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HILL IS ELECTED TO SENATE POST Wins Smashing Victory Over Heflin—Vote Is 76,000 to 41,000. Br the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Jan. 8.— Representative Lister Hill, stanch New Deal supporter of President Roosevelt, has won the Senate seat of Justice Hugo L. Black In a smashing victory over “Cotton Tom” Heflin, who did not know his comeback effort had failed. Ill with lobar pneumonia, Heflin, 68-year-old veteran of many political campaigns, was unaware that Ala bama had rejected his bid for the Senate seat he once held and had turned to the 43-year-old Representa tive from Montgomery, a member of the House of Representatives for 15 years. Heflin's aides, who conceded defeat and congratulated Hill, said the for mer Senator, on the road to recovery at Lafayette, had lost count of the days during delirium and was unaware that yesterday was primary day. Hill had a walkaway in the three cornered primary election against Heflin and Charles W. Williams, and will serve out Black's term which ex pires January, 1939. Unofficial returns from 1,508 of 2,200 boxes In the State gave: Hill. 76,371. Heflin. 41,521. Williams, 4,437. Hill carried 59 counties. Heflin 8. Hill, in a statement, said “it was a victory for the great cause of human welfare as proclaimed in the Demo cratic platform and embodied in the inspiring leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Gov. Bibb Graves, who supported the victor, said “the result proves Ala bama is for the New Deal all the way.” Hill is expected to move from the House to the Senate next week without the formality of a general election. Following Black's resignation to be come a Supreme Court justice, Gov. Graves appointed his wife. Dixie, to the poet, with the announcement he would name as her successor the victor in the primary election. When official pro nouncement is made of yesterday’s balloting. Mrs. Graves will resign and Hill will be appointed. ,13,860 BANKS’ASKED TO REPORT CONDITION By the Associated Press. The controller of the currency is sued a call today for the condition of all national banks at the close of business Friday, December 31. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. simultaneously issued a similar call to Insured State banks, bringing the total number of banks that were asked to report their condition to 13,860. The call requires each bank to re port in detail its loans, investments and other assets and liabilities. It was the third national bank call and the second F. D. I. C. call for 1937 dates. Numbers (Continued From First Page.) need is to give your prosecuting authorities a free hand and full eo-operation from every one con cerned, Including the police and the courts." It is true, however, that New York has more stringent gambling laws than Washington. Mere possession of a numbers slip is a misdemeanor In New York. There is no such law in the District. The search-and aeizure procedure in New York is much more lenient. Police may enter without a search warrant, though they are liable through civil suit if they fail to find the evidence they went after. While the Dewey investigators went after the big fellows, the little fellows played an important role. They could be seized and threatened with jail terms for possession of gambling equipment—tickets, even unexplained adding machine*—if they didn't talk. Most of these small fry were not deep enough In the underworld to have acquired its code of silence, and most of them turned quite loquacious. From writers It was learned who the pick-up men were, and eventually the Identity of the key men of the Schultz mob was unmasked. Law Blocked in House. Mr. Garnett repeatedly has rec ommended to Congress a law making possession of numbers slips prlma fscle evidence of violating the gam ing law. Twice such a bill was passed by the Senate only to be blocked in the House. The metropolitan police force is not large enough to detail sufficient men to go after the numbers in a determined way, according to Mr. Garnett. He points to some 60 pending gam bling cases. He cites the congestion of other criminal eases. There are at the moment approximately 450 awaiting trial. To dispose of this huge accumula tion of indictments there are only two regular criminal courts, with a third emergency judge sitting at times. There should be at least four regular criminal court judges, in Mr. Gar nett’s opinion. Whatever the ultimate effect of the Supreme Court’s ban on interstate wire -tapping—and whatever Congress does about it—bookmaking is more concerned than the larger and more profitable numbers racket. The po lice say Washington bookies have laid decidedly low since