Evening star., 1927-10-10
AUTO RECIPROCITY
WAR IS DELAYED
Quiet Prevails in Vienna Sec
tor As Court Waits for
ReinforCementS.

# Formal opening of the much
heralded automobile reciprocity war
scheduled for today in the Vienna
Va, sector, was postponed until to
morrow by Justice of the Peace James
Allen when expected reinforcements
from Richmond failed to show up.
+. Edward ]. McDermott, State officer
/. assigned, is understood. to ''clean up
I the District of Columbia tag situation
sin northern Virginia." sent word he
I would be on hand tomorrow, summons
Il book and all. ready to arrest all
I offenders against Virginia's registra-
II tion laws.
d In the mea ntime word was received
I. here today by the Board of Trade
< from Gov. Byrd that a Cancellation
Il conference" between District and Vir-
I. ginia officials would be acceptable to
I him, and that he would be glad to
/. meet a Washington delegation next
/ Thursday or Friday.
+ Plan Farley on Thursday.
I, The Board of Trade is arranging to
hold the conference next Thursday
,'afternoon at o'clock. The District
Commissioners will be asked to attend
.as official representatives of the local
! government. Representative of the
!, Board of Trade, the Chamber of Com
3merce and the Merchants and Manu-
i'facturerS' Association are expected to
{. take part in the parley.
L Officials of the Board of Trade ar
ranged the conciiiation meeting in the
belief that personal conference would
iron out the MISUNDERSTANDING that
appear to have arisen as a result of
.the recent ruling of the Virginia attor-
ney general that District trucks and
I time Virginia residents must carry
I Virginia tags.
/ Edwin C. Graham, president of the
/. trade board, will lay the matter before
ithe Commissioners and request them
to go to Richmond Thursday or send
authorized representatives. Commits
sioner Dougherty, on learning of the
boards movement today, is said to
have indicated he would delegate Traf-
I fic Director Harland as an official
observer" for the District.
The breach that has developed be-
tween Judge Allen and two of his as
sociates on the bench over trial of
number of preliminary tag cases
widened today when Judge Allen an.
nounced, graphically, that he was "go-
ing to see about" the action of JUS
tice of the Peace H. Carlin Cockrell
/ in retrying two of the cases and re-
mitting fines assessed by Allen.
Justice Seems Peeved.
Judge Allen refused to be quoted
as to what he thought of Judge Cock
rell's action, explaining that what he
did about it would speak for itself.
He evidenced great displeasure over
his associates move, however.
. Judge Cockrell. in granting a new
trial Saturday night to T. T. Taylor
of the T. T. Taylor Co., builders, of
this city, held that Judge Aliens con-
viction of Taylor was a miscarriage
of justice and the defendant was
found not guilty, on the grounds that
the warrant should have been served
on the company and not on a member
of the firm as an individual. In any
event, Judge Cockrell declared, the
fining of Taylor was unjustif1ed in
view of the fact that Allen let another
defendant, II. C. Ayers, go without
fine, although the charges were
similar to those in the Taylor case.
Cockren previously had retired the
case Of H. d. Davidson, arrested on a
similar charge, and RENTED his fine
In accordance with the precedent set
in the Ayers case.
As result Of the controversy among
the judges it now appears that Judge
Allen will have to direct the tag war
without the judicial cooperation of
Judge Cockrell or the third associate,
Justice Clifton Laughlin.
CockreI's Attitude.
Judge CockrelI has made it plain
that he does not approve of any ''reci.
procity war;" and has indicated his
intention Of "wiping his hands of the
whole affair."
Officer McDermott will be here in
Vienna tomorrow to begin arresting
violators Of the registration laws"
Judge Allen said today. He couldn't
get here today. I'm going to try these
cases myself"