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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
JACOB SHAPIRO
DENIES CHARGES
Real Estate Operator Enters
Plea of Not Guilty to
Indictments.

A plea of not guilty was entered to-
day by Jacob Shapiro, president of the
Joseph Shapiro Realty Co., when he
was arraigned before Chief Justice
Wheat in Criminal Division / on two
indictments charging false pretenses
through the sale of real estate, said to
have been affected by hidden trusts. ="
His counsel, Alvin L. Newmeyer, was
given until September l to withdraw
the plea and demur to the indictments
Shapiro was allowed to continue at
liberty on bail of $4,000.
The indictments charged false pre-
lenses in the sale of premises 1718 Irv-
ing street, to Walter Frisbie, a Govern
ment clerk, without making known the
existence of hidden trust" for $4,000
on the property, and similar alleged
false pretense in connection with the
sale of premises 1716 Hobart street, to
DR.. w. Calhoun FUR, which is said to
have had hidden trust" of $4,000
on the property.
The Government was represented at
the arraignment by Assistant United
States Attorney William A. Gallagher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
AUTO RUNS WILD,
CRASHING IN YARD
Machine Hits Parked Car, Goes
Up Steps and Turns
Over.

Several persons narrowly escaped pos
sible serious injuries today when an
automobile driven by an unidentified
man struck car parked In the zoo
block of Tennessee avenue,s swerved
across the street and ran up a flight
of steps leading into a front yard and
turned over.
= Several persons, who witnessed, the
accident. declared the machine was be-
ing driven at an excessive rate OF speed
Police of the ninth precinct arrested
Harry l.. Frissell, 43 years old, soldier
attached to the headquarters company
here. No charge was placed against the
man pending an investigation. He told
police he was riding in the automobile
with a man he did not know by name
The driver left the scene before arrival
of police.
Frissell was taken to Casualty Hos
pital. where physicians examined him
and found he was uninjured. He then
was removed to the precinct.
The car in which the soldier was
riding came to q stop in the yard OF
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. T. 0.
Thoman. at 224 Tennessee avenue. The
other machine damaged was owned by
@. M. Hooe and was parked in front
of his home, at 219 Tennessee avenue.
A set of license plates IN addition
to those on the car were found beneath
a seat. Both machines involved were
badly damaged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08

Arriving at Capitol Heights, he found
that James w. Lauderdale, clerk, had
left, however. Judge j. Chew Sheriff
did not know where the clerk could be
located untir Police Court convened
again this morning at Marlboro. Walsh
accordingly promised to return to the
county seat today.
According to Louis RothSchild, secre-
tary of the Washington Better Business
Bureau, Walsh induced Erb to invest
$4,000 in the Insured Savings System,
Inc, a Delaware corporation, said to
have been promoted by Walsh. The
soldier claims Walsh misrepresented
certain banks as being financially in
terested in the corporation, and prom
ised enormous profits to those who in
vested in its stock.
While trying to sell him stock in
the corporation, Walsh gave an elab-
crate party in celebration of the vet
eran's eightieth birthday, Rothschild
says.
The warrant for Walsh's arrest was
issued in Prince Georges County be-
cause one payment of $1,000 is alleged
to have been made to the promoter at
the First National Bank of Hyattsville,
where the soldier had an account.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
DRY AGENTS PROBE
HERR|CK'S CLAIMS
Former Representative De.
cIared He Was Working for
Man in Woodcock's Office.

Prohibition officials today continued
Herrick, former Oklahoma Representa-
tive, held in jail in Baltimore, charged
with possession of liquor, that he was
a Federal agent. Herrick was taken to
Jail last night, unable to furnish $500
bond demanded after his arrest at a
one-thousand-gallon capacity still in the
southernmoSt tip of Maryland:
Despite assertions he was working
under instructions Of a man named
Moore" in the Office of Amos W. w.
Woodcock. prohibition director. Herrick
and two other men, one colored, was
brought before United States Commits
sioner Harry Azercrombie and charged
with possession of liquor.
When arrested he was clad in blue
overallS and was unshaven. Officers
said he was tending the boiler of the
still for SIS week and living in one
room shack. They said he was unable
to make good an assertion he could take
them to other stills in taie vicinity
Herrick's arraignment was continued
while investigation was made of hi
claim he was cooperating with the pro-
hibition forces. Dry agents in this ter
ritory doubted his allegations.
Herrick represented the eighth Okla.
homa district as a Republican from
March 1921, to March, 1923, and dur.
ing that period was frequently in the
public eye. Following his retirement
after a political defeat he charged
members of Congress drank openly anC
the smell of liquor on all sides sickenec
me-"
Prohibition headquarters made known
today that Herrick applied for COM
mission as dry agent, but none wa.
granted. An arrangement was made
however, Acuff said. whereby the Okla.
haman might furnish information al
his own risk and with compensation oil
commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
TAX DATA REFLECT
DISTRICTS GROWTH
Sum of $4,000, 900 Levied
Against Realty From
1923 to 1881.

