Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1937, Page 5

WEIL By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August spectors watched closely today the Chicago haunts of Joseph R. (the Yellow Kid) Weil, king of confidence men, who evaded Govi yesterday at Birmingham, Ala., where for more than a vear he had posed as a doator. Reputed bv police more than $10.000.000 investors in almost 30 silver-tongued Weil had been sought for nearly two years ment returned in New use of the mails to defraud Although authorities said his ac- tivities etxended from CHIEARD HADNTS VATGHED King of Confidence Men Evaded U. S. Agents Yes- terday in Birmingham. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1937 6 —Postal in- ernment agents to have taken from incautious years, the aging on an indict- York, charging coa End to Memorial Bridge ‘Tug Tie-Up’ Seen But the Albemarle Will Continue to Hold Up Highway and Railroad Structures to Dredge the Potomac. marle and & huge mud scow into posi- waiting for a span to open. Delay may merely annoy the motor- ist, but it's a real worry to Capt. Dan- iels, who has a crew of 14 men, and expensive, sometimes unwieldly equip- By the Associated Press. ment to think of. The tall, soft-spoken Virginia waterman, who has worked on tugs since boyhood, is making the best of a tough job. “I don’t want to hold up all those automobiles on the bridges,” he said today, “but what else can I do? There's a job to be finished, and we're pushing it to the limit. We're work- ing three shifts, 24 hours a day. “The crew works 8 hours and knocks off 16, but my substitute and I get in 12 hours a day. *“These bridges are the worst part of our job. It's a tricky business going up and down in the wind and tideway, waiting for a chance to get through. “Last night we had to wait 40 min- Administration officials. ST. LOUIS, August 6.—Tenants of & 252-unit apartment, neighborhood Gardens, built as & P. W. A. slum clearance project, faced an unwelcome rent increase today and threatened a controversy that finally may be placed in the hands of Public Works J. A. Wolf, managing director of the $742,000 apartment and one of the organizers of a limited dividend corporation which constructed housing project with the aid of a P. W. A. loan, said he was “Sorry about 1t,” but the rents, ranging from $18 to $38 monthly, “must be raised.” Wolf explained rent receipts thus tion and battles wind and tide while Rent Rise Notice Is Ser'ved On P. W. A. Project Tenants far only have been sufficient to pay interest on the $640,000 Government loan and taxes. Nothing has been paid on the principal of the loan. Even with a 10 per cent rent increase, he said, it will be years before the in- vestors, who contributed $102,000, re- ceive even & part of the interest on their money. Indicating that the rent controversy may be submitted to P. W. A. officials, Wolf remarked: “The P. W. A. has the first mortgage and the last word.” The apartment was built to provide housing facilities for families with an income from $60 to $80 a month, The average monthly income of pres- ent tenants is $125 a menth, utes in the channel while they let clear the rail traffic before they let us through. The lights on that bridge blind you & night, and sometimes the span swinging toward you cuts off the view from the pilot house. “We have to be careful not to get caught between the bridges, especially e Raiirosd. Bridxe. They_wiwass | DELAY GRANTED IN PERJURY CASE Mrs. Carrie Grey Gets 30-Day Grey argued over possession of the child. Axselle has petitioned for rehearing of the divorce suit and has asked cus- tody of the child. In addition to the perjury charge, Mrs. Grey also is under bond on & bigamy charge, her husband contending the divorce was A 400,000 VIEW ART Exhibition of “Awful Examples” Is 8)onsored by Nazis. MUNICH, Germany, August 6 (£ — Nearly 400,000 persons in the lasy three weeks have streamed past the pictures hung by the Nazi governe ment as “awful examples” of “degene erate art"” The exhibition, designed to teach the public “to what depths art sank in Germany” before Chancellor Adolf took over, attracted 35,600 pere sons Jast Sunday alone Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebe bels invited the public to “view with shuddering and herror,” but anti- government circles advanced the theory that the publie interest repre- sented a demonstration by art-lovers of Munich, Young