Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1928, Page 2

z THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928 CAPTAL PARKBIL WL BE PRESSED - Cramton Says It Proposes No Increase in Taxes for District. 1] As an emergency measure, to preserve the natural beauties of the environment of the National Capital, through co- operation of the States of Maryland and Virginia with the District of Columbia and the Federal Government in a co- ordinated, comprehensive program of park development and _conservation, Representative Cramton, Republican, of Michigan, intends to press his bill for early action in Congress. Representative Cramton recognizes that the difficulty centers in the ques- tion of financing and sa; “The Nation and the District should share the ex- pense.” He argues that his bill “pro- poses no_increase of financial burden for the District taxpayer.” In discussing his bill, Mr. Cramton s ‘I regard my Capital park and park- way bill as an emergency measure, to meet a very serious and pressing emer- gency. It is not so much a bill to beautify the National Capital as it is to save and preserve its existing natur- al beauties. When those beauties have beenn destroyed by encroachment of construction and indust: they cannot be restored and no works of man can fittingly replace them. This work of destruction is now going on rapidly. Cutting of wooded areas, filling of scenic ravines, building up vacant sites needed for park and playground purposes, de- velopment of Maryland areas that threaten the existence of Rock Creek, blasting of the palisades of the Potomac —all this is under way today. We have lost much in the last five years: we may well be alarmed at what will hap- pen to these invaluable scenic assets of the National Capital wtihin the next five years if we do not act now. Gratified by Approval. “The cordial approval given the comprehensive program set forth in my bill 15 very gratifying. In the drafting of that bill, the recommendations of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission have been given great weight because of the coutstanding tal- ent and efficiency of its members who have given so much time and study to these problems. “The bill provides for a great park- way as a memorial to George Wash- ington on both ‘sides of the Potomac from Mount Vernon, where he lived, through Washington which he' found- ed, to Great Falls, where he wrought industrially. ‘This parkway has un- limited recreational as well as scenic possibilities. The bill provides also for protection of Rock Creek and exten- sion of the District park system into adjacent areas in Maryland and for the acquisition of needed areas for park and playground purposes in the District. “The only criticism that the bill seems to have attracted has to do with its financing provisions. At the Cap- itol it has been suggested to me ti the bill is to generous in its treatment of the District, while in the city it has been urged as to onerous in its terms toward the District. The difficulty -of enacting into law such a program nat- urally centers in this question of fi- nancing. All agree the thing ought to be done, that it will be a calamity if it is mot done, but disagreement over terms has heretofore prevented action | and may continue to do so. It has heen my desire and my effort in' this bill to work out & financing plan that would be fair and fully considerate of the interests of the Federal Treasury and the District, as well as Maryland and Virginia, and the program presented is one on which all may very reasonably unite. By such concurrence, the sit- uation can be saved, while by undue insistence on exact accomplishment of personal views a stalemate may result and all be lost. Says Cost Should Be Divided, “The Nation is interested in the beauties of its Capital. The District benefits from its beauties and the recreational opportunities here and in adjacent areas. The Nation and the District should share the expense. The pending bill places no burden on the District that is not ‘placed there by existing law, while it does relieve the District of burdens placed upon it by existing law and assures the District of other very material advantages. “The existing law authorizes for the program of the Planning Commission now under way an annual appropria- tion of about $1,200,000, of which about $600,000 is actually appropriated each yeat. This amount is inadequate for any comprehensive program, with the result that areas desired are either los- ing their scenic beauties or are going up in price at a rate greater than the annual appropriation. TFhe District does not now get the use of the areas desir2d for park and playground purposes until they are purchased, and as to many areas desired, that will be nearly 20 vears, and as to many others, they will i;e destroyed and never secured. Under the pending bill, $16,000,000, the esti- mated cost of the District program, will be advanced the District from the Fed- eral Treasury to be expended in 1931 and succeeding years as needed to carry on the program expeditiously, probably in 1931, 1932 and 1933. This is repaid at $1,000,000 a year without interest. Under the pending bill, therefore, the District pays annually less than the ex- isting law authorizes for the Planning Compnission, pays no interest, saves the vast amount that will