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L THE EVENING™ STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C., SATURDAY. FALL VINDICATION HOPE N APPEAL Convicted Former Secretary Vigorously Asserts Inno- cence of Oil Fraud. By the Associated Press. i Convicted of bribery, but vigorously asserting his innocence, Albert B. Fall, WIFE PLANS RETURN WITH FALL tains Innocence of For- mer Interior Sec- retary. I Main Hope Sale of Property Will Pay Back Doheny, With Something Over. TO RANCH IN NEW MEXICO e e I4ME AT LBERTY - AWATTING REPORT EGrand Jury Is Expected to Ignore Charge of Violating Mann Act. Carl Philip Thme is at liberty today under personal bond pending a report of the action of the grand jury, which | $40,000 Is Awarded To Widow of Victim Of Poison Whisky By the Associated Press. PEORIA, Il., November 2.— Judgment of $40,000 was awarded by a jury in United States Dis- trict Court yesterday to Mrs. Ger- trude Dempsey, widow of John Dempsey, Peoria live stock dealer, who was one of a score of victims from poison liquor last Spring. “The suit was based on a Fed- eral law providing that depend- ents of a person who suffers death, financial loss or other in- jury from consuming poison liquor have cause for legal action. Judge Louis Fitzhenry explained NOVEMBER 2 2. 1929. WANSIN SPEAKS | INAD O POLLARD Senator, in Radio Address,“ Asks Support for Democratic Candidate in Virginia. is Prisoner, Says Father : ! | i Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., November 2.—Sen- ator Swanson of Virginia, in an address | VRGN HONORS GOVERNORS AT BALL Brilliant Social Function Is Held at State Capitol—Mes- sage From Antarctic. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., November 2.—Vir- ginia honored its governors at the sec- is expected to ignore a charge of violat- in instructing the jury. {ing the Mann act. which was preferred !against him by United States Attorney FOR GRAND JURY | tion of Inme following his acquittal by |& jury of five women and seven men !on a charge of intimacy with a 14-year- Judge Disagrees With De-| fense Counsel That Search i Secretary of the Interior in the Hard-| ing cabinet, today rested his hope of vindication ‘upon an appeal to higher | courts. { Beyond the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in which he wes found guilty of accepting a bribe of | $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny in re- turn for executing the famous lease on the Elk Hills naval oil reserve, la. bul 4 : e two tribunals—the District of Columbia | 10} h"»'"‘".h""_nllo lw;:“v“-h- Gotrt of . Appeals .and’ the ‘Supreme| The ranch will be their home untll Coth ot the nitsa States |it i sold and Edward L. Doheny is In spite of the fact that a retraction ""f'!"{“k ?b‘:g‘ ‘;“1“:%00 'lfl:eli;lm g‘,*‘ of his appeal would bring about & sus- | PUrehese '-'u 1 "h“ i m;wo ; eri ? pension of the one-year jail sentence a8 well as the $100, loan of imposed upon him by Justice William | Hits, together with a fine of $100,000. the | ord annual governors’ ball of modern times here last night. The function, {one of the principal events of Virginia | society, was a brilliant affair of the | color and quaintness of the original | governors' ball of Colonial days and & touch of twentieth century Virginia | lesit by a radiogram from Comdr. Rich- | ard Evelyn Byrd, brother of Gov. Byra, { now exploring Antarctic regions. | Gov. Byrd and his staff, accompanied by Gov. W. J. Kohler of Wisconsin, { watched Richmond debutantes in Co- lorial costume dance the minuet and Virginia reel before the governor him- delivered here last night over the radio, strongly urged the voters of the Stats to support John G. Pollard, Democraiic | candidate for governor, in the election | which takes place Tuesday. The Virginia Senator praised the Democratic administration of the State government, and warned his hearers against a Republican-anti-Smith- coali- | tion government, headed by Dr. William | Moseley Brown, the coalition candidate. | He harked back to the early 80s, to th time when the Republicans and dis- gruntled Democrats formed a coalition, | and pictured the State government un- | By the Associated Pres | Mrs, Albert B. Fall said today she is going back with her husband next week to the home in El Paso, Tex., which she owns in her own name, and after a’brief rest she will go to the New { Mexico ranch to manage there “what- jever her husband's failing health will | | | \ i | i i {old girl. ! | ‘Through Attorneys John P. Mullen |and Harry s. r, Thme had sued jout a writ of habeas corpus, which had jbeen scheduled for hearing before Jus- tice Alfred A. Wheat next Wednesday. Rover decided to lay the evidence of the Mann act violation before the | {grand jury, and when tke matter had | been submitted Ihme was summoned | from jail and was allowed to gi MRS. ALBERT FALL, s Harris-Ewing Photo. 1921, e The ranch, Mrs. Fall is confident, will | and “when we were in the Senate” and & t them something over the amount “when we were in the cabinst.” former cabinet officer went purposefully | ¢! ikl Farward with bl efforis. t4 obtam an | they owe Doheny—something to add uitimate exoneration. For the first time since the ofl scan- dals came to the attention of the Na- tion the former Secretary late yesterday issued a public statement, summing up his version of the naval petroleum re- serve leases, 1In this he said that his “borrowing” of money from Doheny may have been “unethical” that he com- mitted an “unspeakable blunder” in writing to the Senate committee that he obtained the money from E. B. Mc- Lean, and finally he entered a plea that the American people not believe him “guilty of this damnable crime of which” he protested his innocence, Appeal Next Step. The next step for the convicted for- mer cabinet officer was the appeal to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Like all higher tribun: this court is empowered to review c brought to it not enly upon questions of law involved, but also upon the merits of the evidence and to set aside jury verdicts if it sees fit. | The principal contention of Fall's at- torneys