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Evening star., 1934-03-05

IN RASPUT|N CASE.
Jury Renders Verdict in Fa.
Vor of Princess Irena
Youssoupoff.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 5.-The jury in
the libel suit Of Princess Irena Yous-
soupof today awarded her f25,000
(S125,000) against Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer. Ltd, makers Of the film
'Rasputin and the Empress"
The award was made after dra-
matte trial in which Prince Youssou-
po1 testified that he was one Of the
group who killed the Mad Monk of
Russia, the Staying pictured in the
film.
Princess Irena testified that the
character Natasha in the picture was
a libel on herself.
Claim Character Fictional.
The attorneys representing Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer contended the char
acter Natasha was purely f1ctional.
In the course OF the trial Princess
Irena said she intended to sue every
individual theater which had shown
the picture. widely used throughout
the United States as well as England.
The jury's verdict came after only
a short deliberation.
The Metro Goldwyn- Mayer COM
pany promised that it would make no
further showings of the film.
Justice Avory, who presided over the
court, said he saw no reason for grant
ing a stay in the execution of the
verdict.
Jury Out Two Hours.
The jury retired to its two-hour de-
liberation after hearing the high
powered lawyers engaged by the liti-
gants in their final arguments.
Sir Patrick Hastings, for the plain
tiff, argued that "a married lady with
a daughter is depicted to the public
as defiled woman, defiled by black
mailer"
Against this, Sir William Jowitt,
for the defense, declared that there
was nothing coming within 100
miles" Of connecting Princess Irena
with the woman in the film, who was
shown only as "a pure. trusting, loyal,
devoted woman"
Court Room damned.
As usual since the case opened, the
court room was lammed with specta-
tors-many of them fashionable So
ciety women-attracted by the grue-
some histories OF the Russian monk
Rasputin, and his terrible end.
Sir William Jowitt for the defense
submitted on opening his argument
today that there was no libel in the
film. and libel-if there were any
came through sound. and was there
fore slander, and being thus, was not
actionable without proof of special
damage, unless it attacked the chas
tity of the woman.
II submit" Sir William said, that
there is nothing in this film which
paints NataSha Of the film as any,
thing other than a pure. trusting,
loyal and devoted woman"
1t was the part Of Natasha to which
the princess objected, contending it
linked her improperly with the Mad
Monk"
Evening star., 1934-03-05
$4,000 U. S. PAYMENT
TO PANAMA IS HELD UP
Hitch in Health Department
Costs in Canal Zone Because
of Economy Measure.


