Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1927, Page 5

ATTORNEYS PUT UP “OIL TRIAL EXPENGE Pomerene and Roberts Use Own Funds to Meet Bills Congress Neglected. ___(Continued from First Page) Yions saved rectly through the re Wahle naval oil reserv Failure of Congress to provide funds | At the last session for the continued | prosecution of the suits growing out of the Senate oil investigation has put a decided crimp in the personal | hank accounts of 1wo prosecutors, and has put the United States marshall's office ta the necessity of drawing upon the Department of Justice for the fees and traveling expenses of Government witnesses ealled to testify at the trial Sans salary and sans espense ac- connt, to quote Mr. Pomerene, the two | Government attorneys, are finding it “hard to stave off the landlord.” | All their financial troubles in meet- | ng the expenses of the present trial are traceable directly to the legislative Jam in the last Congress, which smoth ered the deficiency appropriation bill along with other: When the Congress died cember there was remaining in the special oil prosecution fund between $60,000 and $65.000, which was suffi- | ciert, it was believed, to last until the reconvening of the new Con: in | December. Rut the unusually heavy | expenses entailed ate up this fund and | at the end of the fiscal year. June 30 Jast, Mr. Roberts and. Mr. Pomerene | found it necessary to draw on their| own bank aceounts. An appropriation of 100,000 has heen approved, but the fund will not be available until the | ssage of the general deficiency bill | n the next Congr: | Credit Policy Adopted. Before June 30 the two Govern- ment attorneys could put in vouchers for all expenses, but since the flow of Federal funds has stopped it has been necessary to get a large amount of the accounting and other routine details done on credit. Just how much the Government will owe its special council before the end of the year has not been reckoned, but it will run into a tidy sum. . Fortunately for the United States marshall's office and the Department | of Justice, in view of th ircum- stances, the cost of the Fall-S im‘l;lll"| trial will be considerably less in the way of witnesses and jury expenses than the previous Fall-Doheny case. Approximately £9,500 was expended | by the Government alone in meeting | these necessary expenses during the previous trial. g | Each juror gets $4 a dav. Failure | %o lock up the present jury, which | presented complications on account of the two women jurors, is saving the| Government quite a little money. The | Fall-Dobeny jury cost $76 a day, in- | cluding “board and lodging.” Board | expenses are saved the Government ! at least during the present trial for | the jurors are permitted to go home | at the end of each day. But if it| i necessary to lock up the jury over night to reach a verdict, as was done last year, the marshall's office will have to hire the entire floor of a hotel. There are no facilities at the courthouse for lodging woman jurors over night and it would be necessary to separate the sleeping quarters by & curtain. A woman guard would have to be in attendance in event the jury is taken to a hotel in addi tion to the usual male attendant. Witnesses Get $2 Daily. Fach witness called by the Govern- ment is paid at the rate of $2 a day whether he testifies or not, until final- 1y excused by the court. In addition to this modest sum the witness can put in a_veucher for his traveling ex- nses, 5 cents a mile being allowed o and from Washington. Members of Congress or any Federal employe called as a Government wit- mess cannot collect a fee for testifying, but if compelled to travel here, they can at least put in a claim for ex- nses. In this case Director H. Fos- r Bain of the Bureau of Mines, First ‘Assistant Secretary of the Interior E. C. Finney and other Government offi- ials had to give free testimony. But they are later called as defense wit- Resses they must look to Mr. Sinclair Mr. Fall for their witness fees. nator Kendrick of Wyoming, who to come here for the trial, will t his traveling expenses paid by the overnment. Former Representative Frank W. Mondell is a Federal offi- clal and =o is out of luck. Another prominent witness who has ut in a claim for fees and expenses is Harry F. Daugherty, former Attorney General. Daugherty was here for two days, but did not take the stand, Gov- ernment counsel having read his stipu- lation in court. Then there is Col Theodore Roosevelt, who came down from New York to testify for ahout five minutes, He also has put in a claim. But the bill which hurt the Government to pay was one for $253.40, the amount received hy Fall's gon-in-law, M. T. Everhart of Pueblo, Colo. After staying here 14 days at | Government expense, Everhart refused to testify when calied upon to give thstimony which would tend to incrim- inate himself, and in refusing to do %o | Wwas upheld by the court _ Department Aiding With Bills, Fall and Sinclair will have to pay all Mecessary expenses incidental to their own defense as the Government is