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day. then or TUESDAY EVENING Dakland Tribune FEBRUARY 17, 1925 3 EX-GOVERNOR OF HAWAII TESTIFIES IN SUGAR BATTLE Walter F. Frear Called to Stand in Hackfeld Suit After Trent Testimony. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17.

Walter F. Frear, former governor of Hawaii, was called to the ness stand today upon the retirement of Richard H. Trent after 40 days of testimony in the litigation over the Hackfield sugar properties. Frear was counsel for the lingham organization that sought. reorganize the affairs the German company during the war.

Trent's banking house in Honolulu was the repository for the alien property custodian during the war. and he had a prominent part in the reorganization of the Hackfield interests- into American Fac-' after the Dillingham organization had ceased to function. Stockholders in the Hackfield company are suing Trent a Yap Dime Weighs 60 Pounds, Value Less Than Nothing TOKYO, Feb. down Island never throw away their money. The reason probably because it would break a hammer-thrower's back even to lift a dime.

Yap dollar, the biggest and most worthless coin in the world, is now exhibition in Tokyo. It is a neat little coin, five feet three inches wide in one direction, four feet three inches in another, and is chiseled about out six of inches limestone and has a hole in the center. It would make good as A grindstone on any Iowa farm. It weighs about 500 pounds. we resident When of Yap or Island is whatever called a -withts to spend a dollar he gets few friends to help him, runs "a pole through the center of his stone "buck" and rolls away with his money.

If he has any change coming the friends come in handy to help him carry it home; for, a Yap dime, although only a small affair, is apt to prove bit cumbersome if one has to carry It far. group of wealthy sugar men of San Francisco and Honolulu for 000,000, alleging that their property was sold to competitors with such a loss under the trading with the enemy act. Spring, 1925 Silk Dresses of Greatest Appeal $25:00 and $29.50 For Evening Chiffon Dinner Lace Dancing Printed Crepes Afternoon Street and Flat Crepes Sport Satins Wear Smart styles, delightful color combinations and wonderful fabrics. Costume Slips for straight line frocks. Costume slips made in simple tailored stvlea to wear under the season's correct frocks: Baronet Satins $4.50 Radium $3.95 Tricosham $2.95 Lingette $1.95 Mostacheng 517 Fourteenth Street IN A EN ZEN IN A EN AN ASHBY STORE- WIDE CLEARANCE of All Odds and Ends and One-of-a-kind Suites BEGINS THURSDAY, FEB.

19 SEE OUR ANNOUNCEMENT IN TOMORROW'S TRIBUNE The FURNITURE Ashby Adeline and Alcatraz WOMAN RELATES TRIPLE TRAGEDY ON SONOMA ROAD Mrs. Ronk Says Montgomery Killings Came on Eve of Reconciliation Plan. SANTA ROSA, Feb. of the double homicide and suicide which closed the lives of Mrs. Ruth Montgomery, Verner Ronk, and Samuel R.

Montgomery, wealthy San Francisco automobile dealer, were related today by Mrs. Ronk in the hospital where she is recovering from a bullet wound inflicted by the crazed husband. Mrs. Ronk said the shooting on the Sonoma highway near here. Sunday came just before a reconciliation between Montgomery and his wife was to have been effected.

Husband and wife, with their attorneys, were to have met yesterday for the purpose of settling the differences which had separated them, she said. "Mrs. Montgomery had separated from her husband and was visiting with my husband and me," said Mrs. Ronk. "We were returning from our ranch at Wildwood Sunday afternoon where the shooting had occurred.

Mr. Montgomery had visited our home in the morning and had quarreled with his wife because she would not return to him then. "Just Ag we were approaching Santa Rosa in our automobile we heard a machine coming from the rear. Montgomery drove alongside and crowded our machine to the side of the road. He jumped to our machine, tore back the curtains and shot and his wife.

My husband cried 'What's the killed, Instantly Montgomery turned the revolver on him. When I cried out he went around the machine, dragged me out and shot me. "He was just going to shoot me again when I defied him. He lowered the gun, sat down and cried. Then he heard someone coming and placed the gun to his head and shot himself." A coroner's jury last night returned a verdict of double homicide and suicide.

Montgomery has a 12-year-old daughter by a former marriage who is now living with her grandmother in Los Angeles. Wife Denies Love for Rival in Cross-Suit Denial that she is in love, with Claude Va nPatten and has 6 eXpressed adesire to marry him and have hi madopt her children 80 they will not remember their father, is made by Mrs. Resalma Niels in 211 answer to the crosscomplaint filed by the husband. Robert A Nielas. Mrs.

Nielas first filed suit for divorce charging her husband with violent rages during which he would strike her. Both are asking custody of the children. Robert. 4, and Bessie, and the wite wants $150 a month intenance. Women Voters Plan Benefit Card Party A St.

Patrick's Day benefit card party, accommodating 400 guests, will be given in the ivory balroom of Hotel Oakland Tuesday. March 17 under the auspices of the Oakland League of Women Voters. Mrs. J. Walter Scott has been ap-, pointed chairman of the general arrangements by committee on Mrs.

