Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1933, Page 6

6 END OF INDUSTRIAL RACKETEERING SEEN Copeland Asks Strong U. S. Legislation to Insure Suc- cess of Fight. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 12.—Confidence was expressed by Senator Royal B. Copeland today that industrial racket- eering is about to be forced out of the Nation. “I am confident,” asserted Copeland, chairman of the United States Sen- ate subcommittee investigating rack- ets, “that the grip which racketeers have fastened upon industry in this Nation is to be torn off. “To do that ef- fectively, strong Federal legislation and perhaps an amendment to the Constitution will be required. Whatever is needed will come as a result of pop- ular demand JUSt senator Copelsn as soon as the pub- lic realizes the extent and strength of | this peculiar phase oi criminality.” Copeland said that President Roose- velt's “deep interest” in the committee’s drive against rackets doubly assured its eventual success. Hearings Start Mcaday. - Members of the judiciary. police of- ficials and lawyers will gather here Monday and Tuesday for the first public hearings by the committee. Sessions will be heid later in Chicago and De- it GEN. BROWN ENG!NEERS CHIEF FOR FOUR YEARS Completes Usual Term and if Pre- cedent Followed Will Not Be Reappointed. Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown completed his four-year term of office as chief of Army Engineers last week and if the Roosevelt administration follows prece- dents established since March 4 he is not due for reappointment. The bulk of the huge non-military appropriations of the War Department are handled by Gen. Brown. In addi- tion to all phases of Army engineering activities, he is charged with directing river and harbor improvements through- out the country. There has been no indication at the War Department or the White House as to whether Gen. Brown will soon be detailed to other dutles or continue to hold down his important job for an- other four-year term. It was recalled, however, that the first two War De- partment bureau chiefs to complete | their four-year terms as head of their | respective arms were not reappointed. They were Maj. Gen. Stephen O. Fuqua, | chief of Infantry. and Maj. Gen. Harry L. Gilchrist, chief of the Chemical ‘Warfare Service. 'PLANS FOR BRIDGE WILL COST $84,000 | Not $114,000 as Stated in Story Regarding Proposed Calvert Street Span. Engineer Commissioner John C.| Goiwals said vesterday that the sum | to be spent for plans for the Calvert| Street Bridge before any construction | | can start is $84.000, and not $114.000 | as reported in The Evening Star last Friday. | He ‘said that whereas the figure car- The committee hearings, receipt of | 1ioq®in The Star for payment to archi- eonfidential communications and secret | tocts for a third new set of plans was testimony of unsworn witnesses, Cope- | ¢50 000, the plans would only cost ! land said, will precede “a more severe | 320.000' | course of investigation.” For the first set of drawings, pre- Copeland asserted that even though & | noreq before the World War, George | eonstitutional amendment is required. | Ogkley Totten, jr., was paid $4,000. he is confident that out of the iInQUIry | por the next set. prepared last year, will grow a Federal police force, mod- | aoqjeski, Masters & Chase. Phila- eled after Scotland Yard, designed to combat racketeering. “Racketeering is not new with us. but it has developed during the last 15 years even more rapidly than any one realized,” asserted Senator Copeland. “Alien criminals brought methods of violence from abroad and with them, making use of methods peculiarly our own, a system efficiently organized, thoroughly financed and broadly pro- tected has been developed. That sys- tem must be destroyed.” Will War on Kidnapers. | Copeland. determined to stamp out the | kidnaping racket, said that from boot legging the racketeers turned to kid- | naping as a means of quick and large financial returns. “To drive kidnapers out of the United Btates all alliances between decent so- nd world of racketeers t | Business men of larg and small stature must be persuaded | that they shadov mits their inal atta In Copeland’'s opinion the national recos act can be used as a powerful influence against every type of racket. He said the act was designed to give aid to over-competitive industries which have contrived to use it for their own | profit. The committee, he said, expects | to obtain valuable information from | business men forced to pay tribute to | racketeel criminal alliance which per- mmunity from other crim- | SILT WILL BE PROBLEM AT BOULDER RESERVOIR Bp Dispatch to The Star. | NEW YORK. August 12—Silt from the Colorado River will be the prime | problem of the Boulder Dam reservoir, Dr. Charles P. Berkey, Columbia Uni- versity geologist, said today. Dr. Berkey, a consulting engineer for | the Boulder Dam Commission, said the | Colorado River is the muddiest “that | ever existed * * * and each time the | river is flooded the whole mass of silt | is stirred up to a depth of 50 or 175 feet.” In the Imperial Valley, near the mouth of the river, it costs $1,500.000 yearly to clean the irrigation ditches of the silt and debris, Dr. Berkey as- | serted, and one of the advantages of the Boulder Dam lies in that it will remedy this condition to a large extent. The geologist said work on the dam 1s about a year ahead of schedule, and 1937 should see its completion. HONOR PAID PRESIDENT Byrian-American Society Votes Membership to Roosevelt. President Roosevelt has been made an honorary member of the Syrian- American Society, according to an announcement here yesterday by Joseph S. Baddour, Goldsboro, N. president of the organization. In conferring membership upon the President, the society, a social and fra- ternal organization, followed a custom instituted several years ago when it enrolled President Hoover as an hm-{ orary member. delphia architects, were paid $60.000. When, after a coutest over the type of design to be accepted. the Fine Arts Commission ruled that only a multiple-arch, masonry bridge would do. the Commissioners at first esti-| mated that the third set would cost | $50.000. based on 4 per cent of the $1,250,000 authorized to be spent for the bridge. Maj. Gotwals, however. said yester- day that Modjeski, Masters & "Chase | had agreed informally to do the job for $20,000, since much of the pre- limirary work. done in connection with the design which was rejected, could be used in preparation of the new design. 20 CALLED TO TESTIFY IN WIFE MURDER CASE cannot acoept even that \payiq A. Lamson, Former Stanford | U. Press Official, to Face Court August 21. By the Associated Press. SAN JOSE. Calif. August 12—E. M. Rea, attorney for David A. Lamson, former Stanford University press offi cial charged with murdering his wife, Allene Thorpe Lamson, last Memorial day, said today he had issued subpoenas for 20 witnesses for the trial starting August 21. Simultaneously Sheriff William J. Emig’s office announced Pasadena au- thorities had been asked to check a letter written presumably by a tramp to Lamson's mother saying & hobo had boasted in a hobo “jungle” that he killed a woman in Palo Alto. Of the defense witnesses named by Rea today. seven did not testify at the preliminary hearing after which Lam- son was bound over to the Superior Court_for trial. lla and SNOOTH , FYSSELLS € CREAn, [newFllSUITS Nothing Down, Just Pay $7 in September $7 in October $7 in November EISEMAN’S, Tth&F in One Basket” your eggs in one basket”—and advice. repaid loan? Drop by one of our chat about it. Maryland Personal Bankers | 8405 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, Md. 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