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a claim for $13l,863 in taxes for the
years 1929 and 1890. At the time Of
the Federal indictment, Brunder was
under State sentence for operating .
lottery.
At the income tax trial it was
brought out that Brunder had paid
S44O,046 for two Harlem apartment
houses and s24O, 900 for other property.
The growth of his numbers business
was shown by these bank deposits:
1925, sl94,O0O; 1926. $3.50, 900; 1927,
s337,OOO; 1928, sl31,0o0; 1929, $780,
900: 1890. S6O3. .000
Brunder didn't bother to make in
come tax returns any of these years.
Deposits Show Rise.
In the spring of 1892 Jose Enrique
Miro, who went under the name of
Henry Miro, a native of Puerto Rico,
was convicted of income tax fraud
and sent to Atlanta for six years. His
rise as policy banker was shown by
these bank deposits: 1927. $4,000:
1928, s237,o00; 1929, $384,0OO; 1880,
$6l7,000.
The figures brought out at these
trials amazed New Workers. A lot
of them had never heard of the policy
racket, and those who had thought
of it as a little game Harlemites
played. But the game had spread
throughout the Bronx and down into
Manhattan. White people were TAX
ing it up rapidly. 1t was sure thing
for the operator, since it carried a
chance of 1000 to l against those
who gambled on it and required pay
ment of only 600 to / to the COM
paratively few who hit
One of the first to hear Of the
fabulous rewards to be gained in this
sale of numbers was one Arthur
Flegenheimer, known among his
friends-and the police-as Dutch
Schultz, the beer runner. Dutch de-
manded. in effect: How long has
this been goin' on?"
He was told, and he exclaimed:
well, I'll be :"
So that, in the latter part of 1880,
the character of the numbers busi-
ness in New York began changing.
The old haphazard methods gave way
to business efficiency. Customers no
longer had to hunt up a writer and
give him number. Instead, as the
client stepped out of his Office into
the corridor of the Office building q
polite. well-dressed man begged his
pardon, but-well, did he want to
risk something on number today?
More and more people began to play.
And they could always collect if they
won.
The racket grew and crime in
creased even as in Washington.
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requesting an increase in both day and
night service for the area and that q
number Of the buses stopping at Pet
worth under present schedules be con-
tinued out to the Chillum area.
J. Joseph Whelan, secretary Of the
association, who introduced the mo-
ton, also protested the overcrowding
Of buses. He suggested a more regu-
lar schedule.
The 1887 slate Of officers, with the
exception OF Mrs. Dora c. Leizear, who
resigned as treasurer, was reelected by
a unanimous vote. william G. Lang
was chosen to fill that vacancy. H. M.
Dixon will continue as president, Cyrus
T. Bright as vice president, Mr..
Whelan as secretary and Mr.. Whelan
and Michael F. Finan as delegates to
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BORAH ATTACKS
CRIME IN CAPITAL
Declares Problem Is Not
Being Met Under Federal
Jurisdiction.

