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SOVIET INSURANCE SYSTEM CHANGED Rearrangement of Benefits and Rates for Various Classes Is Ordered. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star. MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R, June 30.— Radical changes in the rates of social insurance benefits, including reductions in allowances for various classes of em- ployment, have been ordered by a joint decree of the Vtzik, or Central Execu- tive committee, and the Sovnarkom, or Council of People'’s Commissars, of the Soviet Union. Compulsory social in- surance for every working individual, which is the most vaunted socialist feature of the Soviet system, covers un- employment, sickness, injury, old age, death and maintenance in sanitoriums and rest houses for deserving workers during employment. Employers, which here are almost ex- clusively government, pay the premi- ums, but these, being fixed around 23 per cent of the ordinary salary, are easily computed as part of the normal ‘wage cost. The amount of the premiums is imposing, the contribution to state funds this year alone being estimated, the nominal rate of exchange, at $1,124, 000,000, though the five-year plan an- ticipated only $1,009,000,000 by the end of 1933, Workers Favored. Under the new schedule the only per- sons who will receive their entire pay as formerly, when incapacitated, are those union members doing manual labor in building construction. railroads and river transport and state farms and tractor stations if théy have worked two vears and have had three years of ex- perience, and teachers, enginecrs, tech- niclans, physicians, veterinarians and agronoms who have worked the same time, and minors under 18 who have worked one year. Union members in the same occupa- tions, but classified as employes because shey do brain work, receive three-fourths ealary for the first five days off and subsequently the enfire salary. Union members in other occupations and with the same working experience Teceive three-fourths salary during the first 15 days and the entire salary sub- sequently. Benefits Specified. Those who have worked two years but have had less than three years' experi- ence, and miners and railroad shop and building workers who have worked be- tween one and two years receive three- fourths salary fcr 20 days and the en- tire salary afterward. Those wko have worked between one and two years, except miners and rail- road shop and building workers, but with less than one year’s experience, re- ceive two-thirds of thelr wages for 20 days and subsequently receive the entire ‘wage. Union members and’ workers, and also employes on a job less than one year, get two-thirds pay throughout incapac- y. All non-union members receive one- half pay for 30 days and subsequently | two-thirds pay. Lame and Aged Aided. Benefits to persons employed by pri- vate concerns and inddviduals are fixed by the administrators of the social in- surance funds, each case depending upon whether the beneficiary is a mem- ber of a union and on the length of employment. The decree says that more attention in the future will be given to cripples, the aged and dependents who have lost & wage earner, and particular attention to workers in the mhing and chemical industries. Light work is also promised to the partially incapacitated who are receiving pensions. (Copyright, SICK TO HEAR CONCERT Navy Band to Entertain Patients 1931.) at Tuberculosis Hospital Thursday. Patients at the Tuberculosis Hospital, Fourteenth and Upshur streets, will be entertained from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday by the Navy Band, which will give a concert under direction of Charles Benter, leader. The program was _arranged by Steven H. Talkes, chairman of the Institutional Enter- tainment Committee of the Kiwanis Club. 5 amnounce the GIstolution of the Part: nership as of Jnne 22, 1931. Outstanding ac- counts. if ary there be. should be billed not Iater than July 10, 1931. to Lansing Valk. 4 Connecticut ave., Washington. and the same will h- immediately paid eash. H NSING VALK BENIAMIN _J. CANBY. OFFICE OF THE FIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY OF WASHINGTON AN A spectal meeting of the stockholders of this company is hereby called w:;);k- Hac ;o eventh 1997, At twelve (12) . to consider and act upon the by the Board of Directors at a regular meet- ing_held on June 22. 