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~~HZZIZZIZZZ_WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 25, 1936. ** PAGE B—1
Bank Stockholders Ruled Not Liable for Pre-Purchase Debts
HOLDS STATE LAW
Ruling May Affect Many
Holding Paper in Seventh
Street Bank.
WEST VIRGINIA ACT
CITED BY TRIBUNAL
Provides Liability Only When
Shown Debt Was Accrued After
Stock Was Acquired.
In a decision which may a fleet many
stockholders of the closed Seventh
Street Savings Bank, the Unit'd
States Court of Appeals held today
that the bank's stockholders may not
be assessed for debts and liabilities
which accrued before they acquired
their stock.
Following principles laid down in
preceding bank cases, the court said
the laws of the State in which the
institution was incorporated must gov
ern in deciding the question of double
liability.
The West Virginia constitution and
the banking laws of that State, in
which the Seventh Street Savings
Bank was incorporated, provide that
stockholders shall be liable to credi
tors of banks only upon a show in'1
that the liabilities came into existence
while they were stockholders.
Mot-Knoicer contested sun.
The case involved a suit by Nor
man R. Hamilton, receiver for the
local banks, against Ida L. Bergling.
who owned 20 shares of stock, and
was assessed $2,000 by the controllet
of the currency January 5, 1934.
The case went into the Court oi
Appeals on the single question ol
whether it was necessary for the re
ceiver to prove that the debts of the
bank, on account of which the as
sessment was levied, accrued during
the period of stock ownership.
Through her attorneys, William E
Richardson and E. Hilton Jackson,
the defendant admitted the authority
of the controller to adjudge the bank
insolvent, to close it and to collect its
assets, Including stockholders' lia
bility. She contended, however, that
he had no right to impos a liability
in excess of that authorized by West
Virginia law.
Sustained by Court.
In this contention she was sustained
by the Court of Appeals, which cited
a previous decision regarding the Po
tomac Savings Bank, which was in
corporated under the laws of Virginia.
In that decision the court stated there
was nothing in the District statutes
which expressly created double lia
bility for shareholders in State banka
doing business here.
The court pointed out that Congress
recognized this omission and cor
rected it by an act passed March 4,
1933, Imposing double liability on
shareholders of every bank doing
business here, if their stock was ac
quired after the law's passage.
MEDALS TO BE GIVEN
SEVEN MORE PUPILS
Safety Patrol Leaders Will Get
Awards at Special Cere
monies.
Seven safety patrol leaders from
District schools, who were scheduled t«
receive honor medals from the Ameri
can Automobile Association at thi
i close of the safety patrol parade Sat
urday. will get their awards at i
special ceremony.
The seven boys marched in the
honor medal division of the parade,
but when Commissioner Allen carai
to present the medals only 20 were
available for the 27 candidates. Fail
ure to receive the seven names in
time to issue certificates and obtain
the medals was the cause of the diffi
culty. A. A. A. officials explained.
The boys are Harry Mortimer. Blow
School; Harry Ray Wright, Peabody
School; Nathan Jones and Amos M.
Wilson. Edmonds School, and Roger
T. Seal, Andrew Kirk and Louii
Hines, Wheatley School. Richard M,
Ham. safety director of the District
A. A. A. Clubs, will make the awards,
it was announced today.
MRS. ANNIE TORBERT
DIES AT HOME HERE
—
Was D. C. Resident Since 1917.
Funeral Rites to Be To
morrow.
Mrs?. Annie Dalrymple Torbert. 75,
widow of Frank Peyton Torbert and a
resident of this city since 1917, died
yesterday of a sudden illness at her
home, 1851 Irving street.
Mrs. Torbert was a native of Prince
Frederick. Md. Her husband was en
gaged in farming in Prince George*
County, Md., for a number of years.
