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D C_ oo FRY G M Get_our return losd rates ehipments %o bilad Piuwtureh ond " and one Man 1 Bick poipts Special rates " FaTiomaLl DELIVERY ASSOCIATION way 460 OGN AND APTER JAN 25 1478 D08 Vo rembonmiie, {ur sy deth, e 1 LEFER. 3602 Cambe] iy A g% Who has # A e Rrawonavie Yires Ratier. o NUAL MEY ws. | | anything more I did not know it.” | 1o tell the details of the bond transac- | more 1 did not know it.” WALSH COMMITTEE Senator Will Not Compel Oil Man to Take Stand in In- quiry, However. __ (Continued from First Page) Dome naval oil reserve to Sinclair came from the latter. The disclosure was made by Ever- hart, who gave his story freely yes- terday, although he had twice before refused in court to reveal the source of the bonds. Apparently relieved by the knowledge that recent legislation had lifted the possibility of his being pros- ecuted on the basis of his own testi- mony, Everhart told readily of financial deals between Fall and Sinclair. He said he also was concerned with the transactions and that they involved | a division of interest in Fall's New Mex- ico ranch. Everhart testified that in addition to the $230,500, Fall received (from Sinclair $2,500 in Liberty bonds and $36,000 in cash as “loans”; he did {not know whether the loans were re- aid. ¥ g Testimony at the original Teapot Dome inquiry now being resumed and at subsequent court trials has estab- lished that after that Fall retired as Interior Secretary and before he went to Russia as Sinclair's agent in ofl negotiations he received $25,000 in bonds from the oil man, and that he received $100.000 as a loan from Ed- ward L. Doheny after the latter leased the Elk Hills, Calif., naval oil reserve. Thus the total paid to Fall stands in the records at $394,000. Thought Deal Ordinary. After he left the stand Everhart said was not informed whether Fall was aware of his intention to testify, and that he felt impelled to tell what he knew of the transaction. He said that to him it was never more than an or- dinary ranch deal and that “if it was The money paid to Fall by Sinclair through Everhart, the witness said, was in payment for a third interest in Fall's properties. ‘Testimony at the re- cent Fall-Sinclair trial was that the bonds were a part of the profits of the Continental Trading Co. of Canada, which contracted to buy oil from the late E. A. Humphreys of Denver and re- sell it to the Standard Oil Co. of In- diana, the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchas- ing Co., the Midwest Refining Co. and the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. The con- tract, it has been testified. was guaran- teed by Sinclair, Henry M. Blackmer, former chairman of the board of the Midwest; James E. O'Neil, former presi- dent of the Prairie Co.. and Robert W. T0 CALL SINCLAIR, STAR U. S. WITNESS IN CONTEMPT TRIAL ADMITS PRISON TERM (Continued_from_First Page.) attorney, told the court he had brought out the fact of McMullin's prison sen- tence to show the character of the man the Burns agency had employed to en- gage In the jury surveillance. Asked About False Name. At the conclusion of McMullin's sensa- tional story of attempts to falsify records for use in a possible mistrial, Maj. Gordon asked the witness why he had given the name of William V. Long in applying for a job with the Burns agency in Philadelphia, just before be- ing sent to Washington. Without the slightest sign of uneasi- ness, McMullin said he had previously applied under his own name, three years ago, and filed his photograph with the agency. “I had also been in a little trouble about nine years ago,” he added. Asked about this by the district at- torney, McMullin said “In 1920 I forged a check for $90 and was sentenced to the penitentiary from one to seven years.” “Were you guilty?” Maj. Gordon de- manded. “Yes,” the witness replied. McMullin then said he had served about two months of his sentence in the penitentiary and after being re- leased on parole worked 10 months in a brickyard. Maj. Gordon, when asked why he was questioning the witness so, said he was trying to show the character of the man Burns had brought down here. “What he is doing was in anticipa- tion of what was going to happen later,” George P. Hoover, counsel for Harry F. Sinclair, announced. Says He Was Guilty. On cross-examination, Judge Danicl Thew Wright, counsel for Henry Mason Day. asked McMullin if he were guilty of the crime of forgery. “Absolutely,” McMuliin replied, un- hesitatingly. “And you pleaded guilty?” “Absolutely.” Judge Wright endeavored to find out COSGRAVE