Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1923, Page 11

FOREGO TESTIVONY INVWARD DEFENSE Millionaire’s Attorneys Rest. Chief Pleads Case Is Un- changed by Trial. By the Assorinted Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., September 46~—A sensation equal to that of , Yesterday, when the stite abruptly ended its prosecution, came today at the trlay of Walter S. Ward, charged with murdering Clarence Peters of Haverhill, Mass, when the defense announced to the court that it rested its case without submitting uny testl- mony. Afer announcing that the defense rested, Isaac N. Mills, chief counsel for the defense, renewed his motion that the indictment be dismissed and the jury De instructed to return a verdict of acquittal, but Justice Wag- ner again denied all motions. Mills sald that the secret of the blackmail which caused Ward to kil Clarence Peters would never be re- vealed. To prevent such a disclosure, he sald, he had refrained from call- ing members of the Ward famlily to the witness stand. Confined te Evidence. Hardly had the chief of the defense counsel begun his address to the jury Wwhen_Attorney General Sherman ob- jected to his statements, and Justice Wagner ordered Mr. Mills to refrain from all comment ana to keep to the evidence. “We are at the beginning of the end” Mr. Mills had begun, “and I have to tell you that I have the most profound satisfaction that my client has come to the bar of justice thi way, prosecuted by the state, an that he is emerging in this way. “One of my first satisfactions is in finding nothing in the people’s case that was not there before. The cards have been laid out, and I have count- . € them all. They are dog-eared and torn.” Claims Case Unchanged. Mr. Mills went on to say that he had been an attorney for Many years, and that he was surprised that At- torney General Shermawm had revealed “nothing new.” and that (n the ex- amination of former District Attorney Weeks it was shown that all the wit- Desses in this case were the same ones who had testified before the first #rand jury that indicted Wasd. “I have been in the case since the {rst indictment was presented,” add- ed Mr. Mills, “I am like an old mar- iner riding the seas: now he steers for the open gate of the home port, realizing that the opposition contalns nothing but wind, nothing but mere bluff, at that. Now with every sail set, holding fast and true here in this craft we are going home sately, as we sought. Charges Unfairness. The first hour of Mills' summation was devoted to an arraignment of the methods used by the prosecution, who. he sald. had presented its case unfairly and unjustly. Charging that witnesses for the state had been im- properly coached, he pointed out that seventy-two ‘witnesses had been heard by the grand jury. while only thirty-two had been called before the trial jury. The prosecution, Mills asserted, had not dared to call the other wit- nesses because their testimony would h"\'! been riddled by cross-examina- tion: Turning to Mrs. been sitting. her_head bowed, beside Ralph Ward, brother of the accused, he called upcn the jurymen to observe the terrible effect which the strain of the proceedings had had upon her. Exhibiting to the courtroom at large a large photograph of Mrs. ‘Ward, apparently taken before the slaying of Peters, he called upon all those, pyesent to compare the youth- ful, fresh-faced woman on the pho- tograph ith the bowed worry-worn figure who sat sobbing at the de- fgnse counsel table. Pelnts to Wife, “By the side of my client,” Mills con- tinued, “his loyal and devoted wife, the woman God gave to be with him, has sat throughout the proceedings. She has stuck to him through trials and tribulations as well as in pros- perity. You can see her face is worn with grief from this persecution of sixteen months.” As_the defense counsel pointed to her Mrs. Ward sobbed unrestrainedly, her body shaking convulsively. Raiph Ward put his arm over the back of her chair and whispered words of comfort. Mills then faunched into a severe criticism of the calling to_the wit- ness stand of Mrs. Ward. "When you ask a man's wife to testify against nim you ask a violation of God's laws,” he safd, asserting that the tes- timony of Mrs. Ward had added noth- ing to the state’s case, detracted nothing from her husband's reputa- tion and merely served to increase her agonized worry that her weords might seal the doom of her husband. Taking up the state’s evidence point by point Mills attempted to show that a series of unrelated cir- cumstances, which, he neither indicated nor proved that crime had been committed, had been set forth before the jury.’ Mr. Milis charged that Peters, who, it had been shown in the testi. mony, came to New York with le: than $2 in his pocket and a pack playing cards, hired himself out a gunman to carry out the blac mail threat of those whom Mr. Mills said were his accomplices. .He de- clared the paths of Ward and Peters had never crossed until the night of the traged WIIl Keep Secret. Then Mr. Mills emphatically de- clared that the secret of the blackmall would never become known and that it was to prevent such a disclosure that the defense had mot called any of the Ward family to the witness stand. “Put vourself in his place,” Mr. Mills said to the jury. “Suppose you fell into the hands of evil men and they knew a secret that affected not only you but the character and stand- ing of your wife and children. Sup- pose they threatened to expose you. Tt you had a drop of red blood or manly honor in your veins you would do just what Walter Ward did. “When this case goes into your keeping the life and happiness of this man and this woman will rest in your hands.” r, Mills sald that both George ‘Washington and Alexander Hamilton had submitted to blackmail. MICHIGAN MAY RESUME HOUSE OF DAVID PROBE Jury Proceedings Likely to Be Kept Open Until King Ben- jamin Is Found. By the Associated Press. LANBING, Mich., September 28.— Resumption of the state's grand jury investigation iato the House of Davia colony at Benton Harbor is proble- matical, Assistant Attorney General Homer Quay sald today. - Announcing that ke would confer shorgy with Judge Harry J. Dlns; man, who conducted the inquiry, . Quay said there was a possibility the grand jul pmeoflllg“ will be kept open until Benjamin rnell, head of the oolony, has been apprehended. Although it was announced yester- day that information had been ob- *tained indicating that Purnell was “not more than 200 miis from the colony,” Mr. Quay said today that he @id not expect the missing cult lesder would be located within the next two ©r three days. |Pi;y Ward, who had| asserted, | i Wife-Beater Can’t Be Flogged, Judge Declares Remarking that “It is a pity some one could not be designated to inflict & good beating to the Adetendant,” Judge Robert Matting- 1y. in the United States branch of Police Court, today sentenced Thomas Mudd, alleged wife-beater, to one year in jail. The sentence. however, was suspended and Mudd was_put on probation. Mudd pleaded guilty to the charge and as an excuse said he was forced to beat his wife be- cause she had been “nagging him,” The court explained that the sen- tence was suspended 5o as to make it possible for Mudd to earn 2 Hv- ing for his wife and three children. REDUCE LS, BOARDS SAVE TAYES, ISPLEA Former Gov. Lowden Asks Stricter Department Rule for Economy Sake. *| By the Associated Press. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va, September 26.—Centralization of all executive functions of the fed- eral government within designated departments was advocated by for- mer Gov. Lowden of Illinois, speak- ing here today before the Natlonal Tax Association, as & means of less- eniing the tax burden and of elimi- nating “the deadly inertia” of boards and commissions. Mr. Lowden deprecated the growth of boards and commissions, declaring that they worked to bring about un- necessary expenditures and enabled officials sitting upon them to evade responsibility for their acts. He re- cited the steps taken by Illinois dur- ing his administration as governor to centralize all executive.functions in departments, and recommended the same course for the federal govern- ment. Sces Red Tape Grewth. “It is sald that there are ten de- partments of government at Wash- ington,” he asserted. “In fact. there are many times ten independent and practically unrelated agencles of gov- ernment there. No department under thess circumstances can avold be- coming rigid and law bound, and red tape necessarily becomes the rule. If, instead, the department heids were authorized to prescribe the duties of subordinates, the red tape would largely disappear and the responsible head would have power commensurate with his responsibility. Instead of an inert mass you would have a living _organism with -an actual head. * ¢ “In the last few years all pretense of keeping up the departmental form of organization of the federal gov- ernment, fith its activities distribut- ed among the ten departments, has been - abandoned. There are now something more than forty independ- ent establishments of government within no department of government jand answerable directly to the Presi- ent. “It is obvious that the President can have no knowledge of. much less ex- ercise supervision over, these in- dependent agencles of 'govermment. There should not be a single function. pertaining to administration, which does not come directly