Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1926, Page 5

e SIEGAL ABANDONS | [on coee ot menes } NEWD, A, R HALL | STAFFORD APPEAL Attorney Admits Court Was Right in Dismissing Jury in Criminal Case. ‘Atiorney Abner Siegal today aban- doned his appeal to the District Court of Appeals to test the propriety of the action of Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford in dismissing a panel of durors last month after they had ac- quitted a woman against whom the evidence for the prosecution was very strong. Siegal declined to submit the case of is client, Nunnie Campbell, colored, charged with a violation of the Varrison anti-narcotic act to the re- maining members of the panel on the im that they were intimidated by the action of the court in dismissing their fellow jurors. Justice Stafford refused to excuse the remaining mem- bers of the panel and when the woman was convicted and sentenced to serve tive vears in the penitentiary, Siegal woted an appeal. Admits Court’s Right. Justice Stafford, in overruling a mo- tion for a new trial, set forth his rea- for the dismissal of the panel, and 'r consideration of the authority became convinced that ted within his discretion son wing his appeal. s action 4l was followed by the dis- <sal of six other counts in the in- tment. by the United States attor- Siegal had made similar objection ome of the panel from Justice Stafford’s court serving in Justice Bailey's court in the case of Malinda Williams, also colored, charged with ~violating the narcotic law. The law- ver withdrew his appeal in that ‘case so and Justice Bailey reduced the entence of 10 years’ imprisonment to @ vears and a fine of $2,000. Would Have Set Aside Verdiet, Tustice Stafford, in explanation of his action, said the evidence was so convincing that if it had been a civil case he would have felt con- wirained to set aside the verdict which had been announced in a “loud end_hoisterous manner.” ““Thi aid Justice Stafford, ny court can the importance of free and untrammeled action and deliberation on the part of the jury, but it feels also that it i bound to take notice of manifest #nd glaring failure on the part of the iury to consider evidence and to take notice of unmistakable signs of pas- sion and prejudic e OFFICIALS PROPOSE PLAYING FACILITIES FOR OLDER YOUTHS (Continued from First:Page.) conduct_unhecoming a young cltizen. In order to help the plan get head- way, Maj. Grant has authorized the wise of funds of the joint welfare serv- ive to provide facilities for the young players, such as preparing the ground, marking off the space for the various imes, providing backstops for base ball diamonds and the like. Until the clubs themselves get well started, it is p ible also that some of the fund may be used for the hiring of evailable lots at a nominal rental. It the hope, of course, that some pub- lic-spirited citizen will assist in this movement to organize the young players and allow the use of lots for the purpose. Tdea Born of Complaints. The idea was born of a number of fomplaints received in the parks office from people who said that voung boys gmbout this age were cutting up some ©of the Tederal reservations in the city by plaving their rough games on them. Investigation showed that these voungsters had for the most part been barred from the regular playgrounds because their rough and noisy sports endangered the smaller children. In fact, there are requests on file in the office from teachers in public schools hear some of the Federal reservations paking that permission be granted for bors of this age to use the reserva- jone. The public parks office &pace in the eity which ©d over for this purpose without de. valuable parking as and “foro evolved the plan of organ- izing boy lubs. Hoth Maj. Grant rsons are quite the idea and are § to give every possible aid at thelr conunand in order to give the movement. z 'd start. Capt. Par- sons said he realized that boys of this age have a lot of energy which they must get rid of and there is no place for them. If their play is not controled in some manner, they grad- ually g0 up into the alleys and by- places, constantly dodging the police, with the result that their future cit- szenship is to some extent dulled. Under the system which has been planned, he pointed out, the boys will yot be supervised to any extent, but would have "home rule” in their re- spective territories. He believed this would result in making them better citizens, and at the same time would not keep them constantly dodging the police for infractions of varfous ordi- nances. The plan will be put into effect just Bs soon as the first lot can be obtained @nd the first club organized. Capt. Parson says he is ready to assist in getting the movement started, and with the co-operation of the District playgrounds department expects it will provide a long-felt need for the young boys of this in the Capital City. has no 1 be turn over Selected as Arctic Surgeon. Lieut. