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Evening star., 1936-11-25
H0LD-UP VICTIMS
TO VIEW SUSPECT
Taxi Driver Held in $4,000
Bond to Face Lineup
Tonight.

Harry E. Blackwell, "a. q tsxicab
driver, who is being held under $4,000
bond on two charges of robbery and
one of attempted robbery, will be faced
by q lineup of recent hold-up VIC
tins at police headquarters tonight
in an attempt to identify him with
other crimes.
The cab driver is charged with at
tempting to hold up Edith Sandiland,
cashier at cleaning and dyeing estab-
lishment at 1926 Wisconsin avenue last
Wednesday. The robbery was thwarted
when the cashier pretended to faint
and the would-be bandit fed in con-
fusion.
The other two charges involve the
robbery last week Of Robert K. Sutton
at a filling station at Georgia avenue
and Park road and the hold-up Of
Lillian Jenkins in a cleaning and dye
ing shop at 814 Fourteenth street.
Sutton was robbed of S45 and Miss
Jenkins of $50
In all three cases the victims told
police the bandit brandished a small
caliber revolver.
Several robberies and housebreak-
ings were reported to police during
the last "A hours.
John c. Canelopoulos, 50, of 1117
Eighth street, music director of the
Greek Orthodox Church, Eighth and
L streets. was held up by three colored
women last night in front of the
church. One of the women. he told
police. grabbed him from behind while
the others searched him. They took
only blank paper pad, however.
Other victims inclu1ed Mrs. Zoe
Whyte, 401 Twenty-third street, who
reported the theft of nearly $l00
worth of jewelry from her bed room;
Edward H. Halbach, 1925 Park road.
who told police he was robbed Of
several pieces of jewelry of unesti-
mated value, and Annie Aspinwall,
1412 Fifteenth street, whose pocket
book containing $14 was snatched by
a colored girl.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
c. .W.R|TESBEGUN
FOR HOMECOMING
Rallies and Building Dedi-
cation Will Be Held
Today.

Rallies by students and alumni OF
George Washington University in the
university yard shortly before noon
today and again this afternoon at
the same place marked the beginning
of the schools two-day homecoming
celebration.
At II o'clock all classes were dis
missed for IS minutes and more than
800 students and graduates assembled
to hear a series of organized cheers,
an intermittent band concert and
three tuning up" speeches for the
annual Thanksgiving celebration.
DR.. William c. Ruediger, universi'
provost: Hugh H. Clegg, assistant
director of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation and homecoming chair
man, and Head Foot Fall Coach Jim
Pixlee made the addresses. They well
coined the former students and urged
the student body and alumni to pre-
pare themselves ''for a real battle" in
the George Washington-West Virginia
foot ball game to be held tomorrow
afternoon at Grifith Stadium.
Building Dedication.
Outstanding in today's program,
however, is the dedication of the new
Social Science Hall, to be held in
front of the building, on G street be-
tween Twentieth and Twenty-first
streets
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president.
will give the dedication address at
5 pm. G street will be closed to
traffic for the ceremonies. No cards
of invitation have been issued and
the public is invited to attend.
The ceremonies will open with Sc
lections by the University Band. Rev.
Charles Enders, pastor of Concordia
Lutheran Church, will offer the In
vocation. After President Marvin's
address the corner stone, containing
current and historic university docu-
ments, will be placed in position. Dean
Elmer Louis Kayser, university mar
shall, will preside.
Beginning at pm. and continuing
until 6, visiting alumni will be enter
tanned at tea in Strong Hall. the uni
versity's new dormitory for women.
The second outdoor rally Of the day
will come Is minutes before the dedi-
cation of the Social Science Hall.
Rally at Theater.
A third rally Is scheduled at II pm.
at the Rialto Theater.
This will be q pep" meeting pre-.
paratory to the George Washington
West Virginia foot ball game. A rec.
ord attendance of alumni is expected
The celebration will end tomorrow
night with the Homecoming ball in thu
Hall of Nations of the Washington
Hotel, at which the West Virgins
foot ball team will be guests of honor
At the ball also, cup will be pre-
sented the g. w. U. fraternity whose
chapter house is judged the most ef.
fectively decorated for the homecom.
ing.
The General Alumni Association oi
the university Is sponsoring the an.
nual celebration, with the assistance
Of the university administration and
student body.
Evening star., 1936-11-25

