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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-03
Broker Aided
Police By Tracing
Car License
Demand $1,000
From Gaines
Extortionist

An attempt to extort $1,000 from
prominent Detroit rea estate
broker was frustrated last week
throguh the clever work OF the in
tended victim, eliminating in the
apprehension Of the extortionist
with package purportedly con-
tanning the money. In his hand.
The intended victim OF the ex-
tortionlst is Carlton w. Gaines, Isl
East Warren. president OF the
Booker T. Washington Trade as
sociation. william Hampton. 27. OK
GIG Theodore was held on a charge
OF extortion when arraigned in the
recorders court Monday
Traced Llcease 81 Tar -
The trrest OF Hampton. ablas
Raymond Kennedy. followed the
tracing of ar automobile license Of
a car which Gaines had seen Ham
ton riding. the day following the
demands made TO Gaines.
Gaines told police that Hamp-
ton had called his office at 1864
Beaubien, and requested some in
formation concerning somt proper
ty which he contemplated buying.
He also asked Gaines to meet him
at the corner OF Woodward and
Harper as he did not wish TO dis
cuss the business In Gaines office.
This was July 10.
After Gaines had driven to the
designated spot and Hampton had
introduced himself. he demanded
81 900 from the broker, pointing
out some pertinent facts about the
Gaines business which indicated
he had some inside information. he
told OF conversation between
Gaines and George Porter about a
large land deal.
Couldn't Raise Money
After Gaines had declared his IN
ability to raise that much money
Hampton said he would give him
until the following day
The next day. as Gaines was
leaving his office. he saw Hampton
IN an automobile with woman
Gaines noted the license number
of tht car, ard Immediately con-
suited with W. d. Morrison. anoth-
OF real estate dealer. about trac-
ing the number. This was done
through the office OF the secretary
OF state.
There Il was discovered that the
car had originally belonged TO
Robert l.. Brady Jr., and hau
later been sold 10 Raymond Ken
nedv. This Information was given
10 police and a trap was set ior
Hampton.
Hampton called Gaines Monday
ard told the broker TO meet him
AZ Theodore and Rivard. Gaines
said he could not raise the thou
sand dollars. but would compromise
AZ s425. giving Hampton 1925 Mon
day. and the other at later da'e'
Hampton agreed.
Place A Plant
Gaines then called the police
and Detective Lieut.. Roy Fender
gast. Detective Sergt Thomas
pIckIngs. and Detectives Arthur
Ailard and John Wilson OF the
special Investigation Squad. plan
ed themselves NJ the Intersection.
After Informing police. Gaines
drove 10 Theodore and Rivard win
a package containing marked one
dollar bill wrapped around. with
some Newspaper. This was given 20
Hampton when he aapproached the
car. u
when the detectives saw Hamp-
ton accept the package. they step
ned out and covered him with guns
Hampton made an attempt 10 drop
the package. but TO no avail
Hampton who stated that ne nan
come here from Bunalo, stood mute
when arraigned In court MonnaN'
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-03
Homecoming Week

Preparations for the homecoming
week OF Motor City Lodge No. ss2'
1BPOEw. n moving forward with
rapidiiy, according 10 officials o.
the lodge. The week starts sun
day. Aug. n. and continues through
the following week.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-03
Woman Refuses
% Sign Warrant
b Rape Case
Freed Man
Leaves For
New York