the big raids last winter. The business, once flour ishing here in headquarters that looked like stock exchanges, now lurks in covert places, they report. Need Only Pay-Off Place. But wire tapping is of little use in fighting numbers. The telephone does not figure to any extent in the business. And. while Mr. Garnett It’s a Wonderful Way to Soothe Itching Skin Soothing. cooling Zemo usually relieves distress of Itching skin. For 30 rears, this clean, reliable skin lotion has been the favorite with millions. •teeUent for the Itching of minor akin Irritations. Bur soothing, dependable Zemo today—to relieve the Itching of Simple Rashes. Pimples. Ringworms and Begems. Tasted and approved by Good Housekeeping Bureau. All druggists, stc. 60e. ti. ZEMO New Alabama Senator and Family Young Lister Hill, 4th, 2, and Henrietta Hill, 9, shown with their parents, Representative and Mrs. Lister Hill of Montgomery, Ala., as they read the neivs of his victory in Alabama’s sen atorial primary._—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. N. S. NAZI REPORT WILL BE STUDIED G-Men's Findings Referred to Justice Department's Crim inal Division. Attorney General Cummings today referred to the Justice Department's Criminal Division for study an 11 volume report by G-men on Nasi activities in the United States. Although Mr. Cummings refused to make public details of the findings, he told reporters at his press conference that leaders of the so-called American Nazi movement estimated total mem bership at from 6.617 to 8,299 persons. The Federal Bureau of Investigation began an inquiry into the movement six months ago by direction of Mr. Cummings, following criticism from numerous sources of so-called Nazi camps in Connecticut and elsewhere. The report, signed by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F. B. I., quoted Fritz Kuhn, national leader of the German-American Bund, parent or ganization, as estimating that his or ganization numbers slightly more than 8.000 individuals, the Attorney Gen eral said. A tabulation of estimates of membership made by local leaders of affiliated groups showed a total of 6,617. Mr. Cummings said the Criminal Division will study the lengthy report with a view to determining whether any Federal laws are being violated by the Bund or its affiliates. has convicted numbers operators un der the lottery statute. It is extremely difficult to get sufficient evidence un der the present law. he contends. A numbers business needs only a pay-off place, where the pick-up men turn in their slips and make their accounting with the banker. The raiding squad that breaks into such a headquarters—perhaps a downtown apartment, perhaps a suburban home —finds a quantity of tickets, a battery of adding machines and several tele phones. None of this alone is evi dence which will stand up in court. This is the only method by which District police have obtained evidence on which numbers operators have been , convicted: The undercover man bets on a num ber, watches the writer make out the ticket and gives him marked money. The writer then is shadowed until he gives his slips to a pick-up man, who in turn is "tailed" until he reaches his headquarters, when the detective’s ticket and the marked money are seized. But this process, naturally, is diffi cult to follow. It has rarely suc ceeded. Must Show Commercial Aspect. A raid may be staged only after the undercover man has made an affidavit before the United States commissioner to the effect that he has wagered—not once but several times, to show the commercial as pect—with a specific person. The person sought then must be found at the headquarters or the raid is use less. Capt. George M. Little, head of the vice squad, points to a recent raid on a known numbers headquarters The warrant named a pick-up man for this operator, one of the largest in Washington. The detective waited until the pick-up man started into the headquarters, followed him in and arrested him. Inside, 14 adding ma chines were being run and hundreds of numbers slips were lying about The big shot himself was caught. But when the case got into court the detective was asked whether he hadn’t used the warrant as a subter fuge to break into the headquarters. Naturally he said he had. The case went out the window. Capt. Uttle agrees with former District Attorney Garnett that a numbers slips possession law would do much toward breaking up the racket. “I don’t agree,” he says, “that harassing the little fellows wouldn’t do any good. If we kept clapping the writers into jail we’d soon drive them to cover. Furthermore, when we did reach the racketeer who was run ning the business we at least would have something to hold him on, pos session of gambling equipment.” I' • ESTABLISHED 1865 • BARKER STOCK It Always Complete Barker'* two conveniently located warehetne* ore el way* ready to deliver promptly and in any quan I t»ty . . . 