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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
BANKS SW|NDLED
OF S13,0DOBY PAIR
Richmond Attachment Pro-
ceeding Starts Hunt for
Suspects.
Ry the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va. May 3o.-The
fleeing of Richmond banks was dis
closed in attachment proceedings in
City Circuit Court today, designed to
prevent two men from withdrawing
an estimated balance of 1000 to their
credit.
Police said they were looking for
two men who operated under the
names of Fred B. Reeves. John Y.
Clancy, B. r. Swift and E. c. Pitt.
They had conducted a novelty shop
here from the middle of April until
last week, officers said. Bank off,
Gals said the total loss might reach
$4,000.
Check Forging Alleged.
The pair are wanted specifically
for the alleged forging of two checks,
aggregating $4,000, in the name Of T.
Justin Moore, Richmond attorney. The
forgeries came to light, police said,
when Moore was informed his ac-
count was overdrawn Thursday. An
examination showed the signatures to
be spurious.
The attachment papers disclosed
that Moore's name was forged to a
check for $1,000. made payable to
Pitt and Endorsed by Pitt and F. B.
Reeves and to a second check for
$4,000, payable to Swift and in
dorsed by Swift and Clancy.
Four Names Reported Used.
Authorities said the two opened &C
counts under the four names in four
banks here after beginning business
as curio shop and establishing
credit. How they secured Moore s
checks remained unknown.
Bankers said the number Of per-
sons who we're victims Of the swim
die would remain unknown pending
examination by depositors Of their
next bank statements. The forgeries
might have escaped detection until
that time, had the alleged swindlerS
not overdrawn the account.
The $4,000 was attached after the
check-up revealed that of approx
mately $4,000 on deposit under the
four names, all had been withdrawn
except that amount. The curio shop,
meanwhile, has closed.
The banks we're protected by for
gerry insurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
LUCIANO TO DENY
VICE LEADERSHIP
Ready to Take Stand in Own
Defense in $4,000, 900
Racket Trial.
Py the Associated Press.

~ the ASSOcl2ued PreSS.
NEW YORK, May 30.-Pictured by
State witnesses as the boss" of a
$4,000, 000-a-year vice syndicate,
Charles ("Lucky') Luciano tonight
was prepared to take the stand in
his own defense Monday and issue
blanket denial of the characterization.
AS Special Prosecutor Thomas z.
Dewey rested his case against the 10
alleged leaders of the huge combine
last night, Luciano told reporters:
IT certainly expect to be acquitted.
never was engaged in this racket
at ALL"
Identified as Boss"
Several of DeWey's As witnesses,
most of whom were engaged in the
white slave traffic themselves, identi-
fed Luciano as the man they under
stood to be the boss of the racket.
One of them, Nancy Presser, a
platinum blond who said she had been
on intimate terms with Luciano, at
tributed to him an ambition to or
ganize the city's bordellos along chain
store lines.
Operators Of disorderly houses told
of being assaulted and otherwise in
Inundated when they demurred at
paying tribute to Luciano's CO.
defendants. One madam testified her
''joint was wrecked" when she failed
to leap at an opportunity to join the
combine.
Luciano told interviewers, however
that he earned his living at the race
tracks and in other legitimate gam
bling enterprises. He never saw eight
Of the men accused of being his
lieutenants, he said, until he was
hailed into court with them.
Dewey Charges Threats.
Among those who fell in this cate
cory was Nancy Presser, the girl who
claimed to have been his intimate
friend.
Dewey, charging that some of his
witnesses had been threatened out OF
court, disclosed that Miss Presser had
changed her address suddenly after
testifying.
The number of defendants may be
reduced from 10 to 9 when the triaI
is resumed Monday. Jack Ellenstein
a booker of prostitutes, negotiated
through his counsel over the week enc
for an opportunity to plead guilty.
Three other bookers turned States
evidence at the start of the trial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
u. S.-BRAZIL TRADE
PACT SAFEGUARDED
Cabinet Member Says Proposed
Treaty With Reich Will In
volve $50, 000, 900 Exchange.

oy the Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRo, May 3o-A
member of the cabinet said today that
the proposed commercial accord with
Germany in its revised form involved
a reciprocal exchange of mercandise
valued at more than $3o,o00,o0o.
He emphasized, however, that
Finance Minister Artur Souza Costa
had agreed that the United States
Brazil treaty of February 2, 1885,
would be safeguarded.
Germanys signature to the pact
has been pending for a week It was
learned officially that the accord had
been revised since May % to raise the
proposed sale of Brazilian cotton to
Germany from $4,000 to $4,000 metric
tons.
At the current average price and
free rates of exchange this would
mean q sale of $19,200,000 Of the
equivalent Of $4,000 bales Of the
United States standard size.
The agreement also specifies vary
ing amounts Of cocoa, tobacco, vege-
table oils, lard and nuts which Brazil
will sell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
BARTH0LEMEWS MEET
Guardianship of Child Star SUBJ
ject of Conference.

