Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1928, Page 11

JEN MAYORPLANS LTS OF CHANGE “Bossy” Gillis Busy Gettingl Even With Police and Bankers. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. Special Dispatch to The NEWBURYPORT, Mass,, January 7.—This is a Horatio Alger town. It is heve that good little boys who never watch the clock have become hankers with side whiskers and pep- | per and salt suits and pillared man- sions on the hill, and now, all at once—noboay seems to know just how it happened—here is a “bad.” | crapehooting boy, rising to eminence | and attaining evervthing the late Mr. Alger had been holding out for the sood boys, “Bosey™ Gillis—the citizens learned | his name was Andrew after he was elected mayor—hasn't yet started the Merrimac River running up the hill. This may come later. For the present | he is too busy dealing out misery to the copg who used to arvest hin | the hankers who, as he s to ring a burglar alarm™ went into a bank, and to job holders who guessed wrong. Elected By Women's Vote. Mayor Gillis is 31 vears old, weighs 200 pounds, 1s sandy haired, has a long torso, short legs. powerful arms, thick neck, vutstanding ears and a rather carelessly fashioned Reman profile. One errant eve makes the general aspect a bit raffish. He is likeable and magnetic and much ad mired by women—in fact, it is suid| here that it was the women's \un“ which elected him. He has heen a gob, and hence has seen the waorld, Againet this backzround of New E _Jand yeserve, he stands out as a per- son of almost startling sophistication. Whittier Jived near_here and once wrote a poem about the town. Wil liam Lloyd Gartison was bhorn here and the window of the mayor’s office— | .once Caleb Coshing’s office—looks out on 3 statue of the great New Eng- Jand humanitarian. Mayor Gillis took this correspondent to the house whgre : Garrison was born. Z “He was a fighting guy, tdo,” said the mayor. In a tour of the city, pointing out the sites on many historic crap games. the mayor outlined his politi- 1 philesophy. “Deo you see that shoe factory there —closed down—and ‘that cotton mill there and that coal pocket? All iclosed down because these little penny- pinching two-by-four hankers we Jossen up with their dough. EVer‘) extra nickel they get. they take it ‘out in the back:yard and bury, it. “Used 40 Be Good Town.” ““Thigsaséd to be a ‘wéed town. The ielipper ships were built here. We uséd to ship’ runi-to the West Indies nd now we bring it from there. I'm ‘going, to make these bankers put isome of that mdney to work. We'll ,put up the taxes on their properties so theyll have tp. put ‘em to. work. ‘It's all wrong anyway to tax the guy v | high "school money, but I'm going to imet same of this loose dough to work- ing again.” . It did not seem pertinent to ask the mayort whether he. z«m:th philosophy. : Altheugh he had expounded it in eloquent Eliza-| Pl hethan teyms Jt is guite evidént that s s R 1y particularized. philosophy. - “See that cop over there on the|for one thing or another for years corner. ‘e~ wsed “to ‘pinch me" for «at . ali—shooting ecraps eor ting or something like that. ing to give him a ride when I bawl t the cops at the City Hall tonight. i “Look at those clam flats over at the mouth of the river. ’ nds of dallars worth of that méney and I'm going .to see a crack at it. If those clams m they've been that Way for years. XNobody éver got poisoned from ‘em yet. T'll get:the clam dig- gers back to work if.1 have to start & revolution. I'll stick a row of cops out there to protect them. Selects Site for School. “That made land down there dn the i6 through Spokane—I've forgoften | w | was traveling—once in & while | 1 used to ride on the eushions. Any- | v. they have a university there | the water and ts great, » the section where the poor | Kkids live and some of those 1'ght old badgers over on the hill don't want the high school here. But its going to be here anyway.” Mayor Gillis talked engagingly of various prize fights which he ha tended—in fact he meems to ha tended most of them—nund said he in. tended to stress athletics in the pub- Ve wchools .