do- fng. A= fast as claims are paid to Gpvernment witnesses at the' mar- #hal's office, the amount s drawn from the Depariment of Justice, which in turn must look for reimbursement later from the disbursing officer of the White louse, custodian of the special oil fund For the milllonaire Sinclair the ex- penses of his present defznse, outside | attorney fees, will be a mere drop in | the bucket compared with what he hax | already paid out in fighting the eivil suiits. ~ At that. however. his expenses | ih the present proceedings are con- | slderably lighter than those of | i Doheny. Most of the witne Hhle from the middle Wes: and ( rado and Wyoming. In the Doheny e, California furnished a majority the defense witnesses. Then, oo, Doheny emphasized the gossip of his chlebrated “million-dollar” defense | by maintaining an eating club in a | nearby office building, at which a chef from one of the leading hotels eatgred | 0 the appetites of numerous invited | exts. nclair. though he bably buy out the wealthy Doheny | and still have enough to, five luxuri-| sly for his remaining days, eats his jtncheon usually at the same dingy | Jitle cafeteria, munching his baked | beans and sandwiche able only | a few feet away from the 1wo Gov. efnment attorneys and some of the Jurors, who soon will hold his future fate in their hands. Human Jrrom a spectator’s seat of vantage fn the row of paper littered desks at Which a score of newspaper men are | seribbling daily under high-pressure, | the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial has | few of the human interest thrills of | fen months ago that rewarded prac- | tically the same daily spectators in the same little courtrogn over which Justice Frederick L. Siddons now is " for the Intense climax dur- | ng the past week, when the pale Jipped man in the witness chair whis pered his refusal to give evidence | against his father-indaw, who sat fac fag him anxiously on the defendan bench, the ten days of bitter legal ekirmishing have furnished lite to to the Government indi- | wery of its val- | | last De- e i i | Beach. pitifully | | | Interest Scarce. bits, friendship between days when the young ol first met the tall, gaunt New Mexican attorney. who “helped him out." present t dinner awa der the tendants, at feasts at family tables in their fash- ionable hotel suites. | heny turned ALBERT of the Iuterior, HARRY F. SINCLAIR, Co-defendant with Fall. THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. OCTOBER 30, 1927—PART 1. B. FALL, defendant 1 the conspiracy trial. OWEN 1. ROBERTS, Special Government counsel. grip the imagination of a so-called | troversy or witnesses are testifving | | from the box a hush usually prevails | “sob™ writer. Interest in the present proceedings lies chiefly in a matter of contrast to the almost daily sensations that cen- tered previously about Albert B. Fall | and the almost timid figure of l)n-; heny, the *“pal” of a life-time who stuck so stanchly by his friend to| the last. Absent now are the gossipy | of testimony about the gay vachting parties to Hawaii and Palm | No tears to be drawn by the human sfory of that long two defendants that began with the pick-and:shovel | spector Black Satchel Missing. There is no locked-up jury in the al to eat a Thanksgiving from their families un- | watchful eyes of court at- while the two defendants, liberty under bond. partake of There is no little black satchel with its mysterious $i00,000 in notes to lead a spellbound courtroom from New York to Fall's room in the Wardman Park Hotel and the subsequent nerve- wracking developments that followed; only a batch of Liberty bonds which Government counsel tirelessly traces through a maze of banks and inter- locking companies to Fall's safe de- | posit box. Lacking. too, at the present trial are such dramatic incidents as when Dohgny made a clean breast about the | tragments of the torn note given him by Fall. o motherly gray-haired wife, sympathetic to look upon, to take the stand and corroborate her husband’s admission that he tore it up to save an old friend from being pressed for its payment at some future time, perhaps, by executors of his estate. Dramatics May Come, one can tell yet what surprises | the defense may have up lts sleeve nor how intensely dramatic the scene in the little courtroom may change during the days to come. But to date, with the exception of two highly im portant incidents, the present trial hax heen more like a Senate debate over its rules of procedure. f Instead of the absorbing si of the previous proceedings, there has been an endless stream of oil men and bank clerks to tell about the validity of mining claims and the appearance | of Liberty bonds in various Kederal | 2eso anks. From the pinnacle of testimony leading up to Everhart's refusal to tell from whom he got the | 0.500 in bonds that found their way Fall's safe deposit hox, the testi- mony dropped to the tedious routine | of piecing together the fragments of evidence through the cut and dried testimony of numerous witnesses. Only the deadly significance of the