Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1927, Page 3

MILLER WILL NOT OFFER DEFENSE ®o- defendant Wlth Daugher- ty Waives Right to Answer 1 United States Charges. i By the Associated Press i FEDERAL COURT, NEW YORK, Yebruary 17.—There will be no defensa | “or Thomas W. Miller, former alien yroperty custodian, it was announced | e minute after the Daugherty-Mil - trial reopened this afternoon. When court reconvened at lock Aaron Sapiro, counsel for Mil- waived his opening address. Harold Corbin, of counsel for Harry L Daugherty, also waived his o ing address. Facing the* court, Sapiro, then said: Your honor, the Government having failed to prove a conspiracy against the defendant Miller, his de- fense rests.” Corbin then rose and s “Your honor, it isn't going to take us long to present our defense. Trial to Continue. Enough evidence has been produced v the Government to warrant the se going to the jury, Judge Knox uled today. tates Attorney completed his case yesterday, and ad- ournment was taken this morning to consider defense motions, all of which vere denied. ( Besides the general motions for dis- | missal of the indictment, counsel for | Daygherty and Miller offered more | an a score of motions seeking to have large sections of the Govern- ment testimony and evidence stricken from the record. Richard Merton, German metal magnate and star Government wit- ness, who was called by the defense in 1he first trial, was booked to sail for Turope today on the Italian liner Dulllio. He has not been cross-exam- jned by the defense in the present trial and the asumption was that he again would be called as a defense ‘witness. Merton_is alleged to have paid to the late John T. King, former national Republican committeeman from Con- necticut, $50,000 in cash and $391,000 in Liberty bonds for negotiating the transfer of the impounded assets of the American Metal Co. to the al- Buckner | i leged German-owned Societe Suisse| ¢ Pour Valeurs de Metaux. The $391,000 bonds, the Govern- ment charges, were then distributed mmong former Attorney General Marry M. Daugherty and former Alien Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller, the defendants, and the late Jess W. Smith, Daugherty’s intimate friend. Daugherty and Miller are on trial for conspiracy to deprive the Government of their honest and un- biased services .in approving the transfer. Explains Liberty Bonds. Mal Daugherty, Harry’s brother, who is president of the Midland Na- tional Bank at Washington Court House, Chio, testified yesterday that five $10,000 Liberty bonds, which Mr. Buckner says came from Merton and were credited to the account of Harry Daugherty in his brother's bank had originally been in the hands of Jess Smith. Mal Daugherty | ful in thelr fight against the encroach- (Contintisaercm SENEatiERge ) normally mere ribbons of dry sand, have been on rampages, ripping out bridges, sweeping houses from their foundations and gouging out high- ways. Intercity communication by roads and railways still was demoralized, with San Diego, Riverside, San Ber- nardino, Owensmouth and Chatsworth xumnlnlel) isolated. Washouts Stall Trains. Southern Pacific trains last night were running on the coast. line be- tween Los Angeles and San Francls- co, but several washous between Col- ton and Indio stalled seven west- bound limiteds, and no eastbound trains were sent out. A crew of men, battling to save the Tia Juana race track, across the inter- national border from San Diego, last night, appeared to have been success- ing waters of the Tia Juana River. Additional cities deluged by flood waters were Buena Park, a Los An- geles suburb, which at one time was under three feet of water; Greenville, which was submerged.and evacuated, and Laurel Canyon, some of whose residents fled because of fear of a landslide Only one bridge was left on the Santa Ana River in San Bernardino County. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, composed of 100 musicians, was left marooned overnight in a train at Oceanside, where the flood covered the Santa Fe tracks. Refugees Crowd Jail. Women and children refugees in Long Beach welcomed the county jail as a stopping place when 100 of them were given shelter there. Among the hairbreadth escapes was one at San Juan Capistrano, where a family of five was snatched from an automobile just before flood waters caught it and carried it into the ocean. Later both the Tia Juana and San Diego Rivers were reported as hav- ing receded to a point where the dan- ger[of flood in the border city was past MOUNTAIN STATES SWEPT. Three Dead, Rallroads and Highways | blocked at 1 a.m. today, when 200 feet THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 21 DEAD AND 5,000 HOMELESS, TOLL OF CALIFORNIA FLOODS ! when the snow blocked the road tol West Portal and trapped their auto- mobiles. OGDEN ROUTE BLOCKED. rm Washes Out 200 Feet of Double- | Track Line. SACRAMENTO, Calif., February 17 (#).—All traffic over the Ogden route of the Southern Pacific Railroad was of the double-track line went out, due | to the storm, at Forebay, 5 miles west | of Blue Canyon, in the Sierra Nevadas. Advices received here said it would be 16 to 20 hours before the tracks can be reconstructed and service re- sumed. LEWD MAGAZINE DEALERS| FINED IN, SPARTANBURG Three Newsstand Operators Taken in Drive Against Salacious Literature. By the Associated Press. SPARTANBURG, S. C., February 17.—Tom Greaves, Cleo Poulosand An- thony Nichkson, proprietors of three newsstands of this city, were fined in local . Police Court on charges of selling obscene and salacious lit- erature. | Each of the men was fined $100 or | 30 days, one-half of Nichkson's fine was suspended and $75 of each of the others was dealt with likewise., Nichk- son was the distributor. i The arrests were at the instance of Mayor Ben Hill Brown. An article of the local city ordinances prohibits the sale of such magazines in the city. Income Tax Problems Simplified for All No. 31. Pensions paid by a corporation or individual to retired employes for services rendered are taxable. Pe; sions pald by the United States Go Badly Damaged. DENVER, Colo., February 17 (#).