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Senators Delay Action
On Arms Aid Bill to Let
AdmiralBadgerTestify
By J. A. O'Leary
Action on the administration’s
$1,450,000,000 foreign arms bill
was put off today until next week
to enable the two Senate commit
tees handling it to hear Vice Ad
miral Oscar Badger on conditions
in Asia.
Admiral Badger, who has been
Asiatic fleet commander, is en
route home and probably will be
called before the two committees
in closed session a week from to
day.
When the Foreign Relations and
Armed Services Committees met
this morning they had expected
to act on a compromise amend
ment fixing the arms fund for
Western Europe at $1,000,000,000,
a reduction of $160,990,000 from
the administration’s figure.
No Vote Is Taken.
Chairman Connally explained,
however, that while the compro
mise was “very favorably re
ceived,” no vote was taken.
Some committee members, in
cluding Senator George, Demo
crat, of Georgia favor a deeper
cut, and action on the whole sub
ject was put off until next week.
The presence of Admiral Badger
is desired by a group of Senators
who want some military help for
non-Communist China added to
the bill. This group is led by Sen
ator Knowland, Republican, of
California. They argue it is in
consistent arm Western Europe
against the spread of communism
without doing something to check
it in Asia.
Subcommittee Agrees.
A four-man subcommittee was
reliably reported to have agreed
late yesterday to the Vandenberg
Dulles proposal to cut $160,990,000
from the Western European fund,
leaving it at $1,000,000,000. Of
this amount, half would be cash
for the current year and half con
tract authority, payable in 1951.
If the 25 Senators comprising
the two committees agree on $1,
000,000,000 for Western Europe it
will be a partial victory for the
administration, because there are
several committee members who
want to cut much deeper.
Senator George may offer an
amendment to allow only $300,
00,000 instead of $500,000,000 in
cash for the current year. He is
likely to fail in committee, but on
the floor of the Senate there will
be another fight to cut the pro
gram as deeply as the House did.
War Factory Decision Awaited.
Both houses are going along on
other sections of the bill, provid
ing $211,370,000 for Greece and
Turkey, and $27,640,000 for Iran,
Korea and* the Philippines.
It was not clear today what
compromise the two Senate com
mittees will work out on the con
troversial question of spending
$155,000,000 of the European al
lotment to reopen war factories
overseas.
When Senators Vandenberg and
Dulles, the leading Republican
advocates of bipartisan foreign i
policy, proposed to cut the Euro
pean allotment from $1,160,990,
000 to an even $1,000,000,000, their
main purpose was to eliminate the
sum earmarked for rehabilitating
munitions plants in France and
other North Atlantic treaty na
tions.' Their argument was that
this step should not be taken by
the single action of the United
States before the Joint Defense
Committee is set up under the
treaty.
Plan May be Modified.
Two days ago the committee
voted, 11 to 9, to- let tools and
raw materials be shipped abfoad
for use in overseas arms factories,
which meant defeat of part of the
Vandenberg-Dulles program.
There were signs yesterday,
however, that the committee might
modify this decision, rather than
go to the Senate with its members
so sharply divided. Close ob
servers of the situation believe
the administration will need the
full suport of the Vandenberg
Dulles group of Republicans to
6ave the arms bill from further
cuts on the floor.
Mount Rainier Man
Kills Self With Gun
Russell M. Shillingsburg, 46, of
4215 Rainier avenue, Mount Rain
ier,, was found dead yesterday in
hi? bedroom with a bullet wound
in the head.
Dr. John T. Maloney, Prince
Georges County medical examin
er, issued a suicide certificate.
Police said Mr. Shillingsburg’s
wife, Gladys, told them her hus
band had been despondent over
ill health resulting from a back
injury about two years ago. They
said he had been unemployed
since his injury until last Wed
nesday, when he obtained a job
as a guard at the National Gallery
of Art.
