Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1927, Page 24

SARGENT SEEKS 10 SPEED JUSTICE Proposes Federal Warrant Be Serviceable Anywhere in U. S. Territory. By the Associated Press. Some queer kinks in the laws were revealed today in the nual report of Attorney General nt, who sub- mitted numerous rec ndations for speeding up jus- tice and relleving the clogged calen dars in Federal courts. The Attorney General pointed out that while it was a Federal fense to assau beat or woun: United Statc cer, it was not a Federal offense tc kill him, and the Department of Jus: tice wants thi situation correcte Among recom mend s con- tained in the re- port was one that the law be amended to permit speedy removal from one district to another of persons indicted for Federal ¢ Another would au- thorize the presence of a stenographer before grand juries, and still another would increase the number of Federal Judges. reent. Trials Fall Off. In her report on prohibition en- forcement, Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- b ant Attorney General, mately ng th ¥ r, and S nite increase in the ge of fines collected.” The records showed a vy substan- tial increase in civil court business and a noticeable decrease in criminal business under the national prohibi- tion act, she said. The sggregate amount of judgments in favor of the United States was $352,097, or $34.612 more than the year before, while crimi- nal prosecutions showed penalties of $5,646,709, or about $1,847,848 less than the previous year. Trials by jury as well as pleas of guilty fell off during the year, while the number of prosecutions institufed and later dismissed remained about the same. Rum Base Changed. the Assistant Attor- had changed their chief pase from Canada because of the new Canadian regulations, and on the East Coast were conducting ex- tensive operations from the French Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, and on the West Coast they are experi- menting with the Society Islands as & base. The main source of smuggled liquor, she added, was by means of small, speedy American craft that operated from foreign ships and oceanic bases and were able to elude Government craft by their speed. Dur- ing the year 320 American rum-run- ning vessels were seized, compared with 330 for last year. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation, the police section of the department, reported that his bureau had procured during the year 10 life sentences, other sen- tences aggregating 7,090 years, fines totaling $1,149,045 and recovered prop- erty valued at $6,014,483, His bureau operated on an expensé of $2,012,860, the smallest since 1923. Urges More Judges. Attorney General Sargent in speak- ing of the cumbersome machinery which is set up to obtain the pres- ence of an indicted person before the court of jurisdiction, recommended that legislation be enacted that would allow criminal warrants from any Fed- eral court based on indictments to be serviceable in any place within United States territory. The arrested person ‘would be entitled to bail in the district ‘where arrested. Mr. Sargent concurred in the recom- mendations of senior circuit. judges for additional Federal judges to re- lleve the congested courts and urged Congress to allow additional district judges for the southern and eastern districts of New York, the southern district of Jowa and a judge for the second circuit, which includes Ver- mont, New York and Connecticut. In advocating a law to permit stenographers in grand jury rooms, the Attorney General declared: “It becomes highly desirable that an ac- curate stenographic record of the testimony of wiinesses before the grand jury be always available and it is a necessary aid to the better ad- minjstration of justice.” U. S. TRADE COMMISSION LOSES APPEALED CASE Jurisdiction of Lower Oourt to Temporarily Enjoin Summon- ing Witnesses Is Upheld, The jurisdiction of the District of Columbia Supreme Court to enjoin temporarily the Federal Trade Com- mission from summoning as witnesses before an examiner in Chicago and in Minneapolis officers of the Millers’ National Federation, an unincorpo- rated association, composed of 300 in- dividuals, partnerships and corpora- tions, was upheld today in an opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals rendered by Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel. The Federal Trade Commission was acting under a resolution of the United States Senate of February 16, 1924, “to investigate the production, distribution, transportation and sale of flour and bread, including by- products, and report its findings in full to the Senate, showing the costs, prices and profits at each stage of the process of production and disgribution from the time the wheat leaves the farm until the bread is delivered to the consumer.” The case is sent back to the Su- preme Court for a final hearing with instructions that an injunction will lie against the commission should the trial court find on a final determina- on its merits that the xceeded its authority. = Out of sympathy for her friend's broken heart, a high school girl of Tokio leaped with her from a pier, but was saved while her companion was drowning. COLUMBIA RD. av 18 ST, " oprosiTs amBASSADOR TONIGHT 5 Until 7:30 Broiled - 7 5c ’ Tenderloin i Steak Dinner [ el atention By sor your oom foxt and convenience, Columbia 5043 Ly nd penalties | 113 KILLED IN YEAR. Trains, Autos and Busses Blamed for Year’s Toll in Maryland. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, December §.— One hundred and thirteen persons were killed in railroad, street car and motor bus accidents in Maryland dur- ing the 12 mouths which ended Octo- ber 1, according to a survey by Pub- lic Service Commission engineers. During the same period, the report disclosed, 5,893 other persons suffered injuries sufficient to require medical attention in similar accidents. In the corresponding 12-month period a year ago, records of the commission show 125 persons were killed and 5,700 in- jured. Of those killed this year 90 died in steam-railroad accidents. Elec- tric railways in the State were charged with the deaths of 42 persons. Injurles in accidents on these roads totaled 5,010. Motor coaches operating under permits reported only one fatal accident, that of a pedestrian struck by a bus. Accidents to pedestrains in which injuries were incurred num- bered 14, and 161 passengers and 97 employes were also hurt. BAZAAR AND SUPPER AT ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH Affair Will Start at 2 0'Clock Next Thursday and Continue Until 9. A bazaar and supper will be given at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase Circle, of which Rev. H. T. Cocke is rector, for the benefit of the church. The bazaar will open at 2 p.m. and continue until 9 o’'clock. Supper will be served from 5:30 to 8 o'clock, while there will also be an afternoon tea. The bazaar will be held in the parish house. Supper will be served in the Sunday school room. Mrs. F. P. Wilcox will have charge of the supper arrangements, while Mrs. George Harris will be in charge of the bazaar. Both will be assisted by various women of the parish. Mrs. John R. Barr will preside at the tea table, being assisted by Mrs. E. S. Hege. At the bazaar there will be booths where various articles will be on sale. Mrs. S. L. Tabor will have charge of a Christmas tree and grab bag for children. ¥ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. T, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927. PERIL POINTED OUT BY FOREST SERVICE Warns Universe Use of Tim- ber Tracts Adds to Na- tion’s Burdens. By the Associated Press. The unwise use of forest and agrl- cultural lands, the forest service of the Agriculture Department has re- ported, not only is adding to the flood burden of the Mississippi River, but unnecessarily is destroying millions of acres of rich and productive land through erosion of denuded slopes. The forest service, in reaching these conclusions, made eight recommenda- tions designed to correct these evils and to supplement levees, reservoirs and spillways as flood preventive measures. The recommendations urged exten- slon of co-operative fire prevention to all forests on the Mississippl water- shed as rapidly as the States and private land owners will undertake the work. Idle waste land on farms and sub- marginal land should be planted to forests under the co-operative pro- visions of* the Clarke-McNary law, they added. Additional Suggestions. Other recommendations were: Instruction to owners of 105,000 square miles of forest that they may keep pace with forestry planting and the marketing of forest product: Complete the purchase of 2,642,000 acres of protection forest lands in national forest purchase units already approved and established by the Na- Sturtevant Blowers for Burning Buckwheat Coal FRIES, BEALL & SHARP 734 10th St. N.W. herever fimilz'es are more particular about BREAD corey's MOTHER'S BREAD ash your grocer about it - of winter Five famous Santa Fe trains every day,away from wintry weather to lands of sunshine. To Califoraia—the sunny playground of the Pacific—where you can enjoy an endless variety of pleasures in a climate that is perfect, Life takes on new fascina- tion in this sparkling countryofthe Coast! To Southern Arizona—with its color- ful deserts and fertile valleys —its orange groves, olives and figs. An open country —ideal for riding or motoring—the soft air is & tonic—the sunshine lures you out of doors. To Hawail, after California. Coral beaches—exotic flowering trees—South Sea