Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1937, Page 19

Wash GUARD INCREASED ‘AT TERMINAL HERE AS BUS IS STONED . Attack Made on Greyhound Vehicle, Carrying 29, Near Accotink. SABOTAGE SUSPECTED; 1. C. C. MAY JOIN PROBE : Engine Trouble Leads Driver to Belief Sugar Was Mixed in Gasoline. The police guard at the Greyhound terminal and garage was strengthened today after a bus from Richmond carrying 29 passengers was showered with rocks by three men, just south of Accotink, Va. No one was injured in the attack which took place about 2 am., but the bus is being inspected here for evidence of sabotage. The driver, F. Bell, reported he had engine trou- ble from the time he left Richmond at 9 o'clock last night. leading to the belief sugar may have been mixed in , the gasoline. L. C. Major, regional manager for Greyhound, planned to ask that a representative from the Interstate Commerce Commission be designated for the inspection. The Bureau of Motor Carriers has never been con- fronted with a request of the sort and 1t was not certain what could be done. Second Disturbance Here. The flare-up was the second in this area since the drivers were called on strike at midnight Wednesday by the * Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in e dispute over wages and the closed- €hop issue. The first—Friday after- noon—resulted in charge of assault with a dangerous weapon against 11 men accused of beating William F. Dixon, a driver, who was pulled from & Baltimore-bound bus in the 1200 block of New York avenue northeast. This case was to have been laid be- fore the grand jury this morning, but the United States attorney's office » said the presentment would be de- layed until Wednesday. Mr. Bell first reported today's trou- ble from a garage in Accotink, then gave added details on arrival here, Wwhere the bus was ending its trip. He said he was running late because of the engine trouble, when a man in civilian clothes halted the vehicle at a side road below Accotink. At the same time, an automobile containing another man in civilian clothes and one in a driver’s uniform, pulled out, hurling rocks, and then the three were on their way. Identity of Attackers Known. Mr. Major said headquarters here had been tipped off on the attack and that the identity of the men was known and had been furnished the police. They are strikers, he said, one hailing from Washington and the others from out of town. ‘The only damage to the bus he re- ported consisted of dents in the side and back. A bus following closely be- hind took several passengers off the | first bus, to permit them to make connections here, but those destined locally completed the trip. | Desultory picketing that has marked the progress of tne strike was re- sumed this morning, uniformed men carrying placards parading around the terminal at Fourteenth street and New York avenue N.W. Police and plain-clothesmen, augmented by Grey- hound police, are on duty there while & guard of like make-up is at the garage in the 1300 block of New York avenue NE. It was announced today that the + Greyhound now is prepared to furnish service to New York, through an arrangement with the Safeways buses which are handling Greyhound pas- sengers beyond Baltimore. Heretofore, the traffic beyond Baltimore has been handled by rail. INQUIRY IS URGED Check Up Asked of Drug Price Maintenance Groups. Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York today called upon the Fed- eral Trade Commission to investigate “continuously” State groups he said had been set up to enforce drug price maintenance. Mr. Celler said the inquiry could be undertaken as a part of that into living costs on which the commission has launched at the direction of Pres- ident Roosevelt. BAND CONCERT By the Army Band at the Army Band Auditorium today at 6 p.m. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub- mer, assistant. Program. Descriptive overture, “Street Scene,” Newman Chant sans paroles, “Melodie”._Friml Xylophone solo, “Liebesfrud,” Kreisler Joseph L. Young, solost. Popular, “There's a Gold Mine in the i --- C. and N. Kenney “The Bells of 8t. -Adams Ralph K. Ostrom, soloist. March, “Cheerio” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Marine Band, in the audi- torium, Marine Barracks, tomorrow at 8 pm. