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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
EXODUS OF ALIENS
THIS YEAR PASSES
INFLUX BY 10000
U. S. Report Follows Doak
Drive, on Ring Preying
on Immigrants.
1912 DEPORTED
DURING IL MONTHS
e7,13s Admitted as 107,376 De-
part-Most of Deportees Sent
Over Mexican Border.

Following closely on Labor Secretary
Doaks announcement that he was per-
Sonally supervising Natlon-Wloe Drive
to eliminate racketeering rings that
prey on aliens unable to enter TINS
country legally, the Labor Department
today made public figures showing that
10000 more immigrant aliens left the
United States than entered during the
fiscal year ending June 80.
The department said the tide began
turning against immigration last No
yember with the result that there were
3O.482 more departures than arrivals
during the eight months. Immigrants
admitted to the country during the
year totaled 97,139 and departures were
107,376
1t was pointed out that these figures
do not include tourists or aliens ao-
mitted on business.
1912 Deportations.
The report revealed that there were
1912 decorations during the year, as
compared with 1851 in the year end
ing June 80, 1880. 1t was explained
that almost half the deportations were
to Mexico, $3.50 leaving via the South
ern border. A total of 5,016 were sent
over the Canadian line and 2,437 left
from New York by ships.
permit racket uncovered in New York,
the Secretary said today that this
scheme is only one of several by which
aliens in the country illegally or seek
ing to enter Illegally are mulcted, often
Of large sums.
Entrance Permits Sold.
The arrests of Simon Rothberg, a
clerk in the New York immigration bu-
reau Office, and Limo Pizzalo. alleged
promoter of the scheme, Oh charges OF
having sold permits usually granted
aliens to leave the country after enter
ing legally, to aliens unable 20 enter at
from SITS to $3.50 each, Doak said that
he had personally uncovered this
scheme. He added that he expected
more arrests to be made as he felt the
clerk was only a tool for some one else
and indicated that the ring might have
international ramif1cations.
Several hours later he ampi1ied this
statement by saying, 'tEe people want
to get are the alien s4Eugglers and those
trading on the credulity of ignorant
foreigners These people are rotten to
the core. The alien smuggler will col
lect several hundred dollars head from
a cargo of aliens in Cuba or Mexico
and If pursued will abandon them. They
do not care for We lives of those peo-
pie"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31

drew under the trees, their bare feet
cleaning in the dim light from the
lamps that trimmed the square.
My companion yawned, picked up
his newspaper and, selecting spot at
random, threw himself down to sleep.
His example seemed good enough
but. being less accustomed to the pro-
cedure, I made a careful circuit of the
park, looking for lush grass, high
ground and a reasonable removal from
those Sleepers who were snoring Justify.
A space near the base of the central
statue seemed to suit my purpose and
I stretched upon my newspaper for a
brief interval of reflection before drop
ping off to sleep.
The lights from the four sides of
the square shone dimly under the
spreading trees and the foliage swayed
In a cool breeze An occasional trolley
rode out an intersection. with a dis
tant rumble of wheels, and once a
locomotive hooted, like liner far at
sea.
But a profound quiet had descended
upon the sleepers. Their motionlesS
forms scattered over the square and
their grotesque attitudes were strongly
suggestive of battlefield Uttered with
dead.
So my thoughts ran, and the next
instant, it seemed, was sharply aware
that the bottoms of my feet were
tingling. much as if they had gone
to sleep.
1 sat up, quickly.
"All right there, buddie: all right"
said a giant policeman, standing over
me. Move on! Move on!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
PRISONER HICC0UGHS
FOR II DAYS STRAIGHT
L. F. Pitcher, Ex-Police Informer,
Weakens Rapidly as Body
Is Racked by Spasm.

Leslie Franklin Pitcher, 80 years old,
a former police informer, was in a
critical condition at Gallinger Hospital
today. his body racked by a siege Of
hiccoughs which have continued for II
days.
Physicians, who have called upon
every known relief for the malady,
reported that Pitcher was weakening
rapidly. They based their hope of saw
ing the man on his statement that in
the past he has hiccoughed for as long
as IS days without stopping.
Pitcher is said to be unable to sleep
and has taken little food. Doctors said
they were open to suggestion for means
of relieving him.
The hiccoughing spell began several
days after Pitcher had arrived at the
District Jail to serve term of 100 days
on charge of passing worthless checks.
Previously he had been dismissed as an
informer for the police vice squad after
discrepancies were found in his teSti-
mony at Police Court liquor trial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31

