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WEATHER.
Fair and co'der tonight, with freez
ing temperature; tomorrow, increas
ing cloudiness, becoming unsettled
hv tomorftfw night.
Temperature for twenty-two hours
ended at noon today—Highest, 54, at
5:30 a.m. today; lowest, 41, at 7 p.m.
yesterday.
l-’ull report on page 5.
New York Stock Market Closed Today
_ r rror Entered as second-clat.s matter
jS O. Jo, itW. post office Washington, D. C. /
WITNESS KIDNAPED
HFTER GIVING UPS
PLANE MURDERS
Louisiana Authorities Start
■/search for Victim of Un
* identified Wien.
CALLED FROM BUNKHOUSE
TO WAITING AUTOMOBILE
Hearing in Dr. McKoin Extradition
Case Set for Wednesday
in Baltimore.
JU the Associated Tress.
BASTROP, La-, January I.—Harold
L. Teegeston, employed as a time
keeper by a carbon company at
Bpyker, La., four miles south of here,
H as kidnaped Friday night by a party
of men and his whereabouts was un
known, according to a report received
l>y Department of Justice agents and
Sheriff Fred Carpenter.
Sheriff Carpenter returned to
Bastrop last night after an investiga
tion of the kidnaping. He said he
Has informed that at midnight Friday
"eegeston was called from his quar
ters in a bunkhouse by men in auto
mobiles, who drove away in the
larkness with him. The sheriff said
e was told there were sixteen men
n the party and that they occupied
cars from which the license tags hart
been removed.
Was Slate Witness.
T. J. Burnett, first person arrested
»n the Morehouse investigation, and
who is in the Bastrop jail under mili-
Jary guard on a charge of murder,
was employed at the Carbon plant at
Bpyker. He has denied, according to
the authorities, any complicity in the
kidnaping and killing of W att Daniels
and Thomas Richards last August, and
said he expected to prove he was at
work in the plant on the night the
men were kidnaped. Employes at
the plant and records were to be used
by him to prove an alibi, he said.
Department of Justice agents are
said to have questioned Teegeston for
some time Friday night prior to the
alleged kidnaping. It was stated that
the investigators expected to call
Teegeston as a state witness at the
open hearing here January 5.
It was stat- d early today that
neither the sheriff nor the Depart
ment of Justice investigators had re
ports as to the whereabouts of the
reported missing carbon employe.
With the public hearing only about
three days off. state officials who will
have charge of presenting the state’s
• •ase, still labored over the mass of
| -vidence gathered by investigators
“ luring the last four months. It was
aid that testimony concerning depr
edations of organized and masked
jands for more than a year past had
_>een reviewed by the Attorney Gen
eral’s office. It was declared that the
hearing would not only reveal evi
dence as applying to the kidnaping
and killing of Daniels and Richards,
but would result in a rigid Investiga
tion of other alleged crimes laid at
tJio door of masked bands, not omy
ih Morehouse parish but in other
Louisiana parishes.
Mayor Defend* Citizen*.
Mayor A. J. Goodwin of Bastrop is
sued a statement today in behalf of
the citizens of his town, “to correct
the false impression the public has
obtained of our home country be
cause of the outrage last August,
which I, together with the people of
Bastrop, most vigorously condemn.”
He added that “we are not a gun
loting, wild, savage people. We are
law-abiding, like the people of the
rest of the United States. Other com
munities throughout the country have
had similar tragedies in their midst,
hut they have not been condemned as
u unit.’’
He declared that he "can assure
every one that life and limb are safe
and that order prevails."
M'KOIN HEARING WEDNESDAY
Maryland Governor Confers With
Officers on Extradition.
BALTIMORE, Md.. January I.
Gov. Albert Ritchie of this state has
sot next Wednesday- at X p.m. for a
hearing on the requisition for the
return to Louisiana of Dr. B. M. Mc-
Koin, arrested here Tuesday In con
nection with the murders and kld
jiapings at Mer Rouge last August.
This was announced by the gover
nor after a conference with Special
Deputy Sheriff Calhoun of Morehouse
Parish and Chief Detective James P.
Glynn of New Orleans. The Louis
iana officers arrived hero last night
with a warrant charging the doctor
with murder, and with necessary ex
tradition papers.
Dr. McKoin, it was announced, will
remain in the city jail until the hear
ing on Wednesday. He has. accord
ing to the prison physicians, almost
completed recovery from the cold
that caused his removal to the prison
hospital.