The growth of the District and the
accompanying inevitable increase in
property values in the last eight fiscal
years is reflected in statistics compiled
today by Tax Assessor William P. Rich
ards, showing that real estate assess
ments in this period were designed to
produce nearly as much revenue as in
the AZ preceding fiscal years between
1880 and 1922.
According to the tabulations, taxes
amounting to $142 100000 we're levied
against real estate in the fiscal years
from 1928 to 1881, inclusive, whereas
the assessments from 1880 to 1922 were
calculated to yield $150,0O0,000.
Taxes on personal property also have
had corresponding increase. Prior to
1902, Mr.. Richards figures show that
the personal property taxes amounted
to about 500 900 year. The following
year, however, the taxes jumped to
$500 900, and have grown steadily since
that time, reaching $6,500,000 in the
1880 fiscal year.
Improvements Factor.
Improvements in downtown business
property, coupled with the home de-
velopments in the outlying sections, Mr..
Richards said. is largely responsible for
the increased assessments which pro-
duced the high tax yield in the last
eight years.
The full value assessments which
started in the 1928 fiscal year also were
a contributing factor to the higher as
sessment figures, he pointed out as
was the change in the fiscal relations
policy between the Federal and Dis
trict governments, which were on a
$3.50 basis prior to 1921, 600 from
that year to 1924 and 100000 lump
sum contribution from that time to the
current fiscal year, when the amount
was raised to $9,500,000. The reduc-
ton in Federal assistance, he said, nee
essarily placed a heavier burden on Dis
trict taxpayers
The population increase, together with
the act of Congress Of 1902 revamping
the personal property tax schedule, Mr..
Richards explained, is responsible for
the steady mounting tax on personal
property.
Law Not Properly Enforced.
Up until 1902, Mr.. Richards said, the
tax assessor operated under an act of
1877, which was never properly en-
forced, with the result that the District
lost large sums in revenue every year
In fact the report of the treasurer and
the assessor back in 1879. Mr.. Richards
said, made the following comment on
the tax collection situation:
Many persons make an annual re-
turn and proclaim at the same time
it is done only to avoid the so per cent
penalty fine and that they do not pro-
pose to pay the tax for the reason that
so much is outstanding and so many OF
their friends and other citizens have
heretofore paid no attention to the law
or have in some way evaded it,"
The act Of 1902. Mr.. Richards said
provided for an assessment of the gross
earnings of public service corporations,
bank and trust companies, which aug
mented the small collections on tan
gible personal property in the pre-
ceding years. And again in 1917, he
pointed out, Congress paved the way
for still greater personal property tax
revenues by prescribing tax on in
tangibles. which Is now producing
nearly 100000 a year..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
TAYLOR GRIMES LATEST
SAFE DRIVER CLAIMANT
Writes M. o. Eldridge He Was
Granted First Permit in 1908
and 1t Was No. 13.

Taylor Grimes of 1900 Twenty-second
street northeast is the latest claimant
for veteran automobile driving honors
in the District. Mr.. Grimes In a letter
to Assistant Traffic Director M. O..
Eldridge, said he had been given his
permit in August 1903 and it was
No. 10.
To prove that all superstitions con-
nected with this number are ill-found-
ed, Mr.. Grimes pointed out that he has
never in his 81 years of continuous
driving had an accident or been ar
rested for violating any traffic law.
Other veteran operators who have
recently come to Mr.. Eldridge's atten-
ton are DR.. w. S. Whitman of 949
Shepherd street. who began operating
an electric machine in 1899: Cyrus
Morris of SGT Randolph street, who
started driving in March. 1902, and
Steward D. Chapman of 526 Somerset
place, who started driving III 1904
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
|CAPT. c. S. ROOT
DIES OF INJURIES
Coast Guard Officer Sue
) cumbs After Being Hit by
Taxi Here Tuesday.

