Evening star. [volume], January 01, 1940, Page A-6, Image 6

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U.S. Begins Checkup
On All Passports to
Bar Use by Spies
Thumbprints Used,
Validations Limited
To Six Months
Br th* Associated Press.
A vast checkup on American pass
ports will go into effect with the
New Year in an effort to combat
espionage carried on abroad under
protection of American Government
documents.
From today on, Americans living,
working or traveling abroad will be
required to report to the nearest
American consulate, which will
validate their passports through a
new system embracing thumb
printing.
The validation has these main
points:
1. It makes the passport good only
for six months, at the end of which
time the bearer must return to an
American consulate for a further
validation. This means that Amer
ican officials will have a constant
check on United States passports.
2. It makes the passport good only
for travel in certain countries. The
bearer cannot travel about at will
as he does at present. Nations at
war with each other will not be
included on one passport, thus pre
venting Americans from traveling,
for instance, from Germany to Eng
land through a neutral country, and
vice versa.
3. At the moment of validation
the passport bearer must present
two new photographs of himself. On
the pnotos the Consul will impress
the bearer's thumbprint and send
them to the State Department for
comparison with the photograph on
the original application on file here,
to make sure that the person carry
ing the passport is really the one
who originally applied for it and
received it.
4. The passport validation will
bear the thumbprint of the Amer
ican Consul, thus placing a major
obstacle in the way of counterfeit
ing passports.
Man Is Held in Florida
In Lottery Swindle
By the Associated Press.
MIAMI,. Fla., Jan. 1.—A man
booked as Lester R. Sprague, 45, and
described by postal inspectors as a
long-sought fugitive in a $24,000,000
fake lottery swindle, wras' ordered
held in $10,000 bond today by United
States Commissioner Roger E. Davis.
Inspector Tennyson Jefferson of
Boston, who traced Sprague to
Miami, said he was the last of 72
persons to be arrested on indict
ments returned two years ago in
Boston.
Inspector Jefferson last week ar
rested George Henry Garlick. 60,
accused of being a fugitive from
justice in connection with an in
dictment charging him with par
ticipating in a $50,000,000 lottery
ring, at Mount Dora, Fla.
The same Boston grand jury in
dicted Sprague and 71 others, and
Garlick and a number of associates.
The Sprague group, Inspector Jef
ferson said, once issued tickets os
tensibly to raise funds for the erec
tion of a Will Rogers memorial
hospital in Chicago, an unauthorized
proposition which resulted in ad
ditional charges after the humorist's
widow testified before the grand
jury.
Police Puzzled by Murder
Of State Senator's Aide
B> the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 1.—A mur
der with no apparent motive con
fronted police today as they sought
a solution of the fatal beating of
Harvey Hess, 32-year-old Cape May
<N. J.) choir singer and secretary
to the majority leader of the New
Jersey State Senate.
A trail of blood staining the snow
covered ground led Richard Axe, 16,
to the almost nude body of Mr.
Hess on the banks of the Schuylkill
River yesterday. Maj. Samuel W.
Gerhardt of the Cheltenham Town
ship police said Mr. Hess’ head and
face had been crushed and his body
thrown over a retaining wall to the
spot where it was found.
Investigators said only a small
amount of money in Mr. Hess’ pock
ets indicated he might have been
robbed. His body had been stripped
and the clothing was piled nearby.
Mr. Hess had left home Saturday
4a d tVifi Vant Vnor m Dhilo _
delphia. He was unmarried.
Jack Johnson Seriously
III of Pneumonia
Bt the Assccisted Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 1.—Jack
Johnson, former heavyweight box
ing champion of the world, was
taken to a hospital last night, suf
fering from pneumonia. His physi
cian said his condition was serious.
Johnson has been here two weeks
with a museum sideshow.
Grouch Club
Names Ickes
'Grouch of Year'
By the Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 1.—The
Grouch Club of America, which has
been threatening almost from the
day of its organization to name the
“grouch of the year,” announced yes
terday that the title went to Secre
tary of the Interior Ickes.
Runnerup honors were won by
Ned Sparks, sourpuss film and radio
comedian. Donald Duck, the ani
mated screen character who ex
presses annoyance at almost every
thing, came in third, a handful of
votes ahead of George Bernard
Shaw, the dramatist.
Willard B. Rogers, present and
founder of the Grouch Club, said
6,400 of the organization’s 11,000
members voted in the poll and gave
Secretary Ickes a lead of about 700
over Sparks.
Mr. Rogers said the announce
ment might have been withheld,
pending receipt of more votes, ex
cept that officials were sure that
Mr. Ickes rated the title because he
“turned down our beautiful invita
tion to loin the club.’*
BEVERLY HILLS.—AT HOLLYWOOD’S “GONE . . PRE
MIERE—Norma Shearer and George Raft, film stars, entering
the Carthay Circle Theater to see the premiere of “Gone With
the Wind.” The world premiere of the film was at Atlanta, Ga.,
recently. —Wide World Photo.
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