Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1928, Page 12

TORECALL g g MOV MARINES BALKED Three Amendments Defeated | as Senate Passes Navy Fund Bill. ¢ struggle, the series of attempts has bes med expeditions to forestall Ame abroad. ch started a con- as to whether THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Man Waits 52 Years |For Money Awarded In Loss of an Arm | PGS | By the Assoristed Pross. MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 2 Fifty-two years after a jury aw him $8,000 for the loss of an arm in a train accident, when 18 years old, Albert Schmidt. 64, will receive his money. The sum of $6,612, due him from the estate of a brother who administered the fund, was promtsed him by Judge M. 8. Sheridan yesterday. While an art student at Munich, Albert was seized with brain fever, declared incompetent, and confined to a hospital. Later he was de- clared sane and paroled to his elder brother Michael The elder brother. maintained con- ment of the aguan policy | < as the Senate | 000,000 maval appropri- | eby cleared its decks | ental supply measures. amendments designed to place ations around the use of American | Nicaragua were voted down | er and by big margins, prior | assage of the measure. Amendment Defeated. which the gre hat framed jointly rs Norris of Nebraska, and Blaine Wiscor: Republican ~ insurgents, d provided that the Marines be with- | br , when their | next presi- | t country will | and the new ad- | One, ated. ove of of dential have been ca ministra | defeated, 52 to0 | 15 Republicans Democrats lining up st e foreign rela- s differed with was trol of the funds until he died intestate, leaving an estate valued at more than $100.000. Albert started an action in county court to recover his damage money. There was $5.800 due him and he will receiv that sum plus interest LAND CONDEMNATION AGREEMENT SOUGHT Meeting Called for Trm'ight to st~i cuss Proposed Change in | Law In an effort to get an agreement on the proposed change in the law provid- | ing a procedure for land condemnation in the District of Columbia, Lieut. Col U. S. Grant, 3d. executive officer of the [ National Capital Park and Planning Commission, has called a_conference of | local civic and trade organizations to {meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Cosmos n by Sena- fer, Democrat wlk constituted & dorserment of such policy. Stick to Pledge. Borah and %everal ot posed the amendment had been antag- onistie to President Coolidge's Nicara- guan stand, but explained their votes ledge given by the United intain order and otherwise the little republic. They said that | honor required that this The 1 relations chairman alsc took the view that the effect of the| Norris-Blaine amendment would be to | make Controlier General McCarl the | judge of how the amendment should be | €arried out “Under its terms.” he said, “the Pres- ident wouid be compelled to make his | howing to the controller general be- | fore he could use the armed forces in | Washington Chamber Club, The conference is being called | at the request of the House judiciary | comunittee which has before it the | planning commission's bill for a change | in the procedure When the committee took the bill un- der consideration recently it found such diversity of opinion that it decided to ask Col. Grant to make an effort to settle the differences and bring in a draft of a measure which would have | the full approval of all parties con- | cerned. There will be present tonight W. W | Bride, corporation counsel, and Alex- ander H. Bell, assistant corporation counsel of the District: H. H. Glassie in charge of condemnations in the De- | partment of Justice, and representa- | tives of the following organizations. | Federation of Citizend' Associations, the | Washington Real Estate Board, the of ~ Commerce and the Merchants and Manufacturers Association of this city. TWO EX-GOVERNORS ' IN POWER TRUST PAY iTmrIe Commission Uncovers Use of Money to Influence Legisla- tion in Congress. | By the Associated Press Secking motives behind the reorgan- fzation last June of the joint committee {of national utilities associations, the | Federal Trade Commission learned in inquiry yesterday of the fur- of money to observe activities t to the power industry ment of money to two former gov- ors of Western States was disclosed ng with the fact thaf the major mat- ters of interest to the commiftee now center in- legislation before Congress This includes the Walsh resotution, un- der which the inquiry is progr he Boulder Dam project, i regulation of power transmission, taxa- tion and development of power along navigable streams fhe payment of §5,200 to the law firm of Mecham & Vellacott of Albu- | querque, N. Mex, of which former Gov M. C. Mecham s a_member, was testi- fied to by Ira L. Grimahsaw of New NAMED FOR COMMITTEE. Hammond, Halligan and Gen. Jad- win to Represent D, C. in Tokio. John Hays Hammond, John Halligan and Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, mem- bers of the American committee of the World Engineering Congress, which will meet in Tokio next year, will rep- resent Washington on the entertain- ment committee, according to the an- | nouncement_of committees made pub- |lic by Dr. Elmer A. Sperry, chairman |of the American committee. | Mr. Hammond also 1s & member of | the finance committee and Mr. Jadwin is a member of the technical program | committee. | ROSINANTE OF SKIES. iSpnu\flh Officials, by Air, Follow l Don Quixote’s Route, EL TOBOSO, Spain, April 26 (®)—A Rosinante of the skies today brought a party of Spanish officials to the plains of Tobosa, across which Cervantes' | hero, Don Quixote, traveled to his lady | love. Dulcinea Del’ Toboso. 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