Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1927, Page 7

MYSTERY OF PLANE CRASH IS PROBED Two in Quantico Hospital. Five Die in Two Acci- dents in Texas. Special Dispatch to The Star. QUANTICO, Va., February 17.—A board of investigation today is inspect- ing the wreckage of a De Haviland plane and. studying the mysterious circumstances of its fall yesterday a mile west of Occoquan, when Second Lieut. Jesse Harmon, pilot, and his passenger, Iiirst Lieut. Vernon M. Guymon, both of the United States Marine Corps, were injured. Harmon and Guymon are at the post hospital here, seriously but not fatal- ly injured. While no bones were broken in the crash of several hun- dred feet, they will be confined to their beds for days, and possibly weeks. Indications are that Harmon fainted and lost control of the plane. He re- called that after taking off from Brown Field and being in the air about an hour, flving low, he suddenly real- ized that the plane was out of control and he could not right it. By the im- pact of the plane on the ground after it struck a tree he was made’ uncon- scious. Guymon, who remained con- scious, despite the shock and injuries, extricated Harmon, and a passing au- tomobile was hailed and the victims were taken to the hospital here, Har- mon’s home is at Eastover, S. C. He was appointed to the corps in 1923 and received tlying training at Pensacola, Fla. Guymon, who lives at Murray, Utah, was with Miss Olita McCoy of the Cordova Apartments in Washington the night Miss Nannie Garington of Corcoran Courts shet herself, following a visit to her apart- ment by Guymon and Miss McCoy. FIVE DEAD IN TEXAS, Civilian Aviator Fifth Victim of Two Accidents. TORT WORTH, Tex., February 17 . C. Goggins, 27, civilian avl- ator, died today, the fifth victim of two Texas airplane accidents yesterday. Goggins was fatally injured and Quincey Burnett, former Fort Worth police captain, was killed when their plane crashed on a ranch near here. Lieut. Benedict A. Coyle, Cadet John W. Green and Pvt. Rudolph C. Bartel were killed in a collision between two planes at Camp Stanley. The ships were flying at an altitude of about 150 feet. Cadet Green was piloting a training plane in practice firing on the target range when it struck the ship in which Lieut. Coyle and Pvt. Bartél were taking off. The planes fell in a tangled mass. leut. Coyle enlisted in Massachu- setts in 1917. Cadet Green is survived by his mother, Mrs. Agatha Green of Chicago, while a sister of Pvt. Bartel lives at Detroit. Goggins was a mem- ber of a prominent ¥Fort Worth family. CONSTABLE ON JOB DESPITE OUSTER Tom Garrison Says Prince Georges Commissioners Cannot Fire Him, Constable Tom Garrison of Hyatts- ville, Md., terror of lawbreakers, is no longer a constable in the opinion of the county commissioners of Prince Georges County, and hasn't been since November 27, last. But in Tom’s opinion, he still is an #rm of the law and he will continue to function until the judges of the Fifth Judicial Circuit in that territory decide otherwise. Under date of February 16, a letter from the county _ commissioners, signed by James C. Blackwell, clerk, reached Constable Garrison yesterday, stating that according to legal advice of the commissioners, who hold the appointing power for constables, Gar- rison has not been legally in office since last November and furthermore his appointment of November 27, 1925, was void and of no.effect. ‘Would Serve Four Years. Constable Garrison says it isn't so at all. His last appointment was under the new code, which provided for a four year term instead of the two year term, and he says he will continue to function as constable, at the service of lawabiding citizens at ull times, until November 27, 1929. “I was validly appointed,” Garri- son said. “I qualified regularly and posted the $500 bond required. “This_is entirely a political move. Political leaders in the county are attempting to get rid of all constables the better to further their political ends.s 1 have been in service of Prince Georges County for 23 years, always at the command of the law, abiding citizens, and I propose so to continue until the judges of the fifth judicial circuit tell me I am not legally in office.” Points to His Record. During service, rison declares, the records of the county will show that he has handled fully 60 per cent of the more important criminal business. I never pay much attention to this petty stuff.” he gaid, “and I don't work for a week to make a half-pint liquor case when 1 could be putting in my time rounding up some dangero: criminals in the county. The records will show thut when a man was needed for fmportant criminal work, 1 was right on hand.” It seems as though the next move is up to the county since their notification to Constable Garrison has not affected his deter. mination to continue in office, Prince eorges County is now sit- ting back, kenly anticipating the probable legal fight which will ensue between Tom Garrison, Republican constable, and the Democratic political element in the county. commissioners, | TALIAFERRO BRANDS TREE CUTTING “OUTRAGE” Hopes 80 Informations Can Be Filed Against Guilty Bus Com- pany Employe. Deseribing as an “outrageous plece of vandalism” the mysterious trim- ming of the shade trees along the route of the double-deck busses of the