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The Washington times., 1933-05-24
COURT HEARING
: K|DNAP PLOT

BALTIMORE, May 24.-Trial
of Hyman Goldfinger, charged
with conspiring to extort $500
from L. Manuel Hendler, wealthy
ice cream manufacturer, through
threats to kidnap Hendler's son,
was continued in criminal court
today.
Harry Surasky has already
been convicted on similar
charge and Samuel Max Lipsitz
pleaded guilty to conspiracy
charge as we'll as a charge of
assault on Albert Hendler, who
was abducted last November and
later released.
Lipsitz testified for the State
yesterday, charging Goldfinger
wanted to murder young Hendler
when he was kept captive in a
cottage in Anne Arundel county.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
DOLLY LUMPKIN
BOY KILLER, IS,
HASM|ND TEST

OSSINING, N. Y, May "a
U.SO. - Sixteen-year-old Harry
Murch now has just 10 years, 1853
days left to serve in Sing Sing
or with good behavior IA years,
1863 days.
He has served two days of the
2O-year term to which he was SEN
fenced for the killing of his TO-
year old schoolmate, Willie Ben
der.
Tired by the routine of recep-
ton Monday, he slept soundly on
his prison cot, but yesterday was
given a thorough psychiatric
examination by DR.. Amos Baker,
prison psychiatrist.
Asked how he was getting on,
the boy replied, with characters
tic brevity:
"All right, 1 guess"
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
WidOU Sues AutOiSt
For Husbands Death

Mrs. Wanda Levine, of Balti-
more, yesterday filed suit for $15,-
900 damages against John C. Fitz-
gerald, first block Fifth st. N. E.,
in Circuit Court at Upper Marl-
boro.
The suit resulted from an acci-
dent near Oxon Hill, when Nanny
Levine was killed after Fitzgerald's
automobile turned over. The suit
was filed on behalf of Mrs. Levine
and her son, Nanny, jr., who was
born after his fathers death.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
LurGy Man Freed
In FrQtricide Case

LURAY, Va, May 24.-Hiram
Campbell, 26, of keystone, near
here, was acquitted of the MUIR
der of his brother Jack, after
the jury which had sat through
his second trial had deliberated
30 minutes late yesterday.
Testimony showed Jack had
visited neighbors on the night
of March "a with a rock in his
pocket. He was looking for his
brother. Later that night his
brother killed him. Hiram
claimed Self-defenSe.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
Photographers Plan
Picture-TQking Hikes

Motion pictures showing re-
quirementS Of news photography
will be shown at the semimonthly
meeting of the washington Photo
graphic Society in the parish hall
of st. Paul's Episcopal Church to-
morrow night.
Plans will also be made for pic
ture taking hikes and members
and guests will furnish prints for
an exhibition. There will also be
an exhibition of portraits loaned
by Washington studios.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
HEARINGS
IN ROCKVILLE
CONTINUE
Protested Licenses Continue
to Occupy Attention OF
Maryland Board

The third days hearing on pro-
tested beer applications in Mont
gomery's county was held yester-
day in the Rockville courthouse,
by the Maryland Beer Board.
Continuing its established
policy, the board withheld deci-
sionS, which will be announced in
a few days. A license for Mat
thew Kohlhoss, of Poolesville, who
runs a garage, and who intends
opening a lunchroom if he can
sell beer, was protested by some
of his neighborS.
Capt. Joseph C. Cissel, attor-
ney for Mr.. KohlhosS, pointed out
that none could find any other
fault with him or his business and
that he did not drink to excess.
Those opposing the license had
charged that Kohlhoss drinks.
Those who protested the
granting of a license to the
Chevy Chase Lake said they were
afraid of the crowd from the
swimming pool across Connect
cut Avenue and that children
would get the beer. Signers in
favor of beer said they could not
recall seeing children under 18
at the lake except with their par.
ents.
The case of Harry E. Miller, of
Glen Echo, offered more amuse-
ment to spectators than any of
the others when one of the pro-
testors, on cross-eXamination ad-
mitted to Attorney Thomas M.
Anderson that his was one of
the petition favoring a license
for Mr.. Miller.
It was also testified that the
petition protesting the license
was circulated by Robert Garrett,
who is said to be an employe of
the company which owns the
Glen Echo Park, and is not a
resident or taxpayer of the
county. Mr.. Miller said he had
talked with the manager of the
amusement park, who told him
he would oppose sale of beer on
the Conduit Road as it would
hurt his soft drink business.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
SURVEY SHOWS
WAR FLOODED
j. 8. SERVICE
Local Workers Given Jobs
When Others Refused Be-
cause of Low PAY

