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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-06
CEREMONIALS
OFFICER
TO WE'D
Miss Lila Grew Engaged
to Jay Pierrepont
Moffat

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph c. Grew are
announcing today the engagement Of
their daughter, Miss Lila Cabot
Grew, to Jay Pierrepont Moffat, sec.
rotary of the American Legation in
Ottowa. Mr.. Grew, who has been
serving for several years as Under
secretary Of State, has been recently
appointed American Ambassador to
Turkey and will leave within a few
months for his new post. The mar
rage of Miss Grew and Mr.. Moffat
will take place before her fathers
departure.
Mr.. Moffat, who il the SON OF
Mrs. r. Burnham Moffat, OF New
York, was the first State Depart
ment Official to be designated as
"ceremonials officer at the White
House and was master OF cere-
monies at all official functions dur
ing the last crowded season when
Queen Marie of Rumania, the Press-
dent Of Cuba and many other Off
cial visitors were entertained. He
has recently been appointed to the
post at Ottawa and will assume his
duties there in July.
Miss Grew issvery young. She
has never been formally presented
to society. but was introduced to
her mothers friends this spring at
an informal tea.
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Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom
and Miss Vera Bloom will sail July
2 on the Leviathan to pass the sum.
mer in Europe. They will be in New
York for about two weeks before sail
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TO ANNOUNCE WINNING
SLOGAN AT LUNCHEON

Mrs. John Allan Daugherty, who
has recently become a member of
the Womans National Democratic
Club. will preside at the luncheon
on Friday at the clubhouse when
she will present the prize for the
winning slogan for the Democratic
Presidential campaign next year.
AT a recent luncheon so many
slogans were submitted that 1t was
difficult to choose the winner.
The judges making the award are
Daniel c. Roper. William B, Wilson
and Col. Stephen Bonsal.
The prize is an etching of the
tomb Of Woodrow Wilson and poem
by Huston Thompson.
Assistant Secretary of State and
Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr will go to Michi-
gan Friday for a short stay and will
return Wednesday, June Is.
A.
Mrs. Frederick C. Billiard, wife
Of Rear Admiral Billiard, command
ant of the coast guard, and Mrs.
Quincy B. Newman wife Of Cap
tain Newman, engineer-in-chief of
the coast guard, were hostesses at
the coast guard cutter Northland,
at the Navy Yard. Friday.
Luncheon was served on the
quarterback, which was attractively
decorated with the ships signal
flags. Musical selections were rem
dered by Mrs. Frederick A. Hun
newell Mrs. Wayne b. Wheeler,
Mrs. Kenneth Lord, Mrs. Cleo
Scandland Parks and Mrs. Mary
liant Couch.
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Mrs. Robert Love Taylor has gone
to Bristol, Tenn, where she will
spend the summer. She will return
to Washington in the fall and will
be at Stoneleigh Court.
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BREAKFAST AT CLUB
TO FOLLOW WEDDING

Invitations have been issued by
Mrs. William Cleveland Hicks to
the marriage of her daughter, Mar.
garet de Forest, to James Bradley
Williams, jr., at Bethlehem Chapel.
Washington Cathedral, on Thursday
June %, at 1890 o'clock. After
ward there will be a breakfast at
the Washington Club.
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Chief Justice and Mrs. William
Howard Taft will leave Washington
on Wednesday for their summer
home at Murray Bay, Canada.
Sir Joseph and Lady Hood, of
London, accompanied by their two
daughters, will arrive at the Willard
Hotel today, where they have taken
suite Of rooms.
The wedding of Miss Anne Dimon
daughter of the Rev. ]. j. Dimon,
and Frederick William Doermann,
will take place at $3.50 O'Clock this
evening in st. Andrews Church.
Mrs. Henry F. Dimock will join
her son-in.law and daughter, the
Second Counselor of the italian
Embassy, Signor Giuseppe Catalina,
and Nine. Catalina, in Connecticut
this week. Mrs. Dimock will go
later to Bar Harbor for the re-
mainder Of the summer.
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Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. Thomas w.
Holcomb started today for New
castle, Del, where they will remain
until June %. Colonel Holcomb will
then start for China, having been
detailed to replace Col. Louis Nc.
Carly Little in command of the
Marine Guard at Picking.
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ENTERTAIN GUESTS
AT RIPPON LODGE