— Th®e persons were dead, several in- jured and damage to highways and railroads was reported today following snow and rain storms in the Mountain States. The three dead were victims of separate snow slides which swept mining communities near Price, Utah, vesterday. The slides occured on both sides of Indian Summit, blocking ali traffic into the Utah Basin. Gus Goodart, 65, and Moroni Mower, 30, Latuda, U'.nh and Dan Grundvlg. 40, Wattis, Utah were killed in the slides, while five others were injured, two probably fatally. Rainstorms of cloudburst propor- tions ‘washed out roads in southern Utah, where more precipitation was forecast for today. Government weather bureau bulletins said the mountain storm was part of the.gen- eral severe atmospheric disturbances sweeping eastward from the Pacific Coast. Arizona Rivers Rising. Unsettled conditions also prevailed said that in De-|on the eastern side of the continental cember, 1922, he learned Smith was |divide, ranging from damaging rains “between $60,000 and $65,000"" short [in New Mexico and Arizona to sub- in political funds with which he had |zero weather in Montana. been intrusted. Three or four days before Arizona streams were reported. at Smith committed suicide in|flood stage. = Highways were blocked ‘Washington he brought Mal the five | in many places, trains were_ delayed bonds and some other money. The |and wire service crippled. Prescott, bonds were turned over to Harry after | Ariz., was reported virtually isolated Smith's death, because he was the only logical recipient, Mal said. SPECIAL NOTICES. $ECOND NATIONAL BANK, Y ASHINGTON. C.. 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Your choice, Friday will be found at— thc Month 1t tc a new tin roof. 26T 1 i, after 6 DM cetimates Prions one A diantlc 11400 s || ernment are also taxable, except as provided by the revenue act of 1926, Which exempts “amounts received as compensation, family allotments and allowances under the provisions of the war risk insurance and vocational re- habilitation acts, or the World War veterans' act, 1924, or as pension from the United States for service of the beneficiary or another in the military or naval forces of the United States in time of war, or as a State pension for services rendered by the benefi- clary or another for which the State is paying a pension.’ Allowances, whether paid by the Federal or State Governments or pri- vate individuals to one who performed flo dutles, as. for example, a widow | in recognition of services performed by her husband, are regarded as gifts and are not taxable. A bonus paid by a State to its resi- dents who served in the military or naval services during the War with Germany does not constitute taxable fncome. Benefits paid by a labor union to members while on strike are to be in- cluded in the income, subject to tax, of such members. An allowance paid a retired clergy- man by the governing body of a reli- glous denomination is taxable income. Annulties paid retired civil service employes of the Federal Government are subject to the tax to the extent that the aggregate amount of pay-| ments exceed the aggregate amount | withheld from the salaries of the em- ployes. — Among Our Directors Is MR. WALTER A. BROWN REALTOR. FEDERAL-AMERICAN A National Bank With Resources of Fifteen Million Dollars As Strong as the Men and Money Behind it. Ilustrated | This Evening, Thursday, February 17, 8 P.M. The Development - of the Modern Hotel By Mary Catherine Lewis . Lewis Hotel Training Schocls 23d & Penna. Ave. NW. 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When called they will proceed to the south portico by way of the southwest gate, on Wes xecutive av the southeast gate, avenue entrance—Guests having cards of admission for the east entrance and white carriage cards for the east g vill approach the east gate in a south- erly direction along East Executive avenue, and cars will be parked on t side of the Ellipse until called. will proceed north ecutive avenue to the t entrance will be mission of guests after § on East Ex rking will be of the White House. rds should be placed on the right side of the windshield of ve- so as to be easily seen by the police. This will save time and pre- vent annoyance to guests through be- ing stopped by examine gate card: The following roads will be closed to vehicular traffic between the hours of 8 p.m. and midnight: Road south of the Treasu ury place). st Executive avenue. xecutive avenue. Road north of the Ellipse in White Lot (South Executive avenue). 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[SENATE MAY APPROVE %Conference Report Before Body 1 Today—Pittman Not to Filibuster. The conference report on the radio ccutrol bill, to which several Senators have taken strong opposition, will be | berore the Senate again this afternoon. | Although a vote on the report has | been blocked on previous occasions, | the outlook for action within a day of two is favorable. The report needs only the concurrence of th after which it will go to the I Senator Pittman, Democrat who has led a fight to send the leg| lation back to conference, declared he had no intention to obstruct this or other bills between now and the end of the session, but that he desired to again speak briefly on the measure. Firemen Open Loc.(erl Door Accommodating members of No. | engine compan: rday afternoon j responded to call from M nt of an apartment at | Georgia avenue. 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