davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
Liquor Store Robber
And Taxicab Bandit
Given Long Terms

Two robbers were sentenced
to long prison terms yesterday
by Judge Edward M. Curran Of
the U. S. District Court for the
District Of Columbia.
One Of them. Richard E. Nit
chell, 80. colored. formerly Of
the 900 block Of r street S.W..
was given a total Of z to 81 years
for taking part in holdup-rob-
berries Of a real estate ONCE and
q liquor store.
Judge Curran sentenced Nit
chell to serve from 5 to IS years
for taking part in a $248 holdup
Of q real estate Office in the 400
block Of I street NV. last
October. The Judge then gave
him from 2 to 8 years for taking
part in a $675 holdup Of liquor
store in the 800 block Of H street
NV. last September. Judge Cur
ran ordered the two sentences to
run consecutively. Mitchell had
pleaded guilty in both cases.
Two codefendants in the real
estate Office robbery and one In
the liquor store robbery had
been sentenced previously.
The other bandit sentenced by
Judge Curran Is Maurice L.
Tilghman. 81. colored. Of the
1900 block of Belmont street
NV, who was given from 1 to
IL years for holdup -rohberies Of
two taxicab drivers. Tilghman
obtained 81 in one Of the rob-
berries and 81 in the other. Judge
Curran gave Tilghman from 4
to IL years in each case and or
dered the two sentences to run
concurrently.
James S. King. 20, colored.
formerly Of the 200 block Of L
street S.W., was sentenced by
Judge Burnita Shelton Matthews
to serve from 4 to II years for
manslaughter in the fatal stab
bling Of another man. The vic
time was Herman F. jackson.
AZ, colored, Of the 200 block Of
Desmore court S.W.
John Poston, As, colored, OF
the 400 block Of l. street S.W.
was sentenced by Judge Henry
A. Schweinhaut to serve a prison
term of from to 8 years and to
pay $1,000 for promoting a
numbers lottery. Poston had
pleaded guilty to the charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
Hoxey Clinic Staff Member
Accused Of Posing as MD.

WASHINGTON, Pa, April 2
R.-Dr. Newton D. Allen, staff
member of the Hoxsey Cancer
Clinic at Portage. Pa. has been
charged with practicing medi-
cine without a Pennsylvania
license.
The warrant was served on
DR.. Allen yesterday as the result
OF an information filed by Dis
trict Attorney Ray q. zelt OF
Washington County. Mr.. Zelt
says DR.. Allen has been repre-
senting himself as a medical
doctor.
Or. Allen. free on $500 bond
said II am a licensed physician
in the State Of Pennsylvania
] am licensed by the State Board
Of Osteopathy, giving me the
same rights as any other physi-
clan in Pennsylvania"
He added that he never
claimed to have an M. D. (doc-
tor Of medicine) degree"
The clinic uses the contro-
verbal treatment for, cancer de-
veloped by Harry Hoxsey OF
Dallas, Tex. Last week Federal
authorities. acting for the Pure
Food and Drug Administration,
seized half million pills at the
clinic--saying they were mis-
labeled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
Juveniles Get Adult Treatment
With Fines in Traffic Cases

violations" she said. work at
filling stations. Does being
around cars all the time make
you more careless?"
The question went unanswered.
and the Judge fined the boy SIS
with the admonition that he
must pay 1t out Of his earnings.
Another youngster, with a
duck-cut hair style, blue Jeans
and q sweatshirt. was ordered
to pay q S. fine for parking in
a bus zone on March 8 at East
Capitol and Seventeenth streets.
He admitted his guilt and also
that, only three months ago. he
had been brought to court for
driving on the wrong side of a
streetcar platform.
A third boy was ordered to pay
a $40 fine for driving his fathers
pickup truck on March 10 at 40
miles per hour In q 25-mile zone,
driving with no rear lights and
failure to show . registration
card.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
Ruft Held Too Tough
For COMPILING Permit

CARSON CITY New. April 2
(R.--Actor George Raft. who's
never been charged with any
thing worse than speeding. was
refused a Nevada gambling IL
cense because his background
does not warrant" 1t.
Raft wanted to buy into the
plush Flamingo Hotel In Las
Vegas. The rich gambling ca
sino-gambling is legal in Me-
vada-was owned by Mr.. Rats
friend Buggy Siegel until Buggy
was Slain In Beverly Hills, Calf,
about four years ago.
Nevada's tax commission yes
terday rejected Mr.. Rats APP
plication. Its investigators said
the eough-guy actor frequently
had been questioned in Southern
California gambling probes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
U.S.. Court System
In Germany Down
To Last Three Judges
Star Stan Photo