1931 of amending the charter of the company to permit it to underwrite additional forms of insurance and to increase its capital st ALBERT W. HOWARD. Secretar THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE_STO( hoiders of the Naional Union Insurance Company of Washington for the election of ivectors =il be held he “office, of th company, e Juiy13. io31" WILLIAM H. 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From Khabarovsk the flyers d over about 200 miles of the Siberian coast region and then across the Straits of Tartary, Saghalien Island, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kamchatka Penin- sula before heading over the wide stretch of the Bering Sea to Nome. Evidently the long trek had been without serious incident, for the flyers volunteered little information about it, keeping busy at Solomon for the take- off to Fairbanks and retiring there as soon as they could arrange to leave the Winnie Mae in the hands of experts for grooming. Post and Gatty thus far have greatly exceded the speed of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin, which went around the world in 21 days 7 hours and 34 minutes. Within an hour after landing Post and Gatty were in bed at a hotel, sleeping soundly, leaving orders to be called at 2:30 am. They said they planned to resume their fiight at 3:30 am. Post took a bath and was served oyster stew before crawling into bed. He seemed the wearier of the two, about “all in,” and apparently deafened by the constant rcaring of the motor. Gat- ty was able to hear a little and did not act tired. “I feel fine.” he said. The four hours of sleep was the first they had since leaving Khabarovsk. Nome Route Longer. The jump to Edmonton should be made in around 10 hours, they estimated, and one more stop, possibly at Detroit, was in_their minds when they retired. ‘The Winnie Mae was under the care of eight mechanics within & few min- utes after it landed here. They immediately drained the oil from ~the motor, refilled it, then went over the entire plane. The motor was greased and tightened and a new propeller was fitted in place of the one bent at Solomon. Gatty’s Arm Dressed. Post’s chief interest seemed to be in getting a bath and a bed. Gatty, after his arm, hurt the flying propeller at Solomon, dressed, appeared more rested. His arm was bruised, the doctor said, and probably will be stiff for several weeks. Mechanics said tne plane was in fair ccndition, but aoubted if it would have been able to cortinue to New York without work and the new pro- peller. While the men checked rnd adjusted the mechanical part of the ship, others were giving it a bath. ‘Their log book was filled with weather references at “tough going.” then “ditto” and “passing over tree tops in rain and fog.” A police guard was placed outside their door when they retirsd o ihey| would be assured of rest. EDMONTON PLANS RECEPTION. Alberta Premier and Mayor to Greet Flyers. EDMONTON, Alberta, June 30 (7). — Alberta’s capital is in readiness to re- celve Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, globe-circling airmen, on their_arrivai here from Fairbanks, Alaska. The re- ception_for the airmen will have an international flavor through broadcast- ing of welcoming ceremonies to Canada and the United States. ©On arrival the fiyers will be greeted by George Hoadley, acting premier of Alberta. on behalf of the province, and Mayor J. M. Douglas on behalf of the city. Should they elect to stay in the city overnight, arrangements for their entretainment have been made, or should they decide to push on for Cleveland on the next leg of their flight, arrangements to refuel their plane’ with the greatest possible speed , have been made. The city is much interested in_the flight, the first of its kind in which Edmonton or Western Canada has | figured. In the opinion of men conversant with the Far North. the journey be- twen Fairbanks, Alaska, and Edmonton will prove hazardous, as the territory is entirely without landing flelds and possesses few telegraph stations. Prom Fairbanks the airmen are expected to swing almost due south to Jasper, Al- berta, and thence castward to Ed- monton. Mns. GATTY RACING EAST. Flies to New \'nrk in llopts to Meet Husband. GLENDALE, Calif., June 30 (P).