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Evening star., 1938-08-16
LOVE THEFT SUIT FAILS
Berkeley, Film Dance Director
Upheld in $3.50, 900 Action.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16 P).-A
$250,oo0 love theft suit against Busby
Berkeley, film dance director, ended
yesterday when Superior Judge Rob-
ert Kenney sustained his demurrer.
Irving Wheeler, known on the screen
as Jack Roberts. charged Berkeley be-
gan to steal the affections of his
actress-wife, Carol Lands, last Feb
ruary. The court held the couple had
separated more than three years pre-
viously.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Stolen Goods Returned.

HARRISBURG. Pa, Aug. 16 R).-
A box labeled Handle with care was
delivered to the Rev. A. M. Stamets.
in it were all the articles stolen from
his cottage while he and his family
were vacationing last week at Wild
wood, N. j.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
BOOMERANG IN MINTON
PRESS BILL POINTED OUT
New York Paper Says Enactment
Would Have Outlawed Printing
of Senator's Speech.

b. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug 16.-Under the
head, Mailing 1t Down." the New
York World Telegram yesterday print
ed the following:
Senator Sherman Minton of In
diana, in speech on freedom of the
press before the American Press So
ciety, Saturday gave newspaper pub
fishers and press associations hell.
THE Senator was the author of a
bill which failed to pass the last Con-
gress making it q crime to publish as
a fact anything known to be false :"
1T is Interesting to note In passing
that had the Senator's ill-starred bill
become a law no newspaper would
have been able to publish all Of Sena-
tor Minton's speech"
Evening star., 1938-08-16
POLICE FIGHT MEMBERS
OF HIBERNIANS' ORDER
Free-for-All at Portglenone.
County Antrim, Results in
Nine Arrests.

Ey the Associated Press.
PORTGLENONE. County Antrim.
Ireland. Aug. l6.-A -for-all fight
between police and members of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians resulted
today in many injuries and nine ar
rests.
When $50 Hibernians attempted to
force their way into a section of town
roped of by police, the latter charged
and clubbed the demonstrators amid
wild scenes.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians,
founded in 1641 according to some
authorities, Is devoted to furthering
Irish nationality and charitable works.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1938-07-27
July 27, 1883

seeing signi if cant community develop
on cooperative basis. Financially
VIC will not got enough out Of Groon-
bolt to pay our costs, but VIC will be
adequately compensated os Wo SOC tho
peoplo work out g fino plan Of COOP
orativo activity.
T think VIC have Q fino Cooporo two
rgonizing Coruni ttoo at Groonbolt and
I ON worry sorry that circumstances
havo prevented my boing with tlom IS
much as would have liked. 7 have
had tho job Of getting Groonhills.
Grcondalc and Knicl-orboclor Village
S started.
We arc now roady to 60 ahead, but
it must be done stop by stop and uo
shall absolutely rofuso to bo STAN
pcdod for Wo ore tho trustocs for oil
tho people of Grconbo lt--a1ld not for
just foW.
AS you your know, VIC shall be
glad to havo you toll anyone that
thoro is no way that I or any othor
officer cen cot any personal gain
from Groonbolt. Our salaries arc not
paid by G1'oo1lbo1t and as you worry
lil1o1y know, my OWL financial con-
tributions to GrccnbolJ Cctivitios
havo boon considerable
Let's not got poovod by anyone Who
nj su11dcr tonds our motives end viovT-
points but be frank wi til thoE and
remember that whom thoy know tho
truth thoy will l1ldorston what VIC
GRO trying to do--not for thon1, but
with tllcm.
Lofts cot tho bost s5oros in the
country Soi11g--lot's be frank and
fcarloss and honest end got to-
Cothor for tho roa1 job Of c. fino
cooperative ct Groonbolt.
7 have studied cooporc tivos from
ono crd Of the country to tho 5thnr
and T know sorac Of tho diff cult tics
involved.
We must work worry closely wit tho
Cooperative Orga1i zinG Cor1ai ttoo a1ld I
want you TO co,1for wi tn tho1. as much
Greenbelt cooperator., 1938-07-27
TO TIE EDITOR:

