Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1930, Page 25

** ACCUSED EX-JUDEE ON TRIAL SIX DAYS Texan Hears Witnesses De- scribe Fatal Stabbing of Stenogrpher. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex, January 28.—Con- clusion of the account of Mrs. R. B. Crider, rooming house owner, of the fatal stabbing of Miss Lehlia High- smith, 28-year-old stenographer, was the State’s most important task today @s it opened the sixth day of the mur- der trial of John W. Brady, former State appelate court judge. Four important prosecution witnesses were called to the stand during the first day of testimony, during which the defense moved for a suspended sen- tence in the event of conviction. Mrs. Crider, operator of the rooming house in front of which Miss Highsmith ‘was slain. told yesterday of events lead- ing up to the slaying, and of the actual Killing. “When the car came up,” she testi- fled, “I saw Brady go out and meet Miss Highsmith. I heard her say, ‘Please don’t do that’ and I saw him hit her. I went to the telephone and called the police.” Three other witnesses preceded her. They were F. R. McNaughton, Frank Graham, jr, and McFarlin, all of whom testified of happenings in the rooming house and in front of it the night of the crime. Brady listened attentively to the tes- timony. When Graham, considered the ace of the State witnesses, was called he looked at him steadily and occasion- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930. PAYNE FELICITATED BY HOOVER IN GREETING READ AT DINNER Seventy-Fifth Birthday of Red Cross Official Is Celebrated. Countless Messages Receiv- ed From This Country and Abroad. Distinguished men from this country and abroad eulogized John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, at a dinner in his honor last night in_the Willard Hotel. Sunday was Mr. Payne’s seventy-fifth birthday. Countless messages of felicitation were read. Inicluded was the following | 8reeting from President Hoover: “Your seventy-fifth birthday will re- call to the memory of your many friends, as it does to mine, a wealth of reminiscences of your numberless public services and private kindnesses. ‘We are all glad that you still buoyantly bear your part in these activities, and as we congratulate you upon your an- niversary we also Wish for ourselves many more years of your comradeship.” Strawn Among Speakers. Among the Speakers was Silas H. Strawn of Chicago, a former president of the American Bar Association, who once was a law partner of Judge Payne. Others included Miss Mabel T. Board- man, secretary of the Red Cross, and the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, bishop of Washington. James L. Fieser, vice president of the society, acted as toastmaster. Birthday greetings were read by James K. McClintock, vice ally during his testimony he ;half closed his eyes. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and_Sailings From New York. ARRIVED. Goamo_santo Domingo City co! elvoxlu—](m'smn 0 ress of Scotland—Southampion anu: Berlin—Bremerhaven American Merchant—London. 3 DUE TODAY. Bremen—Bremerhaven La Guayra .. anuary 26 January 25 chairman in _charge of finance. Viscount Roussy de Sales of Paris MEXICAN LEGATION IN URUGUAY STONED Demonstrators Are Dispersed When Officer on Guard Fires Into Air. By the Associated Press. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, January 28.—The Mexican legation yesterday was stoned by a small group of demon- strators. They broke the glass of the front door and escaped before the police arrived. Because of recent demonstrations in 16 | front of Mexican embassies in Buenos uson} 8t. Louis—Hamburg DUE Rotterdam—Rotterdam Gripsholm_Gothenberg Olymp! O—!% Sionteres —Vera Baltic—Livemool DUE THURSDAY, JANUARY 30. 