Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1929, Page 4

OLD SENATE FOES | 4 ence 3 Years Ago Give No- tice of Opposition. By the Associated Press Opposition to the new plan for ~ STILL FIGHT COURT' “Those Who Opposed Adher-| I Disbarred ; ' American entry into the World Coust, | #s determined as that which met the *original propstal for the adherence of the Washington Government, is de veloping in the Senate. The group of Senators that three years ago voted against the Unitea States becoming allied with the inter- national tribunal, even under the res ervations then attached, is apparentiy a8 much dissatisfied with the new ar- rangement as it was with the old. How much of a factor in the Sen- ate's final vote this opposition will bu, | | of course, remains to be determinea,| but notice has been given by the group | that the modification of the court’s rules of procedure, affected in an ei- | fort to facilitate American entry, is un- acceptable. Protocol Signed Yesterday. A new profocol of American aa- herence - was signed yesterday av Geneva on behalf of the Washington Government, together with protocols ot the statutes of the court and of the revised statutes. It is expected that President Hoover will not submit the protocols for ratification until after Secretary Stimson returns from London Naval Limitation Conference. The old Senate objection, as expressed in its famous fifth rescrvation, would have made it impossible for the court to entertain a request for an advisory opinion on a question in which the United States might have or claim an interest without American consent. This stipulation was unacceptable to the nations affiliated with the court and they refused to admit the Washington Government, upon such a condition, Last Spring, however, a modification of court methods was effected. designed to give the United States a voice in re- | quests for advisory opinions_equal to that of any member of the League of Nations. This was done with a View to obviating the difficulties then blocking American entrance. Express Opposition. Chairman Borah of the foreign re- lations committee, Senator Johnson of California, the ranking Republican on the committee, and Senator Moses of New Hampshire have expressed out- spoken opposition to the new arrange- ment. They were prominent in the fight against participation three years ago. Although there was some uncertainty as to how the votes of new members of the Senate would be cast, it was gen- erally expected that the line-up would be simil>* to that developed by the World Court question three years ago. ‘Then, 16 votes were cast against ad- herence under the reservations, to 76 for American entry. A two-thirds vote of approval is necessary for ratification. POLICEMEN FREED OF BRIBERY CHARGES | Grand Jury Quashes Indictments of 21 Returned by Special Jury in Philadelphia. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., December 10.— Twenty-one policemen, who were in- dicted on charges of bribery and ex- tortion after an investigation by the special August grand jury in 1928, were given clean bills of health yesterday by the December grand jury which ignored the charges. The jury passed over each name when Morris Clearfield, known during the former ‘nvestigation as “the man with the little black book,” failed to appear in support of the charges. All the policemen were suspended at the time the charges were made against them. One or two resigned, others re- cently were reinstated by the Civil Service Commission and some were given outside aid ‘The action against the men and for- mer Capt. Charles Cohen, all of the Fourth Street and Snyder Avenue Sta- tion, was one of the developments of District Attorney Monaghan's crime in- vestigation more than a year ago. The entire platoon and its leaders were ar- rested at midnight during the height of the inquiry. After the December grand jury ignored the bllls today, the district attorney said a further cleanup of the outstand- ing principals of the 1928 investigation would be started today in Quarter Ses- sions Court. In one group are Charles Schwartz and Samuel Lazar, reputed former part- ners of Max (Boo Boo) Hoff, together with William Smith and Harry Webber. They are to be arraigned on charges of possession and sale of liquor growing out of a raid on the Piccadilly Cafe. Willlam (Sailor) Friedman, former Chicago boxer, will also be arraigned. | He is charged by Louis Elfman, former | chauffeur of Hoff, with aggravated as- | sault and battery | COTTON MEN MEET WITH FARM BOARD| Marketing Problems of Growers Is Topic of Conference at Memphis, By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn. December 10— Representatives of cotton growers and co-operative associations in 15 States, embracing the cotton-producing area of the United States, gathered here today With members of the Federal Farm Board to thresh out marketing problems and discuss plans for the possible cre- ation of a centralized marketing cor- poration to co-ordinate marketing activ. ities now being conducted by various State co-operative and growers' asso- clations The conference was called by the Federal Farm Board. It will be in ses- slon two days [} Informal discussions in advance of the meeting centered about the feasi- bility of forming an organzation co parable to the Central Marketing Or- ganization recently established in the grain belt Alexander Legge, chairman: James C Stone, vice chairman. and Carl Wil- liams, cotton member of the Federal Farm' Board, were named to represent the board at the | Kindergarten to Entertain. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. LYON PARK, Va. December 10.— An_entertainment “Christmas in Nurs- eryland” for the benefit of the Lyon Park Garden Club will be given by Mrs. Clark's kindergarten class at the com- munity house at 8 p.m.sDecember 14 Gravel Slide Kills Youth, Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA. Va., December 10.