Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1927, Page 4

BUILDING RECORD S SEEN FOR 1328 Exchange Official Predicts, Biggest Year Since 1919, With Early Start. Prophecy that 1928 will be the big-| gest “construction year” since 1919 was made by Earl Stokes, secreta of tue National Association of Build ers' Exchanges, at a luncheon held at the Raleigh Hotel yesterday after- noon by members of the Washington Builders’ Exchange. “All the barometers of point to new and strons prosperity,” said Mr. Stokes. 1927 will \ably close without hit- ting the of 1926, it has still ear. Bankin nerally confident | that early inj husiness perinds of “While peak a feel money will not is at present.” The current building will creating pros the opinion of “During the toward Winter strong fac v 1 trend t six years construc- tion work done in the Winter has in- creased by 3 per cent. and 1 be. lieve that eventually Winter construc- tion will be placed on the same basis as Summer construction. The im mense benefit that will accrue from i stand or | charges {apply to any matters now before the | grand | mit themselves. tion had been filed and the rule had been signed. unusual activity ap- peared around the grand jury room, Dorsey W. Hyde, secretary of the Washington Chamber of ' Commerce and foreman of the grand jury, was seen rushing about in search of Neil Burkinshaw, in charge of the g jury investization. Failing to locate him, Mr. Hyde prevailed upon iordon to go before the grand jurors “and answer some questions Action Is Predicted. gave rise to a crop of rumors that grand jury action was imminent, but the United 8 attorney’s office rencwed its st discussion of this subject with vige It was emphasized that in cases of magnitude, such as the present one, extreme care and precaution must he taken in drafting the indictments upon which the government must fall before a trial jury One attache went s L that sometimes t work is spent on pre Asked if at period would jury. officials would not com The text of the petition for the con tempt rule, signed by Maj. Gordon, ‘fol- | lows: » the Chief Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court of c “The United States of America, Peyton Gordon, its attorney in for the District of Columbia, repre- sents unto your honors as follows: “That at the 19 this court there can v he Criminal Division thereof the s of United States vs. Harry F. and Albert B. Fail, Criminal No. wherein the defendants were cha Associate such practice is self-evident “Contractors and buildir find that Winter building tageous in thar thev may keep their | erews of skilled workers intact and thus reduce overhead. Also it is ne essary only to pav normal wages the vear round, and thus a uniform and | steady rate of profit is secured.” | SINCLAIR-BURNS CONTEMPT ACTION ORDERED BY COURT (Continued from First Page) operators advan The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has held that a judge may levy a fine or pass jail sentence, but not both. tice Siddons’ Rule. e Siddons’ “rule to follows “pon consideration of the petition this day filed Peyton Gordon, United States attorney in and for the District of Columbia and upon appli- cation in that behalf made, it is by the court this 22d day of November. A D, 9827, ~Adjudged that Harry F. Sinclair, William J. Burns, Wm. Sherman Burns, Henry Mason Da Sheldon Clark and Charles L. Veitsch, and | each of them appear in person and show cause before this court, if any, th d either of them have or has on the 5th day of December, A. D., 1927, at 10 oclock a.m.. why they should not be adjudged in contempt of the authority of this court as prayed in said petition; a certified copy of the petition and this rule to be served upon each of the respondants named herein, on or before the first day of December, A. D., 1927.” When discussion turned in the courtroom to the date for the hear- ing, Justice Siddons told Maj. Gordon, “You may make it as early as you can.” Gordon replied he would like to have it in the early part of De- cember, and the court suggested De- cember 5, as that day is the last day of the present term of juries. The date thereupon was agreed to. Friday Clark’s hearing before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage on a complaint signed by Assistant United States Attorney Neil Burkinshaw, charging Clark with at- tempting to tamper with the jury, is scheduled to be held. Clark is unaer $10,000 bond. It was understood at the courthouse today that the Gov- ernment would ask for a continuance for that hearing. Duplication Is Seen. It was generally felt around the ocourthouse that the contempt proceed- ings instituted by Maj. Gordon would have the effect of wiping out the spe- cial committee of lawyers appointed by