result from buy- ing now and buying in complete sec- tions_instead of piecemeal, secures de- sirable areas available now, but not likely to be long available, and has the use of these lands for recreational pur- poses 10 to 20 years before it would otherwise and many years before it pays for them. “Whether these lands are bought un- der the terms of the present law or un- der the pending bill, the payment is from District revenues and the Federal Treasury, the same as other expenses cf the District, whether the Federal con- tribution for the particular year be on a lump sum or percentage basis. Makes Important Change. “As to the acquisition of lands in Maryland and Virginia, the pending bill ‘does make an important change affecting District expenditures, as it asks no contribution for these from the District, while the existing law places this burden on the District treasury. These proposed parks and parkways in the environs of Washing- ton will mean much to the people of OFFICIALS INSPECT CITY INSTITUT[ONS Senator Bingham, new head of the Senate subcommittee on appropriations for the District, made a tour of inspection this morning. In the photo made at the Industrial Home §chool, left to right, Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, Col. W. B. Ladue, Enginéer Commissioner; Senator Bingham, Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro, Supt. E. W. Cassie of the school and George S. Wilson, head of the Board of INAUGURAL GROUPS ATTACK PROBLEMS Plans for Event here March 4 Pushed at Committee Meetings. Inauguration plans gained headway today, with two special committees meeting to knead out knotty problems, & third chairman accepting the post and plunging into the task of choosing his committee, and the general commit- tee rounding up a rough draft of the ceremony for presentation to President- elect Hoover on his arrival here Jan- uary 7. More than 200 men and women have accepted posts with the general and special committes, many of the com- mittees already have met and formulat- ed their plans and the whole inaugu- ration, with the parade and all the trimmings, is beginning to assume some definite form. But there is still a great deal of work to do. Gen Anton Stephan, chairman of the parade committee, and his aides t | met today to take up what is believed to be the most difficult task of the whole inauguration—keeping the pa- rade down to such proportions as would enable it to pass a given spot in three hours. Public Relations Group Meets. ‘The public relations committee, under Theodore P. Noyes, also is meet- ing today to take up the publicity situation. Julius Garfinckel this morning ac- cepted the chairmanship of the com- mitteg on badges and souvenirs. Mrs. Isaac Gans, Mrs. Clyde Aitchison and Frank Coleman have been invited to be oxlthe committee on housing and hospifality. A meeting of this com- mittee will be held January 2, at 3 p.m., at the Willard, it is announced. Corcoran Thom has accepted the vice chairmanship of the subcommittee on tickets and invitations. Mr. Thom has been connected with previous inaugura- tions and is acquainted with the routine to be followed in the distribution of tickets and invitations. It was a particularly knotty problem which Gen. Stephan and his committee attacked today, in formulating the plans for the parade. So many want to march in' the parade that the task of keeping it down to a three-hour limit is becoming increasingly difficult. The varlous Republican clubs, military schools, State organizations, special military organizations, and other groups which have applied for a place in the parade, or from which applications are expected, would;, if they were all ac- cepted, make the parade an almost endless one, Gen. Stephan says, and the committee is faced with the delicate job of getting representation for all of the organizations entitled to it, without going above the three-hour limit. One solution of the official State representation problem, in addition to the governors and their escorts, Gen. Stephan suggested today—that each State send a float, to be identified with the State and be of educational or his- torical significance—was being taken up by the committee, and in the letters to governors asking the individual States’ inaugural plans the float idea is being broached. Another difficulty that is facing Gen. Stephan is that in many of the States the present governors go out of office on January 1, new governors come into office, and little can be done about getting a line on the States’ plans until after the confusion of the new gov- ernors’ taking office and straightening out their own affairs has died down. Committee Members Announced. The complete membership of the pa- rade committee was announced today at inaugural headquarters in the Willard: Gen. Stephan, chairman; Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Maj. Gen. Creed C. Hammond, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, Brig. Gen. H. O. Williams, Lieut. Col. Frederick H. Smith, Lieut. Clayton C. Nevitt and Brig. Gen. George S. Si- monds, chief of staff. The personnel of the committee on printing and engraving also was an- nounced as follows: E. F. Crane, chair- man; Albert Brewood, Bertrand Rob- erts, George H. Carter, Alvin W, Hall, Paul Sleman, J. B. McQueen, Oscar T. Wright, Frank P. Howard, John