Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1927, Page 5

" b o WOMEN PAY §205 "Envoys of 11 Nations Speak | at Banquet for Benefit of Big Clubhouse. Ty the Associated Pre NEW YORK, March 17.—More than $200,000 was paid by New York wom- en last night to hear diplomats de- scribe what women are doing in other lands. Envoys of 11 forelgn nations spoke at a dinner of the American ‘Woman’s Association at the Waldorf- . Astoria. The dinner was in furtherance of the association’s campaign to raise $7,000,000 for a clubhouse for women in'New York City, and each diner pald $205—$200 of which represented a sub- scription to the clubhouse fund. There were 1,100 persons present. British Envoy Speaks. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassa- dor, commented on the increasing number of women in business in his country, saying that 110 women were now members of the London Chamber of Commerce. “There is even in Mexico & lady Am- bassador, but then she comes from BSoviet Russia, the example of which 13 not likely to be imitated either here or in England,” he said. “I therefore hope that for some time longer the + men of my profession, at least, may not be subjected to_this dangerous class of competitor. I myseif may be safe, but I expect that the junior sec- retaries of the em! s will have to look to their laurels. Woman Is Barred. A woman carrying a bouquet and ;®loves, who made three unsuccessful ®ttempts to see Sir Esme, caused some excitement, and she finally was es- corted to her home by a detective guarding the diplomat. Several days ago a woman carrying a bouquet pub- licly slapped the face of Alexander Kerensky, prime minister of the first revolutionary Russian government, as he was about to address 5,000 people. $ir Esme did not learn of the incident until after the meeting. Ambassador de Martino of Italy de- mied that Mussolini was anti-feminist. * The German Ambassador was repre- ®ented by C. C. Kiep, charge d'affaires, who praised the part being played by women in the new German govern- ment. He sald there are 3¢ women in the Reichstag and more than 100 in OFFICIAL COMMERCE PLANE IS DAMAGED Pilot’s Judgment Blamed for Acci- dent in Landing at Boll- 'EACH FOR DINNER ! __(Continued from First Page.) am unable to keep my appoint- ment." This slgnified to those present in court that a verdict was still far from ready for report, so the court an- nounced he was going home, would be on call from the clerk and sug- gested that the counsel do likewlse. The room then was abandoned. About 6 o'clock the jurors were taken to a hotel restaurant several blocks away by Chief Deputy Marshal S. B. Cal- lahan for dinner and returned for their deliberations about 7:30 o'clock. Sinclair and his counsel again ap- peared in court around § o'clock and passed the time smoking cigarettes in the room and in the corridor. When the jury filed in the defendant was asked to stand while Erwin was asked the usual questions by the clerk as to the finding of a verdict. The foreman replied “guilty” on each of the four counts of the indict- ment and the jurors then were dis- charged. Hoover asked that the $5,000 bond for Sinclalr be continued’ and upon no objection from Gordon the court granted the request. In addition to setting forth the ques- tions which the jury was to determine, the court, in his charge, said the rea- sons which prompted Sinclair not to answer should “not’be considered by you.” If he refused, Justice Hitz 8aid, “the law presumes he decided to take the consequences,” and whether he acted on his own judgment or that of his attorney “is immaterial.” Charge Is Explained. There is evidence in the case to show that “these things occurred,” continued the court referring to the charge that after being summoned, after appearing and being questioned, Sinclair refused to answer. One coun. sel branded Sinclair as a “felon” if convicted, said the court, adding “that isn't the situation. If your verdict be guilty, that doesn’t brand him as a felon 'and the punishment that fol- lows is not that given to a felon. The charge is o misdeameanor and nothing else.” Referring to one point of the de- fense, that Sinclair acted under ad- vice of counsel, the court said: “It is possible for a man to follow the advice of learned and competent counsel and land in jall, just the same as it is possible for a man to follow the advice of learned and competent physicians and land in the cemetery.” 