and old applauded the ballet, “The Baby Stork,” in Mos. cow, Russia, recently, ———eey ATTENTION HOMEOWNERS Postponement When Ar- illegal, Weil until recentiy concentr 3 . coming downcurrent with a loaded : ; , operations in Ch.':\acn His activities 4 3 : scow. You can stop an automobile, raigned Today here won him the sobriquel, “The ; - and it will stay put, but try holding a| A 30-day postponement was granted | TORNADO HITS HELENA Yellow Kid"” 2 big tug and & dump scow loaded with | in Pojjce Court today to Mrs. Carrie : 700 or 800 cubic yards of gravel in | Grey, 40, of 2213 Fairlawn avenue| . ’ Sartorial the tideway with the wind blowing. | Southeast, who was arraigned on a . ELENA, Mont., August 6 () —A “I can tell you we're mighty glad | fuilive warrant charging her with | rief tornado swept through Helena to get clearance when we blow our | PErjury in obtaining a divorce in King | and ““!l Helena late yesterday, leav- | ~ y N il 0l letely wi C ctri whistle. We go through as quickly [ Georges County, Va., two years ago. | 1€ bm'x nmvpvl ely without electric The answer to an economieal a8 possible. If the motorists don't | Judge John P. McMahon set bond at | POWer and disrupting communications Fpalr Jeb e ts QUALITY LOM. like to wait, they might think of us | $500. i A i R " The wind whipped planking through e i sy theaianduier 5 : . . ipped pl r omeo Gver_town always | “habitually” using local waterways mxrnruz{ne.\Albe - bt ulk“m'mm dlfl};;nx:slz;;xx,A Rx;hmm:d walls of the American Smelting & ;';':-‘nla'n. ‘:‘!Tyzfi:_"ng,._:,;:m.” many occasions had bilked victims of | the right is a “Port of Wash- | be “advised” to reduce the height of he 'marle’s mast is short- | attorney, an WA xselle, Bhe | pefining Co. plant, where Mansger J We cater to small orders; out ) % ington, D. C.” t vith sh ; der | €ned, the vessel cad pass under Ar-| woman’s first husband, claim that | ) S eal | e e e $100000 in a single transaction.| ington, D.C.” tug with short 3 [ichelritvesselsd o fR18Tiereetifin Foraer |t SAs aseican Res B0 29-foot | when Mrs, Grey secured a divorce in | D: MACKenze commented, “It's a TR ooy, popredystaest gt he Postal agents said he was wanted| funnel and superstructure a hat they may pass under the bridges. | lngton Bridge, e 1 00! LSk (YOrce M| wonder several men weren't killed | Without additional charge. . Why 5 i i B = N clearance, without using the draw.|May, 1936, on grounds of desertion, |\ = i e niot stop in or phone NORTH 1341 now for swindling some prominent conforming _with the law The Albemarle, however, is from R ARaliiohd Beidges. F e oe Tl s oA atat F by the flying planks. New York and Washington residents | 10hich permits it to pass un- ; | Norfolk und cannot be described as |Highway an liroad Bridges, how- | she perjured herself by.stating she pair problems with one ‘of o 5 S 5 £ X 2 " 5 . | ever, are 11 feet lower and the tug |did not know her husband’s address - experts. I you desire. we'l h of $75,000 through allew 08 lent der the draw 4 habitual” user of the Potomac | i 75,000 through alleged fraudulent | - & “habitu Id not clear them even with her|so he could be motified of it ; Send our representative to #ive use of the mails. - because she will return to bay waters | cOuld not clear n 1 n » he coul i 0! 1€ suit and ‘divey i a A faili ¢ ¢ th had you & complete free estimate. : 2 | stack remove, and by failing to mention they ha AR DEPARTMENT engineers when the channel-deepening job has 3 % J. FRANK 5 " “It looks like we'll have to make the | a son. 3 sought today to remove at been completed here, it was said —make home repairs now, See us for View above shows how the draw of the Arlington Me- morial Bridge must be opened many times daily to allow the ocean-going tug Albermarle < of Norfolk, Va. (left), to pass Police descrived Weil as a man| tArough with barges bf mud who scorned “piker” dealings and on| dredged from the channel. To ! was noted | until 1934 when he had the beard removed, he aid. to avoid embarrassing his enator James Hamilton LUMBER MILLWORK BUILDING MATERIALS not occurred during the morning and evening rush hours. The spans can- not be raised between 8:20 and 9 a.m. | and 4:30 and 5:15 pm. Federal regulations provide further | that owners of tugs and power boats St best of things until this job is done,” : renstein, thi { al S Army engineers pointed out that | According to Lovenstein, the woman INC. SLAYING OF 6 