Mrs. Torbert is survived by four sons,
James M. and William W. Torbert,
both of this city; Frank P. Torbert,
Metuchen, N. J„ and Neville S. Tor
bert, Beltsville, Md.. and four daugh
ters. Miss Jessie D. Torbert. Miss Suda
Torbert and Miss Annie R. Torbert,
all of this city, and Mrs. Clarke Con
way, Bethesda. Md. She also leaves
five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 3
p.m. tomorrow in St. Andrew’s Episco
pal Church, of which Mrs. Torbert was
a member. Burial will be in Congres
i sional Cemetery.
Kentuckians Bid Boosevelt.
FRANKFORT. Ky„ May 25 </P> —
An Invitation asking President Roose
velt to attend the Onward Kentucky
Exposition here June 5-6-7 was wired
i to the White House yesterday by a
committee of Frankfort citizens head
ed by Gov. A. B. Chandler. The e*«
position will feature Kentucky-made
I products.
TYDINGS PROTESTS
SELECTION OF R. k
WORKERS IN D. C.
Letter to Tugwell Hits Pro
cedure at Berwyn Hous
ing Project.
ASKS ADMINISTRATOR
TO-LOOK INTO MATTER
Cites Previous Procedure of Ob
taining Workers at Hyattsville
Re-employment Office.
A protest against selection of em
ployes from Washington instead of
Maryland to work on the Resettlement
Administration housing project at
Berwyn was made today by Senator
Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, in a
letter to Administrator Tugwell.
"You can appreciate the fact that
when the Berwyn project is completed,
It will be our State problem to absorb
those persons who choose to live at
that project in our State,” Tydings
told the resettlement head.
“I am sure it is not your intention
to deprive us of the opportunity to
take care of our unemployed by plac
ing them on this work. I understand
, that in the past when we were not able
to supply the necessary personnel, then
persons were taken from the District
of Columbia, and we have no objection,
of course, to a continuation of that
procedure. However, we do very se
riously protest the change in policy
above referred to, and I request that
you kindly look into the matter and
let me hear from you at your earliest
convenience.”
Tydings previously had explained
that in the past the personnel was
selected through the Hyattsville re
employment office, or by contacting
the Baltimore and Anne Arundel
County offices. The Senator said that
he had been informed by an R. A.
representative at Berwyn that by fol
lowing that procedude, “qualified, con
scientious, capable men have been
supplied.”
"Recently, for some reason unknown
to me,” the Senator continued, “there
has been a change in this policy, so
that several hundred person^ recently
called for were filled through the re
employment office in the District of
Columbia instead of through the re
employment office at Hyattsville.”
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ONLY 3 SERIOUS
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Thousands on Highways, but
pew Hurt Over Week End.
Baby Hit on Busy Street.
A week end warm and clear enough
to draw thousands of motorists to
the roads resulted in only three ac
cidents in which the victims suf
fered serious injuries, police of Wash
ington and nearby Maryand and Vir
ginia reported today.
Scott A. Melius, 52, of 3622 Bunker
Hill road, Mount Rainier, Md., pos
sibly suffering internal injuries as
well as fractures of several ribs, was
rushed to Casualty Hospital yester
day by the Prince Georges County res
cue squad. He was found lying in
the roadway of Sheetz avenue, Brent
wood, Md., after being struck by an
Unknown car.
Charles Green, 26, of Beltsville, Md.,
said by police to have been the
driver of one of two cars involved in
a head-orf collision on Baltimore
Boulevard, near Berwyn. Md., yester
day, possibly suffered a fractured skull.
He was taken to Casualty Hospital.
Three other persons in the two cars
escaped with minor injuries.
. An unconducted toddle across Flor
ida avenue at First street yesterday
nearly proved fatal for 18-month-old
Lawrence Brewer, colored, 66 R street.
The baby was hit by a car driven by
Frank P. Gaither, 37, of Frederick,
Md., and was treated at Children’s
Hospital for cuts of the body and
possibly a fractured skull.
After striking the child, Gaither
drove on for a block until he was
halted by a citizen, according to police.
