Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1928, Page 1

WEA (0. 8. Weather Generally fair tot THER. Bureau Forecast.) night and tomorrow; little change in temperature. Temperature—Highest, 84, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 67, at 4 am. to- day. Full report on page 4. he Ty Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 and 13 No. 30,743. ot omes Wi Entered as second class matter ashington, D. C WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUL 1928 - ening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION service. Saturday’s » The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news ‘Circulation, Sunday’s Circulation, GII'T PAGES. AMUNDSEN'S BODY IS REPORTED FOUND I SEA OFF NORWAY Explorer Missing Two Weeks After Flying to Aid of Nobile. ESCUE VESSEL NEARS | MAROONED ITALIA CREW Russian Ship Expects to Reach Ice | Floes Soon—Flight Over Pole Criticized. By the Associated Press LONDON, July 2—A Parls d‘lspatch; to the Exchange Telegraph Co. re-| ports that according to messages re- ceived from Oslo, the body of Cnpt.i Roald Amundsen has been found in | the sea off Norway. The report lacks official confirmation. Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole and noted Arctic explorer, left Norway on June 18 with Lief Dietrich son, &nother noted Norweigian explor- | er, and a French crew in a .French‘ seaplane to search for Gen. Umberto | Nobile, then stranded with five compan- jons off North Land. Gen. Nobile has since been rescued by Lieut. Lundborg, | Swedish fiyer, and is now aboard the base ship Citta di Milano off nonheml e H spz‘x::le:\r&n's decision mfl}le{% mm:k;: saerch for Nobile was all the dramatic, as he and the Italian dirigible expert had been at odds ever since heir famous dirigible flight in the Norge over the North Pole. The pilot of the French seaplane was Comdr. Rene Guilbaud and the three other mem- bers of the crew were Lieut. Albert de , radio oper- ever, anything jected New York flight of Lieut. Comdr. Paris, he was authorized to attempt a westward flight from Brest to New York by way of the Azores. Plane Believed Seaworthy. The plane was a Latham seaplane with twl; Farman motors of 550 horse- power each and a fiying radius of ap- proximately 2,800 miles. It was cquipped with a radio apparatus working 600 meters with a range of about 800 miles for transmitting and receiv- Former U. S. Cabinet Officer Urged as Successor to John Bassett Moore. |News Surprises Statesman, | Who Is Now on Vaca- tion in Europe. By the Associated Press., GENEVA, July 2.—Sweden placed the name of Charles Evans Hughes in nomi- nation today as successor to Dr. John Bassett Moore on the World Court of International Justice. | It was known' that a considerable number of powers were ready to pro- | pose the name of Mr. Hughes to the| World Court, but hitherto Sweden has HUGHES NOMINATED FOR PLACE ON WORLD COURT BY SWEDEN not been mentioned in Geneva dis- | patches. Last Saturday dispatches from | Geneva said that Japan was ready to nominate him and that it was thought he would accept the nomination. Mr. Hughes is on a vacation trip )n“ Europe and when interviewed in Berlin | on Saturday declined to discuss any- | thing but his vacation plans. He was | visibly surprised when shown a Geneva | dispatch concerning the likelihood that Japan would place his name in nomination and said that it was the first he had heard of it. HUGHES VISITS HINDENBURG. S e | Former Secretary of State Declines Comment on Court. BERLIN, July 2 (#).—President von Hindenburg today received Charles Evans Hughes, who is now visiting in Berlin. The American statesman was CHARLES EVANS HUGHES. introduced by Jacob Gould Schudman, | American Ambassador to Germany. After his visit, Mr. Hughes said: “The President received me most graciously. I consider it an honor to have met him. The visit was purely a courtesy call; so there is nothing further to say about it.” Informed that Sweden has nominated him for member of the Permanent Court of International Justice to suc- ceed John Bassett Moore, Mr. Hughes said: “You appreciate, of course, that 1 cannot say anything now, as I have no official word about this.” Mr. Hughes, with his wife and daugh- ter, spent an hour in the air today, flying over Berlin and Potsdam as the guest of Lufthansa, the German Aerial League. On landing, he expressed himself enthusiastically on impressions gained in the course of the flight. COOLIDGE RECEIVES WORK RESIGNATION Secretary Outlines Plans for | Hoover and Curtis Campaign. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ISLAND LODGE, Brule River, Wis., July 2.