Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1923, Page 9

105 ANGELES ACTS " TOCHECK CRIMES “Vigilance Committee” Plan- I ned in Drive to Clean Out Undesirables. PROSPERITY HINDRANCE Rumors of Protection and Graft in { Police Circles Are to Be * Investigated. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. LOS ANGELES, Calif., January 6.— *This municipality Is paying the price for its boosting and prosperity. As a city of wonderful opportunity it has attracted, along with the great influx of new citizens, a veritable ermy of undesirables. The powers that prey have found it a bright and shining mark. The ever-mounting wave of crime, which appears to have swamped the police and other law enforcement agencies, has become a grave problem that must be met immediately. As a result, without any public announcement, a meeting of the lead- ers of civic life has initiated plans for the formation of what is, in effect, mittee. Acting in an it will launch a the heart -of the capi drive to strike at evil. Monday this committes will meet to find out what is the matter with the city police force. Ugly rumors About protection and graft and im- munity of noted criminals from ar- rest and prosecution will be thor- oughly sifted. If necessary a com- {;!uc reorganization of the police will © demanded. Promise All Men Needed. 1¢ i1t dovelops that the present force Is too small, as the police claim, the committee will see that the additional men needed are provided. Sheriff “Big BIll” Traege, a popular idol now 1ottering, will be jacked up about the coddling of notorious criminals in the local jail, the escape of Clara Phillips and others, and will be warn- ed ho and his men must stamp out crime and hold all criminals or get out. The courts and judges are to be watched for undue leniency to prison- ers in the matter of bail, straw bonds and inadequate penalties and the granting of probation to confirmed criminals. Any who fail to measure up to the highest standard are to be asked to resign. While all this might sound foolish and futile as a program for a mere unofficial body in most communities, ere in Los Angeles it is a vital plan. The power of recall over all elected officials is in the hands of the citi- 2ens and there can be no doubt that the recommendation from such rep- resentative men as those comprising s committee, including the pub- lishers and editors of the local news- papers, would carry sufficient weight to drive any official condemned out of office. ‘The chief of police is appointed by the mayor and not subject to recall. But his sponsor, the mayor, is elect- ed and comes under the operations of the law. As developed the plan of the com- mittee is to clean up and clean out from the inside and then to establish a dead line about the city to keep out every undesirable and crook who is headed for Los Angeles and rich pick- ings. It is hoped soon to have Los Angeles advertised as the most un- healthy spot on the map for all citi- zens of the underworld. More Important Reform. There is an even more important reform brewing as the result of the failure of juries to convict in sensa- tional cases—orimes of love and pas- sion—where women were involved and made emotional appeals to the Jurors. Eighteen out of the twenty- two sitting judges in Los Angeles announced themselves as favor- ng an amendment to the code which will allow majority verdict by juries in felony cases, so that a two-thirds or three-fourths vote will be suffi- cient to convict or acquit. Many jurists e of the opinion that nly in ‘this way can convictions be obtained in nurder cases where women are drawn on the jurles, and the woman juror admittedly has come to stay. This reform will be urged at the coming scssion of the state legislature. In the meantime, with these re- forms under discussion, the jalls are full chiefly with minor offenders. The police are chasing petty gam- blers and bootleggers, while holdup men, bandits and burglars ply a thriving trade seemingly unmolested, and automoblle speeders still are get- ting theirs in the natgre of jail sen- tences. When seventy-three nickel crapshooters were arrested they had to be left in the corridors of the county jail. After they went to court Jailor Mark Bailey found that every- thing not nailed down had been car- ried off. Balley let out an awful yell, had the prisoners brought back and threatened to lodge a charge of lar- ceny against them. Then he lined ;:e;ln 'unnfor individual search, only Ind e missing articles ol Cion g scattered Tt is getting pretty tough when a Jailor finds thieves in h (Copyright, 1 BRITISH VESSEL SAFE AFTER CALLING FOR AID Ship Reaching New York Reports Having Provisioned and Towed the Dorin. By the Associated Pre NEW YORK. British auxil schooner from which an S.0.8. call was re- ceived a week ago, s intact, but with engines disabled, somewhere off the north Atlantic coast, the British steamer Cragness reported on arriv- ing here today. he_Dorin, bound from IHall New York, sent out the c-ura:n:: about seventy-five miles south of the Sambre lightship, in Nova Scotian waters, the Cragness reported. The steamer picked up the disabled ship on January 3 about 150 miles soyth of Halifax and towed her to a point mbout 170 miles east of Nantucket. In the recent heavy storm tho, tow. ing hagvser parted and tho Cragness was lrced to proceed alone. Am American vessel was then close by, however, and was expected to piek up the Dorin, which had been pro- visioned by the Cragness. The Dorin carrles a crew of fourteen. ————— CANADIANS BUY SHIPS. Ten New Vessels Will Be Placed in Lakes Grain Trade. TORONTO, January 6.