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Show ; ,. Mmmtm Mm . : (Jmms0 ij Mi' i y jmzk . I. If v MRS. IDA VON CLAUSSEN, Who said Minister Graves Insulted Her, and who swears to "get even" with ', , y .. .. . tha President.; WASHINGTON,, April -13 President Roosevelt is about to have a controversy con-troversy on hia hands that will make his little tilts with Haxriman, Chandler, Parker, Bailey, Tillman, Piatt and the rest of them look like Sunday-school picnics. pic-nics. It's a woman, Mrs. Ida Von Claussen, who la after him now. . Mrs. Claussen, primarily, is after the scalp of Minister Graves, the American representative in Sweden, who, she says, insulted her. ' The alleged insult lay in Graves' refusal to present her to King Oscar. ' She went to the. White House to file a formal complaint, but Roosevelt refused to, see her. Now she says the .President doesn't practice the "square deal" which he preaches. , But Roosevelt has ha'd tilts with, women before. , One woman, the sister of an Iowa Congressman, was ejected from the White House and later the President had occasion to present his compliments to Mrs. Bellamy Storer in his characteristic charac-teristic vigorous style. ' ' ' ' - |