Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1931, Page 6

Free Auto Parking E St. Bet. 6th & Tth THE HECHT CO. reet at Seventh They’re both COOL! They’re both LIGHT! They’re both SMART'! Palm Beach SUITS $1’ 6'50. Nurotex SUITS Two Seconds by Direct Eleva- tors to the Men's Clothing Department—Second Floor— THE HECHT CO. WMBC AGTIVITIES TOLD AT INQUIRY Detroit Statiom Aided " Poor | and Jobless, Manager Says in Probe. | By the Assoclated Press. i Activities of station WMEC, in De- | troft, against vice conditions and in | doing welfare work were described to Radio Examiner Yost today by W. ‘Wright Gedge, general manager of the rtktion Testiiving in the Radio Commission's investigation of the station, Gedge said it had fought against “gambling, siot machines. and dope peddling. Lo meitare work. he addcd, included the placing of 4,746 men and women in employment in the past year, and the distribution of 820 emergency baskets of food. Part of Station's Activities. Examiner Yost asked the witness what this work had to do with a radio station.: Gedge replied that it was “a part of the station’s activities.” “We go on the air and ask people to help the needy,” he said. He explained that the emergency food baskets were prcvided for ve.sons in need of mmediate relief and whose cases_had not been cared for by the City Welfare Department. ! "'The station also delivered coal to needy families and milk to under- nourished children, and provided meds ical care, he said. Buckley Check Debated. Under questioning by William E. Leahy, counsel for the station, Gedge sald ‘the station comstantly urged the elec(lon of “honest men for public conmcung testimony that Jerry Buckley, Detroit announcer for the station, slain by gangsters 11 months | ago yesterday, collected a $1,500 check | from three alleged gamblers during his radio exposure of underworld methods was introduced yesterday before the Radio Commission. In the form of bulky afidavits it was submitted by counsel for the commis- sxcn It was immediately challenged | “hearsay_testimony,” by counsel for Station WMBG of Detroit, where Buck- | ley had worked. | Attorneys for the station appeared | at the commiscion's order for a hear- | ing to show cause why WMEC's license should be renewed. Holds One Man Dead. [ O. L. Smith, counsel for the station, | contended the government would name | the three alleged gamblers as Johnny | Ryan, St. Louis Dut¢h and Danny Sul- livan. . ‘He asserted he. would enter in rebuttal a certified copy of Ryan’s death certificate dated a year before the check. Buckley was killed late one night| while he was in the lobby of.the La Salle Hotel. He had been -conducting a series of broadcasts against the activities of gangsters and. was active | in the campaign to recall the then mayor of Detroit. A heated exchange occurred when | Smith characterized as “vicious testi- | mony” and hearsay the story that | Buckley had been given the $1.500 check to cease his radio operations against the underworld and that he| had turned it over to ofhcials of the station in return for a $250 commission. | Charges Commission Was Paid. ‘Thad Brown, general counsel for the commission leaped to his feet saying: | “Testimony we have collected is re- plete with evidence that Buckley was an agent for WMBC and that he re- ceived $250 for collecting this check.” “The onus of the ellegations against the station and its officials, in fact, the whole charge,” Smith asserted. “rests upon a claim of what a man now dead | did while he was a news digest broad- caster at WMBC. It has been 11 months since Buckley was killed and we intend to prove that the station has opemned in | the public interest since then.” | Lightning leh Horu. 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By the Associated Press. Old Pennsylvania avenue well knows what will happen to it October 16, now that Miss Mabel Vernon is on caravin again. There'll be women with banners and an imposing array of petitions perad- ing its length with the fanfare of a coast-to-coast trail completed at the ‘White House door. ‘True, Miss Vernon and her peace paraders have just started from Los An- geles with more three months of desert heat and mountain chill inter- vening between them and their October date with Pennsylvania avenue. Was Suffrage Campaigner. But Mabel Vernon, former suffrage campaigner, hasn't broken a date with her destination yet, apd she has been coast-to-coast caravanning at intervals for the past 15 years. Many a campaigner takes one city street with hts tition and thinks he has done well wi he gets to the end ‘of it with his garnering of names. Miss Vernon takes s transcontinental highway and, for good measure, branches off into the byways. 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On Tuesday, July 7; Monday, August 10, and Priday, October 2, Miss Ver- non's party will rest. On all other dates mayors of California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, ~Nebraska, Jowa, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wis- consin, Illinols, Michigan, Ohio, Penn- sylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland successively may be ex- pecting a call. And President Hoover may be expect- ing a set of petitions for peace to be put before the 1932 Disarmament Con- ference in Geneva. —_— * China Boosts Postage. ' SHANGHAI, June 25 (#).—Chinese postal authorities announced today that, effective, July 1, postal rates to all foreign countries will be increased 25 per cent. CLAFLIN Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Established 1889 CI'I'IES SERVICE GASOI.ENE the double-duty fuel See YOUR car jump chead on hills or straightaways. Feel the new thrill from this fuel with truck-horse power and race-horse speed - Citles Service Gasolene. 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