s that Justice Hitz, in instruct- ing the jury, went beyond his province in telling the panel that it should not | be swayed by sympathy for the aged | and ailing defendant, should decide the | case upon the evidence before it and Jeave all questions of mercy to the court. Fall contends that this was tantamount to telling the jury to return a verdict of guilty with' a recommendation for m as was done. The appeal also | takes exception to numerous other sec- tions of Justice Hitz's charge. Although no one could foretell what the action of the Court of Appeals ‘would be, there were numerous predic- tions that it would follow the course it pursued in disposing of the appeal of Harry F. Sinclair from a three-month Jail sentence for contempt of the Sen- . In this case, the appeal was cer- tified to the United States Supreme Court with s request for rulings upon hypothetical questions of law based upon the case itself. Subsequently, the Supreme. Court asked that the entire aue be turned over to it for disposi- jon. ‘Whether or not this is done, Fall will, if. the Court of Appeals acts adversely, ' carry the case himself to the Supreme | Court. The Nation's highest tribunal has already expressed its opinion of the former cabinet officer’s part in the oil scandals. Transaction Called Tainted. Called upon for a ruling on civil suits brought by the Government in its suc- cegsful effort te cancel the Ek Hills lease and the lease og the Teapot Dome naval oft reserve, witich Fall executed 1o Sinclair, the Supreme Court declared the Doheny transaction to have been | “tainted with fraud and corruption,” and termed Fall a “faithless public officer.” In disposing of the Teapot Dome Civil case it was equally vehe- ment. ARhough Sinclair is now serving a| jall sentence for contempt of cour the Fall conviction was the first the | Government has won based directly on the oil “scandals. Tried with Doheny on charges of conspiracy, Fall was ac- quitted, and tried with Sinclair upon the same charge, the court action ended in a mistrial when it was discovered that the defense had engaged agents to shadow members of the jury. Out.of this grew the Sinclair sentence for contempt. Sinclair subsequently was brought to trial again for con-piracy and ac- |10 her own smail income, which she |sald 1= sufficient to keep the family | from want. Denies Doheny's Help. Vehemently and with some indigna- { tion she denied reports that Doheny has supported them since their troubles began. The family is. and has been since the crash, and will be, sustained | on the returns from investments made with her own inheritance, she said. Still maintainicg Fall's innocen bribery, she repeated with spicit he were guilty. 1 would be” For she | had been with him step for siep. she added, sincs he was 21 and she 18, and that 5 48 years aRo. “We are going to use every m=ans to prove our innocence,” she said. using the pronoun with & €asualnsss born of having employed it these many decades when telling of her husband's career. She smiled as she explained she slways sald, “When we were on the bonch.” | | {to have a pictu Wants All Published. One way of vindication she sees is the publication of “'the whole sior; Albert B. Fali. She wants the world of his romance from prospecting days, and hopes to see it in print_before she dies. Several writers already have signified eagerness to un- dertake the task, and she is planning e co-operate now Worn out, but still stalwart, she sat with frail shoulders straight, her lined face in repose, her blue eyes shining, as she said: ‘I feel as he does, that it was unfortu- nate that he did not tell the whole story of the loan in the beginning. But if his prosecutors in the courts and politicians who have tried to show a felonious, | traitorous and criminal intent in him had told as I could tell his honesty in all things and his devotion to the pub- lic he spent his life serving, the world would understand why we who know him best will always be proud of him." SENATE RECESSES ALLEN CONVICTED perscnal bond pending the grand jury | report. The habeas corpus writ, pecied, will be quashed. The Chief Justice was incensed at the action of the petit jury in returning u verdict of not guilty after the man and it is ex- tions, and acting as a committing mag: istrate he ordered the return of Ihme | to jail. A policewoman at the direction of Rover then went before United States Commissioner Turnage and swore out a | warrant for & Mann-act violation, and Thme was being held in default of bond | to await grand jury action. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 2 | (Special).—Three Baltimore youths, ar- | rested last night by Sergt. Padgett and Patrolman Curtls, and charged with possession of alleged whisky and pos- session of concealed weapons, received trial in Police Court today. Clarence Shearn, 22, was fined $50 and costs for possession and $100 and costs for concealed weapons, and Tim Flood. 19, " S TARFF WATS N TRAFF AGES Absence of Members Leads Suspended Policeman Found Upper House to Post- Guilty of Parking Unlighted pone Debate. Car at Night. i | By the Associated Press. Charging that Sergt. Arthur C. Belt | Because of absence of many members of the fourteenth precinct “ticketed” 1 I | 1o proceed witn tie tariff bill with the thay he might “get himself in good” | small attendance, the Senate ShOrtly with police officials, and that some one | before nocn today vojed a recess until | py;pocely cut the wire which connects | Monday. Several rates had been acted (e parking light of his car with the | upon in the nearly two-hour sesslon. | paitery, Put. Robert J. Allen met his Although only two days ago & White | yo0og ang third defeats at the hands | received the same treatment. E. Wil- ltams, 22, charged with concealed weapons only, was dismissed. In the case of Ardell Clegg. 19, who abandoned her baby in a lumber yard here last Saturday, Judge Snow turned | her over to the State Board of Public | Welfare for rehabilitation. The baby | will also be turned over to the Siat board and a home for it will be sough Madison Barr, 25, of Fairmont strect | northwest, Washington, was ordered to | furnish $500 bond to guarantee the support of his wife and two child:*n by Judge Snow today. In the event he is unable to fu’ bond, he mus! serve six m- 1 Jall. Charle- . 