Evening Star Newspaper, February 29, 1924, Page 10

CHARGES ILLEGAL OUSTING OF CAIN Attorney Explains Massa- chusetts Society Dispute to Organization Head. Representative Dallinger of Mas- Bachusetts, president of the Massa- chusetts State Society, has been In- formed by Henry W. Davis, attorney for George L. Cain, recently expelled as vice president and member of the society, that the action of the organi- zatlon was “unwarranted and illegal.” Stating that the soclety’s action has cost Mr. Cain “the loss of honorable and lucrative employment,” Mr. Davis urged that Mr. Cain be restored to full and regular good standing in the soclety, adding that “to this end I @m addressing you this communica- tion instead of advising Mr. Cain to Tesort to another and obvious course for his vindication.” Holding Mr. Caln lable for expen- ditures amounting to $1,090 in con- nection with exercises held here last Year when trees were planted at the Lincoln Memorial for thirty-nine Massachusetts citles, the society in January gave Mr. Cain thirty days in which to return these funds. The expenditures were made without authority, the society claimed, and when the funds were not forthcoming at the end of the thirty-day period, Mr. Cain was expelled. * Grounds Summarized. Mr. Davis' angument, embodied in fve closely typewritten pages, was built around the fact that the gen- eral entertalnment committee, ap- ointed to promote the celebration ast May, was within its purview in- dependent of the soclety, and that it did not need authority from the ex- ecutive or any other committee to carry on its work. The letter of the socretary to Mr. Caln stating that the expenditures of the $1,090 “were un- uuthorized by the executive commit- Out of abundant caution,” con- cluded Mr, Davis, “I summarize the &rounds of my advice, as follows: “The general entertainment com- mitteo created, as above stated, with &uthority to increase its personnel and change Its name, was an Instru- mentality which, while adjunct to the society proper, was for the purpose of its creation 'and operations in sub- stance and effect an organization so specifically created and for such a specific purpose as to be within its purview independent of the soclety, its object and its mechanism in ordi- nary. “The executive officers of the com- mittee, und especially its independ- ent secretary and independent treas- urer, were not subject to the super- vision of the exccutive committee provided by the by-laws of the so- ciety. Field Exclusively Own. “The operations of the general en- tertainment committee were in a fleld exclusively its own, and as respects the principal event concerned having an objective all of the operations of the committee toward which and tributary thereto were, while they were belng carried on, recognized by &ll as within the exciusive jurisdic- tion and control of the committee. “To the contributions received and the expenditures made by the com- mittee, the treasurer of the soclety proper, in the light of the specific esignation and description of his duties, could have no relation what- ever; and to repeat as a corollary, | the executive committee (assuming that there was one, which, as above stated, 1 understand to be contrary to the fact) could likewise have no relation thereto. “The expenditures, and each of them, for which it has been under- taken to call Mr. Cain to account were authorized and approved by the Eeneral entertainment committee, the only body having suthority in rela- tion thereto. “No charges which he might be called upon to answer were made agalust or presented to Mr. Cain be- fore the purported act of his pre- teuded expulsion. “The notice of your secretary in his communication’ to Mr. Cain of January 10, 1924, that the expendi- tures In question were unauthorized by the executive committee was and is Impertinent, in that, as already shown, the executive committee, if existing, could have no relation SMALL’S Florists & Landscape Contractors Formerly Located at 15th & H Streets Now Located NEW BUILDING Connecticut -at DUPONT CIRCLE “THE JATAKAMALA” OPENS MARDI GRAS ‘l'nle; of Buddha’s Lives Pictured in Brilliant Parade at New Orleans. By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, February 29.— “The Jatakamala,” tales of Buddha”s lives, supplied the theme for the brilliant parade last night of the HOLD LIQUOR AND AUTOS. | INTERNAL REVENUE Police Arrest Robert Harrison and sHows BIG INcREAsE Nathan Gendleman. Six gallons of corn and five gallons s of rye whisky, product of nearby|$1,461,646,185 Collected Through moonshine plants, together With two automoblles, were sclzed last night| January 31, $183,879,496 Above by the police. The rye whisky was . in the automobile of Robert Harrison, Previous Year. thirty-two, 1123 New Jersey avenue northwest, while the corn was being Total internal revenue collections transported in the machine of Nathan |{in the seven months ending January Gendleman, thirty-elght, 1115 6th [31, were $1,461,646,165, an increase of street northeast. \ $183,879,496 over the corresponding Harrlson was arrested in Northeast |Dériod ending January 31, last year. Knights of Momus, first pageant o{TW,,mngm, by Motor Cycle Police- [Commissioner Blair announced today the annual Mardi Gras carnival. Sev- enteen gorgeous floats bearing Momus and his knights in costume, depict- ing