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santelmann, second leader. PROGRAM. Overture, “Cosi Fan Tutti”____Mozart ‘Trio for cornets, “Polka Dots”_Buchtel Musicians Chester Shields, Kenneth * Siater and Fugent Kuhns. *Love’s Dream After the Ball,” Czbulka Belections from “The King Steps out” Musician Donald Kimball. Grand march, “Entrance of the Guests Into the Wartburg,” from “Tannhauser” Wi Novyelette, “La Mariposa ---Diaz Brass quintette, with harp accom- Brahms , “O God Our Help in Ages ) Croft ington News known as the “world’s richest girl,” Virginia, who acted as her escort. he YOUTH ON MARCH, TOWN HALL TOLD But for Dictatorship, Not for Democracy, Poling Tells Audience. “Youth is on the march” today throughout the world, Daniel A. Pol- | ing, noted dry leader and editor of the Christian Herald, informed Town Hall | last night in delivering an appeal for ticular tasks in the preservation of democracy. They are marching, however, in the cause of dictatorship, adding that he opposed a single youth movement for the United States. In this opposition to the marshaling of youth behind a single idea, he was joined by Dr. Homer Rainey, director of the American Youth Commission of.the American Council on Educa- tion, and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, both of whom were members of the panel. “We do not want a youth move- ment in this country in -the same sense as in other countries.” Dr. Rainey said, “because there is a defi- nite peril in it. There are a lot of anti-social attitudes among youths which require definite care in their training and education.” Mrs. Meyer added the opinion that & youth movement in a democracy is a menace. Must Be Spontaneous. Dr. Poling, taking as his topic “What About Youth?”, expressed doubt whether a national youth movement could be achieved by adults, and be- lief that it could only arise spon- taneously from the younger genera- tion itself. He described the regimenting of youth in the totalitarian states and the militancy of students in Palestine, India, China and Japan, and pleaded for understanding of the complex en- vironment in which the coming gen- eration was born. “They don’t write the books they read, compose the songs they sing or produce the movies they see,” he said. “They live in a social environ- ment for which they are not re- sponsible. If they make mistakes it is with excuse and justification.” Dr. Poling stated three conclusions from his observation of the *“‘march of youth” throughout the world: 1. They are marching at the call of 8 harsh patriotism, blood and iron, Garibaldi patriotism of which the essence is the Nazi cry that “The highest duty of German youth is to die for the fatherland. 2. They are marching against each other, continually preparing to defend their frontiers, their national honor, from expected attack by youth of other countries. 3. They are marching because of powerful personal leadership—Hitler, Mussolini, Kemal, Stalin, Chiang Kai- shek, Sun Yat-sen and Quezon. Speed-Up Seen. In the panel discussion Dr. Rainey envisaged need for an answer to the problem of three and one-half to four million jobless youths between the ages of 16 and 21, and deplored the trend to eliminate the youth of less than 21 from employment. * “Industrial production would have to rise 15 to 20 per cent above any- thing we have hitherto enjoyed in order to absorb the jobless youths under 21,” he added, deprecating the technological developments which are displacing human labor. “The 30-hour week proposal, and in fact all wages and hours restrictions on employers will result in a speed-up of technology which is just what is going on now.” Dr. Studebaker, who presided, en- tered the panel discussion with the suggestion that modification of the education system is needed to hold larger numbers of children in school longer, and stressed that most young people who leave school early do so because it is unattractive, not because they are forced into it. He urged stronger personalities in the class- rooms, Robert Fechner, director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, was a member of the panel. Beatrioe Forbes-Robertson Hale will speak on the women’s movement next Sunday night at the Rialto Theater. Silver Trophies Stolen. Six silver trophies valued at $60 were stolen from the Sigma Chi Fra- ternity house, at 1312 N street N.W,, | some time between Friday and yes- terday. it was reported to police by Milton 8. Musser, president of Ep- the mobilization of youth behind par- | SECOND SUIT FILED IND. C. TAX ISSUE Fruit and Vegetable Distrib- utor Declares Business Is Interstate. s e | today to test the constitutionality of | | the District'’s new business privilege | | presented. and gross receipts tax. The first attack on the law was | | disposed of by the court without any | | ruting on the constitutional questions raised. The suit today was brought | by Max Shapiro, 1309 Water street | | N.W., president of the local branch | of the National League of Wholesale | Pruit and Vegetable Distributors. Declared Interstate Business. As in the action brought by Howard W. Berry, local advertising man, which was dismissed last week on the ground Mr. Berry had not proven himself to be engaged in interstate commerce, | Mr. Shapiro’s suit alleged that his business was interstate in character. During the year 1936, the court was | told through Attorneys Alvin L. New- myer and David G. Bress, Mr. Shaprio received approximately 325 carloads of perishable commodities, all from outside the District, and distributed a | large part of these commodities in | other States. He contended the tax constitutes a burden on interstate commerce and consequently is unconstitutional. In addition, he told the court, it| | has the effect of excluding local whole- | | salers from the competitive interstate | markets by increasing their operating expenses. The tax, in reality, is a sales or transfer tax on a commaedity, the suit stated, and as such is invalid as amounting to multiple taxation of a single commodity depending on the number of transactions through which it passes before reaching the con- sumer. Tax Regarded Penalty. ‘The court was told also that the tax amounts to a penalty on the man whose own capital is engaged in a transaction over his competitor who sells goods on consignment and Teceives a commission. The levy was described as retro- active, confiscatory, unequal and dis- criminatory. Asking an injunction against en- forcement of the tax, Mr. Shapiro stated that certain members of the league he heads intend to refrain from paying the tax which will become due in about 10 days. Since the suit questions the consti- tutionality of a Federal statute, it must be tried before a special three- Jjudge court. OLD BELL REDEDICATED iN GEORGETOWN CHURCH Returned From Aurora, W. Va., to Evangelical Lutheran Edifice After Absence of Century. Returned to the church where it last tolled about a century ago, “The Old Bell,” historic relic which has rested meantime in Aurora, W. Va., Was re- dedicated yesterday in special services at the Georgetown Evangelical Lu- theran Church, The beil's history is fragmentary, but it is known that the church, founded in 1769, sent the bell to Au- rora about 100 years ago. A small crack in the bell will be repaired before it is put into active use. Two former pastors, Rev Drs. Lu- ther Hess Waring and Gould Wickey, officiated at the services. Wiliiam H. Stombock and Joseph C. Wimmer ar- ranged the rededication ceremonies. Included among other historic pieces of the church on display were an old German Bible printed in 1730, the old pulpit and a valuable communion set. By the Associated Press. CHEEKS, in charge of superstition department for the na- tional contract bridge championships, looked over the en- tries with a sigh today. “Talk about ball players!” he wailed. “Compared with the bridge - players, they’re not even vilnerable. Why, I wouldn't be surprised if some one asked ! to up & dead cat for Juck. : with eatering to | tract Bridge League, i Mrs. Roosevelt (extreme left) as she led her party through the Government’s homestead project at Arthurdale, W. Va., yesterday At the end of the line is Mrs. Doris Duke Cromuwell, accompanied by Representative Jennings Randolph of West henin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Mrs. Roosevelt obviously enj square dance. g Sfar WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NbVEMBER 29, 1937. * L L Mrs. Roosevelt Joins Fun and “Swings Partner” With Homesteaders yed herself when she joined the Tygart Valley homesteaders More than 400 of these settlers heard Mrs. Roosevelt say, “I am not interested in what I am doing for you, but what you are doing for yourselves,” during her speech to the residents. The Tygart Valley project is near Elkins, W. Va. Broadcast Tonight to Feature Opening of Bridge Leading Experts of Game | to Be Heard Over WJSV. By FRANK B. LORD. The opening of the eleventh national bridge tournament at the Hotel Shore- ham tonight will be featured by a | broadcast over station WJSV in which leading experts of the game will be | Among those who will be heard