Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1924, Page 20

WANTS D. C. HEADS | GIV;N MORE POWER Burton Says Congress Wastes Time With Petty Details of City Government. OPPOSES TWO-DAY RULE Points Out Congress Cannot Afford Time. Delegation to the District Commis- BOY BOOTLEGGER FREED BY COURT Declares He Was Selling Whisky for Man Whose Name He Discloses. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, January 15.— Thirteen-year-old Preston Posey, ar- rested yestérday on a bottlegging charge, was dismissed in police court her this morning following state- ments made to Judge Duvall that he was selling whisky for a man whose name the boy disclosed. THE EVENING ST. placed on probation in custody of his mother. The boy stubbornly retained his re- serve until the last minute, declaring that he would not tell the nsme of his “boss.” But, when the coursé of the law was explained to him, he finally broke down and tearfully told the judge of his -entrance in the bootlegging business and how it had been worked, It was said this morning that & warrant would be issusd for the man named by Posey upon evidence given by the boy and upon that gathered by police investigators who are work- ing to stamp out the bootleg traffic along the water front. FOCHT TO RUN AGAIN. Benjamin K. Focht of Lewistown, Pa, who was chairman of the House District committee in the last Con- gress, has announced that he will be WASHINGTON, D, | Sports Coats | = i Il Reduced from higher || prices to— C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1924. fi 5 I)il’psbom 608 to 614 ELEVENTH ST. E 5 a candidate again to represent the elghtecnth Pennsylvania district at the primaries April 22, 1024. He made this declaration in a letter to Joseph A. Fichthorn of the Logan Guards, First Defenders. H sioners, or some other agency. bY| mne warrant was dismissed, accord- Congress of authority to issue ruu-' ng to Judge Duvall, because the boy latfons as to streets, parks and a|was too o be &reat varlety of police and municipal | SHITINGL The case could Mot be fent matters was advocated on the floor of {ginfa Jjuvenile law. The the House yesterday by Representa- tive Theodore Burton of Ohlo. Referring to a pending resolution |} to safeguard the days set apart for consideration of District legislation, Representative Burton called atten- tion that while Congress has a duty to perform toward the District, it #lso must consider great general principles and policles affecting the welfare of the whole country. Ho urged that Congress should re- lteve itself of & great mass of detall, which includes much of the District lafllflnmn. Representative Burton | i Bald: Sweeping Reductions in Upholstering NOW IS THE TIME —to have your furniture reupholstered and repaired. Owing to our slow sea- son, and wanting to keep our large force of workmen busy, we are offer- ¢ he Finer C oats Two days out of, say, twenty-four, we legislate for this municipality, while | |i 110,000,000 and more of people only i [i have the remaining twenty-two days. || But_wo have a responsibility to the District which we should fulfill, and we Eive attention to District legisiation { | partly because of that responsibility &nd partly because the ordinances and ! Togulations which we adont here are re- | garded, I do not know whether correctly or not,’ as a proper model for the rest of the country. I will give you a few fllustrations of the minute, the unnec- :’l‘ry attention, given to this legisia- on. “A few days eince 1 was talking to @ lady who has been a resident of this clty aince her birth and lives in a house which s now In the midst of a growing business section. She sald she could mot met nut from her door to an auto- mobile, because every hour during the day automobiles were parked, occupy- ing every foot of space. She appealed to the ‘police. The policeman sald, ‘Madam, that is altogether wrong. 1 wish 1 'could help vou, but Congress will have to pass some law before I can give you rellef.’ *“Next there Is an unusual degree of independence upon this government | | ©f ours which is said to be so patern- | [Hf al. I remember years ago on leaving this city for Cleveland reading in an evening newspaper a stinging con- demnation of Congress because it had not made an appropriation to clear the snow off the sidewalks. The next morning I arrived in Cleveland where there had been the same snow storm, and the first greeting that 1 had was about some lots I owned in a remote | [iff part of the city near the cornflelds {{iilf Where there were very few passing to and fro, coming from a police ' [fl t lieutenant, who told me if I did not | fil I Temove the snow I would be arrested before sundown.” il PALMER EXP.LAINS PLANS. || Confers With Fleet Corporation Of- ficials. Leigh C. Palmer, president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, met Wwith the officers of the corporation today to outline his attitude oh or- . ganization matters and to inform; them what authority they will have in thelr respective capacities in car-' Tying out the government's latest effort {n ship operation. r. Palmer also s expected to con- fer with W. J. 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