Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1926, Page 24

LEITER SAYS RANCH - POLICY WAS SOUND ‘i'lrrigation and Beet Sugar | “Projects Defended by Estate Trustee. New Apartments ihe most con vencent and prettiest rooms in Washington Open Until 9 P.M. : 1460 Irving ' Mt. Pleasant ‘ 'GINGER TIGER °X%: NONE BETTER | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 4.—Joseph Leiter told of his own sound business judg- | yesterday, which included a history ! A. G. HERRMANN | of the irrigation of Western farm e Jands and surveyed the beet sugar in- i}0 Tenth St. S.E. _ | dustry from Wyoming to Cuba. McCormick Medical Glasses ¥ Colloge Eves Examined Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONE; Eyesight Specialist Phone Main 321 409410 Mclachlen Rlig. Toth and € Sts. N.W ness stand in the suit of his sister, the Countess of Suffolk, to remove him as trustee of the Levi Z. Leiter estate for alleged mismanagement. Erection of the Lake de Smet reser- irrigation purposes, which the count- ess charged lost the estate a million dollars, Leiter saild, was approved in 1919 by the other trustees, who gave their consent to the erection of three grain elevators, also attacked by the countess. He testified the reservolr location was bought for $20,000 after an ex- haustive survey. in spite of an origi- nal demand of $500,000 by its owner. Leiter said the most profitable dis- position of the ranch lands was to divide them into small tracts worth from $250 to $300 an acre. The ranch. He defended the Leiter sugar heet | interests, one of his hobbies. Asked about sliding-scale contracts for sugar gambling propositions. enter in any such agreement. Thev give the grower all of the losses and the refiner all of the profits.” make?” he was asked. “A flat contract,” Leiter snapped back, “depending upon nothing. 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