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Evening star., 1936-02-19
FIGURES
IN ALLEGED RING
NAMED AT TRIAL
Liquor Conspiracy Charges
Brought Out by Testi-
mony of Witnesses.
MONTGOMERY IDENTIFIED
AS RENTER OF GARAGE
Trucks Seized There Said to Have
Contained Illicit Supply Of
Alcohol.

The three central figures In the
Washington end of the alleged liquor
conspiracy for which 81 reputed boot
leggers are on trial in District Su-
preme Court, definitely we're brought
into the case by testimony today.
Samuel Sloan Montgomery. de-
scribed by the Government as the
ringleader of the conspiracy, was
identified as a man who, giving his
name as Green" rented space in a
garage in the 1900 block of M street
where four machines and quantity
of spirit later were seized.
James E. Murphy, proprietor OF the
garage, said Montgomery rented space
for three trucks in the Summer OF
1884. Months later, Alcohol Tax Unit
agents visited the garage and seized
three trucks in the space Montgomery
rented, said to have contained Illicit
alcohol. A private automobile also
was taken in the raid.
Bond Letter Seized.
A letter addressed to Joseph Samuel
Bond, allegedly one of Montgomery
lieutenants, was seized by authorities
in a raid on an alleged headquarters
of the ring in the 1400 block of P
street, the jury was told. Julian
Cochran of Gelina, Md, testified a
truck listed to Bond was in colli-
sion with his machine near Fort
Hoyle, Md. He said he wrote to
Bond in settlement of damages in
the accident, addressing him at 34l8
Thirty-seventh street, Mount Rainier,
Md which the Government claims
is the home of Earle G. Funk. another
Of the defendants.
Cochran said the truck was going
north at the time of the accident. in
the direction of Trenton. N. j. 1t is
claimed the local distributing organi-
Zation obtained its alcohol from Arthur
Bartolozzi of Trenton. -4
Albert H. Smith, charged with be-
ing second only to Montgomery in the
Washington organization, was identi-
fed by DR.. John X. K.~Rector, 1340 U
street, as a man who represented him
self to him as slate.
DR.. Rector said SLATE" rented a
small room in his home and had a
telephone installed there. Other wit
nesses have testified that this tele-
phone was connected with wires run
ming over roofs to room in the rear
of legitimate liquor store in the 1900
block of U street. thereby concealing
the destination of incoming calls.
Assistant United States Attorneys
Henry A. Schweinhaut and Howard
Boyd are prosecuting the case.
Two to Take Stand.
Two colored men. who pleaded guilty
last week in the liquor conspiracy trial
were expected to take the witness
stand to testify against their code
PENDANTS, whom the Government is
trying to link with a ring which is
said to have supplied Washington with
some 10000 gallons of liquor weekly.
They are Frank Guy, now serving
a prison sentence for liquor law vio-
lation, and John Thomas.
Three other defendants, who also
had entered guilty pleas, testified late
yesterday, duplicating numerous OF
the 81 men now on trial with opera
ton of the alleged distributing organi-
zation.
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PROLONCEDFREEzE
DAMAGES STREETS
Cost to District Expected to
Be Between $4,000
and $4,000.

The severe freezing weather of the
past week or two may cost the District
between s25,000 and s50,ooo for re-
pairs of damage done to District high
ways, 1t was estimated roughly today
by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director
Of high~'ays.
Whitehurst emphasized this was a
rough guess, saying that it was impos-
sible for any one to estimate accurately
what would be the damage to District
streets as a result of freezing tenn
peratures and the pounding of trucks
equipped with chains.
Damage Believed Normal.
He said he did not believe the dam
age would amount to more than what
would be considered normal for the
extent of the severe weather.
Some damage undoubtedly had been
caused. whitehurst said. by water get.
ting into cracks between street car
rails and the adjoining pavements,
then freezing and expanding and
caused breaks in the adjoining pave
ments.
In other cases, he said, his engi-
neers had found the pavements had
become brittle from the freezing tenn
peratures and had broken in numer-
Gus places as trucks and automobiles,
equipped with chains, went pounding
over them.
The cost of repairs to District pave
ments over the period of the in
clement weather. he said. normally
would run between s50.000 and
$4,000, estimating that the addi-
tional cost might run between s25, 900
and $50,000.
The estimate was made after unoff-
cial reports had been received from
Baltimore indicating that the damage
to pavements there as a result Of the
severe weather had been estimated
ro,,otIv of e1 mn nm
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HELD TO GRAND JURY
ON ASSAULT CHARGE
John Casey's Bond Is Placed at
$2,000-Gets $25 Fine
for Drunkenness,