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, 1. 8. N retired, has selected Dr. PDaniel O'Brien of John Hopkins Uni- versity to be medical officer on the forthcoming aeral Arctic expedition. Dr. O'Brien is a surgeon as well as & physician and has had previous experience in far Northern latitudes. ENT ] YOUR PIAND WOREHS 1110 G EST, 1879 MRS. EDMUND J. BREN ANCIENT STYLE SHOW PLANS COMPLETED Entertainment Tomorrow for Bene- fit of Day Nurseries Sched- uled at Hall of Nations. Plans have been completed for the presentation of “A Style Show of 2,000 Years Ago” and a dramatic sketch, “A Day With the Water Carrier,” to be given in the hall of nations of the Washington Hotel at 2 o'clock to- morrow afternoon, as a benefit for the Myra McCoy and the Holy Family day nurseries. ‘The program is under the auspices of a committee of women interested in the two institutions composed of Mrs. Edmund J. Brennan, chalrman; Miss Wymond Bradbury, Mrs, Min- nigerode Andrews, Mrs. Willilam L. Dunlop and Mrs. Nanuette B. Paul, who is directing the performance. Those taking part wre Miss Mabel Owen Wilcox, Miss William E. Byrant, Miss Ada Townsend of the Shakes- peare Club, Mrs. Charles J. Morris of the Readers’ Club, Miss Alise Heaven, Rev. Hen! Durant, Paul Stark- weather, Colin F. Cameron, Miss Mar- garet Louise O'Brien, Miss Bea Hay- den and Miss zabeth Hamilton. “The increase in the number of children to be cared for by the nurse- ries and the increase in overhead ex- penses brings a problem to those responsible for their operation which necessitates aid from outside,” Mrs. Brennan said today. Donations, she said, are being received by Charles Doing, treasurer of the fund, from those who cannot attend the matinee. Ushers will be Mrs. Daniel L. Bor. den, chairman; Miss May Taylor, Mi: Ellen Crenshaw, Mi: Anne Butler, Mrs. Edward Morris and Mrs. David Gadllard. JOSEPH PAUL ESTATE IS SET AT $865,000 Sons Named as Principal Heirs of Veteran Realtor in Will Dated, 1924. Joseph Paul, vetel realtor, left an estate valued at $865,000, accord- ing to the petition of Willlam K. Quinter, who is named as executor for the probate of his w dated ovember 14, and modified b codicil of J 13, 1926. S rities of $850,000 constitute the bulk of the estate, while the remalning $15,000 is In other personal property. effects are bequeathed to Mr. ¥ 's two sons In equal shares. A legacy of $10,000 js given to Mrs. Frank D. Paul, his daughter-in-law, and the income on a trust fund of Miss F ,000 is left to his , for life. A of Capi made to who is given & ho codicil of the Riggs two sons I ational Bank. Paul and Frank Dean Paul, are each given a legary 000, and an allowanee of $300 & month during the period of the administration of the estate. The residue of the estate is bequeathed to the Riggs Natlonal Bank and Wil liam K. Quinter, as tru in trust for the two sons for to recelve an income of $500 during the entire period, together with payments out of principal of $25,000 in five years, $50,000 In 10 years, and the balance of the principal and accumulated income in 15 years. month 10 BE BEGUN SOON Present Contributions Make Start Possible Year Earlier Than Planned. So popular has been the project of the Daughters of the American Rev- olution to erect a new auditorium here that voluntary contributions have reached proportions which per- mit construction of the hall to be- gin almost a year earlier than had been planned, and ground for the structure will be broken soon after the next Continental Congress of the sociely meets, on April 19. Two novel plans of financing have been worked out, both of which have had a tremendous appeal to the pa- triotic men and women of the coun- try. The first of these is the sale of boxes and chairs in the new audi- torium, those buying them being en- titled in turn to name them for some person dear to them, either living or dead, or of Revolutionary fame. From every section of the country ap- peals have come for permission to name one or more of the chairs and boxes. The second plan holds less senti- mental appeal, but will bring in the bulk of the capital needed. It con- sists of a direct sale of 6 per cent bonds, the bonds secured by the so- clety's famous Memorfal Continental Hall. The new auditorium, to be known as Constitution Hall, will oc- cupy a site directly behind Memortal Continental Hall. When plans were begun at the last Continental Congress for the erection of the new auditorfum it was belleved that construction could not begin be- fore the Spring of 1927. Enough money has been realized through the sule of chairs and boxes and bonds, however, for ground to be broken jmmediately, and those in charge have determined to lose no time in pushing the project through to com- pletion immediately. Eea— e 14 CHANGES URGED IN MODEL TRAFFIC CODE AT SESSIONS (Continued from First Page.) tance to all of them. I think we must have proper standardization of traffic laws, proper