Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1929, Page 5

THE EVENING | KELLEHER FACES LONG AL TERM Wealthy Sportsman Is Found| Guilty on 23 Counts by Speedy Jury. TER Y | Jobn B. Kelleher, wealthy apartment | house owner and well known in sport- ing circles of the Capital, today was | facing the prospect of a long jail sentence following his conviction late | yesterday afternoon by a jury in Oriminal _Division No. 1, District Supreme Court, on 23 counts charging gambling activities, while his attorneys, Judge Danfel Thew Wright and Philip Ershler, prepared plans for asking a new trial, or carrying the fight for Kelleher's freedom {o higher courts. Kelleher was fountl guilty on 6 felony | and 17 misdemeanor counts vesterday afterngon, the felony counts carrying a maximum jail penalty of five years each. | Immediately after the verdict was returned, after about an hour's delibera- | tion by the jury, of ht men and four women, Judge Wright, chief of Kelleher's counsel. announced he would demand a new trial. Kelleher was ye- manded to jail to await his attorneys’ next move. Trial Attracts Throng. i The trial of Kelleher attracted wide- | spread attention in sporting circles and the courtroom all through the two-day | trial was crowded with men known to police as tipsters, bookmakers and gamblers. So crowded was the court- Toom that Chief Justice Walter I.| ‘McCoy, before whom the trial was held, yesterday afternoon halted the trial, ordered all who would leave the court- room to do so immediately and then ordered court attaches to allow no one to leave or enter the courtroom until the trial was completed. Many spec- tators thus were kept virtual prisoners in the courtroom until after the argu- | ments had been made to the jury by opposing counsel. In the closing minutes of the trial, Judge Wright furnished the sensation of the two-day session when he read into the record of the prucecdmgsi names characterized by the prosecution | as a list of patrons of the bookmaking | establishment raided at 1413 H street, December 28, 1926, when Kelleher was arrested. Mrs. Kelleher Witness for Husband. Mrs. Kelleher, who took Tthe stand in | her husband'’s behalf, said the list con- | tained the names of persons to whom | she had been planning to send Christ- | mas cards. The list included the names | of many prominent real estate dealers | in the city, newspaper men, physicians | and members of the Washington base | ball team. The principal witness in the prosecu- | tion of Kelleher was Charles D. Payne, | who was indicted with Kelleher in the | case, and who testified that he was| empioyed by Kelleher at $50 a week, with promises of further payment, 10 |— Tun & gambling establishment in the 1400 block of H street. | Accounts showing credits running as high as $2,500 & day were described by Payne as the winnings of the book- making establishment. Figures in ex- | cess of $7,000 read from one sheet of | pper seized in the raid on the estab- ishment, were characterized by As- sistant District Attorney William H. dc:llhu as Kelleher's winnings for one y. Losses Recorded in Statement. In the alleged daily accounts of the | establishment were recorded some losses, but in the main, the alleged accounts showed big winnings. Another man who said he placed bets | Gopeland 47 ARE SCHEDULED | tribute to the retiring secretary. many times with Kelleher was Herbert C. Alton, a barber, who said he was em- HARRY » |KAUFMAN: 1316 -1326 Seventh StNW. An Extraordinary Event! Featuring Summer’s Newest Dresses & Ensembles The Senate vote on the farm relief bill was: FOR THE BILL—43. Republicans—39. G Phipps Reed e Sackett Shortridge Smoot | Steiwer | Thomas (Idaho) | Townsend Vandenberg ‘Walcott Warren Allen Bingham Burton Capper Cutting Dale Deneen McNary Meteall Moses Qddie Waterman Patterson Watson Democrats—i. Trammell Wagner AGAINST THE BILL—46. Republicans—13 Johnson Goldsborough Fletcher Ransdeil Borah Nve Brookhart Pine Couzens Schall Frazier Howell Norris Demoerats—32. Ashurst [ Barkley Blease Bratton Broussard Carawav Connally Swanson Thomas (Okla.) Tydines son Walsh (Mass) i Walsh (Mont.) George Wheeler. Glass Harris Sheppard &immons Farmer-Labor—1, Shipstead Senators_Blaine, Stepher Democ: % e Senators . Maine, and Robi diana, Republicans, and Kendrick, crat, Wyoming, for the report Wisconsin d Black ort son, In- Demo- | | | TO RECEIVE DEGREES Representative Kelly to Addressl Y. M. C. A College Graduates at Commencement Tonight. Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania will address graduates of the District of Columbia College and afliated schools of the Young Men's Christian Association at commencement cere- monies tonight, at 8 o'clock, in Me- morial Continkntal Hall. ‘William Knowles Cooper, retiring gen- eral secretary of the Y, M. C. A., will be | awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws, and 47 graduates of the college will receive degrees in law or account- ancy. Graduates of the Washington Preparatory School and the Woodward School for Boys will be given diplomas | during the joint exercises. Mr. Cooper will be honored for his 21 years of service with the local ¢. M. C. A. and his 40 years of welfare work among young men and boys, Hus- ton_ Thompson, president of the Y. M. C. A. and chairman of the board of trustees of the college, will psyDn‘ T, James A. Bell, director of education, will award the degrees. Rev. Dr. Homer J. Councilor will offer invocation. There will be a musical program. ployed in the shop below the third-floor establishment on H street. Trial of the case was marked by | clashes on the part of opposing counsel. Assistant District Attorney Collins and Judge Wright. There were frequent {ilts between the two lawyers, which culminated, in the arguments before the jury, in charges by both that their adversaries were using improper argu- ment. | Payne pleaded guilty two years ago | to the charge under which he was in- | dicted with Kelleher, but has not been sentenced. Alton, who also was indicted with Payne and Kelleher, was freed in the case last Saturday, when the District attorney’s office nolle prossed the charge against him. DEBENTURE DEATH INHOUSE LOOMS by Representatives for Tomorrow. _(Continued From First Page) to take the matter to the House for & vote. The House leaders are against further delay on this measure. Answers Hoover. Senator Brookhart made answer to the statement issued last night by Presi- dent Hoover eriticizing the Senate for its failure to agree to the conference report. on the farm bill. he said: sive members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle that if this proposition (the debenture) is rejected. has come to organize for a fight to the finish If the debenture in the form I have heretofore suggested, or in s pres- ent form, cannot be put into the farm bill, I think the bill should be permitted to pass without it. If there were nothing 0 hope from this bill by its present But I believe we will be able to put the debenture into the tariff bill fn the form in which I have suggested. In order to make sure that this be possible we should at once organize to put up a progressive candidates in every con- gressional district and for Senator in every State who will fight for this pro- gram, and if the bill should be vetoed we should follow this with a progressive candidate for President.” Asked for Session. Senator Brookhart, discussing the President’s statement, said: “I was one of those who asked for an extra session of Congress to consider the farm problem. I did so because I did not consider the Coolidge-Jardine farm bill was adequate and confidently expected a better bill from the new President. He added strength to that confidence himself by his silence, and the farm bill was therefore not con- sidered in the short session of Congress. “If the President-elect had frankly made known the fact that he would not support a better bill than the Jardine bill it might just as well have been passed in the short session and the extra session of Congress avoided altogether. If there is delay in the enactment of farm legislation under these conditions the blame rests upon the President himself and not upon the Senate, that is doing its duty in its effort to solve this greatest problem.” Senator Brookhart denied that the pending bill without the debenture most_important agency ever set up in the Government o assist the industry —the proposed Federal farm board,” quoting from the President's statement. The Iowa Senator said that the food administration and the wheat corpora- tions opergting