Justice Siddons to inquire if per- sons mentioned in the four affidavits presented by the Government at the height of the oil trial and which brought about a mistrial are guilty of contempt of court. The proceedings of today, it was ex- plained, would relieve the court of the task of initiating the contempt issue, as Maj. Gordon and his staff now shoulder the responsibility of going into court and proving their conten- tion that the jury was tampered with, or efforts were made in that direction. On December 5 the matter will be threshed out in open court, and for the commit: to continué with a pri vate investigation to determine if contempt was committed would be duplication of effort, it was held. Shortly_after _the contempt_peti | show' OME people make the mistake of believing that the same breed or race of cows gives a uniform grade of milk, Statistical records prove there is extensive variation even in the milk from the same cow. The way to assure uniform high quality is to combine the product of many cows —each of which regu- larly supplies milk that passes rigid tests. When you buy Simpson’s Milk from your grocer you're assured of uniform qual- ity always. That's one of the reason’s why i best to buy— BUY IT BY THE QUART FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD GROCER with conspiracy to defraud the U States: that the trial of the Hon stice of said court . and that Anolla L Heat William H. Goucher, Con Robert . Flora, John W, Holmes, John Glasscock, jr. and Chavles nd fworn as petit | and truly try ause. at 12:20 o'clock p.m.. on Octo. ber 18, 1927 that the Government, from that time. wurse of presenting its ev ind the jury was re day, until November last mentioned date the jury was final v discharged from further consider tion of s cause and a mistrial de- gun bhefore <iddon 3 n Octob Bailey. Ber P Grenfell rad J. Herzoz P. Kern. Bradner 1’ Costinett, Edward J, Holt wer inrers to rges had been made against the sdward L. Kidwell, one of rs, to the effect that he. the Kidwell, jr.. while to-wit, on outside id trial ws the 29th day of October. of the courtroom where said cause was being tried, to-wit, at No. 411 Four-and-a-half street southwest, in the City of Washington, in said Dis- trict of Columbia, had made remarks in the presence and within hearing of 1. Ray Akers and Donald Kay King oncerning his attitude and intended action as a juror aforesaid toward th issues on trial in said cvause: and sworn charges. also. to the effect that there were a large number of operatives of the William J. Burns International Detective Agency of New York, then engaged in the District of Columbia, since October 18, 1927, in a close, in- ohjectionable and improper «urveillance and investigation of the jurors aforesaid and the relatives. neighbors and friends of said jurors. Charge Against Sinclait “That about the time when jurors were sworn in said caus aforesaid, to wit. on Octoher 18, 1927, and hefore the ‘discharge of said jurors aforesaid, said Harry F. Sinclair, one of the defendants on trial as afore- said, ordered, directed and induced one Henry Mason Day and one Shel- don Clark, each of whom was then an employe and officer of a certain corporation which was then controlled by said Harry F. Sinclair through stock ownership, to wit, the said Henry Mason Day then being’ v president of the Sinclair Exploration Co., and the sald Sheldon Clark then heing vice president of the Sinclair 2efining Corporation, to proceed from in other cities, 1o Mason and the s don Clark from Chicago. N of Washington, in the said Dis- of Columbia, and engage the services of eaid, The William J Burns International Detective Agency. and supervise the activities and re. timate. id Shel- to the the same to him, the said Harry F. cream and butter! For i Act nobody the said | on which | and | s Maj. | | | vors, | ton, in said Distr | personal clerk to the said lart THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN Sinclair, for the following objects, that is to say: “To spy upon said jurors and each of them, to bribe, intimidate and in- fluence said jurors and each or a of them, and to do anything calcu lated to interfere with and impede Jurors and each of them in the | unhinsed discharge of the the trial of said cause, a ence, pervert, impede a duties as gurors, and to impede, per vert and prevent the due administra- tion of justice in said court in the tvial of said criminal secution, either by i jurors to Prosecution ants therein, or to disagree as to ues, by unlawfully spying upon the d jurors and each of them for the pury of concocting false .charges against one or more of the said ju in case such a course should seem advantageous to said defendant in said case, with a view of bringing about a