Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1928, Page 4

< SHhinn "COAL FIELD PROBE | BEGINS TUMURRUW’ Report of Findings in Penn-| sylvania Inquiry Reported to Senate Committee. I Fights for Country | Br the Associated Press. v to the opening tomorrow to conditions in fields. the Senate mittee today | ihcommittes western . Idaho. ! the he United M the b\'d'v\i- o a_con-| John 1 mx miners' | [Sland Commissioner Flays | of In- te com P Investment of United States Capital There. the Aesociated Press. ing that every dollar of Amer in the Phillppines ail in the coftin of our| 1 Isauro Gabaldon, two commissioners from the d< to the American Congress, des d In a staten in the Congres- ane I TO STOP MINE FEUD Sinine e sent 1o seturn home to gt | g e | for complete freedom. Mayor Jeins in Conference to End| ms'}};;‘fi‘fil‘,“,,;\i’“ . id that he | could never be convinced that the “soul { of the Filipino people is not for inde- | pendence” and that he did not believe | the Filipinos could ever expect “to en- the maximum of happiness under | Strife Causing Four Deaths. d Press | lov Pa. March 6—Further | American sovereign were made here today to bring | Contribute to Politics. ne feud that has Referring to the scandals growing out of the Teapot Dome and other naval the mineoil investigations, the commissioner ed in the No. 6 colliery said that what “frightens me as a -n!}‘mp'*n is the knowledge that those h | ‘captains of industry’ who have inv t of |in the Philippines are hea H. | tors to the campaign chest of the Re- ’m.ham"b(?a”‘f i o e mi ct prop- embers of the American Congress.” Beg fected 8 B0 | e atded, “1 besecch vou 10 sive us our trial ,,E Jod under the old rates and | independence before the Philippines, fons. and today's meeiing was |like the Teapot Dome and the navai| cork out another plan | 0il lands, are donated fo campaign tributors whose mouths are \\Ml‘flng\ :'nr our :n'dm natural resources.” 1 committee of cn, and \h\or w. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. Columbia Heights zens’ Associa- tion will meet, 8 o'clock, at Wilson Normal School. ‘The Sisterhood of Adas Israel Con- gresation t.]] _give L.s ’mhunl P‘unm ‘GREAT FALLSSPAN vy Women study group in ‘adolescent | crology will meet 7:45 o'clock at the | clubhouse. Dr. Winifred Richmond will | give the lecture. The Red Triangle Outing Club will meet. 8 o'clock, at Thirty-sixth and M streets, for a moonlight hike. Phil Sheridan Woman's Relief Corps Blanton Objects Over Assur- | ance That Bridge Would Not Tie Up U. S. Power Plan. will meet, 8 o'clock. 2t G. A. R. Hall The Moore bill authorizing the Great | = { Falls Bridge Co. to construct. maintain | The Business Women's Council and operate a toll bridge across the | Eicet in the Jecture room of the Church | poiomac River at Great Falls failed of of the Covenant. Rev Combs | nuscage in the House late vesterday, | Pr-racL stor of Wesley M E | when called up under mous con- | _conduct the made first by | 0 - 15 o'clock. fflr of Wisconsin | of Praver sentative Blanton n!l T'J:nc Th Il sing at 8/ Texa: of Robert Howe osentatiy Represe Moore had explained | Schafer's mmmvl derstanding which prompted his obj on when Representative Blanton ma; it had not yet becn determined what | | was going to be done 2t at whether the Government would Mr. Moore endea at there was a provision | ! which showed it would not nterfere with any power development. | Sees Long Delay. Mr. Blanton argued that Congress | Ishould wait to sec what the Govern- ment iniends to do at the falls and Mr. Monre stated that it will b2 100 years or more 15 doge and in the afe outlet is denied a very Ia er of | ! persons who would use the bridge, but | Mr. Blanton was obdurate in his| obinetion The bill of Mr. Moore gives authority 1o a private corpora- - cros an .d n take | wiil give 3 cerd part red | Oret Aucitos $treet and P La Salle will address the y on Parent-Teacher Asso- & o'clock, at Peabody School Parrington of Hawail will anything would be of stecl oued by the No- Fine An 1" 8 in the center ' a Mooge CLUB PLANS BENEFIT. Mureh w1 | Miss - TOFREEFILIPINGS been elected to | | i | tower court, i | | fellow Roberts to run this he Falls, | of Virginia | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 0., TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1928, WOMAN LAWYER May T. Bigelow Pleads Ap- peal Case of Man Con- demned to Dic. | Miss May T. Bigelow, young Portia in | the officc of Wilton