under some cabinet official. The President, with Eis multifarious duties, cannot be afely depended upon to properly direct any administrative activity un- less the Initiative comes from the head {of a department.” Hits Commissions, The growth in the lack of law enforcement was attributed by Mr. Lowden as partly the result' of an increase in the commission form of government. “There are some who have assumed that large responsibility could be more safely deposited in a body of imen than in a single man he said. { “Experience has not justified this. Where the responsibility is upon the individual, he cannot shirk it. Where it is placed in a body of men. the in- dividual can find shelter behind that {body when called to account for the his power. ¢+ Good and efm clent public service makes it manda. tory that responsibility be.fixed defi- nitely. Responsibility can be defi- nitely placed only if it be reposed in en individual.” One of the most hotly contested | questions before ‘the annual confer- ence of the Tax Association came to the fore today, with the address of J. Vaughan Gary, counsel for the state tax board of Virginia, on state { taxation of banks. | Mr. Gary's discussion of the ques- { tion ‘was based on a first-hand knowl- edge of the federal court case of the Merchants' Natfonal Bank, decided about a year ego in Richmond, Va., under which several states have been faced with the necessity of returning {to national banks large sums col- lected under income taxes. Discussion of the matter in_con- nection with the address was but & prelude to a fight to be waged be- fore the resolutions committee on ja resolution introduced by Samuel {Lord, chairman of the Minnesota tax commission, .which would declare the sentiment of the conference to be that Comgress should pass an _ac along the lines of the Kellogg bill, defeated at the last session. to rem- edy the situation brought about by the Richmond deciston. With Commissioner Lord heading the group that believes a change In the statutes is necessary, E. R.,Tol- loway of the District of Columbia, and L. C. Sax, former member of the New York tax commission, stand out as leaders of the opposing group. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 26 (Special).—Miss Ethel Greshon and John H. Grimes, both of Brookeville, this county, were married at Gaithers- | burg by Rev. A. E. Owens, pastor of Grace Methodist Church of that place, the ceremony taking place at the home of the minister. Licenses have been issued by the clerk of the circuit court here for the marriage of Miss Flora E. Kemp and Harold W. Ward, both of Wood- fleld, this county; Miss Theresa C. Kelly of Washington and Richard J. McMahon of Clarendon, Va., and Miss Myrtie Hatcher and Harry L. Neal, both of this county. Rev. Thomas D. Windiate, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Kensington, officlated at the funeral yesterday afternoon of John H. Davis, for many years assistant chief of the right of ‘way, reclamation and desert land di- vision of the general land office, De- partment of the Interior, at Wash- ington, who died on Sunday at his home, ‘at Garrett Park, of pleurisy, after an iliness of less than a_week. aged sixty-two yeays. The fuaeral took place from the family residence, | at Garrett Park, and was attended by many persons from Washington, this county and other places. Burial was in Gienwood ocemetery, Washington, where the services were in of Centennial Lodge of Masons of Wash- ington. The_supervisors of elections have given notice that the officers of regis- tration for the various election prec- intts of the county will be in sesston at the usual places on October 2 and 3 to regist: se will be the only op- portunities for those qualified and not already on the books to have their names enrolled. The registrars| will aleo sit on October 18 £o revise the books. manner in which he has exercised | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNES LETTER FROM POPE [SCHOOL DVISONS In Taxi; Pursued READTO HIERARCHY} SHIFTED RADICALLY| #otty by Potice Catholic Session at Univer- sity Discusses European Ald and Other Matters. ‘The cardini archbishops and bishops composing the hlerarchy' of the Catholic Church of America as- sembled at their annual conference in Caldwell Hall at the Catholic Uni- versity today. The conference, which was carried on behind closed doors, opened with the letter from Pope Pius, which was addressed to the conference and read by the papal delegate to America, Archbishop Fumasoni Biondl. The letter from the Pope called the attention of the conference to con- ditions surrbunding many of the poorer classes in Europe and partic. ularly dwelt upon .tne suffering gaused by the Japanese earthquake. The