmi Centgrs~Page. 12, Contract B s i‘am—~ 2 ibs—Page Amusements—"TYeaters and ¢ S tdplay Music—Page 5. - Motors and Motoring—Pagés 6, 7 and 8. District National Guard—Page Civillan Army News—Page 9. Fraternal News—Pages 10 and PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Secti PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Veterans of the Great War—Page 8. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 8. Financlal News—Pages 9, 10 and 11. GRAPHIC SECTION—12 PAGES. World Events in Pictures, 9. 11, COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; High Lights of Histor; THREE ARE KILLED BY ESTAPING GAS Sleeping Men Believed Vic- tims of Workman’s Error. Woman Dies. Asphyxiation claimed three lives hery sterday afternoon and last night, the victims being two men and a woman. A gas heater left turned on, but un. lighted by men who installed a device to cut down gas bills was responsible for the death of James Lucas, 25 years old, and John Koutsouvelis, 35, while they slept yesterday in a bedroom in t.)m rear of the lunchroom of John Gratsias, 902 Four-anda-half street southwest. Gas Turned on Again. Lucas and Koutsouvelis were asleep when the workmen came to install the apparatus. The heater was said to have been burning at the time, and it apparently was not turned off when the workmen disconnected the gas to make the installation. When the flow was turned on again, the police believe that the workmen failed to relight the heater. Gratsias was not certain as to the identity of the workmen who installed the device, which appears to be : sort of filter for reducing sas pres sure as it enters the house system He said that Lucas, his partner and Koutsouvells, an employe in the lunchroom had gone to bed about noon. When he went to call then at 8 o'clock, they were found dead i the gas-filled room. Woman Found Dead. Efforts by police and the Fire De- partment rescue squad to revive Mrs. Hattie May Smith, 50 years old, of 469 L street, from asphyxiation failed after almost an hour's use of the pulmotor and other emergency treatments last night. She had been taken from her home by Policeman J. P. Konesky and Altus Moore of the fourth precinct, who started resuscitation work pending the arrival of the fire rescue squad. The policeman had smelled gas while patrolling their beat and were forced to break in the door, which was barricaded by furniture, Investi; showed gas escaping from a r jet and from & gas Btove, . . iid ariy o e ot HOUSE FARM HEADS FIGHT ALTERATION Want McNary Measure Sent to President as Received From Senate. By the Associated Press. Convinced that a flibuster faces the McNary-Haugen tarm relief bill if it is sent back to the Senate, a rigorous program was agresd tc by House farm leaders yesterday in an effort to put through unchanged the measure pass- ed Friday by the Senate.. 1f the blll is_passed. by the Hous: without alteration, *it would go toi: Presfflent Coglidge immediately, byt changed it myat go Lo conference ‘and the Semate for fihal approval, a8 there, its friends fear, a flibtister fs rtain to develop.- Dickinson Outlines Plan. After a conference of the bill's sup- porters, Representative Dickinson, Republican, Iowa, declared every ef- fort to amend the Senate bill would be vigorously opposed, because it was felt the change of *'so little as a. com- ma means no farm reiiéf this session.” The first step to carry out this plan will be taken tomorrow, when Chair- man Haugen of the agriculture com- mittee appears before the rules com- mittee to ask for authority to substi- tute the Senate bill for its compan- ion under discussion ir the House. A House vote on such a step is likely and is expected to indicate the strength of the measure. Opposition Lines Up. House farm leaders said yesterday they were favorable to various Senate amendments, including the Bledsoe in- surance plan designed as a safeguard against crop price declines, as a sup- plement to the equalization fee, and to the inclusion of tcbacco as one of the commodities on which the fee would be levied, and were willing to accept all of them. In the face of efforts to put through the Senate bill unchanged, opponents of the measure continued their fight in the House against it and announced they would put every obstacle in the way of a vote on the bill. It is ex- pected that both the Curtis-Crisp bill, rejected Friday by the Senate, and the proposal sponsored by Representa- tive Aswell, Democrat, Louisiana, will })e gger;;l as s\:butl(u(es. A final vote n the House is not expected befor: the middle of this week. T e - TRAIN RAN SEVEN MILES AFTER AXLE GAVE WAY - Back to Track Shortly Before Wreck. By the Associated Pre ATLANTIC, Iowa, February 12— Freak accidents there have been many, but an incident connected with the wreck of the Rock Island Rocky Mountain limited Wednesday night near Walnut, lowa, probably has set a precedent. It has been learned that the broken axle, which resulted in four coaches of the train leaving the track and piling down a 20-foot embankment, seriously injuring several passengers, actually was broken seven miles trom the scene of the wreck. ‘When the axle broke, trainmen de- clare, the engine left the track for a short distance, the great spved of the |train causing it to regain the rails. Seven ralls were torn out at the place near Marne, lowa, where the axle broke, they say. Engineer M. J. McGrath asserts that he heard a noise at that time, Speed Brought Derailed Engine “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. R FIVE (#) Means Associated Press. Ko it brephans [1OHTS WITH FISTS Has Four Pink Ones B AREI.Y AVER'I'EB IN SENATE AND HOUSE By the Associated Press. BANGKOK, Sfam 12.