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Evening star., 1951-02-22
Deaths Reported
tFrom the D. C. Bureau of Vital Statistic,

VI t44C 0' ~ odtCdu Va fleal OtdbAStiCS.l
AERsS Me9e Tsnsley sic g. 1sea T. Neston
Sarah Darnley. 80 Lutheran Home.
Noel Eecieston. ~. 1000 ieth st. NV.
Charles Guest 70, IS Hamilton st. NV.
BENJAMIN Klein. "a, New York.
Edna Koontz, 3d. $50 Butternut st. NV.
Grace Bomberger. 80. .514. 10th ST. NV.
Helen Fort, go. 5000 32nd St. NV.
Kenneth Hodges 49: 791 Webster St NV.
William johnson 25. Silver Spring, Md.
Infant Livingston, 1850 Fort Dupont st.
Louisa Burgess, 81. 4os Division ave. ne.
Thomas Stewart. So !51S 21st st. NV.
John Price. So, 1927 Eye st. NV.
Florence Pinkney, n, 1885 T st. NV.
Andrew Butts, "A. no address given.
Archie Williams. 20. 421 T st. NV
Willett Marcus. 70. 4644 Minnesota ave
Julia Smith, 50. 514 5sth st. ne.
BENJAMIN Jones. SO, 4S st. NV.
Mamie Alexander. 65. Forestville, Nd.
Alice spriggs. IS, 35371s Georgia ave. NV.
Roxianna Craig, 60 Warrenton, Va.
Luke bradham, 40, 115ha 9TH st. NV.
Herbert Feneral. Al. no address given
Alma Jones, 43, 203S Georgia ave. NV.
George Watcher. Al, 1919 Marion ct. NV.
Moses Wormley, Al, 1909 7th st. NV.
Lee Gaddy. 3S, $50 End st. NV.
Needham Gillespie. 80. 4503 Sheriff I'd. ne.
Diana Irby, 2. 1905 18th st. ne.
Evening star., 1951-02-22

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board today has under considera-
ton the transfer Of q license for
a package liquor store from 234t
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. to 6217
Dix street NE.
Morris Berger and Louis Rossen
have asked the ABC Board to
transfer the license now held by
Herman Bear Bretler at the Penn
sylvania avenue address, to the
Dix street store.
Ell Treger, proprietor Of q pack
Evening star., 1951-02-22
Here and Abroad

United States military forces
are stationed in tar-of places
noiU, as ,Uell as in the country.
Here are notes about some Dis
trict area men i'm serDice.
I'd 1t. Francis King, who was
graduated from West Point. is
now stationed in Erlangen. Ger
many. He is with the SD Field
Artillery Battalion. Son of Mr..
and Mrs. Archibald King, 1918
Twenty-eighth street NV. he at
tended the Landon School in Be-
thesda, Md.
Electricians Mate &c James F.
Chamberlin is serving on the
U. S. S. Butler in the Pacific. His
home is 2503 Hamlin street NE.
High scorer on the firing range
at Paris Island recently was Ma
rine Corpl. Carroll o. Simpson, son
of Mrs. Virginia A. Simpson, 1862
Ellsworth street, Alexandria. Va.
His performance entities him to
the badge of expert rif1eman.
Harold G. Miller, formerly of
1898 Congress street NE, has fin
ished basic training at Ft. Sill,
Okla. and has been promoted to
private" Pvt. Miller was one Of
the last men to enter the Army
at rank lower than private. For
merly new men were called "re-
cruit," and gained the title of pri-
vate only after completion of some
weeks of training. President Tru-
man, however. recently authorized
the grade of private beginning
with the soldiers entry into the
Army.
I'd 1t. LynnwOod Mason recently
completed 10 missions as pilot of
a transport plane taking supplies
into the battle area of Korea. For
this he has been awarded the Air
Medal. He is stationed with the
314th Troop Carrier Group, on
Evening star., 1951-02-22
DR.. Davis Leaves
S188,OOO Estate