is Offered you for publication.
lily dear IIr. Harvey:
You nay rocoll that I your first
customer in Grooubolt. Your Assistant
Superintendent and 7 photographed at
my door os I received tho first bottlo Of
hi TX doliyorcd in Groonbolt.
BY this tir1o you undoubtedly have ny
notice to discontinue your service. I
have no complaint to rc.ko about the quo
lity Of your products nor Of your doliv-
cry service.
However,, I resent l1oonly the first
paragraph Of your "o1plaration" for tho
advance in III TX prices. This paragraph
to which I rotor is affront to tho
Intelligence Of all thinking people, end
I regard t particularly G on insult to
the intelligence Of tho housewives Of
Groonbolt who pride themselves on thoir
social-1aindodnosss
You nay not bolicvo in the Social Sc
curity ond Unonpl oTpnt Insurance program
and you cortoinly hcgvo . right to your
opinion whQ tower it nay be. However,
do not think that you hovo tho right,
moral ethical, to propoGondizo against
such q pr oGran through tho medium Of this
handbill you have distri ibutod to your
toners. 1T is apparent that you sock to
discrodit oi thor tho admin strotion ros-
sponsiblo for tho program or tho program
itsolf.
Hero in GrconbOlt VIC 'hIvo consumer
study groups known as tho Bottor Buyers
Club with {. membership OF ovor 200 house,
wives, to whom T shall present your cir
cular for study.
Ploasc, understand that I do not OBJ
Joct to the increase in prico Of milk,
not being sufficiently woll Informed to
mako Intelligent objection. AS c ~nttcr
Of fact transferring ny pc. t1orc.Uc
to C. dairy whose prices Gro hiGhor then
yours.
Worry truly yours,
-. hrs. Stanley B. Ridor
Evening star., 1938-01-10

background. was the master strategist
OF the OUTFIT. There was q. close
friendship between Davis and Schultz.
The mob went right on with its
$100, ,000, ,000-a-year numbers business,
keeping 1t policed as tightly as If
Dutch were still at the helm.
The picked squad of detectives
placed at Mr.. Dewey's disposal went
to work on the mob, but it was
nearly two years before the case was
ready to crack. It took month after
month of painstaking investigation
to gather enough evidence for an in
dictment.
Gambling Law Severe.
1t was futile, the rackets prosecu-
tor felt, to fool with the little fellows,
except to persuade them to talk by
threatening to send them to Jail
under New York's drastic gambling
law-much more severe than the Dis
trict Of Columbia statute. The New
York law defines as misdemeanors
the possession of policy (numbers)
slips or keeping q place for the
game Of policy" Mr.. Dewey could
have sent scores of the writer's, pick
up men and controllers to Jail, but
what was the use? They would be
replaced, and the racket would 20 on.
In . series Of raids one night 70
persons were arrested. Every one
OF them became States witnesses.
Gradually the whole story of terror
and extortion was unfolded.
Last July IA the mob was blasted
Evening star., 1938-01-10

out Of its rich monopoly by an indict-
ment linking the dead Dutch Schultz
and II others with one count of
conspiracy to contrive lotteries and
II substantive counts charging each
with contriving a lottery. These
felonies carry possible maximum Of
Is years for each defendant.
The indictment named Dixie"
Davis He is fugitive, with a $4,000
reward on his head. Others accused:
'Bo" Weinberg and his brother
George. George was business man.
ager OF the mob, the police say. They
are missing.
Solly Girseli, known as killer. and
John Cooney, strong-arm man, fugi-'
tives.
Dan L. Smith, a busted police
man, who, according to investiga-
tors, used to escort the mob's money
shipments-in uniform. He Is under
bond.
Alexander Pompez, Joseph Mithias
big Joe" Ison and his brother.
Masjo Joseph 1son, under bond waiting
trial.
Martin Moe" Weintraub, attor-
ney, under bond.
Harry Wolf and Harry schonhaus,
fugitives.
And New York's numbers business,
police officials declare, has disinte-
grated into the petty racket 1t was
10 years ago. The mobsters have
been driven out.
Evening star., 1938-01-10
Toxic
Continued From First Page. }