necessity of prompt action for the relfef of the starving children and people of Europe.and the neces- sity of asaistance to the stricken Jap- anese was brought to the attention of the meeting by his holiness. Conference Reports. The remainder of the morning was devoted to the reading of reports dy the various chalrmen of the confer- ence committee. It is explained that discussion will be held this afternoon on a number of reports submitted and that each of the bishops attending the conference will present to the as: sembly matters in his own diocese. Educational matters, laws affecting the CatholMc Church in America, im- migration, matters concerning Cath- olic immigranis and Catholic lay o anizations will be discussed by the ierarchy. The prelates who are attending the conference ar Cardinal O'Connell, Boston:; Cardinal Dougherty, Phil- adelphia. Archbishops, Curley. Baiti- more; Daeger, Santa Fe; Dowling, St. Paul; Glennon, St. Lo Francisco; Harty, O ; New York; Messmer, Milwaukee; Mo eller, Cleveland; Mundelein, Chicago; Shaw, New Orleans. Bishops, Allen, Mobfle; Althoff, Belleville; Barry, St. Augustine; Boyle, Pittsburgh; Can! well, Los Angeles; Carroll, Helen: San Juan; Drumm, Des Feehan, Fall River: Floersh. Loutsville; Gallagher, Detrolt: Gan- o ‘e, Tucson;. Gibbons, Aldbany; Glass, Sait Lake City; Gor- man, Bolse unn, Natches; Hartley, Columbus; Heelan, Sioux City: Hef- fron, Winona; Hickey, Providence; Hoban, Chicago: Hoban, Scranten; Howard, Covington; Keane, Sacra- Keyes, Savannah; Lawler, Kansas Clty; Maheney, Meerschaert, Oklahoma Molloy, Brooklyn: _Muldoon, O’Connell, Richmond; O'Reilly, Fargo; Rhode, Green Ba: Schrembs, Cleveland; = Schwertne Wichita; Swint, Wheeling: Tief, Con- cordia; Tihen, Denver; Turner, Buf- falo, and Walsh, Portland. WITNESS RETRACTS DIAGNOSIS CHARGE Orthopedic Surgeon Admits He May Have Been Mistak- en in Pendleton Case. | Testimony intended to show that there had existed two fractures in- stead of one in the right leg of Pri- vate Guy Pendleton, whose legs were amputated at Walter Reed Hespital several months ago, and that one of these fractures was not diagnowed before the amputation, was given to- day by Capt. Pernier Mix, orthopedic surgeon at Walter Reed Hospital, be- fore the court-martial sitting in the case of Maj. George W. Cook, former {post surgeon at Fort Eustis, Va. charged with malpractice. Capt. Mix, whose testimony was continued from ~yesterday, examined {carefully the leg_bones in alcohol, which Private Pendleton testified yesterday were his, and said he be- lieved a fracture had taken place which he had not diagnosed, mor of which he had been informed when the case was transferred to Walter Reed for amputation. Retracts His Statement. Under cross-examination by coun- 1 for the defense he retracted his statement regarding the two fra tures, saying he thought there were two, and ended by saying that he might have been mistaken, but that by manua] examination with the hand ihe could be certain in his own mind ! of the existence of the fracture. Testimony was introduced by Capt. Mix tendfhg to show that so-called pains- of which the patient had com- plained might have been caused by an actual pressure on some other part of the patient's body several inches from the pain area complained of. Capt. Mix spoke of the ridges or abra- sions in the plaster casts which were placed about Private Pendleton’s lel after he had been brought to the po Hospital at Fort Eustis, Va, on Au gust 2, 1932, suffering from fracture of the leg bones sustained in a mqtor eycle_accident. Defenne Makes Objections. Counsel for the defense objected several times to questions by the rosecution, which it declared were eading questions and which could only be answered in a direct way by the witness. Many hypothetical ques-, tions were propounded to Capt. Mix, some of which he said he could not answer by reason of their involved character and the differing anatomical structures of human beings. Capt. Mix's testimony will be con- cluded today, and Maj. Norman T. Kirk, Army Medical Corps, the sur- geon who performed the amputation, will be put on the stand. Col. Wil- llam L. Keller, chief of the surgical service at Walter Reed Hospital, will follow Maj. Kirk. . —_— PENSIONERS FILE SUIT. CHICAGO, September 26.—A suit for an accounting of the pension fund of Morri¢ & Co.. 