He told police he was unaware of the
mishap. He was charged with reck
’ less driving and released in *500 bond.
A glistening new limousine said to
belong to Assistant Secretary of State
R. Walton Moore was almost demol
ished late Saturday night in a col
lision wdth another car. an electric
Tight pole and a tree on the Lee High
way near Willow Springs, Va.
Police said Maughs Roberson,
Moore's chauffeur, was driving, with
. O'Neil Sutphin of Fairfax, Va., as pas
senger. They were treated at George
town Hospital for cuts on the head
and face.
Damage to the pole snapped off cur
rent in the vicinity for some time.
A Washington Representative—not
Zioncheck this time—had trouble with
bis automobile yesterday. Representa
tive Wallgren reported a hit-and-run
driver damaged his car in front of the
;6horeham Hotel.
COOLER AND CLOUDY
| FORECAST FOR CITY
Temperature of 91 Yesterday One
Point Under Season's
High Mark.
Cooler and mostly cloudy weather
was in prospect today following a
week end of clear skies, cool breezes
and warm temperatures.
«. The current forecast said “mostly
cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Cooler
weather tomorrow, accompanied by
, moderate northerly winds.”
The temperature rose to 91 degrees
yesterday afternoon, one point under
the season's high mark set here May.
f. Temperatures today were slightljjJ
lower. '
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Supreme Court Lawyer
■ff MiMWrin Mil'll . ..— .- - — —
Sister Ann Joachim., Dominican nun and teacher at St.
Joseph’s College, Adrian, Mich., was to go before the United
States Supreme Court today to take the oath that will admit
her to practice law before the high tribunal.
Sister Ann, one-time tennis champion and airplane pilot,
is an expert on constitutional law and until 1928, when she took
her vows, was a partner in a Detroit law firm. —A. P. Photo.
Drama of Cicadas’ Brief Visit
Being Recorded on Movie Film
Agriculture Department Takes Pictures
of Above-Ground Life Cycle of
Chirruping Insects.
The shrill chirruping of a billion
insects* fresh from their 17-year stay
below ground, resounded today and
will continue to resound for perhaps
a fortnight in the fields around
Washington, in Maryland and Vir
ginia. where the cicadas, misnamed
locusts, are making the most of their
brief existence in the light of the sun.
To record accurately every detail
of the drama of this insect, the Agri
culture Department, in co-operation
with the University of Maryland, is
taking a motion picture of the whole
out-of-the-ground life cycle of the
subterranean bug whose noisy an
nouncement of its being frightened
the Pilgrim Fathers living in the
Plymouth Colony in May. 1634.
The cinema history of the periodical
cicada ends, like most movies, on a
note of love. For, after flitting about
the fields for 14 to 17 days, the insects
mate and the male at once falls dead
to the earth. The female goes on for
a bit longer, to lay her eggs, and then
she. too, succumbs.
Hyslip Directs Film.
The film is being directed by K. A.
Hyslip of the Insect Test Survey and
Information Division of the Bureau of
Entymology. who lives close by College
Park. Md., and whose acres are no less
popular than any others in this part
of the world witlr the seldom-seen
droners.
Disconcerting as the arrival of these
unexpected and misunderstood visitors
may be to the persons over whose
property they fit. the amount of
damage they can do is small. They
neither eat crops nor ruin gardens.
The female does, in Us egg-laying,
pierce the soft bark of such fruit trees
as cherry, apple, pear and peach, but
the eggs are not laid in the fruit
itself.
The males alone make the noise.
I using membranes in the rear of their
; bodies which are vibrated by powerful
I muscles. The females are without ears
and unable to hear the honeyed words
of their husbands. The sound has
four notes—a prolonged burring, the
Pharoah note which startled the Pil
grim pioneers and led them to con
nect the insect with the Biblical
locusts, a low monosyllabic purring
sound and the rasping burr induced
! by fright.
