Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1928, Page 5

“LAND GRANT CASE SENT T0 CONGRESS Declaration of Title to North- ern Pacific Acres Urged for Adjustment. Mrs. Cunningham of Texas and Judge Mary 0’Toole Address League. Universal Compulsory Jury Service Urged by Fem- inine Jurist. Br the Associated Press In an opinion on the land-grant case | of the Northern Pacific Rairoad Co.., el the Department of Justice today TeCOM" | qpe candidacy of Mrs. Minnle Fish- mended that Congress declare title 10 | or Cunningham of Texas for the United the disputed three to five million wctes | States Senate was the principal topic forfeited and then suit e Brought v |jast night at the 1928 political forum the courts for final adjustment i dinner of the Voteless District of Co- The case, a long pending one. &rew |jumbia League of Women Voters, held out of the claims by both the Govern- | in Barker Hall of the Y. W. C. ment and the railroad that they were'enteenth and K streets. entitled to part of the lard, end the | ‘Mrs Cunningham briefly enunciated department's opinion was submitted at | the platform upon which she will stand the request of & special joint congres- |in her coming campaign, while Judge sional committee appointed at the last | Mar® O'Toole of the District Municipal session of Congress to investigate the | Cou; he other speaker of the evenin; grants, ‘hat the rail. | conCemed herself chiefly with remini; WOMAN CANDIDATE FOR SENATE' OUTLINES CAMPAIGN PLANS censes and with wishing Mrs. Cunning- THE EVENING A, Sev- | The Government claims road company should turn back £pprox- {mately 5.000.000 of the 44.000.UC0-acre grant because it had absorbed land be- longing to forest reserves. Indian res. ervations and mineral depositz. The railroad company claims that the Government should cede them an radi- ti~nal 3.750,000 acres, which they were entitled to under the original grant. Recommendations Made. All questions of authority would be eliminated and the way cleared for a fudicial determination of the whole matter just to both sides, the opinion read. if the following were carried out: That Congress shall declare its de- termination that the grant be for- feited for “breach by the railroad com- panv of conditions subsequent.” That the lands remaining in the pos- session of the companv be revested in the United States. making proper pro- visions for readjustment of the grant. That proper suit for an equitable ad- fustment of the whole controversy be | instituted That the executive branch of the Government institute in eourt proceed- | ings directed to accomplishment of the | same end. “The United States by virtue of the reserved right 1o add to. alter, amend | or repeal the grant,” the opinion added. “has the right to revest in itself and repossess all or anv part of the granted Jands remaining in the ownership of the company. having due regard for the rights of the company. The power to alter. amend or repeal the granting| acts rests only in the Congress. Rolds United States Has Right. “The United States by reason of the breach on the part of the company of econditions subsequent contained in the grant, has the right to declare the graat forfeited, thereby revesting in the Uniteé States the legal title to any rt or all of the granted lands remain- g the ownership of the company. “As to lands wrongfully acquired by the company from the United States and now disposed of and as to lands rightfully acquired but wrongfully dis- of. the company can be required account to the United States cn an equitable basis. The company % en- titled to credit for all it has éarned under the grant. “WEether the effective power to de- Zlare a forfeiture snd revesting in the United States of lands granted to the Northern fic Railroad Co. for breac of conditions subsequent rests in the legislative or executive branch | of the Government, has been the sub- | Ject of conflicting court decisions. “Whether some of the conditions under consideration here are conditions | subseguent requiring legislative declara- tion of a 1o insist on a for- feiture for their is a question that might be litigated with consequent @elay and expense. Whether the execu- tive branch can make necessary provi- sion for an equitable adjustment of the grant is not certain.” ARKANSANS BACK HOOVER Little Rock Office Opened Despite National Committeeman. LITTLE ROCK. Ark., February 9 (®). —The Yioover-for-President move in Arkansas was given added impetus yesterday with appointment of an ex- ecutive committee of the State Hoover Club and opening of headquarters here. John W. White, Russellville, and Osro Cobb, prominent