HONORS WASHINGTON’S MEMORY AT MT. VERNON TOMB (Continued from First Page.) Minister of the Irish Free States, at the Mayflower. The guests included Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador; Desmond Fitzgerald, minister for defense of the Irish Free State; Justices Butler and | Stone of the Supreme Court; Frederick | A. Sterling, U. S. Minister to the Free | State; cabinet members, members of chairman of the board of the Profits Set at $3,000,000. Profits of the now extinct Canadian Corporation are alleged to have wul{d. $3,000,000, and the Senate committee’s new investigation is aimed to deter- mine what became of the remainder of that money. Several former directors of political campaigns may be called to testify whether any of # found its way o their coffers, as has been rumored. One witness, A. C. Downing, secre- tary of the New York Trust Co. al- ready has given the committee records showing that Liberty bond transactions totaling more than $1,000,000 by Black- | mer were completed through that . Blackmer now is in France and has refused to come here to testify in the Fall-Sinclair case. Everhart's story to the committee concerning the land deal was that it was to divide his and Fall's ranch| holdings into thirds, one portion to g0 to Sinclair in exchange for the oil ' ts to Fall. He mum by t into the deal, and that he merely acted as aatmng 7 124 He sald that Sinclair had intended to develop 8 hunting and riding club | on the all h that project has not materialized. money re- ceived by Fall, Everhart said, was to pay off Fall's debts on his property and to acquire other land. The witness said the payments by Sinclair were in bonds and cash and that the money was handed over personally by Sinclair elther at various meetings in Washington or in New York. Sinclair, here on account of his hear- ing in the District Supreme Court on a contempt charge growing out of his Joint with Fall on a criminal con- spiracy charge, has refused to make any comment on Everhart’s testimony. He is under summons to go before the committee. Upon leaving the witness stand after | being questioned for more than an hour, Everhart said he did not know whether Fall was aware of his plan uon. “Z had to tell my part,” he sald, “in fairness to my family. 1 could not keep still any longer because it was never any more to me than an ordi- nary ranch deal. If it was anything Everhart, the first witness when the hearing started, told a somewhat vague and involved account of the refinancing of New Mexico ranch properties held by himself and his father-in-law. Ranch Shares Exchanged. The ranch properties were to be; Jumped and the one-third interest sold | 1 Sinclalr, the money to be used in| paying off the indebtedness of the Tres | Ritos Land & Cattle Co., Fall's personal | debts and the balance due on the Har- | | riss ranch, adjoining Tres Ritos, which | | Pall had taken over | There was a scheme by which a part the diplomatic corpsy Speaker Long- | worth and a number of Senators and Representatives, members of the visit- ing Irish delegation, government offi- cials, Archbishop Curley and other dig- | | nitaries of the Catholic Church and a number of prominent visitors. After the dinner Mr. Cosgrave drop- ped in for a moment on the banquet of the Chamber of Commerce and was given a tremendous ovation. He spoke briefly. The Catholic University of America will confer the honorary degree of doc- tor of laws on President Cosgrave in the university gymnasium at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. It is very rare for this university to confer honor- ary degrees, King Albert of the Bel- glans being one of the only two so| honored previously. Preceding the exercises in the gym- nasium, there will be an academic pro- cession of the hierarchy and faculty in academic robes of the university from Caldwell Hall, led by Archbishop Cur- ley and Bishop Shahan, the rector. | There are 175 professors, representing all the great universities of the world. s0 that the academic procession will be unusually colorful. Archbishop Curley, as chancellor, will invest President Cosgrave with the doc- tor's hood and will present the diploma. The university faculty will be seated on the stage in the gymnasium, with the student body and membership of some 30 houses of study affiliated with the university in attendance. The gym- nasium seats more than 3,000 persons. ‘The public is invited. get the $35000 in Liberty bonds, he paid Sinclair $1,100 for cattle and hogs shipped to Tres Ritos and then, acting under his father-in-law's instructions, took up with Sinclair the