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The Washington times., 1938-11-02
STORY
UNDER FIRE At
NAzI SPY TRIAL
Testimony
Invaluable to Case

NEW YORK, Nov. Leon G.
Turrou, former Oman who
headed the espionage investigation
until his resignation some months
ago, was crossexamined today by
counsel for the three defendants
in the Nazi spy trial.
The defense attorneys sought to
riddle Turrou's testimony, upon
which q major portion of the Gov
ernment's evidence against the
defendants depends.
IMPORTANT EVIDENCE
Turrou's testimony is invaluable
to the Government in connection
with the alleged confession Of
Otto Hermann Voss, 39-year-old
mechanic, that he sold blueprints
of American Army planes built by
the Seversky Company.
Johanna Hofmann'S story Of
acting as a courier for the eSpion-
age ring, and the statement of
Erich CHASER, air corps private,
admitting that he gave Guenther
Gustave Rumrich, confessed spy,
copy of the army's ~ code" were
also obtained by Turrou.
FRAME-UP CHARGED
The G-man'S credibility was sub
jected to a bitter attack from
George C. Dix, Miss Hofmann's
counsel, who already has alleged
in court that Turrou framed" the
26-year-old hairdreSSer and per-
mitted DR.. Ignatz Griebl to escape
to Germany.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
"JUST talk"
Count POtOcki Says of
'BetrOthGP Gossip
"I am not divorced."

IT am not divorced"
And because Of this fact. says
Count jerry Potocki, Polish am
bassador to the United States,
there can be no truth to stories
that he is engaged to Mrs. W..
Forbes Morgan.
His denial of q romantic at
tachment with the widow of the
former treasurer of the Demo
cratic National Committee was
made at the Polish Embassy,
where he was reached after re-
ports of the engagement flew here
from Hot Springs, Va, where
Mrs. Morgan is vacationing.
Count Potocki, whose wife is
remaining in Poland over the
winter with their son, StaniSlauS
"a circumstance helping to give
rise to the rumorS, say society
folk-declared there is not a
word Of truth in this" And he
added:
st have no plan to marry
anybody. I am not divorced"
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
Police Action Held
In Allegiance

mediately notified police heads of
the recommendation, and issued
orders that the machines were to
be removed. setting midnight, Oc-
tDber 81, as the deadline.
A check-up of the various es-
adjustments in the county yester-
day and last night reveals that
few, if any, of the $50 slot ma
chine owners and operators have
so much as turned their machines
around or removed them to q
back room.
Three StorekeeperS, when asked
about it. stated that they were
waiting for further notice"
Several of the large slot ma
chine dealers and operators were
in Upper Marlboro, but none of
them would say what the purpose
of their visit to the county court
house was.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02

Gamblers Ignore
BO1Uie'S Orders

Slot machines today continued
to reap their harvest Of nickleS,
dimes and quarters in Prince
Georges county, despite orders
that they be banned after Novem-
ber l.
Despite a ruling from the Mary
land court Of appeals outlawing
the machines, and a recommends
ton from the county grand jury
that operators Of machines be no
titled to remove them, a survey by
The Times today revealed the Or
der is being ignored.
Furthermore, the machine op-
orators declare they will take no
steps to remove them until after
election"
POLICE DO NOTHING
And police have taken abSo-
lutely no action to enforce the
edict of the high court and the
grand jury, and declare they will
do nothing until they get Specific
orders" to act.
Men and women on relief drop
their coins in the machines. hop
ing to hit the Jackpot. School
children risk their lunch money
In the hope Of gain.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
Pet Terrier Pulls
Mistress From
Path of Train

CHICAGO, Nov. 2 G.N.S0-A-
fie couldn't hear a word of all the
nice things people said about him
today. Alfie is deaf.
MES. Adele Severn took Alfie, a
three-year-old bull terrier, out for
his afternoon stroll yesterday. Al
fie stopped to sniff. Mrs. Severn
felt the tug on the leash and
turned to pull him forward.
She was standing on railroad
crossing and in that instant a
freight train knocked her down.
It was moving very slowly, but
Mrs. Severn fell in front of the
wheels.
While several persons stood by
in frozen horror, Alfie dug his
shoulders into the harness and
pulled. He pulled his dazed mis-
tress right off the track an instant
before the train rolled by.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
GERMAN COUNT
IN LARCENY QUIZ