Washington, under Federal jurisdic.
tion, is not meeting the crime problem
as well as the Southern States, Sena-
tor Borah, Republican of Idaho, de.
clared in the Senate yesterday ir
arguing against the pending Fedora!
anti-lynching bill.
Commenting today on Senator Bo-
rah's statement, Commissioner Hazen
who supervises operation of the Police
Department, said:
Senator Borah, of course, has a
right to his own views on crime condi-
tions in the District. I do not agree
with them.
Perhaps I have prejudiced view
OF police protection in the National
Capital, but it has been my impression
that the Washington Police Depart
ment is about as good as any in the
country. However. I have no desire
to enter into a controversy on the
point
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintend-
ent of police. declined to comment.
Senator Borah based his opposition
to the anti-lynching measure on
the ground that the stamping out
of lynching is a State function, and
that there is no reason to believe the
Federal Government could do it more
effectively. The measure provides for
prosecution of State officers charged
with not protecting prisoners, and
would require counties to pay indem-
mites to the families of persons
lynched.
THE proponents of the bill un-
doubtedly maintain that the Federal
Government will protect men in the
South better than will the local COM
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munities," Mr.. Borah said, in ap-
preaching his reference to conditions
here. They are undoubtedly basing
the entire measure upon the PROPOSE
ton that the Federal Government will
execute the law.
well, we have the Federal Gov
ernment in control Of the city Of
Washington, which is now the second,
If not the greatest, criminal Capital
in the world. Seventy-five people
robbed of their property in one night.
How close the police were I do not
know.
I'VE can all recall instance after
instance of young women disappear
ing and their bodies being found out
ragged and the criminals never inter-
cepted. Why is there any reason to
believe the Federal Government can
enforce criminal laws better than can
the State government? That is the
record"
Further on in his speech the Idaho
Senator asserted that criminals of
Washington are taking $30,00O,O00 a
year from the citizens of this city"
That is depriving them of property.
of life and liberty, certainly without
due process OF law" the Senator con-
tinued. And the men in charge of
the District seem to have thrown up
their hands; they do not know how
to deal with the situation. Yet the
Federal Government is here; the Fed
eral Government Is back of them, but
they are not by any means doing as
we'll as are the people of the Southern
States in meeting the crime problem.
Discrimination Continues.
Senator Borah also declared the
Federal Government has not been able
to prevent racial discrimination in the
civil service in Washington
Take. for instance, the colored girl
who, under great handicaps, has
earned her right to be employed by
her Government upon that equality
with every one else" the Idahoan
continued. She goes with a certifi-
cate of competency from the Civil
Service Commission to one of the de-
partments here in Washington-here
in Washington under the aegis of the
Federal Government; and when she
enters the door and her color is dis
covered. she is told that the place is
filled, which is lie. That happens,
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not once but many times. She SUI.
fers injustice at the hands of her
Federal Government. But that Is a
race question, and no law was ever
made tight enough or strong enough
to remove all harshness and to elimi-
nate all injustices."
Earlier Mr.. Borah had described the
Department of Justice as having the
greatest specialists in the world" in
running down crime. There is Fed
eral kidnapping law, he said, because
that crime generally crosses State lines.
He added, however, that last year
there were 20 kidnapping cases. The
Senator quoted J. Edgar Hoover, d.
rector Of the F. B. l., as saying there
never will come time when there will
not be kidnapping in the United States.
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The Federation Of Citizens Associa.

the Federation Of Citizens Associa-
tions.
The delegates were instructed to
represent the citizens group at the next
federation meeting as opposed to the
conversion Of the old tuberculosis Hos
pital on Upshur street NV. into an
annex for Gallinger Hospital.
Mr. Finan, who is chairman Of the
associations Fire and Police Commit
tee, was instructed to confer with Traf-
flc Director William A. Van Duzer
regarding the possibility OF having the
mo parking" signs on the east side
OF Third street NV, between Ken
nedy street and Kansas avenue, re-
moved.
Clinton Hisle and Mr.. Finan were
appointed to survey the Chillum terri
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tory with the prospect Of having a
Boy Scout troop organized in that Sec
ton.
K E. Ardinger was elected to mem
bership at the meeting held in the
Joseph r. Keene School, Blair and
Riggs roads NV
Protection for school children who
must walk under narrow railroad
underpass en- route to the Keene
School was asked in another motion.
The matter was referred to commit
tee for consideration.
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AMONG those who searched for
the precious metal was an alchemist
named Botteer, who promised his i'm.
perial master, Augustus the Strong,
King of Poland and Elector of Saxony,
d that he would be the discoverer of the
yellow metal. Enraged by his failure,
Augustus thrust him into prison.
Here he continued to work. One day
he was startled at the results of his
efforts. True, he had not discovered
the process by which gold was made,
but he had discovered something that
only gold could buy-cbina. THAT had
been secret guarded closely by the
Orient.)
Once costly article of luxury, made
in Difference to the whims and fancies
of mobiles, fine china is now within the
reach of many people who appreciate
its value.
Since 1898 no name in the ceramic
arts has been more celebrated than
Minton. Three generations of Eng.
lish royalty have used Minton china.
1t is found in the homes of nobility and
of aristocracy of the world and, in
America, no less than elsewhere, it
sraces the tables of cultured people.
The superb texture, the brilliant fin.
ish, the exquisite artistry of Minton
have earned it the reputation of being
among the most desirable china you
can buy. Minton china is practical
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Numbers
Continued From First Page.)