Mr.. and Mrs. Wade H. Ellis re.
turned to their home in Massa-
chusetts Avenue this morning after
having been at Rippon Lodge. their
historic estate in Virginia since
Thursday. DIR. and Mime. Santiago
Bedoya, Of the Peruvian embassy,
and Mr.. and Nine. Hector Velarde.
son and daughter-in-law of the am.
bassador OF Peru, spent yesterday
with them. And on Saturday they
had Senator and Mrs. Oscar Under.
wood as guests at tea. The Under
woods at Woodlawn are neighbors
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis.
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ELIOTs NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY IN THE CAPITAL

Hotel, Mrs. Bell and her daughter
going to Pittsburgh for a brief visit,
where Colonel Bell VIII Join them
and will accompany them to Eaton
Ranch, Wyoming, where they will
spend the summer. Colonel Bell will
go on to San Francisco to take up
his duties with the Engineer Corps
on June %.
So
Mrs. Byford Ryan, Of Glen Cove,
Locust Valley, L. l., who arrived
on the Ryan yacht, Comet" Friday,
has been at the Carlton Hotel for the
weekend accompanied by Mrs. w.
G. Dewitt, Of New York. They left
today on the Comet" to continue
their cruise.
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SPECIAL FILM
SHOWING PLANNED

Representative and Mrs. Fred
Britten will entertain several guests,
among them the Minister of Guate.
mala and Nine. Latour and the
Charge d'Affaires of Bolivia and
Mime. de la Barra, at the special
showing Of Crime and Punish.
ment" to be held at the Wardman
Park Theater on Wednesday after
noon at $50 o'clock. The work of
the Moscow Art Players. this i'm.
pressive film is being shown under
the auspices of the Motion Picture
Guild. 1t has never before been
presented In this country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Graves will
entertain a party of six,
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TO Receive Small and
Highly Official Group
This Afternoon
By JEAN ELIOT

MRS. COOLIDGE is receiving this
Az afternoon a few guests from
the official group, who are calling
70 say goodby to the First Lady be-
fore her departure and theirs. Some
are leaving town shortly for the
summer and others to go to posts
abroad, while the President and
Mrs. Coolidge are to start next Nom
day on their long journey to the
new summer White House in the
Black Hills.
This will be the last time this
season that Mrs. Coolidge will have
opportunity to greet any Of her
friends in the small groups, which
abe enjoys receiving, and she has
been obliged to refuse many re-
quests for appointments because Of
the press Of preparations for de-
parture.
Strenuous Days
These be strenuous days at "The
Presidents House." Not only is the
packing up a considerable job, since
the President win probably not re-
turn to is Dupont Circle and the
White House impedimenta must be
divided-some things to be shipped
TO South Dakota, others to go back
60 the Executive Mansion for
storage and so on. But the task
Il pleasantly complicated by prep
arations to entertain Capt. Charles
Lindbergh, the young American
flier, whose glamorous adventure
has SO fired the imaginations of the
American people. Moreover, the
President and Mrs. Coolidge were
out Of town over the weekend and
only returned to Washington last
night from their trip to Hampton
Roads aboard the Mayflower to re-
view the fleet.
White House Guests
Captain Lindbergh and his mother
are to be guests of President
and Mrs. Coolidge at Is Dupont
Circle, during their all-too- brief visit
In Washington. And there will be
. dinner at the temporary White
House in his honor on Saturday
evening. This, with the Press Club
reception that night, and the Min
nesota Society's party win be
about the only events in connection
with the famous flier's welcome
which have social rather than
spectacular aspects.
1t is usually easy to predict the
makeup Of White House dinner
party, but there has never been
anything quite like this fete for
Captain Lindbergh, and it will be
interesting to discover just who is
to have the coveted opportunity of
dining with him Saturday as guests
Of the President and Mrs. Coolidge.
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Mrs. Coolidge AT Home Today for
Last Time Before Leaving TOWn
TO GIVE TEA
BEFORE DEPARTURE

The Belgian Ambassador and
Baroness de Cartier have issued
invitations for tea on Wednes-
day afternoon from 5 to Z o'clock
at the embassy. They will sail for
Europe June %, on the BeIgenland.
The Ambassador expects to go to
London in the autumn to take up
his duties as Belgian Ambassador
to the Court of st. James
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The German Ambassador and
Baroness Nathan will go to New
York on Wednesday. Baroness
Nathan will sail for Europe and
the Ambassador will return here
until the middle of the month,
when he will sail to join her in
Europe.
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ARTS CLUBS PLANS
FOR JUNE FETE

