Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1935, Page 5

NUMBERS GAME DONS NEW GARB Treasury Figures and Mails Used in Latest Gaming )Scheme. Lieut. George Little, chief of the special investigations squad, instructed his men today to take the trail of a syndicate operator operating e num- bers game here on the pattern of a high-class investment house. N Laying aside the tin-horn methous | of the old-fashioned numbers oper- ator, who collected nickels, pennies, and dimes from his clients, the latest entry in the gambling lists here has set up a mailing svst~= whereby clients are edvicu of winnings and losings vu a weekly basis. Instead of race track numbers— totals of the first three races at any given track—the new operation en- tails figures from the Treasury De- partment. Enticing Illustrations Given. Lieut. Little was advised of this new form of the numbers game Sat- urday after several of his friends had received letters from the numbers syndicate. In an effort to drum up business, the new syndicate mailed “The Em- pire Treasury Card” to prospects. The card shows what might have been won had certain numbers been played. The numbers shown are for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day and Friday of last week. They are 70,335, 81,363, 67,522 and 83,937. All these figures were taken from the Treasury balance. A 50-cent ticket on Monday's number, 70,335, would have returned $1,100—so the state- ment avers. A 25-cent ticket on the same number would have brought back $500. Consolation Prizes Offered. As an extra, added “come-on,” the syndicate promises consolation prizes. Thus, if a person held one number above 70,335—70,336—he would have received $100. The same amount is posted for the number under 70,335, or 70,334, Nicely printed and accurately tabu- | lated, the new “form sheets” are mailed to customers and prospective customers. It is believed that the postal authorities will be called into the case, though Lieut. Little thinks it will be difficult to get a convic- tion under these laws, since it must be specifically proved that the mails are being used to defraud. “It just makes a little more work for us,” Lieut. Little said today. WOMAN CHALLENGES SPELLING CHAMPION Miss Louise Dunwell and Willard B. Smith to Compete at Mount Pleasant Library. A woman has dared to challenge the man champion speller of the Capital City Spelling Club, and the spelling bee will take place at the Mount Pleasant Library Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Louise Dunwell of 1507 Lamont street is the challenger, who wil match her ability at putting letters together in the manner acceptable to Noah Webster, against the champion- ship reputation of Willard B. Smith club champion. A contest for children of the sixth and seventh grades also will be con- ducted the same night, according to E. C. Helm of the club. Admission is free. AIRMAIL DECISION UPHELD, BUT ACTION IS RULED BREACH (Continued From First Page.) — e contracts. The suits were filed in an effort to restrain enforcement of the cancellation order. After holding that the applications for an injunction were properly dis- missed by the lower court because the complainants had a “remedy at law afforded by & suit in the Court of Claims,” the opinion of the Appellate Court stated: “What has occurred in these cases amounts to a breach of the contracts by the Postmaster General, Whether properly or improperly breached can- not be determined in this action, but remains to be established in the ap- propriate action at law.” Associate Justice William Hitz filed & notation stating he concurred in the decree, but not in the opinion of | the court. ‘The Government was represented in the case by United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett and his assistants, David A. Pine and John D. Fihelly, while Attorney William J. Donovan appeared for the airline companies. —_— CARTER GIVEN POSITION George H. Carter, former public printer, has been appointed assistant to the president of the Lanston Mono- type Co., Philadelphia, and entered upon his new duties today. Mr. Carter will retain his home here at 1661 Crescent place, returning each week end. Carter, appointed under President Harding, was succeeded in July by August E. Giegengack. —_ Will Lecture on Greece. Miss Florence A. Stone, former resi- dent of Greece, will give an illustrated lecture on “Rural Greece” at the Women's City Club tomorrow at 4:45 pm. Mrs. William L. Corbin, book m&mm, will introduce Miss EDUCATIONAL. MOUNT IPUEASANT SCHOOL — o FATHER ANDREW SERMATIUK, Pastor of the Ukranian Greek Catholic