BONN. Germany. April 2 (R.
The United States court sys-
TEN in Germany has virtually
closed shop after almost seven
years of existence.
Jurisdiction over United States
civilians in Germany has been
handed over gradually to Ger
man authorities.
A high commission spokesman
said only three United States
judges remain in Germany in a
restitution court in Nuernberg.
He said they, could be called on
If necessary. but all civil suits
and most criminal cases now will
be tried by German courts.
End Of Occupation Near
Military personnel, their de-
pendents and civilian employees
OF the armed forces are tried
before military tribunals.
The judicial reduction con-
templates the end Of the occupa-
ton when the Paris treaties go
into effect. probably in mid
May.
The system remains legally in
being until then. the spokesman
said. and also for six months
after, West Germany receives
sovereignty in case any business
is still pending.
Once Had IL Judges
One time there were seven
district courts and IS judges in
the United States zone and
Berlin handling about 1000
cases a year.
When West Germany gets
sovereignty, the restitution
court will become an interna-
tional body. It will have two
American judges, two German
and chief justice Of a neutral
nation"
The high commission court
system formally dates to August
Is. 1948. but actually 1t was q
continuation of the postwar
military government courts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
Judge Weighs Plea
To Dismiss 0ffutt
Contempt Charges

Federal Judge Charles r. Nc
Laughlin yesterday took under
advisement q defense motion to
dismiss criminal contempt
charges against Attorney Dorsey
K. Offutt.
The charges against Mr.. O1utt
stem from frequent clashes he
had with Judge Alexander Holtz-
of of the U. 8. District Court
for the District Of Columbia in
1852. while Mr.. Offutt was repre-
senting q client in an abortion
trial.
Judge Mclaughlin also took
under advisement a defense mo-
ton that Mr.. Offutt be tried on
the contempt charges by q jury
in the event the court does not
dismiss the charges. Another
motion asks for q bill Of partic-
ulars to set out the contempt
charges in greater detail.
Attorney Warren E. Magee.
representing Mr.. Offutt in the
contempt proceedings, argued
Mr.. Offutt acted as he did before
Judge Holtzoff ito protect his
rights" in defending a client. Mr..
Offutt has made a general denial
Of the contempt charges.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Oliver Gasch argued that
Mr.. Offutt tried to provoke
Judge Holtzoff" so there might
be question Of how the trial of
Mr.. Offutt's client was con-
Quoted.
At the time of his appearances
before Judge Holtzoff in 1852,
Mr.. Offutt was defending DR..
Henry L. Peckham, jr., 46-year-
old physician on an abortion
charge.
Immediately following DR..
Peckham's first conviction, Judge
Holtzoff found Mr.. Offutt guilty
of contempt Of court and sem
fenced him to serve a To-day
jail sentence. The United States
Court Of Appeals upheld the
finding in part but reduced Mr..
Ofutt's sentence to 40 hours.
Mr.. Offutt then appealed to
the Supreme Court, and that
court reversed the finding and
said the contempt charges should
be heard by another Judge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
2 Groups Unite Efforts to Get
Prince Georges Swimming Site

owned by the county near Mt.
Rainier Junior High School. The
county commissioners recently
told sponsors of the Teen-Age
Club they would consider selling
the tract for a nominal sum for
swimming pool purposes. if the
sponsors could raise 100000 to-
ward construction.
Family Membership
officials said yesterday an APP
plication for family membership
in the project will be delivered
to parents through the school
system.
The application provides for a
$25 donation and says the pool
will be operated on a non-profit
basis. If enough money is not
collected, donations will be re-
turned to members within a year.
The steering committee has set
another meeting for 2 pm. to-
morrow at Jernigan's Dry Clean
ers, 1929 Queens Chapel road.
Mount Rainier, to name men,
bers of other committees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
Four Major Measures
For Nearby Counties
Dead for Session
BY CHARLES L. HOFFMAN
star Stan Correspondent.

