Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 14

14 VANDERLP PLANS TOFGHT “CRAFT” Will Devote Full Time to In-' quiry Into Political Corruption. Having severed relations with the varied business dircctorates in which | he occupied a chair, Frank A. Van-| derlip, retired New York banker, in . private interview today declared he would henceforth devote his un-|{ divided attention to the work of plac- ng before congressional investigat- ing committces ovidence of corrup- fon in the American government Charging the republican administra- | fon with transferring to Washington | from Columbus “some of the men who | ad had a lifetime of unsavory con- | nection with state politics” Mr. Va derlip asscrted the need for a con- zressioral investigation of “the Vet- erans’ Bureau. the alien property cus- | todian bureau, the War Department | in respect to s Shipping . Vanderlip ot from whi intends to ! rigid investigations into the jus of government depart- I the conduct of public ofli- ad of the citizens' federal The organization. eclared with | smphasis, hus come to Washington to i tay, and he cxpects to enroll thou- { nds of citizens from every part of the country as members | Plan Permanent Body. i “It is the aim of the founders of | he Citizens' Federal Research Bureau | need for by what has the evolution of the great s of the day on one hand. e methods of publicity by ent departments on the practically impossible for | cwspapers to undertake the original ing that is necessary in the present situation. They must safe- zuard themselves from libel. the work is unpopular, and if a Washing- | rrespondent undertook it with | ess he would be disciplined tments with respect to urrent news.” " Vanderlip's retirement from the | directoras £ member was made known yes- | when he gave out for publi- | a letter he had iwritten to k. | nson, presiden the Freeport | New Yo atter's reque: the boa Swenxon's Lettes Swenson's letter foll my painful duty to inform vressions which have come | n members of the boards to your mes pertinent 4t the meet our board to be held on W he 26th. when the proxies w structed for the election of direc. tors for the ensuing year to be held it e stockhold meeting on \pril 7 dircetors, sympathy with your a ie matters. o * e that you will be in me of vour willingness and determi nation ‘to_ discontinue as one of our airecto Vanderlip's Repl Mr. Vanderlip, in his lett aid, in part I'am qui one regrot in the matter is that men | with whom 1 have loni been associat- | «d in business are now <o the present situation in the at Washington. H sociates the slightest concep- | f the truth in regard to the| srruption which las been current vou could not, without the most com- crifice of honor, do ai hing plaud honest effort to uproot that corruption i en times, notably in | jud, nt regarding | iurope was at va with that of ciates, but event prophecies with terrible reality Sees Danger in Suppression. t “Now, again, 1 find Wall street at | variance with my views, but 1 ven- ture another prediction. 1f there i not full exposure of the corruption ' hat has honeycombed some of the departments and several of the bu reaus of the federal government, busi ness. at the mercy of corrupt courts, corrupt prosecuting attorneys and | aw-breaking officials, will ultimately | -uffer far more than it ever c hrough the exposure of these things. ‘The great danger to business and zovernment alike lies in suppression «f the facts. Knowing that vour attitude to- ard the work I am doing in Wash- ngton is not unique, but is shared by « great many of my New York busi- | iess associates, 1 have decided to take the definite step of resigning irom every business board on which I | wecupy a seat.” \mong the directorships from which | Vanderlip will retire, it was > the Union Pacific, or»gon" Oregon and Washington, | cles and San Pedro tates Rubber Mercantile States Realty. | INTOXICATION CHARGED AGAINST LEGISLATOR ! Dr. R. W. Bragg, Member of Vir- ginia House, Arrested for Disorderly Conduct. Py the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., April 3. Kragg, member of the house of dele- of the Virginia general assem- | y from Brunswick county and of | special legislative committee in-| vestigating the affairs of the state department of game and Mland fish- eries, was arrested here last night on | @ charge of “drunk and disorderly | conduet, and cursing and abusing H. 5. Bucher.”” Later he was, released | on bail. Charges were withdrawn to- day. Dr. Bragg was_ arrested on com- | plaint of Walter Kirsh, proprietor of | a restaurant here, who charged the ! delegate with attacking Bucher when he remonstrated with him about curs- ing in the hearing of women seated t tables near where Dr. Brags, State enator W. W. Workman of Rich- mond city, Delegate C: C. Davis of Norfolk, and others were havihg din- ner. No charges were preferred against Scnator Workman nor Delegate Da- vis. Davis also is a member of the committee which is inquiring into the financial affairs of the game and in- land fisheries department and imto s of “illegal and Immoval® use THE EVENTNG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY. APRIL 3, 1924 —— e | Cummins, nationally known as a|terday afternoon when they received!to a number of popular perfodicals ‘ IR 9 |events. The ZR-3, now under con- |from the Anacostia Naval Air Station coUPI_E IN SUICIDE writer, dangerously wounded, when |information that “something was | under the pen name of “T. D. Pendle- struction in Germany: the Shenandoah, |together with Army bia 1 a police broke into their apartment, at wrong” there. They declined to dis- |ton.” Cummins was a graduate of number of rigid and non-rigid airships [exhibition will be acrobat the | moreland clubs here. He was for close the source of the report. Break- | the Virginia Military Institute and & and numerous airplanes will take part. |[parachute jumping, and PAcT. HUSBAND DEAD 105A North 3d streef. late vesterdsv | ing in the door, they found Cummins' | member of the V. M. I. and West- PROGRAM ARRANGED The circus is proposed to be the largest chute of contestants ) ) The husband and wife shot them- |body slumped in a corner on floor, the pistol dangling from selves as a result of a mutuai agree: | hand. Mrs. Cummins lay on the bed. | of several insurance companies. jects and | wounded woman told him. Cummins in the history of aviation. time in reaching the groun Continuous movies of aviation sub- | A hydrogen demonstrations will be |free as a targ £ ine gun fir his | twenty-five years representative here naval buildings. Alrplanes will aid [race compietes the program. . o v o r . whi [ i -1 years old, ), o . . lteon : g Mrs. Holmes Cummins, Authoress, |t Coroner Whitfiold declared the | The woman was seantily clad. while | | Cummine was ffty-four years old, New ZR's Shenandoah and All ‘ pened in the morning at one of the (from airplanes, a1d a comic ballon: in Grave Condition After | been i1 ill health for several | Without a coat. hospital today attendants|from asthma for several years. Cummins was said to have suffered two. Th had child . 2 = =l siiffihin oyl Types of Aircraft to Take companies of marines in an attack on | Announcement 17 also made tht machine gun nests and free balloon |the Lak=hurst station is to becom . A i i Y ascensions will be made, the buse of all lighter-than-air crafe Richmond Tragedy. s wemais GoRaie D iE | cew dazw a0 helIstt & nosital whefe French Historian Honored. Part in Exhibitions. The Shenandoah will be anckored [with exception of & fow oheervatio: grave.” When questioned about the |he was undergoing a treatment, A1 Dy the Associated Press. Ci IND, Va., April Holmes CHMOND, s A mond busi. | “1 hot myselt and Holmes took the | officers, because of unhappiness Cummins, prominent Ri gun and shot himself.” She expresses | sulting from the husband's 111 hea ness man and clubman, was found | o live. attendants say. 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