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SEP 1938 Weather Forecast Br V. I. albar kMl ctovar turn wtnot aw MOWSM LAI NMR AN IMtlUW. C1B 388317 DMHILY lEACTJE RACING EXTRA H7th YEAR 241 aUrau hi ts Bra a latetfle a Obu MatUr BROOKLYN, N. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3l 1938 THREE JCENT3 Vfce Bara Mttr nn Liu MB Charges of Racket Payments to Hines Highlight Davis' Story of Spotty Career JM00 77L4Z5; SMITH WINS OUT DESPITE 'PURGE' Testifies How Meeting With Schultz Put Him on Road to 'Success' 1 M.VSMX.J aa.ug J( Democrats Try SWEARS HE GAVE RACKET CASH ON SCHUL TZf ORDERS Dewey's Ace Witness Declares He Took' $2,000 to leader at His Home-Tells How He Became Social Pal of Boss-Curry 's Evidence Weakened by Stryker By WILLIAM WUI The long-awaited J.

Richard (Dixie) Davis, brains ttie Oaten Schults policy ganr, swore in Supreme Court today tnat he handed Schalts money to Tammany District Leader lames J. Hines "at least 15 or 29 times." Fresh-faced and yeatbfnl-looking, Davis was the day's second star witneso in the trial of Hines for selling political protection to the Schults racketeers. John F. Curry, white ustacb ed former leader of Tammany HaH who yesterday swore that he passed Hines' reauerts for pollee transfers on to a Tammany Police Comsnissdoner and that they were "Invariably" carried out, had preceded him. Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker fought to exclude the Curry story on the ground that it was all "suspicion and surmise," but the story remained.

The young lawyer Davis he was 26 when he met the powerful political leader Hines became very friendly with him, he swore; went to restaurants and prise lights with him, saw him two or three times a week. TELLS OF $2,000 PAYMENT He was presently paying bim large amounts of policy money, he testified. Once it was $2,000, which he said he paid Hines at his home, 444 Central Park West, Manhattan. Leo Rosenthal. Hines go-between, had told him Hines needed the money "and I gave it to him." "What did he say?" asked District Attorney Thomas E.

Dewey. "He said, 'Thank He reeovered half that amount from George Here Is how Dapper Dixie Davis, eclipsing George Weinberg as the State's star witness in the Hines trial, today told of handing racket money to the Tammany leader on orders from Dutch Schultz: Q. Leo Rosenthal came to you? A. Yes, and we went to Hines' house. Q.

What was said? A. I told him Leo said he needed money and I gave it to him $2,000. Q. What did he say? A. He said, "Thank you." Davis led up to the climax by relating first how Weinberg, whom he came to know through defending policy cases in Magistrates Court, Introduced him to Schultz seven years ago.

Q. Where did you meet him (Schults)? A. At the apartment of Martha Delaney, who later became my wife. Several policy bankers and racketeers were at that meeting, Davis testified, naming Major Ison. Miro, George Weinberg and Abe (Bo) Miro entrance into the policy i banking business, under Ison's protection, Was okayed at that meeting, he testified.

I A fully reported transcription of the testimony of J. Richard 9) Davit and John F. Curtr appears on page 10. From that first meeting with Schultz there ripened an association which brought a great deal of legal business to the 26-year-old Davis. Here's a sample: Q.

(By Dewey) Did you get business from Bchulta? A. Yes. he wanted Larry Carney defended on a 'felonious assault charge. Q. How much were you paid? A.

$1,500. 1 How the numbers octopus, with Schultz as the head, spread its tentacles to pull independent bankers into a giant combine was described by Davis thus: v4 Q- You then had this subsequent confer-ence? A. Yes. at 800 or 889 West End Ave. Q.

That was your mother's apartment? A. Yes. sir. Q. You were supporting them, your family, I mean? A.

Yes, sir. Fompez and Marclal Plores, not then part of the Schultz empire, were there along with Schultz and his policy henchmen, Davis said, placing that meeting in 1932. Q. What was the conversation? A. Pompeii said he needed money and the Dutchman asked how much would he get if he advanced the money.