Republicans, organizing the campaign. The movement was inaugurated with- out the approval or opposition of Na- tional Committeeman George L. Mal- lory, who favors an uninstructed dele- g on_to_the national convention. | Yorktown Cigarettes seem to take smok- ers a little nearer to the promised land of tobacco satisfaction. It’s all in the blend of seven friendly to- baccos. They give Yorktown a certain flavor and “kick” that seems to have Jet a lot of smokers find out just what “it”’ means in a cig- arette. Suppose you try a pack. Twenty for 16e. Lerws, Richmond, Virginia letness Before Senate Committee | | the prize for the winner of the 1928 soldier. who has been ill lately, has {ham, as a woman, success over her MRS. MINNIE F. (‘UNNI.NGIIAM. | masculine competitors. Others at the speakers’ table were ‘Mrs. Edward P. Costigan, president of the local league; Mrs. Charles L. M wife of the Senator from Ore- Mrs. Edward L. Johnston, who sided at the dinner. and Mrs. Laura A. Williams. Miss Belle Sherwin, pres- |ident of the National League of Wom- en Voters: Dr, Louise Stanley. chief of her votes counted. the Bureau of Economics: Miss Mary —As to her stand on foreign policy, Anderson. director of the Woman's Bu- | Mrs. Cunningham ridiculed the intric reau of the United States Department | cies of diplomacy and said that the only of Labor. and Miss Agnes Wilson, at|way to attain world peace is by the present candidate for the House of |cultivation of a genuinely friendly feel- Representatives from Pennsylvania, |ing among all nations. The League of were in the audience. | Natfons is the most workable machinery Mrs. Cunningham spoke in regard to | yet devised through which nations may | her campaign. telling of her plans to|co-operate to adjust their differences cover the State and the issues upon and preserve the peace of the world, which she will insist. She touched she asserted upon most of the popular problems; Judge O'Toole told the women that the confronting the country and declared ' present system by which women may that the Volstead act could and should | decline to serve on a jury is absurd and be enforced: that the present policy in should be replaced by compulsory jury Nicaragua amounted to ruthless and service by women as well as men, unjustified warfare; the tariff should be reduced as a principle of government and as a farm relief measure: that ade- quate flood control legislation based on scientific engineering principles should be immediately enacted, and that the greatest difficulty she anticipated in her coming campaign was in getting | { | CHARGES USE OF SPIES RITES FOR MRS. WILSON. BY RADIO CORPORATION yative of Richmond Had Lived in Washington 40 Years. | Funeral services for Mrs. Mattle L. | Wilson, who died at Emergency Hos- Patents Be Voided. | pital Tuesday =after an fllness of three By the Associated Press weeks, were held this afternoon. Rev Use of “spies” by the Radio Cor-!James Shcra Montgomery of Metropol- poration of America in plants of op- itan Methodist Episcopal Church, offi- position manufacturers was charged ' clated and interment was in Glenwood before the Senate patents committes| Cemeters, =~ s i . n w n in Richmond, today by Arthur D. Lord of the De |y hag lived in Washington for the Forest Radio Co. N | past 40 years. She was employed in Urging favorable action on the bill|the Veterans' Bureau and at one time of Senator Dill, Democrat. Washing- | worked in the Census Office. ton, to cancel patents of those con-| Mrs Wilson is survived by her hus- victed of violation of the anti-trust|pand. Walter W. Wilson, and three laws, Mr. Lord charged a radio trust | dayghters, Mrs. Alma L. Barton, Mrs existed, and he mentioned the Radio| Ryssell B. King and Miss May Bell Corporation. He said court action had ' wijjson, i been obtained to restrain the use of 3 rs. . 3 o veland, en- 9 sased i the raslo pusinecs, compiatnca | CHAPLIN'S TAX SETTLED. of “oppressive” methods by the General | —_—— Electric Co. in forwarding its business| The income tax dispute between over competitors. | Charlie Chaplin and the Internal Reve Edward Nockles of Chicago indorsed | enue Bureau has been settled. the bill in behalf of the Chicago Fed-| ~ +rhjle bureau officials declined to dis- eration of Labor. cr,s the case, it was learned today - 1t.at a compromise had been reached {in the case, in which the Government {originally claimed upward of a mil- lion dollars from the movie actor. 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By the Amsociated Preas LINCOLN, Nebr., February 9.