Church at Oshawa, Ontario, shown with the wife and two children he must give up to retain his church post. He married when it was customary for priests to have wives. bishop has suspended him until he can gomply with the no-family rule. Family or Pulpit Must Go Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO INEW DEAL SCORES TOWNSEND'S PLAN Head of President’s Group Says It Might Bring Inflation. By the Assoclated Press. The administration smashed vigor- ously today at the Townsend $200-a- month old-age pension plan, telling a house committee that it would “stop all business” and probably bring “wholesale inflation.” A statement to that effect was sub- mitted to the Ways and Means Com- mittee by Dr. Edwin E. Witte, execu- tive director of the President’s com- mittee on economic security. It fol- lowed by only a few days authorita- tive word that the President had no intention of permitting an increase in the $15 a month limit on the Fed- eral 'Government’s share of old-age pensions provided in the administra- tion social security bill. Now his CLOUDS SCREEN FOLPS OF SUN Scientists, However, Say‘ Little Could Have Been Added to Data. By the Associated Press. The sun and moon staged one of their infrequent spectacles Sundny,j a partial eclipse, but the spectators | were scant. Although fog and cloud$ of varying density obscured the phenomenon over most of the Nation, scientists were not disgruntled, for little would have been added to scientific data, they said, even if visibility had been of the best. The moon obscured 40 per cent of the sun at the climax during the morning. Only in sections around St. Louis, was the eclipse reported as clearly visible, and in other scattered sections glimpses of the occurrence were visible. Y Philadelphians were able (o see the eclipse with the naked eye when thin clouds dimmed the brilliance of the solar body at the climax of the event, and in Atlanta, Ga. cbservers saw the moon blot a niche from the sun, but haze clouded full vision. New York, Chicago and Boston alike were overcast by skies impen- etrable for study of the spectacle Harvard University astronomers took one photograph and observers at Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wis., were accorded a brief flash. Even in sunny California, the phenomenon. Astronomers, who classed the eclipse as “unimportant,” | expressed little disappointment be- cause of adverse weather conditions. From Dr. Philip Fox, director of the Adler Planetarium at Chicago, came the heartening information that another identical eclipse will be visi- ble in “18 years plus 10!z days.” CONCEALED BY CLOUDS. Local Astronomers Get Only Fleeting View of Eclipse. A partial eclipse of the sun, sched- uled to have been visible in Washing- ton beginning at 10:21 a.m. yesterday, was concealed by a heavy curtain of | clouds, so that local astronomers got only a fleeting view of the phe- | nomenon. — BULLET WOUND FATAL Colored Man Dies at Hospital 7| Hours After Fight. Clarence Yancey, 29, colored, of the 2000 block of Sherman avenue, died last night in Freedmen’s Hospital from a bullet wound in the chest received during a fight with another colored man, seven hours earlier, in the 2200 block of Eighth street. Police shortly afterward arrested Albert Preston, 38, colored, 2200 block of Eighth street, and held him for Recalls Business Tax, Witte’s statement was received as Dr. F. E. Townsend, author of the $200 plan, appeared before the House committee for cross-examination. Recalling that the Townsend plan calls for a 2 per cent tax on all busi- ness transactions, Dr. Witte told the committee: | “If there does not result from this plan a very great increase in incomes and in the money value of transac- tions, the promised pension cannot possibly be paid for any length of time without wholesale inflation.” Says Tax Inadequate, Besides that, he added, the tax would have to be 6 per cent to supply the $24,000,000,000 a year he esti- mated would be necessary to take care of 8,000,000 persons over 60. “The inflation and duplicate taxa- tion involyed in the plan,” Witte con- tinued, “will cause prices to soar, and soon, even with $200 per month, | the pensionioners will not be better | off than they were before, while those | below 60 will be immeasurably worse off. The Townsend plan is one which arouses great hopes, but actually will give the old people little or nothing.” Eclipse ST. LOUIS GETS VIEW OF PHENOMENON. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. The partial eclipse of the sun, as it looked from St. Louis, where observers saw about a fifth of the sun’s surface blotted out by the moon. The picture was made shortly after 10 a.m., when the oc- cultation was greatest. 