Pompez said 50 Schults chief lieutenant, Davis said, Weinberg, also a prosecution witness, had previously testified to the same effect. Schults himself, according to Davis, knew about the payments and had told him: "Any time Hines wants money, give It to him." J'' Later payments, Davis said, be always recovered from "Weinberg, He passed the money on to the Tammany leader in Mr. Shalleck's office." "in my ear, Jn Mr. nines' Home, 3 Bandit Seize $100,000 Gems Robbers Enter Jewelry Firm's Offices, Bind Four, Flee With Loot Move to Divide Insurgent Vote Regulart Will Not Fight Rebel Court Action for Regular Democrats In the strife torn primary extendini across the th congressional, 4th Senatorial and th and 16th Assembly Districts adopted a strategic policy today and refused to oppose a Supreme Court application to allow a whole group of insurgent candidates to tun in the primary campaign. The order, if granted, would com pel the Board of Sections to rein state Democratic petitions for Vuv cent M.

Sofia, for Congress; Wil liam weidberg. for senator; and George J. Oastin and Abraham Mos-kowita for the Assembly in the tth and 16th A. respectively. All four candidates are running on the Progressive Democratic ticket Sofia is opposing the re-nomination of Congreesman Donald ju Toole, who has two other can dldates running against him.

Weld berg is an opponent of Senator Philip U. Kleinfeld, who also has two other opponents. Ceatla Owes Koran .1 Costln Is one of three candidates running against Assemblyman Kdgar T. 1 Moran's renominatien in the tth A. and in the itttt Distctet Moekowits is one of two Insurgents opposing ex-Assemblyman Carmine) J.Marasco.

Ike petttloM oT the Proaresslve Democrats were thrown eat by the Continue an Pag 1 French Plane Near L. I. Base Flying Boat With Crew of Eight Expected to End Trip About Noon Port Washington, Aug. SI The French flying boat IJeutenant de Vaisseau Paris, which, left Horta, Asores, yesterday afternoon on a nonstop flight to the Pan-American air base here, is expected to arrive about noon (Brooklyn time) today. Preparations for receiving the plane and its crew are complete.

The craft will be anchored to a buoy in Man-h asset Bay during it stay. At 7:30 a.m. (Brooklyn timet today the giant flying boat reported its position as 1,854 miles out of the Azores, from which it departed at 4:30 p.m., yesterday. This position report showed an average speed of 123 miles an hour and was an indication that the remaining 543 miles to Port Washington probably would be flown in a little more than four hours. Henri Gulllaumet, veteran of South Atlantic flights, is pilot and commander of the aircraft.

With him are seven men. a second pilot, a navigator, two radio operators and three mechanics. The second pilot is Henri le Claire and the navigator is Paul Comet. Two Airliners Use Boro Field Again Two American Airlines planes, shut out of Newark Airport because of bad visibility and forced to land at Floyd Bennett Field, took off for their Jersey' destination today at 10:30 a.m. after being grounded at the borough field for an hour and a half.

One of the two planes, which were the 58th and 59th, respectively, to be forced to land at Floyd Bennett because of bad weather conditions at Newark, was from Fort Worth. Texas. It landed at 8:50 a.m. with four passengers. The second plane, also destined for New Jersey, landed from Boston at 9 a.m.

carrying seven passengers. Narragansett Results FIRST RACS Modern Youth pier, 2d; Dick Ulmer. 3d. Rip- Support by F. D.

Filsf California Senator, Loi ing to Old Age Plan Backer S. Carolina New Dealer Swamped POLITICS AT A GLANCE By Attocktted Prttt South Carolina DinmrKi rw-Pr flint Km wit my giv ing Senator EUiton D. Smith victory over Governor Oliu D. Johntton, New Deaf choice. CmUfnrnlm Senator William C.

McAdoo, indorsed by Pretident, trails Sheridan Down)-, $39-a-weak pantien advocate. Georgia Smpumrtmn mf Senator miter f. George, opposed my Mr. Rootevelt, hmvttnmd by Smith's victory in, neighboring South Carolina. MaJka Senator James P.

Pope, defeated for Democratic renom-inmtlon, decides not to enter JV-ram be rem aaigia as an independent. McAdoo Trails Foe San Francisco, Aug. 31 (If) Sheridan Downey, who made a novel old age pension proposal the chief Issue of his primary campaign, rolled up a substantial lead today over Senator William Olbb Mc Adoo, President Roosevelt's choice for nomination on the Democratic ticket. McAdoo, trailing toy more than 30,000 votes, had failed to concede defeat, however. Downey, a San Praneieco lav? or, advocated the "i3e even Thursday" pension plan for all Joblesa em 80 F.