It was explained that the public
hearing will be Held In Baltimore be
cause of the fact that the executive
office at Annapolis is too small for
such a purpose.
GERMAN SHIP ARRIVES
SANS GROVER BERGDOLL
Close Search of Jupiter, at Pensa
cola, Fails to Reveal Trace
of Draft Dodger.
PENSACOLA, Fla., January I.
fThe German steamship Jupiter, on
Whl-h it was reported Grover Berg
doll, war dodger, .had shipped dis
guised ns a sailor, arrived In port at
P o'clock this morning. Exhaustive
searches by soldiers, naval men and
Department of Justice agents failed
to reveal the presence of Bergdoll.
The captain said he was surprised
that any such report could have
originated, as he was at Cardiff
when chartered for load
ing.
MACREADY MADE BARONET-.
LONDON. January I.—Gen. Sir
Nevll Macßeady has been made a
Xiaronet on the occasion of his retire
ment as commander of the British
tones ia Ireland.
Revelers Rout Dry Agents
In St. Louis , New York Riots
Washington Agents
Assailed in Raid j
on Monte Carlo.
Pretty Girl Sivats
Charles Grill
in Eye.
By the Associated I'ress.
NEW YORK, January X. —An ex
tremely wet New Year day—under
foot—followed the wiriest—from a
Volstead standpoint—New Year ev«
that New York ever had. It was also
turbulent.
Leaden skies wept copiously today
over battered hats and smashed bot
tles on deserted streets which a few
hours earlier were filled with deter
mined and frequently grimly ugly
merrymakers, who were usually dry,
in the modern meaning of the adjec
live.
Two hundred federal prohibition
enforcement agents and several times
that number of policemen and plain
clothes men caused New Year to be
ushered in with less of liquid cheer
inside than ever before.
One Knockdown Riot.
This was accomplished by a series
of raids in the White Way district
that brought rn an y min or ba tiles
(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.)
39 ARRESTED HERE I
IN W NEW YEAR
Half Gallon of Whisky Also
Seized in Round-Up I.
by Police.
FIND PUT-AND-TAKE GAME |
’ 'I
| Four Players Arrested—‘‘Close,
I
Harmonists’’ Also Get
Free Ride.
If the police department had extra,
men out last night to keep Washing
ton "bone dry” during the New Year
celebration, they found no more than
the usual amount of intoxication and
bootlegging, judging from the num
ber of persons arrested. Thijty-nlne
men and women ran afoul of the law j
prohibiting drunkenness, and one lone :
raid netted the prohibition enforce- j
| ment squad a negro youth and one-'•
i half gallon of whisky. For the week !
end, seventy-three persons were ar-
I rested on charges of intoxication, and
seventy-eight more were taken Into
| custody for various violations of the
national dry laws.
Two of these were charged with
operating a motor vehicle while under
the influence of liquor, fifteen for
drinking In public places, and the re.
malnder for illegal possession and un- :
lawful sale of intoxicants, the charges ?
that are always preferred against boot- |
leggers.
This is a slight increase in the num- >
her of persons taken into custody for j
breaking the prohibition statutes, but I
the authorities have been waging an j
unusually hot campaign against such !
-violations during the last week.
Judging from reports obtained from i
every precinct in the city last night j
was probably the tamest New Year eve
Washington has ever seen. The infer- j
mation sheet distributed daily from the >
office of Maj. Sullivan, which usually i
occupies three closely typewritten i
pages, required less than one-half a |
page this morning. It showed a total
of 182 arrests on all charges, from 8
o’clock yesterday morning until 8
o’clock this morning. Os these, twen
ty-two were charged with speeding and
twenty-six with other traffic violations.
One person was arrested under the
narcotic act.
Just after the wistle had finished
welcoming the’ baby year. Patrolmen
Jackson and Morrow and Prohibition
Agent Evans swooped down on the
Port Arthur restaurant, 515 9th street
northwest, and arrested tw'o men and
two women on charges of drinking
In a public place. They were the only
celebrants arrested in a raid. Four
other men were found playing "put
and take” in an automobile at 15th I
street and Pennsylvania avenue, but
this was not construed as constitut
ing a raid. After each had "put’’ $25
collateral at the first precinct station
he was permitted to go home.
At 18th street and Columbia road
northwest a policeman of the tenth
precinct found four men In full even
ing dress, from gray spats to silk
top hats, blowing- off some of their
anti-Volstead steam in the form of
"close harmony.” When the police
man suggested In vain that the quar
tet should hire a hall, he took them
to the station house, where they were
required to post collateral. That
about ended the New Year celebration
so far as the police department was
concerned.
