Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1926, Page 4

i GOULDS FIND WAY - TOENDLITIGATION i ) H ESemement Te:ms for Ten-| i Year Legal Row Over Estate ! ! i to Be Given to Courts. ! NEW YORK, be the first t 10 memb f Jay builder, w { as to their ¢ which has { $82,000.000 Desire nounced seimls me veurs, s of the famf Gould “stipul: which will end if approval is the Su 1 details ccorded the settlement preme Court of Chancery Court of Such approval, signers explained, is requisite hecaus: addition to the adult inheritor several infants to benefit agreement. \ulnt‘ uf \'\huln ith thetr 1 by § Jersey Follows 0'Gorman Pl In general, the agreem: the basis for settlement contained in the November, 1925, opinion of former Senator James O'Gorman as referee in the accounting action first instituted in 1916 Under the opinfon, the four ac ing trustees, who were held re ble for estate losses of $50,000), pay $20,000,000 to the six trets, creafed in the Gould will, and to Frank Jay Gould and the Duchesse | de Talleyrand (Anpa Gould), the only two life beneficiarles who were not trustees, Tt wvas the objections of the two latter children of Jay Gould that forced the long legal fight azainst the i H i t, for the | ! cor tuand M follows | THE EVENING ’MA’I'HER-ON TOUR IN INTEREST PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE IPark .Service Ditector to Boost Commg Session in Three Countries. Plans Study of. Roads With View to U. S. Extension. Stephen National P . Muther, director & Service, left W on a trip which uatemala and San Salvador iu tl st of the Pan-Pacific Conference held in Honol Mr. Mather will n countrics. sending delegat: Honoluln. He will act for Secretary of the Interior Work. Tt is desired to muke the Pan-Puc Conference this year truly representa- tive of all the countries bordering the Pucific or with interests in that ocean, The United States will be represented Secretary Work, John J. Tig missloner of education; ood Mead, com! or of reclamation, Mather. In passing through Mather will strive to get knowledge of the scénery of that cour as the Mexian g building program 1 tensive, roads will be constructed .e. Mexicy n-\r(lcular with hu ]Mrk to- pfill( {McDERMOTT FACES LIFE IN MURDER OF EDITOR MELLETT| four trustees, George J. (Gould, Edwin Gould, Howard Gould and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard (Helen Gould), and their showing us stewards of the estate unds. Huge Fees to Lawyers. 1 Should the courts approve the set tlement, one of the longest and most costly estate litigations on record will have closed. Thirty-five law firms have participated and it s estimated $3.000,000 has been spent in legal effort to interpret the will of the financler to the satisfaction of the numerous litigants. At some points in the litigation, a brother has testified against a sister. and a sister against a brother, and according to the attorney for George J. Gould, the “severe examination™ given him prior to the uccounting irial resulted in his early death in 1923, Announcement -of the settlement was made by Taylor, Knowles & Jack, attorneys for the trustees; Leonard & Talker and Samuel Seabury, attor- neys and counsel for Frank Jay Gould and William Nelson Cromwell, and Sullivan & Cronwell, representing the - children of the Duchess .de Talley- rand. Composes Family Quarrel. In the peroration to the detailed terms of the settlement the attor- neyrs say the signers have agreed “that a settlement and compromise would tend to compose family differ- ences which have arisen out of the administration of the estate, and out of the trial of the action, and would tend to remove existing impediments to sentiments of family unity, and would also the sooner permit. the estate to be administered in accord. ance with the intentién of the estator. Jay Gould, and faeed from the ad- ministrative embarrassment to which continued litigation for possibly many Years to come would subject it.” The settlement involves the follow- ing lump sum payments by Edwin Gould, Helen G. Shepard, Howard Gould and executors of trusts created by the Jay Gould will: Two million dollars to the trustees of the trust for