According to police, the body
was found by Mrs. Angelea Haines,
wif? of Mr. Shillingsburg’s neph
ew-, who lives on the first floor of
the home. They said Mrs. Haines
had gone upstairs at the request
of :Mrs. Shillingsburg, a Veterans’
Administration employe, whose
phone calls to her husband had
gone unanswered. A .32-caliber
revolver was clutched in his hand.
Police quoted Mrs. Shillingsburg
as saying she had hidden the pis
tol several times in recent months
and believed there were no bullets
In the house.
A. J. Liebling Divorced,
Reveals Plan to Rewed
■y th* Auociatad Pr««
RENO. Nev., Aug. 31.—A. J. Lieb
ling; "Wayward Press’’ columnist
in fhe New Yorker Magazine, was
divorced yesterday from Ann Mc
Ginn Liebling. Hfc announced
plans to marry again.
The Lieblings were married July
28.,: 1934, in New York. She is
living in Providence, R. I. Mr.
Liebling said they had been sep
arated three years. Mr. Liebling
said he will marry Lucille Hille
Spectorsky of New York tomorrow
at Virginia City, Nev.
WHITE HOUSE AIDES TESTIFY—Col. C. J. Mara (left), assistant military aide to President
Truman, took the stand briefly at the five-percenter inquiry today and backed up testimony
of his chief, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan (right) that the latter was cleared of bribery charges.
—Star Staff Photo.
Partial Transcript of Vaughan Testimony
By tht Associated Press
A partial transcript of Maj.
Gen. Harry H. Vaughan’s sec
ond-day testimony in the Sen
ate five-percenter investigation:
Senator Hoey—Who wishes ti6
begin?
Senator McCarthy—I do. Gen
eral, yesterday we were talking
about a man called Costello.
Vaughan—Yes.
McCarthy—I guess we both
know what fellow we are speaking
of. Jugt refresh your mind a
little more on the subject. Cos
tello, according to the New York
Liquor Board, is a partner in the
Whitely Corp, a partner with Phil
Kastel and William Hells. You
are aware of that, are you not?
Vaughan—No, I was not.
McCarthy—Mr. Maragon testi
fied he worked
Vaughan—What business? What
company?
McCarthy—The liquor business.
Vaughan—Oh, no, I wasn’t con
scious of Mr. Hells being in the
liquor business. I know he was in
the oil business and he owns this—
McCarthy—Did you not know
the Whitely Corp.?
Vaughan—No, I don’t believe I
do. I don’t recognize it.
Links Helis and Costello.
McCarthy—That is the corpo
ration owned by Phil Kastel, Bill
Helis, and Frankie Costello, and
they are in the liquor business.
Have you discussed that matter
ever with either Bill Hells or
Frankie Costello? N
Vaughan—I have never dis
cussed anything with Frankie Cos
tello to my knowledge.
McCarthy—Did you ever discuss
it with William Helis?
Vaughan—No, I don’t recall. I
didn’t know that Bill Helis was in
the liquor business. I thought he
was in the oil business and in this
large farm that he has over here,
I believe in New Jersey where he
raises—a stock farm, I believe.
McCarthy — Now, Mr. Maragon
testified at the executive session
that he at one time worked for
Phil Kastel and then at the open
session refused to answer any
questions in regard to his em
ployment on the ground that his
answers .might incriminate him.
Do you know anything about Mr.
Maragon’s duties insofar as Phil
Kastel was concerned—what he
did for him, what type of work?
Vaughan—I never knew he
worked for Phil Kastel. I never
knew Phil Kastel.
Called Once for President.
McCarthy—When grain was
very short after the war, when
meat was scarce, grain was being
diverted to feeding of livestock.
Are you aware of the fact that the
distillers, the liquor dealers, were
very active in attempting to have
(more grain allocated to breweries
and distillers of spirits.
Vaughan—Well, I wasn’t aware
of that, that I remember. It is
the logical thing for them to do,
I should think.
McCarthy—Did you ever con
tact the Agricultural Department
in behalf of the distillers, Schen
ley’s—let me call your attention
to especially Schenley’s and Mr.