BY the Associated Press.
PANAMA, Canal Zone. March S.
Payment to canal authorities of the
annual Sll0 600 charged to the gov
ernment for health department serv-
ices is being held up, it was learned
last night, on Washington ruling.
An agreement stipulates payment for
the services at cost, and since IS per
cent Of Panamas payment is impound-
ed in the United States Treasury as
the result Of an economy measure,
Panama entered protests.
1t was learned canal authorities
agreed to Panamas non-payment
stand and recommended payment Of
the bill. less IS per cent. but the rec
ommendation was overruled by United
States Controller McCarl.
Evening star., 1934-03-05
TRA|NMEN ESCAPE
|NFRE|GHT WRECK.
Two Engines PIoW Into Rear
of Train, Damaging
Locomotive.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MOUNT AIRY, Md, March 5.-Two
trainmen narrowly escaped death
when two helper" engines plowed
into the rear of Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad freight train at the tunnel
nesr Mount Airy Junction yesterday
afternoon, wrecking three cars and
badly damaging a locomotive.
The 1$2-car train had just entered
the tunnel east of the junction when
the coupling between the fourth and
fifth cars broke, severing the air hose
and automatically setting the me-
chanical air brakes on the uncoupled
portion Of the train.
The two helper" engines, however,
were proceeded under full steam,
pushing the freight from the rear,
and plowed through three cabooses
as II they were match boxes before
the engineers could cut of their
throttles.
Although the cabooses rose almost
straight into the air and then settled
with a crash on the westbound track,
Conductor Jasper L. HauSe and Flag
man John M. Striegel, both of Balti-
more, who were riding in the second
caboose. escaped unhurt. The front
of the first helper engine was wrecked,
six driving wheels and its pony truck
being derailed and its headlight tossed
so feet away.
One of the cars demolished con-
tanned q consignment of cast iron
pipe being shipped from Holt, Ala.
to the United States Department of
Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Hus-
bandry at Beltsville, Md.
Traffic on the main freight line
was delayed only short time. Sew
eral fast freights bound for New
York were diverted through Mount
Airy. with an abandoned tower at Wa
terville being pressed into service.
Normal movement was resumed short
ly after midnight, when wrecking
crews from Brunswick completed the
work OF clearing the debris and lift
ing the two deraiied engines back upon
the rails with huge cranes.
Evening star., 1934-03-05
WARM SUN BRINGS.
THREAT OF FLOODS.
Swelling Rivers Rout Fami'
lies and Plunge Towns
Into Darkness.
gy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Roaring streams threatened serious
foods in the East today. Snowdrifts,
melted by rain and climbing tempera-
lures, swelled rivers to the danger
point
Two hundred families at Waterford,
N. Y, hastily packed their household
goods to move to higher ground as
the turbulent Mohawk River poured
huge volume of water into the Hud-
son The town is at the confluence
Of the two streams.
Hoosick Falls, N Y, rushed work
on a new steel bridge. The struc-
ture, two-thirds complete, is endan-
gered by rising waters. Automobiles
we're smashed at WasSaic. N. Y, as
an ice jam in Turkey Hollow Brook
broke and smashed down on the vii
lage.
Villages Isolated.
Chenango Bridge, little town near
Bmghamton. N Y. was cut off by
flood waters and plunged into dark
IltSS IdSl IllSIIl Wy ldlIlllS ClCNlL IL IlS
poles Delaney, N. Y, and other
villages also were isolated and Balm
bridge was without power.
Water stood a foot deep in some
streets at Kingston, N Y, as in some
sections of Queens, New York City
Many highways were flooded
The Monongahela, which joins with
the Allegheny at Pittsburgh to form
the Ohio River, was rushing yellow
sea. Water crept toward the flood
stage. Thirty barges broke away from
a dock near Uniontown, Pa. and one
smashed over a dam. Floods also
threatened Wheeling, w. Va
200 Homes Threatened.
In the South. the Cumberland
River at Nashville, Tenn, was above
flood stage and threatened to inun-
date homes of 200 families. The
river passed the 40-foot flood stage
this week end and a possible 45-foot
crest was predicted by Wednesday or
Thursday.
Rivers in Alabama and Georgia
were out of their banks, but observers
said the waters probably would not
rise high enough to cause damage
In Birmingham, Ala, hundreds of
Negroes, forced out by flooded village
creek, returned to their homes.
Evening star., 1934-03-05
ANNUAL DINNER HELD
BY DRAMATIC STARS
More Than 120 Who Took Part
in OneAct Play Tourna-
ment Attend.

The annual dinner of the members
Of the groups that took part in the
one-act play tournament, sponsored
by the Community Center. was held
last night at the Parrot Tea House.
More than 100 players were present
c. Melvin Sharpe, chairman CT the
preliminary judges in the recent con-
test, was postmaster and introduced
the speakers Mrs Elizabeth K. Peo-
Piles, director of the Community Cen
ter department. expressed her ap-
proval of the satisfactory manner in
which the seasons tournament had
been handled
DR.. Stephen E. Kramer, assistant
superintendent of schools; Nelson B.
Bell, dramatic editor of the Wash
lngton Post. and Andrew R. Kelley,
dramatic editor Of the Washington
Times, were guest speakers
Miss Hannah Stolar of the Jewish
Community Center, Denis E. Connell
OF the Central Community Center.
Mrs Maud Howell Smith of the Arts
Club, Arthur Rhodes of the Troupers
Of East Washington Community Gen.
ter and Mrs Aurora Poston of the
Columbia Players spoke for their Or
ganizations
William F. Raymond. Fred East
and Miss Hannah Stolar gave the
musical features of the evening. DR..
Frederick " Rand was chairman of
the Committee on Arrangements.
Evening star., 1934-03-05