H. Davis, H. C. C. Stiles, W. W. Rapley, S. M. Darragh, Charles D. German, W. F. Roberts, Byron S. Adams, W. Seton Kent, Benjamin F. Darr, Karl V. Eikaer and George B. Kennedy. M. W. Flynn, managing editor of the Washington Herald, and J. J. Fitz- patrick, editor of the Washington Washington, but my pending bill does ‘l Times, have accepted posts on the gen- not provide for any contribution from eral committee. the District for their acquisition. “The pending bill, therefore, propos- ing no increase of financial burden for the District taxpayer, but quite the contrary, ought to be acquitted of any charge of unfairness to the District. ‘To make it more liberal to the District | would, I fear, greatly endanger the chances for favorable action upon it by the Congress. “The program in the pending bill means much to the people of the Dis- trict as well as to the Nation, which desires a beautiful Capital. To secure the needed approval by the budget, by the Congress and by the President, harmonious action by all interested in preserving these natural beauties and outing places is highly desirable, and 1 hope that more careful study of the terms of the bill will result in more complete approval.” SMUGGLING éURB SOUGHT OTTAWA, Ontarlo, December 27 (#). =-Government representatives of the United States and Canada will meet Man Killed in Ship Blast. KEY WEST, Fla., December 27 ().— One man was killed and two were seri- ously injured when a gas explosion de- molished the lighthouse tender Poin- settia at the naval dock here today. Public Welfare. —Star Staff Photo. SENATOR BINGHAM MAKES TOUR OF GITY New Chairman of D. C. Sub- committee Shown Civic Activities. Accompanied by a group of District officials, Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, newly appointed chair- man of the District subcommittee of the Senate appropriations committee, started out this morning on a two-day tour of inspection of municipal activi- ties to famillarize himself with ques- tions that will come before him in handling local appropriation bills. Starting from the Capitol, the in- spection party went first to the area between™ Pennsylvania avenue, Indiana avenue, Third and Sixth streets, to show the Senator where the city pro- poses to lay out its new civic center of municipal buildings. The bill to authorize this develop- ment is before the Budget Bureau at the present time for study preparatory to being submitted to Congress. ‘The civic center is to consist of a group of buildings to house adequately the various municipal agencies, includ- ing some of those which will vacate the triangle as the Federal building program develops, and Including also & Municipal Court structure. Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- trict committe believes the civic center enabling measure will have a chance of being considered during the present session of Canfrus. provided it receives the approval of the Budget Bureau. The nfprepflnuon to carry out the plan after it has been authorized would be handled by Senator Bingham's sub- committee of the appropriations com- mittee. P ‘Will Observe Streets. While going from one inspection point to another, the city offic} are giving Senator Bingham an opportunity to observe some of the streets and high- ways likely to be considered for re- paving in the near future. Other places visited this mornlni in- cluded the Western Market on K street near Twenty-first street, and the In- dustrial Home School on Wisconsih avenue. Senator Bingham has been & member of the District subcommittee on ap- propriations during.the past two years under the chairmanship of Senator Phipps, Republican, of Colorado, and, therefore, is not a stranger,to municipal problems, Shortly after his appoint- ment as chairman, he arranged with the Commissioners to make this in- spection trip in order to get first-hand knowledge of questions likely to arise in handling the appropriation bill for the next fiscal year. Among those who accompanied him today were Commissioner Taliaferro, Engineer Commissioner Ladue, Assist« ant Engineer Commissioner Whitehurst and George S. Wilson, director of pub- lic welfare. . TWO HELD'IN HOLD-UP OF GASOLINE STATION Police Say One Confessed and Im- plicated Other in $25 Theft Monday. ‘Two colored men, who quarreled after they are alleged to have held up and robbed Hartford Battery Service Station, New Jersey avenue and K street, of $25 Monday night, are in jail today and have been identified by Joseph F. Compton as the men who held him up. Frank Thomas, 22 years old, 1224 Sixth street, is alleged by police to have confessed holding up Compton, with James Randall, 20, and later, to have been held up by Randall and forced to hand over the proceeds of the Comp- ton_hold-up. ‘Thomas is alleged to have told police that he and Randall went to the bat- tery station shortly before 7 o'clock Monday night apd that while Randall held Compton at bay with a pistol, he took $25. After leaving the station, ‘Thomas is alleged to have said, Randall pointed the’ pistol at him and took the money away from him. Thomas was arrested Christmas night by Policeman Austin of the Second pre- cinct and a short time later Randall surrendered when he learned police were looking for him. Bank Robbed Twice in Month. ST. LOUIS. December 27 (#).