NSoillhIuSu ULIl TltSt TaRe.)
adopted and Endorsed by the govern
ment. the army and the navy.
Germany and Italy the foreign Of
nee spokesman asserted. were refrain
ing from shipping arms to China by
way Of the British crown colony of
Hong Kong. He expressed the hope
that other nations would do likewise.
Asahi and other Toxic newspapers
said Admiral Nobumasa Suyetsugu,
home minister. was insisting on a for
NAL declaration of war against China
and withdrawal of recognition Of the
Chinese government
report by Domei Japanese news
agency that the cabinet expected to
withdraw Ambassador Shigeru Kawa-
goe from China lent credence to the
assertions.
Domei said Prince Konoye called
the cabinet advisory board yesterday
in order to get its members views on
foreign policy. Before the cabinets
meeting with imperial headquarters.
the Premier was said to have outlined
plan to continue the war against
China for four years. regardless of
the outcome of the present hostilities.
The program called for cooperation
OF industrial and financial interests
and stressed the development of heavy
industry. The four-year plan was
to be co-ordinated with q six-year ma
tional defense plan.
Details Of the two programs were
kept secret.
Evening star., 1938-01-10
NUMBERS RACKET
HIT BY D. .C.PASTOR
Dr.. Abernethy Says City
Must Not Become Crime
Capital.

Washington must not be allowed to
become the gamblers paradise and
the crime capital OF the country" DR..
w. S. Abernethy. pastor OF Calvary
Baptist Church, declared in 4 sermon
last night.
DIR. Abernethy called on his congre-
CATION to Cooperate with The Star
in ridding the city OF the numbers
racket, which is collecting 100000, 900
year" He added:
The Washington Star is to be con-
graduated on its expose Of the gam
bling industry here. 1t is performing
a public service
Let's turn the light on. let the
public know. The workers of In
iquity cannot endure the light"
DR.. Abernethy pointed out that the
numbers game is taking its huge sums
from Government clerks, store en-
ployes and mechanics.
These writer's" he added, ARE
even hanging around our high schools,
teaching our young people to gam
BILE"
The minister cited estimates that
the people OF the United States gamble
away $500, 100000 a year on various
schemes Of chance. This, he said, Is
bigger than the Oil business and
other major industries.
AS evidence of how gambling is per-
meating the national life. he pointed
to the recent action of the Chicago
City Council in leealizing bookmak-
ing and to the proposal to have Con-
gress authorize national lottery.
In Washington, he said, The Star
has been calling attention to the fact
that crime is the inevitable accom-
paniment of organized gambling"
A society based on the gambling
principle OF something for nothing,
or for as little as possible, would be
unchristian, even chaotic, he said,
adding:
This is world in which fairness
prescribes that We give an equivalent
for what We receive"
DR.. Abernethy expressing hope that
Washington. the city of beautiful
homes. will not become the crime
capital OF the Nation" said:
We can cooperate by refusing to
participate in this gambling and by
discouraging the practice"
Evening star., 1938-01-10
ARMY FLYER SETS
RKFR0M COAST
"Flying Fortress" Crosses
Country in II Hours
and ! Minute.

