Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1926, Page 4

RUM TRIAL BRINGS Rival Counsel Use Bitter; Epithets in Johnson-Shields Case Argument. Epithets flew thick and fast today in the arguments of counsel before in Criminal { at the trial of Maj. James n, former attorney in the n unit, and Daniel J. Shields stown, charged with con spiracy to \i the prohibition act by bribing clerks to zive advance in formation in connection” with applica tions for breweries in Pennsylvania in 1 hi Easl Maj. Johnson. Says Client Was Framed. The lawyer declared the agents were scound for “framing” his client and luring him into commission of acts wnich brought ut the prose cutlon. They were thieves, he said when 11 ¢ wrung from pe th Y in - two pints of whis r purpose and the - $30 for a luncheon or highballs W re con- 4 zed by the law- dinner, sumed. Jer as The attorney called attention to an instructfon granted by the court that if the jury finds the scheme wa$ hatched by the agents, and that the defendants were lured into commis- 4 sion of crime, they must acquit. He quoted Scripture and deck it were better for these they had a millstone about their und were thrown Into the Poton where, he said. they might 2 proper food for eels Rival Counsel Hits Back. Assistant United 1 of the accused had | by the name “Fifty- and ha 1l incidents the Guovernment which he made them ad “lies” and asked the acqui client as the vietim of a * me- Atto: v Percy Allen Rose of town will speak for Shie sistant United States Attorn will make the closing argumy case may xo to the fury afternoo ed out seve timony of iate this Transferred to Fort Leavenworth. Army officers at the Army War Col- lege, Washington Barracks. have been transferred to the General Stuff School t Leavenworth, Kans. s instructors as follows: . Robert McC. Beck, jr., and ller, Cavalry, and Majs. Wil- llam T. Carpenter and John P. Smith, Coast Artillery, and James M. Church- . Drain and John H. Stutes- ntry The lawyer point- | ¢ b [ THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy to- rain; minimum temperature tonight near but slightly above freezing; moderate southwest shift#g to north- - . A1 nd—Cloudy tonight and to- morrow, with light rain this after- noon and tonight: not much change in _temperature: fresh southwest shifting to northe: Virginia—Cloudy, proh: rain tonight and’ tomorrow; slightly mer in ex'reme east portion to- esh southwest winds. Records for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m i midnight, 35; 4 a. , 44, rometer—4 p.m : midnight, 30 light Lm. today. ame date last yeur— lowest, 41 Tide Tables. (Furnished by United St: and Geodetic Survs tide, 4 m. tide, 10:44 am. emperature Highest. 58: es Coast and 23 and 11:10 p.n. Tomorrow—Low tide, 5 6:15 p.m.; high tide, 11:3; 11:38 p.m. a.m. and . and The Sun and Moon. 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After bidding farewell to his closest friends at a dinner at the Cosmos Club, Dr. Willam M. Mann set out last night on the first leg of kis jour- | ney to the jungles of Africa, where he | a giraffe or two and | some with which to com- plete the minfature animal kingdom at_the Zoo Park here. r. Mann, smothered under a thou- to bring back rare spe- from plants or two in sand requ cies of nature’s wonder: will stop for a day rk to complete arrangements nd will then embark on the Levi- athan for England, where the Smith- Sonfan-Chrysler expedition will make op on foreign soil. Another ¢ in London, and then on to to rog at the Cosmos Club night was tendered by Vietor E torney and amateur Mr. Evans has presented g with a number of rare specimens himself, among them being the blue bear, which is the only one i itivity and a gen- A chim- e other Jvans. e v e per: at the dinner s followed rome scientific call on n expedition similar to the one Dr. 1 is heading. inn went from the dinner to dinner eral favorite of panze contr N long enough to com plete arrangements with the British which controls the sec- expedition hopes to nd rhinoceroses, for the hunt along the S st past,” reputed to be one of the most humid places on earth. The guests included Dr. T. I. Palmer of the Blological Survey; Dr. A. K. Fisher, also of the survey; Dr. Thomas L. Snyder of the Bureau of ntative H. emple of Pennsylvania, S. A. Rohwer of the { Entomology; B. H. Swales, curator of ornithol- - at the National Museum; J. M. 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Ave. and g FOOT COMFORT g Via the Thomson-Crooker 17 SLAIN IN RIOTING - AFTER CHINA YIELDS TO POWERS’ EDICT (Continued from First Page.) by customs authorities, must be dis- continued. 7 Tokio advices say that Japan has decided to demand from China apol- ©0gy, punishment of guilty and in- demnification of the wounded for the firing upon two Japanese destroyers by national army troops in the Pei River last week, when one Japanese officer was killed and several Jap- anese were wounded. If China fails to accept responsibility, it is Japan's intention to take the matter ap before the World Court Apparently river trafic hetween Taku and Tlentsin has been reopened in part at least, as French and Ital- ian gunboats went out over the T: Bar this morning from T the American gunhoat Asheville went to Taku from Tientsin, which is 37 miles up the Pel River. The customs hoats are standing by at Taku in readiness to yestore the leading lights in tho channel. FENGTIENS TIENTSIN March 18 (®.—It is seml-officially announced that the Kuominchun (national people’s and the Fengtien troops of ) Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian dictator, have accepted the demands of the powers that they cease their warlike operations around Taku Bar in the | Peil River. EVOLUTIONIST RESIGNS. GALESBURG, 11, March 18 (@), Dr. George W. Hunter, author of| “Civic Biology,” a text book on evo-| lution, and other bool has resigned | as head of, the biology department of | Knox College, here. The text book was used by John T. Scopes in in-| structing a high school class at Day- | ton, Tenn., previous to his trial for | violation of the State anti-evolution law. Dr. Hunter sald that he had re- signed so that he could devote more time to writing. He added that he was considering positions at Pomons College, Claremont, Washington, D. C. mit him to do 18 A SCYEEN THURSDAY, SAY ARMY DOMINATES CIVIC AFFAIRS IN D. C. 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