Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1928, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1928. RACKETEERSFACE BATTLE IN CHICAGO Employers’ Grotp Says Busi- | ness Leeches Have Driven Huge Trade From City. ! [Foes of Unification at This Session Scored by Its Sponsor. j'MaItbie and Bureau Reports Point Way to Solution, 'BLOCKING MERGER WILL HURT CITY, WILSON TELLS CAPPER| CHICAGO, faces a soriou: the racketos turbed for sclves lee John A. Swanson State's attorney promises to run teers” out of the city A long tim: been on Al Racketoers than 100 1 all sort of d a tub ctors’ and s of vio- lence, the F 1 esti- mates, $10.0 driven from Many of 0,000 of by Chicago t Pointing out that the street car com- anies are trying to meet the public | demand for merger which has existed | 5 years, and that experts agree olid: will keep fares lower than wouid be under continuance of ex- ions, Harley P. Wilson, of the pending unification agreement, has written tc Chairman | Capper of the Senate District commit- ill be doing rvice possible to the ent ses (the greatest di | peaple of Wa Mr. Wilson states that further analy- of the reports of the Bureau of y and of Dr. Milo R. Maltbie me that with proper co- operation all around it ought to be pos- sible to bring about the long-awaited merger.” The letter of Mr. Wilson centains a ary of deductions which he has drawn {rom the reports o’. Dr.. Malt- bie and of the eficiency bureau. He also declared”that personal feeling and misrepresentation have entered into dis- | cussion of the prcblem, and he devoted sis s been | a portion of the letter to replying to | | coriain aper comment on the Deplores Controversy. In beginning his letter, Mr., Wilson did not by criminal operations in the labor field Foe of Rackele: The Emplo; racketecring, is made ur of leading busine: n action by the growinz hoodlum element in business. Hostetter is _executive secreta Walker G. Walker, a former ment operative and an erstwhile assistapt State's attorney, is counsel for the association and in charge of much of the actual fight on the busi- ness roustabou Mr. Walke: Federal coupled with his legal makes him a formidable foe of the racketeers. Because of the fearless fashion in which he has gone after them, the ra ecrs have a healthy respect for his abilities, an attitude that hes enabled him to nip several budding rackets. United States District Attorney John- £on has rendered yeoman seryice to the Empioyers® Association, taking Federal action in every case in which an inter- state violatien could be developed. Sixty men are under indictment in the Federal courts now for “racketeering,” one group being made up of offenders in a candy jobbing racket, the others accused of stifling competition in the glazng business in Chicago. Former District Attorney Crowe at one time said he would aid the Em- plovers’ Association in its war on racketeers. Mr. Walker was made an assistant State’s attorney and began to make things hum. Several racketeering groups were indicted. but Crowe let Waiker go because he must; he said, cut_down expenses. If Swanson makes ant State’s atiorney, ere that he will, the racketeers will face rough going. 158 Examples of Racket. Walker-gaid that in the years he has been making war on the racketeers he has_come across 168 exambles of “racketeering.” Seventeen. of these, he said, he has been able to put out of business. Nineteen are at present in- active. -Fifty-three of the rackets are “border-line cases,” their activities hav- ing a cloak of semi-legitimacy. But. 79 bre- still going full blast, and on these, with Swanson’s aid, Mr. Whfker hoves to open a brisk attack. Since January 1, 1928, accordiug to Walker, there have been exactly 100 racket bombings jn Chicago—# hun- dred “vineapples” hurled at business men who have refused to be “racketed™” —a Chieago verb, meaning in its transi- tive semse to ‘demand ‘‘donations,’ “dues.” or cash under what name you will, through a threat of bombing or gu;mlmz. | October 2, 1928, says: “The racket as it now operates against business in Chicago is made up of three | elements—the unsctupulous union lead- | er, the trickster business man, .the| crooked politician. “They are in a strong alliance with politics proteeting the crime; { any one of the three and the racket | structure would collapse. At least one: of these will have to be removed soon | or Chicago business is in for some new | and violent exveriences in the way of | ‘racketeering.’ If the association is right, Chicago has done much to bring about a col- Japse, as most of the gang-tainted| politicians were eased out of office at| the Spring primary and the Autumn election. ‘The report brands the racket as “the rs' ASSO! foe of stirred to power of the G. L and vern- <periences, knowledge. ‘Walker an assist- and indi(‘atiflni n Employvers’ Association report of | Tote: Dear Senator Capper: “No one can deplore more deeply | than mysclf the controversy that has | resulted through my effort to unify the | nsportation systems of this city and | to better suit them to the present and | future needs of the community. “That the matter would have wide- spread discussion and paihstaking |analysis I anticipated and Welcomed, {but “that it might degenerate into & | matter of personal feeling on the parts |of certain noviates who, acting in the I best of faith no doubt, could do nothing {more than becloud the issues involved |and confuse that small portion of the |public mind which lacks opportunity {and facility to fully inform itself, is a source of no little disappointment