HOLLYWOOD, May 80 OF).-Mem-
bers of the Bartholomew family met
today in a private conference aimed at
settlement of the guardianship Of IL.
year-old Freddie, 81, 000-a-week Aim
actor.
Freddie, the family's chief money.
Garner, was the only Bartholomew not
taking an active part.
Conferees were Freddie's father, Ce-
Gil Lewellyn Bartholomew, who ar
rived Friday from England; his moth.
er, Mrs. Lillian May Bartholomew, who
has been here six weeks seeking to
wrest custody Of the boy from his aunt,
Miss Myllicent Mary Bartholomew:
the aunt, and Freddie's grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Robert Bar.
tholomew.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
Girls
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
for the rest Of our lives for tearing
up $4,000"
About two months ago. according to
the parents Of the children, the two
found a bunch Of cancelled checks.
They played with them for a while,
then tore them up. One of their
neighbors told them, jokingly, that
they had torn up $4,000. This latter
phase Of the check story did not get
to the parents until last night, but
they have known for some time that
the girls were trying to run away.
Earlier Preparations.
about a month ago I found their
suitcases all packed with every stitch
of clothing they had" Mrs. Gwin said
last night. Il tried to get them to
tell me then why they wanted to run
away, but they wouldn't"
The girls had 40 cents between
them. all of 1t saved up-a penny or
two at a time-during the last two
months.
I'VE thought that would take us TO
Hot Springs" June told reporters.
Her grandparents live in Hot Springs,
Va.
Austin Gwin, taxicab driver and
father of June, drove his cab to the
ends of all street car lines looking for
the girls when he learned they had
run away. Frank Scrivener, father of
Julia Ann, is clerk for the Southern
Railway.
When the two children left home
they carried two dresses and other
clothing in paper bags. We were
afraid to take the suitcase because
mother would have noticed" Julia Ann
explained.
Finally Tell Story.
Bit by bit, the parents and the re-
porter got the story Of what actually
happened to them. Here is how Julia
Ann told it:
I'VE slipped out while nobody was
looking and started walking. We
got to the Speedway and went around
it three times before We could find
the Lincoln Memorial. Then We went
across the white bridge darlington
Memorial Bridge and then walked
for a long time. We started to walk
across a field when we heard a po-
nceman's whistle. That was what
we were afraidest Of and We started
to run.
THE policeman got out Of q car
and chased us. He caught us and
asked US our names. We didn't say
nothing. He asked us where we lived.
We didn't say nothing. He asked us
where we were going. We didn't say
nothing. And then he asked us a lot
more things, but we didn't say moth
ing.
Then he put us in the car with
another man and drove around and
crossed the white bridge again. He
asked us again where we lived and we
told him Warner street. He said he
didn't know where Warner street was
and put us out on the Monument
grounds and asked us If we knew
the way home. We told him we did
and promised to go right home. We
tried to hurry, but we were getting
pretty tired and we sat down sew
eral times to rest and besides 1t
was getting awfully dark"
The first place the children went
when they got back in their neigh
borhood and before they went home
was to q store where they spent five
cents for candy.
The parents spent the evening at
home, explaining that tearing up
Cancelled checks is not a terrible
crime. after all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
SOUTHWEST FLOOD
MANDATES TOWNS
Two Dead, Third Missing as
Heavy Rains Add to SwoI.
len Rivers.
Br the Associated Press.