—President Coolidge this morn- ing received from the hands' of Dr. | Hubert Work the latter’s formal resig- nation as Secretary of Interior, and at the same time was given a brief oral out result. Determined to do everything possible, | expeditions arranged by szvem! m!}l;nsv exploration. ! ‘The Berlin newspaper Montag Mor- gen today printed a dispatch from its Copenhagen correspondent in which he said that a large number of Arctic ex- plorers arriving at Tromsoe from the |, meeting of explorers at Leningrad were reported to have denounced the Nobile | expedition. Peter Freuchen, a Danish | explorer, was quoted as saying, “It was | not a case of tragedy only, but Nobile's expedition was the darkest blot in the annals of Arctic exploration, Nobile meeting both technical and moral de- feat and discrediting entirely Arctic exploration by means of airships.” The Copenhagen newspaper Politiken also published a statement from Freuchen in which he said aviators at ‘Tromsoe had little hope of finding the Amundsen party. Freuchen quoted Helmer Hansen, who accompanied | Amundsen to the South Pole, as believ- ing his former chief had died heroically. rts in northern Norway believed | that the Prench seaplane was probably forced down in stormy conditions and collapsed upon hitting the waves. This would have meant a speedy end for all on board. SHIP NEAR ITALIA CREW. Russian Vessel Hopes to Take Men Off Ice Shortly. | MOSCOW, July 2 (P)—The Russian | ice breaker Xrassin, which has been fighting its way through ice floes for | Hoover, and he belleves he should now al weeks in an effort to reach the | let others shoulder some of the burden the dirigible Italia nded men of near Foyne Island off Northeast Land oday reported that it had reached a point 80 miles from that region Prof. Samoflowich, noted Arctic explorer, who is in command o the rescue expedition, notified the au- thos in Moscow that he hoped to be sble to locate the marooned men shortly and 1o take them aboard condition of the jce was such that the vessel would be able to find enough oper water 5o as to approach quite close 10| the party As soon s the Foyne Island group is rescued the Krassin will begin a search | and | outline of what is being planned by the mittee is extremely anxious to book the President for several set political speeches, but it is thought doubtful if . | Chairman %o | Dational headq with any such det President. , fident he likely will deliver one or two 5} one of them before he He expressed the opinion that the | Russian | paign. national committee to bring about the election of Hoover and Curtis next November. As this tentative plan of battle was | he chieftains of the party are expecting him to do in the way of assisting the campaign. It has not been revealed just what promises the President made in this particular, but it is understood that he gave assurance that he would do e in behalf of the party’s ticket. However he made it m:n-um-cnumnnmmwum mi has no intentions be limited, that he of doing anything not in keeping with the dignity of his office. | Seek to Book Speeches. It is known that the national com- Work is going back to the in Washington te promise from the His int tes here feel con- hes d the campaign, probably e ¢ o gveu this part of the country, but that he does not want to bind himself by any promise. | Besides this rather indefinite given to understand that he could ex- pect from the President one or two let- ter‘s“:o be made public during the cam- p‘ChAlrmm ‘Work arrived at the lodge shortly after 9 o'clock. The journey from Washington to Superior was made a special car belonging to Col. John H. Carroll of Washington, special coun- sel of the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad. At Buperfor Dr. Work was met by Eve: ett Sanders, the President’s secretary, James W. Good of Iowa, Hoover’'s pre- convention campaign manager; Col. E. W. Starling of the secret service and a number of newspaper correspondents. Mrs. Coolidge was out on the grounds in front of the lodge to receive this first cabinet visitor to the Summer White House. The President was out on the Brule sleeping, but he arrived at the lodge a few moments later. After brief greetings and a hasty tour of the little island the President and Dr. Work went indoors. Dr. Work told newspaper men that while he had lots to talk about with the President, his new job as national chairman is going to take every minute of his time. He sald he expected to| leave Superior late this afternoon. Be- | fore he leaves he is anxious to receive a definite promise from Mr. Good that he will take over the Western manage- ment of the campaign. Mr. Good is undecided about assum- ing this part of the campaign. He ex- plained today that he has neglected personal affairs more than four months while engaged in nominating