to | me. “Whether personal feeling is permit- ted to inject itself into matters of this sort, it is inevitable that misrepresen- tation and slander in varying degree become the weapons eTploycd to gain a point, and to discredlt the aims and purposes of citizens of high repute and sturdy character. Certain newspapers, depending for column matter, of course, upon employes_possessing intelligence industry and honesty of purpose . in varying degree, too frequently garble the facts and color the argument to suit the particular viewpoint of irre- sponsible and totally unimportant writers, and to impugn the aims and purposes of the very bone and sinew of the community as represented by the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce, the Bureau of Efficiency, the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions, and its advisory council, the Public Utilities Commission and the House committee on the District of Columbia. AH of these bodies have considered the matter in a serious way, and that their conclusions should be subject to malicious and unwarranted | attack by certain publications whose fully disclosed purpose is to foist upon this community public ownership and | operation of its utilities only confuses ithe effort of all citizens unbiased by i alterior motive to analyze the merits and { | | ¢ | to render a fair and righteous judgment. Sees Co-operation Nesded. “Further analysis of the reports on merger made to your committee by the Bureau of Efficiency and by Dr. Maltbie of New York convinces me that with sary to the proper an_industry. Fifteen thousand employers and em- ployes have been banded into a gigantic racket. The result has been that the prices of cleaning and pressing have advanced 100 per cent. Like their fellow racketeers in the vice, booze and gambling world, these racketeers have quarrels among them- selves growing out of greed for money and power. Murder has been done to preserve the spoils of a racket. Chief among the killings was that of “Big Tim” Murphy, most colorful of Chi- cago's hoodlums. Murphy had served as a. page in Congress, had been a member of the State Legislature, had been a labor or- ganizer and a powerful union chief, had been accused more than once of mur- der and had finally gone to Leaven- worth Penitentiary when he was found guilty of being the guiding spirit in a $425,000 mail robbery at Dearborn Sta- tion, Chicago. Murphy Decides to Enter. After his release from prison, Mur- phy had tried one scheme after an- other, but with little success. Seeing racketeering” of cleaning and dyeing industry possessed, | the huge sums the racketeers in the‘ | HARLEY P. WILSO! | proper co-operation all round it ought | to be possivle to bring about the long- | awaited merger. “This will be feasible, however, only |if some way can be found to get the facts before the people of Washington and_before Congress. 1 realize that an individual is at a terrific disadvan- tage in trying to fight the misrepre- | sentation of certain newspapers about the merger proposal, but, since all of | the newspapers of Washington continue to assure their readers that they are for some kind of a merger, it may be sible to get the truth told before this matter is finally disposed of.” After replying to certain instances of what he termed misinformation relat- | ing to the merger plan, Mr. Wilson con- tinued: “The following must be obvious to any intelligent mind: The merger will effect large ‘savings'in operating costs; those savings will succeed completely or will | 20 far toward enabling the companies to earn a_fair return upon their. prop- crties and _therefore make future in- creases in fares improbable. Failure of | morger will prevent the companics from | making these savings and increases in | tares will become inevitable. Merger is | the best insurance against fare increases and the only means of providing bet- ter and cheaper car service.” Summarizes Conclusions. In conclusion Mr. Wilson wrote Sen- ator Capper as follows: “The facts, as a reult of the Bureau of Efficiency and Dr. Maltbie reports, may be briefly summarized as follo “1. Valuation.—Dr. Maltbie, without giving any figure for reproduction costs | of the properties and using a depreci- ation figure of 26 per cent, states that he has not examined the condition of the properties, but that he believes the reproduction cost would be ‘less than $50,000,000." | “Qn.the other hand, the Bureau of | Efficiency, using reproduction costs cal- culated.on the basis of the court deci- sions and using a depreciation figure of 13 per cent (although in the Capital Traction case the Court of Appeals of the District said no depreciation should | be deducted), arrives at a ‘reproduction cost, less depreciation, of $54,000,000." “The Public Utilities Commission, the aufbority..established by lawsto deal .with public utilities in the District and whose duty it is te be familiar with the properties, has sustained the viewpoint of the Bureau of Efficiency on the ques- tion of valuation. Quotes Maltbie View. “2. Power Cost.