chain of evidence which Roberts i doggedly forging keeps alive the in- terest of the scores of spectators who flock 1o court each day in the hope of a thrill, Even the counsel in the present trial, though at times they literally fly at each other's throats over scraps of testimony, fail to ite the inter- est attached to them in the previous trial. The Imposing row of counsel. seven major figures in all, suffer by contrast, however. ! rapierlike thrusts of Frank 1L Do- | and the bitter frony which he| at oceasions upon opposing counsel have been replaced by the genial sallies of Martin W. Littleton Who lias been likened to Lew Fields | the comedian, in manner and ap- peartine Littleton affords the smiles! which turn away the wrath which toberts and ecorge . Hoover 0 defense attorney, frequently display But there is ething about the | de-lights | in The | & could | genial Littleton that suzgests “Don’t | stocky prod me too much Justice Siddons on Bench. Presiding over this daily scene whose a of spectators resemble a portion of the Senate galleries dur- ing an inferesting debate, is Justice Siddons. formerly a leading member of the District of Columbia bar. Like his predecessor at the Fall-Doheny trial, Justice Hoehling, the presiding jurist deals out rulin tory impartiality to side. tice Siddons is by no means the least ting participant in the pro On numerous occasions he | puts his own questions to the person in the witness box and brings out in formation that tends to clear what has been confusing. The Fall-Sinclair trial, as its prede- ix heing conducted in an Iy dignified manner, which per. of no disorderly ‘shuffling of side whispering and flashlights amera men. Outside in the corri- dors and in the courthouse grounds the camera men are compelled to wait do not | b | has had to m un | over the entire courtroom, for the majesty of the law is ever enforced upon spectators by an alert bauiff, who is quick to rap for order in the court at the slightest infraction of the rules. The scrape of a chair as a_correspondent hurriedly leaves the chamber brings a glance and perhaps even an admonition from the keeper of the peace. Sensations Have Passed. Whether or not any of the political dynamite that once was so closely associated with the oil cases remains to add to the interest in the trial now in progress is largely a matter to be decided by the individual. The tremors and_ reverberations which rocked the Nation a few have heen stilled. But for the echoes of the recent Supreme Court deci- sion in the case of Sinclair there would hardly be any echo. Few curious spectators such as flocked to the former trial now stand outside the doors of Criminal Divi- sion 1 1o gain admission as the trial is entering upon its third week. But the “repeaters” are in evidence every day. Necks are craned to see and ears are cocked for any sensa- tional developments. It is much the same old scene, the same familiar at frequented the courtroom 10 months ago. For the spectaiors the two defend- ants, the gray-haired Fall and the black-haired Sinclair, hold chief inter- est. Seated in the same row with counsel, but separated, the two central figures in one of the most famous criminal trials in the history of the country furnish a distinct contrast, Fall Dramatic Figure. When Fall is not chewing an unlit cigar, apparently heedless of some dis- cussion under way, he is conferring almost constantly ‘with his two at- torneys, William E. Leahy and Mar B. Thompson of New Mexico. e takes an active part in direciing the amination of witnesses in these whispered conferences and on one o casion arose dramatically to his feet to make a suggestion to the court to permit the witness to answer que tions of “vital concern to the defense. Facing the ordeal of another trial after the present one terminates, Fall shows the effects of the strain under which he has lived during the past three or four vears. The once straight shoulders of the Westerner are now bent and aging, the former vigorous stride is faltering. When court re- cesses for five minutes he paces the cigarettes alone or friends. On the other hand, Sinclair sits quietly by with the air of the executive who is content 10 leave matters en- tirely in the hands of his staff. Sel- dom does he confer with Mr. Hoover or Mr. Littleton. All highly Involved arguments he leaves entirely to his counsel. He displays, nevertheless, a decp interest in all that goes on and it is doubtful it he misses anything that accurs, Only during the bond discus- sion of the last two days, did he ap- pear to discard any interest in the ceedings. Almost constantly he ed hix nose in a volume of Senate testimony. apparently unconcerned with the dynamite in Roberts' hands, conferring with Sinclair Interesting. ~ This man Sinclair is a particularly interesting figure, He is the wealthiest independent oil operator in the coun- try, a sportsman who finds time to follow his string of race horses, which at one time numbered the famous Zev, while directing the destinies of his oil operations shroughout the world. Tle is of medium