'packers, whose s were bought by h, has | last Marc] in the names of twenty-two Morris pensioners against the two packing companies. The bill demands the restitution of 3$700,000 alleged to have been wrong- fully paid out at the time of the mer:u- and the establishment of 37, 00,000 trust fund to care for the pensions. The suit is the first legal action attempted to maintain the Morris funds for pensioners, who numbered 500 or more, and\for whom |no_provisions was made hnder the ‘merger lilreement. ‘The fuhds, at the' time of the merger last M were 'altllhthd to provide for pensions to continue about fifteen months. The Continental and Commerclal National Bank of Chicago and the Chase National Bank and the Metropolitan Trust Company.of New York. were made defendants, according to attor- neys, to force them to bring their records into eourt. MIDINETTES TO END STRIKE.| PARIS, September 326-—The mid- inettes employed by milliners of Paris, who have been on étrike since Monday, will resume work tomorrow under an agreement reached today| providing l:!‘l TéVision of their wege scale. Territorial Boundaries Are Changed and Some of Per- sonnel Transferred. Actual steps toward redistricting the firet nine divisions of the public school system were. taken today by school authorities following the ac- tion of the board of educatién at a special conference last night in ap- proving the proposed radical changes in the territorial boundaries of the present districts. As & result of the board's action two long defunct divisions will be recre- ated and several shifts will be made fo the supervisory force. Dr. Kimball Change: Dr. E. G. Ximball, supervising principal of the seventh division, will be transferred on October 1 to be supervising principal of the third divisions, succeeding Robert L. Hay- cock, who becomes sssistant super- intendent of schools. The re-created second division will be placed under Miss Jessle Ld Salle, who was ap- pointed & supervising_principal last June. Miss Adelaide Davis, adminis- trative principal of Emery-Eckington School, was promoted to become the supervising principal of the fourth division, which has been non-existent for a number of year: With the ¢hanges im_the geo- graphical boundaries of the divisions & number of schools have been shift- ed from one dlstrict to another and | the sizes of the divisions have been better equalized. In redistricting the divisions the officials followed the natural boundaries as nearly as possible and aimed to have a junior high school in each district. Reduce Third Division. The Adams, E. B. Brown, Dennison and Force schools have been taken out of the first division. The third division, one of the largest divisions, numerically and geographicaily in the system, had been reduced in size by transterring to other divisions_the . D. Cooke, Monroe, Morgan, Park View, Ross and West schools. The Abbott, Arthur, Henry, Polk, Seaton, Twining and Webster school have been taken from the fifth div In the sixth division no sehools were transferred. but the Peabody. Hilton, Carbery, Edmonds, Maury and Kingsman were added. 'The Brent, | Dent, Edmonds, Hilton, Maury and | Peabody were taken from the seventh | division and were replaced, by the | Cranch, Tyler, Buchanan, Bryan, Van Ness, Ketcham, Van . Congress 'Heights, Randle Hjghlands and Stanton schools. e Bradiey, Van Ness and Weight man were taken from the elghth di vision and the Arthur, Bradley, Fair- brother, Greenleaf, Toner and Web. | ster schools added. The ninth di- vision will be composed of the spe- clal schools under the supervision of Walter B. Patterson. New School Lists. Under the redistricting arrangement | the divisions will be constituted as follow First division, Ben W. Murch, su- pervising principal—Addison, Brow Corcoran, Curtis-Hyde, Eaton, Fill- more. Jackson, Reservoir, Tenley and Condult Road 'schools. The total en- roliment in these schools is 3.821. 8econd division, Miss Jessie La Salle, principal—Dennison, Ross, Mor- &an and Cooke schools. The enroll. ment in this division totals 1742, Third division, Dr. E. G. Kimball, supervising principal: Brightwood. Brightwood-Park, Hubbard, Powell- Johnson, Petworth, West, Takoma, Wilson ' Normal ‘and Woodburn schools. The enrollment in this di- vision totals 5,482, Miss Adelaide | Fourth division, Davis, supervising principal: Adams, Force, Abbot. Henry-Polk, Seaton, Twining and Weightman schools. The enrollment in this division to- tals 2,537, Fifth di-ision, Selden M. Ely, su- pervising principal: Brookland, Bur- roughs, Gage. Langdon, Emery-Eck- ington, Park View. Monfoe and Gale Blake schools. The total enrollment 1s 5.231. 8ixth division, Miss Flora L. Hend- ley, supervising principal—Webb, Plerce, Benning, Blair-Hayes, Keni worth, Blow, Ludlow, Madison, Tay lor, Wheatley, Peabody-Hilton, Car- bery, Edmonds, Maury and Kings- man’ schools. The enrollment. tota 8eventh division, Dr. Hosmer H. Johnson, supervising principal— Brent-Dent, Wallach-Towers, Cranch- Tyler, Buchanan, Bryan, Lenox, Van Ness, Ketcham-Van Buren, Congress Heights, Randle Highlands and Stan- ton schools.” The enroliment In this division totals 5,432, i i i | | Eighth division, Miss Anne Beers, supervising principal—Arthur, Brad ley, Fairbrother, Grant, Greenleaf, ‘erson-Amidon, Smallwood-Bow: ‘Toner and Webster schools. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, . September 26 (Bpecial). = A crusade against all owners of automoblles who have falled to pay their city license tax will be launched Monday by Director of Public Safety Paul Morton. Ac- cording to Mr. Morton thus far enly about 1,600 automobile owners have paid the city license tax, and it is esti- mated that fully 400 auto owners thus far have not yet paid their license The price of ‘the city license is cents a horsepower, plus 50 cents | commissioner’s fee, and on truc $10.50 for the first two tons and 36 2 ton for each ton In excess of two. Out of the thirty-odd cases for a leged violations of the state prohibi- tion law recently presented to juries for trial in the corporation court the | majority of those who had been in- | dicted had only a half pint or a pint | of liquot in their possession when | taken into custody by the police. ‘The courts during the past few months have been clogged with just | such cases. In the majority of cases fines of $5 and a jail sentence of | thirty days have been imposed. and in some cases only fines have been im- posed. 3 1 In a large number of these cases the parties were 50 unfortunate as to get drunk, and this caused their undoing, for when thes were arrested by the | police the liquor was found In their possession. The Kiwanis Kidder, the weekly | bulletin of the Kiwanis Club, an-| nounces the weekly luncheon of the club at 12:20 o'clock tomorrow after- noon. At 13:15 o'clock there will be 2 meeting of the board of directors to pass upon an application. A plea for 100 per cent attendance 1s made, and President Randall Ca- ton in his plea announce: *“If cu- riosity will draw a crowd, we gladly announce that Bill May will climb | the Westminster dullding just befors sty Miss Ida Ullman of Washington will reopen her music studio in the Young_People’s building this week. Mixs Ullman will teach at’that build- ing every Tuesday and Friday after- noon and evening, beginning Fri- A mesting of the jolnt committee i ch of the arrangements for t:c t;:e-‘.t-r Alexandria Trade Ex-i hiblf to be held at the armory next ‘month will be held at 8 o'clock to- night in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce. _All ‘who desire to place exhibits in either the mer- canmtile line or automobiles or ac- cessories are to attend this meeting. 2 —_— FLYERS OPPOSE “STUNTS.” LOS ANGELES, September 26— More than 100 aviators have united in forming the Professiomal Pilots Association with the chief object the sasd u".‘ow-u han 50 per cent of airplase sccidents. P4 aid of the ‘police depart- ment in a search for a set of lower false teeth was enlisted by Gen. J. L. Chamberlain of the inspector general's office of the Army yes- terday afternoon. Gen. Chamberlain reported that he had probably left his lower denture on the seat of a taxicab, which he used on Monday after- noon going from Union station to the Army and Navy Club. All detectives at headquarters were informed of the loss of the teeth last night at roll call, and the case of locating them was as~ signed to Lieut. Collins of the hack inspector's office, as well as to a precinct. It was confidently predicted to- day that the teeth would be re- covered within the next forty- eight hours. COL KELLERLISTED TORETIRE OCT. 13 Fonner D. C. Engineer Com- missioner Now in California on Leave of Absence. An Army order issued today di- rects that Col. Charles Keller, Corps of Engineers, be placed on the retired list of the Army October 13. He was relieved a few months ago from duty as Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, at his own re- quest, to enable him to accept em- ployment with a big construction corporation engaged in important englneering work in California. Bince then he has been in California on leave of absence. He recently ap- plled for transter to the retired list of the Army at the expiration of his leave and the President has just approved his application. Col. Keller has had thirty-seven Guaranteed Quality at The National Furniture Co. DAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1923: oot B o False Teeth Lost SENTLOVENOIES 0 SELF, WIFE SAY Wanted to Rouse Husband’s Jealousy and Regain His Affections. Because ber husband said she was unattractive and that if he left her she would be dependent on charity, Mrs. Veronica M. Tanner today told the District Supreme Court, in an affidavit, that she wrote love letters to herself, and had her friends write her loving missives, in a