—Dr. Malthie states he’does not understand the power clause and recommends that it be left out and | that rates for power used by the merged street rallway company be fixed by the Public Utilities Commission. “The, Bureau of Efficiency makes a very -definite and practical suggestion for dealing with the power situation. ‘3. Savings - From -Unification - r. Maltbie, although stating that he had not investigated all angles of the ques- tion, estimated that $500,000 per annum could be saved by car rerouting, in ad- dition -to* $70,000 for general® expenses, $20,000 for track maintenance, $52,000 for, car. bai operations, $70,000 for track renewals, $130,000 from crossing policemen and $110,000 from paving re- lief—a total of $900,000 per annum. “The Bureau of Efficiency lumped all of these items together into a figure of $1,000,000 per annum. “4, " - Advantages of unification— Dr. Maltbie stated that ‘the ad- vantages of -unification are no ‘greater | elsewhere than in Washington. . The duplication of tracks, the paralleling of lines and routes in order that each com- pany may obtain a share of the more profitable traffic, the unusual amount of ~expensive crossings, switches and turnouts, the maintenance of two| sources of power, two sets of car barns and shops and many other features re- sulting from competitive systems have repeatedly ‘been commented upon. No one denies that with a unified system service could be improved, the amount of property required adequately to serve the public reduced, the costs of opera- tion curtailed and vehicular traffic ac- celerated and convenienced.’ Inquiry Results Cited. “The Bureau of Efficlency made in- vestigations of fares and operating con- ditions in many other cities and con- cluded that because of the under- ground conduits, which exist in no other city outside of New York, Wash- ington has an unusually costly railway system; nothwithstanding this, the fares I 1Board of Strategy Tele- DATA ON INFLUENZA graphs West Coast for Crit- | ical Aspects of Disease. Fowler Preparing Department for Influenza Spread Health Officer William C. Fow- ler sald today that he had pre- pared & rough draft outlining the details of an organization to be usd by the Health Department in the event of any serious out- break of influenza in Washing- ton. While he did not make any of the details of the plan public, he said it was based on his ex- perience during the 1918 out- break and would inyolve elimina- tion of features found useless then and possibly the trying out of new miethods. The main element of the scheme would be to provide proper nursing care in the homes of pa- tlents, he said. There would be no summoning of physicians for volunteer duty. The physicians, Dr. Fowler belicves. will probably have their hands full taking care of their own patients in the event of an outbreak and. would not be available for volunteer duty. Dr. Fowler repeated that there was no known method of avoiding or preventing the disease and that the best attitude toward it is for people to remain calm and not lower their general resistance w0 disease from undo fear and worry. By the Associated Press. The board of strategy on influenza, | which was called into conference by Surg. Gen. Cumming, has telegraphed physicians on the West Coast, asking | for information regarding the critical aspects of the disease. Information must be obtained, it was explained, be- fore the board can make a formal state- ment of the influenza situation. The board is_composed of G. W. McCoy, director { the Hygiene Laboratory; Dr. | W. H. Frost and Dr. J. P. Leake, all veteran public * health officers. They are expected to submit recommenda- tions for control of the epidemic to the surgdon general this afternoon. Yesterday's total of 40.820 reported cases was_increased today to 41063 when the State health officer of Ten- | nessee reported 243 new cases in that State. Public_health officials still be- the existing cases are b The situation in New York, while still not determined, was_thought not to be serious since Dr. M. Nicholl, State health officer, telegraphed to Surg. Gen Cumming that while influenza cases are not reportable in his State, health offi- cers are required to report unusual prev. alences, and they made no such report. | Inquiries to the West Coast physicians included questions on the amount of fever usually occurring in cases, the seriousness of coughing, Whether there usually were complications and what these complications were. It is of especial importance, it wa said, that it be known whether pneu- monia or intestinal disturbances were following attacks in the majority of cases, In repeating today that t| has reached epidemic proportions, pub- lic health officials said this term was used Joosely, but is construed By them | to be proper when a disease appe with “fnereasing exfensiveness ‘oyer ‘a perfod’ of days. < . WL o Health Service officials believe that 200,000, cases of e there are ‘more thap . s | the disease in the wum.? at present, | 40,510 having been reported in 39 States, | New' York City- and the District of | Columbia. i | Kansas leads all the States in the number of reported cases with 13.596, California being next with 10,296. Other States with more than a thou-| sand cases include: Montana, 4.580; South Carolina, 5.145; Oregon, 1,466, and Colorado, 1,936. As the Public Health Service gave out | figures on the disease, reports of schools closing continued, the majority being | from the South. | North Carolina State, at Raleigh, and | Lander College, Greenwood, 8. C., have | suspended as a precautionary measure. The schools and also the theaters at | Columbia, S. C., have closed, as have the public schools at High Point, N. C. Inability to obtain nurses was given as the reason for suspension at the Uni- versity of Georgia, Athens, Ga., and the Athens public schools have tem- porarily shut their doors. This action was also taken at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and an outbreak occurring in schools near Monongahela, Pa., a State sup- posed to be comparatively