Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1923, Page 3

INCLE SAM STARTS BIG HOUSECLEANING Sanitary Inspection of All Federal Buildings Ordered in 1912 Under Way. The United States public health service has Jaunched crusade for the first complete inspection since th war of all government bufldings ex- cepting those in charge of services which maintain thelr own medical or sanitary staffs The crusade was ordered by Sur- geon (zeneral Cumming of the public health service under an order signed by former President Taft in 1912, en- forcement of which was interrupted by the confusion of the war The first inspections, covering all buildings in charge of the Treasury Department, have been completed, it was announced today by Assistant Surgeon General William F. Draper, in charge of the division of domestic a quarantine The next department to be mspect- ed, it announced today, will be the PPost Office Department While the report on Treasury De- prrtment buildings was not made publie, it wax understood to go into great detail as to the sanitary and |hygienic conditions, with rec men- dations for necessary ,Much of the ground covered in Treasury, lowever, was understood 10 have bect found in good condition In the case of all departments, the final reports will be submitted te Scerctary Christian, cabinet officer the chief clerks concerned he War and Navy bufldings are cxompt under former President Taft's orders, be ¢ thes departments have their own sanitary aad medical atafis The public health serv plan & _conference shortly ©. 0. Sherrill. the superintendent of public buildings concerning the sur- vey. The offic nt detailed for the in service are ‘‘ast Assistant A. A, S. Giordano and On account of the greatly conditions in_the city from the it wus thouxht that such a suanita survey would he much needed would no doubt reveal certain ditions which the government these reconstruction days will ble fully to correct. Many re believed by some ofl largel vercrowded, giv little air space for the individual The conditions of certain temporary structures in the city which were put up during the war. it is belivved, will recelve close inspection by the doctors in charge of the surve. The public buildings committee of the House has surveyed the situation from time to time. with the conclu- sion, Chairman Langley has an- nounced, that an omnibus building Dbill should be provided in the next session of Congress to give Washing- dequate housing for government c! fes. The first and most favored buildings for erection to relleve the housing conditions are understood to be one for the internal revenue bu- reau and another for the office of the controller general of the United States. was » cfficials with Col con- in now RAIDERS UNDER FIRE. Parly Sunday morning when the vlce squad attempted to force an en- trance into the premises at 434 New York avenue, occupicd by Julia Rock. colored, the wor is alleged to have fired several vhots at Sergt. McQuade of the raiding squad. None of the shots hit the officer. The woman was arrested and charged with discharging firearms and reteascd on $40 collateral, which she forfeited in court today by her nonappearance SPECIAL NOTICES. §IRN._ C. E. YEATMAN WAS THROWN SOME distance, but escaped witho serfous injury, hen the machine she was driving crashed over 20-ft. embankment on the river road Friday rnoon. | The car was badly damaged and the Accident was supposed to have been caused by faulty steerlng gear The members of the family wish to express thanks for the many kind inquirles of friends and acquaintances : ared tie regular quar terly dividend of $2 per share on its 8% pre. ferred stock. pavabie August 1 , to sha Bolders_of record at the cld Tsiness 1923, SAMUEL ( Sk VA York and_Philadelphia to TRANSFER & STOR- from N ALE FOR;ANY her than by myself on and after July 3. W HAMPTON, Ron Air Helghts Dills contracted WART AN except myself. a1 TPAIRED AND | UPHOL, r home: wiil go anywhere. Ad- dress Box i Star officr B FOR QUICK SERVICE ON HOURE REPATR ng, remodeling, B HILTON, 206 3> AN PERIENCE ON will do ‘repair work: 90: hour. Ad- dress Rox 70-A, Star_office. e ionte UPHOLSTERING : TURE REPAIRED; PORCH ROCKERS KPLINTE C.'A. 