Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 21

i s i e bt R e e GOVERNOR REFUSES 10 TAKE STAND | Urged to Appgar Before Grand Jury in New Orleans Gambling Probe. NEW ORLEANS, Huey P. Long and A Semmes Walmsley found themselves | cas the role of principals today as an anti-gambling crusade began to | vield a sizable quota of arrests and | among chartered social | " | made public in afidavits on file in Fed- - | eral Court THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, T7.” €. THURSDAY. "AUGUST 2 19280 BIG BUSINESS MAN GUISE DUPED GOTHAM NIGHT CLUB HOSTESSES Undercover Adents’ Affidavits Tell Tale of Champagne and Whisky Parties and Free-Spending Nights. " NEW YORK, Augist 2.—The inside | story of how undercover prohibition agents hoodwinked Broadway today was ‘Tyson's says: June 13—At Helen Morgan’s: One pint whisky, two bottles of ginger ale, one quart of champagne, supper 5 ftemized expense account and supp June 2 Mrs. Tyson only: Cover charge, dinner and ginger ale, $17.80. Two quarts The reports of the agents revealed the easy manner in which the su) JEFFREY REVEALS | - ANTARGTIG PLANS | iBritish Explorer and Byrd Ex- | { pect to Aid Each | Other. SR ‘1 By the Assoclated Pross. | CINCINNATI, Ohio, August 2.—| Comdr. Douglas G. Jeffrey, noted Eng- | trom New York not later than October | | Pole, he announced here yesterday. | Comdr. Jeffrey, who Is en route to the | Land, where | sald will study weathe® conditions in an effort to find means of predicting storms and other disturbances several weeks in advance. Jeftrey plans to establish a base for a year's operation in Graham Land, the section of the South Pole nearest Cape Horn. Three or four airplanes will be taken to the base and section houses will provide shelter for the 30 men who will constitute the expedition. Two steamships will carry the ex- pedition from New York to Graham airplanes equipped with skiis will be used for most of the oxplorative work. The flight across the Pole probably will be made from a sub-base on the Weddell Sea, Jefirey The possible existence of im- portant mineral products which could he exploited will be investigated., and a thorough survey of whaling and seal- ing possibilities will be undertaken Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, who is mak- June 19—At Helen Morgan's: Drinks lish Polar explorer, plans to set out|ing a similar trip at the same time, will have his base in the Antarctic area t Silver Slipper Club With4 | oy Lis next expedition to the South|south of New Holland. Comdr. Jeffrey said he and Comdr. Byrd will aid each other in weather most night clubs accepted them as “big business men” and sold them liquor | for which 138 persons from 26 clubs t of the governor to send | rleans to tid the city an invitation by rnor to Aappear he knew of gam- + speedily replied have been indicted. Helen Morgan, Broadway actress and | “one of the street's most popular hostesses, the aMdavit said, appeared as sure that two of the agents were what they said | they were—big business men from Dal- | las-—that she offered to help one set up a night club in Dallas. Texas Guinan, another affidavit said invited the supposedly “big business men” to a party she was giving for a moving picture actress and also Sug- '« | cested they visit the night club of her mless directed to do so or. And there the president of the Ol | Club, raided by police ds vesterday, when 45 arrests were i L A. Remmick, the were fined $25 7 alternate jail warges of op- The others of gambling in court caucus y the face of a avor of the Old the police from | a red clubs without evi- dence law violation. The threat of military action from the governor was countered by a state- ment from the commission council re- iterating the objective previously an-} nounced by the body to eliminate vio- lation of the gambling laws and ex- lief that Gov. Long| would tified in sending troops | here. i 12.5TORY HOTEL | PLANNED ON H ST. Dewer & Co. to Build $1,250.000 Structure Near Four- teenth. A 12- ory hotel, estimated to cost $1.250.000, is to be constructed on the site of the old Hudson Hotel, 1320 H street by Dewey & Co., Inc., an invest- ment concerr. which contracted to buy the property, it was announced today by sn official of the company. Plans now are being p! for the new department. which mark an- other step in the replacement of the older and obsolescent buildings in down- town Washington by new structures. The old hostelry has been closed in anticipation of the project, but the new owmers. not take full possession of the property for about 60 days, due to| I held by a restaurant in the dson Hotel, former- been operated as It is be- nc., from 2 reet with a depth of e of brick and stone be set back above vel in conformity with g e for buildings run- maximum height of 130 ed under the zoning regula- as announced. of the building will be pro- 0dd