Forces because of the unfortunate
scas,IaP'-the soldier or officer VINO
was sent UP as a replacement and founo
himself among strangers and troops
that came from States far away from
his own. I believe that even sucn a
catastrophe as a sudden large loss
striking a single community Is better
borne when the sorrow Is suffered by
many. When one family alone suIerS
a loss and has no solace the leeHng
of rebellion at the condition OF war
is more likely to develop. Acute per-
sonal sorrow Is more readily borne II
the same MISFORTUNE Is sunereo Oy
neiehbors and friends.
From a psychiatric standpoint IL Is
advocated that military organizations
be identified with localities and that re-
placements come from the same source
and thus preserve all the advantages
that arise from herd instinct. 1t is the
instinct of belonging to something, be.
ing a part of something bigger and
more powerful than oneself"
Deplores Drab Picture.
The World War soldier, especially
the American, it was stressed by Col.
Iorenz, was rendered more liable to
neuroses by the drabness of the whole
picture. He stressed the value OF
uniforms, music and all the trappings
that 90 into martial setting"
"The drab, unattractive, fl-ftting
uniform" he continued, may be highly
effective to hide from the enemy, but It
falls far short of building up any esprit
de CORDS. Even though bright colors
might make troops more visible, such
tactical disadvantage would be more
than offset by the soldiers better frame
of mind"
Admitting that those especially sub
iect to nervous and mental breakdowns
under war conditions should be eiimi-
mated as soldiers as soon as they can
be detected, DR.. Lorenz warned that
this process is sacrificing much of the
future welfare of the people.
I'VE advocate skimming of the cream
and leaving the scum behind" he said.
This need only be repeated few times
in the course of one or two generations,
and the consequence in defective hert-
tage staggers the Imagination"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31

The policeman, noticed, was tuck
ing his night stick under his arm
my feet had not gone to sleep after all
The square was already aStir in the
first morning light-about $50 o'clock.
The sun was not up. but a rudy glow
had spread over the buildings to the
east and Sparrows were duttering in
the elmS.
Nearby, three sun-tanned. rumpled
youths were stretching and rubbing the
sleep from their eyes.
What d. va Say?" asked one. as it
Baltimore today?"
yeah" agreed another. TITS Moth
ing here; We might as well keep NOV
ing"
1--WE oughta have a cup of Java
first" cut in the third, jerking at the
tongue of his leather belt.
Yeah. we would" jeered his COM
panion. IF we had Is cents"
They're hard on panhandlerS in this
town." he went on, glancing after the
policeman, 80 hard we don't eat"
Yes" I agreed, and the remark was
so spontaneous it never occurred to me
until afterward that it answered q
question I had asked myself on the
previous evening-"they'r hard on us,
all right"
Still bordering my instructive use of
that word ''uls," I wandered to the
street to hail a taxi. The first one
passed me up as an unpronising- look
ing fare; so did the second.
YES" repeated, trudging for street
car stop, they certainly are hard
on us"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
$4,000 FAIL TO LIST
INTANGIBLE PROPERTY
Last Day for Escaping 20 Per Cent
Penalty Finds Many
Delinquent.

Today was the last day for filing re-
turns on personal property in the Dis
trict in order to escape the 20 per cent
penalty imposed for not making the
return on time, but very few taxpayers
came down to make a last-minute re-
turn. A reporter who called at the
tag Office at IL o'clock this morning
counted seven persons making returns.
There are still about 1900 persons
with taxable status who have failed
10 file returns, according to Charles A.
Russell, deputy assessor IN charge Of
the personal tax division.
Mr. Russell said that the 5000 re-
turns already filed indicate that owing
to the decline in the market price of
stocks, the item for intangible prop
erty will show a considerable shrinkage
this year. The assessment for in
tangible property, which includes.
stocks, bonds. and other evidences of
indebtedness. last year was about $780,
600 1000. This year it will be about one
third less, he estimated. The tax rate
on intangible property is so cents per
$l00
The Office will be open until 5 o'clock
tonight for anybody who wishes to file
a return. 1t is located at room l03
District Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
PILOT LANDS PLANE
WITH WHEEL OFF
Marine Aviator Brings Four
Companions Down Safely
at AnaC0Stia.

