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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19

best served by a VIDE use OF the IN
ventions covered by the patents. II
the property was sold under terms
and conditions that assured its being
devoted to the public use It matters
not what benefits or detriments may
have flowed as incidents therefrom.
THE property is In the keeping Of
men who have in its management no
selfish interest to serve and whose de-
votion to the public interest has been
established" continued the opinion.
NO better plan for devoting the
property to public use has been sug-
gested. The plan has stood the most
severe Of all tests-actual trial The
defendant has kept the faith. This
It has done. not only by granting IL
censes in furtherance OF the purposes
for which it was chartered, but also
at its great expense. by distribution
Of books and pamphlets showing the
national necessity for practical deyel-
opment of chemical science in Ameri-
ca. II. perchance, those heretofore
engaged In the industries have de-
rived an Incidental advantage from
the plan. that incidental result cannot
invalidate a transaction lawfully con
summated in the public interest. The
same charge would lie against the
validity Of every tariff act. =
The sale was in effect 10 America and
its citizens. not to those then engaged
in chemical and allied industries,
Judge Morris ruled that if the K
ecutives entrusted by Congress with
power Of sale acted within the scope
Of that power their acts are not sub
ject to judicial notification or review.
Invasion by the courts 10 determine
whether the public interest required
the property be sold otherwise than
under the statutory conditions pre-
scribed and TO set aside the sale
should the judgment OF the court be
different from that of the President
would be a Judicial notification not
only OF the Presidents act but also
of the act OF Congress comforting on
the President the power TO determine
what the public interests required.
What the public interest requires de-
ponds upon the conditions existing in
the nation. Courts do not understand
the state Of the Union and as, l ap-
prehend. are not equipped to ascertain
1t. Tbs statement Of the rea-
sons a~etnating the President does not
make his act any the less an act Of
discretion. It Is conceded the Presi-
dent cannot be brought into our to
substantiate his reasons The statute
does not require him to disclose to
the purchaser the evidence upon
which his reasons were based The
statute does not limit the Executive
in the assignment If reasons to such
as may be supported by legal evidence
or by facts available to the public"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate OF NellIe L. Grlscom, Deceased.
Pursuant to the order of Albert c.
Abbott, Surrogate of the County of At
of the undersigned. Executor of the said
decedent, notice is hereby given, to the
creditors of the said decedent to exhibit
ton, their claims and demands against
the estate of the said decedent, within
six months from this date, or they will
be forever barred from prosecuting or
recovering the same against the subscri-
Der.
RALPH COOPER GRISCoM.
Moore and Butler. Proctors,
Atlantic City, N. j..
Mays Landing, N. J.,
November 30th, 1928.
Printers fee, $1S.40.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19

Advertise in The Pleasantville P.ess.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
Our Wans Ad Department.

FOR SALE OR TRADE-Good tour
ing car in fine condition for cattle or
hogs.-Livingston MONTY Enterprise.
FOR SALE-Complete business out
ft-frst-elass hound dog, meat rack.
sausage cooking pot (37 gals.). Apply
525 S. Fifth St-Camden IN. j. Post
Telegram.
PERSONAL the party who took
auto tire from $50 E. Piccadilly st
will call. he can get the five blowout
patches which belong to it.-Winches.
ter (Va.) Star.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that a new Sc
ries of stock will be opened in the Home
Building & Loan Association of Pleas
antville, N. j., Jan. 26, 1924.
Share are fifty cents (50c) each with
an entrance fee of ten cents Q0c) per
share.
You ma subscribe for shares at any
time during the month of January at
The First National Bank. Any further
information can be obtained from
GEO H. ADAMS, Secretary.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.

