Evening star., 1943-04-16
8Women,1 Men Held
As D. {. Police Open
Vice Cleanup Drive
Eleven Charged With
Conspiracy or Violation
Of White Slave Act

Led by Police Supt. Edward J.
Kelly, a squad of IS policemen
and detectives last night arrested
8 women and II men in the
downtown section in the first in
a series of raids expected to
break up the city's biggest vice
conspiracy in recent years.
Only a few hours after advising"
100 bellhops and other hotel en-
ployes to aid police in Kidding the
city of prostitution and vice. Maj.
Kelly and his squad closed in on the
group of alleged streetwalkers and
procurers.
The alleged vice conspiracy was
said by police to include a vicious
tie-up" between bellhops, women,
cab drivers and bootleggers.
II Already Charged.
Police this afternoon charged five
men and six women with either vio-
lation of the White Slave Traffic Act
or conspiracy to violate the act and
continued to question others picked
up in the raid.
Charged at police headquarters
with violation of the White Slave
Act were Claude Outland, 50, ele-
vator operator TOO block Seventh
street Sc; William Charles Glover,
"a, bellhop, 1900 block L street NV;
Robert D. Ward, 81, bellhop, 600
block G street NE: Edward R. Dix
on, %. driver 1000 block Perry street
NE.
Charged with conspiracy to vio-
late the act were Mildred Williams,
%. waitress. 2300 block Fifteenth
street NV; Betty Lee Morrison. 80,
no occupation, 100 block Thirty-fifth
street NE; Mora Rogers. %, no
occupation. 1400 block Chaplin street
NV; Jean Thompson, 26, clerk,
1900 block Belmont street NV:
Peggy Ann Brooks, "a, waitress, 1400
block N street NV; Jacob M. Han
kins, 48, salesman. 1900 block M
street NV. and Peggy Brown, 81,
housewife, 900 block Eighth street
NV.
Those charged were expected to
appear later today before United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage.
For months a policeman has been
planted in small restaurant in
the downtown section gathering data
on the alleged vice ring. Police say
that the raid last night was only
the beginning" and before the
roundup is completed it will involve
several score persons.
Acting Chief of Detectives Robert
j. Barrett, who assisted Maj. Kelly
in leading the raid, told members of
his command to pay particular at
tention to vice conditions" Capt
Barrett recently added five more
men to the vice squad and is con-
Quoting a series of conferences be-
tween precinct detectives through
out the city and members of the
Detective Bureau.
Bellh0ps Warned.
Nearly 100 bellhops and other
hotel employees yesterday were
grouped at police headquarters to
hear Maj. Kelly tell them to Co
operate" with the police in the drive
against vice.
You are not fooling the Police
Department, Maj. Kelly told the
group, I'VE know what you are doing
and we ask you like gentlemen to
stop. If you do not the conse-
uuences will be serious"
While the Police Department has
arrested many more persons in
other raids. the raid last night was
said to be the forerunner of crack
down on the biggest vice conspiracy
here in many years.
The Army has been reported
greatly concerned" with the increase
In venereal disease among soldiers
here and have been keeping
'watchful eye" on the progress of the
police campaign to curb prostitution
here.
Police Have Names.
Raids have been made of several
small hotels. but few inroads have
been made into so-called organized
vice here.
Only since the war, police say, has
vice been organized here on large
scale. OF the group arrested last
night several were cab drivers, one
an alleged bootlegger and few
were alleged street procurers.
Police would not discuss whether
any of the "ringleaders' were
caught in the police drag net, but
indicated they had information
land names" of a huge vice con-
spiracy ring.
The bellhops attending the in
formation" lecture yesterday at
police headquarters also saw slides
showing the ravages Of social in
fections.
Another group of 100 attended the
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