GRANADA, Colo, May 30.-Flood
waters swirled over portions Of the
Southwest dust bowl tonight, leaving
two persons dead, third missing and
several towns inundated.
Just one year ago one Of the worst
floods in the Vests history took more
than 100 lives in Colorado, Nebraska
and Kansas.
The dead in today's flood were Don
Gates, ~. Of Denver. drowned near
Stratton, Colo, and Mrs. John Dyatt,
caught in flood waters near Goodland,
Kans. An unidentified youth was
missing at Carlton, Colo.
Republican River Oyerflows.
The high waters poured down the
Arkansas and overlooked the Repub-
lican River 100 miles to the north
The Republican was one of those
whose waters. year ago. caused
$l3, 100000 damage and heavy loss Of
life in the three States. 1t was reced-
ing today.
A week Of rain saturated Eastern
Colorado prairie lands, and heavy
storms last night brought precipita-
ton that ran of almost as fast as it
fell, filling dry gulches and stream
beds to overfiowing.
The 400 residents of Granada fed
from their homes. recalling a flood
last July II on Wolf and Granada
Creeks in which nine persons drowned,
water was 10 inches deep in streets.
Holly, east Of here; Wiley, northwest
of Lamar, and Carlton we're flooded.
The Arkansas River from Pueblo to
Lamar and beyond the Kansas bund-
AIRY was out Of its banks tonight and
Lamar was threatened with high
water.
Santa Fe Road Washed Away.
The Santa Fe Railroad on both sides
of Granada was washed away and
several highway bridges were torn
out. At Coolidge, Kans., water flowed
over the Santa Fe Railroad tracks.
The Arkansas River cut a channel
10 feet from the Lamar irrigation
canal and officials said If it broke
through into the canal Lamar might
be flooded.
Gates body was recovered today.
His wife and small child and sister-in-
law. Miss Mary F. Ewing, 20, Nelson,
Nebr., escaped.
Mrs. Dyatt was drowned as she and
her husband attempted to reach high
ground after their home at Smoky
Gardens, Kans., was flooded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
SABOTAGE is CHARGED.
Bridge and Track Blown Up Between
Tientsin and Tangku.

TIENTSIN. May 80 CP.-Chinese
and Japanese made accusations and
counter accusations today concerning
two acts Of railroad sabotage last night.
A bridge and portion Of track
were blown up on the line between
here and Tangku.
Although no one was hurt, the de-
donations of the explosives surcharged
the political air with danger.
The Japanese Immediately indicated
they believed the sabotage was an
answer by Chinese to the reinforce
ment of Japans garrisons in North
China. Chinese authorities openly
limited Japanese were responsible to
create an excuse for further conquests
on Chinese territory.
Confer on Explosions.
Lieut.. Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro.
newly-arrived commander Of the aug
mented Japanese forces in North
China. conferred at length with his
aides concerning the explosions.
The military authorities were not
inclined to discuss the incident, but
intimated it would be settled locally"
Expert observers said the two blasts
might result in a repetition Of the
Mukden incident of September, 1881,
which plunged Japan and China into
war and eliminated in Japan creating
the empire Of Manchukuo out Of Man.
churia.
Unidentified persons blew up the
Granddaughter Railway Bridge on
the Tangku- Tientsin line near Tangku
last night. Early today the rails were
blown up at Chankueichuan, miles
east of Tientsin.
The Tientsin- Mukden express was
tagged, before it could plunge into
the gap, by a Chinese trackwalker.
The express backed away to TientSin
and reported the sabotage.
When Chinese railway officials at.
tempted to send out a repair crew,
however, japanese Army authorities
interviewed and refused to permit the
repairmen to leave.
Machine Guns Dispatched.
Instead, japanese machine gun
detachment was dispatched TO the
scene and officers made close exam
ination, including flashlight photo
graphs of the scene.
The last train to cross the spot,
previous to the blasting, was a Japa-
nese military special which departed
for Tengku at 11:l4 pm. with 30 Of
ficers aboard
After the Japanese inspection was
completed. the track was repaired and
the Mukden express left at 6 am.
Much apprehension was expressed
by Chinese that Japan would take
drastic military action.
The Japanese military authorities
complained that the railway authori-
ties were negligent and demanded
that, henceforth, pilot train precede
all passenger trains in this territory.
Japanese said they believed the
sabotage was the work of Chinese
extremists, whom they also charge
with responsibility for the recent
Chinese student demonstrations
against the Japanese.
Chinese said that a Japanese mill
tary transport train, bearing hundreds
of soldiers, was to have come here
from Tangku last night but that its
departure was suddenly cancelled
without explanation. They said they
viewed this act with suspicion, In
sinuating the japanese knew the
sabotage was under preparation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
Boy Guilty of Extortion.