19, ‘who gave sn & { i | d- | | g by Motor Cycle Patrolman Clarence J McClary, and is being held by police on a charge of the larceny of a roadster, in which he was riding. He was held for Richmond police. Edgar W. Cornwell, 62, of North Hen- ry street, died last night at the Alex- The deceased was the House statement sald President Hoover work on the measure within two weeks, efforts to proceed today proved futile. ‘The recess was taken as Chairman Smoot of the finance committee sought to bring up manganese in the metals schedule, Vote to Be Asked. Smoot served notice he would sk consideration on Monday of every para- graph in the first three rate schedules which have been passed over and & vote on these before proceeding with other schedules. Regular Republican leaders passed responsibility for delay in tariff revision to the Democratic independent Repub- | | Hean coalition as the Senate recessed. With the admicistration group dis- claimer went a concession that control of the bill rested with the coalition. an action regarded as throwing to it, simi- larly, the initiative in arriving upon actior. to speed debate. Both Chairman Smoot of the finance committee and Senator Jones of Wasi- ington, the acting Republican leader, blamed the Democrats and Western independent Republican Senators tor the slow progress of the Senate in de- bating the tariff measure. | out a light on it. of the Police Department today. Justice was anxious that the Senate complelt‘ Ralph Givem convicted the suspended | policeman on two charges of parking his car at night with no light on l!.l and fined him $1 on the first and took his personal bond on the other. Sergt. Belt entered a counter-charge, saying that Allen was pusposely.leaving his automobile in front of his home, 2807 Connecticut avenue, unlighted in order to gain publicity and gain popu- lar support by painting himsell a martyr. Belt Makes Admission. Belt admitted that he waited near | Allen’s home Halloween night to see if the latter would leave his car with- He sald that after waiting around he saw the car, as he expected it would be, unlighted. As he did not have a ticket with bhim, he drove to his precinct and later re- turned to_put the ticket on the car, at 12:15 a.m, J. Russell Kelly, attorney r the defense, pointed out that it seemed rather peculiar that Belt should arive several miles in order to appre- hend a person for such a trivial of- fense. He argued that the sergeant andria Hospital, widower of Maggie Cornwell, and is | survived by a son, Owen L. Cornwell of Dewitt avenue, Potomac. Mr. Cornwell was & native of Manassas, Va. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Mrs. Jennefer Broaddus, chairman of the eighth district of the. Virginia Con- gress of Parent-Teacher Associations, will preside at the meeting to be held, from 2 to 4 o'clock, this afternoon in the auditorfum of the Maury School in Rosemont. The program will include | an address by Mrs. John 8. Sowe! | titled “Worthy Home Membership dress of welcome by Mrs. E. E. Carver, president of the Alexandria general as- sociation; response by Mrs. J. Hunter | Mack: address “Co-operation Between Parent and Teacher,” Mrs. J. D. Lowell; a reading by Mrs, Edward Dunn, and sev- e musical numbers, The Rev. Edgar | Carpenter, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, wiil give the invocation. |~ Arrangements for the establishment jof an indoor rifie range in the Alexan- | dria High School, for use of the cadets, will be effected within the next few days. Rifles of the .22 caliber varicly and ammunition will be furmshed by the United States Government. | precaution v.il be taken for the safety of those using the igose and all firing will be in the presence of the Army in- Was lllegal. George L. Cassidy, 35 years old, said to be the “man in the green hat.” who gained fame several years ago by mys- terious visits to the Capitol, and who was arrested again Thursday afternoon near the Senate Office Building, was held for action of the grand jury at Police Court today. Only the charge of transporting whisky was _preferred against him. Judge John P. McMahon renewed the original bond of $3,000. Judge McMahon failed to agree with Defense Attorney Myron Ehrlich, who maintained that Sergt. George Little, chief of the liquor squad, was guilty of illegal search and seizure. Sergt. Little said that he had re- ceived information that Cassidy wa: visiting the Senate Office Buildin = sald that he had known the man and his car for several years and that on Thursday afternoon after ascertaining that the car was not in the garage on Seventeeth street southeast, he went directly to Capitol Hill where he sub- sequently arrested Cassidy. Ebhrlich maintained that this infor- mation was not sufficient to cause a ch. He said both the search and the automobile and the house where 266 quarts of whisky were found were illegal as the police lacked warrants. RECEIVER TAKES UPFOSHAY AFFAIRS Inventory of Properties Begun, With Court Directing Routine. the Associated Pres MINNEAPOLIS, November 2.