splendors! New sports and new ex- periences await you on “the islands!” The Santa Fe will take you, swiftly, lux. uriously to these lands of delight this win. ter. The Chief—extra fine, extra fast, extra fare; The California Limited, The Navajo, The Scout, and the Missionary leave Chicago and Kansas City daily. G. C. Dillard, Dist. Pass. Agent, San| m-my"lnlllne Bldg., Philadel] on your wayw Canyon and Indian-detowr ta Fe Ry, hia, Pa. ’hone : Rittenhouse 1464-5 tional Forest Reservation Commission on the Mississippi watershed, and pur- chase approximately 6,900,000 acres more of protection forest lands ad- joining two existing national forests in Arkansas and in 15 other units on the Mississippi drainage. Continue to protect and adminster present national parks and game ref- uges and add to national forests ad- joining forested areas of unreserved public domain. ‘Would Investigate Bad Lands. Authorized investigation of ‘“The Bad Lands” and “The Break” as a research project with a view to dis- covering some method of preventing present serious erosion. Adopt a plan of control of public grazing lands recommended by the Secretaries of Agriculture and In- terior. Empower the United States Geolog- ical Survey to make the waterflow measurements and determination of silt content necessary to show from time to time whether progress is be- ing made in checking soil erosion. The recommendations call for a total appropriation of more than $33,- 000,000. Departed Elks Extolled. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md.,, December 5.— More than 1,000 members and friends attended the annual Elk memorial services at the Tivoll Theater yester- day afternoon. Secretary of State David C. Winebrenner, 3d., eulogized “‘Our Departed Brothers.” Three mem- bers died during the past year. They were Peter L. Hargett, John W. Nel- son and John C. Motter. THUG BEATS WOMAN AND TAKES PURSE O Street Residents See Negro Es- cape After Attack—Other Robberies Reported. Mrs. Nancy Blankenship of apart- ment 4 at 607 O street, was knocked down by a colored man and her purse containing a small sum of money was stolen in front of Columbia Junior High School, on O street between Sixth and Seventh, last night about 7:30 o'clock. She was struck on the head with some weapon when she re- fused to give up the purse, police stated. Four other blows were struck while the woman lay helpless on the slush-covered sidewalk. Residents across the street witnessed the hold- up, but the assailant made his escape before they could stop him. For the third time within a few days, a sneak thief emptied’ the re- frigerator at the home of Smoot, 1447 Clifton street, yesterday morning, she reported to police. Steak, butter, eggs and milk were taken after the lock was broken. Leon A. Sneeringer, 46 Channming place, also lost a ham, two pounds of butter and a steak from his refriger- ator last night. An unidentified col- ored man held up Bert P. Hightsmith, 324 Murray avenue, Vir_inia High- lands, at the point of a gun last night near the corner of Eighth and M streets and took $21 in cash, Hight- smith notifled police. J. H. Toulouse reported that his room, 409 Munsey Building, was entered between 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon and 12:30 o'clock yesterday and six $100 bonds and a Senate press gallery pass were stolen. A duplicate key was used to gain entrance, police said, and a jimmy used to open desk drawers. His traveling bag, containing apparel, toilet articles and tools, valued at $130, was stolen from the sidewalk at Eleventh and F streets yesterday, John Terihn, Ridgeway, Pa., reported to the police. Gaining entrance through a kitchen window, burglars visited the home of Mary Marcellino, 914 Fifth street northeast, between midnight and 3 o’clock this morning. pparel valued at $30 was stolen. REV.W.T. TA.LLON HEADS ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 5.— Rev. William T. Tailon, S. J., former dean of Georgetown University, yes- terday succeeded Rev. Albert G. Brown, S. J. as president of St. Joseph's College and rector of the Church of the Gesu in this city. Father Brown, whose six-year term here expired October 1, will leave this A fine dressing for STEAKS p-tluxnehedhn-.l—l L'EA & PERRINS’ SAUCE week for Baltimore, where he will be assistant president of Loyola College and assistant rector of St. Ignatius’ Chureh, Father Tallon during the past ten years has held several positions of responsibility in the Jesuit Colleges of this country. For the seven years pre- vious to his coming to Georgetown he was professor of classics at St. An- drews-on-the-Hudson. He was trans- ferred to Georgetown in 1922, where he occupied the position as dean at the College of Arts and Sciences for two years. 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