will be Gordon M. Gibbs of Bloomfield, N. J., president of the American Con- recently voted the Wetzler memorial trophy as the outstanding man of bridge in 1937 Ely Culbertson, Baron Waldemar von Zwedtwitz, who gave up his Austria baroncy to become an American bridge player; Sir Derrick J. Wernher an others. The broadcast will start at 6:30 p.m. Lt. Comdr. William A. Corley, U. 8. N., retired president of the Washing- ton Bridge League under whose aus- pices the national tournament is be- ing held this week, was busy today with his committee in arranging pairs and teams of four for the big meet. Tonight will be Washington Bridge League night when local players will contest against visitors from all sec- tions of the country. The real tourna- ment matches will start tomorrow afternoon with the women's team of | four championship match for the Charles E. Coffin trophy. The cup-defending team consists of Mrs. R. B. Fuller of New York, Mrs. Florence Stratford of Cleveland, | Mrs. A. M. Sobel of Los Angeles and | Mrs. L. G. Quigley of Chicago. Mrs. Quigley will be absent tomorrow and | her place will be taken by Mrs. Mabel Ervin of New York. Among the leading teams to be matched against them will be one comprising Mrs. Martha Lemon, Washington; Mrs. M. R. West, Wash- ington; Mrs. R. C. Young, New York, and Mrs. Llewellyn Lord, Baltimore; a second, composed of Mrs. Helen Rockwell, Warren, Pa., president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Ameri- can Contract Bridge League; Mrs. Marguerite McKenney, wife of the sec- retary of the league; Mrs. Allan Ru- therfold, Baltimore, and Mrs. E. B. Tourney LT. COMDR. WILLIAM A. CORLEY. —Bachrach Photo. Swanson, Washington secretary of the local organization, and ‘a third espe- cially strong team will be composed of Mrs. M. 8. Teichman, New York; Mrs. Maude 8. Zontlein, New York; Mrs. C. B. Pennebaker, Washington, and Mrs. W. S. Athey, Washington. The mixed pair match, which starts tomorrow night, also promises to be | interesting. The trophy is now held by James H. and Martha Lemon of | Warhington. Among the leading con- tenders are Mrs. Frederick Van Nuys wife of the senior Senator from Indi- ana, and Walter J. Pray of Indianap- olis; Dr. Llewellyn Lord of Baltimore and Mrs. A. P. Stockvis, Washington; Mrs. Llewellyn Lord and Harold Karp of Baltimore, Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Cheeks of Washington and Mrs. M. R. West and Louis R. Watson, jr., Wash- ington. In the open pair championship battie Oswald Jacoby, the ace of the Four Aces, will play with Henry Chenin of Atlanta. Mr. Chenin, who made a re- markable individual score in the Van- derbilt Cup match, has announced he has a mystery team from Atlanta which he will enter in the team-of- four championship contest. N “DUMBEST ANIMAL” SKULL IN SMITHSONIAN Crested Hadrosaurus, Dinosaur, Lived in Montana 100,000,000 Years Ago. By the Associated Press. A skull of one of the dumbest ani- mals which ever lived was added yes- terday to the collections of the Smith- sonian Institution. The beast was a crested hadrosaurus, a dinosaur which lived in Montana about 100,000,000 years ago, Dr. Charles W. Gilmore, a Smithsonian curator, said. Although it had a head more than 2 feet long with a crest like the comb of a gigantic rooster, the hadrosaurus “had just about sense enough to eat when it was hungry.” Its brain weighed only one or two ounces. MAN IN TRAILER HURT Attacked When He Answers Door Call—Assault Is Mystery. Robert W. Brent, 69, watchman for 8 steel corporation, who lives in a trailer on the Stanton School grounds, Good Hope and Naylor roads SE., was cut on the left side of his head by one of two men yesterday when he opened the door in answer to a call. Brent, who told police the men were about 29 years old, said they called to him for a piece of rope, saying their car was stuck nearby. He could give no reason for the as- Vsault, police said. at the battle of pasteboards which begins tonight at the Shoreham Hotel, Cheeks faces this sort of assignment: He must find a portable divan for Edward Hymes, jr., who curls up with the cards before making s tough play. Provide s masseur for P. Hal 8Sims, who never goes into a tournament play without a head massage. Keep the way cleared.to, Rau’s room. If he runs h‘d “SPIRITUAL FRONT” URGED BY RECTOR Inclusive, Strategic Action Is Needed, Rev. S. M. Shoemaker Says in Cathedral Sermon. To create & spiritual front across the world, the church today needs the same