Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20
FLAT DENIAL MADE
+ TO MOBILES CHARGE
IN CALHOUN REPLY
Joint Statement DiSavoWS
Use of Trust Funds to
Buy Home Site.
FOLLOWS SCULPT0R'S
PLEA FOR INJUNCTION
Property Declared Purchased With
Proceeds of Sales of Val
liable Holdings.

Capt. and Mrs. Clarence G. Calhoun
today fatty denied that they had used
trust funds of the Woman's Universal
Alliance, or any other organization, in
the purchase of property known as
Braemer Forest and the erection of
their home thereon, as charged by w.
Clark Noble, well known local sculptor,
in counter suit filed against the CAL
nouns late yesterday in the District SUI
preme Court.
Noble, his wife and three others are
under indictment for an alleged con-
spiracy to blackmail the Calhouns in q
case centering around the Mothers
Memorial Foundation and have filed
pleas in abatement attacking the validi-
ty OF the grand jury which indicted
them. The sculptor's latest move yes
terday was taken. to obtain an injunc-
ton against the CalhounS, the Universal
Alliance, formerly known as the Wom-
ans Universal Alliance, and the foun.
dation to secure an accounting in ref
erence to funds alleged to have been
collected for the establishment of q
memorial to motherhood.
Joint Denial Ia Filed.
The Calhouns, in q joint denial de-
clared there is not one scintiIla of
truth" IN the statements set forth in
the injunction suit, which reviews the
controversy over the proposed memorial
and asks the court to order the sale of
the Maryland property and residence of
the Calhouns and the use of the pro-
ceeds to pay Mobiles claim for balance
OF $4,000, which he says is still due
him for his work.
With reference to the alleged use of
the trust funds, Capt and Mrs. CAL
houn said:
There was not the slightest reason
Tor us to use the funds of the alliance
or OF any other organization, as we were
enabled to bear the expenses incident to
the purchase of this property and the
erection OF our home from sales Of vaIll-
able business property, including the
branch post office on Fourteenth street
interest In the Western Electric Build
ing, our residence at 1919 New Hamp-
shire avenue and very valuable resi-.
oenceS In Princeton, N. j., and Charles
ton, s. O., which were owned by us.
There were no available funds of any
character belonging to the Womans Uni
Versal Alliance or the Mothers Memo
rial Foundation which could have been
ssed Tor this purpose, as shown by the
statement of Wayne Kendrick, certified
pubic accountant, auditor for the Dis
tr1ct OF Columbia and auditor for those
organizations, which statement has re-
Gently been published in the daily press
The auditors statement further
shows and the facts disclose that more
than two-thirds of the money spent in
getting the work of those Organizations
before the public was advanced out of
our private funds, for which we have
never been reimbursed.
Declares Own Funds Used.
Furthermore, the auditors statement
shows and the facts disclose that dur
ing the period when Mr.. Mobiles design
was being presented to the public
through literature describing it SUFFICIENT
FUNDS were not received to pay for the
postage and clerical service of its dis
tribution. We have a written statement
from the man who managed the presen-
tation Of Mr.. Mobiles design stating this
fact, and, In addition, we advanced the
money out Of our private funds for this
most unproductive campaign.
AT the urgent request of Mr.. Noble,
the executive committee of the Wom-
ans Universal Alliance accepted his de-
sign for the purpose of illustration
only according to the text of the reso-
luton offered by Judge Charles Kerr of
the Department of Justice, as appears
In the minutes of the meeting. This
was done with the distinct understand
ing that the alliance would incur no
obligation to Mr.. Noble therefor and
with the promise on his part to finance
the campaign, which he failed to do in
every particular. Mr.. Noble stated at
the time that the publicity would be
worth $500, 900 to him, the collection Of
which will-o'-the-wiSp he has been
ardently chasing ever since.
"As to his suggesting to us the idea
of a memorial to motherhood, news
paper clippings and printed addresses
show that the idea had been dissem-
mated through the country by us more
than two years before Mr.. Noble claims
that we met him.
Welcome Investigation.
Gas Mr. Noble himself admits, he
had no contract of any kind at any
time with the Woman's Universal Al
lance, the Mothers Memorial Founda-
ton, or with us individually He with
drew his own design from us within q
few months when there was no public
response to the campaign in which 1t
was used for illustration. After doing
this he made an announcement to this
effect in the public press.
Mr.. Mobiles attorneys and repre-
sentatives have been invited to examine
the records of the alliance and the
Mothers Memorial Foundation, to as
certain II anything Is due to Mr. Noble.
AAACy AuNC 4AAoAObCIltAy anu PCISlSJCIlbly
declined to do so. We have no fear
Of an investigation of the records If the
court should hold that he were en-
titled to 1t.
"As to Mr.. Mobiles statement that
no one was authorized to act for him,
we hold a written statement signed
by him and his wife at the time the
So-called blackmail investigation was
being made authorizing one of the
parties to represent them in obtaining
money from us. This representative
was afterwards indicted with them.
'As to any retarding of Mr.. Mobiles
own monument idea to women, accord
ing to his statement, he had had it
about q quarter of q century before
he met us, without any apparent ma
terial results.
''Mr. Noble attempts to confuse the
two memorial ideas. The difference is
that his was the dead, non-utilitarian
monument to womanhood q the past.
ours is a living temple OK service to
and for motherhood Of the past, present
and future.
I'VE have contributed largely of our
time, ability and means, with Scant re-
ward. except the consciousness of an
honest endeavor to further a great cause
and ideal for the benefit Of our fellow.
men, and shall continue to carry on,
in spite of all obstacles"