Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1928, Page 7

A R BOARD SITS SARKLIST” CASE Testimony Concluded on Ac- cusation Against Mrs. Helen T. Bailie. A mass of evidence, including afi- davits and letters, confronted the na- tional board of management of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which resumed its closed sessions today | in an offort to reach a decision in the case of Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie of Bos- | ton, of “black list® circulation fame,} who is accused of “disturbing the peace | MARY PICKFORD. CURLS SHORN, DONE WITH LITTLE-GIRL ROLES Movie Actress Wears Hair| Cut to Shoulder Length on Return From Europe. | | | | | it I Locks Have Been Saved, She | | Says, to Pin On in Case of I, Emergency. | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, Juns 22.—Mary Pickford had & big story for the papers today. Re- | porters swarmed to hear. “I've cut my hair!” she exclaimed, and by the sanitary commission in 1925 n several areas in the sanitary - district taxpayers became active in the courts. After battles in the lower courts the case reached the Court of Appeals, { which in this instance handed down a ! decision holding that the sanitary ; commission was without authority to| | increase its charges. However, the Legislature, at the January, 1927, ses- sion, passed an act ratifying and con- firming the action of the sanitary com- | Suburban Taxpayers to Ask | mission in making the increase. It was after this that the Montgomery County Rehearing on Sanitary com. | group, headed by Mr. Noel, brought mission Ruling. suit in the Circuit Court for that county at Rockville to enjoin the sanitary com- | mission from collecting the increased charges, setting forth that the ratifying |act ‘of the Legislature was invalid. | Judge Peter ruled that the act of the Legislature was not valid, and enjoined the commission from collecting the higher assessments. The sanitary com- | Rehearing of the case in which *he ( Maryland Court of Appeals yesterday | handed down a decision. reversing the irulllm of Judge Robert Peter, Mont- [mission then took another appeal to | gomery County Circuit Court, who held | the Court of Appeals, in which case that the act of the.1927 Maryland |Judge Bond handed down a decision | | Legislature _ratifying increased charges | yesterday. of the Washington Suburban Sanitary | =t e snuent o veraic ot | BLANTON 1S SEEN cAvenue at JSeventh p arn v s ty.” The tak- | the multitude gasped. S o1 i T the o announced today by F. Regis Noel and | i test ; | "“But [ haven'.” observed her husband ing of testimony in the case was con- | "I Cn G i, homeward | bound from Europe, displaying the well known Fairbanks grin. | “But what of the curls?” breathlessly demanded the throng, aimost ignoring the athletic movie star. “Oh, I still have them,” Miss Pickford A He almost wept when he saw it cut replied. “They're all wrapped up ready | short. It's down to here—just around to be pinned on if I ever need them.| the shoulder. “I had to have it done | They were such a nuisance, you know. | because I'm not going to be a little girl hanging down below my waist. So many | any more. No slums or curls in my next | women in New York were wearing long | picture. I've always been a girl's girl | hair, but I can't see why any woman ard now I'm going after the boys would want it lon . Fairbanks will entrain | “It was a sh for Hollywood tanight ! cluded late yesterday and it was indi- cated today that a decision would not be made public until Mrs. Ballies attor- neys, who left the city last night, had ed of the outcome. ry P. MacFarland of Moun- Lakes, N. J. who faces charges similar to those preferred against Mrs. Bailie. is ill, officials of the Daughters of th? American Revolution were in- formed, and her hearing will likely be postponed until the next meeting of the board. which is scheduled in Au- It is known that the officials de- ¢ to get the Bailie case disposed of king up the MacFarland Constitution Hall Plans. The board arranged -to give further consideration today to the constru plans for Constitution Hall, whic will be erected near Memorial Conti- nental Hall, in which the meetings are being held. At the hearings yesterday. which were conducted with the greatest se- crecy, several hours were consumed in hearing evidence, and Mrs. Bailie took the stand in her own defense and oc- cupied four or five hours, it was said. Mrs. Bailie called two witnesses in her behali, Mrs. Eleanor P. St. Omer Roy of Weshington, office secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Mrs. A. C Cowan of Wichita, Kans. Mrs. Roy disclosed today that she was not