Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1927, Page 1

N WEATHER (0. 8 Weather Cloudy and warmer tc by light rain tonight colder tomorrow Highest at 4 lowest, 36, at 6 a.m Temperatu m Full report on page T Bureau Forecast.) 1 w follow o tomorr terday today. o. 1,184—No. 30, Entered post offic s second class matter . . hington. D. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star 1s delivered every evening and Sunday mornin; 40 cents per me and service wi g to Washington homes at mth. Telephone Main 5000 Il start immediately NOVEMBER 2 1927 =112 PAGE (#) Means Associated Press. PESSINIS WANES - IN EUROPEAN WAR . HREATS REPORTS Uneasiness Still Felt Despite Temporary Calm in Pole- Lithuanian Issue. RUMANIN POLITICIANS ARE MARKING TINE| tron TItalo-Albanian Pact Fails Arouse Expected Uneasiness in Balkans. By the Assoiat LONDON ness over the threats to Euroj dozen distarbed to the Balkans rule eat pow The strained relations of a number of smaller countries constitute a dithi cult problem fre admitted by officials, s crop of reports were less pessimistic than vesterday Consequently in Downing street well as Berlin and Paris, authoritative opinion was that there is not likely | to be a blaze from the smoldering in ternationa! discord unless some ticular country should lose i completely and commit an overt act League to Investigate. In the week end reports of the ap- parently critical Polish-Lithuanian situation there was a degree of calm ness not apparent during the past few days. It is felt that in view of the fact that the Council of the League of | Nations will treat some aspects of this problem next week, neither Poland nor Lithuania will do anything to prejudice A proper inquiry or make relations worse | Soviet 1 Ur serions vember easi more or le Ba reas fron the the chan today friendly note to both | countries expressing concern _over their strained relations, stated that a peaceful termination of the problem was Russin's only interest. officials_consider that the app sion felt by Russia over the Polish Lithuanian situation is justified to a | cortain extenr. because of natural concern rdinz events on her frontier. In Rumania. where the death of | Tremier Bratianu has created uneasi- n over the domestic situation well 2 parties e rega rking time until the late premier's funeral on Monday after which new Liberal leaders will | be chosen. | Balkans Seem Quieter. Bucharest dispatches indicate that Minister of the Interior Duca, who 1s | one of the leading members of the cabinet. will respect the wishes of his late leader and stand aside in favor of Bratianu’s brother. Vintila. Neither official nor press dispatches from Ru- mania report any disturbances in the | country. i the | n Even in the Balkans proper. view of British official circles is that the new defensive pact between Italy and Albania, which was suddenly an- nounced to an unsuspecting diplomatic world on Thursday. has not caused the uneasiness that might have been ex- pected. The British view is that both the French and Jugoslav pres well as officials, seem to view the ation calmly with no serious fears for the future. Reports received in Bucharest terday of an outbreak in the Uk 3 in the town of Kamenetz-Podolsk, were denied todav at Moscow by the Soviet foreign office. s ne, | BRATIANU QUOTED AS WARNING OF WAR Late Premier Reported to Have Asserted Mussolini's Policy Might Bring Conflict. | By the Associated Pres LONDON. Novemly The Bucharest correspondent of the Sunday Times, fends an interview which he had with the late Premier Bratianu on November 7, in the course of which the premier reviewed the | Whole fleld of European relations, with | special reference to the Balkan: | M. Bratianu is quoted as asserting that Mussolini's policy might one day bring_about war it Mussolini himself desired to avoid war. In this connection the premier deplored the relations_existing hetween ¢ and | Jugoslavia, but o do little without support. He voiced a stri consequences of tend Hungary's existi ITALIAN KING LAUDS PACT WITH ALBANIA Britain's warning of the empt to ex- frontiers. Treaty Is Instrument for Peace,|Smith feeli Victor Emmanuel Says in Mes- | sage to Ahmed Zogu. By the Associated Press ROME. November Emmanuel. 