Many well-known Washington.
ians. prominent members Of the
Arts Club will take part in the
June fete of the club. which is set
for Thursday evening of the present
week, June 3, at the charming
estate of DIR. John Ryan Devereux
in West Bradley Lane. Chevy Chase.
Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. Lewis p.
Clephane, Mrs. Charles W. Fair.
banks, DR.. and Mrs. Paul Bartsch.
DR.. and Mrs. Louis A. Bauer, Mr..
and Mrs. Gerrit S. Miller, jr.. Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Neuhauser. Miss Lillian
NJ. Burke, William J. Peters, and
Shepherd Taylor will appear as
courtiers and ladies in waiting in
the masque "Glimpses of the
Moon" which has been especially
written for the occasion by Mrs.
Henry Hayes.
The entertainment, which Is ex-
pected to prove one Of the most
delightful al fresco parties of the
early summer will have a number
or whimsical surprises in the pro-
gram arranged by the committee of
which James Otis Porter. as chair
man, Is being assisted by Mrs.
hayes, MISS MARY "A. SFyueT, MTS.
Gideon A. Lyon, Miss Anne Ives.
Miss Caroline Mckinley, Mrs. How
ard Nyman, Mrs. Maud Howell
Smith, Mrs. William J. Peters, Miss
May Marshall, Miss Bess Davis
Schreiner, DIR. r. r. Devereaux, w.
l. Deming. F. w. Dewart, Samuel
Herrick, H. J. Staley, Glenn Madi-
son Brown, Shepherd Taylor, Paul
Blayden, Harry Angelica, Will
Hutchins, Theodore F. Cannon and
Dore Walten.
The fete will open with supper at
Z O'Clock, for which reservations are
now being made at the Arts Club
and the program will follow at half
past eight o'clock.
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Col. ]. Franklin Bell, the retiring
Engineer Commissioner of the Dis
trict, accompanied by Mrs. Bell and
their daughter, Marjorie, are leaving
tomorrow for West Point to attend
the June week festivities. Colonel
Bell will return for a few days to
his apartment at the Wardman Park
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JANE KENDALL,
CHOOSES HER
ATTENDANTS
Wedding Ceremony on
Saturday to Be
Simple

Miss Jane Kendall, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Lyman Kendall, who viii
be married on Saturday to George
Grant Mason, jr., of Tuxedo, N. z,
will have as attendants her cousin,
Miss Jessica Bays, of Hancock Nd,
who will be the maid of honor. and
Mrs. Samuel Sloan Colt, of Tuxedo,
sister of the bridegroom, who will be
n1atron of honor. The bridal party
will also include William B. Kipp,
of Tuxedo, the best man, and two
ushers, Samuel Sloan Colt and
Thomas B. Sweeney, jr., the latter of
Washington.
Only members of the two families
and friends from other cities will at.
tend the ceremony, which will be
solemnized at noon on Saturday at
Kentsdale, country home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kendall, but a company OF
guests from Washington will be
present at the wedding breakfast aft.
erward. Miss Kendall is refusing all
invitations for festivities before the
wedding, but on Friday evening Mr..
and Mrs. Kendall will give q dinner
at the Congressional Country Club
for the bridal party and the out-of-
town guests. The visitors will num-
Der nearly rs and will be put up at
the club.
Mr.. Mason, who is to be associated
with firm of aiyplane manufacture
ers, with headquarters in Havana,
had expected to go at once to his
new post and plans were being made
for an autumn wedding. However,
when contracts were signed, it de.
veloped that it would not be neces.
sary for him to take up his new du.
ties until September /, and 1t was de-
cided to advance the date of the
wedding so that the young couple
would have opportunity for a pro-
longed honeymoon. They will go to
the, West Coast, visiting California,
and the Northwest, and spending
some time in Banff and Lake Louise.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-06
CABINETEERS
LUNCHEON
HOSTS
Secretary of War Has
Party at Club; DR..
Work Host

The Secretary OF War. Dwight
Davis, entertained at luncheon today
at the Army and Navy Club, when
his guests were Gen. Charles P. Sum.
neral, chief Of staff; Gen. James H.
McRae, Gen. William Lassiter. Gen.
Dennis e. Nolan. Gen. Malin Craig,
Gen. Edwin B. Winans, Gen Dwight
E. Aultman, Gen. Preston Brown,
Gen. William D. Conner, Gen. Doug.
las Macarthur, Gen. Ernest Kinds
and Gen. John L. Hines, former
chief of staff.
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DIR. WORK HOST
AT LUNCHEON