placed under oath when giving her testimony. and that she told of how she became interested in “the working of the black hst” and “gave instances of the working out of the black list.” “An honorary president general of the Daughters of the American Revo- Jution had said in my presence and in the presence of others that there was a black list, and.gave the history of it, and said that William Allen White was on it Mrs. Roy explained she testified. Her information was independent of Mrs. Bailie's, she said. Mrs. Roy said that Mrs. Co! who is chairman for national defense of the Wichita Chapter of the Daughters of | the American Revolution, testified that there was a “black list,” and that the Kansas State chairman for national de- fense had received such a list from Mrs. William Sherman Walker, nation- al chairman of national defense. Mrs. Cowan wrote to her State chairman and got copies of the “black list,” Mrs.| ta} Roy continued, and these were circu- lated as much as two years ago at the State convention of 1928. Statement for Daughters. The feeling of unrest and protest had grown so much, Mrs. Covan was qi 2s having said. that in March of this ymmtrmwhflsuumlntw testing and when she answered this the first Mrs. Cowan heard of Mrs. Bailie. Mrs. Roy said that no witnesses were presented in persons for the soctety, but that a mass of documents was put in evidence to support the h Mrs. Bailie and her attorneys, George W. Alger of New York, and Lawrence night, it was said. at the Cosmos Club, but rooms late yesterday. On behalf of the Daughters of the Revolution, it was asserted lution did not speakers’ list” to give out .and so the matter was 3 Mrs. , it was pointed out for the society, was given “ & very full and complete hearing and every opportunity to present her case ATTEMPT TO SET NEW MARY PICKFORD. | A k to Doug. of course. TRAGKRELAYNG - CABSTANDSUT SUTLOST BYD.C. RERLY IS ENTERED Stafford Rules Street Rail- | way Companies Not Requir- ed to Pay Cost. D. C. Commissioners File Answer 1o Iniunctions! Sought by Four Hotels. 4 Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford in| The District Commissioners _today Circuit Division 1 has decided that |filed in the District Supreme Court mo- under existing law street railway com- | tions to dismiss the four suits for in- panies may not be required to pay for | junction recently brought by the Na-| | Phe Telocating of their tracks, but only | tional Capitol Hotel Corporation, which for the cost of paving and keeping in | runs the Washington, Raleigh and Pow- | répair the space between the tracks and | hatan hotels: and Capitol Hotel Co., | for two feat beyond. Accordingly he |Which operates the Willard Hotel, to | Jondered judgment foday against the |Prevent the putting into operation of the | St or "tne District of = Columbia | Order of the Commissioners establish- | against the Georgetown and Tennally town d Co. and the Washington Co. for $74.238.55 for chang. ing public hackstands adiacent o the | hotels. atitogd 4 The Commissioners, through Corpora 1 jon unsel ride_ane ssistan! r- g e poration Counsel Ringgold Hart, fled - | answers in whic] they deny e allega- | gohasistant Corporation Counse e eass |tlons of injury made by the hotel own- e m"‘;;“p“ appeal the case | ors ~ Justice Hitz postponed hearing on T ihe Distrlct. o Justice Stafford 1s | the motions until next Friday. i lecision of Justice Stafford 18| The Commissioners say the hotel peo- expected to have a far-reaching effect | 1o are asking the court to substgaole e b e ay of thousands | e opinion of the presiding justice for | ot dollars to the street rativay com |that of the Commissioners in the estab- § it the near future in view of | jishment and locations of hackstands, comprehensive plans now under Way | when the exercise of such discretion has to relocate the car tracks in the Penn- | peen exclusively conferred by law in the sylvania avenue triangle and the Capi- | Commissioners. The bill, they say. also G. Brooks of Boston, left the city last | panies. The la stayed Plaza. Tost Estimate High. While no estimate has yet been made {of the probable cost of rearranging the | tracks in the area under development by the Pederal Government south of Pennsylvania avenue. engineers of the ago that the track changes Iln the Capitol plaza im ent pro- H as outlined in a bill pending in would cost about $750,000. ‘The latter project calls for the location of the tracks mow on C street, Dela- ware avenue and First street northeast in a subway under C street. The bill that the cost shall be bo{ne tly by the Capital Traction &nd Washington Railway & Electric com- In the past the cost of