1 the - 5 | overcast skies prevented a view of | action of the coroner in eonnection with the shooting. COFFEE SALE One of the outstanding features in our Stores this week—the opportunity to try these famous blends—The People’s Choice. Special prices will be an added inducement for many homemakers to discover real coffee goodness. A superb blend of specialy selected South Amierican Coffees. Freshly ground to your order at the time of purchase. DR. HUGO JUNKER DIES; FAMED PLANE INVENTOR | COURSE DESIGNED TOCUT ACCIDENTS Life-Saving Teachers to Be| Given Red Cross Instruc- tion Thursday. By the Associated Press. DESSAU, Germany, February 4— Dr. Hugo Junker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer, died last night on his 76th birthday anniversary. His death occurred in a Munich hospital, where he recently had undergone an oper- | ation. Dr. Junker would have celebrated today the twenty-fifth anniversary of | the day on which he was granted a patent on his first metal motor plane. The celebrated German inventor, whose aircraft and engines are in use e all over the world, retired from active " | participation in his business about D. Melville Carr, field representative two years ago: | of the life saving corps of the -Ameri- can Red Cross, will conduct a one- day special training course for water safety teachers at the ~Ambassador Hotel swimming pool Thursday, it was announced today. The instruc- | tion course ‘Thursday is part of the Nation- wide campaign against water ac- cidents, which has been carried out by the Red Cross over a period of 20 years. and is designed to bring to the teachers the latest methods for prevention of water ac- cidents and what to do when they occur, Carr said. ] Through the annual roll call, the Red Cross brings these courses of in- struction to the teachers without ad- | ditiongl charge. Members of the life- | saving staff visit every State each| year, covering the important swim-| ming centers at least every two years | A course for examiners who have | not reviewed during the past two{ years, and for senior life savers, who | wish to become examiners, will be| announced soon, Carr said. School 1,200 Years 0ld. Cathedral School at Canterbury, the oldest English school in the world, has an unbroken record of more than 1,200 years. D. Mellville Carr. wheels and auxiliary springs. available Reg. 23c New 1935 Ford V-8 cab and chassis with dual cost, in use as a tractor unit with semi-trailer. Hauptmann Witnesses Termed D. C. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1935. “Phoneys” by Attorney General Wilentz Had Opportunity to Study Pasts of Those Defense—Plans Testifying for Trip to Florida. BY ANNE GORDON SUYDAM. Special Dispatch fo The Star. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 4 — One after one surprise witnesses for the defense come to the stand under the conjuring hand of Mr. Reilly. He seems to have grubbed for some of them under moldy logs and in damp caves. - One after one they are revealed by the blistering tongue of Mr. Wilentz as nightmare figures, while Mr. Reilly blandly reaches forth his hand and draws from mysterious sources yet another of these weird specimens of human nature. Mr. Wilentz at a press confer- ence characterized them briefly as “phoneys,” and announced that he intended to break them down and show them up, no matter how greatly it should prolong the trial. Before they came to the stand he had the low-down on many of them, so tha they did not come to him as the com- plete and sometimes distasteful sur- prise which they were to the rest of us. Because of the extraordinary nature of the case, Wilentz himself undertook investigations which he would ordi- | narily have left to his subordinates. He ransacked the Hauptmann home, even climbing to the attic, from whence the tell-tale support of the kidnap ladder was supposed to have come; he studied the house and grounds of the Lindbergh estate with meticulous patierice; he traced and followed the routes taken by Dr. Con- don and the mysterious John on their trips to St. Raymond’s and Woodlawn Cemeteries. But above all he and his henchmen concentrated their attention on the many witnesses who came to him or wrote to him offering to testify. He saw many personally, he investigated the records and reputations of all who seemed plausible, and from these, by tireless pruning, he selected the small but vital few whose word: seemed to him uncontrovertible. . ‘With the detective aid of the State