Members of his family and sew
eral organizations are to share in
an estate valued at more than
1880 left by DR.. David Davis,
SIS. nationally known nose and
throat specialist.
DR.. Davis, who was particularly
renowned as a specialist in bron-
choscopy, died on January 18 in
George Washington University
Hospital. His home was at 4857
Colorado avenue NV. He was a
brother of Meyer Davis, famous
orchestra leader.
According to a petition for pro-
bate of his will, filed in District
Court yesterday. most of the estate
consists of real estate valued at
$118,078, which he owned jointly
with his wife, Mrs. Lillian K.
Davis. She automatically becomes
sole owner of the real estate.
DR.. Davis will instructed that
trust funds of $4,000 each be
set up for his two young daugh-
ters. Jacqueline Rose Davis. 10,
and Carol Ann Davis, 6. They are
to benefit from income from the
trusts. They will get half of the
principal when they are Is, and
the rest, when they are 80.
DR.. Davis left his bronchoscopic
instruments and $500 to George
Washington Hospital. He also left
$500 each to Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. Baltimore: the Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid So
ciety. 805 G street NV. and the
Washington Chapter Hadassah
for Youth Aliyah. 1929 Sixteenth
street NV.
In addition. he bequeathed
$1,000 to the National Phi Alpha
Fraternity, of which he was a
founder, and $4,000 to the build
ing fund of a Jewish hospital here,
If such an institution is built. The
will instructed, however, that the
fund revert to the estate, if ground
for the hospital is not broken
within 10 years from the date of
DR.. Davis death. He left office
employees 500 each.
The widow, who lives at the
Colorado avenue address, was left
the residue of the estate and
named executrix. The petition for
probate was filed by Attorney Mil
ford F. Schwartz.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
Forodoy Apartments
Granted Rent Boost

A District rent control examiner
has approved rental increase OF
nearly S per cent for 66 units at
the Faraday Apartments, 1850
Irving street NV.
The increase, which would bring
the rental scale up from a range
of $27.50 to $55 a month to one
of $29 to $58.25, may be put into
effect in 10 days unless appealed
to the Rent Control Administra-
ton. The increase was granted to
the Legum and Gerber Realty Co.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
Mon Acquitted in Case
Involving Daughter, ]

A man was acquitted yeSter-
day in District Court of a charge
Of taking indecent liberties with
his 7-year-old daughter.
The defendant, Henry McGetti-
gan, 48, of the 2400 block Of K
street NV, was cleared through
a judgment Of acquittal by Judge
T. Alan Goldsborough, without
the case going to a jury. Judge
Goldsborough declared the prose-
cution evidence was "fimsy" and
indicated it had been offset by
defense testimony.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
Leqion Unit Plans Dance

The James E. Walker Unit No.
26, American Legion Auxiliary
will hold a Washington Birthday
dance for the benefit of unit child
welfare and rehabilitation work at
$50 o'clock tonight in the Odd
Fellows, Ninth and r streets NV.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
News of District Men and Women Serving in u Armed Forces

worked with the guerrilla forces
of the South of France and later
led parachute jumps against the
Japanese in Indo-C China, has
taken command of the 18TH
Airborne Infantry Regiment in
Korea.
He is Col. Aaron Bank, pro-
NOTED to that rank in January.
Following his World War II
service, Col. Bank was stationed
for a time in Germany where he
was regional commander of the
Counter Intelligence Corps in
Evening star., 1951-02-22

Frankfurt, and later In Munich.
The colonel and his wife main
tain home at 1877 North Wayne
street, Arlington, Va.
Airman Apprentice Donald F.
Klein was recent visitor to New
Orleans, where he helped the city
celebrate Mardi Gras. He was
one of several hundred men from
his ship, the Monterey, who had
shore leave for the occasion. MIR.
Klein formerly lived at 1247a ]
street NE.
Evening star., 1951-02-22

A jackal club has been formed
among sheep owners near Dundee,
South Africa.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
La Prensa May Appear
AS Labor Publication
BY ihe Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, May 2.-Pres-
ident Peron's announcement that
La PrenSa. closed independent
newspaper, would be turned over
to "the workers" stirred Specula-
tion today it might appear soon
as a publication of the govern
ment-sponsored Labor Federation.
The President, in a May Day
speech yesterday to thousands Of
his followers. asserted that "the
newspaper which represented the
crudest form of treason to this
country will pay for its sins by
serving the working people in de-
Tending their gains and sovereign
rights" He said the newspaper
will be handed Ito the workers in
the form they indicate" as soon as
appropriation proceedings are
completed.
La Prensa, a frequent critic
of the administration, was taken
over by action of Congress last
month. It has been closed since
late in January by boycotts,
strikes and court action.
Meanwhile, reports from London
said the British government took
a calm view of the renewed Ar
gentine claims to the Falkland
Islands and the Antarctic terri
tories. President Peron reiterated
the claims yesterday in a speech
to Congress here.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
Crime Probe Aide Named
To Monopoly Power Post