Charged with assaulting a woman
and two men, one of them police
man. John Casey, 35. of 1927 Seventh
street was held for the grand jury
under $4,000 bond today when ar
raigned before Police Court Judge
John P. Mcmahon. He was fined SIS
on a charge of drunkenness.
Court records revealed Casey has
been arrested 63 times in the last 10
years. six of the charges being assault,
three assault with dangerous weapon
and one assaulting an officer.
In the latest case, Casey is alleged
to have knocked down, kicked and
choked Mrs. Grace Pascale. operator
of rooming house at GIT H street,
when she ordered him to leave jan
uary Is. He was visiting at the time.
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HEAVY GUARD PUT
OVER SLIM DUNN
Gannster viii Be Kept From
Other Wilson Case Sus-
poets in D. c. Jail.

Placed under heavy guard in the
District Jail, with orders to prevent
him from communicating with two
former cronies also held there, Albert
McDermott. alias John (Slim) Dunn.
former tri-State gangster, today was
awaiting trial for the murder of Allen
B. Wilson, newspaper route agent,
slain in the mistaken identity" shoot
ing of October, 1884.
In the same jail are Albert S. Sut-
ton and Albert Myers, another tri-
State gangster, indicted with Dunn
for the murder of Wilson. believed to
have been mistaken for Edward
Mickey Mcdonald, Washington
gambler. when he was delivering
paper at McDonald's Takoma Park,
Md, home.
Dunn, since his arrival here yester-
day from Alcatraz Prison. in San
Francisco Bay, has been the object
Of special police precaution. When he
was placed in the Jail, strict orders
were given that, under no circum-
stances, should he be permitted to
communicate with either Myers or
Sutton.
Two others expected to figure
prominently in the trial, set for late
next month at Rockville, Md. are Ed
ward Cleary and Dewey jenkins, both
of Baltimore. who are being held in
police precincts here pending the
trial.
Police explained that no extradition
proceedings would be necessary in the
case of Dunn, who is Federal pris-
oner and can be taken across State
lines without any legal formalities.
II the others in the case refuse to
waive extradiction. proceedings will be
started several weeks in advance of
the trial to eliminate the possibility of
delav IL WAS eXplained
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WOMEN LAWYERS URGE
REMAINING OF SCHULDT
Resolution of Appreciation for
Past Record Is Approved
bv AsSociat tion
by Associa ton.

Strongly indorsing reappointment of
Judge Gus A. Schuldt to the Police
Court bench, the Women's Bar Asso-
ciation approved resolution Of ap-
probation for his past record at its
regular meeting last night in the
Mayhower Hotel.
Proposals that the courts appoint a
friend of the court" to act in connec-
ton with divorce cases in which chill
dren are involved also were approved.
Movements to change the Juvenile
Court from a criminal court to court
of equity were Endorsed in principle,
but the association voted further study
of the proposed legislation.
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Woman Reported Gone 4 Days
In Mysterious Circumstances
Private Secretary Leaves
Coat and Glasses in,
Her Room.
Police Officials, Notified
by Sister, Start In
pestigatiOn.

7 EAVING her coat and glasses in
her room, Miss EIla Diltz. 27-
year-old private secretary, dis
appeared under unusual cir
cumstances Saturday night, police
were. informed today.
A search for the girl was started
when her employers at the National
Radio Institute reported yesterday
that she had not been at work this
week.
Her sister, Miss Leola Diltz. 1927
Massachusetts, avenue. Immediately
notified the Wonan's Bureau and be-
gan an investigation of her own.
She found that her sister, who lived
at 1918 Eighteenth street, went out
about 8:15 O'Clock Saturday evening.
At that time she was wearing hen
na-colored coat and appeared to be in
good spirits. according to other resi-
dents there.
Friends said a man phoned her
shortly before she left, but it was be-
lieved she did not take the call.
When it was learned she had not
returned, her sister searched her room
and found the henna coat hanging in
the closet, leading her to believe she
must have returned to her room after
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going out at 8:15. An early edition of
a Sunday morning newspaper also was
in the room.
The girls glasses were on the dresser
and her only other coat and all of her
clothes, so far as could be determined,
were IN the room.
Miss Diltz had lived in Washington
about 10 years, and. according to her
sister, had no close men friends. She
said her sister had been in poor health
during the past year. but had been
much better during recent weeks.
She drew her regular salary S9tur-
day afternoon, but only three dollar
bills were found in her room.
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Missing Girl to Return.