— | Mrs. Vera Gatty was racing across the continent today, hcping to reach New | York in time to welcome Harold Gatty, | her husband, and Wiley Post from their globe-circling flight. “I want them to make the best pos- sible time, of course,” slie said as she left in a transcontinental passenger plane, “but I do hope to arrive there before them. I'd like awfully well, you know, to be in the crowd which wel- comes them home. Thrilled at Flight. “I was so thrilled I could hardly pack, and the boys were begging me to let them go, too. They will stay with a friend until I return. “I think Mr. Post and my husband have done wonderfully in their flight so far and I'm proud of them.” Mrs. Gatty left here at 7 a.m., shortly after the world fiyers had hopped off from Fairbanks. She will spend the night in Kansas City. She expects to arrive in New York at 8:35 p.m., East- ern standard time, Wednesday. Gov. James Roiph, jr., who was at the airport, asked Mrs.Gatty to convey his congratulations to the fiyers. | Arrangements were made by the air ‘line to radio the latest reports on the flight to airports along the transconti- nental route so Mrs. Gatty would be kept posted on its progress. PREFERRED SEA DEATH. From Khabarovsk. NOME, Alaska, June 30 (P).—Wiley; | Post and Harold Gatty preferred death |in the Bering Sea to cracking up their ship later on their dash to New York, they said yesterday when they arrived at Solomon, mear here, from Khaba- rovsk, Siberia. “We experienced every kind of weather imaginable coming to Solomon from Khabarovsk,” Post said as he climbed from the plane. “I flew for 3 hours and a half Sun- day night with the weather so thick Post-Gatty Arrival At Edmonton to Go On Air Late Today By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 30—A radio account of the arrival of Post and Gatty, world fiyers, at Edmonton, Canada, will be car- ried either by a WEAF-N. B. C. or a WJZ-N. B. C. network late today. The exact time is rather indefinite, depending upon the speed they make, but it is ex- pected to be around 7 o'clock (E. 5. T.). If the broadcast is made then it is to go over a WEAF chain, and if later, over & WJZ hook-up. Log of Winnie Mae By the Associated Press. (Eastern standard time Lhrnul{hau.!,\ Tuesday, June T Left Roosevelt Field, N. Y., 3:56 am Newfoundland, | Arrived Harbor Grace, 10:48 a.m. (1,132 miles). Left Harbor Grace 2:28 p.m. Wednesday, June 24— Arrived Chester, England, (2,105 miles). Left Chester 8:05 am. Arrived Hanover, Germany, (534 miles). Left Hanover 1:15 p.m. Arrived Berlin 2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 25- Left Berlin 1:38 a.m. Arrived Moscow, Russia, (991 miles). Left Moscow 10 p.m. Friday, June 26— (154 miles). Arrived Novo Sibirsk, Siberia, 8:32 a.m. (1,579 miles). Left Novo Sibirsk 5:45 p.m. Arrived Irkutsk, Siberia, (1,055 miles). Saturday, June 27— Left Irkutsk 2:10 am Arrived Blngo\e‘chchen(k Siberia, am. (1,009 miles). Left Blagoveschchensk 10:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28— 11:55 Arrived Khabarovsk, Siberia, 1:30 a.m. (361 miles). Monday, June 20— Left Khabarovsk for Nome 4 a.m. Arrived Solomon, Alaska, (2,500 miles). | Left Solomon, 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 30— Arrived Fairbanks, Alaska, (520 miles). Total miles flown, 12,120. Elapsed time, 6 days, minutes. Flying time, 3 days, 8 hours, 8 min- utes, much credit fcr the succes of the flight | 1884, 6.34 inches: Gatty in turn said Post was inches; “'some | so far. the master of the flighy and fiyer.” 6:45 am. | 11:45 am. | 10:30 am. | pm. | 8:45 pm. 2:25 am. FLYERS LEAVE TEXAS FOR FLIGHT TO TOKIO ‘Eobbinn and Jones En Route to | Seattle for Proposed Hop Across Pacific. | By the Associated Press. | _FORT WORTH, Tex., June 30.— Reg L. Roberts and his navigator, H. 8. Jones. took off from the municipal air- port here at 4:50 a.m. today in the monoplane Fort Worth for Seattle, from where they will attempt a non- stop flight to Tokio. ‘They were followed five minutes later by a refueling plane, the crew of which is composed of Jimmy Mattern and Nick Greener. The flyers hope to win $25,000, offered by the Japanese news- paper Asahi for the flight. THE WEATHER District of Columbia, Maryland, Vir- | ginia and West Virginia—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, continued warm. Record for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 86; 8 pm., 81; 12 midnight, 72; 4 am, 68; 8 am. 77; noon, 88. 20.01 Barometer—4 p.m., 8 pm, 8 am., 30.04; noon, 29.99. ! noon yesterday. Lowest temperature, 66, occurred at 6 am. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 93; lowest, 72. