Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1935, Page 9

CMEN HAY UARD SHAL-TOWN A Justice Unit Protection Would Be Extended by Bank Bill. By the Associated Press. The arm of the Justice Department | agent is expected to reach out soon | to protect the small town bank, long victimized by America’s 5,000 known | bank robbers The “G-men,” who collared nearly | 140 robbers of national banks last| year, are called on to shield another | $18,000,000,000 under a provision | tucked away in the new banking bill, now in conference between Senate and House. The bill extends to all banks in- sured by the Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corp. the “G-man” protection given last year to national banks and Federal Reserve member banks. New Attacks Feared. “Country bankers” have feared, since the Federal agents were put on the job last year, that the bank rob- ber, frightened away from “big game,” would redouble his attack on the small- town bank. Under the new law, the agents would be given orders to track down robbers who steal any of the $41,000,- 000,000 deposits in 14,280 banks, Na- tional and State. Since the ertry of the agents into the bank sector of the war on crime, there has beer a sharp drop in the number of bank robberies, Justice De- partment figures show. The violent ending of the careers of John Diilinger, “Pretty Boy" Floyd, the Barker brothers and other hood- $8,000,000 Caliente Playground Awaits Permit to Gamble By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 1.—Agua Caliente is doomed to remain an $8,000,0000 “ghost” resort until the Mexican government has a change of heart about gambling. Such was the information conveyed to stockholders of the lavish play spot in Baja California, Mexico, yesterday by Joseph M. Schenck, film executive and pres- ident of the Agua Caliente Co. Notifying the backers that an expected dividend of $125,000 was being passed up to meet expenses occasioned by the recent closing of the hotel, spa and race track, Schenck said: “Agua Caliente has always been operated at the convenience of Mexican presidential order, and we will not be able to reopen un- til President Cardenas, or his successor, removes the against gambling.” WOMEN MAY PICKET Detroit Council Can’t Cut Meat Price, but Allows Protests. DETROIT, August 1 (#).—The Detroit City Council told housewives yesterday it can do nothing to reduce meat prices, but assured them of the right to picket butcher shops so long as fights are avoided. Fifteen women who said they repre- sented 2,000 Detroit housewives ap- peared before the council. The women said it is their purpose to force “big meat packers” to reduce prices by picketing butcher shops throughout Detroit. Mrs. Catherine Chapman told the ban ‘THE D. C. PAROLE BOARD TO HEAR 24 CASES 15 Prisoners Are Eligible and 9 Others Are Scheduled for Reconsideration. The District Parole Board will meet {next Monday at the Lorton, Va., Re- formatory to hea: the cases of 15 prisoners who gre eligible for parole. In addition the cases of nine other prisoners are scheduled for recon- sideration, Those eligible for parole, if they prove good behavior, include: Harry Wells, Walter Templeman, Sarah Wims, Lee Purdue, John Sims, John Hill, Albert Lee, Joseph Edwards, Em- mett Richards, Warren Robinson, Odell Wagner, Willle Carr, Henry Stevens, Henry J. Carpenter and Roy T. Walker, The nine whose cases will be recon- sidered are Nathan Cohen, Robert Sherman, Buster Buchanan, Theodore R. Brewer, James B. Butler, John D. Lawrence, Henry Gray, Leonard Fer- guson and William W. Dyson. Paintings by Ex-Criminal. Paintings by V. M. Maslov, a former criminal, are attracting much atten- tion at an exhibition at Moscow, Rus- EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,, THURSDAY, FARLEY SCORES G. 0. P. farty Not Worried When Demo- crats Were Trying to Amend Dry Law, He Says. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif., Aug 1.—Post- master General James A. Farley ar- riving here yesterday en route to is laughable to me that the Repub- the Constitution.” CONSTITUTION STAND| Hawali on a vacation, drclared “it| ‘They were not worried about it | publi AUGUST 1, 1935 when the Democrats were trying to amend the Constitution to repeal the prohibition law,” he sald. “They didn't have nerve enough to declare themselves on that issue, but the Democrats did and six months after they were in office prohibition was repealed.” “Col. Prank Knox of Chicago,” Far- ley added, “is a candidate for. the presidential nomination, notwith- standing any denials he has made to the contrary.” The Chicego publisher, who has made several recent speeches in Cali- fornia attacking the Roosevelt ad- licans are getting concerned about | ministration, had told San Francisco he was not an aspirant for the Re- nomination. POORHOUSE MISER DIES Italian Inmate of County Home Leaves $6,500 Estate. SPOKANE, Wash,, August 1 (#).— Death came to Joe Simone, Italian window washer at the county poor- [mm, but he left an estate of $6,500 in American and Italian banks. “Simone practically starved himself before going to the county institution,” Justice Frank Yuse, friend and iegal advisor, said today, “rathey than touch his savings.” His only known relative is a brother in Italy. Couniy officials said they will bill the estate for gimone's keep prior to his death in April. STAR'S MOTHER SUED | LOS ANGELES, August 1 (#)— George W. Belzer filed suit yesterday for divorce from Mrs. Gladys Royal Belzer, mother of three screen act- | resses—Loretta Young, Sally Blane |and Polly Ann Young. He charged desertion. Mrs. Belzer, now in Europe, divorced her first husband, John E. Young, and married Belzer in Santa Ana, Calif in 1934. " Tea Replaces Cocktails. Tea instead of cocktails is being | served at mest 8 o'clock soclety func. tions in London this season, council a buyers' strike will open Saturday on the Detroit West Side, with picketing. 100 Baltimore Every Saturday and Sunday, Good Returning Till Last Train Sunday Night. 125 Annapolis Tickets Good 10 Days for Return Trains Leave 30 Minutes After Each Hour W.B. & A.E.R.R. 12th and New York Ave. N.W. Telephone NAtional 1255 Jums was one step in this campaign. | 4 Bank Robberies Halved. Bank robberies have decreased more | than 50 per cent. American Bankers' Association records disclose that there were 16 robberies a month in 1933. 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