3 ‘oloa—Port Limon. DUE MONDAY. FEBRUARY 3. American Banker—London. Antonio—Liverpool ... * Aurania—Southampten " Buenaventura—Cristobal January 20 A January 28 ry 24 Fort St. George—] Dresden—Bremerhaven OUTGOING STEAMERS. SAILING TODAY. Seminole—Jacksonville. Evanger—Lisbon. Minnesotan—Pacific Coast. SAILING TOMORROW. Caronia—Havana. Transylvania_Méditerranean cruise. ort St. George—Bermuda. President Rooseveli—Plymouth, Cherbours ami ure. Métapan—Kingston, Cristobal, Cartagens, Puerto Colombia and Santa Marta. Siboney—Hava January La Guayra, Puerto Ca- 0 and M Providence—Mediterranean ports. —Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Statendam—West _Indies cruise. Baracoa—Puerto Colombia Ketrina Luckenbach—Pacific Coast. SAILING THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, Lituania—Copenhagen and Dansig. President Wilson—World cruise. Berlin—Southampton, Boulogne and Bremer- en. Coamo—San Juan and Sagto Domingo City. Arcadian—Bermuda. Santa Elisa—Cristobal, Callao and Val- paraiso. American’ Trader—London. Cabo Torres—Lisbon, reel Munargo—Nassau. Olympic—Cherbourg and Southampton. Eastern Prince—Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Astrea—Haitien ports. Oranje_ Nassau—Port au Prince, Curhcao znd Paramaribo. Bremen — Cherbours, Southampton and Bremerhaven aves Semaria—South American crul ise. Roma—Cadiz, ~Gibraltar, Naples, Ville~ franche and Genoa. TOLMANIZED TABLE LINENS Retain Their Lustre THE TOLMAN LAUNDRY Phone Met. 0031 1 tried various treatments for Aires, Rio Janeiro and Washington, one officer had been stationed in front of the legation here for the past 10 days. Yesterday he was surprised by three men, who seized his arms and threw himsel! and the attackers dispersed. He said only 10 or 12 men took part. JOHN BARTON PA¥NE, represented the League of Red Cross Societies. Judge Payne is the head of that organization. Greetings Are Wired. Included among the telegrams were greetings from the Red Cross Socleties of Italy, Great Britain, Germany and Belgium. Still other messages received were from Max Huber, president of the international committee on Red Cross; Calvin Coolidge, William Gibbs McAdoo, Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of Cornell University; Robert W. De For- est of New York, a member of the cen- tral committee; Felix Warburg of New York, Bishop Willlam F. McDowell and John Bassett Moore of New York. ‘Those present included Joseph P. Cotton. the acting Secretary of State; Gen. John J. Pershing, Ogden L. Mills, treasurer of the Red Cross; Charles Evans Hughes, jr., member of the cen- tral committee; Cornelius N. Bliss, Maj. Gen. M. W. Ireland, Gustavus D. Pope, Detroit; Rear Admiral Charles E. Riggs, Admiral Willlam S. Benson, Senator Arthur Capper, Gen. James A. Drain and William Fortune of Indianapolis. v N SAVAGE WASHER & DRYER SALES AND SERVICE That COLD Colds come suddenly. -You can often end them just as quickly! Take Bayer Aspirin the moment you've caught one. 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FAIRFAX, Va., January 28—Gus- tavus Johnson, Bolo Lewis and Milton Wallace were yesterday tried in the Fairfax County Circuit Court and found guilty of feloniously assaulting Thomas {Jackson and sentenced to serve 12 months each in the penitentiary. A similar charge against Lum Honesty was nolle prossed by the common- wealth, and James Lewis was pro- nounced by the jury not guilty of a like verdicts included E. W. Parker, W. T. bower, Henry Adams, Mark Gallahan, Perry Compton, J. W. Mercer, Kilby | Dove, Joe Breen and E. W. Fairfax. David Coleman, who appealed from a decision of a justice of the peace im- posing a fine on a charge of hunting without a license and resisting an offi- cer, Harry Johnson of/ Arlington County, was found guilty by the court on the second charge and fined $25 and costs in both Circuit and Justice’s Courts and sentenced to three months in jail, the jail sentence suspended during good behavior. Ordered to Pay. In the suit brought by H. A. Storm of McLean against I F. Abe, janitor of the McLean Schog- who disappeared bt e L ‘Woodson, division superintendent of schools, garnisheed, was ordered to pay to Storm the $70 which the School Board owes Abe, as part payment of the latter’s indebtedness to Storm of $76. The sheriff was ordered to sell Abe 's attached effects to raise the bal- 9 AM. to 6 P.M. charge. The jury which returned these | Thayer, C. W. Gorham, George Hart- | E ance due Storm, interest from N ber 9, 1929, and costs of the suit. In the suit brought by E. W. Atkins against John Walker, jr., a jury, J. W. Mercer, L. G. Franklin, E. W. Fairfax, C. W. Gorham, Perry