Costello—Bill Helis’ corporation?
Vaughan—I never contacted the
Agricultural Department in behalf
of the distillers. The only time I
aver contacted the Agricultural
Department was at the direction
of the President. I called Mr.
Anderson’s office for information
which I gave to the President, and
that was all I had to do with it.
FBI Investigation.
McCarthy. Do you know wheth
|er you were accused by any one
—let me put it this way—Mr.
Maragon, during this particular
time, during the period when
grain, was very scarce, during the
time it is alleged that you called
Mr. Hathorn and applied pres
sure in order to get more Igrain
for the distillers, during that per
iod of time was there an FBI in
vestigation of you initiated?
Vaughan. You started out your
question with “Mr. Maragon.” Is
this his testimony?
McCarthy. Did I call you Mr.
Maragon? i am sorry u i aia, it
is completely unintentional, Mr.
Vaughan,- general.
Vaughan. You say that I called
—exerted pressure?
McCarthy. During the time—
I am not asking you whether you
exerted pressure. During the time
it Is claimed you exerted pressure
on behalf of the liquor dealers,
distillers, to get more grain, dur
ing the time it is claimed that
you exerted that pressure, did the
Justice Department order investi
gation of you by the FBI.?
Inquiries to White House.
Vaughan—There was something
in the papef that came out in
one of the columns, that I had
exerted pressure, but what I did
was as I stated. Some inquiries
come into the White House. It
was not to get more grain. It
was to prevent getting less, if I
remember.
McCarthy—Well, in any event,
at that period of time, did Justice
order an investigation of you
by the FBI?
Vaughan—There was a claim
made to Justice some time before
that—I am not sure as to the
exact time, and the Attorney Gen
eral referred it to J. Edgar Hoover.
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover called me
and told me about it, and I told
him that I would co-operate com
pletely with his men.
He sent two men to my office
who went through my financial!
statements, they went through my j
bank statement, went through my'
safe deposit box. They went to
New Orleans, they went to Kansas
City, various other places that
were mentioned in this allegation.
McCarthy Presses Questions.
McCarthy—Now one of the
things they were investigating at
that time—I am not asking you
to tell us at this time whether it
is true or not. I will go into that
in a few minutes. One of the
things they were investigating at
that time was the claim that you
had received money from the
Schenley interests and from the
Costello interests to exert pres
sure upon the Agricultural De
partment so as to get more grain
for the liquor interests.
Vaughan—I never heard of it.
That was not what Mr. Hoover
told me.
McCarthy—Mr. Vaughan. I am
going to tell you this as a preface
to the next question: That if you
do not give us this story as it
actually was, I am going to have
Mr. O’Mara sworn, who sits beside
you, and find out what he knows
about this. I know you do not want
to put any of your friends in a po
sition of perjuring himself. Was
Mr. O’Mara over to the Justice
Department within the last two or
three weeks to get for you a com
plete report on the basis for this
FBI investigation?
Vaughan—Yes, he was.
McCarthy—He reported back to
you?
Vaughan—Yes.
Didn’t Send O’Mara.
McCarthy—He reported to you
-that the thing was being investi
gated was the claim that you took
money from the Schenley inter
ests and the Costello interests for
your efforts to secure more grain
for liquor distillers?
Vaughan—No. He never report
ed any such thing as that to me.
McCarthy—Did he report back
to you the basis for this investi
gation?
Vaughan—No, because I knew
the basis of the investigation, the
one that I knew about.
McCarthy—What did you send
him over to Justice for?
Vaughan—I didn’t send him. He
went entirely on his own. I just
had to ask him now if he had
been there.
McCarthy—Did he come back
and report to you? .
Vaughan—He reported that he
had been to justice.
McCarthy—The Justice Depart
ment did ask for a complete FBI
investigation of you—right?
Vaughan—At the request of this
member of the press.
McCarthy — You say Justice
asked that uport the request of
members of the press?
Vaughan—That was my under
standing.