Secretary Dr. Work said that he was stepping out of the cabinet solely for the pur- pose of being i a position to give his time to the management of the cam- As for opinions regarding his successor, he sald that was a matter | for the President to discuss. | | nominee at the promise | Trubee HOOVER PROMISED OHIDBY THOMPSON State to Support Secretary After Pre-Election Battle, He Says. Ohio will throw her votes to Hoover after a stiff pre-election battle, it was declared today by Carmi Thompson, Ohio Republican leader, following a call on the Republican presidential Department of Com- merce. Prohibition and the tariff will be, strong points in the Republican cam- paign in Ohio, the Cleveland banker lained. ‘Thompson offered Secretary Hoover his services in the coming cam; . He said he liked so much as & good campaign t and announced will- ess to down and an active part in the fray on behalf of the Republican ticket. Ready to Take Stump. Thompson indicated that he has not yet been any definite role in the pre-election drive, but said he sund.smrudmir to uke“Y.he lmm or to serve in other ways, if requ Samuel G. Prescott and Edward F. Colladay, national committeemen for the District of Columbia, called on Sec- retary Hoover today to offer him their felicitations and to pledge to him the support of local Republicans. Others who talked with Hoover in- cluded William S. Culbertson, new Am- bassador to Chile; C. Bascom Slemp, vul-gmu nlnm:tnn mnmltme::fln;;r B-md uel G. Blythe, magazine , an D-?ixm Assistant Secretary of ‘War for aviation. The Secretary took lunch with Mr. Blythe at the Department of Commerce, and then closed his desk and spent the remainder of the afternoon working on his acceptance speech at his home. Dodge Newspaper Men. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover and their older son, Herbert, jr., gave the slip yesterday to newspaper men who had expected them to attend church at the Friends’ Meeting House on I street, and went, in- stead, to the Priends’ Orthodox Church at Thirteenth and Irving streets. This church is part of the same group of Priends as that which emigrated from Towa to Oregon in ploneer days, and with which the Hoover family of West Branch, Iowa, was affiliated. Young Herbert Hoover, then an orphan adopted by his uncle, went with the Quakers on the long journey to the Northwest. George Hoover, first cousin of the Secretary, is a frequent worshiper at the orthodox chureh, and Miss Eva Miche- ner, who came here from West Branch, Hoover’s birthplace, also attends the church. Her family is well acquainted with the Towa Hoovers. The orthodox branch of the Friends' Church differs from the I street church in that there is & r pastor. There are the Quaker of silence, but music is interpolated. In the temporary absence of the pastor yesterday, Lindley D. Clark, a resident Qulkertgl:nél;::‘. who also is & uty compensal ~ missioner wfi;fl United States Employes' Compensation Commission, preached the sermon. French Air Mail Plane Missing. CASABLANCA, Morocco, July 2 (#).— The French air mail plane, which left Cape Juby on Saturday morning with mail destined for France, has not yet arrived here. *Curtis-for-Vice-Pr One of the most active of the “Curtis- for the six men of the Italila who were | for-Vice-President” clubs, composed al- carried away in the gas bag and for the | most entirely of the Benator's grandson missing Amundsen party. The Krassin ¢ keeping in communication with the base ship b @ in wireless touch with the Nobile men. SR Italian Envoy Going to Vienna. ROME, July 2 (). —Premier 80l satisfied with the assurance given him by Chsncellor Beipel on the Austrian provinee of the upper adige d signor Auriti, Italian Minister at Sitta & Milano which in turn | Mus- | attitude toward the Italian | has or- | herited and granddaughter, at Fort 8ill, Okla. has been put out of business, according to word received here by friends. After the nomination of Senator Curtis his grandson, Charles Curtls | George, 6 years old, and his grand- | daughter, Anne, 8 years old, son and daughter of Maj. C. P. George, U. 8. A., stationed at Port Sill, came by a big supply of Curtis campaign buttons, Young Charles apparently has in- some of his famous grand- father's political instinets and ambition post, Signor to resume his The opportunities afforded him by own- Y ership of the bution 160 com pelling to be overlooked. ke organ- .esid;nt Club“ Ends “Drive” as Parent Stops Button Sale ized a Curtis Club, the chief regulation governing admission of members being that they must buy from him one of the buttons, He found no difficulty in getting members, Enthusiasm ran high and the pennies came in rapidly. Young Charles and Sister Anne were doing very nicely, thank you, Then the club began to grow so extensively and to create 50 much comment that Mrs, George got wind of the enterprise Commerclalizing politics is one of the things that is not done in the Curtls family and Mrs. George promptly broke up the sale of buttons by her youthful progeny. And thus it was that one of the first of the Curtis Clubs went on the rocks SMITH WILL DIRECT HIS OWN CAMPAIGN, SPONSORS DECLARE Observers Feel National Com- mittee Will Foliow His Directions. |DUE TO GIVE 15 SPEECHES | THROUGHOUT THE NATION iAddresses Expected to Deal With Problems Easily Understand- able to Voters. By the Associated Pr NEW YORK, July 2.