matter of making loans to the ranch company “at low interest rates,” “How did Sinclair receive that sug- gestion?” asked Senator Walsh. Appeared to Be Agreeable. “To & limited extent I got the im- pression that he was agrecable,” was the reply. “How much did you get?” “I think the total amount was around $36,000." ‘How was that paid?” “I think it was pald in cash, at dif- ferent times.” Everhart explained tha’ he came East and got the money. Sinclair, ne said, once pald him $25600 in cash at the Wardman Park Hotel here. “Did Mr. Sinclair have that much in cash?” inquired Walsh, apparently in astonishment. “Well, he paid it over to me in cash,” Everhart returned. “And you transmitted it to Pueblo by | check?" the prosecutor pursued. “No, T tok it there in my pocket in cash. Walsh wanted to know whether any of that money had been patd vack “Not as far as I know,” Ev sald Next the prosecutor informed Ever- hart that previous testimony had been that Fall had paid for the Harriss {of “Tres Ritos would be converted into | ranch before the transactions with 8in- !the Hunting & Riding Club, and GATLEY ot Club Pyt Trysoon y v y | divided 33 shares W himself Gt g SANTL Ao Wie ave LET US SEND YOU AN ESTIMATE “RLEEBLATT )i " "RARE OLD VIOLINS Harinarn st 2 RINTI 15 A HURIY 0ot bl urioed N ot forms Fuciiity for 100% setiefartony The National Capital Press ! ROOF LEAKS - eapert duy 1IRONCLAD i, HONFING | it | appeared 1 Everhart that Binclair’s in- | terest of one-third in the newly orxunv’ {zed ranch company was on account of | the prospective organization of the club, | which never has materialized The 100 shares of the stock of the | 0ld Tres Ritors Co, held 50 shares by Fall, one share by Everharl in his own right andl 49 shares as trustee for s wife'’s estate, were exchanged for 1100 shares of stock in the new com- pany. ¥verhart sald this stock wis | » v him as trustee for Binclar and 33 | shares 10 Fall with one share v an | mploye of the company s he might qualify ss & director Buiclair's payments, everhart said, | were made in Washington and in New | | York und were in Liberty bonds dead finally was consummated fn Pall's Loffice n the Interior Department and then Bineclar and Everhart went w the | Lof) operator's privale car, where $198,- 000 in Liberty bonds were pald ov | Everhart sald he delivered these bonds W Fall, who ok $2.500 worth | and gave him the remainder, ) ml-l g bidm W proceed then W New York | w eollect the bulance due of 35000 | This he did, he added, Einclalr hand- | ‘ll,y him the bonds in the oll mans I New York office Bhipped Bonds West “Did you teke the bonds W Pueblo?” Benator Walsh of Montana, | Commities prosecutor | “No. 1 shipped themn there W the First Nationsl Bank' Everhart re plied T o Wil & | witness then proceeded W his | and mede distobution of Ve directed by Pall, paying $108 U 1o e 1A B8 Fhateher estale on wocount ol 1) Pres Mis Co deife Personul acuts of Wi former Interon coretary which he sald hrough he Lual up W 8180500, The remsiniig 890,000 were placed n Falls safety | deponit I Ahe bunk and later “shippe W Fall wt ¥l Pas) rapld-tre questioning Everhart tuid ”»'l) when Yurs Wi, w Houth Unider Walsh weut W New ir, but the witness insisted that Fall pald over $90,000 due on the Harriss property. Involved In Former Case. This is the ranch property which hitherto it has been claimed Fall bought with the $100.000 which was advanced to him as a “loan" by Doheny and which was brought to Washing- won I Jittle black satchel” by Doheny's son and delivered to Fall at the Wardman Park Hotel Asked what steps had been taken 1o carry out the club scheme at ‘Tres Ritos, Everhart sald it had gone so far as the butlding of ronds and the in- stallation of an hydro-electric plant and an ireigation system. He conceded to Walsh that all of these things were “appropriate” for the conduct of cattle ranch. Bo far us Everbart knew personally Siclalr had visited “Tres Jutos only once since the payment of bonds and the “loans™ to Fall Asked why the stock certiicates for Binclair's shares i the ranch com- pany were not made out I his name, Everhart sald the oll man had told him t keep wll the records together. He added that this was not b all unu- sunl v yo these bhonds know where | cume from?” Walsh asked more “No,” Everhart replied. “No the than I've heard by testimony st trials wnd read in the newspapers” “DId Binclalr have any other bonds | when he delivered the $108,000 to you on his private car?” “Not that 1 know of " Everhart was dismissed from further attendance ab the committee’s heariigs and started home with the intentlon