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GRAND JURY ASKED 10 INDICT 100 .ON GAMBLING COUNTS Raids on 62 Establishments to Form Basis of Evidence to Be Given. DIETZ RACING SERVICE HELD CONSPIRACY LINK Headquarters Alleged to Have Been Center of Telephone Net- work Covering City. Police and prosecuting officials ex- pected to go before the grand jury this afternoon with evidence they hope will result in indictment of more than 100 persons in a city-wide gaming con- spiracy. Possibility that several policemen and telephone company employes might be implicated was freely dis- cussed. It was authoritatively stated that evidence concerning them would be presented. Sixty-two alleged gambling estab- lishments have been raided by special police squads since February in an intensive drive by police, the United Btates attorney and Internal Revnue and Alcohol Tax Unit agents to rid the city of professional gamblers. May Reach Other Places. Evidence concerning all the raids Wil be laid before the grand jury, but, It was learned, the expected indict- ments may extend to establishments as vet unmolested by raiders. Assistant United States Attorney Bamuel F. Beach said he expected to ask for substantive indictments for each place raided, in addition to the | far-reaching conspiracy true-bill. The expensive racing information service furnished by William (Jewboy) Dietz is the principal basis for the econspiracy allegation, and all gamb- ling establishments which can be proved to have taken his service are expected to be included in the in- dictment. His organization, National Telecast, Inc., has ceased to operate under po- lice harassment. The first of the series of 62 raids was on Dietz's elaborate headquarters in the Albee Building, said to have been the nerve center of a telephone network which covered the city and | which was connected by trunk lines Wwith Baltimore, New York and Mon- treal. Monthe of patient investigation by police and Treasury officials, during which thousands of conversations had been heard over tapped wires, preceded the raid. Information obtained through over- heard telephone conversations is ex= pected to play a major role in con- vincing the grand jury to indict. Presentation to the grand jury of the voluminous evidence probably will | consume three weeks. May Require Three Weeks. ‘The identity of witnesses is being carefully guarded, since they will in- clude the undercover men who al- legedly obtained “plays” in each place which has been raided. Evidence concerning four raids will | be presented today, it was said, whxle' six more will be reviewed for the grand jury tomorrow and eight or ten | will be presented Friday. Should the grand jury decide to indict, the cases will be prosecuted by Beach and Assistant United States Attorney Roger Robb, United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett said. He added that every effort will be made to bring about a speedy trial. Because of the crowded condition of the criminal docket it appeared doubtful that the case will be heard | before next Fall, since it is usual to | give priority to defendants who have | been unable to mak HOSPITAL CONCERTS SCHEDULE ISSUED | Five Bands Dates at Tuberculosis Have 19 Summer Institution. Pive bands will present 19 concerts at the Tuberculosis Hospital, begin- | ning May 13 and ending September | 15, under auspices of the Washington Kiwanis Club, it was announced to- day. The bands will be the Marine, Army, Navy, Boys’ Club and National Train- ing School for Boys. Following is the schedule: May 13, Navy; May 26, Boys' Club; June 15, Marine; June 6, Boys Club: | June 17, Army; June 24, Navy; July 1, National Training; July 6, Marne; July 8, Army; July 14, Boys' Club; July 22, National Training; July 29, Army; August 5, National Training; August 10, Marine; August 11, Boy: Club; August 19, Navy; August 26 Navy; September 9, Army, and Sep- tember 15, Boys' Club. Rainfall .Less In D. C. Than 30 Years Ago Washington Is Growing Slightly Dryer, Says W eather Official. ‘While the Potomac River roared over its banks, R. T. Zoch of the Weather Bureau told the American Meteorological Society today that the District of Columbia has grown dryer In the last 30 years. Zoch added, however, that the de- erease in rainfall has not been great enough to have any real significance. He based his report, he said, on the average number of storms, the average number of hours of rain or snow and 4he total amount of precipitation in the 30-year period. In each of the classifications, he found, there has been a slight decline. The average number of storms, he found, was 136 a year. It rained, on the average, 687 hours a year and | there was an average total rainfall of | 40.84 inches. It now rains, he found, | | issued in the period between April | RENO