Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1923, Page 4

CHEER MRS. STOKES N SECOND VICTORY Few in Growd as Divorce De-| - fendant Thanks Jury and Kisses Attorney. : By the Assoclated Press. 3 NEW YORK, November 10.—W. E. D. Stokes, Wealthy New York hotel man, vesterday for the second time failed in his ‘efforts to divorce Mrs. Helen Elwbod Stokes, formerly of Denver, Col.;_ The jury wisout an hour and cight minutes. Mrs, Stokes took the jury's deciston complacently. An action for separation on her behalf is on the calendar for next Monday. ilves Counsel Kiws. Mrs. Stokes was moist-eyed as she took the hand of each juryman in gratitude. Her mother, Mrs. Emma Elwood Miller, and Samuel Unter- myer, chief of her counsel, followed her to each juror with their thanks. Mrx. Stokes was seated beside Isadore Shapiro of her counsel verdict was read. She leaned over! and kissed him i Mr. Stokes left the room alone. He | was almost alone when the pronounced the erdict. Max Steuer, his chief, upon whose quence he had relied to as wi ter witn. of contradictions, ad hour earlier. > ugent. his attorney at ., who is under indiet- client in_Chicago for defame Mrs. Stokes' de-; had { ment with h conspiracy to eharacter. Only a small crowd waited outside the courtroom.They cheercd and ap- plauded as Mrs. Siokes left She was ‘Loo tired to make statement. Mr. Stokes refused comment and Mr. Untermyer felt any visgble since the district attorney 3 ] vestigate the testimony of several of the Stokes witnesses. Hits Untermyer's Attack, Mr. Steuer had closed his sum- mation with a -bitter attack on Mr. Untermyer's arraignment of Mr. Nu- gent's methods gotting witnesses. Asserting that Mr. Untermyer’s con- Science would trouble his sleep after his condemnation of a rising young lawyer, he said “there s never more murderous assault on reputa- tion.” Turning 1o Steuer added: “The climax of a rottep defense was when you called Stokes' mind dis- eascd. Supply an adjective for your own. | I wouldn't usc any artifice to make this lady's case_any worse than it All I ask is that you jurors do jus- tice. Don't be generous with the 1a Mr. Untermyer, Mr. The verdict trial which was ended by the y opened before Su- preme stice Mahcney on Oc ® tober 8. It had been made necessary by nullificati ity of a verdict found against the ¥ a jury in when Mrs. ~ Stok was granted a decree of separation and permitted to retain custody of the two children. Nullification re- sulted from failure of Justice Finch to sign both decrees before he was elevated to the appellate division. Long Fight for Retrial. Stokes was granted the after a long legal battle. and his attorney, Daniel F. Nugent, were indicted in Chicago on charges ©f conspiring to defame Mrs. Stokes® reputation. The retrial differed from the orig- inal trial in that the plaintiff’s coun- set confined allegations of misconduct to Edgar T. Wallace of Los Angele a mining engineer, with business friends in the ci ile, at the first trial there had beén a number of al- legations linking Mrs. Stokes' name with those of other gorespondents. Witnesses for Mr. Stokes testified they had seen Mrs. Stokes with Wal- lace in Bunceton, Mo.. in 1904, before her marriage, with him at his apart- retrial ment in East 35th street, New York,' pU- and at parties in summer Yomes near Bethel, Conn. residents of Bethel and Bunceton, and other witnesses for the defense made detailed dentals. Several negro witnesses for the hotel owner, under cross-examination by Samuel Untermyer, chief defense eounsel, repudiated eariier testi- monies. Five witnesses for the plain- U repudiated afdavits. Heated Tilts Frequent. clerk | b, | win his case | Greece, Japan and Slam. broke down | 3= n through a legal tech- | Wallace. his friends, { UNVEIL MONUMENT TO COL. GALBRAITH Dozen Nations at Cin: cinnati Ceremony. ——— |Iarinn Representatives of Half i 5 By the Asscelated Press. g CINCINNATL,' Ohlo, November 10.—. Oficig) - repres¢ntatives trom ‘hait & dozen_ nations’'were in Cinelnnati to- day to ‘take part in ceremonies at- tending the unveiling of a monument erected hera by the American Legion {4n homor of its late natienal com- mander,. Col. Frederick W, Galbraith, who was killed in an automobile ac- cident near Indianapolis. The dedication was coupled with the celebration of Armistice Uay, as & fitting tribute to Col.. Gplbralth, a Cincinnatian, who gain fop him- self an enviable record in the world w r. Michael Aarohson, to whom fell the honor of pulling the cord that un- veiled the.memorial, could not behold the beduty of the murble and bronze monument, erected on the hilltop ja Eden Park. where it commands a view of the Ohio river and the Kentucky hills. Aaronson was blinded by high explosive shell when serving sergeant major under Col. Galbraith in the battle of the Argonne. John R, Quinn, newly elected com mander of the legion, made the pres- when the | entation speech, and an address on behalf of the allied governments was dellvered by Gen. G. A, L. Dumont military attache of the French em. ssy at Washington. Other cou s represented by attaches or mi; sters were Great Britain, Italy, The program concludes tonight with a dinner, given in honor of the allied guests. HARVEY SHTISFED SLATELEFT CLEAN Returns Home . After Three Years in London, With Op- timism Shattered. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 10.