Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1933, Page 26

B—10 = COURT AIRS DEAL INVOLVING MELLON! D. C. Lawyer Testifies on Koppers Coke Purchase of Gas Stock. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, January 20—A deal whereby Koppers Coke Co. ac- quired a large block of stock in the Brooklyn Union Gas Co. was described yesterday by a witness in the stock- holders’ suit against the directors of American Light & Traction Co. to compel an accounting of $25,000,000 | allegedly lost through transactions in stock of other concerns. John S. Brookes, jr., Washington, D. C., lawyer and former secretary and general counsel for . Koppers, testified before Vice Chancellor John J. Backes that prior to its acquisition by Koppers in 1928, the Brooklyn Union Gas stock was heid by American Light & Trac- tion through its subsidiaries. The question arose at that time, Brooke said, whether the stock was le- | gally held by American Light & Trac- | tion, in view of the New York Stat law which prohibits any corporation | from holding more than 10 per cent | of the stock of such & utility. | Brookes told how he and other law- | yers devised a plan by which Koppers | could acquire the Brooklyn Union Gas stock legally. “It was done,” he said, “through subsidiaries which divided it. ‘These subsidiaries, however, were not owned by a company, but by five men individually who own Koppers.” These men, he sald, included Andrew | W. Mellon, now Ambassador to Eng- land, and R. B. Mellon. | Qusted as Sleuth ‘WOMAN LOSES JOB WITH CHICAGO’S “SECRET SIX.” MRS. SHIRLEY KUB, Investigator for the “Secret Six,” erime investigating organization sponsored by Chicago civic leaders, was dismissed after she drew the criticism of Mayor Anton J. Cermak. “I'm tired seeing Mrs. Kub intruding on police investiga- tions,” the mayor declared after Mrs. ub was found conducting an inquiry t a cafe that was bombed. The next ove of the mayor was to withdraw the patrolmen assigned to the secret group. The next announcement was that Mrs. Kub had been r¢moved. —A. P. Photo. _— Enforcement Office Abolished. DENVER, January 20 (#).—Gov. Edwin C. Johnson yesterday abolished the State law enforcement department by executive order in the interest .of economy. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. ' J A S NUARY 20, 1933. DAERCSES HONOR E D JAGKSO Confederate Organizations Here Observe Two Birth- day Anniversaries. The birthday anniversaries of two great soldiers of the South—Gens, Rob- | ert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson— were commemorated at exercises held | yesterday by Confederate organizations. Beside the bronze statue of Lee in Statuary Hall at the Capitol Maj. Rob- ert S. Hudgins, vice commander in chief | of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of Richmond and Washington, eulogi the leader of the South’s Civil War forces as “‘a Caesar without his ambi- tion, a Napoleon without his vindictive- | ness and a Hannibal without his| cruelty.” The exercises at the Capitol, spon- sored by the District of Columbia Di-| vision, Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Children of the Confederacy, marked the 126th anniversary of Lee The program included a Sword of Robert E. " recited by Mrs. Maude Howell Smith; a prayer, | salute to the flag and the placing of | | wreaths at_the base of the statue. | Gen. Jackson, whose 109th anniver- | falls tomorrow, and Gen. Lee were q tribute by Representative Jnuph{ hannon of Missouri at joint exer- cises held at the Confederate Memorial by Camp 171, United Confederate Vet- | erans. Representative Shannon urged that the character of the two heroes be stressed rather than their mil tary ac- complishments. He eulo Jackson as two of the outstanding ex- amples of American stavisma | that period and said “the cau Which these men lived and’ di | live on.” D. Edward Clarke, Washington at- 2 poem, “The | torney, read the farewell address of Gen. Lee. A musical program was given by Frank Sanderson, accompanied ! at the piano by Mrs. sandeuom] Character sketches were given by Marx | 0 hes E. Kahn. Gen. W. L. Wilkerson, com- mander of the camp, introduced Repre- sentative Shannon. Gen. H. Oden Lake, .slglednuh-l\meflan War veteran, pre- Gen. Lee was eulogized also at a luncheon meeting of the Central Busi- ness Men's Association at the Ann Clarendon Club. Maj. Hudgins was the speaker. FOUR KILLED, SEVEN HURT IN TRUCK-TRAIN WRECK Twelfth Man Missing in Crossing Accident Involving