With one wheel Of his twin-motored
Marine Corps transport plane dangling
uselessly, Lieut.. H. D. Boyden, U. S.
NJ c., made a successful emergency
landing at the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
ton yesterday afternoon, escaping with
out injury to himself or four Marine
passengers and with trivial damage to
the plane.
Boyden had taken of from the local
station bound for Quantico, Va. A few
minutes after the take-of one of the
four Marine mechanics flying as pas
sengers discovered that steel pin con-
Meeting the landing gear and the land
ing gear struts on one side had broken,
leaving the wheel dangling in the air.
Lieut.. Boyden turned and flew back
to Anacostia, circling the station Tor
several minutes while he figured out
plan for handling the difficult problem
of landing on the one good wheel. The
station ambulance and emergency crew
we're out waiting when he finally came
in for his landing.
Side-slipping the plane in so as to
kill the. speed and take up the shock
of the landing on the one good wheel,
Lieut.. Boyden managed to hold the
plane level through about two-thirds Of
the normal landing run. Then it drop
ped on the bad wheel and the motor
nacelle on that side, which threw the
plane into q ground loop for, about
$50 degrees.
just before landing, Lieut.. Boyden
cut the switch Of the motor above the
damaged wheel and only one end OF
the propeller blade on the side was
bent. The wing tip did not touch the
ground, and except for the broken pin.
the bent propeller and scrubbing OF
the under side Of the nacelle OF the
ground, the plane was unchanged.
A new pin and propeller would have
enabled Lieut. Boyden to start again
for Quantico yesterday afternoon, but
officers at the station decided to hold
the plane for . more thorough in
6pection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
SNEAK THIEF TAKES
$4,000 IN JEWELRY
Young Burglar Sought in Series of
Depredations on Homes and
Apartments.

Police today were seeking a sneak
thief whose recent activities have netted
him several thousand dollars worth of
jewelry, including about $4,000 worth
stolen from an apartment in the
Shoreham
The robber, according to descriptions
in the hands of police, is about 90, i.
of medium height and has dali. m
plexion. When seen by the occIpcn t
of one of the homes which he ran
sacked he wore dark trousers, a black
belt with white stripes and white
shirt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
j. w. DARE H0NORED
AT FAREWELL BANQUET
Retiring Engineer of District High
way Department Guest of
$50 Friends.

Joseph w. "Nubby' Dare. 77-year-old
engineer in the District Highway De-
partment, was rendered a farewell ban
uuet by $50 of his friends at the Beaver
Dam Country Club last night. Mr..
Dare retires September l after more
than so years service in the city gov
eminent. Although long past the retire
ment age, he has been granted four
extensions on account of his extraor-
binary ability. 1t is said that Mr. Dare
has the sharpest pair of eyes in the de-
partment and can tell at a glance
whether a curb or piece of paving is
half an inch out of line, where most
engineers would have to use instruments
to detect the error.
William w. Curtiss, one of Mr.. Dare's
colleagues. was in charge of the ar
rangements. Aloysius S. Fennell, con-
struction engineer for the department,
was POSTMASTER Traffic Director VII
liam A. Van Duzer, Highway Engineer
Herbert C. Whitehurst and others made
speeches praising Dare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
INJURED BY TRUCK
Frank Bresnahan, so, Treated at
Emergency Hospital.

Frank Bresnahan, so, Of 1920 Kear-
ney street, suffered slight conclusion
and cuts about the head this afternoon
when he walked into a motor truck at
Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue. He was treated at Emergency
Hospital
According to the police. the motor
truck, owned by the Griffith Consumers
Coal Co. and driven by William L.
Hebron, colored. of $40 Tw.nty-fifth
street, had just been started when Bres-
nahan stepped off the curb and walked
into the overhanging rear end OF the
truck body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
EXCURSION PLANNED
Hebrew Sisters Aid Circle Sponsors
Trip to Marshall Hall.

The ninth annual excursion to Mar
shall Hall under the sponsorship Of the
Hebrew Sisters Aid Circle will be held
Sunday, with boats leaving Washington
at 10 O'Clock in the morning and 2:30
and $50 in the evening. Mrs. M.
Sklar is chairman of the Excursion
Committee, and tickets may be obtained
from her or from the president, Mrs.
H. Enrich, 721 Princeton place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
Deaths Reported.