penter, police oficias ordered them
guarded "a hours q day for their
"own protection"
Objecting to these precautions. the
two men filed suit for an injunction
to prevent the police from following
them, contending the constant sur
veilance was threatening to ruin their
health and business.
This suit was dismissed by Justice
Daniel W. O'Donoghue, who said the
question of watching the witnesses
was within the discretion Of the su-
perintendent Of police.
O'Brien allegedly was put on the
spot" by three carloads OF men vino
fred on him In the 200 block OF Sec
ond street southeast. He was wounded
but recovered.
Behrle and Carpenter, said by police
TO have seen the shooting, were placed
under guard November 10.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
Werber Is Victor
In Court Battle
With Policeman
Hyattsuille Judge Dis.
misses Charge Against
Athlete.

Bill werber, 20, Boston Red Sox
third baseman, won his court battle to-
day with Sergt. Ralph Brown Of the
Hyattsville police.
Werber was charged by Brown with
"using profane language in a police
station" last Monday during an argu-
ment over court proceedings of that
day. werber, after being fined $40 for
exceeding a 25-mile-per-hour speed
limit, invited the Hyattsville policeman
to take of your badge and gun and
step outside" A heated argument en-
sued.
Arraigned in Hyattsville Police Court
before Judge George Merrick today, the
Judge said there was no such charge
as drawn up and dismissed the case.
Judge Merrick last week dismissed
a charge Of reckless driving against
Werber which grew out Of the same
incident as his speeding arrest, on the
ground the warrant was Improperly
drawn.
Werber, who lives In College Heights
Nd, formerly was a star athlete al
Tech High School and Duke Univer-
sity.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
P|NBALL BANNED
ASRUL|NC DENIES
INJUNCTION WRIT
a. Hours Given Operators
to Withdraw Machines
in District.
COMPANIES TO ASK
u. S. COURT REVIEW
Claw Devices to Be Tested as to
Legality in Replevin Suit
on Two Seized.

A formal order dismissing the in
junction suit brought by the Pioneer
Novelty Distributing Corp. to prevent
threatened police seizure of pin ball
machines was signed in District Court
shortly after noon today by Justice
Daniel w. O'Donoghue. United States
Attorney Leslie c. Garnett imme-
diately requested Police Supt. Ernest
w. Brown to give operators "a hours
notice to withdraw their machines.
II any of the banned devices are
found in operation a full day after
the warning is received, they will be
seized by police as "evil chattels."
Justice O'Donoghue, who expressed
informally from the bench Monday
afternoon his belief that pin ball is
a game of chance and within the
prohibition of the gambling statutes,
also denied today a motion for q
temporary injunction pending DISPOSE
ton of an appeal from his dismissal
of the suit.
Plea for Restraining Order.
Notifying the court of his intention
to seek review of the case by the
United States Court of Appeals, At
torney william r. Lichtenberg, rep
resenting the pin ball company. con-
tended his client already would have
suffered irreparable injury should the
appellate tribunal reverse Justice
O'Donoghue's decision. He insisted
that police should be restrained from
seizing pin ball machines until the
matter is acted upon by the Court
of Appeals.
THE court cannot shut its eyes
to the fact that the complaint against
these machines is that they are being
used in violation of the criminal law"
Justice O'Donoghue replied. After
hearing testimony presented here, !
came to the conclusion that their op-
Grafton was q violation of the criminal
law.
"On one hand, we have the damage
to the property rights of the plaintiff
should refuse this injunction. and on
the other hand, the public probably
would have lost several million dol
lars playing the machines in the seven
or eight months necessary to dispose
of the appeal. think the public in.
terest should prevail"
Pay Machines Affected.
Pin ball machines which are played
entirely for amusement do not come
under the district attorneys ban. Gar.
nett specified that only those which
pay-off in some manner should bt
seized. Included among these are ma.
chimes on which the proprietor of the
store gives prizes for high scores.
In his verbal opinion Monday
Justice O'Donoghue said testimony in.
dicated that there are 10000 illega
pin ball machines operating in Wash
ington and that they do a busines.
amounting to 30,oO0,O0 a year.
Assistant United States Attorney
John J. Wilson represented the Gov.
ernment during the lengthy trial ol
the injunction suit.
Claw machines, now being operated
under a preliminary injunction grant.
ed last Summer by Judge Oscar H
Luhring of District Court, will bt
tested as to legality soon in a replevir
suit brought by the owner of two ma.
chimes which were seized by polio,
last March. Wilson also will repre-.
sent the Government in that case.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
TWO TURKEYS in LOOT
OF STORE BURGLARS