—With the conviction that he has accom- plished all his tasks abroad—had “wiped the slate clean,® as he ex- pressed it—George Harvey. retiring American ambassador to the Court of St. James, returned home late yester- day on the Aquitania, hungry for the home cooking of his aunt, Hannah This is no time for generosity.” | Martin. who lives in Peacham, Vt. ir. Harvey was his typical seif to ho interviewed him com- ing up the bay, jovial one minute, sar- castically humorous the next, and finally saying what was chiefly on h! mind with unmistakable seriousnes: He retired, he said, because he want- ed to come home, but he would not say whether he would aid any candi. date in the 1924 presidential cam- paign. For himself he was through with public office.’ As before he went broad he was &till opposed to the “nited States entering the league of i rations, and any interpretation that President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes are working for that end now Later heji8 in his opinion, erroneous. Has Hope in Parley. { “I have very strong :hopes that something is going to transpinf in connection with the latest reparafion | conference propoals in which we will play a very considerable part” he said, “and that it will have a decided influence in achieving the peace and prosperity of the world. “I am not an_optimist.” tinued, “because I have heen in En, land almost three years, and on optimism becomes modified after b ing in the thick of things for such !length of time, but I have the utmost confidence that Secretary Hughes' i present plan s going to bg success- This confidence is not based on anything except such knowled I have of Secretary Hughes' po: and of his abiilty to carry through whatever he undertakes, “I hope there will be a sense of rightness and judgment throughout the country that President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes ought not to be hampered in any way in their under- | taking to render a great world serv- | fee.” Former Senator Kellogg, his suc- The trial was marked by frequent|cessor, will be welcomed at court. and heated tilts between Mr. Unter- | said myer and Max D.Steuer, chief couns for Mr. Stokes. The two attorneys Mr. Harvey, as at his last lunch- eon with the king and queen just be- fore he and Mrs. Harvey safled. they frequently: held up proceedings by | expressed their pleasure at his ap- hurling remarks at each other, and Justice Mahoney several times inter- ‘vened and threatened to stop the trial. At one time he told Steuer and Unter- myer he would speak to them later about their interruptions. The most dramatic moment of the retrial came when Elmer H. Hen- shaw, former chauffeur of Mrs. Stokes, declared he had had impropeér rela- | tions with Mrs. Stokes. Both Mrs. ! Stokes and her mother crled out| shaw explained later that his rim bad been misunderstood and that he had accepted the term {mproper rela- | tions to cover an alleged attempt by | Mrs, Stokes to use him in a suit, inst her husband. Mr. Steuer, in| Bis summation, said the misunder- standing had arisen as a result of the nature of the examination of Hen- shaw. Testimony. of Assistant District At- pointment. The night before sailing he talked with Lord Curzon, the sec- retary of state for forelgn affairs, and agreed with him that there is not one big question unsettled be- | tween England and America. His nearly three yea; residence abroad convinced him that the Fng- lish people have a sincere friendliness for the people of the United States. e torrney Pecora revealed that several of Stokes’ negro witnesses have been questioned in his office in perjury complaints, made after the first trial. Pecora denied allegations that he had attempted to influence one of the wit- nesses to change his testimony. Statements of Horace G. Knowle: former United States minister to Bal. kan and Latin American nations, that he had seen Wallace and Mrs. together were met by denying test! mony and afdavits. ONE-WAY STREETS 6 BILLS T0 URGE HELD DANGEROUS George H. Cushing, Business|Measures Must Be Submit-, Man, Sees conqestion Rather Than Relief. One-way streets are ‘“dangerous and increase congestion,” George H. Cushing, a local business man, charged in a communication today to Senator Ball, chairman of the Senate Distiict committee.. - Mr. Cushing mado several suggestions for Im- proving the traffio regulations and asked that his’ communication be in- verted in the record of the proceed- ings of the Senate District subcom- mittee which s investigating Wash- Ington's traMo situation. , The privilege to drive on eithor side of the one-way streets and to pasg other vehicles elther to the right or left, Mr. Cushing pointed| out, has encouraged many drivers pass other vehicles in on all streets. The writer also em- phasized that the parking on both sides of the on the one-way thoroughfares congest rather than relleve traffic, Mr. Cush- ing sald: S . “The only approach to density of traffic at any time is in the morning, when Washington's bureauracy is driving to work, and in the evening, when it is driving home. In.those hours the general trend of traffic is south in_ the morning and north at night, The sensible thing would be 1o allow. thin traflic to_use aill of the streets and thus thin out the stream in, the rush hours. ““The streets on which. street cars re operated are generally two-way streets. The presence of Street cars and shopping traffic tends naturally to congent those streets. The closing of other streets to traffic in one direc- tion tends to concentrate upon the two-way streets an unusual volume of automobile traffic, because there the operator is sure of his ground and immune from a fine. ally increasing