“Do_you do sny boxing yourselt,” be was asked “No—just street fighting,” >3’ re. plied In discussing bis policies in general be waid “I'm going 10 give'the hest of it 10 the guys that stuck with me and I'm I i hump the ones that have n Uying 1o 4o me up, Nobhody is g0ing o steal any money while 1 am mayor and the taxpayers are Eoing 16 get & run for their money, and I'm going 1o slough these hirds that are :llln( all that rat polson around ve.” The mayor concluded with a vitriglic denuncietion of hen thieves as he Arew up 10 the old red brick City Hall, shadowed by ancient elms. iCopyrichl 3 COTTON'MEN TO MEET. CIVIL SERVICE IS “BAD BOY" GILLIS DECLARES Mayor of Newburyport Plans to “Land Boot on City's Deadheads.” “Got to Stop Selling Rat- Poison Liquor,” City’s New Chief Insists. BY ANDREW .J. GILLIS, Mayor of Newburyport, Mass. NEWBURYPORT, Mass., January | 7.—To the victor belong the spoile That's the theory every politician | works on, but I'm the first man ever elected to office who avep dared stand up and tell the truth about it. That's my theory, and I'm xoing to see that | the guys who stuck with me get what | is coming to them. and I'm going to sea that some of the cops and ace-in- the-hole bankers and smalltime poli- ticlans, who tried to get in my way. | get what is coming to them, too. 1 Jeave it to anybody if that fsn't| just what happens when anybody is clected to ofice in America. Then why not say s0? | Civil service is a lot of bunk. 1 know lots of fatheads who pass those “hinkey-dinkey parley vous” examina- tions and then get themuelves plas- tared onto the public pay roll for life. while better men stand around and wait. All that is out from now on. Imagine running a business that way! How long would it Inst? The only way you can run a business is to land the boot on a guy who doesn’t deliver and to shove him ahead when he does. Under thix civil sarvice racket, the best guy in the world gets nowhere unless he's got the drag. and the bums who have got the drag et carried THE SUNDAY LOT OF BUNK. WidaWorid GILLIS, guys in, and try to keep people from | getting poisoned by bad liquor, | give the taxpavers their mon worth. That's my program. These bankers: that ring a burg alarm every time an ordinary u. walks into their bank are responsi- ble for a lot of factories being closed. If they weren't so tight with their money things would be shoving alons a lot fustér. We're going to st things up here and if these birds don’t put some of that idle money tu | work we'll get in some money that | will work. ! As to politics in general, T don't| know much, us [ am a business man and not a politician. but ax to poli- ticians, 1 know a lot. There are few of them that take care of t friends, but most of them are all themselves. We ought to have mor men in office who wi o tow! along. {like they would:-a business—take care Bans “Rat-Poison” Rum. About prohibition, they've got to stop, selling that rat poisor around hers. I'm going up to Boston myself and tell the Federal office there that this has got to stop. They are bring- ing ft in by the shipload and truckload and carload. - In the past. about all the cops did was, to beat up drunks. As T told the cops the other night, it doesn’t do Any good to club the drunks unless you find out who sold them the furniture polish. That's the way to get results—let the drunk holler if he wvants to. but find out who sold him the booze. There isn’t any reason in the worid why poison like this should be sold. As to tixation, the big idea Is to keep the politiclans from _getting their feet in the trough. We will have to build a mew high school. Some of ‘these ginneys around here are already wetting their lips, but I'm telling them ngw. there won't be a bit of gravy in it for any one. can mention one big job here in which one pious ‘old stift got himself heeled for life. ‘This Isn't going to happen again. You might think it would be easy to put up a high school and build 1t on the square, but you're mistal Any one getting pinched as often as I have learns a about city affairs, It's going to be tough to keep the gang from getting its hooks on that do it. of the guys that are right and hum the others out. ‘Convright. 