Evening star., 1931-12-14
Important Information Found
j in Pennsylvania War by
Justice Agents.
DISCOVERY HAS BEARING
ON BLADENSBURG CASE
Pay Rolls of Establishments in
Three States Are Bared-Minor
Officials Implicated.

The Justice Departments campaign
against white slavery-begun November
%, after one man was killed and five
other persons wounded in the Old
Colonial Tea House Shooting-WaS CEN
tered in Washington today with agents
OF the departments Bureau of InveSti-
cation cooperating with Police De-
partment detectives and patrolmen anC
members of the Women's Bureau.
Although the new vice drive. which
got under way here shortly after mid
night was fruitless, important infor-
nation was obtained in similar cam
paign in Pennsylvania. This infoHma-
| tion is understood to have considerable
bearing on the Justice Department.
| investigation of the activities of a tri-
State white slave ring revealed as 8
result of the Bladensburg gun play.
Federal operatives, it is understood
already have unearthed evidence against
many suspected disorderly houses ir
all parts of Maryland as well as in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Pay Rolls Found.
Information concerning the owner
ship of several of the establishments
also has been obtained. it is said, and
the pay rolls of some of the places arc
in the possession of investigators. These
names of certain minor officials of the
counties in which the resorts are To-
Gated.
The Pennsylvania campaign waged In
cooperation with the Justice Depart
ment, resulted in the confiscation OF
records reputed to be of great import
ance in the Federal Governments probe
of white slave activities.
Several raids were made in Columbia
Pa. not far from Bethlehem, about
o'clock this morning, shortly after the
vice drive got under way here. The
raids were made after a number of
tips" had been received by the Justice
Department.
More than so investigators, including
Justice Department agents, precinct de-
tectives. policemen and WomenS Bu-
reau attaches, reported to Lieut.. Charles
Weber, night chief of detectives short
ly after midnight.
Envelopes containing secret orders
were given each of the several groups
into which the investigators were di-
vided. and the campaign started.
Although great secrecy surrounded
the investigators activities, it is un-
derStood they visited every suspected
disorderly house in the city. as well as
a number Of alleged drinking and gam
bling establishments.
Despite their surveillance. however,
the information they obtained was
negligible, both ]. Edgar Hoover. head
of the Bureau of Investigation, and In
spector Frank S. w. Burke, chief of
the Detective Bureau, declared today.
Will Continue Quietly.
While this mornings intensive activ-
tiles probably will not be repeated
for some time, Inspector Burke said, the
drive is likely to be continued quietly
One of the objects of the campaign
1t is understood is to obtain evidence
against Washington man said to have
been the secret proprietor of the Old
Colonial.
Although Charles Levitt one of those
wounded when a gang of gunmen raided
the tea house. is described as manager
of the resort by Prince Georges County
police, Federal investigators are re-
ported to have unearthed information
indicating he was merely the hireling
of "a man higher up" This man is
said to conduct a similar establishment
in the Capital and an intensive effort
Is being made to learn his whereabouts
40 PERSONS ARRESTED.