G-MEN ::::t'?:lr;:‘;rt::si:;‘?;\dv;‘- | virtually all tugs heavy enough to | Cabt. Daniels declared. Army engi- | married Kemp B. Parkinson less than | - i | 2121 Ga. Ave. NO. 1341 IN TRADE =~ . LAID TO FREED CONVICTS | the liting of draw spans on Highway | - i handle the big dumping scows are | Deers were of the same opinion. a week after obtaining the decree ON NEW | ) ; al Y e he second h t and Arlington Memorial bridges for | too tall to clear the local bridges When her second husband committed 11 PONTIACS | v r . . suicide, th ttorney said, sh n the passage of the tug Albemarle some Only under exceptional conditions, L)ghtnmg Takes Beard. uic e attorney sa e came Lester, F. B. I Inspector, Urges 20 times daily | such as exist on the Chicago River, to Washington and was married to 4221 Conn. Ave. Clev. 8400 where bridges are low and motor | Lightning played pranks during a | Alex Grey Bore{BevereFolicyiToward, | (| SSOEEnE) io chlmates, Tmore than | traffic heavy, are powerful tugs de-|storm at Guben, Prussia. When it| Last May Mrs. Grey went to Dum- | g, BhhIclen S Aortnd b it | signed for 13 or 14 foot clearances, |struck an electric transformer piant | barton, Va. Lovenstein stated, and ¢ ik ol for the spans to be opened and closed experts pointed out | it opened a large iron door with a big | took her 8-vear-old son, wal.n‘ e Ax- By the Associnted Precs i S pened and, close | The motorists who fret at delay daily bang. The door hit & little girl, in- | selle, from school there. The woman OAKLAND, Calif, August 6-—W.| “’;‘“9 single boat on the bridges have nothing on Capt. | juring her. Then the bolt tore away | was arrested yesterday after Axsell saw H. Drane Lester, inspector of mg‘ ngineers estimated that if 10 feet ; ; George Daniels as he jockeys the Albe- | an old man’s beard his son on the street and he and Mrs. | Federal Bureau of Investigation, | Of the tug's mast for carrying signal Washington. said yesterdav the six | iRhts can be removed or hinged. the &pecial agenis killed in line of duty | YesSel can clear Arlington Bridge with- heleae) o ars were victims of | 0UU the necesity of lifting the span. | $avoled of pardone £ooiicis | Not even a hinged smoke stack, how- Discussing the pardon and parole | €€ Would permit the tug to clear system at the convention of the Pa-| HBNWAY Bridge at high tide. rific Coast Association of Law En.| The Albemarle is engaged in push- orbenatom ureed co- | INE big mud scows between George- D form and | [O%0 Channel. which is being dredged. | draw span on the Eleventh Street th crimi- | 804 Gravelly Point. The tug and| Bridge from a dredging job above her dump scows make some 10 round | the bridge. The 21-foot clearance of * Justice rec- | WIPS daily, and three bridges are| (hjg bridge at high tide is not suffi- 12,000 crimi- opened for her about 20 times each.| cient to let the tug pass. This draw & ;mr!udmg the Railroad Bridge. | must be raised even if the tug's mast Supervising engincers said today | is shortened. they would request the Norfolk Dredg- | Aithough thousands of motorists Co.. which owns the tug, to make | have been delayed on Arlington and | uctural changes permitting the o i st Highway Bridges, these delays have | HURLER TO LEAD BAND !vesel to clear Arlington Bridge | They admitted, however, that they { SRS could not force the company to com- | ply with the request Three More Weeks' Work. The dredging of Georgetown Channel will require three weeks or more, and | then activities will be transferred to | and Bast Capitol streets the Anacostia River and sections of The carnival was planned in an ef- | {pa water front near the Navy Yard, fort to earn $100,060 for & new church | Hains Point and the Army War Col- th building to be constructed in the i medioatl lege it eause. Don't cuffer mesdiomsly . Fall, according to Rev, Edward J.| t PILEFOE today for guaraniond Neetor, assistant pastor. GEORGE DANIELS, Captain of the Albemarle. tS’“LS'”U, Pho[u.7 Irene Rich says:- Don’t B Fat Simply eat sensibly and"‘d'rin‘kfl -"’*' ; Welch’s Grape Juice””. Bals more sev He said Dep ords show ap nal homicides annual convictions, averaging three yi and 81X montk i Walter Johnson, former Washington pitcher, will try hand as leader of the Knights of Columbus Band tonight | When he visits the carnival of Holy Comforter Catholic Church, Fifteenth e TR D:vnlfl' and Iteh. 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