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Makes a cooler roof. aily covering roof: ‘wa rehouse: d For Sale and Applled by Paul H. Sears Co., Inc. . Mals 3884, CONTHACIORS. Boud bidgs improvement. | the | i i 1 i {had diverted all i Morse corporation undertool TWO-MINUTE TALKS ON SAFETY. No. 7. BRAKES. e The traffic regulations of the District of Columbla provide that: “Every motor vehicle while in use in the District of Columbia shall be equipped with good and adequate brakes in .good working order and sufficient to con- trol the vehicle at all times.” Violations of these regula- tions is cause for arrest and fine. but, more important, it is cause of a large proportion of accidents, many of which are very serious and even fatal Every person owning or operating a motor vehicle owes it _to his own family and all others on the streets to see to it that his brakes are in proper condition. They should be tested each day. Before going half a block from the garage. make a service test by throwlng out the clutch and applying the brakes. Under no circumstances should the car be taken farther if the brakes are not operating properly. Drive back to the garage and see that the faults are corrected before driving out again. At least once a month or after driving about 1,000 miles, a_ thorough test of brakes should be made. To do this. up rear wheels and apply brakes so that you can just turn one wheel by hand, then adjust brakes on other ‘wheel until braking power on the two wheels are equal. Uneven braking power frequently causes skidding and may result in a serious accident. ASKS CONVICTION INTRIAL OF MORSE U. S. Attorney, in Closing Ar- gument, Says Fraud Is Clearly Proven. United States Attorney Gordon to- day opened the argument for the prosecution in the Morse conspiracy case. He asserted the government had proved each of the thirty overt acts alleged in the indictments, which charge a conspiracy to ‘defraud’ the United States and the Fleet Corpor- ation, a government agency, through war-time contracts. He asked a con- viction against all the cight defend- ants—Charles W. Morse. New York shipbuilder, his three sons, Ben- jamin W. Morse, Ervin A. Morse and Harry F. Morse; Rupert M. Much, Richard O. White, Nehemiah H. Campbell and Phillp Relnhardt. Maj. Gordon began his address to the jury shortly after the convening of court at 10 c'clock. He spoke throughout the morning session and resumed after the recess. He will be followed by Attorney Wilton J. Lambert for the defense Outlines U. S, Charges. The prosecutor outlined briefly to the jurors the nature of the charge on the law governing the case. He then took up the evidence in detail and made a complete presentation of the government's case and pointed out where it rests its reliance for a conviction of each of the defend- ants. He declared that all the con- tracts were obtained by the Morses by fraud and misrepresentation as to their financial ability through the creation of a false appearance of wealth. He pointed out what he called “ar- tifictal bank balances” as shown by !the evidence and stressed the claim that the capital stock of the Virginia Ship Building Company had been rep- resented as $1,000,000 in cash when the defendant Much had admitted that it consisted of $830,000 of secur- ities, which had been sold at a loss. Declares Money Misused. Maj. Gordon claimed that none of the boats contracted for had been completed on time, even allowing for hanges in plans. He asserted the evidence had sustained the claim of the government that the defendants had converted to their own uses moneys recelved in some instances and in others had diverted the money from the use to which it should have been applied Under the first contract, he sdid, the Fleet Corporation had paid $361,- 000, of which he claimed the Morses converted more than $300,000 to their own use instead of to the building of the ships. On the second contract, he claimed, by what he called false vouchers the Kleet Corporation was in- duced to pay more than $400.000 to the defendants or to corporations in_which they were interested. In the matter of the Virginia con- tracts, Maj. Gordon declared, the evi dence’ showed that the defendants the progress pay ments recefved from the Fleet Cor- building of the plant. This was brought about largely, he asserted. through false vouchers signed by Reinhardt, who was in the employ of the Fleet Corporatifon as auditor at the Alexandria plant. He_discussed the so-called confession of Reinhardt, which had been received in evidence. Referring to the contentions set forth in the brief submitted by former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo to the fleet corporation that the gov- ernment was indebjed to the Virginia company to the extent of $1,400,000, Maj. Gordon said the evidence sub- mitted in the case showed that at that very time the Fleet Corporation had overpald the Virginia company nearly $1.000.000. He admitted that the armistice had something to do with the canceling of contracts re- lating to some of the vessels to be built at the Virginia vard, but as- serted this action was taken by the flect corporation primarily becuuse of delay in completing the other vessels. When the Virginia corporation in Sep. tember, 1919, signed an agreement to buy the boats built at that yard, the Prosecutor declared. the evidence dis- Bioied hae if ade ‘a° secret assimns ment to" C. W. Morse & Co.. which transferred its rights to the United States Transport Company. This last- named