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11 GIVE TESTIMONY " INGNOOK DEFENSE Chemists Fight Over Factors in Piea of Insanity and Attack by Girl. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 10— Eleven witnesses were called by the defense today in its effort to bear out contentions that Dr. James H. Snook ‘was temporarily insane and strick in self-defense when he killed his Ohio State University student-mistress, ‘Theora Hix. Chemists and physicians attempted | to describe what was in the stimulat- ing sandwiches supposed to have been eaten by Dr. Snook and the girl when she was hammered and slashed to death on a lonely rifle range near Columbus the night of June 13. Among the witnesses were Robetrt Terry, pharmaceutical chemist; Dr. Clayton S. Smith, professor of pharma- cology and physiology, who taught ‘Theora Hix when she was a medical student at Ohio State; Dr. Frank W. Ha:irah, who made an examination of marks on Dr. Snook's body which the defendant claims were_inflicted by the girl, and finally John F. Seidel, one of the doctor's attorneys. Seidel related in detall the trouble he had encountered in obtaining per- mission to interview his client while he ‘was under arrest, Chemists in Conflict. Through Chemist Terry the defense attacked the testimony of Chemist Charles F. Lorg, a Stale wifness n regard to the stimulating narcotic con- coction which Long said he found in the stomach of Miss Hix mixed in un- digested beef. Chemist Lorg testified that his mi- eroscopic examination revealed with- onut question the cellular tissue and the substance of two excitement narcotics, similar to the samples that had been taken from Dr. Snook’s office. But Chemist Terry testified that the eellular tissue by which Long had iso- lated and identified the substance in the girl's stomach was not visible in samples of the narcotic to which Dr. Snook had access, supporting the de- fense protest that if the preparations actually were in the girl's stomach she Wwus responsible for placing them there. Explains Hammer Use. In Snook's account of the killing, as related on the witness stand, he said he struck Miss Hix the first blow with a hammer which he had in the car to loosen her grasp on him. They had gone to the darkened rifle range, he said, because the girl did not wish to stay that warm night in a room they maintained in an apartment_house. Until about a week ago the doctor did not reveal even to his attorneys the marks which he sald were made on his body by Miss Hix when she attacked him. His counsel had him examiacd August 2 by Dr. Frank Harrah, and today Dr. Harrah told the jury thst bruises were visible when he made the. examination, although he was unable to say hcw long ago they had neen infiicted. COLUMBIA CHAIN SEEKS FIVE PACIFIC STATIONS! Eastern Extension by American Company Places Broadcasters in Direct Competition. By the Associated Press. NEW- YORK, August 10.—Officials of the Columbia Broadcasting System to- day anounced contracts had been signed for the use of five radio stations on the Pacific Coast, effective January 1, as substitutes for five stations of tne American Broadcasting Co. now used by Columbia. The anouncement said Columbia will utilize Stations KFRC, San Francisco, and KHJ, Los Angeles, owned by Don Lee, and Stations KFPV. Spokane, h.; KVI, Seattle, and KFPY, Por:- reg., all owned independently. . C. stations now employed are in_the same respective cities. ‘The decision to sign the contracts, the Columbia statement said, followed an snnouncement by the American Broad- casting Co. that it wonld extend i's chain into the East. Such extension . would place Columbia and A. B. C. in €ompetition. APPEAL IS PREPARED. @ov. Sampson Wins Demurrer to Injunction Suit. FRANKFORT. Ky., August 10 (#).— Gov. Flem D. Sampson's counsel today | /i gg:’ the newest litigation over his text k commission in shape for the court of appeals. This was accomplished through a de- ||| murrer to Frank V. McChesney's in- Junction suit to prevent the governor from ousting him as & commissioner, The demurrer was overruled and a temporary injunction was left standjng. An appeal was announced, and the case is expected to go to the higher court next week. Meanwhile the commission, which has not yet adopted any books, postponed a scheduled meeting. —— Trap for Cafs Kills Tiger. BERLIN (#)—Broken bottles atop a garden wall, placed to discourage the nightly perambulations of alley cats, brought death to a Royal Bengal tiger which escaped from a circus at Nurem- burg. The big cat had invaded the tap room of an inn and tried to leap the wall when chased out by circus em- oyes. SR R R SPECIAL NOTICES. IOVING TO [E OTHER CITY? r return-load rates. ' Full and_part hipments to Philadelphia, New York. 