Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1929, Page 5

TRIO'S THIRD TRIAL BRINGS CONVICTION Deegans and Myers, Liquor Raid _Defendants, Arrested Last August. ©On ftrial for the third time since the raid on the Ambassador Oyster House, 2106 Eighteenth street, last August 3, William Deegan, Francis Deegan and Clarence Myers were convicted by a Police Court jury late yesterday on harges of sale and possession of liquor. Jjury was out only an hour. Previous attempts to convict the men failed when & juror absented himself from the court for several days. The Jury in the second trial could not agree upon a verdict, but Burgess F. Hart, a fourth defendant, was acquitted upon a directed verdict when it was shown that he had been on the premises for the Purpose of making Tepairs. Charges that the raiders had de- stroyed property and assaulted a spec- tator were lodged following the raid, in which the men were captured. These charges were eventually dismissed, but were recalled by defense attorneys in previous trails. Police and dry agents admitted they bad used sledge hammers on strong doors, but denied that they had wielded them on furniture, and confessed to making arrests and drawing guns before serving the warrant which entitled them to admittance. Defense counsel con- tended that the real liquor offender had escaped, and that police had arrested the attendants of the oyster bar. Francis Deegan was found guilty of making a sale July 27, which led to procuring of the search warrant. All three were held to be guilty of making & sale and possession on the night of the raid. Unless the court grants a defense pe- flion for a mew trial, the defendants will be sentenced later this week. Assistant District Attorney David A. Hart prosecuted the case, while Attor- neys Robert I Miller and John Sirica were defense counsel. At the previous trial the case was conducted by As- sistant District Attorney R. F. Camalier and Attorneys Harry Whalen and Den- ny Hughes appeared for the defendants. Owing to the withdrawal of Hughes and Whelan from the case, Judge Isaac R. Hitt appointed counsel for the defense for yesterday's trial, PEONY SHOW SCHEDULED FOR FIRST WEEK IN JUNE Annual Exhibit Sponsored by the American Horticultural Society. Committee Named. The annual exhibition of peonies will be held here during the first week ofy June, it was announced at the meeting of the American Horticultural Society at the Harrington Hotel last night. The organization will sponsor the exhibition, and a committee headed by Dr. Earl B. ‘White was appointgd to formulate plans. A dinner followed, and Dr. Eugene C. Auchter of the Bureau of Plant Indus- try of the Department of Agriculture addressed the society on research ac- tivities in horticulture. The following officers were elected: President, F. L. Atkins, Rutherford, N. J.: first vice president, F. L. Mulford; second vice president, Mrs. Francis King, Alma, Mich.; secretary, D. Victor Lumsden; treasurer, Otto Bauer; di- rectors for two years, Miss Isabel B.| Busbee, Raleigh, N. C.; Frank W. Camp- bell, Detroit; Mrs. L. Helen Fowler, Fairman ess, Media, Pa., and J. Marion Shy Chevy Chase, Md. POLICEMAN’S CONDITION IS REPORTED IMPROVING A. B. Baker's Arm May Not Be Amputated, Sibley Physicians Declare. Improvement noted today in the con- dition of Policeman A. B. Baker, who received & charge of shot in his arm esterday whea responding to a call, ads physicians to believe it will be un- necessary to amputate the arm, as was | feared when he was admitted to Sibley Hospital. Policeman Baker was one of several sixth precinct officers summoned to the home of William Lawson, colored, in the 800 block of New Jersey avennc.l early yesterday. Lawson was arying for help when po- Yce entered. Said to have poor eyesight and mistaking the officers for burglars, he opened fire with a shotgun at short THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON’. D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, ALIEN SMUGGLERS REAP GOLDEN HARVEST PIERCING QUOTA FENCE Who Enter .. This is Article No. 3 of a series revenling the amazing operations of international smugglers who help thousands of alien un- desirabies to “crash America’s back gate.” BY NORMAN KLEIN. The quota says: “Four hundred and seventy-three Hungarians may enter the United States in a year.” Many more than 473 Hungarians ache to come here, to join relatives, to garner dollars in the Land of Dollars. In fact, there are 20,000 Hungarians on the quota waiting list. ‘This means that the last man in this queue pointing