—The task of untangling the affairs of the W. B. Foshay Co. of Minnespolis was started today under direction of & re- ceiver, whose aides began an inventory of the involved propertles, estimated to be worth $20,000,000. A voluntary petition in bankruptey was flled in Federal Court yester- day against the company, which is the holder of vublic utility, industrial, banking and real estate properties scat- tered over the North American Conti- nent. Joseph Chapman, Minneapolis banker and merchant, who was pamed receiver by the Federal Court, left late yester- day for Phoenix, Ariz., to attend the funeral of his brother. He expects to return late next week. Court Supervises Routine. In the meantime, routine operations of the company will be carried on by | Every | ex scutives at the Minneapolis head- quarters under supervision of the court. Before Mr. Chapman left he organized a staff to appraise the Foshay holdings der_the coalition as both corrupt ll\d] $20,000,000 inefcient. Election Important. “The election to be held on Novem- ! ber 5 is the most important and of | more far-reaching consequences,” said | | Senator Swanson, “than any we have had since our contest with the Mahone coalition. “We are to determine in this election, as then, whether the coalition Repub- lican or Democratic party shall have | the administration of aff#irs and the enactment of legislation. We are con- | tending which of the parties shall con- | trol our executive offices, our schools. | | abums, our court, v e | SAYS CHILD 1S HELD SLAVE IN VENEZUELA | government, LINA SALAZAR-WELCH, Whose father, James E. Welch, an American oil eperator, has asked the State Department to assist him in free- ing her from Venesuela, where, he claims, she is held. —Assoclated Press Photo. “The record of the Democratic party | has been viciously assailed in this cam- palgn, and with more gross misrepre- sentatlon than ever before presented In | & previous campaign. The Democratic | z J James E. Welch, American, Asks| party gladly accepts the challenge thus Government Aid in Recovering | made and is willing for the voters of | this State to pass judgment on it by its achievements since it has been in control. The best test of worthiness of a party s its honesty and integrity. Only One Defaleation. “During all the vears that the Demo- cratic party has been in control in Vir- { ginia there has been but one small de- | falcation, which was occasioned by the forgeries of a clerk in the auditor's of- fice, and which was promptly detected . and the offender punished. During these | years of control there has been colleci- ed by the State government more than $250,000,000 of public money, and this is the only defalcation by any official to which the severest enemy of the Demo- 1 cratic party can point. The government of no city or State in this Union can point to & record so free from scandal, corruption and graft. With clean hands | and unquestioned integrity, the Demo- cratic party fearlessly faces its enemies and appeals for support. “What a contrast does this Demo- | cratic record present to the four years| | of coaliticn Republican rule which once cursed the State! Those four years of | { coalition Republican rule were so reek- | ing with fraud, scandal and corruption | that not until this year, after almost 40 years, has Democratic control inj | the " State government been seriously | contested. All realized there was not | the slightest chance for a return of coalition Republican control of this| State until the people had euntirely for- gouen the disgraces and Iniquity in-/ icted upon the State during the four years of such domination. Duplicated Elsewhere. “Forgetfulness and not approval of their record make possible the return to | power of a perty with such wretched | history. The frightful record of Vir- ginia under coalition Republican ~ule has been duplicated in other Southern States where such rule has existed. Coalition Republican rule in cverv ! Southern State from the Potomsc to ! the Rio Grande, from 1865 to the pres- | ent time, has been fraught with social | | unrest, disturbances, disgrace and dis- | aster. Such control in whatever South- { ern State it has existed has taught the melancholy but sure lesson that such rule ends always in retrogression. The | truth of this fact has besn so univer- | | sally recognized that many vote the | Republican ticket in national slections and sustain the Democratic party in State and local elections. “There are many patriotic Repub- licans in this State who would view with deep alarm any possibilicy of coa'i- His Captive Daughter. | By the Associated Press. whom he claims the Venezuelan govern- ment holds, James E. Welch, American Department and to th office of Sen- ator Borah of Idaho, chairman of the foreign relations committes. At Senator Borah's office he was told that the full details of his case had been turned over to the State Depart- ment. At the State Department he said that not all the documents he sent re- garding the case had ‘Welch's common-law mother of the girl, is Senorita Anita Saluzar. He told the Sf {that while he was a nome, Senorita Salazar was sold into white slavery. i | O T T FORDOYLES TRAL Maj. Pratt, After Talk With Bride, Appears Determined on Course. With the collapse of secret negotia- tions for the withdrawal of th: charge i of insubordination against Capt. Robert E. Doyle, defense and prosecution at- torneys today renewed their prepara- tions for the trial of the suspended commander of the eighth precinct, scheduled to begin Wednesday before | & Police Trial Board. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, the complaining witness against Capt. Doyle, held a brief con- ference this morning with Corporation Counsel William W. Bride, whose office is L‘hll’fd with the prosecution of the officer, but the nature of the discussion was not disclosed. It was indicated, however, that Maj. 5t does mnot proj to wave the { Seeking the return of his daughter, | | trons oil operator, went yesterday to the State | self, accompanied by Mrs. Byrd and his mother, Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd, led the grand march. Former Governors There. Former governors of Virginia present. for the occasion were Westmoreland Davis, Ardrew Jackson Montague and Henry Carter Stuart. Guests included visitors_from Wisconsin, Delaware, New York, District of Columbia, Maryland and North Carolina. Before the message of greetings from Comdr. Byrd was read by Miss Adeie Clark, representing the Virginia League of Women Voters, spor:sors of the bail, the debutantes danced an “airplane’ number. Hundreds of guests, including repre- sentatives of the Army and Navy in full-dress uniform, participated in the grand march, concluding with the formation of the letter “V.” and later were entertained at a buffet luncheor, decorations depicting progress of the State. While the luncheon was being served a miniature ship. the City of New York, flagship of Comdr. Byrd's Antarctic fleet, glided