helght, in build with a_democratic manner, however, that dispels much of the coldness of his featur i the personification of a fighter who ke his way in the world of hard knocks, At the contempt proceedings last | Winter, the millionaire oil defendant i appeared In a different suit every day. [ Now he wears the sam> weat-fitting blue suit without changing. Luncheon hour for Sinclair appar- ently comes as a welcome relief, N and Mrs. Fall take their lunch in a little room over the basement {cafeteria, where jurors, attorneys and newspaper men rub elbows. But very few days pass without the presenca of Sinclair standing patiently in line, | tray in hand, as he waits his turn to he served his usual dish of beans anrd { sandwiches. Career Is Brilliant, Sinclair's meteoric career in the realm of ofl forms one of the most absorbing ‘chaplers in the histo ot American self-made men. I an obscure drug clerk in Oklahoma, | i until leading witnesses either enter or leave the building. he amassed a huge fortune in the past 20 vears. He still walks with a years ago | the two defendants and their families | floor in the corridor outside, smoking | He | JUSTICE es over As he pr his man the how he zot a younz abont When hanzs a tale start in_life. he accidentully shot himself in foot, and with the proceeds of insance poliey he got his first real start in the oil husiness. From then on wells spurted oil as if by magic under his touch. At one time during his picturesque caveer Sinclair is said to have turned down a kingdom. It was while at- tending 1o business affairs in the Ralkans that the financially hard-up government of vssinia offered to kingly crown of held out no the country. But a the Ralkans apparently inducement to this American oil magnate, GOVERNMENT’S OIL CASE NEARING END; DEFENSE IS READY (Continu, om_First Page.) | Blackmer, now living in Enrope. who has refused to testify at the trial in answer to two subpoenas, and James F. O'Neil, likewise in Eur never has been found by the |can consul holding a subpoena him. Blackmer in November, was chairman of the board of Mid-West Refining Co., and O'Neil lent of the Prairie Ol & . Both men figured in the C nental Trading Co. “oil deal,” and Humphreys, according to Government testimony so far adduced, thought the 30,000,000 barrels of oil he negotiated for sale was to go to Blackmer until the latter nominated the Continental Co. as the purchaser. 37 More on Witness List. | Evidence on the seventh and final |overt act mentioned in the indictment, | which sets forth a contract entered {into by Fall and Secrotary of the | Navy Denby on hehalf of the United tates with Sinclair on behalf of the | Mammoth 0il Co.. for the [tion by Sinclair of steel tank siorage and facilities and for the filling the tanks with oil, “the same to bhe paid_for by an exchange therefor of royalty crude oil certificates repre senting the amount and value of roy alty crude oil accruing to the United States” under the lease of April 1922 The contract, in effect, is xus plemental to the lease, and was un- lawful, the Government contends. When court recessed Friday after- noon until tomorrow, the Govern. ment's forty-second witness was on the stand, and there were more than 115 Government exhibits in the cus- tody of Wallace Stickney, clerk of the court. Thirty-seven Government wit- nesses remain to he called, according to the original list of those to testify. but it is doubtful i all of these will be used. Among the thirty-seven on call are: “H. M. Rlackmer, Nice, €. ¢ Chase, Three Rive Fall's son-in-law; Senator J. W. reld of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Humphr: Ame for 1921, the France® Me Har , ir., of Denver, Colo.; G K. Shuler, who commanded a detach- ment of Marines which oft “squatters” on Teapot afier the lease had been signed; R. W Stewart. president of the Standard Oh Co. of Indiana, who participated the Continental Trading Co. “0il ¢ G D. Wahlberg, t Orange, Sinclair's secretary, and A. an official of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corvoration. Having lost the ar witness,” M. testimony of its T. Everhart, Fall's son-in-law, through a ruling of the urt that he should not answer | Robert's question from whom he received “those $80,000 of bonds and the $140.300 of honds which you sol to the M. D. Thatcher Estates Co. the Government will not produce any more evidence or testimony on this point. The witness refused to answer on the grounds of self-in- crimination and the court upheld Sverhart's constitutional privilege. Testimony on Ronds. Prior to propounding that question which the jury heard, together with the witness’ refusal to answer, Rob- erts had attemped to show hy Ever hart and others that he did appear at the Tirst National Bank of Pueblo, Colo., in May, 1922, a after the Teapot Dome lease was signed with thousands of dollars in Liberty Bonds which he deposited as Fall's bonds.” The Thatcher Co., which held notes of . Fall and the Tres Ritos & Cattle Co. of Three Rivers, N. Mex., of which Fall was president and Everhart an officer, later