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) i pm; | p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, |3:43 pm.; high tide, high tide, 8:03 am. d 8:31 3:11 am. and 8:48 am. and |9:14 pm. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 4:45 am.; sun sets 7:38 pm. ’ Tomorrow—Sun rises 4:45 am.; sun sets 7:38 p.m. | Moon rises 8:45 pm.: sets 4.50 am. | . Automobile lamps to be lighted one- | half hour after sunset. Rainfall. ! Comparative Ngures of the monthly | rainfall in the Capital for the first six | months against the average are shown in the following table: 1931, Average. January ., January .. ! Left Fairbanks for Edmonton 8:24 a.m. | February March . 22 hours, 29 | April | May . June Record _rainfall months was | January, 1882, June ... for the first six 7.09 inches; February, March, 1891, 8.84 .13 inches; May, June, 1900, 10.94 April, 10.69 1889, 1889, inches; inches. 29.99; 12 midnight, 30.02; 4 a.m., 30.01; | Highest temperature, 88, occurred at | D. C., TUESDAY, BUSINESS LINKED WITH “RACKETS" Practice Characterized as Partnership With Gangsters by Institute Speakers. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, June 30.—The ‘“racket,” as it operates in America’s two largest cities, was char- acterized as a partnership of business and the gangster by speakers at the In- stitute of Public Affairs here today. New York's “rackets” were described by George Z. Medalie, United States at- torney for the southern district of New York. The criminals who conduct these schemes, Mr. Medalle said. “are fre- quently in partnership with perfectly reputable members of the community, who often are forced to submit, but not infrequently seek the assistance of the criminal classes to carry out what other- wise might be, in part at least, a legiti- mate purpcse.” Robert I. Randolph, chairman of the Citizens' Committee for Law Enforce- meni in Chicago, described the most widespread form of “racket” in that city as “a combination of business, labor unionism, politics and the criminal un- derworld, the purpose of whith is ex- ploitation through ecircumscrifing the right to do business and work.” He esti- mated that the combinations of this kind now are costing the city approxi- mately $145,000,000 each year. Both speakers emphasized the re- sponsibility of otherwise legitimate busi- ness in allowing themselves to get into the grip of the underworld because of L:lelr avidity in trying to curb competi- tion. Merchants Use Gangsters. ‘The “racket” Mr. Medalie said, prob- ably originated in the practice of soctal organizations seliing tickets to mer- chants with the implied threat of with- holding patronage. This proved such a profitable source of revenue that gangsters began forming fictitious or- ganizations for the sole purpose of col- lecting from the merchants through ticket selling. Here the implied threat was of violence. The next step lay in making use of the gangster organiza- tions by the merchants themselves to put_rivals out of business. “Racketeering exists today,” he said, “in the form of large-scale operations. Business has grown enormously and racketeering has followed in tempo and volume. Its personnel has been able to | match in understanding of human na- ture, energy and craft the best that has | been produced in legitimate business. Various forms of business have been found to be apt subjects. The collection of laundry, for instance, is a matter of truck delivery. Competition is keen and price cutting is a factor. The.lone truck operated by a driver and helper is an easy subject for gang attack. A group of laundrymen start with a view | become his victims. | tection thereafter upon the threat that | if they will have none of it they face | personal violence. Today—Low tide, 2:20 a.m. and 2:53 | to controlling competition. The rack- | eteer gangster is called in to help the | good cause. The otherwise honest bus- iness people who employ him in turn He sells them pro- Flour Racket Costs $1,50 | “The flour racket is another example of large scale operation. An organiza- | tion of flour truckmen was formed by | the man who appropriated this field as his domain. They 1aised the cost of trucking flour 15 cents a barrel, which |amounts to a charge of $1,500,000 a year on the business. | “I do not classify ordinary profit from | crime and lawbreaking as racketeering. I am not treating racketeering as inclu- sive of burglary, larceny, robbery, boot- ‘k[ginz or dope peddling. However, ‘wnhln bootlegging and dope peddling | activities there are rackets, in the sense of an allocation by the successful crim- inal of territory and customers between himself and the rest of the law-break- | Ing world. 