—Re- gardless of his party affiliations, Gov. Adam McMullen, Republican, announced yesterday he will favor as a presidential candidate the man who stands for agricultural equality. With his declaration Gov. McMullen urged the name of Secretary Herbert Hoover be placed on the Nebraska primary election presidential ballot as A means of testing the Nebraska senti- ment on farm relief. “I am taking part in the fight for offices only to the extent of the posi- tion of candidates who may have a vote on agricultural legislation,” Mc- Mullen said. “I am not for any candi- date who favors any makeshift, either in the form of loans to farmers or outright gifts to the farmer. “Secretary Hoover,” said the gov- ernor, “is known to be opposed to the farm legislation represented by the McNary-Haugen bill _and supported unanimously by the Nebraska delega- tion in both the House and the Scnate. Senator Norris is in favor of such legislation. “With Secretary Hoover's name on ¢ preferential ballot in Nebraska the lines would be clearly drawn and the people would have a chance to ex- press their desires as to which delega- tion they would want to represent them at the national convention. Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden's name will not appear on the preferential ballot for the reason that Senator George W. Norris represents his views on the agri- cultural question and he would not think of opposing him in this Slate.” McMullen said he would seek farm relief even to the extent of voting for a Democrat. — 4 ALABAMA G. 0. P. PREFERS HOOVER, LEADERS DECLARE ___(Continued from First Page.) voting strength. Because of the re- strictions placed upon voting by the Democrats, very few colored people in Alabama are qualified voters, and it is estimated that probably not more than 2000 to 2,500 actually vote today. In the strongly Republican counties the Republican voters are practically all white. l:l«'hlle the Republican leaders are still skeptical that Democrats in great num- bers will vote the Republican ticket in Alabama In the event of the nomination of Gov. Smith by the Democrats. they are hopeful that they will be able to make a strong bid for one or two inem- bers of the House in the coming elec- tions, it Smith heads the Democratic ticket. congressional districts as probable battle grounds in that event. In those dis- tricts there are many Republican voters already. What they are hoping for, in case Smith is the Democratic nominee, izatfon will undertake to make a real campaign in the State, aiding the local Republicans with speakers of national reputation. They do not feel that it would be necessary for the national organization to send money into the State for campaign pur- poses. Indeed, they believe that all the money needed for legitimate campaign purposes could be raised by the Repub- Heans right in Alabama. Once Backed Lowden. In 1920 the Alabamadelegation voted |for former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Mlinois up to the time the break came in the Chicago convention which gave the nomination to the late President Harding But Mr. Lowden today has not the same grip on th: Republican organization that he had eight years ago. Furthermore, the Republicans of Mr. Hoover I the likely nominee of the party. They are no more averse to being on THE NEW INDIAN PRINTS Fourth Floor D. €. THURSDAY, the band wagon than are the Repub- licans In other Southern States, al- though they Insist that they vote their convictions, and that they believe that Mr. Hoover is the hest equipped man for the presidency among all the Re- publicans now prominently mentioned Here and there is talk of Vice President | Dawes for the nomination. He has some | warm personal friends in the State. But the Republicans who have charge of the organization are not talking Dawes, but Hoover. And when it comes to the se- | lection of delegates, it is the organiza- tion leaders who will prevail. The or- ganization is strongly intrenched. In Alabama, as in other Southern States which have grown industrially and are hecoming more and more cen- ters of large manufacturing and busi- ness interests, there s an increasing number of business men who vote the Republican ticket. They make no pa- rade of the fact. But in Alabama to be known as a supporter of the Reptb- lican ticket, particularly the national ticket. is no longer the cause of re- proach that it was in years gone by Many of the Republican voters are | among the most respected citizens of | the community. And more and more it is said that it would be far better for the State if it should become really a | “two-party” State. | Owen D. Young of New York is pul | forward strongly by the Birmingham News and the Birmingham Age-Herald