free from in- fluenza, was reported. Chicora College for Women at Columbia, S. C., planned to close’ Friday. ‘The outbreak caused the cancellation of the annual meeting of the Southern Live Stock Association at Raleigh. The disease in a mild form has made its appearance at the Norfolk naval base, Norfolk, Va. The present outbreak was first no- ticed on the Pacific Coast and Califor- nia, several motion picture actors and CUMMING SEEKING | LINDBERGH GIVEN Colonel Honored as Aviator Who Has Done Most to Promote Aeronautics. Flyers who zave their lives in “blin2™ attempts to fly the Atlantic Oceun ORVILLE WRIGHT DESCRIBES - HISTORIC FIRST PLANE TRIP T A \ Kitty Hawk, N. C., 24 Years Ago, Recalled by Pioneer. Pilot in Early Days of Avia- tion Faced World of Unknown Perils. | POLE RECOMIENDS BANK LAW CHANGES jController of Currency Urges More Control Over Institu- tions Not National. Revision of the laws of the District of Columbia relating to banks was recom- | probably would have delayed starting or | | would have chosen other courses had | ighs clearly the apots in swhich they m | expect bad fiying weather. Ocean weather can be a help for |areraft if known, and a menace if un- known. These conclusions were placed before | the second plenary session of the Inter- national Civil Aeronautics Conference today at the home of the Chamber of | Commerce of the United States, as the meeting of delegates from 40 nations on | the problem of civil aviation continued. Almost side by side, as members of the official American delegation of 12 | men, sat Orville Wright, official guest of the conference, who startled a | skeptical world by raising a_motor- | driven airplane from the sand dunes of | North Carolina 25 years ago, and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who fired the enthusiasm of the world 19 months ago by fiying from New York to Paris. Lindbergh Receives Medal. Shortly before the end of the second plenary session, Col. Lindbergh was cailed to the platform where he re- ceived the Harmon international trophy | given to the aviator who has done the | most for aeronautics cach year. Col. Lindbergh received a prolonged ovation. It was his first appearance as an active participant in the conference, although he has been with the American delega- tion from the conference opening yos- | they been providea with a map showin | Breakfastless and four ‘and -a half hours behind schedule, a shy gray- haired man slipped into the opening session of the International Air Con- ference yesterday to be welcomed by an inspiring ovation from the dele- gates, who recognized Orville Wright, the father of aviation, and arose in a body to greet his unostentatious side- door entrance. Two or three interesting facts con- cerning his early ships and the experi- mentations of himself and his brother, Wilbur, were brought outiin an informal chat with him by the writer. Contrary to the general impression, the first suc- cessful flight at Kitty Hawk, N. was made by Orville Wright alone and not by the two brothers. There were no facilities for passengers in this early | plane, In fact, there were dangerously | meager facilities for the pilot himself mended to Congress today by Controfler > the Currency Pole. Declaring he' was not prepared at this } time to recommend an entirely new code | for the District, the controller said there | Were several amendments to the Iiw which were “necessary More control over banks which are rot national banks was asked. In ex- plaining this suggestion the controller said at the present time there are the District of Columbia savings ban! companies doing a banking | 1 ORVILLE WRIG _Star Staff Photo. 1 general su- ion of these al banks, woress has placed th on and the exam which are not the controller of t currency,” Pole said, “and such banks gen- advertise that they are under Fed- upervision. _Congress, however, t placed in the controller’s hands | we were still experimentirz of my passengers were ol ficers of the Army and Navy. Mr. Wright and his brother construct- ed their early planes themselves with the aid of only one or two expert me- chanic assistants. They were very and most | or of- s, | Mr. No eomfortable leather-cushioned seat, | young at the time, and with the daur | or deep cockpit graced the first Wright plane. The pilot lay sprawled out on the wing directly back of the engines in the center of the plane. His position, to but a good sense of balance, a steady | Providence prevented him from slip- | ping off into space at any moment. It was indeed a pioneer of great courage as well as an idealist with a say the least, was precarious. Nothing | hand in guiding the plane and Almighty | less spirit of youth, refused to be dis- couraged by repeated failures. Their “flying machine” could take the air and stay in it—of that they were certain— and they stuck to the game until vic- tory rewarded their efforts. It is in- 500 feet was considered dangerously high, while now it is considered peri- lously low. teresting to note that at the time of their first experiments an altitude of authority to enforce cor- rective measures in _connection with banking where such measures are needed. I recommend, therefore, that a law be passed placing in the controller the rignt and power to make regulatior governing these banks which are not n: tional banks with a penal provision for the enforcement of such regulations, the regulations to be limited in that they shall not in any case place restrictions on such banks which are not placed national banks. splendid vision who ventured into