Kinda KCbs Is,, LOG q 372 IsS Ssh . St.
Baird Strauss. so. 1880 Adams Mill I'd.
Ann c. 8. CARPENTER, q; l725 Church st.
Moy Dong Ford, so. Gallinger Hospital.
Edward A. Dillon: So: .Sibley Hospital.
T I,ils,I TrHEndIe; g SIN T st St.
walter B. Robinson, so. $40 Taylor st.
rene E. Waters. SO. 1911 Kennedy st.
lucent Kohlbecker, 26. GEORGETOWN Hos
argaret B. white /. Children's Hospital.
'.tevcn Chapman: 80 Providence Hospital
u
WILDER Clayton, 81. 100 st.
Ierr' Fichc rdsop. "a. Emergency Hosnital
Robert Thomaas h Children's Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
Two Get Commissions.

William j. Quentin, 1853 Twenty-sec-
ond street. has been commissioned by
the War Department major in the
Military Intelligence Bureau and Earl
M. Bergert. POO I street, first lieu
tenant Of Engineers, both in the Reserve
Corps Of the Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
LITTLEPAGE TO DIRECT
MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN
Chamber of Commerce Launches
Second Years Drive in Five
Year Expansion Plan.

Thomas P. Littlepage was named
general director for the second years
drive In the flve-year expansion pro-
gram launched yesterday by the Execu-
tive Committee of the washington
Chamber of Commerce.
1t was pointed out by President
Harry King that the first years drive
for increased membership, conducted
last Fall, exceeded by almost 10 per
cent the objective set prior to the open
ing of the campaign. King predicted
that this years goal would be reached
without difficulty.
Harry T. Peters and E. Ewaldson
were placed directly in charge of the
campaign organization.
The regular monthly meeting of the
chamber March 81, will be dedicated to
the movement to beautify and clean up
Washington for 1882 and to the Bicen-
tennial. The movement will be con-
Quoted in April under the auspices Of
the District Committee on Employment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
GAS A. ! TORCHES OPEN
| CAPONE CLUB SAFE
U. S. Agents Raid Cabaret as
Guests Break Bottles
I on Floor.

{. ~ the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 12.-Federal pro-
hibition agents early today raided the
Cotton Club of Ralph Capone in
suburban, Cicero. and used acty-
lene torches IN an effort to open the
safe in an effort to obtain records for
use in their investigation Of the liquor
'Atrafiic.
The raid itself, was the upshot of a
previous visit to the club by Roy Budd
and Dan Copely, Federal. prohibition
Officers, who were sitting in front of
the place March 5 in an automobile
when accoSted by an unknown gunman
and Jack Karron, the clubs doorman.
Despite the fact that they revealed their
identitieS, Budd and Copely said they
were taken to the Cicero police head
quarters. They were subsequently re-
LEASED after charging Karron with in
terfering with Federal officers.
4 Liquor Bottles Broken.
i This morning Budd and Copely led
D squad Of Federal officers into the club.
They reported they found half dozen
guests, the chorus girls and orchestra
scattered over the club. The guests
promptly broke half q dozen bottles of
piquor op sthe floor, but there was no
other confusion.
After releasing the guests and mem
befsA of the chorus and orchestra, the
officers began d methodical raid of the
place for liquor and other evidence.
i. ssH,- Combination Refused.
When Manager Jacob Spielman re-
fused to give them the combination to
sthe safe. they decided to try to burn 1t
open.
Ralph Capone is q brother of Al
phonse Capone, the gang chief, who
s.recently was sentenced to six months
by q Federal Judge for contempt of
court, growing out of his failure to
respond to summons Of q grand Jury
watch was investigating incomes two
years ago. Ralph Capone is under SEN
tence for an alleged income tax viola
ton, but has appealed the case.
Records Are Seized
When the safe was later opened a
number of records were seized and
taken at once to the Federal Building.
The Cotton Club was operating under
q temporary Federal injunction, issued
bysJudge Wilkerson May IA, 1880, which
prevented raids unless there was def
mite evidence of law violation. Federal
officials sidestepped the injunction by
entering the place on John Doe war
rant. After discovering liquor, they
said they we're free to move about the
club as they wished, since the evidence
Of liquor would prove law violation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
ARRESTED AS DRUNK,
FORMER ACTRESS DIES
Jury Finds Death From Natural
Causes in Case Of Alma Stan
ley, 70.
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, March 1.-THE tragedy
Of a famous British actress and beauty
Of Victorian days was revealed yesterday
at an inquest on the death of Mrs. Alice
Porter, the former Alma Stanley, who
for 30 years played on the stages of
London and New York.
She collapsed Sunday from bronchitis
after being taken TO the hospital Of
Holloway prison on a charge of intox-
ication. At the inquest she was de-
scribed as widow and stage records set
her age at rs, although the prison gov
ernor said she would not admit more
than Sc years. The coroner testified
death was accelerated by chronic al
coholisn, but the Jury returned a YER
dict of death from natural causes. She
played in New York in the early 35s at
the Fifth Avenue Theater, at Wallack's
and at Tony Pastors in Sniff, -
Youth" and The Happy Land" She
returned there in the latter sos in
"Pepita."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
CORRESPONDENT TO TALK
ON RUSSIAN PROBLEM
Paul Scheffer viii Address Foreign
Service Students at George
town University.