The Secretary of the Interior, DR..
Hubert Work, entertained at lunch.
con at the Chevy Chase Club yester.
day in honor Of Col. and Mrs. NJ. A.
De Laney, Of Boston. The other
guests were Senator Francis z. War.
rem. the American Ambassador to
Cuba, Gen. Enoch Fl. Crowder; Sur.
geon Gen. and Mrs. M. w. Ireland,
Quartermaster Gen. and Mrs. B. r.
Cheatham, Col. William E. Horton,
Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. Joel T. Boone
and Capt. William J. Carroll. Col.
onel and Mrs. De Laney, who have
been the guests OF DR.. Work in his
apartment at the Wardman Park
Hotel, viii return to Boston today.
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The chief of staff, Gen. Charles P.
Summerall, and Mrs. Summerall will
entertain company of forty at din
ner this evening at the Officers Club
at the Washington Barracks.
General and Mrs. Summerall en-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-29
Did You Ever Hear of Selling a Cemetery?

years gone by to get away with the
same thing but the sales were
voided by county aauditors who
would not stand for the sale of a tax
free cemetery.
Forty years ago a group of Hun
garian Jews banded themselves to.
gether to worship their God. They
wanted a place to bring their
children up in the faith and a conse-
Grated place in which to lay their
dead to rest.
They purchased the little plot on
Bluff Rd. for the cemetery. And
there, year after year, comforted, in
the thought that in free America
this place would be inviolate, buried
their children, fathers, mothers.
Came the year 1913. Without the
knowledge of the officers of the Hun
garian church a tax title to the
cemetery ground was sold to Henry
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city Of the dead. Another attack
soon followed.
The books show the cemetery sold
for delinquent taxes to J. II. Hill
genberg for S46.SO. The price was
going up.
Fesler Blocks Sale
This. however, came to naught
when on Dec. Z, 1923, Leo K. Fesler,
then auditor, made this entry:
Void sale on account of being
church property and never taxable"
Despite these two voided sales
with written explanation that the
property was not taxable the rec
ords show that in 1925 the title in
another tax sale passed to w. C.
Foster. Chicago, for $77.49. This
was during the regime of Duvall,
the treasurer
On Feb. 10. this year. Foster as
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which disclosed the strange legal
career of the cemetery.
McFerren, shocked when Miller
laid the facts before him, said:
MY client, Mr.. Miller, did not
know that this lot was a burial
ground. On being advised of it to-
day he is filing a claim for $91.63
with the auditor to be collected from
the county treasurer. This sum
represents the original $77.49 with
interest at 6 per cent and certain
deed costs.
Under the law my client is en-
titled to 20 per cent penalty after
two years, but we are waving that. "
The Hungarian congregation re-
Gently was merged with Beth FL
Temple, but will continue to use the
cemetery for families Of the original
members.
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NJ. Hunt, indianapolis, for $4.13, &C.
cording to record.
Not An linking
Throughout all the strange pro-
ceedings which records show ensued
the Hungarian churchmen say they
never had an inkling of what was
going on until Thursday when a
great light dawned.
The record shows that Henry NJ.
Hunt failed to pay subsequent taxes
upon the cemetery and again it was
sold in a tax sale to persons listed as
Meek and Osborn"
The title then passed to w. c.
Foster. Chicago, but the record
shows the following entry:
Feb. 8, 1915. Void, used for He
brew cemetery, w. T. Patten, au-
ditor"
Thus ended the first raid upon the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-29
CREEDS Join IN
UNION SERVICES
IN CITY TONIGHT
Bishop Mcconnell, Pitts
burgh, to Address Good
VIII Meeting.