toward Ellis Island must count forty-two years before _the chance comes to sce Broadway. Will he_wait? Italy was unloading 250,000 of its citizens every year before the quota shut the gates. Now only 2,678 may come'in legally, Austria is allowed a quota of 785, but 16,000 have filed applications at American _ consulates. Seventy-five thousand Poles yearn to come over this vear, but only 5982 may do so. The quota law 344 Lithuanians may come in this year, but 12,200 would like to. Fifteen thousand of Dowager Queen Marie's countrymen seek to enjoy Am- erican hospitality, but only 603 Ru- manians may embark this’year, accord- ing to the immigration law. ‘While the Soviet is making a garden spot of Russia, at least 43,000 Russians are skeptical and feel that the United States is a better place to live in. Only 2,250 may do so during 1929 with the consent of this country. Thousands Defy U. S. Barrier. The quota, we see, is a bulwark against which many thousands of Euro- peans are crowding and shoving. The quota has put a fence around the U. S. A. But it's only a paper fence. From 100,000 to 175.000 aliens a year are scrambling through this paper fence about as easily as circus bareback riders jump through paper hoops. A considerable percentage are Europeans. Many are criminals, halfwits, the dis- eased bearers of disease. America’s ports were shut to them in the first restrictive law, May 19, 1821, but it was the 1924 law that made the smuggling of aliens a really profitable adventure—a big business, amounting to $7,500,000 to $10,000,000 a year. Foreign-born residents of Atlantic Coast cities, especially New York, Bos- ton, Philadelphia and Miami, are en- gaged in smuggling in countrymen, im- migration officials disclose. There are syndicates that make a business of it. Robe Carl White, Assistant Secretary of Labor, declared that immigration officers traced one conspiracy to bring 3,000 Rumanians into the United States. A hundred of them were slipped through the lines at Detroit and Buffalo before the ring was broken up. The aliens from Europe are smuggled in through Canada, Atlantic ports, the Gulf Coast and Mexico. With the finding of 21 New York- bound aliens aboard the steamship Car- nia, outward bound from Trieste, Fas- cist militia headquarters in Rome last year officially recognized the Atlantic trafic in smuggling Italians and an- nounced a round-up of one large orr ganized ring. Methods of Smugglers. ‘Two methods were used by the smug- glers, who had representatives soliciting business in many Italian cities. One was to falsify passports; the other was to put stowaways aboard ships with the connivance of ship's officers and crews. Skippers of the big transatlantic liners never have been accused of participat- ing in this smuggling, although the lines themselves are forced to pay pen- alties of $300 to $2,000 when aliens are caught at American ports and it is proved they came over on these lines. The smugglers involved in the ring exposed by the Fascist militia were sea- men, firemen and cooks aboard the ships. The ring collected from $850 to $1,000 from each emigrant. .Sometimes the emigrants are wedged in behind smokestacks and boilers, starved and finally nearly baked to death. So ‘well was the ring organized that code message were sent to ships to as- certain whether it was safe to smuggle men aboard at the next ports of call. Some Italians, eager to join relatives in the United States, take steamship passages to South American ports and o Cuba. From there they attempt to smuggle their way into the United States. ‘There are thousands of Ital- ians waiting their chance today to make the break for the land of liberty. How they make the Cuba-to-Florida range. > dash will be told in another article. Linoleums T/oe Great February HOME FURNISHING SALE continues ~ = ~ W. & J. SLOANE «The House with the Green Shutters” 709-711-713 TWELFTH STREET, N. W. * o WASHINGTON, D.C. STORE OPEN FROM 9 A. M. TO 5:30 P. M. DAILY INCLUDING SATURDAY ASSURANCE OF SATISFACTION CHARGE “Paper Barrier” Shattered by Thousands Illegally Through Routes of Organized Syndicates. Impatient to reach America, fretting at the quota that permits only a hand- ful of their countrymen to emigrate legally, hundreds of Poles, too, are easy victims these days of smugglers’ syndi- cates. American consuls abroad are waging a constant warfare on the conspirators. It was the American consulate general in Berlin which, a year ago this month, exposed a widespread plot to smuggle Poles and Lithuanians into New York. The Berlin police