George Gould, $2,000,- 900 to the trustees of the trust for Edwin Gould, $2,000,000 to the trustee of the trust for Helen G. Shepard. $2,000,000 to the trustees of the trust for Howard Gould, $2,000,000 to the trustees of the trust for the Duchesse de Talleyrand, $2,000,000 to the rustees. of the trust for Frank J. Gould. Other Payments Required. The agreement also requires the payment of $2,750,000 each to the trustees of the trusts for the Duchesse de Talleyrand and for Vrank Jay Gould. The interests of the three children of George J. Gould by his second wite are taken care of in a Stipulation pro- viding for the payment by Edwin Gould, Tlelgn Gould Shepurd and Howard Gotild of $800,000 to be held in separate trusts of $100,000 each, The same three members of the family are to pay $50,000 for the henefit of the seven _children ul ¢eorge J. Gould by his first wife, the | money to be divided equally amos the children. el o The booklet of detalled terms, finan- cially affecting the 50 or more parties, is now in the hands of Referee O'Gorman, who will hold a hearing Tuesday to conslder recommendations 1o the State Supreme Court. i | REVENUE BUILDING ! CONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN IN FEBRUARY ___tContinu ed £ from_Virst Page,) graving and Printing. When this i completed, which is expected to be in about a vear, employes of the Reg- ister of the Treasury, occupying the ©ld Southern Raflway Bullding, near Unlon Station, will be moved to the mew stories in the Liberty Loan An. nex. The Southern Rallway Building then could used temporarily by some cstablishment in the way of the building program. In addition to the Internal Revenue Bureau Buildiug, which is first on the jist, others which are to be pushed ra \ evelopments will be the Department of the Department of Com- ives bulldings. fon ‘proceedings are un. « hands of the Depart e, also, for acquisition of land adfacent to the Government Printing Office for a site for a new atructure to house the offices of that establisnment. The Department of JJustice is rushing condemnation pro. ceedin for the Archives building, next tue Post Office Department, in a site bounded by Pennsylvania avenue, Pwelfth, Tairteenth und C streets. Work {s dprogressing on plans for the Department of Agriculture Build- ing, for part of which a site is to be condemned hounded by Band C streete southwest, Thirteenth street and Lin. worth place. The question of whether he administration building, which will connect the two white wings already constructed, will ha an ornamental dome, or be more of the office type of building, but monumental, will prob- (Continued from First Page.) and Ben Rudner, Massil- lon hardware merchant, who once served sentence in the Atlanta Pent | tentiary on a Federal liguor churge For two weeks after the murder the investigators kept McDermott's name {carefully concealed. They at once jailed Kascholk as a material witness, and he remained there continuous) for the call which finally was to take him to the witness stand In a court of Justice. When secret search failed the investigators on July 30 broadc: a plea for McDermott's arrest. Clues were reported from everywhere in the country, but all proved worthless. Meanwhile Mazer was arrested on a Federal liquor conspiracy charge and subsequently he was charged with Mellett's murder. Investigators began | world leader, an inquiry in Canton which tended to | | Armed Men Take Cash and T\\'u | show that the murder plot had its| origin among a group of bootleg and rum-running conspirators. Police Chief Ousted. 