ve. turned the notes on receipts of pay ment by Everhart of their amount by means of the same honds. Iver « note alone aggregated $83,000, while Fall and the Tres Ritos company owed the difference between that amount jana £103,000. © Although no statements have heen | issued by the defense on the probable {length of their case other than that “we are ready to begin at any moment,” indications are that two {more weeks of testimony and evi- dence are in store for the two women and ten men who have so patiently and attentively followed the proceed- ings. GREET NEW PRESIDENT. Bible Institute Officials Tender Re- ceptoin to Mr. and Mrs. Eaton. The trustees, ladies' faculty of the Seminar Bible Institute i Fri ¥ auxili and and Collegiate tendered a reception day night to Rev. and Mrs. E. L. on at 1316 Vermont avenue. Mr on is the new president of the institute, Rev. Dr. A. R. Kuldeil, president emeritus and one of the founders of the institute, spoke, Dr. M . Miller presided. The new president’'s ad- dress was devoted to the expansion program and the appointment of a Dbullding and expapsion commit(ca (o While counsel are engaging in con- perceptible limp in one foot. Thereon locate sites for ney buildings, make him king if he would refinance | independent | e, but who | construc- | of | month | Betrothed BIGGER G. W.U. SEEN BY NEW PRESIDENT Marvin Gives Vision of Fu- ture in Talk at Alumni Reception. A greater George W, ity was pledged shington Uni- to the Natioral | Capital last night at a distinguished zathering at the Mayflower Haotel The pledges were given Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, new presidont of the institution, and repr of the alumni. The brilliant recoption and dance given in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin, Ly the united alumni and the Columblan women. It was one of the largest and most representative sathorin of its kind held this season in the Capital Alamni areetings xtended by Dr. A president of the George V University General Alumni tion, and by Mrs, | ey president of Columbian University's Opportunity. “A giant university with great na- tional influence” was foreseen by Dr. Marvin. He deseribed the university ve by sentatives occasion was 2 nd Hornaday, hington Associa- W. Wiley Women. TDDONS, the Fall-Si PRINCESS VICTORIA | AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT ‘Monarchists Upset as Sister of Former Kaiser Plans to Marry Youth. | By Cable to The Star. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. BERLIN, October The black, white and red flag is flving at half | mast and the hearts of the monarch- |ists sink at the news that 61-year-old | Princess Victoria, sister of the former Kaiger, is marrying a Russian dancer, 40 vears younger, whose acquaintance she made in jazz band night haunts, This princess was born at the time of the Prussian vietory over Denmar’ She was called after her mother, the wife of Emperor Frederick 111, and her grandmother, the British queen. This is the third time she has been the object of violent discussion. A= a voung girl, Princess Victoria loved Alexander von Battenberg, an >xtremely_handsome Bulgarian prince ind an officer of the guards. But be- cause Alexander was not on good terms with the Russian court, which | | fact imperiled the future of the young | Balkan state, Bismarck opposed the | marriage. IHe did not want to vex the | suspicious Czar Alexander ITi, nor iay | many open to conflict with that powerful neighbor. Marriage Is Prevented. Pt mother and daughter clung ob- | | stinately to the marriage plan and in the Spring of 1888 persuaded Kuiser Friedrich, then suffering with cancer and unable to speak, to sum- mon Battenberg to Pottsdam pending an engagement. Only the vigilance of | n adjutant hindered the plan. He | showed the telegram to Bismarck, | | thinking it politically important. Bis- | marek threatened to rerign if the en- gagement took place, as the Czar might consider it a hostile act. His reasons were given with such per- suasion that they convinced even the old queen, who was just visiting her son-in-law, Disconsolately, the two vounger Victorias yielded. They consoled them- selves that public opinion was almost unanimously on their side and against their hearless, pro-Russion Bismarck. But he_proved right. Alexander von attenberg, who soon married a pretiy opera singer, was removed from Bul- garia. His demands for help were roughly rejected by the Czar, and Ger- many would have been in a difficult: position if the Kaiser's sister had hared Battenburg's fate, Legal Battle Started. Another hushand had to be found Among the competitors was Prince dolf “of Schaumberg, Lippe, who greatly resembled Blattenberg in figure | and beard. He was victorious, w Imost a mesalliance for princess. But it was decided that Adol be crowned with Victorin gnd | | rule_in the principality of Lippe Det- mold, despite the f. At there were | two other legitimate heirs. | Many Jaw suits and intrigues arose | | from this situation. Kaiser Wilhelm | | did everything imaginable to insuve | | the little” throne