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Show JUDGE DAYTON CASE IS MOVING SLOWLY WASHINGTON. Feb. 24. Jlore wit-nesses wit-nesses teslificd today before the house Judiciary subcommittee investigating charges against Federal Judge Dayton of West Virginia. Charles M. Showalter of Parkersburg. W. Va., told how two Italians had been indicted, convicted and sentenced to the maximum penalty as white slavers In the judge's court all in cie day. The judge, he complained, called a Jury "a chicken-hearted chicken-hearted bunch" when they acquitted a woman charged with white slavery. A. C. Fu.mer, a coal operator of Akron. Ohio, told how he had agreed to let Judge Davton arbitrate, privately, accounts between be-tween himself and David F.lkins, a ton of the former West Virginia senator. Although Al-though the case had been in court four years, Fulmer said, the Judge gave a decision de-cision to Klkins in ten days. |