1in a mes Zogu, president of Alba that the Italian y rejoic Victor Ahy dec sleheartedly Kin: to res “as the consecration of their century old friendship. bania, the monarch added. “fulfills | to, "l:n. i n peace from a half | kn ) Lord Cecil | was lucky in the World War | should of st .. | claring ORD CECIL WA rmer Cabinet Member Urges Nations to Get To- gether on Navy Question. British May Not 3e So Lucky in Next War, Viscount Warns in Appeal. By the Associated Press (Sunday).— LONDON, Novemb 3 resigned ount Cecil, who recentl 2 the Baldwin cabinet to n for disarmament, long article in the Sunday ur, the caption. n and the United State ieh Other's Tails He discusses all the moints of the ditficulty N the two nations, in uding « ament, naval competi 1nd b rent rights at sea. On the basis that modern conditions o navai warfare e quite different ym those of Napoleonic times. wh nd was virtually self-supporting rd to food and raw materials points out that England in being able to bottle up the German fleet. hut that she might not be so lucky in the next war, when it was very doubtful 1 camp: utes a with 1 | whether any number of cruisers would save her. He suggests that the two countries enter into a full discussion whole question of belligerent sea Sunday indor it to the rights The ngly ime: th an in an editorial tion, de- sue that lies be i behind the nightmare of Anglo-Ameri: s | New foreign relations. the political | 15\ that Tammany Hall leaders, act-|says that a milit t ¢ t sert that prominent Democrats from | many States have called to offer their say, receive the visiting delegations. has informed Tammany leaders, the| article will assert, t: t next Democratic national convention. 1ot 01 | wi gation i | mariex | firmly | the i t ing on express orders from Gov fred abandoned negotiations with cratic spokesmen from can naval The edi tori rivalry. same AND U. S. TO END NAVAL ISSU NTS ENGLAND E VISCOUNT CECIL, can el 1 it would b isserts that place with banker, comn the world and An article by which the writer shness to dgnor and America has taken its Ensland as the world's ial clearing house of ding al power Editor L. G vin in the Sunday Observer, dealing with disarmament, European war rumblings and the movement of Sen- ators Borah and Capper for out- AW i w strongly advocates the conclusion of a treaty of unconditional arbitration between Great Britain and the United St Mr. Garvin says that Great Britain ready for such a treaty 30 years ago, but that the Irish question then stood in the wa It now is out of the way, he argues, and “we are as ready as then to conclude a treaty says w 1 dilates on many aspects of which would be epoch-making in the | team that played superior foot ball inxiety with regard to Anglo-Ameri ! cause of peac | Tammany Temporarily Drops Military Uprising Talk of Nomination, | Paper Claims. I By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Novamber York American will say The tomor- Al temporarily Demo- other States 0 promote the governor's nomlnalianf or the presidency on the Democratic icket. The Tammany representatives as- E. Smith, have upport to Smith, the American will but the governor has refused to| He | that he will not alk about the presidential nomina- ion, nor do anything to influence the | The American will say that a dele- of Michigan Democrats came 0 see Gov. Smith a few day eking permission to place hisname on the ticket in the Michigan pri- “The governor courteously declined to see the v American quotes its Tammany | nformant as saying. “He sent word | hat he would not consent to have his | ame on the primary ballot in Michi- gan or elsewhere.” t [ and put Smith Governor Professes Ignorance of Ban The delegation replied that since heir State ‘aws did not require the | consent of the candidate for use of | iis_name, they would “go back home name on the ballot.” | | wh REFU COMMENT. | on 1928 Drive. UBANY, N. Y., November 26 (#).| v. Alfred E. Smith, when inform A | ed tonizht of reports current in' New | - 27 (Sunday)— | York thar he had ordered Tammany | = | Hall | negotiations with Democratic spokes- leaders temporarily to abandon | DRIVE IS REPORTED: INLITHUAMAN CITY Follows Day of Silence Begun Wkzen Notices Appear. DBy the Associated Press, BERLI firmed news agenc November An uncon- report from Riga revolt has oc curred at Kovno, Lithuania, and that the Waldemaras government has been overthrown. LONDON, November (#).