ANNAPOLIS, April -Four
major Montgomery and Prince
Georges County bills are dead
for this session of the General
Assembly.
Senator H. Winship Wheatley,
jr., Democrat, of Princes Georges
early today said he will not
move the House-passed Juvenile
Court bill through the Senate.
The Senate Finance Commit
tee yesterday killed a bill. which
would have required the State
Roads Commission to pick up the
check for relocating sewer and
water lines in rights-of-way of
roads slated for improvement in
the 12-year roads program.
ST. Million Cost
The action will cost residents
of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary District about 81 mill
lion under State roads contracts.
slated to be let this year in the
bi-county area.
That's according to Harry B.
Shaw. the commissions chief
engineer. He puts the cost to
local residents at nearly So mil
lion during the 12-year program.
Dying q slow death in the
Montgomery delegation is a bill
to raised 5000 900 a year through
a SIS recordation fee on deeds.
mortgages and other transfer
papers.
The delegation Is being blocked
by a coalition Of Republican Gil
best Guide and Democrats VIII
liam B. Wheeler and Charles w.
Woodward. jr., both attorneys.
Transfer Is q Fatality
The fourth measure to die Is
one that would have transferred
storm drainage control and con-
struction from the Sanitary
Commission to the Montgomery
Council.
The bill was put In by the
Montgomery delegation along
lines OF a proposal made by a
special storm drainage COM
mission. appointed by a former
council.
County officials repeatedly feel
the county is not yet ready to
take over the program, and bond
attorneys also are said to be UNI
happy over the proposed switch.
The Prince Georges juvenile
court measure would transfer
juvenile jurisdiction from the
trial magistrate system to Circuit
Court. Senator Wheatley said he
had been requested to drop the
measure for the present by the
County Bar Association and the
Circuit Court itself.
Senator Wheatley said he had
considered amending the reform
bill to provide for a master to
hear juvenile cases under Circuit
Court jurisdiction. Such a plan
already Is in effect in Baltimore
and Anne Arundel counties.
The Senator added he would
study the success Of this system
and introduce appropriate leeis-
lat;on In the 1857 Assembly sss-
, sion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
Reese Sees Need
VIZ che
| OF Giving Data on
County 10 Public

Montgomery County Manager
M. L. Reese yesterday said there
is a dire need for q means to
give county residents adequate,
factual information about their
government.
Mr.. Reese, who was named
county manager in February,
spoke at a question-and-answer
session following a Montgomery
County Press Association lunch
con. Other guests at the meet
ing, held in the Stone House Inn
at Four Corners, Md, were James
S. McAuliffe, newly appointed
county police superintendent
and Mrs. Stella A. Werner, a
member of the County Council
The county manager declared
the inadequacy Of information
available to the public is one OF
the voids in county affairs. He
said that speculative =. pre-
mature news stories without all
the facts" make an administra-
tors job difficult.
He suggested the county gov
eminent might periodically issue
a handbook, giving editorially
correct facts.
Quizzed on the controversial
issue of whether the county
should finance swimming pools,
Mr.. Reese said the matter is
being explored in connection
with budget studies.
Answering a question on what
plans the county has for pro-
viding needed sanitary facilities
in the Linden area near Silver
Spring, the manager replied that
a report and recommendations
on Linden will be presented to
the Council on April IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
D. {. Cancer Society
Launches Drive
For $4,000

DR.. Howard C. Taylor. Ameri-
can Cancer Society president
launched the District divisions
drive for $4,000 yesterday by
outlining the society's First Ten
Years" In fighting the dread dis
ease.
Speaking at a campaign lunch
con in the Hotel Statler, DR.. Tay-
lor conceded that. from a statis-
tical standpoint. not much prog
ress has been made. However, he
emphasized that decentralization
Of the malady by the society has
brought about earlier diagnosis.
a more intelligent approach to
cancer by the public and a much
better prospect Of effecting q
cure than existed in 1945.
The month-long drive in the
District was kicked of with the
presentation Of a $4,000 check to
crusade chairman Arthur Madi-
son by a group of housewives
known as the d. G. Cancer Aid
Group.
Nationally, the American Can
Ger Society hopes to raise $24
million to carry on its research
work.
Other officers OF the local drive
are Robert w. Wilson, vice chair
man, and Ralph H. Mittendorf
| treasurer. Division chairmen are
r. Kelvin Shivers, business; Wal
| ter L. Fowler, District Govern
ment; William e Leahy. profess
sions; William F. Sigmund. pub
lie relations; Mrs Martin Agron-
sky, residential: Mrs. G. Ash
mead Fuller, special gifts. and
Frank H. Weitzel. Federal Gov
eminent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02

Members Of two groups seek
ing construction of a swimming
pool in the metropolitan area OF
Prince Georges County joined
forces yesterday in an intensive
effort to get the program under
way.
The organization, to be called
Teen-Age Swimming Pool Prof.
ect, will assume a charter pres
emily held by the Prince Georges
County Swimming Pool Com
mittee.
Committee Named
Mitchell Jernigan, leader of
the Teen-Age Club of Mount
Rainier and Brentwood. will
serve as chairman of the new
organizations e;teering commit
tee. as&a
Other members are Judge The
odore L. Manga. Ellery Baker.
Paul D. johnson. James e. Lauer
and Sylvan Deitz.
First goal of the group is to
raise 100000 to qualify for pur-
chase of a vacant six-acre tract
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
Home Cunners Busy