mistrial of the cause afore otherwise accomplish such corruptly decide the issues of in favor of the defend- id said purpose. False Affidavit Col “That the employment of the said William J. Burns International D tective Axency w ingly made by the Day by telephone from the said . Sinclai’s apartment at the flower Hotel in the city of Wa ot of Columbia he 18th day of October, 1827, to n;:- Sinclair in said Harry F. Sinci | thereupon | | Henry | the 13 ¢ from | o office in New York eity, who communicated with W, Sherman Rurns of sald detective azency. and further negotiations were made later the same day between said ) man Burns and the said Mason Day: that thereafter, \ter that day and the following day, following named operatives, Ruddy, George H. Robbin Daniel Merritt, stoer, Frank J. O'Reilly. William J. MeMul lin, Thomas F. Rrennan, Dwyer. Arthur J. Sullivan, § Knowles, L. ard < aul M. O'Neil, John Kivin and Barton P. Stewart, of the said detective agency were assembled in the eity of Washington, in the said District of Columbia, and thereafter, d Henry Mason Day and Shel lark, were assigned to duties of 1 upon, investigating and shad- & the aforesaid jurors in said cause, which said duties were pe med hy said operatives up to and including the nd day of November, 27: that at or about i o'clock a.m. 1 the early morning of October 19, 1927, the said Charles G. Ruddy. then in charze of aforesaid operatives, went to the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland. and there conferred with Charles S. Vietsch, another operativ of said detective agency and its I'al timore manager, and conferred with pri Charles J he carried out in the city of V ton. hereinhefore described: that there. after, to wit, on Octoher ? and 26th, 1927, the s Vietseh eama to the city of Wa ton, in the said District of Columbi ng with e <um of money. totaling in the te of fifteen hundred dollars, which he, the said Charles S. Viel turned over to the said Charles Ruddy for the purpose of financing the preliminary steps of said opera- tions, William J. Burns Named. “And that the said William T. Burns, actively engaged in conducting the affair of said agency. although not an officer of the same, was one of the founders therof, and his wife Iolding 47 of the 50 shares of capital stock of said agency; that said Wil- liam J. Burns, in said indirect fashion receives monies and other bhenefils wife's name; and that the said Wil liam J. Burns visited the City of ‘Washington, in said District of Colum- bia, with regard to the operations of the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, and remained in the City of Washington, to wit, on October 12 and 13, 1 and there. after. to wit. on the third day of No vember, 1927, the said Willilam | Burns returned to the City of Wash ington in said District ®f Columbia where he and the said W. Sherman | Burns of aid respondents procured the ma g of a falge affidavit purport- | ing to_show that a representative of the United States Department of Justice approached and held conver- sation with said Norman L. Glass. cock, a juror in said cause, as afore. ceive reports from divers operatives | Burns and of sald detective agency and forward | Burns, said, and that the said William J. the said W. Sherman knowing said affidavit to be alse and without truth and fact, did Did vou know you had one? We all have— Not a tree, not a vine on the place, yet the rarest fruits and vegetables are found there! Not a cow in sight, yet the finest milk and Small, perhaps, vet no ordinary farm of a hundred acres could begin to rival it— your grocery store. Iy, if vour grocer weren't there—if s grocer were there—do vou realize we'd all have to move out of the city and back on to farms of our own? He performs a valuable public service— this fellow-citizen of yours. And his advice is worth having when you buy. k him about corey's MOTHER'S BREAD 'S BAKERY —CONTINENTAL BAKING Co. said jurors in the discharge of their | seph B. him with regard to the operations to him on each occasion | h, | were from the holding of said stock in his| ¢ | =erein, or to dis hereinbefore described of the agents | then and there procure the submis- sfon of said aflidavit to Frederick L. Siddons, asso tice of the Supreme Cour District of Columbia, intending there- by to provide ence, such as it | was, that the United States of Amer- ica, through one of its emploves, i tampered with said juror in the United States vs. H . nd Albert B, ¥ and | aid | said i Ruddy, proceeded to in- vestigate any and all Incumbrances upon the home of said juror Kern the said city of Washington, Distr of Columbia, and the operatives so detailed investigated the land records of the District of Columbin, reported |in writing, and concluded