Evening star. [volume], October 01, 1935, Page A-12, Image 12

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ROBERTS HITS JURY
DUTY RESISTANCE
Says Firms Which Fight
Call of Employes Im
peril Justice.
Private business executives who re
sist selection of their employes for
Jury service were taken to task yes ter
day by People’s Counsel William A.
Roberts during discussion of the new
act of Congress, which enlarge!? the
field of eligibles for Jury service in the
District.
Thousands of Washington residents
in Government service will be avail
able for jury duty for the first time
at the present, session of court, he
said, in an address bioadcast late yes
terday over Station WOL.
"Congress specified that when Gov
ernment employes in executive service
sit on a jury they shall not receive the
usual jury fee. but shall receive their
regular compensation from the de
partments in which they are em
ployed." he explained.
"This was done as a good example
to private employers who only too fre
quently resist the service by their em
ployes on juries. These short-sighted
private employers fail to rlalizc that
good juries are vital to the cause of
justice to which they themselves are
often indebted.
"This important law will increase
the available number of jurors for
service in our local courts by many
thousands and will assure a better
type of juror than has been available
heretofore.”
The old law had been construed to
exclude employes of the United States
and District governments of all ranks
and classes of service, he continued.
The new law provides that other than
lawyers, clergymen, practicing physi
cians and such classes of services as
are normally excluded from jury duty
because of their occupation still are
exempt. "But. only the executive and
judicial officers of the United States
and District governments and mem
bers of the armed services of the
United States and of the Police and 1
Fire Departments are excluded under
the new law," Roberts added.
This means that Government em
, ployes and National Guard and Re
| serve officers and ethers heretofore
| disqualified on the theory they were
j beneficiaries of the Government by
reason of a pension or similar gra
tuities shall not be exempt from jury
duty, he concluded.
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PRIVATE FLYERS RATED
BY INSURANCE COMPANY
Safe and Non-Spectacular Man
ner Specified in Firm's
Announcement. ^
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By the Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn., October 1— A
local life insurance company an
nouncefl yesterday that private flying
for business and pleasure has reached
a point of sufficient safety to become
insurable.
Figures compiled recently, the an
nouncement said, showed the company
safely could Insure pilots who fly for
private purposes In a safe and non
spectacular manner.
WHISKY IS DESTROYED
MIAMI, Okla., October 1 (/P).—
They're still destroying whisky in dry
Oklahoma—at least, officers are.
Gov. E. W. Marland ordered the
destruction yesterday of $30,000 worth
seized near here. It was believed the
whisky—1.342 cases—either was in
tended for "bflotlegging" in Oklahoma
or was hidden by persons attempting
to evade the Missouri tax by keeping
it here and running it across the line.
COUNCIL WILL MEET j
Plans for Winter activities of the
community centers will be made to
night. when the Fall meeting of the
Community Center Council will be
held in the'toard room of the Frank
lin Administration Building at 8
o'clock.
James G. Yaden. president of the
council, will preside and a report on
activities of the past six months will
be made by Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples,
director.
The council is made up of the presi
dent and a delegate from each of the
Advisory Committees of the com
munity centers, the staff of com
munity secretaries and a number of
delegates at large.
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