Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1931, Page 24

. Wilmington and Dover, Del, B—-8 #» BELLEVUE HOTEL OWNERS FILE SUIT Hidden Profits of $60,000 Alleged in Construction s of Apartment. Hidden profits, alleged to have been paid in connection with architectural and construction work on the Bellevue, a co—upernuvely owned hotel apartment at 15 E street. erected to taks care of former occupants of the old Govern- ment Hotels on the Union Station Plaza, are made the basis for a suit filed in_the District Suprem= Court by Mertle Farquhar and Lieze Holmes, on behalf of stockholders The petitioners seek recovery of $60,000 from the architects, contractors and promoters of the Bellevue and ask | that the defendants be required to render a full accounting for all sums in excess of “fair and reasonable com- pensation” for the services and expenses | in connection with any of the affairs of the Bellevue. Sued for Receivers. Suit for the appointment of receivers 10 take over the affairs of the hotel, a Delaware corporation, was tried in on_April i5 and 20. Twenty-one stockholders | jolned in the petition. A decislon is ex- | pected in about 10 days. The plaintiffs in the District suit | name Harry R. Loveless and John V.| Morris, both of 1010 Vermont avenue, as promoters of the hotel, and i3 the promotion Defendants Richard P { y, Frank B. Essex and ‘Whitty Co., a Delaware col assoclated themselves with t ture, It was alleged the Delaw company “illegally and fraudulently arranged with the promoters td give them a secret profit, unknown to the stockholders of the hotel, upen the un- A COMPANION EVENT THE EVENING -STAR, WASHINGTON, derstanding that promoters would ob- tain for the R. P. Whitty Co. the con- tract to bufld the hotel without com- petitive bldding. t was further alleged that Frank G. Plorn. ang AL Bamitton . Wilson, architects, at 1621 Connecticut avenue, associated themselves with the venture, and unknown to the stockholders ar- ranged with the promoters to give them a secret profit provided the archi- tects’ firm was awarded the contract. This_profit amounted to $10,000 of | the $30,000, which the architects charged for their work, based on 6 per | cent of the estimated cost of the build- ing, which was $500,000. As a result of these agreements, the suit_charges, the Witte Co. and the arctitects paid over to the two promot- | ers, Lovelass and Morris, the secret | | profits from the contracts, amounting | |to $60,000 in either cash or second | trust_notes. Instezd of costing $500,000, the sult | alleges, the Bellvue has cost more than $800,000 and the contractors and archi- | tects “have been ‘“unable to explain | satisfactorily the vast discrepancy.” The | plaintiffs, therefore, declare the secret | | profits were greatly in excess of $60,000 | which has admittedly been received or paid by the defendants. Jesse C. Duke | | appears as counsel of the plaintiffs, Linger’s Estab. 1865 Are Recognized as the ng Bedding Stere in Come in and Let Us Show You Around 925 G St. N.W. Nat. 4711 Mattresses Remade phtlt psborn ELEVENTH ST. ~ BETWEEN SIL TORCH CLUBS PLAN GENERAL SESSION Preliminary Conferences Will Be Held This Afternoon and Tonight. The International Association of Torch Clubs is holding preliminary meetings this afternoon in_preparaticn to the convening of the first general session of its fourth national conve tien in the Hotel Mayflower tomorrow morning. 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