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 80 R).-
Manning Bulla, 19, pleaded guilty to-
day to attempted extortion of $500
from Mrs. Wire Franklin, wife OF
an Oklahoma oil man, and was paroled
after being sentenced to Is months
in prison.
The youth said he "just made up
the threat May Is to Mrs. Franklin
because he heard some one say 1t
might work"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
PLANTER FOUND DEAD
AS FIRE RAZES HOME
Left Leg and Arm and Top of
Head Severed From Body
of Mississippian.
e the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
ANGUILLA, Miss. May 30.-E. w.
Cook, prominent Sharkey County
planter, was found dead in the charred
ruins of his home early today, his left
leg and left arm and the top of his
head severed from his body.
A coroner's jury was called and off,
GERS began an investigation.
Cook, who usually paid his planta-
ton workers on Saturday, was re-
ported to keep large sums of money
In an iron safe at his residence. The
condition of the safe made it impos-
sible to determine whether it had been
tempered with.
The town marshal of Anguilla,
which the Cook plantation adjoins,
discovered the house in flames, but
his efforts to arouse Cook, asleep in
the side of the house not burning,
were futile. The home was DESTROYED.
Mrs. Cook was in Shreveport and
her husband was alone in the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
PLOT is THWARTED
Paraguay Blocks Attempt at
Characterization.

Characterization.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, May 80 (P).
-Ohicials revealed today that an at
tempted counter-revolution plot was
thwarted last night with the arrest
of several politicians.
Oficials of the government Of Pres
ident Rafael Franco claim those ar
rested were adherents of the former
regime of President Eusebio Ayala,
which was overthrown by those favor
ing Franco last February.
Oficials said the arrests were made
without any difficulty and there were
no other incidents as a result Of the
plot.
Dispatches last night reported from
Buenos Aires there had been an armed
instruction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
ORBETA SUCCEEDS RIGGS

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. May 80
R.-Gov. Blanton Winship today
named Maj. Enrique Orbeta. U. s. A.,
retired. to be insular police chief. sue
ceeding the late Col. Francis E. Riggs,
assassinated February 23.
Orbeta, 40, was born In Puerto Rico
and educated in Spain and the United
States.
His appointment followed an un-
successful attempt to offer the post to
Brig. Gen. Pelham Glasford' former
District Of Columbia police commits
sioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31

The Pullman rates tIoWer berth) 70
the cities named are: Pittsburgh,
$3.50; Cleveland. $500; Akron, $500;
Chicago, $3.50; st. Louis, $500; Louis
vile, $500; Cincinnati, $3.75; Cum
berland, $500; Connellsville, $3.50;
Wilmington, $500; Baltimore par
lor car. so cents; Philadelphia, $3.50,
and New York, $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
New Rail Rates
Changes in Effect Tonight
Between Washington
and Other Cities.

The following table shows rail rates
effective tonight between Washington
and other cities. Where Pullman
Is used, there is, of course, in addition
to the train fare given below, the
charge for the extra accommoda-
ton:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
Firemen Quench Passing Blaze.

KANKAKEE, Ill. {R.-As Hugh
Lewis drove past Fire Station No. 2
a short circuit in the battery cable
Of his car set the machine afire. Fire
men grabbed extinguishers, tagged
down Lewis and put cut the blaze
without moving Q truck,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
ACTS TO END STRIKES

Spanish Government Moves to
Terminate Disorders.
MADRID. May 80 P).-Spain's gov
eminent clamped hard hand on
strikes and disorders tonight.
Almost 200 syndicalist leaders were
arrested. Conferences were begun
with Socialist leaders to end the period
of widespread strikes.
A special Judge was sent to Yeste
to investigate q fight in which Is
peasants and one civil guard were
slain yesterday.
The civil governor of Sevilla re-
ceived reports that grave events"
were transpiring in the town of Ca
zalla' de la Sierra, where a general
strike recently was declared.
The governor was en- route to the
scene to investigate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31