P. PREDICTED SMITH WIN WmttStgton, Aug. 31 (AP) White Haute aides said today that President Roosevelt predicted yesterday that Senator E. D. (Cotton Ed) Smith of South Carotma mould win tha Democratic Senatorial nomination by 40,000 votes.

Mr. Roosevelt had this comment to make on Smith's success "It is often true that it takes a long, long time to bring the past up to the present." The President this morning reached into drawer of a tide labia and pulled out an envelope with his prediction of the outcome of the South Carolina race, his secretaries said. years of age. Calif ornians expect to vote on the proposal in November. Crushed, McAdoo retired to his Montecito home, Santa Barbara, without making a statement, the United Press reported.

His supporters, however, conceded it "would be extremely difficult to overcome Downey's Returns from 6.935 of the State's 12.438 precincts gave Downey 184,043 votes to 150,061 for McAdoo who was commended and supported by President Roosevelt. In the Tace for Democratic nomination for Governor the great bulk Continued on Fate 2 DEAD MAW FOUND IN IXT An unidentified wbite man, about 48 years old, 5 feet 10 Inches, weighing 130 pounds, black hair, brown eyes, without hat and wearing dark blue trousers, was found dead today in a lot at 3864 W. 12th St. The body was tafcen to the morgue. INDEX Tsss Jl It Anm Bok Qalllna SHki Brits lit Par.

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Leading Davis into telling of his first joint meeting with Hines and Schultz, Dewey managed to get in a squirt of anti-toxin in preparation for Defense Counsel Stryker's expected stinging attack on Davis' credibility. Q. (By Dewey) Have you previously committed perjury in your life? (Stryker objected but was overruled.) A. Yes. Have you ever, when questioned, the truth? A.

I may have, on some occasions. Q. Have you ever been disbarred? A. Yes, in November. 1937.

told Davis, according tot The Dutchman and Weinberg, in his story, had already sworn, during his own term on the witness stand, that he made a $3,000 payment toward the campaign fund of Hines' candidate for District Attorney in 1933, William C. Dodge, in the office of Joseph Shalleck. now mociaie Hines couatel, at 1450 Broadway. Until noon recess was called by Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Davis had Admita Hi Record's Bad IJke Weinberg, Davis admitted that' he had a bad record, had been disbarred, had committed perjury "many times though he "sometimes" had told the truth while giving sworn testimony.

Led on by Dewey, Davis said that he was born in New York 33 years ago, lived in Tanneisville as a child. atreiiad high schools in Manhattan and New Jersey, went to college and worked his way through law school. He was admitted to the Bar, hung up his shingie and for months did no business. Finally he set up an office opposite a new Magistrates Court in uptown Manhattan, began taking policv ta.es, thus became ac Continued on Page Todd Strikers Cet $40,000 in Back Pay B( I I TIN A seillfmrm stipulation, providing the payment of S40.000 In bark wages, largest, bark pay settlement in tbe history of the Na tional abor Relationa Board, was signed today by the board and the Todd Shipyard (oiporation. employe of which atmck for It week last Summer.

The check was turned over te (he Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers, C. I. O. affiliate, and Z10 linkers were reinstated, with a promise by tha company that it will not interfere with union activities and will leave the klatus of an alleged rompanr union te court decision. BIG RESPONSE sifruno RT apartmeni: la rffa rnnm adlolnuu bath both ubiT: Cbrlitlaa, idv.

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Fall of 1931, once at Hines' home on Central Park West, a few days later In a speakeasy on 46th St. After Schultz had okayed Davis with Hines, the testimony continued, Davis saw Hines as often as two and three times a week, at raqetracks, night clubs, and this continued until 1933 when he allegedly paid off Hines after Schultz had told him: "Any time Hines wants money, give it to him." Dixie Davis (left, with hat on) accompanied by a detective, entering the Manhattan Supreme Court Building to fulfill his bargain with District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. His expected to clinch the prosecution's case, will provide the climax of the trial. (Eagle Staff photo.) dealers, on the 11th floor of 585 5th Manhattan, shortly alter noon today, bound four persons with adhesive tape and rope and after systematically rifling the showcases escaped with jewelry valued at more than $100,000.

