Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1928, Page 7

KENOSHAC.F . DEVANDS INQURY Grand Jury Probe of Labor Dispute in Allen A Mills " Sought. By the Associated Press. KENOSHA, Wis, November 10—A grand jury investigation was demanded by the Chamber of Commerce today | “to clear the good name of® Kenosha ! from the stigma that has come through growing disorders and increasing dis- respect for law.” Petitions circulated by the chamber among Kenosha's 55,000 population and | addressed to Circuit Judge E. B. Belden | called for a jury inquiry into kidnap- | ings, shootings, bombings and other | outrages which have occurred since la- | bor trouble developed at the Allen A knitting plants carly last Spring. | Twenty Bombings Unsolved. Twenty unsolved bombings are among | the crimes the jury would be asked to sift. One of these bombings damaged a plant of the Allen A company; an- other was directed at the home of the district attorney. | ‘The Chamber of Commerce’s active entry into the case was described by President Ralph S. Kingsley as an eco- nomic measure to prevent the loss of business by the city. “I do not know who or what is re- sponsible for the situation,” Kingsley said, “but I do know we must clear the city’s name of the crime stigma or the | ]mmmunny will suffer further flnanciah‘ 0s5.” The Allen A trouble developed last | Spring whery the company ruled that | cne employe should tend two knitting | machines. Union employes objected, | holding that there should be one em- | ploye to each machine. There followed the strike, or lockout, the employes sticking to their demands, the company | remaining firm in its decision. | Many Watch Situation. | Although only about 300 employes are | involved, the situation has gained na- tional significance, the outcome being of particular interest to other workers similarly employed and other mill owners. There have been several hun- dred arrests made during the course of the trouble. ' Many of those arrested have been freed without court action. Numerous others have been fined for disorderly conduct. A hunger strike by two young women held in jail was cne part of the police picture. Twenty-six former employes of the Allen A Co. are now serving short sen- tences in the Milwaukee House of Cor- rection for violation of a Federal in- junction obtained by the company to prevent interference with the plant's operations. Several court cases are pending, one involving a charge of kid- naping. Probe Plea Is First. Despite intermittent agitation, today’s action by the Chamber of Commerce is the first civic step taken to bring the mat- ter to a climax. The city administra- tion, as embodied in the city manager, | has been charged by the former em- ploves with favoring the company. A move to change the city manager plan of government was beaten at last Tues- day’s election. A change of police chiefs has been made since the trouble began, but Chamber of Commerce officials assert that as yet there is no sign of any per- manent halting of disorders without court action such as they now seek. Stoning and egging of employes and former employes have taken place dur- ing the months of the breach. The Al- len A continues operation, reporting the employment of 1,300 men and women, working under the protection of watch- m2a employed by the city and county. The former employes have established | headquarters, which are under the di- rection of Louis F. Budenz of New Jer- sey, representing the workers’ natioral rzanization. The Allen A. Co. manufactures under- ar and hosiery. NTGOMERY PLANS ARMISTICE EXERCISES Churches, Schools and Banks Will Observe National Holiday To- morrow and Monday. pecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 10.—| Armistice day will be observed tomor- tew 1n a number of the churches of the county. Monday banks will close, busi- ness will be suspended to some extent and schools will hold exercises. In the Rockville Christian Church omorrow morning, the pastor, Rev. L . Goode, will preach an_appropriate rmon and thc choir render a special services in the Baptist “hurch and hear a sermon by the pas- r, Rev. Bartram M. Osgood, on “The hings Which Remain.” As_the result of bumper grain crops in Algeria, its people are buying many iuxuries never possessed before. @he Foening Htar Officer M. B. Moore of the seventh precinct with the Mercury statue found | standing in a Burleith street yesterday. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, 0. -0, —Star Staff Photo. OFFICIAL INDIGTED IN PHILADELPHIA Ward Leader, Member, Js Charged With Extortion. Statehouse | By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November 10.