J. Lambert, today | pleaded with the District Court of Ap- peals for the life of John C. Proctor, 119 years old. who is under sentence of | death May for the killing of Po- |liceman Leo K. Busch in Petworth, Scp- tember 26, 1 With Proctor were condemned Samuel Moreno, 18 years | old. and Nickolas Lee Eagles of New | York, 33 years old. and all have prose- cuted appeals from their conviction of murder fn the fizst degree. Bigelow claimed that Justice | William Hitz, who tried the case, in his {charge to the jury failed to stress the need of proof of the intent of the three P to kill the policeman. The | char, given, she claimed, told them convict of first d ree mur- | dor” when the court had only defined | murder in the second degree, and she asserted that the jurors might as well have intended only to conviet of second toe but were misied by the wording o. She also pointed out 1 court had let in too much festimony as to previous eriminal acts of the accused At ow was followed by Attor- ney Clifford P. Grant for Moreno and by Louis T. Tannebaum for Eagles. The conviction of the three men was upheld by Assistant United States At= torney James J. O'Leary. The argu- ment will be concluded tomorrow by Attorney Wilton J. Lambert for Pr tor and by Martin F. O'Donoghue | Moreno, The fragedy ocet 1026, and the defend ed February 26, 1827, and senfenced to die April 5, 1927 The execution was postponed until November 11, 1 and was again postponed until Jan- uary 20 and later to May 2 Assistant United ates Attorney George D. Horning. jr. who tried the case. has since left the office and is now associated with Lambert, but king no part in the appeal casg pbert was nmot of counsel in the but has since been re- for red September 26, s were convict- taimed. “FOREIGN” CONTROL OF TRACTION LINES DENIED BY WILSON (Continued from_First Page) in the federation. had gone to Mr. Clay- ton and told him. “You don't want this ring.” He added that a reprosentative of the | North American Co. later had come to et s protest about Mr. Clavton Angered by this charge, Wilson de- nied he was endeavoring to create_an dissension and denled also what Rob. erts had said as to statements reflect- | ing on Clavton or Roberts himself. “This is a culmination of what scems to be a well established effort on the and read statements into the record | unsupported by fact,” Wilson declared | in referring again to the stock owner- ship_question. | ton had charged that the } can Co. had violated the law in hold- ing more than 20 per cent of the stock in the Washinzton Railway & Electric o. Seeking to set the records straight, | Wilson sald that on March 4, 1925, the North American Co. owned 4 per cent of the Washington Rallway & Electric Co. stock, of which it was in lecal possession. It was not until May, 1925 that it acquired additional stock to con- stitute the 20 per cent referred to in the La Follette act, he explained Sold Transit Holdings. Holding a paper in his hand, Wilson | said he wished to file & statement as of March 3, from the president of the North American Co., showing the exact | ownership of stock in the local ratlway | com| The North American disposed of its washington Rapid Transit stock | May, and 1 am the owner of it as re- ferred to in this m er agreement,” DEFENDS PROCTOR s | part of Mr. Clavton to cloud the issue | orth Ani.ri- | | {ing to it,” | want involving the merger. He declared that Clay- | he declared. Wilson added that the North | American Co. always evidenced willing ness to lay the facts before the commis- | the Washington Railway & Electric Co sion. Mr. that Roberts interrupted information placed before jon should show the stock )H'Id zh officials as well The North American Co. will certify as to stock held by all its oficers. trus- tees or any one connected with It, Mr. Wilson replied. “There is no sccrec tery in all this” he declared; | time has come to ascertain just v we are trying to shoot at here. 1f Nir n and others are here 1n oppo- ition to & merger we oug oW At It the opposition is to th h'x s of \h\ the commis- being led o the state of mis- nsion Holds Merger Favored, 18 declared that | on of Citizens’ A wvor of a mer; appre Reply the Fede r )i o | to demand |erts had further questions to ask that | the | they put them to people’s counsel or | and grt nowhere t { motion ociation | F nd the only [ant's house on the ice ftwould Rockefeller, sowt Bresla 1307~9~11~13 G St.NW, LIFE’'S DARKEST MOMENT. —By WEBSTER. Qar-er? | AATE D ASK You -ro Do THIS BUT NOOL AAVE T0 . (WANT YOU TO TAKE TS CAKE TO THE WOMANS EXCHANGE, TTO CARRY 1T TSVST LIKE TTHIS “THE 15 S0FT AND | CANT PUT A PARER AROOMND 1'T AND “THERES NOT A BASKET e HOUSE (ARGE ENOUGH., FIRoSTING THE AGE OF Dl(leTv AW SAV! BavE A HEART, M !ve Gops AN LTTLE FIsREs! 