characters in the tales, and ac- companied by richly caparisoned horsemen and hundreds of flambeau bearers, told the story of the mytho- logical life of the Aslatic god. The floats were the work of artl- sans who all their lives, year in and year out, have built and decorated them for the major carnival organ- izations here, for with the end of the carnival designers immedlately plan for the next and in a few wecks the floatmakers will be at work on the pieces for the 1925 event. Momus was aboard the first float, which symbolized hospitality _and truth. The title float, “The Jata- kamalia,” was next in ‘line, followed by the remaining fifteen, each tell- ing a story of the life of Buddha. As usual, Canal street, in the busi- ness_district; St. Charles_street and St. Charles ‘avenue to Washington avenue, a line of march nearly four miles fn length, were given over to Momus, and the pageant moved through a sea of humanity down & pathway barely wide enough to uc- commodate it.” The annual ball of Momus and his knights followed. The Momus pageant opened the pe- riod of Kayety of the carnival season, which will “continue through the night of March 4. Four more pag- eants, those of Proteus, Comus, the Drulds and Rex, will follow Monday night, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. — thereto thereof. “Your secretary’s notice in his com- munication of January 24, 1924, to Mr. Cain, that any further action would be taken at the next meeting of the society, so far from indicating that such action would be of the character purported to have been taken, was in effect to the contrary, and a distinct intimation that whatever action might then be taken would be in the direction of further consideration of the matter, which obviously was Mr. Cain's due in view of the situ- ation presented. “And, finally, the action of the society’ at the adjourned meeting of January §, did not and could not put the members of the soclety on notice that either at the next succeeding and ordinary regular meeting of the so- clety, or at any other time, so grave an action as the expulsion and inci- dental humiliation, not to say dis- grace, of one of Its members was contemplated to be take: or authority in respect man Leo Murray, who has intercepted | that income taxes made up about 60 nr"nny liq;mrvlgde‘r‘\ m?(cm;lea "::l[e{mf per cent of the total, receipts from that section of the city from stan and nearby pofnts, Gendleman was that source amounting to $860,924,- arrested_in South Washington by 407, an increase of approximately Lieut. Holmes and several other |$150,000,000 over like payments in the members of the fourth precinct com- | came period a vear ago. d. A Tobacco taxes in the seven months =— covered by the commissioner's report ARMY GETTING RECRUITS. |were $191,735,863, more than eleven million dollars greater than was col- lected in #ie seven months ending January 31, 1923. The smail clgarette continued to carry the largest share of the to- bacco assessments during the period. for the Army is improving in a most| Comparative figures on luxury taxes satisfactory manner, it i3 deelared at | indicated that the public spent more the War Department. The enlisted |on jewelry during the last Christmas strength is now 113,000, and Maj. Gen. | season than it did in the Christmas R. C. Davls, adjutant general, expects | period of 19 1 _to, meach tiie: full authorized | totaled $14,1 strength of 125,000 by June. . About{months considered, an Increase of 34 per cent of the men now discharg- | $2,257,836 over the seven months ed re-enlist, as against a percentage |ending January 31, 1923. of 24 last year. . Admissions ‘taxes also increased, The present rate of enlistment |$44,107,730 being collected between shows a nét gain over losses by dis- [last July 1 and January 31, as com- charge and all other causes of ap- |pared with $38,593,465 in the same proximately 2,700 per month. The [ months of 1922-23. air service continues to be the most ‘War Department Reports Increase in Enlistments. Recent figures show that recruiting The jewelry taxes 78 during the seven popular branch and Hawail and the Pacific coast the most popular assign- | k| ments. | - Leaves Woman's Bureau. Mrs. Loulsa B. Sank, welfare worker in Virginia prior to June 3, C. Van Winkle, today severed her con- nection with ‘the local bureau. 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John Scott, the executive officer of the regiment, acted as umplre of the game, Following the maneuver, the officers were told of the regimental plans for the general mobilization of the Army of the United States in September. Each company commander will work cu’ his own problems. Following this_discus- sion, the officers were told of plans for the ‘coming summer training camp at Camp Meade, Md., by Col. Scott. MzJ. J. G. McGuire, thebattalion commander, has been reported®sick. Col. Leroy Herron, president of the District_of Columbia_department, Re- ' serve Officers’ Association, sent ' word to the officers last night that the next meeting of the department would be | held on March 6, in the new Interior Department building. Lieut. Col. Charles E. Kilbourne of the Army War College will be the speaker of the evening. Jie will talk on practical sugg-stions mobilization. During the world w Col. 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