NEW YEAR DELAYED FOR
THREE HOURS IN FRANCE
Parliament Stops Clock While
Debating Passage ,of Budget
Estimates.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, January I.—The difference
of opinion between the senate and
chamber of deputies nominally pro
longed the old year for nearly three
hours. The point at issue was wheth
er the provisional credits for Jan
uary and February, which had to bo
voted before midnight .because parlia
ment had failed to vote the 1923
budget prior to the end of 1922, should
be based on the corresponding months i
of the 1922 or 1923 budgets. The
chamber desired that the 1923!
figures should be followed, but the
senate insisted on the 1922 figures, on
the ground that It la yet knew
nothing about the budget for this year,
which was still before the chamber.
Tho clocks were stopped while the
bill went from tho chamber to the
senate and back several times. Ft
ally the chamber surrendered and
accepted the senate’s viewi
Mhc Itticniiu]
V J V V y WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
WASHINGTON, D. MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1923-FORTY-TWO PAGES. *
Chairs and China
Fly in Fashion
able Hostelry .
Leader Refuses to
Continue Backed
by Reserves.
By Hie Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., January I. —Two
men were shot and wounded, a woman
was injured and a barrage of chairs,
glassware, plates, knives and forks
were hurled promiscuously in a riot
which occurred at the fashionable
Hotel the. west end section
of the city early today when guests
in* the main dining hall objected to
the intrusion of prohibition enforce
ment agents and a squad of police
men, who were searching for liquor.
No arrests were made In connection
with the disorder, which started when
the dry enforcement officers com
menced lifting table covers and
searching for liquor. Failing to find
any of the contraband, the officers
first were applauded, then hooted, and
jeered and finally the rumpus was in
swing. It lasted only a short while.
The Chase Hotel, like all the other
leading hostelries and restaurants, re
(Continued on Page 2. Column 3.)
ROUSE HERS
VIEW MEETS
Commissioners Also Point
Out Need of Schools and
Playgrounds.
HEAD TOUR OF THE CITY
Chairman Madden Regards In
crease in D. C. Appropriations
as Unlikely.
The District Commissioners today are
escorting members of the subcommit
tee on the District budget of the House
appropriations committee on a person
ally conducted tour of Inspection of
streets, schools and playgrounds In the
District to visually' lay before these
members of the House who are draft
ing the District appropriation bill the
physical facts regarding the District’s
needs for Increased appropriations.
Several members of the Board of
Trade are Included in this party mak
ing this tour of inspection.
Chairman Madden’* Forecast.
Chairman Madder, of the House ap
propriations committee said today
that there Is little likelihood of any
material increase In appropriations
for the District over the budget rec
ommendations, as it Is the genera!
policy of the committee not to ex
ceed the budget recommendations,
except in very unusual cases of ex
treme need. There «are indications
that in several items there will be a
material reduction from the recom
mendations made by tho budget bu
reau.
The District appropriation bill for
the fiscal year beginning July X next
will be reported to the House on
Thursday, with the expectation that
it will be disposed of in the House
on Friday and .Saturday.
Bill* Awaiting Action.
Owing to an agreement in the House
that the final vote would not be taken
on any of the appropriation bills un
til after the holiday recess, there are
three appropriation bills awaiting a
vote In the House on Wednesday.
These are for Agriculture. Interior
and Post Office. Most of the day Wed
nesday will be taken up in the House
on these measures.
Thursday Chairman Madden expects
that the second deficiency appropria
tion bill will be passed by tne House.
(Continued on Page 2, Column S.)
Fire Walkers 44 Stroll ” Through
Flames With Pins in Bodies
Repulsive, heathenish rites. Includ
ing barefooted strolls on a pathway
of red-hot embers, as practiced today
by the “Are walkers” of Malaysia,
are described by an eyewitness. A
E. Iverson, formerly of Takoma Park,
now stationed at Singapore as a Sev
enth-day Adventist missionary, in
communications recently received by
his friends here.
“This ceremony of fire walking,*’
says Mr. Iverson, “usually takes place
in the planting season and Is sup
posed to Insure a bountiful harvest;
It also has to do with vows, each per
son making a vow, religious or other
wise, being required to go through
this ordeal and confirm it.
“First, an excavation was made In
the ground, about a foot deep, ten
feet wide and thirty feet long. Sev
eral cartloads of wood were placed
in this, after the fire had been kindled,
and left to burn for about an hour.