—Gov. Alfred E. Smith was in New York today for some {informal conferences at which he will thrash out the details of his campaign for the presidency with a few close | friends. The first meeting of the National Democratic Committee is not until July | 11, but it is generally believed that | before that time the governor will have decided exactly what course he will! follow and will merely inform the com- mittee of his decisions. Those close to the governor say that | he intends to decide all important mat- ters relative to the campaign himself, and that the national committee will follow his directions rather than act in an advisory capacity. Cheered at Station. The governor came here last night, boarding at Albany the special train on which several members of his fam- ily were returning from Houston with delegates. An enthusiastic crowd cheered his arrival at Grand Central Terminal. He went immediately to his suite in the Biltmore. This morning he had appointments at his headquarters with persons whose political acumen he respects, but their identity nor the nature of the discus- sions he intended to have with them ‘was not made public. month’ Cumpalgh o 4bout 15 specches about 15 s} in various parts of the country. They will all be broadcast, and there wiil be no back-platform talks to station crowds as the campaign train moves from one chosen city to another. There will probably be one speech in this citly, one in New Jersey, three in New England, one each in Detroit, St. Louis and Denver, and the rest in the border States, with one possible appearance in a West Coast city. To Shun Foreign Affairs. terial. Smith supporters feel that the gov- ermnor has the gift of making ”k who have never seen him and who know nothing of his political policies except in relation to one or two out- ;lilmng'ina matters they know They point' to the thousands of tele- grams and letters which hveowm':!eln since the ation, hundreds of which call the governor “Al” and ad- dress him in terms of familiarity. ‘Most of these people have never seen the ‘gnverm.); one n‘n,.n close to nominee said today, “but they’ve hea: about him and something in his pe:e sonality has caught their im; ion. He has got himself across to them somehvw so that they feel friendly and Bpe:r::) ';’n“'"fl',',’ think they know him nally. re’'s a big vote of t) kind going to Smith.” o ‘The governor's first speech since his nomination will be at the Tammany Society’s annual Fourth of July cele- bration. Advertisements in New York news- papers announce that “patriotic 8] " will be delivered by the gov- ernor and Senators Copeland and Wag- ner. “All citizens of the United States and lovers of Americanism are cordially invited,” the advertisement says. The speecs fie‘:q nl;e ;.o be radiocast. mith circles were much interested today in the appeal of Josephus Daniels to Southern Democrats to support Gov. Smith, but to “stand in Congress like a stone wall against any recommendation that Smith as President would make to 205'"7 the prohibition enforcement George W. Olvany, head of Tammany, issued a statement on arrival from Houston predicting that capital and la- bor both would aid Smith and that his election would help industry. PRI BRIAND IS DRAFTING REPLY TO KELLOGG Note Will Seek to Give Further Precision to Points in Anti- War Proposal. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 2—Foreign Minister Briand and his helpers at the foreign office are engaged in drafting a reply to Secretary Kellogg's recent explanatory note regarding a proposed multilateral treaty for the outlawry of war. ‘The American Secretary’s letter is re~ garded as giving France satisfaction concerning the question of reservations, but it s felt at the foreign office that a reply is necessary in order to give fur- ther precision to some points. In the present state of mind of the Qual d'Orsay, this reply will In nowise be controversial and will not even neces- sitate an answer. Golden Rule” Film PRODUCED BY The Evening Star T'o further traffic safety will <hown today along th the regular