Dies After Laying Eggs.
When the female lays her eggs,
about 500, she dies. The eggs hatch
grubs, which fall or climb to the
ground There they burrow about two
to four feet below the surface and
spend the next 17 years, until they
emerge and repeat the cycle.
Scientists who keep tabs on the
numbers of cicadas fear that they, like
the red men, are vanishing Americans.
The brood on each appearance number
fewer and fewer insects. Hence the
movies are expected to have an espec
ial value.
SPI MAN CAUGHT;
HUNT£D_7_YEARS
Alleged Member of Stolen
Car Ring Captured by
Federal Agents.
After a 7-year search which took
them from coast to coast and North to
South, special agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation today appre
hended, in New York, Harry I. Spiel
man, one of three brothers alleged to
have operated a stolen automobile ring
out of Martinsburg, W. Va., the
Justice Department announced.
Spielman’s police career began with
his arrest in this city March 14, 1928,
with George, a brother on a stolen
automobile charge. They were taken
to Winchester, Va. George said the
car was his and Harry was released.
George later was released on $2,000
cash bond.
Both immediately disappeared. In
vestigation revealed that these two
and a third brother. Wade, had been
operacmg * stolen autofnobtfo. ring out
of Martinsburg, the Justice depart
ment explained. They were *idicted
by a Federal grand jury in KHuns, W.
Va.. June 20, 1928, for conspiracy and
violation of the national motor vehi
cle theft act in connection With the
theft and interstate transportation of
30 stolen automobiles. >
On November 20. 1928. a)pot4ier in
dictment was returned by * federal
grand jury at Elkins containing 47
counts against the three. I »
George Spellman was apprehended
in California in June. 1928. He was
returned to Elkins and on November
23, 1928, was sentenced to serve' two
ane one-half years in a United States
penitentiary. This term he 1 has
served. I
Harry and Wade have been traced
all over the country during the feast
seven years.
$18,000,000 Paid Tea LaW.
Wages of tea laborers in
Province of India are expected to
over $18,000,000 this year.
TWO HURT IN FALL
Scaffolding Collapses at Powell
Junior High School.
Two laborers employed by the Dis
trict were injured today when a scaf
folding from which they were painting
a ceiling on the first floor of the Powell
Junior High School collapsed.
Rudolph Biro, 48, of 3202 Ely street
southeast may have a spine fracture
in addition to nose, chin and fore
head injuries, It was said at Casualty
Hospital, where he was taken. Charles
America, 50, of 2524 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast cut his right leg. not
seriously enough to require hospital
treatment.
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MEASURE 10 EASE
FEDERAL JOB LAW
Desires Passage of Celler
Bill on Marital Status,
House Body Told.
—
COMMITTEE TO ASK
HEARING PREFERENCE
Ramspeck Urges Passage—Coch
ran Leader in Fight Against
Change.
President Roosevelt stands for lib
eralization of the celebrated marital
status law. the House Rules Com
mittee was informed today by Chair
man Ramspeck of the Civil Service
Committee. He said the President
had let him know through one of his
secretaries that he favors passage of
the Celler bill which would relax the
restrictions in regard to employment
of husband and write as well as other
members of one family in the Gov
ernment service.
The Rules Committee expects to
morrow to grant a special rule for
preferential consideration of thus bill.
Representative Ramspeck and Repre
sentative Celler of New York, author
of the bill, urged the special rule.
Representative Cochran. Democrat, of
MiMAiiH rhalrman nf th* Pommitti'p
on Expenditures, vigorously opposed
the legislation as he has done repeat
edly on the floor of the House. He
protested with special vehemence
against allowing two Government sal
aries in one family.
The Rules Committee continued
hearings on this and three other re
quests for special rules until tomorrow.
The marital status law. which is a
holdover from the economy act of
j 1932, provides for the dismissal of
! either husband or wife in any neces
sary reduction of force.