police he was able to discover in ad- vance the identities of most of Reilly’s so-calléd “surprise witnesses,” to un- earth their sometimes dubious pasts, and to reduce them on the stand to either inepitude or incredibility, So far only three of Reilly’s alibi witnesses have been unknown to Wilentz, and by stringing out his cross-examination with obviously re- dundant questions, he was able to so prolong their testimony that they were unaccountably still in the chair and on the spot when court adjourned for the day. 5 No one could seem more regretful, more genuinely apologetic than Mr. Wilentz is to find that the hour of 4:30 o'clock should have rolled around with his cross-examination, still ua- completed. His voice, his words, his hands all deprecate the unforeseen necessity of | holding the witness over until the next day or possibly until the following Monday. He bows to the judge, he sympathizes with the jury for their enforced incarceration, and even as we are lulled into the delusion that all this by-ply is really a natural and regrettable development, his sples are ferreting out “the histories of Elvert Carlstrom and Peter Sommer to con- found them at their next appearance. All this delicate maneuvering, this ingenious prolongation of testimony by means of impressive technical dis- cussion, probably does not seem obvi- ous padding to the jury, and even the omniscient press has been heard tc mutter at the unnecessary repetitious- ness of the prosecutor’s questions. But when court convenes again there is no more hedging on the prosecutor's part, as he darts with deadly direct- ness on the immediate subject and tears it to shreds. In preparing his case, Mr. Wilentz The Night Final Edition on White Paper Beginning next Monday, February 11, the use of pink paper in the Night Final Edition of The Evening Star will be discontinued and thereafter the front page of this edition will be printed on White paper. RED STARS A row of Red Stars will be printed down the right-hand margin of the front page to identify the Night Final Edition. Call National 5000 and order the “Night Final” de- livered regularly to your home, and delivery will start immediately. at extra THERE'S one SURE way to find out whether a truck will the job you expect of it. That's by testing it with your own loads, over your own routes, with your own driver at the wheel. You find out EXACTLY what the truck will do under your own operating conditions. Ford extends an invitation to ALL truck operators... whether they own one truck or one thousand trucks ... to make this test without cost or obligation. Ford dealers have such complete confidence in V-8 Performance, V-8 Reliability, and V-8 Economy that they are ready and willing to place a 1935 Ford V-8 Truck at the disposal of any responsible operator. do njec‘ted scores of competent witnesses because they merely duplicated the tales of others who could make a stronger telling the same story better. Others he left out because what they thought they had to tell was inconsistent with the testimony of witnesses vital to the case. To select his witnesses so as to-avold confusing the jury with inconsist- encies and contradictions is a part of the technique of a good prosecutor. Of the many people who were re- jected from the pattern of his case, there were some whose testimony cid not stand up as reasonably convinc- ing, some who were obviously moti- vated by eagerness for the spotlignt, and some, who, Wilentz says, were just plain “crazy.” It is amusing to note that Reilly has picked up a number of rejects from the Stat~’s case. Lou Harding. the iorth Carolina roustabout, offerzd, his evidence first to the State, and after hearing his jail record, it is not surprising that little cregence was given to his tale. He thereupon promptly became rather unpalatable grist for Reilly’s mill. Peter Sommer, the private detective who says he saw Isador Fisch and Vio- let Sharpe with a baby on the night of the kidnaping, went to the police with his story before he ended in Mr. | Reilly’s camp. A higher type witness, who was lelt ocut of Wilentz's case and comes in today as a defense witness, is the Princeton student, Ben Lupica. Wil- entz rejected Lupia for the very good reason that he could not be certain the man he saw driving a car with a ladder toward Hopewell the day of the kidnaping was Hauptinenn, though he was prepared to ‘rstify to a strong resemblance. . Perhaps Mr. Reilly expects to show * Ask your Ford dealer to arrange an “"on-the-job” test for you. Borrow his demenstrator truck. 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