Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1937, Page 6

A—6 * THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 92, 1937. OFFICER ACCUSED OF LAW PRACTICE Former Aide to Prosecutor to Face Trial Board on Four Charges. A police trial board will meet March 9 to try William H. McGrath, police- man-lawyer, on four charges filed yes- terday by Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown. Most of the charges involve the officer’s alleged private law prac- tice. McGrath, assigned to the corpora- tion counsel at Police Court in 1926 and elevated to assistant prosecutor in 1935, when he became a member of the bar, was transferred recently from court duty to a beat in the ninth precinct. No reason for the change Wwas given at the time. ‘The four charges enumerated by Maj. Brown are: Accepting employ- ment and engaging in an occupation which, directly or indirectly, inter- fered with the proper and efficient performance of his police duties; per- forming legal services for compensa- tion in violation of the police regula- tions; conduct prejudicial to the repu- tation, good order and discipline of the force, and wilfully making an un- | truthful statement before a court. An affidavit containing the charges was presented recently to Maj. Brown by Mrs. Mary Catherine Richards, 2807 Fourteenth street. The charge of making an untruthful statement is the result of an equity suit between George G. Richards and his father, George P. Richards, in which the father sued to require the son to re- convey property given him by the parent. McGrath was charged with having represented the elder Richards on several occasions previous to the equity suit and with practicing law in the offices of Willlam P. Wendell. ‘Wendell represented th. elder Rich- ards. The officer is alleged to have testified at the trial, when he was summoned as a witness, that he had a telephone conversation with Mrs. Richards. This, she charged, was | untrue. Maj. Brown said officers are not allowed to engage in remunerative outside occupations and asserted Mc- Grath maintained a law office at Sixth and D streets even while he was at- tached to the Police Court office. ARMY FLYERS SET LOW CRASH REGORD | Rate of Accidents Drops From ! 5.06 in 1922 to .859 for 1936. Tennessee Democrat, 75,.Has Opposed All New Deal Cases. This is the fifth of a series of sit stories on Supreme Court justices 70 or more years of age. By tne Assoctatea Press. Justice James Clark McReynolds is a tall, angular man with a nimble, caustic tongue and a ferce defense for what he,_thinks is right. Author of more opinions that con- gressional acts were unconstitutional than any member in recent court history, he sometimes has followed up his written views with searing ex- temporaneous comment. “The Constitution,” he exclaimed sardonically when the court upheld the legality of the New Deal's gold clause case, “is gone!" Once he remarked with devlltltlnz suddenness that he disliked “lady lawyers of both sexes.” Another time when a woman'’s silk stocking was introduced as case evi- dence he dangled it gleefully before the court, his usually severe face creased in a broad grin. Outwardly gruff, he is, on the other hand, fervently described by intimates as a man of deep human feeling and unexpected gentleness. Justice McReynolds has had three journeys into politics, always as a Democrat. He ran for Congress as a young man in Tennessee and was badly beaten. He was Assistant Attorney General from 1903 to 1907 by appointment. He was President Wilson's Attorney General for 17 months until nomi- nated to the Supreme Court. Justice McReynolds is a bachelor, but he gives Sunday morning break- fasts which have been the delight of Manhattan Shirts The accident rate in the Army Afr Corps has been reduced to the lowest | point in the history of military flying, the War Department has announced | in making public a letter of com- | mendation from Secretary of War Woodring to the chief of the Air Corps, Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover. During the past fiscal year the rate | of accidents in the Afr Corps reached | the low point of .859 per 1,000 flying hours, as compared with an average | rate of 1.08 for the ‘preceding five | vears and with a rate of 5.06 in 1922, | Secretary Woodring said. i The rate for the past year is re- | parded as even better in view of the fact that a total of 500,704 hours were | flown, as compared with 65214 hours‘ during 1922 i “In 1936, Woodring said, “eight times as many hours were flown by military aircraft as in 1922, but the ! rate of total accidents in 1936 was | one-sixth the rate of 1922, and it is noted that in 1936 one fatal accident occurred for approximately every 12,000 hours flown, as compared with one fatal accident for every 2,000 hours in 1922, or the 1922 rate of total accidents was 489 per cent higher than the 1936 rate.” NAVY BILL OFFERED Naval officers would be prohibited from serving more than four years in any consecutive eight years on ducy in the Navy Department in Washing- ton under & bill introduced today by Representative Mass, Republican, of | Minnesota. 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Vixman, vice president of Young Judea, and Isaac Imber, president of Masada ‘The youth group will hold a sym- posium on “American Jewish Youth and Palestine,” with Hy Lytton and Rebecca Rosenblum participating for Washington. The Washington Junior Hadassah will be hostess at & tea to close the conference. The Regionial Council will hear Rabbi Edward L. Israel, president of the Seaboard Zionist Region, who will outline & course of action to be pur- JUSTICE McREYNOLDS. debutantes for & couple of social decades. 'Possum hunting was once a favorite recreation. Nowadays it's an occa- sional game of erratic golf. He has ruled against the constitu- tionality of all major Roosevelt ad- ministration measures and most of the minor ones. Chronology: Born Elkton, Ky., Feb- ruary 3, 1862. Schools—Vanderbilt University and University of Virginia. Age—T5. Rabbi Metz to Be Speaker. 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