Fellows Hold Outing. The thirtieth annual outing of For- est Lodge, No. 41, Odd Pellows, of For- estyille, Md., will be held today at Ches- epeake Beach. Politicians will be pres- ent to up prospective voters and embe the organization will speak Le Roy and Albert G. Ailst ittee of arrangements. the Vera Cruz sec- is year 5,000,000 blown down a fo brother Tom. Tmpressed Waiter “Albert.” The affidavits gave the names of seren agents who gathered evidence as Lon ! T. Tyson, Jacob A. Erkilla, Joseph L. | White, S. David Beazell, B. F. Hargrove, | John J." Mitchell and H. E. rrick. It was at the Privolity Club, the af- fidavits showed, that the agents gained the prestige that won them welcome to the other clubs. The head waiter, “Al- | bert,” impressed by a liberal spending of money, presented them with a card to Helen Morgan's “Summer home.” They had made visits there before, | they said. but had been unable to buy | liquor. But with the card from “Al-| bert” they purchased champagne at $25 | a quart, rye and Scotch whisky at $10 a pint and brandy at $15 a pint | Other visits followed to Tex Guinan's Salon Rovale, the Furnace Club, the Silver Slipper and the Ferndale Club. Served Liquor Openly. At all of these places, the affidavits assert. the agents, some of whom were ; | nccompanied by their wives, were served | |liquors in full view of and with the | knowledge of the head waiters and | hostesses. | In one of their trips to Helen Mor- | gan’s club they were introduced to Miss | Morgan, who joined them at their table | and ordered brandy. When they com- plimented her on the quality of the drink, she responded: “It costs us $6.25 a quart wholeshle.” her if she would nt Tyson asked sell her club. She told him no, but “I will help you start one in Texas."” Miss Morgan, according to Tyson's affidavit, told them her club did not handle gin “because all the college boys drink gin. We have a lot of them here. They generally have only about $20 to spend in an evening and bring their own zin. They could not afford to pay our prices." Miss Morgan is quoted as saving that after the raid on her club last Winter <he made an arranigement with “Gamp- bell, whereby he doesn’t bother us.” She cvidently referred to Prohibition Admin- istrator Maurice Campbell, the agent added. Contends She Is Hostess. Miss Guinan, who has contended she merely is a hostess and has nothing to | do with the ownership of her club, was | represented in one of the afdavits as sharing in the profits. Dies at Winchester Home. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., August 2.—J. Wilson Smellie, 81 years old, native of Haddingtonshire, Scotland, and for many years owner of Belle Grove farm, around which the Civil War battle of Cedar Creek raged, is dead at his | home, near here. He and his wife then | a bride, came from Scotland in 1869. Some years after his wife's death, he married Miss Annie Harness, Hardy County, W. Va,, who survives with one son, - Herbert H. Smcllie, and one daughter, Mrs. Albert Wade, Silver S)rmz. 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For approxi- mately an hour the firemen attempted to resuscitate him, but without success. He was pronounced dead by Dr. Henry M. Lowden of Emergency. It was es-| timated that he had been in the room | about an hour when his wife arrived.! She had been visiting friends. |~ Robertson had been alone in the| five hours, his wife | FINDS HUSBAND DEAD OF GAS IN KITCHEN Mis. Alfred Robertson Can Give No Motive for Act—Coroner Cer- tifies Suicide. —_— house for more than declared. He was seated in a chair in Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt, today I-| front of the gas stove. Gas was flow- cued a certificate of suicide in the | ing from all the jets. and the windows death of Alfred Robertson, 48, District | and doors were closed. tive could be ascribed for the manager of the Columbia Rope Co. of | Mf"l‘wmfir‘“‘emmmm e New York, who was found by his wife | ora] despondency. No note was found citting in the gas-filled kitchen of 1705 | nor could his wife recollect any cir-| Thirty-seventh street when s cumstance tending to explain the act.| Y a2 3 He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nettie Robertson, and a son and daugh- ter. = FENRIRINE. Prince Georges Boys Train. Spectal Dispateh to The Star, HYATTSVILLE, Md, August 2.— Nearly a score of Prince Georges County boys are attending the Citizens’ Military Training Camp at Fort Eustis, Va. They are Merwin N. Seyholdt, Carl J. Simpson, Jesse D. Stansbury, Thomas W. Brashears, jr., E: T. Browning. Walter F. Burdick. orge B. Ca thorne, Spencer B. Chase, Harry C. Dobbs, Woolford L. Edmonston, - Jame: B. Egloff. jr.. George England, Joseph G. Ferrier. Emanuel Gavriles, James W. Mitchell, Charles F. Monninger, Wi ltam Norton, Arthur M. Vogts and Ra: mond O. Watson. 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