—In connection with a report of the over- throw of the Lithuanian government, Reuters Berlin correspondent says there Las béen no news from Lithu- aria since last night, when a Kovno message reported that proclamations had been posted about the city sum- moning the citizens to participate in an armed uprising against the W demaras government. Tke movement was said to be en-| gineered by Lithuanian emigres un- | der Col. Pletskaitis, who is alleged to embled his adherents at Vilna | Polish suppo intending to gainst Kovno. <0 reported from Berlin that Premier Waldemaras in a note to th Les of Nations declares he h: positive information of the formation | of an army of Lithuanian emigres, or- ganized with Polish aid. RIOT REPORTS DENIF ate Message to Riga Nervousness Has Abated, Sa, Rl Latvia, November 26 ().—A | private telephone message from Koy- no this evening h are denies” wild reports 3 in circulation in neighbor- | ing states, alleging putches and street fghting there. It is declared that everything is quiet at Kovno and that the nervousness has abated ATTEMPT MADE ON LIFE OF MAYOR OF VIENNA men from other States in promotion Dr. Seitz, Signer of Austrian Treaty | of his nomination for President on the Democratic ticket, said: “Don’t know a thing about it."” further comment. ber mittee d | member | The governor declined to make any | SMITH BOOMED IN UTAH. i | ! Adherents Report Progress of Drive Throughout West. | T LAKE CITY, Utah, Noven: 3 (®).—A rapidly crystall | entiment for Al Smith in the West | was reported at an executive com. | meeting today of the “Al h for President’” club, nized at Ogden by representativ from several Western States. The meeting was called to erganize the varions State committees and press the campaign in their States. Unofficial anvasses of ver: ates have indicated much mith feeling and almost no anti- according to Fred W Johnson of Rock Springs, W whe presided the meeting. He was a pointed ¢ rman of the club at the Ozden convention, September 24 De Zoma and of pro ates from Utah and Idaho were tele m from the Mont. of the committee d that Montana was “sure” for Smith rew Ariz. d that reports Smith sentiment in the South were unfounded. “After a tour last- ing nearly two months, which tcok Wyomin, present 1 ation of Italy and Al-|me through the Middlewest, East and South, T have found that the reports the constant desire of my country to | of prevailing anti-Smith sentiment are safeguard the pea of the proud and noble Albanian people, and the pact will therefore be an efficacious instrument of fruit- ful progress.” Ahmed Zogu. in a telegram to the King expresses “sentiments of devot- ed admiration and profound t fulness of my country to vour person and the noble Italian nation ank- TREiATYY IS RATIFIED. Jugoslavia, November o today ratitied treaty of BELGRADE. Alexand friendship and arbitration Commercial treatie: and Belgium were ratified by ment unanimously. — Both most favored nation clauses. include | ce and independence | mainly Republican propaganda.” CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE. Father Probably Fatally Burned ‘When Blast Ignites Home. APULPA, Okla., November hildren, 4 and 2 vears old, vere burned to death after their father, 0. J. Carr, probably was fatal- burned when fire, caused by an ex- plosion of a gas stove, burned their home he The father and mother were in the yard while the two children, Merle | ina Eugene, were in the house. Carr P with Germany |rushed into the burning building to Parlia- | rescue the children, but the youngest alveady had Burned to death and he was unable to rescue the other. t recently | | and | ned | Bettey of | of Peace, Escapes Bullets Fired by Assassin. wciated Press. Vi A, November cessful attempt to eitz, mayor of Vien fternoon. Dr. Seitz, who has long played a prominent part in Austrian politics, and was one of the Austrian signers of the treaty of peace with the allied powers in 1919, was shot at as he was leaving an auditorium near the Nort western Raflway Station. The bullet missed