to his brother-in-law. | 2ut 1 W experts of Leipzig | | University, as well as the arbiter ap- pointed by the federal diet, gave a verdict nst Adolf in favor of the heredity line of Count Ernst of Lippe Jeisterfield, The Kaiser's proteges were forced | to leave Detmold. But Wilhelm re- fused to recognize the new ruler, de- prived him and his children of proper military rights and honors and an- swered the almost too humble com- plaints of the aged Ernst in the fol- lowing words “Your letter has heen received. The smmander-in-chief’s orders were given with my consent. Give to the regent what helongs to the regent and noth- ing move. And, once for all. 1 forbid the tone in which you thought fit to write me. Wilhelm, Rex.” | | | | | This | the Thrones Now in Museums. This was treatment allotted 30 years ago to a reigning prince because he obstructed the Kaiser's protege, Since then German thrones have heen placed in muscums, and Prince Adolf is dead | long age ‘ Now Vietoria’s third marriage proj- ect, which is to take place the fi {week in ember, is causing still eater excitement ‘than the Batten Terg and Lippe affaivs. And, natutal Iy so, for the legend told the people of the exemplary life of the Hohen- zollern family—despite divorces and seandals— is endangered. Thercfore, the monarchists are fly- ing the flag at half mast in their hearts. It is delightful that Vietoria now is really marrying an Alexander, even though he is not of princely blood. 1t is rave, indeed., that a daughter and sister of Fmperors he. comes the wife of a film dancing hero, 10 vears younger than herself, It counts one point for the republic! (Covyright. 1927.) MASONIC SERVICES. | United Lodge Exercises to Be Held | Tonight. l The annual uniled church service for the Masonle Clubs of the District | wili_ be held tonight at 7:30 o'cloc jat the Washington lleights Preshy- | terian Church, 1362 Kalorama road. | Rev. Dr. John C. Palmer, pasior | ready contributing to the succe | and the spi | seen in the institutions with which I { ous ,SUPREEME COURT REVIEW |PROTESTED BY KENTUCKY | State Objects to Airing of Convic- \s presenting the opportunity of a “glorious t the God-given task, of prepaving youth of teday for their work of tomorrow. “We are on the verge of a zreat development of ( Washington University,” said the preside “We are not planning to build Vigue type of institn n but to build in a 1l realities, Without going into delails, to | what specific form the growth” would take, Dr. Marvin said that already | in his short occupancy of the office | he had “caught a new faith in edu- cation.” Mis office was lined with charts and statistics, he said. pic- turing the story of the George Wash- ington of the past, and pointing the | way 1o the greater institution of the future. Dr. Marvin praised the factor Mrs. Gloria Morgan \ per), admits her engagemer ohenlohe . Langehourg, .nephew .of en of Rumania. (Lower) ilt is the widow of th nald C. Vanderbilt and is al- it the parents ook derhilt ( to Prince of the pri embur, Queen States last Fall. 1 .of the United al- of pressing apprecia- tion of the praise bestowed upon him, Dr. Marvin said he wished to “pay especial tribute to the splendid atti- {ude of the board of trustees toward the ideals of the institution—the new aducational program to which we have dedicated ourselves, “The attitude of the faculty and students, . “is an inspiration ich as | have never HEAVY IN DISTRICT One of Every 25 Aided by Welfare Group, Charities Appeal for 1928 Reveals. the institution. Opening its Fall campaign to raise money for reliet work among the poor in Washington next vear, the Associ- | ated Charities and Citizens' Relief As- sociation announced in its appeal letter last night that out of every children under 16 years of age in the Capital a member of some aided the Associated {Chprities last year. Although con- | trtbutions last “year exceeded those | for 1925, the family welfare agencies | wers obliged to expend $3.530 out of | their reserves. The 1928 budget will | have to be inereased by at least § 000 over the budget for the current vear to keep pac Ord Preston is treasurer of the joint finance committee and will re- ive contributions at 1022 Fleventh {street, or they may be sent to_the administration and economl not | Lreasurers of either association—Jonn merely academic research but produc- | B. Larner, for the Associated Cnari- ea e eal practieal results,” “He | tics, and William J. Flather, for the bas by .wise consolidation_ here and |Citizens’ Relief Association. readjustment there.” said Dr. Horna 1,659 Families Aided. day “effected a saving of many thou- i itoas ateds 165y sands of dollars on the current year's L.I,I,';.,g“‘lnqn':.f 3.