8. A. Lengel, police chief, charged with being dellnquent in conducting the murder inquiry and with assoclat- ing intimately with underworld lead- ers, including Mazer and Rudner, was dismissed; the city Civil Service Com- mission was reconstructed: other po- licemen were dismissed on grounds eimilar to those cited aguinst Lengel; an alleged liquor conspiracy was dis- | closed; alleged underworld leaders one by one were arrested on liquor, nar- cotic or other’ vice charges—one of them was quickly sentenced to a term in the Ohia State Periltentiury for op- ‘erating houses of ll' fame. Then, on September 3, a \tmk County grand jury indicted ltudner, Mazer and McDermott. Maze¥ was which will be f{and, by joining b rt, | sure to tirst-hand | -jin W - [ mec ing up with those of the United States, | Mexican' STEPHEN T. MATHER. trail | ter It lury nic consid ely into such advantage of “the opportunity * roads with th uently traveled 1 | parties in the We | considerable revenue. { which Canada gains in Summer, B ther might easily come 1 the Winter a¢ the ra sullding program fs extended, Moxlc | he & « scenery which would be American tourists, but 1 that the roads he ex u reach the g ! most s, b Aty nt the {1t s e | tended so section, Mr. Mather nia_on imsine National Park way 1 Orleans. Fe expe shington in tin g of the Planuing will first go to Ca connected with i will rety ico and o be back end the National Capital k Commission in Febru lfor the nd ar brought from Federal Court ¢ at Cleveland to the charge; Rudner was arrested. or nearly two months more McDer- mott was undiscovered. Kjis brothers | | promised McClintock they” would sur. render him if they found him, “in the interests of just nd their { name.” On October | him_over to- the found him hiding in Cleveland [ The prosecution had contended Mc- | Dermott’s story w d clear | mystery, but Pat re | even after he we: the terms 3 alty” and “capital punishment” | tioned continuously, he | “squeal” on his aileged fellow con- { spivators or implicate them or himself in any way. He procured the counsel of his own choice, the same as that which represe Mazer and Rudner. When he ref alk, the State put | him on trial first and he went into the | court of Judge Idwin W. Diehl on December 6. | BANDITS GET $8,500. turned 1 and heard refused to Rings by Force. VELAND, Ohio, December 2 light armed bandits yesterday held up five persons in the office of the Union Towel and Supp! $5.000 In money and two rings | at $3,500 and escaped in an automobile as Clarence Rockopf emptied a revol- {ver at them from his officc. Four | woman employes were working in the {office at the time, W'fllo 9“1 St. N.W. Dallv. $1.00. $1.50. §2.00 ms. $6 weekly: $10.50 rooms, *u with, {oilat, whower and Javatgry. $ Mazer and McDermott. Mazef’ was 2 in room, 80% more. Rooms like Mother'n. “Motner' nk wishes you A Merry Christmas and a %W@’%@%fi% The Morris Plan | Ba ibanm’ Netw Pear A Christmas ?Ehgugbt There is no day—no season of the year that holds the place of Christmas—a home day—one on which our thoughts center around family and things of home. Christmas in their own h And only those who have spent omes can fully appreciate what home ownership means on that day—as weli as on every day. To Our Home Owners in Pluw !l LISHEPHER KD |} YR . D FARI 2\ and to the others whom we have had the pleasure of show- ing our houses, we wish you a Merry Christmas. Start the New Year Right! Purchase your own home in Breuninger herd Park. s Aven! Drive Ave., ou to lflth st. See the SBample House, 7546 out 16th St. to Alaska L€ Brewranger &'Soxs Ruilders and Realtors Main 6140 ably be decided within the next week. A record was made when two mien operating an_electric shovel in an American mine loaded 3,760 cubic rards of rock on frucks in eight houra, 706 Colorado Bldg- Shepherd Park Will Bé @ Community of Over 200 Ideal Homes tlof | family | having | up the ! ised to talk, and | Co., took | valued | STAR., WASHINGTON, -DRUMMOND SENDS MESSAGETOU. S, Pleads Patvence Is Neces-| sary in League Handling of | Disarmament Plan, Ly the Associuted Press December 25 in the ) Patience andling by th itions of the question of and reduction of the rld’s armaments, pleads Sir Lrie Drummond, secvetary-general of the league, In a special Christmas and Year messy to the American He declares that, in his judg: ment, even slight success in the field of disarmament will be n glorious thing, and ewphasizes that the league is hopeful of success, cople. o arygeneral pays o Ame n this direction, progress has been careful examination of aspects the league members = that m the technical ¥ m«rkhm whieved all “with the nelp of For Economic Rebuilding He study heen armame fuflure v mede of the question of ould unforeseen