Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1926, Page 10

i - RUM RUNNER TELLS} 0 HUGE EARNINGS | €. A Smith, Trlal Witness, Got $40,000 in Two Years. Once Ran Munitions. * By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 14.~The life | story of Charles Augustis Smith, for. mer rum runner, as told in Federal Court during the trial of a case in- | volving alleged $40,000,000 importa- | tions in wartime. Cross-examined as one of thé Gov- | ernment’s witnesses against William V. Dwyer and nine others, accused I of heading a rum syndicate, Smith told yesterday how, in 1916, he earned $40 a week as quartermaster of a Rus- . sian vessel running munitions past the German submarine patrols. When he became a rum runner his weekly | remuneration rose to $400 and he :mu:h! a limousine and hired a chaut- eur. Smith said that at the age of d7 i he was a mess boy on an.oll unkcr ~ A few days before Thai nksgivh 24, he‘married a Brooklyn girl uld \" an hour later sailed to get a supply |' of liquor from rum row. At the re- quest of the girl's parents the mar. ! riage was annulled, their complaint | alleging that he was drunk when he married the girl. Although his earnings in two years &S & rum runner were approximately $40,000, Smith added, he never paid an income tax, because he thought he must be a “voting citizen” to'do 80, and did not vote. | TESTS TO FILL SEVERAL U. S. POSTS ANNOUNCED : Variety of Positions Now Open. Medical Officer Is Sought at . Salary of $5,200 Annually. The Civil Service Commission today announced open competitive examina- tions to fill vacancies in the following positions: Junior meteorologist, Weather Bu- reau, Department of Agriculture, at $1,860 a year. Junior, assistant, associate ' and senior medical officers and medical officer for duty in Washington and in the field service, at qptrance salaries ranging from $1,860,° with quarters, heat and light furnished, to $5,200 a year. Associate architect at $3,000 a year and assistant architect at $2,400-a year, in the Supervising Architect's office, Treasury Department. Teacher ot home economics, Ab- mentary, $1,200 a year; teacher home economics, junior high uchool $1,440 a year, and teacher of home economics, senior high school, $1,560 | , & year. Furnished quarters, heat and light free of cost. Indian service. Transitman, in the General Land Office service at $1,860 a year. Chemical, mechanical and metal- Siates. Naval. Acsdemy, ' Annspole tes Naval lemy, ), Mad., at $4.32 per diem. Assistant warehouse examiner, in the Bureau of Agricultural Eco partment of Agriculture, at $2,400 i .ghu tographer of vaslous ‘grades, for duty in the Bureau of Mines, Pitts- burgh, Pa., and in the service, Wi ing from $1.320 Full . informatf fro of the United States’ Civil Service Commission, 1724 F street. 500 ORPHANS GUESTS AT BEACH OUTING TODAY Annual Frolic of Washington Gas Light Co. Workers Features Varied Athletic Program. ~Five hundred Washington orphans today are the guests of the Employes’ Beneficial Association of the Washing- ton Gas Light Co. on its thirty-eighth annual outing at Chesa, e Beach. The orphans are from St. .Ynhnl St. Joseph’s, St. Vincent's, the Washing. ton City Orphanage and the Jewish Foster Home. They are being treated to fefreshments and amusements. An athletic program will be present- ed this afternoon, including races for fat men and women, a’grasshopper race, a peanut race, a threelegged race and a sack race. Late in the afternoon there will be a Charleston contest. Arrangements are in the hands of a committee composed of C. M. Deener, chairman; John P. O'Neill, entertain- ment; James E. Talbert, llhletkl Mat- thew Donohoe, tickets; W. E. Larkins, programs, and Charles E. Lynch, + . Charleston contest. | Officers of the assoclation are: Lewis 8. Hart, president; C. M. Deener, sec- gretary, and George M. 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