“ ;“v.m'_h it budget of the university, at the Sife | {513 children. The total of children After praising and welcominng to | from these agencles Lol b Lt the institution Dr. and Mrs. Marvin, [ Y045 o Mrs. Wiley said that the Columbian | With D e e Women expected this vear to complete | 01t Jast "|‘v—‘- it their pledge of $10.000 and turn over |man of the j;j::‘({m_:':-"m"‘\:i':‘:' e the last half to 'the institution this| ol ety D . Spring. The university now numbers ;:‘:‘""":'*‘4""1“ i gl : 50 s s ry State in the | 11O g D e oe Totelin: Counc| 192 agalintol about 48 (per cent in D A1 the past two yea Causes for the fifes, Mew. WG jioleli ans increase were said to be the general Glee Club on Program. growth "rf the l(iu' kma |:.-red.~;».| " v v o) 9 ber of social workers who refer The university glee club, under | num 1 direction of Robert H. Harmon, sang | cases of distress to the agencies, the spiritedly | numbers, including | Policy of giving continued and con- } “Intger Vitae,” “The | Structive relief, decreased —employ 'he Mulligan Musket. | Ment opportunities, high cost of living A Tia Mater and frequent lack of parental respon. The reception and dance was direct- 5‘";‘1“',\: - ed by a number of committees, of GG e M Touhun tvans. dr. was | dependence, as shown by the records general chairman, assisted by Stephen | 0f the workers engaged in this family K. Kramer, alumni trustee, and Mrs, | tehabilitation service, are ill health, Wilny. president of the Columbian | non-support and unemployment. Sick: Ao ness which often results in the 2 death or incapacity of the bread win- nev of a family was reported in one form or anoiher in 1040 fam | Desertion non-support was found to be the salient factor of dependence |and distress in 433 families or about onc-fourth of all. Unemployment was found in 729 families last year. Workers Not Increased. Although demands for relief have incre tremendously, the number of trained social workers has re- mained about the same. There are 13 family workers who look after the ecight different branch offices and who made a total of 12,118 visits on be- half of their_clients during the yvea In addition 7,113 calls were made at the office by applicants and 1.411 from {persons seeking advice or informa- tion. During the year the organizations continued to make the social service exchange available to the public and private agencies of the city, and the | year found more than 10000 registra- tions added to the exchange. of which more than 4.000 were identified as being previously known to some social service activity. One of the most important parts of the work of the year is that carried on by the committee on Summer outings through which 1,233 separate outings were provided at Camp Good Will and Camp Pleasant for children and mothers. have formerly been connected. Praises Alumni Attitude. “Matehed with this spirit is that wonderfully fine attiude of the alumni and the organizations which are car- rying forward the work of the institu- tion. We have set aside cant and Joubts and are sailing straizht for: ward with one common purpose. 1 shall have unfailing faith toward car- Fying out the development of that jeorge Washington University that we ave in our hearts Bt Dr. Hornaday and Mrs. Wiley referred feelingly to the return to health of Dean Howard L. Hodgkins of the university: the mention of hi name was the signal for a spontane- outburst of applause. Praising the success of Dr. Marvin elsewhere, Dr. Hornaday said that al- eady he had shown at George Wash- ington “that his researches in business | | family by n n in sou tion of Two Sentenced to Death for Assault. By the Associated Press, i Kentueky has filed in the Supreme | Court a hrief opposing a review of the convietion of Nathan Bard and Bun- van Fleming, nexroes, on the charze of criminal assault and their sentence 1o death. The execution of the two men was stayed iast Summer by Justice Holmes, Who took the view that the Supreme Court should be given an opportunity to decide whether the cases should be reviewed. Asserting that habeas corpus pro- ceedings by which the men sought to have their sentences in Ntate courts set aside by the lower Federal could not ‘be used to obtain a ¢ in the Supreme Court ixen- y insisted that the only ques- ton upon which the Supreme Court could pass was whether the lHopkins Cireuit Court had lost jurisdiction over the cases by surrendering to threatened mob violence. On that point, it declured the presence of State National Guards was used hy the | men (o sustain their contention of threatened moh violence, while the State asserted the presence of the troops was of itself a_complete guar- intee against mob violence, The State denied that evidence had heen produced to show that the trials were influenced in any way by fear | of mob violence | | | STING~ WREPEPCO ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED AT LUNCHEON Woman Employes of Railroad and | Power Companies Make Pres- entation to Leader. The second anniversary lincheon of the Wrepepco Club, composed of man employes of the Washington ilway & Electric Co. and Potomac | Electric Power Co., was held vester- day at Collier's Inn, 1807 Columbia voad. Miss Abigail Gowans, chair- man of the luncheon committee, was in_charge of arrangements. Following the luncheon, Miss Mabel | L. Loftus, chairman of the entertain- ment_committee, presented a program in which the following