- Paul Scheffer, German newspaper
correspondent and one of the leading
authorities on present-day conditions In
Russia and matters Of governmental
s-,i3Dliries, win deliver an address tonight
at the Georgetown University School of
Foreign Service on Germany and
SAovie& Russia"
Mr.. scheffer is washington corre-
epondent now for the Berliner Tage-
blatt and for seven years represented
thai newspaper at Moscow. His ad-
dress WIN be given before the Seminar
on the Russian revolution and the
Soviet state. This Is a course estab-
@s16hed 40 the school under the direc-
ton Of DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, s. j., and
Is conducted by native Russian, DR..
~ konid I. Strakhivsky, who has been
helping Father Walsh for several years
in his studies of the Russian question,
which Is now one of the most important
issues in American foreign affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
ENDURANCE MARK SOUGHT
IN OIL-BURNING PLANE
Flyers in Air "a Hours Will Try
for Non Refueling Record
Held by Frenchman.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March IL. -
After being in the air "a hours, Walter
Lees and Frederick Brossy. Packard
Motor Co pilots, announced this morn
ing they would seek to break the nom
refueling endurance record of rs hours
and % minutes made March by two
French flyers.
The airmen went aloft at S:22 am.
yesterday to make fuel tests. Their
plane Is propelled by an oil-burnins
engine.
This is the first attempt to set an
endurance record with an oil-burning
motor, Lees said in a note he dropped
on the beach.
Their take-oh yesterday IL was an.
nounced, was observed by representa-
tives of the National Aeronautic AS
ISOLATION and the Federation Aeronau-
tique Internationale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
Town Meet to Rule
Whether Bereaved
Cow MOOs Legally

BY the Associated Press.
SIERRA MADRE, Calf, March
IA meeting viii be held IN
this foothills town tonight to de-
eide. If possible, whether q COW
can moo legally.
A COW, which had lost its calf.
had been annoying A. @. Goooier
in what should have been the
stiffness Of night. He and IL
neighbors complained to the city
attorney, which began to draw an
ordinance to silence the COW.
other residents objected, claim
ing a precedent would be estab-
lished and soon dogs couldn't
bark, cats couldn't NEW, and
that would be cruelty to animals.
So a town meeting was called.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12

Byng win not retain the chief CONF
missionership for long. but win merely
Ill in for few weeks until the appoint
ment of . successor
The name Of Mai 8. II. Vaneck. chief
constable OF Norfolk, is being mentioned
for the chief commisSionership. His
wife, who Is American -born, IS society
beauty and friend Of royalty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12

Later Emil Egger. Juror, and J. =,
Reeves, court bailiff, were added to the
list Of influenza patients.
Mrs. Bowles died in Miss Louck's
apartment November u. The State
charges Bowles and Miss Loucks stabbed
her to death, while the defense contends
she ended her life when she learned Of
their inttunacy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
Many. Scotch Pews Empty.

Religious leaders in Scotland are be-
Acoming alarmed over the decline in
q 1urch attendance. CONGREGATIONS in
50 me parts Of the country are dwin-
dlA 7g to only a faithful score or so.
Cha riches capable of seating 500 or 900
woFS hipers are attehded by . few dozen.
u Is predicted that . number of places
&C .wo ship must be closed for lack of
support.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12

Loucks, 20, charged with killing Bcwles'
young wife, was adjourned until Mon
day yesterday after two jurors were
stricken with influenza.
Later in the day a third Juror and
one of the court bailiffs became III.
Harold Cutting and John Benefiel
both of whom had temperatures Of 100
degrees, were the first to become H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12

Chronicle today 10 intend resuming his
duties shortly, temporarily at least.
The former Governor-Generalo of Cam
ada has been in bad health for the last
two years and recuperative sojourn m
South Africa, and another In the south
of France, have failed to restore his
health.
The paper stated its belief that Lord