—An- other Republican ward leader and member of the State Legislature has been indicted on evidence unearthed by the special grand jury investigating bootlegging and police corruption. William B. Smith, in 29 counts, is charged with extortion, maintaining a gambling house and conducting an illegal lottery. The indictments were returned by the November grand jury after Mark Johnson, a negro, had testified that he and Smith had been partners in a lottery known as the “number game.” ! Smith is the second Repubiican leader to be indicted as an outgrowth of the special grand jury’s inquiry. The first, Matthew Patterson, was convicted and sentenced to five years in the county prison. He has an appeal pending in the State Superior Court. Both Smith and Patterson were re- elected to the Legislature last Tuesday with comfortable pluralities. District Attorney Monaghan said to- day that good progress was being made in clearing up the mystery surrounding the 15 accounts in which more than $10,000,000 was deposited in the Union Bank & ‘Trust Co. under fictitious names. ‘This money is believed by the prosecutor to have belonged to rum Tunners. Revelations of the grand jury and the conviction of s2veral policemen and arrest of numerous others growing out of the investigation appears to have but little effect on the gangsters, the murder of two of whom brought about the inquiry. In two days gangsters’ guns have claimed two victims, one of whom was so badly wounded that physicians hold out slight hope for his recovery. The latest victim, as yet unidentified, was shot down on a street corner last night by occupants of an automobile. Varying their usual practice, the gun- men halted their car, lifted their quarry aboard and sped away, leaving the police no clue except the wounded man’s pistol, picked up where he fell. How badly he was hurt remains a mystery. BOOTH IS BETTER. Salvation Army Head Out of Dan-| ger Unless Relapse Occurs. LONDON, November 10 (#).—Im- | provement in the condition of Bramwell | Booth, head of the Salvation Army, | continues, For the past week or more he has been under treatment for neryous prostration and has suffered considerable pain from neuritis. The pain is gradually disappearing and it was announced yesterday that unless an unexpected relapse occurs he is considered out of danger. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md, November 10 (Special).—Announcement has been made that the semi-annual meeting of the Montgomery County Federation of Women's Clubs will be held in the parish hall of Christ Episcopal Church, Rockville, Thursday. Morning and aft- ernoon sessions will be conducted by the president, Miss Estelle T. Meore of Sandy Spring. Between the sessions luncheon will be served by members of Christ Church Guild, Mrs. George M. Hunter being head of the committee in charge of this feature. Within the last few days Rev. Frank A. Tyler of the Methodist Church of- ficlated at the marriage at his home here of James W. King of Clinton, Md., and Miss Mary E. Wahl of Washington; Frederick Chesky, jr., of Montgomery County and Miss Roberta Marie Flynn of Frederick and Edward Carlson of Washington and Miss Alverta Virginia Fry of Lovettsville, Va. ‘The annual praise service of the Presbyterian Church at Neelesville will be held in the church tomorrow evening instead of in the morning, as hereto- fore announeed. Mrs. Frank E. Edging- ton of Washington will speak. The service will mark the turning on for the first time of the recently installed elec- tric lights. Cfficers of the Wheaton Woman's Club were unanimously re-elected at a meeting of the organization at the home of Mrs. John T. Hardy. A license was issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court here yesterday for the marriage of Miss Mabel Loretta Davis, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Davis of 1213'; D street northeast, Washington, and Raymond Leslie White, 21, also of Washington. Rebel Stronghold Falls. EL PASO, Tex., November 10 (#).—El Continental, Spanish language news- paper, says that the town of Palmarejo, State of Jalisco, Mexico, long known as a stronghold of insurgents and located in most inaccessible mountains, last night fell into the hands of Federal sol- diers after a flerce battle. OVORCEE SHARE ROTHSTEN WEALTH jFamily. Executors, Attorney, and Valet Are Legatees Un. | der Gambler’s Will. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 10.