All the essentials for Q number OF
Thanksgiving dinners, with something
left over for Christmas, were stolen
early today by burglars who broke
into q chain grocery at $3.50 M street.
The loot consisted Of . turkeys. 2
hams, ( small sacks Of nour. IL pounds
Of butter. 8 pounds Of cheese, 70 pounds
of valnuts and 10 cartons Of cigarettes.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Marine Band Symphony
Orchestra in the Marine Barracks at
8 pm. today. Capt. Taylor Branson.
leader.
Program.
Prayer Of Thanksgiving" g"---Kromser
Overture, "The Men Of
Prometheus" Beethoven
Fantasia, Romeo and
Juliet" -Tschaikowsky
Violin solo with orchestra accom-
paniment, Concerto in B Minor"
on. 20 d'Ambrosio
Soloist, Musician Albert schoepper.
Symphonic ballade.
Tam O'Shanter"- Chadwick
Symphonic tone poem. BLANK"
from Ma vlast" t"--------Smetana
"The star-spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1936-11-25
Malfeasance Laid to Officer.

ANNAPOLIS, November Is R.-
The Ann Arundel County Grand Jury
presented Special Offlcer William S.
Starlings Of the first district for NAL
feasance during June, July, August.
September, October and November Of
this year.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
Library Holiday Schedule

The Library Of Congress will main-
tain its regular holiday service tomor.
row. It viii b opsn from pm. TO
10 pnA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
UNION PARTY ON
 VOTING MACHINES

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
GOV. FITZGERALD
 HITS BLACK LEGION
Police Chief Explains

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
NEWSPAPER GUILD
 ENDS ONE STRIKE
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(Continued from Page l) clement of the strike which began February 17. Tickets and police were involved in several tussles dur Ing the strike and the National Guild President, Haywood Broun, once was jailed in connection with Q demonstration. The arbitration committee announced that the man. agement promised better relation ships" with employees. It was agreed the committee said, that strikers maintain the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild as their economic organization for the protection of their mem- bership."
 Guild Gains Nothing
 New York, Sept. 2.-(UP)-set- clement of the Wisconsin news strike constitutes neither Q recognition of the American Newspaper Guild nor an agreement between the newspa- per and the Guild, H. H. Bitner, general manager of the Hearts newspapers, of which the News is one, said today. "Twelve of the original strikers have decided, we are informed, to 90 back to work today, purely as individuals" Bitner said. "The Wisconsin News has accorded no recognition-made no settlement with the Guild. The Guild has simply called off its strike" Bitner said that working conditions and the salary schedules of the newspaper had not been changed.
 "They will 90 back to work under standard practices as announced and put in force by the Wisconsin News about six months" he said, "a per diem minimum of eight dollars for experienced news men and standard vacations and sick leave on pay. The present sched- ule of office practices is not Q con- tract with anyone. Nor has there been any agreement as to the length of future employment of the men returning to work. That will be determined by the quality of ser- vice they render"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02

members of the vice keep c nightly watch on districts which in the past hAve attained regulations of being vice centers in Waterbury.
 Meanwhile, the federal campaign which iS being conducted in two other states besides Connecticut, continues Nl full force. Arraigned yesterday afternoon before U. 6. Commissioner William J. Wholeagl in Hartford, Frank Kruclas, alias Frank Drake of New Haven, was bound over under bond of $2,600 as Q material witness. He was lodged in New Haven county jail.
 Kruckas Worked in Bethany
 Kruckas for six years was eni- ployed ct the Litchfield Grill in Bethany, formerly known as the Btehany hotel. It was the raid on this establishment which resulted in the first group of arrests in the investigation. Agents said that Kruckas worked for Michael Taver- ner, already held in jail on charges of violating the Mann act, and Bethany Joe" saledonis, of Beth. any, arrested in Maine on fugitive warrant issued on similar charges.
 9 to Dc AFraigned
 Thirty-Seven persons will be ar- raigned before the federal grand jury in New Haven September IS as . result of the investigation, which now Is entering its fifth week. Latest development in the cleanup is . re- quest that the state board of health do everything in ibs power to cope with . "serious situation arising from the investigation of the alleged white slave traffic In Connecticut"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
Hostages Executed
 As Irun Is Battered
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ing miners. A column of loyalists from Santander arrived during the night to strengthen the miners, and the net about the city Is tightening. News came to the besiegers this morning that a rebel column is ad- vancing on Trubia, only seven miles west of Oviedo, in an effort to break the siege.
 Spanish Loyalist Headquarters, Bilboa, Sept. 3 = (UP) = Loyalists reports of yesterdays fighting at Irun said that bodies of about 50 rebel dead could be counted from the loyalist positions. Most of the dead were Moors. One Moor, the reports said, was taken while trying to cross the Bidassoa river. He was captured after screaming in his na- tive dialect--his arm raised in the Marxist salute--that he was trying to desert because the rebels made him and other Moors fight always in the front rank.
 Spanish Rebel Headquarters, Avila, Sept. 2-CUP)-Four rebel airplanes have bombed and set fire to the great Hispano-Suiza autono- bile factory at 0uadalajara, S5 miles from Madrid, which the gov- ernment mobilized for manufacture of airplane motors and war materi- als, 1t was announced today. The planes were those which bombed Madrid early Monday morning. They continued on northeastward to bomb the factory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02