BOSTON, Nov. 2.-Intelligence
officers of the Navy and Army and
immigration authorities today
scrutinized the past of a self
styled German Count" who,
though boasting of ancestral Dan
ish estates near those of Barbara
Hutton and her estranged Count
Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, was
held in 100000 bail on charges
of larceny of $30,48O.
The debonair, we'll groomed pris-
oner described himself as Count
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
MORE SUMMER
FORECAST HERE

That most welcome of predic-
tions-"Fair and warmer"-was
offered by the United States
Weather Bureau today as its idea
of what the climate should be until
Thursday arrives.
At that time, declared the prog
nosticators, there will be increas-
ing cloudiness and bit more heat,
continuing the reign of summer"
enjoyed by Washington lately.
But-horrors-with Friday will
come showers.
Meanwhile, it got pretty cold to-
day. The lowest temperature was
recorded at z a. M, when the mer-
curry dropped to 80 degrees. The
highest yesterday was IS degrees
shortly before 3 p. m. The lowest
tonight is expected to be IS.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
If. DIS Fish.
|OeU1" Guess

Two 'ROck Beauties" will
be the principals in a "beauty
contest" at the White House
soon. They are a pair Of
brilliantly cOlOred fish caught
by President Roosevelt or by
Secretary Stephen T. Early
near the Galapagos Islands
last summer. The contest is
to find out, II possible, just
who caught each fish.
The fish are black, with
Orange-cOlOred fins and u thin
streak Of sky blue where the
fins join the body. They are
not much bigger than the or
dinary sunfish, but the have
a set Of headlights" in the
forehead which give out lumi-
nous rays in the deep Pacific
waters.
They were taken home by
the SmHsN NSOnian scientists
aboard the} U. s. S. Houston,
along with many other deep
sea specimens. The scientists
gave these fish the name
"ROck Beauty; mounted
them and have presented
them to the White House.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
JOAN BLONDELL
Film Star Named as Friend
BY Self-StyIed German
"Count" Held in Larceny

Gustaf Won Frederick zu Branden-
burg, 80. Although unable to pro-
duce a passport, he turned over
to investigators a bundle of press
clippings purporting to show that
he had been entertained lavishly
in Hollywood by such luminarieS
as Joan Crawford and Joan Blon-
dell.
But what Federal probers
wanted most to know was what
the Count" had been doing in
America for is years and how,
without a passport, he had been
able to make frequent trips to
Europe.
The Count" told police that
$50, ,480 he obtained from William
a. Handschumaker, Boston meat
market official, was merely a
"loan." but andSc h u maker
doesn't think so.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
Vast j. ). Area
Hit by Drought

G.N.S.) Another droughts, de-
scribed by the Weather Bureau to-
day as zone of the most severe and
widespread fall droughs of record, !"
extends generally from the appa-
lachian to the Rocky Mountains.
Warm weather and no rain pre-
vailed last week in nearly all Sec
tionS of the country.
Wheat made practically no
growth in the Great Plains States,
except in Eastern Nebraska and
the Texas Panhandle.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
Queen Of Albania
To Become Mother

NICE, France, Nov. Queen
Geraldine of Albania expects q
child early in March, her mother,
the former Gladys Stewart of New
York, has revealed.
The 22-year-old Queen, of Amer
ican blood, who was married to
King Zog last April 27, is in
Tirana. The King has asked her
mother, now Nine. Gontran
Girault, to visit them in February.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
Concerted, Sends
Dime Knife Back

LURAY, Va, Nov. "A 10-cent
knife has been returned to B. F.
Glenn after several years, as q
token that a man "has been con-
verted." Glenn. member of the
county police force and proprietor
of a filling station, received the
following letter with the knife:
Several years ago while visit
: ing Virginia, I passed by your
place and bought a few articles.
I also stole this small knife.
Since that time I have been
converted and wish to restore
the article I took"
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
Ring Smashed:
DOPE AND DICE
SEIZED IN RAIDS;
Il UNDER ARREST.
-Four Suspects Held at
u. S. Witnesses

