Evening star., 1945-07-20
Vice Raid Probe
as New
Trips Are Hinted
Carmen Beech Said
To Be Visiting Hague
In Jersey City

at SCdIluSllll tOudy, Dub Iilcit Wds
no end to verbal Developments
mainly on the score of who arranges
air travel for whom and revelations
concerning mysterious journeys OF
two defendants to visit friends"
Carmen Beach, former rumba
dancer, accused of operating house
of assignation in the 1700 block OF
Pennsylvania avenue NV, was said
by her attorney to have gone to Jer-
sey City to see Mayor Frank Hague.
The attorney, M. Edward Buckley
jr., said of this trip to Mayor Hague
Hes a friend of the party who got
the priority" The priority men,
toned was one by which Mr.. Buck
ley said allowed Mrs. Beach to fly
to Hawaii to see her husband, Chief
Petty Officer Charles L. Martin.
The purpose of Mrs. Beach's trip
Mr.. Buckley said, was to explain to
Mayor Hague shell not reveal who
got the priority for her" Mr.. Buck
ley added, "Carmen's loyal"
Hawaiian Trip Denied.
Carmen, incidentally, said yester-
day she hadn't taken any trip to
Hawaii.
A second woman to figure in the
talk about priorities is Judy Hunt
who was arrested in the house with
Mrs. Beach and who faces a va
grancy charge as result.
Miss Hunt today told a press con-
ference, arranged for her by Mr.
Buckley, that she is leaving this
afternoon for the Bahamas. A
priority? Yes, arranged through the
same person who arranged the one
for Mrs. Beach. But it does not
carry her real name. which is Judy
Hunt.
Asked about a passport, she said
she has one, received a week age
and carrying the same name as or
the priority. Asked whether a false
name on a passport might not in
volve her further with the law, she
shrugged.
Bondsman Refuses Permission,
William P. Ryan, bondSman who
supplied the bail on which Miss
Hunt at liberty, said he hadn't
heard a.. hing about her trip and
that she isn't leaving this juris-
diction with his permission, which
won't be given. He says the bond
gives him the say-so.
Miss Hunt, who is 27, and who
says she lives in the HOO block OF
Twelfth treet NV, says she wants
to go to the Bahamas to visit a
friend, an Army colonel. She says
she plans to be back August 6, in
time to answer the vagrancy charge
on August 8.
Yesterday, Mrs. Beach, in assert
ing she had not flown to Hawaii
also said she had flown to California
by American Airlines and not by
United Airlines. MIR. Buckley, how
ever, insisted he had seen a United
Airlines check for a rebate for an
oyercharge on the trip. About the
priority for the trip to Hawaii he
says she made, and who got the
priority for her, he said:
II could tell you, but I wouldn' t
want to. 1t might get some one in
a jam in the State Department. "
He said the official is pretty high
He can get those things and no.
body can find them out" he added.
Eight Men Reported.
Earlier Mr.. Buckley has asserted
there were eight men in the house
on Pennsylvania avenue when police
raided it, and two of them had left
by the back door after first identify
ing themselves to police.
AS the result of the raid, Mrs.
Beach and Mrs. Margaret Locke
have been charged with operating a
house of assignation.
Police at first said there was no
record of the identity of the men
found in the raided place and then
produced six names.
In the face of these events Com
missioner John Russell Young was
asked if the Commissioners would
investigate the police handling OF
the raid. Mr.. Young told The Stal
there would be no investigation un-
less Inspector Harvey G.. Callahan
acting chief of police, requested it.
Refuses to Give Names.
Mr.. Buckley refused to identify
the additional two men other than
to say one is a former judge and the
other is an airline official. He in
sisted they had identified themselves
to police before leaving by the back
door.
Then they were permitted to
walk out?" he was asked.
They left" he replied.
He said the former judge must
have been one of the two "Gov-
ernment officials" police had said
were in the place.
The six men police took from the
house to police headquarters were
released.
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