Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1931, Page 5

53 ARE INDICTED Husbands Trade Wives THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 21, SLAYING OF MINER IN ALCOHOL RING Industrial Product Is Named. | Government Charges Con- spiracy in Six States. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, Md., July 20.—Indict- ments charging 53 corporations and sons with conspiracy to violate the| Prohibition laws were returned here yesterday by a Federal grand jury after | extensive and costly investigation. | Return of the indictments, naming persons in New York, New Jersey, Dela- ware, Maryland, Michigan and = Ohio, brought to an end the investigation started in August, 1929, following the| seizure here of three huge stills, used | for cracking and re-distilling commer- cial alcohol for beverage purposes. 130 Appear. More than 139 witnesses, including Prohibition _ Director 2mos W. W. Woodcock, Dr. James M. Doran, former | director and officials of the attorney general's office appeared before the in- quest, which was reported to have cost the Government $500,000. Included in those indicted were the United States Industrial Alcohol Co., and its subsidiary, the United States Industrial Chemical Cc., of West Vir- ginia, and Maryland, said to be the Jargest industrial alcohol company in! the country Also indicted was Al H. Jaffee, slain a T » ago in gang warfare in| nd, said to be the cutgrowth of uor’ activities. i ents charced a vast con- | d in 1927 which went to | th of forming corporations for . purchase of industrial alcohol, so | that it could resell the product to other | companies and individuals for conver- | sion into beverage channels. Indictments Listed. Those indicted are as follows: Mrs. Spotswood is the former Senior, the latter named twice. it was accomplished by mutual The American Oil & Supply Co., New- | ark, N. J., and William Ulrich, sales ' Pomona, Calif, were—and are—neighbo; manager The American Solvents & Chemical CALIFORNIA NEIGHBORS ACT UNDER NEVADA LAWS. e Industrial Chemical Co., R. AND MRS. F. L. STEVENS (above) and Mr. and Mrs. George B. York: Joseph J. Darvin, president; | Spotswood (below). Mrs. Stevens is the former Mrs. Spotswood and Levine, Nate Scharlin and Harry and by the laws of the State of Nevada. wood's children—and the new Mrs. Spotswood keeps Steven's children. STIRS GOAL FIELD Worker Accused of Killing! Striker—Guard Increased Against Mob. By the Associated Press. \ ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohlo, July 21.— Ohlo’s coal mine strike soction here- | abouts seethed with excitement today | over the first killing in the many weeks |of the strike's disorders. The victim, ! | Willlam Simon, 16, was shot late v | terday during a clash between work- i ing and striking miners ut the Gaylord mine near Martins Ferry. Simon, & member of the National Miners' Union, which is directing the strike in Belmont, Jefferson and Far- rison Counties, was struck by a bullet fired from an automobile in which three other miners were going to Work. Miner Is' Held. Joseph Peterlin, 43, one of the miners in the auto, was arrested by Sherifl Howard A. Duff in connection with the shooting and was held in jail hrre to- day pending a coroner’s verdict. Peterlin told officers he open fire with a revolver after stones were hurled at the auto as it was driven through a line of 40 striking miners on picket duty near the mine. He said he did not know he had shot any one, how- ever, until he was arrested at his home. Several hours later, when a crowd of 500 persons milled about the city jail at Yorksville in the belief Peterlin was within, Sheriff Duff increased the | guard at the county jail to make cer- tain the prisoner would be safe from violence. Deputies Kept B Earlier in the day, 250 alleged strikers from Jefferson County marched upon_ several Belmont mines, breaking a 10-day period of quiet. Sheriff’s deputies dispersed them however. In Jefferson County, five members of an alleged group of strikers were ar- rested after they were accused of ston- ing working miners. Deputies used tear gas to scatter the strikers. MINER SHOT BY SNIPER. 61 Strikers Held in West Virginia Town Mrs. Stevens. It sounds perplexing, but consent of the men and women involved The two couples, residing in rs. The new Mrs. Stevens keeps Spots- —A. P. Photo. rporation of Delaware and Maryland 1 the American Solvents & Chem. ical Sales Corporation of Delaware, Ar- | thur P. Jell. New York, vice president of both, and John J. Butler, New Yorx, | a salesman. | | The Baltimore Paint & Color Works, | Delegates Gather Tomorrow Baltimore. Sirup Products, Incorporated, New as Reorganization Plan Is Prepared. York, and Roessler & Hassleacher, New York, William L. Due. and Walter Spreckles, officials of the former com- "he Glidden Co., manufacturers. The Southern Lacquer Co., Baltimore and Aaron A. FEisenbergs, and Ben- jamin N. Eisenberg, present and former officials. william 8. former man & Color Worl Norman_ Paul, New York, and Gra- ) T. Soresi, Copaque, Long Island, Cleveland, paint Hatten, Lansing, Mich., ger of the Lansing Paint National aviation leaders from all (parts of the United States will begin Chemical Companies Named. 