Evening star., 1924-10-04
TICKET SCALPERS
REAP|NC HARVEST
Eager Fans Pay Well Over
S100 for Single Series
Admittance Cards.

| Recovering from temporary set
| hack yesterday afternoon at the
hands of the local police. ticket
| SCalperS in the downtown section
We're doing a rushing business today
| with eleventh-hour customers who
| had been frustrated in their attempts
| to get tickets to the world series
| from regular sources.
And as the demand for the fancy
Colored cardboard strips increased
with the rapid approach of game
time this afternoon the scaIpers
asked and got almost any price they
pleased. Grandstand tickets sod for
three figures in many Instances and
even pavilion tickets SCARED to SIM
liar figures.
In "scalpers' row" on Pennsylvania
avenue between Twelfth and -Thir-
teenth streets, brokers registered as
such by the United States Govern
ment passed out the treasured tickets
to willing purchasers and wrapped
the redbacks and greenbacks received
aroung huge rolls of currency.
Must Split With L. =.
Nobody knew today, probably not
even the brokers themselves just how
much money these men had taken in,
although deputy collectors of internal
revenue kept check of the sales as
they were made for later tabulation
and taxing. Every broker was re-
quired to split his profits $3.50 with
the Treasury Department. under the
revenue law of 1924
The scalpers. received a sudden
shock yesterday afternoon from
which they did not fully recuperate
until several hours later. when Cor
poration Counsel Francis II. Stephens
authorized the Washington Police
Department to arrest every person
selling tickets at prices above that
established by the ball club officials
AS soon as word of this unexpected
step reached revenue officials, how
ever, they announced that the blanket
order was unsupported by the law,
and in a little while they sent a
delegation of representatives to the
District to SO inform local officials
Order Is Repealed.
Repeal of the order, under which
two brokers had already been arrest
ed, accordingly resulted. and in it's
place was issued an order that the no
lice arrest only persons selling the base
ball tickets on the street or in other
public places, in violation of the local
police regulations.
The revenue bureau meanwhile got
busy and took into custody several
men who were charged with selling
tickets at a profit without having
registered with the bureau or having
marked the new selling price on the
ticket, SO that the government could
receive its share of the profit None
of the regular ticket brokers were
offenders in this respect, officials said,
as they had a Wellplanned system of
stamping their names and the selling
prices on the backs of the cards, in
compliance with the law
Five Are Arrested.
Those arrested under the short
lived police order yesterday after
noon and released on bail were
Charles 7. Barnett, who had set UP a
stand in store at 1915 Pennsylvania
avenue, and Leon Cantor of Brooklyn,
n. Y, another BROKER" With these
arrests the other houses" suspended
operation temporarily, but resumed
with renewed vigor when word was
received of the lifting of the ban by
the police.
Corporation Counsel Stephens said
today he was looking up the statutes
in connection with these arrests The
trials of the pair will be deferred
meanwhile.
Three men later were arrested and
charged with having violated section
500 of the revenue act of 1924, re-
quiring that brokers register for pay
ment of taxes. They gave their
names as Reid Wellington Diggs, "a,
of 1748 X street; John Churchill
Dane, 3S, 4024 Illinois avenue, and
James Noble Edelin, so, of 1852 Oak
| street. Dane and Diggs were released
! on 500 collateral each and Edelin on
$500 collateral.