during the war had been far more important to the farmers. He denied, too, the correctness of the President’s statement in which Mr. Hoover said that subsidies had not been considered by either party as a meas- ure of relief for the farmer during the campaign. Offered Proposal. “T constantly called attention tq the fact,” said Senator Brookhart, “that I myself had proposed a bill which paid the losses of an export corporation for farm surplus out of the Treasury of the United States to the amount of $600,- 000,000.” Vote on Farm Relief Plan Set | In conclusion | now desire to say to the progres- | the time | reliej bill follows: lief, and may gravely jeopardize ing the report of the Senate and marketing system in the interest of work. It is a proposal for steady sive majority in these States. needs. provisions I would have voted against | |t clause provides “for the creation of the | debenture “be issued to the Federal Farm Board instead of the speculators, whom the President and 1 both heartily condemn. I propose that the Farm Board be given authority to use these debentures exactly as the President of ihe United States had authority to use the funds of the Government in the food administration and the wheat cor- porations, including the authority to pay losses on all farm surpluses bought at a | price not exceeding the average pre- ceding five-year costs of production, | plus & 5 per cent return upon capital| | investments.” | The Se vote to retain the de- benture clause in the farm bill was taken late yesterday, the plan winning, 46 to 43, and resulted in a quick and vigorous retaliation from the White House. No less emphatic than in his previous declarations, the President as- serted the vote “adds further delay to farm relief and may gravely jeoPlrdlle the enactment of the legislation.” | 'HENRY A. CASWELL, 74, HEART DISEASE VICTIM Attack Friday Proves Fatal to Re- tired Business Man Early Today. Henry A. Caswell, 74, died at his home, 1337 Emerson street northeast, this morning ¢t 5 o'clock. He was a victim of heart disease and suffered an attack Friday from which he did not recover. Mr. Caswell was born in Litchfield, Ohio, February 5, 1855, where he was Senator Brookhart proposed that the PRICED educated. He came to this city in 1906 | and opened a bowling establishment in | the 1300 block of H street northeast, | from which business he retired about | six years ago. | Funeral services will be held tomor- row at 2 o'clock at the Ingram Memo- rial Church, Tenth street and Massa. chusetts avenue northeast, of which Mi Caswell was a deacon. Booth, pastor of the church, will con- duct the services. Church officers will act as pallbeare | Mr. Caswell is survived by his son, | Jay Hubbard Caswel! of this city. He s & member of the Knights of the| | Maccabees and the Knights of Pythias. | His remains will be taken to Medina, | Ohio, where.he will be burled in the family plot. Installation President Hoover’s Statement President Hoover’s statement on the vote in the Senate on the jarm ‘The vote in the Senate today at best adds further delay to farm re- the enactment of legislation. In reject- agreed to by members of both parties, the Senate has, in effect, rejected a bill which provides for the creation of the most important agency ever set up in the Government to assist an industry—the proposed Federal Farm Board, endowed with extraordinary authority to reorganize the and to carry out these arrangements in conjunction with farm co-opera- tives, with a capital of $500,000.000 as an earnest of the seriousness of the foundations of equality with other industry and would remove the agri- cuitural problem from politics and place it in the realm of business. The conferees' bill carried out the plan advanced in the campaign in every particular. Every other plan of agricultural relief was rejected in that campaign, and this plan was one of the most important issues in the principal agricultural States and was given as a mandate by an impres- Subsidies were condemned in the course of the campaign, and the so-called debenture plan—that is, the giving of subsidies on exports—was not raised by either party, nor by its proponents, No serfous attempt has been made to meet the many practical ob- jections I and leaders in Congress have advanced against this proposal It was not accepted by the House of Representatives, and has been over- whelmingly condemned by the press, and is opposed by many leading farm organizations. For no matter what the theory of the export subsidy may be. in the practical world we live in it will not bring equality, but will bring further disparity to agriculture. It will bring immediate profits to some speculators and disaster to the farmer. 