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JAIL CONDITIONS T0LD BY REPORTER Newspaper Man Learns Oil Magnate Enjoys Comforts Denied Other Prisoners. (Continued From First Page) cuffs wce removed from tired wrists snd each prisoner was relleved of all frinkets, valuables, money, etc., an of- fice assistant listing the possessions of each man. In single file, then, to the laundry where clothes were turned in Each of us took a shower and drew regulation work clothes, underwear, trousers, shoes, shirt, sox and blue peaked caps. Clothes Fit Too Well. No effort was made to fit the prison- ers. They were not golng on dress parade. The shoes I drew were two sizes too large and nalls in the soles bit into my feet; the underwear given mo was woolen, despite the warm weather, and very, very large. My cell mate, Who had broken probation. had been Te- leased from the workhouse only eight days earlier and the boys gave him a derisive reception. He was not so lucky with gis bathing, for when he finished the (dards called him out of line and sprayd him from head to foot with an anti-something solution. But. he was used to it. He didn't care We were then lined up -for assign- ment to work squads, the eaptain in charge of the day guards filled the squads from our number on the bass of the potential prowess of the indi- vidual prisoner. 1 had given my occupation as a clerk and I went to No. 1 squad. A call at the hospital for physical examination was next in order and to that department we were escorted by a guard. In an anteroom placarded with signs warning against talking we were ordered to “strip” and after re- moving our clothes we waited in silence, | seven colored and five white men sitting side by side on a plain bench. My name was the first_called. 1 entered a room fitted out as a clinic and was ushered to weighing scales by an assistant to the workhouse physician, who was in charge. A prisoner assigned to office work sat at a desk a few feet from the scales ready-to fill out a card with information given by Grimsley. Reply Brings Blow In Face. “Anything wrong wilh you that you know of?” the assistant asked looking me over. “Nothing,” I replied. “I am in good a tall, well propor- shape.” The assistant, tioned man, broad of shoulder, square jawed and apparently able to take care of himself in any rough and tumble, read off my height and weight in dis- interested tone, described my hair and eyes and looked at my hands for any distinguishing mark such as_missing finger, scar or birthmark. ~He then intimated that I was affiicted ‘with & disease. “Oh, no; I am not,” I answered. The next instant I was swaying on my feet, 5 feet. away from the scales on which I had been’ standing, my body tarned from him, head slightly lowered, hands clinched, coming out of a daze much as the prize fighter snaps back to cover the effect of a full blow in & vul- nerable spot. “The man had swung from the waist apd caught me full on the left side of my face with an open My nose | bled ’-u affernoon and- was sore five ys later. s m N P tiar, et X&‘fle asked rolling the sleeve of his'shirt’ from his right forearm and ‘bracing:his feet -as if ex- * “Qh, no; I am not." “Well, you ting & charge. “Ql continued, mockifig: me. heard T said. ¥¥ou're a prisoner here and you'd better:act like a pris- omer.” e 1 had come, gut of the daze into fight- ing pose unc fously. Instantly I re- laxed. Within reach of the man was a heavy hickory stick and the door sep- arating us from the prisoners who waited in the adjoining room was closed. Apology Ends. Attack. .“I beg your pardon,” I said, “I didn't mean to say you were a liar,” I spoke quite apologetically and he instantly as- sumed an air of disinterested unconcern. He motioned me to the scales and sub- mitted me to a more studious examina- tion, without comment to the man who waited with poised pencil at his elbow. "Phen he motioned me outside and the next prisoner was called. The men regarded me with interest when I appeared. My face bore a red splotch where the man's hand had con- nected, but otherwise I was not marked. Nothing was said about it, all of us/ maintaining silence while each prisoner went through the routine. When the Jest man had been examined, the man who had been doing the writing an- nounced. that each prisoner who had “gnything wrong” with him \I\'fluld re- port each afternoon at 4:30 o'clock for treatment. The doctor would be avail- able at