hope of bringing about a reconecillation with her husband, Louls E. Tanner, lawyer and income tax expert. The pseudo love letters were loft in a conspicuous place so that the hus. band might ses them, the wife de. clares. Tanner found the letters, but instead of arousing his affections fer his wife, they enraged him and he pre- sented them to the court as evidence of alleged misconduct of the wite. He asked the court to relieve him from paying temporary alimony. An affi- davit from one of the authors of the endearing epistlés accompanies the wife's statement. Through Attorney Charles E. Mor- ganston, Mrs. Tanner also files an affidavit from a man who in a former aMdavit swore he had seen improper conduct on the part of the wife. This afdavit now repudiates the statements contained in the previous aMdtvit and say he was induced by threats and otherwise to make the allaged false statements. — e years' active military service, having been appointed to the United States Military Academy from New York in July, 1886, He reached the grade of colonel in September, 1919. Dur. ing the world war he was a briga- dier general in the National Afln! d was awarded a distinguls] service medal for his services. He suceseded Col. Charles W. Kutz as Engineer Commissioner of the Dis- trict and was himself succeeded by Lieut. Col. J. F. Bell, the incumbent. |Uncle Sam Hunts! World Over for [ Hours, 8 AM. to 6 ! i a | Graustark Nation Although the postal service has bécome used to rapid changes in the map amd has becomie familiar with the namés of many new countries it s having. difficulty complying with a request by a resident of <Chicago for help in locating the nation of Graustark. For ald in the search he says it 18 reputed to be 6n the outskirts of Poland and is 160 miles square. At the presént time the United States has né jpostal service with Graustark. The only clue the Pést Office has to work ofi Is & popular book of that nazne. Unfortunately, the author is nat very definite in his novel as to the locdtion of the lost Kingdom. NUT GROWERS OPEN ANNUAL CONVENTION Number of Loocal iln Engaged in This Type of Farming Near ‘Washington. The Northern Nut Groweérs’ Asso- ciation began Its fouxteenth annual gonvention mt the new National Museum th! -nomoo‘. Prominent #towers and scientists from all parts of the country. attend ing the con- vention and many members of the sclentific staff ‘of the Uliited Stateés Department of Agrioulture will take art in the proj which will ex- end throu; s There ai 180 rpembers of the association. This miembership includes persons from various states in d:hé United States, Canada, England na. local men are taking an inter- est in nut growing and ssveri | of them have nut orchards in the nearby coun- . Among these men are: . I Cor- by, T. P. Littl e, F. W. McRey- nolds and Dr. Liewelyn Jardon of ‘Takoma Park. Department of Agriculture men who will take part in the meetings are: Dr. W. A. Taylor, chief of the bueau of | plant industey; Dr. L. C. Corbott, Dr. . A. Reed, Dr. Oswald Schreimer, Dr. M. B. Waite, Prof. David Lumsden, W. R Mattoon and Prof. C. P. Close. Among the problems to be dimcussed are: Roadside planting of nut trees, commercial planting, topworking irees, grafting and varieties The Department of the Jnterior will shew a film {llustrating the almon& in- duatry of California in the suditorsum | of the museum tonight. HOLDS GUARD VITAL - PART OF 5. ARMY First Citizens’ Force Mob<: ilized in War-Time, Says Col. Finch. ““The National Guard of today is an entirely different -organization from’ the old state militia organizations in existence before the war, both in lation to the military forces of the- fation and to the citizens of the re-° vablic,” Col. H. A. Finch, Engineer Corps, militia bureau, in charge of National Guard affalrs, told more than 400 officers and men at the armory last night. . “It is one of the three component parts of the Army of the United States and in case of emergency would be the first citizen forces to® be mobilized,” he said. “The Engi- neer Corps is one of the most es- sential branches of the National Guard, and the real hero of today is the citizen who takes pride and in- terest in his local National Guard outfit, gives it his support and de- votes one night a week to its armory. drills in order to keep himself fit- for any emergency.” A review was held, at which Gen.- Stéphan presented warrants to thes newly promoted non-commiasioned. officers and Maj. John W. Oehmann. presented rifie and pistol marksman.:. ship badges to those men qualifying expert rifiemen, sharpghooters and marksmen at the last annual en- campment. The local troops were complimented by Col. 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