corporation, he asserted, con- verted the revenues from the opera- tion of these boats. Later, he added, a contract was made to by the boats bullt at Groton, but no payment was made and the sale was forfeited and another agreement made by which the to run the boats as agent of the Fleet Corporation, Of all the revenues under this agree- |ment, he pointed out, the government Does | for Europe Wednesday. received only $19.63. e GOING TO EUROPE: Senator Robinson of Arkansar, dem- ocratic leader of the Senate, was in Washington today preparing to sail He will at- tend the meeting of the Interparlia- against the defendants and touched | | i | 1 i I | moted |long side. wool ] |level much beyond what it can rea- poration for ship construction to the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, The World at Its Worst—Helping Yourself to Butter. YU TELL YOUR HOSTESS VES, THANK VOU, YOU WILL HAVE A LITTLE MORE BUTTER YOU ALSO FIND THE MAID HAS ONE OF THOSE TLEXIBLE ARMS SO JHAT THE YOU PEEL YOU'LL SIMPLY HAVE TO BRACE THE PLATE WITH VOUR. OTHER HAND GLUYAS wicoiaMs s = YOU APPROACH THE BUTTER KNIFE WITHOUT THE SLIGHT- EST PREMONITION OF TROUBLE UTYER PLATE SINKS GENTLY UNDER THE SLIGHTEST PRESSURE ALL WOULD BE WELL IP KNIPE HADN'T SLIPPED ALMOST SLID- NG BUTTER ON FLOOR. (C) Wheeler Syn. Ine. Promotions of Crooked Stock Seldom Pushed in Wall Street Swindlers, as Rule, Beaten at Own Game When They Ventured Among Wizards of Finance. BY R. K. TREVOR. " The bucket shop swindle in the past decade was essentlally a Wall street swindle. There were various chains of bucket shops that had their head- quarters in places other than New York, some with headquarters in Chi- cago, some with headquarters on the | Pacific coast, etc.. but the people who | effected the largest loot in bucketing had their headquarters in New York and were graduates of Wall street's schools of crooked finance In the case of crooked stock pro- motions of the present decade, more par- ticularly those of the past five years, tha case is very different. Wall street had its crooked stock promotions and many of them. But the heaviest in- road into the savings of honest people was not made from Wall street. It did not have its origin in Wall street. Generally, the crooks who directed it were but little famlliar with Wall streats ways either good or bad. A surprisingly large proportion of them, in fact, Knew almost nothing about stock market operations. even most of those who operated out from New York ity Itself. They wrre unknown to Wall strect and Wal street was unknown to them. They didn't have the faintest fdea of how to make markets for their stocks, even if they had desired to make such markets, However, there were mighty few of them who seemed to have such de sires. Could Not Stand Light. A main reason for this was the fact that the securities which they pro- could never have stood up under the pitiless searchlight that is thrown on a stock which has broad active trading, particularly on a se- curities exchange. % A rank stock promotiton swindle can be “put across” through the me- dium of a big market operation for a short while, but generally for only a short while. There have been a few | instances in which sponsors for fraudulent securities active in the big trading_markets were able to hoodwink the market year In and year out into belleving there are some enormous potentialities on earnings for those securities when the sponsors knew absolutely those potentialities did not exist. = However, there are two sides to a big trading market in securities—a_short side as well as a There are always a lot of people anxious to play the short side, particularly among the dyed-in-the- professionals. Some of the short side operators are keen statis- ticlans and securities analysts who are willing to back their own money on playing short against the judg- ment of people whose buying may be advancing the stocks. Source of Danger. With these vigilants on the job, it can easily be seen that the promoter who places a fraudulent stock on the market_or attempts to push such an issue of questionable merit to a price sonably be considered entitled to. cer- tainly does not have things all his| own way. | Such a promoter may. in a short perfod of frenzied speculation, suc- ceed in selling a huge amount of his securities at widely inflated prices. But generally it is a question of only a short time when his own unwilling- ness to take back stock at the levels around which he knows the stock is not entitled to sell and the continued hammering of the market by outside interests who have decided views as to the worthlessness or near worth- lessness of the stock, cause a big break in the issue. Also it is to be noted that periods of frenzied specu- lative markets are few and far be- tween. However, thousands of promoters of fraudulent securities