the mays was not hurt. The as nt revolver, was arrested. ne as Strebinger. He said that he was s unemployed and had lon; By the A —An unsuc- ssinate Dr. a. was made this r and he who used w planned Democrats (1o kill the mayor |goal in five successive dashes. ARMY BEATS NAVY, 1449, BY BRILLIANT THIRD-PERIOD RALLY Wilson, Cadet Captain, Proves Hero of Service Game, Viewed by 76,000. ‘MI‘DDIES OUTPLAY FOE 1 IN ALL BUT.ONE QUARTER West Pointers’ Defense Stops Annapolis Eleven in Shadow of Goal. Twice i BY ALAN Assocated Pre POLO GROUNDS, —Rallying from Army conquered the to 9, under the indomitable der ship ot the blond and battling cadet | :aptain, “Light Horse” Harry Wilson. | While colorful, wildly yelling crowd of 6,000 looked on, W pulled his wabbly team together | tween haly out lead |charge that saw him twice cross the | | Navy goal line and then stand fore- | t in the defense that checked the | fesperate and dangerous closing spurt | of the Sailors | Army’s victory over a gallant Navy | GOULD. Soor a poor Navy today, 14 pvember start, | be. 8, came to a mo in all but the third period was a per- sonal triumph for the veteran Wilson, ving his last vear for the Army it Penn State, Navy Stopped Twice Near Goal. It was Wilson who plunged in and | tackled with his forwards as they put up a stonewall defensive barrier lin the first half, beaten back and once yielding a safety on a blocked | kick, but also twice stopping the Navy the threshold of the goal | line. Once the Middies were turned hack | with only vards to go, but even | more dishearteni in the second period. was the ¥ thrust that was [ stopped by the Cadets only a foot <hort of a_touchdown. It was Wilson who came trotting lout in the sccond half to lead a thrust that turned the tide and clinched the game. Light Horse Harry” was a whirling dervish as he took a Navy punt on the latter's 46 vard line and dashed 13 yards, then carried the ball scross the Middies’ Side- stepping and_straight-arming, Wilson frequently dragged three or four :klers along with him as he reeled off 28 yards to the goal line. With the winning spark thus ig- nited, “Red” Cagle, fleet-running mate of the Army captain, grabbed oppor- tunity—in the form of an intercept- ed pass—and raced 36 yards to the Navy's four-yard mark. ‘It took only two bucks by Wilson to put the ball over and Cagle's toe added the extra point for the second time. Outplayed in t Hall. It was just as well for the Army | at they produced this third period coring punch, for they had been out- }.»l;_m decisively by the Midshipmen lir the first half and in the final quar- er they were menaced by a Navy | | come-hack that netted one touchdown | | and threatened another before the | {last whistle blew. { | This Navy touchdown, throwing the | brigade of midshipmen into historical | excitement as the end of the game | neared, was accomplished by a spec tacular forward pass. Hurled by | “Whitey” Llovd from near midfield, it | | wax grabbed by “Ted” Sloane, former | Drake end, as he slid across the goal | line to complete the most thrilling play of the game. The Middies had the | bail on Army's 28-yard line at the t Ve ued on (© Outstanding Scores In Foot Ball Games Army, 14; Navy, 9 Notre Dame, i; Southern Cali- fornia, 6. Carnegie Tech, 14; State, 14. Quantico Marines, 19; South- western, 0. Boston College, 6; Holy Cross, Oregon 0. Colorado Aggies, 20; Colorado College, 7. Other score! Canisius, 7; Bonaven- 20; Hendrix, 7. Centre, 0. Loyola (South), 7: Lombard, 6. Idaho, ornia, at Los Angeles, St. Mary's, Florida Fresh Petersburg Junior College, 0. Georgia_Tech Freshmen, 16; Georgia Freshmen, 0. a9 'DOCTOR BRAVES ARCTIC STORM IN PLANE TO SAVE WOMAN'S LIFE it |Flies 115 Miles in Terrific Gale to Take Wounded School Teacher From Isolated Alaskan Village. Associated Pre CHORAGE, Alaska, November 26.