death, extortion, terror. And it's a
prophecy Of what may happen to the
National Capital if the same racket
continues to prosper and grow.
The other day, Mr.. Dewey, still
deputy assistant district attorney in
charge of prosecuting rackets sat in
his office overlooking the Hudson
the youthful dynamo who generated
the courage and the energy to free the
metropolis from an underworld more
powerful than the law. A long line
of people waited to see this small,
soft-spoken 35-year-old lawyer who
aroused the whole country by proving
that the law. after all, is the stronger
-. when strong men enforce it. He
was told Of the situation in Washing
ton-the numbers racket solidly en-
trenched. crime increasing at an
alarming rate-and he said -.
But Mr.. Dewey never gives inter-
views. He prefers to announce indict-
ments and arrests. He feels that they
are much more to the point.
Aides Will Not Talk.
Neither will Charles P. Grimes. a
young prosecutor in the Office. nor
Sergt. William Grafenecker. ace detec-
tive of the New York police depart
ment, talk for publication. But Mr..
Grimes was leading strategist in the
drive on rackets. 1t vas he who re-
turned from Mexico City the other
day with Alexander Pompez, one-time
Harlem policy magnate. And it was
Sergt. Grafenecker who gathered
much of the evidence that blew up the
dangerous numbers monopoly.
But talking to these and other
members of the Dewey general staff
you begin to understand why all New
York's big-time racketeers-the mob
masters who laughed at the law from
the fancled security of luxurious hotel
suites-were either sent to the peni-
tentlary or driven scurrying for cover.
The Dewey offices in the WoolWorth
Building still cracked with the force,
which for two years and a half has
been directed at the criminals who
had made the law a puny and helpless
thing.
The mopping up goes on, though
the police will tell you that guy"
dewey has made the town too
damned hot for mobs."
Started in Harlem.
The rise of the numbers to major
underworld enterprise in "the big
town" goes back to the days when
policy" was tranquil amusement,
IN which much OF the colored populace
OF Harlem invested stray pennies,
nlckels and dimes. They still call
1t policy around New York, though
long ago the scheme of drawing out
one OF a group of numbered balls has
been substituted by the plan followed
IN Washington and other cities-a
payoff number made up from pari-
mutuel totals at race tracks
Some six years ago Wilfred Brunder.
q colored policy banker, was con-
Victed OF defrauding the Government
OF income tax. He was sentenced to
. year and nine months and required
to pay $44,75065 in back taxes. The
Internal Revenue Bureau had set up
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ware because it is made of English
bone china, which contains the costly
ingredient of calcined bones. Bone
china is admittedly the most service.
able and most durable substance yet
discovered. 1t is among the strongest
and toughest china, does not break
easily and permits exceptional per.
manence of the decorative designs.
Minton China is also distinguished for
its decorations. In Minton, you find
the same splendid designs which mark
old pieces painted by the French
artists of Sevres. There is that de.
lightful sense of lifting music which
always seems to emanate from the
perfect combination of Natures own
colors, whether in a dainty afternoon
tea set or formal dinner service.
For three generations, Woodward &
Lothrop has supplied discerning and
cultured Washingtonians with their
table appointments. The modern
hostess will find in our greatly in.
creased collection of fine china an
exclusive group of Minton patterns
demanded by the current conventions
of table etiquette.
Woodward & Lothrop is equipped to
provide embassies legations and
official residences as we'll as private
homes with especially designed china
to suit individual tastes and needs.
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Primitive Transportation.

In a colonial report just issued it
Is disclosed that the Falkland Islands
have no railway, air, bus or street
car service.
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New Dime Giver.

SANTA MARIA, Calf. R.-Frank
j. Mccoy. hotel man, has Just had
an OIL we'll come in and has taken un
tne late John D. Rockefeller's burden.
Hes distributing shiny new dimes to
children!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
Free Press Means
Peoples Liberty,
KiWanians Told