E. STITELY. U.S.EMPLOYEHELD INPAYROLL FRAUD 'Reno E. Stitely Will Be Ar- r 4 on Charges Today. BULLETIN. Reno E. Stitely, 29, pleaded not guilty when arraigned before Com- missioner Turnage this afternoon. Pleas of his attorney for a reduc- tion in the $10,000 bond were over=- ruled by Turnage. The case was continued until May 13. | Reno E. Stitely, 29, chief of the voucher unit of the National Parks Service, was to be arraigned before | United States Commissioner Needham | C. Turnage today on a charge of | fraudulently obtaining $6.855.60 from | the United States Treasury. Stitely was arrested yesterday at | his home, 2704 Cortland place, on a | | warrant sworn to by Robert C. Mc- | Carthy, special agent of the Interior | Department's division of investiga- tion, after auditors discovered pay roll shortages which, it was said, may total as much as $75.000. Possibility of additional arrests was | indicated when it was revealed tha!‘ fraudulent pay roll checks allegedly approved by Stitely were indorsed in different handwriting. Weeks of investigation preceded the arrest of Stitely, a civil service em- ploye, whose salary was $2.300 a year. Investigators traced his bank accounts through several different institutions, it was learned, and checked his sLO(‘k‘ market activities through a well- known brokerage firm. What prompted the investigation was not divulged, but it was said that | Stitely’s expensive home, stylish clothes and ample supply of ready cash | at all times aroused the envy of other civil service employes in his salary classification. The warrant charged Stitely spe- cifically with defalcations involving | five pay rolls and 54 fictitious checks} 17 and August 15, 1936. These cases represent only a small percentage of those under investigation, it was said. High officials of the National Parks Service threw Treasury Department pay roll auditors off guard when they innocently approved in routine fashion the pay rolls drawn up by Stitely, it was said. Alleged Course Pursued. The dafalcations are alleged to have occurred in the following manner: To the regular semi-monthly pay roll | would be added fictitious names of car- | penters who had never worked for | the Parks Service. The pay roll would g0 through the usual channels to the Treasury and the checks would be returned to Stitely for distribution. Stitely, so it is charged, would coun- tersign the checks and extract them from the regular pay roll envelope. Later, the checks would be cashed at various banks, indorsed with signa- tures in handwriting different from Stiteley's. Although several different types of handwriting were used on the checks, the ink was always the same, investigators declared. All the checks were made out for carpenters. One month, it was said, several checks for carpenters were is- sued when no carpenters were em- ploy by the Parks Service. Stitely had been employed at the Interior Department for seven years, and previous to that had been a civil service employe of the War Depart- ment. TWO SURRENDERED AFTER GAMING RAID Warrants Had Beer Issued for Men Who Obtained Release on $2,000 Bail. Missed in a raid March 29 on an al- leged gaming establishment in the first block of H street northeast, two men were surrendered to police yesterday by their attorney. Lieut. Floyd Trus- cott of the vice squad said warrants had been issued for the two at the time of the raid. g Released in $2,000 bond for a hear- ing before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage, the men gave their names as Howard M. Fowler, 41, of 429 Fifth street southeast, and Samuel Schaffer, 47, of 701 N street. As an outgrowth of the raid on March 29, Oscar Bryant, 23, colored, 952 Westminster street, was recognized yesterday and arrested by Sergt. T. E. Edwards, second precinct, as he en- tered a car near his home. Bryant was wanted in connection with a raid in the 1500 block of Ninth street. He was charged with setting up a gaming table and operating a lottery, later being released under $1,500 bond on each of the two counts pending a hearing today. ———e Cobra Put Behind Glass. PHILADELPHIA, April 28 (#).