Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1930, Page 1

WEAT. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued cool tonight and tomorrow. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 81, at 4 . toda; yesterday; lowest, 53 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 , at 7 Full report on page 9. HER. pm. Y. Che Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Saturday’s . Circulation, 105,868 Sunday's Circulation, 116,011 Entered as seco post office, Was No. 31,562, nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, B0, CREECY SUICIDE DOUBTED WIFE, AX VICTIM, IN COMA; POLICE Officials VTracing _ Found in Hotel Room as Search for Motive of Act Fails BOARD OF INQUE BY MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT Parents of Marine Were in Good Spirits When They Visited Them Saturday Night. Dissatisfied with their earlier “attempted murder-suicide” theory, police today were delving deep into every detail to determine what happened in the fifth floor room o entered yesterday afternoon to find wealthy Lieut. Col. Richard Ben- | nett Creecy, Marine Corps, lying dead on the floor, a bullet wound through his heart, and his wife, Mrs. Louise Reifsnider Creecy, lying critically wounded on the floor nearby, her head horribly gashed by & short-handled ax. Mrs. Creecy’s condition showed some slight improvement at Emergency Hospital today, but she has not regained consciousness. Police are keeping a close watch at the hospital in hopes Mrs. Creecy . will regain consciousness and solvi her husband’s death. Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad at police headquarters, at the request of Col. Creecy’s family, this morning started tracing the brand-new pistol and ax which were the weapons found in the room. “I want to know what happened in that room, and it is likely the tracing of the gun and ax will be the answer,” declared. The Colt Firearms Co., manufacturer of the weapon with which Col. Creecy was shot, were wired this morning by the local pqlice to set in motion the steps by which followed from the factory to the u Evidence of Motive Is Lacking. Kelly admitted this morning police were faced with an extremely contradicting set of circumstances surrounding the death of Col. | Creecy and the wounding of his wife. In the first place, it is pointed out, there has not been found, any- where, any evidence of a motive for Col. Creecy’s attacking his wife with the axtandm!.h&l turlrlflng ml glu_uyx ::‘ jhlgsell i e ce inqu! . Gen. dant of th o qtms morning appointed a board of inquest to examine into the death of Col. Creecy. The board, headed by Col. Louis McCarty Little, has as its other members Col. Thomas mandant of the Marine Corps, C. Turner, and the naval medical P. Carr. : tcm: Creecy'sifather, Col. E. C. Creccy, 84, who v at the Gordon Hotel, declared this morning, of approximately $20,000 a year, g’:l wife was well-to-do and they could not have been in Col. C in his 27°years’ unlc'e‘?‘mh‘n:c ‘Marine reecy, y cording to hl.sybmther. E. C. Creecy, an engineer with the Bel phone Co. at Richmond, Va., neve: a Colt, .45-c declared, Col. elder Col. does not Against this situation of an ap- parently happy couple, with no financial troubles and with, ac- cording to their closest relatives and friends “everything to live for,” the police have found out: ‘The door to the fifth floor hotel room of the dead officer and his wife was double locked when it was entered yesterday afternoon. ‘The door is so constructed that the lock catches when it is closed, bar- | ring entrance from the outside. In addition to this lock, a thumb latch in the inside of the door had been turned. Key Kept in Hotel Safe. The only key to open this thumb- latch lock is kept in the safe in the hotel management’s office, and it was necessary to secure this key from A.B. Van Voorhees, assistant manager of the hotel, before the room could be en- tered yesterday afternoon. ‘The only room next to that occupied by the Creecys was unoccupied over the | week end. A window to this room could provide an agile person access to Toom of the Creecys, according to Lieut. Kelly, but no traces were found by police of foot or hand prints on the window ledges or sills, and the window and screen of the room adjoining that of the Creecys appeared unmolested. The only other way the room could have been entered by a murderer from the outside, Lieut. Kelly says, is by scaling a wall 60 feet high, leading from the roof of the hotel dining room to the windows of the fifth-floor room. The window ledges and sills of the Creecy room above this roof showed no marks of any one having entered that way. At the time his body was found, Col. Creecy lay half in, haif out of the bath room. and police say he apparently