The ant meeting of the stockholders
Of the Home Building and Loan Associa-
ton of ~Pleasantville, N. j., will be held
of Pleasantville, County of Atlantic, and
State of New Jersey, on the Goth day OF
January, 1924, at 7.30 o'clock p. M, for the
and for the transaction of such other
business as may properly come before
the meeting,
GEO. H.. ADAMS, Secretary.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that I nave dis
solved partnership with Charles H. Buck
ley, under the. firm name of South Jersey
Realty & Developing Company, and will
not be responsible for any debts contract
ed from December Goth except in my own
name. l will continue a Real Estate and
Insurance business under my own name
at 35 w. West Jersey Ave-.
(Signed)
o w. HALLER.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
To Pine Ore II Mill,

A Montana mining company is
building a pipeline to the top of a
mountain in which It plans TO bring
down copper and silver ore TO the
mill.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
COURT UPHOLDS
PATENT SALE
u. S. Suit Against Chemical
Foundation Dismissed by
Judge Morris.
CONSPIRACY CHARGE FAILS
Conduct Of Chemical Foundation
Praised in Use of Former German
Patents for Benefit Of Amerl.
can People.
CONSPIRACY CHARGE FAILS

Wilmington, Del-1n a sixty-two
page decision which swept away eY.
cry one of the Governments major
contentious as being without basis in
fact or law, Federal Judge Hugh NJ.
Morris dismissed its suit to set aside
the sale of seized chemical and dye
patents by the Alien Property Custo.
dian to the Chemical Foundation, Inc.
The decision rebuked the Govern.
ment for including in the bill of com.
plant a series of cons piracy charges
unsupported by evidence at the trial
and refuted by the defense as well as
BY documents filed by the Govern.
ment.
In declining to compel the Founda.
ton to restore the disputed patents,
numbering some 400 and bought for
$271 1000, from the Government. Judge
Morris held there was no evidence
bearing out allegation of a conspiracy
by American manufacturers to effect a
monopoly through the Foundation.
The court ruled that there was nc
evidence Of fraud or deceit practiced
on President Wilson. Mr.. Polk. Under
Secretary OF State; Attorney General
Palmer and other high officials Of that
Administration.
Caravans Course Upheld
The opinion praised Francis P. Gar
van. president of the Foundation. and
its trustees. as having met the most
severe of tests in their conduct of the
Foundation-"the test of actual trial"
They were declared by the court to
afford. through their high integrity
and unquestioned patriotism, a thor
ough assurance of loyalty to their
trust. at has kept the faith" said
the court of the Foundations work.
Judge Morris found without merit
the Governments contention that the
criminal laws were violated In that
Mr.. Garvan, as Alien Property Custo-
dian and thereby a public trustee,
sold to himself as president of the
Foundation the patents in question.
He had acted by direction of Presi-
dent Wilson and his acts, supervised
by the President under the latter's
wide war powers granted by Con-
gress, could not be brought to court.
Congress had not delegated legisla-
tive powers to President Wilson, as
maintained by the plaintiff, and the
courts could not pass Judgment on
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
Better Than Before.

Landlady-Youu have to pay your
bill or leave.
Lodger-Thanks, Ny last landlady
made me do both.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

EstdtG OF WdTy IHOIIPsUHI DtCedSeu.
Pursuant to the order of Albert c.
Abbott, Surrogate of the County of At
lantic. this day made on the application
of the undersigned, Executor of the said
decedent, notice is hereby given, to the
creditors of the said decedent to exhibit
to the subscriber, under oath or affirma-
ton, their claims and demands against
the estate of the said d~ecedent, within
six months from this date, or they will
be forever barred from prosecuting or
recovering the same against the subscri-
Der.
CAMDEN SAFE DEPOSIT
AND TRUST COMPANY,
Camden, N. ].
Mays Landing. N. j.,
November Both, 1923.
Printers fee, $3.50
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19