program at Ashtona Theater, Clarendon, Vi the | Vet 5 4 ~'l‘illl€’l‘\'-l<ll * (/) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. “THE TWO DROMIOS” OR POLITICAL PERPLEXITY. BANKER'S MISSING SON HEARD FROM Alfred W. Moran, in Los An- geles, Says Mind Has Been Blank Year. i Declaring an entire year of his life | was a blank from the effect of a blow | on the head, & man who said he was | Alfred Willis Moran, 29, missing son of Howard Moran, vice president of the Ameriean Security & Trust Co., walked | into a Los Angeles police station yes- terday, announced that he had re- gained his memory and said he wanted to return home. ‘The young man's father said today he believed the story, but did not think he would go to Los Angeles. William H. Moran, chief of the Federal Secret Service and an uncle of the missing man, sald he did not believe it was necessary for any relative or member of the family to go to California. “If the young man in Los Angeles is really my nephew,” he said, “he will be able to get to his home in New Jer- sey without any assistance from us.” Have Few Details. Both the father and uncle said they had receivél nothing more from Los Angeles than a bare confirmation of newspaper reports. The man who made his appearance in Los Ansnlu yesterday was neatly dressed and acted like a well-to-do business man, police of that city said. “I was sitting in Pershing Square watching t:: group of chil:ren h’ DW!I, e 'r said, “when, of a sudden, l'md that I was Al- fred Wills Moran. I recalled that on a night in June one year ago I was on the head by a bandit in the of Forty-third street and Eleventh avenue, New York City. Ican- not remember a single thing that has happened since that time.” Moran had been employed by Blair & Co.. 24 Broad street, New York, and lived wlu'n' hf,s wife and two children in Had $300 When Attacked. He told Los Angeles police that he did not know how he got from New York to the West Coast. He had $300 with him at the time of the attack, he said, but believes it must have been taken by the bandit. Although his appearance indicated that he had spent considerable money during the past year, Moran said he could not remember where or at what he had worked, or if he had worked at all. He said he could not even recall the name he had used during the time he has been missing. There was nothing in Moran's cloth- ing to throw any light on his activities during the year and Los Angeles police told relatives in Washington they did not believe the mystery of his wander- ings during this period would ever be cleared up. Disappeared in 1927, Moran's disappearance from the resi- dential section of New York early on the evening of June 18, 1927, resulted in a search which led into all the big cities and even into many of the rural districts of the country. Lead after lead was patiently run down by police and private detectives, but no trace of the missing man was ever found. As month after month of fruitless search only served to cloud the mystery attending the disappearance, friends and members of the family were be- ginning to accept the belief that Moran would never be found. Moran’s father, who lives at the Wardman Park Hotel, said he thought it probable that his son would leave Los Angeles for New York at once. He will be met there by his wife and children, Moran was born in Hyattsville, Md., and served overseas with a cavalry unit during the war. He left Washington for New York eight years ago and was married there. e CHINA CALLS TREATY REVISION CONFERENCE | Ministers of Powers Asked to Ar- rive in Nanking From Peking by July 20. The Star and Chicaso Daily ws, Copyright. 1928, SBHANGHAIL, July 2--The Nanking minister of foreign affairs, C. T. Wang, has telegraphed his Peking representa- tive, advising him of the government's decision to call a meeting of representa- tives of foreign powers at Nanking for the purpose of revising exsting treaties. Forelgn ministers are asked to reach Nanking July 20, By Cable to Ne SR T Radio E;gru.m Page 34 \CERTAIN HOTEL CLERKS STEER | STRANGERS TO GAMBLING DENS; Guarded, But Admission Can Be Easily Gained Through Various Channels. Note—This is the second of a series of articles on an inves into the gambling situation in Wash- ington by members of The Star staff. One of these investigators has writ- ten the following story: ‘Two weeks of more or less persistent effort have convinced at least one im- explained to me by the manager of cne of the more elaborate establishments downtown. I approached it with a spirit of critical inquiry. Nobody had told me it was a gambling establishment. But the second story partial investigator that it is practically | the s impossible to “crash” any of the 20 or 50 large