kind of inclusive, stategic action as is needed when nations go to war, the Rev. Samuel Moore Shoemaker, rector of Calvary Church on Gramercy Park, New York City, declared yester- day in a sermon in Washington Cathedral. Speaking on “The Church Has the Answer” Mr. Shoemaker said: “This country is full of people who are no longer in touch with organized re- ligion, whose hearts are not cold to Christ, and His real cause, and His organized church, if we touch them on the right side. “The forces of anti-Christ have used the differences among Jews, Catholics and Protestants % banish almost all religion from the schools and from social work in New York City,” he said. “In our sentimental fear of stepping on somebody’s toes, we have left breaches in the line for the enemy to come pouring through. There are nations today where churches have been closed and burncd because they did not recognize the enemy and combine against him in time. That can happen here. It will it anti-Christ goes on unchecked.” luck, he’ll dash upstairs' and change his clothes right down to his socks. Forestall a carnation shortage in the Capital. Ely Culbertson never enters play ‘withoui onme, al- . though he denies he’s superstitious. Make sure nobody sits in William McKinney's chair. He it from table to table or he doesn’t: play. Prevent kibitsers from Mra. Sims well. Bhe bad luck to have some it's her 1300.C. GAMBLING PLAGES ALLEGED ! g Gaming | Conspiracy Defendants. Answering a demand by Abe Plesco, ‘ alias “Jew Boy"” Dietz, for particulars | of the gaming conspiracy charged in | an indictment pending against him | and 31 others, the Government today listed 136 addresses of alleged gambling establishments. These places, it claims, were linked with the web of telephone wires by | which Plesco’s National Telecast, Inc,, | is said to have supplied this city with ! illicit racing information. Dietz and the others named in the | true bill, including five policemen, | were indicted® after a spectacular | series of 65 forays by special police squadrons last spring. Thirty-four other indictments were returned at the | same time as the conspiracy true bill | and charged substantive violations of the anti-gaming law. A total of 124 persons were accused. | The list filed today by the Govern- | ment was in reply to demands by at- torneys of Dietz for & bill of par- ticulars. | In the requested bill, Assistant | United States Attorney Roger Robb | { Addresses Listed by Prose- | cutor in Answerin | stated the conspiracy alleged in the | indictment “contemplated the setting | |up and keeping of gaming tables gambling devices and gaming places” | at the addresses listed and at “divers other places in the District of Co- lumbia the exact location of which is unknown to the United States at- torney.” Many of the places listed have been raided, Robb said, while police have information that gambling was being carried on at others, COMMITTEE BACKS JUDGE M’MAHON The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted a favorable report on the reappointment of Judge John P. Mc- Mahon for another term on the Police Court bench. His nomination prob- ably will come up for confirmation in the Senate tomorrow. Judge Me- Mahon has been on the bench for about 20 years. The three appointments to the Dis- trict Court of Appeals are still await- ing action of subcommittees. They are: Associate Justice D. Lawrence Groner, for promotion to chief justice; Representative Fred M. Vinson, Demo- crat of Kentucky, to be an associate justice, and Prof. Henry W. Edger- ton of New York, to be an associate justice. The subcommittees have not yet had any requests for hearings. The full committee also reported favorably on the nomination of Judge Finis J. Garrett of the Court of Cus- toms Appeals to be presiding judge of the court. Officer on Way To Halt Fight Bitten by Dog A bulldog, which evidently was anx- lous to perpetuate a family quarrel, expressed his objection to interference last night by forcing Policeman Mar- vin O. Myers to leave somewhat faster than he had arrived. Rushing to a house in the 600 block of Sixth street N.W. to investigate a reported family fight, the officer was greeted, first by a growl and then by a bite in the leg. ‘The quarrel was ended by that time, anyway, 80 Mr. Myers overcame a de- sire to supply some real news by bit- ing the dog, and went to Casualty Hospital to have his leg treated. Bridge Bigwigs Don't Believe It's in the Cards Keep the way open from the door to the chair of Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz, who won't come in until the whisile blows. Dissuade any one from picking up the stub pencil which Mrs. McKinney carries. She's been known to insult strangers who touched it. - Is Cheek superstitious? “Not about cards,” he explained, “but I am about superstition. SBup- pose some one borrow Mr, McKinney's _cha; T've got my. fingers crossed.” —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. DO DUKEGOES TOPENKSYLVAN World’s Richest Girl and Mrs. Roosevelt Extend Inspection Tour. By the Associated Press. MORGANTOWN, W. Va,, Nov. 20.— Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Doris Duke Cromwell motored from the roliing hills of West Virgina today to industrial Western Pennsylvania on an inspection trip of homestead proj- ects and mining settiments. Mrs. Roosevelt and “the world's richest girl” headed for a homestead project conducted by the Friends' Service Committee near Brownsville, in Pennsylvania'’s bituminous coal region. The Brownsville district, like some of the area the party covered yester- day, depends on coal for its principal industry. There thousands of miners were unemployed during the depres- sion years, but in normal times smoke hangs heavy over the hills and coke ovens twinkle like fireflies in the night. Poverty and Luxury. The heiress to the Duke millions saw yesterday the poverty of a mining village and, in contrast, the compara- tive luxury of modern, adequate life on a Government homestead at near- by Arthurdale. Neither sight was new to Mrs. Roosevelt, a frequent visitor to homestead projects in West Vir- ginia. Squalor in dusty, unpainted houses perched side by side on the hills over- looking the mine pits greeted them at the liitle settlement of Osage, where sulphur-colored Scotts Run twists be- tween the hills. There Mrs. Cromwell visited in the two-room shack of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Campbell. Campbell, an unemployed miner, supports his six children on W. P. A. wages and sends three of them to school, although they are un- able to buy books. $5 a Month Rent. “We are supposed to pay $5 a month rent for our house, but we haven't paid for two or three months now,” the miner’s wife replied in answer to & question from Mrs. Roosevelt. It was then that observers in the party noted that Mrs. Cromwell ap- peared more interested in the pov- erty of the miners than the plenty of the well-housed, adequately employed homesteaders, most of whom also once lived in the tiny, boxlike dwellings clustered about the mines. Earlier the visitors attended the tiny church at Arthurdale, where 20 de- nominations worship side by side. They stopped for the night at a hotel in Morgantown. SPEAKER WILL DISCUSS FAMOUS CHURCH HYMNS Canon Douglas to Talk Tonight at Washington Cathedral in Special Service. The historical development of fa- mous church hymns will be traced in an address at 8 o'clock tonight by Ganon Winfred Douglas, speaking be- fore the Church Music Society at Washington Cathedral. Canon Doug- las came from the Cathedral of St. John in Denver to attend the service. A combined choir of 120 men and boys from the Cathedral, St. John's Episcopal Church of Washington, St. John's Episcopal Church of George- town and St. Stephen will sing. This is the first of three special services and lectures sponsored by the society for the advancement of music in local churches. The public is invited. el SENATOR KING DELIVERS WARNING AGAINST ‘ISMS’ Cites U. 8. as Outstanding Exam- ple of Constitutional Rule in Talk to Order. Citing the United States as the world’s “outstanding example of strong constitutional government,” Senator William H. King of Utah yesterday warned 700 members of the Order of "Ahepa against foreign “isms.” Senator King spoke at a meeting in the Roosevelt High School auditorium in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Constitution. Other speakers were Nicholas G. Lely, counselor of the Greek Legation; Constantine G. omou, supreme secretary of the of Aheps, and Achilles Outsonis, sttorney. Society and General PAGE B—1 B3C. &P. LINES DECLARED PLAGED FORRACE RESULTS Witness at Gambling Trial Tells of Installation for - Telecast, Inc. TELEPHONE SUPERVISOR REVEALS PRIVATE LINES One of Defendants Denies Having Any Connection With Al- leged Dive. Between July, 1936, and March, 1937, the Chesapeake & Potomac Teie- phone Co. installed approximately 65 private lines for National