Eleven persons, five women and
six men, were under arrest today
following a series Of raids on Wash
ington's biggest dope ring last
night, and other raids were ex-
pected as a result of information
gained when police examined four
apartments.
Seven Of those arrested are held
on United States Commissioners
warrants charging conspiracy to
violate the narcotic laws, and the
others are held as Government
witnesses.
CITED IN WARRANTS
Those held on the warrants are:
Fannie Maggie, "a, of the 100
block Ninth st. N. W.; Margaret
Histon, %, of the TOO block New
Jersey Ave. N. W.; Blanche Braw-
ley, alias Reeves. 80. no fixed ad-
dress; John A. Johnson, 35, cited
as the ringleader of the mob; Ray
mond Ellsworth Price, Andrew
Brawley, and Fred Brannon, alias
B. o. Brown.
Bond for the women was set at
$4,000 and for the men $40, 900
pending a hearing before the
United States Commissioner.
Narcotics valued at more than
$4,000 were said to have been
found in the four raids, and po-
lice also said they found several
hundred pairs Of loaded dice and
marked cards.
P.O. ENTERS CASE
Postal inspectors were called
into the case, as it was believed
some of the dope was sent to the
clearing house of the gang here
through the mails.
The Secret Service is also in
VeStigating to determine If the
prisoners were mixed up in coun-
terfeiting, although no evidence
was found to link them with bogus
money that has been placed in
circulation recently.
AS a result of the raids here,
two men were arrested in New
York by police last night, and
other raids are expected today as
far south as Birmingham. Ala.
SEQUEL TO ERTEL ARREST
Police have been working on the
case ever since the arrest here Of
"Little Benny" Ertel, New York
gangster wanted on a murder
charge, several months ago.
In Ertel's apartment were found
narcotics and counterfeit bills.
Some of the detectives assigned
tc the case worked as taxi drivers,
others rented rooms in apartments
where the suspects lived.
Finally the warrants were issued
aud the raids were started.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
FRAME-UP CHARGED
Ground Is Broken
For Ga|Iinqer Wing

Ground was broken yesterday
for the new $750, 900 ward building
at Gallinger Hospital, to be fl
nanced with PWA funds.
DR.. Edgar Bocock, hospital su-
perintendent, was present for. the
informal cere emonies which
marked the beginning of work.
"This ward will be a great thing
for the hospital and for the peo-
pie Of Washington" he told re-
porters.
The building, to be completed in
about a year, will have space for
800 beds.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
Girl, 13, Charges
Attack Attempt

Police today were investigating
a report made by a 13-year-old
Southeast Washington girl that a
man about so years old lured her
into Fairlawn Park. near the end
of the Eleventh Street Bridge, last
night, and attempted to attack
her. Her screams attracted the
attention Of passerS-by and the
man fled. the girl told police.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
Fall Hurts Woman

Lucille Bolton, ~, of Arlington,
Va, was treated at Emergency
Hospital last night for lacerationS
of the right leg and shock after
she had fallen between a trolley
car and a loading platform on
Fourteenth Street near New York
Avenue Northwest. She was pre-
pairing to board a car.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
DR.. HummeI to Talk

DR.. Arthur W. Hummel. of the
Library Of Congress, will speak
on the Development of the Chi
nese Book" during a meeting of
the George Washington Library
Science Alumni Association at
Taft House Inn, 1901 K st. N. w.,
tonight at 8.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02

"The Tigers Claw" Another thrill
Ing mystery story by H. Ashton Wolfe,
world famous sIeuth, In which he
tells how q brilliant detective set
trap for the mauIinE death and the
surprising thing he caught thereby
one Of the most astonishing Of this
popular series in the American Weekly,
the magazine distributed with next
Sundays Herald Times.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
Decision on Trir
Has Not Been
Reached
Copyright. 193S)