1_earnestly hope that the Corzress will enact the conferees’ report and allow us to enter upon the building of a sound agricultural system rather than to longer deprive the farmer of the relief which he sorely Yol Bhich Mr. | Panama Canal Zone; Maj. Harry L. House conferees, which report was the farmer, to-stabilize his industry upbuilding of agriculture onto firm |CHANGES IN ARMY SERVICE ORDERED Maj. Gen. Davis Listed for Retire- ment—Officers Promoted—Trans- fers and Reassignments Noted. Ma). Gen. Richmond P. Davis will | | be relieved from command of the 4th Corps Area at Fort McPherson, Ga., September 1 and proceed to his home 10 await retirement; Lieut. Cols. Archi- bald F. Commiskey and Willlam A. | Cornell, Cavalry, have been promoted to the grade of colonel; Col. Alfred A. Starbird, Field Artillery, has been transterred from _Governors Island, N. Y, to Manlla, P. I; Maj. Clark P. | Chandler, Cavalry, from Topeka, Kans., | to Fort Clark, Tex.; the resignation of Capt. Hamilion P. Calmes, Medical Corps, has been accepted by the Presi- | | dent, and Lieut. Col. Arthur T. Dalton, | retired, at Salem, Mass., has been de- | tailed as military instructor at the high | school, Gloucester, Mass., as the relief | of Lieut. Col. C. E. Hathaway, retired, | | who will proceed to his home. | Capt. Lewis A. Murray, Corps of En- | gineers, at the Panama Canal Zone, has | | been ordered to ‘duty at Huntington, W. | | Va.; First Lieut, William N. Leaf, Corps of Engineers, in Hawaii, has been or- | dered to this city for duty at the En- | | gineer Reproduction Plant; First Lieut. | | Miles Reber, Corps of Engineers, in Hawaii, has been assigned to the 29th | | Engineers at Fort Humphreys, Va.; Col. | Henry H. Rutherford, at Fort Sam | Houston, Tex., and Capt. Carl R. Mitch- | ell, at Fort Huachuca, Ariz, both of the Medical Corps, ordered to the Philip- | pines; Maj. W. O. H. Prosser, Medical | | Corps, from San ~Francisco to the Dale at Fort Benning, Ga., and Capt. Harry B. Gantt, at Fort Howard, Md.,| | both ‘of Medical Corps, ordered to Hono- | | lulu, Hawaii; Capt. William J. Adling- | | ton, Dental Corps, from New York City | to the Philippines; Capt. Rufus S.! Ramey, 9th Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kan., | to the Cavalry School, Saumur, France, | and Capt. Grant A. Schlieker, Infantry, at Fort George G. Meade, Md., to the | dispatches received yesterday PARK POLICE IN LAST GENERAL INSPECTION Officers Will Have Opportunity to Meet New Chief, Capt. Ray C. Montgomery. The last general inspection of the United States park police force is being held this afternoon on the Washington Monument Grounds. Arranged to start at 3:30 o'clock, the inspection gave portunity to the officers to meet offi- cially their new chief, Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, Field Artillery, U. 8. A., who will become superintendent of the United States park police on Saturday. The_inspection likewise afforded Capt. M. H. Parsons, Coast Artillery, U. 8. A., the retiring superintendent, a chance to say farewell officially to the police force he has commanded for nearly four years. Capt. Parsons is going on leave and will report to the Coast Artillery %aoul at Fortress Monroe, Va., in the Capt. P. J. Carroll, who is mext in command after the superintendent, ac- tively participated in the . Sixty-eight men were lined up for in- spection, the new Sam Brown belts of the 23 motor cycle men, black against their blue uniforms, showing up nattily. This is the first time the new belts have been seen at inspection, as they be- came part of the motor eycle uniform only last Monday, Hereafter there will be no general in- spection of the whole force, the various shifts being arranged so that those be- ing inspected will not be taken from their posts of duty. 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