who were | never anywhere near Wall street have been able to sell their wares in large volume almost steadily over the course of several vears—with no bids made on the issues. Look back over the arrests that have been made for the sale of fraud- ulent securitles by' the Unlted Statds Post Ofice Depariment and by other Pablico AbinorIten Gver the courae” Of & b I B Tt g g ey that, in the cases thus involved, the number of fraudulent secutities for which any big market was attempted for any length of ‘time s very small s compared with the number of is ues for which no market was at- tempted. Use of Mails. The promoters of the bogus securi- ties of the period of twelve or fifteen years ago had been using two great avenues for reaching the populace. One was the United States malils, which were flooded with tons af literature on these securities. The other was the advertising columns of the newspapers. At that time there were many newspapers throughout the country, some of them leaging ac- newspapers In big cities, which cepted page after page of flamboyant advertisements for the sale of a weird line of stocks—advertisements which mentary Union, which will be held in | were fakes on the face of them. Copenhagen, Denmark. Several other senators have either already gone to |to people who had far le The promoters of these stocks sold knowledge Europe or will go on the same day as | of securities and sgecurities values Senator Robinson to attend this meet- ing. Senator Robinson will be accom- | to trading panied by Mrs. Robinson. Iy than the e who were accustomed W“ even the flimsiest of stock market promotions. Most of the stocks offered. put dut probably at par value on buovant capitaliza tion, couldn’t have lasted around suc figures more than a month in a very big trading market. The promotcr sought to reach the rural popula: He was a sort of straggling rear guard of the gold brick fraternity who had flourished some years before. His stock offerings represent bogus in- ventions and the like—stocks of com- panies that promised to extract power from the sun's ray: to build mono- rall transportation systems all the way from New . The crusade of the Post Offic thorities proved one of the ma fective pleces of wholesale pro to which stock swindlers had ever been subjected. Sellers of stocks repre- senting all sorts of bogus inventions and bogus industries 'vent to federal jails for long term: for using the malls to defraud. Scare in Ranks. The campalgn by the authorities threw such a scare into the ranks of the swindling fraternity and at the same time had such pronounced edu- tional value in enlightening the in- stor that the bogus invention, or near bogus” Invention. promotions of the wild variety of those days were put out of business for good. The whole system that they represented was smashed. The swindling fra- ternity was given the most whole- some ‘lessons which it had ever had with regard to respecting the United s more important. however, was the fact that those of the news- papers which had consistently refused to take the advertising of the swin- dlers were now in position to rally hundreds of other newspapers throughout the country to their sup- port in efforts to keep all sorts of stock swindlers out of the advertis- ing columns of the newspapers. The movement thus started was to result several years later In the brilliant crusades” by newspaper advertising associations which were to prove one of the most effective forces in strik- ing at stock selling swindlers of the later days. ‘Wholesome Fe The financial underworld’s fear of government prosecution was* of a deeper sort than had probably ever been known. It was of a sort akin to that which the United States secret service had finally, after long constant pounding at counterfeiters and their agents, been able to instill into the counterfeiting fraternity. To the average person who reads of counterfeiting simply in the. form in which it exists today. and considers how seldom one gets a counterfeit bill or counterfeit coin in the ordi- nary course of handling money. it is hard to imagine that back in the 70" counterfeiters and their agents were well nigh as numerous _propor- tionately as have been mail stock swindlers in recent years. In that connection it may be stated that a study of the painstaking work and the constant plodding of the United States Post Office inspectors vear in and year out over the course of the past twenty-five years shows that the United States government is handling the subject of stock frauds through the mails fn much the same remarkably efficlent manner as did the United States secret service in the latter's handling of counterfeiting crimes. which resulted finally in the reduction of the latter line of crim- inality from one of the most common forms of thieving to one of the least common. Making Mails Clean. Just