sald re- port with the statement that efforts would be made to ascertain the names af those holding trust notes secured upon said juror Kern's home. Operatives’ Alleged Activities. “That the direction of Ruddy as afore neighbors of 1 juror Kern and | reported that J. Vogts, a ned door neighbor of juror Kern, was re- puted to be ‘well fixed as to money,’ having recently sold his home, and was represented to have made a thousand dollars in four day. one occasion as a result of g favors relative to the shipment of corpses during the influenza epidemic while said Vogls was freight agent for two railre iat an inv ducted by the said the direction of the said Ruddy. with regard to the brother or father of said juror Kidwell, and reported in writing that said brother's or her's place of business was located on questionable premises and that racing sheets were found in he trash thrown out of said premises. | t said operatives, working un- | the direction of the said Charles | | tuddy, as afovesaid, at the instigation of the said rles G, | uddy. sely reported tha d | juror Glasscock was seen in econfer- | ence with a person shown by an- | other report of another of said opers | atives to be an employe of the De- partment of Justice at a remote | place nutside of the eity of Washing- ton for a period of minutes. “That all said operatives engaged lin the work aforesaid reported dally | lin writing to the said Charles G. | Ruddy. who caused said s to he | | typewritten, and the ori of said | reports were sent to | Sherman Burns in New York, York, and the contents thereof | ported to said respondents herein. sald juro while serving aid operatives, acting under | the said Charles G Ad, investigated ion was con- ind the | Spying Charges Made. | “Ana your petitioner further repre- | | sents that at all times hereinbefore mentioned each of the persons above | named as respondents to this petition well knew all the premises aforesaid {and well knew that said criminal pros 5. |ecution was being conducted in said court as aforesaid, that said prosecu- | tion was not finished. that said jurors were sworn jurors trying the issue |in said cause in said court as afore said; that they, the sald respondents. not, as in fact th | called upon or authorized by | court. or ny anyhody in authority, 1o | spy tpon said jurors or any of them, or to bribe, molest. intimidate or in-| fluence said jurors or any of them, or to do anything calculated to interfere with or impede said jurors or any of | them in the unblased discharze of | their said duties, or to influence, per- ~ert, prevent, or in any manner, or! | ta any extent. impede, the due admin- | | istration of justice in =aid court in | the trial of said criminal prosecution, | | either by corruptly influencing said jurors to decide the issues of said | prosecution in favor of the defendants e as to said is. spying upon said them for purpose charges against i | sues, by unlawfull | jurors or any of of eoncocting false in furtherance of said designs | Distinctive New GTON, D. after | C., TUESDAY, one or more of sald jurors, in case such a course should seem advanta- reous to said defendants in sald cause, with a_view of bringing ahout a mis- trial of the cause aforesaid. “Wherefore, your petit this honorable ¢ requiring said Har) . Sinclalr, Wil Burns, W. Sherman Burns, ay, Sheldon Clark and L. Vietsch, respondents, to ¢ in this court in person at a in, and to show cause why they should not be held in_contempt of this court and punished therefor as for a criminal contempt: and that if, upon the hearing of this petition it appears to the court that other persons were concerned in the matter stated herein as constituting a con tempt of this court, that they he made parties to this petition, and its prayer for process and order to show cause be made applicable to them.” — Secret brewing of heer in Fngland is heing done on a much larger scale 7 is generally supposed, according | ccent reports. 1 GROSNER’S NOVEMBER 22, 1927. ANNUAL ZLECTION HELD BY COLORED P. 0. CLERKS Union Announces Choice of Officers, With W. H. Westray Heading List as President. The elections committee of the Col- ored Post Office Clerks' Union, Local 148, announced last night th follow- ing officers had been successful in the ecent annual balloting: W. H. West- ray, president; L. A. Anderson, vice president; R. W. Bailey, financial sec- retarv: W, H. Webb, recording secre- tary A. Shell, organizer; J. A. Davis, sergeant-at-arms, and C. A Booker, treasurer. The following trustees were named |at the same time: J. M. Botts, H. L Derricote and Ralph Qualls. W, Jordan and R. H. Pollard were an- land-District of Columbia conven hez Lee, W. H. Twine and J . 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