Dearborn Welfare Workers, By the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 20—Four men were killed and seven were injured late | yesterday when the truck in which they were returning from work crashed into a freight train on a crossing. i All of the then were employes of the Dearborn Welfare Department and were returning after a day’s work to receive their pay at city hall. The truck was owned by the city of Dearborn. The dead: A. H. Wanslev, 50; Hugh Matthews, 45; William Philips, 47, and | Avek Garabadiff, 42, all of Dearborn.! Lester Budwig, 32, twelfth man, was| reported missing. —_— . ‘The League of Nations has made the Philippine quarantine staticn in Ma- | nila a model for quarantine stations of the Orient, and the perscnnel of other countries in that part of the world will be trained there, a can now. Worry no more with these dis- ease-carrying _pests. ROACH DEATH CITIZENS TO URGE TAXI REGULATION Wil Present Arguments for Increased Authority for Utilities Commission. Arguments favoring increased power for the Public Utilities Commission in regulation of taxicabs will be presented | before the House Subcommittee on Dis- trict Apgroprhtlons, at a hearing| Monday, by the Citizens' Joint Trans- | portation Committee. | ‘The committee, w is composed of | representatives of leading trade and | civic organizations of the Capital, has | made the taxicab problem one of the features of its program to seek solution to the tangled transportation situation in the District. . At & meeting in the hes( juarters of | the Washington Chamber of Commerce yesterday the tra..sportation group ap- | proved & lengthy . port on the Wash- | ington taxi problem stressing the high | accident rate here, which it believes, in1 HE HECHT CO-| TWO PAIRS of TROUSERS with these , due to ited taxicabs. This mn will h‘:nr;r‘uhsenud at the hear- inf‘muondlybylpokmmlorfl!m- ‘ml 3 ‘Ways and means of coping with the situation were discussed by members of the committee with People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech at a meeting yes- terday morning. The committee ex- pressed the view that the Public Utili- tles Commission should be given com- plete power to handle taxicabs in order to combat the increasing accident rate in the District. Washington is now listed as among the five American cities having the greatest accident rate, ac- cording to the committee, Arrangements for the committee to appear before the House subcommittee to urge that a rider be attached to the local - appropriations bill giving the Public Utilities Commission increased power were made at conferences yes- terday when members of the transpor- tation body called on Representative Cannon of Missouri, chairman of the subcommittee, and Representative Blan- ton of Texas. Thomas P. Littlepage, president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the committee, pre- sided at the meeting yesterday. = S Three freight airplanes are carrying several thousand tons of hydroelectric vower plant and mining machinery from the coast of New Guinea to the Bulolo gold fields on the other side of high mountains. BIG DIVIDENDS PAID | IN SPITE OF DEFICIT Auditor Files Report on Condition of Illinois Life Insurance Company. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 20.—An auditor's final report showing the Illinofs Life Insurance Co. paid a high rate of dividends to stockholders despite a, mounting deficit was made public yes- terday by Gen. Abel Davis, receiver for the insurance company. Far five consecutive quarterly periods beginning September 30, 1930, the re- port said, 25 per cent quarterly divi- dends were continued in the face of a deficit that on December 31, 1931, amounted to $6,822,557. During that time, the total of divi- dends‘fl“‘d was $1,250,000—or $250, every three months on the 40,000 shares of stock. Most of the stock was owned by the Stevens family of Chicago. Members of the family made large loans from the insurance concern on small col- lateral, the report showed, and so did the La Salle and Stevens Hotels, con= trolled by them. James W. Stevens, the report said, borrowed $3,446,950 on coliateral with a market value of $111,390—less than 3 per cent. An attorney for a committee of policyholders recently asked permission of the Federal Ccurt to file suits against the stockholders to recover allegedly illegal dividends paid while the com- | pany was losing money. 4,000 Bus Workers Strike. 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