across the dining room floor. Forty marshals, with the pomp of Color.ial days, led by Col. Leroy Hodges, accompanied by as many mu- in early Virginia costume, Tw- ceived the guests. Among the first w arrive was Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. Byrd's Message. Comdr. Byrd. in his message received through the New York Times, said: “Bailey W. H. D. New York. “For Virginia League of Women Voters. “Greetings from the southerrmost voter of Virginia to the Virginia League of Women Voters and their guests. My respects to the six governors of Vir- inia. Say to them that our airplane Virginia carried the flag of Virgima farther south than any of our State flags have evcr beer. “The Virginia now lays an honorable wreck on newly discovered land, a sau- rifice to sclence and with its suppiy of food and equipment, the name Vn- i gicia written large on its side will res main a beacon of refuge for any fu- ture expleers who may venture inw the new ''nd. “As to (ur future flights, Sic Semper | Tyrannis will always be with us. All inhabitants of Little America join 1 | wishing you the unpleasant possible ! evening which under the circumstances ¥you cannot fail to have. (Signed) “DICK BYRD.” ROCKVILLE ROCKVILLE, Md., November 2 (Spe- cial).—The work of beautifying the | grounds of the Methodist Home for the Aged at Gaithersburg has been started, and, according to Rev. Herman M. Wil- son, superintendent of the home, the plans indicate that a transformation will be -ccol;npllahed before real cold weather sets in. The grounds are being graded and seeded, shrubbery of various kinds will be planted, and a Colonial brick en- trance is being erected at the head of Walker avenue, which is the main road- way into the grounds. The shrubbery will be donated by Mrs. Mattie Muller of Baltimore as a memorial to her husband, the late C. Edward Muller. and funds for the en- trance have been provided by Mics Lucy Hunley of Baltimore as a me- morial to her parents. the late W. R. B. | | al pose quitted. Fall was unable to appear at structor detailed to the school. in 30 States, and in Alaska, Canada and | ofl7e branch at Capt. Doyle, but, on th>| Hunley and F. A. Hunley. that time because of his lllness, and he still faces this charge, although it is not considered likely that the Government will pursue it, due to the Si - el t, Sinclair ac: 1. C. C. PROPOSAL Way Believed Open. | had actually put the ticket on the car The Democratic spokesman on the | ¥hile he was off duty, as his official ! bill, Senator Simmons of North Caro- | 4Ry ends at midnight. {lina, although terming President Hoo- | The defense brought in three wit- ver's request for a final vote in two | Nesses from a local garage who testified weeks “ridiculous,” believed that the that the parking light on Allen’s car coalition could go over the schedules, | W8S in perfect working order Thursda® | then present iis conclusions to the reg- | While a close inspection yesterday re- The high school principal, Henry T. | Moncure, who has been a substantial | supporter of the cadet corps, has an- nounced that he will donate a gold | medal each vear to the winner of a | serles of ‘nter-mural matches. The | general conditions under which these | ulars and save time by approving nu- | vealed that the electric wire had been ! matches will be fired will be the same Central America. ‘The most pressing of the tasks in- volved was the saving of two Minneapolis | banks in the chain of three, which the Foshay_interests controlled. One, the Third Foshay State Bank, was taken over by the First Bank Stock Corpora- tion and reorganized as the Hennepin tion Republican success in this election. | They know coalition success means un- settled business, social and poli‘ical un- rest, disarrangement of our financial and taxation system, inefficient gov- ernment permeated with corruption and | favoritism.” contrary, is determined that the trial board shall pass upon the charge against the accused officer. Not Party to Overtures. Maj. Pratt pointed out that he was not a party to the peace overtures which failed, although it is known that he would have been willing to subscribe | Supt. Wilson has also announced that the Methodist Church at Clifton Forge. Va.. has contributed $500 for the equipmeni of an eye, ear and throat dispensar? at the home and that it will be in charge of a Washington specialist. Miss Ada M. McOlary and George R. State Bank. The other, the Foshay Trust & Savings Bank, is to be taken over by the Northwest Bancorporation. The third bank, the Foshay State| Bank, St. Paul, was closed by order of ‘the State bank examiner, but offi- | clals of the institution announced ne- | gotiations will be started today in an| effort to reopen. i ‘Three petitions were filed in the re- ceivership proceedings. In addition to| the W. P. Foshay Co. others named | a5 in use in collegiate rifle competiti except that only 20 record shots wil! firea—two sighting shots, 10 shois for record—slow firing, from the standing position. Col. Clar | United States Army. | dtary science and tactics, has elso an- to the withdrawal of the charges if Capt. Doyle had officlally denied that | BROOKHART PLANS TO DESCRIBE WET | Itr e e ine Folictmen Riobs DlNNER PARTY HERE“H J. Allen in his criticism of the United States attorney's office. i Chapin W. Fowler and T. Morris Charson, both of Baltimore, were mar- ried in Rockville Wednesday evening by Rev. Frank A. Tyler of the Metho- dist Church at the home of the min- ister, and the following day the same minister officiated at the marriage here of Miss Florence Martin Smith and Wampler, counsel for Capt Dovle, are | wilmer R. Cooksy, both of Washington. understood to have arraigned to sum- | Th semi-annual meeting of the Mont- mon a number of witnesses, most of | gomery County Federation of Women's whom will be used to extoll the officer’s | Ciubs will be held in Gaithersburg on gem;s ;aten without discussion on the | cut. enate floor. o Informal conferences of R!puhlh:lnst bttt {in line with the President’s suggestion | ‘The first charge on which Allen was | | had been unsuccessful in evolving some | tried also was for leaving his car un- method of sending the measure to con- lighted at night, Policeman R. L. Ham- ference with the House by November | mann of the fourteenth precinct, the : A s = 15, as desired by the Chief Executive. | arresting officer, -said that he did not | :}::;:‘L:'“'"::}“"“'csg d‘“‘“;ulh"";difll for asked of the Hocking Valley, the Pere| A Proposal of some of the newer Re- | realize that the offending car belonged | (50 0, (5 L4 an rd in this Marquette, the Erie, the New York, |Publican members that an unofficial | to Allen. In both instances Allen sfid “OPPECROR. o0 00 0 Chicago & St. Louis; the Virginian, the | COmmittee, made up of two Senators | that he left the light burning on his e ol of October the third FOR RAIL MERGERS IS DUE THIS YEAR __(Continued_Fro First Page.) ___ (Continued From First Page) ment. Failing of bond, he is held on| Delaware, Lackawanna & Western: the | ®ach from the regulars, the independ- Bessemer & Lake Erie, the Wheeling & °ts and the Democrats. be put in There must be some other motive, | Lake Erie, the Pittsburgh & Shawmut. |charge of the bill found little favor |your honor, other than mere dcsire to the Pittsbirgh, Shawmut & Northern | With the veterans of the administrative Derform duty behind these tickets, platoon, commanded by Cadet Violette, was rated first; the second platoon, commanded by Cadet Wells, second, .and the first platoon, under Cadet Parker, third. The neatest cadets in and the Chicago, Eastern Tnots. grou) which the aefendant has been receiv- The Wabash, which was included in the Baltimore & Ohio’s merger plans, asked control of the Lehigh Valley, the Wheeling & Lake Erie, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Western Maryland, Lehigh & New England. the Akron, Canton & Youngstown; the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern: the Toledo, Peoria & Wesi- ;'l’r:’ and the Chicago & Illinois Mid- 21 ‘These would involve trackage of #9490 miles. with a property investment | of about $947.510.181 and revenues of £232,561.610 in 1928, Frequent Duplieations, Prom the Delaware & Hudson the most recent petition came. Operating 831 miles of track, it asks control of a unified system 13,553 miles in length, with a property investment of $2.62! 311.328 and income of $605,101,332 in i B GEORGETOWN DINNER TO HONOR DR. VAUGHAN {70th Bixthday. ot i Medical Texder to Be Observed To- night. | Georgetown University will observe the seventieth birthday of Dr. George Tully Vaughan at a reception and din- | mer in his honor tonight. For 32 of the 50 years of his career {as a surgeon, Dr. Vaughan has been a | member of the medical Georgetown and chief surgeon at its ! hospital. Dr. John A. Foote, president of the District of Columbia Medical So- faculty of | b Given. “I do not deal with motives in this case,” replied the judge to me an ordinary citizen, and 1 will not allow the controversy between the police force and the defendant to in- fluence my decision in this case. It is indeed an unfortunate situation and I | can only pass judgment upon the testi- Attorney Kelly said to Judge | mony. | would purposely cut those wires.” JAILED REPORTERS’ PLEA IS ANSWERED | Superintendent Asks That Trio's “Mr. Allen is | 1 do not bélieve that Serpt. Belt | 1928. 1t desires control of the Bangor & Aroostock, the Boston & Maine, the Buffalo & Susquehanna, the Buffalo.| dgirectors of Georgetown who are the Rochester & Pittsburgh: the Central of | hosts, have invited the deans of the New Jersey, the Delaware, Lackawanna | university and heads of the various de- ;" )W:'gnN ::"!:n“lmk;‘ g‘ Hl\‘l;i;on-c‘h? | partments of the medical school. Very Lenig \ew England. the Maine Cen- | Rev. Edwerd C. Phulips. 8. J., head of ral. the New York, New Haven &|the Maryland-New York province of s::l'l:;r"d n?."pm:;mr‘g‘:k& (\);r';:zr%lr‘-l{;h'.,“':,';""' Order, will be one of the | ginin, the Reading, the Rutland. thel Pc* "™ Virgilan and,the Westem Marviand. | e apEe 1S SET ASIDE IN HIGHWAY ACTION portant” problem faced by the commis- | ciety and dean of medicine at George- | town, will be toastmaster. President W. Coleman Nevils and the Petitions Be Dis- | missed. Col. Willlam L. Peake, superintend- ent of the Washington Asylum and Jail, today filed separate answers to the pe- titions of Gorman M. Hendricks, Linton Burkett and John E. Nevin, jr.. Times | reporters, for release from custody | under habeas corpus proceedings. The | men are under bond of $500 each for | a hearing Monday before Justice Fred- ick L. Siddons. » Peake asks that the petitions be dis- | missed and the men returned to his custody to carry out the sentence of 45 | days imposed by Justice Peyton Gordon | when the reporters refused to tell the | grand jury the names of persons from whom they said they purchased liquor. | Through United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and Assistant United States | Attorney Neil Burkinshaw, the jail rden decl that Justice Gordon had full authority of law to refuse bail after he had imposed the sentence. | He alsn asserts th the petitioners | were guilty of the crime of contempt of court when, after admonition from the | court that they should answer | question, they renewed their refusal. The answers point out that the claim that they would be violating the ethics declared void on | of the newspaper profession is not ten- ‘Round My Shoulder’ Al Jolson | showing by the association that no serv- | able in law, as no such basis of privi Waltz._song, “The Land of Going ice was ever upon any of the lege is known to the law. The court T B .Goelz, | officers or_agents of the association. (had jurisdiction both of the men and Tinsle. “Pershing's Cru: Paull Attorneys Ringand Cobb appeared for | of the subject matter, it is “The Star Spangled Banner.” the association.’ the sentence imposed was la’ sion it the fact that 10 of the 16 lines sought by the Delaware & Hudson also ave asked by other roads in their mer- | gers and duplications are frequent throughout the applications. BAND CONCERT. Band concert by the United States | Soldiers' Home Band Orchestra, Stan- 2y Hall, this evening at 5:30 o'clock. ;against the Lee Highway Association, John §. M. Zimmermann. director; |obtained last July by Danlel Weigle of ‘Anton Pointner, assistant director, | Philadelphia, today was set aside by March—“The American Legion" Justice Wheat as being null and vold. Vandersloot | The assoclation, non-profit organ- “Sakuntal ization with headquarters in the Mun- ‘A Russian Siumber sey Building, is engaged in obtaining .Gretschaninow | rights-of-way for the Lee Highway through Arlington County connecting with the new Arlington Memorial | Bridge. The decree was ‘Pl’ Road Association Given Judgment to Pravent Payment of $3,500 in Road Suit. A decree pro confesso for $3.500 Overture, Pntra‘acte, (a) Song” ....... (b) “Vineyard Idy! Fcerpts from musical “The Desert Song’. Fox trot. popular, "T} Rainbow comedy Romberg the! w‘\'x'd snd 701,6¢ these platoons :t the last inspection were S. Armistead, L. Armistead and J. Johnson. The Citizens' Band broadcast a pro- gram of concert music over station | WJSV, Mount Vernon Hills, Va.. from | 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. last night. Elliott F. | Hoffman, president of the band, gave a brief history of the organization dur- ing intermission. The band was under the direction of Prof. Otto Siebeineichein. | Gen. Smediey Butler, commander of the United States Marines at the Quantico, Va., post and an outstanding | Aigure in' the military service of the Nation, was the speaker at meeting | of the American Legion, Post 24, here !last night. A musical program, one of | the outstanding numbers of which was | the “King Fish Quartet,” composed of local colored talent, was rendered. The | program was arranged by F. Clinton { Knight, past post commander. Mount Vernon Chapter, No. 14; Royal Arch Masons, will hold’ an important session tonight at the Masonic Temple. he election of a new secretary is a part of the business to be transacted. Alexandria Lodge of Elks is organ- {izing & minstrel show. Rehearsals have "been started and the date of the affair will be announced shortly. Other fraternal organizations are lending their assistance in the affair. The show will 1 May, general manager, Suttorf, musical director The funeral of Mrs. Carrie Butler, wife of James Butler of Duke street extended, who died Wednesday after- noon at the Alexandria Hospif took place yesterday afternoon from the Methodist Church at Buckland, Va. and interment was made at.the ceme: tery at that place. A release order has been given by Judge Snow in the case of Ernest Ham- mill, 17, charged with the larceny of brass from the Southern Rallway Co., :nd who was sentenced to the State oard. ' PUBLIC DEBT REDUCED. ! | | The gross public debt of the United | States “was reduced by $846,201511 | during the month of October, accord- ing ge- daily statement of the Treas- ury Department toda: ross public debt This brings the ‘down to $16,697,854,438. a\ compared k of $26,596,- Min the “ali-time pen be under the direction of J. William OO and " Clarence | % were the Public Utilities Consolidated Corporation, the utility operating sub- | sidlary of the concern, and the W. B. Foshay Building Corporation. Liabilities Total $12,000,000. Their liabilities, the petitions charge. total $12,000,000. The petitions set forth as reasons for the receivership overex- pansion of business and lack of a mar- ket for securities of the Foshay com- panies. The list of Foshay subsidiaries, each of which operate one or more properties, all of them controlled through the Foshay Co.’s public utilities consolidated corporation, includes the following: Citizens' Light, Power & Water Co., Ketchigan, Alask: Central American Power Corporation, Nica- ragua; Power Co., Ltd., Walkerton, Canada; Saugen Electric Light & Power Co., Ltd., Southampton, Can: - Com- pania de Gas de Nogales, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico: Northland Transpor- tation Co., Public Utilities Georgia Cor- poration, Public Utilitles Vermont Cor- poration, Princeton Gas Co.,, Publie Utilities California Corporation, Public Utilitles Kansas Corporaton and Public Utilities Honduras Corporation, $an Pedro Sula, Honduras. In addition, Public Utllities Consoli- dated also has become successor to Ketchikan Cold Storage Co., Ketchikan, ka; Citizens' Light, Power & Watcr Clarke Otero Coun- Claypool Water Co., . J. Mackay Water Plant, Po- catello Gas & Power Co., Northwest Light & Water Co., Canyon Light & Water Co., Mullan Light Co. and Mullan Water Co., Mulla Idah Mission Range Power Co., Flathead Valley Elec- tric Co., Southern Arizona Power Co.. North Sacramento Light & Water Co., Mountain Power Co., Smith River Power ., Dr. Nichols Electric Property. Mount Spokane Power Co.; Russian River Water Co., Roseville Water Co. Missisquol_Light Co., Union Water Co.. Newport Water Co., Elk Grove Tele- phone Co., Elk Grove, Idaho; Planta Electrica, Inc., San Pedro Sula, Hon- duras: Sauble Falls Light & Power Co., Wiarton, Canada; Nevada, Calif., and Oregon Telegraph & Telephone Co.: Ric Managua, | Vista Telephone & Telegraph Co., Citi zens' Water Co., Chloride Water Co.: Arizona, Calif., and Nevada Telephone Co.; Half Moon Bay Water Co., Granite Rock Water Co., Montana Water Co and the J. M. Hotchkiss Electric Light Plant. There are also a large numoer of local utilities enterprises which had been owned and ®perated through the Foshay Co. { charges of llegal sale and possession. | SO U 0 {1 PO G r record of Friday, November 15. Morning and Walkerton Electric Light & Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the Dis- trict Supreme Court granted the tem- porary padlock Injunction against the Purple Iris Tea House, at Thirty-second and Rittenhouse streets. The applica- tion for the injunction s signed by Mr. Rover and Assistant United States | District Attorney Harold W. Orcutt, on afMdavits sworn to by Special Prohibi- tion Officers Theodore O. Montgomery and Patrick J. Ryan, ; Mr. Orcutt sald the agents had made as many as 10 “buys” of whisky at the tearoom. The affdavits charge the es- tablishment is operated in a manner | violating the prohibition law and