SeSSOrs
 Police Chief Explains
 Police Chief Charles MacMillan of Pontiac, another official whom Judge George B. Hartrick exposed, admitted his connection with the hooded order but said he entered 1t through a misapprehension. Other officials-State Rep. Joseph A. Long; David Pence, Oakland county prose- cutor; Milo D. McClintock, assist ant prosecutor and school board member; George c. Johnston, city treasurer; Charles W. Cole, state tax board branch director; and Burton P. Daugherty, attorney and member of the Pontiac police and fire trial board-said they might make statements later.
 12 to Be Tried
 While the grand jury report rocked Oakland county, selection of jury to try l2 members of the legion on a murder charge continued in ad- joining Wayne county (Detroit) {. The defendants were kept hand- cuffed together in court. Twenty two of 92 available veniremen were dismissed yesterday because of opin- ions they already had formed. Nearly 90 men have been indicted, as members of the Black Legion, for murder, arson, Kidnapping and assault. Twenty-two are accused of criminal syndicalism, meaning that they plotted forcible overthrow of the government.
 Mystery Word "Lixt0'
 Judge Hartrick reported that in his three-month investigation he heard repeated mention of Q Inyste- rious word, "Lixto," which he under stood to be signal intended to mobilize Black Legion members ila- tionally for a rnomentous event they had arranged to occur two weeks from today. For what reason?" he asked. "Was there to be e rebellion against the government 2" Lyle Tabor, member of 6 Pontiac citi- zens committee which demanded the grand jury investigation, said the committee was prepared to use mass action to force authorities to rid their ranks of the Black Legion taint. Judge Hartrick said in his report that "the Black Legion's Oakland county grip is broken and 1t is now up to the public to finish the cleanup"
 Japan has a horde of tourists,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
FUNERAL PLANS
 FOR LIEUT.-GOV.