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President Roosevelt probably will send to the Senate soon the nomina tions of several key diplomatic officers. Heading the list is the ambassador ship to Great Britain, made vacant by the death of Robert W. Bingham of Louisville. Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Maritime Commission is understood to have been picked as j his successor. Hugh R. Wilson, Assistant Secretary of state, generally is believed to be the President’s choice for Ambassador to Germany, sucteeding William E. Dodd, who resigned last month. If Mr. Wilson goes to Berlin, the man mentioned most prominently to succeed him as Assistant Secretary Is James C. Dunn, now Secretary Hull’s political adviser on European affairs. A career man, Mr. Dunn has had long experience In the foreign sendee. Also to be chosen are a new Am bassador to Chile, replacing Hoffman Phillip of Washington, who recently retired, and a new Minister to Austria succeeding the late Grenville T. Em met. OFFICERS OUST LEADER NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (*>>.—By vote the United Licensed Officers' Asso ciation last night decided to expel Capt. John P. Millilcen. president, and Patrick Hagerty, a former member of the Executive Committee. The action was taken after the Executive Committee submitted a re port accusing both men of having tried to disrupt the organisation. Meanwhile Milliken presided at an other meeting, in the same Whitehall street building, which he claimed was an official union gathering. He de clined to comment further pending a conference with Joseph P. Ryan, pres ident of the International Long shoremen’s Association, with which the officers’ group has a charter. ONE FREE, TWO HELD IN HOLD-UP ATTEMPT Cab Driver Released After His Description of Theater Rob ber Checks. One man held for questioning in connection with the attempted rob bery of the Tivoli Theater has been released and two others have been ar- ! rested as suspects in the case, police announced today. The names of the men taken into custody were not revealed, and police declined to discuss the lines along which they were being questioned in relation to the unsuccessful robbery attempt Monday night, in which the theater manager. James W. Root, i grappled with the would-be thief and I | forced him to flee. Benjamin D. Jaffe, a cab driver, was ; released after police checked his story ! of having been robbed of $30.55 by a 1 man who ran from the theater at about the time of the attempted hold up and forced him to drive to Be thesda, Md. The descriptions of the man furnished by Mr. Root and Mr. Jafle tallied, police said. Two bandits who waited on trade as they conducted a filling station hold-up last night robbed Henry Mears. proprietor of the station, of $*0 after threatening him with a gun. Mr. Mears told police that In the midst of the hold-up a car drove in. 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In diplomatic circles here, it is pointed out that the French govern ment has good reason not to wish to offend the Rumanian susceptibilities at the present. * Although Goga and several of his’cabinet have advocated an entente with Germany, the new government has affirmed its intention of continuing the foreign policy of its predecessors, and there is no de sire in Paris, as one well-informed Frenchman put it, ”to cast Rumania into the arms of Germany.” Another reason why the French gov ernment is not shutting off imme diately the supply of arms to Rumania is that at least a third of the petroleum used for French national defense comes from Bucharest. If France were to stop supplying Rumania with arms, the Bucharest government would divert this supply of petroleum to Germany in return for German armaments. Nevertheless, the French government is adopting a policy of prudence in its relations with Rumania. No new French investments in armaments for Rumania will be permitted until the foreign policy of the Goga government has been thoroughly clarified. The Rumanian Army officers who are to come to France next fall will not be permitted to inspect French military centers and munitions factories with the same freedom as hitherto. On instructions from his government, M. Thierry warned Goga against the possible consequences of the anti Semitic policy of the new Rumanian government. (Copyrlaht. lP.'tS. by New York Tribune Inc > Rumanian Policy Unchanged. BUCHAREST. Jan. 5 —Foreign Minister Lstrate Micescu yesterday de clared Rumania's foreign