of stopping 8l Mercershurg, e, 1o visit his son who ds 0 school there Atter Dpwning hsd presented the rec ards of the Blackmer secount i () Hew York Trust Co , Senator Walsh ad Journed the he | sing Lo study th determine whether any of the bonds might be traceable G0 (he Continental vading Co He explutned that he did oL wall 1o pry nto Blackimes's purely perounnl uflulis, a —|ed the Burns agency, Justice Siddons if McMullin had forged more than one check and legal argument ensued. Mr. Hoover protested that this was an “unusual situation,” in that the Government itself had opened up the door to the prison r/.ord and not the defense. ‘Therefore, he declared, ex- amination should not be limited. Since the testimony primarily afl directed Charles A. Douglas, their coun- sel, to make objections. Douglas point- ed out that the man's prison record furnished evidence of his “Increasing depravity” and that questions regard- ing his record should be admitted. Served Only Two Months. Under persistent prodding by de- fense counsel, McMullin said he did not think he had forged more than one check. Defense counsel was un- able to force him to admit otherwise. Under the continued questioning, Mc- Mullin sald he thought his sentence | ran from one to seven years, but it “might have been 20 years.” At any rate, he stuck to his story that he had only served two months of the time, He admitted using the name of Fred- erick McMullin in signing the forged checks. Just before court recessed Douglas precipitated a long legal argument when he sought to find out from the witness why he had “impersonated” Willlam V. Long in seeking employment from the Burns agency. McMullin had previous- ly admitted he had used the name of Tong, an acquaintance, owing to the “trouble he was in.” Justice Siddons evinced interest about an occurrence on October 29, dur- ing the jury-shadowing operations, when Ruddy had told McMullin to get out of town as “something was going to break over the week end.” This was several days before the mistrial was declared on November 2. McMullin said he return- ed to Philadelphia. Detective Makes Charges. The second day of McMullin's testi- mony started badly for the defense and grew worse as the ex-Burns operative |piled up charge after charge against | Charles’ G. Ruddy, chief of the jury surveillance operation. ‘The proceedings started with the detective's report of October 22, in which he placed an especial Assistant Attorney General. Horace R. Lamb, in conversation with Juror Norman L. Glascock at the Potomac Flying Field. “Is that statement true or false?" asked Maj. Gordon after reading the report of the day's activities. “False,” McMullin replied, without batting an eye. McMullin went on to relate that h- had made these false statements on in- | structions from Ruddy. Upon report- ing to his chief that Juror Glascock was at his place of business that morning, Ruddy met the operative later in his room at the Harrington Hotel, “He told me something had gone wrong in the case the day before and it looked very bad for Sinclair,” Mec- Mullin continued. Then he related that Ruddy gave him several auto li- cense numbers, including 1738 and U203, which he explained, he wanted the Teports to show that these cars| had followed the juror. At first Ruddy | wanted the conversation with the furor | to take place at the latter’s home, McMullin testified. but on reconsidera- | tion Potomac Park was suggested | Neither of them knew anything much |about the park, McMullin said, so| Ruddy went out of the room and tele- phoned some one. Upon returning. Ruddy told him to| put the juror and Lamb in the Poto- | | mac Park fiying field and to make a | memoranda to that effect. To Be Used for “Mistrial.” ; “This stuff will be used for a mis- { trial, but in all probability we won't | have to use it. as it won't be needed.” | Ruddy was said to have told the op- erative. | Mr. Hoover protested against the ir- | relevancy of the testimony. but the | court reminded counsel that “whether the respondents can be held responsi- ble for these acts is a question yet to be dealt with.” Continuing his examination of the witness, Gordon obtained from him the following admission: “Ruddy sald that Sinclair was going to spend all the money he could to get out of this thing. He sald since no Department of Justice agents were shadowing the jurors. we have to show the client something.” McMullin _then related that he thought he had obtained a description of a man in the automobile seen talking with Glascock from Mr. Ruddy. He sald Ruddy had told him to leave his memorandum in the hotel