DIES MOINES.-An average
housewife in the United States
and Canada puts up about IS
quarts of fruit and. vegetables
each year, not counting the food
put in the freezer units.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-02
Colds Favor Boys

CHICAGO.-Boys have more
colds than girls. but women have
more than men. A person who
RECEIVERS from q cold may be ex-
pected 70 be immune about seven
weeks.
Evening star., 1955-07-19
u. S. MorshoI Describes
|MiIIers' Armed Resistance

the United States Supreme
Court"
Mr.. Perry told the jury of
eight women and four men that
he. Mr.. Breen and Chief Deputy
Marshal Esther Anderson went
Ito the Miller home at Bethel at
Il0:l5 am. May 3. with a tele-
gram from the Justice Depart
|ment ordering Mrs. Miller's conn.,
initial to st. Elizabeths.
He said Mrs. Miller, and later
her husband. threatened blood
shed if the marshals persisted In
carrying out their mission.
Mr.. Perry said Mr.. Miller told
them that what they were doing
was unconstitutional. He said
Mr.. Miller jammed his rifle
against the screen deor, said 1t
was loaded and that he was "the
boss" of the situation.
There was hint of Joking in
Mr. Miller's tone, Mr.. Perry said.
About $3.50 that night. Mr..
Perry said, he and other officers
threw tear gas grenades into the
house and forced both Millers
onto the porch roof.
Mr.. Miller is q justice of the
peace in Bethel.
Evening star., 1955-07-19

BRATTLEBORO, Vt, July le
| lR.-Manuel Miller. Al. brand
ished q rife and threatened
bloodshed If authorities tried to
take his wife to a mental in
stitution in compliance with a
court order, United States Mar
shall Dewey H. Perry testified
yesterday,
Mr.. Perry was the second
prosecution witness against Mr.,
Miller. on trial in United States
District Court on a charge oi
"forcibly resisting (Mr. Perry
and Deputy Marshal John M
IBreen) with a deadly weapon
flor IL hours on May 8.
The Millers' armed stand was
ended by tear gas. Mrs. Miller,
"A, mother of three, was ad-
Judged sane after a month at
st. Elizabeths Hospital in Wash
lington. She was convicted last
week of violating the draft law
in counselling nine men to try
Ito evade military service.
She is free on bail awaiting
Isentence-maximum of five years
in Jail or $4,000 fine for each
Iof 18 counts-and has indicated
she will appeal the conviction
on constitutional grounds "up to
Evening star., 1955-07-19
Womon's Memory Trops
z in $93, ,780 Shortage

Ioyerslept. A substitute clerk
found Siemer's cash box in the
bank vault contained only some
change. An audit disclosed the
shortage.
In an FBI warrant issued last
March, Mrs. Siemer was accused
of conspiring in the theft and
converting bank funds to her
own use.
The Siemers we're to be ar
raigned before a United States
commissioner here today. Their
children have been placed in
temporary custody Of the Cleve-
land Police Women's Bureau.
The FBI did not disclose the
name of the. woman who pro-
vided the tip that led to the
Siemers' arrest. .
Mr.. Hawkins said the woman
had seen a feature article about
the theft and the family's dis
appearance in the New York
Sunday News of last Sunday.
Evening star., 1955-07-19
Illegal Search Charged
In BootIegqer Appeal

key from Smallwood and went
to the second floor where he i'm.
locked a door and discovered 8
number of jars containing boot
leg whisky.
Mr.. Ahearn told the court the
officer had only an arrest war
rant for the other bootleger an6
that the subsequent search Of
the premises and the arrest o1
Smallwood was illegal.
Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Hubert B. Pair argued the
police had every right to enter
the premises on the basis o1
probable cause in that Small
wood was seen in the open door
way with the other bootlegge1
as officers arrived. He declared
that the fact that the other
bootlegger pointed out Small
wood as the source of supply
constituted a probable cause fol
the search.
The court is expected to hano
down an opinion in about 9
month.
Evening star., 1955-07-19
Radio Broodcosts Proposed
ToFind Heirs for $1.6MiIIion

