Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1931, Page 5

LIQUOR CONSPIRACY CHARGEDTO DOCTOR Dr. A. H. Lee Is Indicted by Jury With G, W. F. Boyd, Pharmacist. Dr. Adelbert H. Lee, a physician of Capitol Heights, Md., and George W. F. Boyd, a registered pharmacist employed by a chain drug store, were indicted to- day by the grand jury on a charge of conspiracy to violate the national pro- hibition act. It is charged that be- tween March 1, 1029, and March 1, 1931, the men conspired with other per- sons unknown to the grand jurors to sell liquor for beverage purposes. | In the indictment Boyd is thu-zed' with securing from Dr. Lee prescrip- tions for medicinal liquor in the names of different persons without these per- sons appearing before the physician for examination and selling the prescrip- tions to the persons named and later filling the prescriptions with full knowl- edge .that they had been illegally ob- tllned‘l.r ‘The md.\ctm!i':l'tm;ll?ne! :hll t:t: conspiracy contempl e commis- alofnpo! %’5 such offenses against the United States. First Degree Murder Charged. Murder in the first degree is charged | in two indictments against Benjamin | Brown and James Sawyer, both colored. Brown is sald to have shot to death Alice Brown, also colored, at 40}, Han- over street, March 21. Sawy:cr, who is also known as Georgia Boy, is accused of stabbing Jake Coleman, also colored, March 22, at 330 Missouri avenue, caus- i:m dh: death. He has not been appre- <1 Paul Alexander Clements, pop-gun bandit, is accused of an assault with in- tent to rob. Treat A. Newman, a taxi- cab driver, residing in Hyattsville, Md., declared that Clements hired his cab March 23 and told him to drive to Sixth street between L and M streets, where Clements produced” what the driver thought was a pistol and demanded money. Newman resisted and over- powered the alleged bandit only to find that it was a toy pistol. The alleged bandit was turned over to the police. Mrs. Maude Voss Indicted. Mrs. Maude E. Voss, 3126 Sixteenth street, is named defendant in an indict- ment charging false pretenses and em- bezzlement. She is said to have ob- ined several hundred dollars from . Minnie M. Dopp, 1115 Tenth cireet, by representing that she wes employed by & Bly of Detroit to sell silk to local merchants, for which she would be paid a commission of 50 . She also represented, it is ®.ated, that she could make more if uanities Tnusy Geveioped, 1 1 Ge- nf 3 jui vel , it 7 clared, there is no such firm in De- e Pplace is said to ve obtained $16 in money orders and $1 worth of stamps. Two Indictments Ignored. A touldo; 20 I.nwdmmenu _n‘;m Te- ant ‘were . e grand ors declined to indict Joseph F. Prye, er attendant at the National Sol- diers’ Home, in Virginia, where Michael on which a cured in the signed Higgins’ name to an a‘vpuelflon. but as he claimed authority from Higgins, the grand jurors would not indict. They also refused to indict Ralph Evans, who was accused of offering Po- liceman John E. O'Neill, fourth pre- cinct, $10 not to put a charge of pos- | session of liquor against him. Others indicted and the charges against them are: Thomas HeClatterbuck, David Henry Gould, James Franklin Butler, William ‘T. Walsh and Joseph James Joholski, | non-support of minor children; Lou D. ‘Mayhugh, forgery and utterin, William Sylvester Wells (two cases), depredation; James W. Gray, house. breaking and larceny; Johnnie Smith, | alias Willlam H. Merrill, alias John Smith, smoke screen; Emma Benthol, | Marie Smith and Inez Means, grand larceny, and Willlam Hamilton, rob- Retiring STROTHER LEAVING HOOVER'S “OFFICIAL FAMILY.” FRENCH STROTHER. French Strother, author and editor, who has been identified with the Presi- dent's co-called secretariat since the nning of the Hoover administration, will retire to private life on June 1. In making this announcement today, President Hoover said he regretted to lose the services of so valuable an as- sistant, but he understood that the time Mr. Strother joined his official | ST8U family it would be for only two years. | Until a_successor has been appointed his work will be carried on by Theodore G. Joslin, newspaper correspondent, who was recently appointed secretary to suc- ceed George Akerson. Mr. Strother’s functions at the White House consisted of research work for the President, principally in connection with the preparation of speeches and messages. He generally was referred to as the President’s literary assistant. At the time he was drafted by the Presi- dent Mr. Strother was editor of World's Work Magazine, of which he is one of the owners. He had been identified in magazine work for a number of yrs and is the author of several books. It is his intention upon leaving the White House to return to writing. 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The unusual move was necessitated, the Democratic members said, to avoid a constitutional tangle when the new police force bill, which was passed by ‘t’he Hlouu last night, goes into effect une 1. Raule Suspension Necessary. As the time for introducing bills ex- pired last Friday, it was necessary to obtain .a suspension of the rules to in- troduce the repealer. Delegate Kent R. Mullikin, chairman of the delegation, moved for the sus- pension shortly after the House con- vened last night, and after Delegate Oliver Metzrott, Republican floor leader, ed against the motion. The Demo- crats won their point by vote of 82 to 25. A two-thirds vote, or a total of 79 mended by the Republican sheriff of the county, as well as their own ap- Wm under the new law. svfucn ity police force for two months,” Delegate Mullikin replied that from 1776 to 1927, when the present police force went into :flm. the county did not have a police force. ‘The result of the repeal of the exist-| ing police force law would be to leave the county under the old constable sys- tem of policing for two months, Dele- gate Mullikin said. Delegate Charles C. Marbury also explained the necessity for having the bill introduced. Delegate Mullikin said off the floor that, the delay in introducing the bill had been caused by the fact the dele- in’ the present make-up of the House | %% is necessary to suspend the rules. Delegate Mullikin explained in aski | for the suspension that the pending bill, creating a new force of 11 men in the county, under the supervision of a chief of police rather than the sheriff, would go_into effect June 1. 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