FTC Says District Firm
Reissues U. S. Books
ly th« Associated Press
The Federal Trade Commission
today charged a Washington pub
lishing firm with putting new
titles on Government pamphlets
and then issuing them as new
books.
The commission also said the
firm name—Public Affairs Press—
is deceptive because it “represents
or implies that the corporation
is in some fashion connected with
the United States Government.”
The FTC gave the company,
which is also known as the
American Council of Public Af
fairs, 20 days to answer the com
plaint. The firm’s offices are at
2153 Florida avenue N.W.
Morris B. Schnapper, executive
secretary of the Public Affairs or
ganization, said it is a privately
owned concern which has been
publishing books and pamphlets
OB social science subjects here
since 1938. Out of several hun
dred items on the publication list,
he said, perhaps a dozen or so
are essentially reprints of Gov
ernment documents.
In most cases, he said, the Gov
ernment agency putting out the
material has encouraged its re
use, at least informally, as a
means of giving it wider circula
tion.
He added that if there are any
cases where the source of in
formation is not identified, the
omissipn is unintentional.
Concert to Be Postponed
In Event of Rain Tonight
The annual band concert in
Arlington's Lubber Run Park,
scheduled for 7:30 o’clock tonight,
will be postponed in the event of
rain this afternoon or tonight, the
county recreation department an
nounced today.
The qrchestra, supplied through
funds of Local 161 of the Mu
sicians Protective Union (AFL),
will be directed by Herbert Soko
love. Irving Chandler, Arlington
vocalist, will lead community
singing.
If postponed, the program will
be given at 7:30 p.m. next Wednes
day.
p—
Acheson Reveals.
Important News:
Birth of Grandson
A 7-pound-5-ounce grandson to
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
was bom last midnight at George
Washington University Hospital.
His parents are Mr. and Mrs.
William P. Bundy, 4431 Klingle
road N.W. Mary Bundy, the moth
er, is Mr. Acheson’s daughter.
Mrs. Bundy reported this morn
ing that she and her husband have
not yet "definitely” decided what
to name the child.
The Secretary made news of the
birth the No. 1 item at his
press conference this morning,
bringing chatting reporters to
hushed attention with the state
ment that he had a very important
item to report.
Children Led From Bus
Just Before Train Hits It
By *h« Associated Prose
GENOA, 111., Aug. 31.—A school
superintendent shepherded eight
children out of a stalled school
bus yesterday just before It was
demolished \)y a fast passenger
train. No one was hurt.
Supt. Clarence Louderback, 37,
of the Genoa-Kingston School,
was making a trip with some of
his pupils to check the bus time
schedule.
Mr. Louderback said the driver,
Maylon Davis, 28, stopped at a
Milwaukee road . crossing in
Genoa, then started up again.
But the motor died, stalling the
bus on the track.
' Just then the warning signal
sounded. As the Milwaukee road’s
Midwest Hiawatha streamliner
bore down on the bus, Mr. Loud
erback and Mr. Davis got the
children out safely.
Thrift Shop to Reopen
The Girl £cout Thrift Shop, 813
Pershing drive, Silver Spring, will
reopen Tuesday after a summer
shotdown. The shop will be open
daily except Mondays.
The exhibit will be open to the
public again tomorrow and Fri
day from 2:30 to 6:30 pm., Sat
urday from 9 a.m. to noon and
Monday from 1 to 4 pm. ,
8 Girls Flee Reformatory
In New Arkansas Break
By the Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Aug. 31.—An
other mass break has occurred at
the Arkansas Girls’ Training
School where former conditions
were described recently by a cir
cuit . court judge as comparable
to medieval dungeons.
Eight girls broke away last night
after smashing two doors in the
main dormitory.
None had been found by 8tate
police.
Six of the escapees were in
volved in the August 14 disorder
which touched off a grand jury
investigation and led to the in
dictment of two former school
officials on charges of mistreat
ment of /teen-age inmates.
During the rumpus two weeks
ago.flve girls fled. All were round
ed up within a few days and re
turned to the reformatory, 16
miles southwest of Little Rock.