had set himself before the bath Toom mirror before putting the pistol to his breast 2nd sending & bullet through his heart. No note was found. Police believe the tragedy occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning or the late hours of Saturday night. was impossible, they said, to tell how Jong Col. Creecy had been dead when they arrived at the room yesterday after- noon. Rigor mortis had set in. Mrs. Creecy had bled so profusely as she lay on the floor that it was found necessary immediately after her arrival at Emer- gency Hospital to resort to blood trans- fusion. Maid Tries to Enter. Several times yesterday morning a hotel chambermaid tried to get into the Creecy room. Each time she knocked, however, there was no re- sponse. Early yesterday afternoon she asked Mrs. Ruby Patton, assistant house- keeper, to open the latch, and when it was found the thumb latch inside the The telephone operator at the hotel been trying to get the occupants f the room to answer the telephone ‘The telephone had times, but there was ote was sent up and , asking the Creecys L. Reifsnider, Mrs. Creec: automatic service Creecy was “quite a marksman.” Visited' Col. Creecy’s Parents Saturday. Col. and Mrs. Creecy visited Col. Creecy’s parents-Saturday night shortly before the double crime is belleved to have taken plac Creecy this morning said that his son and daughter-in- law were in good spirits and showed no signs of disagreement at that e “They were just like children, so playful that to us old folks they seemed foolish,” the elder Creecy declared. The Creecy family, which includes besides the parents and brother, E. C. Creecy, another brother of g\e dl:aii behgh;‘e_y %ger’,'i g 3 who is in a Veterans’ Bureau Hospital at Pe! g i & Crmyfieueve Col. Creecy hacked his wife’s head with a hatchet and then turned a revolver on himself. 1| Weapons ST 1S NAMED Colonel Say Pair f the Mayflower Hotel before they e the mystery of her attack and Lieut. Kelly the trail of the weapon will be ltimate owner. ‘Ben H. Fuller, com- officer, Lieut. Commander George ad an e thlfl , ac- 11 Tele- tol but bbrot,her . his.son, Y] r has used sort_of pistol, wl‘u‘:’whlch,‘ hi e. The disturb” sign on the door as had been reporte ‘When, with the aid of the key of Van ‘Voorhees, the room finally was entered, Col. Creecy was found lying dead on the floor and Mrs. Creecy was lying in a pool of blood between the twin beds in the room. There were three hatchet gashes on the right side of her head. Police of the third precinct and mem- bers of the homicide squad st head- quarters were called immediately. Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rodgers also was called, and when he arrived and had made an inspection of the room and had questioned police ard | hotel officials, he issued a certificate of suicide in the case of Col. Creecy, Room Found in Order. Police say they found no signs of disorder in the room other. than the prone bodies of its two occupants. The hatchet lay near the body of Mrs. Creecy, and the pistol lay near the body of Col. Creecy. The pistol still held four cartridges, an empty shell and an empty cartridge chamber. Dr. F. A. Hornaday, house physician at the Mayflower, pronounced Col. Creecy dead and rendered first-aid treatment to Mrs. Creecy before she was sent to the hospital. Police found in the room a large amount of Mrs. Creecy’s jewelry, about $300 in cash and some small change on the dresser in the room. When gu’nd both were in their underclothes. Police learned this morning the Creecys had planned to leave Washing- ton for New York on the noon train | yesterday. Col. Creecy had ordered | tickets and Pullman seats from the hotel porter on Saturday, and they were | being held for him at the porter's desk all day yesterday. Members of the Creccy family were still unable to grasp the horror of the tragedy this morning. The elder Col. Creecy said he ¢ould not believe his son | could have been guilty of a brutal at- tack on his wife with an ax. | The brother, E. C. Creecy was equally | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | Zord Birkenhead Has Relapse. LONDON, September 29 (#).—Lord Birkenhead has had a recurrence of congestion in one lung after having been reported Tecovering slowly from & serious attack of bronchial pneumonia. His temperature is higher, but his gen- eral condition remains good. CONTINUE PROBE COL. RICHARD B. CREECY. PACIFIC HOP AGAIN American Plane Tanded Near _Tokio for Start for U. §. Before Middle of October. By the Associated Pres: TOKIO, September 29.