— The zoo has had a glass window erected to protect visitors from its newest arrival from Africa, a spitting nearly two hours a year less than it did 30 years ago. § cobra, of a species that can project its venom 15 feet. 9 WASHINGTON, IGKES SUPPORTS INDUSTRIAL CURB, HITTING ABATTOIR Issues Sharp Statement in Support of Bill to Restrict “Nuisances.” SAYS PERMIT IS STEP TO BLIGHTING BENNING Reaffirms Position of Public Works Administration and Interior Department. Declaring a new abattoir at Ben- ning would constitute a “noisome of- fense” within sight of the Capitol, Secretary of the Interior Ickes today issued a sharp statement in support of newly introduced zoning legisla- tion designed to restrict the opera=- tions of so-called nuisance industries in Washington. Ickes, who was one of the first to oppose issuance of a permit to the Adolf Gobel Co., which plans renewed operation of an abattoir at Benning, was stirred into new action by the de- | velopments overnight. In asserting the issue is now up to Congress, Ickes claimed the re-establishement of an abattoir would hopelessly blotch years of earnest work” to make Washington a strictly residential city. Asked to comment on the action | of the Commissioners yesterday in issuing the Gobel firm a permit and the restrictive legislation introduced by Chairman King of the Senate Dis- trict Committte, Ickes said: “A new slaughter house in Washing- ton is absolutely unnecessary. It would make a blighted area out of a com- munity which could be developed into one of the most pleasant districts in the city. It would constitute a noisome offense within States Capitol. It would hopelessly blotch years of earnest work to make Washington a residential city free of industry. Improvements’ Blocking Seen. “Careful plans have been drawn up for park and public developments in the vicinity directly adjacent to the | Benning abandoned packing plant. Reconstruction of this plant would make it impossible to go ahead with the badly-needed improvements com- templated for the area. “I am informed that a bill has been introduced in the Senate by Senator King, which, if passed, will make it impossible for this nuisance to operate. The Public Works Administration and Interior Department have opposed this slaughter house from the beginning and will continue to do so. “The issue is now up to Congress and it is my sincere hope that it will follow its consistent policy of keeping the National Capital free from such detrimental activities. The question is far from being settled. “I cannot understand how any man who has any pride in his citizenship or in the Capital of his country would think of building within the District what would amount to a public nuisance.” King's bill, which would restrict cer- tain types of industrial development in Washington, including slaughter- houses, is before the Senate District Comnmittee, awaiting the fixing of a date for hearings. The measure would prohibit any new establishment of the industries listed and sets forth detailed restrictions to govern the granting of permits for continued use of any in operation at the time the bill passes. The bill would affect the pending controversy over the application for | remodeling and renewed operation of the Benning abbatoir. The permit for completion of the abbatoir plans on the Benning site was issued by Building Inspector John ‘W. Oehmann. A motivating influence behind is- suance of the Gobel permit was the fact the company several months ago filed damage suits against the three District Commissioners for $50,000 each, alieging they had conspired to withhold the permit. The city heads first had rejected the permit and later set down specific requirements to be met before the permit could be issued. Thereafter, the company submitted revised plans and the word at the District Building was that the specific requirements had been met. Suit Would Be Dropped. Reports at the District Building have been that the damage suits would be dropped if the permit was finally issued. The first section of the King bill provides it shall be unlawful to erect, alter or use any building or premises (or portion thereof) in the District for any of eight purposes, including: (1) Manu- facture of acetylene gas, pyroxylin, celluloid, explosives, fireworks, gun- powder, ammonia, bleaching powder, chlorine, gelatin, glue, sizing, sulphuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and tetraethyl lead precipitate or liquid; (2) distillation of bones or wood, (3) refining of gasolene, naptha or petroleum, except refining which is merely incidental to other permitted uses; (4) smelting of ores, (5) stock yards, (6) slaughtering of animals, rendering of fat or other animal prod- ucts, or manufacture of fertilizer from animals; (7) incineration for others, reduction or rendering of dead ani- mals, garbage, etc.; (8) tanning, cur- ing, cleaning or other processing of raw skins or hides. Section 2 provides that in case any building, or part thereof, is being used- on the date of enactment for any of these purposes, the operators may apply within 30 days for a permit to continue. The Zoning Commission, with approval of health officer, may grant a temporary permit for 30 days, pending final action. 