arrested the leader | of the gang and four accomplices. They are in prison now. Forged Passports Uncovered. This gang demanded $200 apiece | . from emigrants, then forged German passports which entitled the bearers to vises at the American consulates. Thus the plotters intended to get their cli- ents into the United States under the German quota. Their scheme failed_ because the American officials in Berlin became suspicious and obtained the aid of the police. Immigration officials here ad- mit that forged passports have admit- ted many aliens, At the instigation of American offi- cials the Jugoslavian Emigration De- partment is campaigning against the smuggling of aliens into the United States through Cubas The Jugoslavian government has exposed certain ship- ping agents which were co-operating witn the smuggling organization and charged that the smugglers promised to land the emigrants in desolate spots on the United States coast, but in some instances they threw their victims into the sea when Coast Guard vessels approached for a rum search. Portuguese, too, are striving to evade the quota and join the hundreds of tpousands of border jumpers. Four of hem made their way to Rio de Ja- neiro and paid $1,000 to stow on .a ship which landed at Philadelphia. They made their way to New York, where they were arrested by Patrolman Sx‘eorgleo !]?sonnerllyegef:u!e he didn’t like oks of eir - b M ‘foreign-looking Some of the persons smuggled in are refugees from European political per- secution, willing to endure hardships and risks to reach America, traditional haven of refugees. Plea Made for Refugees. In 1926, when the Government was deporting aliens at the rate of 700 a month and an annual cost of $900,000 —a total of 10,904 were deported that year—the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America sent .this protest to Senators and Representatives in Wash- ington: “Regarding the bill for the imme- diate deportation of all aliens illegally landed in the United States, we beg to remind you of the presence in America of many Italians, refugees who have escaped Mussolini persecution. “The deportation of any of them means sure death. We warmly appeal to the noble sentiments of American hospitality so generously bestowed on Garibaldi and Kossuth to uphold the magnificent traditions of the United States in preventing the deportation of political refugees.” I has been charged that Sicilian courts have given criminals the choice of banishment to a penal colony in the Adriatic or voluntary flight to the United States. These criminals prefer the adventure of border-jumping. Meanwhile the traffic in forged visas and passports goes on. The documents are sold for anywhere from $100 to $500. One scheme cropped out when seven Italians arrived on the North, German Lloyd steamship-Dresden.: "In- spectors challenged the validity of their papers. The men admitted having bought them. Shortly after four “visa customers” were taken off an Italian | SEE US FOR LUMBER MILLWORK PAINT HARDWARE BUILDING SUPPLIES COAL Whatever Your Needs Tallk With Us First! Small Orders Given Careful Attenti N "Delivers Gharge oniion J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia Ave. N. 1343 r—Millwork—Du _ Pont _Paints ardware — Building Supplies 7 steamship and four more arrived on the French liner Rochambeau. Arabs have been drawn into the il- legal trek to America. Four Arabs, na- tives of Palestine and British subjects, made their way to Tunis and gave $100 apiece to five French seamen who were members of the crew of a cargo boat. The Arabs were brought aboard the boat at night, and promised water and food until the boat came abreast the Statue of Liberty. The sailors in the plot warned their victims that they must jump overboard and swim to land to evade the drastic American immi- gration laws. After sailing for 48 hours the boat put in at Oran, North Africa. The Arabs were told that New York had been reached, the journey had been rapid and they must now jump in the water. The Arabs hesitated. The smugglers urged them, saying American immigra- tion officials were coming aboard. But the Arabs weren't as thick as all that. They'd seen pictures of the New York skyscrapers. ‘They _protested. And then the five seamen threw them into the sea. The half-drowned Arabs were rescued by a fishing boat. Equally ruthless are the agents of European smuggling syndicates ‘who op- erate in the foreign quarters of Ameri- can cities, soliciting fees from families who have relatives quota-bound in Eu- 'ope. ‘Their racket is sure-fire. They win either way, win or lose. 1f they do smuggle somebody’s brother or cousin or sister into the country, they can use this as an argument to drum up business among friends and neigh- bors. More, they can blackmail the relatives of the smuggled men—get a fancy price to keep quiet about what has happened. 