Northcott Jury S
Without Any W
elected
omen on It
COURT ROOM. Riverside. Calif.
Jan. 10. (AP) While a commis
sion of alienists deliberated re
garding hig sanity. Gordon Stew
art Northcott today aw his hope
of a Jury including ?JrWathetic
women," frustrate $$Tufy of 12
men was accept4?&Uth a few
minutes after thaiagT'of 10 wo
men members offfMal Tenire
of 30 men and wooutB had been
excused. Six days had been con-
sumed In aelectionofthe jury and
in futile attempts by Xorbert
Savay, Northcott' chief counsel,
to force an insanity trial for his
client and to rem ore the case to
another county on ground of pre-
" Judlce.
Northcott is charged with lay
Lewie and Nelson Wlnslow and a
Mexican J ad, unamed.
The insanity angle of the case,
stressed from the start by Savay,
was due for legal settlement with
in a short time as two alienists
appointed by Superior judge
George R. Freeman commenced
examination of Northcott this af
ternoon. Dr. G. M." Webster of
Patton, Calif.,! and Dr. W B.
Wells, chief or the Riverside coun
ty health staff, interviewed North
cott in private for a brief time to
day. 1
The alienists were named tn met
for the court at the request of Sa-
Tay who declared the defense
without funds to hire, It sown
exports. '
, The more followed . failure of
. Savay's attempt to enter a plea
or "not-guilty by reason of rihf
sanity.'Vfor Northcott tn &MHinri
t ;io tn Rai0f "not guilty." already
made. The! commission will sub
mit a written report to Judge
Freeman, who will in due course
make it public as it affects the
procedure of the case. Should the
alienists find Northcott sane un
der the law Savay's last opportun
ity to halt nrocednre of the nres-
ent trial will have fled, prosecu
tion attorneys believed.
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TAX ISSUE SOLVED
TACOMA. Jan. 10. (API A
A question of considerable impor
tance to all banker-national and
state, reached the supreme court
today in a case from Idaho asking
the highest tribunal to determine
when banks can escape federal
taxes on worthless and uncollec
tible loans. -
The case was filed by Leslie J.
Aker. of Boise, in behalf of the
commissioner of finance of that
state In charge of settline the af
fair of the Citizens State Bnk of
Buhl. Idaho, while the Question of
taxation was brought up in con
nection with the case in a netition
signed by Attorney-General Steph
en, ot Idaho, and Charles Evans
Hughes. , T
In the present case the bank
'was asserted ! to , have ma,deworth-less-
loans to .insolvent borrowers
without ooUiniiig janjp security V
"under circumstances Involving
misafiDlicatton rf th h'onk'i fm4a
'and constitotlng constructive m-H
GRID PUIIS
TO Mf IE SELF
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. (AP)
grand jury investigation of itself
and other city affairs under the
jurisdiction of its members will
be ' asked soon as a result of a
meeting of the Tacoma council-
men sitting this afternoon as
committee of the whole. All four
councilmen and Mayor M. G. Ten-
nent vote dto request the grand
jury inquiry.
The grand jury is looked for
ward to to clear up charges of po
lice graft and corruntion as made
by officers and members of the
Tacoma ministerial federation and
other serious charges of corrup
tion in the city hall which began
to be heard with the call for bids
for a contract for the private col
lection of -garbage several months
ago. The city late last week took
over the collection of garbage.
Attempting to rescue a com
panion who had broken through
the ice on a pond at Cranford,
N. J., Norman S. Hall, noted all
around athlete.; and Yale track
captain and football star, drown-'
ed when ice brake under him.
Ball had rescued a girl just a
few minutes before. Photo shows
.Hall on crutches, having been in
jured playing football
Amundsen's Life
Buoy is Washed
I Ashore, Report
OSLO, Norway, Jan. 10. (AP)
A life buoy marked "Latham
Paris" was washed ashore today
on the western side of North Cape
in the province of Flnmarken.
Roald Amundsen and fice com
panions last June 18 began a
flight in a French Latham plane
to Spitsbergen from where they
were to search for the missing
members of the General Nobile
expedition. The last report of the
plane was received by a radio sta
tion at 7 o'clock that night.
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