Washington Rapld Transit Co., Com- missoner Sidney F. Taliaferro revealed today that he had instructed the corporation counsel’s office to file as many informations as possible against the employe of the company who has taken full responsibility for the act. The case against the bus company employe was scheduled to come up in Police Court yesterday, but was con- tinued until next week in order to give the corporation counsel's office sufficient time in which to prepare additional informations. Only four informations were filed for the original case, but Commissioner Taliaferro said he hoped it would be possible to file 80 to cover the cutting of each tree and that the court would see its way clear to impose the max- imum penalty in each case. The maximum fine for unauthorized trimming of trees on public property is $50. . PARTNER OF MORGAN - FORD SUIT WITNESS Stock Worth $3,500 to $4,500 a Share in 1913, Arthur M. Anderson Testifies. By the Associated Press. Stock in the Ford Motor Co. was worth anywhere from $3,500 to $4,500 a share on March 1, 1913, in the opin- fon of Arthur M. Anderson, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, who was a Government witness today in the hearing of the case in which the Government seeks to collect $30,000,000 additional taxes against Ford minority stockholders. The Internal Revenue Bureau claims a valuation given by Daniel C. Roper, former head of the bureau, on the 1913 date was too high and that, con- sequently, when the minority stock was bought by Ford in 1919 the Gov- ernment lost taxes which should have been collected. Anderson testified that conditions in the securities market in 1913 were highly unfavorable and that the ex- isting depression reflected itself in a continued drop in prices. Based on the conditions then prevailing, he named an outside price of $4,500 on the stock, his lower figure being less than that set by the Government in its appraisal of 1925, which is the basis of the present action. On cross-examination by John W. Davis, chief counsel for the former stockholders, Anderson said he prob- ably would not have sold Ford stock at that price if he had owned any. The Ford Co. was an attractive proposition to investment bankers who were specializing in that class of se- curities, he said. FINE ARTS COMMISSION IS HOST AT LUNCHEON Taliaferro, Dewey and Grant Are Guests—Building Program Is Under Discussion. District Commissioner Taliaferro, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey and Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, officer in charge of public build- ings and parks, were the guests of the Commission of Fine Arts at a luncheon at the Cosmos Club today, where various matters involving projects in the District of Columbia and the Government building pro- gram were discussed. This afternoon the commission will confer with the Senate committee on the Library and will view a paint- ing of former President Harding. Members will go to the National Museum to view the collection of Francis Scott Key pictures and will go later to Meridian Hill Park, where a monumental landscaping project is in_development. The commission also discussed plans for a tablet to be placed by the Grand Army of the Republic in the Arlington Amphitheater and also had before it a plan for a civic cen- ter at Asheville, N. presented by Douglass D. Ellington, architect for the city of Asheville, MEXICAN RAIL STRIKE IS SET FOR MIDNIGHT Conference Between Men and Of- ficials of National Lines Fails to Materialize. By the Associated Press, MEXICO CITY, February 17.—A general rallway sirike again appears imminent in Mexico. Midnight to night is the time set for a walkout. A conference between the railroad men and the Natfonal Raflway Lines, called by the department of industry to find & solution of the difference be- tween the men and the company, fail- ed to materialize, and the railroad ‘workers demanded a discussion of the roundhouse workers' strike, which marked the origin of the present con. flict. This strike has been declared illegal by the department of industry, which decided that the question could not be discussed. The National Lines believes strike, if it is called, will fail, my}:; that several unions have decided not to join the movement. On the other hand, the Federation of Transport Workers announces that all the rail. | way unions will present & solid front, - | Dies of Fractured Skull. | Special Dispatch to The Star HAGERSTOWN, Md., February | 17.—Charles Baughman, vear-old high school student, son of Mr. and | Mrs. Hubert C. Baughman of Hagers- | town, died this morning at Washing- ton County Hospital of a fractured skull sustained yesterday when an automobile, upon the running board | of which he was riding with a fellow | student, struck a telephone pole. In a Hurry to Sell Your House? ST Have a picture taken of the cozy, homelike living room and use it in an ad- vertisement in The Star under Sale Houses. Many satisfactory sales are constantly being made through the medium of Sale Houses advertise- ments in The Star. What has been done for others may be done for you. Phone Classified Department of The Star and a representative will call to arrange details. THE EVENING HILDSFARMBIL LEADS T SOVET Tilson Declares Measure Be- fore House Will Give One Class Control. McNary-Haugen farm relief bill