Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1927, Page 5

Witnesses. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, December 12.—Indi- Petition Charges Prosecution l} With Coercion of | i ‘©ating the belief he sought must come | { through error proceedings or by in- | ¢ Junction in the Common Pleas Court | i ©of Cincinnati, the State Supreme Court today refused to grant the writ || ©f mandamus asked today by George | § /Remus, on trial in Cincinnati for the slaying of his wite. Remus’ petition, Prosecutor_Charles P. which asked that Taft, and | § |Assistant Prosecutors Basler, Sibbald |§ { '@nd_ Chippinget “be restrained from | Lurther unlawful unethical intimida- | tion and coercion” of witnesses testi- ! Iving for the defense, was declared f the Supreme Court to be too gen- eral, Remus, on trial at Cincinnati, charged with first degree murder in Connection with the slaying of his Wife, filed the petition today. The petition signed by Remus and| filed by Attorney Samuel Potnick, charges that the indictment for per- Jury of several witnesses who had tes- tified in Remus’ behalf, was for the Durpose of intimidating those wit- nesses. He referred specifically to the indictment of Vernon R. Chumbley, John S. Berger and Franklin Shaw, the latter a fugitive. Remus also re- ferred to the holding of George Klug under $10,000 bond by the prosecutors. Remus also charged Prosecutor Taft and his assistants with using his office 1o assist in the preparation of certain news articles subscribed to by Ruth Remus, his daughter. He is charged With keeping Miss Remus, Franklin L. Dodge, jr., and Miss Grace Campbell, friends of the prosecution, sequestered except from certain friendly groups of news writers, ARRAIGNMENT DELAYED. Berger Asks Court to Quash Perjury Indictment. CINCINNATI, December 12 (#).— Arraignment of John S. Berger, re- puted millionaire exposition promoter, of Los Angeles, Calif., was postpo: today until tmorrow morning when he presented a' plea to quash the perjury indictment returned against him last Saturday in connection with his testimony in George Remus’ mur- der trial. demanded that he be per- mitted to go before the grand jury and let the grand jurors compare his appearance with that of a “27-year- old notorious . convict, whose picture s shown them by the prosecution ‘ho told them it was of me.” “I charge Prosecutor Charles P. ‘Taft, II, used fraud in obtaining this indictment,” Berger told Judge Shook. DEMONSTRATION STAGED BY CATHOLIC STUDENTS Spreading of Faith Through Mis- sion Efforts Aim of Sacred Heart Services. by Army cember 21. The Mackay trophy, emblematic of the outstanding aerial acllle\emenl‘ airmen for the year, to be given to the Pan-American aviators De- | THE EVENTYAG | STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, DEC EMBER 12, 1927. 00D-WILL FLYERS - WILL GET MEDALS Two Who Lost Their Lives Also to Be Honored at Dec. 31 Ceremonies. R Exactly one year to the day from the date thelr planes took off at Kelly Iield. Tex., Maj. Herbert A. Dargue, ommander of the pan-American good will flight, and the seven other Air Corps pilots who completed with him the aerial visit to more than a score of South and Central American coun- tries, will receive their distinguished flying medals at a luncheon in the Pan-American Building on Decem- ber 21. At the same time, medals will be ziven posthumously to Capt. Clinton I'. Woolsey and Lieut. John W. Ben- ton, who lost their lives in an air col lision at Buenos Aires on February 26, 1927, as the flight was making its landing. These medals will be pre- sented to the widows of the two flyers, | who will also attend the luncheon. Representative Hamilton Fish has enrolled in night school here to study banking. The New York Representa- tive has been offered a position as of- ficer in a bank being formed in New York City and has ‘“gone back to school” to prepare himself for the job, which, he says, will not mean his with- drawal as a member of Congress. Fish graduated from Harvard. with a cum laude degree in three years. “I have always wanted to know Hamilton Fish Goes to Night School To