—Lieut. Harold L. Bromley and his navigator. Harold Gatty, flew tHeir plane City of Tacoma from Shamishiro to Tachikawa air field, near here, early today and announced | they “were preparing for another at- tempt to fly across the Pacific before the middle of October, weather per- mitting. The plane will be thoroughly-over- hauled and a new exhaust collector ring installed, replacing the defective part #hich caused them to-turn back Sep- timber 13 after having flown 1,200 miles eastward over the Pacific in an attel -stop” Ws&:’pm non-stop” flight to Tacoma, A study of weather history over the North Pacific will determine whether they will make another start. If con- ditions are deemed favorable, they will fly back to Shamishiro for the take-off and will follow a more southerly course than before, in order to void if possible the formation of ice on the wings. OFFICIAL OF MARKET! SAYS SOVIET WHEAT TRADE WAS MINOR President Bunnell Declares Short Operation Was Hedg- ing, Not Gambling. OFFERS NO REASON FOR OBJECTIONS House Committee All on Hand for Chicago Inves- tigations. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 29.—President John A. Bunnell of the Chicago Board of Trade today told the Special Con- gressional Committee investigating Com- munist propaganca that short selling on the Chicago Exchange by Russia was & hedging operation and not a gamble. Bunnell was asked by Representative John F. Nelson of Maine: “Why shouldn't the Russian govern- ment hedged on the Chicago market?” “I can give no reason why they shouldn’t,” he answered. He was then asked why the Board of Trade’s Business Conduct Committee | investigated the shori selling, and he answered that it was unusual. Not Heavy Transaction. “If you had known of the transac- tions would you have taken any steps to stop them?” Nelson asked. . “Not necessarily,” replied Bunnell. “The selling of 7,500,000 bushels of wheat in three days by one client was not a particularly heavy transactio He said that under a falling market, such as the exchange has recently ex- perienced, the tarnsactions would have a tendency to depress prices. Representative Edwarc E. Eslick of ‘Tennessee, asked if there were any rules prohibiting foreign nations from deal- ing on the exchange. Bunnell said he knew of none. Brokers were within their rights to accept such commissions as those of the Soviet government, he said, adding that similar transactions had been made by Canadian and Argentine trader: He knew of no recent deals by the Canadian or the Argentine governments, however. Bunnell told the committee that if the Russian government bought in the wheat it sold short today the profit would be approximately $525,000 since :the market has declined about 7 or 8 cents since the original tragsaction. . Whan asked if any collateril was put to cover transaction, Bunnell said he did not know. Representative ‘Fish informed him that the committee was told in New York there was no col- lateral. Bunnell expressed surprise and said if he were handling the trade he (Conitinued on Page 2, Column 2.) MOTHER” JONES’ DEATH " SEEN WITHIN 10 DAYS 100-Year-0ld Labor Leader, Grow- ing Weaker, May Expire at Any Time. Death probably will come to “Mother” { Jones, 100-year-old labor leader, within | 10 days, her physician, Dr. H. H. How- lett, said today. Although suffering from no organic disorder, “Mother” Jones is becoming weaker day by day and has now reached & stage where her end is expected at any time. Dr. Howlett thinks she will go to sleep and die before awakening. Death, he declared, probably will be painless. For a week “Mother” Jones has suf- fered from a vain in her right side, due, her physiclan thinks, to a mus- cular contraction caused by the position in which she lies in bed. Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Burgess, with whom she lives on Riggs road about 6 miles beyond the District line, in Prince Georges County, keep a constant watch over their aged | patient. “Mother” Jones has taken no solid | food since September 4 and is able to | ’ swallow small quantities of milk or | orange juice intreguently. . 29 Fascists' Hurt in Reds’ Attack. UNTERBERMSGRUEN, Germany, September 29 (#).—A procession of 150 Fascists was attacked by Communists today and after a hot fight was routed, leaving 29 Fascists injured. Four of them were seriously hurt. The Com- munist casualties were unknown, as their injured were immediately hidden in local dwellings. GIRL DRINKING POISON THOUGHT D. C. RESIDENT Woman Claimed to Be Mrs. Theresa Crosson Pepper Is Recovering. May Be Brought Here. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 20.