Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1924, Page 18

DINES NOT CERTAIN THAT GREER SHOT HIN| Oil Man Shakes Hands With| Chauffeur—Says He Didn't See Gun in His Hand. I 1 | MABEL NORMAND FORGETS i clen'ns She Was in Bedroom at Time of Shooting. | Dines, r oil man, whom he 10t and s y wounded here New ight. and heard Din v with ! “that's «ll right, old man, eer, huuffeur fon Mabel actress, prepared to- agh what was oxpected luding his hearing on a clarge of | to kill the Denver man ! © Normand's .25-calibre auto- riousi session of itan Hospital Hanby's did not remember WOODWARD & LOTHROP Federal Property - In Washington Has $375,348,777 V alue United States property in the f Columbia is valued at This figure, calculated by the federal real estate board, and made public yesterday by Director Lord of the bureau of the budget, was reached in the course of a compilation of the value of the federal government's hoiding of real property throughout the United States. The total value, exclusive of the public domain, na- tional parks and natlonal forests, is $1,554,103, vx..ss URGES EDITORS FIGHT | CINEMA CENSORSHIP | Hays Says Reforming Movies Is as Ineffective as It Is Un- American. ted Pross January pictur . sorship of the films that “is a it is un-Amer- Will H. Hay Southern California torday. “Just oring the THE EVENIN& STAR, 'WASHINGTON, | TO MALIGN M’CRAY Governor's Counsel Says Much of Evidence Intended to Preju- dice Jury. PLEADS FOR FAIR TRIAL Credibility of Executive Attack- ed by Prosecution. unu.n\ 2 ! Charge }introduced by the petitioners who are feeeking to have Go Cray declarcd a sented for the pu [the governors ¢ srejudice any jury | him,” were made 1ot the governo: krupt was pre- of “villifyig" cter and “to that might try ounsel at the hear- eridan. refeyec ral court here | 1 of counsel for the | «d the eral arguments | following Barnard and | the three Fort Wayn who' Instituted the proceedings Wants Fair Trial. LT am not usking anything for lhnr he exporta- Is prs 1 by George Barnard | bankruptey | } | - Warren T. Mc- | hootlegging sources in | | i | | WANTS PRORIBITION TAKEN OUT OF POLITICS fummiigs Says BEnforcement Or- ganization Shonld Be on Merit System. BY the Ausociuted Press, BOSTON, January 22—A plea that prohibition enforcement be taken out of politics was made by Homer S. Cummings, former chafrman of' the democnatic national committee, in an address' at the New England citizen- ship conference. It showld be estab- | Hshed upon the merit system, ho sald. “There must be a violenz separation of ‘prohibition- from patronage,” he declared. *The traffic of the bootleg- ser is_profitable largely because poi- that much of the testimony | lticlans are hungry to pmrticipate in easy mney mnd conduct political cam- paigns with funds shaken down from return for real or fancidd protection.” Eight-hundred- thousand men Iabordailyinfor- estand millto provide America with lumber. Be- hind them are thirty thousand saw mills and ten billionms of invested capital. P e FOUR MEN HELD GUILTY OF DYNAMITING TROLLEY | Former Traction Employes Con- victed of Blowing Up Track Iast August, Wrecking Bxcursionists. | By the Associated Press. , BUFFALO, N. Y., January 22— verdict of -guilty was returned last night in the cases of four former In- ternational Rafitray Traction car men, indicted for blowing up troliey car tracks near here on August 17, 1922. ‘The convicted men are Francis RJIHY and Healey Breeze of Buffalp and Wil- liam H. Smith and Willlam L. Vandell of Lockport. Thirty-five persons were injured when a three-car train of Phil- adelphia excursioniats ran into the| blown-up tracks. The convicted men will appeal. Twenty-two men have been Indicted for alleged implication in the dynamit- | ing. They Inciude three officials of the local carmen’s union and. State. Senator Robert C. Lacey. . 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