Civil service figures lust com.
piled revealed today that the tre-
mendouS wartime activities of the
Federal Government, whereby
considerable numbers of District,
Maryland and Virginia residents
managed to get into the service,
had practically doubled the num-
ber of Government workers, and
that hundreds of thousands, from
all over the country, got jobs at
that time.
When the war was over and
Federal payroll began to decline,
those who came from other States
went back to their own localities,
because new jobs opened there.
Some 5000 Federal employees
from the District remained in the
Government service.
The figures are particularly in
teresting in view of the clamor
that has arisen over the fact that
District, Maryland and Virginia
residents are in excess of their
quotas in the Federal employ, on
an apportionment basis.
While some 5000 District peo-
pie were getting on the Federal
payrolls during 1917 and 1918,
almost $4,000 residents of the
country as whole were doing
the same thing. The Government
employed 326,899 persons in 1917.
In 1918, there were 642,342 work.
ers in the classified service, a
jump of 315,443.
After the war, those who had
come on here from outside for the
most part got out of the Gov
ernment, while the Washington
mans, Marylanders and Virginians,
for lack of better opportunities,
remained.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
FIRST LADY DUE
ON COAST SOON

Mrs. Roosevelt will leave
Washington by plane the morn
ing of June 4 to visit her son,
Elliott Roosevelt, in Los Angeles.
Her tentative plan includes a
nights stopover in Kansas City
and a visit with Mrs. Franklin
K. Lane, widow of the former
Secretary of the Interior, at
Santa Fe, N. M.
Elliott will meet his mother,
probably after she leaves Kansas
City, in a plane of his own COM
pany. He has been recently
made general manager of the
Gilpin Airline of the Pacific
Coast.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
BUSINESS TAX
FOUGHT IN SUIT

Branding the recently enacted
business tax law of Capitol
Heights as confiscatory and dis
criminatory, Stember and Ford,
lumber firm of that town, to-
gether with the Boyer-Shipley Mo-
tor Company filed suit in Circuit
Court at Upper Marlboro, seeking
to have the law declared void.
In the petition, filed by State
Senator l.. G. Sasscer, and his law
partner, Waldo Burnside, the
plaintiffs alleged that the law
was illegal and that it was en-
acted in an irregular manner.
The suit, filed against the
mayor and town council of Capt.
tol Heights, also seeks to have
the town authorities restrained
from prosecuting Violators of the
tax law.
Both Stembler and Ford and
Boyer-Shipley won their cases in
Police Court at Capitol Heights
when a drive against business
men who had failed to comply
with the law was held. In both
cases the warrants we're declared
invalid by Judge j. Chew Sheriff.
Under the law the lumber firm
would be assessed $50 per year
and the motor company $25 per
year. Judge Joseph C. Mattingly
late yesterday signed court
order calling on town authorities
to show cause why the plaintiffs
suit should not be upheld by June
-
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
CITES
FIGHT FOR
(. WEAPON
Says Revolver She Meant to
Use On Self Was Fired
During Struggle

JERSEY CITY, N. j., May "a.
A. struggle for the gun with
, which she had planned to end
. her own life caused the fatal
shooting of Thomas Plakstis, is
: the contention of attorneys for
Miss Dolly Lumpkin, on trial for
murder.
. The defense of the pretty
Baltimore blonde will open today
after the prosecution closed its
case yesterday with the introduc-
ton of a surprise witness who
testified she hailed his car few
minutes after the shooting and
shouted that she had "just shot
a man because he two timed me-"
The State contends that the
girl shot Plakstis because she was
jealous of him.
Defense attorneys say that the
girl became morbid because she
had grown suspicious of the man
with whom she had lived for sew.
eral months while he promised
her that he would divorce his
wife and marry her.
1t was while in this frame Of
mind that she took the pistol
to end her life, and while stand
ing deliberating whether to write
a note explaining her act that
Plakstis entered, the defense
maintains.
He attempted to wrest the gun
from her, they say, and in the
struggle it went off.
The girl also will claim that
Plakstis mistreated her, her at
torneys said.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
DesertiOn Charged
In Plea for DiUOrce