quires the President 70 consider he
public interest. r &C Interest Is not
a synonym for money
In this relation judge Morris quot
ed from President Go8#5dre's message
to Congress on the Muscle Shoals
problem, that while the price IS an
important element. there u.s. ano her
consideration ever more compelling
If this man object 0ow-Drs# -
nitrates for farmers in peace ard re
Government in war; Is acc0uHI Sod
the amount of money received for me
property is not q primary or @a53r
consideration"
Referring to German-owuea proper
ty. the court said
Much of this property a not
~innocently held or held solely for
trade and commerce. Information ac-
CURED by German=owned companies
had been transmitted TO Berlin. and
there indexed and made available %
German competitors and the German
Government. The files Of one com
pany were filled not with business
papers, but with pan-German iitera
ture. It was a distribution centre for
propaganda in this country"
Upholds confsoatlon Of Patents
Judge Morris pointed out that when
America entered the war she adhered
to the international convention for
bidding poison gas. but II soon be
came apparent thai America would be
fighting On disastrously unequal terms
unless she should make use Of all the
dread weapons benz Gsad against her
by the foe. When Germany persisted
in her pts to destroy her oppo.
nents with poison gas in contraVen.
ton of all international agreements.
she made IT manifest that Americas
future safety lay In Americas ehemi-
cal independence. The amendment to
the act was passed in the darkest
days of the war following the sale Of
seized propertiesl It was thought
Paris was about to fall and the Chan
mel ports be taken" These were the
circumstances, said the opinion.
(which impeiled Congress to grant the
President the broad powers OF almost
absolute ownership Ii was the intent
OF Congress to subordinate mere prop.
erty rights to the welfare Of the ma.
ton"
OF the value Of the patents sold.
Judge Morris held, in accordance with
the testimony. thai while DR.. Carl
Holderman. a German. asserted the
Haber patents were worth SIT, 600. 900
to the Germans. the evidence is over
whelming that they we're and ara
without substantial affirmative value
to American citizens. Had these pat
ents been sold to Americans at public
rather than private sale and only the
net proceeds paid to their former
enemy owners these owners would
have suffered an almost total loss IN
he value of their property"
Praises Work of Foundation
AS to allegations that the sale was
not . obtain a fair value, but to pro-
mote the interests Of the chemical and
dye industries and that the transae-
ton was in legal effect granting a
subsidy to private industry. the Court
commented. this challenge to the
motives of the officers making the
sale is supported. | think, neither by
the facts nor the law. Mr.. Polk de-
termined the publi1 interest would be
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19

Notice OF Sale of Land for Unpaid Taxes
YEARS 1917 TO 1922, INCLUSIVE.

for E Eee Ia is ne Tb given that I Charles L smith, Collector OF Delinquent Taxes
OF the statute IN such case made and provided, will on
-. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9Th, 1924,
at ne hour OF o'clock in the aftnnoon of that day, in the school house in Bar
sEamto"n a a. IN te taxing district thereof expose for sale and sell the severe
against said land. together with the interest on said amount to the date Of sale
and the COST If @h
The Washington times., 1924-12-04
GIRL To TELL OF
DEATH RIDE
IN NIGHT
Marjorie Schneider to Relate
How Rogers Met Death.
Yale Frat Houses Buzz
BY DAVID SENTNER,
international News Service.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. A.
The doors of the special court Of
inquiry at North Haven were to
swing open today to hear the secret
OF twenty-one-year-Old Marjorie
Schneider, Of New Haven, concern
ing the ride OF wine and DEATH"
which ended in the finding Of the
body Of Charles G. Rogers, her es-
cort, with fractured skull on the
seat beside her during the early
hours Of November 1.
Miss Schneider promised to re-
late "the truth, and nothing but
the truth" In connection with the
bubble party" in roadside inn
with it's gruesome aftermath.
Coroner Eli Mix decided at the
inquest that Rogers death was due
to an automobile accident when
his head struck a telegraph pole.
Miss Schneider was driving the
car and both Rogers and she were
intoxicated, according to the find.
ings OF Mix
All New Haven waited expectantly
today to see IL Miss Schneider would
appear. Revival of conflicting
stories current on the tragedy
buzzed about the city-tales of q
midnight battle, a quartet of youths
In a gray-colored racer, "A petting
party at ninety miles an hour, a
drinking duel.
The inquiry is also a topic of
conversation at Yale fraternity
houses, where the inside story" Is
whispered about.
The Washington times., 1924-12-04
ROBBERS RAID
ALEXANDRIA
STORES
Loot Some Cash Registers In
Police Headquarters Build
ing-FoiIed by Safe