breakfast and at that time for | any injuries, he added. I did not report that afternoon nor the next, nor at any time. I was a pris- oner at Occoguan five days and did not hear from the assistant at the clinic nor any one in connection with the examination or my failure to return for “treatment.” Later that first day, one of the men who had waited in the outer room—a 22-year-old youth sent down for 60| days for vagrancy—asked me if I had not got “socked.” They heard the Tlow, he said. Prisoners do not work after noon on Saturday, and it being after 1 o'clock when we had gone “through the mill.” we were directed to the recreation hall, a large, semi-open frame building where the prisoners are herded when not at ‘work. Guards, unarmed except for heavy sticks, were stationed about the place, one man on a raised platform surveying # scene and keeping an eye on the entranceways. On the porch of a nearby building a guard, shouldering a repeating rifle, kept watch. Prison- ers were allowed to play base ball in the afternoon, but for the most part they. stayed in the hall, smoking, talk- ing. reading scraps of week-old news- papers and coverless magazines, playing with grimy eards or stretched out on plain benches resting. Brands Food as Unappetizing. Supper at 4 o'clock was an interrup- n. We filed to the dining room, a frame buiiding about 300 yards from the recreation hall, entering in single file, white men going to tables on the left and colored prisoners to the right. A soup, three thick slices of bread, Which I maintain was stale, and an aluminum pan of water, flecked with sand, constituted the meal. T could not touch the food. The rough board tables were dirty, the soup gave off an un- pleasant odor and the atmosphere was not conducive to eating. A youth sit- ting next me was whispering. “You just came in today?” sires “Give you a tip. lay off the coffee at breakfast. One pound to 20 gallons of water, or something like that, and T have vomited the last three times I drank it. I can’t hold this stuft.” “Thanks” I murmured and turned from him in time to see the man on my left, who had downed the soup audibly while perspiration dropped from his forehead into the enamel plate, push a small piece of meat from the middle of the plate. He complained that it was rancid. I do not Know. Throughout my status as a prisoner the men complained of the food. Much of it was_left untouched. On the other hand, I heard one man proudly tell his neighbor that the coffee was better, than he got on “the “outside.” And they spotted me after the second meal. ba 1hese Was w*ho ! Golden. Back row: Katherine Bei!man, THE This group of young women is arranging a card party and dance for Tues- day. May 28, at Wardman Park Hotel under auspices of the Junior Club of St. Anthony’s Parish. Front row: Doris West, Mary Howe, Betty Hurley and Mary Agnes Stock and Mary Barnes. ——Star Staff Photo. for my sopp or stew as soon as I sat down. ‘That evening ‘thé prisoners were treated to a 4motion picture, a seven- reel Western drama thrown on the screen before darkness came. After darlc electric lights were flashed on as each reel ran out and guards surveyed the room. Prisoners Curse Mate’s Cough. At 7 o'clock the guards checked up, causing each "squad to line up in the building. Another hour, éach minute seemingly longer than the one before, and we were herded off to the dormi- tories. The new prisoners were as- signed to bunks, metal beds in three rows along the length of the building, 30 beds to the row, two rows on the Teft and the third along the opposite wall. A mattress filled with straw, one sheet, a straw-filled pillow and two heavy blankets was the equipment. A cardboard label hung from each bed, bearing the prisoner's name, number, squad to which assigned and sentence. The men stripped to their underwear and all piled in bed to awalt the final check-up, made by- the’ night guard who walked in silence down each row. ‘Lights were kept on all night. I was kept awake the first night by a man in the next row and two cots over whose rasping cough bit into the silence until painful to hear. Muttered curses were directed at_him, but to no avail. The last thing I heard at night and the first sound in the morning for five days was that cough and the explana- tion of it was furnished me indirectly the third day. Sunday was interminably long. We stayed in the recreation hall, for church services conducted by mission