attempt fa fov league's efforts tkere- ccmmand that popular ev country without government can not nd the hould support in {which even | Theunessage adds th arno treaties and the entr: Germany into the league have [Ihlywv] greatly in the political recon- cilfation of [Burope, so that the league {can bend its ene to another great tusk for 1927, namely, economle re- | construction. & i SgAIH |of ‘epresentative ;, mine criculturists, and consumers propared the v manu owners, ccono- held this year ¢ for the meot- death pen- | men- | Wisses” Sizes, 14 Satins tra New Styles Bloused Fronts New Color Con- trasts New Versions of the 2-piece Frock New Batwing effects New Vee necklines Fine Pleats Saddle Shoulders of the subject by members of | non- | | Growers adds that_never before has such | * worth | for | Crepe Satins D. €. SATURDAY, D ECEMBER 25, 1926, IBILL FRANKLIN GAINING FAME AS “CHAMPEEN“ OYSTER EATER I Costello Post Ad)utant Gets Offer for. . - Contests—One With Englxsh Noble- man Attracts Him. of is 3ill Franklin, genial adjutant | Costello Post. American Legion, | finding it practically impossible to |ken|) ont of the limelight during the festive Christmas holiday season. il's picture, showing him ecating oysters on a recent outing of Costello l Post, has been reproduced in all parts of the countr The Sunday Star’s illustration, and Bill has been heralded as the “champeen” oyster cater. And now he is recelving messages from the four corners of the earth seeking him to accept a challenge to participate in an oyster-eating con- test, the latest suggestion being that he participate in such an everft with Viscount Peel of London. who recently challenged Sir Arthur Pinero. { “In the event that you are willing to enter into such a contest with Vis- count Peel,” Roscoe C. Mitchell, direc- tor of publicity and and Dealers North America, wrote Adjt. ‘I can arrange with some of the lead- | ing oyster producers to offer a L’()lll | medal to the winner and take care | of all expenses of the contest, should { the contest be accepted.” Bill was all smiles following receipt of the message. Until a photographer got a glimpse of the adjutant tucking away bivalves at the roast and pic- tured him in the oyster-disappearing feat Bill laid no claims t8 the oyster- eating championship contest. It is diffcrent now, however, for he ing here of the International economic conference on May 4, 1927, Just as the Brussels financial confer- ehice summoned by the league in 1920 paved the way to financial recon- struction by emphasizing the princi- ples of sound finance, so it is hoped the economic confarence will perform similar tasks in the more fiell of economic reconstruction, Juniors’ Sizes, 13 to 19. to 20. difticuit | an all-comers’ contest, and he sin- cerely hopes the latest offer will take Iim to London. Then he can visit his parents in Ireland and pay his respects to xmmmlm« in France, DOG IS SHOT SEEKING Life in Balance After Being Hit by Bullet Striking Her as She Flies at Bandit's Throat. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December Trixie, a German police dog, has offered the greatest sacrifice—her life—that her master might live. Trixie's job guard driven by her master, Jerry Deroul, an employe of a cigar company. Two | hold-up men drove up alongside the is to a ! seat of the car, Deroul called for help, | the robbers fired. As he fired Trixie leapkd at his throat, and the bullet, intended for Deroul, passed through her body. | “She saved my life—please save her life,” Deroul pleaded later at a. veter- {nary hospital. But while the veter- inarians have done everything pos- sible for the gallant dog, little hope is held that she will live. AT S Spnnz lhce Now a Baron. LONDON, December 25 (#) Thomas Aubrey Spring-Rice, former secretary in the British embassy at Washington, vesterday inherited the barony of Monteagle. His father, Baron Monteagle of Brandon, dled yesterday. and one of has an iaa that he can do justice in | TO PROTECT MASTER| truck | | trdck and ordered Deroul to get off the | | < BOLIVIANS DENY - FIANGE GETS BODY- REGEVING REPLY OF WONAN SUICDE Mlmster of Forelgn Affa1rs.Spends£hrn§tma§‘Eve Trying Insists He Has Not Been to Get Money to Bury Given Peruvian Note. Poison Victim. | By the Associated Press | " NEW’ YORK: December 2i.