Dorothy E. Pinkney, 16, who was
located near Baltimore yesterday,
after being missing from her home,
at 6581a Morton place northeast, since
Saturday, was expected back today.
Her brother left this morning to bring
her home She was found hitch-hik-
ing on the washington-Bel Baltimore
Boulevard.
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LAND DEAL PRAISED
Commissioners Ask $61,176 Via

Commissioners Ask SOL, ,176 Via
duct Award Be Confirmed.
The Commissioners today directed
the corporation counsels office to
have confirmed the $6l,l76 award
voted by a condemnation jury to
property owners for land to be used
in construction of the Michigan ave-
nue. viaduct.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Wall
ter Fowler, who handled the case. was
praised for obtaining reduction in the
damage claims. which originally
amounted to S260, 900.
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The strangest part of it is that
Harry's glad of it and has been look
ing forward to having the operation
for long time. The operation is to
reset his left arm. broken several years
ago in a fall from the loft of barn.
I'm not exactly happy about the
operation, but I'm glad I'm going to
have it. Then can play base ball
and lots of other games I can't play
now" he said. propped up in his bed
in Emergency Hospital.
Harry is also grateful to the Metro
politan Police Boys Club. which has
made all arrangements for his care
and has secured expert medical serv-
ice for him. A physician volunteered
his services when he heard about
Harrys case.
Harry is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross Showalter, ASA Eleventh street
southeast.
Evening star., 1936-02-19

r LARRY SHOWALTER will be
IL Is years old tomorrow and
one of his birthday presents
Il Il will be an operation.
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Gen. johnson SAYS

NEW YORK, Feb. At is understandable that
4 many different classes of people might be OPP
posed to the New Deal and all its works, but it in
hard to see why such automobile companies as Gen.
eral Motors should lead the van
The High Road and Easy Street are the same
thoroughfare for them just now. In 1882 they were
fiat. They have led the way out of the depression
and nearly every step of their advance traces di-
rectly to some part Of the New Deal program.
Most of it rests squsrely the great increase in
farm buying power. Even its enemies neither with
hold from the New Deal grudging credit for of
that nor propose anything but continuation and
improvement of the New Deal farm experiment
Whatever else may be said about cheap money
tmeaning low interest rates. the New Deal also is
largely responsible for this. That in turn also has
finance" plans for automobile purchase sometimes
figured high as Is to "a per cent per annum
the unpaid balance.
THEY didn't reveal that at first glance but that
i how it figured out. Now the charge on
the unpaid balance is per cent 1t is a whacking
responsible for maintaining sales at astonishing
rate.
The disbursement of billions for relief made
thousands of automobile salesnot only direct sales
to the government, which were not inconsiderable.
but also indirectly by maintaining gross purchasing
power.
1t is not too much to say that the New Deal
saved the automobile industry-and apparently Gre
ated its principal enemy in the process
Part of the answer is that men whose fortunes
thus restored can't take their profits because OF
conflscatory income taxes in these high brackets.
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Annoyed by Photographers

ME new King does not like photographers
Once when he was Prince he called photog-
rapher and was giving him hell for bothering him.
when the photographer said:
Look here, sir, can I speak to you as one man
to another?"
Go ahead" said the Prince.
All right" said the photographer. Frankly, I'm
sick of taking your picture but hafta do it because
that's me job. One day you were opening bloody
'osptal and took your picture. Then when you
were coming out what do you do? Why you stoop
down and shake lands with little kiddy and ad
to be there to photograph that would have been
sacked. I'd rather've been ome, but you ave to go
around shaking andS with lotta little brats Why
do you shake lands with every little brat you see?"
The Prince laughed and relented but photogra-
piers bother him, nevertheless It's easy to under
stand, because even when his father lay dead both
he and his mother, though bowed with grief and
worn almost to exhaustion by formal duties, were
photographed necessarily by those very papers which
recently expressed most towering scorn for the
Snipng of the Lindbergh babys picture and then
ran it themselves.
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Times Books