Walked on Live Coal*.
Then, just before the ceremony
started, the coals were so raked out
that they covered the entire excava
tion. These people did not walk
through the flames, but through the
live coals.
“At the end of this bed of ooals
was another smaller excavation about
the width of the large pit, but three
or four feet deep. This was filled
with water, and I think they poured
In 100 or more gallons of perfectly
good milk. The fire walkers stepped
Into this as soon as they were through
the fire. I presume It soothed their
poor, burned, blistered feet.
“Finally all was ready, and the four
gods were lifted to the shouders of
their carriers, so that they could look
down on yie people as they walked
through the fire. Then It seemed that
i bedlam reigned. Police were help
less to keep order. The cheers and
FRENCH ATTITUDE
UNCHANGED ON EVE
OF PARISPARLEY
Newspapers Declare Govern
ment Will Not (lonsent to
Reduction in Relations,
BONAR LAW ARP IVES, BUT
LAUGHS ASIDE QUESTIONS
German Ambassador Gives Notifi
cation New Propo ;als of His
Country Are Way.
N
By the Associated I’ress.
I’ARIS, January 1.--France today
was awaiting tomorrow’s conference
of the allies with the issurance con
veyed to the public through the press
that the government's policy had not
been changed since th > London con
ference of premiers on reparations of
which the Paris meet ng Is a con
tinuation. This policy, as succintly
reiterated, has the fol owing for its
main features; No red action of Ger
man reparations will out a corre
sponding cancellation of Interallied
debt. France being wiling to set the
example by canceling sums due her
from certain allies.
If such compensatory action is ad
judged impossible. Frai ce is prepared
to pay interest on her debt, but not
until she has received from Germany
the sum necessary for ; he reconstruc
tion of the devastated regions, which
is calculated as about equivalent to
what France ought tc receive from
the class A and ciass B bonds pro
vided for by the Versailles treaty.
MinUter* Arrive.
As the French govern nent considers
that any moratorium, 1 f the granting
of one is found to be inevitable. Is
due to Germany’s faul ;, it takes the
position that such a moratorium
should be for a term not exceeding
two years, which is regarded as
sufficient for the reorganization of
Germany’s finances. Moreover. France
is inclined to maintain hat the mora
torium should not apply to the cost
of the occupation, the jeost of recon
struction of the devastated region
nor perhaps to the en ire cash pay
ment.
When Mr. Bonar La v, the British
prime minister, and the members of
the British delegation armed with
portfolios and handba rs filled with
documents, alighted fr >m the Calais
train, Mr. Bonar Law was asked: “Do
you (hink the confcreice will be a
success’.”’
“ii© laughed and exclaimed; “What
a question!” He repeat, d it in French
to the representatives of the French
foreign office, who mer iy smiled and
German Plan on Way.
Lord Curzon, the British foreign
secretary, has arrived here from Lau
sanne. Marquis Della Torretta and
Marquis Giuseppe Ra? gi. who will
represent Italy at the premiers' con
ference, reached Pari > two hours
earlier.
Dr. Wilhelm Mayer, the German
ambassador, called at t ic foreign of
fice this morning and announced that
Karl Bergmann, the t erman finan
cial expert, would bring to Paris new
propositions on reparat ons from the
German government. XL rr Bergmann
Is expected to reach Pt ris tomorrow
morning.
HOW GERMANY STANDS.
r
Summary of Financial Situation
Ready for Confejrence.
(By cable to The Star and CMcaeo Dally
News. Copyright. >923.)
PARIS, January' I.—By courtesy of
the officials of the reparations com
mission we are enabled io make pub
lic on the eve of the important meet
ing of premiers in Farm Tuesday the
following summary of jhe status of
the complex and confusing repara
tions question:
The total German reparations debt
is 132.000,000,000 gold marks, which
figuring the mark at its| par value of
23.8 cents, amounts to 331,4X6.000,000.
Os this sum France is jto receive 52
per cent. Great Britain; 22 per cent,
Italy 10. Belgium 8 and pther nations
(Continued on Page 2, .Column 5.)
yells were deafening, for as they came
In the participants all! wanted to
rush through the Are at once. But
there were scores of men; to hold them
back, and let only a few; In the pit at
a time. If they were ajll allowed to
rush in as they wished,' some would
be sure to lose their fohtlng, fall on
the eoals, and be trampljed and burn
ed to death.. We read hbw in Christ’s
time demoniacs walked! through the
fire without hurt, and *s 1 watched
these poor heathen It ifeally seemed
that some of them were! so possessed
of the devil that they idid not even
feel the heat of the live coala upon
which they stepped.