-—Wi i llam John Wilgus, Jr., whose fathe. Is a noted engineer, last night claime the body of Mrs. Vivian Minor, whe committed suicide in her room at the Martha Washingten Hotel Wednes da; " By the Associated Press. LA PAZ.- Boltvia, December An official statement was issued b: | the minister of foreign reldtions yes- | terday denying that he had received from -the Peruvian government communication, which was described ad Peru's reply to the proposal of 3 the American Secretary of State,| Wilgus, ‘ Frank B. Kellogg, for the settlement | estranged from his father, spen {of the Tacna-Arica dispute between | Christmas eve collecting enougl ! Chile and Peru. money to defray the funeral expense | The local newspaper, El Diario, | of the woman he sald he had planned | which printed an outline of the reply, | to marry. Late in the evening he ap | maintains that it was given out by | peared at the morgue, ‘where thr the Peruvian charge d'affaires here, | body had lald unclaimed, and remov Cesas Elejalde Chopitea. The paper, | it to a private undertaking establish commenting on the statement issued { ment on an order signed by the city yesterday, says: medical examiner. The minister of forelgn relations | Wilgus sald that he and his flances pretonds to overlook the fact that|had quarreled Sunday night and she g"lmm!eu called last Monday after-|threatened to end her life. Friends | noon at the ministry of forelgn rela- | gummoned him to the Martha Wask { tions and communicated to the under- | ington_ Hotel Wednesday and he saw | socretary the text of the Instructions | the body, of Mrs. Minor being taken he had just recelved from Lima. to the morgue | “That communication from Lima is| pofson tablets were found ih he {in existence. Nobody can de room near the body. Also three notes and sill less the representative of | (o fiind, ‘one requesting that she Poru, who on the day following Pub- | ha Luriad beside her mother and say lication of the note gave us the full | ' spot garatls could be found in hes text. It is “r““‘,’”"*"]“t’l’“"““fb{ the | trunk. No trunk was found, how minister of foreign relations of Peru,| gar ‘among her baggage. ending thus: ‘Tell the Bolivian gov-{ “'T* " hie city last night B. ¥ ernment to abstain from exerting of. | , i e ficlal pressure upon the chancellors uff bl ey Sty i ot pEESIRCUTSS | the woman was a niece of his and o (The proposal of Secretary Kellogg | Heber J. Grant, president of the was that the territory in dlflpute"{e Church of Latter Day Saints (Mor given to Bolivia, The Chilean govern. | mon). He said he had not seen o) Tent accepted the proposal in prin. | heard from the young woman fo ciple. When Bl Diario printed what | about 10 years. purported to be the reply of Peru| Mrs. Minor's mother was his hals several days ago, it commented edi- | sister, Mr. Grant said. She married torlally: “Peru does not show @ gen.|a man named Baldwin. The family erous attitude in her proposition, | lived in Placer County, Calif., foi which is a substitute for the Kellogg | some time, later moving to San Fran { formula.’ cieco. a who is unemployed an: Little Women's Sizes 16Y; to 26Y;. Women's Sizes, 34 to 44. Extra Sizes, 46%; to 54Y;. Dozens of New Styles Never Shown Before Fabrics Crepe Romaine Frost Crepe Flat Crepe Georgette is not here, Just Arrived. It is true, that according to the calendar Spring fashioned along g L The Advance Spring but these new Frocks Spring lines have just arrived. Shades Queen Blue Gooseberry Leaf Green Rose-Beige French Nude Black, Navy Frocks. Latest Styles—Many Copies of French Models New styles that you have sting shades. ne DOWN STAIRS STORE er seen before await your selection—Monday. to see them is to acquaint )omselz with the first Spring styles. all, is perhaps, the decided change in sleeveless treatments and the us of two or three con- Another new note is seen in the new monotones Aund Most notable of New Styles Pleated Skirts All-over pleats ew Neck Ties New Boleros New Peasant Sleeves Shoulder Flowers Smocking’ /