administration of auto- mobile regulation. But we just as surely must have the education of the public, and we must arouse the whole Nation to a spirit of responsibility and a genuine instinct for the rights of others, whether these others be in au- tomobiles or on foot.” Designation of May 1. already ob- served nationally as Child Health day. as No Accident day for children throughout the United States was urged before the conference today by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root of the American Child Health Association. New York to Lead. New York City, according to Mrs. Root, will lead the country in the project. The New York commis- sioner of police, George V. McLaugh- lin, has pledged himself, she sald, to appeal personally to every policeman on his force to make May day safe for children. Dr. Louis I. Harrls, commissioner of health, who is leading the Child Health day demonstration in New York City, has called upon the de- partment of education to warn par- ents and their children about traffic danger: “Last year in America traffic killed 7,000 children, 2 number equal to 20 per cent of the entire number of men killed in battle in the United States Army in the World War,” Mrs. Root pointed out. it any wonder that we of the American Child Health Assoclation feel the futility of saving thousands of chiliren from disease only to have their lives ground out beneath the wheels of motors?” Dr. Henry N. Bundensen, Chicago commissioner of health, will ask Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls and other or- ganizations of young people to aid the Police Department of that city in accident prevention on May 1. Every large city in the country will be or- ganized on similar lines, and at mid- night on May day a telegraphic roll all of cities will be held by the Amer- fran Child Health Assocfation, of which Secretary of Commerve Hoover is president, to determine which cit) has been safest for children during the day, PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U S. Treasury 1408 H 8T. N. W. in[c———=|o|———|g]c——la]l——u<x| WANTED A SHOP FOREMAN for Repairs and Service to Ford Cars Only Excellent opportunity for a man to enter a progressive organization. Apply in writing, stating experience, age, and where now emplo; STEUART MOTOR CO. 141 12th St. NE. WEDNESDAY, School Children Thrilled as “Smoky” Stages Fire Scenes to Show Hazards ‘Through co-operation of school offi- clals the District Fire Department and the United States Chamber .of Commerce hundreds of Washington school children gathered today at the Thomson, Park View and Janney Schools to obtain education in fire prevention through witnessing a hilarfous sketch presented by *“‘Smoky, the Fire Clown. “Smoky,” who in private life is Harry K. Rogers, i8 here to attend a sesslon of the Natlonal Fire Waste Council of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Tomorrow he will en- tertain children in the first six grades at the Cooke, Powell, Mott and Cleve- land Schools. Racing on the stage of the school auditorium with a miniature fire en- glne. “Smoky"” captlvates the young ones from the start. He then pro- ceeds to demonstrate the hazard of playing with matches, of lighting bunches of leaves and tampering with DR. WILSON CALLED “LIAR” IN HOUSE (Continued from First Page.) the chief duties of that office before prohibition were to walk members up and down and get the drunks to their homes, while now it was directing strangers. ““That is the effect of prohibition that I have seen in Congress my- eIf,’ said Dr. Wilson.” Calls Roll of Members. Mr. O'Connor demanded proof and called by names as witnesses “the distinguished Speaker, the grand old young man of the House, Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin; Mr. Butler of Pennsyl- vania, Mr. Pou of North Carolina, Mr. Haugen of Towa, Mr. Garner of ‘Texas, Mr. Bell of Georgia, Mr. Garrett of Tennessee, Mr. Madden of Illlnois and Mr. Burton of Ohlo, to stand up and testify whether this cleric cor- rectly reports conditions existing in those days before the coming of the eighteenth amendment.” In tribute to Congress, Mr. O'Con- nor sald, “it would be a horrible dis- illusfonment to me and many young men here if such a charge were true. When boys, long before we ever dreamed that we would be so highly honored as to be permitted to be a member of the Congress of the United States, we revered and honored the distinguished men who held that high office. We eespected them for their conduct and their characters and their sobrief 'We longed to emulate them. And today we love to look upon their memories with the same veneration, with the same confident belief in their high ideals. Are we laboring under a delusion? Were they drunkards whom the sergeant-at-arms led to great office which we now hold been so dishonored in the past? Answer my four boys and the boys of the other membexs here—those boys who now look up- ward at the office held by their fathers