Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1928, Page 10

10 *THE’ EVENING STAR,” WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OC’I'OBEI)E 10, 1928. STEEONLONS LADTOEONNOLLY Witnesses Tell of Realty Deals in New York Sewer Inquiry. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 10.—Testimony that Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Connolly had spent or loaned $125,860 during 1926 when Connolly’s salary of pres- ident of Queens Borough was $15,000 was introduced yesterday at the trial of Connolly and Frederick Seely on charges of conspiracy to defraud the y through sewer contracts. With the aid of several witness . Buckner, special prosecutor, brought out that Connolly had loaned considerable sums out of his pocket and that the defendant had been seen with rolls of thousand-dollar bills. Some of the expenditures, testimony said, were for 1eal estate, part of which was bought by Mrs. Connolly and some loans to friends for real estate d The property purchases totaled $ 000. Evidence was introduced to show that Conuolly in 1926 had deposited $21,000 in a Yor nk and that he had check out $18,000, all in small amounts Buckner offered to offer Connolly’s 1926 income tax return in evidence, but the objection fax Steuer. defense counsel, was sustained by Supreme Court_Justice_Tompkins. P. Frank Ryan and Daniel Shea, real estate men, testified that Con- nolly had loaned them $15,000 and $19,- 000 for 1 ate. Max Zalicas testi- t lots easar, another witness, said Connolly bought property worth $6.500 in a deal in which a dummy purchaser was_used. “Don’t put in my name, Cacsar said | Conaoily told him. “They may think I'm going to build a subway station and raise the price.” Shea asserted that the money the former borough president had loaned him was never repaid, while another witness, Alderman Jeremiah O’Leary, testified that once Connolly handed him an advance of $2,000, half of which he returned. PLAN WRIGHT MARKER. Work to Begin at Once on Site of First Flight at Kitty Hawk. WASHINGTON, N. C., October 10 (#).—Representative Lindsay C. War- ren, chairman of the national advisory council of Kill Devil Hill Memorial Asso- ciation, organized to memorialize the first flight of Wilbur and Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, was informed yester- day by the national advisory commit- tee for aeronautics that the National Aeronautical Association had decided to erect a commemorative marker where the flight was first made. Work will comence at once so that the marker may be unveiled on De- cember 17, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the flight. Entries were booked from practically all parts of the world for the Interna- tionl Avition Exhibition in Berlin this | Fall. !Judge Orders Sanity Test for Youth ‘ Accused of Speeding in “Collegiate”™ Car !By the Associated Press. | DETROIT, October | Court Judge W. McKay Skillman has |asked a sanity commission report on |the prevalent fad among “flaming | youths” of decorating second-hand flivvers with gaudy paint and signs of doubtful sentiment. The action followed arraignment yes- terday of Joseph Wisemont, 19, charged with speeding in a car described by the 10.—Records | arresting_officer as “collegiate.” Judge Skillman asked the driver what prompted such decorating. Wisemont after hesitating, said he guessed it was st to be crazy.” In that case,” the judge said, “we will determine just what varlety of insanity it is. I refer you to a sanity commission which will report one week | from today.” BROTHERHOOD BANK OFFICIALS FREED | Three Accused in Cut-Rate Bond Deal Acquitted—Broker Still , - to Be Tried. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa, October 10.—A verdict of not guilty of embezzlement | was returned here yesterday in the case of three former officers of the closed | Brotherhood Savings & Trust Co., who | were tried in connection with the cut- rate Liberty bond deal of 1926, in which | Charles E. Knapp disappeared with the | $320,000, of which $1 00.75 belonged to the bank. The defendanis, Roland A. McCrady, president of the bank; William J. Kelly, vice president, and J. L. Nelson, treasurer, were ordered to pay the costs of the trial. | In charging the jury visiting Judge J. | Frank Graff said that if the jury found | “these officers did this in good faith, | Corns Lift Right Off’! Hard corns, soft corns, corns be- :ween the toes and callouses lift right off! You'll Jaugh—it is so easy and doesn’t hurt a bit! i Just drop “Freezone” on any ten- [dc\n touchy corn. TInstantly it stops laching: then shortly vou just lift that old bothersome corn right off | with your fingers, It works like a char: very time. Seems magi } A tiny bottle of “Free- zone” costs only a few | cents at any drug store. Try though with poor judgment, you must acquit them.” McCrady had testified that he en- tered into a pool to buy the bonds be- cause his bank was in difficulties. He assumed full responsibility for the deal. Knapp was released from prison sev- eral weeks ago after serving a sentence for his part in the deal. Frank T. Red- man, alleged broker in the bond deal, is yet to be tried on a charge of larceny. SCHOOL OFFICIALS TAKE AERIAL JAUNT {Four Women Among Ten Who View Buildings From Ford Monoplane. Washington's school officials viewed the District public school system at a glance yesterday when they made an aerial jaunt in a giant tri-motored Ford | all-metal cabin monoplane. ‘The 10 officials, including four women showed no outward signs of nervousness as they clambored into the comfortable cabin or when the big ship thundered lifted ‘nto the air. By the time the plane reached its maximum altitude of the flight—2,500 feet—the school officers | and board members were so much at home that they began moving about in the cabin to get better views of the school buildings they could recognize Avhy Iy of° the:. Y of the shoe OUISITE £XPE ShoeMakers Art _and comfort were built, ‘into this exquisite expression Ixppertion; making art. down the Hoover Flying Field and| — below. Among the structures which re- ceived most notice was the new McKinley High School at Second and T streets northeast, and the Central High School at Eleventh and Clifton streets. Those in the party included Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superin- tendent; Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent; Mrs. Phillip S. Smith, Mrs. William G. McNeill, Mrs. Henry Gratton Doyle, Henry Gilligan and Rev. F. I A. Bennett, members of the Board of Education; Miss Rose L. Hardy, as- sistant _superintendent: Miss Sybil Baker, director of the Community Cen- ter Department; Harry O. Hine, secre- tary of the Board of Education, and Harry English, chief examiner. Al- though expected to fly with others, Isaac Gans, board member, failed to put in his appearance at the field. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, refused the in- vitation because of the imminence of a inosmiad bbb ot OYSTER COCKTAIL to make. Three parts good E:r’ml:‘m:\lplldoupn LEA & PERRINS’ SAUCE JEWELERS cold, while Dr. Charles F. Carusi, p‘rlesldgm of the board, was out of the city. ‘The plane left the field at 2:12 o'clock and made their initial touch at the end of the flight at 2:22 o'clock. 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