—Help for Bessie Howe, Govern- ment school teacher at the isolated native village of Ninilchic, 115 miles west of Anchorage on Cook Inlet, literally came out of the air when a { terrific gale prevented rescue by sea. Miss Howe accidentally shot herself {in the abdomen last Tuesday while cleaning a rifig. No doctor or expert medical care was available and no zular means of communication exist- between the little Indian village d white settlements. The Government radio men at seldovia and Anchorage caught a faint amateur signal of distress, evidently sent ith a spark coil, asking im- mediate aid. Al hoats at Seldovia, the nearest port, refused to set out in_the teeth of the raging storm. Qilot Russell Merrill and A. D. | Haverstock, Government doctor, de- cided to take the big chance and hopped off in a plane equipped with skiis. The 115-mile flight to Niniichic was accomplished and the airmen suc- ceeded In landing on the ice of a small lake six miles from the village. Through wisdom born of long serv- ice in the North, Dr. Haverstock took the girl by dog sled to the plane. The tortuous journey over the frozen terrain and headwinds in Couk Inlet ved the return flight and the plane forced (o lund at the Anchorage Air Kield in darkness., Three’ flares and the beadlights of an automobile revenled the location of the fleld and pilot Merrill brought the plane down for a successful landing. The wounded girl was in a critical condition today in the Anchorage Hos- pital with a fighting chance to recover from the blood poisoning which had et in. She arrived in Alaska in Sep- {grand opera festi KOEHLER DENIES | now with 9, {of reparation payments. tember from the Middle West. Her home is thought l? be in Kansas. A - 'FRANCE SENDS LYRIC ENVOY Will Take Part in Brilliant Opening Here Next Week. France Is sending to America a|French operas will be sung by in- yrical ambassador” to sing in the |ternationally famous sta National Capital in the grand opern | “In bringing to our Capital the festival with which the Washinsten |representative of your great music National Opera Co. will inaugurate |you have written a new page in the its tenth season in Poli's Theater a of our two nations,” Director week from tomorrow night. | Albion_wrote to Ambassador Sweeping aside precedents and set- | Cl “Art is the tangible extre: ting a new milestone in the relations |sion of the spirit of a people. of the nations, the Krench blood of France and of America has ment, at the instance of the Krench |flowed tozether in the great causes embassy here, has dispatched Maurice |of civilization. Capitaine, high ranking tenor of the| “Now the day has dawned when the Opera Comique and the Monta Carlo | harmany of the spirit shall be ex- Opera, to the | pressed jointly. For this I express to American Capit | You my gratitude, which will, I know, 3 he voiced by every vne who knows £ the action of the|the deep significance of this event. was made ves-| Your splendid assistance has lifted the e in Announcement o French government terday by Edouard Albion, director- |forthcoming festival into the realm nt‘ general of the Washington National (a world event.” Opera, who told Amabssador Claudel | In his reply to the impressario, Am- that France. through its action, had |bassador Claudel said “written a new page in the history ‘The French opera season, which, of our two nations, thanks to your efforts and deep M. Capitaine was selected by knowledge of our music, it has been French government. through the | Possible to organize in Washington, French minister of fine arts, to repre. | chrystallizes the desire of both intel sent that nation in the gala festival |lectual elements of Krance and Amer- week, in the course of which four | ~(Continued on Paj Tumn 3) DENANDS INQUIRY the ERMAN DEFICIT No Loans Included in Budget, He Says—Defends Increases. 'Johnson Says Inheritance | Levy Witnesses Were Paid Nearly $50,000 Here. | | By the Associated Press RLIN, November 26.—Ger- | By the, Associated Press oy An inquiry by the House ways and “budget for will exceed | means committee into reports that that of the current year by only 367.