Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-10-30

OIL will be In the air at Washington
again next week. On Tuesday, NO
vember 8, the Governments appeal
from Chief Justice Walter 1. McCoys
decision uuashing the Doheny-Fall in
dictments in the District of Columbia
Court will be argued in the Court of
Appeals. 1t will be recalled that the
indictments were invalidated on the
ground that Oliver L. Pagan, special
assistant to the Attorney General, was
present in the grand jury room Inc
noint now at issue is whether Mr..
Pagan was IAN authorized person., as
the Government counsel, MeSSrS.
Atlee Pomerene and owen j. Roberts,
will contend, or whether he was IAN
unauthorized person" as Doheny S
counsel, Frank J. Hogan, will as
stoutly maintain. The oil magnates
lawyer will argue that there is ample
judicial precedent for quashing indict-
ments voted in the presence OF any
body illegally in jury room. The
Government will counter with the as
sertion that Mr.. Pagan, as the lin
dictment expert" of the Department
of Justice, was in no respect an Illicit
bystander. The legal world of the
whole country has it's eye on the pro-
ceedings.
A business mission to do business
with business men is the description
Italy applies to the debt negotiators
who will begin operations in Wash
ington on November 8. Senator
Giuseppe Volpi, chief Of the mission,
is a selma man. Volpi began life
as an insurance agent. He became
an expert in Balkan and Turkish
trade and negotiated the treaty which
ended the Italo-Turkish war. Later
he had a brilliant career as Governor
of Tripolitana. Under his admins
tration Italy reconquered much of the
African territory which the local
tribes took during the World War.
Signor Volpi founded the Adriatic
Electricity Co., a hydroelectric enter
prise of which he was president till
he became Mussolini's minister of
finance. Not long ago King Victor En-
manuel gave Volpi the title of Count
Of Misurata" in recognition Of his
work in Tripoli. He is 4S years old
and Is chiefly responsible for making
his native city of Venice a great COM
mercial port. Another able member
Of the Italian debt mission is DR..
Alberto Pirelli. He is 40 years old, the
son of the famous Italian automobile
manufacturer, and was italian repre-
sentative on the Dawes reparations
COMMISSION. Inc Cnlru man OIL DlS
business on the Italian mission Is DR..
Mario Albert, a native of Trieste and
president of the National Bank of
Albania. DR.. Albert headed the pre-
liminary italian debt mission to the
United States last Spring.
X X X
Representative Frank r. Reid, Re-
publican, of Illinois. Col. Mitchell's bat
Ting chief counsel, once hesitated be-
tween Journalism and the law as ca
reer He says it cost him so dearly to
learn that he was not cut out for a
publisher that he returned perma-
nently to his first love, the bar. The
eleventh Illinois district, of which
Aurora is the center, sent Reid back
to Congress in 1924 by whaling vote.
In 1922, when elected to his first term,
he led his Democratic and Socialist
opponents by only $4,000. Last year
his district rolled up a majority of
$4,000 for him. Reid has been in the
Illinois Legislature, States Attorney
in his home county, and assistant
United States Attorney at Chicago. He
Is 46 years old and is militant Meth
odist.
One Of Germany's political leaders
has arrived in Washington to make q
close-range study of our national ma