leads in the direction of sovietism and enact- ment of the measure would be a long stride toward that condition, Repre. sentative Tilson of Conuecticut, the Republican leader, declared in the House toda “It means,” he said, “that a par- ticular class of our people, acting through representatives of their own choosing, are to be clothed iith tre- mendous powers over the very means of life itself affecting vitally the lives and fortunes of the whole people. “I cannot bring myself to believe that the courts will ever sustain such legislation.” Attacks Board Plan. The House leader attacked prinei- pally the sections of the bill providing for selection of a farm board by the President from a of previously nominated individua This, he contended, clearly stricted the Executive's constitutios right to select agents of the Govern- ment without interference except with re- the advice and consent of the Senate. The selection method, he declared, | is “utterly vicious if not absolutely unconstitutional” and cited legal opinions and court decisions in an attempt to show that the Constitu- tion never contemplated such a digression. Says Farmer Will Suffer. Tilson charged that if farm relief legislation fails at this session, “those who have so persistently in- sisted upon one particular bill nothing at all, will not be free from blame for the result.” “I do not believe,” he declared, “the bill to be a solution of the farm re- lief problem at all. I believe not| only that it would not work well. | but that the attempt to work i(i would make matters infinitely avorse. | 1 believe that in the long run the one | who would suffer most from such a law would be the farmer himself. | “As I try to visualize what would | probably happen in case it were at- | tempted to put such a law into operation, I can see the delicate mechanism of trade and commerce thrown out of its normal adjust- ment into helpless confusion. In- stead of prices being regulated by | the law of supply and demand the3 will be determined by the edict of | a board.” COOPER HEARING CALLED. Witnesses in Impeachment Case to| Be Heard Wednesday. Committee hearings on the im- | peachment charges against Federal | Judge Cocper of northern New York | will b resumed Wednesday. The committee has summoned wit- | nesses requested by Representa- tive Guardia, including R. Q... Merrick, whom _Cooper is alleged designed the campaign bootleggers. STAR, WASHINGTON, or |y, Cooper, as the accused, can only be invited to appear before the committee and the committee has not been ad- vised whether he will be present. D. C., THURSDAY. HOLY CROSS CLUB GUESTS Wooo 7 Left to right: Senator Reed of Missouri, Senator Walsh of Massachusetts and Representative Stobbs of Massachusetts. HOLY CROSS CLUB MEETS SATURDAY Reed of Missouri, Walsh of Mas- sachusetts and Stobbs Will Be Guests. Senators James Reed of Missouri and David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, with Representative George R. Stobbs of Massachusetts, are to be the guests of the South Atlantic Holy Cross Club at the annual dinner of the club in the Hamilton Hotel Saturday night. Martin J. McNamara, president of the club, announced today that a | delegation from Holy Cross College, Worcester, will also_attend the din- ner, including Rev. Michael J. Earle, S. I., the poet; Foster Stearns, the college librarian and the new execu- tive secret ary of the general alumni association. Representa jr., will be toastmaster. Right Rev. William J. Hafey, Bishop of Raleigh, and Right Rev. Andrew n of Richmond, who are vice presidents of the South Atlantic Club, have sent messages of ting to their brother alumni in case they are prevented from attend- ing. A delegation from the faculties of Georgetown University and Gonzaga. College, Dr. Peter J. McLaughlin, dean of the Taw School at Catholic University; delegations from George- town Prep at Garrett Park and from Woodstock and other houses of study have made reservations at the dinner. A new feature of the annual gath- ering will be the participation of fathers of students and alumni. The committee in charge is com- posed of Martin J. McNamara, presi- dent; James F. Dulligan and Robert J. Galle \ FRENCH DELAY ACTION ON DEBT SETTLEMENT Reorganization of Army and Bud- ve William P. Connery, get Given Precedence in Parliament. By the Associated Pre: PARIS, February 17.—Parliament- ary action on tho Washington debt settlement has been put off to the uncertain future by a decision of the government, in agreement with par- liamentary leaders, that the reor- ganization of the army and the budget shall have precedence over else in the legislative Setting the Pace for Hauling Six-cylinder Speed Wagons everywhere set the pace for trucks and keep it up. That's why truck owners have turned to Speed Wagons. Equipped with the powerful, Reo-made 6-cyl- inder engine,Speed Wagons are gluttons for miles, eating them up easily, outlasting and outhauling CHASSIS PRICES at Lansing 4Cylinder 6-Cylinder *1090 *1240 Heavy Duty *1985 © R.M.C.Co. 1927 *tion on | 19 HURT AS AUTO CRASHES INTO CROWD Three in Danville, Va., Hospital ‘While Driver and Companion Are Held by Police. By the Associated Press. DANVILLE, Va., February 17. Three persons are in a local hospital suffering from serious injuries and 16 others in and about the city are recovering from