Evening star., 1935-04-18
Z ARE INDICTED
|NNARCOT|CSALES
Report by Federal Agents
Indicates Large Traffic
in Capital Area.

The recent Federal drlVe against
narcotic peddlers in Washington re-
suited today in the indictment of IL
persons by the District grand jury.
Reports submitted by the Govern
ment investigators indicate narcotics
are being sold on large scale in the
business and residential sections.
Those indicted are:
Bessie Snow, 442 K street: Thomas
la Page no fixed address; Mosby
Williams and Mae Lee, 937 New York
avenue; Clay Nichols, 2122 P street;
Russell " Clayborne and Dorothy
Tanner, both of 921 Hamilton street;
Carl Belohlovek. 1853 @ street; Ben
jamin H. Woolf and Lucille Woolf,
both of 1887 Seventeenth street:
Charles Nader, 807 Ninth street. and
Clyde c. Conner, no fixed address.
The defendants were arrested in
March and all are charged with violat-
ing the Harrison narcotic act.
Indicted in Gard Game.
Two colored men who allegedly
volunteered to instruct Rudolph c.
OMeara, Cherrydale, Va. in the fine
points of three-card monte also were
indicted by the grand jury.
O'Meara told the jury the defen-
dants. Fenton Meredith and Elvin
Collins, let him pick the red card the
first three times when only quarter
was at stake, but that the card he
thought was red turned out to be
black on two $40 bets.
Alleged to have taken $685. and some
jewelry from Fred B. Harper after
threatening him with a gun, Frank
H. Acton and Reuben Rose were
charged with robbery 1t is charged
they went to Harper's apartment. 1888
New Hampshire avenue. on March 8
and took the money from him.
Harper said he could not identify
either Of the men. but Acton, accord
ing to police, confessed.
Cited for Nom Support.
Gcttleib C. Klein was indicted for
non-support of his 7o-year-old wife,
Bertha M. Klein, 30l5 Sixteenth street
northeast. Klein, a retired Bureau of
Standards employe, allegedly failed to
keep an agreement to pay her $50 a
month entered into after an earlier
indictment had been dropped.
David Meadows, colored. was 10
dicted for the first degree murder of
Alfred Jordan, also colored, last March
6. 1t is charged he stabbed Jordan
with butcher knife after fight in
the rear of 205 r street.
The grand jury IGNORED libel charges
against Thomas T. Connolly, former
Boston Navy Yard employe, in an
automobile bearing signs attacking
Senators Walsh and Coolidge and
Representative Rogers of Massachu-
sets. He was arrested March at
Seventh and H streets after large
crowd had gathered around his car to
read the signs.
Cleared in Traffic Death.
Wilfred F. Jones was absolved Of
responsibility for the traffic death OF
Roger T. DIP Bois last September IS.
Du Bois was killed while riding with
Jones when the latter's car collided
With a taxicab at Fourth and K
streets northeast.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, are:
Theodore Brown, Joy riding; James
Charles and James Jackson, house.
breaking; Herman Walker, Herman
Hawkins, Wiley Crouch. Alphonzo
Monroe, Lawrence o. Chapman and
Sylvester L. Thomas. housebreaking
and larceny: Richard A. Estep, Au-
gustus A. Schraeder, Walter Dean
and Roy F. Anthony, grand larceny;
Ruth Smith, robbery; James Gregory
and James Ford, assault with dan
gerous weapon; Ira B. Moore. assault
with intent to commit carnal knowl-
edge; Charles Mitchell, depreda--
ton on private property; Harry Her.
man jacobson, attempting to sell OBJ
scene pictures; George F. Shoemaker,
forging and uttering Government
check; George M. Washington, steal
ing Government property, and James
w. Hart and Arthur E. Kennedy,
abortion.
The jury cleared the following Of
the charges indicated:
Robert M. Lee, John Douglas and
Solomon Temple, housebreaking and
larceny; Virgil Eads, assault with a
dangerous weapon; William H. Ander-
son, violating liquor act; John
Howard, gambling; Robert L. j. Car
mody, false pretenses, and Ellsworth
Newman. homicide.