400 POSTERS ADOPTED More than 400 posters selected from the thousands submitted by art classes in the elementary schools will be used to advertise the Children’s Pes- tival Circus May 8 at the Central High School, according to Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples, director of the Community Centes Department. v 7 sight of the United | IFOES OF INCREASE IN GAS AND AUTO TAXES TO TESTIFY House Hearing Program To- morrow Gives D. C. Heads More Time. COMMISSIONERS ASK 1 CENT MORE ON GAS Measure Similar in Principle to That of Collins, Which Pro- poses 2-Cent Raise. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Opponents of various plans to force automobile owners to aid in making up the prospective $6,000,000 shortage in District revenues in the coming fiscal year will be given an opportunity to express their views when the special Taxation Subcommittee of the House District Committee resumes hearings tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. In the absence of Chairman Ken- nedy, Representative McGehee, Dem- ocrat, of Mississippi, vice chairman of the subcommittee, rearranged the previously scheduled program of procedure and allocated the time at tomorrow’s hearing to organizations opposed to proposals for increasing the gasoline tax and adoption of & weight tax on motor vehicles. The change was made because the Commissioners said it would be im- possible for them to complete their own program of taxation until next week. Proposals now before the subcom- mittee affecting automobile owners | include the weight tax and gasoline tax increase bills sponsored by Chair- man Collins of the House Subcommit- | tee on District appropriations, and | similar measures recommended by the Commissioners. The proposals of the | Commissioners, however, would not place as heavy burden on the motor vehicle owner as the Collins bills. Bills Alike in Principle. The Collins gas tax bill provides & 2-cent advance in the local levy. | The Commissioners recommended a | | 1-cent increase. The weight tax plans of Collins and the Commissioners, however, are the same in principle, though the features are radically different. The Collins bill, for instance, pro- vides a 35-cent-per-100 pounds tax on private motor vehicles, and a higher and graduated scale for com- mercial cars. It would, however, remove the present personal property tax on motor vehicles. The Commis- sioners, on the other hand, recom- | mended a graduated scale for both | classes of vehicles, grouped according to weight range, but continuing the | personal property levy. The tax on | | private and public vehicles for hire | | would start at $5 and go as high as | $12. For commercial vehicles, the scale ranges from $15 to $75. ! The Commissioners estimated the 1-cent increase in the gas tax and the weight tax they proposed would vield a total of $2,600,000 a year in additional revenue. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways, has given the subcommittee data showing the 1-cent gas tax increase would be sufficient to support the activities of his department. And Representative Nichols, Democrat of Oklahoma, an active member of the subcommittee, has indicated he would not approve a higher increase, believ- ing the gasoline tax already is bearing its fair share of the tax load. Collins Bill Indorsed. The Commissioners also have in- dorsed the Collins bill to increase the tax on insurance companies from 1.5 to 2 per cent on policy and member- ship fees and net premium receipts. J. Balch Moor, superintendent of insurance, predicted this rise would yield slightly more than $200,000 in revenue from the insurance companies. Moor testified his estimate was based on a prospective $500,000 reduction in fire insurance rates in the coming year. Several months ago, he re- ported to the House Subcommittee on District Appropriations that fire insur- ance policy holders in the District had been overcharged about $10,000,~ 000 in the last 12 years. Altogether, the preliminary tax program of the Commissioners is calculated to produce $2,800,000 in additional revenue, leaving about $3200,000 to be raised from other sources. A sales tax on tobacco is one of the proposals now under con- sideration by the Commissioners and Nichols has promised to support that because he holds a sales tax is the most “painless” form of taxation. ANTI-BLINDNESS BILL An act of Congress aimed to pre- vent blindness in infants born in the District has been signed by President Roosevelt. The new law requires the placing of a solution of silver nitrate, or some other solution approved by the District health officer, in the eyes of newly born babies. D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, Thomas Fenton (left), Mrs. Josephine Leopold and her husband, John F. Leopold, shown above, were rescued from the swirling Potomac last night after their canoe capsized above Key Bridge. At right are John Williams (left), tender at Arlington Memorial Bridge, who swam to the rescue with a lifeline, and Park Policeman H. M. Borger, who also aided in sav- ing the three. —Star Staff Photos. (Story on