Evening star., 1951-12-06
81 HeId.in Raid
On Gambling in
Mount Rainier
100 Other Men Flee
As 20 Policemen RusE
Into Ballroom Party

As 20 Policemen RusI
Into Ballroom Party
Sixty-one men face charges i
Hyattsville Police Court after on
OF the biggest gambling raids eve
made in the Washington area.
The men were arrested las
night at huge stag party in tn
Melody ballroom. 1906 Thirty
fourth street, Mount Rainier
Police said about 100 men STAN
peded the exits and escaped.
Sheriff Carlton G. Beall, VIII,
led the 20-man raiding party, sait
the men were playing poker ant
blackjack and shooting dice. HI
said there were about seven gam
ing tables going with about 2:
men at each table.
The sheriff said the party made
the late Jimmy La Fontaine "tlool
like a piker."
Doubts New Law Applies.
After the raid, Sheriff BeaT
said he doubted whether these
activities are covered by the new
Federal law requiring bookies to
buy occupation tax stamps and
pay 10 per cent tax on their gross
receipts.
AS result. he said, people who
want to.gamble will turn more and
more to private gambling parties
and clubs.
Mr.. Beal1 entered the ballroom
first about 1880 last night. He
walked through the place observ-
ing the games for about 10 min
utes before shouting:
Everybody stay where you are.
This is a raid"
Then sheriff'S deputies, Prince
Georges County police and Mount
Rainier Police Inspector Fred P
Schatz moved in. Several men
broke for the exits and about 100
pulled their way through.
One Defendant Injured
One man. identified as Leon
Tatelman. %, of the $500 block of
Minnesota avenue Sc. was hit
over the head with a blackjack as
he tried to push by one of the Of
f1cers. He was treated for a head
laceration at Prince Georges
General Hospital and released.
Those who were nabbed were
lined up and charged on the spot,
the sheriff said. Herman H. Ru-
dolph, Hyattsville justice of the
peace, was called over to do the
honors. He ordered the men to
appear in court December IT.
All but one of the men paid
$3.50 collateral on disorderly con-
duct charges. The ballroom
owner, Harry Hier. "a. of Avon
dale. Prince Georges County, was
charged with setting up and op-
Grating a gaming table and re-
s~N~S$A SAA p~cV 0oA4As
Beall on Reform Ticket.
Sheriff Beall, who was swept
into Office a year ago on Repub-
lican reform ticket, said most Of
the men arrested are from WASH
ington.
He said he had the ballroom
under surveillance for several days
after being tipped that a big
gambling party was being planned.
He obtained search warrants prior
to the raid.
Six town policemen from Mount
Rainier. Hyattsville, Landover
Hills and Bladensburg took part.
Mayor Herbert w. Reichelt of
Mount Rainier, who helped set up
the raid. said the party was spon-
sored by a social organization
known as the Mosean Club of
Washington. He said the organi-
cation has held similar parties
previously in the Washington area.
but to his knowledge this is the
first time it has held one in Mount
Rainier.
Strip Tease Dancers.
Three strip-tease dancers also
were on the party's program, but
they had completed their act and
left before the raid, the Mayor
said.
Commenting on the fact that
about 100 men escaped arrest,
Mayor Reichelt said: 1--WE just
wanted to catch enough of them
to let them know they can't get
away with that stuff here any
more. If people like that want
to go stunning from now on
they'll have to go somewhere else
to do it,"
Those charged with disorderly
conduct were listed as:
Vance Vaughn, Charles Colbert
Lowell Smith, Pete Williams, Ed
ward Wise, Joe Louis, Harold
Goldstein, William Hudson, Bill
Mccarthy. Robert Reese, George
Greenberg, John Dill.
Also, Joe Bel, Patty O'Brien
Jack Schwartz, Bill Schmidt
James Goldhart. William John
Stone, Tim Mccarthy, Phillip Cor
don, George O'Brien, Jack Lee
Samuel Berg, Abe Epps;
Also, Harold Freedman, Harry
Goodman, Joe Steinberg, James
Black, Frank Payne, Johnny Har-
mon, Jim Gold, Julius Freeman
Bernie Eppstien, Allan L. Drew
William Schatz;
Also Jerry Burke, Jack Kaplan
Abe Swartz, Eddie Stienberg, David
Fields. John Mangrum, James
johnson, Nathan Payne, Jack
Robinson, Ed Wolfe. Harry Cohen
Nathan Franks. George Lebow.
Also. Daniel Goldberg, Johnny
George, George Stewart, James
Cannon, Ray jackson, Fred Awad
Harold Gold, John Smith, Walter
Appleton, Hank White and Jack
Gold.
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