accordance with the laws that brought
it into being!
When it was promulgated, Febru-
ary IA, 1919, the League was well
coined as living being" destined to
participate in the peaceful develop
ment Of the life Of all the nations of
the world The history of the develop
ment of this being" is peculiar-it
has never outgrown its childhood.
Germany's collapse was brought about
by a constellation that has appeared
once only in the history Of the uni
verse. If this grouping Of the powers
during the four years of its existence
was itself unnatural, how are we to
characterize the thought that is de-
sirous of pepetuating this grouping?
The part allotted to Germany by
the treaty Of Versailles never did &C
cord with her internal energy, her
unbroken will to live and her cultural
and economic capabilities The cquili-
brium of the whole world was upset
by the issue of the war. The diff
cult though grateful task of the
League of Nations might have been
slowly to restore an equilibrium which
would have made it possible for the
European nations, which had borne
the chief burden of the war, to live
together at peace. But the Geneva
League has never realized its actual
task and is therefore condemned to
unfruitfulness.
Distress Warrant"
While during the period immedi-
ately following the conclusion of the
war other means were employed for
the purpose Of making sure Of the
spoils, the League of Nations was a
distress warrant placed in the hands
of the victors. One of the most ad-
roit measures adopted was to call in
those nations which had remained
neutral during the Great War. They
had had nothing to say in the draw
ing up OF the treaty Of peace, but
were very welcome to help to enforce
it. Their presence impaired to the
Geneva resolutions a halo of judg-
ments approved by the whole world.
Thus that typical Geneva atmos-
phere was generated in which it was
difficult to maintain an unaffected
neutrality, and in which the over
whelming pressure of the victorious
nations extorted acts which were bet
ter left undone. At any rate, the in
tention to involve neutrals in politi-
cal squabbles and to load them with
responsibility by appointing them on
mandatory and control committees
was fulfilled. In turn, the fact of
the neutrals having become involved
in the Versailles disputes had a
detrimental effect-much to the in
convenience of all the parties con-
cerned-on their relations with Ger
many, with whom their economic and
political interests were in common.
Treaty Ethics Upheld.
The admittance Of Germany to
Geneva did not prove a success. For
one thing, it was soon found impos-
sible to attain any relaxation Of the
position of affairs in Europe so far
as any organic successive stages Of
development were concerned A feel
ing arose in Germany as if the treaty
of Versailles had been signed for the
second time and that its ethics were
now also fully approved. Again and
Evening star., 1934-03-05
W. A. CHANLER DIES

NEW YORK, March P).-Wil-
liam Astor Chanler, Sc. died yesterday
at Mention. France, members of his
family here were notified.
Chanler. member of one Of New
York's oldest families and a direct de-
scendant of Peter Stuyvesant, last
Dutch Governor Of New York. and OF
Roger Williams and John Winthrop
was a former member Of the State
House Of Representatives and Of the
National House of Representatives.
Evening star., 1934-03-05
SORROW LEADS TO JAIL
Check Larceny Charged in Orders
for Flowers for Funeral,

PORTLAND. Greg. March P)-
The sorrow that L. w. Pugh, SO, ex-
pressed by ordering flowers and
tombstones for persons who died,
regardless of whittier he knew them.
aroused the suspicious of Portland
police.
Yesterday they arrested Pugh on a
charge of check vasrancy. Detective
Bob Lasalle said Pugh rendered
worthless checks for the flowers and
tombstones and pocketed the change
In Jail Pugh said he needed an
examination.
Evening star., 1934-03-05
Urges Harbor Improvement.

Improvement of Savannah Harbor,
Ga, at an estimated cost of SLAP
900, with s500000 annually for main-
tenance, was recommended by Maj
Gen. E. M Markham, chief of Engi-
neers, today in report to the Sec
retary of War.
Evening star., 1934-03-05
HURT IN AUTO SKID
Mrs. John Skies Receives Head
Injury in Georgia Accident.

WAYCROSS, Ga, March R.-
Mrs. John Skies of Charlotte, N c.,
was injured when her automobile
skidded on wet pavement 20 miles
south Of here yesterday.
Hospital attendants said she suf-
fered a severe head injury and badly
lacerated ear. A daughter and SON.
in-law were reported as slightly hurt.
The party was en- route to Florida.
Evening star., 1934-12-07
GREW ABDUCTION
SCARE SPREADS
IS in Manchester, Mass,
Are Reported Threatened.
Girl Is Guarded.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANCHESTER. Mass. December I.
Reports that Is residents of the
exclusive North Shore Colony here had
received threatening letters circulated
today as an aftermath of the Eugene
Grew kidnap scare.
One report said number had paid
large sums to insure the safety of their
children Although Federal agents said
they had heard the reports, there ap-
parently was no official investigation,
pending receipt of formal complaint.
Miss Grew, 17-year-old daughter of
Randolph Clark Grew and niece of the
United States Ambassador to Japan,
was closely guarded by Justice De-
partment agents at the Grew home in
Boston as precautionary measure"
Grew said he had called on Federal
agents when two unrelated incidents"
had aroused an "inordinate fear of
kidnapping"
The first was telephone call during
which man, speaking abusively, had
hinted both Grew and his daughter
might be kidnapped. The other, he said,
occurred several days earlier. when his
daughter was followed from Gloucester
to the Grew Summer home here by
two men.
Grew said he had given the name
of the man he believed had been
abusive on the telephone to the
Federal agents and added Il think
myself. the man was drunk"
He said he had received no further
intimation of harm since the telephone
call Tuesday night.
Evening star., 1934-12-07
"MiIHOns and Murdpr'
Subject of Expose
in Today.
Operators Are Said to
Profit S75,OOO,OOO
Annually.