Burmese Civil War
Proving Big Boon to
American Flyers
fty th« Associated Press
RANGOON, Burma, Aug. 31.—
The Burmese civil war is proving
a boon to former United States
Army and Navy fliers here.
These Americans are doing a
good business chartering their air
craft to the Burmese government
for transport of soldiers, supplies
and civil servants who otherwise
would be grounded because of
disrupted surface communica
tions.
The young businessmen earn
their money,' though, dodging
rebel bullets. Some of them have
been captured (temporarily) by
outlaws unexpectedly occupying
airstripes in the hinterland after
plane takeoffs from Rangoon.
In Burma there is no radio
communication between towns or
sky-riding planes and their des
tination point. This absence of
radio produces another hazard
for the American pilots—blind
flying in a lashing monsoon.
Some of the Americans, ex
hump flyers, claim flying with
out radio during the monsoon is
much more hazardous than cross
ing the hump between India and
China.
“Toughest flying in the world,”
is the way they put it.
Among the latest additions to
the score of Amarican airmen
criss-crossing the Burmese skies
are 28-year-old Capt. Alfred R.
Gibson of Indian Lake, Ohio, and
J. F. Shoemaker of New York.
With their partner Aw Haw,
millionaire son of the Chinese
business tycoon Aw Boon Haw,
Mr. Gibson and Mr. Shoemaker
brought in Air Carriers, Ltd., from
Hong Kong on charter to the
Burmese government.
They were given a plush as
signment. Their C-46 is used ex
clusively by Kachin President
Sinwa Duwa Sima Nawng for
[flights to his remote territory in
j the north of Burma where he is
! recruiting more Kachin soldiers
| to join the Burmese army.
Chief pilot of Air Carriers is
jCapt. R. A. Stratford of Savan
nah, Ga„ with Barney Kulhmeihr
of Iowa as his co-pilot. An Aus
tralian, George Birmingham, is
the radio operator.
The Gibson-Shoemaker outfit
hopes to extend its service by
bringing in three more planes.
Their four-month-old operation
so far has been fairly uneventful.
In that, they are more fortu
nate than Capt. Ladd Moor of
Marshall, Tex., 34-year-old di
rector of operations for Indonesia
Airways.
Capt. Moore, whose aircraft is
under charter to the Burmese
War Office for carrying troops
and ammunition, has been hit
three times while flying over rebel
territory.
He said his narrowest escape
came when rebels occupying the
North Burma army base Meiktila
hit his ammunition-laden plane.
“Actually,” he said, “I was due
to land the stuff at Meiktila,
Which was unable to warn Ran
goon of the rebel attack. If only
the rebels had held their Are. they
would have captured me, my plane
and the ammunition.”
Traffic Accident Death Rate
By Miles Hits New Low
By the Associated Press
CHIQAGO, Aug. 31.—The mile
age death rate for the Nation's
traffic accidents in the first half
of 1949 hit an all-time low of 6.8.
This milestone in traffic acci
dent prevention was reported to
day by the-National Safety Coun
cil. It was the first time in the
history of such record-keeping
that the half-year rate has been
less than seven deaths for each
100,000,000 miles of vehicular
travel.
"The goal set by President Tru
man in 1946 is in sight.” the
council president, Ned H. Dear
born, said in a statement. “At
that time he asked that the mile
age death rate, then about 12
deaths per 100,000,000 miles, be
cut in half.”
The toll of actual deaths, how
ever, rose slightly in July. The
annual fight to make a gain in
lives saved remains close.
For July the death toll was
"2,850, an increase of 2 per cent
from the 2,790 July toll of 1948.
July, January and April are the
only months this year to record
more deaths than last.
At the end of seven months the
1949 death total was 16,540, still
1 per cent under the 16,700 count
at the end of July, 1948.
Frown on British Films
Movie theater meh in Singapore,
Malaya, are protesting against a
rule that they show a larger per
centage of British pictures, claim
ing that British films "generally
appeal only to the more sophisti
cated elements of the colony.”