2] Chemical Works, Bittman and H. W. J. | morrow for the first convention of the National Aeronautic Association to be held in the Capital and the first ever N. J. held apart from the national air races. Chemical Co., Inc. | A plan for reorganization of the as- y N. J. and David | sociation has been drawn by a special Morris B. Kaplus, Harry | committee and will be called up for ac- all of Newark. tion Thursday afternoon. The associa- and James Francis, | tion also is expected to act on recom- , | mendations to Congress for new five- v Senior, | year aircraft building programs for the and Mickael Stein: | Army and Navy. niamin Fridman 2nd WIlAT | Registration Begin Tomorrow. and Albert M. All resolutions to be introduced dur- City | ing the convention will come before the t7 and Sons, New York, dealers board of governors at a meeting to- Ad the successor corpora- | MOrTow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the in Chemical Co. and Max | association headquarters at Dupont w York | Circle. The registration of delegates J. Jaffe, Barnett, t2. N th Hudson Chemical Co., Inc.. New |is to begin at the Mayflower Hotel at | ¥ and Rudolph Lesser, its presf 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. dent, and John A. MacGruer, secretary, | The opening business session will be- b of Albanv. | gin at the Mayflower at 9:30 Thursday he United States Industrial Aleohol | morning. t 12:30 th> delegates will o | be received by President Hoover. ness sessicns will be resumed at 2.30 v of West Virginia and Baltimore. The United States Industrial Chemi- cal Co., Baltimore. | Thursday afterncon. “orge Bernstein. New York: Louis| The annual banquet will be h:ld at Fredella, Joseph Jenkins and Fred Sani, | 7:30 Thursday evening in the Mayflower Bavonne, N. J. | with Capt. Frank M. Hawks, world fa- No date was set for arraignments of | mous American speed flyer, as a guest those_indicted, that the trials would be held in Octo- | G. Ray, autogiro pilot. ber or November. Trophy to Be Presented. PROBE TOOK TWO YEARS. | Charles L. Lawrance, president of the = g Acronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, also will be a speaker at the banquet. Grover Loening will present the Loening Intercollcgiate Fiying Club Trophy to the Harvard Flying Club, ad- Judged the foremost college flying unit in the country. Sumner Foster will re- celve the trophy for the club. Senator i Hiram Bingham will be toastmaster. | At 9 o'clock Friday morning the dele- gates wil be taken cn a sight-seeing ! tour. At 2 o'clock Friday afternoon the final business session will be held. Delegates will leave by steamboat at 6:30 pm. Friday for Langley Field, Hampton, Va., to inspect the labora- tories of the National Advisory Com- mittee for Aeronautics. G. Aaron Youngquist Active in Investi- gation. Federal agents had been engaged for more than two years investigating per- | sons involved in_the alcohol conversion | ring, against whom indictments were returned vesterday in_Baltimore, it was announced by Howard T. Jones, acting | prohibition administrator. Much of the investigation, Jones said, had been under the direction of G Acron Youngquist, assistant attorn geoneral in charge of prohibition, who was in Baltimore yesterday. Floriculturist to Speak. HYATTSVILLE. Md., July 21 (Spe- | cial).—Albert Behnke, Beltsville, flori~ culturist, will address the monthly | NANKING, July 21 (#).—Say it in meeting of the Hyattsville Horticultural | Chinese. That is the fiat of the gov- Socicty. Thursday night at the home of | €ment to merchants. Business men and Mrs. John Harlan, Riverdale. | Who use foreign languages in their signs, . R. N. Eggleston and Miss billboards or posters are li2ble to a 11 assist the hosts. Teprimand for being unpatriotic. Foreign Language Taboo. @ WASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORE @ GHOICEOF THE HOUSE! $35, $30 and s25 Sports Coats BY HART SCHAFFNER & MARX ble breasted. Belted or $10 WHITE FLANNELS AND STRIPE-SERGE TROUSERS... $6. 