A l6-ton. 4-motored Army bomber,
with . former Central High School
student At the controls. hurtled from
coast to coast in ii hours and
minute yesterday to set = world record
for military aircraft in transcon-
tinental flight.
Plotting the flying fortress was
1t. Col. Robert Olds, who lived in this
vicinity for nearly 20 years prior to
the World War and later resided at
the Wardman Park Hotel while aide
to Brig. Gen. William D. Mitchell,
one-time Army Air Corps leader.
BY making the hop from March
Field, Calf. to Langley Field. Va, in
such remarkable time, Col. Olds bet
tered by hours and 26 minutes the
record he established Thursday in an
East-West flight over the same route
The huge ship. known as a Bit
type, left March Field at 1912 am.
Eastern standard time, and landed at
l:13 am. Eastern standard time.
Col. Olds, commander OF the I'd
BOmbardment Group of the General
Zu VlLlk, UdSCu
at Langley Field, described the flight
as "uneventful' and said it was made
generally at attitudes over II 900 feet.
He described it as routine military
training. and added:
1T demonstrates the strides made
in the equipment and training Of the
General Headquarters Air Force, as
we'll as the ease with which either
coast can be reinforced if the tactical
units are supplied with air units of
similar type"
The distance. covered was approxi-
mately the Same-2.3l7 miles-as that
on Col. Olds' westward flight.
Accompanying him in the bomber
were Brig. Gen. Delos c. Emmons,
commander of the lst Wing OF the
G. H. @. Force: It. Col. Clinton Rus
sell, Staff Sergt. James J. Bouty, Sergt.
William H. Dodson and Pvt. Joseph H.
Walsh. al OF the g. H. @. Forces
Headquarters Squadron.
Evening star., 1938-01-10

increased power in the rule OF the
Shanghai settlement.
The British position was stated in
communica tions to the United States.
France and the British authorities at
Shanghai.
Officials would not indicate on what
points the government was ready to
meet Japanese demands, but it was
intimated they included increased
japanese representation on the set
Elements police force.
Talks With Sir Hughe.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
reviewed the whole question OF Brit
Shanghai, with Sir Hughe Montgom-
cry Observation-Disclosures the reiring
British Ambassador to China.
Sir Hughe returned to London Sat-
urday to complete recovery from
wounds inflicted by Japanese machine
gun bullets near Shanghai last Au-
gust.
The prime minister was also under
stood to have conferred with Sir Arch
ibald Kerr, new Ambassador to China
who reached London from his old post
at Baghdad Sir Archibald also was
to meet his predecessor. He is to
leave for China as soon as he has been
fully instructed.
Changes Distinguished.
In its communications to Wash
ington and Paris, Britain made q
clear distinction between temporary
changes necessitated by abnormal
conditions and changes Of more
general character, which must be
considered through normal procedure. :"
The Japanese demands. handed to
the Shanghai Municipal Council last
week, included placing of japanese in
controlling posts in all branches OF
the Settlements administration and
would have meant replacing Britain 5
present dominant position in the
council by Japanese control
Informed persons said the British
Consul General at Shanghai had pro-
tested to the japanese about the in
cident January in which japanese
soldiers beat two British officers OF
the Settlement police. The protest
was said to have demanded an inquiry
and suitable measures to prevent
repetition.
Evening star., 1938-01-10

Immediately on learning OF the
tragedy
1t. Cross. who was attached to the
submarine base at New London, died
in hospital there.
The lieutenant. who played for
Navy teams before becoming a coach,
was ourt-martialed in 1888, but ac-
quilted in the automobile death OF
1t, Robert B. Morgan at Coco Solo.
Canal Zone. He was native OF
Canandaigua, N. Y.
Coroner Edward G. Mckay said the
Cross sedan went out OF control when
a rear tire blew out, striking a fence
on the south side Of the highway and
then rebounding into another fence
on the opposite side, where it caught
fire.
The coroner quoted nearby resi-
dent as saying he arrived at the
scene as Lit. Cross staggered from the
burning car and rolled in the high
way in an effort to put out his flaming
clothing
The Crosses had a son and daughter
in Waterford.
Evening star., 1938-01-10
Move Against Japan's Threat to Lung
hal Railroad.

