Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1927, Page 6

1927—-PART 1. Q7 D. C, JANUARY 23, 8 THE SUNDAY REPRESENTATIVE Y ouns WINS EXONERATION Second Grand Jury Returns ginit " o catio to sing under At Sir Basil Zaharo - “No True Bill” on Charges | 1n ine Against J. Will Taylor. STAR, 27 RECEIVE DEGREE. WASHINGTON, Virtually all the entertainment was provided by members of the order. Singer From Washington _ Makes Sensational Debut Abroad| e: Eugene C. Baczenas, s J. Becker, Thomas P. Brow Twenty-seven neophytes were put ugh the third degree by Alcantara Order of the Alham-| 1927 th Caravan, No, 12, bra, at its first | banquet at Rauscher | Headed by Louis A. Payne, grand | commander of the order, and its other | bers, the neophytes were t the burning sands, and befc ening closed had become fi 1 members of the organization .M. F.|@ Robert \* During January Only! Expert Permanent Waving Washington, turning from the way | of importing singers, has sent to | Europe a young singer who has just | made a sensational debut in -1.m«|i | y R Rouleau, A. J mmes, James A. Sullivan, j m C. Sullivan. Rev. Benjamin arskey and Edward L. Tucker - 'of 1925 the Wash- | cullen. R ington Op put on a season of light opera, backed by Henry .| n, one of the guarantors ol pera season. In choos | t, General Director Albion | in the 1| banquet at which Mr. Payne presided By the Associ will 1 national commit Taylor, had solicited teeman for Tennessee, campalgn funds from Federal office holders were quashed today by Fed eral grand jury. to inv . J. F. ) Mount casant that solicited funds becatxe of he had received, returned a bill." The preceding grand jury returned a no true bill sought to have the cited for contempt f turn a true bill. Fede Hinkenlooper of Ci a special judge, to murrer to the Morirow purged the grand jury of tempt At a recent meeting of the Repub liean executive committee It enta tiva Taylor was given a vo fidence in a resolution adoptec out a dissenting vote POWER ESTIMATES BARRED AT HEARING Warm Contest Develops Over St. Lawrence and Niagara Diversion Plan. atronag no true had Morrow jurors also and con petition any with By the Associated Press Testimony bearing hydro-electric power on estimates o as affected by the diversi f from Lake Michigan into the Illinois | drainage canal, has been barred from the record in the e level contro versy now being heard by Charles Evans Hughes for the Supreme Court. Before adjourning the hearings until February 23. Mr. Hughes upon motion of counsel for the defense, vesterday | ordered stricken from the record a portion of the testimony of Hugh | Cooper. hvdro-electric engineering ex- pert, which dealt with the power po- | tentialities contained in the volume of water now being diverted from the St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers | through withdrawals by the Illinois | sanitary district. The motion was hotly contested by | Newton D. Baker, former Sectetary of | ‘War, on behalf of & complaining | against Chicago's thdrawal pro- gram, and who are seeking to have the power issue included in testimony. | Mr. Hughes ruled that the question of power potentialities represented @ collateral issue and that gvidence re- specting its bearing on the economic interests of complainant States as a whole could only be of a speculative and hypothetical nature. He announced his readiness to re- ceive testimony bearing on the direct relation of the diversion to each of the complainant States excepting New | which, which has undertaken inde- | pendent action on the co.power issue as involved in the lake level litigation. ‘The reservations interposed by New York will be the subject of a special hearing. ARMY FAVORITISM DENIED| Oficers From ' Ranks Declared ts| Have Equal Chance. | Recent charges by Representative Blanton, Democrat, Texas, that dis- tifiction existed in the Army between West Point graduates and officers who | come up from the ranks were denied In the House vesterday by Representa- tive Barbour of California, who was in charge of the Army appropriation bill Barbour said that men who rec ommissions from the ranks wer corded equal recognition with academ graduates in appointments to servic schools, and referred to a number o high ranking officers who had not | received West Point commissions | { “Robin Hood." . [ were delayed in < | then hurried to Mr | ing as salesman. Capita New York a yvoung con Eleanore La Mance, ) il Mr Hood arted E enter They stood at the back until the song was finished and Albion and de- | clared that her voice was the kind | that should be developed to the ut- | gift that made possible her tiip ope for study She will remain in Europe for some ! HEAD OF PRINTING FIRM 1S ARRESTED Ralph A. Packwood Held in ’ .| -Connection With Alleged | 1. $6,592.77 Embezzlement. president of th Co. f 1512 Seventh street, yesterday was ar rested, on a warrant charging embez zlement of $6,5 m the firm, by | Detectives Kelly Darnall. | Police allege Packwood had admit- | Ted the shortage reputedly shown by | a check-up of the books of the corpo- | ration, | The sum of $13,000 was listed as the amount of the shortage on the com pany:hooks after the check-up, the de tectives said, but Packwood declared he had de good approximately | $5.200 of that amount | Frank Smith, treasurer of the | company, with offices at 1001 Hill Bullding, was listed as complainant. Detectives said Packwood had put | 29 shares of stock in the hands of the treasurer of the company as collateral | to make good his alleged shortage Until a short time ago Packwood was manager as well as president of the company. Recently he had been act The alleged embez- zlement operation extended over a pe riod of several months, police said. TREATMENT OF HOUCK IN BALTIMORE IS ISSUE Assistant U. S. Attorney George D. Horning May Decide Ques- tion Tomorrow. Ralph A, Packwood Packwood Printing Knutt Houck, psycht- | Elizabeth's, now under Walter Reed Hospital, | Mrs. Gladys Houck has | been missing for several weeks, will | be permitted thout objection to | leave this jurisdiction for treatment in a Baltimore sanitarium is a question which will be answered tomorrow by Assistant United States Attorney rge D. Horning, it was indicated | night. The matter came up vesterday as the result of a telegram from Mrs. | ". K. Houck of La Grosse, Wis. | 1other of the physician, to officials at | the United States Veterans' Bureau, Whether Dr. atrist at St treatment at whose wife, He also had a elerh read g letter | 28king that arrangements be made for | from Maj. Gen. Allen, chief of Infan-| try, denving the charge. 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