The mushroomlike growth Of the
numbers game into one Of the Nations
greatest industries TO which the peo-
pie of the country contribute 5000
900 900 a year and the net profits of
the operators aggregate SIS 900 900
annually is disclosed in the current
issue of Today. weekly news magazine
edited by Raymond Moley
In an article entitled Millions and
Murder" Dayton Stoddart takes the
reader behind the scenes of this latest
and probably best-operated racket in
the history of the country.
1t is a racket. Stoddart says, that
coaxes s6.000,000 a week from the
public: a racket that is ideal for high
powered gangs, being on cash basis
and easy to manipulate; racket that
in a few years has grown from
''pastime of Harlem Negroes, in New
York. to the golden treasury of gangs
from coast to coast-their ace in the
hole-a racket that feeds on the poor,
reaches to the judiciary at times and
whose trail can be traced through
blood and bribery"
Half of Workers Victims.
Stoddart writes:
Close to half the industrial workers
Of the country are eager victims every
day. canvassed and cajoled By 10000
statesmen of the numbers ring. Ten
million bets are made daily to reach
the quota of sl000,O0O: they average
a dime each, with the occasional 81
Evening star., 1934-12-07
Numbers Games Grip on Nation
Barred in Magazine article
The Numbers
Racket.

BY special permission from the
editors Of Today. The Star here
with presents the important parts
of the article entitled Millions
and Murder" description of
the numbers racket, which ap-
pears in the current issue Of that
magazine on sale at the news
stands today
The article is OF interest In
Washington, where the numbers
racket" thrives; a racket which
United States Attorney Garnett
has declared represents "one Of
the most vicious forms Of gam
bling in the District"
The game here is conducted
chiefly by use of the total prices
paid on the first three races at
important tracks. Mr.. Garnett
has asked newspapers to cooper
ate in suppressing the numbers
racket by refusing to print these
totals-of interest to no one ex-
cept the numbers players.
Four Washington newspapers.
The Star. the Post. the Herald
and the Times. have agreed to
such cooperation, or have ceased
publication of the numbers in the
form used by the gamblers.
Washington radio stations have
pledged cooperation to the same
effect.
Evening star., 1934-12-07
NUMBERS RACKET
TEST CASE CHOSEN
Operator Is Indicted
After Testimony by
Policeman.

The District grand jury today re-
turned an indictment against an al
legged numbers racket operator,
which will be used by District Attor-
ney Leslie c. Garnett as a test case
of the strength of the District laws
against policy games.
The grand jurors, however, ignored
a presentment against operators of a
Claw machine" the legal status OF
which has been in question for some
time. Garnett announced after the
ignoramus had been returned that
this would end his efforts to prevent
use of the claw machines. He said he
would write letter to that effect to
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintendent
of police. later in the day.
The numbers indictment was in
81 counts, some of which had to do
with placing bets not on numbers, but
on the races The case was built up
by Policeman j. D. Loughrin. who, &C
cording to his statement, made a num-
Der of visits last month to restaurant
at 2514 L street. Marcos Lunch" :"
where the numbers and the races could
De played.
Testifies on Bets.
At various times. according to his
report. he placed bets on the races and
on the numbers, and the counts of the
indictment deal with the various bets
placed individually.
Some Of the counts charge that the
defendants, Peter Stegos and John
Peter Marcos, on various dates, did
sell " certain ticket purporting
and intending to guarantee and assure
to j. D. Loughrin chance Of drawing
and obtaining a prize to be drawn in
a certain lottery of the kind commonly
known as the numbers game"
Other counts, relating to the same
Continued on Page 4, Column D.
Evening star., 1934-12-07
PRESIDENT HEARS
LAF0LLETTEPLAN
Sees Wisconsin Brothers
and Resumes Cabinet
Sessions.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
President Roosevelt today continued
preparation of a new work-relief pro-
gram, setting aside the luncheon hour
for a discussion with Senator Robert
NJ La Toilette of Wisconsin and his
brother. Philip La Toilette, Governor
elect of that State
Senator La Toilette is an advocate
Of huge public works spending pro-
gram. There are indications that Mr..
Roosevelt is seriously considering such
a move to provide jobs until industry
can pick up the slack in employment.
The President. who is keeping his
own counsel on his whole legislative
program. also held his first cabinet
meeting since he departed three weeks
- for the South.
Confident of Improvement.
During that trip and throughout the
Summer Mr.. Roosevelt devoted him
self to a study of the national situa-
ton. He appears to be confident Of
steady improvement
Mr. Roosevelt also had on his calling
list David Lilienthal. power director
of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Mr.. Roosevelt is keenly interested in
this development as a means Of pro-
viding a national yardstick for power
rates.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt arranged
to receive members of the White
House staff late today in the newly
completed executive office.
The President will make speech
next Monday night at $50 O'Clock
before the Anti-Crime Association
meeting here. In all probability he
will make his next report TO the Ma
tion over the radio a week from Sun
day night
In connection with the Presidents
unified recovery effort informed
sources say he may ask Congress to
appropriate at least s4000.000 1000.
Two Distinctive Features.
There are two distinctive features
to this program. as outlined by per-
sons closely in touch with develop
| ments
l. 1t would aim to provide work for
millions now drawing direct relief
funds.
2. The Government would seek to
coordinate its spending into one
broad program in which the money
spent would serve not only to relieve
present needs. but advance Mr.. Roose-
velt's long g-term plans for a more
abundant life.
Some advisers foresaW central
fund, with a minimum of S4000,00O,- =
900, from which money would be
shared out to carefully chosen prof.
ects. A proposal to put one central
agency in charge of the fund has
been considered but. like other details.
Mr.. Roosevelt's attitude on this has
not been disclosed.
Evening star., 1934-12-07
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, December To
day was pay day" for Americas first
named woman public enemy"-Helen
Gillis, widow of the late Baby Face
Nelson.
PAY day" found her alone in cell,
heavily guarded by Government off,
GERS, awaiting arraignment in Federal
court for sentence to year and day
in a Federal reformatory-the price
uor her presence at the recent machine
gun battle at Darlington. ILL.,, when
Baby Tace" and two Federal agents,
Samuel Cowley and Herman Hollis,
were slain.
For Mrs. Gillis it was the same fate
that has followed the lives Of the men,
bers of the mob of the late John Dill
Evening star., 1934-12-07
''Pay Day" for Nelson's Widou
Will Send Her to i. S. Prison