gambling establishments in ‘Washington. This doesn't mean that a stranger can't get in. Far from it. All it means is that before anybody can pass any of those sacred and well guarded portals he must be vouched for by somebody who is known. Proprietors Take No Chances. ‘This-is quite logical. Nowadays, when even law enforcement has ceased to be a matter of mere brawn, you never can tell who might be a policeman. And gambling in this city has received so much public attention lately that the gonrhwrs of these places can't afford porter in. Reporicrs e Hbel 0 5 P . are likely to t. But being vouched for doesn't mean that you must be a close friend of the man who vouches for you. It is a much looser system than that. It was MORROW'S TRAIN 10 BE GUARDED Precautions Taken Following Activities of Mexican Wreckers. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 2.—Extraor- dinary precautions are being taken to guard American Ambassador Dwight ‘W. Morrow’s train when he returns to Mexico City from the United States to- morrow, since train wreckers have been active along the railroad running to the border. A Queretaro dispatch to El Universal aid nine men were executed when found along the right of way with dynamite. All suspicious characters are being kept away from the railroad. A train running from Laredo to Mex- fco City was derailed last week and the engineer and fireman killed. Two attempts to wreck trains in the Quere- taro region and three attempts else- where have been frustrated in the last 10 days. ‘When the nine men were found with the dynamite, their summary execution was ordered by the commanding mili- tary officer of the district. They were at “once marched out on a country road and shot by a firing squad. ELEPHANT KILLS KEEPER. Swing$s Trunk on Man and Hurls Him Against Bars of Cage. ROME, July 2 (#).—Toto, famous ele- phant in Rome's Zoo, becoming enraged in yesterday's hot weather, swung his trunk on his keeper and hurled him against the bars of the cage. The vic- tim, Ivo Colovalle, died soon after in a hospital. ‘This is the second time that Toto has killed & man. Two years ago he killed a veterinary attending him Earth From Historic LAWS FOR HEALING ARTIND.C. URGED Grand Jury Declares “Grave Need” Exists—Recalls Hoffman Case. Asserting there is a “grave need" for legislation to regulate the practice of healing arts and to stamp out “diplo- report submitted to Justice Balley of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia today, declared the Hoffman case, just concluded, demonstrates the advisability of action. The report, signed by Martin West, foreman of the grand jury for the April term, strongly urges that pending bills on these subjects be enacted into law. ‘The report also deplores the situation with regard to gambling and prohi- bition cases, the jurors being convinced that not enough important cases are be- ing made, and voices criticism at fail- ure of police to round up loose ends in investigations of various crimes. Exception is also taken to the loca- tion of the portable electric chair at the District Jail. “If capital punish- ment is to be continued in the Dis- quate and properly located death cham- ber with other necessary and improved facilities should be provided.” Text of Report. The report reads: “In submitting this report this grand jury, after careful and serious thought, ! has embodied herein certain exceptions | and recommendations, feeling that its convictions will be accepted in the light of constructive criticism and, if favor- ably acted upon, will materially better the present conditions and prove of benefit to all concerned. “While it is not the intent of this grand jury unfavorably to criticize the Spots in France To Lie on Rodman Wanamaker's Grave By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 2.—Earth taken from three historic places in France was sealed in a bronze urn today to be on the grave of Rodman Wanamaker, noted Phu-m.hmpm. who devoted much of his ife to cementing friendly relations be- tween France and the United States. The earth was taken from the land- ing spot at Ver-sur-Mer, on the coast ol France, where Comdr. Richard E. Byrd landed in the transatlantic monoplane | America a year ago vesterday: from | Plepus Cemetery, where' Lafayette 18! 