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AGENTS CAPTURE “COUNT” LUSTIG Confidence Man, Wanted " for Counterfeiting, Is Ar- rested in Pittsburgh. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, September 28.—A half dozen alert Federal agents cor- ralled the fugitive Robert V. Miller, alias “Count” Viktor Lustig, wanted on counterfeiting charges, today by the simple expedient of running their automobile into his. The “Count,” who escaped Septem- ber 1 by sliding down a rope of bed sheets from the Federal House of Detention in New York, had been in Pittsburgh four days. He was fac- ing trial in New York on counterfeit- ing charges, and authorities said he had a record of arrests all over the country. C. K. Fierstone, head of the Pittsburgh Division of {he Bureau of Investigation, said Miller was trying to make a getaway to Chicago when captured. He will be returned to New York shortly, agents said. Lock Wheels of Cars. ‘The Department of Justice men and secret service agents led by Fred Gruber, chief operative in the Pitts-| burgh office, made the arrest. Fierstone described Miller as “an international confidence man of 40 arrests and 40 aliases” and said: “We had definite information that ‘the Count,” who is wanted for violat- ing the counterfeiting laws and for violating the law making it an offense to escape from Federal custody was staying in a rooming house on the North Side. “Agents were watching the house | and when they saw him enter a car & half-dozen men entered another automobile and went after him. The chase only lasted two blocks.” The Federal men locked the wheels of their automobile with the wheels of the fleeing car and stopped it.| William Sullivan, 24, of Pittsburgh, the alleged driver, was held on a charge of harboring a fugitive. Knew of “Woman Friend.” Gruber described the arrest by say- | ing secret service agents knew the “count” had a “woman friend” in Pittsburgh and suspected he might come this way. “He has had this connection here for two years and we set a watch,” | Gruber said. Records of the Bureau of Investi- gation described Miller as a “well- known confidence man” and said he had sold what purported to be money- making machines to gullible persons. ‘The bureau said he was a native of Czechoslovakia and speaks five or six languages. There was a record of 19 arrests, the bureau said, but no convictions. The first arrest was as Viktor Lustig on “confidence game” charges in Den- ver, Colo., in 1918. Other arrests were listed in Los | Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, In- dianapolis, Crown Point, Ind.; Paris, France; New York City, Oklahoma City, Del Rio, Tex.; Eagle Pass, Tex.; St. Louis, Fort Worth, Tex.; Miami, Fla, and finally in New York on the | counterfeiting charge now pending. Traffic (Continued From First Page.) fracture and other injuries when his machine collided with a street car on Independence avenue between Delaware avenue and First street southwest. He | was taken to Casualty Hospital, Struck by Skidding Bus. Ten - year -old Catherine Myers. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Myers of Alta Vista, Md., was seriolis- 1y hurt when the car in which she ‘was riding with her parents was struck by a skidding bus near Alta Vista. At Georgetown Hospital it was said she | may have a skull fracture as well as multiple cuts about the head and face. Aubrey Johnson, 1224 Fourth street | southwest, the bus driver, told police he was on his way to Rockville when blinded by the light of the Myers’| car and skidded into the machine. He ‘was not held. Alberta Green, 10, colored, 1028 Twenty-ninth street, is in Emergency Hospital with a possible fractured pelvis, received, police said, when she was struck at Twenty-ninth and K streets by an automobile that failed to stop. The case was not listed as 8 hit-and-run accident, police be- leving the child may have walked into the side of the car, or that the driver failed to see her during the Fain and was unaware of the accident. Another motorist who is said to have falled to stop struck down Kath- Jeen Heath, 5, of 2613 Thirty-first place northeast as she played in Xront‘ of her home. The child was taken to Sibley Hospital and treated for shock | and a severe bruise to the left side of | her head. sbe llcer went home. NATIONAL ARTS SCHoOL HAS BIG ENROLLMENT | Registration Sets 19-Year Record and Students Are“Listed From | Many States. Felix Mahony, director of the Na- tional School of Fine and Applied Art, said yesterday the registrations et his school this year are greater than they have been in any one of its 19 years of existence. Besides a large local enrollment there will be students from nearly every State, when the school opens Tuesday. The simplified method of instruc- tion at this school enables the stu- dent, without any previous training, to make use of his knowledge after eight months instruction, Mahony said. Last year 26 students of the National School of Fine and Applied | Art were awarded prizes for their work in local and national competi- tion. ‘The school will open for registra- tions tomorrow from 9 am. to 9 p.m. Perfect DIAMONDS Also complete line of standard and all-American made watches. Shop at the lmnll store— youre always h Imiies itk no obligation to bw. “fl"' Accounts InM s o o THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 29, 1935—PART ONE. The New Germany En Masse at Nuremberg PROGRESS HAILED BY SINGLE-TAXERS ‘Movement’s Growth Held to Show It Leads to Prosperity. By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, September 28 —The gospel of prosperity was proclaimed | by disciples of a 200-year-old economic philosophy tonight as being: “Only shall be taxed.” | The theory is that of Henry George, | single-tax advocate who died 38 years | ago, and before him of the seven- leenth century French physiocrats. A belief that the Nation is about to witness a gweeping renaissance of the theory was expressed by followers of Geargism -at their annual congress ending tonight. The doctrine already is being preached by the Henry George School |of Social Science in New York and | extension classes in 42 cities. | Growing Organization Seen. | John L. Monroe of Chicago, director of the classes, predicted an organiza- | tion that would reach 100,000 persons within the next year. He attributed ' | growing interest to recent processing | taxes on industry, sales taxes, and new corporate levies. the land is wealth, and only the land; Adolph Hitler may be discerned standing alone at the front of the plat- form in the above photo, as he addressed a veritable sea of his followers at the convention of the National Socialist party, the greatest inner- political event of the “new Germany.” Inset: A close-up of the faces of the thousands of youths who flocked to hear Hitler as he addressed the convention. —A. P. Photos. cepted as necessary to business, but would be controlled by the State. The Georgians claim some practical ‘pmgress. Greene named culllervme | Tenn., as one example. Land usunlly sold for taxes there, he said, is nm\. being rented on long-time lease to industries. In Pittsburgh and Scranton, Pa. | he added, personal property taxes have been abolished; of two-thirds of the tax assessment and improvements one-third. ELEVATOR FALL LAID Metal Failure Let Counterweight Cable Loose, Injuring 16, Inspectors Find. Crystallization of metal in the shackle of a cable holding counter- weights was blamed yesterday by in- | spectors of the District building inspec- | | tor's office for the falling of an ele- | ‘The Georgians’' theory, said Lan-| caster Greene, New York broker and co-chairman of the congress, is that ‘ land is the sole source of wealth, and | that its abuse by speculators is the basic cause of depression. “I'm a broker, interested to a de- gree in speculation,” Greene admitted. | “But I'm convinced this Henry George doctrine is the answer to unemploy- ment, depression and heavy taxation.” Would Socialize Land. | He perched on a table outside the ' xcunvcnnon hall and launched into an exposition of the idea: The Georgians would enforce a measure of socializatfon of land, con- trolled by private industry. Industry and business would pay a single tax, & sort of rent for its use. ‘There would be no tax on build- ings, the product of industry or its income. Tariffs would be abolished. Free irade and unrestrained compsti- tion would be allowed to follow their own course. The result, say the Georgians, would be permanent prosperity. Hav. ing paid the one tax, they contend, ‘u-dusu'y would improve land without fear of additional tax; new factories | would be built; employment would in | crease, and demand for goods