Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1928, Page 11

INDIAN'S WEALTH - INWIFE'S CONTROL* Says He Gets $100 a Month Allowance From $2,500 0il Income. By the Associated Press. RIVERSIDE, Calif., November 23.— Uackson Barnett, rich Oklahoma In- dian, told a United States senatorial in- Vestigating committee here yesterday that although he receives $2,500 a month from the Government, only about $100 of it ever gets into his pockets. Barnett's wealth, accumulat- ing from oil lands, is reckoned in the ‘millions. Responding to questions in monosyl- lables, Barnett said the remaining $2,400 of his monthly income is taken care of by his wife, who accompanied him to the’ hearing, together with Bar- nett's legal guardian, Judge W. R. Hewitt of Pasadena, Calif. Barnett declared he spends his $100 monthly on cigars and horses. Buys 25-Cent Cigars. “I pay 25 cents apiece for my cigars,” the rich Indian proudly informed Sen- ators Lynn B, Frazier of North Da- kota and W. B. Pine of Oklahoma, who are investigating the conduct of the| Government’s Indian institutions. Mrs. Barnett aceused Department of Justice officials’of persecuting her hus- band and of attempting to kidnap him from his Los Angeles home two years l?o. She denied that two trust funds of a niillion dollars each, established BIXBIZIBIBT to ‘select for the Junior Miss $39.50 to $59.50 Winter Coats $3 3.50 Beautifully fur trimmed is this new shipment of coats, Made of suede cloth and broadcloth, they are trimmed in opossum, French beaver, caracul, Manchurian wolf and dyed céney. And for color— black, brown, tan, navy. Sizes 13,15, 17. (Second Floor.) (B) Double-Breasted Boys'’ $7.95 Very swagger, indeed, w body linings, Overcoats For 3 to 10 Year Olds storm collars.and roomy pockets. Plaid, .. herringbone and diagonal patterns in gray, brown or tan with all-wool plaid {gr Barnett, had mu fcundedml:y ltd- N u) a contingency , AN mm’:mmumry that the attorneys did not share a reputed $150,000 to clear the estate of a tangle allegedly pretllmutefl by the Department of ice. Cruelty at Schools Alleged. ‘The committee also heard several witnesses who testified to in- human conditjons and cruel practices at the Towoac Indian School, Cortez, Colo.; the Rice School in Arizona, and the Yuma, Ariz, reservation. Wit nesses have been subpoenaed from sev- eral States. Patrick Kennedy, engineer of the Mojave City, Ariz., reservation, told the committee that Indian girls suspected of planning to run away were chained to their beds at night, and during the day wore chains around their necks. Mrs. Charles M. Welfelt, for four years & cook at the Towoac Indian School, testified that bad meat and wormy fruit had been fed to Indian students. She declared that officials of the school appropriated Christmas packages sent the Indlan students by charitable organizations. ARMY BAND RETURNS. Second Public Concert Tour.of Mu- sicians Completed. The United States Army Band has just returned from its second public concert tour. The trip, the second this but resulted in greater enthusiasm for 1mmtary band music than the highly | successful inaugural. |, Band members have started prepara- | tion for the forthcoming trip to Seville, {Spain, where the organization will be |the official musical representative of the United States at the Ibero-Ameri- can International Exposition. The tour just ended covered 13 States and lasted eight weeks. year, not only included more territory, | & THE EVENING CENTRAL GRADUATE LEADS W. & L. BAND Harold E. Slanker to Direct Musi- cians at Foot Ball Game Here Saturday. A Washington boy, graduate of Central High School, will return to the Capital Saturday as director of the 70- plece band of Washington and Lee University, which is coming for the foot ‘ball game be- University of Mary- .land. He is Harold E. Slanker, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Slanker of 1417 Park road. “Hank” played centerfield on the Central base ball team and was Harold E. a member of the Central band. He was a centerfielder on the Washington anker. and Lee team last year, and is now serving his second year as director of the band. Following his graduation from Cen- tral in 1924, he graduated at Culver Military Academy, Indiana, and now is lnLth first year of law school at W. Edinburgh Bars Beggars. Edinburgh, Scotland, has started a war against the begging nuisance, which has grown unusually great because -of the unemployment situation. 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Adams were Louis N. Scherf, head of the State police at that time Sam Lee, a State policeman; F. L. Peart, then mine superintendent; the_ Colo- rado Fuel & Iron Co, and Rocky Moun- tain Fuel Co. Various degrees of incapacity as the result of wounds received were alleged | N\ in all the complaints, which charged a “conspiracy” among the defendants and | N “the unwarranted shooting” of the plaintiffs. ‘The pitched battle occurred during a mine strike at the Columbine mine shaft, near Greeley, Officers boliced the district for several weeks. . New fle Rises Vertically. Practically tailless, and with a new | \§ type of wing ailerons, which, it is claimed, enable it to rise almost verti- cally, a midget airplane has been in- vented by a young Belgian., Instead of the usual ailerons, the new machine has a pair of large movable wing sections on either side. It is driven by a small | N two-cylinder engine. 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