IF you like your mystery stories fast-moving and
l. hard-boiled you are pretty apt to go for Judge
Robinson Murdered, by r. l.. Goldman Coward
Mccain. so. Here is book which carries you
along fast that you don't notice the tales defects
until after you have finished reading.
1t tells about newspaper editor who falling in
love with the daughter of his bitterest enemy-a
political boss whom he has sworn to destroy-has
to leap to her aid when her father is mysteriousy
murdered.
There are some sinister gangsters in the story
an asylum for lunatics from which Jack-the-
Ripper inmate OPPORTUNITY escapes Sundry shots in
the dark and enough all-around excitement to
make the book very hard to lay down.
TOR those who prefer their melodrama sea-going,
II there is "The Uncharted Island" by Sydney
Parkman tHarper's so. This one has to do with
a young American exbooti ,gger "a fine lad for all
that who ships on Pacific liner to escape he law
runs into pretty girl, NEE with shipwreck and
winds up South Sea island after divers exciting
experiences. You could go Ear and do good deal
worse
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Then a little later the Prince in
his Lincoln would drive quietly to
the far end of the playing field,
we'll above the clubhouse, and he
would slip into camp chair
among men who were far more
interested in polo than in the
royal visitor
A half hour later he would step
into Rolls and speed away to-
ward Grace Field.
But on one particular day two
Long Island girls, sweeping the
crowd on all four sides of the
field with their glasses, spotted
him and, with the good taste and
decorum of polar bears, hurriedly
STROBE across one corner and stood
staring at the unfortunate Prince.
n II
TINE word that he had been
Il run down spread quickly.
Scores of pretty young things
crowded about him. Beaten and
more than little out of patience,
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McCarPs Successor

