Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1928, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY. NXOVEMBER 20, 1% | sportswoman, fond of hunting, tennis GUNS ROAR DEFY 10 CRIME PROBERS aotccutes 3 Sl Gangster’s Death in Philadel- phia Seen as Chailenge to Grand Jury. v the Assoeiated Pres: PHILADELPHIA. November 20.—A jury investigation of gang mur- bootlegging and police corruption tly holds mno terrors for the for with the inquiry in full s there have pcen three outbreaks of gang warfare in last three weeks. It has, however, created consterna- tion in Republican organization circles and in the police department. tatement defending Harry C.| is, director of publié safety, who has 2s, either by suspension or Test of 68 members of the poiice | since the investigation bsgan 14 weeks ago and whose resignation has heen reported imminent, Senator-elect Willicm S. Vare declared that a num- ber of prominent Republicans had ask- ed him to bring about harmony in the party and siraighten out differences in the mayor's office and district at- torney’s office. Vare Defends Davis. Mr. Vare said he believed Director Davis to be an honest, competent pub- lic servant, and that he would continue to believe so “until something specific has been charged or proven against He added that he would use ood offices for the retention of whose resignation as head of e city’s police and fire departments has been demanded in _open court on two occasions by Judge Edwin O. Lewis, instigator. of the grand jury investiga- tion. Mr. Vare, who is recuperating in At- lantic City from a long illness, has an- mnounced that he expacts soon to resume active leadership of the Republican or- ganization forces in this city. Criticism _of the investigation w: voiced by Rev. Dr. John Calvin Leon- ard, pastor of the Addison Henry Me- morial Presbyterian Church, in ad- dressiaz a meeting of the Philadelphia | Presbyterian Ministerial Association. Dr. Leonard characterized the inquis as a “grindstone for political axzs, cai nging as a clean-up of the gover * and declared that many othel 5 eginning to suspect the sal Gangster Is Murdered. said that gangsters and high- waymen had been forgotten: that the investigation in the main had result- ed-in the conviction of only those po- lice officials who had got scared and pleaded guilty; that the grand jury had besmirched the names of people against whom it admits it has no evi- dence,, and that it is breaking down public: confidence in the police force. The latest outbreak of gang warfare occurred last night, when two rival gangs shot it out with rifles, pistols and sawed-off shotguns. They left Frank Piccola lying on the street with 11 bullet wounds in his body and sped |. away in an automobile with three other wounded men. Piccola, known to the authorities as a gangster, re- fused to give any information that would lead to the identity of his as- sailants. BIDS ON $10,000,000 BUILDING ARE ASKED Cover Construction and Mechanical | Equipment for Internal Revenue Structure. The biggest construction job so far in the public building program in ‘Wash- ington was pui on the market today, when the Treasury asked for bids on the new Internal Revenue Bullding, to be opened January 2. ‘The bids be expected to cover all the rest of the building, both con- struction and mechanical equipment, with the exception of the elevators. Con; has authorized $10,000,000 for this building, and the foundations are virtually completed. The revenue building will be six stories and a basement. The architec- ture is an adaptation of the eighteenih century classic. There is to be a colon- ade across the main or B street front, above the main entrance. There will also bz supplementary entrances on the other three sides, Tenth, Twelfth end C streets. The outside of the building will be limestone, witn a roof of tile. ‘The north froni will have the corner cut to part of a circle, in order that this part of the building may eventually | form part of what will be known as the circular plaza. The recent ruling of the Paris police that all foreign “dancing gentlemen” snzll carry o card of identifzation ifying their calling is proving un- among the gigolos. YOUR OW| Your Stomach BOUT five and a half pounds of food is han- =) dled daily. its three layers of mus- cler ing it with gastric juices. Then in- to the twenty-foot small intestine goes the food Four million mouths in that pas- sage extract nourishment for the body and pump the food along. 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Speaking of the galaxy of stars and are exposing secrats of nature which | planets and nebulae in which the carth e B arous2d | js such a small part, Dr. Shapley ex- Exploring the heavens in scarch of | Presses confidence that he and his asso- he mterSof centers among the great | Clates have found lts center in th calaxies of stars, in oniy one of which [Milky Way, at a ance of ab the earth is but a small clinker spin- | 47.000 light years, ough it Is eter- ning as 1t clrcles about & little sun, Dr. | Dally hidden by onc of the mysterious | Harlow Shapley of Harvard speaks in dark clouds which hang in the heavens. | e of & Muridred million light years, | Other galaxies lie beyond the earths One light year is the distance that ligh particular gelaxy. Each has a center moving at 136.000 miles a second, tra- | fI° Says, and there must be a general els in 12 months. | center around which all revolve. 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