Stuck Pins In Bodies.
“First came the men. Some walked
deliberately. Some harried. Some
seemed unhurt as they stepped into
the milk and water, bu ; some faint
ed. One man I noticed Sin particular.
He walked through anjd then came
back up on© side and di wn the other
before stepping- out int) the cooling
liquid. In the throng wore some who
had long pins thrust tjhrough their
tongues: others had long needles
thrust through one chleek and out
through the other. Os cdurse this was
to appease the wrath 01 the gods or
to court their special favor. Then
came some men with pins In their
bodies, stuck through he flesh and
then out again. Some lad hundreds
stuck all over their holies, some at
random, others in the form of de
signs. Toward the laijt came man
who carried large arches of flowers
weighing all of twenty pounds, sup
ported over their heals by hooka
buried In the flesh Ju it below the
shoulders.
“After the men hat passed the
vompn came. Some went through
witmout flinching, but nany were on
the verge of fainting before they
reached the fire, and larger numbers
fainted as they came out at the
farther end. One womar stumbled and
fell full length In the Are. but.juea
nearby rushed to the rescue."
JANUARY 1, 1923. .
4 Vamped’ by Divorced Husband ,
She Says; Sues for $50,000
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January I.—Alexander
Carr, who starred in “Potash and
Perlmutter.” and now is appearing in
a similar production at Chicago, has
been made the defendant in a 550,000
breach of promise suit- brought by his
divorced wife, Mrs. Mary Carr, it was
disclosed yesterday. The suit is based
on charges that Carr, after having
been divorced from his wife, proposed
to her again, and was accepted,
thereafter inducing her to sign a pa
per which she thought a deed to their
Rockville Center, H 1., home, but
which, in realtity, was a release of
claim to $17,933 alimony, in which
Mrs. Carr held the actor had fallen
in arrears since their divorce in 1919.
“He vamped me Into it.” the di
vorcee told reporters. “I didn't sus
pect a thing. Fancy! 1 have lived
with him sixteen years since our mar
riage in 1903.
HASTE IN BUYING
BRIQUETS URGED
Coal Dealers' Secretary
Warns Fuel Substitutes May
Soon Prove Vital Need.
Calling attention to the fact that
the next six weeks will prove the
critical period of the winter, as far
as fuel is concerned, Robert L. Lewis,
secretary of the Coal Merchants’ As
sociation, today advised household
ers to lay in at least a small amount
of some anthracite substitute.
While It Is true. Mr. Lewis said,
that the coal-burning season is about
half over. January and February are
the months that make the deepest
inroads on the coal pile.
The coal dealers have found private
families naturally reluctant, to take
coke, briquets or lump soft coal
while the slightest chance existed to
obtain hard -coal.
But, Mr. Lewis pointed out today,
if a protracted spell of severe
weather should descend upon Wash
ington during this or next month a
small pile of some substitute to mix
with the hard coal would look good
in any coal bln.
All Allotment Not In.
In thinking of substitutes, house
holders should bear In mind the order
of the Public Utilities Commission
that no consumer shall receive
throughout this winter more than 60
per cent of his normal supply of hard
coal. Therefore If a consumer is to
burn as much fuel this year as he
does ordinarily 40 per cent of It will
have to be mads up of substitutes
for anthracite.
This limit of 60 per cent was placed
on each house because Washington
as a whole has been allotted only 60
per cent of Its usual hard coal re
quirements. And the latest figures
of the Utilities Commission show the
Dlstric* is 11,000 tons short thus faj
of its 60 per cent quota of hard coal.
It was stated today by on© coal
man that many households already
probably have taken their 60 per cent
allotment of hard coal. These con
sumers will have to turn to substi
tutes when they need another order.
Expects Summer Orders.
Mr. Lewis expressed the belief today
that the trials and tribulations of
this winter undoubtedly will result
in many families laying In their coal
supply for next summer for the win
ter of 1923-24. Those far-sighted in
dividuals who took that precaution
last summer when the coal strike be
gan are patting themselves on the
back now.
Washington has been extremely for
tunato in the weather conditions that
have prevailed thus far, but It is en
tirely too soon, Mr. Lewis said today,
for Washingtonians to forget worry
ing about coal.