5'POSIN 50ME OF TR FELLERS $AWME? THEY'D ID TH UFE ouvTAa Mme! YE cops! You'Lt RAvE | they would follow the coastiine to s | point opposite Cuba, which would 1 wmm an over-water jump of a little more than 100 miles, He sald they would remain in Cuba until Thursday or Friday and that the return trip to New in easy stages, w stops at ) alm Beach and Jacksonville They lan to Jand in New York Su nday a [EVNES PLAYE O Craft With Three Aboard ;;\;flf;fmr'nf;b;ra_ Wings Way to Cuba From New York. HAVANA, American monop! the same plane fn nd Bert Was Pilot of Dawn. quW was the ch 6 (A" —Th# ane Columbia car- rying Charles A. Levine. Wilmer A Stultz and Miss Mabel Boll, arrived here today from New York at 1:32 | di p.m. north, plane, ‘i'h its LAUDS PIONEER- éPIRIT. Senator Roh By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, March 6.—The trans-| atlantic monoplane Columbia today was | winging its on a stop flight to | Havana. Aboard were Charies A. Le- vine, its owner; Wilmi p and’ Miss Mabel Boll, “The Queen of Diamonds.” The Fleld at il gion and Law Enforcement. who b be renewed In plane took 11:36 o reliz the United Stat formed the full moon and ligl Arrives With Mather. sident of Rac! 3 last oftered as m $30.000 to be pilc! across the Atlantic, arrived at the f ing field shortly before 11 o'clock e and her mother, Mrs. Joseph: e woman, kne an, n cap. loaded with 250 | the mntor as on the field | tonk over the took off The along a ¢ food, but c: r of coffee. Stultz s Coopight Prese Dbibing €a (Now York Wert have to pay for the Washington Rapid | Transit Co. and what the public would Rl"l out of the merger, “We don't object to a me: we do want to know all the facts relat- toberts said. “What we do to know is whether there is a the North American Co. sult in undue prices or zer, but | control by which would undue terms.” Roberts insisted that the amount of stock held by the North America and its officers in the local traction s tem is wholly pertinent to the questions “What we want to know is how the North American Co., as a controlling factor, is going to dictate the price to be paid for the Washington Transit Co.” Roberts declared. Argument Cut Short. Ralph Flcherty, people’s counsel, sought to throw ofl on the troubled waters, He interrupted the proceedings 1o suggest that the North American | Co. had agreed to furnish all the in- formation desired on the stock control | issue. It was at this point that Chairman Childress cut short the argument by saying that the alleged illegality of the holdings could be argued at the end | Ot the ease. Before the controvery final- ly ended, Clayton got in a wol |that it was still the wish of Congress to keep the transportation systems in Washington from control of foreign companies and under their present co trol | With this statement. Mr. Wilson d | nied that the North American Co. had | any controlling interest in either of the | two traction companies here. | Gag Attempt Barred. | Another attempt to apply the gag rule | !to representatives of the Federation of Citizens' Assoclations frustrated Just before the noon recess. The point was raised by 5. R. Bowen, | | vice president and general counsel for was | He protested that if Clayton and Rob- nd as he saw that if | endless indiscrim drag out | ask them de let Fleharty It Bowen ms the point cross-examination involving repetitfons was to continue ately the hearings would Mr overruled the | as he did previously when a similar eflort was made by Wlllinmz Gibhs McAdoo to +hut out the [\thlv' | representatives Childress explained that the commisslon would use its own dgment regarding the relativity of | Y the ocen ns Chairman_ Childress | of & | Fire on Rockefeller Estate. /Q0D, N. 1, March 6 (A) today destroyed the attend- estate of John D, wr S o HATS AR DRESS SALE! Every Dress Formerly < 1510 $25 9to 12 O'Clock Only -HOUR SALE! EAACTLY 100 AFTERNOON, 57 56 FROM OUR REGULAR STOCIK STYLES AND DESIRABLI ANSOLUTIE Single Dresses Sold! TO THIS PRICE FOR REET AND EVENING ALl NEW REDUC CLEARAN COLORINGY ; committee to draft the conventions can- | didat Close Tomorrow. 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