LONDON, Nov. 2 Q.N.S RE
ports that King George VI has
received an invitation from Presi-
dent Roosevelt to visit the United
States, or has accepted any such
invitation, are highly imaginative
speculation" according to a source
close to His Majesty.
DECISION WATTS
It was revealed that the ques-
tion of whether the King and
Queen Elizabeth will visit the
United States at the close of their
forthcoming Canadian tour re-
mains undecided. It is likely there
will be no final decision for some
weeks.
The monarch was described as
very sympathetic" to diplomatic
pressure urging him to go to the
United States. He also is said to
be fully cognizant of the likelihood
that Americans might feel sighted
if he failed to make the visit or
at least to meet President Roose.
welt at some convenient Canadian
United States border point.
ENORMOUS TASK
But, International News Serv.
ices informant declared, details
connected with the Canadian trip
are so enormous and need such
careful thought and preparation
that it is impossible yet to fore.
cast with any certainty whether
the King will be able to enter the
United States.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02

n u q /
I'm u m"
S h Ow of
t h e d e
partm e n t
Of Agr RI
culture.
M r 8.
Fra nklin
d. ROOSe-
welt is the
official
n a m e Of
tn e n e w
bloom in
the show,
with some
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The Washington times., 1938-11-02
8 Feet!

plants, numbering about 17O
varieties Of chrySanthemums,
on display.
The new "mum" Is the
largest in the show, which
opened yesterday and will
continue through November
9. The show is open free to
the public each day from 9
a. m. to 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
First Lddu'
ISdReQL
Mum

Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt,
8 feet tall, was the center Of
attraction today at the an
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
FAMOUS $4,000.
CAR OF. M'LEAN
GOING ON BLOCK
Big Rolls Once Carried
Many U. S. Great

Want to buy a Rolls Royce?
The car, one of the most famous
in washington, once the property
of Edward Beale Mclean, former
Washington publisher, will be sold
at public auction tonight.
COST $4,000
Some 10 years ago, when it was
new, the luxurious car cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000. But to-
night it is expected to bring only
in the neighborhood of 500.
In that car have ridden the
great and near great of the world.
For Mclean, in his heyday, was
one of the most spectacular char
acters in the Capital.
Friend of Presidents, confidant
Of cabinet officers, pal of judges
and diplomats, Mclean was one
Of the social leaders of Washing
| ton,
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
A FAMILIAR SIGHT

This same Rolls often rolled in
and out of the gates of Friend
ship, the Mclean estate on Wis
consin Avenue, bringing the great
of the world to functions there.
Mclean was a close friend and
golfing companion of the late
President Harding. And after
the death of the President he
figured prominently in the Teapot
Dome oil scandal investigation.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02

States Attorney Alan Bowie i'm
Evening star., 1938-10-25
UNCLE RAYS CORNER
KELLOGG-BRIAND TREATY.