mai nallrOa0.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 10 tP).-Cninese
reinforcements pushed into Southern
Shantung Province today to meet ad-
vancing japanese who threatened the
Lunghai Railroad, Chinas east west
lifeline.
A decisive battle for control of the
route appeared imminent japanese
forces were approaching Suchow, i'm
portant Punghai junction point in
Northern Kiangsu Province, from both
the north and the south.
In addition, Chinese said, japanese
transports had arrived at Ha!chow,
eastern terminus of the line some l25
miles northeast of SuchoW, to land
bluejackets for a drive inland.
In Shanghai, hand grenade was
thrown at group of Italian troops
on the International Settlement
boundary in a continuation Of Chi
nese terrorist activity against tighten
ing japanese control No one was
injured.
Two Japanese were promoted to
lllkI OlIlCcS Ill Tile pOSJdl service, luT.
ther increasing japanese influence K.
kanazashi, former deputy commits
sioner, was named assistant commits
sioner and Inspector Y. Fuki became
chief inspector.
A Domei Japanese News Agency
dispatch from Tientsin. headquarters
of Nippon's North China armies. re-
ported half million Chinese were in
full retreat along the entire North
China front
japanese warplanes in weekend
bombardments raided Nanchang, XII
angst Province capital $50 miles
southwest of Shanghai. and Manning,
Kwangsi Province capital, 1000 miles
southwest of Shanghai.
The Nanchang raid was described
by the Japanese naval spokesman as
the heaviest of the war, with so planes
attacking the Chinese airdrome. which
the spokesman referred as to the
principal Chinese air base"
Evening star., 1938-01-10
EX-COACH0 Of NAVY
AND WIFE KILLED
1t. John H. Cross and Mrs.
Emily MackIin Cross Ac-
Cident Victims.

LIT. John H. Cross. "a, TO, merly a
football coach at the Naval Academy,
died few hours after his wife ex-
pired today from burns and injuries
suffered in an automobile accident
near Waterford. Conn, according to
the Associated Press.
A blowout on the Boston Post
Road sent their car careening into
fence and caused it to burst into
flames. which prevented the rescue of
the ofhcer's wife. Mrs Emily Macklin
Cross
She was a member of widely
known Navy family and came from
Baltimore. Her father. Comdr. c. F.
Macklin. retired, who lives at the
Fairfax Hotel here, left for Waterford
Evening star., 1938-01-10
Numbers
Continued From First Page.

the utmost zeal and speed, and yet
It took him more than two years to
route the hoodlums and thugs who
were entrenched behind millions.
A bandit may be tracked from de-
ecription, and safeblower may forget
and leave fingerprints. But racket
GERS take root under the surface, out
of sight. They work indirectly,
through their gun-toting aides and
strong-arm emissaries, directing oper-
ations from the safe refuge Of q
luxurious apartment or sumptuous
hotel suite.
Dutch Schultz seldom appeared in
the numbers racket during the five
years he was its absolute and merci-
less monarch. Few of the bankers
knew their boss: they knew only that
they were ruled by mob which took
most of their profit. They didn't
didn't dare complain to anybody. They
didn't even dare quit. They wanted
to live.
It was colossal job of detective
work Dewey undertook when he told
his Investigators to find out who ran
the policy racket and get the goods
on him.
The crusading young prosecutor had
learned enough to convince him that
the far-fiung racket was under unified
control. Suspicion turned to Schultz,
who had been in trouble with the
Government over his income tax, but
to trace the labyrinthine trenches of
this underworld army to its G. H. Q.
proved terrific task
Indicted for Return Failure.
Dutch was indicted by a Federal
grand jury for failing to make income
tax returns for 1929 and 1890, but this
involved his running revenue al
most entirely. 1t was before he got
q stranglehold on the numbers. Be-
cause of the jurisdictional lines of
New York's Federal courts. which slice
New York City into parts Of several
districts, Dutch had to be tried at
Syracuse. He got jusy disagree
Ment.
Schultz was tried again at Malone,
Evening star., 1938-01-10
PATRIARCHS TO MARK
BIRTHDAY OF MEMBER
Elaborate Program Arranged for
John r. Mahoney, 81, at Un-
ion Engine House.