1f they merely pocket the money paid to have some foreigners smuggled in, they can defy the ones who paid, be- cause such transactions are as far out- side the law courts as gambling debts. Operated From Montreal. The head of one smugglers’ ring had agents in Providence, R. I; Detroit, Boston, Chicago and New York. They canvassed foreigners who wanted to have relatives smuggled in from Europe. His program was to get the aliens into Canada and as far as Montreal and Furniture Fabrics SLOANE ENDORSED MER. CHANDISE CARRIES AN then undertake to sneak them across the border. His scheme worked for a long time, but the Canadian authorities put him out of business. s An international band of smugglers made Mexico City their headquarters in bringing Europeans to the United States. | They collected what they could get from the riffraff of Europe and dumped them into Mexico. The newcomers were “Americanized” there. Then in small groups they were shepherded across the Rio Grande. Many of these smuggled ones were drawn from Russia, Turkey, Syria, Poland and Rumania. They are not free, however, when they reach the United States. In fact, their slavery begins in this free land. They must pay month after month for their transatlantic adventures. They must pay heavy interest on their “debt.” And they must pay twice again in hush money. It would be very easy, you see, to send an anonymous letter to the im- migration authorities, and then what is to become of the poor smuggled one when an official appears at the factory or the little shop and asks for passport papers? More than one of the 1,000,000-odd aliens who entered the United States él]egally is living a life of mental tor- ure. ‘Through Mexico thousands of aliens from Europe and the Far East sneak across the American border—as told by Mr. Klein in article No. 4 tomorrow. Fair Group Elects Officers. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., February 13 (Special).—J. William Lloyd was elected president of the Martins- burg Fair Association at its annual meeting last night. Arthur C. Burns, Glenn M. Pitzer and Fenton Call were named vice presidents; L. D. Gerhardt was made secretary; Edward Rutledge, treasurer, and Joseph Eckhardt, man- ager. TR Girl Reserves to Meet. LYNCHBURG, Va., February 13 (Special) —Girl Reserves of Lynchburg, Richmond, Roanoke, Staunton and Danville, and Bluefield, W. Va. will hold a conference here April 19-21. 1929." HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER SOUGHT BY POLICE Autoist Injures Mrs. Evelyn Tibbs dnd Speeds Away—Others Hurt in Traffic Accidents. Police are searching today for the hit-and-run driver who knocked down | Mrs. Evelyn Tibbs, 28 years old, of 520‘ Hobart street, yesterday afternoon as she was crossing Columbia road at Georgia avenue. Mrs. Tibbs walked to her home, where she was treated by her family physician. | Mrs. Elizabeth Zanner, 43 years old, | of 1800 K street, sustained minor | bruises last evening when she was| struck by an automobile backing into the curb in front of 1113 Connecticut avenue. Miss Margaret Boune, 20 years | old, of Chevy Chase, Md, was driv-| ing the car. | Joseph Leonberger, 6 years old, of 3328 | N street, was knocked down by an auto- | mobile operated by Ollie G. Funk of | Ballston, Va., yesterday afternoon as {he ran in front of the car near his home. He was treated at Georgetown Hospital for lacerations to his head. Struck by an automobile as they were crossing Eleventh street at East Capitol street yesterday, Miss Bessie La Bille, 20 years old, and Miss Mary Le Bille, 23 years old, 1410 A street southeast. escaped with minor hurts. Both refused medical attention. Others reported slightly injured yes- terday and last night in tarffic acci- dents included Miss Elizabeth Beall, 30 years old, of 1002 Ninth street south- cast; Dorothy Webb, colored, 7 years old, and Eugene Desard, colored, 26 years old, of 1211 New Jersey avenue. g s S | Industrial Survey Completed. | LYNCHBURG, Va., February 13 (Special).—The industrial survey made | last_year by the Technical Advisory Corporation of New York City, has been reported to the Chamber of Commerce | and will be made public at a mass meeting Tuesday. 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