the danger to pas: sengers by street cars. Other Difficulties Cited. “In the district where one-way traffic alone is allowed a motorist frequently, to reach a desired desti natlon, finds it necessary to run com pletely around the hlock. This adds one car to the traffic on each of three blocks and does not relieve the con- gestion on the fourth block. Taxicabs collect an additional fare of 10 cent for each of these runs—a considera- ble addition to their income. “The power to so direct the flow of traffic might easily give to the régulator the power to ruin.one per- son's business by making severe trafic regulations on his block and to favor another person’s business by making no traffic regulations on his block.” Mr. Cushing recommended an in- crease in the speed limit in order to expedite the flow of traffic, but said that “any increase in the speed limit should carry the provision that any- one traveling in excess of 20 miles an to tal. the same way|cated - WIDER STREHSS ted First to Brig. Gen. Lord, Budget Director. Six bills to be Introduced at the coming session of Congress for the widening of streets will be forwarded ' to the budget bureau for approval next week. These measures must be | submitted first to Brig. Gen. Lord, it | was explained, because they involve the appropriation of funds. The most important is that provié- Ing for the opening and extension of | 14th- street through the grounds of Walter Reed Hospital, which failed to recelve attention at the last session. Next in Importance is the measure to ‘establish a fort drive connecting all of the old civil war forts that skirt_the borders of the National Capl- This project has long been advo- by the Board of Trade and the city government. Others on the i For the way thoroughfares | widening of 1 has brought a new danger and tha e ol ATy hetween the signe indicating one-way streets ‘annot be seen at night. Seen Col mgestion Rather Than Relief. 1o support of his contention that Good Hope road and S street to re- lieve an existing sharp turn; for the widening of Georgia avenue between Falrmont and Gresham; for the widening of 4th street between Cedar street and Blair road. and for the opening of a new thoroughfare within the area bounded by Georgia avenue, Q}hcllrtel. Florida avenue and Barry place. BAN ARMISTICE HOLIDAY. Postal Officials’ Order Keeps Let- ter Carriers Working. Armistice day will not be observed as a holiday by rural letter carriers of the country. This was settled today when the Post Office Department issued this a question in the minds of many postmasters and rural riers each year whether ‘Armlistice day may properly be observed as a holiday,” it is deemed advisable to state that Armistice day Is not ? fAa- tional hollday, and that there {s no authority for the suspension of serv- ice by rural carriers on that day. —_——————— hour and causing any damage to the person or property of another would be llable prima facie to the full ex- tent of the damages provided that the person damaged was not him- selt exceeding the speed limit. “It death results,” he added, “the punish- ment should be the same as for manslaughte: ‘The writer pointed out that he has driven a machine in Washington for five years, covering approximately 50,000 miles and has done no damage to person or property. “I have tried scrupulously to obey the traflic rules and regulations” he sald. “Those regulations have now become so severe that generally I find it im- practicable to use my car for the business purpose for which, princi- pally, I bought I Studebaker Satisfying Sixes are the result of 71 years’ con- sistent effort to build a quality product. Joseph McReynolds Selling eatisfactery transpertetion in Washington fer 35 years Commercial Auto and Supply Co. 14th Street at R <> “Handmade Cravals [~ Hasty;:raft 1t ‘takes longer to fashion a tie by hand than by machine. @ It is “SATURDAY, Winter's New Fashions 4 Fur-Trimmed Fashions As winter approaches Fashion turns to Furs to add the trimming note of luxury and sumptuousness that all the feminine world craves in Winter Fashions. It is.a Russian vogue—this vogue for Fur Trimming —borrowing not only many of the furs, but the Fash- ions from the luxurious Russia of old. And, the coutouriers have been particularly success- ful in their use of fur trimming.. We see it on the smartest of street, frocks and; coats; on chic sports clothes; on the distinctive ¢coats and frocks for after- noons in winter, and on the gorgeous gowns and wraps, that-make up the’winter evening’s ensemble. And so, Woodward & Lothrop present this vogue of Fur-trimmed Winter Fashions, in a collection of dis- tinctive Winter-Costumes for Madame and Made- moiselle. Madame's Fuhiona—'l‘hira ‘flgor. Mademoiselle’s Fashions—Fourth floor. Jenny inspired this seven-eighths coat—-develaped in black marvella—showing the Russian vogue in its :;;dings of flying squirrel and colorful embroidery, 5. Wotren’s Fur-trimmed Coats, $59.50 to $350. Women's. }Tur-u-imrned Sports Coats, $39.50 to $165. Blonde Fur is used here on this handsome coat for Mademoiselle—navy blue marvella, with sumptuous collar and cuffs of light gray squirrel, $195. Misses’ Fur-trimmed Ceats, $59.50 to $225. Misses’ Fur-trinmed Sports Coats, $35 to $115. Raspberry crepe chiffon fashions this exclusive eve- ning gown from Nemser, for Madame; a luxurious band of viatka squirrel, and an under-costume-slip of raspberry satin complete it, $235. < Women’s Fur-trimmed Gowns, $39.50 to $225. . 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