E. Ernest Goldstein. assistant
counsel of the Senate Crime In
vestigating Committee. today was
named general counsel of the
House Judiciary subcommittee
studying monopoly power.
Before joining the crime conf
mittee last January, Mr.. Gold
stein was chief of the legislative
and congressional activities Sec
ton of the War Crimes Commits
sion. During the war he won the
Legion of Merit while assigned to
the Army Security Agency,
Chairman Celler OF. both the full
committee and its monopoly SUBJ
committee also announced the
apr ointment of John Paul Stevens,
Chicago lawyer, as associate coun-
sci representing the minority.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
SARATOGA COUNTY. N. Y.

Open gambling in Saratoga has
existed for many years with the
knowledge Of New York State po-
lice ana of public officials and the
local political organizations that
control such public officials" the
report said. The committee noted
with qualification q special State
Evening star., 1951-05-02

hold" Efforts Of civic and re-
Iligious groups to improve law en-
forcement were reported to have
met interference and Illustration.
It agree Fundamentally with
the conclusions and recommended
tions of the Kefauver committee, p"
said Mayor deLesseps Morrison.
II believe we offer one Of the
best examples that a large city
can get rid of organized racketeers
and their attendant evil and still
continue to be an interesting and
enjoyable resort area ="
The New Orleans States said in
an editorial that the report points
out that crime is a local problem
and can best be met at the local
level. That last feature should
not be overshadowed. as it might
be, by the present emphasis on the
interstate character Of the hood
lum syndicate. Aggressive local
law enforcement must be main
tanned. It's importance should not
be slighted.
LOS ANGELES.
Interesting examples of ac-
formulation of wealth In the hands
of law enforcement officials'' was
found particularly in Los Angeles,
1.-THE Senators report. Southern
California was pictured like this
in the report:
/ Mickey Cohen is "inescapably
woven" into the rackets pattern
Bookies circumvent the law which
outlaws race wire service. Corrup-
ton was found among Internal
Revenue employees.
] Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Lo.
Angeles said the city owes the
committee a vote of thanks "foi
its good work" He added:
Eve don't have enough cooper
alton between city and county law
enforcement agencies. just as the
: crime committees report points
out. There hasn't been enough
harmony, not enough working to-
gether.
But since / testified before the
committee on that subject we have
u taken steps to correct the Situa-
tion. City and county authorities
have reached better understand
ing" -....
1 The Mayor said those referred
to in the report as former police
men left the department soon
after he took Office.
Evening star., 1951-05-02

should help :" the editorial
said.
THE committees report has
special application to this city in
its findings on hookups between
politicians, police and racketeers.
A special grand jury is now in
vestigating this triple-play sys-
tenn. Federal assistance as
proposed by the committee might
make it more difficult for the
racket element to rake in their
illicit. profits. But the thing that
must be hit hardest is the Fix. -
CHICAGO.
The report says the Capone
gang has been reactivated here
It describes the city as the center
for racing news service, the manu-
facture and sale of slot machines
and the exploitation of policy
wheels to the tune of $3.50 million
in the last five years on the South
Side. Also noted in the report
were law abuses in four down
State Illinois counties-Grundy
LaSalle, Madison and st. Clair.
Mayor Martin H. Kennedy re-
fused comment as did States At
torney John Boyle, who was
elected Cook County, (ChicagoJ
prosecutor with the label of "th<
man the gansters fear"
The sheriffs in the four down.
state Illinois counties all tool
Office December /, 1850, just /!
days before the Kefauver com
mittee opened its public hearing!
in Chicago.
Grundy County Sheriff Jane!
w. Bell and Madison Count!
States Attorney Austir Levi!
said they currently have the situa'
ton well in hand.
LaSalle County Sheriff Claytor
C. Harbeck recently raided &
gambling establishment. and Viii.
liam E. Cawley was fined $20t
and costs on each of two gambling
charges.
NEW ORLEANS.
OF New Orleans, the report sale
that organized crime extends tx
slot machines. gambling casinos
race wires and narcotics traffic.
Outside New Orleans. the com.
mittee found evidence Of bribery
Of law officers who display al
aversion" to enforce "the law!
which they have sworn to up.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
Exports
CONTINUED From First Page