85 RALEIGH HABERDASHER 1310 F Street A Genuine camel hairs, imported gabardines, flannels and cheviots. Browns, tans, blues and greens. Single and dou- gathering in _the National Capital to- | Busi- | but officials intimated | of honor. Another speaker will be Jnm:‘s‘ While Marching to Ohio. WHEELING, W. Va., July 21 (®).— Snipers fired upon miners cntering the | McKinleyville Mine of the Pittsburgh | [Py & West Virginia Coal Co., near Wells- urg today, wounding one of the miners b | " The man shot was William Thomp- |son. He was struck in the shoulder. | | Fifty men were about to enter the | | | workings when bullets began spattering around them, apparently being fired | | from nearby wooded slopes. About 40 shots were fired. The miners scattered Steps Aside to Give City Clear | for cover. i G Sheriff Irwin Charnock organized a | Path in Two-Million posse of deputy sheriffs and a close search of the surrounding hills was Board Probe. begun. The mine was affected by a strike about a month ago, but resumed opera- tions last week with all its former em- | By the Associated Press. ployes. . o . Sixty-one striking miners and their NEW YORK, July 21.—The Federal | sympathizers were halted in Wellsburg Government stepped aside today to give | this morning while marching to Steub- Ve y oy | €nville, Ohio, for a mass rally of investigators of New York City a clear | g yeers The marchers were herded into path in their attempt to find out with | the square facing the jail at Wells whom a former horse doctor spiit | burg and kept there by armed deput $2,000,000. sheriffs pending filing of charges against On motion of Federal Attorney | ™ Medalie, an indictment charging income tax evasion against Dr. William F. ovle was quashed in Federal Court. Dr. Doyle, after his retirement as a | fize department veterinarian, was un- | usuatly successful in representing clients before the City Board of Standards and Appeals. He has consistently refused £ TNCER RSSO whom' he spitt | o §i ¢ that o fire bug may sgain be at The move was to deprive Dr. Doyle |12rge in this community was expresse of any claim that Questioning by a | by local residents today following a fire legislative committee investigating New |in the garages of Mayor Harmon o. York's government might interfere with | Acuff and George N. Palmer. his defense in the Pederal case. Although the flames did little dam- | "'Dr. Doyle was expected to bs brought | age, Seat Pleasant firemen, who extin- before the legislative inquiry later in |guished them, declared they apparently the day. | were of incendiary origin. | “As the first public hearing in the | city investigation got under way today, testimony was advanced to show Dr. [ Doyle deposited more than a million | dollars from 1923 until his accounts | were examined a few days ago by in- vestigators. The testimony was given by bank | | clerks. Fire Bug Again Feared as Seat Pleasant Buildings Are Ignited. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. JEAT PLEASANT, Md, July 21— BUTLER-FLYN ' P-A-I-N-T-S 607-609 C St. | POWER RATES TO BE CUT Paimteithie | Kansas Commission Informed of | 70 wire of all the Plan Affecting 27 Cities. ecreens in a 7- room house. TOPEKA, July 21 (#)—The Public| Does not | Service Commission was informed ves- | terday the Kansas Utilitles Co., which | | serves electricity to 27 citles in South- | | eastern Kansas_countics, would reduce | | rates, effective September 1. | Thurman Hill, member of the com- | mission, said the reductions would rep- | Tesent & saving of 15 per cent to cus- | tomers. The commission recently requested | electric utilities ti make reductions in their schedules in keeping with present | REPEATED BY DEMAND! %, Lawn Mowers 16-Inch All-Steel $7.95 Ball-Bearing Mower S Other Styles and Sizes Are REDUCED Proportionately If You Need a Lawn Mower, NOW Is the Time to Buy One—And SAVE UP TO 25%! MAIN FLOOR Special Sale of WMEfiflitfilfiflfiifififi | female. Barber & Ross, Inc. 11th and G Sts. N.W. Store Hours, Daily—7:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Saturdays—7:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. ! 1931, Science Female Birds Form Van- guard in Migrations. PLOT ON NEIGHBOR Charles Lam Takes Stand at Trial of Tussell Eppard at Harrisonburg. The strange impulse to travel which sends birds on their long migrations north and south with the seasons af- fects the females first, according to the British naturalist, Noble Rollin, in a communication to the Naturalist, London, He shot at random last Fall birds arriving to Winter in the British Isles. Those killed fell into 11 families, 6 common land_birds and 6 sea birds and waders. During October and No- vember the victims were predominantly During December and Janu- ary they were predominantly male. He c-ncludes that as a general rule | females form the vanguard in