and firmly believe with all the faith of American youth .hat that high place has never been sullied. “Do you and 1 now sit in the places vacated only seven vears ago by drunken derelict Must Meet Issue. After having pronounced Dr. Wil son’s statement a “lie,” Mr. O'Connor continued uch is the spirit that pervades this great question with which we are confronted today. On both sides we have deliberate and ma- liclous exaggeration No great problem wa such device. S and libel of both the living und dead men never argued for a great cause, and let not discount the importance and magnitude of this problem of com- plete prohibitlon. The question with us. It is paramount—Olympian. It {8 a fact and not a theory whether we be willing or must meet ft. Mr. O’Connor declared the prohibi- tion question “is the greatest question which has confronted our Nation. Bigger than slave 1 answer, Ye: That great question touched only comparatively small portion of our people intls while the all-con- suming topic of the hour sits at the table of every home in our land. ““The great question of 70 years ago developed great men. This is a time for big men, for serious-minded men to step forward and grapple with this problem. It been buffooned, bur- lesqued, hippodromed long enough. It kerosene and gasoline. He then tells them of the two kinds of matches, the dangerous kind and the, safe kind. Setting before the children a huge clock, *“Smoky” impresses upon the children that there is a fire in the United States every minute of the day and that 7 out of 10 fires are due to carelessness. He also shows them how faulty chimneys cause fires and how they must urge their mothers not to let an oily mop stay in a closet, as it might cause spontaneous com- bustion. In conclusion “Smoky” takes care to explain to the school children how to turn in an alarm and how to conduct themselves in case of fire. He made it plain they must not get excited and Just telephone there is a fire, but be possessed, and calmly give the loca- tion of the fire. Throughout his in- structions he interspersed a number of antics to relieve his talk from the realm of a lectur 1S been debated chiefly by clowns and ers. It has been woven into a garment of State's rights, of morals, of health, of happiness, of crime and ruin. No such questions are involved. The sole question involved leads to the foundations of our Government. Can this thing be in America? Does :t \;lul‘a_te the traditions of our coun- Ty Concentration of efforts to modify the prohibition law is contemplated by wets in both House and Senate, and a meeting of the wet group has been called for tonight to discuss plans. The proposed arrangement for joint action will include measures for presenting the cause of the wets at the forthcoming Senate hearings. Representative Celler, Democrat, New York, in a statement today as- fled Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti- aloon League for his utterances against United States District At- torney Buckner of New York, who has advocated a referemdum on pro- hibition in that State. “Buckner has honestly given his opinion,” Mr, Celler said, *of the breakdown of prohibition enforce- ment and has made prohibition look ridiculous. Wheeler prohibits any ridicule of prohibition and is drunk with his power over a lot of maudlin women and mawkish prohibitionists.” Asserting that the 12 days to be allotted to hearings on modification of the prohibition law by a Senate subcommittee would not do more than scratch the surface, Senator Edware of New Jerse! esterday proposed “a full, complete and com- prehensive” investigation into en- forcement of the dry law. The dry law also came in for an- other attack when Senator Bruce of Maryland made a brief speech on the floor of the Senate, in which he re- iterated the assertion that arrests for drunkenness have Increased. Three Killed in Crash. 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Rex Mec- Ilpone was murdered by bandits near the same place March 14, and E. H. Heidenkamp, who was with him, was seriously wounded. The ranch of M. Feeley, at Acamparo, in the state of Guanajuato, was ralded Sunday night by 25 armed men. According to the latest reports re- ceived here the mayor of the town of Amatlan has notified the governor of the state of Nayarit that Hall was carried off by bandits, who later de- manded 6,000 pesos as ransom. He wag taken from his mining property. Another dispatch says that Gen. Ma tias Ramos, military commandant in Nayarit, went to Ixtlan personally to investigate Hall's death. The general is said to have notifled President les that Hall left the town of Tetitian on a railroad velocipede, and later was found dead at Ixtlan, apparently from two wounds on the head made by stones. DEATH DECLARED ACCIDENT. Hall Killed by Fall of Rocks, Mother Says. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., March 24 (P).—Mrs. Bertha M. 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