Boston, Sept. 2-(UP)-F'uneral services for former Lieutenant Governor Edward Patrick Barry, 71, who died suddenly of 6 heart ail- ment yesterday, will be held at Our Lady of Lourdes church in Jamaica Plain at 10 a. m. Friday.
 Governor James M. Curley will head a delegation of state and city dignitaries who will attend the sol- emn requiem mass, to be followed by burial in Hollywood cemetery, Brookline.
 Barry, lawyer, was lieutenant governor under Governor David I. Walsh from 1914 to 1916.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
WAR NEWS WAS
 TELEPHONED
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rid to the London office in quiet Bouverie street, off Fleet street where Johnson and Boswell used to foregather and through which Samuel Pepys used to go on his way between the city and Westminster.
 Clearly Audible
 Everything that went on was clearly audible. We could hear the hum of airplane motors and the oc- casional thuds of guns or bombs, and the screaming sirens of police cars giving the alarm. It wildly re- called the air raids of the World war on London, which some mem- bers of the United Press staff re- member vividly. Surprisingly, the usually cat-like censor did not in- terrupt the conversation as Pflaum remarked occasionally:
 Did you hear that?"
 "1'll tell you when there is a really big bang"
 "Now can hear the plane motors overhead"
 Faint Hum of Motors
 Here Pflaum paused so that the faint hum of the motors (no gov- ernment planes fly over the city between dusk and dawn) and the muffled boom of anti-aircraft guns could be heard plainly. The sounds even registered on recording ap- paratus, as Pflaum dictated slowly in order to permit us in London to hear the noise of Madrid's war. Af- ter dictating his news. Pflaum read off hundreds of words of "hay" so that the censor would not cut him off and he would be able to send the news of whatever happened. But the noise died out as the planes depart ed, and Pflaum rang off.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
AMERICANS ARE
 QUITTING MADRID
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morning, all street lights were ex- tinguished. Police cars circulated without head lamps and nobody was permitted on the streets but militia guards and newspaper men. The planes-as in other European capitals in the World War have not cowed the people. At first called the "blackbirds" because they are painted black, the rebel raiders are now popularly called the "Chur- rero"-the fritter men, because like the men who sell fritters on the streets they appear only early in the morning.
 Rebels Denounced
 A government communique on Monday mornings raid denounced the rebels for bombing an open city, praised the townspeople for their courage under fire and their compliance with air alarm orders.
 It boasted that while rebel sol- diers were deserting, the Spanish people were sending to Madrid from the provinces carloads of foods not "levied" from them under threats of execution but voluntarily; that foreign visitors were arriving ct and leaving Madrid comfortably by train and that the "besieged" ca pital was in full telegraphic and telephone communication with the world.
 President Keeps Watch
 Aboard Presidential Special, Sept. 2-(UP)-Presiden Roosevelt may change his plans and return direct- ly to Washington instead of Hyde Park next Sunday because of the potentialities contained in the bombing of the U. s. Destroyer Kane last Sunday, 1t was reported today.
 The president, aboard his special train, retraced an easterly course through the drouth area today, en route to Des Moines and @ confer~ ence tomorrow with Gov. Aim M. Landon, republican presidential nominee, and other midwest gov- ernors. He attended funeral ser- vices of George II. Dern, secretary of war, in Salt Lake City yester- day.
 Though the president had no comment, Washington dispatches reflected official fear of some .diss turbing incident 50 long as Amer ican warships remain in Spanish waters and American nationals are in Spain. Had bombs from the Spanish plane struck the Kane, the resultant situation would have been grave.
 In Close Touch
 MT. Roosevelt kept in close touch with the capital and conditions abroad. Special telephone lines strung through an open window of his car ct operating stops gave him immediate contact with the state department and Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
 It was reported also that the president would defer his an- nounced radio address to the nation on the drouth situation until he Is back in Washington. It had been planned for him to deliver such an address from Indianapolis this Fri- day.
 MT. Roosevelt's train will take him across Utah and Wyoming to- day to Julesburg, Colo, where he will hear the drouth reports of lo- cal officials and talk with farmers, thence to North Platte, Neb., where Gov. Roy L. Cochran was expected to come aboard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
LABOR SPLIT IN
 CONN. WIDENS
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 am in favor of this party because 1t gives opportunity to all working class groups to unite on common ground. While many members of the progressive group may vote oth- erwise, I personally will vote for Norman Thomas and Jasper Mo- Levy Bridgeport mayor and guber- material candidate), despite what Brother Egan may say.
 "Egan's claim that I control the 100 progressive delegates to the convention in untrue. I am simply one of the 100. We will hold our statewide caucus in Bridgeport, and there our policies will be de- cided.
 "This is not one-man organiza- tion."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
BOY WAS SHOT
 BY PLAYMATE

Danielson, Conn, Sept. 2.-(UP) Marcel Levesque, 12, was in Q seri- ouS condition today with Q bullet in his abdomen, fired by Q play mate as they were rowing on Quine- baug river late yesterday.
 Dr. Cecil Qarcin removed the slug ct Day Kimball hospital and said there was slight hope of his recov- cry.
 State Policeman Charles Heckler said the, shot was fired by Thomas Gilbert, IS, who was 50 disturbed over the accident that he threat ened to commit suicide before row. ing his boat to shore. Gilbert was not held.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
ORGANIZED VICE
 IS WIPED OUT

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02

ed by Miss Egan that there have been very few rejections on the list of names attached to the Puckey petition.
 O'Nelll Yet To File
 Up to early this afternoon Ter renee J. O,Neil had failed to file any additional names to his orig inal petition for Q place on the local voting machines registered with Town Clerk Egan more than month ago. According to Mir. O. Neill he plans to get in his petition in time to comply with the state laws governing elections.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
BUSINESS VERY
 MUCH IMPROVED

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