1028 1 WILBUR COMMENDS CREW OF U. S. NAVY DIRIGIBL Secretary Praises Efforts of Per- sonnel in Searching for Lost Plane. The rapidity with which the Navy's dirigible Los Angeles was gotten under way to search for the seaplane Dawn was made the subject of a letter of appreciation hy Secretary Wiltur sent to Capt. E, 8. Jackson, command- er of the Naval Afr Station at Lake- hurst, N. J. It also was disclosed that a pumber-of citizens assiffed in getting the vessel under way. “The Becretary of the N letter eavs, “desires to express the satisfaction of the department at the excellent eficiency displaved by the personnel of the U. 8. 8. Los Angeles, of the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst. and to the civilian population for the helpful co.operation in vicinity of the . | Alr atation when the Lo Angeles was orderéd to, make a search for the missing seaplane Dawn. “The work of getting the Los An. geles on the flight on such short no- tice at a time when the personnel was scattered. due to holiday leave, and the commendable spirit of the citi- Doesn’t Drink or Smoke. | zenry In responding to an appeal for I want to put the public right about me being the had boy of Newbury- and getting pinched so often. e fact is that ['don’t drink or smoke,’ and the only thing they ever inched me for was shooting craps and ; fighting cops and resisting trest-and. things like! that. A lot of these cops have been pinching nie and-the way-it-is now I could give them a. good ride if 1 wanted to, but a lot of them are old men and I'm g0ing to give them a break. I've already it a few fires under them, and they've got to wear out a lot more shoe leather. But I'll split fair with any cop that s willing to work and_earn his dough. nother thing I'm going. to take a firm stand on Is this hen-thieving which has been going on ataund here. | People have heen ”.:unvkluc about it for years and ly has ever done anything to stop it. [ burned up ths cops about this the other night and I'm going to see that iU's safe to raise hens In this town. That for all this antique stealing, too. Stealing hens and antiques is out from now on. ‘There Is also a Jot of bunk In this assistance in augmenting the ground crew is particularly noteworthy. “The commandant of the Naval Afr Station Iv requested to express the thanks of the department to the citi. zens who were of assistance in {his work."™ FALL ASKS DECAY. Counsel Brings Afidavits xomu{ Defendant's Health Poor. Mark Thompson, personal agtorne; for Albert: B. Fall, former Secretar: of the Interfor, brought to Washing: ton yesterday aMdavits intended to show. his client is unabie to appear | on Jarudry 18 for retrial of the con: spiracy charges against him and Harry F. Sinclair. The charges grew out of the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval ofl lands to Sinclair. Thompson brought an aMdavit from Fall's physician, who -has stated #0e5 it might cost the former cabinet offi. cer his life it he came here during the oold weather from his home in New Mexico. one way street business. The way it works here, it causes mothing but congestion and confusion. I'm work- ing nut a trafMc system which will keep cars moving instead of gefting them jammed up. . . Assalls “Tight” Bankers. 