Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1931, Page 6

A6 T 2 TORGHES 0N 1| CAPONE CLUB SAFE ! U. S Agents Raid Cabaret as ¥§ ° Guests Break Bottles f & - on Floor. CHICAGO, March 12.—Federal pro- hibition agents early today raided the Cotton Club of Ralph Capone in Suburban. Cicero, -.and used acty- Jene torehes in an effort to open the safe in an effort to obtain records for ! _use in their investigation of the lquor =°The raid ftself, was the upshot of a vious visit to the club by Roy Budd nd Dan 'Copely,. Federal, prohibition officers, who were sitting in front of ‘the place March 5 in an automobile fwhen accosted by an unknown gunman ‘and Jack Karron, the club’s doorman. % Despite the fact that they revealed their ! pdsntities, ‘Budd and Copely said they ] mgre taken to the Cicero police head- Q ers. They were subsequently re- Jeased after charging Karron with in- ‘terfering with Federal officers. § Liquor Bottles Broken. 4 This morning Budd and ly led 2 Squad of Federal officers into the club. “They reported they found a half dozen iguests, the chorus girls and orchestra attered over the club. The guests ipromptly broke half a dozen botties of gquor opathe floor, but there was no i other. confusion. & | Wfter releasing the guests and mem- . &% of the chorus and orchestra, the § pfficers began & methodical raid of the lace for liguor and other evidence. [ R Combination Refused. ‘When Manager Jacob Spielman re- i to give them the combination to 3 safe, they decided to try to burn it Ralph Capone is a brother of Al- phonse Capone, the gang chief, who by a Federal judge.for contempt of ‘murt. growing out of his fallure to ? respond to summons of a grand jury L4 v;?en ‘was investigating incomes two. ' ‘ars 4go. Ralph Capone is under sen- tence for:an alleged income' tax viola- £1 tion, but has appealed the case. , . Records Are Seised. 4! 'Whén the sife was later opened, a #§ number of "records were seized and { taken at once to the Federal Building. . The Cotton Club was operating under £ a’ temporary Federal injunction, issued 4 bysdudge Wilkerson May 14, 1930, which ;1 vented raids unless there was def- ¥ inite ‘evidence of law violation. Federal ; officials sidestepped the injunction by : entering the place on a John Doe war- £ ! rant. After discovering liquor, they 1 said ‘were free to move about the ; Club as y wished, since the evidence ¢ of liguor would prove law violation. - | CORRESPONDENT T0 TALK { N BUSSIAN PROBLEM "Paul Scheffer Will Address Foreign Servite Students at George- 4 @ town University. 2 % Poul _Scheffer, German newspaper “orrespondent and-one of the leading authorities on present-day conditions in and matters of governmental will deliver an address tonight Georgetown University School of wSecently was sentenced to six months is W n cotre- now for ‘the er Tage- for sewen years represented persiat Moscow. His ad- given before the Seminar vsky, who has been ‘Walsh for several years j in studies of the Russian question, “wrhich 18 now one of the most important issues in American foreign affairs. * Mgny. Scotch Pews Empty. Teaders in Scotland are be- alarmed over the decline in . Congregations . le of seating 500 or 600 xhhmm‘g-cpe‘bylle:‘acm. predicted & number places wa Wip must beolosed for lack of Town Meet to Rule Whether Bereaved Cow Moos Legally foothills %, if possible, whether & cow can moo legally. A cow, which had lost its calf, had noying A. G. Goodier in stilmess of (ht. neighbors ined to the city attorney, which began to draw an ordinance to silence the cow. Other residents objected, claim- ing a precedent would be estab- lished and soon dogs couldn't bark, cats couldn’t mew, and that would be cruelty to animals. So a town meeting was called. LITTLEPAGE TO DIRECT MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN |Chamber of Commerce Launches - Second Year's Drive in Five- ‘Year Expansion Plan. Thomas P. Littlepage was named general director for the second year’s fram inunched yesterday by dhe Exsen unched yes y by, - tive oomu;imr the Washington Chambef of ree. It was pointed out by President Harry King that the first year's drive for increased membership, conducted last Fall, exceeded by almost 10 per cent the objective set prior to the open- ing of the campaign. King predicted that this year’s goal would be reached without difficulty. Harry T. Peters and E. Ewaldson were placed directly in charge of the campaign organization. The regular monthly meeting of the | chamber, March 31, will be dedicated to the movement to beautify and clean up ‘Washington for 1932 and to the Bicen- tennial. The movement will be con- ducted in under the auspices of the District Committee on Employment. . ENDURANCE MARK SOUGHT IN OIL-BURNING PLANE Flyers in Air 24 Hours Will Try for Non-Refueling Rectord Held by Frenchman. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 12.— After being in the air 24 hours, Walter Lees and Frederick Brossy, Packard Motor Co. pilots, announced this morn- ing they would seek to break the non- refueling endurance record of 75 hours and 23 minutes made-March 1 by two Prench fiyers. ‘The airmen went aloft at 8:22 a.m. yesterday to make fuel tests. Their plane i§ propelled by an oil-burning engine. This is the first attempt to set an endurance record with an oil-burning motor, Lees sald in a note he dropped on the beach. Their take-off yesterday, it was an- nounced, was observed sociation and the Federation Aeronau- tique Internationale. ARRESTED AS DRUNK, FORMER ACTRESS DIES Jury Finds Death From Natural Causes in Case of Alma Stan- lgy, 76. By the Associated revealed yesterday at an lest on the death of Mrs. Alice Porter, formér Alma Stanley, who .| for 30 years plaved on the stages of London and New York. 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