—For the second time this month, the Bank of Manchester, at Manchester, a suburb, was held up today when two robbers kidnaped the cashier und assistant cashier and escaped with about $6,000. The bank officers were taken in the rob- bers’ automobile a mile down the road and let out. Two robbers got $3,66¢ from the bank December 3. By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., December 27. —A special radio broadcast intended for Teception in Calcutta, India, where the National Congress is in session, went on the air from this city today, under the auspices of the India Foundation, composed of natives of India living in this country. The program was broadcast from ‘WGY, the General Electric Co.’s station, and from 2XAF, the short wave ex- here January 7 to discuss steps for the control of commercial smuggling, the 5 department of external affairs perimental station of the company. Greet from the East Indians in this country to their fellow countr;‘- s o ol i v R India Foundation Broadcasts Program Of Greetings From U. S. to Calcutta Ghose, secretary of the India Founda- tion; Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, former presi- dent of the India National Congress, and others. Messages from United States Senators Royal S. Copeland of New York and Du\;d I. Walsh of Massachusetts were read. Messages to the press of India were prepared for the broadcast by Kent Cooper, general manager of the Asso- clated Press; Karl A. Bickel, president of United Press Associations; H. H. Stansbury, head of Universal Service, and David Lawrence, editor of the United States DAYy N\ cve * § 1 i COOLIDGE ENGAGES N PHEASANT HUNT | Wears Favorite Sportsman’s Costume on Little Sapelo Expedition. Two Wild Turkeys And 3 Pheasants Bagged by Coolidge By the Assoctated Press. SAPELO ISLAND, Ga., De- cember 27.—Sallying forth in wide sombrero, breeches and high boots, President Coolidge this morning bagged three pheasants and two wild turkeys in his first shooting expedition of his Mid- winter vacation on the spacious estate of his host, Howard E. Coffin. 5 J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. SAPELO ISLAND, Off Georgla Coast, December 27.—Armed with his two 12-gauge shotguns and wearing his favorite sportsman’s costume including his 10-gallon hat, riding breeches, lace boots, and northwoods mackinaw, Presi- dent Coolidge went gunning this morn- ing on Little Sapelo Island, one of the hundred or so isles ‘in the Sea Island group, a few miles from here. ‘What he had heard about the hunting to do with his decision to spend his Christmas holidays here, and 'the glow- ing accounts he has heard #bout the deer, and pheasants, and other small game since his arrival yesterday, prompted hifn to lose no time in indulg- ing in this sport for which he has re- cently developed a strong liking. He went today after pheasants, and his parting shot to Mrs. Coolidge, who ‘was with Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Coffin, their hosts cn Sapelo Island, as they waved adleu and wished him Juck, was that he was going to do better than he did in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia during his Thanksgiving vaca- tion, when he returned from his qu hunt empty-handed. ‘Wild Peacocks Numerous. The President was accompanied only by Col. E. W. Starling and one other member of the secret service and a Sea Island guide. They went to the hunt- ing grounds selected for the President's debut as a hunter in these parts in a small speed boat. It may be rouible for the President to wing a wild pea- cock or two as well as some pheasants. They are numerous on several of these islands, but they’are not so easy to bring down. The President and Mrs. Coolidge were introduced to this dish at dinner last night and both were de- lighted. Another delicacy introduced to them at last night's dinner was the Sea Island oyster. The President and Mrs. Coolidge ap- peared to have been greatly refreshed after their first night's sleep here. They retired a little earlier than is their custom last night, after witnessing a motion picture shown in the large lounge Toom of the Coffin home, ‘This morning the President was up and about before any of the other oc- cupants of the household. It was only a little past 6 o'clock. With two secret service men, he went for a stroll about the immediate grounds. Mrs. Coolidge Poses for Portrait. While the President is tramping in quest of game, Mrs. Coolidge is dividing her time between talking with Mr. and Mrs, Coffin and posing for an oil por- trait being painted by Frank O. Salis- bury, the English painter, who accom- panied them on this trip to paint both Mrs. Coolidge and the President. ‘The President has Jrombed to give his first sitting to Mr. Salisbury to- morrow. Among the things planned for the Coolidges tomorrow is a pheasant hunt in the morning, which is to be participated in by Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Coffin as well as the men. This expedition will take the party to Black Beard Island, named for the notorious pirate who has figured in so many pi- rate stories and who made a rendezvous of these waters and who is said to have lived on the island which now bears his name, Rodeo Ts Arranged. On Saturday there is to be what is described as a sea island rodeo on the beach of Sapelo Island. There are sev- eral thousand cattle on the several is- lands owned