Capt. Charles S. Root, 56 years old,
officer in charge of the Intelligence
Section of the United States Coast
Guard here, died in Casualty Hospital
this morning of injuries sustained when
he was struck by taxicab while cross
ing the intersection of Massachusetts
avenue and Sixth street last Tuesday
morning.
A delicate operation had been per-
formed late Wednesday in vain effort
to save the life of Capt. Root. He was
suffering from fractured skull, con-
cussion of the brain and decorations OF
the face.
James I. Brooks, colored, IS years old,
of Bellvue street southeast, driver OF
the cab which felled Capt. Root, was
arrested by officers of the sixth precinct
and has been held pending the outcome
of the captains injuries. He will be
taken before a coroner's jury at 1880
o'clock tomorrow morning at the Dis
trict Morgue.
Capt. Root was born in Connecticut
on January 5, 1874, and went to sea al
an early age, serving for five years
in an o1d-fashioned square-rig sailing
vessel, after which he served on mer-
chant vessels and it was while he was
attached to these vessels that he learned
engineering. Capt. Root was qualified
both as an officer fitted for line and
engineering duty in the Coast Guard
and on June 10, 1880, he celebrated 80
years of creditable service in the Coast
Guard.
During the World War Capt. Root
was engineer officer on the transport
ship Martha Washington. During the
hurricane which inundated the city OF
Gavelston. Tex, In 1900, he rescued
more than 40 persons who were near
drowning in the streets of that city.
For this feat of heroism he was award
ed the Gold Life-Saving Medal OF
Honor.
Capt. Root made his home in Wash
ington. at 1915 Clifton street. He is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Charles s.
Root.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
SMOKE AND DUST SCREEN ESCAPE
OFRUMRUrNERS, WI1OLOSE CARGO
Sergt. Little and Liquor Squad Seize Auto After Mad
Chase on Defense Highway.

laden rum-runner. In a few miles the
fugitive machine swerved into a dirt
road of the highway and pointed for
the District
The dust and vapor which beloved
behind the lead automobile all but
forced the officers off the road on sew
eral occasions. They managed to hang
on, however, and near Kenilworth the
bootleggers abandoned their car and
fed under cover of the dust.
The car, equipped with a smoke
screen apparatus, was loaded with ZIG
half gallon jars of corn whisky and
bore District tags.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08

Smoke and dust, through which they
fed at rs miles an hour this morning,
screened the escape of two rum-run-
ners, but failed to prevent their car
and cargo falling into the hands OF
Sergt. George Little and members OF
his liquor squad.
The officers were maintaining an early
vigil on Defense Highway, near the
bridge at Lanham, Md, when the rum
car and o companion machine sped by
on their way into Washington.
After q bit of maneuvering, Sergt
Little managed to get In font OF the
convoy car and close to the heavily
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08

in Garfield Hos
pital Wednesday,
were conducted in
the E d bro % k e
Methodist Episco-
pal Church, River
and Murdoch Mill
roads, this aft
ernoon. Interment
was in Arlington
c e m e t cry. Mr..
Dawson died after
q brief illness.
Born April %,
1894, at Spring.
field, Ill, he re-
ceived his early
education there,
and the degree of
bachelor of science
in chemical enpi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
McGay Heads Philatelists.

WORCESTER, Mass. August lP).-
The Society of Philatelic Americans,
composed Of stamp collectors, in its
thirty-sixth annual convention, which
was opened here yesterday, elected DIR.
H. P. McGay of Cleveland as president
and E. w. Heunsinger of San Antonio,
Tex, vice president. Miss Helen Hussy Of
Cincinnati was named a delegate at
large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
FIRE IN RADIO STORE

Fire of undetermined origin late last
night wrecked the establishment of the
Reliable Radio Co, 2445 Eighteenth
street. Nathan L. CHASER, proprietor OF
the establishment, occupying an apart
ment on the second floor, was awak-
ened by smoke, but not before the fire
had gained Roadway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
Big Still and Mash Seized.

BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, August 8.
One man was arrested and a 1000
gallon still and large quantity of mash
seized yesterday when Prince Georges
County Officers Hepburn, Nichols and
Robinson raided a farm on the Grain
highway near here. The man arrested
was foreigner, and police were I'M
successful in their efforts to learn his
name. He is being held In the county
Jail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
DR.. Vatenberg to Speak.