Without going too far into the field
of statistics, Gov. Myers expects to
present "humanized" picture of the
status Of the American farmer, and
the progress that has been made In
the handling Of farm mortgage Ia.
debtednAes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31

oner, and becoming sober. it was
necessary, the officers thought, to turn
him loose. They did, but that wasn't
the last they saw of him. He showed
up about an hour later, still sober
and in a helpful mood.
You fellows are absolutely right"
he greeted them. I've looked this
whole section over, and there isn't
a single call box around"
X \ y
WIZARD.
1t is said to haze happened in q
Downtown thedter. There ,DdS q
neUs reel shot OF some diving
champion streaking into pool in
a graceful plunge. Then, so the
commentator could slip in a 1oise-
crack, the film UdS reversed and
the S,cimmer streaked from the
pool up through the air and back
onto the diving board.
My goodness" gasped an ample
lady to the lett OF the operative.
HON. in the World did he ever do
thdt?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEIPING, May 3o-Tension In
North China between japanese and
Chinese Is growing hourly as the re-
suit of series Of incidents during
the last two days.
Chinese sources, with no immediate
direct verification, said the mayor Of
Tientsin and the TientSin customs
superintendent had been ousted from
ONCE by Japanese Army officers.
The mayor, Hsiao Wing. Is
generally regarded as one of the most
astute Of Chinese politicians. The
customs superintendent is Lin Shi-
Chen.
Chinese interpreted these reports as
signifying Japanese determination to
dominate increasingly the affairs Of
North China.
A detachment Of $50 japanese
troops arrived here late today, bring
ing the local Japanese garrison TO
strength of 1900 men.
A Japanese military airplane flew
over the city this afternoon making
observations.
Students Go on Strike.
Local students followed the example
Of their colleagues in Tientsin by de-
claring a strike in eight schools and
colleges rs an anti-Japanese protest.
They walked out of their class rooms
for a fve-day period, demanding
Chinese government resistance TO the
Japanese.
japanese consular authorities at
Tsingtao reported the local japanese
Residents Corp, at an emergency
meeting, had considered steps to deal
with the recrudescence of Chinese ac-
Invites against japanese"
The authorities stated the action
was the result of an alleged assault
by Chinese students on a Japanese
schoolgirl in which the girl suffered
a broken arm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
Polish Session Called.

WARSAW, Poland, May 80 @.--
Parliament today was summoned into
executive session June s to grant the
President special powers to issue de-
crees concerning the country's defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
China to Build Plant.

Kwantung, China, Is preparing to
start erection Of its $10,000,000 pro-
vincial steel works, which will pro-
duce 100000 tons of steel a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things. =
ROCKIES.
<HIS is a story that gets a GUT
faw around police headquar.
tiers, and may have been do.


faw around police headquar-
tiers, and may have been do
Il ing it for years, for all the
operative who just heard it knows.
1t has the tone Of classic, but he
never has heard 1t before.
The story concerns two rookie po-
licemen who picked up drunk in the
northeast section. They decided he
was the kind of drunk who should be
sent to Jail instead Of to his home.
That necessitated call for the wagon.
so the three Of them, the officers and
their prize, started looking for call
box. They walked and walked and
walked, and looked and looked and
looked, but never a patrol box did
they see.
The walk gradually evaporated the
alcohol out of the system of the pris-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-31
GROWS
IN NORTH CHINA
Mayor of Tientsin and Gus.
toms Chief Reported Re.
moved by Japanese.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Chtnese-JdpGnese relations be-
came once more seriously strained
the middle OF last peek when
5000 additional japanese troops
Uere landed at Tangku for service
in Tientstn and Peiptng. Chinese
officials protested at once and
called on the II nations signe-
to the Borer protocol to use their
influence to halt the japanese.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-04-17
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

We recommend that deputy marshal be placed at Candle. Al aSka..
 We recommend that all United States Commissioners in the Sec ond Division be paved a regular salary.
 We recommend that the pay of Grand Jurors and Petit Jurors be restored to $500 per day.
 We recommend that the city or dinance be rigidly enforced to keep the beach free from garbage to produce sanitation and a clean appearance.
 We recommend that intoxicat- ing liquors be not sold to Eski- mos or persons of the mixed blood because of the degrading effects it has upon this race and that no licenses be granted to any person firm or corporation that sells intoxicating liquors to Eskimos or persons of the mixed blood.
 We wish to recommend to the Board of Liquor Control at Jun eau. Alaska. that We are dissatis- fled with the present enforcement of the Liquor Laws in Nome and request that proper action be taken to insure a more rigid en- forcement of the Liquor Laws.
 Because of the limited appre-