Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
Charges Involve Marriage OF
Woman to U. S. Citizen
to EVade Law.
FIVE OF EIGHT ACCUSED
ALREADY IN CUSTODY
American Who Wed Foreigner Was
Given $45 and Car, With
Annulment Promise.

The arrest of q man identified. by
Secretary of Labor Doak as ''promi-
nent Washington attorney, who special
,, ICES in immigration cases." may follow
the seizure In New York City today Of
five men charged with alien smuggling.
The Labor Department announced
this afternoon that the nve men had
been taken into custody, while an As
ISOLATED Press dispatch from New York
said eight warrants had been issued for
persons believed implicated in snug
Cling ring in which 10 arrests already
have been made.
One of the men arrested, 1t Is under
stood, was a principal in plot in
which. the Washingtonian was said to
have been implicated. The Labor De-
partment refused to divulge which. Of
the five men arrested was being held
in this connection.
Involves Woman's Marriage.
Secretary Doak in speech in the
National Radio Forum arranged by the
Washington Star revealed the plot
which involves the marriage of a
woman, who entered this country H.
legally six years ago, to a man whom
she had never seen before in order to
obtain legal entry papers. The Wash
ingtonian's connection with the case,
according to Secretary Doak, was that
he gave the woman q letter of intro
duction to the prospective husband.
The marriage was solemnized In New
York City and the bride and BRIDE
groom, accompanied by another attor-
ney, who Is now under arrest, and
the man who struggled the woman into
the country six years ago, went to
Canada, where they obtained a visa
fxs.SN Arfo ~Ia VlS1e-
woman was the wife of an American
citizen.
Was Promised AnnuIment.
The woman returned to the United
States alone. The bridegroom, for his
trouble, received $45 in cash and an
automobile. However, he was forced
to smuggle into the United States in
his new automobile two undesirable
citizens. the Secretary said. He was
also promised q marriage annulment,
but so far as the department knows
this has never been carried out.
The departments announcement to-
day gave the names of those under
arrest as Edward Shieman, q steam
ship ticket agent at / Broadway, New
York; Emanuel M Wertzer, another
steamship agent of the same address;
Joseph McDevitt, a chauffeur Of Garth
way, N. j.; ChSrles E. Fink, consult
ant, Times Building, New York, and
Stephen Tillinghast of 226 West
Seventy-eighth street, New York.
Scores Are Questioned.
The serving Of the warrants today
was the first move the department has
made since Secretary Doak held con-
ference with immigration officials here
last Saturday. He followed this with
Nationwide appeal in the National
Radio Forum for the support of citizens
and aliens alike to aid the departments
campaign against large smuggling rings
which he said exist In various sections
Of the country.
According to the New York dis
patches, the eight warrants were issued
late yesterday after Murray A. Carson,
Assistant Secretary of Labor, spent sew
eral hours IL Ellis Island and in va
riouS other Federal Offices questioning
scores Of Government employees.
Department. officials said today no
Government employees were named as
suspects in the investigation.
It was said the warrants were the
outgrowth of renewed investigation of
a smuggling ring. The ring has been
revealed by the Staying in a Park
avenue ONCE building last Thursday of
Salvatore Maranzano Secretary Doak
said he believed the man was killed by
persons who feared he was about to
make disclosures.
Blank immigration forms and letters
from attorneys, some of whom Secretary
Doak said were prominent, were found
in MaranZano's Office. The immigration
forms had been forged and the corre-
Spondence indicated he had been con-
cerned in various immigration cases.