—The King of Siam Senators Glass, Virginia, and Wheeler, Montana, Clash Over Banking Bill. February as & new white elephant on his hands. Tt was presented by the Borneo Co. as an omen of good luck. This makes seven sacred elephants owned by the king—three white ones and four pink. The king and queen returned from an o visit to the town of Chieng-Mal, where their majesties, royal princes and numerous chiefs, mounted on ele- phants, participated in a proces sion several miles in length. There were 87 elephants in line, one of them being the largest of the thousands in Siam, and another the smallest. have just TINCHER AND STRONG STAGE HOUSE BOUT Lie Passed in Both Branches. Longworth, as Peacemaker, Almost Hit. T0 START MARCH $463,000 Program Laid Out, Calling for Work on 41 Highways. By the Associated Press. Torrid language amd ore-round bouts developed at both ends of the Capitol yesterday as feeling over banking and farm legislation reached fever hedt. Carter Glass of Virginia, one of the smallest men in the Senate, and Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, who is considerably larger, furnished the milling in the Senate, but were sepa- rated before either had come to any physical grief. The set-to on the House side w: between J. N. Tincher and James C Strong, both Kansas Republicans. Speaker Longworth played the role of peacemaker and in doing 8o managed to avold several wild hay- makers which the rotund com- batants¥directed at each other. Lie Passed in Senate. The Glass-Wheeler encounter took place on the Senate floor during a roll call and after the lle had been passed. The Tincher-Strong it w. in the lobby just off the House cham- ber and was preceded by “lar” and, according to eyewitnesses, even stronger fighting language. Glass and Wheeler, both of whom are Democrats, came together while the Senate was voting to take up the banking bill and after the flery Virginian had objected to unanimous consent for the Montanan to speak for an hour on the motion to make) the measure the unfinished business. | Wheeler claimed, and Glass denled, in debate that there had been an agreement Friday to let Wheeler speak on the motion, the roll call proceeded-the Vir- to the Demecratic The District’s initial street improve- ment program for 1927 calling for the repair surface and resurfacing of 41 streets, involving a total cost of $463,- 000, was announced yesterday by the highway department. Twelve of the principal projects, costing approxi- mately $313,000, will be paid from the gasoline tax revenues. Appropria- tions for street repairs for the cur- rent fiscal vear will pay the cost of the others. The largest and most important project is the re cing of Thirty- fifth street from Prospect to Wiscon- sin avenue, estimated to cost $75,000. Chief among the resurfacing jobs are the renewal of the paving on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue rom Washington Circle to Twenty- fifth street, and on_the north side of this avenue from Washington Circle to Twenty-sixth street. The improvement program is sched- uled to get under way by March 1, unless the weather interferes. The resurfacing of Pennsylvania avenue, however, will be delayed somewhat due to the plans of the Capital Trac- tion Co. to relay its tracks on this street. Gasoline Tax Fund Projects. The projects to be pald for out of the gasoline tax fund. in addition to | “Ree) the resurfacing of Pennsylvania ave- nue, folletw ” ginitan moved ove n « Northwést®K street, ‘Twélfth _to]=ide of mber &b/ “nlxefl'fil siypets; K street, svvenhtg wenpt. - to Nffithostreets; Woodley road, Catl iiher dral ‘Wisconsin nues, fifth , Prospect to- Wiseoy | ndles, and Wiscogsin a seventh stréeet to M avenue. Northeast—Sixteenth ~street, East Capitol to B streets, and L street, Second to Sixth streets. Southeast—G street, Fourteenth to Fifteenth streets; G street, Sixteenth Seventeenth streets, and Sixteenth A street to Massachusetts avenue, Appropriation Projects. The resurfacing jobs which will be cared for out of current oppropria- tions follow: Northwest—Ninth sfreet, vania avenue to D street: Ninth street, D to E streets; Eleventh street, O street to Florida avenue; Seventeenth street, New York to Pennsylvania avenues; Twenty-second street, Massa- chusetts avenue to R street; Twenty- second street, Q street to Massa- chusetts avenue: Thirtieth street, M street to the Chesapeake and Ohio | Canal; California_street, Connecticut | avenue to Phelps place; Calvert | street, from the bridge to Connecti- | cut avenue; D street, Eighth to Ninth |in violation of the rules there was streets; Dupont Circle, west side; H |a craning of necks over the side to street, Fifteenth street to Vermont |see what for a_moment promised to avenue; I streot, Ninth to Tenth |be a fist fight. The attention of other streets and Thirteenth to Fourteenth | Senators and Senate officials was at- streets, and Fifteenth street to Ver.