— | John Edwin Bubb, 17 years old, was' killed in a gravel slide while loading a | wagon at an excavation on the Rich- | mond-Washington highway near here yesterday. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Bubb of Occoquan, Va. the | SECOND DANCE HALL FIGHT VICTIM FOUND Body of Father of Youth Who Slew Sheriff in Battle Dis- covered Near Scene, By the Assoctated Press. WARM SPRINGS, Va., December 10. —The tragedy of a gun battle at a dance hall near here, fatal to Sheriff C. A. Gum, Bath County, Saturday night, was doubled Sunday with the discovery of the body of George W. Messer, sr., 75, 75 yards from the spot where the officer was slain by George W. Messer, jr., 18. | Messer, sr., was shot by Sheriff Gum when he resisted arrest, but escaped and was thought to have been only slightly woynded. The younger Messer was shot by Thomas McCune, deputized by the sheriff to assist in the affair. He |15 in a Clifton Forge hospital with eriti- cal buckshot wounds. The elder Messer was warding off in- terference in a fight between his son and Newton Ross, 25, with a shotgun, Bath County authorities said. ~Sheriff {Gum arrived on the scene after the fight and approached the fatHer, who fired at him twice, officers said. The sheriff returned fire before he was killed by shots from the younger Messer's gun. McCune then opened fire on Messer, jr. The youth, officers said yesterday, ad- mitted " the killing. Gum had been sheriff of the county 27 years, after suc- ceeding his father in office. | ke R, SR S | Regularly THE EVENING JUDGE BEN LINDSEY - RULED DISBARRED 'Action Is Taken on Charge He Received $37,500 From New York Woman. By the Associated Press. | DENVER, December 10—Ben S. Lindsey, militant exponent of compan: | fonat, arriage and noted former Den. | disbarred from the practice of law in | Colorado by the State SBupreme Court | for accepting money from a prominent | New York and Denver society matron for legal services while he was on the bench ; | Lindsey immediately npon being ap- | prised of the decision issued a state- | ment asserting he was the victim of | political persecution. The former {uvenlle judge was | charged ‘specificaily by the Bar Asso- | clation with accepting $37,500 from | M Helen Elwood Stokes, divorced wife of W. E. D. Stokes, New York multimillionaire, for services in con- testing Stokes’ will which cut off his two children by the second Mrs. Stokes, James and Helen Muriel, without be- quests. Lindsey Issues Order. Through Lindsey's interest in the Stokes case the mother was able to obtain for her two children approxi- mately $3,000,000 from the estate of her former husband, in addition to $156.500 for her services as guardian | of the children under an order issued | by Lindscy as judge of the Juvenile Court. Her remuneration was in the | form of stocks in a company organized by the estate. Using these as collateral, she borrowed the money to pay Lindsey, | the record sets forth. The will left the money to W. E. D. Stokes, jr, a son | by a former marriage. The case was | settled out of court by agreement. | Contending that he had befriended | Mrs. Stokes, that his services to her | were disassociated from his work in | the Juvenile Court and that he acted “merely as arbitrator and mediator,” Lindsey denied in his argument before the Supreme Court that his practices had begn unethical. The $37,500 re- ceived “from Mrs. Stokes, he asserted, was a “gift,” as was $10,000 received from Samuel Untermeyer of New York, an attorney for Mrs. Stokes. Lindsey contended that the “gift” he had received from Mrs. Stokes had been approved by the Probate Court and that when he had offered to return the money as well as the $10,000 received X(rnm Untermeyer, the benefactors re- | fused to take it back. Opinfon of Court. “Unless,” recited the court’s opinion, “one has the moral strength of char- acter to stand immovable in his Adelity STREET A Special Value . . . . A Special Group . . . . 83 Fine Kuppenheimer SUITS 350 & $55 All Sizes — All ver Juvenile Court judge, yesterday was | We've taken these’ suits from regular stock . . . EVERY ONE IS A GENUINE (up to the minute style) KUPPEN- HEIMER Suit . . . the reduc- tion is most unusual!!! Concessions had to be made ‘all the way ’round’ to produce this SPECIAL! Models—Cle ar, hard and unfin- ished Worsteds —light and dark shades. 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The chief justice who renders this opinion is & member of the old politi- cal machine which I fought in my writings. “The judicial reforms I have advo- cated would put half of the lawyers out of business and the result has been that a grievance committee of the State Bar Association has been formed made up mostly of representatives of my personal and political enemies.” Lindsey, althoug! in CaliforniaA some months ago, has continued to live in Denver, writing and lecturing. MARTIN ASKS CARAWAY TO PROBE ARNOLD FUND By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., December 10. —Declaring that “it ought to be de- termined who is responsible for placing Florida on the sucker list,” former Gov. John W. Martin yesterday sent a tele- gram to Chairman Caraway of the Sen- ate lobby committee urging an investi- gation of circumstances surrounding the payment of $2,050.75 by the State of Florida to J. A. Arnold, manager of the Southern Tariff Association. Martin said that while he was gover- nor he appointed a committee in 1927 to appear before the laws and rules com- mittee in Washington with the under- standing that the members themselves and not the State of Florida should pay their expenses. Gov. Carlton recently signed a voucher authorizing payment of $2.