room, not to_carry it about with him. Further light on the conversation | that took place was given by McMul- | lin, who sald that “Glascock talked too | much and was a man who could not be | trusted.” Original Memorandum Destroyed. McMullin ~ destroyed his memorandum, he testified. and later rewrote his report about the Potomac Field incident before seeing Ruddy again that night. | was asked. “No " “Did you see the open roadster men- tloned?"” “No I did not.” “Did you see car U-203 follow Glas- c(x'l; as reported?” “Have you ever seen such a car Gordon asked. McMullin replied that he had seen the car on Saturday, December 3, on the west side of the courthouse, On that occasion Gordon *brought out that McMullin had seen Lamb in the Dis- trict Attorney’s office. The witness add- ed that the first time he had ever seen Lamb was on November 8, when the | Department of Justice oficial had come to_testify before the grand jury. Maj. Gordon next brought the ques- tioning to the point when McMullin visited ex-Giov. Gifford Pinchot at his home on the afternoon of October 24 in Washington, and told him about the shadowing of the Teapot Dome juror The Pistrict Attorney, restricted by ru ings of the court in" previous instanc of this kind, did not ask for any detal of the conversation that took place, M Mullin merely replying “yes" and 0 questions, Visited Government Counsel. From Pinchot's house he went to the Loflices of Owen J. Roberts and, Atlee | Pomerene, special Government oil conn- | sel, where the governor's secretary met him, There he tevelaed to Government counsel what he had told Pinchot. McMullin's next meeting with Ruddy then became the subject of Inquiry. After the aforementioned ineident the witness testified he saw Ruddy, Frank J O'Retlly, his wsistant, and Donald Stewarl, another operative. He rte- pented Ruddy's conversation as follows The CGovernment has $100,000 to spend on the Jury and Sinclalr 1 going o spend $200,000 “The witness sald Stewart was ordered back to Philadelphia. “Ruddy told me to stay, and us he left the room gave me @ wink, saying he would see me Jatar,” MeMullin testified Mr. Hoover objected to hearsay evi- denee when Gordon asked 1f Blewart hnd made any remark at that tme When the court overruled the objection MeMullin continued “Gotng back Lo our room Blewart sald here's one that's glad o get back to Washington ™ MeMullin then took Htewart back to the Unton Btation in his car. "1 k from the record, saying it wis merely the expression of opinton of some one who was not_ on trial, “IUs one evidence of & consclence of gL Ma) Gordon protested to the court. The testimony was allowed to stand Falve AMdavit Argued. An Gordon ook up the thread of ten tiony dealing with the fulse aMdavit which McMullin sald was aworn Lo by B under the name of Willlam V Long on November 3, he wan met with oblections from the Binelale and Burns attorneys, and much tine was lost In arguments over e admissibility of this document, together with a conversation the witness sald he had with Ruddy prior Lo drawing !’llm naper Fermitted 0 pildeed with the case original | “Did you go to Potomac Pleld?" he | by the court, the Government drew from McMullin the statement that he was in the corridor of the courthouse leading to the grand jury room on the afternoon of November 2, and that Ruddy “told me to get out of the court- house before they served a subpoena on me, and Robbins (Ruddy's assistant) told me to take a train out of town." The witness sald he left for Philadel- phia an hour and a half later. Returning to Washington the next afternoon in company with two detec- tives from the Philadelphia office, Mc- Mullin said he went to the office of Judge Wright and waited for him to return from court. “I was charged to keep Judge Wright from knowing of the falsity of this statement,” McMullin sald, ~ referring to the November 3 afidavit. “I made a slip about the color of the car and Wright decided that after calling up Ruddy that I would make a report that evening at Wardman Park Hotel. Says Burns Wanted It. “I saw Ruddy at the hotel that eve- ning and he wanted me to make this affidavit and charged me about not letting Judge Wright know the truth- fulness of this statement. He said it would be very bad for me if I didn't go through with it and he told me this was under instructions from Willlam J. Burns.” Questioned by Gordon as to this last statement, McMullin repeated: “Ruddy said Willlam J. Burns gave him instructions that they wanted this affidavit made for the client. Ruddy said it would be all over with the grand jury proceedings as soon as the