the air in this amazing craft! belts, they were unheard of for years terday. The presentation was made by Pierre Flandin. Lindbergh was escorted | As for safety | Orville Wright has scarcely reached his prime today, and already he has seen his “flying machine” hailed as the o firm, copartnership, company corporation doing businoss in the strict of Columbia_and not doing a | neces to_the platform by Orville Wright. The corfelusions on the safety of ocean flying were drawn by Jerome C. Hunsaker, vice president of the Good- year-Zeppelin Corporation. Discussing collection of weather data from ships at sea by international co-operation, Mr. Hunsaker said: “Such service has, I understand, already been discussed informally, but it will take more than discussion to perfect the organization of the communication services required Transatlantic flying is now ready to begin, but it seems fol necessary aerological service until i ity has been brought home by further and unnecessary loss of life. The roles which France, Cuba and Persia hope to play in commercial avia- tion development were outlined to the conference by Pierre Etienne Flandin, vice president of the French Chamber of Deputies and president of the French Aerial Club, by Edouard La- borde. Cuban flyer, and by Prince | Mozaffar Mirza Firouz, second secretary | lieved that not more than one-fifth of |Of the Persian legation and cousin of | cing reported, | the Shah of Persia. Prince Firouz read | a_message to the conference describ- | ng the aviation movement in Persia and expressing the thanks of the Per- sian ~government for calling the meeting M. Flandin presented a plea to keep the world aerial highways open to the traffic of all nations. In outlining the plans of France for a system of air- ways with adequate airports, the head of the French delegation called atten- tion to his country’s policy of free passage to all air traffic. “French aerial highways are not only used by French flying machines, but. by English, Dutch, Belgian, German and | Ttalian air lines,” M. Flandin said. “We ! have always defended the principle of free passage at international conven- he outbreak | tions and believe it is desirable that | the whole world adopt this as its policy.” The importance of Cuba as a link in ars | the chain of inter-American communi- | | cation was outlined by Capt. Laborde, | | who read a paper prepared by Senator | Arturo De Plazaola Bravo. Ideal at- mospheric conditions for passage of aircraft in and around the island were described. i Film Will Show Progress. The conference was again split this afternoon into groups for discussions of technical subjects on aviation. Warner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was named to preside over a group discussing air transportation generally. and W. Irving Glover of the Post Office Department, over a group to dis- cuss airway development. Still another group met to discuss aeronautical re- search and various technical, subjects. Tonight many of the delegates will gather at the Washington Auditorium to witness a motion picture on the growth of aviation in its 25 years of development. A plenary session tomorrow morning | and further group meetings in the after- noon will bring the conference to a close. A banquet will be given by the American delegation tomorrow night at the Mayflower Hotel. Germany's tribute to the aviation ploneering exploits of Orville Wright was paid last night by delegates of that country at a dinner given by the German Ambassador, Herr Von Pritt- witz-Gaffron. CROSS VOTED WRIGHTS. House Approves Flying Honor for Plane Inventors. The House today passed and sent to to delay the | after Orville Wright made his initial solo of 6 minutes in that obscure little field in the Carolina hills. “Only once did my brother Wilbur accompany me in this early plane,” said Mr. Wright. “But in the later models I had provisions for one passenger and frequently we flew together. “The plane I flew at Fort Myer in | 4908 was not of the original type. It | was about No. 6, I believe, though I | do not remember clearly the number. | A few passengers were carried by me in this type of ship, but I was not per- mitted to take up any one I chose— greatest invention of the age ter miracle in an age of miracles. has seen aviation, fathered by him, grow from its infancy to one of the foremost methods of transportation and instruments of national defense. He has seen the “airy blue” of Tennyson's prophesy, once sacred to the fowl of the air, become peopled with man-made birds built in the image of his own invention. Rich recompense for tor- tuous hours of toil—dark days of d couragement and failures, and breath- less moments of danger when life hung in the balance by the slenderest thread. | 1R SHOW PROGRAM PRESDENT LIKES Some of Foremost Fighting Mount Weather in Blue Ridge Pilots of Army and Navy | Proposed for Summer to Participate. White House. i i Some of the finest fighting pilots in For the purpose of learning from thc the Army and Navy will take part in President first hand his ideas regardinz the aerial show at Bolling' Field at|a presidential home in the mountains 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning for the | not far distant from Washington, Rep entertalnment of the delegates to the | resentatives Elliott of Indiana, chair- International Civil Aeromautics Con- | man of the House public buildings com- “IfWo rival pursuit plane formations| Mittee: and Woodrum of Virginis dis- will be flown, the Navy contributing |Cussed the subject with the President at the White House today. three fast fighters piloted by Lieut. D. | W. Tomlinson, one of the famous Navy | Mr. Woodrum explained to the Presi- dent a joint resolution introduced by | | Sea Hawks, whose flying was one of | the features of the California show last | the mas- He SATURDAY MAPPED VIRGINIA LOCATION E. P.