Page A-1.) ARMY'S AIRDROME 1S FACING DELAY Vacating Bolling Field Must Await Added Appropria- tion of $430,000. Despite an appropriation of $746,000 authorized by the House Appropria- tions Committee for new Bolling Field, the new Army airdrome prob- | ably will not be in condition for fly- ing operations before the end of 1937 or the Summer of 1938, it was learned today. The old Bolling Field cannot be vacated by the Army until an addi- tional appropriation of $430.000, now slated to be included in the next appropriation bill, to become avail- able July 1, 1938, becomes available, it was indicated. Specifications Completed. All specifications for new buildings to be constructed during the coming fiscal year have been completed and construction can begin as soon as the $746,000 becomes awailable July 1. These buildings, however, will not be completed until early in 1938, it is estimated. The funds now being considered by Congress will provide for con- struction of a heating plant, tele- phone system, hangars, shops and storage facilities for gasoline and oil and paint and dope. There now are no “technical buildings” at the field, such as hangars, servicing facilities or operations headquarters, sall of which must be provided before regu- lar flight operations can begin, it was explained. $2,669,456 Already Spent. Regular appropriations totaling $2,669.456 already have been spent on the new Bolling Fied. This total has been brought to more than $3,- 000,000 by the allocation of works progress funds for construction of a sea wall and the grading of the landing field. It is estimated that the new Army field when finally completed will represent an invest- ment of well over $5,000,000. The new airport, however, is to be one of the most complete of its kind in the Army network and will ac- commodate easily the giant new 20- ton Boeing bombardment airplane now being completed. This is the largest airplane now contemplated for military purposes. e Laurel Guard Unit to Dance. LAUREL, Md., April 28 (Special).— The Non-Commissioned Officers’ Club of the National Guard will give a danee in the local armory at 9 p.m. Friday. Tri-County Basket Ball League awards will be presented. ‘The aurora borealis (northern lights) may be visible in the skies north of Washington tonight. One of the three or four big mag- netic storms in the last 100 years is now raging over the Northern Hemis- phere. It has been in progress since Sunday, but the heavy clouds have made it impossible to see the brilliant display in the northern heavens, which shift far to the southward in such a storm. A magnetic storm is defined by Dr. A. G. McNish of the Terrestrial Magnetism Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, as “a period of violent fluctuations in the earth’s magetism.” The great mag- netic storm now raging was reported from the geodetic station of the Coast and Geodetic Survey at Cheltenham, Md. At this station yesterday, the di- rection of the compass needle changed &®full degree. Magnetic storms are associated in some way with violent disturbances, - Northern Lights M ay Be Visible To District Residents Tonight known as sun spots, on the face of the sun. They recur, on the average, every 26 days, corresponding with. one full rotation of the sun. The north- ern lights vary in their intensity with the intensity of the storm. They ordinarily are seen only within a circle of about 20 degrees around the geomagnetic pole, which is located in Greenland. With a very intense storm this circle shifts southward and one instance is recorded where the strange display was seen faintly in Puerto Rico. The lights might have been seen in Washington during the heavy storms of 1920, 1921 and 1928, but it is not known whether anybody observed them. It will be best, Dr. McNish says, to look northward from some hilltop north of Washington in order to avoid the confusion of the city lights. Strange interruptions in radio com- munication for the last three da: are due to the great magnetic storm. 1937. 4 | with Frooks, | alleging breach of cont Dog’s Devotion Because Nellie, an 11-year-old bull- | | dog. thought so much of her master | that she wouldn't get into a rowboat ahead of him yesterday, William C. Hobell had his “closest call” in the | 12 vears he has lived on the Potomac | River. | Hobell and his wife live on a house- | boat on the Virginia side about a | half mile above Key Bridge. Last | Saturday afternoon Hobell noticed | the river was beginning to rise and | he had his wife, Amy. taken ashore. | About noon yesterday Hobell, who had remained aboard the boat with the | dog. was attempting to fix another | cable beside the three holding the | vessel to the shore. ‘ Claude Hayes, standing on the shore, was the first to see three large trees and a part of a house swirling down the