workers, and until 8 o'clock that night, except for the base ball game in the afternoon. Monday morning at 7 o'clock, having again been unable to eat the food, I went to work with No. 1 squad, and was assigned as helper to Mr. Nelson, a ter, not a prisoner. Mr. in putting a slate roof on v ding, and he attacked his job as if he had to finish it by 12 o'clock. Carrying armfuls of heavy slate across a slanting roof for eight hours, in oversize shoes and with no food in the system, is some job. If the assistant in the clinic had been correct in his diagnosis of my physical condition, that job would have done me up. As hard as it was, however, the work did not bring me around to the point where I could eat at the workhouse dining table, I did the same work the next day, and at quitting time was very tired and very hungry, but still I could not eat the food. 1 mentioned the matter to the boy who had warned me to “lay off the coffee,” and he said I had it light. Pays Balance to Fine. “T've been here 32 days,” he said. “I sometimes think I can't last it out. You can do six more days on your ear.” 1 didn’t dq six more days. After two days and two hours of the third on that slate roof I took my nail-marked feet off a ladder for the last time. I pald my fine, $4, for the remaining four days of my setence, and that afternoon Capt. Francls escorted me to Union Eiation along with 19 other men whose terms had expired. Now—as to Mr. Sinclalr. He also was interrogated and searched when he entered the District Jail after reaching the jail in his limousine. The same officials who looked over the rec- ord of his residence and occupation paid little attention to the fact that I was a clerk. But when they ascertained that Sinclair was a registered pharma- cist somebody said it was_ the luckiest break the jail had had in years. pharmacist = was urgently needed, 1t secemed, and the wealthy oll man was assigned as assistant to Dr. Hyman, the jail physician, forthwith. Jail officials pointed out that incom- ing prisoners are detailed to the work they are best fitted for as vacancies oc- cur in various details at the jail. plumber goes to that work; & carpenter to the shops, a clerk or bookkeeper to the prison office. There was no vacancy for a clerk when I was admitted. But when Mr. Sinclair went to_jail it ‘was discovered that he was a phar- macist and & pharmcist was just what the jail had been wanting. He got the job. My training as a clerk put me on & roof hauling slate. Sinclair Gets Prison Comforts. Assigned to the “office force” Mr. Sinclair drew a bed with a real mat- tress, clean sheets, pillow, blankets, in a big cellroom with about 75 other pris- oners. But there was, it seemed, & vacancy in still another department. The clinic needed an orderly. That was another place where Mr. Sinclair filled the bill and was the man %or the job. He was made an orderly, with quar- ters in the clinic, a large cell to him- | selt, furnished with a white iron hos- pital cot, clean sheets, an enamel stand and a chair. It is light and airy. Mr. Sinclair just happened to be the man to fill the vacancy in the clinic, however, His predecessor was a colored prisoner. Anybody, the jail officials ex- plain, might be chosen for the job. There was some uncertainty yesterday about whether the previous orderly had been discharged or transferred to other duties when Mr. Sinclair turned up. But the job was vacant. Mr. Sinclalr eats his meals with the “office force” and is served before the other prisoners are served. The food is admittedly superior to food given othes prisoners. Mr. Sinclair gets the New York news- papers every morning. 1 wonder what would have happened to me if I had asked to be allowed to subscribe to the New York papers while in jail, and when I would have had an opportunity to read them. dr. Slackdr ! as szl delinezed 20 SICLAR INFORNED OF LINESS OF WIF |News of Her Being Taken to Sanitarium Affects Spirit of Prisoner. Harry F. Sinclair, wealthy oil man, who is serving a 90-day sentence in the District of Columbia jail and asylum for contempt of the United States Sen- ate in connection with its oil-lease in- vestigation, was advised yesterday that Mrs. Sinclair had been taken to a sani- tarium in Battle Creek, Mich., for treat- ment. Reports were to the effect that Mrs. Sinclair was on the verge of nervous breakdown, but that her illness was not yet considered critical. Returns to His Task. After