Ramspeck said his principal objec
tion to it is that it acts as a curb on
marriage. ,
“I think Congress ought not to be on
record as opposing or thwarting nor
mal desires for marriage.” he said.
Representative Celler pointed out
that the present law sets up an addi
tional qualification for a civil service
office, putting the stress on marriage
instead of merit. He pointed out that
out of 1.603 persons affected by this
law. only 400 had left the service and
most of those had quit of their own
accord. He emphasized that such a
qualification is not imposed in the
legislative unclassified service and
argued that it is not fair to impose
such a law on low-salaried employes
and exempt the high-salaried group.
He stressed also that it does not apply
to all branches and that if such a law
is operative it should affect the legis
lative and judicial services as well as
those in the departmental services.
Representative Celler reminded his
colleagues that two former Speakers
had their wives employed in their of
fices. He pointed out also that the
purpose of this legislation was to re
lieve unemployment and it had not
had that effect.
Representative Cochran told the
members of the Rules Committee that
the purpose of the marriage clause is
to distribute pay checks in two homes
instead of one.
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CHAIN BRIDGE OPENS
IN WEEK AT MOST
Workers Near Completion of Re
pairs on Structure Damaged
by Recent Flood.
Chain Bridge, closed since the March
flood, will be reopened to the public
the last of this week or the first of
next, it was announced today by Clif
ford R. White. District bridge engineer.
A construction repair crew is at
work, and White said such progress
is being made that the work probably
will be done by Memorial day.
Some delay was encountered when
it was found immediately after the
flood that special materials would
have to be fabricated to replace beams
and braces, but. with their arrival, the
work got under way.
Supplies for the job cost in the
neighborhood of $2,500.
Young Washington
Bird nests are the specialty for Willie Ann Myers, 7, a stu
dent in the Nature study class at the Bethesda, Md., Elementary
School. WUlie Ann is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Myers,
310 Wilson lane, Edgeaioor, Md. Tomorrow: BettyaYoung,
daughter of Sergt. andmrs. Joseph L. Young, at the Qwenleaf
Schooli —Star Staff Photo.
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House Pages Split on Roller Skate Issue
Debate Question at Annual Dinner, as Host, Representative
Shannon, Favors Wheels.
The virtues of roller skates as a method of transportation within the halls of Congress
were debated by John Jurgensen (left) and Fred Johnson, House pages, at the annual dinner
given at the Shoreham Hotel by Representative Shannon, who is looking on. ~A. P. Photo.
HOUSE pages put chicken in
their stomachs last night
while debating whether to
put wheels on their feet.
The occasion was the fourth an
nual pages' dinner given at the
Shoreham Hotel by Representative
Shannon of Missouri.
The issue of roller skating divided
the boys into factions much as that
of “steam rollering” divides those
they serve.
Raising the skate isue was John Mc
Cabe. who has served several years as
a page and adds that he is tired of
hearing stories of tired feet.
Page Walter Morgan of Alabama
told the dinner guests:
“Skates will put more people to work
! everywhere. If we fall down it will
give jobs to doctors, and if we tear our
pants tailors will have more work.”
"No,” countered Edmund E. Walsh
of Washington. “Just picture a page
rolling down the marble corridors of
the House Office Building and meeting
a Representative coming out of his
door. Why, the Representative would
get killed and we would get fired."
“I am for skates,” sighed Aubrey
Russell of Kentucky. “Suppose we
do fall down and get hurt. Who wants
a better excuse for staying away from
work?”
Thomas R. Dugan of Massachusetts
declared that, as things now stand.
Representatives constantly complain
about pages making noise as they
rush about the House aisles.
"Why, we would make nervous
wrecks of the gentlemen,” he said, i
"and might be indirectly responsible
for some screwy laws,”
Collier W Goodlerr, jr„ of Tennes
see asserted skates would be strapped
to his feet only if Congress appro
priated money enough to equip pages
with electric sirens and red flags.