as Uncle Sam was determined that every one could feel certain ‘‘a dollar is a dollar,” so too has there been shown a determination to make the United States malls so clean that no one need have the least doubt of their being clean. There appears to be the realization by the Post Office Department and by the United States Department of Justice, standing right behind it. that it may take years more to overcome all handicaps and to finish the big job, but that finished it _must be. Uncle Sam has a long right arm. The Post Offico Deparsment has been hampered, however, by the fact $hat dpproprintions ror the worik of Small compared with the omormons tasks which confront it. It has also been hampered by the lack of proper laws to cope with the keen criminal element of the financial underworld that knows ‘full well how to take advantage ‘of technicalities. For instance, there has been much question &s to how effective could be laws on mail frauds in the prosecution of bucket shop cases. That was one of the reasons that the United States Post Office Department hesitated about proceeding against bucketeers in recent years as it has proceeded against promoters of bogus stocks. In that connection it Is worthy to note that when the United States De- partment of Justice conducted its big crusade against bucket shops in 1919, it directed its operations at lines of violations such as the later-day bucket shop .gentry . have, studiously avoided. Trailling the Bucketeers. ‘The bankruptcies of some of the big bucket shops has at-last given Uncle Sam's Departmeént of Justice and Post Office sleuths proper opportunity for forcing their wedge of prosecution into A favorite | By Gl}lyas Williams. - g VOU FIND THE BUTTER'S AS HARD AS A ROCK AND WILL NEED STRENGTH TO CUT IT Qo S bt YOU TRY A SUDDEN QUICK STAR WITH NO BETTER ek, =X \Z s YOU SAY HASTILY YOU DONT WANT ANY BUTTER AFTER ALL AND TRY UNSUCCESSPULLY NI ™ LOCK FOOLISH the bucket shop system. Now that the government forces are started on | such work they may be expected to pursue that work, leading securities interests belleve, in the xame vigorous manner in which they have for years hunted down the swindling stock promoter. As to the promoters of bogus se- curities of twelve years ago. their wholesome fear of the long arm of the | post office law should they have tried 0 use the mails to defraud, and the fact that more and more newspapers of important circulation were closing their columns to questionable stock offerings, made it necessary that the swindlers map out new lines in order to reach the “suckers.” The era of swindling stock promo- tions of the past twelve years has been marked by numerous stock swin- dling operations in_which a new criminal element worked increasingly to effect its rascality, and still not become enmeshed in federal laws. Methods by which these crooks avoided the mails, and succeeded in effecting a looting of hundreds of thousands of people and Into the tens of milllons of dollars, will be told beginning with the next article of this series. (Coprright, 1923 by New York Commercial.) VETERANS’ EXCURSION. The second annual excursion of the United States War Veterans' Associ- ation for the benefit of the Home for Widows and Orphans of War Veter- ans. is to be held at Marshall Hall August 4. This new organization is composed of Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, United Spanish War Veterans, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Arm and Navy Unlon, the Loyal Sons of Veterans, U 3 and all auxiliary organizations. A program of athletic events has been arranged. It is intended to hold patriotic exercises in the aftérnoon. Mra. Myrtle Leebsack. vice president of the association, is chairman of the program committee, with Mrs. Lizzie W. Calver, Mrs. Laura A. Lemmon Mrs. E. 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The agents would agree to maintain serv- ice for a specified number of years, subject to certain rights of cancella- tlon on both sides 4nd would share with the board profits and losses of operation, taking the results of op- eration over an agreed period of time as a standard. A portion of the profits would be set aside to pro- vide an ultimate purchasing fund by the agents and, the brief declared, the terms of the plan are such as would enable the board to reduce its overhead charges materially. P i e iy PLAN SPECIAL PROGRAM. ! D. C. Guardsman Uniiz to Enter- tain at Armory. An entertainment will be given at the National Guard armory, 472 L street northwest, tomorrow night at | 8 o'clock by the officers and men of | Compantes D anad E, 2d Battalion, 121st Engineers, who returned Satur- day from the special camp of in-| struction at Camp Simms. Several professional entertainers have béen engaged and refreshments will be served. 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