5 In concluding his charge, the court said the jury must entertain no prejudices or sympathies for the de- fendant. The fact that Sipclair's name has been mentioned by one de- fense counsel in connection with “an oil scandal” had nothing to do with the case, the court sald; neither had the fact that the defendant is presi- dent of oil companies and gasoline is an expensive commodity. Hoover took exception to that part of the court’s charge, which declared the “pertinency” of the questions in the indictment to be matter of law and not for the jury to decide, de- claring that such action *“deprives us of the right of trial by jury,” and also to the instructions advising the jury to disregard the reasons which ing Field. The Department of Commerce's De Haviland observation plane, crusader for things safer in aviation, and a flying “laboratory” for experiments of radio navigational alds, suffered dam- age to its wings and landing gear as it went into Bolling Field today for a landing and caused .the pilot, Paul King, son of Senator King of Utah and E. 8. Kimball, a civilian technical student, much concern for a few mo- ments. The plane, which was turned over to the Department recently by the Army Air Corps, took off from its base at College Park, Ma., for Dayton, but before striking West, King decided to Jand at Bolling Field. Just as , the wheels came in contact with the \ und, the right wing-tip hooked into he grass and spun the ship around. Maj. Clarence M. Young, chief of ‘the Air regulation division of the Aeronautics branch of the depart- ment, and in charge of airplane in- spectors and aeronautical engineers, attributed the accident to an ‘“error 4n judgment on the part of the pilot,” z&de{ he said, as the plane was about dg, Aeronautics branch a short time ago, was a test pilot for the National Ad- visory Committee for Aeronautics and ‘was_stationed at Langley Memorial LaWoratory, Langley Field, Va. The DH; has been equipped with radio de- vicés for experiments with the radio n, by means of which airmen +, Jostin fogs or heavy weather and un- ®abl$ to see the ground can be guided by pradio into their ports of destina- v EP‘GINEERS HONOR;NOMAN Miss Elsie Eaves First to Be Mem- ber of Society. NEW YORK, March 17 (#).—The first woman to be elected to corporate pwmheruhip in the American Society of Civil Engineers in its 75 years of existence is Miss Elsie Eaves, assist- ant manager of market surveys for XEngineering News-Record, it was an- nounced yesterday Miss Eaves, a graduate of the Uni- wverslty of Colorado in 1920, came to WNew York last from Denver. Y T Northern Chile there is a “dry belt” where it has not rained in 25 yeurs KLEEN-HEET | Kleen-Heet Means Heat Always Ready, But Used Only As Needed KLEEN-HEET SALES CO. 1013 12th St. N.W. Main 7886 SAVE OR SLAVE! It is one thing or the other IT PAYS TO SAVE AT THE prompted the defendant to refuse to answer and the “advice of counsel” feature. Here Are the Questions. The four questions which Sinclair, on advice of Martin W. Littleton, his counsel in the trial and also at the time of his appearance before the Senate committee March 22, 1924, refused to answer, and as they ap- peared in the indictment, each being embodied in a count, are: “Senator Walsh—Mr. Sinclair, I de- THE 'SINCLAIR IS FOUND GUILTY: PLANS FIGHT TO AVOID JAIL Senate and indicted about a week after his appearance, the indictment containing 10 counts and 10 questions he refused to answer. When the case reached the District Supreme Court on demurrer Justice Adolph A. Hoeh- ling ruled, July 14, 1924, that 6 of the 10 questiong were pertinent to the subject matter under inquiry. The statute, No. 102, under Wwh Sinclair was indicted, says that an person refusing to answer question: congressional body shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Although holding that 6 of the 10 questions were perti- nent, Justice Hoehling added that in view of the legal questions of far- reaching importance involved, it would seem more appropriate for an ap- pellate court to pass on them. So the case went to the Court of Appeals on special appeal, but passage of the W last July wiped out 1 appeals on inter- locutory orders in criminal cases and caused the Appellate Court to grant the Government's motion for dismissal of the appeal and remand the case for trial, which began March 7. The penalty provided by conviction s a minimum fine of $100 and a maximum fine of §,1000 and a minimum sentence of one month and a maximum of one year in jail. The last person to be convicted in the Dis- trict