hearing of his wife’s illness from G. T. Saniord, general counsel for the Sinclair oil interests, who is stay- ing in Washington, Mr. Sinclair return- ed to his task as pharmacist for the District jail. He spent most of the day in the jail clinic, where he is stationed, and it was a far cry from the crowds at the Kentucky Derby which Mr. Sin- clair has attended for many years. One of his horses, the famous Zev, won the Derby several years ago. Although shocked by the news of Mrs. Sinclair’s illness, the oil man re- mained calm during his conference with Mr. Sanford, it was stated. He is re- ported by Maj. Willlam L. Peake, su- rintendent of the jail, to be in excel- ent health, and to be adjusting him- self to the rigors of imprisonment without difficulty. His spirit was con- siderably lower in the face of today's news, however. Strickeni at New York Home. Mrs. Sinclair, it is reported here, was stricken several days ago at her New York home, and was taken to Battle Creek on Thursday afternoon. She had been expected to visit the oil man at the jail last Sunday, visitors’ day, but failed to arrive. It is now believed that she had been ill for some time, but not until a few days ago did it become so serious that she needed sanitarium treatment. o ! CAPT.ADOLPHUS ANDREWS GOES TO U. S. S. TEXAS Other Transfers in Army and Navy Department Are Announced. Capt. Adolphus Andrews, who was in command of the presidential yacht U. S. 8. Mayflower during part of the Coolidge administration, was ordered yesterday by the Navy Department, about June 25, from the submarine base at New London, Conn., which he now commands, 10 assume command of the U. 8. 8. Texas. Capt. Howard D. Lamar of the Supply Corps is ordered detached about June 21 from the Army Industrial College and sent on duty in the office of the chief co-ordinator in the Arlington Building here. Lieut. Charles Wheatley of the Medi- cal Corps is ordered detached from the x'ecelvlnfi| barracks at Hampton Roads, Va., to the Washington Navy Yard. Lieut. Llewellyn J. Johns is ordered detached from the Mayflower and is to report for duty in the office of naval com?umcnunns of the Navy Depart- ment. ————— CAMPAIGNERS IN ULSTER WORKING'20 HOURS A DAY Women Exchange Blows in Heated Conflict—Police Drive Candi- date From Rivals’ Hall. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, Northern Ireland, May 18. —Ulster general election candidates are working 20 hours a day, with the cam- paign fight most embittered between the independent Unionists and the oficial Urionists. ‘The Shankhill division is the cockpit of the battling, and it is repotled that women there exchange blows nightly in defense of the rival candidates. In the east end of the city angry sceres have marked the contest between Alderman Duff, official Unionist, and Dr. Beattie, Boclalist. Dr. Duff created & precedent by walk- ing into a meeting held by his opponent to hear what was being said about him. ‘The atmosphere had become noticeably tense when tactful police officers in- duced him to leave. Prospects of the government candi- dates are said to be brightening as poll- ing day approaches. him regularly. One letter sent to me in jail never reached me. Officials maintain that Mr. Sinclair 1s accorded no privileges because he hap- pens to be Sinclalr. Every time I think of that slate roof at Occoquan I say to myself—"What a lucky break for Sinclair. I wish I had ne in for pharmacy. It surely pays @5 & phammacs” . ) | SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, WALSH FORECASTS NEW REVELATIONS Senator Believes Power Probe Will Help Kill Off Public Apathy. hands on. If the American Eeople cannot be waked up by the admission thet power money is prepared to buy and control newspapers, wherever and whenever they are for sale—East, West, North_and South, and at any cost— then I do not know what kind of a dynamite charge can be planted under the country to alarm it into some Kind | of a movement to throttle such prac- ! tices.” | Senator Walsh named a few impend- ing big power projects, the ultimate course of which, he feels. is now bound | to be affected by the Federal Trade| Commission’s findings about power. “To | begin with, there is Muscle Shoals.” he | said, “from which these revelations | more or less directly have flown. The | decade-old fight over disposition of that ! property can hardly help being decided | in light of what the country now knows of