- | g5 000 had been used to pay expenses 000,000 reichmarks and will not Incur | oo " (i occos pecently i a national deficit despite the addition | y.rore it jn favor of repeal of the burden next year of approximately | ge U0 T SEEr O bepeal of e 400,000,000 reichmarks under the| ooy ol G epresentative Dawes plan's operation, Financial | 7 5 son, Republican, South Dakota Minis . Koehler today told the |Johnson . - Lo Dip | He declared that if no committee Vol l'elegraph Bureau e Wi TTelenr ol member initiated such action he pro- Dr. Koehler, who de: bed the new ! budget as embracing “the limit of posed to introduce a resolution de- manding an investigation. possible administrative _economics,” declared that not only will Germany | The South Dakotan said that he avoid a dellcllf. but lhas 'pm‘V;d;?d rlw had advised Speaker Longworth of authorization for a loan in 1928. In| o tonort that “a w anced anti- addition, he said, loans floated during | h° TEHON "(“a‘ ax:be" “"‘;“:" o 1926 and 1927 will be reduced through | '™ 5 a een operated in the Capital. He added that he also had written the Speak: special amortization next vear. that if the committee, at the time of crease Is Bared. “The total budget of 1928 balances | o™ Lecont tax hearings, had pos- sessed authority to investigate, it 2 millions, as compared with 9,135 millions in 1927, Dr. t Koehler continued, ctraordinary | could have ascertained what he said expenditures of 146 millions in- | was a fac “luded in the above total and been fully covered without recou to any loans. Ordinary expenditure balanee with a sross total of 9.3 millions compared with 8659 millions for an increase of millions. | Net expenditures after deducting ap- portionments to the Federal States| imounting to 3.218 millions, reach 5,138 millions for 1928 as compared 6 millions for 1927. This means an increase of onl: lions in spite of the aforementioned increase of expenditures on account s One Got $700. “Had this legal powel committee pos: ed Johnson's letter tinued, ould undoubtedly have proven that the pay-off man of this group recently had approximate 50,000 in $100 bills and paid off those hired to be in Washington to the demonstration before the alleged committee. “Had it legal power: shown that approximately $3,500 was paid to Oregon men alone and $700 to one man from Arizona. About it could have “There remain uncove more than 900 millions for public works. which have been approved, and to a large extent started, during the years just mentioned,” Dr. Koehler added. ! “To float a loan in in order to| cover the loan requirements of for- mer years must, aside from other cons jons, be avoided also for the preservation of the capital market. Loans Are Covered. “By this, however, I am by no means relieved of the concern caused by these old loan requirements which are still to be covered. Therefore, I have made provision in the budget law of 1928 that, first of all, the re- mainder of the fund for operating ex- penses amounting to approximately 60 millions, shall be applied toward covering the existing loan require- ments, the total amount of which will be reduced thereby to 832 millions. “In addition,” the finance minister asserted, “measures will be taken providing that the total of the ex traordinary expenditures, approved in former years, will not fully come due in 1928, but will be distributed over a period of several vears. Amounts which have been expended in 1928, and which cannot be covered at present by cash in hand, will have to be taken care of by the issuance of treasury notes." men from my own State of South Dakota who were brousht here to convince the allezed committee that that State desired repeal'of the in- heritance tax. Charges Corporation Aided. “It could have heen shown that $100,000 was contributed to this fund { by one Montana corporation or indi- { viduals_interested in i Mr. Johnson, who is now under- going treatment at Walter Reed Hos- pital here, said that in his letter to the Speaker he had argued that the recent tax hearings of the ways and means_committee were_illegal inas- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) o SUBMARINE SENDS S 0 S. Appeal Intercepted From French Vessel in Mediterranean. LONDON, November 26 S O S from the French su Morse was intercepted tonight by Lloyds' Landsend radio station. The position of the submarine was lati- tude 40:32 north longitude 2.34 east. This is a point off the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean, (The Morse carries a complement of 51 men. She was built in 1925 e The | OF TAX “LOBBY" con- $500 was, as can be shown, paid to | FOLLOWS WARNIN | Telephone Voice Protests . Name of “Cat” and Home Is Found Ransacked. “T don't like the name of the * and within 20 