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Crowd Looks for Excitement
But Vaughan Takes It Easy
By W. H. Shippen, Jr,
An optimistic crowd was back at
the Senate Office Building again
today, hoping to get a passing
glimpse of Maj. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan or an echo of the heated
charges and counter-charges they
had been led to expect.
Yet the appearance of President
Truman's military aide, contrary
to the forecasts of some writers
and radio commentators, has pro
ceeded smoothly without so much
as a voice raised in anger.
The kind of recriminations tha',
would crop up naturally in an at
mosphere tense with political con
flict have been conspicuously ab
sent. The 56-year-old general and
veteran of two World Wars ap
peared to be taking the affair in
his stride.
One got the idea that the star
witness was the calmest man in
the small committeeroom jam
packed to the walls with specta
tors. , „
Maragon Not at Ease.
It had been intimated by cor
respondents who know him well
that Gen. Vaughan might be
goaded into returning the fire of
his political enemies. So far he
has failed to do so. He smokes
his long, thin cigars, answers
questions calmly and in a clear
voice and falls back frequently
upon the words “I can’t recall”
when questions become too de
tailed.
The general’s friend—or pos
sibly now his former friend—John
Maragon, appeared somewhat less
at ease although far from the
spotlight in his position against
i a back wall.
The Greek-born businessman,
j whom Gen. Vaughan described as
a "Senate Office Building char
acter” who doesn’t "reprimand
easy,” apparently is worried by
the trend of the investigation.
Will Gen. Vaughan, the man
who gave him friendly favors, in
cluding letters of introduction on
White House stationary, make no
effort to keep him from being
j thrown to the wolves? The United
States Attorney's offidl and the
Bureau of Internal Revenue are
under orders to investigate his
statements with a view to possible
perjury and income tax evasion.
Used Vaughan’s Phone.
Mr. Maragon has been belittled
in testimony as a “nuisance” to
his State Department associates
on a temporary assignment in
Greece, and described by Gen.
Vaughan as a man likely to take
advantage of a friendship.
' One incident, the general said,
occurred when he entered his of
fice at the White House and heard
his secretary hand the telephone
to Maragon. It seemed Mr. Mara
gon had called from the military
aide’s office and left a message for
the party to return the call to him
there.
Mr. Maragon was at first refused
admittance yesterday. When al
lowed to enter the committee
room, he squeezed against a wall
and remained there throughout
the hearing.
Press Tables Jammed.
Mr. Maragon is * about Gen.
Vaughan’s age. He has a bald head
and prominent eyes. In happier
days he displayed many of the
characteristics of a Chamber of
j Commerce greeter or a successful
[politician whose hand-clasp was
[ received without reservation by
men who could further his pro
l jects.
Senators and their wives joined
j the jam to gain entry to the
committee room, with consider
ably mor^ success than curious
citizens without Capitol Hill cre
dentials.
The regular press, radio and
camera men covering the three
week hearing was reinforced by
newcomers who competed for
space at the already-packed press
tables.
Many brought their own small
chairs, begged and borrowed from
surrounding offices. The diffi
culty was to find a place to set the
chairs on the floor.
Bolivian Government
Retakes Cochabamba,
Rebels' Stronghold
By the Asiociatad Prut
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Aug. 31.—The
Cochabamba Radio reported that
- government forces today recap
tured that city,, which Rightist
rebels had held since Saturday.
Troops under Gen. Ovidio Qui
roga took control of the rebel
stronghold, 150 mlies southeast of
La Paz, at 9 a.m., after four days
of fighting, the radio announced.
The general staff said last night
that most of the resistance in the
city of 90,000 population had been
crushed, but that actual occupa
tion would be delayed until today
to avoid “probable disturbances.”
Feeble Resistance Met.
Confirming the radio report that
Cochabamba wras recaptured, a
| government announcement said
jonly feeble resistance was en
i countered when army troops en
tered the city.