80 far as the whole job is con- cerned, the mayot of & town ought o save taxpayers' money—as A heavy taxpayer myself, wouldn' he a sucker to run up tixes’. ought 1o weed out the deadheads In the police, fire, highways, heaith and Whether the motion to postpon the retrial will be op, by Gov. ernment counsel when it is filed Mon- @ay has not been determiney. ‘. Roosevelt Forest Week Head. By the Associated Press. Col. Theodore Roosevelt of New York has been elected chatrman of the American Forest week committee, to i 1 | succesd former Gov. Frank 0. Lowden of Tlinois, who asked to be relleved r threa years' wervice. The 1928 ry week has been set for April other departments and get honest Beauty—Tis s the most Benutiful Marmon ever built. This is “the ecasi- Coqurt est riding car in.the world." POLUGI'—TM' is a straighte eight motor (built STAR. WASHINGTO o : MMM N o /nterest or Extras Added to Our Budget Plan UL LT W e Do Not Penalize Our Friends IMIMTITINTIITT? Bn'xdget Payments No hetter time than now to ar- range to huy your furniture on our ™ Divided Payment Plan—terms to suit your budget. TANUARY 8. 1928-PART 1. 2 IT PAYS TO No Intercst or Extras Added to Our Budget Plan Think’ of the convenience -this Budget Plan offers—hundreds have taken advantagze of it, why not you? IV EERIETRRILEER T L - This January Sale affords one the oppor- tunity to refurnish their home at remarkable savings—all high grade and up to the minute furniture fit to grace the finest of homes and at prices unheard of before. - And the best of it is, that you can take advantage of our BUDGET PLAN, which means that payments can be arranged to suit }'o.urdbudget,‘ without extra charges or interest, we do not penalize our riends. A These Secial Valuesin iving Room Suites You cannot afford to overlook the many wonderful values of- fered ‘in this January Sale, — why not take advantage of our Bud- get Plan on which there are no Extras nor Interest Charges Added. Bedroom Suites Three-piece Overstuffed Living Room Suite, upholstered all- over in two-tone Jacquard velour. Loose spring-filled Cushions, with reverse side of tapestry. Regular $149 grade. $l 1 9 Clearance Sale Price Threc-piece Overstuffed Living Room Suite, upholstered in rose and taupe Jacquard velour, backs and sides-of same material. Reversible spring-filled cushions. 80-inch settee, club chair and wing chair. Regular $195 grade. Clearance Sale $l 9 Price & 5 Three-piece Living Room Suite, 4op rail frame of mahogany finished on gumwood, upholstered all over in two-tone Jacquard velour. Reversible spring-filled cushions. 80-inch sofa, wing chair and club chair. Regular $225 grade. Clearance $ l 69 Sale Price Three-piece Living Room Suite, upholstered in taupe and rose mohair ; sides and back of taupe velour. Reversible ‘$pring-filled cushions, with reverse side of tapestry.. 80-inch settee, club chair and wing chair. Regular $225 $ l 79 'Dining Room Suites Ten-piece Dining Room Suite, of Huguenot walnut veneered on gumwood. Suite consists of 60-inch Buffet, Semi-enclosed China Closet, Enclosed Serving Table, 6-ft. Extension Table and Six Chairs (Pecan wood), with $l 29 genuine leather seats. Clearance Sale Price Ten-piece Dining Room Suite, of American walnut veneered on gumwood. Suite consists of 60-inch Buffet, Semi-enclosed China Closet, Enclosed Server, 6-ft. Extension Table and Six Chairs (Pecan wood), with gen- $l 49 uine leather seats. Regular $198 grade. Clearance Sale Price. .. Ten-piece Dining Room Suite, of American walnut veneered on gumwood. Consists of 66-inch Buffet, Enclosed Server, Semi-enclosed China Closet. 6-it. Extension Table and Six Chairs, with genuine leather seats. sl 79 Regular $225 grade. Clearance Sale Price Ten-piece Dining Room Suite, of American walnut veneered on gumwood, with mahogany decorated overlay. Suite consists of 66-inch Buffet, Semi-enclosed China Closet, Enclosed Server,’6-ft. Extension Table and Six Chairs to match, with choice of tapestry or genuine leather seats. Regular $245 grade. Clearance Sale $ 1 9 8 PEE . ol R S s e egh LIS Ten-piece Dining Room Suite, walnut vensered on gum- wood ; Huguenot finished. Consists of 54-inch Buffet, Semi- 3 enclosed China Closet, Enclosed Server. 6-ft. Extension Tl:u.:l::d mst: Chairs with tapestry. seats. Re; ‘Ten-piece Dining Room Suite, American Walnut veneered on gumwood. Suite con- sists of 66-inch Buffet, Semi-enclosed China Closet, Enclosed Server, 6 ft. Extension Table with pedestal base and Six Chairs with tapestry seats. Regular 5298 Three-piece Overstuffed. Living Room Suite, tqp rail frame of mahogany finished on gumwood, upholstered in taups and rose mohair. Sides and backs- covered in taupe velour. Spring-filled cushions, with reverse side of tapestry. 