power methods. One of these days the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence water- way project will be before Congress. Shall the public or the power barons be intrusted with the development of that immense undertaking? Who shall say that, with the information the Amer- ican’ people now have in their posses- sion, private power enterprise will have as easy sailing, in connection with the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Canal. as it might have had, if recent history had not been written? “In the international section of that | project there can be developed no less | than 2250000 horsepower. In the Canadian section, between Ogdensburg. N. Y., and Montreal, there are 5,000,000 more horsepower. Here are rich pick- ings. There is the coming Boulder Dam project in our Southwest, with immeas- urable power possibilities, All the world knows that private power capital craves an opportunity to develop them. Will| the country not hark back to current events in Washington, when the time comes to parcel out these opportunities as between private enterprise and public enterprise? I think it will. Then, of course, out of the Federal Government's plans for Mississippi River flood con- trol and auxiliary power and waterway developments, there will inevitably be situations which will call for the peo- ple’s choice as between private and pub- lic ownership or operation, or both.” Restrictive Action Ts Predicted. It would be impossible to exaggerate | the gravity with which Congress, and administration leaders as well, view the amazing storles which are coming out of the Federal Trade Commission from day to day. No one ventures to foreshadow, as yet, just what legislative results will eventually accrue from the disclosures.” That the revelations will not simply be permitted to pass into fat volumes of “hearings” and accumu- late dust in the Federal Trade Com- | mission’s archives is generally asserted. Action of some sort, in some concrete direction, must and will ensue—that is felt on all hands. No one imagines that merely more rigid control of Post Office records of power-capital holdings in newspapers and makazines—for in- stance—is the only thing that will re- sult. On the contrary, investigators on Capitol Hill encounter a widespread and an unusually determined resolve to secure the enactment of far-reaching regulatory laws. Nothing definite of that sort has been worked out as yet. But 1t seems certain it is coming. (Copyright. 1929.) BERNET MAY HEAD & . MLROA Van Sweringen Interests, However, Refuse to Confirm or Deny Reports. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 18.—The Van Sweringen interests, which control the Erie Railroad, neither would con- firm or deny tonight the report that John J. Bernet, the Erle president, will be elected president of the Chesapeake & Ohio at a meeting of C. & O. direc- tors here May 28. Rallroad authorities close to the Van Sweringens, however, said that there is every indication that Bernet would be named. W. J. Hanrahan, now president of the Chesapeake & Ohio, has been in poor health for some time, and reports have been current that he would soon give up his position. His health forced him to be atsnt from his office several weeks lugé Winter. 1If he gives up his position he will con- tinue to hold a place in the Van Swer- ingen railway organization, probably as senfor vice president of the C. & O, it was declared. Bernet's promotion to the head of the C. & O., around which the Van Swer- ingen plan to build a fourth Eastern trunk iine system, would follow as a natural sequence in the Van Sweringen development plans. As vice president of the New York Central he was called upon to take the helm of the Nickel Plate, which at the time was newly purchased by the Van Sweringens, and run it at a profit. He succeeded and was named head of the Erie, which in turn became a money- maker. As possible successors to the Erie presidency, W. L. Ross, president of the Nickel Plate; Charles E. Denny, vice president of the Erie, and Thomas Carr Powell, former vice president of the Erie and now president of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, are being men- tioned. Marriage Licenses. John T. Geesiing. 41 and Florence M. Kelly, 32; Rev. George Hines. 0y A. Cheriey, 33, and Anna Flelschman, 40. both' of Cleveland, Ohio; Rev. John E. Briggs Roy Cheek, corge’ 1 . 