- 050.75 to Arnold. but said it was an old d‘eb(. incurred by a former administra- tion. to duty imitted to the bar | D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929. MILITIAMEN GUARD MINES IN ILLINOIS Machine Guns Set Up as Strike Disorder Looms at Coal Workings. By the Associated Press. KINCAID, Ill, December 10.—Ma- chine guns, with National Guardsmen at the sights, today commanded the approaches to the four Peabody Coal c mines, where National Miners' Union members are on strike. The mines, Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 58, which oidinarily employe 3,400 1en, had only a few score report for work today, and W. C. August, general superintendent, said it was doubtful if the mines would be able to operate. Fifty State militiamen were on duty at each mine. They patrolled the prop- erties, challenging each person who sought to enter and permitting to pass only thos: few who came to work. Roads Filled With Pickets. ‘The roads leading to the mines were filled with pickets of the N. M. U. Au- tomobiles bringing other miners to work were stopped. In many cases the machines were forced to one side and halted. Others were compelled to turn around and return to Taylorville, where meany of the miners live. There were no displays of violence dur- ing the first few hours of the morning although the pickets were in large num- bers and permitted none to pass. Hun- dreds of miners congregated at the mine entrances, but there was no concen- trated attempt to override the pickets. Freeman F. Thompson of Spring- fleld, spokesman for the N. M. U., stated the strike would not be called off until the N. M. U. demands had been met by the operators and “the United Mine Workers of America thrown into the trash can.” | The State troops made no attempt to interfere with the picketing, centering their efforts on defense of company property. -There were no indications that any hostile display was contem- plated against the properties them- selves, the present purpose of the N. M. U. apparently being to attract mem- bers of the U. M. W. to their ranks. Thompson Placed Under Guard. ‘Thompson, a director of the National Miners' Union and organizer of the strike forces, was placed under guard at mine No. 7, under orders of Capt. Mont Plaisted of Springfield. Sheriff Dunbar was to arrest him formally on charges of inciting a disturbance. John Hampsted of Springfield, a union or- ganizer, and a companion tried to in- | terfere with Thompson's arrest, but were driven off. Only 50 could reach the Peabody mine No. 7 today. It was said that 300 men at No. 8, in Tovey, announced they were willing to work and had no fear of pickets, but would not work under a militia guard. Six hundred men, women and chil- dren gathered in Kincaid to determine a course of action. They represented the forces barred from the mines by National Miners' Union pickets, and were meeting as members of the United Mine Workers. o ‘Walter C. Tiffany Dies. RIO JANBRIO, December 10 (#).— Walter C. Tiffany, formerly of Port- land, Ore., manager in Brazil for Dwight P. Robinson, engineers of New York and Philadelphia, died in Strangers’ Hospital last night. He had been in the hospital for 10 days for treatment of a cancer. He is survived by his widow and two children. No funeral arrangements have been made. . VOTE MAY DECIDE Whether Action on Reduction or Tariff Comes First Be- fore Senate Today. By the Associated Press. ‘The Senate wrestled again today with | the problem of whether tax reduction or tariff revision should be given legis- | lative precedence, and a movement was | instituted to settle the question by the process of bringing it to a vote. Anxious that the tax measure—which would slash 1 per cent from all cor- poration and normal individual levies on incomes of 1920—be approved at the earliest possible date, administration leaders sought, first of all, an agree- ment under which the tax resolution would displace the tariff and be given prompt action. | Method of Procedure. | . However, in event of this effort again Being obstructed, they had recourse to the proposed plan of calling upon_the Senate to vote on the question. This involved only a motion to lay aside the tariff and take up tax resolution, and' indications were that this pro- posal commanded enough votes to in- sure its approval. Under the rules of the Senate such |a motion could not be made yesterdey | when the tax resolution was reported | by the finance committee and, unabie | to obtain unanimous consent for its im- | med'ate consideration, administration TAX. PRECEDENCE 2 those who are anxious that tariff action suffer no prol delny through con- sideration of the tax resolution. ‘Will Consider Amendments. Senator Couzens, Republican, Michi- gan, had served notice that he would oppose an agreement to limit debate until he had had an opportunity to consider some amendments. He gave no_indications of what these were. In urging immediate consideration for the tax resolution, Senator Watson, the Republican leader, and Chairman Smoot of the finance committee were | joined by spokesmen for the Democrats, | including Senators Simmons of North | Carolina and Senator Harrison of Mis- | sissippl, ranking majority members of the finance committee. ‘The view of the Western independent Republican group, as expressed by Sen- ator Borah of Idaho, is that ttere is no objection to supplanting the ixriff bill with the tax-cut measure, if s:surance is given that the Senate will b able to return promptly to the former. However, one of the Republican inde- endents, Blaine of Wisconsin, was largely responsible for blocking imme- dlate tax debate yesterday and was joined in his opposition by Black of Alabama, a Democrat. FUND TOTALS $3,497,000. LONDON, December 10 (#).—The King's Thanksgiving funds closed yes- terday with a total of £689,597, or ap- | proximately $3,497,000. 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