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. A.
Amateurs early today bungled one
Of the most daring robberies ever
attempted In this city when thcy
entered the city market in the city
hall, the same building in which the
police headquarters is located, and
got away with only 81. They en-
tered by the south door on the
west side, opposite police head
quarters.
All cash registers. about twenty,
were tempered with. When they
took the "a from the register in
the meat stall of Julian F. Chaun.
cey they overlooked $50 in the same
drawer
Leaving the market. they went
into the meat store Of Butcher &
Baggett, 1873 North Royal street,
across a small alley, where they
obtained $20,75. In this instance
the robbers opened three cash regis
tere, and attempted to rob the safe
with a screwdriver and hammer.
which the police found.
Next the thieves crossed to 1872
North Royal street, where they en-.
tered Rosenberg's shoe store. One
hundred pennies and some nickels
were reported missing from the
cash register here.
On at least one key at each cash
register, the robbers left their call.
Ing cards, in the form Of finger
prints. Prints also were found on
the hammer and the screwdriver.
The Washington times., 1924-12-04
MOTHER FIRST
GOOD FELLOW
To ENLIST
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Nm
Continued from First Page)


wishing all Good Fellows a Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year"
Another little girl asks for a
pair of shoes and a coat and some
coal for her mother. "I am little
girl thirteen years old and / thank
you very much" she writes.
A fourth letter is from woman
with four young children, whose
husband is out Of work, owing to
injuries received in a fall last sum-
mer, which prevents him from do
ing the work that he had always
done.
II need coal and food and the
children want toys for their Christ
mas" the mother and wife writes.
Letters Pour In.
Many other letters equally as ap.
pealfng as the above have already
found their way to the Good Fellow
Editor a month in advance, OF
Christmas day.
Good Fellows can apply for the
privilege of playing Santa Claus to
any of the above persons by merely
expressing their willingness by let
ter or phone to the Good Fellow
Editor of the Times.
other needy cases will be pup
lished in these columns daily.
Write now il you have any plan
of your own for playing Santa
Claus to persons less fortunate than
yourself and state any preferences
as to the age of the persons you
desire to help.
The Washington times., 1924-12-04
TENANT FILES
ANSWER IN
COURT
Attorneys Claim Granting Of
Writ of Error Is Binding
on Court

Replying to objections of Attor.
ney Louis Gutenberg, for the land
lord, to the application for a writ
of error asked by Jacob H. Fink,
the tenant in the case of Peck VS..
Fink, Attorneys E. Hilton Jackson
and John L. Krupsaw, appearing
for the tenant, in their brief filed
in the Court of Appeals today
claimed that this tribunal has no
discretion but to allow the writ
Of error asked for by Fink.
Counsel for the tenant claims
that the judgment of the Court of
Appeals is final because there would
be nothing for the Municipal Court
to do but enter judgment for pos
session in accordance with the
view of the law expressed by the
appellate court. They also declare
that as the constitutionality Of the
Ball rent act was relied on by the
tenant in his defense, the case
comes within the decision Of the
United States Supreme Court in
Heald VS. District of Columbia. 1t
is suggested that the Head decision
is controlling and binding on the
Court of Appeals. Argument on
the motion FOR the writ has been
set for Saturday.
The Washington times., 1924-12-04
TRACE WRITER
Of FURNACE
LETTER
Postal Authorities May Aid in
Solving Mrs. sheatsley's
Death
BY International News service.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Dec. A
thorough search will be made for
the person who sent an anonymous
letter to the Reverend C. ". Sheats.
ley from Buffalo, N. ~, stating
that the correspondent murdered
Mrs. Sheatsley and stuffed her body
into the parsonage furnace, County
Prosecutor John r. King announced
today.
IA person who would write such
a letter." said King, ''is Of the type
that would commit a crime like
numbering Mrs. Sheatsley and at.
tempting to fncinerate her body"
The prosecutor said II the report
Of the scientists, which is due today,
indicates the minister's wife was
murdered, postal authorities would
be asked Immediately to trace the
mysterious letter.
Letter Is Discounted.
While detectives were inclined to
believe the note, which besides con.
Tossing the murder of Mrs. Sheats-
ley, threatened the life Of the min.
lister, was the work of a fanatic,
they admitted the possibility that
the writer might be guilty, was
too strong to permit the missive to
be cast aside without investigation
There was little doubt as to the
theory to be supported in the
scientists report. They already have
announced their belief that Mrs
Sheatsley did not crawl into the
furnace. In view of the fact that
no carbon monoxide was present in
her lungs.
Further Experiments.
Further experiments at the Hart
& Grouse Furnace Company, where
at the direction Of the prosecutor, a
woman of about Mrs. Sheatsley's
size crawled into a furnace similar
to that at the parsonage, bore out
the scientists deducations by labra,
tory tests that it would have been
impossible for the minister's wife
to assume the position in which her
charged remains were found, even
though she were able to throw her
self on the burning Goals.
The Washington times., 1924-12-04
Congress Is to Start
Work on Laws for
d. C. Traffic At Once

