Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1931, Page 7

* 1 ERSERVEE NEN VTS OF NGER Phenolester Beverage Is \Blamed for Paralysis Out- break in California. By the Assoctated Press. LO8 ANGELES, March 3.—Twenty- four former service men, victims of paralysis caused by drinking an adul- terated ginger extract, were being treated today at the National Soldiers’ Home at Sawtelle, & suburb, as county and Federal officers investigated the source of supply. Dr. Maurice Smith of the United States Public Health Service, who came to Los Angeles to advise on the 108 cases said the zxtrlst in l&oflt instances was irchased in drug stores. pu!nvmlnwn. working under Dr. J. L. Pomeroy, head of the county Health Board, are obtaining samples of ginger extract at drug stores for laboratory tests. The extract contains 80 to 85 per cent alcohol, Dr. Pomeroy said, adding it is & violation of the prohibition laws to sell it as a bev;we and a violation of the State and eral drug laws to mislabel the product as Jamaica ginger. ‘The extract which is causing the pa- ralysis was found by the investigators to contain phenolester, an adulterant which supplants the ginger, Dr. Smith attributed the outbreak of paralysis here to the activities of East- ern extract bootleggers who are using the adulterant to make a cheaper prod- uct and shipping it here for sale. YIELDS TO STAGE LURE Diana Churchill Working Hard at Academy of Dramatic Art. TLONDON (N.AN.A.).—Diana Church- 111, the auburn-haired, blue-eyed daugh- ter of Winston Churchill, is among those who are taking life very seriously this Win iter. Miss Churchill has already made her debut as a speaker in her father’s con- stituency, and dunnx the Summer she worked in the lds in Kent. At one time it was her intention to take up nursing professionally, and she trained as a V. A. D. Now, however, she thinks differently and is working hard at the Royal Academy of Dra- matic Art, being determined to make a career for herself on the stage. (Copyright, 1931, by North American News- paper Alliance.) reviously reported in the county, | Spectal Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, March 3.—One man, rather slight of stature, modest and soft-spoken in manner, suggesting the professor rather than the prosecutor; an earnest churchman, but fearless, de- termined and intensely thorough. had the powerful potentates of the under- world quaking yesterday. He is George E. Q. Johnson, Federal district attorney for the northern dis- trict of Tllinois. Seven times Mr. John- son has made sallies against the me who sit with immunity on gangla: thrones and seven times he has knocked | | them off. Where 6,000 Chicago police | | and detectives, a whole phalanx of pro- | hibition agents, vigilante organizations of citizens and local prosecutors have been largely ineffective, this official has scored witn results. Consequently the ranks of the im- mune among Chicago’s 26 public ene- mies are thinning perceptibly—Ralph Capone, Jake Guzik, “Mops” Volpe, Frank Nitti, Terry Druggan and Prankie Lake tumbling one after another. Tax Charges Turn Trick. And then “Scarfaced Al” Capone him- self—hecad of the $100,000,000 booze, vice and gambling syndicate which long has defied the law with immunity—was nicked. The procession of gambling | house operators of the Capone organi- ‘zation entering the grand jury cham- bers suggests that Mr. Johnson is soon to be ready to strike hard at this prin- | cipal underworld figure with an indict- ment for conspiracy to violate the Fed- eral income tax laws. His six months’ sentence for contempt of couft is ru- mored to be just a nick and nothing more. ‘Twenty months of thought on the problem of dealing with rich and pow- erful gangsters provided the Federal | district attorney with the weapon | which is turning the trick—indictment for conspiracy to violate the United taxes on huge underworld profits. ‘When he decided to strike, Mr. John- son and his aids were so sure of their ground that they hit with precision and such sureness that gangs hold him in fear. All their money and all their men have finally proved helpless. Ralph, brother of Al Capone, was shown to have had $1,871,000 in profits from gambling alone in three years. He was the first convicted and drew three years, with the case now on appeal Then came Nitti, who pleaded guilty | States income tax.laws in failing to pay of h when two politiclans bucked the game and lost. He now is serving 18 months. ONE-MAN DRIVE IN CHICAGO - HAS GANGS QUAKING WITH FEAR U. S. Prosecutor's Tax Law Thrusts Thin Ranks of “the Inmune” Among 26 Public Enemies. Jake Guzik, with $1,049,000 gambling in three years, fought the case and drew five years, After that T Druggan and Frankie Lake, with a ion in beer profits at stake, plead- ed_gullty. Volpe, No. 2 among Chicago gang- sters, has iust been ordered deported for violation of the immigration laws. ‘What all this means is explained by rofit from ‘erry mill | Mr. Johnson. Ends Gangs’ Immunity. “Conviction is important,” he said. “because when these gangsters come out of prison they will not be able to count on old loyalties. Their immunity —or gangdom’s belief in* their immun- ity—is gone. That was their stock in trade. There is no friendship among hoodlums. There is no loyalty except the loyalty born of their common pur- pose. ‘That purpose is easy money. Take their money away and they dry up like & weed that has been cut down.” ‘The Federal prosecutor finds that the most disheartening thing is the way supposedly - respectable citizens have come forward to front for the gangs. “We know that gangs make contri- butions to factions of political parties,” he explained. “The factions pay back in privilege, and privilege is immunity to violate the law sold to organized criminals by public officials.” Mr. Johnson has just been reappoint- ed district attorney with four more | years to work on the gang leaders. (Copyright, 1931.) AUSTRALIA GETS CABINET Labor Party Caucus Re-elects All but 3 Members. CANBERRA, Australia, March 3 (), —The Labor party caucus yesterday re- elected the members of the federal cabinet except Frank 1y, eal the executive council, and John A. ing for a new loan of $90,000,000. bers of the Left Wing, who will be re- placed by Moderates. Premier J. H. Sculin will, as a result, head a cabinet thoroughly in accord with his ideas, composed of Meoderate | Laborites. ‘The caucus approved the plan of the federal treasurer, T. G. Theodore, call- ing for a new loan of $90,000,000. 2 . Gold production in Venezuela is in- creasing. |HU HAN-MIN RESIGNS Anstey, minister | Ith; J. J. Daly, vice president of mittee's decision to discuss tional Convention, in May, the adop. tion of a provisional constitution, dure ing the “political tutelage period, pend- ing promulgation of a permanent con- stitutional for the constitutional period.” Hu Han-Min found himself to the prevailing opinion that move would be in conformity with the views of the late Sun Yat Sen, and resigned as a consequence. The resignation was expected to have highly important effects on the political situation, since Hu Han-Min was the head of an im- portant political group in the Congress. IN NEW CHINESE CRISIS President of Congress Says Con- vention Opposes Views of Late Sun Yat Sen. By the Associated Press. NANKING, China, March 3—Hu Han-Min, president of China’s legisia- tive body, state councilor and senior Chinese civiliar leader, resigned yester- | day from the standing committee of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuo-Mintang. His action was caused by the com- Federal railways of Austria have just placed orders for 30 steam locomotives ‘which will cost $1,000,000. For COLDS We all catch colds and they can make us miserable; but yours needn’t last long if you will do this: Take two or three tablets of Bayer Aspirin just as soon as possible after a cold starts. Stay in the house if you can—keep warm. Repeat with another tablet or two of Bayer Aspirin every three or four hours, if those symptoms of cold persist. Take a good laxative when you retire, and keep bowels open. If throat is sore, dissolve three tablets in a quarter-glassful of water and gargle. 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