channel toward Hobell's boat. | While his wife and Mrs. Hobell shouted encouragement, Hayes jumped into & skiff already half full of water, made a line fast to the shore and started out to save Hobell and the dog. He arrived before the debris struck the houseboat, tearing it from its moor- | Nearly Stops Flood Rescue |or that the United States attorney's office, the police and the other Gov- to Master ings, but several minutes elapsed be- fore he was able to get in the boat because Nellie refused to leave before her master. Finally. at Haves' command and des- perate pleadings of his wife from the shore, Hobell entered the boat and the two men cast off. Only then did Nel- lie change her mind. She made a plunge toward the boat, but missed Reaching over the side to give Nellie & hand. Hobell caused the row boat to swerve sideways in the cu rent and crash against a tree. That | was when his “closest call” occurred, he said. The skiff finally was hauled ashore and Nellie, a powerful swimmer, struggled in some distance below. | The Hobells recounted the trying experience in the cheery kitchen of the Hayes home. where water today was lapping a foot below the floor level. Their houseboat, 42 feet long | and containing three rooms, flosted ' downstream off Gravelly Point, where, | Hobell said, it now lies half sunk near | the shore. The same craft was vir-| tually destroyed by the beating it took in last year's flood. AUDITORIUM UNIT 10 MEET FRIDAY Executive Meeting Called to | Organize and Discuss Scope of Work. An executive meeting to organize and map out the scope of its work will | be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday by the Capital Auditorium Commission, cre- ated by Congress two months ago to consider the need for a large public assembly hall in the Capital. The necessity for an auditorium capable of accommodating the many important eyents that take place here has been recognized and discussed by officials for many years, but the pres- ent movement is a result of the down- pour of rain which marred the out- door Presidential inauguration cere- monies in January. Thousands of visitors were drenched either at the Capital, or along the line of march. Immediately thereafter, Senate Majority Leader Robinson in- troduced the Auditorium Commission bill, and it passed promptly. The conmission is instructed to re- port recommendations to Congress be- fore the present session ends, and to estimate the cost of the project and how it should be carried out. The first step Friday will be to select a chairman. The commission is composed of Chairman Connally of the Senate Public Buildings Committee, and Sen- ator Austin of Vermont, ranking mi- nority member; Chairman Lanham of the House public buildings group, and Representative Taylor of Tennessee, ranking minority member; and Secre- tary of Interior Ickes. Stay in Line. Weaving in and out of traffic is a dangerous practice. There is little to be gained by it and everything to be lost. The amount of time saved in 20 miles of driving in this unsafe man- ner is altost negligible and certainly is not worth the risk. For every yard of headway made by the *“weaving” driver, scores of other drivers are thrown into confusion and the orderly‘ progress ‘of traffic is disturbed and delayed. R} STEWARD OPPOSES U.3.SPENDING GUT Employes’ Head Calls Drive for 10 Per Cent Reduc- tion “Unsound.” Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federatoin of Federal Employes, today voiced the first out- spoken opposition to the proposed 10 per cent cut in all appropriation bills. Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada wrote the heads of the coun- try's leading labor organizations Mon- day, urging them to oppose the move before it gets & start. Steward characterized the plan as | “unsound, unfair and uneconomical,” and called attention to the fate of a similar scheme in “the misnamed economy legislation” of 1932. “In 1932,” Steward said, “the so- called ‘economy’ drive was successful, but successful only in the sense that it was written into law. In all other respects it was a failure because it was unsoundly premised. “And the National Federation of Federal Employes holds that it is in- escapably true that the same kind of legislation today would fail just as badly in achieving the goal sought; namely, true economy. | “If it is determined that Federal | expenditures must be reduced, let them be reduced sensiblv and honestly. “Let us not again destroy a service | structure and crush morale with the | kind of economic legislation that fails in its fundamental objective.” In addition to Steward, McCarran's letter was sent to William Green, pres- ident of the American Federation of Labor; John L. Lewis, head of the C. I O, and John J. Barrett, head of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks. TO