Without freedom OF the press IN
the United States there would be no
liberty for the people, the Ell Centro
Kiwanis club was told Friday noon
by E. A. Fitzhugh. managing editor
of the Imperial Valley Press and
The Morning FoSt
Throughout history" the speaker
said, "dictators and tyrants have
risen when the press lost freedom,
and throughout history tyrants and
dictators have fallen when the press
gained freedom"
When the newspapers of ma
ton are able to print only what
the government wants them to
print, the people soon lose knowl-
edge of how their public business
is operated, they are directed in
the way the powers-that-b want
them to go, and so lose the ability
to think for themselves, FitZhugh
said.
The club was warned that attempts
to license the press, thus placing
it under government control, al
ways go before government CEN
SorShip of news.
Adolph Won Konsky was chairman
of the KiWanis meeting Friday. The
program included group singing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03

pIeSSIll wal Will Japan. I1C pIC ICNi1b-
ed the revival of Shanghai as a
great international trade center re-
gardleSS of which side won the war.
Sir Victor, chairman of the great
E. D. Sassoon Banking Co., Ltd,
is en- route to England for a stay of
several months. A captain in the
royal air force during the World
war. Sir Victor came from Shang-
hal by air. He is Sc and bachelor.
She is stronger than before the
war. from a moral point of view, -"
he said. There has been a birth
of true national feeling in China
which is so strong that the people
would not give in even if their
leaders wanted to-if this happen
ed they would follow other leaders. y
He was careful not to predict the
ultimate winner of the Chinese
japanese war, or to take sides.
Il can perhaps. see military rea-
sons why Japan should wish to
dominate northern China, but not
all of China" he said.
AS far as the Shanghai area
is concerned, we shall regain our
former position as a trade center
because, assuming the Japanese win
the war, there they will not be in
a position to do anything except
ordinary trading. because they will
be too busy in the north
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
Wallace Orders
Packing Company
To Observe Law

WASHINGTON. June 3. up
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A
Wallace todav ordered Swift & Co.
Chicago meat packing firm. to cease
unfair. unjustlv discriminatory and
deceptive" practices in the sales of
its products.
Wallace held the company lad
violated the hackers and stockyards
act from 1890 to 1897 through un-
lawful practices in distribution OF
its products.
The alleged violations included:
|. Denying certain purchasers
discounts while granting them to
others.
2 Requiring some purchasers to
pay for meat at factory weights and
others at weights when sold to con-
sumers.
3. Giving long-term credit to
some purchasers and short-term
credit to others.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
SEES
UNCLE KILL
HER PARENTS

THREE FORKS, Mont. June ).
up Mary Louise Kunze. :. went
into the house Wednesday night to
wait for her mother who was out
side. to come in and fix supper.
Before she closed the door Mary
Louise called to her mother to hurry:
she had been playing and was tired
and hungry.
Five minutes later Mary Louise
heard a shot. She ran to the door,
looked outside. saw her mother
lying on the ground.
Mary Louises father, mayor of
Three Forks. was hiding behind a
tree. The child saw her uncle raise
his rifle. point it toward her IA
ther. and fire The mayor died
with a bullet in his back.
Mary Louise hurried to a tele
phone and called a doctor But it
was too late. Her parents were
dead when the doctor arrived.
John Kunze. so. stepbrother OF
Au.uSt F. Kunze. the mayor had
threatened his brother. authorities
said. because the mayor had de-
clined to give him a job at the
city water works.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
LEGION AWARD
GIVEN SCHOOL

American Legion certificates
were awarded to Ell Centre stu
dents at the awards assembly
Thursday morning at Wilson
school.
Boys awards were given foi
character. honor, courage, scholar
ship, leadership and service; girls
awards for character, courage
service, companionship and schol-
arship.
Central high school winners were
ChriSty William Plemons and
Mary Ann Riddle; Wilson elemen
tary, Thomas Andrew Osa and
Carmen Vinfrido; Douglass high
Regenia Payne and William Cul-
berson. and Washington elemen-
tary. Vangle Mason and Jennie Al
VareZ.
Mrs. Edna Morrison. American
ism chairman for the Legion auXi-
iary presented essay medals to
Marjorie Cook. 9th grade and Julia
Adams. 9Th grade. Mrs. Morrison
presented a medal to Margaret
Prince at the Washington school
graduation exercises.
Rev. Floyd C. johnson was the
speaker.
Legionnaires present were H. x
McClimans, Glenn Kieffer, Leslie
Conn, Fred Riddle, A. Shaller Nor
man Dupont. John Adams. Guy A
Weakley, Robert Armstrong, w. H
Rhodes and the commander. Mike
Zavala.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
Prison Term Faces
Public EmbeZZIer