23, 2: Rev. Joseph H_Jenkins. Leslie Hardisty, 35, and i Rev. Calvert E. Buck. rd B_ Stephenson,’ 21. and Ruby E. Fischer, 18; Rev. James S. Monteomery. James E. Nolan, 28, Ln Plata, Md.. and Helen F. Sheehan, 25, this city; Rev. P. C. n. yle F. Woodall, 30. and Rose E. Sar- gent. 90, both of Richmond, Va.; Rev. H. W. ‘olson. Elmore Davis. 21. and Dorothy Taylor. 17; Rev. Stanford Thompson. Herbert M Smith, 25, and Julia Fletcher, 24; Rev. C, F. Mevers. William N. Powers, 40, Bandy Heok, Md., and Prances E. Young, 30, this city; Rev. Irving W. Ketchum. arles I Grifith, 51, and Lillian M. Da- vidson, 29: Rev. Francis X. Bischoft. George H. Chorley, 54, this city, and Ads P R. L; Rev. John J. Killeen, 49, Ri! . Births Reported. Frank and Ila T. Lees, ®irl. George d Gertrude Maurice, girl. Robert and Lilllan C. Mackle. girl. Anton B. and Mary K. Ostman. girl. Apten @ and Mary ¥ el RaR: e pear 1 rovide: ve £ boy. Evelyn L. Bt. Clair, hoy. mes H.‘and Eleanor E. Bramhall. boy John R. and Charlotte E. Grumwell, boy. James . and Maggie Tiches, boy. Ernest ‘and Mary Green, boy. Osbury and Anita Washington, boy. George and Rose Thomas, bo: Jvin and serah ‘Lyon Alifed an Hifian ghis ‘aad ‘Peaples, MAY 19, 1929—PART 1. CHILDREN HOLD FESTIVAL AT CHURCH Group of children taking part in the May festival and dznce at All Souls’ Unitarian Church, Sixteenth and Har vard streets, yesterday afternoon. Elizabeth Robertson. Photo shows Dorothy Dyar, the queen, being crowned by one of her knights, Mary —Star Staff Photo. CAPONE’S BATTLE TO ESCAPE PRISON BARED BY COUNSEL tCummn;d‘ Prum ;‘xr;t Page.) aisle, and the uniformed policemen went over and told them they were both under arrest. Creedon and I then stepped over to the group and ex- plained that we were detectives. “I started to search Capone, and as I put my hand in his overcoat. pocket he lifted the pistol out of his pocket and handed it to me. “We kept the two prisoners in an offset of the theater for about half an hour, waiting for two other men who bad gone in with them, but we failed { to recognize them. Two Change Prisons. “Finally we got into a taxicab and went to City Hall. “Capone was locked up at City Hall, together with Cline, and I didn't see him again until he was being taken into court. He sald to me: ‘It looks like I'm going away for a vear and I have to thank you.” I said to him, ‘No. don’t thank me; you've got yourself to thank.'". “Scarface Al” today changed his abode from Moyamensing Prison to the Holmesburg Jail. Cline also was Te- moved, both traveling the 12 miles from South Philadelphia to the northeastern part of the city in a prison van, which was heavily guarded. CAPONE'S FOLLOWERS RALLY. Chicagoans to Attempt to Free Him, Gangster's Attorney Says. CHICAGO, May 18 (#).—Unless “The Chief” himself stops them, Al Capone’s Chicago followers will make an attempt next week to obtain his release from prison in Philadelphta, using every pos- sible legal advice, it was learned tonight from Thomas D. Nash, who has been Capone’s counsel on several occaslons. At the same time it was revealed that the gang chieftains followers are in the dark as to the reason for his seem- ingly willing submission to arrest. Conference Set for Next Week. Attorney Nash said that he had re- ceived a telephone call yesterday from a man whose identity he did not care | to reveal, asking that a conference be arranged between the Capone men and the law firm of Nash and Michs{! Ahern. The caller said the “boys wanted counsel to go to Philadelphia so see Capone and learn if he was being held against his will. If he is. Nash was told, the gang wants legal steps instituted at once o obtain the leader’s release, if possible. ‘What steps would be taken in case 1t was learned that Capone wanted to re- main in jail remained problematical. The conference was set for next week, probably Monday, following the return of Ahern from French Lick, Ind. Nash's revelation came while police, gangsters and common citizens alike were wondering whether Capone’s im- prisonment meant cessation or intensi- fication of Chicago underworld warfare, “Moran” Pact Is Doubted. Hoodlums generally expressed skepti- cism about the reported peace pficl be- tween Capone and George Bug! Moran. Some of them hinted their be,- lief that Capone had ordered Moran's death and had arranged to be in jail so that he would have an alibl when the deed was committed. Moran blamed Capone for the slaying of seven of his men in the