Charging desertion, Helen S.
Jacobs, of Hyattsville, filed suit
for a limited divorce from Walter
H. Jacobs in Circuit Court at Up
per Marlboro yesterday.
According to the petition, filed
by Attorney John S. White. the
couple was married in Leesburg,
Va, in June, 1922. and separated
in November, 1888. They have
one child, Charles R. Jacobs, now
in custody of Mrs. Jacobs.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
r. o. T. C.. Men Sent
To Forestry Camps

Before they had completed in.
struction or given examinations
in their courses, Capt. Everett
L. Upson, Lieut.. w. P. Shepard
and Lieut.. John w. Harmony,
Army officers assigned to R. o
T. C. instruction at the Univer.
sity of Maryland, were ordered
Immediately to reforestation
camps.
Captain Upson is en- route to
Fort Douglas, Utah, and tn e
two lieutenants have been sent
to Fort George G.. Meade. 1t is
believd their transfers are tenn
porary and that they will be re-
turned to the university.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
One-Man Democratic
Club Keeps District
In PartyFold

BALTIMORE, May 24.-For
nearly 80 years George Need
ham Lewis, clerk of the board
of supervisors of elections. has
been conducting a one-man
Democratic club in the Third
district.
Almost every night Lewis has
borrowed a chair from drug
store and held court" on the
sidewalk or in the store in in
clement weather to discuss the
problems of the Democrats in
his district. And all during
this time he has kept the dis
trict in the party fold.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
State Care for Road
Is Urged by Citizens

Led by George Palmer, a dele
CATION of residents of Seat Pleas
ant, Md, yesterday appeared be-
fore the Prince Georges County
Board of Commissioners at Upper
Marlboro and requested that
Roosevelt Avenue from the Dis
trict Line to the Washington,
Baltimore and Annapolis railroad
bridge in Seat Pleasant be
turned over to the Maryland
State Roads Commission. No ac-
ton was taken on the request.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
Aviation Director
Quits u. S. Service

Gilbert C. Budwig, director Of
air regulation of the aeronautics
branch, Department of Commerce,
has submitted his resignation to
the Secretary of Commerce. He
has been with the aeronautics
branch since its organization in
1926.
He is a native of Cleveland,
served during the war as a civil
ian instructor, and later entered
the airmail service, flying mail
runs between New York and
Washington.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
ATHLETE RECEIVERS

Norwood Sothoron, second de-
fenSe on the University of Mary
land lacrosse team, is expected
to be discharged from the Univer-
sity Hospital, Baltimore, today af-
ter recovering from brain concus-
sion received Saturday in the
game with a team from the Johns
Hopkins University.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
MARLBORO LICENSE

William T. Slater, 25, the 600
block G st. S. E., and Helen M.
williams, 25. the 400 block Fiji
teenth st. S. E., we're licensed to
marry at Upper Marlboro yester-
day.
The Washington times., 1933-05-24
MEETING CANCELLED

The Montgomery County Com
missioners will not meet Tues
day, because it Is Decoration
Day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18

forever. 1t seemed. He couldn't
make 1t. He started to descend.
THIRTY feet from the pave
l. ment below. panic struck him.
Panic that rhymed with the wild.
throbbing music that came from
inside. Clinging by fingers and
toes. he stopped, afraid to move.
Crowds gathered. Elmo chung
desperately. A radio patrol squad
arrived. The fire department was
called. The scream of the sirens
kept tune with the scream of
the trumpets and the trombones.
Elmo held tight.
Up went a ladder. Elmo stuck
out his foot. cropping. hoping
1t found the rung. He grabbed
for the ladder and down he came.
tired and weak and frightened.
"Why?" asked one OF the radio
policemen.
Il Just wanted to see Cab Gallo
way, answered Elmo, plaintively.
INSIDE. Cab Galloway was on
4 his toes again. His hands were
outstretched. Up went the strains
of Sophisticated Lady" The
thump-thump of the drums blend
ed with the strains Of the cornet.
Elmo's foot started to tap again.
He gazed sadly at the lighted
window.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18
ROSEN SPURNED
IN COURT DEAL
Lutz Turns Down Offer to
Withdraw Suit.