affida- vit ‘was presented as it would call the Government’s blufl. ‘McMullin and Ruddy saw Judge Wright that same evening and the attorney wrote the afidavit out in long hand after which it was copled on a type- writer, the witness explained. After making out the false affidavit, McMullin returned to Philadelphia and came back to Washington on November 8. where he met Ruddy, Willlam J. and W. Sherman Burns at Union Statlon Upon an introduction, he said, ‘William J. Burns remarked he was “glad to know I was going before the grand jury and stick to my story of the afi- davit” Burns added, the witness re- lated, that he had given a story to the press the day before showing that the Government was “crooked” and being up against a wall was throwing this whole thing on us. Tells of Conference. Neil Burkinshaw, assistant district attorney, was “running around in cir- cles,” according to the elder Burns. ‘They all proceeded to the office of Thomas Logan, an attorney, and Mc- Mullin was instructed to stay outside during the conference that followed. After this conference the witness said | that W. J. Burns told him to “go be- fore the grand jury, stick to your story and afidavit, and you Wwill be well taken care of.” ‘When McMullin said he explained he } could not identify Lamb, he said, Wil- fiam J. Burns reminded him that the | report contained nothing to indicate the man was Lamb. al On another occasion, in Mr. Lodge's | office, after he had appeared before the grand jury, McMullin said that W. J. Burns shook hands with him and de- | clared that he was “depending on me. The elder Burns then was said to have assured McMullin again that he would | be “well taken care Qf.” On a third occasion, at the Unfon | Station, November 8, McMullin said W. J. Burns again assured him he would be taken care of when the latter de- parted for New York. He told McMul- |lin to look over the flying field and also get a look at Lamb. Jury Foreman Mentioned. “Mr. Burns sald he knew Dorsey Hyde, the foreman of the grand ju who was also secretary of the Chaml of Commerce, the only tight place he had ever been in,” McMullin sald Burns then said “if it came to a showdown he could depend on this man.” | Later, on return to Washington from a second visit to Philadelphia, Mc- ) Mullin endeavored to get a “spot” on Lamb's automobile without success. The witness testified he had been given instructions by Ruddy in Phila- | deiphia on October 29 as to his actions before the grand jury. He and several other detectives were told to state that they had been cautioned not to talk to jurors or to approach them. He testi- fied that Ruddy told him that W. J. Burns was placing a lot of confidence in him, McMullin, and that Burns was going down to Washington to call the Government's blufl.” At this point Maj. Gordon asked the witness why he had given the name of Willlam V. Long in applying for a job with the Burns agency. Then it was that McMullin confessed to hav- ing “been in a little trouble about nine years ago,” and admitted he had served two months in the penitentiary for forging a check for $90 in 1920. His sentence had run from one to seven years, but he had been released on probation. SOUTHWEST PICKED | pointed out that 85 per cent of the | had not been present at the hearings, | could and that this wasn't| Kentucky, said that the subcommittee had considered carefully the sites pro- posed, and was asked if it had con- sidered whether any site was really nec- essary. The reply was that the history of the market scemed to indicate that Congress had for many years considered it desirable, | Mr. Gibson emphasized the 80 per | cent of the citizens' associations, the Citizens’ Advisory Council and various other organizations are all on record as opposed to the Southwest Washington site and in favor of one north of Penn- sylvania avenue. Representative Lampert moved to sub- stitute the Gambrill bill for the Stalker bill to be favorably reported by the com- mittee. The Gambrill bill proposed ac-! quisition of the square between O and P street, North Capitol and First street northeast in the Eckington area. Mr. Lampert’s minority report outlined seven principal arguments why the Southwest, site seemed “highly unde- | sirable,” and gave a resume of reasons | which he said were “established by the | testimony submitted to the subcommit- tee favorable to the Eckington location.” These were: First, that it is nearly | twice the size of the southwest site: that it is located close to the center of population and the geographical cen- ter of the city; that it is accessible to the great majority