Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
II Enter Pleas
Of Not Guilty
On viceCharges
Preliminary Hearing
Delayed to Bring z
Witnesses Here

Eleven women seized here in q
drive on vice by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and local police
were arraigned today before United
States Commissioner Needham c.
Turnage on charges of conspiracy
to violate the White Slave Traffic
Act.
All pleaded not guilty on charges
growing out of their arrest yester-
day in connection with the opera
ton Of a so-called massage parlor
in the 27OO block of Connecticut
avenue NV. They were released on
bond.
Assistant United States Attorney
John L. Ingoldsby requested and re-
ceived two-week continuance of
the preliminary hearing in order to
bring two principal witnesses here
from New York City. The District
attorneys Office also was planning to
return to Washington a man ar
rested in New York who is said to
be the operator of the places. He
was identified as George Francis
Whitehead, 43.
The FBI identified the establish
ment as the Hopkins Institute and
termed it the most notorious call
house in the East"
Sergt. Blick One Of Raiders.
Agents said the institute, described
as a pseudo massage parlor," had
been doing highly lucrative
prostitution business" here as we'll
as sending girls on call to hotels and
private apartments throughout the
city.
The raid, conducted by FBI agents
and Detective Sergt. Roy Blick of
the police vice squad, uncovered
two f1ve-room apartments elaborate
ly equipped as massage parlors, with
two colored women as attendants.
The following were arraigned:
Rose Anderson, 80, and Mildred
Powell Carter, 81, both colored, of
the 500 block of Twenty first street
NE: Katherine Richards, Is, of the
HOO block of Abbey place NE;
Katherine Parker, 81; Mildred Stew
ems, %, and Katherine Hensley, %
all of the 1900 block of Lamont
street NV; Wanda Paisley, 81, OF
the 1900 block of Belmont street
NV; Florence Dement,, 80, of the
2400 block of Twentieth street NV;
Helen Sanders, 80, of the 300 block
Of Oneida place NV: Irene Vim
son, 30, of the 240O block of Six
tenth street NV. Anita Dies, Is,
of the 2100 block of N street NV.
Agents limited that announce
ment of the arrests would create a
furore in some washington quarters
but did not explain further. They
described the Institutes quarters as
"swanky."
Under Surveillance for Months.
''The institute has been handling
highly lucrative prostitution bust
ness in apartments at the fashion,
able Connecticut Avenue address
and for several years has main
tanned an active CALI agency there,
supplying girls who posed as mas
seuses to leading Washington
hotels" FBI Director j. Edgar
Hoover's announcement said.
About dozen girls served the
select clientele of the establish
ment. A few were living at the
Connecticut avenue address and
others were sent out on calls from
their own residences to well-paying
customers in hotels and apartments.
The activities of the group had
been under FBI surveillance for
several months, and agents learned
that girls came here from New York
and California"
Sergt. Blick has been working on
the case for more than two years.
Maj. Edward j. Kelly, super
intendent of police, hailed the raid
as "a fine piece of work both on the
part of the FBI and Sergt. Blick."
The District grand jury, mean
time, indicted Lewis Girgsby, 80
and Carole Lee, 30, alias Mr.. and
Mrs. John Gamble, today on charges
OF violating the white slave traffic
act. The charges involved trans
portation of two women from West
Virginia here October 7, 1941. The
couple was accused of setting up a
disorderly house in the TOO block of
New Jersey avenue NV.