1f intrusion is attempted there is gang warfare. There is the same selling of protection as that sold to laundries and icemen.” ‘There is no one cause for the exist- ence of rackets, Mr. Medalie said, but - | the blame must be distributed on the cut-throat competition of business. gangs and politics. Likewise, there is | no single remedy. “I think that in a large measure the | remedy lies in the hands of business and particulatly in the hands of our business leaders. It lies also in part ‘wlth the municipalities in the creation *| deferred | ganizations as the lunatic fringe of so- |us, but it's colder than a son-of-a-gun “I thought We were gone once, Gatty said, “but I know now when Wiley is at the stick we're going to pull r through.” Although the flyers were under a | nervous strain when they landed at| | Sclomon, both were in excellent spirits | and seemed certain they would hn\z‘ | very little difficulty for the remainder i of the trip. | Abilene, “We are glad to put our feet on good | Albar, old American ground again,” sald Post. | {aniic e “Sixteen hours in that bloody plane over | Baltimore. Md . water and no-man'’s land is enough for | Birmingham ~..- X ston, : up here.” Battals, MY B Phe fivers said the Russians were |Charl wonderful to them and “did éverything | Chich possible under the sun for us. They Cleveland, tried to speed us along as fast as we}gglumbu could go, hoping we would break all rec- | ""L ords to smithereens.” Tex Except for having to fight u-ther\gfl""w" imost of the way across Siberia, the |{eicna. Mopt. sirmen tsl:h‘i n;ey ha‘;l mt;ewtrgublge - | Indlarapons s though their plane “bogges er belly” | nville,Fla. when they set her down on a muddy | Fartas City. Mo, 2 field at Blagoveshohencky. Will Rogers Stations. e Colo Pittsburgh, Pa.. Portlan 2 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. —No news today as big as this Post and Gatty that are making this world of ours look like the size of a water- melon. This Pilot Post is an old one- eyed Oklahoma boy. He has just got that good eye glued on the hcrizon and he is going to find that Stations. London, England om-n'u __Weather in Varlous Citles. ., Ohio 30. "Ohio . Cioudy 8. C.30.00 1 8. 1 Tndianapouisdnd so oz 8 4 Rain + Eucloudy gléa (7 a.m., Greenwich time. today.) ‘Temperature. Weather. 36 Clear | of police and detective forces adequate- |1y organized to meet the threat of racketeering in any industry at any | time that it shows itself.” . | Divided Into Two Classes. | Mr. Randolph divided Chicago's rackets into two classes, the most im- e portant of which was the ‘collusive Cloudy agreement” racket, which works in a Clear |definite way from business downward Flcloudy 1o the underworld. FPirst, he said, | comes the business man who seeks to | maintain a monopoly by agreements with political leaders to paralyze the | hand of the law and with union lead- ers to withhold labor from his rivals. | Both the politician and the union | leader need terrorists to carry out their |part of the program. The business | man may never come into contact with | the ecriminals, but is_directly respon- sible for their employment. “Racketeering,” he said, _“always presents itself under the cloak of re- spectability. No_racket has yet been Cloudy | Pi.cloudy INVALID CHAIRS ! For Rent & For Sale St elouay | Clou B u?,.m, GIBSON'’S 2 l nudy 917 G St. N.W. WORTH $1,000 MORE Brand-New ALL- BRICK HOMES Restricted N.W. Location aller. monthly. Six_large rooms. 3 covered porches. gor- geously eaquippe it latest 5 i s, o "? street and cash and 365 O aninit Hom=—4m 4th St. NW JUNE 30, 1931. discovered which did mot present meu[ 23 haying a worthy economic or social purpose. Rackets do not declare them- selves such. Bootlegging, for in- stance, is exactly bootlegging, admitted- 1y crl.mln-l ‘Whisky and beer runners admit the illegality of their profession and ask no odds of society. But rack- eteering is a mental condition, a phi- losophy of economics translated into a course of action and widely seized upon by business men and labor leaders as a quick solution of the problems of com- petitive conditions and labor organiza- tion control.” ‘Would