The ninety-first birthday anniver-
sary OF John r. Mahoney. financial
secretary OF the Association Of Oldest
Inhabitants Of the District of Column
bia. will be celebrated tonight at the
Old Union Engine House, Nineteenth
and H streets
An elaborate program of music and
entertainment has been arranged by
committee, and a capacity attendance
is expected Members of the associa-
ton are among the invited guests, in
addition to others associated with Mr..
Mahoney in other organizations.
The celebration is sponsored by the
association, and will be attended by
most Of its officers, including Theodore
w. Noyes. president; J. Eliot Wright,
recording secretary; John Clagett
Proctor. first vice president. and many
others. The program will start 1T
Z o'clock.
Evening star., 1938-01-10

near the Canadian border-far from
mobs and rackets-and the good peo-
pie of that peaceful little town
couldn't understand why the soiled
linen Of the big city had to be laun-
dered so far from home. Mr.. Schultz
or MIR. Flegenheimer, if one prefers
his real name-appeared in Malone at
his dapperest and most gracious. He
bought uniforms for the home ball
team and made himself generally
agreeable. He was acquitted.
But Mr.. Dewey hardly had launched
his drive against the rackets when
Dutch and three lieutenants, confer
ring in a Newark tavern-a meeting
OF the general staff, you might say
toppled over filled with slugs from
guns fired through the door,
A financial statement found in
Dutch's pocket was illuminating.
These were items included:
Gross reserves, $826,9l2.
Commissions and hits, $236.295.
Cash won, $l48,369.
Probers Wait for DEVELOPMENTS.
Fatally wounded with Dutch were
Otto "Abbadabba" Biederman, q lead
ing spirit of the mob and ofncial
Handicapped at Dutchs Coney Island
(CincinnatD payof1 track; Abraham
Landau and Lulu" Rosenkranz, per-
sonal bodyguards and trusted ad-
visers. That was on October 23, 1885.
The financial statement was . suf-
f1cient tipoff. but Dutch and those
with him at the time were dead, and
there was no way of knowing whether
the mob would dissolve or what would
happen to the numbers monopoly. SO
the Dewey investigators spread out,
watching and waiting. .
To this day they don't know-or at
least can't prove-who killed the
racket tycoon and his inner circle.
Perhaps they don't much care. But
detectives soon saw that the mob was
carrying on under another leadership.
Through the underworld, which can't
always be trusted to keep its lips but
toned, came word that the new chief
was J. Richard Dixie" Davis, dis
barred attorney, long known as the
brain guy" Of the Schultz mob.
Dutch himself was an adroit, clever
schemer, but Dixie" with his legal
Evening star., 1938-01-10
HELIUM BEING SHIPPED

HOUSTON, Tex. Jan. 10 LP).-The
German steamer Dessau has arrived
to load the first shipment Of helium
gas to be transported from the United
States.
The steamer will take portion Of
the 100000 cubic feet OF helium
ordered for the LZ-30, sister ship Of
the Inflated Hindenburg. The LZ-30
will be launched in about five months.
Aboard the Dessau are 468 steel
bottles to be used as containers for
the gas. The 2,35O,0OO cubic feet OF
gas to be placed aboard the vessel will
virtually exhaust the supply in the
Amarillo, Tex, plant.
Evening star., 1938-01-10
SYPHILIS FILMS

For All Our Sakes." motion pic
ture portraying the facts concerning
syphilis, will be presented tomorrow
at pm, at the Southeast Settlement
House at 30l 6 street Sc.
A lecture by DR.. Paul B. Carnely
OF the University Health Service at
Howard University will accompany
the film.
Evening star., 1938-01-10
BRITISH OPPOSE CHANGES.
Would Yield to Some Demands Of
Toxic at SHANGHAI,

LONDON, Jan. 10 R.-The British
government today declared opposition
to any permanent administrative
changes in the International Settle
ment at Shanghai such as have been
demanded by the Japanese conquerors
OF the Shanghai area.
Britain, however, was authorita-
lively represented as ready to agree
to some Of the Japanese demands for
Evening star., 1938-01-10
Eagles Attack Man.

Just after shooting an eagle near
Novara. Italy, 4 man was attacked by
two other eagles. which pecked at
him until he tainted from loss OF
blood.
Evening star., 1938-01-10
Movie Quota Fixed.

New Zealand has ruled that per
cent of the motion pictures shown in
theaters must be made by New Zea-
landers.