St. Valen- tine's day massacre, and the recent kill- ing of the Capone trio near Hammond, 1Ind., is generally b:ll«;ved to have been a Moran gang reprisal. With Capone in jail, Moran looked upon as the “big shot' in Chi- cago gangland, and the anxious request of a Capone follower for a conference With the lawyers is looked upon &s & step to learn the situation before m,nn‘- ing & campaign for power. If Al s going to stay in jail, and step out of “the racket,” as he has said, his fol- lowers do not intend to stand ld];’ by and see Moran get the vast profits from Vice, police believe. Torrio May Return. One rumor had it that Johnny ‘Torrlo, who fled in terror after an attempt on his life narrowly had failed, would re- turn to take up the reins. It was ‘Torrio who imported Capone from New York as an aide in the South Side liquor usiness. : Further trouble loomed for the im- prisoned gangster today, when Assist- ant United States Attorney Danlel An- derson announced he would ask Phila- delphia_authorities for a transcript of Capone's statement to them regarding his booze activities. Anderson said he would compare them with Capone’s re- cent testimony before a Federal grand jury here to see if he committed per- jury. There were also hints at the Fed- eral Building that Capone's statements might be used as the basis for charges of fraud in his filing of income tax re- turns. BOY STRUCK BY AUTO. 5-Year-01d Wilbur Jackson of Bla- densburg Critically Injured. Five-year-old Wilbur Jackson of Ed- monston road, at Bladensburg, M was critically injured yesterday after- non when struck by an automobile when he was crossing the road near his residence. Police reported the auto- mobile was operated by Willlam Trime of East Riverdale, Md. The Prince Georges City rescue squad brought the injured youth to Casualty Hospital, where attending physicians said he has concussion of the brain. He also received lacerations about the face and bruises. Radium Prevents Fires. Radium has been installed in a rubber factory at Leningrand, Russia, to pre- vent fires, A small capsule of the ele- ment permits the great amount of elec- tricity that jumps from the rubber fabric while passing over rollers, to leak slowly and harmlessly into the air. Only one milli of radium is necessary to thus minimize the hazard ca by the static, n now is| 1 | ued. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 18.—A dramatic per- sonal appeal made by a 76-year-old vice | crusader to “Scarface” Al Capone. dread czar of Chicago's gangland, was re- voaled today. Frank J. Loesch, head of the Chi- cago Crime Commiscion and speclal assistant State's attorney of Cook County, who for months fought vaini to_stop the spread of crime in Chicago, told today how he finally carried the problem direct to the supposed foun- tainhead of wrongdoing. Thinks Al Lived Up to Word. The famous enemies met in a hot, stuffy hotel room early last September Capone was to help “make Chicago a | better place in which to live.” Loesch said he belleved Capone keot his promise made that day, and that the carrying out of that promise re- sulted in his voluntary incarceration in a Philadelphia prison. The representatives of law and order, Loesch, accompanied by a secret service man and & Government agent stood on one side of the room. it was revealed. while the overlord of organged crime sat on the other and listened with re- spect to the dramatic plea of the cru- sader. Appeals to Sense of Duty. Loesch appealed to Capone's sense of duty as an American citizen and #s a husband and father, he said, and asked | gression for the sake of Chicago. “I had been trying to meet Capone for two months.” Loesch said. “After some difficulty 1@ told one of my men he would see me at the Lexington Hotel, where at that time he was reputed to his followers. “Upon our arrival at the hotel we had some difficulty reaching his suite. We were consclous of being watched from the moment we stepped inside the door, but no one spoke to us. Upon reaching Mr. Capone's suite, I knocked and a large man opened the door. He asked if I was Mr. Loesch. I knew at once the man was Capone. We shook hands and he asked me to sit down. No Guard in Room. “Capone himself sat opposite me, di- rectly beneath a picture of Washington and one of Lincoln. The day was hot and the room stuffy, But Capone don- ned his coat upon my arrival. The room was very well furnished. There was no guard in the room. ‘Capone’s face was serious and he waited for me to speak. I said: ‘Mr. Capone, I have wanted to see you for some time. I want to appeal to you, man to man, but particularly as an American citizen, for the sake of your wife and chiid, to abandon the course you are popularly supposed to be pur- suing in the underworld of this city.’ “Capone said nothing and I contin- “'T know from reports that some of your followers have had something to do with violence in the twentieth ward. I do not seek information of any kind from you and I do not want you to more and more its helpful employees, workers and service. can benefit you, 1408 H St. N.W, and there made a verbal pact, by which | him to turn from the path of trans-| have hired 54 rooms for himself and | \CHICAGO VICE CRUSADER'S PLEA| TO AL CAPONE TO QUIT IS BARED - \Frank Loesch Met Gangland Czar Secretly and Won Promise to Help Make Gity a Better Place to Live. give away anything of value to you or your followers, but I thought it my duty to come here in secret and to try to drive home to you what the continu- ance of the action of your followers means.” Capone Wants to Live in Florida. “Up to that time Capone said noth- ing. The telephone rang, he answered |and talked for five minuf ‘Then he apologized for the interruption and said { the call was from his Florida agents. | “I asked him about the future—what he was going to do. He said he wanted to go and live in Florida and give up his Chicago connections. “‘In Florida,” he said smilingly, ‘T'll b@,le(t alone and they can't drive me out.’ Loesch said he and Capone then dis- cussed the pleasant life in Florida. He | told the gangster he assumed he was |2an American citizen. The statement | scemed to hurt him and he assured | Loesch he was born in Brooklyn -and i that his wife and child were Americans. | ASSAULT CHARGE FACED. Man Freed in Dry Agent’s Death Held for Hearing. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, May 18—Ed- ward Martin, colored, whom a coroner’s jury in Mount Rainier last night freed of blame for the death of Dry Agent | Dano M. Jackley in an auto accident Tuesday, was released today in $1,500 bail for & hearing on May 28 by United Stetes Commissioner Harry N. Aber- crombie after he had pleaded not guilty | to a Federal charge of assaulting and | interfering with a Federal officer. The warrant was obtained by prohibition authorities. Martin was sccused of driving the agent's machine and caused it to skid anddovenum on the Washington Boule- vard. EXPRESSION RECITAL. Theater Arts School Entertainment On Tuesday Night. Pupils of Theater Arts School will be presented in expression recital at the Hotel Roosevelt, Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Poetry, one-act plays, mono- logues and stories will be interpreted under direction of Maitland le Grande Thompson. Those taking part in the Tecital are: Ruth Dickinson, Cornelia McDuffle, Dorothy Bayliss, Jean Salter, Bernice Wood, Adele Martell, Zelda Abrams, Mildred Curran, Dorothy Abrams, Gladys Vickers, Margaret Diffinbaugh, Esther Bair, Paula Salter, Nora Bramell, Kathryn Logan, Virginia Wade, Addie May Aligiere and Franc Caskey. A total of 20,000 tourists visited the Hawalian Islands in 193 To Succeed—Handle Your Personal Affairs In A Business-like Way 'VERY man has the right to succeed. To do so he must manage his affairs in a business-like way. 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Morrow landed here about mid- afternoon in a little cove in Pe:: Hscot Bay before the Morrow hom~ They were accompanied by Jos % Gra- ham, Mrs. Morrow's secrciary, The flight was made from an unceiarmined point in New York in an amphibian cabin plane after a short stop at Port- land Airport for refueling. Motor Ride on Island. Soon after the dinner hour the en tire group bundled themselves into a beach car and drove away, presumably on a trip about the roads on the west- ern end of the island. Anne Mortow was driving. Lindbergh was seated be- side her, with another of the sisters on the other side. Before leaving for the pleasure jaunt. the colonel taxied the plane up the beach and “parked” it on the Morrow lawn, close to a large evergreen tree. Information regarding the plans of the couple was given cut. but the “offi- cial spokesman.” whoss name was not divulged, said he would hold a confer- ence with members of the press tomor- Tow morning. 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