relocating car tracks has been a minor item, duc to the fact that comparatively little work has been done. The Bladensburg L years ago have been major projects. Opidiion by Stafiord. In the course of his opinion, Justice Stafford said: “The question for consideration is not the power of the Legisiature to re- quire the street railway to pay the cost e | of relaying its tracks or of relaying the assuming water mains, but, for the present that the Legislature had such power, has it manifested a clear in- tention to exercise it? As the cost of locating the water mains is not now railway companies calculated some time | WELSBACH REVOLUTIONIZED LIGHTT NOW REFRIGERATION seeks to have the court hold that the plaintiff corporations have :u“nlred | proprietary right in the public ighway | adjacent to the hotels. As to future an- |ticipated annoyances from the cab | stands, the Commissioners say. should | they occur, they can be remedied in ap- | propriate actions in the Police Court. In their answers to the rules, the Commissioners assert that the stands were established by them following the | recommendation of the director of |traffic. the inspector of the traffic bureau of the Police Department and | the hack inspector after a careful study | by those officials and in the interest of |the general public. Theyv ask the dis- | charge of the ruleé at the cost of the ccmorations.. . involved, we will confine our attention | to the cost of relocating the tracks. Did the Legislature intend that the railway company shouid pay the entire cost of relocating? 1If it did, why did it not | say so? It certainly did not specify any | part or proportion of the cost as payable | by the company, and if it meant that | the company should pey the cost of relocating at all it must have meant | that it should pay the whole. If ‘ex- | isting law' means “existing statute;’ the | meaning is plain, for the existing | statutes required the company wr e | | between rails and two feet beyon | “The words ‘so far as’ indicate that | was in some way limited by existing | law, and was not to include the whole | cost of relocating the tracks. The word ‘provided’ usually refers to clauses | or stipulations in statutes or contracts.” Wilson L. Townsend. attorneys for a | group of taxpayers in that county. I7 | | a rehearing is not granted by the Cou:t | of Appeals the United States Supremc Court, will be asked to review the case | on the ground of invasion of consti- | tutional rights, it was asserted. The sanitary commission supplies water and sewer to sections of Montgomery and Prince Georges County adjacent to the District of Columbia. Montgomery Tax Involved. Mr. Noel said rehearjng of the case | will be sought on the ground that the | Montgomery County commissioners in | making the tax levy recently set a r: that would bring the sanitary com- mission as much as it would obtain | through the increase which has been declared valid under the terms of the | decision of the Maryland Court of Ap- | peals. It will be pointed out in the petition for the rehearing that since | the commission will be getting the crease sought through general taxation. the ' increase in front-foot benefit charges should not be allowed. It will | | be maintained, said Mr. Noel, that the | customed to judge public sentiment in point in contention is now -moot | If the rehearing is not granted, vas stated by Mr. Noel, a petition for a | it ‘of error will be filed with the| United States Supreme Court. and| under a new statute, effective July 1, that court would have to grant a review of the case, he said. Case Begun in 1925. Should the rehearing be denied by | the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court fails to reverse the Court of Ap- peals, one of the most stubbornly con- tested cases that has engaged the atten- tion of courts in nearby Maryland in many years will have ended. From the time the increased front foot benefit charges were put into effect $15 to $25 Men’s Summer Suits Benn’s, Farr's & Priestley’s Mohairs. Tropical Worsteds. | the refund from the rallway company | i et o b ¥ et Yoo I e A DED TO DEFEAT | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star HOUSTON, Tex.. June 22.—Repre- | sentative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas, who has won the title of “Stormy Pe- trel” and “Wildeat” because of his at- tacks on the National Capital and its officials from his privileged position as | a member of the House District com- mittee, is not likely to go back to Wash- ington after the coming election, in which he is expected to be eliminated as a political factor. 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