|0len Montgomery, one of the
scottsboro Boys" arrested here
4turday on tho complaint of a 26-
|ar-old married woman that he
u criminally attacked her, gained
freedom Wednesday when the
,mplainant refused to sign the
brant.
|The woman took the stand at a
|aring on a writ OF habeas corpus.
told Judge Christopher f..
BIN that she did not want to sign
warrant because OF the unfay :
|able publicity.
Warrant Recommended
assistant Prosecutor Charles w.
pes told The court that the prose-
tors Office had recommended a
rnnt on the complaint OF the
man.
attorney Charles A. Roxborough.
% represented Montgomery, ask
the complainant II she knew
bntgomery.
] didn't know him BEFORE" she
Iswered.
Leaves For New York
Judge Stein then granted the
y and ordered the dismissal OF
prisoner.
Following his dismissal. Mont
nery said he was leaving i'm
ldiaiely for New York.
I've been wanting to leave here
some time" he declared, but
sd been told TO stay"
10 said that he formerly lived at
home Of the complainant.
was IL the early spring OF
mat Montgomery and eight
er boys, all between the ages OF
and ~ were arrested at Scots
y Ala. on the complaint OF two
I've girls who accused the boys
as'aui'ing them while riding a
Ieht train.
Vommntes Sentence
DC conviction and deaf h
fence Of the boys projected the
INTO International prominence,
afousing public reaction that
'ne case TO the United States
rene Court, and winning a com
suon OF the death sentence.
Ner spending six and one half
IN jail during the course OF
ua's' Montgomery and three
'N were freed In 1897. while
o'ners remained under long
"a terms at the Kilby Prison,
lsomery. Ala.
on'somery was arrested early
'say morning by police OF Can
ssauon. az 2s2 East Palmer.
0Incers had gone to the apart
on the complaint OF the wo-
VINO declared she had been
ually attacked by Montgomery
Wontlnued on page ~
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-03
Home Owners Have Found 1t Impossible
To Obtain FILA Insured Loans In
Many Neighborhoods

1898 mentioned in the report In
Guided Detroit's over twenty-five
million dollars OF one-family hous-
es permitted. more than sl,300,000
OF factory buildings, and school
buildings over $2.300,000.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
BuiIding-Lo Group,
Lend S108,001,00
In Month Of April
Figure Highest Since
Depression; Share Of
Total Financing Rises

Breaking records right and left,
the savings, building and loan as
sociations had in April their first
100000, 900 month in loan activity
since the depression, lending an esti-
mated $108,001 900. according to the
United States Savings and Loan
League.
According to the mortgage loan
index of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board the associations did
32.5 per cent of all April home
financing, as compared with 30.2
per cent last year.
The total volume included record
sums loaned for new home con-
struction, $33,764 900, and for as
sistance in home buying, $37 ,821 900.
Repair and modernization loans, the
largest amount so disbursed in any
month since June, 1887, totaled
$6,097 900.
A larger than seasonal rise of
1875 per cent over March lending
activity for all purposes was regis
tered, while the increase over April,
1899, was even more spectacular,
29.4 per cent.
In one State alone, California, the
associations made more than S.
000,0O0 of new construction loans.
Similar financing in Ohio was 81
2l3,000 for the month, while New
York, Illinois, North Carolina and
Florida each got more than $1,000
600 of new homes started by savings
and loan financing of April.
Morton Bodfish, executive vice
president of the league, said that
today's loan activity is at about the
pace of savings and loan financing
during the period of 1921 1890, ex-
cept for the two peak years, 1928.
OF the home building which has
taken place during the first four
months, reported by the Depart
ment of Labor at $3.50. TOO 900, and
counting public housing as we'll as
private financing, savings, building
and loan advances have accounted
for about 80 per cent, he said.
Analysis of the April loans and
the purpose for which they were
made follow:
Estimated loans
made by all as
sociations in the
Purpose United States
CONSTRUCTION -------- $50, ,764 900
Repair and modernization 6.0o7 900
Home purchase ----- 1891 900
Reflnancing - 2O.859 600
Otner purposes ------ 9,460 900
sl08, ,O01 900
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Democracy Menaced
By Blight in Cities,
Says Architect
Changing Populations
Declared CompIicoting
locul Government