by Mr. Coffin, and these become more or less wild. = At certain times of the year some of the wilder of the yearlings are rounded up and brought to the beach, where the natives try their hand at riding them. For the Coolidges' benefit Mr. Coffin will stage one of these shows.: ‘The President probably will go to church next Sunday at the.little white structure on the morth end of St. Simons Island, in what was once the bustling city of Frederica and which is on the site of the first Methodist Church in the United States founded by John Wesley in 1740. While on St. Simons next Sunday the President has promised to dedicate an oak tree to bear his name and which has grown from a seed of the tree from which timber was cut to be used in the build- ing of the frigate Constitution. ‘The President has accepted an in- vitation from Charles S. Barret, retir- ing president of the Farmers’ Union, who was in_the party to meet the Preisdent at Brunswick, Ga., yesterday and who accompanied the party to Sapelo_to visit his rhnu on St. Marys River, about 50 myes south of | mer | New York was sharply criticized by possibilities in these islands had a lot |- CRITIGS STILL HIT AT DURANT AWARD “Travesty Upon Justice” and | “0ld Stuff” Are Comments Aimed at Mills Prize. The Durant dry plan award storm continued to rage today. Webster Spates, attorney in the Pro- hibition Bureau, and a contestant for the $25,000, today dispatched to W. C. Durant, the donor, a tart letter, charg- ing the award committee with “ignor- | ance,” and declaring the award to ‘Maj. Chester P. Mills to be “a travesty upong justice, and an insult to the intelli- gence of people famillar with the facts.” The prize plan presented by the for- prohibition administrator from Spates. In the final analysis Spates said it was “nothing more or less than a statement of conditions as they exist- ed in New York City when Maj. Mills left the service about two years ago, without any regard for conditions in the balance of the United States.” At the same time, Dr. James M. Doran, prohibition commissioner, who sharply red the Mills plan yester- day as Id stuff,” came out with warm praise of the educational program proposed by Malcolm D. Almack, Cali- forria high sehool boy, which won the $5.000 school prize in the Durant com- petition and said he should have gotten the $25,000. The boy's educational plan had much merit, Dr. 'Doran said, after carefully perusing it. Spates Cites “Disappointment.” Spates expressed “disappointment” at the award to Mills, not, l:‘smhe said, be- cause as a contestant he failed to get the prize, “but that the award should so plainly show the ignorance of facts as they exist today, both on the part of the committee and the prize winner. Paying “all due respect to Maj. Mills, with whom the writer is personally nfqminted," Spates told Durant that “it must be admitted upon analysis of his paper that there is not a con- structive thought looking to the future preservation of the eighteenth amend- ment;" ‘The Mill's plan, Spates charged was “grossly unfair to the Bureau of Prohibition as it now exists,” explain- ing, “every suggestion made in this paper has long since been put into effect with more or less success within the limits of the appropriations.” “Every official and employe of the bureau.” charged Spates, “has just cause to resent the whole of ‘the article written by Maj. Mills and the action of the committee in awarding a prize to a paper that does not contain one constructive suggestion, in the light of the facts as &ey now exist.” Comment from other sources was mostly critical of the Mills proposal. Sees Gold Brick Bought. “Durant has purchased a gold brick,” declared James P. McGovern, counsel for the Industrial Alcohol Institute, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman said that Mills plan was largely enforced at the present time.” “While no Government official con- nected with prohibition enforcement praised Maj. Mills' suggestions, not all of the comment was critical. Senator CaPper of Kansas sald that “taking the enforcement of the Volstead act out of politics is highly important.” “He added that Mills was “dead right on that point.” Other Cemments. Qther. comments gathered by the As- sociated Press follow: Andrew J. Volstead: . “Maj Mills (winner of the Durant $25,000 prize for & program of prohibition enforcement) is entitled to a good deal of credit for not proposing a reorganization of the service. The prohibition forces have been organized almost to death. it has been the bane of the service almost from the very start. “If I understand Maj. Mills’ position it is that the main difficulty with pro- hibition enforcement is that illicit lquor comes from pure or denatured alcohol or other prepared liquors, di- verted from legitimate to illegal uses. “That hds not been the case in this section for more than a year. Nearly all the illicit liquor sold here is the product of moonshiners. Practically none is imported or made from de- natured alcohol. “Maj. Mills' suggestions along other lines do not impress me as particularly new. The Prohibition Bureau has been doing nearly everything suggested by him in his plan.” Campbell's Comment. Maurice Campbell, succgssor to Ches- ter P. Mills as prohibition administrator of New York district: “Maj. Mills has merely written histo: Campbell