minutes, I'm going to rob 3039 Macomb street.” That's what a newspaper reporter heard a masculine voice warn over a police telephone in police headquarters in the District Building last night, after he had told the caller that it was | in answer to a query as | 10:45 o'cloc to the time. Within 20 minutes, headquarters detectives were en route to answer a burglar call from the home of T. E Rhodes, treasurer of Barber & Ross | Co., 2046 Macomb street. | Room in Disarray. | Acriving at the Rhodes home, police tound a scene of utter disarray in the dining room, with® fruit, cookies and cigarettes scattered about the room and the kitchen adjoining it. While | nothing was reported missing from | the silverware which adorned the buf- | et in the dining room, several pieces |ot plate were found on the Kkitchen |table and a silver tray was lying on | the rear service porch. | The reported robbery was frustrated by the timely arrival home of Mr Rhodes, who had attended a peiform- lance at a nearby motion picture | theater, and the simultaneous return {of his son, Eugene, and two daugh- |ters, Theresa and Daleans, from neighbor's home, «wo blocks aw cording to their story to the | Mr. Rhodes told police he Fad left | his door key at homs and when be | returned he rang the bell. A younger | son, Carrol, who, with nis ‘mothe | Mrs. Rhodes, had retred two hours | before. responded to his father's ring, | and upon entering the home, the elder Rhodes discovered th: confusion in the dining room. Heard No Noise | At the same time Mr. Rhodes rang | his front door bell. his other three children were attempting to put their appearing | yutomobile in the garage at the rear | of the house. They told police they saw no one leave the home and were not are of the attempted robbery vntil they entered the house where | they found their father. | Mrs. Rhodes and the 14-yearwld ‘CJIIB declared they had heard no | noises to_account for the disorder i their dining room after the visit of the prowler. The mother, however, ' TODAY’S STAR | PART ONE—16 PAGES. General News—Local, National and \ Koreign. 1 Schools and Colleges—Page [ At the Community Centers—Page 24. . Activities—Page 3 | W.'C. T. U. Notes—Page 31. { Radio News and Programs—Pages and ! Around the City—Page 33 { Clubwomen of the Nation , Parent-Teacher Activiti i Financial News—Pages ! News of the Clul i PART TW0—20 PAGES. | Bditorials and Kditorial Features. ‘\\ shington and Other Society. i Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. | Reviews of Autumn Books—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 12 { PART THREE—I2 PAGE! | Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- 39, 40 and 41 and Moioring—Pages 6 and 7. National Guard—Page 8. ) vS- 'age 8. | District of Columbia Naval Reserve— i Page 8. | Veterans of the Great War—Page 9. | Fraternal News—Page 10. | Army and Navy News—Page 10. { Marine Corps Notes—Page 10. i Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 10. Serial, “The Four Stragglers"—Page 12. { Spanish War Veterans—Page 12. | PART FOUR—1 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. i PARF FIVE—8 PAGES. 1+ Magazine Section—Fiction and | tures, | The Rambler—Page | Classified Advertising. | GRAPHIC SEi World Evenis in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt and. Jeff: Reg'lar Fellers: Mr. and Mrs.; High Lights of History. FIVE CENTS. AXES AND FLOOD FEATURE PROGRAM - FAGING CONGRESS Legislators Returning to . Capital Find Much Accom- plished by Advance Guard. [COMMITTEES DO EARLY WORK ON URGENT BILLS Organization May Be Delayed, as Smith and Vare Fight Looms in Senate—G. 0. P. Control Seen. the The Seventieth Cor «s has mad= 1 running start for its first session which begins a week from tomorrow, | but it has a lens. hard Winter and | Spring ahead of it. | 'The host of returning Senators and Representatives yesterday found a | tax revision bill and several appropri- | ations measures practically ready for House action and a fair beginning made on the tremendous problem of flood relief. Likewise organization slates in the | two houses have been set up for for- mal approval, with every indication that the Republican majorities would again have control of the Senate and the House. Delay