—Ten new steamships will carry the Canadia; flag on the great lakes when the navigation season opens - in the Bpring, it was announced today. The ships, which will total 34,000 tons capaclty and will cost $1,500,000, will be delivered in May by English firms. They will be operated by the Eai ern Steamship Company of Canada. of which John G. Poland of Buffalo is general mapager and in which Buf- falo, Toronto and Hamilton men are is pet jail. 22.) anuary 6.—The ry Dorin, b ! EXPORTS FALL OFF “UNITED STATES” SEES LIGHT OF DAY IN PENNSYLV ANIA HARRISBURG, Pa., January 6.—A Certificate of the birth of United States was received at the office of the state registrar in the department of health yesterday. It came from r\:rthem Pennsylvania and_ certified to the birth of a son to John and Mary States. The certificate con- taineéd the note that the father and mother had the same family name before marriage. Under the regula- tions of the department the location of the district making the report was not made public, AININ IMIPORTS, Dr. Toward More Normal Bal- ance of Trade. W¥mports for 1922 probably will show an increase of about $400,000,- 000 over 1921, Dr. Jullus Klein, di- rector of the bureau of foreigr and domestic commerce, reported day on the basis of complete statis- tics for the first nine months of the l)‘ear. The value of exports for 1922, he estimated, would be around $700,- 000,000 below the exports for 1921. five _THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY BUILDING OPERATIONS IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FROM 1917 TO 1923. 1918 fi0168457 21 15613075 2bemployes flscal years. *105008¢6 1919 : $22659452 24 21 of construction work for that year and the number of employes y Congress, HARVARD COMMITTEE il rriday | Charles Moore Succeeds L. P. Mar- n on War Memorials Body Just Announced. The falling oft in exports, Dr. Klein | By the Associated Press. said, was more pronounced in the) case of raw foodstuffs and manufac- tures than in prepared focdstuffs, and semi-manufactures. Hetraced the de- cline in the value of the total ex- ports to a large extent to the change he said, by a comparison on a quanti tative basis for a considerable num. ber of representative products. Sees Brighter Future. On the basis of these statistics, Dr. Klein “estimated that the year's fa- vorable trade balance would be re- duced from nearly $2,000,000,000 in 22 to $750,000,000 at the end of 1 The director said that from the I tendencies shown in last year's for- eign trade he believed the American trade balance hereafter would be more in harmony with the country's international economic position. Certain outstanding tendencles in- dicated in the foreign trade figures thus far available for 1922, he out- lined as follows: Normal Balance of Trade. A strong movement toward a more noraml balance of trade; exports have been recently decidedly increasing. Asia is taking a more prominent ! place in the whole picture. especially as a market for our exports and also as an increasingly important con- tributor to our imports: American purchase abroad seem to be more and | more predominantly raw materials and basic commodities for further use in manufactures. ASK PARDONS FOR FIVE ANARCHY LAW VIOLATORS Civil Liberties Union Asks Gov. Smith to Free Men Now Serving Sentences. NEW YORK, January to pardon three men and t serving sentences in New York state {prisons for violation of the criminal {anarchy law today was addressed to 1Gov. Smith by the American Civil Lib- erties Union, which asked for a pub- lic hearing into the ecircumstances of the convictions. James Larkin, Irish labor leader, is one of those in prison. The communication declared the state criminal anarchy law, under which nine convictions were made of persons expressing communistic views, never before had been used against people for the expression of | their beliefs. It argued that the law had been directed originally against persons who by their opinions, caused an overt illegal act, and not ‘against the advocates of a poltical philosophy. Gov. Smith was asked to pardon the five serving prison terms, and to order a public hearing into the cases of three persons out on bail pending an appeal. | Come to Us for an | Early Examination Our business passed the experi- suental stage long ago. We know today what we can give to our clients in the way of high-chss dentistry at the lowest possible fig- ures. Expert treatment at a min- imum cost will be the advantage of visiting us. Gold Inlays, Amal- gam Fillings.. ....flgzup Silver Fillings Gold Crowns. ... satl tion, ane na f'-fl'-f- eXiracied FREE whea otber work is done. 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John ority on city planning and par- orial committee and working him will be Gen. Leonard Wood, | Brent of Buffalo, | the artist; Singer Sargent, James Hazen Hyde of Paris, Richard Washburn Child, ambassador to Italy; ‘Save $20 R (f SUPERTONE Formerly $69.50 now—— $49.50 Kiein Sees Steady Move additional employes had been secured to handle the ra ropriati Theodore Roosevelt, Nider, former command- the American Legion, -and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ex-Representative Charles G Wash- burn of Worcester is chairman of the committee to supervise the ercetion.of a Harvard memorial to the late Theo- dore Roosevelt. Other Committees. On the committeo whose plrpose it will be to bring Harvard University and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1ngland, where John Harvied was educated, are in- cluded J. Piérpont Morgan; Thomas W. Lamont and Jerome D. Greene, New York bankers; Sir Henry Nor- man of Lendon, who established a British base hospital during the war; | Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law School: Prof. of Oxford Universit lotte, president of Swarthmore Col- orge Santayan: Frank Ayde i bog |lege, and the elder sons of Bankers|gefve Morgan and Lamont. Frederick = Roy Martin, general the Associated Press: talph and Joseph Pulitzer of the s Publishing Compan llivan of Washington and ay. president of the New York Evening I'ost Publishing Company, are among the members of the com- mittee on policy in publicit * These committees, well as the others, will make their report at the S #19025291 closer together | Formerly $79.00 now— 7 $35896978 24 lding inspection. ‘TONGUE SLIP CONVICTS BATILE OF URDER Slayer Trapped on Witness Stand in Trying to Repudiate Confession. | By the Assoc | ) . N. J. January 6.