Congregations from Protestant.
Catholic, Jewish and Negro churches
will join in Good Will Meeting" in
the Armory, Pennsylvania and Wal
nut SITS, at 1880 this evening,
when Bishop Francis j. Mcconnell,
eminent Methodist churchman and
writer. will speak on THE Civic
Values of Good Will"
The meeting is under the auspices
of groups from the Indianapolis
Federation of Churches, represent
ing Protestant denominations, the
Catholic churches, Jewish congrega-
lions and Negro churches.
A half-hour's musical program by
the Technical High School or
Achestra will open the meeting. Rabbi
DM. M. FeuerIcht, Of the Indianapolis
Hebrew Congregation, will offer the
opening program. Bishop O'Connell
will be introduced by Bishop II. II.
F'out, Indiana area, United Brethren
Church. The Rev. II. l.. Herod,
pastor Second Christian Church,
Negro, will offer the closing prayer
Musical numbers will be inter
spersed by the Schola Cantorum of
IS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Elmer
Steffen, directing, and Frances b.
Spencer, as accompanies.
Member of the various denomina-
tons joined in appeals today for a
big attendance at the meeting.
1.-THE spirit of the divine injunc-
ton to Love thy neighbor as thy
self is essentially necessary in our
beloved country in order to preserve
unity of heart and purpose, said
Joseph A. MCGOWAN, layman Of the
Roman Catholic Church. Linked
with such unity is the liberty guar
anteed under our Constitution. 1t
is as reprehensible in these days to
try to divide communities by ignoble
strife as it was siXty-Seven years
ago to have attempted to divide the
North and South"
Rabbi F'euerlicht said: an this
meeting we will stand together, fig
uratively clasping hands, united in
a spirit of good will and true re-
ligion. Religion unites men; it does
not separate them. In matters of
theology men may be divided and
separated, but in matters of real
religion men are united. The basis
Y of genuine religion is good will We
d I'd more of it in our churches to-
~day. That is the object of tonight's
meeting.
DIR. Ernest N. Evans, Church Fed
Grafton secretary, said. Bishop
McConnell's visit to Indianapolis is
in the interest of good will among
citizens of the city. Differences of
opinion, business competition, po-
litical loyalties, can be most intense,
vet brotherly. 1t is in this spirit
only that difficult problems among
people can be solved"
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Even the dead can't rest in peace
when some politicians go after fees.
Take the case of the seventy-iive
dead in the Hungarian Ohev Zedeli
cemetery. Kelley st. and Bluff Rd.
The law says that church property
from which no profit is derived is eX-
empt from taxation. The cemetery
is said by lawyers to fan within this
category.
But when Mayor John L. Duvall
was county treasurer in 1925, the
records show that this cemetery was
sold right off the dead bodies for
the sum Of $77.49, listed as de
linquent taxes The treasurer re-
ceives a percentage of delinquent
taxes he collects.
Two Other Attempts
Furthermore. the records show,
two other county treasurers tried in
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signed the cemetery to Leroy B.
Miller, 1877 N. Delaware st. Miller,
ignorant that he had bought a
cemetery with seventy-five bodies in
it, later had his attorney, E. E.
McFerren, 1908 National City Bank
Bldg, write to the Hungarian Ohev
Zedek congregation, serving notice
that unless $161.S2 was paid, suit
would be instituted to dispossess.
The S161.S2 represents the principal
plus a 20 per cent penalty and
certain fees.
Letter Is Found
This letter was delivered to the
cemetery ten days ago, and laid
there until Wednesday evening when
a passerby found it. He took it to
William 3. Miller. 502 Lemcke Bldg.
attorney for the congregation,
Thursday.
This started the investigation
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dated April ., declared the defend
ant offered him $4,000 and a city
hall job if he would vote against
indictment of Mayor Duvall.
Prosecutor Remy presented mo-
ton to discharge the grand jury to
Judge Collins April IA, basing the
request on Acheys affidavit.
Achey, in his statement, said Ar
mitage told him he had" two ether
members of the jury but needed a
third. Achey swore to the fact that
Armftage said he was representing
Duvall in the transaction.
Citation Recommended
Judge Collins delayed hearing on
the motion until the following Mon
day. Then he read a statement in
which he recommended citation of
Armitage for contempt of court as
the proper manner for handling the
alleged bribery situation.
Collins appointed Hoffman and
Johnson special deputy prosecutors
to assist Remy and Deputy William
II. Sheaffer. Remy then filed the
information on which the court cited
Arnitage.
Last week, when Armitage was
brought into court to answer as to
whether or not he was guilty for
contempt of court, he pleaded not
guilty and his attorney, Eph Inman,
f,,,y.,adinfo1tr 61n1 n Y.nfffinYN n clr In q
dismissal of the. case on the grounds
that all statements were falsehoods.
Collins overruled the motion.
Politicians SubpOenaed
Wednesday. Inman tried again to
have the case dismissed on the
grounds that the statements made by
Achey were untrue, but Collins re-
fused to consider the answer to the
information.
In the list of seventy-three wit
nesses the defense has called several
present and former politicians of In.
dianapolis. including two former
mayors, the former police and fire
chief. the grand jurors and others.
With the trial under way, persons
who have followed the situation since
the probe originally went into the
hands of an inactive grand jury last
fall, are fearful the statute of limita-
tions will run out on many of the al
legged crimes. The statute provides
that unless the case is prosecuted
within two years after the alleged
irregularities are said to have oc-
CURED it automatically dies.
Irregularities RumOred
According to rumors at the court
house. many events connected with
the primaries of May, 1925 has been
considered by the jury. Possible
prosecution of these Irregularities
will fade within the next month.
When the motion to discharge the
jury was before the court and moth
ing had been done in the matter by
Collins, The Times revealed that
Acheys name and that of Juror
! James F.. Chamberlain did not APP
pear on the tax and assessors lists