A year ago this city was hit by one
of the heaviest snowstorms in many
years and It came In the final week
of January. „
Although roor© than sixty dealers
have signed an agreement to co-op
erate with tho Utilities Commission In
preventing consumers from ordering
fuel from more than on© source at a
time, it was learned today that there
still are more than a score of con
cerns that have not signed such an
agreement.
The commission is insisting upon
observance of this rule, because it
fools that In no other way can deliver
ies be checked. And If all deliveries of
hard coal cannot be accurately re
corded the commission will not b«
able to prevent householders from
getting more than their 60 per cent
1 of anthracite.
"One day since we were divorced he
took me motoring in Central Park
and proposed again. ’Yes. Alex,’ X
told him. It was the shortest court
ship on record. I thought we would
forget and forgive. But I was wrong.”
Mrs. Carr was granted SIO,OOO a
year alimony for three years, and
$5,000 a year thereafter, when she
was divorced from her husband in
October, 19X9, in a suit naming “a
beautiful blonde" as co-respondent.
A month later Carr married Helen
Cunningham, recently of the “Demi-
Virgin” cast, who obtained a divorce
from him in December, 1921, on
grounds of cruelty.
On the petition of the first Mrs.
Carr, Supreme Court Justice Faber,
in Brooklyn last May, ordered Carr to
appear and show cause why he should
not be adjudged guilty of contempt of
court for allowing her alimony to fall
$17,933 in arrears.
His attorneys obtained a week's con
tinuance of the case. It was during
this week, the divorcee alleges, that
her former actor husband reproposed.
CHS MURDER
IN STOVER DEATH
Constable Garrison, Hyatts
vilie. Scouts Deathbed Con
fession of Victim.
“It is a plain case of murder. lam
looking- for two parties who undoubt
edly will throw some light on the
case and expect to make an arrest to
morrow."
This was the assertion today of
Constable Thomas Garrison of Hyatts
vllle, Md., following a twenty-four
hour investigation of the death of
Robert Stover, also known as Bob
Webster, who, according to first re
ports, mysteriously shot himself in
the home of Frank Hubert at Capitol
Heights, Md., Saturday night.
Questions Confession.
“I am convinced that Stover did not
use the gun with which he said he
shot himself,” said Constable Garri
son, who has given little credence to
the statement the man made on his
death-bed In the Casualty Hospital that
the bullet wound in his chest was self
inflicted. “I know how that confession
was obtained.” he declared.
Immediately after the shooting.
Constable Garrison said, he learned
that "two parties” were seen hastily
leaving the Hubert house. One of
them, he believes, was the woman
who accompanied Stover to the house,
and who, according to the story re
lated bj~ Hubert, the only eyewitness,
disappeared from the house with a
small child and the revolver after the
shot was fired. The other person
was a man, the constable said. Con
stable Garrison also declared he knew
that Stover’s death had been threat
ened.
Still Ii Found.
Constable Garrison said the still,
which Hubert is said to have ad
mitted was in the house, was found In
a woods near the plaoc. It had a ca
pacity of forty gallons.
In the cellar of the house. Garrison
declared, he found the contents of
three barrels of rye mash almost
knee deep. The barrels had been
smashed. In the cellar, he said, also
was found a bag of rye grain.
MINE MANAGER SLAIN.
HENDERSON, Ky„ January I.
Police today Indicated that a coal
miner's hammer, found within sixty
feet of where the body of Gus Noff
singer, thirty-four, general manager
of the Southland Coal Company, was
discovered at his garage door here,
was the most Important clue un
covered so far In the investigation
of the murder. Noffsinger -was be
lieved to have been killed by a blow
on the back of the head.
An analysis of stains on the ham
mer to determine whether they were
caused by blood was ordered.
DR. BOWIE TO NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, January I.—Grace
Protestant Episcopal Church today
announced that the Rev. Dr. Walter
Russell Bowie of Richmond, Va., has
accepted Ha call and will be installed
as rector early In March. He will suc
ceed the Right Rev,' Charles I*
Slattery, who recently became Bis
hop Coadjutor of Massachusetts.
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour 9 *
The Star’s carrier system covers every
city block and the regular edition is
delivered to Washington homes as fast
as the papers are printed.
PRESIDENT SPENDS
QUIETH YEAR
Contrast Between This and
Last, When Thousands Were
Received, Is Marked.
ILLNESS CAUSES CHANGE
i
Mrs. Harding Unable to Stand
; Strain of Shaking Hands
With Thousands.
i
; New Tear day was observed quiet
; ly and simpJy at the White House.