Prepare forr New Banking Job| more about the fundamentals of bank- ing,” he declares, “and the situation which is developing in regard to a. tain financial institution in New York, which I do not feel at liberty to discuss at the present time, seems to be ade- quate reason for my return to school.” He has enrolled in night classes on banking under the auspices of the Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Banking and is to attend two sessions a week. EXHIBITION TO CLOSE. Three Lectures Tonight Wi'l End Carnegie Display. The annual scientific exhibition of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- ton at the Administration Building, Sixteenth and P streets, will close to- night with three public lectures. Dr. Arthur L. Day, director of the geophysical laboratory, will speak on hot springs and geysers; Dr. G. L. streeter, head of the department of embryology, on the: beginnings of ani- mal life, and Dr. Ralph W. Chaney, expert on fossil plant life, on what the fossils reveal of life on earth in past geological ages. Yesterday afternoon Dr. Sylvanus Morley of the department of American Aimed at spreading the Catholic faith through missionary effort, par- ticularly by -tudsnw, a’large atration was held yeste -turm at the Shrine of the Sacred Hurt. Sixteenth street and Park ropd, the Catholic Students’ Mission Cnl-dn of the District of Columbia. Solemn high pontifical benediction ‘was given by Most Rev. Pietrq Fuma- soni-Biondi, apostolic delegate to the Catholic University. Vaeth, dlocesan director of the propa- ndnn of the faith society, partici- pated in the public missionary conse- hu. The corps of student cadets of St. John's College acted as guard of honor. Rev. P. C. Gavan, the church’s ‘pastor, the sermon. '1' n comprised: Miss Mary !flull. Colliffower, St. Cecilia’s Academy, chairman; Miss Catherine Redmond, Sacred Heart Academy; liss Hilda Jackson,-St. Paul's Aca my: Miss Mary Smith, St. Cecilia’s my; Miss Eileen Haltigan, St. paul’s High School; John J. Meng, tholic University, and Joseph M. parker, St. John's- Academ: 000,000,000 Savings Accounts, NEW YORK, December 12 (#). ual distribution of the Nation’ otal savings deposited in banks ld give each person in the United tates $220, the American Bankers' ssociation announced yesterday. At $26,000,000,000 was pported on deposit in savings ac- u !:,h.lln l.ncruu of ‘l 368,094,000 MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervisien U. S. Traasury 1408 H ST. N. W, Perfect Diamonds 708 7th St. N.W. 709 14th St: N.W. 3123 M St. N.W. archeology lectured on the ancient Maya civilization. RITES FOR AUTO VICTIMS. Comdr. James and Lieut. Munson | to Be Buried Tomorrow. A double funeral service for Comdr. Leland F. James, U. S. N., retired, and Lieut. Francis M. Munson, Medi- cal Corps, U. 8. N., retired, and deputy health officer of Maryland, who were killed in an automobile accident about five miles from Indian Head Friday night, will be conducted in Arlington Cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Chaplain C. H. Dicken Chaplains Corps, U. S. N., will officiate. Interment will be with full military honors. Comdr. James and Dr. Munson were widely known in this city and were members of the Army and Navy Club. The officers were killed when their The Mackay Trophy, awarded an- nually, by Clarence Mackay for the most brilliant Army air success, will 1ls0 be presented to the pan-American flyers during the ceremony. Secretary Kcllogg of the State Depaftment, in addition to Secretary Davis of the \War Department, will participate in the proceedjngs, as will the diplomats of the pan-American countries visited by the flights, Thke officers who will share in the honors with Maj. Dargue are: Capts. Ira C. Eaker and Arthur B. McDaniel, and Lieuts. Ennis C. Whitehead. Charles McK. Robinson, Muir 8. Fair- child, Bernard S. Thompson and Leon ard D. Weddington, Countries visited by the flight and whose diplomats have been invited to the juncheon, are: Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, the Guianas, Veneziela, the lesser An- tilles, Porto Rico, the Dominican Haiti and Cuba. |GIRL SCOUTS’ CAMPAIGN NEEDS $34,000 MORE Workers Plan Intensive Drive Be- fire Close of Canvass on Thursday. With $21,000 raised toward the $55, 000 goal of the Washington Girl Scout campaign, to establish a permanent camp and fund to 1930. 