80-inch sofa, wing chair and club chair. Regular $225 grade. Sale Price Three-piece Overstuffed Living Room Suite, top rail frame of mahogany finished on gumwood, upholstered in taupe and rose mohair. Sides and backs covered with taupe velour. Spring-filled cushions, with reverse side of tapestry. 80-inch sofa, wing and club chair. Regular 5225 §259 grade. Clearance Sale Price. . Three-piece Overstuffed Living Room Suite, solid mahogany top rail frame, upholstered in taupe and rose mohair all over. Loose spring- filled cushions, with reverse side of frieze. Regular 8375 grade. Sale Price $350 grade. Clearance Sale Four-piece Bedroom Suite, Mahogany veneered on umwood. Suite consists of 48-inch Dresser, French fllnlty. Full-size Chest of Drawers and Straight-end Spool Bed. Regular $325 grade. Clearance Sale Price ... Four-piece Bedroom Suite, $295 American Walnut veneered on gumwood, consists of 48-inch Dresser, French Vanity, Chest of Drawers and Full-isze Bow- end Bed. Regular $285 grade. Clearance Sale Price $249 Eleven-piece Bedroom Suite, of solid Walnut, ‘consists of 50-inch Dresser, Hangin, Mirror, 4-Pc. French, Vanity, Chest of Drawers, Full-size Straight-end Bed, Night Table, Chair and Bench, Regular $598 grade. Clear- ance Sale Price ................ $398 by Marmon), developing 86 h.p. and rendering 70 to 80 miles per hour. Four-piece Bedroom Suite, of American Walnut veneered on umwood. Suite consists of 42-inch Dresser, Semi-Vanity, Chest of f)nwon and Bow-End Bed. grade. Clear- 599 ance Sale Price. .. " 5 Four-piece Bedroom Suite, of American Walnut veneered on gumwood. Suite consists of 42-inch Dresser, Full- Vanity, Chifforobe and Bow-End Bed. Representatives of 18 of the princi- pal cotton growers', manufacturers and shippers’ ussociations of ths exchanges, including X OMenns and Chicago, vited by the Depsrtment of Agricul Ture ‘o be heve January 16, when cot- | ton will he melected for use in making | practics] forms of staple standnrds under suthority of the eotton futures and cotion sendnrds weix | A number of bales of earh length of siaple will be welected and put swey o f.o.b. fac- .‘)]/2%; AND 6% tory). MORTGAGE s MONEY Quick action—no matter Regular §149 grad Clearance Sale Price. $l 19 Four-plece Bedraom Suite, of American Walnut veneered on gume wood, Consists of 42-inch Dr Full. Vanity, Chifforobe and Bow- End Bed, Regular $169 gra Clearance Sale s ] 39 Four-piece Bedroom Suite, of American Walnut veneered on gum. wood, with attractive overlay of mahogany, Suite consists of 48.inch Value_ Certainly no car can give more than does the "78" at its moderate price ($1,895 Marmon Motors, Inc. 1727 Conn. Ave. Potomac 861 ; [J Phone for Demonstration B ed-Davenport Sultes Choice of blue and taupe or rose aad nd ends of davenpert ol same l':flfl‘h nflnl-llhr:fihu ‘“fl bed: :mm Spring:-Alied reversidle Dresser, Chifforobe, Full-size Vanjty and Bow-End Bed. $ l 69 Regular 8225 grade. Clearance Sale Price,...... Four-plece Bedroom Suite, of American Walnut veneered on gum- | wood, with 8panish decorations. 8uite consists of §0-inch Dreaser, hu- § ize Vanity, Chifforobe and Bow-End Bed, Regular $245 s l 9 Clearance 8ale Price,......... 5 Four.plece Bedroom Suite, of American Walnut veneered on gums _ wood, Buite consists of 42-inch Dreaser, three-quarter Single-Mirror :::v.‘ T &0 Vanity, Chest of Drawers and Full-sizse Bow.End Bed. Reg- 22 5 Sale Price what the amofint rr‘(mnri ular 275 4 nce Sale Price 1y Theen Bed:Davenpart ar o o | stered in taupe and and no “red tape i | Four-plece Bedroom Suite, of A sides versible . | | wood, conslsting of 50.inch Dr B. F. SAUL €0, [ and Fulll Bow-End Red. Main 2100 925 15th $t R R R AR LN RIS erican Walnut veneered on gums Il-size Vanity, large Chifforobe gular 8378 grade, Clear- §275 r Extras Add )