migra- tions, while the males show a tendency to lag behind, starting south only when conditions in the Summer home be- come unendurable. T. R. H. (Copyright, 1931.) Speclal Dispatch to The Star. HARRISONBURG, Vi, July 21— Defense witnesses continued today in Rockingham Circuit Court to build up evidence that Tusscll Eppard, 32, had nothing to do with th: shooting to ceath of Robert Davis, 56, at Furnace, in Northeast Rockingham, last April. | Charles Rufus Lam, 24, deserter from the United States Army, who was sen- tenced to life in prison for the shoot- ing, testifid at the opening of the trial vesterday that he was inspired to kil Davis by Eppard, who wished to have the widowed father of nine children put out of the way. Lam testified that he was a friend of Davis, had nothing against him and would not have killed him if Eppard had not made him drunk and per- suaded him that he should protect the honor of his younger sister, whom Davis CHICAGO ASSURED OF FAR'S SUGGESS 7 i . . . . 773 H | b fore the shooting, but Lam admitted City, in Financial Difficulties, | that he ana Davis were alone at the Abl Pay | 933 tme of the fatal attack. After the shooting Lam went to Eppard and asked e to ay for ] him to accompany him to surrender to o officers. Exposition. Lam said this was part of the plan arranged by Eppard. Davis was shot —_ five tim<s at such close range his cloth- Ll e at Lam' CHICAGO, July 21.—A world's fair, | ¢sstimony Involving Eppard is based on assured of adequate financing two years | a grudge because' Eppard had been before its doors open is the unusual acll\’e with law enforc ment officers in e e | 2IT5508 Lam on several occesions. Lam ecle offered by Chicago in thC| genied he had any grudge against Ep- midst of many civic financial worries. | pard and insisted that he was drunk This promise of a deficitless century at the time. of progress exposition in 1933 is made e by Gen. Charles G. Dawes, Ambassador Dy e A neat | AIRSHIP'ONYFOURTHVISTT a n&onlh seeing to it that Chlc’ago avoids the pitfalls into which previous " O | Army Craft Here on Practice Cruise ‘The Ambassador has set off for Eng- land to get in on the play to solve Ger- fiscal troubles, leaving his in Training Program. A strenuous training program for \he Rufus C. Dawes, president of |19th Airship Company, Lengley PField, the exposition, in a position to push the | Hampton, Va. inaugurated with the enterprise without financial worry. |recent acquisition from Scott Pield, ML, of a TC type non-rigid Army airship, In Advanced Stage. | today brought the airship to 'wzshmlg- The whole project “is forging ahead |ton for its fourth visit in two weeks. into the advanced stage. Four of the|Capt. Lester T. Miller, Army Air Corps, fair buildings already are .constructed, | was the pilot on today's practice cruise. Toilet and a fifth is under way. Pledges have $1 450 3 Outfit 14% been received from a number of the country’s leading industries %o par- Special for July Regular ticipate on a large scale, and General $20 Value Motors Co. has just announced a $1.- 000,000 appropriation to be expended on a building and exhibits, Besides, many of the most interesting features of the exposition are the per- manent _institutions _along _Chicago's lake front, including the new $10,000,000 Rosenwald Museum of Science and Ins dustry, nearing the stage where exhibits will be installed. “Of the $10.000,000 bonds cf the cen- tury of progress,” said Gen. Daw $6.555,000 have been sold without i dividual or corporation guarantees. The remaining $3.445,000 are secured by i dividual and corporation guarantees.” Doubled 1893 Fund. Gen. Dawes pointed out that Chicago already has contributed nearly double the amount given for the 1893 Colum- bian Exposition But while able to finance a fair, the city s:ill finds itself struggling with mu- nicipal finances in a tangle that will take the State Legislature to unravel. By keeping the approaching exposition under strictly private management t pitfalls of politics have been avoided. (Copyright. 1931.) New White Vit- reous Tank and Bowl with Ma- hogany Seat. Outfit With White Seat, $15.45 . 2! Prison Teachers Recognized. SAN RAFAEL, Calif., July 21 (®).— Stat> teachers' certificates have been issued to the 40 members of the faculty | of San Quentin. They have charge of the educaticn of their 3,000 fell-w con- victs. The certificates expire with their | sentences. ! - EISEMAN’S Seventh and F Sts. N.W. ANY PALM BEACH SUIT IN THE STORE that formerly sold for $16.50 ROCKBOTTOM PRICES ) 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-|5™& H Sts. N.E. DOWNTOWN-6™&C Sts. S.W. BRIGHTWOOD-5925Ga. 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