Creeping blight has reached such
of our cities is threatened, according
to Eugene H. Klaber of Silver Spring,
Md, fellow of the American In
stitute Of Architects. Every major
community in the country is alarmed
by the conditions of blight, he de-
clared
blight has not only caused enor-
nous monetary losses to the owners
of property and to the cities through
inability to collect taxes adequate to
pay the running expense of the
decadent areas, but it has also Gre
ated f1uX and consequent instabil-
ity OF population which is potent
menace to democracy" Mr.. Klaber
says.
When the people of a city live
here today and there tomorrow.
what becomes of the idea that in
democracy the elected official is
the articulate voice of the wishes of
his constituents? With the enor-
nous growth of American cities, the
city hall has become more and more
remote from the individual citizen.
Democratic Technique.
Granted sincere desire on the
part of municipal government Of
flcials to be responsive to the desires
and needs of those they represent.
how can they possibly implement
this desire when today's constituency
Is gone tomorrow? Little wonder
then that the voices heard at the
city hall are so often that of special
acqulsltlve interests bent only on
profit to themselves at the ex-
pense of the city.
The generally bad character of
our municipal government is not so
much a result of inefficient and dis
honest officials as failure to develop
an adequate democratic technique
based on the simple and direct
methods of the New England town
meeting. In many small communi-
ties a democratic technique still
persists. In our great agglomera-
ton OF population it has virtually
disappeared.
"A realization of the menace of
blight has reused thinking persons
in all walks of life to the necessity
of immediate action. Today we hear
constantly of proposals for rehabili-
tation of this or that bhghted area
motivated by laudable desire to
salvage the interest of property
owners and lenders, and to improve
the finances of the city Architects,
financial institutions, real estate
boards, civic associations, chambers
of commerce, all have advanced
opinions and valuable proposals for
handling the physical and financial
problems involved in urban rehabil-
ttation
NeighborhOodS Remade.
But in all of these proposals,
how often do we hear a word about
those who make city? Who has
any idea of how we are to rehabili-
tate an articulate and functioning
citizenry? 1t is no belittlement of
the Importance of physical rehabili-
tation to insist that without con-
scious and planned rehabilitation
of functioning democracy, all efforts
Evening star., 1940-06-15

toward the creation of healthy
urban communities is futile.
Rehabilitation schemes to date
have seldom been city-wide; the size
and complexity of our great COM
munities inhibits this. They con-
Germ themselves largely with that
somewhat variable entity known as
the neighborhood, an area having
recognizable physical, social and
economic characteristics If the
neighborhood is the feasible unit of
physical rehabilitation, is it not
also the unit of political rehabilita-
ton?
While we are planning we must
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Gonzoeo Alumni
ElectL. F. Frick

Louis F. Frick was elected presi-
dent of the Gonzaga Alumni Asso-
ciation at its annual spring meet
ing at Gonzaga Hall Thursday
night.
Other officers named were Thomas
A. Flynn and Thomas r. Fitzgerald.
first and second vice presidents, re-
spectively; Robert A. Genau, treas
urer, and Joseph A. Norris, secre-
tary.
Speakers at the meeting, at which
the 1910 graduating class was pre-
sented, were Fathers Henri j. VIE
sci, S. j., president, and Francis E
Garner, S. j., headmaster of the
school. Robert Gallery is the re-
tiring president of the association.
housing facilities In Spain are
still very inadequate.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Zionist Meetino

Leaders of the Seaboard Zionist
Region have been summoned to
meet at a luncheon Sunday at /
pm in the Hamilton Hoteel to plan
participation in the annual con-
vention of Zionists in Pittsburgh
the end of this month The local
meeting was called by Louis E.
Spiegler, chairman of the admins
trative comittee of Seaboard Zion
lists.
Evening star., 1940-06-15

also plan the creation of neighbor-
hood consciousness among all the
people of an environment, con-
sciousness that will prompt con-
trlbution on their part to the we'll
being of the place where they live
and in a broader sense to their city.
In word, we must rehabilitate
democracy"
Evening star., 1940-06-15

Brazil claims to be the most in
dustrlallzed country in South Amer
lea.
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Geographic Society
Plans Dakota Expedition

DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor. president
OF the National Geographic Society.
announced today that Joint
archaeological expedition of the So
c1ety and the South Dakota State
School of Mines will seek remains of
protoceras. titanothere and other
New World types of rhinoceros this
summer in the Badlands of Western
South Dakota, an eroded region
which lies between the Cheyenne
and White Rivers, southeast of
Rapid City.
Erosion in the Badlands area dur
Ing the last 10000 years or more has
exposed some buried bones and has
disclosed the region to be a rich
treasure house for science. Gen
graphic Society officials explained.
DR.. Joseph P. Connolly, president
OF the school of mines, will be in
charge of the expedition, assisted bv
James D. Bump, curator of the
museum of the school.
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Trip 10 Arctic Front
For Newsmen Starts
In Middle Of Night
Highways Aren't Safe
After Dawn Breaks,
Writers Are Told
BY WILLIAM L. WHITE.