"As long as we are not under civil
service.” he argued, "it would be ex
tremely dangerous to sail through
these corridors without plenty of warn
ing signals. I can imagine no quicker
way of separating yourself from a job
than by banging into a Congressman."
Representative Shannon came out in
favor of skates.
"Senate pages.” he contended, "have
a fine underground railway to ride on.
and these boys have to run. Let's put
them on wheels.”
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MECHANICS’STRIKE
ARRESTS EXPECTED
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Warrants Issued for Four on
Assault Charge—Twelfth
Shop Is Hit.
As the automobile mechanics’ strike
spread today to a twelfth shop—H. B.
Leary. Jr.. & Bros., 1620 U street—
i first arrests were expected momenta -
! rily as an outgrowth of an alleged
assault in the Mandell Chevrolet Co..
Inc., shops at Thirteenth street and
Good Hope road southeast.
Warrants were issued by Karl Kin
aleberger, assistant United States at
, torney in charge of Police Court, for
i arrest of four men charged with as
sault on Harry L. Ferguson in the
! Mandell shop last Thursday.
The warrants named George Berry,
, 800 block of Portland street southeast;
L. Kane. 1300 block of Massachusetts
avenue; H. D. Kane, 1300 block of M
street, and E. K. Sherman, 1700 block
of Sixteenth street southeast.
Ferguson, who lives in Upper Marl
boro, was said to have been working
in the shop and charges he was
severely assaulted by the four men
named.
Oliver N. Garrison, business agent
for the union, said he had had a re
port on the affair at Mandell’s. He
said the four union men who had
gone out on strike from Mendell's
wanted to go back to the shop to
get the tools which were their pfv
sonal property. He said they had ob
tained permission from the firm to
enter the shop. When they got in
side, he said, Ferguson "made a pass
at them," starting trouble.
Ferguson claimed the four men at
tacked him while he was removing his
coveralls. He charges they knocked
him down.
MRS. MARILLA CAPELL,
82, IS DEAD AT HOME
Mrs. Marilla Greene Capell, 82,
widow of Charles A. Capell and for
more than 50 years a resident of this
city, died yesterday at her home, 215
Rock Cre$k Church road. She had
been ill about six weeks.
Mrs. Capell was a member of the
Women’s Missionary Society and the
White Cross Society of Calvary Bap
tist Church. She was a native of
Springville, N. Y.
Surviving are two daughters. Mrs.
Isabel C. Wright and Mrs. Loretta C.
Rabenhorst, both of this city, and a
stepson, Edward D. Capell of Has
brouck Heights. N. J. She also leaves
five grandchildren and two step
grandchildren. Her husband, an em
ploye of the Government Printing Of
fice, died in 1923.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at Hines’ funeral home,
2901 Fourteenth street. Burial will
be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
TO RENEW FIGHT
Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, chair
man of the Women’s Committee of
Louisiana, is returning to Washington
to renew the committee’s fight for the
unseating of Senator Overton of Lou
isiana, it was learned yesterday.
Mrs. Hammond is expected to seek
a conference with Vice President Gar
ner in an effort to have the charges
made a gains* Overton by the Women’s
Committee referred to a special Sen
ate committee for consideration and
to demand action onli Connally
report la the case.
National V. Student JFins
Nomination as Prosecutor
Floyd E. Harper Still
Has to Pass Bar
Examinations.
Victory in Indiana Test
Held Tantamount
to Election.
Floyd E. Harper, 24-year-old law!
student at National University, is off
I to a flying start on his legal career,
j having been nominated for prosecut
' ing attorney in Indiana despite the
| fact he has neither finished school
I nor passed the bar.
Harper, who lives at 4900 Third
street, came here in 1933 and went
to work in the office of Senator Van
Nuys, Democrat, of Indiana. Lafer
he switched over to the General Ac
counting Office, and then began study
ing law at night.