—A former show girl is to receive one-sixth of the | income from the estate left by Arnold Rosthstein, slain gambler, under terms of a will signed on his deathbed. Although the will has not been filed for probate, its provisions were made known by the slain gambler’s associates. His estate is estimated at $10,000,000. but much of this is said to consist of heavily mortgaged real estate and loans granted gamblers. The girl legatee is Inez Norton, who | has been livins at the Fairfield Hotel, | owned by Rcihstein. Of her his asso- ciates knev; little except that she had been a show girl and was a divorcee. | Her one-sixth interest in the income is to run only for 10 years. Widow Gets Third. | . Rothstein’s widow, from whom he had | been estranged, receives the incomc | from one-third of the estate for life. At her death the money is to go t: | charity. His two brothers, Jack and Edgar, are to receive outright $60,000 | and $50,000. respectively, and the in come from 20 per cent of the estau for 10 years. His three executors, Mau rice Cantor, his attorney; Samuel Brown and William Wellman, are to receive | one-sixth of his estate. Other bequests | were $15,000 to Thomas Farley, Roth- | stein’s colored valet, and the income for | 10 years from a $75,000 trust fund tc Sidney Stager. No mention was made of his parents, but it was said he had provided fo: them before his death. The will was drawn two weeks before Rothstein’s death. Authorities said today their investi- gation of the slaying was proceeding satisfactorily. The district attorney said he knew the names of the four men who were with Rothstein when h: was shot in a hotel room. Called Poor Loser. Jimmy Meehan, who played game for high stakes with Rothstein, gave : different picture than the popular on of Broadway that Rothstein was ¢ frozen-faced gambler. who lost as silent- 1y as he won. “He was not a good loser,” Mechan said of Rothstein. *“He always wanted to win. That's why he would never play the other guy’s game. He alw: waitec for them to play his game. Then hr would clean up a million or maybe two million and say, ‘Good-night, boys,” and blow. But, oh, boy, when they took him over the jumps, how he squawked.” FAIR PRESIDENT CHOSEN. W. J. Ford Succeeds Crismond in Fredericksburg Association. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., November 10.—W. J. Ford, president of the Plant- ers National Bank, was elected presi- dent of the Fredericksburg Fair Asso- ciation at the annual meeting of the or- ganization held this week. He will suc- ceed Horace F. Crismond, who headed the fair for four years. Other officers elected were: M. B. Rowe, vice presi- dent; H. K. Sweetser, secretary and manager. The directors elected were: | R. A. James, C. W. Jones, J. W. Kim man, Guy T. Cross, T. Benton Gayle, H. F. Crismond, M. B. Rowe, H. K. Sweetser, L. P. Graves, H. R. Morrison, ‘W. J. Ford, R. A. Kishpaugh, Roger E. Clarke, H. A. Whitbeck and W. T. Pey- ton. In spite of severe rain, the 1928 fair was able to pay all premiums and other expenses and plans are ‘belag made to enlarge the exhibition next year. | tle sunning itself on a log and the oc- | finite peace and contentment. Archdiocese of Philadelphia has 301 Catholic schools with 131,350 pupi ! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1928.° THE EVENING STORY sented to sell, but demanded a stiff | conversation Joe finally ventured Pearls for Two. BEAUTIFUL wooded section on the lower Illinois river. Clear to the water's edge grew the weeping willows, their branches drooped to kiss the purling ripples below. The chatter of red squir- | rels mingled with the melodies of song- birds and the stridulating drone Mi winged insects. A muskrat swimming | from the shore to a small island, a tur- | casional splash of a finny denizen. In- Old Joe Henderson had regarded the | scene with complacent cnjoyment, but | now a frown of apprehension spread over his rugged face as he stood erect in his flat-bottomed dinghy and gazed toward the west bank. A motorboat had pulled up to the landing before a small white cottage that was all but hid in a willow grove. “It's that pesky Sam Danks again,” muttered Joe, “the crookedest pearl- buyer that ever skinned an honest clam fisherman. What's he going up there to pester Mary for? She ain't got no pearls to sell.” But Joe was only partially correct, for Mary did have a pearl to sell. Joe took a very personal interest in the welfare of Mary Birkens, a comely mid- dle-aged widow who dwelt alone in the small cottage. “Wherever Sam Danks goes there's trouble to follow,” proclaimed Joe. I'm just going to sneak up there and see that he don't make some kind of trouble for Mary.” He had been dragging the river-bed for clams with a crowfoot grapple. Now he hastily pulled this contrivance over the gunwale and with lusty strokes rowed for a point about fifty yards be- low the white cottage. A few minutes later he stood be- neath an open kitchen window effect- ually concealed by a huge rosebush. Very cautiously he peered over the sill. Sam Danks was expertly appraising a beautiful peari that lay in the palm of his hand. Fully fifty grains in weight, pearshaped and bluish black in color. A most lustrous gem of iridescent | sheen. “T've been saving it for years,” Mary was saying. me it's easily worth $200.” “Not by itself,” answered Danks. “Now if you only had a mate to it to make a matched pair of eardrops I'd || give you $500 for the pair. But alone what good is it? Just fit for a lavallier or a pendant. I'll give you an_even h\u:l'drcd for it, that's the best I can do. “No, I must have $200,” insisted Mary. “I've got to roof and