—A young woman tentatively identified as Mrs. Theresa Crosson Pepper, Washington soclety woman, was recovering today from effects of poison she drank in a Greenwich Village drug store yesterday. Mrs. Pepper, wife of Philip Pepper, & Washington broker, is the former “Terry” Crosson, and a grandniece of the late. James G. Blaine, police were told. . Mrs, Pepper's parents were to come %o New York from Washington today to take her home if her condition per- | mitted. new Prohibition Bureau in the Depattment of Justice cannot spend Government money to buy newspapers, according to Controller General McCarl. ‘The Attorney General, in his letter to McCarl, osked if public money could be used to subscribe to “some 15 daily newspapers” for the Research and Fd- ucation Division of the Prohibition Bu brother, at Westminster, Md. near | Frederick, Md. There was no “Do not - reau. He wanted to spend money under an act which provides that not more DRY OFFICE FORBIDDEN TO USE PUBLIC MONEY TO BUY PAPERS | Controller General McCarl Says Prohibition Bureau Cannot Use U. S. Cash for Periodicals. than $50,000 may be expended for col- lection and dissemination of .informa- tion and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of ting and other necessary expenses connection therewith. ‘The division is now working on some matters which it is expected may be made public before long. McCarl said that prohibitions in the aw ‘prohibited the Prohibition Bureau rom buying papers. *“Cooler Today and Tomorrow.” The advent of cool, clear weather adds another in- centive to increased busi- ness in Washington, Local merchants are now offering Fall merchandise at a combination of quality and price appeal that most unusual. is Ideal shopping temperature offers an additional reason for making your purchases now. Desirable offerings in today's Star include: Debutante Frocks, Silk Yard Goods, Fall Hats for Men, Wool Blankets, Grocery Items, And many others. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) The Sunday Star 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper Total Lines. 68,076 39,300 26,567 65,867 Twe Other Newspapers MONDAY, SEPTEMBER iConvention Problem Is Choice | = // / %7 = wa 7 17 1930 —THIRTY-SIX PAGES. - = < Za FrP (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. \ TRY! v ROOSEVELT DUE FOR RENOMINATION New York Democrats’ Only for Attorney General. | By the Assoclated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y., September 29— The Democratic State convention to- morrow will nominate Gov. Franklin D. | Roosevelt for Governor. Senator Wag- ner, as temporary chairman, spoke at noon today and John W. Davis, perma- nent chairman, speaks tonight. The| only place in doubt on the State ticket was attorney general. ! ‘The New York City investigation of alleged judicial scandals had double reflection here, in one instance with arrival of Gov. Ropsevelt after he had written to Mayor James J, Walker of New York, suggesting that all city em- ployes appear voluntarily before the special grand jury, waive immunity and testify freely, and the other in the re- port that a plank had been prepared for ie | incorporation in the platform 4 enactment of law to prevent the ing clals. W of immunity by all public Refers, to Inguiry, In his address, Senator Wagner de- clared that “whoever attains judicial or other public office by dishonest means should be driven therefrom, as also from the ranks of our party.” ‘This declaration was an indirect ref- erence to the grand jury investigation .é(lllleged Jjudicial scandals in New York ty. “The Democratic party,” Senator Wagner said, “has always stood for the highest probity in public ofice. Wher- ever and whenever one has been found wanting in honor or derelict in duty it gave its best effort and bent every en- | ergy to rid the office of its incumbent. Equally insistent has it ever been in its demand that public office must be at- tained only by honorable means. “I know that I speak for the heart and the consclence of the great rank and file of the Democratic party in our State when I say that he who attains judieial or other public office by dis- honest means should be driven ihere- from and also from the ranks of our | party.” Assails Administration. Discussing national affatrs, Senator | Wagner said that the last 18 months | in Washington had witnessed “the col- lapse of the President’s panacea for | farm relief, the collapse of the hope for | tax reductions, the collapse of our for- | eign trade and collapse of domestic in- | dustry and the tremendous increase in unemployment, the collapse of the al- | leged economy program, and the col- lapse of the administration’s scientific pretensions.” Prohibition, the major sburce of con- troversy at the Republican convention, was discussed at length by Senator | ‘Wagner. | “At a convention of the Democratic party of the State of New York,” he said, “it is unnecessary to repeat the bill of complaint that we have annually recited against the prohibition amend- ment. We know that it is bad in principle and worse in practice. Since | we last assembled, not one