Telecast, Inc., which is accused by the Govern- ment of supplying racing information to most of Washington's bookmakers, a witness testified in District Court today. The disclosure was made in the gambling trial of Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Floratos, well-known Wash- ington sporting figure, and four others, which began a week ago The witness, Josephus Sands, a com- mercial supervision for the telephone company, was placed on the stand by Defense Counsel Harry T. Whelan. Tells of Installation. He testified that the telephone com- pany installd a private line to Floratos' cigar store at 922 Ninth street N.W., which was raided March 10, along with numerous other alleged gambling establishments. In response to a direct question from Mr. Whelan, he said the company had installed some 65 such lines during the months which preceded the raids by special police squads aimed at crushing the Capital's bookmaking business. “Did you ever investigate premises for which application had been made for a private wire to National Tele- cast?” inquired Mr. Whelan, “On some occasions,” replied the witness, who went on to explain that those occasions were when the credit standing of the applicant was in doubt, or when the premises previously had been raided. City-wide Conspiracy Charged. National Telecast, the Government contends, is headed by Abe Plisco, alias “Jewboy” Dietz, who is named with 31 others in an indictment charging a city-wide conspiracy to violate the anti-gambling laws. One of the defendants in the trial today was placed on the stand and de- | nied having anything to do with the | alleged gambling joint. He was Ber- | nard Newyahr. He said he was in the place only once and that was the day it was raided. He told the jury he went there to place a bet on a race horse and added he did not see any of the other defendants there. The defense was expected to rest this afternoon and there was a possibility the case might go to the jury before the end of the day. On trial with Floratos and Newyahr are Vincent A. Marino, John A. Clem- ents and Ben..e M. Traub. The five are accused of operating a bookmaking establishment at the Ninth street address. A jury of one woman and eleven men was impaneled in the case last Mon- day morning by Justice Jesse C. Ad- kins. Assistant United States Attor- ney Samuel F. Beach is conducting the prosecution, and the defendants are represented by Attorneys Whelan, Myron G. Ehrlich and Achilles Catsonis. CONTRACT’'S BREACH CHARGED BY UNION Local Asks District Court to En- join_Contractor From Sub- agreement Wages. Charging a contract violation, the Journeymen Plasterers’ Local No. 7 asked District Court today to enjoin Clarence Melcher, a contracting plas- terer, from paying sub-contract wages on an apartment house construction project just over the District line, on Sixteenth street N.W. Through the law firm of Berman & Smith the union told the court it entered into a contract with Melcher and some 40 other contracting plas- terers last August 6, fixing working conditions for journeymen plasterers in this vicinity. N According to the suit, the con- tracting plasterers promised to con- tinue to pay the prevailing wage of $1 an hour and to maintain a 5-day, 40-hour-week until March, 1938. Melcher is paying his journeymen plasterers either 75 cenis or 87!: cents an hour and working them 44 hours a week, the suit contends. Unless the court enjoins the pay- ment of these wages, other contract- ing plasterers will be forced to reduce the wages they pay in order to meet the competition, the suit declared. Female Tree Produces Red Holly Berries By the Associated Press. When you put up your Christmas decorations and hang the holly wreaths in the windows and on the doors your admiration for the green foliage and red berries will be directed toward the female of the species. For it is the female holly tree, Ag- riculture Department experts said to- day, which bears the red berries—the male tree produces only a small yellow flower. Holly is one of the few trees that have males and females. This pecu- liarity, the experts said, is the reason some persons cultivate holly trees and find no red berries. They have plant- ed male trees, similar to the female in sappearance. ‘Though holly is Nation-wide in pop- ularity and more than 30 towns all over the country have taken their names in full or part from it, the native holly grogs only in the south- eastern States, Maryland as the most Northern it.