of farmers: that it is outside of the dense traffic area in the business section, and yet close enough | to be well traveled and have broad | thoroughfares; that the Farmers’ Mar- | ket should be adjacent to rallroad fa- | cilities principally on account of its re- | lation to the wholesale produce and commission houses, which do a greater business in the Eckington area, and that it is generally recognized that the success of a farmers’ market is large- ly dependent upon its relation and proximity to the wholesale business. Mr. Lampert emphasized that the rec- ommendation of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission should | be given primary consideration. Urged Site North of Avenue. “No one considering the problem of relocating the Farmers' Market can ig- nore the united plea of the responsi- ble producers, who are the regular | space holders on the Farmers' Market, | and who are producing the great bulk of fresh produce sold on this market,” he said. “Said plea before this committee was in behalf of square 669, in the Ecking- ton area. Moreover, the preponderance of evidence submitted to this commit- tee by the consumers of Washington was for a location of this market north | of Pennsylvania avenue.” Representative Gambrill, author of the bill for the Eckington site, made a brief statement, saying that two prin- cipal considerations should operate— the convenience to buyers and the con- venience to the farmer who sells. He farmers are in Maryland, north of the | District, and that the District 1armers! produce about 7 per cent out of the other 15 per cent. Maryland farmers almost to a man, Mr. Gambrill said, ask that the market be located in the Eckington area. This site would pro- vide stalls for 521, while the Southwest site would provide only about 300. Representative Gilbert urged that some delay should be granted until members of the full committee, who satisfy themselves some very strong arguments in the minority report, but thi was lost regarding | resented motion Before the days of fast dyes, a Brit- ish_chemist in 1669 aroused great in- | terest by displaying cloth dved with | green. red and other colors which he | said would stand washing in warm water. FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 _LEETH BROTHERS MARLOW COAL CO., EST. 1858 COAL Dependable Quality Reliable Service Fair Prices MARLOW COAL COMPANY 811 E St. N.W.—Main 311 FOR MARKET SITE BY HOUSE GROUP, (Continued from First Page) | | | area of the water front presents more | and greater advantages for such de- | velopment than any other section of | the city.” “This general section for some years | has been zoned for industrial and com- mercial_purposes. “Southwest Washington is easily ac- | cessible to all nearby farmers who | | bring produce to the city. ‘The squares | | unanimously recommended by the Com- | | missioners for permanent location of | this market are but little more than a half mile directly south of the location of the Farmers' Market since its ¢ | ton tn 1870, 1t would reaulre & son | what shorter haul for farmers ap- proaching Washington from the south- ast and southwest and would result in no real inconvenlence to the farm- ers from the territory from the north to cover the slight additional distance on paved streets in the early morning hours of market operation. “This Farmers' Market is patronized {largely by the retall market stores, | hotels, restaurants and hucksters who | buy for resale and in small degree by householders, who buy for home con- sumption. It appears highly destrable that there be & workable co-ordination | of supply in perishable food products | which can best be obtained in the wa- | ter front area.™ Representative Gilbert, Democrat, nl\ NS modern behavior? Hu article IN FEBRUARY — “$15 and a Little Cha another’s happiness. very little can somet SRRSOl o Al of o of B AT T @ ] Is the marriage license today only the first step to divorce ? Can modern marriage survive cherish happiness shouldread“EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF,” Vera L. Connolly's pointed For Investment Or a Home Circumstances have made it necessary to dispose quickly of a piece of resi- dence * property on Four- teenth street, northwest above Florida avenue. It's in a commercial zone, which means its value will continually enhance; but 1t is a splendid home property, too—of granite construction, big swell front, and has been carcfully cared for, so that everythmg is in good condition, Either way you view it —as a home or invests ment—it’s a real bargain. 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