ROVANIEMI, Finland.-At mid
night I am informed in the hotel
that my broadcast to America, sched-
uled for 2 o'clock, cannot 60 through.
That evening the Russians have
bombed Olu, further south down the
coast-broken the hne-smashed
some sort of condenser which steps
up the power of my voice across
Finland, under the sea to Stockholm,
under the Channel to Germany,
across Germany to Switzerland, and
from here through the air to
America. Tomorrow night the con-
denser will be repaired.
In the meantime would I like to
spend tomorrow at the front above
, the Arctic Circle? Then I must
be ready to leave at 2:30. No, not
2:30 tomorrow afternoon, 2:.3O this
very night-in just two and a half
hours from now. I may spend them
IN sleep if l like. But I should
know that this trip is truly danger
Gus, for here is no well organized
front such as they have down on the
isthmus, with second line trenches
and communicating trenches and
first line trenches with parapets and
barbed wire in front of that and
no mans land beyond.
Here there is no wire at ALL or
trenches-only the two armies fight
Ing it out, feeling for each other
with patrols. I should think we'll,
FOR no one can avoid danger, no one
can be responsible for my safety,
and no one should 60 up there for
an idle reason. So I think we'll
and tell them to Waken me at 2:3O
not only by shaking me but by pour
Ing water on me for I am a sound
sleeper. Punctually at 2:30 I am
awakened as ordered, and I shake
the water from my face, there in the
darkness. and tumble for my ski
pants, f1ashlight, and trench-coat
with its newly installed sheepskin
lining for the Arctic Circle.
1t Is small party-one other
American, a very jolly one from
Liberty magazine, Frenchman who
represents Figaro and who, because
he served in the artillery during
the 1914 war, is a little disdainful
about this, two Italian journalists
and myself.
With the Finnish lieutenants who
are conducting us, We fill two camou-
f1aged cars. They explain we must
start before dawn because the front
is % miles away, and We must be
there before light, because during
the day Russian planes patrol the
roads, machine cunning everything
that moves on wheels. I take a
rear seat, close the door, and tuck
the reindeer hide laprobe in about
mp boots. My two pairs of wool
socks I left on top of the radiator
last night. They should be so drv
now that my feet will not get cold
before noon, when body moisture
mas had time to penetrate the socks.
The Firms learned from the Lapps
tnat dry socks mean warm feet-cold
only comes from moisture.
Suddenly there is knock on the
glass OF my car window. I roll il
down. and the lieutenant passes in
to me something of very cold metal
which he lays on my knees. It is
sub-machine gun hardly longer
than my arm. Just in case we
meet Russian patrols, he Explains.
He has another himself and there
Is rifle for the driver.
OF course, I need not use the
eub-machine gun unless I want to-
but It's operation is simple and it
might be useful. So now the cars
start for the front.
Evening star., 1940-03-04
5. E. G. Official to Speak

William w. Werntz. chief ac-
countant of the Securities and Ex-
change Commission, will address
the accounting classes at Catholic
University tonight at 7:15 o'clock in
Mcmahon Hall of the university.
Evening star., 1940-03-04

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with hood and emblem. Sizes 8 to ls yearh
Special 81
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50 Boys 7sc Fiannelette Pajamas, slip-over style
Slight irreguars Of better grade Sizes to is
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Boys Shirts and Shorts, limited quantity. Sizes
26 to 80 and 26 to 34 Reg 27c 5 for 81
IS Boys 79c Slip Over Sweaters, all and part WOOL
Some with half zppers. Solid coors and 2-tones.
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Evening star., 1940-03-04

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side tabs. Stripes and patterns. Sizes 80 to
Evening star., 1940-03-04
MEMS and BOYS WEAR-DoLLAR-pAY PRICED

