Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1923, Page 9

+ . & % CONVICTED EDITOR RECEIVES PARDON Governor Calls Curb on Free Speech Blot on Reputation of State. By the Associated Press. SANTA FE, N. M, July 17.—Gov. J. F. Hinkle yesterday signed par- dons for Carl C. Magee, editor of the New Mexico State Tribune, Albuquer- que, convicted of libeling Supreme Court Justice F. W. Parker and of contempt of the fourth judicial dis- trict court at Las Vegas, presided over by Judge D. J. Léahy. The indictment on which Magee Wwas tried “was obtained without the knowledge or consent of the party ve been libeled" Gov. nd trial was held in a supposed to Hinkle said district « where neither Parker nor Magec lives. The bringing of Magee to the bar seemed to be more of a persecution than a prosecution.” Blot on State, As’' to the contempt cases, Gov. Hinkle declared they also “were a Dersecution, the sentence harsh and beyond reason, and the whole pro- cedure a disgrace and a blot upon the name of New Mexico and the &ood people thereof.” Magee, tried before Judge Leahy, was sentenced to a year to eighteen months in the. penitentlary for an editorial in which reference was made to Justice Parker. Other editorials followed, in_which Magee charged that Judge Leahy's court was con- trolled b political machine domi- nated by Secundino Romero, former sheriff and now United States mar- shal for New Mexico. He was cited for contempt by Judge Leahy and at the conclusion of the trials last Friday was found guilty on seven counts and given jail sentences amounting to 360 days and fined $7 The Magoe Publishing Company, co- defendant, was fined $4,050. Notlces of appeal were filed in both the libel &nd contempt cases, and Magee was at liberty under bond. Tasis of Pardon. The governor, in the language of the pardons, based his action on “the nature of the libel trial and the con- |y ditions surrounding it, the language of the sentence in that case and the proceedings in the comtempt @manating from the original case, as they have come to m When Judge Leahy sentenced Mn!ev in the libel case he denounced him as a worse enemy to society than the cow thief or horse thief, and branded libel the defendant.or his like as cowardly, wicked. w , 1y «nd malicious! In connection with the Magee cases Ppetitions are being circulated asking the governor to call a special session of the legislature to investigate con- ditions in San Miguel county, where presides. impe hment of Judge vy is the object of the proposed session, but the governor, it is said. is not in favor of the extra session. erths Reported. The foll irths bay {he heatth department in 1 en reported to akt twenty-four ", and Edna Mclntire, girl ald M and Glades Ripy. boy. Hines, bos. ti ‘Saunders, girl. Vias, girl Amanda Rieker, zif and Etie M Do, g, Deaths Reported. The following deaths have been veported to the health department in the last twemty-four Edward Alien Fay, 79, 3 Kendall Groen. Margaret Lefferts, 67, 1938 2 st Garfield Hosplfal. S00 Rittenhouse st. st. The General Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs is soon to launch a cam- palgn for the blishment of a national art gallery and for a fed- eral fine arts_commission. Upholstering At Half Price Have furniture upholstered during July at half price. Our entire stock of tapestries, brocades, plain and embossed ve- lours and mohairs at half price. your LansBurgh Interior Decorating Co. Julius Lansburgh, Mgr. 637 F St. N.W. Chicken. Tender meat of chicken. Deli- cious in salads, sandwiches or patties—for home use or outings. STANDARD cases | Society (Continued from Eighth Page.) evening for California, where she will visit her son and daughte Dr. and Mrs. Augustus Simpson have _gone to their place near Hern- don, Va., where they will be until the end of Augun when they will go to Newport. Miss Anne Darlington, the sister of Mrs. Simpson, is with them at Herndon. The wedding of Miss Otey Irene Brown and Mr. Frane Wheeler Braden took place Saturday evening in the home of the bride's sister on Taylor street in the presence of rela- tives and a few intimate friends, the | Rev. E, C. Staufter