Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1935, Page 31

SMITH ALIENATION JURY TO GET CASE Judge’s Charge Only Re- mains to Complete Trial at Charlotte, N. C. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 10.—The Jury hearing the $250,000 alienation- of-affections suit brought by F. Bran- | don Smith, jr., against his former father-in-law, Joseph F. Cannon, awaited only the judge’s charge today before starting its deliberations. Smith's efforts to gain custody of little Anne Cannon Reynolds, 2d, | were laid by Cannon's counsel to desire to control the child's fortune. Smith contended Cannon, Concord millionaire, became angry because he and his wife sought custody of the child by his wife's first marriage and persuaded her to divorce him. Divorced in 1931, ‘The former Anne Cannon and | young Smith Reynolds, cigarette for- tune heir, were divorced in Novem- ber, 1931, a few months before her | marriage to Smith. Reynolds set- | tled $500.000 on her and a similar sum on their child, who may even- tually come into a large part of his | $28.000,000 estate. Jake F. Newell, a member of Can- non’s counsel, described Smith as “a | man who ought to be in skirts, suing for heart balm like a woman,” and asserted the evidence showed it was Smith, and not his wife, who waged Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. FIRE HOUSE CALAMITY. . HE old-timers at No. 12 Engine Company tell one about a rookie and the brass pole down which the firefighters slide to the first floor when aroused from their slumbers by the gong. Beneath the opening through which the pole passes are screen-covered trap doors that drop to either side upon slight pressure in the middle. The first man down the pole is supposed to kick the doors open. Jumping into his boots and pulling up his trousers, the rookie was first out of bed and leaped for the pole as the alarm bell clanged. If the second man to start down hadn't looked before he slid there | would have been a calamity. For the rookie, neglecting to keep his | feet together and strike the middle of the trap doors, had rammed a leg through either side of the screen and hung, straddling the framework. * K % X WANTED—A MASK. EPRESENTATIVE MARY T. NORTON of New Jersey, chair- man of the House District Com- ' THE EVENING STAR, WARHINGTON, 1. 0. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935 conversation about District legiclation, In the morning on the way to the office Mrs. Norton said she accommo- dates the drivers because she feels rested. But in the afternoon after a busy day in the House she does not feel in the mood, and when comfortably seated in a cab all she wants to do is to relax and enjoy the ride. The taxi drivers, however, won't let her. “The only solution,” she declared, “is to wear a false face. * k% X GOOD “BOX OFFICE.” HE present Congress has played | to the best attendance of any| in many years. This is particu- larly true in the Senate, where the presence of ‘several colorful showmen i has served to assure & good time for | all. Many spectators, in fact, have become as regular in attendance as some of the Senators and their faithfulness has shown its effect in several ways. Some of them, for instance, have de- | or perhaps & compliment, to the Sen- ator in question. *x x % HELP! HELP! ECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR HAROLD L. ICKES occuples no less than a dozen different posi- tions in the New Deal organization. The multiplicity of his dutles is so great that occasionally—and naturally enough—a detail which he admits he really ought to know drops out of his mind like a lost piece of jig-saw puzzle, For example, a caller the other day wished to discuss a matter of Indian Bureau administration. Mr. Ickes re- ferred him to the office of Indian Commissioner John Collier. “Where is that?” the visitor, strange to the city, inquired. But the Secretary could not an- swer. For a moment he sat utterly stumped, trying to think—in vain. Then he shook his head in abject surrender, pushed a buzzer and rather pathetically appealed to the clerk who responded to the signal: “Where is the Indian Bureau?” * K Kk JUST PLAIN CLOTHES. N ATTORNEY and his client were A seated recently at the window of the former's office near po- lice headquarters when two men whose elegance of dress cannot be properly described by anything less that a photograph in color passed leisurely by. veloped into parliamentarians; they explain rulings of the presiding officer and procedure of the body to their less | gifted friends. | And virtually all of them have catalogued the individual Senators ! on a basis of entertainment ability. | They know the ones who are good | and have little patience with the ones who are not. A few days ago one of the more able but less color- ful Senators arose to make a speech | of some length and the noise of de- | parting galleryites was so noticeable | that the Senate suspended activity a fight to obtain custody of little mittee, who is often called the “Mayor | for & few minutes to allow those who Anne, who lives at Concord with her | grandparents. | Frank McNinch, jr. Smith’s coun- sel, asked for “vindication” of his cli- | e 'so that Brandon Smith will be enabled to stand with him on equal footing, face to face, and tear him down like Mr. Cannon tore down his home.” Low Income Cited. Smith, 29-year-old real estate oper- ator. testified his own income was about $200 a month to Anne's allow- ance of $600. He said his earning ca- | pacity had been reduced because he “couldn’t stay up all night tending to Anne, who was drunk, and work the next day too.” | Cannon, on the stand, denied he had sought to break up his daughter's marriage, and said he had bought the | couple a $35.000 home, paid bills for | them totaling $26.000, and lent Smith | $7.000 personally during the 20-month | marriage. ! ‘Smith’s divorced wife said: “The only reason I married Bran- don was to get a home. him.” I never loved | DR. WILLARD DENIED DOG FOR EXPERIMENT Threatened With Arrest if He Uses Canine in Revivica- tion Test. By the Assaciated Press, LOS ANGELES, May 10.—Use of a dog in his revivication-after-freezing experiments was sought yesterday by Dr. Ralph Willard. Hollywood re- search chemist. but C. C. Warn of the City Humane Department notified him he would be arrested if he performed the experiment. Warn said Willard's” proposed ac- tion was a violation of city humane regulations. The Hollywood chemist, who re- eently said he restored a guinea pig to life after the animal had been frozen | for several days, had planned to apply | the technique to a dog suffering from an incurable disease. | “I explained the animal would be | chloroformed and frozen to death | while unconscious,” Dr. Willard sald, | “but the good humane officer would have none of my protestations. He | told me fiatly that if I continued with | my experiments he wolld have me | thrown in jail. | “Naturally, I have no desire to an- | tagonize the authorities and I told Dr. Warn that I would postpone my | efforts to relieve the dog in questlonJ until & more propitious time.” Director Must Pay Alimony. 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