Blackburn'S statement as in
accurate" He declared:
For several months we have
placed an embargo on exports OF
strategic materials to China. We
have done everything possible to
Iprevent strategic material from
reaching China which could be
ldeployed against our forces"
Mr.. Blackburn then asked for
assurances that no rubber was be-
ing exported from any British ter
Iritory to China. Singapore dis
patches have told of such ship
iments in recent months.
Mr.. Shinwell replied that it was
quite impossible" for him to say
what private exporters may be
doing"
Churchill Takes a Hand.
Deputy. Conservative Leader
Anthony Eden interjected: Sure
ly, we must not pretend that this
is anybody .else's responsibility
except the governments"
Mr.. Shinwell said the question
ought TO be addressed to the
appropriate minister" - presum-
ably meaning the head of the
government Board of Trade.
which issues export licenses
Conservative Leader Winston
Churchill asked: Don't you know
anything about it at alp"
"I know more about it than you
do shouted Mr.. Shinwell.
This set off an uproar of sew.
eral minutes before the speaker
could restore order. Mr.. Shin
we'll then left the chamber.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
5000 More Copies
OF Crime Report
Asked by Senate
BY the Assoeiated Press

The Senate yesterday called for
printing of 5000 more copies Of
the crime report.
Chairman Kefauver Of the in
vestigating committee introduced
the resolution which was passed
by the Senate to allow the extra
printing.
There were 1000 copies avail
able yesterday, but demand for
them was far greater than this
original supply, said Harold Beck
ley, superintendent of the Senate
press gallery.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
Now Appears Be Crime Report Reaction Over Nation

1.-THE tolerance or purchased pro-
| lection of the responsible officers. +"
KANSAS CITY.
The report says gambling has
crossed more than $34 million a
year in Kansas City, where there
was evidence that racketeers tried
| to exert political influence to open
lup gambling and other Illegal op-
erations. Since the Staying OF
Charles Binaggio in April, 1850,
the report adds. there has been
a diminution of gambling activ-
titles" here. Also listed Is a mar
cotics traffic, largely by the Sc
lcret Malta organization.
Kansas City's Mayor William E.
Kemp said the committee revealed
facts that were not publicly
known here before the investiga-
ton. The Staying Of Charles
Binaggio emphasized facts we
were unable to put before the pub
lie before he was killed. ] believe
we now have one of the finest po-
lice boards in the country. -"
The Kansas City Star termed
the Kefauver report "the most
amazing chronicle Of criminal
power ever presented" 1t added
In the national network oil
crime Kansas City has been a
major link. Here the response
bility for law enforcement checks
belongs to the Governor because
of the unique system which puts
local police under the State. Ths
report presents a sorry, picture Of
Gov. Smith, a man who could mo-
"have failed to know Binaggio''
background, or that Binaggio ex-
Ipected quid proquo something ir
|return) for his support"
ST. LOUIS.
| Organized gambling, the report
says, is the principal law-enforce.
ment problem here. It lists the
Carroll-Mooney enterprise, .East
st. Louis. ILL.,, as the largest book.
making operation in the area with
an annual volume of bets OF about
$40 million. Attorney Genera
j. E. Taylor partly thwarted ir
efforts to end dissemination oi
interstate gambling news.
Mayor Joseph M. Darst saic
the Senators have "complimentec
st. Louis for its law enforcement
Because two hearings were hello
here, some people got the impres-
sion that law enforcement in st
Louis was Inadequate"
The st. Louis Globe e-Democrat
said the underlying fact barred BY
the committee is that crime ir
the United States does pay" The
newspaper continued:
! q. The Kefauver body think:
more stringent Federal laws ar,
needed and recommends % new
laws. These proposals requir,
study. II the people can b,
aroused and stay aroused. organ
lied crime will take the bigges
licking of its hideous life in tn,
next few years in the U. S."
PHILADELPHIA.
/ Here the report found that tn,
principal organized crime is /.
local numbers game manipulated
by a politico- o-gambler-police tie
Iup" that bars outsiders. Jai
sentences are currently discour
aging this racket. the repor
added. ~
i The Philadelphia Inquirer notec
in an editorial that the commit.
tee concluded that Crime mus
be attacked primarily on the loca
level"
/ That. says the newspaper. ii.
the outstanding feature of tht
report and the one that citizen.
anxious to defeat the sinister in.
fluences of organized crimes mus
take to heart"
Law enforcement must be pri.
marily on a local and State-wid,
level, because that is where Law
violations occur. although thu
Federal Government can ane
Evening star., 1951-05-02
DOCTORS warn
Don't Bottle Up Stomach Gas