would | flourish with the increased employ- ment. Speculation Held Curbed. Speculators, they believe, would be | unable to gain control of land to dis- | courage business expansion, and so | could not stop a continued flow of industrial production- that assures | | prosperity. Monupoltel would be ac- Buy Now Before Expiration of & | Federal Housing Plan 36 Months to Pay for Famous Amer- ican Radiator Co. . N 907 N. Y. Ave. American Heating - N.W. vator in the Atlas Building Thursday, | causing the injury of 16 persons. A report to Col. John W. Oehmann, building inspector, oy Elevator Inspec- tor E. R. Rhea described the following | ! incidents in the accident: “The enlarged end of the counter- weight cable pulled through its moor- ings, due to crystallization of metal | in the enlarged end of the cable. This | let the heavy counterweight cables |fall, striking cables of the drum weight, with the result that the | counterweights also fell to the base- | ment floor. “While the several cables holding the elevator cage remained intact, the failure of other units let the car descend at an accelerated speed, but not fast enough to trip the governor cable, which would have applied emergency brakes.” The last inspection of the elevator equipment was made July 22. Of- ficials say the play on the cable shackles is so imperceptible to make it exceedingly difficult to identify the process of crystallization of the metal in the mooring. Those injured in the crash are re- covering. Do Not Neglect ARTHRITIS Thousands suffering from arthritic Vllley Mineral Water 361 Mot 1062. 1405 K 8t NW. plralwn of Terms! o STALL NOW! Pay Iin 36 months on low Federal Hot ing terms. Free Estimates snytime— B anywhere. Phone, 36 Mon!ht to Pay on Federal Housing Terms ENGINEERING COMPANY NALt. 8421 land is the base | CREMPA FAMILY 10 PUSH CHARGES Murder Indictments De- manded in Killing of New Jersey Woman, | By the Associated Press. TO CRYSTALLIZATION| ELIZABETH, N. J. September 28. —Dissatisfied with the one man- slaughter charge already made, coun- sel for the family of the slain Mrs. Sophie Crempa pushed tonight for murder indictments, not only against the one deputy sheriff arrested today, but against his six officer companions. The family insists that the raid on the Scotch -Plains home of the | Crempas Thursday, when the woman was killed—a raid bringing to bloody climax the Crempa family’s feud with Chancery Court and the Public Serv- | ice Electric & Gas Co.—was a seven- man affair, and that the slaying was needless and unprovoked. Charles Remley, 47, of Cranford, the deputy who admitted firing a shot- | gun three times curing the Crempa siege, manslaughter.* was the man charged with Red-eyed from lack of sleep, he pleaded innocent, and was | released in $5,000 bail, posted by a fel- low deputy. His superiors said that he would not be suspended. Data to Be Presented. Leonard Pontus, Crempa’s attorney, who called the slaying “cold-blooded murder,” said he would press his de- mand for murder indictments when he confers Monday with Prosecutor Abe RESORTS. yldnm weather in old Quebec! ... With golfing out at Crisp, sunshiny J. David. David will present evidence to the grand jury October 8. Pontus said he would seek murder, atrocious assault and battery with in- tent to kill, and possibly unlawful entry charges against each of the seven deputies. He said he had not decided what charges to press against Sheriff C. Wesley Collins. It was on Collins’ ordersthatthe posse of deputies descended on the Crempa | property to arrest John Crempa on contempt of court and crimina] assault warrants. Both resulted from Crempa’s | | defiance of an injunction restraining him from damaging or interfering | | with the Public Service’s high tension wires which cross his land. The power lines were erected after the utility company secured the right by court condemnation for $800. Op- posed to having the wires cross his property, Crempa demanded $150,000 and embarked on a sabotage campaign of cutting and short circuiting the wires. When the injunction was is- sued, he ignored it, and until Thurs- day evaded all attempts of the sheriff to arrest him for contempt, Twice wounded in Thursday’s raid, Crempa, from his hospital bed, charged the deputies fired on him and his wife without provocation, but | Prosecutor David said he had “no in- further arrests at this time.” Pontus said he had obtained a | release to attend his wife's funeral ’Monday. Crempa’s son John, jr., ar- rested for contempt on the eve of the | Crempa’s daughter Camille, 19, arrest- | ed in the raid, was paroled yesterday | on an atrocious assault charge., Church 106 Years 0ld Today. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo., Sep- tember 28 (#).—A church organized by Rev. Robert James—father of the notorious bandits, Jesse and Frank James—will celebrate its 106th an- ! niversary tomorrow. Hope Church, near Holf, Mo. - Several Hurt in Foot Ball Fight. BELFAST, Northern Ireland Sep- tember 28 (#).—Several persons were injured slightly when police charged with batons on rival factions en- gaged in a stone-throwing fracas at Belfast Celtics today. RESORTS. wn Quaint (Quebec Moummnq ‘where the Falls come dashing down. So, run up for a week or two and let above scarlet and gold; boats ambrosial days among the reddeningmaple le-n: put color into your cheeks! Turrets of the great adrift on the wide St. Lawrence; the Chateau, towering ult tang of the sea in the Autumnal air. 300-year old streets, lumnc for quilts or homespuns in a quaint “forei, |nck (fie Chateau . . . fire vintages, mefi«l-nve fnood, gay munc and due-n mihul Motor up over exc tseeing. Unmsurpassed Maple Leaf contest—open this adds time for si| .IE":‘('“ Canada’s o ent roads. Or by service, moderate rates. to American 'visitors. $200 in prizes for largest and most benmznl leaves gathered in Canada. Season Round Trip Rail Fare—$44,55—Week-End Round Trilp Fare—$33.55 Infjormation. reservations from Local Apent or Canadian Pacific Offices, including 14th St. and N. Y. Ave. N.W.. Washington, or write Chatecu rontenac, Quebec formation on which to base any | | Chancery Court order for Crempa’s | | raid, will also be released, Pontus said. | It is the New| a foot ball game between Linfield and ! GOODWILL DRIVE. SPONSORS NAMED Many Prominent Citizens Enlisted for $15,520 Fund Campaign. A formidable array of sponsors aligned behind Goodwill Industries of ‘Washington was announced last night in connection with its forthcoming drive for $15,520 to finance its first year as a member of the Capital's family of charitable institutions. ‘The first move in preparation for the campaign, which opens October 8 and continues through October 17, will be a luncheon of representative Wash- ington women tomorrow at the club house of the American Association of University Women. At this meeting, it is hoped to enlist the support of civic-minded women in this enterfise by which “unemploy- ables” in various industries may be rehabilitated. The chief part of the $15,520 to be raised will be used to purchase equipment for the Industries’ “shop” at 924 Fifth street, where the aged and physically handicapped will be employed and paid living wages from the sale of Goodwill products. Results in Other Cities. Judged by results of Goodwill In- dustries in other cities, it is estimated more than $3 in wages can be paid out for every dollar spent by the agency, since the clothing, furmiture and other materials which will be made into new products are to be contributed by families. ‘The Indorsing Committee, of which Wilbur La Roe, jr., is chairman, was announced as follows: Clarence R. Ahalt, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, A. L. Baldwin, Edward G. Bliss, Robert Woods Bliss, Rev. H. W. Bur- gan, Mrs, R. J. Clark, Mrs. W. L. Cor- bin, H. C. Chorpening, Dr. A. C. Chris- tie, Edward H. De Groot, jr.; C. Phelps Dodge, Page McK. Etchison, W. W. Everett, Robert V. Fleming. Others on Committee. Spencer Gordon, Mrs. John W. Guider, Mrs. Charles B. Hawley, Mrs. J. H. Hollister, Harrison E. Howe, Joseph D. Kaufman, Mrs. E. A. Kerna- han, Mrs, Cazenove Lee, Mrs. J. C. McClintock. Arthur May, Rev. A. J. McCartney, Rev. Benjamin W. Meeks, William C. Miller, Capt. Rhoda Milliken, Mrs. | Howard G. Nichols, Newbold Noyes, Mrs. F. T. Parsons, J. Craig Peacock, | Robert E. Quirk, John Saul, Rabbi | Abram Simon, Rev W. Angie Smith, Rev. Thomas G. Smyth, H. D. Somer- ville. Purcell Storey, Corcoran Thom, Rev. Charles T. Warner, Edgar B. Young. The Campaign Committee is headed by Ernest H. Daniel, chairman, and | Maj. Guy Withers, chairman of the Church Committee. of Goodwill Industries of Washing- ton, Inc., with Col. A. R. Brindley and Mrs. Karl Fenning vice presi- dents. James C. Dulin, jr., treasurer of the American Security & Trust Co. 1s treasurer, and Mrs. E. W. Murray secretary. s SLAYER GIVEN LIFE Californian Re- venge Killing of Police Chief. Sentenced for SANTA ROSE, Calif.. September 28 (#).