. The day was in marked contrast to
■ the New Year day at the White
House last year—the first one observ
ed by President and Mrs. Harding In
the White House. The big house was
then alive. From early morning until
dusk the President and Mrs. Harding
I received and extended greetings to
[ thousands. There were high govern
ment officials, diplomats, ranking
Army and Navy officers, statesmen
and their families, and, most impor
tant of all, there was the long line
of 7,000 or more of “general public.”
Illness Causes Change.
It was different this year. Because
of Mrs. Harding’s physical condition
it was found necessary to dispense
with all public receptions for the
winter. It was a source of great dis
' appointment and regret to both the
President and Mrs. Harding to have
to abandon their idea of again hav
■ ing the public reception on New
; Year day. as both of them enjoyed
greatly the* occasion of 1922.
In speaking of it afterward, they said
the public reception was not only a
f pleasure, but was a revelation and in
. i spiralion to them, and that they in
-1 tended to hold a similar reception on
' each New Year day they are in the
E j White House. But Mrs. Harding had
j 1 not recovered sufficiently for her again
to stand the ordeal of shaking hands
with so many persons, and it was nec
i essary to call off the reception.
* Office Force Gets Holiday.
Aside from the fact that the office
force and a number of the attaches of
tithe White House-have been given a
■ holiday, today seemed about the same
as any other one at the White House.
There was little, if any. change in the
’ regular routine. The executive arose
i at his customary hour and. after spend
ing an hour or so with Mrs. Harding,
went to his desk in the executive office,
where for an hour or so he pored over
i some important papers that needed his
immediate attention. Shortly before
noon he went to his library, taking
I with him a bundle of papers, and, for
. the next hour or so, he dictated letters
■ and memoranda.
L 1 During the afternoon ho received
in his library K. Mont Reily. governor
! of Porto Rico, who is in this country
on a brief vacation. There are a num
l her of matters of importance concern
, ing administration of affairs in the
l j island which occupied the attention
. of the President and Gov. Reily dur.-
. Ing their conference, which took a
considerable part of an hour.
Many Messages Received.
Throughout the day messages of
. cheer and good wishes for the coming’
■ year were ■ received at the White
i House. Many of these greetings were
• accompanied by floral tributes. From
j long before noon until late in the
i afternoon friends personally left
1 j cards at the front door for President
; j and Mrs.* Harding. Among the latter
L I were a number of foreign diplomats
1 i and officers of the government and of
* | the Army and Navy. A few very
close friends were, received by the
President during the afternoon.
Harvey May Stop
At White House
\ During Stay Here
When Col. George Harvey,
United States ambassador to Great
’ Britain, who landed in New York
yesterday, comes to Washington
> for his conference on International
affairs with President Harding
and Secretary Hughes, It ts under
stood, he will be a guest at the
' White House.
Although it Is not known deflni
> tely when the ‘“errand boy,” as
r Col. Harvey described himself to
. newspaper men when he landed,
will come to Washington, it is
9 thought by some about the White
l House that ho -will reach hero
tonight, and that his conference with
. ■ the President and the Secretary of
. State will detain him in Washing
ton for the greater part of a week.
Saturday’s Net Circulation, 86,214
Sunday's Circulation, 92,481
TWO CENTS.
OFFICIAL CIRCLES
IN GALA MOOD AS
NEW YEAR DAWNS
White House Closed, But
Cabinet Upholds Tradi
tional Hospitality.
SECRETARY OF STATE
ENTERTAINS DIPLOMATS
Annual Breakfast Brilliant Affair
as Bright Uniforms and Beau*
tiful Dresses Give Color.
BY SAI.LIE V. H. PICKETT.
Washington is abroad today in gala
mood making the capital one of the
gayest in the world, and while the
White House is necessarily closed on
account of the illness of Mrs. Hard
ing, the President’s official family
will uphold the traditions of New
Year day with accustomed hospitality.
Tlie Vice President and Mrs. Coo
lidge wili- receive the whole of the
Senate and many others from official
society, including the members of the
diplomatic corps following their re
turn from the diplomatic breakfast.
They are simply “staying in,” as it
were, with no one to assist them in
receiving, though their hospitality
takes the place, in a measure, of the tra
ditional White House reception, such
as the President and Mrs. Harding
held a year ago and which marked
the opening of the mansion on New
Year day for the first time In many
years.
Secretary Hughes Entertains.