that | it comes within the legal meaning of a “nuisance” as defined in the prohibition Jac; | _Berthold N. Colle and his wite. Frieda Colle, are named as co-owners. The in- Jjunction does not close the place. ‘Third precinct police yesterday raided the home of Robert Franz, in the 500 block of Twenty-fifth street, and ulma.! they said, 200 quarts of alcohol, 39 qalllru of corn liquor and a 100-galion still. Franz, who is 54 years old, was booked on charges of ijllegal possession and manufacturing and released under $3,000 bond. W. F. Burke, 8. A. Grav- elly and R. 8. McCariy made the raid, gnd.lrr the direction of Capt. W. T. tott. | service in the Police Department. ! prosecution, on the other hand, it was sald, probably will not use maj witnesses, resting its case on the report Capt. Doyle sent to Maj. Pratt in response to his order for comment and recommendations on Allen’s letter of explanation of his statement that he proposed to make an investigation of the United States attorney’s office for its fallure to prosecute an investment broker indicted more than a year ago and arrested several weeks ago on a new charge. Request Not Received. The District Commissioners are still awaiting the expected request from Doyle's attorneys for the creation of an extraordinary civilian trial board to hear the charges against the police officer, but up to noon today it had not been received. The original re- quest for a speclal board was sent to Maj. Pratt several days ago, but h ignored it on the ground that the Com: missioners and not the major and super- intendent of police are vested with the authority to appoint police trial boards. H. Ralph Burton and Tench T. Marye, counsel for Policeman Allen, also are making active preparations for his trial, which has been set for Wednesday. The lawyers declare they intend to show that Allen’s letter to Maj. Pratt, which formed the basis for the charge of insubordination against him was not “insubordinate.” Allen’s request for a civilian trial board was flatly rejected several days ago by the Commisisoners, and his ai orneys declare that this action was a ‘mistake,” since Congress has vested in the Commisisoners the power to cre- ate special police trial boards for ex- traordinary occasions like the police- man’'s case. Since there is no authority to which the lawyers can appeal from the decision of the Commissioners, they must rest Allen's fate with a police trial board, although there is stronge likeli- hood that several members of the reg- ular board will be challenged. Capt. ‘Willlam G. Stott of the third precinct, Allen's former commanding officer, is one of the members of the regular board. | | Cache Is Found. When a house in the 5200 block of Canal road was raided yesterday after- noon by Sergt. O. J. Letterman and members of his police liquor squad, the accidental pulling of a chain by Pyt Richard Cox is reported to have dis- closed a liquor cache. ‘Then O. J. Mostyn ran across a 10- gallon keg, which he proceeded to in- vestigate, When he loosened the bung, activity of the wine in the keg sent the bung to the ceiling and sprayed Cox and his companions with fermenting grapejuice. Members of the raiding party re- ported the seizure of eignt gallons of wine and 131 bottles of alleged beer. Students Writing Scenarios. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., November 2.—Students m the history and English departments of the local high school are turning lll’dllulll‘ lclmlm: writers ithese days and competing for cash|in front of the Congressional Building i prizes offered for the best material tc | here yesterday by 5,000 members of the be used in flming a motion picture | League of House Renters. which will depict historical material of | The demonstrators asked Congress to local interest. The picture will lat>r bs ' give immediate consideration to bills exhibited for the benefit of the school pending befors that body which would and become its property. tend to lowerfNaouse rents. Lowe’r lioule Rents Asked. By Cable to The Star. BOGOTA. Colombia, November 2.— A protest against high rents was staged ! afternoon sessions will be held under | the direction of the president, Miss Es- | telle T. Moore, and considerable busi- ness of importance is said to be sched- uled for transaction. James W. McFarland, well known retired farmer, died yesterday at his hore in Rockville, aged 80 years. He had been ill several weeks of a compli- cation of diseases. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Margaret V. McFar- land, formerly a Miss Frye, and three daughters, Mrs. Cramer A. Burck, Mrs. George B. Allnutt and Miss Hattle V. McFarland, all of Rockville. Mr. Mc- Farland was a native of Virginia, but had been a resident of Rockville or vicinity 45 years. Rev. Bertram M. Osgood of the Bap- tist Church officiated at the marriage here during the week of Miss Esther L. Wohigamuth and Harrison A. Love, both of Washington, and Miss Hazel E. Furr of Charleston, S. C., and John H. Burkley of Washington. Licenses have been issued here for | the marriage of Julian A. Devereaux, 23, of Chevy Chase, and Miss Kather- ine B. Morse of Hyattsville and Cor- nelius Harrison of Ralcigh, N. C. and ! Miss Blanche Brewer of Charleston, 1‘ s.C. SIX INJURED SLIGHTLY AN MOTOR ACCIDENTS | None of Victims of Traffic Mishaps Is Hurt Seriously—Half Were in Collisions. Six persons were injured, none seri- ously, in a series of traffic accidents re- ported to police last night and this morning. John L. Grey, 43 years old, of 609 Minnesota avenue northeast; Alfred Poulson, 18 years old, colored, of 1774 U _street, and Willlam Wallace, also colored. of 1809 Thirteenth street, were hurt in collisions, the latter two when their machine figured in a crash with a Capital Traction Co. street car. ! Selma M. Gustavson, 47 years old. of 323 Bryant street northeast and fif- teen-year-old John F. Munsey of 622 Ninth street northeast were struck by cars. and little four-year-old William L. Watson, 3112 Douglas strest north- east, was said to have run into the side of a moving machine.

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