SACRAMENTO, June 3. CUP)-A
penalty of one to 10 years in Folsom
prison today faced Lawrence HAL
mar Hughes, 35-year-old Sacrament
to deputy county treasurer, for en-
bezzlement of $4,000 in county funds.
His sentenced started today.
Hughes refused counsel. waived
his constitutional rights and asked
for immediate sentence from Judge
Dal M. Lennon. Hughes was in
dicted yesterday at secret session
of the grand jury after his pecula-
tionS were discovered Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03

and a girl during the past two
years
As he spoke. he corroborated his
statements by sketching with an
expert hand the floor plans of his
victims homes. He has beaten to
death three women in Chicago and
woman and her daughter IN Los
Angeles.
7 can't think OF any others. 90
he said.
His victims were Mrs. Florence
Thompson Castle. attacked and
slain in her Chicaco hotel. June
2s. 1886 Anna Kutcha. l8-year-old
student nurse. attacked and slain
at the Chicago hospital. Aug. D..
1887; Mrs Edna Worden and her
l2-year-old daughter, Marguerite.
stripped and slain in their Los
Angeles home Aug. a. 1887: and
Mrs. Florence Johnson. 35. mother
OF two children. bludgeoned in her
he'd May 81. 1898.
In each case the victims skull
was crushed with a brick. All were
slain in their beds during the early
morning hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
10 Miners Killed
By Coal Explosion

pTTTSTON, Pa, June 3. UIP)-
Three bodies were missing today a
mile underground in the Volpe an
thracite coliery where an explosion
of coal gas killed 10 miners yester-
day
Emergency crews, endangered by
black damp, aftermath of eXplo-
sions. were searching the slopes of
the mine for the missing three, with
no hope that any of them was still
alive.
OF the 13 men in the mine at the
time of the explosion, two were
brought out so badly burned that
they may die.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
Bombs, Guerilla
War in Invasion
CONTINUED from Page y

the guns could be heard in Peiping
japanese army authorities offered
Chinese peasants rewards for the
delivery of the guerrilla heads to
the japanese army
Chinese reports said that the
guerrillas also attacked the Japa-
nese garrison at Paotins and were
active near Tinghsien. japanese
dispatches said, however. that the
most serious guerrilla activities
flared up in Chahar. where Japa-
nese army officials asked the help
of Chinese peasants in fighting
them.
Mechanical japanese columns
fought their way toward Kaifene,
the key point in the wester sector
of China's fortified Lunghai rail-
road. They pressed closest to the
city from the east after having oc-
cupied Kihsien, 80 miles south of
Lanfeng.
After taking Kihsien. airplaneS
bombed Chinese artillery positions,
indicating that an attack on Lam
feng from the south probably would
be opened soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
New Deal Pushes
Bill Toward Vote

Continued FROM Page One)
publicanS.
The senate today added a $780,
100000 housing authorization
amendment to the recovery bill
bringing its total to s3722 ,000,O 600
The amendment was added to
the bill with the support of senate
Majority Leader Alben w. Barkley.
1t was sponsored by Sen. Robert
F. Wagner. D. N. Y. and raises
the sum which the U. S. housing
authority is authorized to provide
for slum clearance and low cost
housing projects from s500,00o 900
to 100000. The increase was
proposed by President Roosevelt in
his relief message to congress.
The house now is considering
the housing proposal in the form
of a separate bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03

equalization but would file for state
senator from Alameda county.
A contention that Assemblyman
william HornbloWer of San Fran
cisco, received $2500 to effect the
defeat of senate bill 521. a measure
opposed by commercial sardine fish
ermen, during the 1885 session of
the legislature. Hornblower has de-
MED he was paid a bribe and con-
tends the money represented fee
for legal services.
Dondero's story involved John j..
Bottaro and II. L. Hanson, Sacra- :
mento liquor dealers. Both said an
escrow agreement with Dondero was
based on their belief the $1,000 in
volved was a contribution towards
Dondero's campaign for the state
senate seat.
Bottaro denied he advanced the
money to keep Dondero from enter
ing the board of equalization race
against incumbent Fred E. Stewart
of Oakland.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-03
Aid Sought for
Spain Wounded

PARIS. June 3. CUPl-The Span
ish government today asked Amer
lean and other foreign charity
groups if they could take care of
600 more wounded fighters. includ-
ing 66 Americans of the interna-
tional brigade. because of the
crowded condition OF hospitals in
Spain.
The American volunteer commit
tee operating in Paris is taking
care of % Americans and one Can
adian and is unable to accommo-
date more because of limited funds