of the | abuses of prohibition hgs abated. All | have increased in volumé and intensity. Public patience is being rapidly ex- hausted. Popular demand is becoming insistent and persistent that relief from the present mockery of the Constitution from hypocrisy and from law-bred crime corruption shall come, not in the next generation, but now, so that we ourselves may once again enjoy the blessings of civilized Goveriment. Hits Wickersham Plan. | “Qur party is united on this proposi- tion Ihalg ev!c,ry State recover the right to solve the problem of temperance in its own way. That involves repeal with- out reserve of the eighteenth amend- ment. But that is not all. The strug- gle against prohibition must meanwhile be fought on many fronts. It involves action against the Volstead act. It im- plies resistance against the juryless trials proposed by the Wickersham com- mission. It calls for an alert and con- stant guard against similar proposals, destructive of our Government and our liberties. It demands leadership in con- ducting the offensive intelligently and successfully. “It requires all this because two im- portant principles of government are at stake. Prohibition represents a serious encroachment by the Federal Government into the domain of the States, and it constitutes a dangerous penetration of law into the sphere of private conduct. It is a glaring example of intemperance in vernment itself. Senator Wagner paid glowing tribute to Gov. Roosevelt’s administration of State affairs. Dam Bursts, 20 Believed Lost. ALEXINATCH, Jugoslavia, Septem- ber 29 (A).—Twenty lives were feared lost today as a consequence of bursting of a dam connected with a mine near here. Details were lacking. Rudiar Prigrims o Page A:18 DOMINIONS® RIGHT TO SECEDE UNQUESTIONED, SAYS THOMAS British Official Says Imperial Conference, Opening Wednesday, Will Deal Largely With Economic Problems. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 20.—J. H. Thomas, . secretary for dominions, de- vlared today that nobody questions the 1ight of a dominion to secede from the British Empire. to & question of whether the secession issue would come up at the imperial conference which will open on Wed- nesday. “I may have the right to shoot my- self,” he sald, “but you have the right to argue with me regarding the wisdom of my action.” The secretary would not say that the right to secede from the empire would be likely to he formally.recognized by His statement replied | With the conference. The constitutional as- pects of the British commonwealth are considered to have been definitely set- tled at the last imperial conference and the present “family gathering of empire premiers” in London will deal largely economic problems, Mr. Thomas d, adding: “The conference meets at a time when the economic world outlook is dark—darker than it has been for gen- erations. Yet it is just because our economic difficulties are so grave that the work of the conference is so eagerly anticipated and so much is expected from it.” - He said that an emlglu court of ap- peals or some such tribunal is likely to emerge from the conference for solu- ; oblems_such . @"&f&mkw‘ n, o as evol RAISING OF POWER ASSETS DISCLOSED Probersj Told Carolina Com- pany Acted Without Ap- praisal or Other Evidence, By the Assoclated Press. A statement introduced into the rec- ords of the Federal Trade Commis- sion’s investigation of public power utilities today said .the Carolina Power & Light Co. between 1926 and 1923 had increased the listed value of its capital assets approximatély '$19,000,000, “un- supported by any appraisal or other evidence found.” Carl H. Depue, accountant of the commission, presented the testimony, which said the company had incre: its facilities to the extent of over $20,000,000 ini those years. “The total book: value thereof De- cember 31, 1928, was approximately 85 million,” the statement said. “That total includes an increase over | predecessor companies’ book values (un- supported by any appraisal or other evi- dence found) ‘amounting to approxi- mately $19,000,000, and it also includes over $3,000,000 of discounts, premiums, commissions and expenses incurred in connection with the issue and redemp- tion of stocks and bonds of the present Carolina Power & Light Co. and its predecessor and other constituent com- panies.” Serves 217 Communities. Depue said the Carolina Power & Light Co. owned 4,237 miles of trans- mission and distribution lines, which served 217 communities in 34 counties in North Carolina, 12 in South Carolina, serving an estimated 400,000 persons. Robert E. Healy, chief counsel of the commission, conducted the examination. Paul A. Tiller, vice president of the Carolina company, and other officers were present. Robert J. Ryder, another