DR.. A. Vatenberg of New York will
speak Sunday at Camp Neitgedaiget, In
Drury, Md, on the subject Of Jewish
colonization in Russia. The meeting
will be sponsored by the Washington
branch of the Icor organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
Pastor Educator Is Ill.

GRIFFIN, Ca August 8 CR.-Dr::
Robert Adams. former president OF
PRESBYTERIAN College at Clinton, 8. c.,
End widely known Southern minister, is
critically Ill at q hospital here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
:
Endres' License Issued.

UPPER MARLBORO, Nd, August 8
(Special1 A marriage license has been
issued here to Karl II. Endres, 20,
3404 y street southeast. and Mary F.
Wenzl, IL, 307 street northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
DAWSON FUNERAL
IS HELD AT CHURCH
Associate Chemist of Bureau in
Agriculture Department Is
Buried in Arlington.

Funeral services for Louis E. Daw-
son, associate chemist of the Bureau
of Chemistry and Soils. United States
Department of Agriculture, who died
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
How the Market
Opened

B. United Press
NEW YORK. Jan. 18.ADespite re-
assuring reports on business condi-
lions set forth in the weekend trade
reviews the stock market continued
to move irregularly today. Trading
was fairly active. The majority Of
issues declined fractions to a point
with the leaders suffering most.
General Electric, Bethlehem Steel,
Union Carbide and Gold Dust were
off about a point each.
U. S Steel opened at 1891. off
II and then eased further. Small
losses we're recorded for Radio
Corporation, Paramount, Standard
Brands, Standard of New Jersey,
Public Service, United States Indus
trial Alcohol, General Motors, Ana
conda, Chrysler and Sears-Roebuck.
Westinghouse Electric declined
nearly 2 points to 1881, and Amer
lean Telephone declined a point to
217h. Chesapeake & Ohio and Co.
lumbla Gas also were off a point
each.
Radio shares were again depressed
with Grigsby- Grunow under heavy
pressure. CROSBY lost f~ractionally
while holster equaled it's low rec
ord of 21s. Radio Corporation held
around 37H.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
DRY REPEAL VOTE
SLATED IN SENATE

no more than twenty of the ninety
six senatorial votes. Borah pre-
dicted no more than eight would go
on record for repeal.
Vets admit they have no chance
to win, but declared they want to
place every senator and house men,
Der on record so his vote would be
an issue when he comes up for
reelection In November.
Drys. stronger numerically than
they eve have been before, have
no worry about the result of a test.
While the senate is ready for a
vote. it IS by no means certain the
house will follow suit.
However, Republican Floor Lead
er Tilson said today he will not
stand in the way of a test vote on
prohibition there IF our members
desire TO follow the lead of the
senate" He said the Judiciary COM
mittee must first report the reso-
luton. This committee contains
several prominent vets, but has a
dry majority.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
BY PAUL X. MALLON

United Press stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18-Senate
vets and drys are ready to go on
record on repeal of the eighteenth
amendment, which Is before them
in the Blaine resolution. 1t will be
the first test vote on the prohibition
amendment since it was ratified
eleven years ago.
Invitations for the test of strength
we're issued today by representatives
Of the opposing factions. Senator
Borah (Rep., Idaho, outSpoken dry
leader, announced his willingness for
a vote at any time, while Senator
Blaine (Rep., Wis.,, author Of the
resolution. said he would expect a
vote as soon as the tariff bill Is
out of the way. Chairman Norris of
the judiciary committee lent his
encouragement TO the movement by
promising the committee would re-
port out the resolution-adversely-
and let the senate decide.
A check BY the United Press
showed that Blaine can hope for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
Fumes Rout City Families
Into Subzero Weather;
Dogs ASphyxiated.