About 2,000 government troops
launched the Cochabamba at
tack—first major battle with the
rebels—after the state had called
up all men 19 to 50 to quell the
four-day-old revolt.
The revolt is led by the Na
tional Revolutionary Party (MNR)
of the late President Gualberto
Villaroel, who was hanged when
his government was overthrown in
1946.
(The Bolivian radio “Avaroa,”
heard in Lima, said the rebel
leaders fled by plane after the
CochaDamba defeat. It said
they were en route to Arequipa,
Puu, in % commercial transport
plrae of Lloyd Aero Boliviano.)
One of 3 Vital Cities.
Cochabamba was one of three
important cities seized by the
rebels in widespread uprisings
Saturday in the Andes mountain
tin-mining region.
Observers said the fall of Cocha
bamba isolates Santa Cruz, an
other big town in rebel hands.
It lies about 150 miles east of
Cochabamba and gets its food and
supplies over the railway from
that town.
Schools to Open Tuesday
ORANGE, Va., Aug. 31 (Spe
cial).—Orange County schools
will open . Tuesday. Work con
ferences for teachers will be held
today, tomorrow and Friday.
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Ochs' Extradition Case
Delayed Till Sept. 30 in
Bladensburg Shooting
A hearing on Prince Georges
County’s request for the extradi
tion of Samuel Ochs, 42, George
town haberdasher accused of as
sault with intent to kill, today was
scheduled for September 30 in
Municipal Court.
The date was fixed by Judge
Aubrey B, Fennell when Ochs ap
peared for the first legal round in
a cutting and shooting scrape
which occurred early Friday morn
ing at the Crossroads Restaurant,
a Bladensburg night club.
Ochs was arrested yesterday on
a Prince Georges fugitive warrant
charging him with shooting Ber
nard Yorkie Del-Negro, indicted
gambler who is a patient in the
Prince Georges General Hospital,
Cheverly. Ochs, himself, was hurt
at the Crossroads and required
hospital treatment.
$1,500 Bond Continued.
’ His lawyers declared, today,
i however, that Ochs was not even
in the vicinity of the Crossroads
at the time of the shooting. They
said the shooting of Del-Negro
occurred more than an hour after
Ochs had been struck on the
head by an unknown object.
Previously, the police reported
Ochs had been cut.
Ochs appeared in court today
wearing dark glasses. A stitch had
been taken in his forehead above
the left eye, which was black.
Judge Fennell continued his bond
at $1,500 pending the extradition
hearing, which was delayed on re
quest of the Government.
Charles Walker and Charles
Ford, lawyers for Ochs, told re
porters their client is the real vic
tim in the case.
“He is the victim,” said Mr.
Walker. “This must be a new sys
tem of issuing warrants. Some
body ‘phonied’ this warrant
against Ochs, who is a legitimate
‘businessman. He Was stunned by
| the blow on his head and did not
see his assailant.”
Ochs is the second man under
arrest in the mysterious case,
which was not made a matter of
record by the county police until
Saturday. The first is George
Paul Harding, 38, of the 400 block
of Massachusetts avenue N.W.,
who surrendered to detectives
Monday afternoon, after he had
been charged with shooting Del
Negro
■Del-Negro has been placed
under $300 bond to appear as a
State’s witness against Harding.
Ochs, a resident of the Hamil
; ton Hotel, is partner in a clothing
store in the 3100 block of M street
N.W.
Arrest Deepens Mystery.
His arrest served only to deepen
the mystery surrounding the
Bladensburg incident.
| Policeman J. H. Burgess investi
gated the shooting of Del-Negro
i but made no report for more than
24 hours. Del-Negro was quoted
as saying he was shot in the leg
by an unknown person when he
stopped to examine the motor of
his automobile.
Subsequently, District police in
formed county authorities that'
Ochs had been treated at a hos
pital for cuts received at the
restaurant. Eventually the shoot
ing and the cutting were linked.
Harding is under $1,100 bond
to appear in Hyattsville Police
Court September 19.
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