commission accountant, testified that since the or- ganization of the Carolina company in 1926 its operations were supervised by the Electric Bond & Share Co. and from 1926 to 1929 seven of the 14 di- rectors of the Carolina company were affiliated with Electric Bond & Share, Gives Data on Energy. Ryder said the commission was en- gaged in interstate transmission of electrical energy, having eight trans- mission lines across the borders of North Carolina, in which State the company has its headquarters. In 1929, he testified, 21 per cent of the energy generated and 27 per cent of the total energy sold across State lines. Ryder said that, while the sale of energy to residential and commercial users was only a small part of the energy sold, the revenue from these sources aggregated over ope-third the gross electric revenue of the company. MISSING FLYER FOUND Mike Finland and Guide Safe in Northwest Canada. PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan, ator-geolog lost wi an le since off from Lac m La on tember 16 for Wollaston Lake, m‘m les north of here, was found safe y. A wireless message rcported Finland ‘wn safe, and said th: Indian had been the north to get gasoline for the piane. NORRON LUNCHES AT WHTE HOUSE Envoy, Here for Conferences, Expects to Leave Tonight for Jersey Home. By the Associated Press. Dwight W. Morrow, about to retire as Ambassador to Mexico to campaign as the Republican senatorial nominee in New Jersey, discussed Mexican affairs with State Department officials today and was invited to lunch with President Hoover. Submittal of his resignation from the diplomatic corps was imminent. The President was not expected to name a successor at once. He was understood at the White House to feel the Mexico City embassy was in capable hands, Arthur Bliss Lane, charge d'affaires, being one of the most capable men in the diplomatic corps. ts to conclude his Mr. Morrow e conferences and leave late tonight for his home in Englewood, N. J. The Ambassador was unwilling to discuss Mexico's financial and economic condition, saying merely that he con- sidered Mexico to be weathering the storm of world-wide economic depres- slon as well as could be expected. He declined to discuss in detail the status of claims now being studied by the claims commission in Mexico. He said the work of the commission had never been carried on through the em- bassy. The division of waters of the Rio Grande between the United States and Mexico, and adjustments between the two countries rising out of the Hoover Dam project were characterized by the ambassador as problems falling under the jurisdiction of the claims commis- sion and at no time a topic for conver- sation by embassy omchfi:, Asked whether he had suggested a successor for the Mexico post, the Am- bassador replied that it was a fair question, but said he did not intend to make the suggestion unless asked to do so. T MRS. MORROW IN NEW YORK, Goes to Gotham as Husband Keeps Washington Appointment. NEW YORK, September 20 (#).—Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, wife of the Am- bassador to Mexico, arrived in New York alone at 9:05 (E. 8. T.) today from Mexico City. The Ambassador left the train at Harrisburg, Pa., early this morning and went to Washington, Where he expected to confer today with President Hoover and State Department officials. Mrs. Morrow said her husband'’s plans for returning to the family home at Englewood, N. J., would be indefi- nite until he had completed his con- ferences at Was! n. “Are you home to stay?” Mrs, Mor- row was asked. “How do I know?” she answered with a laugh and a shrug. “I never proglhuy.' She went, at once from Pennsylvania Station to the Morrow home at Engle- wood, where she expected to find Miss Elizabeth Morrow and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, her daughters. ROB UNION OF Two 000 Bandits Hold-Up Chicago Typographical Office and Escape. CHICAGO, —Two yesterday, making his way out of | J. 29 (), today up the offices of the caj ‘with $3.f after locking ncis l",g.mvll! assistant mm three members in a vault. GANGSTERS' WIVES - AND KIN-WILL BE HELD AS HOSTAGES Chicago Detective Chief Or- ders Arrest of Relatives to Force Surrender of Accused. HELD, 22 AT LIBERTY Unions Protest Drive to Purge Locals of Racketeers, Holding Legitimate Workers Suffer, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 29.