Congressman Stuart F. Reed Of
West Virginia announced today that
the first proposition to be taken up
by a. joint meeting Of the District
Committees of the House and Senate
will be the traffic situation in the
District.
This joint meeting, the first of its
kind in the history of Congress, will
take place as soon after Wednesday
as possible, when each body COM
mittee will nNet separately to de-
eide the date o. the joint meeting.
"Hell-drivine," the practice Of
hitting your man and then running
off, will be one Of the salient points
in the traffic discussion, and the
prevention of general speeding will
be another.
The first meeting of the special
House Committee appointed 10 draft
traffic code for the District Of
Columbia, will be held at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning in the District
Committee room, it was announced
The Washington times., 1924-12-04
A j I D.
MEASURE IS
ORDERED
Continued from First Page9


were not recommended by the Sen
ate special traffic committee.
The committee recommended the
street railway proposition, but they
embodied 1t with another recommen-
dalton. calling for the increase OF the
number Of policemen in the District.
Chairman Ball decided that the in
crease Of the police force had no
place IN the traffic bill and dis
carded this part of the recommen-
dation in his proposed bill.
Recommendation Ignored.
Following are the recommends.
tons made by the Senate sub
committee on traffic which are ig.
nored in the bill:
l. That the Engineer Commits.
sioner shall make a complete sur
vey Of the District regarding the
advisability of widening certain
streets and designating more one.
way thoroughfares.
2. That there shall be adopted a
system of registration of Automobile
titles in the District.
3. That all visitors to the Dis.
trict be required to obtain Visi'
IOT Tag
4. That bicycle riders be required
TO obey traffic regulations.
5. That the sale of license tags
shall begin not later than Novem-
Der and shall not be extended
beyond January 10 for motorists
who are renewing their yearly
tags.
Chairman Ball made it plain to.
day that this bill will in all prob.
ability be discussed at the initial
meeting of the full Senate District
Committee next week before 1t is
finally introduced. It is entirely
possible that some changes may be
made in it in committee but en-
tfrely probable that groups of mo
florists in the city will besiege
Chairman Ball with protests over
some Of the drastic proposed reg
ulations.
While Senator Ball refuses tc
| speculate on the likelihood of the
| passage Of the bill he is now fran
ing, he voices confidence that some
traffic measure, necessarily drastic
he declares, will be enacted at the
present short session Of Congress.
The Washington times., 1924-12-04
IS
CONFERRED ON
FILIPINO
Ambrosio Javier Takes Oath
Before Justice HoehIing
After Long Fight

Ambrose Javier, thirty-eight, who
arrived in this country from the
Philippines in 1907, took the oath
Of allegiance to the United States to.
day before Justice Hoehling, who
had previously overruled the objec-
ton to Javier's application for citi.
zenship filed by the naturalization
bureau Of the Department of Labor.
Javier filed his first petition for
citizenship in November, 1921, and
on April s last he applied for his
final papers, the granting of which
We're opposed by the Naturalization
Bureau ION the sole ground" &C.
cording to the court, that Fill
pino is not eligible for naturaliza-
ton under the provisions of any
applicable law Of the United States. I"
Justice Hoehling overruling this
objection said:
. 1.-The question is an important
one, involving as it does the politi-
cal status Of many native.born
Filipinos who have come to this
country, and have here established
their permanent residence.
Many of such persons who are
now resident in this country doubt
less have married, or possibly may
marry female citizens. of the
United States and If the Filipino
husband be ineligible to citizenship
in the United States, serious ques-
tons may arise concerning the
political status of the wife, who,
prior to such marriage was a citi-
zen of the United States"
The court suggested that his de-
cision in the matter was open to
appeal, and it is understood that
the bureau of naturalization il pre-
pairing an appeal to the Court Of
Appeals.