The Pan-American Union building
is the point of greatest brilliancy, as
.it is there that the Secretary of State
and Mrs. Hughes are receiving the
entire corps at their annual diplomat
ic breakfast and through tha emis
saries of the chief rulers of the
world, carrying on an exchange of
New Year greetings. Long before the
appointed hour of the reception, 12:30
o'clock, the streets about the Pan-
American Union building were lined
with curious pedestrians seeking to
catch a glimpse of the members of
the corps in their court uniforms al
ways worn on such occasions. There
was a breathless pause when each
arnbaassador or minister went by in
his dazzling array of gold braid,
while the rich scarlet cloth coat with
its embellishment of gold worn by
Mr. Brun, the minister of Denmark,
brought forth admiring exclaima
tions.
Secretary Seta Precedent.
When the corps was a quarter its
present size it was the custom for
the Secretary of State to hold the
New Year breakfast in his own home, *
but even when the late John Hay was
Secretary it had so outgrown the ac
commodation of his commodious resi
dence on La Fayette square that only
ambassadors, ministers, their military
and naval aides and the charge d’af
faires were invited, leaving unenter
tained the lesser members of the
corps. The resort of Secretary
Hughes to the beautiful Pan-Ameri
can Union .building last year, with
ample accommodation for the entire
corps and the other important guests,
like the foreign relations committee
of the Senate and the foreign affairs
committee of the House, members of
the cabinet and State Department of
ilcials and a few others, proved so
successful that the building again
suggested itself for the purpose today.
French Ambassador Leads,
l The Secretary and Mrs. Hughes
stood just within the door of the lofty
I chamber called the hall of the Amer
-1 icas to receive their guests, the dean
of the corps. M. Jusserand, ambassa
> dor of France, and Mme. Jusserand, *
being the first members of the corps
received. The building was in gala
decoration of palms, flowers and flags,
the arrangements for the reception
being made as stately and yet as com
fortable as possible. The guests first
to be received, the ranking members
of the corps, were taken to the second
floor of the building in the elevators.
where they were received by State
: Department officials and escorted
1 through the hall of flags to the re-
I celving line. Palms were arranged
; back of the station taken by the Sec
! relarv and Mrs. Hughes and decora
tive trees filled the niches along the
i walls of the great ehaniber and were
; grouped at other points of vantage.
Mrs. Hughe*’ Gown.
: Mrs. Hughes is wearing a graceful,
I handsome gown, slightly draped, of
1 reseda green, the lower part of the
I skirt of heavy corded silk and the
i upper part and bodice of lace in the
! same shade, the design carried out
! in beads. One side of the skirt shows
a lang panel with beading at the hem
line, and the drapery of the right side is
held by a handsome ornament. Mrs.
Hughes is wearing for the afternoon ~
a black hat with plumes and a touch
of tlie color of the gown.
Lending an air of hospitality are
the two breakfast tables running
along one side of the room, where
such viands as are- usually served at
ft formal midday feast arc enjoyed.
Splendid china, silver and cut glass
glisten on the fine damask of the
cloth, and huge placques of poin
setlias are used as a decoration.
The Vice President and Mrs.
Coolidge and the members of the
cabinet and their ladies were among
the very first arrivals, Mrs. Coolidge
wearing a handsome gowjr of peri
winkle blue crepe heavily embroid-
I ered in steel beads, and a bird of
paradise enlived the hat of seal
brown with its gracefully curved
brim.
Nearly 400 Diplomat* Present.
While the French ambassador. M.
Jusserand is the dean of the corps
with the rank of ambassador. Vis
count d’Alte. who as minister of
Portugal presented his credentials in
1902. outranks M. Jusserand in
length of service here, and immedi
ately followed the line of ambassa
dors. Each staff has preceptibly
grown in the past few years and
I ospcciullv since the first year of the
1 world war, and nearly four hundred
i foreign persons Included in the dlplo
-1 matic list issued by the State De
! pai intent passed In review. M. Jus-
I sniand had with him his entire staff,
I bis military and navail aides being in
I full dress uniform. *
Another familiar figure to those a*-*
customed to this brilliant spectacle
was Sonor Don Juan Rlano, ambassa
dor of Bpaln, who first came as a sec*
retarv of legation end finally In ISIS
ns ambassador, chamberlain to hi*
majesty the King of fipatn. Senora
de Uiano, his American wife, and the
members of the embassy staff In thslr
resplendent uniforms wore with him.
the group being one of-the most brll
j liant received. The *n:ha*e»dor <-f
[Chile and Seuora de Mat.hieu followed,
! and soon {here cqm-.- tun -iri;ui,r.>»dat
• ~ (.Continued ou Pago 2, Column 6.J