sald, “I am not going into a long story, but I do want to give credit to Gen. An- drews, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. This plan of Mills has always .been In operation since An- drews’ time.” Prohibition Administrator Edward R. Bohner of Southern California and Nevada: “Maj. Mills has formed his conclusions from the narrow New'York circle in which he worked,” sald Bohner. “It is a foolish plan for a universal prohibition enforcement policy, because it applies to one small section only. “Here in California and in Detroit, Mich., the problem deals with smug- gling and with illicit liquor distilling. Maj. Mills makes no mention of these problems. What good will his plan do here—here, where we have no indus- trial alcohol problem?” Dr. Ernest H. Cherringion, general secretary of the World League Against Alcoholism: “Mr. Durant has made a real contribution toward the solution of the beverage alcohol problem by his offer of $25,000 for the best and most practical plan to make the eighteenth amendment effective. The fact that more than 23,000 manuscripts were sub- mitted indicated that his offer inspired serious consideration of all the phases of the problem on the part of vast numbers of the American people. “Maj. Mills, who received the prize, pointed out a very important factor in enforcement. The necessity of reducing to the minimum the diversfon of indus- trial alcohol, for beverage purposes. There is no doubt that such diversion has been one of the serious difficulties in the way of enforcement in the past. “The Pederal prohibition unit, how- ever, has made remarkable headway toward solution of this phase. of .the problem during the last. 12 months. Nevertheless, there is much yet to be done along the line suggested by Maj. Mills. “While not in any sense minimizing the importance of the stopping of the diversion of industrial alcohol for bev- erage purposes, it is difficult to conceive of any adequate plan to make the eight- eenth amendment effective which does not include as a factor of major im- portance the molding of public opinion on al lphases of this very important question, and thé education of the people - in the nature and effect of beverage alcohol; the reasons of the prohibition law, the methods employed by the Government for its enforcement and the obligations resting on the people generally for the observance of the law, not only because it is the law, but es- peclally because it is a law n Fox Statement. Austen G. Fox, chairman of the Moderation League: “The wonder grows that with so simple a plan as the major now puts forth, and so inevitable its results, it has remained for himself alone to be sure that for the first time the ingenuity of the American would fail them in their effort get L'l.nl. 3 timate that what they want when the; “The major not ecessary and beneficial to the people as a whole.” P "the last man to charge its“discon Blind Horse Falls Downstairs, Driver Hit by Parked Auto By the Associated Press. BELOIT, Wis., December 27.— Belolt today witnessed the spec- tacle_of a blind horse falling downgtairs and its driver being run over by a parked car. John Kweiis was driving down- town in his horse-drawn vehicle. ‘The wagon caught on a pro- jecting part of a parked car. Kweiis was thrown on his head. The parked car, pulled by the wagon, rolled ahead and over him. ‘The horse ran away, dashed up a flight of concrete steps to a building, then rolled to the side- walk. CHICAGO OFFICIAL - ANALYZES CRIME Swanson Declares Citizens Must Show Backbone in Fight on Crooks. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 27.—John A. S¥kanson, a six-feet-two giant, whose 200 pounds seem cramped in the office of the State’s attorney, which he as- sumed this month, put Chicago crime under the microscope today, analyzed its causes and prescribed his remedy. “Don't look for miracles,” said the man who was swept into office as the voters' protest against rampant crime. “Citizens themselves must show some of the backbone and courage which they expect of me and my assistants.” He spoke of the bombings that have destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of Chicago property; he talked of slayings, of hoodlum rule, of gangsters and gun- men; and he picked each felony apart, seeking its basic cause. Talks of Bombings. The State’s attorney strode nervously about the small office in the Criminal Court’s Building. He spoke particu- larly of bombings, for he himself nar- rowly escaped death when a bomb was tossed at him a few weeks before the primary election last April. The “immense revenue collected by organized crime” is, in the State's at- torney’s opinion, the principal obstacle in Chicago to law enforcement. “A great share of this immense revenue, running into millions, is col- lected from liquor law violators, racketeers, commercial vice leaders a gamblers, and is spent for protection,” he sald. “The patrolman of a beat is ‘fixed” Then his sergeant, then the lieutenant. In order to get the facts, the State's attorney’s office must con- duct its own investigation, and that takes time.” ‘The attorney paused at a window and gazed toward the Chicago River, said to contain_more secrets of past crimes than the River Seine. He pushed his spectacles onto his forehead. Dynamite Easy to Get. “Why do we have more bombing in Chicago