4 buried, and from the battlefleld where the first Americans fell during the N adays oeremony held in the lay’ was ‘nrx'sr:cc u:‘u-. mnhuvnaol th; Inites embassy, Gen. Clourau ind other French officlals Marcel Knecht, wm secret of the Parls Ly, M and Leon nfer. v dis tetor of the Havas ney, Wil head a French delegation. which will attend the ceremony of placing the um on Mr. Wanamaker's grave in Philadel- phia. A ' S DN T {Doors of Washington's Dives Closely | ! ma mills” here, the grand jury, in a - trict,” says the grand jury, “an ade- | | | Police Department as a body, it does | ed_to_br the ! GRAND JURY FINDS BIG BOOKMAKERS SELDOM PRESENTED Foreman of District Group Says That Only Petty Cases Are Brought In. PHOTOGRAPHING PLANNED OF HANDBOOK PLAYERS Sergt. Letterman Suggests Taking Pictures of “Pikers” to Dis- courage Betting. Following closely the publication of The Star’s investigation into the gam- bling situation here, the District grand jury today submitted to Justice Bailey | & report in which it decried the scarcity | of handbook cases presented to it in- volving the larger operators. Martin R. West, foreman of the jury, jcalled attention to the fact that the bulk of gambling cases called to the attention of the grand jury was con- fined to those of a petty nature. Indictment of 11 persons on charges of setting up gaming tables, where bets | could be made on the results of horse races and where black jack and other games of chance were conducted, were reported by the grand jury. Those charged were John A. Maloney, Albert J. Lowry, Ralph A. Holland and Frank A. Stevens, who were ar- rested by Sergt. O. T. Letterman.and his gambling squad June 6 at a raid on the premises 212 Ninth street; Wilbur L. Dorsey, Jack Stein, Bart Kennett and Emmett Johnson, whose place of business at 704 O street was raided May 29 by Sergt. Letterman and Policeman Burke; Joseph McCafferty, 301 C street southwest, raided by Letterman April 13, and Charles J. Baker and Chester Bilds, 831 Four-and-a-Half street south- west, raided April 13. At the same time Sergt. Letterman threatened to station photographers at the entrance of known gambling estab- lishments in order to get pictures of the players which could be shown to their employers. Letterman's idea is to direct a cam- paign of this sort against handbook establishments where workers of the so-called “piker class” make hur- ried trips from their places of employ- ment in the middle of the afternoon to ‘l’lyfl their bett;lythen be lesks so qui that their tempor: absence attracts no attention. e Law Protects Gamblers. No definite steps along this liffe have been taken, and whether the plan, which of necessity would have to be O. K.'d in official circles, will be car- m into effect is &mm%w Letter- , that ft on the knowledge that employes would not want to take a chance on having their -mm);m- '&bh‘: they were on - ployers® time. o These establishmen the police are rally of the incor- porated fluhm ‘tyA Declaring it is increas- ingly difficult to mmm‘e"l‘em:e these, Letterman said today: “It pears that the law gives the more protection than it does '.hie ’t‘"“ terman explained that TS more inquiries and gett: mation about prospective members than business men are able to obtain mercantile agencies concerning cants for credit for large quantities merchandise. ts that are foiling making application for membe: eevn then they sometimes are cal,” he said. in their efforts to obtain evidence upon which to ‘Eredlute warrants for proprie- tors of the clubs, which, the sergeant says, are incorporated merely for the purpose of fleecing “boobs,” he has de- termined to seek the enactment of & new law when Congress convenes. 80 a long way toward breaking up other than bona fide clubs. The ‘s‘:manl says he is certain the building and fire regulations are violated at most of the gambling clubs where reinforced doors, electrically operated locks and heavy steel bars are employed for safety. Sergt. Letterman thinks imposition of heavy jail or penitentiary sentences would be a big help. He pointed out this morning that two recent trials re- sulted in imposition of penitentiary sentAelnm. “As poor as I am.” the sergeant re- marked, “I would give two m::rms' sal- ary to get évidence sufficient to break us a certain club that is defying police arrests for alleged violations of the gambling law, two for setting up gaming tables and one for permitting gaming were made by the police duri the 48 hours ended at ch'clocx U\“k‘s 26 REBELS SLAIN IN MEXICAN FIGHT One Officer and Two Troopers Lost by the Federal Forces—In- surgents Flee. Ry . Associated Press. ‘ MEXICO CITY, July 2.—Dispatches irom Queretaro to Excelsior today said that 26 insurgents, 1 army officer and 2 | morning. | soldiers were killed In a five-hour battle at La Griega, a few miles from the cap- ital of the State of Queretaro. Seven soldiers were wounded. A small detachment of soldiers form- ing the garrison of La G tacked by more than 200 federal troops divided into sev- eral small columns and the mwwwao\y.muux s gy e e hind a hm“;z;mumh 'z manufacturing bombs, and & Damber one 12 horses, severat-mighe of documenta. f L A