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Evening star., 1951-05-02

investigation now started in Sara
toga County.
The New York Daily Mirror sale
in an editorial:
How come -. that complaints
against the Saratoga bloodSucker.
went to the Governors Office
were acknowledged by his counsel
were referred to the D. A. o.
Saratoga-noW a Surrogate-anC
nothing was ever done about it?
"And what has the surrogate
got to say today? -. !. And wha'
has the Governor got to say about
the surrogate? Or about his owr
high aides, who promised actor
and delivered nothing"
In Saratoga, Mayor Addison
Hallery, a Republican, said he hat
no comment because he did no
run the police" in the city. HI
that the commissioner
of public safety is in charge o.
police affairs.
He said Saratoga crime condi.
tions were none of my business.
Public Safety Commissioner DR.
Arthur j. Leonard. a Democrat
refused comment on the report.
In Albany, an aide to Coy
Dewey said sections of the repor
dealing with New York Stat
would be carefully studied"
MIAMI.
Considerable evidence of direc
bribes to law Offices in Miami i
charged in the report. Othe
charges are that some law-en
forcement officials used "obstruc
tive tactics" to block citizens ant
'honeSt law enforcement Off
Gals: and that some local racket
eers were connected with the oil,
Capone gang. The report "strongl,
condemns" Gov. Fuller Warren
reinstatement of Dade Count,
Sheriff James Sullivan without
public investigation of fact
brought out by the committee ant
a county grand jury.
In Miami, Sheriff Sullivan hat
no comment. Miami Beach Mayo
Harold Turk was unavailable TO
comment.
But Miami's Mayor, William
Wolfarth. said the report exoner
ated his city. giving it a good con
duct medal" Mayor Wolfarth ex
planned that Miami remained cleal
while in the center of an area de
scribed as probably the worst il
country.
The Miami Herald called tn,
Kefauver report a challenge II
the State Legislature ito clea
Florida of the sinsister blot tina
beclouds it and the Office of it
chief executive"
In Tallahassee, Gov. Warrel
said he had no comment "at thi
time" on the report.
TAMPA.
The committee says it saw 9Th
sinister shadow of Malta opera
tions" cast over racket killings AM
attempted assassinations there
The report adds that the number
racket thrives, police files on muir
ders are missing, and law officer
are unable to cope with crime.
Tampa's Mayor, Curtis Hixor
refused to comment on the report
Criminal Court Judge L. A. Gray
son contested an assertion tina
nobody goes to jail for gamblin
in Tampa" The judge said h
sentenced Is lottery operators il
1850.
The Tampa Tribune said:
Political mouthpieces and apol
ogists for the status quo will or,
that the Kefauver committee
conclusions on Tampa condition
are based on hasty investigation
and hearsay testimony. Let then
cry into the wind Of aroused pub
lie opinion. The Kefauver com
mittee only confirmed in detail
what every informed citizen al
ready knew: That organized gam
bling long has operated here will
Evening star., 1951-05-02

Scotland Yard, London now
has Europe's first motorcycle pa
trolls equipped with two-way ra-
diotelephones.
Evening star., 1951-05-02
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Evening star., 1951-05-02

New taxes on luxury items are
tanned by France, to raise
funds to subsidize essential com.
modities, Paris reports.