than other citles? It is a pe- culiar é);{chology, this bombing. Why we of Chicago seem to suffer more from this form of terrorism I do not know. “Dynamite is not hard to obtain. Workers have no great difficulty in sneaking sticK§™from jobs® where they are employed. And it can be bought without a great deal of red tape. “We hope to shut off the source of dynamite to_the racketeers and black- handers.” | Up to mber 1, 103 bombs were thrown in Chicago this year. More than 500 persons have been slain in the city since January 1. As to the reason for the wholesale homi- cides, State's Attorney Swanson, who was born, reared and has lived his en- tire life here, balked in explanation. “Give me time,” he parried. “I have been in office a comparatively few days and I will be able to tell you more about that later. City Is Cosmopolitan. “Chicago i8 & hundred cities in one, made up of all nationalities,” he con- tinued. “A good percentage of the in- habitants do not read or speak Ameri- can—I say American because the statute of the State of Illinois defines the language as ‘American’ rather than “It is difficult to imbue these foreign- ers with respect for law and order. Countries that have been drilled for centuries- in obedience to law, where the inhabitants are of one race, do not have the problems we in America do.” ‘To ald him in his big joc, State's At- torney Swanson said selection of juries must _be speeded up, more judges must be obtained, and there must be more co-operation on the part of the citi- zenry. Sl'z:)rf.ly after he took office, trouble broke out in connection with the trial of three men for the kidnaping of 10-year-old Billy Ranieri. Black Hand letters threatened the trial judge, the prosecutors and the witnesses with death. State’'s Attorney Swanson leaves no doubt that he realizes the seriousness of the situation he faces, or of the danger he and his assistants stand of losing their lives. But he is equally clear as to his plans. Wants Severe Penalties. “My job,” he said, “is to prosecute all crime. Swift, sure, severe punish- ment has always been the best deter- rent for crime, and this will be the objective of this office.” “Chicago,” explained Mr. Swanson, “js ideally located for criminals. High- ways and railroads radiate in all direc- tions. The city is a dumping ground for undersirables. “Chicago covers a great deal of ter- ritery in comparison to its larger sister city, New York. Long, straight, wide streets tend for an easy getaway, and there are 5,500 policemen to guard the city’s 3,000,000 inhabitants. New York has three times that many police for a population twice as large, and a smaller territory to cover.” The new holder of the prosecutor’s office is 54 years old. He resigned as judge of Cook County Circuit Court to make the race for State's attorney, at the request of United States Senator Deneen and oher leaders of th faction intent on defeating the ticket of Mayor Thompson and - State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe. BAND, CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra at Stanley Hall today at 5:30 o'clock. March, “German Fidelity,” Blankenberg Overture, “Festival”ye. .. ... Leutner. Entr'acte, “Andante’ Cantabile,” Schumann “A Privolous Patrol”.........Goubler Scenes. from the comio opera, “The Oolah™ Fox trot, “Since: Waltz, “I Loved You The; y “The Star Spangled Banner.” his successors were lacking in intelli- ence sufficlent to comprehend how fatal to bootleggers the continuance of his plan was bound to be. Of course, ltianeedlfl'nldflthlt!e e ance.to official corTuption.” ~wigi% would be ISNEWFLUGASES REPORTED TODAY December Total Rises to 325, With Total of 17 Deaths. Forty-five cases of influenza were re- ported to the District Health Depart-| ment today, a sharp increase over re- cent reports. No additional deaths were reported, however. Thus far in December there have been cases reported and 17 death In giving out the I mofning Health Offi William C. Fowler also released statistics on deaths from influenza and pneumonia, closely related diseases, showing that 58 deaths from the two diseases were reported in December, 1927, and 60 in the first 26 days of December, 1928 . Dr. Fowler said that the difference was slight, and bore out his contention that the outbreak of influenza here was of a mild’ type, apparently few of the cases developing into pneumonia. “I remember,” said Dr. Fowler, “that in one day of the 1918 influenza epi- demic we had 98 deaths reported. Our figures this year have been very small in comparison. Of course, I expect that a large number of cases of in- fluenza will be reported this Winter, but so far the outbreak has been very mild, both as to the number affected and as to the seriousness of the case: 1,250,000 Cases in U. S. t. figures this . Public health officials today estimat- | ed there were approximately 1250.000 new cases of influenza in the United States last week. all but seven States. Officials noted the increase in the death rate as well as the increase in the number of cases, but said this was not unexpected, inasmuch as.any wide- spread disease affects many persons of lowered vitality and so increases the death rate. States reporting today follow: Maine, 46; Rhode Island, 14; Con- necticut, 144; New York (city), 271} New Jersey, 219; Ohio, 1,872; Illinois, 