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Broken sizes from to 16 years. Full lined 81
800 Pairs Boys Golf Hose, specially purchased for
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31

Miss Jeanne Rose, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Rose of Airing
ton, with a group of Washington
friends is touring Yellowstone Park
and several Rocky Mountain resorts.
En- route to her home she will spend
q few days in Chicago.
Mr.. Rial Rose has rejoined his
parents following a visit in New
Brunswick, N. J. He will leave
September / for Milwaukee, Wis,
where he will be director of
music ct the Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church. Mr.. Rose received
his bachelor Of music degree from
Westminster choir school in Prince
ton, N. j., last spring.
Miss Jirka Mala is spending a
short vacation with her brother-in-
law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Willis
j. Nolan, in Somerset, Md. Miss
Mala, who came from her home in
Prague about a year ago, spent the
last year in Peekskill, N. Y, where
she has been instructor in a girls
school.
Miss Mala will return to Peeks-
kill In late September to resume
her work at the school.
The Misses Anne and Betty DON
ovan, daughters Of Capt. and Mrs.
John T. L. Donovan of Falls Church,
Va, while visiting the Worlds Fair,
are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
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Suburban Social Notes
Miss Jeanne Rose in West,
Mr.. Rial Rose Rejoins Parents

Floyd Wyatt at their home In Ruth.
erford, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Hansen are
entertaining their daughter, Mrs.
Elmer L. Stone, and her two small
sons, Jene and Roland Stone, at
their home in Takoma Park. Mrs.
Stone, who Is the former Miss Mar
jory Hansen, resides in Wausaukee,
Wis. She will spend several weeks
with her parents before her return
to Wisconsin.
Mrs. Edgar R. Minnich, accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Gray
Of Wellsburg, w. Va, arrived yes
terday to spend the week end and
holiday with Mrs. Minnich's mother,
Mrs. Kathryn Lawrence, in Airing
ton. This evening Mrs. Lawrence
will give a party which will be fol-
lowed by a buffet supper. Mr.. Will
liam w. Lawrence of Brunswick,
Md, will arrive today to spend the
week end with his mother.
Mrs. j. w. Earnshaw and her sis
ter, Miss A. M. Wilson, are again IN
their apartment at Colonial Village,
following visit in Warren, Ohio,
with Mrs. Earnshaws son-in-law
and daughter, the Rev. Mr.. Willis
B. Townsend and Mrs. Townsend.
Miss Myrtle Gilliss of Warren,
Ohio, will be the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Peter L. Decker of Bethesda,
Md, for the week end and part of
next week. Monday Miss Gilliss and
Mrs. Decker will go to Ethison, Md,
to attend the Gilliss family reunion
at the home of their sister, Mrs.
George Meyer.
Prof. and Mrs. Robert Edwards Of
Mount Vernon, Ohio, spent a week
in Takoma Park as the guests Of
Mrs. Walter Irwin and Mr.. and Mrs.
Cary Whitmer. They were accom-
panied by their young sons, Walter,
Bobby and Billy Edwards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Serge K. Doubroff
of Battery Park, Md, have gone to
Rutland. VT, for a Today visit with
Mrs. Doubroff's brother and sister,
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry H.
Porter.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Crittenden
have returned to their home in Ia
koma Park, Md, from trip to New
York.
Mr.. and Mrs. william j. Kelley
and their son, Mr.. Ford Kelley of
Blair, Silver Spring, Nd, are spend
ing this week in Ocean City, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry B. Kerr and
their family of Seven Oaks, Silver
Spring, Md, are spending week in
Ohio.
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Mark Foote's Hosts
To Wedding PARTY

Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Foote were
hosts last evening on the Shore
ham Terrace for their daughter,
Miss Grace Foote, and her fiance,
Mr.. Oscar E. Finding of Crosse
Point, Mich, whose marriage will
take place this evening in All
Saints Episcopal Church in
Chevy Chase. The party fol-
lowed the rehearsal for the we'd
ding and the guests included the
members of the wedding party
and out-of-town guests.
Miss Foote will be attended by
her sister, Miss Barbara Foote,
and Mr.. William Finding of
Crosse Point will be best man for
his brother.