for the Democratic presidential nomi- nation. Mr. Young not long ago came to Alabama at the opening of a power project and made an able address. He {of his outburst in the Senate againit! Democtatic ‘national convention, and 1! awalting the reply to his challenge to Senator Heflin to contest with him for that office. ' Mayor Gunter took Sen- ator Heflir seriously to task because the leadership of Senator Robinson of | Alabama, when Senator Robinson crit- icized Senator Heflin for bringing the religlous issue into the Senate debate. Mayor Gunter is not known widely over the State, and no one belleves that he could really defeat the Senator in such a contest. But if he made a good showing against Senator Heflin doubt- 58 It would encourage opponents of Mr. Heflin to make serious contest against him for the senatorial nomina- tion in 1930, when Scnator Heflin comes | up for re-election. Privately, some of the Republican leaders in Southern States question the desire of the Republican national organization to “break" the “solid South,” even if the nomination of Gov. Smith should seem to give the Republi- cans a real opportunity to do so and to build up a strong Republical and white, party in the South, What they fear is that some of the national lead- ers iook upon the “solid South,” anti- negro, as an asset to keep in line the vote of the large number of colored voters in States like Illinois, Ohio and New York, States where their vote is a decided asset to the Republican party in_close _elections. 59 ARE ARRESTED re 8 and dice games. police say. The men arrested there gave their ngmes Jo- seph _Noonan, 29: Joseph B. McCaflrey, 25: Benjamin Kline, 38,-and Willlam® Jones, 36. Six Men Released in $2,000 Bond Each After Activities of New | Police Squad. Fifty-nine prisoners were taken last | night In two gambling raids by the newly organized police gambling squad. headed by Sergt. O. J. Letterman and composed of Detecives R. J Cox and W. F. Burke. Six of the men were charged with setting up a gaming ta- ble. “They were released on 32,000 bond each. The rest were booked us Gov- ernment_witnesses. ‘The appearance of the officers ¢t 210 Four-and-a-Half street southwest wrought confusion among th> 9 or more persons who are said to have been engaged In gambling samrcs. Sev- eral tried to escape by makinz a con- certed rush for the rway, while oth- ers leaped over the s railin; cnto the heads of the throng. The first floor of the estanlishment was glven over to horse-rac: betting and the second floor was uscd for card GROSNER'S Descending upon 831 Four-and-a-Half street. the officers say they found card and dice games in progréss. They ar- rested Chester J. Bill, 28, and Charles Baker. 31. This place, police aver, was fitted up with a ladder which could be lowered from the ceiling by which rae trons could make their escape to ro0f In case of a raid PLAN BUS COMPLAINT. ! Reno Citizens Will Carry Issue to Utilities Commission. ¥ A resolution to complaip to the Pub- Iie Utilities Commission in regard to the alleged failure cf Chevy Chass Deluxs’ Co. busses to siop for colored citizens was adopted and will be presented to the commission by the Reno Citizens® Association. it was decided 1pon at their meeting last night. Edward Prazier and’ Francis Scott were appointed to make- | th~ complaint The citizens asked for street improve~ ments in the Renn ssction. Action en condemnation of the Fort Reno division was deferred until a later meeting. They mention the seventh and tenth ! is that the Republican national organ- | large sums of | the Btate are beginning to belleve that This is an captivated many of his hearers. His| The Republicans in Alabama are weakness today as a presidential candi- | watching closely the trend toward or date les in the fact that he is not na- l away from Mr. Hoover in Ohio, New tlonally known, and that although hesiVork and Pennsylvania. They want to | did great service on the Dawes com- know what Iillinois, with its big delega- | mission abroad, dealing with the Ger- ' tion, is going to do in the national con- | man reparations tangle, he has not | vention. If Mr. Hoover enters the Ohio held public office. This country has | primary and makes a good showing vet to pick a man for President mere- | against Senator Willis, carrying a good ly because he has been a successful islmre of the Ohio delegation, some of business man. The powers in the nom- | the leaders here figure there will be no inating conventions turn invariably to |stopping him for the presidential nomi- those who have made their mark in | nation. 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