| September; Lieut. Al Williams, famous Navy racing pilot, and Capt. “Tex” Rogers, United States Marine Corps, on duty at the Bureau of Aeronautics. Pilots Unnamed As Yet. ‘The Army’s pursuit formation wil! be composed of the fast Curtiss Hawks. The pilots have not yet been named but will be selected from the office of the chief of the Army Air Corps, where some of the Army's foremost pilots are stationed. In addition to the fighting planes, the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, will send up three Corsair fleet observation planes and nine Corsairs will be sent here from the Hampton Roads Naval Station. Bolling Field will send up a formation of three observation planes and it is expected that nine O-11 observation ships will be flown up from Langley Field, making 28 planes available for the aerial demonstrations. Hop in Alternate Order. Flights of pursuit and observation planes from the Army and Navy will take off in alternate order, each flight being allowed about 10 minutes to dem- onstrate itself. Then the pursuit flights will attack the ebservation formations and at 11:45 a.m. the pursuit formations will lead in an aerial review past the reviewing stand, followed by the ob- servation flights. The show will be in charge of Maj. H. C. Davidson, commandant of Bolling Field, and Lieut. L. M. Merrick, oper- ations officer. The delegates first will visit the Naval Air Station for a brief tour of inspec- tion and then will he taken by bus to Bolling Field, where seats will be pro- » him calling upon the Public Buildings Commission to collect data regarding available places and to conduet hear- ings preparatory to making & report to the public buildings committee, whe the necessary legislation would pe ultimately drafted. Nearby Place Favored. The President wanting it clearly understood that he was not seeking a permanent Summer | | the Capital where Presidents might spend the night or the wesk end, or even longer periods. He indicated that from what he had heard about the Weather Bureau prop- erty in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near | banking or fiduciary business under the supervision of the controller of the cur- rency, should be allowed to tise in their title the work ‘bank’ or the words 't company.” The use of such.words with- | out being under Pederal supervision is misleading to the publie. I recommend. therefore, that there be enacted a la prohibiting the use of such words unless such firm, copartnership, ‘eompany or corporation is doing a banking or fidu- ciary business under: supervision of the controller of the currency, and even in that case the title should have the ap- proval of the controller of the currency. “Under the present provisions of the District Code, corporations _doings:a fiduciary business’ in the District of Columbia, having their principal pla] b of business in the District of Columbi must comply with certain provisions of the Code, which is for the protection of those who do business with such corporations. Corporations,” however, with their princtpal place of business outside of the District of Columbia may establish offices within the District of Columba and do a fiduciary business without any specified restrictions or supervision. under Code. It would be very unwise and dangerous to let this condition continue, and I recommend that the District Code be amended in this particular. “I also_recommend a revision of the present Ccde with respect to building associations in the District of. Co- ! lumbia.” ‘GLASS TO PUSH BILL ON FARMERS’ MARKET Will Take Up Measure as Soon as \ Boulder Dam Matter Is Settled. (wAn effort' will be made by Senator lass, Democrat, of Virginia, to Bave the Senate take up the bill for thele: tablishment of a new Farmers’ Market for Washington as soon as the Boulder Dam 'bill, which is now before the Sen- ate, is disposed of. The market measure passed the House was_represented as gt the last session and is on the Senate calendar. It provides for purchase of a site in the Southwest section mear home, but merely a place accessible t0 the waterfront on which to relocate t Farmers' Market, which bad to give up its old location on B street between Tearh and Twelfth, when work was started on the new Internal Revenue Building. § ‘The market bill has been before’ the the Senate a bill to authorize the Presi- | vided for them in front of the opera- tions office. | Bluemont, Va., he was inclined to think | Senate for short periods of time on Sev- that a place like that would answer eral occasions, but the controversy as | the purpcse, at least insofar as he was| to whether the market should be in the | personally concerned. Southwest or somev.aere north of Penn- i Little Expense Probable. sylvania avenue has led to so much de- | bate on each occasion that the bill was The President was represented as be- | ‘S“E‘:“:;*d;.y d‘]‘f‘]‘g‘:"“'g'x:g;‘l“lnt“ ‘Iaf‘x_ ing advised that the Weather Bureau Senator ydings, Demoerat, of Fafrs e 2’5}“‘,‘:0 o (;:g;gd‘i;isomh“:est site, contending the market ure of more an $25, A o 2 livable and otherwise convenient for the | Should be in the northern part of the purposes for which it is proposed. The President has been reminded that sites in Maryland and also in Pennsylvania