policy-nilose co-ordination with Fiance and the Little Entente—would remain un changed by the recently formed gov ernment of Octavian Goga. At the same time new government decrees were posted throughout the country. One from the labor ministry forbade any Christian housemaid under 40 years of age to work in a Jewish household, Micescu said any domestic measures taken by the new government would have no connection In the nation's foreign policy. Housing Parley Arranged. HARRISBURG. Pa., Jan. 5 i/Pt — Charles V. Doyle, executive director of the Pennsylvania State Housing Board, and John H. Graham, jr., wchni'-el adviser, left yesterdav for Washington to confer with Federal housing authorities today on co ordination of their programs. TERUEL IN3DMS’ INSURGENTS’ GOAL Rebels Claim Troops Drive Through Snowdrifts More Than Mile. BACKGROUND— Teruel, strategic lower Aragon city and spearhead of Insurgent drive to cut government Spain in two, captured by loyalist troops after long being held by insurgents. Insurgents counterdriving to res cut 6,000 Fascist troops and sym pathizers besieged in two Teruel buildings claimed capture ‘of city last Friday. Government promptly denied claim and battle has raged in vicinity through blinding snow and bitter cold. Bt the Asioclated Pres*. HENDAYE, Franco-8panish Fron tier, Jan. 5.—The insurgent high com mand announced today Its heavily re inforced army had smashed forward more than a mile through heavy snow drifts in a new drive designed to cap ture strategic Teruel “within three days.” The main advance, in freezing cold, was along the Cerda highway north west of Teruel. Further south the in surgents also reported Important gains in the Villastar sector, where two im portant positions were seized during the night. At dawn the attack—new phase in the insurgent counter-offensive which began eight days ago—was pressed with renewed fury. Insurgent heavy artillery, manned by shivering gunners, opened a heavy barrage along the 12 mile front which is the field of the civil war’s greatest battle. A Barcelona communique noted a series of new insurgent attacks north and south of Teruel, but said all were repulsed. Snow Waist Deep. Snow was waist deep along parts of the 12-mile eastern front where 150,000 to 200,000 troops fought. Icy roads forced the Spanish fighters to fix special leather shoes on their horses. Ropes, chains and rags were wound around truck wheels in an ef fort to aid motorised units. Soldiers drove spikes into their own shoes, wound boots with cords or used barbed wire to fashion improvised snowshoes—so that they could move into battle. Ounners built tires under gun bar rels before firing after the storm forced period of Inactivity. Soldiers in trenches received frequent rest pe riods to warm themselves and their rifles in dugouts. 11 Loyalist Planes Felled. 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To that extent his plea was successful. Clutching his Bible a short time later, however, he stood in the street and watched the bandits drive away In his car with the $37 they had taken from his billfold. HELD IN CAR DEATH Man to Face Grand Jury in First D. C. ’38 Traffic Fatality. Joseph Price, 27. colored. 1405 Co lumbia street. N.W., was ordered held for the grand Jury by a coroner's jury yesterday in the death of Elizabeth Jackson, 16. colored, 616 Morton street NW., the first District traffic fatality of 1938. The girl died in Freedmen’s Hospi- ! tal New Year Day after being struck i bv a truck operated by Price as she ' was crossing Georgia avenue at Mor ton street N.W. Price was arrested January 2. GLASS CONGRATULATED Virginia Veteran Given Unani mous Vote by Senate. The Senate today extended a unan imous vote of congratulations to Sen ator Glass. Democrat, of Virginia, who : was 80 years old yesterday. Senators Byrd, Democrat, of Vir *inia: McKeller, Democrat, of Ten nessee; Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois; McAdoo. Democrat, of California: Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan; Majority Leader Barkley and others made speeches praising the character and public career of the Virginia Senator. I LOST IN THE PANAY Navy and Diplomatic Books Believed Safely at Bot tom of Yangtze. Fy (he Associated Press. Copies of Important diplomatic and naval codes were lo6t when Japanese bombs sank the gunboat Panay, but informed officials expressed belief yes- ■. terday they were safe from prying eyes. • The Oahu, another vessel of the American Yangtze River patrol, was at the scene of the sinking above Nan king today, and divers were expected < to ascertain whether the codes and other valuables could be recovered. 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