Attempt of Abe Rosen, unlicensed
Gary beer dealer, to withdraw his
federal court beer suit against the
state in exchange for wholesalers
license has been turned down by
Attorney General Philip Lutz Jr.
Lutz told The Times that Rosen,
who this week charged the state ad-
ministration with selling" beer per-
mits for political purposes, offered
the compromise. If he could have
the permit which precipitated the
court battle.
Governor Paul v. McNutt, who is
expected to testify in the case in the
South Bend federal court. has
directed Lutz to battle the case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18
DISEASE THREATENING
ELM TREES IN u. S
Spread Of Deadly Blight Brings Ac-
ton by Federal Bureau.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. - The
elm, one of Americas most historic
trees, is threatened by the Dutch
elm disease, deadly blight only
recently appearing in the United
States. The agriculture department
has appropriated funds to combat
the disease.
Some of the most celebrated trees
in the nation are elms. George
Washington is supposed to have
taken command of the continental
army beneath huge elm at Cam
bridge.
At Croydon. Ind, stood an elm
beneath which the state constitu-
ton was adopted in 1916. In Gen.
trail park. New York City, stands an
elm planted by King Edward VII
when he visited this country as the
Prince of Wales.
1t was beneath the elm at the
corner Of the campus of Oberlin
college, Ohio, that the school was
founded 100 years ago.
The Dutch elm disease is deadly
in its action, and may kill all the
elm trees over an extensive area if
not controlled. One of the first
symptoms is sudden willing of the
leaves. This is followed by a brown
discoloration in the sapwood under
the bark.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18

candidates as you want to. But.
remember. only one man can win.
The derby has no Workings or
assistant rulers.
You can buy votes. steal them.
mooch them, clip them out OF Of
nee files, or kidnap them.
Fifty ballots will put your ia
vorite for the crown in the nomi-
nee's list. Next Tuesday the ten
leaders in the race will be printed
in The Times.
You'll find the ballots in The
Times everywhere - in barber
shops, on trans, at newsstands,
IN the hands Of newsboys. and on
your front porch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18
Dizzy Hour
Life Suddenly Becomes
Too Complicated for
Truck Driver.

T IFE had almost too many COM
- plications today for H. Herald,
80, of 724 Woodlawn avenue, a
truck driver.
Herald halted his truck at
Senate avenue and Washington
street. awaiting the change of the
traffic light. A woman fell to the
street at the same time he re-
ceived the go" sign.
The driver turned the corner
halted the truck and helped the
woman into a nearby pharmacy.
When he returned to his parked
truck. he found man having a
Mt in tie drivers seat.
Police took the afflicted man
to the city hospital. but we're un-
able to learn his name.
BY the time officers arrived to
aid the woman, she had departed.
and her name, to-, is unknown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18

+ The indictments were re-
turned before Federal Judge
George T. Page, who set bond
for each of the accused at
$4,000.
The indictments named:
Hal Price Headley, stable owner.
and Marvin Hardin, Negro exercise
boy.
Jack Howard, who manages his
wife's stable. and Charles Mitchell,
Negro exercise boy.
DR.. Nelson Edward Southland, vet
erinarian.
Ivan H. Parke. former jockey: Ben
Creech, who manages his wife's sta.
bic, and Will Payne. exercise boy.
A. A. Baroni, stable owner, and
James Hexhen. exercise boy.
DR.. Southland, who was named in
in individual indictment. is charged
with unlawfully purchasing and adj
ministering heroin to horses.
AaeCANAAs LII ana
VIII Payne we're taken into CUSTODY
shortly after the indictments were
announced.
The ten indicted we're charged
with possession of narcotics, which
we're used to dope" horses on the
tracks in the paddocks just prior to
the bugls call and intended to FIX"
the races by providing sure win
ners.
Howard and Mitchell are charged
in their indictment with adminis-
tering heroin to Marmion on july
4; to Louie Dear on July S; to Ebony
Lady on Feb. 81 and to Islam on
July 5 and July IL: to Adelaide A
on Feb. II and July % at Hialeah. /.
The indictment specifically
charges Howard with giving the
doped syringe to Mitchell for fixing
the races in their favor.
Three exercise boys recently were
given federal penitentiary sentences
IN connection with the case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18

can vote to name its most dis
tinguished citizen.
=
THE man receiving the highest
Il number of ballots will receive
the dun-colored top piece and the
silver plaque.
1t is one election where men
need fear no feminine stumpsters.
They need not wear collars as
high as stein of beer. They
may have red underwear. droopy
socks. and a billiard bali head.
but they must be declared by the
ballots cast by feminine OF mas
culine voters the citys most dis
tinquished citizen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18

