Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1930, Page 10

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THE EV NING STAR, WASHINGT ON, D €., FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1930. . PIANOS TO RENT $5 Per Month DE MOLL’S 12th & G foot fatigue. ALLEN'S | PASEgivesquick | s gl | relief to tired, aching, swollen, perspiring feet. Get the new con- venient shaker top tin. ““Allen's Foot:Ease CLAIM OF $19800 SETTLED BY §7.00 D. C. Commissioners Willing to Adjust Differences With Indemnity Company. Because of “the uncertainty of all litigation,” the District Commissioners to eporied to Congress in faver of | g a $19,800 claim against the Indemnity Insurance Co. for $7.000. The claim grows out of a mntracu with the Commercial Coal Co. to deliver | coal to the District during the 1917 | fiscal year. The price agreed on be- Fea fo S e i v {rousers, Two for which you latest styles and fine fabrics would because we know how Good it is! tween the parties was $340 to $3.98 B ton delivered, and the company de- | ivered large quantitics of coal under | the contract. In the FaM of 1916, how- ever, owing to the progress of the World | War, an enormous European demand for ‘coal sprang up and prices sky- rocketed. The result of this was that the Commsreial Coal Co. went bank- rupt, and the District entered the mar- ket to supply the deficiency of coal under this contract. Then the District sued the indemnity company which had underwritten the contract for the dif- ference between what they were com- pelled to pay and that which the con- tract price called for, amounting to $19.800. There is now p-nding a bill to allow | the Commissioners to accept $7,000 as | a cash settlement of the suit out of court. The Commissioners, for the rea- son given above, and for the further reason that this is the only suit filed by the District out of a contract broken by | war conditions, recommended that the bill be passe TAKES RENO RESIDENCE | James A. Garfield, Jr., Does Not Deny Divorce Action. RENO, Nev., May 9 (#).—Mrs, Edwina Garfield, wife of James A. Garfield, jr., a grandson of the twentieth President of the United States, has established her residence in Reno, it became known yes- terday. Mrs. Garfield declined to discuss her contemplated divorce action, but she did not deny that she was here to file Murs, suit for divorce from the New York in- | vestment banker, s 39 CHINESE EXECUTED 33 Others Given Life Terms in Con- | nection With Disorders. PARIS, May 9 (#).—Four of the 39 men condemned to death for the Indo- China riots during February today were executed at Yenbay. The 39 men were members of a large | April 14. 1 SMITH €0. OFFICES NOWINWILMINGTON Answer to Miss Cauldwell’s! Suit for Receiver Is Filed by Weed. The F. H. Smith Co. is now located and doing business in the Equitable Trust Building, in Wilmington, Del,, the District Supreme Court was advised to- day in an answer filed by T. L. Weed, | its president, through Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert and Rudolph H. Yeatman, in opposition of the application of Miss Grace Cauldwell, 1515 Oak street, holder of a first mortgage bond, for the appointment of a receiver for the Smith Building. at 815 Fifteenth strest. Justice Hitz deferred action on the application for a receivership pending 2 review of all the pleadings in the case. Tne court remarked that collectors now are in charge of the receipts from the | property and the bondholders would not suffer from a short delay. The Smith Co. in ifs answer, says that March 1, 1930, there were out- g bonds aggregating $1.115,000, on the building, and that no de- it has been made in any of the cou- | from the bonds which matured 0. and that it has sufficient ny which had been dis- e presented at New York, 15 involved in a pons funds 1o | honored beca where the company porary receivership. All coupons | should be sent to the office of the Cen- tral Trust Co. of Maryland. at Fred- erick, named as trustee under the bond ue. The Smith Co. also declares it has no desire to handle the rentals from | amortization payments called for in the bond issue. The Fremont Corporation, by H. C. Maddux, _president. today asked the District Supreme Court to remove the F. H. Smith Co. Trustee & Registrar Corporation of | Seat Pleasant, Md., named as trustee and depositary under a bond issue on the New Amsterdam Apartments, 2701 i Fourteenth street, owned by the plain- tiff. The suit is similar to those filed yesterday by two other corporations. Attorneys O'Brien & O'Brien appear for the Premont Co. GIFT FOR NORTHWESTERN Widow of Wheat King Will An- nounce Fund for Music Unit. EVANSTON, Til, May 9 (F—A din- ner will be given tonight at which Mrs | James A. Patten, widow of the “wheat { king,” will announce the gift of funds |to build a mew school of music at 1 Northwestern University. The cost of the building was not | made_known prior to the formal an- | nouncement. 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Six years ago when Ferguson at- tempted to run for governor he became | 0 involved in litigation involving his | right to a place on the ballot that his wife, Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, finally | | entered the race and subsequently was clected. | A L D e S inaril t of di i pay at least $10 more, ordinarily. A set o ecal piet SoL HERZOG i F Street at Qth the building, but suggests that the trus- L tee should be allowed to do o instead of_collectors The Central Trust Co. of Maryland, in a separate answer, declares it has paid all coupons of April interest that group of agitators arrested in connec- | tion with a mutiny bomb throwing and | other disorders Thirty-three others were given life imprisonment, 9 were given 20 years and others lighter sentences. Nine were pardoned last week by President Dour- | have been presented at its office and mergue. The outbreaks were charged | that it has received from the F. 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