F. Turner, president. Asmisting Mrs. Scott will be Mrs. Thomas A.

Crellin. Mrs. Charles Leonard Smith, Mrs. Thomas Mitchell Porter. Within days the complete personnel of all will be Accuses Baron This is BARONESS JOHANNA VON STUR, who filed suit in Chicago asking divorce from her titled Austrian spouse.

She says he gave her 23 cents while she was starving in -P A photo. photo 2 U. S. ARMS POLICY WORRIES LEAGUE BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE GENEVA, Feb. The United States was again the center of discussion today at the meeting of the League of Nations committee on disarmament, called to decide whether the time had arrived to convene an international conference on control of private manufacture of arms.

The discussion was the result of a statement made last night by Ronald McNeill British under -secretary for foreign affairs, at a secret session The statement was not given to the press, but according to reports ohtained through conference delegates its purport was that it would be impossible to negotiate an effective convention without the Gollaboration of such a big producing and exporting country as the United States: furthermore, that he (McNeill) was afraid that the legislation of some of the individual states of the American Union would not permit the United States government to join in the Geneva program for control of the private manufacture of arms. Leon Joubaux, the French labor leader, referring to McNeill's statement, said nobody. wanted the United States to change its constitution: all that was desired was that the American government should hold out its hand in collaboration. Japan, Italy and Sweden joined with Great Britain in urging the abandonment of all idea of con voking an international conference 10 this end until the the conference for the conclusion of control of the traffic in arms, to be held in May. No vote was taken.

The question was judged so serious a one that the committee of the council of the of Nations, which forms a part of the disarmament commission, decided hold a private this afternoon and endeavor to find a solution. Man Says Wife Made Him Wallflower Robert L. Miller complains that his wite. Elizabeth, forced him to a at dances, in a suit for divorce he has on file toHe says he would take his wife to dances at her request and she would refuse to dance with him let him dance with any bther woman but she would dance with other men. He also conplains that his wife neglected the house and refused to have meals at regular hours, and declared that he was a "fool' and she was throuhg with him.

The Miller home Is at 84 Yosemite avenue. They were married March 6, 1924 and separated February 6. last. JUDGE THREATENS TO ASK PROBE IN GUARDIAN CASE Daughter Tells Story of Turning Property Over to Salesman. "TI the further testimony to be presented to me next week bears the hearing today I shall call this matter to the attention of the district attorney," said Superior Judge George Samuels today in commenting on the hearing held before him for the appointment of 3.

guardian for Anna Dutton, an alleged incompetent person. Two petitions for appointment are on file. In the first, filed by her attorney, G. Bradford, the Bank of Italy is sought Ag the' guardian of the property, which is understood to total about $15,000. In the second, which was filed by her father.

Charles Dutton, the court is. asked to name the Mercantile Trust Company. The. daughter's petition charges her father with attempting to coerce her, with usurping rights over her property, with frightening and attempting to intimidate her. with assuming a threatening attitude, with threatening to sell her home, at 1733 Hearst avenue, Berkeley.

It was the father's petition and affidavit which brought into the case the element which Judge Samuels threatens to have investigated. The father contends that his only attitude has been that of exercising a restraining influence upon the daughter to keep her from wasting her property. STOCK PURCHASE TOLD. In support of this contention Miss Dutton was placed on the stand and testified that some time ago a stock salesman called at her house and persuaded her to subscribe for a considerable block of stock in the Citizens' Mortgage he Company. Later he returned and she signed still another application for stock in the same company.

She also testified that three weeks after their first meeting she gave the salesman a power of attorney to manage her property affairs. The result of this, the court was told partly by the witness and partly by Attorney Elmer E. Nicholls, who appeared for the father, that the man placed a mortgage of $3500 on the home, applied a fart of the money on the stock sales and kept more than $1000 for his personal use. Miss Dutton received no receipt or other acknowledgment of this loan, she testified. She said that she gave the salesman the money because he told her he had to have it to keep out of jail.

SALESMAN DECLARED GONE. The girl's father testified that this affair cost her in the neighborhood of $2060, as she traded some valuable sugar stock for other stocka which the salesman persuaded her to invest Dutton also declared that the only talk of the sale of the home was his offer to purchase it with the understanding that his daughter should have a home with him throughout her life without further cost to her Nichols stated that the salesman stranger in Berkeley and that he" has since disappeared, after promising to go to his "home in the north" and there secure funds to reimburse Miss Dutton. Nothing has been hear rom him since his departure, ac ting to his attorney, Chris Fox. Judge Samuels continued the matter until next Monday for further hearing. E.

A. Whitaker Dies After Long Illness E. A. Whitaker. Oakland real estate man, died this morning nt Fabiola hospital following a long illness.

Born at Homestead. Pennaylvania, in 1837, Whitaker moved west and for number of years had large cattle interests in Montana and Utah. In 1882 he came to Oakland and entered the real estate business. Whitaker is. survived by a widow.

Mrs. Margaret Whitaker, and six sons. Charles William Earle Wesley Arthur A. and Richard all living in California. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Telegraph avenue.

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