linger, whose men. living by the gun,
die by the gun, while their women
folk go to prison.
The widow was the sixth of the Dill
linger gangs women to pay the price.
She is to be sent to the Federal Wom-
ems Industrial Institute at Anderson,
w. Va.
Apparently unaware that Mrs.
Gillis had been brought to Madison
yesterday. petition was filed in Fed
eral Court at Chicago in behalf of Mel
sons sister, Mrs. Juliette Fitzsimmons,
for writ of habeas corpus for Mel
sons widow
Technically. the charge against Mrs.
Gillis, was violation of the probation
she won with Rose Ancker and Jean
Crompton last May. when arraigned
on charge of harboring Dillinger.
Evening star., 1934-12-07

IS. or $40 wager bolstering the flood
OF nickels and dimes.
Ten thousand statesmen solicit trade
for this racket in New York alone.
The unusual thing about the numbers
game. where it is well organized, IS
that it seeks you out if you are poor
and need money. And even if you
don't. it may solicit your business, any
way.
Fantastic and melodramatic as
Continued on Page 8, Column %
Evening star., 1934-12-07
Two Held in Killing.

SINGAPORE, December (Pl.-
Two leading members of the Japanese
colony were arrested today during
widespread police Investigations fol-
lowing the sudden death of Y. Nishi-
mura, president of the Singapore jap
anese Association. while he was being
questioned at Secret Service head
quarters.
Evening star., 1934-12-07
EXECUTIVE, MISSING TWO
YEARS, IS FOUND ALIVE
Father Reports Man, Believed
Drowned, Is Now in South
America.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, December =
Lee Schlesinger. department store ex-
ecutive who disappeared at Portland.
Oreg.. two years ago under circum-
stances indicating he drowned, is alive
and doing we'll in South America.
his father, B. F. Schlesinger, an
nounced here today.
Schlesinger vanished the night of
December %, 1882. His motor car
was subsequently found in the Colum-
bia River of Vancouver dock.
Although the father did not disclose
where in South America his son is
living. it was reported Schlesinger has
found employment in Buenos Aires
and has invited his wife to join him.
Evening star., 1934-12-07
Bryan's Sister Dies.

LINCOLN, Nebr., December GP).-
Mrs. j. w. Baird rs, eldest sister of
Gov. Charles w. Bryan, died today at
her home here after an illness of about
two weeks. Her husband died about a
year ago. Mrs. Baird's maiden name
was Frances Bryan. She is survived
by a daughter. son. the Governor
and a sister, all of Lincoln.