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Willard Saxton to Celebrate With Wife and Children. Active Career Recorded by Retired U. S. Worker, Who | Has Kept Diary. | One hundred candles will adorn the |bklhdny cake of Maj. S. Willard Sax- |tnn when he sits down Tuesday with his wife and children at 1347 Harvard | street for a quiet family party. |~ The candles will symbolize an active, | useful life which included distinguished , Civil War service and 52 years in Gov- | ernment employ here. |~ Maj. Saxton has kept & chronicle of e {his life, an account written into his = | dairy, day by day, from his sixteenth MAJ. S. WILLARD SAXTON. T ity of the methodical habits e e Something of the mef - : which prompted the major to write [Mrs Harry & Clapp of ktfyh;u_m pEs {what is regarded as one of the most|pees g ‘McDuffe of Washington, with | complete diaries knowx;, was manifest | 0% B D ton makes his home. L8O T IBTG AR WDk vities. He has five grandchildren and a great- Used to Walk to Work. grandchild. The major used to insist on walking AT to work, regardless of the weather. He {stepped. the 2 miles from his old home FIRM AT MARTINSBURG | | ‘Kenesaw avenue, now Irving street, | It the ‘Treasury Department Building| SELLS FIRST APPLE CROP [ and back again at a sprightly pace, and | i i every day for years. | e 18 8 man who ab’stlllr::‘ from to- ] all its forms, althoug! | Q:?aef:r 1‘:nol averse, it is whispered, to —The first sale of an entire crop of | nis daily “toddy” as a great tonic and apples on the trees, the buyer to pick, | health buildez—always, of course, 1f pack and haul the fruit, was announced e ;fi;:l Rabits have enabled | here today when a company with a 50- him, the major says, to refute an in- | acre bearing tract west of the city, an- | surance company’s technical ruling that | nounced sale of the crop for $7,500. | AT SR O Ab ‘;;‘:‘j‘;,“m:' The estimated yield, all varleties and | ;Slel :::%‘3::? !-;l hlr; fixsuunm since their | 8Tades, was 5,000 barrels, making the | books did not carry 10 a greater age. | frult average sl.souum; net to the | k. grower. e Croj made up rgely | T Ae A s e of Grimes Golden and Yorks. A The major began life at Deerfield, Charlestown apple distributing agency Mass., on August 13, 1829. In his early | was the purchaser. | 'teens he became an apprentice printer | % | and later followed the trade in New j=— e B"fi&'z"?hiorwfimagrmfiéum him, -na; FOR RENT L 2801 Conn. Ave. the major set out for the West, where he engaged in engineering work for a Rent Reduced 10 rooms—3 baths,~ sun- ioneer way. 3 The major, however, like the print- parlor, 2-car garage, Italian garden | ing trade, and when a job opened at Cincinnati he took it, later moving to Hedges & Middleton, Inc. 1412 Eye St. NW. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG. W. Va., August 10, Memphis, Tenn. In January of 1861, Maj. Saxton returned to Massachusetis and married the sweetheart of his childhood. Recently the couple cele- brated their sixty-seventh anniversary. Mrs. Saxton has attained her ninety- third year. | Shortly after his marriage Ma1 Sax- | ton was appointed by President Lin- | coln to the staff of his brother, Gen. Rufus Saxton, and won his promotion to major near the close of the cwll‘ War. ‘ — = WANTED major was appointed to the office of | the first Controller of the Treasury. He later served in the Department of Commerce and Census Bureau, and on | his retirement in 1921 had won numer- i ous promotions. —to handle the securi a mew Public Golf Cour: be erected. Applicant must have own office and prove qualification to handle such a proposition. q ‘The major is & vice president of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of | the District of Columbia; a member of | | Burnside Post, G. A. R.; tne Loyal | Legion and the Layman's Teague of the Unitarian Church, | Members of the major's family hope | to publish his diary in autobiographi- | cal form. 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