—Wil- year-old negro, | tonight was convicted of first degree |murder for the slaying of Mrs. Charles F. Brigham, whose mutilated was found stuffed.into a_pro- Orange, ten days ago. He will be sentenced Monday. Jjury was out only thifty minute after having heard Battle repudiate an 'alleged confession offsred as an exhibit by the prosecution. Battle slipped into a verbal iln trap next meeting of the Associated Har- | vard Clubs, in Kansas City May | ana 26. 36 (10 femporory) Chart, prepared by Assistant Engineer Commissioner Wheeler, shows how rapidly building operations have increased in Washington in the past Enach bullding represents a year, and the variations in height indicate Increased activity. Under each building is given the It will be xeen that until this year only a fow This year ten men were employed temporarily, closet ‘In the cellar of her home | | The 1923—PART 1. 023 $42,000000 estd 36 (iotemporaty) lue from a wpecial |laid by Assistant Prosecutor D'Aquila| during the closing of the cross-ex- amination this afterncon which the | | negro saw too late. | | Slowly and deliberately Battls was | | denying that he had been asked a| | number of questions contained in a transcript of an examination into h! sanity made by Dr. Waltzr S, Was ington, an alienist. “Where were you when she said | that?” the prosecutor asked read a part of the allenist’s examina- tion, referring to the presence of Battle - when Virginia daughter of the dead woman, asked him where her mother was on day of the murder. “I was not asked replied Rattie. “I'm asking you now,” prosecutor. “I was standing— but stopped and again asseried had not been asked the question by the alienist. ‘Wallace Brook: friend of Battle, testified tou he accompanied th accused jeweler's shop the afterno: murde where the prisoner left a | woman’s wrist watch 1o be repaired. | The watch was identified in court as| having belonged to Mrs. Brigham, and 1 the jeweler told the jury he recoz- | | nized Battle as the man who brouvght | it in for repair. i that question, rejoined the another as he | Brigham. | the | began Battle, | he | of the | “PRINTER’S LIST” TO BE SUBJECT OF RESEARCH | Typographical Union Will Seek to Determine What Part Dust Plays in Tuberculosis. Special Dispatch to The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., January 6.—| A nation-wide scientific investigation to determine what part “printer’s list™ plays in the origin and aggravation of tuberculosis is contemplated by the International Typographical Union in connection with a general health survey now being made in the trade. “List” s the black, grumous, woolly, fluffy substance, which col- lects in type boxes, trays, cases and ¢hases. It contains silica and iron, and, according to a theory advanced by Dr. E. Halford Ross, eminent British scientist, acts as a causative agent to stir dominant tubercle bacilli into action. = Physicians have differed widely in |discussing the probable degree of in- fluence exercised by this printing shop dust on lungs of printers, but a thorough inquiry in the situation has never been made, motwithstand ing that British authorities have long discussed the advisabllity of such research. Frederick L. Hoff- man, Insurance statistician, direct- ing the printing industry health sur- vey, has recommended to the Joint Council of the American Printing Trades that the inquiry be made. FOR A very ) SUMMER WHITE HOUSE BID MADE BY FREDERICK Merits of Braddock Heights Pre- | sented Should $200,000 Be- ! quest Be Accepted. | Speciat Dispateh to The Star, FREDERICK, Md., January | Should Congress accept the bequest | of J. Wilson Leakin, late a bachelor |lawyer of Baltimore, of $200,000 for ithe erection of a summer White | House, Frederick county will endeavor | to interest Washington in the merits | of Braddock Heights, a mountaln re- sort of native beauty, six miles west of Frederick. The single restriction {of Leakin's will was that the site of the summer capital be within motor ing distance of Washington. Some years ago Braddock Heights was suggested by members of the of- ficial family of Washington as a pos | sible location for a summer capital | The mountain resort, though sma |and with a population of but a few hundred during the winter mont n the Natlonal highway, and two { hours' miotoring distance from Wash- ington. The completion of a six-mile link of the Georgetown pike route will reduce this distance by some fif teen miles. County officials have made no act- ive attempt to present the claims of the resort for consideration. This will be done should Cong to accept the Leakin beque SALE T attractive detached resi- dence near 23rd Street and Wyoming Avenue —containing 14 rooms, 3 baths, 2 porches and garage. For further particulars apply Randall H. Hagner & Co. 1207 Connecticut Avenue Washington, D. C. 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