have been suggested to members of Congress to take into consideration be- fore reaching a decision. VIRGINIA SITE URGED. McCARL DECISION CAUSES DRAFT OF JUROR BILL Controller Rejected 80-Cent Pos- tage Charge for Summoning Talis- Berryville C. of C. for Summer White b man—New Measure Proposed. Special Dispatch to The Star. y the Associated Press. most insidious and dangerous form of | yruyphy' and Abe Schaffner, another ex- | actresses getting into dispatches when | dent to bestow the Distinguished Flying | BERRYVILLE, Va, December 13— in Waghi n compare favorably with crime operating in Chicago: today™ and goes on to explain how the racketeers operate, Form Workers’ Union. ‘The racketeers, usually plug-uglies with criminal records, line up a num- ber of merchants in the same busines: persuading them to form an associa tion, that cut-throat competition may be elimmnated and the business stabi- lized. « If the business permits, and most of them do, allied hoodlums busy them- selves at the same time, forming the | workers into a “union.” With skeleton organizations among the employers and workers, the racketcers go into high speed Other merchants are visited by hood- lums who maki their “sales talk brandished and bombs are threat ‘The merchant usually harkens to sales talk,” for he has read newspape accounts of racket sluggings, bombings, burnings, window smashing. the use of coal ofl on foodstuffs, of the secretion of dynamite in wearing apparel sent to cleaning plants, of chemicz wrecked whole batches of laundry, of stench bombs that have driven away business, o tires slashed in garages, of | churches, schoolhouses, even a cemetery. that have felt the sabotage of angered | racketeers | Dues and special assessments are levied and the racketeers rake in the | cash. Meanwhile, the formation of the | Allied Union has been progressing rap- | idly. The worker is usually glad to| join. Higher wages are promised and the promise is believed, especially when the organizing racketeer tosses back his coat and displays a pistol, and, tapping it suggestively, says, “Any employer that won't go along’ll find himself the target for a flock of slugs.” S< the union is organized, and dues aad assessments are levied. More fundk for the racket | Jackpot. re Public Pays ¥reight. Now that the business is organized, the racketeers set out to collect their revenue. So they can get plenty, prices are boosted, competition is restricted, the business is “stabilized”—and the public pays the freight A shining example of how an industry has been organized is that of the clean- ing and dyeing trades. Here are the high prices and the violence so necess . { ll‘ Is. that | convict, decided to “muscle in.” They corralled the leaders of the cleaning and dyeing racket in a West Side meeting place, shoved guns at | them and anncunced that Murphy and Schaffner would henceforth issue the orders in the racket. In the face of the guns, the racketeers agreed and the meeting broke up. Several days after, they sought to make peace with Murphy, to buy him ofl. Murphy insolently refused. Two weeks passed. One night Mur- phy was sitting in his bungalow swhen the doorbell rang. He went to the door. No one was there. Puzzled, he | walked down to the sidewalk and stood | peering into the darkness. An automobile zoomed into the curb with a squeal of brakes. From it came the flash and crack of four istols. | Murphy sagged to the sidewalk, a bul- let through his heart. Never Found Slayers. The police began a desultory hunt for Murphy’s killers. Walker and his aids gave them the information | | racket, but the police haven't yet found | the men who killed Murphy. Since the Murphy killing and the entrance ¢f “Scarface Al” Capone into the cleanifg and dyeing business, these racketeers: have been quiet, but the high prices continue, As a result, many Chicagoans are sending their garments out of the city, being able to get their work done far cheaper, even with the cost of parcel post added. This is an mple of the sums lost to Chicago iness men because of the’ racket- eers Walker's plan for a clean-up is a concerted attack by State’s Attorney Swanson and United States District Attorney Johnson on both booze gang- sters and business racketeers, holding that the business racketeers cannot be put out of business as long as recruits may be drawn from the ranks of the beer hoodlum. Plans for this concerted attack are now being discussed. Chicago seems in a fair way to continue its house-clean- ing program. It has started by ousting its crooked politicians. The underworld is now. due for attention, and all indi- cations are it will get it and that Chi- cago will*once more gain a reputatian for law. and order. yright, 19¢8. by North lC:umr?;l::i 1 o4 A}lpme"fl" NS erican News: they had , gathered about Murphy's attempt to | “muscle in” to the cleaning and dyeing | the majority of ether cities. The Bureau of Efficiency stated that ‘it seems rea- sonable to expect that under unification the number of car miles operated per passenger could be reduced, or, converse- ly, that the number of passengers ca ried per car mile could be increased without lowering the high standard of service now prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission.” As_indicating that there is no waste in Washington at present, the Bureau of Efficiency they had influenza in a mild form, From the Pacific Coast it has spread Eastward and Westward, first being commented on by Health Service offi- cials a few days ago. At that time the advice, “Go to bed and stay in bed” for those