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Letterman of the first p ot invaded the third floor of the building after bis suspiclons had been aroused by seeing a colored man run up the steps. Finding the door unlocked, he opened it. Three men were arrested and charged: with setting up gamblinz tables and the other 17 were charged with_disorderly conduct and released on $5 collateral each, and their prom- ises to appear in court as witnesses. Those held on the gaming charge said | they were William Nelson Herndon, | ears old, 1014 Tenth street; Milker Peterson, 45 years old, Royal street, ~Alexandria, Va., and George L. Smith, colored 38 years old, 1127 Third street. They we-e released on $2,000 bond each. Sergt. Letterman reported that he gave chase to the colored man, who turned out to be Smith, and caught him on the second floor. There he warned Smith that other policemen were on_guard. Then he raided the third floor. A heavy door there had been left un- locked. His entrance was marked by a mad scramble for freedom, eight men escaping. Sergt. Letterman said that he selected a man from the crowd and promised to free him if he would tele- phone police. The man complied and reinforcements arrived in short order. The case is scheduled to come up in Police Court tomorrow. JEWISH CENTER TO SEEK 3,000 NEW MEMBERS | Campaign to Start December 26 and Continue Until Jan- uary 8. An effort will be made to enroll 3,000 new members in the Jewish Community Center, through a cam- paign which will be launched Decem ber 26 and continue to January 8, ac- cording to an announcement made yesterday by Louis E. Spiegler, chair- man of the drive committee. Lectures and entertainments will be given as a part of the drive program to familiarize the public with the aim: and ' accomplishments of the center, Judge Otto Rosalsky of the General Sessions Court of New York will ad- dress a mass meeting December 29 on the.subject of “Jewish Education. The third feature of the concert and lyceum course of the Jewish Community Center will be presented Wednesday evening with the appear- ance of Shura Cherkassky, 14-year- 500 South | - | old, old pianist. GROSNER’S AUGUSTUS B. éflPl’ES, AUGUSTUS B. COPPES, 84, DIES AT HIS HOME HERE Business M Past 63 Years Succumbs After Long Illness. Augustus B. Coppes, 84 years old, vice president of the Christian Heurich Brewing Co.. and for the past 63 years a resident of this city, died at his home, 59 I street, Saturday after a long illness. Mr. Coppes was widely known here. He was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. Funeral services will be conducted at St. Aloysius Catholic Church to- morrow morning at 9 o'clock. Inter- ment will he in Mount Olivet Ceme- tery. Coppes was a widower. He survived by three nieces, Mrs, Frank B. Warren, Miss Emma Coppes and Miss Ellen Coppes, and a nephew, Au- gustus B. Coppes. COLORED BOY—SHOT IN LEG! Man Who Tised Gun Badly Beaten by Onlookers. Roosevelt Allen, colored, 19 years of 521 Q street was shot in the right leg in a fight at home with William Patten, colored, 55 years old, | of 1014 Columbia road early yestérday morning. He was treated at Freed- men'’s hospital, while Patten, who was Jjumped upon and severely beatgn by several persons in the house affer he reputedly fired, was arrested and taken to Gallinger Hospital,"where he was treated for injuries to his face nd head and fractured ribs. George Williams, colored, 28 years old, of 2129 Ninth street was shot in the left arm by an unidentified colored man at New Jersey and Fiorida ave- nues early yesterday morning. He was treated at Freedmen’s Hospital for a flesh wound. 1325 F STREET --here they are--- ur Semi-Annual CLEARANCE SALE--reducti‘ons ENTIRE STOCK of GROSNER and Kuppenheimer OVERCOATS Want a good Overcoat? Want an Overcoat with lots of style? 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