Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 10

10 o=t wewwinds THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 11, 1928’ ! Pure and Fresh All the fragrance of the tea-gardens comes to you in the sealed . package of "SALADA” Natural Bridge A World Wonder 1E circle on the map locates Natural Bridge, one of the great wonders of the world. It ie traversed by, the National Highway. This is but one of many scores of things in Virginia of interest to tourists— INDIAN'S' LAWYERS U. S. Charges Kansan Got $150,000 Fee From Jackson Barnett, Richest Redman. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., April 11 Federal court suits have been added to the maze of litigation resulting from efforts of the Government to administer the estate of Jackson 8. Barnett, known as the world’s wealthiest Indian. Bar- nett is about 77. The first of two suits filed yesterday was_entered here, naming Harold C McGugin, Coffeyville, Kans, attorney, defendant (o the charge he had a tempted to gain control of the ag Creek Indian’s estate by obtaining s child from the tribe to be presented as Barnett's blood heir. Charge $150,000 Fee Paid. Although the Government set forth “Two more unsuccessful, the petition alleged Me- Gugin's law firm obtained A $150,000 fee on & contract calling for 25 per cent of all money obtatned from the Indian by his wife, Anna Laura Barnett. In another suit filed at Tulsa, OKla., Charles B. Selby, special assistant to the Attorney General, of $15,000 in Liberty bonds, alleged to have been paid Col. Charles L. Mott, Barnett. In an informal reply, Col. Mott said he received three $5,000 Liberty bonds from McGugin as his fee for services to the Kansas attorney and Mrs. Bar- nett for procuring $150,000 “that they might not otherwise have gotten.” Col Mott added that the transaction was personal between McGugin and himself and that he accepted the bonds only the belief that this attempt had been | sought return | an attorney for Barnett, through Mrs. | 2d Brigade, Outnumbered by Bandits. Four Others Mentioned for Gallantry Under Fire. The outstanding gallantry of Gunnery Sergt. Herbert F. Larrick, U. 8. M. C,, when his force established contact with |bandits in the present Nicaraguan | trouble, was cited in brigade orders by | | Brig. Gen. Logan Feland, copies of | [ which were received here yesterday. | Sergt. Larvick is a native of this city | and his record shows his next of kin s & sister, Miss Margavet Larrick, 1007 Rhode Island avenue northeast. Sergt Larrick is attached to the 2d Brigade. His ations together with that of four others say: “The deeds and conducts of the fol- {lowing named men while under fire in an engagement with the numerically superior force of bandits near Broma- | deras, Nicaragua, on February 27, 1928, are cited to the brigade as worthy of | emulations. | “Gunnery Sergt. Herbert F. Larrick, U. S. M. C., who, in the face of the tre.aendous volume of initial firing of the bandit force, by, his steadiness and coolness in actiof, displayed keen judgment in assembling the Marines near the center of the train and led them to a point of advantage, from whieh they opened fire on the bandit D. C. MARINE SERGEANT CITED FOR BRAVERY IN NICARAGUA : AGM B[]UR.I-‘ Patrol of Herbert F. Larrick, HERBERT F. LARRICK. has served with many of its expedi- tionary forces. Other citations on the same order were of Sergt. Wilbourn O. Christian of Northport, Ala.; Corp. Homer T. Vro- vost of Windsor, Conn., and Pvt. (first- rclnil\sr) Edward L. Garrison of Fresno, alif. ‘The glant disk of optical glass which the United States Bureau of Standards has completed for use in the new re- flecting telescope of Perkins Observa- tory weighs 3,500 pounds. force.” Sergt. Larrick has been in the Ma- | rine Corps for more than 20 years, and | CALLS FOR ALLIANCE TO COMBAT ITALY Head of Croatian Peasants Party Says Mussolini Is Prepar- ing for War. By the Associated Press. SPALATO, Dalmatia, Jugoslavia, April 11.—Soviet Russia and monarchial Bul- garia have been called upon to join with Jugoslavia in combating Italian plans for expansion. Fiery Stepan Ra- ditch, president of the Croatian Peas- ants’ party, speaking at a mass meeting, sald: “Mussolini is preparing for war. He wishes to wrest Dalmatia from Jugo- slavia, but this province constitutes our seacoast and our life blood. We must 1 retain it at all co: ‘The little enten been watching recent moves of Premier Mussolint of Italy closely. M. Duca, acting foreign minister of Rumania, called upon these countries recently to take Mussolini’s policy under advisement, and Bucharest dispatches | stated this was to safeguard “the inter- | ests of the little entente in Central Eu- | rope and the Balkans.” Colored S!udemr Wins Prize. Robert Clifton We: , colored, of Washington, has been Boylston prize of $30 for his recitation | of Booker T. Washington's ‘‘Abraham Lincoln” in the annual speaking con- tests at Harvard University, where he Rumania, Czecho- | | slovakia and Jugoslavia—apparently has | arded the | is & junior, it was announced here to- ! Higl day. * Weaver is a graduate of Dunbar ||| .Small Storage Rooms $3.50 $4.00 and $5.00 A Safe Depository for 37 .Years 1140 Fifteenth Street 4Y; Blocks North of the White House C. A. Aspinwall, President historic _ points, _battle fields; t mansions, natural wonders. hotels from the mountaine €0 the ocean are connected eplendid highways, For toarial fom wrile CoNsERvATION AND vELOPMENT when McGugin told him the securities were part of his (McGugin's) fee. An- other suit is pending In Okmulgee. Okla,, to recover the bonds, Mott said. Many Suits. This litigation follows an almost con- tinuous series of suits started by the Government shortly after the discovery of oil on Barnett's Oklahoma land eight | years ago. When the first gusher was DOES YOURROOF Specials in Birthday Week Until Saturday night we are celebrating for the forty-third time the anniversary of the founding of this business. brought in Barnett was virtually pen- niless. In a few months his income was estimated at $90,000 a day. He soon had a fortune of more than $2.- 500.000. 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