2,408; Michigan, 5,777; Wisconsin, 14,724; Minnesota, 1,749; Iowa, 85,000 (estimate) ; Missouri, 1,184 (exclusive of Kansas City); North Dakota, 21,346; South Dakota, 103; Nebraska, 1,704; Kansas, 17,617; Delaware, 10; Mary- land 627 (week ended Friday); Virginia, 40,000 (estimated); West Virginia, 2,642; Georgia, 6852; Florida, 228; Kentucky, 10,100; Tennessee, 4,101; Ala- bama, 1,518, Mississippi, 2,689; Arkan- <as, 1,145; Louisiana, 121 (exclusive of New Orleans) ; Oklahoma, 3,574 (exclu- sive of Oklahoma City and Tulsa); Texas, 992; Montana, 4.031; Idaho, 11; ‘Wyoming, 320; New Mexico, 1,161; Ari- zona, 933; Utah, 63 (week ended Fri- day); Washington, 766; Oregon, 1,605, and California, 2,708. Reports From Cities. Cities reporting on influenza deaths for the week ended December 22 fol- low: Pittsburgh, 64; Toledo, 27; New Orleans, 37; Philadelphia, 34; Denver, 50; Des Moines, 19; Detroit, 22; Duluth, Minn., 8; El Paso, 7; Flint, Mich, 2; Fort Worth, 3; Grand Rapids, 16; Houston, 71; Indianapolis, 16; Jersey City, 3; Kansas City, Mo, 20; Louis- ville, 1; Lowell, Mass., 1; Akron, 18; Albany, Atlanta, 33; Baltimore, 8; Boston, Buffalo, Canton, 1; Chi- cago, 80; Cincinnati, 5; Cleveland, 25; Columbus, Ohio, 10; Milwaukee, 10 Minneapolis, 21; Oakland, Calif, 7; Paterson, N. J., 2; Portland, Oreg., 9; Providence, R. I, 1; Rochester, 1; St. Louis, 1; St. Paul, 3; Salt Lake City, 4; San Antonlo, 4; San Diego, 8; San Francisco, 9; Schenectady, 1; Seattle, 15; Spokane, 11; Springfleld, Mass, 1; ‘Tacoma, Wash., 3; Syracuse, 3; Tren- ton, 2; Wilmington, Del, 1, and Yonk- ers, none. In the same cities there were 1272 deaths from pneumonia during - the week ended December 22. Cities re- ported for the previous week showed a total of 1,207 deaths. More than three gallons of wax have have been extracted from one ton of Utah coal in a laborato! i Here’s —and passes the This estimate was | based upon reports of 240,562 cases in | SCHO0L BULDIG PROGRAMREVIENED | Parley Fails to Indicate When Proposed Bill Will Go to Budget Bureau. After hearing a detailed Teview of the second five-year school building pro- | gram in a two-hour conference yes- | terday afternoon with members of. the | Board of Education and school stafl | officers, the District Commissioners gave no indication of the time they will for- the proposed building bill to the | of the Budget or even if they | would send it at all. Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education, and Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, | explained in detail the various items | and_purposes of the $5.750.000 pro- | gram, contending that if the bill is authorized and completed, Washing- ton's portable and rented school quar- ters will be cast into discard. New Bill Explained. The new bill, they explained, if put into operation with the remaining por- tion of the first five-year program would constitute a building schedule calling for an expenditure of $10.780,750 from 1931 through 1935. The combined pro- grams would be adequate to bring the District’s school facilities comp to date, they told the Commissio During the conference, which was scribed as informal, no action of a sor as taken. The Commissioners i p either during the meeting or after, said they would make a careful stu all the school board’s recommendations s expressed in the items of the mew ill. Co-ordination Discussed. ‘The question of co-ordinating the various departments of the District Government and the school systom occupied considerable time when Dr. Carusi, speaking for the school authori- ties, reiterated his contention that if any new office, designed to promote co-ordination, is created, it should be established under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners. Three members of congressional subcommittees on District appropria- tions last June proposed that such an officer be appointed as a school sys- tem employe. The Board of Education and the co-working officers’ s the schools, however, contended then that since all the business and tech- nical operations for the schools, in= cluding the drawing of building plans, the repairing of school properties and the purchase of sites and materials, are executed by municipal officers and employes, the only person having a right to co-ordinate those operations would be a District employe. This contention was restated to the Com- missioners at yesterday's conference. The Commissioners expressed no opinion on the proposed co-ordination official but indications at the conclu- sion of the conference were that some step will be made almost immediately to improve the relations between the school system and the various District Government offices. Besides Dr. Carusi and Dr. Ballou, ths meeting was attended by Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintend- ent of schools in divisions 1-9; Henry L. Gilligan, member of the school board; Garnet C. Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent in charge of divisions 10-13, and Rev. P. 1. A, Bennett, mem- ber of the school board. CHINA MAKES TREATIES. Holland, Denmark and Portugal Grant Tariff Autonomy. SHANGHAI, December 27 (#).— China’s new treaties with Holland, Sweden, Denmark and Portugal, the texts of which were made public today, all grant tariff autonomy to China. 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