= THOUGH the 15-year term
IA of Controller General j. r.
McCarl does not expire until July
/, a hot behind tfe-scenes scram-
BILE to fill his shoes already has
started. Drawing $4,000 a year,
the post is one of the choicest
plums on the patronage counter.
Active in the undercover
maneuvering are several members
of McGarl'S staff--O. r. Mcclure,
extremely able counsel; Charles
M. Galloway, another counsel, and
F. L. Yates, attorney conferee.
Another eager hopeful is Cor
rington Gill, ace Statistician of
Harry Hopkins WPA. The Wis
consinite has clashed with Nc
Carl on number of occasions
and would take great secret pleas
ure in succeeding him.
Insiders say that hard-work-
ing Acting Budget Director Daniel
Bell could have the job if he
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garia, and from the start he was
determined to be himself.
One evening the whole world
read that he had danced with
Miss Leonore Cahill, a charming
girl from st. Louis.
At 2::30 in the afternoon three
days later, the Berengaria
dropped anchor at quarantine in
New York Harbor, and a minute
afterward the great game that
the Prince was to play with
shrewd and determined New York
newspaper men and press photog-
raphers began. Z
QUICKLY transferring to the
" speed boat Black Watch, he
was rushed up East River to the
North Shore of Long Island and
then to the. very lovely country
home of James A. Burden at Sy-
osset.
Its walls guarded by state
troopers, police and even private
detectives, the estate was TO be
his headquarters for the next
four weeks.
Such sleep as he was to capture
from strenuous days and amusing
nights he was to have here.
1t soon became a game of wits,
and the Prince often won. The
public knew that he used both a.
Rolls Royce and a Lincoln, and
his trick was to confuse mis- pur-
suers by rapidly shifting from one
car to another.
For instance. his Rolls without
the Prince would swing up to
Cochran Field at Meadowbrook,
and swiftly turn into the roped
Enclosure. The crowd would
break toward it.
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couldn't be right both timesP Nonsense. The court
is very clear When you want to cut your teleph
rates, you mustn't consider reduced price levels
And when you want to collect taxes from railroad,
you mustn't ignore reduced price levels.
JUSTICE PIERCE BUFFERS opinion in the
~ Great Northern case has cleared up another i'm
portant matter He declared officially that there
had been depression. He didn't say it I'M
constitutional Therefore the depression stands.
That's one thing the court isn't going to take away
from us.
One OF the dangerous things about the present
imitation drive is that attempt will be made to
disguise the vicious nature of the money padding
that is being sought. Even Senator Elmer Thomas
has soemny denied he is for initiation in the
and said he is against booney dollars. He
has sliced it very thin indeed but Al Smith
said. no matter how thin you slice it, it is still
baloney. They've all got their sheepSkns and it
is going to take good eyes to see under them when
the imitation drive heats up
Under cover of excitement over imitation, the SUI
preme Court and other questions, effort is being
made to scuttle neutrality legislation The State De-
partment which couldn't get the broad discretionary
power it wanted, is working from one side. Elk
isolatonists fearful of trick which will in
volve in Europe. working from the other.
Between these two hostile forces, the pending
legislation which would clamp down war time
tra,e and apply restrictions equally to all beger
ents is in serious danger of being sunk without trace
DOLITCAL parade: The Townsend Old-Age Pen
i sion crowo is moving into the Maryland free
state which hitherto has been free from this en-
barraSsing political issue Two bankers are
understood TO have refused to be Undersecretary
of the Treasury. Former Governor Richie and
Howard Bruce, Maryland Democratic national COM
mitteeman, would like to see Maryland send an Anti
Roosevelt delegation to the national convention.
The Administrators latest bungle in Mary
land came when the White House sent a former
Federal official, appointed without Ritche's back
ing TO The former Governor a peace emissary.
1t made the situation worse.
One Senator refers to the statically unemployed,
that is those with little hope of finding work. as
apt 20 become our Dramatically unemployed" Re-
rofts from relief administrators indicate the unem-
ployed, even siIose on WPA becoming more rest
les. Pressure to open up WPA rolls to those not
on relief Is becoming so strong that Senator's and
Repre- Sentatives bombarding Harry Hopkins with
appeals to let down the bars. He hasn't got the
morey TO do 1t.
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the Prince strobe off. The crowd
followed. He leaped the fence al /
at a trot hurried TO his car and
was away.
Only after dinner, where pos
sibly the rare Will Rogers or the
humorous Eddie Cantor had acted
as the kings testers, could he es-
cape and be himself.
With Lord and Lady Louis
Mountbatten or with some of the
gay and sparkling younger set of
Long Island he would slip away
for a night of dancing and fun.
At dawn the weary newshawks
would catch a swift view of his
car swinging through the gates
of his temporary home.
Other days the excited papers
had to content their readers with
such announcements as 'at two in
the morning the Prince left the
Mackey home. Another man and
two women were in the party but
they were not identified"
The day before this particular
defeat of the press he had rung
up another victory on the news
sleuths. From o'clock Thurs"
day afternoon he had vanished
from their view until after !
that following morning when he
drove back to the Burden home.
1t was one of his few real nights
off. He was doing New York with
two or three rare companions,
sworn to secrecy. He was having
little of the run that young
bachelors are entitled to.
HH
nN Saturday, Sept. IS, he sat in
~ a flag -decked box, along with
10000 other polo enthusiasts, and
watched the United States team
hang up a 16-to-5 victory over the
British team.
The second and concluding
game was played the following
Tuesday, and the Prince was TO
see the American team outride
and outplay the visitors IA TO s..
The Prince was downcast but
willingly took modest part in
the little ceremony following the
end of play.
Gen. Billiard handed the priced
cup to Devereux Milburn,- the
American captain. Seven pints of
vintage champagne had been
poured into the silver mug and
Louis Stoddard, president OF the
United States Polo Association,
taking it from the hands of
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

wanted it, but that he wants to
stay where he is.
Secretary Morgenthau is back
ing the appointment of William
H. McReynolds, his assistant. A
one-time cowboy who studied law
in his spare time, McReynolds en-
tered the government service 80
years ago as a postal Inspector.
His quiet ability is highly re-
garded. But he has one serious
handicap. A fortnight and indie
pendent executive, he has stepped
on the toes of number of potent
politicians and incurred their Sc
cret enmity
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