Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1930, Page 34

SETTENCT T TV T IFTROUY i il CEETYTEY r I - » 3 AW Cad B A ih Al dddadi iz sanianey DISTRT COURT HAD BSY YR Jailing of Sinclair and Con- viction of Fall Among Out- standing Events. Local and national events of unusual interest mark the review of the oper- ations of the District Supreme Court during 1929. Beginning with the jail- ing of Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil magnate of New York, for contempt of the Senate and for jury-tampering, continu! with the conviction of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the In- terior, of accepting a bribe of $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate of California, in connection with the leasing of the Elk Hill naval reserve; the indictment of Representative Fred- erick H. Zihiman for using the mails to defraud in connection with the oper- ations of the F. H. Smith Co. a local nvestment concern, and the indictment of Representative Edward E. Denison, dry advocate, for possession of liquor; the summoning of Senator Smith W. Brookhart, of lowa to tell a grand jury | about an alleged wet party attended by | .Senators and others o prominence and the refusal of Senators Cole L. Blease and J. Thomas Heflin to appear before a grand jury investigating the death of Detective Sergt. Arthur Scrivener. Brookhart's testimony was regarded by the grand jurors as not sufficient to support an indictment. Two Probes Head List. Among the purely local events of the ! year were the Scrivener investigation, ‘which ended in a report that he was a suicide; the two inquiries into the death of Mrs. Virginia Hurley McPherson, the first ending in the indictment of her husband, Robert A. McPherson, jr., and his incarceration in jail for sev- eral weeks until the discovery was made that the grand jury which indicted him was illegal because there was a woman on it who was:drawing a United States pension, and the subsequent inquiry under Special Assistant Attorney Gen- eral John E. Laskey and a report from that grand jury that exonerated the husband and resulted in his release from jail. Three newspaper reporters refused to desired - information to the grand jury and were adju in contempt of court by Justice yton Gordon and sent to jail for 45 days each. An alleged e: the Wash- ington Times of the liquor traffic in the National Capital resulted in a report the grand jury that only 4 out of 49 the expose were found in violation of the national prohibition act. From these four Jahm nine persons were named in indictments by the grand jury. Smith Co. Indicted. ‘The Department of Justice undertook an int into alleged fraudulent tnnncw of the F. H. Smith Co.,, and through Special Assistant Attorney General Nugent Dodds obtained an in- dictment charging unlawful use of the mails against Representative Frederick N. Zihiman of Maryland, who has since #s & director of the company; Daniel R. Crissinger, formerly control- ler of the currency, also a director of the company; G. Bryan Pitts, chairman of the board; Samuel J. Henry, presi- dent of the company, and others. Suit for a receiver was brought against the Smith Co. by Attorney W. Gwynn Gar- diner on behalf of several-bondholders and owners of preferred stock of the company,-but Justice Wheat denied the application for a temporary receiver. ‘The case is still pending. Walter 1. uflgy. fifth chief justice of the court, reached the age of 70 years his resignation to Presi- December 9. He will be en- pay for the rest of his life. The Star published an article calling attention to the crowded condition of the dockets of the court, and Senator Capper introduced a bill for two addi- tional justices, which has not yet passed. ‘The vacancy in the office of chief jus- tice has not been filled. New Litigation Record. Litigation in 1929 hung up a new rec- ord with the filing with the clerk of the District Supreme Court of 1,938 law suits and 1425 equity proceedings, and added greatly to the congested condition of the court dockets. In addition there were filed 1,250 mechanic’s liens, 165 bankruptcy cases, 49 adoptions and 37 land condemnations. The clerk also re- ceived 383 daclarations of intention to become citizens and 471 applications for final citize papers. New citizens to the number 498 were made during the year and 30 applications were denied. Dan Cupid joined in the general in- —— A mine-inch pie, double erust, be made from each package of . . . FLAKO PIE CRUST Easy to make Add water and bake Buy FLAKO at your grocer’s crease in business, and marriage licenses ‘were issued out of the clerk’s office to the number of 5,700. This is a marked advance over 1928 when only 5401 licenses were granted. United States Attorney Rover reports the return by the grand jury of 1,242 indictments during the past 12 months. In the Criminal Courts there were taken 660 pleas of guilty; 226 persons were convicted and 141 acquitted of the charges against them. 452 Appraisals Made. During the year Theodore Cogswell, register of wills, announces that es- tates, valued at $17,771,127.74, were ap- praised by his office in 452 appraisals made. There were flled for probate 1,183 wills, 1,686 petitions for probate and letters of administration and 236 applications for guardianship. His of- fice force made certified coples of 3,260 pages, stated 2,446 accounts and pre- | pared 1,683 ds. Photostatic coples !were made of 68 pages during the | year. Amos A. Steele, probation officer, re- ports that he investigated during the year 493 criminal cases of which 234 were placed on probation, including 37 for non-support of wives and minor children, There are now 423 persons on probation of which 103 are for non- support. Probation was revoked in 10 cases and bench warrants issued against 45 not apprehended. As trustee for recefving and disbursing moneys in tions for 1929 at $36,000, which was dis- tributed among about 100 families. PAPER UMBRELLAS USED. Oiled Material Employed in Con- struction of Berlin Product. Slot machines have appeared on the streets of Berlin from which oiled paper umbrellas may be obtained for the equivalent of 12 cents. There appears to be a possibility for success in such a venture. It suggests that umbrellas might be made in a fashion which the same time lengthen their life. Our present type of umbrellas is costly, mainly because of the way in which the cloth must be cut and sewed to fit the ribs, and also because of the diffi- culty in assembling the ribs themselves. It would appear that a tent-shaped umbrellas could be made in a much more substantial fashion and of suffi- clent rigidity to withstand a gust of wind without turning wrong side out. The cloth would need to be cut only in a simple square and would require no sewing. Perhaps such an umbrellas could be made of waterproof materia] and compete easlly with our present dollar umbrellas. non-support cases Steele reports collec- | would greatly lessen their cost and at | THE 1929 TRIUMPHANT Hundreds of Advances Made in Molecular and Other Fields. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE. Associated Press Feature Service. | NEW YORK, December 30 ().~ | From Byrd and Wilkins aloft in planes over Antarcticd and Lindbergh over the | Mayan jungles to such non-spectac- ular achievements as that of two young | German chemists who split hitherto in- divisible hydrogen, earth's simplest ele- ment, science made hundreds of ad- vances in 1920. Most of them are considered routine by scientists with the time still years away when their importance may be evaluated. In evolution Dr. Austin H. Clark of Washington advanced data to show that new species can come into existence quickly, while at Carnegie Institute, 8t. Louis University, the University of California and many other places, radi- um and X-ray emanations were shown to be an influence in producing changes in species. Mine Gas Protection. were finding of better mine gas protec- tion by the United States Buresau of method at Cornell, & means of keeping fish fresh for A year in Canada, a non- explosive film made of cloth at Pitts- burgh, a caterpiHar tractor tow-boat on the Tennessee River, the Spefry rail- fissure detector traveling over the major American railways, and a telephome dial that speaks numbers. Health research provided many ad- vances. At Yale, a method of treat- ing pneumonia by carbon dioxide was announced. At Harvard, Michigan, Kentucky Agricultural experiment sta- tion and other places better or cheaper remedies for pernicious anemia were found. Europe and America devsloped nu- merous advanced cancer treatments, without finding a remedy, and in the United States the pathologists of Rocke- feller Institute reported evidence that they are a little closer to the extermi- nation of tuberculosis in -operative Sore hroat The daily press tells of increasing numbers of cases of sore throat. 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