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BUYING ADS STOPS FIGHT ON BANK Sacco, Vanzetti Denied Clemency By Governor JOHN EMMONS, GALLUP, SAYS JUDGE CHANGED HOLLOMAN AGREED THAT RADICALS LOSE FIGHT TO SAVE MURDERERS TWO ITALIANS MUST DIE AUG. FRONT AFTER HE QUIT SETTLING OF SAN JUAN'S MURDER INTEREST IN POLITICS SCHOOL CASE WAS GOOD OF POLITICS, SAYS EDWARDS Attorney for Board of Education Testifies That Terms of Compromise Were Discussed; Another Witness Says Judge Refused to Grant Hearing, Saying Counsel Could Make All the Requests They Wished, But It Would Do No Good By Special Leased Wire SANTA FE, Aug. 3-That settlment was sought in the San Juan board of education case last fall for county political reasons was the admission of A. M. Edwards, an attorney for the board, at the Wednesday night session of the Hannett hearing before the board of bar commissioners. Mr. Edwards, republican, testified he received a letter from David M. Barker, an attorney at Aztec, suggesting such a course and that he had shown the letter to Judge Holloman. He testified he agreed that a settlement would be a good thing from a political standpoint, and that the judge so agreed. He testified the of replied that the case did not terms compromise suggested by Mr. originate from political reasons Barker could agreed to and that he did not to propose and he offered correspondence on settle for political the matter. that he did not think the claim Mr. Edwards said that he was legal and should not be paid. Interested in the success of the Mr. Lawson testified that at republican party and thought If one stage the controversy, settlement could be arranged when Mr. Bruington, an associate would relieve the situation counsel of the Board. went to the salary Mary Joseph Judge Holloman and asked for pay Peterson. teacher In the Sacred hearing on the peremptory writ Heart Academy. He said he con- of mandamus ordering the payferred at various times with Judge ment of the voucher for Sister Holloman in the matter and that Mary Joseph's salary, that Judge Judge Holloman was anxious for Holloman told Mr. Bruington settlement. The Barker letter that he could make all requests was written in October, previous that he wanted to. but that they to the election in 1926 would all be denied. Mr. Edwards prepared the He testified Judge Holloman answer to the writ of mandamus said he had been harassed enough issued in Judge Holloman's court in the matter and was not going against the San Juan county board to grant hearing any of education to force the payment Lawson testified he was $675 to Sister Mary Joof salary republican, but he thought after seph Peterson. teacher in Sacred investigation of the case after Heart his appointment that It was Mr. Edwards was in Aztec and not legal to pay teacher said there was considerable feel the Sacred Heart academy. He 110% over the matter and that the he was not moved by any reboard discussing refusing to ligious feeling. heed the judge's He said he The night sessior closed with came Into the case then. He ad- Mr. Lawson's testimony. but counvised that the writ be obeyed. He sel for Mr. Hannett announced the judge and that two rebuttal witnesses in the then went to see there could not be de- telephone would be put on asked judge said no. He then the stand at Thursday morning's lay. The advised the order be obeyed and the writ Issued. and was, but the voucher was held by the court until the final de- SIXTEEN MINERS termination of the case on its merits. The was heard on its case merits in the fall of 1926, but decision was reserved and was not ARE KILLED IN handed down until June. 1927. The final judgment the case by the board of agreed upon education, Mr. Edwards said. It KENTUCKY BLAST new board that had been appointed the judge under an legislature, he said. The of the judgment was for the full amount Rescuing Crews Hasten into of the Workings at Clay, Where Good for Republicans On by Mr. Many Men Are Believed Simms. he said he felt that If an to Be Trapped amicable settlement of the case could reached it would CLAY, Ky., Aug. good thing for the republican parminers reported killed late ty in the fall election and remove Wednesday in the West Kentucky disturbing factor. Coal company's mine near here, Asked If he had been on the where exactly 12 years ago 67 lost bench, If he would have decided their lives in one of the greatest the case on its legal merit or on disasters in the state. its political phase, theoretically. The explosion came late In the he said, he would have decided the afternoon as the 250 miners were on merits. partly out of the shaft and late Fred Lawson. president of the night the exact number had not San Juan County Board of Edubeen determined. but from the eation, testified that when commine. mile from here, It was repromise was suggested to him. he ported that 15 bodies had been As Soon He Put as Bank in Paper That Was Under Receivership, He Testifies, Stories About Bank Failures Ceased; dentally, H. C. Denny, Close Friend of Judge, Became Attorney for the Bank By Special Leased Wire SANTA FE, Aug. John Emmons, of the Southwestern Home Telephone company, and in the First National bank of Gallup, made peace with Gallup Herald, a newspaper run under receivership Judge Holloman's court, after the had ries of news stories about bank failures and indictments bankers and sentences to the for banking, was his testimony ednesday afterhoon in Hannett hearing before the state bar commission. Mr. Emmons testified he not only made peace the newspaper, but extended his overtures further peace in Gallup and considered that Judge Holloman, once was not friendly to his crowd, now not ly, and that H. C. Denny, Judge Holloman's close friend Gallup, has been attorney for the First National since that time.