repair this house before winter and that's the figure the carpenters have named. So ! it’s $200 or nothing.” For ten minutes they dickered and | wrangled, but to no avail. Mary per- sisted in her price and all Danks’ wiles | §| proved futile. leave. “I'm going to stop at the boat livery for gas,” he stated, “then I'm going over to Greers Island to see what the shanty-boaters over there have got in my line. Better think over my offer. T'll stop in again on my way back.” When Danks arrived at the island Joe Henderson was already there wait- ing for him. The old river man was sitting in an armchair on the sunny Finally he prepared to | porch of his trim little houseboat which | | was moored first in a long line of simi- lar craft. “Hello there, old timer,” shouted Danks as he approached the island and shut off his motor. .“Got anything in || my line today?"” “Maybe,” answered Joe. Joe drew a small pill-box from his pocket and removed the cover. There in a soft bed of cotton lay a beautiful pearl. Fully fifty grains in weight, pear- shaped and bluish-black in color. A most lustrous gem of iridescent sheen. Danks' eyes glittered as he examined it. An undisputed pearl expert, he rec- ofnized it at once as a perfect mate | for the pearl Mary had shown him. An expression of avarice spread over his face. He would hold out on his firm, buy the two pearls himself and have them mounted, thereby reaping all the || profit. But Joe Henderson seemed reluctant to sell, and Danks spent a half hour in persuasive argument. Fnally Joe. con- COLD mantel, hardwood Completely equipped WINTER DAYS ARE AHEAD OF YOU. Guara . your families’ comfort HIS home contains 6 fine rooms—3 are bedrooms— a tiled bath—a Colonial floors throughout, and a large base- ment with laundry tubs. kitchen ntee “‘And all the river men tell price. After considerably more dicker- ing they settled upon the sum of $200 | 47. and the gem changed hands. Sam Danks rushed back to the main- land with all possible spsed. Mary was in her little garden weeding a cabbage patch. “Say,” blustered Danks, “sceing as how you need the money and me lik- ing you personally maybe I can do a little better than a hundred on that pear] you showed—" “Oh, youre too late,” Mary. “Just a few seconds after you left Joe Henderson came in and gave me two hundred for it.” “What!” shouted Danks. “Say—say I think you're a couple of crooks, and “Hold on, there. Don't get insulting.” It was a deep masculine voice. A sturdily built young man stepped from | behind a grape-arbor and confronted the dazed pearl-buyer. It was the game warden, who patrolled that section of the river. “‘Oh, you're in on this too,” sneered Danks. “Never mind that,” answered the warden. “I stood on the bank and watched Joe sell you that pearl. He bought it a few minutes before from Mary, and he didn't tell you where he got it. In fact, you didn't ask. Now, Sam Danks, you just make yourseli scarce around here. ing you, and I don't like your way of doing business. Always robbing the clam fishermen—" As the afternoon was waning Joo rowed over from the islahd and joined Mary in the garden. He procured a hoe and helped the widow with her eding Soon the patch finish=d | rather feeble brillance to the responded | I've been watch- | - [0 e ———— 1 and Mary Invited Joe to stay for sup- per. After an ample and happy repast they repaired to the cozy parlor. where | an _old-fashioned oil lomp lent its ymceed- ings. Following an interval of casual “Mary, I'm 55 years old and you're * she replied. “We've known and li: for a long time now,” “and ~d each oth~ Joe continucd, to sy, Jo» estad Mary to ife, and the good lady ac- 2id Joe tonderly, “I know that you have no monzy. and that you have a hard time kocping th's little | house up. And it makes me {2l good to knsw that you accopted m~ think- ing that I was just a pennilsss | river rat.” “Oh, we'll get along somehow,” Mary answered cheerfully. “Ths truth is.” continu>d Jos. “that as long s I've boen on the river I've | never old a singls pearl of my own. I've dragged up hundreds of tons of clams in the last 20 y-ars, and sold the shells to the button f~clories That, with my trapping, fishing and horb-gathering, has furnished me good living.” “But you surely must have some pearls in all thos: clams Mary. “I have, lots of them,” replied Joe, “and hore they are.” He drew frem his pockst a small leather case, opened it and displayed to her astonishad gaze a most amazing collection of fresh-water pearls, slugs, eardrops and seed pearls “Didn’t just know what I was saving them for,” Joe said, “but now I know. For you and me for later on—to take care of us in cur old age.” THE END. (Copyright. 1928.) found " sa " HUNTIiG S |REPUBLICANS TO.REBUILD CHURCH BURNED DOWN ECcl:rml EdiZe2 ;:n I;iu:.xrl Had | Docn Daztroyed by Fire After | G. 0. P. Rally. | & Movember 10.— { B. G. 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