CTART today Clip the ballot
~ on page TWO OF today's
Times. Name your most dis
tinguished citizen. He may be
your boss. your sweetheart, your
dance instructor, your political
party head.
Vote as often as you like. Get
rubber stamps II necessary, cast
your ballots quickly.
Then mail or bring those ballots
TO The Times, care Of the Brown
Derby editor. and his chief of
staff, Jo-Jo. the dog-faced boy.
Vote early or as late as the last
bottle Of 80 Is killed at your mid
night bridge party. Buk VOTEl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18

soft thump-thump of the drums.
Outside Tomlinson hall, little,
tingly thrills chased up and down
the spines of hundreds of young
sters. black and white.
Hi-de-hi Hi-de-ho."
crooned Cab to his orchestra. The
strains of Minnie. the Moocher."
Swelled louder and louder. The
drums thumped louder and louder.
LIMO ROLLINS. Is, Of 32s Full
IL ton street. could endure 1t no
longer. Standing in Wabash street
in the rear OF the hall. he stared
desperately at the side of the
building. leading TO a lighted win
dow.
His eyes measured the distance.
weighed the possible footholds. as
his foot tapped to the music and
little thrills ran down his spine.
He reached for the stones. His
shoes and fingers found inviting
holds. Up and up he went. He
reached through two feet of
space, seized steel beam and
walked along it like a tight rope
walker to the coveted. lighted
window. He tugged at it. 1t was
closed.
The muted cornet trilled again.
Perspiration stood out on Elmo's
forehead. He looked up. There
was window up higher. Desper-
ately he started up. He crawled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18

In 1882 Tom Quinn of furni-
ture company fame, won the
crown and the right to call him
self King Tom I.
Two high sheriffs of the county
won the headgear in this derby of
derbies in 1880 and 1881, with
George Winkler and Charles Sum-
ner becoming respectively King
George and King Charles.
-
THE Brown Derby election Is
l. one where repeating and bal
lot-box stuffing is the rule rather
than the exception.
You can vote as many times as
you want to and for as many
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18
$1,000 LOOT IN
SAFE ROBBERY
Miller High Life Co. Vault
Opened by Yegg in
Inside lob

A yegg, who apparently knew the
combination, gained entrance to the
safe in the Offices of the Miller
High-Life Company. 102 South ORR
entail street. during the night, Hy-
man Redmon, manager, reported TO
police today. Missing was $1,000 in
cash and several checks.
The robbery was an inside job"
police believed. They said it was
possible that the crook had secreted
himself in the Offices when the place
was locked Thursday night. and
later made his getaway through
rear door.
The safe was not damaged. Red
mon said he did not believe it the
work OF professional cracksmen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18
SEEK SAPIRO'S CUSTODY
Chicago Authorities Demand Right
To Racket Trial.
United Pres,

ALBANY. N. Y. Aug. 18.-Chi-
cago authorities informed Governor
Herbert Lehman by telegram today
they plan to seek a superseding in
dictment against Aaron Sapiro,
New York city lawyer. in their fight
to have him extradited on racke-
teering charges.
A flaw was found in the present
indictment, and Lehman limited he
would refuse to order Sapiro's ex-
tradition.
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O The Great Race for The Times Wav

awarded by The Indianapolis
Times to the city's most distin-
guished resident.
The Brown Derby king will be
awarded a silver plaque in front of
the state fair grand stand. He'll
be permitted to address the fairs
multitude on rheumatic pills,
Thomas Jefferson. what price
bananas, or what-have-you.
Daily in The Times ballot will
be printed, with derby hat for
It's insignia, for henchmen and
subjects of the nominees to crown
the King Of the Brown Derby.
And until the day before the
coronation ceremonies, the city
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-18
Drawn TO RUN PLANES
Germans Offer Reward for Muscle
Power Flight.

FRANKFORT, Germany, Aug. IS.
Drawn alone as the motive power
for airplanes is the hope of the
Lopytechnic Society of Frankfort in
Offering A prize Of 5000 marks 20
the first man to fly $50 yards in a
muscle-powered machine.
Competitors are allowed to store
up energy in the machine for a
half hour just before the flight.
Some ideas that have been sug-
gested are twisting of strong rubber
bands or the pumping of COM
pressed air TO drive the propeller.
1t is hoped that workable in
ventions will provide valuable help
to gliders caught in dangerous air
currents.