stricken, was given. THIS BUILDING found that the operating ratio of the | | Capital Traction fof 1927 was lower than | in any other city included in its sur- , Washifgton. in view of the separate | vey, with the’ exception of Baltimore, | iand that the ewerating ratio for the ' two Washington companies combined | 1 was considerably below the average for | {the group of comparable citics. ~The | bureau concluded by stating that “these | comparisons are certainly favorable to operation of the two companies. Therc {is little doubt that under unified man- | agement the comparison should be even | more favorable to Washington because | of the economies and service benefits vhich may be experied from a co- | ordinated transportation systo of these facts are denied by D: Topes for Early Action. “The comclusion to be drawn from | all the above is that Washington, with : ,a costly system of underground con- | | duits imposed by Congress for beautifi- cation reasons, has two strect railwav | | systems with comparatively low rates of fare and comparing very favorabi from an operating standpoint with the -street railway systems in the coun- y; also that the companies are striv- ing to meet the public demand w | has existed for more than 25 years. | bring about a_merger, which every' ! pert states will keep fares lower than they would be under a continuance | existing conditions, will increase e: | efficlency, will greatly improve servi and convenience of the car-riding pu lic, and materfally ald in the solutic of the city's very serious traffic problem | | “Such being the case, any one who prevents a merger during the present session of Congress will be doing the greatest dis-service possible to the peo- !'ple of Washington, “In the interest of the community | i generslly, T most sincersly trusk tha' the evidence in hand will ‘enable’ your, commiitee to _make prompt disposition of the matter, Very truly yours, * ° (Signed) - “H, N _"White House should Congress The administration building at adopt 1l Mount Weath he N Cross upon Orville Wright, and post- humously on Wilbur Wright. Representative Tilson of Connecticut, the Republican leader, classified the proposal as “emergency” legislation in view of the forthcoming celebration at Kitty Hawk, N. C. MAY BE WEEK-END tains, er in the Virginia moun restdent .Coolidge, Finnish Government Quits. HELSINGFORS, Finland, December 13 (#)—The government resigned to- day as a result of a vote of censure passed in the Diet last night. WHITE HOUSE ted Press-Photo. which might be used as a week-end 2 ~—Associal That ~ Congress provide a Summer White House at Mount Weather, Va was recommended by the Berryville Chamber of Commerce yesterday. A resolution pointing to the fact that the Government owns an 80-acve tract at Mount Weather, near Bluemont, in Clarke and Loudoun Counties, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, overlooking Shenandoah River, which could be con- verted into a home for the President’s rests and 'recreation—high. healthful, secluded and accessible to good fishin and bridle paths, was adopted by the chamber and sent to the Senators and Representatives in Congress and the chairman of the House committee on public buildings. The place is 60 miles , from Washington over a State highway. ENGINEERS WILL QUIT |CITIZENS’ FEDERATION Intimation Made That Havenner's Shake-Up of Utilities Com- mittee Is Cause. Rejection by Controller Generzl MeCarl of an 80-cent postage bill incur- red by Altorney General Sargent's of- fice for the summoning of a Federal juror by registered mail may result in a change in the law. As a result of McCarl's decision Chairman Graham of the House judici- ary committee drafted a bill at the re- quest of the Attorney General which would provide for the summoning of-a juror by registered mail whether he is 1 immediate vicinity or at a distant | place from the court. The measure was approved yesterday by the committee: Under the present law, Graham said, only Federal jurors who cannot be reached by court officers can be sum- moned by registered mail. He added the proposed measure would eliminate a deficiency in the law and reduce the expense of summoning jurors. A “walking day” in Fort Scott has | been suggested to the editor. A day | when people leave their cars in the garage and get out and walk, meet, shake hands and walk on.—Fort Scotf (Kansas) Tribune. 12 Days to Christmas m TALK ‘BoUT EATS AT TW CAMP LAST SumMER! GEE' f NEVER AW S0 MUCH GRUB AT ONCE. [ GAINED EI6HT POUNDS, HOPE 1CAN Go AGAIN NEXT VEI\/NI | The Washington Society of Engineers has decided to withdraw from the Fed- eration of Citizens' Associations, it has s0 advised David Babp, secretary of the federation, Although the letter announcing the decision merely states that it is the consensus of the Society of Engineers that “little good can come of continued membership,” it was intimated by the society’s secretary, B. J. Peterson, that the withdrawal is due to dissatisfaction | concerning the action of Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the federation, in shaking up the federation's public utilities committee. The society’s two delegates to the fed- eration, C. H. Spencer and C. B. Hodg- son, were members of the public utilities committee last year. Hastings Takes Senate Oath. Daniel O. Hastings, newly appointed Republican Senator from Delaware; was iven the oath of office in the Senate loday. He was appointed by Gov. Rob- inson of .Delaware ta succeed Senator du Pont, Republican, who résigned.” Christmas seals protect Undernourished child