Modify Hoover Plan. A proposal ‘hat Presideni Hoover's international debt moratorium plan be modified so that the offer would be contingent upon the purchase by the debtor nations, to the amount of their mymenu. of the surplus prod- uets of the creditor nations was made yesterday alfternoon by Carl Vrooman, former Assistant Secretary of Agricul- ture, “The debtor nations of Europe are in desperate need of credit,” he said, and the proposed ‘moratorium undoubt- edly would give them a year in which to catch their financial breath. America is in equally desperate need of markets for its surplus products. Milllons of American unemployed workers and farmers are facing ruin. Fortunately, it is possible by one mas- ter stroke to give Europe the credit it needs and America the exports market it needs. “This would mean that England, Germany, Prance, Austria, Italy and other debtor nations this coming year would buy from America, instead of from Russia, the Argentine and else- where, $240,000,000 worth of foods, textiles, copper and other market sur- pluses of our farms and factories. This would tend to checkmate Russia’s sinister economic offensive in dumping on the markets of the world er wheat, :"A" at less than the cost of produc- jon.” ‘The investments of the United States and Great Britain in Latin America now are approximately equal, each amount~ ing to appoximately $6.000,000,000, Dr. W. W. Cumberland, New York econom - ist, told the round table on Latin American affairs. These (wo coun- tries, Dr. Cumberland said. have fur- nished three-fourths of the foreign capital in the Latin countries. . Mexico and Cuba, he said, each ac- count for more than one-fourth of total American commitments, and these are the countries where the greatest losses have occurred. Approximately $3,500,- 000 of the American investment, he said, has been employed in agriculture, mining and commerce while about $2.- 500,000,000 has been loaned directly to national and local governments. Betray Interest of Purchases. Only a minority of recent Latin- American loans, he said, have been made in accordance with sound busi- ness principles. American underwrit- ing houses, he insisted, “distributed Latin-American bonds with little or no consideration except of the quantity that could be sold, thus betraying the interest of their custcmers as well as helping to creats those problems which recently have resulted in political up- heavals in numerous Latin American republics.” While woman suffrage has not changed the balance of parties it has raised the level of political discussion, said Dr. Willlam B. Monro of the Cali- fornia Institute of Technology in an address before the institute last night. Corruption in American politics, Dr. Monro said, was to have been expected following the war, but has been by no means so bad as 50 to 30 years ago. Citizens, he believes, are taking more interest in the affairs of their govern- ments. “At the close of the nineteenth century,” he said, “Theodore Roosevelt could refer to reformers and reform or- ciety. Today there would be no basis for such characterization. The citizen organization of the older type was mainly concerned with turning the ras- cals out. Sometimes it succeeded in turning them out, but they did not stay out very long. A reform administra- tion rerely succeeded in succeeding itself. In the main they had no con- structive program which they pursued through the year. Nowadays the coun- try is literally full of associations, which pursue their work of education without a moment’s let-up. A good deal of the change is due to the coming of woman suffrage, which brought into the arena litical discussion millions of voters with both interest and leisure for this type of activity. “If any one feels discouraged at our progress, he may well ask what has| been_accomplished in_other countries| “PACKARD PARADE” WMAL that I didn’t see more than the glass on the cockpit windows at any time,” Post declared between mouthfuls of fried chicken as he watched mechflnlu refueling the ship. Rather Die in Sea. “I thought then, well, I would rather croak flying across the the Bering Sea than crack the ship down south after we're almost home | ‘We managed finally t5 ser enough light to guide the ship safely here, but all the way across the Bering Sea we saw miles and miles of ice floes moving steadily northward into the straits. 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