participated: | Miss Margaret Kimball, pianist: M Mary Turner, v Miss Mildred fett. soprano, Miss Elizabeth Clark and Miss Kimball were accompanists Creel, contralto, and Miss Ann Mof- A beaded bag was presented to the without any payment dc vears to pay for it. | of the church and also grand chap- Inin of the Grand Lodge of local Masomy, will deliver the sermon. “ organizer of the club and its retiring president, Miss Elizabeth Dolan. Mrs. May B. Blakeney is the new president. Il 605 14th St. N.W. CHILDREN'S RELIEF with relief demands. | s of family | 5 CURB ON BETTING -SOUGHT BY BRITAIN Totalizator System Urged to Offset Wave of Gambling at Race Courses. BY A. G. GARDINER. Br Radio to The Star. LONDON, October 2 this week of the Jockey Club, which is the zoverning hody of the English racing world, to recommend that the government permit introduction of the totalizator system of betting is gen- erally approved by the press and the publie. No social problem of the time cre- ates more disquiet in the public mind than the enormous development of | tha betting evil, which now is gen erally recognized as a more formidable enemy of the well being of the com munity than drink. The magnitude of the evil has heen startingly in- ereased this Summer by the asionish- ng suceess of grevhonnd racing, which has <wept the country like a plague and threatens to be vastly more prei- ilent mext Sprine. For years a_controversy has raged over methods for dealing with the dis- The 1illegality of betting long has been ineffective, and the question of recognizing and regulating prac- tices which clearly could not be suppressed eulmin in Winston Churchill's betting tax two years ago, which was passced in the face of flerca opposition by those who obiect to the nation recosnizing or profit hy flagzrant socia evils Revenne from the 3 far has been much less than was anticipated, but the social vesults on the whole are regarded as zood. { " Rut the tax is only the first stage in the new policy. From the first it was recognized thit the state, having officially legalized betting, must go the whole hog and sanction the conti nental system of pari-mutuels. If bet- < is to be taxed it must he taxed in | the most scientific manner and the i tot tor, which cannot cheat, ad- | mittedly fulfills that condition. The metheo has heen adoted in Australia and other British dominions and has | been found to make not only for hon- esty, but for much more reputable conduet and for control of the notori- | ously disreputable business. Meanwhile, a much more drastic method of dealing with the plague of | greyhound betting is demanded by the | Manchester watch committee, which is alarmed at the social and economic consequences of the new sport. The | mischief of the race course betting, | however grave, never has been com- | parable with the appalling effects on | the working classes of the grevhound | eraze, which provides accessible and regulas temptation in the heart of the | most populated area: The industry and tiade of whole in- dustrial districts in London and the | provinces alike have been seriously | prejudiced by the new madness | Wherever a new track is opened shop- keepers find that trade slumps. The money which should go into homes, goes to bookmakers. The Jockey | Club’s scheme will not seriously affect this evil and the Manchester watch committee has adopted a resolution calling on the home secretary to intro- duce legislation forbidding betting on greyhound tracks. In spite of the | difficulty of setting up a totalizator | on race courses, while forbidding bet- ting on greyvhound tracks, it is not. improbable that the_ Manihiester de- | mand wiil be e.cec. | (Copyright 14 CLARENDON, VA., MAN 'FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL ] F. C. Riedesel Was Clerk to Com- mittee on Post Offices in U. S. House. | 9.—The decision | | | | Frederick €. Riedesel. clerk to the committee on post offices and post roads of the House of Representa- tives, was found dead in a room in the Raleish Hotel yesterday afters | noon. There w a towel over his face, and on a dresser was a bottle of anesthetic. Coroner Nevitt has ordered an autopsy toda He registered at the hotel as G. C. lider, but identification was estabd lished by a tax receipt in his pocket; as well as a membership card in Har- mony Lodge, F. A. A. M. Mr. Riedesel lived with his wife |and 16-vear-old daughter at 33 Pine street, Clarendon, Va., but members of his household would not discuss the case last night. | ame to Washington fromr | Crookston, Minn., about 13 years ago as secretary to former Representative Halvor Steenerson. and had been clerk of the postal committee for |about five years, The body was discovered by R. H. Koontz, assistant manager of the hotel, after a maid had reported for { the second time that she was unable to get into the room, having made a similar report Friday afternoon. The house detective and a carpenter | ained entrance to the room by re- moving a panel from the door. | AIR PR ot gene 0GRAM BACKED. 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