Evening star., 1949-02-11

-Four Plead Not Guilty
On Charges Involving
$4,000 Dice Game
Four men, charged with gam.
bling as the outgrowth of alleged
$50 900 dice games in a private
house here. pleaded not guilty in
District Court today. Judge Henry
A. Schweinhaut arranged the ten
tative trial date for March 81 and
set bond.
The accused are: Theodore j.
Scheve, 80, of the $500 block of
Thirty-Fourth place Sc: Herman
Kadan. 46, of the the 2700 block
of Woodley place NV, and Hy-
man Rosen. 40. of the 1900 block
of sherwood street NE. each of
whose bond was set at $500.
In addition to being charged
with gambling, another accused
man, Joseph H. Scheve c'Big Joe
HendersonD, so. of the $500 block
of Longfellow street, Hyattsville
Md. faces charges of assault with
a dangerous weapon and assault
with intent to kill. His bond was
set at $4,000. Police said Theo-
dore, who Is known as Little Joe, "
is his son.
When the accused were ar
raigned in Judge Schweinhaut' S
court this morning, they were
accompanied by their lawyer
Charles E. Ford.
Unable to Prove Bets.
A further charge brought against
Kadan by Washington police has
been dismissed by a United States
commissioner. Detectives could not
prove they saw bets being made
at a card game they said they
watched January II through a
window at Kadan's home.
A series of hearings before
United States Commissioner Cyril
S. Lawrence late yesterday dis
closed that the police and the
United States attorneys Office last
month were looking into activities
at the Woodley place home.
The four were indicted by a
District grand jury Monday.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay said Monday that
Robert E. Kicker, a former busi-
nessman in Hawaii, complained he
lost $500 in dice games at the
house between last October and
January 6. Mr.. Kicker also ac-
cused Big Joe" Scheve of having
assaulted him with a pistol at the
house January 6. Mr.. Fay said.
Mr.. Ford demanded at the
commissioner session that q
preliminary hearing be held on
those cases so that Mr.. Kicker
could be brought in to state his
complaints. Assistant United
States Attorney Arthur ]. Nc
Laughlin asked that the cases
originally set for hearing yester-
day be dismissed because the four
defendants meanwhile had been
indicted. Commissioner Lawrence
granted this motion.
Hearing Held on Police Charge.
But a hearing was held on the
card game charge brought against
Kadan by Washington police.
Kadan was arrested January Is
after police obtained arrest and
search warrants from CommiS-
sioner Lawrence. The Commits
sioner said he issued the warrants
at the time when told policemen
had seen bets made in a card game
at the Kadan house January II.
Detectives William McEwen and
Warren A. Dalrymple of the vice
squad testified yesterday that they
peered through a window and saw
seven or eight men playing cards
at table January II. They said
they could not identify Kadan as
having been there. nor could they
testify that the men put money on
the table.
Commissioner Lawrence dis
closed later he had issued the
warrants concerning Kadan at the
request of the police. Only a short
time earlier on the same day. jan
uary 18, he issued warrants in
the other cases of all four men at
the request of the United States
attorneys Office in connection
with the complaints of Mr.. Kicker.
When the men were first
brought before Commissioner
Lawrence last month he granted
them continuance to February
3 to retain a lawyer. Informed
by Government authorities Feb
ruary 8 that evidence was being
presented to the grand jury.
Commissioner Lawrence continued
the cases until yesterday with the
understanding, he said, that a
preliminary hearing would be held
if the grand jury had not acted
by that time.
Ford Wants to Hear Kicker.
Mr.. Ford declared yesterday