Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-16
20 Held in Raids
On Clubs toGef
Hearing Today
200 Patrons Quizzed
At Places Catering
To Entertainers

Twenty persons, including II
women. were to be arraigned at 2
pm. today before United States
Commissioner Needham G. Turnage,
following police raids on two after
hours Spotlight Guild clubs early
yesterday.
Eight other men were being held
for investigation-two for having
marijuana cigarettes in their pos
session and six for failure to pro-
duce draft registration. cards, po-
lice said.
About 200 patrons at both places
were released after questioning.
The raids were conducted stimuli
taneously at Fifth and K streets
NV. and the HOO block of Seven
tenth street NV. Police said both
clubs long have been a meeting
place for professional entertainers
after night clubs and theaters close.
Maj. Edward j. Kelly, police super
intendent, said both places have
been under observation several
weeks. Warrants for the raids were
issued by Commissioner Turnage.
Managers Face Charges.
Named as managers of the clubs
were Vincent Richard Grille, 80, Of
the 1900 block of Otis street NE,
charged with selling and keeping
whisky without a license, conspiracy
to violate the ABC regulations and
unlicensed entertainment, and Louis
Milton Albaugh, AZ, of Baltimore,
charged with selling whisky without
license, conspiracy and unlicensed
entertainment. Grillo was arrested
at the Seventeenth street place and
Albaugh at Fifth and K streets.
According to Maj. Kelly, member
ship restrictions OF the two clubs
were vague. Organized for musi-
clans and entertainers, the clubs
permitted entry to persons in many
other walks of life. Among those
found In the establishments last
night, police said, were a number of
Army and Navy officers.
Membership fees, Mai. Kellv said.
ranged from so cents to s24. Guest
privileges, he reported, could be OBJ
tanned for 81 a night,
Conspiracy Charged.
Those arrested at the Seventeenth
street club with Grille and charged
with conspiracy gave their names as.
Mildred Sonken, 80, Baltimore, =
hostess, also charged with unlicensed
entertainment; Salvatore Bucolo. 81
100 block of H street NE, door
man; Andra Virginia Foote, IS, 100
block OF c street NE, a waitress:
Maize Elizabeth Canter, "A. Ana
costria, D. c., waitress; Virginia
Louise Cartrett. SO, 1900 block of
Fourteenth street NV, waitress;
Travis Dowhen, 81, TOO block of K
street NV, a photographer; Hicks
Darby, "a, colored, 400 K street
NV, painter; June Claire Harrison.
81, .2900 block of Otis street NE,
photographer; Doris Kathryn Walk
er, Is, 200 block of Upshur street
NV. waitress; Robert Elliott Preble,
Is, 1000 block of X street NV, en-
tainer; Grace Lingenfelter, 10, 27O0
block Of Bladensburg road NE,
cashier; Willie E. Logton, A, COL
ored; porter, and George e. Gould,
%, 1900 block of Seventeenth street
NV, photographer.
Those arrested at the Fifth street
place with Albaugh and charged
with conspiracy identified them
selves as:
Louis Terry Gregory, %, 1900 block
Irving street NV, waiter, also
charged with selling liquor without
a license; Betty Marie Keller, a.,
210o block of o street NV, cashier;
Ann Rose Reinhart, 10, 500 block of
Shepherd street NV, an operator;
Dolores Seymour, 23, 1900 block OF
Eighteenth street NV. waitress,
and Margaret Elizabeth Tippett, ls,
OF Anacostia, D. c., a waitress.