A widespread police search ts under way for the robbers, complete descriptions having been furnished of two of them who scorned to wear even a handkerchief over their eves as a disguise. John Hornlnif and John Rimler, partners in the film: T. Cohen, a lewelry salesman with offices at. 62 Manhattan, and Stan ley jvroiics. a.

mr.s.srngcj wcie ju trie office when the robbery occurred. Frelended te Be Cop One of the men who had Introduced himself Mr. Hornina last week as a policeman named Weldon ami placed a SI 5 deposit on a ring, walked up to him and quickly whipped a gun fiom his pocket "Stav where you are," he warned "Don't reach for an alarm button or we'll let you have it After binding the four men. they called out to a third lobber outride in the corridor who threw them a brief case, into which thev piled bracelets and uncut stones. Missing (iirl Found Asleep in Church While a squad of detectives and patrolmen searched the woods in the F.denwald section of the Bionx and her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Hans Brandt of 4323 De Reimer Ave the Bronx, spent a sleepless nighl, 11-1 year-old Margaret Brandt do.ed peacefully in the locked C. Church of St. Francis of Rome, a rew blocks from her home. i Discovered by police when she tapped on a ciiuich window early this morning, the child said she had fallen asleep In the church late es-terday afternoon.

When she awoke and found herself locked in, she went back to sleep, she said. FALLING SIGN HURTS COP Patrolman Joseph Shea, of to Wol-cott attached to the Fifth Ave. Precinct, was Injured todav at 14th 1 Divorce Mill Operator Faints at Long Term Harvey for Governor Campaign Is Opened Borough President Harvey of Queens launched his Conservative party and his campaign for Governor today with the circulation of 100,000 designating petition blanks and the announcement that the party platform would be "the Constitution of the United States and the Ten Commandments." He established temporary headquarters for the party in the office of Louis Rossi, the Queens County Welfare officer of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and secretary of the petition committtee. California Pension Plan Ruled Legal BULLETIN San f'rancicco, Aug. 31 (II Rl The California Supreme Ceurt upheld legality of the "S30 erery Thora-day" pension plan today, assuring It a place on the November ballot.

The court denied petitions for writs of mandate to bar the measure from the ballot on grounds that the title was faulty. WOMAN FALLS TWO STORIKS Bertha l.owe, 68, of 518 8th either fell or jumped today from the second floor apartment window to the war courtyard. She was removed to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital with compound fracture of skull. Her condition Is serious. Baseball First Game Giants 0 2 0 0 Pirates 000 Batteries I.ohrman and Dan- i ning; Brandt and Todd.

filed against Banks with the New York County Bar Association. To the routine question inquiring whether he had any comment to make before sentence was pronounced, the lawyer made an impassioned speech, declaring he was "not vicious." reminding Judge O'Dwyer that he had been in the Raymond St. Jail for two months, and imploring the jurist to "unshackle" him so that he might "restore" his wife's faith. Judge O'Dwver reminded the prisoner that his crime had affected his clients, his profession and ttv courts, and explaining that it was his 'conscious duty" to do so, pronounced sentence of from three to ten years in Sing Sing. At that Banks collapsed.

His wife, Florence, waj in the Immediately after he was given a Sing Sing term of from three to 10 years for his operation of a one-man divorce mill despite his plea for the court's mercy, Herbert Thornton Banks. 37, of 1552 Ocean Parkway, an attorney, collapsed ani had to be carried out of County Court todav. The short, squat attorney pleaded guilty before Comiiv Judge William O'Dwyer on July 12 to forging the names of Supreme Court Justices Edward J. Byrne and Peter Daly to papers which falsely granted an annulment to a Bronx couple. The husband in the annulment has since married and his second wife expects a child, it was testified.

Although the three-count Indictment named oniy the Bronx case. IS similar complaints have been Aqueduct Results FIRST RACE 2-year-olds; five -eighths of a mile. Cutaway, 116 (Arcaro) 13-5 1-1 1-2 Marriage, 11 (Richards) 5-1 5-2 aChallenge, 118 (Stout) 1-10 Time, 0:59 2-5. Bull Terrier, Off Guard. Rockmaker, aBeacon Rock, Balaclava, Radio Gold, Erratic, Kenan Bey, Banner Man also ran.

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