|tracted and they were quickly on mont avenue; M street, New York to the scene. New Jersey avenues: v York Senators Quiet Down. nue, M street to New Jersey avenue: New Jersey avenue, M street to ) Glass returned from the cloakroom York avenue; New York avenue, |Soon after the encounter and took his Tenth to Eleventh streets, and Sev. |Seat near Wheeler. but there was no enteenth to Eighteenth stroets; s | Tenewal of hostilities. %:| The mix-up between Tincher and place, California street to Ler: NG it et 10} | Strong grew out of House debate on y orela avenue to Sev- | ¢ N R Haugen farm bill. As to Phel a New ithey met in the ornate lobby just e th Bixth eceandy New Jersey ave | off 'the chamber they begen hurling to Sixteenth streets. » Fifteenth | iy, term “lar” at each other. Speak- Northeast — Second er Lomgworth and Representative Talenl avenus fto V Rhode |11, qepeth of Texas, who were stand- street, Massachusetty soroti SIXth ing nearby, intervenied as they started avenues; B stroet, Eighth to N nd i plows in the general direction of i to Ninth | streets; Gales street, Fifteenth to Six- | g frer - Longworth pushed them Sk lis {apart, they attempted to land blows over his shoulder. They gave up, but limmediately renewed the verbal | broadsides, addressing each other in anything but parliamentary language. ™ . "Longworth led Tincher nto the House chamber and Hud- peth and other friends . Tincher opposes the Mc- Taugen bill and Strong Is a rter of it. he was not in a belligérent mood, but the Virginian insisted Wheeler was “Hvid” with anger. Glass passed the lie and grabbed Wheeler by the arms, inviting him into the cloakroom to fight it out. ‘Wheeler pushed the Virginia Senator away and Senators and Senate at- taches intervened. Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, took Gl into the cloakroom, while Ralph Kelly, secretary to Sen- ator Edwards, Democrat, New Jersey, calmed Wheeler, who returned to his seat smiling. During the hubbub of the roll call only those immediately around the Senators knew what had taken place, even Vice President Dawes, who was presiding, and most officers of the Senate missing at least the start of the encounter. g The Senators came together di- rectly under the men's gallery and Pennsyl- | enth street; S street, Florida avenue street. FOG GRIPS ENGLAND. LONDO! February 12 (#) over the whole of England, es the south and the English C nel has caused a great deal of inconven- ience and a number of minor shipping accidents. The King and Queen of the Belglans, who arrived in London tonight to attend the Flemish Picture Exhibition, had intended to come by airplane, but were prevented b; the fog. The steamer City of Tokio with large crew and some passenge grounded this morning near Margate. Efforts were made throughout the day to float her but without avail. The vessel is not considered in danger. Fog | 4, ally | Na | suppo; In a message to The Star last night Senator Glass explained that his brief passage with Senator Wheeler was a matter of ‘“mortification” to him. | Senator Glass asserted that no blows i were struck either by himself or Senator Wheeler, and he emphasized !that he did not “challenge” the Mon- itanan. stating that his invitation to Senator Wheeler to go to the cloak- room with him was presented to re- move their argument from the floor of the Senate. Explains Encounter. | Giving his version of the encounter, the Virginian said that Senator Wheeler came across the chamber nd accused him of “breaking faith | with him.’ Return of State Lands éought. Webruary 1 P).—Under suspension of rules, the House today passed a Senate joint memorial petitioning Congress to re- turn to 11 Western States their pub lic lands and resources now held in but believed it to be the popping of the ralls common in cold weather. trust by the Kederal Government. The measure went to the governor for his signature. | “I then intemperately characterized I nis statement,” Senator Glass said. | He added that he had his hand on By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 12.—The King was in the parlor when he heard that his tiny guest—the ~Princess Eliza- heth, whose parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, are now on a voyage to the Antipodes--had cut her first The Ki: affairs of' came nea as even kings will over a family event, foi momentarily and y as excited as he did on Princess’ First Tooth So Excites King He Drops State Affairs to Tell Queen | Senator Wheeler's shoulder while he was replying to him. URGED FOR PEACE PRIZE. Count Apponyi of Hungary Is Sug- gested for Nobel Award. VIENNA, Austria, February 12° (#).—Count Albert Apponyi, veteran Hungarian statesman and one of the |leaders in European peace and dis- armament movements, lunder League of Nations auspices, |has been suggested as the recipient of the Nobel peace price for 1927. Count_Apponyi, who is well known in the United States where he lec- tured in 1923, has been for the_honor by the Hu: group of the Inter-larimentary. Union. his first granddaughier had been born. King George, so the story goe: immediately sent attendants scurr: ing about Buckingham Palace to in- form the Queen of the tooth’sarrival. The Queen pretended surprise, so that the King would think he had learned the news first, but her ladies in wait- ing say that she knew all about the tooth days ago. The King and Queen then sat down together and framed a wireless mes- sage to the Duke and Duchess of York aboard the Renown to tell of the