L
The United States did not join the
League of Nations, but it did something
else which seemed important for peace.
In 1928 Secretary of State Kellogg
offered the world peace pact" or
treaty. The treaty had these main
points:
/. We condemn war as way to
settle any quarrel between nations.
2. We declare we will never try to
settle any quarrel or dispute In any
way except peaceful way.
Because the French statesman,
BRAND, helped bring forth the idea of
the treaty, 1t often is called the
Kellogg BRAND treaty" 1t was signed
In Paris by is nations.
Germany signed it. Japan signed
It, Italy signed it. The United States
signed it, and it later was ap-
proved by the United States Senate
BY 4 vote of IS to l. Great Britain,
Canada, Australia, France. Poland
and India also signed. Many other
nations followed until so had given
their word against war.
Some persons said: The peace pact
is:good, but it does not go far enough.
There is no promise in it to punish q
nation which breaks its word"
The test came all too soon. In
1891 Japan invaded part of China,
the part called Manchuria.
Evening star., 1938-10-25
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Mailer, Oswald Jacoby. Howard schenk-
en-. worlds leading team OF -four. in
every other system in existence
In trump contract naturally
enough the trump suit Is declarers
first and most important consideration.
While there Is no reason why one
should look for bad breaks. neverthe-
less when possible the winning player
should always allow for bad break
and endeavor to play the hand in
such 4 manner as to guard against it.
When he fails to do so, he has no
right to complain OF bad luck-it is
just bad play.
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clarer won with the ace and promptly
played the four OF spades from dummy
East played the three, declarer went
up with the king, and West showed
out. Now there was no way that the
unfortunate declarer could get away
from losing two heart tricks, one club
trick and one trump trick, and he was
down one.
The opponents now proceeded TO bid
and make q slam on the next hand.
and South's complaints against the
goddess OF fortune were long and loud.
Actually he lost the rubber through
nothing but bad play. He should
have realized that the hand was cold
against anything but \ 40 break in
uumps, that there was no defense
against four trumps in the West hand
but that If East held four trumps,
he could have found out about it and
picked them up. The FIRST trump
play should have been the queen from
dummy. Then. when West showed
out, he could have finessed twice for
Easts jack and ten and made the
hand.
incidentally, those players who do
not already know it will do we'll to
learn the following rule: Whenever
there are four Of suit outstanding
headed by just the jack. declarer
should first lead from the hand con.
tanning two Of his three top honors;
but when the ten also Is included in
the opponents holding, lead first from
the hand containing only one honor.
(Copyrisht. 1889
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Evening star., 1938-10-25
Europe From 1918 TO 1898

invasion. It could start boycott to
keep japan from getting any goods by
trade with nations in the League. It
even had the power to send warships
to the Pacific and put = blockade
around Japan.
Some wanted to halt Japan In that
way, but there had to be 4 vote Of all
nations in the League. and not all
would vote that way. Instead, q COM
mite was named to study the trouble
and to make 4 report on the facts. BY
the time the committee WAS through,
Japan had won power in Manchuria!
The ownership of Manchuria was
not, in itself, very important to the
world. 1t did not matter much
whether Japan or China had power
there. The thing which did matter
was that Japan had made an attack
on China, and had been allowed to
80 ahead. The question came, will
some nation in Europe commit = deed
OF the same sort?"
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Tomorrow: The Rise Of Mussolini.
Evening star., 1938-10-25

Twizzler Answer,
The answer to the calculation you
did Is 1916. 1t will always work for
any one you try 1t on.
Evening star., 1938-10-25

GERMANY SIGNED THE KELLOGG
PEACE PACT-IN 1928.
Japan did not declare war on China
1t just went ahead and made war!
Manchuria was conquered, and the
Japanese set up . new government
there. Manchuria was given . differ
ent name, "Manchukuo," pronounced
"Mahn -cho-k
Where was the Kellogg BRAND
treaty? It wasn't working!
In Geneva, Switzerland, the League
of Nations was meeting. 1t had the
power to do something to stop Japan's
Evening star., 1938-10-25

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Mailer. Oswald Jacoby. Howard 0chenk-
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ventors OF the system that has beaten
every other system in existence.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-27
UNDERWRITERS WIN
FROM LIONS, 4 1O2
Leon Wick Masters Civic
Club Team All Way
Through Contest

The Underwriters turned in "
victory over the Lions YESTERDAY
afternoon in city league softpail
contest, with Leon Wick pitching INC
victory.
The insurance men punched their
hits when they meant runs, pusnins
over three TALES in the third inning
when Lufsey, Gill and Boyd hit IN su:
cession. Mosley was out but WICK MT
safely.
The winners added another tally IN
the fourth when Moore hit to LETT
field for three bases, and came nome
when Stainback singled to left tlelo.
The Lions scored their TALES in the
sixth when Terrell led off with a MT.
German followed him with SLOW
roller to first, which he beat ous,
Church grounded out to first. Dodd
flied out, but Manager Bill Hight sup
piled the punch that sent the two men
across the plate.
The Lions put one on base in
several innings, but Vick's pitching
and fine support afield kept the run
ners from crossing the plate.
Score by innings:
Underwriters ......... OO3 100 Va
Lions ................ OOO O2O u
Dodd and Dunn, Register; Wick and
Gill.