Compton, W. H. ‘Thayer and R. A. Demory, found a verdict for the plaintif to the amount of $400 Norman A. Matthias and the Citizens' National Bank of Alexandria, joint guardians of Charlotte Stillman Matthias, were ordered to pay $150 to James Reece Duncan for legal service, bond premium of $27.60 and costs of $16 to the clerk of the court. The suit of Leon S. Calhoun against Vernon M. Lynch was dismissed at the cost of Cahoun. The case of the commonwealth against Levi Doyle for violation of the prohibition law was continued to the March term. Gets $500 Verdict. ‘The Frick Co. Inc., was ordered to Tecover $700 with interest from Decem- ber 13, 1927, attorneys’ fees and costs, subject to a credit of $50, from Eugene Rogers. G. B. Wallace and George W, Herring were granted a judgment of $575 with in terest from October 5, 1920, and costs from John Drotar. In the case of J. Lynn Cornwell against Stanley K. Tyler, on suggestion of N. P. Young, the court ordered Young to pay $10 to J. M. Whalen as a credit on ac- count of the costs of the suggestion and to pay the balance of $56.02 in his hands to Tyler. The suggestion was dismissed at the cost of Tyler without prejudice to the right of Cornwell to have further execution issued in judg- ment. Rev. George L. Conner was granted a license to celebrate the rites of matri- mony in Virginia, executing his bond for $500 with M. E. Church of Falls Church as surety. M. E. Church re- signed as executor of the estate of Mary E. Osborn, and on motion of Julia Osborn, the court appointed the Falls Church Bank as executor. court renewed the license of Dr. T, Ramsay Taylor of Fairfax to sell ardent am;ll& requiring him to give bond for $1,500. The principal islands, or groups of islands, which add up together to form the British Isles, apart from Great Britain and Ireland, are the Orkney and Shetland groups, the Hebrides, Isie of Man, Isle of Wight, Scilly Isles and the Channel Islands. CHRTE ELECTED BY TRANSLATORS Association Is Formed to Promote Efficiency of Federal Service. ‘Translators from the various depart- ments of the Government met last night and formed the Association of Translators, naming Emerson B. Chris- tie, chief of the Bureau of Translation, guu'e Department, as the first presi- ent. Other officers chosen were as follows Paul Vogenitz, division of foreign mails, Pos: Office Department, vice president; Miss G. W. Holinger, Patent Office, re- wrdmg secretary; Mrs. M. m?erkinl, ar Department, corresponding secre- tary, and Mrs. Alma E. Warthen, De- partment of Agriculture, treasurer. Following addresses by A. J. Oliver, organizer of the National Order of Fed- eral Employes, and E. J. Biller, chair- man of the educational committee, Fed. eral Employes’ Unlon No. 2, the newly organized Translators’ Association voted to affiliate with Federal Employes Union No. 2. Other speakers included Mr. Christie, Dr. Theodore Henckel of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and Lindsay S. Perkins, senior translator of the State Department. They stressed The |the need of classifying translators not as clerks, but as belonging to the pro- fessional and scientific class. Dr. Henckel paid a glowing tribute to the translation service and his own staff in particular and read correspondence he had had with leading officials of his de- partment with regard to a be - praisal of the value of the translators. A constitution was adopted setting forth the aims of the association, to promote the efficiency and general status of the Federal translating service. SLAYER IS SENTENCED TO BE HANGED TWICE Penalty Believed First of Its Sort in English or Ameri- can Law. By the Assoeiated Press. OAKLAND, Calif, January 28.— Found guilty of the double murder of Stanley Montero and his flancee, Mary Munoz, Ernest A. Dias, 24, yesterday was sentenced to hang twice on April 11. Superior Judge Pred V. Wood passed the sentences, and, to his knowledge, it is the first time in the history of Eng- lish or American law that a murderer has been sentenced to pay twice with his life for his crimes. Dias shot the couple to death as they sat in their automobile. SOVIET AGENT DOOMED. 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