for contempt of the Senate Elverton R. Chapman, a New York stock broker, who wa$ sentenced in 1896 to one month in the District jail and fined §100. He refused to answer questions of a Senate committee in- vestigating alleged stock operations by members of the Senate. Other Cases Pending. Two other criminal cases growing out of the Senate *oil committee” in- vestigation, of which Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat, Montana, was prosecutor, are pending in the Di trict Supreme Court. One is the con- spiracy case against Sinclair and Fall, which is set down for trial on April 25, and the other is the bribery indict- ment returned against Fall, Edward L. Doheny and his son, Edward L. Doheny, jr. One of the civil suits instituted by Roberts and Pomerene, special Gov- ernment prosecutors, for the recovery of the Elk Hills, Calif., Naval oil reserves from the Doheny interests finally has been decidled by the United States Supreme Court in favor of the Government. The other, for the recovery from Sinclair of the Teapot Dome reserve, 1s pending in the Supreme Court on appeal from the Circuit Court, which reversed the finding of the Federal District Court at Cheyenne, Wyo., in favor of Sinclair. sire to interrogate you about a matter concerning which the committee had no knowledge of or reliable informa- | tion at the time when you had here- tofore appeared before the committee and with respect to which you must of then have had knowledge. I re- fer to the testimony given by Mr. Bonfils concerning a contract that you made with him touching the Tea- pot' Dome. I wish you would tell us about that?” s “‘Senator Walsh: Since you were on the stand last, Mr. John C. Shaffer told us about an agreement between yourself and Secretary Fall, under which Mr, Shaffer was to receive from you a certain portion of the territory covered by the lease which you secur- ed from,the Mammoth Oil Company. Will you tell us about that?” “Senator Walsh Mr. Sinclair, will you tell the committee where and when you met Secretary Fall during the months of November and Decem- ber last?” “Senator Adams Mr. Sinclair, I be- lleve in an earlier hearing you testi- fled in answer to a question that you had in no way and none of your com- panies had in any way given or loan. ed anything to Secretary Fall. Is%tha® correct?” The Senate committee at that time was charged with an investigation of the matter of naval ofl leases, includ- ing Teapot Dome, and several days prior to - Sinclair’s_appearance, suit had been filed by Roberts and Pom- erene in the court at Cheyenne for the recovery of the property. Sinclair maintained that any answers he might give would jeopardize the case No reason for coughing Perhaps you cannot help catching cold— but you don’t have to keep it. Get rid of it—at the first sign — before it settles into a cough or congests the bronchial tubes. 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F & G Sts. ANDREW BETZ, Manager “pertinent” to the inquiry before aj, EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, “AUTO FINANCING” CONCERNS’ ACTIVITIES TO BE INVESTIGATED (Continued from First Page.) finance companies would be prose- cuted. “From the information I have ob- tained it seems to me there {s no doubt that certain firms here are at least at- tempting to evade the law. That h | makes them no less gulity of violating it, and I anticipate no doubt but that the coutts will so hold.” Mr. Stephens pointed out that the ‘loan shark law” was designed for just such a ‘purpose and that every precaution was taken to seal possible loopholes. This law specifically states that “it shall be illegal to ghgage in the Dis- trict of Columbia % the business of loarfing money upon which a rate of interest greater than 6 per centum per annum Is charged on any security of any kind * ¢ *without procuring a license.”” To those who pay $500 a ear for a license and post a bond of §5,000 the law extends the right to charge 1 per cent a month interest. Then, however, the statute declares: “'No such person, firm, voluntary as- soclation, joint-stock company, incor- porated soclety or corporation shall charge or receive a greater rate of interest upon any loan ¢ ® ¢ than 1 per centum per month on the ac- tual amount of the loan, and this charge shall cover all fees, expenses, demands and services of every char- acter, including notarial and record- ing fees and charges.” * Add Charges of 40 Per Cent. 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