Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 20

0 = (FARLES . DAWES RETURNS T0 AN Fbrmer Vice President Gained §World Renown Through - Spectacular Acts. By the Associated Press. Charles Gates Dawes retires to his bahking interests in the lee of a public life that many had considered inevitably pointed him to the presidency. His four years' service as Vice Presi- dent was a well spiced epilogue to a cafeer that had kept him on a high crgst of public attention from the days offthe World War, and ends a chapter in% American politics that was increas- ingly of speculative interest. e Dawes of the Warld War days, claiming notice through spectacular acts, gave way to the Dawes of the budget, whom no one could well ignore when he waved a broom in the startled faces of responsible, but less volatile members of the Government and de- nounced the “pinheads.” His “Hell Maria” took a colloquial course across the country about that time and tinders from the fierce puffing of. his upside down pipe kindled kin- dred bowls on the highways and by- ways. Reparations Fame, There followed Dawes of reparations fame and when his plan for pavment of Germai financial obligations to vigtor nations was promulgated he be- came more than ever a world figure of note. In 1924, on a visit to Italy. he heard many expressions that he would be. President of the United States Dawes boomed into the Vi Chanel’s Bois des Iles dency in the same fashion that had carried and kept his name virtually a household word. The gavel punctuated his irfitial address to the Senate March 4, 1925, in which he ripped to shreds the august procedure of that body and hung the remnants up so that all might see. This was regarded by many as the first act that would lead him to a presi- dential nomination, He continued to carry on a cam- paign against Senate rules, in which he | asserted the public weal was at stake, after the paralyzing first speech, but he did not retain the place in the na- tional eye that had been his for a | decade. Goes Back to Bank. There were many, however, who re- garded him as a strong potential dark | horse for the Republican nomination at Kansas City up to the eve of the | convention, although he had asserted with characteristic emphasis that he was not. So after a dozen years of almost constant attention to public affairs, | Mr. Dawes goes back, at 64, to the field | of endeavor that has made him a wealthy man. He will be chairman of the board of the combined Central Trust Co. and the Bank of America of Chicago, whose merger resulted in an institution of $160,000,000 assets. Mr. Dawes' last public service, before | he was nominated for Vice President. | was as director of the budget, a post | to which he had been appointed by President Harding. In that position he was credited with reducing national ex- | penditures by $360,000,000. Gave Out “Hell Maria.” reparations commission _experts and helped evolve the plan that bears his name today and under which Germany | is liquidating its war indebtedness. He had occupied even a more popu- lar public position in 1921, when he went,_before a congressional ‘war inves- tigating committee, unleashed a pic- turesque vocabulary and gave “Hell Maria” to the world. That was a few after he had returned from as a brigadier gen It was in 1924 that he headed the | THE EVENING STAR W BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU WARNS CHARITY DONORS Contributers Who Are Asked to Aid Should Investigate, Or- ganization Says. ‘The Better Business Bureau today issued a warning to contributors to the Community Chest of Washington to investigate before they make con- tributions to ostensible charitable pur- poses sought by persons of unknown standing or authority. ‘The warning issued following receipt by the bureau of information that a list of donors to the Community Chest during the recent campaign had been compiled for unknown or unrecognized solicitors of funds in the name of char- ities, not provided for under the Com- munity Chest plan, by telephone. While the list of contributors to the Community Chest might conceivably be employed by legitimate solicitors to recognized organizations, the bureau points out, it would be advisable for prospective donors to any new fund to first investigate and ascertain the repu- tation of the solicitors and the organi- zation seeking the funds. Albert Russell Dies. LOS ANGELES, March 5 (#).—Al- bert Russell, 38, former motion picture director and actor on the stage and screen, died of penumonia here. yester- day. He was a brother of the late William Russell, actor, who died two weeks agb. eral in charge of purchases for the American expeditionary forces. Trained to be a lawyer, Mr. Daw became a public utility counselor, re- moved to Chicago, became an official of several utility companies and in 1902 founded the Central Trust Co. of Illi- nois. His imediate task now is with a banking commission which is to advise the Dominican RepubMc on finances, McGILL BUILDING TITLE CONFIRMED TO BUYER Washington Loan & Trust Co. Re- tains Possession Under Decision of Court of Appeals, The title of the Washington Loan & | Trust Co. to the McGill Building, at 908 G street, was sustained today by the District Court of Appeals in an opinion by Justice Charles H. Robb. The local company had purchased the property from the Town of Bowmanville, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, which had been named as remainder- man in fee on the death of Mrs. Jane N. McGill, under the terms of the will of James H. McGill, a naturalized citi- zen, who died May 22, 1908. The widow died December 13, 1910, and the town of Bowmanville con- veyed to the local corporation in Decem- ber, 1912. William Larkin and Henry Larkin attacked the validity of the transfer from the Canadian corporation and asserted their claim to the prop- erty as lineal descendants of the pa- ternal grandfather of James H. McGill. The theory of the suit was that the town of Bowmanville, being an alien corporation, was incapable of taking by devise real estate in the District of Columbia. In refuting this contention the appel- late court points out that by the act of 1905 Congress made applicable to the District of Columbia the exception con- tained in the act of 1897 respecting the purchase by persons not citizens of the United States of lots and parcels of land in incorporated or platted cities, towns and villages, and such purchase may be either by grant or devise. It must be | assumed to have been the intention of Congress, the court says, that the ac- quisition of lots in towns and villages would not conflict with the public in- terest. trained raven for $7, New!... 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