officiating. The bride wore a slmrle gown of white crepe and carried shower bouquet of bride's roses and lilies of the valley. Mr. und Mrs. Braden left imme- diately after the ceremony for an ex- tended wedding trip. They will make their home in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Heagy, whol have been residing at the Chadwick apartment, leave Washington Friday by auto for their home at Harris- burg, Pa., where they will remain a short time. Later they will go to their summer home in Mount Gretna, Fa. and will remain until Novem- ber. Mrs. Hea is well known in college club circles of this city as well as in other organizations. Miss Hettie . Anderson, general secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, is at Silver Bay, Lake George. N. Y., attending the ~ conference of general secre- taries and the city conference of the . W. C. A. Mr. Stuart McNamara of New York is In_Washington and is staying at|{ the New Willard Forster of onto, the Hamilton ~Hotei | an extended visit to a the capital Migs Jean Holtz of Buftalo is visit- | ing Miss Grace Harris in her home on Decatur street Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the tollowing: w Ciar and Helen §. lulu, H. I orge’ L. Dennis and Pope Sakellarakou. orge H. Stonesifer of Albertson, Md., and Virginia N. Mow, both of 1923, NNG STAR, \VASHI\*GTON, D. €., TUESDAY, JULY 17, 192 HARRIS =1 EWING: MISS MARGARETA DOROTHEA SOBOTKA, Dr. Ji Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Sobotka, whose marriage to Mr. Edmund | Stuart Whitson will take place thix afternoon, the Rev. officiating. nglin Clarenc ot und Terths Washington Elizabor nger. announted nd Margnret 1. Hal NAMED BY LEAGUE. Professc s ® Nl " with Sir William Jackson in of Pittsburgh, Ta., and | NEW YORK, July 17.—Appointment | Cambridge University | Professor Charles Mour 8 Johnon by the league of nations of Pro-|University of Paris m M'-lrw:::m ayiherige M. Me- | fossor J. Enrique Zanetti of Columbia il N P R auk D, u and Martha 1i. Singleton, University to a committee that will 3 18 ar o both of. Richmond. Va eI investigate chemioal’ warfarc, was | arc eruns® 8re not.valued u Marked Down! Wool Sweaters $1.00 SVART, swagger styles, in sizes 38 to 44. A splen- did value at this low price. 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Sport Dresses Formerly to $20 102 They ‘Also canton crepes, all new materials! Sale!! Tub Silks Broadcloth Silks Canton Crepes 14 Crepes de Chines to $25 S-A-L-E! Cool Wash Frocks }ieduced $7095 Re ; duced ’ OVELY, cool, well-styled frocks, such as every woman will de-- light in possessing, and deubly so when she secretly exults over this un- ‘usually low. price. FASHIONED in dainty tissues, dotted swiss, voiles, ratines, organdies, etc. They smart sport dresses in one and tweo have novelty jacquettes foulards and Silk Dresses Striped Silks with Valt-les Up ; latter was réally flie mother. ‘She de- |- clared she wanted to take charge of the, baby then, but lier sitster and the latter's” husband dissuxded her. sister has consistently refused to up the child. ever since, she testifi Mrs. Shosted testified it was her husbznd, Shanholtaer, and not Melton, who was the father of her siste chfld and that Mrs. Pollan had so o n!suued to her. Twa other . sisters, Alexand and Mrs. Maude -Shotkley, contradicted Mrs. Pollan's declaration that Meiton died in France, and stated Mrs. Pollan had seen him in Spring- fleld, Mo., since.the end of the world war. MOTHER SUES FOR CHILD BORN BEFORE MARRIAGE By the Associated Press, B | LOS ANGELES, Calif, July 17.—, Arguments arée expected ‘to begin in the superior court today in the'habeas corpus proceedings brought by Mrs. | Loia Pollan of Savapnah. Ga. wite of Capt..Clinton Pollan of the. United iStates Army, against her sister, Mys, i Elsie. Shosted, for the recovery. of .a |five-year-old. girl named June. | " Mrs. Pollan told the court the chlid was bern to her before she was m iried, and that its father was Frank {Melton, an American soldier, who, she |sald, was Killed in France during the jworla” war. 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