Evening star., 1926-05-01

ington Sunday night and will sail from
New York on the President Harding.
holdings are worth about $4,000, he
testified. This draws 8 per cent.
Mr. Blanton asked If Edward T..
Colladay's name does not top the list
of the hoard of directors. Further
questioning developed that Frank S.
Hight manager of the Willard Hotel,
Is also a director in the Second Ma
tional Bank MIR. Rudolph was then
asked what other hotels are owned
by Second National Bank directors.
and he said that some of the directors
are stockholders in the Continental
Hotel
Did YOU know that a Mr.. Fowler.
claiming to he attorney for 10 inde-
pendent taXicab companies, stated
that there is a record in the Court of
Appeals showing that the Willard Ilo-
tel receives $4,000 a year from taxi
cab compa panies?" Mr.. Blanton asked.
He and Mr.. Rudolph agreed that this
seems too preposterous TO be true. y
Cites Contract Reports.
Mr.. RIanton declared he had been
told that the Willard has q contract
this year for SIS 900 fro:.i a taxicab
company for exclusive privilege to
use space in the streets adjacent to
the hotel, which belongs to the peo
pie" He said he had been told that
the Continental Hotel. owned by Sec
ond National Bank directors, has en-
tered into contract similarly to receive
$500
do you think that is fair to the peo
pie Of the DISTRICT" Mr.. Blanton
asked.
Mr.. Rudolph said that he does not
see where it Is unfair.
Mr.. Blanton then drew Mr.. Rudolph
into a discussion about the Willard
Hotel reservlng curhstone space all
along the entire block ON Fourteenth
street for taxicabs.
When Mr. Rudolph said, That is
traffic matter" Mr.. Blanton answered:
II want to teach you something about
traffic matters. Why haven't |
right to park my car along that block,
or why hasn't some Government
clerk. who has worked here many
wears. a right to park his little Ford
in that space"
"Not to shut out patrons of the ho-
tel" said the witness.
1.-The patrons of the hotel have no
more right to that street than any
one else" replied Mr. Blanton.
Mr.. Blanton asked Commissioner
Rudolph if he knew about Judge Nc
Mahon's recent decision to this effect
and questioned if this decision does
not stand until it is set aside. When
Mr.. Rudolph admitted this the ex-
aminer asked: Have you done any
thing about enforcing it?"
Asked of big Five"
Mr.. Blanton then asked Mr. Ru-
dolph about the 'big five" saying:
i've heard you are one of them.
Mr.. Rudolph said it was news to him.
Mr.. Blanton then asked II sam
Prescott is not one of the big five"
and Mr.. Rudolph laughingly stated:
II heard he admitted it." Mr.. Blanton
then asked isn't it a fact that Cola
dav and Prescott made Fenning Dis
trict Commissioner? Mr.. Rudolph
said: II do not know; l was not con-
suited by them or the President about
Mr.. Jennings appointment"
He was then asked If he knows L.
Lincoln Townsend and if he does not
occupy practically the same position
politically that Mr.. Fenning had when
appointed Commissioner.
Mr.. Blanton then said: when AL
bert J. Headley was denoted and the
people got over the shock there ap-
peared in the papers statement that
when Daniel Garges, secretary to the
Commissioners, read the order OF de-
motion you put up your hand to your
ear and said: What's that, Dan!
Read it again."
Mr.. Rudolph said that Mr.. Garges
had been droning along on routine
business. but when he heard lnspec-
tor Headley's name read it aroused
him. and he listened more carefully.
Mr. Rlanton asked if Mr.. Rudolph
and Commissioner Bell had not tried
TO talk Mr., Fenning out of that &C
ton. He said they had not. but they
had asked him for a full account and
that Mr.. Fenning said he had looked
into the matter carefully and that
the order of the acting superintend-
ent of police had been approved by
the Superintendent, VINO was Ill. MIR.
Rudolph said the order did not come
from him and did not como from
commissioner Bell-"Certainly not"
Mr.. Blanton snapped back: Then
we know where it came from
Cites Own Position.
Mr.. Blanton next asked Mr.. Ru-
dolph If there is any law which per-
mits Commissioner Fenning to have
an $1,000 fireman assigned to drive
his car. Mr.. Rudolph said there is
a. fireman also driving his car who
was on the job before he became
Commissioner and that with the job
he inherited both this fireman chauf :
feur and a broken-d down car. which
is owned by the Fire Department.
Mr.. Blanton next questioned Mr..
Rudolph if he had known anything
about Mr.. Jennings attempt to estab-
lish an all-night parking ban. Mr..
Rudolph said he did not, and then
commented, I'VE don't always agree. u
Mr.. Blanton next discussed with
Mr. Rudolph the allegation previously
exploited in the hearings, that when
Mr.. Fenning was sworn in on June
5, a week later he had ordered Traf-
fic Officer Gore be reprimanded by
Inspector Headley, and on the 18th,
he had ordered Inspector Headley
denoted, and then, after serving only
u little more than two weeks, hac