Explosion of films in the Pros
pect theater, at 2117 Prospect ave-
nue., at 4:20 this morning, caused
$4,000 damage to the theater, rout-
ed seven persons from their beds
into the. subzero weather and
forced city fremen to don gas
masks to enter the fume-filled
building.
Two small dogs were suffocated
in the two living APARTMENTS above
the theater. Damage from the fire
was confined to the theater room
and to the film which burned.
Jacob Friedman, oWner of the
theater, awakened when an x
sons, Sam, % and Leo, 10, he
his wife, Gertrude; his daughter,
Miss Mary Friedman, IT, and his
sons, Sam, %, and eLo, 10, he
rushed down a rear stairway to
escape the building which already
was filing with smoke and fumes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Easter, also
occupying an apartment above the
theater, fled the building.
When fremen Of squad No. 80
arrived they found the theater filed
with dense fumes from the blazing
film. They were forced to don gas
masks to enter the building.
The occupants were Scantily clad
when forced from their apartments
and hurried to homes Of neighbors.
The dogs we're not remembered I'M
til the blaze had been eXtinguished-
Explosion of the films was attrib-
uted by fireman to spontaneous
combustion.
Neighbors invaded the flame
filled teme Of Mrs. FlcsEie Northern
of 523 South Fleming avenue, at 8
this nNrning to extinguish a fire
before city firemen reached the
scene.
TIL blaze, blamed on an over
heated stove, caused 500 damage
to a bedroom and attic OF the
bunga'ow. A st.ll alarm was given
to firemen but before they arrived
six neighbors, with buckets I'D a
garden hose, had extinguished the
flames.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
HUNT SPURRED
Lost Pilot May Be With
Tribe of Indians.

BH United Prose
LAS VEGAS, New, Jan. 18.-The
possibility that Maury Graham, air
mail pilot lost a week ago, may have
found SHELTER with a tribe of Piute
Indians living in the wild country
where his plane went down, suprred
en- search for him today.
Belief that the Western Air Ex-
press hier still may be alive in the
winter-locked region between here
and Salt Lake City, Utah, his mail
route terminal, Spurred the foe
seeking him. Assistance came from
the United States army, navy and
marine flying forces, from individual
plane owners and various CONNER
cial organizations.
The augmented searching squad
ron split into groups Friday and
aided by improved weather condi-
tons, covered a wide area in the
m-ountainous" region-but they found
no trace of Graham.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
CUNWOMAN AND
MATE UNITED
Jail Reunion Is Signal for
Kisses, Embraces.

BIZ United Press
PHOENIX, AriZ., Jan. 18.-Penn-
sylvania officers were expected to
arrive here Monday with extradi-
ton papers for Mrs. Irene Schroe-
der. accused as the blonde trigger
woman" and her gunman consort,
Glenn Dague, captured by an Arr
IONA posse, after a gun battle in the
mountains here.
Extradition will be granted read
lily, local authorities said, if it is
proved that the couple is wanted on
charges of numbering Brady Paul.
Pennsylvania state highway po-
liceman, last Dec. 81.
Mrs. Schroeder met her sweet
heart, Dague. Friday for the first
time since their capture. At the
sight Of the gunman, she rushed to
his arms.
we have only each other" they
said between kisses.
The pair refused to answer
questions of newspapermen. Dague
insisted on having a lawyer before
he would talk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
LINK r TO BIG
CITY CO.

ders here with an intercity compact
between the New York and Chicago
underworlds.
The bit of lead was taken from
the body of Frank Yale, Brooklyn
racketeer who was slain more than
a year ago. Tests in Chicago, Police
Commissioner Whalen announced,
showed that it was fired from a sub
machine gun found in the Benton
Harbor Mich home of Frederick
Burke. The same gun vas used in
the st. Valentines day massacre Of
seven men in Chicago.
Burke is described as the "most
wanted" man in the country and
agents of Whalen's secret service
squad are working with Chicago de-
tectives to apprehend him. Burke,
already charged with the massacre
of the seven members of the Moran
gang last February, with the murder
of a Benton Harbor policeman and
with numerous bank robberies, is
characterized by Whalen as the
genius of the inter-city murder
system.
Scarface Al Capone, notorious
underworld chieftain, also comes
into the picture. Weapons found in
Burke's Benton Harbor fortress and
some of those abandoned here at
the time of the Yale murder have
been traced to an arsenal which
Capone formerly maintained in
Chicago, according to Whalen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18

The cold wave, which crept on
the midwest from western regions
early this morning, extended as far
south as Galveston, Tex, where IA
degrees above was reported.
However, the wave was believed
to be of short duration, according
to j. H. Arlington, meteorologist.
In the DakotaS, from whence the
subnormal temperatures came to In
diana, a rise of IS degrees was re-
corded today.
Muncie reported II below this
morning, believed the lowest tenn
perature in the state. Other cities
in northern Indiana had tempera-
lures equalling that recorded here.
The cold wave followed a snow