St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 31, 1925
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Se eg Toad hood SMT Pe CONS i> Py ; ng - vee Beg ee own vie tg Pha tig’ , : : alee Saar a ‘ SSeS 2 as Se al ee tt . £ > im Sale ets RE ‘ a PR ee ee ac os So ie a ac ; a aaa al pee “gs Se te — . - POTATO SHORTAGE . : — a “a = — 4 he: yy Se Qa ee Md a a Wee ee a © ae me lcd dan’ ~ Rea Wore es Bats 2s | FORBES READY TO CARRY APPEAL TREE CL Former Director of ‘U. 5. ULE RUSSEL BY THE PRESIDE -RWER BLOC FE ; ‘oolidge Tells Senate » mittee 5-Year Provis Convicted in Veterans’ Bureau Conspiracy JOHN W. THOMPSON. Grand Jury Recommends Spe- cial Detail to Investigate In- creasing Casualties. | practically as clear as at night. No A recommendation that a spe- eee Press, fading was noticed until about §|cial police squad be assigned tothe; “‘~™'™ Alaska, Telegrams and letters thus far, received show that special broad- Veterans’ Bureau and Wealthy St. Louis Con- tractor Guilty of F raud _ Conspiracy. ‘MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL THE NEXT STEP Verdict Based on Testi- mony of E. H. Mortimer That He Paid Forbes $5000. as Agent of Thompson. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Col. Charles RR. Forbes, former director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and John W. Thompson, St. Louis contractor, were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the Govern- ment in contracts for soldiers’ hos- pitals by a Federal jury, which ‘took 12 ballots and deliberated five hours here last night. Their attorneys at once moved for a new trial and indicated the case would be carried, if necessary, to the United States Supreme Court. Hearing On the new trial motion was set by Judge George A. Carpenter for Feb. 4. Sentence Was reserved pending disposal of the motion. The maximum penalty is two years’ imprisonment and a $10,000 fine or either. The first nine ballots stood 9 to 8 for conviction; the next two stood 10 to 2, and the end of 10 weeks’ of testimony and argument came on the twelfth. Principal Overt Act Charged. The principal overt act charged by the prosecution to have been committed in this district was the alleged payment of $5000 cash to Forbes by Elias H. Mortimer, chief prosecuting witness, in the Drake Hotel here June 20, 1922. Morti- | mer said he paid the money as Thompson's agent. ) aged Crop From South Donegal to Kerry Also Ruined Peat Supply. By P. J. KELLEY. Dublin Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch and the New York World. DUBLIN, Jan. 30.—The generally bad economic state of the Irish Free State finds its most acute ex- pression in the western and south- western seaboard territory where distressed conditions bordering on famine prevail. This, extending from South Done- gal to Kerry, British regime a congested district, suffers from Ireland this area is the first to flect the setback. A wet summer and worse autumn re- the jury filed in to ask the Court eoncerning its right to consider overt acts committed beyond the jurisdiction of the trial Court, stroyed the suppty of peat, neces- sary for fuel. with little food and no means of for the houses. To describe the condition as one of famine is an exaggeration, bur it is only one step removed. Politics in Relief Work. . Several agencies are active in re- tion in the Irish press are being followed by a republican appeal for relief funds. This is regarded ¢ompletion of all adopted pro within five years, must be stri out, and, as a result, the bloc” in Congress believes it . been double-crossed., The President’s position made known yesterday by a House spokesman, who pointed that passage of the bill, 7 stands, would take from the B » garding a five-eyar dent jurisdiction of the b and would make it mandator the Director o the Budgef agree to rivers and harbors ap priations of more than $60,006 annually. It. was made clear that obje¢ to the provision originated the Director of the Budget ang President and not in Congress was intimated that the Presi was prepared to veto the b the @mrovision was not withd Not to Affect the Ohio, Whether the President's ger ultimatum means that the ado projects on the Mississippi Missouri Rivers shall not be ¢ pleted in five years is not kne » for the spokesman stated that instructions to the Senate Ww not stop the five-year progra the Ohio River projects. spokesman had no information program the Mississippi and Missouri Ri The five-year program for * Ohio river was part of the am » ment Representative * Newton (Rep.) had read ¥ » bill last spring. ' provided that all the adopted Clevelan into This amend “ects on the three rivers shou » completed five years after pé been double-crossed of the act. and was entirely arate from the section to the President obiected. James E. Smith of St. IT president of the Mississippi V Association, was inclined to be that the Newton amendment escape presidential eliminatio was afraid Congress might o to partiality to the valley rive Bloc Double-Crossed., " believes since was an understanding that, f bloe wonld consent to a redu fram $54.000.000 to $46,000,900 rivers and harbors items in th propriation bill, the authoriz “river bloc’ The © bill for $239.151.000 would hav i administration's support. The authorization bill passed the House with an whelming majority but stru anae in the Senate Commerce § mittee when Chairman Wesl | Jones of Washington said the year completion provision have to be stricken out. The Congressmen thought sure © could have secured $54.000.0 -* $243,000,000. ' the army appropriation bill if _ had been willing to fight fe ' They preferred. however, to promise on $40,000.000 and © tain of the authorization me There is considerable , whéther the "river bloc” will f | a determined fight for the five ' provision, as many members that more is to be gained by ting approval of the project © session amd fighting for a five amendment in next Congress, the bloc will be stronger than $204,.000,000 of Projects, The adopted projects to Would cost $204,000,000. If pending authorization pill is the amount would be _ rat The White FE spokesman pointed out that” ' 1s an additional annual 1 Mance charge of approxim $20,000,000. With these ff » the annual rivers and harbo . Propriation under the fiva ® clause would have to be $68, 6 000. Many Congressmen, a whom are Edward E. Denisc Illinois and Newton of M favor a bond issue for comp of the projects within five y Representative Stephen ef Pennsylvania introduced @ last session for such an issue would follow the precedent | Panama Canal! financing. DP | said he believed that eliminat _ the five-year clause in the
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