—Al (Two Gun) Chamberlain, | elderly eccentric, was sentenced to life nmprisonmenl today for the revenge slaying of Police Chief Louis O'Neal. Chamberlain, long an enigmatic but colorful figure in this district, sud- | | denly ran berserk last July and bran- | | dishing two guns, pumped 13 bullets | into a ranch neighbor. Then he drove here, strode into Chief O'Neal's office. and shot the officer. Threats of lynching prompted his removal to San Quentin prison for | safekeeping until trial. He was con- victed of the slaying, after explaining he was “sore” at the chief for order- ing him out of town. Wed 50 Years COUPLE TO OBSERVE GOLDEN WEDDING. MR. AND MRS, GEORGE H. RUSSELL Of 3538 Warder street, who will celebrate their golden wedding Perry 8. Heath, Joseph H. Himes, Rev. | Col. William O. Tufts is president | anniversary Tuesday, when they will be at home to their friends. —Underwood & Underwood. CITIZENS PROTEST NEW BUS SERVICE Residents of Eighteenth Street and Columbia Road Seek Benefits. Declaring the replacement of street car service with busses on Connecti- |cut avenue has created a serious DILLINGER AIDTOLD BY WOMAN IN RED Fighting Deportation, She Reveals She Helped U. S. Trap Outlaw. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 28.—Mrs. Anna Sage—the storied “woman in red"—claimed the sole credit today for putting John Dillinger on the “spot.” Her attorneys asserted in Federal court she alone had furnished the “G” men with information that ena- bled them to set a trap for the des~ perado, They made the first authoritative disclosure of the role played by Mrs. Sage in the ace outlaw’s death in procuring & writ of habeas corpus, which thwarted the Governments plans to deport her. Solely Responsible. “She was solely responsible for the information leading to the killing of Dillinger,” said Attorney Thomas J. Johnson. He told Judge John P. Barnes that in exchange for her tip she had been assured the Department of Justice would cancel the deportation proceed- ings. He declared the promise was made by Melvin Purvis, who then was head of the Division of Investigation office in Chicago, and Inspector Sam- uel P. Cowley. . The Department of Labor, he added, had refused to honor the alleged agreement and had ordered his client to board a train here tonight for her one-way ride to her native Rumania. Cowley was slain in a gun duel with “Baby-Face” Nelson last year. Pur- vis, who has resigned from the service, | could not be reached for comment. Bond Set at $1,000. Judge Barnes issued the writ over traffic hazard on that thoroughfare, a group of citizens around Eighteenth street and Columbia road have or- ganized in an effort to have some of | the busses routed through that sec- | tion, it was announced last night. | At a mass meeting Thursday night Woodruff S. Post, 1801 Calvert street, | was named chairman of a committee | appointed to represent the group, ’and the committee was empowered to present its request to the Capital | Transit Co. and the Public Utilities | Commission. 1‘ Residents Opposed. Post said he had talked to resl-‘ | dents along Connecticut avenue and | found them strongly opposed to the;‘ increased bus traffic. Pointing out that 59 busses an hour pass Connecti- cut avenue and Calvert street dur- ing the rush hour peaks, he said this results in serious traffic congestion which could be eliminated by routing some of the busses across the new | | Calvert Street Bridge, now nearly | completed, and then downtown via | Eighteenth street. It was brought. out at the mass | meeting that the new bridge will be | considerably wider than the Taft Bridge. It also was pointed out that the small parks at the south end of | the Taft Bridge are an obstacle to the free flow of traffic and that the stop on the hill at California street will be hazardous in bad weather. Suggest Use of Eighteenth Street, If Eighteenth street were used as a by-pass, Post said, at least half | of the bus traffic could be taken off | Connecticut avenue. 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