Seen in Senate. While organization of the House |'will be perfected on the opening day that of the Senate may be delayed | unul the second or third day of the | session, while the row over the seat- ing of Senators-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois, and William 8. Vare of Pennsylvania, both Republicans, is be- ing threshed out. Thus the Senate well as the House will start right out on some of the most important questions which will face it, and the Christmas recess is apt to find the Smith-Vare case dis- posed of and the tax reduction meas- ure passed by the House. The Smith-Vare fight will be launch- ed when those Semators-elect are called to the dais by Vice President Dawes to take the oath of office. Ob- jaction is to be raised to administer. ing the oath and after the full and free discussion in which the Senate invariably indulges a majority will de- i cide the question. Rejection Predicted. Leaders on both sides predict that | neither Smith nor Vare will be given the oath and that their cases, Invo.v- ing expenditures in their primary campaigns, will be referred to the elections committee with instructions to make an early report as to whether | they should be seated. Organization of the Senate is ex. peécted to follow the vote on the oath to these members and then the two houses will appoint the usual com- mittee to notify President Coolidge that Congress is ready to function. On the day following the President's annual message will be sent to Capitol Hill and the flood of annual reports from the Budget Bureau and various other governmental departments and agencies will descend upon Congress. As the members continue to come in town during the pre-session week, party leaders, who have been on the ground for some time. will hold vari- ous conferences in an effort to iron out some of the difficulties which are to beset the new Congress. Associated a May Share Committees. One of these will be the division of committee representation between the Republicans and Democrats. The minority in the Senate probably will be glven an additional plage on each of the important standing commit- tees with the Republican membership reduced by one. Senate Republicans will have their | party conference next Saturday to | make up its slate of officers with the | prospect that Georze Moses of New Hampshire, will be renominated as president protempore and Edwin P. Thayer of Indiana, as secretary of the Senate. During the opening days, members will be most concerned in introduc- | ing measures and the bill clerks will be worked day and night seeking to keep their heads ubove the flood. All measures, or practically all, which died with the sixty-ninth Con- gress, will be reintroduced. These number far into the thousands. In addition there will be many new bills, dealing with claims, pensions, bridges, farm relief, Muscle Shoals, railroad consolidation and the many ocher problems with which the Sev- entieth Congress. will have to deal before the adjournment gavels fall a few days in advance of the meeting |of the "Republican national conven- T 'COUPLE ARE KILLED; EX-HUSBAND SOUGHT Woman and Physician.‘ Shot at Latter's Office, Die in Hospital. By the Associated Press, CINCINNATI, November 26.—Mrs. | Artie McGough, 33, formerly of Phila- | delphia, and_Dr. Charles Dryer, 38, well known Cincinnati physician, died tonight within two hours after they vered desperately wounded in_Dryer’s downtown office. Both died of abdomen wounds soon |after being removed to a hospital. Both blamed their wounds on Mrs. McGough's former husband, from | whom she had been separated for sometime. The attacker escaped and police tonight were searching the city for him. According to their statements to po- lice, Mrs McGough- had just entered Dryer's office with food for a lunch when Andrew McGough, bursting in upon them, shouted: “Now I've got you,” fired six shots. Two of them k Dryer and another hit Mrs. McGough. BOGUS TICKETS ALLEGED. NEW I YORK, November 26 (#). [ —Charged with selling counterfeit | tickets to the Army-Navy foot ball game at prices ranging from 35 to $15, seven men were arrested today after complaints by victims. The suspects, police said, had counterfeit tickets in their possession.