—The “next of kin” of Chicago's “public enemies” today were ordered arrested, to be held as hostages for the “enemies” theme selves. Detective Chief Norton, ordering this action, told his men to arrest the wives of the “enemies” wherever possible. Falling in this, the nearest relatives of the hunted men are to be taken. Vagrancy warrants have been signed for the “public enemies”—the 26 most notorious figures of the ecity'’s gang life —and the relatives are to be held until such time as the enemies surrender or are found. Four of them already are under ar- Test. One surrendered, another was found in a police cell on another charge and two were found in hospitals. One of the latter, Terry Druggan of j the erstwhile beer baroncy of Druggan & Lake, is at the University Hospital. His doctors say he will die if he is moved, but police insist that he be taken to Bridewell Prison Hospital. under guard. In addition to the vagrancy warrant, a Federal charge of having evaded income tax payments has been made against him. The State attorney's fight against labor racketeers—the men who have taken control by force of a number of union treasuries—received a sctback when a number of union leaders called on Col. A, A. Sprague, anti-crime leader, and protested against the cam- paign. Legitimate unions are being made the sufferers, the labor men charged. They asked the removal from the fight of Assistant State's Attorney Charles J. Mueller. Police Face Charges. Meanwhile the Police Department struggled with its own problem, which cropped out last Thursday when men raiding a hotel seized a Police Depart- ment memorandum containing a list of known hoodlums marked for possible arrest on vagrancy chaiges. The mem- orandum bore checkmarks before eight names, dll of them Al Capone men, and when the policz copy was located, these eight names had been omitted. Ques- tioning revealed that the original had been stolen from police files and re- typed “from memory” by a secretary. Chief Norton yesterday completed his investigation of the affair and made out a list of cemen’s names, which he called a er list. . It went to Police Commissioner John H. Alcack to- day for action, Alcock said he wovld nu:::(;" criminal charges against the in his department, u arranging instant dismisead, | Policeman Threatened. A threat of death came to light yes- terday as l‘nfllfld'l answer zg & po- liceman who has been too active in the war on crime. The officer, Jack Kratzmeyer, revealed the threat to Capt. Michael Delaney of the near {‘i::r:hdsu}:d dhm:& n&d ’A‘t the same , denied repol t he had bes offered a $10,000 bribe. i The Herald and Examiner insisted, however, that it had learned of such an offer to Policeman Kratzmeyer and of the officer’s refusal. The paper added that it had found the offer was part of 2 $100,000 slush fund, exacted un- derworld commanders from their mem- bers, to combat the current intensive campaign against lawlessness. Among the gangsters arrested recent= ly by Kratzmeyer have been Joe Bush, member of Detroit's purple gang, still suspected of sharing blame for the mas- sacre of seven Moran gangsters on St. Valentine's day, 1929; Louls Chapman, alias John Fogarty, reputedly success- ful “fixer,” and a pair' of suspected murderers, Kratzmeyer has seized sev- eral beer trucks in his district and the evidence has been turned over to Fed- eral authorities. Meanwhile he has been receiving numerous threats, ‘The near North Side district is the scene of the greatest current warfare between rival gangs. Formerly dom- inated by the Moran mob, it has lately been invaded by Capone men under the supervision of Teddy Newberry, Harassing relatives of gangsters s in line with the Chicago Police Depart- ment's policy of arresting hoodlums and those affiliated with them on all pos- sible charges. The Detective Bureau refused to divulge what charges it would orefer in this new angle of its campaign, NEW YORK DRYS PLAN THIRD PARTY ACTION Leaders Get Together for Parleys to Pick Independent Candi- date for Governor. By the Associated Pr NEW YORK, September 29.—Leaders of New York State’s organized dry forces 8ot together today for conferences look~ ing to the selection of an independent dry candidate for Governor. The adoption of 2 prohibition repeal plank by the Republican State convention last week and the certainty of similar action by the Democratic convention at Syracuse tomorrow will not suffice, dry chieftains declared, to remove the pro- hibition issue from the campaign. Mrs, D. Leigh Colvin said it was cer- tain a dry candidate would be in the fleld, and Dr. E. 8. Nicholson, assoclate superintendent of the Anti-Saloon Let:ue, sald, “There seems nothing else o Mrs. Colvin sought to induce Frank E. Gannett, publisher of a chain of news- papers, to be a candidate, but he de- clined to be considered. MINE BLAST KILLS THREE Four Injuired May Not Live as Result of Gas Explosion, SBCRANTON, Pa., September 29 (#). . —Three men were killed and four in- in a gas explosion in a Pittston 1 Co. mine today. All the injured were found to be badly burned about the head and and will hardly recover, (doctors