TEST NEW PLANE The Army Air Corps announced to- day it soon will try out a new aire plane built for experimental flying in the sub-stratosphere. The ship is now nearing comple- tion in the Burbank, Calif, plant of | the Lockheed Agrcraft Corp. | the district PAGE B—1 KRIEGER-FROOKS BLACKMAIL CASE S SENT TO JURY Justice Letts Instructs Panel at Length on Laws Involved. EX-TEACHER, LAWYER ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY Woman Buries Head in Arms as U. S. Attorney Denounces Her for “Dragging In" Daughter. A jury in District Court retired at 1 pm. today to decide the guilt or Innocence of Mrs. Mary Krieger, fore mer teacher, and Samuel L. Frooks, New York lawyer, on trial for con- spiracy to blackmail the late Carroll Pierce, Alexandria banker. Justice F, Dickinson Letts, presiding in Crim- inal Division 1, gave the case to the Jjury after instructing members at length regarding the laws affecting blackmail and conspiracy. He told the jury it was at liberty to render a verdict under either or both counts of an indictment ch: ing, first, attempted blackmail of t banker and, second, conspiracy commit this crime One or both of the defendants may be convicted of blackmail, Justice Letts pointed out, but both must be named if the jury finds a conspiracy to | existed Mrs. Krieger, wearing a black straw hat and black dress, buried her head 1n her arms at the counsel table as United States Attorney Leslic C. Garnett as- sailed her for “dragging her innocent young daughter into this mess.” Re- ferring to the appearance of the daughter, Rosemary. 14-year-old stu- dent. Garnett declared her mother had left her “a legacy of lust and lechery.” Closing arguments were begun yes- terday afternoon by Assistant United States Attorney Roger Robb and De- fense Counsel John J. McGinnis The prosecutor reviled Mrs. Krie- ger as a “blood st who plotted a s blackmailer," $2.500 from Pierce under subterfuge” of a threatened suit to extort the * aged in a en Pierce He declared they “crooked scheme” to into paying the money rather than have his “intimate relations” with Mrs. Krieger exposed in court. Statement of Robb. Robb told the jurors they must decide either that Frooks and Mrs. Krieger conspired to blackmail Pierce e ernment witnesses “conspired to ob- struct justice by perjury, larceny and other crimes.” McGinnis, attorney for Mrs ger, defended the actions Krieger and Frooks collect money from Pierce. He de- clared the transaction was ‘“purely commercial,” based on Mrs. Krieger's claim that Pierce had broken an agreement to employ her for life in his bank The defense attorney that Pierce’s attorney Krie- of Mrs. in seeking to charged conspired” with attorney and the police to prevent Mrs. Krieger and Frooks from filing a “legitimate” claim. REALTY LICENSE BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED Barber Shop Regulatory Measure Also Submitted by District Committee. Bills to regulate barber shops and to license and control real estate brokers and salesmen were favorabiyv reported today by the House District Committee. Action was postponed for another week on a bill to regulate beauty parlors. A series of amendments were made in the barber bill to remove objections raised during recent public hearings. The principal one would give the Health Department authority to reg- ulate sanitary conditions in the shops instead of a board of barber exame iners which the bill would create to register barbers. The bill to license real estate brokers also would create a commis- sion to license and regulate their ac- tivities. PROTESTS TO HULL Head of B'Nai Brith Cites Reich Dissolution Order. Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati, president of the order of B'nai Brith, Jewish fraternal and philanthropic | organization, has protested to Secre- tary of State Hull against an order of | the German government dissolving Bmnai Brith in Germany. He told Hull 20,000 members were affected seriously. Their institutions, including hospitals, orphanages and old people’s homes, have been removed from B'nal Brith authority, he said. BAND CONCERT. By the Marine Band in the audie torium at 8 o'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santelmann, assistant. ’ Program. Overture, “In Spring,” Opus 36, Goldmark “Perpetual Motion,” Opus 3 S -Strauss Flute Solo with Orchestra, “Fantasie Pastorale Hongrols,” Opus 26, Doppler Soloist, Clayton Lindsay. Two movements from “Midsummer Night's Dream,” Opus 61, Mendelssohn Scherzo, Pl A e (a) “Nocturne” (b) “Scherzo™ “Invitation to the Dance,” Opus 65, ‘Weingartner arr.___ “Siegfried’s Rhine Journey’ “Gotterdammerung” (a) “Humoreske” (b) “Slavonic Dance” No. 5._Dvorak Fourth Movement from the Sym- phonic Poem “My Fatherland,” Smetana (From Bohemia's Fields and Forests) ) “The Star Spangled Banner.” ¢