Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1937, Page 8

HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 'D. OCTOBER 31, 1937—PART ONE. A—8 T —_— Missing PONPEZISHELD INRAGKETSASE Witness to Appear Against Leaders of $50,000,000 Policy Ring. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Oct Pompez was ordered bail today at the request Rackets Prosecutor Thom as a material witness against leaders | of a $50,000,000 policy ring. Nine months & fugitive in Mexico, Pompez, & swarthy, heavily built man | of 47, returned here voluntarily after | suddenly deciding to abandon efforts to resist extradition. He was shackled | to two detectives when he arrived this | morning with Livingston Goddard, one | of Dewey's assistants, who joined the | party in St. Louis Pompez was named in three indict- nents charging extortion and opera- tion of a policy racket | “The back 1d of this case starts in 1931, when the policy racket, op- SATD TO HAVE DISAPPEARED SA 3 TO AZORES. 30.—Alexander held in $1,000 | of Special | s E. Dewey | VICTOR BREVOORT. The 59-year-old scion of a famous Dutch family that once owned a large part of erated by well over 100 bankers, was | Manhattan Island is reported taken over by the late Dutch Schuliz| 0. have disappeared while to the accompaniment of extortion, ‘\“f[‘”” alone toward the beatings, kidnapings and other| AZores. He had lived as a crimes,” Dewey said. “Having done| Semi-recluse in Miami for 14 that, each banker became a minor| YE€UTS: —A. P. Photo. JOHN CARSON TG SPEAK + | partner and servant of the Schultz| mob.” Dewey said he was not after “the | small fry” but “gangsters, gunmen " and their leaders in this racket.” | Democratic Women to Hear Coun- Pompez and his partner, Joseph| sel for Bituminous Commission. M. Isen, escaped arrest by a few John Carson, former newspaper cor- respondent and At present consumers’ counsel of the Bituminous Coal Com- back from France, and he and the 75 | i cion will discuss current events at arrested, Dewey said, are material | . Nitheisia a luncheon meeting of the Woman's He told the court Pompez waived ex- | National Democratic Club at 12:30 tradition and agreed to become a “wit- | P.m. tomorrow in the clubhouse, 1526 ness for the people in the same man- | New Hampshire avenue N.W. Mrs. ner as Isen.” Robert E. Nelson will speak at &/ Counsel for Pompez announced ac- : i e ceptance of a promise by Dewey to | ™Meeting of the Edu 11 Thursday, it was an- have the defendant “continuously pro- tected by special policemen.” nounced. minutes last January 15, when & raid by Dewey’s office resulted in the ar- rest of 75 persons. Isen was brougnt at a.m. tients numbering from two up will be located on the I street front of the building, above the first floor, and in the north “stem” of the building, above the sixth floor. On the roof it is planned to have a glass-inclosed solarium for convales- cent patients and also open deck courts inclosed by high parapet. Construction of the new hospital, for which plans are complete, prob- | ably will get under way shortly after | the first of the new year, although, under contract, occupants of the prop- | erty have until March to vacate. The occupants are the Friends Meeting and Sidwell Friends' School. The school | is constructing new facilities on its Hospital (Continued From First Page.) fcal building on that corner. Beneath the store will be the drugroom for hos- | pital supplies, operated by the drug | firm under the supervision of hospital authorities. The present drug store at | Nineteenth and I streets will continue uncer Maxwell & Tennyson at the same place Connecting the two medical build- ings on either side, owned and oper- ated also by physicians, dentists and affiliated professions, a ground-floor passageway will run from Eighteenth to Nineteenth streets, through the hospital in the middle. The three | Wisconsin avenue property, and under | structures are to use a single telephone | present plans, it is understood, will | system and central heating plant | move during the Christmas holidays. Ambulance Facilities Provided, | Conferences are held virtually every Ambulance facilities are provided in | Week end between officials of Doctors the rear of the first floor so that| Hospital, headed by Dr. Charles Stan- patients can be transferred either to|ley White, president; Dr. Hunter and an emergency room or through a spe- | Others, with representatives of Fran- cial passage to the stretcher elevators, | ¢isco & Jacobus of New York, engi- neers and architects, and with Lee Paschall of Richmond, Va., the con- tractor, who is to build the hospital. The contract, it is understood, calls for a structure costing about $1,250,- 000 equipped. The architectural firm has been represented here by LeRoy Q. Ferry and A. L. R. Francisco, Labor for the actual work on the building, it is understood, will be ob- tained entirely here in Washington without passing through another cor- | ridor. include The first floor will DAYTON FAN BELTS For All Cars MILLER-DUDLEY/ 1716 14/ ST.NW. NORTH 1583 a large lobby, waiting room, the busi- ness quarters, consultation and record rooms, and the doctors’ library. Changes have been made in plans for the front of the hospital, so as to give the institution an appearance in architectural harmony with, but distinctly different from the adja- cent medical buildings. Pilasters will | be in front of the hospital, between the rows of large windows. The front part of the hospital will be 10 stories in height, while a so-called “stem,” or wing. running northward to the rear, will be six or seven stories, with construction arranged to extend it to 10 stories in the future.| Light without windows will enter the operating rooms through use of “glass brick.” These operating rooms start on the second floor, where there will be four major operating rooms, completely air-conditioned, two of which will extend two stories in height with ceilings running to the top of the third story One of these will have a gallery on the third floor from which special visitors can wit- ness operations below. A magnificent setting— & cuisine celebrated for its excellence. 51 50 DE LUXE DINNER Private Rooms for Mothers. Mothers may stay all night with their sick children in the pediatric wards and private rooms on the third floor, under special arrangements al- ready in the plans. 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