Having some spare time on his
hands last month, he secured a leave
of absence from school and went V*
Tipton, Ind., where he decided to
run for the Democratic nomination
for prosecuting attorney of the thirty
sixth judicial district. Much to his
surprise, he was nominated by a plu
rality of 900 votes. The district is
normally Democratic by a large ma
jority, Harper said, and the nomina
tion is tantamount to election.
After the election Harper returned
to Washington to finish his law work.
FLOYD E. HARPER.
He will be graduated this June and
will then take the bar examination in
Indiana.
“I'm spending all my time on the
books now'." he said. “If I don't pass
the bar, somebody else will w’alk off
with my job.”
Harper took a B. S. degree at Cen
tral Normal College, Indiana. He
served as chairman of the Executive
Board of the Capitol Hill Democratic
Club, and has made several speeches
for the Democratic National Commit
tee.
AWARD OF $23,167
TO PEPCO AFFIRMED
Company'* Fight for 10 Time*
Greater Price From U. S. for
Razed Substation Ended.
The United States Court of Appeals
today affirmed the verdict of a con- ,
demnation jury awarding the Poto- j
mac Electric Power Co. $23,167 for i
its substation, which was razed to •
make way for the new Interior De- 1
partment Building, ending the com- 1
pany's fight for a 10 times greater
price.
The principal bone of contention
concerned expensive electrical equip
ment which the company claimed
should have been included in the con
demnation price. The court found,
however, that the machinery had been
located in other substations before it
was installed in the condemned plant
and could not be considered part of
the realty.
Authority of the Secretary of the
Treasury to acquire the property and
of the President to exercise the power
of eminent domain in connection with
such public works cannot successfully
be challenged, the court declared.
Henry H. Glassie of the Justice De
partment represented the Government
in the litigation.
Call Freddie’* Father.
LOS ANGELES. May 25 OP).—
Freddie Bartholomew's father was
asked today to hurry here from Lon
don to "safeguard his rights’’ in the
custody fight over the 12-year-old
screen star.
The father, Cecil Llewelyn Bar
tholomew, has remained in England
while his wife, Mrs. Lillian Bartholo
mew, has been seeking to regain the
custody of her son from Miss Mylli
cent Bartholomew^the boy'* aunt. He
favors the retention of his sister as
the boy’s guardian.
SUIT FOR $25,000
NAMES TAXI FIRM
Brig. Gen. Miles Asks $5,000 and
Wife $20,000 in Action
Here.
Brig. Gen. Perry L. Miles and his
wife, Mrs. Mary Scott Miles, brought
suit for $25,000 in District. Supreme
Court today against the Independent
Taxi Owners' Association as an out
growth of a collision of two cabs at
Sixteenth and K streets last Novem
ber 29.
Through Attorneys AI Philip Kane
and Charles V. Koons, Mrs. Milev
asked $20,000 to compensate her for
injuries which, she said, caused her
to spend three weeks in a hospital.
Gen. Miles asked for $5,000, claim
ing he was put to considerable ex
pense by his wife's medical treatment,
and that he was compelled to stay
in Washington beyond the time as
signed for his transfer to another
Army station. This caused him to
lose a month's leave, and cost him
the expense of mafhtabling a home
here, although free quarters would
have been furnished him at his new
station.
The accident occurred about 1 a.m,
while Gen. and Mrs. Miles were riding
in a cab going west on K street.
The cab of the defendant company
was proceeding north on Sixteenth
street and struck the general's taxi
at the intersection. He also named
Edmund J. Ryan, driver of the Inde
pendent Taxi Owners’ cab, as de
fendant,
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Texan Dies in Scotland.
LONDON. May 25 (^.—Alexander
Mackay. 80, Texas cattle executive,
died Saturday at Glencruitten. Oban.
Scotland.
His death occurred suddenly. He
had presided ruer a meeting of the
Matador Lana*& Cattle Co. share
holder! at Dundee on Tuesday.