bruises as a result of being struck by a roadster driven by Walter Marshall of Danville yes- terday. The roadster crashed into a large crowd that had gathered on the outskirts of the city to attend a mule sale. Marshall and his companion, E. H. Hyatt, also of this city, are in jail here, Marshall facing charges of driv- ing ‘an automobile while under the influence of whisky and Hyatt accused of violatiag the Layman act. Mar- shall's hearing will be delayed until the outcome of the injuries suffered by J. P. Mays of Chatham, Frank Stowe of Danville and J. L. Powell of Ringgold can be ascertained. Mays has a compound fracture of the right leg and possible internal injurie Marshall is said to hsve ascribed the high speed at which he was going to the fact that he thought he was being pursued by a motor cer. A small quantity of whisky was found in the car, police said. AS CASE IS CONTINUED Matthews' Dismissal Is Ordered by Commissioners on Hesse's Recommendation. Policeman James Warren Matthews, 32 years old, of 2407 Eighteenth street, held in connection with the shooting of George M. Fox of 1909 Fourteenth street, a taxicab driver, and Francis C. Bland, 1424 W street, in front of the former's home about midnight Tues- | day night, was sent to Police Court | today for a preliminary hearing. The | charge of assault with a dangerous | weapon was continued. He later was | committed to jail. Bland, who is at Garfield Hospital, |and Fox, at Emergency, both contin- ued in a serious condition today. Each was shot through the abdomen. At the same time the District Com- it ners acted favorably on a rec- n B. Hesse, superintendent of police, and Mat- | thews was dismissed from the force. smaller light weight trucks. Costing less to operate, and depreciating more slowly, Speed Wagons mean more money saved at the end of each year you own them—and they last a long, long time. Ask us for information on applying Speed ‘Wagons to your hauling problems. The Trew Motor Co, JOSEPH B. TREW, 1509-1511 14th St. N.W. Service Station, 1437 Irving St.BN.W. FEBRUARY 17, 1927. COURT OF APPEALS SEEKS DIRECTION Jurisdiction Is Involved in Packers’ Case—Supreme Tribunal’s Aid Requested. The District Court of Appeals today certified to the United States Supreme Court for declsion five questions con- cerning the jurisdiction of the courts | of the District of Columbia to enter- tain the proceedings brought by the Department of Justice against Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., two of the principal packing concerns. The United States began suit against five packing companies February 27, 1920, in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of the District of | Columbla and obtained a “consent de cree,” by which the companies agreed to divorce the meat industry from unallied business enterprises. The California Canneries Co. obtained an order from Justice Bafley of the Dis: trict Supreme Court suspending the operation of the decree until the Gov- ernment had proved its case. lThe two packing companies mentioned then sought a revocation of the m-‘ junction granted under the ‘“consent | decree” and Justice Bailey denfed their | application, from which they ap- pealed. Questions at Issue. | The Department of Justice moved | a dismissal of the appeal on the| ground that that appeal, if any, lay to| the United States Supreme Court direct | under the expediting act in relation to | anti-trust cases. The Court of Ap peals took that view of the matter, but later granted a rehearing to the | packing companies. The certification of the questions results from that re- heating. The questions propounded to the| highest_tribunal in the land are: (1) Is the Supreme Court of the Dis-: trict of Columbia a District Court of the United States within the provi slons of the anti-trust acts? (2) s the jurisdiction of a Distrigt Court of the United States conferred on that court by statute, according to rules and statutes applicable to District Courts of the United States or according to_those applicable tol courts of the District of Columbia | and is the jurisdiction so conferred | sufficlently broad to embrace cases | where Congress confers jurisdiction | on District Courts of the United States generally without mention of or reference to Supreme Court of the | District of Columbia? Question on Equity. | (3) If the first question be answered | in the affirmative, was the jurisdic-| tion specially conferred by antl-trust acts properly invoked by the United | States in bringing the case in equity, | or should it have been flled in the District Court term? | (4) Does an appeal lie in his case to| the District Court of Appeals? | (5) If not, has the Court of Appeals | jurisdiction to transfer such appeal to | the United States Supreme Court, pur- | suant to section 328 of the judicial code? | . Cousin of : Governor Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. | FREDERICK, Md., February 17.— | Mrs. Samuel G. ‘Duvail, cousin of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie and sister of the late Mrs. Donald McLean, president gen- | eral of the Daughters of the Ameri. | can Revolution, died here today after a long illness, John Ritchie, jr., of { Washington, D. C., was brother. Her father was the late Chief Justice John_ Ritchie. ne. 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