TORONTO, July 10 (P.-Ex'
ecutors for the SIS million es'
tates of the late Mr.. and Mrs
Herbert Coplin Cox said yester-
day they will ask radio stations
in Eastern Canada and the
United States to aid in the search
for possible heirs.
Likeliest candidates will be
persons bearing the names o1
Cox or Bogart with alternative
spellings of Bogert, Bogaart, Bo-
gard and Bogaarde) who are
able to trace their family ties tc
Peterborough, Ontario, or Penn
Yam, N. Y.
The executors troubles begar
last May when the Judicial Com.
mittee of the Privy Council threw
out wills made by Mr.. and Mrs
Cox and ruled, in effect, that the
money had to be distributed
among their "blood relations"
Mr.. Cox, a native of Peter
borough, was president ano
later chairman of the Canada
Life Assurance Co. rom 1914
until his death in 1947. He left
a will giving $l.3 million to sci
up a Cox foundation. the income
from which was to go "fcl
charitable purposes only" to the
10000 employees and dependent.
of Canada Life.
Mrs. Cox, who died in 1948
Willed $4,000 in the same way
Evening star., 1955-07-19
Ho Gets Moscow Pledge
Of S100 Million in Aid
BARKIS & FAMILY

MOSCOW. July 10 R.-Hc
Chi Mini. leader of Communist
North Wet Nam, flew toward
home today with a promise OF
400 million rubles in economic
aid from the Soviet Union.
Moscow radio announced the
grant last night shortly after
Mr.. Ho left the Soviet capital
by plane. He had conferred here
for a week with Russian govern
ment officials.
The broadcast said the talks
also unanimously emphasized
the Importance of consultations
to be carried out" in prepara-
tion for general elections in Wet
Nam in July, 1856.
Under terms of the Geneva
agreement ending the Indo-
China war. discussions on elec-
tions designed to unity the
country are supposed to begin
July 20 between North and South
Wet Nam. The armistice pro-
vides that the voting to reunify
Wet Nam is to be held not later
than next July.
The economic aid announced
by the Soviets would equal $10C
million at the official rate of ex-
change. Mr.. Ho was promised
the equivalent of 1928 million ir
economic help by the Chinese
Communists during his recent
Peiping talks.
Speaking at the airport before
his departure, Mr.. Ho said his
Evening star., 1955-07-19
Wet Nam Group Hits
Bourd as Pro-Soviet

SAIGON. South Wet Nam, July
I19 (P.-Government ministers
high army officers and a group
of political leaders handed Pre-
mier Ngo Dinh Diem a resolution
today calling for elimination Of
PRO Communist Indians ano
Poles" from the Armistice Con-
troll Commission.
The group, who reflect the
views of the Diem government
itself, said the commission hao
been unable to fulfill its task OF
supervising compliance with the
Geneva armistice because oil
the Communist attitude OF
the Polish and Indian repre-
Isentatives."
Canada is the third member
Iof the commission. India is
chairman.
The group also said it would
accept only general unification
elections organized under COM
Epletely free conditions and un-
der the control of the United
Nations. guaranteeing the rights
Iof vote of the Wet Namese
people" Mr.. Diem in a speech
Saturday took similar stand.
Evening star., 1955-07-19

Defense attorneys have chal.
lenged the arrest and conviction
of a Washington bootlegger
charging that police illegally
entered and searched a building
The case involves Arthur
Smallwood, IS. colored, of the
HOO block of Sixth street S.W.
convicted by Municipal Court
Judge Andrew j. Howard, jr.
last spring and fined $3.50.
Attorney Harry j. Ahern yes
terday told the Municipal Court
of Appeals police arrested an
other bootlegger outside a place
in the 300 block of G street S.W.
on an arrest warrant.
Mr.. Ahern said the second
bootlegger was given permission
by the arresting officer, Pvt
Henry A. McElvane, to step in
side and read the warrant after
the arrest.
Pvt. McElvane, the court wa:
told followed him in and, aftel
questioning the prisoner
searched Smallwood. He took
Evening star., 1955-07-19
Export Bank Pays
Dividend to u. S.
BY the Associated Pres


The Export Import Bank yes
terday announced the payment
of a $22.5 million dividend to
the Treasury Department.
The department holds 81 bill
lion worth of the banks capital
stock.
The dividend came from the
banks net earnings of $59.1 mil
lion for the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1855.
The gross earnings for the
fiscal year amounted to $85.7
million of which $25.5 million
was paid as interest ON funds
borrowed from the Treasury and
$l.1 million was expended for
operating expenses, st IS. &.
Evening star., 1955-07-19

She was born in Penn Van about
I1874, moved to Toronto with her
parents while still an infant
and lived in Canada the rest OF
her life. The couple had nc
children or other immediate
family.
w. G.. Thorn of the National
Trust Co., Ltd. executors of the
estate, said the effect of the
Judicial Committees ruling that
the wills are invalid is that most
of the SIG million will go to the
persons who can trace their re-
Ilationship to Mrs. Cox's family
He said that some claimants
Ialready are known since q fam
lily tree was drawn up some years
ago,